Those two love birds are doing well. I’m glad he’s not intimated by her being half a head taller than him.
Typical Bat, everything is a threat to him, but it’s understandable seeing how the core and Motha treats
their people. As far as the drives go, I’m sure there will be a prototype on a bench somewhere by now…
And some scientist types nit-picking the core’s design to death heh.
I sense that there’s a flaw in the star drive – design and/or manufacturing – that puts
the ship and crew in danger. And the Captain cares. Core and Motha…..NotSoMuch.
That’s very true, the whole “reason” that Star Trek puts the nacelles
on pylons is the radiation from the warp field is bad for humans.
So if these drives are like that without the right shielding or distances…
That’s the way I read this too. Not something I expected, but explains why it is so
little used compared to the wormholes, and fits the feel of the story in other ways too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were actual clues I missed.
again, this is the core. life is cheap.! so far as we know,. fuel is to expensive.
do you really think the core cares about the crew dropping dead after 5 jumps.?
no that solves a few problems.
Yep. All the more so if the solution is as simple as Scars suggests it might be,
but the PTBs decided the crews weren’t worth the extra expense, or worse,
inexperienced crews were less likely to be uncontrollable than veterans…
I happen to know what the flaw is, PC mentioned it in an email answering a question I
had about the ships and other things I’m building. But I ain’t saying anything more.
The cat isn’t the only one who can sayeth nothing.
Panel 2 looked off, in that Katashi’s arrow should have been more centered between the arms of the bow.
Looking at it at 500%, yeah, the arrow is several inches lower than it should be, pointing through his
fingers, rather than above his gripping hand.
From the little I did with a bow, the slot/groove for the arrow on the 2 I messed with was
above the thumb and fore-finger. From the POV it looks like the arrow had swung outward
from the notch. A rookie mistake, I did it more than I care to admit! If that’s the case,
either the arrow would go wide, or in my case, do a back-flip that almost hit my shin. :/
i blame the art, not the artist… there at least 6 things wrong with both bows…
IF you look at daz3d (free) 90% of the bow art is fantasy (looks cool but not functional)
like in the movies,. it’s not about function, but the look of the characters.
i can go on an on…
I agree, I’ve been looking at their assets, and I see a lot of goofs on some of the
art myself, It’s why I don’t bring them up. That’s the hardest part of using other
people’s artwork, you can’t fix their farbs… I really want to tinker with both Hex
and Daz3D and I just don’t have the time to study with how bad my father’s gotten.
I found out why he was having trouble with his bathroom trips, he’s been reusing
the same glass to drink out of, gave himself food poisoning. I get those plastic
party glasses, and he still tries to reuse them… Damn hoarder mentality.
Now I have to go around and toss anything that looks used. Plus he keeps putting
down milk for out cat, she hates milk and he keeps forgetting.
She does seem to like spicy hot nacho cheese, go figure…
Most cats are lactose intolerant by the time they get to puberty, if not sooner.
Feeding them milk is a good way to kill them with starvation and diarrhea.
As to the food poisoning thing, the most dangerous place to eat is in your
own kitchen. Few could pass even the most rudimentary health inspection.
It’s even harder when you’re a livestock farm, we don’t have birds or
goats anymore, but when a 1500lbs cow takes a dump, it drops 3 feet
and, in some cases, splatters… So sometimes we get it on our shoes/
pants and bring it in without knowing.
But my wife’s cat sure likes to lick the bowl after I have strawberry ice
cream (or chocolate, or vanilla, or pineapple sherbet) but I promise it’s
only in trace amounts.
I just had a thought: since the Empire’s scientists have now figured out FTL travel and since wormholes
are a gravidic phenomenon, what if the Empire developed “jump gates”? I’m talking about pairs of jump
gates acting as artificial wormholes. They would not be selectable (a la “Stargate”) but would have to
be in pairs. The Empire could control access to the jump gates by controlling access to the “activation
codes” which would also be heavily encrypted with different encryption keys for each pair so even if a
core spy managed to record and decrypt the codes for one half of one pair they would still not have the
keys/codes for the entire network – including the return trip! If the jump gate data they stole was to
a system without a natural wormhole, the spies would be stranded.
What do you think? (Hint: after I finish with the FTL gear I’d like to build a jump gate.)
I wouldn’t fully automate such gates. I’d make them part of a manned space/defense
station. That way you need local people to activate the gate for you or to trigger
a self-destruct in case of an enemy successfully boards them.
That way there are no codes anyone could steal.
You would not want to garrison a large network of jump gates like that.
1) It would require large numbers of troops. 2) It would be a terrible duty station.
I don’t care what amenities were provided it would be worse than the worst remote
base anywhere in the world. No need to garrison the jump gates.
Plus the jump gates would be able to charge a toll for use (different rates for Empire
members, associates and non-aligned) and help pay for their upkeep. Part of the
activation code (different for each tier) would include a unique identifier for the
vessel using the jump gate. The home planet or corporate headquarters would be
billed for their ships’ use of the gate system (kind of like the way ships have to pay
to use the Panama Canal). If an entity got too far behind it would be trivial to lock
their account and prohibit that organization’s assets from using the system until the
arrears amount was paid.
The only practical way you could control gate travel is if the gate was
opened and closed at will, otherwise it would be a logistical nightmare.
At some point someone would get tired of the fees and cause an “incident.”
We still don’t know what the core’s FTL is, since they call the movement “jumping”
so it might be a gate. But if it is a radiation issue, then I have my doubts it’s that.
The natural gates might be a creation of the Elder gods, or by a race we’ve just not
heard of, AKA the “First Ones” so to speak. Either way, FTL travel might become an
AI manned crafts only, since radiation would not affect them much.
Or the Empire might figure out how to fix or shield against that.
Even when the Empire is making its own FTL gear it will not be economical to
put FTL gear on every ship. A network of jump gates would allow conventional
ships to still be able to make faster transits without having to retrofit
expensive FTL gear.
I kinda hope the Empire discovers how to make the gates, that way they can
send out a FTL ship to discover habitual systems, and plant a gate there for
normal gate travel. I’m thinking along the same lines as Stargate: Universe.
Or discovering a forming system for gas/dust farming. Unlimited resources,
without the need for mining. The mind boggles at it. Think about it, a super
massive red giant that had nova’d a billion years ago, the dust would have
every exotic mineral, if not unique ones.
The problem with that would be finding it. I remember SF
writers going on when I was a kid about all the gold that’s
dissolved in seawater, way more than the world’s nations
have in solid form. (And even more uranium.) The problem
is separating it from all that water and then the other solutes.
By now, with the asteroid mining, gold no doubt has become common
and is used for contacts and corrosion prevention. I’m thinking of
minerals like lithium. Separating them is a processing problem yes,
like how they “mine” for silver, they take the ore that has other minerals
mixed in, they use an acid to burn those off just leaving the silver.
A 5 lbs hunk of ore might produce 1 or 2 oz.
Going native?
Those two love birds are doing well. I’m glad he’s not intimated by her being half a head taller than him.
Typical Bat, everything is a threat to him, but it’s understandable seeing how the core and Motha treats
their people. As far as the drives go, I’m sure there will be a prototype on a bench somewhere by now…
And some scientist types nit-picking the core’s design to death heh.
*there will be*
I sense that there’s a flaw in the star drive – design and/or manufacturing – that puts
the ship and crew in danger. And the Captain cares. Core and Motha…..NotSoMuch.
That’s very true, the whole “reason” that Star Trek puts the nacelles
on pylons is the radiation from the warp field is bad for humans.
So if these drives are like that without the right shielding or distances…
That’s the way I read this too. Not something I expected, but explains why it is so
little used compared to the wormholes, and fits the feel of the story in other ways too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were actual clues I missed.
again, this is the core. life is cheap.! so far as we know,. fuel is to expensive.
do you really think the core cares about the crew dropping dead after 5 jumps.?
no that solves a few problems.
Yep. All the more so if the solution is as simple as Scars suggests it might be,
but the PTBs decided the crews weren’t worth the extra expense, or worse,
inexperienced crews were less likely to be uncontrollable than veterans…
I happen to know what the flaw is, PC mentioned it in an email answering a question I
had about the ships and other things I’m building. But I ain’t saying anything more.
The cat isn’t the only one who can sayeth nothing.
😛
Panel 2 looked off, in that Katashi’s arrow should have been more centered between the arms of the bow.
Looking at it at 500%, yeah, the arrow is several inches lower than it should be, pointing through his
fingers, rather than above his gripping hand.
From the little I did with a bow, the slot/groove for the arrow on the 2 I messed with was
above the thumb and fore-finger. From the POV it looks like the arrow had swung outward
from the notch. A rookie mistake, I did it more than I care to admit! If that’s the case,
either the arrow would go wide, or in my case, do a back-flip that almost hit my shin. :/
That’s a compound bow. The arrow shelf is on the left side of the bow,
about an inch above his left thumb. I used to bow hunt, long, long ago.
i blame the art, not the artist… there at least 6 things wrong with both bows…
IF you look at daz3d (free) 90% of the bow art is fantasy (looks cool but not functional)
like in the movies,. it’s not about function, but the look of the characters.
i can go on an on…
I agree, I’ve been looking at their assets, and I see a lot of goofs on some of the
art myself, It’s why I don’t bring them up. That’s the hardest part of using other
people’s artwork, you can’t fix their farbs… I really want to tinker with both Hex
and Daz3D and I just don’t have the time to study with how bad my father’s gotten.
I found out why he was having trouble with his bathroom trips, he’s been reusing
the same glass to drink out of, gave himself food poisoning. I get those plastic
party glasses, and he still tries to reuse them… Damn hoarder mentality.
Now I have to go around and toss anything that looks used. Plus he keeps putting
down milk for out cat, she hates milk and he keeps forgetting.
She does seem to like spicy hot nacho cheese, go figure…
Most cats are lactose intolerant by the time they get to puberty, if not sooner.
Feeding them milk is a good way to kill them with starvation and diarrhea.
As to the food poisoning thing, the most dangerous place to eat is in your
own kitchen. Few could pass even the most rudimentary health inspection.
It’s even harder when you’re a livestock farm, we don’t have birds or
goats anymore, but when a 1500lbs cow takes a dump, it drops 3 feet
and, in some cases, splatters… So sometimes we get it on our shoes/
pants and bring it in without knowing.
*on our shoes*
But my wife’s cat sure likes to lick the bowl after I have strawberry ice
cream (or chocolate, or vanilla, or pineapple sherbet) but I promise it’s
only in trace amounts.
Good point, Rob. I wasn’t dissing on PC. Many of the errors we’ve found
over the years have been model based, a limitation of the source material.
P3
He should have offered to help with the butchering.
Then they BOTH smell like blood, then they BOTH take a bath
….. together.
That’s a cultural thing, men hunt, women prepare.
I’m sure that she’ll join him after, the price of hunting.
I just had a thought: since the Empire’s scientists have now figured out FTL travel and since wormholes
are a gravidic phenomenon, what if the Empire developed “jump gates”? I’m talking about pairs of jump
gates acting as artificial wormholes. They would not be selectable (a la “Stargate”) but would have to
be in pairs. The Empire could control access to the jump gates by controlling access to the “activation
codes” which would also be heavily encrypted with different encryption keys for each pair so even if a
core spy managed to record and decrypt the codes for one half of one pair they would still not have the
keys/codes for the entire network – including the return trip! If the jump gate data they stole was to
a system without a natural wormhole, the spies would be stranded.
What do you think? (Hint: after I finish with the FTL gear I’d like to build a jump gate.)
I wouldn’t fully automate such gates. I’d make them part of a manned space/defense
station. That way you need local people to activate the gate for you or to trigger
a self-destruct in case of an enemy successfully boards them.
That way there are no codes anyone could steal.
You would not want to garrison a large network of jump gates like that.
1) It would require large numbers of troops. 2) It would be a terrible duty station.
I don’t care what amenities were provided it would be worse than the worst remote
base anywhere in the world. No need to garrison the jump gates.
Plus the jump gates would be able to charge a toll for use (different rates for Empire
members, associates and non-aligned) and help pay for their upkeep. Part of the
activation code (different for each tier) would include a unique identifier for the
vessel using the jump gate. The home planet or corporate headquarters would be
billed for their ships’ use of the gate system (kind of like the way ships have to pay
to use the Panama Canal). If an entity got too far behind it would be trivial to lock
their account and prohibit that organization’s assets from using the system until the
arrears amount was paid.
The only practical way you could control gate travel is if the gate was
opened and closed at will, otherwise it would be a logistical nightmare.
At some point someone would get tired of the fees and cause an “incident.”
We still don’t know what the core’s FTL is, since they call the movement “jumping”
so it might be a gate. But if it is a radiation issue, then I have my doubts it’s that.
The natural gates might be a creation of the Elder gods, or by a race we’ve just not
heard of, AKA the “First Ones” so to speak. Either way, FTL travel might become an
AI manned crafts only, since radiation would not affect them much.
Or the Empire might figure out how to fix or shield against that.
Patience, grasshopper, patience. All in PC’s good time.
Even when the Empire is making its own FTL gear it will not be economical to
put FTL gear on every ship. A network of jump gates would allow conventional
ships to still be able to make faster transits without having to retrofit
expensive FTL gear.
I kinda hope the Empire discovers how to make the gates, that way they can
send out a FTL ship to discover habitual systems, and plant a gate there for
normal gate travel. I’m thinking along the same lines as Stargate: Universe.
Or discovering a forming system for gas/dust farming. Unlimited resources,
without the need for mining. The mind boggles at it. Think about it, a super
massive red giant that had nova’d a billion years ago, the dust would have
every exotic mineral, if not unique ones.
The problem with that would be finding it. I remember SF
writers going on when I was a kid about all the gold that’s
dissolved in seawater, way more than the world’s nations
have in solid form. (And even more uranium.) The problem
is separating it from all that water and then the other solutes.
By now, with the asteroid mining, gold no doubt has become common
and is used for contacts and corrosion prevention. I’m thinking of
minerals like lithium. Separating them is a processing problem yes,
like how they “mine” for silver, they take the ore that has other minerals
mixed in, they use an acid to burn those off just leaving the silver.
A 5 lbs hunk of ore might produce 1 or 2 oz.
Well, today’s page is up. I’m taking a nap. Rough week, and I haven’t been sleeping well.