Kombat Kitty has a daughter? (shiver) Well, I can’t wait to meet her! I had wondered what
she had with Jochi. Typical pre-fall mess, the old Govs were pretty lazy weren’t they?
Ah so it’s a matter of drives power limits, that’s something that can be address by the
tech masters on Earth. But that does sound like Motha gotta prove how big and bad they
were, which, as I predicted didn’t amount to a hill of beans when it came down too it.
Maybe some day Motha will understand that the Empire is not a helpless, underdeveloped
world, but one that matches you in might and surpasses you in military skill and planning.
“The huge fleet will scare them into giving in” Ah no…
I’m not sure I’d trust a medico that wanted me to give up coffee.
I’d give up the doctor before I gave up the coffee.
BTW, what’s your average consumption?
One cup? Three cups? Three pots?
(at the 3pot level, yeah, I’d have you cut back too. Save some
for someone else)
A couple of pots, After my diabetes came out, I had to cut out my
soda drinking, so coffee became my go-to. My father had to quit
because it was a risk it’d effect his meds, doc thinks I’m next.
Aw, gee wizz! lol It’s a what if situation,
not a for sure one. “I think you should
stop drinking coffee in case we have
to give you (insert 20 letter drug name
I haven’t a prayer to pronounce) given
your father’s history” he takes meds to
control his heart rate, I just need a mild
blood pressure pill.
I have a 16 ounce vacuum insulated cup that I empty
once every day. Otherwise I drink Walmart sugar free
cool-aide (Walmart knock-off Crystal Light) all day.
Between the type 2 diabetes and the Cardiologist
Putting me on water pills (Lasix/furosemide) I
drink about 2 quarts per day. Can’t afford soda.
Even the Walmart brand is around a buck and a
quarter per 2 liter. Coke and Pepsi sometimes
hit 2 bucks!
I know what you mean, even coffee has gotten pricey. A 4
lbs can costs almost $14! (I remember when it was 5 lbs)
I hear you, I used to drink a 2 liter of Dr. P a day. Sugar-
free doesn’t help me much and gives me headaches. I was
told to me that sugar is sugar, no matter how it’s made.
My urologist is an anti-caffeine activist. He tells me every visit
to quit drinking any caffeine. I have cut back, but it’s not going
to be a total ban.
caffeine throws off the numbers,. and makes you go more.
at one test i forgot an drank some,, (3 swallows) it pulled
a ‘internet search’ , and said i had hours to live.!!!
re-tested days later, an all was normal…
Earlier today Scars posted “At some point someone would get tired of the fees and cause an ‘incident.’
At which point their entire organization (world, company, whatever) would be locked out of the gate
network until they paid triple the damage resulting from the “incident”. They would be free to use the
pre-existing natural wormholes. Of course, people who played nice would usually be transiting between
most systems in a single jump instead of the roundabout multiple wormhole crossings which were the
norm previously. Imagine a company being banned from the Panama Canal and the Suez while their
competitors could use the canals. They’d get in line tout de suite! And of course high value cargo and
high fare passengers would be transported via the Empire’s Sierra hotel FTL gear.
I was just thinking about someone’s assault force
showing up and trying to take control of the
station as an “act of war,” undeclared as it were.
Motha is one of the dirtiest, underhanded
fighters, they’re no good at it, but they keep
trying…
I envision the result of FTL gear going out of sync is the vessel crashing out of warp space and the
mass of the ship, crew and cargo spread out over an astronomical unit of space. At least the crew
would not suffer as the event would essentially take place in an instant.
I agree, if not total destruction, heavily damaged and unable to jump. Which to be honest,
being disabled between star systems would be far worse, trying to travel at sub-light
speeds for months until the food and air ran out. The more I read it’s looking more like
a warp drive rather than a portable jump gate. “Paired drives” sounds a lot like the ST
nacelles. As well as syncing them up. It sounds like a power supply issue rather than a
design flaw. I doubt the FTL is as fast as the gates, so it would have to be sustained
for a time.
To be honest, the keyboard I got a few months ago is starting to fail.
More and more often I have to retype letters. It’s starting to act like
that mechanical keyboard I was using for a time, if the key isn’t
pressed to stop, nothing gets typed. I love the back-lit keys, and the
extra-large letters on the keys, but I keep having to go back over every
damned thing to fill in missing letters. Buy cheap, pay the price…
Spell-check doesn’t catch ’em all, I might have to hire Ash Catchem heh.
My current “ergonomic” keyboard is losing it’s “c.” I keep discovering
missing c’s here and there. My problem is usually cat hair caught under
the keys. I haven’t discovered a good way to solve the problem on this
keyboard. I have a number of keyboards around, both wired and wi-fi,
so I guess I won’t be without one.
A shop vac, then one of those keyboard protectors.
I have protectors on all four of my keyboards,
and underneath they all look like new.
I started with saran wrap taped over the board,
back when I was broke.
I had an early version of one of those, I loved the thing.
sadly I had young kinds at the time that liked to get a
glass of milk and then try to sit in my lap, it didn’t
survive the last time.
I was thinking, Motha’s electronics aren’t as advanced as the Empire’s, so having a typical
computer of their design would need an operator to check what the needs are during a jump,
where an AI plugged directly into the controls could make ANY adjustments needed on the fly.
Better yet, two androids on board, one taking a break using a neutral body while the other
is jacked in and running at top clock speed to do the necessary adjustments.
Somewhere in the dim and distant colander that is my memory, I remember reading a scifi
story of the early days of FTL drives being very finicky. A ship tried to make a jump with
incomplete data and ended up being embedded in a planet. Oops. Can’t remember the
author or the title. If I do get enough ambition to search, I’ll comeback (much) later.
In the movie “A New Hope” Han was telling Luke about the dire need for the
coordinates from the nav computer, “You’d fly right through a star or wind
up in the heart of a supernova, that’d end your trip real fast” if I’m
remembering it right.
That’s just Hollywierd. In truth space is literally incredibly empty.
The odds of there being any significant mass between any two
points is infinitesimally small.
Very true, I just used an example. We all
(even the non-scifi types) always try to
find an explanation for what we see/read.
It’s like the action movies showing the
hero hiding behind a car door in a gun
fight, a .22lr will go through a door these
days. Maybe 30 years ago, but plastic and
extra thin sheet metal “ain’t stoppin’ shit” 😉
I remember a sci-fi story long ago about a star ship going somewhere
making “jumps.” It would jump, check its position, and make another
jump. Until it made one jump, and then just sat. Eventually the crew
realized that there was a new nova in the starfield, and it was preventing
the ship from confirming its location.
It started when that Admiral ordered self-destruct, it showed how little
they care for their people. While the Empire not only disabled the fleet
WITHOUT killing them, but want to discuss their options. Motha trashed
their own worlds and people for the sake of their pockets.
And that shows how short sighted Motha is. They forget,
once the worlds are empty, so are their pockets.
What’s that expression about tyrants, “they want to burn
down the world to rule over the ashes.”
Great, I gave myself the image of the Motha board meeting room,
all members putting on these floppy hats of jiggly asses while
talking in a totally serious manner…
Damn my imagination!
After careful re-read of this strip, I had missed what Dr. Cowart had said in P5, That the number
of drives and that they needed to be synced up, but he also stated 4 to pull them “into hyper”
so it’s a Star Wars style of drive rather than a ST warp drive. Depending on the design flaws and
what it takes to make the drives, I’m sure Imperial scientists can greatly improve on the design.
Or just get tips to work on their own versions… Anyway, seeing that it’s a power issue, maybe
capacitor banks for the jumps will help a lot. Either way, Motha put everything they had on this
fleet, and it failed. I suspect with the Wilson mines and the speed and the maneuverability of
the Daggers and Toby’s they could give Motha a return visit.
System defense wouldn’t have a chance against it.
I know, I was saying it’s an issue for Motha,
The Empire just needs to refine/upgrade the
crap Motha gave these poor guys. Who knows,
you may find yourself designing a ship that
might look a bit like TOS heh.
Shocks!
Kombat Kitty has a daughter? (shiver) Well, I can’t wait to meet her! I had wondered what
she had with Jochi. Typical pre-fall mess, the old Govs were pretty lazy weren’t they?
Ah so it’s a matter of drives power limits, that’s something that can be address by the
tech masters on Earth. But that does sound like Motha gotta prove how big and bad they
were, which, as I predicted didn’t amount to a hill of beans when it came down too it.
Maybe some day Motha will understand that the Empire is not a helpless, underdeveloped
world, but one that matches you in might and surpasses you in military skill and planning.
“The huge fleet will scare them into giving in” Ah no…
*as I predicted, didn’t amount*
Damnit! I need coffee, wify’s been trying to get me to quit again 🙁
(GASP!!)
Give up coffee?!
The elixir of life that makes living worthwhile?!
How DARE she!
Grounds (yes, I went there) for divorce!
Heh, doc ordered me to, she’s
just trying to enforce it 😛
I’m not sure I’d trust a medico that wanted me to give up coffee.
I’d give up the doctor before I gave up the coffee.
BTW, what’s your average consumption?
One cup? Three cups? Three pots?
(at the 3pot level, yeah, I’d have you cut back too. Save some
for someone else)
A couple of pots, After my diabetes came out, I had to cut out my
soda drinking, so coffee became my go-to. My father had to quit
because it was a risk it’d effect his meds, doc thinks I’m next.
Well… if there’s valid reasons… we’ll let them live…for now.
It’d be nice to keep you around here for a few more years.
Aw, gee wizz! lol It’s a what if situation,
not a for sure one. “I think you should
stop drinking coffee in case we have
to give you (insert 20 letter drug name
I haven’t a prayer to pronounce) given
your father’s history” he takes meds to
control his heart rate, I just need a mild
blood pressure pill.
I have a 16 ounce vacuum insulated cup that I empty
once every day. Otherwise I drink Walmart sugar free
cool-aide (Walmart knock-off Crystal Light) all day.
Between the type 2 diabetes and the Cardiologist
Putting me on water pills (Lasix/furosemide) I
drink about 2 quarts per day. Can’t afford soda.
Even the Walmart brand is around a buck and a
quarter per 2 liter. Coke and Pepsi sometimes
hit 2 bucks!
I know what you mean, even coffee has gotten pricey. A 4
lbs can costs almost $14! (I remember when it was 5 lbs)
I hear you, I used to drink a 2 liter of Dr. P a day. Sugar-
free doesn’t help me much and gives me headaches. I was
told to me that sugar is sugar, no matter how it’s made.
fake sugars cause serotonin an dopamine dumps (in some cases)
and brain excitability which leads to headache.
My urologist is an anti-caffeine activist. He tells me every visit
to quit drinking any caffeine. I have cut back, but it’s not going
to be a total ban.
caffeine throws off the numbers,. and makes you go more.
at one test i forgot an drank some,, (3 swallows) it pulled
a ‘internet search’ , and said i had hours to live.!!!
re-tested days later, an all was normal…
Earlier today Scars posted “At some point someone would get tired of the fees and cause an ‘incident.’
At which point their entire organization (world, company, whatever) would be locked out of the gate
network until they paid triple the damage resulting from the “incident”. They would be free to use the
pre-existing natural wormholes. Of course, people who played nice would usually be transiting between
most systems in a single jump instead of the roundabout multiple wormhole crossings which were the
norm previously. Imagine a company being banned from the Panama Canal and the Suez while their
competitors could use the canals. They’d get in line tout de suite! And of course high value cargo and
high fare passengers would be transported via the Empire’s Sierra hotel FTL gear.
I believe that had actually happened at the Panama canal
if I’m remembering right.
I was just thinking about someone’s assault force
showing up and trying to take control of the
station as an “act of war,” undeclared as it were.
Motha is one of the dirtiest, underhanded
fighters, they’re no good at it, but they keep
trying…
At which point no Motha-associated ship would be all-
owed to use any jump gate. I have a feeling Motha would
get in line in a hurry after that.
I envision the result of FTL gear going out of sync is the vessel crashing out of warp space and the
mass of the ship, crew and cargo spread out over an astronomical unit of space. At least the crew
would not suffer as the event would essentially take place in an instant.
I agree, if not total destruction, heavily damaged and unable to jump. Which to be honest,
being disabled between star systems would be far worse, trying to travel at sub-light
speeds for months until the food and air ran out. The more I read it’s looking more like
a warp drive rather than a portable jump gate. “Paired drives” sounds a lot like the ST
nacelles. As well as syncing them up. It sounds like a power supply issue rather than a
design flaw. I doubt the FTL is as fast as the gates, so it would have to be sustained
for a time.
“Potable”?
Ya need more coffee.
LOL!
😛
To be honest, the keyboard I got a few months ago is starting to fail.
More and more often I have to retype letters. It’s starting to act like
that mechanical keyboard I was using for a time, if the key isn’t
pressed to stop, nothing gets typed. I love the back-lit keys, and the
extra-large letters on the keys, but I keep having to go back over every
damned thing to fill in missing letters. Buy cheap, pay the price…
Spell-check doesn’t catch ’em all, I might have to hire Ash Catchem heh.
My current “ergonomic” keyboard is losing it’s “c.” I keep discovering
missing c’s here and there. My problem is usually cat hair caught under
the keys. I haven’t discovered a good way to solve the problem on this
keyboard. I have a number of keyboards around, both wired and wi-fi,
so I guess I won’t be without one.
A shop vac, then one of those keyboard protectors.
I have protectors on all four of my keyboards,
and underneath they all look like new.
I started with saran wrap taped over the board,
back when I was broke.
As I said, this is one of those “bent” ergonomic keyboards. I wasn’t
sure I could get used to it, but I have…except for the number 6.
I had an early version of one of those, I loved the thing.
sadly I had young kinds at the time that liked to get a
glass of milk and then try to sit in my lap, it didn’t
survive the last time.
I’ve taken it apart and cleaned it, it’s a throw-away cheapo.
I had to break loose glue points to do it, did I mention I
also love my glue gun? 😛
I figured that’s where Dr Cowart was going, some flaw in the use/
design/etc. of the FTL drive. And Motha don’t care.
I was thinking, Motha’s electronics aren’t as advanced as the Empire’s, so having a typical
computer of their design would need an operator to check what the needs are during a jump,
where an AI plugged directly into the controls could make ANY adjustments needed on the fly.
Better yet, two androids on board, one taking a break using a neutral body while the other
is jacked in and running at top clock speed to do the necessary adjustments.
Somewhere in the dim and distant colander that is my memory, I remember reading a scifi
story of the early days of FTL drives being very finicky. A ship tried to make a jump with
incomplete data and ended up being embedded in a planet. Oops. Can’t remember the
author or the title. If I do get enough ambition to search, I’ll comeback (much) later.
In the movie “A New Hope” Han was telling Luke about the dire need for the
coordinates from the nav computer, “You’d fly right through a star or wind
up in the heart of a supernova, that’d end your trip real fast” if I’m
remembering it right.
That’s just Hollywierd. In truth space is literally incredibly empty.
The odds of there being any significant mass between any two
points is infinitesimally small.
Very true, I just used an example. We all
(even the non-scifi types) always try to
find an explanation for what we see/read.
It’s like the action movies showing the
hero hiding behind a car door in a gun
fight, a .22lr will go through a door these
days. Maybe 30 years ago, but plastic and
extra thin sheet metal “ain’t stoppin’ shit” 😉
I remember a sci-fi story long ago about a star ship going somewhere
making “jumps.” It would jump, check its position, and make another
jump. Until it made one jump, and then just sat. Eventually the crew
realized that there was a new nova in the starfield, and it was preventing
the ship from confirming its location.
“May I see the Admiral’s files?”
And thus begins a revolt against tyranny.
“I have a niece?”
How nice to welcome new family.
It started when that Admiral ordered self-destruct, it showed how little
they care for their people. While the Empire not only disabled the fleet
WITHOUT killing them, but want to discuss their options. Motha trashed
their own worlds and people for the sake of their pockets.
And that shows how short sighted Motha is. They forget,
once the worlds are empty, so are their pockets.
What’s that expression about tyrants, “they want to burn
down the world to rule over the ashes.”
Would that make them “Ash hat Dictators”?
Ouch that even hurt me.
That’s ok, it hurt me too 😀 😛
More like Ass-hat than ash.
Great, I gave myself the image of the Motha board meeting room,
all members putting on these floppy hats of jiggly asses while
talking in a totally serious manner…
Damn my imagination!
After careful re-read of this strip, I had missed what Dr. Cowart had said in P5, That the number
of drives and that they needed to be synced up, but he also stated 4 to pull them “into hyper”
so it’s a Star Wars style of drive rather than a ST warp drive. Depending on the design flaws and
what it takes to make the drives, I’m sure Imperial scientists can greatly improve on the design.
Or just get tips to work on their own versions… Anyway, seeing that it’s a power issue, maybe
capacitor banks for the jumps will help a lot. Either way, Motha put everything they had on this
fleet, and it failed. I suspect with the Wilson mines and the speed and the maneuverability of
the Daggers and Toby’s they could give Motha a return visit.
System defense wouldn’t have a chance against it.
*careful*
That’s what I get for getting up at 3 am for a
bathroom break and trying to act intelligent…
It’s not a power issue. The Empire’s gravitic based tech allows them
to pull essentially infinite amounts of energy out of empty space.
I know, I was saying it’s an issue for Motha,
The Empire just needs to refine/upgrade the
crap Motha gave these poor guys. Who knows,
you may find yourself designing a ship that
might look a bit like TOS heh.
Checking in.
Roger.
Acknowledged checking in.
Standing by for further
communications.
And let’s not forget that they would have lost another 5% of their ships
on the way back.