Jason
@darkscribe
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RE: Hypothetical Colony

@mike Thank you. I agree that the computer data carried with the colonists would be well out of date by the time of the military buildup to deter the...

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RE: Hypothetical Colony

@four-islands The idea of Dubnyk bringing the jump drive to the Ashallans wouldn't work. The Ashalla discover the jump drive before he has even been ...

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RE: Hypothetical Colony

@four-islands The number of initial colonists was 125,000 (93,000 adults and 23,000 minor children). We don't know the size of the colony ships in us...

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RE: Colonization expeditions

The notion of the colony ship itself being modular had occurred to me. As you said, any colony ship employed to carry colonists and their supplies to...

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RE: Colonization expeditions

I doubt that the data core on the colony ship itself would house that kind of data. The ship's core would most likely only have the necessary data to...

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RE: Question: Jump Drive Recharge Times

@rykbrown Thank you, but my questions weren't about the difference between the types of jump drives, their power sources, or the availability of mini-...

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RE: Question: Jump Drive Recharge Times

If the distance a ship can jump is determined by the decay rate of its jump fields and the number of energy banks aboard to provide power to those fie...

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RE: Starchart update

Tanna is in the 72 Herculis system

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RE: Format of ep15

I checked my copy and oddly enough the gaps between scenes in the Battle of Patoray (Chapter 14) are there. I'm pretty sure they've been there since ...

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RE: Jumping inside shields

Josh and Loki (and subsequent flight teams) were able to jump between the Jung's layered shields on battleships and battle platforms in their Falcons,...

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RE: Part Two

While I won't speculate on the number of years that while separate Part I from Part II in universe, I will say that I expect it to be hopefully at lea...

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RE: Episode 15 Speculation and Discussion

I must be in the minority around here since I had no trouble following the battle scenes at all. The only issue I noticed was when Nash was incorrect...

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RE: Where is the Jung homeworld

A detailed comparison of Alliance and Jung navigational charts could lead to possible locations for the Jung homeworld, but you would need to access t...

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RE: Episode 15 Countdown

I'm ready to preorder as soon as it's available. Not only am I signed up here to receive emails when the new episodes are released, but I did the who...

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RE: Episode 15 Countdown

We should probably leave him to finish the book instead of pestering him for an update on its progress every other day. Every time he has to pause to...

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RE: Seatbelts

In science fiction, the use of seat restraints does make sense when the ship in question either doesn't have a method of artificial gravity or is oper...

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RE: Jung prisoners

From Mr Brown's response, I would assume we won't be seeing the prison nor will it be mentioned unless it's relevant to the story.

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RE: Seatbelts

Honestly this topic is making me think of the scene from Star Trek: Enterprise's series premier back in 2001 when the crew is bouncing around on the b...

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RE: Question: Shipboard ZPEDs

But, a ship about the size of the Aurora or possibly as small as a frigate could conceivably use the smaller ZPEDs to assist in recharging its energy ...

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RE: Random dress code question

But, Josh is a pilot and that does require wearing a helmet every time he climbs in the cockpit of the Super Falcon. A thought did occur to me, thoug...

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