Since they don't have much of an industrial base yet, the manufacturing of FTL drones for comm is a little way off. What can they do quickly, with mi...

When does Episode 10 come out? I think January was mentioned somewhere. Just wondering if we'd get a Christmas present... 😉

I only use the "Recent Topics" view. Other views make it too hard to find categories that make sense to me.

Um, the shields must be down. Fire Torpedo Cannons!

And Nathan gets renamed Flash Gordon? 😛 Seriously, in today's PC world (and I don't mean Windows) it would be hard to do that. You can always bea...

The second Jump Drive Team worked in isolation, so I would think they may have some slightly different ideas about how things work. They might have i...

My impression is that the jump calculations are too complex to be entrusted to an automated drone - yet. Ryk had descriptions of lugging the computer...

There was a great short story where a Professor is lecturing on the paradox theory of time travel using the Grandfather example, when all of a sudden ...

Oooh. That sounds fine, but wouldn't the paradox then step in? You know, go back and kill Nathan's grandpa, and he never gets out there to command t...

Heh. This discussion reminds me of J. J. Abrams' lecture on "The Mystery Box" Check it out. As creator of Lost and many of the most popular TV show...

One question: Why does the Aurora stand and shot at incoming missiles? Why not let them get close, then jump a few thousand meters past them? Let th...

Sounds good to me, Ryk! I was in one part of the US Military, but I worked a lot with other branches and with other nation's troops. The culture is ...

That Kindle cover looks really nice.

Whatever you want to do, man. Personally I'm a little more interested in simple deck designs (Oh, the Captain's Ready Room is over THERE!) Sketches ...

Was just re-reading the interview between Na-Tan and Lt. Telles. It is clear the Marines were responsible for at least part of the Ghatazhak characte...

I think if this were real, we'd see a narrowing of the options pretty fast. I think the end state would have Jump Fighters and FTL missiles, and ener...

My greedy sense of desire leads me through the need for more books, but GOOD books. Good books get written by authors who are happy. Happy authors d...

Anything that gave away the plot would be too much. What you described: "ships, deck plans, uniforms, patches, star maps, weapons, surface maps, even...

I was looking for numbers on how bad earth orbit is cluttered with debris, and I found some cool websites run by NASA Check it out. Very scientific. ...

Different branch - The Virus. Since the presumption is that some of their crew is NOT resistant to the virus (Pentaurus cluster people) they need to ...

Yeah, I have been pushing the "aliens" thing as Series 2 of 5, but most other members here aren't buying it, or don't like it, for some reason. With ...

From Wikipedia: "The Skylark of Space by Edward E. "Doc" Smith was written between 1915 and 1921 while Smith was working on his doctorate." Can you i...

Yay!

David's Debris Factor sounds like the current state of Earth orbit. We need to clean up our act in order to protect the environment... wait, I have ...

David Colwell, look at "The Lost Fleet: Dauntless" by Jack Campbell. It is the closest thing I have seen to Ryk's work. I liked the first series a l...

I also thought of the Defenders as large blocks of legos. I guess it doesn't really matter, as there are no more of the Defender Class left... What ...

Interesting. I remember the movie well enough to know that quote wasn't in it, but in the supplemental material makes sense. It has a certain Bukaro...

In my first post here, I said "There are (soon) going to be two ships that look like the Aurora…" implying there might be confusion for the Jung about...

Winners have been selected Giveaway dates: Oct 25 - Nov 07, 2013 2 copies available, 504 people requesting Countries available: US But I can't get th...

If this were real, the messy truth would be that there would be a certain percentage of the Earth's population that want to remain loyal to the Jung. ...