Trial 20 people fresh out of a language course to translate a chapter of book 4 each (2 people to a chapter) and then ask one of your native German re...

Considering the need for large numbers of ships and the application of weapons like the KKV / JKKV / and Jump Missile, why build any ships bigger then...

Those were Frigates! huh! I was sure I read that the smaller ships didnt get names! but I think I do remember reading that too that they got named whe...

Jumping into a system close to close to a moon could mean death. I would want to have that conversation. As to the orbit of haven - I just don't care ...

I do not think that the Jung name they're smaller ships. So there is that.

Might be an idea to wait until more of the property is available to transfer to the screen. There will be a whole lot of story here and the TV show wo...

Yip, what you said!

Gap in the market? Startrek The Expanse Dark Matter ... Ok fair point

The Moon (Luna) is in a mostly circular orbit around Earth. For 3 Nights a Month we have a new moon where we have a very narrow band of light reflecti...

For Haven to move the way Ryk said - half of the Planetary orbit in the shadow of the Gas Giant - the Haven's Orbit would need to be so warped - eithe...

Our Moon is in a tidally locked position so it receives exactly the same amount of sunlight on all sides except for the portion that faces the earth w...

There are relatively few mistakes in your work Ryk, and for the quantity you put out you do a every good job of limiting the mistakes. sometimes a clu...

Deployed Plasma turret modules are a good idea up until the point they get detected by the enemy - because they would be easily shot down. The Point ...

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter much as they still can't get to another system with a Light day's jumping. But I guess if they pulled some of...

Yip Time is a fickle beast. never changing and never the same!

Hi Ryk @rykbrown I have a couple of questions: 1) Could you let us know if you are planning to stick with 2 month release schedule like you said or g...

Because the ampule she dosed him with was grey like nanites rather then empty and filling with red

1) A game ala Cid Meyers for a Colony just after leaving Earth to during its "End days" (they didn't think the Earth would survive) 2) A game ala S...

Ha ha ha! I have stopped trying to pronounce stuff like planet names (it takes something away from the story but not enough to ruin it)

@mikeg You really don't want to hear me sing!, but all the rest sounds pretty good!

Because we the fans have consistently freaked out waiting for the next release when they were delayed, Ryk wanted to build a buffer of episodes ready ...

I really want to see what new ships are like now that technologies from the Data Arch have been trickling out! It should have made some impact already

Eating the local Food speed up mutation Eating a certain Herb/root prevented it The Captain and his Rock Specialist frienemy eat from the land while t...

Jumping 20 Light years in a straight line in space can be risky, you need to map out safe channels between the starts to travel any long distance. Tr...

I don't like the idea of wide scale bio-engineering with out great need. But even that to me sounds like a slippery slope: to remove diseases and birt...

new releases every 2 months and an additional 4 months between parts would actually be 6 months between parts, it doesn't make all that much differenc...

No real suggestions, I kind of like the site as is. Is there any chance of a Ryk's log for 2016?

I figure that the military and astronauts will be the first groups to use large scale workforce augmentation (in real-live) and that we will likely se...

I generally use chrome to view this site - and usually on the one laptop. I do have to log in again if i vew the site from a different computer and lo...

Fingers crossed as its a good read!