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RE: [Spoilers] Fate of the Avendahl

Well vast fleets of tiny jump ships could end up wiping themselves out by mis-timing / making minor course errors on their combat jumps. Having the ab...

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RE: German translations - end at #3?

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...

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RE: [Spoilers] Fate of the Avendahl

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...

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RE: Question: Jung Language

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...

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RE: Haven and other inhabited moons

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 ...

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RE: Question: Jung Language

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

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RE: Frontiers Saga Television Series

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...

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RE: Part 2 Publishing Schedule

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

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RE: Haven and other inhabited moons

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...

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RE: Haven and other inhabited moons

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...

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RE: Haven and other inhabited moons

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...

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RE: Grammar

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...

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RE: Defense Turrets

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 ...

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RE: Jump Drive Equipped Super Eagle

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...

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RE: Part 2 Publishing Schedule

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

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RE: Part 2 Publishing Schedule

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...

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RE: Episode 1 Part 2 Thread Spoilers Welcome

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

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RE: Frontiers Saga Game

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...

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RE: Pronunciation

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)

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RE: Part 2 Publishing Schedule

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

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RE: Part 2 Publishing Schedule

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 ...

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RE: Episode 2- Rescue : idle speculation thread

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

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RE: Arrival Discussion

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...

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RE: Fact check: Jump Drive

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...

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RE: Question: Cybernetic Implants

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...

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RE: Part 2 Publishing Schedule

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...

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RE: Suggestion: Websitre Revamp

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

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RE: Question: Cybernetic Implants

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...

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RE: Suggestion: Websitre Revamp

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...

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