The idea that you need thousands or tens of thousands of people to avoid lack of genetic diversity is a hold over from days when our understanding of ...

The jump was never NOT able to work in the presence of a gravity field. It was just that the presence of that field had to be accounted for in the jum...

Think of it more like "what would you need to bring with you to survive forever on a deserted island?" The list is more basic than you might imagine. ...

@Areios: Thanks. I cried too, when I was writing it. (Heck, I got misty writing the outline of the last scene.) I was contacted by a well connected f...

Four Islands again hit the nail on the head. Both the original charge time and the improved charge time were arbitrary numbers based on the needs of t...

Four Islands is dead on with all points. @Jason: Bigger ships = large emitter arrays = more power to achieve the same jump range. It takes a lot more...

Currently 30 mins of charge time yields 1 light year of jump energy stored. Mini-ZPEDS are a pretty stable technology that has been used in smaller s...

The analogy of Japan doesn't really work, as Japan did not have the capability to easily destroy the US. They might have been able to win the war, but...

We have not actually defined what a "sector" is at this point. Remember, the people of Earth are just becoming a space-faring civilization. The Jung p...

My experiments thus far have shown me that deleting it from your kindle and then redownloading it do not work. You still get the same file. (Stupid sy...

The Takaran shields do not have gaps, and they do not overlap. They form a seamless bubble around their ships. But they were primarily designed to def...

The Aurora was never able to jump inside Jung shields. They were able to jump inside Ta'Akar shields. The Jung ships encountered in episode one were o...

Actually, it was me who edited the file and put in the lines instead of the line breaks. I got tired of waiting for Amazon to answer. The day I upload...

Thank you R Regit and Melanie. This insight helps. I really want to find out the cause. In the meantime, I'm going to go back through the manuscript ...

I appreciate your understanding, but to me it is a big deal, as I have now had three people scour the manuscript and none are able to find any subscen...

I am really pulling my hair out here. I didn't do anything different than in any of the previous episodes. Every POV change within a fluid battle sequ...

I'm sorry, Melanie, but you cannot say that I'm dead wrong. You are basing your perceptions on a single known system... our own. Now that we are disco...

I'm not saying that Nathan is dead. I'm not saying that he isn't going to be dead. That was just an example. The point I was trying to make is that as...

Putting little subtitles in would have the same effect as putting the regular scene break symbol in. The battle in chapter 14 is unique in the sense ...

I have gone through the file again, and I cannot find any subscenes without the 3-line break between them. (And this was in a file downloaded from Ama...

The Alliance did not give Nathan up, Nathan gave himself up to ensure a cease fire. He made it clear to the Jung that their homeworld would be complet...

During complex combat sequences in which the location shifts from place to place, (Aurora to Celestia to Falcon to Jar-Benakh, etc...) I've always use...

During complex combat sequences in which the location shifts from place to place, (Aurora to Celestia to Falcon to Jar-Benakh, etc...) I've always use...

Preorder status switches to on sale at 0000 LOCAL TIME in each Amazon store. So UK gets it before US east coast, and so on.

I went to a Sharks v. Blackhawks game with my daughter. We flew into San Jose. At the airport, I asked a cab driver to take us to SAP Arena. It was af...

Actually, plans have changed. Now, I'm going to release Fall of the Core as a whole book in Feb 2016, and another retooled stand alone novel that ties...

Eagles use restraints and pressure suits. Falcons use restraints and pressure suits. Shuttles use restraints (and sometimes pressure suits). Scout shi...

The Jung prisoners are all housed in a facility built at Porto Santo. Yes, they are being interrogated. Yes, some of the ones with families and girlfr...

Small ships that operate in high seas, yes. Pretty sure something the size of an aircraft carrier doesn't use seat belts. It really just comes down t...

Actually, the only mini-jump drive that used a mini ZPED was the one that Lieutenant Montgomery made for a shuttle to get back to the PC quickly. Ever...