That was definitely on purpose. I wanted three things. > A sense of familiarity, or a connection to the story, and the ability to empathize with...

The books never identify what the propellant is, or where it is from, only where it is made. There is a moment where Vladimir discusses differences be...

Live in Britain, you develop a British accent. You'll notice changes in the way a lot of characters' syntax. Those who spoke Angla used far more prope...

The Earth's population at the time of the invention of FTL travel was around 20 billion. In addition, there were several million living on Mars, and a...

We (the characters) understand how the engineering in the jump drive works, as well as what causes the jump. We just don't understand the 'why' (physi...

The biggest problem I had with episode 13 was finding a place to end it. The Tau Ceti thread (which started the moment Jessica and friends splashed do...

I'm desperately trying to make a release by late November, but it's not looking promising. Episode 15 is turning out to be the hardest one to write. I...

You also have to consider that even with mutliple cold-coasts, it would be difficult to get good intel on the inner Tau Ceti system. With two full Jun...

Alliyana is sort of a hybrid. It has an asteroid core, inside of which are all the shops, hangar bays, flight ops, power generation, life-support, bla...

In the next iteration of this site, we plan on moving everything behind a firewall. To get past the firewall, you will need to be a member and be on t...

I new 3D star map system is being worked on. It will display ALL stars, not just the ones of interest.

All of the above. As you said, officers have private quarters, usually closer to their departments. (Since they are never really 'off duty'.) The cap...

Gunboat/Gunship = An standard ship with a lot of guns, and could be anything smaller than a frigate but larger than a scout ship. Fast Attack Gunship...

I have hired someone to comb through the episodes to collect data for a real wiki. After I finish part 1, I will be helping with that process, includi...

Touchy subject. For the record: I have nothing against anyone's sexual preferences. (Excluding pedophiles.) What ever floats your boat is fine with m...

When I started writing episode 1, I had (and still have) photos (head shots from some Canadian agency) of people that looked like how I saw the charac...

Even if the tech existed, it would be a foolish thing to employ, especially on a combat vessel. In the first draft of episode 4, I used artificial gr...

Keep in mind that shields do stop incoming physical objects up to a point. If there is enough kinetic energy in the incoming object (and we're talking...

The changes will only be typos and such, like the incorrect version of 'too/two/to', etc... You would not notice these in the audio books. Nothing w...

The Takaran comm-drones were designed to only drop out of FTL three times per interrupt attempt without confirmation from the hailing ship when it was...

There are still some adjustments to be made, however I asked them to post what they had for now. Yes, the tactical station should be a little taller,...

Assuming the blast would be equal to a tactical nuke, I expect the collateral damage to be considerably worse than with rail guns. If you look at the ...

I would expect that it would take quite a few mini-KKVs to destroy a planet. But why would you want to? And I can't imagine that you would want to do ...

A breach anywhere in the ship causes primary bulkhead pressure doors to automatically close and seal, main hangar bay included. As to the second ques...

I passed this on to the webmasters. (I'm not geeky enough to fix it.) FYI, a single signup should be sufficient. Thanks for letting me know of the p...

Outer doors are armored, inner doors are not. However, neither would withstand a direct shot from anything mark two or higher, so yes, a Super Falcon'...

The idea that the AM event dumped additional energy into the jump fields was a theory, but not proven. So was the idea that they might have jumped for...

If they are at close enough range to use the plasma cannon to destroy a ship (and not just damage it) then they are probably so close that the antimat...

Your second assumption is incorrect. The nuclear detonations had nothing to do with the Aurora's jump. They were simply to mask her jump flash from Ju...

The systems that control the jump drive are not located in the bridge, they are located in the compartment where the jump field generators are housed....