Recent content by actionman

Nooooooo. Neither do I want the poor inconsistent writing, the general non-functionality, the writers' room plot by consensus instead of one writer's vision, nonsensical fantastical elements, and plot resolution by social media polling. Arya should've taken Danaeyrs' face and married John...

Returning fallen soldiers from the wilds beyond the borders. Bounty hunters transporting quarries.

The Freebooting Wolves of Space, man. The Freebooting Wolves of Space.

I hope they stop at the part where people start coming back to life.

Please only seasons 1 through 3. Pleeeeeease only seasons 1 through 3.

They're big enough now to be inflatable yard decorations. That's why Aslan females do everything. The males are too big to get in the car. I think in CT they were something like 2 meters tall and 100kg, slightly taller and stockier than the average human.

You've named my next Aslan character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1 It's Boeing though, so anyone in its sights is probably pretty safe. And this is only what the public knows about. Maybe in our little writeup on the Traveller wiki, it would say Earth, TL 8.1 (not available in all areas)

MWM and the GDW writers probably didn't think people would be arguing over it like mystical quatrains 50 years later.

That is truly the ultimate.

One could say the same for the Aslan and the Hani.

If she were really a cat person all she'd say is "Feed me. Feed me. Let me in. Let me out. I'm not going out. Feed me."

After a cursory internet search, some thoughts: Larry Niven introduced the Kzinti in 1966 in the story "The Warriors". C.J. Cherryh introduced the Hani in 1981. GDW introduced the Aslan in 1980/81 (Library Data A-M) or earlier since there's probably earlier mention of them which was then...

My point was that making sure passengers cannot load their own software and performing other IT security tasks would be a burden for the crew, and that's one of the reasons I said that having ship provided entertainment systems would be a hassle.