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Inspiration: Naming Your Sci-Fi Ships With STYLE Spacedock dives into naming conventions and poetic styles of naming for ships in science fiction.

Inspiration: How The 1930s Imagined Space Combat Learn about the 1930s man who predicted Hard Sci-Fi Space Combat. 1. Sensors. 2. Fire control. 3. Rocket torpedoes. 4. Ranging machine guns with tracers. 5. Stabilizing gunfire. 6. Nineteen Forty discussing atomics got a visit from a...

The Politburo is of the opinion that the diaspora are like pandas: they all belong to the State. Sinonization is more a political project, to remove any possibility of a successful minority secession, rather than trying to integrate them.

Has Solomanchu been tried? The fact that the Han dislike the Manchu, would be somewhat of an understatement.

The mistake was that twenty years ago, no one packaged Traveller as a television series, so that by the time the usual kinks were worked out, it could be presented as Firefly adjacent, Galactica successor, Star Wars alternative, just as the Golden Age of television dawned, when money flowed like...

Spacecraft: Armaments and When Did Electromagnetic Guns Get Popular? Spacedock dives into the history of electromagnetic weapons in modern sci-fi. Coilguns - Anno Domini Nineteen Oh Four

Primitive hulls only exude one power point per hundred tonnes. Rules allow halving that, without shutting off basic services. Extreme external temperature require more climate control.

It's a date; meet you at Starbucks around the corner. We'll split the tab.

Tends to come down to resources' availability, and industrial policy. The Germans were very motivated to invent, and manufacture, synthetic rubber and fuel.

No concealed weapons.

The reader, if they want to, would have to self analyze as to why they found that compelling, or attractive.

Players tend to prefer protagonists they can relate to.

1. Where does the exhaust go after the fusion reactors takes it apart? 2. More importantly, where does the exhaust go after the chemical power plant burns it? 3. You could transfer heat to the exhaust, as it exits the spacecraft tailpipe. 4. Or for a more closed system, transfer the heat to...

The Middle Arm.