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I believe it's actually Time Enough for Love. But neither one is really an exact fit - it may be more a case of several things getting conflated.

To make it more reasonable, freezing for twenty to forty seconds is more like it... but to make it notable, have the "freeze" also include the android's (simulated) respiration. A twenty- to forty-second fugue state without breathing is believable (happens to me on occasion) but not far enough...

Okay, I just completely missed it. Well, that gives me some critical data, anyway.

One thing I would like to see some rules on: how fast does a fabricator/deconstructor work? We know how much volume a given device processes (in either direction) per cycle (that's the CL of the chamber), but how long does a cycle take? If it's ever been published, I either somehow missed it, or...

Solidified oxygen is not really a suitable material for this sort of thing. Assuming you could get around the temperature and pressure requirements to keep oxygen in a solid phase (not likely, since it needs cryogenic temperatures, 60+ atmospheres of pressure, or some combination of somewhat...

Y'know, that might actually fit the K'kree better than horses do. Speaking as someone who's had experience in dealing with the belligerence of a herd's dominant bull...

Depending on the human, I'd say it ranges from "uplifted chimpanzee" to "downrated baboon".

Because a polar orbit, by necessity, moves relative to the ground underneath it and the useful property of a geostationary orbit is the property of remaining stationary relative to the ground point directly beneath the orbital platform. See, a geostationary orbit is moving around the planet at...

The default amount of SU have storage space which does not come from cargo space. If a crew decides to pack extra supply units (oversupply), that can be stored in the cargo holds at the stated rate (1 ton per hundred SU), but these are not stored to be easily accessible - I believe the Naval...

I'm sure you would. The watch is almost certainly cheaper... which is why the corporation would prefer it.

I suspect it's simply a matter of what happened to get submitted. The bulk of JTAS contents are community-contributed, so what gets included depends on what the various contributors come up with.

Those elements are a part of T5 - although T5's generation procedures are different and generate different distributions. If I'm not mistaken, there are also some differences in nuance between the two systems. (Gier mentioned these issues - admittedly, somewhat offhandedly so it's easy to...

Just remember, the mainworld isn't the only reason to visit a system. Spectacular gas giant scenery, maybe spelunking in asteroid cavities, secondary world sightseeing or holiday resorts. Face it, why would anybody rational from a nation with a high standard of living visit an allegedly...

The Portfolio rules have now been imported to MongTrav2; they are in JTAS Volume 13, page 34, "Becoming the 1%".

It would be easier to detect than you think, but not from occlusion. An interstellar rock starts emitting hard radiation from collisions with interstellar gas well before its velocity reaches 0.0002 c - a speed which would mean the rock would take more than 15 millennia to cross a single parsec...