Recent content by Galadrion

Guys, smuggling doesn't usually - officially - carry the death penalty. You're going overboard with this. (Note: historically, it was sometimes considered a capital crime, but usually only under certain circumstances, such as particularly heinous goods or trading with the enemy.) Smuggling is...

As I recall, it's in a few sources - look at the various rules for the Gravatic Detection Suite. (The Great Rift and Sector Construction Guide, if I'm remembering correctly.) Edit: Looks like I'm not the only one who remembered it.

That depends on which case of "or" you are using: "exclusive or" ("one - and only one - out of this list") or "Inclusive or" ("at least one of this list of options applies"). Same word, but different logical operations.

Unless you've done something that embarrassed your petty officer. In which case, all bets are off.

Well, I've downloaded MY copy...

That may be a little strongly phrased; rather than saying "humans cannot geneer alien species" I would have phrased it as "humans have not successfully geneered alien species (depending on the criteria for success)". We know that, canonically, geneering of alien species is possible. The...

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...