Recent content by Geir

Or, perhaps more usefully:

Please bear in mind that medication has been taken (nice, passive tense, blaming nobody), but my assumption would be: assuming that F is what we want to start with.

Yes. But I may be slightly muddled today. Yeah, I left it a bit vague, but assumed that it would be linear based on mass. But, if my slightly muddled math on a napkin (okay, sticky note) is good, then it would really be more a factor of the square root of the mass, so a 4 solar mass black hole...

Cool, I get to quote myself: World Builders Handbook, page 18 has a blue box on it. It gives three options (of which I personally prefer the second): 1. Use actual 100D, 2. Use stellar mass instead, where 100D for one solar mass is 0.93 AU 3. Use #2, but use the photosphere of the star (this...

And now we're up to J-4 for the Second Expedition (see earlier thread... excursion? secondary commentary? divergence? whatever).

Okay, and back to Errata: p. 54 (near end of Blue Box) 'may cause both to explore', ought to be 'explode'.

Sword Worlds crossed the gap with Aslan aid at no more than J3. Multi-jumps? one would think, since it's a 5 parsec route... unless the Aslan has been at TL14 for 2000 years and carried Gram on a jump tender. But in defense of Sindal, Darrians did an isolated pop up to TL16 during the Long...

Figured. But Pirates of Drinax locked it in, so we might as well roll with it. Of course, assuming that everyone had a consistent grand plan when carving out bits of timeline is overstating it. Would have been more consistent to keep them at TL12, but then there wouldn't be long lost...

Yes... is it somewhere other than the timeline (pardon the yellow squiggly, either too much or too little caffeine, can't be sure which):

In High Guard, computers have no displacement, not even the Core/xxx models, so that would be fair. Especially since Conscious Intelligence is just a program eating Bandwidth on a standard Core in that case. (whoever thought bandwidth was the right word... well, fine, but I also get upset when...

But the Sindalians were offshoots from the Ramshackle Empire, and their little bubble of High-tech popped before it could infect the rest of the region (or that's how the Vilani would have called it). Plus, it would have been in line with the -2000, which... well if you use that number, then...

I thought canon was one 'n' short of a full load of powder.

Yeah, I knew about that reference but it was vague and old enough that I have sort of discounted it as inconsistent with the rest of the Charted Space narrative. Edit: I assume you're talking about the footnotes for Gvurrdon's Story. If so, even assuming a reliable narrator, we're talking a...

There's also a question for me about the whole Jump-3 thing. I don't think there's a source for anyone besides the Ancients developing J-3 (or TL12) before the Solomani late in the Interstellar Wars period, which would be -2300ish. That would exclude the First and probably the Second Core...

Yeah, the Cr500 got cut in an earlier draft. In fact the example vehicles were completely removed at one point. There were originally two example vehicles, with the steps showing up at the end of each chapter, like I did in Robots. Then they went away. Sausage making occurred. One file became...