Heavy Cavalry: Size
Just occurs to me, I wrote all that and never once mentioned a size. Well, the base platform is about 16.5 m (54 ft) long, 4.8 m (about 16 ft) wide, and 3.6 m (about 12 ft) high. For reference, thatâs about twice as long as
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The Emperor's Sword: Heavy Cavalry
âBash, bash, bash, bash, bash our way to gloryâŚâ Making up the remaining one of every sixteen legions (i.e., one per three light cavalry or heavy infantry, and one per nine light infantry), we have the heavy cavalry. Direct-fire death on very large treads, which is to say, main
Trope-a-Day: Messianic Archetype
Messianic Archetype: The seeress MerriĂŠle, who founded the modern Church of the Flame, named and attributes all the (then) deities and (now) archai, was executed by fire-of-purification in SomĂĄras, and may, just may â see Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions â have been directly instructed by one of the nearest things to a
Do I Consider Myself A Feminist Writer?
âŚis the latest question to come through the anonymous message box. Oh, boy. âI donât discuss my process.â Oh, wait, I do discuss my process? Iâve discussed my process often, in the past? Well, crap. Well, the unhelpful mathematicianâs answer â that also does happen to be true
Trope-a-Day: Mercy Kill
Mercy Kill: Members of the military/intelligence community, people whose work takes them into galactic bad neighborhoods, and hell, even overly paranoid tourists whoâve been listening too much to the Itâs Barbarian Darkness Out There, Folks style of galactic reporting tend to have equipment fitted to let them
The Emperorâs Sword: Light Cavalry
Today, we return to this series once again⌠Making up a further three of every sixteen legions (equal in number to the heavy infantry, and one for every three light infantry legions), and again not counting the specialists built off their platform, are the light infantry legions â swift-moving scouts, raiders,
Trope-a-Day: Mercurial Base
Mercurial Base: There are actually quite a few of these, as apart from relatively easy mining (assuming you have had to solve the heat problem anyway), those innermost planets are very useful places to put the antimatter generation infrastructure powered by the solar panels even closer to the sun, where
Epistolary Experiment (22/30)
prepare for carrier-guided transit. vector input; gate hot; skew-frame skew-frame axis lock and commit, 55-60 drift and ping. close isolate to tangle relay. all wings report in badger badger badger steam in the box is thick, foglamps out with salamanders wyvern, three groups, three count, two count, five count with
Trope-a-Day: Merchant City
Merchant City: Mer Covales, the capital of Seranth (which is not, however, the throneworld), itself located at the junction of the LethĂäza Trade Spine and the Mercantile Corridor, the two biggest and oldest trade routes in the Associated Worlds. Imagine, if you will, New York City, Hong Kong, and Singapore
Trope-a-Day: Mental World
Mental World: Not really extant, but virtually simulated, âmental worldsâ are sometimes used by noeticists and sophotechnicians as fancy ways to diagram, observe, and interact with the myriad agents that make up a mind of any serious level of complexity. (Something like the Country of the Mind from Greg Bearâ
Epistolary Experiment (21/30)
From: Monitor Hakal Peressin, Stratarchy of Indirection and Subtlety To: All Personnel, Vontok II Communications Central Subject: Contingency Ganth Gentlesophs, Weâve got probability âcasts from Core Command that suggest that we may be withdrawing from this world soon, either as part of a withdrawal to something close to status
From the Recommendations Department
A couple of friendsâoâmine, smart people and long-term fans of the Star Wars Extended Universe, are doing a blog read-through and commentary on its better parts with the benefit of long perspective, here: Force Visions If that sounds even vaguely interesting to you, go have a read. They