eldraeic language
Eldraeic Word of the Day: Trakháln Ulalath
trakháln ulalath: (lit. “painful ignorance”); the things you don’t know that can hurt you. Originally Military Service slang, before entering into general usage.
Alistair Young
law
Snippet: The Riot Act
“Having adjudged those persons here present to constitute a riotous assembly within the meaning of the Act thereupon, and by that Mandate which I hold and which I serve, I charge and command ye all, in the Voice of Their Divine Majesties, immediately to lay down arms and submit yourselves
Cultural Crossovers
Cultural Crossovers #9: Captain America - The Winter Soldier
Once more into the cinema, dear friends, once more: * Captain America continues to be awesome. * He don’t need no steenkin’ parachute, although why the vibranium ain’t glowing is a mystery. * Ah, multitasking. Always room for a banter thread. * And this is why concealed mission objectives are a bad
Imperial Service
Rank Structure
Since I needed to type up an exportable version anyway for a comment response, I thought I might as well share the Table of Ranks of the Imperial Service and Imperial Military Service with everyone. It’s in this spreadsheet, since WordPress doesn’t give me a good way to
Hurricane-class carrier
Covered In Bees
HURRICANE-CLASS DRONE BATTLESHIP (CARRIER) Operated by: Empire of the Star Type: Drone Battleship, General Operations Construction: Palaxias Fleet Yards Length: 2.3 km Beam (avg.): 0.8 km Dry mass: 2,900,000 tons Gravity-well capable: No. Atmosphere capable: No. Personnel: 1,294 * 396 crewers * 514 flight operations * 384 espatiers
military
EEEEEEEE
shrieker: (also ping-pedo) a single-shot directional EM pulse generator mounted in a capsule suitable for mass driver deployment. It is a truism of tactics that active sensors, while much more effective than passive sensors, can rarely be used since they are even more effective at disclosing the user’s position
military
On the Role of the Dreadnought
Just to clear up a few misconceptions that may have crept in: David Weber, alas, has done me no favors by convincing much of the SF-reading world that the standard interstellar badass is the dreadnought. And, yes, you may remember me saying “it sure would be nice to build nothing
spacer
NO STEP
(Obvious idea is obvious.) walkplate (n.): A walkway for magnetic boots (q.v.). Since starship hulls in the modern era are manufactured from a variety of light composites very few of which are significantly ferromagnetic, such walkplates are necessary to enable crewers on EVA to remain attached to the ship.
medicine
Transplague Ship
PROCEDURES IN THE EVENT OF IRREVERSIBLE CONTAMINATION In the event of irreversible contamination by biological or nanotechnological plagues, and standard quarantine responses are deemed insufficient, either (a) as declared by consensus of the Flight Commander, Environmental Systems Engineer, and Flight Surgeon, or (b) as imposed by order of a duly
military
Some Leviathan Numbers
I am removing this post. Why am I removing this post? Because apparently no matter how many disclaimers I stick on some numbers I came up with on the back of an envelope before my morning coffee, concerning both those factors and how they represent a hypothetical extreme case that
military
Leviathan, Awake
LEVIATHAN-CLASS DREADNOUGHT Operated by:Â Empire of the Star Type:Â Dreadnought, General Operations Construction:Â Palaxias Fleet Yards Length:Â 3 km Beam (avg.):Â 0.8 km Z-Beam (avg.):Â 0.6 km Dry mass:Â 2,500,000 tons Gravity-well capable:Â No. Atmosphere-capable:Â No. Personnel:Â 6,736 * 4,968 crewers * 1,768 espatiers * Thinker-class
Cultural Crossovers
Cultural Crossovers #8: Thor - The Dark World
Straight on with it: * Well, they don’t look much like pre-stellar ignition creatures, but we’ll roll with it. (Anyway, wouldn’t they be Hot Ones in that case, not Cold Ones?) * …using a K does not make words extra-special. Just ask the Krell, the K’kree, the Kazon…