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Space Is Air: Averted, because it really, really isn’t, and all our spacecraft move nothing like aircraft, promise! The only vague seeming non-aversions are the following: * Some starships do in fact run their engines all the time. That’s because they have astonishingly powerful and efficient engines that let
Imperial Navy
From: Capt. Idris Mariseth, Flight Administrator To: Lt. Loric Kantinomeiros, Tactical (Security) Suboperations Subject: Proposals for future exercises Your proposal of 5/13, for inclusion in exercise designated ROARING EDGEWINDS, has been rejected for the following reasons: 1. Ancyran units are not trained in microgravity operations and space safety. 2.
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Space is Cold: Averted. You need matter to have a temperature, and guess what space doesn’t have? You’ll freeze to death eventually, sure, thanks to the slow process of radiating your heat away – in the absence of any form of conduction or convection – into that giant sky heatsink
Building the Imperial Navy
And now here we are at the last (sixth) part of Building the Imperial Navy (one; two; three; four; five), Force Management. In which we discuss matters relating to keeping the fleet in top fighting form, to wit: Personnel Policies, Logistics Concept, Level of Readiness (Afloat and Ashore), and Acquisition
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Space Elevator: A standard fixture on most moderately developed planets – while shuttles and lighters can make easy ground-orbit transfers in any direction, and ground-based mass drivers can shift arbitrary amounts of mass upwards and downwards quickly, once a world’s passenger and freight volumes increase to the point that it’
Building the Imperial Navy
It’s part five of Building the Imperial Navy, it is. (Parts: one; two; three; four.) In this part, Force Size, we talk about the people and infrastructure behind the fleet: manning strategy, organic support functions, and shore infrastructure. So let’s begin: Manning Strategy In which we answer questions
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Space Cossacks: This is where much of the Rim Free Zone’s population comes from. And, indeed, more than a few independent drifts and city-ships.
Darkness Within
MET 186-14-2 I have now completed a dead-reckoning navigational fix using the surviving server rack and data stored in the logs. The good news is that the kinetic impacts do not appear to have significantly altered Gutpunch‘s trajectory. The bad news is that while the shit-pile’s no deeper
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Space Cold War: Oh, lots of them, simultaneously. The Empire vs. the Voniensa Republic over AI rights, proper contact protocol, economics, and No Transhumanism Allowed. The Silicate Tree versus AI-slaver civilizations, with contributions from the Photonic Network, Empire, and others. Random bits of the Rim Free Zone versus whichever states
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Space Clothes: Averted; even in space, people just wear regular clothes.  (Sure, they have lots of pockets, but that’s not specific to spacer culture.)  The only difference is that the pure-skirt option is eliminated for both sexes (because microgravity), and the cloaks have to come with MEMS and occasional
Building the Imperial Navy
(First, a somewhat apologetic editorial note: I know there’s been a lot of worldbuilding and not much fiction here, relatively speaking, recently, and this will probably be the case for a little time to come. Sigh. Sorry. Things are a little difficult right here and now at Chez Moi,
less-lethal weapon
(Sorry, folks, no fic today. We spent much of said day having electrical work done, leaving me separated from the notes and assorted apps which I need to check various important details of the whichness of the whyfore, so…) Sonic Stunner / Static Stun Gun: Averted the former because the general