Building the Imperial Navy
So, up next for you, the first in our six-part series on Building the Imperial Navy, using the model outlined by David Weber and Christopher Weuve in various places, such as the afterword to House of Steel. For the details of the model, see the diagram at right. In this
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Shoulder Cannon: On most Imperial combat exoskeleton designs, this is where they fit the semi-autonomous point-defense weapons. (Also, on whichever shoulder suits you, the brackets where you prop/clamp the rear end of the Really Big Guns.) Backpack Cannons are usually more common (although still rare) for offensive weapons, since
Imperial Navy
So, as a preamble to other naval posts, let me take a moment to post some notes on the internal organization of the Imperial Navy that I’ll be referring to later. At the top, you have the Second Lord of the Admiralty, whose function is – in conjunction with the
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Short Range Shotgun: Averted. Flipping the switch on either standard model of slugthrower (pistol or carbine, turning it into a shotgun-analog, sawed-off and regular respectively, by firing multiple flechettes in rapid succession while flaring the fields at the end of the mass driver to achieve spread), or firing canister shot
Accord on Refuge-Seeking Sophonts
Man, y’all do love to ask me questions touching on real-world issues. Seriously, I’m not writing allegory, here. But, anyway, someone anonymous picked up on a past reference to the Conclave’s rejection of the Accord on Refuge-Seeking Sophonts, and wants to know just what the Imperial policy
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Short Range Long Range Weapon: Most sensible people try really hard to avert this – seeing as the lovely people who make these things for a living have provided them with so many comfortably long-range weapons, it’s a shame not to take advantage of them, and fight where survivability is
Cíëlle Vagary
“…some of the greatest enthusiasm for p-zombies as a product, rather than as a concept, came from social science research – finding itself in a position to become an experimental science at long last, as the accessibility of entities which by definition behaved as if they were conscious sophonts without actually
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Shoot the Hostage: Appallingly easy to do in a world that averts Final Death so hard. Also see Hostage Situation. (The only thing that stops it from happening more often is the lack of cooperating hostages. Hell, sometimes they even take themselves out of the picture.)
cacoastrum
The cacoastrum of the embedding empyrean, in information physics, can best be defined as the all-set. As the all-set it contains in potentia all entities, including all rules by which all entities behave, all forces which affect all entities, and all frameworks against which any of these all can be
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Just to keep everyone informed of what’s going on, things may be a little quiet around here over the weekend, because I’m going to be at our local Dr. Who convention, Time Eddy, with our other business, Foam on the Range. And sadly, I am incapable of crossing
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Shock Collar: Unsurprisingly used (because in a universe with extensive automation possibilities and, moreover, the ability to use perverted sophotechnology to edit people into compliance, the only reason to go for conventional slavery is sadism For The Evulz) by the absolute worst of the Galaxy’s slaver civilizations and subcultures;
INFERNO ANTEDILUVIAN
INVOKE INVOKE INVOKE CASE INFERNO ANTEDILUVIAN UNCLASSIFIED IMMEDIATE ACTION ORDER PROCEED UNLESS CANCELED SUMMARY: There have been determined to exist within DANGER CLOSE range of Associated Worlds space two stellar bodies (full galactographic coordinates in file) profiled as existing in pre-supernova state within planning time horizon 129, these bodies identified