Cold Ones
Cold Ones (also ice giants, the Finality, Lords of the Last Waste) Mythological beings who dwell at the end of time, during the final blackness of the universe, the last surviving remnants of the war of all-against-all over the universe’s final stocks of extropy, long after the passing of
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Space Navy: Well, yes, albeit crossed with Space Air Force. See any number of related tropes, including – probably especially – Standard Sci-Fi Fleet. Even better, since there’s been a whole lot of articles about this written recently and not so recently on the blog, go here and scroll back as
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Space Mines: There are any number of practical problems with the general notion of minefields in space, including gravity making them clump up (meaning that your mines will need station-keeping drives), the difficulty of interdicting large three-dimensional volumes, the lack of choke points to mine and the tendency of those
antinomian
“We are, of course, exactly the existential threat that the Republic deems us to be. Not in the manner they, for the most part, believe, but an existential threat nonetheless. “It is easy for us to forget, since neither do fish think of water nor yet birds of the sky,
meta
…is today’s meta-post. These are the rules I live by, or at least the rules I write by. One: If it violates the laws of physics or other natural laws in the setting, you can’t have it. On the other hand, you’re entitled to buy all the
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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.