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*cough* Fleet Action *cough*. "In war, the survivors have regrets. The others have nothing at all" -- David Drake. Also: not at ANY price -- there are still some things I wouldn't do (kill prisoners, breach the flag of truce, fire on a medical unit) -- but I feel no obligation to...

And that's the main difference between oldsters and youngsters. Oldsters fight to win, and that means we know better than to fight fair. [WC3 Blair mode] : Gee, don't they teach these kids to fly anymore? [/WC3 Blair]. :) -- Brian P.

Been all right, thanks for asking. :) Long has it been since I have faced your claws in the dueling arena. I'm afraid Homeworld has been taking a lot of my spare time interest lately. Besides, between my full-time job and my part-time graduate education, I have little time to spare at this...

Can you expand on this? I just finished "The Call of Cthulthu" by Lovecraft. So you think the Nephilem are supposed to be StarSpawn? Respectfully, Briian P.

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill. -- Brian P. -- who is 30 (!)

Kilrathi seemed more difficult. The K' of the W3 time frame had AM guns which would shred a careless ship -- nothing like that on the N vessels! Also, the K had Strakha cloaked fighters which were purty neat, and more difficult than anything the Nephilem came up with. Be that as it may...

Well.. when the flash-pak goes you can kiss the electronics, the crew, the ordinance, the wiring, the plumbing, and in short just about everything short of the hull itself buh-bye. Afterwards, it's probably cheaper just to build a new hull then to pay for cleaning up what's left and...

Nah ... there'll never be more Black Lance. Too much baggage associated with the name. OTOH, Confed does need Special Forces from time to time... it wouldn't surprise me if we started hearing about some super-secret organization (like Delta Force in the US) that did all the dirty jobs that...

Concur with your last post, Raptor. Respectfully, Brian P.

The BL at the end of WC4 no longer pose any military threat to Confed's security. They are also part of Confed. The way Confed goes about handling the Black Lance has serious implications for whether Confed wants to be a free nation or a tyranny. Also, destroying Kilrah was the only...

True -- but when I see phrases like "the Hunting down of the Black Lance" I have an image of massive progroms, of long lines of people walking up to get a hypo full of nano bots -- if you're GE you die screaming, if you're not nothing happens. I can't see Confed doing that. The most...

At the end of Forstchen's WC4 Tolwyn is shown musing about the future of the Black Lance and his great mistake -- that you don't *need* to destroy all of humanity to build the GE "supermen". My impression was that he had decided at the end of the book that the correct answer would have been to...

I don't think anyone's arguing that the Nephilem are going to win -- I'm simply saying that they have some commanding advantages. This is due to the nature of WC. In WC, the Good Guys must always be in desperate, last-ditch straits such that only the raw heroism of Our Hero can Save the...

The "Aligned Peoples" are what the Bugs refer to themselves as during WCP:SO (in taunts such as "Your race shall be swept aside by the Aligned Peoples!"). They call humans "non-aligned" (in WCP). There is no indicationwhat they call the Kilrathi. Were the Kilrathi also "non-aligned?"...

AAAA-MEN, BRUTHA! My favorite explosions were the ones from WC2, where the ship would be racked by massive secondary explosions for a second or two, then the screen would turn white as the K-ship ATOMIZED. Like the guy in Robocop said, "IIIII LIKE IT!" Respectfully, Brian P.

Don't think so... I think it was just the one. I suspect we were expected to capture, not destroy, the Kraken, but we had to do it in such a way that we would only loot it and not put it into service ourselves. I suspect our blowing the crap out of the Kraken was due more to the...

Devoted readers of this board know that last month I installed P2 for Windows 95 on my home system, and almost immediately began experiencing problems with Vmm32.vdx and similar drivers. I now know that those problems are due to a motherboard gone wonky and had nothing to do with P2...

But in WCP we *did* capture a whole Kraken intact -- that's where Finley got the blueprints of the wormhole and where the Midway got it's disco ball. In WCP:SO Episode 6 Spyder explained that this was possible because the Kraken was captured intact -- we hadn't beaten it to pieces the...

You might try the rec.arts.sf.science FAQ, which discusses this issue and has links to other FAQs which describe it at AMAZING length: http://www.sirius.com/~treitel/rass/qdfaq.html My own .02: I think the theory is slightly wrong. I think we will have interstellar travel one day...

Don't think so. Newton's First Law: An object at rest tends to remain at rest. An object in motion tends to remain in motion. Thus, a Tachyon decelerated to .99C should continue to move at .99C until and unless some force acted on it to accelerate back to it's C+ speed. Thus, the...