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Thread: question about the silent ones and aliens
Post: RE: question about the silent ones and aliens
| Yeah, I like the one on the right more. |
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Dandyman |
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Thread: [split] Daharrens - Previously, (suggestions by Dandyman)
Post: RE: [split] Daharrens - Previously, (suggestions ...
| Ah, I was just about to make a thread for this. Let's see, thoughts as I have them.
While part of me would like to keep them as xenosphonts, that does bring with it a whole lot of extra work, either ... |
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10-21-2022, 12:17 AM |
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Thread: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggestions by Dandyman)
Post: RE: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggest...
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Crossroads Wrote: (10-20-2022, 04:02 AM)
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Going back to post #1:
Dandyman Wrote: (10-04-2022, 11:24 AM)
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[*] Daharran Unity (https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/462d579fde6a8) merged into Dahar... |
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10-20-2022, 06:11 AM |
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Thread: What are you guys reading?
Post: RE: What are you guys reading?
| Just finished with Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun (second time), waiting on Urth of the New Sun to arrive at the library for my first go-through. |
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Dandyman |
General Off-topic Discussion
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10-19-2022, 01:11 PM |
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Thread: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggestions by Dandyman)
Post: RE: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggest...
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-18-2022, 10:46 PM)
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Let's see here...
Firstly - and just because it was already there and why not? - I've updated the Jesters article to reflect the proposed new naming sche... |
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10-19-2022, 05:31 AM |
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Thread: Dandyman's Draft Thread
Post: RE: Dandyman's Draft Thread
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Rynn Wrote: (10-15-2022, 04:35 AM)
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A nice start :) Very well written.
The only thing that comes to mind at the moment is the line about Solarians pruning fear from their minds. That is possible... |
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Creative Writing
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10-15-2022, 06:10 AM |
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Thread: Dandyman's Draft Thread
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-15-2022, 03:05 AM)
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One minor thing - You describe the main character having a hangover and then a few paragraphs later mention 'apple wine - as I've said'. However, this is ac... |
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10-15-2022, 03:12 AM |
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Thread: Dandyman's Draft Thread
Post: Dandyman's Draft Thread
| This should be, hopefully, the first installment of a series of travelogue stories (that will hopefully be accompanied by short planet writeups - it's a scheme to expand on stubs, y'see) from
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10-15-2022, 12:27 AM |
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Thread: Sephirotic Empires (rewrite)
Post: RE: Sephirotic Empires (rewrite)
| I feel like the ending segment would be well-served by adding names of opposing polities - right now it's just the ahumans and the Deeper Covenant that get namedropped, leaving the rest to be a big va... |
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Dandyman |
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10-14-2022, 01:15 PM |
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Thread: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggestions by Dandyman)
Post: RE: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggest...
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-10-2022, 11:00 PM)
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Coming at this from a different direction or two:
a) The current three letter grouping at the end of each HIE code is described HERE (https://www.orionsa... |
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Dandyman |
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10-11-2022, 06:49 AM |
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Thread: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggestions by Dandyman)
Post: RE: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggest...
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-08-2022, 10:18 AM)
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Crossroads Wrote: (10-08-2022, 09:53 AM)
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I think that's the best formatting, though is there a canonical meaning for the central three numbers? Or are t... |
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Thread: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggestions by Dandyman)
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stevebowers Wrote: (10-06-2022, 08:44 PM)
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Dandyman Wrote: (10-06-2022, 09:40 AM)
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My love of Gene Wolfe's work predisposes me to cobbling together Greek and Latin roots for sci-fi concepts at a... |
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10-07-2022, 12:19 AM |
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Thread: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggestions by Dandyman)
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Worldtree Wrote: (10-06-2022, 08:56 AM)
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Dandyman Wrote: (10-05-2022, 11:18 PM)
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-05-2022, 01:11 PM)
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Thoughts?
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Etc etc
[*]HIE-636-MZE (https://orionsarm.com/eg-art... |
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Thread: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggestions by Dandyman)
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-05-2022, 01:11 PM)
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We'll likely want to play a bit with dividing up the codes to see what 'flows' the best. Also, I think I'd like to play around with rearranging the order of... |
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10-05-2022, 11:18 PM |
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Thread: Is there room for big new empires?
Post: RE: Is there room for big new empires?
| The great thing about space is that big is relative: you can pack dozens of for-a-given-value-of-big empires in a volume only a couple hundred light years across. |
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10-05-2022, 06:14 AM |
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Thread: Writing about The Transcend
Post: RE: Writing about The Transcend
| Honestly, my first instinct would be to just suddenly have them vanish. Maybe they leave behind their version of "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" if I felt like having a laugh.
Big mysterious ... |
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Thread: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggestions by Dandyman)
Post: RE: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggest...
| @ Drashner
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> If we delete the articles, it will also kill the links in the empire data panel and the names will just become a list of names with nothing in particular calling them out.... |
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Thread: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggestions by Dandyman)
Post: RE: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggest...
| Added bonus: Biowar + Biowar Egg merge / edit proposal
[Biowar image]
[Caption: Wild biowar, sited at 65 AU from Far Acton. Image provided by Zenon Charter (copyright Michael Tan used with permi... |
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Thread: [split] Article Update Request Thread (suggestions by Dandyman)
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I'm afraid this particular suggestion isn't going to fly. We are pretty unrepentant pack-rats around here and hate to get rid of things. Beyond that, deleting so many Metasoft ... |
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10-04-2022, 11:42 PM |
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Thread: Ahoy! Long time reader, first time caller
Post: RE: Ahoy! Long time reader, first time caller
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Crossroads Wrote: (10-04-2022, 09:47 AM)
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Yes, welcome, and glad to have you! There are lots of possibilities for adding more maps to the setting.
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Early last year I had whipped up a node map (... |
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