Monthly Archives: May 2020

Somebody’s gotta make the call. The Birkenhead drill, updated. I remain intensely suspicious of women on the front-lines — “Has any been charged with cowardice yet? In the entire Western world? No? Thought not.” — but even so, Capt. Kirino … Continue reading →

Actually, I’m more interested in far future civilizations. But they don’t exist yet, and we’re on firmer ground on speculating about the past, so…

Every game with space combat is pretty much completely unrealistic with vehicle designs and mechanics being governed by the rule of cool. Children of a Dead Earth attempts to adhere to realism as much as possible and presents an interesting … Continue reading →

From the blurb for Universe Unleashed Off on an asteroid! Before the Slide the crew established Main Mission on the asteroid. In its orbit the base resupplied asteroid miners, Mars bases and swung by Earth for resupply and crew transfers. … Continue reading →

Good to see. It’s still a long, long road to that moonbase… but at a few more steps have been made.

A.K.A “Tech Level insanity for the win!” You can be certain that there’s some loony Red Star world in the Imperium, where everything is poured into the military and space, and the leftovers are given to the civilians (and the … Continue reading →

From Zero-Hedge —<Quote On>— Traditionally, while tens of billions of dollars of gold change hands every day in financial markets, a much smaller amount tends to physically move between vaults in trading hubs like London, Zurich and New York. But … Continue reading →

On the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis… On Provoked Rioting I don’t know why so many people still fall for this narrative, but let me try to state the obvious again: Looting during protests is not some private individuals who … Continue reading →

I wouldn’t be surprised if Imperial Navy doctrine included setting off an artificial solar storm/Carrington Event for certain tactical effects. *Waves to Terra* “The Emperor doesn’t want the world fried. Just… lightly toasted.” Actually, the video notes that the problems … Continue reading →

Fortunately, Traveller has el cheapo artificial gravity, so for our fictional universe, it’s a non-issue. In the real world… what we’ve got is centrifugal force. An effective and extremely cost-efficient substitute for “real gravity”.