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Hypnobeard
Sep 15, 2004

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The impeller thing is interesting because it looks like it's an artifact from Starfire, Weber's game and previous novel series. In the game, there's two different kinds of enginers--military and commercial. Military engines are faster, but can burn out if you use them continuously at speed for long periods of time. Commercial engine are bulkier and have a slower top speed, but can't burn out. So your freighters can run forever but they're capped at 2/3rds the top speed of the military ships.

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Hypnobeard
Sep 15, 2004

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Epicurius posted:

Some people might like (and others might hate) this video, by James Tullos, looking at fascist themes in science fiction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vph_cDjcgEE

It singles out Heinlein's "Starship Troopers", David Weber and Steve White's "Crusade", "In Death Ground", "The Shiva Option" and "Insurrection", S M Sterling's "Islands in the Sea of Time", Jack Campbell's "The Lost Fleet", and Tom Kratman's "Caliphate".

Honestly surprised the Draka series didn't get a nod.

Hypnobeard
Sep 15, 2004

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Oh man here we go again

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