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  1. MissileTeatime

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    You deleted the post content, and didn't just remove the threadmark? Ooh, ouch.
  2. MissileTeatime

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Oh sure, the Vilani empire is teeny tiny compared to the galaxy as a whole. But the thing is, space is big. (Yes yes, Douglas Adams quote here, laugh it up fuzzball.) If we assume the Vilani empire is a cube (to make the math easy) 100 parsecs to a side (pulled from my ass; about a year's...
  3. MissileTeatime

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    That one might be my fault? I was aiming to insinuate that the other person had gotten their genres confused, but their reply implies that I accidentally hit the nail on the head. (And/or that nobody who calls their own story a rationalist fic understands what a rationalist fic is anymore, but...
  4. MissileTeatime

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    No yeah, I came into the story late, so I knew all of that "unlimited power" stuff before I even started reading. I didn't realize the "fucks with your head" part until it was pointed out in-story, but that was clear once it was pointed out and was also always true. HOWEVER.
  5. MissileTeatime

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Well, apparently I got out of Rationalist Fiction before it went full Xiania, then. My primary association with the trope you describe is popcultural osmosis about Xianxia while here on QQ, not ratfic. And the moment I was thinking of was in the superhero universe arc, and resembled the...
  6. MissileTeatime

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    As someone who was into the "rationalist fiction" scene for a while, cliff's writing does indeed bear some of the characteristics of rationalist fiction. Just none of the insular circlejerky ones that are their own equivalent to the similarly-derided Spacebattles Competence. (With the...
  7. MissileTeatime

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Wait, what are the range capabilities of Jump-1 and Jump-2 drives? I wound up with the impression that Jump-1 drives were capable of traveling approximately one light-year at a jump, and Jump-2 drives were capable of traveling two light-years per jump. But that doesn't fit with the...
  8. MissileTeatime

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I'm pretty sure one of those years is a typo. Relaxed development timeline or not, I have a hard time believing a successor-generation spaceship design would be allowed to take an entire century. To ramp up from "starting the design phase" to "full production", sure, that could be plausible...
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