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Well, I hope everyone gets a kick out of that post; I've been struggling to actually write, and I figured better to write something and get everything flowing again then just to sit and hope for inspiration to hit me.

Sweet. Long live the Duke!

Honestly, Akhlut, I would very much like to see more posts in this vein, about various galactic events, GODDAMN UNREAL TIME or otherwise. They're good, they can present an interesting outside viewpoint on events, they're funny, they're relatively compact...

Eh, you get the idea.

FEAR AND LOATHING IN BEEEF VEGAS!

My Fenrisians should have mauled some humans for good measure on the excuse that they aren't xenophobic enough.

Instead, I was content with them mauling Bragulans.

DAMN

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:More xenos to add to the pet list.

Am I the only one who imagines the God Emperor saying this with a Gollum voice?

My precccciousssss Xenossssss.... *strokes Tau skull*

Siege wrote:

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:More xenos to add to the pet list.

Am I the only one who imagines the God Emperor saying this with a Gollum voice?

My precccciousssss Xenossssss.... *strokes Tau skull*

Actually, I would rather imagine him giving a nice pat to his pet Fenrisian....

I bet he has a moogle as a teddy bear-equivalent...

Is there a Chamarran pet lobby in the Imperium?

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Chamarran pets are deemed too dangerous for good God-Emperor fearing orthodox subjects of the Imperium, comrade.

Simon_Jester wrote:I bet he has a moogle as a teddy bear-equivalent...

Doesn't everybody?

Well, we vivisect them

Simon_Jester wrote:Chamarran pets are deemed too dangerous for good God-Emperor fearing orthodox subjects of the Imperium, comrade.

Yeah... we'd have to lobotomize them probably...

I think you misunderstood, Fin. It's not that they're too smart; it's that they're too sexy.

Some things, you just can't afford to domesticate.

Oi, my mind's burnt. Damn writer's block...

Simon_Jester wrote:I think you misunderstood, Fin. It's not that they're too smart; it's that they're too sexy.

Some things, you just can't afford to domesticate.

Yes, I don't think the God-Emperor approves of bestiality.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Seriously, Fin, you want to re-think this whole xenopet business. They could steal your precioussssss (bodily fluids).

See, that's why you want to avoid pet Chamarrans. Too much risk of that. Giant bears and moogles aren't as much of a threat in that department as catgirls.

Next Zebes update posted- finally!

Here and in the next chapter, we get to see my take on the role of Heim-capable ships in combat. Bear in mind that the Kavool Empire is a small shoal polity; they've had to learn a lot more about Heim drive than most normal nations would bother to find out. It's something of a specialty, really.

Any resemblance to a Romulan warbird from Star Trek is... not coincidental.

Awesome update. And rather interesting to me, since I'm probably the only polity in the galaxy where everything, from worldships and space monsters to shuttlecraft comes with a Heim drive.

*Takes notes*

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

You will note, however, that these ships do have fundamental problems. For one, their accuracy isn't stellar- they'd tend to outright miss when firing at anything much smaller than a battlecruiser. For another, Heim-capable munitions are large; their magazine capacity is even less stellar than their accuracy.

And third and finally... well, you'll have to wait for the next chapter to find out what the third problem is.

Master_Baerne wrote:Seriously, Fin, you want to re-think this whole xenopet business. They could steal your precioussssss (bodily fluids).

Oh no matter. We make sure we lobotomize them such that they aren't much of a threat.

That doesn't make Chamarrans less of a threat to the souls of good Byzantinians.

I still think you're missing the point here...

Simon_Jester wrote:
And third and finally... well, you'll have to wait for the next chapter to find out what the third problem is.

I suspect I already know what the third problem is.

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:

Master_Baerne wrote:Seriously, Fin, you want to re-think this whole xenopet business. They could steal your precioussssss (bodily fluids).

Oh no matter. We make sure we lobotomize them such that they aren't much of a threat.

Your theocracy is missing the "theo" part.

fgalkin wrote:Yes, I don't think the God-Emperor approves of bestiality.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

The Chamarrans are really on my pet list to be honest. Some part of the Imperium regards them as some kind of abhorrent form of humanity. Impure.

As for my theocracy, we are rather technocratic in some ways. Technocratic, because we need tools to crush xenos with it. Technology that serves the needs of war are always pursued with relentless vigour.

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:As for my theocracy, we are rather technocratic in some ways. Technocratic, because we need tools to crush xenos with it. Technology that serves the needs of war are always pursued with relentless vigour.

You call that a Technocracy?

[points to ray guns, slide rules, chromey buildings, scientists running government, embassy SCIENCE! officers, and guys reverse-engineering vegemite over the weekend]

Now this is a technocracy. You are just a guy who builds very large battleships and festoons them with skullspikeskullbannerspikeskulls.