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I’d go for a Ptolemy tug, lots of power for feats of emergency engineering and can easily haul around any required equipment.
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I’d go for a Ptolemy tug, lots of power for feats of emergency engineering and can easily haul around any required equipment.
Any chance this file could be made available somehow? I’m imagining it with a gold painted decorative thingy on the bow like the USN used at the start of last century.
December 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Any chance this file could be made available somehow? I’m imagining it with a gold painted decorative thingy on the bow like the USN used at the start of last century.
I usually buy pdf rules so a physical product, including a laser cut template, feels really nice. The focus on larger actions with small and medium ships is a bit quirky but there’s plenty of action this approach covers. A handwavey approach to scale is fine but makes me twitchy setting up terrain
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I usually buy pdf rules so a physical product, including a laser cut template, feels really nice. The focus on larger actions with small and medium ships is a bit quirky but there’s plenty of action this approach covers. A handwavey approach to scale is fine but makes me twitchy setting up terrain
Are there any explanations out there about how orbiting data centres would deal with the power, cooling and radiation problems? Or have the broligarchs just read about matrioshka brains in some science fiction novel they didn’t understand?
December 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Are there any explanations out there about how orbiting data centres would deal with the power, cooling and radiation problems? Or have the broligarchs just read about matrioshka brains in some science fiction novel they didn’t understand?
For 1/2400 scale metal castings there’s tumblingdiceuk.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
For 1/2400 scale metal castings there’s tumblingdiceuk.com
I wonder if this means David Manley will need to retitle his upcoming Atlantic Convoy solitaire game…
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I wonder if this means David Manley will need to retitle his upcoming Atlantic Convoy solitaire game…
I must confess to heresy, I love this movie. The cheesy technothriller plot, the women (not least M and Moneypenny swapping schoolgirl double-entendres in front of a genuinely upset Bond), the villain…
October 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I must confess to heresy, I love this movie. The cheesy technothriller plot, the women (not least M and Moneypenny swapping schoolgirl double-entendres in front of a genuinely upset Bond), the villain…
Given the stakes, any excuse is paltry. I suppose the real reasons are rich bastard groupthink and cowardice.
October 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Given the stakes, any excuse is paltry. I suppose the real reasons are rich bastard groupthink and cowardice.
I wonder if it’s Tim Cook the supply chain guy wanting to do anything to minimise tariff disruptions. And maybe a bit of liking the idea of having the US government push back on European efforts to regulate.
October 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I wonder if it’s Tim Cook the supply chain guy wanting to do anything to minimise tariff disruptions. And maybe a bit of liking the idea of having the US government push back on European efforts to regulate.
Always loved the somersault guy. A touch of human scale in the scene.
August 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Always loved the somersault guy. A touch of human scale in the scene.
There’d be a lot interesting television in compilations of failed pilots. (Huge quantities of dreck too, I suppose).
July 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
There’d be a lot interesting television in compilations of failed pilots. (Huge quantities of dreck too, I suppose).
I’ve still got this book!
July 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I’ve still got this book!
I always saw it as just a crude game balance mechanic to avoid turning everyone turning their characters into walking tanks, but it would be typical of me to miss the deeper implications.
July 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I always saw it as just a crude game balance mechanic to avoid turning everyone turning their characters into walking tanks, but it would be typical of me to miss the deeper implications.
I was already familiar with Daedalus from various pop-science books, but for late 1980s engineering student me this was 192 pages of pure joy.
July 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I was already familiar with Daedalus from various pop-science books, but for late 1980s engineering student me this was 192 pages of pure joy.
There had earlier been FDR, Forrestal and JFK, but I take your point. We probably definitely diverged into a Bad Timeline with Carl Vinson.
July 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
There had earlier been FDR, Forrestal and JFK, but I take your point. We probably definitely diverged into a Bad Timeline with Carl Vinson.
The Chinese have thousands of years of experience in selling immortality to autocrats. Gulp down that mercury, guys!
July 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Chinese have thousands of years of experience in selling immortality to autocrats. Gulp down that mercury, guys!
One of my earliest memories is being fed Marmite instead of Vegemite. Still not forgiven my Mum for this atrocity.
June 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
One of my earliest memories is being fed Marmite instead of Vegemite. Still not forgiven my Mum for this atrocity.
This isn’t related to a paper I read about recently where the Enhanced Rock Weathering would be enhanced by gigatons of nuclear explosions?
June 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
This isn’t related to a paper I read about recently where the Enhanced Rock Weathering would be enhanced by gigatons of nuclear explosions?
It’s an outstandingly Reagan-era publication, heavily inspired by the 1980s Cold War at sea. Even some of the ship classes are familiar.
June 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It’s an outstandingly Reagan-era publication, heavily inspired by the 1980s Cold War at sea. Even some of the ship classes are familiar.
I’ve always really enjoyed the look of the game (I’ll buy nearly anything with cutaway paintings…) but the three tactical games were perhaps a bit too detailed to suit the scale of the universe. Should have been more Alpha Strike than Battletech.
June 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I’ve always really enjoyed the look of the game (I’ll buy nearly anything with cutaway paintings…) but the three tactical games were perhaps a bit too detailed to suit the scale of the universe. Should have been more Alpha Strike than Battletech.
The RL:Interceptor rules were apparently part of FASA’s failed bid for a Star Wars fighter game license) as was ICE’s Silent Death), with the Space Rome background coming later.
June 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The RL:Interceptor rules were apparently part of FASA’s failed bid for a Star Wars fighter game license) as was ICE’s Silent Death), with the Space Rome background coming later.
Wonders about my Renegade Legion miniatures…
June 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Wonders about my Renegade Legion miniatures…
One of my happiest childhood memories is the time when my Mum told me stop watching some rubbish on a commercial channel and switch to the sensible ABC. There was Kenny. “Snot”, he said, with long green icicles sticking out of his nostrils.
June 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
One of my happiest childhood memories is the time when my Mum told me stop watching some rubbish on a commercial channel and switch to the sensible ABC. There was Kenny. “Snot”, he said, with long green icicles sticking out of his nostrils.
In Australia too.
April 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In Australia too.
I don’t want Bond villains enriching uranium
April 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I don’t want Bond villains enriching uranium