I travel a lot. I’ve been from Terra to Wolfenheim and far beyond. My last trip was a real doozy, taking me entirely outside our own Orion Arm of the galaxy. Space gets real dark out there, and hyperspace acts[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for September, 2015
Twilight’s third season featured another format change in an effort to bring in more viewers. Every episode took place in a new location as Twilight’s gang traveled in search of Solo’s mysterious employers. They took the time to spotlight many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another product of the Fleet 2300 Project, the Austin-class destroyer was designed to bring America to the forefront of small warship technology. While only mounting a single gravitic cannon, two capital laser cannons, and five capital missile launchers on each[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pre-Contact warships used rockets and projectiles to breach enemy armor and render them vulnerable to laser barrages. Rockets were slow to accelerate but had impressive ranges of engagement when built with multiple stages. Unfortunately, the longer the flight time the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes you have to stand up for what is right, and sometimes you simply must say when someone is wrong. Because sometimes there is no one else who will do it. You will earn enemies this way, and some of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Killing off the whole gang in the first episode of a new season would have been bad form for Twilight’s creative team. It is therefore not a surprise that they did not cooperate with Solo. What surprised the viewers was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pre-Contact warships used a mix of various forms of lasers, projectile weapons, and rockets as their primary armaments. Most lasers did very minimal damage compared to modern versions but were very accurate. Heat shielding was cheap, and therefore warships could[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People sometimes ask me how I decide what to do when time is tight. The simple answer is that I usually don’t. Decide at least. The complicated answer is a bit more…well…complicated. There is right and there is wrong. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight season three started with a fade from black to a man walking back and forth in a small room, footsteps echoing off the walls. He spoke unintelligible words with pauses to show he was having a conversation. Finally he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fleet 2300 Project’s goal was to distill a century of reverse engineering alien technologies into new designs built to incorporate those technologies from the hull nuts up. The Los Angeles-class cruiser instead spat those hull nuts out in every[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…