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Reply Subj: That's general clickbait. The first one is more like vlog clickbait. Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 12:14:08 pm EST (Viewed 520 times) | |||||||
Quote: Vloggers often post a clickbait title like that first subject line to tempt people to watch through 45 minutes of pointless blather about what they had for breakfast and what color socks they picked just for the 10 seconds relevant to the subject.Black. I only buy black socks to avoid daily decision-making. Quote: [Lara] hasn't really given in, though, and she believes in results over procedures. She's willing to accept the consequences if it goes wrong, but she'll refuse to take any abuse over a simple breach of procedure. It's kind of a sore spot for her now.Hatty would probably have a problem with that, if the procedures are intended for safety. He'd want to argue that, just because things worked out this time ny luck it doesn't mean it was okay to cut corners. Quote: Lara would expect a more advanced culture to be able to harm her, as that's true back home. The *other* half of why she retired is the police and military invented devices that can duplicate a lot of the superhero behavior. Not quite hers entirely, but she could see the writing on the wall - that society wanted the abilities, but not the lack of accountability.I took this into account in Lara's initial space battle, where the longer it went on the better the enemy got at hurting her. Quote: I am. Slowly. Working full time really puts a damper on writing.It does. Quote: She [Lara] also is aware that she might meet some resistance because he's [Hood] kind of a bastard, and might insist that irritating the Lair Legion is central to his goals. In that case she's become a deliverer of a warning of what will happen.The Hood doesn't particularly want to irritate the Legion. He quite respects them as opponents and even admires them in a detached sort of way. He has expressed mild contempt for other LL foes that underestimate them or don't see their value. The Hood even needs the LL. For example, right now he is planning on using two of them to help him conquer the Parodyverse before the end of our current issue of Untold Tales. Quote: Faite would probably suggest that Mumph take the Hood's place if he really wants to put him down, sort of a placeholder to keep all of the plots from collapsing. Of course Mumph wouldn't want that, either."Taking the Hood's place" might be techiclaly difficult. The nearest we saw to this was an alternate universe in which Hatman destroyed the Hood by seizing and wearing his cowl, only to go on and conquer the Parodyverse in the name of law and order as the Hooded Hat. Quote: Back home, Lara has seen many "mini-gods", beings of enormous power who control one small sector of some part of the universe. Like the Hood, they can't be eliminated without causing the entire system to collapse.Quote: The only solution to that is to leave them alone. Or to gradually wear them down by convincing them that they're actually a slave, because they can't take their eyes off of things for a second or everything could collapse.There are certainly consequences when a major power falls. The Parodyverse is pretty much shot to hell right now. Quote: I haven't specifically placed where the Trading Alliance hails from except that it's "far away". It would have to be a strand of planets and stars that's far enough away that the other ancient cultures haven't been able to travel there.Quote: Like I mentioned in the last post, the true breakthrough in tech for the Alliance to expand their territory is when they started traveling using artificial wormholes. They could map out the entire galaxy, and basically hop from one place to another without using much energy. That's when, of course, their government had to create engagement rules to keep corporations from becoming conquerors.A galaxy is perhaps a natural unit of navigational limits, like an island surrounded by ocean. It depends on the nature of jumpgates, of course, but one limitation may be the proximal nature of major stellar clusters; in which case "near" in-galaxy jumps may be easier or more cost effective than far between-galaxy jumps; the fdifference between local and overseas shipping fees. Quote: They have not made contact with Earth because Earth is too complicated with its many governments and special groups. One of their rules of engagement is not to make contact in such a way as to cause a war among contact cultures, and Earth is sure to do that.An easy prerequisite for contact might be a unified global government with whom to deal. Independent treaties with two hundred nations each with different import/export rules and trade barriers would be unfeasible. Quote: In the Traders huge novel I'm writing, it's relatively the same - the Alliance itself is unreachable, but there's a war among some of its members. The world Shen Rae is from is on the outer edge of that territory and reachable, and the invaders of that world are also close to the edge. It's fairly late in the story when they actually make contact with some actual Alliance traders.Proceed. | |||||||
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