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Survey Ship AI: Eta Vulpeculae Built as a prototype for Cannith Industries upcoming Violet-series MMAIs, the UNASGS (United North American Space Guard Ship) Eta Vulpeculae was one of the first testbeds for a generation 2.5 AI. While based on the sentient second generation, the Violet-series introduc...

Starship crew manual snippet - Fire Suppression (atmo dump) Normal operation of the emergency fire suppression system may be activated by the following steps: 1. Open the enclosure at one of the remote actuating stations. Remove the safety pin, which is secured via a plastic wire snap seal. 2. Rota...

Heh, no kidding. I’ve looked at some of the “evidence” and you really have to turn a blind eye to science to come up with some of the conclusions the moon landing hoax group comes up with. Ugh. Don't remind me of that stupid. I have to spend time with my flat earther of a dad who can't even grasp h...

sandywhite90 wrote:Does anyone recall some short stories that have been written using the Rigelians as a theme?

That would have been Steve Walmsley's epic Rigellian Campaign.

So some guys are working on updating the footage of the Apollo 11 flight in time for the 50th anniversary. Here's the announcement and the trailer

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-072018a-apollo11-documentary-neon-cnnfilms.html

Mittelsspannung Orbital Shipyards Fenris deWulf Corporate Space The yards above Fenris hummed with activity now, having been almost idle for the past few months as all of their attentions had been bent to assembling six massive hulls with all the haste of an obsessed and caffine-maddened engineer. G...

Aah.... Legend of Galactic Heroes. Die Neue These is a re-do of the original series. And big fleet battles are a hallmark of the series. And a damnned good series. I cannot recommend either the new version, or the old one, enough.

Sorry about the delay for the last snippet. I literally had to put a full halt to it when I realized that I had neglected to work out fully half of the deWulf crew ranking system! While I'd worked out the command and flag ranks long ago, everything up to Lieutenant Commander was entirely missing (so...

Excerpts from "Space Warfare Quarterly" Issue 13.3 Joining The Fleet dWS Sieg The dWS Sieg is completing her working up and pre-deployment trials at the Mittelsspannung yards in Fenris orbit, and scheduled to be joining the fleet in 13.4. She is the first of the Sieg-class ships to be comp...

oh... VERY nice.

*Yoink!*