Cl: This is pretty much what Mark and I decided. (Mad, Evil Laughter). There is plenty of "Manana" (I'll do it tomorrow) In Alti's forces. XC has a kit bag...
Cl: No chance of this happening. If it goes, everyone else loses their edge. CNMC Drop Brigade, rmember? ... From: "James Sterrett" <James.Sterrett@...> ...
Where are you getting "troublesome to control"? The uplift will generally obey instructions as well as any well-trained dog will, and while its judgment tends...
... Getting replacement soldiers across interstellar distances is always tricky. Killing the uplift means that a new one has to be trained up and bonded - that...
... Uh, no. That's cinematic Deathworld level vegetation. Even a very dangerous natural area is low-intensity combat unless something very unusual happens, in...
Cl: I'm afraid you're right. The real XC warfare lab is on AMII. This is fed by the training areas back home. ... From: "Anthony Jackson" <ajackson@...> ...
We're going to have a terrestrial bulge, a tidal bulge and an atmospheric bulge, the only difference between them is media density. Laurent Leclerc, ing. ... ...
On replacements, the simplest way may be to bond recruits to an uplift as soon as it is known that an invader is coming, or as a pre-requisite for deployment...
Laurent Leclerc, ing. ... From: Ten_Worlds_Development@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ten_Worlds_Development@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ken Burnside Sent: 1...
... The main time required for training is going to be rather general knowledge such as language, not specific military training (it takes considerably longer...
The way I saw it, the Uplift are product of advanced bioengineering in artificial wombs, once born they take 4-6 years to grow up properly, get enough...
... Any sort of bonding that can be done on an already-trained uplift is also transferable -- i.e. you can rebond it to a new person. If bonding is supposed to...
Any sort of bonding that can be done on an already-trained uplift is also transferable -- i.e. you can rebond it to a new person. If bonding is supposed to be...
Cl: Anthony does have a point on Randist Bonobos as starship crews. If the Services rendered/ Life support equation s not favourable, the uplifts will not be...
... ground force, ... and do ... Tank loader. As I've been led to understand, most (real world) tanks seem to be built for people who are 1.2 meters tall and...
... Assuming autoloaders don't become standard. While they haven't yet done so, at least on Western designs, I suspect that 'loader' position in a tank will be...
Cl: My take is that you either keep the loader to ensure you've got a four-man crew, and keep the tank's overall sophistication levels low, or go the whole hog...
... There's a fair chance that ALL the positions will be gone by 2050. Ben ________________________________________________________________________ Email and...
Cl: Not in AV-T, in abeiance to Ken's Zeroth Law. Interesting stories should involve people, while reading about robots is, er, boring. I've my doubts about...
(somewhere out there, R2-D2 and Johnny Five whistle and beep sorrowfully in robotic shame, and roll off into the sunset.) Cl: Not in AV-T, in abeiance to Ken's...
... There are a couple of things to remember about automation: 1) Repairability is a tradeoff -- in general, a system that is easier to repair is also less...
... Unfortunately, tanks don't just fire forward, unlike aircraft, so you probably do need to have a different person doing both task. You can probably combine...
... Attack helos don't just shoot in one direction, either - most have turret guns, these days. Commander-gunner has been tried, with poor results. Note that...
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