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When someone (who is NOT a neko) "upgrades" to a Yamataian body: 1. Is she (or he) given basic familiarization with her new body? Is she briefed on things like the strengths, weaknesses, abilities and limitations of the Yamataian body? Proper personal care and eating habits (for example...

What I'm saying is that in a situation where someone has been missing for a few weeks and hasn't actually said anything at all (and thus, has not said she/he isn't coming back), her/his character(s) should be moved off the plotship and left somewhere out of harm's way (but not somewhere from...

I suppose it's just as well I didn't have any character(s) at the time of the (real-life) accident that left me out of commission for weeks, since finally coming back only to find her dead would have added insult to injury. That said, a lack of a response should be treated as a request to have...

I've noticed that a lot of devices have more or less detailed descriptions of the many things they do well against, but very little if any information about what they do poorly against. The descriptions of the various forms of cloaking and stealth technology, like the CFS stealth function...

In the case of a natural wormhole or semi-permanent wormhole, the sheet is not merely folded, but actually re-sewn (or was sewn that way to begin with). And actually ripping the "sheet" of spacet-ime is both completely beyond the capabilities of interdiction fields (unless, by "interdiction...

I can see this argument applying to the kind of wormhole that you have to constantly expend energy to hold open, but not to the kind that, once created, requires no further energy input and will stay there until something or someone deliberately (or perhaps accidentally) closes it. Granted...

So those minefields: --were laid in the contemporary IC era? --were originally laid in their "present" size? --no longer exist in the locations where they appear on the star map?

It is well established that interdiction fields, among other things, prevent or impair attempts to open wormholes. What is less clear is how they affect already-open wormholes. Some people will probably just assume that activating an interdiction field next to an open artificial wormhole will...

The AS-7 is an SAoY munition. SAoY ships don't have to blast their way through an SAoY minefield. So who laid those mines?

I would expect the interdiction field to propagate through the rift - both sides would be propped open. There is still the issue of whether someone could follow you through a rift by being mere meters behind you or right next to you - entering at about the same time as you while using some form...

As I recall, the RDD is both the only sensor that can detect a CFS-cloaked ship (which is hiding in another dimension), and the only sensor of any use to such a ship while cloaked. But what about the other kinds of stealth? And can RDD use be detected (perhaps by another RDD)?

So perhaps aether generator technology might suddenly become a lot more restricted - or at least a lot more regulated - if and when someone detonates one? I would imagine that once this happens, the bigger the generator, the tighter the regulations. So a small generator might require little...

Then what's to stop a technically-skilled and destructively-minded person from buying an aether generator, or something that uses one, crossing a few wires, and turning a few city blocks into a smoking crater?

How old are these minefields, and who created them? I'm thinking that if these mines are ancient - and self-replicating - perhaps the minefields weren't always their present size....

While we are on the topic of stealth and sensors, are any of these kinds of stealth completely or partially "double-blind" like Star Wars cloaks are?

A problem with this system is that I see nothing to prevent someone following you through the rift, aside from the best efforts of whatever forces you have dedicated to rearguard action. The obvious countermeasure is to close the rift behind you. There are two problems with this. First, some...

It's a bit lacking in the range department, though.

Like you say, they're pretty nice most of the time... most of the time. Perhaps most of the crime is non-violent (like smuggling or pickpocketing) though perhaps occasionally involving violence (like hunting out of season). You can't catch most crimes you're not searching for, and you...

The cutter in question would not be much (if any) larger than the smal plasma torch, which with SA technology would be pretty small - in fact, the device in question would not emit a meter-long blade, but a tiny aether "jet" similar to the plasma jet produced by a plasma torch. It wouldn't cut...

Even Yamataium doors are plasma-torch-proof, unless by "plasma torch" you really mean "NDI Stellar Converter".