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Fundamentally, I disagree that SARP is a particularly simulationist community. "Simming" is a term from Star Trek RPs, whereas simulationist is a term to describe game systems that attempt maximum verisimilitude/detail. An example of a game like this might be Battletech or Attack Vector...

As V115 moved closer in, and Arye followed, their sensors reached out, almost fumbling, into the black of space so far from Newhaven's star that it appeared like any other amongst the cosmos. The figurative eyes of their surrogate bodies narrowed in concentration on the area of space where...

Beachfront - South of the Commercial District. Chalet's frames had crossed the river, skating across it on plumes of water kicked up by gravity buffers and plasma thrusters, under the cover of Sabine's aircraft and variable frames, which had patrolled overhead along the river and were standing...

Long Walk Out A Short Airlock As he drifted through space in his Slayer armor, Tobias could hear little beyond the pulse of RCS thrusters and his own breathing. When Francis approached him, he gave a thumbs-up as a silent signal of his status before firing a few bursts from his thrusters to...

"My frames can cross the river on their own." Captain Chalet noted, as the group was discussing their options. "We're best suited to securing the south in a lightning strike, alongside with anyone else close enough to keep up with us while we're skimming nape-of-the-earth. FSC's frames might be...

I don't see anything else that should hold this up at least from the FM approval perspective, though I'll refrain from making any more NTSE-style comments, since there's nothing else NDC specific to mention in that regard. You've addressed everything I brought up so this gets an FM-stamp from me.

NSS Big Deal The bulk of Tobias' time spent on the way out from port had been spent doing his best to integrate himself into the crew, doing his best to confound any attempts to read too deeply into his own true service record by putting up a persona matching whatever falsified records were in...

After 12 hours of painstakingly slow transit through the outer reaches of the Newhaven system, the pilots of Alpha Lance had been deployed. This far away from the system's star, as the captain had explained during the briefing hours prior, visible light and cameras no longer were adequate for...

Day 15 Riverfront As the frames of the Duskerian company stood guard around the ferry, guarding it against a potential assault while it was cleared by the Elysians. As the pilots of the frames stood by in their cockpits, Captain Chalet continued to feel a sustained sense of unease. This...

So there's a few things I feel that I should note before I FM stamp this; it's using military equipment on it so the list of manufacturers should probably include either the NDC itself, the Department of Engineering, or Conclave Ship Works, which is the nationalized shipbuilding company that the...

NSS Big Deal -- Wardroom Tobias weighed the situation with an appraising eye. The Big Deal was obviously staffed with fewer marines than it normally might be, seeing as how they wouldn't be required to hot-bunk. He'd have to find someone from the squad to bunk with, it would be bad form to rest...

The article currently lists full power at Tier 7, and I'm kind of skeptical of this thing being a mecha-killer. It's quite small compared to the blades used by mecha, and the power source is commensurately less, even when being wielded by a PA.

If we acknowledge that OOC restrictions on what would otherwise be sensible and logical IC progression of technology help to maintain factional identities (Not wrong, even if it's stifling), and we've constructed a list of technologies that will stay locked to Yamatai on an OOC basis, I think it...

That's true and fair, though it's also true that it's been around for a very long time and it'd be strange for other nations to not have started working on their own systems, even if they weren't as good as modern Yamataian teleporters. We can maintain an OOC lockdown on it, but Char's point is...

Aether's become reasonably widespread by this point, both Nepleslia and the NDC have to have the ability to produce Aether technology I believe. The NDC's Noval produces some Aether drives, piggybacking off of the widely available Origin IAPD, and Nepleslia has the Checkmate. ST, or ST like...

I won't say any more after this, scout's honor, but I did want to make sure the picture was clear on how much time you save. The time savings aren't just in instant transit, it's in not having to get out of range from the star before you go FTL, and then the time it takes to get to your...

I misread the section as to who the technology originated from, my mistake. I'm curious as to why they're limited to just an hour by FTL of range? It doesn't mention that in the article, so far as I can find. There's not a mention of range at all, FWIW. Re: grid squares, a grid square's only...

A few questions; Given that this is 1) A technology that is revolutionary in capability and 2) Derived from the technology of enemy forces that many, if not all, factions on the site are likely to be in combat with in the next few years, have you given any forethought as to how this will...

NSS Big Deal Hanger Tobias grinned wryly at the question from Sousmith; he'd hardly expected to get the good cop bad cop treatment as soon as they'd gotten on board. It spoke to the character of the types of people who had been sent to the Blackguard before them. Not that they were too much...

Operation Hard Hedoro - Day 14. Though the Osmani native pilots of Bravo Company of the 4th Pathfinders had been mostly nonplussed by the heat and sand during the two-week slog towards the AO, they had found themselves quickly growing disappointed by the progress of the coalition task force...