The Avali Nexus

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  1. Myifee

    Myifee Guest

    Oh, nice! I'll have to check that out.
     
  2. Marxon

    Marxon Supernova

    Heh, I've built up an immunity to the madness, I still wish someone told the poor fella, don't pick up the railgun, don't pick it up, the railgun, don't pick it up... don't don't don't dddd
     
  3. Twei

    Twei Big Damn Hero

    To be fair, the latter is basically a version of quantum entanglement. When it was written, we didn't know about quarks, anyways. And although real life quantum entanglement doesn't work for signals, the fact remains that even today, Ender's Game is relatively hard sci-fi. It breaks very few rules and explains how it does.
     
  4. Deathedge736

    Deathedge736 Giant Laser Beams

    it was only a matter of time till the insanity found us here
     
  5. awareqwx

    awareqwx Cosmic Narwhal

    I'd like to point out that railgun was human-sized, and he's turning into a human-sized avali. Waitaminute... APEX!!!!!!!!
     
  6. Ehksidian

    Ehksidian Spaceman Spiff

    The horrid, unbearable agony must have driven him mad afterwards.
    And the fact that he's somehow growing, even though Avali are smaller than humans...
    DAMMIT AWARE YOU SAID EXACTLY WHAT I WAS SAYING ALMOST
     
  7. Surge

    Surge Phantasmal Quasar

    we've already reposted that image? come on people
     
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  8. Ruti

    Ruti Big Damn Hero

    Touche I guess. How does one define "hard" sci-fi versus soft? Yet another question that will ever be endlessly debated, alongside defining what a "furry" is and exactly how science fiction and fantasy relate to each other.
     
  9. RyuujinZERO

    RyuujinZERO Supernova

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    Apparently - everything is 169
     
  10. Ehksidian

    Ehksidian Spaceman Spiff

    Oh god.
    We must burn everything now.
     
  11. Surge

    Surge Phantasmal Quasar

    I define soft sci-fi as anything that isn't set in the stone of actual science, a soft sci-fi setting plays with concepts often considered impossible and occasionally flat out ignores established science in favor of convincing bullshit that is much cooler
     
  12. RyuujinZERO

    RyuujinZERO Supernova

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness

    (Of which the Avali are intended to be close as possible to 5. Some of the higher techs are forced shoe-horns courtesy of Starbound's game mechanics; like transporters are a no-go normally, there is a reason they have dropships and those dropships have exterior doors)
     
  13. Intrebute

    Intrebute Pangalactic Porcupine

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    Guys this doesn't even make sense halp pls
     
  14. Ehksidian

    Ehksidian Spaceman Spiff

    that's hilarious
    Now if only I could code/pixel art to make a hat like that for Avali...
     
  15. awareqwx

    awareqwx Cosmic Narwhal

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  16. Marxon

    Marxon Supernova

    A hnzw tb evmvx lhr meati yaii ee n wdertdefw fitll fvvkt gmee V wsw vx, tug wanpi lhrr A'vr kgnr wg fnv lhr vsboml hbpw os mfsnratl hme gs gtuij fngloew, A dbr'l tumfk nrqtumfg nvguah zeei uaa vwaypq dvwluef ee nrqmbvw, brgsufi A cnr sljeqs smfd zsje vrkiqmguf hwmbrk wvxzia qq oa qanq.

    Not being insane is a key desire.
     
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  17. Requiemfang

    Requiemfang Ketchup Robot

    Ugh... get me a translator!
     
  18. awareqwx

    awareqwx Cosmic Narwhal

    *punches something into a translator* I don't seem to have that language installed. Could you repeat that please?
     
  19. RyuujinZERO

    RyuujinZERO Supernova

    Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn to you too*
    Mine does translate easily however...
     
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  20. Ehksidian

    Ehksidian Spaceman Spiff

    Hey, hey, we have enough crazy in here already.
    We don't need to bring in fucking Cthlulu or any other Lovecraftian horrors.
     
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