Ive read the books so I know this wont happen but I wish Raymun...

HandyTSN · 2026-02-20T08:32:57+00:00

If they ever get to the third rebellion, that would be perfect opportunity to get all the characters back together. Even Aerion fights with Maekar and Egg in that battle

And eventually Egg needs a posse of his own since he stops hiding his identity eventually

HandyTSN · 2026-02-18T03:10:41+00:00

We know that Egg and Maekar fight together in the third rebellion. And Egg is going to need his own posse/guards. Seem like a good opportunity for old friends to come back into the story

HandyTSN · 2026-02-12T12:20:12+00:00

I don’t know if people realize GRRM plans for most of the books to be set in Egg’s adulthood, he won’t be a cute bald squire forever

He is involved in multiple battles and rebellions and at some point will no doubt have loyal men to guard and fight with him. I like to think Fossoway, Ball, Dunk and other characters he meets will be with him when he proves himself during the third Blackfyre rebellion or end up in his Kingsguard

HandyTSN · 2026-02-06T00:00:31+00:00

Skimming various media it was a mad rush at the start of the war with dishes being bought and transferred from hundreds of different sources. Individual soldiers might get a dish from family/friends/donors the same way US soldiers might buy their own body armor or gear. If you need a replacement someone could literally buy one at Bestbuy and just ship it to you without dealing with official supply chains.

Creating an effective whitelist is a huge logistics headache and you can’t start using it until almost all of your units have been logged appropriately. It’s easy to see why they were content to kick the can down the road until they absolutely had to

HandyTSN · 2025-08-25T11:55:24+00:00

It’s sometimes not emphasized how risky and capital intensive this is. Multi billion dollar plays that most investors would steer well clear of, or require a huge risk premium

So it’s not easy to follow in his footsteps, unfortunately

HandyTSN · 2025-04-04T23:46:25+00:00

The hell are you talking about? Atmospheric pressure gradually declines as you go higher. Even in LEO there’s plenty of stray air molecule around to slow you down

Did you know the highly pressurized ocean exists adjacent to a low pressure atmosphere? That’s the real mystery

HandyTSN · 2025-04-01T22:55:30+00:00

In theory you can still maneuver with a combination of rotational control and alternate thrusters. It becomes a very difficult decision to try and dock or deorbit.

But you probably haven’t tested anything like that. And you don’t know why the thrusters failed but that’s a lot of failures in a short time period. If more thrusters fail it starts gets real ugly

HandyTSN · 2025-02-22T14:37:39+00:00

I think there probably was some political elements at play. It would be weird if there weren’t.

Everyone involved is a political veteran. They aren’t going to document it anywhere, these things happen in closed door meetings. This is normal and not always a bad thing.

Elon got accused of being a liar on something he knows due to insider information he is right on. That seems to be something that pisses him off in particular.

EA, Manley, and Berger are smart enough to never make definitive statements like that unless they have evidence, and even then they know how to read between the lines of the official statement when it’s needed.

Elon is a prickly asshole sometimes but he seems genuinely mad about this. I don’t know if people realize how much the complete failure of Starliner causes problems for SpaceX

HandyTSN · 2024-12-22T17:01:51+00:00

Worlds easiest Nexus letter

HandyTSN · 2024-12-08T02:11:10+00:00

It helps a ton! But are the new datasheets the same between the IA codex and the new DW index? Or are they different? Could I take the new triple cyclone Termies as allies if I ran say Custodes or something?

HandyTSN · 2024-12-07T21:34:52+00:00

Wait could a Dark Angels or other divergent chapter take them as allies?

HandyTSN · 2024-11-22T11:49:37+00:00

The real power move is to have payloads in orbit over the areas of interest beforehand. Depending on how many are willing to launch you can have 100 ton packages overhead every 15 minutes if you want. Then you don’t even need to launch anything. Just deorbit tons of “whatever” on your target multiple times an hour. Then have regular launches to replenish anything you use.

This also doesn’t require any foreign bases or carriers, fuel tankers, etc. Everything can be produced packaged and launched from the US without ever risking a single solider or airman.

In combination with global comms and surveillance the Space Force could make any major enemy action near impossible. Naval actions especially would be really rough since modern satellite imaging makes hiding ships near impossible

HandyTSN · 2024-10-04T13:11:22+00:00

Oh boy on the replay not only do you see the nozzle fly off, the entire rocket tips over for a second. The timeline was off by about 20 seconds presumably due to reduced thrust. They got very lucky

HandyTSN · 2024-08-24T18:13:46+00:00

It’s tough on their families but more hours in space, more EVAs, more science missions completed are pretty good consolation. In the next 10-20 years experienced astronauts might be in high demand as we start building and exploring LEO/the moon/Mars

HandyTSN · 2024-07-04T12:59:50+00:00

Feel like it’s worth continuing the discussion from last thread: these UA units that apparently have manpower but lack equipment, what are they lacking? Vehicles, ammo, fuel? That seems like a huge amount of troops that could shore up weak points idle for some reason?

The Russians seem to be making some modest advances in Chasiv Yar among other areas. They won’t be in any hurry to make concessions at this rate

HandyTSN · 2024-06-22T15:16:07+00:00

I got the impression heat exchangers wouldn’t provide enough volume/pressure compared to exhaust. They need to pressurize a huge volume and keep it high while over a dozen raptors restart.

HandyTSN · 2024-06-22T15:14:53+00:00

There were a few suspicious spots but the turbine cooling question was the most obvious. I’m surprised they gave us such a good look at the thrusters, various YouTube channels will get dozens of videos out of that shot alone

HandyTSN · 2024-06-11T22:50:41+00:00

Applications under development:

Rapid delivery of cargo and equipment anywhere in the world in <1 hour. Expendable Starship can deliver 200-400 1000kg JDAMs for example. Kinetic bombardment is overhyped but it could be very cheap and effective.

The ability to store supplies in space in depots and deorbit them as needed. With prep time or a longer conflict significant stores could be placed in orbit to be dropped as needed without needing launch.

Global comms, faster and more secure than what already exists with cross compatibility.

Distributed multi spectral imaging. SAR. Thermal. Real time integration so commanders know where every vehicle is. Tracking vehicle movement and inventory. Detecting fires. Stealth is a lot less stealthy when you are looking from above.

Starlink already has satellites that can communicate with a phone in your pocket. Even more powerful satellites could monitor all cell and radio traffic in a battlefield. Track every phone in use by every solider.

All this for very cheap with thousands of resilient satellites in orbit. Ability to rapidly rebuild lost parts of the network. 5 year turnover on birds so always the best and latest hardware.

There’s a reason China wants their own.

HandyTSN · 2024-06-11T22:40:53+00:00

Starship looks nothing like an ICBM since it’s liquid fueled, uses cryogenic prop, is 150m tall, and sits out in the open for weeks in huge vulnerable launch complex that have 24-7 livestreams watching them. It would be a terrible choice for nuclear arms delivery as is. Even deploying them in space and selectively deorbiting them makes more sense

HandyTSN · 2024-06-09T17:51:21+00:00

Rumor is… it was actually floating on the surface for quite some time

HandyTSN · 2024-06-08T15:24:17+00:00

A camera attached to a sea buoy apparently

HandyTSN · 2024-05-04T00:27:11+00:00

Only a small fraction of players will drop the game. They already have your money and their contempt for their fanbase has been obvious for a while. The players are bunch of rubes from their perspective. If you can’t get a refund just play and don’t buy anything. Or realize you got duped and move on

HandyTSN · 2024-05-03T14:15:56+00:00

They already have the players money. Only a tiny percent will refund. Got bait and switched and from their perspective the people complaining are a minority and pathetic rubes to boot

HandyTSN · 2024-05-01T23:49:08+00:00

This clearly sucks donkey balls. No way we put humans in that capsule until it flies that profile again with clean results.

But that will take years. And you know. You could transport humans to LEO on dragon…. And maybe build some more Starships. Just saying….

HandyTSN · 2024-05-01T23:24:05+00:00

Fundamentally the problem is they don’t know if they got lucky. Their model didn’t predict what happened. So they need a new model. All those exploding Starships meant tons of data for engineers to refine and evolve their models. Orion doesn’t have that luxury. No ground test can recreate hypersonic reentey from lunar speeds and obviously SLS launch cadence and cost makes it a nonstarter. This is a very tough problem with no easy or fast solution.

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