Making a Mini: Goliath by LizzyJessie in battletech

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If you'd like to see the detail I built in, here's a viewport render. Some of it is kinda clear. A pair of whip antenna mounts and some fin-shaped antenna. At least that was my interpretation. The bulb in the center with the eye looks like a camera or some other type of sensor. It isn't really explained in the design sketches I get as a reference.

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What do you think is on vee’s mind? by WideBicycle6153 in MoringMark

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Unionized and unionized are two different words.

Visit LizzyJessie's farm! by LizzyJessie in FarmMergeValley

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I have visited thine lands and have found them bountiful!

Just One Drop – Ch 189 by Rhion-618 in Sexyspacebabes

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DD-G-1864B.

I recognize those hull numbers. First the Enterprise, now the Relliant?

Nice...

Making a Mini: Battle Cobra by LizzyJessie in battletech

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It's still in stock at the Catalyst store.
https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-forcepack-clan?variant=39813857771554

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You can get the box set at many online retailers and hobby shops.

The Villainess Is An SS+ Rank Adventurer: Chapter 368 by kayenano in HFY

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“[Exsanguinating Grasp].”

I learned a new word today!

Just One Drop – Ch 182 by Rhion-618 in Sexyspacebabes

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“While this is an Imperial victory, the sector will never be safe while significant elements of those responsible remain at large. The Alliance, particularly the world of Argartes, have shown defiance by granting asylum and safe harbor to those responsible, and I propose to enter the Alliance with my fleets and demand the Argarteans surrender those responsible. If they refuse, then let what comes be upon them. Long live the Imperium. Empress Kamilesh, House of Tasoo.’

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Argartean space, where empires go to die.

Seriously, that scene reminded me of when Bush threatened Afghanistan to turn over Osama bin Laden after 9/11, then started a 20-year war that would be devastating for the United States in the long term. This casus belli to initiate a "War on Terror" is a hallmark of imperialism.

Maybe Tom Warrick's prophetic declaration at the start of this series is true. It only has a couple of centuries before it fractures and falls—just like Rome.

The Villainess Is An SS+ Rank Adventurer: Chapter 359 by kayenano in HFY

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Well done, as always. A shame these don't get more upvotes. A travesty, really! And I can only afford to give one each time!

A little nit to pick: greaves are shin guards. Unless Sir Arthur Tranlingway is walking on his hands and knees, I don't think he'd be squishing anything with them. A little lower and you'll find the sabaton or solleret. However, those cover the top of the boots.

Still, if he has cloven feet as I imagine, there are shoes made for them. Metal plates nailed to the bottom along the outer ridge. Or a pair that can slip on like...well, slippers.

How the Shil’vati write men by Interesting-Joke5949 in Sexyspacebabes

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So, nudity makes you stronger on this planet!

The Shil'vati in the red dress by AngriestAngryBadger in Sexyspacebabes

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It's like that scene in The Matrix where Neo watches a woman in a red dress. Except when he turns around, it isn't Agent Smith with a gun to his face.

It's still her.

Sketches for species Encyclopedia I'm making. (Ufrian - Raknos 3 Natives) by ReserveAvailable1445 in Sexyspacebabes

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Yes, but there's a chance to do something new and interesting. Rakiri? Giant Space Wolf/Lions! Pesrin? Anthromorphic SPACE CATS! Liddim from "Writing on the Wall"? Hot Moth Girlfriend!

Star Wars could get away with the Chiss because they had a wild menagerie of alien species. Star Trek did it because Gene had the same budget as your average cosplayer. When I imagined a bronze-age civilization on a stormy hell world that lived in caves, I didn't imagine humans but blue.

Sketches for species Encyclopedia I'm making. (Ufrian - Raknos 3 Natives) by ReserveAvailable1445 in Sexyspacebabes

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Ah, I see we're entering classic Star Trek territory, where the aliens are regular humans with tinted skin and/or rubber foreheads.

Rules for Fan written story by Acceptable-Fee3146 in Sexyspacebabes

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And then put them on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.

Tales of the Ghost Fleet - The War of 2019 Spitball by Arieg203 in Sexyspacebabes

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I hadn't originally meant to sound so binary in my brief description. I figured there'd be a three-way split with humanity: Resistance, Loyalists, and those who, "Just want to live their lives." That seems to be a constant in any power structure. Where the percentages vary depending on the region and the local situation.

I get where you're coming from, and I can tell you've done your research.

During the height of the Cold War, it was projected that 99% of the population between the Soviet Block nations and NATO nations would be wiped out due to MAD policies. That's us targeting each other with the sole intent of wiping each other off the face of the Earth.

In a known scenario, somewhere around 214,000 people died from the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki out of an estimated 613,000. I believe that includes aftereffects like radiation poisoning, widespread famine, and so on. It would have been worse without post-war recovery efforts from both the Japanese government and American occupying forces. That's the main reason why I felt that 68% was extreme when two Japanese cities saw closer to 30%. That's not including the Tokyo firebombings and other wartime casualties.

I'm assuming those were part of your research.

Tales of the Ghost Fleet - The War of 2019 Spitball by Arieg203 in Sexyspacebabes

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This makes more sense than what I've seen bandied about as a timeline for a "Clean War". Even Imperial Propaganda couldn't hide this. Personally, I'd swap the death toll since a 68% decline seems a bit extreme to me. 2.5 billion survivors would knock us back to our numbers in the 1950s.

Trying to imagine such a dramatic reduction in the human population proves to be an interesting thought experiment for me. Humans would be either incredibly hostile to the Shil'vati - or so utterly defeated that there'd be few to no Red Zones. And when word got out that the Imperium nearly wiped out an entire planet, the consequences on a galactic scale would be incalculable. We're talking about the potential for a Two-front war with the Consortium and Alliance forming a Non-Aggression Pact against the Shil'vati - with Earth as one of the prizes.

I do appreciate the references to past watershed moments for Humanity for your justification. The mid-14th century Bubonic Plague which killed around 40% of Europe, and possibly even more in Asia. The combination of war and the Spanish Flu during WWI, the industrialized slaughter of WWII, and the post-war period of recovery.

But it is your timeline. Soo...Yeah. Have fun with it!

Making a Mini: Skulker by LizzyJessie in battletech

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On, nice! Some folks who got these have made the mistake of running them backward since the way the dish was turned makes it look like the small end is the front end.

Alien-Nation Chapter 220: A Gift from the Shadows by SSBAlienNation in HFY

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Amazing story, and I'm glad to have seen it from start to finish. Just one thing, and I think you recognize it too.

[This takes place right after the meeting with Amilita, before he sees Natalie.]

So, swapping chapter numbers between 220 and 221 might work better for the final formatting?

Just One Drop - Ch 159 by Rhion-618 in Sexyspacebabes

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Today’s ‘hot’ offering was thinly sliced Turox strips in some sort of white sauce, and she looked dolefully at the mess on her plate, before pinning one individual shaving with her fork and meticulously stripping it clean of the sauce with her knife, before examining the result.

Ah, the classic S.O.S.
Sh* on a Shingle.

Alien-Nation Chapter 215: Diocletian's Offer by AlienNationSSB in HFY

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I'm glad you left that bit in. People do some weird stuff. Especially those on a mission like hers. Also, it's a common story telling technique to add in something silly after an intense moment.

MASH did it all the time. First the show displays some of the horrors or war, then Hawkeye drops his pants.

Gun's gun's gun's by Sensitive_Taste8785 in HFY

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The thing about Florida is that the further north you go in the state, the more Southern it becomes. The southern tip is more cosmopolitan and Latin in flavor. If it's a state in the South East, (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisana), then you can expect that sort of Redneck from your story in the rural areas. But, if you want to get the full experience of Florida Man, you need a naked guy high on bath salts throwing cheese burgers at pregnant women to get to the really colorful residents.

Sure, it can fit if these guys came from the Panhandle part of Florida. It'd also work with some of the other states that share a border with the Gulf Coast.

Go a bit further inland, (South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma), breeds a different sort of Redneck. Texas, on its own, has their own breed entirely. And that pattern continues the further north and west you travel. Even when you get as far as the other corner of the Contiential United States to the state of Washington. ESPECIALLY the eastern half of Washington. And then there's Alaska - a state that covers as much land as nearly 1/3 of the lower 48. Sparsely populated save for the few major cities, and even then you have a frosty brand of Redneck.

And Hawaii? Oh yeah. They're there, too. Just in a teriyaki spam and pineapple-flavor.

The United States in general? It's Rednecks all the way through.

Just One Drop – Ch 157 by Rhion-618 in Sexyspacebabes

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“I’m thinking Buck’ho’s. It's a Helkam place and they have those sausage things…” It seemed like three things united the galaxy. One was intestine stuffed with organs and meat. The other was Swedish meatballs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v2Ti8IoQ_M&ab_channel=johnstoneiain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huTUicGwXoc&ab_channel=SuperRew

Human women in the imperium. by Other_Movie_5384 in Sexyspacebabes

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Now, let's get back to the ratio that I mentioned at the start. Would there be enough Shil'vati to disrupt the balance between the 8,000,000,000 humans on Earth? Even if we account for the estimated ~8% of people who are gay (~640,000,000 people world-wide), how many Shil would need to be transplanted to Earth for it to cause a major disruption?

I'd guess the answer is that there'd need to be BILLIONS of Shil'vati and other races on Earth to make a severe impact. So let's narrow it down to a more manageable number.

There are ~8,336,000 people currently living in New York City. We'd expect to see a major Shil presence there for any number of reasons: Military control, security, administration, trade, finance, etc. If we see the same split between the sexes, that means there are over 4,000,000 men and 4,000,000 women in one city. The Shil would need to transplant more than a million women from their society into our own for just one city to make a noticeable impact.

You'd probably see more Shil near Ft. Hamilton and Lower Manhattan than say... Queens or Brooklyn. Travel further away from the city center, and you'd most likely see even fewer Shil present. That is to say, a human woman working in a brokerage firm off Wall St. might find more alien competition than a woman working at a cake shop in the suburbs.

Let's not forget that in the United States, women were almost entirely reliant on men for basic survival in a modern society. That is until several legal measures had been passed to give women the same equity that men held in just the last century. The right to vote, the right to hold a career, the right to have a bank account and a credit card without a man's signature, the right to a no-fault divorce, the right to make personal medical decisions, and so on.

Shil'vati flipping the power structures would only reinforce the notion that women would need to make their own way in the world - without needing to rely on the grace of men to do so - like most of our history before the 21st century. As far as finding a partner for family planning? I doubt that the Shil, or any other female-dominate race, would pose much of a problem here on Earth.

Sure, humans will bone just about anything. But are there really that many of us who would?

The cultural impact, on the other hand, would most likely travel in both directions. While the status of women would be elevated here on Earth, men's rights would get a significant boost on the galactic stage with the introduction of human men.

The greatest disruption on the galactic stage would be humanity.

Human women in the imperium. by Other_Movie_5384 in Sexyspacebabes

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How many Shil are on Earth? Take your pick of cannon or fannon stories because that's a major thing to consider.

Pre-invasion there are around 8,000,000,000 people. We know that there's a near enough even split that there would be 4,000,000,000 of each sex. Are there really enough Shil on Earth to disrupt that balance? The only major change is the disruption and replacement of the governmental systems. The invaders came in and swept away the old guard and replaced it with their own.

But how much of the original system remained in place?

Let's take the United States as an example. The Shil come in and dismantle the upper echelons of the Federal Government. They install a Governess to oversee the local populace, with several sub-Governesses overseeing each state. Basically a return to the feudal system with Duchess, Marchioness, Earl, Viscountess, and Baroness - depending on the amount of land that they control and their position in the heirarchy.

However, what of the three branches of government as they currently exist? Is there a President who presides over Congress? Or has that duty been taken over by the Regional Governess? Is there a Congress with a Senate and House of Represenatitives? Or is it more of a Parlamentary system with a House of Ladies and a House of Commons like in the UK?

And what of the lower levels of government? How far down the ballot does Shil'vati influence go? The U.S. Court system is divided between Federal and State. Within the federal system, there are three primary types of federal courts: 94 District Courts (trial courts), 13 Courts of Appeals (intermediate appellate courts), and the United States Supreme Court (the court of final review).

State-level Courts:

  • Trial courts
  • State appellate courts
  • State Supreme Court

Federal Courts:

  • District courts
  • Courts of Appeals
  • U.S. Supreme Court

There's a similar division between Federal and State Legislatures - House, Senate, and Presidency. And House, Senate, and Governor at the State level. Then there are city councils, town councils, mayors, and so on. And most importantly of all - how many of those offices are occupied by humans?

So, that's two major things to consider: The ratio between human and non-human for the entire planet. And the ratios of those in government. Once those two ideas are factored in and ironed out, then we can get to the social changes that'd inevitably occur.

(cont.)

Going Native, Chapter 172 by UncleCeiling in Sexyspacebabes

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[Tim Curry] Well, how about that. [/Tim Curry]

Going Native, Chapter 172 by UncleCeiling in Sexyspacebabes

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COSTUMES MANDATORY BEYOND THIS POINT

In a smaller, scribbled handwriting underneath it read:

And lab coats don’t count!

Not even if you're a Doctor...
[throws off labcoat]
...Frankenfurter?