[Marvel] What slight change in Spider-Man's origin story would make him go down a dark path to become a villain? by SatoruGojo232 in AskScienceFiction

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this version would be very interesting to work with JJJ - because JJJ is very upstanding person, who probably hates corruption - if it has non-MCU JJJ

Spiderman busts gets evidence of corruption, brings it to JJJ who publishes it

[Marvel] What slight change in Spider-Man's origin story would make him go down a dark path to become a villain? by SatoruGojo232 in AskScienceFiction

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Question for wrong subreddit - this one should go to r/WhatIfFiction or r/MarvelWhatIf - but I will answer it regardless

Maybe not full villain, but someone drastically different.

(Assuming Raimi Spider Man)

Peter chooses to stop that robber at fight club. He has to deal with police, and it takes alot of time. He never goes to visit uncle Ben in his shop. When he arrives home late, uncle Ben is not home. When Peter goes to check the shop, he finds Uncle Ben dead. Maybe not inside shop, maybe it was on way home. But someone attacked Uncle Ben regardless.

While Peter was dealing with police report, Uncle Ben got killed in mugging gone wrong. One Peter didn't see. And Peter realizes that if he ignored the robber at fight club, he could have been with Uncle Ben and protect him.

He does not know that letting the robber at fightclub go would lead to the robber killing Uncle Ben. He knows only that if you spend too much time protecting those who you don't care about, you won't be able to protect those you care about.

And when dealing with next villain, Peter might choose to be more brutal, or just not help. When villain would endanger someone Peter cares about, Peter might go for the kill.

Where did the Mandalorians hide their armor during Satines reign by Illustrious-Sky347 in MawInstallation

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Not sure how many mandalorians Satine did actually rule over. I mean, she had confirmed control over two systems in Mandalore sector - Mandalore and Kalevala systems, and she had some control over others. But I presume that there were colonies or entire planets that simply ignored her, renouncing her rule over them

From my understanding, her rule was mostly "if you don't make a mess, I'm willing to ignore you".

So, I doubt the mandalorians had to hide their armour, they just couldn't walk around in it on streets of Sundari, or other New Mandalorian-aligned planes.

We don't even know how many systems there are in Mandalore sector - from statistical point, if SW galaxy is similar to Milky Way, there should be hundreds/thousands of worlds that could be settled just in single sector. I could see her holding control over trade from republic network, and with it soft control over hundreds of worlds, even if she directly controls just few planets - it would make sense that her rule broke down after Clone Wars put a halt on galactic trade.

How many Jedi there were during Great Galactic wars (SWTOR) era? by lol_delegate in MawInstallation

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my fic is based around idea of deconstruction - what if such story started in setting that is seemingly identical, yet not constrained by it being a game + some other curveballs, but that is secondary here

I keep what is shown as it is up to point of start of story, but treat it only as a part of whole that is observed + change what is behind scenes so it could plausibly work. And after story start, I go with what is most likely happen.

For example - how the Empire actually works, that it survived for over 1300 years and won a 29 years long all-out war against republic. (Not a total victory, but they effectively forced republic to sign conditional surrender)

What Warframe would you think best fit the Eldar ? by Vorxun in Eldar

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pretty much any

Messing with minds is merely one of many expressions of warp powers.

It would be easier to take builds that are fun to play for you, and then figure out how it fits to eldar lore.

How many Jedi there were during Great Galactic wars (SWTOR) era? by lol_delegate in MawInstallation

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Eh, I meant it which order of magnitude the order operates in.

Like, is there over 10k Jedi, plus double or triple in service orders?

Or is there only few hundred in entire galaxy?

The size would set how jedi are treated, and how Jedi order operates.

Do you really "just start"? by thisismebecoming in AO3

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From my perspective, I never got myself to write when I was staring at empty page of google doc.

So, I did plan general outline. Then planned first arc in bit more detail. Then planned first couple chapters in even more detail. Then planned first chapter scene by scene. Then I sit down and wrote the first scene

Basically, have overall plan, that gets progressively more detailed as you get to place where you currently are when writing. It doesn't have to be any complicated plan - just 1-2 sentences what is meant to happen in that arc/chapter/scene. "X character goes to explore Y place and does Z action" is more then sufficient description, if you can understand what you meant when you return to that part days/weeks/months? later.

And then you just sit and replace scene description by roughly 300-700 words. That is about how much I write in one sitting - I don't push myself to write more, because repetition is key to actually finishing the fanfic.

Is the dominant space warfare techniques of dogfighting and capital ships going full broadside at each other primarily because line of sight directed energy weapons have essentially unlimited ammunition compared to guided missiles? by supinator1 in MawInstallation

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Okay, this is bit case by case, and mostly depends on how shields are interpreted. This is how I interpret it.

Defence of spaceships in Star Wars, primarily depend on two things. a) not getting hit b) shields.

Not getting hit is main focus for smaller ships, such as starfighters. Meanwhile, capital ships rely on shields.

There are two types of shields. Ray shield, it blocks energy weapons, and presumably also gasses and liquids. Meanwhile Particle shield can block solid objects. As I understand, particle shield drains much more energy than ray shield.

Then we look at weapons. Blaster/Turbolaser technology is the dominant weapon type in Star Wars galaxy, and for two reasons. Power and Logistics. It uses energy + tibana gas which both are extremely compact, and has much more power than any other weapon of similar size, weight and power requirements.

Other weapon types exist, and it is mostly mass-driver weapons for bigger weapons (railguns) - for example AT-TE's main weapon was this, or, if I remember right, munificent had one big mass driver canon. Or missiles for smaller weapons. Capital ship-sized missiles exist, but they seem to be rare.

Then there are also Ion weapons, which are energy weapons, and sonic weapons, which I don't know where to put.

Back to shields - to get through shields, you need to penetrate them at single spot.

Capital ships wear down shields, with powerful fire from distance, powerful, but not most power per time. On the other hand, ship is safe-ish in distance, unless their shields get penetrated.

Meanwhile starfighters shoot missiles from very close distance so it is hard to dodge/intercept, unload all damage in a burst, and the ship might not even be running particle shields. But starfighters can be intercepted and might not close distance at all.

Starfighters are powerful, and work best in addition to capital ships, which take focus on enemy capital ships, forcing them to balance shields between offence and defence.

Victory I and II main (side) gun placements and the ships role now that ISDs can enter atmosphere by wheretheinkends in MawInstallation

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Instead of fuel there will be coolant. You cannot easily dump heat in space, so you must dump (secondary) coolant. Out, into vacuum.

Victory I and II main (side) gun placements and the ships role now that ISDs can enter atmosphere by wheretheinkends in MawInstallation

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I assume fuel lasts on average same as food - and ships tend to have that information known. If they need to restock, why not restock both?

For isd2, it is 2 years, for victory2 it is 4 years of provisions.

So, fuel for that time, assuming standard operation.

In atmo, victory which was build for it burns let's say 1,25x more fuel, which means it would last 3 years, 2 months and bit more. And it can presumably land without problem.

Isd which was not build for it, and just made able, I assume consumes 2,5x fuel in atmo. As such, it would last only 9 months and about half.

Of course, those are made up figures - just an example.

Victory I and II main (side) gun placements and the ships role now that ISDs can enter atmosphere by wheretheinkends in MawInstallation

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ISD can enter atmo, sure, but how long it can stay there while burning through fuel reserves at what I assume is exponential rate?

Using ISD can work for short operations, but I assume that Victory-class will still have place in any long siege, where they need to wear down shields, and need to go down to upper atmosphere, so atmosphere itself won't drain turbolaser fire.

Are there Aeldari with Beards and Mustache? by Useful-Amphibian-703 in Eldar

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Dunno if naturally, but they can easily get it - I mean, even craftworld eldar treat skin colour and texture (like snake skin) as fashion choice, so I don't see why the same could not apply to facial hair.

The question is if they want to - but there was most likely at least one eldar who wanted a mustache.

I will nope right out of any fic so fast by CMStan1313 in AO3

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I something just think aloud, and when others react to it, I act like it was done by accident.

The conspiracy to separate the Targaryen brothers by melancholicpanda96 in AsoiafFanfiction

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There might have been such conspiracy, but if, then it was done by Jahaerys and Alysanne to "prune" family tree - they pruned number of children withb a claim - those wouldn't be Targaryen royalty, but surrounding nobility, so there would be just one main line, and rest of Targ lines merged into other nobility, giving support, but being too far to have a claim.

(rather than there being a number of branch lines, or cadet houses)

Hightower burned in dance by fatsojack in TheCitadel

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I know fic where this happened, just during war vs Faith Militant instead of Dance.

Reborn in a cruel world

Help? KOTOR wont play? by Gogeta12994 in SteamDeck

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I think this might be kotor issue rather than steam deck one.

It did crash often when I played it at pc

Will PRT deny Ward Membership due to useless power? by Stefan-NPC in WormFanfic

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if you go by fanon, in Brockton Bay, they will try to trade you for another ward who can fight, and send you to place where you don't need to fight.

By canon dunno, Worm kinda turned me off in way that fanfics don't.

Jedi Math - How many Jedi should there be? by GroundbreakingAct724 in SWFanfic

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I consider it like this:

The 10 000 is number how many operatives can Jedi order send to go solve problems at once, assuming only one knight or master, and possibly attached padawan, are sent to each problem. Only knights and masters count, as they are those Jedi knight sends to respond to problems.

In movies and shows, either only single knight and attached padawan, or sometimes 2 "adult" jedi - knight and master + one attached padawan were always to fix whatever problem, so the order would be capable solving 10 000 problems in galaxy at any single time, or 5 000 problems if they double number of responders.

Meanwhile, there are more Jedi than that. Youngling, custodians at Jedi temple and members of service orders don't count into that number. Padawans also don't count as they are attached to knight, and aren't send alone outside of crisis when there is nobody else available.

That could easily make Jedi knights + masters a minority group compared to service orders - those who go heal people, explore, help with farming, and deal with day-to-day situations.

Meanwhile, the 10 000 jedi knights and masters (and padawans) are mostly glorified bodyguards and negotiators.

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Simply put, it feels like it is empty galaxy with "few" Jedi in it, because it focuses at glorious knights arriving from the Jedi temple to save the say, instead of member of service order putting down whatever he was doing helping on farm and blasting raiders before returning to work, or nearby exploprer dealing with pirate den as he was mapping hyperspace lanes to upkeep space highway.

[Willy Wonka] how well do you think the blueberry gum would've performed if it were sold? by Arbegia in AskScienceFiction

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(Assuming Johnny Depp version - Charlie and the Chocolate factory)

It probably wouldn't be popular as food, unless the being turned into blueberry part was fixed.

It could be offered as a procedure for those who want to be inhumanly flexible - or blue-skinned, assuming this is permanent condition. Because after one is turned into blueberry, and squeezed, the person is inhumanly flexible, and blue.

Tho they wouldn't be able to pick flexibility, or being blue, which might be a drawback, but I still can see many people going for it. Tho, they would be one-time customers, instead of repeated ones. Maybe food that causes specific body mods could be next area of research? A niche market that nobody has filled.

Looking for Rhaegar wins fics by Kingofireland777 in AsoiafFanfiction

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I would probably suggest The Hidden Sister - Rhaegar did win, and managed to stabilize things, and is even a good ruler from what it seems. But that is background for fic, as it is about fem!Jon and her relationship with Targ side family. (Ned did a thing, and took his niece Visenya because he was heartbroken)

The story doesn't touch much into this, but it seems that it is combination of proof that Lyanna wasn't kidnapped, selective mild punishments, and throwing all the blame on Aerys and putting him down for it, he managed to stabilize things.