This is a semi long, but tightly written one.

Take a look here

http://siluvara.forumotion.com/humans-j ... t22.htm#41

My question is... does all this sound like a balanced battlefield?

This is about Siluvara files.

So when I started this story I had it in for the Pred archetype. Where I come from, if you eat a human, you get jacked, badly. Humans don't tolerate that one bit.

This hasn't changed with me. What has changed is that I have made it so that the humans CAN'T just stomp Preds on a whim. They will try and they will win in the end, but not without a lot of Colonial Marine redshirts getting gulped, sometimes hilariously, because...

Most alien worlds are heavily forested. They're jungles, loaded with hungry fauna and flora alike, to go with the sentient predators like the Dryads, Kadruata (nagas) and carnivorous fairies, and others. This is not a good place for you to put tanks. Marines can be ambushed from every direction. Your mechs can be attacked by giant wooden Spriggans sent forth by Dryads; 2 or 3 giant Spriggans attacking smaller mechs can bring it down. A Spriggan (which cannot digest anything) will swallow the pilot, and then cough him up right into the...

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I'm not a big fan of furries except when people like Throatwolf writes them. I've read more anthro-related stories by Throatwolf than anyone else, probably combined.

That said, I've been bogged down in doing research and reading around for the species I'm developing in Siluvara Files. The simple part is I'm developing a full range of creatures, all of whom are evolved from transgenic origins: animal DNA fused with fairy DNA to produce sentient creatures that fairies would be more comfortable with eating. Sentient creatures, of course, have a stronger life force, which fills a fairy's magic reserves more than non-sentient animals.

A little background: for Silurhean fairies there was nothing in the gulf between non-sentient animals and fairies themselves. A fairy had to eat a lot of non-sentient animals to maintain a "full battery charge" for their spellcasting. It takes no time for a fairy's stomach to digest a whole animal for nourishment - but it does take a longer period of...

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Calling all 25th century space pirates and other assorted swabbies... what cuss words, colloquialisms and assorted slang you've heard from that time period?

Seriously, though. Argh. We've had some discussions about this on the EPWG and by Jove I'm coming up blank.

How many people out there have even tried this? I mean, besides the dude who did Blade Runner...

I was gonna do my blog this week on how chickenshit I am to build anymore "muscle rig" computers because of our desire to save electricity and keep our solar powered house's meter creeping backwards, but noooo, that has been superceded.

My eldest darling daughter caught the dreadful summer cold. It's a doozy, as are all colds of this type. Well, since it has been a persistent little bug, we went to the doctor thinking it was the swine flu. Not even close. She may have even caught two colds back to back; her neighbors have been coming down with the sniffles, too.

Oh great. We've got this to worry about for God knows how long before this swine flu crisis blows over or blows up into Captain Trips Lite.

Oh and we've found some friendly neighborhood parents of 2 Brownie scouts living downhill closer to the city. Hooray! Maybe my eldest will opt to be one in 3 more years?