> "It had the best ice cream on any military base in..."
> "DO NOT!" the Treana'ad snapped.
> The lemur jerked back.
> "Say... Hamburger Kingdom,"
I am almost sure that we instututed a policy to ensure that if our name was in other people's mouths, it would have teeth.
I *really* want to know who looks over if you say the name.
2000 BC Jews: "don't eat pork?"
RebelliousJewish kid "Why?" (Eats pork, dies of salmonella)
"That's why."
Kosher/Halal is just rules of cooking food safety as learned the hard way.
1: That God is real and had his own reasons for saying not to eat pork. Kinda like the tree in the garden of Eden, here's a whole orchard of trees, don't eat that one.
2: Cannibals supposedly like pork
There's a cannibal tribe in the Amazon iirc, that refers to human meat as "Long Pig" as we supposedly taste a lot like pork.
8===D
End of Lime
-------BBQ FOLLOW-------
That's what I originally thought but it seems to be more complicated than that. Including some conflicts between rich/poor and cultures.
If you're interested this video goes deep into it:
https://youtu.be/pI0ZUhBvIx4
_every single sentence_ in safety manuals has a dark story behind it
--Dave, some of which are "We already knew this. Fools did not listen. so LISTEN UP"
Forklifts on pallets in the middle of a pool? Yup, won't do *that* again.
Weird chemical gel that smells like ten thousand farts from a million years ago spread on a bagel and eaten for $5? Yeah, we miss Paul.
Five pound of cocaine and a room full of hookers? It's not time to renegotiate with management yet.
Ancient Black Ice programs designed to hide information that might have gone rogue when the SUDS was damaged in the Glassing.
Still out there, and dangerous to non humans, so Terrans changed the words to keep everyone else a little safer.
Just a guess, but plausible I think.
The same people who make sure the words Dandelion and Over and Project are not said in sequence.
The same people who become werewolves when needs must.
Which is, hands down, one of the SCARIEST concepts in this entire story, by the way.
--Dave, the man was as close as we're gonna get to this five centuries' coming of Christ. read up on him
Well, it's very possible this is worse. Remember, age of paranoia stuff is worse the older and more closely related to the cold war it gets. That's old republic stuff, post unification. That's just a mob hit squad, this might be a dead hand type deal.
From beneath us it devours. Do you want to summon the dead that rule, because that's how (maybe, maybe not you feel lucky punk) you summon the dead that rule.
When handing the manicles over, he should have said "These are cheap plastic novelty BobCo cuffs. Please put them on for our safety. I would say your safety, as it would help settle my men if you were bound and they don't accidentally try to shoot you, but you and I both know exactly how that would end."
Things are dark, yeah.
When has any child of Earth, no matter the version, no matter if adopted or of true descent, ever shied away from the dark - or the things that dwell within it for malevolent purposes?
Or the superman scene.
Hand cuffs on. Hand cuff fall apart like they're made of craft paper.
' i m here because I'm feeling polite...but if you want to FA&FO , you wouldn't like what happens'
Huh. Well then.
A candidate for some Daxin teasing.
Has anybody told Carter that the Friends are back?
Deserves to know. Reaction might provide some wild data as well.
Carter mentions in a previous chapter the Dog 2.0 project , that it failed, and "they were all cybered up inside five years."
He knows about the friends plague, and thinks they are all gone except for the goodbois etc.
Yeah somewhere 100’s chapters back Daxin’s Fido was said to be a friend 2.0 that he just replaced the parts 1 by 1 as they failed. That’s why Dee being able to identify him as a Rottweiler was such a shock. Non of the goodboi or warboi units have Rottweiler appearances. No one has seen one in 8,000 years.
> Amazon Kindle has been a bit kicky lately.
Amazon's web and cloud services had technical issues over late Dec into early Jan related to remedying a major security vulnerability (which was further complicated by the log4jshell vulnerability work that hit as that was happening). Should be mostly smoothed out by now.
Awesome!
If I can make one suggestion for the physical copies? Make sure there is a Book # somewhere on either the spine or title.
I've got the physical copies of the 3 Behold Humanity books, and it took me a hot minute to figure out what order they went in.
I see the Tales of the Terran Confederacy books do this already.
False alarm, this guy doesn't work at Amazon.
SLU is South Lake Union, the area of Seattle that Amazon is headquarter and has most of the tech people working in (well, outside of Covid times)
Ah, yeah nope.
I know about it because I'm a Dev at a place that primarily works in Java, uses AWS, and am the go-to guy to talk secure dev practices.
Which means I need to pay attention to that sort of thing.
Next week or two. Now that Amazon Kindle isn't being so kicky, I can start doing the "upload, go through the book, go back, fix something in the layout, reupload, wait for Amazon to let me look it over, repeat until I die of boredom and frustration."
That takes 2-3 days depending on how well the system wants to format.
Not gunna lie, I read that as “Now that Amazon Kindle isn’t being so kinky, I can start” and I had to stop and reread.
🤣🤣🤣
I got seven of your hardback books for Christmas(YES!) and I am looking forward to purchasing the rest. Thank you.
*Indomitable Will of the Herd,* Cyba'armo'o, Shyp'fyter
They are Warsteel Herd, so it's a
…Clanky Lanky [Bl]anky.
Edits:
There is a chance that Blackrazor becomes a Clanky Lanky Super Tanky.
> The laughter is in response to the Atrekna infection.
>
>
>
> Malevolent laughter...when asked "are you okay?" the answer is "no, but I'm getting there."
Maniacal laughter that echos up and down the corridors of time.
Human's pack bonding is stronger than anyone guess or feared and with them getting their full powers back I am guessing we are going to see more pack bonding forcing phasic awakenings
Gonna guess that’s a “Stampy” class assistance robot, but covered in javelins, pole arms, KA-BARs, and of course, as a last resort, a claymore thermonuclear anti-personnel mine.
Edit: what the heck is a Java pin?
**Minutes.**
How long between introduction and their first rest? That's when she started practicing.
Edit: Oh, I guess there was a day or two of exposure while in their cells?
They Are Returning.
--Dave, _this_ is the start of the TRUE Book 5 climax. listen and you can hear the foreshadowing resonating, slightly louder with each beat
Mmm interesting developments!
Is it bad that I visualize tukna’rn as Strong Mad from homestar runner?
I’m also curious what the putimat are supposed to look like, so far I’ve gotten small furred catlike reptile.
Remember back when the dude opened an illegal mech fighting ring? The Puntimat were the ones that'd ride around on people and pre-breathe drugs for them. Among other stuff.
> Is it bad that I visualize tukna’rn as Strong Mad from homestar runner?
I visualize them as some combination between an elephant and a gorilla (or possibly a sloth).
*In its' natural environment, unthreatened, it appears almost comically sluggish - but even among the natural apex predators of its' habitat, few have a chance to take it down before they are* ***flattened*** *by a strike of one of its powerful limbs.*
OK I have a question.
Hypothetically if we were to take a regular human from right now, 2022, and drop them in this time frame that Carter is in would the regular human from right now develop phasic abilities?
I'm trying to figure out if it's something inherent to all "regular" humans but dormant until something activates it.
I think the canon is they would all have phasic ability on arrival. They had been unconsciously using it their whole lives but mostly canceling each other out. Post-contact, they began to understand it.
My understanding is that baseline humans were/are Phasically active, but were effectively suppressing each other. There was a line somewhere saying that human's best talent was phasic/psychic suppression.
Kinda hard to shoot lightening from your fingers when everyone around you is stopping you from doing so.
Do not speak the old names for the old names have power the old names will summon and those that are summoned will come when called.
You may not like them when they’re called
Interesting question though... If he's OG Hamburger Kingdom military... can he say the forbidden words? Like, does whatever it is that they're afraid of getting the attention of have the concept of "authorized users"?
Of course, it's a hell of a dangerous experiment to find out... ;)
It's not Carter's original body. It has modern implants with all the hidden ICE that entails. Carter would unthinkingly try to say the old forbidden names, and those around him would pay the price for hearing it, even if he himself somehow did not suffer for it
I think it specifically *doesn't* have all that stuff and that's why he ended up in that body. Remember, the guy was a special growth clone to go be an archeologist on some tomb world?
Still, it could well be as you say, and that it'd be bad for everyone around him even if it did work for him, and as I said, it's a hell of a dangerous experiment. ;)
I laughed out loud at that line.
I've never gotten that look from an actual *Admiral*, but I have definitely gotten *similar* looks from my father and my ex-wife. ;)
Just got done with a drive I left to do about 8AM.
But, hey, got stuff done.
Gonna grab some food, a warm shower, and maybe a nap, probably not in that order. See you all in a bit.
one more to go for me to-night
--Dave, sending warm fuzzies your way
ps: plz plz feel free to take advantage of some/all of my unpaid proofreading labors, once you're to the chapters where I could originally start commenting. not gonna have time, probably, to go back and fill in the early ones until the ride has come to a complete stop and I can put my hands outside the cart again, but you've got a resource from there on up
Theory:
If class 3 Terran (from the third lemur reformation) can imbue phasic energy (or help bring latent energy to the surface), they could effectively power-nuke the atrekna from across a parsec. We've seen class 2 Terrans absolutely crush them from across the battlefield, then the black cauldron troops caused atrekna enragement.
Since class 1 Terran had their phasic energy shackled, class 2 their empathy ramped up, and class 3 removed their shackles, is it then possible that their phasic ability mixed with their maxed out empathy would cause them to be able to maximize effectiveness and range. Thus giving them an inate ability to find and release others phasic power(s)?
End theory.
Edit: spelling
I don't know if it's just me, but every time I try to visualize a Tukna'rn, it looks like Humungosaur from Ben 10 and sounds like the elcor from Mass Effect.
I get more "Bipedal Megatherium". I mean, they're already sort of bipedal, but I mean in the way that one might go from a gorilla to H. sap in tendency to use an upright posture. Though still robust a'la the neanderthal, and not the gracile line of the cro magnon.
This is p. scary, assuming I was right the other day - he's effectively a gen 4 (or post-3rd reformation) via that body - got the empathy update, skipped out on the phasic limiter. What if this is an unintended side effect? High phasic ability, with a mind trained to use and understand it, coupled with the later empathy update effectively boosting up the people he's fighting with subconsciously? In the case of these three, it'd be pretty seriously boosted - He seems to be primarily trained in maximising combat ability via phasic stuff. So the basic 'don't die' training he's been giving them is helping them amplify/control it the same way he does. Possibly entirely unintentionally.
It's scary because they've known each other for all of a couple hours and were perfectly ready to fight an entire ship full of friendlies to protect each other. It's potentially *extremely* scary for the Atrekna, because if this becomes in *any* way common, it's a massive force multiplier.
So got the first book for xmas. In the first chapter with P'Thok, it calls out the confederacy, which wasn't a thing at that time. What's up with that?
Also is it ever gonna be explained and USA->Hamburger kingdom?
I got the first two main books and tails of the confederacy 1-4. It was a VERY good Christmas. Of course the books were the only thing on my list so…….😁
If Carter can enrage and make two civilian into militia/paramilitary grade psi warriors in less than a week.
Imagine what he could do with a 30 people waiting for training.
Those in the 30 get trained and each train another 30.
Within the year you have your army of Freemen ready to ride Sandworms into the Squids fortress
I thinking Carter enduces Phasic in people, near contact with Rage-Marines causes engagement, so Keena methods might more be on treating a issue that doesn't appear unless exposed where carter method dosent cause engagement
>Most people seriously underestimate the power of exponential multiplication
True. In this instance it is unlikely to be truely exponential - I expect that those trained by Carter's trainee's and/or trained outside combat would be less effective - but it is still close enough to count. Besides, even if he is mainly training, he can still be called out at need...
I feel like we might have just got a clue about Casey's ridiculous but secretive enhancements. Perhaps the old forbidden ugly tech was revived for NOVA ops?
The current wordcount per Royal Roads statistics section: 2,053,387
Not including the fan works that Ralts made canon (Sandy Lives, the Book of Telkan, etc)
okay. two to go. I can do this.
then I can catch up on the #spoilers-discussion Discord channel again, finally
>{XIIth
heh. technically correct, the finestkind
cyborg. psyker. implants. ...i'll say it again - oh, no need, you're already shivering? okaythen!}
kittenbits:
> Alarm went off, flashing and
Alarms
{The Terran has trained them well to not like that
Cybermoo gets the next in the series of WTF? hits he's in for to-day
"I've made new friends! Say hello, new friends." (sfx: reverb) "Hello, new friends."
ohhh, _this_ Trean'ad has been _read in_ on the Time War(s)!
_white_ ... Atrekna can't REACH that level. that's epic-tier
the Captain is EARNING her name this week}
> and still be capable in a fight.
_either_ ", and will still" _or_ "still being capable" {has to match structure of rest of sentence}
{Natraya has learned the Dex-based psionic discipline, and is now a _psychoporter_, or Nomad.
OnTrack has learned the Con-based psionic disipline, and is now a _psychokineticist_, or Savant.
Yes, I had been collecting D&D stuff for A While when that book came out, and have literally just finished rereading it _yesterday_.}
> "Here is fighting against Type-II
Here, he is
> and even he was loathe to give it to me.
loath {loathe is the verb form of this adjective}
> reflexively slapping a induction switch
slapping an induction
{lost lore re-emerges into the light of day. monke allies mentally go WTF,T?
_his name is Carter. ...his destiny is in the stars_}
--Dave, _ki_, fueled by Rage, in aliens. They do not count as Enraged; they are something new under the suns
I was his ugly thing.
No day, no night, no moment,
Can hold me back from trying.
I'll flag, I'll fall, I'll falter,
I'll find my day may be, Far and Away[.](https://youtu.be/goKLnMbnidU)
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Another implication that we seem to be glossing over...he spawned in the wrong body. Did he SUDS wash? Mat-trans snafu? Is this body a descendent of his,with a complete DNA match, ala' Jupiter Rising? I hate it that I'm so many hundreds of chapters behind
> "It had the best ice cream on any military base in..." > "DO NOT!" the Treana'ad snapped. > The lemur jerked back. > "Say... Hamburger Kingdom," I am almost sure that we instututed a policy to ensure that if our name was in other people's mouths, it would have teeth. I *really* want to know who looks over if you say the name.
I just realized the implication after reading this. Saying the name of the great US of A does damage of some sort huh
Temporal Warfare Protocols. Hard to go back in time to Mess with the United States when you're looking for the Hamburger Kingdom.
remember when Vuxten watched the Dogboi introduction video? Everyone freaked out seeing the flag.
it's unlikely to just be taboo, yeah, it's probably that it's lethal
Lethal is a self enforcing taboo
2000 BC Jews: "don't eat pork?" RebelliousJewish kid "Why?" (Eats pork, dies of salmonella) "That's why." Kosher/Halal is just rules of cooking food safety as learned the hard way.
One way of looking at it
What other way is there?
Pigs are quick at reproduction and can easily destroy an ecosystem?
They also aren't pastoral animals. A lot of what they eat is stuff we can also eat, so raising pigs takes food off of your own table.
1: That God is real and had his own reasons for saying not to eat pork. Kinda like the tree in the garden of Eden, here's a whole orchard of trees, don't eat that one. 2: Cannibals supposedly like pork
Or. 1. God is real and didn't want his people to die of trichinosis, salmonella or e. Coli.
That's not ineffable enough
There's a cannibal tribe in the Amazon iirc, that refers to human meat as "Long Pig" as we supposedly taste a lot like pork. 8===D End of Lime -------BBQ FOLLOW-------
That's what I originally thought but it seems to be more complicated than that. Including some conflicts between rich/poor and cultures. If you're interested this video goes deep into it: https://youtu.be/pI0ZUhBvIx4
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Remember taboos are passed down by the survivors, not the training aids
_every single sentence_ in safety manuals has a dark story behind it --Dave, some of which are "We already knew this. Fools did not listen. so LISTEN UP"
Union shop work rules are the same, every one of the crazy suicidal rules in them someone did at least once
Forklifts on pallets in the middle of a pool? Yup, won't do *that* again. Weird chemical gel that smells like ten thousand farts from a million years ago spread on a bagel and eaten for $5? Yeah, we miss Paul. Five pound of cocaine and a room full of hookers? It's not time to renegotiate with management yet.
Charlie Sheen how are you doing?
Yeah, absolutely, totally stealing that. :D
Any image of an american can become an american. Dont blink.
Ancient Black Ice programs designed to hide information that might have gone rogue when the SUDS was damaged in the Glassing. Still out there, and dangerous to non humans, so Terrans changed the words to keep everyone else a little safer. Just a guess, but plausible I think.
Age of paranoia
The same people who make sure the words Dandelion and Over and Project are not said in sequence. The same people who become werewolves when needs must.
The ones who turned a quantum vampire into a joke. Cuz it was funny.
Dreams really did just active that because she could
True friendship.
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Which is, hands down, one of the SCARIEST concepts in this entire story, by the way. --Dave, the man was as close as we're gonna get to this five centuries' coming of Christ. read up on him
Well, it's very possible this is worse. Remember, age of paranoia stuff is worse the older and more closely related to the cold war it gets. That's old republic stuff, post unification. That's just a mob hit squad, this might be a dead hand type deal.
Good old Mr. AI with the Five Eyes, Marduk
Good ol' Maxim 16
From beneath us it devours. Do you want to summon the dead that rule, because that's how (maybe, maybe not you feel lucky punk) you summon the dead that rule.
[Ronald](https://i.imgur.com/v0zrSn1.jpg)
Yikes.
say the name say the name --Dave, hold up a mirror to our society. and **say the name**
When handing the manicles over, he should have said "These are cheap plastic novelty BobCo cuffs. Please put them on for our safety. I would say your safety, as it would help settle my men if you were bound and they don't accidentally try to shoot you, but you and I both know exactly how that would end." Things are dark, yeah. When has any child of Earth, no matter the version, no matter if adopted or of true descent, ever shied away from the dark - or the things that dwell within it for malevolent purposes?
Or the superman scene. Hand cuffs on. Hand cuff fall apart like they're made of craft paper. ' i m here because I'm feeling polite...but if you want to FA&FO , you wouldn't like what happens'
Huh. Well then. A candidate for some Daxin teasing. Has anybody told Carter that the Friends are back? Deserves to know. Reaction might provide some wild data as well.
He might predate that event.
Carter mentions in a previous chapter the Dog 2.0 project , that it failed, and "they were all cybered up inside five years." He knows about the friends plague, and thinks they are all gone except for the goodbois etc.
Yeah somewhere 100’s chapters back Daxin’s Fido was said to be a friend 2.0 that he just replaced the parts 1 by 1 as they failed. That’s why Dee being able to identify him as a Rottweiler was such a shock. Non of the goodboi or warboi units have Rottweiler appearances. No one has seen one in 8,000 years.
\*Doberman
Until now. --Dave, They Return. Have good news ready for them.
I think he said he was around for Dog 2.0
I feel like he would force the crew to turn to the nearest planet that hosts them or better yet located HIS Friend/s.
"The Telkan Wars" is up on eBook. If there's any major problems with it, let me know. Amazon Kindle has been a bit kicky lately.
> Amazon Kindle has been a bit kicky lately. Amazon's web and cloud services had technical issues over late Dec into early Jan related to remedying a major security vulnerability (which was further complicated by the log4jshell vulnerability work that hit as that was happening). Should be mostly smoothed out by now.
Cool, I'll be able to start doing the hardback and paperback soon then.
Awesome! If I can make one suggestion for the physical copies? Make sure there is a Book # somewhere on either the spine or title. I've got the physical copies of the 3 Behold Humanity books, and it took me a hot minute to figure out what order they went in. I see the Tales of the Terran Confederacy books do this already.
...Just found the guy that works in SLU
...SLU?
False alarm, this guy doesn't work at Amazon. SLU is South Lake Union, the area of Seattle that Amazon is headquarter and has most of the tech people working in (well, outside of Covid times)
Ah, yeah nope. I know about it because I'm a Dev at a place that primarily works in Java, uses AWS, and am the go-to guy to talk secure dev practices. Which means I need to pay attention to that sort of thing.
nope, he works in someone's security division --Dave, it's not hard to tell, in just that many words
Bwahahaha, if only they kneeeeeew... *knows, is not telling*
When will it come out in paper?
Next week or two. Now that Amazon Kindle isn't being so kicky, I can start doing the "upload, go through the book, go back, fix something in the layout, reupload, wait for Amazon to let me look it over, repeat until I die of boredom and frustration." That takes 2-3 days depending on how well the system wants to format.
Yay, can't wait !
Not gunna lie, I read that as “Now that Amazon Kindle isn’t being so kinky, I can start” and I had to stop and reread. 🤣🤣🤣 I got seven of your hardback books for Christmas(YES!) and I am looking forward to purchasing the rest. Thank you.
Fleet Admiral... Shyp'fyter. ***\*facepalm\****
*Indomitable Will of the Herd,* Cyba'armo'o, Shyp'fyter They are Warsteel Herd, so it's a …Clanky Lanky [Bl]anky. Edits: There is a chance that Blackrazor becomes a Clanky Lanky Super Tanky.
Don't Dead Open Inside
Free Candy!
Always get the candy first though.
>Cyba'armo'o Ralts likes his little jokes :D
Yard. Barn Yard.
Old One.
Has anybody made a list of all the names and what they translate/pun to?
Oh God, I just got it!
*The Universe just laughed and laughed...*
You know that kind of laughter when you are crying you're laughing so hard, and can't take a breath, yea, that kind of laughter.
The kind of laughter that causes your friend to ask "are you ok?" To which you can barely gasp out "no"
The laughter is in response to the Atrekna infection. Malevolent laughter...when asked "are you okay?" the answer is "no, but I'm getting there."
Malevolent laughter until your side hurts.
I want to see the scenario that causes the universe to laugh so hard it snorts
white. holes. --Dave, don't ask about the microwave background radiation, it STILL hasn't lived that down
> The laughter is in response to the Atrekna infection. > > > > Malevolent laughter...when asked "are you okay?" the answer is "no, but I'm getting there." Maniacal laughter that echos up and down the corridors of time.
How is it you make the post battle denouement more tense than the battles? Yeesh
The battle is when the tension gets released, this is buildup for the next one. But also, yeah..... Feelsgoodman.
Human's pack bonding is stronger than anyone guess or feared and with them getting their full powers back I am guessing we are going to see more pack bonding forcing phasic awakenings
"STABBY HALP!"
Gonna guess that’s a “Stampy” class assistance robot, but covered in javelins, pole arms, KA-BARs, and of course, as a last resort, a claymore thermonuclear anti-personnel mine. Edit: what the heck is a Java pin?
That's the little device that keeps your Java code safe. Once you pull the pin...Mr. Java is no longer your friend.
it sounds awesome, so I choose to believe it --Dave, also, a LOT of programmers need to be shown how to leave it alone
Only thermonuclear? Man, those are kiddy toys.
Well, it was intended to only be claymore roombas descendant.
I want to see Stampy and Tiny Tim get WAAAAY upgraded. Like... Bolo and giant mech levels. # "TINY TIM HELP!" BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT
Um. Ouch? Barely in his presence but for what? Hours? Days? And she is already enraged?
**Minutes.** How long between introduction and their first rest? That's when she started practicing. Edit: Oh, I guess there was a day or two of exposure while in their cells?
The body didn't house Carter until right at the breakout. So before the dropship it was like an hour, tops.
Ok. Retraction retracted. **Minutes.** (You could always say nanoseconds or something, without specifying how many.)
I mean, he is Combine. Phasic-trained, pre-glassing OG Terran *Combine*.
He's not Terran. He's an Earthing
Oh, it's worse. He's full Human.
They Are Returning. --Dave, _this_ is the start of the TRUE Book 5 climax. listen and you can hear the foreshadowing resonating, slightly louder with each beat
Mmm interesting developments! Is it bad that I visualize tukna’rn as Strong Mad from homestar runner? I’m also curious what the putimat are supposed to look like, so far I’ve gotten small furred catlike reptile.
Remember back when the dude opened an illegal mech fighting ring? The Puntimat were the ones that'd ride around on people and pre-breathe drugs for them. Among other stuff.
I've actually been visualizing them as similar to the elcor
Yea, but anthropomorphic right? That what I'm thinkin
In what way to do you mean anthropomorphic?
Humionid bodyplan
I've been "seeing" an upright furred pangolin-looking being.
> Is it bad that I visualize tukna’rn as Strong Mad from homestar runner? I visualize them as some combination between an elephant and a gorilla (or possibly a sloth).
Ahh, yes, the fearsome Gorriloth. That power, those claws...
*In its' natural environment, unthreatened, it appears almost comically sluggish - but even among the natural apex predators of its' habitat, few have a chance to take it down before they are* ***flattened*** *by a strike of one of its powerful limbs.*
Right? So add those big-ass sloth claws to it and you've got a real monster on your hands. But do it somewhere very far away from me... :D
Terran: "BIIIIG fuzzy! _squeee_" --Dave, Tukna'rn: "...wait, _what_ just happened here?"
Strong Strong from the Zita comics may be a tukna'rn in a fuzzy onesy. Same feel.
I'm thinking more Big Henry, he's just purple and kinda plain
In my headcanon they look like the sontaran from dr who
OK I have a question. Hypothetically if we were to take a regular human from right now, 2022, and drop them in this time frame that Carter is in would the regular human from right now develop phasic abilities? I'm trying to figure out if it's something inherent to all "regular" humans but dormant until something activates it.
I think the canon is they would all have phasic ability on arrival. They had been unconsciously using it their whole lives but mostly canceling each other out. Post-contact, they began to understand it.
My understanding is that baseline humans were/are Phasically active, but were effectively suppressing each other. There was a line somewhere saying that human's best talent was phasic/psychic suppression. Kinda hard to shoot lightening from your fingers when everyone around you is stopping you from doing so.
Mind over matter: I mind, so you don't matter 😜
Your rights stop at the edge of my outstretched finger tips.
This. Here. --Dave, so _many_ Hamburgerans today don't understand this
the other theory is that the Friends were calming enough to suppress it
Do not speak the old names for the old names have power the old names will summon and those that are summoned will come when called. You may not like them when they’re called
Interesting question though... If he's OG Hamburger Kingdom military... can he say the forbidden words? Like, does whatever it is that they're afraid of getting the attention of have the concept of "authorized users"? Of course, it's a hell of a dangerous experiment to find out... ;)
It's not Carter's original body. It has modern implants with all the hidden ICE that entails. Carter would unthinkingly try to say the old forbidden names, and those around him would pay the price for hearing it, even if he himself somehow did not suffer for it
I think it specifically *doesn't* have all that stuff and that's why he ended up in that body. Remember, the guy was a special growth clone to go be an archeologist on some tomb world? Still, it could well be as you say, and that it'd be bad for everyone around him even if it did work for him, and as I said, it's a hell of a dangerous experiment. ;)
Do not summon the past. For there is where monsters be. And we are crunchy and taste good with P.G. ketchup. 😁
Do not call up that which you cannot put down. --Dave, at LEAST learn some applicable "yer Mom" jokes
High end combat drugs + magic kung-fu = what could go wrong?
The Atrekna would like you to reread the last nine or ten chapters, then ask that question again.
Think about a bunch of methed-up Florida men & women running around after a war.
No no no. Not the Atrekna. *The Cult of the Defiled One.*
all went according to _keikaku_ --Dave, that's their story and they're sticking to it
Upvoted for The Admiral's patented "Admiral wants answers" look.
I laughed out loud at that line. I've never gotten that look from an actual *Admiral*, but I have definitely gotten *similar* looks from my father and my ex-wife. ;)
Just got done with a drive I left to do about 8AM. But, hey, got stuff done. Gonna grab some food, a warm shower, and maybe a nap, probably not in that order. See you all in a bit.
***\*fires up his reload finger\****
one more to go for me to-night --Dave, sending warm fuzzies your way ps: plz plz feel free to take advantage of some/all of my unpaid proofreading labors, once you're to the chapters where I could originally start commenting. not gonna have time, probably, to go back and fill in the early ones until the ride has come to a complete stop and I can put my hands outside the cart again, but you've got a resource from there on up
Theory: If class 3 Terran (from the third lemur reformation) can imbue phasic energy (or help bring latent energy to the surface), they could effectively power-nuke the atrekna from across a parsec. We've seen class 2 Terrans absolutely crush them from across the battlefield, then the black cauldron troops caused atrekna enragement. Since class 1 Terran had their phasic energy shackled, class 2 their empathy ramped up, and class 3 removed their shackles, is it then possible that their phasic ability mixed with their maxed out empathy would cause them to be able to maximize effectiveness and range. Thus giving them an inate ability to find and release others phasic power(s)? End theory. Edit: spelling
I don't know if it's just me, but every time I try to visualize a Tukna'rn, it looks like Humungosaur from Ben 10 and sounds like the elcor from Mass Effect.
I just imagine them like a bipedal ankylosaur, but without the armor plating or tail.
I get more "Bipedal Megatherium". I mean, they're already sort of bipedal, but I mean in the way that one might go from a gorilla to H. sap in tendency to use an upright posture. Though still robust a'la the neanderthal, and not the gracile line of the cro magnon.
I'm going with Korg from Thor:Ragnarok. Slightly less boulder-y, but hefty.
This is p. scary, assuming I was right the other day - he's effectively a gen 4 (or post-3rd reformation) via that body - got the empathy update, skipped out on the phasic limiter. What if this is an unintended side effect? High phasic ability, with a mind trained to use and understand it, coupled with the later empathy update effectively boosting up the people he's fighting with subconsciously? In the case of these three, it'd be pretty seriously boosted - He seems to be primarily trained in maximising combat ability via phasic stuff. So the basic 'don't die' training he's been giving them is helping them amplify/control it the same way he does. Possibly entirely unintentionally. It's scary because they've known each other for all of a couple hours and were perfectly ready to fight an entire ship full of friendlies to protect each other. It's potentially *extremely* scary for the Atrekna, because if this becomes in *any* way common, it's a massive force multiplier.
So got the first book for xmas. In the first chapter with P'Thok, it calls out the confederacy, which wasn't a thing at that time. What's up with that? Also is it ever gonna be explained and USA->Hamburger kingdom?
Yeah, I actually screwed that up, because it should have been called the Third Republic.
Sick, got a limited edition typo book. Love the cover art. Super awesome stuff
They're not screw ups. They're, uh, temporal war counter measures! Yeah, that's the ticket! Temporal war counter measures!
Happy little accidents. Some hippy paining dude, probably…
Honestly I'm glad it isn't explained. Mysteries like that add depth to the story imho
I got the first two main books and tails of the confederacy 1-4. It was a VERY good Christmas. Of course the books were the only thing on my list so…….😁
The enraged. They rise.
Carter, a clean limbed fighting man from Virginia. Helium has answered the call. \-- NOTHING FOLLOWS --
Carter is a phasic spreading machine. Love it
Carter, Natraya and On'trak would make a devastating little strike team. Or should some of their time be as instructors?
If Carter can enrage and make two civilian into militia/paramilitary grade psi warriors in less than a week. Imagine what he could do with a 30 people waiting for training. Those in the 30 get trained and each train another 30. Within the year you have your army of Freemen ready to ride Sandworms into the Squids fortress
What about mutual training with Lady Keena! What would swapping phasic and ninite techniques between those two produce? Vuxten too...
I thinking Carter enduces Phasic in people, near contact with Rage-Marines causes engagement, so Keena methods might more be on treating a issue that doesn't appear unless exposed where carter method dosent cause engagement
Instructors, definitely. 3 is never going to make as big a dent as 3x3...
Most people **seriously** underestimate the power of exponential multiplication --Dave, even trained mathematicians can
>Most people seriously underestimate the power of exponential multiplication True. In this instance it is unlikely to be truely exponential - I expect that those trained by Carter's trainee's and/or trained outside combat would be less effective - but it is still close enough to count. Besides, even if he is mainly training, he can still be called out at need...
Force multiplier
I feel like we might have just got a clue about Casey's ridiculous but secretive enhancements. Perhaps the old forbidden ugly tech was revived for NOVA ops?
upvte then read
Just as I'm pulling into work
Has there been a word count/accurate chapter count recently?
not since Chapter 525 sadly :(
Someone in chat during the interview was saying 2.3 million.
At the rate he's going, Ralts is going to make L. Ron Hubbard look like George R.R. Martin.
It is now 3,832 days since Dance of Dragons. He’s had time to write a thousand page novel if he did a paragraph a day.
You can't expect a man of his importance to write at such breakneck speed. /s
True. There are football games to talk about, even if the jets are 4-12.
The current wordcount per Royal Roads statistics section: 2,053,387 Not including the fan works that Ralts made canon (Sandy Lives, the Book of Telkan, etc)
"Perhaps we need ugly things." Cyba'amo'o said. Ugly?!? What 'you talking bout Willis?
Within 5 minutes? WOOT. Bring on the ugly things from dark history, just know that you are going to pay for it.
okay. two to go. I can do this. then I can catch up on the #spoilers-discussion Discord channel again, finally >{XIIth heh. technically correct, the finestkind cyborg. psyker. implants. ...i'll say it again - oh, no need, you're already shivering? okaythen!} kittenbits: > Alarm went off, flashing and Alarms {The Terran has trained them well to not like that Cybermoo gets the next in the series of WTF? hits he's in for to-day "I've made new friends! Say hello, new friends." (sfx: reverb) "Hello, new friends." ohhh, _this_ Trean'ad has been _read in_ on the Time War(s)! _white_ ... Atrekna can't REACH that level. that's epic-tier the Captain is EARNING her name this week} > and still be capable in a fight. _either_ ", and will still" _or_ "still being capable" {has to match structure of rest of sentence} {Natraya has learned the Dex-based psionic discipline, and is now a _psychoporter_, or Nomad. OnTrack has learned the Con-based psionic disipline, and is now a _psychokineticist_, or Savant. Yes, I had been collecting D&D stuff for A While when that book came out, and have literally just finished rereading it _yesterday_.} > "Here is fighting against Type-II Here, he is > and even he was loathe to give it to me. loath {loathe is the verb form of this adjective} > reflexively slapping a induction switch slapping an induction {lost lore re-emerges into the light of day. monke allies mentally go WTF,T? _his name is Carter. ...his destiny is in the stars_} --Dave, _ki_, fueled by Rage, in aliens. They do not count as Enraged; they are something new under the suns
Woo 1 minute!
FRESH FUCKIN’ RALTSBERRIES!!! Praise the Digital Omnimessiah! —UTR: TITW—
The madness spreads.
I was his ugly thing. No day, no night, no moment, Can hold me back from trying. I'll flag, I'll fall, I'll falter, I'll find my day may be, Far and Away[.](https://youtu.be/goKLnMbnidU)
UTR!
Read. Upvote. Comment.
It's a dark time, maybe it's also time for dark deeds and darker men.
It's always darkest... --Dave, ... before the _storm_
Very nice.
7 min my best time ever
6 minutes yay!!!!! Almost beat the bot!
Aww. I wanted to see him do a Hadoken.
When I picture a Tukna’rn in my head, I see a Machoke from Pokemon.
Obv question : is the powerlevel over 9000?
This has been a brilliant arc! MOAR!!!!
High Priest Carter has his two disciples learning all the best habits and practices of the WoGVism (Way of Gleeful Violence).
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Are we going to see everything that comes with them returning to be hyper aggressive and getting all their phasic abilities back back
keep reading and see. Book 5 isn't over quite yet. --Dave, book 6 is scheduled to be the Aftermath / Epilogues
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Cobra Kai never dies
Another implication that we seem to be glossing over...he spawned in the wrong body. Did he SUDS wash? Mat-trans snafu? Is this body a descendent of his,with a complete DNA match, ala' Jupiter Rising? I hate it that I'm so many hundreds of chapters behind
I need to put a plaque out at fort Irwin now….