Recent content by Pef

Didn't the YF 23 designs end up in Russia and China, after being rejected by US Airforce?

30%+ and a bunch of refugees, I am fine paying 20$ a gallon. I think we are all paying more than this already, with inflation and food prices going over 30%. Somebody has decided it was a reasonable price to place on everyone on the planet. As for refugees, it depends on the country. Some...

The woman was an idiot. A submarine is not only going under water, it also surfaces. It might even surface in polar regions, where temperatures could go even lower. https://www.manuelsweb.com/temp.htm -100 F is about -73 Celsius...

The Islamic Republic of Iran expressed the country's readiness to provide Mali with military equipment and experiences in the fight against terrorism. ---- No mention of 'Islamic terrorism' in the Islamic Republic of Iran note. However, they are supporting Hezbollah so they may know a thing or...

Then I guess you'd better find Soviet War Crimes as well. Year 1939 saw both Germany and Soviet Union attack Poland from two sides, as allies.

There are 3 extra reasons not mentioned above at all. 1. Border guards in Soviet Union were mostly used to keep the people in. For example, thousands of civilian Romanians gunned down in 1940-41 as they tried to flee to Romania after the annexation of eastern parts. 2. Poland had barely been...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcF7hw5XkAA0Fgf.jpg:large The religious map follows almost exactly the Roman-Dacian border, which in my opinion shows exactly where Christianization happened on the old rites that became Orthodoxy after 1054. The Huns and Saxons became Christians on the...

"I will leave you to catch up with Justine. Just...well. You'll see for yourself." the Inquisitor says and walks out. A minute later my mother enters along with my Astartes. In a second, her eyes dart around the room and then lock to my elbows. I was trained in melee combat too, so I know a...

Decades have passed since I last visited Forge Tigrus, so when I appear in the system I don't get a warm welcome. Hah. Warm welcome...like laser hot. There are a dozen of my cheap corvettes patrolling the system outer edge, and they show signs of repair. Melted holes barely patched and missing...

By the next day, after the fighters return to the cruiser, we hold a conference to decide what to do. It seems the Forge World is dead and deserted, nothing moving or shooting back. This could be the prize of the millennium, should we find anything intact. The risks are proportional, as it...

Simply training and teaching officers is boring. I need to work on more STC designs, and Gyron isn't very inventive. Good head for math and science, of course. But the Mechanicus have stagnated for a reason. When they invent new things, they tend to overcomplicate and go for broke, usually...

The Iconclast remains at Antax for repairs and refit, since the damage is too great for it to travel safely through Warp. Gellar fields need the hull to be intact and impermeable, else demons could insert themselves inside the ship. And the Rainment is definitely not intact. The Lament crusier...

Every year, Decima holds another huge ball, and invites the socialites to preen themselves in front their new Governor. By the fifth year, I am swimming among 50 concubines and even gain a third wife, from a Noble house with roots going to the Age of Strife and beyond. Serena Rinne-Dolean is...

My armor regiment takes a few months to be upgraded to my needs, with hunter-killer missiles and multi-lasers, the tracks and drive train modified for more reliability, auspex sensors for day and night combat and so on. I even manage to obtain ceramite facing for the frontal glacis of my tanks...

Slowly, the emotions calm down as the Fabricator has met me before. Heh, Mechanicus emotions! I leave the Grand Cruisers parked further away and approach Metalica's orbit in the Litany. Then a whole month of tedious negotiations. I mean, I just returned for beyond, and brought a host of STC...