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Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri, 1980 A crowd had appeared around what appeared to be a Bell X-1 when Senior Commander Lindewe got back to her shuttle. The stealth system had malfunctioned and people were taking pictures. Lindewe knew what to do and what to say. "That's not an X-1", which...

I just came across this: In terms of length the LRS Hailee - a small light cruiser - would be about as long as The Heart of Gold from The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and much more lightly built. A B5 White Star is larger than the largest Llyrian capital ships. Terran capital ships are...

A/N: Explaining Llyrian apparent age and ranks Humans and Llyrians look quite similar but Llyrians have vastly longer lifespans. At some point the rate at which they physically age must slow down. I wasn't going to take the DnD approach which slows both physical and mental ageing which results...

If the Llyrians were dropped into WH40K they'd take one look at the clusterfuck, say this galaxy needs to disappear, and go digging through their archives for the specs of the FTL "oopsie" which accidentally destroyed the galaxy they think they came from.

Senior Lieutenant Kirika looked at the holographic display with dismay. A human warship had parked itself so close to the Hailee that there were only a few inches between the wingtip of her starboard radiator and its rotating gravity section. The Hailee's passive shield bubble was cutting...

I'm not sure what the best direction for the next part is so I thought I'd open it up to the audience. Here goes: Viole has been talked out of attacking Earth but there's still the issue of the heavily armed LRS Hailee within weapons range of Earth's planetary defenses. That will get ugly if...

Humanity is currently in its "foolish teenage phase". Tough enough to think they're invincible. Inexperienced enough to pick a fight with the dragon.

Senior Lieutenant Kirika did not waste any time once she had the human President on the line. "Present Pascale, order your military to stand down. I am not here to fight you. I am here to protect you. The warship headed toward Earth is commanded by one of my cousins. "She is angry. She has the...

A/N: A bit to explain how Lindiwe would recognize a quote from !Airplane. Llyrian warships also don't bother with stealth. Power output is too high and you aren't hiding that much waste heat. Senior Commander Lindiwe had a month of leave. She wanted to spend it someplace quiet and relaxing...

A/N: Bringing this ship back and Llyrian society is matriarchial if you haven't guessed that by now. [BHB2007] 11 ... 700 light-years from Earth The two still-forming newborn stars were unaware of the Llyrian light cruiser on standby visiting them and taking in the spectacle. They could't be...

Low Earth Orbit Captain Riina left his ready room with determination and returned to the TSS Arethusa's CIC. "Sound GENERAL QUARTERS. Helm, get us to minimum safe jump distance yesterday. Sensors and Navigation, figure out where they went and plot a course to follow. Engineering, prepare for an...

The Terran Star Fleet can stop a Llyrian warship*. What they don't have is the ability to force an engagement on their terms. The largest danger here is that humanity is completely incapable of preventing Viole from jumping the Vitor Meg into low-Earth orbit and wrecking the biosphere. As for...

A/N: Fomalhaut is the star system the long-running webcomic Freefall is set in and the first Google search result I got for a star 25 light-years from Earth. Six light-seconds is dangerously close to a planet the size of Earth when opening a jump point. 25 light-years is pushing it in terms of...

Viole, The Baroness of Ilsa, was extremely unhappy - to put it mildly. Today was her 17th birthday and supposed to be her wedding day. Oh no, the universe did not grant her that peaceful happy day. Some human asshole had decided to use a salted nuclear weapon on a planet her fiancé was...

We, as a species, are in the process of losing four molars. It's pretty rare for someone to have all four wisdom teeth and not need braces. Most people have 0-3 and theirs usually do not come in straight.

Does "teetchs" mean "teeth"?* If it does then I'll say this: anyone old enough to post to a webforum has lost roughly 20-24 teeth at a minimum. If that number is 21+ you've lost permanent teeth. * I know English isn't your native language. It's Polish? if I'm guessing correctly.

The only one of his works I've encountered was the very awful '02 film adaptation of Solaris. As for the tech the Llyrians are willing to share: if it's too complicated for a Llyrian toddler, it's too complicated for you.

Add six zeroes to the end and multiply that by a number between 1.1 and 3. The reason for 3: anything much higher means the Llyrians are older than the observable universe.

Low Earth Orbit Captain Anewe of the Chizoban destroyer Constel was annoyed. He was on a diplomatic courtesy call to Earth and The Chizoba Academy of Sciences had just sent him another request for scans of the Llyrian stealth shuttle his ship was hosting. There was also a large Terran warship...

The ship I posted is approximately 4,500 years old. The oldest known writing is about 5,000 years old. The Llyrians have historical records which are literally older than our solar system.