... which means the list of what's in it is complete. It awaits the New Content (as you know, Mini-Omnis come with a bonus story that hasn't been on the Forum before), but most of the grunt work (and there is a good bit of it) is finished.

What's in it:

1. Excerpt from Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies (And Save the Entire Planet)
2. The Honor of Mars
3. Travellers on the Shadowed Road
4. Our Man Bacon
5. The Final Simulation
6. Prescott's Bluff
7. Second Chances are Illogical
8. Duet for Robots in E
9. The Art of Noise
10. A Walk in the Woods
11. Hello, Neighbors!
12. Like Civilized Men
13. Matalde the Red
14. The Sandero Affair
15. Before Victory Comes Honor
16. Reindeer Games
17. Mister Midshipman Tenjou: For the Good of the Service

--G.
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>What's in it:
>
>17. Mister Midshipman Tenjou: For the Good of the Service
>
Ooo... I take it this is our bonus feature?

Looks like it. And unless Anthy has decided to attend a military academy, I suspect this will be a New Frontier story.

Something to look forward to.

“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington

>Looks like it. And unless Anthy has decided to attend a military
>academy, I suspect this will be a New Frontier story.

Or their offspring......

I wonder if biotech is advanced enough in UF to allow two women to dispense with males entirely for their reproductive needs. Not cloning, but a more traditional 50-50 split of the heredity. Maybe fusing eggs in a lab, maybe a total designer genome. Hmmm. Interesting to think about.

>I wonder if biotech is advanced enough in UF to allow two women to
>dispense with males entirely for their reproductive needs. Not
>cloning, but a more traditional 50-50 split of the heredity. Maybe
>fusing eggs in a lab, maybe a total designer genome. Hmmm.
>Interesting to think about.

Go back and read Interlude on Titan in F (For Tomorrow) - it's explicitly discussed (and dismissed for the given situation) there.

Offsides

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

>I wonder if biotech is advanced enough in UF to allow two women to
>dispense with males entirely for their reproductive needs. Not
>cloning, but a more traditional 50-50 split of the heredity. Maybe
>fusing eggs in a lab, maybe a total designer genome. Hmmm.
>Interesting to think about.

Overtechnology has come up with a retrovirus that can pretty much immunize someone
against death, Mann Systems tanks can make ICZERs. The WDF made intelligent dinosaurs in its spare time. I think the tech of the day is quite able to handle a little gene-splicing.

--rR

>The WDF made intelligent dinosaurs in its spare time.

Always remember the motto of the WDF's Life Sciences Division:

You should because you can.

--G.
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Which is perilously close to that of Aperture Science.

>Which is perilously close to that of Aperture Science.

Trademark infringers! We were there first!

--G.
do not look directly at the operational end of the device
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>do not look directly at the operational end of the device

Which is related to the WDF Weapons and Optics Research Division motto:

"Do not look into laser emitter with remaining eye."

--
Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

Since I used to work at Ocean Optics, I recall an incident when the Tampa facility was attempting to retrofit a sample chamber (we do elemental analysis as well as spectrum, but that's a different use despite using spectrum units with our elemental analysis chamber.)

Apparently one of the developers there disregarded laser safety and got zipped in one by the Class II laser we use while making manual live adjustments. He's fine, BTW, but that's one for the company books--that quote is so apropos, Geoff.

"It's your own fault, Knight. Didn't anyone ever tell you to make sure your optics are clean?"

--G.
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>Since I used to work at Ocean Optics, I recall an incident when the
>Tampa facility was attempting to retrofit a sample chamber (we do
>elemental analysis as well as spectrum, but that's a different use
>despite using spectrum units with our elemental analysis chamber.)
>
>Apparently one of the developers there disregarded laser safety and
>got zipped in one by the Class II laser we use while making manual
>live adjustments. He's fine, BTW, but that's one for the company
>books--that quote is so apropos, Geoff.

Many years ago, when I hung out at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, they sold t-shirts with that on it, as an industrial warning logo, as a fundraiser for the Lasers, Optics, Holography and Other Mean Uses Of Light Club.

--
Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

The last time I had a retinal hole blocked off from the rest of the works, the doc produced the New! More Exciting! Super-Laser! to fix it...

...and didn't tell me that's what he was up to until he was done, in one-thirtieth of the time that operation generally takes, and I was sitting there feeling like I'd gone a few rounds with Hal Jordan.

Abuse. It's how you know the #1 retinal specialist at the #5 eye hospital in the country loves you.

Ard Collier
that Janice chick
Usual Suspect and general menace

>Which is perilously close to that of Aperture Science.

They may have Glados, but we have Neo-Tigers :)

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

>They may have Glados, but we have Neo-Tigers :)

And Neo-Raptors, Neo-Lions, Godzilla...

>
>They may have Glados...
>

EVE could beat up GLADOS with half her processing power disconnected.

VISION could beat up GLADOS while running on a Commodore 64.

Peter Eng
--
Dalek and the two Snowths:
EXTERMINATE!
doot doo de doo doot.
EXTERMINATE!
doot doo deet doot.
EXTERMINATE!
doot doo de doo doot, de doo doot, de do-do do de doot doot doo doot doot.

>--
>Dalek and the two Snowths:
>EXTERMINATE!
>doot doo de doo doot.
>EXTERMINATE!
>doot doo deet doot.
>EXTERMINATE!
>doot doo de doo doot, de doo doot, de do-do do de doot doot doo doot
>doot.

EX-TERM-IN-AR-TY-AR-TY-CLEANSE THE WORLDS! WE CLEANSE THE WORLDS! WE CLEANSE THE WORLDS...
EXTERMINATE!

--rR

Umm, the Detian Virus isn't exactly native to the UF universe.

(or maybe just not to the time that we see..., I'm a little confused as to the origin of Edison).

>Umm, the Detian Virus isn't exactly native to the UF universe.
>
>(or maybe just not to the time that we see..., I'm a little confused
>as to the origin of Edison).

He's from the year 413,000,000 or thereabouts, but in his timeline, Earth's original civilization ended in fire in about 1988, and Ω-II was developed a year or two afterward. (Yes; afterward.)

--G.
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One of these days, I have got to find time to read the story that came from.

“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington

>One of these days, I have got to find time to read the story that came
>from.
>
I dont think it exists... I think he came from a rpg G used to play and G cribbed him for this task (ie Omega2'ing the original Rats)

>I dont think it exists... I think he came from a rpg G used to play
>and G cribbed him for this task (ie Omega2'ing the original Rats)

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>>Looks like it. And unless Anthy has decided to attend a military
>>academy, I suspect this will be a New Frontier story.
>
>Or their offspring......

As much as I am very much looking forward to seeing Anthy's daughter, I rather think it won't be for a while yet. Either way, though, I wait with bated breath.

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard

>17. Mister Midshipman Tenjou: For the Good of the Service

*swoon!*

t.

who hopes you didn't look to David Weber's take on CS Forrester as inspiration.

Trigger Argee
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Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - HST

>who hopes you didn't look to David Weber's take on CS Forrester as
>inspiration.

While I have felt no particular need to investigate spacegoing derivatives of Forester, I confess I have perused a number of those who followed him in fictionalizing the same basic period - O'Brian, Dudley Pope, and Alexander Kent, mainly. (I did read An Eye of the Fleet, the first volume in Richard Woodman's Nathaniel Drinkwater series, but I didn't find it engaging and won't be continuing with that series. The brutality of life at sea in the Revolutionary-to-Napoleonic period is something that's inescapable in any such series, and rightly so too, but Woodman seems to have an unnerving fascination with it at times, dwelling on the unsavories like Hannibal Lecter talking about livers. I find it offputting.)

Mind you, this was not so much in the way of research as just because I happen to like that sort of novel.

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So where do we pick up these different Omnibus that are now available?

>So where do we pick up these different Omnibus that are now available?

They're linked on the main UF page.

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*Smacks forehead*
Duh..............

(dammit I hate missing the obvious)

>O'Brian, Dudley Pope, and Alexander Kent, mainly.

I will check out pope and kent. They'll make a nice change from a summer of fan fiction, jim butcher, and lackluster romance novels.

t.
who really needs to get a new addiction.

Trigger Argee
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Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - HST

ooh...so...should we start a thread of book referrals? i got dozens..

>ooh...so...should we start a thread of book referrals? i got dozens..

Sounds like a good thing for private-mail. Not really private, not really mail!

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i hear and obey chief!