ShaperV

His SubscribeStar is still active and gave out its monthly reward recently. Most likely he's just still a bit burned out, or is just focused on his next novel. It's not terribly unusual for ShaperV to take a break from the forum for a few months, so just be patient.

No, bad, no praise until he comes out with the next book for either of his series.

Yes, harem stories are a whole genre now. But I can't claim credit for that - the idea started out in the fanfiction community, and became mainstream when Amazon opened up electronic publishing to independent authors.

I had no idea you wrote Fimbulwinter. Just grabbed the entire set, trusting that it'll be good from what I've read of your other works.

On top of that, it's probably also a mixture of there not being enough massively annoying plot holes begging to be filled in, the main character generally having enough agency to avoid rampant desire for an Daniel In Name Only fic, and uncertainty of the world building in the next book without a crazy long wait driving writers nuts to fill it in themselves.

Though I think it'd have fun crossover potential.

Ya my attempt at fanfiction really didn't work.

You're imagining something like star wars, where ships are office block style and mostly hollow with walls dividing them.

Instead imagine a giant chunk of armor and machinery with a small set of tunnels and rooms that represents the crew spaces. The crew spaces are about as densely populated as a condo complex. They just make up an incredibly tiny portion of the ship.

Exactly. Also, everything is even more automated than RL supertankers, which frequently have tens of thousands of tons of ship per crewman these days. People are expensive, so why would you waste money packing your ship with crew when 99% of the work can be done by bots and computers?

Wouldn't that also be an issue for grasers though?

Also wouldn't a PROCSIMA based fast travel lane system be something that could be developed? Ships can be accelerated by stations in Gamma then jump to Delta. This would give an extra boost in velocity for long distance journeys by providing an external source of delta-V.

Well, large laser webs could also be used for propulsion boosting, just the mass and volume of the associated equipment becomes heug at long distances.

The advantage of Cold-Laser Particle Coupling is you don't need a gigantic ravenous death beam tier FEL & optics to maintain spot size at long range.

It also has some obvious military implications, and weaponized PROCSIMA falls into its own subtypes, with their own tradeoffs.

Since doing a detailed analysis on Shaper's profile comments might get me yelled at, here is a link to an excellent writeup on the subject by ToughSF:

https://toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/02/cold-laser-coupled-particle-beams.html?m=1

Also, felt Fernir plush toy for adorableness.

That's neat. Thanks for letting me know.

Like, I haven't reread it recently, I just saw your name in the "users viewing this thread" box, and figured I'd remind you that you're awesome.

I remember only reading it because I'd read an older, now gone from ff.net DBZ fic ShaperV wrote a long time before, and being so glad that the author was as good as I'd remembered. Because I genuinely dropped Naruto fics due to the sheer lack of quality in the fandom.

It's... I'm tempted to say that there's more quality in the Harry Potter fandom, but I might possibly be wrong.

Same. I really miss AWoYO, but that also makes me want to read the next Alice book too. There's just not enough good sci-fi quests here.

I’m a few chapters into my fourth read through Perilous Waif: I try to read it once or twice a year. It’s that good.

Perilous Waif is the second best space opera I have ever read. And the other is a semi-hard space fantasy really.

I haven't decided yet. Running a quest tends to slow down my writing if I'm not careful, so I'll probably want to at least get settled into a good rhythm with the next book first.

I could swear I saw this before, and it said 'important'.

Interesting. I meant (of tremendous import/high contemporary expediency), but apparently the word doesn't actually exist. I might've edited it from "important" for that purpose, you profile-stalker. I doubt the meaning was lost, though I thank you for your input. ;)

'imperative' is the word you're looking for. (Though it's an absolute term, not a relative one, so 'extremely' isn't a valid modifier for it.)

I'd put in my vote for AWoYO as well. I still think about that quest all the time.

But no rush. Finish your book and get back to writing quests when you get in the mood for it.

I preferred Cultivation quest but I did just check out Fimbulwinter so we will see how that goes.

It's the fourth in ShaperV's Daniel Black series. Here's a link to the first book.

https://www.amazon.com/Fimbulwinter-Daniel-Black-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00KZ41LHM

Second chapter of Thrall is up now.

I find myself rereading the previous books. Hyped for the next one.

So it seems Thrall is set to come out December 1st.

Looking forward to that. Though I am surprised we haven't seen the third chapter on the blog yet.

Hopefully Thrall being almost done means he'll update his quests again soon.

Basically a Plus 1 to the above.
We are all getting worried about you

Also, is deploying 3-4 heavy mecha out of 1-2 large airships plausible?

I wasn't responding to you specifically. That's just what the general tone of the discussion sounded like. And questions about a quest should be asked in the thread, so everyone else can see the answer and I don't have to repeat it half a dozen times.

I asked the question before, but I guess I'll do it again.

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Should we expect a chapter this month? Just tired of reloading the page.

No, I think we've just read a lot of the same futurists and SF writers. I've seen Ignition, but I wouldn't say it had any particular influence on my own work.