Quote:Oy. Okay, this takes a bit of knowledge of the Undocumented Features universe to really grasp, but I shall try to explain it. Basically, somebody over on the Eyrie boards was on (as usual) about a small point of trivia in one of the UF stories. The point being that the Navy, not the Air Force, was the key American space defense force. So this guy asks "what happened to the USAF?"
Explain, please? I don't get it.
And Gryphon - and if he's anything like me, he's making fiddly detail like this up on the fly - responds "they ran away to join the circus." Less cryptically, after getting snubbed for space defense the USAF packed up all their gear & personnel and joined the Wedge Defense Force en masse.
What does this rambling bullshit have to do with Fenspace and NASA? Well... if Gryph can pull that stunt in his sandbox, I don't see why NASA couldn't run away and join the circus too.
Quote:Avatar ages don't feel right, there. Discovery and Atlantis were built simultaneously, so they ought to be twins (identical, fraternal, whatever) and Endeavour ought to be the younger one.
* I Am My Ride: The Graces all have fairly well developed AI, but they have all taken the names of the orbiters they inhabit. Atlantis and Endeavour use early-twenties blonde and early-thirties brunette female avatars, respectively, and Discovery uses a 19 year old brunette male avatar. All have bright blue eyes.
(I know way too much about these things than is probably healthy for anybody not working for NASA.)---
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