Failed transports generally seem to stem from not having quality data to reconstruct with. Not getting a good enough sensor lock, damage to the buffer corrupting the data, etc.
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Not a Druid, but I ran a Warforged Warden in 4e once, basically a tank with nature magic flavor. It was for a one-shot the DM said to bring our best builds for because he was going to try to kill us. Maybe one-shot isn'tthe right word, ot was literally just a long combat encounter with no real story. I made the Ultimate Tank, on every level. Warforged refused to die in that system, Wardens had great defensive options and a particularly good "Mark" that made disincentivized enemies from hitting your friends. But not just from a gameplay standpoint, 0erfect metagame tank too. DM specifically had a chip on his shoulder about both the race and class. Had an enormous backstory (for a one-shot character) to boot, drawing from the lore about one Epic Class that was trying to create the Ultimate Spell.
So there's a society that is totally elevated by advanced magics in every part of everyday life. One of their newest tricks is making a sentient spell, bound to this network of crystal spires. It was made to help them research this Ultimate Spell, some of the researchers argued it would be the foundation The Spell would be built upon. It helped them hunt for it, but it only passed along some of what it learned. Eventually, it turned on its makers, with its incredible knowledge of magical theory it hijacked much of the magic in their society and used it to wreak havoc, without anyone knowing why it was happening. When it was eventually found out, it Unleashed terrible magic of its own, including new and terrible spells it had developed from its research with no known defense. As it went, it constructed additional spires, and wove a web of crackling energy between them to better surveil its territory and project its power. It very nearly destroyed the entire world, before it started to encounter powerful resistance.
In one of the oldest forests, its magic quickly waned the further it tried to project its magic. And an army of Druids and other Primal warriors and spellcasters rode out to meet it. The forest began to grown unnaturally fast, and spread the dampening effect. At this point, the spell was nearing the culmination of its research, a single all-encompassing spell that could rewrite reality as it saw fit. But it was forced to divert more and more of its attention to the war. As things deteriorated, it decided to use some nigh forgotten techniques and start mass producing Warforged. It helped stem the tide of nature's champions, but they had gathered too much momentum to be stopped.
Desperate, it diverted all attention towards a specific aspect of The Spell, focusing on a single aspect of reality. In the final hours, as the forces occonverged on it's final, massive crystalline framework keeping it "alive," it summoned a single Warforged, and threw it back in time, centuries. It was covered in bark, and instructed to imitate a woodland spirit, infiltrate the Druid circle of the ancient forest, and exterminate them before they became a threat. It made its way to forest, and was welcomed. However, soon after he arrived, several of the wolf animal companions returned to the village, and immediately attacked him. They ripped off some of the bark, exposing his metallic frame. At that moment, the old guardian spirit of the forest was roused to great anger, and blasted him with raw power, the very essence of nature washing over him.
When he regained consciousness, the bindings on his mind had been withered and destroyed by the onslaught, and some nature magic had been permanently imbued into him. He told them of his mission, and warned them of the danger to come. It was then the elders made it their mission to spend the next centuries preparing for the war to come, gathering up forces and setting powerful wards. Centuries later, the only reason they had stood a chance was because of their forwarning. By the time it made warforged, there was nobody left who knew the name of the spell, only forest folk had survived, and it never communicated anything but orders to the warforged. But because of the latticework of energy it knitted across the land from spire to spire, they called it the Sky Net.
Between the class and race, I had a million ways to spend Healing Surges when I was unconscious in combat. Every time I got back up I played this on my phone. Was glorious, and we survived that one-shot.
That is not the origin of the term. It comes from a desperate act of defense intending to leave an attacker you can't beat in open combat with nothing to forage or pillage, forcing them to rely solely on their over growing supply train. Most armies would only ship in supplemental food and supplies while largely living off the land.
Damn, I really don't have an original thought in my head
IIRC, the biggest uncertainty is about the singularity. I don't know if it's still true, but my understanding was that the consensus is that it isn't really a true point of infinitely dense mass. That is how our current models say it must be, but many assumed our current models are incomplete and that more accurate ones will show that it must have some volume. And given the extreme nature of them, any updates to our models might have some significant repercussions in other aspects of them too.
Time is relarive to your frame of reference. You are always the source of your own frame of reference, so you can never feel the effect of time dilation on yourself. At worst, it would look like the universe outside the horizon started to accelerate to unimaginable speeds. But you would never feel trapped in an unending, at worst that is simply what it would look like to us.
So is New York City, lol.
My first thought was to scan it to see if they at least got Boston in the NYC section. Only to realize NYC is not in NYC but is actually in Nomansland.
Um, they very much did make promises to that effect. Neither were in good position to actually help the Poles when push came to shove, hence the Phony War. Brittain did some good with their navy, but neither could get enough troops to where it mattered to help, so they buckled down on ramping up their own war efforts at home to better mobilize. Did they fo it out of cowardice and throw the Poles to the wolves, or out of necessity because they would have been overrun had they over commited? That's a question that has been the subject of much study. But they both very publicly and loudly commit to their defense, they simply failed to meaningfully uphold that commitment.
I mean, the obvious answer is instead of trying to divvy the sovereign nation between them, they should have stood up for them and defended them when the Nazis rolled in. Barring that, they should have liberated them, then left them the fuck alone. Even a stopped clock is right sometimes, this comparison is pretty clearly silly. They weren't lamenting the lives of Nazis lost in the battle to push them out of Poland. They were lamenting the lives of the Poles after falling under the Russian boot, after the battles were won.
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It is definitely possible to create that. The question is, will it ever be profitable, or cheap enough to be user made/controlled? I doubt it. Tech growth isn't just limited by what's possible, but also by what's practical.
Uruk is the Elf name for them. Goblin is a generic word for boogeymen the Hobbits use when they first see them. Uruk properly translates to Orc in Westron, the commonly used language of Men of 3rd age in the books/movies. Uruk-hai are basically high orcs, ie a brand new breed of superior orcs that didn't exist back during the Hobbit. Maybe a small handful of the first ones, but more likely he hadn't started or at least likely hadn't perfected them yet.
You can't count cards when there is a shuffle after every hand. He could theoretically track the shuffle, but that's an entirely different thing.
Think Stargate did something similar with.... the Tokra? I think. I want to say the captain of the Prometheus was an under cover Goauld for a bit, and the only way to keep him alive after removing the symbiote was to have one of the friendly guauld hop in for a while and help repair the damage done. I don't know, it's been a long time.
Pretty sure the trouble that Barney is used for is almost exclusively for getting into a fight. As in, in that very British habit of dry understatement, saying "there was a bit of trouble at the pub," to describe a rowdy barfight.
I misread that as naval play, and then followup with titanic. Was wondering what that weird shit was.
Dietary calcium is great for preventing stones, actually. Calcium is bound to a couple different things that cause stones, but the body actually makes those things specifically to bind with calcium. When it happens where it is supposed to, this is a good thing. If you are low on calcium, these things get flushed, and may get trapped in the kidney. Then any calcium that passes through may bind to it. Having higher calcium intake helps prevent them from building up in the kidneys to begin with. Though extremely high amounts of calcium from vitamin supplements etc can increase the risk of getting stones, but high calcium diet is one of the best defenses against them.
It is actually not an excess of calcium that's usually the problem, calcium deficiency is actually a greater risk for most. While yes, the most common types are both chemicals that are in part calcium, the body is meant to produce them, just in different parts of the body. Usually, a deficiency in calcium allows those other compounds that should be used up in other places to be flushed through the kidneys, possibly building up. Then incidental calcium that does move through the kidney binds to them there. Higher dietary calcium intake is associated with a sharp decline in stone risk, though extremely high intakes from vitamin supplements etc do increase risk. But in general, it is an excess of the things that bind to calcium that are the things to avoid, apparently almonds are pretty much the worse thing ever, with a fairly distant second being chocolate.
The pattern is clearly meant to be more than just data too, because they have used previous transporter logs when they need a healthy snapshot to compare to a crewmate who is ill. It seems to be some kind of superstitious energy reserve that is that person, and no you can't just siphon some juice out of the reactor and use previous scan data for reasons that are generally presented as technical ones, but could really only logically be ethical ones.