The image on the home page has a small problem, and is being replaced.
Might as well get some pictures of a game while were at it.
Work in progress.
Blue pushed far forward, preventing some yellow seahorses the ability to move out. It's nice to see a knight get out and about.
Blue bishop took a seahorse. Yellow cube captured the blue bishop. The cube was the second from the right, and has shown itself as dot (will that be remembered?).
Blue seahorse has moved to the middle, and yellow seahorse is now capable of moving out.
Blue cube on the left can now take the yellow knight - but shouldn't. Yellow seahorse moved up, and they can now think about taking a blue cube.
Blue seahorse takes a cube. Yellow's other knight moves out to threaten the seahorse.
Blue rolls dice to move the seahorse out of the way. A four is rolled, so a seahorse from the left unexpectedly takes out another yellow cube.
Yellow knight counterattacks against a blue seahorse. Blue cube takes the knight (and improves the far right column).
I believe that blue cube showed itself to be ring. Blue is SAME, yellow is DIFFERENT.
It looks like yellow seahorse rolled three, then didn't do anything. I'm not sure why.
Maybe too much focus on the right, or maybe a desire to keep the back line protected.
Technical problems with the picture.
Here is a picture that shows that the two right yellow cubes are rings. Yellow is in trouble.
Yellow seahorse tries to roll to block the blue cube. Yellow moves up far. Losing track of whose turn it is.
Blue cube moves down far, about to take the yellow water square.
Yellow rolled two, and didn't bother to do anything.
That was a quick, decisive win. I tried another game later, and both sides were one move away from taking the opponent's water square.
There's Treasure Inside Unofficial - mailbag
I usually nod off while watching these. After all, I'm not working on the treasure hunt. But this was interesting.
Q: Where was Emma Watson born?
A: Paris
Q: What was the military unit of Ocean's 11 in the original film?
Q: How many stars are in our galaxy?
Star Trek has a bridge, with a handful of people who have specific areas of responsibility. They're travelling through space looking for weird worlds, new life and civilisations. There's a captain, a communications lady, a science officer, and whatever Sulu and Chekov do. The doctor and the engineer have roles, but they are not on the bridge.
Who would be on the bridge for Alouette? Alouette is a long-distance space bus, with some colourful attached pods and some science. Alouette goes fast through a solar system. Also it goes at ludicrous speed through (part of) the galaxy. Pods, shuttle craft, space stations, refuelling are all tricky. Alouette does not land on planets.
So the Alouette bridge would have, I don't know, an executive officer/officer of the deck, a helmsman to steer things, a navigator, maybe someone to keep an eye on the status of the ship ("What's that alarm?").
When dealing with separate space craft there could be other officers, including a communications person. Other people would be based largely elsewhere on the ship. The captain, who is responsible for .. everything would be various
places including the bridge. There is the medical section. Engineering. Integration officer, to deal with the pods. Science people. Supply. Guest services or some such.
If Alouette has pods attached to it asymetrically, for example a smaller cruise ship, would that throw things off balance while going through space?
Maybe a bigger pod goes in the middle, in a bit of a cavity. Or thrusters in slightly different directions/positions.
A spaceship goes very fast through space aimed at a destination. Have you ever thought of deceleration?
typically cruises
Five "Small Ship Luxury" Lines
Bottle openers from Ukraine, made from Russian tanks. Money goes to good causes.
