Hehe! cool stuff. 

I was thinking aside from the weariness of his expression, Ol Lord Kona is not in too bad a nick. He doesn't seem to have succumbed to the effects of gravity like many of us older folk. Or is that suit he's wearing helping him out?

If so, where can I get one of those suits?

What I have taken from this thread is that clearly we need a Warhammer 40K mod complete with ships from Battlefleet Gothic. Massive karma if someone does this.

I find it quite hilarious that some posts suggest the Drengin are evil because they use slavery. Truth: many of the inexpensive consumer products people in the West take for granted are produced by slaves.  Also, the US constitution has not freed all slaves.  People in prisons are legally subject to being enslaved.  Some states are actually going back to this, as they revoke the child labor laws, etc.  Many of our inexpensive foods (fruits/veggies) are picked by a class of people who might as well be slaves.  Free range slavery we have.  Moving on to war, violence, etc., well not now...  The truth is, we, humans, have aspects of evil systems all around us, benefit from them, and rationalize their continuance.  Most of us who are reading these posts on these StarDock blogs (as well as many other companies' sites) have the life we do because of the enslavement of other humans across the sea.  Hey,its just a game, after all!      And I love playing the Drengin (not).

Since when have they been clear on our side?

Get rid of your self-fooling illusions. There are no "currently understood" principles only "currently believed in". Even more so when we're talking about something as "shady" as "evolution" and history.

Well, since we're comparing reality with fiction anyway... Go watch matrix. Then prove to me that you are NOT inside it and that the laws you claim to "understand" aren't being bended while you aren't noticing.

I generally don't advise seeking wisdom in fiction, but that one serves as a great example of the foolishness of the concept of "knowledge".

There's no actual "knowledge" (unless you redefine the word to the point where the term becomes something completely different), only assumptions aka beliefs.

The main difference between a scientist and a believer is that one of them doesn't lie to himself about the foundation of his assumptions.

Once you realise that, the fiction is no longer something that "couldn't happen" it's just something that didn't happen, same as anything else except for the few thing that SUPPOSEDLY did happen.

*sigh* ... But then again I probably shouldn't raise this kind of topics on a forum. Especially with someone who claims to have stopped reading.