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I have a monitor with bad caps. Every time it flickers I think about pulling an njc and soldering replacements in

A Star Trek type shuttle would act to plug the leak with some filler material stored in microscopic bladders in a layer on the inside of the hull, which is no fun, so let's assume you don't have that.

Let's also assume your characters don't have a hardening foam gun (the ejected foam would find the leak wherever it is - one need not know that part).

I mention these two facts because the lack of spacesuits implies there are so many failsafes that the spacesuit is statistically useless. Much like the absence of seatbelts in Star Trek style ships implies they never need to brake fast enough to kill passengers.

If you want realism, the enemy shot should contain an active agent to increase the size of the leak. (I know it's an enemy shot due to the source material - I also think it was handled well enough that we can accept the outcome).

Dear England: Do better

@Janet: Nay... you're still ahead of me in reviews. I've just been buried with work (boo! hiss!) and can't read as much as I'd like

This detection... I presume it uses scanners that are faster-than-faster-than light?

Turning...
it's a problem that comes up in [K a j o]s story when they learn that Taylor can "turn" and travel curved trajectories in hyperspace. Travel through space -- applying force to create velocity -- it's a concept we might have to leave behind.

I mean... what mass driver can you put on your back that might possibly spew matter away fast enough to propel you forward at that rate?

By simple kinematics, and ignoring gravitation, we might suggest a 1kg object that wishes to travel 15m/s forward must eject 0.5kg of matter backwards at 30m/s.
(This is a dreadful oversimplification since I don't account for a, t, and elasticity)
(Imagine how much more effort it would take for a ship to do this)
(Somehow this long rambling speech boils down to me agrees with your starlanes. Then a stardrive is more of a "raft" that keeps the ship's particile energized enough for it to stay in the starlanes where all distances are shorter)

Agreed. A distraction.

Edit: With some exceptions. Inga is a 7-yr-old but she narrates like 18 (at least, that's the goal)

Yes, I discussed this at length. The answer I received was basically "hide everything" and that the default would remain "open to public"

Therefore I deleted the thread in question, along with anything else identifying, changed my pen name, changed all my titles, deleted all my forum posts, obfuscated my profile (which cannot be hidden despite the claim that it can), waited about 10 weeks and I see to be mostly free from searches.

Depends on what the story is about. With a name like Galaxy Tales, and sufficicient prep work, you could get into a Caligula POV here.

I pick the one where they're celebrating at the end and then a Mar shows up unexpectedly and eats everyone.

Per K. Don't clarify. =simplify=. You've got a lot of mobile targets. Keep killing them like Game of Thrones until we're at the edge of our seats swearing at you that if you kill another we'll hate you as we buy the next book

Billy Joel: "Always the good die young"

(instrumental)

(Clarinet enacts the screams of man-eating apes)