You have got your plot lines worked out and your characters fully drawn. This new plot horror will be good for leading a good guy into serious mistakes (I'm thinking maybe Glaselle) and opening some interesting, foreshadowing questions (How do we tell history about this? Maybe we shouldn't?)
But the culmination of the thread needs to wait until Hell comes for things, handbasket in hand. I can't leave too much time to brood on this one, because folly-made disaster must follow fast and faster.
Checked. I80 is supposed tp be a shorter drive.
Not close to me, but doable with motel rest nights. No way to swing through Mesa on such a short 
trip.
No, but but I have to work out the big plot and character elements. Book 7 only begins the second main part. I've got a lo to fill in.
Did a couple of reviews. I'll be tied up most of the day, but I thought of a plot element for later in the story. I should begin laying the ground for it in B3 or B4, and the event probably should come in B7. I need to find an hour or so to start writing up more serious notes. Let's see how the day goes.
Wow. Great!
Okay, a new chapter is up in B2 (Ch 11, Healing by Night).
The next one WILL take a while.
I'm signing off for today. I might be able to take a quick look in later.
Minor edits too to Ch10: A Night's Work
I've made some minor edits to B2, Ch9: Maurand. I have material for another chapter, which wants some minor editing. Then I have to start putting my notes together.
Why not push the minimalist edge and ask for clerihews?
If you're up close and personal with a much larger enemy, you're probably visible all over the spectrum. RCS isn't going to matter much. Nor can we assume these ships have such a shape.
I think the question asked is whether the directions are referenced to the ship (up, left, forward) or to an external body (north, east).
When I was but a wee slip of a programmer, I read of two commands in an early, even primeval, Unix manual. true--Does nothing, successfully. false--does nothing, unsuccessfully. Not long after, I met the original ADVENTure game, whose messages included "Nothing happens" and "Twice as much nothing happens."
Well, alright. I don't think anyone would have described me as a wee slip of anything. But the point is that I have about 2k words in which a lot of precious little happens.
I have some edits on the previous chapter, then I'll see about getting that busy nothing up.
"An open door leaves the path unguarded. Opposing rows must clash to unite." --- A spoof of Ambasssador Kosh saying "Your fly is open."
In response to the review reply: The clew-laying is pretty good, especially the camouflage of one clew by another. But if you keep the action and description separated and sequenced so that you don't make the reader pick one apart from another, the reader is less likely to stop and notice things. And when you do stop, force the reader's attention on a dilemma and away from the clew.
Unfortunately, The Sleeping Sphinx is not available on Kindle. But =The Blind Barber= is. So is =The Bride of Newgate= and =The Man Who Could Not Shudder=.
I think I'll add another comment (or more) to the review.
Pitch, yaw, and roll in flight. Traverse, elevation, and range in artillery.
Your use of 'momentum' is essentially correct. I'm not sure the controls would work like that. Remember that to rotate the ship will require using the maneuvering thrusters to start the rotation, and again to stop it. There are two ways out of this: rotate the ship using gyrowheels or start the rotation with maneuvering thrusters and end it by starting up the big engines asymmetrically, one a little before the other, to produce the torque you need. If the computer is managing everything, it might also fire the maneuvering thrusters on one side only, the side that provides impulse (delta in momentum) in the direction you want,
In the orginal =Star Wars=, when the =Falcon= escapes the Death Star it flips end for end. When the movie was re-released as =A New Hope= they changed it to rotation in-plane. But they got it right the first time: there is less angular momentum (rotational inertia) flipping the disk end-for-end.
Aircraft bank through turns so that their main 'thrusters' -- the wings -- aim their lift in the direction needed to change the aircraft's course. The aircraft's engines provide forward impulse (momentum) which is drained (induced drag) by the wings to provide the 'upward thrust' -- lift.
Your spacecraft operate differently, so your main (forward) thrusters have to also serve for 'lift'. This means that your craft should point toward the center of the arc in which they are turning. Acceleration in a circle does not change the magnitude of the velocity (ie, the speed) because it is always at right angles to the direction of travel.
If you are accelerating at the same time as you turn, the direction of thrust won't be at that right angle and the arc won't be a circle, but ... I think the spacecraft will point to the center of the circle tangent to the path at that point (the 'osculating circle'). I might have that part wrong. It will take me a couple of hours with vectors and calculus (probably not actual vector calculus with the Heaviside dels) to work it out for sure. I haven't done stuff in that detail over half my lifetime. Let me know how important those details are to you. It will be fun (PLAY ALGEBRA!) but I'll have to set time aside for it.
I have enough material that I can probably clean a bit up and get a chapter out. I'm not sure there will be enough happening in it, though. (And I may make some edits to a chapter already out there.
Turn to keep the weapons pointing in the right direction. Turn to keep the big thrusters pointing in the right direction; saves weight to have small thrusters for rotation (as far from the center of mass as possible) and big ones for actually changing your overall velocity (speed and direction).
Indeed.
I went to Home Depot this morning to get some nylon nuts and screws, which I saw there, I swan, not two years ago. Nuts, they had a few, but nylon screws they had none. Nor had Lowes any. Both can supply them on order, but they seem to begrudge it.
So I went poking around with froogle, and came up empty there too. Finally, I realized where I should have started. I went and checked the Mouser web catalog. It's still order for delivery, but if anything anyone lacks, they have it all ready in stacks. (Note, by the way, Marty Green's stage business, matching word, gesture, and note perfectly.)
I'm going to put the notes on hold again. (Sigh.) I still have two projects to do. I've been sleeping too much to fix the 12v regulated (auto) supply, but I should be able to do it in the next 24 hours. I have another supply to work on.
I've been burning CDs from audio courses I bought as downloads. My LG external burner worked its way off the table edge and hit the carpet. It did a few more CDs, then quit.
The built-in drive on the flaptop is only good for playing things. Windows insists on believing that it belongs to playing, and the burner can't gain control; it thinks that the drive is empty. And when I can make it work, I have to reboot the f*sht*nk*ng Windoze after every disc burnt. Frotzenglarken mit spitzensparken ...
Yeah. OTOH, prednisone cleared up a pinched nerve two years ago that was rapidly disableing my left leg. The alternative was CNS depressants, which would leave me a prisoner in my home until the course was over.
Damn, that has to hurt ...
The damaging steroid was prednisone taken just after starting that long course of levaquin. Or do you mean the nasal steroid for the allergies? So long as I'm indoors with working A/C I can avoid that. But the allergy opens the door for the infection.
