Talk:The Parafaith War

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The article indicates that the Revenant troid ships travel via translation. My recollection is that the ships are in fact sublight ships (hence the cryogenic suspention), although I do not have a copy of the book availble to check. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.173.171 (talk) 23:20, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

There was a discussion in the book that the 'troid ships did indeed have translation capability. But the ships were built decades earlier, from a culture that was lagging behind that of the Eco faction at the time. This caused them to make longest time of their trips in sublight (unstated but implied to travel outside the Oort cloud), but passing most of the distance traveled in a form of transition flight. Otherwise it would have taken much longer then the 2 decades listed to make the multiple lightyear flights. This is something that worried the protaganist, as he realized eventually the Rev ships would start to pass each other as their technology improved. Mushrom (talk) 15:43, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Why is the latter day saints movement referenced here? There is quite a bit of reference to Mormonism in the novel but this is a work of fiction and doesn't relate to the movement or church. 24.114.252.242 (talk) 00:16, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

76.10.173.171 is correct, the book specifically states that Troid ships are NON Translation ships due to their size and mass. The waves of troids faced by Tristan durring the events of the books where all planned and launched aprox 20 years ago by the Rev's and this is the reason for significant events at occur during the novel such as his sisters station being destroyed by a troid which was launched expecting the world to be 'habitable' by the time it arrived only the entire project had 'lagged'. Could this please be corrected and for reference to such there are a few starting at the 'front' of the novel.

' Pretty new suits sir added Ryla ' ' Only 20 years old '

Then there is the section on page 165 where it is clearly stated as quote.

"In combating both the synchroneity restrictions and the Tompkins' Limit, the Revenants of the Prophet have returned to what might appear to be an anachronistic approach - the use of fusactor mass conversion-boosted asteroid shps, with modified translation-effect acceleration and deceleration, based on .... "

That clearly states they are NOT using translation based drives but standard engines with some minor modifications.

Plus Harmony which was raid was a major base for Troid deployment because it was close to the Eco-tech border and the raid destroyed all military targets and slowed the troids -after- the raids (all of the ones attacking the Eco-Tech are mentioned to be pre-harmony planned). 60.228.3.194 (talk) 10:12, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Also the ship Tristan is serving on the Willis is not a Corvette, it is a Cruiser, the oldest and only one of her type left remaining when he leaves

"Oh to the Willis. Light Cruiser." (page 195) "Trystin" she said wryly "the entire system knows that the reaso Willis is the oldest cruiser left and the only one in its class" page 298

So that needs correcting as well. 60.228.3.194 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 10:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC).