Post by truebeliever on Mar 4, 2016 18:56:16 GMT -8
From where the beta ended; marked for spoilers. Again, much thanks to Love in Space for a long-awaited game.
1. Original: For a moment, a second became eternity
Fix: For an instant, a second became eternity. (moment/second clashes badly)
2. Original (same line as above): Blood splatted Shields' face...
Fix: spattered (sprayed with small drops) or splashed (lots of blood)
3. Original: ... just moments before were rendered to pieces.
Fix: were rent to pieces. (past participle of render)
4. Original: Shields felt as if his own blood was draining out...
Fix: were draining out (conditional)
5. Original: Shields howled and clenched his blood soaked hands.
Fix: blood-soaked
6. Original: The hunter drones systemically hunted...
Fix: systematically or methodically
7. Original: Humanity is but a jealous, paranoid, hate filled biomass.
Fix: hate-filled
8. Original: Shields pointed his arm at Fontana,...
Fix: pointed at Fontana
9. Original: I WAS A FOOL TO THINK PEACE WOULD EVER EXIST BETWEEN YOU AND I
Fix: between you and me. (In this sentence, Kayto is the object of the preposition "between" and so has to take the objective form "me." Trust me on this one.)
10. Original: Ava held down Shields and wrestled him to the floor.
Fix: Ava held Shields back and... (If she was holding him down, then she couldn't wrestle him to the floor.)
11. Original: Kryska raised her side arm
Fix: sidearm, like firearm
12. Original: Kryska: I'm sorry captain.
Fix: I'm sorry, captain.
13. Original: The three of them went flying in the shock wave.
Fixes: flying from the shockwave.
14. Original: Kryksa: It is a more small scaled version of the original, which can be mounted on a regular ship based torpedo.
Fixes: small-scaled, original that can be mounted (no comma), ship-based
15. Original: Kryska: It's destructive potential is correspondingly smaller.
Fix: Its
16. Original: Kryska: H-honestly... that I never personally even fathomed it was even an option...
Fix: never personally fathomed (take out an "even")
17. Original: Kayto: Can we perform a short range warp...
Fix: short-range
18. Original: Kayto: All right Cosette... I'll let you out...
Fix: All right, Cosette...
19. Original: Kayto: And I hear the hanger crew...
Fix: hangar crew
20. Original: Ava: We are still 900 000 kilometers from the target and the warp drive...
Fix: 900,000 kilometers from the target, and the warp drive... (two commas)
21. Original: Ava: We are 100 000 kilometers from the target!
Fix: 100,000
22. Original: Kayto: All ahead full! Prepare to fire the vanguard at point blank range!
Fixes: Vanguard, point-blank
23. Original: Ava: 70 000 to target!
Fix: 70,000
24. Original: The Sunrider howled as a chunk of its mouth...
Fix: a chunk of its prow
25. Original: She checked off the last names off her crew list...
Fix: She checked off the last names on her crew list... (Take out an "off")
25. Original: Kayto: Our mission was nothing but a long shot gamble...
Fix: longshot
26. As Kayto sits in the wrecked bridge, the display screen above him shows a diagram of the Sunrider headed for Machiavelli Actual; it reads "Collison Course" instead of "Collision Course."
27. Original: In the first time in recent history, it unanimously passed a bill authorizing the full scale invasion of PACT space.
Fixes: For the first time, full-scale
28. Original: Thus the Neutral Rim War sparked a full scale galactic war...
Fix: full-scale
Fix: For an instant, a second became eternity. (moment/second clashes badly)
2. Original (same line as above): Blood splatted Shields' face...
Fix: spattered (sprayed with small drops) or splashed (lots of blood)
3. Original: ... just moments before were rendered to pieces.
Fix: were rent to pieces. (past participle of render)
4. Original: Shields felt as if his own blood was draining out...
Fix: were draining out (conditional)
5. Original: Shields howled and clenched his blood soaked hands.
Fix: blood-soaked
6. Original: The hunter drones systemically hunted...
Fix: systematically or methodically
7. Original: Humanity is but a jealous, paranoid, hate filled biomass.
Fix: hate-filled
8. Original: Shields pointed his arm at Fontana,...
Fix: pointed at Fontana
9. Original: I WAS A FOOL TO THINK PEACE WOULD EVER EXIST BETWEEN YOU AND I
Fix: between you and me. (In this sentence, Kayto is the object of the preposition "between" and so has to take the objective form "me." Trust me on this one.)
10. Original: Ava held down Shields and wrestled him to the floor.
Fix: Ava held Shields back and... (If she was holding him down, then she couldn't wrestle him to the floor.)
11. Original: Kryska raised her side arm
Fix: sidearm, like firearm
12. Original: Kryska: I'm sorry captain.
Fix: I'm sorry, captain.
13. Original: The three of them went flying in the shock wave.
Fixes: flying from the shockwave.
14. Original: Kryksa: It is a more small scaled version of the original, which can be mounted on a regular ship based torpedo.
Fixes: small-scaled, original that can be mounted (no comma), ship-based
15. Original: Kryska: It's destructive potential is correspondingly smaller.
Fix: Its
16. Original: Kryska: H-honestly... that I never personally even fathomed it was even an option...
Fix: never personally fathomed (take out an "even")
17. Original: Kayto: Can we perform a short range warp...
Fix: short-range
18. Original: Kayto: All right Cosette... I'll let you out...
Fix: All right, Cosette...
19. Original: Kayto: And I hear the hanger crew...
Fix: hangar crew
20. Original: Ava: We are still 900 000 kilometers from the target and the warp drive...
Fix: 900,000 kilometers from the target, and the warp drive... (two commas)
21. Original: Ava: We are 100 000 kilometers from the target!
Fix: 100,000
22. Original: Kayto: All ahead full! Prepare to fire the vanguard at point blank range!
Fixes: Vanguard, point-blank
23. Original: Ava: 70 000 to target!
Fix: 70,000
24. Original: The Sunrider howled as a chunk of its mouth...
Fix: a chunk of its prow
25. Original: She checked off the last names off her crew list...
Fix: She checked off the last names on her crew list... (Take out an "off")
25. Original: Kayto: Our mission was nothing but a long shot gamble...
Fix: longshot
26. As Kayto sits in the wrecked bridge, the display screen above him shows a diagram of the Sunrider headed for Machiavelli Actual; it reads "Collison Course" instead of "Collision Course."
27. Original: In the first time in recent history, it unanimously passed a bill authorizing the full scale invasion of PACT space.
Fixes: For the first time, full-scale
28. Original: Thus the Neutral Rim War sparked a full scale galactic war...
Fix: full-scale