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Sandy River DL said:
Now you have a Nichol-Dyson Beam that can fire subspace energy blasts.
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pssst: Nicoll-Dyson. After James Nicoll, the same guy who gives us the quote about English following other languages down dark alleys to steal words from them.

--Dave, there's a whole file of anecdotes about him, including many of the times he had an experience and did NOT die from it
 
deathofrats0808 said:
The sun puts out something like three hundred yottawatts of energy a second. Stars are fucking scary. Now, I'm unsure if you could harness all that energy and use it in a giant fuck off laser, but still.
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It wouldn't be a laser, but I could imagine someone building a ginormous parabolic mirror, with the sun at the focal point. You wouldn't be capturing the sunlight which was already going in the general direction of the target, so merely 150 yottawatts.

PS: anything-watts is already energy per second, and you aren't supposed to let members of the general public know you're a member of the DoRD Dept.
 
BenGoldberg said:
It wouldn't be a laser, but I could imagine someone building a ginormous parabolic mirror, with the sun at the focal point. You wouldn't be capturing the sunlight which was already going in the general direction of the target, so merely 150 yottawatts.

PS: anything-watts is already energy per second, and you aren't supposed to let members of the general public know you're a member of the DoRD Dept.
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I mean, its not a laser by technicality only since we've defined laser rather narrowly.

What its going to be is a solid energy beam of literaly (no pun intended) astronomical power, it's what a laser wants to be when it grows up.
 
TypoNinja said:
I mean, its not a laser by technicality only since we've defined laser rather narrowly.

What its going to be is a solid energy beam of literaly (no pun intended) astronomical power, it's what a laser wants to be when it grows up.
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Laser was defined 'narrowly' before soft SF started making it out to be a synonym for death ray.

For death ray purposes the details of your huge, well-collimated light beam probably don't matter to the recipient, though.
 
Brimstone said:
"Fuck that general direction and anyone who may be in it now or in the future", then.
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Keeping in mind that a quick google search indicates that the Hubble detected light from a star 13 billion light years away (or rather that the light was that old, and therefore that was the distance when it was emitted), the ongoing threat in the direction of that . . . not actually laser . . . is quite significant for a considerable future.

On Topic: Thank you as always @mp3.1415player for continuing to write and share this amazing story with us. I'm not sure if I want more of the main story line or Tali's story line next . . . and it doesn't matter. You'll give us one or the other, or something else enteirely, and chances are astronomically high that it will be awesome regardless.
 
I have said this like 15 times in this thread already; But my hope is that it turns out both the tali and 'canon' are different earths in the same multiverse, and will interact at some point.
 
ArmokGoB said:
I have said this like 15 times in this thread already; But my hope is that it turns out both the tali and 'canon' are different earths in the same multiverse, and will interact at some point.
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Super-Girl!Genius!Taylor-Inception-Escalation! Cubed!


Wow.... Looking back at that... That actually sounds kinda scary....
 
Orion525 said:
Keeping in mind that a quick google search indicates that the Hubble detected light from a star 13 billion light years away (or rather that the light was that old, and therefore that was the distance when it was emitted), the ongoing threat in the direction of that . . . not actually laser . . . is quite significant for a considerable future.

On Topic: Thank you as always @mp3.1415player for continuing to write and share this amazing story with us. I'm not sure if I want more of the main story line or Tali's story line next . . . and it doesn't matter. You'll give us one or the other, or something else enteirely, and chances are astronomically high that it will be awesome regardless.
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Less than you'd think. Certainly not 13 billion light years. The beam will disperse too much to hurt anyone after a while. Beam divergence and all.
 
Amdar210 said:
Or your shields are so OP PLSE NERF that Planetary Raming is a perfectly viable strategy! Taylor should make these!

"Our civilization no longer needs guns. Now, our ships just flying into your homeworlds at 1/3 the speed of C. No more problems, right?"

All the Turians bowing to Taylor as their new Great Spirit.*
All the Salarians kneeling in submission to Taylors great mind.*
All the Asari scared their culture assimilation plot won't work no more.*
All the Batarians fleeing to Andromeda to escape the crazy she-devil!*
All the Geth knowing their Creators are safe, this quietly leave.*
All the Quarians happily eating oranges and playing on the beach with no care at all.*

.... Harbinger making angry space-cuttlefish noises as all the other Reapers flee to Andromeda.*

*Valid for any definition of "All" that consists of A) Drama Queens and B) nobody else.
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FTFY
 
ArmokGoB said:
I have said this like 15 times in this thread already; But my hope is that it turns out both the tali and 'canon' are different earths in the same multiverse, and will interact at some point.
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That sounds like it could be amusing, but I'm not so sure about long term story potential.

Two Taylors meet 'holy shit how weird is this?' happens, side order of shenanigans. But where do you go from there? They both just go back to fixing their worlds.

Excellent premise for bonus content I think, but maybe not so much for actual canon.
 
I said interact, not even meet. Them chatting over subspace text one time and then never interacting again after that counts.
 
I'm just concerned that even the most grimderp and horrific universes can't handle a single Taylor. Much less two. I mean, just look at what the Taylor of The Weaver Option has done. If Chaos and Imperial crap, plus Necrons and Eldar can't slow her down, most other universes are simply screwed....
 
All this talk about taking the full output of a sun and concentrating it into a deathray... It makes me think about quasars. Specifically their jets.
I admit that I personally filed away "quasar" under "name for just another specific type of star" in my mind for years - until i looked it up...

Dave, every time we imagines up something horrific to do with astronomical objects, nature has already been there - and done it better.

Of course, Taylor will take one look at it, and say: "Cool, really cool. You know, that gives me an idea... I wonder if I can..."
*insert sound of the universe crying*
 
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Rajvik_wolfboy said:
look at it this way, no matter who tells the horrible jokes, we'll still have a blast
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The puns.... Is there any proof we could use crappy puns and jokes to fuel humanity? Cause then those horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE people would have a purpose and not be WASTING MY AIR!
Yeah, I went there. I also bought the plot of land it was on too.
Now, Taylor dear, please don't decide to recycle our universal cluster to fuel your tech for a week. We're gonna cut off the bad jokes and the puns. I know they were bad, bit we'll be better, I promise.
 
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