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This is reminding me of Homeworld so hard. I had to keep reminding myself mp3 wouldn't have the Earth destroyed on an unmanned test.
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i rounded a bit and assumed a shorter distance travelled. i've corrected it now.
30% speed was 13.75, so 100% is 45.833. . . ly/hr, or 1100ly/day.
half-speed trip was ~15 minutes for a distance just under 6 light years , or about 23ly/hr, which fits expectations.
Here's the relevant quotes.
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The max speed of the council ships is not important as they have a different limit of the distance they can go before needing to make a stop to discharge. Monty Python did a skit on this issue once.
All jokes aside the Squid drive even if it was the exact same speed would quickly out perform simply by letting them travel in a strait line vs needing to make a zigzag path to hit discharge points yet we already know the drive is faster and can still travel directly without the stopover points needed.
All jokes aside the Squid drive even if it was the exact same speed would quickly out perform simply by letting them travel in a strait line vs needing to make a zigzag path to hit discharge points yet we already know the drive is faster and can still travel directly without the stopover points needed.
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A quote from the wiki:
You seem to have missed this bit: "a mass relay can transport starships instantaneously to another relay within the network".
The handful of days or even hours includes transit between mass relays.
That said, to tie this back to the story while the current generation of SQUID isn't as fast as a mass relay the teleportation capabilities displayed may render that difference irrelevant.
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Thank you for correcting the ones saying it was a max of 13.75 ly/hr. That's in line with what I pulled from the 'velocity at x%'.
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I like that it was legit done in time for lunch. Taylor is scary.
Nice name there. Honestly that's about the best possible one. First off, it's got "stupidly" in the name, which will already annoy any teachers discussing it whenever it finally gets declassified, but secondly, the name itself is both amusing and evokes images of a streamlined and fast creature. I imagine teachers having to call it a SQUID will also mildly annoy them. This is a feature, not a bug.
About time someone considers that!
(Now I want to see someone try...)
Ah, you missed that that was 30% power as well. It sounds like it's closer to 50 or so. About the only difference is an extra inch-and-a-half of drool on the floor from the NASA engineers.
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The numbers working out that way makes me think mp was working backwards from 1100ly/day.
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The ultimate issues with these kinds of developments, which I doubt the story will cover nor would be fun to cover, are all social. I certainly would be terrified IRL if America, or any of the big world powers discovered such a paradigm leaping technology alone. I can only imagine the kind of chaos this kind of disparity would create.
Fun story though; these Omakes have been especially fun. Huge fan of Tali'Zorah.
Fun story though; these Omakes have been especially fun. Huge fan of Tali'Zorah.
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I don't disagree that it takes over the story, though given how it's implied to be after the main story I'm just treating it like we're seeing the sequel early. When you look at it in that light the problem of it taking over isn't so bad.
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You know, I know of a firm nearby that has some really good computer hardware...
So, Taylor's optronic computers are running in the multiple trillion-operations-per-second range?
Would those have been developed from the AGM-314 Duckpond?
And ME FTL drives top out at about
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It's higher than that because the iterations each involve solving several seven-dimensional equations, meaning at least hundreds of operations per iteration.
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Love the acronym.
Full power to SQUID! Max speed!
Full power to SQUID! Max speed!
Academic Guardian
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Awesome omake as usual though I am slightly saddened that they didn't name it the Enterprise
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OK, lets math this whole speed issue.
Using this calculator:
Along with the stellar information on Alpha Centauri and Barnard's Star produces this output:
Code:
STAR 1:
RA1 = 219.9020583333 deg = 14.6601372222 h
Decl1 = -60.8333992694 deg
R1 = 4.37 LY
x1 = R1*cos(RA1)*cos(Decl1) = -1.6337999401
y1 = R1*sin(RA1)*cos(Decl1) = -1.3661685190
z1 = R1*sin(Decl1) = -3.8159115992
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STAR 2:
RA2 = 269.4520542917 deg = 17.9634702861 h
Decl2 = 4.6933908889 deg
R2 = 5.958 LY
x2 = R2*cos(RA2)*cos(Decl2) = -0.0567871492
y2 = R2*sin(RA2)*cos(Decl2) = -5.9377502814
z2 = R2*sin(Decl2) = +0.4875046824
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Rectangular Differences:
dx = x2 − x1 = +1.5770127910
dy = y2 − y1 = -4.5715817624
dz = z2 − z1 = +4.3034162816
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Distance Between Stars:
D = SqRt(dx*dx + dy*dy + dz*dz) = 6.473 LY
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Magnitude of 1st Star as Viewed From 2nd Star:
m1 = 5*Log10(6.473/4.37) + (−0.27) = +0.853
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Magnitude of 2nd Star as Viewed From 1st Star:
m2 = 5*Log10(6.473/5.958) + (+9.5) = +9.680D = SqRt(dx*dx + dy*dy + dz*dz) = 6.473 LY
Which puts the distance between the two stars as 6.473 LY.
Now the relevant quote from the chapter:
Since we know the trip took 15 minutes, we can determine the speed through the simple expedient of multiplying the distance by 4, so:
6.473 * 4 = 25.892
So at 1/2 speed, the ship was going 25.892 light-years per hour.
Multiplying this by 2 gives us a theoretical max speed of 51.784 LY/h, assuming the increase in speed is linear.
*edit- for the record, after some quick research, this max speed absolutely demolishes Warp 9 speeds in Star Trek, which as of TNG was approximately 0.17310286608333 LY/h.
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Whatever happened with Probe Three? They skipped it, is on repairs, what?
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I know, we are all suffering from single use like buttons....
You pain is felt and shared by all of us....
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Yet you can be reasonably certain someone/s, most likely in the rank-and-file, will be cracking that joke.
... See?
Hmm... So what's KRAKEN gonna stand for, then? Although, not gonna lie, it kinda sounds epic when the command to "unleash the KRAKEN" is given...
Yup, I agree with both, although in my case it was a Heart react I gave (because I love it).
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Fixed a typo. Goddangit autocorrupt...
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I blame a lot of it on transporters. It's a lot harder to set up any kind of defense when the enemy can just appear at some random point.
As for automated defenses, given the...issues Trek AI tends to have I can understand why they'd be reluctant to install much in the way of those. In fact as I recall in one of the animated episodes they did have automated defenses, and predictably enough an entity took over the ship's computer and deployed the defenses against the crew.
SQUID is already taken, though.
Nah; that's what they'll end up naming the weapon that rips apart targets with gravity.
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Keep in mind, the SQUID drive is the FTL drive, but not the only star drive. The ship went from a hanger on Earth to Alpha Centari in a matter of seconds, at most. Then they started testing the FTL.
Of course, one should also keep in mind how fuel inefficent ships are in Mass Effect. While it's handwaved away in ME1, according to ME2 the FTL and sublight drives go through fuel stupidly fast. As in, they almost make NASA's Apollo rockets look fuel efficent.
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I just had an interesting thought... Imagine this Taylor in the Babylon 5 universe...
Taylor's reaction to the Great Machine. Taylor's reaction to Zatharus. Draal's reaction to Taylor condensing the entire functionality of the Great Machine into a 1 square foot cube supercomputer powered by a 9-volt battery ("This is what your 'Geat Machine' looks like when built right," lol). The Vorlon's reaction to Taylor's tech being more advanced than theirs. Maybe even Taylor meets a technomage.
I can just picture a scene of Taylor talking to a Sheridan and Delenn, and Sheridan commenting on the Membari's artificial gravity capabilities, and them not being willing to share (this actually happened in canon, but I don't recall when it was), and Taylor just handing over a copy of her notes, commenting she wrote them up when she was 14. Delenn glances at it, and is shocked that it's considerably more advanced than the Membari's antigrav tech, lol.
Depending on the timing of her visit/visits, maybe an encounter with a certain Dilgar War Master Jha'dur (AKA Deathwalker), and her... version of science.
Taylor's reaction to the Great Machine. Taylor's reaction to Zatharus. Draal's reaction to Taylor condensing the entire functionality of the Great Machine into a 1 square foot cube supercomputer powered by a 9-volt battery ("This is what your 'Geat Machine' looks like when built right," lol). The Vorlon's reaction to Taylor's tech being more advanced than theirs. Maybe even Taylor meets a technomage.
I can just picture a scene of Taylor talking to a Sheridan and Delenn, and Sheridan commenting on the Membari's artificial gravity capabilities, and them not being willing to share (this actually happened in canon, but I don't recall when it was), and Taylor just handing over a copy of her notes, commenting she wrote them up when she was 14. Delenn glances at it, and is shocked that it's considerably more advanced than the Membari's antigrav tech, lol.
Depending on the timing of her visit/visits, maybe an encounter with a certain Dilgar War Master Jha'dur (AKA Deathwalker), and her... version of science.
Babylon 5 might have issues simply because time travel and tone alterations are kind of integral to the universe (Babylon 4 and Veran) but it could ge amusing.
Im not sure Taylor has reached post Vorlon / First Races tech just yet but dye's getting there.
I'd be more amused with her talking to Loriel and others but yeah.
That said, telepathy/telekinesis is apparently genetic in that universe, which would be interesting when you have Amy on hand. (Vorlons introduced it into the humans). Though Taylor better watch out or she is going to accidentally ascend in that universe or the star gate one
Im not sure Taylor has reached post Vorlon / First Races tech just yet but dye's getting there.
I'd be more amused with her talking to Loriel and others but yeah.
That said, telepathy/telekinesis is apparently genetic in that universe, which would be interesting when you have Amy on hand. (Vorlons introduced it into the humans). Though Taylor better watch out or she is going to accidentally ascend in that universe or the star gate one
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That's because they haven't made it go full calamari yet.