Which is why DARPA builds a missile cruiser arsenal spaceship. Armed with these Collapser missiles. Hundreds of them. So if the first one fails, the next 500 might do it, and if not, well.... We do have an additional 3000 on board...
Another fine flock of werdz. Thanks a bunch.It's SHEPHARD! …Wait. Something isn't right…
Excellent chapter as always.
Might be the same person, but due to Earth Bet's differences she has a very different degree. Astrophysics instead of a medical degree. (she actually dropped out of getting a medical degree, or it might have been engineering, instead of actually getting it, but still not astrophysics)
Probably because the ship is exclusively designed for Earth-Eezo operations, and the known threats in that universe can basically laugh at any kinetic weapon that doesn't use very oversized technology, and/or a lot of space. Mass Drivers are usually spinal mounted, even in other settings, for a REASON. At worst they get mounted broadside, and still can't be aimed well except "point the ship in a way that has the guns facing the enemy". Plus, energy weapons reach the target faster than kinetic weapons; so if the drive is already spooled up, they can fire their energy weapons, then use the FTL drive to dodge the kinetic slug sent at the same time.
Wouldn't small black holes evaporate almost instantly via a Hawking radiation?
This is very, very twisted name to have SHEPHARD as an acronym... more so than usual.
I somehow missed the part where the Geth consensus had learnt about Tali and Taylor.
Does this ship looks like one from the movie "Flight of the Navigator"?
Is it stealthy reference to the scene of prot (Kevin Spacey) eating the whole banana, skin / peel included, in the K-PAX film?
Depends on what you define as "small". If they are big enough to be useful, they won't dissipate that quickly.
The Geth Know All. The Geth See All. All Shall Come to Consensus.
That ship looks absolutely nothing like an orca.Does this ship looks like one from the movie "Flight of the Navigator"?
While I have never seen or heard of whatever film you are talking about, I assume so. MPPi is known for that kind of thing, after all.
So was it Taylor or Tali who uploaded the TrollTheCouncil.exe file to the Geth collective?
I wonder if she's discovered orange marmalade yet... 😋
Or make it 'Projectile-hurling', which would also remove it from the acronym.
The end of 'Two Worlds, One Team', two chapters back of this particular omake. See below.
only when compared to the age of the universe as it still takes time for the effect to happen due to the size of the black hole itself limiting how many of the interactions can happen inside it that would produce the radiation evaporating the black hole.
That's right forgot all about that. Thanks for the reminder.
It's actually a lot faster than that. If the Collapsar caught 20k metric tons in its area of effect and compressed it into a singularity, the singularity would last for 4.3 days -- and be radiating at the equivalent of 212 megatons/s. And that would go up over its lifespan.
Is that in pure vacuum? Does it take into account additional mass falling in before it dissipates? How long would that Black Hole last in an Earth like atmosphere? How would it affect a planet of similar size and composition as Earth?
Ships, star or naval, are measured by the tonnage of displacement of water, not their actual mass. It's a derived calculation from Archimedes' pprinciples.
Actually, from my experience when it comes to fictional space craft you typically have the actual mass of the ship used instead of displacement.
