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Ah, ok. Was not entirely clear for me. Still think it would fit better/ should be copied over to the other Thread, but makes sense, thanks!
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Amberion
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I just had an image of Taylor making Sentinels like from Marvel.
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Bad Amberion, bad! No cookie for you! The last thing Earth Bet needs is a fleet of giant murderous robots.
kelgar04
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I don't know in some places that might be an improvement.
Amberion
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But just think about it, shit's bad in Bet. Sentinels would be easily abused by a rightfully afraid government, and ALL parahumans would be in trouble.
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Don't you mean all humans? Remember that Sentinels were (correctly) able to conclude that mutants are humans, so their job was to protect humans from humans. Which they tried to do via murder and enslavement.
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Except, muggles made laws about magic use.
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A claim that there were NO laws only requires a single example to counter it.
That's because tank development was neglected and didn't keep up with infantry armour.
Amberion
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It doesn't have to be a 1:1 identical thing. But even if it was, that could also be a very very bad result, but it sure would make a great story.
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I never made any claims about the Muggles having any laws about magic. I said that the muggles had laws about crimes not involving magic, which the Wizards didn't. And even then, my statement is in no way Canon, as it is neither in the books or Pottermore, nor is it WoG as I am not a british woman. Those kinds of laws are actually explained in Canon, as one of the driving forces of the Statute of Secrecy and its predecessors in England. (The International Statute of Secrecy of 1692 was merely the final form of this kind of law, adopted world-wide. Before that, many countries at laws attempting to protect themselves from witch-hunts.)Except, muggles made laws about magic use.
And before you try to rebut, consider this: neither I nor Wikipedia claim this to be a complete or exhaustive list.Witchcraft Acts - Wikipedia
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A claim that there were NO laws only requires a single example to counter it.
One interesting thing is, the Wizarding World has very Victorian styles to it, and Victoria the First's law on that list, An Act Against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts (5 Eliz. I c. 16), allows for the use of magic so long as it does not "kill or destroy" anybody.
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Except, muggles made laws about magic use.
And before you try to rebut, consider this: neither I nor Wikipedia claim this to be a complete or exhaustive list.Witchcraft Acts - Wikipedia
A claim that there were NO laws only requires a single example to counter it.
Stop please. This is starting to be a derail.
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....Sounds allot like the Archangel Power Armor for XCom that I recommended...
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Yeah, I think infantry will be split up into two sections initially:
Light infantry: Be low deployment requirement(space and logistics), highly mobile. Relies on flanking and cover to survive and engage targets.
Heavy infantry: Close quarters, high impact in a small and fairly maneuverable(for it's size) package. Can kill tank columns easily if given the opportunity(read: ambush)
Eventually the tech and suit design will advance to the point where both are merged and only specialist applications(special forces) will need the lighter variants.
Light infantry: Be low deployment requirement(space and logistics), highly mobile. Relies on flanking and cover to survive and engage targets.
Heavy infantry: Close quarters, high impact in a small and fairly maneuverable(for it's size) package. Can kill tank columns easily if given the opportunity(read: ambush)
Eventually the tech and suit design will advance to the point where both are merged and only specialist applications(special forces) will need the lighter variants.
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Well depending on how we swing it for the Rails guns that could be modified for rail CISW which would be more effective that current gen CISW which depending on if any researchers manage to develop better generations of sensors could go a long way to upping the point defence range on ship. Hell they are going to have to be improved if Taylor develops anything that can disrupt anything like IR, radar exctra.
Heck you also make something like a counter missile more practical because the anti gravity system reduces or maybe even eliminates the amount of fuel needed to bring it up to speed for an interception. I'd still keep some fuel on it though for the burn to make it look like the usa is still using fuel for them but on the flip side you can mount a heavier warhead on the missle which increases the likelihood of killing incoming ship killers.
Only the flip side if we can see a development of something like compact quantum computing US E-War capabilities go through the roof heck I expect all branches of the Armed Forces and Intelligence community to jump on this like a lion on a heard of gazzel. If for now other reason than it would bost their E-war attack and defence capabilities.
Looking at armour I kind of want to see what materials can potentially be produce in a heavy gravity or low gravity environment using Taylors technology. It could lead to some interesting material developments on all sides which means we could be getting some fairly advanced material. Which mean various armour plans that groups like DARPA have only dreamed of could become a reality which means tougher armour for tanks and other forms of armour.
As for infantry power armour becomes more practical for one though I think material science needs to catch up here. Though I don't think it will replace unpowered infantry for the foreseeable future mainly due to logistics and maintenance restraints as well as a need to test it. Hmm though if she can make more practical ceramic armour possible say an advancement of something like dragons teeth or Virtus then it would be highly promising lighter and tougher plates would be amazing for a soldier's survivability.
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Not quite. Quantum computing only really screws over the asymmetric cryptography algorithms that are in use now. That completely destroys the security schemes that are in use nowadays(due to the asymmetric cryptography being used to secure the keys for the bulk encryption in TLS). However, symmetric cryptography is still immune(mild degradation of security bounds but 256 bit encryption is still highly secure(assuming that you don't have a fatal flaw in the encryption but that is not relevant here)) in general and quantum computing just provides some nice and potent speed increases in certain areas. Classical computing is far more applicable for any application. Also, for some problems, more effective computational power does not help.
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Rail guns offer an advantage in muzzle velocity and range, but for a CIWS what you really want is rate of fire and barrel endurance, areas Rail Guns do fairly poorly in. A good rotary cannon will still beat out a Rail Gun in that role, any day.
However, as a Tank's main cannon, a Rail gun would be a major upgrade, but I suspect the demonstrated Gravity Acceleration system would be better still in just about every way...
I believe it more likely to stand for PRT Code of Justice
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I'm honestly not that up on computing so I couldn't say I was just throwing ideas out as possibilities.
Ah got one of them wrong I meant Dragon Skin instead of dragons teeth it was a possible body armour replacement if I remember correctly for the US army. Virtus is the replacement for the British Ospery body armour system that came out in 2016 or 2017 if memory serves.
Would probably then be better looking at the laser systems most NATO navies are looking at now for a possible supplement or replacement for CISW I know one German company, USN, BAE and the RN are looking at possible use for lasers in that area.
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Im curious if the reference frame generator can be set up to push the reference mass away from it. If so, then you have an easily dialable kinetic weapon whose only real limit is the durability of the projectile. One that can be moved around as if it were on the end of a massless rigid pole. You could probably pull a Hellsing Ultimate Rip van Winkle if you had a good enough control system. The only problem I can see is that if the projectile hit something that could stop it, it would push the tank instead. The only way to deal with that would be to shut off the RFG before impact.
Hell, you could probably use RFGs to make things like disconnected thrusters and other advanced precursor design tropes work as well. Now that I think about it, thats also probably a decent way to get around the structural issues that high acceleration manuevers can cause.
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Possibly. For tanks. I can see them getting railguns(hyper velocity projectiles at Mach 5 ho!) for their primary armament(There has always been a need for high power direct fire weapons) and AGTMs getting a major boost from the gravdrive.
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TBH it changes the paragraph on a lot of weapons not just a tank cannon imagine how far arty for instance could shoot a shell accelerated by a grav drive you could put a greater explosive charge in a shell or make it heavier.
Heck as you set AGTMs get a boost but so do all missile systems a drive drive powered or accelerated missile will be a nightmare to stop whole new countermeasures and armour are going to have to be developed just to stop these things.
Heck ships get big guns back because they can mount a grav rail gun now for instance. Also grav drive aircraft or aerospace craft are effectively VTOL so it saves carrier deck space unless you need to make an emergency landing. Any shipboard missile with a grav assist is also going ongoing further as well as any sub launched system same for torpedoes though drag from the water will slow them down if they are assisted launch.
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Unlike Marvel and mutants, parahumans can be detected as having alien influence creating conflict and causing breakdowns in general law/order and good governance. It wouldn't be so much humanity must be protected from humanity. It would be these humans have been infected by something rather alien that are causing harm for the vast majority of humanity.
Also unlike Marvel Sentinels, I bet anything she builds would be designed as a general law enforcement robot. It would be understood that the normal police can generally handle mundane crime. Calling in the Sentinels would be calling in the super swat teams. Also, it would be less to create killer robots and more capture robots as most folks would be brought before a judge/jury and tried. The only ones that would have the straight up execute options would be those that have pre-authorized kill orders.
If anything, the detector would make their job of tracking down parahumans easier, but they wouldn't be sent after all of them. They'd only be sent after those that needed that level of force. It would be more interesting if she could make a super detective robot rather than an overwhelming force sort.
With Gravity Referenceframe Regenerators, tanks could theoretically replace fighter jets. Flying Tanks.