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Shepard Quest Mk V, Base of Operations (ME/MCU)

Esbilon said:
His handle is Crazy Tom, not "asshat."

Heated debates are fine, swearing is fine, calling people's arguments crap is fine, name calling is not fine.

EDIT: Suggesting that people do not use their brains is not fine either.
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I call it as i see it.

Bringing up a crap argument without thinking it through or considering the resources available at that time while acting holier then thou pretty much shows a lack of intelligence.

The SA of the Future will have more resources of then the SA of the past, it's influences and resources will be more. Something anybody would have said just by giving some thought to the matter.
 
Mochinator said:
I call it as i see it.

Bringing up a crap argument without thinking it through or considering the resources available at that time while acting holier then thou pretty much shows a lack of intelligence.

The SA of the Future will have more resources of then the SA of the past, it's influences and resources will be more. Something anybody would have said just by giving some thought to the matter.
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Regardless of the validity of those statements, it does not give you the right to insult the man.

As for the Alliance's precise political standing in relation to the Citadel, and their political acumen, canon simply does not give you enough information to make very strong statements. And that's before taking butterflies and me messing things up further into account.
 
Mochinator said:
Hey asshat. This is humanity in the past.

Years before Ascension, only a few years since humanity met the Citadel. Believing that Humanity has the power and authority to make threats to the Citadel without anything is ridiculous.

Use your brains, Humanity as of now is still a minor fish just from the time period and the fact that they have less resources to call on.
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I was mistaken. The events I spoke of actually occurred in Revelation in 2165. From the POV of the Quest, eight years ago.

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(Since you're being a tad rude yourself. :p)
 
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[x] Stroth

And we're still looking for the webcomic hint, yes? I've got a pretty large list - If we can narrow down what the reference is, I have a good chance, especially if it has been running for a while.
 
Tabron89 said:
Could they be using something closer to a fusor for fusion? It's possible that because of cheaper CNT along with eezo can potentially make such 'backyard shed' fusion chambers actually have a net gain...
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Maybe, eezo is, well, very strange in many respects, and it's possible that by applying positive ME field (mass increasing) you would be directly increasing power output per nuclear reaction (or, rather, you'd be increasing it if you lower the masses, since you have E=MC^2, and if you lower a mass k times, you'd get E2=(M/k)*(k*C)^2=k*M*C^2. Or something like that.

Eezo could probably be used for gravitational confinement setups... I don't know, honestly.
 
Alanek2002 said:
[x] Stroth

And we're still looking for the webcomic hint, yes? I've got a pretty large list - If we can narrow down what the reference is, I have a good chance, especially if it has been running for a while.
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It has already been revealed to be Schlock Mercenary. The problem is that I keep sneaking small references to that comic into my writing, so the big, deliberate ones, may be lost.
 
[X] Building Better Babies. Distribute your new procedures as widely as you can, making Humanity stronger, faster, smarter and prettier. Also pissing off the companies that are making a killing doing this for the rich and powerful.
-[X] Provide free treatment to cure genetic disease in children.
--[X] Work with those of alliance governments who have free medical care and mandatory inoculations to spread your advancements as far as possible (and for political capital)
---[X] See if you can involve Sirta Foundation. This sort of thing is their specialty and it would be nice to have a working relationship.

[X] File. Let them see what we can do, and let them then shut up and give us their money.
-[X] But have your people go over any changes in Citadel patent law first. Hire a specialist if needs be.

[X] Hire on five new security teams.
- [X]Prioritize Marines but if we have to take on more LEOs or mercs to have them on time then so be it.

Research
[X] Advanced Fire Control VI (400)
60d10 + 120 = 98.85% chance of completion
[X] Advanced Black boxing/FRM (439/800)
60d10 + 70 = 96.21 % chance of completion
[X] Peak Human (400)
20D10+20+Overflow

Spare time
[X] Have your own advanced implant (Magi) installed.
-[X] Ask if Rahna would be willing to be hired as your tutor for you
[X] Spend time with family and Brian.
-[X] Hellish as it was fighting to beat Mum's challenges with Brian was fun, maybe you can do some more of that
--[X] Bring some of what you've learned to the Security Teams training
 
Yog said:
Maybe, eezo is, well, very strange in many respects, and it's possible that by applying positive ME field (mass increasing) you would be directly increasing power output per nuclear reaction (or, rather, you'd be increasing it if you lower the masses, since you have E=MC^2, and if you lower a mass k times, you'd get E2=(M/k)*(k*C)^2=k*M*C^2. Or something like that.

Eezo could probably be used for gravitational confinement setups... I don't know, honestly.
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I was thinking they could just use a gravity implosion system. We know it's possible, given the existence of the Blackstorm, which is would be a more complicated system in every way imaginable. If they can fit a mass effect core that can generate short lived 'singularities' (for lack of a better term), into a man portable weapon, I imagine creating a system that only compresses a fuel pellet to fusion densities in a controlled environment is rather simple.

Converting that to electricity is another matter yes, but given that this is THE FUTURE, I think we can wave our hands and mumble something about MHD generators.
 
Crazy Tom said:
I was thinking they could just use a gravity implosion system. We know it's possible, given the existence of the Blackstorm, which is would be a more complicated system in every way imaginable. If they can fit a mass effect core that can generate short lived 'singularities' (for lack of a better term), into a man portable weapon, I imagine creating a system that only compresses a fuel pellet to fusion densities in a controlled environment is rather simple.

Converting that to electricity is another matter yes, but given that this is THE FUTURE, I think we can wave our hands and mumble something about MHD generators.
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It seems to be the most likely solution, yes, though the question, then, rises, for why they are bothering with fusion at all instead of making black hole generators and harvesting energy from Hawking radiation (by the way, I really would like to have commentary on the Hawking Bomb project)
 
Arg. I don't want to search through the strips, but it this the reference?
However, it takes you a good deal longer to actually find it, because for some reasons the imbeciles who call themselves 'scientists' that have written this crap down feel the need to disguise their ignorance behind fancy words and trivial algebra (well, trivial to you). The people who designed the L1, the L2 and now the L3 were pretty much fumbling in the dark. 'Alchemists' is a more apt description of them than 'scientists' or even 'engineers,' they had some methodology, sure, and they did write down their findings, good job, but 'understanding' might as well have been the name of a robotic monster hiding in Dark Space.
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[X] Building Better Babies. Distribute your new procedures as widely as you can, making Humanity stronger, faster, smarter and prettier. Also pissing off the companies that are making a killing doing this for the rich and powerful.
-[X] Provide free treatment to cure genetic disease in children.
--[X] Work with those of alliance governments who have free medical care and mandatory inoculations to spread your advancements as far as possible (and for political capital)
---[X] See if you can involve Sirta Foundation. This sort of thing is their specialty and it would be nice to have a working relationship.

[X] File. Let them see what we can do, and let them then shut up and give us their money.
-[X] But have your people go over any changes in Citadel patent law first. Hire a specialist if needs be.

[X] Hire on five new security teams.
- [X]Prioritize Marines but if we have to take on more LEOs or mercs to have them on time then so be it.

[X] Advanced Fire Control VI (400)
60d10 + 120 = 98.85% chance of completion
[X] Advanced Black boxing/FRM (439/800)
60d10 + 70 = 96.21 % chance of completion
[X] Peak Human (400)
20D10+20+Overflow
 
I know it's not going to happen, but it would be so cool if we ended up hiring Zaeed or Wrex as security guards. Maybe when Grunt is born we could use him as a personal bodyguard for a while and take him to any meetings with assholes we have so he can stand around glaring at them menacingly.
 
... Real life patents are horribly broken and abused constantly as it is.

And only patenting part of the arc reactor leaves someone else free to patent the whole thing, pay for the part, and then sue us for making arc reactors.

Edit: where'd all those posts cone from? <_<
 
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Yog said:
It seems to be the most likely solution, yes, though the question, then, rises, for why they are bothering with fusion at all instead of making black hole generators and harvesting energy from Hawking radiation (by the way, I really would like to have commentary on the Hawking Bomb project)
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Actually, I would ask why they don't just do direct matter conversion since a black hole with a tiny mass won't be able to hold together and will just release all the mass we fed it as radiation once we turn off the ME field.

My guess is that the Blackstorm doesn't actually create singularities, it just compresses mass. That's why we don't see a multi-megaton explosion every time one of it's 'singularities' bursts.

Esbilon said:
Gravitational containment of plasma seems inefficient to me. Recall that there 36 orders of magnitude between the strength of the gravitational and electromagnetic forces. Even with Eezo, that's quite the gap.
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I KNOW RIGHT!
Unfortunately, given how ME fields behave (they're used to deflect bullets) I don't think we can take gravity's weakness at face value. For all we know, ME fields might not be gravity at all, but some sort of force that interferes with gravity.
 
Chargone said:
... Real life patents are horribly broken and abused constantly as it is.

And only patenting part of the arc reactor leaves someone else free to patent the whole thing, pay for the part, and then sue us for making arc reactors.

Edit: where'd all those posts cone from? <_<
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Then we use the SA patent to break their patent on the basis of prior art and now nobody has a patent.
 
Esbilon said:
Gravitational containment of plasma seems inefficient to me. Recall that there 36 orders of magnitude between the strength of the gravitational and electromagnetic forces. Even with Eezo, that's quite the gap.
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True. Eezo enhancement, on the other hand, might be viable (see below):
UberJJK said:
On the other hand from what I recall the fusion reactor in the SR-2 is surrounded by a blueish glow that resembles a mass effect field. Really looked to me like it was been held together by the field.
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It might be Cherenkov's radiation due to eezo enhancement.

If we take eezo to alter mass in E=M*C^2, and then remember that the speed of light itself depends on mass effect field in the area (hence blue and red shift effects), we get

E=k^(2*alpha-1)*M*C^2, where alpha is the exponent for speed of light dependence (i.e. if we lower the mass X times, the speed of light becomes X^alpha faster). Depending on alpha (it could probably be estimated from the known FTL speeds if we knew how light the vessel became during FTL), mass effect applied one way or the other would increase the yield of the nuclear reaction.
Crazy Tom said:
Actually, I would ask why they don't just do direct matter conversion since a black hole with a tiny mass won't be able to hold together and will just release all the mass we fed it as radiation once we turn off the ME field.
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It would be a fine balancing act. The smaller the black hole, the faster it evaporates, the hotter it gets and the more energy it produces per second.
My guess is that the Blackstorm doesn't actually create singularities, it just compresses mass. That's why we don't see a multi-megaton explosion every time one of it's 'singularities' bursts.
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It could be that the mass of the singularity it creates is very small.


Crazy Tom said:
I KNOW RIGHT!
Unfortunately, given how ME fields behave (they're used to deflect bullets) I don't think we can take gravity's weakness at face value. For all we know, ME fields might not be gravity at all, but some sort of force that interferes with gravity.
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Mass effect is very strongly not gravity. It's some space magic BS field that alters the speed of light in vacuum.
 
Crazy Tom said:
Given that it typically sucks up a few hundred kilos of Merc before exploding... that sort of mass will yield a lot of energy.
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The problem is that just compressing solid matter requires so much energy that the result would still be nuclear boom. We'll probably just have to say it's game mechanics, really.
 
Crazy Tom said:
I was mistaken. The events I spoke of actually occurred in Revelation in 2165. From the POV of the Quest, eight years ago.

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(Since you're being a tad rude yourself. :p)
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Then that fucking proves my point even more.

They back down because they did not think the price was worth paying. With Arc Tech at their disposal, said price would be cheaper and thus more likely to be paid because they would be throwing low quality power armor which is a perfectly valid way to shut down our high end suits.

Introducing Arc Tech changes the status quo, it allows them to parley their numerical advantage by equipping each soldier with low quality Power Armor to fight off humanity's elites.

All the more not to give Arc Tech to them because it benefits them by a larger margin then us.
 
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