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

nightblade said:
Then we would have deployed them. I expect that Esbilon wouldn't dick us over by not mentioning that. Them being on vocation is something different. What they do then is on their own free time.
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We are a big firm. I do not expect us to know where every last member of our organization is at all times. On the other hand, I expect the reporter to have some basis for their question. Whether it's our in-firm-only equipment being spotted, someone bearing a striking resemblance to one of our employees or a aper trail leading there, I expect this basis to exist.
 
Because I got bored I decided to try and figure out the basic principles of the prothean particle rifle... this is not for my tech suggestions, just kinda got bored and thought I could post it here for discussion and stuff.



Overall when the trigger is pulled the Electron removal chamber extracts some helium from the storage chamber and strips them of electrons creating alpha particles before injecting them into the super-conductive particle acceleration coil. The low mass field and the coil accelerate the particles to high-fraction c before sending them through the barrel. The barrel is extended forward using a magnetic barrel to increase accuracy and range. The power is gained from either a extremely high energy density capacitor, battery of some kind of miniaturised reactor.

So, What do you guys think?
 
Esbilon said:
*shrug* you did a lot more work on this than most people have, and I'm not making any promises about how much of your stuff I will adapt, nor when I will do so, but in principle, there is no problem with that.
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Speaking of, do I need to formalize proposals for thermal annihilation tech, electromagnetic traps (leading to unlimited laser capacitors) and *exotic stuff* or are they under consideration?
 
Yog said:
We are a big firm. I do not expect us to know where every last member of our organization is at all times. On the other hand, I expect the reporter to have some basis for their question. Whether it's our in-firm-only equipment being spotted, someone bearing a striking resemblance to one of our employees or a aper trail leading there, I expect this basis to exist.
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She's asking about the Mercs that Liara hired. That's why she asked about armed forces.
 
[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "No Paragon Industries personnel have been deployed anywhere save our facilities on Mindoir, nor will they be in the near future, with the exception of our planned facilities on Elysium."
-[X] "I have not made a decision at this time concerning selling military hardware outside of Systems Alliance. "
-[X] "We all have roles to play to secure our future, and right now mine is in the lab."
-[X] "No comment."
 
My mind has lead me onto a path of creation within 24 hours I shall provide you with the Paragon Industries CL-001 The Night's Dagger.

If no-one understood what I said, heres a translation : "I got bored, so I am going to design a light cruiser and post it within 24 hrs"
 
Yog said:
We are a big firm. I do not expect us to know where every last member of our organization is at all times. On the other hand, I expect the reporter to have some basis for their question. Whether it's our in-firm-only equipment being spotted, someone bearing a striking resemblance to one of our employees or a aper trail leading there, I expect this basis to exist.
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It's specifically asking about troops. We had ten security teams, all on Mindoir. There isn't much to lose track of here.

This looks like tabloid journalism more than anything. For whatever reason Altahe caught attention, and they found the expedition was bankrolled by PI. Cue bitching.

I'm surprised the Hanar aren't complaining.
 
"It would be ideal if we had a large group of both senior scientists and students, as well as of course a security team to keep off the raiders that are prone to haunt that region of space. There have also been talk of an internal war breaking out on the planet, which could potentially end up involving the area around the dig site. And of course space transportation is always expensive."
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Found this from chapter 27. High chance is "weasels" noticed that we funded archaeology dig at planet which is just becoming war zone.
 
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Vote change.
[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "As far as I know, no."
-[X] "I have not made a decision at this time concerning selling military hardware outside of Systems Alliance. "
-[X] "We all have roles to play to secure our future, and right now mine is in the lab."
-[X] "No comment."
 
[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "As far as I know, no."
-[X] "I have not made a decision at this time concerning selling military hardware outside of Systems Alliance. "
-[X] "We all have roles to play to secure our future, and right now mine is in the lab."
-[X] "No comment."
 
[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "As far as I know, no."
-[X] "I have not made a decision at this time concerning selling military hardware outside of Systems Alliance. "
-[X] "We all have roles to play to secure our future, and right now mine is in the lab."
-[X] "No comment."
 
Mother of God.

I have seen but one, singular episode of Community and it was the exact episode I needed to see in order to get the reference.
After watching one episode of Inspector Spacetime, the Indian guy exclaims in a hushed tone, "This is the greatest show I have ever seen in my entire life."
 
Mgunh1 said:
Mother of God.

I have seen but one, singular episode of Community and it was the exact episode I needed to see in order to get the reference.
After watching one episode of Inspector Spacetime, the Indian guy exclaims in a hushed tone, "This is the greatest show I have ever seen in my entire life."
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Abed is of Pakistani descent I think, but congrats on being the first guy to actually name Community :) +25 Research points.
 
[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "No Paragon Industries personnel have been deployed anywhere save our facilities on Mindoir, nor will they be in the near future, with the exception of our planned facilities on Elysium."
-[X] "I have not made a decision at this time concerning selling military hardware outside of Systems Alliance. "
-[X] "We all have roles to play to secure our future, and right now mine is in the lab."
-[X] "No comment."
 
Esbilon said:
More details would probably be helpful.
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Ok, so, details.

Both of the proposed new technologies (I'll leave "exotic sh*t" as a thought for the moment, and leave it up to you completely on how to use it, if in any way) rely on the TIR and are offshoots of that technology. Specifically, they rely on the "perfect one-way mirror" aspect of the technology, where electromagnetic radiation can pass into, but not out of the TIR-encircled area (excepting the very narrow escape cone).

1) Thermal annihilator (link to calcs, link to scaling). The proposed device works like this: One creates an ellipsoidal area of space, encased in a TIR field. Around it one places radiators that would radiate heat in the form of electromagnetic radiation into the encased area (to increase effectiveness, one might make a tiered confocal system of ellipsoids, where the radiators are in the outer area, from which light can pass into the inner one, but not vice-versa) . Within the ellipsoidal area, in the two focuses of the ellipsoid, one places two special devices, from here on dubbed "heat sinks". This can be done via magnetic fields or mass effect.

These heat sinks are spherical, with a thin outer layer made out of a material with high melting point and low greyness (i.e. one that is close to a black body at high temperatures). The insides of the heat sinks are thermally insulated (by vacuum and ceramics) form the outer layer. They contain temperature monitoring equipment and a TIR generator with an appropriate power source (probably an arc reactor). Heat sinks periodically switch between emitter and receiver modes (one is in the emitter mode when the other is in the receiver mode). In the receiver mode, the TIR generators are switched off, and the outer layer gets heated up by the electromagnetic radiation bouncing off the ellipsoidal TIR walls and the other sphere. In the emitter mode, TIR generators of the heat sink are switched on. This prevents it from receiving virtually any heat, while not preventing it from emitting it, causing it to rapidly cool down.

As per my other calculations pertaining to black body radiation and mass effect, total power emitted by a body in the mass lowering field from the perspective of the observer outside said field is smaller than it would have been without the field despite the blueshift. This means that the total energy of such a system will get smaller and smaller over time. For other calculations and explanations, please see the links in the beginning of this description.

2) Laser capacitors. Again, this is based on the fact that TIR provides us a one-way perfect mirror. By creating a specific TIR geometry and firing a laser into it at a specific angle, it might be possible to accumulate laser beam in the TIR-enclosed area, essentially turning it into gain medium of sorts, although it would act quite differently than a normal one. This gain medium (or even an actual gain medium, where resonator cavity was made out of TIR fields or at least supplemented with them) would have an almost unlimited (up to pair production, and probably also limited by the fact that no vacuum is perfect and such things) capacity for energy storage. A laser beam from a steady-state laser would accumulate in it (also note that, as the laser would come from an area with higher C, it would be blueshifted, further increasing its power, likely by orders of magnitude). After some time (i.e. when enough energy is accumulated in the trap), the trap can be opened (via altering the geometry and/or properties of the border TIR fields) to release the laser impulse in a single burst.

One possible (at the first and very tired glance) geometry for such a thing would be a toroidal volume where light would come in tangentially.

2b) Weird things. I am pretty sure that at some point electromagnetic field of sufficient intensity would start affecting space in interesting ways, such as promoting pair production from vacuum and locally bending space near the beam. This could probably be exploited for fun and profit.
 
[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "As far as I know, no."
-[X] "I have not made a decision at this time concerning selling military hardware outside of Systems Alliance. "
-[X] "We all have roles to play to secure our future, and right now mine is in the lab."
-[X] "No comment."
 
[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "No Paragon Industries personnel have been deployed anywhere save our facilities on Mindoir, nor will they be in the near future, with the exception of our planned facilities on Elysium."
-[X] "I have not made a decision at this time concerning selling military hardware outside of Systems Alliance. "
-[X] "We all have roles to play to secure our future, and right now mine is in the lab."
-[X] "No comment."
 
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