Shepard Quest Mk V, Base of Operations (ME/MCU)
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[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "No Paragon Industries personnel of any type have been deployed to Altahe."
-[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."
There's a whole squad of Paragon Industry security on the ship right behind us. They're not just on Mindoir.
And really guys? "As far as I know?" You sound like you're trying to weasel out of something. Be definitive when you're talking to the press or they'll tear you apart.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "No Paragon Industries personnel of any type have been deployed to Altahe."
-[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."
There's a whole squad of Paragon Industry security on the ship right behind us. They're not just on Mindoir.
And really guys? "As far as I know?" You sound like you're trying to weasel out of something. Be definitive when you're talking to the press or they'll tear you apart.
Stroth has a point.
[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "No Paragon Industries personnel of any type have been deployed to Altahe."
-[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 of any type have been deployed to Altahe."
-[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."
Emizaquel
What is a self?
THIS IS NOT A SUGGESTION
Just for fun my version of the "go away beams"
The Paragon Industries "Wrath of Jupiter" Mark 1 Anti-particle Beam Weapon is a devastating weapon, making use of pre-existing particle accelerator weapons this works in much the same way, however the ammunition is far more devastating, it fires positrons. The beam itself is launched through a low mass barrel allowing the beam to travel at FTL speeds towards the target. Upon impact the anti-particles collide with the normal matter of the opponent and the two are annihilated releasing vast amounts of energy destroying anything it hits. However due to the danger of antimatter the pre-existing systems have been heavily modified, the magnetic fields are far stronger and actually make up a great deal of the particle acceleration system. Previous accelerator coils have been scrapped for a new purely magnetic acceleration barrel. However this system is so energy intensive that it is unfeasible to mount on anything smaller than a heavy cruiser. The positron capacitor is actually derived from out antimatter fusion research. Using anti-carbon nanotubes in a similar structure to a modern ultra-capacitor we are capable of storing a great deal of positrons.
Just for fun my version of the "go away beams"
The Paragon Industries "Wrath of Jupiter" Mark 1 Anti-particle Beam Weapon is a devastating weapon, making use of pre-existing particle accelerator weapons this works in much the same way, however the ammunition is far more devastating, it fires positrons. The beam itself is launched through a low mass barrel allowing the beam to travel at FTL speeds towards the target. Upon impact the anti-particles collide with the normal matter of the opponent and the two are annihilated releasing vast amounts of energy destroying anything it hits. However due to the danger of antimatter the pre-existing systems have been heavily modified, the magnetic fields are far stronger and actually make up a great deal of the particle acceleration system. Previous accelerator coils have been scrapped for a new purely magnetic acceleration barrel. However this system is so energy intensive that it is unfeasible to mount on anything smaller than a heavy cruiser. The positron capacitor is actually derived from out antimatter fusion research. Using anti-carbon nanotubes in a similar structure to a modern ultra-capacitor we are capable of storing a great deal of positrons.
[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "No Paragon Industries personnel of any type have been deployed to Altahe."
-[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] "The future, as always."
-[X] "No Paragon Industries personnel of any type have been deployed to Altahe."
-[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."
I'm just going to quote Atomic Rockets like I did the last time mention of an Anti-Matter particle accelerator came up:
There are few/no reasons why you would want to should anti-matter rather then normal matter.
About the only possible one that comes to mind is a Kinetic Barrier of insane strength capable of halting the beam. That way even though the particles are impacting at a crawl they still do damage.
Still sounds cool though.
Emizaquel
What is a self?
NOT A TECH SUGGESTION :
Codename : Talaria
This project uses rapidly forming and dissipating mass effect fields to temporarily increase the mass of the base of the shoes for 0.3 seconds to such a degree that the inertia of the sole allows user to "step on the air" the system will activate in one of three ways determined by relative the position of the feet to the ground if the feet are on a slight incline opening forward the boots will activate near the to of their arc to allow the user to climb upwards. The second is based on a normal walking gait which activate as the feet ave stilled at the bottom of the arc. The final method reduces the amount the mass of the sole of the shoe is increased allowing the wearer to safely fall towards the ground. this is activated by a slight incline of the shoes opening behind the user.
Codename : Talaria
This project uses rapidly forming and dissipating mass effect fields to temporarily increase the mass of the base of the shoes for 0.3 seconds to such a degree that the inertia of the sole allows user to "step on the air" the system will activate in one of three ways determined by relative the position of the feet to the ground if the feet are on a slight incline opening forward the boots will activate near the to of their arc to allow the user to climb upwards. The second is based on a normal walking gait which activate as the feet ave stilled at the bottom of the arc. The final method reduces the amount the mass of the sole of the shoe is increased allowing the wearer to safely fall towards the ground. this is activated by a slight incline of the shoes opening behind the user.
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Emizaquel
What is a self?
Designed against shields most definitely, the Wrath is designed to be able to utterly annihilate any defence and I just found a better and more importantly less energy intensive method of producing positrons here. The antiparticle beam would be effective against any of the shields I have designed or seen on the thread so far. Anyways, the FTL particle beam with some minor modifications can be used as a lading medium to the positron equivalent of a FEL allowing for more bang for your buck.
You do realise that positrons are positive charged electrons, and thus only react to electrons and due to their low mass, they don't release a lot of energy.
[X] Answer them in whole or part.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "No Paragon Industries personnel of any type have been deployed to Altahe."
-[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."
BTW, are these just randomly shouted questions, or have we done what is at this point traditional and specifically pointed out five people to talk? One is good for us, the other encourages the press to mob us incessantly.
I also don't see our legal team doing a good job dodging taxes. Where's our damn "double Swiss" zero tax loophole? The true sign of wealth is paying less in taxes than a guy making a median wage, when we make a thousand times what they do. This seems like proof that we are insufficiently wealthy.
-[X] "The future, as always."
-[X] "No Paragon Industries personnel of any type have been deployed to Altahe."
-[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."
BTW, are these just randomly shouted questions, or have we done what is at this point traditional and specifically pointed out five people to talk? One is good for us, the other encourages the press to mob us incessantly.
...huh, I don't see it either.
I also don't see our legal team doing a good job dodging taxes. Where's our damn "double Swiss" zero tax loophole? The true sign of wealth is paying less in taxes than a guy making a median wage, when we make a thousand times what they do. This seems like proof that we are insufficiently wealthy.
I also don't see our legal team doing a good job dodging taxes. Where's our damn "double Swiss" zero tax loophole? The true sign of wealth is paying less in taxes than a guy making a median wage, when we make a thousand times what they do. This seems like proof that we are insufficiently wealthy.
We already kinda are....or at least was, with tax breaks due to being based on a outskirt colony to encourage business growth.
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
The average person probably doesn't think about the impact though. It certainly got her name on the map though - and the subsidized Genemodding would have made it a household name. As it is now, Peak Human will definitely do so.
Maybe if PI had ISARs on more planets, expanding energy sales, Shepard would be more well known before the gene mods.
Which is why I keep pressing for an AI research proposal now. Revy's famous for earthshattering breakthroughs in three different branches of science and has nothing to do outside of research for two quarters while she ramps up Flawless Blackboxing; there's no reason not to at least start the process now, while her breakthroughs are fresh in people's minds and her popularity is not tainted by the potentially controversial decisions she'll inevitably have to make as Paragon Industries expands.
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
You realize it will take time for this stuff to spread? If you want the push for AI to coincide with our increased popularity, it should be postponed...until people have actually seen/recieved the benefits of the tech.
Also, the initial push will fail when the Council laughs in the face of whatever idiot suggested it - there won't be dramatic public support for Revy among alien populations until Advanced Xenobiology is completed.
If we're relying on public support (and a public campaign) to push through an AI research proposal then we need to have already started to push the idea in order to appreciably move the public mood before Revy turns thirty and the Reapers invade. We won't need to do something like that unless we decide somewhere down the line to manumit our created AI race(s) and push for Citadel citizenship, or if we're dumb enough to try to sell our AIs as product. In the later case I expect everyone around to start spreading horror stories about the Geth, and at that point there's no way we'd ever get anywhere until long after the Reapers have come to add to the PR problems.
Fortunately we don't need to do that; we just need to persuade two out of three Citadel Councilors to give us a very limited exception to the AI research ban, which shouldn't be so hard if we frame the issue correctly. In the Salarian's case we frame it as an uplift project, the sort of project that gains perennial support with their people; we're just uplifting VIs instead of some organic race. To the Turians we frame it as a strategic asset, a way to study synthetic life in order to prevent future conflicts and to gain advantages against any future hostile synthetics. The Asari probably won't ever support the idea due to their racial bias, but again we can attempt to frame the issue from the standpoint of negotiations and peace, the creation (hopefully) of a race of ambassador AIs that can assist us in preventing conflicts with synthetic life that we may encounter in the future.
If you're thinking of what I think you are, then one decent season, followed by a mediocre second and a third which got canceled halfway through.
SeaQuest I remember seeing a few eps. of this in high school; all I really remember is the logo.
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
What are you talking about? The time to push the idea is when we have unassailable public support, not now when our broad support is shakey at best. Pushing now is just going to get us burnt.
I apologize in advance, but...HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FUCKING MIND?!
That is literally the perfect way to get our request rejected faster than you can say "Krogan Rebellion".
They tell us to promptly fuck off, given how they have no reason to approve giving Humans priority access to any sort of strategic asset - and until we do something big for the Council (like, say, researching Advanced Xenobiology) that is exactly how it would be seen. Not are they so stupid as to not see past such a flimsy excuse.
Again, do you think the veteran politicians who have maintained a galactic status quo for centuries are stupid? They know our company and what we research, that flimsy excuse isn't going to hold. More to the point, the Asari more than anyone will be against us if only because influential members high in their government want us supressed.
And there is no reason whatsoever to think one species of synthetic would be useful as an ambassador any more than an organic would - strife amongst organics makes that clear enough.
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I'm sorry, but what AI research ban? AI research is heavily restricted, but corporations do get licenses for doing it. Kinda like nuclear and bio research are restricted in this day and age. Alliance has a publicly known AI serving on Gagarin Station. There are four corporations licensed to create AIs by the time of ME canon - it's not clear if it's meant to say "four human corporations" or "four corporations total". The issue is proving that we have security enough to do research and that we won't abuse that privilege to use AIs for evil. I also assume that synthetic rights groups would also require that we maintain some AI rights at least in order to get the license.
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
Meh, semantics - there is a ban on AI research, with four exceptions.
From the codex:
From the codex:
It's interesting that they say technically illegal.
Emizaquel
What is a self?
I know for a fact that you can be licences to create AIs infact
So making AIs is the issue and if your AIs turn out to be benevolent or generally not killer robots then I can see that with time your AIs could be recognised as a race. However that is literally years maybe decades from now after trial groups and intensive research on how they would impact society.http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence#Mass_Effect:_Revelation said:
They say that because the good bits of genetic engineering--you know, the stuff we're already researching with Peak Human and Advanced Xenobiology--are technically illegal as well, and yet medi-gel exists and is used throughout Citadel space, despite being technically illegal (check the wiki).
AI research is probably the same sort of deal: prove you're not stupid enough to start another Geth outbreak, and make sure that if you do make any AI products that they are so unbelievably awesome that everyone will overlook the fact that they're technically illegal, and you're in.
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Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
Uh, no. They notice you are making AI, and regardless of how "awesome" they are you get Spectres knocking on your door and information leaked to the press about your near-Geth incident. Humans cry foul, political tensions spike, cue shitstorm.
I was commenting on the fact that it is implying the very existence of AI in Citadel Space is illegal, not just the research. That is interesting phrasing.
If we want AI, there is a very clear path to follow. Secure public support so we cannot be attacked from that angle, secure political goodwill from the Council governments, and become the fifth certified researcher. Knock the ball out of the park, leverage the massive public goodwill we have from our biotech advances to push for a shift in the view on AI while we start putting them to work.