As for Hyper-modularity, I'd love to pick it up, but we'll need to wait until next quarter. We'll have 6 Factory IIIs coming online at the end of 2173-Q4, and we'll be able to much more easily fill orders for Appia and Virgo then. That, BTW, is yet another good reason to pick up anti-ship missiles; we can load a half dozen of those onto our mining colony space stations and give them a decent ranged defense against space-AK pirate raiders without having to give them black hole guns or similar.
Well we don't need to wait to research it - presumably the Appia and Virgo would need time to be designed too after their prerequisite tech is invented.
And do we not already sell stuff hyper-modularity would benefit? What about our transforming guns? What about setting up contracts to design and then licensing hyper-modularity components for other (civilian) products, so those companies can sell stuff making use of the tech?
Okay, I think I finally have enough satisfactory answers to call this compilation beta-complete. I've stolengotten a lot of inspiration from@UberJJK and @Yog and other people on this thread, so I'll definitely be looking for other things to change, but for now:
[O] Plan TheEyes
v 0.5 Beta
Votes
Invest in security? 1 million per building per quarter (amount will be the same for any "high security" buildings)
[O] Yes
[ ] No
[O] Some other amount (More for better security!)
-[O] See drone defenses, below.
Who do you want to get your PMC license from?
[O] Systems Alliance (1.5 million in total fees)
[O] Citadel (1 million in fees)
[ ] The Terminus (Free because there is no license!)
[ ] Don't start a PMC
PMC Name?
[O] Paragon Security Services - ParSec
Who will you pursue? (Choose one)
[ ] Gala Da'van
[ ] Jenzel Fend nar Rayya
[O] Gaver Dor
[ ] No one
Will you try to acquire anything? (Choose one)
[ ] Starship parts (200 million credits, 100 points to next level of starship tech, Bradley now gets 265,000 per Production)
[O] Ship weapons components (400 million credits, 200 points to next level of MAC tech, Bradley now gets 260,000 per Production)
-This will buy 200m MAC outright, which is pretty good for us.
[ ] Nothing
Do you want to grab one of the sites?
[O] Underground base is go! (Security bonus, additional costs 20 million)
-[O] Look into large-scale kinetic barriers, both for our lab complex and the nearby capital city. Also look into sponsoring a GARDIAN array and advanced power station, if they don't have one already.
[ ] Big site (+1 factory slot)
[ ] Nah, stay in/near the capital
[ ] Actually let's not expand to Elysium.
What type of interview? (You can if you wish review any type of interview before publication.)
[O] Video
[ ] Audio
[ ] Text
Where will you do the interview?
[ ] Over the extranet
[O] At the Paragon Industries complex
-[O] Stage the room correctly: lots of bookshelves/computer intervaces, Revy in a labcoat. Maybe stage inside her workshop, though obviously not with any current research right out in the open.
[ ] At your home
What got you into science and engineering in the first place?
[O] "Mostly through my dad. My father and I have been tinkering with things for as long as I can remember; some of my earliest memories are fixing broken farm equipment or 'improving' some of our household appliances. At first I was happy just learning to build more and more complex things, but as I grew older I started wanting to know how the things we were building worked and why they worked one way and not another. So diving into science ws a natural outgrowth of that."
Where did the idea for the Legionary armor come from?
[O] "The Legionary armor was originally just a test bed for the Arc Reactor. When I had been building my first Arc Reactor, I needed something that could draw and use enough power to push it to the limits. Given just how much power it could produce the only thing I had was an old hardsuit my dad had bought for my thirteenth birthday to play around with.
-[O] "Even that however wasn't capable of drawing enough so I needed to modify it further. One thing lead to another and before I knew it the hardsuit was halfway to becoming fully fledged battle armor. At which point I just decided to actually make it into battle armor; I've never really been one to leave things half finished."
What can you tell us about the arc-reactor (and/or other PI technologies)?
[ ] Keep it vague.
[ ] Basic layman's explanation
[O] Basic technical details.
-[O] Try to get hints from Nova Mark as to how technical to get; this is a show for the public after all, not a science symposium.
-[O] But only of stuff that we've already released to the public; don't add in any new info here. In other words: Arc Reactors and genemodding, one of which is patented and the other of which is basically open-sourced now.
-[O] Mix in some anecdotes and funny stories from research process.
What do you think the effects of the arc-reactor will be on society?
-[O] @UberJJK's Arc Reactor effects discussion:
I think it will be profound and far reaching. Ever since the first caveman used fire to keep his cave warm energy has been the backbone of society. As history has shown time and time again, from coal powering the industrial revolution to fusion power letting us finally colonize the stars after a century of spaceflight, changes in energy technology can radically alter civilization.
I see the Arc Reactor bringing great hope, as many things once deemed impractical become reality, and great sorrow, as many who's livelihoods depend upon the current energy system.
While I could talk for ages on the potential effects I want to focus on one in particular. Fusion fuel. Right now ships are tethered to Helium-3 refueling platforms. They can risk traveling too far from a refueling station without risking becoming stranded.
With the introduction of Arc Reactors however that problem fades away. Now the only fuel required is deuterium which is easily extracted from water ice comets and gas giants. That leaves the only limitation on travel distance as life support.
So I wouldn't be surprised to see a new wave of exploration and a shakeup of trade routes. Especially once repulsor equipped ships start making their way onto the market in a couple years time.
And on the military?
[O] @UberJJK's military logistics explanation:
Well there are the obvious massive increase in kinetic barrier strength but I think we should talk about the less obvious but far more important effect.
Military Logistics.
It's often said that amateurs talk tactics and professionals talk logistics. While it's almost certainly not this simple the basic premise is sound. There is a reason after all why one of the first acts in war is to take out enemy fuel depots and helium-3 mining installations.
This is no longer a problem for the Alliance, and any other military purchasing Arc Reactors.
This effect ripples through in numerous ways. For instance worlds with Helium-3 mines or Fuel Depots are no longer strategic locations requiring defense which frees up ships to either guard other locations or to go on the offense.
Another example is that it is now possible to build effectively self sufficient military facilities. Life support can be provided by either the native environment or hydroponics facilities. Replacement parts can be manufactured from the remains of broken parts. Power is supplied for decades with a small amount of palladium. Not only would this significantly cut down on the costs but it also makes these facilities almost impossible to locate unless you stumble across them.
What should we expect to see next from Paragon Industries?
[ ] Write-in
-[O] Show of something? (Write in)
--[O] Talk about Peak Human, now in clinical trials, and how it offers a way to apply the effects of genemods to currently living humans. Play up the humanitarian aspect, and the fact that, as far as we're concerned, biotech like this is charity work for us, to be used for the benefit of all mankind.
Who's you favorite historical scientist?
[ ] Write-in
[O] Name-dropping carpet bomb: "When I was younger, I'd have to say my favorite scientist was Nikola Tesla, the quintessential mad scientist. As I grew older, my horizons have expanded. Really, the history of human scientific achievement is full of people to admire."
-[O] Archemides and Heron of Alexandria; I fully believe if these two men had ever met, then humanity would have had an industrial revolution, maybe even achieved spaceflight, 2,000 years ago.
-[O] Newton, the father of modern science.
-[O] Lomonosov and Michael Faraday, both are inspirational poor-to-Professor stories
-[O] There's also Ada Lovlace, Marie Curie, or any of the Harvard Computers if we're looking for a good female role model.
-[O] Etc.
What will you do?
[ ] Pay (500 million credits)
[ ] Keep investigating without the information
-[ ] How much will you spend?
[O] Stop investigating
-[O] This is starting to become a waste of our time and money. Thank the Shadow Broker agent for his/her time, but the information is just not worth what he or she is trying to charge.
What shall we do?
[O] Sell a few large arc-reactors to Eldfell-Ashland Energy
-[O] However many they want, though we're manufacturing-limited until 2174
-[ ] How many, in what power and at what price?
[O] Sell/Donate to The Post Scarcity Society
-[O] 100 of the basic model this year, then 100 per quarter hereafter
-[ ] Donate (How many of what power?)
-[ ] Don't Donate
[ ] Give the Turian Hierarchy a discount on their bulk order(s)
[O] Hold off on volume discounts to the Turian Hierarchy until 2174. They'll probably need until that long to integrate our Reactors into their ships anyway.
-[ ] How Much?
Company Actions:
[O] Start that Private Military Company. Allocate 200 million for extra-large barracks, admin building, and training facilities.
-[O] Hire legal, admin, and marketing teams for our PMC. Set new teams to work gauging market demand for our services.
-[O] Once we have spare fab cycles (in other words, next quarter, when we're looking to hire), pro-actively start manufacturing Legionary suits and Tiger vehicles w/ full loadouts, so we can have our security/PMC forces start working with them as soon as they are hired.
[O] Expand our partnership with Sirta to include enhancement services for Magi Biotic Amp, basic/advanced neural interface implants and Peak Human treatment, when available. Toss ~1 billion in here to jump-start building/retrofitting more hospitals/clinics on Earth and colonies.
-[O] For now, charge what the market will bear for Magi Biotic Amp, neural interface, and Peak Human treatments. Funnel all of our profits into subsidized genetic medicine for the poor/needy/disabled (Note: this includes relief for L2 biotics with severe health problems related to their implants).
[O] Patent the Repulsor in Alliance space. Same deal as with the Arc Reactor before, and with the same expectation, that we will eventually be going to the Citadel with it within a few years.
[O] Add drone defenses to all lab complexes and manufacturing plants
-[O] Build our own drones --call them Auxilia? Lancearii?
--[O] Allocate the remaining ~24 production for the quarter, plus 5 million credits per facility to making said drones.
-[O] Show off our new Deathbots to Kasumi
--[O] Apologize that there are no chainsaw katanas.
[O] Start our Lab complexes on Elysium (Lab I & Research I) (40 million)
-[O] Add on Elysium Admin building, per @Hoyr
-[O] Shut down Shifting Development's facilities on Watson and move the personnel here.
-[O] Build on-site Barracks and hire 10 security teams for the construction site, to be expanded to 20 upon completion of labs.
-[O] Set up quarterly bulk transport of one-time pads for secure comm encryption from headquarters to factories (allocate 2 million per factory per quarter for data disk manufacture, generation of random one-time pads, and secure shipping), and for bi-directional data transfer between lab complexes (allocate 4 million per lab complex per quarter)
--[O] Note that since quantum computing is already a thing in the ME universe, we can actually store qubits in some sort of persistent storage, ship them to our destination, and read them at the destination, effectively doing QKD by courier.
[O] Let's make twelve Factory IIIs (12 billion) and a small shipyard in geostationary orbit over our main lab complex in Midnoir (5 billion)
-[O] Build on Midnoir until we've hit our limit, then start on Elysium.
-[O] Build on-site Barracks and hire 5 security team per city, plus 10 teams for the orbital platform, to be expanded to 10 upon completion of factories / 20 for spaceport Start with hardsuits, and expand to Legionary suits as fab cycles become available
-[O] Shipyard will also serve as orbital defense platform, if allowed by Midnoir government
[O] Hire more investigative teams this quarter, to handle the following:
-[O] Get our people to start looking into the AI research issue. How did the five companies licensed to research AI secure the rights? Who do we need to lobby? Who is going to be most against us? Etc etc.
-[O] Have our people look into starting a construction company, or at least putting together a construction and maintenance division at PI. These days we're just building constantly, and since we're doing it constantly it's better, more efficient, and more secure to just hire/vet a permanent construction crew.
-[O] Have our people look into the legalities of arming our (under construction) orbital shipyard for use as a planetary defense platform.
-[O] Have our people look into other expansion opportunities; I want to be able to start building factories and labs as soon as we have the cash. Maybe Terra Nova next? Beckenstein would be a good place to plonk down Factory IIIs exclusively to make Arc Reactors for Citadel races.
-[O] Have our people look into proactive recruitment. We may be coming up against the limit of how many ex-Marines we can hire, so we may need to start an Academy of sorts to train new security personnel.
[O] Hire marketing teams for new products and services:
-[O] Develop and prepare to sell Arcane Blur stealth armor for fighters, Tiger IFVs, and upgrades to weapons/armor systems for current Alliance hardware.
-[O] Develop and prepare to sell Veles civilian-grade armor, developed in Slayer Anderson's omake. None is military-grade, so it can be sold to all Citadel races (pending legal approval). Include options for nonlethal weapons, Sagitta mounts, and wrist-mounted SMGs, especially for the larger variations.
--[O] Will probably need to hire additional marketing teams and design teams to compete effectively in the civilian market.
-[O] How did that game design come out? Can we hire a creative team to continue development on these lines, maybe spin off a subsidiary focused on code products (games, VIs, etc)?
--[O] Set up a division responsible for working with VIs. We already have code-monkeys - organize them, get more, and put them to work. Our improved algorithms are a major breakthrough, with dozens of applications even if we don't want to freely distribute our full-fledged Security systems and the like. This division will be responsible for creating VIs and operating systems for a variety of products: military, police, medical, industrial, and commercial. Other companies can build their products, and license a Paragon Industries VI/OS to run them. We can have standard line to replace some widely used ones for common products, we can create specific ones on request, etc.
Previous quarter buildings:
13 complete
8 factories under construction
Spending:
Total available: 19,456,630,100 and 24 production
Spending (in millions):
65 - Drone security on complete buildings
47 - "Extra" security on complete & incomplete buildings
2.5 - license fees
400 - Weapons tech
20 - Underground base
200 - PMC complex
1000 - Expanded partnership with Sirta
40 - Elysium Lab I / Research I
10 - Barracks Elysium
70 - factory Barracks
8 - bulk one-time pads for labs
12000 - Factory IIIs
5000 - Small Shipyard
2 - bulk one-time pads for factories
Total spent: 18,864,500,000 and 24 production
New hires:
45 new security teams
4 marketing teams
1 admin team
1 legal team
10 VI programmer teams
Research
Revy: 4x 10d10+5
Labs: 4x 10d10+10
Research Teams: 12x 10d10+20
Conrad: 1x 10d10+15
Basic Research: 8x +10 (Must be applied to a 10d10, one application per 10d10)
[O] Biotics training/exercise with Rahna. Consider hiring a Turian/Asari/Salarian biotic tutor, but keep Rahna around to keep everyone honest. Maybe the two of them could work out better ways to train human biotics, taking into account species and cultural differences with humans.
[O] Brain surgery for fun and profit: install Advanced Neural Interface and CASIE Implant.
-[O] Peak Human too, if possible, but keep the changes modest here. You're looking for more endurance, speed, and clarity of thought, not to look like a female bodybuilder, or even to significantly change your body type.
-[O] To make the most of the CASIE implant, make a detailed study of debate, forensics (NOT forensic science), and interviewing techniques. You are quickly becoming a public figure; you need to learn how to deal with journalists and politicians.
-[O] Get Peak Human treatments for family, esp. for dad, and implants if they want them. Call it an early birthday present, let Dad make the mind-rending joke that it's more like an anniversary gift to each other.
-[O] Ask mom and others about military regs for soldier boosts. Can we take care of Brian's boosts (eg. slip Peak Human, maybe an ANI implant) in as a substitute to his regulation soldier boosts?
And do we not already sell stuff hyper-modularity would benefit? What about our transforming guns? What about setting up contracts to design and then licensing hyper-modularity components for other (civilian) products, so those companies can sell stuff making use of the tech?
-For 2173-Q3 (current voting quarter), all but 24 of our production is taken by pre-existing contracts. That might be enough to make drone defenses for 13 buildings.
-For 2173-Q4, all but 1500 production is taken by pre-existing contracts; I kind of want to reserve that for building Legionary suits and Tigers for our security staff and the PMC staff we're going to be hiring then.
-For 2174-Q1, we have 221,000 production unaccounted for, thanks to 6 brand new Factory IIIs coming online. Now, most of that can probably go straight into Arc Reactors for SA and Citadel consumption, and Tigers for the SA, and upgrades for current SA hardware, and Veles civilian-grade armor, but maybe we can find some room to preview Appias and Virgos to mining companies, and propose a mobile space station to the Quarians, but really that's the earliest we can possible do it.
Well we don't need to wait to research it - presumably the Appia and Virgo would need time to be designed too after their prerequisite tech is invented.
And do we not already sell stuff hyper-modularity would benefit? What about our transforming guns? What about setting up contracts to design and then licensing hyper-modularity components for other (civilian) products, so those companies can sell stuff making use of the tech?
This and more. Hyper modularity is a design standard from what I understand, or a set of algorithms, technologies and know-hows allowing one to create hyper-modular tech, from a blender to a car to startship. I want to have it, and I want to disseminate it in the market. I.e. I want to license it out as much as possible.
This and more. Hyper modularity is a design standard from what I understand, or a set of algorithms, technologies and know-hows allowing one to create hyper-modular tech, from a blender to a car to startship. I want to have it, and I want to disseminate it in the market. I.e. I want to license it out as much as possible.
Advanced Paragon Industries VI system providing full Fire Control as well as Remote and Autonomous operation.
Cost - 400,000cr Production - 2.2
Description:
The Accipiter is the ultimate next generation space warfare drone. It's minimalistic design consists solely of six Paragon Industries Repulsors attached to a Paragon Industries 5GW Arc Reactor with the minimum computer technology required to function.
This allows the Accipiter to fit within it's never before seen dimensions. At 30cm aside it's the smallest combat drone known to exist. That however doesn't stop it from been one of the most deadly. While lacking in the traditional mass accelerator or missile capability most drones possess the Accipiter's use of the Kzinti Lesson more then makes up for this.
Once within 1km of it's target the Accipiter uses it's incredible 3.5km/s/s acceleration to evade enemy GARDIAN defenses while using it's reuslor beams to destroy critical and/or vulnerable locations such as the bridge, engines, and reactor.
Acceleration:
I'm estimating that a Repulsor and Arc Reactor each mass a kilogram given how comfortably Pepper holds an Arc Reactor with the tips of her fingers.
With a thrust of 25,000N from each Repuslor and a Repulsor facing each possible direction it's pretty easy to calculate the acceleration:
Force = Mass * Acceleration
25,000 = 7 * Acceleration
Acceleration = 25,000/7
Acceleration = 3,571.4m/s/s
I'm rounding that down to 3,500m/s/s to account for the little bit of extra mass from the computer gear and connective wiring but I feel it's probably a fair estimate.
Dodging:
At 10km it takes a laser 0.00003 seconds to travel from the ship to the Accipiter. At 3.5km/s/s the Accipiter can move:
X = 0.5*3,500*0.00003^2
X = 1,750 * 1.1*10^-9
X = 1.95*10^-6m = 1.95 micrometers
So obviously it can't actually dodge the laser. However it doesn't need to. The Accipiter only has to move 30cm to dodge any attack targeted at it. At 3.5km/s/s this only takes 85.7 microseconds.
To adjust the PD laser would have to turn:
Tan(X) = 0.3/10,000
Tan(X) = 0.00003
X = Tan-1(0.00003)
X = 0.001719 degrees.
So to keep up it must have a turn rate of:
0.001719 degrees / 85.7 microseconds = 20 degrees per second. Which given that a Phalanx CIWS can pull off 115 degrees per second is easily doable.
However if we drop the distance down to 1km
Tan(X) = 0.3/1,000
Tan(X) = 0.0003
X = Tan-1(0.0003)
X = 0.01719degrees.
The rotation speed goes up to 200 degrees per second which is probably out of the capabilities of the GARDIANs.
We'd certainly lose Accipiters while they closed on enemy frigates but that's why they are designed to be so simple. They are cheap and easy to make. For the same cost as a single Gladius we could make 437 Accipiter and since they are so tiny (and cubic) 2,600 of them would fit in the same space as a single Tiger IFV.
Damage:
The Tiger has a 100mm Repulsor as one of it's main gun options. That should tell you the level of damage to expect here. Although I figure this would be slightly less powerful since it's more optimized to be an engine rather then a dedicated weapon.
Still 700MW of energy is a lot and will burn through most ship armors and expose the soft gooey inside.
I was bored but didn't feel like working on my vote, which is really a mixture of stuff I came up with ages ago and stuff I'm pilfering from TheEyes' vote. So I decided to actually write up this idea I've been pondering for a while.
Interestingly enough by my estimate a Factory III would be able to produce an Accipiter every nine and a half minutes. So over the course of an hour our Elsyium underground base could make 18 Accipiter since it would have three Factory IIIs. Certainly not enough to take care of a large attack force but you could probably nail a frigate, maybe two if your lucky, with that.
This and more. Hyper modularity is a design standard from what I understand, or a set of algorithms, technologies and know-hows allowing one to create hyper-modular tech, from a blender to a car to startship. I want to have it, and I want to disseminate it in the market. I.e. I want to license it out as much as possible.
This... is a very good point. More to the point, it can be a benefit to us next quarter, while anti-starship torpedoes... might not be. I mean, I guess we can load them on our shipyard, in case of space-AK attack a quarter earlier; along with our super-Sagitta that should be good for repelling lesser pirates from Landing. So, is it worth delaying development on super-Piliums for a quarter to get hyper-modular tech out there earlier?
And stuff like hyper-modular factories and assembly lines... Well, it's the first step towards universal constructors. And a definitive boost to productivity and ability to mobilize for war.
This... is a very good point. More to the point, it can be a benefit to us next quarter, while anti-starship torpedoes... might not be. I mean, I guess we can load them on our shipyard, in case of space-AK attack a quarter earlier; along with our super-Sagitta that should be good for repelling lesser pirates from Landing. So, is it worth delaying development on super-Piliums for a quarter to get hyper-modular tech out there earlier?
On the subject of convergent technology: somewhere between Liara's artifact, advanced xenobiology, advanced prosthetics, and neural interfaces, I expect us to replicate asari melding mechanically, if not prothean space magic postcognition (because goddamn, that was just blatant magic). Which might work as a stop - gap cure for ardat-yakshi.
Interestingly enough by my estimate a Factory III would be able to produce an Accipiter every nine and a half minutes. So over the course of an hour our Elsyium underground base could make 18 Accipiter since it would have three Factory IIIs. Certainly not enough to take care of a large attack force but you could probably nail a frigate, maybe two if your lucky, with that.
Okay, now imagine someone trying to fight through the halls of a facility with this stream of drones facing them.
Imagine how much that would suck (for them).
And stuff like hyper-modular factories and assembly lines... Well, it's the first step towards universal constructors. And a definitive boost to productivity and ability to mobilize for war.
Weirdly, I think our factories are already hyper-modular; certainly we don't have to arse around with retooling times and the like. I was sort of bandying around the idea before, but we sort of got distracted by, well, your paper actually. So, that reminds me: @Hoyr, any new thoughts on generalizing what we're basically already doing, so we can build specialized and/or single-product factories both cheaper and with shorter build times?
Don't forget Anti-Personnel, Anti-Vehicle, and Urban Combat; these things are perfectly well suited for buzzing around inside buildings and putting giant holes in people and vehicles as well.
@TheEyes, feel free to use my stunts in the vote (since no-one noticed my carefully crafted vote, grumble grumble). For the record, I voted to train biotics and showed off the Magi.
I think I got a new idea for how to describe the repelling force of the PME fields. Through Casimir-like effect. It might be present - vacuum energy density will be higher in PME, so there might be pressure. Now, I just need to try to do math. I make no guarantee of success this time, though. This is quantum physics and serious stuff.
EDIT: I'm admitting defeat on Casimir effect explanation - too hard for me. Also, I'll explain TIR in basic terms, but without going into real mechanics. If I do, I think I might not survive. Because from there I would have to go into Maxwell's equations and completely butcher them, and I might get something very, very strange in the end, and, frankly, that's way too much work with very little hope of success.
Weirdly, I think our factories are already hyper-modular; certainly we don't have to arse around with retooling times and the like. I was sort of bandying around the idea before, but we sort of got distracted by, well, your paper actually. So, that reminds me: @Hoyr, any new thoughts on generalizing what we're basically already doing, so we can build specialized and/or single-product factories both cheaper and with shorter build times?
I think I'll finish the paper (hope it counts as an omake), then draft the galaxy-busting WMD proposal (how about Longinus for the name? Or maybe Veto) before December 31st.
Once again you find yourself on the stage, looking upon your many subj- customers, each of them watching you intently. A few of them watch the small object sitting covered by a cloth on a pedestal on the centre of the stage. You feel your ANI connect to the sound system lining the walls of the auditorium, effortlessly allowing you to make yourself heard. You mentally go over the plan for the presentation.
"Welcome one and all to the latest paragon industries product launch," you proclaim, "Just a few short moths ago, we changed the face of infantry warfare, A few weeks ago, we changed the face of armoured warfare, today! Today we change the face of space warfare! For today, I will be presenting The Accipiter!"
As the shroud rose off your creation many of the audience members unconsciously lean forward, trying to get closer to this world -no- galaxy shaping event. Their eyes focused on the newest game-changer in your lineup.
The device was almost spherical, though slightly oblong, with a series of recessed repulsors placed along it's surface, the device looks futuristic, even to you. The light glow of the arc-reactor seeping through the propulsion system, leaves it with a blatant technological feel. To you it shows your dominance of the realm of science, even it's looks makes it seem far beyond even the protheans.
You link up to it with your ANI, controlling it, guiding it in a lazy arc around the small auditorium.
The eyes of your audience track it as it floats across the room.
"The Accipiter is an anti-fighter and anti-frigate drone, don't let it's size fool you, the Accipiter is the most powerful of it's kind. Thanks to the on-board arc-reactor and repulsor system this beauty can accelerate at more that 3.5 km/s^2 allowing it to outpace most forms of point defence and strike a heavy blow on any target.
While it's elegant design might have you underestimating it, the Accipiter is capable of great damage to any target. This is thanks to the Kzinti lesson. Each of these repulsors is able to output as much force as a torpedo's warhead in a space the size of your palm, puncturing hulls with ease. On board computers will allow effective threat assessment allowing for each and every strike will take out critical systems. If one of your frigates were to deploy a complement of these drones they would be able to turn the tide of any battle in their favour."
You bring the drone to the back of the room before having it race across the entire length in the blink of an eye, stopping and landing on the pedestal instantly. "Any questions?" you ask with a smirk.
Do we have to bring reality into this? And really, in a universe where this quest's PC can born, I wouldn't actually dismiss the possibility of Tesla actually having working plans for the more unrealistic inventions he talked about.
Do we have to bring reality into this? And really, in a universe where this quest's PC can born, I wouldn't actually dismiss the possibility of Tesla actually having working plans for the more unrealistic inventions he talked about.
