whelp a single spotter and you can have an entire fleet stealthed.
True. But Qcoms were only just starting to appear (and weren't small by any measure) more than a decade in the future. Development of TIR will push them forward, but they won't be appearing overnight (well, our will, as we'll be developing some).
Yup; our Cabiras, when they're deployed, will be awesome. We'll have to make a point of letting the main weapon system be easily swappable, though: our gigawatt lasers will be nice, but 6-9 months after we start deploying them I'm hoping @Hoyr will allow us to combine a few techs to let us shoot black hole MACs, and that's even cooler than GRASERs.
Handing off the whole hunt to the SA like this is sure to turn whatever the treasure is into a political football; whatever happens to it, it's highly unlikely that Paragon Industries will get any part of it.
I'm a little nervous about sending a full company of troops, though I suppose that depends on if he means "company" as in 80-100 troops or "company" as in 200-250 troops. If it's the later then half of those troops are only going to be sent out in red shirts, as his plan has only 100 Legionary suits being built for the whole of ParSec, and nothing else.
I'm committing a highly-mobile base to the project (allowing it to double as a good shake-down mission for the Appia), as well as Tigers, missile and gun emplacement drones, pretty much the works. I'd have sent Revy along herself, too, since @Hoyr already let us peek behind the curtain and told us that it would have had little impact even on quarterly research time, which meant that there's little risk of something going wrong, but everyone's still reeling from that Charlie Foxtrot that was the last special event, so that idea's plainly going nowhere, and I kind of agree with the group there.
Hm. Okay, looking over the relevant story post I see you're right; Liara herself says that looters will only be "delayed", not that it's impossible that anyone else could discover the ruins from her own published notes and the relics themselves. How about:
with all the other stuff we're spending cash on we don't actually have enough this quarter for them.
"With appropriate tactics and ECM." I'm not suggesting you fly straight at the damn ship. Jam sensors, use debris from the ship that got blown out from under you, play dead and get pulled onboard if the MkII isn't known to the wider galaxy- there's plenty of possible mechanisms by which a boarding could be achieved.
Three orders of magnitude. Are you seriously saying that every ship in Mass Effect has a barrier a thousand times stronger then it's armor? Because that's never suggested in canon.
Could you please link to where it was said that ablative armor was made of graphite?
Very. I'm projecting that anti-ship missiles will be critical for us over the next 9-12 months:
If that's the case, then we really need to have them fully equipped before we send them into the field, don't we? Your plan currently hires 500 extremely expensive soldiers, equips them with 100 Legionary suits, 0 Tigers, 0 Sagittarius drones, 0 Accipiters, 0 Hastatis, and 0 Gladius fighters, and sends all of them into heavy combat missions. That, IMO, is a bad plan, which is one of the reasons I'm voting to have them train for the next 3 months while we free up production capacity to equip them properly.
I sort of doubt that @Hoyr will let us toss a gigawatt-range laser in the GARDIAN slot of anything smaller than a Dreadnought. My take on the various lasers:
Well, FTL missiles might work. But that opens a big can of worms, namely "perfectly asymmetrical warfare" where no target can be safe except those that constantly have shields up. Basically? We need planetary (and, in some cases, solar system) shields before going into missile tech seriously, otherwise we risk extinction.
Hm. Apparently Enduring-grade planetary shields, according to @Hoyr's pricing scheme, are 2.5*10^18 credits each. Yeah, that's... gonna take awhile, even with our crazy exponential growth curve.
Those Campus-grade shields are already going to take 3 quarters to complete, and the City one's going to take a full year; we don't want to put them off any more than we have to. Fortunately my plan has 411 million credits remaining, so if we can get a pair of omakes up before voting closes we can get both upgrades basically for free; I'd rather not spend non-omake RPs on something like this since they're basically trading RPs and production for cash, and if there's one thing we're kind of not hurting on it's cash, relative to our constantly in-demand RPs and free production.
...yeah. So one Mindoir secondary site would be coming online at the same time as Landing's shields instead of with the other secondary site. Hardly a big deal.
Well, we could have city grade ones + some terraforming to bring planets back into habitable range. That and space habitats.
Because it's a waste of RPs. The smallest block of non-omake RP we can assign is one of Revy's four 10d10+15 blocks. Those average 70, so on average we're wasting (70-50)/2=10 RPs each time. It's not much, but RPs are our most limited and valuable resource.
