IIRC there's places that actively ranch kangaroos like any other livestock.
Shepard Quest Mk VI, Technological Revolution
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IIRC there's places that actively ranch kangaroos like any other livestock.
Huh, did not know that...half expected kangaroo hunting to be an actual job, the other was expecting them to considered fair game when hit by a car, like most wildlife in the UK.
I wonder what we should use to encourage people to go for it? Adverts with a catchy jingle? Taste testing in as many stores as possible? 'Go green, eat kangaroo' advertisments?
I am vegetarian, so I myself would be more active towards encouraging others to 'switch' to kangaroo due to less environmental impact rather than making claims that it tastes just as good as cattle.
I am vegetarian simply because I cannot stand the texture of meat, rather than anything else.
It has only been a couple of years since I found out that cattle pretty much beats human industry when it comes to greenhouse gases.
Would going the science route and working on peoples desire to cut down on the environmental impact they have even work?
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about as much demand for that as Heavy Mech battle suits apparently
Well a design proposal would be nice.
Other than that the MkII suit tech. In the text for the tech when it go done I was going to indicate that you had ideas for variant suits and leave the floor open to proposals.
IDK say about five times the level of the Legionary, problem isn't power its eezo. Dreadnought level shields require combined systems that are at least the size of two tanks even with arc-reactors.
Just wait until people start planning assassinations. It'll happen it's an empire quest it always happens.
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Ooh! I just can't wait.
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Dangit. I thought I was going to surprise people with my detailed 20 page proposal....
Not really, though. Not yet.
Edit: On that note, can we get a research option for far better batteries? In the event we don't want an arc reactor in something?
For the Hulk Buster thing.
It is not practical for the one side and way to awesome for the other.
To get it out of the way here a proposal:
Those that want to see it build some sort of design proposal for Hoyr. Than a prototype can be build and announced.
There will be crazy people out there who would want one. Just because.
If the Buster is produced individual we can even charge premium and everone is happy.
It is not practical for the one side and way to awesome for the other.
To get it out of the way here a proposal:
Those that want to see it build some sort of design proposal for Hoyr. Than a prototype can be build and announced.
There will be crazy people out there who would want one. Just because.
If the Buster is produced individual we can even charge premium and everone is happy.
How much better? ME capacitors/batteries are already pretty kick ass. When was the last time you saw anyone needing new power cells for their rifle?
That also happens.
What? There's 4 classifications for animals in Australia: Poisonous, Venomous, Otherwise Dangerous and Sheep.
So long as it convinces people to go eat 'roo it works. Keep in mind though that it will take time to switch to kangaroos over cattle, and cattle are still one of the best milk producers around by volume. Europeans are not going to give that up any time soon.
The big issue with diminishing environmental impact has to do with how much effort it takes them to do so. Switching to an electrically powered transit system across human space would go a long way to diminish the environmental impact of industry and transportation, especially if we directly power everything with various grades of arc reactor because that stuff is seriously bullshit efficient when it can generate 8 gigaWatts of power in someone's chest cavity without frying him.
Only thing we'd have to worry about is the palladium supply, but quite frankly with an energy budget like that it should be possible to over time turn all of Earth's transportation needs over to zero moving parts required anti gravity propulsion, while everything that would normally require great amounts of power can have their power provided in situ, minimising transmission losses. This would also make it possible to deconstruct pretty much every power plant in existence and constructing large arc reactor plants inside cities without needing massive cooling ponds, while heating systems inside buildings can all swap over to electrical power instead of gas.
... Have I mentioned how bullshit the arc reactor is? Because it's seriously bullshit. If we can minutarise the technology enough for, say, a fifty kiloWatt arc reactor, which is ludicrous overkill for a household... Okay. Seriously. It costs us $50k to create a 5 GW arc reactor, and it scales upwards without cost changes per Watt, which probably means it'll scale downwards just as easily. 50kW is a hundred thousendth the yield of a 5GW reactor.
We can basically pop out a reactor that will supply most households far beyond their max power draw for 50 cents. And if we sell them at the current mark up for arc reactors, the damn thing costs $1.25. And provides power pretty much indefinitely. And is probably only as big as a penlight battery because to make it its actual expected size makes it to easy to lose.
And if we want to provide standard civilian planet bound vehicles with power plants we only need to create a 500 kW and a 5MW variant to cover pretty much every single possibility in power draw.
Power cell? Power the gun straight off the suit's arc reactor, only thing you need is a power regulation system to cope with the sudden changes in draw. Or just put in a penlight arc reactor because, seriously, that stuff is bullshit.
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Mind you, it would allow a single person to take on a Reaper Brute and probably win, so it might be just something we either produce on the sly in small numbers over the years or hurriedly mass produce them when the Reapers turn up.
EDIT: Hazard, I am under the impression that humans are already are using electrical transport, fusion power plants pretty much makes the cost of recharging the things just as cheap as $1 a gallon like it used to with barely any impact.
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Pretty sure the Legion already does that. The Hulkbuster merely lets you do it on sheer raw physical power, rather than with some combat training.
Both would require training anyway.
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or we can build it for Revy. I mean whats the point of being a teenage billionar tech Genius if you cant make an unmatched super death suit for yourself?
Electrical power's main issue isn't cost of charging, it's speed of charging. Because of this, electrical power is actually a poor choice for long distance travel and high intensity use of the vehicle, a combustible fuel is much better.
An arc reactor basically laughs at both from an energy density and longevity point of view. You might have to replace it once every few months. At worst.
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If this is trash, then find me in the dumpster
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how about we turn the Hulkbuster into a drone and not a suit to be wear over another suit
wouldn't need to leave some space inside the thing to fit some one in
and that mean we can fit even more thing inside to help it murder people
heck, have Cortana pilot the thing like Jarvis
how about we turn the Hulkbuster into a drone and not a suit to be wear over another suit
wouldn't need to leave some space inside the thing to fit some one in
and that mean we can fit even more thing inside to help it murder people
heck, have Cortana pilot the thing like Jarvis
The last two were interesting from the point of view of a small, inconspicuous spybot, but this one's more like a current-day Predator, only with an Arc Reactor inside. Frankly it's obsolete: it's about the same size as a Gladius, but with a lot less capability. An Accipiter or one of your own Augur/Auspex drones would fill basically any conceivable role that this could, only better and cheaper.
Omake idea: Revy playing around with spybots while in "the tank" (doing Peak Human treatments).
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Fair enough?
The Augur/Auspex drones are supposed to be cheap enough to be well replaceable if they get shot down. The Spectare is supposed to stay between some 21-30 kilometers above the planet's surface and orbit above either an objective or a battle-space and assist in communications. It is almost invisible to Radar, literally invisible to IR, and cannot be seen without a good set of binoculars and looking directly at it. In fact, if you alter the paint job, on the bottom to match the sky, you literally would not be able to see it at all.
Also, The other ones can't do C3ISTAR.
You can not give a Hulk Buster a shield as strong as a dreadnought because the measurement of the needed equipment would be as big as two tanks.
That is something I can work with.
It works. Not perfectly but it works. @Hyon I don't know where you have gotten that numbers from but it is suprisingly possible.
But please correct me where I am wrong.
That is something I can work with.
Lets take a generic tank with 10m length, 4m high and 3m width. The two would be 240m³ of equipment.
The Hulk Buster is some 3 to 4m high. The surface area of an humanoid is to hard to put into this little example so lets run with a ball shape instead (a dome shape would be even better). So lets be pessimistic and say that 240m³ equipment are necessary to bring a shield with surface area of 28.27m² (Math= 4*Pi*radius (here 1.5m)^2) to that strength (a 3m ball).
The next step works only if the needed equipment scales linear to the surface area of the shield.
240 / 28.27 = 8.49
So for each square meter of shielded area of dreadnought strength are 8.5 cubic meter of equipment necessary. Now keep in mind that in ME are no examples of mobile directional shield. In ME3 Cerberus placed small mobile covers that needed a separate generator to function and my head canon is that special abilities to place shields work similar.
Break even:
At an radius of 33.95m has the ball enough volume to put the equipment inside of it. That would be 122,966,39m³ of equipment or an cubicle of 50m. Our planned private sail takes up less space that that.
Speaking of it. If we plan to give it shields of that strength to a 100m long frigate the equipment would take 266,666.67m³ of space. That is 68% of the volume of an ball with 50m radius. A block of 64m length, high and width. Doable but ugly.
For an actual dreadnought of 1000m length? 26,666,666,67m³ of equipment. A cube with 300m length. Enormous. Fun fact is that the equipment would only take up 6.79% of the space inside the shield.
A generic 500m cruiser need 6,666,666.67m³ equipment wich would be 13,59%.
The Hulk Buster is some 3 to 4m high. The surface area of an humanoid is to hard to put into this little example so lets run with a ball shape instead (a dome shape would be even better). So lets be pessimistic and say that 240m³ equipment are necessary to bring a shield with surface area of 28.27m² (Math= 4*Pi*radius (here 1.5m)^2) to that strength (a 3m ball).
The next step works only if the needed equipment scales linear to the surface area of the shield.
240 / 28.27 = 8.49
So for each square meter of shielded area of dreadnought strength are 8.5 cubic meter of equipment necessary. Now keep in mind that in ME are no examples of mobile directional shield. In ME3 Cerberus placed small mobile covers that needed a separate generator to function and my head canon is that special abilities to place shields work similar.
The surface area of a ball is: 4*Pi*radius^2
The volume of a ball is: (3*Pi*radius^3)/3
Set up => Volumen Ball = Volumen Equipment
Volumen Ball = (3*Pi*radius^3)/3
Volumen Equipment = Surface Ball * Scaling
Surface Ball = 4*Pi*radius^2
Scaling = 8,488
Radius = X
Together => (3*Pi*X^3)/3=(4*Pi*X^2)*8,488
Easy.
The volume of a ball is: (3*Pi*radius^3)/3
Set up => Volumen Ball = Volumen Equipment
Volumen Ball = (3*Pi*radius^3)/3
Volumen Equipment = Surface Ball * Scaling
Surface Ball = 4*Pi*radius^2
Scaling = 8,488
Radius = X
Together => (3*Pi*X^3)/3=(4*Pi*X^2)*8,488
Easy.
Break even:
At an radius of 33.95m has the ball enough volume to put the equipment inside of it. That would be 122,966,39m³ of equipment or an cubicle of 50m. Our planned private sail takes up less space that that.
Speaking of it. If we plan to give it shields of that strength to a 100m long frigate the equipment would take 266,666.67m³ of space. That is 68% of the volume of an ball with 50m radius. A block of 64m length, high and width. Doable but ugly.
For an actual dreadnought of 1000m length? 26,666,666,67m³ of equipment. A cube with 300m length. Enormous. Fun fact is that the equipment would only take up 6.79% of the space inside the shield.
A generic 500m cruiser need 6,666,666.67m³ equipment wich would be 13,59%.
But please correct me where I am wrong.
So, less like a Raptor and more like a miniaturized AWACS plane, something stuffed with sensors and comm gear to provide better on-site C&C. Okay, that makes more sense.
Hmm, maybe it could also have deployable drop pods to let troops on the ground change out mission loads on the fly. I'd be hesitant to include many offensive weapons on something like this, however.
How are you doing scaling? The amount of eezo and the power needed to a create a mass effect field of a given strength affecting an object of a givenmass scale exponentially with both the mass affected and the strength of a field (specifically with c_in/c, where c_n is the speed of light inside the field, c speed of light in normal vacuum). Now, the shields don't affect the actual ship, but there's no such thing as perfect vacuum...
Actually, never mind. Instead of making one big shield, which would scale exponentially, one instead would make lots and lots of small shield emitters, where each shield would affect a given volume of space, essentially creating shield "scales", instead of a single "shell". This way the amount of eezo and power (and, thus, costs) scale linearly with the surface area protected (and one gets massive redundancy where local shield overload doesn't affect the shield in other areas) instead of exponentially.
Say, isn't this how shields actually work in ME? I doubt Bioware thought of this, but it's an I teresting bit of trivia.
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That's why it's called a payload bay, not a bomb bay. You could certainly use it as a bomb bay, but it's not optimized for it.
It also has hardpoints. You can strap sensors to them, you strap cargo to them, you can put all sorts of things to them. It's just that by dint of being universal, you can also stick missiles and rockets on them.
The only dedicated weapon on it is the gun pod, mostly because, well, if there is literally nothing else and the dudes need help right that instant, well, gun.
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Anti-GARDIAN Missile concept.
Have a 90 degree corner mirror strapped onto a missile and fire it at a ship.
The mirror reflects the laser back into either the hull of the ship or directly back into the weapon, causing massive damage and disabling the CIWS.
After the ship's CIWS is stripped away, you can deploy regular missiles as much as you please. It's perfect!
Have a 90 degree corner mirror strapped onto a missile and fire it at a ship.
The mirror reflects the laser back into either the hull of the ship or directly back into the weapon, causing massive damage and disabling the CIWS.
After the ship's CIWS is stripped away, you can deploy regular missiles as much as you please. It's perfect!
Eh. I'm not sure that would work.
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Even if it's designed as a sacrificial weapon I suspect the beam would be diffused by the mirror melting so the return beam wouldn't cause much/any damage.
This drone should never get closer enough to use a gun for anything: if it gets within a mile of a target it's because it's being chased. Stuff like missile chaff, and Sagitta/Pilium missile pods would make more sense.
I guess the next step is coming up with logistics drones that can be deployed from your AWACS drone, or a Tiger. Sort of a prelude to 'VERONICA'.
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