Shepard Quest Mk VI, Technological Revolution
- Thread starter Hoyr
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Right now we have a megawatt-class laser (probably 1 MW) on our Tigers, and a 5 GW laser on our Pyndas.
I doubt it would need Swarm Networking. The coordination is very basic stuff, the sort of thing we have today, and the security isn't needed since, as I mentioned in the AN you quoted, I figure the final version, IE: not the test stuff, would use QECs to communicate back to a supercomputer in a secure location.
With a well designed system you don't need to send much data for it to work.
I know only very little medicine, but I think that multiple redundant blood pump-cleaners spread through the armor would at least keep the body functioning, mostly. Some pain overrides too.
- Location
- America
Design Proposal 1
PI-OSLC-01A
Athena Orbital Satellite Laser Cannon
Role - Fire Support
Weaponry
Production - 300
PI-OSLC-01A
Athena Orbital Satellite Laser Cannon
Role - Fire Support
Weaponry
- PI 15 GW laser cannon
- 6x RT-01-50E thrusters
- Invisible Man
- 1x Paragon Industries Arc Reactors (4 TW)
- 6x RT-01-50E thrusters
- Advanced Paragon Industries VI system providing full Fire Control as well as Remote and Autonomous operation.
Production - 300
Keep in mind that each and every single blood pump requires invasive surgery and clogs up a major vein, artery or both when not functioning.
That's what advanced prosthetics is for. To make those implants completely beneficial with no side-effects.
That's impossible.
And I don't mean 'with the right engineering and some applied phlebotinum you can get around it,' I mean it's literally impossible. Simply because to make a pump work you've got to put the working mechanism right in the middle of the intended flow of fluid. If that stops working, the passage is blocked well enough that it's dangerous at best that it's still there.
You could avoid part of the problem by putting the pump mechanism on a shunt, but in that case you'll still have to deal with the fact that the shunt will decrease efficiency and most likely create a flow dead zone through which no blood flows. Which means hello necrotising tissue due to a lack of fresh oxygen as well as a good risk of the creation of a clot of blood once the shunt stops diverting blood to the pump because it's no longer necessary.
Not with mass effect fields, it isn't. A simple pump system that doesn't face this problems would be a tube lined with eezo that, when activated, applies localized gravity, accelerating the blood in a given direction. No interference with the flow of blood at all.
... Right. You want to take a well known carcinogenic substance, encapsulate it in an insulator and take it into an environment where there's guarenteed to be shit flying around that can break it. Nevermind the question how you are going to power the damn thing. Nor, for that matter, explaining how you are going to deal with the fact that the cardiopulmonary system itself is a major obstacle to this emergency system's effectiveness the moment the hearth itself quits working.
Was doing a quick re-read, and noticed something:
Even the highest levels only barely reach what the average martial artist can do with a quick reverse punch, let alone the kinds of crazy things they get up to when they're breaking concrete blocks with their fists, or what a professional boxer can throw out.
Yet more proof that ME's numbers are just weird.
By the way, just for reference: this is rank 3 of 12 under the ME1 system, or Rank 2 of 4 under ME2. On a more RL comparison, it's also 157 pounds, which isn't all that much when thinking in terms of punches. At this level it's not so much "punch" things with your brain as "give them a quick jab" with your brain.
Even the highest levels only barely reach what the average martial artist can do with a quick reverse punch, let alone the kinds of crazy things they get up to when they're breaking concrete blocks with their fists, or what a professional boxer can throw out.Yet more proof that ME's numbers are just weird.
[x] Continue Peak Human Treatment (Full Captain America Upgrade, Part 2/5 Done), maybe chosen twice
-[x] Ghost in the machine! You can have lots of fun with admin access to all the nice holographic screens and projectors. You may even be able to catch Kasumi!
[x] Continue Peak Human Treatment (Full Captain America Upgrade, Part 3/5 Done) (x2)
-[x] Study Diplomacy/Etiquette/Negotiation
[X] "...but that's not how I was thinking of things. You're a friend. That I do business of a sort with sometimes."
[X] Sure
[x] Some of the city shielding working would be better than none. (-200 million credits)
-[X]Coordinate with the Alliance and City Government to make sure the Civilians know which sections of the city are covered by shields and can evacuate to those locations.
I literally cannot remember the last heterosexual female quest protagonist. That irks me.
Rushing the city shields is best for public relations.
Although rushing our own shields would probably be a better idea.
-[x] Ghost in the machine! You can have lots of fun with admin access to all the nice holographic screens and projectors. You may even be able to catch Kasumi!
[x] Continue Peak Human Treatment (Full Captain America Upgrade, Part 3/5 Done) (x2)
-[x] Study Diplomacy/Etiquette/Negotiation
[X] "...but that's not how I was thinking of things. You're a friend. That I do business of a sort with sometimes."
[X] Sure
[x] Some of the city shielding working would be better than none. (-200 million credits)
-[X]Coordinate with the Alliance and City Government to make sure the Civilians know which sections of the city are covered by shields and can evacuate to those locations.
I literally cannot remember the last heterosexual female quest protagonist. That irks me.
Rushing the city shields is best for public relations.
Although rushing our own shields would probably be a better idea.
Vote's closed already. Plan "Let's be an RTS Commander and build a new army" won.
Well there's Hermione, although that's kind of cheating because the HP fandom is positively saturated with Harmony shippers.
There is also the Dynasty Quests, but those don't really count because they kind of require reproduction and tend to be low tech.Vote's closed already. Plan "Let's be an RTS Commander and build a new army" won.
Well there's Hermione, although that's kind of cheating because the HP fandom is positively saturated with Harmony shippers.
TBF most Female Quest Protagonist quests that last longer than a few days / weeks are generally Magical Girl Quests.
And well... Magical Girl = Yuri. Usually.
Also most quests generally have romance show up for a few posts and that's it. The waifu and/or husbando war fears are real.
...For good reason lol.
Another thing to note:
"Wide beam mode" sounds to my ears a lot like "diffraction-limited mode". This idea makes me wonder if we can just sit outside of our optimum range, use our high-powered laser at a wide diffraction-limited angle to wipe out the shields, then use our MAC to destroy the target ship.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Dia Stone from Age of Strife? Of course, that's a dynasty quest, so there's mechanical incentive to go hetero.
Clearly, we need to raise the power of our ship's Lasers so high that we can use wide diffraction to melt the entire ship at once.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
The thing about the Treaty of Firaxen is that it's based on the Treaty of Washington which limited how many dreadnoughts people could build. That treaty passed because dreadnoughts were expensive enough that a dreadnought arms race would put any country involved in ruinous amounts of debt, and you couldn't not get involved because pre-dreadnoughts needed entire fleets to take down a single isolated dreadnought.
Why do I mention this? The super ships Revy is designing are cheap enough that I can't see the SA signing onto the updated treaty of Firaxen.
Why do I mention this? The super ships Revy is designing are cheap enough that I can't see the SA signing onto the updated treaty of Firaxen.
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
also because people don't want rampant escalation of warfare that involves entire cities being destroyed.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
I was talking about the historical treaty of Washington.
One thing to keep in mind is that diffraction and atmospheric scattering greatly impacts laser effectiveness and requires no interstellar range backstop. Checking how far a laser can penetrate into an atmosphere and how much damage it does and the power of an equivalent range mass driver would be a matter of considerable interest. I mean, the stated dreadnought main gun slings a 20 kilogram slug, which is probably somewhere around the size and shape of a forearm.
Exactly how far can that penetrate an atmosphere of a garden world, and how does a laser of similar wattage compare?
If a 20 kilogram slug impacts with the equivalent of 38 kilotons of TNT, and 1 kiloton is about 4.2 teraJoules, a dreadnought's main gun is slinging around a 160 or so teraJoule energy load every 2 seconds.
This means it's got a wattage of 80 or so teraWatt.
Yeah, you know what? Our low GigaJoule range lasers (@Hoyr, is that strength at the lens, and does lens size matter? Because that would be a major limiting factor no matter how large the amplifying system) can't match that level of boom.
At all. By three orders of magnitude at a minimum.
Why are we afraid of the Citadel Council using the Treaty of Firaxen to complain about our lasers again? Because we don't need humongous lasers to kill the primary targets of interest to us (enemy ships up to and including dreadnoughts) and whatever is stuck down planet can be handled with much lower yield MAC guns if our lasers can't get there.
Exactly how far can that penetrate an atmosphere of a garden world, and how does a laser of similar wattage compare?
If a 20 kilogram slug impacts with the equivalent of 38 kilotons of TNT, and 1 kiloton is about 4.2 teraJoules, a dreadnought's main gun is slinging around a 160 or so teraJoule energy load every 2 seconds.
This means it's got a wattage of 80 or so teraWatt.
Yeah, you know what? Our low GigaJoule range lasers (@Hoyr, is that strength at the lens, and does lens size matter? Because that would be a major limiting factor no matter how large the amplifying system) can't match that level of boom.
At all. By three orders of magnitude at a minimum.
Why are we afraid of the Citadel Council using the Treaty of Firaxen to complain about our lasers again? Because we don't need humongous lasers to kill the primary targets of interest to us (enemy ships up to and including dreadnoughts) and whatever is stuck down planet can be handled with much lower yield MAC guns if our lasers can't get there.
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Its in the role.
An IFV transport troops and give them support fire.
An MBT attacks and defend positions and maybe give support fire for infantry.
Following that the MBT does not need transport capacity (exept for driver/pilot/gunner or a combination of them) and can put everything into a combination of mobility, attack and defence.
The benchmark for mobility is the tiger. To support them it needs similar abilitys.
Attack and defence should be high enough that IFV (tigers) would need (at least twice) larger numbers on their side to win the fight.
I have no idea how that translate in numbers...
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- Queensland, Australia
A MBT has three roles...
1. To be the hard hitting manoeuvre force.
2. To be an easily moved fortified position
3. To support infantry and add armour between them and the incoming attacks.
These days most MBTs are built for role 1. but used for roles 2 and 3, though the latest upgrade kits for the Abrams seems to be reducing it's penalties for role 2.
The only time an MBT should have troops inside it that deploy outside is when the MBT itself is soo big, that the size of the troop bay is negligible and the advantage provided by having infantry with it out way using that space for a slightly stronger engine or better defensive systems, or firepower...
1. To be the hard hitting manoeuvre force.
2. To be an easily moved fortified position
3. To support infantry and add armour between them and the incoming attacks.
These days most MBTs are built for role 1. but used for roles 2 and 3, though the latest upgrade kits for the Abrams seems to be reducing it's penalties for role 2.
The only time an MBT should have troops inside it that deploy outside is when the MBT itself is soo big, that the size of the troop bay is negligible and the advantage provided by having infantry with it out way using that space for a slightly stronger engine or better defensive systems, or firepower...