We'll there is Elanus RCS as noted. As there are three less reputable PMCs which tend to do terminus work I imagine there are at least two (more) reputable ones, Elanus being one.
In a general sense you are entirely correct. I was thinking of the data as being pre-parsed into lines which makes my statement true, but doing that parsing is O(n) with n being the number of chars per post/file/record, so unless you already need to do it for some other reason (handling HTML/BBCcode?, eh probably not) it doesn't save any time. However, I honestly have no clue how the data is stored exactly. Parsing is probably not needed so is still O(n). I was thinking more in terms of the human algorithm, as the data is pre-parsed by the display, silly me computers don't care about that
.Re: immortality: Can we at least get to be old enough to drink before talking about freezing our age?
Revy can legally drink, SA uses laws closer to European ones for this... I've mentioned this a few times, haven't I? She chooses not to, because er parent creatively manipulated her away from that. (Drunk Science=Parental Nightmare)
It's called an assault frigate 'round these parts, you own one. They also double as spaceships as that makes them particularly useful.
SR stuff is purely used because of design overlap (Biotics works sort like magic, cybernetics is a thing), so no Awakening. Otherwise I'd have to have random parts of the galaxy having active magic if I recall the lore correctly. Which could be interesting... but messy.
As militia/reserve.
Correct, note that the ship's defenses also get a similar benefit.
While the exact mix will very the fighter and vehicle complement of craft that size are often measured in the thousands.
With out a long hard think:
Pilum around 21 Megajoules (5kg tnt)
Sagitta around 6.2 Kilojoules (1.5g tnt)
Give or take an order of magnitude.
Do note that despite the general consideration that MAC weapon's damage output should scale purely linearly, they don't (even in RL). While there are lots of real world reasons I could evoke and I may fluff them the real reason is the setting seems to say they don't, otherwise space combat would be quite different. Focusing not on large ship spinals but many smaller ships, or if other factors are in play (like shields) divide he gun into multiple barrels, as we can see with the dreadnought broadside, which if power scales linearly would be worth nearly 7 times it's spinal making it by far the better weapon.
The only downside might be range if the smaller guns designs can't find a way to make up for the speed (fire 2kg shots not 20kg shots, done. May have damage pattern issues?), which could reduce range by a factor of 10 or so with linear scaling. With given combat descriptions though that does seem like a big deal, range in ME space battles can very over three to six orders of magnitude over the course of one fight. Something about being able to upscale in other ways allow better guns on larger scales. Also a lot of the point of those "bigger gun" techs.
Mass Effect all the holes, all of them.
Regardless the SA does agree that the best way to attack fortifications (especially ones with lasers) is by bombarding them from orbit.
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