Shepard Quest Mk VII, Age of Revy (ME/MCU)
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We haven't researched it, and why would it be essential for resettlement? I get that it would be helpful, but essential?
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@Daemon Hunter 's proposed production cost is close enough to the ballpark to be considered canon,
minor thing hunter, the mobility reactors can slightly angle themselves to adjust direction of thrust and allow it to somewhat aim themselves at targets when not being used to move.
One of the main issues with colony efforts is the ven diagram of people with colony aiding skills and people willing to pack up and go is sort of iffy overlap. Better to take one of the filters out of play.
That said, what a colony of a thousand people need is somewhat different from what a colony of a million people need, is different from what fifty million people need. There's probably less to filter the larger the population goes anyway, so the more successful we are shipping people off-world the easier that filter becomes.
Also plenty of people likely want a change of pace. "I'll learn whatever you want me to so long as I have more of a future than flipping burgers".
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That's pretty easy for me to add in, just something else to edit into the additional systems.
The major issue when it comes to colonization is jobs, incentives to move, and the developed nature fo the current galaxy. In such an environment, it's difficult for colonies to really grow into powerhouses that can rival Earth. Based on what has been shared here, there's a massive disparity in SA worlds, and that's likely going to be an issue for the conceivable future. Moreover, you can't really expect to be able to force people to be farmers. Mass Effect is a rather free society, and so there's a limited number of people actually interested in farming and that number can only change by so much.
If we do try and found a planet, it's going to be a massive investment. The infrastructure construction alone is going to be incredibly expensive as we have to transport everything. Moreover, we'd also have to basically bribe people to move here, have to add in defenses, and wait for the planet to grow on its own to be economically viable. And that's a process that could very well take decades. Not to mention the fact that we'd have to find an uncolonized world as well, and most of them already have groups that have claimed them.
TIR shielding covers that, although there's almost certainly a limit. While it might be able to handle Gigawatt lasers, Terrawatt lasers are probably going to get through the shields. If I remember my lore right, heat is a major part of Mass Effect combat, and lasers are really good at heating up ships.
Most arcology theories that we have now involve a fair bit of artificial landscapes and greenery. The Citadel for example has a lot of space for just gardens and the like, and our designs would probably have a similar look in public places.
I figured as much, it's why I went with gimbaled mounts, as that's effectively what it means. It's around a 20 degree range of motion in real life IIRC.
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yeah IIRC my codex readings right heat management is THE main thing keeping battles from lasting longer than a hour as running everything at full power tends to amp up the internal heat generation of the ship immensely even with heat radiators to extend combat time. Literally cannot fire their guns after a certain point while running their engines or else they will literally die from overheating cooking the crew. Full power to engines? Heat. Fire the guns? Heat. Having all sub systems active? Heat. Of course with replacement of engines with arc reactors and repulsors that will cut down a major source of heat generation but it will still be a problem when in combat. If they fire their guns too often they will quickly reach the 'Don't! Do! Anything!' limit.
One thing that we should also consider is that not all nations on Earth are under the authority of the SA. Many nations, especially the poor nations, are under a completely different organization. The Union of Incorporated Nations. They are not as influential as the SA on the galactic scale but they have considerable influence on Earth and with Earth Corperations.
The SA was only supposed to be a Space UN by the richest and most influential nations of Earth. What changed that was the First Contact War, which caused the SA to gain a lot of power.
Yeah the Earth was suddenly introduced to the wider galactic community and they needed a representative given the Citadel is 1 race = 1 government and the SA was on the only one that could reasonably fit the bill so it became the representing government of Humanity.
Thought Humanity isn't unique in that regard. The Asari are even more splintered than they are.
Thought Humanity isn't unique in that regard. The Asari are even more splintered than they are.
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I feel like for balance reasons that for this quest it would be flat out impossible to break that limit since otherwise it would be incredibly boring since at that point it would be possible to just ram cheap ships at FTL into Reapers. It also makes a lot of sense that the Reapers would have likely spent centuries if not millennia securing their tech to make sure that races can't just ram every space faring ship they have at FTL speed.
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the reapers likely have tech that specifically counters that tactic like maybe some kind of gravity well generator to instantly pulls any ship that enters its range out of FTL or something ,Cause here is the thing the reapers have been around for a very long time like the leviathan of Dis is estimated to be close to 4 billion years old long time , So odds are they have encountered just about every trick of mass effect technology that can be done multiple times and they have developed counters for every last one of them
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Yeah, this is what would happen, but miniaturized FTL would still have other advantages, such as getting close and "only" hitting at .9 c or deploying conventional payloads, or hitting something else and creating a blinding flash.
Balancing FTL weapons is possible. This is the SV forums, let's act like it.
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Dude, it's impossible to balance since again it lets anyone turn any FTL capable ship into a freaking FTL nuke. A single one is likely able to seriously fuck up a planet. It's pretty much guaranteed to be one of the top most illegal things to research. Just look at how the SA reacted to the idea of selling Repulsors to civilians and imagine how they would react to the idea of figuring out how to turn any single ship into a nuke.
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I mean, it's a big "if reapers break glass" button. Maybe balance FTL projectiles by making them have negative mass therefore do no damage? Maybe have there be an easy modification to normal FTL drives that stops them? All of this is possible and useful.
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Just going to leave this here. From the FAQ on the index.
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Dude, we have countless other ideas for research and weapons and defense development that we flat out don't need something like FTL ramming. In fact it seems like it would be a lot less headache inducing to just not have it be possible.
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yes, that is from previous thread/GMS, BUT, IF I get enough people who wish to pursue down such a path of combat, I will relent. IF, it gets enough support. Like super majority of average voter base.