Council Seat Requirements
1. Great Contribution to Galactic Society
2. Enough military might to both protect themselves and to provide support if required
3. Robust and strong enough economy to fund a stable society and military required in item 2
This explains why Volus did not get a seat, they had 1 and 3, but not number 2. Plus they were not a independent race they were a vassal state under the Turians.
This list definitely makes a lot of sense, it's relatively soft, but that's ideal for what the Council likely is going for. For humanity, I can see 2 and 3 being already met based on the war with the Turians and the one with the Batarians, especially with Revy's military techs. The first one I could see the arc reactor as filling that role, but it'd be rather subjective to different people around the galaxy. The eternal youth tech is looking more and more promising it seems.
So quick question for anyone with better memory than me, did we ever get around to stating out and calculating just how paradigm shattering our tech is for fleet warfare? I remember us doing it for the Corvette but not if we continued into cruisers and up?
UberJJK covered most of the major paradigm shifts, namely the focus on smaller vessels due to how powerful the LLPs are. But there's also the strategic and logistical side of things as the new multicore Eezo tech and our lack of reliance on ammunition means that ships can range farther and for longer, meaning that Relays aren't as important as they once were. They still are, but they're no longer a full lynchpin. So rather than concentrating defenses around relays, you've got to spread your forces more. Then there's the Thermal Compensator and Thermal Annihilator we've yet to research that apparently will make heat a non issue. And considering heat is the defining factor of naval warfare, that's a massive revolutionary change.
As a side note I am currently working on a new Ship Designer spreadsheet that will hopefully be more clear and useful then the older V1 and V2 designs. Hopefully it will be ready for review in the next couple days.
Oh, I'm looking forward to that.
Yeah the Thermal Compensator and Thermal Annihilator were intended as space magic "make heat go away" devices. The Thermal Compensator was described as
running an Arc Reactor backwards while the Thermal Annihilator used Mass Effect trickery to poof the heat away.
Not sure if you want to go with that or not though. It does seem more useful then a conduit upgrade since our ships already have plenty of juice as is.
Oh there's so much we can do with that. Heat as a non issue has so many potential applications I don't even know where to begin. Ships can fight for so much longer, guns can fire near continuously, computing speed improves, new markets for temperature control, etc. It's a major game changer.
That doesn't really work as an argument. We literally had projects that were around 200-400 RP. Inflating numbers isn't really a good excuse because it feels like some projects are just low numbered and inflating them is blatantly artificial.
True, I can see 400 RP and below working for this as well.
currently coming up with an option for that private owned world you guys wanted, for that there will be no building limit, but be warned it will be the most targeted place in the galaxy if you decide to move the HQ to there as well.
Hmm, considering that there's a lot of colonies we can still expand to, I'm not sure it's really worth it. The way I see it, getting a private planet really just helps if we wanted to do secretive research. But I don't really have any plans for that for a while, and having friendly forces in the area along with having an existing supply chain to work with likely has advantages. I imagine that we'd need to put in a massive amount of investment to get a private planet. Although the bragging rights would be something. And it would be pretty quick to spool up production.
Actually, if we assume that each Factory III takes up 400,000 square meters, the same as our largest manufacturing facilities, and an Earth sized planet of 510 trillion square meters, then we could easily fit 1.275 billion Factory IIIs on it. Which would be absolutely amazing to imagine.
