Large scale mass effect fields are bad:
Lowering the mass of large ships enough to land under gravity will result in spewing deadly radiation everywhere. Yes this does cause some issues with Soverign, and the other Reapers, landing but there are explanations there. Given the Kodiak exists I think the simply explanation is that with enough Eezo you can generate a tight field such that your armor is outside the field and thus acts as a radiation barrier.ME Codex - FTL Drive: Appearance said:
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Because that won't panic the SA military at all.
Erm, we're probably going to sell them to SA if thats what you mean?
As tax deferrals? I don't see the SA having the money to buy these new GARDIAN networks when they couldn't afford them before.
Oh I thought you were talking about the tanks.
Not exactly, If we do military equipment donations while having contracts we're still scaling up to fufill at a decent rate it'll look bad, even though the industries involved are different some will still think we aren't prioritizing our obligations.
A vast decrease in cost, those tanks are costly, not for us to make, but for the SA to fund. Bigger suits mean more in terms of cost, but its an improvement to having a tank fortress. Which would require bigger ships or carriers to bring it to the ground while the BFS can get there on their own or do orbital drops.
I'm not sure why you would think something with as many complex articulated joints as a human suit would be cheaper to make than a similarly sized and powered tank with simple joints.
No its fully autonomous.
that quote also said that the VI have limit to how smart it can get to piloting
So then what we've established is that Tigers and presumably the tanks can run entirely autonomously or with a crew of multiple people on different sub systems, and any number between, according to what is optimal. Whereas the Hulk buster could operate autonomously (I assume) or with a single person. This doesn't mean it has less to manage as it still has weapons, shields, ect but also a cumbersome walking cycle rather than a simple flight pattern, so if anything the Hulkbuster is the one that suffers from a lack of personel.
Speaking of which; Expenses. They don't really matter on the scale we are currently operating at but I was wondering if you could explain where you got the numbers for them from?
I don't think anyone will mind if you want to roll that as being a quarterly investment instead of a one off but that is where basically all the expense was actually coming from.
That heavily depends on how the SA is set up as a political and military system of governance. If the SA refers only to the federal-style overarching military structure (Space NATO, now 1/2 as effective due to competing national interests) that governs space assets and related installations then terrestrial planetary defence would fall under the juristiction of the member planets. Literally nobody wants to give up soverignity under any circumstances whatsoever and you get an SA that can only really act in space, with a limited expeditionary force and no planetside commitments beyond training installations while entirely reliant on whatever funding the national governments throws their way.
If she does i imagine her family and he other executives unanmiously voted that Revy shouldn't be told it until neccessary to prevent an upgrade spree.
