It's Ace Combat. Lifting the continent just means that someone will shoot it down.
This is both a very clear and fundamentally true summary of how Ace Combat plots work, and in many ways a striking note on the symbolism and commentary Ace Combat makes about war.It's Ace Combat. Lifting the continent just means that someone will shoot it down.
Yes if they were absolute idiots. They could do that.It's Ace Combat. Lifting the continent just means that someone will shoot it down.
You could also add the mandate about shielding the historic sites if you want to.So there a talk of lifting up the continent, and since I the one who want to submerge the continent here another plan to lift the whole thing up.
Thank and switched.You could also add the mandate about shielding the historic sites if you want to.
And also most people invade places because they want the land they are on. Destroying said land is kind of counterproductive to that.And I mean if they shoot it down we can guarantee MAD protocol due to our impact power = our continent sheer size + velocity. At the very least it gonna be ugly to whichever nations our regions fall up on.
Avalon? Asgard?edit: I need name for the project, at first I thought I could go Hanging Garden of Babylon but that not fit the theme much.
How the frick I forgot about Avalon and Asgard..
Also Avalon is already taken by Avalon Dam.I mean Avalon have some too like Merlin and Arthur but those name are not god.
It would also make us an absolute pain to try to invade.edit 2: Just realize that if we success we can easily get stuff up on to orbits as we literally floating above the cloud.
Project Able/Archer
Concept :
- Project Archer is a massive laser array, capable of repeated and rapid fire. It is designed to be created of modular units, allowing it be expanded or decreased in scope as resources allow. While each laser unit can fire individually to deal with small targets, intended operation is that they concentrate their fire on the asteroid.
- Project Able is a spacemining mission, a collection of nuclear equipped Tick tanks who will explore Ulysses. Individually, these thick tanks will be able to map the asteroid to figure out precise fault lines, and preplace nuclear charges to destroy dangerous fragmnets.
In ideal operation, both projects will combine their resources. Able will use local resources and nuclear excavation to craft a reaction chamber, while Archer will direct fire lases into this chamber to create a primitive, yet massive scale rocket engine. This engine will be used to deflect Ulysses into a planetary orbit.
Scope
Moderate/Moderate
Approach
Fragment destruction/Fragment destruction => Pre-fragment reduction
Mobility
Stationary/Mobile
Location :
Southern Hemisphere/ Artic
This wasn't changed when the name was.
Just to spitball some ideas.
I mean we need to strengthen defense on mobile continents first before sky carriers or sky battleship come out,We could build a "air navy." Basically a group of airships we could use as carriers and other things for when we need to send out troops to fight other militaries. So we'd be basically folding the Air Force and the Navy into one force.
By the way, when it comes to scope, what exactly counts as a point of progress? Say we have a monumental project, does that 10K progress point mean 10K of construction dice, or is subdivided into things like 5K construction dice and 5k research dice?
Oof. Wow, that's short.
For reference, 10000 Progress is about 200 dice, and if we only have 12 turns then something like that becomes very, very difficult to accomplish, yeah. Rolling roughly something on the order of 17d100 dice per turn.
(I was editing this while Derpmind was writing her reply)
Considering it's possible to shoot down satellites with a naval vessel in real life. Yeah we can definitely develop an anti satellite weapon.I mean we might be able to send fighter to shoot down satellite and stuff, if that happen
What would the point cost for the whole lifting the continent into the sky be?...yes, this is very, very hard. You have over 20 dice available at start, so it is possible, but that's across all categories so you're going to basically have to perfectly prioritize projects, hope the law of averages works in your favor, and acquire more dice. This is on purpose. In canon a ton of states tried to build superweapons to stop Ulysses. Only one actually finished before it arrived.
What would the point cost for the whole lifting the continent into the sky be?
My plan splits the difference, in that the actual laser emitter is on top of our volcano base on an island we control and occupy, but the orbiting satellites with force field mirrors that coincidentally make them fairly difficult to kill act as reflectors, allowing us to project the beam across wider areas not in direct line of sight of the emitter.
I'm pretty sure it would be literally impossible to truly preserve historic sites while somehow causing an entire continental landmass (or even the inhabited regions thereof) to hover off the ground on jet exhaust and then come back down.You could also add the mandate about shielding the historic sites if you want to.
By the way, what do you think of the Joyeuse concept? I know you gave it a Funny vote, but Is it reasonable?...yes, this is very, very hard. You have over 20 dice available at start, so it is possible, but that's across all categories so you're going to basically have to perfectly prioritize projects, hope the law of averages works in your favor, and acquire more dice. This is on purpose. In canon a ton of states tried to build superweapons to stop Ulysses. Only one actually finished before it arrived.
Well, that's why I have two bullshit Nod technologies being thrown into play to launch the satellites, one of which specifically makes use of a Nod specialty (a laser launch system).The main issue as noted before, is that we are in a poor position to launch said satellites,
I understand the logic. I'm deliberately ignoring the 'this is a strategic threat' aspect because the plan is quite specifically 'Excalibur 2.0, doing it right this time, with Nod characteristics.'...and I feel that outside interference may be pushed up a step if our weapon clearly can be redirected down to the ground instead of being only capable of aiming into the sky. We don't want accusations of us being able to target foreign cities and whatnot.
I much prefer a weapon we can re-purpose later on for a smaller more mobile version to one that is actively capable of attacking enemies. Disguise it as pure good intentions focused cleanly on the giant rock, that we 'sadly had to modify for war'.
That's quite valid. I decided to go with the "king's sword" association of Joyeuse, because my plan is literally just "use the Excalibur scientists to rebuild Excalibur.""Also, I want to stick with the boulder-destroying sword name of Durandal.
Who said it would come back down?I'm pretty sure it would be literally impossible to truly preserve historic sites while somehow causing an entire continental landmass (or even the inhabited regions thereof) to hover off the ground on jet exhaust and then come back down.
By the way, what do you think of the Joyeuse concept? I know you gave it a Funny vote, but Is it reasonable?
I think we'd have so much shaking and quaking and problems with the tensile strength of rock...Who said it would come back down?
And why not? As long as we're careful about it. They should be fine. They are on the continent after all.
Gotcha. My sympathies. Well, you've seen my comments on it, so I will look forward to your thoughts.To be clear I gave it a Funny for the megalomaniacal rant in the intent section being very funny, I haven't read any of the drafts in detail yet because I woke up like an hour ago and was immediately betrayed by my sinuses.
We put a layer a metal to act as a border around the piece we are lifting into the air.What stops the rock from falling off the sides? Bedrock doesn't have amazing tensile strength.
I asked the QM and they said they would answer later.But I've got to ask, is the floating continent really a possibility?
That why we use Nod Subterranean tech are important as its can help with digging out and keeping the ground intact.I could see some kind of "floating island" approach working if we wanted to put something the size of a city into the air. That's at least vaguely built to a scale only about an order of magnitude larger than some of the "flying battleship" superweapons that already exist in Ace Combat. But 'lift the whole damn continent' would at a bare minimum, even assuming you had the industrial resources, require you to core out a massive grid of tunnels all over the continent, and I mean like "every fifty meters from one edge to the other" so you could put steel girders in for tensile strength to keep the whole thing from coming apart.
Either way work, but right now the plan is to build multiples nuclear thrusters keeping the Continents afloat (plan might chance to put the whole continent on stable orbit behind Earth (to dodge the heat ray from sun to prevent the ice from melting)So, something like a low orbit space station, or a floating Islands or Arkships are something I can see, but an entire continent? And not even an Australia equivalent but Antarticaia? Does Ace Combat have anti-gravity technology, or is this going to be a bunch of city-sized rockets, or burying a bunch of nukes to create a giant Orion Drive?