You may think that but someone coming from a tens of thousands of years old martial tradition of mechanised nobles may instead see it as a bunch of jumped up peasants crudely aping the ancient and storied weapons of your house (which contain personality traces from your predecessors).
If you look at the thread's Apocrypha section there is the "A Buncha Fings Wot Playurz Fot Uv" which lists all of the research proposals this thread had come up with. There are a few that deals with upgrading our armor.
We could just have our own Calivan Nobles pilot it if it becomes an issue.
Even Freeblades are part of long noble lineages and subsequently very prideful he could be okay with it he might decide this is an unforgivable offence I don't know just don't expect things to be easy when dealing with gothic space fantasy knights in giant robots.
I looked in there and only found two dealing with armour before making that post and wasn't sure if they where good ideas or not so I thought to ask people for ideas.
The Metal Foam armor should provide extra benefits against thermal weapons as the air pockets act like insulators. For Kinetic weapons, the armor will crumble instead of crack, which would also help absorb most of the kinetic energy from damaging the hull frame.
Actually, it is more of a molding process where liquid metals are pumped with air bubbled before solidifying (I think that is how it works) and the resulting block is now much lighter than a solid block, can handle thermal energy much better due to lots of air bubbles absorbing the heat, and also crumble instead of shattering when hit with a large kinetic impact. We could make a block of Ceramite Foam armor and it will be lighter and more resistant to thermal and kinetic damage than a solid block.
Most of our frontline consist of groups of planets so defense stations will cover only a small part of the frontline, maybe Uniary could use one as there is a lot of production at that single system.
Assuming I am reading your question right, half a dozen in single turrets. The MkII has four in single turrets.
Shouldn't that be four in single turrets for the MkI? Seeing as the Resolute Corvette Profile art had eight in single turrets for 2x Batteries, so hald would be four. Then the MkII would be, IDK, two in single turrets?
Was it four? My bad then, for some reason I thought I had said it was more than that.
And when exactly has that mattered to any of our battles? Our areas live and die on control of their central strong points, and right now our defenses are stretched enough we've been being forced to use a Torpedo Squadron as a Patrol Squadron for lack of coverage. In order to keep being able to concentrate our forces, we need more defenses, and a good defense station or two on the front lines has already been stated to be a non-minor hinderance to enemy actions.
After rifling through last turn's build order and the notoriously porous cabinets in my mind, did the Bulk Hauler even get partially built yet?
i have been add it to plans for a lot of turns now but it never won so this will be the first work done on it if it wins.
Wasn't the Bulk Hauler a purified hulk we got as a spoil of war and thus already built just needed to be fitted with Modules?
More or less. It has no engines functional and is missing some Essentials IIRC, however.
We do not have to pay for the Hull, Life Support, Housing and Warp drive as those are still intact.
