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Devastation Comes In Big Packages [Planetary Annihilation/Multicross SI]

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Hazard said:
What, you couldn't arrange the guns near the bow or stern in a pattern that wrote the Cry of Gimli's name in letters dozens of kilometers tall and wide?
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Arranging them would imply that spaces would have to be present so that the name could be read at all.

That's space that could be used for guns.

HandicapdHippo said:
You could just paint the guns.
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Alas, that would take away from the pitch black paint job making it a giant pane of darkness that slides through the stars whilst carrying weapons as to make solar systems quake in fear.
 
Faith said:
Dang, I need to hurry up and get some of Faith's bigger ships out. I will not be outdone by bandwagoners!



Oh, what am I? Chopped liver?
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Yes. What I'm saying yes to is up to you.
Though, let's be honest, you are the cousin commander with the weird tech. Everyone looks at you and goes "they grabbed WHAT?!?" The only thing you're missing is Red Alert 3 for schitzo tech. ;p
 
And then shoot through the banner, so you can say your banner/ship name dazzles, with turbo laser-grade light.
 
torroar said:
Arranging them would imply that spaces would have to be present so that the name could be read at all.

That's space that could be used for guns.



Alas, that would take away from the pitch black paint job making it a giant pane of darkness that slides through the stars whilst carrying weapons as to make solar systems quake in fear.
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You could just have them shoot out of sequence with the rest ? Or an separate firing circuit for when you need to sign something.
 
Wabberjack said:
Install some titanic holo-projecters so you can have an enormous title banner on demand that appears over the ship.

CRY OF GIMLI Mk II
The Fuck Bringer
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I was thinking of something similar, but using gigantic nukes with the tractor beams as containment to hold the letters in shape.

It makes a statement, the statement is "I use more firepower than your collected fleets could output in a year for a sign because it's easier than finding enough paint."
 
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3 million laser batteries.

If you fire everything at the same time, Cry of Gimli 2.0 can imitate a sun.

Also, that annihilaser gun is a gigantic weak point a plucky plot force-empowered pilot on an anti-cap fighter ship can use as a target :V
 
"My name... I have forgone my name when I swore to destroy you Emperor. However, my droids decided to poke fun of my own little joke whilst I built up my small kingdom for the day that I would end your terror. I. Am known, simply, as King."

There you go, a name for your avatar. The Emperor made the Empire. You "spent 30 years building up a small kingdom" to "fight tyranny, and deliver justice" The Rebels decided to call your droid servants The Network. And "[You] , well [you] [are] King."

Edit: Basically it'd be like some counterpoint theology to the Empire. You don't seek to rule over all, you just seek to end the injustice that was brought about by the coward Darth Sidious. After all, The Emperor only killed weaklings and noncoms. Manipulated a fallen(ing) Jedi Knight to kill the Jedi Order because the Knight was stronger than Sidious. Appointed the sickest, most depraved bastards he could find as planetary governors. Kept his own hands clean as possible, "bet [he] washes them ten or more times a day too. "
 
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defenestrator said:
3 million laser batteries.

If you fire everything at the same time, Cry of Gimli 2.0 can imitate a sun.

Also, that annihilaser gun is a gigantic weak point a plucky plot force-empowered pilot on an anti-cap fighter ship can use as a target :V
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It's nestled within the gun-scape.

You can't daringly dodge your way through a literal wall of lasers no matter how strong you are in the Force.

If it was just a hail, a storm, a barrage, with just a needlepoint bit of gap between them, you'd be right.

But it isn't.

They can't dodge a solid pane of lasers, much less the missiles from all the turrets.

So there :V
 
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torroar said:
It's nestled within the gun-scape.

You can't daringly dodge your way through a literal wall of lasers no matter how strong you are in the Force.

If it was just a hail, a storm, a barrage, with just a needlepoint bit of gap between them, you'd be right.

But it isn't.

They can't dodge a solid pane of lasers, much less the missiles from all the turrets.

So there :V
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So basically fuck Space-Wizards and their bullshit ability to dodge stuff.

I approve.:D
 
I think you guys are underestimating just how much firepower the Cry of Gimli has.

My thinking is there will simply not be an open space within... oh, I dunno, at least 500km radius around the ship.

Teleporting won't help them. :p
 
The best bit in my mind, isn't the enormously, mind bogglingly fuck off huge ship of system immolation....

It's that it's the first of a series of them.

One day, hopefully soon, some force will manage to dodge long enough to get off a signal so it's location is pinpointed. Only for a second ship to cruise into another system, then a third and a fourth.

@torroar you only forgot one detail..... at the very very back, just below the planetoid engine trhust zones, is a bumper sticker.

WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY
 
Finbar said:
The best bit in my mind, isn't the enormously, mind bogglingly fuck off huge ship of system immolation....

It's that it's the first of a series of them.

One day, hopefully soon, some force will manage to dodge long enough to get off a signal so it's location is pinpointed. Only for a second ship to cruise into another system, then a third and a fourth.

@torroar you only forgot one detail..... at the very very back, just below the planetoid engine trhust zones, is a bumper sticker.

WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY
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Problem; that would require him to remove (a) gun(s). UNACCEPTABLE.
 
torroar said:
Basically it was a long distance Sun Crusher weapon that didn't require using the Sun Crusher itself. On the other hand I really couldn't afford to just let it move out of its place.
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Centerpoint isn't a weapon. It's a construction tool. It can be used as a weapon, in much the same way a backhoe can be used to bludgeon people to death, but it's not what it was designed for.
torroar said:
It's an artificial sun. Not a huge one, but the hints are there in the technology surrounding its maintenance. I hadn't even thought about making my own suns up until now, I just didn't have the technology.
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Isn't that just an ordinary fusion reactor? Or is Centerpoint bigger on the inside or some crap like that?
torroar said:
They have organic tech. I can't use that.
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Is it the carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, or hydrogen that gives you trouble? Because that's all life is. Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen assembled in a specific pattern (plus a few trace elements depending on species). Your own technology is probably more complicated.
 
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torroar said:
Arranging them would imply that spaces would have to be present so that the name could be read at all.

That's space that could be used for guns.
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I'll be honest. You don't have enough gun.

Did some quick math based on your numbers - taking the standard rhomboidal pyramid of an SSD, you have a surface area of 875902 square kilometres.

Assuming that 10% of that surface area is taken up by other items like death star turrets, you have a lonely total of... 1.27 turbolaser banks and 2.54 laser cannons per square kilometre.

Upping the percentage of surface area taken up by miscellaneous things to 50%, you still only have 2.28 turbolaser banks and 4.57 lasers per square kilometre.

In conclusion:

Not enough gun.
 
Firnagzen said:
I'll be honest. You don't have enough gun.

Did some quick math based on your numbers - taking the standard rhomboidal pyramid of an SSD, you have a surface area of 875902 square kilometres.

Assuming that 10% of that surface area is taken up by other items like death star turrets, you have a lonely total of... 1.27 turbolaser banks and 2.54 laser cannons per square kilometre.

Upping the percentage of surface area taken up by miscellaneous things to 50%, you still only have 2.28 turbolaser banks and 4.57 lasers per square kilometre.

In conclusion:

Not enough gun.
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Lazy solution: Fill up all free surface area with VLS cells with a fabricator for ammunition each. You can never have too many missiles.
 
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