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Imperial Ambitions (OOC Thread)

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TheBleachDoctor said:
The Umrazi just leapt straight to nuclear fusion.

Funny thing is, they've essentially built Casaba Howitzer Beam Cannons already, and it's arguably their most powerful close-range weapon.

Problem? They're using them as propulsion drives, and although they realize that they're dangerous to aim at other ships, the thought of deliberately weaponizing it hasn't been entertained.
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My ship mainly spams missile until the other guy dies, even though we have other weapons, we use them as backup.
 
There's actually a running joke about the Archon Scientific Community finally weaponizing plasma.
Bleach would probably recognize it if I told it.
 
I like how y'all bring up xenomorphs and the bugs from Starship Troopers like they aren't the inspiration for the Uelewa. :V
 
Asgardian space weapons throw hard light, plasma, and drone weapons at you while passing through your shields and hacking your computers.

Oh yeah, fighters too.

Asgardians after the GIW use electronic warfare extensively.
 
Icywinter said:
Asgardian space weapons throw hard light, plasma, and drone weapons at you while passing through your shields and hacking your computers.

Oh yeah, fighters too.

Asgardians after the GIW use electronic warfare extensively.
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Electronic Warfare is useless against a civilization whose technology you don't understand. Hacking itself is going to be even more pointless without knowing the programming language they use. Even then you are decades or centuries behind them in terms of the use of this language.
You may try doing blanket measures via broadrange jamming signals but those would be overcome by anyone even remotely close to you in tech level. Also it draws a gigantic target croshair on you telling "I'm right here!".
 
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NuclearNickel said:
"How many Archon does it take to weaponize plasma?

"603."

"?"

"600 to vote on it, 1 to break things even more, 1 to ask the techs for help, and 1 to request a seat on the council for doing it."
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willyvereb said:
Electronic Warfare is useless against a civilization whose technology you don't understand. Hacking itself is going to be even more pointless without knowing the programming language they use. Even then you are decades or centuries behind them in terms of the use of this language.
You may try doing blanket measures via broadrange jamming signals but those would be overcome by anyone even remotely close to you in tech level. Also it draws a gigantic target croshair on you telling "I'm right here!".
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Pretty much.
Forget hacking their computers, just trying to figure out their communication protocols and data formats will be a headache unto itself.
 
TheBleachDoctor said:



Pretty much.
Forget hacking their computers, just trying to figure out their communication protocols and data formats will be a headache unto itself.
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Well, not so much a headache if the methods are sufficiently similar.
I mean most of us have some kind of humanish technology as a base and use electromagnetic waves. Trying to search for the one frequency which pings a reaction may be a good brute force measure.
But things are extremely case sensitive.
On the other hand understanding a whole different civilization's programming would require you to at first understand their language and culture.
There might be a technobabblish "source of all signals" stuff you can try but given your attitude to universal translators I say that's a bust.

On the other hand stealth can easily work because it doesn't specializes against a special measure rather blocks emissions which the enemy may use to detect you to begin with.
It's possible to edge out stealth tech against specific forms but it's rare in sci-fi and similarly inconvenient in real life if the enemy can just adjust the wavelengths.
 
Occurs to me that boarding the bunnys ships is gonne be hard for mosrlt races, given their 3 foot tall at absolute highest.
 
Wow, I'm immune to technological warfare, mostly because my race is not technological in nature. The Asguardians would probably be horrified by this information.
 
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