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Starblazers: Journey Home (Space Battleship Yamato 2199 RP)

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Ugh, too many distractions this weekend. I'll try to get a post up tomorrow. I figure once things are over we'll fold a couple of cruiser squadrons together to keep numbers full, so I'll have replacements for Halifax and the other casualty.
 
Some general 2199 questions for anyone to answer:

1) Is there a name for those sweet powered ladders the Yamato has? Talk about a cool solution to a problem you didn't need to have (well, compared to settings where artificial gravity doesn't exist)--sort of a 1g answer to Gundam's powered guild rails (which I've also found very cool).

2) All all small arms in 2199--used by both the Garmillas and the Cosmo Navy--energy powered in some way? It seems to be the case, unless they're actually very bright, weird-sounding ammunition missing the visible brass ejection.
 
Synthesis said:
1) Is there a name for those sweet powered ladders the Yamato has? Talk about a cool solution to a problem you didn't need to have (well, compared to settings where artificial gravity doesn't exist)--sort of a 1g answer to Gundam's powered guild rails (which I've also found very cool).
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I don't know. I've seen footage of them on warships before, usually old footage, so they're not a new thing. I haven't been able to figure out their name though.

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2) All all small arms in 2199--used by both the Garmillas and the Cosmo Navy--energy powered in some way? It seems to be the case, unless they're actually very bright, weird-sounding ammunition missing the visible brass ejection.
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Cosmo Navy rifles are still ammunition-based, but their pistols are energy weapons.
I'm guessing that the Cosmo Navy have a problem upscaling small arms energy weapons. Maybe it's a battery issue?
 
OK, I've posted. We'll be doing search-and-rescue on the hulks in our sector, picking through for survivors and anything of intelligence value, while the Real Marines go for the big bucket. This is not intended to be the whole of the NPC complement, simply one small portion of it that was close enough to CruRon 4 to group up together on the far side of the Gamilon line from the rest of the fleet.

'Major' Bernstead is no such thing, a Marine Captain, she's the senior Marine officer in the detachment (having commanded Richelieu's marine platoon). 'Clean-Up' is the code to pick up enemy survivors, correspondingly, 'Clean Sweep' would have been 'pick up our own survivors, blow away anything enemy still showing signs of life'.
 
Quick post from me, the Albion's airwing is basically going to provide cover for the boarding action.
 
TheBleachDoctor said:
I don't know. I've seen footage of them on warships before, usually old footage, so they're not a new thing. I haven't been able to figure out their name though.
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I've never seen them powered, though I suppose that's the only thing that distinguishes them from a access ladder (or whatever it would be called). You'd think if they were an actual thing, there'd be a clear name for them...

Cosmo Navy rifles are still ammunition-based, but their pistols are energy weapons.
I'm guessing that the Cosmo Navy have a problem upscaling small arms energy weapons. Maybe it's a battery issue?
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That's right, the carbines used during the mutiny seem to have bullets. I was expecting the reversed issue. In any case, that would suggest that conventional gunpowder weapons are definitely still a thing.
 
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I've never seen them powered, though I suppose that's the only thing that distinguishes them from a access ladder (or whatever it would be called). You'd think if they were an actual thing, there'd be a clear name for them...
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I'm sure there is, but they're certainly not called a ladder.

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That's right, the carbines used during the mutiny seem to have bullets. I was expecting the reversed issue. In any case, that would suggest that conventional gunpowder weapons are definitely still a thing.
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The Gamilons use energy rifles so I think it's a power generation issue. After all, the Cosmo Navy fighters still use cannons despite the availability and effectiveness of lasers, so it must be that they can't effectively scale up their power storage/generation units to that degree, and it only works again when you get to ship level.
 
TheBleachDoctor said:
Cosmo Navy rifles are still ammunition-based, but their pistols are energy weapons.
I'm guessing that the Cosmo Navy have a problem upscaling small arms energy weapons. Maybe it's a battery issue?
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Maybe they just Electrothermal-Chemical Technology or something?
 
tankdrop24 said:
Maybe they just Electrothermal-Chemical Technology or something?
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Well....
Maybe think of it like electric cars. We've had tiny toy ones for ages, and they zip around for several minutes but that's all they need to do. A full size car could not be practical if it only zipped around for a few minutes. It's only recently that they've gotten better batteries and can last, but not as long as they really need to.

In parallel, a pistol is semi automatic, and fires single shots with long intervals between (usually). The power demands on one would be small compared to an assault rifle, which fires long bursts of rapid fire rounds. The power demands would scale massively.
 
TheBleachDoctor said:
I'm sure there is, but they're certainly not called a ladder.
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A mechanical sketch of one passage on the Yamato is on pg. 102 of the mechanics design book (for Earth ships, duh). They're actually a lot wider than I'd remembered, and don't feature ladder rungs (in an obvious manner), but identical powered stands affixed to a central guide rail (going in opposite directions)--you hold onto the one above you, which someone else could stand on (they're two parallel bars each, which would solve the issue of having your fingers stood on).

A very elegant solution in its own way--by my own translation, the sketch is just called "vertical passages" along with the artist name, featured alongside the actual elevator shaft Morii and Kodai climb up when the Yamato is set adrift in one episode (that one did have ladder rungs). It looks like a standard non-elevator vertical shaft, probably for maintenance (or maybe ventilation?) purposes that has the powered lift column in the middle--you couldn't for example, carry much while using one, so they're really just for personnel. The sketch cleared up my conception that there was a conveyor-like device with rungs at the back of the shaft. Plus, as you'd expect, the hatchways have sliding doors--this being the first time of their use, likely left open, giving Kulan-Klang a fun opportunity to scare someone.
 
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For the other people on Eurasian ships, in lieu of just using the Japanese CN support and transport ships--which is a viable, since they have neat little ships like the SC-97 'Cosmo Seagull'--I've proposed an indigenous solution (if anything, the USSR manufactured more varieties of utility aircraft, and unlike Japan, exported them widely), I suggest using the Russian or Eurasian-built models I'm going to describe. Of course I can't make you, but it'd be nice to be consistent. If anyone has any similar ideas, share them. The first one, the Kamov Ka-229, would basically be a spaceborne variety of the Ka-25's early-warning variant, the Ka-31, though configure for transport and not EWAC (at least in this case). Of course, it's not a helicopter, so no distinct counter-rotating props, but it'd have the same high maneuverability/small size (and a very modest armament, a futuristic update of the 2A42 autocannon and a specialized hull-cutting laser).



We don't have a Russian carrier I believe, so there'll be maybe one or two similar small utility spacecraft.
 
Synthesis said:
For the other people on Eurasian ships, in lieu of just using the Japanese CN support and transport ships--which is a viable, since they have neat little ships like the SC-97 'Cosmo Seagull'--I've proposed an indigenous solution (if anything, the USSR manufactured more varieties of utility aircraft, and unlike Japan, exported them widely), I suggest using the Russian or Eurasian-built models I'm going to describe. Of course I can't make you, but it'd be nice to be consistent. If anyone has any similar ideas, share them. The first one, the Kamov Ka-229, would basically be a spaceborne variety of the Ka-25's early-warning variant, the Ka-31, though configure for transport and not EWAC (at least in this case). Of course, it's not a helicopter, so no distinct counter-rotating props, but it'd have the same high maneuverability/small size (and a very modest armament, a futuristic update of the 2A42 autocannon and a specialized hull-cutting laser).



We don't have a Russian carrier I believe, so there'll be maybe one or two similar small utility spacecraft.
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That would work well, I think.
 
I am busy this weekend (my nephew's first communion, long drive to join the family for it) but will do my best to post by deadline.
 
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