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I think Warp travel will get less dangerous when the Star Child gets born. At least, I think that's a reasonable assumption. So a Warp-less means of traveling might not be such a big deal as it is now.
Sterbelicht - One Sacrifice At A Time Against The Galaxy (40K)
- Thread starter HeroCooky
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Assume it's like us right now: equivalent to an average navigator, not Chaos aligned.
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nonetheless that still beats dying alone in a warp storm
And there still the theorical applications of it inside a system
A ship that can do short FTL jumps would be nothing short of a nightmare to fight
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Binged the whole quest last night, great stuff.
Anyway, the Bubble Drive isn't very impressive in and of itself, but neither was the Kitty Hawk. It's the first step on the road to freedom from the Warp.
Anyway, the Bubble Drive isn't very impressive in and of itself, but neither was the Kitty Hawk. It's the first step on the road to freedom from the Warp.
We have found the power of bubbles!
Fleightfire
Read to Live - Live to Read
I'm all for the Bubble Drive, hopefully we can improve upon it soon though it might just be small increments like the Juvenat production.
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Ita an after game is done reward
Yeah, the baby necrodermis is better in this case. If it was weeks to hours, I could be convinced, but minutes to years, not worth it with us boosting starchild... unless birth of starchild makes warp travel much harder, like birth of Slaaneash.
Unless it gets better in the epilogue
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- Zack
That's better than nothing
Oooh, I was super confused.
Nice, those look super nice. The Battlecolonies having the 1s at the end of their size and such are funny. What are automated voidhaven pattern manufactories?
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
They're the "Fuck you. Void Station." level of manufactories.
Huh. Then we might just have to make the Crusade support ship be focused on food production. The Battlecolonies can be the mobile shipyards/pop up repair shops for the Crusade fleet and a hypothetical Crusade support ship with like 6 or 8 Arboteriums can basically feed everyone almost indefinitely. While also being able to defend itself and have enough equipment to murder almost any attempt at boarding it.
Ahahahahahaha
So I assume it's just not reachable with our current DP stockpile and only achievable thanks to the Kil'drabi halving the costs?
Spooky, but yeah, alright, that's most of my worries assuaged about longevity of a fleet in the case of manufactories. All we need is a shitload of arboretums now
I think we have two paths for this. We can either go for spamming a bunch of heavy freighters designed as food ships (at minimum 2 Arboretums per because 1x Arboretum only feeds the crew itself, meaning a 24 DP tax on any design our of 45 DP budget), or go for broke and design a battleship with 6 to 8 Arboretums and a shit load of self defense ability (especially against boarding assaults).
Well I guess if nothing else the Bubble Drives will make the our oldest Kin happy as can be.
Very nice new ships
Are they still building them at the same rate now the nomadic fleets are lead by a battleship sized ship?
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Welp, I guess we don't need any new fleet tenders now, yeesh.
On that note @HeroCooky , what do those Infused Missiles do? Just give us more boom in our missile weapons generically? Or is it another equipment piece?
EDIT: That aside, the revelation that "This shit is fucking slow and even moving to neighboring systems is the work of years, even assuming you take the shortest route from a realspace perspective"... Does remove the excitement for it, especially if that's not a problem that can be reasonably surmounted by any level of grinding because apparently "Non-Warp FTL Just Fucking Sucks" is a hard rule of the setting.
In light of that, I think I'm more inclined towards Animated Metal, bring Life to the Machine in earnest.
On that note @HeroCooky , what do those Infused Missiles do? Just give us more boom in our missile weapons generically? Or is it another equipment piece?
EDIT: That aside, the revelation that "This shit is fucking slow and even moving to neighboring systems is the work of years, even assuming you take the shortest route from a realspace perspective"... Does remove the excitement for it, especially if that's not a problem that can be reasonably surmounted by any level of grinding because apparently "Non-Warp FTL Just Fucking Sucks" is a hard rule of the setting.
In light of that, I think I'm more inclined towards Animated Metal, bring Life to the Machine in earnest.
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Of course! I just need to finish my other WIP first (not on this site).
Yeah, that was my read. Each Battlecolony should be able to take care of quite a lot of other ships. That doesn't mean that putting an arboretum or an expanded crew quarters on a battleship won't pay some pretty serious dividends though.
As for the decision... I dunno. A lot of what brings down civilizations in 40K is warp storms, because they get cut off and can't reinforce/support each other. I'm legitimately unsure if the drive would help with that - could you sustain a civilization off it? Probably? That would solve one of the fundamental problems with stable civilization in 40k.
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Given that the Warp is inherently unstable and we basically rely on it for all our transport and communications, and that Warp storms are very much a thing, having any sort of FTL drive that doesn't rely on it could be extremely useful.
We have no idea whether the birth of the Star Child would have a positive or calming effect on the Warp, so future-proofing, even if it's just lore fluff, is very much essential to the survival of our Federation.
It's slow, yes, but it's better than nothing.
We have no idea whether the birth of the Star Child would have a positive or calming effect on the Warp, so future-proofing, even if it's just lore fluff, is very much essential to the survival of our Federation.
It's slow, yes, but it's better than nothing.
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Yeah, I'm voting for the Bubble Drive one way or another. It's just too damn valuable for long term prosperity.
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Yeah.
They are Active Ship Standards, improving Missile-weaponry, strike craft (especially with Gen 4 online soon), and dodge-ability.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Very nice, does that make our Missiles now completely superior to Macrocannons in terms of being a brawling weapon? Or do Plasma Rotaries still beat them?
Because it'll have significant influence on my designs to know what our best brawling choice is.
Because it'll have significant influence on my designs to know what our best brawling choice is.
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We do need a food ship to sustain a Crusade far from secure supply lines. Even a single battleship with like 6 Arboretums should sustain a Crusade more or less by itself food wise and still be able to defend itself quite well.
This is *especially* needed when we are fighting against Nurgle cult.