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Taylor Varga (Worm/Luna Varga)

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Ravenwood240 said:
Armsmaster will be drawn in and become a Family member.

And this shall be his Family suit, designed by Vectura and built by Saurial.

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It's amazing how you can make EDM look like brass, isn't it? :)

He's going to have a Virtual Halbard, isn't he? A little bit of programming, and there's a new capability. How large are the water reservoirs going to be, for all the required steam? Also, yes it looks nice, but I suspect the final design will lose the wind-up key, on the back. :)
 
Ace Dreamer said:
It's amazing how you can make EDM look like brass, isn't it? :)

He's going to have a Virtual Halbard, isn't he? A little bit of programming, and there's a new capability. How large are the water reservoirs going to be, for all the required steam? Also, yes it looks nice, but I suspect the final design will lose the wind-up key, on the back. :)
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Like Saurial wouldn't leave a key that actually turned... just for the giggles?

It might actually serve a purpose as well.
 
its more a matter of how far it can be physically wound. Every spring has its breaking point where its been wound too tight
 
Rajvik_wolfboy said:
its more a matter of how far it can be physically wound. Every spring has its breaking point where its been wound too tight
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Instead of being hooked up to a spring, it's hooked up to an enormous flywheel via gearing, with a one way winder (once she stops winding, the key remains still). Should be able to run for at least months, or maybe centuries, these units of measure as so confusing to The Family.
 
Rajvik_wolfboy said:
its more a matter of how far it can be physically wound. Every spring has its breaking point where its been wound too tight
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I've a strong suspicion that by use of 'Spring EDM', and a suitable number of fractal dimensions (PI would be one suggestion), 'too tight' wouldn't be possible for the spring, and 'breaking point' would be difficult to reach. 'Too much energy stored in it', on the other hand...

One of the nice things about springs is the physical feedback they provide to the winder...

(Adding dimensional structures to act as cooling systems would be a design requirement, past a certain point... Also, some might say Amsmaster, himself, is a little 'over-wound', at times...)

Assembler Maniac said:
hooked up to an enormous flywheel via gearing
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I suspect that the Family design team would regard this as 'cheating'. And while they do 'cheat', on occasion, I'm pretty sure they don't like getting caught doing it...
 
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Ace Dreamer said:
I suspect that the Family design team would regard this as 'cheating'. And while they do 'cheat', on occasion, I'm pretty sure they don't like getting caught doing it...
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If the key hooks up to a pocket space, they can't be "caught" cheating, because the cheat literally can't be seen.
Besides, everyone knows they cheat already. Manacles that don't melt, but disappear like magic. Swords that can cleave through the top half of a ship. Trinkets that bend space into unnatural directions. It's all cheating, but nobody has a clue how they're cheating, just that they are, sorta, somehow.

As far as using EDM for springs, isn't EDM non-flexible? I don't recall them every making something out of EDM that had give to it. Pretty sure that Varga said even he couldn't cause it to bend.
 
Getting caught cheating only means that you aren't trying hard enough. ;)
If there is one thing that The Family good as is bending the definition of trying hard. ... or making it run away screaming. Both work, usually at the same time.
As an example, the security fence around the Dock Workers yard. If that's not in the category of trying hard enough to do a fence... :)o_O:lol:
You know most of the shenanigans they get up to come to think... :)
 
We know they made "springs" that can handle Kaiju for the Kaiju posting to PHO omake, based around water not wanting to remain compressed... I don't really think there's any reason to assume they couldn't make a system that would allow for a wind-up Armsmaster. Though I don't believe EDM would be the material of choice if they want something to compress.
 
Charred said:
We know they made "springs" that can handle Kaiju for the Kaiju posting to PHO omake, based around water not wanting to remain compressed... I don't really think there's any reason to assume they couldn't make a system that would allow for a wind-up Armsmaster. Though I don't believe EDM would be the material of choice if they want something to compress.
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I was basing this on the precedent of 'Bell EDM', as that's got to flex, or do something that if you squint sideways could be called 'flexing', so as to oscillate, and produce the ringing... However, based on that precedent, there might be side effects...
 
ToothMaker said:
For those who don't want to hunt down the scene in question, The Little Ship that Could is a Shipgirl Taylor fic. The scene in question is is post-GM, after Taylor has been re-reborn into the Kancolle world -

When Taylor is being pressed on why she doesn't like bacon in the mess hall by another Destroyer she has a flashback to the Slaughterhouse 9000. Bonesaw had sent a mass of brainwashed children infected with a deadly virus charging towards a refugee camp and all Taylor had left was white phosphorus.
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It was Simurgh, not Slaughterhouse 9000. And discussion around that omake suggested it's how Taylor acquired her nuclear capability with independent launch. People on Earth had enough and POTUS figured that someone who took WW2 tech to kill Leviathan, might just be able to take nukes and kill Simurgh.
 
mp3.1415player said:
We already attract a certain amount of puzzled attention, so I suspect that a flying reptile large enough to double as a protective shield for a significant proportion of the city would be looked on with some confusion.
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Is proportion correctly used here? Personally I would have used portion in it's place but is that just a personal choice or is proportion misused here?
 
mp3.1415player said:
We already attract a certain amount of puzzled attention, so I suspect that a flying reptile large enough to double as a protective shield for a significant proportion of the city would be looked on with some confusion.
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goku90504 said:
Is proportion correctly used here? Personally I would have used portion in it's place but is that just a personal choice or is proportion misused here?
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Could be a reference to a 'proportion' of the populace, rather than a physical portion of the city? It's the people who would be looking up at the lizard-umbrella, not the city.

Unless, the city has got... a little strange. :)
 
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Idea for Vicky, Uber, and L33t: Family courier branch. Find Ben 10 pics...of Big Chill. Give him a Family style head, black scales, SUBTLE blue highlights.
 
mp3.1415player said:
"Um..." Rory poked around on the phone for a moment. "Fourth root of Pi to twelve places taken as a whole number?"

She paused for a short time, which Roy suspected was actually for effect, then replied, "Seven hundred and forty eight point six six four eight nine. Approximately."
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I'm fairly sure this is wrong, roots of a number bigger than 1 are smaller than the original number and Pi is 3.14159...etc so the 4th root should be smaller than 3... though I'm not sure what that 'taken as a whole number' thing is about
 
goku90504 said:
I'm fairly sure this is wrong, roots of a number bigger than 1 are smaller than the original number and Pi is 3.14159...etc so the 4th root should be smaller than 3... though I'm not sure what that 'taken as a whole number' thing is about
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It means, instead of 3.141592653589(Pi to the twelfth decimal place), you're operating on 3,141,592,653,589.
 
Isnt my realname said:
TL;DR

In other words: I tried reading the linked story and couldn't get more than two or three pages in. The style, it grates.

Is it really worth trying to grind through?
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It's a long time since I read it, and it's in early 20th century science fiction style, which... often requires a willingness to ignore certain things. Not suggesting you disconnect important parts of your brain, but, I thought it a worthwhile read. Nothing amazing, but... Bester didn't write anything bad that I can recall.

Skim and see if any bits look more interesting?
 
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