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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
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Even if it's currently mostly intact, we have no means to repair it at the moment.
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Even if it's only mostly intact, it's still a powerful ship and would be extremely deadly. So long as its engines, void shields, and at least one array of its weapons are intact, it serves as a giant "I win" button.
And the Well of Urd has that much and more, and we can't repair it either. We need to just keep building that infrastructure up.
You are confusing "intact" with "in working condition" - remember that this is a graveyard from a battle in which both forces managed to destroy one another. Intact here means the ship is in good condition for a ship that was disabled during a battle, but still in a state to have been disabled.
Also, even if we turn it on we do not want to send a priceless archeotech super-battleship into battle when it's not in suitable condition to fight. It's the same reason we don't want to use the Well of Urd before we've repaired it.
ArchAIngel
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I doubt that. While I didn't say it in the Omake, that gun-thing was a multi-AU radius effect of "Everything is now absolute zero. EVERYTHING." Which results in physics crying in a corner over how thoroughly it just got raped. Starlight might have been on the edge, but intact is a relative term here.
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Well, hopefully we can find out whether or not "intact" means "in working condition" or not when the turn comes up and we see investigate the "intact" escorts and cruisers.
The omake was non-canon. It got us a bonus but the events in it didn't actually happen.
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ArchAIngel
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True. But I highly doubt the ship is working right now. That would be too easy.
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To be fair, I think that the supercaps should be our next priority after the escorts and LCs. They may have more examples of systems similar enough to the WoU to make the examine actions easier.
Well, right now our priority is to get the intact ships we can actually repair up and running ASAP. At least until Vanaheim's out of the Warp Storm, anyways, as we need to bolster the Imperial Trust Navy with actual ships.
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I agree 100%, but between the escorts and LCs, we will be up to our head for a long time in repairs, and thats not counting the research we will have to do before we can repair them, nor the fact that we are gonna need to strip all of them of their cogitators and destroy them in order to ensure that we don't accidentally activate a MoI. so we are going to have time, and i think that we should use that time to look at the super caps next turn.
I imagine next turns mechanicus actions to look like this:
Build Greater Forge: All - Locked
Some Biologis action (probably more Kraken)
Reseach how to repair DAoT Escorts
Survey Ship Graveyard: Above Battleships
I'm pretty sure there is going to be more than one thing we need to do to "research how to repair DAoT Escorts" - we'll probably need to take a few actions, and if we can take them at the same time that would be preferable.
So he was going to get some Psi-Cola.
....Emperor Damn It! That mutie got to the dispenser first!
(only artwork that ever had Psi-Cola in it...)
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I'm hoping that Ridcully can do some post-cognition on that as well. The Ancients must've done a lot of maintenance and repairs on those things.
That's not really going to help. We just need to understand the technology, really, and a lot of it should be somewhat familiar given what we've learned from The Well of Urd and the Ancient Defense Cruiser. The Escorts are the ones least likely to have too many new items, IMO, since the Ancient Defense Cruiser would have the same or better weapons and systems. Though intact Warp Drives and Gellar Fields from the DAoT are something we don't currently have examples of, so if we find those we definitely need to study them.
Do we have any idea what the 13km long ship looks like?
Because for some reason in my head I'm seeing a Super Star Destroyer.... One of the EU ones that had a mini-deathstar gun on front.
Because for some reason in my head I'm seeing a Super Star Destroyer.... One of the EU ones that had a mini-deathstar gun on front.
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it does have the wedge shape of a Star Destroyer, which allows it to focus all of its big guns in the frontal arc
Hmmm, that's a rather different design philosophy compared to Imperial Ships. Interesting.
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Not necessarily, old Imperial ships have similar shapes as well.
Imperial Navy Vessels (List) - Lexicanum
The Retired Classes have the flattened wedge thing going on.
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The Imperium made a gradual transition from the weapon-mount-wedges to the armoured prow designs.
Here's a transitional form:
EDIT: @durin, does the Imperial Trust, Atlas or Valinor have the schematics for the Exo-Lance? I got curious because Callamus being made canon implies that Lataminus exists(ed?) as well.
Here's a transitional form:
EDIT: @durin, does the Imperial Trust, Atlas or Valinor have the schematics for the Exo-Lance? I got curious because Callamus being made canon implies that Lataminus exists(ed?) as well.
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None of those have nearly the wedge shape of a Star Destroyer, though. The wedge is much wider on those.
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Would they even be that superior to what we have now? The Warp Drives and GFGs of the Dark Age didn't have to handle a post-Slaanesh Warp. The Warp Drives might be faster but they may not be as reliable as the ones we have today.
@durin, what would've happened if we chose the Ministorum to be Fred's backer and we had a bunch of battle sisters sitting around when the Emperor died and the Abomination rose?