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I wonder what Sortek take on the activities and existence of the Helghan Republic is going to be? He's already got to have a pretty complete outside perspective from going through the Concordat and the Reach.
The Lords of Ruin -- Battletech/Killzone
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Can we fit "overhaul/refit captured and bought mechs, with Marauder's help if they are willing" as a part of "Organize a battlemech company and run it through training/wargame cycle with Marauders as both trainers and OpFor, to figure how battlemechs fit into current Helghan military doctrine and check if it need modification or overhaul" as a single project?
Can we fit "overhaul/refit captured and bought mechs, with Marauder's help if they are willing" as a part of "Organize a battlemech company and run it through training/wargame cycle with Marauders as both trainers and OpFor, to figure how battlemechs fit into current Helghan military doctrine and check if it need modification or overhaul" as a single project?
So is Bruce quest in play? Because if so our long term plans are gonna shift big time.
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We have a lot of mechs already that are only being used for training. It is already happening that is why we have the Marauders and the MoC trainer. Also why we want to get TC trainers. We also have military exchange programs with the TC that is meant to get us the experience.
Really? Based on how it was worded, I assumed that we only have few pilots and there are no combined-arms training on relatively large scale (multiple companies/battalions).
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Bruce Quest Thread 3, Weddings, Wars, and Wiretapping.
Having gone through the obligatory character background, building, and some growth in the first thread (as well as building an industrial base, because this is Space Battles!), it's time to move out into the world at large and start fighting for the Federated Commonwealth directly. This is war...
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Based on the emoji, I figure Bruce quest is irrelevant.
I figured that but I figured the Gm might like reading it.
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Primitive IS Structural Materials.
After a multi-year development program, the Helghast military has finally accepted that a full-strength material suitable for vehicular monocoques and Battlemech bones alike is simply out of reach-our industrial methods can make composite materials required, but not in the required thicknesses (some are too thick, others are too thin), and combining them has been particularly thorny. Anti-spalling polymers must be sandwiched between foamed aluminum and armor-grade Titanium-steel, which is very tricky to assemble and weld into a single unit. Compromises had to be made. In this case, it was ultimately the silicon-carbide and the polymer mid-wrap that are removed, giving a foamed aluminum core and outer shell of titanium alloy. However, the resulting material is more brittle and has less tensile strength per unit of weight, and weighs more per unit volume, mostly due to the vapor-deposition process used for the outer shell partially infiltrating the foamed core with extra Titanium. This process is also slow, depositing only grams of material per minute and requiring very large industrial equipment to fabricate a single structural element. This heavy industrial requirement that will likely be obsolete before it's even finished is the largest drawback to the project. Cost will accordingly be quite high, and production will likely be slowed greatly, with each sub-assembly taking upwards of a week to fabricate. This will require large-scale parallelism of production, to maintain even a modest output.
Accordingly, we have deveoloped a different, somewhat dangerous process for spaceship frames that relies on a process of hot-forging Titanium shells directly onto a prepared core. This method would be a considerable fire and corrosion hazard outside of a vaccum, and requires large components to effectively work-much too large for anything smaller than a MAWLR, and is, we believe, somewhat closer to what is done in the Inner Sphere, though our observers have not been able to confirm this.
Primitive Armour
Our synthesis of Cubic Boron Nitride has finally gone up to industrial scale, rather than experimental laboratory processes. While this is, in theory, good enough to make 'standard' armor, in practice however, there are still significant teething problems with the process, and quality control is quite frankly, going to be a hassle. Our polymer-sealant layer is barely capable of ooozing shut around .50 cal bullet holes, let alone autocannon or laser damage. Our honeycomb titanium has either serious structural flaws that handicap it's function as a backing layer, or it must be hand-drilled out, a time and labor hungry procedure. The outer layers are not much better-we have carbon nanotubes better than the compounds used in some of the armor we have examined (some are using ground-up diamond, which simply doesn't have the thermal conductivity to leech away laser damage), but our exact weaving process is sub-optimal, and the titanium-steel shell is appropriately brittle but isn't hard enough to break up an impactor with certainty-but still breaking up and degrading under battlefield conditions and repeated hits. Still, the armor produced by this process is just barely acceptable, and we can begin converting our existing heavy-industrial facilities to produce it immediately. There is expected to be relatively little actual need to retool to produce Standard armor-it will be more a matter of quality control, getting the bugs out, and adjusting the fine details, rather than major revisions to shop process.
Helghast Standard Lasers
Testing concluded today on the Hughes-Dyson corporation's prototype of the M-5 Standard Laser, a domestic revolution in directed-energy weaponry. The M-5 prototype is designed for use both as a squad-support weapon and a vehicular mount. As a squad support weapon, it is mounted on it's own wheeled chassis, that can be hitched to an APC and towed or maneuvered independently. Power is provided via a pair of Petrusite power cells, or a 50 meter connection cable suitable for hooking into various mains electrical systems. As a vehicular weapon, the M-5 was installed in a double-turret in a standard heavy tank, and showed some considerable promise, successfully engaging targets at almost 2 kilometers in tests. However, it's lensing system is imperfect, and it's wavelength, while energetic and chosen to be absorbed easily by armor while avoiding as much potential eye damage as possible, is also absorbed by air and water vapor, resulting in this being the practical upper limit of range in atmosphere, dependent on exact air conditions and density. In space, the short-barrel laser is likewise limited by the physical configurations of it's lenses, which are designed more to enable a degree of automatic tracking and light-laying than they are to absolute range and convergence of energy. This means that the laser has about ten degrees of 'off true' ability, and can track a moving target to inflict maximum damage rather than drawing a bright, but ultimately useless line across an enemy's frame. Use of this ability degrades both range and shortens the life of the lens-assembly however, which has been made modular because of the need to replace it every 300-1000 shots.Beyond this limit, the laser will lose power output to minor imperfections and flaws developing in the lenses, until they fail catastrophically by absorbing instead of transmitting the light from the solid lasing core. The core is all things considered, far more robust, and can be energized at least 70,000 times without misfiring according to the testing data.
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@prometheus110 you never answered my laser question. Why is it only medium when we already had that but it was the Naval sized one and was a Hanger Queen? Standard Lasers should be the Small, Medium, and Large variants. Since we don't have more powerful but shorter ranged Pulse Lasers or the longer ranged ER Laser which is the next level of tech in the Laser tree.
We specifically went looking for mechs and trainers and started our program to train our own core of pilots and did the exchange to learn how mechs are used in combat by the IS to see what we might take from them. Even without the Royals (which we shouldn't be showing off as training units) we have a total of just over 40 mechs in our arsenal that are going to be used for the next several years to train more and more pilots. We also will not be fielding large Battlemech formations for a very long time. If we get it well enough we can have a few Battalions of Titans ready for an attack on the CC by 3030 but they will only serve as support units and the conventional army and Navy will be the main combat force. Mechs aren't going to be the cornerstone of our military like the IS has them. They will be support units for the main army and airforce when they are deployed. We lack the Mech Mafia and mentality of the IS to always think battlemechs are the end all be all.
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Honestly, you're right.
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So we do have all the basic lasers then? That is cool.
And they are the helgan style which means they something like triple the range
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Triple (200%) is only the Small. The medium is double (100%) and the Large is likely only half (50%) as much more range.
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Pretty much.
Hey @prometheus110 out of all the Big factions which would most likely be our top enemy
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The CC they already attacked us and are the most belligerent on our area. Luckily they are the weakest and they are about to get the mother of all smackdowns from the FedSuns.
So which faction of the three big one should we support
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We are staying away from them for the most part. The FWL is not going to like us stealing the DoA and supporting the war against the CC since it make them look bad. The CC is someone no one in our Alliance would want to side with and we are going to help our allies steal systems from them. The DC is of no concern to us since they are on the other side of the sphere and are more worried about the FedCom. ComStar can go suck bag of ***** for all we will help the cultists. The OWA and the Marian Hegemony are the two next powers to screw with. Along with the FRR and St. Ives to build relations with. The only major House we would work with is Davion and that is only to get access to the NAIS by way of bribe with our Royal cache goodies if we don't break them down ourselves.
well it seems that we have to become a major to go against the factions that hate us and I'm ok with that and then when this is all over maybe fused with the faction that we like in this war
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If the only reason we're poking at NAIS is for scientific knowledge, I'd rather see if Niops is willing to offer anything for exchange. Of course, with our luck, they'd probably ask for something ridiculous, like access to or samples of petrusite.
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You really don't understand scale and timeframes do you?
It isn't just research. And even if it was the NAIS is the most advanced and best school in the IS bar none. And we have just the thing to get them to agree an entire trove of Star League Royal Division tech.
Is there a write up for the planned Titan mech somewhere?