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Transposition, or: Ship Happens [Worm/Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio | Arpeggio of Blue Steel]

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ensou said:
Kid Win sighed. "Look, we aren't prepared to deal with that many people, and especially not that many armed with weapons. Vista and I may know what we're doing, but one stray bullet and we're dead. Part of being good at this is knowing where your limits are. Console will inform the police, and the police will handle it, okay? It's what they do. If there were capes here, it might be a different story. But we'd still wait for backup and the PRT before engaging. But as it is, with just civilians, well, it's just not worth the risk."
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I got that the police would be able to fight them. But they wouldn't be able to nearly as efficiently or effectively as I could. Looking at the situation, I didn't want to just leave it. This is what I had been searching for, something where I could make a difference.
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I see Taylor doesn't understand the concept of having henchmen to do your dirty work, yet. :V
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Taylor Hebert, magical robot girl. Aka Relentless of the Fog, Experimental Platform X-1.

…Wait. What the fu–
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The plot thickens!
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To her left, on what appeared to be an oversized skateboard with a red glow under it –antigravity of some sort–, stood a boy with a red visor-slash-helmet and full body armor.
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And of course she assumes that it's anti-gravity and not, say, superconducting electromagnetism, or ion thrusters, or conventional lift hidden behind the red glow. Or does she get the readings and go like 'hmm, something's fishy in this part of the graviton field?'

ensou said:
Just Brute and Shaker, please.
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And then she immediately demonstrates enhanced senses. And Kid Win has noticed something's fishy about that costume. Oh, Taylor.
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To generate enough power to continually produce the gravitons that would be required for the thrusters (and also providing electricity), I was going to have to use antimatter. Specifically, an antimatter/matter reactor.
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Yeah, I'm going to have to go with what some other people said on this one. Antimatter isn't so much power generation as it is power storage. Like, you use a ton of energy to produce it and isolate it, yeah? And sure, you get a ton back out, but it's not like fusion/fission where you move towards a low energy state: unless you're collecting ambient antimatter (doable in spess, but not so much here), you're essentially putting in a ton of energy and then releasing it later, rather than releasing energy that's already there. While it could be her onboard power source, I'd think she'd still need something to at least supplement it. Fortunately, as you pointed out, there are definitely options for other sources of power.
 
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Iarna said:
Ooh, new chapter! I haven't read it yet, but in preparing to do so I put together an epub that you all might find handy:

https://shared.by.re-becca.org/ebooks/ensou-transposition-or-ship-happens.epub

(It differs from those provided by, say, ao3, in that it includes the omake and other material only posted here. It also includes the Guide as an appendix. And for that, it inlines the images so they work without network. Similarly it brings in the links to manga pages so they work without network.)
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I'm also working on an adapter for my fanfic downloader that'll accept Xenforo sources/urls, which might make things easier in the long run since it won't need constant updating.
 
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Iarna said:
Oh, you have one of those too? =D Mine's here: https://github.com/iarna/fetch-fic
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Yuuuuuppppp. ficrip.io

The source code's here:
There's a memory leak in the library I'm using to generate EPUBs that causes the Ruby VM to crash every few hours/days, which I'll have to debug sometime, but other than that I'm pretty happy with it.
 
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wanted a chance to look his board, see how it
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look at his board
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They man who'd been coming out of the door and seen me dropped what
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The man
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I waited the two minutes until I heard police sirens getting closer, and then jumped up onto a roof and left.
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waited two minutes until
ensou said:
I didn't need to eat, that and definitely changed how I viewed it in general.
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that has definitely
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That's a almost thousand times more than the amount I lose in the same period of time.
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That's almost a thousand
ensou said:
used a metal spatula from a drawer to start cutting sections. Once that was done

Dad picked both plates up f
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You cut off here.
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but there wasn't just another destroyer or two, there was destroyer, another Gato-class sub, the light cruiser Nashville, and to my extreme surprise, a model of the USS Wisconsin.
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was a destroyer, another
Interesting that Taylor's Fog database of ship details is drawing from our history instead of Earth Bet's, and that they contradict occasionally.
 
Found another (possible) ship body for Taylor.

ensou said:
I don't know how Dad had missed it, but there wasn't just another destroyer or two, there was destroyer, another Gato-class sub, the light cruiser Nashville, and to my extreme surprise, a model of the USS Wisconsin.
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...and you cant forget good old Wisky.

Since so many people have been posting images from the same source I'll just drop a link. The guy focuses mostly on SBY 2199 stuff but anything he draws is pretty good.
 
Gear-2557 said:
Found another (possible) ship body for Taylor.



...and you cant forget good old Wisky.

Since so many people have been posting images from the same source I'll just drop a link. The guy focuses mostly on SBY 2199 stuff but anything he draws is pretty good.
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Aye...
Part of me Really likes the Wisky, but it's Taylor. Administration. Carrier, man. Carrier.
And thanks a lot for that site!
 
Iarna said:
Hahah! Quite! Which one's yours? (I'm always interested in seeing how other folks approach the same basic problem!)
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The link on "handles it" goes to the top of the repo, but the xenforo-specific bit is here.

Xenforo is the one I had to dig out how to make kindle-compliant endnotes for, as the best compromise I could see for dealing with spoiler-tags.
 
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"Important" advisory: I finally finished updating the no longer untitled (I'd say Ensou made a liar out of me saying I was finished, but I probably would have ended up editing it anyways) armsyludeomake. (ArmsyLudeOmake. Not sorry.) This is the version that might eventually get thrown up on other sites than this. Because apparently, this is my life now.

Most notable differences:

-It accounts for everything she shows here, but he thinks the costume is tinkertech
-It's implied that he figures it was always tinkertech, she did have months to get it after all, though whether he'll continue to believe that is anyone's guess
-Chris can do the science thing
-Removed Herobrine


I should be sorry but I'm really not
 
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MobiusC said:
Potentially. Amy might also do nothing at all except call for GG. Amy only really got directly involved because she had the chance to by messing with Skitter's bugs. Without that, she may just decide to stay hidden unless she gets an opening.
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So... if I'm reading this right, you're saying that Amy came out of hiding solely because Skitter gave her an opening to mess with?



MobiusC said:
Contrary to Hollywood physics, guns do not go off if they are dropped. In fact, if a gun is dropped your supposed to let it fall and hit the ground rather than grab it, because there is less of a chance of it going off when it hits the floor than if you try and grab it as it falls. Just something that popped out to me.
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*sniffs, pushes up glasses* Aaaactually....

If the gun's had some shoddy work done on the action, such as lightening the trigger spring, polishing/shaping the trigger mechanism, an/or all kinds of other fuckery that's possible and actually somewhat common in attempts to make a "machine gun" out of an otherwise legal firearm... it is entirely possible to have a gun go off when it's dropped on the floor. It just takes a complete fucking idiot to work on it. (And this is where I point out it WAS a Merchant, so....)

However, you ARE completely correct that a gun in good repair will not go off by hitting the floor. Hell, you could hammer in railroad spikes with the thing and not get it to fire.
 
WarriorServent said:
Nope they just can't fit Klein fields onto things as small as fighters, and consider them useless as a result.
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Which is really just a contrived excuse to not have planes considering Mental Models can have WFA and Hyuuga made a Klein field generator that was about the size of a toy gyroscope frame.
 
Gearhead said:
Fog Carriers are traditionally.. not very useful. There may be some Fog-related ancestral trauma there to consider.
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WarriorServent said:
Nope they just can't fit Klein fields onto things as small as fighters, and consider them useless as a result.
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Well, useless relative to super-tough ships.

IIRC, someone talked about Fog fightercraft using WW2-esque tactics and getting beaten by over-the-horizon missiles from modern human fighters, but I have no idea how canon that is. Citation needed I guess.
 
If Taylor is a carrier and she can independently and effectively control each fighter that she launches via QA shenanigans, she'd be pretty ridiculous. She could basically be an entire super hero team covering the whole city on her own.
 
Twei said:
IIRC, someone talked about Fog fightercraft using WW2-esque tactics and getting beaten by over-the-horizon missiles from modern human fighters, but I have no idea how canon that is. Citation needed I guess.
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Considering to what kind of ECM Fog ships could have, that's... well... not silly, but still.
But it's true. Considering what kind of missiles Fog ships have, they don't really need fighters. A few drones as eyes in the sky and then showering the targets in missiles.

I suppose my dreams of Carrier Taylor will have to take a back seat to a potential missile boat.
 
KInruush said:
If Taylor is a carrier and she can independently and effectively control each fighter that she launches via QA shenanigans, she'd be pretty ridiculous. She could basically be an entire super hero team covering the whole city on her own.
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Fighters not required. Given a battleship core she should be able to run three or four mental models simultaneously, all of which have distinct personalities and ideas, though this would probably come with some degradation in hull performance.

Unfortunately, once made, shutting down a mental model is effectively murder.

So yeah, she could be an entire team "on her own".
 
ensou said:
Which is really just a contrived excuse to not have planes considering Mental Models can have WFA and Hyuuga made a Klein field generator that was about the size of a toy gyroscope frame.
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Well the last time the carriers really got used was before they got MMs so at the time tactics were probalby lacking. It's the same with stuffing a KF generator into them. Hyuuga only came up with that stuff after she really started playing around with her own technology.

And by the time the Fog had MMs for the better tactics and potentially the mini-KF generator they didn't need to field planes any more.
 
Asheram said:
Considering to what kind of ECM Fog ships could have, that's... well... not silly, but still.
But it's true. Considering what kind of missiles Fog ships have, they don't really need fighters. A few drones as eyes in the sky and then showering the targets in missiles.

I suppose my dreams of Carrier Taylor will have to take a back seat to a potential missile boat.
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When I examined the subject earlier, I imagined that Fog drone-craft were supposed to be glorified MIRVs for saturating opponents with metric fucktons of missiles/laz0rs, either from range or alongside direct combatants. It's just that in the process of cosplaying, they kind of forgot the original tactical point. Which would fit with the whole 'they need to learn things like tactics' business, I think.

Or perhaps it simply didn't work as well in atmosphere as it did in space, because at this point I wouldn't even believe Ark Performance themselves if they told me that the Fog aren't from space. v: Who knows?
 
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