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Right then I say the Atlantic Ocean is the place to build our space elevator.
We Stand Against the Stars (Gundam/Macross)
- Thread starter manofjay
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Hey we are missing the GM Cannon from the vehicle list, or are we waiting till the refit?
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The list is for Vehicles designed by the thread. When you guys work your magic on it it will be added.
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- Anchorage, Alaska
Hmmm if we do manage to get more space elevators up, we should aim for the other two oceans...also keep building up earth and hopefully the rest of the solar system.
At least untill we can reliably say we have claimed Sol system and can split the alien armada up for our long range cannons that we stole from TZ to barrage them with.
At least untill we can reliably say we have claimed Sol system and can split the alien armada up for our long range cannons that we stole from TZ to barrage them with.
The Strike Fighter Omake (Cannon)
The Strike Fighter Omake
Earthsphere News Network
Stunning upset as startup Zero-Wolf trounces Harvick in Strike Craft competition. Harvick was responsible for the vast majority of Earth Federation combat aircraft and was the favorite to win the competition to replace their own aging Saberfish. Their Scandinavian branch Vehrec spearheaded the effort producing no less than five prototypes in four weight categories. Even when the Multi-Strike-Craft Program was canceled in favor of the All Purpose Strike Craft Program, Harvick/Vehrec were confident that at least one of their designs would make the cut.
Competing against Harvick were the startups Void-Zero based in Side-1's Shangri-La colony and Wolfstrum based in Side-6's Libot Colony; both were formed by former members of the Federation's Harvick and Zeon's MIP companies respectively. During the competition it was discovered that the design requirements for Zero's Space Heavy 2 and Wolf's Resolute were nearly identical, this lead to cooperation and eventually a corporate merger into Zero-Wolf.
In a shocking turn of events not a single one of Harvick's prototypes made it to the second stage of testing, the top three contenders were all prototypes by Zero-Wolf; Real Space, Space Heavy 1, and Resolute. All three shared the same basic components as Real Space; an internal weapons bay, a miniaturized inertial dampening system, and at least one engine with Zero-Wolf's latest model afterburner. Space Heavy 1 and Resolute simply added onto Real Space, with Resolute including a pair of cannons and Space Heavy 1 including a single cannon and second engine w/afterburner.
When the tests were concluded the Earth Federation's top brass were convinced, 7/9 in favor of Space Heavy 1. "The engines were the key" said Admiral Fisher of the EFSF, "Without ECA speed is armor, and Space Heavy 1 had the greatest acceleration in space and the highest top speed in-atmophere" Admiral Fisher was one of the key voices in the debate that saw the Nova enter the EFSF instead of a new battleship. At the end of the competition Space Heavy 1 was rechristened the Resolute, "We liked the name too much to get rid of it" said a spokesman from Zero-Wolf.
Still, the saga hasn't appeared to have finished yet. Zero-Wolf doesn't yet have the industrial capacity to fulfill the Federation's need for new airframes as well as their orders from the rest of the Colonies, this has lead to the Federation granting them a massive grant to greatly expand their factories in Shangri-La & Libot and to open a new factory on Earth. In the mean time Harvick has been granted a license to produce the Resolute until such time as Zero-Wolf's new factories come online, a sorely needed boost with Harvick seeing record losses this year in the face of the Federation's adoption of mobile suits and abandonment of Harvick's Saberfish.
Earthsphere News Network
Stunning upset as startup Zero-Wolf trounces Harvick in Strike Craft competition. Harvick was responsible for the vast majority of Earth Federation combat aircraft and was the favorite to win the competition to replace their own aging Saberfish. Their Scandinavian branch Vehrec spearheaded the effort producing no less than five prototypes in four weight categories. Even when the Multi-Strike-Craft Program was canceled in favor of the All Purpose Strike Craft Program, Harvick/Vehrec were confident that at least one of their designs would make the cut.
Competing against Harvick were the startups Void-Zero based in Side-1's Shangri-La colony and Wolfstrum based in Side-6's Libot Colony; both were formed by former members of the Federation's Harvick and Zeon's MIP companies respectively. During the competition it was discovered that the design requirements for Zero's Space Heavy 2 and Wolf's Resolute were nearly identical, this lead to cooperation and eventually a corporate merger into Zero-Wolf.
In a shocking turn of events not a single one of Harvick's prototypes made it to the second stage of testing, the top three contenders were all prototypes by Zero-Wolf; Real Space, Space Heavy 1, and Resolute. All three shared the same basic components as Real Space; an internal weapons bay, a miniaturized inertial dampening system, and at least one engine with Zero-Wolf's latest model afterburner. Space Heavy 1 and Resolute simply added onto Real Space, with Resolute including a pair of cannons and Space Heavy 1 including a single cannon and second engine w/afterburner.
When the tests were concluded the Earth Federation's top brass were convinced, 7/9 in favor of Space Heavy 1. "The engines were the key" said Admiral Fisher of the EFSF, "Without ECA speed is armor, and Space Heavy 1 had the greatest acceleration in space and the highest top speed in-atmophere" Admiral Fisher was one of the key voices in the debate that saw the Nova enter the EFSF instead of a new battleship. At the end of the competition Space Heavy 1 was rechristened the Resolute, "We liked the name too much to get rid of it" said a spokesman from Zero-Wolf.
Still, the saga hasn't appeared to have finished yet. Zero-Wolf doesn't yet have the industrial capacity to fulfill the Federation's need for new airframes as well as their orders from the rest of the Colonies, this has lead to the Federation granting them a massive grant to greatly expand their factories in Shangri-La & Libot and to open a new factory on Earth. In the mean time Harvick has been granted a license to produce the Resolute until such time as Zero-Wolf's new factories come online, a sorely needed boost with Harvick seeing record losses this year in the face of the Federation's adoption of mobile suits and abandonment of Harvick's Saberfish.
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I'd actually argue South America over the Atlantic. With Jaburo nearby if we can't protect it we have bigger problems, and we realistically want to be exploiting space based resources over groubdside ones. We've earned good Will with Jupiter, and exploiting the asteroid belt is only going to be increasingly easier- so with that in mind I'd rather place the space elevator with the expectation it's importing raw materials and exporting finished products for shipyard or trade to our resource hubs.
Furthermore, by placing the Space Elevator to bias importing resources and exporting goods, we might see economy of scales leading to cheaper exports for the various resource hubs like Jupiter and Axis so as to prevent their radicalization.
Furthermore, by placing the Space Elevator to bias importing resources and exporting goods, we might see economy of scales leading to cheaper exports for the various resource hubs like Jupiter and Axis so as to prevent their radicalization.
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They are not going to be radicalized because we won't be slowing down our production of anything. In fact, they will get even more business because we are going to be increasing our production along with everyone else increasing their own production. We cannot afford to be trying to appease some people when it comes to our production we need as much as possible and the parts and resources from South America and Africa are important.
@manofjay here is a few images for the Fenrir cannon and an image for the Stonehedge railgun defenses system.
@manofjay here is a few images for the Fenrir cannon and an image for the Stonehedge railgun defenses system.
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- madison
what is the saberfish armed with anyways?
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4 25mm machine guns, 12 missile launchers, and can equip anti-ship missiles.
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so 4 gun mounts, it looks like some kinda enlarged weapons bay. Huh, sounds like the replacement is if anything more lightly armed. Though a lot faster and more maneuverable.
Not particularly.
25mm guns are equivalent to the head vulcans on GMs/Gundams, good for shooting down missiles or lightly armored aircraft/vehicles but not much else.
The missile launchers are where this gets iffy, They're probably akin to light hardpoints and small missiles on our sheet, so maybe you could mission kill a Zaku with them.
And I might be wrong but I think it takes the anti-ship missiles at the cost of small missiles for that particular mission.
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Maybe but the guns are very small compared to the autocannon our MS rifles are, and our missiles are much stronger than anything the saberfish carried. It is also much faster and maneuverable than the old fighter. The old saberfish could kill a zaku II most likely with the missiles since the guns are weaker.
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I guess it depends on how the old parts stack up to the new ones. We don't know exactly what a gun port carries, only that there is a tech to upgrae it to a beam weapon for example. Though maybe the new light missles are just bigger? since otherwise the old bays where about 50% bigger.
was it said somewhere that our new gun ports are better?
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The new light missiles are bigger as they are design to be Anti-MS weapons, the current gun in the gun port is a 35mm auto-cannon
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The gunports are equipped with the best guns we have available. And since we can't equip beam weapons until at least the second part of the V-project is done. That means the current gun uses the same as sizes as the guns our MS use. That means they are using the faster rounds since those have greater penetration and can kill an MS. The missiles are also stronger to be able to deal with MS and the other anti-ship missiles are meant to be stronger as well. And now that we have reaction warheads we can kill ships and MS easier.
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Research Report #07
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"The engines of the Alien ship are a marvel that we are unlikely to recreate our selves for at least another ten years. What we originally thought were simply advance Thermonuclear Engines, are instead fusing a completely new type of particle in some kind of 'super-reaction', the reactions can allow a ship to transverse the solar system in matter of a few months! This has also given us new insight into the working of the Alien generators, their unparalleled efficiency comes from these 'Reaction Particles'. Their reactions with Minovsky Particles is extremely interesting, when a acting as if it is a normal fusion M-particles react as normal if far more efficient. However when directly interacting with R-particles, it creates a large, non-irradiating, expulsion of energy, and in large enough quantities could create explosions far greater than any Fission Weapon. Of course, fighting at speeds fast enough to make it to Jupiter in a few weeks is entirely impractical, and until we can recreate the method by which the Alien Ship acquires R-particles it will be our only source. Thankfully R-particles safe interaction with M-particles is efficient enough that a relatively low number of R-particles can be used to power the entire fleet. I also highly recommend a special commendation be given to Chef Engineer Joanna Stuart, without her we very well could have destroyed our selves and the ship."
"This is as far as we can take our research without repairing the ship it's self."
With regards,
Dr. Michal Chistov
"This is as far as we can take our research without repairing the ship it's self."
With regards,
Dr. Michal Chistov
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excellent repair the ship sometime soon?
as soon as TZ is taken of course...also we might need those new engines soon enough, if only to give us faster missile systems, as well as enhancing our ranges.
Hell getting the M-Particles to mix with the R particles might even allow us to have our fighters become literally unlockable by the aliens super weapon systems (or the tracking kind)
as soon as TZ is taken of course...also we might need those new engines soon enough, if only to give us faster missile systems, as well as enhancing our ranges.
Hell getting the M-Particles to mix with the R particles might even allow us to have our fighters become literally unlockable by the aliens super weapon systems (or the tracking kind)
In Canon it took 10 years and they didn't have time to test it before takeoff. We can probably do it in half the time or less!
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Interesting to see how the ship engines now let us speed up again. Even before this with the better reactors and artificial Gravity techs we cut the time to reach Jupiter to weeks. Now we have even better engines and generator so can move faster. Good to see the other engineer that was working on the ship get some recognition I'm sure the family will celebrate.
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*we end up with a adult Armaro joining the federation to repay the fact that his grandfather or wheoever he was living with now has a awesome job*
we may now scream...
wait...guys could we eventually get Bit/Funnel technology? now that we aren't going to war with Zeon, we could potentially get a multiplier in the form of the Funnel/Bit tech to allow our forces more dakka to fight the damn aliens...
And we WILL need ALL THE DAKKA.
we may now scream...
wait...guys could we eventually get Bit/Funnel technology? now that we aren't going to war with Zeon, we could potentially get a multiplier in the form of the Funnel/Bit tech to allow our forces more dakka to fight the damn aliens...
And we WILL need ALL THE DAKKA.
Federation and Zeon Newtype labs are... cooperating. Naturally both sides are keeping their best tech for themselves.
So we're still behind but not as far behind as in Canon.
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What are you talking about here? Armaro is living with his father. He is working on the V project and when the TZ force attacked the side Cipher was helped by Amraro somehow.
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- Anchorage, Alaska
meh was talking about cannon as a joke...should have added emojies if no one gets it...
still, looking forward to that extra research slot so we can faster AND get better dakka.