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Fanon:
May 15th, 2066 - Sophia Nowak first obtains the Celestial Forge and passes her CAT exams with National Honors.
Fall 2066 - Sophia Nowak completes Public Service Preparation Camp and arrives on Peraspera.
Fall 2067 - Sophia Nowak leaves Peraspera, having provided the key insight into the success of the Peraspera Terraforming Project, and begins studies at MIT.
Spring 2068 - Sophia Nowak graduates MIT with a bachelor's degree and is drafted into the Confederation Navy
Fall 2068 - Having successfully completed Basic Officer's Course and OCS, Ensign Nowak reports aboard the CSS Gladstone, a Bannerjee-class system defense boat homeported at Nusku.
Spring 2069 - After privately developing her revolutionary 'ultracapacitor' technology and successfully obtaining a patent and selling the rights to High Frontier Development Consortium, Ensign Nowak receives official acknowledgement of her scientific genius. She receives a promotion to Lieutenant j.g., and is assigned to the "Skunk Works", DARPA's advanced R&D facility at Ganymede Base in the Sol system.
Not just the end. All fanon dates are a century behind.cliffc999 dates at the end of the timeline are a century behind again
edit: ninja'd
Jesus wept, my inability to know what century my story is in is reaching meme tier. *DOUBLE FACEPALM*
Funny reoccurring joke is funny.Jesus wept, my inability to know what century my story is in is reaching meme tier. *DOUBLE FACEPALM*
Jesus wept, my inability to know what century my story is in is reaching meme tier. *DOUBLE FACEPALM*
Alright? Deleting.
I suspect that the problem with Vilani reverse engineering the stuff the MC is going to invent isn't necessarily any kind of "black boxing", but the fact that the Vilani have spent countless generations stifling innovation in the name of stability. Do they even have people anywhere near terra that we'd call scientists? Or are they all mostly centered around the core worlds of their empire? And even if you plop down an unknown device that operates on alien principles, would their rote methods of study even amount to anything in any meaningful time frame without access to the theory behind it to give them the baby steps to understanding how it functions?Would the Vilani even be able to reverse engineer FTL Communication ? HPGs are kinda Blackboxed to hell and back.
Well if they can get samples or theory because a lot of what the confed will put out will look like witchcraft to them. The batteries by themselves will be a interesting advance that will shock their engineers looking at them but ftl comms and a jump 9 engine and probably inventing jump 3 or 4? When/if they find out about Sophia they might well think her something extraordinary and there might be a lot of debate of should they kill her or try to capture her for the empire?It would take a substantial impetus to make them realize they need to reverse-engineer something, given that they strongly favor the tried-and-true over the new. But if they do realize that something needs to be done, then the threat of reverse-engineering is real.
And thats before you include slipspace drive potential, because that comes with its own techbase (the unsc one) not sure if the forerunner or covenant techbases are there but that shouldnt matter because the unsc has cloaking devices and portable sheilds anyways!Well if they can get samples or theory because a lot of what the confed will put out will look like witchcraft to them. The batteries by themselves will be a interesting advance that will shock their engineers looking at them but ftl comms and a jump 9 engine and probably inventing jump 3 or 4? When/if they find out about Sophia they might well think her something extraordinary and there might be a lot of debate of should they kill her or try to capture her for the empire?
What? Sophia has battletech tech and samples of other tech but nothing from halo.And thats before you include slipspace drive potential, because that comes with its own techbase (the unsc one) not sure if the forerunner or covenant techbases are there but that shouldnt matter because the unsc has cloaking devices and portable sheilds anyways!
yah its an example of what just one perk can do, not what she can do now. should probably have worded that better.What? Sophia has battletech tech and samples of other tech but nothing from halo.
And my parents, and me along with them, had been devoted fans of the vintage stuff. Now admittedly massive cultural milestones like Star Trek were still in general knowledge (although sometimes I cynically suspected that that was largely because Loretta Strider, the captain of StarLeaper One, had actually written her frustration that her attempt to name it the Enterprise had been shut down into her official autobiography), but the other classics of the 20th and 21st centuries were ofte more obscure. Heck, less than half the kids at school had even understood what my Star Wars jokes were referring to.
2098 - First Contact. Colonel Lorette Strider of the US Space Force, the captain of StarLeaper One, makes first contact with the Vilani when Terra's first interstellar expedition to Barnard's Star encounters an unauthorized band of Vilani prospectors operating outside Imperial borders.
Lorette Strider, who left the US Space Force in 2099 to become a UN diplomat and informal ambassador to the Vilani, sets out in early 2114 aboard the USS Thomas Jefferson, a US Space Force frigate, carrying a last-ditch proposal to try and head off what Terra perceives as an impending conflict.
Lorette. Fixing.So, was the name of the captain for the ship Loretta or Lorette?
Huh, I wonder if FTL comms would lead to FTL sensors. Not in the sense of being able to look beyond your light cone in visible light but in the sense of being able to pick up a jump drive activating in a neighboring star system or picking up things like the mass shadow of a rouge planetoid.
Both of those could be major game changers considering the current tech base.
Being able to pick up a Jump from a nearby star system means being able to predict enemy movement by a week in advance.
Finding rouge planetoids would mean being able to extend their effective FTL range in ways that the Vilani wouldn't be able to predict.
Not really. There are always wild rumours. Proof of FTL coms getting out however? That might become a problem.Even if the Vilani can't recreate it, knowledge of its existence is equally damning for the Terran civilization.
Those aren't FTL sensors, they are STL sensors with a FTL relay attached. Unless you put a sensor every light second apart, you are going to be experiencing light lag on sensor returns. Star systems are light hours across and any sensor platform in the theoretical center of one is going to receive information with equivalent lag.FTL comms always imply FTL sensors. You can leave probes that sent info to another system ... that means you have current info on the system the probes are. That said, one of the Battletech ansibles is ridiculously loud, IIRC, that one is not suitable for that, unless you only use them once.
Jesus wept, my inability to know what century my story is in is reaching meme tier. *DOUBLE FACEPALM*