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Stalin comes close and Hitler has the excuse of being a Drug addict that shot up with Amphetamines as well as other things everyday.
Agreed, especially the later ones who were looking for cities of gold in North America.
You aren't kidding- by the end he was taking so many different drugs his veins turned brown- alledgedly it started making a crunching noise whenever he took another shot >.<
Are you deviating from canon here? Because I'd call any and every space ship battle I've seen in DC (and any battle that I'd think they're likely to print) "knife-fight" range.
Absolutely, but dodge warfare is boring because you get lasers pretty much right off the bat, and lasers mandate "Ship? You mean that tiny spec that only shows up on the thermal cams?" ranges. Which is visually uninteresting, so DC (and everyone else) built their setting to do not that.It seems to me that the faster you ordnance is the further away you'd want to fight,
FTL weapons DO have exactly those two advantages.Unless it has some particular range or defense penetration advantage, a FTL weapon
Hmm, fair point; combat might be a sort of mix between long range and short range, with heavier weapons limited to shorter range. But that would also be kind of strange; if long-range lasers and railguns are so ineffectual across that entire distance that both sides can close to the point where extremely short range, see-the-whites-of-their-eyes weapons are useful... why carry the railguns and lasers?FTL weapons DO have exactly those two advantages.
There's little point in making a beam weapon FTL. Beam weapons deal all of their damage by direct application of energy. Going faster than the energy they're made of wouldn't improve their effectiveness.
KKVs like railguns don't technically have a range limitation thanks to the conservation of momentum, but the bigger the projectile, the harder it is to get going at combat-worthy speeds.
Missiles don't have the tradeoff that KKVs have. They can store more damaging energy than just the momentum you can impart to them before firing them. However, missiles don't work at space combat ranges -- due to having a finite fuel supply, missiles DO have limited range before they stop being able to track targets, so from far enough away you can dodge them. Active defenses are also a problem; a missile would normally get intercepted by point defense weapons.
But you can't use a point defense weapon against something you can't aim at. That's where FTL weaponry comes in. We're talking about terapedoes here: you can deliver an armor-shattering blast at the kind of ranges that would otherwise be limited to lasers and railguns.
Which is exactly why the Alignment are researching it.But even then, don't you kinda have the opposite problem? Do you know what a military force without artillery facing down a force with artillery is called? 'Holes'. If we're going by Schlock, the Long Gun just about changed the game as much as the teraport.
I'd almost wager that it's worthwhile as a weapon's platform in it's own right, you just need to field more than one at once for taking on heavier ships.
Classic Star Trek managed to have exciting space battles where the opposing ships were often not on screen at the same time, or the enemy only appeared on the bridge viewscreen (though the remastered version may have changed this). Not every battle, of course, but enough of them to matter.Much like cinematic time being very different from real time, fictional depictions of space warfare can have cinematic distance between targets that wouldn't much reflect the reality of the work in question, simply because 'distant speck of light' isn't really that compelling from a visual standpoint.
Depends on the range, intensity, and tightness of focus. Could also be a method of communication.I've always felt like lasers would be one of the attacks that don't work in space.
"Captain, the hostile is firing a... laser at us?"
"Huh, maybe they're not actually hostile. Deploy distributor lens and solar panels. Signal thanks for the energy transfer."
But are they ever JUST lasers though?I've always felt like lasers would be one of the attacks that don't work in space.
By my understanding, lenses, mirrors, etc, all stop working at sufficiently high light density. If your opponent's laser is focused enough to do significant damage when it hits you, you probably can't use lenses, mirrored armor, etc.I've always felt like lasers would be one of the attacks that don't work in space.
"Captain, the hostile is firing a... laser at us?"
"Huh, maybe they're not actually hostile. Deploy distributor lens and solar panels. Signal thanks for the energy transfer."
Hah, it's always a little funny when something gets discussed at-length between chapters, and then there's inexplicably a paragraph or two discussing it in the next chapter. Crazy coincidence, innit?7th February
05:24 GMT
I look back 'up' towards the Alignment's Reserve Defence Fleet, intended to rapidly respond to external attacks in what their strategic planners hope would be overwhelming force. Eight battleships designed with a focus on FTL speed, sublight speed and agility. An unusual design: most fleets which rely on dodging and carefully picking their fights don't build ships in their weight class, or else use them very differently. The Thanagarian fleets are far more typical in that regard; short-range attack craft flying from a brick of a Command Carrier capital ship.
As I understand Alignment doctrine, they aim to operate at medium range in order to get the maximum advantage from their all-lightspeed gunnery. Precisely coordinated fire from multiple ships striking vulnerable locations on their target without disrupting their own ability to dodge the enemy's slower than light return fire. Though I don't think it was deliberate, that weapon focus makes them reasonable counters to Lanterns.
Lanterns they can see, anyway.
Typo: should say "built".Generally, an attacker will give up or blast through before that really becomes a concern, but some planetside facilities are build this way.
I'd argue that mother/father boxes 16 are, on average, more useful to an average user than a power ring, especially a green power ring. Sure, in principle, a power ring can provide more utility to a top level user who has perfect understanding on the emotional spectrum - I am fairly sure that, at this point, Paul could probably do Grayven's divine awakening with only a power ring and his own soul sight / understanding of orange light / his own soul structures. But to a rookie, or even just average mortal user, mother / father box is probably more useful than a power ring.Nice to see that power rings are still the most powerful tool in the universe.
Thank you, corrected.
Heh, nice tactics, though not perfect.As I understand Alignment doctrine, they aim to operate at medium range in order to get the maximum advantage from their all-lightspeed gunnery. Precisely coordinated fire from multiple ships striking vulnerable locations on their target without disrupting their own ability to dodge the enemy's slower than light return fire. Though I don't think it was deliberate, that weapon focus makes them reasonable counters to Lanterns.
Still worrying.Two cruisers flash into being near to my emergence point. Well, I was momentarily detectable. But they don't have anything that can detect me now, so other than giving me an idea what their response times are it doesn't really achieve anything.
Very suspicious, yes.But that's rather the point. Earth is unusual. Humans get all sorts of weird abilities. Other species don't, as a rule. Other species have to work things out the slow, scientific, step by step way. On the surface it looks like Alignment biotechnology should be extremely advanced. War Hound bodies can't run purely on chemical energy, and making bodies run on more exotic things is hard. And that knowledge wouldn't just be used on War Hounds. There should be organic power generators, organic starships… Organic everything really because otherwise they would have made the War Hounds cyborgs so as to have them synergise with their other technology.
This isn't Earth, what makes you think they could block it?I think I'd rather know in advance if they can detect ring activity, actually.
Deceptively so. The hard part is not overthinking it.Huh. The processing centre is well armoured, guarded and has an independent force field system, but there's nothing… Exotic happening there. No weird Bleed effects preparing to boot me out of the universe, no arbitrarily powerful magics… Sure, a lot of brainwashed people with plasma weapons and super strength, but those are comparatively simple to bypass.
It feels anti-climactic, doesn't it? It's like running a level 1 mission at level 80.
I would be worried if they did.I suppose that not everyone has a chunk of the Anti-Monitor's armour stuffed away in their secret research centre.
Very pragmatic.Bypassing the door and any sensors that are built into it I phase through the wall. A wide corridor, with a weakly armoured exterior-facing wall and a heavily armoured interior-facing one so that in the event the shield generator explodes the blast is channelled away from the armoured exterior without penetrating the facility.
Next are living quarters, on the grounds...
Medicated, autistic or just emotionally broken, I wonder?I stop halfway out of the wall as I see a child of perhaps… Five? Sitting motionless on a futon in the corner of a bare room. Her head is tilted slightly towards the floor and she's… Just… Staring blankly.
Outside of a few instincts and hormones, I bet their biology doesn't care anyway...There aren't any female War Hounds. Since their artificial bodies are designed purely for combat there wouldn't be much point in including a womb or mammaries. But they'll take whatever brains they can get.
He would probably already have started breaking stuff.But as unpleasant as that is, there's a reason why I'm here and Guy isn't.