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| A Very Busy Galaxy; For those who remember it. | |
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| dialforthedevil | Apr 14 2012, 02:13 PM Post #1 |
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A Very Busy Galaxy Started out as the ultimate cross over between sci-fi universes. And was an rp for a short amount of time. Here is an overview of the main powers of the galaxy: The UNSC Spoiler: click to toggle The Citadel Alliance Spoiler: click to toggle The Tau Empire Spoiler: click to toggle The Covenant Spoiler: click to toggle The Sith Empire Spoiler: click to toggle There are thousands of other more minor powers in this galaxy which I shall go into if you guys are interested? Any alien species suggestions I will try to include although a wikipedia article would help Also would you guys want to restart the rp?
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| Kamidio | Apr 19 2012, 11:32 PM Post #151 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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Xenomorph Silent.
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| lamna | Apr 20 2012, 04:01 AM Post #152 |
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I had an idea, so I wrote it down. Xenomorphs don't seem to take very many features from their hosts though. Spoiler: click to toggle
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| Holben | Apr 20 2012, 05:41 AM Post #153 |
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Wouldn't it be better to just throw lots of nuclear missiles at them? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| lamna | Apr 20 2012, 06:39 AM Post #154 |
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Well the laser head has two great advantages. The first is it concentrates it's energy into a few small spots, rather than spreading it over a wider area that shields and armour can more easily handle. It's the difference between stabbing someone with a knife and a mallet. Secondly, range. You have to get a nuclear bomb much closer to the target to damage it, while a laser head can hit the target from ranges where a nuclear explosion would cause no damage. The closer you get, the more time you give the enemy to shoot down your projectile. |
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| Holben | Apr 20 2012, 08:13 AM Post #155 |
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It does lessen the energy produced though, to around 10% of the yield of the bomb. Granted, half that explosion would have been directed away from the target anyway... You do lose the neutrons, which effectively sterilise the enemy ship (and I don't think they can be stopped by kinetic barriers). And cost, that's important. There are at least two schools of thought on missiles vs. PD- I'm more on the missiles side, that if they're going fast enough and there are enough of them the defense will just be overwhelmed and destroyed. If the nuke detonates within a few hundred metres, everyone on the ship is toast. |
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| bloom_boi | Apr 20 2012, 08:51 AM Post #156 |
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Hey, I remembered a race. The Taurens from the Forever War. |
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"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!" | |
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| lamna | Apr 20 2012, 09:12 AM Post #157 |
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Not if you can control gravity, which with mass effect fields, you can. Then you can focus the blast and create a "shaped charge". Certainly there will still be wastage, there is in everything in the universe but it would still be very effective. And if you're in close enough you've got a nuclear explosion following the lasers.
Well this is space, a few hundred meters is nothing at all, any active defences worth a damn could overwhelm a few missiles. That's what we're talking about right now, a few missiles, ships are built around one really big, spinally mounted gun. You could "stack" shots so your missiles all catch up with each other, but you can't send a massive salvo. Not on your own. But, laser heads can fire from thousands of kilometres away, enough to give them a fighting chance of harming the target. Certainly these weapons would be very expensive but there is a price for liberty, and that's lots and lots of the very best military hardware. Also vigilance, blood of patriots and all that guff. Edited by lamna, Apr 20 2012, 09:15 AM.
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| Holben | Apr 20 2012, 10:27 AM Post #158 |
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You can already shape nuclear charges, as you would a conventional explosive. See 'Casaba Howitzer' I don't think the nuclear explosion will affect the target much if you're at xasing distance. It's not necessarily a few missiles, think how many a nuclear sub can hold and this ship is far bigger. Also, missiles are better than railguns for ship-to-ship. Good ship PDs today can take down dozens of missiles, but there would be many times what they could take in this scenario. They can fire the missiles from several points. |
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| lamna | Apr 20 2012, 10:57 AM Post #159 |
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Still, that's like saying we could fly in the middle of 19th century because of what George Cayley was getting up to. If we control gravity we can make pure fusion bombs without any fission at all. The point of Hachiman is to increase the flexibility and range of the main guns of warships in this universe. They already have normal missiles, these are for extreme ranges where ships have plenty of time to react to slugs and missiles that have run out of fuel. It's a hybrid of the two systems, with the lasers giving it the range to do damage alone or with a couple other missiles. For up-close combat you still have the slug throwers and old fashioned missiles. Edited by lamna, Apr 20 2012, 10:59 AM.
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| dialforthedevil | Apr 20 2012, 11:03 AM Post #160 |
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Ive been thinking about this as well. The problem with anything unguided is this: But we are going through the Terminus Systems, so FUCK THAT SHIT! Fakey- No you cannot be a xenomorph, that would be just beyond ridiculous. Anyway guys you are forgetting that xenomorphs are going to be pretty fucking terrifying since they infect some of the nastier species of the galaxy such as Orks, Rachni etc. Imagine an Asari Xenomorph which retains its biotics... In this Universe if a derelict ship is found it is to be ignored, the risk of xenomorph, flood, tyranid, zerg etc infestation is too great and spreading is simply too risky. Most ships tend to be left alone unless there is contact from the crew... Watcher- If you can fit them in then possibly, I do not know enough about them. A quick google has enough images of them to get a basic feel though. I fear there being too many species though. What sort of characters are everyone interested in playing? |
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| Holben | Apr 20 2012, 11:03 AM Post #161 |
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You can use lasers to make fusion occur without any fission at all, too. Same with extremely powerful magnetic fields. Neither of those is very portable though. I can't argue against lasers being faster, but even with them it's all computing at extreme range. If this was super-hard, I'd be advocating missile buses and drone interceptors. |
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| Holben | Apr 20 2012, 11:04 AM Post #162 |
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Also, we are Geth. |
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| lamna | Apr 20 2012, 11:13 AM Post #163 |
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That's the thing with the missiles, they would be guided when they were doing their final attack run, so they can evade. And if your enemy is using a planet behind them as a shield, you can detonate any missiles remotely that would miss their target. But all this tech would take decades to go from "Hey that might worth" to practical weapon of war. |
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| dialforthedevil | Apr 20 2012, 11:17 AM Post #164 |
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As I said, its the Terminus Systems, nobody gives flying shit about some sodhole slaving outpost or piss poor slum colony. Welcome to the real universe guys although throughout the rp I hope to present you guys with moral choices with effects (not like ME3...). |
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| bloom_boi | Apr 20 2012, 11:37 AM Post #165 |
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The Taurans is a colonial (non individualistic) species. There are roughly humanoid (Ill add a description when I find the quote in my book) and the average individual seems to be more intelligent than a pre-Man human, but they don't show much emotion. In the book, they are at war with humanity for almost 3000 years, a war that only ends when mankind "advances" enough to put aside individual matters and become something similar to the Taurans, which means they can now communicate (the war started due to a mis-understanding due to the radically different mindsets)
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"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!" | |
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