[OOC] Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

[Keyguyperson]

There aren't even antiproton weapons on the ground! They're purely space-based! No LCF spacecraft have been disabled with their weapons intact and completely abandoned by the rest of the fleet, even if they were, there isn't enough time to haul the entire ship down to the newly formed colony that is based on a planet that only had a few underdeveloped communities in the first place, and then do what it took the Equestrians multiple pages to do all in the time of a few vessels entering a higher orbit.

Usage on the ground is impossible due to the fact that they need to carry a particle accelerator and electrical generator with them. Not even unicorn blood or green rocks will make the things work like that! Even if we operate on soft sci-fi, Rule Of Cool-powered Anime physics, it wouldn't work.

[Sukui]

Wait a sec i thought reverse-engineering was simple

Wait a sec i thought there were factories on the ground that stored even just a single piece of antiproton weaponry

Wait a sec are you trying to rustle my jimmies

[null123]

Sukui said
Wait a sec i thought reverse-engineering was simpleWait a sec i thought there were factories on the ground that stored even just a single piece of antiproton weaponryWait a sec are you trying to rustle my jimmies

1.No reverse engineering isn't simple
2.While the LCF has schematics for anti-proton streamers now Nikolien is a new colony so I doubt it has any facilties required to produce those
3.No

[Sukui]

Then despite the ten percent progress, it'll still be slow.

Any colony new or old must've at least some technology one can retrieve. It'll be surprising if there were none.

[null123]

Not anything that be worthwhile.

[darkwolf687]

Duck, that sort of defeats the whole point of creating an infestation. Imagine if in Aliens the colonial marines could just drop down a vial and kill all the aliens. The Dark Magic plague is ridiculous: It is unsurvivable, spreads in mere hours, kills only its chosen targets etc. Its Syphon Filter on steroids, one could actually have immunity to that!
As its not a real disease, it completely bypasses the Corruptelae Insectums disease resistance and just kills them all. Why bother setting up an infestation? Hell, why not just use that plague on everything you come across, you seem to be able to make it and deploy it fast enough.
I think that, as the weapon can be tuned to a single species, and is just generally all round unstoppable... And can be made and deployed within a few hours of an infestation, that its kind of bullshitty

How have you easily eliminated the Lance Humans? How did you find the hide out? A foot wide hole in the entire jungle world and you just found it? Even if they were out of the hole, how did you just sneak up on them? Don't you think using a psi-blocker would have actually made them easier to detect? "Hang on a minute command, we have a zero energy blob..."Oh, and they would still have their abilities, just because they can't use their powers directly on Pegasi, they could still blast energy at them, launch rocks etc. Also, the Pegasi have the problems I pointed out with combat in the woods for their species earlier, giving the Lance humans an advantage (And they're lying in wait in a massive jungle world...) getting rid of them is neither quick, nor easy. Also, these units aren't alone, if you encounter lance humans generally you will encounter Saeva Simiu

On the subject of Saeva Simius, Ima capture those stealth talismans from the wookies, hehe.

Oh, and you ignored the Aru'shumi almost entirely, merely slowing their surprise attacks. Bad move, your forces are about to get set upon by the death before dishonour birds, who are going to have a great time eating them and absorbing their genes...

[Monkeypants]

ill be getting my post ready within a day. I was watching y'all combat to get a good idea of how my long term plot will play out.

I'm also not a fan of biological weapons and the sort. The silent killer.

[null123]

I only ever used the plague twice, I don't see how im capable of producing it as fast as you mentioned. Hell in fact theres only another 5 samples in storage at the moment.

Also those stealth talismans.

[darkwolf687]

I'm not so much against biological weapons (hell, I use one, though not on the sort of germ warfare) it's when the biological weapons are completely unstoppable, 100% effective, are literally 'magic' so that there's nothing you can do to prevent it etc

Because Duck, considering you once said it was illegal to use and there are apparently only 5 samples (You never even said you brought it, were these samples just waiting above Kashyyyk this whole time incase they wanted to kill the Wookies with it or something?), they seem pretty fast to deploy it (Does it take no time at all to prepare it to only target a single type of species? Is it really that easy to do?) Has there never been an incidence when it's screwed up and killed all life instead of just it's target? Because you just launched it into a planet covered in life, if there was one mistake in that programming you could have just destroyed the Wookies homeworld easily given how quick it could spread

Hm, guess I'm gonna have to skin Wookies

[Keyguyperson]

Sukui said
Then despite the ten percent progress, it'll still be slow.Any colony new or old must've at least some technology one can retrieve. It'll be surprising if there were none.

There's plenty of tech lying around. Like gunpowder weaponry, late 90's computer tech, chemical rocket engines, and flip phones.

The only reason they got into space so quickly was because they were united already, and there was a bunch of stuff left over in space. The Warp Drive was built early because the current era for the LCF is pretty much the late 90's. Which is actually when the Warp Drive was first theorized by Miguel Alcubierre. A negative energy factory happened to be left over, they reverse engineered it, and bam! Warp Drive.

In short, the LCF is extremely primitive by galactic standards. Without those antiproton streamers the LCF would have been conquered already. Again, if you want antiproton streamers, capture one of my ships. They don't have self destructs.

[darkwolf687]

Keyguyperson said
There's plenty of tech lying around. Like gunpowder weaponry, late 90's computer tech, chemical rocket engines, and flip phones. The only reason they got into space so quickly was because they were united already, and there was a bunch of stuff left over in space. The Warp Drive was built early because the current era for the LCF is pretty much the late 90's. Which is actually when the Warp Drive was first theorized by Miguel Alcubierre. A negative energy factory happened to be left over, they reverse engineered it, and bam! Warp Drive.In short, the LCF is extremely primitive by galactic standards. Without those antiproton streamers the LCF would have been conquered already. Again, if you want antiproton streamers, capture one of my ships. They don't have self destructs.

Humans be fucked if anyone begins a large scale invasion lol

[Sukui]

Whee, better make the research a false error in mistaking conventional weaponry as an antiproton weapon and make the ships scavenge the space fleets.

[Keyguyperson]

Provided you can kill them off. The LCF ground forces are completely worthless, but the space forces are incredibly powerful due to the antiproton weapons. Once they build more ships, they will be able to defend extremely effectively.

[darkwolf687]

Keyguyperson said
Provided you can kill them off. The LCF ground forces are completely worthless, but the space forces are incredibly powerful due to the antiproton weapons. Once they build more ships, they will be able to defend extremely effectively.

I don't really see anti-proton weapons as being powerful enough to see off entire enemy fleets, even if they were I'll just crash stuff into them
I love this tactic lol, if my ships get damaged I can have them kamakazi haha

[Sukui]

And like antiproton weapons are completely stable and hidden enough to be not hit by enemy projectiles and go a big kaboom to destroy the entire ship.

Yeah, right. Like they aren't major weaknesses in an LCF ship at all.

[darkwolf687]

Oh, I thought there were only 20, I just realised what that moons probably for

Ah well, an Earth Shattering, or rather Moon Shattering, Kaboom might help with that...

[Keyguyperson]

There are plenty of weaknesses, you just have to find them yourself. Also, antiproton streamers are essentially targeted AoE weapons. They are best used to blanket a fleet in fire, and are worthless against small and fast-moving targets.

LCF antiproton streamers are large pyramidal protrusions from the hull, the antiproton containment cells are always just below the weapon in an armored compartment. The shields of LCF ships are extremely effective against projectiles, but lasers pass right through if aimed at the hull and not the antiproton weapons (which are protected with ultra-reflective materials). That's what I'll tell you, there are weaknesses in those facts, and many more. You just have to find them.

[darkwolf687]

Keyguyperson said
There are plenty of weaknesses, you just have to find them yourself. Also, antiproton streamers are essentially targeted AoE weapons. They are best used to blanket a fleet in fire, and are worthless against small and fast-moving targets.

Lower Class Triarian vessels might have it good then hehe... Especially if I do what I did at Kashyyyk and jump into the middle of the enemy fleet so they can't use AoE weapons without fucking themselves up too >:D

[Keyguyperson]

darkwolf687 said
Lower Class Triarian vessels might have it good then hehe... Especially if I do what I did at Kashyyyk and jump into the middle of the enemy fleet so they can't use AoE weapons without fucking themselves up too >:D

Exactly, you just made the only worthwhile weapons I have useless!

[darkwolf687]

*Dark, Evil Laughter* Fear me!