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Need a bit of insight on this one while i'm at work on it.



When i'm officially in soon, I'll mark this event by changing my avatar into an old man.
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Need a bit of insight on this one while i'm at work on it.



When i'm officially in soon, I'll mark this event by changing my avatar into an old man.


Reminds me a lot of Ryukyu atm lol xP
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Mainly inspired by the Roman Empire (note the adopted emperors part), with a few bits of Triarii.

@ASTA

>Neptune
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<Snipped quote by Forsythe>

Please correct me if I am wrong, @TheMusketMan, but given that the first picture in the application is a Combine clamp, I'm going to guess it is going for the Half Life Pulse Rifle/AR2 style of weapon. In which case, it isnt strictly speaking firing Dark Energy, it fires super heated exotic energy particles (for convieniance, termed 'Dark energy plasma') which is drawn from self replicating reactions within a dark energy core and stored within Pulse Rifle Energy Cells which the rifle uses as ammunition and therefore the rounds do interact with matter. So in other words, super plasma rifle.


No you got it.

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Negative energy is a thing that we know how to use right now. We just have no idea how to get it or even if we can get it.

Besides, RKV are things that we don't have right now purely because nobody specifically wants to use them.


So do I have to come up with something else?
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Phew. Last exam over. In the words of that great Scottish Hero - FREEDOM!
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Phew. Last exam over. In the words of that great Scottish Hero - FREEDOM!


No, that was definitely America. We have thousands of tons of freedom.

We're the ones with 20 aircraft carriers (10 of them supercarriers) as opposed to the next most-numerous, with like, 3. That's because :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD we're fat and we have lots of money so whainaw blow it on massive crap. Well, we're fat and we can borrow lots of money while making enough to make it look semi-decent.
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too bad america

portugal has two freedom days
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too bad america

portugal has two freedom days


'freedom days'?
>>>Doesnotcompute
>>>error
>>>AmericanFreedomDays:AllDays
>>>>Exception:WhenAssholePoliticiansDecideOtherwise
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Sidrisian high-altitude planetary defense:
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'freedom days'?
>>>Doesnotcompute
>>>error
>>>AmericanFreedomDays:AllDays
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@Unfortunately: Nitpick - Titanium and tungsten armor would be useless, both would be brittle in the coldness of spce. You'd have more luck using austenite steel.
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Why does everybody use imgur and tuuuuummmbbbllllrrrrr
It's blocked at school
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too bad america

portugal has two freedom days


You're wrong, America doesn't have one Freedom Days.

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@Unfortunately: Nitpick - Titanium and tungsten armor would be useless, both would be brittle in the coldness of spce. You'd have more luck using austenite steel.


Note taken.
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No, that was definitely America. We have thousands of tons of freedom.

We're the ones with 20 aircraft carriers (10 of them supercarriers) as opposed to the next most-numerous, with like, 3. That's because :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD we're fat and we have lots of money so whainaw blow it on massive crap. Well, we're fat and we can borrow lots of money while making enough to make it look semi-decent.


So you have 20 extremely expensive, hard to miss ships with a big "sink me" sign hanging off them. Good to know :P xD
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<Snipped quote by duck55223>

Neither would "Negative energy", Antimatter, self-replicating nanomachines, or relativistic kill-vehicles, but that's all already been accepted.


#shrekt

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Negative energy is a thing that we know how to use right now. We just have no idea how to get it or even if we can get it.

Besides, RKV are things that we don't have right now purely because nobody specifically wants to use them.


And because they'd be unbelievably expensive.
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why the hell do people even bother making huge-ass capital ships that supposedly should have "shoot me" written all over them and armor stretched real thin, but instead is ridiculously OP as fuck and can tank even passing straight through an entire star

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Nep...
Wai no Iris~?
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So you have 20 extremely expensive, hard to miss ships with a big "sink me" sign hanging off them. Good to know :P xD


A shame that the "sink me" sign is guarded by dozens of ballistic missiles, enough multipurpose fighters to launch 700 sorties in a day, the most advanced countermeasures the world knows. You know... more justice than anyone can take on.

Also, large capital ships means that their volume-to-surface-area ratio is much more in favor of the volume- meaning that a large ship can produce loads more power, and therefore support loads more. A smaller ship would have trouble running several systems at once, because of such limitations- meanwhile, a capital ship, a large ship, can carry more resources to go on longer journeys, produce more power or product, use more weapons at one time, consistently, while also supporting other support modules, like shields, electronic warfare, etc.

A destroyer might be able to confuse larger ships by using a couple powerful weapons, a light shield and radar-scrambling tech. Meanwhile, a dreadnought would be able to support enough weapons to take on multiple ships all around it, while having thicker armor and more powerful shields, while also disrupting enemy radar and even making ghosts of itself so that others will have trouble picking the right target.

Sure, you can complete the same as a large-ship fleet with a dozen times more with smaller ships, but the smaller ships are each easier to destroy, and would require a great deal more discipline and control, meaning that one can focus on certain ships and destroy enemy productivity.

The same goes both ways- smaller ships can focus on larger ships from more angles than what larger ships could handle, and use each other to confuse weapons and defeat countermeasures.

It's really depending on specialty. Armor is does not leap ahead of everything else, just as weapons are not overly powerful, at least conventional weapons. Our body armor can stop a bullet- and it will likely to stay that way for quite a while. An armored suit may be able to stop bullets, but then the guns will be evolved to pierce the suit, so the suit will evolve to remain protective, and so weapons will evolve, and etc.

A nation who invests heavily in one kind of ship will obviously have very good ships of that type compared to other nations who invest in a different class or type. For example, had industrialists invested more in rotary-driven engines rather than piston-driven engines, it's quite possible that rotary-driven engines would've been far more efficient and common- but they weren't, so they aren't as good, because there is less reason to do so.
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Sorry
I kinda got carried away...
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