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@Ryteb Pymeroce

That's an even worst answer.

@Sophrus

Lets not get down to an argument, I'm sure it was an oversight by our GM, we'll wait for his call.

@Wernher

Pfftt, no waaaay (internal *shiiiiiiiii*)

@Ryteb Pymeroce

I am sure you dont't actually want to use a ship the size of Australia. I didn't want to point it out when I said that your race was batshit OP at the start vause I feared you'd straifht up leave if I brought the banhammer.

Same with capital ship planet. No problem with a hollowed out planet and using it as a massive base...but moving it around? Nobody does that for a reason or two.

@Sophrus rule of cool is cool, but the techs are set to low level. There are so many things that can get out of hand when rule of cool is applied, large warships being one of those.

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@Liotrent Lol. That sucks my man. I store them in a notepad++. That seems to work fairly decently.

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@Ryteb Pymeroce Yeah... And? Still makes heat m8

@Sophrus I plan on allying you on the first post if possible anyways. Want to talk about it in PM?

@Wernher

You cheeky briky bastards. Time to put on the gameface. No more nice Empire just cause I'm the GM.

Also yea, nukes are always relevant. Because of rule of cool, they are classified doomsday weapons, or at least VERY potent explosives, so not every single ship has them.

If we went by real life logic, or my second favourite SF book, Red Rebellion, then every missile would be nuclear, and you could easely purge entire moons with them. But lets not ruin the game with reality.

@Sophrus Just make sure not to spam them. Its not like you can really have too many of that stuff, as soon as its made it needs to be confined in a special container or it will spontaneously explode. The more of it, the more likely it is to do so. Plus you gotta strip the protons from a neutron. Thats like, hella hard.

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@Wernher If we didn't go by rule of cool, you'd all be dead cause you are facing a race who can travel between separate galaxies. That instantly also gives them god tier technology and weapons.

But we play by rule of cool, with a hint of realism. I am sure a well aimed slug could hit the asteroid. But like I said before, a low albedo asteroid is really hard to identify, especially amongst others.

(Or you could just nuke the whole fricking asteroid belt)

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@Wernher Or fire an oversized railgun slug into it from very, very far away...

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@Sophrus Have you read the star wars books about the Chiss? I personally love the book where they are first introduced. They built a base inside an asteroid. A lone asteroid. Nobody managed to detect it. A well hidden refueling station inside a low albedo asteroid shouldn't be underestimated. Add a few dozen more rocks and you've got a recipe for success. Surely not strong if found, but locating it is the hard part.

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@Sophrus A belt is not a ring. If you look at some of the asteroid belts in the Solar system (like the ones in Jupiter's orbit, or the Oort belt) they can be jam packed with thousands of asteroids. They are many, many kilometers wide and tall, so establishing a base in the middle DOES serve a purpose. Plus its outta they way, so its always a good fallback position.

Ps: of course you can always take a mile long dreadnought and blow every asteroid to milimeter sized debree, but that would take forever

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Dis is shaping up to be a good RP

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@6slyboy6 As things stand I have two half completed sheets. I'm sort of stuck between my love of ancient psychic aliens and brutally pragmatic monarchies. Any preference on your end?

@Ozerath

Why not both lol. We already have a monarchy (le GM) and we also have psychics. Just roll a dice haha

@Sophrus Hyperlanes are charted routes between systems. Their end point is pretty much set, but you cannot trace a fleet if they are in hypersapce. So you need to eb at tehe xact ocation to catch a fleet. Plus the end destination can vary a few hundered kilometers, but thats just enough to nearly avoid an enemy fleet if you already knew that they'd be there when you made the jump. Of course, thats still within detection range.

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@Legion02 I'd be grateful if you could send me the NS in a PM. Maybe I can help fine tune it and stuff :D

@Wernher Very good point.

A general rule of thumb with FTL in my opinion is that FTL means 1C to infinite times light speed. So when we talk about an FTL, I like to go with the good old hyperspace or warp techs. Hyperspace lanes are basically system to system connecting the neighbouring stars together. Warp is in system FTL, short range jumps to manouver from planet to planet quickly.

There is no real scale here, if we wanted to emulate any kind of system, we would first have to understand how massive a galaxy is. So lets just say that going from the Capital to Relica, it would take a good week.

Alternatively we could use warp gates, which I adore. This would make ship based travelling faster, and could cover MUCH larger distances. But it'd be too easy for me to just camp them and lock everyone down, which I want to avoid cause its no fun for anyone.