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On Vacation in Brazil until July 29th

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Life seemed so much simpler when I was a central figure in the criminal syndicates, black mailing nobles and had plenty of bodyguards and hired killers to command.

Whose brilliant idea was it to explore the ruins of Norn anyways?
Bah... mere pretenders to the name!

They shall never know the true wonders of the cosmos! Nor will they have access to the mightiest of spells like the awesome might of the Charm Contagion or the Meteor Swarm!
Magi shouldn't be in the front lines!
Sparing a glance at her newfound friend, Assallya silently cursed him. She had to admit, right at this moment she was rather jealous. Their stone weapons were no match for a good set of field plate even so motley as it seemed to be. Her complete lack of armour was exceedingly apparent at the moment.

Firing at bottles on a field-stone wall was a far cry different than shooting someone in the heat of the moment. With a grimace crossing her lovely face Assallya aimed her crossbow at the first advancing goblin and then, exercising poor form, she closed both kohl shaded eyes and squeezed the firing lever. The light crossbow bucked in her arms and the feathered bolt loosed, lancing through the short space between her and her goblin attacker. It caught him high in the bicep and he forgot all about climbing as he fell screaming in agony.

However, the next goblin was upon her. He had clamored up the dead horse's tackle and had planted one green skinned hand on the cusp of her wagon's roof. Assallya lashed out, her pale bare foot striking at his face and the small green fiend grabbed her by the ankle and yanked. The act put her completely off balance. She dropped her crossbow and found herself sliding forwards even as the goblin pulled himself up.

His small hand was pinching some of the gold anklets against her skin painfully while his other hand reached up and grabbed the vardo's wooden bench. He used them both to pull himself up atop the wagon.

"Sharess' tits..." Assallya exclaimed as the child sized monster literally towered over her, "I yield! I yield!"
Yeah the Glorious Heritage is ridiculous. Nova Bombs that destroy star systems are just the least of their insanity. Kinetic kill missiles speeding at 95 PSL with a range of just over one AU are just mind boggling.

Most other franchises wouldn't even see the attacks coming at that speed. Relativity is a mean bugger.

You're absolutely correct Mataus. The "Sortie rate" is a very important metric that often gets forgotten when people talk about carrier strength. Being able to launch and recover aircraft quickly is very important in an operation.

I also read a fascinating article a short while ago written by some air force personnel that lamented how much weaker aircraft carriers are currently compared to how they were in the nineties. Apparently their sortie rate is much lower and the range of the strike craft has been greatly reduced. The preoccupation with both stealth and dog-fighting has severely curtailed the carriers ability to reach further and sortie faster. Simply put, the Navy needs planes with large wings for fuel efficiency and to carry more fuel. Interceptors, or dogfighters, are designed with smaller wings to be more aerodynamically unstable and thus pull more G's without tearing the plane apart.

I must admit, I never once gave any thought to the sortie rate until I read that article.
And my ship does have shielding as well.


It has shields that protect it from energy weapons but starfighters, proton torpedos, or ion pulse missiles fly right on through. Fear the MAC guns... Fear them well my friend until you get to upgrade those defenses. (Thankfully the Goa'uld use energy weapons almost exclusively.)

I'm disappointed I missed this. I wouldn't have been able to resist submitting my Uraga class Stealth carrier from Macross! Then again I do have a nice system Lord I would love to play. Of course one would have to resist the temptation to submit either a Macross Quarter or a Glorious Heritage Class ship from Andromeda. Those would be just too ridiculous.
Oh it definitely happens. That might be me for the next few days as I'm doing my stretches again. Those things sometimes pull that damaged muscle in my back and I can't move or think straight for days.
Where are our players? Is it not time to strut and fret his hour upon the stage?
I do think the goblins will be realizing they may have seriously underestimated the elf girl.
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