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Untold Empires: Legacy of the Old

o-okay.

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The Great Nahman Jayden said
Here lies OOC, put down by The Captain after years of abuse.

OOC had a hard life.

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South America Blows Things up and Enables the Sons of Liberty to Commence With its Land War: The Novelization; The Collaborative Post; The Musical; The Experience.



TAKE THAT, MARTIAN SCUM. OOHRAH.









THESE COLORS DON'T RUN.

Of Steam and Ambition - A Steampunk Nation Roleplay - Interested Check

Consider me interested.

I'll probably play something a bit more 'primitive', at least in the technological sense. Elves with a lot of parallels to pre-industrial Japan, to put it really simply.

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Senor Herp said
Uh. Y-yeah. Right. B-because I was agreeing with you, sure! Nothing wrong with quasi-invincible space stations and dwarf planets with a faint-praise disadvantage of thermonuclear vulnerability that's soon going to be eliminated anyways, yeah. Yeah, yeah, sure, and having stable cold fusion's also okay, because, y'know, fits right into a space shuttle just fine with per-engine arrays of them, because it's SCARCE and TOTALLY NOT GOING INTO MASS PRODUCTION AND EARTH-POWER LEND-LEASE AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY, no, no, it's fine! I mean, I was going to have some silly thermoelectric-magnetic nuclear fission nonsense generators that run on tickling nuclear bomb's dickholes, so I'd be a hypocrite to interject, no, surely. I mean, it's always at risk of catastrophic meltdown and release of stellar-ass atomic rays if things go wrong, very much as advantaged and less disadvantaged to stable seemingly-cold fusion. That's good, and so are 'energy screens' completely unexplained even with silly mid-sci tier Kojima Particle junk science. I'm cool with, y'know, hitscan point defense that has entirely outstripped the previously-far-ahead sciences of missile design and making & delivering things to go boom, with weak defenses of 'but if you threw arbitrarily more conventional missiles they'd get through and do nothing and surely nukes could do no good unless half the warheads of most modern MIRV systems were launched of which we have had tens of thousands of which totally have ultra-bulky warheads and not roughly man-sized ones, which could not possibly miniaturize by post-WW4 2070.' I mean, the vibes of 'I'm totally going to hold the entire solar system hostage whether or not I get past the seemingly-crippling but actually likely to be quickly obsoleted disadvantage of resource shortages and if I do I'll just do it even harder' is probably just fallacious paranoia! Right? Yeah, yeah, right. Nothing wrong with bragging about getting biodome CITIES OF THE FUTURE built everywhere as a standard, outstripping Earth's capabilities of high-industry production, and a thinly-veiled-behind-reactionism desire for hijacking sovereign power's space colonies in blatant aggression because we MUST be conspiring against you, clearly, which is also why we're daring to poke at these entirely nonextant problems with your way of going about things in play, narrative, and overall pregame design! It's not like it's absolutely, completely and utterly uncompelling to see the narrative potentially reduced to space expansionism, resource dickery and Yeyland-Wutani execs blandly going on about necessities of nonnecessary dick actions that we will be told we couldn't possibly effectively respond to while eroding any environment for exploration of a potential future in 2070 with extremely heavy slant towards reactionary blocs in contrast to our present time of democratic-capitalist-militarist and vaguely national-theocratic, national-capitalist or national-communist ones, or in the social, economic and ideological troubles of living in said 2070 blocs, or even silly Metal Gear tier characters doing CUHRAYZEE things and engaging in long-winded but somewhat hilariously contrasting explorations of the former themes, in favor of bland few-paragraph descriptions of Biggus Dickus Maximus the Low Gravity But Also Paradoxically Huge Space Marine and his adventures of no-counterattack-space shuttle technology-denialist air strikes against old launch sites for reasons, eroding things even harder than the present massive expansionist blocs' trouble of getting right into the military nitty-gritty a bit too fast in my opinion, but not plot-endangeringly so. That's great, I like that! Very much to my taste! Just, no changes, we should clearly keep going, like this, full steam ahead. Stay the course. The present OOC shitstorm before I've even managed to get my first collab out for the Great American Clusterfuck and also including a hard-sci-fi someone who hasn't even put their application in yet is not at all a sign that you are doing ANYTHING wrong, in any respect of the writing, at all.i'm sorry

tru.

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MrFoxNews said
... I'm sorry who is firing missles at you Wilson? I must have missed something IC?

They're hypothetical missiles, Herr Fox.

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Admittedly, I'm discouraged by how 'high sci-fi' this is getting.

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ASTA said
I’m unsure what laser technology is like in this particular setting, but I think it should be noted that lasers take time to destroy a target; lasers are dissimilar to standard ordinance, such as conventional cannons, coilgun, railgun, or any of the two unique gun types I listed in the post predating this one, in that they do not have the ability to score a disabling hit upon an incoming missile with a single round. Cannons and the sort do (for obvious reasons). If you do have access to lasers of such high caliber, I will begin to question how you’re dealing with the waste heat and how the optical technology you’re using in such a laser is able to withstand a beam of such intensity without failing. Depending on the pulse rate of the laser, the spectrum you’re using, the material your laser is trying to burn through, the presence of suitable electronic countermeasures/stealth technology (disrupting the laser’s fire-control systems by jamming the space station’s radar suite, IR-targeting module or otherwise creating a very stealthy cruise missile of sorts), your station could fall to an incoming missile without even realizing it. Missiles could also be deployed on the other side of the planet and ride the Earth’s orbit towards your station—engines cold and undetectable--- with the missile’s stealth systems engaged until it was within suitable striking distance. The missile could even be equipped with an ablative surface that takes the brunt of the laser beam by burning away in the process. An active-cooling casing could also be integrated into the missile system, which would allow it to further resist laser fire. Also, point-defense is not infallible. The modern CIWS ()—which is mounted on modern warships to protect them against anti-ship missiles—has a relatively poor success rate. You could increase the chances of scoring a hit against a missile by implementing overlapping coverage with many CIWS-type units, but then the enemy could simply saturate your point-defense by launching literal missile swarms. You can’t shoot all of them down, Wilson. That’s not how real-life PD works. Even railgun point-defense is not perfect, because you still need to keep in mind that railgun rounds still are constrained by travel time. It’s rather foolish to think that missiles suddenly stop developing because railguns and lasers come on the scene. I’m going to assume that this energy screen is a standard science fiction energy shield. When something hits it, one of several things will occur:1) The shield will lose energy and eventually collapse from enduring too much energy. Suitable time passing will cause the shield to reappear. 2) The shield will stop the projectile from penetrating, but it will not stop the projectile’s momentum from being imparted onto your station. Ballistic vests work on this same basic principle, in that while a round may not penetrate the vest, the ribs are still broken, bruises still form and the body’s internal organs may suffer damage. However, the wearer of the vest still lives.3) You’re trying to pass this shield off as an invincible barrier of doom, in which case you need to reexamine your nation and correct it as Duck instructs you too. As for armor:A nuclear missile is pretty much going to vaporize whatever you’re coating your station in. Did you read any of the links that I posted? They’re rather interesting reads if I do say so myself. Try Googling the effects of a nuclear explosion, or perhaps question Google about the temperatures generated by the detonation of a nuclear armament. Also, you can still fire from a deep bunker. Why wouldn't you be able to? Have you ever seen a shore gun emplacement before? What about the ballistic missile sites that are buried around the United States?

And this is also discounting the capabilities of a MIRV missile, which would further confound said point-defense systems.

And, well, push comes to shove it wouldn't be uneconomical to just shove an asteroid into Ceres Independence installations, if we're already at the point of space combat.

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Keyguyperson said
Apologies. I guess I was overestimating the tree density. I also find myself questioning my use of radar, to be honest, I don;t know what I was thinking.Actually, it was probably "Move faster plot! Move faster!". Correcting it now.

Thanks. It's all good, it's just that these guys are taking the necessary precautions to avoid this sort of run-in.

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I find it questionable that radar can be used to detect a dozen-plus people in the woods who are wearing heat-masked ghillie suits and the like, and that the Antarcticans could just advance on them across the field between the tree-line and the structures with impunity. If anything, the drone would be picked up on. Not the Sons of Liberty's favorite infiltrators and bushwhackers. The drone is the only thing making any sudden movements, and that's a dinner-plate sized robot about two hundred meters up in the air. The rest of them are hundreds of meters away in the woods.

They're flanking these guys, who are most certainly watching their rear and flanks, in white armor. That's not going to work.