Just like in a joke that "any warmachine is paradropping. But, a some one only once"
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- Sat Jul 02, 2022 4:42 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Wolf329] Fanart - Charge of the blue platoon
- Replies: 184
- Views: 2695741
- Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:01 am
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Fan fiction] Cerulean Wings
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13743
Re: [Fan fiction] Cerulean Wings
Well, this is in case you basically want your child.
- Sat Jun 04, 2022 9:16 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Fan fiction] Cerulean Wings
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13743
Re: [Fan fiction] Cerulean Wings
It was good. At one time, I thought about how it is possible to implement interspecific crossing while remaining at least formally within the framework of science. In general, as a result, it turned out that "formally" it is possible, although in fact it is not entirely true. It was based on the fac...
- Tue May 10, 2022 1:34 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Interceptors in Outsider
- Replies: 43
- Views: 46281
Re: Interceptors in Outsider
First, you should not consider people who lived earlier as idiots, just because they had less fundamental knowledge and historically conditioned experience, but it is worth remembering that military science develops over time. What is absolutely obvious to the most recent civilian now, at that time...
- Tue May 10, 2022 1:22 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Interceptors in Outsider
- Replies: 43
- Views: 46281
Re: Interceptors in Outsider
Picture a pinecone. You've got a central stem around which are arrayed bract scales. I figure a star warship would be like this. The central stem carries the warp drive or whatever is needed for FTL travel (assuming it cannot easily be miniaturized) and surplus equipment. The bract scales detach an...
- Tue May 10, 2022 11:05 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Interceptors in Outsider
- Replies: 43
- Views: 46281
Re: Interceptors in Outsider
In fact, all these arguments rest on several points. "Mass to thrust ratio" is speculative, there is also such a thing as delta. A ship with a smaller mass spends much less delta on changing course, with equal thrust-to-weight ratio - therefore, smaller ships, other things being equal, have a much ...
- Mon May 09, 2022 9:08 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Interceptors in Outsider
- Replies: 43
- Views: 46281
Re: Interceptors in Outsider
20 miles in modern dogfighting is just seeds. Especially for such a fat duck as AC130. It is contraindicated for AWACS aircraft to approach closer than 80 km to the battlefield, because nothing will miss them, neither ground nor airbased air defense. That's why I "lowered" the coordinator to, roughl...
- Mon May 09, 2022 3:43 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Interceptors in Outsider
- Replies: 43
- Views: 46281
Re: Interceptors in Outsider
I was trying to model the concept of a viable fighter in space. It turned out something like a decentralized swarm of drones. One flight coordinator with a live person on board (or several, depending on what level your AIs are and how much you are willing to delegate to them) for a dozen or one and ...
- Thu May 05, 2022 10:29 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: Color and Stealth
- Replies: 81
- Views: 287519
Re: Color and Stealth
Yes, attempts to depict realistic space weapons using the current level of knowledge (incomplete and non-core) are a pain. In my story, I honestly tried, but in the end I refused, having worked at the level of concepts and roughly imagined what technologies are needed to depict what I need and how t...
- Tue Apr 26, 2022 2:47 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: Color and Stealth
- Replies: 81
- Views: 287519
Re: Color and Stealth
Yes, familiar problem. I myself, while writing the text, faced with the fact that when your characters speak at least two languages, one of which is incomprehensible to some of the interlocutors, they speak to each other non-verbally, they think and communicate non-speech with a technique that can n...
- Sun Apr 24, 2022 11:36 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider humor thread
- Replies: 189
- Views: 931339
Re: Outsider humor thread
As to how they found the shuttle, that's elementary. The shuttle was actively maneuvering when the umiaks were already in the system, which meant it was clearly visible on the sensors. Having its trajectory and knowing the speed at the time of its disappearance from the radar, calculating the area w...
- Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:40 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: Color and Stealth
- Replies: 81
- Views: 287519
Re: Color and Stealth
In general, I agree, except that it is "simple" to transfer "words" from thought to verbal speech. It is VERY difficult. We don't notice it because, hey, we learn it from birth, by listening to speech and learning it, and then by practicing speaking ourselves. We literally talk all our lives, from t...
- Sun Apr 03, 2022 8:31 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
On that note, I remember how Jim once said on the discord that most Loroi women wouldn't mind having their vanity flattered in regards to positive comments on their looks. Since eventually Humans and Loroi will engage in more larger scale contact with each other, some will also inevitably work toge...
- Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:48 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: ArcFlash Labs' GR-1 Anvil Portable Gauss Rifle
- Replies: 30
- Views: 26255
Re: ArcFlash Labs' GR-1 Anvil Portable Gauss Rifle
@Cthulhu , in general, any energy source of a non-chemical nature is explosive (however, chemical, especially highly efficient ones, like coal and oil, are fire hazardous or toxic-radioactive, especially in dispersive form) simply because it contains a huge amount of energy, which, if the storage i...
- Mon Feb 28, 2022 12:07 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Wolf329] Fanart - Charge of the blue platoon
- Replies: 184
- Views: 2695741
Re: [Wolf329] Fanart (now with animation!)
Loroi close touch to loroi... Mizol touch to Teidar... Tempo "fingering smile" to Fireblade...
It's smell like fight.
It's smell like fight.
- Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:14 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5260988
- Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:02 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5260988
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Bodybuilders were just an example anyway, and an extreme one, too. Besides, I also asked about the weight of the equipment and weapons, precisely because of this. If the blasters are rather light and do not have much recoil, then they shouldn't lead to a significant muscle buildup. But, it's not pa...
- Wed Feb 16, 2022 11:05 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
/ People, please, try to hide large quotes under the spoiler or edit them, otherwise, after a couple of cycles of detailed answers, the thread becomes extremely difficult to read. What I meant is that wielding melee weapons would certainly build up muscle mass, much more than carrying a blaster. I'v...
- Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:54 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5260988
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
If it's a man, it's strange. About how the people of the 19th century reacted to the Amazon bodybuilder. It seems like, even now, most will find such a spectacle limitedly attractive (although there are those who like it, yes), but then, in an age of active patriarchal sexism ... Hmm. In the case of...
- Sun Feb 13, 2022 9:03 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5260988
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Can a warrior who passed the trials end up as a civilian or only by failing the trials and once you become a warrior you are always one? IIUC, in order to fly out of the military caste into the civil one, and not immediately to the grave or to clean up shit for life, you need to do something comple...