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I like the general design look to crimsons ship however its has some serious turret field of fire self masking issues. And I would just continue the forward what looks like missile bays right on back into the main hull so you have better structural bracing against maneuvering stress. I doubt any sep...

As a theoretical, How do you think a loroi ground force would react to a human sniper. With "I can see your thoughts" powers I bet they haven't really put that much development into shot tracking. Assumptions based off the premise that they wont just say F that its scary air evac out and hit the are...

Hmm right, thats a thought. Has anything been said about earths orbital industries? Is it all zero G production(exotic materials ect) or are there any Algae farms and such making engineered products ect. So are fancy electronics and spaceship parts all thats possibly going on up in orbit or is earth...

GunBuster, Its a must watch in my opinion for scifi anime. If you like Gurren lagann you should watch DieBuster, you can really see where the Gurren lagann series pulled its roots from. Oh and your not talking about lightspeed if your not talking about time as well. They are solidly attached to each...

Thats getting rather close to being a bomb pumped laser. Its my though on the matter that a swarm of fired missiles that go bomb pumped at a 80% hit likely range would be far better bang for buck than whats being used in the comic atm. They could get in rather close and would have the advantage as i...

Freespace 2 had some beautiful bricks.





Also if fs2 beamweapons == plasmafocus they had some uber armor to go with the brickness too.

The fact that a safe exit from hyperspace appears to require a gravity well of appreciable size. So save for the very unlikely and almost non existent black hole in our stellar back yard, a "deep Space" exit isnt going to happen. its my guess that black holes have enough gravity to them that you cou...

@Arioch: So basically you are almost practically admiting that an entire subset of living beings might possibly have the unique trait of not sending out any thought signals at all for the Loroi to pick up on. Great, more fuel to the fire. And Dolphins and Whales, funny how they resemble potentially...

hi hi I suppose you could use "probe golf" to try to attack someone through FTL, if you knew they were about to jump into your system, you could launch a ton of unmanned kamikaze probes into the jump corridor. Though that would probably require a level of precision that nobody has at the moment. Ho...

I think you may be miss interpreting the manner in which the FTL works in outsider. As I understand it your normalspace velocity has some effect on the destination exit point but most of the exit window is determined by the masses of the two(or more if they are close/binary systems) stars in the vec...

Its direct communication with the enemy. As far as humans go in how to handle this its "Lie through your teeth". So to narrow down the possible sinkers of the Bellarmine we need to figure out if the Umiak are likely to lie. That and we can be sure they are not worried that giving the loroi extra tim...

See, if humanity Macross had ANY super weapon, it was J-pop.* *In fact, the most effective strategy humanity might have taken would have been to surrender to the Breetai fleet right away. I never thought about it that way, but your right. Or at least drag on surrender negotiations for a few months.

Personally it would have been entertaining to have seen the fallout at the British Admiralty one it was found out he Germans had decided the Americans were better waltz partners for battleship duels.

I might be a good thing they never tried that as it may have fouled up a few diplomatic relations.

Ohh wow that picture really started a merry ruckus. My intended point was rather similar to what Arioch stated. The Terran ships are still slug throwers at heart with some heavy hitting but slow missiles. While the other races are fast agile and firing 1c weapons. Our ships are well gunned and impre...

You know it Haven't gotten around to watching all of it, but been liking what I see. One of the better sci-fi anime out there. (plus random screen caps. Dear lord! This series looks so stupid from the random screen caps!) What like this? http://neoshinka.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/logh_die_manly_4...

Superweapons always have some drawback. Otherwise they are just weapons and you sprinkle them about your hull like candy toppers. Fiction superweapons are mostly limited by some rarity; resource, power consumption, logistics factor. Real life superweapons are limited by effect that are unwanted by t...

Human Warship design theory 101 can be summed up with this.

Class dismissed.

All of B5's Terran warships were simply lovely. I still especially like the Hyperion class; even if they do end up being the whipping boy in most fights latter. the Warlocks design is very close to a relatively optimal torch ship design minus a few turret field of fire issues. Small application of t...

Humans contribution to the war wont be through warships or technology. At least for the first 10 - 15 years or so. If the war last longer than that things may change alot. What I have picked up so far is that outsider humans are fairly different that real humans. They seem a bit more peaceful. The e...

sunphoenix wrote:GUNBUSTER!!!

Now thats just cheating.