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Number5Alive, Golddigger, BurtBacharach, CrazyCelt,
M.Mollen, DoYouEvenLyft?, MarcoPolo, MightMakesRight, l44tpally, Bennie,
SEA-TAC_Sweetie, Lord_Kickass, Requiesce-in-Pace, MacD, HaveGunsWillTravel,
Guardian, GunKitty, Chummer, Dolcett, Inquisitor, SemiSolidSnake, ElfMama,
Not_the_Face!, Anonymous3, Anonymous4, Anonymous9, AggregatorOfSorrows,
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot, Dolcett, Backlog, DarkAvariel, Knocker, Hullu_Kapteeni, GrimDark,
BloodForTheBloodGod, Queen’s_Bitch, BackDat@55Up, DoYouEvenDPS?, MajorTom,
Parca, and DarkAngel are in the chat.
Knocker: Holy shit,
have you seen the official game footage of the battle at Edena?
Backlog: Come on, it
is a nice cinematic, but no way that’s real. Ten to four on superdreadnoughts
and the Impies lost to some rebels?
Not_the_Face!: Dunno. Seems
that the Emperor is short on flankers and screening craft.
Anonymous3: Where’d
you get that from?
Not_the_Face!: I’m
playing Confed navy. They’re giving advanced training and quick promotions to
those who have enough faction rep. Flip side is that you get the first nod for suicide
missions, since you can’t die. We’re changing the way people are thinking about
war in this game.
Backlog: But what good
are little screening craft against a big-ass superdreadnought?
M.Mollen: For one,
they can help screen against fighters and small craft that might be able to
cripple big ships while they’re focused on duking it out with other heavyweights.
Even an ultrafeatherweight can take out a superheavyweight if he gets a good
hit to the balls.
l44tpally: Did not
need that image, thanks.
CrazyCelt: So what’s
the word on this supposed superweapon that pretty much obliterated several
ships right at the start of the battle?
GunKitty: KE=1/2mv2.
MacD: For those of us
who don’t speak math?
MajorTom: She’s
talking about ballistic weapons. Railguns, then?
GunKitty: Ground
Control to MajorTom, you wanna help teach this one?
MajorTom: Hah. Yeah, I’m
a retired Marine in RL, so I might not know all the science, but I can sing a
few bars.
M.Mollen: Where you
based?
MajorTom: The Nimitz. You a Jarhead?
M.Mollen: Navy,
retired on a medical. Send me a message if you’re looking for work in game. I
may have need of some field expedient mayhem.
MajorTom: Well, now
you’re talking my language. Let me send you a message, and we’ll see what
happens.
CrazyCelt: So, railguns?
MajorTom: Right. Basically,
you take a very powerful magnet, and use it to send a projectile at insane
speeds. Like taking a 7lb (3.2kg) projectile and throwing it at Mach 7. That
spells certain death for anything hit by it. Navy could never get it to work
well enough to make it practical in atmosphere. And, well, the Star Wars
program ended a long time ago.
M.Mollen: Close
enough, only the weapons in question are sending a 20 kg projectile about 125x
faster.
MajorTom: Mother of God.
M.Mollen: And when the
first shots were fired, they were fired from ships going close to .5c, on a
collision course with ships going close to .5c. So when the shots hit, they had
a relative speed of damn near lightspeed.
Guardian: So, going
back to the math, KE=10kg*c2.
CrazyCelt: And what is
the defense against something like that?
HaveGunsWillTravel: Be
somewhere else.
Parca: Well, some of
the heavy ships took multiple rounds and were still able to fight.
Superdreadnought shields can stand up to at least two simultaneous impacts. Could
probably take more if you gave them time to recover.
SemiSolidSnake: You
were there, Parca?
Parca: Hell yeah I was
there!
Hullu_Kapteeni: It was
a good fight. My ship did good.
M.Mollen: Parca would
be Ghost Leader, squadron leader of the first all-Nomad fighter squadron in the
game. Hullu is the skipper of the BSS Simo Hayha, one of our Assassin-class corvettes.
Golddigger: Our?
M.Mollen: Well, the
Black Star Fleet, of course.
Inquisitor: Hold up, I’ve
seen the sensor logs of that battle! There were no other ships other than the Empress’s
forces until the very end, when a ship looked like it warped in quiet and
blasted the Bismarck out of
existence.
M.Mollen: There were
no other ships registering on whatever sensors you were reading, yes.
Inquisitor: Bullshit!
The Cattie-Brie may be civilian, but
I paid for milspec sensors!
M.Mollen: And the
Black Star Fleet was designed to be invisible to military sensors. When we
choose to be.
SEA-TAC Sweetie: Well,
that’s impressive.
GrimDark: What are
your plans moving forward?
M.Mollen: Well, the
Black Star Fleet has been contracted to aid in this little civil war thing
going on right now. But that is going to be more than simply taking out enemy
ships.
Requiesce-in-Pace:
What do you mean?
M.Mollen: You know the
Usurper’s little cult he’s building? The one starting with all the key people
in Sol and the Navy, and working down and out from there? Cross-reference with
popular fiction for the date 12/19/2059.
Chummer: What? I know
that date… Oh. Oh no.
M.Mollen: Oh yes.
Chummer: Is this confirmed?
M.Mollen: Yes,
multiple sources, including info taken from a cult member spreading the word on
Choson Ring.
Chummer: DREK!
GrimDark: Clue the
rest of us in?
Chummer: We have a
renegade AI taking over the Terran Empire.
Guardian: Even better,
it may have given some of the cult members the ability to ‘respawn’, like
Nomads.
DarkAngel: So even if
the Emperor dies, he might not stay dead?
BloodForTheBloodGod:
Do I root for chaos, and in so doing root for the Emperor, or hope for the
Emperor’s downfall, and halt chaos’s work? I’m torn.
GrimDark: And the
Empress is unaffected?
M.Mollen: Confirmed.
GrimDark: I need to
get in touch with the others. Malleus was going to meet with a member of the
cult today…
M.Mollen: If he comes
back with new implants, shoot on sight. He won’t be him any more.
GrimDark: Damn it.
DarkAvariel: Is there
any GOOD news?
Parca: Well, we’re
fairly certain that killing off enough of the AI’s supporters quickly enough
will allow us to force them out of power, and limit their ability to affect the
Empire. If we find a way to kill the AI, we might be able to take it out for
good, and everyone in its control with it.
M.Mollen: We just have
to find the thing, first.
Be sure to read my published works!
Frozen Soul series (Sci-Fi Supervillain story):
Frozen Soul https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071R125QT
Tales of the Void Traveler https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06ZZ52G37
Rules-Free VRMMO Life (Dark Fantasy LitRPG):
Volume 1 - Tutorial https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071VPRNDB
Omnibus 1 - Volumes 1-4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0774T354X
Into the Black (Sci-Fi LitRPG):
Book I - Game Start https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071LT5WGL
Omnibus I - Books 1-4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077X2KR7Y
City of Champions Online (Superhero LitRPG):
Issue I - Origin Stories https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075SHXQS1
The Kalipshae Affair (A First Contact Short Story): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0739V6R6T
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