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Post by 2lazy 2sign-N on Apr 22, 2017 9:45:21 GMT
look at any sci-fi that uses rail/coilguns as primary ship-to-ship weapons and what do they have in common?
the gun are spinally mounted to the ships, giving 100s of meters to several Km of barrel length.
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Post by Enderminion on Apr 22, 2017 11:18:45 GMT
the flak batteries on Star Destoryers are railguns and not mounted spinally, the HALO UNSC Destoryers mount off-bore railguns spinally, and the USS Sulaco has twin railgun turrets mounted dorsaly and ventraly
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Post by n2maniac on Apr 24, 2017 18:16:52 GMT
look at any sci-fi that uses rail/coilguns as primary ship-to-ship weapons and what do they have in common? the gun are spinally mounted to the ships, giving 100s of meters to several Km of barrel length. Should probably specify hard science fiction. Soft sci-fi does whatever the heck it wants.
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Post by newageofpower on Apr 24, 2017 18:29:58 GMT
look at any sci-fi that uses rail/coilguns as primary ship-to-ship weapons and what do they have in common? the gun are spinally mounted to the ships, giving 100s of meters to several Km of barrel length. Should probably specify hard science fiction. Soft sci-fi does whatever the heck it wants. aka sci-fantasy
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Post by kaiserwilhelm on Apr 27, 2017 19:27:27 GMT
Should probably specify hard science fiction. Soft sci-fi does whatever the heck it wants. aka sci-fantasy Sci-Fantasy I've herad that term before some youtube channel maybe. I can't remember. The term is not used often right?
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Post by skypwyth on May 5, 2017 1:15:07 GMT
Sci-Fantasy I've herad that term before some youtube channel maybe. I can't remember. The term is not used often right? It doesn't sound like a very accurate term, hard fantasy is also a thing I'm pretty sure. Which would make Sci-fantasy something different from soft Sci-fi. A hard sci-fantasy setting would actually be pretty interesting. I wonder what sort of space craft dragons would build, or if it would even be practical for dragons to build space craft...
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Post by Enderminion on May 5, 2017 3:28:32 GMT
space dragons, now all we need are space vampires
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Post by Argopeilacos on May 5, 2017 10:52:35 GMT
space dragons, now all we need are space vampires Have you not heard of Stargate Atlantis?
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Post by bigbombr on May 5, 2017 10:56:40 GMT
space dragons, now all we need are space vampires If SpaceX has anything to say about it, there will be plenty of dragons in space
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Post by 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖈𝖑𝖊 on May 6, 2017 7:41:07 GMT
Guys... If you dont know how to edit config files, this is the best that Ive made in terms of accuracy and fire velocity. If you do know how to edit config files, which is easier done than it seems, here is my piece of ridiculousness. Here is a gun with less velocity but much more range and accuracy.
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Post by lieste on May 7, 2017 20:24:34 GMT
I've got a 'reasonable' turreted railgun which fires a standard 1g pellet at 154km/s - it isn't even terribly impractical compared to the weapon I pared down to make it from the 1.1.10 version. Ready to use and installed on a ship with 9.29km/s d-v it comes in at 17.3 kt and 330Mc and will engage corvettes at well over 1Mm.
I could scale it up a bit and push for more velocity, but in fact I feel I want to move this vessel slightly the other way, to bring it more in line with the PD vessel and to improve mobility, which is a bit... poor.
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Post by Enderminion on May 7, 2017 20:32:47 GMT
I've got a 'reasonable' turreted railgun which fires a standard 1g pellet at 154km/s - it isn't even terribly impractical compared to the weapon I pared down to make it from the 1.1.10 version. Ready to use and installed on a ship with 9.29km/s d-v it comes in at 17.3 kt and 330Mc and will engage corvettes at well over 1Mm. I could scale it up a bit and push for more velocity, but in fact I feel I want to move this vessel slightly the other way, to bring it more in line with the PD vessel and to improve mobility, which is a bit... poor. my 154kmps gun fires 1.1g and masses 2090 tons without the turret
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Post by 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖈𝖑𝖊 on May 8, 2017 5:21:37 GMT
Alright, I've modified my most powerful stock railgun and here is what I got. the velocity is 250km/sec on the dot, the mass is 7440 tons, and the spread is .00003 (Degrees?).
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Post by omnipotentvoid on May 8, 2017 9:08:05 GMT
Editing the limits restrictions for length of rail and rail thickness allows for rails that fire projectiles at close to 1%c with ranges in excess of 10Mm. Using sub microgram projectiles and modded materials, it is possible to reach about 140%c and ranges far in excess of 100Mm. If projectile shattering and barrel rupture warnings are ignored speeds can be pushed to above 41Pm/s and ranges of 2000AU can be achieved. These seem to be the limits of the CoaDE engine.
For reference, see my energy loss on super high energy impacts thread and the light speed limitations thread in the suggestions sub forum.
(Can't link right now, on phone during lecture)
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Post by gabd on Sept 1, 2019 5:08:41 GMT
Sci-Fantasy I've herad that term before some youtube channel maybe. I can't remember. The term is not used often right? Techno-fantasy. Not "sci-fantasy". "Science-fantasy" would be an oxymoron. Soft-sci-fi involves fantastical technology, not fantastical science, because there is no such thing as "fantastical science". If a certain knowledge or technique is scientific, then it is necessarily demystified and can be explained explicitly. Fantasy, however, necessarily mystifies. Which is the exact opposite of what science does. Stuff like steampunk and space-fantasy is not in any way more scientific than, say, medieval fantasy; it features more fantastical technology. Necro'in this thread because I thought this clarification is important.
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