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Post by Fgdfgfthgr on Jan 10, 2018 4:55:51 GMT
Acid Payload? Alkali Payload?
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Post by n2maniac on Jan 10, 2018 8:40:45 GMT
Escape pods with prisoners of war, working radios, and dumped towards suborbital orbits.
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Post by heroeblaster on Jan 12, 2018 19:44:50 GMT
Escape pods with prisoners of war, working radios, and dumped towards suborbital orbits. That sounds really cruel and probably a war crime
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Post by AtomHeartDragon on Feb 23, 2018 19:36:40 GMT
I believe Nuclear Salt Water, as in the Uranium Salt Water rockets. Water with a high proportion of dissolved uranium salts, such that with careful pumping and nozzle design you can propel your ship with a continuous criticality event. This is generally considered to be kind of nuts, but the creator (name of Dr Zubrin, IIRC) thinks it's a practical method for space travel. Squirting this at someone would not be a way to endear yourselves to them, naturally. Fun bit of trivia: StanisΕaw Lem described NSW soakers in his "Eden" back when he wrote it in 1958. I don't remember enough details to determine if the ship itself was an NSWR, but if it was, then he would have beaten Zubrin to this idea by a fair margin.
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Post by ππππππππππ on Feb 24, 2018 21:17:59 GMT
I got it! Staged drones with claws on their ends. They home in on an enemy ship, dig into the hull and fire their rockets to send it spinning out of control. This actually works very well in games which have a speed limit, such as space engineers, as they wont be able to get out of your way fast enough.
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Post by ππππππππππ on Feb 24, 2018 21:19:49 GMT
I believe Nuclear Salt Water, as in the Uranium Salt Water rockets. Water with a high proportion of dissolved uranium salts, such that with careful pumping and nozzle design you can propel your ship with a continuous criticality event. This is generally considered to be kind of nuts, but the creator (name of Dr Zubrin, IIRC) thinks it's a practical method for space travel. Squirting this at someone would not be a way to endear yourselves to them, naturally. Fun bit of trivia: StanisΕaw Lem described NSW soakers in his "Eden" back when he wrote it in 1958. I don't remember enough details to determine if the ship itself was an NSWR, but if it was, then he would have beaten Zubrin to this idea by a fair margin. 50 megaton bombs encased in 3 meters of assorted nuclear waste on one end. essentially a dirty bomb Casaba howitzer. For use against Planets or asteroid stations, or anything that you need to be extra dead for the next hundred years.
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Post by Brackish on Feb 26, 2018 6:47:44 GMT
Extendable MELEE weapons. Ship taser. Electrically charged harpoon that pierces the hull and sends a massive surge that disables electronics. I'm having GUNDAM flashbacks!
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Post by Brackish on Feb 26, 2018 6:49:40 GMT
we already have those, but the EMP effect from nukes is not modeled into the game Probably because nuclear EMPs as we know them are dependant on atmospheric effects. AFAIK nukes in space only give off X-rays, neutron radiation and fission fragments. Edit: almost forgot Earth's magnetic field!
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Post by AtomHeartDragon on Feb 26, 2018 18:50:05 GMT
we already have those, but the EMP effect from nukes is not modeled into the game Probably because nuclear EMPs as we know them are dependant on atmospheric effects. AFAIK nukes in space only give off X-rays, neutron radiation and fission fragments. Edit: almost forgot Earth's magnetic field! Plus anything space-worthy needs to be rad-hard anyway. idk, but I feel like the bubble would have to cover the entire ship or it would collide with stuff Bigger on the inside... We are shaping spacetime after all. I wonder if it would be possible to sculpt self-replicating entities into the geometry of the spacetime itself - nothing says FU like making the entire offending universe incapable of supporting anything resembling normal matter because of spacetime eating gray goo. I might have gone a bit Greg Egan (or at least Jacek Dukaj) with this one... Extendable MELEE weapons. Yeah, you heard me. Like a collapsable, micron-thick sheet of some sort of advanced nano-material that extends to three times the length of the ship and when it flies close by the enemy, it slices it in two! Does it count if you mount them on a gun fired or blast launched payload? (Or a blast launched payload fired by a gun/blast fired one...) I've had certain... successes in that regard.
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