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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 20:03:18 GMT
Which show ? Legends of galactic heroes ? Yup Never watched it, is it good (the whole thing) ?
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 19:59:37 GMT
To DeltaV: I honestly feel that in general you are a good contributing member of this forum. If you really like it, dont comment or post in alt or guest accounts until your ban is done. Then come back, and im sure many people would be happy to have you.
In short, just obey the ban (including guest accounts), and then come back :-)
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 19:45:05 GMT
I still think you people might be missing out on the somewhat black humour of the universe, the creator of this game was after all the same who wrote up an intricate DnD economy where in people are killed and their bodies are transported only to be resuscitated later. He has a very funny dark sense of humour and while the science is quite literal and i enjoy the tone, the elements are obsidian in their satirical undertones. qswitched wrote up an intricate DnD economy ?
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 19:43:40 GMT
Yeah, the information given to you in the campaign, wether the briefing, or the suggested reading, or the ending, was given to you really matter-of-factly, but it had some really horrific evil shit there: child ice miners, child porn slaves, nuking defeated colonies to the bedrock ?!? Shit Sherman took an army through the south burning and pillaging as he went. it was called "The r*pe of Belgium" for a reason (ww1). need I mention the holocaust. Rome salted the ground at Carthage. The purge back in 36' (soviets). Japan pillaged mainland Asia in ww2 and had s*x slaves for the troops. total war has a long history and will never go away. I know war has got some nasty shit, but the end of the campaign nuclear bombardment of colonies felt particularly brutal and wasteful. Not to mention stupid, those were all potential sources of production and income
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 19:28:11 GMT
YEs Thor's hammer and the Geirsberg fortress main weapon were both huge X-ray lasers, though in the show they act as giant particle cannons so it does not really matter. Which show ? Legends of galactic heroes ?
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 19:26:10 GMT
"Well, she is actually an adult." Now the references about "entertainment" slave populations (as part of the Status Quo to defend because it is the unspoken and probably unthought Will of The People*) referenced in the campaign are even more horrifying... (*obviously, slaves aren't part of The People. It's the Republic of the Free People, after all) Yeah, the information given to you in the campaign, wether the briefing, or the suggested reading, or the ending, was given to you really matter-of-factly, but it had some really horrific evil shit there: child ice miners, child porn slaves, nuking defeated colonies to the bedrock ?!? Shit
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 19:20:51 GMT
What do you guys think of having two main layers, each with their own wipple shield ? Example: 3.5mm Arimid Fiber (spall liner to main layer) 4cm Boron (last main layer) 20cm Silica Aerogel (stuffing) 7mm Diamond (wipple for last main layer) 2.5mm Arimid Fiber (spall liner) 2cm Boron (second main layer) 20cm Silica Aerogel (stuffing) 2.5mm Titanium The idea is you have a main layer, stuffing, wipple shield, second main layer (but a thinner main layer), stuffing and wipple. It would be heavy and expensive as hell, but the protection It gives might be worth it For bumpers between the main layers and the last spall liner I'd suggest something that's either very flexible so it doesn't create secondary debris, or something that melts. Also when doing multiple layers made from different materials you might want to put the most expensive materials closer to the centre to reduce surface area and volume.
I thought Arimid Fiber was very flexible ?
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 19:07:39 GMT
What do you guys think of having two main layers, each with their own wipple shield ?
Example: 3.5mm Arimid Fiber (spall liner to main layer) 4cm Boron (last main layer) 20cm Silica Aerogel (stuffing) 7mm Diamond (wipple for last main layer) 2.5mm Arimid Fiber (spall liner) 2cm Boron (second main layer) 20cm Silica Aerogel (stuffing) 2.5mm Titanium The idea is you have a main layer, stuffing, wipple shield, second main layer (but a thinner main layer), stuffing and wipple.
It would be heavy and expensive as hell, but the protection It gives might be worth it
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 18:26:55 GMT
gedzilla Iridium is one of the denser materials like tungsten and osmium and depleted uranium. I used Iridium because its dense So kinetics then, but is it cost effective ? Cuase boron isnt very dense, but it has Gpa's of yield strength, so if its less dense, with more strength, why use a worse material ?
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 18:20:34 GMT
On the contrary, it's both effective and economical. Though it's designed to counter high-velocity (15 km/s) projectiles/needles, rather than multi-kg cannonballs. It's a comparatively cheap setup that's never more than 10% of the total cost on my ships and less than 1% of total mass. not enough armour for my tastes, I used (on the front of my big ship) Diamond (1mm) -> A-carbon (Centimeters) -> Diamond (0.5mm) -> A-carbon (centimeters) -> Aramid Fiber (a foot) -> Iridium (1cm) -> Boron (14cm) -> Para-Aramid Fiber (5cm) How good is iridium, and what is it best agianst ?
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 18:19:11 GMT
gedzilla it has a wipple shield and spall liner so against small fast bullets it is wonderful but if you start slinging larger slower rounds... As far as I know, the wipple shield is designed to be a sacrificial layer that shocks the projectile into an expanding cone of gas, so the impact to the main layer is spread out over a far larger area (allowing it to take the hit easier), and then the spall liner is their to prevent the main armor from spalling to to tje shockwave being transmitted thru the armor. His design seems to have everything but the main layer which takes the impact of the (now expanding in a cone of gas) projectile.
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 18:03:43 GMT
I'm using this as universal cost-effective light-weight armour for capital ships: - 0.5 mm of Tin/Cadmium/Lead bumper material. They're all relatively dense, but with low melting temperatures and specific heat that ensures the shield vapourises upon impact. This prevents the creation of a solid spall cloud that can damage internal modules. I've also tested osmium and tungsten carbide as outer bumpers, but these aren't cost effective and also have a tendency to create secondary debris. Lead and cadmium are slightly more expensive (in that order). Though cadmium has a slightly higher speed of sound, while lead is more likely to melt into plasma.
- 20 cm of Graphite Aerogel stuffing, which doubles as laser armor with the fix posted in the materials forum.
- 0.5 mm of Boron spall liner, which also serves as structural material to prevent ship breakup. In tests it appears to behave slightly better than amorphous carbon. Even though the latter has a higher speed of sound.
That design doesnt seem to have a good layer against kinetics. The grapheogel is a good defense agianst lasers and nukes, but not kinetics
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Fan art
Mar 6, 2017 17:08:05 GMT
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 17:08:05 GMT
I'm just glad nobody has used adult toys in their artwork Well, now that you mention it, the ships do look like giant d---- Whaat no they don't. Not all of course, but as an average. Long thin cylinders ? Must be me
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Fan art
Mar 6, 2017 17:02:04 GMT
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 17:02:04 GMT
I'm just glad nobody has used adult toys in their artwork Well, now that you mention it, the ships do look like giant d----
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 16:18:25 GMT
My CoaDE theme song is Gather the Horses by Charlie Mars.
I always have the "ride, ride, ride on" chorus playing in my head when my ships are charging toward the enemy, all guns faced foward
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