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[GreatWyrmGold]

Hah wait till I get to set up some research.
I'm going to invent a military commando force capable of boarding space stations or ships without using a ship to do it .

What, shoot them up in a big capsule?

[mesor]

Nope.
Air tight suits with oxygen systems built in and thruster packs.
I'll drop them straight out of a ship either in orbit to attack space targets or just inside of the atmosphere for land targets and then they'll use thrusters.
But I need to develop a special suit, upgrade my forcefields, and develop a weapon to slice a hole in a ships hull first. As well as genetically engineer 50 men to improve their ability to fight in zero gravity environments.

[10ebbor10]

Nope.
Air tight suits with oxygen systems built in and thruster packs.
I'll drop them straight out of a ship either in orbit to attack space targets or just inside of the atmosphere for land targets and then they'll use thrusters.
But I need to develop a special suit, upgrade my forcefields, and develop a weapon to slice a hole in a ships hull first. As well as genetically engineer 50 men to improve their ability to fight in zero gravity environments.

Remember that space is large. Like really, really large.

[mesor]

Hence deploying from a ship.
They will deploy very close to the target.
The suits will have stealth capabilities to prevent them being detected so once they are deployed the first the target will know of it is when emergency alarms starting off because the ship has holes in it.

But it's gonna take quite some time to research and create this tech in the mean time I've got a station to retake and a scientist to save.
Assuming Ukrainian agrees  to transport my men to mars.

[kaian-a-coel]

Nope.
Air tight suits with oxygen systems built in and thruster packs.
I'll drop them straight out of a ship either in orbit to attack space targets or just inside of the atmosphere for land targets and then they'll use thrusters.
But I need to develop a special suit, upgrade my forcefields, and develop a weapon to slice a hole in a ships hull first. As well as genetically engineer 50 men to improve their ability to fight in zero gravity environments.

Remember that space is large. Like really, really large.

I concur. This is not star wars 18th century naval warfare. Ships are likely to fight thousands of kilometers apart.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Just to point out, the suggested method actually requires a ship...

[mesor]

I'm gonna get myself a few light shuttles with stealth tech .

Everything I have in mind for my void jumpers regiment is based around stealth and overwhelming fire power once on board.
It's many turns away from ready .

[10ebbor10]

Hence deploying from a ship.
They will deploy very close to the target.
The suits will have stealth capabilities to prevent them being detected so once they are deployed the first the target will know of it is when emergency alarms starting off because the ship has holes in it.

But it's gonna take quite some time to research and create this tech in the mean time I've got a station to retake and a scientist to save.
Assuming Ukrainian agrees  to transport my men to mars.

Unless you want your men to sit days in those suits, or impact into hull at lethal speeds, your ship has to be well within weapon range.

Your suits have thrusters right. (Thermal signature allowing pinpoint accuraccy for Station Point defenses). Otherwise, they will occlude some starts. A dedicated point defense system can see those, and shoot them down. There's also electromagnetic radiation, and the time it takes for people to cut through a spaceships hull (Long). In the meantime, asteroid impact alerts should have activated.

There's no such thing as stealth in space. Unless you can fold space around you, of course. However, that would result in your ship overheating quite fast.

[mesor]

It's a game....
I can research a suit that is impossible to detect, I can use a propulsion system that can not be detected.
But boarding a ship is highly unlikely given that I intend to leave space combat up to Ukrainian and his fleet.
Most likely they will be used to board stations which sit nice and still.
Or used as shock troops to drop in from just inside the orbit who will drop in behind enemy lines to make a hole for the main assault force to come through and shatter the line.
These are mostly just going to be very high tech paratroopers.

[kaian-a-coel]

There's no such thing as stealth in space. Unless you can fold space around you, of course. However, that would result in your ship overheating quite fast.

Actually you can, for no energy cost. It's called metamaterials. It has some downsides however. First not being multispectral cammo and second being poor armor.

[10ebbor10]

There's no such thing as stealth in space. Unless you can fold space around you, of course. However, that would result in your ship overheating quite fast.

Actually you can, for no energy cost. It's called metamaterials. It has some downsides however. First not being multispectral cammo and second being poor armor.

Not precise enough to give significant blurring or multispectral as you said. Besides, the overheating is caused by the fact that you can't have your ships heat escaping (that would be noted on cameras) not by the shield itself.

[LordSlowpoke]

There's no such thing as stealth in space. Unless you can fold space around you, of course. However, that would result in your ship overheating quite fast.

Actually you can, for no energy cost. It's called metamaterials. It has some downsides however. First not being multispectral cammo and second being poor armor.

Not precise enough to give significant blurring or multispectral as you said. Besides, the overheating is caused by the fact that you can't have your ships heat escaping (that would be noted on cameras) not by the shield itself.

Build a warp travel gate, keep it inside the ship, have a small travel gate somewhere irrelevant, vent all the heat in the ship into that gate and enjoy your exhaust flying off into plaid.

[kaian-a-coel]

There's no such thing as stealth in space. Unless you can fold space around you, of course. However, that would result in your ship overheating quite fast.

Actually you can, for no energy cost. It's called metamaterials. It has some downsides however. First not being multispectral cammo and second being poor armor.

Not precise enough to give significant blurring or multispectral as you said. Besides, the overheating is caused by the fact that you can't have your ships heat escaping (that would be noted on cameras) not by the shield itself.

For blurring, metamaterials can make you completely invisible. They already use it (with amazing success) to make buildings "invisible" to seismic waves. And for the heating, you have a good point.

[mesor]

Hey great can I borrow a couple more of your psychics?
If I can get transport to mars I could use a couple of them to help me find the scientist and to tell me when somebody is hiding something from me.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Hey great can I borrow a couple more of your psychics?
If I can get transport to mars I could use a couple of them to help me find the scientist and to tell me when somebody is hiding something from me.

Probably, but right now they're all committed to the Io-4 thing.