Why do you think I keep pushing for a powerful shield generator, a hugeass sensory array, a fuckton of refundancies, and a dedicated drone production facility?
You're pushing for something that just isn't likely because we're a small expeditionary force that's going on what's basically a suicide mission.
*nudge*
Y'all are overthinking things which are easily settled
by the GM.
But to nitpick: There should really stop overlooking technological improvement. It's not the size--but the utility and magnitude the machine has as an output. Like the development of a cellphone, as a very simple example. Before, it was big. Palm-sized was out of the question. That goes the same for various other ideas: its treating something as it was just discovered!
Armor can be quantified down to a lesser surface area and bulk if you consider its composition--before kevlar, was steel (as a very crude example), yet we have different uses of both. Before well-made iron, was bronze, and yet in the current time, 'iron' is considered a ton better than bronze.
Then consider what we're talking about. Think: the size of the Earth, to the Sun.
Then consider what hypothetical distance we're talking about, and the general manner to which it may be measured accurately--then input several factors which would base the whole thing into perspective.
...All these things shouldn't be quibbled about piecemeal. It should be left to the GM. All we should worry about, is what
exists in the current world, or we'll be spread out in all the information existing at present. We should settle for general information, like the base standard by which a spacecraft cannot be affected by...say, EMP.
What I'm saying is, there's a large and various gap between meanings between the discussions here, and terms of size have little respect towards the enormity of our goal when you consider futuristic technology: anything is possible, however this should be, and is all within the GM's scope. Leave the nitty gritty bits to the GM. :3
PPE: Ohey 3 replies, and Hugo speaks. Woo!
...And Hugo got the point in lesser words than this. Mmph ._.