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Author Topic: The Dark Star (space game) - Planning thread (It begins! Link on latest post)  (Read 85397 times)

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Re: The Dark Star (space game) - Planning/Pre-game/Interest thread
« Reply #225 on: January 10, 2015, 06:52:07 pm »
What if they....

a. are asexual?
b. are men?
c. don't understand you?
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« Reply #226 on: January 10, 2015, 06:56:54 pm »
Then I have guns.
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« Reply #227 on: January 10, 2015, 06:57:16 pm »
Quote from: Pencil_Art on January 10, 2015, 06:52:07 pm
What if they....

a. are asexual?
b. are men?
c. don't understand you?
Or D. Don't have a binary gender system.
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« Reply #228 on: January 10, 2015, 06:58:04 pm »
True.
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Re: The Dark Star (space game) - Planning/Pre-game/Interest thread
« Reply #229 on: January 10, 2015, 07:00:19 pm »
B and D could be circumvented by acting like Jack Harkness, but there are umpteen other obstacles besides.

Quote from: Kevak on January 10, 2015, 06:45:29 pm
It railguns also cost materials to fire. Lasers do not.

Quote from: Patrick Hunt on January 10, 2015, 06:43:14 pm
Thats why I want a transporter. I can scotty myself onto the enemy ship.
Not physically possible. Sorry. They did a whole study on the feasibility. We wouldn't have enough power even if we were running on pure antimatter reactions.
Plus, even if you met the energy requirements, the transporter would probably need another one on the other side, with an equivalent mass to exchange certain information with, and most of the subject's structural information would be lost in the journey anyhow.
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« Reply #230 on: January 10, 2015, 07:02:58 pm »
Seeing if I can make an ASCII model of the ship.
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« Reply #231 on: January 10, 2015, 07:08:50 pm »
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« Reply #232 on: January 10, 2015, 07:11:02 pm »
It's what I'm using. Thanks though.
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« Reply #233 on: January 10, 2015, 07:13:52 pm »
Make sure the AI, bridge, databanks, and reactors are in the center of the ship. The cargo bays can be external.
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« Reply #234 on: January 10, 2015, 08:52:36 pm »
Quote from: Kevak on January 10, 2015, 06:27:20 pm
I'm wondering how you plan on boarding a ship moving at .3 the speed of light in the opposite direction from us at a distance of several hundred kilometers.

Boarding Hooks and a good aim!
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« Reply #235 on: January 10, 2015, 09:14:36 pm »
Any ideas on a general shape?
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« Reply #236 on: January 10, 2015, 09:18:44 pm »
Long cylinder is the most efficient.

Quote from: LuckyKobold on January 10, 2015, 08:52:36 pm
Quote from: Kevak on January 10, 2015, 06:27:20 pm
I'm wondering how you plan on boarding a ship moving at .3 the speed of light in the opposite direction from us at a distance of several hundred kilometers.

Boarding Hooks and a good aim!
That's not physically possible.
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« Reply #237 on: January 10, 2015, 09:23:11 pm »
Quote from: Kevak on January 10, 2015, 09:18:44 pm
Long cylinder is the most efficient.

Quote from: LuckyKobold on January 10, 2015, 08:52:36 pm
Quote from: Kevak on January 10, 2015, 06:27:20 pm
I'm wondering how you plan on boarding a ship moving at .3 the speed of light in the opposite direction from us at a distance of several hundred kilometers.

Boarding Hooks and a good aim!
That's not physically possible.
Bay12 happens to specialize in perpetrating the Impossible.
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« Reply #238 on: January 10, 2015, 09:25:20 pm »
We are in a hard scifi universe.

Combat will take place at relativistic speeds at distances of hundreds of kilometers with millisecond firing windows controlled by computers.

It isn't something that can be made possible.

Also as a note for the ship:

No windows.

Period.

They are structural weakpoints.
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« Reply #239 on: January 10, 2015, 09:26:44 pm »
Affirmative.
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