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Author Topic: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Review Q3 2025  (Read 32156 times)

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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #150 on: August 22, 2015, 02:20:58 am »

Ki'K Drone.

A small flying drone, weighing about 200 pounds. and about the size of a medium sized table, loaded with a number of tools of sabotage, as well as a fairly large Thermite Incendiary Bomb. Capable of sustained flight and is dropped from Low Earth Orbit. It seeks out a designated target and either attaches itself to it and destroys vital components before launching again and searching for another target or it smashes into the target at a high velocity, exploding violently and spraying Thermite everywhere. One is Guaranteed to sink anything smaller then a Terran battleship, two will do the job for a battleship. Three for a carrier, and four for a supercarrier. Can easily outpace the majority of Terran civilian planes and a number of Terran military planes. It is capable of destroying ground targets as well.

Thermite is fucking nasty stuff.

Also can burn in space. So we'd have the tech for it.
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #151 on: August 22, 2015, 02:23:32 am »

Problem is that... well, the lasers would do a better job, without being constrained by ammo. We do have advanced tech to work with here.
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #152 on: August 22, 2015, 02:30:20 am »

These are meant to be suicide/sabotage drones.

Lasers actually would be less then useful. Lasers make huge amounts of noise and are very very visible. They also leave trademark burns. Thermite makes functionally no noise. So a Ki'K that melts its way inside a battlecruiser underwater and then explodes won't be noticed until the ship hull has completely melted through and the ship is on its way to the bottom of the ocean.
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #153 on: August 22, 2015, 02:35:36 am »

Yeah. But on the other hand, they can actually shoot down other aircraft, and actually have longevity :P
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #154 on: August 22, 2015, 02:43:09 am »

We're trying to target out of the way stuff correct? Think of this as a testbed. We aren't gonna instantly have air superiority without testing the tech first.
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #155 on: August 22, 2015, 02:43:42 am »

Not total, no. But nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #156 on: August 22, 2015, 02:51:15 am »

The Ki'K would most certainly be a venture. It would functionally be a flying drone capable of going underwater. It would potentially allow us to get an idea of how enemy vehicles work, so we can adapt their atmospheric tech to our spess tech. It would be able to target both their navies and their slower, larger planes (such as bombers) on top of their civilian planes. We could damage railroads/trains with minimal risk to hinder transfer transfer of goods. Destroy unwatched infrastructure easily and bypass minor to major security. They would make great combat engineers due to their assortment of tools and could flat out melt through most bunker doors.
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #157 on: August 22, 2015, 02:53:22 am »

It's not the bombers I'm worried about though.

Besides, an actual fighter means we have something to escort our dropships.
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #158 on: August 22, 2015, 03:03:24 am »

Anyway, hurry up and vote for something will ya?
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #159 on: August 22, 2015, 03:08:16 am »

We don't need to escort our dropships yet. They have amazing armor.
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #160 on: August 22, 2015, 03:10:09 am »

Well, I'd rather to be safe than sorry. Otherwise they'll get those filthy mitts of theirs on our gear.
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #161 on: August 22, 2015, 03:18:14 am »

Then we can stick thermite charges on all our gear. If someone dies. Just detonate and melt the entire area.
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #162 on: August 22, 2015, 03:20:26 am »

Eh, thermite is primitive to the stuff we could roll out :P
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #163 on: August 22, 2015, 03:23:41 am »

Eh, thermite is primitive to the stuff we could roll out :P
Exactly.

We want them underestimating our tech.

Not to mention primitive = way easier to make enmasse
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Re: War of the Planets : Invader thread : Design 2024
« Reply #164 on: August 22, 2015, 03:25:00 am »

Not really. As for underestimating our tech, that'll only happen if we let them nick it.
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