Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Sheb]

Lasers don't work well underwater, and their only underwater unit is one submarine. I think we need something to allow us to crush the resistance on land.

Spoiler: Karst Land Raider (click to show/hide)

An armored vehicle armed with one maine laser and two smaller turreted laser for point defense/anti-peronnel use. It "floats" above ground and can move on both land and water. It can be dropped from orbit using our existing dropships.

As for tactics, I think we should attempt to draw their force in SA and crush them. They don't even have proper ground units yet, so our K'ik should do the job.

[10ebbor10]

We should prolly ensure the laser functions underwater though.

Feel free to convince me using some technobabble that it should. As current, the laser would work but loose power fast.

[~Neri]

It would prolly be better to use kinetic shells underwater.

[VoidSlayer]

It would prolly be better to use kinetic shells underwater.

Even better, what about a swarm of small, fast maneuverable drones that attach to the hulls of the ships and cut them open.  Bonus points for building new drones out of the sunken vessels!

[~Neri]

Kai'Dok Swarmdrones?

[VoidSlayer]

Heavy Laser Cannon

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Using a plasma lens, new cooling system and larger power supply, a constant beam laser capable of minutes of firing at a time can be maintained.  Able to concentrate on a single point to punch through even hardened armor and concrete or raked across a group of enemies to cut smaller, less armored targets apart in groups.  A ring of smaller lasers heats the air around the main beam to create a vacuum through which the main beam can shoot, increasing range and heat.  Designed as an upgrade weapon for some soldier units to have, one in five would wield the new weapon.

Kai'Dok Water Drone

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A large number of small 1 meter wide drones released into the water which work on a swarm AI.  Built to travel fast and maneuverability through the water and attach to an enemy vessel then breach the hull using cutting tools.  Once the vessel is damaged they disassemble it to build more drones.  Primary power sources is a high efficiency battery recharged by a larger mothership-drone with a fusion reactor.

[Taricus]

Well, basing on what Kevak said, why not try developing Gauss weaponry or the like, slap it as the main cannon on Sheb's and we've got a design that boosts us in two ways rather than one.

Karst-Pattern Hovertank
An armoured vehicle similar in role to those in service with human militaries. Utilising a large gauss cannon as it's primary weapon, and a much smaller one as a coaxial gun. On top of the main turret, a small pulsed laser array using plasma lenses functions as an anti-projectile system, shooting down missiles on course for colliding with the tank. The propulsion system uses a cold fusion reactor (Think Battletech) to provide the power to the entire vehicle whilst ensuring that fuel is no issue (And an engine explosion is a near impossibility) The armour on the craft should be built to the point where a direct hit from a human artillery shell is capable of being shrugged off once atleast, and multiple rounds from their tanks.

[VoidSlayer]

Cut Beasts

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Small, monkey like animals with a wolf-chimpanzee like intelligence.  Capable of using small laser weapons and slicing opponents with razor sharp retractable claws featuring a toxin deadly to humans.  They maintain the same strength, speed and agility of our normal soldiers by sacrificing heavy armor.  Trained to climb on and ride our normal soldiers to expand their firepower, hide in out of the way places for ambushing and flanking or fitting into small areas that normal soldiers can not fit.

Tusker Beast

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Huge 2 story tall monster with thick armor, two large razor tusks and six enormous hooves.  Featuring a thicker bio-implant armor optimized against human weaponry and strong muscles to allow rapid charges.  The beast has natural indents on it's back and sides where soldiers can ride and hide to fire out lasers or spring out for melee attacks.

[~Neri]

The Hovertank could function over water also.

Needs to be renamed. Not sharp enough.

[VoidSlayer]

Well, basing on what Kevak said, why not try developing Gauss weaponry or the like, slap it as the main cannon on Sheb's and we've got a design that boosts us in two ways rather than one.

Karst-Pattern Hovertank
An armoured vehicle similar in role to those in service with human militaries. Utilising a large gauss cannon as it's primary weapon, and a much smaller one as a coaxial gun. On top of the main turret, a small pulsed laser array using plasma lenses functions as an anti-projectile system, shooting down missiles on course for colliding with the tank. The propulsion system uses a cold fusion reactor (Think Battletech) to provide the power to the entire vehicle whilst ensuring that fuel is no issue (And an engine explosion is a near impossibility) The armour on the craft should be built to the point where a direct hit from a human artillery shell is capable of being shrugged off once atleast, and multiple rounds from their tanks.

To make fuel not an issue why not use a tritium-deuterium fusion reactor that just extracts from the water around it?  Since a fusion ramjet was a relativity simple project I think this would be trivial as well.

[Taricus]

Eh, I'm not being specific on what the reactor uses as fuel, there's plenty of it in-system.

[VoidSlayer]

Wait, did the combat drop ships have no weapons... oops.

[~Neri]

Didn't we explicitly state for the combat dropships to have weapons?

[Taricus]

We can just revise the weapons to be put onto it, no big deal

[VoidSlayer]

Didn't we explicitly state for the combat dropships to have weapons?

They have weapon ports to mount weapons... but no weapons?