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[Taricus]

Well, it's about ass effective as we could've gotten it. It'll need further revision though. That aside, time to work on our ground troops

Armoured Space Suit: By combining our existing Kevlar armour with out spacesuit design, we should be able to protect our soldiers effectively from small-arms fire.

[chubby2man]

I think that we should focus on offensive capabilities, instead. Can we revise the pistol into a machine pistol with a higher fire rate?

[RAM]

Giant space pistol... of DOOM!
We increase the size of the pistol as much as we can, and then bolt it onto the outside of our shuttle, or drag it around the ground on a simple sled. The main interest is increasing its range and velocity.

(Railguns and coilguns are usless. A laser will end you long before you are in range. Space-combat will probably occur at distances of multiple light-seconds, with missiles closing into closer ranges to either split into thousands of smaller missiles or start firing lasers from more practical ranges. If we can get our missiles up to .1 light then they can close from .5 light-seconds, which is still evasion range, to 0, in 5 seconds, after splitting into a cloud of thousands of micromissiles. If your defensive fire can ill 2000 missiles in 5 seconds then you have earned it...)

0 Armoured Space Suit:
0 machine pistol:
0 Giant space pisol... of DOOM!

[S34N1C]

Well, it's a start.

1 Armoured Space Suit: S34N1C
0 machine pistol:
0 Giant space pisol... of DOOM!

[RAM]

I feel tempted to say...
armour is a dead-end technology. Superior structural construction can do double-duty here though, but kevlar is kind of worthless long-term.

[Taricus]

Honestly you are right. But it is experience towards making better armoured spacesuits and it should hopefully help tide us over.

[chubby2man]

Hmm well I kind of agree kevlar is not very useful, but this could be the start of powered armor, so I will vote for it

1 Armoured Space Suit: S34N1C, chubby2man
0 machine pistol:
0 Giant space pisol... of DOOM!

[Taricus]

3 Armoured Space Suit: S34N1C, chubby2man, Taricus
0 machine pistol:
0 Giant space pisol... of DOOM!

And we'll need a power source to ensure the armour works effectively. Looks like we'll be using drop pods sooner rather than later.

[Happerry]

4 Armoured Space Suit: S34N1C, chubby2man, Taricus, Happerry
0 machine pistol:
0 Giant space pisol... of DOOM!

Next turn let's see about making a proper rifle for our own people.

[S34N1C]

I would settle for a better pistol tbh

[VoidSlayer]

Fire rate is not the problem with that pistol.  Not yet at least.  It is hard to use, inaccurate, very short ranged and low powered.

I say we redesign the firing chamber and barrel to improve accuracy and range.

[Taricus]

I'd support that if you're willing to write that design up.

[RAM]

4 Armoured Space Suit: S34N1C, chubby2man, Taricus, Happerry
1 machine pistol: RAM
0 Giant space pisol... of DOOM!:

While I do want to do this as a protest, I legitimate think that learning autoatic weapons could produce useful missile-loaders in the future, and it would be vaguely helpful for the time being, assuming that the enemy doesn't make better armour.

... We are going to get steamrolled soooo hard...
Ugh, our fusion tech is way too far away from field-lasers next turn. We might get ship-mounted lasers if we are ambitious and lucky...

[chubby2man]

4 Armoured Space Suit: S34N1C, chubby2man, Taricus, Happerry
1 machine pistol: RAM
0 Giant space pisol... of DOOM!:

While I do want to do this as a protest, I legitimate think that learning autoatic weapons could produce useful missile-loaders in the future, and it would be vaguely helpful for the time being, assuming that the enemy doesn't make better armour.

... We are going to get steamrolled soooo hard...
Ugh, our fusion tech is way too far away from field-lasers next turn. We might get ship-mounted lasers if we are ambitious and lucky...

Yeah, I agree that we might potentially be a behind, but we actually did produce a fusion plant! Within a few years and a few revisions it should be viable. We are already ahead of real world efforts in that regard. A Missle is probably going to the next priority, though it will depend on how we need to react to our opponent. Also, I don't know if we will need to devote a production line to missiles or not, so lasers or ballistics will be needed at some point.

[RAM]

Doooom Gloooom Despaaaaair...