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[andrea]

The bit about magmatite only being for power light and heat is a jab at a discussion had in discord. I don't expect that to truly be a limit if we later want to use it for something else. Unless waffles actually takes offense at that, but I don't think he will.

Anyway, I think I'll vote for the power source this turn. seems like we can afford it and once we have it there are so many things we can do.
Also: M-barrier is in no way a revision. That is design material. Not a bad one, but a design.

Ravenmind-S Thunderbolt (1)  TricMagic
M-LEG (1): Andrea

[TricMagic]

Spoiler: ignore (click to show/hide)

I'll probably note that new reactions can be done in a revision, so long as you mind playing with the dice.



While a lot of work has been done with Megmatite, at the end of the day we always come back to the same stuff. Why exactly?

Well, DUC has been crazy enough to try a test. What happens when you bath a magmatiate crystal in laserfire.

The answer is somewhat simply, it begins to take in emit huge amounts of electrical energy. It becomes a case where the energy expended is surpassed by the energy being used. In addition, very low heat comes out of the reaction too.

Rather, the Magmatite Crystal absorbs the heat without melting, and in turn, electricity comes off. It's still getting hotter, but a ICE coolent occasionally would solve that.


Taking this, we created the M-Power Cell. In the center, the Magmatite is charged from an active laser from both sides. In turn, electricity is produced and captured by magmagel. Which then feeds into the systems that it is connected to, and keeps the lasers active. The Sizes vary, depending on needs for electrical recharging, but usually are cylinders.

We have plans to modify some of our vehicles, though at the moment, we are short on Magmatite for most of them to justify it. However, there are a few things which benefit.

[10ebbor10]

Shard TALON

While observing TALON firing under high speed cameras, our scientists discovered something peculiar. Certain parts of the magmagel appeared to energize without the laser ever hitting them, something that baffled our scientists. Detailed observations by the DUC have discovered that this is just one of the unusual features of magmacite. Within the structure of molecular magmacite, electrons will form quantum bonds, causing them to share essential characteristics across space. Since electrons travel freely between atoms that are a part of a crystal, these quantum pairs can end up being part of different magmacite molecules. Then, if one of the molecules gains or looses energy, so does the other.
Normally, this is just a cause for unusual waste heat and spontaneously detonating ammunition. However, if we carefully grow a magmacite crystal, we can ensure that the bonded quantum pairs end up daisy chained throughout the entire molecule. In that case, each crystal will posses multiple quantum bonds, each shared with a different crystal, and power can be easily exchanged through this bond.

The Shard Talon is the result of these theoretical investigations. We've set up the crystal bonds in a tree structure. The root of the tree is the firing crystal, and it gathers the power that flows upwards through the tree from the capacitors. This gives us 2 key advantages .
1)  Overload conditions are only reached in the firing crystal, keeping danger and heat to a minimum in the fuel tanks.
2) We can introduce a physical seperation between the ammunition reserves and the firing crystal, protecting most of the weapon from heat and possible damage.

The resulting Shard Talon is thus a a relatively odd looking bird, with just a single exposed firing port and seemingly no connection to it's ammunition reserve, which is secured behind a simple heatshield. This redesign allows us more freedom in how to integrate the weapon in various emplacements and vehicles, improves it's stability, heat resistance and robustness, and could have important implications for future integration.

[TricMagic]

Ravenmind-S Thunderbolt : (1) TricMagic
M-LEG :(1) Andrea
Shard TALON : (1) TricMagic

I'll continue to say, DOWN with the METEOR! Better Talons means better Firestorms. Which means dead METEORs, given Talon fire is the only other thing that took it down for a while.

[Failbird105]

Ravenmind-S Thunderbolt : (1) TricMagic
M-LEG :(1) Andrea
Shard TALON : (2) TricMagic, Failbird

Yeah, I thinl I like this

[Madman198237]

Ravenmind-S Thunderbolt : (1) TricMagic
M-LEG :(2) Andrea, Madman
Shard TALON : (2) TricMagic, Failbird

[Failbird105]

Ravenmind-S Thunderbolt : (1) TricMagic
M-LEG :(3) Andrea, Madman, Failbird
Shard TALON : (1) TricMagic,

Having had time to think about it, yeah, some sort of power source is... honestly pretty important at this point.

[TricMagic]

Why? That won't take down the Meteor, and that thing is not only Prep work, but changing something that won't have any effect on the other issue of the heat. Rails need a lot of ICE to keep going last I checked.

It probably doesn't help it attempts to power a high-grade reactor.

As well, Railstations are often powered by Solaris when applicable. Why not make the M-LEG an attachment chamber rather than putting it into the thing directly? Plus, such a chamber could also be used to power Talons and other devices.


The Shard TALON gives us a weapon that can take down the Meteor thanks to the upgrades, and will likely be integrated into the Firestorms if the roll goes well.

[Powder Miner]

Ravenmind-S Thunderbolt : (1) TricMagic
M-LEG :(3) Andrea, Madman, Failbird
Shard TALON : (2) TricMagic, Powder Miner

m'aerospace

[TricMagic]

I'll note the listed power source could just be placed in a cruiser design we do to power it. Maybe a Space Station we can use to gain Region Rating on the moon.

Granted, I think the Starknights about to go down a level, so we will be at 6 STU with Angel. So a Space station for better expansion, or tying M-LEG to some sort of mobile...


Honestly, a Space Cruiser is sounding pretty good.

[andrea]

I should note that when I got the idea beyond the Shard, the idea was that it would be a precursor to distant wireless power transmission. Once we establish that we can link magmatite crystals, our equipment only needs to bring a crystal linked to a power plant way behind, rather than generating its own. This comes at an advantage of weight, complexity, safety and no waste heat.

[TricMagic]

MAGMA has Geothermal Power(if I remember correctly), so we don't need yet another power source right now.


I was thinking of an improvement to our communications myself. Since Quantum Links are established, make something that uses those and N-Space to send communications through. Would also boost the control of Serfs and Haunters to Wireless levels, since a direct connection can be attained.

This in turn means GATE can be Decomplexed. With being able to control Haunters that enter, and Minds stabilizing N-Space, Human-possessed Haunters could exit the GATE, as well as explore and fight in N-Space.

[10ebbor10]

Ravenmind-S Thunderbolt : (1) TricMagic
M-LEG :(3) Andrea, Madman, Failbird
Shard TALON : (3) TricMagic, Powder Miner, 10ebbor10

[Madman198237]

Granted, I think the Starknights about to go down a level, so we will be at 6 STU with Angel.

Actually not; the decreased expense of the Starknight has ALREADY been accounted for in our STC; I am not sure why that has been done while costs have not yet been dropped to reflect the imports.

[Failbird105]

Ravenmind-S Thunderbolt : (1) TricMagic
M-LEG :(2) Andrea, Madman
Shard TALON : (4) TricMagic, Powder Miner, 10ebbor10, Failbird

I can get behind what's being said about the Shard

Also, yeah the M-LEG isn't exactly a revision tier thing, thinking about it.