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[10ebbor10]

"L'Épée des Astres" Anti-Capital Corvette: (1) Powder Miner
Cosmic Calamity Shield: (1) Kashyyk
Wave motion gun : (1) 10ebbor10

[TheFantasticMsFox]

"L'Épée des Astres" Anti-Capital Corvette: (2) Powder Miner, TFF
Cosmic Calamity Shield: (1) Kashyyk
Wave motion gun : (1) 10ebbor10

[Happerry]

"L'Épée des Astres" Anti-Capital Corvette: (3) Powder Miner, TFF, Happerry
Cosmic Calamity Shield: (1) Kashyyk
Wave motion gun : (1) 10ebbor10

[SamSpeeds]

I don't like the (pe)Epee. Has a funny look in its eye. So here are some other ideas. That I had. Also so I can finally get notifications from this deal.

Bore Slamming Boarding Spikes

A combination weapons platform/vessel deployment system. Basically, a spike shaped boarding vessel is propelled on a powered rail towards a borehole that's aimed to come out very close to an enemy hull. It slams into the hull at high velocity and gets stuck in. If it manages to pierce the hull the tip can be popped off so internal passengers like GREAT infantry can rush out and start messing things up inside. It could also carry explosive payloads or pods of drones to assist breaching/messing things up or even like toxic gas to spray all up in there.

(((I was thinking it could have its own propulsion systems to aid digging into the thing, but then why isn't it just a drill. Also then it costs more when we could just bore it right there.)))

Bore Boarding Module

A bore device used to bore things like drones or fighters up real close to an enemy ship so they can deal damage immediately without dealing with a big fighter furball. Drones could be bored onto enemy weapons modules or fighters could strafe up close.

[Kashyyk]

Via abuse of a superconductor-based parlour trick, (also known as Quantum Locking or Flux Pinning) it is possible to suspend armour plates above a magnet, and with careful manipulation of the magnetic field, we can move the plates around.

The plates themselves are a depleted Transplutonic material, chosen for their resistance to electromagnetic radiation damage in its various forms, fitted to a room-temperature superconductor. As the plates can be moved easily, we don't have to armour an entire ship, instead we can shift the plates to face the enemy no matter which direction they come from. Gaps can be left between the plates for sensors and bores, and they can be moved out of the way to when hangers or turrets are ready to unleash their payload.

In addition, damaged armour plates can be shuffled out of the line of fire to be repaired whilst fresh plates are moved to the fore. If we are able to predict a particularly heavy attack, we can even stack plates on top of each other as well. Science Fiction may have believed in energy shields, but it turns out the middle ages had it right all along.

If someone can come up with a better name, id be very happy.

[Jilladilla]

"L'Épée des Astres" Anti-Capital Corvette: (3) Powder Miner, TFF, Happerry
Cosmic Calamity Shield: (1) Kashyyk
Wave motion gun : (1) 10ebbor10
Quantum Locked Hard Shield: (1) Jilladilla

[Kashyyk]

"L'Épée des Astres" Anti-Capital Corvette: (3) Powder Miner, TFF, Happerry
Cosmic Calamity Shield: ()
Wave motion gun : (1) 10ebbor10
Quantum Locked Hard Shield "Testudo": (2) Jilladilla, Kashyyk

[10ebbor10]

"L'Épée des Astres" Anti-Capital Corvette: (3) Powder Miner, TFF, Happerry
Cosmic Calamity Shield: ()
Wave motion gun : (1) 10ebbor10
Quantum Locked Hard Shield "Testudo": (3) Jilladilla, Kashyyk, 10ebbor10

[helmacon]

Via abuse of a superconductor-based parlour trick, (also known as Quantum Locking or Flux Pinning) it is possible to suspend armour plates above a magnet, and with careful manipulation of the magnetic field, we can move the plates around.

The plates themselves are a depleted Transplutonic material, chosen for their resistance to electromagnetic radiation damage in its various forms, fitted to a room-temperature superconductor. As the plates can be moved easily, we don't have to armour an entire ship, instead we can shift the plates to face the enemy no matter which direction they come from. Gaps can be left between the plates for sensors and bores, and they can be moved out of the way to when hangers or turrets are ready to unleash their payload.

In addition, damaged armour plates can be shuffled out of the line of fire to be repaired whilst fresh plates are moved to the fore. If we are able to predict a particularly heavy attack, we can even stack plates on top of each other as well. Science Fiction may have believed in energy shields, but it turns out the middle ages had it right all along.

If someone can come up with a better name, id be very happy.

On the naming issue for this I had an idea. It blocks their sunbeam weapons right? It's a single spot of mobile armor.

Let's call it the sunspot.

[andrea]

Why not sunscreen?

but testudo is more evocative.

[Jilladilla]

Via abuse of a superconductor-based parlour trick, (also known as Quantum Locking or Flux Pinning) it is possible to suspend armour plates above a magnet, and with careful manipulation of the magnetic field, we can move the plates around.

The plates themselves are a depleted Transplutonic material, chosen for their resistance to electromagnetic radiation damage in its various forms, fitted to a room-temperature superconductor. As the plates can be moved easily, we don't have to armour an entire ship, instead we can shift the plates to face the enemy no matter which direction they come from. Gaps can be left between the plates for sensors and bores, and they can be moved out of the way to when hangers or turrets are ready to unleash their payload.

In addition, damaged armour plates can be shuffled out of the line of fire to be repaired whilst fresh plates are moved to the fore. If we are able to predict a particularly heavy attack, we can even stack plates on top of each other as well. Science Fiction may have believed in energy shields, but it turns out the middle ages had it right all along.

If someone can come up with a better name, id be very happy.

On the naming issue for this I had an idea. It blocks their sunbeam weapons right? It's a single spot of mobile armor.

Let's call it the sunspot.

I like sunspot. A little too in their face maybe, but we've witnessed those moments in design naming right? It's at least clever.

[Twinwolf]

"L'Épée des Astres" Anti-Capital Corvette: (4) Powder Miner, TFF, Happerry, Twinwolf
Cosmic Calamity Shield: ()
Wave motion gun : (1) 10ebbor10
Quantum Locked Hard Shield "Testudo": (3) Jilladilla, Kashyyk, 10ebbor10

I think we need defense, but I think "not being able to kill them" is a bigger problem than "is being killed by them", and the "doomray" is just a stopgap. I might have gone for the Wave motion gun but given that only has the one vote...

The reasoning for this is fairly simple - while yes, defense is important, the bigger issue I saw last turn was an inability to actually do significant damage to Hiver ships. We survived a salvo from the sunbeam, but we had no way to capitalize on the long charge time. As well, without a way to kill their ships while they can kill ours, we let them build forces for a much more significant period of time because repairs are always cheaper than building a new hull.

[SamSpeeds]

Good point.

"L'Épée des Astres" Anti-Capital Corvette: (5) Powder Miner, TFF, Happerry, Twinwolf, SamSpeeds
Cosmic Calamity Shield: ()
Wave motion gun : (1) 10ebbor10
Quantum Locked Hard Shield "Testudo": (3) Jilladilla, Kashyyk, 10ebbor10

[Kashyyk]

I am still unconvinced by the Epee, and would rather have any of the other modules instead.

With the Testudo, we will be able to survive their attacks until we clear out their fighter screen. This will either force them to retreat, or allow our Hornets to torpedo their cruisers. In the worst case that we are losing the fighter battle the armour will give us the durability we need to continue weathering sunbeams until we bore out. Best case, we kill their fighters and cruisers with only fighter casualties of our own. More likely case, we deal more fighter casualties than them, and our expeditions survive.

With the WMG, it gets a bit more spicy, but we could probably deal damage like for like with their sunbeam. This means we would effectively exchange cruisers, u til only one side has cruisers left.

The Epee is a guaranteed resource sink every time we use it, as I'm not convinced that we'll be able to repair it in the field. We will be pitting it against a fighter screen and an unknown amount of medium/small weapons on their cruiser,  meanwhile it will still be blowing holes in our expeditions. Our cruisers will be just as impotent against theirs in this case, and will rely solely on a very limited number of hits from the Epee to save them.

"L'Épée des Astres" Anti-Capital Corvette: (5) Powder Miner, TFF, Happerry, Twinwolf, SamSpeeds
Cosmic Calamity Shield: ()
Wave motion gun : (2) 10ebbor10, Kashyyk
Quantum Locked Hard Shield "Testudo": (3) Jilladilla, Kashyyk, 10ebbor10

[Jilladilla]

I hate voting like this, but Kashyyk did more or less state my reasoning as well, so no reason to rehash that.

"L'Épée des Astres" Anti-Capital Corvette: (5) Powder Miner, TFF, Happerry, Twinwolf, SamSpeeds
Cosmic Calamity Shield: ()
Wave motion gun : (3) 10ebbor10, Kashyyk, Jilladilla
Quantum Locked Hard Shield "Testudo": (3) Jilladilla, Kashyyk, 10ebbor10