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[Powder Miner]

HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle

Sure, the CR-00 is in many scenarios capable of killing a man (it is, after all, a gun, and those are known to kill people), but it is not designed for power, and explicitly designed not to penetrate, given the care that must be taken not to expose an entire room full of people to a sudden lack of pressure. The HR-01, therefore, is a heavy alteration to the CR-00 designed to blow through most armor, walls, and barricades. This is accomplished primarily through making the thing bigger and juicing up the battery significantly, and also through adjusting the parameters on the actual laser generator to not put out only weak shots. The stock and grips are kept very prominent parts of the design, in order to make stabilizing the gun easier. Although we haven't yet produced a scope, it is hoped that this will allow the gun to be accurate enough later to be used as a DMR, especially as it is a laser weapon. The upshot of all of this is that the HR-01 is a pretty monstrous and visually distinct gun which is essentially absolutely unconcealable.

HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle: (1) Powder Miner
VR-01 Variable Energy Rifle: (0)
Hyper Thermal Charge: (1) Powder Miner
Rho Aias after market Mods: (0)
Duck Fup Additional Ammo: (0)

[m1895]

HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle: (1) Powder Miner
VR-01 Variable Energy Rifle: (1) m1895
Hyper Thermal Charge: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
Rho Aias after market Mods: (0)
Duck Fup Additional Ammo: (0)

[Kashyyk]

HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle: (1) Powder Miner
VR-01 Variable Energy Rifle: (2) m1895, Kashyyk
Hyper Thermal Charge: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
Rho Aias after market Mods: (0)
Duck Fup Additional Ammo: (1) Kashyyk

[Twinwolf]

HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle: (2) Powder Miner, Twinwolf
VR-01 Variable Energy Rifle: (2) m1895, Kashyyk
Hyper Thermal Charge: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Twinwolf
Rho Aias after market Mods: (0)
Duck Fup Additional Ammo: (1) Kashyyk

[Madman198237]

Energy Rifle Combat Optic
A dual-mode, two-component optical sight that has a red dot optic on top of a visible light/thermal image scope with 3-10x zoom. The scope is meant to be mounted on energy rifles, and therefore has no BDC and is just for acquiring targets accurately and putting lasers in places the enemy does not want lasers put. The thermal component is meant for finding targets even in crowded urban areas with lots of cover.

HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle: (3) Powder Miner, Twinwolf, Madman
VR-01 Variable Energy Rifle: (2) m1895, Kashyyk
Hyper Thermal Charge: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Twinwolf
Rho Aias after market Mods: (0)
Duck Fup Additional Ammo: (1) Kashyyk
Energy Rifle Combat Optic: (1) Madman

[Doomblade187]

Super Serious Proposal for next turn's Exoskeleton Design:

Spoiler: Knight reform- PREATOR ARMOUR. (click to show/hide)

The war is coming to an end, and with the reports coming from synval theirs a good chance the world might be coming to an end with it. AS such a flurry of activities is taking place, in order to finish and mobilize an idea, constantly pushed back due to resource shortages and projected project difficulties, even to the extent that the abberan team had decided to sit on it.

With the salviosi war coming to a grinding halt, and the possibilities of an outside threat, it has become a matter of grave importance, to protect king and country as bets as possible in these shifting and trying times.

The Praetor Knight armour. Less a suit of worn armour and more of a piloted Mechanical frame, similar to those produced by salviosi (and boy did that truly rankle the boys who had initially put the praetor to paper when they had deployed a mechanical walker frame first)

Standing 5 meters tall, equipped with hundreds of complicated subcomponents, it is likely that the preator would be a janky, slow mess. In capable of being controlled in a concise enough manner to be relevant, if not for an experimental procedure undergone via the Knights of the realm in order to bear this new armour.
Cealium, ingested into the body and suffused into the nervous system. These crystal particles inside of the knights body allows them to interface with other cealium systems, turning them into circuits and nerves smaller then the eye can see.

Through these new cealium nerves, the pilot interfaces with his suit of armour. The praetor is not worn. The praetor is the knight for as long as they are interfaced. Every movement taken, every action demanded by the preator is carried out as smoothly as though the knight in question was but stretching his own body.

 To match the miracle of a control system, the praetor possess inherent capabilities beyond any suit of armour created to date. Starting from the outer shell, the preator is protected by Cold iron, capable of deflecting heat at an astounding rate, which pairing the metal’s string nature with a royal K-wool Dampening system, allows the praetor to walk through torrents of gun fire, Flames and even the detonation of an artillery round. Thermal energy cannot touch the machine with the temperature immune outer shell of cold iron and kinetic energy can do no more due to the abundance of royal K-wool inside of the suit.

The legs of the Praetor are designed with a series of springs, hydraulics and Kinetic Horn amplifiers, created via chemically treating the horns of K-Sheep in a chemical bath. Together, this allows the praetor suit to move at incredible speeds, survive falls from high drops and make incredible leaps.
Without mention, the strike of a leg capable of moving the preator at such high speeds has every chance of shattering even ship plating.
Without the K-wool compensators present inside of the chassis, it is likely the leech mechanism would shatter after a single step, as the kinetic energy turned the leg into the equivalent of a tank striking the ground at high speeds.
With the various kinetic dampeners present in the Preator armour, it is fully possible for the knightly suit to drop from the deck of a Orleans class vessel and not only survive but be fully capable for combat as well.  This should also hold true for the launch bays present in the sky tyrant, originally meant for the Odysseus.
This will enable the deployment of praetor Knights anywhere our airforces can reach, literally falling from the sky on top of the enemies fortified position, bypassing enemy mines, tank traps and other fortifications.

Present inside of the praetor armors arms are two, different subsystem paired along with the powerful metal rending fists and sheering fingers the praetor already possess.  One subsystem is a powerful Gravity shield, designed to be emitted from the forearm, allowing the protection of the preator and those who stand behind it. With its powerful legs, K-wool dampeners and powerful generators, the Shield is not the crippling mechanism is could be on certain vessels. Instead, the powerful gravity phenomenon finds new life as a protection for the preator to close to its preferred field of play, close range, albeit the cost of this powerful defensive weapon is lowered mobility due toe the requirement to properly brace oneself with the ground and posture.
The shield itself is a deadly tool, with the edge of the anomaly fully capable of being used like the bludgeoning edge of a shield or the main portion of the gravity shielding providing its nature as a deadly tool.

The other arm I connected to a series of pressurized tanks, containing a Slurry mixture of a container fluid, and Rime. Small hose on the arm allows the Praetor to create a deadly spray of this thick, sticky gellish fluid and rime, which as one could expect is rather deadly, quickly causing frostbite and tissue damage as well as hypothermia in exposed infantry and causing serve brittleness and sometime even straight out shattering in metallic vehicles as the metal grows cold and begins to quickly contract due to the deathly cold powder promethium and gel mix.

The arms of the praetor are fully capable of picking up, lifting and even throwing. A dangerous thing when one witnesses a tank trap turned into a flying instrument of death as thrown by a praetor. Anything of suffiecnt weight and size is a possible weapon in the praetor’s powerful hands, from stones to burned out vehicle carcasses to the remains of fortifications.

Along the praetors back sits the massive power generators the feed the hungry suit, similar to those mounted on the sky tyrant in form and function, if not size. Nestled close to this armored generator are three small bomb lobbers, meant to through Rime, Whickerman and Fragmentation explosives in an arc, completely clearing the gravity shield when deployed.

This enables the praetor to create its own smokescreen, clear out infantry positions and suppress enemy fire teams for the advance of foot soldiers.
The suits own armamaents, are rather crude, due to the focus being primarly focused upon the creation of the suit of armour and its subsystems themselves.
These armaments range from a cold iron shield, to supplement or replace the granitic one as the knight prefers, typically mounted on the opposite arm as the gravity emitter to prevent interference, Blades and axes meant for tearing through enemy heavy armour and fortifications through sheer brute force, along with more conventional armaments,
Like the ThunderHalberd, which is incredibly similar to a scaled up halberd cannon, with the addition of a blade to the underside of the barrel. However, a Gravity AT rifle scaled for a 5 meter tall Knight is still quite the formidable weapon, even without the lavish care that was placed upon the suit itself.

Another option is the Stormbringers, a single barreled autocannon designed for the 5 meter tall mech, and is used similarly to an assault rifle be the massive mechanical chivalrous construct, In all honesty, it is merely a 40mm autocannon similar to those commonly mounted by our forces, however while wielded by a 5 meter tall juggernaught of destruction like the preator, such thing cannot be underestimated.

finally, There is also the DragonSlayer, a massive shotgun like weapon designed to be equipped with shot the size of baseball and slugs enough to tear into tanks.  Again, in all honesty it is an oversized draco, But I would like to see those on the business end of the massive weapon complain.


The preator armour is designed to become the go to equipment for the Knight of abbera, replacing the paladin and crusader armour to be handed down to squires, and particularly skilled peasants. Taking advantage of their overwhelming speed, Blistering offensive and near unkillable nature, the preator armour is meant to become the new knights of the modern era, acting as the Hammer of the new era like the Knightly Calvary charges did of old.

[Vivalas]

HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle: (3) Powder Miner, Twinwolf, Madman
VR-01 Variable Energy Rifle: (3) m1895, Kashyyk, Vivalas
Hyper Thermal Charge: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Twinwolf
Rho Aias after market Mods: (0)
Duck Fup Additional Ammo: (2) Kashyyk, Vivalas
Energy Rifle Combat Optic: (1) Madman

This looks really cool. Assuming I can join this late, here are my votes.

[Doomblade187]

HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle: (4) Powder Miner, Twinwolf, Madman, Doomblade
VR-01 Variable Energy Rifle: (3) m1895, Kashyyk, Vivalas
Hyper Thermal Charge: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Twinwolf
Rho Aias after market Mods: (0)
Duck Fup Additional Ammo: (3) Kashyyk, Vivalas, Doomblade
Energy Rifle Combat Optic: (1) Madman

+1

[Powder Miner]

HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle: (4) Powder Miner, Twinwolf, Madman, Doomblade
VR-01 Variable Energy Rifle: (3) m1895, Kashyyk, Vivalas
Hyper Thermal Charge: (2) m1895, Twinwolf
Rho Aias after market Mods: (0)
Duck Fup Additional Ammo: (4) Kashyyk, Vivalas, Doomblade, Powder Miner
Energy Rifle Combat Optic: (1) Madman

[Madman198237]

HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle: (4) Powder Miner, Twinwolf, Madman, Doomblade
VR-01 Variable Energy Rifle: (3) m1895, Kashyyk, Vivalas
Hyper Thermal Charge: (2) m1895, Twinwolf
Rho Aias after market Mods: (0)
Duck Fup Additional Ammo: (5) Kashyyk, Vivalas, Doomblade, Powder Miner, Madman
Energy Rifle Combat Optic: (0)

I'm...mostly OK with the additional ammo types. I'd recommend a phosphorus/incendiary flare so it also has destructive use, I'd recommend some form of CS/tear gas grenade or maybe a riot round instead of the concussion (if you're in CQB why are you using the launcher instead of just throwing the things?), but I'm ok enough with them that I will help PM make the ties go away and stay away.

[m1895]

(if you're in CQB why are you using the launcher instead of just throwing the things?)

because grenade launchers don't use hand grenades. Like the write up clearly refers to them as rounds as well.

[Madman198237]

That was in regards to using hand grenades instead of throwing them, I am aware of exactly why you cannot use the launcher NOR the grenades in really close quarters....say quarters close enough you're concerned about having more than a 4-meter lethal radius.

[m1895]

The lethal radius is just a sacrifice to not have the 130m "casualty radius" (presumably minor shrapnel wounds) typical of standard 40m HEDP and HE rounds.

[Man of Paper]

Prelim 2 Overt Revision Phase

Revision: HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle
Difficulty: Easy
Result: (2+1)+1=4, Poor (oof, that's the mercy roll, too)

The HR-01 is everything the CR-00 isn't - big, heavy, unwieldy, unreliable, and, thankfully, powerful. The power cell can provide a dozen shots before requiring replacement. These shots are enough to burn through organic bits and light cover, but they also have a tendency to overheat the weapon itself. The emitter and focal lenses can warp or crack with extensive use or in a cool environment, and while the focal lenses can be slotted out easily enough in the field (though not necessarily quickly), the emitter going down retires the weapon until it can get a proper look-over.

The weapon's casing is also nowhere near as comfortable as the CR-00, though it does retain a foregrip out of necessity to prevent the operator from boiling their hand. It also tosses out the two rail mounts to prevent the weapon from being any more cumbersome or off-balance.

Still, it can kill, and it's more powerful than the CR-00, so our development team was satisfied enough to present it. The HR-01 requires 2 Solid and 2 Gas to provide for our squads.


Revision: Duck Fup Additional Ammo
Difficulty: Normal
Result: 5+3=8, Average

The MSF, through shrewd negotiation, was able to secure extra munitions for the Duck Fup without affecting the cost of the current contract. We've attained three new types of 40mm:

Concussion: A low-yield explosive charge with a thin shell to minimize the severity of fragmentation. Fatal within a couple meters, but lethality rapidly drops off.
AP-Flechette: A canister round filled with tungsten carbide darts. Unlike the previous grenades, these canisters are on a set timer to ensure consistent and predictable deployment and dispersal of the darts. This minimizes long range capabilities, but shorter-than-optimum ranges can be overcome by arcing shots. While the darts can pierce armor readily, momentum drops harshly as they try to pass through objects, people, etc.
Flare: A dual-purpose round with Starburst and Strobe settings. The flare rounds burn a bright white-blue and ignites a second after leaving the launcher.

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And now to copy/paste the end bit of my last Revision Phase, since it's still the same! Remember though that occupied DRZs are off-limits until things kick off properly.

It is now the Strategy Phase! For now all you need to do is select a DRZ area to capture and assign a team to the task. You must also equip the squad. Remember, you can equip them with as much shit as possible from your inventory so long as the total resource cost per squad is at or below your team's total resources. While the squad's tactics and temperament will largely rely on what best fits the equipment they're given, as time goes on you may decide to propose more specific tactics - this is probably going to be even more true when it comes to Covert Ops. For now however, the game hasn't opened up enough for more than generic pointing and yelling at a place you want to shoot. This has just been included to prevent someone asking later and me having to make an announcement that gives away someone doing plans for shit.

Spoiler: The Deregulated Zone (click to show/hide)

DRZ-1: Uncontested
DRZ-2: Syndicate Occupation
DRZ-3: Uncontested
DRZ-4: Uncontested
DRZ-5: Uncontested
DRZ-6: MSF Liberation
DRZ-7: Uncontested
DRZ-8: Uncontested

Spoiler: Malach Point (click to show/hide)

Research and Development: 0/5
Engineering/Maintenance: 0/5
Medical: 0/5
Cargo: 0/5
Manufacturing: 0/5
Residential: 0/5
Recreation: 0/5
Security: 0/5
Command: 5/5

Spoiler: Squads (click to show/hide)

Roland's Rapiers
Race Makeup: Malachian
Commander: Roland Eikenboom
Preferred Tactics: Overt, Offensive, Assault
Traits:
-Dramatis Personae: Roland is the main character of this story, because Roland says so. He and his unit are more effective in dealings with people of lesser station on account of their intimidating demeanor, but they loathe superiors and will be less effective in dealing with them.
-Improvised Coordination: Having to work around Roland's spontaneity on the battlefield, the unit is extremely adept at adapting to unforeseen complications during operations.

The Celtic Crew
Race Makeup: Malachian
Commander: Erin Byrne
Preferred Tactics: Covert, Defensive
Traits:
-Semi-Thorough "Investigations": Erin and her squad are experts at gaining information. When deployed to a department on Malach Point they will be able to trace and provide intel on a single enemy action anywhere on the station. Investigations take place over the course of the turn and will not affect the outcome of that turn's actions.
-Indecisive Action: Erin will almost always come up with the best solution for a problem. Unless she's pressed for time, in which case she's just as likely to come up with no plan at all.
--Sgt. Liam O'Sullivan: Erin's second-in-command and trusted advisor. While Erin is still indecisive, having a confidante to talk to and strategize with has helped immensely. Her usually brilliant plans actually come to fruition with Liam's guidance.
-The Warrant's Right Here: When performing Covert Operations on departments with Syndicate activity the suspects will have the opportunity to pack up and run. Going through the justice system does increase support though, and this results in the larger, more intricate, or serial Syndicate operations being shut down more successfully.

Spoiler: Equipment (click to show/hide)

CR-00 Compact Energy Rifle: A low-power pulse laser rifle designed to minimize damage to surroundings with low penetrative abilities in order to prevent unintended casualties. The ergonomic grips and stock provide additional stability when aiming down the iron sights. Has a side and underbarrel rail for two extra attachments. 1 Solid, 1 Gas
-HR-01 Heavy Energy Rifle: A bulky, unwieldy cousin to the CR-00. Has heating issues, weakness in the emitter and focal lenses, and no rail mounts. But it can shoot a slightly stronger beam. 2 Solid 2 Gas

Small Thermal Charge: A small chemical incendiary device that can be used to (relatively) safely burn through doors that need to be opened, you know, should the people inside not comply. Only really effective on thin doors, small locks, and exposed hinges, and should probably not be used near flammable material. 1 Liquid 1 Gas

MSF Patches: Uniform patches designed to identify someone as a member of the Malachian Security Force. 1 Solid

Low-Level Access Card: A Command-approved access card that allows access to all low-security areas regardless of department or personal ownership. 1 Solid

Forearm Datapad: A small touchpad with camera on a forearm sleeve that allows easy communication and real-time mission updates. 1 Solid 1 Liquid

Datapad Biometrics: A program contained on a small data stick to be used with body-mounted datapads. It utilizes the equipment to track the wearer's biometrics and transmits it to Datapads using the same Net. It also shows the distance and direction of received biometric signals. Requires a Datapad to be useful, obviously. 1 Solid

Modular Grenade Launcher Attachment "Duck Fup": A rail-mounted 40mm grenade launcher that can also be used as an independent weapon. Fires Smoke, Flash, Frag, Concussion, AP-Flechette, and Flare rounds on a timer or impact fuse dependent on the round used. Uses a Virtual Sight to predict when and where a grenade will land and what could move to obstruct or get caught by the blast. 1 Solid 1 Gas

BA-01 "Rho Aias" Body Armor: Ceramic-Graphene Armor on reinforced clothing that protects the wearer from energy and ballistic weapons. The armor is lightweight thanks to coverage being reduced to the knees, forearms, shoulders, and torso, and largely oriented towards protection from the front. 2 Solid

Spoiler: Resources & Loadouts (click to show/hide)

Off-Map Resources: 2 Solid/2 Liquid/2 Gas
DRZ-6: 2 Solid/1 Gas
Total Cost Limit/Squad: 4 Solid/2 Liquid/3 Gas

Roland's Rapiers
-CR-00 Compact Energy Rifle (1S/1G)
-Small Thermal Charge (1L/1G)
-Forearm Datapad (1S/1L)
Total Cost: 2/4S-2/2L-2/3G

The Celtic Crew
-Empty
Total Cost: 0/4S-0/2L-0/3G

[Powder Miner]

Squad: Roland's Rapiers
Target: DRZ-7
Gear: CR-00 Compact Energy Rifle (1s, 1g), Small Thermal Charge (1l, 1g), Rho Aias Body Armor (2s), Modular Grenade Launcher Attachment Duck Fup (1s, 1g)
Tactics: Generic yelling and pointing