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[frostgiant]

Wasabi Variant WOO Mk1 Donutstacker: (4) m1895, Frostgiant, Rockeater, Doomblade
HTM-1* "Hitman II" (1) m1895
-Renamed it HTM-1TO (0)
-Renamed it HTM-1-1 (2) Rockeater,Frostgiant
-Renamed it HTM-1.1 (1) Doomblade

In the name of resolving this, I will vote for the 2nd least offensive name

[m1895]

Wasabi Variant WOO Mk1 Donutstacker: (4) m1895, Frostgiant, Rockeater, Doomblade
HTM-1* "Hitman II" (1) m1895
-Renamed it HTM-1TO (0)
-Renamed it HTM-1-1 (3) Rockeater, Frostgiant, m1895
-Renamed it HTM-1.1 (1) Doomblade

Eh, I can still make it worse.

[Man of Paper]

Remember to check the core thread for the combat report after reading your revisions!

Proposal: Wasabi Variant WOO Mk1 Donutstacker
Difficulty: Normal
Result: 6+2=8, Average

The Donutstacker-Wasabi is technically a larger fusion engine than the original Donutstacker. The decompression chambers have been repurposed to act as secondary reaction chambers as opposed to a safety mechanism. This increase in power is notable, giving the Donutstacker-Wasabi the ability to better provide power for the Hitman as well as any future mechs of similar size with little issue. Larger mechs may also be powered by the Donutstacker-Wasabi, although we're likely to rapidly come up against limitations as we develop more subsystems or energy-intensive weaponry.

A thick spherical steel casing surrounds the reactor, providing ample protection from smaller weapons, but as both mech and conventional armaments advance we will likely see the efficacy of this casing rapidly drop off.

The WOO Mk1 Donutstacker-Wasabi is considered Cheap and, as it is specified as a variant, will not replace the original outright.


Proposal: HTM-1* "Hitman II"
Difficulty: Easy
Result: (6+6)+1=13, Unexpected Boon

The Hitman is a good enough mech, but it could always be better. To this end, we have replaced the Mk4 fusion engine with the Donutstacker to provide a small boost in power and swapped out the Small Lasers at each side with the new "Type 25" 40mm Precision Cannon. Space was made in the torso for internal ammo storage, which has been protected by a layer of steel armor to reduce the chances of ammunition cooking off on an unlucky hit (or lucky, depending on which side of the barrel you're on). Overall performance of the mech is slightly increased, although there is no way for sure to gauge how efficient it is in combat until, well, mechs see combat.

One addition was made to the Hitman beyond the original specifications. A rail behind the seat in the cockpit runs up to the ceiling and, when the pilot presses the big yellow and black striped button, a square plate of armor and hull at the top of the cockpit blows away, the catapult on the rail activates, and the pilot seat is launched high into the air, where thrusters beneath the seat automatically control descent. Pilots appreciate knowing they might survive the destruction of their mech.

When the new Hitman was introduced to the Imperial Defense Force it had half a dozen names scribbled on the paperwork in just as many different styles of handwriting. Looking over the lot of them they adopted the least offensive, maintaining the Hitman name but changing its designation to HTM-1TO. The HTM-1TO "Hitman" is Cheap.

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IT IS NOW THE DESIGN PHASE! You have two normal designs as well as one Mech Credit design.

Spoiler: Weapons/Components (click to show/hide)

Small Weapons
Small Lasers: Low-power energy weapons that draw from a mech's power source. Low power draw, but low range and low damage as a result. Cheap

"Akita" 12.5mm Machine Gun: A 12.5mm machine gun that fires 300 rounds a minute. Effective against infantry and light armor. Cheap
"Type 25" 40mm Precision Cannon: An automatic 40mm cannon firing sabot rounds at 180 RPM. Provides anti-armor capability at close and medium ranges. Produces some heat. Cheap

Components
WO.Mk4 Fusion Engine: A fusion engine designed by the Weitraum Republic and Okinasu Empire. Functional, but can catastrophically explode if it takes a significant blow. Efficacy of this engine drops precipitously as mass and energy weapons are added to a chassis. Cheap
WOO MK1 Fusion engine “Donutstacker”: A fusion engine designed by the Okinasu Empire. The decompression chambers sandwiching the reactor core do little more than provide a small power bump. Definitely does not divert entire fusion explosions out of exhaust pipes. Cheap
-WOO Mk1 "Donutstacker-Wasabi": A Donutstacker that uses the decompression chambers as secondary reactors instead, providing a small increase in power generation. Now with a protective armor casing! Cheap

Jump Jets: Jet boosters that allow a mech to subject itself to a loosely controlled launch in a parabolic arc and subsequent loosely controlled landing. A larger number of jump jets are needed for higher mass chassis. Cheap

Subpar Heat Sink Bank: A collection of heat sinks meant to release excess thermal energy produced by a mech in order to keep the meat inside from cooking beyond medium. Slightly more effective than putting a fan in the cockpit. Cheap

Standard Steel Armor: A basic, cheap form of protection. Can stop small arms and lighter vehicle-based weaponry, and can resist smaller mech-sized weapons with some regularity. Cheap

Spoiler: Chassis/Mechs (click to show/hide)

HTM-1 "Hitman": A 30 ton bipedal mech with a cubed torso and a fixed domed head holding the cockpit. The torso can rotate up to 90 degrees in either direction. The HTM-1 has a Small Mount in the center of the torso housing an "Akita" 12.5mm Machine Gun with its ammo and a Small Mount on each side of the torso for a pair of Small Lasers. The side mounts have limited horizontal traversal but can be adjusted vertically +/-60 degrees. The torso mount has a greater freedom of movement, allowing it to fire on close targets much smaller than itself. The HTM-1 utilizes a WO.Mk4 Fusion Engine to provide power throughout. Jump Jets in the upper legs provide some ability to get airborne and control descents. The HTM-1 runs fairly hot during prolonged combat tests due to an inefficient pair of Subpar Heat Sink Banks in the torso flanking the "spine". The HTM-1 uses Standard Steel Armor for protection against smaller weaponry and some defense against an equivalent mech. Cheap
-HTM-1TO "Hitman": A variant of the Hitman that replaces the lasers with Type 25s and the WO.Mk4 with a MK1 Donutstacker. It is slightly faster than the base Hitman and comes with a jet-assisted ejection seat. Cheap

[frostgiant]

RockSkin All purpose composite armour

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Designed for use of the modern battlefield were weapons included everything from intense laser fire, High speed kinetics of both the solid and explosive varianty and anythy else those damn Weitrium engineers can think up, the Rockskin is design to keep a mech in the fight for a rather long time.
Comprised of 4 layer design, each intended to work toegther in order to mitigate damage from incoming weapons fire via abrasive defense.
The first layer is designed to act as the outer face, comprised of a high strengh steel plate, similar to wat is used now but thinner, protecting the underlying layers from small arms fire and weather phenomenon more then anything, so as to preventthe abrasive components from being compromised ahead of time by infantry and planetary phenomenon.
The second layer is what actually gives the armour its name, as if you remove the smooth steel outer layer, you are left with a stubly, rough matriel similar to the outside of a rock, in truth this “Rockskin” is actually a metal dust and rock wool impregnated high strengh foam. The Rock wool spread through provides both structure and tensile strength to the foam, while the metal dusting absorbs heat, dissipating it rapidly. Combined this means that the foam will retain shape under damage while disapting both laser fire and kinetics as they travel through the foam.
The third layer consists of ceramic plating that has been set inside of a honeycomb pattern of high carbon steel, creating hundreds of “cells” of ceramicsto prevent enemy projectiles from comprimising ceramics that havn’t been directly affecting, spreading the stress through the honeycomb steel structure. The ceramic itself is designed to crumble to dust under thermal and kinetic stress. This dust plumes under thermal energy, creating highly disruptive clouds of ceramic paryticles in ordr to disrupt laser fire. While less effective agaist ballistics, the crumbling will at least rob the projectile of kinetic energy further after it had already fought its way through the outer plate and rockskin foam.
The 4th layer consists of an aerogel that has been placed under tension inside of another honeycomb pattern steel shell, offset from the prevouis layer. This final layer acts as the structure, providing strengh to the rest of the armour with its highly stable structure. When damaged, the aerogel disperses from the now ruptured honeycomb cells, rapidly filling in the ruptured areas with a heat resitant areogel, plugging the damage in order to protect the internals from planetary phenomenon even after armour breach.

Oni 50 ton Heavy (Medium) Walker

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Designed from the ground up in order to bully smaller mechs, the 50 ton Oni features a focus around weaponry and armour sacrificing speed to achieve such, mounting a larger amount of plating than smaller HITMAN and 3 mounts similar to the HITMANS 3, with the exception being that one of the Oni's mounts is now a medium mount. This is In addition to a Revolutionary new feature. Rudimentary ARMS.

 As of now, the Oni features 3 mounts, two mounted near the top on what would roughly be called the shoulder of the bulky triangular torso, and a single medium mount in the middle of the torso.  This is due to the fact that the ONI’s arms are incredibly rudimentary, More heavy blocks of metal that and flex and swing then something very dexterous.
Thus the decision was made to keep the mounts in the torso, simplifying the mechanisms of the arms to the bare minimum needed for their role as swinging bludgeons.
The Head of the Oni's where the pilot sits is externally different, taking the form of a second, smaller triangle that slope forward into what can be mistaken as eyes but are truly floodlights. This shape allows for a larger amount of Effective armour due to the slope. Other then that, the internals of the Oni's Head is actually largely the same, down to a similar ejection mechanism that erupts from the Head in order to preserve pilot life.

Because that was the point of the arms in the first place, If an enemy mech is silly enough to close to close combat, in addition to the fury of the oni’s medium mounts, a smaller mech will have to contend with the Oni throwing its weight around using its heavily armoured triangular torso to push and slam and its arms to pummel in an attempt to bully smaller mechs around and smash delicate purtisions like weapons barrels, knocking them to the ground where they will be incredibly vulnerable.
In order to faciltate this, The Arms don’t really have hands, Instead, the Heavy L shaped arms “forearms” are heavily reainforced and are capped with conical point to better dent armour, enabling the arms to “punch and be used like clubs to bully smaller mechs. As a result of this reinformcement, most of the arm is little more the strutural bracing and solid metal, with the actual myomers involved in twisting, flexing and pushing making up very lettle of the arms, leaving them a relativly simple mass.

For enemies intelligent enough and fast enough to prevent the oni from closing such, that is where the Oni’s heavy armoured angled torso and new medium mount come in.
AS of now, the armaments of the oni consist of 2 Type 25’s, mounted on the shoulders, with its medium mount remaining empty due to a lack of armament. Similarly, The Oni mounts standard steel armouring due to a current lack of anything better, along with a wasabi donutstacker engine,

“Oni's Bark” Type 77 120 MM Cannon

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The lack of an deviation from the baseline Hitman by our enemy, combined with our inability to truly damage even that unmodified mech is truly an ill omen. Thus, was born the Type 77. Featuring a massive shell, the Cannon was designed in concerrence with the design team of the Oni, leading to its nickname as the “oni’s Bark”.

Featuring a duel fire system, the oni bark has a low rate of fire, made up for from the damage done by its burst fire of 120mm shells. Each firing cycle the dual package shells are moved together from the ammo storage, ensuring the right mix of shells every time.
The first shell fired is a large, hardened Tungsten core penetrator similar to that of the Type 25 on a massive scale. This shell leads, smashing into the target in order to overwhelm initial countermeasures, Followed closely by its twin. A High explosive shell, designed to exploit the damage caused by the first AP round with a shaped explosive charge in order to cause massive damage to heavily armored targets.
When fired, the Type 77 is designed to funnel most of the gass out, away from the gun barrel and away from the internal cooling, unlike the Type 25, allowing the cooling system to focus on recooling the barrel instead of dealing iwth both the hot gasses and barrel both.

Due to the sheer kick of the Oni’s bark aside from requiring a medium mount, which has been designed to prevent a repeat of the prevous year, the Oni’s bark is typically mounted either in a highly stable mount near the center of gravity, or on a extrely heavy mech, in order to compensate for the recoil that comes with the rapid fire of these large shells in such close timing. Coincidentally, the oni for which it is named uses both, with the Gun being planned to be mounted in the central torso medium mount near the center of gravity of the heavily armoured mech.

Heres how i'n currently leaning, so i put these together before I go to bed. I think we need better armor, and given the lack of a new variant, I think the Republic is going heavy in on improving all their basics which is bad for use given the Type 25 is struggling with basic steel.  So, Hard in on a new anti mech gun, a heavy mech and armour so that we can trade up, creating a mech that can act as a anti-mech hardpoint while the Hitman can keep running around killing non-mechs like right now. EDIT:made some changes. The Oni is now 3 mounts, with 1 being medium to mount the Oni's bark

[m1895]

RockSkin Armour (1): m1895
Oni 50t "Heavy" Walker (1): m1895
"Oni's Bark" Type 77 120mm Cannon (1): m1895

[frostgiant]

RockSkin Armour (2): m1895,Frostgiant
Oni 50t "Heavy" Walker (2): m1895,Frostgiant
"Oni's Bark" Type 77 120mm Cannon (2): m1895,Frostgiant

[Rockeater]

RockSkin Armour (3): m1895,Frostgiant, Rockeater
Oni 50t "Heavy" Walker (3): m1895,Frostgiant, Rockeater
"Oni's Bark" Type 77 120mm Cannon (3): m1895,Frostgiant, Rockeater

[m1895]

Heat Sink Bank
The Heat Sink Bank concept certainly seem sound, but their use in the field is clearly not up to spec, so we've begun an inquiry to figure out why.
While the Heat sink system overall may need some fine-tuning to run optimally, we've identified two major problems. The first is the shitty, shitty coolant we were forced to use by Weitraum environmental activists, which we have subsequently replaced with a far more effective Freon. The second problem was subpar material choice in the heat sink fins themselves caused by, uh, reasons. We've since replaced the material with a graphite based one. Combined these should turn our heat sinks into something competently made.

"Kanabo" Type 1 7cm Railgun
The first mech-mounted production railgun introduced into service, the Type 1 is designed fit on our standard small mounts. Using a ferromagnetic sabot to propel a depleted uranium penetrator at outrageous velocities, the Type 1 has a quite remarkable effect on target. Furthermore, the velocity of the shell is used to draw air along the rails to reduce the substantial cooling needs of the system, and a small radiator slightly reduces heat generated internally. The integrated capacitor banks mean we should be able to power it well enough, but with current fusion engines it's rate of fire is likely to end up comparable to the Oni's Bark, and not necessarily favorably.

[Man of Paper]

Proposal: RockSkin Armour
Difficulty: Hard
Result: (2+1)-1=2, Utter Failure

Not all armor is created equally. This is definitely the case for the RockSkin Armour. The multilayered armor has a protective thin steel plate meant to protect the rest of the armor from minor preventable damage than tank heavier weaponry itself. The layer beneath that is a metal-impregnated foam that uses both filings and filaments to strengthen it and maintain shape while resisting both energy- and projectile-based weapons. A third layer provides further protection, mostly from energy weapons, in the form of a honeycombed layer of ceramic plates. This internal ablative armor is designed to disintegrate in a cloud of laser-dissipating particulates. This is all backed by another honeycomb-reinforced steel shelled layer filled with aerogel that expands to fill any gaps in the armor created by enemy fire. This aerogel won't stop solid projectiles, but it is very effective at reducing the impact of energy-based weaponry.

Unfortunately the armor currently delaminates violently under fire. The brittle ceramic plates can crumble if a mech walks too heavily (note: they never don't walk too heavily), and the metal-filled foam is very easy to heat up and cool at a snail's pace, putting the mech's cooling systems under further duress.

RockSkin Armour is Incomplete, being too bad to field in its current condition.


Proposal: "Oni's Bark" Type 77 120mm Cannon
Difficulty: Very Hard
Result: (4+3)-2=5, Below Average

"Slightly more reasonable steps, perhaps?" - Commodore Dave Abbera, 371st Orbital

The Oni's Bark is a Medium Weapon that fires solid projectiles in two-round bursts. The first round is a high-density armor penetrating shell meant to compromise enemy armor, followed in quick succession by a second round carrying a high explosive shaped warhead. The rapidfire nature of the weapon does cause a fair bit of recoil, and the current recoil dampeners are not completely up to the task (and moving will make accurate follow-up even harder). They're still 120mm rounds, so even if they don't work together exactly as desired they're still going to be felt. Reloading is slow, steady process allowing a salvo to be fired every eight seconds, but heat build-up is significant so sustaining even that could prove to be an issue in ill-prepared mechs.

Otherwise, the gun functions relatively reliably. There is a lot of info in the notes about how it'll function in certain locations of a mech, but that's not too important to us weapons guys.

The "Oni's Bark" Type 77 120mm Cannon is considered Expensive.


Proposal: Oni 50t "Heavy" Walker
Difficulty: Hard
Result: (5+4)-1=8, Average

The Oni 50t "Heavy" Walker is a 50-ton mech with a bulky triangular body wider at the shoulders and tapering in toward the waist. A Small Weapon Mount at each shoulder houses a "Type 25" 40mm Precision Cannon and a Medium Weapon Mount is installed centrally in the torso with no weapon currently fitted into it. The rudimentary L-shaped arms end in conical fists and act as tertiary weapons. While not capable of brawling in the sense of a boxer, the Oni can launch powerful strikes not unlike a piston, using the tip of the conefists and immense force to punch through thick armor. The arms can pivot somewhat in their shoulder joints to provide a better range of attack. Another triangular shape makes up the head and cockpit and is equipped with a pair of powerful spotlights resembling eyes. It also comes with the catapult-assisted ejection system!

Armor on the Oni is very thick for mechs of an equivalent weight class, and angling across its entire body aid in reducing effective incoming fire fairly well. Thanks to the WOO Mk1 "Donutstacker-Wasabi" powering the mech it can still hit speeds greater than the Hitman.

While the Oni has plenty of potential, the complete lack of any form of heat sink has led to rapid overheating of all test models, and we expect this to be the case in the field as well. The mechs still function, but this oversight is extremely limiting. You live and you learn! Otherwise the Oni 50t "Heavy" Walker is Cheap.


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It is now the Revision Phase. You have two revisions.

Spoiler: Weapons/Components (click to show/hide)

Small Weapons
Small Lasers: Low-power energy weapons that draw from a mech's power source. Low power draw, but low range and low damage as a result. Cheap

"Akita" 12.5mm Machine Gun: A 12.5mm machine gun that fires 300 rounds a minute. Effective against infantry and light armor. Cheap
"Type 25" 40mm Precision Cannon: An automatic 40mm cannon firing sabot rounds at 180 RPM. Provides anti-armor capability at close and medium ranges. Produces some heat. Cheap

Medium Weapons
"Oni's Bark" Type 77 120mm Cannon: A weapon that fires a pair of 120mm rounds in quick succession: a leading armor penetrating round and then a high explosive shaped warhead. Recoil is somewhat strong and heat generation is high, but otherwise it is an effective fighting weapon. Can fire every eight seconds. Expensive

Components
WO.Mk4 Fusion Engine: A fusion engine designed by the Weitraum Republic and Okinasu Empire. Functional, but can catastrophically explode if it takes a significant blow. Efficacy of this engine drops precipitously as mass and energy weapons are added to a chassis. Cheap
WOO MK1 Fusion engine “Donutstacker”: A fusion engine designed by the Okinasu Empire. The decompression chambers sandwiching the reactor core do little more than provide a small power bump. Definitely does not divert entire fusion explosions out of exhaust pipes. Cheap
-WOO Mk1 "Donutstacker-Wasabi": A Donutstacker that uses the decompression chambers as secondary reactors instead, providing a small increase in power generation. Now with a protective armor casing! Cheap

Jump Jets: Jet boosters that allow a mech to subject itself to a loosely controlled launch in a parabolic arc and subsequent loosely controlled landing. A larger number of jump jets are needed for higher mass chassis. Cheap

Subpar Heat Sink Bank: A collection of heat sinks meant to release excess thermal energy produced by a mech in order to keep the meat inside from cooking beyond medium. Slightly more effective than putting a fan in the cockpit. Cheap

Standard Steel Armor: A basic, cheap form of protection. Can stop small arms and lighter vehicle-based weaponry, and can resist smaller mech-sized weapons with some regularity. Cheap
RockSkin Armour: Multilayered armor consisting of steel plate, metal-impregnated foam, a honeycombed layer of ceramic plates, and a final honeycombed layer of aerogel. It currently fails violently. Incomplete

Spoiler: Chassis/Mechs (click to show/hide)

HTM-1 "Hitman": A 30 ton bipedal mech with a cubed torso and a fixed domed head holding the cockpit. The torso can rotate up to 90 degrees in either direction. The HTM-1 has a Small Mount in the center of the torso housing an "Akita" 12.5mm Machine Gun with its ammo and a Small Mount on each side of the torso for a pair of Small Lasers. The side mounts have limited horizontal traversal but can be adjusted vertically +/-60 degrees. The torso mount has a greater freedom of movement, allowing it to fire on close targets much smaller than itself. The HTM-1 utilizes a WO.Mk4 Fusion Engine to provide power throughout. Jump Jets in the upper legs provide some ability to get airborne and control descents. The HTM-1 runs fairly hot during prolonged combat tests due to an inefficient pair of Subpar Heat Sink Banks in the torso flanking the "spine". The HTM-1 uses Standard Steel Armor for protection against smaller weaponry and some defense against an equivalent mech. Cheap
-HTM-1TO "Hitman": A variant of the Hitman that replaces the lasers with Type 25s and the WO.Mk4 with a MK1 Donutstacker. It is slightly faster than the base Hitman and comes with a jet-assisted ejection seat. Cheap

Oni 50t "Heavy" Walker: A 50-ton mech with a bulky triangular body wider at the shoulders and tapering in toward the waist. A Small Weapon Mount at each shoulder houses a Type 25 and a Medium Weapon Mount is installed centrally in the torso with no weapon currently fitted into it. The rudimentary L-shaped arms end in conical fists and act as tertiary weapons. The Oni can launch powerful strikes using the tip of the conefists and immense force to punch through thick armor. The arms can pivot somewhat in their shoulder joints to provide a better range of attack. Another triangular shape makes up the head and cockpit and is equipped with a pair of powerful spotlights resembling eyes. Comes with a catapult-assisted ejection system. Armor is very thick for mechs of an equivalent weight class, and angling across its entire body aid in reducing effective incoming fire fairly well. Thanks to the WOO Mk1 "Donutstacker-Wasabi" powering the mech it can still hit speeds greater than the Hitman. No heat sinks leads to rapid overheating. Cheap

[frostgiant]

Steamcloak Subpar heatsink coolant modification

Created from water that has been heavily treated with Glycol in order to thicken and increase the boiling point from that of standard water, The Steamcloak revision replaces the previous coolant used in the subpar heatsink. With the replacement of the original subpar coolant, It is the hope of the design team that we will be able to increase the cooling power of the Subpar heat sink without being forced to touch the majority of the system.

In the event of extreme overheating, The Glycol/Water coolant will boil, overwhelming the radiator's ability to vent heat. In such a case, The glycol coolant will be contained in a secondary storage tankm separated from the primary coolant well. If the Coolants heat rapidly outpaces the ability of the radiators to vent, This secondary waiting pool will be vented, releasing a large amount of steam out of the sinks, creating the appearance of a massive “cloak” of steam from the sinks from their placements around the body, giving it the name “steamcloak”.

As the Steamcloaks coolant is based on water treated with glycol, the replacement of vented coolant is a rather easy process, requiring only the mixing of either locally obtained water or from the primary supplies of the military attachment with highly concentrated Glycol conditioners. This makes the replacement of coolant a rather simple affair in any environments where water is available.



ONI-1TO
A variant of the Oni, designed by the moron who forgot to add heatsinks to the blueprints in the first place as penance, the ONI adds in the Oni's bark cannon into the medium torso mount. More importantly, the Oni adds 5 Subpar Heatsinks to the 50 ton mech, three more then the Hitman. This is both due to the requirements of a bigger mech, the lacking capabilities of the subpar heatsink, and the noted heat exhaust of the Oni's bark. All of these combined, led to the placement of 4 Subpar heat sinks along the spine, and a single heat sink located directly under the medium torso mount, in order to ensure direct cooling straight to the oni's primary weapon.

And heres a fix for the Rockskin when we actually have a revision

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Marbleskin Armour

Ok, Problems are numerous, meaning the fixes are going to be equallyas numerous. In this case, the first fix that is required is preventing violent delamination, defeating the purpose of a laminated armour in the first case.

In this case, The solution from from an extremely powerful chemical latex, designed to chemially weld each layer together via surface level bonds. This latex, placed over the entire surface of a layer, and on every layer, Holds the 5 layers together by creating a powerful bond that covered the entire surface of the plating. In the event of damage, the resin will tear at the location of damage or partially shrivel, but resin in not effected areas sould be left relatively unaffected and the layers remaining laminated provided damage is not overwhelming.

In order to fix the ceramic, we have had to find a plate with higher tensile plate, so as not to shatter and sublimate until it has actually been struck, This stronger ceramic is comabined with a fine wire mesh, added during the firing process of the Honeybomb shaped plates. This mesh provides a stiffer bind then the honeycomb steel plate by itself, helping the plate survive mundane kinetic forces.

Upon laser impact, the Ceramic will act similar to it was before, creating clouds of ceramic dust, defracting the laser beam and making the laser expends thermal energy burning through the dust. In the case of kinetics, The Thin mesh provides the ceramic aid in creating Dwelling IE momentary kinetic arrest as the plate sublimates.

Finnaly, The fix for the titular rock skin. Unfortunately, the metal filingscreated a molten effect, Most likely aiding in the Explosive delamination as the burning heat acted like a hot stone in a bucket of water. In this case, the Metal filings were replaced, removed from the Rockskin foam entirely, and have been replaced by a newly abundant source.
The ceramic from the first attempt at our ceramic honeycomb. While incredibly delicate, the ability for the foam to suspend it in place, even as it powders inside the foam, the rockfoam keeps these dense pockets of ceramic dust contained. This means that when struck by energy wepaonry, The rockfoam will burn away, Bursting open highly compacted pockets of microceramic dust all the while, expelling the flecks of ceramic and disrupting the power of the laser weapons in question.

[Maxim_inc]

We should probably mount the 120mm onto the Mech that was just designed to mount it as the revision.

[m1895]

Heat Sink Bank (1): m1895
ONI-1TO (1): m1895

That is what the ONI-1TO does

[Maxim_inc]

Heat Sink Bank (2): m1895, Maxim
ONI-1TO (2): m1895, Maxim

Maybe an idea for future could be a trophy system of some kind- I really think we could use EFP's (Explosively Formed Projectiles) to some effective use.

[m1895]

You wanna join the discord?

[Doomblade187]

Heat Sink Bank (3): m1895, Maxim, Doomblade
ONI-1TO (3): m1895, Maxim, Doomblade