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quake: In regards if timely enough? who knows, war is kinda uncertain with the enemy having a say in the matters. But the bottom line is something like what I proposed would have to happen regardless if this umiak offensive is easily repulsed, costly repulsed, or not repulsed. The only thing changed...

sweforce: Probably not that expensive in the Loroi union, but having to transport it quite a few 'jumps' in a quantity to run a small fleet is however going to be annoying and expensive. quake: 'timely fashion' the war has been going on for 25 friggin years, and as of the launch of bellarmine it sho...

Tamren, Quake me thinks you are missing the point, ofcourse we do not have the facilities to build taimat, we do not know what it is. But we do have the capacity to build 'stuff' which we could use(with a tech update package) to build such facilities much cheaper for the Loroi than them doing it the...

Hmm, me thinks some are underestimating the value of established infrastructure. Send some techs and 'ugrade package' and humans can build and run those taimat fuel processing plants pretty quickly. Add to that 'supply ships' and possibly munitions production and we could help a lot more than you mi...

Aftershave(often mistaken as Cologne since they are often quite similar) is created for the reason of disinfecting the wounds you cause yourself shaving, the smell is to reinforce that you have infact applied it, and the pain is to reinforce the truth that you should not injure yourself, that is stu...

MBehave: you are either a person with just enough knowledge about how things work to get it totally wrong with confidence, or a troll, either way I will leave you with a last question.

If it is as doable, effective and simple as you describe, why has it not been done yet?

MBehave: Actually yes it does matter, what overkill engine pointed out was the difference between human standing still and human walking(which doubles the pressure) and the example with horse told the simple tale of 20x higher... so yes, a running(or jogging, or even a slightly larger than average j...

MBehave: I do not want to be that guy, but no, it simply will not work, not with current science, probably not ever. First off, feet size vs tracks, the ground pressure on tanks tracks is actually lower than humans, this really does not matter that much since the area absorbing the TOTAL weight can'...

all'yall: first off you are arguing two different things, MBehave is either talking bipedal robot, drone or power armor, not 'giant mecha', the bipedal form does not scale well. MBehave: defining as either drone/robot/power armor is relevant, since they create different design constraints, but the o...

Mag'ladroth: mechs in swamp terrain would be an absolute shit show due to ground pressure, the best tool there is actually hover craft. Mountain terrain? not really, rocky terrain sure, since the smaller 'foot print' compared to tanks is actually a advantage here, so foot hills of mountains with lot...

SaintofM: Actually 'stealth' is a pretty important stat for tanks and other vehicles, and 'modern stealth' for them is actually already available.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL-01 <---- radar absorption might seem pointless but it is a stealth tank.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSIFeyPc...

gaerzi: yes, you are quite right, but that is not the point of the excercise.
Mechs make negative amounts of sense in just about any application, what I am trying to come up with is some sort of semi plausible reason why they are not a rediculously stupid choice.

Powered armor is almost a certainty, will probably pop up soon in hostage rescue/swat teams and other high intensity but very controlled duration fighting scenarios, where the run time can be handled by batteries and you do not need any supertech to power it for days on end, which seems to be the cu...

tanks are simply a better design for armor+gun/total weight ratio, combined with low ground pressure, it simply is the better platform for anything 'big'. which is why so many say that any 'mecha' would be small, power armor, probably not more than 3 meters tall nor over at very maximum 10 tons, mor...

The only 'handwaved' plausible reason I have found for larger mecha is actually neural interface with most humans incapable of 'piloting' any vehicle through it, and almost all of the remaining are incapable of piloting anything except humanoid shapes. Now a neural interface could actually give a lo...

there are some movies and books you wished you had never experienced so you could experience it for the first time again, then there are abominations like the last jedi that you wished you had never seen as it is a stain on your soul. https://jollyjack.deviantart.com/art/This-Deal-Is-Getting-Worse-A...

just got a nasty feeling that it might not be a very good idea for Loroi to visit earth.... if humans have a telepathic basic ability(as the template for Loroi it seems likely) why have such strong telepathic shielding on a automatic or even instinctual level? the only reason i can think of is that ...

victor: i for one get big huge warning klaxons going off as soon as someone calls a story 'literary', for they are usually dreadfully boring and or obnoxiously pretentious.... or just pointlessly confusing, since as far as i understand it 'literary' is a code word for 'there is no story here'.... bu...

i shall feed the troll, 'tis childish and stupid but i must know.... Foul Tofu: i often say taste is like someones arse, divided and full of shit, for whatever you like SOMEONE considers it shit, the opposite is also true. but in my very much not humble opinion on this matter, since you like STD you...

for some anime then.... Planetarian is a nice post apoc..... love story? Steins;gate which apparently gives you a decent understanding of quantum physics, assuming you do not die from brain injury. Ghost in the shell is a classic cyberpunk with several spinoffs and such, even a live action adaptatio...