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1) When i read the 'three generations behind' thing, I thought he was talking about technological generations, not biological ones. 2) Thanks for the actual date on human jump drive. Point stands, though. Loroi took 375 years to go from first satellite to jump drive,then another 1310 years to get to...

Loroi orbit 1st artificial satellite : 475 CE Loroi develop jump drive : 850 CE Time elapsed : 375 years. Humans orbit 1st artificial satellite : 1957 CE Humans develop jump drive : Sometime between 2050 and 2107. Time elapsed : 93 years, at least, 150 years, at most. Assuming (a big assumption) tha...

A few questions about Unsheathed abilities: 1) How many PK powers can a typical Unsheathed use at once? For example, can they keep up both physical and EM shields while still pumping out TK attacks? Does using multiple powers at once weaken the effect of the individual powers? 2) How much concentrat...

The first answer was a bit surprising because I don't see Terran's having a chance at winning at all unless it was an ambush. Assuming all Terrans are pretty much invisible to Sanzai, an ambush is a good possibility. Also, it would really depend a lot on how informed the TCM platoon is about what t...

Hmm.. I realize it is humor, but I just can't take it as 'close enough to reality' at all, given that it claims that the Tiger II comes out ahead of the M1 on armament. Might as well say the WWI vintage Mark VIII is superior to either since it had 2 cannons and up to 7 machine guns! Oh, and it had a...

And very complex and expensive. So much so that the process of developing and making it can be split up among plenty of congressional districts. This may be a winning idea!

wasp609 wrote:So since the loroi don't have much in the way of fiction, i wonder what a loroi bookworm would do in a humans public library.

You mean the a human's House of Lies?

And a limit to how much they could gain from a dissection. The idea is that doing both will produce the maximum amount of data.

The Loroi have plenty of brains to dissect already. Page 60, Tempo says they recovered 57 bodies. Maybe a bit damaged, sure, but with that many specimens, they can probably get a pretty good idea.

I don't know that the Chinese would count as a first rate enemy, either. They've got a lot of troops, yes, but their equipment is often lacking in modernity and/or numbers.

I've had that happen one time too many as well. So I've taken to copying any long or involved posts to clipboard before hitting 'submit'.

Discord :

How much armor do you think it would take to shrug off (as in, not even be mission killed) an ASM?

After such ships are built, how hard would it be to develop a new generation of heavier ASMs to defeat that level of armor?

Might it be possible to defeat the level of armor being talked about by creating a tandem warhead? The first element is a shaped charge, which melts a hole in the armor plate, thus creating a weak spot. The second element is a pointy hardened steel shell filled with high explosive, which pushes thro...

Also consider... well before the end of the war in the Pacific, were carrier aircraft being used to scout out naval targets for battleships to then engage and destroy, or were battleships being used to escort carriers, who's aircraft then engaged the targets? Battleships were clearly in a supporting...

Maybe the 'stripped sensors' problem could be addressed by building the necessarily exposed part of the sensor as a ejectable module, with replacements ready to deploy at the push of a button. Have multi-cell sensor pods, kinda like the box launchers for missiles. I don't know how easy that would be...

The BB concept was dying well before nukes became a concern. BBs in WWII didn't do so well against aircraft, even when those aircraft were armed with conventional weapons. As to bringing them back : they were already built. Pulling an existing ship out of mothballs is a whole different animal than b...

I think the BB concept was scrapped not because of nukes, but because BBs were built around their main weapons system (the big guns) and those guns simply couldn't compete with the range of aircraft, and later, guided missiles.

1) The 155mm AGS on Zumwalt has a far higher rate of fire, each gun being considered about the equivalent of an entire battery (6) of M109s in delivered fire. 2) While both guns have a projectile diameter of 155mm, and carry a roughly equivalent bursting charge, the AGS round is more than twice as h...

Just a nitpick...

IIRC, the great majority of a 16" shell's mass was steel. More than 90% on standard shells, and more than 95% on AP shells.

Getting fired out of a monstrous cannon, and being expected to punch through a dozen or more inches of armor steel before exploding takes a lot of strength!

The Loroi baby tac-nuke doesn't seem all that relevant in a war fought mostly ship to ship. Sure, they can pump out 246,000 new warriors per year per million population, but that is pretty pointless if they can't build enough ships to put them on. IIRC, Arioch once said they Loroi population was abo...