STEALTH!!!...IN SPACE!!!
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 2:29 pm
I'm guessing most of you think I'm a complete tool at this point, but hear me out.
Note: This is a thought experiment on the technical feasibility of an idea. It is not meant to be an example of logistical genius or practicality.
The loroi are often intercepting attempted Umaki incursions into their territory.
Therefore, If the loroi can predict where the Umaki will be by using their Farseers and can arrive at that location before the Umaki do, then they could plant some radar deflecting super weapon with a black paint job at the battle site ahead of time and catch the Umaki off guard.
Now, let me tell you about my idea of how the Loroi could make ships stealthy.
If we note that the main obstacle to workable stealth ships is that a ship has a high temperature relative to empty space, the obvious answer to making a ship stealthy is having a coolant.
This coolant would need not only to cool the hull of the ship but also store and vent that heat, preferably to another dimension, be light weight and low volume, use little energy, pilot the ship and be great in bed.
Yes, the coolant I'm talking about is a Teidar. More specifically a giant weapons system filled with Teidar wearing heating suits and spamming thermokenisis.
Because only the hull needs to be cooled, I assume Teidar could maintain livable conditions on the crewed portions of the ship.
The ship, or weapons system, probably won't be in the exact position the battle takes place and won't be able to use it's main engines while remaining stealthy, but if you have enough of these ships over a wide enough area and you give them powerful enough weapons, then you could deal great damage and disorient your enemy at a critical moment.
I assume that the ships would need to be powered up and ready ahead of a battle in order to give the Teidar inside enough time to cool the ship. There might be a "cooling rota" of Teidar who keep the ship cold so that it can be ready for battle at a moments notice.
When an attack is impending, there would probably be a separate ship that would accelerate the stealth-ship to the right velocity so that the cooled craft wouldn't need to heat itself up by burning it's engines. This craft would than decelerate the stealth ship once the jump is completed before disconnecting and taking some other role in the fleet.
(If the ship were light enough, perhaps enough Teidar could decelerate it by themselves. This would allow for a stealth ship to be useful even in engagements where your party is the second to arrive as your jump flash would be hidden within the flashes of the rest of the fleet.)
(Using the thermokenisis values given in the insider while assuming that the kilogram of material heated is water, I calculated that it would require a bit over eleven million Teidar with a PK power of 40 to accelerate the tempest at 30 G for sixty seconds. Check my math.)
Let's hope the ship is light.
"The energy required to accelerate Tempest's 1200 kilotonne mass at 30g for 60 seconds is 51.8 terajoules -- roughly the yield of a tactical nuclear weapon." - Arioch
The Teidar would probably be able to change the orientation of the ship using telekinesis in order to asjust its aim.
I imagine that two possible weapon's systems might be a rail gun with super cooled projectiles or a Wave-Loom that is hidden inside a super cooled metal hull that opens up just before the weapon fires.
The question of where the Loroi would find so many Teidar to spare could be answered by the fact that they have been fighting this war for twenty five years if I read the timeline correctly. Considering that a Loroi is war ready by age eight, this should have been enough time to create a substantial clone army.
Of course this argument is dependent on the idea that large weapons systems would be light enough while carrying enough Teidar to make this feasible.
Note: This is a thought experiment on the technical feasibility of an idea. It is not meant to be an example of logistical genius or practicality.
The loroi are often intercepting attempted Umaki incursions into their territory.
Therefore, If the loroi can predict where the Umaki will be by using their Farseers and can arrive at that location before the Umaki do, then they could plant some radar deflecting super weapon with a black paint job at the battle site ahead of time and catch the Umaki off guard.
Now, let me tell you about my idea of how the Loroi could make ships stealthy.
If we note that the main obstacle to workable stealth ships is that a ship has a high temperature relative to empty space, the obvious answer to making a ship stealthy is having a coolant.
This coolant would need not only to cool the hull of the ship but also store and vent that heat, preferably to another dimension, be light weight and low volume, use little energy, pilot the ship and be great in bed.
Yes, the coolant I'm talking about is a Teidar. More specifically a giant weapons system filled with Teidar wearing heating suits and spamming thermokenisis.
Because only the hull needs to be cooled, I assume Teidar could maintain livable conditions on the crewed portions of the ship.
The ship, or weapons system, probably won't be in the exact position the battle takes place and won't be able to use it's main engines while remaining stealthy, but if you have enough of these ships over a wide enough area and you give them powerful enough weapons, then you could deal great damage and disorient your enemy at a critical moment.
I assume that the ships would need to be powered up and ready ahead of a battle in order to give the Teidar inside enough time to cool the ship. There might be a "cooling rota" of Teidar who keep the ship cold so that it can be ready for battle at a moments notice.
When an attack is impending, there would probably be a separate ship that would accelerate the stealth-ship to the right velocity so that the cooled craft wouldn't need to heat itself up by burning it's engines. This craft would than decelerate the stealth ship once the jump is completed before disconnecting and taking some other role in the fleet.
(If the ship were light enough, perhaps enough Teidar could decelerate it by themselves. This would allow for a stealth ship to be useful even in engagements where your party is the second to arrive as your jump flash would be hidden within the flashes of the rest of the fleet.)
(Using the thermokenisis values given in the insider while assuming that the kilogram of material heated is water, I calculated that it would require a bit over eleven million Teidar with a PK power of 40 to accelerate the tempest at 30 G for sixty seconds. Check my math.)
Let's hope the ship is light.
"The energy required to accelerate Tempest's 1200 kilotonne mass at 30g for 60 seconds is 51.8 terajoules -- roughly the yield of a tactical nuclear weapon." - Arioch
The Teidar would probably be able to change the orientation of the ship using telekinesis in order to asjust its aim.
I imagine that two possible weapon's systems might be a rail gun with super cooled projectiles or a Wave-Loom that is hidden inside a super cooled metal hull that opens up just before the weapon fires.
The question of where the Loroi would find so many Teidar to spare could be answered by the fact that they have been fighting this war for twenty five years if I read the timeline correctly. Considering that a Loroi is war ready by age eight, this should have been enough time to create a substantial clone army.
Of course this argument is dependent on the idea that large weapons systems would be light enough while carrying enough Teidar to make this feasible.