Well of Souls Forums

Even on newer ships afaik the chief engineer (when the ship is big enough to have one) is usually with the machinery. Actually especially so for USN, the LCS kindof suck. (we will see how constellation finally works out)

Its not clear that any existing infrastructure could actually be retrofitted to produce 'taimat'. Its kindof likely that it would be like expecting an oil refinery to be retrofitted into making nuclear fuel. Totally different process with no relation.

Or have war declared on you, as the case may be.

True, using the atom bomb in that situation almost certainly saved millions of lives. That´s the "official" folklore. Not everybody agrees to that. And it is still inhuman. I don't really care that not everybody agrees. The estimates for combat casualties if that was fought out on the ground were b...

True, using the atom bomb in that situation almost certainly saved millions of lives.

Well, at this point its kindof like saying 'boy i better be careful not to start a knife fight' after the other guy already pulled out a knife, because thats already started happening.

No, you could absolutely wind up in a 'win or die' situation, and trying to be nice about it can in fact be a burden to winning. That hasn't really happened in human society in a long time, but its more likely to happen in a conflict with aliens than amongst humans because they are not guaranteed to...

When fighting hive minded bug aliens, it likely will not be possible to maintain the same niceties and house rules of war we enjoy here on earth.

A lone ship might suffice, since they have been known to clone aliens.

I dont think we can even provide them with fuel, we really aren't "providing" much of anything that isnt provided by empty solar systems.

I feel like I recall it being mentioned if either side wanted to take a huge detour through the hinterlands they could do that in pretty much any direction they wanted, humanity isn’t really uniquely situated in that regard.

Well, somewhere along the chain the information could be getting disrupted or distorted so that it isn't reaching the units it needs to, due to some kind of insider threat. I seem to recall that although the loroi can mutually read eachothers minds, it is difficult but possible to lie about what you...

have we considered treason

Well again, one of the only 'ground attackers' actually achieving anything useful is this thing. Other than that its heavy bombers. Pretty much the only thing that can safely be used is cruise missiles and the like, so standoff attacks.

For the air to ground missions it flies it’s not by any means cost or combat ineffective. Conversantly Su-25 is a total death trap and increasingly for use against low tech barbarians only. It doesn’t even really sortie anymore on the russian side and needs to fly extremely carefully on the ukrainia...

If its a question of survival you might blow it up to deny access to more important parts of your empire to the enemy.

Inducing a solar flare might be considerably more viable than destroying the star. I think sci fi weapons at some point enter arbitrary number territory where aside from being more powerful than what we have now, it could kindof go either way as to whether they can do any given thing (aside from rel...

Gudo wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:35 pm

It really doesn't. That "tub" is a millstone on it's navy's neck. Russia would be better served by selling it to some dude in Macau. That ship is soaking up manpower and treasure that the navy could use much more lethally elsewhere.

Yeah they really need to give up on that thing already...

Let us count the Cosmos(es) Guess I'll look those up 2453 - presumed ballistic missile early warning 2455 - assumed elint, nobody knows 2481 - communications, wtf? 2486 - persona (optical), counted earlier 2502 - yantar, no longer operational 2503 - bars-m, cartography satellite, not dedicated reco...

And what do you think I'm referring to? Ukraine does not exactly have it's own satellite constellation. Eastern Ukraine is not a planet - both NATO and Russia have more than enough satellites in orbit to satisfy all their satellite intel needs for the conflict, many times over. Russia has four purp...