Tamri wrote:My answer is, as I understand.
If "theoretically useful" means "shoot down ships of the power of thought" - it's not. Firstly, in the ship's scale, even off scale Blade power to 6,500 pounds - a trifle, compared with the weak laser. Secondly, even if the TK acts instantly on the cosmic distances, the user will have to concentrate on the purpose for his subjective perception - the size of a speck of dust. Even if we set her to the distance accurately, pre-emption and give visualization - if she even touches an enemy, it is impossible to pull luck.
This is entirely unhelpful, Tamri. It is a reiteration of information I already had at hand: specifically, that TK was useless
as it currently is in ship combat.
That is
why I posited the existence of a
gigantic psionic TK-amplifier. Fireblade is far less potent a TK without her head-thingy,
and we know that farseers who can sense at interstellar distances use gigantic farsense amplifiers. Hence, the question of whether a giant TK amplifier could exist that would amplify, say, Fireblade's TK from "tons" of force to, say, "hundreds of tons of force," or even "kilotons of force."
It is possible, why not. Only two points:
- Firstly, this don't add efficiency to kinetics. For a normal hit a target at space distances, velocity of the projectile must be calculated to percents of light. For human guns with a maximum pulse of 200 km/s it will take to raise the rate of at least 50 times. Given that even the 200 km/s, for a single pulse with such a small accelerator abut to already theoretically impossible.
- Secondly, there is a problem of accuracy. Just bring all the ship to the target the size of a speck of dust isn't too big a problem, but get over it - there will be a huge success. Because directed the all ship in response to the maneuvers of the target, is much heavier than the gun turret. Just due to the fact that the ship weighs orders of magnitude more.
Again, this is
unhelpful, Tamri. You don't know
why I'm asking if the technologies that allow for gravitic damping and deck gravity could be weaponized. I
may also be positing, say, a hyperdrive with enough accuracy to deliver a heavy cruiser
into mass driver range of an enemy, where those mass drivers will be the unquestioned cock of the walk.
If I'm asking a theoretical question, please don't answer it with "it's irrelevant, because: " and then give information which is tangential
and already known to me. I know damn well why Terran ships are irrelevant in Outsider combat
as it stands, but I
also know that if a Umiak or Loroi vessel found itself
inside mass driver range with a hostile
America- class heavy cruiser, it would have its shit
wrecked. So if you can upgrade from mass drivers to grav-drivers, that range, although
small, will increase. It could also have applications as a grav-accelerated point-defense cannon.
Also, I can't actually tell what you said in your second point, or even what you were trying to say.
If we have the acceleration compensators, we don't need liquid breathing. Pilot it will simply not care for any overload, and thus all the other compensate systems aren't needed.
Did you
literally not read what I wrote?
I asked "assuming we can compensate 20g of acceleration with compensators on a vessel of 50m size, can liquid breathing take up the remaining 40g of acceleration, thus allowing a very small ship to accelerate at 60g."