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This rp looks promising, I was wondering if I could inquire and comment on a few things. I am, in my own mind, and somewhat in use, a somewhat capable 3d artist, and at this moment very hyper(Icecream!!) I believe I may be able to help with the ships and such,

Propulsion---
___I ask, do the different races have different individual ship styles, for relation, in that one Sci-Fi channel show that I cant really recall the name of, the main military of the galaxy used mainly small fast fighters with large slow heavily armed friget(sp?) ships, as well as a race of space dwelling behemoth that are capable of what I believe was a inter spacial jump to cross great distances, called a StarBurst (this should give the show away) the creatures were naturally unarmed, since theirs nothing in space they'd get attacked by; the military guys however breed a kind that had some really big weapons, that might have been powered by the starburst, I dont really remember. another reference is battalstar galactica, not that I would base anything off, but its a good question answering reference. in it the humans have the big ship that looks like a few tubes stuck together then pushed through geometric holes... with the little fighter ships that are essentially a 3 pointed X-wing fighter, while the cylons, if I remember right had little semicircle fighters and big a** poky double layered star things as their big ships.

this also brings another question, what are the methods of transport these ships use, warp(startrek), StarBurst(FarScape!!! I remembered it!!), that weird jump thing the galactica people do, The slipstream method from Andromeda, in which the ship goes into a sort of sub/super-space river(note from the original source this type of travel is not controllable by computer as the slipstream is so random it can not predict and "ride" it, forcing the ships to be piloted by living people during this), or something else all together, such as maybe, the starslip drive from starslip crisis(web comic) that finds your ship in an alternate dimension, in which your ship is where you want to be, and switches places with it... I assume this is not what would be wanted because of all the problems with current events that causes. but the type of transportation would, in my sight, change how the ship would look, so thats important. then, the question this rant started with, are the races gonna have different styles of ship, and/or transportation. with the added question of, can there be living ships of any kind, or biotechnology (ships).


Weapons---
___Now, on to weapons. First off for this, I like your gun and its faults. faults are good, they make realism, and give people like me jobs. Is there any currently existing gun that vaguely resembles what you want this to look like, not to copy but a basis cuts alot of time out of the design process. or could you give a detailed physical description of the weapon, and munitions.

I have an idea for a gun that I don't currently have a use for but would seem to fit the environment of this rp, once I have a model of it I'll post it and some specs.

Given that this is the future, or an alternate reality in which its pretty much the future, wouldn't it be plausible that battery technology has advanced quite a bit, or been replaced by something like a small extremly safe reactor of some kind. I have no trouble believing the gun could shoot through a light tank. I do however have a problem believing that a person could survive firing a non-mounted weapon that could shoot through a tank(excluding missiles), or that it would be efficient in any way to make a gun as such, with an anti-kickback system capable of negating such a high output force.

I just had a thought, it seems likely that the sudden output of such high energy would superheat things, if not the gun then at least the air hear the barrel. this would be an issue, also for a small amount of matter to attain such levels of energy, it would probably have to be going incredibly fast, almost certainly breaking the sound barrier, and generating a sonic boom. albeit a small one do to the mass, it would still be very loud. Both of these problems i believe can be solved, I don't know how for the heat, but possibly somehow creating a vacuum at the muzzle of the gun, to stop the transfer of sound, that the bullet might drag along with it. or something similar to those headphones that pickup a sound, and nullify it with inverse waves, it exists today, in the future its probably gonna be similar to that guy from batman beyond, he could actually mute a city. That technology in its self could be a weapon in multiple ways, small sound waves can disrupt the inner ear and cause people to be clumsy, to the point of hurting each other. potentially a grenade sized device could temporarily debilitated a room, or more, full of people, like a flash grenade for your inner ear; and larger sound waves, like a sub woofer but directed, could punch a hole through light armor, heavy if powered well enough, or tuned perfectly. Which brings me to heavy weapons.


Are these people still using missiles, or torpedoes, Nukes? Nukes probably not, their old hat, and a dooms day weapon, precision is the future, I cant really imagine the rail gun working in shotgun form, but maybe something like the sound gun idea, or plain, old fashion, gunpowder(but futurefied). For any kind of planet based warfare armored transports and tanks are a must, but do they fly? Hover tanks? I'm not saying any more about that.

And on to Ship based weaponry, You said ships get lasers, is that all(?), no projectile, or missile based?; not that theres anything wrong with that, but i don't want to go sticking missile bays on a ship that doesn't have missiles, I note, I am not at this point asking specifically about the main ships, but surely the main ships, will run into and interact with less-main ships, and these should have general type descriptions/bios too.

To add, are or would there be the possibility of other large weapons, that would no be feasible anywhere but a ship.


Back to propulsion...
Sort of. These ships are powered by something, and depending on that the actions taken during emergencies and battle are drastically different. for instance, say you have two heavily armed space cars, with internal combustion engines, if you were to fire to take out the engine, a direct hit could cause the whole ship to explode, while severing the fuel line would create a hazard for both sides, and waste material, taking out the electrical systems however would cause it to stall.

now, they have nuclear reactors. as far as i know there is no safe way to shoot at a reactor, so taking out the engine of this kind of ship would be a last strike, plan D approach.

a ship with the current combustion rocket propulsion, would be totally unreasonable in many ways, and in a fight would be a bomb waiting to go off.

The warp drive, is highly explosive, but not directly attached to the propulsion systems, only powering them, so it is possible to take out them with out making anything explode.

The other kinds of ships propulsion, i do not believe run on a constantly active source, the slipstream drive its self was rarely mentioned so you'd be free to make up your own rules with out complaints, the starburst generates an energy blob only when its charging for a burst, and the galactica looked like it just took alot of calculating things.

Having a far distance travel system separate from a maneuvering system would be a good idea, since their almost never highly explosive.

There is also, the Fusion reactor, i don't know how this would react to battle conditions but most likely similar to the nuclear reactor(fission reactor), but when put side by side with a fission reactor, you could theoretically power one with the byproducts of the other, making a very efficient ship, that would only need enough fuel to start both reactions, and refill for whatever isn't recyclable, this would be good for transport but not battle ships.

I think i was going somewhere, but i seem to have lost it, so on to the next subject!

Shielding, energy? magnetic? thick metal plates? or the "Don't Get Shot At!" method, so much of this depends on other things that i cant really ask more questions at this time.

This was a lot longer then i had planned it to be, but the question I really wanted answered was if the races have different ship building styles, and if i could get descriptions of them.
I'd like to take part in this RP, but until I am more comfortable with my level of RP ability I think it'd be best for me to help in other ways.

How many cents would this be worth?

So... has the rp become disconnected from this thread?
I'l pm him, but thats longer of a post then i would, hes still in the guild right?

But come to think of it, there are some ideas I'd like to throw out at everybody, and I'm not sure whether everyone would get to see them. I wonder if I should make a guild forum for it?