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Originally posted by RMA:
And Gordontrons post is invalid, involving Grivok. He didnt post any actual route, and acording to him he'd have already arrived at Stror. So I posted involving him there. It's generally taken that if no route is posted, the shortest route is taken. From Himgro, You can go either via Grivok or Blaga and still reach Stror in the same time. Since his eventual destination was Stror, I had the battle take place there.
Of coruse that doesnt really matter, since I had fleet in Grivok as well, duplicating that in Stror. So all that happened is his ships died there instead, just as quick, and without getting a single message off. And the system wouldnt have been empty of ships even if I hadnt move dmy fleet there. I did say I assigned small defence fleets to every system, and the systems with the new stations were included.
Plus unless Gordontron has increased the Azdaras shields so they're over 3 times as powerful as the original Azdara, his G2 Azdaras died in way under a second.
And for this cosmic ray chain link thing...atmosphere is hardly 'far apart'. You have particles crowding all over the place. It's just much lower density than what we consider solid. And reading the encyclopedia description again, I realsie it'd be useless against shields, the cosmic rays reacting with the nuclei in the atmosphere. The shields are bands of energy. No nuclei for the rays to react with. They'd just be absorbed.
(Edit) Reading a more indepth description of what cosmic rays are, what I see you trying to do is hit ships with the various high energy particles and energy forms released from a reaction (and fusion probably aint the best way for something that small, too clean), and expect them to start setting off reactions. Looks like a cheapo version of an x-ray laser warhead, albiet without the various bits that concentrate the x-rays so they can do damage. Also looks like a high strength electromagnetic shield would make this useless going with your description.
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Involving my scouting party. For one thing I did not originally post a path to stror because I said that I was scanning into Zidagar space so it would be pretty obvious which route I would take. Furthermore I did not post the path because I did not have time yesterday morning. I did say will post more later, so I could finish my post. You replyed to an unfinished post so you could not tell what I would do. But you are right you probably had ships in those systems. They did get out a message since they were on high alert, scannin, and constantly sending back information to Raigar. It is more raw info rahter than a typed message. Never the less they now know about this station and the appearance out of now where.
On the cosmic rays. I talked with Kauthor last night and he said it would be ok as long as I expanded the research time to ten days, which I did. The actual science I just thought I would post because most designs around here have no scientific meaning. You can ignore that if you want and just focus on what the explosive does.
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-space turret prodction facilities will be completed on the 6th (now the 7th because the BV Armor is very, very good) to make 3 Voinain Space Turrets and 6 Azdgari Space Turrets per RTD. UPGRADE TO THIS: the turrets will be fitted with new Bovine Armor. Completed today. I have offered extensive explainations before.
-To take the Azdgari Space Turrets slot the G2 Azdgari's and production lines will be upgraded. The ships was originally designed for Dospect armor and now it has come. The G2 looks like it has low shields but it operates the same way as the original Azdara. It has the same shield recharge rate and it is slightly better because of the Azdgari Shield Regenerator. This ship was originally designed to be of the destroyer class but with fighter speed, now it is. These are in resedit terms:
A. Ship name: G2 Azdara
B. Shield: 450
C. Armor: 75 (without Voinian Armor)
D. Acceleration: Very good (Azdara excellent)
E. Cargo space: 5
F. Weapon space: 15 (now that I have upgraded it)
G. Turning: Very Good (Azdara excellent)
H. Top speed: Excellent
I. Fuel: 10 jumps
J. Standard with: Azdgari Shield Generator, Azdgari Jamming Device, 4 forward facing Swivel Phase cannons (2 set in belly two set in top), 2 Shield Capacitors (adds to shields) , 2 Infernus flame rocket launchers plus 20 rocket packets (100 rockets), 100mm railgun, dospect armor. Because this is just an upgrade and refit it will take till the 10th. This ship will be available to the Voinians(dahh),the Zachit, and Seleria.
-This device will enable the ship or objects shield to be able to concentrate in one area. In other words it is kind of like the Star trek tech, if I wanted to move all my shield to the front half I would then have 2X's the shield density. If I new an object was coming in from the left and another small object form the right, the ship computers could send all the shields to those spots causeing less damage to the shields. It is limited to the shell which normal shields are in.-Besides being movable here is a more in depth explanation: Normal shields operate this way. The energy projected from a single source is projected in a shell like shape around the said ship. When something tries to pass through this energy field it reacts blocking it but also taking damage. The shield is evened out by this projector so that the shield is of equal strengths in all places. If this energy field is breached ie: a hole is created then the shield is either extremly weakened or is disapated. This is what makes piercing weapons such as rays and missiles so effective. This new shield design counters that problem that plagues all shields. Besides being movable this new Azdgari Shield counters this "hole" problem. Thus it will make all shields of whatever size many times stronger. It is very effective. completed on the 8th-but an extra day is added to make it more effective
so in review projects: G2 Azdara refit, Cosmic Rays (they aren't now because there was so much objection to that science but the name will stay the same), and Azdgari Advantage Shielding (this is good people not just some small technology)
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"Chaos is our ally, discipline our mortal foe" --Azdgari Commander
Long live the Azdgari!
Thanks Bush, great job at protecting oil fields. Oh but next time, protecting the first known artifacts of writing, and the first calendar might be preferable.
(This message has been edited by Gordontron (edited 05-07-2003).)