Design your own infantry unit, starship, etc

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

BTW NecronLord, I was wondering how your life spans work. Is it just from medical technology or something else entirely?

[SirNitram]

Silent running in space means general emessions, not just sound

Am I the only one who ends up checking everyone else's ship designs and comparing to mine.

I am.

Mine currently seems to be the quietest, thus making it perfect for it's normal mode of operations.. Sit a few AU from the target, wait for a perfect lock, and fling a volly of tens of thousands of warheads. Duck behind a planet, reload, fire again.

Hum theres a stealth variant of most of my ships that the expansive secret service use. (a few au? ha I scorn you with my X * 1,000C attack passes, waits, I seem to remeber you made the 5th imperium pl;anetoid from hell *hides* please don't ever repost that monstrosity)

I don't recall posting any planetoids. Though I'm sure I could make one up.

1000*cee weapons? Hrm. Impressive. Mine is based more near real science(Though not completely), so we just stick with sublight weapons. Hell, FTL is thought impossible when this ship is designed, and only the creation of the ultimate FTL drive, the Resetter, changes that. Basically, I can vanish from point A and appear in point Z without any delay.

[RedImperator]

I've been comparing. Mine would get spanked by most everybody's, I think. It'd still rip the UFP a new asshole, and that's what counts.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Its sort of hard to compre all our ships, I think. We all use varying amounts of science, so that skews anything you might think about a particular ships. I for one don't prefer to get too scientific, I like to do my things just a hair more technical than Star Wars.

[SirNitram]

Its sort of hard to compre all our ships, I think. We all use varying amounts of science, so that skews anything you might think about a particular ships. I for one don't prefer to get too scientific, I like to do my things just a hair more technical than Star Wars.

That's true. Discarding her FTL, a Discovery is only really a match for low-end sci-fi, and that's due to her range and warhead load.

I could post stats to the Divinity-class Dreadnoughts, from another of hte factions.. A race of super-AI's, thinking themselves gods.

[Pu-239]

Ragnarok class frigate- "category realistic spacecraft, except for FTL"

3 torpedo launchers
300 torpedos

Polished aluminum clad Lead plus depleted uranium mixed with silicon carbide powder plus steel alloy woven with carbon fibers

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0- Lead
|- Carbon Fiber or some other high tensile strength fiber
A- Aluminum
2- Steel
3- Depleted Uranium + SiC

More specs later

[NecronLord]

BTW NecronLord, I was wondering how your life spans work. Is it just from medical technology or something else entirely?

Various

Medical Technology
all sorts of useful stuff. including cybernetic implant that makes them immune to anything but the most advanced bio-weapons. Oh and an implant in the back of the skull which can record the nural state of someone before death, and a have a nice replacement handy Though some (strange masochistic) people opt out of this. It also occasionally produces a slightly different version of you.
[note; I just discovered the culture have this, I wasn't copying honest ]

Genofixing
No cancer or genetic desieses
Unlimited Teeth
'Natural' regenreration of extremities
Higher bone and muscular density
other complicated and optional stuff.

[NecronLord]

I am.

Mine currently seems to be the quietest, thus making it perfect for it's normal mode of operations.. Sit a few AU from the target, wait for a perfect lock, and fling a volly of tens of thousands of warheads. Duck behind a planet, reload, fire again.

Hum theres a stealth variant of most of my ships that the expansive secret service use. (a few au? ha I scorn you with my X * 1,000C attack passes, waits, I seem to remeber you made the 5th imperium pl;anetoid from hell *hides* please don't ever repost that monstrosity)

I don't recall posting any planetoids. Though I'm sure I could make one up.

1000*cee weapons? Hrm. Impressive. Mine is based more near real science(Though not completely), so we just stick with sublight weapons. Hell, FTL is thought impossible when this ship is designed, and only the creation of the ultimate FTL drive, the Resetter, changes that. Basically, I can vanish from point A and appear in point Z without any delay.

Yeah, I read the fanfic, it was very good BTW. You and your resetter does put even my gatway system to shame! The attack pass tactic does use weapons travelling at one-4 C (the maximum you can cram onto a torpedo) to exit the FTL area of effect of the parent ass it passes closest to the enemy. It gets rather strange when both sides are doing it though !?!

[Enlightenment]

Two starships for the price of one.

[Admiral Griffith]

(year is 6030)
Starwolf-class multi-purpose cruiser (personal sci-fi universe)

PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS
Length: ~800m
Breadth: ~500m
Height: ~400m
Weight: tens of millions of tons. dunno the calcs.

MISC.
300m x 300m x 100m Ion Drive for sublight propulsion (~0.75c)
Mark VII Gate Drive (artificial wormhole generator, 1000 LY radius range)
100 crew, not counting troops.
1000 troops, 100 tanks, 10 Behemoth tanks, 1 mobile HQ
Sensors capable of detecting the light from an LED through a window from +100 LY away (result of stealth tactics used by just about everyone else)
Internal bridge, internal secondary bridge, AI can control the ship if there are no crew to operate it.
Ammunition factory inside, uses wreckage as raw material and uses a method similar to Federation replicators.

DEFENSES
10m Heavy Armour (about equal to ISD shielding in strength)

ARMAMENT
114 torpedo tubes, 1000 Standard Torpedoes per tube (200GT/torp)
22 Massive Proton Turrets (they're particle accelerators, barrels are roughly 90m from end to end, and the turrets can turn as fast as the average person can turn his head)
220 Point-Defense turrets

HISTORICAL INFORMATION
- first ship commissioned 6023, USC Starwolf
- roughly 80 currently in service
- have destroyed several solar masses worth of enemy ships
- most advanced starship to date

[Shinova]

I posted a near-modern spaceship a few pages before. However, if we ever go up to uber-level, here's another ship I have from a story debate I'm participating in.


"It was a black-hulled, spherical monstrosity, nearly twice as large as a nine-planet solar system. As it approached the Chelgrian system, it split open, revealing a gaping maw of blackness. The sphere now looked like the two halves of a gigantic mouth.

Planets in the Chelgrian system flew off of their orbit and were sucked into the gaping maw by some kind of vaccuum-like force, along with bright specks of light...each speck representing one Chelgrian-Puen.

The Chelgrian-Puen tried to will the massive sphere out of existence but found their godlike powers nullified by the strange field permeating the ship.

Soon the giant maw closed and the sphere became a full sphere again. Then with a giant flash of light it disappeared, leaving behind nothing where the Chelgrian system used to be...."

[Sea Skimmer]

The fleet I'm currently working on for a part of a story has three compensates. [1] Massive swarms of missile corvettes with only the bare bones of equipment and a swarm of anti ship missiles [2] 30+ kilometer long transports which haul the corvette swarms around as they have only a short ranged drive for tactical purposes. Corvettes are normally launched while still using a slower real space FTL drive [3] Titanic battleships, most of 50 kilometers or more. Only ships of this scale can mount sufficient shielding and point defenses effective against the missile swarm. There are few fighters and essentially no intermediate ships in this universe.

Think I'll post some of the specifications in a bit, though these vessels are several orders of magnitude over the designs being posted here. Not on the scale of Shinova's vessel though.

[Hotfoot]

I posted a near-modern spaceship a few pages before. However, if we ever go up to uber-level, here's another ship I have from a story debate I'm participating in.

A little bloated, but not bad. No Capital D, however.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Uber-level, eh? I can play that game

This is what little I recall from my various daydreams and doodlings from 5th grade:

Super Robot (tm)

Appearance: Silvery humanoid 'mech-like thing
Size: Generally 500km tall, but can enlarge or shrink as necessary
Crew: Me, 8 bridge crew

Weapons:
- Various plasma cannons, lasers, ion guns, torpedoes, missile launchers, etc.
- Large feet/hands
- Death Rays in eyes
- Black hole generators

Armor:
- Constantly regenerating artificial element known as "Tristanium". Semi-metallic, completely impervious to all forms of damage.
- Full EMP shielding
- High-powered energy shield, also constantly regenerating and invulnerable
- Backup shield
- Emergency shield
- backup emergency shield
- emergency backup emergency shield
- backup emergency backup emergency shield
- etc.
- anti-singularity defense screen

Misc:
- subspace teleportation unit
- hyperdrive
- cloaking device
- "suit" mode for formal occassions
- nanite distribution system for fast repairs

Archnemesis:
- my friend's Rubber Ball/Compass (the math kind) Death Configuration
that damn thing just wouldn't die

[SirNitram]

Yeah, I read the fanfic, it was very good BTW. You and your resetter does put even my gatway system to shame! The attack pass tactic does use weapons travelling at one-4 C (the maximum you can cram onto a torpedo) to exit the FTL area of effect of the parent ass it passes closest to the enemy. It gets rather strange when both sides are doing it though !?!

I've got a few more chapters done, and cleaned up the first two. Going for my first full-blown novel, yay!

And yes, the Resetter kicks ass. In the universe I'm writing, it even puts the 'Gods' system of FTL to shame, and sparks the biggest conflict of all time.

Insane, that's all I have to say about your torps. My kinetic kill ones will suit me fine.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

In the category of Other, or possibly Modern/near future:

The Ultimate Engineering Feat EVER
I give you:

The 1 nanoton nuke.

Fear.

[SirNitram]

In the category of Other, or possibly Modern/near future:

The Ultimate Engineering Feat EVER
I give you:

The 1 nanoton nuke.

Fear.

You are a pothead.

[HemlockGrey]

From a sci-fi thought I might pursue in the future:

USS Constitution II
The first of it's class, the USS Constitution II is named after the famous Constitution that fought the British in the War of 1812 several hundred years ago, and went on to become one of the most famous American vessels.

Constructed in 2203 at the New Philadelphia shipyards in the Proxima Centauri system, the USS Constitution II is the epitome of the United States of Galatic America naval forces. It can easily outfight any of the 'Red Republic's' battlecruisers and the speed and agility of the New Islamic Empire's frigates are useless against it's unique tractor beam system, and only the European Union and British Commonwealth heavy cruisers can match it for toughness. Against pirate cutters and the men-o-war of the myriad tributary states, the USS Constitution II is all but invincible.

Armed with top-of-the-line nuclear cannons, it can fire broadsides of fifty nuclear warheads at a time and mounts two ventral lasers aft and forward. Powered by a brand new ion drive, it can outrun most other matter/antimatter-fueled heavy battleships.

The USS Constitution II has four launches that can hold up to a dozen, each with a forward laser, and six jolly boats that can hold up to four. It also comes equipped with two cutters capable of holding a forty-man prize crew. And, of course, one hundred twenty-four sixteen-man escape pods.

The USS Constitution II has a crew of around 700, and carries 1000 Marines for boarding actions and planetary fighting. It can descend into low atomsphere and is capable of precision bombardment; it's first action was to destroy a pirate outpost on the third moon of Neclor.

It is armored, like all modern warships, with a special blend of reflective alloys, energy-dispersing ceramics, and heat sinks. However, it mounts a new feature - gravitic shielding. This unique and very new invention, unveiled with the christening of the ship, is capable of extending a gravitic sheath around the hull of the ship, deflecting enemy rockets and missiles.

The USS Constitution II has embarked on a two-year voyage across the known systems; it will enforce United States blockades, defend maritime shipping, fight pirates, and serve as an envoy and friend to foreign nations. It's captain, John T. Clark, is determined to live up to the repution of his ancient predecessors, and the ship itself is a bold example of the bold new strides the United States of Galatic America is taking - and will take - far into the bright new future.

[Sea Skimmer]

In the category of Other, or possibly Modern/near future:

The Ultimate Engineering Feat EVER
I give you:

The 1 nanoton nuke.

Fear.

My anti energy ray owns you puny nuke.

[Shinova]

nanoton is something like 1e-9 or something, isn't it?

[Alyrium Denryle]

(mage designed D&D ship)Sin' Delar Heavy cruiser
scale-Heavy capital

Weapons-60 chain lightning powered railguns.
16 Disintegrate beams
15 acid orb guns
10 hadoken guns

defenses
Wall or force projectors
Hull made of meters of a mythril/adamantine alloy with a +30 enhancment bonus

Troops
5000 seasoned(>20th level) combat mages

[Alyrium Denryle]

Infantry

Who needs infantry when you have a mage with a full load of combat spells, let alone a battle mage?

[NecronLord]

I posted a near-modern spaceship a few pages before. However, if we ever go up to uber-level, here's another ship I have from a story debate I'm participating in.


"It was a black-hulled, spherical monstrosity, nearly twice as large as a nine-planet solar system. As it approached the Chelgrian system, it split open, revealing a gaping maw of blackness. The sphere now looked like the two halves of a gigantic mouth.

Planets in the Chelgrian system flew off of their orbit and were sucked into the gaping maw by some kind of vaccuum-like force, along with bright specks of light...each speck representing one Chelgrian-Puen.

The Chelgrian-Puen tried to will the massive sphere out of existence but found their godlike powers nullified by the strange field permeating the ship.

Soon the giant maw closed and the sphere became a full sphere again. Then with a giant flash of light it disappeared, leaving behind nothing where the Chelgrian system used to be...."

Is that from look to windward? If it is... "You Bastard I am reading that!"
If not
Iain M Banks is comming to get you!

[NecronLord]

I'll post the "swift vengance" class Type III light-cruiser later today

[NecronLord]

"Swift Vengance" class Type III Light-cruiser
Power Generation; two mass-energy conversion generators
Crew;
One class Alpha AI
1 to 40 human crew
400~4,000 Maintenance drones, constructed as neccesery
Capacity for 2500 extra personell, usually ground troops and support officers.

FTL drive, 85,000 C maximium

Energy transfer weapons (read powerful beam weapons)
Spacial Contortion projectors (re-arrange target into a.. 'nonfunctional' state, also capable of bubbling off an area of space and isolating it, although hyperdrive engines can tranist bact to 'reality')
FTL Exotic matter torpedoes
FTL standard torpedoes
STL standard torpedoes
Bombardment weapons inculude atmospheric modification Nanobot systems, and biogenic warheads.

Deployment for 70 OAPC (orbital amoured personell carriers, ten-twenty paassengers and one to three crew) and (40 fighters, automated)

Primary Sheilding system - normal ordinary kind of sheild
Secondary sheilding system designed for charging, able to absorb EM-radiation, 99.99% efficent. Powers
Particle Deflectors. Vectoring engine technology which flips the inertia of particles. Effectivly turning incoming objects around up to 60 metric tonnes per second.

Stealth Coating. Stacked heavy elements held in place with force feilds, mask mass and composition of ship. Only Used by ISA* vessels

Type Two Composite Armour Standard armour, provides protection against radiation, heat, and physical impactors, hyperconducting materials absord direct energy transfer.

Communications

Long Range- Hyperspace Transciver
300,000 Light Year recive capability, monoband
200,000 Ly Transmit Monoband

Long Range- Millitary Comm Grid
85,000 Ly Recive Real time
85,000 Ly Transmit

Short Range Standard Civillian Comm Grid
41,000 LY Recieve Real time
20,000 Ly Transmit Real time

ISA* Upgrade Comms
1,000,000 LY Recieve, Monoband, (not that they have ever needed that)
500,000 Ly Transmit Monoband
Broadband signal anaysis suite
Encryption system

*ISA= Intenal Security Agency, also known to interfere in external business.