ARGH! What the HELL is the 5th Imperium or whatever?

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-12-07 09:51pm

I've heard you guys talking about some uber ship with FTL beam weapons blah blah blah... Could someone please tell me more?

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-12-07 09:52pm

IIRC, it's another Weber universe, which I believe starts with the book Mutineers' Moon. I may be wrong, though.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2002-12-07 10:10pm

Correct, the novels are Mutineers Moon, Armageddon Inheritance, and Heirs of Empire.
Capabilities include .8C reactionless drives that can almost instantly change direction of movement, Gravity well warheads that can rip apart a planet, energy eapons that split atomic bonds, inducing fission in their targets, and missiles fired through hyperspace with multiple light minute ranges, mounted on warships a few thousand kilometers in diameter.
Drawbacks include: Relatively low ftl speed( about 3000 C), low hull strength(an explosion not in the teraton range ripped a 20 km chasm in the hull), and the fact that they use bubble shields that are projected a large distance out from the hull of the craft

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-12-07 10:16pm

consequences wrote: and the fact that they use bubble shields that are projected a large distance out from the hull of the craft

IIRC, Fifth Imperium vessels use the old bubble shields as well as conformal shields acquired from the Achuultani.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2002-12-07 10:18pm

No, they have a dual shield system, with one of the shields much closer in to the hull. The outer shield would still take hits and use energy at an annoying rate, and are really only useful against their own weapons tech.

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2002-12-07 10:39pm

I do feel I should point out that we don't know how much of that 20 kilometers was empty space.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-12-07 11:01pm

consequences wrote:No, they have a dual shield system, with one of the shields much closer in to the hull. The outer shield would still take hits and use energy at an annoying rate, and are really only useful against their own weapons tech.

I'm glad we agree on the number and placement of the shields.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2002-12-07 11:12pm

Could have sworn the second shield was just a closer in bubble, not a series of overlapping plates like the Aku'ultan used.

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2002-12-08 03:36am

It's a series of damn skippy books by David Weber ESB. I highly reccomend them, cool characters , ubertech out the ass and space battles on a scale seldom dreamed of, find them read them all.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-12-08 05:42am

Thanks guys.
And what do you have against the Tau, Lord Sokar?

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-12-08 06:18am

Both Sokar and "Tauri" are from stargate. The Tauri are the "people of earth" in goa'uld.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-12-08 07:36am

NecronLord wrote:Both Sokar and "Tauri" are from stargate. The Tauri are the "people of earth" in goa'uld.

Oh. Okay.

*Calls of Manta Missile Destroyers*

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2002-12-08 08:38pm

Sokar is just my personal favorite Goa'uld from Stargate SG-1. All the other Goa'uld liked to pretend to be Gods , Sokar decided that he would rather be the Devil

He was just a badass, although they killed him off mightly cheap........

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-12-08 10:26pm

What the heck are the Gou'ald?

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2002-12-08 11:12pm

I take it you've never seen "Stargate"or "Stargate SG-1" on Sci-Fi. The Gou'auld are the main bad guys of the series and movie. They are a highly intellegent snake like parasite that occupies a host body and sub-sumes the host's personality in favor of its own. They have a collective 'race memory and can live for thousands of years, jumping from host to host. Early in their history, the Goa'uld encountered early humans , around the late stone age in our history and found that we made excellent host bodies i comparison to their current hosts , the reptillian "Unas". Switching to their new hosts they set themselves up as the physical manifestation of the local deities , at first these was the early Egyptian pantheon with Ra , Set, Osiris, Hathor, Toth et al...Over time the humans of Earth , known in Goa'uld as the Tauri or "First Peoples", rebelled and drove the Gou'auld off of Earth and sealed the Stargate cutting earth off from the nascent network of Goa'uld empires that they had exported human slaves and followers to settle. The Goa'ulds only real problem is that they have been playing God's for so long that many of them now believe their own lie. Its a cool series , well worth watching on Sci-Fi or picking up the Seasons on DVD.

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2002-12-08 11:15pm

Any other questions about the 5th Imperium though ? Ive read the books so many times I've almost memorized them....but they are still good:-)