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The Presidential election has begun.

DarthShady wrote:The Presidential election has begun.

See this is why I'm much happier being the Monarch with parliamentary elections swirling around me, I don't have to worry about rigging the vote every time .

Nah. He will get help rigging the vote.

Hmmm...I'm not sure Byzantium has a big enough stick to threaten the man in charge of UCSR's intelligence aparatus

PeZook wrote:Hmmm...I'm not sure Byzantium has a big enough stick to threaten the man in charge of UCSR's intelligence aparatus

We will get help from within. After all, there's Kane. He's going to regard Yuri a rival.

And we will simply threaten him to deal with him the o' Byzantine "Traitors never prosper way".

Off with his tongue and eyes, and a nice spot in a monastery.

As much as I appreciate your offer Fin, Paul has a point, you need a very big stick to intimidate Yuri.

Besides, there is no need for that. Yuri is loyal to the Motherland, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. As for Kane...well, those two will have to find a way to work together as friends.

DarthShady wrote:As much as I appreciate your offer Fin, Paul has a point, you need a very big stick to intimidate Yuri.

Besides, there is no need for that. Yuri is loyal to the Motherland, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. As for Kane...well, those two will have to find a way to work together as friends.

Are you sure? I want to see some back stabbing and that sort of stuff. It's not like anyone can reject outright mutilation... or a bomb exploding at someone's face.

Yeah, I'm sure. I want the transition to go through smoothly. There will be other opportunities for backstabbing and trickery.

DarthShady wrote:Yeah, I'm sure. I want the transition to go through smoothly. There will be other opportunities for backstabbing and trickery.

Bleah. Spoil Sports. *plots to have a rock fall on Yuri's head*

Finally. Jesus christ, did it take me a long time to make that last post

PeZook's stories about the underworld are awesome it's like Colombo or something detective. Or, kinda like "Taken", heheh.

My world tour's starting to get bogged down, so I'll just do a quick wrap-up of my business in Byzantium before moving on. Next stop, PeZookia!

EDIT: Actually, on second thought, it looks like the world tour will remain bogged down for at least another day.

So PeZookian police use the Ford Police Interceptor (aka Crown Vic)? Out-fucking-standing.

Stas Bush wrote:PeZook's stories about the underworld are awesome it's like Colombo or something detective. Or, kinda like "Taken", heheh.

Well, I did watch "Taken" recently, and wanted to do something with Ana for a long time now. This seemed like a perfect opportunity

Shinn Langley Soryu wrote:My world tour's starting to get bogged down, so I'll just do a quick wrap-up of my business in Byzantium before moving on. Next stop, PeZookia!

Ah, PeZookia! We'll arrange for an awesome welcome!



...well, maybe not of this particular kind

RogueIce wrote:So PeZookian police use the Ford Police Interceptor (aka Crown Vic)? Out-fucking-standing.

It's a PFS Bobcat, dammit!

And the Internet doesn't have many good pictures of radio cars at night

I wonder if it's possible to get CEP that small with inertial guidance, because as far as I know, the plasma sheath around such space to ground weaponry is going to play hell with any LIDAR or radar on the missile. So I am going to assume external feedback and inertia did the trick.....

Suddenly I'm loving the fact that we have the MESS' GPS system fully up and running with spares going into orbit over the next few years. Means we've got Inertial and GPS guidance...plus terrain following soon to follow.

*grumbles about PeZook procrastinating on doing a short note on the launches of the GLOSSNASS*

*Makes an edit of the recent post*

EDIT: PeZook, how do you figure our Energia Vulkan can do 380tonnes in the current gravity? How about at 9.81m s^2? Or are you using the fact that we are doing an Ares V/Energia hybrid?

Because our Saturn V is in fact the closest analogue to the RL Energia, while the Vulkan is an Energia with more AWESOME

Oh, yeah, GLASNOSS...I actually wanted to do it today. I blame cusotmers

PeZook wrote:Because our Saturn V is in fact the closest analogue to the RL Energia, while the Vulkan is an Energia with more AWESOME

Oh, yeah, GLASNOSS...I actually wanted to do it today. I blame cusotmers

I did the post anyway. Small footnote. Unless you want to elaborate further.

How do you figure a Zenit with 8 additional cores will work? A ... proto Vulkan?

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:I wonder if it's possible to get CEP that small with inertial guidance, because as far as I know, the plasma sheath around such space to ground weaponry is going to play hell with any LIDAR or radar on the missile. So I am going to assume external feedback and inertia did the trick.....

I don't suppose we could hand-wave a way around the plasma sheath if its physically possible to do so, could we?

Unless we want to say that anything coming into the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds is magically blind I doubt it's an unsolvable problem anyway.

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:I wonder if it's possible to get CEP that small with inertial guidance, because as far as I know, the plasma sheath around such space to ground weaponry is going to play hell with any LIDAR or radar on the missile. So I am going to assume external feedback and inertia did the trick.....

Should be possible. The Trident D5 is capable of about 122m CEP.

Ryan Thunder wrote:I don't suppose we could hand-wave a way around the plasma sheath if its physically possible to do so, could we?

It's not possible. The plasma sheath forms as a result of aerodynamic heating. The only way to avoid it would be for you to suffocate in a vacuum.

On another note: the ORBCOMM constellation is quite capable of providing fairly precise timing signals. They incorporate a oven controlled crystal oscillator to provide high short term accuracy signals that are reset based on a time source in Tian Xia that allows a reset when the satellites pass over. It's not as accurate as GPS, but good enough to get you within a mile.

PeZook wrote:It's a PFS Bobcat, dammit!

Call if whatever you want. We both know the truth.

PeZook wrote:And the Internet doesn't have many good pictures of radio cars at night

And this is why I stopped trying to put pics into my posts awhile ago. The dangers of using stock footage, eh?

Oh, 50-100 m CEP with inertial are well possible, however, that decreases with distance. Utilizing an ALCM from across the world with inertial would give you a really bad CEP on the order of 200-300 m, unless you using nuclear or vacuum explosives making the CEP mostly irrelevant.

SiegeTank wrote:Unless we want to say that anything coming into the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds is magically blind I doubt it's an unsolvable problem anyway.

Oh, seeing as you're here now and all, did you get my PM regarding the missing presidents?