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That must make you Thor! The god who is worshipped by the adulating hordes of Japanorse and Velarian Vikings - such as Miranda Moonbeam!Steve wrote:Fear not, Shroom. This time if Shep were to try and destroy the world he will taste the wrath of mighty Modnir, the Mod Hammer.
Heh, didn't think about that.Shroom Man 777 wrote:That must make you Thor! The god who is worshipped by the adulating hordes of Japanorse and Velarian Vikings - such as Miranda Moonbeam!Steve wrote:Fear not, Shroom. This time if Shep were to try and destroy the world he will taste the wrath of mighty Modnir, the Mod Hammer.
Shroom Man 777 wrote:Thus spoke Thor - and his name was Steve!
I'd give you fair warning, an integrated IADS system makes carriers look cheap by comparison. The STAR battle management system and the KEI/Sprint missile combo took roughly 10-15 years to get out of development and spent another 2-3 years on fielding and testing. Putting an IADS system together takes time, money, and lots of available technical resources. The MESS system, collectively between all member nations including R&D costs, is somewhere on the tens of billions magnitude per nation per year.Crossroads Inc. wrote:That said... I am still going to build the mother of all Missile shields around Crossroadia... And not say a lot about it because, as Wilkens says, it is harder to bypass a Defense, if you don't know what it is.
To go further on that, the Old Dominion STAR IADS has not yet reached it's goal of 20 STAR AD sites on Sheplant, with a 21st site on Sirnoth. It's big, expensive, and...uh...expensive. The OD specifically designed the Ronaldus Magnus STAR CAGNs so that they could operate in the Continental defense role(being a slightly smaller STAR IADS site that can move).CmdrWilkens wrote:
I'd give you fair warning, an integrated IADS system makes carriers look cheap by comparison. The STAR battle management system and the KEI/Sprint missile combo took roughly 10-15 years to get out of development and spent another 2-3 years on fielding and testing. Putting an IADS system together takes time, money, and lots of available technical resources. The MESS system, collectively between all member nations including R&D costs, is somewhere on the tens of billions magnitude per nation per year.
Thank you for the heads up... Hopefully I will have the proper time to appropriately "research" and the deploy a high end Anti Missile system. Hopefully the fact that Crossroadia is much smaller then other nations, and an island, which gives it (hopefully) more warning time, should make things both easier to develop as well as slightly cheaper. This is, hopefully, something I won't be putting on every ship in my Navy, but in, eh, 'things' (won't say what yet..) around my island to detect and take out missiles.Lonestar wrote:To go further on that, the Old Dominion STAR IADS has not yet reached it's goal of 20 STAR AD sites on Sheplant, with a 21st site on Sirnoth. It's big, expensive, and...uh...expensive. The OD specifically designed the Ronaldus Magnus STAR CAGNs so that they could operate in the Continental defense role(being a slightly smaller STAR IADS site that can move).CmdrWilkens wrote:
I'd give you fair warning, an integrated IADS system makes carriers look cheap by comparison. The STAR battle management system and the KEI/Sprint missile combo took roughly 10-15 years to get out of development and spent another 2-3 years on fielding and testing. Putting an IADS system together takes time, money, and lots of available technical resources. The MESS system, collectively between all member nations including R&D costs, is somewhere on the tens of billions magnitude per nation per year.
Alternatively, you could buy STAR IADS from the MESS(I don't know if you would get the full version or an export version) or, since the system is so expensive, always looking at the bottom line, etc. I believe Tian Xia had an AEGIS Ground-based IADS at one point. Since you have some AEGIS warships, using an AEGIS system(which might be "just good enough") would shorten your logistics train.Crossroads Inc. wrote:
Thank you for the heads up... Hopefully I will have the proper time to appropriately "research" and the deploy a high end Anti Missile system. Hopefully the fact that Crossroadia is much smaller then other nations, and an island, which gives it (hopefully) more warning time, should make things both easier to develop as well as slightly cheaper. This is, hopefully, something I won't be putting on every ship in my Navy, but in, eh, 'things' (won't say what yet..) around my island to detect and take out missiles.
That Said.. it IS a VERY long term goal and is something I'll just hint at every now and then.
On another note, Thank you SHROOM for the OOB, gives me a good sense of what a nation my size is capable of. Also I hope to see your representative at my Economic Conference, I have a new trade idea I want to put forward between the two of us.
Hey, I resent the implication!Shroom Man 777 wrote:The term 'Shroomite' has been thrown around a lot before, especially directed towards RogueIce - that big, fat Shroomophobic bigot.
It's a she...and that's all I'm saying. For now.PeZook wrote:Hah! I knew there was gonna be a Comrade Sickle
For which I will contest vigorously because other tahn the method proposed, which has a higher probability of working, others have yet to prove that they work and produce net energy. Polywell hasn't either nor has it ever been scaled to the size required. Moreover, Byzantium and the CSR have been investigating the properties of plasma at its huge tokamak reactor. No one in the field will dare say they can achieve net power fusion within the next 10 years. Anyone who does is desperately trying to over sell the science.Lonestar wrote:Fin,
Hate to tell you this dude, but Beowulf has you beat on the fusion reactor thing.
He did, solely on polywell fusion, which remains iffy if it can scale up to the required power levels. Lonestar "may" have posted on fusion either in thsi game or in the last.Shroom Man 777 wrote:Fingolfin has been posting for, like, forever on fusion research and stuff. Did Beowulf post some fusion stuff as well?
But yeah, maybe I might've missed it. Unlike grumpy old Emperor Heracliuses, or dramatic King Pauls, or scheming Sidneys, Shadys or Stanislavs - or even lecherous Loinstars with those weirdo Wade dudes - those other dudes just leik to post nothing but technical weapons technology upgrades and its easy to just gloss over them or mistake one for another.
Why is it that we CATO guys get the most amusing stories and the most well-characterized world leaders (with the notable exception of the Goddamn Loinstar and Sheppy Poo), anyway?
