Your point defences could work, but sustained fire from the 20mm machine gun could work too - or if you're really feeling mean, a round of grapeshot would really fix their wagon - its a tank-sized shotgun!
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OOC [OOC] - ISC Phoenix II Chatter
- Thread starter Luca
- Start date
Just waiting on @Moogle and @Eistheid for the loud mission, I believe Mog will be having a post first then Eistheid, and the others for the quiet mission, it'll move on @Born-On-Board.
Apologies for the delays in the next Phoenix post - my web mysteriously conked out for the better part of seven hours. I think the internet exchange blew a fuse because of the warm weather - usually the culprit.
I'll try and bang out a post for 4Q in the next forty minutes or so.
I'll try and bang out a post for 4Q in the next forty minutes or so.
Guys, what is the hold up? Posts, please!
@ShotJon (The tank is still running, and we don't have a mobility kill on our hands, Luca ordered it to move)
@Born-On-Board, @Lamb (You two have cooking to do!)
@OsakanOne (Need Rebeka action, also you said you were going to post something you put on a pastebin and showed me)
@ShotJon (The tank is still running, and we don't have a mobility kill on our hands, Luca ordered it to move)
@Born-On-Board, @Lamb (You two have cooking to do!)
@OsakanOne (Need Rebeka action, also you said you were going to post something you put on a pastebin and showed me)
Its not a nuke: A nuke works by getting a nucleus to split up, unleashing a small number of electrons from the atomic shell, the main source of energy from the blast.
What we're faced with isn't the energy release of energy from cracking an atom: Its the total death of the entire atom - a perfect conversion of matter as we know it into energy, carried by radiant photons as radiation.
All matter has a nucleonic half-life, not just an electronic half-life. The simpler it is, the longer it lasts.
There's a special kind of magnet here, called a monopole that causes an "error" in matter, causing it to mass-cascade fail: collapsing again and again and again until nothing is left.
Unlike antimatter, there isn't some equal reaction: it isn't like burning wood, going out when the wood finally runs out of fuel.
Its more like a black hole. It swells and gets worse. And worse. And worse. Growing exponentially in size, sinking into the planet and then only stopping when the monopoles finally equalize electrically with the planet's magntosphere.
There isn't a reaction here. You need to understand that.
In fact, what's happening isn't some triggered reaction either but a controlled orchestrated containment failure.
Shooting at it has a high risk of making things even worse. Or slowing the process, giving you a few more minutes.
What we're faced with isn't the energy release of energy from cracking an atom: Its the total death of the entire atom - a perfect conversion of matter as we know it into energy, carried by radiant photons as radiation.
All matter has a nucleonic half-life, not just an electronic half-life. The simpler it is, the longer it lasts.
There's a special kind of magnet here, called a monopole that causes an "error" in matter, causing it to mass-cascade fail: collapsing again and again and again until nothing is left.
Unlike antimatter, there isn't some equal reaction: it isn't like burning wood, going out when the wood finally runs out of fuel.
Its more like a black hole. It swells and gets worse. And worse. And worse. Growing exponentially in size, sinking into the planet and then only stopping when the monopoles finally equalize electrically with the planet's magntosphere.
There isn't a reaction here. You need to understand that.
In fact, what's happening isn't some triggered reaction either but a controlled orchestrated containment failure.
Shooting at it has a high risk of making things even worse. Or slowing the process, giving you a few more minutes.
I wrote out a large thing pointing out how reducing the reactor to smaller scattered bits is better for the crew on site, however I realized it was a waste of people's time since they don't care.
What it comes down to is Luca decides how this scenario plays out.
What it comes down to is Luca decides how this scenario plays out.
