First I think the issue of misrepresentation of the Occhestans needs to be addressed here and then I will get to the actual armor.
Firstly, you are comparing first-degree murder to a military action against another military force. This has been discussed in depth elsewhere, but suffice it to say that their actions were justified by the situation at the time. Fyunnen are described in the bio as aggressive individuals, prone to violence and strong emotion. This is supported both in OOC discussions and the IC behavior. Considering the orders that had been given (even if they were later rescinded) and the established (general) nature of the Fyunnen, eliminating them to preserve the lives of numerous others was justified. I quote from your post on April 5th, 2007 (15:39:00) from the old forum:
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As Velor strode about the palace, hundreds if not thousands of Occhestains were pushed from their position in the sun of success. Fyunnen troops broke into offices, disposing of paper and electronic data. Even individual Occhestains found themselves without access to the Lorath communication networks, their very telepathic signals which allowed them to communicate so well, caused them to be marked as individuals to be silenced. But, no individual would be killed if they did not deserve it, only those who went directly against the crown, and had the ambition to “change the world” so to speak, would be removed from existence, the very memory of them would be removed.
Even if Destiny countermanded him after the fact, Velor still gave the order. Raiding offices, summarily firing thousands of people, and then rounding up and arresting other, all done without any investigation, any chance to defend themselves, nor any trial. Tomoe, those are the actions of a tyrant and a dictator. As though that weren’t enough, you also gave the order to erase people. To the Occhestans, memory and knowledge are paramount. To erase someone, to deny that they even existed would be a punishment so severe to them that no crime would be hideous enough for it.
How could you expect Occhestan commanders and politicians to sit idly by while these kinds of orders where being given and while armed, hostile troops were heading towards their facilities?
Tomoe, in this thing you are saying that civilian research scientists killed a fellow scientist over political differences. I do not see this ever happening. Considering the degree of screening the OCG would be capable of, someone that unstable (never mind a entire team) would never get into a research position. The entire situation is nonsense and biased, unsupported slander against the Occhestans.
Further, what occurred against the power armor wing is not “orbital bombardment”. Quoting from my post in the same thread on April 7th, 2007 (02:25):
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“Free fire understood,” the officer responded as the ship finished its rotation,” weapons are active… target acquired by fire control. Firing.”
At that moment the 16 weapons pods mounted on the upper surface of the ship opened up on the ground below. In the span of just a few seconds nearly a hundred a fifty bolts of energy lanced out to the two groups of unsuspecting armors 5,000 km below.
Each of those bolts is only a few inches in diameter, hardly “orbital bombardment” in the commonly accepted term. If anthing, this was a example of the impressive restrain on the part of the Occhestans. If we had been dropping gigaton AM bombs on the palace that would be orbital bombardment.
Without unpleasantness out of the way, on to the armor itself.
1) In regards to the railgun, how is the ammunition fed from the container to the weapon? Does it feed through the arm or through a external feed belt (which seems more likely)?
2) What is the muzzle velocity of these rounds?
3) On the above, isn’t 30mm going to be a problem moving around for such a morphic armor? Assuming 10:1 length:width ratio of the round it is going to be over a foot long and (assuming something massing around steel) weigh more than 3.5 pounds per shell. The entire ammo module would weigh more than the armor!
4) How does it cope with the recoil from 120 such rounds fired per minute? That is allot of recoil for such a light armor.
5) For these “Plasma Vent Strips”, DR 7 seems quite high for a the extremely short acceleration period such a small vent would be able to provide on a PA.
6) Shouldn’t the use of this drastically reduce the fuel capacity of the armor, since it is using the same material (and would be requiring a good amount of it)?
7) How big are the missiles the AM missile system fires? How fast can they go? What is their range?
8) DR 8 is way, way too high for these missiles. The Positron cannons on a Sakura are rated as only 10 times more damaging yet have a theoretical yield more than 1,500,000 times as much and are shield penetrating and are going much, much faster.
9) On the plasma sabers, I would like to note that the DR you gave these (and the one that is on the wiki), I am assuming you are IP 72.222.222.131, was put in nearly a month after submission was approved. To me this seems like a serious, serious breach of protocol. The submission was approved on 08.30 (viewtopic.php?f=32&t=958&hilit=plasma) and the DR rating was added 09.21.
10) I would really, really like someone to explain to me how the armor is able to essentially teleport heat without this process producing more heat. I would also like to know how it does this passively.
11) How does this stuff using the Casmir effect to block shots? The Casmir effect is not repulsive and does not apply in most (the vast majority of) interactions.
12) On the DR, do the two number mean this thing is essentially double-layered with a total, effective DR of 13? I am seeing this stuff pop up a lot recently, is this a approved procedure?
13) How long can the life support maintain a pilot? Both in terms of liquids, nutrients, and air (assuming the three are different).
14) On the emergency ejection, it seems quite unsafe to use a magnetic accelerator to boost them to high enough speeds to get out of the area as that would subject them to very, very unsafe accelerations.
15) How does the Gas Collection System gather the gas? Magnetic field, what? Also note that most habitable atmospheres are going to have a very small proportion of hydrogen and helium, simply because the planets cannot retain those gasses. On Earth Helium is present at slightly over 5 parts-per-million and Hydrogen is present at 0.5 parts-per-million.
16) I think that this armor should have a endurance on it. With the number of systems that use large masses of plasma gasses I think it would go through its store quite fast.
17) On the above, with the maximum speed this thing can attain in space its plasma thrusters would tear through its gas store in short order.
18) What are the ranges of the various sensor systems?
19) How do these sensors interact with the shield systems, which would be expected to heavily distort if not out-right block incoming emissions.
20) Shield DR is still way too high. You are saying it has the shields of a hundred+ meter high-end starship.
21) Is this magnetic field strong enough to act on neutrally-charged matter? If so, how does it affect the rest of the armors functions (as well as the pilot)? Such a strong EM field would also have serious effects on the surrounding environment.
22) I don’t see how you could get a dense enough electron field on a PA to have any noticeable effect on a positron weapon.
23) If this plasma shield is strong enough to deflect and block physical objects, it would have to be extremely dense. Combined with its immense heat, this would make it opaque to both the incoming radiation and the armors own sensors.
24) All of these shields would make this armor show up like a star on any ship or PA sensors.
25) This Combined Shield thing is way, way, way too powerful. You are saying that this armor can generate a shield a strong as a multi-kilometer battleship. Even if it is time limited (and two minutes is pretty long in combat), that is still way too big.
26) How does the repair system work? Does it use nanomachines, what? How long does it take to fix things? You realize that if a nanomachine can fix the full armor, that puts some limits on how strong the armor is.
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Vesper
Edit: To Doshi, yes history can be biased but what is included in this history is not bias, which would be portraying a group you dislike in a negative light. Tomoe just goes straight for the gold and says essentially that Occhestans are evil, murdering pricks and makes it a historical fact, not a bias of opinion.
Edit Edit: Let me give you a example in IRL terms. Lets say that the president of Kyrgyzstan decides that the CIA has been pissing in his cereal so he goes and arrest a few thousand Americans and shoots a few dozen more, not particularly trying to determine (or careing) if they had anything to do with the previous Cornflakes incident. He then procedes to send a collum of tanks to "pacify the disidents", who happen to be a US base in the region (which he believes has a few CIA agents in it).
Now, given that situation, what do you think would occur? Do you seriously believe the US would just twiddle its thumbs and let the tanks cruise in to the base to get the CIA agents? Not a chance in hell, the risk that they would just tear loose on others is way too high, not to mention the Kyrgyztany President's previous actions to US citizens.
No, we would proceed to bomb the shit out of that colum with precision bomb strikes (or cruise missiles). I imagine that the US would then continue to obliterate Kyrgyzstan bases until they gave us our people back or we ran out of things to blow up.
Transfer this to the SARP and you can see that not only where our actions justified, the reaction was fairly predictable. Also note the restraint of our strike. Did we procede to attack Fyunnen bases even though we could have done so easily? No. Did we bomb Matriarchy cities even when it would have been easy? No. Did we try to withhold vital services to Matriarchy civilians? No, even when we knew you had done it to ours. When people wanted to leave the LSDF ships for the Matriarchy, did we just shove them into escape pods and leave them in deep space, assuming they would be picked up by someone, eventually? No, we put them on shuttles and made sure they got to a base safely, again even with the knowledge that you where shoving our people into escape pods at the same time.
Tomoe, don't try to portray the Occhestans as something they are not, especially considering the Matriarchy's track record. As the saying goes," He who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones."
