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For your OC Martin, I don't think he will make the cut based on currently limited information. First off, I'm assuming he has a damaged linker core because he is powering the prototype Arc and that the Arc is full sized. If that's the case, frankly speaking, you can scrape off this ridiculous idea. No mage is that powerful. Period. Second, the Arc is a spatial distortion type attack which destroys stuff via generating an annihilating reaction. It merely reducing seventh island of McGreggor Archipelligo to an Atol Ring now dubbed 'Sand Island'? Now that's a laugh. As state by Yuuno in the destruction radius of an Arc is at LEAST 100km. The Archipelago might not even be left let alone leaving an island. Not to mention if such a shot is fired, the resultant tsunamis would have caused tremendous amounts of damage to coastal areas. Lastly what purpose would such an OC serve except as a bomb? How would he interact with other OCs? Just my $0.02 cheers |
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If I'm Hell Boy, I'd love to be about 6 feet tall, have shaved horns, a pair of really big revolvers and most of all, a God-fearing Catholic. Hell Boy 2 is coming out this year! *runs* Quote:
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All clear, just one thing: Could I have Mel learn Fields of Hope earlier, like somewhere in time for the Battle of Cradle? Kha needs learn of FoH in order to solve the puzzle of the Reality Marbles and defeat epic!Jail at the end of StrikerS. Cos Kha can easily Trace the RM off of her instead of having to learn it from scratch. Another method if the above is not possible is that Kha meets the person or finds the scripture detailing the existence of Fields of Hope. Which will take longer time to learn, and hence will have to appear even earlier in the series to be in time. Which do you prefer? Just checking for artistic licence. Quote:
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For someone who is "best of his generation" or even "top 10", a SS+-rank is indeed about correct. Does this thread already have another "best of his generation" in this candidate's age group. Quote:
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2008-02-03, 07:25 | Link #19166 |
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@Aaron: Good luck, and be back soon! I have some updates ready.
@Thread: Out of curiosity, I have a military-related question to ask again, and hopefully it won't be breaching on secret protocols or something like last time. Anyway, is it customary (or compulsory, for that matter) that, after every mission, whether it failed or succeeded, be followed up by a report by the appropriate team immediately after they return from mission? I mean, if it had been a terribly harrowing day for the said team, could the commander postpone oral report until after he deems it is necessary (taking into account that he understands his personnel were tired, etc.)? Thanks in advance to anyone answering this. P/S: Been out of touch for so long, it's a bit strange to be posting again. Needed to get used to the interface again . ====== Status Report Chapter Six Word Count: 2.8K (~6 - 8%) Bluecheese Indicator: Blue ETA: Coming soon (lol). |
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For a short preview, the tale of two brother's tainted love over a lady is certainly a CLASSIC, yet so profoundly epic as well. Like how you made the actual events ambigious, as per most myths and legends Looking forward to the rest of Lyrical Melancholy Quote:
If I remember from my dad's files correctly, debriefs should be performed no more than 24 hours after the incident, thus giving the party enough time to collect their thoughts.
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It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm sorry for my prolonged absence, but I had to face a little thing called 'exam projects' which meant, for me, that I had to make a movie of my own. Nothing wrong with that, but since I do a multimedia course, that means the emphasis lies on effects.
And as such, I was rotoscoping 3000 something frames to add in nice lightsaber effects, which gulps down time like there is no tommorow and is extremely tiring. On a more positive note, I was one of the very few (as in 8 out of 30) who passed. Recovery time was mostly spend re-watching hunter X hunter and having the mind boggle at the similarities between Nanoha magic and Nen. I hope you'll excuse me if I don't reply to everything. Quote:
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Now lets see... this is mostly my fault for not finishing up loose ends and portraying a few examples, but there are a few things I would like to say about Syn. First, while she has a sharp tongue, she does not threaten friends with physical violence, so treatening Vivio to 'drag her out' instead of 'punching her in the face' would have been better. The insulting of Vivio was also slightly misplaced, Syn has better timing then that. Credit where credit is due, though, the reaction to the kid who was talking about them behind their backs was spot-on. As was her being suportive of Vivio despite how often she has heard the tale. But most importantly, you laid down the base of making Syn to Vivio what Fate is to Nanoha, which is exactly what I had in mind when I created her. This is one of those trailers that makes one very curious because you dont have the full picture. More please! Last edited by Keroko; 2008-02-03 at 09:00. |
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This is 1 and 1/2 hour late, and thus probably useless. No thanks to my mom, who hogged my computer for that amount of time to write a 200 word email.
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Sniping weapons have high accuraccy, but that's about the only thing that sniping weapons have in common. Military sniper rifles need to be light and rugged, since military snipers will be on foot, travelling all over the place. Police sniper rifles can be heavier and less rugged, more sensitve, since they'll be kept in cases most of the time. Sniper rifles have high accuraccy and range. On the other hand, they tend to have drawbacks; rate of fire isn't that good, you can't exactly shoot on the move, and it's quite possible that if you only know how to shoot and not how to snipe, you'll be doing a No-no like Deici: standing to fire her cannon. Snipers will crouch or go prone when shooting (unless the wall they're using for cover is so high they HAVE to stand). Heavy Machineguns have good firepower and fearsome rate of fire. They also have a lots of recoil, and it's generally inadvisable to go full auto on them, as you will not hit anything (reccommended ROF is 60 rounds per minute on the M2 .50cal or short burst). They tend to be a bitch to carry and move with, and are used as vehicle or stationary weapons. Submachineguns are automatic weapons like the MAC-10, Uzi or the MP5; they fire pistol rounds at high rate of fire, and are smaller and much, much lighter than rifles or carbines (which explains why SEALs tasked with maritime takedown missions use MP5s). Advantages are light weight and easy controllability; disadvantages include lower stopping power and range. A machine pistol is basically a pistol that as a full auto mode, like the Czech Skorpion. Generally, machine pistols are crap; the only machine pistol you shoud go for is the Maschinenpistolen Funf, aka MP5, made by Heckler & Kock. (Which is more properly classed as an SMG. The Germans use machine pistol to refer to any SMG; Machine pistol is commonly understood to be a pistol pretending to be an SMG.) Hybrid weapons: M16A4/M203 grenade launcher combo, M4A1/M203 combo, etc etc. Shoulder weapon, typically a rifle or a carbine, with an underbarrel grenade launcher - although Delta operator SFC Paul Howe used a shotgun with his M4A1. You have both a rifle and a GL; disadvantage is that it's heavier and you're carrying more crap. Loli draft Asuka is LOVE She's so deredere and vulnerable in this, it makes me want to pick her up and give her a hug and wipe her tears away... and toss her off to Kyou for some tsuntsun oneechan-ing and Nagisa and Sanae for more loving. ^___^ Quote:
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1. The first stage in the debriefing process is what is called the "Hot Wash" - at least, by American forces. This is where everyone comes in and does an oral critique of what happened, what went wrong, what went right, etc etc. When this takes place is normally at the discretion of the CO and unit styles, but generally you want to do it within the first 24 hours. For example, Rangers will do their hot wash immediately; according to CSM (Ret) E.L. Haney, Delta lets you sleep first, then hot wash. SEALs also tend to do the hot wash immediately, then rest. The idea of the hot wash is that it's a quick preliminary debriefing, a recap of what happens. 2. After the hot wash, you go and catch some sleep and food. Then, you go, get interviewed again on what happened - because there's the chance that you may remember something you'd forgotten. 3. Third step is the writing of the AAR: After Action Report. This is your account and report of what happened, warts and all, good and bad; your personal AAR will be filed up with the mission documentation. There will be both a main AAR written by the brass on the mission, and the individual AARs written by those woh participated in the battle; to give an example, there are at least 3 AARs on the Battle of Magadishu, written by USAF Technical Sergeant Dan Schilling, Delta Force Sergeant First Class Paul Howe, and SEAL Chief John Gay (I am not making up the last name. A side piece of trivia: Gay and 3 other SEALs from SEAL Team Six/DEVGRU were in the Lost Convoy, and Gay took a bullet to the hip. The bullet hit his combat knife, shattering the blade, but he lived and wasn't paralysed. One of those SEALs was a Lieutanant Commander Eric T. Olsen, now Admiral Eric T. Olsen, Commanding Officer USSOCOM.) These individual AARs are in addition to the overall AAR prepared by Task Force Ranger's staff. 4. Final debrief and evaluation. Everyone gathers together, they all go through the mission one last time, and then the brass evaluates what went right, what could have been done better, and so on. Depending on the unit and the brass, this may be fairly interactive. (In the recollections of Captain Mike Steele, Delta Force planning and debrief sessions have a great deal of Fuck Yous thrown around, with ever rising hot blood and adrenalin until it appeared as if everyone's ready to fight each other. ) 5. AARs are collected and the Brass finishes up on the main AAR that gives an overview of the whole mission. Well, looks definately interesting. Can't wait to see more! Quote:
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Or perhaps that was part of the test - to see whether the Arcenciel attack can be done on a small scale by humans. In that case, the test revealed that a mage, even the "best of a generation" cannot control things well enough to prevent crippling damage to the linker core. That's when Arcenciel became limited to shipboard deployment. Quote:
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2008-02-03, 10:47 | Link #19175 |
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What I'm more concerned about is not so much the 'SS reduced to D' (though that does raise a few alarm bells) but more the 'S-rank at 10'
Nanoha and co are the cream of the crop as far as we know. They were labelled extraordinary for being AAA rank at the age of nine, and this guy was S-rank at ten? That means he is leauges beyond the Aces, and not just because of his age. That, and I believe it was establised long ago that Arc en Ciel was far beyond SS-rank in terms of power. To have an SS-rank shoot of blasts of similar levels as the Arc (an entire island? Just how big was that island?) would be screwing over what little system we have. |
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On the subject of the Arc: didn't someone somewhere list it as SSS in rank?
Also, on further reflection, Hayate is simply not a good yardstick for measuring power and performance. She's an SS-ranked mage geared almost exclusively towards bormbardment spells. That will seriously, seriously skew the whole system of measuring firepower. But there is no way I will accept SS-rank as being capable of firing the Arc~en~Ciel. NO ONE has that kind of firepower. Also, regards to SS; note that the Aces only hit S when they were in their early teens. Nanoha was considered an unbelievable freak for being AAA at nine; Teana refused to believe such things were possible at first.
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2008-02-03, 11:11 | Link #19177 |
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Not officially as far as I recall, I believe we only labeled Arc as SSS because we don't have anything higher, but concidering the Arc is not a human-manned weapon, we can't really use the human labels for it. In my opinion the Arc is more powerfull then SSS, not only because of the power, but also because of the effect. The Arc en Ciel generates a spacial distortion followed by a subsequent anihalation of anything within the effective range, no mage should be able to create spacial distortions of that magnitude, period.
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As for AAA vs S. NanohaWiki suggests that Hayate was S ten years ago. One has to take into account how untrained the aces were when they had their first tests taken. Nanoha and Hayate are newbies. Even Fate received an extremely narrowly specialized education. If you took someone with similar raw talent or maybe just an inch lower and gave him a relatively ("relatively" because it is only 2 years long) proper education like Yunno, you might be able to increase the flexibility to the point that his aggregate coefficient touches S at 10. The qualification might even have gone like this: Instructor: "Duel with me, a S-ranked mage. Do well and I'll certify you for S-rank." Martin "Fine." Martin takes up a position about 300m from the target and shoots him with a rifle-shaped device. He gains a first-round hit. The surprised instructor, unable to believe a shot can be made at that distance, goes down before he can even raise a shield. Five minutes later: Instructor (recovers): "I don't believe it! You are too far away! How did you shoot me from that distance?" Martin thinks: It is because I used a rifle, dipsh*t. And I fired in an effectively prone position. Martin says: "Practice, sir, practice." (Ed: He didn't LIE here. You do need some practice to shoot to 300m. But...) Instructor: "Brilliant! You must have a rare ability at long-range engagements! You are hereby qualified for S-rank." Martin: "Thank you sir!" (thinks) Man, these people really don't know zip. I think I'll volunteer for the Test Division so I don't die in the front line under such incompetent seniors... |
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I recall mentions of Fate being tested in other areas, not just combat skills, though duel with Chrono was the last part of the testing phase. Also, the above senario is why the Order of Freelance Mages is not afraid of mages and Enforcers. Which is why Joint Training will not end happily for them. (Four words. Jet Magnum. Starlight Breaker.) Psycho and Leena, having likings for plasma grenades, would try to stuff the grenades down the mage's barrier jacket.
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For another, your ability to actually perform with magic will probably become increasingly important at high ranks. Many people can with effort learn a Master's knowledge of Magic. So the tiebreaker has to be performance. And based on stadia ranging to a Midchildran or Belkan, 300m engagements are ... well ... we are really sorry to say this, are we? |
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