2014-06-26, 09:15 | Link #1841 | |
Lumine Passio
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@Goose: Wow... Intriguing. Very intriguing. Is Alastor going to do this after Comet?
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2014-06-29, 19:28 | Link #1842 | |
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Seeing her trying to rationalize Transformers continuity would be fucking hilarious since we have it in the series But yeah We had the BETA show up on Mars concurrent to the Vok from Transformers Beast Wars The Vok's Planet Buster gets destroyed by the BETA and they become Transmetal in this :heston |
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2014-07-26, 23:08 | Link #1843 |
Some say I'm the Reverse
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Bad idea as a result of a headache.
Yuuya is found alive years after Operation Ouka, but he's...not right. He's talking in Russian, babbling about drowning in fluids wherein he can't breathe, and yelling out names of people "who must die"... Spoiler:
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2014-07-31, 20:39 | Link #1844 |
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The writer of this fanfic received a request on 4chan about a week ago, asking that the final chapter be rewritten so that Izumi pilots a helicopter into the Original Hive and destroys the reactor with a single nuke. He was curious about whether the person in question was a member here, and wanted me to pass along the inquiry.
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2014-08-01, 02:01 | Link #1846 | |
Some say I'm the Reverse
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That said, there's one guy who used to be here who's since been banned from Asuki that is a likely suspect.
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2014-08-01, 03:51 | Link #1847 | |
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2014-08-03, 07:03 | Link #1849 | |||
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2014-08-04, 14:28 | Link #1850 |
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The basic idea, as best I can gather from being in the peanut gallery of such muddled discussions, is that a helicopter being much shorter than a 20m TSF, could in theory hug the earth even closer than a TSF can (a TSF's head can't go much lower than 20m if the TSF is to remain in an upright or almost upright position), and therefore if the pilot is amazing enough, with some anti-laser coating, ablative armor, and super carbon construction to lighten their chopper they could pull the same kind of earth-hugging behind-BETA-hiding stunts a TSF pilot could. Better, in fact, according to this argument, because a chopper is so much lighter than a TSF by virtue of not being a stompy giant robot, surely that must somehow make up for being powered by a single rotor and not by thrust vectorable jet/rocket hybrid engines. Also by virtue of not being a giant stompy robot with an incredibly high bar of entry for pilot training, that means for the cost of a single TSF and its pilot you could build a squadron of helicopters and train pilots for them. Even though there is no concrete figure for the cost of building a TSF that I've seen.
A flawed assumption was brought up repeatedly that a chopper could almost match a TSF for speed (based on the speedometer in the Total Eclipse anime basically never breaking 300km/h even when the pilot is running for dear life), but when asked on Twitter Yoshimune said that depending on the model the max speed a TSF could hit would be around 800km/h so that's more or less debunked. Anyway the preposterous idea therefore is to load a tac nuke or an S-11 onto a Apache (with anti-laser ablative coating and armor, constructed of ultralight super carbon), have it mimic the usual NOE TSF shenanigans, bust into a Hive, use its chaingun and Hellfires and Newtype ace pilot aerial stuntwork to evade BETA dropping from the ceiling and punch holes in BETA formations to fly through (it's smaller than a TSF so it's a smaller target for falling baters), and eventually deliver the nuke to the hive reactor. I'm not an expert in fluid dynamics so I wouldn't know how being in a tunnel would affect a chopper's flight characteristics. Obviously whoever made the discussion is either trolling for replies or is just pushing theorycrafting to the absurd limit. But sure, while it's a silly idea, one thing that fanfics are often about is making silly ideas into actuality. Last edited by DoomRavager; 2014-08-04 at 16:32. |
2014-08-18, 09:43 | Link #1853 | |
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How about some XCOM versions of the TSF armed with plasma weapons or XCOM giving the IRG the middle finger after they defeat them either in battle each other or against BETA?
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2014-09-22, 13:29 | Link #1855 |
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Here had an idea for a south american front, here is the POV from a Peruvian admiral and the peruvian forces in a amphibious ooperation in Panama. Warnings: English isn't my first language.
2 June 2003 Admiral Rodriguez looked from the bridge of his ship the effects of the new BETA assault on the Panama Canal Defense Line that had been ongoing for a month already. Loses were astronomical and the danger of the defense line broken was getting more real as time passed. To stop the BETA the UN had requested assistance from the countries that weren't n the frontline. With the US having trouble stopping the BETA ssaults in MExico it was only to the South American countries to manage this crisis. As his light cruiser fired another salvo from his 152mm guns the admiral activated the communications and gave the signal to start the operation. Operation San Martin named after the liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, would be an amphibious attack made by the navies of Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil in an attemp to relieve the defense line of pressure. As soon the signal was given 36 A-6 Intruders launched from their submarines as per standard procedure soon followed by MiG-31 and Mirage III. not much later the Chileans also launched their forces, F-16 and A-6 in support. Now Rodriguez could only hope their forces were enough. |
2014-10-12, 23:53 | Link #1856 |
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I was reading on the M-76 Revenant and wondered, how would a TSF sized version of that work against BETA? Since it's effective on armor, barrier's, and shields, if mass produced, it would be a nightmare to any BETA class.
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2014-10-13, 04:06 | Link #1857 |
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First off, they'd need the technology to miniaturize what's already available. Like most of the weapons in Mass Effect, the Revenant is a compact electromagnetic rail gun. So functionally, it's a smaller full auto version of the EML-99X Electromagnetic Induction Launcher. I know that's oversimplifiying it, but that's what the Revenant is: an electromag gun that fires charged slugs at the enemy.
If they manage to miniaturize the EML-99X to allow it to fire much smaller rounds but at higher velocities, then maybe it could work, but I'm not sure how long it would take them to reach that tech stage without outside (eg Deus Ex Machina) intervention.
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2014-10-13, 07:31 | Link #1858 |
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There is outside intervention, except its not there to uplift humanity nor save it, they're a bunch of mercenaries who just happen to be providing escort to an expeditionary fleet, and they're not so keen on sharing technologies with a race locked in a cold war with itself, not to mention the fact tht they are looking for a planet to settle on, zerg rushes they can deal with, but not smarter opponents like humans, the tensions come from the fact that some aspects of humanity covet their technology to use against their enemies, but the Merc's are a little cautious as to where does the term "enemy" extend to, if they do help them, what's to stop them from turning their attention to the Cosmic level?
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2014-10-14, 00:37 | Link #1859 |
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The other issue that ME guns have is that prior to ME2, they use internal heatsinks that need frequent cooling.
This is not a good idea when you are faced with swarms of BETA and you need final protective fires now (aka hold down the trigger till you run out of ammo). But using mass accelerator guns as sniper rifles to crack Destroyers? That would be helpful and useful.
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