Heavy Object [Light Novel]

[LazyHunter]

Spoiler for V11C1 Parts 10-11:

Well, that situation does really put the Capitalist Corporation in the right this time, I understand why Quenser and Heivia saved the enemy soldiers there. I did expect the flat-chested Black Uniform that had initially been with Quenser and Heivia's team to be involved, since it was suspicious how the novel brought attention to her, but I didn't expect the other Black Uniforms to also be on it.

Heivia's imouto has a complicated name, and is a good shot with firearms, as she proved by taking Quenser's carbine and killing all the Black Uniforms.

[Heir of the Void]

Originally Posted by belatkuro

New update. Never thought about drugs like that. The longer it goes on, the more profit it brings as opposed to war that will just consume resources and may even net you losses even with victory. It makes sense when you think about it. Kamachi can be surprisingly sharp at these points.

And damn, Heivia's sister in the battlefield and shot those Black Uniforms like they were deers. And that name is a mouthful. I feel like Heivia's gonna cower at her presence when they meet. Heivia has some weird women surrounding him. No wonder he fled to the military.

And here I thought we were doing the Opium Wars.

But yes, Ave... Hevia's sister seems wired, but probably not significantly more than the Pirate Maid Crew.

Though given his reactions to... Frolaytia... I'm not entirly sure I can really judge how he feels about that. At this point... Maybe he likes hating it?

[bakato]

Chapter finished! I knew this girl was gonna be a pain in the ass.

[LazyHunter]

Spoiler for V11C1 Parts 12-15:

Thankfully Kamachi is not treating us like idiots and pretending that Azureyfear isn't the one profiting from the Colorlful Vanilla, because Meena getting killed by a skilled sniper just after she's introduced and has proven to be really good with a rifle makes it obvious. Now we need to know the motives, as there's likely a story behind this.

Also, nice gesture of Milinda to apologize to the Antlion's Elite.

[Heir of the Void]

Originally Posted by LazyHunter

nice gesture

To be honest, that was possibly one of my favorite scenes of the whole story. I would actually have assumed that almost every Object fight ended like that; in a rational world, the Objects would be too expensive for decisive clashes to be at all common. Elites would either have this sort of relationship, developed over multiple encounters and long periods spent staring at each other across the No-man's-land (remember, high expense means that fights have to be started with a fair degree of caution), or like the Princess and OhHoHo.

[bakato]

New chapter! Definitely not liking this girl. Sounds like she wants to kick Heivia out of the family. That or she's got a thing for him.

[LazyHunter]

Spoiler for V11C2 Parts 1-3:

This time we go to the Cape of Good Hope. First we see three more members of the Information Alliance's Martini Series, which are hiding from the Legitimacy Kingdom with their handler. The IA Object is called the Laser Cracker 001, but we'll probably get a LK codename when the 37th fights it.

Heivia talks to his fiancee. He had asked her to check the news for him to see if the Colorful Vanilla they found and the 15th Special Platoon came up, but as expected, it was covered up. Meanwhile, Quenser is apparently being used as an errand boy and entertainment by Azureyfear. She likely wants to keep an eye on him since he saw her kill the Black Uniforms. That ending seems to imply she likes Heivia, but like she mentioned he probably dislikes his family in general because of the entire situation with the Vanderbilt.

[Heir of the Void]

"There’s a giant tits iceberg right over there!"

-Heivia Winchell, 2116.

[LazyHunter]

Spoiler for V11C2 Parts 4-6:

We had sand, and now witht the next Object we have ice. This battle is caused by the Information Alliance blocking the Africa route becasue they want to force people to use the Artic route. Also, IA is also involved in the Colorful Vanilla, so the conspiracy grows bigger. A new 37th soldiers is introduced, let's see if he has more luck than previous ones.

Azureyfear once again shows she knows how to motivate Quenser.

[Dragon_Slayer_X]

I must say Quensie Punch packs quite a punch.

Also are the Triplets at the start a nod to Zettai Karen Children?

[Heir of the Void]

Huh. Dye laser for target composition analysis via ultrafast pulse beams.

It sort of makes sense. Dye lasers can give you a wider range of beam frequencies than a lot of other setups, but there wouldn't be any need for the ultrafast pulse; take advantage of the fact that your using a strategic laser and don't care if you vaporize bits of your sample by vaporizing a bit of the enemy and running spectral analysis on the resulting plasma cloud.

That said, a pulse beam is preferable to a continuous beam for a weapons system. You can use high-energy pulses to get more vaporization of the target and less heat dispersed into it, which is important when you're shooting someone carrying around a quarter-million-ton of heat sink. That said, the Onion Armor probably would actually soak up the vaporization shock pretty well.

On the topic or the armor, actually, all the objects we've seen thus far appear to have ten meters of armor, though the info cards have expressed different Objects as having anywhere from five hundred layers of 2cm armor to two hundred layers of 5cm armor. Is it ever explained what the meaningful performance difference is?

[LazyHunter]

About the armor, I have no idea as to what the practical difference there is between the different layer compositions, I don't remember if it has come up so far. For now as you said most Objects appear to have the same level of armor. Exceptions: Deep Optical, Simple is Best, Hornet Storm, Strategic Antenna and Early States.

[Heir of the Void]

Originally Posted by LazyHunter

About the armor, I have no idea as to what the practical difference there is between the different layer compositions, I don't remember if it has come up so far. For now as you said most Objects appear to have the same level of armor. Exceptions: Deep Optical, Simple is Best, Hornet Storm, Strategic Antenna and Early States.

Well, Gattling-33 also has unconventional reduced-weight armor materials. I've been putting some thought into Object design. I have a few ideas, but the armor is essentially a black box to an even greater extent than the reactor.

[bakato]

I just watched Shimoneta and I couldn't help but think our duo would've been better appreciated in this universe.

[Heir of the Void]

Originally Posted by bakato

I just watched Shimoneta and I couldn't help but think our duo would've been better appreciated in this universe.

I know the core ideas of that world, but what's the tech like?

Qwenser's Object-related skills might not be as useful there, depending on that. Heiva's Special Forces Savant abilities might come in handy.

On that topic, with ten volumes behind us, what's Hevia's body count look like? After they didn't kill the CapCorp soldiers, I realize that most of the times they kill normal people are surprisingly low-key in terms of the attention the story pays to the events, so I actually have no idea.

[bakato]

Originally Posted by Heir of the Void

I know the core ideas of that world, but what's the tech like?

Qwenser's Object-related skills might not be as useful there, depending on that. Heiva's Special Forces Savant abilities might come in handy.

On that topic, with ten volumes behind us, what's Hevia's body count look like? After they didn't kill the CapCorp soldiers, I realize that most of the times they kill normal people are surprisingly low-key in terms of the attention the story pays to the events, so I actually have no idea.

Their strength never lied in their technical skills. It was their resourcefulness and ability to adapt.

Remember how they made a secret code to warn each other of inspections for porn? With their libido, perverted terrorism sounds like a good career choice.

[Heir of the Void]

Originally Posted by bakato

Their strength never lied in their technical skills. It was their resourcefulness and ability to adapt.

Remember how they made a secret code to warn each other of inspections for porn? With their libido, perverted terrorism sounds like a good career choice.

Fair point. But they get to be preverted terrorists, then we need to provide someone else to take their job as Object Exterminators. I propose Tavi of Calderon and Inaho Kaizuka.

[vic-vic]

Originally Posted by Heir of the Void

Fair point. But they get to be preverted terrorists, then we need to provide someone else to take their job as Object Exterminators. I propose Tavi of Calderon and Inaho Kaizuka.

Imagine the battle of UEF created Objects against new breed of Vers giant Kataphrakts. Wall of cannons versus super-technology... epic!!!

[GotEffed2RageQuit]

Forgive me for being a sucker.

Spoiler for Backtrack:

There were two reasons for the pool.

First, it was a project meant to reduce the stress of the female soldiers. It was less about the pool itself and more about providing a small event that allowed them to escape the gaze of the normal military regulations. Similar projects had resulted in events based on different cultural celebrations such as the flower viewing or carnival. There had also been the sudden appearance of a swimsuit-wearing Santa Claus.

Second, it was a means of punishment. It was not fun toiling away under the broiling sun to dig a hole that would be enjoyed by the well-behaved soldiers. It would be no exaggeration to say that over half of the work had been done by a bomb-using student and a radar analyst who excelled at using firearms.

P.S. Rich kid's entertainment = space exploration tier.

[Heir of the Void]

Originally Posted by vic-vic

Imagine the battle of UEF created Objects against new breed of Vers giant Kataphrakts. Wall of cannons versus super-technology... epic!!!

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

Also:

Shut up! Just focus on surviving, skinny boy! At this rate, they’ll grab our corpses and use their optical sample analysis to reveal the locations of every last mole and erogenous zone on our bodies!

For whatever reason, I feel like this single line conveys the entire series remarkably well.

Also, the ice thing is... sillier than usual. If you're pressurizing the water to make it condense, then your just turning the water into the coolant rather than something else, and if you use the weight of the Object to provide pressure, you need something else to stop the water from just being pushed away. And it doesn't get you around the thermodynamics of the problem; the heat you're generating to cool the water has to go somewhere, and at a certain point you might wind up melting the ice as you create it, assuming the sun and the ocean isn't doing that already.

If you really wanted to do this... I feel like the solution involves orbital mirrors. You could use those to plunge an area into eternal darkness (as long as it was centered on the equator), but ocean and atmospheric convention would prevent it from getting that much colder than the surrounding area.

EDIT: I realize just as I post this that hanging a mirrror on the in Geostationary orbit would, while technically having some effect, be rather inefficient; it would only block the sun for a few minutes around noon each day.

If you put a large object at the Earth-Sun L1 point, it would affect a given area on the Equator in a similar fashion, but it's area of effect would be constantly moving with the subsolar point, causing it to have a much greater effect over a short span of time. At this point, we're looking at freezing the whole planet, but...