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  1. RangerKarl
    Hmm, I guess the clincher for me is for small-to medium sized pops (10k-100k). Those probably need to rely more on their ships and maybe exploit local terrain (dig out artificial caverns with mecha support) if they don't have a nice city to fall back on. Thinking about cases like an adhoc caravan of cargo craft and all.
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    So, settlement talk. How fast do we think a city doubling the living capacity of a colony fleet could take to bring up, assuming a fairly habitable climate/ecology? We know and have seen that city island ships like the Frontier Main and Jackpot can and do land in water to construct more permanent habitats and homes for their inhabitants. We also know that much of the city ship's original functions are maintained indefinitely (at least on paper) in the event of a disaster requiring evacuation. A lot of the cities we see tend to be in human-breathable atmospheres though. At least in Macross 30 many of them are actually underground, due to the rather dangerous fauna and fold faults. Workroids would increase productivity vis-a-vis construction but as far as I can see they're more flexible backhoe/excavator/forklift-type machines.
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    My read of it was that the operator would fly in and settle on some space debris like how Michel does, and settle in to watch a point in space for a period of time? I guess if you wanted to shoot a VVIP coming into dock and you had a couple weeks to set up. Some silly spy nonsense like that, I would say. I sorta read Supernova as being partly about suppressing dissent, to be honest. This was the ramp-up to the VF-X2 events, and there was skullduggery afoot. Maybe that's just me being too deep into technothrillers though.
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    Deniable wetworks is my first thought. It is a VF designed to precisely attack targets deep inside enemy lines without resorting to reaction weapons, after all. This sort of headhunter work sounds in line with SuperNova specifications
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    VFMF seems to have an obsession with capacitors in general, it feels like. I suppose so many energy hungry things live on a Valkyrie, so it makes sense.
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    That engineer took Casaba Howitzer a little too literally.
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    I...well, if you do have a sun in a bottle on tap, why would you not try to use it as a lasing gain/excitator medium somehow?
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    The consistency of Ernest and Grammier's relationship and history across all media is pretty remarkable, I guess it was a core part of the writing. Sad that
  9. RangerKarl
    I think Seto has much better citations, but I do recall Isamu getting threatened with an assignment to the coal mines of some space colony. I guess they had the idea all the way back then.
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    Thematically, I can buy it. The VF-31 was a plane whose design program was initiated by a local government group trying to spark economic growth. I can believe them cutting the cost for that, maybe due to something like "not-invented-here" syndrome or a misplaced desire to save pennies on things like certification while wanting a big ticket bulletpoint for sales.
  11. RangerKarl
    I thought the fold quartz particle source would still get expended from constant firings. The way Frontier always had it, it ended up being a bit of a finite resource. I'm now wondering if the Master File writers also had that belief about the MDE particle guns, and sorta followed up on that with the ammo-dependent particle gunpods. In the case of another Vajra problem you could just swap your magazine types, instead of getting hard-locked into an MDE-spec weapon. If traditional PBWs are funneling excess plasma from the reactor, it could be that there are some issues with trunking that stuff from the engine, through the hand hardpoint into the gunpod. Before Frontier the energy gunpod was a one-shot attachment for the Nightmare. The magazine system might also be a way to avoid that engineering choice.
  12. RangerKarl
    A particle beam would still be throwing matter at a target, albeit extremely minute amounts at very very high velocities in collimated beams. So it sorta does make sense that it has a magazine, if you think of it as more of a tank of elemental gas. This would be in line with how the MDE Beam Matrices worked before I guess, as you would be loading up particalized fold quartz bits to use as your plasmified matter. My contention really was with the terminology of 'optical munition/stores', as peebees don't work like that. And yes, if we go by this assumption we shouldn't need to have a disposable capacitor cartridge to be our particle beam ammo
  13. RangerKarl
    Maybe it's just the doctrinal name for energy weapons of that type. They're probably not dissecting whether it is a charged particle beam or laser they are shooting, it's just "beam". Having precharged rounds would mean less strain on the engine/powerplant and reduce power spikes in your electrics. I guess, not an EE.
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    PWAs are cool as an SF fan because they're kind of a realish way to justify desktop or ruggedized particle accelerators that don't need a crazy amount of length to get a particle beam moving. From what I understand though this means a more divergent beam coming out, I guess it's something to do with the instabilities in a plasma field. I hesitate to even speculate, it is way out of my wheelhouse. But the idea of a desktop particle beam to transmute things on demand is cool on its own. And the opportunities for storytelling...
  15. RangerKarl
    They should just do it for every side story. No matter how spurious the connection.
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