I'm so stupid, I signed up and got the Zot.

[hk409]

THIS SITE IS ZOT!

GIMME A BRAKE ALREADY! YOU GUYS MUST BE THE BIGEST MORONS ON THE WORLD! THE BIGEST MORONS NEXT TO THAT SOFTWARE COMPANY I USED TO VISIT SIX YEARS AGO! OY YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! EACH TIME I TRYED TO POST SOMETHING NO MATTER HOW SMART! NO MATTER HOW CONSERVATIVE! EVEN IF I BEND OVER BACK AND DO BACK FLIPS AND THEN BEND OVER FOR THAT DUMB LIBERAL WE UNFORTUNATELY ELECTED! EVEN IF SPELL CHECKER ARE WORKING I STILL GET THEN KICKED OFF!! THEN ZOTTED!! WHY? IS IT JUST BECAUSE I WRITE SO BRILLIANT? BOB RUNS THINGS HERE!? OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. MAEYBE PEEPLE LIKE JJFATE AND NOAH HORSEFLY IS ASKING FOR IT BUT WHAT ABOUT ME!

[King Prout]

Kzinti?
phaugh!

catnip-laced C4-packed robotic mice.

problem solved.

[Dead Corpse]

In space, your engines are your propulsion system, heating and air conditioning, and whatever shielding you are going to have. Slaving your weapons to it only makes sense.

Of course, you could always use metallic helium for a proectile with the railgun system... Have a seperate powerplant to power the mags...

[Dead Corpse]

That is another nice thing about field projectors. Extend the field instead of zapping someone with a condensed packet, and you have armor. Use it to re-enforce the skin of your craft, a structural integrity field. Invert it, an inertial dampener and artifical gravity.

Oh the trouble we could get in to if we could figure out that whole Grand Unification Theory thingie...

[King Prout]

oh, my, won't you be thrilled when I perfect my prototype subspace drive (and weapons system)!

[Dead Corpse]

Possible origins of the Viking Kitties?

[Dead Corpse]

Well, yeah. Get going... ;-)

[King Prout]

my system would allow you to track and target opfor at distances over which gravitic and EM tracking would lag too badly to be utile.
it would also allow you to displace an up-to-20m diameter cylindrical "core sample" of the opfor ship by no less than five meters.

once I get it perfected, that is.

[King Prout]

naw. the VKs would eat Kzinti alive.

[NicknamedBob]

But of course.

And in the meantime, I'll just stick with the old tried-and-true.

[NicknamedBob]

At the moment, I'm only concerned about power generation, and sub-light navigation.

Today the system, tomaorrow the galaxy, you know.

[King Prout]

well, there's a significant problem that I have yet to even begin to solve.

cutting a chord through the subsidereum is very VERY stressful on matter from this plane.

the greater the distance jumped in the sidereal universe, the longer the chord through the subsidereum, and the closer its centerpoint comes to the Vertex.

The stress effects are cumulative, random, and so far as I can determine not preventable.

it is a problem.

[Dead Corpse]

In the one system I describe above, you would essentially be shredding subspace around their ears. All you would need to know is where they are relative to you. You really wouldn't even need to be in the same galaxy as at a sub-quantum level all points in space/time are identical.

In the other, a black hole, even an artifical one, would pretty much be self aiming. All you gotta do is get it close and let it suck in the target.

Counting on sheer forces from a warp packet would be limited to wave front propagation and a mass driver would forever be limited to C-1.

[BJClinton]

in other news, we have lost stands2reason

What do you mean by "lost"? He's no longer an RKBA?

[Dead Corpse]

Warp field. Essentially, the ship would be in a "bubble" of norm space. Normal stresses on carft and crew. Makes a good close in weapon as well. All you'd have to do is brush them with the edge of your warp field and let the sheer forces rip them to sub-atomic particles.

[King Prout]

ah, linear-progression in a conventional technology with a foreseeable evolutionary dead-end at a tiny fraction of C.

what a waste.

this is what comes of taking cartesian geometry too seriously.

We live in a universe measurable by 4D systems, where every fact has a point in X, Y, Z, and Time.

That's fine, for measuring, but doesn't reflect the reality of the structure of the multiplane.

We see distance in X,Y, and Z. We perceive duration, beginning, middle, end. But in fact, all of the sidereal universe exists as a single shell dimension around the subsidereum. Our reality is the first planar shell dimension, sort of an Ur-base dimension, "above" which exist yet other dimensions we can only vaguely perceive.

All of what we call cartesian locations are points in the sidereal shell equidistant from the Vertex of the subsidereum.
With sufficiently complex computations, a very small amount of energy, and a sufficiently large variable-geometry surface area for transit-field modulation, we may drop from the sidereal in a "bubble" universe into the subsidereum, with a vector allowing us to go from point Asidereal to point Zsidereal without crossing points Bsideral-Ysideral. Our research indicates that the "bubble" universe remains synched with the prime sidereal universe, so that quaint little problems such as temporal displacement cannot occur.

The effect: Nearly instantaneous displacement from any point to any other point at economically feasible energy expense.

If we dare to chord the subsidereum, ALL Ur-base will belong to us!

[King Prout]

this is correct.
S2R asked to be striken from Da List: Ping Swampage strikes again.

[NicknamedBob]

Gee, my idea about flinging icebergs to Mars by a big electric catapult seems kinda tame in comparison to this...

[BJClinton]

I'm starting to get that from the VKs. Still, it's not political season so what else am I going to do but zot/steamroll trolls?

[King Prout]

yes: bubble universes are an essential part of it, but the stresses on the bubble mount in a square of the prime Fibonacci Series the closer to the Vertex it approaches.

shorth runs (here to Proxima, say) would spawn a few radicals per molar quantity. no big deal.

longer runs, however...

[King Prout]

tame, in terms of the technological vision, perhaps.

still a very worthy and difficult undertaking.