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| ==Technical Descriptions==
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| ===Armor===
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| '''Belted Armor'''
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| : Standard armor is a combination of a brittle ablative layer, amorphous (noncrystalline) metal, and carbon nanotube weave for spall lining. Spaced and angled for shot deflection, standard armor gives excellent penetration resistance and protection with moderate mass and low cost.
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| '''Depleted Uranium Armor'''
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| : Depleted uranium armor reinforces the amorphous metal in standard armor by 'sandwiching' depleted uranium layers inside, increasing its ability to protect against enemy attacks and reducing the chance of an attack that penetrates of retaining sufficient force to deal critical damage. However, DU armor is fantastically heavy and ships equipping it are notoriously sluggish.
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| '''Belted Iridium Armor'''
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| : Osimium-Iridium alloys have been used for situations where hardness, wear, and temperature resistance have been critical since over 350 years ago, but it is only with the advent of spaceflight and modern materials science which has allowed extensive fabrication of such alloys to use in armor plate. Belted Iridium Armor uses amorphous iridium plating laminated with lightweight polymer for spall catching, making it even more penetration-resistant than DU-reinforced armor with no additional mobility penalty.
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| '''Double-Bonded Lunar Titanium Armor'''
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| : The latest material to come out of the EU's Cordis Material Science Laboratories, the composition of double-bonded Lunar Titanium armor is highly classified. What scientists in other powers believe is that the material is not even titanium at all, but a composite material making extensive use of cutting-edge high-strength/weight ratio materials such as amorphous diamond. Nevertheless the armor provides superior overall protection to even iridium armor with no power draw and far less mass premium.
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| '''Laminate Armor'''
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| : Misleadingly named (as standard armor is already a laminate material) laminate armor was inspired by Velan drone design, using nanofabrifcation to create an armor consisting of hundreds of millimeter-thick sheets of varying materials. The extremely thin layers, although individually weak, create a protective barrier which is stronger in terms of strength-to-weight ratio than standard armor material, but somewhat more vulnerable to catastrophic failure-a projectile which successfully penetrates is more likely to cause critical damage.
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| '''Anti-Beam Laminate'''
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| : Reverse engineered from Nephilim armor, anti-beam laminate uses thermal-conductive layers to rapidly redistribute the shock of an energy weapon attack away from the impact point, reducing an energy weapon's penetrative ability. However these thermal conductor grids are significantly more vulnerable to weapons fire than the original filler.
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| '''Polarized Laminate'''
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| : By using electroreactive "smart" materials, an armor can be built that changes state in response to being powered, hardening in response to enemy fire. Replacing the lightweight polymer sheets in laminate armor with these electroreactives provides superior protection, while retaining the conductive fibers of anti-beam laminate (now used for power supply as well) allow it to still resist penetration from energy weapons. Although the armor now has a significant power requirement, it has equal protection to standard laminate armor and superior resistance to energy weapons such as plasma cannons and mega particle weapons.
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| '''Bistate Polarized Laminate'''
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| : Bistate polarized laminate armor uses superior smart materials which can change state much more quickly and effectively to not only resist enemy fire, but to shed energy against penetration in a way that reduces potential damage. Against ballistic weapons the armor can flex and bend elastically to further reduce penetrating damage, while against energy weapons the armor can absorb and reradiate energy outwards. However, in terms of resisting actual penetration, bistate laminate is only the equal of polarized or conventional laminate armor even if it does retain the conductive layer which mitigates the penetrative ability of MPBs and other high-penetration energy weapons.
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| '''Phase Shift Laminate'''
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| : A technical development from electrical reactive armor, phase-shift laminate armor incorporates electrically charged layers alternating with nonconductive layers, becoming a large capacitor. Any kinetic penetrator that pierces the first layer contacts the second layer, closing the circuit and dumping a massive amount of energy into the penetrator. The penetrator itself is generally melted or vaporized by this action, greatly reducing its penetrative ability. However phase-shift laminate is no more protective than standard laminate armor against energy weapons.
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| '''Trans-Phase Laminate'''
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| : Trans-phase laminate uses superior conductive layers which help to mitigate damage from both energy and ballistic weapons that do penetrate.
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| '''Variable Phase Polarization Laminate'''
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| : Quite possibly the pinnacle of non-theotech armor material design (debates between Variable Phase and Lunar Titanium proponents are generally heated at best) variable-phase armor works by generating a plasma window inside vacuum-filled gaps in the vessel's armor. This pocket can be energized further to damage kinetic penetrators, or in its low-power state, serves to absorb and diffuse the focus of all energy weaponry. By using a low-density, largely nonphysical component as its primary method of stopping enemy fire, variable-phase armor is extraordinarily lightweight, and any attack that penetrates the armor itself is likely to be heavily diffused and unlikely to penetrate to critical vessel areas.
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| ===Railguns===
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| ====Rhenium Integration====
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| The limits to railgun power are based off of both power draw and peak acceleration. Standard rails, using steel-jacketed tungsten or DU slugs, cannot be given significantly more power without melting the power lines or the electromagnets. However, several asteroid belts in the human Sphere have become sources of rhenium, allowing extensive use of superconducting rhenium alloys in critical components such as the power feeds and electromagnets. With superconducting power feeds and temperature-resistant superconducting electromagnets, lethality and efficiency are increased over previous designs.
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| ====Gauss Accelerator====
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| Although rhenium integration solves one of the problems, the other problem of peak acceleration exists-when one problem is fixed, another becomes the limitation. This problem can be solved by making the barrel longer, but this increases the vulnerability of the weapon to enemy fire. Famous EU engineer Johan Eckbert, though, sketched out a prototype railgun design which used spiraling "rails" in conjunction with shield systems to allow a hundred-meter long barrel to be contained in a ten-meter long turret. In fact, to make costs manageable, the electromagnets in a gauss accelerator are actually both less expensive and less powerful in an absolute sense, although the increased length more than makes up for it in terms of both cost and power. The only limitation on railgun firepower at this point is barrel wear and shield systems.
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| ====Momentum Transfer Rails====
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| The M-T "railgun" is no longer a railgun, but a inertial transfer system using similar principles to the Mercurion Drives that ZOCU uses. The geometry of the system is entirely different though, as while Mercurion drives impart motive force on the drive system (and by extension the vessel it is attached to), Momentum Transfer Rails are intended to do the opposite, imparting motive force on something that is not the drive system. With a theoretically infinite acceleration rate, limited only by power input and projectile tensile strength, a M-T rail can be built much shorter than a conventional design, although it is somewhat less efficient. Although early trials were disappointing, Rheinmetall researchers cracked the necessary geometry in 2187, successfully accelerating a 3-gram ceramic projectile to 6 km/s, and the EU DSF is rumored to be doing field trials on such systems, although information is sparse.
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| ===Pulse Weapons===
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| ====Synchronous Acceleration====
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| Conventional pulse weapons were generally linear accelerators, making them simple to manufacture and maintain, although limiting their destructive power. Cyclotrons were judged too expensive and too vulnerable to be used to build military weapons around. However, with Eckbert's breakthrough idea of cyclical rails (a decade earlier than shield technology could allow practical use of the concept in railguns), PACT scientists realized that his architecture made an excellent basis for a damage-resistant, military-hardened particle accelerator weapon, and a few ZOCU powers have had similar designs. Complaints about the difficulty of maintenance of these new weapons have been, as usual, ignored.
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| ====Supercollider Augmentation====
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| A pulse weapon, although more accurate than a railgun, is far more sensitive to damage, and must be run with a much higher margin of safety. Integrating superconductive rhenium alloys into the design of a pulse weapon increases its efficiency drastically, improving the amount of power which can be fed into a weapon as well as how efficiently it uses this power, allowing truly fearsome outputs without risk of weapon destabilization.
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| ====Adaptive Focus====
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| One issue with charged particle beams is that they attract or deflect each other-rendering long-range shots impossible, forcing pulse weapons to use neutral particle beams even if charged particle beams are far more efficient. Delta-dust based quantum-computing systems however, have allowed the charged particle beam to make a surprising comeback. These computers allow the prediction of long-range divergence paths by charged particle beams due to fire from both allies and enemies to an extremely high degree of reliability, increasing range, accuracy, and hitting power. On the other hand, the power savings from the cyclotrons are more than made up by the power-hungry computing network. USASF test platforms have found this weapon effective although large-scale deployment is unlikely to happen for years.
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| ===Lasers===
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| ====Adaptive Optics====
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| The problems with focusing a weapon at the ranges common in interstellar combat, while still having a "turret", are non-trivial. Lenses, although simple, are easy to damage by a laser weapon capable of doing significant harm to an enemy warship, and although mirrors are easy, the systems required to allow effective focusing at any range are nontrivial. Improved adaptive optics allow the removal of the mechanical systems and heavily reinforced lenses necessary for earlier laser weapons to be effective, replacing them with flexible mirrors and phased-array optics. These weapons have far fewer moving parts and can focus much faster, improving effective range and accuracy.
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| ====Heterodyne Lasers====
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| A complex combination of geometry and electronics provides a focusing system allows heterodyne lasers to produce wavelengths normally only possible under extreme circumstances. No longer is a X-Ray or gamma-ray laser only possible by the use of excessively large and fragile equipment or the detonation of a nuclear weapon. This improvement increases the penetrative force of a laser weapon against armor materials, although efficiency suffers from it.
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| ====Optimized Photon Pulses====
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| Photon Pulse Weapons use improved computer systems and fully smart optics to optimize wavelength and pulse characteristics for the target at hand. With the ability to rapidly switch pulse length and power, a photon pulse laser is capable of drilling through hull using extremely short-duration low-energy pulses, then causing severe damage to internal systems with long, high-energy pulses without missing a beat.
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Game Ideas
Aberrant 2.0
Transcendence
Red Mercury: A Oneshot Idea
Genres: Genres In Space
Eidolon
Panopticon
More Than Human
Delta
MJMecha
Random Nation Generator
Characters
Test Alchemical
Tech Ninja Test
Rexberrant PC
MTAsc Alt
Aberrant: Exile Upeo NPC
Stuff
Euthanatos 1
Euthanatos 2
Mahou Shoujo Silence-Chan
Exalted Character for TFS Sandbox Game
Mage: The Waking War
(nMage conversion sketch)
Traditions
Akashic Brotherhood: Favors Mind/Life (the body is merely the seat of the mind, but strengthen the body and you strengthen the mind), weak Matter (it's all an illusion anyways), +1 Composure (the true Akashic Brother must have an infinite wellspring of self-control)
Celestial Chorus: Favors Prime/Spirit (the joy of the One's choir and the ability to sing to angels), weak Death/Entropy (ick ick dark magic), +1 Resolve (may your faith in the One never weaken.)
Cult of Ecstasy: Favors Time/Mind (Passion and joy alter the perception of time and tickle the mind), weak ?, +1 Stamina (sometimes it's all those drugs, sometimes it's staying up doing poetry)
Dreamspeakers: Favors Spirit/Death [Entropy] (talking to the gods? Sure! Talking to your ancestors? Sure too!), weak Space (who needs directions in the Umbra?), +1 Manipulation (spirits are tricksy. So are you.)
Euthanatos: Favors Death/Fate (all things decay...) OR Entropy/Time (fate is in our hands), weak Prime (...so nothing has permanence), +1 Dexterity (with the deftness of a surgeon we remove the cancer from the Wheel)
Order of Hermes: Favors Forces/?, weak ?, +1 Charisma (a mage does not sneak around with lies and half truths. A mage demands your obedience)
Sons of Ether: Favors Matter/Forces (SCIENCE!), weak Entropy (Destiny is not preordained, and thermodynamics is a lie.), +1 Intelligence (SCIENCE!)
Verbena: Favors Life/Prime (nature, red in tooth and claw), weak Forces (lightning bolts are so blase), +1 Strength (tooth and claw. Tooth and claw.)
Virtual Adepts: Favors Correspondence/Forces (Fear the power of the Internet!), weak Spirit (all peyote-fueled hallucinations!), +1 Wits (high wits means you can pretend to be smart on the Internets!)
Conventions
Iteration X: Favors Matter/Forces (engineering!), weak Dimensional Science (what is this subdimensional bullshit?)
Progenitors: Favors Life/Death [Mind] (we truly are gods among men, with the power to heal and kill), weak Space (nice physics treatise. Except we're doing biology.)
New World Order: Favors Mind/Fate [Entropy] (we predict and adjust the course of nations and alter single people.), weak Matter (Subtlety is kind of hard when you're building giant robots.)
Syndicate: Favors Prime/Fate [Entropy] (we deal with true value and probability), weak Forces (you want an implant plasma cannon? Go ask an Iterator)
Void Engineers: Favors Space/Dimensional Science (initiate hyperdrive on your mark), weak Fate [Entropy] (never tell me the odds.)
ExWoD
Disclaimer: I am a horrible person.
Judgement
Everyone had their own plans on how to shape reality. From the creatures of the Wyld, to the denizens of Creation, anyone with power wishes to inflict their view of what is real on the world. Some meant well but created dystopias or became corrupt along the way, sacrificing principles in the name of pragmatism. Others were always in it for themselves.
Ever since the First Age of man, this has held true. Those with power seek to change Creation irrevocably. Some wish to reclaim it. Others wish to destroy it. There are those who would wish to see it trapped in amber forever, fossilized. These forces and their inevitable collision mean the doom of man, and the end of the world.
It has been five ages since the Solar shards were cast down into the Jade Prison. Four Ages since the Prison itself was reconstituted in a desperate gamble by the Gold faction, the apex of well-meaning ideas gone wrong. Several more since the Dragonblooded themselves were corrupted, the Lunar shards reclaimed by Lytek, the Sidereal ones repurposed. It has been eons since Creation itself was bent and twisted upon itself, melding the elemental poles, expanding one to cover the Earth. It has been centuries since anyone knew what the elemental poles were, abandoning the silly mysticism of such stories to the reassuring logic of scientific discourse.
It is unfortunate, for perhaps if there were more who knew, desperate decisions would not have to be made.
Prison Break
The Neverborn and the Yozi are trying one last desperate gamble to destory the world or reclaim it using their own shard-powered underlings. The Technocratic timetable suggests that within no less than four months, the chances of the survival of Earth drop to less than fifteen percent. The Traditions themselves concur, but they are too absorbed in the war to do anything. What gods remain capable of acting are too weak and broken by Consensus and the Avatar Storm to do much, except possibly one action.
One action that will damn Creation or save it. Shattering the prison and the cabinet, allowing the Exaltation Shards to travel free. Using what power remains to breach the Gauntlet and the Storm. Perhaps the Exalted can pull a victory out from impossible odds, as they were made to do.
Or perhaps their cursed nature, past animosity, and differing agendas are the very reason that Creation is doomed. No matter which, the tales will be epic.
The Exalted
When the Exalted shards were put into storage, mystical weapons of mass destruction judged too unstable and too dangerous to roam freely, they were used to create lesser beings that could protect Creation from external threats. The Fera, Magi, and Hunters derived from the three Celestial shards.
The corruption of the Dragon-Blooded by the Ebon Dragon created the Kuei-Jin. Vampires themselves were designed as agents of the Neverborn, although they have forgotten their purpose, many of them preferring instead to play their little dominance games with mortals. No matter. The Neverborn have ways of making them work to their advantage.
The Hunters
The essence of the Solar Exalted was always difficult to lessen, and any attempt to do so would have to be err far on the side of weakness. Hunters are that result.
The Dead
The Demons
The Changing Breeds
It would have suprised the Wyld-worshipping Garou that they were originally used as a weapon against what they believe in. Of course, it also surprised them that all their attempts to save Gaia tended to backfire spectacularly when that much should have been obvious. As guardians of Luna's mate, Gaia, and stewards of humanity, they have fallen far.
The Lunar Exalted may do better where they have failed.
The Avatars
The one hundred Sidereal shards were used as the cage that held reality together against the tide of the Wyld until their lessers were constructed. These creatures were diminished in power, but the breaking of Sidereal shards into the thousand-faceted things that were Avatars removed them from their rut. Still affected by paradox, but far less burdened by the limitations and inflexibility of their original powers, the Avatar Shards were intended to be a bulwark against the Wyld, mobile reality engines fused to human souls.
Nobody expected that a flaw in their design would create the Awakened. Nobody expected that some of them would fall to the Neverborn or the Yozis, serving the destruction or reclamation of Creation. Even fewer expected that it was possible that these weakened shards could be damaged by the Wyld, and none of the Celestines thought that it would be possible for the strengthening of reality to go too far.
Perhaps the might of proper Sidereal Exalted is needed in such a situation.
The Machine
The dead god Autochthon was not entirely dead-not enough to become the Engine of Extinction. Not enough to have his presence lost. And he still cares about humanity, even as his new servants wish to transcend theirs. A handful of members in Iteration X have been enhanced into Demiurges, a desperate move showing just how desperate the times have become, as the weakest and most inventive Primordial has never, until now, given his power to anyone who could manipulate Essence. Even in the guise of hypertech, industrial pistons and brass bones replaced with synth-myomer and primium, they are still the champions and servants of humanity which walked the Realm of Brass and Shadow ages and ages ago.
Control believes that they can be used as a weapon to stem the chaos. In a way they are right, but the nature of the Alchemical Exalted makes them heroes, and their free will cannot be washed away nearly as easily as that of a machine, a mortal or even a mage. Some may disagree with the steps the Union is taking. Whether they act to change this from the inside, or go off on their own to serve a more... human-run cause, or decide to band with the other newly Exalted in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of all existence is yet to be seen.
No matter what they do, even if they stay loyal, their actions are unlikely to be the quiet, subtle adjustments that the Union prefers, but the time for that has passed.
Sphere 2 Silliness
FAistan
Prestige Units
Naval
Super Battleship
- Mobility: -1
- Evasion: -1
- Armor: 12
- Structure: 10
- Hits: 100
- Space: 500
- Engineering Coefficient: 25
- Hull Coefficient: 20
Hull Expansion
- +50 Spaces
Building Craft Around Ship Weapons
This is assuming that a Mobile Armor's x4 means that 1 space on a craft is 4 or more space on a vehicle, which is almost certainly untrue but that's why I'm putting this here instead of on a Sphere 2 page. Used a x5 multiplier because it's nice and even.
Not A Glitter Boy
Assault Frame, 4x Expansions
Speed 4+4 (8)
Agility 4+5-2 (7)
Evasion 3+3.5+.5 (7)
Armor 10+6+2 (18, 2 AP Protection)
4 Hits
Component Space: 12 + 16 (28)
- Power and Propulsion (Space -14, Power +21)
- 7 Fusion Reactors (Space -7, Power +28)
- 4 Thrusters (Space -4, Power -4, Speed +4, Agility +2, Evasion +2)
- 3 Verniers (Space -3, Power -3, Agility +3, Evasion +1.5)
- Defensive Systems (Space -7, Power -8)
- 6 Armor (Space -1, Armor +6, Agility -2)
- 1 Flash Field (Space -1, Power -8, Armor +2, AP Protection +2, Evasion +.5)
- Weapons (7 Space)
- Antimissile Gatling (-2 Space)
- Mecha SMG (-5 Space)
External Carriage: 12 + 8 (20)
- 1 DP Cannon (Space -20, Power -10)
Flakbot 1.0
A far more reasonable design. Probably League.
Assault Frame, 1x Expansion
Speed 4+4 (8)
Agility 4+6-2 (8)
Evasion 3+4 (7)
Armor 10+6 (16)
4 Hits
Component Space: 12 + 4 (16)
- Power and Propulsion (Space -10, Power +0)
- 2 Fusion Reactors (Space -2, Power +8)
- 4 Thrusters (Space -4, Power -4, Speed +4, Agility +2, Evasion +2)
- 4 Verniers (Space -4, Power -4, Agility +4, Evasion +2)
- Defensive Systems (Space -6)
- 6 Armor (Space -1, Armor +6, Agility -2)
External Carriage: 12 + 2 (14)
- 1 Flak Cannon (Space -10)
- 1 Antimissile Gatling (-2 Space)
- 1 Alpha Sword (-2 Space)