Emphasis on splattered. She should be covered in gore, especially as she was under him.
Blowback and blood dropping on her would not leave her all pristine,
looking like she had time for a shower and packed a change of fatigues.
Hell, perforated bowels and bladder would be giving her a decent chance of being covered in shit and piss too.
I think I know how it might be done but it’d be a royal pain to execute.
You’d have to make a custom set of skins.and clothes for Flea. Several
hours of work. Face it, Catman, you’re a victim of your own success. I
tried to learn Daz and flat gave up. Could not get past the first tutorial.
Trust me, Steele, what PC does with the posing software is just this side
of magic!
I think Roger will make a good Captain, he’s already giving
commands and keeping everyone calm and acting as needed.
He quickly decided that help wasn’t coming and made a plan
of action. Right or wrong, he’s doing the right job! Once the
sim is over, they can explain what he did right and wrong…
I guessed as much, a 10 y/o isn’t going to understand what it means,
here’s hoping the guy that did it was the one that Flea made that fancy
“course-correction” to his blood flow!
“Oh pellets”?!? I get the meaning and I guess it makes sense, goats do
the same thing only slightly larger…
Lesson #1 recruits, but always re-scan while you’re moving, there might
be something you missed! And don’t assume your intel is 100%, another
words, look before you leap! (pun intended) I’d love to see any Navy ship
in a dog-fight, the way they can maneuver is way past anything even B5
showed us!
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
I’m sure that Flea and the dragonfly will have a jolly rollicking
time hunting down the perps that raped Diane and made Seth watch.
And I’m willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that there will be many,
many heads on poles for public display.
One, to show Diane and Seth that they no longer have anything to fear.
And two, to show everyone else that they DO have something to fear.
I would agree but the decree that Teresa gave Squirrel was to
get in, grabs the kids, and get out. Sticking around for revenge
would be against orders and a huge risk. I’m sure a major attack
will be ordered soon, if for no other reason than to protect the
“good” settlements in the area, another “Empireover” in
government so to speak?
Ringships In The TGW Universe (part one) Some time back PC kind of hinted
that the core worlds possess technology for FTL travel that doesn’t involve
wormholes. There was no detail merely a passing remark by a P’teran officer
that core ships did not have to come through a wormhole. Then in the previous
episode there was a model ringship visible. That got me thinking. Maybe
ringships are also possible in the TGW universe. How might they work? Miguel
Alcubierre (whose work was later added to by Harold G. White) solved some of
the equations for FTL and proved that, at least in the math, FTL travel is
possible. The result is now known as the Alcubierre-White warp drive (“warp drive”).
One characteristic of the equipment for generating the
warp field is the large ring (or multiple rings) around
the hull of the resulting craft. For that reason such
vehicles are popularly called “ringships”. If FTL travel
is possible (and many physicists would vehemently
disavow the possibility) then I believe there ought to
be multiple ways to effect that result. In PC’s TGW
universe wormhole transits are the preferred means
of inter-system travel. I think it natural that, once the
technology to detect and activate the transit points is
developed a culture would naturally use wormholes
since that is a simpler solution. The Empire naturally
took to it since it dovetailed well with their grav
technology. But I do not think the Empire would have
stopped there. Assuming Dr Alcubierre had already
published his seminal paper prior to the fall of
civilization on Terra, the Empire’s scientists would at
least know of it. Being the practical empericists I
doubt the Empire wasted any funds on research into
warp drives since they already had a usable way to
travel between systems. Once the P’terans let them
know of a possible invasion route via FTL drives, I
believe the Empire would have made producing a
working FTL drive a military priority. The result would
be ringships with the Wolf Empire flag emblazoned on
their hull.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
I did a flag for PC a couple of years ago (3? 4?) for the Wolf empire.
I don’t recall ever seeing it. I think I put a pic of it up online but now I
can’t remember the name of the website. It’s a big one. Lots of people
post drawings and photos on it but for the life of me I can’t dredge
up the name of the place. Anybody know what I’m thinking of?
The stars represent member kingdoms in the Wolf Empire. At the time
there were 8 kingdoms that were part of the Empire. I have no idea how
many are in it these days. If the Catman will let me know the current
number I’ll make him an updated version. I still have the source
graphics and (hopefully) still have a working copy of PhotoShop Elements.
I bought it a few years back but Adobe has been getting kind of squirrelly
about whether their products were owned or just leased.
Number is increasing quickly. I don’t know when the last Terran kingdom joined,
but the Fringe worlds seem to be jumping on. Gonna be hard to keep up. The
US 49-star flag was created, I’ve seen one, but they’re rare.
Yes you do, the Laporidae just joined HEH!
Anyway, it’s not much different from when
the USA got started, I found a US flag with
only 48 stars on it in my grandfather’s stuff
when he passed away.
If that model is one of the FTL ships, it falls into the suggested design
that many scientist have been pushing. Also they can’t be very aggressive
because if the rings are damaged, they can’t go to FTL. They could work
as a short-term WH defense ship(s) to permit the heavier ships to get
through safely, then escape through the wormhole so backup can arrive.
FTL would be handy to explore star systems NOT in the WH lanes, also
be a great way to hide people and assets. WH travel is just a cheaper
way to FTL travel, they wouldn’t have to expend money for fuel to use it.
That’s not an issue for the Empire, so a refitted FLT ship would cost
anymore than a typical ship to operate. That is the core main weakness,
their greed and lack of spending is keeping them from using all the resources
they could bring to the table, by time they figure that out it’ll be too late!
It can’t be a warp drive because that would require a knowledge of gravity
manipulation that would take them to the grav drives, unless they have
scientists that are that small minded! Warping space by use of a “gravity
bubble” isn’t a far step from the controlled directional grav drives, I think
that would be far easier to do than a controllable bubble.
Ringships In The TGW Universe (part 2)
Like everything in the real universe, ringships would offer certain advantages while at the same time having
certain disadvantages. From a war making standpoint ringships would allow invasion of a system at the
invader’s choice of location and vector. The invader could entirely bypass the defender’s ships massed at
the chokepoint of the wormhole junction. A ringship invasion could warm into a system anywhere. Most especially
the fleet could stay in warp until close to the target world. Several SciFi authors have postulated that a fractional
warp field could alloow for rapid intra-system travel at high sub-light speeds. Additionally, a fractional warp field
could also serve as a defensive shield. Think partial spindizzy fields in James Blish’s “Cities In Flight” series.
Ringships could conceivably also carry smaller, more maneuverable “conventional”craft to fight using the
Empire’s preferred lighting swift tactics.
Ringships, however, would also have significant drawbacks. Wormhole transit between systems is essentially
instantaneous. Travel time using WHJs (WormHole Junction) to destinations multiple hops away mostly
consists of going between WHJs at normal speeds. Warp travel would involve actually traversing the
(unimaginably vast) distances between star systems. I suspect that systems connected via WHJ are not
especially close in actual distance. Picture a map of known space where systems are arranged according
to their proximity via WHJ. Now imagine a map of known space where systems are arranged according to
a physical coordinate system. Worlds which are WHJ neighbors could be on completely different spiral arms.
And vice versa. Worlds which are multiple hops distant (Terra and Xanadu) could be near neighbors
spacially. Use of ringships (or any other FTL technology of which there may be – likely are – several) would
require highly accurate maps of the galaxy. Depending upon how much faster than lightspeed ringships
can go, transit times between even relatively close systems could require weeks or months. There’s also
the question of whether a ringship’s drive ring could be made sufficiently compact to allow it to use WHJs
where it would be advantageous.
I see the empire using ringships as assault carriers to allow attack fleets to bypass WHJ chokepoints and
go straight for an enemy’s soft belly. The first use of such a mode of attack would catch the core worlds
totally flat footed. Even subsequent attacks would present significant challenges to defend. Imagine having
to defend a huge level plain where the enemy could appear at will anywhere. I can also see ringships,
once they have dropped their attack load (think frigates and even cruiser class vesels) being used as heavy
gun platforms. if the Pride can carry a sting that can cut a core dreadnaught in half, what could a ringship
the size of the Nimitz carry!
I don’t feel a Nimitz-sized ship would be a good idea, if the FTL
was damaged as well as the ship itself, WH might be the only way
it could make it to a space port for repairs. Grav drives are good
in any system, there’s plenty to grab a hold of, in deep space it
may not work well if at all. For the Empire, Fusion/Matter-antimatter
isn’t necessary, but the core doesn’t have that so massive power
reactors would be needed. So a means of collecting reaction mass
would be needed for any long trip. Or support ships carrying mass.
Either way, they wouldn’t be practical for long-term use.
Since the Empire’s ships don’t need reactors to generate power,
that issues isn’t a problem, but the need for post-battle repairs
are a huge one. Support ships would help with that issue, carrying
parts, materials, and manpower for major repairs. I could see the
core using a fleet or two to clear off the WH, permitting the core
access. A massive fleet of FTL ships to act as the only attack force,
while in line with the Empire’s way of thinking, is too “costly” to those
in the core. That would be a good reason they moth-balled the fleet,
too costly to run, maintain, repair, and they might just scuttle the
ships heavily damaged in battle in that case. So the core might also
have a hidden ship-building station(s) where they have their FTL fleets
hidden. Also moth-balled and collecting dust.
To be honest? I think the Russian scientists stumbled on a warp drive
when they first tested the grav drives, they said it disappeared and
took an 80 meter bowl of ground around it? No kaboom, just poof?
That describes what a bystander would see when a warp drive kicked
in, just gone, just a flash and poof. That also means their test engine
is still traveling in warp, until the control system fails. I wonder how
far it’ll travel, and how long the system will function?
262.4 feet for us Merican’s. (80m)
it would be still there. remember Earth is moving in space at
490,000 mph or 8,000 mps (NYC to Guam in ONE second.!)
SO! as soon as the bubble formed, it stopped moving, in relation
to Earth. IF you had it to the second. (for time travel purpose.)
that would put you with in ” 8,000 miles of its exact location,,,
in space.! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU
If it’s still there, or was, it most likely burnt up on re-entry when Earth
passed by that spot again. It’s either that or it became a micro black
hole that evaporated before it did any damage. It’s tricky, we’re talking
about things here that only sci-fi writers have dabbled in, it’s just as
likely sitting on a mini-verse outside of our own. I’d love to sit in on a
debate between physicists on what could of happened…
Just for a laugh…
Another thought, if it kept it’s momentum, it could of left Earth at a tangent
from our orbit, since it was a prototype, they may not of noticed the power
output and didn’t feed the output back in. So the field may have only lasted
a few split-seconds tops, and shut off so it may be orbiting the planet in an
unstable orbit. Don’t mind me, I have random thoughts when I can’t sleep…
They aren’t attacking, they are getting into a better position
in case they try to land or attack. If they go into stealth and
sit in the center of either WH, they can wait to see if they do
anything aggressive. If they do, they can get behind and try
to disable the ships. They are viewing as an invasion force,
so disabling the transport first, and then the fighting ships,
is a good way to stop that in hurry. If they ignore the transport,
it can still land the troops and it becomes a foot battle. The
freighters could be also carrying troops, drop ships, ammo
and supplies.
I don’t see anything about querying IFF. Do the bunnies even know
for sure those ships are hostile? If this is a drill, I hope somebody
thought to disable the weapons!
While that is clearly a occupation fleet, it might also passing through.
so since they are on the Storm, they can go stealth, take up a
defensive position, and then strip the IFF. After which reporting their
actions and intent back to the other ships to prepare for a fight. All
they have is the Storm, the Sparrow and her Toby’s for planetary
defense, so calling attention to that fact is bad ju-ju.
Damn. Sometimes I hate being right.
I hear you, I had the same thought.
On the plus side, I don’t think the Legion left any of them alive.
I’m hoping it was the one that Flea
splattered his junk all over the wall.
Karma would of been proud if so 😉
Emphasis on splattered. She should be covered in gore, especially as she was under him.
Blowback and blood dropping on her would not leave her all pristine,
looking like she had time for a shower and packed a change of fatigues.
Hell, perforated bowels and bladder would be giving her a decent chance of being covered in shit and piss too.
I wish I could have, but there’s only so much I can do within
the limits of the program I use.
I think I know how it might be done but it’d be a royal pain to execute.
You’d have to make a custom set of skins.and clothes for Flea. Several
hours of work. Face it, Catman, you’re a victim of your own success. I
tried to learn Daz and flat gave up. Could not get past the first tutorial.
Trust me, Steele, what PC does with the posing software is just this side
of magic!
Ooh! Navigator (or pilot) is eager to start this dance.
I think Roger will make a good Captain, he’s already giving
commands and keeping everyone calm and acting as needed.
He quickly decided that help wasn’t coming and made a plan
of action. Right or wrong, he’s doing the right job! Once the
sim is over, they can explain what he did right and wrong…
I guessed as much, a 10 y/o isn’t going to understand what it means,
here’s hoping the guy that did it was the one that Flea made that fancy
“course-correction” to his blood flow!
“Oh pellets”?!? I get the meaning and I guess it makes sense, goats do
the same thing only slightly larger…
Lesson #1 recruits, but always re-scan while you’re moving, there might
be something you missed! And don’t assume your intel is 100%, another
words, look before you leap! (pun intended) I’d love to see any Navy ship
in a dog-fight, the way they can maneuver is way past anything even B5
showed us!
“Pilot, make it so”
“Aye, aye, Cpt Picard”
I’m sure that Flea and the dragonfly will have a jolly rollicking
time hunting down the perps that raped Diane and made Seth watch.
And I’m willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that there will be many,
many heads on poles for public display.
One, to show Diane and Seth that they no longer have anything to fear.
And two, to show everyone else that they DO have something to fear.
I would agree but the decree that Teresa gave Squirrel was to
get in, grabs the kids, and get out. Sticking around for revenge
would be against orders and a huge risk. I’m sure a major attack
will be ordered soon, if for no other reason than to protect the
“good” settlements in the area, another “Empireover” in
government so to speak?
Besides, I have little doubt those they shot were the same guys!
Ringships In The TGW Universe (part one) Some time back PC kind of hinted
that the core worlds possess technology for FTL travel that doesn’t involve
wormholes. There was no detail merely a passing remark by a P’teran officer
that core ships did not have to come through a wormhole. Then in the previous
episode there was a model ringship visible. That got me thinking. Maybe
ringships are also possible in the TGW universe. How might they work? Miguel
Alcubierre (whose work was later added to by Harold G. White) solved some of
the equations for FTL and proved that, at least in the math, FTL travel is
possible. The result is now known as the Alcubierre-White warp drive (“warp drive”).
One characteristic of the equipment for generating the
warp field is the large ring (or multiple rings) around
the hull of the resulting craft. For that reason such
vehicles are popularly called “ringships”. If FTL travel
is possible (and many physicists would vehemently
disavow the possibility) then I believe there ought to
be multiple ways to effect that result. In PC’s TGW
universe wormhole transits are the preferred means
of inter-system travel. I think it natural that, once the
technology to detect and activate the transit points is
developed a culture would naturally use wormholes
since that is a simpler solution. The Empire naturally
took to it since it dovetailed well with their grav
technology. But I do not think the Empire would have
stopped there. Assuming Dr Alcubierre had already
published his seminal paper prior to the fall of
civilization on Terra, the Empire’s scientists would at
least know of it. Being the practical empericists I
doubt the Empire wasted any funds on research into
warp drives since they already had a usable way to
travel between systems. Once the P’terans let them
know of a possible invasion route via FTL drives, I
believe the Empire would have made producing a
working FTL drive a military priority. The result would
be ringships with the Wolf Empire flag emblazoned on
their hull.
BTW, what IS the Wolf Empire flag (and other symbols)?
It was a dragon rearing up, with a shield and something else,
but it may have changed since Teresa took over.
http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-059/
I did a flag for PC a couple of years ago (3? 4?) for the Wolf empire.
I don’t recall ever seeing it. I think I put a pic of it up online but now I
can’t remember the name of the website. It’s a big one. Lots of people
post drawings and photos on it but for the life of me I can’t dredge
up the name of the place. Anybody know what I’m thinking of?
Here is one I did for PC forever ago. I could not remember Deviant Art
https://www.deviantart.com/bmullins3/art/wolf-flag-EG1-888315008
Sorry, Bill. I forgot about it.
You’ll be seeing it soon.
Woodman, to my knowledge the closest thing to an official Wolf Empire
flag is one PC asked me to execute a couple of years ago. The link is below.
Nicely done.
What do the eight stars represent?
The stars represent member kingdoms in the Wolf Empire. At the time
there were 8 kingdoms that were part of the Empire. I have no idea how
many are in it these days. If the Catman will let me know the current
number I’ll make him an updated version. I still have the source
graphics and (hopefully) still have a working copy of PhotoShop Elements.
I bought it a few years back but Adobe has been getting kind of squirrelly
about whether their products were owned or just leased.
Number is increasing quickly. I don’t know when the last Terran kingdom joined,
but the Fringe worlds seem to be jumping on. Gonna be hard to keep up. The
US 49-star flag was created, I’ve seen one, but they’re rare.
Yes you do, the Laporidae just joined HEH!
Anyway, it’s not much different from when
the USA got started, I found a US flag with
only 48 stars on it in my grandfather’s stuff
when he passed away.
If that model is one of the FTL ships, it falls into the suggested design
that many scientist have been pushing. Also they can’t be very aggressive
because if the rings are damaged, they can’t go to FTL. They could work
as a short-term WH defense ship(s) to permit the heavier ships to get
through safely, then escape through the wormhole so backup can arrive.
FTL would be handy to explore star systems NOT in the WH lanes, also
be a great way to hide people and assets. WH travel is just a cheaper
way to FTL travel, they wouldn’t have to expend money for fuel to use it.
That’s not an issue for the Empire, so a refitted FLT ship would cost
anymore than a typical ship to operate. That is the core main weakness,
their greed and lack of spending is keeping them from using all the resources
they could bring to the table, by time they figure that out it’ll be too late!
It can’t be a warp drive because that would require a knowledge of gravity
manipulation that would take them to the grav drives, unless they have
scientists that are that small minded! Warping space by use of a “gravity
bubble” isn’t a far step from the controlled directional grav drives, I think
that would be far easier to do than a controllable bubble.
Ringships In The TGW Universe (part 2)
Like everything in the real universe, ringships would offer certain advantages while at the same time having
certain disadvantages. From a war making standpoint ringships would allow invasion of a system at the
invader’s choice of location and vector. The invader could entirely bypass the defender’s ships massed at
the chokepoint of the wormhole junction. A ringship invasion could warm into a system anywhere. Most especially
the fleet could stay in warp until close to the target world. Several SciFi authors have postulated that a fractional
warp field could alloow for rapid intra-system travel at high sub-light speeds. Additionally, a fractional warp field
could also serve as a defensive shield. Think partial spindizzy fields in James Blish’s “Cities In Flight” series.
Ringships could conceivably also carry smaller, more maneuverable “conventional”craft to fight using the
Empire’s preferred lighting swift tactics.
Ringships, however, would also have significant drawbacks. Wormhole transit between systems is essentially
instantaneous. Travel time using WHJs (WormHole Junction) to destinations multiple hops away mostly
consists of going between WHJs at normal speeds. Warp travel would involve actually traversing the
(unimaginably vast) distances between star systems. I suspect that systems connected via WHJ are not
especially close in actual distance. Picture a map of known space where systems are arranged according
to their proximity via WHJ. Now imagine a map of known space where systems are arranged according to
a physical coordinate system. Worlds which are WHJ neighbors could be on completely different spiral arms.
And vice versa. Worlds which are multiple hops distant (Terra and Xanadu) could be near neighbors
spacially. Use of ringships (or any other FTL technology of which there may be – likely are – several) would
require highly accurate maps of the galaxy. Depending upon how much faster than lightspeed ringships
can go, transit times between even relatively close systems could require weeks or months. There’s also
the question of whether a ringship’s drive ring could be made sufficiently compact to allow it to use WHJs
where it would be advantageous.
I see the empire using ringships as assault carriers to allow attack fleets to bypass WHJ chokepoints and
go straight for an enemy’s soft belly. The first use of such a mode of attack would catch the core worlds
totally flat footed. Even subsequent attacks would present significant challenges to defend. Imagine having
to defend a huge level plain where the enemy could appear at will anywhere. I can also see ringships,
once they have dropped their attack load (think frigates and even cruiser class vesels) being used as heavy
gun platforms. if the Pride can carry a sting that can cut a core dreadnaught in half, what could a ringship
the size of the Nimitz carry!
I don’t feel a Nimitz-sized ship would be a good idea, if the FTL
was damaged as well as the ship itself, WH might be the only way
it could make it to a space port for repairs. Grav drives are good
in any system, there’s plenty to grab a hold of, in deep space it
may not work well if at all. For the Empire, Fusion/Matter-antimatter
isn’t necessary, but the core doesn’t have that so massive power
reactors would be needed. So a means of collecting reaction mass
would be needed for any long trip. Or support ships carrying mass.
Either way, they wouldn’t be practical for long-term use.
Since the Empire’s ships don’t need reactors to generate power,
that issues isn’t a problem, but the need for post-battle repairs
are a huge one. Support ships would help with that issue, carrying
parts, materials, and manpower for major repairs. I could see the
core using a fleet or two to clear off the WH, permitting the core
access. A massive fleet of FTL ships to act as the only attack force,
while in line with the Empire’s way of thinking, is too “costly” to those
in the core. That would be a good reason they moth-balled the fleet,
too costly to run, maintain, repair, and they might just scuttle the
ships heavily damaged in battle in that case. So the core might also
have a hidden ship-building station(s) where they have their FTL fleets
hidden. Also moth-balled and collecting dust.
To be honest? I think the Russian scientists stumbled on a warp drive
when they first tested the grav drives, they said it disappeared and
took an 80 meter bowl of ground around it? No kaboom, just poof?
That describes what a bystander would see when a warp drive kicked
in, just gone, just a flash and poof. That also means their test engine
is still traveling in warp, until the control system fails. I wonder how
far it’ll travel, and how long the system will function?
http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-080-b/
262.4 feet for us Merican’s. (80m)
it would be still there. remember Earth is moving in space at
490,000 mph or 8,000 mps (NYC to Guam in ONE second.!)
SO! as soon as the bubble formed, it stopped moving, in relation
to Earth. IF you had it to the second. (for time travel purpose.)
that would put you with in ” 8,000 miles of its exact location,,,
in space.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU
If it’s still there, or was, it most likely burnt up on re-entry when Earth
passed by that spot again. It’s either that or it became a micro black
hole that evaporated before it did any damage. It’s tricky, we’re talking
about things here that only sci-fi writers have dabbled in, it’s just as
likely sitting on a mini-verse outside of our own. I’d love to sit in on a
debate between physicists on what could of happened…
Just for a laugh…
Another thought, if it kept it’s momentum, it could of left Earth at a tangent
from our orbit, since it was a prototype, they may not of noticed the power
output and didn’t feed the output back in. So the field may have only lasted
a few split-seconds tops, and shut off so it may be orbiting the planet in an
unstable orbit. Don’t mind me, I have random thoughts when I can’t sleep…
Shouldn’t they _contact_ the arriving ships first? They aren’t in full war with core worlds yet, or have I missed something?
They aren’t attacking, they are getting into a better position
in case they try to land or attack. If they go into stealth and
sit in the center of either WH, they can wait to see if they do
anything aggressive. If they do, they can get behind and try
to disable the ships. They are viewing as an invasion force,
so disabling the transport first, and then the fighting ships,
is a good way to stop that in hurry. If they ignore the transport,
it can still land the troops and it becomes a foot battle. The
freighters could be also carrying troops, drop ships, ammo
and supplies.
I don’t see anything about querying IFF. Do the bunnies even know
for sure those ships are hostile? If this is a drill, I hope somebody
thought to disable the weapons!
While that is clearly a occupation fleet, it might also passing through.
so since they are on the Storm, they can go stealth, take up a
defensive position, and then strip the IFF. After which reporting their
actions and intent back to the other ships to prepare for a fight. All
they have is the Storm, the Sparrow and her Toby’s for planetary
defense, so calling attention to that fact is bad ju-ju.
PC, pls chk email.
Beware the smiling bunneh!