Surprise/no surprise.
TGW-1393
Chapter: The Dance Begins
Characters: Admiral ariste, ahmya, babydoll, commander lyn, Jochi, kora-bo, lt connie, lt doug, Miral, nori, sheela, Taritha, yoshi
Location: shimizu home, station meeting room
The Gentle Wolf
A modern adventure webcomic
Panels 3 & 4 – typical male. How fast can it go?
Panel 8 – that’s one way to invite the first attack
to your prepared location. Poor, poor, little,
undefended planet. Whatever shall we do if
attacked by the big, bad core?
Sun Tzu is an entire course in
Imperial military training.
All branches, all ranks.
I really need to read up on Sun Tzu,
I don’t need it, but somethings it works
in non-combat situations as well.
Like setting a trap like this only you’re
setting up a “Problem” to take themselves
out.
problem. “Be where they aren’t.” few years back,
at sisters’ office,. coworker was hijacking
submitted work and claiming as own. (picking
and choosing, just enough to get promotions.)
so i changed the routing to include HR and
the owner, with a delay, to when the owner
opened the next meeting…
i was never there, don’t know what you mean…
That type of hardware wasn’t common
at the factory, when I had to leave they
were just starting to put networked
computers into the offices. Before then,
it was the Ullysis(?) mainframe and
the terminals. I still have one of the
“Hard drive” disks in the garage, bigger
than a hub cap and only stored about
10 mb. The main frame was in a conference
sized room with panel after panel of
disk readers and the actual computer…
It was still dumber than a calculator.
Ah yes, baiting a trap, or like with
many types of birds, the mother
pretends to be hurt to distract a
predator from the nest. Only in this
case, right into a “fully armed and
operational battle station!” heh.
Backed by the newest and meanest
ships the Empire has to offer 😉
“That’s no moon!” 😉
(major sci-fi geek here) 😛
geek, nerd, dweeb. all the above…
at 2 AU out (300,000km),.
from earth, that would put it outside
the asteroid belt (halfway to Jupiter).
useless info: Star Trek Motion Picture,.
V,ger cloud at 82AU would have made
it larger that our solar system of less
than 80AU with Pluto’s orbit…
I remember that, although to be honest,
I can never seem to remember what an
AU is equal to. I’ve only ran across it in sci-fi,
so not much exposure. That was the energy
field V’ger was creating, the ship itself was
20 times the size of the Enterprise. Just the
idea that it could create a field of that size
said much about it’s over-all power.
AU = astronomical unit. distance from center
of the sun to the center of the earth…
20 times… heh, try like a 1000…
the refit A was 305 meters,. V’ger was 87km,
in this, the A is three pixels,
https://www.st-minutiae.com/resources/comparison/comparison_huge.png
edit: or half the size of a period here… o.0
I’ll look at it, I’ve never seen that
comparison before, I was mostly guessing.
Heh, I’ll try to remember that this time.
So an AU is about 94,000,000 miles.
That puts Neptune’s orbit at roughly 30 AU.
V’gers field was larger than most of
the entire solar system!
(since Pluto is just a “visitor…”)
“Jumping”? Guess we know they do, in fact have
a FTL travel system that doesn’t use wormholes.
Gonna get interesting real soon!
B5, “jump gates”, Star Wars, “Jump to light speed”
Jumping refers to the sudden leap of speed you get
when you pass light speed. Even SG-1 called it
“Hyper space” which is was SW had called it. ST
called it “sub-space.” There are many thoughts on
how to side-step the light speed limit, the
“warp bubble” is the only one (so far) that has
some math to back it up. I’m sure PC’s take on it
will be interesting none the less 🙂
Finished a hard Sci Fi book by Christopher Paolini who
included an extensive appendix on his Universe FTL.
The implication was that there was Subliminal (slower
than light) and Supraliminal (faster than light) space.
That Einstein’s theory breaks down where speed is
equal to the speed of light.
Soooo….one just has to create a barrier (called a
Markov barrier) that can survive in both and one hops
between them and off to whatever star system.
The math adds some limits. Since stars are giant gravity
wells, one can’t get too close or the your barrier breaks
down and you then find out what it’s like to be in a
black hole (very briefly).
This has the impact that ships or drones cannot drop
objects into subliminal space moving a large fractions of C.
Very good read and very geeky for us math/science folks.
He was using some real science in his writing, unlike
many dime-store novels like what I read as a boy. I
liked Star Trek because of the general idea of it, but
in all the shows they relied to heavily on techno-babble
to explain things. Star Wars movies just ignored the
tech and just gave quick explanations. SG-1 was bad
about that too (the Carter head-tilt), while B5 did
much the same as SW. B5 had the most realistic
space combat, while 99% of any other treated space
dog-fights pretty much the same as airplane fights.
Almost none could resist the urge to add in sound
effects to those battles, there’s almost no audible
sound in space. Or flaming explosions in space.
sound,, humans must have sound,. silent movies were a novelty,
that was dying till sound was added… then, the action movies,.
you can’t have explosions without sound.!!!
space combat IS boring.!
.. move, wait an hour, fire, wait, move, wait, move, fire, wait…
an Anime showed “realistic” combat (Macross, the movie) once,.
everyone hated it. Star Trek “visual range” is for the viewer.!
those ships would never get that close… (less than a mile.)
Oh I know it was for the viewers, I’m
just a bit more OCD about things than
I was. Like Pike’s cabin in SNW, or
watching a Viper using a braking maneuver
to take down a Cylon fighter, it’s sad.
All the Cylon needed to do what rotate
to follow the target. B5 did it right, a
fighter would kill their engines, spin on
it’s center of mass, then thrust away
in the new trajectory. Kinda like what
the grav drives do for the Empire’s ships.
Did anyone else think that the Cylons
hired a stormtrooper trainer for the
Cylon troops? Same miss ratio… 😛