Author Topic: The Science Pirates: Early operations  (Read 4851 times)

Offline Buzzbomb

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Re: The Science Pirates: Early operations
« Reply #25 on: December 01, 2021, 02:15:16 PM »
That is just awesome. Personally I have thoroughly enjoyed the way you developed this

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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: The Science Pirates: Early operations
« Reply #26 on: December 01, 2021, 06:38:24 PM »
Nice one, Doc! The War Face is particularly good! :smiley: :smiley:
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Offline Frank3k

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Re: The Science Pirates: Early operations
« Reply #27 on: December 01, 2021, 11:32:20 PM »
It looks great, but something I wouldn't want to see coming at me. What type of beam weapon is in the turrets?

Offline Robomog

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Re: The Science Pirates: Early operations
« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2021, 09:24:54 AM »
Love the war face.   :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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Offline Dr. YoKai

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Re: The Science Pirates: Early operations
« Reply #29 on: December 02, 2021, 11:20:55 PM »
Thanks for the compliments, colleagues. This was a blast to build - the next sps will be either the Pompei As You Go (ex-USS Vesuvius) or the Great Beastern (ex-SS Great Eastern).

It looks great, but something I wouldn't want to see coming at me. What type of beam weapon is in the turrets?

Frank - from the opening post
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The after turret used a pair of Ancient Atlantean weapons, a 'fire lance' and an 'audio pulse amplifier'. The former projected a thin beam or 'spear' of super-heated plasma, contained by
a powerful magnetic field, with a range/terminus of around half a kilometer. The APA projected pulsed soundwaves that at first simply bounced
off the target, to be analyzed by an Atlantean Difference Engine, which would then modify the pulse to the vibrational frequency of the
target, and "Shake them up a bit", as Aunt Sekrit was wont to say.

The range on the Fire lance is probably a bit optimistic - we've talked about plasma weapons before, I recall. ;)

Offline finsrin

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Re: The Science Pirates: Early operations
« Reply #30 on: December 03, 2021, 10:16:05 AM »
One wicked warship.  With enemy focusing attention on bow (great treatment there) they unsuspectingly get zapped by stealthily mounted plasma beam.   From that moment their day goes downhill fast.
Do like those swing out planks.   Would not thought of them.   Grappling gear from base to tips is convincing.   It all works for what it is.....  8)  :-*

Think plasma beam would have longer range on flat earth ?