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Havn't posted in a very very long time but came out of retirement just to say this is very nice

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I'm a little surprised no one has listed a PA because its versitile, low cost/cost effective, or just for looks. Do you have a Top Ten list? Well I don't have my books any where near me so I can't make an actual list. But Gladius Exo(says Exo suit but its stats are closer to a PA) for cost effectiv...

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I'm a little surprised no one has listed a PA because its versitile, low cost/cost effective, or just for looks.

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I have them being a little shorter then a can of Red Bull, but the same width

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I would put the lore first, then character creation and all that jazz. Want people to know about the world before they roll up a GB pilot and then go "Oh I'm hated by the local government?"

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The only thing I want are (better) price listings for ship components. A massive selection of STL/FTL engines, sensor packages, armour plating,energy weapons, railguns, point defense systems, computer banks, lifesupport, ya know the whole works

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That makes sense. Have you ever found afriend that was sleeping and then moved them somewhere without waking them. The look on their face is priceless, takes at least 30 seconds for them to figure out they where they are.

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In my games I rule that everything does damage but then its almost immidieatly healed, making the all thing pointless, unless its the specific one(IE silver/magic/water/iron/whatever). The fall would leave one nice splat imprint and then the were beast would pick itself up and cough up some dust wit...

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If you launch it in the general direction of the target it should remain invisible. Until it opens the doors and fires off the rest of the missiles(if its the carrier version) or until it gets close enough that the missile posses a threat to the target(How far away that is depends on the GM). I figu...

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I've always used Rura Penthe(Star Trek VI) as a basis for Hell Worlds, doesn't need to be a burning mass of fire to keep prisoners in check. Venus and Mercury are also optional. Though my current one is based off Europa. It's a prison on the bottom of the ocean that's under several miles of ice. You...

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Rifts Japan and Triax have Particle Beam pistols that are nice as well.

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Isn't there some sort of rescue/construction robot in Chaos Earth?

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I would lessen the damage water/rain does. Being out in the rain should be a pain not death, but giving them cement boots and letting him swim with the fishes should. And that nonsense about not wanting to cross over water.

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Depending on what picture you go by the ammo belt can hold 13-21 rounds.

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Wow now thats a cool idea for a plot

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I think they are pretty balanced as is. One is the Ultimate Sword, the other is the Ultimate Shield. Well depending on if your using the old Robotech stats or the new ones

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stealth is impossible in space. you can't hide your heat

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Wheres the fun in that?

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Yeah, they do. that's what happens in a Cold War arms race.

And not just in a cold war either, thats whats happening right now all over the world.

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Sadly....I'm in Canada and as far as I know its not on up here

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Just like to add something to the discussion. If you fire this at a Doombringer and it does 20D6X100,000 MDC, why would the Doombringer be destroyed? The affected area is only a few 100 meters.It has a big hole it from one side to the other. But baring a shot on the engines/bridge/some other vital a...

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Well I was thinking of structurally built into the ship from the get go. But you make some good points. You would probably need two bays one for launch and one for recovery and the munitions storage would have to built into the ship. Other things would be ATC, some kind of actual recovery system for...

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so for example, the 1000 mile range of the CCW's big lasers would just be the distance they can fire without penalty. but they could fire farther. but out ot 2000 miles you have a -1 to strike, to 3000 miles a -2, to 4000 miles a -3, etc. thus you could fire those lasers out to say, 20,000 miles......

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"Ugh, another delusional fan trying to emulate the famous trench scene. How many lives must that accursed film claim!?"
Marvin the Martian

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Katana with an AA weapon pod and a mini-missile pod(why it has less Main Body MDC then the Black Eagle I'll never know)

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It would probably work at closer ranges, but to cram a lot of missiles in the cluster missile is going to need a shorter then normal range most likely. also its submunitions are also going to likely need to be packing shorter ranges. This means that the defending ship can kill the cluster missile a...

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If you know the dimensions of a cargo ship you can turn that into a resonable sized carrier. I got one that has a two 360X130x10meter cargo bays, you can cram in 212(or 400+ if you stack them ontop of each other) Black Eagles or about 80 for operational use with full access to workshops and room for...

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I was thinking of using the cluster cruise missile not as a defensive weapon but offensivly. Something to overwhelm the point defense systems of a ship.

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Those cost a bundle. 1 cruise missle, 4 large,16 medium,64short, 256mini. Assuming your going for damage(all mini missiles are plasma) and that all the carrier missiles are 1/4 the price(its just a shell with an engine and guidance) Its 614,400 for the mini-missiles and another 67,000 for the carrie...

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For the life of me, given the descriptions of the placement of the Galaxies, I can't see how this makes sense? Given that the Thundercloud and Anvil Galaxies are at opposite ends, Cacadia would either be further from one than the other by a significant portion, or be so far in between both that spa...

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Assuming a mini-missile is the size of a pop can you can fit 156 mini-missiles into a 8foot by 20 inch tube and thats after having 1/2inch of freeroom around every missile and leaving a 3 inch tube down the middile.

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While comparing ship stats from DB3 and DB13 I noticed that the Long Range Missle Payload on the Warshield and Protector are missing. They both state 62 Misslies per Launcher. Loading from the Cargo hold takes 1D6 Minutes but neither list a total missle amount in the cargo holds. As comparison the C...

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I didn't see this mentioned, only gave it a good skim, wouldn't a Cruise Missle going FTL squash most of the internals? or do they have inertial dampners? That and with all these fancy gadgets installed wouldn't the damage, range, speed and so forth be downgrade due to lack of room?

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In my games you don't look for the Rift/magic Drive itself, you look for the massive PPE batteries that would power it.

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Suprised no one has mentioned the Abolisher yet

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personal FFs only engage when something moving quickly is detected Based soley on that I would say it would work. Same with falling into water from a mile up. The FF may be porus to water and air, its still gonna turn on push against the the sudden incoming force. I think thats what really matters....

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They must have some sorta guidance, guided just enough for the missle to get to the target but not follow it or actually track it

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Well the situation is(just a summary actually) is that the characters got caught in the middle of a TGE CCW battle, well its the aftermath the TGE have fled and the CCW are picking up the peices. Due to the area close range sensors suck, so the PCs are safe for now but they can't jump away or they g...

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Well in my case its not a fighter vs a capital ship its escort ship vs capital ship. Like a Hunter vs a Warsheild. They just want to make a diversion by setting one ship to crash into another one

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for ramming, remember; "something hitting at 3 km/sec (kips) delivers kinetic energy broadly equal to its mass in TNT." (Robinson's First Law of space combat) so basically, for every 10 mach your travelling, you inflict roughly 1D6x10 M.D. per ton ... Wow. That means a Protector going all...

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volatile weapons and fuels of the ship. I.e. anti-matter For the anti-matter going bye-bye I've used the explosive damage listed under the asterix for the Main Body of the ship(hunter does 2D6X1000 after -1,500 MDC) Which is fine till you get to the bigger stuff and the fighters( they don't have a ...

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I have never been able to find a good damage table or system for a spaceship ramming another one. Got any hints or ideas?

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RUE page 358 states "Note that most blasts and beams stop upon hitting their target, and if a beam goes all the way through an S.D.C. structure, it stops upon hitting whatever is behind the first target. The same is true of M.D. projectiles such as rail gun rounds." I believe that rule wa...

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The book really isn't any more outdated now than when it was published. And while a field might be more effective than a ring, it would also be far more resource intensive. Further we're discussing canon. So despite your feelings on the book being outdated or the effectiveness of the debris ring as...

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Not only that, but 10% of what goes through the debris field is intact. Push a Cosmo Knight through there, he'll ignore all but the X-Ray Lasers, which will do almost nothing to him, and he'll be on his way. If your going to toss in a Cosmo-knight why not just throw in a God? I'm sure Thor could ea...

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THe book never actually says where or how thick it is. And even if it was 19 000miles thick it wouldn't jeopardize any station(espeically Laika that orbits the Moon)

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I doubt Atlantis would ever take over Rifts Earth because of the large amounts of rifts that make it profitable also make it a poor place to hold onto. It would take lots of resources, manpower, time and money to keep everything in check. It would be like telling your enemies that your going to be a...

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Well there is cannon evidence for that, Hopebringer is runnign at 90% due to severe structural damage. Presumbably got the crap kicked out of it to the point it had no practical armour left then after the battle got new armour with out fully fixing or unable to fully fix the structural damage, so it...

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So would there be no such thing a soft kill for a spaceship? Only ones I can think of is engine hits at the bridge. And those border the hard kill line

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We have probes that have gone more then a 4 billion miles, why not a missile? But thats not the point we're talking bout going by the book, if we aren't then I might aswell say the Zentraedi wins cause they are all secret Cosmo-knights

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From the Cruise Missile topic However, you fail to note that where hit goes when it gets through the armour is most important in that function. For example, the HMS Hood had a shell penetrate into her magazine and it exploded there, destroying the ship effectively in one shot. Likewise, the USS Ariz...

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