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    According to Ali's post, the Minbari war has just started. Which means there's 2 or 3 years to blend the best of Gundam and Earth Alliance technology before the Minbari reach Earth. Hybrid designs are probably out of the question realistically for at least a year into the war. I think we saw the proto-Omegas in what was implied to be late in the war in the In The Beginning Montage so that represents probably at least a year to get the Narn weapons online and that was for technology that was very similar in form and function to Earth's. Not only do they need to start producing hyperspace worthy ships with the new technology, they need to do so in such quantities that they can push the Minbari out of Earth space. Being willing to commit atrocities is all fine and dandy - if you're fighting on someone else's turf. Given the extreme differences in form and function between Earth and Minbari technology, its highly unlikely the Minbari were making use of captured Earth infrastructure so there is exactly zero benefit from scorched earth tactics. So the war has to be won in space, which means ship to ship slug outs - asymmetric warfare tactics like Sheriden's rouse to kill the Blackstar will win small tactical victories but this new Earth Alliance needs a practical way to win in space on the strategic scale. Against the Minbari specifically that's really going to come down to beating their stealth whether through advanced sensors that can justifiably defeat their stealth or human wave assaults that are able to consistently overrun Minbari lines and to do so in a way that causes the Minbari to suffer losses they cannot easily greater than Earth's. Defeating the Minbari in battle isn't enough, they also have to be beaten so severely that Earth can replace its losses faster than the Minbari and thus gain ground.

     

    yeah I agree with you. the benefits gundam brings(combat and none combat) to the table. are as follows. I may forget a few.

     

    A:the minovisky physics.

    1:Fusion reactions which are 1/4 to 1/10th the size of normal fusion and which produce 15 or more times energy.

    2: the minovisky effect which makes radar useless, skews infrared and even distorts visual ranges. Causes deterioration of particle weapons which cuts the ranges of such heavily.

    3: Ability to shape force fields with I fields which block em radiation and heat. They use these to house micro fusion reactors and make something extremely light weight out of a big reactor. Hence ultra compact fusion reactors. A star fury could house a power house of a fusion reactor.

    4:Imagine a light saber where you can make it into a literal shield and stop weapons. A wall of energy. Also light sabers.

    5: They started using m particle engines which outperforms classic nuclear pulse engines and ion drives. The victory 2, with the small frame could do 20gs and accelerate all the way to near c, without needing extra fuel.

    6: mega particle weapons are quiet powerful and cannot be deflected by em fields. the first generation capital ships are in the 50tj range per shot. They are known to shoot at high speeds and with mass broad sides of fleets. again this was 86 years prior.

     

     

    B: New types and Weapons designed to take advatange of espers. New types are powerful in their own right. they have jedi reflexes, and other uncanny abilites. They however are not on par with powerful b5 psi core. A p5 or above using a psyco frame would be utterly unstoppable. They could also teach newtypes on how to use their abilities better.

     

    C: Industry

     

    1: 86 years before this, duering the one year war, both sides produced an space navy of 1000's of ships within six months. These ships are roughly 300-400 meters in length or the size of the average star fleet vessel. Their guns range in the kilotons of firepower and they can carry many fighters and mobile suits.

    2: within 45-100 years they effectively colonized earht sphere and jupiter with 90% of humanity at the time. Their space stations make babylon 5 seem like a childs toy. 30kmx6km. They made 1000's upon 1000's of them. some of which are in Jupiter's orbit. Jupiter is their supply line of helium 3. As we did not know the moon contained a ton of it when they made the first show.

    3: their military was in the millions during the one year war. This is however 86 years after.

    4: The gundam was a prototype, which was developed in a year or so. they went from the prototype to mass production in under a six months. gm's where spit out en mass. Each prototype gundam has ushered mass productions within a few months to maybe a year. This means they are highly innovative and can incorporate new tech.

     

    d: compatibility of cultures and tech.

     

    Dispite the diffrences there are many similarities. The techs are all based on similar back grounds and terminology which came about at the same time. both have the back ground history up to the 20th century. We arn't going to suddenly recreate everything from the ground up. Remeber how in sg-1 they where able to see the video of the sg-1 team from the past? it;s because the fundamentals of the tech are all based on past tech which was the same.

     

    Though in a story there should be obsticles otherwise it would be too easy to win.

  9. Posted · Edited by Ali-Sama
    clairyfiing.

    Gundam(uc) earth(assume entire solar system, colonies, space stations etc, including jupiter mars etc) is transported to the b5 verse, and replaces an easy to get to for the ea system, the jump gates remain.

     

    Earth just started the minbari war which means it is 2245 earth date, and uc 0165(12 years after victory)

     

    John sheridan's ship makes first contact. note the main character of victory is ironically the same age as John. So all thoes characters would be alive and kicking. So would f91 characters, they would be older. seabook would be 59.

     

    The minbari start butching earth force and the message is given that they will kill all humans.

     

    EA and the Earth federation join forces.

    what happens?

     

     

    ps i want ideas for a story i want to write.:)

     

    Note gundam in this reality does not have ftl They do however have some cool technologies. you can read about some of them here. http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Universal_Century_Technology

     

    ps the gundam weapons ahve a funky way of ratings. the best way to gage the beam output is to use this http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/QCX-76A_Jormungand that had 10x the output power of the capital weapons in the one year war or 0079 86 years before this.

  10. Posted

    Hey, B5 is 5 miles long, and stated to be 2.5 million tons, making it half the mass of the Great Pyramid.

    Babylon 5 is a space habitat. Most of it is living space and empty space. It is a cylinder. It does not need military grade armor nor anything beyond steel as a hull. It just needs to have enogh hull to avoid small impacts and radiaiton.

     

    That is ridiculous. A VSD would be less than 1/4 the mass of Enterprise-D, when it is easily 5 times larger.

    It really depends. The density of the materials. A car made out of solid gold vs a bus made out of aluminum. Which would be more massive?

     

     

    Well, you can do a respectable calculation or be ridiculed for being ridiculous. Your choice. I'm just observing.

    It is ficiton. You cannot compare some things in ficiton to reality. The crew numbers in trek are silly for the size of the ships. Compare them to any modern ship.

    Also why you no add me on face book?

  12. Posted

    The earth of gunbuster replaces b5 earth. I'd like ot hear Brain's take on this. How would this change the timeline. How would the b5 races deal with this earth.

    Remember they did start exploring and where peacfull before the alien life form attacked them. They keep their industry and technologies.

     

     

    http://www.toponeraegunbuster.com/Gunbuster-Index.html

     

    http://www.gearsonline.net/series/gunbuster/ships/

  16. Posted

    Bought it a while back, its not my dream space 4x game but I've played much, much worse. Nothing ever seems to match the depth and character of Alpha Centauri though. Brian Reynolds needs to stop whatever it is he's doing and make a space 4x as a spiritual successor to Alpha Centauri.

    Add me on steam. I have it and would love to play! Jacob and I are talking about making a group for here! so gamers can get together!

  17. Posted

    Humble Bundle THQ is On sale at http://humblebundle.com/

     

    The games are all steam redeemable.

     

     

    Humble bundle is a site which you pay what you want, over $1, and you get games. The money goes to charities and developers, with a split which you can decide.

     

    Child's play:http://www.childsplaycharity.org/

     

    The Child's Play Charity works to channel the goodwill of the worldwide gaming community into video games and game systems for sick children in hospitals. Child's Play works directly with hospitals worldwide to identify what kinds of games and systems can be installed in hospital wards and distributed "for keeps" to child patients. Since 2003, Child's Play has coordinated the donation of millions of dollars of games and game systems, making them a premier charity for helping children in need of the joy that games can bring.

     

     

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    Humble Bundle is helping people affected by disasters like floods, fires, tornadoes and hurricanes, as well as countless crises at home and around the world by making a donation to support American Red Cross Disaster Relief. The amount of the donation is determined by the Humble Bundle consumer at the time of checkout. This support enables the Red Cross to prepare for and provide shelter, food, emotional support and other assistance in response to disasters.

     

     

    Should you pay $1 you get the following games as one key.

     

    Darksiders, Metro 2033, Red faction Armageddon, company of heroes, company of heroes Opposing fronts and company of heroes tales of valor.

     

    Should you beat the average(usually will be 6-7usd) you get as a single key:

     

    Saint rows the third.

     

     

    The bundle can be bought for yourself or gifted. You can get many copies should you wish.

    Thank you for reading!

    Much love,

    Haplo Eberhart

  21. Posted

    I think this is one of the best steps taken for star wars. I hope this leads to a slew of good products for the franchise. Even though I enjoyed many of them. The rogue leader games, star wars empire at war, the republic commandos and other pc games. There have been many turds produced by the franchise. Disney has handled marvel very responsibly and I hope they take the same care with star wars. If i had the money i'd buy it out and put very talented people in charge of the different aspects.

  24. Posted

    If we assume science fiction films, unless stated otherwise, are not documentaries, then we have nothing to debate. We can only shrug our shoulders and say it didn't happen like that. That works fine for personal visions of what a universe should be like but everyone needs to have the same common ground when you enter into a discussion with another person about what we should take away from what we've seen in a movie or show. If anything I prefer to wonder why things happened the way they did in a film rather than assume its wrong and make up my own version of events. Except for the Star Wars EU. That I prefer not to even try reconciling.

    A movie is as much a documentary as the episode where the alien race portrays the voyager as a hostile race. If you want to use 100% logic, you need to also use it for the other parts. There is no common ground. A show made in the 60;s cannot show as much dammage as one made in the 90's using pure cgi.

    an explosion on a set will have smoke. In space there is no smoke. yet there it is in the movie/tv show. How do you explain that? there is no atmopshere for it to have smoke. Come up with a silly explanation or just say it is an error and ignore it. your choice.

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