Chronicle of the Rigellian Empire - Part 1 Discussion

[Garfunkel]

Bah, I saw "2 topics" and got excited that Steve had posted Part 2.

[MarcAFK]

The discussion always goes on within Steve's threads anyway, so IDK :p

[Erik L]

I was asked to split it to keep the fiction portion pure

[boggo2300]

pure?


EUGENICS!

KHAAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAN!!

ok, my morning coffee may have been a little strong

[Steve Walmsley]

It wasn't me who asked BTW but I am happy either way. It's always been in the threads before because I make multiple posts rather than posting all fiction in a single thread.

[Garfunkel]

It's getting hairy for the Rigellians!

[Mel Vixen]

Have even the Rigellians hair?

Also the 13K fast facs are scary especially with the 58K speed missiles but i love how the entire thing shapes up. What i seem to have missed what happened with the salvager, did it turnup anything interesting?

[Vortex421]

I would definitely be ramping up industry like mad right now.   I fear that the Rigellians have bitten off more than they can chew - if they have teeth, mind you.   Until they know more about their possible adversaries they run the risk of inviting an incursion into their home system.   (I know that, if I were their adversary and I knew I could wallop their ships without getting in too much trouble in return, I'd be following them home. )

[boggo2300]

Have even the Rigellians hair?

Yes,  they're Human.

Assuming Steve is keeping to the original background

[Witty]

Steve, I gotta ask, how does the AI decide it's time to just ram things?

[Steve Walmsley]

Steve, I gotta ask, how does the AI decide it's time to just ram things?

Usually, if they have no other way to attack you.

[MarcAFK]

Lack of ammo I guess?

[alex_brunius]

See the Yamato class Battleship is being built

Realize it's fitted out with less laser firepower then the Kagero class destroyer, and only 25% thicker armor  

[xeryon]

Minimally thicker: yes, but the belt itself is considerably wider overall and unless there are some very lucky shots that hit the same area it will provide a lot more than 25% increase in protection.

I was kind of disappointed in the overall armament.  It has a diverse array of weapons.  I feel like it is going to be mediocre at everything and that the smaller ships that are specialized will end up being considerably more useful.  Kind of a 'Jack of all trades, master of none' kind of problem.

[alex_brunius]

Minimally thicker: yes, but the belt itself is considerably wider overall and unless there are some very lucky shots that hit the same area it will provide a lot more than 25% increase in protection.

Only against scattered damage ( and due to size not due to thickness ), against a focused laser beam that can cut the armor in a single shot ( for example the destroyers lasers ) it will only provide 25% increased protection.

Real battleship namesakes had vast amounts of armor.

For example the Yamashiro: Total Armor Weight- 12,199 tons (42% of total). So the armor on this Battleship weighted about 4 times as much as the entire weight of a typical destroyer. The Yamato was about twice the size of the Yamashiro and I doubt it had much less weight percentage armor meaning armor alone on the historical battleship should be about 8 times the full weight of a destroyer.

And when it comes to big guns, it's a bit of shame none of the Guns have calibers independent of research like missiles have...
I would love to be able to put huge but crude and slow reload guns for close combat jump-point defense/assault devastating initial barrages.