Posted by: boggo2300
« on: July 24, 2016, 04:57:45 PM »Some say that's how the First World War started, though I think it was a turkey that was dropped.
I always thought it was the Black Hands
Some say that's how the First World War started, though I think it was a turkey that was dropped.
I hot dropped a stack of pancakes yesterday, needless to say the colonists were pissed.
No Doing Hot drops with Non Mill People Is Not Advised and Doing Hot drops with Colonialists is Rather Hard on them.But we already have the capability to drop assets capable of defending themselves in the case of a Hot Drop. If you need construction in a contested planet, you throw down a Construction Brigade, though with much more cryo drop pods. Same goes true with any other ground force, there are technologies that allow you to "hot drop" troops on to planets instantaneously.
I was thinking more Of Like Star-ship troopers Assault Small Craft, And Something Similar to Drop Cargo
I sort of gleaned that as well, barely...No Doing Hot drops with Non Mill People Is Not Advised and Doing Hot drops with Colonialists is Rather Hard on them.
That said, can't you get roughly the same effect as "drop pods" for colonists just by making the colony ship with a significant quantity of Cargo Handling Systems? I say this, as opposed to troop-style drop pods, because I can't think of any reason why you'd want colonists to be boarding ships or being hot-dropped on hostile worlds like you would with ground forces...
In essence, Cargo Handling Systems would make colonization from orbit warpspeed without having to resort to new components.
I can't see why colonists being delivered by fighter from a jump point in-system would be favorable either, if this is what they are suggesting instead. You'd still end up moving the same tonnage of cryogenics spaces, except an incredible lot less efficiently. If you really must do something like that, you already can, anyway. Carrier with engineering spaces for long deployment and high speed fighters. There doesn't seem to be any reason to, though.
I think he wants some kind of colonist drop pods.I sort of gleaned that as well, barely...
Is there a reason for this post? We already have a civilian boat bay/hangar coming along and it has different characteristics than the military one.they Are? when did that Happen?