[Ace]

:cough: looks like someone is onto the Laomedon Conclave's plans... :cough:  

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Ace
Staff member FreeSpace Watch
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[Shrike]

I'm surprised no one has really commented on the ideas I put forward.

[morris13]

Why do the Vasudans and Terrans use completely different beam technology? Minor differences in the construction of the weapon would result in the color differences, so its not really nessecary that Vasudan beams and Terran beams use a different technology base, although i suppose that depending on how different the underlying principles that the power grids on the ships are built with might have some effect, beyond a certain point power is just power. you may need a converter to use US electric appliances in Europe, but its not like you need an electric razor that operates on a completely different set of principles.

[Shrike]

Eh, coolness factor.  Besides, I prefer particle beams to lasers.  

Personally, if the spamtik hadn't used photon beam cannons I would have called them all particle beams.... lasers in FS are glowing balls of energy, not beams like they should be. (WTF?)

[This message has been edited by Shrike (edited 05-09-2001).]

[Ace]

The FS1 cannons are merely called lasers in the tables, they are plasma pulse cannons.

The ML-16 and similar weapons are pulsed due to the frequencies and exited particle elements used. (they merely appear pulsed)

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Ace
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[Shrike]

 

Originally posted by Ace:
The FS1 cannons are merely called lasers in the tables, they are plasma pulse cannons.

The ML-16 and similar weapons are pulsed due to the frequencies and exited particle elements used. (they merely appear pulsed)

So why is the HL-7 specifically called a Xaser?  That's short for X-Ray laser.  Virtually all of the FS weapons are laser-based as well.  Until you can offer some conclusive proof that they're not lasers at all, I'll call them lasers.  (even though they're stupid pulse things and not beams)

[Ace]

I stated that the ML-16, HL-7, and such *are* laser based technologies, this is a known fact. (M=Medium H=Heavy L=Laser)

The majority of Capital ship pulse weapons are *not* lasers.

The Colossus did have some pulse laser turrets, but the heavier pulse weapons on capital ships are plasma based.

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Ace
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[Shrike]

I'll accept the capship plasma turrets.

Thanks for sharing the first time around mr. inside info.