[ZeroCooL]

Thanks!.. that is Useful!

[jr2]

Thanks!.. that is Useful!

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[crizza]

Another funny idea:
The UEF has the Sanctuary.
Although they won't have the resources to do it...
what would be meaner than a squadron of Narayanas?
Build railguns and massdrivers in the prow mounted barrel and Narayana launchers into the side barrels...if I know how to change the Sanctuary-tables...I would've tried it already^^

[The E]

The Sanctuary is a 50-year-old ship that was hastily converted to be, in essence, an armed transport for a load of cryogenic sleeping units, and that has spent a large part of those 50 years being hunted by Shivans.

Refurbishing it to combat readiness is a job that would take much, much longer than 18  Months, even if they had started it right after the Sanctuary appeared at the node.

[General Battuta]

Or maybe not! Who knows!

[Deadly in a Shadow]

Or maybe not! Who knows!

Maybe those cannons are beam weapons now!

[Snail]

beam clusters like on the original lololol

[crizza]

A Thing that bothers myself: Is it possible to change the reactor of a ship...like it has to be done with nuclear fuel rods on aircraft carriers?
Is there a hatch or do they have to cut away the armour?

[ZeroCooL]

A Thing that bothers myself: Is it possible to change the reactor of a ship...like it has to be done with nuclear fuel rods on aircraft carriers?
Is there a hatch or do they have to cut away the armour?

if the ship design is made for the reactor to be easily removable, I think there would be no problem in replacing

[-Norbert-]

On that matter: Do we know what kind reactors the UEF uses? Are they still running on fusion, or do they have some kind of anti-matter/matter reaction reactor or somesuch?

[Destiny]

I'd bet on nuclear fusion, remember the Yangtze's saying her tokamak containment failure and stuff?

Antimatter is possible, though...

[Mars]

On that matter: Do we know what kind reactors the UEF uses? Are they still running on fusion, or do they have some kind of anti-matter/matter reaction reactor or somesuch?

We know that the GTVA uses a combination of Meson and Fusion reactors (and we don't know if meson reactors are an improvement off of existing technology, or wholly new tech) Tev ships seem to have a higher overall energy output. We know that UEF ships run off of deuterium, so I'd say the chances are high that they are fusion driven, unless the future has found another use for deuterium.

[MatthTheGeek]

Tevs ships have a higher energy output because they need it. UEF ships only have point defenses, railguns and torpedo launchers to power, not to mention their lack of inter-system jump drives, compared to the energy-hungry beam cannons of the Tevs. I wouldn't be surprised if the UEF had the technology to at least compare with Capella-era ships in term of energy output if they needed to.

Meson sounds like a wholly new tech, and it's been theorized on IRC that they are the very reason Tevs had to design new ships to carry the blue beams instead of plugging them on older designs.

[-Norbert-]

We know that UEF ships run off of deuterium, so I'd say the chances are high that they are fusion driven, unless the future has found another use for deuterium.

And from were do we know this? While I do remember that the GTVA needing deuterium in the main FS2 campaign, I don't remember deuterium being mentioned in WiH2.

[Mars]

I may be totally wrong. . . but I think the tech description for the UEF cargo container

[General Battuta]

Pawns has cargo containers full of deuterium.

[Mars]

And it's supposed to power a Karuna for a month

I really don't think I'm making this up, but I suppose I may be.

[-Norbert-]

I'm not saying you are, I just want to know the source.
The presence of the containers alone is no conclusive proofe for me. It could be used in the production of weapons (canonically the prometheus S needs deuterium to be build, so the same might be true for some UEF primaries), as fuel for civilian ships or to build those jump gates to give just a few possible examples.

[The E]

canonically the prometheus S needs deuterium to be build

Canonically, you are wrong. Canonically, the PromS needs Argon.

Also canonically, the UEF doesn't use the PromS.

[-Norbert-]

While the thing with the Argon must have become mixed up in my memory, I never said the UEF uses the Prom, hence the "so the same might be true for some UEF primaries".
But they do use primaries based on the Prometheus. The Rapier is even stated to be a direct descentant of the original Prometheus.