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Offline NGTM-1R

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I suspect the answers lay with the fact the Cyrva fighters have robot modes and intermediate settings

That would suggest bad design if they don't easily switch back and forth but instead have everything always running for both all the time. :P
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I suspect the answers lay with the fact the Cyrva fighters have robot modes and intermediate settings

That would suggest bad design if they don't easily switch back and forth but instead have everything always running for both all the time. :P

how about this one the Cyrva handle data better than us apes so have decided that it would be better to use some of the of the processing power we would use to reduce data overload on the pilot and put it to something like managing ship systems helping with the performance advantage they have like lateral movement which us apes find so tricky to implement
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Erm.... Ray III-E....

 

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Erm.... Ray III-E....

is a limited implementation that comes with drawbacks
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So they had to remove some armor to fit in the thrusters that allow lateral movement and higher manouverbility, but it still shows that it isn't tricky for Humans to build ships with lateral thrusters, it just didn't fit into their design philosophy prior to the invasion (massproduction of realtively cheap ships rather than top-of-the-line high-cost ships).

 

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I really suspect a human could fly an Aestival if you just patched the software. :P
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There is the matter of the extremely sensitive controlls, on top of the data overflow to consider. So I guess most Humans don't have the necessary reaction speed to handle them effectively in battle.

I'd still like to know how well Dawn could handle them though.

 

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Well anyway...Dawn, besides letting you control Infi, what effect did the genetic alteration have on your mind?
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A slight tendency to precognition as hinted in the background story and shown ingame. Dawn had a "strange feeling" right before the prometheus frame was blasted by the Fura'ngle capships and lost it's beams.
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Also, she was able to detect the incoming Cordi ships before the Explorer when they ended up in Alpha Draconis.

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On that point: Dawn, did you ever find an explanation on how you ended up time travelling 100 years into the future and in Alpha Draconis?
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True that would interest me too. The time travel I can guess at, but how did they skip through at least one system and end up somewhere else entirely?

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I really suspect a human could fly an Aestival if you just patched the software. :P


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I'd still like to know how well Dawn could handle them though.

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"Most of the records about the modifications done to the Explorer have been destroyed after the fall of the UEU government. Some scientists in Silva, however, have a theory that the jump took us from Subspace into Planespace. Which might explain why we didn't ended up in Tauri.

I hope I'll find a complete answer some day though..."

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So there must be one universe were the UEU longer existed :lol:

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Crystal, why were you selected to join the 1st JGASF and not someone a bit more open-minded about Terrans?
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I have a suspicion that Crystal is open-minded about Terrans, compared to other Cyrvans.
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I have a suspicion that Crystal is open-minded about Terrans, compared to other Cyrvans.

This man has a point here. Crystal demonstrates quite of bit of open mindedness since she isn't suppressing every Terran into slave labor. Hell, any Cyrvan who joined the Joint Academy is bound to be very open minded.

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Okay, so I read the Tech Room entry for Crystal and it said she jumped at the chance to serve in a joint fleet with the Terrans and got interested in us thanks to her father's stories.  So you know what, I think I need to play through the campaign again.
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[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems

 

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So you know what, I think I need to play through the campaign again.
I think I might just do the same any day now.
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A lot of talk about CSA interfaces

"I'll just add to this that General Battuta seems to be on the right track here."

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I really suspect a human could fly an Aestival if you just patched the software. :P


Don't give me that, young lady. If Battuta is right, then so am I. Patching the sensor and diagnostic software to present a smaller datastream would solve the problem.

Mind you, I also think that the mere fact either group still runs up against limits is a horrible, stupid thing since I would hope by now both would have managed to realize that it's best to cut down on extraneous information in the stream. A Cryvan ship with a Terran system would probably perform better than one with the existing setup because it's harder to push the pilot into task overload.
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That's just pushing the question back - for any given pilot there will be an optimum level of information presentation that strikes a balance between ability to assimilate and the utility of having information available. If the average optima are higher for Cyrva pilots than humans, then yes you could patch it down for humans, but Cyrva will still do better.

 

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In fact, a skilled pilot would most likely be able to ignore unnessesary information and prevent "helmet fire" (is it how information overload is called in pilot slang?), even in Aestival.
More Cyrvan pilot than human ones can fly Aestival well, because it was designed with Cyrvans in mind. Cyrvan would most likely take a while to get used to a Terran fighter and would have a problem with fighting pilots who trained on them from the beggining (shield control would be new to him/her, for example).

 

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Even if the interface could be configured for Terrans, the controlls are still too sensitive. And if you make those less sensitive, you might as well not bother with it in the first place....

So remind me again, why does the Aestival have no shields? Considering how much energy reserve it has for afterburner and weapons, surely there is enough energy for shields.
Are all Cyrvan fighters like the Aestival in that regard (no shields, but self-repairing)?

 

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Aestivals were obviously not designed with Terrans piloting it in mind.
There should be an option to just shut down everything in an Aestival and fly and fight WW2 style. Bam, there goes the information problem.

What role do Aestivals fulfill in the Cyrvan Navy? Heavy assault? Is it their most advanced design?
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