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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Stryke 9 on November 24, 2002, 04:38:27 pm
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Cockpit of the F-bomb. Featured for maybe 15 seconds in an upcomiing intro scene as a background, so it'd be a waste of time to do more detail, methinks...
(http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/cockpit.jpg)
EDIT: Sheeit...
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err.. F-Bomb?
ignorance sucks..
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Ah- sorry, forgot I hadn't recapped since my last upload. Big-assed fusion/fission chain-reaction bomb (you can see what it looks like in the side screen), basically uses any fuel within a few hundred thousand miles to power a smallish supernova. There's a an exchange of these before TAC I talk about, where the then galactic powers start with Earth and proceed to vaporize 2/3 of the people in the Universe. Which causes a bit of a recession afterward, understandably, and leads into the campaign...
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
err.. F-Bomb?
ignorance sucks..
F-Bomb. If it hits, you're F-ed. If it misses, you're F-ed. If it detonates somewhere in the local solar system, you're F-ed.
F-Bomb. Pretty straightforward. ;)
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WTF is that:confused: :wtf:
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Mik's bot it about right. The height of TAC-2 is when they use one one to blow up a cruiser about the size of a Fenris, and which happens to be only about 20k away...:D
Uh... they being the ships on the player's side, and possibly the player personally, if I'm feeling particularly hostile towards the potential users by the end...
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A bomb has a cockpit? I'm assuming the pilot has been sufficiently brainwashed prior to being strapped in.
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It's got an eject button, of course.:D Thay can't afford fancy nav computers (think a cruise missile capable of accurately hitting a target a mile across from the adjacent star system, under heavy fire, jumping in and out of sublight, and with probable equipment failures along the way), so they need a human pilot.
The idea is, at first nobody knows how powerful they really are, because one side can't afford to make more than the one they use, and the other's only tested it in deep space where there was nothing to fuel it, and figured it was only about as good as two nukes. So, when they have a firefight with 'em, it ends up with a lot of... collateral damage.
Though, of course, I give the pilot no opportunity to use the eject button in any case.
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I think if anyone every tried to make me fly a bomb, i'd fly it straight into them. Assuming I couldn't just bugger off an eject, of course.
TAC?