[Bishop Gantry]

Echidna the mother of all monsters errr no further comments

[Jabu]

*engages slipspace transporter and escapes to a nice planet in Andromeda*

[Joey_21]

 

Originally posted by Analazon:
They did a very large 'ship' over at TBP (The Babylon Project) that was used for planets, it was a textured plane that was over 200km in width. It was used for a planet (Earth to be exact). They posted some screenies, and it gives you a feeling of vertigo just looking at it!

Hehe, I've made a life size earth for FS2: 12753 km in diameter.

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[Taristin]

You're insane  

[Jabu]

That he is...

[Sandwich]

 

Originally posted by Joey_21:
Hehe, I've made a life size earth for FS2: 12753 km in diameter.

But does it work in-game?


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[LAW ENFORCER]

I have to texture at leasts 4 planets - and i don't know know, pants...
ANY IDEAS???

12000 km is that how big earth is?

[Jabu]

Yep. Well, 12 756.28 km in the equator, a few km less pole-pole.

[Nephilim]

I got a working gas giant that is about 134,000 kms in diameter    
I hope to make a scale model of a star system  

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[Jabu]

"Alpha 1, though your subspace drive is broken, we need you! The base is under attack!"

"Roger that command, estimated time of arrival 4 months 3 days 20 hours 34 minutes!"

[Shrike]

A Culture OU is smaller than a Deimos and could destroy entire star systems worth of ships.

Why make them bigger when you can make them better?

[KillMeNow]

i once made a death star i cant remember the exact size but at 32million kilomoters from it it still filled the entire screen whne looking at it so i'm going to go out ona  limb here and say it was the biggest thing ever created and put into freespace

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Shrike:
A Culture OU is smaller than a Deimos and could destroy entire star systems worth of ships.

Why make them bigger when you can make them better?

a culture whatever would suck in any game:
"alpha one, hostiles inbou..."
      "you're dead, please press escape"

[Ace]

Quick question:
Is a culture ship made out of degenerate matter? (i.e. crushed electron shell arrangements or similar lack of molecular bonds)

If not, then a single blast from a cannon using positrons would rip it to pieces...

Then again, a good old anti-matter REM missile from I-War 2  

Edit: Unlike regular anti-matter which an EM screen such as the all famous generic "shields" can contain, a positron stream is a wavicle and so would penetrate any energy screening  

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[Shrike]

 

Originally posted by Ace:
Quick question:
Is a culture ship made out of degenerate matter? (i.e. crushed electron shell arrangements or similar lack of molecular bonds)

If not, then a single blast from a cannon using positrons would rip it to pieces...

Then again, a good old anti-matter REM missile from I-War 2    

Unknown.  Besides, they have shielding.  Very strong shielding.  As a comparison, GCUs (General Contact Unit, the Culture equivalent of a Faustus/civilian liner) visit supernovae on tourist excursions.  About the only natural event that can harm a Culture ship is running into a black hole.  Positrons (or other antimatter) would be just another particle beam, deflected by the shielding.

And of course, you have to hit the ship.

Edit: Oh, and positrons are still particles with mass, plus they have charge.  You could erect a magnetic field and deflect the positrons.

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[Ace]

Quick correction: They do effect degenerate matter, but the effectiveness is limited since it simply is the annihilation reaction with the electrons.

They do have charge, but like photons and electrons, positrons are wavicles they move at the speed of light and have no mass of importance. Quantum tunneling effects occur at those speeds, and a magnetic containment field cannot fully dissipate due to Heisenburg's little rule.

Even if a handful of positrons penetrate, the Loose Cannon is gonna be in a world of hurt    

The trick is the speed of the Culture ship, so if you have the specs on that... well heh    

Edit: From what Shrike has said, Culture shields seem to be gravity based, so I'll go hide in my General Products #2 hull for the time being  

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[jonskowitz]

 

Originally posted by Ace:
Quick correction: They do effect degenerate matter, but the effectiveness is limited since it simply is the annihilation reaction with the electrons.

They do have charge, but like photons and electrons, positrons are wavicles they move at the speed of light and have no mass of importance. Quantum tunneling effects occur at those speeds, and a magnetic containment field cannot fully dissipate due to Heisenburg's little rule.

Even if a handful of positrons penetrate, the Loose Cannon is gonna be in a world of hurt    

The trick is the speed of the Culture ship, so if you have the specs on that... well heh    

Edit: From what Shrike has said, Culture shields seem to be gravity based, so I'll go hide in my General Products #2 hull for the time being  

Did I make a mistake and log into a 'Star Trek'(tm) website?  I haven't heard this much PSB* since I told some geek with plastic ears to go jump into a river.

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Oh yeah, you're slightly missapplying the Wave-Particle duality theory.  Any small particle can display wavelike qualities and any wave can display particlelike qualities.  You can't have the same theory apply to the particle (the positron in this case) and not have it apply to the wave (the energy screen).  It's either true for both or neither...


*Psuedo Scientific Bullsh!t

[Shrike]

 

Originally posted by Ace:
The trick is the speed of the Culture ship, so if you have the specs on that... well heh    

Edit: From what Shrike has said, Culture shields seem to be gravity based, so I'll go hide in my General Products #2 hull for the time being  

Um, speeds?  Let's see... a battle involving several waves of warships took a grand total of 11 microseconds to complete.....

And you can hide in the GP hull all you want, but there's a CAM with your name on it coming at you through hyperspace, where your hull can't block it.  

[WARLORD]

You guys with these super ships.. lets put it this way, Your flying a fighter and you wont ever put a dent in these huge things soo why bother.. Id say that anything bigger then 10km is too large and shouldnt be put in the game..

[Jabu]

Agreed. Except if you're going to use it as a main ship in the campaign, and you better have some good storyline reason.