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--- Quote from: CypherX on February 05, 2017, 06:12:02 PM ---Gus eyes up the mechanics as they walk in and allows them to take in the Dictator-class's schematics and the flight plan for a moment before clearing his throat and speaking. "As you can see, we have quite the task ahead of us. Before the cruisers can level this carrier, we'll need to neuter the defenses to a minimum of fifty percent, preferably more. The approach will be risky in the extreme, and our available strike craft are both limited and mostly damaged to some extent." Gus rubs his chin anxiously while studying the approach for seemingly the hundredth time. "Some sort of advantage or new way to approach this would be preferable. We've lost a pilot and three more are in the infirmary, don't want to push that total any further if we can help it. I'm not sure if you've encountered something like this before, but any advice would be much appreciated. My only thought now is that we have a Sabre with a nuclear reactor, but... that's a one way trip." --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Operator¹ on February 05, 2017, 07:05:23 PM ---: If it's going to be a one way trip then we could probably rig up something to fly the plane remotely, maybe take the guts out of one of the Culexes? --- End quote --- : You want us to turn the Sabre into a bomb, so you can do to these guys what you did to Tlacelel. : Ah. I am sorry to say that if you want a destructive improvised weapon, a fusion engine is not the place to look. When a fusion reactor explodes, what you're seeing isn't a nuclear explosion, it's more like... a boiler exploding on a steam engine. How to explain... : Okay, so I'm not about to launch into all the fiddly little details of how a fusion reactor works, but the relevant part here is that Deltan fusion engines have a vacuum sealed magnetic chamber with a toroid of plasma running through it. Really hot stuff in there, like, stellar body hot. If weapons fire were to puncture this chamber, air would get sucked in, superheated, expand, and blow the whole thing to smithereens in a brilliant explosion. Very bad for the person in the plane, but it's not a nuke. Major Geary got it to work because he was right on top of his target, and his target wasn't really all that big, but I can't see a fusion engine blowing up like that destroying an entire carrier. : However, I can see some tactical use for intentionally breaching a fusion engine. The destructive force, while not quite on the level of real nuclear weapons, is still very significant. The brightness of it could serve as a distraction, of admittedly debatable effectiveness. And the heat created could make it act as a very potent, if not cost effective, infrared countermeasure. --- Quote from: Operator¹ on February 05, 2017, 07:05:23 PM ---: If it's going to be a one way trip then we could probably rig up something to fly the plane remotely, maybe take the guts out of one of the Culexes? --- End quote --- : Why's it got to be a one way trip? You've got that captured Imperial bomber. We could strip the engine from the Sabre, rig it to be remotely punctured, and you could drop it out of the bomb bay. It would be easier than converting an entire plane to be remotely operated, that's for sure. When do you guys take off, anyway? |
| Operator¹:
: How soon can you have the reactor rigged for the bomber? |
| Qwepir:
--- Quote from: Operator¹ on February 05, 2017, 08:05:41 PM ---: How soon can you have the reactor rigged for the bomber? --- End quote --- : I dunno, an hour? An hour and ten minutes? Shouldn't take us long. |
| CypherX:
Gus nods as the engineers and Bell speak. "Even with as much EMP and heat hardening as I imagine the Zents have built into that carrier, an explosion like that will fry their targeting for a short while. But we still need to get it over the carrier in that level bomber, which means exposing it and the crew to AA fire. One way or another someone is gonna have to brave that gauntlet." He gestures towards the boulevard and the battery of weapons on the dreidecker. |
| Qwepir:
--- Quote from: CypherX on February 05, 2017, 08:26:24 PM ---Gus nods as the engineers and Bell speak. "Even with as much EMP and heat hardening as I imagine the Zents have built into that carrier, an explosion like that will fry their targeting for a short while. But we still need to get it over the carrier in that level bomber, which means exposing it and the crew to AA fire. One way or another someone is gonna have to brave that gauntlet." He gestures towards the boulevard and the battery of weapons on the dreidecker. --- End quote --- The team's leader examines the displays you were shown during the briefing. : I mean, we're just engineers. You have a mechanical problem you want solved, we can help, but tactics and strategy... not so much. We can make you your bomb, but how you deploy it is up to you. The nameless engineer begins rambling. : We could make the Sabre remote-operated, but that would take days instead of hours. The only missiles large enough to carry it as a warhead are, well, probably even larger than the cruise missiles carried on board. I wouldn't know, I've never seen the missiles in person but I have seen a fusion engine before and those things are pretty big. Plus I can't imagine we'd be allowed to tamper with a missile like that, and even if we could it would take longer than just stripping it out of the plane and jury rigging it with a small explosive charge... |
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