The Rebel Faction

I assumed our ships would automatically get in touch, sort of like how my Kubuntu automatically jumps on the nearest unsecured LAN.

You know what though, Kach? A programmer, or programmers, actually built Kubuntu. They didn't just assume it in to existence.

Ship movement (LOS): Both the US and Chinese can put a 1m Laser onto the cameras of a satellite in orbit moving at 8000 m/s (OV). Provided the ships are currently moving on a constant path (which mine are) Wes' fleet will have no problems sending LOS signals to me. At closer ranges even if a receiving capital ship is moving wildly it wouldn't be an issue. Since the lasers would be on a turret so they could rotate, the motion of the transmitting ship wouldn't matter.

Cool.

In the future I expect you will always use LOS communications then. Period. Because it's just so easy for you. Because it's just so secure. Because if we can do it on Earth, they can do it in Star Wars. Nevermind that in Star Wars they have the Force while our equivalent... oh, wait... we don't have one.

You've been around long enough Kach. You should know better then to say, "Well we can do it in real life, so..."

It parallels the atrition/stagnation of technology argument.

In this case it makes everyone, EVERYONE, who ever used a non-LOS communication network to send a message look like a fucking moron. It makes everyone who, before and during your time, has been 'jammed' and played it as being, oh I don't know, an effective way of limiting communication, look like a moron.

So, if that's the way you want to go with it... I will personally expect you to always, ALWAYS, utilize said communications as you've just made every other form of communication redundant.

CGT: General Fleet Upgrade IV. Ships ISD sized and larger have mini-CGTS, similar in size and cost to a coalition Graviton detector, though probably a bit more expensive.

Exactly what I expected.

Every ship has one, but you save your ass by calling them, "mini" and describing them as similar to a Graviton detector.

I'm not debating this.

I'm just saying it's gay.

However...

Do you know what a CGT does? Nobody really has a perfect idea

Great. So we (the community) will just go ahead and let whomever uses one (or dozens) make up whatever they want about how it works for them, in whatever thread, under whatever circumstances...

That's a good idea.

You don't have a "perfect" idea. Just a perfect outcome.

Snappy.

"We don't have a perfect idea of what the CGT does, sir," says the techie.

"Oh, well then," says Kach. "Let's put one on each of our big ships just in case."

And we'll be vague and indeterminate about what they do in our R&D.

Which could come back to bite us in the ass when someone actually reads the document and says, "Hey, you didn't include this functionality and now you're making it up..."

But because everyone and their uncle has used a CGT in the past to detect a cloaked ship, we'll use it for a billion different reasons. Like here, today, where we're using a device described as being effective in detecting cloaked ships to map this gravitational shit storm.

CGT use = gay.

For future reference, "I didn't read any of this crap, but here's what I think" isn't the best way to enter a thread.


And because I don't want to copy my first post and paste it here so maybe you'll read it, let me find a new way to say something you should have already read (for the record, I don't want to copy and past it because I shouldn't have to copy and paste it; see opening statement if you need further clarification):

There is no NASA in Star Wars, so it doesn't really matter what they can do.

If you want to write about the real world, start a blog. If you want to write about Star Wars, then NASA doesn't exist and there is no such thing as the United States of America or the People's Republic of China.

Edit: grumble grumble.

Beff beat me to it.

Also: If a CGT is supposed to detect the tiny amounts of gravity from a cloaked ship, then wouldn't it kinda explode trying to detect gravity wells?

Or if its more a 'radar' thing that doesn't give levels and just blips, wouldn't you just see a full field of 'Yep. There's gravity out there alright'?

You forgot the planet, Smarts.


I bet Coruscant has some mass.



But we have to ignore all this, because if we don't the bulk of Kach's post is bunk.


It's a Kach 22.


HAHA!