Creating Your Own Everything VI [No Advertising]

[Triplebaconation]

The goblins were peaceful until do-gooders from the Alien Rights Commission showed up and started teaching them humanocentric concepts like "minimum wage" and "not wearing a shock collar."

[Gallia-]

anthropocentrist "universal rights" are a terminal mistake ):

something a perfidious venusian thought up no doubt

[Fordorsia]

Why put them to work when you can chop them up and freeze them for a nice long lasting food supply, and put respectable Humans to work instead.

[Slavakino]

The goblins were peaceful until do-gooders from the Alien Rights Commission showed up and started teaching them humanocentric concepts like "minimum wage" and "not wearing a shock collar."

A good goblin is one that never comes out its stinking holes

[Gallia-]

Why put them to work when you can chop them up and freeze them for a nice long lasting food supply, and put respectable Humans to work instead.

imagine thinking space goblins have compatible biochemistry with space truprs lmao

[Gallia-]

tracks all missile defense problems

[Atlantica]

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tracks all missile defense problems

You mounted massive X-band BMD radars on a 787?

[Gallia-]

No it has a pair of giant telescopes in the fairing and some laser radars on the ass and nose for providing doppler information. The two telescopes can do stereoscopic/parallax ranging but I suspect that is less accurate and useful than a boring laser radar like the kind you find at missile test ranges. It can compute a firing solution based on its own position, the offsets of interceptor sites, and the RV's calculated position and movement path, but it needs to hand that information over to a ground interceptor site since it can't carry missiles or anything.

It can sorta-kinda do predictive guidance but it wouldn't know the kinematics of interceptors or anything being fired, which is why it needs to downlink to a command center on the ground. It can just track RVs through their entire flight envelope and from all angles; unlike a radar which tracks RVs best from the perpendicular angle, so it solves the ground track problem of interception of stealthy hypergliders and ordinary conic RVs.

The sorta-kinda comes from it being able to observe and perform what are basically rapid models of the observed performance of a reentry vehicle (it can identify vehicles based on their appearance and signature, so it is also important as a spy plane for tracking enemy missile tests, but an unknown RV would be pure modeling and observed performance data. It can send the models to the combat computer in a bunker somewhere and the combat computer can use those to plug in numbers for interception trajectory while receiving data from the plane in real time. OTOH if it knows what it's looking at it just needs to send the identity to the combat computer instead of the real-time observational data for building a model.

This requires a huge bandwidth antenna and the airplane has a supercomputer onboard (probably a rad-hard blade server of some variety running a military Linux distro) for performing the calculations for a few hundred targets per aircraft in real time, so I might draw a belly fairing that houses the datalink antenna, but I don't think that is necessary really.



It's not a 787 since Galla doesn't believe in li-ion batteries. It's a 767-200ER or -300ER or something; the same plane that Galla uses for its AEW and medium range tankers.

[New Visegrad]

don't mind me just posting some space WIP

[Sevvania]

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don't mind me just posting some space WIP

I like this.

Is it nuclear-propelled?

[New Visegrad]

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don't mind me just posting some space WIP

I like this.

Is it nuclear-propelled?

It has a nuclear reactor for onboard power. Propulsion is by a non-specific hydrogen fusion torch.

here's an initial colour pass. Lines will be tidied up and blended in with the colours as the image progresses.

It should also be fitted with an Alcubierre ring for near-c travel; realised I'd forgotten to add that while I was posting this. That will probably sit immediately aft of the gauss guns.

[New Visegrad]

definitely didn't work all night finishing this
no sir


(click to make the little ship the big ship)

"Action stations, action stations. Secure all airtight doors and brace for combat maneuvers. All EVA kits now unlocked. Action stations..."
-- Ship status system

Frigates like the Type 11 were the mainstays of many colonial navies in the pre-FTL era. Their lightweight hulls were capable of high acceleration and sharp maneuvering, as well as being relatively cheap to produce. Although such frigates could not compete with the sheer firepower offered by larger ships such as lightjammers, they were well-suited to chasing down smaller pirate vessels.

Ships of this size typically had crews of 10 or less, and few guns - but with no shields and limited armour, even this relatively light armament was capable of crippling any target.

The Type 11 was equipped with four 90mm gauss guns, two 500kW infrared lasers, and four 12-tube sets of AIM-330S Pike anti-ship missiles (or any contemporary missile of a similar size). Its combination fusion/Alcubierre drive was able to sustain 0.75c.

[Gallia-]

gud bote

[Slavakino]

Camo for Infantry, Tanks and Armored Vehicles

[Kassaran]

Nice pattern! Care to share additional schemes or are you still coming up with them?

[Slavakino]

Nice pattern! Care to share additional schemes or are you still coming up with them?

Still coming up wth patterns

[Valkiir]

definitely didn't work all night finishing this
no sir

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(click to make the little ship the big ship)

"Action stations, action stations. Secure all airtight doors and brace for combat maneuvers. All EVA kits now unlocked. Action stations..."
-- Ship status system

Frigates like the Type 11 were the mainstays of many colonial navies in the pre-FTL era. Their lightweight hulls were capable of high acceleration and sharp maneuvering, as well as being relatively cheap to produce. Although such frigates could not compete with the sheer firepower offered by larger ships such as lightjammers, they were well-suited to chasing down smaller pirate vessels.

Ships of this size typically had crews of 10 or less, and few guns - but with no shields and limited armour, even this relatively light armament was capable of crippling any target.

The Type 11 was equipped with four 90mm gauss guns, two 500kW infrared lasers, and four 12-tube sets of AIM-330S Pike anti-ship missiles (or any contemporary missile of a similar size). Its combination fusion/Alcubierre drive was able to sustain 0.75c.

Very nicely done

Camo for Infantry, Tanks and Armored Vehicles

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I may see how it look on a few of my models if you don't mind...

[Gallia-]

air and missile defense troops of the air defense command insignia

the camp crown denotes that the troop or corps is under the control of a branch/corps of a service branch of the armed forces, rather than being a standing branch in its own right

in this case, the branch/corps is the air defense force (where the air/missile defense troops co-exists with the air defense troops), and the service branch is air defense command: ADC also has a logistics/maintenance force which maintains its operational air and missile bases, a signals force which integrates its radio-communications and radar equipment with the rest of the armed forces, and a personnel/training force which trains its pilots and missileers

the air and missile troops, the air defense troops, and by extension the entirety of air defense command, owes its existence to the army aviation branch's air defense corps of the 1920s and 1930s and the royal artillery's anti-aircraft corps of the same era; with the advent of supersonic jets and nuclear missiles in the 1940s and 50s, the air defense command became its own agency (although not to the level of having a cabinet ministry, as the Army and Navy do, it is effectively a separate "branch" of service) and consolidated the total air defense of gallia

with the introduction of the first guided surface to air missile, the nike herkules, and the smaller nike ajax somewhat later, the air and missile defense troops began a long road towards protecting gallia from bombers and icbms that continues to today

somewhat confusingly, the air and missile defense troops do not operate any fighter aircraft, as their only aircraft comprise a fleet of Hkp 3F (Huey 800) twin engine helicopters, several 767 airborne ABM tracking aircraft, a few strategically placed aerostats and blimps, and numerous guided missiles of all shapes and sizes; the air defense troops are the aerial counterpart to the air and missile defense troops, who operate several squadrons of Tkp 05 (KC-767) aerial refuelers and Ekp 98 (E-767) AEW aircraft, and innumerable squadrons of J.32 "Snipe" (Ye-8) fighter-interceptors which are slowly being replaced by ex-Navy JAS.16 "Sandpiper" (Vought 1601) fighter-bombers

ADC is responsible for all air defense of physical land of gallia, sharing responsibility for aeronaval sovereignty missions with the navy, and exists as a part of the ministry of defense (separate from the ministry of war, which is the cabinet level ministry for the Army, and the naval ministry, which is the cabinet level ministry of the navy, obviously), which is responsible for coordinating the "homeland defense" of the nation

[Corindia]

trying out new camo/weathering techniques, it's still pretty basic

[Slavakino]

I may see how it look on a few of my models if you don't mind...

Go ahead!

[Slavakino]

How I think my camo would work is that this is the basic camo for troops which can change pattern and color from a portable device that bends light into the color and shape

[Gallia-]

Branch insignia of the Royal Artillery. Worn as a cap badge by high ranking artillerymen and NCOs who work at the Field Artillery School, mostly. Actual working artillerymen wear their regiment's cap badge with a background trim that denotes the battalion of the regiment they're a part of. As with all artillerymen, the color scarlet is chosen mostly because artillery guns make big red flames, and the color gold is because it's a national color (along with blue and white/silver).

The "ancient lore of Gallaverse" explanation is that it's because Jesus was an artilleryman, since he single-handedly invented the trebuchet (he didn't) due to his knowledge of engineering and carpentry , and the red is representative of the blood of Christ on the cross, because artillerymen are the closest to God in all professions of the military (in reality it's the corps of engineers but no one tell artillerymen that the mattock is holier than the triangle, Gallaverse Christ knew the power of both intimately). Few know this outside of esoteric students of theology, and fewer know that Christ didn't single handedly assemble a trebuchet but merely acted as, essentially, a foreman directing the actions of a team of a laborers to assemble a battery of trebuchets after getting the idea of using a counterweight with a lever from his work in quarries. In truth, he actually invented what IRL is called the "couillard", because a proper great trebuchet in the style of the Crusades was simply too big to be moved (illuminated scriptures exist of these, though), and also built several large traction trebuchets transported and powered by a team of asses. Because he spent some years as an arkitekton (master-builder) for a military legion. Which is why combat engineers are holier than gunners.

tl;dr Christ the Divider is stronger than Christ the Redeemer, Gallaverse's Christ was a lot more keen on "hard sayings" than "turn the other cheek", but still more of a "sic vis pac, para bellum" than a true warmonger like some prophets. So because Jesus once worked as a siege engineer (as recorded in the Gospel) artillerymen wear red to represent His blood on the cross.

ill draw the air defense troops one now and maybe the Armor Branch insignia

armor corps will be a st. chamond over olive branches like Canadian Expeditionary Force had Mark IV i guess

[Gallia-]

air defense troops

falcon with bells diving

because fighter jets dive on bombers

like falcons dive on game birds

pretty obvious rly

birb is armed because the fighter jocks sent it to the heraldry institute who said "you need to make it look like the air/missile defense troops' white and gold" and so they went over it with liquid paper and sent it back and got "ok 100" in response

[Manokan Republic]

The All or nothing approach is basically my argument for why they didn't go with armoring all their men. Full body armor would be difficult to make and expensive, so it made more sense when trying to mass produce as many infantry as you possibly could to issue cheap rifles and body armor, as opposed to making every one of them fully armored. When only the torso or head was covered, it left other parts of the body unprotected, and so partial body armor wasn't really all that effective. The way to fix this would be obviously, to armor the entire body, but that requires more money and resources, as well as a better design.

There are helmets that can be ergonomic and allow for situational awareness, even when covering the face. The closer armor is to the face, the smaller the slit for the eye can be to be able to see out of. Some helmets can be uncomfortable, while other are more comfortable. I've rarely had trouble breathing or seeing out of a motorcycle helmet for example, while paintball masks have been obnoxious. However, you see soldiers were Balacalvas all the time, and Balacalvas actually do inhibit breathing a lot. And yet, they still wear them. You see soldiers wearing gas masks, even though it inhibits breathing and is extremely unergonomic. You see all kinds of things that aren't ergonomic being worn in combat, even regularly in the modern day, and it doesn't prevent it's use. So the question is a matter of trade-off; if you are going to wear a gas mask anyways, it might as well be armored for example. You can design something that is more ergonomic and easy to adjust to, as in it isn't inherent, but even then this doesn't completely prohibit it's use. People are overestimating small issues and acting like it would be to defy gravity or something to wear something slightly uncomfortable. In general, it is not.

Fatal wounds are not the only problem, as injuries prevent soldiers from continuing to operate and tie up medical resources. Hence it's good to protect from even minor injuries. A good example is protection from punji spikes or barbwire, disease and so on and so forth. Shrapnel in this case was the primary cause of injury, and being protected from that, for the most part, would be pretty useful. As only about 3-4% of deaths were due to blast injuries, or injuries so close to the explosive that soldier's died from the shock wave itself, and roughly 75% were due to shrapnel, it's safe to assume most were far enough away from the blast to be protected even by relatively thin armor. Shrapnel is far less likely to penetrate armor at even moderately long ranges, as the shrapnel has lost a large amount of it's energy by then, generally not being very aerodynamic.

If you want a flak vest make a flak vest. A solid steel cuirasse is not effective or ergonomic or economical. Even then, that's not a great idea for the First World War, as the majority of the time soldiers were protecting themselves with trenches and bunkers, which protect them head to toe against even heavy artillery, not just the torso against hand grenades and light mortars. Protecting the torso is in some respects better than nothing, but in the cold calculus of trench warfare, of very little consequence. Explosions against infantry in the open will tend to hit more than the torso. A leg wound can render you immobile, in no-mans-land a death sentence, only made worse by the weight of your armor. The sort of person that might be caught by artillery in the open behind the lines are mostly runners and the like. Ask someone who's job it is to run vital messages as quickly as possible between the front and command posts if strapping a dozen pounds of metal plates to his body is going to improve his job performance. In the attack, when they are out of the trenches, the threat is not artillery fragments so much as it is machine guns. As has been said before, there is no practical way to armor oneself against rifle caliber fire with the technology of the day. You are basically forced to conclude what all the people actually there, actually trying to come up with innovative solutions to their problems (contrary to popular belief the story of trench warfare in WW1 is one of constant innovation, technological and tactical): body armor is not useful. Helmets, yes. Body armor, no. The costs in treasure, and more significantly, in weight and mobility are not worth the marginal if any improvement to protection possible given the technology and tactical context of the day.

The entire conversation has been specifically about making body armor to cover the entire body so as to avoid minor injuries to keep a soldier combat operational. While it's not intended only for assaults, as in the idea would be to wear it all the time to preserve manpower and reduce medical expenditures, even on assaults it would be quite useful. The bulk of casualties were still generally from explosives, be it artillery, mortars, grenades, and land mines, as rifles and machine guns are difficult to hit enemy forces with except at very close ranges. It took on average 7,000 to 25,000 rounds per enemy causality per round fired in WWI, so except at close ranges, you typically missed more often than not. At close ranges after a charge, soldiers were likely to lay prone and chuck grenades, or fire rifle grenades, or if in the trenches themselves use melee weapons, so rifle fire was scant, and the bulk of casualties even so were from explosives. Another important factor is that in order to get close to enemy trenches, you would need to provide close artillery support, so close in fact it could injure your own soldiers. According to French sources, it was expected that at least 10% of their own casualties would be from their own artillery if an artillery barrage was done correctly, as an artillery barrage could either alert the enemy and naturally draw reinforcements, or only temporarily stun the enemy, meaning that you needed to get your men over to the enemy trenches as quickly as possible after an artillery barrage. In order to sustain an assault after an artillery barrage, the assault needed to occur as quickly as possible after an artillery barrage, or else the suppressive effect of keeping riflemen and machine gunners pinned down would wear off. As most injuries from explosives occurred at long range due to shrapnel rather than close range due to explosive force, you would be protected at the primary causality range of most artillery pieces, preventing the majority of casualties. Furthermore, back in those days with explosive weapons, explosive filler generally low and shrapnel was high, with grenades being 5-10% explosive by weight vs. 40-50% by weight in the modern day for example (50 grams and 550 grams total for a Mk. II hand grenade vs. 180 grams and 400 grams for an M67 hand grenade), meaning each fragment was generally less powerful and lower velocity. So, it would be easier to stop regular shrapnel back then than today, making armor more easily viable.

While body armor was issued en masse, such as with the lobster armor, it only covered the torso and this meant that fighting strength was not preserved as soldiers were often taken out by minor injuries to the extremities, and so covering the whole body would have improved this armor. Had the war not ended, we likely would have seen continuing improvements in both weapons and armor for the war, with submachine guns and body armor coming around just around the exact end of the war, such as with the MP18, the world's first submachine gun, and the thompson submachine gun coming around so late few if any saw battle on the front lines. The BAR also saw combat at the very end of the war, enough to make an impact, but not really enough to win the war. Tanks also came around virtually right at the end of the war, and many other inventions, so had things continued for a few more years combat may have looked very different. An example can be found in various skirmishes after WWI was over in Europe, and the rising partisan groups across Europe, such as with the rise of the fascists, Spanish civil war and so on in the build up to WWII, however as smaller scale guerrilla conflicts we didn't see the full force of a professional military, mostly seeing small arms development, particularly in regards to submachine guns. The Cuirassers and various cavalry forces in WWI realized that only covering the Torso was a bad idea, and without full body coverage tended to remove it; with full body coverage, they likely would not have. Price is not a substantially significant issue, with thin sheet metal not costing that much, although obviously it would be more expensive than not making the armor. Just as the Ak-47 came around in 1947, the EM-2 in 1948 and the STG-44 right at the end of the war, had the war continued these sorts of weapons and equipment would have likely seen more combat than they did. They came around too late to make a difference and existed largely as prototype weapons, but nonetheless had the war continued we would have seen their use. As many wars have continued on for several decades, it's not unreasonable to have thought they could.

The basic idea is to cover the whole body so you are fully protected from shrapnel, and potentially handgun rounds or rifle rounds at long range. This would be at most about 35-40 pounds, which would be relatively easy to add to a soldier's basic combat gear. As the distances between trenches were short, and the amount of food and water, as well as other resources that needed to be carried was low, the weight problem was far less of an issue. Soldiers in WWI did not carry nearly as heavy packs as in WWII or in the modern era, and the packs could be cut down, which would allow for higher mobility even with the weight of armor added. The most useful things in WWI would have been pipe trenches, that is using large industrial pipes as your trench. By burying it under several feet of dirt, it would not only have stopped bullets but artillery rounds, particularly air bursting shrapnel rounds, and prevented direct exposure to incendiary or gas attacks, although still capable of entering through slits. A pipe would allow for a roof, while being strong enough to both hold up the weight of it and the shock of an artillery shell, and as pipes were cheap and widely used, would have been available. As pipes are already often buried 10, 20, 30+ feet underground, we know they can hold the weight of several feet of dirt up. As a few feet of dirt is generally sufficient to stop a bullet, RPG, and deflect the blast of an artillery shell, you would be fairly well protected. Another advantage is that it's water proof, so you would keep off direct contact from rain or snow, and in addition as it was buried underground it's temperature would be more stable, being cooler during the summer keeping direct sun off of you, and warmer during the winter, trapping heat in. As if you dig 5-10 feet underground almost anywhere in the world the temperature is typically between 50-70 degrees, you don't have to worry as much about environmental hazards if you are buried underground. This is basically the basis of geothermal heating. As a primary cause of death in WWI was exposure and disease, and the next most was artillery and this could potentially protect from both, it probably would have saved more lives than body armor. They did build concrete structures under several feet of dirt like the Maginot line, but I imagine industrial piping of some kind would have been cheaper and faster. In addition it would blend in to the environment, so it would be harder to see, especially from the air. Granted my focus has been on a slightly post WWII society, sort of an idea of an extension of WWII, but WWI is still an interesting topic as well. There are a lot of misconceptions about how machine guns and the like were the biggest killer, when they were frequently not. Not to say they didn't kill anyone, but it's not as cut and dry as mowing down rows of men, it's usually more about killing one soldier at a time, or small groups with short bursts. It's used not dissimilarily to a marksmen rifle, firing a few short bursts at the target instead of just mowing down 50 men all at once. This is probably going in to a silly idea way too much, but anyways.

[Valkiir]

"The T28 Super Heavy Tank was an American heavily armored tank/self-propelled gun designed for the United States Army during World War II. It was originally designed to be used to break through German defenses of the Siegfried Line, and was later considered as a possible participant in the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland.

The 100-ton vehicle was initially designated a heavy tank. It was re-designated as the 105 mm Gun Motor Carriage T95 in 1945, and then renamed in 1946 as the Super Heavy Tank T28.

Only two prototypes were built before the project was terminated"

This superheavy heavy vehicle is a modernized version of the T95/T28 heavy Tank. designed to assault into and overwhelm enemy strong points. Its thick armor exceeds the M1 Abrams on its front slope and matches many heavy MBTs from the side and rear with significant overhead armor to protect from weapons fired from rooftops, or overhead attack munitions. In addition to its massive 155mm gun, it carries two 20mm cannons force lose in defense, as well as two Laser Guided ATGM launchers on the remote weapons/optics mount.

To protect the M-95 from aircraft The Vehicle mounts a self contained Close in Weapons System( CiWS) and can put up fearsome umbrella of 20mm rounds ot intercept and destroy missiles, helicopter, and low flying aircraft. Doctrine restricts the use of the CIWS against ground targets to maintain a ready response to aircraft and missiles at all times. However, in tests the CIWS prove capable of demolishing even concrete structures with a sustained burst from the weapon.

Painfully slow and hard to deploy rapidly the vehicle must be partially disassembled shipped on special rail cars and then transported by sea. once in theatre the M95 rumbes along at 20 KPH along major roadways. This leaves it vulnerable to air attack and ambush which led to the addition of its heavy secondary weapons.