The Hierophancy wrote:Olimpiada wrote:holy shit that would be great. consider it:
Who the fuck cares where this is lmao
The line was holding firm. Nothing was moving. The battle had devolved into trench warfare, anyone daring to show their head immediately having it taken off.
It was, in fact, a stalemate. That's when the charge came.
There are few things more challenging to deal with then staring down a berserker clad in exoskeletal armor wielding two massive battle axes. The general reaction is to shit one's pants. And when the screams of a thousand warriors begging for Valhalla sounded over the hill, that was exactly what the enemy line did. Axes slammed into bodies, sending tentacles and beaks flying everywhere in a storm of metal and blue blood, heralding a rapid advance for the Pact's troops across the line, bringing victory one crucial step closer.
So that would be pretty neato.
Yeah, no. That thing would need to be hundreds of kilometers long, at least. And the recoil on it would send your ship flying backwards at about ninety thousand meters per second.
You can shield against a laser. You can use armor against it quite well. Same goes for plasma. A railgun? Even if it doesn't splatter your opponent all over the walls, it would certainly send them flying.
You can shield against railguns as well, plus they have limited range, accuracy, and can be shot out of the sky or redirected. Using armor against plasma seems like it would be quite difficult, what with you being bombarded with the heat of a sun. Modern humans have been able heat plasma 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit according to livescience - far beyond really any metals melting point, or so I would assume. Energy shielding seems the best way to deflect it, which is why I have lasers to break them down, and/or torpedoes to destroy a shield generator at the source.
The real advantage of the railgun is the force it applies. Even if it doesn't destroy a target outright, it still knocks it a ways back.
Maybe shrink the territory of Anicea somewhat? They do only have 32 systems that they actively claim - although could pass the larger area as their direct, dominant sphere of influence? i.e. where there are lower tech civilizations that they defend, worlds that they guard, etc.