The League of Mechanocracies 3.0 [Signups|OOC|Open]

[Neonymphonia]

How about we take the most efficient route in resolving this question, and ask the mods themselves?

[Ministerial]

my god, is this really something to be fussing over?

[Victoriala II]

>jamming all your information in your sig rather than just linking a factbook

[Yugoslav Memes]

my god, is this really something to be fussing over?

we used to be worse when we were basically the NS materials physics consultation thread

that was in 2015 when excidium bashed deminis, good times

[Excidium Planetis]

my god, is this really something to be fussing over?

we used to be worse when we were basically the NS materials physics consultation thread

that was in 2015 when excidium bashed deminis, good times

Truly.

[The Great Devourer of All]

my god, is this really something to be fussing over?

we used to be worse when we were basically the NS materials physics consultation thread

that was in 2015 when excidium bashed deminis, good times

Pretty sure that made Deminis flee the site. Eh, I never really knew him that much. I think the only time he ever directly interacted with me was to correct an error in one of my posts. Keep in mind that this is when I was still 81st-century Humans.

[Ministerial]

we used to be worse when we were basically the NS materials physics consultation thread

that was in 2015 when excidium bashed deminis, good times

Pretty sure that made Deminis flee the site. Eh, I never really knew him that much. I think the only time he ever directly interacted with me was to correct an error in one of my posts. Keep in mind that this is when I was still 81st-century Humans.

Hmmm, seems like it

[Neonymphonia]

This sounds like something that predates my time here. Was Visty present for whatever happened with this Deminis person?

[The Great Devourer of All]

This sounds like something that predates my time here. Was Visty present for whatever happened with this Deminis person?

I seem to remember Visty rekking Deminis with science almost as frequently as Excid.

[Yugoslav Memes]

do you still have water-based military vessels in your shitty transhuman dystopias

[Neonymphonia]

do you still have water-based military vessels in your shitty transhuman dystopias

...yes?

Pretty much all of our vehicles had marine capability, for obvious reasons.

[Excidium Planetis]

we used to be worse when we were basically the NS materials physics consultation thread

that was in 2015 when excidium bashed deminis, good times

Pretty sure that made Deminis flee the site. Eh, I never really knew him that much. I think the only time he ever directly interacted with me was to correct an error in one of my posts. Keep in mind that this is when I was still 81st-century Humans.

Deminis is still here, and still in FT RP. You can find him over in GESO, actually, where I have RPed with him since the science rekking.

do you still have water-based military vessels in your shitty transhuman dystopias

...yes?

Pretty much all of our vehicles had marine capability, for obvious reasons.

Maybe Singy meant water based as in literally made out of water.

[The Great Devourer of All]

do you still have water-based military vessels in your shitty transhuman dystopias

They're called jellyfish. You may have heard of them.

Maybe Singy meant water based as in literally made out of water.

Still applies, most of them are upwards of 97% water anyway.

[New Frenco Empire]

do you still have water-based military vessels in your shitty transhuman dystopias

Yeah. I mean, surface fleets are much, much more practical to run Earth-side than just firing up the Asimovs everytime we want to invade some third-world crapsack.

[Yugoslav Memes]

Maybe Singy meant water based as in literally made out of water.

I meant a surface navy, mainly because Blak didn't have one which brought the topic to my attention

[Neonymphonia]

Maybe Singy meant water based as in literally made out of water.

I meant a surface navy, mainly because Blak didn't have one which brought the topic to my attention

Yep, pretty much all units listed in my factbook are amphibious to some degree, though this encompasses both surface and subsurface operation. We have no surface ships that are solely such; everything must be submersible.

[Blakullar]

Maybe Singy meant water based as in literally made out of water.

I meant a surface navy, mainly because Blak didn't have one which brought the topic to my attention

The Mecharussians do have a surface navy, but it's not its own branch, instead being attached to the Army. And it consists pretty much purely of ekranoplanes designed to rapidly respond to an incoming Frenkish surface fleet and suppress them until the Aerofleet arrives.

[The Second Brotherhood of Planets]

>jamming all your information in your sig rather than just linking a factbook

I second this amazing quote.

While Mods might intervene because of a large sig, we can legally make the Factbooks quite huge with the only caveat being a certain character length (which yeah I've breached before.)

DEBATE TYME!

So I see how some of us are underwater nations and that's cool. But this question refers to those of us who are interstellar/intergalactic/multiuniversal Empires. How is it wise to garrison naval, as in floating, units on the surfaces of your own worlds? And why, then, would one retain a floating navy in a FT setting in general? Units who can go underwater or are waterproof have clear advantages, but devoting an entire section of your military to such things seems like a waste of resources when competing space empires can go: "You have floating navy? I take my spaceship and fly away, lollollol."

Just seems like a waste of money imo

[Excidium Planetis]

So I see how some of us are underwater nations and that's cool. But this question refers to those of us who are interstellar/intergalactic/multiuniversal Empires. How is it wise to garrison naval, as in floating, units on the surfaces of your own worlds? And why, then, would one retain a floating navy in a FT setting in general? Units who can go underwater or are waterproof have clear advantages, but devoting an entire section of your military to such things seems like a waste of resources when competing space empires can go: "You have floating navy? I take my spaceship and fly away, lollollol."

Just seems like a waste of money imo

While not technically part of Excidium Planetis, the nation of Tenzeni utilizes a Navy with surface warships. It is mainly used against the competing nations on its planet (some of which have not achieved spaceflight) and in patrol of its waters much like a Coast Guard. When you are monitoring oceanic trade lanes, you don't need a whole starship flying around.

Also, it is a matter of practicality. Excidium is somewhat Hard FT, so we don't really have battlecruisers capable of atmospheric flight (too little power to weight ratio). We can, however, construct ocean-going battlecruisers, which can float on the surface.

[Vixia Prime]

How come Vixia Prime is not in the roster?

[Blakullar]

How come Vixia Prime is not in the roster?

Most likely because you got booted for inactivity. If you want back in, submit a fresh app.

[Tinfect]

So I see how some of us are underwater nations and that's cool. But this question refers to those of us who are interstellar/intergalactic/multiuniversal Empires. How is it wise to garrison naval, as in floating, units on the surfaces of your own worlds? And why, then, would one retain a floating navy in a FT setting in general? Units who can go underwater or are waterproof have clear advantages, but devoting an entire section of your military to such things seems like a waste of resources when competing space empires can go: "You have floating navy? I take my spaceship and fly away, lollollol."

Just seems like a waste of money imo

While not technically part of Excidium Planetis, the nation of Tenzeni utilizes a Navy with surface warships. It is mainly used against the competing nations on its planet (some of which have not achieved spaceflight) and in patrol of its waters much like a Coast Guard. When you are monitoring oceanic trade lanes, you don't need a whole starship flying around.

Also, it is a matter of practicality. Excidium is somewhat Hard FT, so we don't really have battlecruisers capable of atmospheric flight (too little power to weight ratio). We can, however, construct ocean-going battlecruisers, which can float on the surface.

The Imperium doesn't maintain any Naval Battleships either, there's only so much point to them when anything can be blown up from orbit, and massive, in-the-middle-of-the-ocean constructs are so hugely impractical that there's rarely anything worth capturing out there that wouldn't be better handled by throwing Dropships at it. On the other hand, it makes a nice deployment zone for hostile forces, so, on Imperial Worlds, theres Weapons Platforms every so often in the Oceans.

On that note, we don't really have any Atmospheric-Capable ships either. I mean, no, a Rassvet Dreadnought isn't going to break-up on entry, they're very well built, but it's not exactly going to be capable of getting off world either, even if the Planet is horrifically devastated by the fuck-huge and extremely massive battleship crashing into it.

[Autem Galacticus Nexum]

Hm... since my Nexumian Alt Canon is as underdeveloped as some villages in Africa, would anyone mind to do some Nexumian shenanigans (or vice-versa)?

In the meanwhile, I may apply soon to the Proving Grounds, so that's that.

[Neonymphonia]

Hm... since my Nexumian Alt Canon is as underdeveloped as some villages in Africa, would anyone mind to do some Nexumian shenanigans (or vice-versa)?

In the meanwhile, I may apply soon to the Proving Grounds, so that's that.

Depending on what that entails, I might be up for something (providing this was a request to nations outside the primary Frencanon of course).

[The Great Devourer of All]

We don't really have any reason to possess an oceanic navy. If there's something we want to capture on the surface of a planet that can't be effectively attacked by ground units, we typically just use aerofighters and Lightweight-Class Atmospheric Assault Ships to pound it with munitions until its crew/operators surrender or it is no longer strategically useful to the enemy. If it's hiding on the bottom of some annoyingly deep ocean trench, a few starfighters could theoretically be modified to go beneath the surface and mess with us. If it manages to still hold on and it's really bugging us, we just blow up the planet and call it a day.

Actually, that would be more like Plan A now that I think about it.