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Quote from: Comrade P. on March 06, 2015, 03:11:30 pm

I've been thinking about armor lately.

There are basically two types of protection - passive and active, right? Our passive protection is now represented by hexsand, hexbug, milnoplate, CD longcoat and ye olde armoring alloys. Our active protection is usage of various amplifiers. I hope I get it right.

So here's a thought: maybe it would be possible to create a (electromagnetic?) field of a sort around armor plates in order to disperse laser beams' energy and mess up Gauss rounds' trajectories when they come close? Exact effectiveness depends directly on energy input, so you can give those to a soldier with power generator which allows field to handle laser rifle/Gauss rifle, while applying that to a battlesuit with an upgraded power source can stop more powerful conventional weaponry.
IF such a thing is possible, it has some advantages before hexbug/hexsand - you don't need to combine two elements and make layers, you have to manufacture a single device, and then all you need is a power source and a soldier to carry it. And besides, it can be used along with any other protection. It also doesn't rely on any space magic, which is always good.
Although this thing might not be quite possible. I'm not too good around physics.

Redirecting Gauss rounds with electromagnetic field is gonna be night impossible without automanip and then user would be twisted into knots. IRL bullets cannot be really redirected with our strongest magnets, and I think gauss rounds are few orders of magnitude heavier and faster. Strength of magnetic field required to do that will do lots of bad things to user, I believe.

But guass slugs are ferromagnetic and bullets generally aren't. Also, guass slugs being bigger won't make them much harder to deflect, speed is the real problem.

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Quote from: Orange Wizard on March 05, 2015, 09:05:14 pm

*golf clap*

So long as I am not being hit by tomatoes...

So you are advocating potato chucking?

No he's advocating midget punting

I think he might be advocating watermelon warhammers.

Create metal tablets of arcane lore, five for the small scavengers and five for the land hunters.

Try one more time to touch things without buring them.

If you throw asteroids at a planet hard enough to punch a hole in the crust, then the ash clouds will choke the entire planet.

Natural selection. If you can't use power tools, you don't deserve to survive primary school.

I am aware of that. I've been through something pretty similar.

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Coughing hasn't gone away, even after about a week. Chest and throat stiff and raw.

The problem with that is that it is quite possible to get others injured as well when not being careful with power saws.

Besides, I am of the opinion that we should have second chances... until your late teens. That's when the culling of the gene pool should begin.

It would appear that I'm going to be spending a lot of time keeping you from ruining everything I value.