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Our ships are wooden. Nowhere are we told that they're clad in copper. So we assume they're not. That said, right now revise it to be a better metal---we won't forget how to make this (Cheaper than copper) new metal, so even if the better stuff goes up in price, we'll still be set.

Solar panels?

That's extremely underwhelming. So, for next turn, orbital shipyard. I'm going to grab my earlier proposal and bring it here for later. I think I'm going to simplify it as well.

Yggdrasil SS-01A
Built entirely in space, this revolutionary new structure is basically a free-falling warehouse and factory with 4 arm-like structures. Two of them are docking areas, comprising a place for an ITC/IMW/Iliad to dock and load/unload crew, goods, weaponry, or ammunition. The other two are construction yards, capable of building or refitting/repairing one ship at a time or being used as more docking space. It is to be locked in a geosynchronous orbit over an empty part of one of Moerth's landmass(es). Everything needed to build spaceships, and almost everything meant to travel on them, will first go to this station.

Let's...not.

The bio-energy. That's not science fiction. That's just fiction. There's no energy created by that method. It's utterly ridiculous. I'm thinking we step down the path to fusion. Nuclear fusion is a clear and powerful topic of science, not even science fiction.

We get fission (Do we have this yet, GM? How are our ships actually powered???), then fusion, and then we could take the thermonuclear option (I'm not even joking) and start lobbing long-range space ICBM's to take out their fighter vessels and ITCs in droves. Also, a single long-range thermonuclear device could entirely destroy their forces on a planet, depending on how they spread out.


But for next turn: space dock. We build the space station (A warehouse in space, with a few arms and a factory setup), we build ships faster, ship things out faster, everything gets faster and better.


Oh, and just for neat reference: Metamaterials refers only to materials with interesting optical properties. As in, materials with a negative index of refraction (Gets REALLY strange and scientific from here) that can be used to bend light without distortion and thus render an object invisible.

Wow that was salty and very hard to read. Like, physically painful that you couldn't calm yourself while doing research. I don't mind being wrong---I mind when the opponent can't recognize that they're being silly and then edit the post. Nobody wanted to read the salty part of your research, just the research which suggests that Design "Whatever" is better than Design "Who Cares?".

If you think that the storm strike can be overhauled in a revision, then go for it.

Hopefully somebody else reads this and comes to a different conclusion. Adamantine should've been done much earlier in the game. It won't work as an "Instant-win" button now.

....Not what I meant, and for good reason.
Overreaching leads to things like the Spear of Allah. 50% self-terminating failure rates are a bad thing.

I've explained why I doubt adamantium can help us enough. Also, it's a new field of technology entirely. We might not get workable results this turn.

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Hence my arguing with you about the value of our competing suggestions----mine for an all-weather version of Storm Strike, yours for adamantium.