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Post by contributor on Apr 28, 2016 9:36:34 GMT -5
Just sort of lore question, but it's bugging me. Hypersonic (assume that means they travel faster than the speed of sound?) torpedoes can travel 3 squares in a turn. That's much further than the distance between many stars in ST4X. Can this be explained, or is just one of those real-life-physics-don't-apply-here things?
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Post by Cory Trese on Apr 28, 2016 9:51:15 GMT -5
They're actually Hyperwarp Torpedoes that travel at FTL speeds through an alternate space. This same technology is how ST2's hyperwarp gates are accessed and the quadrants reunited. Hypersonic was a terminology that was used in ST RPG initially and was just a thing we used to replace the common ST RPG term that wasn't OK to use due to stupid laws about owning ideas.  |
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Post by ntsheep on Apr 28, 2016 9:56:08 GMT -5
I thought the stars just jumped out of the way because they didn't want to be hit.
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Post by Cory Trese on Apr 28, 2016 9:58:18 GMT -5
I thought the stars just jumped out of the way because they didn't want to be hit. In ST 4X, you cannot shoot though the Stars as far as I am aware. |
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Post by ntsheep on Apr 28, 2016 12:09:35 GMT -5
Go drink some more coffee Cory to wake up. My post was meant as a joke Since when do stars jump to avoid collisions. |
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Post by contributor on Apr 28, 2016 12:33:44 GMT -5
Grammar is never a sheep's forté. Between ≠ through
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Post by ntsheep on Apr 28, 2016 12:41:56 GMT -5
Did I misspell something?
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Post by slayernz on Apr 28, 2016 17:33:59 GMT -5
There are many stars with wobbles that could be deemed as moving out of your way if you're trying to thread the needle with a particularly tricky torp shot. Me - I'd work on tech that would trigger the star to go nova - that way you might not shoot through the star, but you'd take out the target (and the whole stellar neighborhood)
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Post by ntsheep on Apr 28, 2016 17:52:28 GMT -5
The probability of threading a needle based on a stars wobbability just sounds outright astronomical.
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Post by resistor on Apr 28, 2016 18:07:40 GMT -5
"Hypersonic" wouldn't actually make much sense in space since there is no sound in space...
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Post by ntsheep on Apr 28, 2016 18:15:16 GMT -5
"Hypersonic" wouldn't actually make much sense in space since there is no sound in space... Quit wasting our time with sound logic. This is a battle of nitwits. Brains are not allowed. |
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Post by slayernz on Apr 28, 2016 18:24:30 GMT -5
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Post by ntsheep on Apr 28, 2016 18:53:37 GMT -5
That's neat slayernz but again it's too logical. These arguments must be made with nonsense. |
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Post by slayernz on Apr 28, 2016 19:00:58 GMT -5
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Post by ntsheep on Apr 28, 2016 19:03:20 GMT -5
That makes no sense whatever!?!?!? It's purrfect!
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