The New World (OOC Thread)

[Mark Peiterson]

Banners anyone?

[CogsNsuch]

Decided to awake in new york for my character to be implemented.

[The Corsair]

We should make banners that say that... We should...


Also, welcome! Post as frequently as you wish (provided you don't constantly double-post) and I hope you enjoy being a part of the adventure!

[MWBailey]

If there are no objections, I'd like to put in a few Fergus, etc. posts over the next bit.

[The Corsair]

If there are no objections, I'd like to put in a few Fergus, etc. posts over the next bit.

Sure!
We briefly mentioned him planning (with some unnamed NPC's) on going to search Virginia and West Virginia. Sorry if this was a bit too much godmode, I wasn't sure whether or not you were ok with us NPCing

[MWBailey]

No problem, I sort of went AWOL there for a bit.

Thinking of naming a few NPCs, maybe adding one on a single-person flyer, sort of a la Nakiami from the  XAM'd anime; maybe a gasless - lift enemy dreadnought to duel (gotta get some railgun action in, LOL)...

[The Corsair]

Go for it!

[Miss Alva]

OKay. Post is up. Sorry about the wait, like I told the Corsair, I'm adjusting to my new computer, and I'm just now catching up to all my roleplays.

[YetAnotherMatt]

Not really on topic, but something that people might find interesting

http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/05/q-what-would-earth-be-like-to-us-if-it-were-a-cube-instead-of-spherical-is-this-even-possible/

[The Corsair]

Haha totally irrelevant but pretty cool

What's that thing about infinite universes and possibilities?

[YetAnotherMatt]

True. My physics class came up with a new name for sunglasses, that would also work for tinted goggles:

Portable, Bi-Ocular, Solar Attenuating and Particulate Matter Deflectors

[Mark Peiterson]

Minecraft Timelapse - Huge Floating Steampunk City

 

[Miss Alva]

[/picks jaw up off of floor]

Daaaaayyyummm

[The Corsair]

Wow.
Game over, internet, nothing will ever be as awesome...

[Miss Alva]

I have never wanted something to be more real in all my life.

Except Doctor Who. Well, if I had the both, I could visit frequently ; u;

[The Corsair]

I have never wanted something to be more real in all my life.

Except Doctor Who. Well, if I had the both, I could visit frequently ; u;

A thousand 'Hell Yeah's

I myself became very taken with the idea of a floating steampunk city when reading Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines due to its inclusion of Airhaven, a neutral hub for aviators and the like from everywhere that could fly itself anywhere.

[Miss Alva]

At my current space and time, I'm obsessing with the idea of terraforming Mars into a New Earth.
And having alien creatures upon it! AND GORRILLABEARS. GIANT GORILLABEARS.
I'm so tired it's not even funny right now XD

[MWBailey]

At my current space and time, I'm obsessing with the idea of terraforming Mars into a New Earth.
And having alien creatures upon it! AND GORRILLABEARS. GIANT GORILLABEARS.
I'm so tired it's not even funny right now XD

Add catpeople and tiiiny Green Men (like from a certain current anime ) and I'm in!

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The Dreadnought (USS Panther) and crew have made their (rather dark) debut. I'm thinking Captain Hildebrandt and company've done a deal with The Enemy.

A certain young pilot and craft will soon make their debut...

[Miss Alva]

...the sad part is, the native people are bright orange leopard humanoids with goat horns.

WHY MUST I LOVE THIS ARC OF MINE?

[The Corsair]

SO MUCH PLOT!

I'm loving the branched out storyline happening atm, makes for much more tension methinks.


Also, trying not to be pedantic but doing so anyway, the airships should be USAS (United States Air Ship) as the oceanic navy has USS already employed in their ship names.

For the sake of the summary, do I list the USAS Panther as a dreadnought, experimental ship or experimental dreadnought? (I've decided having a page listing ships will be easier than a maze of links)

[MWBailey]

The Panther is probably an experimental dreadnought, but in the same sense as Last Exile's Urbanus and her two sister ships, meaning she's a secret weapon instead of just a high-priced bit of research.

(Aww Gawd, I've been watching too much anime again... )

[The Corsair]

Lovely.
The summary is up to date and I'll add the page for the Panther in a couple of hours.

[MWBailey]

a bit to add to the Panther (warning, huge body of text):
Gas-less Lift/MOFF theory:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the ship's turbines are partly for propulsion, and partly for the Electromagnetic Suspensor Array; (the vehicle for  the soon-to-appear character with the single-person ship has a similar system; both utilize variations of devices exploiting what I'm calling the MultiOrbital Field Flux Effect -- MOFF; term mine); basically, it's (supposedly) a suspensive field created by a spinning array of floating electromagnets contained within, and acted upon by, a supercomplex, spherical motor armature, but the motor lacks  an axle (not necessary, it's supposed to create lift, not drive anything). Once the Electromagnetic Array starts spinning (on at least two axes) fast enough, just like with a conventional armature-based motor, it begins to superconduct (In this sense, produce energy as well as consume it). In the next stage, it begins to power itself, and requires only a 'maintenential' or 'influential' current to keep up the suspensive field that results.

Cutting back on the influential current causes loss of altitude, increase causes gain of altitude. Cutting off both maintenential and influential power only causes the system to wreck itself by first cutting off influential control, and then superconducting without any restraint, ultimately spinning so quickly that air friction within the armature housing causes it (both the armature and the array) to literally melt itself.

"Turning off" the system is thus effected not by turning down or severing influential current, but by shorting out or interrupting the polyaxial orbital sequence, which is commonly done by bridging one or more polar-opposite armature segments, effectively short-circuiting and 'freezing' the array, in turn both ceasing lift and avoiding loss of orbital control (much like the old way of shorting the plug in a lawnmower engine to make it stop)

The high temperatures are the reason why it's still a largely experimental system; efforts to vacuumize the housing have so far proven to be futile, and while artificially-cooled and -circulated cooling gas in a closed system works well within normal operational parameters, superheating at loss of influential current has so far caused the gas (of whatever variety) to expand, thus damaging the housing and causing serious vapor leakage, or even causing an assembly-destroying explosion.

The Panther, like many of its contemporary systems, supplements its own motive steam supply by routing water through special spherical radiators integral to the structures of the armatures, which adds a level of safety as well as utilizing heat that might otherwise go to waste.  The result is a system that is very difficult to damage -- as long as the armor holds and projectiles don't go smashing around destroying the housings, or a spy doesn't get aboard and do some selective sabotage, or the radiators don't leak.

*ahem*... Yes, I'm well aware that I'm gallivanting out on a very shaky scientific limb here; it may well be that what I'm describing couldn't possibly work in RL, but then neither do many SF-type devices .

Include it ior not. I realize it's a rather huge pile of verbage...

[YetAnotherMatt]

It's great, and pretty interesting, but we might have an issue here, because:

..."Enemy scout group at 258 magnetic." Lyrren could see them out the viewport, and in fact the whole allied force was now within visual distance, with their perimeter pressed on both the west and north edges.

"Detail Panther to intercept."

"One Gunboat, sir?" The Ensign at the table looked confused...

From the IC thread while you were gone... I'm not too concerned, just wanted to point it out. 

[The Corsair]

It's great, and pretty interesting, but we might have an issue here, because:

..."Enemy scout group at 258 magnetic." Lyrren could see them out the viewport, and in fact the whole allied force was now within visual distance, with their perimeter pressed on both the west and north edges.

"Detail Panther to intercept."

"One Gunboat, sir?" The Ensign at the table looked confused...

From the IC thread while you were gone... I'm not too concerned, just wanted to point it out. 

Is that Panther significant to the plot?
If so: Can Bailey please alter his Panther post and I'll change the summary
If not: Keep Calm and Carry On