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RE: The Docking Ring thread - The Savage - 03-30-2016
I stand with a point that rogue Ageira employees known as Lane Hackers traded tech or helped in building separate docking rings. Why such a suggestion? In vanillia, Lane Hackers have no unlawful enemy aside of Xenos.
RE: The Docking Ring thread - Epo - 03-30-2016
Actually making all planets dockable like Tomionka and placing some bases inside their atmospheres (inhabited ones) would be a thing. Also I'd love to see an uninhabited dockable moon like the Callisto. Buuut the thing about icy-cold-stuff is just my personal love.
And well, I doubt that FL engine would support making all planets dockable, what's sad.
RE: The Docking Ring thread - Arioch - 03-30-2016
So Coarsair and OC docking rings aren't... Docking Rings? Even Snak3 said that Docking Rings don't use Alien tech. So is it that far-fetched that it couldn't be reversed engineered? You have Counterfeit Software sold on Ames - Is it that hard to imagine that within that software could be how Docking rings works?
Also, easy fix. Get materials to build the Docking Rings, and use Gravity Field Stabilizers. From the commodity itself: "These devices control and maniuplaye the intense gravitational fields that are generated by Jump Drives, enabling the creation of a temporary, stable rift in space through whcih a vessel may pass without being ripped apart." I don't see how that could not be applied to a planetary gravitational field and allow for that temporary, stable rift to be how one uses a Docking Ring and lands on a planet.
RE: The Docking Ring thread - Epo - 03-30-2016
(03-30-2016, 05:43 PM)Drrobe Wrote: So Coarsair and OC docking rings aren't... Docking Rings? Even Snak3 said that Docking Rings don't use Alien tech. So is it that far-fetched that it couldn't be reversed engineered? You have Counterfeit Software sold on Ames - Is it that hard to imagine that within that software could be how Docking rings works?
Also, easy fix. Get materials to build the Docking Rings, and use Gravity Field Stabilizers. From the commodity itself: "These devices control and maniuplaye the intense gravitational fields that are generated by Jump Drives, enabling the creation of a temporary, stable rift in space through whcih a vessel may pass without being ripped apart." I don't see how that could not be applied to a planetary gravitational field and allow for that temporary, stable rift to be how one uses a Docking Ring and lands on a planet.
Also +1
RE: The Docking Ring thread - Shiki - 03-30-2016
Lawfuls building rings with Ageira/Solar.
Unlawfuls with the help of LH.
Makes sense actually, I guess LH~ could some RP about it.
RE: The Docking Ring thread - Lythrilux - 03-30-2016
(03-30-2016, 05:40 PM)Nyx Wrote: lol now we're deciding what's canon or not from vanilla, you're still forgetting about Toledo
Didn't those rings have backstory anyway?
(03-30-2016, 05:40 PM)Sheekochan Wrote: @Lythrilux
>vanilla
>non-canon material
Gotcha, please come again.
Lots of the original Nomad lore was incomplete or wasn't entirely fleshed out. Through a plethora of changes, the Nomad lore doc was born, which became Disco lore.
It is the same with these Docking Rings. They do not make sense. Through appropriate changes, we can make them make sense, just like we did with Nomad lore (and other parts of Vanilla that weren't fleshed out).
RE: The Docking Ring thread - Corile - 03-30-2016
(03-30-2016, 04:27 PM)Protégé Wrote: To be honest the Docking Rings could very well be the representation of the top of a space elevator.
And really, that's a very simple and a cost-efficient explanation.
RE: The Docking Ring thread - Lythrilux - 03-30-2016
(03-30-2016, 05:47 PM)Protégé Wrote:(03-30-2016, 04:27 PM)Protégé Wrote: To be honest the Docking Rings could very well be the representation of the top of a space elevator.
And really, that's a very simple and a cost-efficient explanation.
I don't see why we can't just swap the current models of docking rings into the red crosses Tomioka has and call those space elevators though. It's a nice, easy, simple fix that pleases everyone and keeps the lore consistent.
RE: The Docking Ring thread - Corile - 03-30-2016
(03-30-2016, 05:50 PM)Lythrilux Wrote:(03-30-2016, 05:47 PM)Protégé Wrote:(03-30-2016, 04:27 PM)Protégé Wrote: To be honest the Docking Rings could very well be the representation of the top of a space elevator.
And really, that's a very simple and a cost-efficient explanation.
I don't see why we can't just swap the current models of docking rings into the red crosses Tomioka has and call those space elevators though. It's a nice, easy, simple fix that pleases everyone and keeps the lore consistent.
A space elevator requires a counterweight of some description on the space end of it. Docking Rings could very well be "the most ergonomic and efficient deisgn possible manufactured by Ageira". Factions that don't have access to them could use a different source of counterweight such as a large enough blob of iridium or an asteroid.
Those red crosses are just way too ugly.
RE: The Docking Ring thread - Sombs - 03-30-2016
(03-30-2016, 05:43 PM)Drrobe Wrote: Jump Drives
Ageira builds gates, but lots of battleships out there can use jump drives on their own. So the technology can't be THAT hard to handle. That could also explain why there are other docking rings.