Rheinland's engines STILL run on MOX?

[nOmnomnOm]

We should totally nerf all MOX powered ships to 25% powercore. Fusion is better than fission.

lolno what

[nOmnomnOm]

As Tel aviv wrote i think. Forget and accept that discovery is not reality.

You have space planets that are tiny, you have them not moving, you have everything in one plane.


DONT FIND DISCO LOGICAL ON ALL ACCOUNTS

as sad as it is.

very sad.

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[Strichev]

lolno what

It's fact. As far as I know fusion of lighter elements is more effective than fission. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[nOmnomnOm]

Im just saying dont just reduce a &%$#in' power core to 25% >.> jsut because of your physics logic.
Look at Siruis. Planets are tiny, nothing orbits, everything is on a plane.

Its more science-fantasy than science-fiction.

I get where your coming from but your just gonna get MOX to be USELESS.
Why not make a RP to Improve the standards of MOX?

Get RP of scientists and do some of that logic you are after.

Improving the game doesn't always mean nerfing everything.

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[Backo]

How are Gallic engines so efficient with oil based fuel? Pls tell me, I want to cut down on the gas bill for my car :S

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[SkyNet]

I thought they ran on burning political prisoners.

No. But we mix them into our steel.

[Thyrzul]

And Gallic engines run on ... Oil. Seriously, Oil as a fusion fuel?!
Make that Promethene which makes way more sense, according to the lore.

How are Gallic engines so efficient with oil based fuel? Pls tell me, I want to cut down on the gas bill for my car :S

The Gallic engines have been cleared already.

Just take the CNO cycle. It makes He from H, uses C as a catalyst, which in the process becomes N, O and then C again, starting the whole over. It takes a lot of heat and pressure to maintain the process and then it yields a lot of energy in return. That's the science part.

Now take an other, theoretical catalyst, let it be Promethene. It is so sweet it lets you do the magic on a way lower level of heat and pressure required, so it becomes way more user-friendly. Drawback is that the cycle ends halfway through, you lose half of the energy yield, the original catalists/reagents C and H and exhaust N2 gas. That's the fiction part.

And then guess what. In Oil, we have a lot of C and H. Put it in an engine, put Promethene next to it, heat it up well (a relatively small amount of activation energy is most probably required), and then watch how it flies through the sector leaving nitrogen trails behind itself. You got science, you got fiction, add them up and you have science-fiction.

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[Backo]

And Gallic engines run on ... Oil. Seriously, Oil as a fusion fuel?!
Make that Promethene which makes way more sense, according to the lore.

How are Gallic engines so efficient with oil based fuel? Pls tell me, I want to cut down on the gas bill for my car :S

The Gallic engines have been cleared already.

Just take the CNO cycle. It makes He from H, uses C as a catalyst, which in the process becomes N, O and then C again, starting the whole over. It takes a lot of heat and pressure to maintain the process and then it yields a lot of energy in return. That's the science part.

Now take an other, theoretical catalyst, let it be Promethene. It is so sweet it lets you do the magic on a way lower level of heat and pressure required, so it becomes way more user-friendly. Drawback is that the cycle ends halfway through, you lose half of the energy yield, the original catalists/reagents C and H and exhaust N2 gas. That's the fiction part.

And then guess what. In Oil, we have a lot of C and H. Put it in an engine, put Promethene next to it, heat it up well (a relatively small amount of activation energy is most probably required), and then watch how it flies through the sector leaving nitrogen trails behind itself. You got science, you got fiction, add them up and you have science-fiction.

That's actually pretty well thought out, thanks for clearing up the whole thing, man!

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[Luis]

According to the infocard Rheinland's VP-xy engines run on MOX . Or at least mainly run on MOX. I find that somewhat odd, considering the H-fuel caused wars and such.

One might argue that the engines run on MOX because of the desire to grow independent of GMG or Kusari, but still. Is there any reason in particular for this?

You people really get deep into this game. It's pitiful to even read some of these threads.

[aerelm]

Thought it was all about aerelm having typed the infocards in a hurry and skipping precious details such as every engine in Sirius still running on H-Fuel.

^ That

Actually, none of the existing engine infocards were "written" by me, since I'm not much of an imaginative writer myself. I just gathered ideas for possible names and roleplay snippets from a few skype chats, then put them together and tossed them in. As it happens, there were more than a couple of people who said "MOX" and "Rheinland" in the same sentence. You should already know Pavel, since you were in one of the abovementioned chats, and even suggested a thing or two yourself.

That said, as I already told you when you PMed me about it on Skype, if engines running on MOX doesn't make sense then provide me with something that does and I'll redo the Rheinland engine infocards. So yes, Rheinland engines are "STILL" running on MOX cause not a single person has offered a single alternative for it. That said, calling every engine "H-Fuel based" kinda takes the fun out of the whole thing, so coming up with something more creative and original is encouraged.

P.S: Luis pretty much nailed it.