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That will not get you to Mars... Fine The underwater cities.... Ok Inertial Dampeners don't exist... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_damper ...Normal containers like a shipping container? There are alot of types... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_container Concrete and bricks and metal...Any idea what metal or bricks you plan to use...because I can tell you right now that Aluminum will be a crap coil gun. Because Plywood is cheap, and so far everything you have tried to build could only have been built with plywood because of the tiny budget you give it. Going to bed, if I don't get responces and such which are useful by tommrow afternoon I will just go with some generics

How large are the containers? What Skyscraper are you basing it on? What is the Skyscraper made of? What metal are you building the coil gun out of Do you mean firing them at 15 times the speed of sound or once they are out of Earths Atomsphere they will be at 15 times the speed of sound... Also, where on a map, of Scandinavia, are you building this thing? I have a feeling this will end the same as all your other crackpot schemes, with me spending far too long listening to stuff that will never work, when I am flipping ill, because no one else gives a damn enough to stop the game crashing by your unbelievably stupid ideas. Why? Coilgun Size of a SkyScraper Scandinavia Builds Shooting Containers Shooting...At Mars Fifteen Times the Speed of Sound Just some the key words I see and go 'Hmmm, that sounds like a crackpot idea', why? Coilguns. They, like underwater cities and transporters, are thrown around a lot but are obvouisly far more expensive and difficult to build than you actually state. Anything taller than 3 stories is generally a bad idea. Scandinavia has not build anything that wasn't made out of plywood...maybe they get that from Swedish Ikeas... Shooting containers implies firing 40 or something tonnes into the air, which is never a good idea. Shooting...at Mars implies firing something a very long way, with the smallest wind blowing it completely off course, as well as the eventual crash down being powerful enough to destroy the container. Fifteen times the speed of sound implies something very fast, with the eventual crash strong enough to destroy the container. The Innevitable lack of forethought is clearly evident Earth, if I am going to do something then I will do it. You can be reasonably sure that if I don't do anything towards it that I am not doing it.

O...k There are always new frontiers to be discovered, but Photons, as they are understood, as all reality indicates, and as I, the voice of reality in game, understand the concepts involved, will not function in the way that you imply. These are FACTS. There may well be photons as the core of most atoms, but if there were then current theory would be entirely written off, which would mean that a whole new theory would have to be devised...and I have no desire to create a new theory of everything based on photons being more fundermental than the elementary particles, nor to spend some weeks testing the new theory for holes. Thus, unless there is a Wikipedia Article, or another source which I can read, understand and use to enforce reality in the world of photonic cores, then it ins't happening. No. I don't need evidence of death's existance...And that is new to everyone who experiances it. Errr...No. 'What will happen when we drop the Higgs Boson out of a plane?' 'I think it will stop time!' 'Hey, he's right, my dice said so' This game is based on reality, as I understand it, and as Sere chooses to officate over, not on a haphazard dice rolling fest. So that is that.

At no point does it say 'randomly stab in the dark at an idea which has alot of evidence against it and no evidence for it.' Yes, it is true that no amount of evidence can prove something, while 1 peice of evidence can still undo it...but it doesn't mean 'If you jump off a cliff 20 times and say 'I believe I can fly'' that it will suddenly become possible. The main problem I have is that there is no proof for your idea, yet rather alot against it, thus there is no way in hell that anyone can ever calculate the variables, and therefore it would be a matter me rolling a die each time you tried to do something. The game would thus have no element of stratagy or intelligence, it would just me 'Mather tries to use his uber weapon...Mather kills 6 Billion people when it fails' It would also disprove the entire model of physics, so the game would degenerate to 'He rolls a dice....Titanium is now the weakest metal' Anyway, the Unbiased Hand of God says 'No Dice'

Sigh... Note that light can have an energy that is equivalent to having a given rest mass.(P is Momentum) E=pc=mc^2, so m=p/c. A photon with a given momentum therefore can, under certain circumstances, act as though it has a certain mass. It does not really have mass though. According to relativity, all particles without mass always move at the speed of light and nothing with mass can ever move that fast. Also, gravity is not exactly caused by two objects with mass. In General Relativity, Einstein showed that gravity is the warping of space-time by a single massive object. Light travels on a straight path along this curved space, allowing it to be bent along with space. This was a complete departure from Newton's theory of gravity where a massless object would not react at all to gravity. The difference is small, but measurable and it has been observed many times since. Mr. President, I don't see why you oppose give everyone an unlimited amount of food. Because it is impossible. I still don't see why you are against it...Surely you want to give everyone unlimited food. Yes, of course.... Fine, lets do it. But we can't! You just said you wanted to! Its just not possible. You just don't believe hard enough!! Did this work when you wanted China to lose its nuclear weapons? Yes! Then why do they still have nuclear weapons... They don't. They do...I can see them on this spy sat photo They are not real, they are wooden They look pretty real Thats because you want them to be real!! No, its because they are real. If you don't believe in them they don't exist! And on and on and on... The fact is that it is impossible, whether I want it or not is neither here nor there. As it happens I don't, because it would be a silly idea which would innevitabitably lead to you blowing up Mars or insta-colonising the Solar System.

No one would gain from the game crashing when you stick energy destablisers on your aircraft and disintergrate a town... Ah...no. Blackholes bend space time and light travels through space time... In much the same way a ball travels over a snooker table until it reaches the hole...It does not fundermentally mean that the ball is a snooker table... Dice are an aid when you are unsure of what will happen...I am certain of what will happen....Nada, because there is no scientific...or even speculative evidence...for the theory.

I thought about that, and spent about 20 minutes finding out how wrong I was... Basically for you to do that you would need to A) Store all the information first...so you still have the 75,000,000,000 second problem there. Second, you would need to compress it, which would take some years...supposing you compressed at 1 Terrabyte per second it would take 2,378 years, on top of the 2,378 to store all the information in the first place. So we are up to 4,756 years... The compression size would also factor quite highly. For instance: (This is using the system that each time you take 2 numbers and create a new number to represent them...So: 400200 123 12 1 (Notice how even when a number exists on its own it still has to be counted? I forgot that, so these numbers are actually somewhat smaller than they should be...) Another system would be to use 1 number to represent 2 digits, then 4 digits, then 8 digits...Which is basically 2^2, 4^4, 16^16, 256^256, Err^Err because Excel is not as robust as the calculator....But both systems grow extremely fast...though this system would actually be quicker, I am writing this as an after though, and the fact that it would take 2378 years, regardless, means it would take 4756 days...13 years...real time for the compression to begin... Thus is not really important) If you have something, which in binary equals 1000 bits, you could compress it so that it equaled 63 bits in hexpentpenttrihex(65536). However the translator program would have to be some 32,768 times larger, but you only save 15.87 times the space. So you would need to be sending something that was 2064.77 times larger than the number of compression, in this case...which is fine, in this case...but 6.3% of 2,378 is still 149.814 years. Compressing it again would leave you with 32 bits(since you have to round up to the nearest bit...since you can't have half a bit) per 1000, but 4,294,967,296 bits on the decompression program. (536,870,912 bytes, or 536 megabytes) You would save 31.25 times the space, but the program would be 2,147,483,648 times the size. So you would need to send something 68,719,477 times larger than the number of compression...and it would still take 74.3125 years.... Compressing it again would save 15.625 times the space, but the program would be 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bits...thats 2,305,843,009,213,693,952 bytes or 2.5 Exabytes... We are 3 zeros away from the compressing program being larger than the thing it is compressing... Anyway, it would still take 37.15625 years. Compressing it again, saves 7.8125 times the space, but the program would be 3.4e+38 bits....4.e+37 Bytes....or 4 Undecillion Bytes...Wikipedia and the SI system doesn't cover this level of memory, but somewhere else does....4 Udabytes http://jimvb.home.mindspring.com/unitsystem.htm Anyway, even with this ungainly mass of programming, it would still take 18 and a half years...This is on top of the 2,378 years you spent compressing it to this size(Actually it should be 7 times this, since it was compressed 7 times...so 16,646 years...Or 16 Kiloyears if you want to be SI about it....Or would it be smaller, since each compression is dealing with a smaller number? Yeah, 4737 years.) So, we can safely say that compression is off the agenda? Key phrase there....I think... The Uncertainty Principle is pretty simple. Imagine you are in a pitch black room, with a long pole in your hand. There is a ballon somewhere in the room and you can't move. You have to find out the position and momentum of the ballon. As long as you don't hit the ballon you know that the momentum of the balloon is 0. If you hit the ballon you know its position, but its momentum is now an unknown. If you had some sort of a machine which hit the balloon with an exact amount of energy, you are still no better off because you don't know where on the balloon you hit, so it could fly off in any direction. If you gently felt around the room with the pole until you found the balloon with the stick then the momentum of the ballon would still be in flux because of the vibrations of your arm. If you had your mechanical system with ultra shock protectors, so there was no shaking at all, then you have the repulsion of the atoms between the pole and the balloon, if you calculate this, then how? You have no idea what the balloon is made of, what size or shape it is, what is inside it, if anything...So your calculations are thus impossible. If you then removed your metal pole from the vicinity of the balloon you now no longer know that it is there, since it might have moved due to unknown factors, you can 'think' its there, but that doesn't mean it is.... Its not a perfect experiment mind, I am not a quantum physist by trade so don't quote me...but that is my understanding of the Uncertainty Principle and that is the one that the game applies. Basic thing... A photon has no mass...How does something that does not have mass create something that does have mass? It would be like two women giving birth to a male child... It is statistically impossible(Practically anyway, genetic mutations and such aside neither woman would have the Y chromosome in their genes, and thus could not pass it on to the child...any more than they could pass on the ability to summon fire out of nowhere) Three things... Statistically you would have a 1 in 20 chance...So therefore if you proposed that time reversed when you dropped a Higgs Boson out of a plane, then that time stopped, time slowed down by 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/10, 1/11, 1/12, 1/13, 1/14, 1/15, 1/16, 1/17, 1/18, 1/19 and 1/20, then at least one of them is certain(Probabalistically) to occur...Yet, in the real world, this is considerably unlikely, since it goes against everything we understand about the universe, yet there is no way to prove or disprove it (mainly because hte Higgs Boson doesn't exist...Silly Scientists, when will they learn that I am always right!).... Second, we have a fairly good understanding the the world, as it is...As it was said 'Is it not enough to enjoy a beautiful garden...without believing their are pixies at the bottom of it?' Thirdly: God Does Not Play Dice With The Universe. ~Albert Einstein You know, something like this already exists, but you have to stand at the top of the machine to let it work [hide]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_wIApjqLIo[/hide]

Yeah, paul is 12 am (gmt) and after...Sometimes 12 am to 8 am, which was a good game of civ

Because you don't tell me at the beginning...Or you drop it in in the middle of a massive argument with me or someone else. Also you do have some responsibility yo work these things out for yourself...Its relatively obvouis that Underwater Cities were going to cost more than 5 Billion and the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle was thrown around alot in the last game, it is just a catch-all anti-transporter technology saying...So you could be pretty sure that you were not going to get away with either of them without some maths to back you up... It might possibly be able to discover away to beam a couple of atoms at a time...But anything beyond that would require a moon sized computer.... Hehe, well maybe not moonsized, but a flashdrive(by whenever it is now) should be about 1 Terrabyte. http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/upgrades/how-to-fit-1tb-of-data-on-one-tiny-thumbdrive-153126 So 75,000,000,000 of them for a mole of whatever... How fast could you write them? http://jjap.ipap.jp/link?JJAP/41/1650/ According to this 1000 GB per second So it would be 1 Terabyte per second...so you are still talking about 75,000,000,000 or 2,378 years Supposing you had some sort of controlling system which split the data down into packets and sent them to the individual hard-drives, then you could store the whole lot in a second, but thats not including time to catalogue the files into packets...a packet needs 160 bytes to be written to it, and would take some 1 picosecond per packet, if all the packets were exactly 1 TB(-160 bytes for write space) in size. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_(information_technology)#Example:_IP_packets If this would take just 0.075 seconds to catagorise, and then, if you had 75,000,000,000 seperate connections, the information could be stored in about a second. The problem is that all this data would be stored in 75,000,000,000 seperate blocks, which would all need to be read by 1 machine so they could be reconstituted as a single mass, not 75,000,000,000 blocks of carbon atoms(Which is what this calculation is for, let me remind you, 12 grams of carbon, without any data about each subatomic particle). So you are in pretty much the same position as you were before, it will take 2,378 years to read all the data and reconstitute it. The only real way round this would be to have 75,000,000,000 seperate systems for reconstituting the mole at the other end, all working in tandem. Which would mean the whole thing would need to be put into some sort of stasis to make sure the atoms, nay, electrons, or even quarks, from going walkabouts, which would completely destablise the object. If there was some way to overcome that then you could do it. Safety would be another concern, since a single speck of dust or fault in the wiring or burn out or whatever could destroy a number of atoms, or even corrupt the entire store, if it turned out to be one of the 160 bytes... All of this in the face of E=MC2 So 12 grams(of carbon) would be 1,078,506,214,484,181,168 Joules or 1 Trillion(long scale), 1 Quintillion(Short scale)...1 exajoule or, 1,000,000 Tera Joules- 62,500 times Earth's current generational capacity... (Energy of the Sun)100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (Energy required for 12 grams of carbon)1,000,506,214,484,181,168 So, if you harnessed the full power of the sun you could transfer 399,797,616.65 12 grams or 4,797,571,400 grams, 4,787 Tonnes(of carbon).... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_platform#Particularly_large_examples The largest oil driving platform, in the world, weights 1.2 Million Tonnes...Even if the platform you wanted to send was tiny by comparison...a mere 1% of the size, that would still be 12,000 Tonnes(and composed entirely out of carbon, other atoms would be heavier or lighter). Even harnessing the full power of the sun you could not generate the energy to convert the platform. So, assuming you built a 75,000,000,000 emitter system, encased the sun and used the energy(Since it is beyond conventional capacity) to turn the 12 grams of carbon into energy(Or skipped this bit and used a carbon sample on record, since it would be easier) filed that into your 75,000,000,000 hard drive system, prayed for no corrupted files, transported your small moon of hardrives to Mars, built another 75,000,000,000 emitter system, hooked into the sun system again, converted the energy back into the 12 grams of carbon..... In total you have probably wasted a couple of quadtrillion dollars in building the two 75,000,000,000 emitter system, and have definately wasted a hell of alot of energy. If you had some sort of limitless power source, along with a nice fast 1(or 14, it doens't make a huge difference at this point) terrabyte cable and a pre-existing emitter system, you could transport humans from one side of the planet to the other, in just 8 seconds(time taken for light to travel halfway round the world).... But since you don't have a limitless power source, and current game logic indicates you never will, as well as pre-existing emitter system not existing....You are pretty stuffed on that front. So realistically speaking, you are gonna be limited to a couple of atoms at a time for the foreseeable future. If Doom does't blow my head off for ignoring the Hesienburg Uncertainty Principle...or I ignored the fact that I said protons, neutrons and electrons, then proceeded to work from the number of atoms, with no referance to the number of protons, neutrons or electrons....or, for that matter, the lack of any locational information. Guess I didn't want to labour the point that your technology is unfeasible in the extreme.

Failing orders from Sere I am going to say: Hesienburg Uncertainty Principle As well as the fact that, assuming you had 3 settings, rather than 2, so that each proton, neutron and electron were a single bit. (And no other information was stored) Then you would have 6.*10 to the 23 Or 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits per mole of material. Saying this was Carbon, that would be 12 grams. Now, in bytes thats 75,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Or 75 zettabytes.. Or 75,000,000,000 Terrabytes Not to mention, the fastest current technology can transfer information is 14 Terrabytes per second... With a perfect connection. http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news06e/0609/060929a.html Which means it will take 5,357,142,858 seconds Or 169.8 Years.... Though since you are storing this on an external hard-drive(presumably the size of the moon...) this is not too much of a concern. That is transfering 1 mole...not even 100 grams of most materials. So, I will say again, failing instructions to the contray, this technology is unfeasible...even given the highly generous 1 bit per sub atomic particle, with no location, spin or other information stored, it is entirely unfeasible...so with all of that, it would be even less feasible still. Sorry Mather, isn't happening.

Are....not is... Anyway, I think what Dungeonal means is that the game is not really a FPS because it doesn't try to have a story, or a setting or anything that gives the impression of it being a first person game... I suppose you can say that the perspective you shoot from is first person...but its kinda like saying Pong is a third person shooter...It just doesn't have any sort of feeling there, even though it meets all the critera. See, its sort of a 'meh, well you can do it, if you want, not much incentive though....' In a game of Halo or C&C Renegade( The ONLY FPS I have played, to my knowladge), you can run around stupidly and avoid shooting your enemies or whatever, but the game still shoots you back...the game wants it to be a FPS....Gmod doesn't want to be a FPS, it just wants to be a sandbox game...Kind of a 'me' in terms of game play... 'Look, you can do whatever the hell you like, there are some rules, but they are just here to stop the game falling apart entirely' Civ 4 has a squad based game...one of the mods...It doesn't make Civ 4 a Squad based game though... Mods can completely change the nature of a game. Anyway...

I set the phaser on wide beam and setting 32(Terminate with Extreme Vapourisation) and fire randomly until it gives up, or until I die, hopefully counting as a win or a draw.

I use the phase to vapourise myself, scoring a victory over myself.(So it should be 2/1)

I call for a beam out using my lapel pin! If that doesn't work I attempt to communicate with the Mold, by reversing the polarity of my tricorder!

I do some more scanning.

Errr....No. I scan the area with my tricorder

I phaser the Haliberd... The phaser never malfunctions....

I scan the surrounding area...WITH PHASER FIRE!

I whip out my tricorder and scan the goo from 15 feet away.

I'll go with Picard.

Character rethink: [hide] Armor: The Force Weapon: Light Saber Description: Generic Jedi Currently fighting: The Dark Side Win/loss ratio: 0/0 Or Armor: Lapel Pin Weapon: Omni-Phaser Description: Federation Captain Jean-Luc Picard Currently fighting: The Borg Win/loss ratio: 0/0 Or Armor: Wikipedia Weapon: Wikipedia Description: Computer Graphic Currently fighting: Scientists and assorted others Win/loss ratio: 0/0 Or Armor: Ignorance Weapon: Shock and Awe Description: President of the United States of...err...Atlatnica? Afcanistan? Amanikin? Something like that :thumbup: Currently fighting: Commonsense and the forces of Reality! Win/loss ratio: 0/0 Or Armor: Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and what we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: People aren't wearing enough hats. Two: Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this "soul" does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia. Weapon: What was that about hats again? Description: Oh, Uh... people aren't wearing enough. Currently fighting: Is this true? Win/loss ratio: Can I just ask, with reference to your second point, when you say souls don't develop because people become distracted... *looking out window* Has anyone noticed that building there before? [/hide]

I watch Doctor Who and it still makes no sense. :rolleyes:

Sigh Ok, Mather...I know steam is losing energy to the atomsphere, then naturally the atomsphere would get saturated with energy eventually. Since we are in a room, of undetermined proportions, common sense dictates that I now anaylse how large a room I could fill with steam... So... My Sphere of water is 1 meter thick, ranged 3-4 meters from the center. Thus I need to work out the volume of a sphere of 4 meters, then subtract a sphere of 3 meters 268.08257310632902301547890203985 113.09733552923255658465516179806 So 155 Cubic Meters of Water. Pressurised to 500 Atomsphers 77,493 Cubic Meters Heated so it has a lower density: 1000 kg/m3 (Water) (Using http://www.spiraxsarco.com/esc/SH_Properties.aspx with temperature of 999.85 and pressure of 200 atomspheres, because it only goes that high <_< ) 35.0613 kg/m3 So the dispersal would be: 28.5 times greater. Thus 2,210,215 cubic meters of steam. Thus, the room would have to be 131 meters, cubically. Realistically the celing will not be 131 meters away...maybe 10...50 at a push? So the room would have to be: 200 by 200 by 50, and would be 10% too small... So would be 210 by 210 by 50. (Since the 10% would be distributed between the first two numbers) Hence meaning, with highly conservative estimates....I could probably say the density was down at 10 kg.cubic meter, since there is extra pressure and extra temperature...probably even higher...that the steam weapon would cook anything within 131 meters, spherically, which would extend 2,210,215 meters(If it was a cubic jet, with no wind or other influences) in any single direction. Thus me firing 20 meters worth of steam would leave me some 110,510 shots. Each shot containing 2608.57 Joules per Kilogram. Considering I started with 155 Cubic meters of water, or 155 Tonnes of water, that gives me a total energy of 404,328,350 Joules. Spreading this across 131 cubic meter that would be 3,086,476 Joules per Cubic Meter. Which is far higher than Titanium's Heat of Vapourisation: 425 kJ·mol−1 or 425,000 Joules per Mole(a mole of Titanium is 22 grams I believe) Thus I would vaporise, instantously, 160 grams of Titanium, per cubic meter of air exposed to the suit. Of course instantous vapourisation is pretty unlikely, far more likely is that Titanium would spread that heat across its surface, which would mean that the Titanium would heat up to around 2,000 degrees C... Which would be more than sufficent to boil a human body, which would be you, inside the suit. Thus, through ruthless application of maths and logic I have sucessfully shown that my steam powered sphere of doom is easily capable of killing you. Providing of course that energy of 404 MegaJoules were provided, however that was located here: It has subsquently vanished.

Based on anything at all? A demonstration of Kettle you saw once perhaps? Of a 70 degee celcius steam cloud, perhaps? Your three massive fails there are '2,000 Degrees Celcius Steam', 'Constant heating' and 'Confined Space' All of which seriously screw over your premise of steam magically losing all of its heat and becoming 20 degrees celcius water...where does the heat go? No body knows, but it went somewhere that isn't here....Stargate Wormhole tech, probably, after all the microbes(Which some how didn't die in the super heated steam, because, as we all know, steam loses all heat in a few meters) are super intelligent, and built a stargate during the second year playing the Microbe version of Hegemony, everyone said they were over powered, but then they posted a video of Stargate, and after 5 weeks everyone got sick of arguing with them and so they were allowed to have a stargate, on condition that they never used it. So they began syphoning off the heat from steam, because it was Steam(Played by Archi) which argued most strongly against the use of game breaking tech. Then steam posted a massive arguement for why stargate tech wouldn't work, and so the microbs posted a picture of Jack O'neil. Then Steam decided it was just easier to build a Stargate bomb. But the the Microbes said that nothing could blow up a stargate. So Steam posted a video of a stargate blowing up. But the microbs said it was only a TV show and had no bearing on reality at all. Then they developed a super drug based on something in Stargate, followed by a limitless powersource, backed up with more videos from stargate. Considering that Tungsten is one of the best Thermal Conductors it would heat up really quick, and Titanium is about a 10th as thermally conductive, you would be very quickly BOILED ALIVE inside your suit... Also Titanium would melt at 1668 degrees celcius...so you 4/5ths of your armour would melt off... If this game is, in any way, based on commonsense, then my weapons would boil you, inside your suit, and eventually melt your suit down, so only the Tungsten remained... Since you clearly don't understand the laws of themodynamics...or indeed commonsense it seems....it is pointless to carry on this conversation. Mather logic: You are really overdoing the distance a bullet could travel before it turned into metal vapour due to friction. Like 3 meters or something then it would whoosh into vapour. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2mj-Sq2oeo See its proof that when you put something cold into something warm it is still warm

Ok then. Minor changes, given factors involved. Water will be pressurised at 500 atomspheres, and be heated to 2,000 degrees C. Considering that a sphere is now immobile(Ruddy silly rule if you ask me...how do you make a sphere immobile...)...I am going to add huge spikes on all sides, these are not weapons(since I can't move, so they can't impale much), they are defences against people walking up to me with high explosives.(They also hold me still) However, the Tungsten shell willl now be covered with steam jets, which will be my weapons(How on earth you don't count searing steam jets and the ability to crush your enemies in a rolling ball of death, as not weapons, is frankly beyond me...) The spikes will also have tubes inside them to convey steam. Steam jets have a range of 20 meters direct fire, and , depending on the room size, can cover the whole room given time. If outside then spikes can be fired, via compressed steam, to a distance of up to 500 meters, with fairly poor accuracy. (This will count as my main weapon, since I can only have 1 weapon...But I can change this between battles.) There are 129,600 spikes, which should cover most of the degrees. Spikes are 5 meters long, giving there sphere a diameter of 18 meters. Sphere is renamed 'Steam Powered Floating Ball of Death!'