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:rolleyes: Fine fine. Everyone gets an extra 5 xp, if they need it.

Sometimes actions speak louder than words...

Clearly you need to read more blogs...or, better yet, write them. :wall:

A statement similar to a blog entry.

Due to highly foreseen circumstances (It being Mum's Birthday, and she being 40 something, it has been foreseen for 40 odd years =P) there will be no session on Saturday. If people can make a Sunday session then that should still be possible. Please post as to whether you can make it or if you would prefer to hold the next session over to the following saturday. I am free all of next week as well (as it is easter break) so I would be amenable to another day, but its more complicated to organise.

Also he is quite cute if you romance him :grin: He is very unsure of himself, which is rather nice in comparison to the rest of the game, where you are basically arguing against everything. I would say he was more like a Knight from a bygone age, armed with a sniper rifle in one game and Thanix Cannons in the other, honour for a shield and duty as his armour.

Its a shame they aren't in the same paragraph. The irony would be entertaining. Please attempt to understand the fundermentals of engineering... While it is true that there is not a fixed ratio, there is the concept of optimisation. Ie: If you increase a bird's wing sequentially and test its ability to fly, you reach the point where the bird can no longer fly. Ah, I see, so in the future only the things that benefit your argument have developed. :rolleyes: Added to that there aren't that many ways to improve the speed at which ions are fired out of things... Your lack of cogency, and basic historical knowledge(I exaggurate here) is remarkable. Ion thrusters have been around, in one form or another, for 200 years, with the theory over 300 years old. Fuel tank has already been noted The pressure regulator is part of the fuel tank (Since the Xenon is held under 150 bars) The flow controller, as you already stated needs to be increased. Power processing unit. I would agree here, it probably only needs to be increased by a 10th...It, however, weights 0.8 kilograms. Electrical Fliter unit. Again I agree, however this only weighs 0.2 kilograms. Pressure Regulation Electronics. Part of the fuel tank. Thruster: With the exception of the ignition device I don't think there is anything there that would not need scaling up. But even if we assumed that not EVERYTHING needed scaling up...if we arbitrarily said that only 10% needed scaling up, we are still left with a deficiet of 669,040 Newtons. Even if we arbitrarily reduced it to only 1%, giving us 104,996 Newtons of thrust, we are still confronted by the vast energy cost(Since energy cost is directly proportional...if you contend otherwise then sorry, you are a lost cause)...about one and a half barrels of oil per second. Though it is the 'future' and I guess that we can arbitrarily waste this vast amount of energy. So we now have these 104,996 Newtons of thrust, or 10.7 tonnes of lift capacity, we would need 3 Engines to lift the two Starfighters we have in out fighter bay alone...5 if they are loaded. Beyond that it would be difficult to venture a guess since you have told us nothing about the ship...But it is safe to assume we will need at least 10 of them, more than likely over 50 of them. Even if when then assume that they have only been increased in size by a factor of 230,000, in exchange for a factor of 230,000,000 increase in power, and that they only started out at 30* centimeters tall(Since, as you said, it only needs a larger exaust it seems pointless to increase its other dimentions), then that still comes to 69 Kilometers per engine. We would have to say that you managed to achieve a factor of 230,000,000 increase in power with a relative increase in size of 0.001% for it to be a realistically managable size (69 meters). Which really just isn't justified in any theory which could possibly be related to Hall thrusters... In fact I have seen no justification for the idea that you can 'just scale up' the thruster and achieve considerably better results, just lots of 'Your ignorance is overwhelming' attacks. But yeah, gonna stop now. *I use 30 Centimeters because its how long the average ruler is and I once had cause to measure a loudspeaker and it was about the same length as a ruler...However some Ion thrusters are smaller, one of the Russian ones is 10 centimeters...Its not really overly important, since dividing 69 by 3 is 23, which, in kilometers, is still far too large. Even if it was 1 centimeters it is still 2.3 kilometers when scaled...

You are aware that these Ionocraft are only just capable of lifting themselves(And weigh very very small amounts), do not carry their own powersource, and are at an atomspheric pressure of 1 atomsphere... A spacecraft trying desperately not to enter the atomsphere and thus not explode doesn't have any of those benefits... I would further point out that saying 'Google such and such' is very imprecise... Why wouldn't you? (The size of it is entirely irrelevant...Its like saying 'Only an idiot would use a steam engine the size of a house to pump water out of a mine') Ion Thrusters are intended to provide small amounts of thrust over long periods of time...Because everything in space is a long way away and if you can conserve fuel (The main benefit of Ion Thrusters is that they have a higher specific impulse than chemical thrusters). But let us suppose we built your 23 million times the size thruster, suppose we fed it with 23 million times the number of joules, suppose we provided it with a fuel tank some 23 million times the size. (23 million to put it on par with the Pratt and Whitney Engine mentioned earlier) Let us assume we are using a PPS-1350 style Hall Thruster* as our base. It weights 29 Kilograms. It uses 350 volts (at 1 amp) so 350 Watts so 350 Joules. Its fuel tank carries 82 kilograms of Xenon and weighs 7.7 Kilograms itself. This becomes: Mechanism: 6.67 million tonnes Power use: 9.1 billion Joules (Gigajoules) Fuel Tank: 2.1 million tonnes (177.1 Million tonnes empty) For total weight of 8.77 million tonnes. So for the amount of weight that, just on its own, would have to expend is 8,770,000 * (9.80665/1)= 86,004,321 Newtons Compared to its output of 191,000 Newtons of thrust. In short, 450 times more thrust would be required to life the engine and fuel source, alone, than would be produced by it. Assuming we removed the fuel source, so just the engine: 65,410,356 Newtons Still 342 times more thrust required than provided. *Requires purchase/University access to get. No, I am still not seeing how you are working out how this system works...

Its quite irrelevant that they can be carried by hand because, unless they weigh less than 2 quarters they would require more lift than they consumed. In space that is not a concern, but in atomsphere, or resisting gravity.... I meant that Aerodynamic shapes produce lift as they move through the air...If the craft does not have an aerodynamic shape then it produces no, or little, lift in this manner, putting further stress on the engines. Where are these propulsion Ion Thrusters? Are we supposed to suppose that the 'Propulsion' Varient shoots out their exhaust at...let me see: 191,000/0.0083=23,012,048.2. 23,000,000 * 30 = 690,000,000,000 meters per second? 23 times the speed of light? No. Ion Thrusters are uniquely suited to space, and are entirely unsuited to atomspheric flight, and short of Psudeo-Science justifications, I cannot see how they can be forced to work with current theory.

Spacecraft do not tend to be aerodynamic because it is a design flaw in a vaccum. Further Ion Thrusters provide small energy, but provide it over a longer period than chemical propellent, and with a higher thrust to weight ratio. 0.0083 Newtons of thrust... Comparatively, the Pratt & Whitney F135, used in the F35/F88, generates upto 191,000 Newtons of thrust. So even if we assume the spacecraft has, foolishly, been designed to be aerodynamic, you would need several million Hall Thrusters to allow the machine to actually fly within the Atomsphere... So are you departing entirely from the realms of science with the magical variant on the Hall Thruster?

Flamethrowers are short range weapons, which are mostly used for clearing an enemy which is well entrenched, but where Grenades will not suffice. There has not been a war where that is such. Not even psudeo science, it is just plain innaccurate. Fundermental basis of Signals Intelligence is that there are ways to crack the key, and that you can search frequencies. So even computers have not advanced in 130 years...Why is this game set in the future when it is clearly not the future. Also, why not combine the computer into a belt, or an undershirt? Ok...So: Hit with an explosive. Maglev and hull fails. Fall towards the planet because we can't use the maglev and the thrusters provide too little thrust to prevent it, unless you are handwaving them more powerful. Are destroyed by the planet because of the hull breach.

Also: Sigh. 2012 is not a period of complete peace, and unless you are going to handwave social science 101 the next 10 years will not be complete peace either. And given that the weapons we are talking about are already in testing, one assumes, unless you are going to handwave actual science and say all the current theories are wrong, that they could be developed with the next 10 years. Also, both Atomic Power (not atomic weapons, obviously) and Jet Engines were developed largely as a result of individual research, which was nominally underfunded. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamethrower Need I say more? Combined microscope, telescope, IR-UV, Dataprocessing Center, Flash-shield, Scanner and covert communication system, which doesn't fall off your face if you start sweating/if you look down, is useless...Check. Not all Gamma Rays are insta-death inducing...see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiography Similarly, if there was a low dose of Gamma Radiation...say from a lump of Cobalt-60(Or Nickle-60, which is far more likely to come across) that someone picked up, then being able to look at it and go 'Radiation' would be very useful. Or if there was some sort of radioactive container which had a hairline crack...Not enough to result in the internal material instantly and irrevocably killing everyone, but enough to cause long term damage....then it would be very useful. Or if someone was poisioning my food was a radioactive isotope. Could even just use Sodium Iodine Crystals as a Scintillator, rather than a Giger Counter. Radio Waves...Why would you need to know the orgin or destination point of the data...Added to the fact that you could determine the approximate origin of the data by working out the radius of the burst, which could be deduced by measuring the angle (All done by the computer obviously, not saying that a human could see something that passed by for 0.000000001 of a second and instantly do the math) of the curve of the segment of the sphere that can be seen. Would be reasonably inaccurate, but still better than no idea at all. Added to that it saves carrying around a radio detector if the enemy happen to be using radios..Or if we are exploring somewhere where we don't know there are enemies and they aren't operating radio silence. Similarly, any remote-radio-operated turrets or cameras could be detected at distance. And, as stated before, it could just recieve Radio Messages, process them for encryption (where applicable) and feed the data out as a stream of text. Yes...But if any part of the hull was compromised then it would mean the magnet system would be compromised as well... Ok, have half meter tall robots with turrets welded to their head? I was never overly interested (because sending robots into a situation spoils the fun) I was more concerned that we would just get androids randomly thrown at us.

I can see you are not going to tolerate discussion, and that the 'game' is going to end up being asking you if, by the grace of the all powerful Mather, we are allowed to control our characters.... Tell me when you are gonna run the movie...

Lets compare 1900 to 2000...Yup, massive change...From Coal to Nuclear power, from Monarcy to extreme democracy, from Empire to UN, from church to TV.... Lets compare 2000 and 2100...Nope, everything is the same. Microscopic Fusion Reactors? Where did you get this from? I don't think I have made any claim that they exist. Lasers that require only a few millijoules of power to cleave a man in half? Pretty sure the Deuterium-Fluorine lasers are in the kilo-mega-watt range...So... "In 1996, TRW Incorporated managed to get a continuous beam of hundreds of kilowatts of power that lasted for several seconds" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter Here I am somewhat lost... 'Can I have a HUD' 'NO BECAUSE IT WOULD MURDER YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' I would recommend you actually read the VISOR article... Chemical Laser(or one type anyway): No high energy requirement there.... The clue is in the name...Chemical Laser. Sigh... So basically...if we get shot out maglev system is compromised...Brilliant. And if we are fleeing there is a large group of thrusters put together...I know it is a popular sci-fi concept, but, really, if a real craft was going to be built...and not get destroyed in combat...it would feature side mounted, retractable thrusters...So that when not in use (Or when in atomsphere) they could be retracted and not provide easy targets. Err.... ASIMO Why would it need to pick up a gun...Just build it into the chasis.... As to automated firing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS The anology is rather inaccurate...More like saying "We have engines, and we have wings in 1880, so why can't we have planes in 2000?" Random comment is random? Can't tell what this relates to. I would say that you should read some of Daniel Bell's work pertaining to the speed at which Mathmatics, Agricultural Sciences, Momentum and general Human development over the past two hundred years... The speed at which we have been developing has increased, on average, by 2% per year...I am sure Retech can tell you about compound interest, but in a nutshell, over the course of 100 years we should develop by approximately 700%. This isn't related to Moore's Law or any other the other stuff about electronics, Daniel Bell's analysis occured in the 70s. Thats fine, I just wanted to know if I could have them or not...Ignoring me when I ask isn't good. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ego While it may seem I am just being difficult....And it is true that sometimes (specifically over the 'AN amount of energy') I am poking fun of you...But I am just genuinely asking questions for the most part. And Atomic Power... 1898- Discovery of Uranium 1934- Nuclear Fission Theorised -36 years 1939- Nuclear Fission Proved -5 years 1945- Nuclear Bomb exploded -6 years 1949- Thermo-Nuclear Bomb exploded -4 years And the Jet Engine... 1913- First Jet Engine proposed 1928- Jet Aircraft Proposed- 15 years 1937- First Jet Engine built- 9 years 1941- Jet Aircraft flown - 4 years If you look at the social sciences then the development has been even faster than what we are seeing in Computers. Gauss Technology is highly misleading, since it was theorised in the 18th century, built in the 19th century and then ignored.

616 was an angst page, far more accurate! I like how mather put real in quote marks...Underlines the fact that its all nonsense.

I nominate we call out company/thing But yeah, 100% behind this plan.

Its not exactly nitpickery when someone asks: 'Can I have a map?' 'Here is an explaination of the ship' 'Can I have a map?' 'Can't be bothered, try to imagine it' Doesn't answer the question of WHERE the thrusters and maglev system actually is... And I see we are going for the psudeo science approach of 'There is AN energy amount' Yeah...I can no possible flaw in a non-trickable-trickable computer system...Probably about as sensible as putting a large red button on the Scientist's forehead marked 'In case of disagreement press here to evacuate all air'. We haven't managed to develop a way to minaturise what we can already do? I mean, correct me if I am wrong, but transcievers already exist, microphones, sismographs, infrared detectors, uv detectors, gamma-ray detectors, radio wave detectors...all exist already... Its true that connecting them to the optic nerve has yet to be done, but I would imagine that some progress has been made in the past 130 years...Or is this game going to be 'Like now, only set in the future, where all the theories I believe have been proved right'? Also, I believe I asked for puzzles so I could actually start researching stuff...I guess thats something else you are ignoring. So the Government has spent its time developing a Gauss powered Sniper Rifle, while no progress at all has been made in lasers.... Despite the fact that the US Government was testing lasers that were used as anti-missile defences on aircraft.... "Its the future, and in the future no one bothered developing any weapons because in 2012 world peace was declared"? So...What? Either we go off on some totally impossible tangent of the social scientists 'Everyone suddenly becomes really friendly and all the issues people have with other people are resolved instantly'? Or your statement is entirely meaningless because Laser Technology, as described is ALREADY possible...Any progress would simply be a matter of minaturisation....Something you have already said is possible through the farciscal laser assault rifle... The android is incapable of going 'Hostile. Run [List of commands to raise arm, point at the hostile, and depress the trigger'? I mean, automated guns...merely sensors with guns attached...can manage to do that...It doesn't exactly require a great deal of technological prowess...the Ancients were making booby traps to exploit exactly that thousands of years ago. Are you saying that Androids like that would innevitably just shoot everyone? Because IFFs are not some future tech, they have existed for decades. Oh amazing....Over the past 130 years we have learned how to defy physics? I suppose you know that the Human ear strains to hear whispers, and if you subsequently shout it causes pain to the listener...It is true that the Human Ear can be somewhat variable in its approach, but that is merely because it is a peice of sloppy organic engineering which doesn't operate at its full capacity all the time, as well as being exposed to a vast amount of post-processing in the brain. A microphone, comparatively, can pick up the same breadth of sound as the Human Ear...There isn't pain, there is limited noise disortion...which is present within the Human Ear in the same way as being able to hear something, but not understand what is being said. Thus far the game just seems to be a series of handwaves 'There is AN amount of energy', 'Androids have been downgraded over the last hundred and thirty years', 'Gauss Sniper Rifles have been developed despite the sizable energy constraints placed on firing a peice of metal at speed, but lasers haven't been developed because of the sizable energy constraints placed on it', 'The ship levitates by an electromagnet. The Earth's magnetic field ranges from between 0.25 Gauss to 1 Gauss, other planets had substantively weaker/stronger fields. Yet, though the application of an apparently smallish magnet, and a reasonably small amount of energy, it is possible to defy about 19 meters per second of gravity, excerted againt a ship of not inconsiderable mass...And this, apparently, is not psudoscience.', 'World peace is declared, yet North Korea, a country continually on the edge of famine, has decided to explore space with the help of China...a country that is grossly overpopulated... throughout this the United States and Europe has complacently sat by, doing nothing for just under 30 years. Oh, but thats right, world peace has made these countries entirely neglect thier military machines...Surely America's Industrial heartland requires 25 years to pick up the phone, call Norway for some jet fighters...which have been developed because there is world peace and all military research has stopped...and then build a spartan ship.' There isn't a coherant idea there...It would make considerably more sense to set the game in 2015...Over the past 3 years China has decided to colonise Mars (Cause, you know, why not...). An American iniative, funded partly by NATO, has drawn together many countries in a different attempt to colonise Mars (you know...by sending 1 ship to mars and no colonists...) The push has allowed for a new type of engine to be developed, combining Hall Effect Thrusters and Magnetic Levitation, by NATO, which has given them a temporary advantage against more conventional Hall Effect Thrusters, allowing them to catch up to China's mission, launched 2 years earlier. Or...you know...have it so that there are cryogenics, so the year is 2025, but the only technology we have avaliable is from 2015...or something along those lines. It reads as a much more likely than 'In the semi-distant future, nothing has changed, except there are Gauss Guns and a mission to Mars. Oh, and World Peace...Except that NATO still exists and sees China as a threat...' Still gonna play, but you really need to buck up your ideas because saying 'There will be no psuedo science' and then doing a bunch of psuedo science spoils the game...Similarly playing a game that doesn't make much sense isn't fun...

Well, I was mostly being serious...If I am gonna play this game I want to make sure it is actually playable...as opposed to a mildly interactive rip off of Stargate. "Captain Tim, the Replicators are invading again!" "Damn, do we still have the Anti-Replicator gun we picked up in series 6?" "You do, but they have adapted" "Damn, I open wikipedia and check to see how O'neil defeated them." "You rolled a success, you discover that he traveled to the Asgard homeworld (read alien crater) and set of a temporal bomb to prevent them from taking over" "Hmmm, it says here that they failed and it went into super overdrive speed...can we fix it so that can't happen" "No, it is impossible to deviate from the script" And why would we need to convince the CIU of anything? Either is obeys orders or we work to disable it in some manner...preferably by replacing its neccessary functions before hand. Alternatively we abandon Icarus at the earliest convienance, build a base on Mars and then stick Icarus in a hanger so we don't have to screw around with 'CIU, can we go here to colonise' 'No, you may go here, and that is it.' So basically no engineering? Also no Bridge...No computer interfaces except for the one mainframe? I assume toilets and such are included but not mentioned? (Its important to know if we ever get boarded) Also, I specifically asked for a map or an image. I don't really care if it is a line diagram with no scale, I want something I can visualise. Also, although the map doesn't have to be to scale, I would prefer to know how large the relative rooms are, and how tall the corridors are, and all that sort of jazz. Seismometers are fine. Also seeing the shake of walls would be a form of mechanical oscillation, or watching a generator spin. I assume it would all feed into the VISOR, either as HUD or as just a jumble of data that my character would spend several sessions learning how to sort out.. Right...So filters and processes aren't possible to turn series of pixals into coherant images? Or to turn Radio and EM Frequency readings into something less than static? You know, because translating radio messages could be as simple as a HUD which relays to the optic nerve, rather than a screen. I imagine it would be a computer construct based on a multitude of sensors(as opposed to one Camera....), as opposed to 'vision except in radiowaves'. It also doesn't have to be the entire spectrum...it could simple be infra-red and UV, though I would prefer the ability to see radiation, obviously =P Also microvision and the capability to analyse things. Though really that is something that can be developed over time, I am just trying to find out what you will let us start with...or if you are gonna say 'Nope'. Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2IrF9qShweY#t=23s I would suggest you watch that to get a better idea what I am thinking of. Its not the best video (Give it was made in the 1990s, and given it just basically looks at two people...later in the episode they look at a bulkhead and notice that it is hotter, ect) Yeah...Lets assume I don't know that much about the F-35...And don't really want to read through the Wikipedia page and then have you say 'No, its not that, thats different...also that...also that...Oh, and that too' And these Thrusters/Magnetic Levitation Systems are? Also fuel stores? And what type of gas are we using Xenon? Also what about Earnshaw's Theorem? While it does allow for serveral methods to overcome it I want to know which is being used. Also what is powering the ship and how much power being being generated per second, verses how much fuel. Or are we running on batteries? So basically the past 100 and something years have been totally worthless? Right.... Ignoring the ridiculo-science, electrolaser, what about Hydrogen fluoride lasers? Or Chemical oxygen iodine lasers? You know, the ones that can be fired continuously for multiple minutes at a time and can cut through stainless steel like it was butter...essentially allowing us to lay down supressing fire that will cut a swash through any who are foolish enough to cross it... Or are we going with the idea that, in the future, backpacks(To hold the chemicals) are impossible? And minaturisation has entirely bypassed laser tech? Or that the Government of the world has insisted that the only sort of lasers developed are totally unsuitable...Seriously... Assault Laser Rifles is the worst idea imaginable...Would be like developing a a fully automatic, non-recoiless (Though really even a recoiless fully automatic), sniper rifle (would be idiotic...unless it had some form of auto-multiple targeting system). Why on earth they would develop a rapid firing laser when continous fire makes considerably more sense and can be used as a long range render, as opposed to a long range gun...which unsuprisingly they already have. I mean, the only real advantage over a conventional assault rifle is the silent/invisible shot aspect...and really that just means you end up shooting the hell out of your own people when they run in front of you...So it makes sense that, unless you were using it for sniping (Which you have already pointed out the problem of long range laser rifles) in which case you wouldn't be using an assault rifle, the beam would also include a coloured tracer...So you are essentially making a silent assault rifle, with less distance and rendered useless by a smoke grenade. Comparatively, a continous fire laser could burrow through smoke (inefficently yes, but still an advantage over the 'entirely impossible to shoot through' action of the assault rifle.) and apply suppressing fire perfectly. Not to mention that you can make a vast sweeping gesture and cut enemies in half, rather than wasting 15 bullets/charges shot randomly over 180 degrees. So...Basically...Humans are entirely inadequant in the 'We need to lift this rock out of the way'... Or punching someone with enough force to break all their ribs, despite being a weedy scientist? At the same time Androids have advanced in artifical intelligence so as to become at least as effective as an untrained solider...Essentially duplicating the Mass Effect LOKI mechs? http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/LOKI_Mech Good So they have got less powerful...Brilliant... Seriously...Microphones are considerably better than the human ear already in terms of sensitivity, of range...I am not sure what you mean here? ...Its like saying 'Cameras are now as good as human eyes' As good at what seeing things?

Chip Sandwich? Surely you mean two grain ovens, covered in runny churn of cow, with several steak fries inbetween. To use the American parlance. :grin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5-DD2ll2es On an unrelated note, am 100 words over my max word limit on my essay :ugeek:

Ok then. I nominate myself as Captain, or, at least, Chief Engineer. I also set about looking at the Engineering section of the Icarus. Mather, it you would mind furnishing me with an image of the Icarus, and preferably the drive room as well. I intend to make a number of changes and modifications with immediate effect, so I would be much obliged if the images were in such a form as to be easily modifed, or to be accompanied by simpler diagrams which could be modifed in their place. I also wish for six puzzles (or up to six) for my immediate application. I also require a full and frank explaination for how the engine and drive system works. If the drive system is inertia based I would also prefer to have the weight of the ship and the various constituant parts(Also how many bombs, rockets, ore we currently carry, the weight of the two starfighters, food and what not...in short an inventory of the ship down to the rivets). If you wish to work out the Delta-V of the ship as well I would be much obliged, though I can do that if you would prefer. If the drive system is not inertia based (and thus no covered by our current understanding on physics) I would ask that I got a brief summery of how it did work so that I could attempt to apply logic and reason, though of course respecting that your word is final on matters that defy physics. I would further ask for information pertaining to the best weapons currently avaliable within the NATO alliance, I assume they are Coil-Based Gauss Cannons, or some sort of UV-Laser. Also a full inventory of the handheld weapons that can be produced by the ship, as well as the forms of armour that can be produced by the ship, the development of robotics, cybernetics and nanotechnology over the past 138 years...also in regards to what we, on the ship, are capable of producing. Oh, and if we are not capable of producing those things currently then what would be the nearest applicable thing that we had on ship, ie what machine do we have that could make the parts to make the machine to make the parts to make the machine that can produce the latest nano-technology. Finally, I would like the latest research concerning the possibility of feeding audio, visual(across the whole spectrum, not just the visible range) and mechanical oscillations of the ground and of objects nearby, into some sort of VISOR: "The device scans the electromagnetic spectrum, creating visual input, and transmits it into the brain of the wearer via the optic nerves. It is a thin, curved device, with the sensors on the convex side, that covers the eyes and attaches at small input jacks implanted in the temples." I don't think any of that would be beyond my perview as Engineer. Thanks :grin:

Name: Tim Nationality: Spain Class: Engineer Skills: Robotics: 20xp 16 design exp. 14 construction Items: Colonisation Ray

True enough, though Canadians are in North America so it is understandable as to why they would use the American version. Also Quebeck.

I imagine so, at about 200 xp. The Quick Draw at 100.