MagnumForce
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Always fun to see the Reach get wrecked, hope we get more of that for some time and it doesnt go to shot any time soon.
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Thank you, corrected.Can't tell exactly what it's armed with without using active sensors...
...of which there aren't any in this galaxy...
Ethereal mind influencing hormones are canon, though the exact extent of the influence is debatable.How different are the Tau in this story? Like are the ethereals mind controlling their subjects, and stuff?
Basically, if you read the novel Fire Warrior, it's like that. Other tau calm down around them and are inclined to listen to what they say, but the Ethereals believe in the Greater Good just as much as the others and don't gainsay O's in their own fields.How different are the Tau in this story? Like are the ethereals mind controlling their subjects, and stuff?
'Lagrange'? But that's just based on a quick search.29th April 2013
13:09 GMT
I keep my environmental shield under my power armour and engage my full stealth suite the instant I appear in the Reach system. Looking around with passive sensors and empathic vision shows… There's a large space station at the LaGrange point closest to the target planet.
Thank you, corrected.
Interesting trivia note: Starting back around 1990, Star Trek actually started not only lampshading this, but giving what is, frankly, a very good in-universe pair of justifications for it. Starting with the TNG Technical Manual, they explained that phasers were a speed-of-light weapon and thus limited to an effective range of one light-second (or about the distance from the Earth to the Moon), not by parallax spread of the pencil beams causing their effective power to drop off to ineffectual levels at that range, but by the fact that an enemy that's maneuvering evasively is going to be making random movements--truly random, not following a predictable pattern--at random short intervals, and if the travel time is more than about one second, even the best targeting computer with predictive algorithms won't be able to keep the beam on target, so scoring hits at ranges of more than one light second is essentially impossible. (This also explains why, ever since, phasers haven't been used while at warp speed--a lightspeed weapon is pretty useless when you're moving FTL, after all.)Ah, yes. One reason most science fiction space combat takes place at knife-fight ranges. Too far and light-speed lag becomes a factor...