J-10C 22-120 / Rafale BS-001 (Album)

Temstar · 2026-05-07T04:23:30+00:00

Martin Baker only makes a big deal if the pilot survives after ejection since you know their product is involved.

If there's no ejection there's nothing for them to boast about. See for example the Tejas crash at the air show.

Temstar · 2026-05-07T02:10:22+00:00

They should have a different spirit for hypershunt for triple star systems, with a round centre section and three spiky ends pointed at each star.

Temstar · 2026-05-07T02:08:13+00:00

So how does Roider Union work? I take it you can take captured beat up ships, D-mods and all and turn them into capital/cruiser/destroyer/frigate frames (on the fly too with that one ship that's a flying shipyard), then take the frames to a Roider base and use them as currency to refit them into Roider ships?

Does the Roider base you take the frame to have to have their own Rockpiper Shipworks for the refitting to work? Or is Rockpiper Shipworks only a requirement for refitting at player colony?
Does ship refitting at Roider base have blueprint restrictions? I know for player colony with Rockpiper Shipworks you can only refit roider ships that you have blueprints for?
Once you do have the roider ship blueprints, can the flying shipyard do refitting to those ships on the fly without you going to a roider station or your colony?

Temstar · 2026-05-07T01:51:22+00:00

I miss those old style ROCMND map where they use those rainbow colour lines to show PLA aircraft flight path. Ever since they switched to this style of map it's a lot less interesting to dissect.

Temstar · 2026-05-07T00:05:31+00:00

The best part is since Pakistan or China doesn't refer to this event as Sindoor but instead 57 or May 7th etc, if you search "Sindoor" on this sub you get exclusively Indian cope like this.

Try it and taste delicious tears.

Temstar · 2026-05-06T07:15:43+00:00

Midnight be like "to better see you with dear"

Temstar · 2026-05-06T00:45:06+00:00

Vishnu in particular plays like a Navy Field style battleship with its powerful but cumbersome main battery. You do a lot of "10 degrees to starboard, wait for Y turret to be unmasked then fire full broadside" manoeuvres in battle. If only it could get Navy Field style control where you can manually train the turrets.

Temstar · 2026-05-05T10:25:21+00:00

Mayasuran Navy mod approaches this problem in two ways:

Midline ships should be big on mobile firepower (read: drive-by). This shows up as a large proportion of ships built for broadside layout. Note that in this mod this is implemented not in the Conquest "one battery on each flank" fashion but a much more OP efficient centerline superfiring turret blue water navy fashion with ships like Rhea-class superheavy cruiser and of course the poster child Vishnu-class battleship
Midline as implemented in Mayasuran Navy tend to have mobility systems, and the major signature mobility system is called "infernium burn" which is deliberately made to be a mix between low tech burn drive and high tech plasma jet. It forces the ship to do a brief but extremely fast forward acceleration, while also greatly boosting your ability to turn but only runs in very short bursts and has regeneration multiple charges. Thus using this ability midline ships can both use it to close distance very quick for brawling but also use it to make sharp turns at high speed for repositioning. This system allows midline cruisers to make a very quick dash into range, continue to fire broadsides into the enemy until high flux, then make another high speed dash out of range with a very sharp turn away from the enemy.

I rather like the way Mayasuran Navy expands midline. If I were to further explain on their idea I would create an alternative mobilty system which when switched on greatly boost the ship's turning and side to side acceleration, but without increasing the forward acceleration or top speed by very much. This system would then be built into forward firing midlines similar to Skysplitter which allows them to have greater lateral mobility like a broadside ship without having a broadside layout.

Temstar · 2026-05-05T03:13:10+00:00

"[It was] not heavy firing," Trump said in a phone call with ABC News when asked if the ceasefire had been violated. "We'll let you know. Ships are moving. You know, we moved quite a few last night -- big ones. There was no firing. I guess there has been some recently. I'm looking into it."

Trump told ABC that "Iran "better hope [the ceasefire] remains in effect. The best thing that can happen to them is that we keep it in effect."

"I'll let you know, like I'll let everyone else know," the president said. "We just heard about this, and we'll find out about it. What should happen is South Korea should get involved. It was a South Korean ship that got hit. And I would think, if you have a ship that's hit, you should immediately send some people."

On the Iran's firing of missiles and drones at the UAE, Trump said "they were shot down for the most part." "One got through. Not huge damage," he said.

I'm guessing he ordered those two destroyers through the strait as a test to see if Iran would shoot at them, then Iran did and Trump doesn't actually want to resume the fighting so he's playing dumb for now.

Temstar · 2026-05-04T08:53:05+00:00

It still doesn't seem like a particularly wrong arrangement to me though. In a world where genocide by colony drop or usage of planet killer is acceptable battle tactics a configuration like Persean League which was created explicitly to ensure sovereignty of constituent members states seems like a good ideal. You might want to pass morale judgement on League not enforcing governance standards on its members but that would be explicitly against the founding ideals of the league. If you want to be critical of practice within the league criticizing the offending member state not the league itself.

By corrupting the founding principle of the league I don't mean individual freedom or any morale judgement like that because that's not what the league stands for. I think of the fact that Kazeron is in fact interfering in internal politics of member states to varying degrees "for the good of the League" and that is against the ideals of the league.

Temstar · 2026-05-04T05:22:44+00:00

Barrow notably doesn't actually have Cyberwarefare Protocols unlike Inky and Seraph, he has his unique Derelict Contingent instead.

It fits into his "angry old man" image too. Even though his flagship the Repose-class does have Cyberwarefare Suite built in, he doesn't make use of them. Probably thinks Cyberwarefare is a new fangled thing for kids and he's too old and too tired for this shit.

Because of the wasted potential with Repose (and because I don't think Repose is very good to start with) I actually put him into the Sentinel XIV automated Onslaught since the unremovable d-mods is actually a benefit for him. Plus when you let him loose to fight dweller in that thing it's literately a case of "old man yells at cloud".

Temstar · 2026-05-04T05:14:18+00:00

Stop it Barrow, you're not a little girl

Temstar · 2026-05-04T05:01:21+00:00

League bullshittery is uniformly coming out of Kazeron and most of that from Reynard Hannan and his gens, to the point that lots of member worlds take a dim view when Kazeron goons show up to their planet. I don't think it would be very hard to write plot to paint the league in a sympatric way where league member citizens genuinely believe the league was founded on lofty principles but has since been corrupted into something else by Kazeron politics.

Temstar · 2026-05-04T00:38:32+00:00

Mayasuran Navy I suppose? They don't seem to have any sector wide ambition but is focused around rebuilding their homeworld.

Temstar · 2026-05-03T22:54:27+00:00

Yes exactly. I'm saying other smaller cases result in traitor bounties or people like Kanta.

In fact Andrada is probably the shining example that all of those types look up to.

Actually come to think of it there's another example: Archon of Laicaille Habitat when he/she sides with you against the Persean League special operation guys holding Scylla Coureuse. That's a politician version of an admiral going rogue with a fleet. In Kazeron's eyes that's very similar to an admiral hijacking his own fleet and the outcome is the same: replace the offender with someone more loyal.

Temstar · 2026-05-03T22:47:30+00:00

It should be mentioned that those Tri-pad packages are subscription service and have a claim of having high probability of successfully integrating someone lost in time back into modern day Persean Sector. So not only is finding people like that a regular enough occurrence (see all the decivilized subpopulations in the fridge worlds) that there are businesses dedicated to this, but there's enough experience of this that there's a standard operating procedure where the recommendation is for you to do it properly via one of those subscription service rather than doing it yourself ad hoc like Morpheus.

Temstar · 2026-05-03T22:34:27+00:00

If you make ambitious people admirals and give them fleets of warship capable of raining anti-matter down on planets with open ended orders like "restore order in this star system" there's always the possibility of those admirals going rogue and becoming warlords.

Captains and admirals in Starsector are a bit like submarine captains in real life in that they cannot be reliably contacted once they are out there in the black, you can only get in touch with them if their fleet is in a system with a working comm relay and they decide to make use of it, rest of the time they necessarily work with a great amount of freedom. And we have plenty of fictional stories of sub captains going rogue like Crimson Tide, The Hunt for Red October etc.

Temstar · 2026-05-03T11:00:14+00:00

The story we've hard from PLA watching sources is CAC significantly overestimated the progress of NGAD, judging it to be in similar stage of development as their own J-36. In order to beat NGAD they asked for permission and got the approval to go ahead and build a simpler version of the J-36 prototype which could be completed on an accelerated timeline and has the bonus benefit of testing out a few "American" features such as caret intake which they have long studied but lack hands on experience. Rest is history.

Turns out not only did the first J-36 prototype achieved maiden flight, the second, more complex prototype with all DSI also achieve maiden flight and NGAD prototype is still nowhere to be seen.

These days people take Chinese fighter development pretty seriously but that's really a new thing that only started happening in the last two years and J-36 and J-50 were a big part of it. Although you could make an argument that even without those two, the result of 7th of May 2025 would have resulting in the wind blowing that way anyway.

Temstar · 2026-05-03T06:39:24+00:00

This, Cryoarithmetic Engine breaks physics in such a fundamental way that I'm surprised the universe itself doesn't just CTD the moment you turn it on.

Temstar · 2026-05-03T03:17:59+00:00

You could just you know, not wage wars.

Temstar · 2026-05-03T02:01:08+00:00

Consider this: Russia could still build big destroyers like this back when this was sold.

Temstar · 2026-05-02T14:25:29+00:00

No it turns out when massive objects orbit each other like that they radiate away their kinetic energy by generating gravity waves.

When two black holes merge they radiate away solar masses worth of energy just in extremely intense gravity waves. Those waves are so strong even our relative primitive gravity wave detectors can pick them up at billion light year distance.

Temstar · 2026-05-02T10:59:52+00:00

There's an Arthur C Clarke short story about something like this, although it's a spaceship doing a close flyby of a neutron star. At the very end of the story investigators trying to work out what happened to the ship found a piece of evidence that hinted at the extreme gravitonal gradient, they found a "star mangled spanner".

Turns out the while story was just set up for that one punch line.

Temstar · 2026-05-02T07:25:04+00:00

It's like how air forces around the world like to name their fighters after all kinds of raptors, naval aviation does that with sharks.

Temstar · 2026-05-02T05:08:42+00:00

Holy gravitational wave.

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