Date in books is currently 1923
In Uncompromising Honor Cataphracts are given definitive distances, accelerations from rest.
Cataphract C III's 84,000 G, Range 1st stage = 19.3Mk. Runtime first stage 215s
*Earlier versions had lower duration and accelerations
Cataphract IIIs 2nd stage @60s ~100,000G ~31Mkm total
*** Anyone get a chuckle out of the fact that the Cataphract C III's 84,000G's is identical to the large moon based missiles fired in Honor of the Queen? True the runtime is longer, but it also shows the arbitrary 60s/180s multiplier of early books is truly arbitrary and DW has decided to remove it completely now.
6 Cat C III's per pod + Husky. How big are pods? Unknown
3 Colliers of 7,500,000 ton ships carried 95,000 pods to Ajay. Each Collier holds ~32,000 pods. If tonnage carried is the 7,500,000 as how ships are classed today, then each pod is
7,500.000/32,000 = 234tons/pod or 6 missiles Cataphract C III with capital grade warhead/laser missiles weigh no more 30~40tons a piece...
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Uh someone missed a zero it appears to make battle of Ajay bigger and badder than it appears to show how big and scary the League is. 400,000 missiles sounds a lot bigger and badder than 40,000. Or...
The GA had better surrender now as Technodyne and their buddies in the MALIGN have capital grade missiles a fraction the size of the GA's with 31,000,000km range
***Honor/GA just grabbed ALL R&D info from Ganymede***
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1Q: Technodyne is based at YILDUN, not SOL, does Ganymede have the tech specs for new 215s duration 84000G missiles?
1aQ: Where were the missiles built as shown in Uncompromising Honor? If built in SOL, then the GA has these specs.
This brings up a more important Q: HOW did Technodyne increase the drive time and the acceleration? In only 30-->40 tons.
What we can surmise based on books:
1) Manticore has already increased drive time past the 180 second mark with LERM's 270s duration@46000G which leads everyone to ask, why not before, and what is the limitation of going to 84,000G and 215s compared to the 46,000G and 270s of the LERM?
2) Manticore has increased capacitor density so each Ton of missile Capacitor holds more energy, Technodyne has not done so, yet their missiles are vastly smaller even though we are told they are MUCH larger. Nah, I wouldn't have my tongue firmly planted in my cheek here or with my fingers crossed behind my back or anything... oh no of course not! Of course we have tube fired Javelin Cataphracts which seem immune to this limitation as power required to move ever more mass should decrease drive time due to lack of power from said capacitors, but...
3) Manticore has a “baffle” for 2nd stage impeller making missile more compact without need of entirely separate missile, though how the initiation of the 1st set impeller does not destroy the 2nd missiles impeller when the entire reason was “proximity of impeller nodes to begin with is still Baffling(pardon the pun couldn't help myself), as I thought that was the ENTIRE reason for the introduction of the baffle in the first place. Yet cataphracts can do it just fine without said baffle... why bother inventing the “baffle” to begin with? Just build a long missile to get impeller seperation. In effect that is exactly what the Cataphract is.
3a) If one can graft a 2nd missile onto nose of a missile without impeller node from 1st stage, then graft another one to the ass of the missile as well. Now we have 2 missiles being sent down range instead of 1. And if we can do this with missiles... why not counter missiles?
4) Acceleration is based on “energy siphon” effect between impellers and wedge and this 100% has an efficiency quotient so, maybe Technodyne has impellers with ability to be several times superior to Manticoran missiles in this aspect
***All of this to get to the REAL MEAT of the this long winded post regarding new 1924 build post Oyster Bay: ***
The real question is WHY does the 92ton MK16 have 2 stages of equal 180s duration instead 1st stage using the smaller in diameter impeller nodes of the ~70-->80ton LERM of 270s and a 2nd stage of equal duration? Or if total power is the problem, then a drive time of 90s?(with micro fusion I do not see this as problem) Even if one used a 60s duration impeller node instead of a 2nd LERM impeller, range would in effect be identical in same period of time.
So, if your industry is all blown up in oh, I don't know, maybe an Oyster bay Raid or some such....
From a manufacturing perspective it would be FAR cheaper to make a single impeller drive + built in compensator etc than 2 separate such very complex systems. Also a DDM using the LERM impeller nodes for 270's@46,000G would have a range from rest of 65Mkm
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And if the above is true... How hard would it be to add a 2nd impeller node ring + baffle to the LERM, even if you had to cut its 270's drive time down to 2 stages of sub 150s so your brand new ~200 Avalons, ~50 Kamerlings, ~30 Wolfhounds, Flight IV Reliants, SAG-B's etc can all have a real missile to fire? Can't fit the larger diameter micro fusion plant of course.
And uh, if my tongue in cheek it not TOO cheeky yet, then why not DDM's with 84,000G 215s 1st stages with design grabbed from Technodyne.
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Ok, slight different topic: In the age of FTL, system defense needs missiles for FAR higher maximum acceleration to get out to the 0.8C limit quicker so your missiles arrive first, otherwise you cannot kill the FTL aspect of the missiles coming at you and you will die. So, System Defense Missiles with 4 stages etc MUST have 84,000G +++ 1st/2nd/3rd Drives of whatever duration to get your velocity up as quick as possible to the 0.8c limit before going ballistic and lighting off final drive or 2 drives depending on changing situation due to LONG ballistic phase and stealth at range making even SD's "stealthy" at 200Mkm as sensor degredation is going to be mass/range limited just as it is for a LAC or RD or etc.