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LeeRoy said
Addressed to ASTA about his T-51b power armor.

It's actually low tier. It's rated to absorb 2,500 joules of energy, which means it can take bullets ranging between the .44 magnum and the .45-70 Government. Shoot the T-51b with a .50 BMG and the round will pierce the suit, yaw into the target and most likely exit the suit and still retain enough energy to blow a hole through a thin sheet of steel. The ablative surface weathers lasers and radiation emissions, while the helmet's eye port is 'bulletproof' and the power source of the suit has enough fuel to last for 10,000 years.

To be fair, info on the T-51b is rather vague and subject to a lot of contradictions and 'grey areas', where you're really only left to your own assumptions and predictions regarding the suit's capabilities and performance.

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Ok, I finished Beowulf of Trinity's CS.

Now I need to re-work my BoS paladin character, who is literally (and equally) a low-tier, mid-tier and high-tier character.

Unsure if this breaks the system or not, lol.

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MelonHead said
Obviously why it's such a pointless observation, every concept humanity has ever devised is subjective.

It's like an endless circle of subjective-ness!

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Beta said
Glorious counter.

Lol.

GreivousKhan said
The Empire is not evil, we are trying to bring order and rule to a lawless omniverse built up of petty kingdoms and nations in constant upheaval, lorded over by callus uncaring gods. Filled with beings without purpose or meaning. Sometimes peace must come at the end of a sword, and is bought with martyrs blood.

And then all of the people you've conquered rise up, ruin everything that you worked hard for and then resume their normal lives. Or political strife and aspiring warlords ruin everything you love.

Such is the usual fate of empires in history.

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Skallagrim said
The worm-holes can be problematic as they can unleash screams of God-mode from people. I will have to see the rest of the character and see how it works in practice, if it becomes used to blatantly god-mode to avoid damage and make ridiculously mary-sueish escape the character will need to be shelved.

Normally, yes they could. I have some pretty solid (if rather laymen-level) knowledge on wormholes; their capabilities and the applications attached them or grossly underrepresented in most science fiction. Some of the more 'destructive' abilities tied to them will not be used by Beowulf of Trinity, since these would result in literal one-hit kills on most material objects that they come across. I think it's obvious I've pretty much watered them down to 'high-tier' level, especially in regards to the maximum travel distance Beowulfs wormholes would allow. Beowulf of Trinity could (according to actual theories proposed by physicists) traverse the entire length of the entire universe, but that was just one of the many features of them I cut out for the sake of fairness and balance.

However, seeing as how we have people that can pretty much cause all life on a planet to die out with a single attack in this MV setting, I don't see how wormholes are an issue.

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MelonHead said
How pointlessly philosophical.

But so very true.

MelonHead said
When one side wants to destroy freedoms and innocents they can usually be labelled evil for convenience.

If those freedoms get in the way of progress and order, it could be seen as a necessary sacrifice for the betterment of mankind.

The bit on innocents seems like a loaded statement, and one that was put in place in a vain effort to prove a point by providing an extreme example rather than a reasonable one.

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Evil is overrated; morality is subjective.

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Aristo said
Huh-hoo! Let's bring up the link that was posted earlier in the thread: Now, according to the handy, dandy chart, we have a base population of 4 million. The following takes the numbers used in the link above into account.Assuming that women don't typically fight (only 10% do in this case), we can rule out nearly half our population. We have to subtract percentages of our population that are too old or young to fight, as well as those with professions that disallow them going to war (academia, secular duties, religious affiliation, etc.), also, those who are not physically capable or are otherwise criminals (who are in the dungeons, or don't obey the law at all, and avoid drafts). In all, we have of the base population that is unfit for war. This leaves us with a measly recruiting pool of 484,000 out of 4 million people. Further account must be made for those who fall sick, which is easy to do in camps packed full of men. We'll subtract a further 50% from 484,000, leaving us with 240,000 able bodies. But that's not all! These men are never in a single place, and divided into counties, under the rule of different barons and nobles. They are needed to guard towns, cities, forts, etc. and so we'll subtract 80% to represent them scattered around the land. All this leaves us with a national army of just 48,000 men, readily able to be mustered for war. And that's not taking deserters, rebels and the like into account.

This looks like it depends on the society rather than actual 'unavoidable' restrictions placed on the production of war material and the levying of fighting men. For all we know, some nations push their criminals into military service while their women act as front-line generals. There are some 'hardcaps' you can't dodge--like material cost and the managing of resources--but some deliberating aspects of an army and the creation of that army can be migrated, nullified or even down-right eliminated depending on the mentality of your people and the way their society operates.

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In that case, you people are horrible, should feel ashamed of your actions and should seek atonement for your sins by retiring yourselves to the Corner of Shame.