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What if the old engines in the Swarm's jetpack were to be replaced with SABRE engines?
I know this has nothing to do with anything, but have you guys ever wondered why a Lego hurts to step on?
They can withstand 950 pounds of pressure before they CRACK. 950 POUNDS. AND THEY JUST CRACK??? Like holy fuck what the fuck is in Lego bricks right?
The plastic lego bricks are made out of is relatively weak. What gives the standard 2x2 bricks their strength is their shape[especially the structure within the brick].
Ideas, tweaks and such? Have you thought about expanding the story? Not like a massive global scale, but with an enemy character that will return in a later mission, maybe with a possible rivalvy with a particular person?
My spoiler-sense predicts, that it will be so, if there won't be a change of plans. :P
Oh my god, this post has blown up, and it was NOT a collab.
Seeing as his missiles obliterated the NC Percy was 'fighting', Joe just turned around and proceeded to go towards the reactor.
Slowly but steadily radiation levels increased, and reached the point at which they cause random glitches in the most sensitive electronics, mostly sensors. At this point he was close to the reactor though.
He didn't expect software hacking to work, as even the lowest security levels for reactor controls prefer a standalone system, a.k.a a system not connected to any other system and not featuring any wireless access. Sensor data might be transmitted through a separate system connected to the sensors only, but that still prevented anyone from hijacking the reactor without being physically present at the control switches. In order to shut this reactor down, Joe'd have to leave the Swarm's cockpit, which would expose him to a most likely fatal dose of radiation at this point. Secondly, since the reactor had failed, there was no guarantee the control systems could still be used to control anything.
Then he had an idea: Most commonly used reactors are controlled using control rods; rods made from a material which absorbs neutrons, slowing down or halting the nuclear reaction within the reactor. If he could somehow manually reinsert all the control rods fully into the reactor, it should shut down. If that doesn't do it, it was impossible to stop the reaction at this point, as the core had fully melted.
As he got even closer to the reactor, he could see doors having been blown off their frames by some kind of shockwave, the radiation within his cockpit steadily increased to dangerous levels. His NC's sensors and recievers were already disturbed sufficiently by the radiation to make understanding any comms impossible. The camera's were doing only slightly better, but at least their images were clear enough to see some contrasts.
Joe then stepped into the hall containing the reactor. Thankfully, the core was submerged in water, but the pressurized container containing it and the control rods had completely burst, and only the secondary pool was intact enough to contain water, although even it had several bumps and even holes in the upper parts. The exposed core caused the surrounding water to emit a blue light, as extremely fast electrons were slowed down by the currently boiling water. The upper 6th of the fuel rods of the core had partially melted at some point in time before though, exposing the blank fuel. The lid supposed to seal the pool while the reactor is under operation was nowhere to be found, it was probably completely shattered by the burst of the pressurized container. As he looked he noticed a rather unusual structure on the side of the pool, a few centimeter's above the core's top. At closer inspection it turned out to be some kind of refill mechanism, as water was constantly flowing into the pool from it. It was not a standard measure though, which concerned Joe, however at the moment it was the core's only source of coolant, keeping it from melting. It suddenly dawned on Joe what happened here.
For some reason, either intentional manipulation or a technical failure, the water within the pressurized container was no longer exchanged, causing it to heat up beyond limits and evaporate. The increased pressure was too much for the container, which lacked a failsafe valve, causing it to burst. Before that, the top of the fuel rods must've not been submerged though, causing them to partially melt. As the container burst, it sent its own fragments into the pool and lid, obliterating the latter into unrecognizability. The accompanying shockwave did the reast of the damage and probably also spread the radioactive dust of the molten fuel rod-tips around.
After the burst, the water that was left in the pool, alongside the refill submerged the core again, cooling it down again and stopping the melting.
Joe did not know whether or not his teammates were able to endure this sight while having this knowledge without breaking down.
Time was on the run though, so Joe had to quickly find a way to lower the control rods into the core and get out before the damage of the radiation was too much for his body to handle. He couldn't go down there, even in his NC. The electronics would fail in that radiation.
Against all odds due to the bad image of the cameras, he managed to find a sizable chunk of concrete, probably a fragment of the lid or some support column. He took it and threw it at the mounting of the control rods. He aimed carefully to hit it from the top as finding a similar chunk was unlikely, and he didn't want to topple the entire construct.
Luckily it was a success, and the mounting, weakened by the bursting of the pressurized container it was in, gave in, causing the control rods to fall into the core. After confirming that, he ran for his life, as he did everything in his power to limit the effects. The rods would still produce a large amount of heat over a long period of time, but at least the remaining rather safe unused fuel wasn't turned into used fuel anymore, hopefully.
As Joe returned to the entrance, his teammate's geiger-counters could tell, as increased amounts of radioactive dust had gotten on the Swarm's outer armor and hull, but at least the dose within the cockpit wasn't too dangerously high anymore.
While he opened the main door of the base, he asked his teammates: "You should all take off before I do, who knows how much dust has settled in the turbines of the jet-engines of the Swarm, and I don't want to cover any of you in a cloud of radioactive dust."
After everyone got out he closed them again, taking off as the last one. The Swarm would need to thorough cleaning after this mission, and Joe a medical check.
Slowly but steadily radiation levels increased, and reached the point at which they cause random glitches in the most sensitive electronics, mostly sensors. At this point he was close to the reactor though.
He didn't expect software hacking to work, as even the lowest security levels for reactor controls prefer a standalone system, a.k.a a system not connected to any other system and not featuring any wireless access. Sensor data might be transmitted through a separate system connected to the sensors only, but that still prevented anyone from hijacking the reactor without being physically present at the control switches. In order to shut this reactor down, Joe'd have to leave the Swarm's cockpit, which would expose him to a most likely fatal dose of radiation at this point. Secondly, since the reactor had failed, there was no guarantee the control systems could still be used to control anything.
Then he had an idea: Most commonly used reactors are controlled using control rods; rods made from a material which absorbs neutrons, slowing down or halting the nuclear reaction within the reactor. If he could somehow manually reinsert all the control rods fully into the reactor, it should shut down. If that doesn't do it, it was impossible to stop the reaction at this point, as the core had fully melted.
As he got even closer to the reactor, he could see doors having been blown off their frames by some kind of shockwave, the radiation within his cockpit steadily increased to dangerous levels. His NC's sensors and recievers were already disturbed sufficiently by the radiation to make understanding any comms impossible. The camera's were doing only slightly better, but at least their images were clear enough to see some contrasts.
Joe then stepped into the hall containing the reactor. Thankfully, the core was submerged in water, but the pressurized container containing it and the control rods had completely burst, and only the secondary pool was intact enough to contain water, although even it had several bumps and even holes in the upper parts. The exposed core caused the surrounding water to emit a blue light, as extremely fast electrons were slowed down by the currently boiling water. The upper 6th of the fuel rods of the core had partially melted at some point in time before though, exposing the blank fuel. The lid supposed to seal the pool while the reactor is under operation was nowhere to be found, it was probably completely shattered by the burst of the pressurized container. As he looked he noticed a rather unusual structure on the side of the pool, a few centimeter's above the core's top. At closer inspection it turned out to be some kind of refill mechanism, as water was constantly flowing into the pool from it. It was not a standard measure though, which concerned Joe, however at the moment it was the core's only source of coolant, keeping it from melting. It suddenly dawned on Joe what happened here.
For some reason, either intentional manipulation or a technical failure, the water within the pressurized container was no longer exchanged, causing it to heat up beyond limits and evaporate. The increased pressure was too much for the container, which lacked a failsafe valve, causing it to burst. Before that, the top of the fuel rods must've not been submerged though, causing them to partially melt. As the container burst, it sent its own fragments into the pool and lid, obliterating the latter into unrecognizability. The accompanying shockwave did the reast of the damage and probably also spread the radioactive dust of the molten fuel rod-tips around.
After the burst, the water that was left in the pool, alongside the refill submerged the core again, cooling it down again and stopping the melting.
Joe did not know whether or not his teammates were able to endure this sight while having this knowledge without breaking down.
Time was on the run though, so Joe had to quickly find a way to lower the control rods into the core and get out before the damage of the radiation was too much for his body to handle. He couldn't go down there, even in his NC. The electronics would fail in that radiation.
Against all odds due to the bad image of the cameras, he managed to find a sizable chunk of concrete, probably a fragment of the lid or some support column. He took it and threw it at the mounting of the control rods. He aimed carefully to hit it from the top as finding a similar chunk was unlikely, and he didn't want to topple the entire construct.
Luckily it was a success, and the mounting, weakened by the bursting of the pressurized container it was in, gave in, causing the control rods to fall into the core. After confirming that, he ran for his life, as he did everything in his power to limit the effects. The rods would still produce a large amount of heat over a long period of time, but at least the remaining rather safe unused fuel wasn't turned into used fuel anymore, hopefully.
As Joe returned to the entrance, his teammate's geiger-counters could tell, as increased amounts of radioactive dust had gotten on the Swarm's outer armor and hull, but at least the dose within the cockpit wasn't too dangerously high anymore.
While he opened the main door of the base, he asked his teammates: "You should all take off before I do, who knows how much dust has settled in the turbines of the jet-engines of the Swarm, and I don't want to cover any of you in a cloud of radioactive dust."
After everyone got out he closed them again, taking off as the last one. The Swarm would need to thorough cleaning after this mission, and Joe a medical check.
I'm available for collabling on my the last post for today @LHG100.
Although I'll fall asleep soon.
Although I'll fall asleep soon.
Obviously me too.
Just as some of them had stepped through the door, Joe quickly asked "Oh, one thing before we separate: Is it ok if I close the door behind us? We do not know the nature of the radioactive material, so it is best to keep it as contained as possible for the moment.", after almost having forgotten.
"If you need to quickly get out and I am not available, blast through as a last resort. A hole is harder to close than an open door. Otherwise, wait there and keep in mind the radiation and the ground will interfere with our comms."
With that, Joe headed for the central reactor, while also keeping a close eye on the geiger-counter. Too much radiation exposure wouldn't only hurt him, but a high dose has the potential to short electronics, rendering almost any device inoperable.
As radioactive material had already leaked and at least partially gotten near the entrance of the base, sealing the reactor directly had a slightly lower priority than finding out the nature of the radioactive material, as the base's door already acted as a seal. If it was just radioactive gas, it was relatively easy to deal with(just let it escape into the atmosphere, if the amount is small enough, it will disperse and thus its effect will weaken to the point of being much smaller than the natural background radiation), airborn dust was much harder, simply because it could be washed out of the air by rain, concentrating the material on the ground. Liquids and solids were similarly difficult to deal with.
"If you need to quickly get out and I am not available, blast through as a last resort. A hole is harder to close than an open door. Otherwise, wait there and keep in mind the radiation and the ground will interfere with our comms."
With that, Joe headed for the central reactor, while also keeping a close eye on the geiger-counter. Too much radiation exposure wouldn't only hurt him, but a high dose has the potential to short electronics, rendering almost any device inoperable.
As radioactive material had already leaked and at least partially gotten near the entrance of the base, sealing the reactor directly had a slightly lower priority than finding out the nature of the radioactive material, as the base's door already acted as a seal. If it was just radioactive gas, it was relatively easy to deal with(just let it escape into the atmosphere, if the amount is small enough, it will disperse and thus its effect will weaken to the point of being much smaller than the natural background radiation), airborn dust was much harder, simply because it could be washed out of the air by rain, concentrating the material on the ground. Liquids and solids were similarly difficult to deal with.
The door that was to be opened was a large one, about the same size, but still notably bigger compared to the ones they came out of earlier. Snow was everywhere, a massive field of white surrounded the entrance, built into a hill.
"Entering total radio silence to initiate wireless hack." Joe reported to the base-station and his teammates, and then disabled all EM-transmitters, while leaving the recievers online.
He initiated a full scan of the entire recievable spectrum to check whether a wireless access-point, if one existed, announced its existance.
Thankfully, one did, with minimal struggle. It appeared to be 'public' and able to be accessed easily.
As the scan quickly turned up one, Joe quickly checked the SSID transmitted by the access-point's broadcast whether or not it belonged to the door(or even to the base), and if the connection was encrypted or not.
The SSID did belong to the door, and it appeared to have relatively simplistic encryption.
Joe quickly checked if the NC's computer contained some software to break such a simple encryption. The fact that the encryption was so lightly for a self-announcing wireless access-point in a military base surprised him a littlebit, and made him somewhat suspicious on whether or not this was a honeypot, a fake access-point to reroute a hacker to where he cannot do any damage.
All NC's had basic hacking tools installed for this sort of duty. Definitely nothing major, but it often opened avenues. Or, in this case, doors. As Joe was quite obviously the team's hacker due to his backstory, his NC's hacking software had a few improvements as well, compared to the others'.
Joe just let it run on that access-point. As the base's personell stopped responding either way, the hack wouldn't really increase any danger. Once he was connected he checked what systems were connected to the wireless transmitter and connected to the one that he thought was controlling the door. The help-manual of the door-controlling system really helped get a hang of the details of the controls allowing him to pretty much open the door with 1 console command transmitted wirelessly.
He disconnected after the door started moving, and ended his radio silence.
"As you can see, I did my magic here." Joe commented on his success over the radio.
The hallway that revealed itself as the door open was suspiciously damaged, and Joe's view would have had a HUD added to it, if he didn't modify his interface. He would get a notification, in any case. "Abnormal Radioactivity detected. Ally WESSEX in danger if damaged."
"Ok guys, we got increased radiation in there, Wessex, make sure your cockpit is pretty much airtight, or the radioactive materials might get in. You should all keep in mind though, being exposed to ionizing radiation(the ones emitted by radioactive materials as well) is different from being exposed to radioactive materials."
Jingo would get a notifaction from his NC, confirming it. If he was damaged too much, he would likely get irradiated. That was never good!
"Entering total radio silence to initiate wireless hack." Joe reported to the base-station and his teammates, and then disabled all EM-transmitters, while leaving the recievers online.
He initiated a full scan of the entire recievable spectrum to check whether a wireless access-point, if one existed, announced its existance.
Thankfully, one did, with minimal struggle. It appeared to be 'public' and able to be accessed easily.
As the scan quickly turned up one, Joe quickly checked the SSID transmitted by the access-point's broadcast whether or not it belonged to the door(or even to the base), and if the connection was encrypted or not.
The SSID did belong to the door, and it appeared to have relatively simplistic encryption.
Joe quickly checked if the NC's computer contained some software to break such a simple encryption. The fact that the encryption was so lightly for a self-announcing wireless access-point in a military base surprised him a littlebit, and made him somewhat suspicious on whether or not this was a honeypot, a fake access-point to reroute a hacker to where he cannot do any damage.
All NC's had basic hacking tools installed for this sort of duty. Definitely nothing major, but it often opened avenues. Or, in this case, doors. As Joe was quite obviously the team's hacker due to his backstory, his NC's hacking software had a few improvements as well, compared to the others'.
Joe just let it run on that access-point. As the base's personell stopped responding either way, the hack wouldn't really increase any danger. Once he was connected he checked what systems were connected to the wireless transmitter and connected to the one that he thought was controlling the door. The help-manual of the door-controlling system really helped get a hang of the details of the controls allowing him to pretty much open the door with 1 console command transmitted wirelessly.
He disconnected after the door started moving, and ended his radio silence.
"As you can see, I did my magic here." Joe commented on his success over the radio.
The hallway that revealed itself as the door open was suspiciously damaged, and Joe's view would have had a HUD added to it, if he didn't modify his interface. He would get a notification, in any case. "Abnormal Radioactivity detected. Ally WESSEX in danger if damaged."
"Ok guys, we got increased radiation in there, Wessex, make sure your cockpit is pretty much airtight, or the radioactive materials might get in. You should all keep in mind though, being exposed to ionizing radiation(the ones emitted by radioactive materials as well) is different from being exposed to radioactive materials."
Jingo would get a notifaction from his NC, confirming it. If he was damaged too much, he would likely get irradiated. That was never good!
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