SimplyJohn

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

@SimplyJohn Y'know you could argue about it for hours and hours and hours but it won't have anything good going for it other than seeing who's science is better.

@DJAtomika

I'm not actually using science, just logic and imagination. It's amazing what you can come up with when you use them in the right proportions, and don't let wizards have all the fun. :)

I could get technical and science-y and explain how Farvis's suit crap won't stop sharpened keratin from dicing through it and all that medical jargon you'd expect from a doctor, but I'm not gonna. XD

@DJAtomika

Whoever said the claws were made of keratin?

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

Stop it. You are hurting my brain.

@Bonjour xx

Are you sure that's not the liquid helium? I know @TheUnknowable was eager to run tests on his drilling idea.

It would if you ran it through tubes, similar to a geothermal system. That would require a material with a melting point above the temperature of the sun, but that's easy. You'd also have to shed heat faster than the sun does naturally in that spot to cool it.

@TheUnknowable

The problem with that idea is that the material you made the pipes out of would be a better heat dissipator than the helium it was being used to pump. Why not just ram slabs of that stuff into the star and use it as a giant heat sink instead? That would help stabilize the reactions in the same way as dropping a carbon rod into a fission reactor.

The Lamentaion of Corillia (Warhammer 40k space marine RP)

...a letter with the unfakable seal of the Ordo Hereticus on it...
...That is a seal that cannot be faked...

@mattmanganon

Anything which can be created can be duplicated, especially if people are wandering around the galaxy carrying copies with them. Even more so when the forgery need only pass a cursory visual inspection.

Also, Space Marines respect the chain of command, when a letter comes from Holy Mother Terra, they tend to not question it. If there is one thing you need to learn is that Humanity is kinda stupid... Just, as a rule in 40k. I mean, their whole system is based on the ideology that "To question your orders is to know doubt. To know doubt is heresy, which is punishable by instant execution."

@mattmanganon

The Atartes follow the Emperor, not Terra, and usually in their own way. Since the First Founding all Space Marine Chapters have been autonomous and function under their own creeds and command structures, that's one of the reasons they manage to have things like their own religious practices without the Ecclesiarchy coming crashing down on their heads.

Most commonly a Chapter becomes involved in a campaign when the local government sends out a distress call and the Chapter decides it's worth them getting themselves involved, whether due to some supply issue (the planet supplies them with arms, ammunition of food), because of some ancient pact, due to a sense of honour (we failed a mission, and that failure led to the planet being at risk) or because they had nothing better to do and the fighting would be good practice.

Sure the High Lords can give guidance, warnings and make requests of the Astartes, but at the end of the day if a Chapter decides not to heed an order from Terra there's nothing the High Lords can do about it. That's one of the reasons the Dark Angels have managed to get away with their activities for all these millennia.

The catechism you quoted is part of the Imperial Creed, used by the Imperial Guard, and not part of any Chapters' creed that I'm aware of. My information may be a little out of date though, so feel free to correct me on that point.

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

i just wanna get inside the ship

@TTwoThumbsUp

The door's over there and I think Simon's found something that could help. Only problem is getting in through the door and resealing it before the umbilical detaches from the ship. That or finding a way to reseal the outer hatch which got 'accidentally' blown off of its hinges.

Okaaaay, so what I'm getting from this is that maybe Mez shouldn't have blown the door off. But hey, he's a grieving, warmongering cyborg who is lost in the vast extremities of space and doesn't give a shit about anyone on the team, with the exception of, maybe, Marga. But even she is trying his patience right now, so she can go to hell too. :P

@Kalas

His ex-girlfriend was pretty much humping the leg of a complete stranger right in front of him. I'm surprised Mez bothered to aim at the door rather than Farvis's head.

my guess, use liquid helium to pull energy from it, then dump it in the shadow of a close orbiting body. To deal with such a radical temperature shift would take a ton of energy.

@TheUnknowable

That wouldn't work as the helium would only act as an accelerant for the nucleosynthesis of heavier elements within the core of the star^[LINK], functionally increasing the star's lifespan.

Although it would increase the central mass and therefore the chances of the star collapsing into a singularity rather than a dwarf star once the hydrogen fuel has been consumed, so it could still be used as a super weapon, as long as you didn't mind waiting a few million years for it to activate.

"You may have won this time, but your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren will pay!"

If we were to get some hydrogen into its solid state and somehow put it on the star than the rest of the hydrogen would freeze before that piece became plasma, especially if you could place it on the relatively cool surface of the star. This would stop nuclear fusion in the star and you'd be left with solid hydrogen and helium gas, as well as trace element within the core.

Your only problem would be finding a way to transport the solid hydrogen to the surface without it becoming plasma first.

The Fog

No problem, still waiting on new recruits. :)

Operation Shadow Sabre

Cautiously Saffron tapped her wrist comp and accessed the information she had on her new colleagues. Having only arrived the night before and been given separate quarters from the rest, for obvious reasons, this was her first encounter with most of them. Other than Cmdr Riley, who'd conducted her integration interview a few weeks earlier the only information she had was the official reports and documents to which she'd been granted access after being accepted onto this programme.

Quickly she skimmed through the notes, trying to put faces to names as she glanced down the line. There were the three officers and three non-coms, not including herself. Along with that there was a civilian whose status seemed unconfirmed according to her files. Having read all she could from the sparse information at hand the newly warranted officer pulled up a holo of her wife, Yolanda. For a moment she let her mind wander back to the previous morning and smiled lovingly at the projected image before shutting the display down.

She wasn't entirely comfortable with her new rank. Technically she did still have seniority over half the men in the room, although she was unsure exactly where the good doctor fell in the chain of command as there was no rank listed for him in any of the data packets she'd received. Her own position felt just as unstable somehow, as though she were only here under sufferance and at the first misstep would be asked to leave, not that she wouldn't deserve it.

Obviously they'd been locked in this room for a reason though, and as only a non-com it wasn't her place to question orders, not anymore. Instead she sat to attention, her hands on her knees and back straight, awaiting those unquestionable orders as her mind drifted back to the warmth of the previous day.

Operation Shadow Sabre

Dr. Cyprian Sigmund is complete. Feast your eyes upon the Information / Technology specialist of your Sabre team as I write the IC.

@Light

_{...i still think yolanda would've been a better recruit...}

The Fog

The message Kismet had received a few weeks earlier had been vague to say the least, one word only 'Come' followed by the guild hall address. She'd been halfway across the continent at the time but mysteries had always intrigued her and so she'd followed the direction and come. Now she found herself in a strange library surrounded by all manner of miscreants, and no clue as to what was going on.

Her nerves twitched as she gazed at the newcomer, his black cloak flowing around his strangely as he stepped up to the speaker. There was something about him which seemed out of place, although she couldn't quite understand why. She decided to hold back for a moment, keeping herself lost in the small crowd as she observed events transpire. Her father had always said it was best to let the brave man jump in the quicksand first, that way you could always use him as a stepping stone.

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

actually, now that I think about it, we are walking on a cold floor, and I just punched a frozen chunk of metal in half. Also, wouldn't the entire ship be a Bose-Einstein condensate?

@TheUnknowable

Actually, I said earlier...

...Most of the party is floating about in the umbilical between the shuttle and the Lone Star...

@SimplyJohn

...you all just seemed to assume that you were walking. So far the only person to magnetise themselves successfully is Hundred, and she's outside.

When I said the ship was at absolute zero, I was referring only to the atmosphere aboard it. The ship's hull and materials still retain some heat, and although there's very little it's still enough to keep the matter above the critical temperature point required for any condensed matter states to become relevant. Otherwise the energy provided by Mez's little light show would've had a far more impressive effect on the hull.

Operation Shadow Sabre

That was great. I forgot how it started, but wee need to incorporate some of this IC

@Dragonite777

Squad banter you mean? Always helps with moral when the team can joke together. The scene from Aliens where the marines are having breakfast is a great example of that.

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