So Boerd

The Dawn of Tomorrow's World(A Dieselpunk Nation Roleplay)

Has the meeting started?

God, Gatling, and Glory [Steampunk/Imperialism NRP]

Just making sure. A nation that distributed will have an interesting set of challenges to it.

@Commodore Robot

Working on military aspects now. What do you think of my Elan math?

God, Gatling, and Glory [Steampunk/Imperialism NRP]

Lol, just the islands. Didn't anticipate there would be confusion.

God, Gatling, and Glory [Steampunk/Imperialism NRP]

http://imgur.com/8iIbWIF Resia.

God, Gatling, and Glory [Steampunk/Imperialism NRP]

Elan calculations: Suppose a hypothetical battleship has a mass of a thousand metric tons. It must be capable of ascent at high speed to be worth anything, BUT since pressurization does not exist, the max altitude is around 8000 feet and unless the crew wants really nasty baurotrama (too rapid depressurization), the ship must rise at a rate no faster than 2.53 meters per second (Research into cabin altitude pressure rate of change gives 500 FPM as industry standard). My research and calculations yielded very interesting results: 1. Gaining alttitude becomes essentially no problem for Elan equipped ships assuming Elan counteracts gravity 100%. In order to accelerate at 0.14 m/s^2 at sea level, a 1000000 kilogram ship only needs an 14 meter radius sphere of helium. My original calculations called for a situation in which the sphere was carried externally, so that factors in the weight if the bottom half of the sphere was armored in one inch of steel. 2. On the other hand, steering is an ENORMOUS engineering challenge. There are essentially no good ways to generate thrust in the 1870s. So suppose our gigagram ship is basically a Pearl Class cruiser in the air. I couldn't find its height, but it sufficiently illustrates my purposes to use its draft (waterline to keel) times its length as though it were a rectangle in cross section. That gives it a windward cross section of about 1060 m^2. According to this website: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wind-load-d_1775.html A 62.8 mph wind would exert 710200 newtons per second. That means you would have to fire one BL 12 main gun round every 2.5 seconds to counter the momentum change wrought by the wind. Meaning, ships should be spherical to reduce the impact of the wind. I am thinking of other means by which to mitigate the problem posed by winds. Nothing is forthcoming, however. No way to sail against the wind.

God, Gatling, and Glory [Steampunk/Imperialism NRP]

Starting to wonder if this new wave of plagiarism is going to become an epidemic.

@ASTA

To be perfectly fair, plagiarism means not crediting the original author. Who is the "author" of RL Germany?

God, Gatling, and Glory [Steampunk/Imperialism NRP]

Does Elan have a maximum altitude?

God, Gatling, and Glory [Steampunk/Imperialism NRP]

Should have plenty of time to work on my sheet today. I will prioritize the military so you guys can develop yours more accurately. (Huge NRP pet peeve, people getting butthurt when people change their militaries based on another NRPers military. Militaries aren't developed in a vacuum)

God, Gatling, and Glory [Steampunk/Imperialism NRP]

@So Boerd Not shooting for any precise date considering things are a little wacky in the tech department thanks to Elan, but generally speaking somewhere around the 70-80s would be appropriate as a baseline for you to play off of.

@Commodore Robot

Modified Majestic class will be the main ships of my navy then. They only represent doctrinal rather than technological advances from the Royal Sovereign class of the late 80s near as I can tell.

God, Gatling, and Glory [Steampunk/Imperialism NRP]

Jesus christ everyone and their mum is making an ethnically German nation. I guess it is time for me to go full Baguette and rock that French lifestyle. They had the best guns of the period anyways.

@rextremendum

Finno-Ugric Germanic blend

@The Nexerus

Best coffee I know. Precise historical year our tech is at?