Missing In Action
There! Right there! Flitting through a space beyond space, a tight beam of radiation, passing light years in moments through the interplanetary elvish paths of space. Cyphered beyond any sort of reading by prying eyes, with such a complex multitude of frequencies and wavelengths as to shame a rainbow.
There it is again. Passing by faster than any instrument aside from one carefully aligned reciever dish can detect.
If you somehow did manage to pry loose the beams secrets, you may find out interesting things. Such as the color of the Diplomat's wife's lingerie, or what the best price is for North Star roses.
Or you might receive a rather gloomier if choppy missive. Military level encryption takes up too much bandwidth to be carried live.
Dancer and its crew last reported in seven days ago.
Distressing energy signals provoked a investigation.
Ionized gases and metal shrapnel and wrecks found on site.
Aurora Dancer, missing in action until further notice, probable KIA.
Dancer last of second generation Drottningarborg class frigates.
Aurora fifth generation full AI, non recoverable. Forward standard letter of consolation to mental Engram donors and dockyard.
Considerable loss in long range strategic reconnaissance, two Fulton class ferriers and a Elric class carrier requested immediately
Aurora Dancer
30k tonnage
Crew est. at 1,093 ((since last accepted commissions))
5x double 15 inch short barreled rail gun batteries
Capt. is Karlorina Nor-dottir
Three stage fusion power plant
Snowdown class micro fission propulsion
Snapdrakkan class rapid spooling FTL
Molecular print shop
Cruiser class manufactory
Asst. mining equipment
Micro Refinery
Code: hsfr-180991
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6642559 Let me head this off at the pass.
No, no more space ponies will arrive.
I wonder why the crew would be estimated> This is a military vessel unless they suspected something very odd they would have a complete crew manifest of all personal assigned at least. Depending on procedures and how long that information would take to get home if any crew had failed to show up as of the last port..
Encryption while various levels might pad the data being sent even the highest level are no more complex to send than a basic message. The message is encrypted by the sending station and decrypted by the receiver in between its like any other message
6642778 I know jack shit about military encryption.
also, that's my estimate, I forgot to plop down a concrete number in it's place.
Still haven't settled on one.
6578519 6579404 6579706 6602539 6602639 6602663 6603842 6603903 6604981 6641763 6641829 6641834 6564044 6538446 6542724 6553930 6554063 6477670 6533321 6412274 6459731 6460696 6461405 5895870 5895429 5895852 ((this should be every commenter ever, if I miss you, then apologies))
Hey everyone, me and my love pony are trying to think of way to celebrate a 100 likes! I'm considering doing a super super pricey commision ((with all that full time work monies I'm getting)). But I'm up for suggestions!
Also, if you know a super good sci-fi/pony artist who you think could do a battle scene with Aurora in it, I'd love to know!
6642818 except for complexity and more bells and whistles than I know either the basic theory is the same from the simplest to the most complex encryption.. Encryption scrambles the message in set manner that both the sender and receiver know
6642591 But the space fighters show up as Breezies!
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You are thinking f the wrong Deadalus-class, my dear friend.
The one I am talking about is described as follows:
225m long with a naquedah-tritium alloy hull,
Two side mounted hangars with 8 f-302 fighters capable of Space and atmospheric Flight in each
32 heavy rail gun batteries, 16 light rail gun batteries,
It's main cannons consist of 4 Asgard beam cannons, each one capable of slicing through the shielding and hull of ships upwards of six times the ship's size, through the power requirements are enormous.
It also contains 16 VLS tubes each able to field up to a mark IX naquedah enchanced warhead (nuclear missiles)
If the firing system cannot launch or is deemed ineffective, the Asgard transporters have the potential to be reconfigured to send the missiles into an unsheilded target.
Defenses include Asgard shielding, which can wthstand several direct hits from beams just as strong as it's main cannons, the fighter support from theF-302s, and on-site personnel to repel boarders.
Sunlight engines can reach a maximum of 1/50C, while the hyperdrive allows travel between galaxies to occur In a matter of weeks.
The ship is also equipped with ring transporters, though I doubt they would come into effect since your universe has never even heard of stargate tech so your ship also having a ring teleported is very unlikely.
The ship also has a sub space transponder allowing for instant communication accross space, as well as more mundane forms of communication.
Downsides to the ship are that it is a mix of Asgard, goah'uld, and Terran tech, some f which is still not fully understood, so it is not at its fullest potential, on top f that it is limited by it's crew and their reaction times. Without a crew, the ship is just debris. The standard crew capacity is 200, most of which is support staff for the fighters.
The fighters themselves carry twin nose mounted rail guns, four missile struts, each one holding a naquedah-enhanced air-to-air missile, and it can also field a mark IX nuclear missile of necesary.
The fighters also have a limited, short range, yet unstable, hyperdrive functionality that can be used to bypass bubble-style shields.
If you need more information, ask, or search up the BC-304 and F-302 separately.
And before you laugh at it's size, this thing constantly takes down ships much larger than itself.
6643674 Tbh, it looks like the Daedalus is mostly exaggerated science, which basically means it wins. The energy required to propel a mass fast enough to travel between galaxies that fast would basically render its makers gods to us. The Aurora is good ole titanium, steel, and advanced space age polymers, she carries rail guns and nukes. She can lug around pinnaces, but she wasn't when she crashed on Equestria.
She's incredibly fast in FTL for her galaxy's tech, but her sub light speed is terrible. Against lighter classes her guns can quickly overpower deflectors and simply rip massive holes right through them, and she's death to anything with wings, but against heavier classes she's better off tanking off a couple hits to FTL jump.
Which is just what she was made to do. Aurora wasn't meant to fight in fleet battles, she was meant to shrug off big hits easily. Perfect for hunting down pirates, slavers, and for just going out and poking its nose in things. She is an extremely advanced ship for her time, but that tech is mostly in her deflectors and FTL drive.
Also, she doesn't have a bubble type shield. Her deflectors are what corrugated the knives the doctor had. They are projectors mounted across every inch of her hull designed to simply deflect matter with a combination of old common FTL tech, and some sciencey wiency stuff I haven't decided.
6643674
Also, laugh at its size? That thing is the length of a WWII battleship. The Aurora is around 180-190 meters, a cruiser through and through.
6643513 it just came to me!
6643674 is naquedah a alloy itself? What's titium?
I'm always annoyed by sci to writers making up elements. Elements are defined by their proton count. Elements on the larger end of the scale are already quite unstable.
6644036 naquedah is an element that was discovered that has a series of interesting affects, such as exponentially increasing the power of explosives, or, when bonded with certain types of other metals, create a metal that is stronger yet lighter than steel. And it can also be used to generate nuclear energy in a very compact generator, hence where the power for the ship comes from.
Yeah, I agree, it is very 'unobtanium-esque'. And the main reason I had said that was because I had thought Aroura was much larger than the Daedalus-class.
And the reason it can travel so fast is not through a warp bubble, but by traversing into 'hyperspace' using a specialized engine core.
In many ways aurora is more advanced than the Daedalus since she has an AI core and repulsed, which the Daedalus does not have. And her rail guns/nukes are probably on par with the deadalus's, depending on the megatonnage. Though the enhancement probably gives the edge to the Daedalus. The question mainly becomes how good is your ship at dodging and/or taking hits from an energy beam. Does the repulsor tech deflect them?
so, she blew up, and ponyland is spaceship heaven?
6644144 Aurora is a hyperspace ship too, but to travel between galaxies is such a stretch as to be nearly inconceivable. The magnitude of distance isn't even comprehensible by human minds.
We have to use Astronomical Units because the lightyears would be a ponderously big number.
If it was just a straight laser, then she wouldn't use her repulsor, she'd saturate the space between the ships with highly charged ions, highly charged gases designed to disperse lasers. Her local space doesn't even use lasers for that reason. Missiles and Rail Guns are more common, although the largest ships in the North Star navy will have a AI dedicated to defeating ECM for large missile batteries, rail guns are meant for smaller classes like frigates and destroyers.
I also doubt her rail guns are as powerful, more adaptable maybe. I have no idea how the unobtanium armor would do against her guns. She's a lot of brute force technology. Again, she isn't a damage dealer, she's a tank. Thick skinned, well shielded, adaptable tank. She isn't meant to win battles, she's meant to survive them (although she will be tasked with pirate hunting simply because they can't outrun her at FTL speeds.
Also, a megaton is a absurd level of explosive power for the shells. Just three megatons would be about the total explosive force of every explosive used in WWII, including the two nukes.
A FOAB (father of all bombs) is claimed to be only four times as powerful as a MOAB, which is only 11 TONS of explosive power, and these are the most powerful conventional (read non nuclear) bombs we have on earth today. a megaton is a 25,000 OF THEM. Aurora's rail guns don't explode with that sort of force because they aren't meant too, they are designed to tear through ship hulls, not just blow chunks off. They are HEHPRP's High Explosive Hull Piercing Rocket Propelled Shells. Also the MOAB alone is 10.3 kilotons of metal and explosive.
6644144 Also, her sentience is just a combination of biological and genetic engineering, paired with quantum storage and nanite engineering. All of those things could be stretched within conceivable means to achieve this in the not too too distant future. The biological part is largely the creative processes while the nanites and other technology deal with most of the analytical and recall parts of her psyche.
6644724
I meant megatonnage in relation to the nuclear devices, not the rail guns...
6642840 I'm really bummed no one has responded to this yet. Surely SOMEPONY has to know a good artist for a commision like this?!
6645592 yeah, the Aurora uses clean nukes, which trade off power for a lack of radiation.
6648533
Ah, well in that case she is most definitely outclassed.
Ah well, it's still fun to measure dic-
SHIPS! I said ships!!
also, you never did say which universe she is from.
6649259 A... universe?
Honest, I made her up. She's sort of inspired my Battlestar Galactica, but not low cyber tech. Just the heavy heavy tank of a ship meant to take anything, the deflector idea I just sort of thought up, other than that nothing really it's based on.
6649480
Huh. It has a surprising depth, or illusion of depth for that matter, to the world from whence it came. Good job.
Are you Icelandic by the by? I've noticed many such words and can't help but be curious.
6649485 Nope, not in the fucking least. I've just always found Asatru to be a interesting faith.
6649485 aww damn, got another dislike, wonder if a disliker will ever leave a comment?
6654224
What are you asking me for?
I just want to know who's on first!
6654230 who's on first?
Twilight is first base. Rainbow dash is an outfielder, applejack is a ref, Aurora would pitch, maud would bat, Fluttershy is the water pony, pinkie is the whacky coach, rarity made the uniforms, Lyra is in the stands with a foam finger cheering, gilda is the rough and tumble third base griffin. Second base is a toss up.
6654460
What?
6657140 you asked who's on first (base) right?
6657299
But I thought we were talking about a game, right, where who's on first, what's on second, and I don't know is on third!
6682917
I was having fun yelling at Aurora for saying the singlemost offensive thing that you could possibly say to the crystal ponies.
6646474
I could theoretically do a sketch, I guess. Its not going to be very pretty, though. Sorry.
Plus, I don't exactly have a picture in my mind of what Aurora's ship form looks like.
Commission wise, no idea. I don't go around that community much,
6643775 So her sublight acceleration is incredibly low- exactly what you expect from a starship.
7869920 fixed
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Okay, question:
Why does Aurora have no active defence systems listed? I mean, okay the 15" railguns are fine for 'close quarters' fights in space, which, given the distances you're probably looking anything above around 2-5 light minutes is probably going to be picked up and possibly evaded enough to not be direct hits on the main fuselage/hull, especially if the munition in question is slower than light by a significant amount, but where's the ECM, point defence and anti-fighter/anti-small craft weaponry? Presuming that the weapons are roughly similar sizes to modern versions, she could probably fit 6x8 40mm, 6x1 120mm, 6x2 152mm railguns presuming they've made similar sized ones and presuming it's roughly the size and set up of the Nelson-class battleship the British fielded in WWII and since she reacted to the thing buzzing her head, and you've a carrier listed above, presumably there are small craft, and likely missiles/torpedoes around that might be better shot down than tanked on armour or shields, presuming the ECM can't misdirect them.
8704278
firstly, let me suggest you join the discord server. https://discord.gg/6T7MUTs , it'll be far easier to explain the contents of the setting there.
Secondly, this chapter hasn't been updated for a while. I don't even measure her main guns in inches anymore.
Thirdly, she does have AA, around 30 40mmx4 turrets, its just not mentioned cuz, points to part 2.
Well RIP crew..,