[This is similar to a displaced fic don't read if you don't like] I awoke to the blaring of alarms and flashing of red lights to find myself changed and in one of the most powerful warships in the Milky way.
Next to AJ was the alabaster mare known as Rarity standing elegantly even in her shocked stupor, with her clean white fur giving her an angelic look with her average height of what I would say was about 5' 5". Her body showed no visible signs of muscle like AJ but it was clear she was in great shape as her curvy body had it all just right making her look like the ideal image of feminine beauty. With her hourglass figure and perfectly portioned breasts and ass to give her the look of a seductive goddess.
... Small holes? It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that the weaponry from the Mass Effect games relied on the same technology as the ship-mounted weaponry, so anything that wasn't armoured to the eyeballs, protected with shielding, Krogan or colossal would take a bullet, even from a side-arm, with the same results as a watermelon that was launched from a trebuchet.
10123319 Nope, the entry wound would be small but inside the fleshy target is another story. You actually see this with modern small arms, small entry wound, nasty internal damage with a good possibility of nasty exit wound.
10123677 Yes, but with the level of technological advancement for the Mass Effect universe, it would still leave the limbs of Manticore as red paste and meat chunks.
10123795 You wouldn't know it until the battle was over though. I have seen all sorts of the calculations for Mass Effect guns and the most common is 'modern-day weapons with more penetration' due to the extremely low mass.
10124395 In the game mass effect, they explain that the weapons use element zero cores to accelerate slivers of metal shaved from a solid block of ammunition inside the weapon. The penetration factor is unknown, we are also dealing with a magical tank of a beast in the manticore. And who's to say that the hide of the beast isn't magically altered to be as strong as armor since it has to compete with beasts such as the hydra after all.
I should mention that I have Aspergers as well as some other mental health issues including borderline bipolar so I sometimes have manic episodes that leave me awake for most the night with nothing to do and an urge to write. You can actually see in my older stories how these episodes when untreated affected my writing, making it feel all over the place or jumpy, fast, and etc... This story I feel is different, not only because my chapter size has doubled or tripled from my old stories but because of a gut feeling, I have that I haven't had with other stories.
"Are you sure it's just not tummy rumblies ms. Author? Yes, Pinkie I'm sure of it.
10125985 I used to be part of Spacebattles, and it is Spacebattle's thing to analyze the hell out of everything, hence why the most common calcs put mass accelerators to be the equiv of modern firearms but with vastly superior penetration characteristics.
10126746 Oh that is rather interesting I didn't know that. But another fact is that the M-8 Avenger is one of lower damage assault rifles in ME3 so wouldn't that affect the stopping power it has as well?
10131542 The biggest problem with Mass Effect weaponry is that, canonically, their bullets are the size of grains of sand, and therefore have little stopping power. The bullets, due to the fact that they travel at hyper-sonic velocities, would likely just go through the target you're aiming at, unless they have armor on, and even then, it would still be likely to penetrate both ends of the armor, leaving minimal overall damage. I won't pretend to be an expert, but from what I understand, the weapons of ME have less overall stopping power than modern-day rifles, but make up for it in sheer volume of fire.
I can't say for the weapons in games 2 &3, but I would assume they work on similar, if not identical, principals, so I would imagine it's hard to say for absolute certain if any single weapon is better than another without genuine articles for scientists to research.
Not bad
Can't wait until see what happens next
Not bad, not bad of. Fight, especially for first time writing one, look forward to what happens next
I believe the common term is thicc.
... Small holes?
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that the weaponry from the Mass Effect games relied on the same technology as the ship-mounted weaponry, so anything that wasn't armoured to the eyeballs, protected with shielding, Krogan or colossal would take a bullet, even from a side-arm, with the same results as a watermelon that was launched from a trebuchet.
10123319
Nope, the entry wound would be small but inside the fleshy target is another story. You actually see this with modern small arms, small entry wound, nasty internal damage with a good possibility of nasty exit wound.
10123677
Yes, but with the level of technological advancement for the Mass Effect universe, it would still leave the limbs of Manticore as red paste and meat chunks.
10123795
You wouldn't know it until the battle was over though. I have seen all sorts of the calculations for Mass Effect guns and the most common is 'modern-day weapons with more penetration' due to the extremely low mass.
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10124395
In the game mass effect, they explain that the weapons use element zero cores to accelerate slivers of metal shaved from a solid block of ammunition inside the weapon. The penetration factor is unknown, we are also dealing with a magical tank of a beast in the manticore. And who's to say that the hide of the beast isn't magically altered to be as strong as armor since it has to compete with beasts such as the hydra after all.
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I should mention that I have Aspergers as well as some other mental health issues including borderline bipolar so I sometimes have manic episodes that leave me awake for most the night with nothing to do and an urge to write. You can actually see in my older stories how these episodes when untreated affected my writing, making it feel all over the place or jumpy, fast, and etc... This story I feel is different, not only because my chapter size has doubled or tripled from my old stories but because of a gut feeling, I have that I haven't had with other stories.
"Are you sure it's just not tummy rumblies ms. Author?
Yes, Pinkie I'm sure of it.
10125985
I used to be part of Spacebattles, and it is Spacebattle's thing to analyze the hell out of everything, hence why the most common calcs put mass accelerators to be the equiv of modern firearms but with vastly superior penetration characteristics.
10126746
Oh that is rather interesting I didn't know that. But another fact is that the M-8 Avenger is one of lower damage assault rifles in ME3 so wouldn't that affect the stopping power it has as well?
can't wait for the next chapter
10131542
The biggest problem with Mass Effect weaponry is that, canonically, their bullets are the size of grains of sand, and therefore have little stopping power. The bullets, due to the fact that they travel at hyper-sonic velocities, would likely just go through the target you're aiming at, unless they have armor on, and even then, it would still be likely to penetrate both ends of the armor, leaving minimal overall damage. I won't pretend to be an expert, but from what I understand, the weapons of ME have less overall stopping power than modern-day rifles, but make up for it in sheer volume of fire.
I can't say for the weapons in games 2 &3, but I would assume they work on similar, if not identical, principals, so I would imagine it's hard to say for absolute certain if any single weapon is better than another without genuine articles for scientists to research.
I kinda expect the dragon scale to be a lot tougher than this, but well, this would mean dragon in this world is not a juggernaut.
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Well the commander is still a young dragon so her scales aren't as tough yet