[META] [RFC] Militarization around the 2022 period

[HRogge]

This is a non-military, unarmed, vehicle:

http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=SS_Kame

but the fact that it is a Space Vessel, owned by a private individual, is by default invisible and has nested defences designed to make it nearly invulnerable, is, I'm sure, going to upset some people.

I must admit I DO NOT LIKE this vessel at all (from a meta perspective).

1) "Brain built it" ? Sorry, this thing is much too large to be built by a single person, even with some preparation time. Do you have any clue how large this thing is? 10 times larger than a todays US supercarrier? 20 times? More?
2) The cloak. Your original personal cloaks were "optical only"... that was powerful, but balanced. But suddenly Brain builds the "perfect anything, noone can see it cloak"? I would say thats a little bit too much "cool" in a single ship.
3) The "switch off enemies engines" weapon... sorry, NO WAY. If you say Brain has it, I will pretend it doesn't work on Fusors and CI energy crystals. This thing would be the most dangerous weapon systems in Fenspace, making every enemy helpless in a single shot.

The other things seem to be okay... as everyone else, Brain has his way to produce "damned tough armor"... It has forcefields, which is not common in 2014 but okay... even the tractor beams would be something unusual...

One last comment, did you used the wrong picture? A mauler does not look like a Trek-style Enterprise... ^^

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There are really good reasons Brains doesn't hand-out the handwavium and processes he uses to make ultra-materials. He's got related processes for the equivalent of battlesteel that he does hand-out. It's possible he may release the ultra-material stuff, some time in the future.

Nearly everyone has his own strains of "armor up" handwavium... so this one is not really something special.