Scout class perform better?”
“Not just the Scouts, Tet. The new full sized ships will too, with their ability to reach into third level Tachyon Space for the most energetic tachyons. They can outperform a clanship in every respect, using the superior inertial compensation available only at higher energy levels, because the clanships were not designed to use T-cubed energy tachyons. We’re only limited by what the Kobani inside the ship can physically endure, after the new inertial compensation is applied.
“Most of us can endure ten to eleven positive residual gravities applied from the back in a semi reclined position, and still remain conscious to send commands to an AI via our Comtaps. At eight or nine Gs, we can physically make limited controlled movements with flight or weapons controls. These are the internal residual G-forces of course, the uncompensated inertial effects. These are vastly lower stresses than the higher actual G-forces that are in effect outside of our spacecraft.
“Only the ship performance has increased, however, not our ability to endure greater residual forces inside. That stays the same, and we simply compensate better to retain the same physical capability we have now. Whatever accelerations you can tolerate today when in combat, it will feel the same to you inside the new ships.
“To outside onlookers, you’ll become a greater whirling dervish than before, one that can’t be matched by any other organically controlled spacecraft we expect to encounter. Don’t think for a second you will be able to outfly an AI controlled missile that doesn’t risk a blackout or brain damage. On first contact, if that AI performs calculations based on assumptions of your ship’s expected maneuver limits to keep those inside alive, you might escape a few times that way. At least until they adjust their software parameters, and blow your ass to bits.”
“Please note that I said positive Gs. It’s easier to use our armor’s pressure suit lining and our Kobani muscle contraction techniques to force blood to stay in our brains, and keep conscious longer. We can’t do as well with negative Gs, to prevent blood from pooling in our heads. We’ll blackout at four negative Gs, or perhaps the proper term is ‘redout,’ because our faces will turn red from the blood forced into our head. At six negative Gs for a minute, I suspect few of us would survive, and then we’d likely have suffered brain damage.”
“Max, you described Kobani tolerances. Other species want to get into the fight this time.”
Born smiled and nodded. “The AIs are smart enough to adjust for non Kobani pilots or passengers, but for Kobani combat operations, they shouldn’t even be aboard.”
“Is this new G-force protection equal to what the Dismantlers can do with people inside them? I ask, because Huwayla once completely protected a Krall’tapi pilot from a near collision with my ship, which left those of us on the Mark briefly unconscious. We had the normal clanship inertial compensation for ourselves, so clearly a Krall’tapi, who is less sturdy than a Krall, was better protected than we were because he wasn’t even stunned.” He paused and touched his lip in thought, as he dredged old memories from his wolfbat memory matrix.
“I hadn’t considered it before, but the Krall that were holding him prisoner were badly battered from that same near collision, and rendered unconscious. We encountered a number of Guardians with broken limbs and one of them, inside the control room with Pilton, had lost an arm. Yet Pilton himself, the weakest and most fragile of anyone aboard Huwayla was completely unharmed. At least until a Krall bored a three-inch Q-rupter hole through his guts.”
Max looked puzzled. “Tet, the level of inertial compensation on our new ships isn’t vastly more effective than that of a clanship. It’s surely better than what the Empire ships can do for their crews, but not by an order of magnitude
“Not just the Scouts, Tet. The new full sized ships will too, with their ability to reach into third level Tachyon Space for the most energetic tachyons. They can outperform a clanship in every respect, using the superior inertial compensation available only at higher energy levels, because the clanships were not designed to use T-cubed energy tachyons. We’re only limited by what the Kobani inside the ship can physically endure, after the new inertial compensation is applied.
“Most of us can endure ten to eleven positive residual gravities applied from the back in a semi reclined position, and still remain conscious to send commands to an AI via our Comtaps. At eight or nine Gs, we can physically make limited controlled movements with flight or weapons controls. These are the internal residual G-forces of course, the uncompensated inertial effects. These are vastly lower stresses than the higher actual G-forces that are in effect outside of our spacecraft.
“Only the ship performance has increased, however, not our ability to endure greater residual forces inside. That stays the same, and we simply compensate better to retain the same physical capability we have now. Whatever accelerations you can tolerate today when in combat, it will feel the same to you inside the new ships.
“To outside onlookers, you’ll become a greater whirling dervish than before, one that can’t be matched by any other organically controlled spacecraft we expect to encounter. Don’t think for a second you will be able to outfly an AI controlled missile that doesn’t risk a blackout or brain damage. On first contact, if that AI performs calculations based on assumptions of your ship’s expected maneuver limits to keep those inside alive, you might escape a few times that way. At least until they adjust their software parameters, and blow your ass to bits.”
“Please note that I said positive Gs. It’s easier to use our armor’s pressure suit lining and our Kobani muscle contraction techniques to force blood to stay in our brains, and keep conscious longer. We can’t do as well with negative Gs, to prevent blood from pooling in our heads. We’ll blackout at four negative Gs, or perhaps the proper term is ‘redout,’ because our faces will turn red from the blood forced into our head. At six negative Gs for a minute, I suspect few of us would survive, and then we’d likely have suffered brain damage.”
“Max, you described Kobani tolerances. Other species want to get into the fight this time.”
Born smiled and nodded. “The AIs are smart enough to adjust for non Kobani pilots or passengers, but for Kobani combat operations, they shouldn’t even be aboard.”
“Is this new G-force protection equal to what the Dismantlers can do with people inside them? I ask, because Huwayla once completely protected a Krall’tapi pilot from a near collision with my ship, which left those of us on the Mark briefly unconscious. We had the normal clanship inertial compensation for ourselves, so clearly a Krall’tapi, who is less sturdy than a Krall, was better protected than we were because he wasn’t even stunned.” He paused and touched his lip in thought, as he dredged old memories from his wolfbat memory matrix.
“I hadn’t considered it before, but the Krall that were holding him prisoner were badly battered from that same near collision, and rendered unconscious. We encountered a number of Guardians with broken limbs and one of them, inside the control room with Pilton, had lost an arm. Yet Pilton himself, the weakest and most fragile of anyone aboard Huwayla was completely unharmed. At least until a Krall bored a three-inch Q-rupter hole through his guts.”
Max looked puzzled. “Tet, the level of inertial compensation on our new ships isn’t vastly more effective than that of a clanship. It’s surely better than what the Empire ships can do for their crews, but not by an order of magnitude
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