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I ain't finished yet.

What determines whether or not the slingshot will make it miss depends on the target ship size, position relative to the projectile, and speed. The shot still has a chance to hit after the slingshot effect.

I ain't finished yet.

What determines whether or not the slingshot will make it miss depends on the target ship size, position relative to the projectile, and speed. The shot still has a chance to hit after the slingshot effect.

But with a singularity core allowing for short jumps, strong kinetic barriers and point defense systems hitting a Pendleton is no mean feat.

I ain't finished yet.

What determines whether or not the slingshot will make it miss depends on the target ship size, position relative to the projectile, and speed. The shot still has a chance to hit after the slingshot effect.

But with a singularity core allowing for short jumps, strong kinetic barriers and point defense systems hitting a Pendleton is no mean feat.

I'm assuming you're using a microsingularity in your core because your ship would be torn apart and consumed because of the gravitational force otherwise, so your core has nothing to do with evading weapons fire. If it did have a stronger gravitational force, it would only make it easier for shots to hit you because they'd be drawn in by the gravity of your singularity. And the short jumps thing isn't special. I can do short jumps with my drive as well. Doesn't mean I'm gonna be playing leap frog with incoming projectiles all the time. Your kinetic barrier is a shield, and all shields will be brought down with enough force. A good hit from an Odin Gun ought to devastate it. As for your point defense systems, they're only going to be useful against enemy attack craft and torpedoes. I'm sorry, but shooting bullets, lasers, or plasma at my railgun KEPs is not going to stop them from hitting you. They have too much energy behind them.

WAIT WAIT HOLD A SECOND THERE

Remember how I said "no more other forms of FTL travel"?? So why does North have one?

Singularity cores don't make FTL jumps. They are used to create gravity wells and distort time.

The closer you are to that singularity, the slower time travels for you. Since you have that singularity inside your ship, time travels slower for you. That gives everyone else an advantage over you.

The closer you are to that singularity, the slower time travels for you. Since you have that singularity inside your ship, time travels slower for you. That gives everyone else an advantage over you.

How do you figure?

A singularity is a point where matter has infinite density. Infinite density means infinite mass. Matter has gravity, and infinite mass means infinite matter means infinite gravity. Light can't escape these things thus the term "black hole" used to describe them. I'm going to assume you already know this since you've elected to use these things to enable certain abilities. Next is where things get interesting.

If you weren't aware, NASA conducted an experiment regarding the relation between time and gravity and found what they call "spacetime". They took two identical, perfectly functioning clocks and launched one into orbit. The one out in space, affected very little by Earth's gravity, ran slower than the one on Earth, fully affected by Earth's gravity. This doesn't just take place in Earth's gravity. This happens with all bodies of mass and their gravity too which includes your singularities. Time would be warped aboard your ship if you made that singularity strong enough to warp time and create artificial gravity wells with it.

I rescind my earlier statement of how time would run slower for your ships, as I remembered incorrectly. Time would actually run faster on your ships. Quite a bit faster if you're actually planning on weaponizing those singularities.

A singularity is a point where matter has infinite density. Infinite density means infinite mass. Matter has gravity, and infinite mass means infinite matter means infinite gravity. Light can't escape these things thus the term "black hole" used to describe them. I'm going to assume you already know this since you've elected to use these things to enable certain abilities. Next is where things get interesting.

If you weren't aware, NASA conducted an experiment regarding the relation between time and gravity and found what they call "spacetime". They took two identical, perfectly functioning clocks and launched one into orbit. The one out in space, affected very little by Earth's gravity, ran slower than the one on Earth, fully affected by Earth's gravity. This doesn't just take place in Earth's gravity. This happens with all bodies of mass and their gravity too which includes your singularities. Time would be warped aboard your ship if you made that singularity strong enough to warp time and create artificial gravity wells with it.

I rescind my earlier statement of how time would run slower for your ships, as I remembered incorrectly. Time would actually run faster on your ships. Quite a bit faster if you're actually planning on weaponizing those singularities.

Exactly. Time would go faster so to an outside observer the ship would "jump" to another spot.

Whoa there, buddy. Time wouldn't move that fast. If it did, you'd be replacing the entire crew in a few years because of old age. And this would be a constant thing. It's not something you can just turn on and off. And remember how I told you the gravitational force of the singularity would tear your ship apart? I really meant it. There's a way to engineer the ship to keep from collapsing in on itself, but the ship would become spherical and wouldn't be able to withstand outside attacks very well.

A singularity would also create an infinitely deep gravity well, which would make hyperspace travel with it impossible. Not to mention that I'm not sure how you'd even move a singularity, let alone contain it within a ship.

The Romulans found a way. The event horizon of the singularity core is less than 1 cm, you can turn it off because it is not a self sustaining core, it manipulates gravity to form singularities and it can only be powered for a very short while.

Using real science, that's not possible. Not from what we understand.

Using real science, that's not possible. Not from what we understand.

And everything else we've done is?

Quantum mechanics is something we just don't understand. There are a lot of mysteries and murky waters in that field. I just made some assumptions and worked with it.

Using real science, that's not possible. Not from what we understand.

And everything else we've done is?

My guns are completely based on real science and ballistics. All of my land vehicles are completely rooted in real science. My armor is based on real science. Everything I could understand, I've based on real science. Everything else was just ripped straight from Warhammer 40,000.

Quantum mechanics is something we just don't understand. There are a lot of mysteries and murky waters in that field. I just made some assumptions and worked with it.

You also happened to ignore some aspects of it like time dilation and how the gravity of the singularity would affect the structural integrity of your ship. Your singularity may only be less than a centimeter in diameter, but that's pretty sizeable. What you really want is half that size or less because these things are not to be trifled with. They're powerful and will destroy your ship from the inside. If you have all of this amazing technology that you claim all works, your biggest threat isn't outside the ship.