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Added more info to my factbook! This is hard work lol.

I know!  I'm really hoping we can get this started soon so the hard work starts to really pay off!    Hopefully this weekend'll be enough time!  (But realistically it might have to be next weekend when it starts...)

Robin: I've asked around on various Star Wars EU communities, and the consensus seems to be that the Acclamator's speed is either an oversight or a strange retcon. The Wookieepedia article states that there is a conflicting hyperdrive class for the Acclamator, at Class 0.75, so I think we'll go with that. It also seems that Acclamators were optimized as troop transports rather than general-purpose warships, which some people have proposed as the explanation, even if it makes little sense.

Also, does warp speed depend on the size of the ship? For example, how fast would you say a 50-m long ship could travel? (I'm looking things up, and it seems like there's no in-between in Star Trek for 20-m long runabouts and 100-m long ships.

Make it all three, I guess. We could add flavour to our histories and say they made up the Council races for their sector of space, and in your part of the galaxy they could still be the ones in charge?

My asari, turians and salarians faced the type of extinction level event early in our history that can best be compared to the Rachni Wars, that's why they aren't the predominant races anymore, but my government structure is actually inspired by the turian one.

EDIT: Also, tau, you simply must see this. I think you might like the salarians.

http://youtu.be/KXApk1eqoC0

I'm still trying to figure out a history, but do have demographics put down. Not sure if that would work, as Turians, Salarians, Asari, and Human are all fairly even.

Robin: I've asked around on various Star Wars EU communities, and the consensus seems to be that the Acclamator's speed is either an oversight or a strange retcon. The Wookieepedia article states that there is a conflicting hyperdrive class for the Acclamator, at Class 0.75, so I think we'll go with that. It also seems that Acclamators were optimized as troop transports rather than general-purpose warships, which some people have proposed as the explanation, even if it makes little sense.

Also, does warp speed depend on the size of the ship? For example, how fast would you say a 50-m long ship could travel? (I'm looking things up, and it seems like there's no in-between in Star Trek for 20-m long runabouts and 100-m long ships.

The Valdore is a light warship/troop transport that I was basing off of an Acclimator, and I believe that the explanation for that could be massive ship=massive engine, maybe even almost as large proportionally as the engines of the Millennium Falcon.

In Star Trek though, to answer your question, the speed of a vessel generally is in direct correlation with the maximum power output of the ship's power grid. The larger the warp core, the greater the subspace distortion and thus the greater the speed. That's generally why shuttles can't outrun larger warships in the Star Trek universe. Hyperdrive appears to be the engine mass/total mass correlation, which is a lot different. (That would also explain the discrepancy between the class 2 hyperdrive of the Imperial I Star Destroyers and the Acclimator Assault Ships—Acclimators don't have the heavy swift equipment or the prefab garrison base that their bigger cousins have. That's probably the explanation for that, if I had to make my Star Wars knowledge guess.

Asari are naturally biotic, so in this RP, do they already have biotic powers at the beginning?

Oh and tau: I didn't see that last part about the speed of a 50-m ship. If reckon that they could travel at about warp 4 with comfortable room to fit whatever else needs to be on the vessel. I'd say max speed for any 50 m vessel would be about warp 8, but that would basically just be a plated engine room—not much excess space.

Oh and tau: I didn't see that last part about the speed of a 50-m ship. If reckon that they could travel at about warp 4 with comfortable room to fit whatever else needs to be on the vessel. I'd say max speed for any 50 m vessel would be about warp 8, but that would basically just be a plated engine room—not much excess space.

I thought that a 50-m ship would be faster, since runabouts have max speed of warp 5 and are smaller? Or are larger parts of a runabout dedicated to engine space?

Asari are naturally biotic, so in this RP, do they already have biotic powers at the beginning?

In this RP, biotics will be late-game researchable tech, so I'm afraid not. Laurentus, your thoughts on this?

That is correct, tau.

Hydra, we're going to have to ignore some parts of Mass Effect lore if we're going to make its inclusion in the RP fair.

Runabouts do generally have larger engine than most traditional shuttlecraft. I think that's why they're faster than normal shuttlecraft

I just got an idea for a future R&D for myself, and I think it'll be a huge game changer on the ground.

I just got an idea for a future R&D for myself, and I think it'll be a huge game changer on the ground.

*BraveSirRobin begins frantically researching advanced ground combat technology in the hopes of figuring out what Aragonn has planned*

I just got an idea for a future R&D for myself, and I think it'll be a huge game changer on the ground.

*BraveSirRobin begins frantically researching advanced ground combat technology in the hopes of figuring out what Aragonn has planned*

I shall dominate the battlefield with mass numbers and great vehicles

Runabouts do generally have larger engine than most traditional shuttlecraft. I think that's why they're faster than normal shuttlecraft

But normal shuttlecraft are way smaller. Like, some of them are only 5 m long.

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/starfleet_shuttles.htm

I just got an idea for a future R&D for myself, and I think it'll be a huge game changer on the ground.

*BraveSirRobin begins frantically researching advanced ground combat technology in the hopes of figuring out what Aragonn has planned*

I shall dominate the battlefield with mass numbers and great vehicles

No amount of armor on your vehicles can repel 10 cm railgun fire. I shall wolf pack you to death! And Ballistae firing subsonic ballistic shells will decimate your "numbers".

I just got an idea for a future R&D for myself, and I think it'll be a huge game changer on the ground.

*BraveSirRobin begins frantically researching advanced ground combat technology in the hopes of figuring out what Aragonn has planned*

I shall dominate the battlefield with mass numbers and great vehicles

No amount of armor on your vehicles can repel 10 cm railgun fire. I shall wolf pack you to death! And Ballistae firing subsonic ballistic shells will decimate your "numbers".

Just updated my military/tech section of my Factbook. I should be able to take some hits from a railgun now

Invention

It's a plasma shield