🚀 go-pugleaf

Christopher Reid wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:24:16 -0500, Mike Bruner
> <bru...@delaware.infi.net> wrote:
>
> >Christopher Reid wrote:
>
> >>    Why should it be?  Confed didn't make them nor have them in stock.
> >> They didn't have or produce the fighters designed to launch them.  Only
> >> a limited supply were made of this terror weapon.  Torpedoes and other
> >> heavy bombs do a great job of blowing stuff up already.  Why would the
> >> Midway, of all ships, have Flash-Paks (even if Confed somehow decided to
> >> use them), it didn't even have any really heavy craft.  And how do we
> >> know Flash-Paks would even have any effect on the Nephilim?  We already
> >> know they don't work against more advanced Confed ships.. and certainly
> >> the Nephilim hulls are made out of different material/organic
> >> material/advanced material that's at least as spiffy as the Vesuvius
> >> hull that was invincible to Flash-Paks.  Erm, so, no.  It's perfectly
> >> reasonable that we see no Flash-Paks in Prophecy.
> >
> >It is entirely possible that like the Dragon those few things worth
> >expanding on were moved to other things; in the Dragon's case it's likely
> >they took some of the developments and used them for designing fighters like
> >the Vampire, and in the case of the Flashpack... who knows? Might be part of
> >how they got the Plasma Gun to pierce shields,
>
>    Erm, the Flash-Pak and Plasma Gun's ability to pierce shields have
> what in common now? :)

The Flash Pack obviously could go through shields to do its effect; who knows?
I'm not claiming it HAS to be related, I'm just saying it could be possible for
all we know. Weapons research works in mysterious ways...


> >or new torpedo design, or
> >some other thing.
>
>    Woohoo, now we can make torps 1/4th the strength of war-era torps!

Chris, you are missing the point. I am saying they could have taken the
technology of the Flash Pack and used what was learned creating it to make the
more powerful torpedoes that exist in WCP. Remember, there were several years
between the Black Lance and the Bugs. It wouldn't be a damn direct "using Flash
Packs during WCP" like you seem to think I'm saying. I'm just saying that I think
"Confed doesn't use any of the Black Lance stuff because of its bad rep" (well,
except for GenSelect, of course) would be utterly stupid given the major
technology advantage it had AT THE TIME OF WC4; however, I can easily see them
taking the research that went into things like the Dragon and Flash Pack and
using it to generate such things as the Vampire and other WCP ships and weapons
that we see after the WC4 era. With that logic, Confed not using the Black Lance
stuff wouldn't be just morality over intelligence, it'd be "Oh, we got everything
useful out of that stuff and used it to make new models that exceed it now
anyway". So the Vampire/Panther/etc. might be a technological descendent of the
Dragon just as the Dragon was a descendent of the Excalibur. You follow me now?


> > If memory serves, didn't the tracking disk we deployed for
> >the Midway's super Bug Gun in WCP look like a Flashpack?
>
>    So.. that means the Flash-Pak was a precursor to the targeting discs
> for the sole reason that they were both disc-shaped?

Or maybe they both are variants of a similar weapon; again, I'm just saying we
don't have anything that says the two HAVE to be unrelated, so I offer it as an
possible example why we don't see any Black Lance stuff by WCP (i.e. here is one
thing it MIGHT have evolved to instead).

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