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    Beyond the Horizon

    Kinetic barriers have a capacity of damage they can absorb before failing, don't they? That's what I'm saying is in the thousands or millions of BT capital damage. Not the fraction of damage that passes the barrier, which for Reapers I was under the impression was zero.
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    Beyond the Horizon

    The trouble is that the technological progress shaping is a plot point. That's why the Thanix, which is just a kinetic weapon with some thermal transfer, is useful. When a civilization finds the deliberately planted eezo they've got maybe 50% efficiency lasers at the low end with efficiency...
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    Beyond the Horizon

    They already do. Pretty much every ME crossover becomes a reaper stomp because the reapers rely on no one having anti-ship lasers. That's what the whole plot point about channeling everyone into eezo based tech is about. It's so easy to make better than 100% efficient kinetic weapons with...
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    Beyond the Horizon

    It might be compressed for gameplay like the the standard weapons. From the range aerospace brackets that are linear with zero I calculated 1 km per 3 hexes. I think I used low altitude map hexes so atmospheric drag and beam diffusion would still be in play, but it's possible I used high...
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    Beyond the Horizon

    You appear to have accidentally duplicated a bit when moving text around. He's misunderstanding Lyran scouting because they idiomatically scout with main battle line units. Even in the meme, Lyrans don't skip recon, they recon in force. The source for the meme is the iconic social general...
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