boys (and girls) and their toys | the sensoriums [closed]

[sonofalderaan.livejournal.com]

[Closed to the mechanics and engineers who are going to be involved in the Great Rogue Upgrade project. see this com post.]

The sensoriums had been set to look like an empty hangar in which a couple X-Wings sat. Tycho had no idea what else the engineers would need for their initial planing phase, but he figured whatever it was, they could tell the sensorium to create it themselves.

He conjured himself up a crate to sit on, and scrolled through some squadron numbers on his datapad as he waited for everyone to arrive.

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[jesushasagundam]

"Shinn," Kira interjected sharply like a beam shot through the Minerva's positron cannon, throwing a hard look at the younger pilot.

He looked back at Wyn. "I think it's understandable that we don't want any damage done to our machines," he admitted, "But we're getting ahead of ourselves with that, when we don't know the exact specifics of the plans yet. I did have one question for right now, though."

"I spent some time using the Sensorium to recreate battles from the world the General and Colonel are from," Kira said, "And while in combat, it doesn't look like your fighters are going that much faster than our top speeds... but it's fast enough - I ran some calculations, and the G-forces should be more than any human could take without falling unconscious. What are we going to do about that?"

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"The X-Wings have an inertial dampener system which allows them to accelerate quickly without crushing their pilots with g-forces, and it's probable that we'll be able to come up with a similar system for the Gundams." Wyn says, grateful for the interruption.

[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

Shinn grumped.

[jesushasagundam]

"All right," he nodded, though he wasn't exactly sure how that would work according to the laws of physics.

"One other thing: Even if the combat speeds are within reach... the cruising speed of the X-Wings is much, much higher than anything we have - we're nowhere close. If we have to fly long ranges, we'll never catch up. Do we have any plans to cover something like that?"

That said, he didn't think that they would be flying far from Stacy, but it never hurt to plan.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

Wyn is a mad scientist; the laws of physics are mostly optional when she builds things.

"I'm not sure how much long-distance flying the squadron will actually be doing, but in case you do, we could try and make some sort of booster-engine system, maybe. I'm open to suggestions, though." Wyn says after a moment.

[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

Shinn glanced at Kira. "That's fine. He probably has specs for them already."

[jesushasagundam]

Kira met Shinn's glance, knowing what he was thinking. "Building full-fledged METEORs might be a bit much for what we have," he admitted - though he'd have to check if they had any in storage - "But we might be able to retool something from the blueprints."