[Desdinova]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

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I was really saddened that Battletech got all the glory over Renegade L. I thought the RL universe to be far more compelling and realistic than a nuclear reactor in a battlemech that didnt vape a city when the mech went boom boom.

Nuclear reactors just don't go up like that unless you're REALLY trying.
Think about it, why would you want to carry around a critical mass of uranium if its not intended to be a bomb? Rather, you just need a small very sub-critical pile, which will power you for years.

Nuclear submarines don't make mushroom clouds when they get torpedoed. They just leak, sink, and spread a little radioactive material at worst.

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i thought the reactors were fusion reactors not fission. from what i remember of the description of them they worked (scifi technobabble description of course) by shooting a deuterium pellet with lasers to the point of a fusion reaction that was contained in a magnetic bottle. it would seem to me that if the bottle was breached there would be an explosion, maybe not emough to take out a city but enough to take out the mech and everything in the immediate vicinity.

regarding renegade legion. there were two games for it that i remember the first was a old strategy game based upon the rules of the board game. it even did missions based upon the rules. as your characters advanced you gained points that you could use to customize your ships.
the second one was a flight sim called Renegade Legion: Battle for Jacobs Star. you were a young Plutarch who disobeyed a cowardly order to retreat and actually took out a squadron of Spiculums. as a result your were busted down in rank and shiped to the middle of nowhere just as a Tog offensive starts. if you lose you die and there were 3 levels of victory depending on your difficulty setting. it was a fun game also.

[ March 31, 2003, 01:18: Message edited by: desdinova ]