Once Upon The Stars (Updated 08-22-04)

[Siegebreaker]

Originally posted by Atrocities:


CSM my have neucler war heads, but they could be low yeild or even neucler waste by products like depleted urianium. Just a thought.

Well, I guess every player will think diferently of the strenght of SE4 weapons in comparisson with todays arsenal.

I think the CSMs are really nuclear, and even more powerful than todays nukes, because a few of them can glass a colony with several millions colonists.

Heck, an undefended colony of any size its history when a single lowly frigate shows up packing a couple CSM components.

Still, within the frame of Once Upon the Stars, you can argue that the Colony ship was not up to the standards of the 2400 start date, and thus weaker when struck by a TacNuke.

Or you may say that the TacNuke was an smart bunker-buster with a nuclear warhead.
That one could definitively penetrate a pre-2400 colony ship that its a seating duck on the ground.

Oh yeah, I like the bunker-buster theory.

[Atrocities]

You might have a point there. Thanks.

The thing is a nuke is a very devistating weapon. The fact that CSm's have nuclear cores or war heads probibly makes them lower yeild or something. I will say that that the Tacticle nuke used in the Last chapter is significantly much higher yeild than a standard CSM. (Which will be used in later chapters if I ever get around to writing them.)

Thanks for the help on figuring this out.

[Atrocities]

I wonder why no one has read this latest installment. This was so far buried that one needed to pipe air into it to keep it alive.

[Sabin]

Here is the link to the first page of my own story. Thank you.

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...3;t=011023;p=2

[dogscoff]

AT: Just got round to reading it, nice to see everything coming together. I'll ask again though, any chance of posting the entire story somewhere? It would be much easier to read that way than picking through this thread.

As for the nukes... remember that a nuke fired against a target in space (ie against a ship in se4 combat) would be far less devastating than one that detonates in a planetary atmosphere, because in space there is nothing to carry the bLast wave.

[Atrocities]

Once I have the rewrite done I don't see a problem with posting it somewhere.

[Ruatha]

Still intriguing.
Want more!

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No complaints about the substance but some about the grammar and spelling.
I'm swedish and we don't seperate words as much as the english language does, so some of these corrections might be wrong, there where more wordseperations aswell but I'm uncertain as to how it's handled in the english language.

Hey, I only know two languanges, english and swedish and I don't know any of them perfectly!
so some spelling suggestions are propably wroong, I'm quite uncertain about "aide" especially!

Anyway, the story is so good that I'd like the spelling errors corrected, the auto spellers suck!
If you want me to stop critizing say so and I'll happily oblige, but I'd appreciate if anyone checked my stories.

Ruatha
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arms out stretched
A space to much I think.

They dragged me onto the bridge and dropped me on the deck right in front of him as he sat in a command chair that look a lot like a thrown.”
Should be throne.

of your life rotting away in the hell of my dudgeons!”
dungeons

now sitting cross legged on his thrown.
crosslegged and throne

You many win this war Devon
may

“You’re mad!” Hissed Tom as he quicky came to his feet and was stomach punched by the rifle butt of one of his Alliance guards
Tom is allowed to bring his alliance guards with him??


and it drove him down on one knee but he never took his eyes off of Gore
Hadn't he just drawn himself up to kneeing position?

by slammed him face down
slamming

hand and started to slowly stood
stand up perhaps?

regards to you’re farther
your and father

and it hurt to breath.
breathe ??

what was no expected
now

Tom thought for moment, there was something else, some familiar now.
was it something or someone?

of the bridge exists
exits

standing out side watching as the great
outside

see Richard, his aid, as he came
aide ???

just barely out ran the bLast
outran