The Phage
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[b]The NanoPhage Virus
Carried aboard this missles package, the true nature of the beast becomes apperent. This virus emulates the ability of assemblers in its ability to reproduce itself once released, yet dissassemblers in its singular ability to attack living beings. Developed to decimate all non-Dameun life at any target location, the NanoPhage Virus has accomplished so far to not only destroy sentient creatures, but also plants, animals and even single celled organisms in the soil. Loosely connected to the Intelligence web, the NanoPhage so far has proven harmless to those Dameun citizens exposed to it, but further testing is required before extreme certainty can be achieved. Victims of the NanoPhage virus first experience a dryness of the skin. Soon, as the moisture leaves their epidermal layers, the skin takes on a weathered cracked appearance similar to the bark of a tree. The dessicated, brittle skin begins to flake off in patches, and the disease spreads internally, often to the eyes, sinuses, and muscles of the body. Many NanoPhage victims find themselves blind and without a sense of smell or taste. Still more experience a degeneration of their muscles, leading to a huched, stooped appearance, and general weakness. As the nanovirus progresses, and the body continues to dehydrate, body stresses mount, leaving the victim prone to other diseases, and the degeneration of the body's muscle matter continues. Eventually, the victims heart will fail. Often NanoPhage victims wore light, gauze clothing to cover themselves as exposure to direct light is painful for the NanoPhage victim, and seems to hasten the process. Those people cured of NanoPhage, or later, were in remission, did not undergo a reversal of the damage incurred by the nanoplague. The marks of the NanoPhage nanoplague are still visible on people today. Often, the NanoPhage virus is likened to a deadlier, more virulent form of leprosy, though the nanocode of NanoPhage is far more tenacious.
Malleable Technology
The newest trend in Dameun technology has found its way into this new design as well. This missle is designed to continue operations until terminally damaged, a state much harder to reach with these improvements. The malleable portions of the ship quickly cover to repair and replace damaged sections of missle to keep it operating at best capacity until no free materials remain with which to fix damaged parcells with.
Selective Mystery
A Mystery series, specialy developed for this project has been inserted into the main computer core of this missle. This Mystery has been selectivly breeded to edit out all qualities that might interfere with its mission while harboring those that portray senses of duty and religion. These Mysteries were then duplicated for placement in all missles of this series.
Improved Ion Pulsar Technology
As seen on the PIM Den missle, A modified Ion pulsar was implaced within the missles forward head. This pulsar would emmit millisecond bursts of Ion energy of the missles exact shape directly ahead of itself. These bursts enabled the missles to significantly weaken a small portion of sheild directly in its path to such a degree as to allow the missle to pass through it unabated.
Gravimetric Engine
Zero Point Field's (ZPF) have been explained as being a three dimensional representation of the dimensional objects known as superstrings, believed to be the key building blocks of both matter and energy in our universe. Zero Point Energy is essentially a 'leakage', on the quantum scale, of energy in process of being translated into this reality. Normally, this leakage involves the creation and dissipation of energy such that the result is an almost zero increase of energy. However, it is possible to use the potential of the ZPF as a power source of enormous implications. As Cal Tech physicist Richard Feynman once noted, the energy inherent in the space defined by a single coffee cup- anywhere in the universe- is enough to boil all of the oceans on planet Earth.
There are other implications of the ZPF fields and superstrings, in addition to that of an enormous power source. It has been discovered that inertia - the propensity of an object when at rest to stay at rest, and when in motion to in motion - is a manifestation of that objects electromagnetic interaction with the ZPF. Thus gravity and a lowering of inertia are both capable of being manipulated through the use of controlled electric interaction with the ZPF produced by superstrings.
By manipulating and "bending" these superstrings, advanced ships are able to create distortions in space/time that can be used to push and pull a ship in any given direction. An important byproduct of this means of propulsion is that the effect of inertia is also negated, allowing ships to accelerate, stop and maneuver at velocities that would crush a person using conventional ion propulsion.
Mini-Fusion Beam Cannon
This weapon is a dulled down version of the larger FBC mounted on most BDE vessels. Fired in much the same fashion with directed neutrons and having the same effect on unshielded matter the main difference in the mini-FBC is its smaller power output and area of effect. THe Mini-FBC firing time lasts merely for Two seconds before the cannon itself overheats and enters the same 20 second cooldown the regular sized cannon would as well. Volume vaporization is a mere ten meters in diameter, in contrast to the four meter diameter of the beam itself.
Ablative Armor Matrix
This layer of armor over the hull and vital areas of the ship is meant to absorb energy from weapon as it is disintegrated. Unlike deuranium/tritanium alloys, this version employs a neutronium/tritanium based protection. Highly experimental, neutronium it is not used in this form by itself, but offers enough that ablative plates do not have to be replaced as often. This is because it includes neutronium reinforcement filaments and is able to enhance energy absorption at a lower dissipation rate. It gives complete ship coverage, and for this reason a ship with this armor does not have windows. Dissipated energy is siphoned from current pathways across the inner hull itself to internal batteries which store the energy radiated off the panels themselves. These batteries are then themselves siphoned off as either exhuast or used to power ships systems. Due to the nature of attacks in the current age these batteries and hull are supseptable to overload during combat which could pose a very deadly threat to such an equiped vessel. Before each battery unit approaches overload an automatic response cuts the current from the ablative hull unit and switches to another battery, if all batteries become overloaded then the ablative matrix itself shuts down rendering the ships hull as basic as any other. One great unsurmountable flaw in said system has been that if these batteries overload to such a great extent they risk explosion from overload severely damaging if not destroying the vessel from inside.
Directed Microwave Beam
Luanching from the ion cannon that most modern militaries use to disable the target of their aggression, Daemun scientists have developed the next step in EMP technologies. Where previous attempts in this field merely attempted to disable targeted electronics, our MPC will effectively destroy it without effecting living beings or inert materials overtly. High Power Microwave technology builds on a firm foundation provided by the EPM Technology. Unlike electromagnetic pulse, however, it has higher frequency content and is much more penetrating into target systems. HDirected Microwave Beam technology produces burnout and disruption in electronics while not affecting humans. It has low collateral damage potential and may be useful in a variety of non-lethal missions.
The beam is formed not from the typical cannon barrel, but instead from an antenna tip with conical dish. With this type of beam emmission we are capable of changing the size of the beam from the merest of a degree to a complete wide brim angle. While widebrim angles make for weaker beam dispersal, as does small degree angle increse effectiveness of the beam, this dispersal disregards most forms of protection that dont already protect against other forms of heat radiaton, as these forms of protection (as well as fewer forms of radiation sheilding, non-ray sheilding) are already designed to prevent the effects of solar rays of a similar nature. Todays warships are ill-prepared for such a weapon, as their current level of defense against microwave radiation, is again, formed against the solar and interstellar variety, which is immensly less powerfull than the directed verions created by the beam, effectively nullifying any protection these systems would have offered to their ships.
The ablative armor matrix of future ships will be adjusted to the frequancy on which this beam operates in order to not adverslay effect Daemun vessels cought in its area of effect, the frequancy modification will be made to that of the exact beam as to not overload ablative matrixs with natural microwave radiation.
Daemun Hyperdrive
The engines of all Dameun ships will recieve an upgrade to this engine status. Instead of working in tandum with multiple sub-engine materials and parts, the Daemun Hyperdrive is built and run as one solid mechanism working independantly of overall ships operations, but in synch with ships status. Using a special created Mystery, with much the effect of an AI program, the Daemun core programing is connected to the Intelligence web to form a more sophisticated drive unit. Instead of keeping astronomical charts and such seperate in a main computer core this set up allows a ship in transit to constantly be updated on all current data currently known to the Black Dragon Empire. This data would comprimise new planetary data from the GMP as well as sudden battle run ins that may distract a vessel in mid flight and make obvious course corrections. The old NavCom system has remained as an integral system in a hyperspace sensor suite to avoid gravity shadows as well as any other hyperspace anamoly that may harm the vessel and make course corrections for these issuies. The drive uses modified gamma radiation to create electromagnetic energy that, when ejected from the hyperdrive, cause the realspace time-space matrix to ripple. The hyperdrive continues to eject electromagnetic energy to push against these ripples, propelling the ship into hyperspace. When encountering a gravity disturbance, whether that be from ship bourne sources or planetary shadows, the Daemun drive is equiped to begin its push into hyperspace whilst also traveling these shadows, of course not in the physical bodies of planetary objects but in the gravity wells of these shadows. Upon detection of these gravity shadows the hyperdrive will begin its normal drive procedures, cuasing its ripples in the realspace time matrix whilst also activating a pulsing static hyperwave bubble which whill allow the vessel to strike the hyperspace reality around it while also gaining protection inside the realspace buble from the gravity shadows around it, effectively allowing hyperspace travel in a gravity enriched enviorment at greatly reduced speeds. Instead of the gas coolants of the standard hyperdrives, the Daemun drive has used the once feared grey goo problem as a grey goo solution. A mass of pre-programed assemblers flood every free portion of the Daemun drive, absorbing the heat of the drive as it seeps from the drives components itself, as this heat rises beyond compensation capacity, the grey goo goes into operation, replicating itself from the dead components of itself, recycling the dead assemblers to draw the heat of the drive completely. </td>
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Ship Type: Long-Range Planetary Missle
Crew: 1 Mystery
Hull: 300 RU
Shields: 575 SBD
Length: 100 meters
Speed: 30 MGLT/Class A Hyperdrive
Weapons:
1 Directed Microwave Beam
3 Mini-Fusion Beam Cannon's
Special:
Daemun Hyperdrive
Gravimetric Engine
Ablative Armor Matrix
Directed Microwave Beam
Mini-Fusion Beam Cannon
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[b]The NanoPhage Virus
Carried aboard this missles package, the true nature of the beast becomes apperent. This virus emulates the ability of assemblers in its ability to reproduce itself once released, yet dissassemblers in its singular ability to attack living beings. Developed to decimate all non-Dameun life at any target location, the NanoPhage Virus has accomplished so far to not only destroy sentient creatures, but also plants, animals and even single celled organisms in the soil. Loosely connected to the Intelligence web, the NanoPhage so far has proven harmless to those Dameun citizens exposed to it, but further testing is required before extreme certainty can be achieved. Victims of the NanoPhage virus first experience a dryness of the skin. Soon, as the moisture leaves their epidermal layers, the skin takes on a weathered cracked appearance similar to the bark of a tree. The dessicated, brittle skin begins to flake off in patches, and the disease spreads internally, often to the eyes, sinuses, and muscles of the body. Many NanoPhage victims find themselves blind and without a sense of smell or taste. Still more experience a degeneration of their muscles, leading to a huched, stooped appearance, and general weakness. As the nanovirus progresses, and the body continues to dehydrate, body stresses mount, leaving the victim prone to other diseases, and the degeneration of the body's muscle matter continues. Eventually, the victims heart will fail. Often NanoPhage victims wore light, gauze clothing to cover themselves as exposure to direct light is painful for the NanoPhage victim, and seems to hasten the process. Those people cured of NanoPhage, or later, were in remission, did not undergo a reversal of the damage incurred by the nanoplague. The marks of the NanoPhage nanoplague are still visible on people today. Often, the NanoPhage virus is likened to a deadlier, more virulent form of leprosy, though the nanocode of NanoPhage is far more tenacious.
Malleable Technology
The newest trend in Dameun technology has found its way into this new design as well. This missle is designed to continue operations until terminally damaged, a state much harder to reach with these improvements. The malleable portions of the ship quickly cover to repair and replace damaged sections of missle to keep it operating at best capacity until no free materials remain with which to fix damaged parcells with.
Selective Mystery
A Mystery series, specialy developed for this project has been inserted into the main computer core of this missle. This Mystery has been selectivly breeded to edit out all qualities that might interfere with its mission while harboring those that portray senses of duty and religion. These Mysteries were then duplicated for placement in all missles of this series.
Improved Ion Pulsar Technology
As seen on the PIM Den missle, A modified Ion pulsar was implaced within the missles forward head. This pulsar would emmit millisecond bursts of Ion energy of the missles exact shape directly ahead of itself. These bursts enabled the missles to significantly weaken a small portion of sheild directly in its path to such a degree as to allow the missle to pass through it unabated.
Gravimetric Engine
Zero Point Field's (ZPF) have been explained as being a three dimensional representation of the dimensional objects known as superstrings, believed to be the key building blocks of both matter and energy in our universe. Zero Point Energy is essentially a 'leakage', on the quantum scale, of energy in process of being translated into this reality. Normally, this leakage involves the creation and dissipation of energy such that the result is an almost zero increase of energy. However, it is possible to use the potential of the ZPF as a power source of enormous implications. As Cal Tech physicist Richard Feynman once noted, the energy inherent in the space defined by a single coffee cup- anywhere in the universe- is enough to boil all of the oceans on planet Earth.
There are other implications of the ZPF fields and superstrings, in addition to that of an enormous power source. It has been discovered that inertia - the propensity of an object when at rest to stay at rest, and when in motion to in motion - is a manifestation of that objects electromagnetic interaction with the ZPF. Thus gravity and a lowering of inertia are both capable of being manipulated through the use of controlled electric interaction with the ZPF produced by superstrings.
By manipulating and "bending" these superstrings, advanced ships are able to create distortions in space/time that can be used to push and pull a ship in any given direction. An important byproduct of this means of propulsion is that the effect of inertia is also negated, allowing ships to accelerate, stop and maneuver at velocities that would crush a person using conventional ion propulsion.
Mini-Fusion Beam Cannon
This weapon is a dulled down version of the larger FBC mounted on most BDE vessels. Fired in much the same fashion with directed neutrons and having the same effect on unshielded matter the main difference in the mini-FBC is its smaller power output and area of effect. THe Mini-FBC firing time lasts merely for Two seconds before the cannon itself overheats and enters the same 20 second cooldown the regular sized cannon would as well. Volume vaporization is a mere ten meters in diameter, in contrast to the four meter diameter of the beam itself.
Ablative Armor Matrix
This layer of armor over the hull and vital areas of the ship is meant to absorb energy from weapon as it is disintegrated. Unlike deuranium/tritanium alloys, this version employs a neutronium/tritanium based protection. Highly experimental, neutronium it is not used in this form by itself, but offers enough that ablative plates do not have to be replaced as often. This is because it includes neutronium reinforcement filaments and is able to enhance energy absorption at a lower dissipation rate. It gives complete ship coverage, and for this reason a ship with this armor does not have windows. Dissipated energy is siphoned from current pathways across the inner hull itself to internal batteries which store the energy radiated off the panels themselves. These batteries are then themselves siphoned off as either exhuast or used to power ships systems. Due to the nature of attacks in the current age these batteries and hull are supseptable to overload during combat which could pose a very deadly threat to such an equiped vessel. Before each battery unit approaches overload an automatic response cuts the current from the ablative hull unit and switches to another battery, if all batteries become overloaded then the ablative matrix itself shuts down rendering the ships hull as basic as any other. One great unsurmountable flaw in said system has been that if these batteries overload to such a great extent they risk explosion from overload severely damaging if not destroying the vessel from inside.
Directed Microwave Beam
Luanching from the ion cannon that most modern militaries use to disable the target of their aggression, Daemun scientists have developed the next step in EMP technologies. Where previous attempts in this field merely attempted to disable targeted electronics, our MPC will effectively destroy it without effecting living beings or inert materials overtly. High Power Microwave technology builds on a firm foundation provided by the EPM Technology. Unlike electromagnetic pulse, however, it has higher frequency content and is much more penetrating into target systems. HDirected Microwave Beam technology produces burnout and disruption in electronics while not affecting humans. It has low collateral damage potential and may be useful in a variety of non-lethal missions.
The beam is formed not from the typical cannon barrel, but instead from an antenna tip with conical dish. With this type of beam emmission we are capable of changing the size of the beam from the merest of a degree to a complete wide brim angle. While widebrim angles make for weaker beam dispersal, as does small degree angle increse effectiveness of the beam, this dispersal disregards most forms of protection that dont already protect against other forms of heat radiaton, as these forms of protection (as well as fewer forms of radiation sheilding, non-ray sheilding) are already designed to prevent the effects of solar rays of a similar nature. Todays warships are ill-prepared for such a weapon, as their current level of defense against microwave radiation, is again, formed against the solar and interstellar variety, which is immensly less powerfull than the directed verions created by the beam, effectively nullifying any protection these systems would have offered to their ships.
The ablative armor matrix of future ships will be adjusted to the frequancy on which this beam operates in order to not adverslay effect Daemun vessels cought in its area of effect, the frequancy modification will be made to that of the exact beam as to not overload ablative matrixs with natural microwave radiation.
Daemun Hyperdrive
The engines of all Dameun ships will recieve an upgrade to this engine status. Instead of working in tandum with multiple sub-engine materials and parts, the Daemun Hyperdrive is built and run as one solid mechanism working independantly of overall ships operations, but in synch with ships status. Using a special created Mystery, with much the effect of an AI program, the Daemun core programing is connected to the Intelligence web to form a more sophisticated drive unit. Instead of keeping astronomical charts and such seperate in a main computer core this set up allows a ship in transit to constantly be updated on all current data currently known to the Black Dragon Empire. This data would comprimise new planetary data from the GMP as well as sudden battle run ins that may distract a vessel in mid flight and make obvious course corrections. The old NavCom system has remained as an integral system in a hyperspace sensor suite to avoid gravity shadows as well as any other hyperspace anamoly that may harm the vessel and make course corrections for these issuies. The drive uses modified gamma radiation to create electromagnetic energy that, when ejected from the hyperdrive, cause the realspace time-space matrix to ripple. The hyperdrive continues to eject electromagnetic energy to push against these ripples, propelling the ship into hyperspace. When encountering a gravity disturbance, whether that be from ship bourne sources or planetary shadows, the Daemun drive is equiped to begin its push into hyperspace whilst also traveling these shadows, of course not in the physical bodies of planetary objects but in the gravity wells of these shadows. Upon detection of these gravity shadows the hyperdrive will begin its normal drive procedures, cuasing its ripples in the realspace time matrix whilst also activating a pulsing static hyperwave bubble which whill allow the vessel to strike the hyperspace reality around it while also gaining protection inside the realspace buble from the gravity shadows around it, effectively allowing hyperspace travel in a gravity enriched enviorment at greatly reduced speeds. Instead of the gas coolants of the standard hyperdrives, the Daemun drive has used the once feared grey goo problem as a grey goo solution. A mass of pre-programed assemblers flood every free portion of the Daemun drive, absorbing the heat of the drive as it seeps from the drives components itself, as this heat rises beyond compensation capacity, the grey goo goes into operation, replicating itself from the dead components of itself, recycling the dead assemblers to draw the heat of the drive completely. </td>
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Ship Type: Long-Range Planetary Missle
Crew: 1 Mystery
Hull: 300 RU
Shields: 575 SBD
Length: 100 meters
Speed: 30 MGLT/Class A Hyperdrive
Weapons:
1 Directed Microwave Beam
3 Mini-Fusion Beam Cannon's
Special:
Daemun Hyperdrive
Gravimetric Engine
Ablative Armor Matrix
Directed Microwave Beam
Mini-Fusion Beam Cannon
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