Story Arc 2- The Conspiracy

[Ivan2006]

Yeah, if your weapons can pierce Strigiforme shields that easily, they are hopelessly OP.

[Chairman_Tiel]

Do you have any idea how powerful a 2E16 gigawatt cannon is? And given I haven't chosen a 'specialty', yet, let's call it defense penetration. Given the knowledge of your shields shared during the brief alliance I think it's more than possible, especially with the new guns.

[ACH0225]

I call BS. Your specialty is those Century Shipyards and ultra-fast production, as I recall.

[Chairman_Tiel]

That was the last RP. As I recall, everything is reset in this one, are they not? I wouldn't consider an oversized shipyard anything special, at any rate, at least not compared to this 'zomg invincible shield' you're pulling.

I figured since I don't go nearly as bonanza with cannons on my ships it makes sense and doesn't leave me hopelessly underpowered against everyone else.

[ACH0225]

I don't think having a specialty to defeat another specialty should be allowed. It's like unstoppable force meets immovable object. Let Fenmaster 5000 decide.

[Chairman_Tiel]

I think you're just afraid of losing your entire advantage in this roleplay by having anything counter it. That smacks of...what's the word I'm looking for...

[ACH0225]

Having something that can go pas my shields isn't that big of a problem, it's just that every single ship can do it. It's like with Lightspeeds cloak, there was a device that could see past it, but they were in limited supply. If just Dreadnoughts had it, and a few hits could kill the shield, that would be fine. But if every frigate one-shots my shield, then that's OP to the Nth degree.

[Chairman_Tiel]

Fenway didn't specialize in penetration, though, and nor did he have any pre-existing knowledge of how Darkstar's stealthing worked.

[ACH0225]

Actually, he did. They captured a Darkstar ship. Thusly, it is an accurate comparison.

[Chairman_Tiel]

I never said it one-shotted your shield, so much as the plasma slipped through and got the cruisers making it. Nor did I claim that frigates had the rate of fire needed to do so (in this case how long their power supplies can maintain the beam at a time to drive it through). The combination of capital ships firing and frigates serving as secondary weapons platforms brought the shield vessel force down.

Actually, he did. They captured a Darkstar ship. Thusly, it is an accurate comparison.

The fact remains that if I'm penetration then it makes perfect sense, especially with knowledge of the techniques used to maintain your shields.

[ACH0225]

But the shield blocks everything. That means unless you get the schematics, which you didn't, they should still block this. I say your new cannons are OP, and you are just trying to start a war, despite that war isn't the point of this RP.

[Chairman_Tiel]

It's conspiracy, yes, but a little conflict here and there adds some nice intrigue to the mix.

And lol, 'the shield blocks everything', yeah, and you're calling me OP. I could accept it if you said 'well, they're really strong shields' but here you are essentially saying 'oh dude, these make me invincible, stop being so OP'.

You never acknowledged sending me a schematic, but one has to assume based on your previous relation with the Protectorate that some of the secrets behind our techs were shared; it was an alliance, after all. Based on that and the power of the weaponry involved, I'm fairly confident there's nothing overpowered about piercing your shields.

[ACH0225]

They are strong enough that they could well be considered invincible unless you have something up your sleeve, like a giant superweapon. The shields are also only deployable by shield cruisers, and alone, their shields are only marginally stronger than an average ships shields, but when they join together like they are now, they forge a super-thick shield capable of taking heavy damage. There is even precedent, when a planet buster was fired at Cuuyth, the defensive shield was only badly damaged, and this shield has dozens of shield cruisers, making it almost as strong as the shield around Cuuyth. So unless your weapons kill planets, the shield is still there

[Chairman_Tiel]

The shield would be there, you mean, if the cruisers making it were. I think you misunderstand. I'm not taking down the shield, I'm going through it. As far as your special tech vs mine, Taln ships have a limited number of weapons due to the cost of each turret. They're also something akin to glass cannons; Cuneiform is going to be our way of negating that.

[ACH0225]

So I am the owl who puts you in a thick iron box, but you kill me with bullets that go through iron? That's how I see it.