I was always wondering this but how does the power reach the gun from the planet in the first place???
SMAC cannon
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Posted 13 March 2015 - 11:27 PM
#2
Posted 14 March 2015 - 12:27 AM
The iphone's 'wireless-charger' of course!
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Posted 14 March 2015 - 02:08 AM
Also, yes, it is wireless power transfer
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Posted 14 March 2015 - 07:09 AM
Wireless stuff? In 2552?
Pffft.
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Posted 14 March 2015 - 11:49 AM
That is all.
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Posted 16 March 2015 - 02:17 AM
Hamster in a wheel
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Posted 16 March 2015 - 04:51 AM
Well, firstly, the potato generates the power which is then sent into the SMACs via Staroads.
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#9
Posted 13 April 2015 - 06:22 PM
Honestly i don't know, but i've given some thought to and i was like, why not just make the gun have its own power supply? as it is if the guns fall. the planet dies... means you'd have to space them out a bit more to avoid the detonation of a gun wiping out the others in the cluster but... the guns would also have a larger profile, but then you can add... oh i don't know... some freaking 50mm Helix guns on them to protect the station from boarding craft?
then chief doesn't need to leave the station
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Posted 13 April 2015 - 11:50 PM
Localizing the source of power for a station that accelerates a 3,000 ton slug to 4% the speed of light can conceivably cause more problems than it solves, and if the source of power requires fuel of any sort, or needs to be regularly maintained, all of the necessary materials would need to be brought into orbit from the ground, which is highly inefficient in comparison.
Edit: From Halopedia: "Additionally, the platforms are armed with a number of point-defense guns for close-in defense against enemy munitions, fighters, and boarding craft."
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Posted 13 April 2015 - 11:58 PM
Not to mention the extra mass that goes onto the station. Every time the SMAC fires, there needs to be an equal thrust burn in the opposite direction to maintain orbit. If you add more mass to the station, you're burning more fuel. ODPG were very large, IIRC, the size of modern nuclear reactors. That's a big structure, basically putting two SMACs together.
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Posted 14 April 2015 - 12:12 AM
Every time the SMAC fires, there needs to be an equal thrust burn in the opposite direction to maintain orbit.
This would be true if the station fired the slugs by conventional means, with an explosion, rather than passing current through magnetic coils. If my understanding reflects reality, there shouldn't be any forces involved that would actually push the station in the opposite direction of its firing.
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Posted 14 April 2015 - 10:21 AM
This would be true if the station fired the slugs by conventional means, with an explosion, rather than passing current through magnetic coils. If my understanding reflects reality, there shouldn't be any forces involved that would actually push the station in the opposite direction of its firing.
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Posted 14 April 2015 - 04:01 PM
What about the guass cannon? That's basically what it is, yet the amount of force that's used to send that object flying as fast as it does isn't put onto the warthog.
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Posted 14 April 2015 - 09:33 PM
Not to mention the extra mass that goes onto the station. Every time the SMAC fires, there needs to be an equal thrust burn in the opposite direction to maintain orbit. If you add more mass to the station, you're burning more fuel. ODPG were very large, IIRC, the size of modern nuclear reactors. That's a big structure, basically putting two SMACs together.
True, however the extra mass would also apply to the cannon's kick. I don't think you'd need more fuel to counteract it since the actual feedback would be the same...Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Posted 14 April 2015 - 09:40 PM
Which is scientifically inaccurate.What about the guass cannon? That's basically what it is, yet the amount of force that's used to send that object flying as fast as it does isn't put onto the warthog.
The MAC launches objects by pushing on them with magnetic force. The slug is "pushing" against the magnetic fields, which push it forward. This works because the station weighs so much more than the slug, so it gets pushed back less than the slug for the same delta-v
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Posted 05 May 2015 - 11:11 PM
I seem to recall in the book Fall of Reach, the author mentioned using antimatter generators on a planet and beaming the charge to the orbital guns with Laser Power transference. This is basically a reversal of another concept known as space based solar power. The original idea had space stations in orbit collecting solar power and beaming it to receivers on the ground by laser beams. In this case, the power comes from the ground and is shot up to the gun. I'll need to double check though.
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Posted 05 May 2015 - 11:19 PM
Really? I re-read that fairly recently and I didn't remember it actually being explained. Halopedia doesn't mention any details on the mechanism either.
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Posted 06 May 2015 - 08:45 PM
"Sir, the Super Accelerator Mac Cannon cannon is ready to fire!"
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"What do you mean, sir?"
"You repeated cannon twice..."
"What? Sir, is this really a time to argue over something so... inconsequential?"
"You talking back to me, son?"
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"It's just what, Lieutenant?"
"It's just that it doesn't really matter."
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Posted 11 May 2015 - 07:12 AM
"Sir, the Super Accelerator Mac Cannon cannon is ready to fire!"
I think accidentally you mixed up words the order there of the
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