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[sloosecannon]

After this long and very enjoyable, both from a viewing and participating point of view, im with uni the asteroid is the only close to cannon thing we can get.

Smart man

[Cole Protocol]

@sloose Im trying to earn my soul back... one billion posts to go....

[Unikraken]

The only other way to go would be to give the space station shields but until we find out more about the integration of forerunner/covenant tech into the UNSC, I'd advise against it.

Not necessarily, asteroids can take quite a hit before blasting into pieces, depending on the makeup. Could just give it high armor and a loooot of hull.

[Cole Protocol]

Again, im uni, i mean a asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, so it would have to have been pretty tough to make the impact that did it.

[Emberblaque]

Not necessarily, asteroids can take quite a hit before blasting into pieces, depending on the makeup. Could just give it high armor and a loooot of hull.

He means if we didn't put it on an asteroid, the only way to make it similarly durable would be to give it shields. A la Eve Online.

[Defender0]

We could give it a shield upgrade that needs ONI research to unlock

[Cole Protocol]

i could see sheilds for rebellion, but not entrenchment, unless they strapped a bunch of spartan suits to the outer hull and turned on the sheilds.

[Defender0]

Oh, definitely not entrenchment, this would be late game halo 4 esque research

[Cole Protocol]

exactly, and a thought just dawned on me, what if its a military version of the station seen in halo 4, what was it ivanhoff? that would be neat, after all it had broadswords, and onagers and it was simply a research station, imagine a military base.

 

Granted, it was orbiting installation 03 but still, it counts.

Edited by scifidude777, 18 November 2013 - 08:42 AM.

[Unikraken]

exactly, and a thought just dawned on me, what if its a military version of the station seen in halo 4, what was it ivanhoff? that would be neat, after all it had broadswords, and onagers and it was simply a research station, imagine a military base.

 

Granted, it was orbiting installation 03 but still, it counts.

This was what inspired my idea, aside from the Innie asteroids from the books.

[SPECTRE]

This was what inspired my idea, aside from the Innie asteroids from the books.

What so the UNSC are just going to fabricate an asteroid?

at first i put "hemorrhoid"

Edited by SPECTRE, 18 November 2013 - 10:30 AM.

[Unikraken]

What so the UNSC are just going to fabricate an asteroid?

at first i put "hemorrhoid"

No, they'll attach a Shaw-Fujikawa drive to one, jump it to where they need it, then build a station on it. For the purposes of the game I'm not sure what the constructor would look like...maybe just the roid buzzing along?

[SPECTRE]

Whats to stop that being a ship then? If it were an existing asteroid maybe. But i doubt the UNSC would bother wasting a drive,

not to forget that is in such demand that they're willing to pay for people to go behind enemy lines and retrieve them.

[Defender0]

Whats to stop that being a ship then? If it were an existing asteroid maybe. But i doubt the UNSC would bother wasting a drive,
not to forget that is in such demand that they're willing to pay for people to go behind enemy lines and retrieve them.

I would imagine that a frigate escort would accompany such a station on its way to the destination, and the drive used for the station could be stored on one of the frigates

[Unikraken]

Whats to stop that being a ship then? If it were an existing asteroid maybe. But i doubt the UNSC would bother wasting a drive,

not to forget that is in such demand that they're willing to pay for people to go behind enemy lines and retrieve them.

There is a massive difference between maneuvering thrusters and jump drive for a station and the kind of stuff on a ship. This is going to be an expensive station, a true product of war.

[Cole Protocol]

And thats why its not impractical to do anything to get the neccesary materials, like uni said

[Fleet ADM. Drian]

I am going to throw my 2 cents into the bucket here for a combat station for the UNSC:

1. Scrap the idea of Gamma Station, it is not a combat station.
2. Make the station some sort of up-gradable Super-SMAC station, this would make it have the potential to devastate larger ships that normal SMAC station can not take down alone.
3. Upgrades could be increased damage( and add some anti-fighter weapons), since range is not possible via the starbase upgrade system, additional hull plating(no explanation needed),  fighter bays( these slightly lower hull due to hanger bays being easy targets), Ship repair( no explanation needed), Some form of special round firing that requires anti-matter, and an upgrade that increases anti-matter capasity and regen.
4. These are for Rebellion version below:
5. Shields (seperate upgrade area for them) for ONI faction, and for the other faction an ability to fire an energy weapon similar to Infinity.

[Cole Protocol]

first, factions wont be split, so i advise you take that part out, but other than that i like it.

[Fleet ADM. Drian]

first, factions wont be split, so i advise you take that part out, but other than that i like it.

Not so much a faction split but you will have ONI stuff or the other sides stuff to research, these upgrades would be a part of those research trees.

[Cole Protocol]

oh i see now im sorry i should have thought duh thats where the infinity titian research is after all, but you did say other faction, so what did you mean?