Hun Tim
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Posted - 2010.03.09 19:33:00 -
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Kinda late to respond, but from reading your ongoing percentage posts it appears that you were expecting the "verge of collapse" message at 5% mass remaining??? If so, you are working based on incorrect information that is widely circulated. The actual mass at which the WH goes critical is 10% in my experience of living in w-space for several months and choking/closing a lot of them. The one thing I don't know with absolute certainty is if that 10% is of the nominal limit (200) or the exact limit of the wh (with the small variance of 10% or whatever, so 180-220). I've always worked from the premise that it is the nominal limit and never been burned yet. For max safety you might want to base your strategy on lowest possible masses.
Since your wh has a total mass of 2 bill, and if we accept a maximum variance of 10% on that mass limit, then I would suggest the following strategies. They are in order of speed, fast to slow:
1) The easiest strategy is to put a cloaked orca on the far side. Then you have 2 options for getting the wh to "critical" (200 mill or so). The fastest way does involve a small risk to the orca. Use the lightest BS you have and bounce it back and forth. As soon as wh goes critical you will have between 80-220 mill left. If that BS is on far side, bring it back (there is a small possibility wh will collapse, but unlikely). Then bring back the orca. Orca is 250 so wh will collapse. If you don't want to run that small risk of stranding the orca, use BC or similar mass ship to get the wh to critical, then bring back the orca.
2) If you don't want to use an orca at all, then you will use a BS with AB running to close the wh. That ship will have mass of about 150. Put it cloaked on the far side. Jump BS back/forth one at a time as before. When you think you are getting close to critical do NOT use AB. When the WH goes critical you have to adjust: If it went critical as your "shrinking" BS jumped to far side, that means there is between 220 and 80 mill (approximately) left. Jump that BS back to your side (no AB), leaving -20 to 120 mass allowance. Hopefully the WH is still there and you can jump the "closing" BS back with AB running. WH will collapse for sure. If the wh goes critical on a return trip of the shrinker, then you need to jump a BC (20 mill mass) back/forth twice to shed another 80 mill from wh mass allowance. That leaves 15-140 mass left and your closer BS with AB will collapse it.
3) Want zero risk to BS? Put cloaked BS on far side with AB. Jump BS as before until the "reduced stability" point, then use BS a couple more jumps; but before you get to critical start using BC or industrials, or whatever (~20 mill mass). When WH goes critical wh will have 180-220 left. Jump BC back/forth 2 more times to guarantee that wh has less than 140 mill mass. Bring back BS with AB and wh will close.
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