Someday, hopefully, this pilot will eventually notice that not only are the people he accuses of...everything ever.. mocking his claims with mild amusement, but even the loudest Tribal and emancipationist voices backed slowly away from his particular brand of kook a few threads ago....



But it is not this day.

I thought he is Amarrian.

MmHm.

However, I will gladly accede to the incredible quality of some Gallente vinyards. It pains me for a moment when I find one superior to our best. Then I pop the cork and that pain is forgotten.

But Beer? The Harvest Ascended? The First Gift of Heaven?

The Monks of the brewing Orders stand alone.

Minmatar...port?

You serious mate? Our beer isn't that good and our best brew is quite close to being cleaning alcohol with hops and wheat flavour in it.

If you talk Minmatar drinks you talk coffee. Our coffee is the stuff of the divines!

How is this thread getting two page's worth of responses? How are any of them getting any responses.

Stop it already. The less you pay attention to crazy people the faster they will go away.

On that note, this thread is now about delicious beer.

I like the dark ones and the fruity ones that get you drunk in two sips. Discuss.

Well, thank the automation engineers for coming up with that system that shuts down all attempts to activate a warp drive whenever a leak in the collider tubes are detected. Can't allow the generation of any sort of vacuum environment whenever there's a boson leak.



I spend most of my off hours drinking with my crew and support staff whenever I'm not tinkering with anything. I am Matari. Almost all of my crew and support staff are Matari. Our dining habits are very distinctively Matari, with song and dance and the occasional boasting.

I know exactly what our port tastes like. It's not that good. 40 percent ethanol, prime ingredients being oats or wheat with some hops added. Also yeast. Sometimes something else entirely, as long as it ferments. Some of our liquor could even have alcohol content as high as 70 percent, depending on how it's made.

We drink the stuff to knock ourselves out. We also use the stuff to clean wounds and to clean our equipment. The ones with the highest alcohol content is also sometimes used to clean engine parts, if no other detergent is available. You will be surprised how well those dissolve stains.

And tales of Slaver Hounds? None of us Matari like talking about Slaver Hounds other than as cautionary tales. Remember that throughout our pre-rebellion history we had been blighted by the damned things. Used to be that escaped slaves had Slaver Hounds pouncing on them from way high up (branches and everything. They are very agile climbers. Great vertical maneuverability) and got their throats ripped out. Some of the more brutal slave-owners will even make arenas where the slaves were pitted against Slaver Hounds (spoiler alert: the Slaver Hounds always win). How about that part where the slaves were released into great plains en-masse once a month so that they will be hunted down by Slaver Hounds for sport?

No, none of us like Slaver Hounds much. We do not enjoy talking about Slaver Hounds except as fables or to share information about the roving trajectory of wild Slaver Hound packs.

Oi! We no longer fire solid slugs (unless you are talking Titanium Sabot, which are supposed to pierce armour)! It's more exotic stuff now, phased plasma, nuclear fusion, contained EM charges, etc etc. these days.

Though seriously, the modern shipboard projectile weapon isn't a really good option for disabling ships. Most of the time you leave very little to board once you are done.

If all of those combined require even a single megawatt, let alone the kind of draw that is actually siphoned into a ship's gun, then the Matari reputation for engineering genius may be a touch overrated.

You have all been lied to. Our artillery shells are lobbed down range by Brutor tribesmen, and the auto cannons have children in them doing the same.

Powergrid to keep the modules running. Capacitor's stored energy used for burst of energy discharges. How is that difficult to understand?

Think of it this way. You use energy from the powergrid to turn on a hybrid blaster turret and all its support machinery, from loaders to mag-clamps to conveyors ferrying the ammunition to the weapons and targeting computers and etc. If you use that same powergrid to provide the additional energy to activate the magnetic rails and to convert the matter inside each canister into plasma you won't be able to fire the weapon at all. All you get is a power failure for your trouble.

Here's a short calculation to illustrate the point:

An Incursus fires one Light Neutron Blaster II. Each time the Light Neutron Blaster II uses an additional 1.4161 GJ to fire. It takes 4s to fire each turret once. We assume that the time it takes for 4s to drive 1.4161 GJ needed to fire a Light Neutron Blaster II.

That means it requires:
1.4161 GJ x 4s = 5.6614 GW.
to fire the turrets each time.

That's 5,664.4 MW for each turret. The usable energy an Incursus' reactor can output is 45MW. That's not enough energy to fire from 1 turret, let alone 3!

So where did all that energy required to fire a Light Neutron Blaster II come from? Stored energy from the capacitor obviously!

The reason why projectile and missile weapons systems do not draw any energy from the capacitors to propel their munitions into somebody else's hull is because the energy required to do so is already stored...IN THE CASE/FUEL TANKS! You just need to divert a small amount of energy from the power grid, via circuit controls (usually an intricate network of transistors within the firing mechanism), to provide the spark inside the munitions to convert the stored energy into the kinetic energy needed to send the munitions into the bad guy's face. No stored energy from capacitor needed.

Also to avoid confusion about the 45MW, that 45MW is the amount of energy available to activate the modules AFTER you take out the energy required to activate the warp drive, the in-built defense and damage control systems, thrusters/engines, ship capacitors, sensor systems, drone controls (if applicable) and all the already-available support machinery.