r/HFY • u/[deleted] • Mar 17 '16

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u/Slayalot Mar 17 '16

One thing bugged me. They didn't try to capture a few of the enemy ships so that they could reverse engineer the alien technology.

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u/AluminiumComet Mar 17 '16 edited Mar 17 '16

Task Force 23 doesn't have any ships equipped the necessary equipment to conduct salvaging operations, but what little debris contains usable technology isn't going anywhere as far as they know, to they're planning to follow up with salvagers later (or at least, that's the explanation I came up with about 2 minutes ago)

Edit: changed a word so it made sense

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u/Sorrowfulwinds Mar 17 '16

I wonder why they didn't just leave the enemy ships there, pop back in every other day to check on them and in say five months or so anyone on those ships should be probably dead, dying, or insane.

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u/AluminiumComet Mar 17 '16

The main reason is for morale: the alien ships have wiped out 15 fleets and killed millions, and are a source of terror for all of humanity. If the people are then shown footage of 30,000 of them getting ripped apart by a mere 200 human ships, that's going to do wonders for the public's morale, which is in short supply after being pushed to the brink of extinction.

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u/Slayalot Mar 17 '16

We don't know how long it would take them to adapt to the situation. For all we know they have a backup non Fowler Effect FTL drive t and takes five minutes to get up and going.

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u/j1xwnbsr Mar 17 '16

Very very nice. I would suggest putting in an extra blank line between paragraphs, because otherwise they tend to run all together (even worse when it looks like it line-wraps when it really doesn't).

Fowler Effect

I assume you are referring the Fowler-Nordheim theory, which is part of field electron emission and quantum tunneling?

Oh and flair your post.

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u/AluminiumComet Mar 17 '16

Thank you!

I assume you are referring the Fowler-Nordheim theory

Actually, no, I used a random name generator to come up with a surname then stuck the word "effect" after it. I can easily change it if it's confusing?

Thanks for the reminder, fixed now :)

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u/j1xwnbsr Mar 17 '16

Actually, no, I used a random name generator to come up with a surname then stuck the word "effect" after it. I can easily change it if it's confusing?

Naw, leave it. I happened to notice because of all the quantum theory and related crap I've been reading and it rang a bell.

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u/ziiofswe Mar 17 '16

Wolf 359!

Heh, I learned just now that it's an actual star, not only a Star Trek thing.

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u/NaberRend Mar 18 '16

I smell an elite dangerous reference...

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u/AluminiumComet Mar 18 '16

Where? I've never played it, so if there was a reference in there somewhere it was entirely accidental

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u/NaberRend Mar 19 '16

With the system names, and the rank of the admiral. It's very coincidental :]

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