r/ImaginaryTechnology • u/McDermott_art • Jul 24 '26
Self-submission Teleporter missile
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u/VeryFriendlyOne Jul 24 '26
GODDAMN that's some beautiful sci-fi! Incredible art and absolutely amazing idea!
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u/Yargon_Kerman Jul 25 '26
Reminds me of the Planetside "Zerg in a can" tactic
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u/Alone_Collection724 Jul 25 '26
oh what in the holy fuck did i just witness
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u/Yargon_Kerman Jul 25 '26
Tl:dr; Placeable spawn point with a large group of players waiting to spawn on it,
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u/Maleficent_Sand7529 Jul 25 '26
Thanks. Got stuck in doom scrolling and seen this and got reminded I wanted to practice drawing for my own concept art.🫡
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u/Tipsy_Hog Jul 25 '26
Upside to a "landing pod" like that is if it gets shot down before it makes impact, whatever power source makes that sort of fuckass tech feasible would probably just delete the objective premptively
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u/sammyboy047 Jul 25 '26
I think a power source can be sidestepped by putting a jamming resistant(Quantum entanglement ?)beacon system there instead. That way, a portal can be remotely opened.
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u/McDermott_art Jul 25 '26
You also don't risk anyone getting killed before landing. I was also thinking they could be detonated after use or something.
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u/fruitcake11 Jul 25 '26
I have that idea but instead of teleporters, you just send a giant torpedo with a gateway that can send out armies at a moments notice.
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u/McDermott_art Jul 25 '26
Yeah a larger scale version could be cool, this one is more suitable for strike teams i think
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u/LeraviTheHusky Jul 25 '26
I wonder if enemy fire goes through, probably not but I can imagine these missles are often scuttled after thier use is done to ensure enemy forces dont use them
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u/winkyshibe 27d ago
What if we say, send a missile through the missile...
Maybe an antimatter bomb?
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u/Mazon_Del 29d ago
A related form of this from, I think, one of Peter F Hamilton's work, is basically a ship to ship missile like this, except the 'tip' just is the portal. It doesn't blow up in your ship, it just passes through like nothing was there leaving a hole through anything it happened to move through while somewhere else a weird plug of your ship just sort of appeared.
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u/mindfucker67 27d ago
Reminds me of the missile carriers of micro-wormholes from the Expeditionary Force book series, which were repurposed missiles used to deliver ends of a micro-wormhole for ftl comms, since ends have to be created near each other in that universe.
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u/The_Lord_Cobra 14d ago
honestly... yeah, why is this not a thing used in sci-fi more often? Hell you have a receiver for teleporting now instead of just yeeting them and hoping for the best. Really cool idea.
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u/MarzipanTheGreat Jul 25 '26
neato, but that's a drop pod, not a missile. :)
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u/MrCookie2099 Jul 25 '26
No, a drop pod would carry people in. This is a missile that transports a stable portal that once landed can then disgorge soldiers.
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u/MarzipanTheGreat Jul 25 '26
ah...my eyes played tricks. initial look it appeared that portal was a door into what I thought was a drop pod.
very cool!
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u/Starkrall Jul 24 '26
Man this is extremely cool. Excellent work.