| Re: Harriet / Hank Declan / Lancer [message #45767 is a reply to message #6247 ] |
Wed, 14 September 2011 00:26   |
 AndromedaStJohn
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Actually, I posted a Hank origin story entitled "Children of Osterhagen" in the fan fiction forum. Enjoy.
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| Re: Harriet / Hank Declan / Lancer [message #55207 is a reply to message #19665 ] |
Mon, 12 March 2012 09:18 |
chrisbuyer
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| dpragan wrote on Wed, 24 December 2008 14:19 | | Babs wrote on Wed, 24 December 2008 14:44 | Ooo, yeah! That would be cool. Now I want to design it!
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Best way would be to base it off a taser design, instead of a bulky over the shoulder type that would look off on a dancers physic, perhaps a handgun model that can be holstered in the small of his back kind of like a personal back-up sidearm along with a military grade knife (My Æon/Trinity-universe reading is telling me that one)
Specifics: Looks like a slightly bulky SciFi gun with two modified stubby taser prongs and with quick change battery where a pistol magazine would go, Between the two Prongs would be a small but powerful laser that ionizes the air along the trajectory of the beam creating a "rail" for the taser's electricity to travel on to the target.
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Larry Niven came up with a weapon in one of his stories, Ringworld I think, which projects 2 beams, one suppresses the charge on the electrons and the parallel beam suppresses the charge on a proton. Wallah! Instant lightning between the two beam target points.
Chris in CA
Chris in CA
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| Re: Harriet / Hank Declan / Lancer [message #55208 is a reply to message #55207 ] |
Mon, 12 March 2012 09:44 |
Laudator
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[quote title=chrisbuyer wrote on Mon, 12 March 2012 13:18]| dpragan wrote on Wed, 24 December 2008 14:19 | | Babs wrote on Wed, 24 December 2008 14:44 | Ooo, yeah! That would be cool. Now I want to design it!
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Larry Niven came up with a weapon in one of his stories, Ringworld I think, which projects 2 beams, one suppresses the charge on the electrons and the parallel beam suppresses the charge on a proton. Wallah! Instant lightning between the two beam target points.
Chris in CA
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I most remember the slaver mining tool from World of Ptavvs, where the slaver actually uses it as a mining tool.
[edit]Wikipedia says Ptavvs, not Ptaavs. Curse my memory.
[Updated on: Mon, 12 March 2012 09:46]
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| Re: Harriet / Hank Declan / Lancer [message #55234 is a reply to message #6247 ] |
Mon, 12 March 2012 21:30 |
khade
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Something about Folders powers that I noticed is that he is against surgery, because of unecessary damage or something like that, but his folding power would help surgery incredibly, it wouldn't be hard to fold the cancer into a discrete packet and starve it out, if it's not gone metastasis, or cut it out without undue damage to the recipient. Also, if Folder knows he's folded someone, he can unfold them much easier then the doctors can repair the damage, leaving no physical evidence that it happened.
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| Re: Harriet / Hank Declan / Lancer [message #55235 is a reply to message #31917 ] |
Mon, 12 March 2012 21:32 |
chrisbuyer
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| XaltatunOfAcheron wrote on Wed, 18 March 2009 06:18 | | Sir Lee wrote on Tue, 17 March 2009 21:32 | | Anvildude wrote on Sun, 15 March 2009 22:20 | Yeah, actually my Godparents lived on military bases most of his active duty, so I asked them for a little info. I'm not sure about Army people using Klicks, since I think that that's a little more of a nautical thing, makes sense if you were on Naval bases. but the stuff about the playground and daycare are helpful. Thanks.
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Actually, the Navy uses nautical miles for distance. Like *all navies in the world* AFAIK. That's because NM converts easily to degrees of latitude: 1 NM= 1 minute (angle) of a Great Circle of the Earth.
Aircraft navigation is mostly done in NM for the same reason. Altitude is a different matter: in the West is usually done in feet (due to the American industry dominance), but in the former Soviet Bloc it's metric.
The main reason the U.S. military uses metric a lot has a name: NATO. In order to cooperate effectively, share inventory etc. the NATO member nations had to standardize a lot of stuff. Despite it being the single largest member by far, it made more sense for the U.S. to go metric than for the others to go feet/pound/whatever.
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It isn't just NATO - there was a time when the U.S. was considering going metric as well. That got shot down by a bunch of cultural conservatives (and I'm being really polite here), so today you need two sets of wrenches to work on cars, etc.
There are lots of places where the US military thinks globally. Time zones are another example...
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If you do any work on older British cars you need a third set in "Wentworth". I rmember when my dad rebuilt his 1959 BSA and we had a 1953 Rover 75 for awhile. He had to buy special wrenches and sockets.
Chris in CA
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| Re: Harriet / Hank Declan / Lancer [message #55237 is a reply to message #55208 ] |
Mon, 12 March 2012 21:35 |
chrisbuyer
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[quote title=Laudator wrote on Mon, 12 March 2012 06:44]| chrisbuyer wrote on Mon, 12 March 2012 13:18 | | dpragan wrote on Wed, 24 December 2008 14:19 | | Babs wrote on Wed, 24 December 2008 14:44 | Ooo, yeah! That would be cool. Now I want to design it!
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Larry Niven came up with a weapon in one of his stories, Ringworld I think, which projects 2 beams, one suppresses the charge on the electrons and the parallel beam suppresses the charge on a proton. Wallah! Instant lightning between the two beam target points.
Chris in CA
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I most remember the slaver mining tool from World of Ptavvs, where the slaver actually uses it as a mining tool.
[edit]Wikipedia says Ptavvs, not Ptaavs. Curse my memory.
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The modified version was presented in Ringworld I think.
Chris in CA
Chris in CA
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| Re: Harriet / Hank Declan / Lancer [message #55300 is a reply to message #55299 ] |
Tue, 13 March 2012 16:02 |
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dpragan
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| Diane Castle wrote on Tue, 13 March 2012 14:58 | | chrisbuyer wrote on Mon, 12 March 2012 18:34 | | Anvildude wrote on Sun, 03 May 2009 13:15 | He's a magic capacitor! Sweet. Only question is, can he control the input and output, or does it just build up until it unleashes everything?
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He made at least 3 blasts with the magic he'd stored in their sim against the guy in the volcano.
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He was still taking the big laser right in the chest, so he was getting more input the entire time. So he has yet to learn how to do the 'let it out a piece at a time' trick. Whether that's achievable is unknown right now.
On the other hand, his aim was pretty incredible. If he was missing a target by just one degree or so, that's pretty darn good. It's not like he gets a lot of practice.
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His biggest problem in my opinion, is he is using his chest to aim (Like Energizer from Powerpack) the return fire rather than focusing it down an arm or leg for better aim (Like Bishop formerly of the X-Men/XSE)
~Despite what they say, reality is in the eyes of the beholder, and therefore up for grabs!
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| Re: Harriet / Hank Declan / Lancer [message #56566 is a reply to message #55300 ] |
Tue, 10 April 2012 00:28 |
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greyman
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| dpragan wrote on Wed, 14 March 2012 06:02 | His biggest problem in my opinion, is he is using his chest to aim (Like Energizer from Powerpack) the return fire rather than focusing it down an arm or leg for better aim (Like Bishop formerly of the X-Men/XSE)
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Or indeed, Havok, whose power was (originally) released omnidirectionally unless funneled between his arms.
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| Re: Harriet / Hank Declan / Lancer [message #72417 is a reply to message #6247 ] |
Wed, 06 February 2013 16:38 |
Cryptic
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So, random thought while I was reading Normalland 1: Did anyone teach Hank to pee his name in the snow over the winter?
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 Re: Harriet / Hank Declan / Lancer [message #74641 is a reply to message #6247 ] |
Wed, 27 March 2013 23:20 |
Spellblade
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 So some questions from the Wiki on Lancer.
1. Associations -> Military Ward of the U.S. Military, source? / There are Military wards in the Whatleyverse unlike ours?
2. Classes, Are there any unlisted classes that are Hank should have taken but are unverified? A corollary is we know where Hank was not so are there any useful ones like Flight that he could not have taken? Finely on the topic of classes how many periods are in a Whatley school day, it looks like 6?
Thanks for your time 
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