Viridias
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Why's the Architect guy have a big syringe strapped to his forearm tho'? Is that the putty used to fill cracks and holes with or something?
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...I'm going to regret that "cracks and holes" part am I not?
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Gas-giant interiors boast truly insane atmospheric pressures so, yeah. REALLY big ones - current reckoning is about 13 times Jupiter - actually have the conditions required to ignite temporary nuclear fusion, and are known as "brown dwarves".
Yeah, off Earth pickings are rather slim for seas. : /
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I'm saying your magnets wouldn't do jack to attract the Glaive happily bouncing away some ten plus meters off, but they'd certainly attempt to pull any magnetically receptive objects in your immediate vicinity to your hand. Or your hand to said objects, depending. And if you're proposing sufficiently powerful magnetic fields to have that great an effect at such distances, well, the issue obviously only gets worse. Hell - strong magnetism apparently screws with the shields both the Tenno and the Corpus use anyway...
That's textbook technobabble you're trying to pull there, son.
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To be fair, some pretty hardcore terraforming seems to have been done at some point (likely during the Orokin era). Large bodies of liquid water in the outer solar system still rather unlikely though.
And Titan *does* have hydrocarbon lakes...
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A slight bit, given that it can curve back even after bouncing around the room hitting enemies (small magnetic field to attract it back).
And this magnetic field would not pull the MOA in front of your face or that Grineer's gun into your hand instead because of why exactly?
The things pretty much have to have onboard both some kind of propulsion mechanism (the setting has mature gravity manipulation tech so not a big problem) and guidance system.
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Wtf thats what I just said.
You tried to compare mythological references with gratuitously using an actual physical location.
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Just the returning part (somewhat), not the bouncing around the room part.
Increased ease of puncture.
No, not really. Not even that.
And I'm pretty certain thrusting points Don't Work That Way.
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If you think *magnets* would explain the stuff the Glaives and Kestrels do I can only assume you seriously need a refresher in rather basic physics. Just sayin'.
And FYI "NANOMACHINES, SON" is a well-known technobabble bullS#&$ handwave from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance.
Not really seeing the point of a vibro-lance though - the whole point of the concept is to augment *cutting* power, which isn't quite a noted strong point of lances...
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Abstract mythological concepts aren't quite the same as an actual physical location, though.
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I think someone needs to catch up on their memes...
And no, magnets wouldn't cut it by a long shot thank you.
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It's hardly steampunk. Basically everything they use is powered by some kind of laser-esque (for lack of a better term) energy.
Anyways, I use the yellow/orange in the top-mid right of the 'Fire' color palette.
I don't remember talking about the *tech*, just the general appereance and aesthetics.
That aside, the yellows in the Classic Saturated palette aren't half bad for a "golden" hue.
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Magnets. That would explain it.
F***ING MAGNETS, HOW DO THEY WORK?
...I thought it was nanomachines. SON.
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Well, a friend of mine uses the orange all the way to the right in 'Classic Saturated' ('Classic' should work fine, too.), and it looks pretty good.
I use that one to go with the vaguely "steampunk" look a lot of the Orokin/Tenno gear has, though that specific color seems more like a polished bronze/brass tone to me. Which ofc fits the pseudo-Victorian aesthetics well.
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Neptune isn't exactly noted for its oceans though.
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Then why are you even bringing up "unpredictable trajectories" as an argument in a context where there are razor-sharp throwing weapons that -somehow- pass through enemies without slowing down but still dealing damage, ricochet off any surfaces that are not an enemy, unerringly return to the thrower and are safely caught *completely* irrespective of what else said thrower is doing at the moment?
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I'm starting to think you're missing the point deliberately.
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Since when did that sort of thing stop anyone from making their own adjustements to *loanwords*?
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But the Jat Kittag does not have a swinging chain to accidentally hook onto Tenno when using it.
It's got n = Way Too Many kilos of striking head plus jet engine atop nearly two meters of shaft, yet even the lightest built 'Frames have no problems swinging it all over the place. Or with the thing tearing off their hands and going merrily a-skipping along the floor for the delight of the young and old alike but not whomever happens to be in the way.
As far as the Tenno are concerned the main risk of fitting the weighted striker at the end of a chain (or cable or whatever the design now might have) with a reaction engine would pretty much amount to getting a face full of soot in the manner of those old Saturday morning cartoons.
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Resistant ≠ Immune.
The Soviets only protected the front, if I remember correctly, since placing at the sides seemed to interfere with the caterpillar tracks.
I see your armoured fighting vehicles and raise you spike IEDs for mobility kills.
Tends to be close enough as makes no difference for the most part.
Actually the Soviets specifically screened the sides of the hull and the turret, much like the Germans with their earlier Schurtzen, as the front parts thereof had thicker armour to begin with. Plus the guns; infantry tank-hunter teams generally preferred not to attack from the front for obvious reasons. Not much that could be done about the lower sides other than hope the hollow charge hit the tracks which in effect act as partial standoff armour, but given the rather pronouncedly ballistic trajectory of the Panzerfaust shells at least this wasn't that big a problem most of the time.
Mobility kill =/= hard kill, and the damn thing can still shoot just fine.
...this'll just keep escalating until we're talking about levelin buildings and stuff, won't it?
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That is not going to go down too well, especially if the chain got tangled with the hands of the Tenno and the rocket fired off.
Grineer on patrol sees an object fly by with a chain wrapped with bleeding something.
Grineer on patrol: "What the hell is that?".
Eh, they can swing Jat Kittags one-handed. Even the scrawny "squishy mage" types like Nekros and whoever. And block hails of bullets with swords. And run on walls and alter their trajectories mid-jump.
Normal human physical limitations aren't really a... concern for these people*.
*taxonomy up to debate
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Amazing. We'd better put rockets on everything.
Hell, rockets on chainblades. Imagine that S#&$.
G.I. Joe and the Cobra approve of this philosophy. *Everything* is better with moar rockets.
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And then fail off when five rockets hit the same area.
After all, it can only protect so much from piercing before it fails, despite the fact that it is meant to be anti anti-armour.
And I raise you light machine guns on pickup trucks and improvised APCs.
Actually if they hit all at once they'd fratricide each other in sympathetic detonations, or get wiped by the ERA going off. Plus MBTs are for the most part pretty rocket-resistent.
Shaped charges have kind of major inherent limitations anyway given that you can all but immunise even near unarmoured softskin vehicles against them with a standoff screen of what pretty much amounts to glorified chicken wire or metal Venetian blinds, due to the peculiarities of the penetrator jet. (By late WW2 the Soviets were actually protecting their tanks from Panzerfausts and the like with improvised screens *made of* chicken wire, bedsprings or whatever else was at hand - rather succesfully too.)
And I see your jury-rigged Technicals and raise an actual armoured fighting vehicle, resulting in a very one-sided massacre.
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Elementals are manifested spirits of the fundamental natural elements that-
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...what?
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You will call them differently when you have ten rockets from the RPGs flying into the general direction of where you are.
That's what my tank has reactive armour for.
And machineguns.
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Well, you'd first have to dive through bajillion kilometers of liquid metallic hydrogen. Naturally also of insane pressure and temperature and rising... Only in Jupiter and Saturnus though, the small outer "ice giants" are though to have different internal composition (still super hostile ofc).
And OP? "Weapon made of sea stone" is just silly and mainly conjures up the image of a stone axe.