Intrest Check: Realistic Space Combat

[Dusty]

Hey all, I'm thinking of making a RP based on realistic space combat in the not too distant future (50 to 60 years). Focusing on character developement in long term stressful situations as most ship to ship combat would be a long range tedious affair in orbit above the planet. Sort of like an old submarine movie.

Tech would be developements on what we have to day, cold launched missiles, chemical/solid state lasers (I got a cool vid of the airforce testing there current build in a C-130. Melted the hood of a truck for 2 kilometers), and orbital elevators.

Basic story concept so far is a series of oribital insurgencies versus a new planetary goverment and following the taskforce sent to hunt down the insurgent forces in the debris fields left over from orbital station construction. But I'd love input!

Would you all be interested?

[Brome Teks]

I would be. I have my own Ideas for strategies regarding that...

[SliceOfDog]

I can't promise anything, and I'm going away for a week or so soon, so I couldn't contribute much if it started now, but yeah, I think I could get in on this :p

[Daryn]

Is this going to focus more on large scale ship to ship combat or will there be smaller fighter craft involved? I'm thinking of getting into a good RP and this seems like it might be the sort of style that I could get into.

[Dusty]

Most ships would be more like larger space shuttles. Probably a crew of around fifteen. Fighter combat like that seen in most sci-fi isn't what would actually happen as in space you don't have to bank. You can orient your ship in anyway while it still continues on a straight path. Most of the ship to ship combat would inolve trying to manuever to bring your weapons to bear on the enemy while they try to do the same.

Its safe to say ship captains in the future would have to be pretty decent at math and physics. It would play out more like a chess game

[Brome Teks]

What would most likely be a working situation (From a physics stand point) Would be ships set on intersecting orbits and taking shots at each other each time they passed by each other.

A realistic situation would probably involve surface to orbit weapons if they are around Earth. Just something to consider.

[Rys]

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3z.html
This may be of some use to you.

[Dusty]

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3z.html
This may be of some use to you.

*is fanatically reading*

[Brome Teks]

I would think that in orbital space there would be some degree of limit on how high or low you could go. For example, if you lowered your altitude, you'd have to go faster in order to stay in orbit, as per applications of Newton's laws.

Warning! Math Ahead!

v= √((G*M)/r)

Where v = the velocity of the orbiting object (m/s)
G= Newton's universal gravitational constant, about 6.673*10^-11
M= the mass of the body being orbited, in this case the Earth, 5.9742 × 10^24 Kg
r= the radius of the orbit from the earth's center of gravity, 6,378.1 Km (Earth's radius) + 320 Km (Reasonable orbit radius)

So plugging it in, an object at 320 Km above the Earth would have a speed of 7714.799 m/s, or about 17,257.1 mph.

Raise it by 80 km and the speed goes to 7669.136 m/s, or about 17,155.3 mph.

Doesn't seem like much of a difference, but after a few orbits it'll start to add up.

[Dusty]

So what I'm thinking is we are all part of the crew of one ship from the planetary goverment. Our opening scene would be us trying to intercept three enemy orbiters trying to attack a station.

The thing is as my friend pointed out, there is no real furry angle. Thoughts?

[Psion]

The thing is as my friend pointed out, there is no real furry angle. Thoughts?

We just are? The game takes place in a parallel universe where anthros evolved instead of humans? I'd rather veer away from the "test tube soldiers created to fight in humanity's stead" approach. Sooo cliche...

[Brome Teks]

I second Psion on this one. Or, we could just say that it's another planet at the same level of technology.

Then again, the Alternate-universe Earth one would allow us to keep the currently existing nations mostly intact.

It all comes down to a matter of choice, really.

[Yorrick]

Looks like fun so far. But what about humans vs furries instead? Maybe there's multiple races out there and we have to find one to combat the other?

Still, if nothing else is considered I can go with Psion's idea.

[Brome Teks]

Looks like fun so far. But what about humans vs furries instead? Maybe there's multiple races out there and we have to find one to combat the other?

Still, if nothing else is considered I can go with Psion's idea.

Well this is supposedly going to be only 50-60 years more advanced than our technology. Giving technological advances a lot of optimism, we could barely be exiting our solar system by then.

Then we could say Humans meet furries and they begin clashing for a few habitable worlds (That is, worlds that don't require teraforming.) That'd still involve low-orbit space fighting, possibly over said virgin world (with the added benefit of not having to worry about surface to orbit defenses), and weapons would still be fairly primitive compared to more advanced Sci-fi settings.

Overall, I think it's workable. Sorry to say that it sort of kills the OP's planned story setting though...

[Psion]

Looks like fun so far. But what about humans vs furries instead? Maybe there's multiple races out there and we have to find one to combat the other?

I prefer to veer away from that kind of plot. For every Extinctioners you have countless cheap pieces of drek. It's just a cliche that rarely has been done properly

[Brome Teks]

I prefer to veer away from that kind of plot. For every Extinctioners you have countless cheap pieces of drek. It's just a cliche that rarely has been done properly

So Just alternate earth or different planet then?

[Dusty]

I guess I would have to say alternate earth. I agree with Psion that the whole human vs anthro thing is a pretty tired cliche.

[Pitchblack]

I guess I would have to say alternate earth. I agree with Psion that the whole human vs anthro thing is a pretty tired cliche.

Seconded, here.

*also is expressing interest XD*

[Brome Teks]

I'd also gladly join in. Sounds like fun and I know the math surrounding it.

[Dusty]

I'll try to get a thread up this weekend. Snow days have thrown the school week off and our teachers are panicing Thanks for the intrest

[Psion]

I'm still on the fence myself but I might jump in

[Brome Teks]

Well, if no one else is, I'm going to start a Space combat plot myself tomorrow.

[Brome Teks]

Right then. I'll just go ahead and put up a new thread for this, may not wind up sticking to the plot the OP put up.