Question about people/troop transport

NaffNaffBobFace

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Ok, so if you use 15min of your EVA suit's oxygen in the ship on the way there, you are only left with 15 minutes of O2 when you step out of the ship.... this is why using your suit's oxygen in a ship crammed full of WAY more people than it's life support systems can handle is a terrible idea.
You are thinking of attacking, I am thinking of EVAC. If an idris crash-lands on some Tyrol wasteland and that damn star is going to go SuperNova any minute, you grab as many survivors as you can and run for it.

A suit with 30mins is still a suit with 30mins. Small ops may be over in 30mins but not a full scale battle. You'd need to rotate several groups sending them in for 10mins a piece.

Operations wise, it would be very similar to where Halo Jones found herself in the 2000AD comic-strip "The Ballad of Halo Jones" - having joined the infantry just to have a job in a galaxy on the downturn, after Basic she was sent direct to Battlezone 1 - a planet called Moab, where the gravity was so high they had to wear suits armored against the gravity rather than the enemies bullets, and if a suit was hit it was compromised and imploded, turning its wearer into a red puddle a few yards wide. Not favorable conditions for survival.

Also, in an airless environment, you'll need a suit so armored you may as well be in a vehicle because if the suit is breeched, you are dead without being injured.

I don't see infantry maneuvers being much of a thing outside of a base/atmosphere, and if the UEE thinks going to war on a planet where the atmosphere is lethal to humans but not the foe, you may as well pack up and go home.

P.S. the Scourge Rail Gun will eat through infantry. Om Nom Nom.
 
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You are thinking of attacking, I am thinking of EVAC. If an idris crash-lands on some Tyrol wasteland and that damn star is going to go SuperNova any minute, you grab as many survivors as you can and run for it.

A suit with 30mins is still a suit with 30mins. Small ops may be over in 30mins but not a full scale battle. You'd need to rotate several groups sending them in for 10mins a piece.

Operations wise, it would be very similar to where Halo Jones found herself in the 2000AD comic-strip "The Ballad of Halo Jones" - having joined the infantry just to have a job in a galaxy on the downturn, after Basic she was sent direct to Battlezone 1 - a planet called Moab, where the gravity was so high they had to wear suits armored against the gravity rather than the enemies bullets, and if a suit was hit it was compromised and imploded, turning its wearer into a red puddle a few yards wide. Not favorable conditions for survival.

Also, in an airless environment, you'll need a suit so armored you may as well be in a vehicle because if the suit is breeched, you are dead without being injured.

I don't see infantry maneuvers being much of a thing outside of a base/atmosphere, and if the UEE thinks going to war on a planet where the atmosphere is lethal to humans but not the foe, you may as well pack up and go home.

P.S. the Scourge Rail Gun will eat through infantry. Om Nom Nom.
It's just too much theorycrafting right now in my opinion, this shit makes my head hurt sometimes. Would rather wait to see just what CIG does with their volumetric gases and such in regards to life support and O2.
 

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Too much theorycrafting for me. If you have a fleet of ships, just get more troop transport ships.
Yeah, I think it would be better to have dedicated troop transport ships, and fighters and such to escort or assault anything along the way to the target and to support the troops when they get there. Then again if there's real heavy anti air defenses you'd need some kind of fast armored orbital drop pod/ship to get troops or armor to take out enough anti air and clear the way if you don't have some kind of way to do an orbital bombardment. That's where smart or dumb bombs would be good for fighters, in orbit/space you could just fly towards the target with your avionics guiding you with a bomb sight, then release the bombs and fly away from the bombs like a dive bomber. You'd need a guided smart bomb if you wanted to hit something like a cyclone with missile defenses unless you had a stealth bomber or bomb with radar absorbent stealth skin so they wouldn't know it's coming.
 
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I shall fly in fast and hard with my retaliator 5 turrets all providing a barrage of covering fire and pick you all up and we're afterburning straight out of there!!!!
 
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