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Most favorite Honorverse tech
Post by cthia   » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:45 am

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If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times. I simply love the MWW when he introduced Manticore's hellishly fiendish ECM. The Ghost Rider program is and will always be my cat's meow.

Apollo is a war winning piece of tech but barring that, IMO, with advanced Manty tactics and ship handling, Ghost Rider will still allow them to win lopsided engagements (battles) against the SLN even minus Apollo -- with casualties of course, but the survivors will be of Manticoran descent.

What is your most favorite Honorverse tech turned out by our loveably Horrible Hemphill or even Shannon Foraker?

Perhaps I've overlooked a cog or sprocket or two.

I wonder if the Andermani has a piece of tech exclusive only to their Navy? They never actually fought anyone beyond that one skirmish with the RMN. May be... there's a bit of tech under wraps.

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Re: Most favorite Honorverse tech
Post by Theemile   » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:05 am

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Mine would be the impeller wedge - it twists everything we physicists know about gravity into a pretzel, but creates a believeable method of transportation that isn't based off throwing hot gasses out the back of the ship. Without it, there would be no Honorverse.
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Re: Most favorite Honorverse tech
Post by Jonathan_S   » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:23 am

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I like Theemile's answer; the wedge.
But going for more directly military tech I'm going to give a nod to "the baffle". The magic ingredient at the heart of practical multi-drive missiles (and yes this falls under the much broader "ghost rider" umbrella cthia mentioned but I wanted to narrow down to a single tech)

Without pods layers, micro-fusion plants, improved stealth, or any of the other ghost rider toys, the baffle alone would allow a significant advantage to the side that had exclusive access to it.
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Re: Most favorite Honorverse tech
Post by cthia   » Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:19 am

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Jonathan_S wrote:I like Theemile's answer; the wedge.
But going for more directly military tech I'm going to give a nod to "the baffle". The magic ingredient at the heart of practical multi-drive missiles (and yes this falls under the much broader "ghost rider" umbrella cthia mentioned but I wanted to narrow down to a single tech)

Without pods layers, micro-fusion plants, improved stealth, or any of the other ghost rider toys, the baffle alone would allow a significant advantage to the side that had exclusive access to it.

I like Theemile's answer as well, especially the part about nasty hot gasses for propulsion.

I also like your answer. In fact, you sort of answered a question that I almost posed this thread as... the single most important piece of tech, barring Apollo that slices the RMN a cut above the rest. I always thought their ECM significantly sets them apart.

I even like the name, Ghost Rider - which will always remind me of Top Gun.

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Re: Most favorite Honorverse tech
Post by TheGlyphstone   » Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:02 pm

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Being an architect (of sorts) by trade, I'm personally most fascinated by the idea of counter-grav in the same way Theemile likes the impeller wedge. It's almost entirely glossed over because most of the action and story takes place in space, but every so often you get a mention of stuff like hundred-story towers being considered 'small'. Honorverse civilians basically live in massive arcologies, at least on the developed planets, which does as much as any other single element in the setting to make it sci-fi for me.
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Re: Most favorite Honorverse tech
Post by Relax   » Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:13 pm

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Partially solidified Handwavium Bull, so we can all bicker about how many angels can dance on the tip of a pin endlessly without being 'Right' or 'Wrong'.

All of his other series you cannot do this.

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Re: Most favorite Honorverse tech
Post by munroburton   » Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:51 pm

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The opposable thumb, upon which the entire inverted-pyramid tech tree rests. ;)
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Re: Most favorite Honorverse tech
Post by Senior Chief   » Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:56 pm

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cthia wrote:
Jonathan_S wrote:I even like the name, Ghost Rider - which will always remind me of Top Gun.



I think of Johnny Cash's "Ghost Riders in the Sky"... but as far as tech... has to be everthing that has to do with Electric Warfare (EW) which is all about ECM and ECCM... in my naval career I dealt with alot of EW that suckered the enemy into wasting valuable resources (time, money, equipment, and lives). A soft kill is just as viable as a hard kill.
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Re: Most favorite Honorverse tech
Post by cthia   » Thu Sep 17, 2015 2:09 pm

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My conscience also demands that I mention the sweet little tech given to Honor designed by Paul Tankersley for Nimitz that gave me a cause to smile - a treecat skinsuit.

The biggest hurdle, which has been hurdled, was explaining the plumbing to Nimitz.

Now that that hurdle has been cleared, has the suit been adapted for and explained to female cats? :geek:

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Re: Most favorite Honorverse tech
Post by Relax   » Thu Sep 17, 2015 2:35 pm

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Surely Honor got Sam one?
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