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August 29, 2020

 

                                


Commentary for August 29, 2020:

The original version of this story was very condensed. Too condensed, really. Eggman had no sooner begun his attack on the base than he was overwhelmed and brought down by GUN’s defences. But as I’ve been trying to establish during GUN’s encounters with Eggman in this season, they are very squishy when they go up against him. It’s only by taking his frigate by surprise like this that Ajax was actually able to deal such critical damage, with those Chekhov’s railguns there.

Talking of which, can I just say, I’ve been itching to show those guns firing since I first made the Protector class cruiser model a few months ago? Now, I know they appear to be shooting bolts of sci-fi blue energy, but they’re very specifically not lasers or any other type of directed energy weapon. A railgun accelerates a projectile using electromagnetic force, so they’re actually shooting slugs at the Egg Frigate (slugs as in inert projectiles, not the invertibrates). While still largely experimental, railguns are very real and the US Navy in particular is developing them for their ships. They would also probably be the type of weapon you’d find on a military spacecraft, at least for fairly close quarters engagements. Over the much greater distances in space, after all, light lag would make it impossible to target an enemy vessel in real time until it comes within relatively close range. Even lasers, which move at the speed of light, would suffer from light lag and, at this point at least, military use of lasers as weapons is still fairly minimal in Eon’s World.

Anyway, surely the Freedom Fighters are good to go now? Well, not quite. There has to be at least one last complication, after all...


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