Attack of the Ankle-Biters - Replacment player needed.

[Fyron]

Oleg's point about mental powers being limited in range is quite valid...

Name := Telekinetic Projector I
Description := Projects a battering ram of telekinetic force against its target.

Lets see... projects a battering ram of telekinetic force... This means that the projector projects the force, not some sort of mentalic wave that moves to the ship which projects the force. Force is most certainly stopped by the shields, as evidenced by most other weapons.

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Oleg's point about mental powers being limited in range is quite valid...

It sort of is - again, you're discussing theoretical technology based on something that is currently commonly considered imaginary. The question of "is it valid, or not?" depends on which piece of fiction one looks at. For some, it is; for others, it isn't.

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Name := Telekinetic Projector I
Description := Projects a battering ram of telekinetic force against its target.

Lets see... projects a battering ram of telekinetic force... This means that the projector projects the force, not some sort of mentalic wave that moves to the ship which projects the force. Force is most certainly stopped by the shields, as evidenced by most other weapons.

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At worst, that just means he needs to change the description for his mod. However, it doesn't say where the battering ram starts. Unless shields hug the hull perfectly, there's no particular reason why the force can't form inside the target's shields to batter at the hull.

[Fyron]

The projector projects the battering ram. It obviously starts at the projector.

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
The projector projects the battering ram. It obviously starts at the projector.

Not at all - a projecter, pretty much by definition, produces something at a distant locale.

[Fyron]

No. It produces it immediately, and projects it to a distant locale. A movie projector creates the patterns of light and then projects those patterns accross the intervening space to the screen. It does not create the patterns of light at the screen. This can be seen by moving something in the way, which blocks the path of the light, and so it does not appear on the screen.

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
No. It produces it immediately, and projects it to a distant locale. A movie projector creates the patterns of light and then projects those patterns accross the intervening space to the screen. It does not create the patterns of light at the screen. This can be seen by moving something in the way, which blocks the path of the light, and so it does not appear on the screen.

Ah, but a movie projector doesn't exactly produce patterns of light, it produces images; most modern projectors must be adjusted for the distance to the screen in order for the image to form properly. The image doesn't form until the pattern of light hits a screen. The ability to stop images from forming properly is a side effect of the principals modern movie projectors run on, not something inherent in the concept of a projector. A telekenetic projector would (obviously) run on different principals. As such equipment is currently fictional, and the principles it would hypothetically run on are unknown if they exist, one can't say with certainty that a different currently fictional piece of equipment (shields) would stop those hypothesised principles from performing their task. If Pax wants the TK Projectors in his fiction to skip shields, they can.

[Fyron]

The movie projector creates patterns of light. Whether those patterns of light form (meaningful) images or not is not determined by the projector itself, but by the position of the screen and the optical receivers of the veiwers.

Again, the TKP specifically states that it creates a battering ram of force and projects it to the target.