Reposting this. It should also be mentioned that Tierra has a longer day-night cycle combined with various other factors that allowed the ruins of the Tierras' to survive.
Thank you, Planetary cycles do have a lot to do with how the organisms, intelligent and animal-like both adapt and evolve.
I do not know how to quote a spoiler, so here i will just use " "'s.
Ship Class: CU-90 'Hellfire'
Function: Heavy space combat and terror weapon. One has been built for ground invasion.
Size: About the quarter size of our own moon thus making it slow.
Arguments: 'Hellfire' has enough weapons to wipe out an solar system thus it has been used to threaten enemies into submission, but when that fails the Hellfire can dish out damage and take it. However, it needs a large crew to operate the ship and also needs a large energy source to power just the guns.
Crew: The men onboard a Hellfire class ship are veteran or specialized sailors who have been retrained to operate such a ship with care. There are of course combat teams in case the ship is boarded.
Armor: Hellfire ships are heavily armored making it difficult to damage and combined with their shields they are monsters to take down. However, all of this makes it slow and a easy target to hit. Still, you would need to have plenty of ships to take on one.
Safety Procedure: Due to circumstances there is a growing list of safety procedures one of which is when the ship's reactor is damaged and is about to go critical the crew has to turn off pipes' that allow energy to travel. This lowers the amount of energy produced. Though, in case it fails the backup reactor must be turned on and the other ejected into space.
Weaknesses: Hellfire ships are large and slow thus making it easy to hit with. It also needs a very large crew as well as a power source making it not only costly, but hard to build. The Hellfire also has a history of blowing up when certain areas have been hit. As a result these areas have been extensively modified.
It is also takes a long time to build such a ship as well.
@Archwar
"History:
CU-90 Hellfire was a ship designed during a war that shook the very Universe. The war was between a dimension traveling race known as the 'Shadows' against a coalition of aliens known as the United Species. Near the end, the ones who built the Hellfire(known as Tierras, a human species) were finally defeated thus a network of devices that would vaporize the Shadows was activated, but these devices also fried electronics. It would be weeks or even months before the electronics turned back on and by then the United Species finally collapsed.
Billions of years later, a subspecies of the Tierras, known as the Emperica, fled from their planet with the assistance of a robotic race built by the Tierras when the Shadows returned. The Emperica discovered the home planet of the Tierras and thus the Hellfire along with various other technologies. Also, due to the Emperica nuking their own planet they had to recover thus they only had a 'fantasy' level tech they had a hard time getting use to the ships. Yet with help, the Hellfire was finally completed and taken for a test drive about 50 years later.
The Hellfire saw combat for the first time when a alien organization known as the Coalition began operations on the planet and begun abducting people for genetic experiments. After an investigation, three frigates and the first tested prototype Hellfire were sent out to stop the operations. They meet with ten battleships and seven light cruisers. Attempts at peace were made, but failed resulting in a battle that destroyed two of the three frigates and left the last one beyond repair. The Hellfire itself suffered damage, but successfully obliterated the enemy fleet leaving only two heavily damaged ships. It has since then been used for space combat or for making the enemy surrender. Hellfires have also been brought on diplomatic missions to show how powerful the Emperica are and this has prevent the outbreaks of three wars.
There are currently 50 active Hellfires. 50 more are either in the works or are being planned."
First of all, in order to shake the entire universe, they would need a phenomenal amount of energy that is too much for my feeble mind to calculate, so I will skip it. Secondly a dimensional traversing species would need to adapt rather fast to the new dimension, and since no one has done so, I cannot say for sure that it is not possible. Next, since your plot has not seen them for so long, it is safe to assume they had issues of their own to deal with, such as but not limited to; infighting, population issues, or they were just off going to other dimensions. Next, why make a ship traverse dimensions, when you could have a single unit traverse with specialist gear, survey the area, then go back, this way is a lot more efficient of their technology. Then, when they find you, just send over a massive explosive, close the dimensional door, and have it explode when it no longer detects the signal. Just my two cents.
"Weapon: M7-3E 'Shard Rifle'
Variant: M9-5E 'Nova Rifle'
Function: SR0 Short to mid range combat. NR- Short to long range combat
Ammo Types: SR uses a ammunition known as 'Shards' which are made from Energy Crystals which are the waste product of GM animal made by a race long ago. The 'shard' can penetrate anything if it is built properly, but depending on the design it can take longer and can be costly. Once fired the shard produces enough energy to fire that energy and hit the target. An interesting feature of the shard is that once used the shard loses the energy and can be used for painting. Reasons are unknown why this occurs, but troops just love using it for griffti.
NR uses a more dangerous ammo type which extracts solar radiation and converts it into 'Nova Bullets'. It takes a longer time to build, but is worth while as this ammo type not only deals massive damage to Shadows, but also causes them to feel pain. Against regular targets it only does slightly more damage than the Shard Rifle and so only officers or OPs that involve the Shadows are distributed."
"The 'shard' can penetrate anything if it is built properly" Anything can pierce anything else, depending on how it is done, but my favorite way is to shoot out a simple and efficient super heated particle. Ok, here's the fun part, just because you can fire some energy, does not guarantee a hit. Hmm, if solar radiation causes them pain, why would they come over here? Their dimension would have the environment they need, unless they want territory of course. Our 'verse' would almost be like poison to them, because space has a LOT of solar radiation.
"Name: The 'Dragon' Flyer
Function: Though this is a armor type it fits on dragons and their riders to allow for space operations. The combat variant has jet packs that speeds the dragon when activated and allows for amazing feats to happen. The armor can also be equipped with light weapons strapped to the mount to allow the rider for firing.
Weakness: The dragon and rider both need oxygen meaning tanks have to be fitted onto them. Normally two is enough, but when one is damaged it reduces the amount of time they have and while the armor is light and strong it needs a power source meaning if that is damaged a explosion could follow.
There has also been some safety concerns among riders and dragons about the well being of them for going out into a space battle is suicidal thus the Dragon Flyers are only used for patrol, scout, and skirmish missions."
Ok, dragons, I love them, but their image has been skewed depending on what version you use. Sounds like you are putting dragons with a rider on the battlefield, slapping mech armor on the dragon, and a space suite on the rider. Interesting indeed.
Thank you for your post, have a good day.
