32 minutes ago, dsul413 said:

Yeup. That's sticking.

Calling it now:

Palp+ Reaper

Krennic + Reaper

Whisper

list name: Lewis and Clark

6 hours ago, Wiredin said:

sound strategy for preventing rebellions

Right cause that always works out so well...

On 2/19/2018 at 11:43 AM, GrimmyV said:

The memories just came flooding back...

4 hours ago, Astech said:

4 hours ago, Sekac said:

You do realize that really long half lives mean much lower rates of radiation, right?

A half-life is the amount of time it takes a radioactive isotope to lose half its mass as alpha, beta, and gamma particles bleed off. The longer the half-life, the slower the bleed and the less harmful it is.

The scary stuff has a short half-life as it is giving off extremely high levels over a relatively short period. The longer the half-life, the more stable the isotope.

Uh, no, the half life is the amount of time it takes for half of the mass of a radioactive sample to transmute into a nonradioactive element or isotope. There’s no way any radioactive element loses half its actual mass in various particles just from weak or strong nuclear force reactions. that would be more like a similar reaction to Matter-antimatter annihilation. And put out gigatons of destructive force. And that’s just too much. Megatons are just fine, thank you

5 hours ago, Sekac said:

You do realize that really long half lives mean much lower rates of radiation, right?

A half-life is the amount of time it takes a radioactive isotope to lose half its mass as alpha, beta, and gamma particles bleed off. The longer the half-life, the slower the bleed and the less harmful it is.

The scary stuff has a short half-life as it is giving off extremely high levels over a relatively short period. The longer the half-life, the more stable the isotope.

Yes, I do realise. What you may not know about U-238 is that its decay is a long process with numerous steps:

In effect, a single atom of U-238 emits 32 burst of radiation throughout its life. So you could argue that its "effective" half life is around 125 million years, which isn't so bad.

The "scary stuff" you refer to either doesn't have a half life or simply has a lot of dirty material. Hydrogen bombs are entirely stable (save for the initial fission bomb), dirty bombs just carry depleted U-238 and so on. There are some isotopes with extremely short half-lives, but the whole point of them is that they're literally impossible to store or weaponise. The idea of the nuclear bomb is to cause an intentional chain reaction in a relatively stable isotope, or to bring together a large amount in a chamber to achieve critical mass.

Things with short half-lives like, say, Vanadium-48 with a half life of under 16 days are almost harmless, especially in the long term. Even if you spread a large amount over an area, it'd be entirely safe withing a decade, and passable withing a year.

It's kind of bizarre that we've got to this point though. I can acknowledge that the Death Star is an evil weapon, but so are nuclear bombs. Apples and oranges make great fruit salad, but these two shouldn't be mixed.

8 hours ago, Astech said:

Apples and oranges make great fruit salad, but these two shouldn't be mixed.

Dissent!
Cut or peeled apples get dark over a few minutes due to them getting oxidized in contact with air.
However, mixing with a bit of orange or lemon gets them covered in citric acid, that prevents such oxidation from happening.

7 minutes ago, Azrapse said:

Dissent!
Cut or peeled apples get dark over a few minutes due to them getting oxidized in contact with air.
However, mixing with a bit of orange or lemon gets them covered in citric acid, that prevents such oxidation from happening.

@Azrapse spitting culinary science 101!

On 21/2/2018 at 3:16 PM, FTS Gecko said:

@Azrapse spitting culinary science 101!

If we are going to cross the Offtopic border, we cross it for good!

40 minutes ago, Azrapse said:

Dissent!
Cut or peeled apples get dark over a few minutes due to them getting oxidized in contact with air.
However, mixing with a bit of orange or lemon gets them covered in citric acid, that prevents such oxidation from happening.

Or, if you've got the strength to rip an apple in half, it'll tear between the cell walls and it won't oxidize.

However, half an apple still with core and seeds is probably not a great way to make a fruit salad.

It's also not a great way to make a death star, because an exposed core is an explodey core.

See what I did there? I made it full circle (which the imperials did not do with the Death Star II).

11 hours ago, Astech said:

The "scary stuff" you refer to either doesn't have a half life or simply has a lot of dirty material. Hydrogen bombs are entirely stable (save for the initial fission bomb), dirty bombs just carry depleted U-238 and so on. There are some isotopes with extremely short half-lives, but the whole point of them is that they're literally impossible to store or weaponise. The idea of the nuclear bomb is to cause an intentional chain reaction in a relatively stable isotope, or to bring together a large amount in a chamber to achieve critical mass.

Things with short half-lives like, say, Vanadium-48 with a half life of under 16 days are almost harmless, especially in the long term. Even if you spread a large amount over an area, it'd be entirely safe withing a decade, and passable withing a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb

5.27 year half life, in this case. That seems to be the "sweet spot" between too long-lived and weak to really render areas "uninhabitable" and too short-lived to matter sufficiently.

5 hours ago, Azrapse said:

Dissent!
Cut or peeled apples get dark over a few minutes due to them getting oxidized in contact with air.
However, mixing with a bit of orange or lemon gets them covered in citric acid, that prevents such oxidation from happening.

So, there’s a way to extend the half-life of apples! Excellent! That will definitely help in my plans for world domination!

blah blah isotopes. blah blah blah fruit ninja.....Booorrrrriiiiinnnnggggggg!!

Let' s instead talk about how awesome X-wings will be after the fix.

Assuming Retrofit -2 points, two mods, S-foils open BR and T-rolls

Budget Wedge: VI, FAA, Retrofit, S-foils, Integrated.

29 points of always on target PS11! 29! Can you imagine! You could run him in a 4 X-wing list!

I really hope we get news soon specifically on the X-Wing fix part of this expansion.

On 2/16/2018 at 1:13 PM, kris40k said:

If you watch Rebels , you will see that Saw actively undercut Mon Mothma's leadership and was attempting to pull away any warriors he could from her Alliance. After realizing he was not going to get Sabine and Ezra's loyalty, he stunned them both.

While both factions fight against the Empire, they are certainly no longer on the same side.

I don't mind him being assigned to the Rebel faction in this game, but I do think there is a strong argument for his people being S&V. I do not see him having any desire to rebuild the Republic, just tear down the Empire.

I have watched every episode of Rebels thankyouverymuch! I definitely see your point, but he DID work with the Rebel Alliance, and if he’s in the S&V faction, you won’t be able to recreate that in the game.

He also doesn’t strike me as someone who has any affinity for “proper” Scum. I mean, I guess I could see him joining forces with mercenaries, or maybe forging a temporary alliance with an unsavory bounty hunter, but no more than that. JMO of course.

4 hours ago, eMeM said:

Let' s instead talk about how awesome X-wings will be after the fix.

Assuming Retrofit -2 points, two mods, S-foils open BR and T-rolls

Budget Wedge: VI, FAA, Retrofit, S-foils, Integrated.

29 points of always on target PS11! 29! Can you imagine! You could run him in a 4 X-wing list!

Wes too would be in a really nice spot at 29 points.

while I doubt it will make it top tier, I'm really looking forward to what these upgrades will do for my three t-65 list with Wedge, Wes, and Luke, all three currently running Predator, FAA and IA.

3 hours ago, elfholme said:

I have watched every episode of Rebels thankyouverymuch! I definitely see your point, but he DID work with the Rebel Alliance, and if he’s in the S&V faction, you won’t be able to recreate that in the game.

He also doesn’t strike me as someone who has any affinity for “proper” Scum. I mean, I guess I could see him joining forces with mercenaries, or maybe forging a temporary alliance with an unsavory bounty hunter, but no more than that. JMO of course.

Just like how Hutt Syndicate and Black Sun hate each other but are both in Scum, Saw’s Partisans and the Alliance are Rebels but they will shoot each other as well. I really don’t see any Rebels hiring scum mercenaries but I do see lots of scum joining the cause (Fenn, Sabine, Nym, and potentially Han, Chewie, Lando).

15 hours ago, elfholme said:

I have watched every episode of Rebels thankyouverymuch! I definitely see your point, but he DID work with the Rebel Alliance, and if he’s in the S&V faction, you won’t be able to recreate that in the game.

He also doesn’t strike me as someone who has any affinity for “proper” Scum. I mean, I guess I could see him joining forces with mercenaries, or maybe forging a temporary alliance with an unsavory bounty hunter, but no more than that. JMO of course.

Saw is definitely not S&V.

It's called Scum and VILLIANY. He's not a bad guy. His tactics are sometimes on the edge of morality, but his end cause is just. He is the quintessential "ends justify the means."

The S&V faction do what they do to make a buck. Some are more noble than others, but MONEY is what drives them.

Saw's cause is just and noble, but he his tactics are sometimes those of the S&V faction.

On 2/20/2018 at 8:10 PM, FlyingAnchors said:

Calling it now:

Palp+ Reaper

Krennic + Reaper

Whisper

list name: Lewis and Clark

I don't get the name, but I will definitely try this.

11 minutes ago, Celestial Lizards said:

I don't get the name, but I will definitely try this.

I think whisper is Saqaj.... ya not even gonna bother looking up how to spell that.

2 hours ago, Boba Rick said:

Saw is definitely not S&V.

It's called Scum and VILLIANY. He's not a bad guy. His tactics are sometimes on the edge of morality, but his end cause is just. He is the quintessential "ends justify the means."

The S&V faction do what they do to make a buck. Some are more noble than others, but MONEY is what drives them.

Saw's cause is just and noble, but he his tactics are sometimes those of the S&V faction.

Nope.

Saw is a perfect example of a good guy gone bad guy. He started off with noble intentions, but that all fell away after the death of his sister.

Ever since then, he started his downward spiral into madness pursuing vengeance. It was no longer about fighting the oppression of the Confederacy and later Empire, just destroying his enemy using any means necessary, the larger the body count, the more damage and pain caused to "them", the better. By his end in Rogue One , there was nothing left but a broken, paranoid old man seeing enemies everywhere, even in the faces of his friends.

Edit:

Remember, on the episode I mentioned earlier, when given the chance to save some slave labor prisoners on the ship they had snuck aboard, his attitude paraphrased was, "I didn't come here to save them, I came to destroy this ship, they are on their own."

He would have destroyed that ship with them on board without a second thought. He left them to their own devices.

Edit 2: Basically, Saw became a serial killer with a palpable choice of target.

I agree that he went bad, I just don't think you can completely slot him in S&V - maybe somewhere between the two.

Sounds like he needs to be dual-faction.

48 minutes ago, Boba Rick said:

I agree that he went bad, I just don't think you can completely slot him in S&V - maybe somewhere between the two.

Sounds like he needs to be dual-faction.

Uh, Rebels can’t be bad guys? Saw is a Rebel, just a super crazy and murderous one. Just like Imperials can be merciful and just or Scum could be generous to the poor while stealing from the wealthy.

33 minutes ago, GrimmyV said:

...or Scum could be generous to the poor while stealing from the wealthy.

Or even motivated by something other than money.

3 minutes ago, SabineKey said:

Or even motivated by something other than money.

I don't know of any Scum and Villainy characters that weren't motivated primarily by money or power.

Jabba, Dengar, Xizor, Boba Fett, Bossk, IG-88, ect... if you could find ONE that wasn't primarily motivated by money or power, they weren't motivated by the idea of ending the rule of the Galactic Empire. That's all I'm saying here, Saw's motivation was attacking the Empire - though it may have been vengeance and the tactics were cruel and inconsistent with that of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. You wouldn't call Cassian Andor a S&V character, but he committed cold-blooded murder to protect a Rebel secret at the beginning of Rogue One.