NationStates Jolt Archive

You turn on the Global News Channel

You see a beautiful blue haired girl. Naturally this arouses some interest so you turn up the volume.

".....so let's take a tour." she said, the volume was too low to catch what was said before, but she had a definately cute voice. If one was familar with Kjata Major they would recognize her as General Lina.

"This here is the diamond silo. Thousands upon thousands of diamonds are stored here for use. Let's see...oooh! <3!" she jumps up and presses a few buttons on the bottom of the silo.

"General Lina, don't touch that! NO!" yells a guard. Lina looks up in time to see the silo shake a little.

"Wha....eek!" she yells as the silo opens up.

Thousands of diamonds shoot out the base and from above the loading hole. The young girl is covered in what must be three billion dollars worth of diamonds of beautiful blue. She gets up and sighes, laying back on them. Her eyes and hair match the blue diamonds and she looks at her uniform, and wipes them off.

"Owwies....what the heck are these?! D-D-D-DIAMONDS! *SQUUEE* PRETTY!" she yells.

The camera man laughes and the guard says quietly, "Camera off! CAM-ER-A OFF!" Then the screen goes blank and then a second later comes on again.

General Lina is up and apparently fine. They are walking through a massive hangar. Like an airplane hangar with huge machines all along the sides.

The guard speaks up and announces, "This is the heart of the production facility, it is where all the diamonds are produced. The flawless diamonds are produced and then dumped into the silo based on color and type."

Then the report concluded several minutes later, but was it real? Has Kjata developed a way to MAKE flawless diamonds and so many that they store them in massive silos? Only one way to check, call the Foreign Affairs Minister of Kjata Major, that was included in the programs conclusion.

*sigh*
PURELY OCC:

Diamond manufacture... been doin it for years. Good armor against HEAT, not the greatest fighting off KEPs. Moderate Tensile strength, you see. No protection against radiation, either. And isn't great for ammo. Grit is great for heat shielding, though. And blue diamonds aren't flawless. Expensive, but weaker. Hard as hell to get perfect diamond. Thought I would warn you.

OOC: Oh no there is two systems CVP is perfect flawless diamonds, the Genesis type is colored, but very nice to. CVP = defensive applications, Genesis is decoration.

Besides, diamond MIRCO-chips. This will upgrade all the processors far beyond the limits of silicon which the chips can't take more then 200 degrees. Diamond is also 5x better conductor then silver. The technological aspect is much greater then putting it on tanks.

Besides we have stronger and lighter armor. Though swords, daggers, and other nice weapons are nearly indestructable in the conventional fashion of hand to hand combat.

Besides, diamond MIRCO-chips. This will upgrade all the processors far beyond the limits of silicon which the chips can't take more then 200 degrees. Diamond is also 5x better conductor then silver. The technological aspect is much greater then putting it on tanks.

Umm... Diamond is an INSULATOR - it needs doping (I believe Boron?) to be a conductor. I've researched it for a while now, it doesn't have great conductive properties, unlike Graphite. Is still good for chips, though. Some three-thousand degree melting point. I thought of doing that, in fact developments were pointing to it, but I never went all the way through with it. That melting point also gives other great uses.

Besides we have stronger and lighter armor. Though swords, daggers, and other nice weapons are nearly indestructable in the conventional fashion of hand to hand combat.

No, diamond is just hard. It's tensile strength is lacking. Armor wouldn't be great against bullets unless you know how to do it right. (My little secret, even though it hasn't been used on anything yet, and seems rediculously hard to implement.) Sharp edges on cqc weapons is all I can see it used with, besides other things you have yet to mention and I won't divulge.

True, you need boron to dope for the negative charge. Also you need disks of diamond for this and that's a problem it will take a long amount of time to use them for that.

I used Diamond tipped bullets....not very good, they shatter through. Expensive to produce also. I was thinking of using diamond dust in a weapon, but it isn't practical. Diamond tipped bullets seem to have one major advantage, armor piercing. Though so's a AP bullet.

I can't imagine diamond grit in a weapon. Diamond tipped bullets - I don't see a major problem with them. Only the nasty tendency of breaking on impact. There are ways to prevent this sort of thing happening in armor - a lot of ways. TG me, we'll keep this going later.