The Horde Of Doom
30-05-2006, 20:01
Following the capture of one Jason Black, and the depature of a Theao moon lander, it was clear the moon now had to prepare for a possible war with Earth.
And it was done with haste.
New weapons, new technologies, new...everything was done in haste to prepare for any defense. Entirely new castes of Hordian were bred: Inventors, Pilots, Generals. The entire Moon was alive with activity. From Earth it would seem as if the whole moon seemed to be flashing in different areas, but to a casual observer it would still seem a dead world.
NEW TECHNOLOGY
Doge Hammer
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-3379-1142706637.jpg
The Doge Hammer is a massive mobile artillery cannon, capable of firing shells all the way to Mars. Crewed by almost 100 Hordians, it is by far the most destructive device in the Hordian tool box. A shell, delivered by a truck, is pulled up by a built in crane, and then carefully loaded into the cannon. After taking adjustments and "zoning in" on where the target is, the shell is fired(or rather launched) with a huge amount of force(Thanks to mercury propellent.)
The cannon can launch explosive shells and posion gas shells. The idea has also been shrunk for a smaller more mobile cannon: The Steam Cannon (http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-3379-1146044026.jpg)
Steam Rifle(and Mercury Propellent)
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-3379-1142707629_thumb.jpg
The steam-rifle was a large cumbersome weapon. It used a small canister of compressed mercury vapor as a propellant instead of gunpowder. This allowed it to fire further, and more accurately than the standard
rifle of its day. It would often have a telescopic aiming sight mounted on the top to aid in this purpose. It also fired noiselessly, and without the residual
smoke associated with musketry. The name ‘steam- rifle’ is actually a misnomer, as no steam was involved in the weapon’s operation. The name derived from the small cloud of radium gas, which was emitted from the chamber after a shot was fired. To the common soldier it resembled
a small puff of steam.
Landship
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-2306-1145432428_thumb.jpg
The barren wasteland of the lunar surface required a large all-terrian vechicle that could patrol large sections of the moon. If trouble was encountered, they would be able to fire upon their foes, and also disgourge infantry units. Thus the Landship was born. Powered by many steam boilers, these large vessels are ideal for Lunar combat. Armed with cannons and small arm portholes, a small fleet is under production.
Steam Suit
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-3379-1142706873_thumb.jpg
It was clear that a middle ground was needed between the large Landships and the infantry. You couldn't call a Landship in everytime the infantry got into a skirmish, and due to the Landships nomadic use, who could defend a the entrance tunnels? Enter the Steam Suit. A large mechanical device powered by a huge boiler, it was controlled in the typical way: a complex group of levers and a few pedals. An entire new caste of pilot, the Walker Pilot, was devolped so that a lifetime could be spent mastering the controls.
A pair of small "repeating" cannons, one for each arm, is it's way of attack, allowing penetration into larger and more deadly targets.
Hapooner
http://riseoflegends.com/NR/rdonlyres/D1736F25-174D-4426-8AFF-2583D16FA1F9/0/vinci_concept_05.jpg
Usable by the infantry, this device is quite simple: Aimed at airborne units, it fires a harpoon into the flyer. Then, with it's spider like legs, pulls the flyer down, sending it crashing into the surface. Short, simple, repairable.
Steampacks
A specialized small steam boiler unit that a soldier wears on his back, enabling him to execute very long and high leaps cross country. Steam pressure is
built up in a containment compartment and then could be released through four vents located at the bottom of the pack, propelling the operator upwards. The flow of steam can be regulated by a head lever, to come out of the four vents at varying pressures to control the distance and direction of jumps. A portion of pressurized steam was retained in the holding compartment, and subsequently released as the soldier descended, allowing for a safe landing.
The Terranova
http://www.bighugegames.com/riseoflegends/images/art_concept_08b.jpg
The only "heavier then air" craft in the Hordian airforce, it is propelled by a corkscrew like propeller. It looks like it shouldn't fly, but it does. Flown by a pilot and co-pilot, it is armed simply with 2 new fangled "Gattiling guns." It can take off vertically, being oifted up by four vents located facing the bottom. The blade is driven in a certain direction as well by carefully located vents on the propellers themselves. It's man purpose is anti-infantry, and leading generals are interested on testing it in the Earth's atmospshere.
Cavorite and the Carvorian Sphere
http://www.colemanzone.com/images/Cardle/Moonflight.jpg
"The object of Mr. Cavor's search was a substance that should be 'opaque' - he used some other word I have forgotten, but 'opaque' conveys the idea - to "all forms of radiant energy." 'Radiant energy,' he made me understand, was anything like light or heat, or those Roentgen Rays there was so much talk about a year or so ago, or the electric waves of Marconi, or gravitation. All these things, he said, radiate out from centres, and act on bodies at a distance, whence comes the term 'radiant energy.'
" [...] Now all known substances are 'transparent' to gravitation. You can use screens of various sorts to cut off the light or heat, or electrical influence of the sun, or the warmth of the earth from anything; you can screen things by sheets of metal from Marconi's rays, but nothing will cut off the gravitational attraction of the sun or the gravitational attraction of the earth. Yet why there should be nothing is hard to say. Cavor did not see why such a substance should not exist, and certainly I could not tell him. I had never thought of such a possibility before. [...] Suffice it for this story that he believed he might be able to manufacture this possible substance opaque to gravitation out of a complicated alloy of metals and something new - a new element, I fancy - called, I believe, helium, which was sent to him from London in sealed stone jars."
The unusual metal alloy dubbed "Cavorite" was invented by the equally unusual Mr. Cavor, a scientific researcher whose forte was molecular physics. First manufactured on the 14th of October, 1899, Cavorite has the effect of shielding objects from the effects of gravitational attraction, making anything shielded by the Cavorite in this way effectively weightless. Cavorite is also completely opaque to light, heat and electric waves. The practical applications of this remarkable substance are almost limitless, from flying machines to interplanetary craft, which the Hordians haved developed under heavy secrecy.
Perkins Gun
http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/perkgun/perkpics/perk2.jpg
A - The Chamber of the Gun, from which the Barrel is charged.
B - The Handle which directs the piece working in the Chamber, and by means of which the Balls are conveyed from the Hoppers (C) into the Barrel.
C - The Hoppers, into which the Balls are placed, and from which they drop one by one into the Chamber, when the Handle (B) is moved to its extent.
D - The Barrel, which is about six feet In length.
E - A Regulating screw, by means of which the Handle is kept tight.
F - A Swivel Joint, which allows of the Gun being elevated or lowered to any point, and by means of which the Barrel may be moved in almost any direction.
G - A Throttle Valve, by which the steam is admitted from the Generator of the Engine, and into which the Pipe, communicating with the Barrel, is introduced.
H - Mr. Perkins` admirable mode of uniting Pipes so as to resist any pressure. This represents the junction of the Pipe from the Generator with that from the Chamber
(In the first trials before the Iron Duke and his engineering officers, Perkins streamed volumes of lead musket balls against a 1/4-inch iron plate to demonstrate close quarters accuracy and destructive force. His steam pressure was now up to some 900 pounds, low by comparison with any gunpowder even of that day, but unbelievably higher than had ever before been achieved; and sufficient to completely shatter the projectiles against the iron target.
When the penetrating power was still questioned, Perkins fired at a set of eleven 1-inch planks spaced for testing. All 11 were penetrated. Tough iron projectiles punched through a 1/4-inch iron plate! All the penetration tests were at 35 yards from the muzzle, then a good musket distance. If we remember that a penetration of 1/4-inch in pine is considered equal to a dangerous human wound, the significance of the tests stands out; particularly in that day of muzzle-loading, singleshot weapons.
Perkins then screwed a tube to the gun barrel which would feed the balls in by gravity to make a sort of machinegun. This device worked. The next step was a wheel mounting carrying several such tubes, spoke fashion, which could he brought into play for rapid fire. The fantastic firing rate of 1,000 shots per minute was thereby obtained-all this remember in the year 1824!
By attaching a movable joint to the barrel, Perkins sent bullets down a 12-foot plank, spacing them to show that a military company charging in the approved fashion of the time would have had every soldier in the line down with a bullet in the brisket! Another attachment allowed shooting around corners-a device introduced by the Germans for block-fighting in streets and for getting at blind corners from inside tanks during World War 1!)
And it was done with haste.
New weapons, new technologies, new...everything was done in haste to prepare for any defense. Entirely new castes of Hordian were bred: Inventors, Pilots, Generals. The entire Moon was alive with activity. From Earth it would seem as if the whole moon seemed to be flashing in different areas, but to a casual observer it would still seem a dead world.
NEW TECHNOLOGY
Doge Hammer
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-3379-1142706637.jpg
The Doge Hammer is a massive mobile artillery cannon, capable of firing shells all the way to Mars. Crewed by almost 100 Hordians, it is by far the most destructive device in the Hordian tool box. A shell, delivered by a truck, is pulled up by a built in crane, and then carefully loaded into the cannon. After taking adjustments and "zoning in" on where the target is, the shell is fired(or rather launched) with a huge amount of force(Thanks to mercury propellent.)
The cannon can launch explosive shells and posion gas shells. The idea has also been shrunk for a smaller more mobile cannon: The Steam Cannon (http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-3379-1146044026.jpg)
Steam Rifle(and Mercury Propellent)
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-3379-1142707629_thumb.jpg
The steam-rifle was a large cumbersome weapon. It used a small canister of compressed mercury vapor as a propellant instead of gunpowder. This allowed it to fire further, and more accurately than the standard
rifle of its day. It would often have a telescopic aiming sight mounted on the top to aid in this purpose. It also fired noiselessly, and without the residual
smoke associated with musketry. The name ‘steam- rifle’ is actually a misnomer, as no steam was involved in the weapon’s operation. The name derived from the small cloud of radium gas, which was emitted from the chamber after a shot was fired. To the common soldier it resembled
a small puff of steam.
Landship
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-2306-1145432428_thumb.jpg
The barren wasteland of the lunar surface required a large all-terrian vechicle that could patrol large sections of the moon. If trouble was encountered, they would be able to fire upon their foes, and also disgourge infantry units. Thus the Landship was born. Powered by many steam boilers, these large vessels are ideal for Lunar combat. Armed with cannons and small arm portholes, a small fleet is under production.
Steam Suit
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-3379-1142706873_thumb.jpg
It was clear that a middle ground was needed between the large Landships and the infantry. You couldn't call a Landship in everytime the infantry got into a skirmish, and due to the Landships nomadic use, who could defend a the entrance tunnels? Enter the Steam Suit. A large mechanical device powered by a huge boiler, it was controlled in the typical way: a complex group of levers and a few pedals. An entire new caste of pilot, the Walker Pilot, was devolped so that a lifetime could be spent mastering the controls.
A pair of small "repeating" cannons, one for each arm, is it's way of attack, allowing penetration into larger and more deadly targets.
Hapooner
http://riseoflegends.com/NR/rdonlyres/D1736F25-174D-4426-8AFF-2583D16FA1F9/0/vinci_concept_05.jpg
Usable by the infantry, this device is quite simple: Aimed at airborne units, it fires a harpoon into the flyer. Then, with it's spider like legs, pulls the flyer down, sending it crashing into the surface. Short, simple, repairable.
Steampacks
A specialized small steam boiler unit that a soldier wears on his back, enabling him to execute very long and high leaps cross country. Steam pressure is
built up in a containment compartment and then could be released through four vents located at the bottom of the pack, propelling the operator upwards. The flow of steam can be regulated by a head lever, to come out of the four vents at varying pressures to control the distance and direction of jumps. A portion of pressurized steam was retained in the holding compartment, and subsequently released as the soldier descended, allowing for a safe landing.
The Terranova
http://www.bighugegames.com/riseoflegends/images/art_concept_08b.jpg
The only "heavier then air" craft in the Hordian airforce, it is propelled by a corkscrew like propeller. It looks like it shouldn't fly, but it does. Flown by a pilot and co-pilot, it is armed simply with 2 new fangled "Gattiling guns." It can take off vertically, being oifted up by four vents located facing the bottom. The blade is driven in a certain direction as well by carefully located vents on the propellers themselves. It's man purpose is anti-infantry, and leading generals are interested on testing it in the Earth's atmospshere.
Cavorite and the Carvorian Sphere
http://www.colemanzone.com/images/Cardle/Moonflight.jpg
"The object of Mr. Cavor's search was a substance that should be 'opaque' - he used some other word I have forgotten, but 'opaque' conveys the idea - to "all forms of radiant energy." 'Radiant energy,' he made me understand, was anything like light or heat, or those Roentgen Rays there was so much talk about a year or so ago, or the electric waves of Marconi, or gravitation. All these things, he said, radiate out from centres, and act on bodies at a distance, whence comes the term 'radiant energy.'
" [...] Now all known substances are 'transparent' to gravitation. You can use screens of various sorts to cut off the light or heat, or electrical influence of the sun, or the warmth of the earth from anything; you can screen things by sheets of metal from Marconi's rays, but nothing will cut off the gravitational attraction of the sun or the gravitational attraction of the earth. Yet why there should be nothing is hard to say. Cavor did not see why such a substance should not exist, and certainly I could not tell him. I had never thought of such a possibility before. [...] Suffice it for this story that he believed he might be able to manufacture this possible substance opaque to gravitation out of a complicated alloy of metals and something new - a new element, I fancy - called, I believe, helium, which was sent to him from London in sealed stone jars."
The unusual metal alloy dubbed "Cavorite" was invented by the equally unusual Mr. Cavor, a scientific researcher whose forte was molecular physics. First manufactured on the 14th of October, 1899, Cavorite has the effect of shielding objects from the effects of gravitational attraction, making anything shielded by the Cavorite in this way effectively weightless. Cavorite is also completely opaque to light, heat and electric waves. The practical applications of this remarkable substance are almost limitless, from flying machines to interplanetary craft, which the Hordians haved developed under heavy secrecy.
Perkins Gun
http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/perkgun/perkpics/perk2.jpg
A - The Chamber of the Gun, from which the Barrel is charged.
B - The Handle which directs the piece working in the Chamber, and by means of which the Balls are conveyed from the Hoppers (C) into the Barrel.
C - The Hoppers, into which the Balls are placed, and from which they drop one by one into the Chamber, when the Handle (B) is moved to its extent.
D - The Barrel, which is about six feet In length.
E - A Regulating screw, by means of which the Handle is kept tight.
F - A Swivel Joint, which allows of the Gun being elevated or lowered to any point, and by means of which the Barrel may be moved in almost any direction.
G - A Throttle Valve, by which the steam is admitted from the Generator of the Engine, and into which the Pipe, communicating with the Barrel, is introduced.
H - Mr. Perkins` admirable mode of uniting Pipes so as to resist any pressure. This represents the junction of the Pipe from the Generator with that from the Chamber
(In the first trials before the Iron Duke and his engineering officers, Perkins streamed volumes of lead musket balls against a 1/4-inch iron plate to demonstrate close quarters accuracy and destructive force. His steam pressure was now up to some 900 pounds, low by comparison with any gunpowder even of that day, but unbelievably higher than had ever before been achieved; and sufficient to completely shatter the projectiles against the iron target.
When the penetrating power was still questioned, Perkins fired at a set of eleven 1-inch planks spaced for testing. All 11 were penetrated. Tough iron projectiles punched through a 1/4-inch iron plate! All the penetration tests were at 35 yards from the muzzle, then a good musket distance. If we remember that a penetration of 1/4-inch in pine is considered equal to a dangerous human wound, the significance of the tests stands out; particularly in that day of muzzle-loading, singleshot weapons.
Perkins then screwed a tube to the gun barrel which would feed the balls in by gravity to make a sort of machinegun. This device worked. The next step was a wheel mounting carrying several such tubes, spoke fashion, which could he brought into play for rapid fire. The fantastic firing rate of 1,000 shots per minute was thereby obtained-all this remember in the year 1824!
By attaching a movable joint to the barrel, Perkins sent bullets down a 12-foot plank, spacing them to show that a military company charging in the approved fashion of the time would have had every soldier in the line down with a bullet in the brisket! Another attachment allowed shooting around corners-a device introduced by the Germans for block-fighting in streets and for getting at blind corners from inside tanks during World War 1!)