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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 131
Message ID: 14
#14, RE: The Reflex Cannon
Posted by Peter Eng on Sep-30-01 at 00:45 AM
In response to message #6
>>Ok, so we've got 5 reflex furnaces. Ones out of operation. That would
>>be the one on the SDF 17.
>>Then there's one on the SDF-23, one on the AT&T, one on the Concordia
>>(I think, it being a requirement for fold drive, IIRC) and so that
>>would also put one on the Destiny's Fist.
>
>I don't think fold drove = reflex furnace, and Largo stated that the
>AT&T didn't have a singular power source, hence not having the option
>of turning it into a pretty dust ring around the Dyson sphere with a
>single photorp. (even though Larry tried, nice black hat that he was
>:)
>

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"Fighters," Largo said. "The idiots are sending fighters. Do
they think my masterpiece has the idiotic reactor-shaft vulnerability?
They should know that a ship this size cannot even be powered by
modern reactor technology. All stop; resume red alert. Prepare all
defenses and launch all fighters." He sneered. "They might have
bested us," he admitted quietly. "I might have known they would do
something stupid like this." He turned to the window to watch the
slaughter, his smirk rapidly returning.
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AFAICT, Largo never clearly states what powers the AT&T, except to make it clear that it doesn't use anything generally available in the UF universe at the time of Core4.

And the only reason that the AT&T was proof against the reactor hit is that Largo noticed the "Small Thermal Exhaust Port Right Below The Main Port" that led directly to the main reactor, and had it removed (Proving Grounds 1). It wasn't the fact that it had auxiliary reactors.

What this really means is that the AT&T could be powered by anything that GENOM had or that R-Type could put together in roughly two years, with the help of GENOM R&D.

Well, except for cats with buttered toast strapped to their backs. I don't think that even Largo would stoop so low.

Peter Eng