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Not all of these are my own personal experience, but they are all someone’s personal experience. In the spirit of exploring that idea, here are my favorite ways to fail at laser cutting and engraving. People often focus on success stories, but learning from failures is much more educational.
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It’s not too hard to get adequate results, but to get truly professional and repeatable ones takes work and experience and an attention to detail. The operator needs to handle all the other things that go on before, during, and after the job. Like other power tools, laser cutters are built around doing one thing very well, but they require an operator’s full attention and support. That shortcoming aside, the Figment remains a formidable mission platform on which theĮntire fate of the micro-planets and the hopes of the Directorate rest.Laser cutters are CNC power tools, which means an operator uploads a job digitally and then pushes START to let the machine do all the work while they lie back in a hammock sipping a margarita, occasionally leaping out in a panic because the sound coming from the machine changed slightly. Activating the laser or plasma bomb will deplete the fuel cell, as will absorbing impacts,īut the Figment's instrumentation provides warnings when energy is low and a recharge is needed. Which must be recharged regularly to maintain mission operability. On the negative side, the Figment's greatest point of failure in terms of its design has always been the endurance of its fuel cell, Thus affording a secondary weapon at minimal additional development cost that expands the aircraft's tasking boundaries. Somewhat mimicking the effect of real world lighting strikes, but in a controlled, linear fashion.Īfter the DOT-MPLas-XX was developed, its designers found a lightweight and uncomplicated way to channel the laser energy into explosive plasma bombs that could be dropped from the Figment, More importantly, it cushions both kinetic and energy weapon impacts.Īlso fuelled by the aircraft's ion-bath cell, the primary weapon is the Laser War staple and go-to heavy weapon, the DOT-MPLas-XX,Ī micro-pulse energy canon that works by ionising an airborne pathway to its aim point in an instant before unleashing a high voltage supercharge rippled pulse along that pathway, Its fuel cell also projects a powerful ion-plasma shield around the airframe, reducing its radar cross-section considerably (thus obviating the need for stealth contouring) and, Given the urgency of the crisis on the micro-planets and the need for a manned (and thus non-AI-hackable) interdictor aircraft to penetrate and engage the Dotbot forces.Ī two-seater layout, the Figment is powered by a high intensity ion-bath fuel cell driving twin air-breathing hyper compression engines with low thermal latencyĪfterburning capacity and thrust vectoring, enabling it to perform high-g turns and tailsliding manoeuvres within tightly confined arcs.
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The DOT-HK2000 Hunter-Killer, but is regardless a highly capable craft and was the Directorate's only viable option for Operation Condor, Your craft, the DOT S-1000 Figment V/YCV, is a Yaw-Configured Vehicle (YCV) with a Vertical Take-Off / Landing (VTOL) capability,ĭesigned chiefly for air defence with secondary low level close quarters “mopping up” combat and downed pilot rescue / retrieval operations,Ī mission it increasingly became tasked with towards the end of the Laser Wars back on earth.īeing a previous generation design, the Figment lacks the cutting edge propulsion technology and hyper agility of its successor,