Generic greetings and welcome to some real sneaky shenanigans. Today we’ll be covering the Amun-ra. One of the coolest stealth ships in all of science fiction and the secret weapon of protogen corporation from the expanse. Used to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against nature and crimes in general, the Amun-ra is responsible for almost everything that happens in the expanse, directly or otherwise. So settle in and enjoy the never ending ride of unethical ethics and illegal laws.
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Ah yes a ship class named after a sun god is a stealth ship.
damn, im early
only 10 minute cool
best part of SCI is the quotable moments
Jokes on you idiots, in order to face the consequences of my actions they have to catch me first, and I'm invisible in my new stealth ship. Goodbye!
I hope this shows you SCI. Always correctly introduce Steve.
Since watching this channel I say Generic greetings or Hello like Steve!
very funny video
Love your discussions on the expanse ships.
Love this class of ship! The battle of the Ring Station is just epic.
Love the content and had fun in 10k celebration from the bean counter
It's high time we stopped calling it "the moon" like it's the only one, it's name is Luna.
Thoth was the Egyptian god of the moon and, more prominently, the sciences.
Is that FTL music in the intro?
this mustve been the most nonchalant way ive been threatened to interact with a gun. here take this comment. fiiiine ^^
very awesome!! love it
Personally my biggest issue with boarding pods is that the enemies have the PDC's which are meant to take out fast, small and maneuverable missiles that come near them, and they are very good at this. So when you launch a boarding pod which is slower, bigger and less agile, I imagine it wouldn't go well for them, even if they themselves were stealthy as well.
This makes me think the boarding pods would be used only for civilian targets or otherwise disabled ships, something that isn't going to be moving very fast when you finally launch them, or very likely to counter them once you do. I don't really see these being used as an offensive move during combat where weapons are blazing in every direction and ships are constantly maneuvering, making it hard for a pod to match the movements without becoming a tasty space pancake.
Man this thing is annoying to fight in Project Stardust
Boarding might work better with a stealth ship. If aiming at a station just crawl in slow, sync up movement, then the pod doesn't need to rush. It could pull up like the ISS docking. THEN go loud when they breach.
Imo boarding would make more sense if robots were used, similar to what was used to steal tycho's protomolecule
Love your content!
Just wanted to say something about the boarding pods and when they where used in the show. The Donnager fight was in reality tactically sound for boarding. First the stealth ships closed distance and concealed there numbers with that line ahead maneuver using the drive of the first ship to mask the rest. Second stage of the fight was the overwhelming missile and railgun barrage to both close distance further and take out/ occupy the PDCs of the Donnager. Third and most crucially was the plasma torpedoes focused on the reactor sections of the ship to cut the engines. This part is very important because with the engines shut down the ship is essentially free floating in space meaning if the attacking ships match that velocity, the Relative velocity of the ships would be zero meaning the pods could easily fly over and attach at slow speeds before the drives where relit being covered by any active PDCs by floating space junk from the battle itself.
Its crazy that a VERY realistic tactic was used in a scifi show. In modern warfare its almost impossible to disable a ship to the point where it can be boarded without outright destruction of your target. Or the target scuttling itself to avoid capture like the Donny did.
"Semi automatic missile launcher"
Ooooohhhhh gimme. Gimme gimme gimme!
The breaching pods are deployed aftern Dony's main drive is disabled and she doesn't seem to be able to maneuver anymore. Also, the crew are unaware of the capability of the stealth ships, meaning none of them might not have thought about being boarded. As you said it yourself, boarding action on a speeding space warship is hilariously stupid so noone in the right mind is going to do it. Apparently, Protogen's merces are hilariously stupid enough to do so.
The stealth ships have quite advance weapon systems to supplement the lack in number of them, but only to certain extent. The ship can fire more torpedoes and railgun rounds for the same amount of time to other ship also means it will runs out of ammunition quicker. Given that the ship is not designed to be the pure attack ship, it stands to reason that they wouldn't be heavily loaded with ammunition.
I believe those pods aren't ment to be used against warships but the pack of stealth ships still don't have enough firepower the totally blowing up the Martian warship from outside so boarding the ship and try to blow it from inside is needed.
Is it legal to extrapolate in public?