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Comments for 'Chapter One: Part I, Discovery of an Enemy' |
CoLd BlooDed
11:09 am | July 16, 2004
This was very good, although I'm just reading this series because you told me to. It's very long... but if every chapter is this length or shorter, I should get it done by today or tomorrow. Great work on the ODST, I'm glad that Helljumpers glad, because if he isn't impressed with how someone does the ODSTs, I won't be impressed either. ;)
Anyways, good job, this was pretty good for your first chapter. I'll read the rest of the series now and post short comments.
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Darkest90
11:22 am | May 20, 2004
I believe that the spiffy binoculars part was all fine. If the UNSC have built ships that can enter Slipspace and go all around the Galaxy, then they can surely make a pair of binoculars that can estimate the weight of a locked-in object.
Just make sure that your characters remember that it is just an estimation of weight, not the real thing.
Help me out on a few things, I haven't read the books.
What is ONI, and what is ODST? Thanks.
This was a very enjoyable story, thanks for the read. There were a few small errors I found, but I'll let them pass.
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Helljumper
1:23 am | May 20, 2004
yo Darkest, you need to read the books. ONI stands for Office of Naval Intelligence. they do top secret undercover type stuff. Now ODST stands for Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, aka Helljumpers, they are the special forces of the Marines. Read Halo the Flood to get a better understand of them. regular Marines go in by Pelican dropships, ODST go in by Human Entry Vechiles aka HEVs. Its a drop pod with one soldier in it, that is shot out of a ship into the atmosphere of a planet.
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russ687
6:30 pm | May 19, 2004
About the bino's,
The binoculars cannot tell weight exactly, but it can estimate it. By finding the approximate size of the heat source (with the IR sensor), then comparing it to a known size nearby (like a tree, for example) it can esitmate the size of the object. In order to do this, the user of the binoculars would have to manually put in the size of the refernce object, and because all the trees are roughly similar, the user can just look at the average tree, and enter the info in for the calculations (I know that wasn't said in the story, but that's how I thought it out). The Range estimate is calculated the same way; by finding the size of the object, it can cross refernce again with a stationary object that the user knows the dimensions of (or in this case the apporixate dimensions). The result can be double checked by the motion sensor as well. Of course, this is assuming technology in 500 years is far more advanced. And also take into account that the esitmates are not always correct, as you might see later on in the story. :)
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Helljumper
2:38 pm | May 19, 2004
I like how you are doing my ODST. Keep it up, I'll be watching this series. One question, how can binoculars tell somethings weight, wouldn't that require a scale, and then is the planet the same size as earth to have the same gravity.
anyway good story, if u haven't then you should ready all my stories. I only write about the ODST.
oh yea wat kinda rifle is this spec ops team using. COuld u describle it, kind of round, mag size, scope? stuff like that.
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