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SamSquared — Sul, Zero Hour
Published: 2013-10-23 14:59:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 14762; Favourites: 388; Downloads: 0
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A squad of marines attempt to push on a heavily fortified arms industrial complex manufacturing combat drones in the ongoing Sul conflict, aided by an array of high-tech weaponry:On the left is the Hypercane, a railgun-assisted rocket launcher which uses its onboard fabricator to adapt its warheads for specific tasks
In the centre is the Peltast, a burst-fire railgun which launches semi-guided foam-phase hydrogen rounds in bursts of one to three, with a muzzle velocity of up to two kilometres per second
In the bottom right corner is the Hyperion, a multi-mode free-electron laser which can fire a beam of x-rays or an electron beam guided by the x-ray corridor (electrolaser). It's yield per burst is up to 5MJ.
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Comments: 17
Old School throw down, last man standing situation, love it!
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Like the armor, looks cool except for the weapons they carry, i only like the background and the marines
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Digging the description man, but one question. Did you use other artwork to help build up yours?
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Are you sure this pic was drawn by you own?i think this pic is plagiarism.
ukitakumuki.deviantart.com/art…
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Fairly sure. The similarities are in the composition alone... I admired the piece for the sense of dynamism it conveyed. The differences are too numerous to list in their entirety...the soldiers armour - their helmets, shoulder plates and mantles - is nothing like Master Chiefs. Their weapons too are completely different. The lighting, structures in background and foreground, corpse, other marines, explosion, smoke, dust etc. all differ...
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did you use that pic as a template because the people in those pics are practically in the stance. but good none the less
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not bad , added to Finished Pieces in Sci-fi Archives sci-fi-archives.deviantart.com…
btw the anatomy of the second soldier is quite wrong, be more careful next time
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Yeah, the problem lies in the positioning of the legs. This was my first digital art piece and I had no idea it would take as long as it did - by the second marine (the last thing I did in the picture) I was bored of it and in an attempt to speed things up I copied the legs of the first marine, shrunk, flipped and painted over them. It has annoyed me increasingly ever since. I may come back to it someday, although I doubt it - the scene is fairly generic and not really 'of' anything in particular from my speculative fiction setting. Hopefully as I improve I will get quicker and impatience will no-longer get the better of me
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patience and practice is the first step to success
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How are these wonderfully-named weapons powered?
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I'm glad you asked! The peltast has an array of superconductor-based capacitors which it uses to power the railgun; the others are linked to capacitor arrays, in turn powered by compact Metallic-hydrogen fuel cells, based in the suits.
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Metallic hydrogen. Interesting.
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It releases something like 200MJ/kg when decomposed, and the fuel cell works by triggering the decomposition and using it to produce a relatively low-temperature plasma from which electricity can be extracted using a superconductor-based MHD generator
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