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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edward Kann@StoryART" data-source="post: 1781149" data-attributes="member: 23128">The Space U-Boat (The S-Boat)Hi WWII fanboys.  I am banging my head against a wall trying to figure out a good idea for a stealth field for the german s-boats in my Rocketship Empires campaign.At the moment I am thinking of having them work in the following fashion:"Martian" technology (the aliens that have made contact with Earth in the Rocketship Empires back-story are assumed to be Martians even though they are not) stolen by german spies has been adapted into a temporary stealth field used by the dangerous german S-Boats who patrol the space lanes leading into the Kingdom of Spain.German S-Boats have been known to target and destroy foriegn ships suspected of carrying war materials to support the besieged royalist factions in the systems still controlled by the Kingdom of Spain.The Martian technology creates a bubble or pocket universe around the S-Boat with only a very small worm hole connecting the artificial pocket universe to the main universe.  S-Boats are known to extend a sensory device (basically the parascope) up out of this worm hole to monitor the surrounding area for passing ships.  S-Boats are unable to move when concealed within this pocket dimension but they can lay in ambush along a common route used to establish an orbit or a route used by shipping for either gravity breaking or gravity slingshots through a well charted system.When the Martian cloaking technology is engaged it pulls such a draw of energy from the Martian reactor that most other systems are drained to the point of shutting down or fluttering in and out of operation.  S-Boats must rely on battery power to operate the most basic systems with reliability while "running silent".  The greatest impact is a significant drop in the capabilities of the ship's life support system.  Oxygen reserves dwindle and the vessel will slowly cool until it becomes uninhabitable outside of space suits.  Ultimately the S-Boat must reappear / surface or the crew will expire.So far I am thinking that a crew will expire from the freezing cold long before their oxygen completely goes.British destroyers are experimenting with equipment that detects the small worm holes generated by S-Boats in hiding.  The British are developing a weapon that will collapse a small artificial worm hole trapping the S-Boat in the artificial pocket universe that it has created or possibly forcing the pocket universe to collapse leaving the S-Boat revealed and vulnerable for attack.Anyway.  Just thinking out loud here.  Not sure if this has been done before.  There is a LOT of science fiction that i haven't read sadly.  Impossible to keep up with it all.  Trying to come up with something at least sudo original.  (I've learned that there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to writing.)Ed</blockquote>

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