Oolite Bulletins

Lockheed-Martin have demonstrated a new laser which combines several fibre lasers into one powerful beam (just like the Annihilator in Xeptatl's Sword and probably other Oolite OXP ships).
However, they are ahead of us in some ways.

Fiber lasers are lasers where the active gain medium consists of an optical fiber doped with a rare-earth element, such as erbium, ytterbium, neodymium, or others. The optical fibers are flexible, so the laser can be thousands of meters long for greater gain, yet takes up very little space because it can be coiled like a rope, and the large surface to volume ratio means that it's easy to cool.

So we need fibre lasers before we can have laser cooling boosters! <ducks>
I suppose to be truly Oolitey though, only drones (NPCs) could have these - manned vessels (players) should only have a single-beam laser.

Where's that Chimpanzee with the baseball bat?

(Although I still think switchable lasers would be a good idea)
(Also ducks)

Quacks!

Maybe LM has just invented the military laser? After all, what is this techno-babble supposed to mean?

"The Military Laser, despite the marketing hype, is nothing more than a beam laser with additional laser tubes."

I get the impression from Google that laser tubes are a laser beam emitter, used in cnc machines and such. Additional laser tubes presumably means more lasers into one larger beam?

There's some serious tech on that site. Mine detector in shoe was a favorite, but not entirely sure that being warned just before you tread on a mine is a good idea.

NigelJK wrote:

not entirely sure that being warned just before you tread on a mine is a good idea.

It beats being warned just as, or just after, you tread on a mine..

Diziet Sma wrote:

NigelJK wrote:

not entirely sure that being warned just before you tread on a mine is a good idea.

It beats being warned just as, or just after, you tread on a mine..

Ah, good old British Technology

Diziet Sma wrote:

NigelJK wrote:

not entirely sure that being warned just before you tread on a mine is a good idea.

It beats being warned just as, or just after, you tread on a mine..

Anything can be a mine detector... once.

Reminded of a bit from Blackadder Goes Forth.

"Captain, if we should trod on a mine, what should we do?"
"Standard procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 50 feet into the air and scatter yourself over a wide area."