OBT Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

AU Developers - Please PM Knightmare or MechRat if you need board or permission changes

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: taurian nuclear weapons-reunification war era  (Read 564 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Hairbear541

  • Kavallerist
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 126
taurian nuclear weapons-reunification war era
« on: July 20, 2015, 10:05:16 PM »

I've been thinking lately about the US nuclear weapons of the 1950's ...ie the davy crockett and the atomic cannon of the US Army .. would the taurians have had any of these in their arsenal or something very much like them . your thoughts and comments are very helpful .
thank you
Logged
the original old salty sea dog

Ice Hellion

  • Protector of the Taurian Concordat
  • KU Player
  • General
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4,481
  • Beware of the all-seeing eye: Ice Hellion
Re: taurian nuclear weapons-reunification war era
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2015, 01:55:01 PM »

They had access to WMD, ie nuclear, chemical and bacteriological weapons.
Logged


"In turn they tested each Clan namesake
in trial against the Ice Hellion's mettle.
Each chased the Ice Hellion, hunting it down.
All failed to match the predator's speed and grace.
Khan Cage smiled and said, "And that is how we shall be."

The Remembrance (Clan Ice Hellion) Passage 5, Verse 3, Lines 1 - 5

Hairbear541

  • Kavallerist
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 126
Re: taurian nuclear weapons-reunification war era
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2015, 08:58:11 PM »

ice , thanks for the come back . I know from canon they had the big anti-ship and most likely the iron bomb type nucs' . but what i'm asking is would they have had the the Davy Crockett infantry launched nuc or the artillery fired nuc shells or systems very much like them .
Logged
the original old salty sea dog

lrose

  • General
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,664
Re: taurian nuclear weapons-reunification war era
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2015, 11:01:52 PM »

If you read Periphery 1e, there is no mention of the TC using Nukes during the RW- they did use chemical weapons and possibly Bio Weapons but no explicit mention of nukes- in at least 1 case it mentions the TC used high explosive and incindiary weapons against the SLDF invaders.  The use of nukes really appeared during the Periohery uprisings in the 2760s.  (I did not re-read H:RW and I don't remember if they retconned Periphery 1e in it.).

So to answer your question, while the TC probably had nukes I doubt they had tactical scale weapons- they probably had mainly space based nukes for use against warships.  Keep in mind the Concordat (as originally presented ) was not interested in expansion through conquest.  From their founding to the 2570 the Concordat fought to defend itself, the only time they started a war was Ariana's War against the Capellans.  So if their focus is on defending their worlds, they probably did not want tactical nukes- do you really want to nuke your planet to save it from invaders? 
Logged

Ice Hellion

  • Protector of the Taurian Concordat
  • KU Player
  • General
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4,481
  • Beware of the all-seeing eye: Ice Hellion
Re: taurian nuclear weapons-reunification war era
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2015, 02:44:44 PM »

ice , thanks for the come back . I know from canon they had the big anti-ship and most likely the iron bomb type nucs' . but what i'm asking is would they have had the the Davy Crockett infantry launched nuc or the artillery fired nuc shells or systems very much like them .

According to Historical Reunification War, they had mobile launchers deployed via infantry.
Logged


"In turn they tested each Clan namesake
in trial against the Ice Hellion's mettle.
Each chased the Ice Hellion, hunting it down.
All failed to match the predator's speed and grace.
Khan Cage smiled and said, "And that is how we shall be."

The Remembrance (Clan Ice Hellion) Passage 5, Verse 3, Lines 1 - 5
Pages: [1]   Go Up