Iron Ladies - Ch. 201 - He Reduced the Powerful Enemy Ships to Dust

[Tych]

@WillTell

so if we were to put an analogy to it think the giant space ocean in the prelude to the final fight of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

 

[Muklas]

Guy is shooting compressed planets at things, shit's hilarious.

 

[thegentelman]

(0.0) OOOOOoooOoOOOOoooooooOooOOOoF

 

[Ravezta]

Imagine riding a bike and a big truck riding pass near you from the opposite road with high speed

You can feel the wind pushing you right?

Now imagine rather than being pushed, you're being pulled in to that truck

Being crashed by a truck is one thing
Killed after being shot by a bullet so dense, your whole house also imploded is entirely diferent

 

[Cyoteblack]

In theory, if done correctly (I refuse to post all of the math and physics of this), provided there is a way to keep the pressure on, think Tsar Bomba explosion is a sugar cube-sized bullet.

 

[MisterXiado]

To visualize gravity, imagine placing a bowling ball on a mattress, and what would happen if you rolled a tennis ball near it. It would "fall" toward the pit created by the bowling ball. Now imagine this phenomenon in 3D. A sufficiently massive object would create a three dimensional gravity well, pulling things toward it from all directions. An absurdly massive object would distort space and bend light.

 

[CoolOtamegane]

Spoiler

 

[Zaflis]

> I think it's more impressive that he managed to maintain a cube shape. Normally, wouldn't something like that be relatively spherical?

Depends on how he produced them. Say filling a cup with water and freezing it makes a very predictable shape, also filling cubic containers in mass would propably be fast and take the least amount of storage space.

In planet atmosphere the sphere would move faster, while cube would heat up more and move unpredictably (though object of huge mass and velocity wouldn't be much flinched). But in space there is no air resistance so shape doesn't matter. As for impact, a sphere would punch through the hull smoothly, while cube causes more destruction.

 

[Jyoohan]

Turned a planet into a dyson sphere battery... nice.

 

[episode]

No no its just thanos shit believe me

 

[snakeyes]

and the battles are now past my comprehension. thanks Allen!

 

[Fim]

For projectiles, their shape is defined by 3 factors: the shooting, the traveling, and the impact. Since there is no air resistance in space, it's just 2 factors. Destruction caused by a cube shape shouldn't be that much diffrent from spherical, so that is probably no real issue. But to fire a cube shaped projectile, the barrel of your gun would need to accomodate that shape, so using something round would be a lot more logical.
Why it is still a cube: The author explained the denisty of white dwarf matter by using sugar cubes. To make the dumb reader realize immediately that the projetiles are made of that matter, they are shaped like that. No other reason.

Also there is no "science" behind using white star matter for projectiles. And in this story, it's just dense matter, which means it takes a lot more energy to accellerate it, and conversely takes a lot more energy to slow it down - therefore penetrating all shields and hulls of the enemy fleet. In the end it's just a type of bullet with strong penetration properties.

Also thumbs up for not using "megagramms" this time.

 

[FreeLanceQCT]

Thanks Allen!

 

[Velsy]

pfft "do you know the consequences of your actions ?" Um yeah, I sure he really cares at this point.

But that aside, feel like things and explanations are getting more BS tho.

 

[SilentCrucifixion]

Thanks, Allen!

@Velsy
The explanations have been poor from the start, but the story has certainly been spiraling further and further into forcing us to accept that MC is a god and through him all things are possible.

 

[Mathiason]

Thanks for the translation!
Where did he find a white dwarf whose material he could harvest and why a white dwarf? Would have made more sense if he grabbed and used some of the black hole material before using it to warp or would that have been stretching him being able to do it too far so was a white dwarf because impressive but not the ultimate densest material. Wonder how much each shot costs or is it negligible because collected it himself? MC is really OP, although looks like still has limits as hasn't been able to restore Copperhead in a body of her own yet and still has her as part of Dragon Queen. Can get using cubes since used a sugar cube for example but spherical would've been better. A sphere would have one main point of initial contact with a target while a cube would have equal contact across the entire side that hit. Also, accuracy is increased by spinning so a sphere would have no difference in aim no matter which side was facing which way but across big distances whether the corner or side of the cube is impacted to launch could distort precision aim. Well, anyway hope this encourages Hu to avoid any future contract breaking and act honorably with Mu. Although considering he saved what's left of 3 Crows fleet and Himiko she should be smart enough to straighten her act up. Would be funny if Battle Puppet asks her if should shoot and she tells him only to shoot off the engines, recover the Seed and give the rest of Ditu fleet and main ship several 21 gun salutes. Then after Seed secured tells the twins that since taking the seed back 3 Legged Crow will return the money they paid, with interest, for the seed in the same coin they had paid in. About 6-7 million dollars worth of 3 Legged Crow's ordinance fired their way.
Crazy how the bad guys always act like they're above the law and rules can't touch them while they think their in a superior position yet those are the things they fall back on when the shoe is on the other foot. Dowager is really stupid for asking about consequences. Doesn't she remember the same thing happening with Ditu's second prince when she told Iron Pagoda not to kill him? Be nice if she died on the big ship so Princess Pleides wouldn't have to marry Emperor Ditu and lose his only pawn in Pleides government.

Considering the mass and weight of white star material it's probably fired with energy like a railgun since he's got a whole planet to use for a power source although can't say whether magnetic charges play a part or not. Not like can use a localized explosion like bullets to create propulsion or use a rapidly repeating physical catapult system like Van Helsing's bow in the movie.

PS Considering Ditu offset having a low population (likely due to maintenance feeding all the beast puppets) with high tech they must really be short on human resources considering this is the second fleet of thousands destroyed within a year. Hope they were all paid for in full cause if Ditu was paying in installments he's going to be paying for the largest collection of scrap metal for decades. Not only that, but sons 1 and 3 should leave the family, get a heart and conscience and run considering sons 2 and 4 are dead and 5 and 6 are about to join them. Speaking of the Ditu family, considering the Emperor Ditu introduced the Dowager to the late Emperor Pleides does anyone know if she's really Ditu's wife, sister or blood related family? Seems too hell bent on selling out Pleides to Ditu despite being in a great position of power and protecting the princes to just be Ditu's lackey. Especially with the family tradition of one male royalty's wife is any other male royalty's plaything.

 

[Muklas]

@Velsy guy literally has "heaven defying" as part of his chuuni title, you'd think people would get a clue by now.

 

[MaxReboBand]

Thanks for the upload Allen. I think i can say for everyone we really appreciate the work you put in for translating this.

 

[Velsy]

@SilentCrucifixion Yeah thats kinda what I am afraid off. its BS is getting deeper and deeper to your point hes acting like a god.

 

[firosahoge]

epic ending and epic excuse: im too dumb