@@tfw8738it’s more likely that “Luna burns” is a dramatic change in tone, because if it was still concise military language it would be less vague, like “___ performing de-orbiting burns”
@@tfw8738 Honestly, the fact that it's difficult to tell from context whether it's a sanitized technical description of a space maneuver or a dramatically laconic description of an extraplanetary nuclear exchange lend to the impact of the phrase. Sort of suggests the confusion that you'd expect in the opening hours of a war.
@@nf359it certainly feels like a tone change marker. IMO there's two possibilities: - Luna being a location on the Moon - Luna being the Moon itself Luna is Russian for "Moon" so it wouldn't be far fetched saying the Soviet Base on the Moon would be called that, what puts of this theory is the fact that the sentence "Luna burns" shows up before the video tells us that the Soviet Base on on the Moon's North Pole is attacked by the QRF. As for the second option, "Luna" is also latin for Moon, by using the latin word for moon and pairing it with "burns" it sets the tone very well that there's no going back from the point that Horizon LSS was destroyed, the cogs of war are now turning, the moon is now a battlefield, so it burns metaphorically and literally (nuclear fire).
@@fernandomarques5166 Terra and Luna tends to be used in SF to specifically refer to the Planet Earth and the Earth's Moon because the rest of the planet names are in latin(ish) and uncapitalized words have other meaning that may be used in same context(especially "moon" that can mean any natural satellite) Also, burn as orbital maneuver isn't usually paired with just the nearest celestial body. So it is indeed more likely to be a dramatic phrase.
The vehicles are silly though...but almost there...they'd look like a big space shuttle with vertices launch rubes so basically a submarine ...look up usss Curtis Lemay
I love how the Earth-Lunar map adheres to actual orbital mechanics and how a potential backup defence force would be stationed with eliptical orbits irl
Cold War-ish era space tech used in an interplanetary combat scenario is the coolest idea I never knew I needed more of. Reagan literally got his “Star Wars”.
Probably because that ship class are basically nuclear missile launchers, designed to hold and fire dozens, if not hundreds of nukes at both tactical and strategic yields. They are meant to do two things: - Long-ranged antiship combat - Nuclear bombardment of planets and moons.
Check out Children of a Dead Earth! I think there are a few missions that feature siloships in some way. Just be ready for a lot of orbital maneuvering....
@@bittertwigi just wish children of a dead earth had more variety. Computer-controlled ships all behave roughly the same way, they don't do any fancy maneuvering, and the ship design possibilities are very limited. Also, we need proximity fuses, and the campaign mode requiring that your armor remains pristine to get a gold rating on every mission is very dumb
"Man, regular space travel will be so cool! We'll get to see the sights and visit different planets and eventually get to live on them!" The cold reality:
Most people: "I wished I was an astronaut as a kid, but I soon learned I'd just have a boring life ahead of me..." Me: "I wished I was an astronaut as a kid before learning things about space that made me decide you couldn't drag me off of this rock kicking and screaming."
@@charonsferryold Like what exactly? Space Travel isn't exactly 5/5 on the safety rating but as far as things going wrong the worst you've got to worry about realistically is muscle decay and radiation.
@@MarinessNTUYea this specific one is short. But a series of this, detailing an intentionally convoluted narrative between two warring factions spanning up to 30 mins would be sick.
i feel like i've stepped into the coolest thing ever but have NO clue whats going on but im still going with it because its so awesome i love everything about this. the aesthetics, the ksp/bdarmoury, the music, the quotes, the tactical view of the ships, its all PERFECT
Heh, I don't know if it was the intention and maybe it's a bit silly, but this little animation just gives me a feeling of dread. "Luna burns", it just gives me chills, not even the vast expanse of space can save us from ourselves.
i like everything about this but the reason i rewatch it several times a day is because the music is SUCH a perfect fit. it really sets the tone and makes this a fantastic watch. i want more
I am not sure that half of the people here know this isn’t CGI and is infact “just” incredibly well edited Kerbal Space Program Edit: You guys are splitting hairs here, I am saying a lot of people don’t realise this was made in a video game rather than a 3D animation program.
1:17 I would recognize those parts anywhere. Tantarus is a great mod. Nothing says space socialism like non-androgenous docking ports, spheres of propellant, and of course, rocket pods in quad symetry
okay well now that I'm looking for the KSP in it... god yeah that's KSP footage taken with some good camera angles (and wonderful design) put through at least 3 filters and chopped up super well. And you know what? If I had to make shots like these, KSP would probably be my actual best option but I would not think of that for like, at least a couple months.
I feel like I stumbled into a gem out of nowhere! This world that you're building is so insanely cool. This is just the right amount of nerdy, and has been shared to my friends who absolutely had the same reaction: This is a work of art. I am excited to see what else you've got to bring.
I do love the idea that these futuristic military spacecraft are still armed with the M61 Vulcan, which is just a few years shy of being a WWII-era weapon system.
@@ruskiwaffle1991 true, but what I was getting at was the fact that the idea of what became the M61 was originally commissioned by the US Army in 1946. And in the CoaDE timeline, is a legitimate weapons system despite having migrated to a starship-mounted weapon system.
With no atmosphere and gravity, a mini gun would be a perfect weapons platform if you think about it. High volume of fire in a zero g environment would probably be devastating to ships.@zackakai5173
If they knew a way to make the M2 Browning .50 Cal to shoot in a Vaccum You bet it would be used. Hell they are using the same M2 Browning on the most advanced Tanks and IFV's they used on the Sherman Tanks and I bet if the atmosphere allowed the M2 browning to work it would be used constantly on that Planet
@@TRZ99 I don't recall the exact details but I'm pretty sure the USSR actually did have a mini gun of sorts on at least one of their space craft that was never used.
Imagine if you will, being an amateur astronomer on a warm summer night in July of 1997. The band of the Milky Way galaxy is overhead on the southern sky. Dazzling stars and dark nebulae stretch overhead past zenith. You instantly recognize two dimly lit blue stars: Neptune and Uranus. A noticeably bright star to the left was Jupiter, punching through the Moon's glow during it's waning gibbous phase. Finally, Saturn slowly rising on the eastern horizon. There, you eye the moon using your telescope and notice very bright and distinguishable pulses of light on it's surface. One after another, a hundred suns ignite the lunar skies.
Very nice, love the visuals. Just want to point out that Neptune and Uranus aren't considered visible to the unaided eye, but even a small nuclear weapon on the moon would be.
I'm intrigued by Pave Pulsar I/II... "PAVE" is a USAF prefix for various programs ranging from the Paveway series laser-guided bomb, to the Pave Hawk/Pave Low helicopters, Pave Tack targeting pod, etc. I'm thinking the most relevant though would be PAVE PAWS (Phased Array Warning System) that's made to detect incoming nuclear missiles and perform space surveillance.
And a pulsar (pulsating radio source) is a spinning, magnetized neutron star that emits powerful beams of electromagnetic radiation at very precise, very regular intervals. The way the beams "pulse" in and out of detection as they are directed at or away from Earth has been compared to a lighthouse.
also consider that modern phased array systems, when sufficiently powerful (a ground-based system could have a heavy powerplant indeed), are potentially useful not only for detection and tracking, but also electronic warfare and directed energy attacks
I cant tell how hard this goes, like I watch this around 5 times every day. This vid alone scratches the hard scifi itch in my brain like nothing else man.
*I FUCKING LOVE SPACE WARFARE* *I WANT TO BURN AT 1.5 G'S FOR 7 HOURS FOR AN ENGAGEMENT WINDOW OF 16 SECONDS AT 100 KM* *THEN WAIT 3 DAYS FOR THE NEXT MERGE BECAUSE THE EVASIVE BURNS TURNED THE ORBIT ECCENTRIC AND WE DON'T HAVE THE DELTA-V LEFT OVER TO CORRECT IT*
The graphics of KSP on top of the VHS effect really reminds me of Midwest Angelica's animated segments at some points and I fucking love it keep up the good work
This is easily the best iteration on the analog horror format I've ever seen. Innovation like this is what we need, not more boring monster concepts and predictable jumpscares. Keep up the great work
NUCLEAR PULSE PROPULSION? DSBF really making Project Orion. This is absolutely brilliant and I love hard scifi and I'm so watching all of this over and over again.
I didn't expect a Kerbal Space Program alt-history realistic space battle machinima to be what I needed but here I am. Great job whoever you are, you hit a topic that's extremely cool but extremely underexplored in media.
Man, this is a wonderful montage of escalation, with great aesthetics and perfectly timed music to boot. It feels like a snippet of a very plausible universe.
I just watched all your videos and THIS STORY IS AMAZING. It's all pretty much explained in the "LSR-926-5/92" video. Spoilers below. Stop reading if you want to watch for yourself. Ok here it is Seriously stop Fine The cold war with the Soviets has expanded onto the moon and further into the solar system. The non-Soviet alliance whose perspective we see has discovered an anomaly in a crater (Shackleton) and built a base around it (Horizon) on the surface of the moon. The anomaly seems to be a wormhole to somewhere else in the galaxy/universe. This opens up onto a planet with massive ice/water content, along with other valuable resources that are crucial for life in space. And here we see the Soviets attacking the facility on the moon, sparking all out war.
Not just attacking but, judging by the end, actually landing a followup ground force to travel through the wormhole and causing "the first extrasolar battle" on the other side
Did they? Horizon was still destroyed, enemy combatants crossed over the anomaly, and who knows if there are enough defenses on the other side to neutralize them
I've heard many, many times from various sources that realistic space combat (ship to ship, fleet to fleet) wouldn't be interesting nor exciting, that's why we have "star wars style" space combat in most scifi shows. Then i've read lost fleet series the expanse books and i thought "it's actually exciting but scary also". Then i've watched the expanse series and i immediately changed my mind. It's not that it's not interesting... It's absolutely *TERRIFYING*
There's a shot in the Expanse during the fight at Thoth station where 40mm PDC rounds are punching straight through the bridge of the Rocinante. The crew are strapped into their chairs and aren't turned to red mist purely through luck. It's a truly sphincter-tightening sequence
This video is so great, watched it like 20 times already. I love how it slaps with the scenes and music. Good work overall. Also so much attention to detail. Like damn watching it over and over made me notice so much.
Jeb bill and bob will only let horizon fall over their dead bodies they were their they were commanding the lunar point squad 2.3 to 1? Hahahah finally a fair fight
For some reason, this vaguely reminds me of, "A Colder War," by Charles Stross. When I watch this, I get a vague sense of unease as tensions over a not-fully-understood technology escalate wildly out of control with an uncertain -- but surely terrifying -- outcome.
@@matthewdev That makes sense, but lunar maneuvers don't require that much ΔV. Nuclear rocketjets would maybe be the optimal choice for most theaters of space war.
@josh_kerman you're right, but when you're fighting in space, sometimes you'd want more than just adjust your orbit, take Arcturus for instance, just adjusting your orbit to launch would still make the nukes take multiple hours to reach their targets, but with the orions they can just accelerate a lot more, a lot faster, launch whatever they're launching (reaching the targets a lot sooner than just a hohmann transfer), and then return to a stable orbit in a pinch. Meanwhile, most other kinds of nuclear rockets will have quite low thrust and less deltaV still, so you'd get higher response/reaction times, and require more constant refueling
Ok, so I'm having trouble keeping track of which ships are which. 0:26 Lockheed Quarterhorse (nice touch that it isn't Lockheed Martin, I guess the Martin Marietta merger never happened) 0:35 VKS Oscar gunship? the Quarterhorse has 1 gun, so it cant be that. 0:49 OSD Defender 0:52 Either the VKS Silocraft, or some unnamed OSD ship. It isn't the defender since there is no orion drive. 0:59 Some unknown OSD silocraft? it shows it launching nukes after mentioning that strikes were authorized against the north (VKS) 1:09 Quarterhorse again 1:14 no idea, maybe the VKS Silocraft again. 1:17 VKS Oscar gunship
0:52 is defo the VKS Olympic-class Silocraft, looks way too much alike the silhouette shown at the "Hostile fleet" section earlier. Biggest ID'ing features is the long silos running down the lenght of the craft.
1:14 is an OSD-1 exchanging fire with a Olympic/KoM-18 Ozone silocraft. 1:17 is actually a VKS Oarfish class interceptor. There's nothing about the Oarfish or the OSD-1 in the video, but its on the guy's twitter page.
Who needs analog horror when I can have analog hard scifi astro-naval combat
best sentance of today
@@smallboyahoy That's basically the best sentence I have ever heard in my life.
I didn't know I needed it, but now I need more
NGL this shit is more scary to me than actual horror
empyrean rings
I love the difference in language from the sanitized military report to the biblical "Luna burns" and "a thousand suns ignite the lunar skies"
luna burns is a orbital mechanic no?
a burn is firing the engines, i assume this just means its within luna's sphere of influence
@@tfw8738it’s more likely that “Luna burns” is a dramatic change in tone, because if it was still concise military language it would be less vague, like “___ performing de-orbiting burns”
@@tfw8738 Honestly, the fact that it's difficult to tell from context whether it's a sanitized technical description of a space maneuver or a dramatically laconic description of an extraplanetary nuclear exchange lend to the impact of the phrase. Sort of suggests the confusion that you'd expect in the opening hours of a war.
@@nf359it certainly feels like a tone change marker.
IMO there's two possibilities:
- Luna being a location on the Moon
- Luna being the Moon itself
Luna is Russian for "Moon" so it wouldn't be far fetched saying the Soviet Base on the Moon would be called that, what puts of this theory is the fact that the sentence "Luna burns" shows up before the video tells us that the Soviet Base on on the Moon's North Pole is attacked by the QRF.
As for the second option, "Luna" is also latin for Moon, by using the latin word for moon and pairing it with "burns" it sets the tone very well that there's no going back from the point that Horizon LSS was destroyed, the cogs of war are now turning, the moon is now a battlefield, so it burns metaphorically and literally (nuclear fire).
@@fernandomarques5166 Terra and Luna tends to be used in SF to specifically refer to the Planet Earth and the Earth's Moon because the rest of the planet names are in latin(ish) and uncapitalized words have other meaning that may be used in same context(especially "moon" that can mean any natural satellite)
Also, burn as orbital maneuver isn't usually paired with just the nearest celestial body.
So it is indeed more likely to be a dramatic phrase.
"Nuclear retaliation on the North" sounds definitely different to my Korean ears
North Lunar Juche
The fact that the defense contractor names are accurate to the late 90s (pre-mergers/consolidations) shows the extra work that went into the lore.
Rockwell 😭
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS 🔥🔥🔥
LOCKHEED MARTIN 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
@@thefrunze.198only lockheed
The vehicles are silly though...but almost there...they'd look like a big space shuttle with vertices launch rubes so basically a submarine ...look up usss Curtis Lemay
I love how the Earth-Lunar map adheres to actual orbital mechanics and how a potential backup defence force would be stationed with eliptical orbits irl
I mean, this was literally shot in modded kerbal space program xd
I think the maps are custom graphics. Very good attention to detail
Remember, it's quicker to switch to your side-arm than to scramble additional interceptors from the L1 transfer station.
lmao
Cold War-ish era space tech used in an interplanetary combat scenario is the coolest idea I never knew I needed more of. Reagan literally got his “Star Wars”.
Reagan: But I like The Expanse
Even got the submarine style missile pods
Try terra invicta
'Silocraft' is a very ominous ship class. I like it.
Probably because that ship class are basically nuclear missile launchers, designed to hold and fire dozens, if not hundreds of nukes at both tactical and strategic yields.
They are meant to do two things:
- Long-ranged antiship combat
- Nuclear bombardment of planets and moons.
Check out Children of a Dead Earth! I think there are a few missions that feature siloships in some way. Just be ready for a lot of orbital maneuvering....
@@bittertwigi just wish children of a dead earth had more variety. Computer-controlled ships all behave roughly the same way, they don't do any fancy maneuvering, and the ship design possibilities are very limited.
Also, we need proximity fuses, and the campaign mode requiring that your armor remains pristine to get a gold rating on every mission is very dumb
It's like an SSBN or ballistic missile submarine.
@@gargarmikejaphett.3840Damn, it suddenly makes so much more sense if the "silo" was referring silos for ICBMs and such
"Man, regular space travel will be so cool! We'll get to see the sights and visit different planets and eventually get to live on them!"
The cold reality:
Grow up
Most people: "I wished I was an astronaut as a kid, but I soon learned I'd just have a boring life ahead of me..."
Me: "I wished I was an astronaut as a kid before learning things about space that made me decide you couldn't drag me off of this rock kicking and screaming."
The quote "in space all wars are Cold Wars" perfectly sums this up
@@charonsferryold Like what exactly? Space Travel isn't exactly 5/5 on the safety rating but as far as things going wrong the worst you've got to worry about realistically is muscle decay and radiation.
@@yodamorpheus3128 "all you gotta worry about is becoming a jellified cancerous meat blob, but you know, no big deal."
star wars fans: haha lazer goes pew pew pew
Children of a Dead Earth enjoyers:
indeed
i was just thinking that COADE would be perfect for these settings
i was just thinking that COADE would be perfect for these settings
"M61 goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT"
Reads Hostile battle squadron composition:
Olympic Silocraft...
360 Nuclear Missiles PTSD
imagine being the soviet madlad drifting through an anomalous moon portal at high speed during a lunar orbital firefight
FULL SPEED FOR THE UNION
TRIIII POLOSKI
FOR PREMIERE SHELEPIN AND THE ETERNAL SOLAR UNION!!! GLORY FOR THE ONES WHO LOOK FORWARD!!!
SALVATION
One year later, the missing Soviet ship mysteriously reappears in orbit around Neptune. It broadcasts a distress call:
*_Спаси меня......_*
The POV shots with the "ONBOARD AUDIO" caption is so fire. It's what seals the deal in this thing. 9/10, would be a 10/10 if we get it longer.
It’s cut short to match the music
@@MarinessNTUYea this specific one is short. But a series of this, detailing an intentionally convoluted narrative between two warring factions spanning up to 30 mins would be sick.
@@MarinessNTU
Too bad it isn't with a little more material, show a lot of the clips for twice as long, and used the whole 3 and a half minute song.
GLASS THE MOON GLASS THE MOON GLASS THE MOON GLASS THE MOON
Gemini Home entertainment when HARD SCI-FI:
@@russkatherealoriginal6904Humanity when they finally build a space ship capable of destroying planets and then sent to iris to kill it
@@Wa_hhhhMan we're already cooked in GHE the Iris has already spread it roots on Earth
@@russkatherealoriginal6904neptune: 👁
YOU GLASS THE MOON
AND YOU GLASS THE SUN
"A hundred suns ignite the Lunar skies" is such an awesome mental image. Feels like the opening to a hard scifi classic novel.
KSP Analog Cold War Thriller is not what I expected to stumble into today but here we are, and here I stay.
*>A hundred suns ignite the lunar skies*
Goosebumps
L U N A B U R N S
IF WE CANT HAVE THE ANOMALY THE COMMIES MOAT CERTAINLY WONT GLASS EVERYTHING THEY OWN
Every time a setting so much as mentions Orion I get goosebumps, but that line was the crowning cherry on top.
"High Frontier" man's been reading SDI proposal docs.
i feel like i've stepped into the coolest thing ever but have NO clue whats going on but im still going with it because its so awesome
i love everything about this. the aesthetics, the ksp/bdarmoury, the music, the quotes, the tactical view of the ships, its all PERFECT
VAOS' Solar Nations lost episode❤
Would you go as far as to say you may have said to yourself, *"Oh my Gahh!"*
if there is a god, they have surely abandoned us
@@victor_silva6142 deep cut
@@nthedecent7717This series is almost as shocking as Yukari’s driving.
Earth mourns, for its daughter burns
Since Earth is the one doing the burning here, I'm not so sure about that
@@dsdy1205Earth has no control over its inhabitants' actions
"Do not let horizon fall"
39 seconds later:
For All Mankind if the writers knew about Project Orion:
Season 5 better have Orions or I'm losing faith in this show
@@ruskiwaffle1991 don't think it'll have it because it's way way in the future, where nuclear pulse propulsion just seems unreasonable
@@Aseanmappingmeh I find plasma propulsion even more futuristic than riding bombs to space
@@ruskiwaffle1991 exactly what I said
@@ruskiwaffle1991 Nuclear saltwater propulsion is even cooler but doubt we'll ever see sci-fi show that.
как же круто - размещение военных кораблей не парящими "где-то в космосе", а находящимися на конкретных орбитах
"7/22/97 THE HIGH FRONTIER IS A WARZONE" as guitars kick in is the defining moment of our generation
The fact that Orion propulsion battleships exist in this universe is both cool and terrifying at the same time.
This is easily one of the best high-concept solar war series I have ever seen, this shit has got me gooning
edging even
clean up aisle,, my ponts!!!!
Heh, I don't know if it was the intention and maybe it's a bit silly, but this little animation just gives me a feeling of dread.
"Luna burns", it just gives me chills, not even the vast expanse of space can save us from ourselves.
i like everything about this but the reason i rewatch it several times a day is because the music is SUCH a perfect fit. it really sets the tone and makes this a fantastic watch. i want more
I have absolutely no clue what I just watched, but I know that it was awesome.
I know it's weird commenting here, but your FAM Edits are amazing. I hope to see a Star City of Season 5 one once they come out!
Same!
I am not sure that half of the people here know this isn’t CGI and is infact “just” incredibly well edited Kerbal Space Program
Edit:
You guys are splitting hairs here, I am saying a lot of people don’t realise this was made in a video game rather than a 3D animation program.
1:17 I would recognize those parts anywhere. Tantarus is a great mod. Nothing says space socialism like non-androgenous docking ports, spheres of propellant, and of course, rocket pods in quad symetry
So it is KSP. Awesome.
okay well now that I'm looking for the KSP in it... god yeah that's KSP footage taken with some good camera angles (and wonderful design) put through at least 3 filters and chopped up super well. And you know what? If I had to make shots like these, KSP would probably be my actual best option but I would not think of that for like, at least a couple months.
i looked at the cockpit and RCS thruster and had a lingering suspicion
It's still CGI...
Базированная атака в космическом пространстве.
I feel like I stumbled into a gem out of nowhere!
This world that you're building is so insanely cool. This is just the right amount of nerdy, and has been shared to my friends who absolutely had the same reaction: This is a work of art.
I am excited to see what else you've got to bring.
I do love the idea that these futuristic military spacecraft are still armed with the M61 Vulcan, which is just a few years shy of being a WWII-era weapon system.
This video was set in the 90s, so having an M61 strapped onto a spaceship is reasonable.
@@ruskiwaffle1991 true, but what I was getting at was the fact that the idea of what became the M61 was originally commissioned by the US Army in 1946. And in the CoaDE timeline, is a legitimate weapons system despite having migrated to a starship-mounted weapon system.
With no atmosphere and gravity, a mini gun would be a perfect weapons platform if you think about it. High volume of fire in a zero g environment would probably be devastating to ships.@zackakai5173
If they knew a way to make the M2 Browning .50 Cal to shoot in a Vaccum You bet it would be used.
Hell they are using the same M2 Browning on the most advanced Tanks and IFV's they used on the Sherman Tanks and I bet if the atmosphere allowed the M2 browning to work it would be used constantly on that Planet
@@TRZ99 I don't recall the exact details but I'm pretty sure the USSR actually did have a mini gun of sorts on at least one of their space craft that was never used.
Imagine if you will, being an amateur astronomer on a warm summer night in July of 1997.
The band of the Milky Way galaxy is overhead on the southern sky. Dazzling stars and dark nebulae stretch overhead past zenith. You instantly recognize two dimly lit blue stars: Neptune and Uranus. A noticeably bright star to the left was Jupiter, punching through the Moon's glow during it's waning gibbous phase. Finally, Saturn slowly rising on the eastern horizon.
There, you eye the moon using your telescope and notice very bright and distinguishable pulses of light on it's surface. One after another, a hundred suns ignite the lunar skies.
Very nice, love the visuals. Just want to point out that Neptune and Uranus aren't considered visible to the unaided eye, but even a small nuclear weapon on the moon would be.
Anyone probed Uranus?
Dear God they're flying Orion ships. Honey! Pack the Hydrogen bombs, we're going to space!
Bro dropped the hardest retro hard sci fi video and thought we wouldn't notice
I'm intrigued by Pave Pulsar I/II... "PAVE" is a USAF prefix for various programs ranging from the Paveway series laser-guided bomb, to the Pave Hawk/Pave Low helicopters, Pave Tack targeting pod, etc. I'm thinking the most relevant though would be PAVE PAWS (Phased Array Warning System) that's made to detect incoming nuclear missiles and perform space surveillance.
Oh great, that's all we need, furries in space. There won't just be radiation belts around earth, there will be gay cum belts too.
And a pulsar (pulsating radio source) is a spinning, magnetized neutron star that emits powerful beams of electromagnetic radiation at very precise, very regular intervals. The way the beams "pulse" in and out of detection as they are directed at or away from Earth has been compared to a lighthouse.
also consider that modern phased array systems, when sufficiently powerful (a ground-based system could have a heavy powerplant indeed), are potentially useful not only for detection and tracking, but also electronic warfare and directed energy attacks
They are likely the early warning radars mentioned at the start of the video.
It's nice to know that The moon burned in nuclear fire on my birthday.
I cant tell how hard this goes, like I watch this around 5 times every day. This vid alone scratches the hard scifi itch in my brain like nothing else man.
0:39 Horizon was lost to this rhythm
*I FUCKING LOVE SPACE WARFARE*
*I WANT TO BURN AT 1.5 G'S FOR 7 HOURS FOR AN ENGAGEMENT WINDOW OF 16 SECONDS AT 100 KM*
*THEN WAIT 3 DAYS FOR THE NEXT MERGE BECAUSE THE EVASIVE BURNS TURNED THE ORBIT ECCENTRIC AND WE DON'T HAVE THE DELTA-V LEFT OVER TO CORRECT IT*
Dude you just made my heart skip a beat. Forever War (Haldeman) fan? 👍👍👍❤️
real
A sophisticated man, I see...
Children of a Dead Earth indeed!
"100 suns light up the lunar sky" is a hard ass line
The graphics of KSP on top of the VHS effect really reminds me of Midwest Angelica's animated segments at some points and I fucking love it keep up the good work
This is easily the best iteration on the analog horror format I've ever seen. Innovation like this is what we need, not more boring monster concepts and predictable jumpscares. Keep up the great work
The only horror I see is the horror of World War III breaking out.
I don't think this is analog horror 💀
@@dementia4452 You don’t think that space nuclear war around an anomalous portal to another planet, that is embedded into our Moon, is horror?
@@everythingsgonnabealright8888 huh....
@dementia4452 oh yea, on the third video in this channel it is revealed that Shackleton crater had a portal to another planet.
NUCLEAR PULSE PROPULSION?
DSBF really making Project Orion. This is absolutely brilliant and I love hard scifi and I'm so watching all of this over and over again.
back for my daily rewatch of this absolute masterpiece
I didn't expect a Kerbal Space Program alt-history realistic space battle machinima to be what I needed but here I am. Great job whoever you are, you hit a topic that's extremely cool but extremely underexplored in media.
First time watching this: ...?
Second time watching this: ...?!
Nineteenth time watching this: T H E H I G H F R O N T I E R I S A W A R Z O N E
Man, this is a wonderful montage of escalation, with great aesthetics and perfectly timed music to boot. It feels like a snippet of a very plausible universe.
escalation?! Everything exploded at the exact same time!!
This is really freaking cool. The atmosphere, music, and lore. Fuck man A+ I've been watching this twice a day just for the mood.
The alternate timeline where NASA had the same level of funding as the military
In this reality, it does not have the same budget as defense
*its the defense*
*bangs on table* Moon war! Moon war! Moon war!
keep rewatching these because they're just so good
Born too early to explore the stars, born too late in this Universe to participate in the Lunar War.
This is like a mashup of for all mankind and the expanse and im loving it
Both sides panic as the unthinkable happens
This feels like the FMV intro to the coolest late 90s space combat game that never existed
You want to colonize space to expand humanity’s horizons.
I want to colonize space to go to war with Mars.
We are not the same.
BOTH SIDES PANIC AS THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENS
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T H E D E A T H T O L L R I S E S A S E U R O P E B U R N S
Even in the far future we still use the Vulcan. God bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥
Funny enough this actually takes place in 1997 lol
Definitely has "The Expanse" and "For all Mankind" vibes....
LUNA BURNS
I just watched all your videos and THIS STORY IS AMAZING. It's all pretty much explained in the "LSR-926-5/92" video. Spoilers below. Stop reading if you want to watch for yourself.
Ok here it is
Seriously stop
Fine
The cold war with the Soviets has expanded onto the moon and further into the solar system. The non-Soviet alliance whose perspective we see has discovered an anomaly in a crater (Shackleton) and built a base around it (Horizon) on the surface of the moon. The anomaly seems to be a wormhole to somewhere else in the galaxy/universe. This opens up onto a planet with massive ice/water content, along with other valuable resources that are crucial for life in space.
And here we see the Soviets attacking the facility on the moon, sparking all out war.
Not just attacking but, judging by the end, actually landing a followup ground force to travel through the wormhole and causing "the first extrasolar battle" on the other side
Space T-90s lezgo.
Vulcan still being deployed on a space fighter is some typical MIC stuff
This is literally hottest war but in space and I fucking love it, keep it up!
God I've been playing modded ksp so much i instantly recognize every single part in here 😭
This is the most underrated space war animation I ever seen
I love every single detail of it
Keep going!!
Not even an animation, this is just really cleverly done Kerbal Space Program
@@Epicsurvivor21 i need the mods
@@LowerBudgetOppenheimer mods (not all) is named bd armorgy and orion project
The video's pace gives incredible Homeworld vibes
Absolutely amazing video
How does this video go so absolutely hard with no context
I do not know what this aesthetic would be called. But I love it. Reminds me of the diagrams of planet orbits and minimalist radar.
Gulf War Tech, I’d call it
I've heard it called Nasapunk
Cassette futurism, a subset of Retrofuturism
I have no idea what's going on here, but I want more of it. A lot more of it.
Thanks for the recommendation, TH-cam algorithm. These videos hold up very well in isolation.
Making astronautical calculations seems hard enough as is, I can’t imagine what it’d be like doing them fast enough to engage in combat
Well, not dying in space combat is a great motivator for it.
finally advanced math becomes useful
that's what AI is for
Highfleet: Balkan frontier
Forget analog horror. I want more analog war thrillers.
Where were you when you heard that the crew of the Armstrong bought the fleet critical time?
Did they? Horizon was still destroyed, enemy combatants crossed over the anomaly, and who knows if there are enough defenses on the other side to neutralize them
@@matthewdev They fought and died as Bombardiers. They flew the bombers, and the enemy lost the North.
Oh wow what a neat video I sure do hope a Chinese mobile game company does not steal this for their space mobile game.
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That shit was the coolest thing I've seen in years bro
I've heard many, many times from various sources that realistic space combat (ship to ship, fleet to fleet) wouldn't be interesting nor exciting, that's why we have "star wars style" space combat in most scifi shows. Then i've read lost fleet series the expanse books and i thought "it's actually exciting but scary also". Then i've watched the expanse series and i immediately changed my mind.
It's not that it's not interesting...
It's absolutely *TERRIFYING*
There's a shot in the Expanse during the fight at Thoth station where 40mm PDC rounds are punching straight through the bridge of the Rocinante. The crew are strapped into their chairs and aren't turned to red mist purely through luck. It's a truly sphincter-tightening sequence
"A hundred Suns ignite the lunar skies" sounds so hard
I have watched this 40 times it has done irreprepable change to my brain and I need more asap
this is the hardest ksp video ive ever seen
This whole video establishes an aesthetic.
This video is so great, watched it like 20 times already. I love how it slaps with the scenes and music. Good work overall. Also so much attention to detail. Like damn watching it over and over made me notice so much.
ghh Cold War in space stuff has me gooning
Finally a prequel to Deep Space Force
Bro, this is the second gooning comment on this video lol
@@perotekku i was probably the OG gooner
Go watch For All Mankind if you haven't already
@@Synthonym fourth season was meh but it's still enjoyable
Jeb bill and bob will only let horizon fall over their dead bodies they were their they were commanding the lunar point squad 2.3 to 1? Hahahah finally a fair fight
This is very reminiscent of Mister Manticore editing style..
I love it!
For All Mankind season 5 marketing going crazy
This video hit me like a train and I'm absolutely struggling to take in just how INSANELY well done it is. AWESOME
makes me want to play Children of a Dead Earth and Terra Invicta again
For some reason, this vaguely reminds me of, "A Colder War," by Charles Stross. When I watch this, I get a vague sense of unease as tensions over a not-fully-understood technology escalate wildly out of control with an uncertain -- but surely terrifying -- outcome.
Yeah, for real. I immediately thought of the XK Masada remote colony.
This is quite literally my favourite TH-cam video
Words cannot express how COOL THIS IS!!!!
1:09 Oh the minigun sound, this is modded KSP? Good editing!
Now the imagination has become a virtual reality.
Orion drives seem a little overkill for lunar orbital maneuvers.
General Atomics had to lobby a lot of folks at the pentagon to get that budget approved
Not if you want faster responses and more freedom to relocate your orbital assets
@@matthewdev That makes sense, but lunar maneuvers don't require that much ΔV. Nuclear rocketjets would maybe be the optimal choice for most theaters of space war.
@josh_kerman you're right, but when you're fighting in space, sometimes you'd want more than just adjust your orbit, take Arcturus for instance, just adjusting your orbit to launch would still make the nukes take multiple hours to reach their targets, but with the orions they can just accelerate a lot more, a lot faster, launch whatever they're launching (reaching the targets a lot sooner than just a hohmann transfer), and then return to a stable orbit in a pinch.
Meanwhile, most other kinds of nuclear rockets will have quite low thrust and less deltaV still, so you'd get higher response/reaction times, and require more constant refueling
This feels like a game from the late 90s that I somehow missed.
I might be hooked.
analog scifi action? I am absolutely interested. I do wish you left the text on screen a smiiiiiiidge longer.
I've seen this like ten times so far.
LUNA BURNS.
@@synthgal1090 LUNA BURNS
This got into my recommendations and I want more
luna burns gotta be one of the hardest lines ever
Ok, so I'm having trouble keeping track of which ships are which.
0:26 Lockheed Quarterhorse (nice touch that it isn't Lockheed Martin, I guess the Martin Marietta merger never happened)
0:35 VKS Oscar gunship? the Quarterhorse has 1 gun, so it cant be that.
0:49 OSD Defender
0:52 Either the VKS Silocraft, or some unnamed OSD ship. It isn't the defender since there is no orion drive.
0:59 Some unknown OSD silocraft? it shows it launching nukes after mentioning that strikes were authorized against the north (VKS)
1:09 Quarterhorse again
1:14 no idea, maybe the VKS Silocraft again.
1:17 VKS Oscar gunship
0:52 is defo the VKS Olympic-class Silocraft, looks way too much alike the silhouette shown at the "Hostile fleet" section earlier.
Biggest ID'ing features is the long silos running down the lenght of the craft.
1:14 is an OSD-1 exchanging fire with a Olympic/KoM-18 Ozone silocraft.
1:17 is actually a VKS Oarfish class interceptor.
There's nothing about the Oarfish or the OSD-1 in the video, but its on the guy's twitter page.
The World if Reagan’s Star Wars Program Actually Occurred (based)
so trve...
Who cares how expensive and unconventional it is, I want more of it