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The high temperatures are the reason why it's still a largely experimental system; efforts to vacuumize the housing have so far proven to be futile, and while artificially-cooled and -circulated cooling gas in a closed system works well within normal operational parameters, superheating at loss of influential current has so far caused the gas (of whatever variety) to expand, thus damaging the housing and causing serious vapor leakage, or even causing an assembly-destroying explosion. | The high temperatures are the reason why it's still a largely experimental system; efforts to vacuumize the housing have so far proven to be futile, and while artificially-cooled and -circulated cooling gas in a closed system works well within normal operational parameters, superheating at loss of influential current has so far caused the gas (of whatever variety) to expand, thus damaging the housing and causing serious vapor leakage, or even causing an assembly-destroying explosion. | ||
- | The Demologos, like many of its contemporary systems, supplements its own motive steam supply by routing water through special spherical radiators integral to the structures of the armatures, which adds a level of safety as well as utilizing heat that might otherwise go to waste. The result is a system that is not very difficult to | + | The Demologos, like many of its contemporary systems, supplements its own motive steam supply by routing water through special spherical radiators integral to the structures of the armatures, which adds a level of safety as well as utilizing heat that might otherwise go to waste. The result is a system that is not very difficult to damage -- as long as the armor holds and projectiles don't go smashing around destroying the housings, or a spy doesn't get aboard and do some selective sabotage, or the radiators don't leak. |
'''Conventional Armament''' | '''Conventional Armament''' | ||
1. eight 9-inch guns in four turrets topside; a further 4 in two Nadir (underside) turrets | 1. eight 9-inch guns in four turrets topside; a further 4 in two Nadir (underside) turrets | ||
- | 2. 12 two-pounder steam-driven gatlings deck-mounted along the midline of | + | 2. 12 two-pounder steam-driven gatlings deck-mounted along the midline of teh hull. |
- | 3. Rocket tubes fore | + | 3. Rocket tubes fore and aft. |
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