5 Real Historical Death Stars (Complete With Baffling Flaws)

Many of you are probably wondering if I'm obsessed with Cracked.com. The main reason all the articles that I post come from it is that I'm too lazy to actually go out and search for other articles.

Lol. Okay.

So. What are these machines that the Iga'Vi are supposed to have?

War ships, tank-like things, cannons on wheals, etc.

Other transport includes wildlife such as bigger and more brutish relatives of the Skylar, "horses" and Behemoths (see the species list/archive/thing), all normally equipped with incredibly light, yet incredibly strong armour and weapons such as rather large cross-bows, cannons and steam-driven guns.

Are crossbows very prevalent as hand held weapons or are they just Scorpion and Ballista style weapons?

Both. The Ballista types are mainly found on Behemoths (which I am planing to rename) and war vehicles.

Tank-like things? Sounds scary...

You bet.

For some reason I was imagining Steampunk tanks... Maybe its just me and my absolute fascination with steam-powered walkers. Ofcourse this was also mixed with my strange ability to put Asian references on everyting, so these walkers were armed with Chinese rockets with a Napalm variant. But this is just me, I doubt this is even likely to be had on any planet...

Sorry I have been gone... I just Got Garrys Mod, and it is very fun to make really big spaceships. Now if only I had a good internet connection to Pwn some Mingebags...

Garry's Mod is awesome.

Steam punk tanks sound epic.

Agreed. We must have armored vehicles.

Now for functional reasons, I'd put it at below WWI standards because of the rest of technological progress. Perhaps a wheeled vehicle, (very) small cannon, more of a moving shield then tank, otherwise loading the gun would be impossible. Nothing large could be made since the steam engine can't be very well designed this early on in its developement. But a moving shield with a small cannon carried around inside it with other soldiers could work well. I suppose with multiple engines they could make good-sized vehicles though. Not fast certainly but well armored. They could only fire the cannon stationary though. I fully support the armored vehicles though.

Balu and Lichen both basically just summarised Iga's tanks, but without the details.

And any in-closed vehicles would be miniature hells for their occupants. They'd also need a way to fuel the heat for the steam....

Could the Guns be fired with pressure made of gas simply being rapidly emitted? Or perhaps also with large amounts of heat along with the reaction.

Dunno. We still have the question of fire and combustion in a CO2 atmosphere hanging.

Fire can't exist without oxygen so there will be no fire.

Now other chemical reactions that produce rapidly large amounts of heat or gas will work.