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In addition to protection against kinetic projectiles, such as bullets, the armor would vaporize when hit with beam weapons, creating a small puff of particles that helped diffuse the beam.
Ablative armor vs. energy weapons. The armor would need repair after every fight or it would eventually be burned through.
He would name himself after the ship that Brooks had commanded that day. He would be the USS Canon.
Them "USS" part of the name is inappropriate, as this vessel does not belong to the United States Navy. I'm surprised he doesn't name the ship "Brooks" after the Captain he admired. That is the typical model for naming vessels in the U.S. Navy.
Watkins had to give the verminkin chief credit; he worked as hard, or harder, than his people. Skitterbach could have easily sat back and tried to boss everyone around while he relaxed, but the guy genuinely wanted to be useful.
Skitterbach is a Leader, not a Boss. Leaders act as examples and try to inspire their followers; a Boss typically gives orders and expects compliance.
I was going to scrap ten of the drones and replace them with MOBS,”
Building units, scrapping them, and then rebuilding them to change the deployment is wasteful. He should find a way to just shutdown, or sleep, units which he isn't using. That would give quicker redeployment and greater flexibility to respond to different situations.

