Ok, hear me out. The hull number is for the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which was deactivated in 2012. After that, instead of decommissioning, Elon Musk decides he needs a private military and hires Erik Prince to set it up. He buys the still-intact Enterprise, gets it modified the way he wants it, and sends it to Brazil to force X/Twitter back into service there. Full of Blackwater/Xe mercenaries, meth and coke are distributed to all personnel as daily rations. Fueled by the success of their first mission (and lots of drugs and alcohol), the bastard craft took to the high seas. It resembled a mobile party now, but a heavily-armed party. They looted, they raided, they held whole cities to ransom for fresh supplies of cheese, crackers, guacamole, spare ribs and wine and spirits that now get piped aboard from floating tankers.
I would like to participate in any rpg campaign you dm.
And they would immediately be taken out by a single precision strike by an actual warship the second they got within 100 miles of any US territory or any US military ship out on patrol.
project 2025 probably defunds the military along with NOAA.
Trump will just divert the entire military budget into his personal accounts.
I’m guessing Ford and Slartibartfast will try and get in to this floating party, and it’ll hit Arthur in the small of the back somehow :D
Zaphod, not Slartibartfast.
This sounds a tiny bit like the plot of Snow Crash
All it’s missing is a rag-tag flotilla city towed along behind the carrier.
I think this leads to the Snow Crash timeline.
This is what you get, when you put the army in charge of a carrier, instead of the boat people.
Yeah, give it to the Coat Guard where it belongs.
Basically the entire plot to the ExFor series. Buck Army Colonel finds himself in command of an alien starship somehow. The series is one extremely non credible event after another and aware of itself.
This plot point sounds vaguely Macross/Robotech derived, and I love that. I might have to check that out.
If you like cheesy military sci-fi that makes fun of itself, blended with pretty unique wargame and battle concepts you’ll love it. The audiobooks are a must, RC Bray is brilliant.
Amen, fellow monkey.
Why do you want the army in charge of the boat people?
Hardie,har har.
That’s actually pretty good.
Napoleon: The navy is just an army on boats
Cao Cao: agreed, how hard can it be?
… and someone has allowed a local news helicopter to fly over the ship to provide live video footage of an active war scene.
Note the 6th bubble: not only is this the first carrier with a deck mounted 16" turret, it’s got a ro-ro ramp for the tank!
it’s got a ro-ro ramp for the tank!
I just laughing at the implications of this.
Sir, we have to abandon the mission. The enemy has closed their deep sea port - we cannot possibly launch an amphibious assault.
After reading that I’m convinced I would love a reaction video series where some military expert just eviscerates G.I Joe episodes.
I watched an episode just last night where the U.S.S. Flagg got it’s shit slapped by a handful of Cobra aircraft. It basically looked like the picture above.
Entire front end is useless for takeoff and landing. Also, LOTS of heads gonna roll for an entire carrier group failing to protect the fucking carrier.
Well yeah its blocked off, thats where you park the tanks! Jeeze, it’s like you’ve never heard of AFV flight deck deployments before.
Also your F-117s are rocket powered or some shit because those flames are coming from the one place that isn’t exhaust
I mean, in fairness, at least the Mig-29 and F-117 are contemporaries, and deployed by enemies. I’ve seen playsets that include (iirc) an F-16 and a B-17 dogfighting against one another.
While the F-16 has the stronger letter, the B-17 takes the lead on the number. It’s still anybody’s game.
This is gold, thank you.
I thought the F117a doesn’t have a2a capabilities. It acts like a hole in the sky, drops a couple of bombs and then the distant AWACS plane laughs maniacally.
a2a bombs, silly
you fly over them and drop your ordnance
Sounds like a pretty normal day to me.
