Wouldn't that really make the cathedral stand up?
No, why limit themselves to a cathedral?
The core of Richard's design was a massive, stable base. Since it was difficult to miniaturize, why not scale it up instead?
Making fortresses move and creating gigantic mobile bastions had once been one of the approaches to warfare.
If he couldn't move forward, he could simply turn back the clock!
Like railway guns?
The armored locomotive they had built before had been quite successful, but its applications were somewhat limited, so it had remained unused.
Could they now try mounting the Dragon Breath Cannon on an armored train?
As long as the train itself was massive enough, it could offset the recoil from firing.
That actually seemed feasible.
It could be mounted on ships, on trains, and in the future, on large combat fortresses as well. Overall, it was still fairly practical; they just had no way to miniaturize it for the time being.
Theus had actually first considered adding a de Laval nozzle and modifying it into a recoilless gun.
A recoilless gun, so called because the sealed rear of its firing chamber was removed.
Without that seal, there would naturally be no recoil—but the shell would barely be able to fire out, either.
So a de Laval nozzle was added to the rear, using some simple fluid mechanics to compress the gases.
But on closer thought, the design was a little awkward. Richard had said he had to hold the bottom to soothe the Machine Soul; touching the side wasn't reverent enough.
Sticking his hand inside to fire wouldn't affect the recoillessness, but it would be rather hard on the hand.
Moreover, whatever this hand cannon spewed out looked troublesome. It couldn't simply be sprayed behind them at will; after all, the