stDarNES1: Stars!

Darwin420 said:

@Erik - Well, you never said you'd make this easy for me. I'll ruminate on your suggestions and make my decision by tomorrow.

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Suggestion - Bio techs double the population on all star systems. +5m pop in all systems is too discrete, IMO. Energy techs invest all but one point towards the next level.

What the bleep do economy levels do anyway, since each system produces its own stuff?

Story:

The Economy Levels are a representation of the overall health of your Faction Economy. A stronger Economy will give you extra EP each turn, but a weak Economy will LOSE you EP each turn.

So, are they in addition to the star production, or is each system multiplied by economy level, or what?
Having economy levels in a game where each system has a production stat seems unecessarily complicated.

The Economy Level is a single bonus that can be used anywhere in your Faction. If you have, say, a Rich Economy, that's 3EP you will receive a turn, in addition to however many EPs your Star Systems are pulling in. It is not a bonus to EVERY star system.

I think it's a neat addition.

OOC: Almost all knowledge of Humanity before fall of Dominion has been lost by the peoples of Miria.


The Book Of Truth

Within Miria there exists a group who call themselves the Goners.

Goners are a cult originating with A Great Prophet called Hr'Gunner, Goners being an extrapolation of this name. Hr'Gunner told of A great Empire, originating from a Blue and Green Planet somewhere in the western spiral arm of the Galaxy. Many beleive this religious organisation, worshipping old stories and myths of the old Dominion.

However the Goners are gaining converts, beleivers think the Human race is much older than it appears. Pointing towards the genetic code and how some scientists beleive that some sections have been previosuly tinkered with, although the biological science is too undeveloped to make any definite hypothesis. Others point to the Gates in the System, declaring that they must have been left by other humans. Critics state that it was infinitly more likly to be an intelligent alien culture. Either case, most proponenets have agreed to term them artifacts of the "Old Ones".

The current Leader of the Cult, Noah, has repeatadly warned the Government of a Deamon called the 'Scourge' in the ancient texts. A biological plague that was the Downfall of the Old Kingdom. The Government has ignored them and has begun making preperations of exploring the gates they have found in their system.

It is said that the Cult is intrested in finding the Birthplace of mankind for the good of all, and reuniting with them, and to this end have been employing Engineers to design fast, heavily sheilded ships with no armanents being pacifists.

OOC: You know this is what should have happened

As an Aside basically the various population centres fractured and became independent countries, some advancing in tech and others stagnating, resulting in a kind of Europe goes and colonies a hell of a lot of places.

Recent (condensed) History of Miria

The World of Hr'Tor was united under the government of a single nation during an Empire building period.

The Kingdom of Miria the largest Empire amoung all the other nations took the enevtual step of federalising their nation, after a failed revolution in one of their richest colonies. This resulted in a stable Empire, although the homeland became a place of tradition and after the first couple years, the layout of the population in the Empire meant the old Colonies had more voting power than the Homeland. This resulted in a series of Colonial Prime Ministers, that paid almost equal attention to all areas of the Empire. A Revolt in the Homeland was quickly put down at the cost of many lives, however a fairly iconic open letter from the King at the time speaking of liberty, equality and fraternity, quelled a lot of the disturbence Leaving what was commenly viewed as the Extreme right Wing Traditionilists losing more and more support.

During this period of course the other Empires had their own problems and disagreements, The Empires were becoming increasingly more rebellious and unruly. In a series of disagreements The Kingdom of Miria annexed the other nations crumbling Empires putting them on a path to Federalisation with the Kingdom Of Miria, often in the intrest of liberty, equality and fraternity. This Of course led to a rapid unballence in the differnences of power between the Old Empires and the New Federalised one. This resulted in a bloodthirsty war, Where the Old Empires were broken.

In the Resulting aftermath, and the following centruries the Various Old Empires were forced to join The Federalised Empire, nominally as Equal states, but truly defeated nations.


The Large population of Such a Kingdom however resulted in rapid advances in bio-technology as they quickly came up with methods to geneticaly modify plants and animals. Some Few have even proposed starting a programme to genetically cleanse the Kingdom of diseases, although some scientists are warning caution until the impact of such a programme could be fully restored.

The other Rapidly advancing area of Technology is Engineering, mostly put down the rapidly increasing Population. A large SpaceStation has been put into orbit around the planet. And Many Engineers have been optimising ship designs and competing for Government Contracts.

OOC: Taken from X3 if your wondering

also the big blue things are the gates, but ahh...i can cut them out if thats not what you perceive them to be

Ship Designs of Miria

The Small Scout Class Of the Kingdom: The Octopus



The Fighter Class: The Barracuda



The Transporter Class: The Whale



The Carrier Class: The Ray

Damnit I would buy that game but alas it has Starforce so I've must boycot it.

yes i know

This story continues a little bit after the last one left off.

Warpgate inside one minute range.
Return manual control?
Garris idly flicked the "NO" button and directed the computer to guide the entire squadron through the warpgate. Having spent the better part of the journey browsing the ugly control panel manual, he pressed a green button displaying a circle inscribed in a box.
His screen flickered over to a stylized overview of the local region of space. He smiled as the little green triangle, accompanied by nine blue ones, headed for the orange circle marking the warpgate. Virtual buttons hovered on a previously blank region of the keyboard. He gently touched his finger to the smooth metal where the word "Names" was picked out in red light. "Brown Leader" through "Brown Nine" flashed up on the screen, as well as "Warpgate - Ɵ 2,7".
Bracing himself for the stupid microphone to swing out and thwack his mouth, he pressed the button that he had come to think of as "Blue Circle-Waves". The microphone duly extended and slapped him just below his nose.
"Brown Squadron, prepare for warpgate jump" he growled into the comm channel.
Time seemed to dilate as his ship nosed into the region of space where the warpgate lay. On the data screen, the tactical display vanished, replaced by a dozen messages from the onboard AI. He ignored them after reading the first three and finding them all essentially equivalent in addition to pointless.

...

Garris realized that a message was blinking on screen in larger letters than usual.
Urgent Message
New Fleet Classification
Fleet? Garris thought, bringing the message up.
Recipient: Garris Stryler
Identify with voice authorization.
He pulled the microphone away, folding it back into the helmet's reserved slot, then spoke slowly. "Cigarettes and ashtrays, how I'd like a fire." It was the code phrase he had invented when his data was being downloaded into the AI.
Garris Stryler, evidence has come to light in the case causing you to be sent to CorrFac.
And to this backwater bit of space, he thought, but didn't say it.
As reparations you are being offered permanent command of Prime Investigation Fleet. Accept?
Garris' jaw dropped as he fumbled over the YES button picked out in laser light. A fleet command, not just a volunteer for testing?
More text scrolled up on the screen.
New Rank - Commodore...
Garris wasn't really reading, just grinning. He suspected that the current dictator had a hand in this. After all, the space missions were important.


Will send orders once I get an answer on how tech bonuses work.

Adopting new ENERGY Tech Tree:
ET01 - cost 01 - Basic Jump Engine (default movement through starlanes)
ET02 - cost 04 - Terraforming 1 (+1 Star System Development)
ET03 - cost 08 - Shield Technology 1 (xtra ship defense)
ET04 - cost 06 - Terraforming 2 (+1 Star System Development, cumulative), Shield Technology 2
ET05 - cost 07 - HyperJump Engine (travel Yellow Star lanes in 1 turn, Red Starlanes in 2 turns)
ET06 - cost 08 - Shield Technology 3
ET07 - cost 09 - Terraforming 3 (+1SSD)
ET08 - cost 19 - Shield Technology 4
ET09 - cost 12 - Terraforming 4 (+1SSD)
ET10 - cost 13 - Shield Technology 5
ET11 - cost 14 - Terraforming 5 (+1SSD)
ET12 - cost 15 - ULTRAJump Engine (ALL StarLanes traveled in 1 turn)

All BIOTECH population bonus now DOUBLE your Star System Population, up to the System MAXPOP stat. I'll edit this into the main rules in a few.

"The North gate and South gate have higher energy readings than the East and West Gates, Sir" A young full fleshed boy stood in front of the Officer.
"Hr'Roy, you do realise I have no idea what that meant, and for that matter which gates are north and south, east or west?"
"Errr Yes sir, uhh No sir," The boy looked confused.
"sigh, ok tell me which ones in which direction first,", The officer took out a Map of the Solar system, The boy indicated "here, here, here and here," For each gate in turn.
"I suppose we will have to work out a better system for naming directions in realtion to each other, now tell me what do these energy differences mean?"
"They're bigger,"
The officer stared, coldly.
"I don't know! it could mean anything for all I know, one might multiply the total energy in your body by that amount or it simply might take longer to get where IT is,"

"Hr'Roy I have a new order for you, find out what those differences in energy means, I am hearby promosting you to head of our exploration unit,"
"What does this consist of sir?"
"One scout squadren, we will review the amount of money to be allocated to your secter in the next budget meeting,"



A few Hours later.

"Hr'Tyria, your hired, you have outstanding simulation results. You seem like an excellent pilot. Now I want you to explore to the east,"
"Err Sir, which ways east? It SPACE after all,"
"THIS GATE HERE!" He Shouted.
"Sir, YES SIR!" Hr'Tyria left to prepare for departure.

A couple more Hours later.

"Hr'Tyria approaching the gate,"
"Ok pilot, have you got everything you need on board?"
"Yes, nothing appears to be amiss,"
"We'll hopefully see you soon,"
"Thanks Hr'Roy"
With that Hr'tyria accelerated towards the gate.

Kal'thzar, here's how you write up space directions: You start at east, which is 0 degrees or 0 radians, then north is 90 degrees or 0.5*pi radians, west is 180 degrees or pi radians, and south is 270 degrees or 1.5*pi radians.

Having recently become a disciple of the GIMP of 0wnage, I will measure the angles to all the nearby star systems for you.
Zambolt 25 degrees
Rettarra 108 degrees
Hern 186 degrees
Pillius 288 degrees
To convert to radians, (which are what mathematicians, and therefore astrogators, use) divide these numbers by 360 and multiply them by 2pi or 6,2832.

Anyone else who wants angles calculated?

(Yes, I'm showing off. It's fun to show off when I have the best image editor in the world! )

hey I don't WANT angles calculated, i'm a kingdom, i gotta have some old traditions that make no sense and are now just arbitary.


EDIT: AND @*&! i know what radians are *mutter*

EDIT Again: Stop showing off *mutter*, also i'm in Hr'Tor


Ok and

Uhh one question, how many points do our Star Systems stations make because were all at 0 extra PP right?

Kal'thzar said:

EDIT Again: Stop showing off *mutter*, also i'm in Hr'Tor

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So you are, I was misled by Darwin's miscoordinating and the map's use of three shades of blue.

Here you are.
Centaus 0,12217
Arrakis 1,78023
Emey 3,14159
Haven Delta 4,31096

ARGHHH!!!

Look did you read my second edit, or are you showing off to annoy me?

Two how are you getting the angles, i'm assuming your guessing an approx degree and converting it but i'm not sure....

EDIT AGAIN: looking at the coordinate system, i assume you use the sun as the origin?

from the journals of Haile Sellassie 13th, supreme ruler of the Republic, Smokers Delight, Converger upon the Scourge and just a plain funky guy.

haile Sellassie 13th said:

"i have been declared as Haile Sellassie today. life is grand, but i have a feeling i may have made a mistake giving dear ol' dad that funky shroom last month.
he may have eaten too much, which resulted in the almost bankrupcy of the coffers, although those flying carpets are a HUGE hit with the girls . those new sound-systems are the bomb too.
infact those were his best idea (actually, his ONLY idea). with them we can spread the faith everywhere, finding the rest of humanity, and giving them a chance to convert before the END."

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Your highness, if you will, the council of internal affairs requires your presence, and at 12 you have a meeting with his most excellent I-Toy, discussing the plans you have for the spreading of the faith.

Fine. i will see the council now.

mutterings heard from the high council chamber

Templeton Brooks said:

"darn that upstart. what does he know about goverment. all he ever did was grow holy sensemillia, and .

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Haile, enters the chambers of the council,

You, pointing at one, Templeton Brooks, are excused from this council!
WE WILL NOT have ANYONE second guessing us. WE are NOW in charge, and ALL SHALL OBEY US.
is that understood?

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murmurs of: Aye, yes, indeed, Oh Supreme lord. are heard throughout the room.
may we rid you of this troublesome traitor? he shall never again stain your presence with his.

Nay.
Templeton, will you choose a task you deem worthy as punishment?
If i may recommend, a commander is needed for our Scoutship "Black Diamond Skunk".

indeed, a worthy task, nods of approvale are seen from around the table.
I shall accept this, heading in search of scourge and human.

fine. whats next on our agenda for today?

the 2nd scouter, needs to be blessed, as i has just been completed last month and your predessesor has not been able to grant it the proper blessings. it also has need of a name.

fine. schedule the rites for midnight tonight, and have it called "Midnight Marauder". does it have a captain already? i have just the man. infact, i want him on the job.
his name is Freddy Drop, actually you'll find him easier by the name Fat Freddys Drop. he already has an excellent in-house soundsystem, and will serve the faith greatly.

ok. are we done for today? there is a certain temple preistess that requires my devout attention.

Ahem, your holiness. just the tiny matter of the economy.
as you must realise, our finances are not in the greatest of states. we need directions on improving it.

Ah, almost forgot that.
order a few new sound-systems to be banded together, and a few, make it 10 new transport ships. the way to improve is to grow.
also publish this decree

His Holiness said:

All eligeble females of maturity are summoned to the temples. there they shall engage in a holy ceremony, conducted by your local preachers.
ALL who shall be impregnated at the end of said ceremony, the offspring shall be given subholy status and lands within the new colonies.
Those failing his holiness shall be given a further extension [1 full moon party] to submit to this decree.
failure to comply shall result in a monastic, less, mission.

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But sir. we are a Republic! we cannot force our maidens to be impregnated!
but if you were to do the impregnating....

AN Excellent idea. make it so.
i expect the first shipment of maidens to be ready at my rooms at 1.30, for use right after that scouter blessing ceremony.

a few hours pass in similar idleness, conducting the affairs of state.
the blesssing ceremony goes well, and the nights' bountiful entertainment provides the republic with 5 new subholy boys.

Life is good in the republic, thinks Haile. pretty darn good.

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orders will be PM's directly.

Could someone answer my question because I want to know how much money I'm making currenlty so I can get in my orders.

Darwin420 said:

All BIOTECH population bonus now DOUBLE your Star System Population, up to the System MAXPOP stat. I'll edit this into the main rules in a few.

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Since you liked that idea so much, I have another one: Energy techs, instead of developing your system one step (which could violate minpop), decreases the cost of increasing development level by 1. (Cumulative, cannot reduce below 1.)