ImmacuNESIOTVIII: Pew Pew

The Farthest Point



The crew compartment of the PV Certain Way was already small enough, looking more like a parasite clinging to the outer shell of cargo bay than the centre of operations. As a result, the observation gallery rather brought to mind a recursive parasite; a tick clinging to a leech, or some such. The design was not without its reasons, of course, however unfortunate: the cargo bays were packed with automated drop-bots, designed to ferry pre-fabed parts down to the cold rock below, then assemble them into the foundations the latter vessels would build the new colony off of. That was the most important part of the ship, unless that was the thick block of engines, fuel tanks and reactors behind it. The crew quarters, meanwhile just needed to house six people who were only around in case of emergencies, and were all old enough to have proper, old-world genehacks for zero-gee tolerance, unlike the newer vessels. The observation gallery, meanwhile, was exposed and fragile, so stuck off of the side to allow it to isolated if anything happened to it. Simple design logic. Somewhat poor imagery.


The gallery itself was a simple bubble of transparent composite layers, with a belt that housed flexible shutters to protect against micro-meteors and dust when not in use, all inset with invisible displays and interfaces that augmented both the natural view and a user’s implanted displays (or replaced them, if a user lacked them). Someone could control and entire drone operation in style from here, floating a bubble surrounded by space and stars.


Most people preferred the comfy chairs in the main crew area, though.


It didn’t matter right now anyway. The loader-builders were running on auto-mode, and even the best direct viewing equipment would only be able to show a user the lights where the drones were operating, some hundred kilometres away. Right now, only one person was floating in the bubble, and she had not interest in running any equipment down there.


Something the matter up there, Torsel?


The message (text only) popped onto her message tray, bringing the display into view. She took her time considering her reply, letting the message fade away on her vision. It would be a serious breach of etiquette not to respond, even if the reply was nothing more personable than a request to shove off. There were things you didn’t do aboard a ship, and ignoring your fellow crew was one of the biggies, even when they can check your vitals and positions on their displays.


Just… thinking things over.


Deep thoughts? You’ve been floating-still for an hour.


I suppose.


Hrm, you save up all your philosophising to spend at once? The only real depth I’ve gotten out of you since you came on board has been the depth of your snark-well.


Ah, Captain-Councillor. Handle with care.


Sorta. Tell you what, once I figure it out, I’ll tell you later. Deal?


Aright. Try not to float there for too long, though. It’s kind of creepy that you can do that.


She rolled her eyes at that, and with a small twitch in a few muscle groups caused herself to gently turn a cartwheel while barely changing her posture.


Yeah, things like that.


Muscle control. We used to learn this stuff in school. Play nice, and maybe I'll teach you a few tricks later.


With her fellow crew assuaged (for now) she turned back to her thoughts.


She had booked to come out to Wonder to take a look around New Horizons, intending to take a look at the pretty weirdness and then leave. However, after arriving she had felt a flash of… Insight? Motivation? Divine Inspiration? and instead grabbed a position on one of the survey vessels heading out to the cold rock rimward in the system, where there were new plans for mines and such. Once out here…


Q13 E-delta was not an interesting world. It was cold and dead in every sense of the word; a geothermally dead rock orbiting an unremarkable gas-giant in the outer reaches of a red-dwarf star. But…


Context.


A small dead world sharing it’s system with an utterly alien biosphere, located light years away from her societies current home, itself on the far side on the galaxy from her birthplace on the shores of Hudson Bay. It was...


There might have been words to gauge homesickness, and the realization that you’re are very far away, in a very strange place, uncountable kilometres to the power of kilometres (or maybe peta- or tera- or whvrmetres) from where you were born, and centuries since.


She had heard a few people referring to Q13 E-delta as Far Point, and hadn’t really been certain what they meant. She still wasn’t, but now, at least, she had a personal definition that she could apply to it.


Here she was, floating in a thin bubble, kilometres above a rock millions of klicks away from a star that was light years away from her home which was tens of thousands of light years away from where she was born. If they could build a telescope big enough, they would probably still be seeing several different species of humans trying to out-survive each other back on earth while avoiding being eaten by giant cats.


A Far Point it was.
 
Yeah. Hoping to get update material worked on sat/sun. Am out of town now. Sorry.
 
This weekend was a bust. Apologies for that. Right now we face continuing delays unfortunately.
 
"This is your public newsfeed from the Ministry of Information.."

"Minister of Development Larson announced that a second frontier habitat will be constructed this year on Koundja (Ottobah D) and that settlement and development of the world should begin by the next year.

Star Force Command and the Traver spaceyard will launch the Ellison later this week. This will be the second frigate constructed and the first since the establishment of the republic. The vessel will be used for exploration and a testbed for new technologies.

The Cherenkov satellite which provided detailed information of the Ottobah system last year will be used to explore a neighboring system. Details of the deployment remain classified at this time.

Industrial expansion continues to draw protests from the Ecotopian members of the Indaba who believe that greater care should be taken for the native ecology. According to party spokeperson Hadil Rayne "We are not against economic growth, but it must be measured in both long term costs in both environmental and quality of life".

In footbal news Phalon defeated Zembala three goals to two with star player Rashid Abel delivering the tie breaking goal in the last five minutes of the game. Phalon will advance to the semi-finals to play Kalya later this week."
 
Pew Pew Four- part 1 of 1


Celestial Enhanced Republic of Nations

Spoiler :
On Second Opportunity C moon alpha, relations with the ‘Qeng Ho vat people’ continue to develop. Commerce between the native villages and CERN is increasingly common and already there have been several intermarriages between CERN colonists and the moon’s natives. The natives have taught the new-comers how to make the most of their new home and expanded habitat into mountain ranges and hidden valleys otherwise not thought exploitable.

On Second Opportunity C moon beta, colonists are developing new homes under nanofied Z shielding. The moon is large but desolate and lifeless, with no atmosphere and only the cold void of space, dust, and distant craters for as far as the eye can see. But for rho-sensor systems, the moonlet is a bit more interesting. A rho field feeds into the moonlet and this has assisted it in captured solar H3 isotopes making the planetary surface particularly rich in this source of energy. New crawlers crisscross the moon, sifting through the grey-white dust and very soon are exporting the valuable energy back to SO-C and alpha moon for use in the industries there.

Meanwhile, the CCC has provided valuable new maps of the Opes sector, revealing their own successes in colonizing several planets and moons within that sector.

Many members of the technocratic government are urging exploration further afield and recommend sending scouts to sectors F4 and F8 to capitalize on any potential opportunities there.


Collective Consensus Conclave AKA the Corporate Collective Conclave

Spoiler :
The CCC is NPC and available for adoption.


Corona Flori

Spoiler :
Returning her focus to Victoria’s Claim, the innermost moon of the planetary system that includes Autumn, the queen orders further development of the acrid and desiccated sandy planet. Expanding away from the polar zones previously colonized, colonists are forced into protected nanofied Z domes where the sun’s rays are bearable and water can be better reclaimed, recycled and managed and soil pH can be better balanced. Indeed by building over aquifers identified by the Cherenkov satellite in months past, some of the domes are even able to build small artificial lakes for use by both the colonist’s crops and the colonists themselves.

Meanwhile, the first of the Asp-class ships are completed and soon complete a jump to N12, returning without incident.

On Autumn, the philosophical struggle for what is human and what is sentimentality, morality, even consciousness continues… but to what end?


House Klorin

Spoiler :
Just chillin’

Materials banked.


Kyushu

Spoiler :
Kyushu ‘big bosses’ rename their planet’s gamma moon ‘New Tokyo’ and, under the direction of Jeroen Luxemburg, begin the process of colonizing it.

Meanwhile, at home, industrialization continues apace.

You don’t need to move resources from one planet to another in the same system before colonizing the second planet. You can do it in the turn you colonize. In fact, I don’t track resources by planet. I tried to e-mail you ask you if you wanted to do anything further but no answer.

Some suggest exploring other systems.

Still others suggest building research facilities.


Jamhuri Stellar ya Pambazuka

Spoiler :
The G-class planet, Ottabah D, is soon selected by the ministry of development for colonization. Men and women soon arrive at the rocky planet, landing at the poles where large lakes of liquid water are present. They soon find that while they can survive for short times out of doors with portable breathers, solar radiation soon forces them indoors, or underground. And indeed, it is underground that the first colony soon forms. Away from the sun’s rays the people of Ottabah D are able to make a home, coming to the surface to tend crops grown under reflective-adaptable poly sheeting and to collect water from the purifiers working with some difficulty to remove the salinity from the local waters.

Meanwhile, on Ottabah E, domestic infrastructure development continues with new industries and mines to power them.

The Church of Jesus Christ Sparta continues to flourish, transporting well from the ancestral home worlds to the new lands and finding any number of young men and women eager to accept their ‘code of honor’.

The reason you can’t build a frontier habitat on Ottabah D is that it is a class G planet. Class G planets require a subterranean or dome habitat (See post #6 of this thread.) Your officials decided that to take it upon themselves to develop a subterranean habitat there instead of the frontier habitat they were tasked with. (“But the colonists will all die,” they said and that seemed like a good argument for trying something else.)

You need a ground crew (and habitat) to run the satellite. Build a habitat on one of the planets or moons in the system and drag your satellite to orbit that planet/moon and it will be functional as you had intended. You can’t just drag a satellite around with you and use its sensors without investing in the system. Nice try though :P Don’t feel bad; Warriorx1 did this last turn too.

You cannot build ‘one Terra-class frigate with Cherenkov sensors’. That would be a whole new ship design. Please feel free to design whatever new ships you like in accordance with the system outlined in post #7. So I cancelled that build order. If you still want a regular Terra-class frigate, just say so and we can say you built that this turn- I’ll edit your stats to reflect that if you want.


Pilgrimage

Spoiler :
In light of the natural discoveries of New Horizon, Pilgrim star charts rename Q13 as ‘Wonder’, commemorating the emotions felt by colonists upon arriving at the ‘coral reef world’.

Its moon, previously known as Q-13 moon delta, is also of interest to the Pilgrimage, despite being little more than a barren rock without atmosphere, as even from space, it appears rich in fissionable fuel that might be used to power conventional fission nuclear power systems. After initial development by forward-operating personnel equipped with the most robust and trustworthy music players, it is soon ready for habitation. Renamed Far Point, it soon becomes a source of material for further development of New Horizon with the development of domed habitats from which reclamation and surface mining operations soon begin developing sizable stockpiles of uranium, plutonium, and, other, more conventional metals including sizable deposits of iron, nickel, and gold.

For New Horizon, colonization continues to boom with new resident arriving every day and the local government developing huge parks meant to allow residents to observe the strange floating wildlife as they go about their lives. These in turn quickly drive the development of myriad small manufacturing and commercial developments and demand for Far Point’s materials is rising.

For scientists and colonists and security personel observing the native wildlife of New Horizons, two things soon begin generating interest. Firstly, the mysteries of native reproduction are further complicated when scientists and xeno-biologist observed what can only be described as ‘communal sexual reproduction’ when thousands if not millions of the floating ray-like creatures come together in a sort of reproductive dance wherein all the members contribute a sticky pink diaphanous material which ultimately soon covers many ‘branches’ of a local ‘land anemone’. From this material billions of tiny rays soon emerge, though analysis of these organisms brings xeno-biologists no closer to understanding the strange method of reproduction. The second event is somewhat more sinister. A number of larger low-flying amphibious ray-like creatures have begun preying on the colonial population, even going so far as to mount attacks on isolated villages and hamlets, destroying homes and consuming the inhabitants. Soldiers have had to shoot several of the elephant-sized creatures and the local airforce is on increasingly high alert, with their radar systems constantly tracking the creatures. Local military forces are asking for the development of a planetary military infrastructure to allow for logistical support of xeno tracking and interception. Environmentalists and xeno-conservationists meanwhile are demanding that more ambitious development projects be scaled back and further habitat development be curbed.


Suon (សួន)

Spoiler :
Just chillin’

Materials banked.


Terran Foundation

Spoiler :
The Terran Foundation has joined the ranks of those factions having developed colonies outside their original system. For the Terrans, they have identified a promising C-class planet, which they have renamed Xenophobia, who’s planetary surface is very rich in mineral resources. Long-inactive volcanoes dot the surface of this dry lifeless planet that lacks even an atmosphere had apparently thrown these up in great profusion from a core of copper/iron core in ages past. The Terrans have built underground here. Originally intending to develop a factory on the site, these plans were cancelled when habitat limitations soon reared their head. For now, the temporarily inactive Cherenkov satellite has been dragged to the planet’s orbit and from the subterranean offices below it, new images of the system’s resources are emerging.

The rich resources of Xenophobia beg new mines and exploitive development, perhaps under the Nanofied Z rad domes some factions are developing, while nearby class D planets and moons not so richly endowed with resources might serve as local industrial sites if local development is warranted.

Meanwhile, troops exploring the radiation-bathed, magnetically charged Sol Invictus G have been evacuated. No further lives have been lost but there is not denying the danger of that planet.

Orders to build a heavy industrial complex on Xenophobia were cancelled because the subterranean habitat only provides 40 habitat and that improvement requires 50. Your funds were returned.

You military advisors are eager to explore other systems near your home to both ensure there are no potential hostiles there and also to determine if there are any opportunities there to capitalize on.


Ummah Al Salaam

Spoiler :
In a major step it the expansion of the Ummah Al Salaam’s reach, the phyla has developed extensive new orbital docking and refueling stations at the Planet Providence in the I11 system. The new orbital docks will not only ensure potential avenues of exploring sectors H10, H12, and I13, but will also allow direct trade with the Jamhuri Stellar ya Pambazuka. Trade with Pambazuka would re-open ancient and well-established channels of historical good will and cooperation and be very welcome by both phyla.

Developing orbital docking facilities at I11 is not the only push towards novel development. The Ummah Al Salaam has also dedicated resources and minds to developing a new frigate. The Pioneer-class frigate is based on a number of reclaimed technologies and promises better efficiencies then its predecessors. Beyond this, little is known; a prototype has yet to be revealed to the public and the blueprints remain a closely guarded state secret.

Sector I11 continues to develop, with new mining systems coming online on Kessel, the F-class planet developed last season. The multitude of volcanic and geological activity and harsh atmosphere makes mineral recovery on the planet a dangerous proposition and already hundreds of workers have been hospitalized or lost their lives. But its also been extremely lucrative, the local gadolinium, neodymium, and samarium riches ensuring plentiful supplies of rare earth metals for the high tech industries of New Mecca. The domes of Kessel are appearing more and more like old-fashioned boomtowns of human history.

Providence is an L-class moonlet in the I11 system, the alpha moon of Kessel, and while not blessed with the riches of Kessel, has much more inviting planetary conditions. Its atmosphere is breathable without conditioning, being a mixture of nitrogen, argon, oxygen, and carbon dioxide and its gravity, while greater than earth’s was at 1.5 x g, can be managed with appropriate precautions. Much larger, and denser than earth, the planet is primarily dry rock, though water accumulates in lakes and puddles throughout and minor rivers and streams feed these from mighty mountains, some of which remain snow-capped (as do the poles). There is life here also; thousands if not millions of species of primitive cyanobacteria-like photosynethetic auxotrophs live in mutual symbiosis with fungal-like life-forms, together forming complex interspecies cooperative colonies not unlike the lichens of earth. Scientists are eager to recover samples of these complex ecological microorganisms and begin studying their biology but to date all that is known is that they are carbon based, very resistant to drought and can survive in wide temperature variations. Indeed these complex cooperative relations extend throughout the globe from pole to equator and from high mountains to the depths of the great lakes. Fortunately for the humans now making their homes here, the local microbiota have managed to break down the rocky terrain of much of the planet to usable soil that can be used to grow crops and establish pasturage for domesticated herd animals.

It is around Providence that the new orbital docks circle and much of the local economy is dedicated to supporting these structures, though planetary analysts suggests Providence could grow to much more, perhaps even harboring large urban populations, especially if soil fertility (particularly nitrates) can be carefully managed.

The development of new colonies, far and wide, unanimously supported by multiple levels of Nova Prime’s government, have done much to alleviate the pressures brought to bear by the failing cryosleep chambers and the Internal Directorate and Prime are proving increasingly popular with the population.

Your orders only made sense if I interpreted your orders to colonize I11D with frontier habitats as to colonize I11D moon alpha. So that’s what your commanders did; hope I got that right…


Yankee Suns

Spoiler :
Pop.

The ships disappear through the jump-gate to the R6 system that the Yankee Suns have renamed ‘White Dwarf’. Six days later the people of Yankee Sun see the ships return. The frigate is badly damaged, with its laser battery system completely missing, replaced by massive holes that reach all the way through the ship’s hull and leave it feebly venting coolants and precious oxygen in thin streams. Landing at the orbital docks over Miyobi, the crew of the badly scratched and marked but otherwise whole transport frigate exit the ship but, much to the chagrin of soldier’s wives and husbands, the brigade of marines sent to White Dwarf do not return. Very quickly the news spreads that they will not be returning. For Captain Pyrochev, the loss is persona; the young nurse Klien Meyung had piqued his attention and she would not be returning.

What exactly happened at the periphery of the failing sun remains a mystery to the people, though obviously the admirals are well informed and certainly planning their next move. For now White Dwarf sector may be too dangerous to invest in further and so the admiralty focuses on efforts closer to home, developing new industries for Miyobi and new labs for Manhattan.

You sent your lander and said ‘this is a military mission’ and ‘boots on the ground’ so your generals took it to mean you wanted at least 1 brigade sent. So they did that. Otherwise it would have not be a ‘military, boots on the ground mission’. The brigade was lost.

Your frigate is not usable until you repair it (only 1 HP remains). 100 industry and a turn in docks will do it.



Qeng Ho

Spoiler :
With the director establishing laser communications with the alien being and establishing territorial limitations, the people of Qeng Ho return to the icy moon thed have derived strange 2D genetic xeno-life from in recent history, establishing limited habitats at the interface between the subice seas and the ice above it, using volcanic geothermal energy to power lights and heat for both colonists and hydroponic operations. They rename it Hoth after a similar planet in classic human cinematography. New labs here continue to provide local samples for the more extensive genehack labs back on Canberra.

On Canberra, the new lifeforms are proving very interesting indeed with some preliminary work with earthly and xeno derived life illustrating the capability to infuse a single cell with the genetics of both life forms and code for both terran and Hothian biology simultaneously in the same cell.

You have the potential to learn a new second tier tech (see below). Once you master it, you can teach it to others simply by including in your orders that you make samples and knowledge available. They still need to spend research points and are limited by the standard 3 tier 1 for 1 tier 2 tech limits.


New Players:

I am still accepting a few more players at this point. So feel free to join us. Your starting resources will be 2000, your starting industry 2000, and your starting research 450.

Or you can take over Ailedhoo's old faction.

Rule Changes:

A new technology has been uncovered.

2D Xeno-Genetics
Tier: 2
Available to: Qeng Ho
Allows: 2D Gene xeno-splice habitat, 2D xeno-splice floating habitat
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A new planetary improvement has been uncovered.

2D Gene xeno-splice habitat
Tech: 2D Xeno-Genetics
Resource cost: 200
Industry cost: 50
Habitat capacity: 50
By incorporating the strange 2D lipid genetics of Hoth into our genetic material we can add new biochemical enzymology and structure to make us more resistant to reducing environments, cold, and pressure. Combined with some basic cybernetics and existing genehacks, we can not only live, but grow crops and herd some modified earthly species in deep oceans and other foreign environments otherwise not available to us.
Build one habitat on class N, O, or P planets.

2D Gene xeno-splice floating habitat
Tech: 2D Xeno-Genetics, Rho-Mag Interface
Resource cost: 400
Industry cost: 300
Habitat capacity: 40
Provides floating substrate to build on for gas planets but due to new Hoth-derived genetic material, can be used at much lower altitudes and higher pressures.
Build 1 on class I, class J, class S, class T or class U planets.
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Deadlines:

I continue to want to progress the early turns quickly. So the deadline is Sunday/Monday, at midnight EST.

Story Bonuses:

Qeng Ho +100 industry
Pambazuka +150 industry
Corona Flori +100 industry
Ummah Al Salaam +150 industry, +100 resource
Pilgrimage +150 industry
Kyushu +100 industry
Yankee Suns: +150 industry
 
Hey,

Now thats the stuff. Beautiful update. Looks like Odin has a blind eye for nurses. :groucho:

Is it possible to scrap my frigate for somekind of resources? A new model is on the design board.

The loss of the army brigade was seen as a possibility.

Hope the information on my stats sheet stays there. I'm also overjoyed you could follow that complicated order set.


Blaze Injun
 
thomas.berubeg said:
I did send very rough orders.
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We can talk via skype or IOT chat.

Blaze Injun said:
Hey,

Now thats the stuff. Beautiful update. Looks like Odin has a blind eye for nurses. :groucho:

Is it possible to scrap my frigate for somekind of resources? A new model is on the design board.

The loss of the army brigade was seen as a possibility.
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You can scrap your frigate for half the industry its worth. So a 300IP frigate can be scrapped for 150IP.

Blaze Injun said:
Hope the information on my stats sheet stays there. I'm also overjoyed you could follow that complicated order set.


Blaze Injun
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We can discuss it on your sheet as 'comments' if you like.
 
it will stay there for that particular turn's stats.
so new turns might have different 'private updates'

Remember that a new weapon is a new design and you'll need to use industry and research points to make a new ship type (post #7)
 
I continue to want to progress the early turns quickly. So the deadline is Wednesday, July 29th, at noon EST.
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Might it be worthwhile to make it Saturday and try to make up for lost time?
 
Weekends are tough for me. Camping. But i agree with the idea.

So lets say midnight on Sunday night?
 
Just to be clear (kinda fuzzy right now), by Midnight Sunday, you mean Sunday End of the Day?
 
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Orders are due at the end of Sunday, the beginning of Monday, Midnight, Eastern Standard Time


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Please also note that i had not yet given out stat bonuses for stories for last turn yet. Thats been fixed.
 
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