stDarNES1: Stars!

[soul_warrior]

story post

Sire, your morning briefing is about to commence.

Ill be right there, Dor. Just a few more moments are all i need. Its been a terribly long night, hasnt it?

Indeed it was Sire, indeed it was.

Hearing of the marvelous victory we had against those barbarians. It should boost morale all over the republic.

FOOL. IDIOT. We lost 10 good men there!! thats 10 families i will have to explain to why they will have to live on a half salary pension, without even letting them burn their loved one.
We must make sure this does not happen anymore.

Sire? Please dont get too excited. The briefing...

yeah, yeah. I know. Ill keep a reasonable tone and listen to all that banter. Even i realise that i cant rule without the support of the Senate, God-like as i am.

**

the door opens and the Emperor of the Twin Worlds enters.
All bow down, and after seating himself, the Emperor Haile Sellassie 14th, adresses the council.
“it has come to my attention that there has been some events that require my direct participation. Is that corret?

Indeed it is, Sire.
Let me outline it for you.

With a sarcastic grin, “Please do, councilman Greebo, please do that.

“One, there is still some outcry among the populace about the rising taxes, and the events at Asgron – they didnt help one bit.
WARFARE with humans? The public has grown to dislike warfare. EXTREMELY.
“point two, if i may, is one of great joy, which we may even use.
The colonization of Ophius.
It is of great importance to us strategically, hemming in those Olgev, and making a true border planet. It should allow us to deal much easier with them, which will help morale.

I am indeed very happy we have acomplished the colonization of a new planet so soon after my taking the holy seat.
But it still cannot compare to the DIRE loss of life in that battle.
We cant afford ANY losses.
All our efforts must be towards exterminating the Scourge, not fighting other, misguided as they are, humans.

I agree, Sire.
But in order to do this – we need to strengthen our fleet.
We cannot, like you said, afford any losses. So i suggest we increase spending, mainly in our military capacity....

IT WILL REMAIN TO BE DECIDED LATER, Greebo.
Whats next on the agenda for today? I have a busy day.

We are proud to announce that 2 new fleets have been comissioned and sent, full of colonists to Nellis and Farrel, both highly important outposts.
Scoutships and heavy escorts have cleared those systems, which hold GREAT promise, m'lord.

Good. Very good. I need more of this kind of news.

Well, Sire, we thought we would hold it to the very end, but we deem it fitting to reveal now.....
Plan for Propegation of the Republic
this, simply put, is a plan most cunning, most asidious and most needed by the people, and will, we believe be implimented BY the people, most whole heartedly.

As you remember, O Supreme One, we are VERY religious people.
One decree from Jah Allmighty, is all that is required to set the nation to action.

And, pray tell, councilman, what is this “decree” that “Jah” is supposed to have told me?

Very simple, Sire.
They are to reproduce.

We shall offer big money incentives to people that bring children into the republic,
we shall give free medical care, and we shall huge spend sums of money on hospitals.
We shall offer FREE transit to the colonies, relieving the pressure on the home provinces.

our biggest concern now, that we know that we are NOT the sole survivors, is to stop all inter-faction rivalries.
to acomplish this we MUST become larger.

The people require a mission.
And that mission is – make love. Make babies. Be happy.
And if by doing so they further the republics best interest....

our projections are that birth rates should DOUBLE over the next five years or so, allowing for some statistical margins of error offcourse, but you get the idea.

Indeed i do.
GREAT WORK, council man.i shall not forget who came up with this great idea.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

STORY POST

"Last check. Rocks sent the last three weeks. One, nil, one, two, one, nil, one, nil."
"One, nil, one, two, one, nil, one, nil."
"One, two, nil, two, one, nil, nil, one."
"One, two, nil, two, one, nil, nil, one."
"One two three nil one."
"One two three nil one. You're good."
Rear Admiral Debalme activated her command helmet.
"Debalme to Cruisers. Start engines and sound off."
The captains on Cruisers Two through Nine sounded off. Cruiser Ten was automated for this voyage, its controls routed through to spare panels aboard Debalme's own ship. Cruiser Ten would be at the forefront of the entire squadron heading through the jumpgate.
..."-Captain Ply here, Cruiser Nine is in order, ready to move in twenty seconds."
"Is Cruiser Ten running fine?" Debalme barked to her command panel.
"Perfectly fine. Disabling the life-support mechanisms gave us plenty of power to spare for the remote control."
"Debalme to Red Carrier. Report."
"Red Leader Commander Daniel here. Full complement of 100 fighters on board. Fuel and ammunition supplies max."
"Debalme to Blue Carrier. Status?"
"We're good. Morale is high in every squadron. Ready when you give the word."
"Debalme to Green Carri-"
"We're fine."
"-er."
...
Dammit, I should have remembered that. Green Leader is one of those people with a rapid response implant. Debalme muttered a quiet curse before opening a broadcast channel to the entire fleet.
"This is Rear Admiral Debalme to Vengeance Fleet. T minus three minutes until we initiate travel."
"Stay away from the jumpgate, an asteroid will be veering through it in two minutes."
"Anyone who moves too early will get hit by shrapnel. Anyone who moves too late will be held for trial of they survive."
"You have received time synchronizations. I will see everyone in formation in one minute."
"Debalme out."

One and a half minutes later, the fleet watched a rocket-propelled asteroid enter the jumpgate at fractio-luminal velocities. One minute after that, they entered the jumpgate themselves.

Time twisted around each ship as it entered. Jumpgate travel usually took immense periods of time seen from the outside, but only a few weeks for those in transit. (OOC: Darwin, feel free to negate this, but I'm guessing that a year in the jumpgate lane would be intolerable for humans.) The asteroid, moved now not by inertia but by the black arts of the jumpgate, was such a short distance ahead that the front fleets could still sense it on their scanners.

"Rear Admiral Debalme to Vengeance Fleet: Stand down to minimum power. The first round of simulations and combat training will begin in sixty local hours. Until then, get some sleep. I think we'll all be needing it by the time we come out."
Debalme thought of her predecessor Vandergon, dead in a fireball minutes after his fleet exited the jumpgate. She had ten Carriers with her - and far more firepower in general, plus more knowledge of the now damaged Old Dominion defense grid - but how did she know that the grid hadn't simply repaired itself (or worse, summoned reinforcements) since then?
Half in an attempt to laugh at her fears, half deadly serious and crying, Debalme closed the connection to the fleet and fell to the floor and prayed to a deity she knew to be fictional. "Oh Unicorn..."

 

[Disenfrancised]

STORY POST
One and a half minutes later, the fleet watched a rocket-propelled asteroid enter the jumpgate at fractio-luminal velocities. One minute after that, they entered the jumpgate themselves.

Thats a good point...are we allowed to send large masses through a jumpgate at a high fraction of c? if so I'm going to cackle evilly and begin constructing a large accelerator device.

"Oh Unicorn..."

Careful, you don't want Unicron to show up by mistake

 

[Kal'thzar]

An astreroid has already been sent through so it appears to be ok...

 

[Darwin420]

This is going to be an awesome update. Apologies in advance if it takes me some time do get it right tomorrow.

Re: asteroids... Erik used it as quite an ingenious tactic several turns ago. I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be allowed. Of course, the Defense Net DID take care of the asteroid quite easily, so it's not quite that effective a tool. But, it definitely appears to have its uses.

Like I said in the rules. Creative counts high in your orders, and that includes combat orders. Plus, it allows me to craft a more interesting update.

If something is a blatant no-no in your orders, I'll let you know. But, I'm pretty relaxed about it. So, be inventive, be creative. You never know what might happen then!

Happy hunting.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Thats a good point...are we allowed to send large masses through a jumpgate at a high fraction of c? if so I'm going to cackle evilly and begin constructing a large accelerator device.

I don't know and I don't care. The reason that the asteroid entered the gate at that speed was that it had been propelled there from somewhere else and nobody bothered to spend energy slowing it down again.

The jumpgate probably removes all inertial energy from objects entering it. When they exit, they either get that energy back, or they're expelled at a constant velocity. Ask Darwin.

Asteroid are very easy to move once you have intersolar travel. In my immense kindness, I will now reveal the technique for asteroid moving to everyone else, because I think it would be common knowledge IC.

1. Build a large motor, A.
2. Attach a smaller motor B onto a ring around A.
3. Move the A-B object into space.
4. Fire motor B to propel motor A onto an asteroid.
5. Attach A to asteroid. Magnetic fields would probably be simplest.
6. Spin B to direct A so that firing A will propel the asteroid in the correct direction.
7. Fire motor A.

 

[soul_warrior]

1. Build a large motor, A.
2. Attach a smaller motor B onto a ring around A.
3. Move the A-B object into space.
4. Fire motor B to propel motor A onto an asteroid.
5. Attach A to asteroid. Magnetic fields would probably be simplest.
6. Spin B to direct A so that firing A will propel the asteroid in the correct direction.
7. Fire motor A.

all hail the grand scientist.
simplicity will always triumph.
thats why you should all convert to my faction.
or you might not.
but you know you want to. dont you?

 

[Darwin420]

"Perfection comes not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

 

[Kal'thzar]

I disagree

Perfection is

 

[Darwin420]

Don't forget to get your orders in by 0900 EST tomorrow.

So far, I have orders from:

Soul Warrior, Andis-1, and TerrisH. Kam is NPC'd for this round due to computer issues.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Orders sent.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

The people of Haven are preparing for arguably the most critical vote they will ever make.

 

[Darwin420]

Well, at least the people of Haven still have 20 hours before they need to get their votes in.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Originally Posted by Erik Mesoy
Build a large motor, A.
Attach a smaller motor B onto a ring around A.
Move the A-B object into space.
Fire motor B to propel motor A onto an asteroid.
Attach A to asteroid. Magnetic fields would probably be simplest.
Spin B to direct A so that firing A will propel the asteroid in the correct direction.
Fire motor A.

Or simply fly one crashable engine onto the asteroid in the direction you want it, and have it attach itself.

Can anyone take more away to find perfection?

 

[Disenfrancised]

Or simply fly one crashable engine onto the asteroid in the direction you want it, and have it attach itself.

Can anyone take more away to find perfection?

You need more than one engine or the thing will be unsteerable.

Orders sent btw and a nice short story...

"So the excitor cortex patterns the pulse into the central chamber, the condensate becomes hypercritical...and then...what?"
[?]
"I wasn't talking to you, idiot machine"
[Beta engram emotional output:Hurt 78%, Confusion 15%, Boredom 7%]
"I really should get your snappy comback routine reinstalled" Jark said as he leaned back in the desks crash web, the various components he had been agonising over remaining sullening intractable. "it's really annoying when you just moan about your feelings"
[no u]
The running AI, currently a composite of Jarks exoself and the lab's main analytical engine, somewhat childishly replied. It was based on Jarks thought routines after all, but with some high functions currently stripped to boost the definition of its models, it was a slightly younger version of the scientist it mimiced.

Jark sighed and started some muscle streaching movements; he had been at this almost 15 hours now, it was a true puzzle all right. There had been over 16 empty surface blisters on crusier 4, a model more advanced than the others by at least a decade, and 7683 unidentified peices of equipment in its primary machine shop/armoury; obviously the crew had had a go at repairs before going...wherever they went, but that meant there could be potential treasure just lying around in that repair bay. Take this peice for example - module type 453, made up of thirteen seperate components. He'd managed to assemble twelve sets of 453, and the bracking mechanism was obviously meant to fit into one of the forward ports near the nose. Heck, he'd even managed to replace some of the stale nanocircuitry with fresh metamorphic Sykjack paste...he could could tell you what every part did in detail...but the whole? there must be something missing, but no complete unit had been located on the ship yet.

"Well stick this in entropies gullet; I'm going to bed"
[!]
"What?"
[General Memo to all researchers (Office of Research Head Hor Scorpleten3.6): "A recent needle cast from the Conclave science directorate contains a large quantity of datasets recently obtained from the Deep exploration vessal {Tumbleweed} contains potentially important schematics of old dominon ships. Please query the primary archive in order to locate anything of value to your work]
"Well thats a turn up for the books! Access and start searching, send me anything with more than an 90% similarity rating to module type 453"
[Working]
...

After only 7 minutes of work, a vision of exquisite beauty, at least to this tired researcher, was floating in Jark's sensorium. It appeared as if one 453 was not an independent unit, but rather 9 of them were assembled in three rings around some sort of central barrel! And he even knew where to find the central barrel segment!

"You know what this means don't you?"
[It appears as if {unit 453} is not an independent unit, but is instead-]
"Gah, I know that! Reactivate your higher linguistic functions, if you can't catch a rhetorical question then there is just no working with you"
[Beta engram emotional output:Glee 100%]

 

[Lord_Iggy]

The Havenites have voted. The orders are sent.

 

[TerrisH]

Story:
TNS News, bringing you news since, well, forever! ^_^

UPLIFT:
Trintiy News Service is happy to report a remarkible breakthrough. the First Pra'torian, AKA, the skinies, has been sucessfully uplifted into full sentient status. though still Quite Primitve, they show so much more promise then they did befor.

This breakthrough was not Pieonered by our own Scientest, but by a realtivly newcomer tot he poject, a Zentridie scientiest by the Zor Prime. by Introducing a Native Tri-foiled plant native to the fourth Planet of the Trinity Solar System, he managed to spur on the 'Skinnies' Evelotion. it was a quite inginious move upon his paret, and he has also been researching other properties of this plant.

The Skinnies, who now refer to themselves as the 'Invid' are quite happy with their uplift, and in the now ever growing and ever more complex hives they have taken to living it. while still Technolgicaly Primitive, they have shown astounding Agricultural and breeding skills.. though they do tend to show a single mindlesnes toward the cultivation of the Trifoil plant that lead to their Uplifted Status.
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WAR DRAFT!
As reviled sevealr years ago, War was Delclared Aguinst the Metrev Theocracy for thier Hosiltle and antisocial atitude toward other nations in space. Yesterday, the First Class of over 6000 Trained Space Marines, the first to be trained on such a scale in over two generations, has Graduated from the Impirial Acadamy. in 6 short months, they, and an Aditional 6000 Impirial Cadets will leave in 6 months time for the Miria System.. they hope to quickly put an end to this conflict in a desicive stroke.
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Glazed Again.
In sader news much colser to home, the City of Zanzibar has been subjected to Orbital bonbardment for the third time in 2 generations. after It's mayor refused to abandon the construction of a non-Trinity Scantioned airmobile factory, the Trinity Goverment Issiued an evactation order to the suronding area, and three days later, reduced the site and the suronding area to a molten pudle Via an Orbital Kenetic strike. thanks to the prompt warning, and the evacuation warning, only 5 people were killed in the strike, and all were caused by secondary debrie. the Hollagins who tried to break teh anti-motrization law have been cought, and the leader has been excicuted. the remiander had been sentinced and deportied to the depspace mining faclity to accist with management of the automatied Roboting minning drones.

 

[Darwin420]

Update started. Pardon me, as this will take a while. There is a LOT going on for this update.

GELION: are you still with us?

 

[Disenfrancised]

Update started. Pardon me, as this will take a while. There is a LOT going on for this update.

Well the way this NES is set up you can only expect an increase in complexity as time progresses...unless someone conquers the known galaxy

 

[Gelion]

Do you think there's a chance for me to come back?