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SPERMCUBE.ORG posted:52 Europa may have high accessibility for the elements that are there but it doesn't have a very high quantity for any of them. So any mines we send there would only be of any use for a short while. Iapetus and Mars both, on the other hand, have decent accessibility and a huge amount of elements. So any mines put there are a long term kind of thing. The mineral reserves of Duranium, Boronide, Vendarite and Corundium will only be depleted in over 10 years, considering the productivity of 93 CMCs. The productivity of 52 Europa will remain higher than Iapetus for the remainder of the Treaty of Saturn lease period, even disregarding the 20% tax to the federation, so Iapetus is not a realistic destination for those mines. But your point stands. I went back to my spreadsheets, and compared the production of 90 mines in 52 Europa vs Mars. 90 mines in Mars will surpass the productivity of 90 mines in 52 Europa after 6 years, so in the long term, those 90 mines will be better placed in Mars. Caveat 1: Mars have low accessibility, so those mines will produce a lower amount of every type of minerals over a long time. If we want to focus on the production of Boronide, Vendarite or Corundium, the mines should still be places in 52 Europa, for it'd take 94, 52 and 38 years respectively for 90 mines placed on Mars to produce more of those minerals than those same mines placed in 52 Europa would produce in just 18 years. Caveat 2: What's the cost of relocating 90 mines? Magrov fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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Magrov posted:Caveat 2: What's the cost of relocating 90 mines? 90 round trips by one of the largest existing freighters. Since there are currently, what, 5 of them? The opportunity cost is huge. Imagine all the infrastructure not being shipped.
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General Antares posted:I have no objections, Approved. Can't I just go work in a nice cozy lab somewhere instead? Alternatively I have one of the highest promotion scores in the UN. Give me a spaceship.
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CMDR Raw_Beef CO:ILB MISSILE COMPLEX OFFSHORE B - the killa b's Situation Report Despite the utter lack of military activity in the recent period, the multinational-non gender specific crew of Offshore Missile Complex B stands ready to "defend" the United Nations. Apparently I've been rated with a high fleet initiative and crew training. I like to think this means we'll get our kills in before their missiles come down on us, but really nobody is sure if the missiles even work anymore. Their propellants all have issue dates from the 20th century, and nobody has live fire tested in a decade. Either way, we'll turn our keys and push our buttons and hold this position until relieved if the balloon goes up. Personal note: The UNIN rumor mill is going crazy with the leak of what appears to be parts of a Fed war plan to secure Saturn. Most people say its bullshit, but I knew those Feds were willing to fight a war for their evil plans. I hope I'm not at retirement age before a real command opens up, I dont care if its commies, aliens, pirates or rebels, i want to blow something up.
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From: Councilor Ynkling, Director of UNSA To: Dr. MagicBoots, Deputy Director of UNSA, Head of JPC, ISEI-C, and TNDSI Subject: JPC, ISEI-C, and TNSDSI Great news! I was told that Stockholm syndrome should have kicked in by now, so the following news won't feel so terrible. I will be permanently removing 5 labs from your JPC for a new UNSA derivative. It'll be finalized once I can sort out the specifics. Secondly: ISEI-C. It's rubbish. Fix it. Thirdly: I am giving you a limit of three (3) committees. You'll have to disband one of your own creation before creating a new one. It is getting ridiculously tedious to type. To: UNEC Subject:Maintenance Facilities and One More Thing I would like to pose the idea that it would be good to have maintenance facilities somewhere near our shipyards (Earth). I find that this could count doubly so since the nascent Callistan population isn't nearly adequate to man the required facilities for Project ZEUS. Also we should look into the lamentably late
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Coolguye posted:Question: When we refit a ship with new parts, such as a new engine, are we able to keep the old engine or is it lost to the ether? Johnny Cash is building his own spaceship using those. One piece at a time.
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To: Councilor Added Space From: Operative Dr. Snark Re: Proen Councilor, I would like to ask permission for a private chat with our good friend, Mr. Proen. I have a few questions that I believe he would be willing to answer. Of course, I would inform you of any new developments. If anything comes up involving his release, I will defer responsiblity of that to you.
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TildeATH posted:Johnny Cash is building his own spaceship using those. One piece at a time. Every time I think I've seen a really cool possibility... From: Administrator's Assistant Coolguye, Detroit City Hall To: UNIEB Overseer jimmy4400nav Subject: Wealth exploitation Sir, I'm loathe to tell anyone how to do their job when I'm still just learning my own, but I have heard depressingly little about some of our more immediate fixes for our standing problems. When was the last time we engaged McKiernan about their aging York freighters? I realize they will not solve our distribution problem, but they would certainly be quite a bit better than the situation we have now. I know a few McKiernan representatives have been lobbying us passively at the local level again for more subsidies. I detest the idea due to their ridiculous mismanagement of the funds they've been given in the past, but this could be more palatable. Alternately, have we ever engaged the Federation about opening consumer good trading rights? The Fed's news blackouts leave me with little information on the potential of such routes, but we could possibly make a modest amount of wealth from tariffs assessed by consumer good traffic, which we could then earmark for re-investment into the civilian economy. Subsidies for McKiernan or, more hopefully, a theoretical competitor of theirs. From: Administrator's Assistant Coolguye, Detroit City Hall To: UNIEB Research Department Subject: Shell company? I'm really starting to get tired of McKiernan representatives down at the Ford plants I help oversee sashaying around for a handout because they're the only civilian company with a void presence. Are there any avenues we can pursue for kickstarting one or more competitors to hopefully put their feet to the fire? Even dabbling into the Federation state capitalism model? We could potentially use a member state with a history of a planned economy (Argentina comes to mind) as a sort of 'shell company' for void haulers that we can prop up. I realize this is...unconventional, but I am starting to suspect McKiernan of some quiet anti-competitive practices and I'd like to see how they do with a little pressure. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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The important thing about where we move our mines is that every ton of Trans-Newtonian elements WE grab from mars is a ton of Trans-Newtonian elements the feds DON'T. 52 Europa is, unless I'm mistaken, ours and ours alone, we can mine it at our leisure.
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Ynkling posted:From: Councilor Ynkling, Director of UNSA From: Dr.MagicBoots, Deputy Director of UNSA, Head of JPC, ISEI-C, and TNDSI To:  Councilor Ynkling, Director of UNSA Fine! After Dr. Scribbleykins finishes his JP research re-assign 7 of his remaining labs into my armor research. The remaining 3 labs are to be given to Dr.unwantedplatypus for research into figuring out how to stabilize these jump wormholes permanently. The ISEI-C is to be consolidated, all of it's labs are to be given to Dr. Scribbleykins for shipbuilding optimization work (unless UN admin deems another project more pressing). So the timeline will be this: Before Dr. Scribbleykins finished his JP research ISEI-C: Dr.unwantedplatypus - 8 Labs - Shipbuilding optimization TNDSI: Myself - 3 labs - Duranium armor JPC: Dr. Scribbleykins - 10 labs (assuming you appropriate 5 of the current 15) - Jump radius research After Dr. Scribbleykins finished his JP research ISEI-C: Dr. Scribbleykins - 8 Labs - Shipbuilding optimization TNDSI: Myself - 10 labs - Duranium armor JPC (effectively on the back-burner): Dr.unwantedplatypus - 3 labs - Jump "Gates" research Also out of curiosity who is overseeing Dr.Eumenides' tractor beam research? MagicBoots fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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Dr. Snark posted:To: Councilor Added Space To: Dr. Snark Re: Ghosts He's a complete madman. "Other people want me" indeed. Why does he THINK we don't want him on Mars? Upon reading his latest note I was debating whether or not to give him the oxygen deprivation brain damage along with a new face. However, torturing even a murderous madman would set bad precedent. So if you think that you can get something out of him, go ahead. Just let him know if I end up closing up his cell he'll now be subjected to a sixteen-hour-a-day looped broadcast of his life history, so he doesn't forget. quote:(Bringing along a survey team) will have no effect on the survey speed of the ships. Only the survey task group's SO and the survey task group's parent task force's survey officer make a difference. It would speed things up a bit if we found a candidate world in our system survey, to land a mineral team right after the geosurvey. This is a bit down the line, of course.
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From: CMDR TLM3101, CO:ILB MC SNOWSHOVEL To: CMDR Raw_Beef CO:ILB MISSILE COMPLEX OFFSHORE B - the killa b's Subject: Live fire tests Someone dropped off a note saying that you were contemplating live fire tests of the missiles stationed at your complex. I would advise against it. If you do decide to go ahead, however, I would respectfully offer three reminders: 1) The missiles were, as has been pointed out, built in the mid-to-late 20th century. By the lowest bidder. 2) So were most of the electronics in these facilities. and 3) Missile fuselages make excellent hydroponics bays (as Ensign Yamamori can attest to). This, incidentally, explains where my crew got the grain for the still in this desolate wasteland, but as it's blown to kingdom come now and no-one got hurt, all we can do is
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MagicBoots posted:Also out of curiosity who is overseeing Dr.Eumenides' tractor beam research? Dr. None-of-your-business. 
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FROM: The desk of Lt. General berryjon TO: CMDRs TLM3101, Raw_Beef RE: Live Fire No, no, no! The fireworks are only to be deployed after we're drunk. Not before! berryjon fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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From U.N Industrial Command Subject: Yet Another One of My Omnibus Pamphlets Well with Jump Engines just on the horizon things are looking fairly good in our neck of the woods, however, as we all know another fleet expansion is coming in a few years, and I've received a number of proposals which will be detailed later on in this pamphlet, first onto other matters. Coolguye we already are trading with the Federation, we signed a trade agreement several years ago, so that avenue has already been explored. As for McKiernan, we've already agreed to buy their York fleet once one more Aberdeen is built. That money will basically be one big subsidy for McKiernan who can then build more Aberdeens. As for building shell corporations, unfortunately, due to the fluid dynamic of the economy, us trying to front a company will have it be inevitably forced into stagnation by the tides of the free market (ooc. While we could in theory have Bgremen SM a new company, it won't grow at all, so it will just kind of do nothing). As for the Callisto Factories, I've heard some very convincing arguments from several very reliable people, so I've changed my position, "The Callisto factories are to be temporarily shutdown so the population can fill the other economic sectors. Dr. Magicboots Don't forget once all the necessary research is done, we still need to actually research the engine design it's elf, so you might want to reevaluate your research priorities and changes. As for Titan, I'm fine with the sale and letting BP control the mines, less hassle for us and more good guy free market points. Now onto Proen...I have no clue what we should do with him. Releasing him on Mars during this turmoil would be fortuitous, but what would he do? Still give him a facial reconstruction (with consent, remember we're the good guys, we wouldn't force a face transplant on a prisoner, that's just getting to sci-fi shadow villainy for our tastes) and setting him loose might be our best bet to git info on the Feds, hell he might have the technical plans for their warships (given that he knew how to take out one of their corvettes with one bomb), which would be a windfall for us. Now onto future fleet proposals: Research Summery: Meson Focusing Rank 2 (2000 RP) Turret Tracking Speed 2000 (1000 RP) Turret Tracking Speed 3000 (2000 RP) Beam Fire Control Range 16,000 (2000 RP) Capacitor Recharge Rate 2 (2000 RP) Missile Launcher Reload Rate 2 (2000 RP) Reduced-size Launcher 0.75 Size / 2x Reload (1000 rp) Flag Bridge (1000 RP) Components: code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:code:
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I suspect it might be a good idea to get a overview of our ships maintenance clocks. from reading bgremans writeup on ship maintenance it seems like we should optimally have ships spending one fourth their time in maintenance, or more precisely, on station at a body with sufficient maintenance facilities. Since we do not currently have anywhere with enough maintenance facilities to service the 'Berlin' class presumably this type has been flying around for years and racking up a significant maintenance 'debt'. a related mechanics question; does a refit, like the upgrade of the 'berlin' class, reset the maintenance clock?
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catfry posted:a related mechanics question; does a refit, like the upgrade of the 'berlin' class, reset the maintenance clock? Repairs and refits reduce the maintenance clock but generally not all the way. Really, I'm somewhat shocked there hasn't been more maintenance breakdowns. I guess because they have less parts then most ships I design. Let's stir the pot: Official UNCAO Statement For Broadcast by All Martian Media Regarding the "Free Mars Movement": The UNCAO recognizes all territorial claims not currently in dispute, and forbids UN colonies from making conflicting claims in the future. The UNCAO will resolve any territorial claims currently in dispute by neutral arbitration. UN citizens may visit and trade with Free Mars territory without restriction, except those set by local laws. UN citizens may be seized, tried, and sentenced for crimes committed in Free Mars territories by relevant authorities within those territories. They will be entitled to legal representation from the UN Consulate, but otherwise travel to Free Mars territory at their own legal risk. Free Mars citizens who commit crimes in UN territory will be seized, tried, and sentenced by UN authorities as per relevant law. The UNCAO unilaterally forbids interference with Free Mars mining operations, with the understanding that interference with legitimate UN mining operations will not be tolerated. The UNCAO recognizes that Free Mars shares the rights and responsibilities of the Treaty of Mars with regards to the Belnar ruins and resolves to work cooperatively with them to understand and preserve those ruins. Added Space fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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Still alive, just been on vacation, what did I miss? What are the current important issues (Sorry, read the bgreman updates, but haven't had time to read all the other posts from everyone)? Anyway, can one rename the ship they are commanding? If so I would like to rename my ship "Tordenskiold" (Was the name of a famous Norwegian/Danish naval hero, it translates to "Thundershield"). Just so its easier to recognize in updates, if you prefer you can use the English variant.
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Jimmy4400nav posted:(ooc. While we could in theory have Bgremen SM a new company, it won't grow at all, so it will just kind of do nothing). Seriously? That's pretty unfortunate. Is that a bug or a design limitation or what? Of course, McK seems to not grow unless we give them a constant injection of subsidies... Speaking of which, I'm surprised that, given our dire transportation needs, we haven't been giving them even fatter subsidies than we are already. We could always space-narrative this away by saying that the UN is purchasing partial ownership of McK with a $100B capital injection.
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berryjon posted:FROM: The desk of Lt. General berryjon From: CMDR TLM3101, CO:ILB MC SNOWSHOVEL To: CMDR Raw_Beef CO:ILB MISSILE COMPLEX OFFSHORE B - the killa b's, Lt. General berryjon Subject: Live Fire Lest I be misunderstood, neither my crew nor I are 'drunk'. Drinking on duty is, after all, a serious offense. However, the situation being what it is here at Snowshovel, some ratings might be forgiven if they were, hypothetically, to engage in certain experiments in the ancient and noble art of distilling, as there is PS: My chief of maintenance, Ensign Ruprecht, would like to requisition approximately four yards of coiled copper tubing and a spare fuel-tank for our snow coach. It's rather antiquated, and he has made a project out of it.
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From: Innocent Bystander, Director of Defense To: Jimmy4400nav Re: Fleet Modernisation In general, I agree with your proposal, however there are a few points I'd like clarification on. The Saratoga has anti-ship fire control layout, with a range of 20m km, but is only capable of firing size 1 missiles. While the UNIN doctrine has an explicit niche for ships fielding large quantities of small missiles (See SANDPAPER), I question how we can make an S1 missile that has that much range without being so slow as to be outrun by warships with nuclear thermal engines. It may be better to forego the Saratoga entirely in favour of the Iron Duke. The Saratoga PD variant, meanwhile, seems an excellent heavy escort, I'd like to know if a shipyard can be tooled to produce both it and the default variant. The Alexander is a straightforward missile brawler, nothing to complain about here except that its size will put it beyond our reach for some time. I agree with the doctrine choice of making the fleet flagship primarily a support vessel, so that it isn't a prime target in and on itself. I also question how effectively we're going to project a force like this. 7400-ton jump drives are going to be expensive toys indeed.
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Jimmy4400nav posted:From U.N Industrial Command We will roll the engine design under the umbrella of "Before Dr.Scribbleykins finishes his JP research". Ynkling posted:Dr. None-of-your-business. I'm just saying maybe our most prominent LG systems expert could be working on developing smaller crew quarters/engineering sections or fuel storage in anticipation of smaller or more efficient craft.
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 Offshore Radar Warning Station:Attention Missile complex B, we have an unknown radar contact on a hostile vector resembling an enemy attack launch. We are currently doing everything we can to determine if this is genuine or false, please stand by.  CMDR Raw_Beef CO:ILB MISSILE COMPLEX OFFSHORE B Roger that, we will stand by for confirmation and begin emergency launch procedures. ATTENTION ALL HANDS: WE HAVE AN UNCONFIRMED COMMIE MISSILE LAUNCH INBOUND. REPORT TO DUTY STATIONS AND EXECUTE LAUNCH PROCEDURES ON MY COMMAND CMDR Raw_Beef CO:ILB MISSILE COMPLEX OFFSHORE B Missiles are fueled, hot and ready to go. Awaiting enemy launch confirmation. Offshore Radar Warning Station: Uhhh.. you can stand down Complex B, an investigating party found a nest of seagulls near the radar dome. One of them had managed to get inside and was responsible for the false signal. Sorry. All is good here. How are you? CMDR Raw_Beef CO:ILB MISSILE COMPLEX OFFSHORE B Whoops. Rangemaster, initiate self destruct. Didnt work? :picks up spacephone: Hello UNIN? We've got a rogue missile on launch vector, for real this time. Perfect chance to live fire test your meson cannons! Raw_Beef fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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Raw Beef, I don't care about how you're in the middle of a kilometers deep ocean. You're on latrine duty. Go fetch that high pressure diving kit and a shovel. From: Innocent Bystander, Director of Defense To: Ghostbuster Network Re: Live fire Somehow a friendly based launched an unauthorised missile, shoot it down asap.
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Raw_Beef posted:a rouge missile It must be the ocean that turns a perfectly good soldier into a sailor.
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Innocent_Bystander posted:From: Innocent Bystander, Director of Defense For a Saratoga missile, we have the proposed Macross Theoretical Missile, with the range and speed to possibly be viable: code:Missile Launch Goddam it, do you realize how bad this is Raw_Beef? Not only do we have a rouge missile heading towards the super power that we're in an active cold war with (now we might have just started a war), but now since we have to shoot it down, this entails activating our Meson PDCs, which had previously been HIDDEN!!. As in the Feds knew they were somewhere, but now they'll have a pinpoint location for them, so if they ever start shooting, they'll know exactly where to shoot, thus destroying any potential first strike capability we had with those Ghostbusters! In addition, since they stay active after being turned on, the Feds can easily scan them and they'll know exactly what they are capable of and how to counter. We're in the middle of fleet modernization and exploration preparation, we don't have time to design a new defense PDC.For needlessly putting the entire U.N at risk of war with the Federation and for helping the Federation figure out where we might be deficient in defense, I'll do everything see to it that you NEVER get a space command and are stuck at a desk.
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Coolguye posted:Question: When we refit a ship with new parts, such as a new engine, are we able to keep the old engine or is it lost to the ether? Old parts are lost as far as I know. Scrapping ships does give you a chance to recover some portions of it. Added Space posted:It would speed things up a bit if we found a candidate world in our system survey, to land a mineral team right after the geosurvey. This is a bit down the line, of course. The El Dorado can only find the jump points. It can not transit them by itself, as it has no jump drive. Jimmy4400nav posted:Coolguye we already are trading with the Federation, we signed a trade agreement several years ago, so that avenue has already been explored. As for McKiernan, we've already agreed to buy their York fleet once one more Aberdeen is built. That money will basically be one big subsidy for McKiernan who can then build more Aberdeens. As for building shell corporations, unfortunately, due to the fluid dynamic of the economy, us trying to front a company will have it be inevitably forced into stagnation by the tides of the free market (ooc. While we could in theory have Bgremen SM a new company, it won't grow at all, so it will just kind of do nothing). I don't think this is true. I could SM a new company at any point. I have been deliberately not doing so because it adds a little more narrative flavor for me to fiddle with. catfry posted:I suspect it might be a good idea to get a overview of our ships maintenance clocks. from reading bgremans writeup on ship maintenance it seems like we should optimally have ships spending one fourth their time in maintenance, or more precisely, on station at a body with sufficient maintenance facilities. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuLIB8708NQsdHlkQ3FkaGFEM3BTWHpUX0VVczJzNkE Refits rewind the maintenance clock by a factor equal to the portion of the ship's BP cost represented by the new components. For example, a ship with a maintenance clock of 2 years, when refit with new engines that account for 50% of the build cost of the new ship design, would have its maintenance clock rolled back by 1 year. Also note that you can perform overhauls and refits simultaneously. Thread Updates This most recent development will be covered in a mini-update ASAP.
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So, I've been having a nice vacation on Earth to warm my toes a bit. Let's see what's been happening in my absence. Hrm. I seem to have been made Deputy Industrial Councilor. Oooh! The Terraformer has arrived! Factories are undermanned, but anything to make this place a little warmer... okay, we can work with this, as long as the infrastructure keeps coming in from Earth on schedule, maybe a little faster to make up for the bit we were expanding on our own. And... it seems someone is trying to start World War IV. Huh. You know what? That guy might be good up here. Be nice to have someone who can respond QUICKLY to commie threats. To: PERSONAL MEMO Re: CMDR Raw_Beef When we start stationing ground forces here, make sure this guy is in command. END MEMO
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Audio Log, UNS Panner GSV-01, holding LEO at 52 degree inclination Captain (Cmdr. Triggerhappypilot): SENSE, status update. SENSE (2nd Lt. Ford): *unintelligible sighing*...as usual, captain. GEO (Adv. Harrison): Uranium deposits in the Oklo site are a bit brighter than usual. Captain: Super. Maybe if we mine it all out, we can throw rocks at the feddies. GEO: We could always try scanning them to death. *Chuckles* Captain: *Chuckles* Yeah, keep our beam stuck on Moscow and we'll give them Cancer in 50 years. HELM (Lt. Colburn): Burning 2 secs on RCS to avoid debris. Captain: You'd think they'd at least give us free satellite, seeing as how keeping track of these comm relays is all we do. SENSE: NEW CONTACT! Captain: Report! SENSE: Oceanic, Small size. ICBM Launch! Captain: poo poo, is it the feds? SENSE: Negative, Launch appears to be from one of our own. Captain: SENSE, keep on that contact. I'll get on the horn with command. HELM, spin up the NTEs. If that missile means what I think it means, we're sitting ducks in this orbit.
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Oh, in that case I apologize for misspeaking, I though it was mentioned at some point that SM companies don't grow, but I guess I was wrong, sorry  Anyways, Crisis Mode Get on of our meson PDC's on this, its a conventional missile so we have half an hour to shoot it down, plenty of time. Ceebees we need you to get on the horn with the Feds and tell them we have an accidental launch, if they have any missile defense, they might want to spin it up in case we can't shoot this thing down. Innocent_Bystandard I need you to place the fleet at condition 2, we don't know how the Feds will react so have the boys ready in case they don't have a good laugh with us. Also once this crisis is over, can we PLEASE decommission all the remaining ICBM bases, we don't need them and honestly, I'm a bit reluctant now to hand over the keys to our missiles to the individual members of the peanut gallery. Plus not to mention after this the public is probably going to demand we decommission the bases as well, since the Feds already have done that. Dammit, now we've just given them good guy points! Come on guys, I know we're going through a slow period here, but we never want the Fed's to get good guy points. Jimmy4400nav fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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Missile Complex Offshore B, 29th February 2033 ( ), 11:45 UTC Missile Complex Offshore B inadvertantly fires one of its aging ICBMs. Untargeted, the missile climbs into the sky at 10 km/s. State-of-the-art fifteen years ago, completely outclassed by TN missiles today. However, its capacity for destruction is the same as a modern UN "Exocet" anti-ship missile. UN sensors of all sorts detect the missile immediately upon launch. It is assumed that Federation sensors are able to detect it as well. Confusion reigns as sensor officers at Ghostbuster-class missile defense bases receive conflicting reports. Some believe the Federation to have initiated a first strike. Others have received word of an errant friendly ICBM launch. Ghostbuster-class Missile Defense Base Fort Henry, 29th February 2033, 11:46 UTC  At the Fort Henry missile defense base, CDRE Floyd Bareilles, CO of the entire missile defense network, is in his office when a lieutenant bursts in, babbling about a Federation missile launch. Bareilles is on his feet immediately, headed for the CIC. "Slow down, son. What's going on?" "We're not sure sir. We're detecting a single ICBM. Launch site appears to be off the coast of Japan." "Just one?" questions Bareilles. A thought strikes him. "ICBM, you say? As in, a conventional one? They're not supposed to have any of those left." "Aye, sir. Conventional." Bareilles grunts and orders the lieutenant to raise every existing UN ICBM complex and find out what's going on. Within a minute, the situation is understood and relayed to the Commodore. He thinks for a second, then gives the order to have the Ghostbuster network open fire on the rogue missile. Ghostbuster-class Missile Defense Base Fort Henry, 29th February 2033, 11:46 UTC  As the fire controls and turrets at the Ghostbuster-class MDBs are designed to track targets moving fifty times faster than the targeted ICBM, Fort Henry has no trouble shooting it down. There is no sign of any further missiles or a Federation response. Earth, 29th February 2033, 11:52 UTC From: FAUN Eduard Ignatov To: Councilor Ceebees, Head of UNFRAD Re: Missile Contact Our sensors recently recorded the launch and subsequent in-space detonation of a UN ICBM. What is the meaning of this?
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Jan 17, 2013 21:08
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To: UNEC Re: Spin Pick your favorite: 1. We deliberately fired the missile to test our Meson bases, but just forgot to tell the Federation. 2. Computer error 3. Human error, with the human in question fired. 4. Sabotage!
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Jan 17, 2013 22:28
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To: UNEC From: Moscow Safehouse Re: Re: Spin Taking the perspectives of the common Federation citizen into account I would suggest blaming it on the archaic computing systems in pre-TN ICBM complexes and announcing that we will be accelerating our shutdown schedule to take them offline as immediately as is practicable.
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Jan 17, 2013 22:39
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Er. Lunar New Year celebrations? Celebrating the first Feb 29th in history? I think we should avoid admitting we launched a nuke on accident, that's a bad precedent. Just claim it was a blank without warhead used for target practice. We really, really, really don't want the PR debacle that is people accidentally launching nukes. About the latrine duty, I mean it. Raw_Beef is on indefinite latrine duty.
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Jan 17, 2013 22:50
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Jesus Christ  I don't even know what to say.
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