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Coolguye posted:Should I write up a 1000ish word summary of the important stuff thus far to ease people into this? It strikes me that reading the entire thread would be rather daunting. I did that after finding the thread during the Mars Crisis. I just had to go back and see how things lead up to that point. It's a fantastic read.
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Leif. posted:Provisionally designate the new Federation ship class as Kharkov. Aren't Ukraine, and therefore Kharkov, are part of the UN?
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I binged on this thread months ago, been following regularly for a while. Sign me up for the Space-Navy, and my votes: 1. Samolety 2. TildeATH
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bgreman posted:All three of you have been added to the queue. Do any of you have a preference for what stats the officer has? If so, you will receive the first available officer with that stat, at the risk of passing on an officer available earlier. Great! Anyone with decent combat-related skills will do.
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Are we sure this is just the Mind, or if it's connected with the jump effect? It might be the Mind amplifying the jump point effect, or it could be a coincidence. Or, something else. After all, why would the Mind make him write a star map, ours or theirs, in blood? What were the results of the jump point trance research again?
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Alchenar posted:He's totally not dead. He's died before.
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Or we could give each a line of a limerick.
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Why not do it after the operation? Then we can say "There were scary robot aliens in K2, but the we teamed up with the Feds and kicked their asses. Go Earth!" Also, do we want to reveal that we've lied about the cause of the loss of Klondike and Kagayan? Might be useful to say that we initially assumed it was because of the gamma rays (can't remember exactly what we said), but a joint exploratory expedition with the Federation revealed it may have been the robot aliens, who we promptly destroyed.
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Before attacking PCOC, it would be useful to think about: 1. Avoiding the Osaka Effect. Based on this new information, it would appear the Mind was trying to "brainwash" the Osaka into joining them. If we send unshielded ships against the Mind's vessel, we risk not only losing the ships, but having them and their crews assimilated and turned against us. 2. We should evaluate what potential armament the PCOC might carry. In particular, are there any weapons it could have that disable or penetrate shields? If so, that could put the ships and crews at risk of #1.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:07
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MagnumOpus posted:We have scouted very little of our corner of the galaxy. We don't know where their planets, bases, and fleets are. Our two leading theories regarding the strength of the enemy are that they either have massive forces capable of crushing as with ease, or no combat-capable ships at all. We wet our collective shorts every time we see one of their logistics vessels, which we are not completely sure we could even take in a stand up fight. Especially considering one of said logistics vessels nearly brainwashed the crew of our ship. But no, let's immediately send our entire fleet within brain-rape range of their ship. I'm sure it will end well.
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Go get 'em boys (and girls)! Just save a few for me to kill once I get a void command.
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A life pod? Could it be... MIND_Beef? 
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Are we going to tell the public about the aliens we blew up, or the aliens we're going to blow up? Or are we going to keep everything under wraps, maybe with an MiB team to keep the truth from getting out. Also, Coolguye: go for it! I look forward to it.
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We can probably expect the ship to have Osaka Effect type weapons, either the same that we saw on the Giza-classes or stronger. Their strategy might be to use said Effect to incapacitate enemy ships then disassemble them with short-range beam weaponry.
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We could also go all X-Files and see how long we can keep the alien conspiracy secret, which seems to be our current plan.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlcUwUwjLrs
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If I'm reading the design specs right, the missile FAC has much greater range and accuracy than the Meson FAC. I think the missile FAC is better suited for our needs because they have greater flexibility. The missile FAC can be used just as well as the Meson FAC outside a jump point, but can also be used in an offensive role, and is less vulnerable if confronted with enemy missile ships. Plus, we already have the Gibraltars as a jump point defense ship, and the missile FAC can use our existing missile designs and stockpiles, and upgrades as well. Finally, the Mind may or may not have some sort of affinity for the gates - they might be able to shrug off the jump effect more quickly than we expect.
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But they require us to get closer with our unarmored FACs. If they bring anything with weapons that have greater range than ours, meson FACs are screwed.
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May 1, 2015 01:06
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Gnooble posted:That's why you sit directly on the point and fire as they transit. Neither type of FAC can be used for offensive operations, the fuel costs of the gunboat engines are just too high. Alright, makes sense.
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May 1, 2015 02:01
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BwenGun posted:I'm just going to throw some ideas against the wall here and see what sticks. This seems entirely plausible. Especially considering it came from the linelayer itself.
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Alchenar posted:
There might also be a longer chain of opened jump gates going there. Sol-Zhongguo is open both ways, and IIRC we're opening Zhongguo->FED002 now. I believe the mind ship was working in FED003, suggesting that there are open jump point connections stretching from Fed-003 to either to the Mind cluster (tentatively, Mind-001) or the next one over (Mind-002). This also suggest that if the Mind is sending a stronger force, and they know or suspect where Sol is, they'll send it through the Fed's JP chain.
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May 4, 2015 20:14
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Lu Yan posted:Onboard a shuttle, racing back towards the UNS Pearl Harbor: Quoting for the new page. So, should we share this theory with the Feds? Considering that they are still our rivals, perhaps we should wait until the Mind comes knocking on Himalaya and Zhongguo first and they request our assistance before we rush to share information or help them.
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May 4, 2015 20:46
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Traditional Chinese? It should obviously be 中国 because the PRC is part of the Federation while Taiwan is part of the UN. 
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Actually, now that I think about it, the space Zhongguo should be written in traditional characters, while the Earthly-PRC Zhongguo should be written in simplified characters. Avoids confusion and I'm sure there can be a symbolic meaning behind it, too.
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Why do we have to give it now? Why not wait until it's relevant, or until we suspect they have something to offer us in return, like intel gained from interrogating their POWs? Seriously, they're our ally of convenience, the USSR to our USA. They're not our best buds and we shouldn't give them potentially valuable information for free (or nebulous "good will"). Pash posted:Take this with a grain of salt, seeing as I mainly have been lurking in this thread and have not read all the background in the thread, just the last few months worth... But seeing as offensive action against the Mind, at this time, is all but impossible without a slow, deliberate and time intensive march, is giving this map to the Feds really going to accomplish anything? The current issue is the defense of Sol, and we don't need to give the Feds the map to have them have a vested interest in working with us to that end. At best giving them the map gets us a long term joint military venture quite a ways down the line, at worst they have some information helps reveal what this map means, don't share it with us, and reap some sort of benefit from it. This too.
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I think one of the treaties we signed requires us to allow the Feds passage through our space if they are blocked into a dead-end.
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Question: are ansible communications interceptable? Like, if Chiwie tries to communicate with the rest of the fleet in order to set up an attack, would that give away his position?
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Holy poo poo!  EDIT: Update last page. The Beef has Returned!
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