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Jimmy4400nav posted:How close are we to completing the ground force upgrade? In addition, how soon will new battalions be trained and field ready? From: Dr. Amit Malcah, UNSA Ground Warfare Institute To: Councilor Jimmy4400nav Re: Ground Unit equipment enhancements Sir, we estimate that the upgraded equipment and vehicles will become fully deployed by mid-July of this year. We are working around the clock on this project. lizurcainnon posted:I'd like to also join the Navy Done. LLSix posted:Yes, yes it could. Well, it could try. I think our studies on ramming indicate that the chance of a successful ramming attack is similar to a successful missile attack in that it is heavily influenced by relative top speeds and so the capsule is unlikely to actually succeed. From: UNIN Intel Office To: UNEC Re: Sledopeyt The Federation has provided us with a baseline of the capabilities of the Krivak-class, of which Sledopeyt is the second. They claim that she is, much like our first generation freighters, a conventional chemical rocket mounted in a duranium hull. Her top speed is 117 kps, far too slow to threaten any other known void ship class, even should she try to ram. Ceebees posted:Anyway, since the Feds didn't bomb Mars, I assume they agreed to the tech trade? Have we done the traditional spy movie thing where we each send a secret agent to trade unmarked briefcases yet? Actually, you agreed to the Federation's final proposal, so I took that as the deal being sealed. The tech exchange was handled via the SM Tech Compare tool.  This dialog, available only in SM mode, allows you to compare technologies between two player-controlled empires, which you select in the A and B comboboxes. The Options allow you to include in the list Race-designed Tech Systems (things like specifically designed ship components: missile launchers, shield generators, sensors, etc, and is how I gave the Federation shield tech to the UN), and Show Tech System Development Cost inline next to the techs. The Sort radio button does just that. Relations shows at a glance the diplomatic relations the empires have with one another (in case you wanted to take it into account during a tech exchange, I guess). The business end of this dialog is the bottom two panes. Each shows a list of tech that one empire has that the other does not. Here, for example, we see that the BFM has no tech the Federation does not (as they captured the Federation settlements relatively intact, including computers and data storage). However, since we just gave the Federation the Mobile Infantry Tech, we see it on the left, as the BFM does not have that tech. Pressing the Give Tech button below either pane gives the selected tech to the other empire. In-game, the entire tech exchange would have happened via a secure data connection, with a physical handover coming later. Mister Adequate posted:From: Cmdr. Mister Adequate You can set the reserve level at Callisto to something like 100 tons for the minerals you need, and they won't be sent back via Callisto's mass driver. It will not reduce the specified mineral below its reserve level.
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MagicBoots posted:Why don't we try to board it and The Krivak-class is hilariously obsolete. This is comparable to a room full of trained NASA technicians gathering around a stolen Sputnik and murmuring amongst themselves, "Yessss, now we shall know all of their secrets" I love it, in other words.
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bgreman posted:You can set the reserve level at Callisto to something like 100 tons for the minerals you need, and they won't be sent back via Callisto's mass driver. It will not reduce the specified mineral below its reserve level. Well, I did not know this function existed at all. You learn something every day!
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From: Innocent Bystander, Director of Defense To: Lt. Gen. Berryjon, Red Thunder Command Re: Strategy Regarding the brotherhood split in forces, I would like to point out the following: -The split between occupation and mobile forces is more or less even. -We are capable of meeting either, but not both, head-on. -The primary concern is our target force being reinforced by the unengaged one. -All sides, including us, are better at defense than offense. I suggest the following sollution: Whenever the Brotherhood moves its forces around, we redirect our efforts at whatever group is currently the weakest, and let their mobile units smash themselves against our defenses. You are hereby officially cleared to commence operation Red Thunder in 5 days time. -End message Re: Abducting Soman No. Embedding a single operative is cleared, but I question wether it is the best use of their time.
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From: Councillor Added Space To: Chairman Doctor Unwanted Platypus Re: SRGI You have massively misunderstood my intent here. Military support? Voting on entering the UN? Goodness no! This is strictly a soft power exercise. The entire military contingent on the thing will be one bomb (non-nuclear, but huge) buried under the thing so we can blow it to hell if someone tries to grab it. Allow me to outline my plan. The first stage was passing on information to wealthy concerns outside of the UN to start speculation on the land. People are going to look at potential river routes and start buying up city-sized chunks. This is probably going to fuel the classic response to land speculation, protectionism. Phase two. The UN will quietly underwrite banks to make property loans at reasonable terms, but only to people buying land in their own country. Internal speculation, "gold rush" mentality by the citizens, politicians securing their own borders - it really doesn't matter which of these happens. We've now created our own demographic that is economically linked to us. At that point we've flipped the problem. Rather then us coming in as outsiders and demanding something, we're supplying something that their own citizens and powerful interests desperately want. They'll demand that we put it there and drat us for not doing it sooner! Essentially, this combines two great disasters in North American history; the economic disaster of turn of the century, and the ecological disaster of the destruction of old growth forests by colonists - except I will be performing them in reverse. People get richer and greener.
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From: Commander Hostergaard To: UNIEB, UNCAO or whoever counselors this may concern Re: Mars infrastructure Maybe we can filch some infrastructure from the feds? Publicly invite them to help relieve the refuges by delivering some of their own infrastructure to us at Mars.
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Innocent_Bystander posted:Re: Abducting Soman TO: What Appears To Be A Nonfunctional IP SUBJECT: HOT DEALS ON GROCERIES IN MOROCCO This course of action would also be practically guaranteed to bring the team into direct conflict with our recent houseguest. Without any slights to our team, I'm not certain it's an entirely a good idea to engage him like that. FROM: Administrative Assistant Coolguye, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce TO: Office of the Terran Civilian Administrator SUBJECT: Saharan Rejuvenation Campaign Is an extra pair of eyes on the ground needed for this project? I speak French, which is the educated if not official language of most of the Saharan countries, and I'm adept in American Sign Language, which, amusingly enough, is the basis of the sign language dialect in Chad and Nigeria. The linguistic differences are minimal, though the cultural differences are fairly substantial. It makes outreach easier, though. Perhaps most importantly, I still have some very able friends in Eastern Africa from my work in Somalia, Kenya, and South Sudan. I'd probably be able to convince a few of them to help me set up shop.
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bgreman posted:You can set the reserve level at Callisto to something like 100 tons for the minerals you need, and they won't be sent back via Callisto's mass driver. It will not reduce the specified mineral below its reserve level. From: Deputy Volmarias To: UNRA Earthside stockpile administration, UNRA Earthside mass driver teams, UNRA Callisto mass driver teams, UNRA Callisto stockpile administration CC: Counselor General Antares Subj: Callisto maintenance materials Barring an override by General Antares, I am authorizing the transfer of 100 tons of each requisite material from Earth to Callisto via mass driver, as well as setting the reserve limit to 100 tons for these materials on Callisto. I am also giving the standing order that should stockpiles run low on Callisto, one month's worth of requisite resupplies be immediately sent via mass driver, and that our department be notified immediately to take future action. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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bgreman posted:From: Dr. Amit Malcah, UNSA Ground Warfare Institute What would the timeline be if we gave Dr.Eumenides access to all of the UNSA's resources for his ground warfare study?
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Dr. Eumenides could complete the work, if assigned all 30 labs, by 3rd June.
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Volmarias posted:From: Deputy Volmarias Approved
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So it turns out that while you can use the CMC-provided mass driver to shoot minerals around if you are buying the output of that CMC, you cannot use the mass driver to receive minerals. You'll need to manually ship the minerals out there. Or put your own mass driver on the body. It should also be noted that 702 Alauda, Wodan, IAU A22 and IAU A140 do not have mass drivers, so their mining output is being stockpiled on those bodies. This amounts to about 250 total tons of minerals, currently. bgreman fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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At the moment Mars has two mass drivers. I suggest shipping one to Callisto.
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catfry posted:At the moment Mars has two mass drivers. I suggest shipping one to Callisto. This is Edit: Edited for absolute wrongness. bgreman fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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 Perhaps the Brotherhood has claimed one?
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We shipped a mass driver to Mars before 2030 (there is one in the 2030 state of the UN), and we found another in 2033.
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Derrrrrrrrp, I looked at "Deep Space Tracking Station" (which I instinctively knew was near the "Mass Driver" section) and saw "Level 1" and completely ignored "10,000 tons per year" and, more damningly, "Mass Drivers: 2."
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Innocent_Bystander posted:Re: Abducting Soman From: Operative Prof. Snark To: UN Command RE: Infiltration If I may, sirs, I'd like to again reinforce that TildeATH's negotiations would take place at a location where Soman and several of his officers would be located. It would be a waste to ignore the potential intel that could be gained simply by listening to off-hand conversations there. I know I'm being a bit pushy on getting an agent in there, but this is a golden opportuinity for us. Besides, having an emebedded agent would give us a lot more contingency plans if things go south. bgreman posted:Derrrrrrrrp, I looked at "Deep Space Tracking Station" (which I instinctively knew was near the "Mass Driver" section) and saw "Level 1" and completely ignored "10,000 tons per year" and, more damningly, "Mass Drivers: 2." Well, sometimes even the best of us miss the blindlingly obvious. I know the feeling. 
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From: Councilor DagPenge To: UNDOT; UNEC Subject: Minerals to Callisto As soon as the Mars trouble blows over and we got back to shipping infrastructure to Callisto, I want one of the Yorks to ship those minerals there as well.
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bgreman posted:Here, for example, we see that the BFM has no tech the Federation does not (as they captured the Federation settlements relatively intact, including computers and data storage). Can anyone else see the MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY here?
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Son of a bitch. HOW COULD WE OVERLOOK SOMETHING LIKE THAT!? Okay, I'd like to recommend seizing control of anything that looks remotely important when we're invading BFM territory. Hopefully, Fred forgot to purge at least one of his systems.
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Gentlemen, we didn't overlook this. Why do you think UNEC unanimously approved the ground war? This just confirms our suspicions were correct. EDIT: VVV Well, it would be nice if we could, but I'm pretty sure we need combat drop modules to board stuff in space. Which we haven't even researched yet, nevermind designed a ship around or built. Innocent_Bystander fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Feb 23, 2013 |
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Teledahn posted:Can anyone else see the MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY here? This was also my reasoning behind boarding the captured ship. The technology may be old but I'd love to see their com logs.
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Time for some kind of space Glomar-Explorer operation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian Fred wouldnt be too happy about us just outright recovering his property and claiming it for our own, but if we can recover it in secret, then there's nothing to complain about.
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FROM: Commander Kal-L, UNMS Leeds TO: UNEC RE: A modest proposal. Gentlemen, while the personnel of my ship is off-loading the various pieces of infrastructure with the utmost care and as fast as possible to relieve the refugees, I'm afraid there could be some delays, as will happen in this kind of situation. Maybe we could use this chance to take back to Earth some resources, some pieces of old equipment that are no longer needed here on Mars? I'm suggesting that if the ground forces find some of the Federations computers, we can dismantle them inmmediately and take them back to a secure base with the York IIs, where the techs will have all the time in the world to break their codes, while some arranged explosions can be used to cover up the whole thing, tell the Feds that the BFM left some bombs to try and do some more damage in case they lost the conflict
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I agree with Kal-L; we could always use more resources on hand. Considering that the intel team will be doing recon in enemy territory anyway, should we add "locate Federation databases" to their overall objectives?
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The BFM ship is right under Fred's close-range sensors. We can't do much there that they won't see. Besides we don't have any boarding equipment. Go ahead and add the order to find Fed databases. Edit: If somebody wants to do some thread-digging, the Proen page needs to be updated to a korbalev page. Innocent_Bystander fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Feb 24, 2013 |
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Good god, what an amazing thread. I'm caught up to the beginning of 2033 now, but I'd like to be all spaced up as a Navy dude if at all possible.
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From: CP'N AETHERNET To: ALL CREW MEMBERS ON UNS PRAGUE Re: WAR, AND RUMOURS OF WAR Dear crewmembers and crewvaginas, The rumours currently going round the ship about the possibility of a real, live, bloody war full of death and destruction about to take place on Mars must be stopped. Confidential information obtained through hacking personal emails have been accessed remotely by a crew member (I suspect you, Huxley; no-one else would have known quite so many horse porn websites to sign me up for) must remain precisely that. The UN is not about to beat up Martian separatists, no matter what you read in the newspapers. Tabloids referring to the The War of the Common Cold are merely looking for an excuse for anachronistic puns. Furthermore, crew members describing themselves as "champing at the bit to shoot missiles at separatists" should remember that the Prague is currently stationed safely hundreds of millions of miles away from Mars performing the strategically vital duty of protecting Earth from itself. We will be sitting out any potential war, not that there is any potential war. And if I have anything to say about it, it'll stay that way. CAPTAIN AETHERNET OOC: This thread moves faster than a slow reader like myself can keep up. Although it's late, I love the flag selection skills on display here.
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Aethernet posted:(I suspect you, Huxley; no-one else would have known quite so many horse porn websites to sign me up for)  Well that threw me for a loop being that Huxley is my real name and all.
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Mister Adequate posted:
In Federation, Let's Play plays you!
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Innocent_Bystander posted:Go ahead and add the order to find Fed databases. Done. If the team finds anything, we'll have it shipped back to one of the Yorks, where it would be safest, unless anyone else feels that there would be a safer holding area.
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Silly question, but does our intelligence/security apparatus have a name? I'd like to write something better than "our intelligence team".
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The team itself is on the org chart as the UNIN Special Forces team. Our intel arm is so understaffed they simply don't have the manpower to be an independant agency right now.
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Volmarias posted:Silly question, but does our intelligence/security apparatus have a name? I'd like to write something better than "our intelligence team". As far as I'm aware, there's only ONE intelligence team active at the moment. So "our intelligence team" is an accurate term, as boring as that may be. Like Innocent_Bystander said, there's not enough agents running around for us to give individual teams names, nor do we have a blanket term for out intel division. Yet. Hopefully, we'll be getting more espionage-oriented officers in the future, but that's a LONG ways off.
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rizzen posted:Good god, what an amazing thread. I'm caught up to the beginning of 2033 now, but I'd like to be all spaced up as a Navy dude if at all possible. Done. Note that there are only 6 naval command slots left (though these are the most frequent to open up). If you're a lurker and want a dude named after you, better get in quick before the queue starts to back up! Kal-L posted:FROM: Commander Kal-L, UNMS Leeds The Freighter Command task group is already well on its way back to Earth, and will cycle between Earth and Mars for about a month to deliver infrastructure. However, McKiernan and Yamamoto have delivered dozens of units of infrastructure, such that there is now surplus room for 350,000 colonists (and likely means that Mars is about to get another colonist dump on it, after the civilian colony ships return from their current trip to Callisto, which will be in about a month). Dr. Snark posted:As far as I'm aware, there's only ONE intelligence team active at the moment. So "our intelligence team" is an accurate term, as boring as that may be. Like Innocent_Bystander said, there's not enough agents running around for us to give individual teams names, nor do we have a blanket term for out intel division. Yet. The United Nations Interplanetary Navy's Office of Intelligence coordinates all intelligence operations, using assets from its own ranks, the UNGF, and UNCAO. Frankly, in the game as it currently stands, there is not a lot of game mechanics things for espionage teams to do. The only in-game things the UN's espionage team has done is 1) retrieve the class design of a Federation tanker/collier 2) die horribly. In eight years. Everything else has been stuff that I provided you. There was a proposal a while back about spinning off a separate intelligence department entirely, but it was shot down by the UNEC. Ideally an intelligence department would also keep track of all the things I post about Federation contacts and what not (and assign reporting names, which no one has ever done), but I doubt that will be feasible at this stage. Without that, there is very little for a new Intel Office councilor to do. Mars: Lockyer Crater, 18th May 2033, 10:05 UTC Administrator TildeATH, along with CMDR Raw_Beef and the undercover CMDR Prof. Snark (posing at TildeATH's personal bodyguard), arrive at Lockyer Crater in a civilian air transport. They are met by a contingent of heavily armed Brotherhood soldiers, who take them to a former Federation civilian police station. There, they are submitted to a thorough examination. Any weapons (including any hidden explosives) are discovered and put into storage. The group's UIAs are all deactivated and the hardware confiscated. The group receives assurances that all their personal possessions will be returned to them on their departure, although there is a worrying smirk on the face of the man who issues these promises. After the search, the group is herded into a ground vehicle with blacked out windows and whisked away to an unknown location. As they exit the vehicle on arrival, CMDR Prof. Snark makes note of the fact that they are in a maintenance/sewage passageway beneath the city. The Brotherhood escorts open up a nearby maintenance hatch and lead the way into a heavy-duty underground bunker. Here, dozens of Brotherhood guards lounge around, operate terminals, speak on radios, and perform the various operations required in the day-to-day running of a rebellion. As the hatch is closed behind them, the UN are informed that the interior of the bunker is heavily shielded against radiation, and that any communication will need to be coordinated with a Brotherhood officer. They are next led to a mess where they are served a light lunch, and shown to their quarters, which are unexpectedly spacious, including a dinette and private bathroom facilities. "Iknezstibr Soman will speak with you tonight, ma'am," TildeATH is told before the door is closed behind the departing guard. Task Group ETAs as of 18th May 2033, 18:05 UTC
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FROM: The desk of Lt. General berryjon TO: 79th, UNEC RE: Mars Gentlemen, the clock is ticking. There will be peace on Mars, or there will be nothing but blood, sweat, toil and tears.
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Naturally, I have a speech in mind, but I will wait until I hear from Soman so that I can respond as necessary. My agenda is to take a hard line and offer few carrots. Obviously, BFM is setting the tone, but if they expect us to be hostages, then they'll find out the Grand Ambassador's crazy isn't skin deep.
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I love that countdown clock, the pace of the game proceeds normally in a kind of immaterial manner, whether a ship takes a week or fourteen days usually matters little, but you have injected some real excitement with this sudden crisis. In the future, we must be more careful about sending our entire fleets too far away from our worlds and assets; in hindsight we should have left the bulk of the fleets in the inner system.
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From: Councillor Added Space To: Administrator Arujei, General berryjon Re: War Warning I suggest you start constructing a secure Landing Zone over the horizon from the Fed city. I've already booked a speech in front of the General Assembly in two days, between the unloading of Lictor and the arrival of Venti. Honestly, I'm going to try to provoke the Brotherhood to attack us. Our forces should be able to hold easily while the second transport unloads.
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