MagicBoots posted:

1000 tons is extremely small for a ship in Aurora, for reference my standard Geosurvey scout is 1,850 tons, my standard Missile Frigate is ~10 000 tons and my standard cargo ship is 28,550 tons.

Also, can I be a scientist, preferably in Missile and Kinetic weapons? (someone needs to counter this rampant laser obsession!)

Triskelli posted:

Keep following the thread then! We're open to suggestions, and policymakers may have to step down in the future. Plus, you could always sign up for a spot as a colony governor. I may be wrong, but I think it's up to them to implement the policies we put forward.

Bremen posted:

Missiles aren't designed the same way as ships,

quote:

Offensive terraforming is a real tactic in this game.

SPERMCUBE.ORG posted:

It will do more damage to the earth than the enemy can do to us. They wouldn't dare start a war with us.

Plus the way the game works, I think, is the planet is a point, it hasn't any distinct regions. So blowing up some super bombs would theoretically just irradiate the planet. Theoretically. I haven't tested it yet. I probably should do that.

Puistokemisti posted:

FROM: Resource Acquisition
TO: Everyone

I'm not opposed of SPERMCUBE.ORG's new missile designs in principle, and the increased speed and payload would be great asset to our forces. However, I would have to point out that replacing significant numbers of our current ICBMs with the new design would consume majority of Tritanium we can mine and replacing all of our armaments would cost aprox. third of the Tritanium on Earth that we can likely mine.

And after the investment into these missiles, what shall we do when new engine technologies render them obsolite?

Ceebees posted:

I seem to have ended up with your desired position on the military front. There might be a matching civilian agency, but as far as i'm aware, this chart lists all the diplomats currently available

(i.e., me and one unclaimed dude.)

cokerpilot posted:

*Transcript from the inside of A missile base located somewhere off the eastern coast of the United States.*

"Feds are totally loving with us. They don't mean a drat thing by this. My money's on them just trying out their fancy new ship tech while using it to give themselves a PR boast to their public."

Lord Windy posted:

FROM: The Desk of Lord Windy, Director of Defence and Procurement
TO: Everyone
RE: Colonization

This is not my department, I know, but I do not think we should bother just yet with colonisation.

Once we have a proper survey of the system out, THEN we can look at claiming our choicy parts, and by then we will have access to Naval vessels capable of holding territory. Besides, we don't even know if the Moon even has minerals, it could just be a barren rock that we would be responsible for maintaining and defending.

It's just a PR stunt, don't let it get in your grills. We didn't waste our shipyard in building a useless ship and we aren't going to.

Lord Windy posted:

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SPERMCUBE.ORG posted:

FROM: The Hospital Bed of SPERMCUBE.ORG
CO of the 57th LTA "Think Tanks"
TO: Director of Defence and Procurement
RE: The Proposed Earth System Neutrality Treaty

There are those who would accuse me of being a warmonger but I like the intentions of this proposal. But you may have noticed that relations between the UN and the Federation aren't exactly stellar ('cause space, get it?) right now. The total demilitarization of the Earth-Moon system might be a little too ambitious for the moment. What if we scaled back a bit and instead limited the total megatonnage for the strategic weapons stockpiles for each side? Our old ICBMs are going to be obsolete soon and so will the enemy's so we'll both be replacing them anyhow. This might be an easier agreement for both sides to make and it can still ensure the earth's continued non-radioactivity.

Of course that sort of thing is hard to make happen when we have no diplomatic contact with the Federation.

Mikl posted:

FROM: CMDR Tarquin Mikl, CO Missile Complex Comiso
TO: UNEC, R&D
Time: 1104

Please disregard the previous message, I don't know what came into me. I remember taking some painkillers and going to bed, and then everything's a blur until I woke up this morning with a splitting headache.

Seeing the current developments, I think our priorities at the moment should be the following:

1. Establish diplomatic relationships with the Federation, if possible (wouldn't want a war to break out now, would we?);
2. Get to the Moon and possibly establish a long-term colony (complete with TNE mining operations) there;
3. Develop our space-faring capabilities to travel beyond the Moon;
4. Space weapons!

MagicBoots posted:

What is with this obsession with colonizing the moon? We don't even know if there is anything there worth mining, for all we know it's a barren rock!

SPERMCUBE.ORG posted:

You'll forgive me but a person in my position has to wonder if this myth that Lunar colonization is an expensive and taxing affair might not be a sophisticated Federation propaganda campaign to prevent us from leapfrogging them. I'm not suggesting anyone in the government or military is a Federation agent, merely a victim of the misinformation from their various intelligence agencies. A team should be assembled to consider this possibility.

In the meantime consider that 2,500 tons of infrastructure (1 unit) only takes 2 tons of duranium to produce. And we only need to build enough for the first million people to live on a colony before the market is big enough to start ordering civilian produced infrastructure from earth. I haven't seen the report on earth's economy (because it's boring) but I'd guess that our civilian industry is making more than 5,000 units a year. In tons that's somewhere around 12,000,000.

Point is infrastructure is dirt cheap. Even I could afford some and my salary is still being withheld because of that whole Missile Complex 23 thing.

Jimmy4400nav posted:

Really since Luna would me our first off world colony, we might want to spitball ideas and get a better proof of concept for future colonial models.

Bremen posted:

Just as a warning to those potential freighter designs, you might want to consider that the Earth itself is moving at 30 km/s. That design would be essentially worthless for reaching anything other than the moon.


If they really don't have any engineering spaces, I'd actually say the odds of one blowing up due to maintenance failure is fairly high.

Lord Windy posted:

I would also like to award him a medal commemorating the event. Do we have a medal that would be suitable or should I commission a new York Medal or the like?

bgreman posted:

DagPenge posted:

From: CMDR DagPenge - Logistics Officer Fleet HQ
To: Lord Windy; UNEC


The most optimal solution from the logistics side of things, would be to have one missile size that fits both our silos and our space navy. It's easier to build and transport stuff when you don't have a different missile size, also everybody knows what a missile can do, no matter from where it's launched. Which should make it easier for our officers to calculate the odds in a battle situeration.
Also it makes it possible for PDCs to switch missiles to the navy or the other way around should the need arise.

So if it's possible to build one missile to fit all using TN elements, then I strongly recommend that we only build and use those.

MagicBoots posted:

This is totally possible and somewhat effective if done right.

Saros posted:

Iunnrais posted:

Just finished reading the thread so far, and I am impressed and daunted. I can't imagine handling this game as a single individual instead of a committee.

That said, I want in. A potential colony governor, perhaps?

redleader posted:

Fascinating LP, although it's convinced me that I'm not nearly smart enough, or have enough time, to play the game myself. Which is a pity, since these one-man massive simulation-game-things are really fascinating. Also, I loving love sci fi.

Any room for me to be a scientist?