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Just finished catching up for this LP, so Make me a captain . I'll take anything destroyer sized or larger, call it the Alien Vessel Also: why is no one designing anything bigger than 9,900 tons? I understand we won't be able to jump with it, but we have gate tech, which will mean that most systems worth defending will have wormholes to them, so larger ships can help defend them. Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Sep 24, 2017 |
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LLSix posted:
Don't get to my computer till Tuesday, I will then (we need a proper-sized carrier at least, to go alongside a light carrier)
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Sep 24, 2017 16:21
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unwantedplatypus posted:Tell Terra to gently caress off, if they can't keep their side of a treaty they just signed, why should we trust them to honor a new one? This: refuse to renegotiate the treaty, the jump points are owned: the planets behind them are fair game to whoever gets there first: we didn't carve up Sol at first, and we're not going to with other systems as abundant. Besides, planets are big places.
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Oct 3, 2017 14:19
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Yea, rachet up tensions, refuse to back down, insist that this is a exsistential matter for Mars. At a push, commit to shared research agreement, but only Martian ships/people in Ragni - No TU forces or colonies.
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Oct 4, 2017 09:44
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GunnerJ posted:Any way to fit it on something as fast as a fighter and spam them for moving right up to blast BBs in the face? The largest laser we can fit on a viable fighter is a 250 ton 25 damage laser, which would penetrate 8 layers of armour: Enough to possibility one-shot a destroyer and ruin any crusiers armour, but it would take quite a few to take down a battleship. And this laser would have a 12 minute recharge time to fit on a fighter in the first place. Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Oct 5, 2017 18:31
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Jackson Taus posted:How does a fighter get close enough to use that against anyone? A fighter is 30x bigger than a normal ASM, and can be targeted at huge distances. Even a standard CG (Argyre) or DDG would be able to hit it from like a million KM out, and if they've got AAMs it'll have to wade through dozens of them to get in range. The same way our Deimoses got close enough to attack the IC fleets: Picking your targets, Numbers, and luck. I'm not saying it's an optimal design (the 835 recharge time puts end to that), but it's possible, which was the point.
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Oct 5, 2017 19:30
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That's definitely a good starting point: Either drop the military base bit (they can have ground forces on their colony but no armed warships) or give equal terms to Nova Sol, and we have a deal.
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Oct 5, 2017 20:09
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Crazycryodude posted:It's a horrible deal. The entire reason we want to keep Earth out of Rangi is because the TNE's and alien tech that they'll pull out of Rangi V will utterly obliterate any advantages we had over them. This deal just.... lets them have it. We can pull them out at the same time. Putin probably expects the advantages from Rangi V to be as amazing as we do. Therefore, he can't let us have access to them, for fear of falling behind in tech even further (please ignore Facility already starting to make this reality). Whatever deal we make probably involves giving him access to the tech for this reason.
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Oct 5, 2017 20:11
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Saros posted:
quote:The proposal is as follows: OK, lets go through this line-by-line. quote:Terra will concede Martian ownership of the 'Ranginui' system and the direct jump link as well as further jump links out of Ranginui. quote:The entire system will remain open to Terran exploration and exploitation of any archeological discoveries. quote:Terra will be permitted to establish one colony and military base on a body of their choosing in Ranginui. They also will be allowed to harvest whatever TNE they wish from this body.
quote:Mars agrees to cede the 'Nova Sol' system and the jump points connecting it to Ranginui to Terra as well as any further jump points out of Nova Sol. quote:A joint Xenology body will be created. All new Xenoarcheological discoveries must be reported to this body within three months of discovery. Discovery of any alien life must be reported as soon as practicable. quote:Both sides will be allowed to send unarmed expeditions into each others territory to explore and exploit any xenoarcheological discoveries made. quote:Further jump points out of sol will remain free to access for all and settlement by both sides will be allowed in system discovered beyond these points However, we have a few terms of our own to add Firstly: No Terran ship will cross Jupiters orbit around the sun while we negotiate this agreement. This is a temporary kind of ceasefire while we negotiate. Secondly The Terrans give us the location of the Nova Sol-Ranginui JP (not right now, but we should get it at the end of this process) Thirdly Terran ships in Ranginui make their way home as soon as this is signed (so longer term) Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Oct 5, 2017 23:06
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A1 20 Mil is large, sure, but we can still build stations with good sensors and long range missiles if we want. Or, as was stated, start fortifying the JP in 2-3 years and start the war on our terms not theirs.
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Oct 6, 2017 13:11
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On another point, we realised we'd not made an upgraded Gallileo yet, so I whipped one up quicklycode:
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Oct 6, 2017 16:55
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Guys, Watch That Video
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Oct 7, 2017 17:33
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Crazycryodude posted:Hahaha holy poo poo you guys are never gonna believe this, the name of the Commodore's ship is Korbalev. If you don't get this, you were spared the horrors of dealing with superspy Korbalev during Coldest War.
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Oct 7, 2017 19:08
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Dance Officer posted:The thing about humanitarian aid is that I sort of doubt there will be many left alive after explosions that big. Nah, 100 kilotons in nuke terms isn't that big See what that does to Moscow here. Millions in central Moscow will die, but the surrounding area is fine, especially if it was a airburst instead of a groundburst (airbursts produce alot less radiation since there's not soot cloud kicked up to irradiate)
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Oct 8, 2017 13:22
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GunnerJ posted:So what's the deal with TNEs fluff-wise, why are they so great? They break normal newtonian physics in absurd ways.
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Oct 9, 2017 14:04
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That's what, 4 months to build a light carrier? drat, our shipyards are fast.
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Oct 11, 2017 12:54
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VanSandman posted:It is with conventional rockets, because you have to counter the orbital velocity of the Earth. TNEs make it trivial to do so. Point and shoot: TNE's make orbital mechanics so easy.
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Oct 16, 2017 16:12
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VanSandman posted:How fast could we go if we made a ship that’s nothing but engines and sensors and life support? For a ship? About 12000 km/s. For a fighter with very little fuel? About 20000 km/s
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Oct 19, 2017 14:47
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Pharnakes posted:You are all missing the point. The real issue is that the Terrans are about to sacrifice several ship loads of perfectly good factory workers to the elder gods. Those are our refuges damnit. I agree, seems like a good point to. Even share the Terran research aswell, so they can't claim they don't know!
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Oct 19, 2017 23:44
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Don't care about other things, but Release jump sickness news
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Oct 21, 2017 12:22
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The Pit
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Nov 3, 2017 22:42
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Don't shoot first
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Nov 8, 2017 10:25
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Tell them, don't request aid
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Nov 13, 2017 16:51
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This isn't them observing our fighting: the timescale doesn't work I don't think, from the message going from a outlying system, to Terra, and back, even as prioirty. Instead, it's the Terrans telling us they fought aliens in a roundabout way.
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Nov 17, 2017 22:28
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Muwahahaha, who gave me command of the greatest battleship Mars owns? Because they obviously made the right choice. B
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Nov 22, 2017 19:42
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Don't feel that signing up late consigns you go a bad ship:I signed up 100 pages in and am now commanding the best drat ship in the fleet - the Ranguai class.
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Nov 25, 2017 03:32
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As Commander of the Ranginui, I say to fleet command Yes we should intercept, and yes once we're in-system the Crusiers/Destroyers should split off
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Dec 5, 2017 15:02
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Also that their remaining beam ship has enough holes in its armour to be penetrated at least twice, which given these things have 10 armour at least means they are heavily wounded. The Destroyers alone can't take them, but the Destroyers and cruisers probably can.
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Dec 5, 2017 16:32
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OwlFancier posted:My issue with splitting is that unlike the terrans on the jump point, the aliens will see our ships approaching. Even if so: every missile going at our ships isn't aimed at humans on the ground.
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Dec 5, 2017 16:47
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Dr. Snark posted:Why is it that I'm not surprised Facility's cousin is a fan of 2010: A Space Odyssey? In somewhere between 30 and 90 seconds, Speedy Scanned/Hacked the ship, all the personal media devices on the ship, found a copy of 2001, watched the entire thing, and piked up enough metatext from other media that it was a significant line in the movie and worth quoting back. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
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Dec 7, 2017 19:06
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CoffeeQaddaffi posted:Titan's new Space Uncle Speedy seems like a fun chum, and very protective of its babies. Point still stands. It found a electronic version of the book, read it, and signified that line to be worth quoting. Although the ship is more likely to carry the movie, it's a moot point to the scary bit.
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Dec 7, 2017 19:15
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Saros posted:Terran redesigns are based on tech they pulled out of Ranginui, some small natural advances and a third source of advanced tech you can't track at this point but perhaps would know about if you'd been less obsessively secretive with how you wrote the Lunar Treaties I'm putting money on the Terrans finding some kind of Alien listening post on Luna (built by the penguins or some other former spacefaring species). We did get told that Terra spent huge amounts on Jump Research and that the amount of excavation underground on Luna was unusual Zaodai posted:And Terra takes another great tech leap forward to make sure we have threats both at home and abroad and no real advantages to speak of. "God damnit, as soon as we develop FTL tech to break the Mars-IC Sorium strangehold Mars somehow gets FTL tech aswell. drat. You ever get the feeling the universe just hates you?"
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Dec 20, 2017 19:09
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Dominion of Sol Phobos II That infodump is too juicy to resist.
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Dec 24, 2017 11:03
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Facility wanted to meet them at some point anyways: no problem escorting a Terrian delegation up there. Hey, if they want to meet Facility fast, just hope on one of our Azreals.
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Jan 3, 2018 12:57
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Terra owned a planet with a IC science team working on it, who predictably switched over to our side when we made a better offer to them.
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Jan 3, 2018 18:46
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We have plenty of ships on Mars still: the best of newfleet may be out of Sol, but we're not goin to not have rhe force nessacery to mobilize
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Jan 15, 2018 15:08
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Guys: If we want Ceres to be free, we have to blow up the fleet over Ceres. If we leave that fleet till 2nd, then A. Events may escalate further and risk of IPBM increases. B. The fleet over Ceres has more time to quell the resistance: No point liberating Ceres if all the leaders are dead and the people cowed. Send the main fleet to Ceres, broadcasting that Mars recognizes Ceres and that the Terran fleet should leave. Do not fire unless fired upon, or we get into laser range of Terran ships and they arn't moving.
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Jan 16, 2018 01:37
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1.Straight to Ceres 2. No More Half Measures It's preference voting guys.
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How long does rearming take? It might be worth saving some missiles and using more lasers if it's faster to close on this Terran fleet and return to Mars than it is to shoot them with missiles and rearm.
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