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[Parsely]

_{Art by Nat White}

A party of brave miners set out with a guild-subsidized ship, some hand-me-down equipment, and what meager supplies they could buy, beg, or steal. Their goal was to create a free port, a place where miners could escape from the abuse suffered at the hands of the galactic governments. They were known as:

THE FREE ROCKERS

[Parsely]

Rules
- At the start of each cycle (turn), power is produced by power plants, all refinery space is freed, each habitat consumes 1 unit of breathing mix, each person consumes 1 unit of water and food.
- If there isn't enough breathing mix for a habitat, the inhabitants suffocate and die. Persons who go without either their food ration for seven, or their water ration for three cycles will die.
- At the end of every cycle everyone should to return to a habitat with space. If someone doesn't have access to a habitat, then the next cycle they'll become fatigued, and won't be able to perform any work until they rest.
- If there is a deficit of power, the player must shut down enough structures to make up the deficit. Buildings cannot run on partial power.
- Every five cycles (a quincycle) a Hegemony starship arrives to pick up materials to be sold, and drops off items scheduled to be bought. Other merchant starships who are attracted to your free mining port might operate on different schedules. Ships will come more often if you have a laser-launch satellite.
- Every five cycles (a quincycle) you must pay each person their salary. If a person hasn't been paid for three quincycles, they will quit and leave.

Element Tables and Mining Mechanics
Mining has three stages: harvesters need to collect regolith or drill for metals/volatiles, an auxiliary vehicle needs to take the material to a cargo ship, then the cargo ship either needs to rendezvous with a spaceport or ship to store the materal, or a merchant starship to sell it's payload.

When you mine a unit of ore I roll a d100 and, based on the probabilities for that asteroid, that ore either becomes a Precious Metal (P), a Common Metal (C), a Fissionable (F), or a Volatile (V). Then I roll again using the appropriate table to see what kind of element that ore becomes. The number beside each element represents the chance out of 100 that the ore becomes that type of element. Acquiring regolith is a guarantee, except on D-type asteroids, where there's a 5 percent chance of getting phosphorous instead.

Spoiler: Precious Metals (click to show/hide)

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70 Gold >Refined Gold

5 Cobalt >Refined Cobalt

5 Osmium >Refined Osmium

1 Palladium >Refined Palladium

10 Platinum >Refined Platinum

1 Rhenium >Refined Rhenium

1 Rhodium >Refined Rhodium

2 Ruthenium >Refined Ruthenium

5 Tungsten >Refined Tungsten


Spoiler: Common Metals (click to show/hide)

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15 Iron >Refined Iron

10 Manganese >Refined Manganese

5 Molybdenum >Refined Molybdenum

15 Nickel >Refined Nickel

15 Aluminum >Refined Aluminum

10 Titanium >Refined Titanium

15 Zinc >Refined Zinc

5 Lithium >Refined Lithium

10 Copper >Refined Copper


Spoiler: Fissionables (click to show/hide)

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70 Uranium >Refined Uranium

30 Plutonium >Refined Plutonium


Spoiler: Volatiles (click to show/hide)

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  Oxygen
/
95 Ice >Water*
\
  Hydrogen

0 Methane >Nitrogen

5 Ammonia

*Reducing a unit of this element produces one unit of each other element in the next lowest echelon on it's tree.


Spoiler: Regolith (click to show/hide)

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  Rubber
/

  Silicon
/
95 Regolith >Soil
\
  Plastic
   Potassium
\ /
  Salt* >Sodium
\
  Magnesium

5 Phosphorous

*Reducing a unit of this element produces one unit of each other element in the next lowest echelon on it's tree.


Asteroids by Commonality

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

C-type: Has lots of water and carbon compounds useful for growing food. About 10% water, 10% reduced metal, and 5% metal sulphides. Mostly water-bearing clay materials and magnetite stuck together with organic polymers. You can only get phosphorous from these asteroids.
[P: 1-15 — C: 16-30 — F: 31-35 — V: 36-100]

S-type: Little or no water but lots of metal.
[P: 1-15 — C: 16-75 — F: 86-95 — V: 96-100]

M-type: Rare, but contain about ten times as much metal as S-type. They are thought to be pieces of the metallic core of differentiated asteroids that were fragmented by impacts.
[P: 1-45 — C: 46-90 — F: 91-100 — V: 0]

D-type: These have almost as much water ice as comets.
[P: 1-5 — C: 6-10 — F: 0 — V: 11-100]

Dead Comets: Not asteroids, but they have the most volatiles of all. Basically icy mudballs. An outer layer of dust covering a weakly competent bituminous roadbase layer around a core of volatiles, silicates, and carbonaceous materials. Can't be built on.
[P: 0 — C: 1-5 — F0 — V: 6-100]

[Parsely]

Still working on some things, like prices of imports and items you can sell, as well as stuff you can build.

[Haspen]

PTW so I can read when less exhausted.

[Pencil_Art]

There isn't much to read yet. PTW also.

[Parsely]

TURN 1
The mothership arrives, after a several month journey, in an asteroid belt somewhere in the Y galaxy. Ocher Coopita, the hairy-chested leader of the Free Miners, orders the others to search for nearby asteroids using telescopes. They soon find one.

"Aha! A daring place to start our new lives as free men!" He said boisterously, puffing on an e-cigar in manly fashion.

"Verily, ser!" Xan Stevemy guffawed, giving his captain a hearty slap on the back, which he returned. "We shall conquer these neutral mountains in space, rip out their huge metallic guts, and sell them to the government traders without tariff!"

Mothership has arrived in The Oort Cloud!
The Free Miners want to rename The Oort Cloud!
S-type Asteroid located!

Code: (Galactic Calender) [Select]

Quincycle 1/20, Greater Cycle 3067
1 2 3 4 5
- - - - -
|

The Port
Ships

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mothership {Ship Refinery [30 refinery space], Ship Factory [10 factory space], Ship Habitat [10 people space], Ship Solar Power Plant [10 power/cycle, 50 power space], Ship General Storage [2000 storage space], Ship Hangar [3 ship space]}
Light Cargo Shuttle [100 transport space]

Asteroids

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Number - Name - Type - Structures - Vehicles
1 - HK9891 - S - None - None

Mothership Storage _{[Total Space/Used Space: 2000/402]}

Spoiler: Precious Metals (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Common Metals (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Volatiles (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Regolith (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Refined Elements (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Vehicles (2) (click to show/hide)

Light Harvester [50 units/cycle]
Light Auxiliary Truck [50 space/cycle]
Construction Suit

Spoiler: Other (450) (click to show/hide)

150 Food
150 Water
50 Breathing Mix
100 Propellant

HK9891 Storage _{[Total Space/Used Space: 0/0]}

Spoiler: Precious Metals (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Common Metals (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Volatiles (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Regolith (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Refined Elements (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Vehicles (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Other (0) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Stockpile (all mined ores go here and take up no space) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Spoiler: Landing Zone (all materials and other items waiting to be moved to, or just dropped from, a shuttle go here and take up no space) (click to show/hide)

Nothing

Other Resources

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Total Power Generated Per Cycle: 10
Total Power Space/Stored: 50/50
Total Power Usage Per Cycle: 0

Total Refinery Space: 30
Total Factory Space: 10

Total Breathing Mix Usage Per Cycle: 1
Total Water Usage Per Cycle: 5
Total Food Usage Per Cycle: 5

Total Ship Space/Usage: 3/1

Total Funds: 1,000,000
Total Salary Expense: 5 persons * 2,000/quincycle = -10,000/quincycle

Personnel _{[Total: 5]}

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Dogod Oean
Jackuji Kuson
Gigard Shepla
Ocher Coopita
Xan Stevemy

Recipes

Spoiler: Ships (click to show/hide)

Thrust Spine [Heat Pipe Radiator + 4x Wiring + 4x Building Material + Superstructure + 2x Battery + 2x Fuel Cell]
Light Cargo Shuttle [2x Building Material + Wiring + Battery + Fuel Cell = Light Cargo Shuttle [100 transport space]]

Spoiler: Vehicles (click to show/hide)

Light Harvester [Building Material + Wiring + Battery + Mining Implements [50 units/cycle]]
Light Auxiliary Transport [Building Material + Wiring +  Battery [50 space/cycle]]

Spoiler: Structures (click to show/hide)

Starport [5x Building Material + Wiring + 4x Fuel Cells; 10 power, 3 starship space]
Basic Habitat [Building Material + Wiring; 3 power, 10 people space]
General Storage [Building Material + Wiring; 1 power, 1000 storage space]
Basic Refinery [5x Building Material; 10 power, 50 refinery space]
Solar Power Plant [Solar Cell + Battery + Building Material; produces 30 power/cycle, 30 power space]
Small Power Storage Station [2x Battery + Building Material; 100 power space]
Large Power Storage Station [8x Battery + 3x Building Material + Wiring; 500 power space]

Spoiler: Components (click to show/hide)

Propellant [Refined Aluminum + Oxygen]
Propellant [2x Hydrogen]
Mining Implements [Refined Titanium]
Superstructure [3x Refined Titanium]
Building Material [3x Refined Aluminum + Plastic]
Building Material [Refined Titanium + Plastic]
Solar Cell [2x Refined Silicon + 2x Plastic]
Battery [5x Refined Zinc]
Battery [Refined Lithium]
Breathing Mix [Oxygen + Nitrogen]
Fertilizer [Phosphorous + 5x Nitrogen]
Heat Pipe Radiator [2x Refined Titanium + Potassium]
Heat Pipe Radiator [Refined Molybdenum + 2x Refined Lithium]
Wiring [2x Refined Copper + 2x Rubber]
Fuel Cell [2x Refined Aluminum]

Imports

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10,000/Person [requires an available space suit]
5,000/Seed Pack
5,000/New Recipe
1,000/Space Suit
1,000/Propellant
500/Food
[Varies]/Prefabricated Structures

Actions
Refine/Reduce Element [1 power and 1 refinery space per unit]
Assemble Component [1 power and 1 factory space per unit]
Run Vehicle [requires one available person per vehicle used, -1 power per vehicle run for this cycle]
Move Ship [requires one available person per ship moved, -1 propellant for each time the ship changes location]
Scout for Asteroids [same costs as Move Ship; chance to discover a new asteroid: 1% (chance increases every time you scout)]
Build Structure [requires one available person + construction suit per building]
Buy Items [requires visiting starships]
Sell Items [requires visiting starships or a mass driver]

[Ochita]

Assuming I got this right..

Dogod Oean: Board cargo shuttle, move to asteroid
Gigard Shepla: Board harvester, move to cargo shuttle
Ocher Coopita: Board transport, move to cargo shuttle

And otherwise, load Cargo shuttle with 2 cycles worth of food/water/air

[Parsely]

And otherwise, load Cargo shuttle with 2 cycles worth of food/water/air

Added a new rule:

- At the end of every cycle everyone should to return to a habitat with space. If someone doesn't have access to a habitat, then the next cycle they'll become fatigued, and won't be able to perform any work until they rest.

I'll give the mothership more propellant as it seems you'll be making a lot of trips until you can get some facilities on the asteroid. The vehicles don't need to be returned to the mothership to recharge or anything, their power is beamed to them via microwave.

The mothership's facilities don't draw on power. Other ships with portable facilities won't need power as long as they have propellant.