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Thor (heavy frigate)

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Hiram (Railgun drone)

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Occido MI (exploding mimic dron)

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Lux (Laser corvette)

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Stone (Solar sail transport)

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BIFROST (Laser drone)

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Pythagoras (Recovery ship)

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Julius (transforming drone)

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Total Members Voted: 0

Voting closed: December 13, 2012, 01:24:40 pm

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Spoiler: sizes (click to show/hide)

Drone - 10-100m³
Fighter - 100-1000m³
Corvette - 1000-10 000m³
Frigate - 10 000-100 000m³
Cruiser - 100 000-1 000 000m³
Battleship - 1 000 000-10 000 000m³
Battlestar - 10 000 000+m³

Spoiler: Project Template (click to show/hide)

Name
Desired volume
Team Who will work at the project. In order of preference (First one will be the head designer, the second is his assistant and so on. Note that only head designer will get full copyright rights and that you are the only one who will not get huge penalties in most rolls )
Estimated time How much you plan to spend on designing. That will affect quality of the finished design. Standard design time is 1 month*size category (drone month, fighter two and so on). You can work faster or slower and no one forces to rush anything in production if you dislike finished design. Bad rolls may ruin all time plans. Typical turns are month long
General description of the idea Most important part. Ship will be based on that.
Priorities You have 5 priority points that you may spend. That's may be anything you want, broad or narrow. Examples: AI, maneuverability, point defense laser, power consumption, complexity, $cost, IC cost.  Note that you can't directly say - improve maneuverability in expense for armor, that's what general description for. Priorities work in another way, team will look for possibilities to improve desired characteristic but that that will create disadvantages (possibly hidden) in other, semirandom areas. Priority can be negative. Example:  Neglect armor. Armor will be worse. But you will get some random bonus(es) in other semi-random area.
And the last thing: Every engineer can work in two projects without penalties, so it's a nice idea to have more than one R&D project on-line

Spoiler: Oculus drone (click to show/hide)

Copyright owners: Navy ministry of TR12 (production) , Brian O'Donald (full rights), Mark Volkov( 
Volume: 65m³

Description: Small sensor drones whose purpose is to act as an early-warning for merchant ships. Placed in numbers, they transmit data to suitable ship and form a bigger picture. Drones are programmed to recognise ships based on their codes they transmit, with unregistered or unknown ones show up as hostile.
They have an outer layer of reflective ceramics to protect the plastic layer inside. The drones are equipped with solar panels for power, as they're expected to go on a long time without outside help. Armour is non-existent even space debris can seriously damage them. They are easily detected due to reflective coating and solar panels. They are deployed by practically any ship  and have no own propulsion system

IC cost: 0.005
Production cost 140 credits

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Name: Brian O'Donald
Gender: Male
Age: 23.2 standard years

Skills
Fusion theory(3) Reactor is the heart of the ship, and I'll not make my creations heartless
Aerodynamics (2) I know properties of any typical atmosphere and some atypical ones. That's useful for designing aerocapable spaceships
Laserology (1) Some may say that laser is heavy, power hungry overheating and expensive crap but this is my weapon of choice

Aviable production Facilities

Converted repair docks shipyard (1 IC(industrial capacity))
Max ship size: Cruiser
Dedicated hull patching equipment(3) Local shipyard was designed mostly to make badly damaged military grade hulls look like new, that equipment is still in place.
Recharging station(1) As battery recharging station "Haven" got a nice equipment to test batteries for faults
Badly obsolete(-2) Unluckily most of the equipment is far from new, it's hard to make good ships with that
Unexperienced workforce (-2) Most of the workers never made space ships before.


R&D
Basic lab(-2) Experiments are limited to mediocre computer simulations

The Team

Mark Volkov
AI programmer (2) Not only Mark is good at general software coding, he knows how to code a drone
User unfriendly (-1) Never expect that software designed by Mark will be easy to operate for newbies.
Messy coding(-4) Mark has a talent, but modifying his code is a pain in an ass. 

Tara Jones
Aerodynamics (4) She really knows how to make a craft that will work not fall apart in atmosphere
Atmospheric propulsion (2) She have some knowledge about all ways to move in atmosphere
Sensors experience (1) She have some experience with sensors
Stubborn and hysterical (-1)   Do not expect a nice and friendly working atmosphere.

Anton Jones
Mathematican(1) Not a genius, but his advices are still useful

8 generic engineers

Important contacts
Marten Negreanu. Minister of Navy
No info, yet

[Ukrainian Ranger]

TR-12 system

TR-12 class F star
---TR-12 I - sparse asteroid field
---TR-12 II - Desert planet: 1.68G, barely breathable dense dusty atmosphere. Few local lifeforms. Main exports: Oil, plastics, silicon.  Main imports: Food, metals, oxygen. Population 27 millions
-----Haven class starbase: Heavily armored and armed: Low quality shipyard, many docks. Battery recharging and refueling equipment. Population: 75 000 
----- TR-12a: heavily mined out rocky moon, 0.27G. Population: 90 000
---TR-12 III: dense asteroid field, many abandoned mining stations. Occupied by pirate fleet
---TR-12 IV: Cold Gas giant with huge rings and no satellites
---TR-15 V: Comet cloud

TR-12 Pirates
Pirates use mostly repurposed civilian ships and ancient military ships, Exact number is unknown but there are hundreds and hundreds of  ships. Luckily there are many competing factions and only strong external threat may unite them.
They are based at abandoned, repurposed and  upgraded mining stations usually located inside big 50km+ wide asteroids even Royal Navy detachment would have huge problems  bombarding or assaulting those. That the reason why pirates prosper

Pirates from TR-12 system usually hunt in neighboring systems and have no real interest in attacking TR 12 II as it's dense atmosphere filled with hard particles prevents landing of most existing spaceships, even the ones designed to enter standard atmospheres

[Ukrainian Ranger]

It's my 3rd attempt to make a suggestion game like that, hopefully I'll not abandon it too fast. I removed most complex elements from the mechanics, including business side and modular ship building
________________________

Your name is ****. You are freshly graduated young specialist from the Imperial Navy University. While most of your friends choose another "more fun" jobs like pilots, navigators or gunners you learned the art of ship creation and was the best student on the course. Now all you need to wait for job offers, surely many shipyard managers are interested in a skilled young (wo)man, that is excellent in ****, very good in **** and good in ****. 

( You may vote for any skills you want, I will not give any directions to not limit hivemind's creativity. Don't worry much about the lack of some skills, you know everything important by default. Skills required for bonuses in some fields)

[mesor]

Beep.

[Thecard]

Excellent in weapons, Very good in Energy, Good in defensive measures.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I'll give a hint after all. While generic skills are totally acceptable you can be much more narrow

[mesor]

Excellent in advanced space craft maintenance.
Very good in diplomacy/negotiations.
Good in small arms ( Pistols )

[10ebbor10]

Excellent in fusion reactors.
Very good in reentry systems
Decent with Laser weaponry

[scapheap]

I am Sarah a woman excellent in hagging very good in One handed melee and good in metal welling.

[adwarf]

Excellent in fusion reactors.
Very good in reentry systems
Decent with Laser weaponry

This +1

[Thecard]

Excellent in fusion reactors.
Very good in reentry systems
Decent with Laser weaponry

This sounds better.

Though "Hagging" does sound like a useful skill...

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Skiils are important and fun but our character needs full name and gender)

[scapheap]

Sarah O'Donald, a woman

[miauw62]

Brian O'Brian, a man, obviously.