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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

[Aseaheru]

still. get math man on it.

[GreatWyrmGold]

The Hiram was so close...

Sad. Wish I had remembered the laser specialty whilst designing it.

[Aseaheru]

next round man.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Duh.

[evilcherry]

Do we really have a choice? just pour every single man into these 2 projects using its natural pace.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Draft of sensor drone. If anyone reckons they can improve it, then suggest away.

Name: Sensor Grid Drone

Desired volume: Light Drone (as small as possible without compromising equipment quality)

Project Team: Brian O'Donald, Mark Volkov, Anton Jones

Estimated time on designing: 1 Month.

General description: Small sensor drones whose purpose is to act as an early-warning for merchant ships. Placed in numbers, their ai inter-link with each other to provide a bigger picture. Drones will be 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 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 barring basic hull to protect the equipment from space debris. They rely on their tiny size and black paint to evade unwanted attention. They are deployed by practically any ship, and feature a simple propulsion system to slowly get into more dangerous areas if needed.

Priorities:
Sensors - 2
AI - 2
Neglect armour - 1

Keep thinking I've missed something out in the description... oh well. Also, if you can think of a better name... name it :3

Here's my transport ship's idea. It's a dedicated cargo shuttle. Modified it because most transport will be up, not down.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Valkyrie Athmospherical Transport

Desired volume: Fighter-Corvette (Most of it is empty cargo space)

Team: Brian 'O Donald, Mark Volkov, Tara Jones

Estimated time: 5 months

General description of the idea: A mostly automated Ground to orbit spaceplane. It's not equiped for prolonged use outside the athmosphere, but it should last a considerable time near the ground. The ship is build around it's large cargobay, and uses 4 Heavily Modified RAM jets, which will comfortably work up to 30 km altitude. From there, the airintakes will be shut, and the system will switch to onboard propellant. If needed, disposable boosters can be installed to make it to orbit. Once in orbit the ship immediatly docks with the station, as it's fuel reserve isn't that large.

Reentry is different. The ship takes an incredibly slow angle of reentry, resulting in minimal heating and energy expenditure, but also a very long reentry. As soon as the ship comes below 30 km, it reopens the airintake and returns to normal flight. Normal flight can be prolonged as long as need be, provided no mechanical failures occur. In case of a filter failue, the ship should be fine, as it's capable of gliding to the ground without problems.

Powersource: Fusion
Propulsion: Laserpowered Turbojet
        -Rather than running on a fuel, the engine just sucks in air and heats it using a small, but powerfull laser.(similair to the working of a fusion plant actually). Once the air becomes to thin, it switches to a more conventional rocket engine, though still powered by lasers rather than a chemical reaction. Filters, both physical and electromagnetical protect the engine from invasive dust. Filter failure will most likely result in the engine's inside being glassed, with predictable results.
Flight:
   -Free flight up to 30 km. Rocket assisted above that.
   -Capable of gliding and hovering
Fuel: Fusion
Cargo capability: Significant

Priorities:
Focus IC cost: 3
Neglect Orbital operational distance: 2

That's what I'll base my rolls on. We got some discussion on Oculus, so if anyone want to update it, do it now

[kaian-a-coel]

Here are pictures:

This one is canon.

Spoiler: Oculus sentry (click to show/hide)

As I made it before the Valhalla's suggestion, this one isn't exactly the Valhalla (it has only two engines for example), but I think it can roughly describe it (until its creator say otherwise, I shall then make something fitting his idea a little more.)

Spoiler: exterior (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: interior (click to show/hide)

[GreatWyrmGold]

No, seriously, how did you make those?

[adwarf]

No, seriously, how did you make those?

He said it before, but its a game called Blockade Runner

[10ebbor10]

Ship's fine. Probably a bit to squareish, but it's fine.

[GreatWyrmGold]

No, seriously, how did you make those?

He said it before, but its a game called Blockade Runner

Oh, missed that.

Sorry.

[evilcherry]

Everybody knows that there's such a thing as point defenses, right?

Typically designed for missiles, which don't take evasive action or stay far away from the ship because, you know, that would invalidate their point.

btw what kind of software are you using?

I'd also like to know.

...Amazingly, I have nothing else to comment on.


I suggest that we work on a couple cheap drones for now. Possibly a sensors drone and a combat drone. I'll resubmit the Hiram-I.
Name: Hiram-I Railgun Defensive Drone (HIRDD)
Desired Volume: Drone (~5 meters in diameter)
Team: ? At this point, I don't care. Maybe Brian and Mark?
Estimated Time: 1.5 Months?
General Description: A roughly spherical drone, with main engines on one end, auxiliary rockets to the sides, and a turret to the "front" end of the drone. This turret holds a single railgun, firing at the lazy speed of 150 rounds per minute. These rounds are 85% plastic darts which are designed, in both polymer and form, to pierce ship hulls. The whole drone is designed economically, so it can be made in large swarms. While a few are hardly a threat to an armed ship, due to their frailty and the fairy primitive AI, in large numbers they can be impressive. A hundred or so Hiram-I's can probably fill a smallish ship with holes until it loses atmosphere before the larger ship can make a notable dent in their numbers. Against well-armored ships, they're not so good, but the AI's tendency to stay as far away from other ships as they can while still being able to hit their target means that only actual weapons work against them--most point-defense lasers don't have the accuracy to hit them, even if forced to try.
Priorities: Cash Cost 2, Agility 1, Time to Make 1, Durability (neglected) 1

(What's IC Cost?)

This is Hiram.

[10ebbor10]

Yeah we know. Don't need if for now. Maybe next turn.

[RAM]

Name
Pythagoras
Desired volume
8000 m³
Team
Brian O'Donald
Anton Jones
Mark Volkov
General description of the idea
Dedicated salvage vessel equipped to defend legal salvage operations and, if need be, escape with any accumulated salvage. Its armament should consist of the capacity to carry and swiftly deploy up to 8 large drones. This would grant it the option of carrying sensory drones to maintain a complete field of view to detect hazardous environmental factors prior to contact. It should also grant it the capacity to effectively engage most light vessels capable of pursuing it with minimum risk to the crew and cargo. It would also grant it the ability to leave the drones to destroy any particularly sensitive property that the owners wish to prevent being recovered by other agencies.
 It should possess the capacity to recover an intact fighter class craft. A forward-mounted, space-accessible cargo compartment of approximately 1200 m³ capacity would be appropriate.
 Salvaged vessels may possess hazardous environments so the ability to gain access at any point is required. Additionally a salvaged vessel may become unstable, so rapid egress is vital. To this end the vessel requires a rear-mounted docking port with external breaching equipment and some measure of armouring.
As salvage tends to exist in hazardous environments, the vessel should be capable of rapid acceleration and early detection of potential hazards.
Priorities
2-Speed
1-drone/fighter launching and recovery
1-boarding apparatus
1-neglect AI

{The following is written on one of those handy sticky-notes that come with a self-immolation tab for rapid disposal.}
Given that the pirates represent a significant potential client pool it seems foolish not to cater to their needs.

[10ebbor10]

We're not a freelance designer remember. We're hired by the local governement, which quite probably won't be selling to pirates. (Though maybe, it's an army just sitting on you front door).

Really, most large production facilities around here are either governement owned, or pirate owned, and something says to me that the pirates are not going to pay royalities.