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[10ebbor10]

Yup. But I failed to realize that...

[10ebbor10]

Year 1 : Part 2

Katavis Star works

Spoiler: Nemesis (click to show/hide)

Two pilot anti fighter Corvette
Cost: Ж 14,000
Production Cost : 10
Size: Large
Weight: Heavy
Speed: 5 (medium)
Armor: 7 (More than decent)
Weapons: 4*Laser
Tools: FTL drive, Long range sensors,
Mutations: None

The Nemean Empire is extremely interested in your anti-fighter ship, and has decided to acquire ten ships. Unfortunately, your production facilities only suffice to construct 8 ships. Unless a better ship comes up next turn, you already got some guaranteed sales. There's limited interest from the civilian market, especially from the Havitak Free League ,though there are some ethical considerations with selling high powered military ships to people with limited credentials.

You also finish the compact drive design, and the carbon Nano wafer armor. ((Short description in the OP))



Monolith Industries

No actions.

Spoiler: Research (click to show/hide)

Carbon wafer armor: It's light, strong but rather expensive and hard to produce.  You think you might be able to get this done for Ж12.000
Laser Reflective coating: A simple coating reducing damage from laser weaponry pretty effectively. Not so much after it gets damaged or worn. Ж 6.000

Leviathan Corporation

Spoiler: Adder (click to show/hide)

 Single Person Interceptor
Cost: Ж 5.000
Production Cost : 5
Size: Small
Weight: Medium
Speed: 6 (medium)
Armor: 4 (Not that much, but serviceable)
Weapons: 1*Laser
Tools: Long range sensors,
Mutations: None

The Hologian Empire is interested in your craft, and decides to buy a 10 plane wing for trial purposes. If they find your ships adequate, they will probably buy more.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Missile weaponry: You're pretty sure you can finalize these for a mere 5000.

Vulcan SpaceYards

Spoiler: Seeker (click to show/hide)

Two pilot Exploration vessel.
Cost: Ж 10,000
Production Cost : 8
Size: Large
Weight: Medium
Speed: 5 (medium)
Armor: 4 (Caution)
Weapons: 1*cannon
Tools: FTL drive, Long range sensors
Mutations: Long Endurance

You manage to significantly reduce costs , by changing fuel tank materials to plastics, and cleverly integrating them in the Alcubierre drives support structure. This measures provides you with a good Ж1000 in cost savings.

You successfully manage to sell 4 ships to the Havitak League, and 1 to civilian buyers, though they're not certain about the high prices. For a similair price, the Nemesis has a significant better armament, though far limited endurance.

Research: all case studies (Ж 20,000)

Spoiler: Research (click to show/hide)

FTL size reduction : You think you can get this done for Ж 15.000.
Investigate reducing the power consumption of FTL drives: Your engineers make a massive breakthrough on this matter. The low consumption variant of the Alcubierre drive is considerably slower, but still rather reliable. Finalization will cost Ж10.000

Loer Drone Departement

Spoiler: Rose Defensive sattelite (click to show/hide)

Name: Automated Defense sattelite
Cost: Ж 800
Production Cost : 1
Size: Extremely Small
Weight: Extremely light
Speed: 0 (Station)
Armor: 2 (Caution)
Weapons: 1*Laser
Tools: Swarm AI
Mutations: Short endurance

You install the newly developed Swarm AI on the defense sattelites. Cost does not increase, as the hardware is already mostly in place, and the design is easy to work with.

The Nemean Empire are however unimpressed with the Sattelite drone, judging it too inflexible to be a decent counter for most Confederation vessels. However there's significant interest from the civilian market, to whom you manage to sell 40 sattelites.



Frex Shipyards Ltd.

Spoiler:  Valkyrie (click to show/hide)

Name: Valkyrie. 2 man Interceptor
Cost: Ж 7.500
Production Cost : 7.5
Size: Medium
Weight: Medium
Speed: 7 (Fast)
Armor: 4 (Not that much, but serviceable)
Weapons: 2*Laser
Tools: Standard sensors
Mutations: None

The Hologian Empire is very appreciative of your design. However, for fairness they decide to buy an 8 craft squad for trial purposes.



Pax Shipping & Receiving , Inc

Spoiler: Surveyor (click to show/hide)

Name: Surveyor. Singly pilot Heavily armed fighter
Cost: Ж 7000
Production Cost : 5
Size: Small
Weight: Medium
Speed: 9 (Fast)
Armor: 2 (Caution)
Weapons: 2*Laser
Tools: None
Mutations: None

You outfit the Surveyor with both the Camouflage system and the Hacking systems. Sadly, this ramps up the price and weight of the ship quite a bit, as well as increasing production cost (Most of the change coming from the camouflage system). As such, you decide to increase the sale price to 11000 to make up for the difference.

The Nemean Empire certainly is intrigued by your craft, and buys an entire 10 ship wing. However, selling ships with hacking equipment on the market is something that's rarely done openly.




Helios Defence Corp


- Design Work (25,000)

Spoiler: X-1 Interceptor (click to show/hide)

Name: X-1 Interceptor Singly pilot Rocket interceptor
Cost: Ж 3000
Production Cost : 4
Size: Small
Weight: Medium
Speed: 10 (Solid Fuel power => Short flight time)
Armor: 4 (Decent)
Weapons: Cannon
Tools: Short Range sensors
Mutations: None

The Hologians decided to buy a 12 ship squad for trial purposes. This nets you a nice profit.


New/Old Contracts:

The Havitak league has offered a tender for an interstellar cargo Hauler. They intend to acquire ten craft. production capacity does not need to be provided.

Various free planets need human transport ships, and are offering various contracts as ships are available. They must be cheap, safe and have a large passenger capacity. They are also seeking cargo ships with similar requirements. Speed is a bonus.

The Hologian Confederation seeks to standardize it's interceptor fleets. They offer a tender of 20 crafts; The Hologian Confederation will utilize it's own production facilities, so production capacity does not need to be provided.

The Nemean empire intends to buy dedicated anti fighter craft , in order to defend against Hologian fighters. They want to acquire 10 crafts. Production capacity does not need to be provided.
 
Various civilians want to acquire craft with space to atmosphere capabilities, for cargo and personnel deliveries. FTL is not required. 



Players

Note: I might have screwded up budgets. Pretty sure I did.

Spoiler:  Kavtavis Star Works (click to show/hide)

Corporation name: Kavtavis Star Works
Forum Name: Taricus
Your Starting Funds: Ж 33,600
Your Home Planet: Salcaris in region the Nemean empire
Infrastructure:
      - Design Complex    (Allows you to make a single new design at Ж25,000, or make (unlimited) modifications for Ж10,000 )
      - Production Facility  (Up to 70 Production units/ annum)
      - Research facility    (Can research 1 thing per turn at Ж10,000 or can do unlimited case studies at Ж5,000(Requires additional investment to finish research))
      - One Weapons facility (Bonus to weapon related research. Ship production cost lowered by 0.5 per weapon installed)

Spoiler: Monolith Industries (click to show/hide)

Corporation name: Monolith Industries
Forum Name: Lord William Rakmanovic III
Your Starting Funds: Ж90,000
Your Home Planet:Auron II-A in region Nemean
 - Design Complex    (Allows you to make a single new design at Ж25,000, or make (unlimited) modifications for Ж10,000 )
      - Production Facility (Up to 50 Production units/ annum)
      - Research facility    (Can research ! thing per turn at Ж10,000 or can do unlimited case studies at Ж5,000(Requires additional investment to finish research))
      - Orbital Launch Facility (+ 20% Production points, -10% production cost on large ships and above)

Spoiler: The Leviathan Corporation (click to show/hide)

Corporation name: The Leviathan Corporation
Forum Name:scapheap
Your Starting Funds: Ж90,000
Your Home Planet:Nidhogg in region Hologian Confederation
Infrastructure:
      - Design Complex    (Allows you to make a single new design at Ж25,000, or make (unlimited) modifications for Ж10,000 )
      - Production Facility (Up to 50 Production units/ annum)
      - Research facility    (Can research ! thing per turn at Ж10,000 or can do unlimited case studies at Ж5,000(Requires additional investment to finish research))
      - IT facility              (Bonus to computer related research and information gathering activities)

Spoiler: Vulcan Spaceyards (click to show/hide)

Corporation name:Vulcan Spaceyards
Forum Name: RulerOfNothing
Your Starting Funds: Ж87,500
Your Home Planet:Hyperion in region Havitak Free League
Infrastructure:
      - Design Complex    (Allows you to make a single new design at Ж25,000, or make (unlimited) modifications for Ж10,000 )
      - Production Facility (Up to 60 Production units/ annum)
      - Research facility    (Can research ! thing per turn at Ж10,000 or can do unlimited case studies at Ж5,000(Requires additional investment to finish research))
      - Computer Simulation Complex (reduces the cost of design actions by 10%)

Spoiler: Loer Drone Departement (click to show/hide)

Corporation name: Loer Drone Department
Forum Name: Ukrainian Ranger
Your Starting Funds: Ж 67,500
Your Home Planet: Loer IV  in an Independent system
Infrastructure:
      - Design Complex    (Allows you to make a single new design at Ж25,000, or make (unlimited) modifications for Ж10,000 )
      - Production Facility (Up to 60 Production units/ annum)
      - Research facility    (Can research 1 thing per turn at Ж10,000 or can do unlimited case studies at Ж5,000(Requires additional investment to finish research))
      - AI coding facility    (Benefits AI research and corporate intelligence)
      - Rose drone Defense network (5 drones)

Spoiler: Frex Shipyards Ltd. (click to show/hide)

Corporation name:Frex Shipyards Ltd.
Forum Name:Tryrar
Your Starting Funds: Ж68,000
Your Home Planet:Kalik III in Havitak Free League
Infrastructure:
      - Design Complex II(Allows you to make a 2 new design at Ж25,000 (each), or make (unlimited) modifications for Ж10,000 (each) )
      - Production Facility (Up to 50 Production units/ annum)
      - Research facility(Can research 1 thing per turn at Ж10,000 or can do unlimited case studies at Ж5,000(Requires additional investment to finish research))
      - Propulsion Lab (Significant bonus for propulsion research)

Spoiler: Pax Shipping & Receiving , Inc. (click to show/hide)

Corporation name: Pax Shipping & Receiving, Inc.
Forum name: Nunzillor
Starting funds: 85,000 units.
Home planet: Pax of the Nemean Empire, but ostensibly Independent.  ((Gee, I wonder where all that Hologian Confederation piracy is coming from?))

Infrastructure:
1.  Design Complex
2.  Production Facility
3.  Research Facility
4.  Hacked Communications Array (Allows for the interception and optional modification of secure information, decrypted and encrypted on-the-fly.  Can also attempt to overwhelm a ship or corporation's communications infrastructure by transmitting a large number of long, nonsensical auditory or visual signals within a short time period.)

Spoiler: Helios Defence Corp. (click to show/hide)

Corporation name: Helios Defence Corp.
Forum Name: WhitiusOpus
Your Starting Funds: Ж64,000
Your Home Planet: Darmanica in Hologian Confederation
Infrastructure:
      - Design Complex
      - Production Facility
      - Research facility
      - Scrap Salvager (used to, well, salvage the scrap and remains of other starships.)

Facility upgrade cost:
      - Design Installation : 25.000   (Allows 2 designs to be made per year. Gets a bonus to actions )
      - Production Complex : 10.000 (Increases production by 10)
      - Research Facility : 25.000      (Allows 2 research actions  to be made per turn. Gets a bonus to actions)
      - Other facility upgrades: 25.000

[scapheap]

(I'm a little unsure about the Hologian Confederation contract, what is a tender?)

[RulerOfNothing]

Actions:
-Develop a new cargo transport, that is capable of both medium range spaceflight and atmospheric entry using ceramic materials (-Ж22,500)
-Attempt to investigate plasma propulsion further (-Ж5,000)
-Start preliminary work on high-powered sensors (-Ж5,000)

Also, I think I should have Ж77,500 because I only got Ж40,000 from Seeker sales and paid Ж20,000 on research and construction last turn.

[Taricus]

((A tender is like a sales contract. You get them 20 ships, they'll provide payment for them. Also Ebbor, I only had the facilities for seven ships, not eight, thus I should have Ж29400 instead.))

Increase the production capacity of the production yard by another 20 units. We need to keep up with demand for our new craft. (Ж20,000)
Start some preliminary work into fusion-powered propulsion, if it's successful we have a large advantage over our many competitors. (Ж5,000)
Once again try researching propellant-less kinetic weapons. (Ж5,000)

[Nunzillor]

Design a large, reinforced armor ship with hacking capabilities that has a ridiculous number of lasers.  Speed is not a priority.  firepower, armor, and the ability to assault multiple targets is a priority.  Give it an ion engine.  Give it long-range sensors.  No passengers and minimal cargo.  Market it to the Nemean Empire as a heavily-armored anti-fighter craft that also works great as a powerful mobile cyber-warfare device.  Call it the Z1 Diplomatic Craft.

Also:
An encoded message was recently received by the Hologian Navy:
"Greetings.  Our firm, Pax Shipping & Receiving, Inc., can offer effective fighter ships for use against the Nemean Empire and associated satellite organizations at a deferred price.  We are also pleased to soon be able to offer you cyberwarfare capabilities to be purchased at an equally affordable price.  All ships have functions to prevent accountability (active cloaking) for easy proxy wars.  Glory to the Hologian Confederation.  How shall we begin?  We are prepared to sell our first ship, a highly maneuverable fighter packed with firepower, the Y1 Surveyor, for a low 11,000 credits.  Ask us about our anti-fighter ships and receive a small discount on orders containing both crafts!"

Also also:
Purchase 10 Rose Defensive Satellites and put them in orbit around Pax.


Research: easily-producible, light, relatively powerful nuclear devices for use as a payload on kamikaze ships and for use as a (situational) tactical burst-propulsion method.

[Taricus]

No cargo means it can't carry it's own supplies, and thus a very limited endurance

[Nunzillor]

Uhh I guess.  Ok, edited.  Thanks for making your competitor's ships more effective! 

Also, you have to admit my business model appeals to a greater variety of markets!

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Shouldn't I have 60 production points?  Was a bad decision (was overly optimistic with the demand for my drones, or rather to greedy with the price ) but still

I am always open for tech bartering\purchasing.

Spoiler: Turn (click to show/hide)

"Netto" Armed freighter : 25.000

Large FTL-capable steel armed cargoship armed with 6 to 18* anti-fighter chemical cannon turrets. Powered by four liquid fuel engines. Turrets are controlled by AI and programmed in a way that allows pattern based firing, negating inaccuracy somewhat. Can be programmed to work together with other friendly Nettos or Roses nearby.

The ship itself is not AI-controlled and has to pilot cockpit for freelance trader and, if he wishes, his partner. Being nothing but a steel box it offers exactly zero atmosphere capability. Has rudimentary cargo ejection system** that allows to jettison cargo in times of need (that includes appeasing pirates or lightening the ship to make a run for it)  and makes the craft usable as a minelayer even if crude and very vulnerable by military standards

Lacking crew to maintain complex machinery designers chose to make a very simple and rugged internal construction without any forms of internal climate control or life support barring the cockpit. It's cargo hold doesn't even hold any kind of air inside thus making it acceptable for transporting either bulk cargoes or goods in specialized container

Ship is made of steel, but it's hull is quite thin. While fuel tanks, cannon magazines (not cannons themselves), FTL and cockpit have some modest armor installed around them. Cargo is protected only from micrometeorites

Planned advantages: Minimal crew required (1-2). Turrets. Simple hull. Fast for it's class***.   Large cargo bay. FTL drive.
Planned disadvantages: Has no climate control for cargo, Light armor****, Cargo is badly protected from enemy fire, ugly box. No atmospheric flight.

*depending on success of research, meaning that if engineers will need to make cuts somewhere, that's to be turrets.
**If that is too complex to be inserted without research, omit it
*** absolute minimum for speed is 4, more is preferred.
**** No more than 4, 3 is acceptable


New subsystems:
Ж5.000
Design a launcher and simple homing AI missile with friend\foe recognition.

Ж5.000
AI assisted single cockpit: Allows piloted craft to be piloted by either pilot or installed AI, including automatic switch to AI in case of pilot's death\lose of conscious
Additionally the AI can provide advices and information to pilot it works with.

[WhitiusOpus]

((So, did I not finalize my other research?))

[Taricus]

I can always fix that Nunzillor

[10ebbor10]

((A tender is like a sales contract. You get them 20 ships, they'll provide payment for them. Also Ebbor, I only had the facilities for seven ships, not eight, thus I should have Ж29400 instead.))

Your weapon production facility reduced production point cost by 2 for these ships, allowing you to fit 8 craft on the budget.

[Taricus]

...AW sweet!

[tryrar]

-Start designing a Cargo Hauler capable of moving a good quantity of freight through space. Make sure its drives are reliable(especially FTL!), and it has good sensors. While unarmed, make sure it has ample space to be retrofitted with light self-defense turrets by the clients.

-Again attempt to research pulse-fusion drive systems(holding off modding the Valkyrie until the results of this are found out)

[Nunzillor]

What techs do you have, UR, and how much do you want for them?