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The Froggy Ninja

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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #555 on: June 23, 2014, 12:58:14 pm »

((The canon is that they work using some sort of ion propulsion, and benefit from having propellant freely available atoms such as an atmosphere.

You can modify them, of course, to do that. Since deploying the Enceladus rig requires sending Wasp, you have time to do that.))
Do that.

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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #556 on: June 23, 2014, 02:00:02 pm »

- Alright then. I still insist on figuring out who runs the unidentified mining operations, so to send someone - say, me - down there to check.
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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #557 on: June 23, 2014, 03:28:18 pm »

((Avis' body will be finished on that turn, so I assume he wants to come as well? What about Samarkand?))
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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #558 on: June 23, 2014, 03:50:46 pm »

((Yes, I want to come. I have an idea, though, dunno how it will turn out...))
Computer: generate plans for a small, agile one-man atmospheric combat skimmer with a computer-assisted weapon system. Calculate total resources needed.
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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #559 on: June 23, 2014, 03:53:43 pm »

[1] You're familiar with the workings of aircraft, but without a base schematic it takes you a while and a lot of meditating in order to come up with anything. You simply lack existing schematics, and these sorts of things normally take weeks, if not months to plan out.

You're not sure an aircraft would even be useful on the airless balls of ice that most moons of Saturn are.
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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #560 on: June 23, 2014, 03:56:00 pm »

((By the way, is there gravitation down there?))
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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #561 on: June 23, 2014, 03:57:42 pm »

((By the way, is there gravitation down there?))
((Obviously. It's a goddamn planet, and F=G*(m1*m2)/R2))
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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #562 on: June 23, 2014, 03:59:16 pm »

Ah.

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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #563 on: June 23, 2014, 03:59:46 pm »

((By the way, is there gravitation down there?))

((Not sure how you'd be orbiting it otherwise))

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« Reply #564 on: June 23, 2014, 04:14:27 pm »



A quick table of rolls with various bonuses (up to +6). I've included all values from 1 to 6+bonus because maluses subtract from the number before the final d6 equivalency is determined.

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Einstein's Cross, Enceladus (Orbit)
Friday, Feb 7th, 2398
24:04 GMT
Mission Timer: 3d 21h



DATABANK






Current Inventory:
Voxels: 3575
Steel: 94
Circuits: 2
Fullerenes: 300
Water: 31999/32000 tons (DeltaV: 4220.238 km/s)
Uranium: 1999/6732 tons (DeltaV: 1253.1372571 km/s))

Structural Mass: 18000
Cargo Mass: 1 + 2x75 = 151 (Max 20000)

Spoiler: Cargo Hold (click to show/hide)



Structural Materials: Aluminum, Steel, Titanium Alloy, Polymers, Carbon Fiber

Construction Catalog:
--Bodies--
Engineer Body - 50 Voxels, 5 Circuits, 10 Steel
Froggy Engineer Body - 80 Voxels, 15 Circuits, 10 Steel
Grasshopper Body - 55 Voxels, 5 Circuits, 5 Steel (can be replaced with 5 Titanium for better performance)
Paladin Body - 100 Voxels, 20 Circuits, 20 Steel
Saboteur Body - 140 Voxels, 20 Circuits, 10 Steel
--Drones--
Repair Drone - 40 Voxels, 3 Circuits
--Utility--
Mining Drone (Can be tasked to Mining Rig for increased production. Can also explore caves.) - 80 Voxels, 5 Circuits, 10 Structural Materials, 2 Steel
Mining Rig (Automated. Can be left on a planet.) - 80 Voxels, 35 Circuits, 50 Structural Materials, 15 Steel
--Weapons--
Excalibur - 2 Steel
Falcon PDW - 30 Voxels

Cloud Catalog: Type (% produced) - Cost
Standard Nanite (100%) - 100 Voxels, 10 Circuits
Mobile Nanite (100%) - 100 Voxels, 10 Circuits
Mobile Nanite Controller - 10 Voxels, 1 Circuit

Cloud Storage: (Max 3000%)
(in use)
-90% Standard Nanites
(extra)
-100% Standard Nanites
-100% Mobile Nanites (1 Controller)

Body Storage: (Max 12)
(in use)
-1x 'Boomer' (Engineer variant)
-2x Engineer
--1 Moderately damaged
-1x 'Paladin'
(extra)
-1x Engineer
--1 Heavily damaged



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Avis-Mergulus AKA Anton "Tosha" Teremnoi
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[1+1 = ~1] You design a specialized body designed to be a mobile saboteur, combining utility tools with more powerful magnets and noise absorption. However, the soft pads on the feet create some distance from the magnets themselves, requiring significantly more magnets than was calculated just to get the same amount of force.
This body can:
  • Sprint at 30mph under normal gravity conditions
  • Creates 30dB of noise at 5m while sprinting along a hard floor
  • Weighs 90kg
  • Has small jump jets powered by solid fuel. Contains eight charges. The fuel can be freely replenished from any spacecraft's refueling system, as the amount required is minuscule compared to how much is in the tanks.
  • Can run on metal walls, even at 1G of gravity in the perpendicular direction
  • Has a plasma cutter/welding/soldering tool on one arm
  • Can jump twice as high as a human in normal gravity conditions
  • Has bulky feet, good for kicking and making landings
  • Battery lasts 9 hr under continuous use, or 4 hr when using wallrunning capability

-140 Voxels, -10 Steel, 20 Circuits


The Froggy Ninja AKA David "Dave" Steel
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[4+2 = ~5] You make some modifications to the basic Cloud design, utilizing the magnetic field they use for power and control transmission to also function as a . Since it requires some heavy calculation and a bit of integration, you have to create a secondary transmitter that makes all of the calculations for the nanites. You almost get into bandwidth issues, as the electromagnets can only transmit so much data at once, but you manage to get all the features you want finished. After rounding out the code, you build your first transmitter and a test batch.

[5] Some rudimentary testing in the airlock indicates that the new Cloud works just as well as the old one, but instead of forming a Cloud-like structure, it tends to form tentacle-like appendages instead.

Level up: Inventor!


Samarkand AKA Felicia Hasting
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[6] While your manufacturing system can't work with the carbon nanotubes and graphine due to the hardness of the material and difficulty in bonding them, you try an alternative method... by using nanites! You manipulate the ship's free cloud in order to deconstruct and rebind bundles of carbon into a new shape. You now have a perfect set of fins ready to be mounted.

-40 Fullerenes
+Radiator Fin Replacement Parts
-Not enough resources for Mining Drone
+Project Started! (Repair Radiators. Progress: 1/4)


Comrade P. AKA Hamilton Teromo
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((No action?))



Wasp is not sent down there yet. Next turn, if you wish to deploy the mining rig and go down to the surface of the planet, you have a choice. You can load your actual selves onto Wasp and have the ability to command the bodies directly from the ship, or you can stay and remove-control them from the ship. You can either leave the bodies and rig on the surface of the planet and bring Wasp back up to use it for salvage operations ((hooray multitasking!)), or you can leave it down there until you are finished.
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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #565 on: June 23, 2014, 04:21:32 pm »

((Well yeah. Thanks for gravity obviousness explanation.))

- I will go down, and I'll control my body from orbit I presume. But before we are there, I think I gonna try to assemble some land transport. Would be useful.
Try to design a simple double wheeled land transport, known as "bike"
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« Reply #566 on: June 23, 2014, 04:26:25 pm »

Bike - 70 Voxels
Bike II - 70 Voxels, 1 Circuits
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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #567 on: June 23, 2014, 04:26:48 pm »

Set two more Falcon PDWs to be manufactured in the meantime. Then skim through the contents of the pirates' harddisks.
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Re: The Cloud - Boarding Action
« Reply #568 on: June 23, 2014, 04:42:05 pm »

Bike - 70 Voxels
Bike II - 70 Voxels, 1 Circuits
((I'm ashamed to ask, but what is the difference I get for 1 Circuit?))
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« Reply #569 on: June 23, 2014, 04:53:29 pm »

Bike - 70 Voxels
Bike II - 70 Voxels, 1 Circuits
((I'm ashamed to ask, but what is the difference I get for 1 Circuit?))

((One is foot powered, the other has a motor.))
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