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[Khan Boyzitbig]

The year is 2025, the Terran Empire has defeated all other Human nations on Earth and subdued the Martian and Luna colonies.
Only the Io colony, a research base near Jupiter studying an ancient city and its long derelict terraformers remains free, the few imperial ships that came near have vanished, presumably destroyed by an unknown force.

Now the brave 214 million colonists must decide their future among the stars and hopefully one day put an end to the Terran Empire and liberate the Earth.

Spoiler: Io's Status (click to show/hide)

Population: 214 million Humans (Io)
Science: 2 Labs
Shipyard Capacity: 1 Naval SY (6000t 2 slipways) 1 Commercial SY (56000t 1 slipway)
Ground Forces: 2 Traing Facs, 3 Brigades (1 Mobile Inf (4x MI, 1 BHQ),1 Marine (4x Marine Bat, 1 BHQ), 1 Garrison (4x Gar, 1 BHQ))
Industrial Capacity: 180 Construction Factories, 51 Ordnance Factories, 26 Fighter Factories, 172 mines+340 Auto mines
Offworld Mining: 200 auto mines (Europa),200 auto mines (Ganymede),200 auto mines (Callisto)
Extras: Deserted Intact City (Io)(Unknown race/size)

Spoiler: Imperial Status (click to show/hide)

Population: 1b Humans (Earth), 10m Humans (Luna), 22m Humans (Mars)
Science: 20 labs
Shipyard Capacity: 8 Naval SY (2000t - 22000t 22 slipways, total = 233000t) 4 Commercial SY (40000t - 80000t 16 slipways, total = 888000t)
Ground Forces: 18 Training Facs, 3+ divisions (Earth), 3 brigades (Mars), 3 brigades (Ceres), 2 Brigades (Luna), 1 Brigade (Mercury), 1 Brigade (Venus)
Industrial Capacity: 812 Construction Factories, 240 Ordnance factories, 110 Fighter Factories, 866 mines+ 255 Automines
Offworld Mining: 600 Automines

Imperial Fleet Design and Deployment Doctrines:

Spoiler: Commercial Marine (click to show/hide)

Generic Civilian ships, rarely worth attacking but also easy to spot

Spoiler: Imperial Merchant Fleet (click to show/hide)

Lightly armoured and slow, typically travelling alone or in convoys, incapable of self defence beyond CIWS fire

Spoiler: Imperial Support Fleet (click to show/hide)

Includes Superfreighters, Typically armoured and escorted, lightly armed. Tankers, colliers, Hospital ships, troopships, salvagers and other non-combat craft that follow a fleet around

Spoiler: Escort Fleet (click to show/hide)

Slow with medium armour and obsolete weapons and sensors favouring close range weaponry, can include retired Fleet ships which are far more powerful. Escorts trade convoys or guards colonial outposts. Rarely includes capital sized craft (Usually Escort Carriers)

Spoiler: The Imperial Armada (click to show/hide)

Fast and tough, the Empire's Grand Armada includes a range of ships and hosts numerous missile launchers and long range scanners. Outside of wartime only small point defence sensors will be active, unless the fleet is reacting to an attack or incident. Most Armada ships will be over 10000t and heavily armed.

The People of Io Look to their Boldest and Brightest for inspiration on how to proceed, so my friends what say you?



This is an asymmetric interactive playthrough, all the !!FUN!! stuff (baring NPRs right now, they will be there later though) is active, anyone can ask for a character/ship/class and suggest techs to research or designs to use/build etc. For the sake of RP the Terran Empire will not investigate Jupiter unless their active sensors pick up a ship from the Io Republic there (and even then, some situations will cause them to ignore that) and Imperial ships (or at least the Imperial Armada) will take about 30 minutes to react officially to any combat from initial hostile action (such as boarding actions) however they may lob missiles at anything in range that is hostile even if the ship/s aren't officially reacting yet. The Empire will not react to Thermal contacts, but EM signatures (Such as shields or active search sensors but not Colonies) will draw attention.

Some important stuff: You can choose between yourselves upto 10 free techs (5000 cost max, no rushing magneto-plasma drives instantly) and 10 ship components (turrets are free, just cost a turret mountable weapon, same goes with 1 missile magazine, missile launchers and fire controls), you start with Marines (both), assault inf, construction brigades, basic jump-related techs, troop transport bays and normal drop bays. Not much point building Jumpgates, needs a big ship and The Empire will build them anyway.

I'm thinking that this should be done in 30-day Intervals (not the ingame interval, but 1st of month till 1st of month interval) with general plans of what should be done and how. Obviously there can be a time skip until the first ship is built, little will happen in that time anyway (baring !!FUN!! from the ruins).

Feel Free to provide tips both about gameplay and the whole narrative stuff, not done one of these kinds of things before. Also feel free to ask about stuff too. BTW, Jupiter is about 330 million km from Ceres, and the Empire has a 226m km range missile as its current max.

[Hanzoku]

What’s the mechanic that is keeping the Imperial armada at bay, and what stops the Empire from just chuckling to themselves and lobbing a few thousand missiles all at once at Io and calling it a day?

[Khan Boyzitbig]

What’s the mechanic that is keeping the Imperial armada at bay, and what stops the Empire from just chuckling to themselves and lobbing a few thousand missiles all at once at Io and calling it a day?

The Empire did try, something stopped them. Something that they couldn't target with their missiles, moving far faster than anything manmade and able to engage them with ease.
The only warning the Imperial ships had was a change in Jupiter's background signals, for a brief moment Jupiter seemed to become a Supergiant Star, followed shortly by a pair of ship signatures.

Also, The Empire would want to capture the ruins intact, missile spam at range would destroy anything of value, not to mention how easy it would be to throw out lots of anti-missile platforms and shoot them all down (compared to getting launchers in range, and then keeping the launchers supplied with ammo).

[Madman198237]

PTW, for now. I'll probably participate once I see how this shapes up.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

There is a lot to be done in the background of this, but its not as bad as the other idea I had which involved 6 or 7 factions.

Anyway, here is some background lore:


During the Third World War a multitude of counties and states from various nations declared themselves "The Empire of the 32" and quickly took over their neighbours who were weakened by the fighting. In a few short months the Empire had managed to occupy 40% of the world, while half of the other nations refused to seek peace with each other, those that did seek peace formed a coalition against the Empire. By this point the Empire had activated the nuclear weapons they had taken during the war and proceeded to fire upon the Coalition nations most of whom had lost their nuclear capacity to Imperial forces already, the result was most of the Earth's population and industry was destroyed with the Empire annexing the few survivors and re-branding themselves The Terran Empire.
The Luna colony, having very little industry or manpower anyway, surrendered without a fight while the Mars colony launched a handful of small ships and fighters to try and keep the Empire at bay and for a few years this worked as the Empire had too few warships to push through. This changed when the first Eclipse class cruiser was finished, at 17900t it was the largest spacefaring warship built by humans to date with thick armour and numerous weapons though not without flaws, with the fleet massively strengthened the Empire pushed through the tired defenders and the colony surrendered.
The Empire's attention now turned towards Io, the last free colony and surprisingly the largest, Io had been building up to prepare for the inevitable assault but even so it looked grim for the colony as the Empire now had a considerable number of heavy ships. The two sides met halfway between Ceres and Io in a slow yet brutal and obviously one-sided fight, the Empire's fleet had taken a few hits but was intact while the colonial fleet lay in ruins. As the Imperial fleet closed with Io an unusual event occurred, according the the Imperial sensors Jupiter became a Supergiant star briefly followed by two unusual ship signatures approaching nearly as fast as an imperial missile while from the Colony's perspective an M class Bright Giant (Specifically an M1-II) was detected through an unstable jump point near Jupiter and two alien capitalships came through, at 52800t they were far larger than the Eclipse class and though much faster their thermal signature was 10% smaller than the Eclipse however the energy field surround the Battleships was nearly equal to the EM signature of the Io colony. The Empire's reaction to these ships was hostile, as soon as they could target them they opened fire expecting their large numbers to win the day, only to find the alien ships had little trouble shooting down the missiles and then outranging the laser cannons of the Imperial fleet with their own. With the Imperial fleet destroyed the aliens entered orbit of Io and transmitted a short message in an as yet unknown language before jumping out of the system.

Spoiler: the Eclipse class if you were wondering (click to show/hide)

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Eclipse class Cruiser    17 900 tons     481 Crew     2440.6 BP      TCS 358  TH 1000  EM 0
2793 km/s     Armour 10-60     Shields 0-0     Sensors 6/6/0/0     Damage Control Rating 11     PPV 65
Maint Life 3.34 Years     MSP 937    AFR 233%    IFR 3.2%    1YR 127    5YR 1912    Max Repair 120 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months    Spare Berths 1   
Magazine 185   

200 EP Nuclear Pulse Engine (5)    Power 200    Fuel Use 139.75%    Signature 200    Exp 12%
Fuel Capacity 1 500 000 Litres    Range 10.8 billion km   (44 days at full power)

12cm C2 Visible Light Laser (10)    Range 80 000km     TS: 2793 km/s     Power 4-2     RM 2    ROF 10        4 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0
Fire Control S06 64-3750 (1)    Max Range: 128 000 km   TS: 3750 km/s     92 84 77 69 61 53 45 37 30 22
Pebble Bed Reactor Technology PB-1 (7)     Total Power Output 21    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Size 5 Missile Launcher (5)    Missile Size 5    Rate of Fire 75
Missile Fire Control FC213-R200 (1)     Range 213.8m km    Resolution 200
Size 5 Anti-ship Missile Jackhammer (37)  Speed: 10 000 km/s   End: 378.2m    Range: 226.9m km   WH: 3    Size: 5    TH: 53/32/16

Active Search Sensor MR7-R1 (1)     GPS 120     Range 7.2m km    MCR 784k km    Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor MR101-R200 (1)     GPS 24000     Range 101.8m km    Resolution 200
Thermal Sensor TH1-6 (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  6m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-6 (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  6m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes


[Karlito]

Some important stuff: You can choose between yourselves upto 10 free techs (5000 cost max, no rushing magneto-plasma drives instantly) and 10 ship components (turrets are free, just cost a turret mountable weapon, same goes with 1 missile magazine, missile launchers and fire controls), you start with Marines (both), assault inf, construction brigades, basic jump-related techs, troop transport bays and normal drop bays. Not much point building Jumpgates, needs a big ship and The Empire will build them anyway.

Well I figure, Construction Rate 12/14, Mining Rate 12/14, Research Rate 240, Pebblebed Reactor, Nuclear Pulse Engines for sure, and then since we only have two labs we should build some more. Also a few levels of military academy so we can actually get some scientists.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Well thats 7 techs with 3 free ones available. Along with 10 components that are free. Should be able to make a lab or academy a year if focused by my calculations and might get some free ones with the ruins are exploited. Anyone have additional suggestions? Or should I go with what seems best?

[Karlito]

Ah yes, the ruins. I forget the exact mechanics there, but our exploitation rate is dependent on the number of construction brigades we have yes? So we should train a few of those.

[Culise]

Ah yes, the ruins. I forget the exact mechanics there, but our exploitation rate is dependent on the number of construction brigades we have yes? So we should train a few of those.

I'm fairly sure that's correct; construction inherited the xenology and manufacturing side of the engineer/construction split.  If I recall the matter properly, since it's still unknown race/size, we'll also want a xenology team to survey the ruins first.  We'll probably also also want a proper defensive force on the ground because reasons of the Terran Empire.  No other reasons, honest.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Well current base defence strength (minus HQs and modifiers) is 120 from 12 battalions, although the Empire does have much more. I will provide a fighting chance to Io if danger threatens to overwhelm too early, not much of a story if it ends in the prologue right? At the very least it will end with style.

There already is a Xenology team on Io looking at the ruins, and I know I queued some construction brigades somewhere already but that might have been on Mars, would have to check.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Io wasn't training Construction Brigades, now they are. Techs added. As for Construction, 2 Academies and labs have been queued at 50% each, is this enough? for them all to be built will take about 3 and a half years.

Seeing as no suggestion for ships and components were made here is a few options I came up with (Names are open for changing, just used default ones for designing them):

Spoiler: New craft (click to show/hide)

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Agincourt class Frigate    5 900 tons     139 Crew     549.5 BP      TCS 118  TH 400  EM 0
3389 km/s     Armour 5-29     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 2     PPV 18
Maint Life 2.11 Years     MSP 116    AFR 139%    IFR 1.9%    1YR 35    5YR 523    Max Repair 40 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months    Spare Berths 0   

80 EP Nuclear Pulse Engine (5)    Power 80    Fuel Use 90%    Signature 80    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 150 000 Litres    Range 5.1 billion km   (17 days at full power)

10cm Railgun V1/C1 (6x4)    Range 10 000km     TS: 3389 km/s     Power 3-1     RM 1    ROF 15        1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S01.5 10-3750 (1)    Max Range: 20 000 km   TS: 3750 km/s     50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pebble Bed Reactor Technology PB-1 (2)     Total Power Output 6    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR5-R120 (1)     GPS 1200     Range 5.5m km    Resolution 120
Active Search Sensor MR2-R1 (1)     GPS 40     Range 2.0m km    MCR 218k km    Resolution 1

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

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Tribal class Frigate    6 000 tons     122 Crew     596 BP      TCS 120  TH 400  EM 0
3333 km/s     Armour 5-29     Shields 0-0     Sensors 5/5/0/0     Damage Control Rating 2     PPV 9
Maint Life 1.89 Years     MSP 124    AFR 144%    IFR 2%    1YR 45    5YR 669    Max Repair 60 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months    Spare Berths 0   
Drop Capacity: 1 Battalion   

80 EP Nuclear Pulse Engine (5)    Power 80    Fuel Use 90%    Signature 80    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 100 000 Litres    Range 3.3 billion km   (11 days at full power)

10cm C1 Infrared Laser (3)    Range 30 000km     TS: 3333 km/s     Power 3-1     RM 1    ROF 15        3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S03 20-3750 (1)    Max Range: 40 000 km   TS: 3750 km/s     75 50 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pebble Bed Reactor Technology PB-1 (1)     Total Power Output 3    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR5-R120 (1)     GPS 1200     Range 5.5m km    Resolution 120
Active Search Sensor MR2-R1 (1)     GPS 40     Range 2.0m km    MCR 218k km    Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH1-5 (1)     Sensitivity 5     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  5m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-5 (1)     Sensitivity 5     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  5m km

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

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Victory class Frigate    5 850 tons     123 Crew     555.5 BP      TCS 117  TH 400  EM 0
3418 km/s     Armour 5-28     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 16.56
Maint Life 1.15 Years     MSP 59    AFR 273%    IFR 3.8%    1YR 46    5YR 683    Max Repair 40 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months    Spare Berths 1   

40 EP Nuclear Pulse Engine (10)    Power 40    Fuel Use 95%    Signature 40    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 150 000 Litres    Range 4.9 billion km   (16 days at full power)

Twin 10cm C1 Infrared Laser Turret (2x2)    Range 30 000km     TS: 5000 km/s     Power 6-2     RM 1    ROF 15        3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S04 20-5000 (1)    Max Range: 40 000 km   TS: 5000 km/s     75 50 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pebble Bed Reactor Technology PB-1 (1)     Total Power Output 1.2    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Pebble Bed Reactor Technology PB-1 (1)     Total Power Output 3    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR2-R1 (1)     GPS 40     Range 2.0m km    MCR 218k km    Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor MR5-R120 (1)     GPS 1200     Range 5.5m km    Resolution 120

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes


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Ark Royal class Frigate    6 000 tons     99 Crew     600 BP      TCS 120  TH 360  EM 0
3000 km/s     Armour 5-29     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 8.28
Maint Life 1.08 Years     MSP 63    AFR 288%    IFR 4%    1YR 54    5YR 809    Max Repair 40 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months    Flight Crew Berths 14   
Hangar Deck Capacity 1000 tons     

40 EP Nuclear Pulse Engine (9)    Power 40    Fuel Use 95%    Signature 40    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 100 000 Litres    Range 3.2 billion km   (12 days at full power)

Twin Gauss Cannon R1-50 Turret (1x2)    Range 10 000km     TS: 5000 km/s     Power 0-0     RM 1    ROF 5        1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S02 10-5000 (1)    Max Range: 20 000 km   TS: 5000 km/s     50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Active Search Sensor MR2-R1 (1)     GPS 40     Range 2.0m km    MCR 218k km    Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor MR5-R120 (1)     GPS 1200     Range 5.5m km    Resolution 120

Strike Group
2x Resolution Fighter   Speed: 4000 km/s    Size: 10

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes


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Resolution class Fighter    500 tons     7 Crew     43.5 BP      TCS 10  TH 40  EM 0
4000 km/s     Armour 1-5     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 3
Maint Life 0 Years     MSP 0    AFR 100%    IFR 1.4%    1YR 4    5YR 61    Max Repair 6 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 0.5 months    Spare Berths 5   

8 EP Nuclear Pulse Engine (5)    Power 8    Fuel Use 99%    Signature 8    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 10 000 Litres    Range 3.6 billion km   (10 days at full power)

Gauss Cannon R1-50 (1)    Range 10 000km     TS: 4000 km/s     Power 0-0     RM 1    ROF 5        1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S00.5 10-1250 (FTR) (1)    Max Range: 20 000 km   TS: 5000 km/s     50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and maintenance purposes


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Resolution Alt class Fighter    500 tons     7 Crew     43.5 BP      TCS 10  TH 40  EM 0
4000 km/s     Armour 1-5     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 3
Maint Life 0 Years     MSP 0    AFR 100%    IFR 1.4%    1YR 2    5YR 35    Max Repair 5 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 0.5 months    Spare Berths 5   

8 EP Nuclear Pulse Engine (5)    Power 8    Fuel Use 99%    Signature 8    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 10 000 Litres    Range 3.6 billion km   (10 days at full power)

Gauss Cannon R1-8 (6)    Range 10 000km     TS: 4000 km/s     Power 0-0     RM 1    ROF 5        1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S00.5 10-1250 (FTR) (1)    Max Range: 20 000 km   TS: 5000 km/s     50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and maintenance purposes

Note that about 25% of the tonnage on those frigates is armour (and 11% of the fighter's tonnage) and 40-50% is the engines. On the other hand they are faster than Imperial ships if somewhat shorter ranged.

[Vivalas]

PTW