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[Rockeater]

'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle (3): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk, Rockeater
Emergent Build By Numbers (3): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk, Rockeater

[Failbird105]

'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle (4): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Failbird
Emergent Build By Numbers (4): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Failbird

[Man of Paper]

Emergent 1.1 Patch

The Emergent has a number of issues that require immediate resolution before they can be relied upon for combat deployments.

The first bugfix is the standardization of IPE size, power, and efficiency across all Emergent assembly kits, with Supervisory units responsible for quality control and engine testing prior to packing and shipping.

The second bugfix consists of thorough testing and editing of Emergent software to improve control and efficacy of computational equipment and minimize errors responsible for engine control failure.

The final bugfix is multitiered. The assembly bitforms are reprogrammed to fuse only the metal at the joins they are meant to meld together. The bitforms are designed to be much less destructive than the Vat Bitforms used in the O.R.C.s, and the joins are plated with a thin chemically marked layer of metal that acts as the material the bitforms use to weld pieces together. Once the bitforms join the parts of the craft and can no longer detect marked material in close proximity they collect together and go inert to allow recollection and recycling.

'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle (5): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Failbird, MoP
Emergent Build By Numbers (4): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Failbird
Emergent 1.1 Patch (1): MoP

[Kashyyk]

Whilst MoPs patch hits all the problems, I'm concerned it tries to do too much with a revision. Build By Numbers will be much easier, but it won't produce a workable Emergent this turn. I guess go Very Hard or go home, huh?

'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle (5): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Failbird, MoP
Emergent Build By Numbers (3): Carefulrogue, Rockeater, Failbird
Emergent 1.1 Patch (2): MoP, Kashyyk

[Rockeater]

'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle (5): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Failbird, MoP
Emergent Build By Numbers (2) :Carefulrogue, Failbird
Emergent 1.1 Patch (3): MoP, Kashyyk, Rockeater

[Failbird105]

'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle (5): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Failbird, MoP
Emergent Build By Numbers (1) :Carefulrogue
Emergent 1.1 Patch (4): MoP, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Failbird

[Carefulrogue]

'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle (5): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Failbird, MoP
Emergent Build By Numbers (0) :
Emergent 1.1 Patch (5): MoP, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Failbird, Carefulrogue

[Madman198237]

Turn 4 Revision Phase: The Network

Revision: 'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle
Harking back to an alternate specification of the Trephine before its moniker was gained, the Hammer is a carbine version of the Trephine, firing a canister of specially designed, sharpened flechettes loaded from a small 4 round strip. Whilst range and accuracy are naturally going to be reduced compared to the Trephine, the Hammer will be able to shoot far more quickly and with more tolerance to off-center accuracy due to the spread of flechettes it releases.

'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle
Difficulty: Normal
Roll: 3 + 4 + 0 = 7 Superior Craftsmanship

Making a little version of a big weapon is a very old answer to the problem of a big but powerful weapon not being able to do what a small weapon can do. The 'Hammer' carbine is quite effective at doing what the Trephine cannot. An elegantly simple straight-bolt action without any locking mechanism or turning moves cartridges from a small internal four-round box magazine loaded via stripper clip. The weapon is capable of firing more rounds per battery charge due to an improved battery, the firing is much smoother, the superconductor charges faster, and the rails are much more durable with the lighter-weight projectiles.

Physically, the carbine is shorter and lighter than the Trephine, very handy at Medium range and usable at Close range, incredibly deadly at Close range as the four flechettes have just enough dispersion to strike four different places on a target and cause massive damage, though their lightweight nature does limit armor-piercing effectiveness against hard armor. At Medium range the dispersion is sufficient to turn a close miss into a hit, or even take out an entire group at once. At Long range the dispersion pattern finally becomes too random for effective shooting, though the supersonic cracks of half a dozen little needles passing close to your face tends to encourage the person on the receiving end to seek cover.

Cost: 1 GPP

Emergent 1.1 Patch

The Emergent has a number of issues that require immediate resolution before they can be relied upon for combat deployments.

The first bugfix is the standardization of IPE size, power, and efficiency across all Emergent assembly kits, with Supervisory units responsible for quality control and engine testing prior to packing and shipping.

The second bugfix consists of thorough testing and editing of Emergent software to improve control and efficacy of computational equipment and minimize errors responsible for engine control failure.

The final bugfix is multitiered. The assembly bitforms are reprogrammed to fuse only the metal at the joins they are meant to meld together. The bitforms are designed to be much less destructive than the Vat Bitforms used in the O.R.C.s, and the joins are plated with a thin chemically marked layer of metal that acts as the material the bitforms use to weld pieces together. Once the bitforms join the parts of the craft and can no longer detect marked material in close proximity they collect together and go inert to allow recollection and recycling.

Emergent 1.1 Patch
Difficulty: Normal
Roll: 3 + 1 + 0 = 4 Below Average

The Emergent Patch is a valiant attempt to fix what's wrong with the Emergent, quite comprehensively. A little too comprehensively, in fact, for the problems encountered. We seem to have accidentally released some faulty Bitforms into the labs last time and we're having some problems with accidentally reconfiguring Units into fireworks-production units.

Regardless of the few minor failures and unintentional inventions of some improperly-installed rocket pods (nonfunctional and loaded only with fireworks anyway), we've....managed some stuff anyway. Emergents are now assembled properly, more or less. Most errors are minor, cosmetic, or can be caught by the Units monitoring the Bitforms while they work on the aircraft. The chemical marker system is reasonably effective and usually doesn't suffer from things like abrasion removing it during transport or whatnot.

The engines, however, are still very unreliable. Apparently, the reduced-sized engines suffer from factory problems as a result of poor design choices intended to scale down size and cost from the spacecraft-grade engine. Certain parts have overly fine materials tolerances, and if the material isn't precisely within said tolerances, the engine's functionality will be significantly altered. However, without Bitform mangling damaging the control computers, an Emergent will tend to fly in something resembling a straight line.

Bitforms cannot readily be recovered from the aircraft (they are just nanoscale machines, after all, and they basically find a chemical marker, find the corresponding marker on the other piece, and turn themselves into what amounts to an atomic-level super weld) and the engines are still badly designed and expensive, but we have managed to reduce the cost somewhat with the simpler chemical marker coatings.

Cost: 3 GPP
Size: 2 TC (1 Shuttle TC)

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It is now the strategy phase. You might considered making a strategy.
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Spoiler: The Network Control (click to show/hide)

The Hub: 10/0/0 (YOURS/UNCLAIMED/ENEMY)
  -  ITC-02-LIFT
A: 10/0/0
  -  ITC-01-LIFT
  -  BMU-1
B: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-2
C: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-3
D: 3/1/6
  -  Logos-01, Logos-02, ITC-04
  -  BMU-4, BMU-5
E: 8/2/0
  -  ITC-05
  -  BMU-6, BMU-7
F:
G:
H:
I:
Planet 2: 0/0/10

Spoiler: The Network Logistics (click to show/hide)

Ship Production Points: 25
  14 points: 4x ITC with 2xLIFT, 2x Logos.
  11 Unspent

Ground Production Points: 29
  21 points: 7x BMU with 7x Trephine.
  8 point: Unassigned
 
Units
BMU-1
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Alpha
BMU-2
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Bravo
BMU-3
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Charlie
BMU-4
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Delta
BMU-5
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Delta
BMU-6
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Echo
BMU-7
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Echo

Ships
ITC-01-LIFT
  -  Location: Alpha
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC-02-LIFT
  -  Location: The Hub
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC-04
  -  Location: Delta
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Lightly Damaged
ITC-5
  -  Location: Echo
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged

Logos-01
  -  Location: Delta
  -  Condition: Damaged
Logos-02
  -  Location: Delta
  -  Condition: Undamaged

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

Planetary Contents:
1 & 2: Earthlike planets just as you’d expect. Take your opponent’s homeworld to win, lose yours and you die.
A: Riddled with caves and with a mineral-rich crust, this airless world is ideal for the production of spacecraft components. 1 GPP, 3 SPP.
B: A volcanic world with a caustic atmosphere and lava flows on the surface, B is full of minerals that can be easily acquired…if you can deal with the, quite literal, heat. 3 GPP, 1 SPP.
C: Icy, barren, rather flat in most regions. It has rather a lot of those things humans need to live sitting on and under its airless surface. 3 GPP, 3 SPP.
D: A surface-wide ocean is the defining trait of this planet, providing an interesting combat environment and also plenty of interesting life forms that can be studied….if you can build a big enough boat to catch one, anyway. 4 GPP, 2 SPP.
E: Another Earthlike planet, ideal for habitation….or, y’know, fighting a good old fashioned war over! 4 GPP, 4 SPP.
F: A world of highlands and mountains, the lower parts of the planet are filled with most of the planet's already scarce water. However, the mountainous regions have high mineral contents and plenty of good spacecraft launch sites above the majority of the atmosphere. 2 GPP, 4 SPP.
G: Deserts cover the surface of this planet. Deserts made, in fact, of a curious sand with abnormally high metal and mineral contents. It has an atmosphere that serves to stir up the sands into occasional sandstorms. 3 GPP, 3 SPP.
H: An airless, small rock in space, H is heavily cratered and not a great place to live. Good place to build spacecraft, though. 1 GPP, 3 SPP.
I: A world covered in wide stretches of windswept terrain covered in something that we’re going to call grass, I is ideal for large-scale industrial activity. Nobody cares if you do irreparable damage to a huge tract of grasslands here, after all, there are a hundred more huge tracts of pristine grasslands you haven’t ruined yet. 3 GPP, 1 SPP.

Spoiler: The Network Tech (click to show/hide)

Ships
ITC (Interplanetary Transport Craft): A less-than-stellar spacecraft, the ITC is a version of the ships landed on your planet when you first colonized it. It is prone to malfunction, slow, and generally unpleasant. The rocket shuttles used to get equipment from the ITC to the ground have a limited capacity, meaning that with the exception of troops and things that can be broken into much smaller parts, the ITC cannot carry any equipment of a size greater than 1TC. It has 4TC capacity in total and uses chemical engines for propulsion. It has no armor or armaments.
Cost: 2 SPP

FASS Mk1. Logos: A reasonably quick, reasonably agile, fairly effective light ship of about 45 meters long with Light armor and three R-4 railguns for weapons complement.
Cost: 2 SPP

Logos Thermal Defense Citadel upgrade: An internal ceramic armor layer on the Logos which is actively cooled to reduce damage from thermal weapons. Raises Logos armor to Medium, cost increases by 1 SPP, agility and speed decreased.
Applied To: FASS Mk.1 Logos
Cost: Increase Logos cost by 1 SPP

Units
Basic Military Unit: (you may rename this if you so wish) A capable group of soldiers trained to operate any equipment you can give them. Field training allows them to keep up to date on the best way to operate the newest deathtraps and self-destructing gizmos you send them even after they’re deployed.
Cost: 2GPP

Ground Weapons
Printed Pistol: Issued to security guards on the colony ships, the only real weapon both colonies have. They are 3D-printed out of plastic, a process which is not entirely reliable, meaning the gun has a tendency to break after prolonged use... or any use, really.
Cost: Cheap

Trephine Magnetic Sabot Rifle: A very effective weapon for Medium- to Long-ranged engagements, the Trephine is a 12mm APFSDS weapon with a 10mm projectile, capable of firing with damage roughly equivalent to a high-caliber rifle or, at maximum power, a light cannon. The projectile tends to fragment on piercing Light armor, doing even more damage than usual to the underlying target. Fireworks displays included with every order of 1000 or more.
Cost: 1 GPP

'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle: A carbine version of the Trephine, the Hammer fires exclusively lighter-weight discarding-sabot flechette rounds which are very accurate and deadly. The rifle is lighter, shorter, and faster than the Trephine, and has a four-round internal magazine and a bolt-action style chambering (being a railgun there is not really a semiautomatic function). It is accurate and deadly out to Medium range, and can lay down suppressive fire at Long range with minimal chances to hit.
Cost: 1 GPP

Ground Equipment
Basic Space Suit: A civilian space suit, totally unarmored and cumbersome to walk in. At least it works well enough, and has a self-sealing lining meaning a single shot isn't an immediate death sentence... most of the time. Necessary for deployment to worlds without breathable atmospheres.
Cost: Cheap OBSOLETE

MultiEnvironment Tactical Armored Suit: A slight improvement to the Basic Space Suit in every way, METAS is a hair less cumbersome, has magnetic boots and some armor so it won't (usually) explode the minute somebody looks at the oxygen tank funny. That usually happens the second minute that somebody remains looking at the tank funny.
Cost: Cheap

Ground Vehicles
"Emergent" Assault Aircraft In-Field Assembly Kit: A fault-ridden aircraft more prone to disassembling itself than flying, and when it does fly it tends to do so in a rather wobbly-looking way. However, it does carry two Trephines, a pilot, a gunner, and six combat units around at reasonably fast speeds. Er, we think it does, anyway, given that the most recent prototypes haven't been tested, since all our test Units are too good at probability-of-death-or-maiming calculations.
Cost: 4 GPP
Weight: 2 TC (requires 1 shuttle TC)

"Emergent" AAIFAK 1.1: Still not a great aircraft, this new version of the Emergent suffers from unbalanced engine thrust which is quite effective at hamstringing maneuverability, but it is capable of something that resembles proper flying. It is still more expensive than it needs to be due to the engine problems. It can carry two Trephines (in a single turret), a pilot, a gunner, and six combat units around at reasonably fast speeds.
Cost: 3 GPP
Weight: 2 TC (requires 1 shuttle TC)

Command Radio: Essentially just a very big radio set, capable of reliable communication between planets, ships, and/or other planets. Currently only useful for taunting your enemy. The transmitter dish comes in a single piece and cannot fit in an ITC shuttle.
Cost: 2GPP
Weight: 1TC (requires 2 shuttle TC)

Spacecraft Components
Tokamak-Powered Plasma Drive: A matched set of self-melting components, the TPPD is generally regarded as having been a bad idea.
Cost: A large amount of expensive alloys and electromagnets we're willing to throw away, all of High Command's good will.

Plasma Engine: A Speed 2 interplanetary drive, capable of producing fairly acceptable changes to velocity in combat conditions. Very power hungry at combat-use sizes.

R-4 Railgun Turret: An amazing weapons system, the R-4 is an externally mounted 50mm railgun loaded with 20 round drums capable of firing a three-round burst on a single capacitor charge, while a loading arm loads the drums into the weapon from the storage bay in the ship proper. The turret is lightly armored for protection. Requires a ship to mount it on.

Large Item Flight Transport (LIFT): An upgrade to the ITC's basic shuttles, capable of moving 4 TC objects to and from orbit. Has advantages and disadvantages, minor mechanical issues, but primarily is something of an "all your eggs, one basket" situation when deploying into combat conditions. Raise the cost of an ITC when attached.
Cost: 1 SPP (equips an ITC with a full set of LIFT shuttles)

LIFT Intraplanetary Plasma Engine (IPE): An upgrade to the LIFT shuttles, capable of moving 4 TC objects to and from orbit. Faster and more maneuverable even than basic shuttles, and come with some amount of reinforcement and protection against attack. Raise the cost of an ITC when attached.
Cost: 1 SPP (equips an ITC with a full set of LIFT shuttles)

Infrastructure
Colony Defense Grid: The reason you can't instantly invade the enemy homeworld. A series of surface-to-orbit missile launchers, the only real concession to defense the planners of the colony made. How they work is a mystery now, and no one wants to risk taking them apart to find out.

Semi-Autonomous Industrial Facilities: A network of interlinked incredibly well-connected modern factories capable of production of unparalleled efficiency and scale. Provides 2 GPP.

Orbital Reclamation Centers: Satellites in orbit around the Hub that reprocess damaged and destroyed units and other bits of metal and plastic into spacecraft parts. Provides 2 SPP.

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

1x Research Credit (finished combat spacecraft)

[Kashyyk]

So... should probably talk strategy.

it was suggested in the discord that we produce two units of Emergents, plus two units of hammers, for our remaining GPP and deploy them to Delta. I'm happy to support that. For strategy, I thus propose the following:

Manufacture 2x "Emergent" AAIFAK 1.1  and 2x 'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifles for a total of 8gpp. Load them on ITC-02-LIFT
Manufacture 3x FASS Mk1. Logos with TDC upgrade for a total of 9spp.

ITC-02-LIFT and Logos-03-TDC, Logos-04-TDC and Logos-05-TDC forms Fleet-01.
Fleet-01 moves to Charlie via Alpha, where ITC-02-LIFT picks up BMU-3

ITC-01-LIFT picks up BMU-1 and joins Fleet-01 as it passes through Alpha.
ITC-04 moves to Bravo.
ITC-05 moves to Bravo and picks up BMU-2.

Logos-01 and Logos-02 are to intercept hostile troop transports unless outnumbered more than two to one by enemy warships.

This sets us up for a massive reinforcement wave to either Delta or Echo, depending on which is needed. Additionally, we have enough SPP spare to upgrade our existing Logos with TDC when they next return to the Hub.

Also, we apparently have a clone of Logos-02 at Echo still. I think we should abuse its existence until Madman realises the mistake. Any suggestions?

[Rockeater]

So yeah, I like this strategy

(1) Mounting_Pressure.exe: Rockeater

[Kashyyk]

(2) Mounting_Pressure.exe: Rockeater, Kashyyk

[Carefulrogue]

(3) Mounting_Pressure.exe: Rockeater, Kashyyk, Carefulrogue

[Failbird105]

(4) Mounting_Pressure.exe: Rockeater, Kashyyk, Carefulrogue, Failbird

[Madman198237]

Turn 4 Combat Phase: The Network

Advances continue on Planet D, Planet E is now under our control. Our lack of groundside transport is going to cripple the assault on D next turn unless something changes. Remember that D is a waterworld, as well.

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It is now the design phase. You have two designs, please do not repeat the mistakes of previous turns and roll badly, it reflects badly on you. Please make note of any mistakes I may or may not have made while manipulating the logistics!
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Spoiler: The Network Control (click to show/hide)

The Hub: 10/0/0 (YOURS/UNCLAIMED/ENEMY)
A: 10/0/0
  -  Nothing
B: 10/0/0
  -  ITC-05
    -  BMU-2
  -  ITC-04
C: 10/0/0
  -  ITC-01-LIFT
    -  BMU-1
  -  ITC-02-LIFT
    -  2x Emergent, 2x Hammer
  -  BMU-3
D: 5/0/5
  -  Logos-01, Logos-02
  -  BMU-4, BMU-5
E: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-6, BMU-7
F:
G:
H:
I:
Planet 2: 0/0/10

Spoiler: The Network Logistics (click to show/hide)

Ship Production Points: 25
  8 points: 4x ITC
  2 points: 2x LIFT
  4 points: 2x Logos
  9 points: 3x Logos with TDC
  6 point: Unassigned

Ground Production Points: 29
  14 points: 7x BMU
  7 points: 7x Trephine
  2 points: 2x Hammer
  6 points: 2x Emergent
  4 points: Unassigned

Units
BMU-1
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Orbit of Charlie, in ITC-01-LIFT
BMU-2
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Orbit of Bravo, in ITC-05
BMU-3
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Charlie
BMU-4
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Delta
BMU-5
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Delta
BMU-6
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Echo
BMU-7
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Echo

Ships
ITC-01-LIFT
  -  Location: Charlie
  -  Contents: BMU-1
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC-02-LIFT
  -  Location: Charlie
  -  Contents: 2 x Emergent, 2 x Hammer
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC-04
  -  Location: Bravo
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Lightly Damaged
ITC-5
  -  Location: Bravo
  -  Contents: BMU-02
  -  Condition: Undamaged

Logos-01
  -  Location: Delta
  -  Condition: Damaged
Logos-02
  -  Location: Delta
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Logos-03
  -  Location: Charlie
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Logos-04
  -  Location: Charlie
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Logos-05
  -  Location: Charlie
  -  Condition: Undamaged

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

Planetary Contents:
1 & 2: Earthlike planets just as you’d expect. Take your opponent’s homeworld to win, lose yours and you die.
A: Riddled with caves and with a mineral-rich crust, this airless world is ideal for the production of spacecraft components. 1 GPP, 3 SPP.
B: A volcanic world with a caustic atmosphere and lava flows on the surface, B is full of minerals that can be easily acquired…if you can deal with the, quite literal, heat. 3 GPP, 1 SPP.
C: Icy, barren, rather flat in most regions. It has rather a lot of those things humans need to live sitting on and under its airless surface. 3 GPP, 3 SPP.
D: A surface-wide ocean is the defining trait of this planet, providing an interesting combat environment and also plenty of interesting life forms that can be studied….if you can build a big enough boat to catch one, anyway. 4 GPP, 2 SPP.
E: Another Earthlike planet, ideal for habitation….or, y’know, fighting a good old fashioned war over! 4 GPP, 4 SPP.
F: A world of highlands and mountains, the lower parts of the planet are filled with most of the planet's already scarce water. However, the mountainous regions have high mineral contents and plenty of good spacecraft launch sites above the majority of the atmosphere. 2 GPP, 4 SPP.
G: Deserts cover the surface of this planet. Deserts made, in fact, of a curious sand with abnormally high metal and mineral contents. It has an atmosphere that serves to stir up the sands into occasional sandstorms. 3 GPP, 3 SPP.
H: An airless, small rock in space, H is heavily cratered and not a great place to live. Good place to build spacecraft, though. 1 GPP, 3 SPP.
I: A world covered in wide stretches of windswept terrain covered in something that we’re going to call grass, I is ideal for large-scale industrial activity. Nobody cares if you do irreparable damage to a huge tract of grasslands here, after all, there are a hundred more huge tracts of pristine grasslands you haven’t ruined yet. 3 GPP, 1 SPP.

Spoiler: The Network Tech (click to show/hide)

Ships
ITC (Interplanetary Transport Craft): A less-than-stellar spacecraft, the ITC is a version of the ships landed on your planet when you first colonized it. It is prone to malfunction, slow, and generally unpleasant. The rocket shuttles used to get equipment from the ITC to the ground have a limited capacity, meaning that with the exception of troops and things that can be broken into much smaller parts, the ITC cannot carry any equipment of a size greater than 1TC. It has 4TC capacity in total and uses chemical engines for propulsion. It has no armor or armaments.
Cost: 2 SPP

FASS Mk1. Logos: A reasonably quick, reasonably agile, fairly effective light ship of about 45 meters long with Light armor and three R-4 railguns for weapons complement.
Cost: 2 SPP

Logos Thermal Defense Citadel upgrade: An internal ceramic armor layer on the Logos which is actively cooled to reduce damage from thermal weapons. Raises Logos armor to Medium, cost increases by 1 SPP, agility and speed decreased.
Applied To: FASS Mk.1 Logos
Cost: Increase Logos cost by 1 SPP

Units
Basic Military Unit: (you may rename this if you so wish) A capable group of soldiers trained to operate any equipment you can give them. Field training allows them to keep up to date on the best way to operate the newest deathtraps and self-destructing gizmos you send them even after they’re deployed.
Cost: 2GPP

Ground Weapons
Printed Pistol: Issued to security guards on the colony ships, the only real weapon both colonies have. They are 3D-printed out of plastic, a process which is not entirely reliable, meaning the gun has a tendency to break after prolonged use... or any use, really.
Cost: Cheap

Trephine Magnetic Sabot Rifle: A very effective weapon for Medium- to Long-ranged engagements, the Trephine is a 12mm APFSDS weapon with a 10mm projectile, capable of firing with damage roughly equivalent to a high-caliber rifle or, at maximum power, a light cannon. The projectile tends to fragment on piercing Light armor, doing even more damage than usual to the underlying target. Fireworks displays included with every order of 1000 or more.
Cost: 1 GPP

'Hammer' Magnetic Flechette Rifle: A carbine version of the Trephine, the Hammer fires exclusively lighter-weight discarding-sabot flechette rounds which are very accurate and deadly. The rifle is lighter, shorter, and faster than the Trephine, and has a four-round internal magazine and a bolt-action style chambering (being a railgun there is not really a semiautomatic function). It is accurate and deadly out to Medium range, and can lay down suppressive fire at Long range with minimal chances to hit.
Cost: 1 GPP

Ground Equipment
Basic Space Suit: A civilian space suit, totally unarmored and cumbersome to walk in. At least it works well enough, and has a self-sealing lining meaning a single shot isn't an immediate death sentence... most of the time. Necessary for deployment to worlds without breathable atmospheres.
Cost: Cheap OBSOLETE

MultiEnvironment Tactical Armored Suit: A slight improvement to the Basic Space Suit in every way, METAS is a hair less cumbersome, has magnetic boots and some armor so it won't (usually) explode the minute somebody looks at the oxygen tank funny. That usually happens the second minute that somebody remains looking at the tank funny.
Cost: Cheap

Ground Vehicles
"Emergent" Assault Aircraft In-Field Assembly Kit: A fault-ridden aircraft more prone to disassembling itself than flying, and when it does fly it tends to do so in a rather wobbly-looking way. However, it does carry two Trephines, a pilot, a gunner, and six combat units around at reasonably fast speeds. Er, we think it does, anyway, given that the most recent prototypes haven't been tested, since all our test Units are too good at probability-of-death-or-maiming calculations.
Cost: 4 GPP
Weight: 2 TC (requires 1 shuttle TC)

"Emergent" AAIFAK 1.1: Still not a great aircraft, this new version of the Emergent suffers from unbalanced engine thrust which is quite effective at hamstringing maneuverability, but it is capable of something that resembles proper flying. It is still more expensive than it needs to be due to the engine problems. It can carry two Trephines (in a single turret), a pilot, a gunner, and six combat units around at reasonably fast speeds.
Cost: 3 GPP
Weight: 2 TC (requires 1 shuttle TC)

Command Radio: Essentially just a very big radio set, capable of reliable communication between planets, ships, and/or other planets. Currently only useful for taunting your enemy. The transmitter dish comes in a single piece and cannot fit in an ITC shuttle.
Cost: 2GPP
Weight: 1TC (requires 2 shuttle TC)

Spacecraft Components
Tokamak-Powered Plasma Drive: A matched set of self-melting components, the TPPD is generally regarded as having been a bad idea.
Cost: A large amount of expensive alloys and electromagnets we're willing to throw away, all of High Command's good will.

Plasma Engine: A Speed 2 interplanetary drive, capable of producing fairly acceptable changes to velocity in combat conditions. Very power hungry at combat-use sizes.

R-4 Railgun Turret: An amazing weapons system, the R-4 is an externally mounted 50mm railgun loaded with 20 round drums capable of firing a three-round burst on a single capacitor charge, while a loading arm loads the drums into the weapon from the storage bay in the ship proper. The turret is lightly armored for protection. Requires a ship to mount it on.

Large Item Flight Transport (LIFT): An upgrade to the ITC's basic shuttles, capable of moving 4 TC objects to and from orbit. Has advantages and disadvantages, minor mechanical issues, but primarily is something of an "all your eggs, one basket" situation when deploying into combat conditions. Raise the cost of an ITC when attached.
Cost: 1 SPP (equips an ITC with a full set of LIFT shuttles)

LIFT Intraplanetary Plasma Engine (IPE): An upgrade to the LIFT shuttles, capable of moving 4 TC objects to and from orbit. Faster and more maneuverable even than basic shuttles, and come with some amount of reinforcement and protection against attack. Raise the cost of an ITC when attached.
Cost: 1 SPP (equips an ITC with a full set of LIFT shuttles)

Infrastructure
Colony Defense Grid: The reason you can't instantly invade the enemy homeworld. A series of surface-to-orbit missile launchers, the only real concession to defense the planners of the colony made. How they work is a mystery now, and no one wants to risk taking them apart to find out.

Semi-Autonomous Industrial Facilities: A network of interlinked incredibly well-connected modern factories capable of production of unparalleled efficiency and scale. Provides 2 GPP.

Orbital Reclamation Centers: Satellites in orbit around the Hub that reprocess damaged and destroyed units and other bits of metal and plastic into spacecraft parts. Provides 2 SPP.

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

1x Research Credit (finished combat spacecraft)

[Kashyyk]

You know the drill. It's what you'll be subjected to if you fail to produce a viable Tokomak Generator blueprint after the third time, especially because we're throwing additional funding (Research Credit) at this.

Unlike the overgrown flashlights used by our enemies, our Railguns are sophisticated machines that launch projectiles at subliminal velocity. Thus whilst they get to cheat and aim directly at their targets, we have to calculate ballistic trajectories to produce that satisfying explosion of metal that used to be a Technate ship.

To perform these feats of military mathematics, a carefully cultivated artificial mind will be produced, capable of calculating the relative velocities of the firing ship,  the target and the potential paths of the projectiles from each weapon on board, thanks to sensor input and our previous experience with ships in the field


In addition, a dedicated, specialised sensor suite that can track the movements of all objects in range feeds the central mind, giving it the information it needs to predict the movements of enemy ships and thus calculate an effective firing solution.