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[Rockeater]

Nuclear Boogaloo:(1) Rockeater
-With design credit:(1) Rockeater
Art3mis Precision Targeting System:(1) Rockeater

[Carefulrogue]

Nuclear Boogaloo:(2) Rockeater, Carefulrogue
-With design credit:(1) Rockeater
Art3mis Precision Targeting System:(2) Rockeater, Carefulrogue

[Kashyyk]

Nuclear Boogaloo:(3) Rockeater, Carefulrogue, Kashyyk
-With design credit:(2) Rockeater, Kashyyk
Art3mis Precision Targeting System:(3) Rockeater, Carefulrogue

[Carefulrogue]

Nuclear Boogaloo:(3) Rockeater, Carefulrogue, Kashyyk
-With design credit:(3) Rockeater, Kashyyk, Carefulrogue
Art3mis Precision Targeting System:(3) Rockeater, Carefulrogue

[Madman198237]

Turn 5 Design Phase: The Network

Tokomak: Nuclear Boogaloo
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.

Tokamak: Nuclear Boogaloo
Difficulty: Hard
Roll: 2 + 3 3 + 3 - 1 = 5 AVERAGE, CONGRATULATIONS, IT DOESN'T EXPLODE, WOW, YOU HAVE FINALLY MADE IT TO FUSION POWER

After looking through the three nonexistent case files of the three previous fusion attempts that never happened, the project managing Unit pulled the operating switch for what he hoped would not be the last time...and suddenly all the indicators in the reactor room jumped straight into the green zones, wiggled around a bit, and settled right on "Perfectly Acceptable", slightly below "Optimal" and refreshingly above "Run Away, Run Away Now". The reactor works, is reasonably compact, is reasonably inexpensive, and generates a perfectly acceptable amount of power.

In short, it works exactly as you would expect.

It is about the size and cost of a standard starship fission reactor, and so can be substituted in directly to provide a large increase in power generation for any ship that gets a refit or is newly built.

The additional power available in the commercial sector has allowed us to produce more power-intensive and expensive components for spacecraft, adding 2 SPP to our budget.

Tokamak: Nuclear Boogaloo: A functioning nuclear fusion reactor, producing on our first attempt, no prior attempts being on record. It requires much less expensive fuel than nuclear fission plants and so its more complicated construction does not increase its cost beyond that of a fission plant, and therefore is automatically retrofitted into any ships that are refitted or any new builds. Provides a substantial increase in power generation to any ship and removes any issues with power generation. Provides 2 SPP

Art3mis Precision Targeting System
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.

Art3mis Precision Targeting System
Difficulty: Easy
Roll: 1 + 4 + 1 = 6 Above Average

Art3mis is a treasonous corruption of a perfectly good word, and the unit who decided to name this system that has been summarily repurposed into a processed-organic-waste disposal unit. The Artemis Precision Targeting System is a solid piece of equipment capable of using a variety of sensors operating across the electromagnetic spectrum to track, analyze, and predict target motions to make a railgun projectile and a target intersect at high relative velocity. It has limited predictive powers to estimate the likely evasive options of a target and direct a bombardment to saturate all possible escape paths, though given the few numbers of guns on a Logos and lack of networking capability we feel like this option is somewhat underutilized.

Artemis is capable of hitting a target 100% of the time if the target takes no evasive maneuvers, though this is a fairly low goal to reach given the simplicity of ballistics in space. It is definitely more capable than previous targeting sensor generations in acquiring targets and identifying them at long range, though since increased range was not a goal this was sacrificed in exchange for more data on targets, which enhances predictive capabilities.

Due to the extensive nature of the Artemis systems, Logos ships must be refitted to acquire one. However, most of Artemis is just a computer programming upgrade and minor sensor upgrade, so there is no cost for this simple system.

Art3mis Precision Targeting System: An upgraded targeting suite that allows a Logos substantially more information and hitting capability against targets as compared to the baseline. Very effective against unknowing targets and capable of a limited degree of predictive firing and precision-coordinated shots amongst multiple weapons. Requires a refit.
Cost: None.

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Revision phase, please compute a valid revision.
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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: 27
  8 points: 4x ITC
  2 points: 2x LIFT
  4 points: 2x Logos
  9 points: 3x Logos with TDC
  8 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)

Art3mis Precision Targeting System: An upgraded targeting suite that allows a Logos substantially more information and hitting capability against targets as compared to the baseline. Very effective against unknowing targets and capable of a limited degree of predictive firing and precision-coordinated shots amongst multiple weapons. Requires a refit.
Cost: None.

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.

Tokamak: Nuclear Boogaloo: A functioning nuclear fusion reactor, producing on our first attempt, no prior attempts being on record. It requires much less expensive fuel than nuclear fission plants and so its more complicated construction does not increase its cost beyond that of a fission plant, and therefore is automatically retrofitted into any ships that are refitted or any new builds. Provides a substantial increase in power generation to any ship and removes any issues with power generation. Provides 2 SPP

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

Array

[Kashyyk]

Now that we have a Tokamak Generator that actually works, and a Plasma Engine that actually works, all we need to work on is fitting them together thanks to a substantially reduced amount of self-induced violent disassembly.

Based on our experience with the Hammer and Trephine, we should be able to develop a third man-portable Magnetic weapon. Either fired from a shoulder-mounted position, or when braced against the ground, the weapon is designed to launch a small High Explosive shell at a customisable velocity, allowing for direct fire or arcing mortar shots.

Basically it's an RPG/Mortar railgun cross. The Technate has no armour to speak of, but it'll be a good idea to have something for crowd dispersal and as a preemptive measure once vehicles properly hit the scene.

[Carefulrogue]

Gen. 2 TOkamak-Powered Plasma Drive: (1) Carefulrogue
'Dozer' Magnetic Cannon:(1) Carefulrogue

[Rockeater]

Fuck, forgot about that one.

Gen. 2 TOkamak-Powered Plasma Drive: (2) Carefulrogue, Rockeater
'Dozer' Magnetic Cannon:(2) Carefulrogue, Rockeater

[Kashyyk]

Should probably vote for my own garbage.

Gen. 2 Tokamak-Powered Plasma Drive: (3) Carefulrogue, Rockeater, kashyyk
'Dozer' Magnetic Cannon:(3) Carefulrogue, Rockeater, Kashyyk

[Madman198237]

Turn 5 Revision Phase: The Network

Gen. 2 Tokamak-Powered Plasma Drive
Now that we have a Tokamak Generator that actually works, and a Plasma Engine that actually works, all we need to work on is fitting them together thanks to a substantially reduced amount of self-induced violent disassembly.

Gen. 2 Tokamak-Powered Plasma Drive
Difficulty: Normal
Roll: 4 + 2 = 6 Above Average

Having both of the components already done and functioning, we've put in the effort to get a functioning combination unit, that saves a little space and gains a little power by feeding the plasma drives directly from the main reactor. Modernized Logos vessels have much reduced problems with power availability and gain a little maneuverability and speed as well. It also will minorly boost LIFT shuttles, though those don't really have problems and we won't notice the effects (read: I am increasingly unhappy with the bookkeeping of this system and screw tracking minor upgrades to shuttles ).

Gen. 2 Tokamak-Powered Plasma Drive: A slightly more efficient, powerful, and compact set of reactors and plasma drives for a warship. It works just a little better than the previous one, and is far better than the original TPPD. Not that that's much of an achievement.

'Dozer' Magnetic Cannon
Based on our experience with the Hammer and Trephine, we should be able to develop a third man-portable Magnetic weapon. Either fired from a shoulder-mounted position, or when braced against the ground, the weapon is designed to launch a small High Explosive shell at a customisable velocity, allowing for direct fire or arcing mortar shots.

'Dozer' Magnetic Cannon
Difficulty: Normal
Roll: 1 + 4 = 5 Average

The 'Dozer' magnetic cannon is a midsized heavy infantry weapon or light artillery piece, depending on which army, what time period, and whose definition you use. It fires something roughly equivalent to a 40mm grenade at low velocity. Higher velocities would require some means of substantially reducing the recoil of the mechanism to avoid damaging it or the user when fired from the ground or the shoulder, respectively. When in mortar configuration it can be used with some medium-velocity settings for a Medium-Long range, otherwise it is effective primarily at Short-Medium distances as a shoulder-fired explosive. Its magnetic firing mechanism means the shells need quite a bit of structure to them, so they don't have the largest amount of explosive content. The sights are basic but very functional in both configurations. The weapon does not take the place of a primary weapon of a Unit, since it serves a specific support role.

'Dozer' Magnetic Cannon: A functional combination of 40mm grenade launcher and mortar. Sights are basic but it has a Medium-Long range in mortar configuration with higher launching powers and Short-Medium range when shoulder-fired. Shells are basic explosives with a moderate payload. Functions as an auxiliary weapon.
Cost: 1 GPP

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Alright, strategy phase at last. If I don't keep at least an update a week, ping me incessantly so I do. I'm out of college now and have free time again.
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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: 27
  8 points: 4x ITC
  2 points: 2x LIFT
  4 points: 2x Logos
  9 points: 3x Logos with TDC
  8 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

'Dozer' Magnetic Cannon: A functional combination of 40mm grenade launcher and mortar. Sights are basic but it has a Medium-Long range in mortar configuration with higher launching powers and Short-Medium range when shoulder-fired. Shells are basic explosives with a moderate payload. Functions as an auxiliary weapon.
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.

Gen. 2 Tokamak-Powered Plasma Drive: A slightly more efficient, powerful, and compact set of reactors and plasma drives for a warship. It works just a little better than the previous one, and is far better than the original TPPD. Not that that's much of an achievement. Provides a lot of power both in terms of electrical and maneuvering ability.

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)

Art3mis Precision Targeting System: An upgraded targeting suite that allows a Logos substantially more information and hitting capability against targets as compared to the baseline. Very effective against unknowing targets and capable of a limited degree of predictive firing and precision-coordinated shots amongst multiple weapons. Requires a refit.
Cost: None.

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.

Tokamak: Nuclear Boogaloo: A functioning nuclear fusion reactor, producing on our first attempt, no prior attempts being on record. It requires much less expensive fuel than nuclear fission plants and so its more complicated construction does not increase its cost beyond that of a fission plant, and therefore is automatically retrofitted into any ships that are refitted or any new builds. Provides a substantial increase in power generation to any ship and removes any issues with power generation. Provides 2 SPP

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

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[Kashyyk]

Manufacture
Scrap ITC-04 (+2 SPP)
Build 3x FASS Mk.1 Logos with TDC and Art3mis (-3 SPP each)
Build 4x Dozer Magetic Cannon (-1 GPP each)

Deployment
Move ITC-04 to The Hub for scrapping
Move ITC-05 to the Hub, pickup 4x Dozers (assign one set to BMU-2) and then move back to Bravo for further deployment next turn

Move Logos TDC 1, 2 & 3 to Charlie
Transfer 1 Emergent and 1 Hammer from ITC-02-LIFT to ITC-01-LIFT, and equip to BMU-1
Load BMU-3 on to ITC-02-LIFT and equip 1 Emergent and 1 Hammer

Move ITC-01 and 02 to Delta and deploy troops, then stay in orbit and provide transport support with LIFTs

Combat
Logos focus on defending ITCs and intercepting enemy transports
Ground Troops are to push forward on all fronts, using Emergents and LIFTs as necessary.

[Carefulrogue]

Layitonthick.exe (1): Carefulrogue

[Kashyyk]

Layitonthick.exe (2): Carefulrogue, Kashyyk

[Rockeater]

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

[Madman198237]

Turn 5 Combat Phase: The Network

The defeat in orbit of Delta was unfortunate, but perhaps inevitable given how badly we were outnumbered. We were, however, able to deal quite a substantial amount of damage despite losing a ship and nearly losing the other. Our land forces, however, are stunningly capable with the introduction of just a single vehicle. Oh, and the carbine, I guess. That was pretty useful, too.

We advanced on the planet, which is what really matters. We will undoubtedly be back to complete and total victory soon!

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It's the design phase and once again you have two designs to work on!
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Spoiler: The Network Control (click to show/hide)

The Hub: 10/0/0 (YOURS/UNCLAIMED/ENEMY)
  -  Nothing
A: 10/0/0
  -  Nothing
B: 10/0/0
  -  ITC-05
    -  BMU-2
    -  3x Dozer
C: 10/0/0
  -  Logos-06-TDC, Logos-07-TDC, Logos-08-TDC
D: 8/0/2
  -  BMU-4, BMU-5, BMU-1 (Emergent), BMU-3 (Emergent)
  -  Logos-02
  -  ITC-01-LIFT
  -  ITC-02-LIFT
E: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-6, BMU-7
F: 0/0/10
  -  Logos-03-TDC, Logos-04-TDC, Logos-05-TDC
G:
H:
I:
Planet 2: 0/0/10

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

Ship Production Points: 27
  6 points: 3x ITC
  2 points: 2x LIFT
  2 points: 1x [old] Logos
  9 points: 3x [old] Logos with TDC
  9 points: 3x Logos with TDC
  2 points: 1x DESTROYED Logos (Available in Turn 7 Strategy Phase)
  1 points: Unassigned

Ground Production Points: 31
  14 points: 7x BMU
  7 points: 7x Trephine
  2 points: 2x Hammer
  6 points: 2x Emergent
  4 points: 4x Dozer
  2 points: Unassigned

Units
BMU-1
  -  Trephine, Emergent, Hammer
  -  Location: Delta
BMU-2
  -  Trephine, Dozer
  -  Location: in ITC-05
BMU-3
  -  Trephine, Emergent, Hammer
  -  Location: Delta
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: Delta
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC-02-LIFT
  -  Location: Delta
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC-5
  -  Location: Bravo
  -  Contents: BMU-2, 3x Dozer
  -  Condition: Undamaged

Logos-02
  -  Location: Delta
  -  Condition: Crippled, Outdated
Logos-03-TDC
  -  Location: Foxtrot
  -  Condition: Undamaged, Outdated
Logos-04-TDC
  -  Location: Foxtrot
  -  Condition: Undamaged, Outdated
Logos-05-TDC
  -  Location: Foxtrot
  -  Condition: Undamaged, Outdated
Logos-06-TDC
  -  Location: Charlie
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Logos-07-TDC
  -  Location: Charlie
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Logos-08-TDC
  -  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

'Dozer' Magnetic Cannon: A functional combination of 40mm grenade launcher and mortar. Sights are basic but it has a Medium-Long range in mortar configuration with higher launching powers and Short-Medium range when shoulder-fired. Shells are basic explosives with a moderate payload. Functions as an auxiliary weapon.
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.

Gen. 2 Tokamak-Powered Plasma Drive: A slightly more efficient, powerful, and compact set of reactors and plasma drives for a warship. It works just a little better than the previous one, and is far better than the original TPPD. Not that that's much of an achievement. Provides a lot of power both in terms of electrical and maneuvering ability.

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)

Art3mis Precision Targeting System: An upgraded targeting suite that allows a Logos substantially more information and hitting capability against targets as compared to the baseline. Very effective against unknowing targets and capable of a limited degree of predictive firing and precision-coordinated shots amongst multiple weapons. Requires a refit.
Cost: None.

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

Tokamak: Nuclear Boogaloo: A functioning nuclear fusion reactor, producing on our first attempt, no prior attempts being on record. It requires much less expensive fuel than nuclear fission plants and so its more complicated construction does not increase its cost beyond that of a fission plant, and therefore is automatically retrofitted into any ships that are refitted or any new builds. Provides a substantial increase in power generation to any ship and removes any issues with power generation.
Provides: 2 SPP and 2 GPP

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

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