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[ConscriptFive]

Revision: "Brosh" Ship Retrofits

"I'm not being hyperbolic here.  I want you to retrofit SparkY into all our ships?"
"That's a lot.  What about, like half?"
"REFIT ALL THE THINGS!"

We shall shake make an effort to immediately replace all our old Tokamak drives on our fleet vessel.  Yeah, that sounds like alot but it's not so bad, especially if the whole modularity thing works out.  Either way, we should focus on the Peitho, Endexix, Hephaestus, and then the ITC if we can.  That may not cover "all" the ships, but it's probably good enough.  It's not like Brosh even goes outside anymore, so how would he even find out?  What Brosh doesn't know, won't kill him, eh?  Just make sure to put his name on it.  That should be enough of a distraction.

(1) "Brosh" Ship Retrofits: ConscriptFive
(1) Modular, Reconfigurable Reactor Formation; or SparkY Tetris: ConscriptFive

[Rockeater]

(2) "Brosh" Ship Retrofits: ConscriptFive, Rockeater
(2) Modular, Reconfigurable Reactor Formation; or SparkY Tetris: ConscriptFive,Rockeater

[Kashyyk]

(3) "Brosh" Ship Retrofits: ConscriptFive, Rockeater, Kashyyk
(3) Modular, Reconfigurable Reactor Formation; or SparkY Tetris: ConscriptFive, Rockeater, Kashyyk

[Carefulrogue]

(4) "Brosh" Ship Retrofits: ConscriptFive, Rockeater, Kashyyk, Carefulrogue
(4) Modular, Reconfigurable Reactor Formation; or SparkY Tetris: ConscriptFive, Rockeater, Kashyyk, Carefulrogue

[Madman198237]

Turn 10 Revision Phase: The Network

Modular, Reconfigurable Reactor Formation; or SparkY Tetris
So, the SparkY is a good piece of kit, but we've literally just designed a bunch of ships we wanted to put it in, and apparently that's gonna take a whole load of work. Thus, this particular project is focused solely on making the SparkY more retrofit friendly.

The various components of the drive will be split out and modularised into a variety of equally effective but differing shapes so that they can conform to whatever space restrictions are available on the target ship. The Magnetic Nozzle Assembly will be streamlined, to reduce wastage and thus space requirements. Finally, the requirement for a large supreme of power will be looked at. Does it really need that much, can we crib spare power from the weapon reactors as well as the main reactor?

In short, this will make a SparkY system that is smaller in size and more fluid in requirements,,  allowing us to fit it in all our ships more easily.

Modular, Reconfigurable Reactor Formation; or SparkY Tetris
Difficulty: Hard
Roll: 3 + 1 - 1 = 3 Buggy Mess

The good news is that SparkY 2 works. The bad news is that SparkY Tetris works only if you change the dictionary to alter the definition of "works" to be a bit more generous. Luckily, we've already gotten permission from the greater Network to alter the dictionary like that. We've deployed flamethrower units to hunt down any remaining physical copies of previous iterations of the dictionary to ensure that the evidence is gone.

Oh right, this is the engineering report not the social engineering report. The Tetris setup requires a fusion reactor capable of maintaining fusion despite the continual siphoning of a substantial amount of plasma to provide combat thrust, then it needs to route that plasma to the magnetic nozzle assembly as quickly as possible to reduce the number and length of magnetic "pipes" required to move it around, oh and also now we want it to come in many different and undoubtedly suboptimal shapes.

The pipes melt. The plasma cools down far too quickly, usually by heating things we don't want heated to plasma-like temperatures. Any attempt at shrinking the reactor resulted in a reaction that died quickly once the plasma was siphoned to provide thrust.

We made some progress, though. We've managed to develop a working assembly to pipe plasma around, though the shorter the distance the better for all involved, and battle damage is a continuous risk, since unlike a hit to the reactor itself, a hit to a pipe won't stop the reaction and leave everything safe, it'll just keep spraying out fusion-temperature plasma until somebody or something notices what's up.

'SparkY' Tetris Another direct fusion drive capable of extremely high thrust, but requiring a very large fusion reactor (duh) and complex magnetic nozzle assembly. Now slightly more modular, theoretically. Several laboratories were harmed in the making of this modular fusion drive. Harmed quite spectacularly, in fact.

"Brosh" Ship Retrofits
"I'm not being hyperbolic here.  I want you to retrofit SparkY into all our ships?"
"That's a lot.  What about, like half?"
"REFIT ALL THE THINGS!"

We shall shake make an effort to immediately replace all our old Tokamak drives on our fleet vessel.  Yeah, that sounds like alot but it's not so bad, especially if the whole modularity thing works out.  Either way, we should focus on the Peitho, Endexix, Hephaestus, and then the ITC if we can.  That may not cover "all" the ships, but it's probably good enough.  It's not like Brosh even goes outside anymore, so how would he even find out?  What Brosh doesn't know, won't kill him, eh?  Just make sure to put his name on it.  That should be enough of a distraction.

"Brosh" Ship Retrofits
Difficulty: Ludicrous
Roll: 2 + 4 - 3 = 3 Buggy Mess

So we worked on refitting SparkY drives onto every single ship in our fleet. Apparently the idea of this process requiring a total rebuild wasn't quite communicated clearly, though the communique in question clearly states this to be the case. Furthermore the idea that it would principally be useful in propelling a "relatively light" vessel in proportion to the size of the drive also missed. Further furthermore the idea that maybe ITCs and Peithos do not, in fact, count as "light" vessels was missed in addition to all the other problems that were evidently missed.

We tried, though. The Peitho was first in the list and so we focused all our efforts on it to make this an achievable goal. The Peitho SparkY (AKA Pitiable Sparkplug) is a version of the Peitho that rips off the aft section composed of two whole Tokamaks, all gone. In its place we've built up a truly massive fusion reactor array and drive section. It does push the Peitho to Speed 3, though. The only downsides are the increased cost from the large fusion reactor array and a slight lack of armor on certain sections of the aft hull that were drastically changed by the refit. The gaps are filled with an ablative foam but perhaps they could use some better protection than this.

No other refits were even attempted because that would've been a silly idea.

Peitho SparkY Assembled with the new SparkY 2.0 functional direct fusion drive and with some cost overruns and maybe a hint of lacking protection, the Peitho SparkY is Speed 3 and retains the firepower and maneuverability of the original.
Cost: 10 SPPs

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OK so update speed has obviously gotten worse and worse; I'm probably going to make surface combat progress much faster and space combat result in more damage in order to accelerate this.
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Spoiler: The Network Control (click to show/hide)

The Hub: 10/0/0 (YOURS/UNCLAIMED/ENEMY)
  -  Endeixi-01 "So Much For Subtlety"
A: 10/0/0
  -  ITC-05 "Prime Mover"
    -  1x Dozer
  -  ITC-01-LIFT "Cargo Cult"
B: 10/0/0
C: 10/0/0
D: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-4 (Emergent), BMU-5 (Emergent)
E: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-6, BMU-7
F: 2/0/8
  -  BMU-1, BMU-3, BMU-2
  -  Peitho-01 'Big Stick'
  -  Logos-06-TDC-ART "No More Mr Nice Guy", Logos-08-TDC-ART "Of Course I Still Love You"
G: 0/0/10
H:
I:
Planet 2: 0/0/10

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

Ship Production Points: 34
  4 points: 2x ITC
  1 points: 1x LIFT
  6 points: 2x Logos with TDC and Artemis
  5 points: 1x Endeixi
  8 points: 1x Peitho
  10 points: Unassigned

Ground Production Points: 35
  14 points: 7x BMU
  7 points: 7x Trephine
  2 points: 2x Hammer
  6 points: 2x Emergent
  4 points: 4x Dozer
  6 points: Unassigned

Units
BMU-1
  -  Trephine, Hammer, Dozer
  -  Location: Foxtrot
BMU-2
  -  Trephine, Dozer
  -  Location: Foxtrot
BMU-3
  -  Trephine, Hammer, Dozer
  -  Location: Foxtrot
BMU-4
  -  Trephine, Emergent
  -  Location: Delta
BMU-5
  -  Trephine, Emergent
  -  Location: Delta
BMU-6
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Echo
BMU-7
  -  Trephine
  -  Location: Echo

Ships
ITC-01-LIFT "Cargo Cult"
  -  Location: Alpha
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC-5 "Prime Mover"
  -  Location: Alpha
  -  Contents: 1x Dozer
  -  Condition: Undamaged

Logos-06-TDC-ART "No More Mr Nice Guy"
  -  Location: Foxtrot
  -  Condition: Badly Damaged
Logos-08-TDC-ART "Of Course I Still Love You"
  -  Location: Foxtrot
  -  Condition: Badly Damaged

Peitho-01 "Big Stick"
  -  Location: Foxtrot
  -  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

'Hephaestus' class Support Vessel: A giant cylinder with extra bits on it, the Hephaestus is capable of small updates to ships or ground equipment and serious repairs to Logos-sized vessels due to its enclosed hangar. It is not armored and its only defense is being large. Uses a lot of Bitforms, two reactors, and plenty of materials and is generally a fairly large ship, so it's expensive. However, it provides a huge capability for our fleet to stay functional on long deployments.
Cost: 4 SPP
Provides: 3 Repair Points per turn for Logos-sized vessels, 1 Repair Point for larger vessels that will not fit within its hangar.

Space Superiority Ship, Mk1, 'Peitho': Six R-4 railguns in twin turrets. Six R-5 shrapnel cannons in single mounts scattered over the hull. Heavy thermal armor concentrated in citadels and barbettes over vital spaces. Massive twin Tokamak powerplant and plasma drive assembly. High speed, decent enough maneuverability for its size. Basic sensors. Integrated Artemis fire control. Robo-coffee dispensers in three different places on the bridge.
Cost: 8 SPP

FASS Mk. 2 'Endeixi': A comprehensive upgrade to the Logos style of warship that has one overpowered 100mm version of the R-4 in the limited forwards arc, two more in standard large arc positions, and a Gen 2 TPPD that provides it with good speed, though thoroughly slower and less maneuverable than a standard Logos. More maneuverable than a Peitho, however, and equipped with Heavy thermal armor around the essential systems. Not very strong against kinetic damage, however.
Cost: 5 SPP

Hephaestus SV "REPAIR": An improved Hephaestus capable of more repairs, sharing the cylindrical shape and general attributes of the original. It uses additional Bitforms and more focused repair algorithms, rendering it slightly more expensive but far more capable. It would be less efficient if faced with radically different damage or ships not based on present ones, but not by much.
Cost: 5 SPP
Provides: 4 Repair Points per turn for Logos-sized vessels, 2 Repair Points for larger vessels that will not fit within its hangar.

Peitho SparkY Assembled with the new SparkY 2.0 functional direct fusion drive and with some cost overruns and maybe a hint of lacking protection, the Peitho SparkY is Speed 3 and retains the firepower and maneuverability of the original.
Cost: 10 SPPs

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. Now includes 4-round magazine and semiautomatic function.
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. Now includes 4-round magazine and semiautomatic function.
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. Now includes 4-round magazine and semiautomatic function.
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" 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
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.

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.

R-5 Shrapnel Cannon: A bigger but lower-velocity railgun capable of firing chaff rounds, shrapnel or canister shot, and of course solid shot. Fires faster than the R-4 with less armor piercing capability due to its lower velocity, but lower energy requirements. Can lay down a laser- and radar-reflecting chaff barrage to interfere with weapons and sensors both, capable of shooting down missiles with great precision when paired with Artemis tracking. Same cost as the R-4.

Plasma Laser Deflection System: Generates a bowl-shaped shield of plasma in front of an accelerating warship. Effectively reduces reactor power output by a moderate amount and is lost when hit by too much laser fire or when the ship changes direction or if you'd like to use your direct plasma drive or weapons at full speed and power.
Cost: +2 SPP to a Logos' or Endeixi's base cost to add PLDS
+4 SPP to a Peitho's base cost to add (more powerful but mostly larger) PLDS
+3 SPP to add a sufficiently huge system to an ITC (um....why would you even bother?)

"Deadspace" Damage Control Locker: Adds additional repair capabilities to Logos, mostly able to keep the crew alive and maybe, just maybe, keep the ship functional longer in combat. Best used to preserve a ship from total destruction.
Cost: Free!

'SparkY' 2: Fusion Bogaloo: A new direct fusion drive capable of extremely high thrust, but requiring a very large fusion reactor (duh) and complex magnetic nozzle assembly. No (additional) laboratories were harmed in the making of this (specific pattern of) advanced fusion drive.

S-40 Plasma Caster 'Joiner': A new breed of shipboard weapon that weaponizes the plasma from our starships' main fusion reactors. It fires a beam of ions and electrons towards targets, that does minor physical damage on impact almost equal to the original Oculus laser's damage, but arrives much faster than a standard kinetic round and can scramble electronic components or blind nearby sensor nodes even without a direct hit.

'SparkY' Tetris Another direct fusion drive capable of extremely high thrust, but requiring a very large fusion reactor (duh) and complex magnetic nozzle assembly. Now slightly more modular, theoretically. Several laboratories were harmed in the making of this modular fusion drive. Harmed quite spectacularly, in fact.

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

Autonomous Nanoscale Terrestrial Scavengers: Despite their initial failings, ANTS units have been substantially refitted and are now capable of extracting 1 SPP from Planet Alpha. This is far from the total value available there, or elsewhere in the system. Further improvements to support structures in an ANTS "colony" or other useful adaptations would greatly improve the yields.
Provides: 1 SPP

Delta Lofstrum Loop: Several huge pieces of broken metal from a scale model, some crushed hopes and torn dreams.
Provides: Disappointment.

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

Array

[Carefulrogue]

Pending retaliation from the technate for the losses we've suffered, it is imperative to get our forces on the frontline refit and repaired.  As such, commissions have been issued for taking the Hephaestus from merely being an expensive idea, to a vessel to serve until the debt of it's development is paid. 

Shipyards are tooled up and forces assembled as ITCs are scheduled to arrive in orbit. 
Commissioned from one shipyard, the Hephaestus class support vessel, christened the "Never Give You Up" is put into service at last.  (4SPP)
Commissioned from another, an Endexi class vessel named "Blunt Object" is put into service. 


"Never Give You Up," "Blunt Object," and "So Much For Subtlety" proceed to planet Charlie routing through Alpha, and regroup at the edge of the system, awaiting supplies, and looking threatening. 

The transports arrive in orbit, and begin the loading of BMU-8 equipped with Trephines and Hammers, and taking on cargo containers of additional hammers to distribute to the forces fighting at F who lack the weaponry.  When loaded, the transports turn around and proceed to Alpha. 

"No More Mr Nice Guy" is ordered to Charlie to seek repairs from the "Never Give You Up" when it arrives in the system. 

The remaining Logos and Peitho are to remain in the system, and interdict forces that are equal in number and power.  If met by outnumbering forces, they are to keep distance. 

[ConscriptFive]

*sigh*

So to summarize our turn thus far, we got a plasma cannon that we haven't installed on anything, and we STILL don't have speed 3 (except for a new version of the Peitho that might make it explode.)

So in terms of deployment, we dropped off our boys on F and our ITC's are almost back at the Hub.  Our only Peitho is holding the orbit with two obsolete Logos each with one foot in the grave.  We just made an Endeixi, but without SPD 3, it's two turns out from F.

On the upside, their magical-bullshit-aircraft-that-fight-in-space-but-don't-take-damage-like-a-spaceship were useful in slowing our invasion landings, but should be less effective now we've got beachheads.  (GM alluded to this five months ago.)  Also, our battle losses from long ago finally coughed up their SPP.  And our ITC's are finally home to load those idle 6 GPP.

That being said...

Overall concept is to finish the ground push on F, to deny OPFOR its resources.

Peitho holds the line in orbit at F, while the two badly damaged and obsolete Logos withdraw C to A.  (We cannot afford to lose those 6 SPP for so many turns.)  The new Endexi pushes to C, staging for F.  Both ITC's return to Hub.  ITC-05 loads reinforcements and turns back around to A.  They are joined on the way out by a newly produced Endexi and a Hephaestus RV.  ITC-01-LIFT stands by at the Hub.

Given the 'emergence' of our adversaries Slaughterfields, our Emergent squadrons are costly deathtraps (6GPP total!).  Unfortunately, we don't have transports headed out there anytime soon.  As painful at it is, we should destroy them before our adversary does.  They'll be a loss, but better now, than later.

In terms of production, 9 SPP (of 10) are spent on an Endeixi and a Hephaestus RV.  5 GPP (of 6) are spent producing a new BMU-8 with new Trephines and Hammers.  (Finally using that Dozer!)  They'll also pack an additional set of Hammers for eventual delivery to BMU-2 on Foxtrot.

Endstate:

F: Peitho, with 3 BMU's on surface
E: 2 BMU's
D: 2 BMU's (with scrapped Emergents)
C: 2 Endexi and one Heph RV in transit to F
B: nothing
A: 2 badly damaged Logos enroute to Hub, 1 loaded ITC in transit to F
Hub: 1 ITC-LIFT standing by
(1SPP and 1GPP unspent)

[Carefulrogue]

Hammer.exe (0):
Plan Finish It (1): Carefulrogue,

[ConscriptFive]

Hammer.exe (0):
Plan Finish It (2): Carefulrogue, ConscriptFive

[Kashyyk]

Hammer.exe (0):
Plan Finish It (3): Carefulrogue, ConscriptFive, Kashyyk
-- But use Hammer.exe for new ship names(1): Kashyyk

[Rockeater]

Hammer.exe (0):
Plan Finish It (4): Carefulrogue, ConscriptFive, Kashyyk, Rockeater
-- But use Hammer.exe for new ship names(2): Kashyyk, Rockeater

[/quote]

[Carefulrogue]

Hammer.exe (0):
Plan Finish It (4): Carefulrogue, ConscriptFive, Kashyyk, Rockeater
-- But use Hammer.exe for new ship names(3): Kashyyk, Rockeater, Carefulrogue

[ConscriptFive]

Everbody wins!

Hammer.exe (0):
Plan Finish It (4): Carefulrogue, ConscriptFive, Kashyyk, Rockeater
-- But use Hammer.exe for new ship names(4): Kashyyk, Rockeater, Carefulrogue, ConscriptFive

[Carefulrogue]

Our past forays into air combat frames have been utter disappointments.  As the scrapped Emergents has evidenced.  While they had benefits, their overall weakness as we face down real airpower is a stunning reminder of the failure of that particular panel of designers.  We need something that can operate on the same or superior level in the same role.

The craft in question is a swept wing aircraft with 2 wing hardpoints and 1 belly hardpoint, as well as a chain railgun in the nose, expected to fire 20mm slugs at 1,000rpm.  The hardpoints could be wired in order to launch missile or bomb at air or ground targets.  Or utilized as external fuel tanks. 

However, the entire airframe is built for maneuverability.  The hardpoints are of secondary consideration, and would come with covers to cut out any drag the exposed connectors may generate, minimal as it may be.  Internal oxygen tanks would provide oxidizer for the fuel, to allow operation in atmospheres without sufficient oxygen, and allow for hypersonic flight.

EDIT: Clarity edits made
EDIT2: nose cannon changes.  Credit to C5 for remembering, and credit to Kashyyk for making the original design.

[Kashyyk]

We have given the Delta Lofstrom team plenty of time and funding to achieve their results, and all they have offered is abject failure. The odds of this happening naturally is 1.5%, and so command has mandated a full audit of activities. All personnel will be reviewed, decisions analysed and results scrutinised. We're not saying some of them have been compomised, just heavily implying it.

Once any negative assets have been removed, the team will no doubt complete this task with ease.

((Mechanically, this is another go at the Delta Lofstrom Loop, I just wanted something more interesting than "do it again but better"))