Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Blood_Librarian]

Everything to G (0):
Spread the Firepower (0):
Calculated Split (1): Blood_Librarian

[m1895]

Everything to G (0):
Spread the Firepower (0):
Calculated Split (2): Blood_Librarian, m1895

[NUKE9.13]

Solid logic.

Everything to G (0):
Spread the Firepower (0):
Calculated Split (3): Blood_Librarian, m1895, NUKE9.13

[Madman198237]

Turn 2 Combat Phase: Planetary Technate


Planet D
The enemy is more maneuverable and their projectile weapons pack a very painful punch and longer range than the inaccurate Oculus lasers can reach out to. Our two-engine system forces us to take more time to begin and complete maneuvers, adding vulnerability we desperately don't need, times when it is difficult to maneuver out of a two-dimensional plane without undue rotation. Our ships are, however, undoubtedly more durable, as well as being fifteen meters longer and substantially larger. We can soak up more damage, but the enemy very nearly deals out enough additional damage to win every fight.

After the deadly fight in orbit, occupation proceeds apace, the friendly Chord's aggressive actions having kept the landing troops safe. They struggle across the surface, relying on transport from shuttles from island to island. Your generals predict that this would be a deciding unpleasant weakness should the enemy assault this planet. The island-hopping is otherwise nothing but standard military tedium. Terrain Control: 4/10


Planet F
The story is the same over Planet D; overconfidence and a desire to close with the enemy resulted in the crippling of a Chord and serious damage to one of the others. However, a three-to-one advantage cannot be overcome very easily, and there was no escape for the enemy vessel which seemed determined to protect its ITC.

On the ground, the soldiers advance quickly and secure and properly map and survey almost half the planet. Terrain Control: 4/10


Your soldiers advance as expected on other planets, no disruptions are reported. Your troops are adapting quite rapidly to the specific conditions of each planet.

----
As ever, please tell me if I've missed anything or if I need to change anything. Somebody please tell me what your homeworld's name is so I can put it in the spoilers.
----

Spoiler: Planetary Technate Control (click to show/hide)

The Hub: 0/10
A:
B:
C:
D: 4/10
  -  Chord #4, ITC #1
  -  BMU-4 'Elite'
E:
F: 4/10
  -  ITC #2, ITC #3, Chord #1, Chord #2, Chord #3
  -  BMU-5 'Elite', BMU-6 'Elite'
G: 8/10
  -  BMU-3 'Elite'
H: 8/10
  -  BMU-1 Basic
I: 8/10
  -  BMU-2 Basic
Planet 2: 10/10

Spoiler: Planetary Technate 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. Now improved, the modernized ITC is Speed 2, uses OKSPD engines and an AER reactor, is no longer prone to malfunctions of most sorts, is fairly durable though still unarmored, and still uses 1-TC rocket shuttles. Slightly smaller and harder to hit and also follows your nation's chosen philosophy for appearances...whatever that is. Has one Oculus laser mount for self defense.
Cost: 2 SPP

Chord MSFSC: A capable, though oversized, ship carrying 3 Oculus lasers. Its Medium armor makes it very survivable, but that and its Evrasium use give it a high cost for its size.
Cost: 3 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 COMPLETELY OBSOLETE

Plastic Universal Machine Pistol: A 30-round magazine Plastic Pistol-shaped machine pistol with a forwards handgrip and generally good qualities as opposed to bad. Issued to all troops for use in close quarters where SIAERA is useless.
Cost: Cheap

Squad-Integrated All-Environment Rocket Armaments: A 20mm guided rocket launcher. Guidance works OK, rockets work OK. Terrible in close quarters, low damage at Short range, lethal and lightly guided at Medium range, lightly armor piercing (if minimally guided) at Long range, otherwise moderately guided at Long range.
Cost: 1 GPP

Infantry 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

Combat EVA Suit: A ballistics-resistant well protected and maneuverable and relatively light EVA suit.
Cost: 1 GPP

Spacecraft Components
Eyebite MCLC: A self-destroying tank of fluoride compounds. Warning: DO NOT USE, DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY MAY OCCUR.
Cost: You have got to be kidding me, right? COMPLETELY OBSOLETE

Oculus Hardpoint-Mountable Chemical Laser: A reasonable red-wavelength laser ball turret with an attached extra sensor component, a direct connection to the ship's laser chemical reservoir, and a generally decent capabilities list. Requires a spacecraft to mount.

Kinetic Storage Drive: Remarkably effective at occasionally self-destructing. Use not recommended, requires a ship (which you don't have). COMPLETELY OBSOLETE.

Overhauled Kinetic Storage Power Drive: An effective Speed 2 drive. Makes physicists cry to Newton, who is powerless to help them. Fairly expensive due to consumption of Evrasium.

Other
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)

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.

Aggravated Evrasium Reactor: Using the remarkable properties of Evrasium, this device extracts kinetic energy by shining laser light on a crystal matrix, which then punches the crap out of a set of turbines, generating power.
Provides: 2 SPP

Evrasium Production Industrial Center: A huge mining and industrial complex geared only towards extracting Evrasium. A very impressive industrial project, for sure, but it has a myriad of issues that will need to be resolved before it becomes a truly practical object.
Provides: Cost bonus to things that use very large amounts of Evrasium.

Mineral Appraisal & Transport System: A mediocre effort to extract valuable materials from EPIC's castoff material AND secure the shipment problem, it accomplishes neither.
Provides: A lot of disappointment, inroads on the path to reclaiming EPIC castoff material.

Spoiler: Planetary Technate Logistics (click to show/hide)

Ship Production Points: 18
  0 points: Unassigned.
  12 Points: 4 Chords
  6 Points: 3 ITCs

Ground Production Points: 20
  0 points: Unassigned
  16 points: 6x BMU, 4x SIAERA, 4x CEVAS

Units
BMU-1 Basic
  -  Nope!
  -  H
BMU-2 Basic
  -  Nope!
  -  I
BMU-3 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  G
BMU-4 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  D
BMU-5 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  F
BMU-6 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  F

Ships
ITC #1
  -  Location: D
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC #2
  -  Location: F
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC #3
  -  Location: F
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Chord #4
  -  Location: D
  -  Condition: Badly Damaged
Squadron 1:
  -  Chord #1: Crippled
  -  Chord #2: Damaged
  -  Chord #3: Undamaged
  -  Location: F

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

1x Research Credit (finished combat spacecraft)
1x Research Credit (won lore contest)

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.

[TricMagic]

Ev-Cannon Attachment

The Ev-Cannon is a turret fed with a specialty shell. These shells can be fired at a target and opened once a target is within range. At which point, the front of the shell opens, it's frontal plates popping off through a burst of air pressure. Inside this shell is an Evarsium ore.

Space is an empty place, but light is constantly shining from light-years away. Each star is in itself a source of light that is constantly shining on us. And with the shell opened, the Evarsium reacts to punch at everything in front of it. This effectively makes these shells force-bombs that can tear through ships with pure kinetic destruction.

These shells have two ways to determine a target. Remote detonation, and LIDAR. Once a target is within effective range(or it is decided it will be remotely detonated and then activated that way), it activates the air-valve to pop the front of the shell into four pieces.

The cannon itself fires these shells through plain explosives stored in the bottom of the shell, and can auto-reload up to twelve from it's stock. Likewise, each shell has a powerful short-range bomb implanted in the Evarsium which will trigger if enough force acts upon it to turn the Evarsium to dust immediately. This is mostly for safety should the Shells ever be struck enough to cause them to break. This will reduce them to being unable to destroy our own ship in such a situation.

The Ev-Cannon Attachment is also capable of being aimed from the computers controls, though the turret itself mechanically cannot turn to ever be on firing line with our own ship.

Ev-Cannon Attachment: (1) TricMagic

For a long range weapon that will punch them to death. Quite literally.

[m1895]

Evrasium Punchfield

Our research into Evrasium facetting has given us a peculiar new system to work with.
The Punchfield's facetting gives it the unique ability to "store" punches in a vacuum until an object passes through it.

[Detoxicated]

Heatseeking Missile Swarm Array
Our scientists have taken the theories aus Well as technologies from our SIAERA and tried to reimagine them for space Combat. By upsizing the rockets to 2,7m length and giving them a simple but efficient heatseeking system the swarm missiles can follow laser beams.
The missiles are equipped with conventional variations of TNT as more time was spend in developing a guidance system For far distances.

[Jilladilla]

Some design suggestions:

Evrasium Deflection Field
As we learned recently, 'The Network' utilizes potent kinetic rounds as their weapon of choice in spacecraft. As we know, we can induce Evrasium to project force remotely in a specific direction at a specific distance. The Evrasium Deflection Shield is our answer to the former using the latter.

The core of the device is a crystal of Evrasium, cut specifically so that its projected force manifests at roughly a certain distance, and with a measure of tolerance, enough so that if there is nothing closer to its predefined point of origin, the projected force will be grounded into the hull of the craft; as precision in this instance is not a boon, and so that in the event of there being no projectiles to deflect, the generally far more resilient hull can take the blow instead of the valuable and fragile Evrasium crystal.

When activated, a generally low power laser (closer to a laser pointer that could eventually cause minor burns than an Oculus, really) mounted on a constantly rotating apparatus fires; causing the crystal to nigh constantly project force centered in front of the craft at a constantly rotating perpendicular angle. While active, it should exert its force on whatever is closest to this centerpoint; making any physical projectiles crossing through the field subject to having their courses deflected by the Evrasium Crystal's projected force. While perhaps not 100% effective, it should cause some attacks that would otherwise strike our craft to miss, and those that would strike dead center to instead score a grazing strike.


Other Design To Come Soon(tm)

[Detoxicated]

Modular Space Weaponry
By using a standarized System of weapon programming as Well as connectivity Points and sizes we have accompliahed to easily Change Out Out spaceship weapons between Battle phases.

To accomplish this each weapon system is divided in compartments. These compartments are loading bay, guidance Systems and turret. By standarizing the Layout repair becomes easier the Crew knows intuitionally where they have to Go and also Exchange of Systems becomes easier.

Counter Movement Calculation Unit UCMC
A System to calculate where the enemy Most likely will move next. This projectory calculator works with the weapons systems to improvw their AIM.

[Detoxicated]

Ev-Cannon Attachment: (1) TricMagic
Evrasium Punchfield
Heatseeking Missile Swarm Array: (1) Detoxicated
Evrasium Deflection Field:
Modular Space Weaponry: (1) Detoxicated
Counter Movement Calculation Unit UCMC

[Jilladilla]

The other design I promised is here!

Rocket Assisted Kinetic-Evrasium Missile (The RAKE Missile)
Thoughts of using Evrasium to strike at hostile craft has been an old idea. Unfortunately, the difficulty in getting Evrasium to project at the ranges space combat involves was a major barrier to these schools of thought. At least, until the RAKE was drawn up. The RAKE has a combined Chemical Laser/Evrasium Crystal warhead, with the small-ish Crystal modulated to project force at roughly a specific location. When the RAKE reaches the point that the target is roughly at that location relative to the missile; the chemical laser fires its single shot, completely consuming the Evrasium crystal in a beam of light; and releasing its energy all in one go; slamming the hostile craft with a great amount of force. If construction of the warhead allows, the laser should be orientated to also fire forwards, so that after consuming the crystal and front of the RAKE, the laser can then add insult to injury. It's hopeful that as the missile does not need to make physical contact and can affect the target from a distance, it would be subject to less close-in point defense than a more conventional missile.

[TricMagic]

Laser Assimilated Kinetic Energy (The LAKE Effect)

While testing was occurring in making use of Evrasium with lasers, which is totally not some harebrained idea a cut Evrasium crystal was consumed by a powerful laser. It proceeded to tear straight through the wall, the other wall, the rest of the walls, and the buildings behind it, before finally coming to a stop some 10 miles away in the sky.

Investigation is going on as to why they chose a place in the city to due the testing, but the results were taken to an actual weapons testing facility. Results through a slow-motion camera showed that the Chemical Laser entered the cut Evrasium Crystal, and kept on going straight through it without any deviation as the crystal itself disappeared in the process. Very quickly in fact.

From this and other tests, it was concluded that if the laser was powerful enough, it could completely consume the Evrasium and gain that crystal's kinetic energy. Which then ended up turning the laser into a kinetic weapon to go along with it's usual effects. Smaller crystals required less power, while larger ones required more. In both cases, they showed a type of piercing effect with the core of the laser having more kinetic force than it's edges. The light itself maintained it's shape in atmosphere. Testing in vacuum conditions a piece of scrap showed this not to be the case in space however, with the laser tearing apart the metal around the impact point in the absence of air before continuing onward.

This has been dubbed the LAKE effect, because of the GRID's acronym department. Still, we've made a RAKE Missile to take advantage of this straightforward delivery of laser-applied kinetic force.

See attached RAKE design.

[Detoxicated]

Spacecraft Evasion Computer System (SECS)
By adding several smaller engines to our spaceship, in Combination with a specially designed Computer System our scientists managed to give our spacecraft the ability to adjust positioning Last Minute before enemy Weaponry can Strike. By using camera Data and advanced projectile calculating algorithms our ship is able to create evasive Last Minute Plans which utilize the aforementioned smaller engines to adjust spaceship positioning. Though this WE have managed to lessen damage to our ships.

[Blood_Librarian]

Force Weaponry

Force weaponry represents a concentrated effort to categorize the utilized ontological definition of Evasrium weaponry.

Evrasium "punches" are directed energetic blasts of a now definied set of particles and emission fields that essentially push an object with a rather large amount of force. On the onset of our creation of Evrasium systems, we have several problems where the crystal would myseriously launch it self forward rather than punching the object we intended to have moved.

Force Weaponry works by exciting an array of very small crystalline bolt-shaped Evrasium cores, such that emission of energy is emitted, and then caught by a special ionic field emitted by a high power laser. This laser than fires out of the weapon and into the enemy.

It's equivalent to an electrolaser, where the power of the laser is only just enough to deliver the kinetic force.

[TricMagic]

Ev-Cannon Attachment: ()
Evrasium Punchfield
Heatseeking Missile Swarm Array: (1) Detoxicated
Evrasium Deflection Field:
Modular Space Weaponry: (1) Detoxicated
Counter Movement Calculation Unit UCMC
RAKE Missile: (1) TricMagic