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[Detoxicated]

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
Lake Effect:
SECS:
Force Weaponry:

[Jilladilla]

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: (2) TricMagic, Jilladilla
Lake Effect:
SECS:
Force Weaponry:

[Blood_Librarian]

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: (3) TricMagic, Jilladilla, Blood_librarian
Lake Effect:
SECS:
Force Weaponry:

[Happerry]

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: (4) TricMagic, Jilladilla, Blood_librarian, Happerry
Lake Effect:
SECS:
Force Weaponry:

[Detoxicated]

Ev-Cannon Attachment: ()
Evrasium Punchfield
Heatseeking Missile Swarm Array: (0) Detoxicated
Evrasium Deflection Field:
Modular Space Weaponry: (1) Detoxicated
Counter Movement Calculation Unit UCMC
RAKE Missile: (5) TricMagic, Jilladilla, Blood_librarian, Happerry, Detoxicated
Lake Effect:
SECS:
Force Weaponry:

We have two Research Credits. So ging with modular Space Weaponry would Go Well with the New Missile type

[Jilladilla]

Right! To reiterate: We apparently have 2 Research Credits! (1 for making a spaceship, 1 for winning lore contest)

Whether or not to start spending is up to you guys; but I'm making sure the option is known. I'm personally leaning on 'yes' because our weapons appear to be lackluster in comparison to theirs.

[TricMagic]

Ev-Cannon Attachment: ()
Evrasium Punchfield
Heatseeking Missile Swarm Array: (0) Detoxicated
Evrasium Deflection Field:
Modular Space Weaponry: (1) Detoxicated
Counter Movement Calculation Unit UCMC
RAKE Missile: (5) TricMagic, Jilladilla, Blood_librarian, Happerry, Detoxicated
Use Research Credit: (1) TricMagic
Lake Effect:
SECS:
Force Weaponry:

Assuming this goes real well, we can turn this into other ground-based weapons. Or just plant a Rake Missile System on a planet with some adjustments.

[Detoxicated]

Ev-Cannon Attachment: ()
Evrasium Punchfield
Heatseeking Missile Swarm Array: (0)
Evrasium Deflection Field:
Modular Space Weaponry: (1) Detoxicated
Counter Movement Calculation Unit UCMC
RAKE Missile: (5) TricMagic, Jilladilla, Blood_librarian, Happerry, Detoxicated
Lake Effect:
SECS:
Force Weaponry:

Use Research Credit: (2) TricMagic, Detoxicated

[Jilladilla]

As no one gave me a reason to not use a Research Credit here and knock me off the fence, I'm going for it.

Ev-Cannon Attachment: ()
Evrasium Punchfield
Heatseeking Missile Swarm Array: (0)
Evrasium Deflection Field:
Modular Space Weaponry: (1) Detoxicated
Counter Movement Calculation Unit UCMC
RAKE Missile: (5) TricMagic, Jilladilla, Blood_librarian, Happerry, Detoxicated
Lake Effect:
SECS:
Force Weaponry:

Use Research Credit: (3) TricMagic, Detoxicated, Jilladilla

[Detoxicated]

Hey how about discussing what to ist IT for then.

[Madman198237]

Turn 3 Design Phase: Planetary Technate

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.

Rocket Assisted Kinetic-Evrasium Missile (RAKE)
Difficulty: Hard
Oops, forgot that you voted to use a RC on it.
Roll: 1 + 2 - 1 = 2 Utter Failure

We regretfully report the total loss of the Sublevel 2 testing rooms, as well as the entirety of Sublevel 3. And 4. And also the basement. Don't mind the smell, we're pretty sure it's only a small sewage leak.

And the parking garage, in case you were wondering about all those car alarms.

And the ice cream machine, which is why it has sounded like the building has been weeping for the past eight hours.


Sometimes, things just don't go as planned. Sometimes you fire a laser at a rock and the rock gets angry, turns green, gets really big, and smashes everything. Although the one person who claimed that the Evrasium test article did anything like that is severely concussed and may in fact have suffered brain death before being resuscitated, so don't trust what he says. The security camera footage shows the RAKE team assembled to test their theory that destroying Evrasium via laser would release all its energy at once, in one big burst. It worked, unfortunately it worked so well that one member of the team was vaporized and the punch knocked out a support column. And also broke the team lead's jaw. With the loss of the lab, most of the progress on the project is gone and the team is going to need some months to recover from, well, getting punched by an angry rock.

Roll: 2 + 4 - 1: 5 Average

The Rocket-Assisted Kinetic-Evrasium missile is a really horribly named device that is fairly effective at providing a different sort of damage than a usual weapon might deal. Namely, a laser (at the front of the missile pointed backwards, as per how Evrasium punches are oriented) discharges enough energy to disintegrate the matrix and release all or almost all of the Evrasium crystal's kinetic energy at once. The missile's guidance is fairly rudimentary and the range of the punch is not a meaningful extension to the missile's range or its ability to resist hostile flak, but the energy released is quite substantial and can even hit things inside the target ship.

Most of our effort was focused on the Evrasium device, and so the rest of the missile is pretty unremarkable. It is somewhat slow, not very maneuverable, and its solid rocket motor cannot be throttled up or down, making it relatively easy to hit. Either way, we hope that once we've fitted it to one of our warships it will work pretty well at taking out hostile vessels.

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Revision phase, revise something. Anything.
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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.

Rocket-Assisted Kinetic-Evrasium Missile (RAKE Missile): A basic missile that is uses Evrasium disintegration to deal damage behind an enemy's armor protection. Slow, less than maneuverable, and easy to hit at best.

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.

[VoidSlayer]

SIAERA Guidance system upgrade

The laser guidance system is improved with a rocket that can more accurately see the laser point, better machining on control surfaces for smoother aerodynamics and a stronger and more focused laser so it can be effective at a greater distance.  This should allow better reaction time at medium and close range as well as accuracy as long range.

Might as well get some experience with missile guidance systems for next time we make a missile system.

[TricMagic]

Grid Guidance System

What happens when you make a game to get some of the craziest and best pilots this side of the Galaxy? A lot of data that can then be used to create a rudimentary adaptive system.

Meet GG, the basic answer whenever you need an automatic control. Based on the data input, you can get something that can make decisions based upon changing conditions.

In this case, the Data Pattern is taking in LIDAR data to hit a ship in the midst of space, along with giving the rocket the ability to control the output and a basic adjustment system.

Note GG can only adjust to things it can notice in it's surroundings, and only has the evasive maneuvers we program into it from data we've collected. It can and will however aim at the enemy ship extremely well, at least.

Note that GG has no incoming or outgoing data streams or signals. It's just a program to control something. For this, something meant for hitting the enemy and adjusting by itself to do so.

Please note that for clarity purposes so the work just doesn't get lost somewhere, we are updating the RAKE to use GG.

SIAERA Guidance system upgrade: ()
Grid Guidance System: (1) TricMagic

[Happerry]

Chord MSFSC Expanded Armament Revision
Field reports state that the Chord is, well, somewhat underarmed for it's size. The solution to that is simple. Add more lasers! As such, this revision project is meant to add additional lasers to the Chord, perhaps two or three or even more, until it no longer counts as being under-armed for its size. As well, a front mounted missile launcher is planned to be added to the design, carrying the new RAKE missiles.

SIAERA Guidance system upgrade: ()
Grid Guidance System: (1) TricMagic
Chord MSFSC Expanded Armament Revision: (1) Happerry

[Jilladilla]

SIAERA Guidance system upgrade: ()
Grid Guidance System: (1) TricMagic
Chord MSFSC Expanded Armament Revision: (2) Happerry, Jilladilla