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[m1895]

SIAERA Guidance system upgrade: ()
Grid Guidance System: (1) TricMagic
Chord MSFSC Expanded Armament Revision: (3) Happerry, Jilladilla, m1895

[Detoxicated]

SIAERA Guidance system upgrade: ()
Grid Guidance System: (1) TricMagic
Chord MSFSC Expanded Armament Revision: (4) Happerry, Jilladilla, m1895 , detoxicated

[Madman198237]

Turn 3 Revision Phase: Planetary Technate

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.

Chord MSFCC Expanded Armament Revision
Difficulty: Hard
Roll: 3 + 1 - 1 = 3 Buggy Mess

It turns out that the Technate cannot into space today. A glitched piece of code accidentally accessed the wrong part of the Grid and, well, it caused the "preliminary integration testing assembly" to "discharge" a "subscale munitions capability demonstrator unit" which, as far as we can tell, means "the interns were misusing military funding to produce a fireworks display and accidentally fired a miniaturized RAKE missile somebody built and turned into a firework." The resulting incident involved a high-ranking politician's vehicle and the missile's badly tuned target-tracking system, and resulted in the project losing all funding (and several interns). So the installation of a RAKE launcher and missiles in the Chord...didn't really happen, however we DID manage to add another hardpoint to the Chord. It's halfway down what might usually be considered the "rear" of the Chord and is generally considered to have been a mediocre improvement.

Perhaps if we tried again, but did not allow additional budget for test components?

[Would you guys even refer to officials as politicians? your government is mystifyingly complicated and also completely illogical for running a cohesive war effort, i.e. participating in an Arms Race. So, good job? You've successfully broken the mold with regards to "just making a nation for your team to be".]

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It is now the strategy phase. Begin strategizing. Quickly, if you can, that way I could run the full update really soon.
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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 in good spots and 1 in a poor spot, if we really want to for some reason. 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.

[Blood_Librarian]

We're too bsy fighting each other to make a cohesive effort, otherwise we would've smashed the enemy already.


As for a plan, well, that is patently obvious.

ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK

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

GM: Please replace the "Nope!"  for our units equipment with the statement "No Equipment Equipped" to prevent confusion

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
  -  Objective: Move back, REARM&RESUPPLY @ HOMEWORLD (2)
ITC #2
  -  Location: F
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
  -  Objective: Move back, REARM&RESUPPLY @ HOMEWORLD (2)
ITC #3
  -  Location: F
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
  -  Objective: Move back, REARM&RESUPPLY @ HOMEWORLD (2)
Chord #4
  -  Location: D
  -  Condition: Badly Damaged
  -  Objective: Move back, REARM&RESUPPLY @ HOMEWORLD (2)
Squadron 1:
  -  Chord #1: Crippled
  -  Chord #2: Damaged
  -  Chord #3: Undamaged
  -  Location: F
  -  Objective: SPLIT SQUADRON!: Chord #1, Chord #2 move INBOUND (2), Chord #3 STANDBY, patrol


Plan notes: There is not a lot of attacking, for we are re-arming and resupplying to ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK.

AAA (1): Blood_Librarian

[TricMagic]

Glorious.

AAA (1): Blood_Librarian, TricMagic

[Happerry]

AAA (2): Blood_Librarian, TricMagic, Happerry

[m1895]

AAA (4): Blood_Librarian, TricMagic, Happerry, m1895

[Madman198237]

Turn 3 Combat Phase: Planetary Technate

With the first contact with enemy ground forces, we have noted that, while superior at Close and equal at Long ranges, we are rather disadvantages in Medium range, where SIAERA projectiles are not incredibly powerful nor well guided, and where our armor becomes entirely ineffective against full-power railgun rounds. Lower-power rounds can of course still be blocked and glancing blows may not be lethal, but our soldiers must generally do whatever they can to avoid being caught out at Medium ranges. The enemy is presently winning due mostly to their ability to pick and choose fights with shuttle transport, we believe that without that ability, and without the unmapped, presently empty terrain, their advances will grind to a halt and perhaps even turn around. Assuming we can even out that whole "outnumbered two to one" issue, of course.

Planet F is nearly under complete Technate control, and if all goes well we will receive resources from it beginning next season.

Planets G, H, and I are all now under Technate control, and their resources have been made available to our construction efforts.

In addition, Command has unanimously voted to increase your funding for design and engineering, in an attempt to rectify the various issues we have suffered over the past seasons.

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It is now the Design Phase. You have (SURPRISE) TWO designs, since I want to see what happens in an AR when all your actions are doubled and you are thus free to try and do things you wouldn't normally do. Also it should make this game feel like more is getting accomplished, which I believe to be a good way to make sure that everyone stays at least partially interested even when my schedule and the two teams' paces don't line up and end up delaying updates.
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Spoiler: Planetary Technate Control (click to show/hide)

The Hub: 0/0/10 (YOURS/UNCLAIMED/ENEMY)
A:
B:
C:
D: 6/1/3
  -  BMU-4 'Elite'
E:
F: 8/2/0
  -  Chord #3
  -  BMU-5 'Elite', BMU-6 'Elite'
G: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-3 'Elite'
H: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-1 Basic
I: 10/0/0
  -  ITC #1, ITC #2, ITC #3, Chord #1, Chord #2, Chord #4 (all headed for Planet 2, but only at Speed 2)
  -  BMU-2 Basic
Planet 2: 10/0/0

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

Ship Production Points: 25
  7 points: Unassigned.
  12 Points: 4 Chords
  6 Points: 3 ITCs

Ground Production Points: 27
  11 points: Unassigned
  16 points: 6x BMU, 4x SIAERA, 4x CEVAS

Units
BMU-1 Basic
  -  No unusual equipment
  -  H
BMU-2 Basic
  -  No unusual equipment
  -  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: I
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC #2
  -  Location: I
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC #3
  -  Location: I
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Chord #1
  -  Location: I
  -  Condition: Crippled
Chord #2:
  -  Location: I
  -  Condition: Damaged
Chord #3:
  -  Location: F
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Chord #4
  -  Location: I
  -  Condition: Badly Damaged

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: 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 in good spots and 1 in a poor spot, if we really want to for some reason. 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: Credits (click to show/hide)

1x Research Credit (won lore contest)

[Blood_Librarian]

Enemy Forces Strong points:

Space Equipment

• Superior Sensors
• Higher Range weaponry

Ground Equipment

• Superior Heavy Weaponry
• Robotics in play.

We have in our disposal a rapidly re-supplying army as well as two armies ready to be picked up (I & H are held, the troops can be moved off-planet.)

the technological applications of Evrasium are perhaps limitless.

I propose that we further our chemically propelled weapon systems and focus directed energy weapons as heavy weapon packages. Any upgrade to our main infantry weapons should be focussed on making target acquisition and engagement faster and less risky.

Such advancements in our past are examples like night vision goggles, optical scopes, rangefinders, Silencers and similar pieces of equipment.

Our Heavy weapon packages, tank/ vehicle weapon systems and perhaps even our robotic systems should be where the high-yield thermonuclear pumped laser weapons should go.

With that in mind, here are three designs.

Spoiler: Fusion Missile Quebit (click to show/hide)

Iterative Recursive - He3 “QueBit” Evrasium Fusion Warheads
The IR-3 QueBit Fusion Warheads are an Evrasium powered reaction chamber designed to briefly initiate aneutronic fusion through a Deuterium Helium-3 Reaction until the temperature of the reaction outstrips the evasions ability to kinetically move objects and then detonate.

Helium-3 is acquired through recently established mining ventures on H, and refined onsite before being delivered to Technate Shipyards. Deuterium is acquired by running ocean water through a rotary centrifuge.

Evrasium  Matrixes with their associated laser systems are formulated into a sphere centered around two packets of ratioed fusible material. Upon “ignition”, supercapacitors will rapidly dump their power into the Evrasium ignitors, ruining themselves in the process and the first stage is ignited. Evrasium punches downward upon the fusible material and rapidly escalates to the pressure required for fusion to begin. The emission of charged particles by this fusion reaction causes a run-away reaction with the Evrasium as it punches harder and harder until either a evrasium array is compromised by the exotic energy particles emitted by this reaction or becomes inert as it's built-in kinetic charge is spent.

These warheads are placed upon a guided missile, and when fired at enemy craft will be guided to the enemy vessel. The warhead will be ignited once a built-in RADAR system detects it is within range of the enemy and begins the detonation process. In the second or few seconds, as the reaction continues, a veritable star of nuclear fire is pinpointed on enemy sensors and heralds as their doom. Doctrine is to carry these warheads on externally mounted missile racks to prevent internal detonations.

Spoiler: Helix Cruiser (click to show/hide)

“Helix of Thunder” Laser Cruiser
The Helix of Thunder is the project of billions of credits, the disemboweling and prompt restructuring of over six would-be starship design companies, and is the brainchild of raving madmen who did what could not be done.

The Helis of Thunder is larger, a child of  Design Committees told to firmly restructure the Cord in face of the rapidly changing battlefield conditions.

To summarize the changes between the Helis and the Cord, are as follows.

• Tonnage increases to account for all additions. The expected costs are to be around 4 points.
• Addition of a dedicated sensor station and systems geared for the EM burst that enemy railguns emit when they fire, allowing us to time maneuvers around them. Hardline Data conduits to the Bridge mean that computer systems can be programmed to react to enemy weapons fire faster than human operators.
• Restructure of the Armor plating to include layers of rubber linings in between layers of composite armor plating. Kinetic Energy Impactors will be less effective as the Rubber lining distributes more energy to the surrounding armor plates of the ship and lesson damage to internal compartments. In the future, these armor plates provide optimal sites for future revision into active armor systems.
• The redesign of the Turbines in the Evrasium Drive means reduces or eliminates moving parts in pursuit of lowering the heat emission of the active system through friction, thus the crafts sensor profile should be lower than the Cord. until the Hot-gas Maneuvering systems are fired off. In terms of weight Ratio, the Evrasium system is rated to be nearly exactly as the Cord, but due to upscaling, efficiency is expected to increase in a marginal amount, instead of decreasing in speed.
• The Cooling systems out-gassed coolant can now be redirected to a hot-gas propellant system that allows for short bursts of maneuvering required for dodging enemy fire.
• Redundancy in the power system for LIfe Support, Crew Quarters & Bridge are installed. In emergencies, high volume capacitive power systems & Solar panels can be unfurled so that repair work can be done in the event of reactor failure.
• Six Oculus Laser turret Systems are installed. The designated main weapon, OLTS - 2, is upscaled and reconfigured into a longer range weapon by changing the configuration of the optics so to hopefully dis-embowel the enemy engines so that it may leap for the kill
• Externally mounted Missile Racks are bolted on where feasible: Ship doctrine is to empty out a rack of missiles bolted on the most exposed partition of the ship and then maneuver to only expose that part of the ship to enemy fire.
  

Spoiler: Raptor Gun (click to show/hide)

TP - 7 “Raptor”
The Technate Primary - 7 “Raptor” is in many ways, a modern chemically propelled weapon designed for medium and long ranges. Inspired by weapons of ancient patterning, it is a gas-operated (short-stroke gas piston) rifle designed to fire a heavy cartridge apt for taking down robotic and organic threats.

Where it really evolves is the method by which the propellant is prepared: upon the final step of refining our smokeless powder for loading into the cartridges, the ingredients come into the process as a cotton-like structure that needs to be disintegrated and reformed into the propellant and casing for the caseless rounds.

This is done through the utilization of Evrasium “Disintegration” manifolds, which are special matrices of Evrasium designed to break down the structures by projecting kinetic energy without mechanical action. A canister of powder could be processed and formed into cartridges with a minimum of exposure to environmental conditions.

The munitions specifications are as follows: 7.80mmx50mm Caseless cartridge w/ Telescoped ammunition. (Telescoping is the process by which a bullet is partially or completely enveloped by the propellant, this is done to reduce the length of the cartridge.)

The specified rounds are stacked into magazines and then sealed with a thick sticker to prevent environmental exposure. These hexagonally compressed munitions are placed into triple stack spring-loaded magazines that give a soldier an incredible amount of rounds to fire downrange in box magazines to give them staying power against mechanized forces. Once a magazine is fully or partially emptied and removed from the firearm, the remaining rounds may be ejected through a release and a plastic tool reminiscent of a stripper clip properly reloads the magazine and then places a factory sticker to the top of the magazine that prevents debris from soiling the rounds. The sticker is stripped from the top of the magazine when the bolt is pulled back for the first time and is disintegrated when it fires. Half-empty magazines can still be slotted and fired through the Raptor.

The weapon itself is modular: The actual firearm assembly is produced with two barrel lengths  (Standard, Long Barrel) for different troop's requirements. The ergonomics team has learned from the lessons of the 20mm launcher. An integrated recoil stock is built to lower the perceived recoil the weapon produces. Additionally, attachment points are built for the front and rear sights, under-barrel, and side-barrel, and the barrel is threaded for silencers. Standard loadout for all soldiers is a silencer or flash suppressor, slings, foregrips, bipods, and side barrel flashlights. Additionally, Reflex sights, Optic scopes, back-up iron sights, and under barrel lasers are possible to requisition. Most of these attachments are inherited from the civilian industries with only marginal design team interference and is more the focus of the unyielding corporate mailed fist in pursuit of the perfect piece of equipment for the long-term profit margins. (A functional country free of the tyranny of foreign invaders.)

The Raptor has single fire, burst and automatic selectors with safety. The Rifled barrel is designed to take the heat of the tiny explosion that occurs in the weapon and is specially alloyed to survive the fully automatic fire of at least 5 magazines worth of explosions in a short period before needing to cool down lest permanent warp occurs.

[m1895]

Coldsteel Limited's M1 Caseless Assault Rifle "Spatha"

Our lacking ability to deal with the enemy at medium range has forced the development of a new weapon specifically for medium range combat.
Enter the Spatha, a bullpup assault rifle chambered in 6.8×49 mm High B/C, Telescoped caseless "rounds" (some employees recommended calling them "Squounds", they no longer work at Coldsteel, or anywhere else), with a 70 cm long barrel.
Now you might be wondering, how did we deal with all the problems inherent to caseless ammo? Well, we've solved several by creating our own proprietary chemical propellant blend: Tritillite. Composed of a Plasticized nitramine propellant blend with an electrically activated primer, it is much tougher and elastic than previous caseless propellants. Meaning one just has to rack open the slide to dump out dud rounds. The problem of overheating was dealt with by pumping coolant around the chamber and a disposable heatsink, with an easy refill system allowing it to be refilled in the field.
As for mag capacity, it comes with 50rnd mag and 100rnd extended mags, both quad column.
Now all that sounds great, but you're probably thinking "what about the optic? Well we've teamed up with AG Industries to make a military-grade Low Power Variable Optic Sight in the 1-4x range, more than enough for medium range standoffs. Now as for the more miscellaneous attachments we have an under barrel launcher that fires a modified (literally replacing the guidance system with HE and adding a frag belt) SIAERA rocket, a bayonet (for morale purposes), and a flash supressor.

[TricMagic]

EVR Rounds
Extant Velocity Release Rounds

Extant Velocity Release Rounds, otherwise known as EVR Rounds in general, make use of one of Evrasium's lesser known qualities. Put simply, small amounts tend to want to release their stored energy. In this case, by coating a cut Evrasium base in completely opaque plastic, attached to a bullet. When the thin plastic bottom is pierced with the firing pin of a gun, the Evrasium reacts, releasing it's energy through what it contacts. In this case, the strike from the back releases the energy forward, and the bullet is launched at speeds far exceeding normal propulsion methods. This means greater range, speed, and obviously penetrating power.

EVR Rounds can be produced en masse thanks to the Evrasium Production Industrial Center, for any caliber type, and always being better than their traditional counterparts. As well, we will be attempting to create a system through which Evrasium from EPIC can be requested for research purposes, separating part of the production for this purpose. The rest can go into military pursuits.

[Detoxicated]

You know we couldbroaden our perspective high specialization can be countered....

[Blood_Librarian]

On the contrary, I believe if we effectively specialize our weapons and continually evolve our arms, we would have a more effective fighting force than one that branches out to many different weapon systems

[Jilladilla]

Cataphract-A Light Assault Vehicle
Designed to support our forces and break the qualitative deadlock our ground forces have with the Network; the Cataphract-A is a small, light armored vehicle intended primarily to engage infantry and other light vehicles. This tracked vehicle carries a crew of 3, a Driver, a Gunner, and a Commander.

The Cataphract emphasizes portability first and foremost; so that it can fit into an ITC Shuttle, though the armored vehicle should have enough frontal armor to resist what the Network considers 'small arms', and the sides should be armored enough to reasonably resist anything that isn't a fully charged shot. The vehicle is armed with a pair of laser weaponry; one main 'cannon', based on the Oculus but simplified for the lesser performance mandates of non-space warfare, with the exception of being built to handle variable outputs, so it can be dialed down to a low-output ammo-efficient anti-infantry mode; and a secondary pintle-mounted gun; a smaller laser weapon that is intended solely for anti-infantry effort. This secondary weapon can be remote controlled if need be, having a camera feed.

Cataphract-B Light Artillery Vehicle
Designed to support our forces and break the qualitative deadlock our ground forces have with the Network; the Cataphract-B is a small, light armored vehicle intended primarily to assist our forces from a distance and to break up fortified positions. This open topped tracked vehicle comes with a crew of 3, Driver, Gunner, and Commander/Loader.

The Cataphract emphasizes portability first and foremost; so that it can fit into an ITC Shuttle, though the armored vehicle should have enough frontal armor to resist what the Network considers 'small arms', though the sides and rear do not get similar treatment and only protect against shrapnel. The vehicle is armed with a 75mm cannon mounted onto the hull, capable of enough elevation for the vehicle to act as a light artillery piece if need be; and a modified SIAERA, able to accept a belt feed.

[Blood_Librarian]

We need a spaceship to beat up the baddies, and we need a gun to arm our forces.

On our turns logistic section, if we get a 4 point military spacecraft, it would be possible to mothball 3 Chords and assemble 4 of said four-point spacecraft.

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