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« Reply #270 on: April 06, 2020, 05:38:17 pm »

Turn 5 Design: Planetary Technate

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.

Iterative Recursive - He3 “QueBit” Evrasium Fusion Warheads: An innovative means to replace RAKE missile warheads with a fusion warhead, entirely ignoring RAKE's use as an antiarmor weapon by attempting to just vaporize ALL OF THE ARMOR. This does not really work, requires a LOT of Evrasium, and hasn't been mounted to a missile. It is a valuable experiment in the needs and possibilities of Evrasium-based fusion.
Cost: A lot, but we aren't paying for anything but experiments now so don't worry, it's just coming out of your paychecks.

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Iterative Recursive - He3 “QueBit” Evrasium Fusion Warheads
Difficulty: Very Hard
Roll: 2 + 3 - 2 = 3 Buggy Mess

Setting off a fusion reaction is hard. In fact, most weapons used back on Earth used an entire fission bomb just to ignite the fusion device. Fissile material being rare in our system, however, instead we've decided to utilize Evrasium. This...poses some problems. Evrasium punches in a direction determined by the orientation of the laser that provoked it, so the lasers have to be within the sphere of Evrasium, requiring a lot of Evrasium. The goal of getting the fusion reaction's products to sustain the Evrasium reaction is genius, but it requires a massive amount of research into Evrasium and its properties, because right now the only way to get a reaction from Evrasium is to shine coherent laser light on it, and simple fusion devices do not release coherent laser light.

As of now, the system is far too huge to fit in a missile, requiring a massive sphere of Evrasium (a very expensive massive sphere of Evrasium, note) surrounding a large array of high-power disposable lasers, and without the fusion reaction being capable of sustaining the Evrasium "punch" through escaping radiation or charged particles, barely any of the material fuses, even in nuclear weapons terms, and the resultant explosion is positively pedestrian, barely even reaching the strength of an equivalently-sized ball of normal high explosives. On the plus side, EPIC would, technically, reduce the cost of loading a warship with these missiles...if we could put something this size in any sort of reasonable missile launcher. And if we had managed to put this on a missile. And if the warhead produced a useful level of damage.

Global Organised Logistical Development - Currency Overhaul INitiative:
The Founders integrated a currency system into the Grid. Commonly known as Gridcoin, it is a blockchain-backed currency that has proven to be very resilient to changing conditions. No one knows exactly how it works, but it does. Of course, this means that private citizens have a license to print money using a mining rig (although practically speaking a few large businesses control 90% of the industry). Taxes are paid using Gridcoin, government wages are paid using Gridcoin, military spending is measured in Gridcoin.
Which is all fine and well and techno-utopian, but we're in a war where the survival of the human species is on the line. Sacrifices have to be made, and Gridcoin is one of them.

GOLD COIN is a project organised by the three high commands (the Unified Planetary Technate Military, the Global Defence Org, and the Interplanetary Warfare Foundation), and- with varying degrees of reluctance- approved of by the majority of governmental organisations. The principle is simple: taxes may no longer be paid in Gridcoin. Instead, taxes must be paid in refined metals, or other valuable minerals. A complex system overseen by the high commands determines the values of metals and minerals, depending on the needs of military industry. Government wages will also be paid using refined metals, as well as any other government expenses. Of course, we do not expect everyone to show up with wheelbarrows full of silver- currency backed by metals can also be used.
The goal is obvious: to encourage the expansion of the civilian mining sector (and acquire the 'mislaid' castoff materials from EPIC), thereby lowering the effective cost of various minerals crucial to the military.

Some economists have protested that this is "batshit insane", but consider how much processing power is spent on blockchain mining, and just imagine if it was all directed towards actual mining instead. We have a large and vibrant civilian population who contribute very little to the war effort- time for them to pay up.

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Global Organised Logistical Development - Currency Overhaul INitiative (GOLDCOIN)
Difficulty: Ludicrous
Roll: 3 + 3 - 3 = 3 Buggy Mess

This incredibly amusing proposal was almost laughed out of High Command, until somebody from the Communists' Blockchain Incorporated company gave another rant about how important it was for the workers to seize the means of (blockchain) production, and was subsequently kicked out of the meeting. Following this, in order to undermine their platform, this proposal was seriously considered. Transforming all currency into minerals was....obviously a bad idea. That would require the government (such as it is) to hand off materials potentially valuable to the war effort as currency. However, forcing everyone to pay the government in actual metals also seemed good, until it was realized that in order to not hand over valuable materials as currency, Gridcoin would have to somehow become backed by valuable metals, so the government could continue spending the money it already had while attempting to reap the benefits, and also so that people who *had* nothing but Gridcoin but did essential things like, say, providing the planet with FOOD could actually pay for things.

Restructuring your society's entire economic system and trying to get rich quick off of was going to be hard, apparently. Very hard.

After successfully negotiating seventeen market crashes during and after the announcement (only one of which was probably caused by a recursive error in the main city's currency-handling subsection of the Grid, rather than panic), the program was instituted, and it was discovered that most people aren't good at mining. And most people and companies that don't deal in various materials are ALSO not very good at the job, and don't have stockpiles of valuable metals on hand to pay with. This seems to be a problem for most people, since the Government was trying to kill Gridcoin and most people don't have any means of payment other than Gridcoin.

In short, everything went to pieces and almost nothing went right with this proposal. Every single product that has any benefit on warmaking, from clothing to food to plastics to composites to mining, ALL had to get a new value based on how valuable they were to the war effort, and several major cities nearly ended up running out of clothing when clothiers realized that it was far more lucrative to go mining than make clothes. Civilian ships flew from asteroid to asteroid trying to mine things and discovering that valuable materials do NOT just sit on the surface, and no matter how much "tinkering" you've done, a commercial laser array will NOT produce valuable materials from rocks.

After this "Interplanetary Gold Rush" finished causing mass economic devastation, the system was removed entirely, the lessons filed away, and the one good thing in the whole disaster noted:
One of the major players in stealing from EPIC had made the mistake of making an unusually smooth transition to paying with metals, which she absolutely should not have been able to do given her normal means. This tagged her assets for automatic review in our computer monitoring program, and we managed to connect her directly to a large portion of EPIC's losses. Followup operations caught the rest of the thieves, and their stockpiles were re-added to military inventory. EPIC might still be vulnerable to NEW corruption, but we've got a method to review the whole thing now and with only a bit more development work on the algorithm we think we could keep the whole thing safe, mostly, from corruption. The recovered assets were promptly used to keep the economy from destroying itself completely due to the GOLDCOIN backlash.

Global Organised Logistical Development - Currency Overhaul INitiative (GOLDCOIN): An attempt to restructure our entire society's economic system that very nearly crashed the economy completely. It has provided us with the beginnings of an algorithm that should protect EPIC from future corruption.
Cost: Measuring costs requires a functioning economy, please check back later.

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Re: Interplanetary Arms Race: Planetary Technate
« Reply #271 on: April 06, 2020, 09:10:57 pm »

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AnteroGrade Objectivised Normalizing cYber Software (AGONY)

Through the recent GOLDcoin debacle, our thoroughly unkempt failure of various infrastructure plans has culminated in somewhat of a crisis:

How can we invest so much time in all this and fail to fuc effectively extract minerals from the ground?

Failure number one is the inability to put resources to where it is needed the most for our military output.

Failure number two is arguably worse, and it is the conflict of interest where individual corporations are allowed to acquire resources and negotiate far above optimal profit margins and into exploitative prices.

As it turns out, a series of internal re-works of the GRID allows for connected Resources, equipment, and land areas to be seamlessly integrated to the web, deleted from the network and tracked as it passes from owner to owner or processed. In addition, A high functioning complex piece of software referred to as AGONY is created to allow for the reigning corporate interest to essentially offer up the vassalage of critical junctures for their own sub-management. These domains are typically reserved by AGONY for the organizations that are most productive towards critical issues of our society. the most important part of the entire operation, AGONY, is a clearly defined and demi-autonomous digital entity that is fed information regarding our goals and problems as well as our societal state/culture/infrastructure, It then outputs a series of "objectives" with oversight from higher management for entities to compete to complete so that a clear line of priority may be established

This effectively minimizes the constant bloody power transitions from effecting the lower status, as employees are often integrated into projects such that while high management may shift, work environments and equipment are generally preserved. In addition, it allows for clear and distinct logistical supply lines to be formed on the fly. While in the future, this may be geared towards societal improvement and nobler goals, the current goals it is fed is based on the design teams' wishes as well as the various logistics agencies that provide for our war.

AGONY should fix the two aforementioned issues.

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« Reply #272 on: April 07, 2020, 11:24:00 am »

Fusion Power

Put simply, we need to research ways of using Evrasium to create fusion.

One set of scientists have come up with simply using Thermite between blocks of Evrasium, along with hydrogen in a chamber, to jump-start the fusion reaction. Combined with the proper shielding, we can generate Fusion Power somewhat cheaply. Fusion Power, other than being fairly clean, allows us to meet the demands of the Grid. The power generated should free up resources that can be used elsewhere.

As a note, Thermite generates both heat and light, which with Evrasium can reach a compacted level of heat when the Evrasium strikes the source, which is hot enough to jumpstart the Fusion Process.


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Put simply, Thermite generates light and heat. When hit with Evrasium's force, it compacts, which then reaches a high enough heat to jumpstart things. Constant light will cause consistent force, for the seconds it lasts before burning up completely.
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« Reply #273 on: April 07, 2020, 11:36:05 am »

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    Fusion Power (1) : TricMagic

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« Reply #274 on: April 07, 2020, 01:30:43 pm »

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RAKE Missile- Liquid Hydrogen Trigger: (1) TricMagic



For the record, the Fusion was scrapped as not reality.

RAKE Missile- Liquid Hydrogen Trigger

It is well known by now the Evrasium stores most of it's kinetic energy in it's structure. So what would happen if all that structure were to crack open at once? The result of this experiment using Liquid Hydrogen(which was made using compressors) is that all that energy is released at once. Not unevenly, or in a random direction, at once. Omnidirectional, striking anything in the area with the pure concentrated force that was stored in the Evrasium. The less target mass, the greater the damage done. Though the kinetic force itself is likely to tear an affected ship apart no matter what it is made of if it is in the range of the effect.

This allows for the RAKE Missiles to have a simplistic LH Dump on the Evrasium payload. Proper pressure makes the result instant. This in turn means we can spend more time on fixing the speed of a RAKE Missile, as well as programming a basic evasion/targeting suite.
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Re: Interplanetary Arms Race: Planetary Technate
« Reply #275 on: April 07, 2020, 01:37:05 pm »

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Directive Evrasium Sequenced Tachyonic Royally Energetic Yielded Crystals (D.E.S.T.R.O.Y. CRYSTALS)
Exploratory research into just how Evrasium works has come up with several configurations and alloys of Evrasium as well as one very special crystal that have two very specific properties that make Evrasium fusion reactions from a laughing stock into a serious possibility.

Starting with a complex nanocomposite of Evrasium particulates set into a gel that has been chemically hardened over a period of about 12 hours, the substrate can be sintered then be sintered in a kiln, burning away the gel and leading odd-looking shards of Evrasium that also explode spectacularly into very sharp shards that resemble glass when thrown at a concrete wall. When the Evrasium is energized by a particle beam or nuclear reaction derived charged particle from any point, it will fire off kinetic energy in a singular direction as determined by its construction upon hardening.

These crystalline facets can be constructed as per the original design templates of  Quebit warheads to create fusion weapons.

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    RAKE Missile- Liquid Hydrogen Trigger: (1) TricMagic
    DESTROY Crystals (1): Blood_Librarian


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« Reply #276 on: April 07, 2020, 02:50:16 pm »

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    AGONY (2) : Blood_Librarian, , Auzewasright
    BITCOIN: (1) TricMagic

    RAKE Missile- Liquid Hydrogen Trigger: (1) TricMagic
    DESTROY Crystals (1): Blood_Librarian

Right, not taking the risk if the GM doesn't know what it is. A functioning AI, really?

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In addition, A high functioning Dream Daemon referred to as AGONY is created to allow for the reigning corporate interest to essentially offer up the vassalage of critical junctures for their own sub-management. These domains are typically reserved by AGONY for the organizations that are most productive towards critical issues of our society. the most important part of the entire operation, AGONY, is a clearly defined and demi-autonomous digital entity that is fed information regarding our goals and problems as well as our societal state/culture/infrastructure, It then outputs a series of "objectives" for entities to compete to complete so that a clear line of priority may be established

... Sounds kinda like Oracle in some ways, and more a Design. Do we really want to get saddled with more negative numbers?


Binary Interstellar Transactions Currency Overseer Interdiction Network- BITCOIN

Given how badly the whole GOLDCOIN went, we at least have the ability to create programs for oversight. BITCOIN oversees all transactions be they digital goods, virtual currency, or physical goods, with a singular Government-backed currency. Hackers and other criminals caught manipulating BITCOIN will be sentenced to mining operations for 1 to 10 years.

Remember, it's not worth it to be greedy, as a smoothly functioning economy is necessary for both war-efforts and survival.



A series of Programs which takes from what we've learned to create oversight over the Economy. Making sure that when one wants something, there is a clear path to get it legally. And any Criminals we catch will be imprisoned on a mining colony for trying to destabilize the Economy's foundations.

Right now in game function, it will protect EPIC. Along with whenever we actually make a GRID rather than it just being Lore.

Also, all votes to use the RC on a full GRID Design?

Edits, changed the name since initiative appeared twice. Also, despite the name, BITCOIN is a set of programs rather than the actual currency.
Removed the 'a' and added an 's' to 'program', and changed 'single' to 'singular'. Small grammar changes.
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« Reply #277 on: April 07, 2020, 04:58:11 pm »

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« Reply #278 on: April 09, 2020, 08:21:35 am »

Ignore this message, I accidentally double posted.

Standard Payload Acuating Delivery (SPAD) Systems
SPAD is a modification on the original RAKE missiles to improve the rocket motors and guidance schema to an acceptable level. Breakthroughs in CNC machining as well as micro-electronics allows for miniaturized guidance systems as well as more streamlined reaction control systems tat both take up less overall mass and are more precise in function. In addition, a new chemistry in the RAKE's rocket motor for a more energetic profile allows for a higher thrust-to-weight ratio while simultaneously increasing the Delta-V of the overall missile.

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« Reply #279 on: April 09, 2020, 08:25:16 am »

Standard Payload Acuating Delivery (SPAD) Systems
SPAD is a modification on the original RAKE missiles to improve the rocket motors and guidance schema to an acceptable level. Breakthroughs in CNC machining as well as micro-electronics allows for miniaturized guidance systems as well as more streamlined reaction control systems tat both take up less overall mass and are more precise in function.  The rocket motors are also improved to be more energetic, resulting in a higher delta V and acceleration.

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    RAKE Missile- Liquid Hydrogen Trigger: (2) TricMagic, Auzewasright
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« Reply #280 on: April 12, 2020, 11:33:34 pm »

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    AGONY (2) : Blood_Librarian, Happerry
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« Reply #281 on: April 15, 2020, 12:42:14 am »

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« Reply #282 on: April 15, 2020, 06:48:56 am »

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    RAKE Missile- Liquid Hydrogen Trigger: (2) TricMagic, Auzewasright
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« Reply #283 on: April 15, 2020, 10:51:09 am »

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    RAKE Missile- Liquid Hydrogen Trigger: (2) TricMagic, Auzewasright
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« Reply #284 on: April 15, 2020, 10:52:39 am »

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    AGONY: (2) Happerry, SC777
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    RAKE Missile- Liquid Hydrogen Trigger: (1) Auzewasright
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