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[auzewasright]

Names, cause I feel like writing some. In Order for each.

Chord Names: Against All Odds[LOST in Battle, Chord #1], Gravekeeper[Lost in Battle, Chord #2], Waters' Embrace[Chord #3], Star Inviction[Chord #4]
Degree Names: Sky's Eye[#1], Lunar Watch[#2], Star's Flight[#3]
ITC Names: Ruby's Ascent[#1, Set to be Mothballed this turn], Sapphire Drop[#2], Emerald Expanse[#3]

Here are the ones for last turn.

1x  Amalogus Carrier "Kadens Bravery"
1x Degree "Reunion of Spite" (this one will use the points generated by the mothballed ITC, and will probably not be produced in time to have movement.)

These are also from last turn. So don't need naming.

I vote we try to fit an SQL injection into the name of our next ship.

[Madman198237]

Turn 7 Design Phase: Planetary Technate

Evrasium Modulated Fusion “StarFire” Reactor
After careful consideration with the Quebit, we have decided to pivot. Thus, Evrasium Modulated Fusion is a net-new system by which an Evrasium element is utilized to side-step the inherent instability of plasma and the fickleness of magnetic fields in favor of raw, brute power, much like how marketing functions. This is made possible by novel Evrasium plates which can be formed such that laser emissions will result in the delivery of kinetic energy in the opposite direction of where the laser struck. The primary fuel is similar to the fusion engines that once powered our interstellar craft, EMF Reactors utilize compressed pellets of deuterium and helium to produce a helium plasma which can then be utilized for any purpose (typically energy generation but sometimes exotic particles), as well as making current Evrasium reserves go much farther.

Unlike Kinetic power storage drives and theorized traditional reactors, it is best created with small scale systems and must be parallelized if more power is required. Current lab prototypes create belches of plasma in a pulsating pattern that unsettlingly mimics the human heart. The Reactor takes fuel pellets through a liquid medium and expels out a bolt of ready-to-use plasma through a series of evrasium push valves that eliminate material contact with plasma and simplify material construction. The waste liquid is vented to a waste container for waste heat management and recycling later.  This will revolutionize our energy economy, as we are no longer chained to the very advanced equivalent of strip mining for metric tons of evrasium to fuel our society's massive energy demands. In addition, the small scale of these structures are expected to allow upwards and over of over a thousand different corporate entities to successfully compete for separate high-energy niches.

The intention of the original designer of the Star-Fire is to fabricate a method by which large projectiles are propelled with a combination of plasma siphoned from a reactor as well as modified explosive propellants for very high acceleration speeds. “Fusion-Boosted Munitions”. However, current design teams are doing more with less and attempting to create the game changer of ulta-light reactor elements.

Evrasium Modulated Fusion “StarFire” Reactor
Difficulty: Hard
Roll: 3 + 1 - 1 = 3 Buggy Mess (My dice hate fusion with a passion, I guess. Sorry.)

So, pulsed detonation fusion, check. Direct siphoning of plasma, check. Evrasium used in place of magnets, check. Problems? Unfortunately, check.

Fundamentally our problem is with plasma's extreme dislike of being manipulated. Evrasium can be shaped to control plasma better but we've had to derive a new reaction capable of taking a given shape of Evrasium and stimulating the entire thing simultaneously and evenly in order to achieve the desired shapes to the plasma. Sufficiently fast compression on the pellet of deuterium/helium fuel is achieved with a primary bank of Evrasium modules, and fusion does result. It is not symmetrical, however, as we need specific development time and money on the new reaction to really get it functioning properly. This asymmetry combined with the general imprecision of the present Evrasium system has led to plasma leaks, some bad enough to put entire prototype reactors permanently out of commission. In short, at present these reactors are not really worth deploying, not that we have elected to deploy them into anything directly.

At present, were we to fix up the confinement issues, this device would provide an efficient way to convert the energy stored in Evrasium into superheated plasma. At present we would find it difficult to extract a meaningfully larger amount of energy from this method than using Evrasium Kinetic Storage Drives directly. However, with work and refinement we are certain it could be done, and would open a window into ever-more-compact, ever-more-efficient fusion reactors or plasma sources for other purposes. If its compact nature could be improved, it may be that it could greatly aid infrastructure projects on other planets besides our homeworld. Projects on those planets have the potential to extract vast amounts of resources due to the unexploited nature of those planets, but require specific, dedicated projects to adapt to each planet's unique conditions. The compact and powerful nature of a functional StarFire would be of definite help.

Fast Reactionary Oculus Gunnery Implants (FROG IMPLANT)
FROG architecture Implants represent the first generation micro-electronics, broadband implant surgery, and disregard for basic ethics that allows for the research required to make viable electronic implants. These architectural systems require a genetically compatible patient to handle the surgery and thus interface with the augment. While operations can be done without the genetic precursors necessary, rejection is almost certain without a battery of anti-rejection chemicals. the implants are designed to facilitate the interaction between the user and a hard-mounted weapon, like an OCULUS laser platform, Rake Missile Launchers, or heavy ground weapons such as fixed position SIERRAs. This manifests in a phantom control of the weapon in question, mimicking similar function to how one would operate the weapon with manual controls, except in a far superior fashion.

Fast Reactionary Oculus Gunnery Implants
Difficulty: Hard
Roll: (RC expended, roll 3d4 take best 2) 4 + 1 3 - 1 = 6 Above Average (See, they can give out high numbers. Sometimes. Occasionally. Maybe. They just don't.)

Our first foray into a truly new field, FROGI is an abomination of a name. It is also an ethically abominable process that involved some deaths and some maimings and the odd vegetable case. However, the result is a functioning means of linking a human being to a computer system...nearly directly. FROGI piggybacks off of muscular control signals and allows a user, with some training, to rapidly operate a mounted weapon with much improved control and speed compared to an unaugmented human using standard controls. They can't yet rival a computer system for precision or accuracy and are not as much use in long-range space engagements due to the limited ability of the computer to "talk back" to the human brain.

The setup at present is invasive and does require removal of part of the skull, rendering it an unfavorable option for soldiers who would really rather have an intact braincase. This skull removal step could be removed if the overly invasive nature of the components was altered, right now it is patently obvious to anyone if someone has been altered with cybernetic implants or not.

However, it allows a user to run a quick software update on a warship's fire control computers and plug in directly with no further modifications, so it is a cost-free way to improve fleet gunnery and requires no warship refits. Also applies to Slaughterfields' weapons operator seat.

Fast Reactionary Oculus Gunnery Implants: A cybernetic system that is very invasive and damages the user's skull in exchange for giving them a specialized and very capable interface specifically for use aboard warships or in gunner's positions on Slaughterfields. Improves accuracy particularly at close ranges and makes human gunners much more capable. Limited feedback, reasonably fast data transfer to the computer.
Cost: Free!

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Revision phase, two revisions. Have you considered upgrading your lackluster space weaponry or the Chord's large deficiencies?
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Spoiler: Planetary Technate Control (click to show/hide)

The Hub: 0/0/10 (YOURS/UNCLAIMED/ENEMY)
A:
B:
C:
D: 0/0/10
  -  Degree #1, Degree #2
  -  ITC #2
    -  BMU-3 'Elite'
E: 0/0/10
  -  Chord #4, Degree #3
F: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-5 'Elite', BMU-6 'Elite'
G: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-2 Basic
  -  ITC #3
    -  Slaughterfield #2 "Kingmaker Squadron"
  -  Amalogus #1 "Kaden's Bravery"
    -  Slaughterfield #1 "Fairlight Squadron"
H: 10/0/0
  -  ITC #1
  -  Chord #2
I: 10/0/0
Planet 2: 10/0/0

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

Ship Production Points: 31
  3 Points: 2x Chord
  6 Points: 3x ITC
  6 Points: 3x Degree
  6 Points: 1x Amalogus Carrier
  3 Points: LOST, available Turn 9 Strategy Phase
  4 points: Unassigned

Ground Production Points: 36
  8 points: 4x BMU
  3 points: 3x SIAERA
  3 points: 3x CEVAS
  8 points: 2x Slaughterfield
  12 points: LOST on D, Available in Turn 8 Strategy Phase
  2 points: Unassigned

Units
BMU-2 Basic
  -  No unusual equipment
  -  G
BMU-3 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  Orbit of G, in ITC #2
BMU-5 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  F
BMU-6 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  F

Ships
ITC #1
  -  Location: H
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC #2
  -  Location: D
  -  Contents: BMU-3
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC #3
  -  Location: G
  -  Contents: Slaughterfield #2 "Fairlight Squadron"
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Amalogus #1 "Kaden's Bravery"
  -  Location: G
  -  Contents: Slaughterfield #1 "Kingmaker Squadron"
  -  Condition: Undamaged

Chord #3:
  -  Location: E
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Chord #4
  -  Location: E
  -  Condition: Undamaged

Degree #1
  -  Location: D
  -  Condition: Damaged
Degree #2
  -  Location: D
  -  Condition: Damaged
Degree #3
  -  Location: E
  -  Condition: Undamaged

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

Planetary Contents:
1 & 2: Earthlike planets just as you’d expect. Take your opponent’s homeworld to win, lose yours and you die.
A: Riddled with caves and with a mineral-rich crust, this airless world is ideal for the production of spacecraft components. 1 GPP, 3 SPP.
B: A volcanic world with a caustic atmosphere and lava flows on the surface, B is full of minerals that can be easily acquired…if you can deal with the, quite literal, heat. 3 GPP, 1 SPP.
C: Icy, barren, rather flat in most regions. It has rather a lot of those things humans need to live sitting on and under its airless surface. 3 GPP, 3 SPP.
D: A surface-wide ocean is the defining trait of this planet, providing an interesting combat environment and also plenty of interesting life forms that can be studied….if you can build a big enough boat to catch one, anyway. 4 GPP, 2 SPP.
E: Another Earthlike planet, ideal for habitation….or, y’know, fighting a good old fashioned war over! 4 GPP, 4 SPP.
F: A world of highlands and mountains, the lower parts of the planet are filled with most of the planet's already scarce water. However, the mountainous regions have high mineral contents and plenty of good spacecraft launch sites above the majority of the atmosphere. 2 GPP, 4 SPP.
G: Deserts cover the surface of this planet. Deserts made, in fact, of a curious sand with abnormally high metal and mineral contents. It has an atmosphere that serves to stir up the sands into occasional sandstorms. 3 GPP, 3 SPP.
H: An airless, small rock in space, H is heavily cratered and not a great place to live. Good place to build spacecraft, though. 1 GPP, 3 SPP.
I: A world covered in wide stretches of windswept terrain covered in something that we’re going to call grass, I is ideal for large-scale industrial activity. Nobody cares if you do irreparable damage to a huge tract of grasslands here, after all, there are a hundred more huge tracts of pristine grasslands you haven’t ruined yet. 3 GPP, 1 SPP.

Spoiler: 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
Capacity: 4 TC

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

Degree Missile Support Corvette: A heavily-built "light" missile vessel meant to support the Chord. Almost slower than the Chord and less able to turn, but can accelerate in any direction and has two slow-firing RAKE missile launchers with decent ammunition stockpiles. Very expensive for its size. A light missile vessel meant to support the Chord but with the same ship type/role/size designator (both are "corvettes"), the Degree carries a couple dozen missiles and a pair of slow-firing missile launchers. Turning is still rather sluggish but the ship itself is lightly built and agile on a small OKSPD. Sensors and everything else are equivalent to the Chord at present.
Cost: 3 SPP 2 SPP

Amalogus Carrier: A heavily armored transport with extreme durability, decent maneuverability, and 3-TC shuttles. It is reliant on its shuttles for primary propulsion, but is nearly indestructible given current methods. Armament is present on each shuttle, a single Oculus laser. This adds up to quite a formidable armament on a fully loaded Amalogus.
Cost: 6 SPP
Capacity: 4 TC

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. Now improved with HE and/or armor-penetrating cores, allowing for consistent damage across all ranges or additional armor-piercing effect at Long range. Field units may have [Outdated] versions.
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

Ground Vehicles
ADF "Slaughterfield" Interceptor-Fighter: A capable, though very heavy, combination of space and surface fighter with a single Oculus and four hardpoints. At present it uses drop tanks supplying the Oculus with more chemical ammunition, making it almost physically impossible to run out of ammunition. Prone to wing structural failures. Highly angular and imposing but not radar-stealthed as originally intended. Requires no shuttles to descend from orbit. Faster and more maneuverable in space, slightly cheaper, a little more dependent on atmosphere for surface operations, and extremely sturdy in combat conditions.
Cost: 5 4 GPP
Size: 4 TC

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. Thanks to the SPAD upgrade package, RAKE missiles are now of average speed and maneuverability, making them much more capable. Cost was not increased.

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.

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)

Fast Reactionary Oculus Gunnery Implants: A cybernetic system that is very invasive and damages the user's skull in exchange for giving them a specialized and very capable interface specifically for use aboard warships or in gunner's positions on Slaughterfields. Improves accuracy particularly at close ranges and makes human gunners much more capable. Limited feedback, reasonably fast data transfer to the computer.
Cost: Free!

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 and 2 GPP

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. Rampant corruption formerly crippled the project, but thanks to BITCOIN the corruption has been beaten down. The limitations on just how much Evrasium there is underneath the particular mining site chosen for EPIC is still a limitation, but now EPIC actually does things.
Provides: Cost bonus to things that use very large amounts of Evrasium. Cost reduction to things with moderately large Evrasium costs, such as Quebit or RAKE. + 5 GPP

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.

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.
Provides: 2 SPP

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

Array

[Blood_Librarian]

High Energy Laser Excalibration (HELEX)

HELEX is the name of the project that revamps the Ocular laser system. the frankly dated first-generation chemical medium is replaced with the upscaled formulae that are used in laser emission systems originally created for evrasium technologies. Combined with the technological refinement of laser optics and focussing, the Oculus and derivative laser weapons should be markedly more lethal.

Lore

The Technates TechnologicalMeritocracy is a system. Not a system that necessarily works, but it is better than the alternatives. Each day, a hundred thousand organizations spear each other over control of the network on any particular day. Base industries are only barely protected as the base level functions are not usually changed by the network controllers as they acclimatize themselves to the situation at hand before really enacting change or being replaced. In a sense, the ineffective higher organizational structure allows for a burgeoning middle-man infrastructure to bloom, and all things considered, it works well most of the time, or at least well enough to get guns to the infantry.

On the other hand, there has recently been an uptick in terrorist bombings, attacks on critical infrastructure, and assassinations. Rumors abound to their origin, up until a group purporting the dissolving the technocracy’s meritocratic elements in favor of a solidified republic esque structure underneath the/a council of eidolons be created, abolishing the cyclic nature of the meritocratic replacement of officials in our society.This groups name is the Turing Reconstruction Concern, more commonly referred to as the TRC. They believe that the loss of life and ruthlessness that is favored by the meritocracy must be removed at all costs, and have taken to extreme methods to doing so. However, their most striking claim to legitimacy is that our current government is not wholly sanctioned by the founders. That the ruthless on-the-wire Network where resources are efficiently allocated at the moment they are needed has lost the human element it should have had, and that some or maybe even all of the founders had envisioned something else when the landers had fallen.

They want to bring down the Network by regimenting and isolating sectors of the industry, economy, and other sections with physical hard mounts, thus limiting its influence politically. Understandably, quite a few sections of our society wish for this to not happen.

[TricMagic]

Faraday Restriction

By making a Faraday Cage built into the reactor, electromagnetic waves can be contained and directed. When linked up to the new Evrasium reaction, this allows direction and control over plasma streams, which themselves are a type of liquid lightning in behavior and activity.

Plasma is obviously very complicated. But this set up will reduce radiation while ensuring a stability of the plasma generated. This in turn opens up the option of hyper-conductivity conduits, as plasma can be sent down pipelines like a pressurized liquid, creating a route for electricity to flow. Combined with thermal generators to sap the heat generated to yet more electricity, and we should see our first planetary fusion plant producing electricity within a few cycles.

HELEX
Faraday Constriction: (1) TricMagic
GROWTH: (0)
Aperture Sentry Turrets: (1) TricMagic

I'll think of another thing later.


Green Renewable Overworld Terrain Habitation
Planet I GROWTH

We have a very nice planet here. Using Wind Turbines across it's expanse, electricity can be produced wholesale. The wide open fields serve a windy expanse. Likewise, the place is near perfect for farming crops, undoubtedly making it a breadworld once some water reservoirs are tapped.

A simplistic use of knowledge to produce food for our forces, meaning less costs spent on producing it in lands not so suited to it. Which means more production for our ground forces.(GPP)



Aperture Sentry Turrets

Small, lightweight, and the twin guns fold away into the body, overall the size of a cylindrical bag. These Turrets have a connection to FROGI allowing what they see to be broadcast through the camera in the front forehead, and operated from far away. The lack of need for programs to determine allies and enemies themselves make them fairly simple to produce wholesale. Good for sentry duty and protecting routes without loss of life. Have about 1 minute worth of MG fire stored in them which can be refilled, and a laser sight for the FROGI operators showing where the bullets go.

As for the bullets and firing mechanism, it uses metal pellets launched through an Evrasium-backed mechanism at a high rate of fire.
*modeled after the old Portal game. Made of matte-grey plastic.*

[Blood_Librarian]

I really dont think a sentry turret is viable with a revision.

Interlace Second Stage Kinetic Module (ISSKM)

the ISSKM is designed to replace the later half of the Starfire fusion reaction. The primary action, the way that plasma is generated through a kinetic strike is left unmodified. The ISSKM takes the place of the overly complex evrasium systems which had to originally both create and move plasma into its magnetic containment. Instead, two separate systems are designed for the task of plasma creation and movement out of the reaction chamber, respectively. to ease the burdens of the EMAG system that takes over from the evrasium, Evrasium elements introduce a rotational force into the plasma as it is siphoned out of the chamber so the electromagnetic confinement systems can be simplified.

No turbine is created to use plasma as a working fluid. instead, the plasma is used to heat up a thermal exchanger with an open cycle steam turbine.

HELEX(1): Blood_Librarian
Faraday Constriction: (1) TricMagic
GROWTH: (0)
Aperture Sentry Turrets: (1) TricMagic
ISSKM: (1): Blood_Librarian

[TricMagic]

Why are you still going for weapons that we have to buy, rather than fixing the issue with the Fusion. Focusing on fixing it will mean more PP due to less Evrasium wasted. Which means we can buy more stuff. As compared to making a weapon you have to buy, but not having the points or TC for it.

[Blood_Librarian]

what?

we have two revisions for a reason, and I'm already using one for fixing fusion? I don't see why we have to spend two revisions for fusion, especially when madman pointed out we have ancient ship weapons and craft.

[TricMagic]

I'm not saying fix it for fusion, I'm saying fix it for PP, not a new weapon. We can only do 1 result in a revision, not both. If we want to make the Starfire Reactor work for producing energy for our planet, and therefore free up Evrasium, that is what we do. We can't attach a weapon to the revision.


EM Plasma Dynamics Control Method

Through the use of a Faraday Cage and EM nodes, Plasma can be compressed and shaped. The general theory is the use of large amounts of EM Waves to affect the Plasma. As noted, plasma is affected by electromagnetic waves, so using them to control the reaction in a stable manner was an easy conclusion.

These methods may eventually come to be used in weaponry, but for now we use the basis for our planet's generators. A secondary Chamber capable of processing the Plasma is built, and the Faraday Cage and EM Nodes control and stabilize it. How this happens to work is through relief points in the Faraday Cage, as the nodes EM waves can only escape the cage through these points. Likewise, outside radiation can only enter through these points, but due to the interior EM waves being denser, this does not affect the control of the plasma. These Nodes and Relief Points are the center-points for controlling plasma dynamics within the reactor, and their nature means their scales can be up or downsized with ease.


In more common and shorter terms. The EM Waves, trapped within the cage, can be directed. Their direction affects the Plasma, and the EM Waves escape through the Relief points to prevent a complete mess of said plasma as they eternally increase within it. This allows the plasma to be shaped and moved in ay way we choose so long as we plan it ahead of time when building. Nodes can be closed as well to affect the plasma in different ways, but that isn't necessary during operation. Though there is a plan to safely shut down a Starfire Reactor through this method that does not result in death and destruction of the personnel and machinery, using the closing of certain Nodes, and opening of others.

HELEX(1): Blood_Librarian
GROWTH: (1) TricMagic
Aperture Sentry Turrets: ()
ISSKM: (1): Blood_Librarian
EM-PDCM: (1) TricMagic

[Blood_Librarian]

No weapon at all was designed to be used with the Starfire yet. my intention was to create a functioning fusion reactor that generates plasma, if I wanted to attach it to a gun I would've clarified that. as-is, I think it would be a bonus to PP as it stands because it fixes the only problem we have from economically utilizing it for power generation.

[TricMagic]

Starfire Power Plant

Through the use of rings around the ignition chamber, Evrasium projects a wave of force into a perfect centerpoint. This ignites the fusion material, starting up the process. This in turn powers a steam generator, which has a Magnetohydrodynamic generator as a topping cycle. The main issue was of course symmetry in the reaction, once that was solved, everything else fell into place. And the first of our new Starfire Power Plants came to replace the old AER power plants, freeing up tons of resources for use elsewhere, most specifically in space.(SPP) There were a lot of resources tied up in keeping ourselves powered, but the Starfire Power Plant is extremely efficient in it's use of Evrasium compared to AER.

Spoiler: Right image is the set up of rings (click to show/hide)

Since it effectively passes through the outer layer due to the force materializing some way away, this setup should allow for symmetry in ignition and such.

HELEX: (1) Blood_Librarian
Aperture Sentry Turrets: ()
ISSKM: (1): Blood_Librarian
Starfire Power Plant: (1) TricMagic

[Shadowclaw777]

HELEX: (2) Blood_Librarian, SC777
Aperture Sentry Turrets: ()
ISSKM: (1): Blood_Librarian
Starfire Power Plant: (1) TricMagic

[TricMagic]

Heightened Excitement Laser Interlaced Xenon Array

The HELIX Array has two improvements. The first is the use of Xenon. Xenon is one of the basic elements that were used in arc lamps, flash lamps, and is a very effective lasing medium. Through a combination of liquid and solid Xenon in the chemicals used for our lasers, their effeciency and power can be greatly improved. Unlike the Oculus which travels continuously, the nature of these arrays is a rather random, if directed, fire pattern, bolts of laserfire rather than the lines. But these bolts are far stronger.

For installment, all that is needed is mixing the new xenon additive into the chemical stores  The result is a massive boost in power and range against the enemy ships.  An overall boost that obsoletes the Oculus in damage.


Simplified. HELIX fires bolts more like Star Wars. Compared to the Oculus which uses lines of laser, which need to be continuous.



Encryption Radio, Improvements, and Setup. Otherwise known as the ERIS Project

The greater accuracy our enemies have recently shown is troubling, and a number of issues have arisen during and even before our war, leading to their advance into Technate-controlled space. It becomes clear that we either need to match their power, or outsmart it. When we have the advantage, in most cases we win. With the new accuracy to shoot down our missiles, we need to be able to work together to overwhelm it. But our current communications systems are basic, and can be hacked. Not to mention the dearth of radio communications for grounded units.

The solution is naturally better radio communications. Using our resources and knowledge, we can create radio sets we can hand out to all units on the ground, capable of communicating with an encrypted signal to ships in orbit. This advancement will also be applied to all of our ships, which is mostly simply coding due to ship communication already having the ability to communicate with things on the ground. However, this does not mean we won't improve the technology to improve it's efficiency if needed.

In this manner, our ships can work together to overwhelm and destroy the enemy. It is extremely important that we run a war based upon not forcing back but destroying their transports and defenses. And the Amalogus in particular will greatly benefit, for it carries a fleet all it's own that can fight and support other ships. Better communications all around will make working together much easier.


NOTE! All proposals that involve upgrading something on a ship will not see usage this turn. We need them this turn, but won't have them. Therefore, HELEX and HELIX are pointless to revise this turn instead of next. We won't get to use them till next turn's deployment.


Overclock Protocol
Overclocking is using materials found on any ship of evrasium stores to turn an AER Engine into a overpowered bomb. Fusion is initiated inside the AER Engine, and all safeties removed, everything dumped into it. It then consumes the rest of the ship and everything in it, before collapsing, imploding into a black hole which sucks everything within a specific radius into itself. The literal goal is a kamikaze attack that can be performed by all ships with an AER Engine. This knowledge will be sent out through communications. Let it not be said that the Technate will go out with a whimper. Given the current situation, all forces need to pull back to G to defend our space from their invasion.

Noted that the project notes are to be kept in multiple safe places and updated regularly to prevent the loss of how to perform this Protocol. As it's very testing means that research notes are going to be destroyed at some point. Along with the facility. Keep rigorous notes and perform the tests in deep space.

General Theory: The use of Kinetic Force and the Fusion bind together dark matter and matter, creating a gravitational singularity. Put simply, Evrasium's property and fusions property combine together to produce this result. Shortlived, but extremely effective as a kamikaze attack.

HELEX: (2) Blood_Librarian, SC777
Aperture Sentry Turrets: ()
ISSKM: (1): Blood_Librarian
Starfire Power Plant: (1) TricMagic
HELIX Array: ()
ERIS Project: ()
Overclock Protocol: (1) TricMagic

A proposal where the goal is outright catastrophic failure. In this, failure is an option, as is success. In both cases, we lose the ship. Which isn't bad if we also take down their ship in the process. When you are going to lose, one option is to just flip the board entirely. And this is simply knowledge on how to cause that effect, which can and will be transmitted to our fleet without needing any modification.

It's only weakness is that a Speed 3 Engine won't immediately have that option. But by that point we'll be fine because the board was flipped.

[Blood_Librarian]

(Chord High intensity Technologically Timed Interception-Reaction Systems) CHITTI-R System
with the Specialized High-speed relays that replace the supercomputers and translation interfaces between the Oculus Laser systems, gunnery teams can now react to events with a speed measured in milliseconds. In combination with refined turret motors and sensor suites, Gunnery teams on Chords are able to be licensed to handle interception of the incoming ballistic ordinance utilizing light-speed capable ordinance known as lasers.

HELEX: (2) Blood_Librarian, SC777
Aperture Sentry Turrets: ()
ISSKM: (0):
Starfire Power Plant: (1) TricMagic
CHITTIR System: (1) Blood_Librarian

[Happerry]

Given that railgun rounds are mostly solid metal, I don't think they're a good target for point defense, and we're the ones with the missile ships, not them, so...

HELEX: (3) Blood_Librarian, SC777, Happerry
Aperture Sentry Turrets: ()
ISSKM: (0):
Starfire Power Plant: (2) TricMagic, Happerry
CHITTIR System: (1) Blood_Librarian

[Draignean]

HELEX: (4) Blood_Librarian, SC777, Happerry, Draignean
Aperture Sentry Turrets: ()
ISSKM: (0):
Starfire Power Plant: (2) TricMagic, Happerry
CHITTIR System: (1) Blood_Librarian
Chord-S: (1) Draignean

So, Lasers, definitely need an upgrade. However, looking at the Chord, it needs to be taken to the cleaners, and preferably redesigned as a better ship later.  It's oversized, up-armored for its class and thus slow, but said armor is little more than a thick nighty when compared to enemy railguns.




Chord-S (Also called the Chord-# or the Chord-Sharp)
A modernization refit of the Chord, the Chord-S is a revision of the original Chord space-frame with the following philosophy:

Keep Only What You Need to Survive.

Roomy personnel space? Gone. All armor beyond what's needed to protect against basic radiation and micro-meteorite impacts? Gone. Unnecessary, unused except for damage soaking, structural mass? Rip the bulkheads and leave only the endoskeleton of the sections behind. Life support systems have all been downscaled to deal with the greatly reduced habitable volume, and crew are strongly encouraged to have a breathing mask on hand at all times. The only thing we add is a lot of additional padding and straps to crew positions, because we definitely don't downscale the engines.

With dramatically reduced mass, we make speed our ally. Keeping the same frame means we have the same reaction points for maneuvers, but those points aren't trying to turn a pregnant water-buffalo. The engines, formerly struggling to accelerate her bulk, should find the reduce frame an agile and receptive dance partner. If we need to disengage, we disengage. We need to flip and fight, we flip and fight. We're not going to get fancy and try and make some sort of ultra-lightweight frame, but we're damn well going to turn this tractor into a Lamborgini if we can.