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[TricMagic]

Starfire Part 3R

Fusion has been laden with difficulties in it's development cycle. No more! Through the use of a new discovery, Reactor parts using evrasium can now be manufactured to the proper tolerances. No more faulty parts, difficulty of manufacture, or subpar containment. What is this miracle you ask? Supriisingly it is through nickel in the manufacturing gear. Evrasium has a strange reaction to nickel in that the structure of material changes. Nickel plates and shapes when pressed against it will cause Evrasium to change, the structure shifting away from the nickel. This can leave the Evrasium structure the same as a larger piece even after being cut, or can be used to force specific reactions when triggered, such as shifting the structure further to one side, causing more of the force to be released on that end.

Another advancement is the magnetohydrodynamics actually working properly. These two together mean that the Starfire Reactors are now producing superior power to the old AER reactors.

Granted, this is good. But it was simply a matter of finding a way to machine the parts cheaply and have the power generation working properly. The main benefit is undoubtably the ease of changing  the reactor size at this point. Enough to make a Direct Fusion Drive in fact.

The Starfire DFD is something we do have scientists to explain. But as a simplification, fusion is acheived, fuel fused, and the superheated reaction mass is slung out the back, no electricity needed to produce thrust. We can also extract electricity from it as well, meaning that our ships are very well powered. And our work in shaping the charge means a  magnetic nozzle for it to act as an ion drive. We expect great results from this.


Granted, having solved the engine, what of the Ship? Well, for that we had 3 options to vote upon.

ITC Redesign: Analogous Interstellar Transport Craft(AITC)

The AITC is focused around two things, Cost reduction, and Integration of the Starfire DFD. Effectively, the question became, what if we split it into 2 ships. The AITC was designed to be a 2 TC Carrier, far smaller than the original. In exchange, it is also faster and has a smaller profile. One can buy 2 AITC instead of 1 ITC, meaning troops and gear now have a more diverse method of transport. And with the DFD in the back powering it, it can travel at Speed 3, finally giving us a way to deliver troops and gear straight to the mid line. Separating the transports also means they are less likely to all be destroyed as well, and can escape more easily. Another is the shuttles can carry 2 TC worth of gear, meaning troops and their gear can go down together, or just things like tanks and other 2 TC items. Overall, it greatly simplifies transport across the planets, and is fast enough to disengage.


Chord Redesign: Chord Note

Armor, structure, and size reduced, Starfire DFD added. Fast, swift, accurate, and hard to hit, size classification is Interceptor, as is it's purpose in hunting ships in combat. No modifications were made to the weapons load out of Lasers, though they are kept up to date.


Amalogus Carrier Redesign: Amalogus Carrier(No Name Change)

The back section of the Amalogus Carrier has been replaced with the Starfire DFD. Other than that, there hasn't been any changes to it. It's still heavily armored, though most of the lasers it has on it's body have been moved to protect the new engine from approach. Now more than ever it's a weak point, but the amount of lasers pointing at anything trying is certainly going to make it seem like it isn't.

The AER Reactors are still active, if at reduced capacity due to the new primary engine type. It is rather maneuverable for it's given size... Granted, it's still slower than anything else when it comes to maneuvering in comparison, but it won't have any trouble turning. The increased power output that resulted from the new engine means the lasers are stronger too, so that spot is safe from any attackers. The rest it's fleet can handle defending, there is certainly enough space across it's hull to do so. It is still advised that it does not enter combat without spaceships to defend it, but as a wall with which to fight above, it serves some purpose. Certainly, Railgun shots aren't going to do a thing to ships behind it.

Quill LLAAW (0):
H-VOC (2): auzewasright, Blood_Librarian
SILK (0):
Ares (2): auzewasright, Blood_Librarian
BAM 2.0: (1) TricMagic
IDEALS: ()
CODEO: (1): Blood_Librarian,
Babel: (1) TricMagic

Starfire Part 3R: (1) TricMagic
ITC Redesign: (1) TricMagic
Chord Redesign: ()
AC Redesign: ()

Three options for ships. ITC reduction means we can certainly move about better, with the AC(And original ITC) serving as the 4 TC craft. Chord is more difficult, but results in a cheaper and faster ship. AC is just sticking one on the back, and is the simplest, if largest.

I am partial to the first, but am fine with any.

[Blood_Librarian]

SID Starship Interceptor Destroyer Balor Prototyping
The Balor is a test bed with the explicit purpose of engineering Evrasium-based fusion systems into a functional system, and utilizing its power for ship-based propulsion. Half-finished chassis of Chords are lifted from their construction beds and into the research directorates clutches. All armor excepting structurally critical pieces are lifted from the chassis and replaced with miles of cable and infrastructure to support the beating heart of a star.

the ass-end of the Chord is ripped out and replaced with an Evrasium fusion reactor & a direct fusion drive. The pulsating beats of the Starfire Power Plant are the tempo at which gouts of plasma a half-mile long is ejected from the DVD. For power concerns, newly revised magnetoplasma drive turbines enable the drive reactor to be significantly more efficient than traditional evrasium systems to justify its cost. The Balors fusion reactor represents the maturity of design techniques and the implementation of evrasium fusion reactor.

With the systemic stripping of armor, the craft is much more maneuverable, with only a partial decrease in endurance: enemy projectiles over penetrated through Chords in traditional conflicts, thereby making armor worse than useless as it hampered ability to effectively dodge. To make up for a decrease in survival capability, drop tanks are added, designed to be disposed of after traversing to deployed systems allow for a safer system with a smaller chance likelihood of internal detonations from fighting in the field. a revision will be required to increase its manuverability through a augmented manuvering system and improve its EWAR capabilities so as to cement its role as a agile craft.

The result is a craft that is able to accelerate to speed three, dodge enemy fire with a much higher percentage of success while keeping the enemy where their railguns cannot do the most damage and return fire without being blown out of the sky.

Quill LLAAW (0):
H-VOC (2): auzewasright, Blood_Librarian
SILK (0):
Ares (2): auzewasright, Blood_Librarian
BAM 2.0: (1) TricMagic
IDEALS: ()
CODEO: (1):
Babel: (1) TricMagic

Starfire Part 3R: (1) TricMagic
ITC Redesign: (1) TricMagic
Chord Redesign: ()
AC Redesign: ()
SID Balor: (1) Blood_Librarian

[TricMagic]

Quill LLAAW (0):
H-VOC (3): auzewasright, Blood_Librarian, TricMagic
SILK (0):
Ares (2): auzewasright, Blood_Librarian
BAM 2.0: (1) TricMagic
IDEALS: ()
CODEO: ():
Babel: ()

Starfire Part 3R: (1) TricMagic
ITC Redesign: (1) TricMagic
Chord Redesign: ()
AC Redesign: ()
SID Balor: (2) Blood_Librarian, TricMagic

Given that, I'd suggest BAM 2.0 for being 0 TC. They can be carried with a slaughter-field.

Though at this point, not particularly worried. I'd hope Balor does it's namesake.

I do want to try an AITC in revision phase though, if only for a 1 cost transport that does not reduce our ability to ship people and gear.

[Blood_Librarian]

Quill LLAAW (0):
H-VOC (3): auzewasright, Blood_Librarian, TricMagic
SILK (0):
Ares (1): auzewasright
BAM 2.0: (1) TricMagic
IDEALS: ()
CODEO: ():
Babel: ()

Starfire Part 3R: (1) TricMagic
ITC Redesign: (1) TricMagic
Chord Redesign: ()
AC Redesign: ()
SID Balor: (2) Blood_Librarian, TricMagic

[Madman198237]

Turn 8 Design Phase: Planetary Technate

High-Velocity Ordinance  Caseless Machine Gun (H-VOC Machine Gun
The H-VOC Machine gun is a belt-fed heavy machinegun designed for emplacement onto vehicles and fixed positions. It is technically man-portable, weighing in at just under 32 kilograms or 70 pounds: Best Practice is ot not issue it to infantry that is expected to assault a fixed position. The furniture, tri-pod, elements of the casing, and liquid-cooling shroud/radiator for the barrel are made out of modern composites and plastics to reduce weight. the Action is made out of ceramic materials that quickly wick heat off into the metal barrel and its cooling shroud, while the propellant of the rounds is made out of a non-crystalline powder with a higher ignition point to prevent premature detonation. the rounds are large but not as large as original proposal specs due to little-to-no expected enemy armor. It is designed to fight infantry, light vehicles and low flying aircraft.

To that end, it almost mimics the ballistic profile and energy of the .50 BMG of old earth, with a reduction of energy to 9,000 and 13,500 foot-pounds force (12200~ and 18300 J) from 10,000 and 15,000 foot-pounds force (14,000 and 20,000 J). It fires caseless telescoped munitions.

In atmospheric operations, the liquid cooling shroud can be replaced with an air-cooled barrel that is just as effective at radiating heat while reducing the system's base weight to 28 kilograms. While the weapon is not as light as it could be compared to a traditional cased weapon, The weight from replacing a brass cartridge with an outer layer of solidified propellant allows for twice as many rounds to be carried in 60% of the volume and 50% of the weight. Combined with its recoil-operated open-bolt (open bolt reduces accuracy but reduces heat concerns) feed system, it is able to fire 1000 rounds a minute.

High-Velocity Ordinance Caseless Machine Gun
Difficulty: Easy
Roll: 3 + 1 + 1 = 5 Average

It's a .50 caliber machinegun. It uses fancy caseless rounds and it has slightly less energy and it's smaller and it's really just a .50 caliber machinegun that fires lightweight bullets giving reduced energy. It is perfectly serviceable as a weapon. The caseless ammunition gives it heating issues particularly in airless environments, but that problem can be dealt with by firing less when necessary.

High-Velocity Ordinance Caseless Machine Gun: It's a reasonably lightweight caseless .50 caliber machinegun that does lots of damage and shoots lots of bullets fast. Easy to ship as it's not that big.
Size: 0 TC
Cost: 2 GPP

SID Starship Interceptor Destroyer Balor Prototyping
The Balor is a test bed with the explicit purpose of engineering Evrasium-based fusion systems into a functional system, and utilizing its power for ship-based propulsion. Half-finished chassis of Chords are lifted from their construction beds and into the research directorates clutches. All armor excepting structurally critical pieces are lifted from the chassis and replaced with miles of cable and infrastructure to support the beating heart of a star.

the ass-end of the Chord is ripped out and replaced with an Evrasium fusion reactor & a direct fusion drive. The pulsating beats of the Starfire Power Plant are the tempo at which gouts of plasma a half-mile long is ejected from the DVD. For power concerns, newly revised magnetoplasma drive turbines enable the drive reactor to be significantly more efficient than traditional evrasium systems to justify its cost. The Balors fusion reactor represents the maturity of design techniques and the implementation of evrasium fusion reactor.

With the systemic stripping of armor, the craft is much more maneuverable, with only a partial decrease in endurance: enemy projectiles over penetrated through Chords in traditional conflicts, thereby making armor worse than useless as it hampered ability to effectively dodge. To make up for a decrease in survival capability, drop tanks are added, designed to be disposed of after traversing to deployed systems allow for a safer system with a smaller chance likelihood of internal detonations from fighting in the field. a revision will be required to increase its manuverability through a augmented manuvering system and improve its EWAR capabilities so as to cement its role as a agile craft.

The result is a craft that is able to accelerate to speed three, dodge enemy fire with a much higher percentage of success while keeping the enemy where their railguns cannot do the most damage and return fire without being blown out of the sky.

Starship Interceptor Destroyer (SID) Balor Prototyping
Difficulty: Very Hard
Roll: 4 + 1 - 2 = 3 Buggy Mess

Increasing speeds beyond what is presently attainable has resulted in a remarkable series of failures. It's doable, for sure, but at present it's not going so hot. The Balor attempts to convert a Chord into an engine assembly with a warship's emaciated front half bolted on, and it shows. Most of the ship works as expected...sort of. Drop fuel tanks for a more or less inert fuel, carried by a vessel in a vacuum, are illogical, but they still made it on and now with the single accidental press of a button in the bridge, all the ship's fuel tanks will separate, bouncing around behind the hull plates on their way out and causing damage while also leaving the ship with less than five minutes of combat endurance.

The main drive system tends to leak plasma, burning holes in the ship and limiting its maintenance lifetime to "constantly under maintenance", though it technically can be deployed. Sort of. Problems within the drive system, in addition to the plasma leaks, lead to serious chronic underperformance. The ship is theoretically capable of achieving Speed 3, but at present struggles to reach Speed 2 in most conditions.

The Chord's three lasers are all located around the widest portion of the vessel to give them the best firing arcs, and so are retained. Three lasers is actually a much more reasonable armament for a ship like this, optimized for speed instead of mass and armor. However, the ship's structure is loaded with weak points where too much was taken out in the process of lightening the ship, making it absolutely fragile in combat. Improvements to the structure will render it somewhat more durable, but the engine system is just too big and cannot take huge amounts of damage without failure, potentially catastrophic.

If reworked, the Balor stands to be a very competent combat ship with its immense thrust potential allowing it to outmaneuver enemies with ease while making a good railgun firing solution nearly impossible to acquire. Given more powerful lasers or other standoff weapons, it could become nearly immune to railguns by kiting enemies at extreme ranges where its constant course changes can dodge any number of railgun rounds.

For now, though, the Balor is an broken and expensive boondoggle.

Starship Interceptor Destroyer (SID) Balor: An attempt at a high-speed starship based on the Chord and a massive direct fusion drive. Riddled with faults and failures, it cannot attain its goal but promises to be a capable combatant, if much more expensive than a Chord.
Special: could attain +1 Speed over present engine tech (Speed 3 right now) if it worked. It doesn't work.
Cost: 5 SPP

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Welcome to the revision phase. 2 revisions, urgent needs, etc.
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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
E: 0/0/10
F: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-5 'Elite', BMU-6 'Elite'
  -  Slaughterfield #1 "Fairlight Squadron", Slaughterfield #2 "Kingmaker Squadron"
G: 7/0/3
  -  BMU-2 Basic
  -  BMU-3 'Elite'
  -  ITC #2
  -  ITC #3
  -  Amalogus Carrier #1 "Kaden's Bravery"
  -  Chord #3, Degree #3, Degree #1
H: 10/0/0
I: 10/0/0
Planet 2: 10/0/0
  -  ITC #1

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

Ship Production Points: 31
  3 Points: 1x Chord
  6 Points: 3x ITC
  4 Points: 2x Degree
  6 Points: 1x Amalogus Carrier
  3 Points: LOST, available Turn 9 Strategy Phase
  5 Points: LOST, available Turn 10 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
  14 points: Unassigned

Units
BMU-2 Basic
  -  No unusual equipment
  -  G
BMU-3 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  G
BMU-5 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  F
BMU-6 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  F
Slaughterfield Squadron-1 "Fairlight Squadron"
  -  F
Slaughterfield Squadron-2 "Kingmaker Squadron"
  -  F

Ships
ITC #1
  -  Location: Homeworld
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC #2
  -  Location: G
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC #3
  -  Location: F
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Amalogus #1 "Kaden's Bravery"
  -  Location: F
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Damaged

Chord #3:
  -  Location: F
  -  Condition: Badly Damaged

Degree #1
  -  Location: G
  -  Condition: Crippled
Degree #3
  -  Location: F
  -  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
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

Starship Interceptor Destroyer (SID) Balor: An attempt at a high-speed starship based on the Chord and a massive direct fusion drive. Riddled with faults and failures, it cannot attain its goal but promises to be a capable combatant, if much more expensive than a Chord.
Special: could attain +1 Speed over present engine tech (Speed 3 right now) if it worked. It doesn't work.
Cost: 5 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. 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

High-Velocity Ordinance Caseless Machine Gun: It's a reasonably lightweight caseless .50 caliber machinegun that does lots of damage and shoots lots of bullets fast. Easy to ship as it's not that big.
Cost: 2 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.

High Energy Laser Excalibration (HELEX): A set of improvements to the Oculus that give it much-needed additional range and power and bring it up to par as a solid combat weapon instead of the rather anemic laser it was previously. Slightly increased power draw, no change to cost.

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

Starfire Power Plant: A mediocre fusion generator. About as powerful as the AER system and uses only a bit less Evrasium. With work it could supplant the AER systems and free up more resources for the war effort but as of now it just isn't good enough.

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

1 Revision Research Credit (roll 3d4 on revision take highest 2)

[TricMagic]

Starfire Revision: Magneto-hydrodynamics
We are just going to work to get the Starfire power plants done, and improve containment as a side project, so at least this project will finally allow additional resources to be put to other things. Like ships that don't blow themselves apart. The Magneto-hydrodynamics generators were never actually completed, so the reactor's output isn't high enough to justify it's costs. And the Balor never fixed that, despite that part being key to Direct Fusion Drives. If you can't gather energy from the output, you can't manage containment in a Direct Fusion Drive, resulting in the ship constantly needing maintenance. Hopefully this run of bad luck ends.
Focus: SPP


Analogous Interstellar Transport Craft(AITC)
The AITC is focused around one thing, Cost reduction. Effectively, the question became, what if we split it into 2 ships. The AITC was designed to be a 2 TC Carrier, far smaller than the original. In exchange, it is also faster and has a smaller profile. One can buy 2 AITC instead of 1 ITC, meaning troops and gear now have a more diverse method of transport.  Separating the transports also means they are less likely to all be destroyed as well, and can escape more easily. Another is the shuttles can carry 2 TC worth of gear, meaning troops and their gear can go down together, or just things like tanks and other 2 TC items. Overall, it greatly simplifies transport across the planets, and is fast enough to disengage.


Calculation Engineered Advanced Shot Entrapment Fire Interception Ram Engine, otherwise known as CEASEFIRE

CEASEFIRE is a modification to the Amalogus Carrier's systems, involving FROGI and improved components able to model trajectories through the camera system, and determine the best way for it's lasers to track targets above it's hull, intercepting their flight paths before closing in and tearing said ships apart. As well as a lot of RAM(Random-access Memory) and code to make it's processing speed very quick. An improved network system and short range broadcast ability also incorporates the shuttles into this pattern and improves communication between shooters both operating onboard and nearby ships. Working together, an AC is no base target, for anything our enemy uses that battles above it's hull must deal with Bullet Hell. This also helps it with taking down other targets as well. At the least missiles are not going to be of any effect at all against it.

Starfire Revision: Magneto-hydrodynamics: (1) TricMagic
AITC: ()
CEASEFIRE: (1) TricMagic
Credit the CEASEFIRE: (1) TricMagic

No OVERAMBITIONS. Let's just get something working maybe?

Well, an AC is also needed as our best transport ship too. 0 TC items and a Slaughterfield. 10 GPP, which we have. And we can make one if we scrap the ITC. CEASEFIRE is likely to be used later on, but right now it's a focus on a ship that has plenty of resources.
The credit is to make the system change effective, and hopefully the experiance be used in future ship designs.


Plan: Finishing Blow
Building Orders
Decommission ITC #1.
Build AC # 2: [Name needed]
Build Slaughterfield Squadren-3.
2 H-VOC MGs commissioned.
1 CEVAS and 1 SIAERA commissioned.
SPP: 4+2-6 SPP=0 SPP.
GPP: 14-4-2-2-1-1=4 GPP.

[Additional Note if 2 SPP freed. 1 BMU produced, 1 CEVAS/SIAERA set produced. Cost 4 GPP, so everything becomes 0.]
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AC#2 Loading/Delivery Orders
AC #2 loaded with Slaughterfield Squadren-3(4 TC) 2 H-VOC MG(0 TC), 1 CEVAS(0 TC), 1 SIAERA(0 TC). CEVAS/SIAERA/H-VOC MG set to be delivered as a Set to BMU-2 'Basic' via the 3TC shuttles. Other H-VOS MGs to be delivered to BMU-3 'Elite' when possible, but not priority.
Note: BMUs on Planet G to be Named 'Elite', with a loadout of CEVES/SIAERA/H-VOC-MG. All other BMUs using CEVES/SIAERA alone are to be renamed to Standard.

Note: Above is Productions, below is Combat/Movement Plans.
Degree #1 to retreat back to our Homeworld for repairs through I.
AC Kaden's Bravery to go into Orbit to hunt enemy ITCs and act as a defensive shield for other ships.
ITCs #2 and #3 to continue providing shuttle support to ground forces, as well as acting as shields for combat ships(Other than AC) as needed. They can take a hit more than the damaged ones, which make them valid options. Note that damage is irrelevant, all that matters is the destruction of enemy ships.
Chord #3, Degree # 3. Use AC and ITCs to hunt enemies in Orbit, with a focus on ITCs. Remain out of enemy range or near ACor ITCs. Damage to Enemy ships is the priority. Destroy if possible, cripple if not.

AC#2 will arrive at G through I late in the season. Slaughterfield-3 Squadron is to be unloaded and given free rein to hunt ITCs, Crippled Ships or assist ground forces. Equipment is to be deployed Planetside, then all remaining Non-Crippled ships are to band together to destroy any enemy ships remaining.

Important Notice
If Enemy Ships disengage, focus on the destruction of loaded ITCs, followed by unloaded. Do not pursue if they make it out of system, however if heading to I or H, all ships are to follow them. If the enemy splits between I and H, go through I's route.
 If AC#2 ends up encountering them en route, throw everything to enemy ITC's destruction included Slautherfield Squadron, with Crippling enemy ships as a secondary. After these tasks are completed, AC#2 is to continue to G to complete unloading.
If enemy ships disengaged, or moved to I or H and all enemy ITCs have been destroyed and other ships Crippled, Chords and Degrees are to return to Homeworld afterward for repairs.


Main focus for this Space Combat is the destruction of enemy ITCs, followed by Crippling enemy ships.

Ground Combat on G
BMU without equipment is to focus as support and ambush, rather than running in without the same gear as others. Stay fresh, for new gear is arriving.
BMU with equipment is to hold the line. Do not let them disrupt supply by taking over too much of the planet. Support is coming.

Focus on Defense this Ground Combat, BMUs. So long as we control most of the planet, we can simply kill them off after the new equipment and Slaughterfield arrives.

[Blood_Librarian]

Balor Finishing process

Continued development time puts finishing touches on the Balor, with a more conservative design goal: The engine thrust output is revamped so that its thrust is only marginally faster than equivalent engine systems rather than a full 50% in long term movements between planets. However, in combat conditions the output of engine matches original design specifications, our craft is expected to be able to keep the distance or pursue enemy aircraft with a large margin of speed in comparison to enemy craft.

The Reactor is hardened and restructured with the expected power output of a speed two craft. This massively reduces maintenance costs, combined with the relatively cheap fuel schema and reduced maintenance times, at the very least its power output-resource cost ratio should be on parity or better than a Chords reactor scheme.

Another attempt at armoring the Balor is attempted: With a down-powered engine, it might be marginally less prone to detonations.

Starfire Revision: Magneto-hydrodynamics: (1) TricMagic
AITC: ()
CEASEFIRE: (2) TricMagic, Blood_Librarian
Credit the CEASEFIRE: (2) TricMagic, Blood_Librarian
Balor Finishing Process: (1) Blood_Lirarian

[TricMagic]

Starfire Revision: Magneto-hydrodynamics: ()
AITC: ()
CEASEFIRE: (2) TricMagic, Blood_Librarian
Credit the CEASEFIRE: (2) TricMagic, Blood_Librarian
Balor Finishing Process: (2) Blood_Lirarian, TricMagic

[Happerry]

Starfire Revision: Magneto-hydrodynamics: ()
AITC: ()
CEASEFIRE: (3) TricMagic, Blood_Librarian, Happerry
Credit the CEASEFIRE: (3) TricMagic, Blood_Librarian, Happerry
Balor Finishing Process: (3) Blood_Lirarian, TricMagic, Happerry

[Madman198237]

Turn 8 Revision Phase: Planetary Technate

Calculation Engineered Advanced Shot Entrapment Fire Interception Ram Engine, otherwise known as CEASEFIRE

CEASEFIRE is a modification to the Amalogus Carrier's systems, involving FROGI and improved components able to model trajectories through the camera system, and determine the best way for it's lasers to track targets above it's hull, intercepting their flight paths before closing in and tearing said ships apart. As well as a lot of RAM(Random-access Memory) and code to make it's processing speed very quick. An improved network system and short range broadcast ability also incorporates the shuttles into this pattern and improves communication between shooters both operating onboard and nearby ships. Working together, an AC is no base target, for anything our enemy uses that battles above it's hull must deal with Bullet Hell. This also helps it with taking down other targets as well. At the least missiles are not going to be of any effect at all against it.

Calculation Engineered Advanced Shot Entrapment Fire Interception Ram Engine, CEASEFIRE
Difficulty: Trivial
Roll: (3 + 2 + 2 = 7) 4 + 1 + 2 = 7 Superior Craftsmanship

CEASEFIRE is a terrible name for a fire control unit. It's also a horribly simple project, basically applying FROGI to a new platform and...making it shoot better? Unfortunately, nothing can be done about the size of the Amalogous or its very, very, very vulnerable shuttles. However, the new fire control system has adopted a superior approach borne out of luck and copious testing. The new computer/FROGI system is capable of holding the still very lame Oculus lasers on a target with much closer to pinpoint accuracy, and is capable of directing multiple lasers to accurately target the same small area. In short, a target can no longer rely on getting out of a particular turret's arc to cool down the hull that has been under fire, because more turrets will constantly be endeavoring to place the same area under fire once again, and they might even be successful at it.

Calculation Engineered Advanced Shot Entrapment Fire Interception Ram Engine: One of the absolutely WORST backronyms that this abused records-keeper has ever had the misfortune to lay his eyes on, CEASEFIRE is a serious upgrade to the Amalogous Carriers' targeting and target tracking abilities that allow them to direct seriously accurate, coordinated laser fire on specific portions of a given ship even as said ship escapes the arcs of individual turrets.
Cost: Free!

Balor Finishing process

Continued development time puts finishing touches on the Balor, with a more conservative design goal: The engine thrust output is revamped so that its thrust is only marginally faster than equivalent engine systems rather than a full 50% in long term movements between planets. However, in combat conditions the output of engine matches original design specifications, our craft is expected to be able to keep the distance or pursue enemy aircraft with a large margin of speed in comparison to enemy craft.

The Reactor is hardened and restructured with the expected power output of a speed two craft. This massively reduces maintenance costs, combined with the relatively cheap fuel schema and reduced maintenance times, at the very least its power output-resource cost ratio should be on parity or better than a Chords reactor scheme.

Another attempt at armoring the Balor is attempted: With a down-powered engine, it might be marginally less prone to detonations.

Balor Finishing process
Difficulty: Hard
Roll: 2 + 2 - 1 = 3 Buggy Mess

The engine does not match original design specs. It is now a somewhat faster fuel-tank-discarding self-immolating heap of malfunctioning machinery, though. In combat conditions it has just about enough reliability to not fall apart until it comes under fire, at which point the weak structure will probably cause a complete failure anyway. It reaches Speed 2 more or less comfortably, now, but is still the same overall speed during interplanetary travel.

More work was not finished, though several prototypes' fuel tanks did rain down into the planetary atmosphere and create brilliant plumes of only slightly dangerous plasma in the upper atmosphere.

Starship Interceptor Destroyer (SID) Balor: An attempt at a high-speed starship based on the Chord and a massive direct fusion drive. Riddled with faults and failures, it cannot attain its goal but promises to be a capable combatant, if much more expensive than a Chord.
Special: could attain +1 Speed over present engine tech (Speed 3 right now) if it worked. It doesn't work.
Cost: 5 SPP

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Strategy phase, do strategy, and I promise I will work to make this phase go faster.
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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
E: 0/0/10
F: 10/0/0
  -  BMU-5 'Elite', BMU-6 'Elite'
  -  Slaughterfield #1 "Fairlight Squadron", Slaughterfield #2 "Kingmaker Squadron"
G: 7/0/3
  -  BMU-2 Basic
  -  BMU-3 'Elite'
  -  ITC #2
  -  ITC #3
  -  Amalogus Carrier #1 "Kaden's Bravery"
  -  Chord #3, Degree #3, Degree #1
H: 10/0/0
I: 10/0/0
Planet 2: 10/0/0
  -  ITC #1

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

Ship Production Points: 31
  3 Points: 1x Chord
  6 Points: 3x ITC
  4 Points: 2x Degree
  6 Points: 1x Amalogus Carrier
  3 Points: LOST, available Turn 9 Strategy Phase
  5 Points: LOST, available Turn 10 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
  14 points: Unassigned

Units
BMU-2 Basic
  -  No unusual equipment
  -  G
BMU-3 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  G
BMU-5 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  F
BMU-6 'Elite'
  -  SIAERA, CEVAS
  -  F
Slaughterfield Squadron-1 "Fairlight Squadron"
  -  F
Slaughterfield Squadron-2 "Kingmaker Squadron"
  -  F

Ships
ITC #1
  -  Location: Homeworld
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC #2
  -  Location: G
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
ITC #3
  -  Location: F
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Undamaged
Amalogus #1 "Kaden's Bravery"
  -  Location: F
  -  Contents: Empty
  -  Condition: Damaged

Chord #3:
  -  Location: F
  -  Condition: Badly Damaged

Degree #1
  -  Location: G
  -  Condition: Crippled
Degree #3
  -  Location: F
  -  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
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

Starship Interceptor Destroyer (SID) Balor: An attempt at a high-speed starship based on the Chord and a massive direct fusion drive. Riddled with faults and failures, it cannot attain its goal but promises to be a capable combatant, if much more expensive than a Chord.
Special: could attain +1 Speed over present engine tech (Speed 3 right now) if it worked. It doesn't work.
Cost: 5 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. 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

High-Velocity Ordinance Caseless Machine Gun: It's a reasonably lightweight caseless .50 caliber machinegun that does lots of damage and shoots lots of bullets fast. Easy to ship as it's not that big.
Cost: 2 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.

High Energy Laser Excalibration (HELEX): A set of improvements to the Oculus that give it much-needed additional range and power and bring it up to par as a solid combat weapon instead of the rather anemic laser it was previously. Slightly increased power draw, no change to cost.

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!

Calculation Engineered Advanced Shot Entrapment Fire Interception Ram Engine: One of the absolutely WORST backronyms that this abused records-keeper has ever had the misfortune to lay his eyes on, CEASEFIRE is a serious upgrade to the Amalogous Carriers' targeting and target tracking abilities that allow them to direct seriously accurate, coordinated laser fire on specific portions of a given ship even as said ship escapes the arcs of individual turrets.
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

Starfire Power Plant: A mediocre fusion generator. About as powerful as the AER system and uses only a bit less Evrasium. With work it could supplant the AER systems and free up more resources for the war effort but as of now it just isn't good enough.

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

Array

[TricMagic]

Plan: Finishing Blow
Building Orders
Decommission ITC #1.
Build AC # 2: [Name needed]
Build Slaughterfield Squadren-3.
2 H-VOC MGs commissioned.
1 CEVAS and 1 SIAERA commissioned.
SPP: 4+2-6 SPP=0 SPP.
GPP: 14-4-2-2-1-1=4 GPP.

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AC#2 Loading/Delivery Orders
AC #2 loaded with Slaughterfield Squadren-3(4 TC) 2 H-VOC MG(0 TC), 1 CEVAS(0 TC), 1 SIAERA(0 TC). CEVAS/SIAERA/H-VOC MG set to be delivered as a Set to BMU-2 'Basic' via the 3TC shuttles. Other H-VOS MGs to be delivered to BMU-3 'Elite' when possible, but not priority.
Note: BMUs on Planet G to be Named 'Elite', with a loadout of CEVES/SIAERA/H-VOC-MG. All other BMUs using CEVES/SIAERA alone are to be renamed to Standard.

Note: Above is Productions, below is Combat/Movement Plans.
Degree #1 to retreat back to our Homeworld for repairs through I.
AC Kaden's Bravery to go into Orbit to hunt enemy ITCs and act as a defensive shield for other ships.
ITCs #2 and #3 to continue providing shuttle support to ground forces, as well as acting as shields for combat ships(Other than AC) as needed. They can take a hit more than the damaged ones, which make them valid options. Note that damage is irrelevant, all that matters is the destruction of enemy ships.
Chord #3, Degree # 3. Use AC and ITCs to hunt enemies in Orbit, with a focus on ITCs. Remain out of enemy range or near ACor ITCs. Damage to Enemy ships is the priority. Destroy if possible, cripple if not.

AC#2 will arrive at G through I late in the season. Slaughterfield-3 Squadron is to be unloaded and given free rein to hunt ITCs, Crippled Ships or assist ground forces. Equipment is to be deployed Planetside, then all remaining Non-Crippled ships are to band together to destroy any enemy ships remaining.

Important Notice
If Enemy Ships disengage, focus on the destruction of loaded ITCs, followed by unloaded. Do not pursue if they make it out of system, however if heading to I or H, all ships are to follow them. If the enemy splits between I and H, go through I's route.
 If AC#2 ends up encountering them en route, throw everything to enemy ITC's destruction included Slautherfield Squadron, with Crippling enemy ships as a secondary. After these tasks are completed, AC#2 is to continue to G to complete unloading.
If enemy ships disengaged, or moved to I or H and all enemy ITCs have been destroyed and other ships Crippled, Chords and Degrees are to return to Homeworld afterward for repairs.


Main focus for this Space Combat is the destruction of enemy ITCs, followed by Crippling enemy ships.

Ground Combat on G
BMU without equipment is to focus as support and ambush, rather than running in without the same gear as others. Stay fresh, for new gear is arriving.
BMU with equipment is to hold the line. Do not let them disrupt supply by taking over too much of the planet. Support is coming.

Focus on Defense this Ground Combat, BMUs. So long as we control most of the planet, we can simply kill them off after the new equipment and Slaughterfield arrives.

The history of the Buggy Mess continues. How can so many 3s be rolled on fusion.
I kinda wonder if all we know not to do will actually help, cause that is another revision down for the count.


Anyway, Names!

Plan Finishing Blow: (1) TricMagic

Degree Names:
Sky's Eye[#1], Lunar Watch[#2], Star's Flight[#3]: (1) TricMagic
Names are based upon [Celestial Object | Word that fits a name] Example: Earth's Conviction, Solar Instinct, Nova's Flare

  FRF Rouge Baron[#1], FRF X-Ray Wraith[#2], FRF Turqoise Sword[#3]: (1) Blood_Librarian
FRF | [Name pattern [COLOR] | [OBJECT]]

ITC Names:
Ruby's Ascent[#1]Decommissioned, Sapphire Drop[#2], Emerald Expanse[#3]: (1) TricMagic
Names are based upon [Gems | Word that fits a name]

Interplanetary Transport Craft Oberon[#1]Decommissioned, Hygeia[#2], Mars-Trojan[#3] (purposely named after the trojan bodies of Mars.): (1) Blood_Librarian
ITC | Name Pattern [small celestial bodies of the Sol System


Chord Names:
Against All Odds[LOST in Battle, Chord #1], Gravekeeper[Lost in Battle, Chord #2], Waters' Embrace[Chord #3], Star Inviction[Chord #4]: (1) TricMagic
Names are based upon [Phrases]

Missile Corvette (MC) MC Unsinkable 2[LOST in Battle, Chord #1], MC Eye See You[Lost in Battle, Chord #2, MC Ranch Boondoggle[Chord #3], MC Fairlight Ambitions: (1) Blood_Librarian
LF | [Name based upon Phrases]


Amalogus Carrier Name: Kaden's Bravery[AC #1, already named]
Named are based upon [A Person's Name | A quality of a person, Bravery, Intellect, Kindness, and such.]

AC #2 Name: Ruby's Wisdom: (1) TricMagic

Please vote for names guys? Also, yes, it is a plan with many reaction-style results based upon their actions in that sector and others. Hopefully it's lined up right for MM to understand.

[Happerry]

Plan Finishing Blow: (2) TricMagic, Happerry

Tricmagic's Naming Scheme: (2) TricMagic, Happerry

Degree Names:
Sky's Eye[#1], Lunar Watch[#2], Star's Flight[#3]: (1) TricMagic
Names are based upon [Celestial Object | Word that fits a name] Example: Earth's Conviction, Solar Instinct, Nova's Flare

  FRF Rouge Baron[#1], FRF X-Ray Wraith[#2], FRF Turqoise Sword[#3]: (1) Blood_Librarian
FRF | [Name pattern [COLOR] | [OBJECT]]

ITC Names:
Ruby's Ascent[#1]Decommissioned, Sapphire Drop[#2], Emerald Expanse[#3]: (1) TricMagic
Names are based upon [Gems | Word that fits a name]

Interplanetary Transport Craft Oberon[#1]Decommissioned, Hygeia[#2], Mars-Trojan[#3] (purposely named after the trojan bodies of Mars.): (1) Blood_Librarian
ITC | Name Pattern [small celestial bodies of the Sol System


Chord Names:
Against All Odds[LOST in Battle, Chord #1], Gravekeeper[Lost in Battle, Chord #2], Waters' Embrace[Chord #3], Star Inviction[Chord #4]: (1) TricMagic
Names are based upon [Phrases]

Missile Corvette (MC) MC Unsinkable 2[LOST in Battle, Chord #1], MC Eye See You[Lost in Battle, Chord #2, MC Ranch Boondoggle[Chord #3], MC Fairlight Ambitions: (1) Blood_Librarian
LF | [Name based upon Phrases]


Amalogus Carrier Name: Kaden's Bravery[AC #1, already named]
Named are based upon [A Person's Name | A quality of a person, Bravery, Intellect, Kindness, and such.]

AC #2 Name: Ruby's Wisdom: (1) TricMagic

[TricMagic]

Plan Finishing Blow: (2) TricMagic, Happerry

TricMagic's Naming Scheme: (2) TricMagic, Happerry
Blood Librarian's Naming Scheme: (1) Blood_Librarian

That better MM?
Kinda surprised BL never proposed a name for the new AC though.

[auzewasright]

Plan Finishing Blow: (2) TricMagic, Happerry, auzewasright

TricMagic's Naming Scheme: (2) TricMagic, Happerry
Blood Librarian's Naming Scheme: (1) Blood_Librarian, auzewasright

[Shadowclaw777]

Plan Finishing Blow: (4) TricMagic, Happerry, auzewasright, SC777

TricMagic's Naming Scheme: (2) TricMagic, Happerry
Blood Librarian's Naming Scheme: (3) Blood_Librarian, auzewasright, SC777