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[Blood_Librarian]

Elysium Command Arms Race of Conquest: Private Thread

This is an arms race which primarily revolves around spaceships and their legendary exploits. This thread is dedicated to the machinations of the Elysium controlled by the viewers of the Bay12 forum games and roleplaying subsection.

If you are new to the game and wish to participate, please read the core thread first.


Introduction
We are a people who have come from a storied background of intensive warfare and survival. United together on our Elysium, we explored the heavens and ignited the gates, just as our ancestors did so long ago. Among the graveyards of the ancient dead diaspora, we found another Elysium, or rather their ships' crude guns. Far away from the home of our most enlightened people, a war machine is ramping up; the forges of our elysium have been ignited in response to their aggressive attack on our exploration craft and their barbaric ways.

in the decayed Forge of Elysium, new works are being etched into the cool liquid computational engines of our Elysium. But who are you? What are your people? Now is the time to define who our people are, and how did we ascend from our fall after the Dissolution War.

Work on a both 2 Designs As well as your nations identity, and the nature of it’s fall from grace during the Dissolution War.

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

The map will be current in the core thread as well as the latest post of the arms race

Bay12's Elysium is in the orbit of a red dwarf star, with little in the way of other orbital bodies: A single gas giant with a small lunar system around it. Requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.
Space Battle's Elysium is in the orbit of a large gas giant, which orbits distantly from a yellow star. Several small bodies orbit around the inner lanes of the star. Requires Aerodyamic 0 to operate in.
[Redacted] is the fastest way to each Elysium, consisitng of only two "jumps" to get there.  It's state is unknown, but what is known is that the comming conflict will begin here, and will be bloody. A planet with a atmosphere is detected here, and will require a ship with Aerodynamic 5 to drop troops on.

Spoiler: starter designs (click to show/hide)

DropBox link to Turn 0 Items: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j6lnx9hmn7espt9/AAAc9JJLN7yFQKc8-3U3Uvjha?dl=0
DropBox link to CURRENT BAY12 Items: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ki83g84cx7cj0vv/AAD4t2wWfHSR6mUfA3FE6QbOa?dl=0
You have 90 Resources available per turn.

Hulls
Gate Capable Shuttle - 2 Hull: The first workable hull of the conflict, and strikingly identical in both Elysium's, GCS-2 craft are small shuttles that are capable of carrying Gate Keys as well as some other stuff. It is a makeshift hull, fabricated from large modular structure elements with thin armor plates that are just barely capable of standing in the way of light autocannon fire. Made for the purpose of ferrying troops from one end of the Elysium to the other and one of the finest pieces of Elysium equipment that ultimately united your country. In the dawn of your united Elysium, it’s main purpose is in logistics and exploration, and unsuited for combat. It’s paper thin armor cannot stand up to ship-grade weaponry for very long. Capable of landing on worlds with thin gravity and atmosphere or Elysiums.
3x2
Values: Aerodynamic 2, Internal 1
Tags:
Cost: 9
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Components:

Infantry Division: People hired by your polity that went through a strict training regimen and given the equipment needed to take objectives in a wide variety of environments. Standard in all ships, but may require vehicular or orbital support to get the job done. Current technology  utilizes gun-powder and armor piercing rounds in their automatic guns, and wear hardened steel plates in vests for armor. Spacesuits are equipped when required.
Assumed to be in all ships, but specialized components or hulls can be fabricated for greater effect. As time progresses, the engineering division will give them new weapons and armor.

Elysium Automatic Cannon Special -- [EAC]
The EACS is a series of autocannons, fire controls and sensory systems that represent the first step in warfare. Irregular manufacturing standards, varying calibers, poorly designed autoloaders as well as crude propellants and large bore projectiles intended to never risk damage to the Elysium mean that this weapon is large and underpowered. It is self contained, and only requires supply to keep functioning.
Values:Cost 2, Maintenance 1
Tags: Front

Hydrogen engine -- [HeE]
An integrated set of hydrogen and oxygen tanks that is fed into a combustion chamber and expelled to generate thrust. Generates electricity from an attached alternator. Sets the basis of all thrust systems with a speed of 1.
Values: Cost:4, Maintenace 1
Tags:Rear

Solar-Battery Power plant -- [SBP]
A set of unfurlable solar panels and chemical batteries designed to produce large amounts of power.. The panels cannot be protected by armor and unfurled. The S-B Power Plant has reduced effectiveness in operations that are very far from objects that generate usable solar radiation. The batteries can be best described as "workable," and are prone to small-scale detonations if damaged.   
Values: PPC 3¹, Cost: 3
1. Generates 3 PPC for a couple hours or an extended fight utilizing PPC weapons before an extended down period is required to recharge the batteries

Troop compartment  -- [Trp]
A hull section is torn down and dedicated towards storing and disembarking large numbers of ground troops. Allows more soldiers to be present on a craft, as well as allowing more equipment for their purpose to be stored, up to light scout craft and heavy weapon emplacements. Structural weaknesses are present, but minor due to the small size of the vehicles.
Value: Cost:1

Gate Key -- [GA1]
A complex device that utilizes energy stored from on-ship batteries to slice into the gate’s network , open it’s iris to allow the passage, and then ignites it’s ancient machine, utilizing a colossal amount of power to do so. This model is crude and energy intensive, only barely able to handle the power required to send a ship of the same tonnage as the gate-key bearing ship, while requiring a horrendously expensive manufacturing process. However, unlike the original prototypes, it can open the gate to allow other ships through.
Values: Cost 5, PPC -6, Maintenace 3

Infrastructure

The Forge of Elysium
A colossal set of infrastructure, heavy equipment and digital archives that permit the fabrication of wonders. Unable to access the designs made before the Dissolution war due to digital decay and hellish encryption of the blueprints required, New designs must be made for the Forge. Consisting of a full third of the internal volume of the Elysium, our manufacturing needs will be met by the Forge for a considerable amount of time  without any need for expansion, and our people are wholly reliant on this miracle machine for manufactured goods. The only bottleneck in the acquisition of more Resources is the raw material required to turn into feedstock
Values:Produces 90 Resources.

Values

Pulsed Power Container (PPC): These are containers that output enough energy to sustain components that require PPC power. Will often come with a amount of time that it could be sustained..
Aerodynamic: Hulls with this tag are designed with operations in an atmospheric body in mind, with a sealed hull and attention to avoiding excess bulk. Every planet or body has this value, representing how difficult it is to enter and leave its atmosphere or gravity. Barren planets with low gravity and no atmosphere do not require any Aerodynamic tags to operate in, but especially slow moving hulls may be restricted.
Internal: This value is attached to hulls, representing how many slots it has with the Internal Tag.
Cost: The material, industrial and socioeconomic cost of an object rendered down into its most quintessential value in fabricating this component or hull. This cost is in terms of Resources..
Maintenance:cost in resources every turn after its manufacturing
Thrust: Engines produce this value, Though the ratio between maneuvering ability and pure thrust is sometimes different. Divide Thrust points on a hull by how many slots are on a ship to determine how fast the craft is relative to other ships.

Tags:

Integrated: Components with this tag are not able to be placed on normal designs and are hard-wired into specific designs.
Internal: Slots with this tag have no outer surface access: they are surrounded by the other components of the ship and are significantly less likely to be damaged in combat. Components with this tag need to be placed in an Internal slot.
Rear: Components with this slot must be placed on the left-most slots of a craft.
Front: Components with this slot must be placed on the right-most slots of a craft.
Volatile: Components with this tag are at risk of destroying the ship if damaged. Most typical of antimatter reactors or metallic hydrogen storage systems. Some components will also be Volatile in certain situations, like a hydrogen tank in an oxygenated atmosphere.
Yellow Line: This component can be yellow lined by captains to have an increased effect at the expense of the possibility of issues occurring after prolonged use.
Red Line: As above, but this component can be pushed even further beyond, into the thin edge between oblivion and enhanced operations, but not for very long, and for a drastic cost. For your finest hour.
Black Line: As above, but this component can be pushed past any sane or safe limit, to provide an enormous effect before burning out, often with spectacular consequences. The dramatic way of going out, to wet your blades edge one more time before the end.
Limited(x): Components with this tag can only be put in (x) per ship. In some cases, other components may restrict the installation of Limited(x) components. (eg a limited sensor system might not be installable with a common sensor system)
Gate Bearer: A hull or component with this tag can allow ships of equal tonnage to pass through a gate, including itself.

Spoiler: Operationalized Ships (click to show/hide)

Gate Capable Shuttle - 2: “Mercury” Variant
The Mercury is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the Gate Key, which make up the center of the craft. It is undergunned, with only a few gunnery emplacements that dot its hull. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds.
Format
[HeE][GA1][SBP]
[HeE][SBP][EAC]
Values:Cost: 30, Maintenance 6, PPC 6*, Thrust 2
Tag: Gate Bearer

Spoiler: Templates (click to show/hide)

DESIGN TEMPLATE

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[quote=DESIGN NAME]
Design: //The name of the item being designed
[Description]
Theorized Tags: //Tags that you think should be put on the component or hull. May or may not actually be put on the item in question.
Est. Cost://The estimated cost of the component in the designers educated guess.
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DESIGN VOTEBOX

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[quote]
DESIGN NAME (0): //put your name after the colon and increment the number in parentheses to vote for a design.
DESIGN NAME (0):
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REVISION TEMPLATE

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[quote= REVISION NAME]
Revision://The name of the project/revision.
[Description]
Item being Revised://Component or hull being revised here, if not applicable remove this entry.
Theorized Appended Tags: //Theorized tags that may be added to or removed from the component or hull in question. If none, remove entry.
Est Cost: //The Designers guess at the estimated cost of the component after revision. May or may not be accurate. If not applicable, remove entry.
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PROTOTYPING TEMPLATEs
You have three options for Operationalizing ships. You can
A: copy the template image of a hull, and paste in the pictures of components, add in how much armor it has in each facing, fill in the armor picture, and then call it a day. Depending on the hull template, there might be more to do.
B: fill out the operationalization template specific to the hull and post it in the forum. They are the open and close brackets with letters and numbers in them sometimes.
C.Fill out the Generic Operationalization Template, where the GM will fill out the template and present it during ship-berth trials. Impossible requests will be met with erratic configurations..

GENERIC OPERATIONALIZATION TEMPLATE

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[quote]
VARIANT NAME:
BASE HULL:
COMPONENTS REQUESTED:
GENERAL ROLE
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OPERATIONALIZATION VOTEBOX

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[quote]
PROTOTYPE NAME (+0):
AGAINST ABOVE (-0):
PROTOTYPE NAME (+0):
AGAINST ABOVE (-0)
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STRATEGY TEMPLATE

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[quote=Strategization]
[b]Finalization Voting:[/b]

//Copy this for each new Prototype. Append the end of any modification with a variant name/letter/number and HOLD if you want to wait on deploying it until next turn for deployment in exchange for another round of ship-berth trials or DEPLOY IMMEDIATELY to put it to the field without testing.

[quote=PROTOTYPE NAME]
ACCEPT (0):
MODIFICATION “A” HOLD (0):
MODIFICATION “B” HOLD (0):
MODIFICATION “B” DEPLOY IMMEDIATELY (0):
SCRAP (0):
ALLOCATION SECTION
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[b]Allocation Voting[/b]::

[quote]
[INSERT PLAN NAME] (0):
[INSERT PLAN NAME] (0):
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ALLOCATION PLANNING TEMPLATE

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[quote=Allocation Plan [NAME HERE]]
[PASTE IN RESOURCES AVAILABLE FROM ARMS RACE MASTER’S POST]

Ship Production list:
[FULL SHIP PREFIX DESIGN NAME -- SHIP NAME]
[EXAMPLE: STAR DESTROYER VINDICATOR -- DARKK]

Misc Manufacturing Agenda:
[INPUT ANY MISC. PROJECTS THAT YOU WANT TO BE INVESTED IN HERE. MOST LIKELY WILL BE INFRASTRUCTURE.]

Current Assets:
[COPY PASTE THE CURRENT ASSETS LIST FROM THE A.R.M’S POST, THEN ANY SHIPS PRODUCED FROM YOUR ALLOCATION PLANNING. APPEND EVERY SHIP WITH A CURRENT GOAL & DESTINATION.]
[PUT SHIPS FROM THIS TURNS SHIP PRODUCTION LIST HERE PUT AN ASTERISK IN THEIR NAME SIGNIFY THAT THEY ARE FRESHLY BUILT..]
[SHIP VARIANT -- ABR. SHIP PREFIX SHIP NAME]

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[ConscriptFive]

Design: "Rubik" Spacefaring Corvette Hull

Completely foregoing the design compromises necessary for atmospheric flight, the "Rubik" Spacefaring Corvette is a modest hull intended solely for orbital dominance.  With aerodynamic streamlining and control surfaces (wings/rudders) entirely absent, the hull strongly resembles a cube.  Absent these fragile appendages and landing gear, this hull should also prove more rugged in combat situations.  With combat in mind, the hull is more reinforced and externally armored than the utility GSC hull.

In comparison to the GCS, the Rubik also features 50 percent more volume.  In 2D projection, the hull layout resembles a 3x3. This grants 3 front slots, and three rear slots, with a protected center "internal" slot.

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Design: Next-Gen Autocannon (NGAC)

Our current EACS certainly is "special..." if by special you mean "unproven, deeply flawed, and likely inadequate for true combat."

The Next-Gen Autocannon (NGAC) is a complete overhaul of the EACS.  The NGAC is built around standardized twin 40mm autocannons in a ball turret.  Assuming proper hull placement, the ball turret should allow nearly 180 degree coverage on both axes.  The 40mm round comes in two variants, a High Explosive (HE) shells for  general use, and Armor Piercing Depleted Uranium (APDU) high density slugs for hardened targets.

Naturally sensors, fire control systems, and autoloaders are fully integrated in the modular NGAC system.

Tags: Front
Est Cost: 2

[Twinwolf]

"Rubik" Spacefaring Corvette Hull (1): Twinwolf
Next-Gen Autocannon (1): Twinwolf

It's fun to abuse the lack of aerodynamics so space cube it is. And well, the other design I could go either way on a better gun or a better powerplant, both will be needed eventually so may as well start with gun.

[Blood_Librarian]

Elysium Command Arms Race of Conquest: Design Phase

Design: "Rubik" Spacefaring Corvette Hull

Completely foregoing the design compromises necessary for atmospheric flight, the "Rubik" Spacefaring Corvette is a modest hull intended solely for orbital dominance.  With aerodynamic streamlining and control surfaces (wings/rudders) entirely absent, the hull strongly resembles a cube.  Absent these fragile appendages and landing gear, this hull should also prove more rugged in combat situations.  With combat in mind, the hull is more reinforced and externally armored than the utility GSC hull.

In comparison to the GCS, the Rubik also features 50 percent more volume.  In 2D projection, the hull layout resembles a 3x3. This grants 3 front slots, and three rear slots, with a protected center "internal" slot.

Difficulty: Normal (0 mod)
2d4--> 3+3 [Above Average]

"Rubik" Spacefaring Corvette Hull
Measuring roughly 35 meters in each direction, the Rubik is a step up from the GCS, one of the first ships assembled in the makeshift ship-yards of our Elysium instead of interior hangar bays, required specifically for it’s bulky cuboid frame. The Rubik represents the beginning of a doctrine of specialized warships and a separation from aerospace and stellar engineering. To that end, the results are promising.

The hull of the Rubik consists of several large hardened steel girders that make up into two rectangular modules that are precision welded together,resulting in a powerful base onto which the rest of the ship is built around. The hull plates are given gaps several inches thick in the front and sides, allowing for an increased survivability per pound of armor. Per meter, the increase of armor is roughly ten percent to fifteen percent over the GCS, but is capable of standing against the against weapons systems like the GCS  for prolonged periods of time due to the deformations of projectiles by the spaced armor. While the Rubik requires a significantly increased amount of material over the GCS, The simplicity of the shape of the hull some-what reduces this cost. It is notable that the Rubik has not completely lost it’s “Aerodynamic” tag, and is capable of landing on it’s “tail” on worlds without a atmosphere and with a low gravity, like moons or asteroids. If the vessel was any larger, this would not be possible without a modicum of design effort..

"Rubik" Spacefaring Corvette Hull: A durable corvette hull with spaced armor specialized towards stellar operations, The Rubik has average primitive armor specialized towards small primitive kinetic projectiles. Capable of landing on barren moons. Noted to have a robust structure despite utilizing modular frames in it’s construction.
3x3
Values: Aerodynamic 1, Internal 1
Tags:
Cost: 13
Template:

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Design: Next-Gen Autocannon (NGAC)
Our current EACS certainly is "special..." if by special you mean "unproven, deeply flawed, and likely inadequate for true combat."

The Next-Gen Autocannon (NGAC) is a complete overhaul of the EACS.  The NGAC is built around standardized twin 40mm autocannons in a ball turret.  Assuming proper hull placement, the ball turret should allow nearly 180 degree coverage on both axes.  The 40mm round comes in two variants, a High Explosive (HE) shell for general use, and Armor Piercing Depleted Uranium (APDU) high density slugs for hardened targets.

Naturally sensors, fire control systems, and autoloaders are fully integrated in the modular NGAC system.

Tags: Front
Est Cost: 2

Difficulty: Hard (-1 mod)
2d4--> 3+1-1= 3 [Buggy mess]
The NGAC is a project beleaguered by the realities of the actinide and heavy metal desert we find ourselves in. We have not fully discovered fission reactors, and thus any form of reprocessing systems for the depleted fuel of our Elysium’s tertiary fission reactors.(the only accessible power solution we have, the secondary and primary power generators are systems we plainly do not understand nor can access.) The aforementioned fission reactors do produce depleted fuel, but not the depleted uranium our ancestors shot into the unenlightened. This was not discovered until several rounds had been damaged during trials of the prototype autoloading and turret systems, as well as thoroughly contaminating several prototyping fabricators of the Elysium. Much of the original development time intended to fabricate the turret was instead directed into cleaning up these internal systems and thus the final result of the NGAC is unpolished. The NGAC utilizes rounds which are essentially one step above the irregular HE rounds utilized by the EACS. The Ball turret allows for the weapon to be placed on facets that do not directly face the enemy.

It has several notable issues that present severe technical difficulties in its function. It is incapable of standing by for an extended period without massive faults, resulting in portions of the gun network being unable to fire each engagement unless put into the redline, which represent categorically keeping guns online despite critical maintenance issues(Yellow line represents ignoring maintenance times to keep more guns online). It is inaccurate due to faults in the turret systems.

Next-Gen Autocannon (NGAC) -- (nAC):
The NGAC is a series of turreted autocannons with integrated fire control and sensory systems. It is designed as a dual 40mm ball turreted autocannon, of which half a dozen per slot is put onto the hull. The turret is rated for a 180 coverage on both axes. It utilizes crude HE rounds. It is self-contained, and only requires Maintenance to function. It is incapable of standing by for an extended period without massive faults, resulting in portions of the gun network being unable to fire each engagement unless put into the redline. It is inaccurate due to faults in the turret systems.
Values:Cost 3, Maintenance 1
Tags: Red Line

Work on both 2 revisions, any ships you wish to be Operationalized As well as your nations identity, and the nature of it’s fall from grace during the Dissolution War.
There will be two or three more turns until the beginning of combat.

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

The map will be current in the core thread as well as the latest post of the arms race

Bay12's Elysium is in the orbit of a red dwarf star, with little in the way of other orbital bodies: A single gas giant with a small lunar system around it. Requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.
Space Battle's Elysium is in the orbit of a large gas giant, which orbits distantly from a yellow star. Several small bodies orbit around the inner lanes of the star. Requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.
[Redacted] is the fastest way to each Elysium, consisting of only two "jumps" to get there.  It's state is unknown, but what is known is that the coming conflict will begin here, and will be bloody. A planet with an atmosphere is detected here, and will require a ship with Aerodynamic 5 to drop troops on.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

DropBox link to CURRENT BAY12 Items: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ki83g84cx7cj0vv/AAD4t2wWfHSR6mUfA3FE6QbOa?dl=0
You have 90 Resources available per turn.

Hulls
Gate Capable Shuttle - 2 Hull: The first workable hull of the conflict, and strikingly identical in both Elysium's, GCS-2 craft are small shuttles that are capable of carrying Gate Keys as well as some other stuff. It is a makeshift hull, fabricated from large modular structure elements with thin armor plates that are just barely capable of standing in the way of light autocannon fire. Made for the purpose of ferrying troops from one end of the Elysium to the other and one of the finest pieces of Elysium equipment that ultimately united your country. In the dawn of your united Elysium, it’s main purpose is in logistics and exploration, and unsuited for combat. It’s paper thin armor cannot stand up to ship-grade weaponry for very long. Capable of landing on worlds with thin gravity and atmosphere or Elysiums.
3x2
Values: Aerodynamic 2, Internal 1
Tags:
Cost: 9
Template:
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"Rubik" Spacefaring Corvette Hull: A durable corvette hull with spaced armor specialized towards stellar operations, The Rubik has average primitive armor specialized towards small primitive kinetic projectiles. Capable of landing on barren moons. Noted to have a robust structure despite utilizing modular frames in it’s construction.
3x3
Values: Aerodynamic 1, Internal 1
Tags:
Cost: 13
Template:

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Infantry Division: People hired by your polity that went through a strict training regimen and given the equipment needed to take objectives in a wide variety of environments. Standard in all ships, but may require vehicular or orbital support to get the job done. Current technology  utilizes gun-powder and armor piercing rounds in their automatic guns, and wear hardened steel plates in vests for armor. Spacesuits are equipped when required.
Assumed to be in all ships, but specialized components or hulls can be fabricated for greater effect. As time progresses, the engineering division will give them new weapons and armor.

Elysium Automatic Cannon Special -- [EAC]
The EACS is a series of autocannons, fire controls and sensory systems that represent the first step in warfare. Irregular manufacturing standards, varying calibers, poorly designed autoloaders as well as crude propellants and large bore projectiles intended to never risk damage to the Elysium mean that this weapon is large and underpowered. It is self contained, and only requires supply to keep functioning.
Values:Cost 2, Maintenance 1
Tags: Front

Next-Gen Autocannon (NGAC) -- (nAC)
The NGAC is a series of turreted autocannons with integrated fire control and sensory systems. It is designed as a dual 40mm ball turreted autocannon, of which half a dozen per slot is put onto the hull. The turret is rated for a 180 coverage on both axes. It utilizes crude HE rounds. It is self-contained, and only requires Maintenance to function. It is incapable of standing by for an extended period without massive faults, resulting in portions of the gun network being unable to fire each engagement unless put into the redline. It is inaccurate due to faults in the turret systems.
Values:Cost 3, Maintenance 1
Tags: Red Line

Hydrogen engine -- [HeE]
An integrated set of hydrogen and oxygen tanks that is fed into a combustion chamber and expelled to generate thrust. Generates electricity from an attached alternator. Sets the basis of all thrust systems with a speed of 1.
Values: Cost:4, Maintenace 1
Tags:Rear

Solar-Battery Power plant -- [SBP]
A set of unfurlable solar panels and chemical batteries designed to produce large amounts of power.. The panels cannot be protected by armor and unfurled. The S-B Power Plant has reduced effectiveness in operations that are very far from objects that generate usable solar radiation. The batteries can be best described as "workable," and are prone to small-scale detonations if damaged.   
Values: PPC 3¹, Cost: 3
1. Generates 3 PPC for a couple hours or an extended fight utilizing PPC weapons before an extended down period is required to recharge the batteries

Troop compartment  -- [Trp]
A hull section is torn down and dedicated towards storing and disembarking large numbers of ground troops. Allows more soldiers to be present on a craft, as well as allowing more equipment for their purpose to be stored, up to light scout craft and heavy weapon emplacements. Structural weaknesses are present, but minor due to the small size of the vehicles.
Value: Cost:1

Gate Key -- [GA1]
A complex device that utilizes energy stored from on-ship batteries to slice into the gate’s network , open it’s iris to allow the passage, and then ignites it’s ancient machine, utilizing a colossal amount of power to do so. This model is crude and energy intensive, only barely able to handle the power required to send a ship of the same tonnage as the gate-key bearing ship, while requiring a horrendously expensive manufacturing process. However, unlike the original prototypes, it can open the gate to allow other ships through.
Values: Cost 5, PPC -6, Maintenace 3

Infrastructure

The Forge of Elysium
A colossal set of infrastructure, heavy equipment and digital archives that permit the fabrication of wonders. Unable to access the designs made before the Dissolution war due to digital decay and hellish encryption of the blueprints required, New designs must be made for the Forge. Consisting of a full third of the internal volume of the Elysium, our manufacturing needs will be met by the Forge for a considerable amount of time  without any need for expansion, and our people are wholly reliant on this miracle machine for manufactured goods. The only bottleneck in the acquisition of more Resources is the raw material required to turn into feedstock
Values:Produces 90 Resources.

Values

Pulsed Power Container (PPC): These are containers that output enough energy to sustain components that require PPC power. Will often come with a amount of time that it could be sustained..
Aerodynamic: Hulls with this tag are designed with operations in an atmospheric body in mind, with a sealed hull and attention to avoiding excess bulk. Every planet or body has this value, representing how difficult it is to enter and leave its atmosphere or gravity. Barren planets with low gravity and no atmosphere do not require any Aerodynamic tags to operate in, but especially slow moving hulls may be restricted.
Internal: This value is attached to hulls, representing how many slots it has with the Internal Tag.
Cost: The material, industrial and socioeconomic cost of an object rendered down into its most quintessential value in fabricating this component or hull. This cost is in terms of Resources..
Maintenance:cost in resources every turn after its manufacturing.
Thrust: Engines produce this value, Though the ratio between maneuvering ability and pure thrust is sometimes different. Divide Thrust points on a hull by how many slots are on a ship to determine how fast the craft is relative to other ships.

Tags:

Integrated: Components with this tag are not able to be placed on normal designs and are hard-wired into specific designs.
Internal: Slots with this tag have no outer surface access: they are surrounded by the other components of the ship and are significantly less likely to be damaged in combat. Components with this tag need to be placed in an Internal slot.
Rear: Components with this slot must be placed on the left-most slots of a craft.
Front: Components with this slot must be placed on the right-most slots of a craft.
Volatile: Components with this tag are at risk of destroying the ship if damaged. Most typical of antimatter reactors or metallic hydrogen storage systems. Some components will also be Volatile in certain situations, like a hydrogen tank in an oxygenated atmosphere.
Yellow Line: This component can be yellow lined by captains to have an increased effect at the expense of the possibility of issues occurring after prolonged use.
Red Line: As above, but this component can be pushed even further beyond, into the thin edge between oblivion and enhanced operations, but not for very long, and for a drastic cost. For your finest hour.
Black Line: As above, but this component can be pushed past any sane or safe limit, to provide an enormous effect before burning out, often with spectacular consequences. The dramatic way of going out, to wet your blades edge one more time before the end.
Limited(x): Components with this tag can only be put in (x) per ship. In some cases, other components may restrict the installation of Limited(x) components. (eg a limited sensor system might not be installable with a common sensor system)
Gate Bearer: A hull or component with this tag can allow ships of equal tonnage to pass through a gate, including itself.

Spoiler: Operationalized Ships (click to show/hide)

Gate Capable Shuttle - 2: “Mercury” Variant
The Mercury is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the Gate Key, which make up the center of the craft. It is undergunned, with only a few gunnery emplacements that dot its hull. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds.
Format
[HeE][GA1][SBP]
[HeE][SBP][EAC]
Values:Cost: 30, Maintenance 6, PPC 6*, Thrust 2
Tag: Gate Bearer

Spoiler: Templates (click to show/hide)

DESIGN TEMPLATE

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[quote=DESIGN NAME]
Design: //The name of the item being designed
[Description]
Theorized Tags: //Tags that you think should be put on the component or hull. May or may not actually be put on the item in question.
Est. Cost://The estimated cost of the component in the designers educated guess.
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DESIGN VOTEBOX

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[quote]
DESIGN NAME (0): //put your name after the colon and increment the number in parentheses to vote for a design.
DESIGN NAME (0):
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REVISION TEMPLATE

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[quote= REVISION NAME]
Revision://The name of the project/revision.
[Description]
Item being Revised://Component or hull being revised here, if not applicable remove this entry.
Theorized Appended Tags: //Theorized tags that may be added to or removed from the component or hull in question. If none, remove entry.
Est Cost: //The Designers guess at the estimated cost of the component after revision. May or may not be accurate. If not applicable, remove entry.
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PROTOTYPING TEMPLATEs
You have three options for Operationalizing ships. You can
A: copy the template image of a hull, and paste in the pictures of components, add in how much armor it has in each facing, fill in the armor picture, and then call it a day. Depending on the hull template, there might be more to do.
B: fill out the operationalization template specific to the hull and post it in the forum. They are the open and close brackets with letters and numbers in them sometimes.
C.Fill out the Generic Operationalization Template, where the GM will fill out the template and present it during ship-berth trials. Impossible requests will be met with erratic configurations..

GENERIC OPERATIONALIZATION TEMPLATE

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[quote]
VARIANT NAME:
BASE HULL:
COMPONENTS REQUESTED:
GENERAL ROLE
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OPERATIONALIZATION VOTEBOX

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PROTOTYPE NAME (+0):
AGAINST ABOVE (-0):
PROTOTYPE NAME (+0):
AGAINST ABOVE (-0)
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STRATEGY TEMPLATE

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[quote=Strategization]
[b]Finalization Voting:[/b]

//Copy this for each new Prototype. Append the end of any modification with a variant name/letter/number and HOLD if you want to wait on deploying it until next turn for deployment in exchange for another round of ship-berth trials or DEPLOY IMMEDIATELY to put it to the field without testing.

[quote=PROTOTYPE NAME]
ACCEPT (0):
MODIFICATION “A” HOLD (0):
MODIFICATION “B” HOLD (0):
MODIFICATION “B” DEPLOY IMMEDIATELY (0):
SCRAP (0):
ALLOCATION SECTION
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[b]Allocation Voting[/b]::

[quote]
[INSERT PLAN NAME] (0):
[INSERT PLAN NAME] (0):
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ALLOCATION PLANNING TEMPLATE

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[quote=Allocation Plan [NAME HERE]]
[PASTE IN RESOURCES AVAILABLE FROM ARMS RACE MASTER’S POST]

Ship Production list:
[FULL SHIP PREFIX DESIGN NAME -- SHIP NAME]
[EXAMPLE: STAR DESTROYER VINDICATOR -- DARKK]

Misc Manufacturing Agenda:
[INPUT ANY MISC. PROJECTS THAT YOU WANT TO BE INVESTED IN HERE. MOST LIKELY WILL BE INFRASTRUCTURE.]

Current Assets:
[COPY PASTE THE CURRENT ASSETS LIST FROM THE A.R.M’S POST, THEN ANY SHIPS PRODUCED FROM YOUR ALLOCATION PLANNING. APPEND EVERY SHIP WITH A CURRENT GOAL & DESTINATION.]
[PUT SHIPS FROM THIS TURNS SHIP PRODUCTION LIST HERE PUT AN ASTERISK IN THEIR NAME SIGNIFY THAT THEY ARE FRESHLY BUILT..]
[SHIP VARIANT -- ABR. SHIP PREFIX SHIP NAME]

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[ConscriptFive]

Revision: NGAC Reliability Program

NGAC Development... not our finest hour.  (Who knew radioactive elements were so difficult to handle?)  The NGAC Reliability Program is an additional effort to resolve the issues of the NGAC.  The ball turret servos must be reworked to track quickly and precisely.  Furthermore, the electrical bus should be able to sustain itself on standby without "redline" procedures.  Worst case scenario, add more circuit breakers.

Item being Revised:NextGen Autocannon (nAC)
Est Cost: (unchanged) 3, Maint 1

Revision: Gate Key Efficiency Algorithms

As miraculous as our efforts to reconstruct the gate keys have been, software-wise they're still very spaghetti-code.  The decryption algorithm was built early in development, and didn't benefit from some later experiments with the gate network.  We now should be able to develop a set of rainbow tables to more quickly bypass the cryptographic hash functions of the gate network.  While our coders are in there, they should also tidy up and annotate the source code as much as possible.  The end result should be less computational power drain, as well as, less maintenance.

Item being Revised:Gate Key (GA1)
Est Cost: 5, PPC -3, Maint 2

VARIANT NAME:"Venus"
BASE HULL:GCS-2
COMPONENTS REQUESTED:

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[HeE][Trp][nAC]
[HeE][Trp][nAC]
ROLE: Fleet Transport

You know what peak inefficiency looks like?  Insisting every damn ship have its own gate key.  Teamwork makes the dream work, people.  Yank the key and its two solar arrays: BOOM, now you can double both the payload and the gunnery.  Now it can move two divisions and defend itself air. space, and ground threats.  Substantially cheaper in both construction cost and maintenance too.  (Why didn't we think of this earlier?)

[ConscriptFive]

So here we go with a theme...

La 12th Société

The founders of our Elysium were upper-crust old Earth European money.  (Or so they claimed.)  They were a proud and refined peoples, with an obsession for collecting Old Earth antiquities.  It was an expensive hobby that turned into a profitable business as they cornered the antiquities trade.  After all, with the endless bounty of the Elysium forges spread across 100,000 stars, genuine Old Earth artifacts were one thing that could not be made.  Soon, they had bought out the other interests in our Elysium.

Wearing a the Imperial State Crown of Queen Elizabeth II, the "Premier Empereur de la 12th Société" declared his reign.  With a wave of his golden scepter (topped by Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize Medallion,) he claimed his absolute authority over not only the entire torus, but all things that orbit our red dwarf star.  La 12th Société became an eccentric but still thriving space station.  Under the Empereur's command, the entire economy focused on antiquities: their acquisition, restoration, and preservation.  Hydroponic greenhouses and industrial spaces were reclaimed into grand museums, statuary gardens, and exhibition galleries.  Before the War, La 12th Société was a premier tourist destination, where one could drink a morning cappuccino under a Michelangelo, escargot for lunch under a Monet, cerviche for dinner under a Picasso, then retire for the night to the melodies of a Stradivarius violin.  Despite inhabiting a relatively worthless red dwarf system, they had one of the highest standards of living due to interstellar commerce.  After all, agriculture, heavy industry, and other products of similar dirty jobs could simply be imported.

Then the gates went dark...

At first, the Empereur insisted this was all a temporary problem.  "One day, like a miracle, the gate will be open."  Brandishing his authentic WW2 poster, the official policy slogan was "Keep clam & carry on."  And for the most part, the people of our torus did.  Consumption continued, and sincere efforts were made to continue accommodating stranded tourists on a credit-based system.

But as days became weeks, and weeks became months, the crisis became undeniable.  Store shelves were empty, restaurants were closed, and hoteliers abandoned five star hotels to guests turned squatters.  So dependent on foreign trade, soon even the Empereur realized he couldn't eat Da Vinci's "Last Supper."  Emergency efforts were made to revert the statuary garden back to productive agriculture.  But those efforts took months to literally bear fruit.

In the meantime, the lower decks of the torus descended into anarchy.  The unemployed servant class devolved into violent gangs and preyed upon themselves for survival.  After extensive savagery and likely cannibalism (frequently denied by la 12th Société), the lower deck gangs pledged a truce, and allied for a real solution to their problems.

***

Wearing Marilyn Monroe's white dress from "The Seven Year Itch," the Impératrice finds her husband alone in his throne room.  A recording of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata reverberates through the cavernous hall, the court pianist having long since disappeared.  The Empereur paces slowly and stares out the glass cupola ceiling: a dead gate against an endless starscape.

A comm device in his hand crackles to life, "Alamo has fallen!  Alamo has fallen.  It has been an honor, your Majesty... *BANG*"

Resigned to his fate, the Empereur tosses aside his personal comm device like it was a piece of litter.  After all, no longer needed it.  He sees his wife joining him, "My Dear, you look beautiful tonight."

Having overhead the comm device, she knows they don't have much time.  "Thank you.  I've already tended to the others..."

A single tear falls from the Empereur's right eye, "I'm sorry Dear.  I wish I had done you better."

Having never seen him cry before, she embraces him with a kiss.  The weight of General Patton's ivory-handled .45 is heavy in his hand as he chokes back further tears.  The echoing stampede of the raging mob is unmistakable on their Italian marble floors.  The Empereur de la 12th Société summons his last bit of strength to raise the polished metallic under his wife's delicate throat.  She begins crying too as they stand illuminated by the sudden glow of the awakened gate.

[Jilladilla]

Alright, let me try something... (As always, if you have a name, feel free to throw it at me, as I am bad at that.)

Yell at me if I did something wrong ok? (Other than the names. Help. Please.)

Variant Name:
Base Hull: Rubik
Components Requested:
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
[HeE][GA1][nAC]
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
Role: Standard Combat Vessel

In many ways, the Pattern A Rubik hull is merely a continuation of what we have done with the Mercury, only significantly better armed.

Variant Name:
Base Hull: Rubik
Components Requested:
[HeE][nAC][SBP]
[HeE][GA1][nAC]
[HeE][nAC][SBP]
Role: Flak/Standard Combat Vessel

The Pattern B Rubik hull, on the other hand, takes a different approach with the layout of its weaponry, sacrificing ability to focus fire easily in exchange for a truly incredible arc of fire.

[Jilladilla]

Right. It's time to get moving, do we have any other proposals, or are we moving forwards with what is on the table?

Revisions (Pick 2)
NGAC Reliability Program (1) Nemonole
Gate Key Efficiency Algorithms (1) Nemonole

Operationalize Hulls? (As many as we want)
GCS-2 "Venus" Fleet Transport (1) Nemonole
Rubik Standard Combat Corvette (NAME HALP PLEASE) (1) Nemonole
Rubik Wide-Angle Corvette (NAME HALP PLEASE)

Lore
La 12th Societe (1) Nemonole

[ConscriptFive]

Revisions (Pick 2)
NGAC Reliability Program (2) Nemonole, ConscriptFive
Gate Key Efficiency Algorithms (2) Nemonole, ConscriptFive

Operationalize Hulls? (As many as we want)
GCS-2 "Venus" Fleet Transport (2) Nemonole, ConscriptFive
Rubik Standard Combat Corvette (NAME HALP PLEASE) (2) Nemonole, ConscriptFive
Rubik Wide-Angle Corvette (NAME HALP PLEASE)

Lore
La 12th Societe (2) Nemonole, ConscriptFive

[Blood_Librarian]

Elysium Command Arms Race of Conquest: Strategy Phase
Turn -2

Revision: NGAC Reliability Program

NGAC Development... not our finest hour.  (Who knew radioactive elements were so difficult to handle?)  The NGAC Reliability Program is an additional effort to resolve the issues of the NGAC.  The ball turret servos must be reworked to track quickly and precisely.  Furthermore, the electrical bus should be able to sustain itself on standby without "redline" procedures.  Worst case scenario, add more circuit breakers.

Item being Revised:NextGen Autocannon (nAC)
Est Cost: (unchanged) 3, Maint 1

Difficulty: Normal (0 mod)
2d4--> 1+4= 5 [Average]

The revision works well, and despite several concerns by the higher admiralty no real changes in cost. It appears to have been a boring evolution of power for the NGAC. It is now a reliable machine with very little issues or attributes to distinguish itself.

Next-Gen Autocannon (NGAC) -- (nAC)
The NGAC is a series of turreted autocannons with integrated fire control and sensory systems. It is designed as a dual 40mm ball turreted autocannon, of which half a dozen per slot is put onto the hull. The turret is rated for a 180 coverage on both axes. It utilizes crude HE rounds. It is self-contained, and only requires Maintenance to function.
Values:Cost 3, Maintenance 1

Revision: Gate Key Efficiency Algorithms

As miraculous as our efforts to reconstruct the gate keys have been, software-wise they're still very spaghetti-code.  The decryption algorithm was built early in development, and didn't benefit from some later experiments with the gate network.  We now should be able to develop a set of rainbow tables to more quickly bypass the cryptographic hash functions of the gate network.  While our coders are in there, they should also tidy up and annotate the source code as much as possible.  The end result should be less computational power drain, as well as, less maintenance.

Item being Revised:Gate Key (GA1)
Est Cost: 5, PPC -3, Maint 2

Difficulty: Hard (-1 mod)
2d4--> 1+4-1= 5 [Below Average]
It is difficult to reduce the Gate Keys maintenance schedules and cost without providing better power systems, bigger components or otherwise making compromises to the ships systems.  To that end, efforts to reduce the massive efficiency issues without any of the aforementioned compromises or changes in function were failures. Rather than completely giving up Larger computational engines with higher computational output standards were fabricated and run together with heuristic algorithms that paired these systems together intimately. Although a bit of a batch job, these expensive systems have rapidly made some positive improvements in the overall maintenance and power drain of the Gate-Key in its ultimate moment. The computers are expensive and difficult to manufacture.

Gate Key v2 -- [GA2]
A complex device that utilizes energy stored from on-ship batteries to slice into the gate’s network , open it’s iris to allow the passage, and then ignites it’s ancient machine, utilizing a very large amount of power to do so. This model is crude and energy intensive, only barely able to handle the power required to send a ship of the same tonnage as the gate-key bearing ship, while requiring a stupendously expensive manufacturing process. However, unlike the original prototypes, it can open the gate to allow other ships through. Utilizing vast computational engines, the power and maintenance costs of the Gate Key are reduced at the expense of an increased production cost.
Values: Cost 9, PPC -4, Maintenance 2

Operationalizations:

Warning! All resources spent on ship prototypes, all prototypes only partially assembled.

Rubik Standard Combat Corvette
Variant Name:Aura
Base Hull: Rubik
Components Requested:
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
Role: Standard Combat Vessel

In many ways, the Pattern A Rubik hull is merely a continuation of what we have done with the Mercury, only significantly better armed.

Difficulty: Normal (0 mod)
2d4--> 4+4=8 [Unexpected boon]
2d4--> 3+3=6 [Above Average]
2d4--> 1+2=3 [Buggy mess]

The utilization of the nAC in forward facing slots had had some unexpected improvements in the ships function, allowing for an above expected effective dispersal and sightlines of the guns, allowing for the weapon to fire rounds down range with a marked increase in effectiveness. Engine system runs slightly above efficiency lines than expected.

Combat Corvette Rubik: “Aura” Variant
The Aura is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful & primitive engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the Gate Key, internalized fuel tanks and autoloader systems, which make up the center of the craft. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted primitive autocannons. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds.
Format
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
Values:Cost: 49, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 9, PPC 6*, Thrust 3
Tag: Gate Bearer

Variant Name: Slayer
Base Hull: Rubik
Components Requested:
[HeE][nAC][SBP]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][nAC][SBP]
Role: Flak/Standard Combat Vessel

The Pattern B Rubik hull, on the other hand, takes a different approach with the layout of its weaponry, sacrificing ability to focus fire easily in exchange for a truly incredible arc of fire.

Difficulty: Normal (0 mod)
2d4--> 3+1=4 [Below average]
2d4--> 2+2=4 [Below average]
2d4--> 4+1=5 [Average]
It’s a some-what disappointing mirror of the Pattern A “Aura”. It’s gunnery systems are adequate, though much more capable to shoot down missiles. In simulacrum operations, this ship is effective in the close-range strafing of enemy ships, able to take a frankly astonishing amount of damage before succumbing to hull rupturing. It’s sensory systems are somewhat dulled by electrical systems create a electrical signature that simultaneously damage sensor profile resolution as well emission reduction system, though the admiralty judge this issue to not be significant enough to decline the ship from induction into the fleet. This ship is effective in the close-range strafing of enemy ships, able to take a frankly astonishing amount of damage before succumbing to hull rupturing. It’s engine mounts are it’s weak points, and will likely falter against seeker weapons.

Combat Corvette Rubik: “Slayer” Variant
The Slayer is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful & primitive engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the Gate Key internalized fuel tanks and autoloader systems, which make up the center of the craft. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted primitive autocannons interspersed to shoot down incoming ordinance and very close ships. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds. Higher than expected sensor emission & lower than expectedsensor capabilities.
Format
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
Values:Cost 49, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 9, PPC 6*, Thrust 3
Tag: Gate Bearer

VARIANT NAME:"Venus"
BASE HULL:GCS-2
COMPONENTS REQUESTED:

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[HeE][Trp][nAC]
[HeE][Trp][nAC]
ROLE: Fleet Transport

You know what peak inefficiency looks like?  Insisting every damn ship have its own gate key.  Teamwork makes the dream work, people.  Yank the key and its two solar arrays: BOOM, now you can double both the payload and the gunnery.  Now it can move two divisions and defend itself air. space, and ground threats.  Substantially cheaper in both construction cost and maintenance too.  (Why didn't we think of this earlier?)

Difficulty: Normal (0 mod)
2d4--> 4+4=8 [Unexpected boon]
2d4--> 2+4=6 [Above average]
2d4--> 2+21=5 [Average]
The Venus is a specialized craft with a real return to the roots of the GCS. most of it’s internal sections are filled with ammunition depots, personnel quarters and rigging to survive re-entry and hostile conditions. Forward facing tracked turrets are sheathed in aerodynamic coverings, as well as several other pieces of equipment that increase the aerodynamic capabilities of the craft. Although the high admiralty detest the idea of having to deploy more than a minimal effort in supplying ground operations, they have reluctantly accepted the design into the records, mostly due to the utilitarian usage it has in breaking theorized gate camps.

Gate Capable Shuttle - 2: “Venus” Fleet Transport Variant
The Venus is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful engines. It’s interspersed between core systems are with troop quarters and autoloaders for it’s relatively many guns. It is heavily gunned with primitive kinetic turreted weapons. Fabrication Techniques have increased it’s aerodynamic capabilities. It has an above average engine output.
Format
[HeE][Trp][nAC]
[HeE][Trp][nAC]
Values:Cost: 25, Maintenance 4, PPC 6*, Thrust 2, Aerodynamic 3
Tag:


Work on both an operation plan, and your nations identity, and the nature of it’s fall from grace during the Dissolution War. This Strategy sub-turn will be short. If you had any resources, you could order the production of ships you could only partially produce, and can finish them by next turn.

Current Assets:

0 resources available!

CC “Aura” Aura Class
Orders: Finish Assembly in Dock yards. Needs 11 Resources.
Traits: Maintenace 9
FC “Slayer” Slayer Class
Orders: Finish Assembly in Dock yards. Needs 11 Resources.
Traits: Maintenace 9
FT “Venus” Venus Class
Orders: Finish Assembly in Dock yards. Needs 11 Resources.
Traits: Maintenace 4

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[b]0 resources available![/b]

[size=9pt][i]CC “Aura” Aura Class[/i][/size]
[b]Orders:[/b] Finish Assembly in Dock yards.
[b]Traits: [/b] Maintenace 9
[size=9pt][i]FC “Slayer” Slayer Class[/i][/size]
[b]Orders:[/b] Finish Assembly in Dock yards.
[b]Traits:[/b] Maintenace 9
[size=9pt][i]TT “Venus” Venus Class[/i][/size]
[b]Orders:[/b] Finish Assembly in Dock yards.
[b]Traits:[/b] Maintenace 4

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

The map will be current in the core thread as well as the latest post of the arms race

Bay12's Elysium is in the orbit of a red dwarf star, with little in the way of other orbital bodies: A single gas giant with a small lunar system around it. Requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.
Space Battle's Elysium is in the orbit of a large gas giant, which orbits distantly from a yellow star. Several small bodies orbit around the inner lanes of the star. Requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.
[Redacted] is the fastest way to each Elysium, consisting of only two "jumps" to get there.  It's state is unknown, but what is known is that the coming conflict will begin here, and will be bloody. A planet with an atmosphere is detected here, and will require a ship with Aerodynamic 5 to drop troops on.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

DropBox link to CURRENT BAY12 Items: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ki83g84cx7cj0vv/AAD4t2wWfHSR6mUfA3FE6QbOa?dl=0
You have 90 Resources available per turn.

Hulls
Gate Capable Shuttle - 2 Hull: The first workable hull of the conflict, and strikingly identical in both Elysium's, GCS-2 craft are small shuttles that are capable of carrying Gate Keys as well as some other stuff. It is a makeshift hull, fabricated from large modular structure elements with thin armor plates that are just barely capable of standing in the way of light autocannon fire. Made for the purpose of ferrying troops from one end of the Elysium to the other and one of the finest pieces of Elysium equipment that ultimately united your country. In the dawn of your united Elysium, it’s main purpose is in logistics and exploration, and unsuited for combat. It’s paper thin armor cannot stand up to ship-grade weaponry for very long. Capable of landing on worlds with thin gravity and atmosphere or Elysiums.
3x2
Values: Aerodynamic 2, Internal 1
Tags:
Cost: 9
Template:
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"Rubik" Spacefaring Corvette Hull: A durable corvette hull with spaced armor specialized towards stellar operations, The Rubik has average primitive armor specialized towards small primitive kinetic projectiles. Capable of landing on barren moons. Noted to have a robust structure despite utilizing modular frames in it’s construction.
3x3
Values: Aerodynamic 1, Internal 1
Tags:
Cost: 13
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Infantry Division: People hired by your polity that went through a strict training regimen and given the equipment needed to take objectives in a wide variety of environments. Standard in all ships, but may require vehicular or orbital support to get the job done. Current technology  utilizes gun-powder and armor piercing rounds in their automatic guns, and wear hardened steel plates in vests for armor. Spacesuits are equipped when required.
Assumed to be in all ships, but specialized components or hulls can be fabricated for greater effect. As time progresses, the engineering division will give them new weapons and armor.

Elysium Automatic Cannon Special -- [EAC]
The EACS is a series of autocannons, fire controls and sensory systems that represent the first step in warfare. Irregular manufacturing standards, varying calibers, poorly designed autoloaders as well as crude propellants and large bore projectiles intended to never risk damage to the Elysium mean that this weapon is large and underpowered. It is self contained, and only requires supply to keep functioning.
Values:Cost 2, Maintenance 1
Tags: Front

Next-Gen Autocannon (NGAC) -- (nAC)
The NGAC is a series of turreted autocannons with integrated fire control and sensory systems. It is designed as a dual 40mm ball turreted autocannon, of which half a dozen per slot is put onto the hull. The turret is rated for a 180 coverage on both axes. It utilizes crude HE rounds. It is self-contained, and only requires Maintenance to function.
Values:Cost 3, Maintenance 1

Hydrogen engine -- [HeE]
An integrated set of hydrogen and oxygen tanks that is fed into a combustion chamber and expelled to generate thrust. Generates electricity from an attached alternator. Sets the basis of all thrust systems with a speed of 1.
Values: Cost:4, Maintenace 1
Tags:Rear

Solar-Battery Power plant -- [SBP]
A set of unfurlable solar panels and chemical batteries designed to produce large amounts of power.. The panels cannot be protected by armor and unfurled. The S-B Power Plant has reduced effectiveness in operations that are very far from objects that generate usable solar radiation. The batteries can be best described as "workable," and are prone to small-scale detonations if damaged.   
Values: PPC 3¹, Cost: 3
1. Generates 3 PPC for a couple hours or an extended fight utilizing PPC weapons before an extended down period is required to recharge the batteries

Troop compartment  -- [Trp]
A hull section is torn down and dedicated towards storing and disembarking large numbers of ground troops. Allows more soldiers to be present on a craft, as well as allowing more equipment for their purpose to be stored, up to light scout craft and heavy weapon emplacements. Structural weaknesses are present, but minor due to the small size of the vehicles.
Value: Cost:1

Gate Key -- [GA1]
A complex device that utilizes energy stored from on-ship batteries to slice into the gate’s network , open it’s iris to allow the passage, and then ignites it’s ancient machine, utilizing a colossal amount of power to do so. This model is crude and energy intensive, only barely able to handle the power required to send a ship of the same tonnage as the gate-key bearing ship, while requiring a horrendously expensive manufacturing process. However, unlike the original prototypes, it can open the gate to allow other ships through.
Values: Cost 5, PPC -6, Maintenace 3

Gate Key v2 -- [GA2]
A complex device that utilizes energy stored from on-ship batteries to slice into the gate’s network , open it’s iris to allow the passage, and then ignites it’s ancient machine, utilizing a very large amount of power to do so. This model is crude and energy intensive, only barely able to handle the power required to send a ship of the same tonnage as the gate-key bearing ship, while requiring a stupendously expensive manufacturing process. However, unlike the original prototypes, it can open the gate to allow other ships through. Utilizing vast computational engines, the power and maintenance costs of the Gate Key are reduced at the expense of an increased production cost.
Values: Cost 9, PPC -4, Maintenance 2

Infrastructure

The Forge of Elysium
A colossal set of infrastructure, heavy equipment and digital archives that permit the fabrication of wonders. Unable to access the designs made before the Dissolution war due to digital decay and hellish encryption of the blueprints required, New designs must be made for the Forge. Consisting of a full third of the internal volume of the Elysium, our manufacturing needs will be met by the Forge for a considerable amount of time  without any need for expansion, and our people are wholly reliant on this miracle machine for manufactured goods. The only bottleneck in the acquisition of more Resources is the raw material required to turn into feedstock
Values:Produces 90 Resources.

Values

Pulsed Power Container (PPC): These are containers that output enough energy to sustain components that require PPC power. Will often come with a amount of time that it could be sustained..
Aerodynamic: Hulls with this tag are designed with operations in an atmospheric body in mind, with a sealed hull and attention to avoiding excess bulk. Every planet or body has this value, representing how difficult it is to enter and leave its atmosphere or gravity. Barren planets with low gravity and no atmosphere do not require any Aerodynamic tags to operate in, but especially slow moving hulls may be restricted.
Internal: This value is attached to hulls, representing how many slots it has with the Internal Tag.
Cost: The material, industrial and socioeconomic cost of an object rendered down into its most quintessential value in fabricating this component or hull. This cost is in terms of Resources..
Maintenance:cost in resources every turn after its manufacturing.
Thrust: Engines produce this value, Though the ratio between maneuvering ability and pure thrust is sometimes different. Divide Thrust points on a hull by how many slots are on a ship to determine how fast the craft is relative to other ships.

Tags:

Integrated: Components with this tag are not able to be placed on normal designs and are hard-wired into specific designs.
Internal: Slots with this tag have no outer surface access: they are surrounded by the other components of the ship and are significantly less likely to be damaged in combat. Components with this tag need to be placed in an Internal slot.
Rear: Components with this slot must be placed on the left-most slots of a craft.
Front: Components with this slot must be placed on the right-most slots of a craft.
Volatile: Components with this tag are at risk of destroying the ship if damaged. Most typical of antimatter reactors or metallic hydrogen storage systems. Some components will also be Volatile in certain situations, like a hydrogen tank in an oxygenated atmosphere.
Yellow Line: This component can be yellow lined by captains to have an increased effect at the expense of the possibility of issues occurring after prolonged use.
Red Line: As above, but this component can be pushed even further beyond, into the thin edge between oblivion and enhanced operations, but not for very long, and for a drastic cost. For your finest hour.
Black Line: As above, but this component can be pushed past any sane or safe limit, to provide an enormous effect before burning out, often with spectacular consequences. The dramatic way of going out, to wet your blades edge one more time before the end.
Limited(x): Components with this tag can only be put in (x) per ship. In some cases, other components may restrict the installation of Limited(x) components. (eg a limited sensor system might not be installable with a common sensor system)
Gate Bearer: A hull or component with this tag can allow ships of equal tonnage to pass through a gate, including itself.

Spoiler: Operationalized Ships (click to show/hide)

Gate Capable Shuttle - 2: “Mercury” Variant
The Mercury is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the Gate Key, which make up the center of the craft. It is undergunned, with only a few gunnery emplacements that dot its hull. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds.
Format
[HeE][GA1][SBP]
[HeE][SBP][EAC]
Values:Cost: 30, Maintenance 6, PPC 6*, Thrust 2
Tag: Gate Bearer

Combat Corvette Rubik: “Aura” Variant
The Aura is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful & primitive engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the Gate Key, internalized fuel tanks and autoloader systems, which make up the center of the craft. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted primitive autocannons. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds.
Format
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
Values:Cost: 49, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 9, PPC 6*, Thrust 3
Tag: Gate Bearer

Combat Corvette Rubik: “Slayer” Variant
The Slayer is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful & primitive engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the Gate Key internalized fuel tanks and autoloader systems, which make up the center of the craft. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted primitive autocannons interspersed to shoot down incoming ordinance and very close ships. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds. Higher than expected sensor emission & lower than expectedsensor capabilities.
Format
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
Values:Cost 49, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 8, PPC 6*, Thrust 3
Tag: Gate Bearer

Gate Capable Shuttle - 2: “Venus” Fleet Transport Variant
The Venus is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful engines. It’s interspersed between core systems are with troop quarters and autoloaders for it’s relatively many guns. It is heavily gunned with primitive kinetic turreted weapons. Fabrication Techniques have increased it’s aerodynamic capabilities. It has an above average engine output.
Format
[HeE][Trp][nAC]
[HeE][Trp][nAC]
Values:Cost: 25, Maintenance 4, PPC 6*, Thrust 2, Aerodynamic 3
Tag:

DESIGN TEMPLATE

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[quote=DESIGN NAME]
Design: //The name of the item being designed
[Description]
Theorized Tags: //Tags that you think should be put on the component or hull. May or may not actually be put on the item in question.
Est. Cost://The estimated cost of the component in the designers educated guess.
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DESIGN VOTEBOX

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[quote]
DESIGN NAME (0): //put your name after the colon and increment the number in parentheses to vote for a design.
DESIGN NAME (0):
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REVISION TEMPLATE

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[quote= REVISION NAME]
Revision://The name of the project/revision.
[Description]
Item being Revised://Component or hull being revised here, if not applicable remove this entry.
Theorized Appended Tags: //Theorized tags that may be added to or removed from the component or hull in question. If none, remove entry.
Est Cost: //The Designers guess at the estimated cost of the component after revision. May or may not be accurate. If not applicable, remove entry.
[/quote]

PROTOTYPING TEMPLATEs
You have three options for Operationalizing ships. You can
A: copy the template image of a hull, and paste in the pictures of components, add in how much armor it has in each facing, fill in the armor picture, and then call it a day. Depending on the hull template, there might be more to do.
B: fill out the operationalization template specific to the hull and post it in the forum. They are the open and close brackets with letters and numbers in them sometimes.
C.Fill out the Generic Operationalization Template, where the GM will fill out the template and present it during ship-berth trials. Impossible requests will be met with erratic configurations..

GENERIC OPERATIONALIZATION TEMPLATE

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[quote]
VARIANT NAME:
BASE HULL:
COMPONENTS REQUESTED:
GENERAL ROLE
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OPERATIONALIZATION VOTEBOX

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[quote]
PROTOTYPE NAME (+0):
AGAINST ABOVE (-0):
PROTOTYPE NAME (+0):
AGAINST ABOVE (-0)
[/quote]

STRATEGY TEMPLATE

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[quote=Strategization]
[b]Finalization Voting:[/b]

//Copy this for each new Prototype. Append the end of any modification with a variant name/letter/number and HOLD if you want to wait on deploying it until next turn for deployment in exchange for another round of ship-berth trials or DEPLOY IMMEDIATELY to put it to the field without testing.

[quote=PROTOTYPE NAME]
ACCEPT (0):
MODIFICATION “A” HOLD (0):
MODIFICATION “B” HOLD (0):
MODIFICATION “B” DEPLOY IMMEDIATELY (0):
SCRAP (0):
ALLOCATION SECTION
[/quote]

[b]Allocation Voting[/b]::

[quote]
[INSERT PLAN NAME] (0):
[INSERT PLAN NAME] (0):
[/quote]

ALLOCATION PLANNING TEMPLATE

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[quote=Allocation Plan [NAME HERE]]
[PASTE IN RESOURCES AVAILABLE FROM ARMS RACE MASTER’S POST]

Ship Production list:
[FULL SHIP PREFIX DESIGN NAME -- SHIP NAME]
[EXAMPLE: STAR DESTROYER VINDICATOR -- DARKK]

Misc Manufacturing Agenda:
[INPUT ANY MISC. PROJECTS THAT YOU WANT TO BE INVESTED IN HERE. MOST LIKELY WILL BE INFRASTRUCTURE.]

Current Assets:
[COPY PASTE THE CURRENT ASSETS LIST FROM THE A.R.M’S POST, THEN ANY SHIPS PRODUCED FROM YOUR ALLOCATION PLANNING. APPEND EVERY SHIP WITH A CURRENT GOAL & DESTINATION.]
[PUT SHIPS FROM THIS TURNS SHIP PRODUCTION LIST HERE PUT AN ASTERISK IN THEIR NAME SIGNIFY THAT THEY ARE FRESHLY BUILT..]
[SHIP VARIANT -- ABR. SHIP PREFIX SHIP NAME]

[/quote]


[Blood_Librarian]

Although there would normally be a wait for wheter or nor you would accept or deny any prototypes, anxious higher operations staff has pre-emptively approved all prototypes.

Elysium Command Arms Race of Conquest: Design Phase
Turn -1

Work on both two designs, and your nations identity, and the nature of it’s fall from grace during the Dissolution War. All maintenance costs are suspended while ships are in dockyards. Additional 30 Resources has been deployed into the hands of the Elysium R&D division.

Spoiler: Current Assets (click to show/hide)

You produce 120 Resources and have 120 Resources Available, with 22*0 Maintenance Costs & 0 Prototype Costs.
CC “Aura” Aura Class
Orders: Finish Assembly in Dock yards.
Traits: Maintenace 9
FC “Slayer” Slayer Class
Orders: Finish Assembly in Dock yards.
Traits: Maintenace 9
FT “Venus” Venus Class
Orders: Finish Assembly in Dock yards.
Traits: Maintenace 4

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[quote]
You produce 120 Resources and have 120 Resources Available, with 22*0 Maintenance Costs & 0 Prototype Costs.
[size=9pt][i]CC “Aura” Aura Class[/i][/size]
[b]Orders:[/b] Finish Assembly in Dock yards.
[b]Traits: [/b] Maintenace 9
[size=9pt][i]FC “Slayer” Slayer Class[/i][/size]
[b]Orders:[/b] Finish Assembly in Dock yards.
[b]Traits:[/b] Maintenace 9
[size=9pt][i]FT “Venus” Venus Class[/i][/size]
[b]Orders:[/b] Finish Assembly in Dock yards.
[b]Traits:[/b] Maintenace 4
[/quote]
[Spoiler=Map]
The map will be current in the core thread as well as the latest post of the arms race

Bay12's Elysium is in the orbit of a red dwarf star, with little in the way of other orbital bodies: A single gas giant with a small lunar system around it. Requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.
Space Battle's Elysium is in the orbit of a large gas giant, which orbits distantly from a yellow star. Several small bodies orbit around the inner lanes of the star. Requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.
[Redacted] is the fastest way to each Elysium, consisting of only two "jumps" to get there.  It's state is unknown, but what is known is that the coming conflict will begin here, and will be bloody. A planet with an atmosphere is detected here, and will require a ship with Aerodynamic 5 to drop troops on.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

DropBox link to CURRENT BAY12 Items: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ki83g84cx7cj0vv/AAD4t2wWfHSR6mUfA3FE6QbOa?dl=0
You have 90 Resources available per turn.

Hulls
Gate Capable Shuttle - 2 Hull: The first workable hull of the conflict, and strikingly identical in both Elysium's, GCS-2 craft are small shuttles that are capable of carrying Gate Keys as well as some other stuff. It is a makeshift hull, fabricated from large modular structure elements with thin armor plates that are just barely capable of standing in the way of light autocannon fire. Made for the purpose of ferrying troops from one end of the Elysium to the other and one of the finest pieces of Elysium equipment that ultimately united your country. In the dawn of your united Elysium, it’s main purpose is in logistics and exploration, and unsuited for combat. It’s paper thin armor cannot stand up to ship-grade weaponry for very long. Capable of landing on worlds with thin gravity and atmosphere or Elysiums.
3x2
Values: Aerodynamic 2, Internal 1
Tags:
Cost: 9
Template:
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"Rubik" Spacefaring Corvette Hull: A durable corvette hull with spaced armor specialized towards stellar operations, The Rubik has average primitive armor specialized towards small primitive kinetic projectiles. Capable of landing on barren moons. Noted to have a robust structure despite utilizing modular frames in it’s construction.
3x3
Values: Aerodynamic 1, Internal 1
Tags:
Cost: 13
Template:

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Infantry Division: People hired by your polity that went through a strict training regimen and given the equipment needed to take objectives in a wide variety of environments. Standard in all ships, but may require vehicular or orbital support to get the job done. Current technology  utilizes gun-powder and armor piercing rounds in their automatic guns, and wear hardened steel plates in vests for armor. Spacesuits are equipped when required.
Assumed to be in all ships, but specialized components or hulls can be fabricated for greater effect. As time progresses, the engineering division will give them new weapons and armor.

Elysium Automatic Cannon Special -- [EAC]
The EACS is a series of autocannons, fire controls and sensory systems that represent the first step in warfare. Irregular manufacturing standards, varying calibers, poorly designed autoloaders as well as crude propellants and large bore projectiles intended to never risk damage to the Elysium mean that this weapon is large and underpowered. It is self contained, and only requires supply to keep functioning.
Values:Cost 2, Maintenance 1
Tags: Front

Next-Gen Autocannon (NGAC) -- (nAC)
The NGAC is a series of turreted autocannons with integrated fire control and sensory systems. It is designed as a dual 40mm ball turreted autocannon, of which half a dozen per slot is put onto the hull. The turret is rated for a 180 coverage on both axes. It utilizes crude HE rounds. It is self-contained, and only requires Maintenance to function.
Values:Cost 3, Maintenance 1

Hydrogen engine -- [HeE]
An integrated set of hydrogen and oxygen tanks that is fed into a combustion chamber and expelled to generate thrust. Generates electricity from an attached alternator. Sets the basis of all thrust systems with a speed of 1.
Values: Cost:4, Maintenace 1
Tags:Rear

Solar-Battery Power plant -- [SBP]
A set of unfurlable solar panels and chemical batteries designed to produce large amounts of power.. The panels cannot be protected by armor and unfurled. The S-B Power Plant has reduced effectiveness in operations that are very far from objects that generate usable solar radiation. The batteries can be best described as "workable," and are prone to small-scale detonations if damaged.   
Values: PPC 3¹, Cost: 3
1. Generates 3 PPC for a couple hours or an extended fight utilizing PPC weapons before an extended down period is required to recharge the batteries

Troop compartment  -- [Trp]
A hull section is torn down and dedicated towards storing and disembarking large numbers of ground troops. Allows more soldiers to be present on a craft, as well as allowing more equipment for their purpose to be stored, up to light scout craft and heavy weapon emplacements. Structural weaknesses are present, but minor due to the small size of the vehicles.
Value: Cost:1

Gate Key -- [GA1]
A complex device that utilizes energy stored from on-ship batteries to slice into the gate’s network , open it’s iris to allow the passage, and then ignites it’s ancient machine, utilizing a colossal amount of power to do so. This model is crude and energy intensive, only barely able to handle the power required to send a ship of the same tonnage as the gate-key bearing ship, while requiring a horrendously expensive manufacturing process. However, unlike the original prototypes, it can open the gate to allow other ships through.
Values: Cost 5, PPC -6, Maintenace 3

Gate Key v2 -- [GA2]
A complex device that utilizes energy stored from on-ship batteries to slice into the gate’s network , open it’s iris to allow the passage, and then ignites it’s ancient machine, utilizing a very large amount of power to do so. This model is crude and energy intensive, only barely able to handle the power required to send a ship of the same tonnage as the gate-key bearing ship, while requiring a stupendously expensive manufacturing process. However, unlike the original prototypes, it can open the gate to allow other ships through. Utilizing vast computational engines, the power and maintenance costs of the Gate Key are reduced at the expense of an increased production cost.
Values: Cost 9, PPC -4, Maintenance 2

Infrastructure

The Forge of Elysium
A colossal set of infrastructure, heavy equipment and digital archives that permit the fabrication of wonders. Unable to access the designs made before the Dissolution war due to digital decay and hellish encryption of the blueprints required, New designs must be made for the Forge. Consisting of a full third of the internal volume of the Elysium, our manufacturing needs will be met by the Forge for a considerable amount of time  without any need for expansion, and our people are wholly reliant on this miracle machine for manufactured goods. The only bottleneck in the acquisition of more Resources is the raw material required to turn into feedstock
Values:Produces 120 Resources.

Values

Pulsed Power Container (PPC): These are containers that output enough energy to sustain components that require PPC power. Will often come with a amount of time that it could be sustained..
Aerodynamic: Hulls with this tag are designed with operations in an atmospheric body in mind, with a sealed hull and attention to avoiding excess bulk. Every planet or body has this value, representing how difficult it is to enter and leave its atmosphere or gravity. Barren planets with low gravity and no atmosphere do not require any Aerodynamic tags to operate in, but especially slow moving hulls may be restricted.
Internal: This value is attached to hulls, representing how many slots it has with the Internal Tag.
Cost: The material, industrial and socioeconomic cost of an object rendered down into its most quintessential value in fabricating this component or hull. This cost is in terms of Resources..
Maintenance:cost in resources every turn after its manufacturing.
Thrust: Engines produce this value, Though the ratio between maneuvering ability and pure thrust is sometimes different. Divide Thrust points on a hull by how many slots are on a ship to determine how fast the craft is relative to other ships.

Tags:

Integrated: Components with this tag are not able to be placed on normal designs and are hard-wired into specific designs.
Internal: Slots with this tag have no outer surface access: they are surrounded by the other components of the ship and are significantly less likely to be damaged in combat. Components with this tag need to be placed in an Internal slot.
Rear: Components with this slot must be placed on the left-most slots of a craft.
Front: Components with this slot must be placed on the right-most slots of a craft.
Volatile: Components with this tag are at risk of destroying the ship if damaged. Most typical of antimatter reactors or metallic hydrogen storage systems. Some components will also be Volatile in certain situations, like a hydrogen tank in an oxygenated atmosphere.
Yellow Line: This component can be yellow lined by captains to have an increased effect at the expense of the possibility of issues occurring after prolonged use.
Red Line: As above, but this component can be pushed even further beyond, into the thin edge between oblivion and enhanced operations, but not for very long, and for a drastic cost. For your finest hour.
Black Line: As above, but this component can be pushed past any sane or safe limit, to provide an enormous effect before burning out, often with spectacular consequences. The dramatic way of going out, to wet your blades edge one more time before the end.
Limited(x): Components with this tag can only be put in (x) per ship. In some cases, other components may restrict the installation of Limited(x) components. (eg a limited sensor system might not be installable with a common sensor system)
Gate Bearer: A hull or component with this tag can allow ships of equal tonnage to pass through a gate, including itself.

Spoiler: Operationalized Ships (click to show/hide)

Gate Capable Shuttle - 2: “Mercury” Variant
The Mercury is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the Gate Key, which make up the center of the craft. It is undergunned, with only a few gunnery emplacements that dot its hull. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds.
Format
[HeE][GA1][SBP]
[HeE][SBP][EAC]
Values:Cost: 30, Maintenance 6, PPC 6*, Thrust 2
Tag: Gate Bearer

Combat Corvette Rubik: “Aura” Variant
The Aura is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful & primitive engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the Gate Key, internalized fuel tanks and autoloader systems, which make up the center of the craft. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted primitive autocannons. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds.
Format
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
Values:Cost: 49, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 9, PPC 6*, Thrust 3
Tag: Gate Bearer

Combat Corvette Rubik: “Slayer” Variant
The Slayer is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful & primitive engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the Gate Key internalized fuel tanks and autoloader systems, which make up the center of the craft. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted primitive autocannons interspersed to shoot down incoming ordinance and very close ships. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds. Higher than expected sensor emission & lower than expectedsensor capabilities.
Format
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][SBP][nAC]
Values:Cost 49, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 8, PPC 6*, Thrust 3
Tag: Gate Bearer

Gate Capable Shuttle - 2: “Venus” Fleet Transport Variant
The Venus is a very high maneuverability & speed craft, capable of advanced maneuvers and techniques owing to the fact that about a third of its mass is dedicated to it’s powerful engines. It’s interspersed between core systems are with troop quarters and autoloaders for it’s relatively many guns. It is heavily gunned with primitive kinetic turreted weapons. Fabrication Techniques have increased it’s aerodynamic capabilities. It has an above average engine output.
Format
[HeE][Trp][nAC]
[HeE][Trp][nAC]
Values:Cost: 25, Maintenance 4, PPC 6*, Thrust 2, Aerodynamic 3
Tag:

DESIGN TEMPLATE

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[quote=DESIGN NAME]
Design: //The name of the item being designed
[Description]
Theorized Tags: //Tags that you think should be put on the component or hull. May or may not actually be put on the item in question.
Est. Cost://The estimated cost of the component in the designers educated guess.
[/quote]

DESIGN VOTEBOX

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[quote]
DESIGN NAME (0): //put your name after the colon and increment the number in parentheses to vote for a design.
DESIGN NAME (0):
[/quote]

REVISION TEMPLATE

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[quote= REVISION NAME]
Revision://The name of the project/revision.
[Description]
Item being Revised://Component or hull being revised here, if not applicable remove this entry.
Theorized Appended Tags: //Theorized tags that may be added to or removed from the component or hull in question. If none, remove entry.
Est Cost: //The Designers guess at the estimated cost of the component after revision. May or may not be accurate. If not applicable, remove entry.
[/quote]

PROTOTYPING TEMPLATEs
You have three options for Operationalizing ships. You can
A: copy the template image of a hull, and paste in the pictures of components, add in how much armor it has in each facing, fill in the armor picture, and then call it a day. Depending on the hull template, there might be more to do.
B: fill out the operationalization template specific to the hull and post it in the forum. They are the open and close brackets with letters and numbers in them sometimes.
C.Fill out the Generic Operationalization Template, where the GM will fill out the template and present it during ship-berth trials. Impossible requests will be met with erratic configurations..

GENERIC OPERATIONALIZATION TEMPLATE

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[quote]
VARIANT NAME:
BASE HULL:
COMPONENTS REQUESTED:
GENERAL ROLE
[/quote]

OPERATIONALIZATION VOTEBOX

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[quote]
PROTOTYPE NAME (+0):
AGAINST ABOVE (-0):
PROTOTYPE NAME (+0):
AGAINST ABOVE (-0)
[/quote]

STRATEGY TEMPLATE

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[quote=Strategization]
[b]Finalization Voting:[/b]

//Copy this for each new Prototype. Append the end of any modification with a variant name/letter/number and HOLD if you want to wait on deploying it until next turn for deployment in exchange for another round of ship-berth trials or DEPLOY IMMEDIATELY to put it to the field without testing.

[quote=PROTOTYPE NAME]
ACCEPT (0):
MODIFICATION “A” HOLD (0):
MODIFICATION “B” HOLD (0):
MODIFICATION “B” DEPLOY IMMEDIATELY (0):
SCRAP (0):
ALLOCATION SECTION
[/quote]

[b]Allocation Voting[/b]::

[quote]
[INSERT PLAN NAME] (0):
[INSERT PLAN NAME] (0):
[/quote]

ALLOCATION PLANNING TEMPLATE

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[quote=Allocation Plan [NAME HERE]]
[PASTE IN RESOURCES AVAILABLE FROM ARMS RACE MASTER’S POST]

Ship Production list:
[FULL SHIP PREFIX DESIGN NAME -- SHIP NAME]
[EXAMPLE: STAR DESTROYER VINDICATOR -- DARKK]

Misc Manufacturing Agenda:
[INPUT ANY MISC. PROJECTS THAT YOU WANT TO BE INVESTED IN HERE. MOST LIKELY WILL BE INFRASTRUCTURE.]

Current Assets:
[COPY PASTE THE CURRENT ASSETS LIST FROM THE A.R.M’S POST, THEN ANY SHIPS PRODUCED FROM YOUR ALLOCATION PLANNING. APPEND EVERY SHIP WITH A CURRENT GOAL & DESTINATION.]
[PUT SHIPS FROM THIS TURNS SHIP PRODUCTION LIST HERE PUT AN ASTERISK IN THEIR NAME SIGNIFY THAT THEY ARE FRESHLY BUILT..]
[SHIP VARIANT -- ABR. SHIP PREFIX SHIP NAME]

[/quote]


[Jilladilla]

Right. An Idea for later, as revision, not design. But had to get thought to forum:

Revision: Ionized Hydrogen Engine
It is a known fact that one can get a workable, and in fact very fuel efficient (if power hungry), thruster through ionizing the reaction mass and having it ejected out of the craft. It's a principle we can potentially apply to our hydrogen engines to vastly improve their efficiency. While projections estimate that the raw thrusting power of the engines will show only marginal improvements, the vastly improved fuel efficiencies at lower outputs (such as used when merely cruising from point A to B) means that the amount of hydrogen and oxygen stocks aboard a ship will deplete less from day to day activities, and the absolute minimum needed to limp back to our Elysium is less. This means that our ship crews have significantly more leeway in actually using their engines liberally in combat.
(Thrust 1+ - 2?, PPC -1)


And now, for a wild idea, possibly for now!:

Design: 'Dagger' Interorbital Fighter
Though it started as an experiment on how to get the smallest possible independent spacecraft hull, it was seen to have some promise in the battles ahead. Said experiments were almost certainly successful in their goal, as the Dagger is absolutely tiny, with even the GCS-2 utterly dwarfing it. The craft is shaped similarly to its namesake, having a short bladeshaped hull that comes to a point, it's 'hilt' a pair of aerodynamic wings that double as an attachment point for fine maneuvering thrusters. All in all, a craft that should be able to pursue and harass our enemies wherever they may go.

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(It's hilariously tiny isn't it?)

[ConscriptFive]

@GM, need some serious proofreading on the spoiler'd bookkeeping data.

We had 90 resources last turn, but now we have 120?  But minus 16 maint, when it should be 22 (9+9+4)?  But, "maintenance costs are suspended while ships are in dockyards."  And somehow we then have "90 resources available?"  I literally have no idea what just happened there.

The template layout for the Slayer is identical to the Aura?

The Venus still has PPC 6 listed?

[Jilladilla]

Adding onto that... The Slayer is listed as Maintenance 8 when both its own design report and its near identical cousin the Aura has 9?

[ConscriptFive]

Ha, that Dagger is pretty fiendishly clever.  Though I'd also like to future-proof our Rubik's with a more powerful main gun...

Design: 160mm Main Gun System (MGS)

The 160mm (~6in) Main Gun System (MGS) is a forward-facing large bore conventional cannon system intended as a primary weapon system.  (In effect, relegating the smaller caliber 40mm nAC as a secondary armament.)

The weapon itself is a single barrel mounted in a casement style turret.  The narrowed field of fire provided by a casement is a necessary sacrifice to properly anchor a large system with tremendous recoil.  However, it is already expected captains would maneuver their vessels for the sake of the primary weapons anyways.  The MGS fires a 60kg (132lb) armor-piercing high explosive shell.

Naturally, the sensors, fire control systems, and autoloaders perfected under nAC development are adapted for this weapon system.

Theorized Tags: Front
Est. Cost: 5, 2 Maint