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[ConscriptFive]

The NTE turned out okay.

The other design...

Hmm, that hull is salvagable.  Trade in some of the excess radiators and that should hopefully cut enough mass to fix the engine maint penalty.  (As we're going from 2 maint HeA to 4 maint NTE that multiplier is going to hurt in the long run.)  On a good roll, we might keep the keep the over-engineered thermal management, though I'd expect to lose a point there otherwise.  Looks like the Bouillon Radiator Rethink should handle that.

I haven't settled on an idea for a second revision yet.  Fixing up the Combat Radiator or Lagrange Squadron wouldn't be a bad idea though.

[ConscriptFive]

Revision: G-LOC Preventative Flight Helmet

With a phenomenally high thrust to weight ratio, our Parasite fighters are physically capable of high performance manuevers well into the double-digit G acceleration.  Shame our pilots can take only a few seconds at 9 G's before G-force induced Loss of Consciousness (G-LOC) occurs.  Blood within the head and neck becomes too heavy for the heart to pump, resulting in a martial arts style blood choke within seconds.  Constrictive "G-suits" have helped, but the human heart simply isn't capable of instantaneously working ten times harder on demand.
The G-LOC Preventative Flight Helmet is designed to assist the heart in this time of need.  Intravenous needles taps into the major blood vessels of the neck.  Based on an accelerometer in the helmet, a pump activates to keep blood circulating.  With Flight Surgeon calibration and supervision, our Parasite pilots should be better able to push their craft's performance envelope before hitting G-LOC.

Alright, refits?  So we only have three Rubiks hulls left, the two gateships and the last surviving Griffon.  All three use first gen engines.  The gateships use old gatekeys, 1st gen solar panels, and no fire control.

I'll start with the easy one, the Griffon...

Griffon:

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[HeE][nAC][MGS]
[HeE][C5D][nAC]
[HeE][nAC][MGS]

Griffon Refit:

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[NTE][nAC][MGS]
[NTE][C5D][VGB]
[NTE][CCR][VGB]
Working back to front:  1st gen engines up to NTE.  With trade-in, that's 9 production.  Trash one of the underpowered nAC modules in favor of the thermal management (CCR), so it can take laser hits better for 5 production.  Up front, trade out one MGS and nAC for a Vorpal Gun Battery.  With trade-in, only 3 to strap on the heavy gunnery.
17 production total, but will nearly double unmodified maint from 10 to 19.  Worth pointing out 12 of 19 maint is just the NTE's, hungry bastards.

Slayer:

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[HeE][nAC][SBP]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][nAC][SBP]

(Unsurprisingly, there's been a long standing bookkeeping error on this ship.  On turn -2, both the Slayer and Aura were built with GA2's.  At some point, Slayer's key got downgrading to GA1?).

Slayer Refit:

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[NTE][nAC][SB2]
[HeA][GA3][INT]
[NTE][nAC][CCR]
So our old gateships are kinda useless in combat.  They don't even have C5D if we wanted to risk them with direct combat.  So instead I stuck a single bomber wing on them, so they can at least to something at standoff range.  Again, back to front:  1st gen engines swapped out for partial NTE's (as a standoff platform, might as well save 2 maint here.)  With trade-in, 7 production.  Moving to 3rd gen gatekey saves us a solar panel and 1 maint, but counts as free as it's actually cheaper than the original?  Upfront are the major changes, 2nd gen solar panel, bomber hanger, and a combat coolant reservoir.  Solar panel gets a trade in, but everything else is full sticker price: 14 production here.
21 production total.  Unmoddified maint more than doubles from 9 to 19.  Again, those NTE's are hungry.

Aura:

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[HeE][SBP][nAC]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][SBP][nAC]

Aura Refit:

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[NTE][SB2][nAC]
[HeA][GA3][INT]
[NTE][CCR][nAC]
Basically the same resulting components as the Slayer, except the autocannons are moved around.  For the sake of completeness...  1st gen engines swapped out for partial NTE's, 7 production.  3rd gen gatekey, upgraded solar panel, and excess solar panel gets trashed for a CCR, 7 production.  Trash one autocannon upfront to add the bomber hanger,  7 production.
21 production total, 8 to 19 maint.

So that's 59 production right there in refits.

Going over bookkeeping further, also GM shorted us Terra-02, "Mundus" along with a partially built Terra-03.

In terms of further prototyping, another gateship seems redundant now that we can keep the Aura and Slayer around.  The proposed "Mont Blanc" (great name choice BTW) is really expensive for a big slow hull with only one VGB and one hanger.  Even un-revised, a Boullion hull prototype could match that firepower with better thermal resistance, cost, and speed.  I was thinking something more along the lines of this:

Prototype: "Chartreux" Assault Corvette

With only one Griffon remaining, the "Chartreux" is intended as a direct replacement for that role.  The ship features a primary armanent of a VGB on a 2nd gen "Bouillon" corvette hull fully propelled by NTE's.  The native hanger is fully armed with an Intrepide Bomber Squadron.  Already excellent thermal management is augmented by a supplementary CCR.  Per 12th Society fleet doctrine, the Chartreux lacks a gate key as it is intended to operate in a Squadron with gateships.

Values: 66 Cost. 20 Maint.  Aero 1.  Thermal 7?  Thrust 12 (9)?  (I have no idea how weight is calc'd now.)
Tags: Fire Control 2

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[NTE][INT][nAC]
[NTE][C5D][VGB]
[NTE][CCR][VGB]


(1) Bouillon Radiator Rethink: ConscriptFive
(1) G-LOC Preventative Flight Helmet: ConscriptFive

[Kashyyk]

(2) Bouillon Radiator Rethink: ConscriptFive, Kashyyk
(2) G-LOC Preventative Flight Helmet: ConscriptFive

() Mont Blanc :
(1) Chartreax : Kashyyk

Figured I'd add votes for pattern prototypes as well.

[Blood_Librarian]

Just to confirm, you want to do work on refitting all the warships that Conscript wrote up?

Also as for the error on the Terra's:

Summary: Full commitment to seizure of Roses Star.  Fleet with engage in two squadrons to attempt envelopment.

Picador Squadron:
CC Aura, FC Slayer, CT Griffon, CT Borzoi, CT Briard, FT Terra

Matador Squadron:
GF Seine, GF Marne, FT Mundus

Matador Squadron will immediately commence mapping the lanes between Vorpal Gun and Roses Star, stopping short before revealing themselves to enemy detection at Roses Star.  Once Matador Squadron finishes mapping the lanes between Vorpal Gun and Roses Start, Picador Squadron will enter Roses Star directly from our Torus direction.  Picador Squadron should feint and skirmish with enemy fleet, attempt to lure them into breaking formation and prematurely exhausting resources.

Once enemy defenses have been baited out of formation, and their fuel & battery reserves depleted, Matador Squadron will enter Roses Star from the Vorpal Gun direction.  Fresh modern forces ambushing from at unexpected vector, our dozens of parasite flechettes can use their tremendous acceleration to close on the enemy before they can adjust their formation and shift fire.

As the battlefield allows, both FT Terra class troopships are to deploy ground forces to seize the system.  Rumor is, a certain Marine Captain Kilgrave is looking for revenge.

It will eb fixed according ot this post, Mundus and Terra-03 with 10 resournces invested will be addded to production lists.

[ConscriptFive]

Back from holiday.

Something else about the Chartreax: naming-wise it's a fancy French cat.  It's replacing the "Griffon," a fancy French dog.  (Lorewise, the pet cats probably didn't do so well during the famine either.)  Just as Griffon corvettes were named after dog breeds, Chartreax corvettes should follow with cat breeds.  ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cat_breeds )

(2) Bouillon Radiator Rethink: ConscriptFive, Kashyyk
(2) G-LOC Preventative Flight Helmet: ConscriptFive, Kashyyk

(0) Mont Blanc :
(2) Chartreax : Kashyyk, ConscriptFive

(1) Yeah: ConscriptFive
(0) Nope:

[Kashyyk]

Yeah, let's do the thing.

(2) Bouillon Radiator Rethink: ConscriptFive, Kashyyk
(2) G-LOC Preventative Flight Helmet: ConscriptFive, Kashyyk

(0) Mont Blanc :
(2) Chartreax : Kashyyk, ConscriptFive

(2) Yeah: ConscriptFive, Kashyyk
(0) Nope:

[Blood_Librarian]

Elysium Command Arms Race of Conquest: Operationalization Phase
Turn 3

Bouillon Radiator Rethink
Whilst the initial design has indeed maximised the ship's thermal resistance properties, we have not taken into account the Law of Diminishing returns. Thus a review of the Radiators, Coolant network and the Metallo-Ceramic armour is required.

Common combat protocols tend to include a gentle spin in the ongoing axis to prevent a single point from being hit multiple times and to allow our own weapons to make way for others whilst they reload. This should give us an estimate on the amount of energy entering the system. We also don't need to last forever, only longer than an average engagement, so we can plan for a low thermal positive balance.

This should immediately give an upper bound on how much our armour must absorb and store, how much our coolant system must move, and how much our radiators must eject. Anything above that can be freely cut without impacting operational efficiency, netting a reduction in cost, maintenance and weight (and thus engine efficiency, improving mobility and further reducing maintenance).

Difficulty: Normal
2d4--> 3+4 [Average]

The radiator systems of the Bouillon were somewhat integral to the design, and it was not trivial to scale back the incredibly large amount of systems that lined the ship. They were with such an incredible size because it was capable of mitigating the local thermal impact from enemy lasers, largely to the width of th enemies optics, approximately 4 inches, rather than the point in which the the thermal energy blooms into not dangerous levels of energy over a wider area, With out our high yield coolant systems  enemy firepower would compromise armor plates with a length of two feet from the center of a pulse in in the Ceramo-Metal Armor. As such, even though there is an overall incredible thermal negative, it is difficult to sustain the sub zero massive cooling that mitigates enemy fire power if the systems are scaled back.

A compromise was made, the hundreds of tons of radiator transport equipment was reduced so that the bloom would only have to reach an average of a foot before thermal systems can prevent further damage. This is a reduction of radiative equipment of over 66%!

The actual revision work was serious, thorough and tedious, as simulacrum time was not sufficient in totally correcting all the faults, the armor is essentially all newly shaped. This new variant is called the L variant because it is lighter in mass and cost. It pushes it to the edge of being overweight, which is still a dramatic improvement.


"Bouillon" L Variant Hardened Spacefaring Corvette Hull
A incredibly heavy Corvette sized warship teetering on the edge of being a frigate in terms of component volume. It is equipped with very heavy ceramic plastic armor and powerful thermal control systems that make the push the ship on being overtonned for it’s engine volume, providing a 10% increase in maintenance costs for engine components to compensate for the mass Thermal Systems account for 1 weight, Armor accounts for 5 weight. Hangar Bay is vulnerable to damage but will not spread to surrounding systems.

Values: Aerodynamic 1, Internal 1, Weight 6, Thermal 3, Cost 16
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Revision: G-LOC Preventative Flight Helmet

With a phenomenally high thrust to weight ratio, our Parasite fighters are physically capable of high performance manuevers well into the double-digit G acceleration.  Shame our pilots can take only a few seconds at 9 G's before G-force induced Loss of Consciousness (G-LOC) occurs.  Blood within the head and neck becomes too heavy for the heart to pump, resulting in a martial arts style blood choke within seconds.  Constrictive "G-suits" have helped, but the human heart simply isn't capable of instantaneously working ten times harder on demand.
The G-LOC Preventative Flight Helmet is designed to assist the heart in this time of need.  Intravenous needles taps into the major blood vessels of the neck.  Based on an accelerometer in the helmet, a pump activates to keep blood circulating.  With Flight Surgeon calibration and supervision, our Parasite pilots should be better able to push their craft's performance envelope before hitting G-LOC.

Difficulty: Hard
2d4--> 1+2 - 1 [Utter failure]

Augmentation has been a long-time thorny and unstable field. The augmentative shadow cabals that  do their damndest to keep themselves relevant by intruding on our scientific research have largely suppressed knowledge of a critical aspect of augmentative practice up until now.

It is the concept of going all the way, or only dipping a toe in, so that the conflict between Flesh and Metal does not occur. The Splitting of Metal and Blood, or a long time ago known as the Yun-Dubois effect was one that was common knowledge in the Era of 100,000 stars, in that augmentative affairs must affect as little as possible of the human body or completely supplant it. There are psychological and physical effects that occur in the middle zone that increase in danger as it closes towards 50%, and closely relates to the top-tier functioning of our fighter pilots with regards to the G-LOC program.  The previous era had a decisive, deadly conflict over embracing the parahuman complete cybernetic augmentation versus moving towards bio, nano (if the myths are true.), and pharma augmentative procedures that do not have to deal with the Splitting.

The attempts of installing replacement heart systems that augmented the circulatory system required far more significant neural, and physiological effects than initially projected. Close to 20% of the body by volume had to receive operational augmentations, mainly centered on the augmentation of specialized regulatory systems in the joints, heart and lungs of the user so that the pump does not cause something akin to decompression sickness after disengaging.

Synchronization issues along with fluid simulation broke down on a large scale in simulacrum tests, and no optimal method of timing the pump could be made in a manner sufficient and robust enough for a assault craft, and instead an approach was made that initiated a cardiac arrest while the pump was online, and immediately restarting the heart through bionic stimulators afterwards.

While initial trials were promising, successive issues involving rejection, neurally degeneration and unwanted feedback resulted in crippled subjects, with a 80% failure rate in testing. Such rates are unacceptable for military paradigms, as often the augmentations must come after significant investment in the individual has been put forth, and as a result no real feasible module that can be installed onto a ship was made before deadlines came and went.

Long term health prospects for augmented individuals are low, and among other side effects, Atrial fibrillation is common. Overall, our technology will need to be much more finely tuned before we can accomplish the high-G resistance augmentation procedures

Operationalizations

Griffon:

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[HeE][nAC][MGS]
[HeE][C5D][nAC]
[HeE][nAC][MGS]

Griffon Refit:

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[NTE][nAC][MGS]
[NTE][C5D][VGB]
[NTE][CCR][VGB]
Working back to front:  1st gen engines up to NTE.  With trade-in, that's 9 production.  Trash one of the underpowered nAC modules in favor of the thermal management (CCR), so it can take laser hits better for 5 production.  Up front, trade out one MGS and nAC for a Vorpal Gun Battery.  With trade-in, only 3 to strap on the heavy gunnery.
17 production total, but will nearly double unmodified maint from 10 to 19.  Worth pointing out 12 of 19 maint is just the NTE's, hungry bastards.

Combat Corvette Rubik: Assault Gunship “Griffon” Variant
The Griffon is a heavily armed nuclear gun-ship originally dedicated to assault-and-fade tactics.  Nuclear engines have been jury rigged into it’s hypergolic plumbing, with dangerous, efficient results that is predicated on the over engineered thrusting grids. The interior consists of a heavily armored command and control station with luxurious settings for the deck officers. Autoloaders and turret balls have been almost entirely ripped out for a makeshift coolant system, and the internals have been gutted to support larger, powerful autoloaders for the set of four Vorpal Cannons in battery formation, firing 160mm shells through a average bore-length cannon, resulting in incredible firepower. It is bespoke with a set of two, shorter, 160mm cannons of inferior make. The Vorpal Gun Barrels stick out of the hull by several meters, and are supported by telescoping structural members to maneuver the barrels. The Vorpal guns utilize Second Generation APDSDU “Hammerhead”  rounds and Combination radar and thermal proximity detonator shaped charge “Slicer” rounds.
Format
[NTE][nAC][MGS]
[NTE][C5D][VGB]
[NTE][CCR][VGB]
Values:Cost: 54 Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 19, Thrust 12(8) [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:1 Out of combat 4/3 In Combat 1/1 ]]
Tags:Fire Control 2, Thermal 2

Slayer:

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[HeE][nAC][SBP]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][nAC][SBP]

(Unsurprisingly, there's been a long standing bookkeeping error on this ship.  On turn -2, both the Slayer and Aura were built with GA2's.  At some point, Slayer's key got downgrading to GA1?).

Slayer Refit:

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[NTE][nAC][SB2]
[HeA][GA3][PBS]
[NTE][nAC][CCR]
So our old gateships are kinda useless in combat.  They don't even have C5D if we wanted to risk them with direct combat.  So instead I stuck a single bomber wing on them, so they can at least to something at standoff range.  Again, back to front:  1st gen engines swapped out for partial NTE's (as a standoff platform, might as well save 2 maint here.)  With trade-in, 7 production.  Moving to 3rd gen gatekey saves us a solar panel and 1 maint, but counts as free as it's actually cheaper than the original?  Upfront are the major changes, 2nd gen solar panel, bomber hanger, and a combat coolant reservoir.  Solar panel gets a trade in, but everything else is full sticker price: 14 production here.
21 production total.  Unmoddified maint more than doubles from 9 to 19.  Again, those NTE's are hungry.

Combat Corvette Rubik: Flak Corvette “Slayer” Variant
The Slayer is a ship re-engineered to be dedicated to stand off tactics with second generation efficient nuclear engines and afterburners, Standing off is something it does well owing to its heritage of being 33% engine. The interior compartments are interspaced around a totally re-hauled gate key which make up the center of the craft. It is set with dozens upon more than two dozen turreted primitive autocannons interspersed to shoot down incoming ordinance and very close ships. 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.  It’s fore was hollowed out and replaced with a hangar bay for bombers, as well as a augmented cooling system.Higher than expected sensor emission & lower than expected sensor capabilities.
Format
[NTE][nAC][SB2]
[HeA][GA3][PBS]
[NTE][nAC][CCR]
Values:Cost 58, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 17, PPC 6*,  Thrust 9(8) [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:Out of combat 1/1 In Combat 8/9 ]], Jump 6
Tags: Thermal 2

Aura:

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[HeE][SBP][nAC]
[HeE][GA2][nAC]
[HeE][SBP][nAC]

Aura Refit:

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[NTE][SB2][nAC]
[HeA][GA3][PBS]
[NTE][CCR][nAC]
Basically the same resulting components as the Slayer, except the autocannons are moved around.  For the sake of completeness...  1st gen engines swapped out for partial NTE's, 7 production.  3rd gen gatekey, upgraded solar panel, and excess solar panel gets trashed for a CCR, 7 production.  Trash one autocannon upfront to add the bomber hanger,  7 production.
21 production total, 8 to 19 maint.

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 it’s revamped thermonuclear engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the newer Gate Key,. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted primitive autocannons. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of advanced solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds. Its front was hollowed out and filled with a crude hangarbay for a Parasite Bomber group to launch from.
Format
[NTE][SB2][nAC]
[HeA][GA3][PBS]
[NTE][CCR][nAC]

Values:Cost: 63, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 13, PPC 6*, Thrust 9(8)  [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:Out of combat 1/1 In Combat 8/9 ]], Jump 6
Tags: Thermal 2

Prototype: "Chartreux" Assault Corvette
With only one Griffon remaining, the "Chartreux '' is intended as a direct replacement for that role.  The ship features a primary armament of a VGB on a 2nd gen "Bouillon '' corvette hull fully propelled by NTE's.  The native hanger is fully armed with an Intrepide Bomber Squadron.  Already excellent thermal management is augmented by a supplementary CCR.  Per 12th Society fleet doctrine, the Chartreux lacks a gate key as it is intended to operate in a Squadron with gateships.

Values: 66 Cost. 20 Maint.  Aero 1.  Thermal 7?  Thrust 12 (9)?  (I have no idea how weight is calc'd now.)
Tags: Fire Control 2

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[NTE][INT][nAC]
[NTE][C5D][VGB]
[NTE][CCR][VGB]


Difficulty: Normal (0 mod)
2d4--> 3+4 [Superior craftsmanship]
2d4-->1+4 [Average]
2d4--> 2+1 [Buggy mess]

The Chartreux Assault Corvette is every bit fitting for its designation as it takes full advantage of the Bouillon Corvette frame, filling it out with a rack of powerful nuclear thermal engines that put its fuel efficiency to an unparalleled level. Long-range missions are definitely more possible, as are assault and fade missions. NAV-Command has already plotted several high-stakes strike missions in Ross Star to further our interests in the system, and are eager to receive the ship ASAP.

The Chartreux frame was also chosen to be a testbed by NAV-INT, otherwise known in long form as Naval Intelligence. The end-state of the design process was taken from our department, and it is not totally our ship in terms of design anymore. The prototype has been seized, and will be operating independently from the main strike force and will not take orders until the next battle phase, though the counterparts at NAV-INT have assured us that they will be acting in the interests of the 12th Societe and Empereur Alfonzo the Great in the coming Cycle, up to and including combat operations.

NAV-INT has placed a large optical sensor on the ship, near as we can tell, one that is capable of spotting out contacts from a small distance compared to traditional systems, but it is thoroughly unjammable with thermal and radar measures, keeping a precise lock all the way up until one can touch the hull of the Chartreux, with massive data-hooks to the main gunnery systems.

Absolutely nothing bad will come of this particular arrangement with NAV-INT.

As a note, weight is calculated by adding up all the slots of a ship as well as any added weight by slotting in components and the hull of the ship itself. This number is then used to divide thrust to, to get a “Thrust to Weight Ratio”. The first number is the TWR out of combat, the second in combat. Note that Thrust is  an abstracted value, one that represents hte overall ability of the engines, no matter how much raw power it has, especially in the first aspect as a higher first number is a more fuel efficient system than anything else.

Assault Corvette Bouillon: "Chartreux" Variant
The Chartreux is a nuclear assault frigate. The hull consists of massive belts of composite armor with correspondingly advanced radiator systems designed to defeat laser systems. It is equipped with a 4 main gun systems, autocannon defense systems, a hangar bay of Parasite bombers, and a enhanced thermal system. It is all commanded by the hardened C5 decks. The Vorpal Gun Barrels stick out of the hull by several meters, and are supported by telescoping structural members to maneuver the barrels. The Vorpal guns utilize Second Generation APDSDU “Hammerhead”  rounds and Combination radar and thermal proximity detonator shaped charge “Slicer” rounds.
Format
[NTE][PBS][nAC]
[NTE][C5D][VGB]
[NTE][CCR][VGB]
Values: Cost 66 , Maint 20,  Aero 1, Weight 6, Thrust 12 (9)  [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:4/5 | 3/5]]
Tags: Fire Control 2 Thermal 3
Work on a strategic operations plan.

Note: Armor as a value will be depreciated, I used it as a synonym for “weight” and focused on the descriptor for deciding armor effectiveness. The Sabalier and its S variant will be converted to having a Weight of 5 & 6 respectively.

Spoiler: Current Assets (click to show/hide)

You produce 120 Resources and have 69 Resources Available, with 64 * 0.75 = 48 Maintenance Costs & 0 Prototype Costs. 72 resources available!
CC “Aura” Aura Class
Orders:Standing by
Values: :Cost: 63, Aerodynamic 1, Thrust 9(  [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:Out of combat 1/1 In Combat 8/9 ]], Jump 6
Tags : Thermal 2

FC “Slayer” Slayer Class
Orders: Standing by
Values: Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 17,  Thrust 9( [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:Out of combat 1/1 In Combat 8/9 ]], Jump 6
Tags: Thermal 2
CT “Briard” Griffon Class
Orders:Standing by
Values:Cost 54 Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 19, Thrust 12( [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:1 Out of combat 4/3 In Combat 1/1 ]]
Tags:Fire Control 2, Thermal 2
FT "Terra" Terra Class
Orders: Standing by
Traits: Maint 5, Thrust 2(4)/3(6)
FT "Mundus" Terra Class
Orders: Standing by
Traits: Maint 5, Thrust 2(4)/3(6)
FT "Terra-03" Terra Class
Orders: (10/27) 16 resources to complete.
Traits: Maint 5, Thrust 2/6 | 4/6
GF "Seine" Seine Class
Orders: Standing by
Traits: Maintenace 16, Thrust 4( [[Thrust to Slot Ratio:4/17 | 8/17]] Jump 6
GF "Marne" Seine Class
Orders: Standing by
Traits: Maintenace 16, Thrust 4( [[Thrust to Slot Ratio:4/17 | 8/17]] Jump 6
AC “Chartreux: "Chartreux" Variant
Orders: Standing by
Traits: Values: Maint 20, Aero 1, Weight 6, Thrust 12 (9)  [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:4/5 | 3/5]], Fire Control 2 Thermal 3



GRAVEYARD
FT “Venus” Venus Class
Destroyed during an engagement on -1 -> 0 in the Roses Star System by the CCS-S “Earth Bringer.” Salvaged by Allied Forces
GS “Porcupine” PorcupineClass
Decommissioned[i/]
CT “Komodor” Griffon Class
Mission killed during an engagement on 0 -> 1 in the Roses Star System by a black-lined laser from the Fire Bearer. Salvaged by Enemy
CT “Picard” Griffon Class
Mission killed during an engagement on 0 -> 1 in the Roses Star System by massed fire while out of position. Salvaged by Enemy
CT “Griffon” Griffon Class
Mission killed during an engagmeent on 2 - 3 in the Roses Star system by the GCCP "Wildcat". Salvaged by SUCK.
CT “Borzoi” Griffon Class
Mission killed during an engagmeent on 2 - 3 in the Roses Star system by the GCCP "Lynx". Salvaged by 12th Societe.


KILL LIST
LS “Fire Bearer” Light Bringer Class
Destroyed by CT “Picard” Griffon & CT “Komodor” Griffon during a fleet battle in the Roses Star system on 0 -> 1, Salvaged.
CCS-2S "Earth Bringer" Earth Bringer Class
Destroyed by massed fire during a fleet battle in the Roses Star system on 0 -> 1, Salvaged.

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
https://imgur.com/qokLT6r
[BS12]: Home of Elysium De La 12th Société, the Elysium sits 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. The Elysium requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.


[RS]: Roses Star is a large system with 12 orbital bodies, including Ranachuri, a garden world scoured by de-orbiting debris from the massive industrial complex that had fallen apart in it's orbit. Evidence of a massive project of some kind is left behind in it's orbit. In the corona of Roses Star is a proto-dyson swarm with a leading facility of unknown purpose. Currently the center of the conflict between Elysiums. Close operations on Ranachuri can benefit from ships designed to operate in atmospheric conditions, with 5 levels of the Aerodynamic tag being optimal.



[SB]:Home of the Skanzat United Constitutional Kingdoms Elysium. The 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. The Elysium Requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.

[Blood_Librarian]

Separated into two posts due to character limits.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

DropBox link to CURRENT BAY12 Items: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ki83g84cx7cj0vv/AAD4t2wWfHSR6mUfA3FE6QbOa?dl=0

Hulls
Corvettes
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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Gate Capable Shuttle - 2 Aero Variant 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 military equipment. 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. It has been extensively modified for aerospace operations, including the installation of equipment which allows one of its engines to operate with twice the speed in atmospheric conditions.
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Values: Aerodynamic 4, Internal 1 Cost 12
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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.
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Values: Aerodynamic 1, Internal 1
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Cost: 13
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"Bouillon" Hardened Spacefaring Corvette Hull
A incredibly heavy Corvette sized warship teetering on the edge of being a frigate in terms of component volume. It is equipped with very heavy ceramic plastic armor and  triply redundant thermal control systems that make the ship overturned for it’s engine volume, providing a 50% increase in maintenance costs for engine components to compensate for the mass Thermal Systems account for 3 weight, Armor accounts for 4 weight. Hangar Bay is vulnerable to damage but will not spread to surrounding systems.

Values: Aerodynamic 1, Internal 1, Weight 8, Thermal 5
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Cost: 17
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Frigates
Sablier" Hardened Spacefaring Frigate:A second generation frigate lineage with hourglass shape and as of fabrication very heavy armor systems. Has an average thickness armor plate designed with general purpose protection against a wide variety of threats. It is incapable of any type of surface operation. It’s individual compartments and modules are awkwardly placed, lowering the overall compartmentalization of the craft: damage is marginally more likely to spill into surrounding systems.
Values:Cost 18, Internal 2, Weight 5
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”Sablier" Hardened Spacefaring-S Variant Frigate:A second generation frigate lineage with hourglass shape and as of fabrication very heavy armor systems. Has an average thickness armor plate designed with general purpose protection against a wide variety of threats. It is incapable of any type of surface operation. It’s individual compartments and modules are awkwardly placed, but additional armor and internal systems have mostly mitigated the low compartmentalization, though damage is slightly apt to spill into surrounding systems. Two slot long weapon systems are more effective when installed into the Sabalier-S Variant.
Values: Cost 20, Internal 2, Weight 6
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Components:
"Ground" Operations
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.
Ship Guns
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

160mm Main Gun System (MGS)
A primitive kinetic accelerator cannon with large bore shells, most archetypically high explosive rounds. Despite the large bore, the rounds are accelerated to be on par with small-bore -large length weapons due to the high-power next generation powder propellant, and it fires shots down rapidly, allowing ship-gunners to feasibly expend their entire magazine in a single engagement. It has a high range despite its relatively short length for its caliber. The weapon is augmented with primitive visual sensors in it’s built-in fire control systems and high explosive rounds which is some-what more effective against primitive kinetic armor.
Values: Cost 4, Maintenance 1
Tags: Front/Back,
160mm Vorpal Gun Battery
[VGB]
[VGB]
A fore-mounted traditional ballistic main cannon weapon design schema that calls to place four guns across two slots. These huge cannons utilize extremely fast burning powder formulas, an average bore length for the calliber and exotic alloys to extract every ounce of acceleration possible per kilogram.  Two rounds types are carried, Second Generation APDSDU rounds and Combination radar and thermal proximity detonator shaped charge rounds, “Hammerhead” and “Slicer.” Slicer rounds are designed to be fired at enemy engines and disable them, and are more effective against low fuel efficiency engines. It requires a fire control system to fully utilize its functions, but it comes with onsite gunner back up systems. It utilizes Electronically hardened Autoloaders.
Values: Cost 10, Maint 3
Tags: Two Parallel External Front Slots, Fire Control -2

Hangar Systems
'Fléchette' Parasite Strike Craft -- [FLE]
The 'Fléchette' Parasite Strike Craft details the installation of 18 small fighter craft stored in hangar bays with launch capabilities. Each Parasite craft is equipped with 2 high explosive shaped charge payload heat seeking missiles and dual front mounted dual 40mm cannons with 20 degrees of gimballing. The missiles have roughly engineered payloads and weak electronics .It has the acceleration profile of a speed 9 craft, and is limited by the unaugmented pilots down to a profile of 8. It’s components are durable and hardy, able to go through multiple sortees without Elysium overhauls or having an on-site fabricator while maintaining performance capabilities. Hangar modules induce slight structural weaknesses to the craft unless the craft is specifically engineered for it.
Values:Cost 6, Maintenance 2
Tags:

"Intrépide"  Parasite Bomber Squadron -- [PBS]
The “Intrépide '' Parasite Bomber Squadron details the installation of 18 small fighter craft patterned from the Flechette stored in hangar bays with launch capabilities. Each Parasite craft is equipped with 4 wire guided General High Yield payload  missiles, one upscaled centerline inertial bomb payload, dual front mounted dual 40mm cannons with 20 degrees of gimballing. The explosive ordinance has technically adept payloads and weak electronics. The spooling for the wire guided missiles utilize nanolathed materials that allow for short range engagements It has the acceleration profile of a speed 6 craft when loaded, 9 unloaded, and is limited by the unaugmented pilots down to a profile of 8. It inherits the Flechettes' durability. Hangar modules induce slight structural weaknesses to the craft unless the craft is specifically engineered for it.
Values:Cost 7, Maintenance 3
Tags: Hangar

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. Hangar modules induce slight structural weaknesses to the craft unless the craft is specifically engineered for it.
Value: Cost:1

Engines

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

Catalyzed Afterburner Hydrogen engine -- [HeA]
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. Inside combat, an afterburner can be engaged to allow the thrust system to rate thrust 2 for an extended engagement before requiring 2-3 man days of maintenance to recover.
Values: Cost:5, Maintenace 2 Thrust 1(2)
Tags:Rear

Saint Laurent NT Engine [NTE]
The "Saint-Laurent" NTE is an integrated set of liquid hydrogen tanks that are fed through a solid core pulsed projection Uranium Fission reactor and expelled to generate thrust. Generates electricity from an attached alternator. It reaches combat speeds of 3, and out of combat speeds of 4.
Values: Cost:7, Maint 4 Thrust 4(3)
Tags:Rear

Power Generation

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

Solar-Battery Power plant v2 -- [SB2]
A set of unfurlable solar panels and chemical batteries designed to produce large amounts of power.. The panels cannot be protected by armor while 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 4¹, Cost: 5
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

Command & Control

C5 Deck -- [C5D]
A component set deep into a ship, a C5 Deck is a hardened bunker in which the bridge crew inhabit. It is separated from the outer decks, with it’s own life support system. It is equipped with a Command and Control system based on haptic and holographic systems. It has a central computational engine specialized towards fire-control, it is a modern system that is far and away superior to primitive systems we have built at the time of the C5’s realization.. It has a luxurious set of amenities which the navy will acclimate and rely on for their increased performance in the field. It takes a significant amount of space, and may impact surrounding components.performance.
Values: Cost 3, Maintenance 2,
Tags: Internal, Fire Control 2, Limited 1

Faster than Light Travel Systems

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, Jump 4

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, Jump 5

Gate Key v3 -- [GA3]
It resonates with a higher energy. It cuts an aperture with a Vorpal Blade, it screams to the Gate with the Handshake Protocol, and the Gate Network responds by opening the iris’s of two gates and connecting them for a brief time. The Gate Key is an expensive tool required to traverse the Gate Network. This one has the functions required to open the gate and allow other ships to traverse, provided they are equivalent or lesser in mass to the Gate Key-bearer. Part of the installation process entails esoteric banks of processing stratum that have been through cycles of engineering to perfect the process.
Values: Cost 8, PPC -4, Maintenance 2, Jump 6

Thermal Control

Combat Coolant Reservoir and Radiator Assembly (CCRaRA) [CCR]
A add-on package to radiative systems that expands its mass as well as several internal upgrades that reduce impact of induced thermal waste by enemy firepower. Damage Control can initiate the expulsion of heated coolant through sweat pores built into the radiators while cycling in secondary coolant tanks, which rapidly reduces temperatures and prevents crematorium drift situations. The expulsion of ammonia coolant induces short duration clouds of obscuring clouds around the radiator and some portions of the craft. They reduce oncoming thermal damage in the infrared and visible bands by roughly 35%. More efficient cooling systems are installed, allowing for a Thermal rating to be appended to the craft.
Values: Cost 5, Thermal 2
Tag: Yellow-Line Feature,

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.

Becquerel Fission Reactors
A series of tests and prototyping phases made with the intent of easing our developing energy shortages. No viable reactors were made, but the path to success was forged: we now have some what an idea on how to not create a fission reactor.

Merchant Marine Fleet
A series of logistical improvements that reduce maintenance costs by 25% rounded down. Eases the development of resource generating structures in the home system systems and places logistical supply points across our home system. Increases the effectiveness of our irregular forces in and out of combat.
Cost: None


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.
Fire Control: Targeting acquisition, lock on and sensory modules produce Fire Control. Rather than being consumed as a value, Weapons that do not have built-in fire control systems that completely fufilll their need for Fire Control will note the minimum firecontrol number required for maximum effectiveness. One Fire Control can take control of any number ofseparate gunnery systems equal or lesser to its value. Unless specified, it is assumed that all weapons have a built-in  Fire Control 1 system in it. Components that require Fire Control must specify whether or not they have built-in back-up fire control systems in the event of the destruction of the central Fire Control. Completely self contained weapon packages will default to the master system if it is advantageous to do so.

Values

Pulsed Power Container (PPC): These are containers that output enough energy to sustain components that require PPC power. Will often come with an amount of time that it could be sustained.
Thermal: A component with a thermal tag represents an efficient cooling system that may be more efficient than the one attached to the hull, in addition to any other effects it may apply. More efficient heat reduction allows for more mass to be dedicated to individual systems manifesting as a flat bonus to all operations. Some components may require a minimum of a thermal tag. A hull may have a better than stock cooling system installed by default and is represented by the thermal tag.
Heat capacity.The capability of a component to store heat, allowing for a ship's radiators to be stored and protected from oncoming fire. As Radiators cannot be armored, this is one way to improve a ship's survivability.
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 the number of slots and weight value it has to determine how fast the craft is relative to other ships. Often comes in two values, the first used for determining strategic outcomes while the second is used in tactical maneuvering
Weight: Components and Hulls with this value lower overall speed and maneuverability in Thrust Calculations.

Spoiler: Operationalized Ships (click to show/hide)

Sabalier  Hardened Spacefaring S variant ”Seine" Gateship Frigate
The Sablier is a fast carrier Frigate with 48 fighter craft that are deployed in two waves, six minutes apart. It is equipped with a NG autocannon array, a C-5 Deck and a third generation Gate Key. It has a hourglass shape, heavy medium thickness armor plate designed with a general protection factor. It has awkwardly placed internal systems that lower compartmentalization. Additional armor and internal systems have mostly mitigated this. It utilizes an ingenious internal storage solution to deploy 33% more fighters than otherwise possible. Has slight structural flaws due to being built with hangar bays without being built from the ground up for hangars.
Format
[HeA]     [SB2]
[HeA][GA3][FLE]
[HeA][C5D][FLE]
[HeA]     [nAC]
Values:Cost: 72 , Maintenance 16, Thrust 4( [[Thrust to Slot Ratio:4/16 | 8/16]] Jump 6
Tags:Fire Control 2, Gate Bearer

Combat Corvette Rubik: Gunship “Porcupine” Variant
The Porcupine is a heavily armed gun-ship dedicated to assault-and-fade tactics. It’s two thrusting blocks are capable of using afterburners to do advanced maneuvers in combat time scales. The interior consists of a heavily armored command and control station with luxurious settings for the deck officers. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted autocannons equipped with explosive shells. It is bespoke with a set of two primary cannons on its front and rear that fire high-speed rounds utilizing primitive high-energy propellant. The life-support is strained during combat conditions.
Format
[HeA][nAC][nAC]
[MGS][C5D][MGS]
[HeA][nAC][nAC]
Values:Cost: 33 Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 10, Thrust 2(4) [[Thrust to Slot Ratio:2/9 | 4/9]]
Tags:Fire Control 2


b]Combat Corvette Rubik: Assault Gunship “Griffon” Variant[/b]
The Griffon is a heavily armed nuclear gun-ship originally dedicated to assault-and-fade tactics.  Nuclear engines have been jury rigged into it’s hypergolic plumbing, with dangerous, efficient results that is predicated on the over engineered thrusting grids. The interior consists of a heavily armored command and control station with luxurious settings for the deck officers. Autoloaders and turret balls have been almost entirely ripped out for a makeshift coolant system, and the internals have been gutted to support larger, powerful autoloaders for the set of four Vorpal Cannons in battery formation, firing 160mm shells through a average bore-length cannon, resulting in incredible firepower. It is bespoke with a set of two, shorter, 160mm cannons of inferior make. The Vorpal Gun Barrels stick out of the hull by several meters, and are supported by telescoping structural members to maneuver the barrels. The Vorpal guns utilize Second Generation APDSDU “Hammerhead”  rounds and Combination radar and thermal proximity detonator shaped charge “Slicer” rounds.
Format
[NTE][nAC][MGS]
[NTE][C5D][VGB]
[NTE][CCR][VGB]
Values:Cost: 54 Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 19, Thrust 12( [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:1 Out of combat 4/3 In Combat 1/1 ]]
Tags:Fire Control 2, Thermal 2


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 it’s revamped thermonuclear engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the newer Gate Key,. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted primitive autocannons. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of advanced solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds. Its front was hollowed out and filled with a crude hangarbay for a Parasite Bomber group to launch from.
Format
[NTE][SB2][nAC]
[HeA][GA3][PBS]
[NTE][CCR][nAC]
Values:Cost: 63, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 13, PPC 6*, Thrust 9(  [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:Out of combat 1/1 In Combat 8/9 ]], Jump 6
Tags: Thermal 2

Combat Corvette Rubik: Flak Corvette “Slayer” Variant
The Slayer is a ship re-engineered to be dedicated to stand off tactics with second generation efficient nuclear engines and afterburners, Standing off is something it does well owing to its heritage of being 33% engine. The interior compartments are interspaced around a totally re-hauled gate key which make up the center of the craft. It is set with dozens upon more than two dozen turreted primitive autocannons interspersed to shoot down incoming ordinance and very close ships. 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.  It’s fore was hollowed out and replaced with a hangar bay for bombers, as well as a augmented cooling system.Higher than expected sensor emission & lower than expected sensor capabilities.
Format
[NTE][nAC][SB2]
[HeA][GA3][PBS]
[NTE][nAC][CCR]
Values:Cost 58, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 17, PPC 6*,  Thrust 9( [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:Out of combat 1/1 In Combat 8/9 ]], Jump 6
Tags: Thermal 2


Gate Capable Shuttle - 2: Fleet Transport “Venus” 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 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:

Gate Capable Shuttle - 2:Shuttle Craft “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 Capable Shuttle Aero: Fleet Transport “Terra” Variant
A troop transport shuttle. It has catalyzed afterburning engines that increase its speed in a combat situation, but require maintenance after; . One of its engines has a doubled speed when in atmospheric conditions. It has an extensive hangar bay system that is able to handle large amounts of ground troops, including heavy weapon emplacements, and medium sized vehicles. With a component-thrust ratio that varies depending on the situation, it is most suited for fights around planets with atmospheres. Its light armament of Elysium Autocannons are secondary to its purpose of entering worlds and dropping off its many warriors.
Format
[HeA][Trp][Trp]
[HeA][Wng][nAC]
Values:Cost 27, Aerodynamic 4, Maintenance 5, Thrust 2(4)/3(6)
Tag:

Assault Corvette Bouillon: "Chartreux" Variant
The Chartreux is a nuclear assault frigate. The hull consists of massive belts of composite armor with corrispondingly advanced radiator systems designed to defeat laser systems. It is equipped with a 4 main gun systems, autocannon defense systems, a hangar bay of Parasite bombers, and a enhanced thermal system. It is all commanded by the hardened C5 decks. The Vorpal Gun Barrels stick out of the hull by several meters, and are supported by telescoping structural members to maneuver the barrels. The Vorpal guns utilize Second Generation APDSDU “Hammerhead”  rounds and Combination radar and thermal proximity detonator shaped charge “Slicer” rounds.
Format
[NTE][PBS][nAC]
[NTE][C5D][VGB]
[NTE][CCR][VGB]
Values: Cost 66 , Maint 20,  Aero 1, Weight 6, Thrust 12 (9)  [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:4/5 | 3/5]]
Tags: Fire Control 2 Thermal 3

[ConscriptFive]

Well, looks like we maxed out the budget.  All that leaves is fleet deployment...

Summary: The fleet will be deployed in three squadrons across three systems.  A fast squadron will harass the center at Roses Star, while Seine gateship carriers with troopships will secure the Abyss Watcher and Universe Ignition Array.  Lacking a dominant force concentration, ideally our fleet should avoid high intensity conflict with SUCK in favor of securing strategic resources this turn.

Squadron Nietzche
GF Seine
FT Terra
Orders: Engage artifact guardians at Abyss Watcher and land marines to secure the system at Abyss Watcher.

Squadron Kelly
GF Marne
FT Mundus
Orders: Map lanes to the Universe Ignition Array and survey the system.  Land marines to secure the system.

Squadron Lafitte
CC Aura
FC Slayer
CT Briard
Orders: Execute Corsair operations upon SUCK-occupied Roses Star.  Comprising of the three fastest ships in the known universe, the Squadron should use that capability evade decisive engagement with military forces, especially if outnumbered.  Any disruption of outlying civilian infrastructure or logistics is of strategic benefit.  Coordinate operations with NAV INT J2.

[Kashyyk]

(1) Pirates of the Elysium : Kashyyk

[Blood_Librarian]

Elysium Command Arms Race of Conquest: Design Phase
Turn 4

The halls of Elysium have become darker. The loss of so many full blooded high nobility has darkened the trajectory of our government. Martial conditions have restricted the freedom of the people, something that has not been seen since the beginning of the Collapse. Royal Guard forces in the same powered armor as our fleet marines patrol the corridors, and reign absolute control over the people. The Design bureau continues to operate. A message, delivered days after the attack on the Elysium from the Royal Praetorian Guard reads,

The Empereur lives. Continue providing our naval assets with the best warships possible in order to secure peace for our people.

Naval forces express their thanks at the effectiveness of the main guns of the Chartreux and similar warships despite the enemies focus on defensive technologies and large warships. Heuristic analysis tentatively states that ton per ton, our warships are still more effective in operations.


Work on a 2 designs.

Spoiler: Current Assets (click to show/hide)

You produce 120 Resources, and gain 35 Resources from territory and have 107 Resources Available, with 111 * 0.75 = 83.25→83 Maintenance Costs & 0 Prototype Costs. 72 resources available!

CC “Aura” Aura Class
Orders:Standing by
Values: :Cost: 63, Maintenance 13, Aerodynamic 1, Thrust 9(  [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:Out of combat 1/1 In Combat 8/9 ]], Jump 6
Tags : Thermal 2

FC “Slayer” Slayer Class
Orders: Standing by
Values: Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 17,  Thrust 9( [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:Out of combat 1/1 In Combat 8/9 ]], Jump 6
Tags: Thermal 2
CT “Briard” Griffon Class
Orders:Standing by
Values:Cost 54 Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 19, Thrust 12( [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:1 Out of combat 4/3 In Combat 1/1 ]]
Tags:Fire Control 2, Thermal 2
FT "Terra" Terra Class
Orders: Standing by
Traits: Maint 5, Thrust 2(4)/3(6)
FT "Mundus" Terra Class
Orders: Standing by
Traits: Maint 5, Thrust 2(4)/3(6)
FT "Terra-03" Terra Class
Orders: (10/27) 16 resources to complete.
Traits: Maint 5, Thrust 2/6 | 4/6
GF "Seine" Seine Class
Orders: Standing by
Traits: Maintenace 16, Thrust 4( [[Thrust to Slot Ratio:4/17 | 8/17]] Jump 6
GF "Marne" Seine Class
Orders: Standing by
Traits: Maintenace 16, Thrust 4( [[Thrust to Slot Ratio:4/17 | 8/17]] Jump 6
AC “Chartreux: "Chartreux" Variant
Orders: Standing by
Traits: Values: Maint 20, Aero 1, Weight 6, Thrust 12 (9)  [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:4/5 | 3/5]], Fire Control 2 Thermal 3



GRAVEYARD
FT “Venus” Venus Class
Destroyed during an engagement on -1 -> 0 in the Roses Star System by the CCS-S “Earth Bringer.” Salvaged by Allied Forces
GS “Porcupine” PorcupineClass
Decommissioned[i/]
CT “Komodor” Griffon Class
Mission killed during an engagement on 0 -> 1 in the Roses Star System by a black-lined laser from the Fire Bearer. Salvaged by Enemy
CT “Picard” Griffon Class
Mission killed during an engagement on 0 -> 1 in the Roses Star System by massed fire while out of position. Salvaged by Enemy
CT “Griffon” Griffon Class
Mission killed during an engagmeent on 2 - 3 in the Roses Star system by the GCCP "Wildcat". Salvaged by SUCK.
CT “Borzoi” Griffon Class
Mission killed during an engagmeent on 2 - 3 in the Roses Star system by the GCCP "Lynx". Salvaged by 12th Societe.


KILL LIST
LS “Fire Bearer” Light Bringer Class
Destroyed by CT “Picard” Griffon & CT “Komodor” Griffon during a fleet battle in the Roses Star system on 0 -> 1, Salvaged.
CCS-2S "Earth Bringer" Earth Bringer Class
Destroyed by massed fire during a fleet battle in the Roses Star system on 0 -> 1, Salvaged.

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

[BS12]: Home of Elysium De La 12th Société, the Elysium sits 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. The Elysium requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.
Abyss Watcher: A Massive array of sensory systems that allowed the old empire to utilize faster-than-light sensory systems to keep track of an entire sector, the one we fight in. Currently inhabited by an active artificial intelligence that neither side have managed to make contact with. It is damaged, and is on the verge of falling apart if not for the efforts of the hostile artificial intelligence to keep it together in the long dark after the collapse.
10 resource base extraction output.
The Bottle: A large structure the size of a gas giant, continually emitting exotic, powerful energies that make it almost impossible to approach: the structure periodically rips itself apart and releases a burst of what is theorized to be universe-ending true vacuum, before folding back together again in a most unnatural manner.
0 Resource base Output, Guardian of Endings present.

Vorpal Gun: in the orbit of a barren moon suits a massive skeletonized dry dock around one of the superweapons utilized by mankind before the collapse.  A hundred years ago, a society of space-bound human beings lived here until they ran out of things to cannibalize in the ship, and died out, leaving the Vorpal guns' looted remains as a tomb.
25 resource base extraction output.

[RS]: Roses Star is a large system with 12 orbital bodies, including Ranachuri, a garden world scoured by de-orbiting debris from the massive industrial complex that had fallen apart in its orbit. Evidence of a massive project of some kind is left behind in its orbit. In the corona of Roses Star is a proto-dyson swarm with a leading facility of unknown purpose. Currently the center of the conflict between Elysiums. Close operations on Ranachuri can benefit from ships designed to operate in atmospheric conditions, with 5 levels of the Aerodynamic tag being optimal.  Ranachuri has an active local presence that is capable of fielding weapons that frustrate dominance over the world. Ranachuri is the only known world which has human life.
50 resource base extraction output.



[SB]:Home of the Skanzat United Constitutional Kingdoms Elysium. The 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. The Elysium Requires Aerodynamic 0 to operate in.

An Agonized Thinker: An old warship, unfathomably large, the apex of mankind's dominance had been brought low in this system: estimations put it at a little over two hundred kilometers in length and an unfathomable amount of mass, it had plunged into the atmosphere of a once-habitable world and destroyed it. Something churns in its depths, building things from the burnt hulk.
10 resource base extraction output.

Universe Ignition Array: A large spider web of particle accelerators and energy collectors orbiting a binary pair neutron star and blue supergiant star, once roughly every cycle it activates, and releases an exotic emission of energy that continually stumped the top minds of mankind before the collapse. THis alien artifact is almost impossible to approach due to the extreme energies that it soaks in, as well as its unpredictable and constantly changing orbit.
0 Resource base Output, Guardian of Beginnings present.

War Simulacrum:: A carefully terraformed system such that it would be the perfect training ground for makinds warriors and navy, along with the thickest debris belts of the sector: This system is a treasure trove and deathtrap, as it was meant to put the paces to the most powerful warships mankind ever had at their disposal, and the wrecks are as numerous as the stars.
25 resource base  Output

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

DropBox link to CURRENT BAY12 Items: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ki83g84cx7cj0vv/AAD4t2wWfHSR6mUfA3FE6QbOa?dl=0

Hulls
Corvettes
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.
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Values: Aerodynamic 2, Internal 1
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Gate Capable Shuttle - 2 Aero Variant 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 military equipment. 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. It has been extensively modified for aerospace operations, including the installation of equipment which allows one of its engines to operate with twice the speed in atmospheric conditions.
3x2
Values: Aerodynamic 4, Internal 1 Cost 12
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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.
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Values: Aerodynamic 1, Internal 1
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"Bouillon" Hardened Spacefaring Corvette Hull
A incredibly heavy Corvette sized warship teetering on the edge of being a frigate in terms of component volume. It is equipped with very heavy ceramic plastic armor and  triply redundant thermal control systems that make the ship overturned for it’s engine volume, providing a 50% increase in maintenance costs for engine components to compensate for the mass Thermal Systems account for 3 weight, Armor accounts for 4 weight. Hangar Bay is vulnerable to damage but will not spread to surrounding systems.

Values: Aerodynamic 1, Internal 1, Weight 8, Thermal 5
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Cost: 17
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Frigates
Sablier" Hardened Spacefaring Frigate:A second generation frigate lineage with hourglass shape and as of fabrication very heavy armor systems. Has an average thickness armor plate designed with general purpose protection against a wide variety of threats. It is incapable of any type of surface operation. It’s individual compartments and modules are awkwardly placed, lowering the overall compartmentalization of the craft: damage is marginally more likely to spill into surrounding systems.
Values:Cost 18, Internal 2, Weight 5
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”Sablier" Hardened Spacefaring-S Variant Frigate:A second generation frigate lineage with hourglass shape and as of fabrication very heavy armor systems. Has an average thickness armor plate designed with general purpose protection against a wide variety of threats. It is incapable of any type of surface operation. It’s individual compartments and modules are awkwardly placed, but additional armor and internal systems have mostly mitigated the low compartmentalization, though damage is slightly apt to spill into surrounding systems. Two slot long weapon systems are more effective when installed into the Sabalier-S Variant.
Values: Cost 20, Internal 2, Weight 6
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"Ground" Operations
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.
Ship Guns
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

160mm Main Gun System (MGS)
A primitive kinetic accelerator cannon with large bore shells, most archetypically high explosive rounds. Despite the large bore, the rounds are accelerated to be on par with small-bore -large length weapons due to the high-power next generation powder propellant, and it fires shots down rapidly, allowing ship-gunners to feasibly expend their entire magazine in a single engagement. It has a high range despite its relatively short length for its caliber. The weapon is augmented with primitive visual sensors in it’s built-in fire control systems and high explosive rounds which is some-what more effective against primitive kinetic armor.
Values: Cost 4, Maintenance 1
Tags: Front/Back,
160mm Vorpal Gun Battery
[VGB]
[VGB]
A fore-mounted traditional ballistic main cannon weapon design schema that calls to place four guns across two slots. These huge cannons utilize extremely fast burning powder formulas, an average bore length for the calliber and exotic alloys to extract every ounce of acceleration possible per kilogram.  Two rounds types are carried, Second Generation APDSDU rounds and Combination radar and thermal proximity detonator shaped charge rounds, “Hammerhead” and “Slicer.” Slicer rounds are designed to be fired at enemy engines and disable them, and are more effective against low fuel efficiency engines. It requires a fire control system to fully utilize its functions, but it comes with onsite gunner back up systems. It utilizes Electronically hardened Autoloaders.
Values: Cost 10, Maint 3
Tags: Two Parallel External Front Slots, Fire Control -2

Hangar Systems
'Fléchette' Parasite Strike Craft -- [FLE]
The 'Fléchette' Parasite Strike Craft details the installation of 18 small fighter craft stored in hangar bays with launch capabilities. Each Parasite craft is equipped with 2 high explosive shaped charge payload heat seeking missiles and dual front mounted dual 40mm cannons with 20 degrees of gimballing. The missiles have roughly engineered payloads and weak electronics .It has the acceleration profile of a speed 9 craft, and is limited by the unaugmented pilots down to a profile of 8. It’s components are durable and hardy, able to go through multiple sortees without Elysium overhauls or having an on-site fabricator while maintaining performance capabilities. Hangar modules induce slight structural weaknesses to the craft unless the craft is specifically engineered for it.
Values:Cost 6, Maintenance 2
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"Intrépide"  Parasite Bomber Squadron -- [PBS]
The “Intrépide '' Parasite Bomber Squadron details the installation of 18 small fighter craft patterned from the Flechette stored in hangar bays with launch capabilities. Each Parasite craft is equipped with 4 wire guided General High Yield payload  missiles, one upscaled centerline inertial bomb payload, dual front mounted dual 40mm cannons with 20 degrees of gimballing. The explosive ordinance has technically adept payloads and weak electronics. The spooling for the wire guided missiles utilize nanolathed materials that allow for short range engagements It has the acceleration profile of a speed 6 craft when loaded, 9 unloaded, and is limited by the unaugmented pilots down to a profile of 8. It inherits the Flechettes' durability. Hangar modules induce slight structural weaknesses to the craft unless the craft is specifically engineered for it.
Values:Cost 7, Maintenance 3
Tags: Hangar

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. Hangar modules induce slight structural weaknesses to the craft unless the craft is specifically engineered for it.
Value: Cost:1

Engines

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

Catalyzed Afterburner Hydrogen engine -- [HeA]
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. Inside combat, an afterburner can be engaged to allow the thrust system to rate thrust 2 for an extended engagement before requiring 2-3 man days of maintenance to recover.
Values: Cost:5, Maintenace 2 Thrust 4(3)
Tags:Rear

Saint Laurent NT Engine [NTE]
The "Saint-Laurent" NTE is an integrated set of liquid hydrogen tanks that are fed through a solid core pulsed projection Uranium Fission reactor and expelled to generate thrust. Generates electricity from an attached alternator. It reaches combat speeds of 3, and out of combat speeds of 4.
Values: Cost:7, Maint 4 Thrust 4(3)
Tags:Rear

Power Generation

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

Solar-Battery Power plant v2 -- [SB2]
A set of unfurlable solar panels and chemical batteries designed to produce large amounts of power.. The panels cannot be protected by armor while 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 4¹, Cost: 5
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

Command & Control

C5 Deck -- [C5D]
A component set deep into a ship, a C5 Deck is a hardened bunker in which the bridge crew inhabit. It is separated from the outer decks, with it’s own life support system. It is equipped with a Command and Control system based on haptic and holographic systems. It has a central computational engine specialized towards fire-control, it is a modern system that is far and away superior to primitive systems we have built at the time of the C5’s realization.. It has a luxurious set of amenities which the navy will acclimate and rely on for their increased performance in the field. It takes a significant amount of space, and may impact surrounding components.performance.
Values: Cost 3, Maintenance 2,
Tags: Internal, Fire Control 2, Limited 1

Faster than Light Travel Systems

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, Jump 4

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, Jump 5

Gate Key v3 -- [GA3]
It resonates with a higher energy. It cuts an aperture with a Vorpal Blade, it screams to the Gate with the Handshake Protocol, and the Gate Network responds by opening the iris’s of two gates and connecting them for a brief time. The Gate Key is an expensive tool required to traverse the Gate Network. This one has the functions required to open the gate and allow other ships to traverse, provided they are equivalent or lesser in mass to the Gate Key-bearer. Part of the installation process entails esoteric banks of processing stratum that have been through cycles of engineering to perfect the process.
Values: Cost 8, PPC -4, Maintenance 2, Jump 6

Thermal Control

Combat Coolant Reservoir and Radiator Assembly (CCRaRA) [CCR]
A add-on package to radiative systems that expands its mass as well as several internal upgrades that reduce impact of induced thermal waste by enemy firepower. Damage Control can initiate the expulsion of heated coolant through sweat pores built into the radiators while cycling in secondary coolant tanks, which rapidly reduces temperatures and prevents crematorium drift situations. The expulsion of ammonia coolant induces short duration clouds of obscuring clouds around the radiator and some portions of the craft. They reduce oncoming thermal damage in the infrared and visible bands by roughly 35%. More efficient cooling systems are installed, allowing for a Thermal rating to be appended to the craft.
Values: Cost 5, Thermal 2
Tag: Yellow-Line Feature,

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.

Becquerel Fission Reactors
A series of tests and prototyping phases made with the intent of easing our developing energy shortages. No viable reactors were made, but the path to success was forged: we now have some what an idea on how to not create a fission reactor.

Merchant Marine Fleet
A series of logistical improvements that reduce maintenance costs by 25% rounded down. Eases the development of resource generating structures in the home system systems and places logistical supply points across our home system. Increases the effectiveness of our irregular forces in and out of combat.
Cost: None


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.
Fire Control: Targeting acquisition, lock on and sensory modules produce Fire Control. Rather than being consumed as a value, Weapons that do not have built-in fire control systems that completely fufilll their need for Fire Control will note the minimum firecontrol number required for maximum effectiveness. One Fire Control can take control of any number ofseparate gunnery systems equal or lesser to its value. Unless specified, it is assumed that all weapons have a built-in  Fire Control 1 system in it. Components that require Fire Control must specify whether or not they have built-in back-up fire control systems in the event of the destruction of the central Fire Control. Completely self contained weapon packages will default to the master system if it is advantageous to do so.

Values

Pulsed Power Container (PPC): These are containers that output enough energy to sustain components that require PPC power. Will often come with an amount of time that it could be sustained.
Thermal: A component with a thermal tag represents an efficient cooling system that may be more efficient than the one attached to the hull, in addition to any other effects it may apply. More efficient heat reduction allows for more mass to be dedicated to individual systems manifesting as a flat bonus to all operations. Some components may require a minimum of a thermal tag. A hull may have a better than stock cooling system installed by default and is represented by the thermal tag.
Heat capacity.The capability of a component to store heat, allowing for a ship's radiators to be stored and protected from oncoming fire. As Radiators cannot be armored, this is one way to improve a ship's survivability.
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 the number of slots and weight value it has to determine how fast the craft is relative to other ships. Often comes in two values, the first used for determining strategic outcomes while the second is used in tactical maneuvering
Weight: Components and Hulls with this value lower overall speed and maneuverability in Thrust Calculations.

Spoiler: Operationalized Ships (click to show/hide)

Sabalier  Hardened Spacefaring S variant ”Seine" Gateship Frigate
The Sablier is a fast carrier Frigate with 48 fighter craft that are deployed in two waves, six minutes apart. It is equipped with a NG autocannon array, a C-5 Deck and a third generation Gate Key. It has a hourglass shape, heavy medium thickness armor plate designed with a general protection factor. It has awkwardly placed internal systems that lower compartmentalization. Additional armor and internal systems have mostly mitigated this. It utilizes an ingenious internal storage solution to deploy 33% more fighters than otherwise possible. Has slight structural flaws due to being built with hangar bays without being built from the ground up for hangars.
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[HeA]     [SB2]
[HeA][GA3][FLE]
[HeA][C5D][FLE]
[HeA]     [nAC]
Values:Cost: 72 , Maintenance 16, Thrust 4( [[Thrust to Slot Ratio:4/16 | 8/16]] Jump 6
Tags:Fire Control 2, Gate Bearer

Combat Corvette Rubik: Gunship “Porcupine” Variant
The Porcupine is a heavily armed gun-ship dedicated to assault-and-fade tactics. It’s two thrusting blocks are capable of using afterburners to do advanced maneuvers in combat time scales. The interior consists of a heavily armored command and control station with luxurious settings for the deck officers. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted autocannons equipped with explosive shells. It is bespoke with a set of two primary cannons on its front and rear that fire high-speed rounds utilizing primitive high-energy propellant. The life-support is strained during combat conditions.
Format
[HeA][nAC][nAC]
[MGS][C5D][MGS]
[HeA][nAC][nAC]
Values:Cost: 33 Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 10, Thrust 2(4) [[Thrust to Slot Ratio:2/9 | 4/9]]
Tags:Fire Control 2


b]Combat Corvette Rubik: Assault Gunship “Griffon” Variant[/b]
The Griffon is a heavily armed nuclear gun-ship originally dedicated to assault-and-fade tactics.  Nuclear engines have been jury rigged into it’s hypergolic plumbing, with dangerous, efficient results that is predicated on the over engineered thrusting grids. The interior consists of a heavily armored command and control station with luxurious settings for the deck officers. Autoloaders and turret balls have been almost entirely ripped out for a makeshift coolant system, and the internals have been gutted to support larger, powerful autoloaders for the set of four Vorpal Cannons in battery formation, firing 160mm shells through a average bore-length cannon, resulting in incredible firepower. It is bespoke with a set of two, shorter, 160mm cannons of inferior make. The Vorpal Gun Barrels stick out of the hull by several meters, and are supported by telescoping structural members to maneuver the barrels. The Vorpal guns utilize Second Generation APDSDU “Hammerhead”  rounds and Combination radar and thermal proximity detonator shaped charge “Slicer” rounds.
Format
[NTE][nAC][MGS]
[NTE][C5D][VGB]
[NTE][CCR][VGB]
Values:Cost: 54 Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 19, Thrust 12( [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:1 Out of combat 4/3 In Combat 1/1 ]]
Tags:Fire Control 2, Thermal 2


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 it’s revamped thermonuclear engines. The interior compartments are interspaced around the newer Gate Key,. It is set with dozens upon dozens of turreted primitive autocannons. Large portions of it’s surface area consist of advanced solar panel and radiator emplacements, which drink greedily from the sun to fuel the Gate Key it holds. Its front was hollowed out and filled with a crude hangarbay for a Parasite Bomber group to launch from.
Format
[NTE][SB2][nAC]
[HeA][GA3][PBS]
[NTE][CCR][nAC]
Values:Cost: 63, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 13, PPC 6*, Thrust 9(  [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:Out of combat 1/1 In Combat 8/9 ]], Jump 6
Tags: Thermal 2

Combat Corvette Rubik: Flak Corvette “Slayer” Variant
The Slayer is a ship re-engineered to be dedicated to stand off tactics with second generation efficient nuclear engines and afterburners, Standing off is something it does well owing to its heritage of being 33% engine. The interior compartments are interspaced around a totally re-hauled gate key which make up the center of the craft. It is set with dozens upon more than two dozen turreted primitive autocannons interspersed to shoot down incoming ordinance and very close ships. 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.  It’s fore was hollowed out and replaced with a hangar bay for bombers, as well as a augmented cooling system.Higher than expected sensor emission & lower than expected sensor capabilities.
Format
[NTE][nAC][SB2]
[HeA][GA3][PBS]
[NTE][nAC][CCR]
Values:Cost 58, Aerodynamic 1, Maintenance 17, PPC 6*,  Thrust 9( [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:Out of combat 1/1 In Combat 8/9 ]], Jump 6
Tags: Thermal 2


Gate Capable Shuttle - 2: Fleet Transport “Venus” 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 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
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Gate Capable Shuttle - 2:Shuttle Craft “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 Capable Shuttle Aero: Fleet Transport “Terra” Variant
A troop transport shuttle. It has catalyzed afterburning engines that increase its speed in a combat situation, but require maintenance after; . One of its engines has a doubled speed when in atmospheric conditions. It has an extensive hangar bay system that is able to handle large amounts of ground troops, including heavy weapon emplacements, and medium sized vehicles. With a component-thrust ratio that varies depending on the situation, it is most suited for fights around planets with atmospheres. Its light armament of Elysium Autocannons are secondary to its purpose of entering worlds and dropping off its many warriors.
Format
[HeA][Trp][Trp]
[HeA][Wng][nAC]
Values:Cost 27, Aerodynamic 4, Maintenance 5, Thrust 2(4)/3(6)
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Assault Corvette Bouillon: "Chartreux" Variant
The Chartreux is a nuclear assault frigate. The hull consists of massive belts of composite armor with corrispondingly advanced radiator systems designed to defeat laser systems. It is equipped with a 4 main gun systems, autocannon defense systems, a hangar bay of Parasite bombers, and a enhanced thermal system. It is all commanded by the hardened C5 decks. The Vorpal Gun Barrels stick out of the hull by several meters, and are supported by telescoping structural members to maneuver the barrels. The Vorpal guns utilize Second Generation APDSDU “Hammerhead”  rounds and Combination radar and thermal proximity detonator shaped charge “Slicer” rounds.
Format
[NTE][PBS][nAC]
[NTE][C5D][VGB]
[NTE][CCR][VGB]
Values: Cost 66 , Maint 20,  Aero 1, Weight 6, Thrust 12 (9)  [[Thrust to Weight Ratio:4/5 | 3/5]]
Tags: Fire Control 2 Thermal 3

[ConscriptFive]

Wow, lot to digest there.  The most interesting part is the intel doc.  Alot of takeaways...

1. SUCK has an infrastructure design that gives them a whole system-worth of production.  (Endurance Class Mining Tug)
2. Their ships don't have any explicit command & control or fire control module?
3. Their lasers really do need that much PPC.
4. Their shields are a new thing they made that also gobbles up PPC like mad.
5. ...and they finally made a reactor so they don't need 2+ solar modules for every laser module anymore.
6. Our ships are roughly equivalent in cost, EXCEPT for their new PD corvette, that uses so many expensive components it cost 50% more than our new Chartreux corvette.

So it looks like we should do an production oriented infrastructure design to catch up there.  Reading the batreps, the GM really wants us to do some Electronic Warfare stuff, so that might be a design to do as well.  (I was hoping we'd have new some alien tech from either Abyss Watcher or Ignition Array this turn, but I guess that didn't work out.)

I'll try to get something written up Friday night or so.

[Kashyyk]

Here's an infrastructure proposal, like theo ne suggested in the discord.

The imaginatively named Mass Relay Network is a Network of Mass Drivers that launches large cargo pods across the star system. These legs can be linked together in Relays, so that any pod can reach any other Mass Driver in the Network via one or more launches.

Due to the fantastic Acceleration involved, these pods are no good for delicate cargo such as people, but large volumes of raw and processed minerals can be moved for no more than the cost of the energy to activate the accelerator.

We have plenty of experience launching projectiles at evasive targets, so the extra distance involved will be countred by the receiving catch net (just a coilgun in reverse) actively trying be an easy target. The pods include a set of RCS thrusters to finetune the trajectory as well.

[ConscriptFive]

So here's why you don't put all your point defense in one very expensive basket...

Our ancient ancestors once wondered, "Where do the stars go during the day?"  Nowhere really... merely the sun was so bright no other stars could be seen.  Such is the premise behind the Etoile Solitaire Directional Jammer Array: a targetted hostile vessel is bombarded with a directed multispectrum signal so intense as to obfuscate all other lesser signals.  The array itself becoming the "lone star" in darkness of space.

An Electronic Warfare (EW) system, the module is several software defined radios and other emitters highly amplified with tremendous PPC usage with gimballed directional antennas.  Per Electronic Warfare Officer (EWO) programming, the module can transmit either "white noise" or bespoke mimicked signatures across the radio and microwave bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Covering the higher ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, gimballed lasers allow similar manipulation of IR, visible, and UV signatures.

Tactically, the intent of the system is for equipped vessel to jam/isolate sensors on a targetted hostile warship, preventing them from identifying, tracking, and engaging other friendly vessels.  (The necessary trade-off being the emitting ship will be kleiglighting themselves to the target.)  Fast-moving, small cross-section, low-signature friendly vessels (aka individual parasites) will benefit most from this support.

In establishing the EWO Corp, recommend assigning personnel raspberry-colored insignia and epaulets on duty and dress uniforms.

Values: Cost 6, PPC -4, Maint 2
Tag: External Slot

[Kashyyk]

For the sake of variety, and because I liked the name, have an alternative option for EWar. Instead of drowning out the signals from our other ships, this one floods them with decoys, forcing thrn to guess at targets rather than only firing on the single viable ship holding a bullseye.

Inspired by comments by an old sensor operator about mistaking meteorites for Mining ships, the Moineau Mort was proposed. It's almost impossible to go unseen in space, but it is very possible to get confused for something else.

A full MM kit consists of a Hanger of Drones and a dedicated EWAR station to fine tune their positioning and output. These Drones are designed to emit a disproportionate amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, tweaked to imitate their parent vessel. When deployed, they form up into a cloud around the vessel, obfuscating its position and causing hostiles to shoot blindly into the group in the hopes of hitting the real target.

Values: Cost 2, PPC -1, Maint
Tags: External Slot