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[USEC_OFFICER]

The year is 4207 CE, and the USEC is at it's weakest, and most corrupt. Jobs are regularly sourced to companies, corners are cut, and bribes are freely accepted. The dual star system E-12342 is set to sweep through large fields of asteroids and clouds of gases. Due to the wealth that these raw materials provide, the space station Austin-Ega was set up in latice point 5, and four companies were contracted to collect these materials. In time, E-12342, or as it would later be known, Clondice, would become the greatest producer of raw materials in the USEC, providing 0.002% of raw materials for the upcoming war effort. But that is in the future. For now, four companies have started with humble beginnings at E-12342.

MAP:


Prices as of Januery 1st, 4207:
Ore: $2 per 1 unit.
Gas: $2 per 1 unit.

If you want to join, fill out this form (You'll get to purchuse your ships once we have four people.)

Company name:
Logo: (For flavour)
Description: (For flavour)

Companies:

Company name: PSI (Purposeless Space-faring Ignoramii)
Logo:http:
Description: Started by the faceless person only known as 'U', presumably after running out of career options, PSI is now dedicated to harvesting resources from the cold void, by whatever means necessary!

Company Name: Westar Intergalactic



Company History: Founded by a federation of formerly independant miners, extractors, and shippers, united to contest larger corporations, who were beginning to muscle them out of formerly free space. Westar is known to be fiercely combative and territorial because of that, much like their emblem-a black boar with tusks down, preparing to charge. Their numbers are thin, but Westar pilots consider themselves the best of the best.

Fun Facts!
-Westar Pilots are often called "starhogs"-it's a term of respect!

-Thought the company has been investigated for shady business practices multiple times, no charges have been filed. Ever.

-Westar origin was made, interestingly enough, when two indy spacers collided, each racing to be the first to a space dock, and avoiding a hefty mooring fee imposed by the local ruling congolmerate-a few thrown punches, and a few drinks later, the 2 spacers decided to found Westar together. They were married a year later.

Company name: Lazorz Inc
Logo:
Description:the bored rich teen founder called Julius Wilder would have have been gone uterly bankrupt
if it wasent for the huge amounts of money he inherited from his parents.
now a few years later all the money is nearly gone but Julius feels he has finally figured out this
money business

Company name: Aeon Security Services


Description: Initially, Aeon Security Services was a small private security firm, but that changed when the USEC started to rely on corporations for survival. The USEC needed security for its outer colonies, and Aeon was there to provide it. Now the company has grown; not only does it have a private army at its disposal, but it has also adopted other roles, such as mining. Aeon is determined to make a profit in E-12342 at all costs. It's quite aggressive, so if Aeon feels that another company is standing in its way, expect a fight to break out. As mentioned before, Aeon is a PMC, which means it is not as adept at resource extraction as a corporation that is more suited to said role.

Name: Shadowrun Inc.
Logo:
Description: A collection of several smaller and highly independent mining companies who banded together to compete against the larger corporations.

[USEC_OFFICER]

PSI:

Funds: $5 000

Name of ship:  Ad Mortis Nos Bibendum
Captain's name: Ted the Automaton
Type of ship: Girder
Equipment:
Level 5 engine
2x light vacuum
1x Prospector
Cost; 190.000

Name of ship: Lasius Flavus
Captain's name: Bill Beardlacking
Type of ship: EN-42(ant)
Equipment:
Level 5 engine
Tiny Canister
Cost; 105.000

Westar:

Funds: $60 000

Name of ship: Galen's Flush
History: The captain won this ship in a 24 galactic hour long poker tournament. It's been with him ever since, and shows signs of obvious battle damage and hasty repairs. Can you guess his winning hand?
Captain's name: Galen White
Type of ship: MOD-02, 2C:
Level 5 engine
Equipment: (4/4)
2x Light Canister
2x Tiny Vacuum
Cost; 240.000

Lazorz inc:

Funds: $55 000

Name: The Jolly Dwarf
Captain's name: Bob smith
Type: Girder
Equipment: Level 6 engine
Prospecting equipment
2 light mining tools
Small container
Cost: 245,000

Aeon Security Services:

Funds: $55 000

Name of ship: Pioneer
Captain's name: Richard Yates
Type of ship: Girder
Equipment: Level 6 engine
Prospecting equipment
2 light mining tools
Small container
Cost: 245,000

Shadowrun inc:

Funds: $1 000

Name of ship: Clever Dream
Captain's name: Alice Valent
Type of ship: EN-42
Equipment:
prospector unit
speed 5 engine
Cost: 100k

Name of ship: Samson
Captain's name: Jacob Valence
Type of ship: MOD-02
Equipment:
1 miner tools
small container
speed 3 engine
Cost: 199k

[USEC_OFFICER]

Ship types: (More will arrive later)

EN-42: $60 000
Armour: 6
Equipment slots: 1
TINY: (+10% to dodge, -5% to hit.)
Description: The EN-42 is a mass produced, cheap ship, with a crew of three. It is highly popular, as it has very little mass, allowing it to be moved at very high speeds very cheaply. Many corporations use it when speed is in order. The EN-42 is also known as the 'ant', as space ports have large numbers of EN-42 docked, many owned by the space guard, and private individuals who wanted to experience flying a spaceship.

EN-42L: $75 000
Armour: 7
Equipment slots: 2
TINY: (+10% to dodge, -5% to hit.)
Description: The EN-42L is an improvement to the basic EN-42 design. While still operated by a crew of three, it has an increased equipment bay, improving it usefulness. The additions were made will small changes to the mass of the ship, still making it cheap to move. The only real problem is the slight increase in cost.

MOD-02, 2C: $180 000
Armour: 12
Equipment slots: 4
SMALL: (+5% to dodge)
Description: The MOD-02 was designed as a space ship with interchangable compartments, allowing it to quickly fullfill several jobs by interchanging compartments. In reality, the time and effort that must be put into changing compartments means that this is rarely, if ever, done. This version of the MOD-02 has two compartments.

MOD-02, 3C: $220 000
Armour: 16
Equipment slots: 6
SMALL: (+5% to dodge)
Description: The MOD-02 was designed as a space ship with interchangable compartments, allowing it to quickly fullfill several jobs by interchanging compartments. In reality, the time and effort that must be put into changing compartments means that this is rarely, if ever, done. This version of the MOD-02 has three compartments.

'Girder': $150 000
Armour: 10
Equipment slots: 6
SMALL: (+5% to dodge)
EXPOSED (+1 to critial hits taken on this ship.)
Description: The 'Girder' is a generic name for a ship made out of bits and piece, held together with the girder from which it gets its name. Commonly found in early spaceports, before larger, more effective transports are found, the 'Girder' transports goods around. A known problem with 'Girders' in general is that the propulsion systems are exposed, or under a thin layer of armour. 'Girders' with conventional propulsion systems often blow up when hit, and 'Girders' with light sails are often stranded when attacked.

s-Cg: $245 000
Armour: 12
Equipment slots: 8
SMALL: (+5% to dodge)
Description: The s-Cg was designed to fill a perceived size gap between different lines of ships. It is otherwise unremarkable, being cheaply and conservatively made.

"Protector" Mk II: $305 000
Armour: 18
Equipment slots: 2
SMALL: (+5% to dodge)
BUILT-IN EQUIPMENT: (Comes with a free minigun turret, small missile bay (Arrow) and two machinegun turrets)
Description: The "Protector Mk II is a small, lightly armoured ship with several built-in weapons, decreasing the overall cost of the ship, while increasing the amount of room available. It is not the best ship for combat, but it can deal with minor threats, such as modified civilain vehicles, and are amoung the first dedicated combat ships in a colony.

Spoiler: Propulsion systems (click to show/hide)

Conventional: The standard rockets and jets on a spaceship. The problem with conventional is that it takes a lot of power to move items with a lot of mass (Armour), and therefore is more expensive. Conventional propulsion systems are easily the most expensive item on a spaceship. However conventional propulsion systems have no limits on how a spaceship can move. A spacecraft with a conventional propulsion system can move into any adjacent hex, up to as many times as its speed.

Speed 1: $1 000 x Armour
Speed 2: $1 500 x Armour
Speed 3: $2 000 x Armour
Speed 4: $3 500 x Armour
Speed 5: $5 000 x Armour
Speed 6: $6 500 x Armour
Speed 7: $8 500 x Armour
Speed 8: $10 500 x Armour
Speed 9: $13 000 x Armour
Speed 10: $ 16 000 x Armour

[USEC_OFFICER]

Equipment:

Prospecting equipment: $10 000
1 slot.
Description: A ship with prospecting equipment will tell you how much ore or gas is in a hex. Helps you to effectively plan your resource extractions, and prevents you from embarrassingly finding out that their's no ore/gas left.

Spoiler: Ore extraction/holding (click to show/hide)

Light mining tools: $15 000
1 slot.
Description: Allows you to extract 1 000 ore a turn. Requires that the hex the ship is on has ore it in, and a nearby ship (most one hex away) has room to hold ore.

Mining tools: $40 000
2 slots.
Description: Allows you to extract 4 000 ore a turn. Requires that the hex the ship is on has ore it in, and a nearby ship (most one hex away) has room to hold ore.

Tiny container: $15 000
1 slot.
Description: Holds 5 000 ore.

Small container: $40 000
3 slots.
Description: Holds 20 000 ore.

Spoiler: Gas extraction/holding (click to show/hide)

Light vacuum: $15 000
1 slot.
Description: Allows you to extract 1 000 gas a turn. Requires that the hex the ship is on has gas it in, and a nearby ship (most one hex away) has room to hold gas.

Vaccum: $40 000
2 slots.
Description: Allows you to extract 4 000 gas a turn. Requires that the hex the ship is on has gas it in, and a nearby ship (most one hex away) has room to hold gas.

Tiny canister: $15 000
1 slot.
Description: Holds 5 000 gas.

Small canister: $40 000
3 slots.
Description: Holds 20 000 gas.

Spoiler: Weapons (click to show/hide)

Machine gun turret: $10 000
1 slot.
% to hit: 60
Range: 0
Damage: 1
GUN
Description: A machine gun mounted on a ball turret. A simple weapon, but not very powerful.

Autogun turret: $25 000
2 slots.
% to hit: 70
Range: 0
Damage: 1-2
GUN
Description: An autogun mounted on a ball turret. Uses a large rate of fire to do damage. Requires recoil dampeners to prevent the spaceship from spinning out of control.

Makeshift railgun: $30 000
2 slots.
% to hit: 45
Range: 0
Damage: 4-12
RIFLE
Description: A weapon made out of spare electromagnets by people who have very little idea of how a railgun really works. Makes hitting a target even harder.

Arrow missle tube: $14 000
1 slot.
% to hit: 120
Range: 0
Damage: 1
LIMITED AMMO (Can only be fired 10 times)
MISSILE
Description: The Arrow is the lightest and cheapest homing missle in production. Some captains like to carry a several of them, to scare off attackers.

Small missle bay (Arrow): $40 000
2 slots.
% to hit: 120
Range: 0
Damage: 1
DUAL TUBES (Fires twice in a combat round.)
MISSLE
Description: A small section of a ship, dedicated to storing and firing Arrow missiles out the two firing tubes.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Important note about movement:
Multiple ships can be on a hex. Space, after all, is big.

If end your turn mining a resource field, you automatically move with that resource field.

Hexs:

Space station: The Austin-Ega is at L5. When you move a space ship into that hex, any gases or ores in that ship will be transfered into the spacestation, to be sold. You can also repair a spaceship (Costs $1 000 for each point of armour.) The blue circle around the Austin-Ega is a safe zone. Any ships inside the circle that attack other ships will be seized, and the company that owns it will be fined. While attacking ships one hex outside of the safe zone is fine, this can cause the safe zone to expand. (Unless you make a little donation, if you know what I mean.)

Stars: The two large white circles are the stars  E-12342. The red circle around them is the star's event horizon. Any ships inside the circle is considered lost, and is removed from play, unless that ship has an (illegal) teleportantion system, or warp drive, in which case it will escape, but could be seized on sight.

Asteriod field: The hex with the white blobs. Always contains ore, and may contain gas.

Gas cloud: The purple hex. Always contains gas, and may contain ore.

USEC Container-ships:

Every ten turns, the USEC will send container-ships to the Austin-Ega. The container-ships contain needed resources for the spacestation, and may carry (Or allow to carry) new equipment, ship types etc. The container-ships will buy all resources at the spacestation. This is the only way in the early game to gain cash. However, as time goes on, other, less legal ways will be found. The turn after the container-ships arrive is when any new spaceships arrive into play.

Purchasing New Ships:

It's simple, merely say that you want to buy a new ship, and complete the following form.

Name of ship: (Needed. Must be different from other ships, for identification purposes.)
Captain's name: (If you want, only for flavour.)
Type of ship:
Equipment: (List all equipment that will be on the ship. Equipment can be changed latter. Don't feel that you have to fill all equipment slots.)
Cost; (It would be nice.)

You recieve the ship after the USEC container-ships leave, hopefully offering you enough money to purchase your ship.

Buying/Selling Equipment:

You can move equipment on or off a spaceship when it is docked at a space station.  Moving equipment on and off a space-ship takes one full turn. Once equipment is stored in a spacestation, it can be sold. Equipment is sold at 100% of its cost, as I'm sure some other company will want it. Selling equipment increases the chances of a non-player company from appearing. You can buy equipment at a spacestation, even if there is no spaceship docked. The equipment merely goes into storage. You buy equipment at 100% of its cost.

Spoiler: Advanced rules (click to show/hide)

Prices of Resources:

The prices of resources have a set procedure that sets them. Every turn, the price of a resource randomly increases. Ore could be worth more than gas in one turn, but not the next. When the next container-ships arrive, the current price of the resources is divided by a number based on the amount of resources produced. Your resources will be sold at that new price. In other words, the more resources produced, the less they are worth.

Spoiler: Combat (click to show/hide)

To start combat, the attacking ship must have a weapon that can target the defending ship. (Range 0 means that the attacking ship has to be in the same hex, Range 1 means it can be in an adjacent hex or closer. etc.) Since most weapons are Range 0, the attacking ship has to be in the same hex. The owner of the defending ship will be PMed, incase they want to give any special order. ie surrender without a fight, don't flee if stronger etc.

If the defending ship has a higher effective speed than the attacking ship, that ship can flee after at least one round of combat. The ship flees to a nearby hex.

In a combat round, all weapons that are in range on both ships roll a percentage to see if they hit, adding the target ship's speed*5 to the result. If the roll is under that weapon's % to hit, the weapon has hit the target. Roll for damage. Additionally, if the unmodified percentage was under 10%, it is considered a hit. Roll on the critial table corresponding to the weapon's type, and check the critical hit table for any extra effects. Roll damage as normal.

Critical Hit Table for Gun Weapons: (Roll a d3)

• Hit an important structural point. 2x damage.
• Took out life support. Mining and vaccuming equipment are half as effective as everyone tries to live in spacesuits. Lasts until repairs are made.
• Weapon was disabled. One weapon is randomly disabled until the end of combat
• (Only possible on EXPOSED ships): Proplusion systems/Sail controls were hit. Ship loses 2 speed and (If ship is using solar sails,) 1 acceleration til repairs can be made.

Critical Hit Table of Rifle Weapons: (Roll a d6)

• Hit an important structural point. 3x damage
• Sensory array was hit. -15% to hit for all weapons until repairs can be made.
• Equipment bay was hit. Up to three pieces of equipment are randomly disabled until repairs can be made. Anything they was holding is lost to space.
• Weapon bay was hit. Up to three weapons are randomly disabled until repairs can be made.
• Proplusion systems/Sail controls were hit. Ship loses 5 speed in combat. If the ship survives combat, it will move at half its speed in a direction which at first is randomly choosen, and then afterwards will continue in that direction, until repairs are made.
• The fusion reactor has gone critical. The ship is destroyed. No slavage is possible.
• (Only possible on EXPOSED ships): Command bridge is wiped out. The enemy ships surrenders. However, it can only move till repairs can be made.

Critical Hit Table For Missile Weapons: (Roll a d6)

• Hit an important structural point. 2x damage
• Equipment was hit. One piece of equipment is randomly disabled until repairs can be made. Anything it was holding is lost to space.
• Weapon was hit. One weapon is randomly disabled until repairs can be made.
• Targeting systems were hit. -10% to hit for all weapons until repairs can be made.
• Proplusion systems/Sail controls were hit. Ship loses 2 speed and (If ship is using solar sails,) 1 acceleration til repairs can be made.
• Roll of the Critial hit table again. If you get the same result, the fusion reactor has gone critical. The ship is destroyed. No slavage is possible.
• (Only possible on EXPOSED ships): Command bridge is hit. The enemy ships surrenders.

A ship can attack at most 5 times a turn. Multiple ships can attack the same target at the same time as well.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Spoiler: USEC (click to show/hide)

The USEC (United Space Exploratory Council) has a long career. It was orginally created around 2230 CE, for the settlement of the planets in Old Sol's system. Over time, it handled the creation and launching of colony ships. In 2605 CE, scientists discovered the hyperdrive, a device capable of transporting ships in and out of the hyperspace, allowing for much faster interstellar travel. The USEC began to transport people to new systems using the hyperdrive, and establishing contact with the 50 planets successfully colonized by the colony ships, along with the 12 ships still en route. After the InnerColony Civil War in 3143 CE, the USEC became the only organization to use the hyperdrive, in an effort to prevent a similar war. The USEC was also expanded into the organization it is today, its structure changed to prevent it from interfering with the affairs of individual governments, giving them a quasi-independence. In effect, the USEC was given all of space in return for the peace and security that the USEC was to provide. Even today, 1064 years latter, the only planets that the USEC controls are the small colonies which it has established, before giving it to its inhabitants when the population reaches a meaningful size. The current governmental headquarters of the USEC is in New Sol, on New Terra, while its military still has its old headquarters on Mars, in Old Sol.

Fun Fact: Humanity covers 90% of the Milky way! Good job humanity!

Spoiler: Dous Novella (Now with more flavour!) (click to show/hide)

What? You've never heard of Dous Novella? Why do you never hear of AIs anymore? Or why we don't have all that fancy tech people had in 3790? Or why every democratic government has a Luddite party? I'll tell you why, its cause of Dous Novella. It happened in 3872. What? I have no idea. Just hints, but a smart man can piece them together. You've seen people become hard-core Luddites overnight? It's cause they seen the last transmission from Dous Novella. Apparently it started the Great Panic, though you'd be luckly if you saw the transmission at all. The copies were the first things that were targeted. The AIs and robots were next. And now, we're still trying to crawl out of the dark ages that we put ourselves in.

Spoiler: Senate (click to show/hide)

The Senate was added in 3802 CE, in an effort to bring a measure of democracy into the highly bureaucratic structure of the USEC. The Senate is made up of representatives from the 50 inner colonies, as part of their special rights and freedoms. The Senate has very little power over the USEC, and in many cases its orders are only followed when they are similar to the goals that the USEC wants to achieve.

Spoiler: Implants (click to show/hide)

Modern technology has advanced in maby ways, and a range of implants allows humans a variety of useful functions. Of course, the average comsumer's technophobia prevents many people from using them. The USEC is the larger user of implants, due the highly useful Combat Direction Implants (or CDI) that all combat personnel are requied to have. This implant hooks a minature computer to the implantee's optic nerves and spinal cord, as well as implanting conductive speakers, along with GPS, and wifi. This implant allows the user to access valuable information, medical sensors, the location of squadmates, objetives and a variety of functions. The UI is transmitted along the optic nerve, overtop the regular visual inputs, creating a virtual desktop. The implanted speakers allow for communication between two people on the network, while the implants in the spinal cord passively allows the user to acess everything.

[Blackdutchie]

Starcorp RTD?
Megacorp Roll-to-buy-celestial-body?
Roll to lightspeed! ?
Full power to the RNG?
He's rolled a 1, Jim ?

Edit: neato! i knew it'd come in handy someday to have a rampant imagination!


Edit the second: (includes switcharoo of the first edit to counter horrid sentence structure)


Company name: PSI (Purposeless Space-faring Ignoramii)
Logo:http:
Description: Started by the faceless person only known as 'U', presumably after running out of career options, PSI is now dedicated to harvesting resources from the cold void, by whatever means necessary!

[Dwarmin]

Ooh, GM'ing a new game Usec? Count me in.

Company Name: Westar Intergalactic



Company History: Founded by a federation of formerly independant miners, extractors, and shippers, united to contest larger corporations, who were beginning to muscle them out of formerly free space. Westar is known to be fiercely combative and territorial because of that, much like their emblem-a black boar with tusks down, preparing to charge. Their numbers are thin, but Westar pilots consider themselves the best of the best.

Fun Facts!
-Westar Pilots are often called "starhogs"-it's a term of respect!

-Thought the company has been investigated for shady business practices multiple times, no charges have been filed. Ever.

-Westar origin was made, interestingly enough, when two indy spacers collided, each racing to be the first to a space dock, and avoiding a hefty mooring fee imposed by the local ruling congolmerate-a few thrown punches, and a few drinks later, the 2 spacers decided to found Westar together. They were married a year later.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Ooh, GM'ing a new game Usec? Count me in.

Company Name: Westar Intergalactic



Company History: Founded by a federation of formerly independant miners, extractors, and shippers, united to contest larger corporations, who were beginning to muscle them out of formerly free space. Westar is known to be fiercely combative and territorial because of that, much like their emblem-a black boar with tusks down, preparing to charge. Their numbers are thin, but Westar pilots consider themselves the best of the best.

Fun Facts!
-Westar Pilots are often called "starhogs"-it's a term of respect!

-Thought the company has been investigated for shady business practices multiple times, no charges have been filed. Ever.

-Westar origin was made, interestingly enough, when two indy spacers collided, each racing to be the first to a space dock, and avoiding a hefty mooring fee imposed by the local ruling congolmerate-a few thrown punches, and a few drinks later, the 2 spacers decided to found Westar together. They were married a year later.

I can't tell you how amazingly close this is to ideas I have in the future.

EDIT: Forgot to have background post. Meh. Advanced rules will just have to go with the regular rules.

[maxicaxi]

Company name: Lazorz Inc
Logo:
Description:the bored rich teen founder called Julius Wilder would have have been gone uterly bankrupt
if it wasent for the huge amounts of money he inherited from his parents.
now a few years later all the money is nearly gone but Julius feels he has finally figured out this
money business

[Nimitz]

Company name: Aeon Security Services


Description: Initially, Aeon Security Services was a small private security firm, but that changed when the USEC started to rely on corporations for survival. The USEC needed security for its outer colonies, and Aeon was there to provide it. Now the company has grown; not only does it have a private army at its disposal, but it has also adopted other roles, such as mining. Aeon is determined to make a profit in E-12342 at all costs. It's quite aggressive, so if Aeon feels that another company is standing in its way, expect a fight to break out. As mentioned before, Aeon is a PMC, which means it is not as adept at resource extraction as a corporation that is more suited to said role.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Right. Everyone gets $300 000 to spend on ships. Also, you can ask me to clarify rules/make suggestions for equipments/ship.

[Blackdutchie]

PSI would like to order the following ships, and has noted captains worth piloting them.

Name of ship:  Ad Mortis Nos Bibendum (if my top-of-the-head latin checks out it should be something like: To death we must drink... approximately... might be piglatinish on the grammar side.)
Captain's name: Ted the Automaton
Type of ship: Girder (100k)
Equipment:
Level 5 engine (50k)
2x light vacuum (30k)
1x Prospector (10k)
Cost; 190.000

Name of ship: Lasius Flavus (a species of ant, i thought it quite appropriate)
Captain's name: Bill Beardlacking (wage: 0$)
Type of ship: EN-42(ant)  (60k)
Equipment:
Level 5 engine (30k)
Tiny Canister (15k)
Cost; 105.000
Total cost: 295.000

I am sure Captains Bill and Ted will serve me well.
If not, i'm sure they'll have some sort of adventure at least.

[Dwarmin]

Riddle me this Usec.

1. Can we collect resources and move on the same turn?
2. Will we face danger to our ships *other* than fellow players? Like NPC pirates/disgruntled indys gaurding resources?
3. If I don't buy prospecting equipment, does that hamper my collection in any way, other than being surprised when one is empty?
4. How many turns are we going to do at once? Doing it one at a time would be....lol

[Nimitz]

5. Is it possible to form alliances?