Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

The Old-Evolution-Mind control fungus!

Counter-Evolution-No mind control fungus!

[USEC_OFFICER]

Create thousands of tiny creatures that absorb nearly all energy directed at them, and are capable of withstanding intense pressure, and send them in a cloud to coat the sphere, rendering it blind/deaf/whatever.

Er, what will they do when they absorb this energy?

[Argonnek]

Stick to it until bigger guns arrive.

[Derekristow]

Create/evolve a device/organ that absorbs electric energy and stores it.  Create a second thing that can either slowly release the energy for a shield, or release it all at once in a bolt.  This will not only allow us to combat the sphere, but will also allow us to enter the highly charged atmosphere of a gas giant with a shield that is constantly recharging.  We would be virtually invincible on its home turf.

Begin creating a network of the energy absorbers on the surface of Jethro for use in future projects that require power.

[RAM]

Attack it with sticky goo!

[Zaerosz]

Space is several pages away. For now, blimps FTW!

By several you of course mean, probobly not going to be even mentioned in game in this topic. Right?

Ha.

Also, what Derekristow said.

[USEC_OFFICER]

You start to create an organ that could store energy and release it in various forms. This is actually harder than it sounds, and you have trouble with the organ. Namely, it melts if you use it too long. Sadly, it won't be ready for the fleet that you are making.

After considering several other ideas, you reject most of them. Any type of organism that you could send out would eventually get sucked into the sphere, and until you figure out how to make organisms out of rock, or some other strong material, you doubt it would survive. You decide that until further experiments can be done, light-based weaponry is the way to go.

With your fleet constructed, you send them out to Joshua. As the sphere rises out from the gas giant's atmosphere, you blast it with your lasers. The surface of the sphere begins to change colour, going from black to blue to yellow, till at last, the sphere explodes.

FLEET 1: STATIONED AROUND JOSHUA
1 Cephalocarrier
3 Jellyminds
4 Cephaloscuttler Bands

Spoiler: SHIP DESIGNS (click to show/hide)

Name: Jethro's Mind Probe.
Propulsion: Elevator: ACCELERATION: 1-5 light seconds/day
Extras: Cold fusion or fission
          Armour
          Creature Torpedo Launchers (Staffed with WOLFTOPI)
          Solar Collection Array.
          Flamberge for ground assaults.
COSTS: 500 Biomass, 150 Heavy Minerals, 800 Energy

Name: Prospector Drone.
Propulsion: Chemical: ACCELERATION: Enough.
Extras: Best sensors we have.
          Drill
          Solar Collection Array.
Description: Can be sent to airless bodies to search for valuable minerals and establish a forward base.  Single use.
COSTS: 50 Biomass, 10 Heavy Minerals, 65 Energy

Colony Vehicle:
Propulsion: Conventional: Elevator: ACCELERATION: 1-5 light seconds/day
Extras: Heavily armoured.
Description: A gigantic, heavily armored schoolbus equiped to survive in both in atmosphere-less environments, as well as more life-friendly ones.
100 Biomass, 20 Heavy Minerals, 150 Energy.

Name: Generic ship
Propulsion: Elevator: ACCELERATION: 1-5 light seconds/day
Extras: Filled with Primpsks.
100 biomass, 5 Heavy Minerals, 115 Energy

Cephalocarrier:
Propulsion: Jets: ACCELERATION: 1-3 light seconds/day
Extras: Carrier ship
           Heavily armoured
           Smoke screen
           Best sensors we have
           Colour changing skin
           Laser weaponry
Description: Giant octopus, it stores smaller vessels inside its body and hurls them out using its arms. It is armoured with thick layers of gelatinous material that is studded with hard plates and woven with strong meshes. Propelled using steam jets and can expel a massive cloud of dust capable of obscuring an entire fleet. Equipped with significant sensory apparatus and colour changing skin.
500 biomass, 120 Heavy Minerals, 900 Energy

Jellymind:
Propulsion: None: NEEDS CARRIER SHIP TO MOVE BETWEEN PLANETS
Extras: Support frigate
           High redundancy
           Best sensors we have
           Highly intelligent
           Toxic Tentacles
           Explosive nodules
           Laser weaponry
           Can connect with other ships
Description: Giant jellyfish, modified for massive redundancy, has massive sensory and mental abilities, projects a network of highly toxic tentacles with explosive nodules beyond its body for close defence. Maintains connection to other capital vessels via many small tentacles. Uses these to enhance the other vessels existing abilities by providing shared sensory and status reports along with superior mental abilities when appropriate.
100 biomass, 100 Heavy Minerals, 300 Energy

Cephaloscuttler Band:
Propulsion: Jets: NEEDS CARRIER SHIP TO MOVE BETWEEN PLANETS
Extras: Composed of 10 Fighters
          Heavy fighter armour
          Shoots poison tipped darts
          High strength disabling claws
Description: A crab, remodelled to survive in a vacuum and survive extreme deceleration, with squid mouth and legs in place of crab legs. Back armour massively built up, capable of regenerating, and sharpened to a dull point. Capable of propulsion using jets of steam. Has several small additional tentacles which shoot acid-laden darts. When launched at a target, will attempt to collide with it back-first, reach around and grab with its barbed tentacles, and cut a means of access using its beak. If it enters a target it will use high-velocity punching claws to disable threats and tentacle and beak to destroy them. Once a target is disabled they will leave it and seek other targets.
100 biomass, 85 Heavy Minerials, 200 Energy

Spoiler: SOLAR SYSTEM (click to show/hide)

CALEB: 1.4 Light minutes (lm) from the Caanan.
HOT
TIDALLY LAND-LOCKED
ROCKY
SMALL

JETHRO: 8.1 lm
NICE
HABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY
MEDIUM
HAS ONE MOON

CONNECTED TO MOSES BY TRACK.

100% COVERAGE BY JETHRO

PRODUCES: 100 biomass
                 60 heavy minerals
                 200 energy
STORAGE: 0 biomass
               0 heavy minerals
               0 energy
               Space Station frame: 50% done.

BIGGLES (JETHRO'S MOON):
COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY
SMALL

0.02% COVERAGE BY JETHRO

PRODUCES: 4 biomass
                 10 heavy minerals
                 20 energy
STORAGE: 0 biomass
               0 heavy minerals
               0 energy

MOSES: 9.6 lm
COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY
MEDIUM
HAS FIVE MOONS

CONNECTED TO JETHRO BY TRACK.
CONNECTED TO HEPHAESTUS BY TRACK.

0.01% COVERAGE BY JETHRO

PRODUCES: 10 biomass
                5 heavy minerals
                25 energy
STORAGE: 0 biomass
               0 heavy minerals
               0 energy

ASTEROID BELT #1: 38 lm
VERY COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY

0.001% COVERAGE BY JETHRO

PRODUCES: 1 biomass
                1 energy

STORAGE: 15 biomass
               15 energy

HEPHAESTUS: 50 lm
VERY COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
GASSY
LARGE
HAS EIGHT MOONS

CONNECTED TO MOSES BY TRACK.
CONNECTED TO JOSHUA BY TRACK.

JOB (HEPHAESTUS'S MOON):
COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY
SMALL
CAN HOLD AN ATMOSPHERE.
CONNECTED TO HEPHAESTUS BY TRACK.


JOSHUA: 72 lm
VERY COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
GASSY
VERY LARGE
HAS SIXTEEN MOONS

CONNECTED TO HEPHAESTUS BY TRACK.

[FuzzyZergling]

What is Joshua mainly comprised of?
is it's flammable, I say we burn it to the ground liquid core.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Hydrogen mostly, but not enough oxygen for it to actually burn.

[Gutanoth]

Would burning it be of any effect, and even if it did, would it be worth it sending enough oxygen for it to burn effectively?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Would burning it be of any effect, and even if it did, would it be worth it sending enough oxygen for it to burn effectively?

1. Yes
2. No

[Blackdutchie]

Couldn't we send a big lump of electrified carbon it's way? that might pseudoscientifically create lots of methane!

[Vactor]

burning it wouldn't get rid of the atmosphere, it would just convert it into a different composition of molecules, conservation of matter being what it is and all.  You could try to boil the atmosphere off, but as it's already a gasseous mass, the gasses would likely stay within the planet's gravity well, essentially expanding the gas giant's volume, with the same mass.

What might be interesting is pushing the gas giant over the threshold to give it a greater amount of mass, and an increase in pressure, allowing fusion to ignite in its core, turning it into a small star.

SO.... how much additional mass would it take for us to hypothetically give joshua the mass required to have a self sustaining fusion reaction?

[USEC_OFFICER]

SO.... how much additional mass would it take for us to hypothetically give joshua the mass required to have a self sustaining fusion reaction?

Quite a bit, though JOSHUA is pretty close already.

[FuzzyZergling]

burning it wouldn't get rid of the atmosphere, it would just convert it into a different composition of molecules, conservation of matter being what it is and all.  You could try to boil the atmosphere off, but as it's already a gasseous mass, the gasses would likely stay within the planet's gravity well, essentially expanding the gas giant's volume, with the same mass.

The purpose of igniting the atmosphere (as I understand it) would not be to refove it, but to destroy the remaining orbs.

[breadbocks]

Make an nonconducting, vacuum surviving, Silacoid, and ship it out.