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Total Members Voted: 9

[Orb]

FYI, we have a tie if you haven't voted yet.

[SHAD0Wdump]

By the way, how are we doing on resource collectors?

If we have one, I recommend we attempt to build a second next mission.

[Orb]

Hmm, it seems I don't have enough time for this lately.



Do you guys think I should continue with sporadic updates, or just put this on hold until I find I have time available to me?

[Frajic]

Hmm, it seems I don't have enough time for this lately.



Do you guys think I should continue with sporadic updates, or just put this on hold until I find I have time available to me?

Both. Just increase the amount of updates when you have the time.

[Orb]

Surprise Update! 

Spoiler: Mission 2-3: Intermission - Update 10 (click to show/hide)

Poor scout, he had such high hopes, just to be ordered to be scrapped.






With the extra resources we gain from scrapping, we can afford the two salvage corvettes.







With nothing left to do, we hyperspace.




The pictures shown during the briefing weren't really needed to be seen, just a blueprint of an alien fighter and pictures of scrapyards.

FI: Analysis of wreckage reveals the hostile units are using strike craft ranging from fighters to combat Corvettes.

FI: All pilots will be briefed in case hostilities have penetrated farther into the Kharak system.

FI: On our return to Kharak, the final outfit of the Mothership must be accelerated in order to defend against possible future attacks.

FI: Many major Mothership systems are still incomplete.

FI: We will notify the Kharak Missile Defense System of this possible threat.

FI: The Mothership will then dock with the scaffold for repairs.

FI: Stand by for Hyperspace exit to Kharak.




We arrive back ho- er what?














FI: Kharak is being consumed by a firestorm. The Scaffold has been destroyed. All orbital facilities destroyed. Significant debris ring in low Kharak orbit.

FI: Receiving no communications from anywhere in the system... Not even beacons.















FI: Capture at least one vessel for interrogation and destroy the rest.





The alien ship appears to be capital ship in class. It appears to be a combat ship, which fires gauss rounds from its four forward turrets. It also has a static plasma launcher. All shots move extremely quick, and I can assume they can hit strikecraft.

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Other

No new research. We may gain a new tech when we capture the enemy vessel, reverse engineering and so forth.

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Overview








Ships





Squads


Alpha Squadron: 10 interceptors lead by Sheb.
Beta Squadron 7 light corvettes lead by Shadow.

So...orders?

[SHAD0Wdump]

What? Do my corvettes count for nothing?

Well I recommend we take the problem head on. Use corvettes and fighters on evasive to distract those assault frigates while we capture them one by one.
 We may want to gather enough resources to build a few more salvage corvettes. Especially if we lose any.

[Orb]

What? Do my corvettes count for nothing?

I must of lost track with the time lapse. Your squad wasn't listed in the last update either. I'll update it to include your 7 light corvettes, correct?

"Edit" Done.

[Akura]

It appears to be a combat ship, which fires gauze rounds from its four forward turrets.

"Gauss", a magnetically accelerated projectile(which is actually called a coilgun), not "gauze". I doubt they're shooting bandages at you out there. Well, the repair corvettes might .

[SHAD0Wdump]

It appears to be a combat ship, which fires gauze rounds from its four forward turrets.

"Gauss", a magnetically accelerated projectile(which is actually called a coilgun), not "gauze". I doubt they're shooting bandages at you out there. Well, the repair corvettes might .

I actually recall the game spelling it 'gauze'.

[Burnt Pies]

They just called them Mass Drivers in Cataclysm. Probably to avoid misspelling it again

[Orb]

I knew I spelled it wrong, but I couldn't think of the alternatives. I just went with it.

Mass Drivers often describe rather large "accelerators", while Gauss shoot smaller projectiles, sometimes several at a time, from my experience.

Then again, the ships might be huge, so they might be considered mass drivers anyway.


I'm just going to throw up a silly poll to fill the space, since it appears no one disagrees with shadow's plan.

[MonkeyHead]

thats cos its a good plan. ohyea, im back online by the way after a corrupt hdd. hi. lol.

[Orb]

 



Anyway, I'm going to try to get back into this. Currently working on the next update, should be out in a few hours.

[Orb]

HUGE Update. 30+ photos.

Spoiler: Mission 3: Return to Kharak - Update 11 (click to show/hide)

All combat worthy ships are put into evasive and are commanded to engage all enemy caps at their digression.




The distraction is mildly successful, since two caps refuse to pay attention to the ships whizzing around them.




There goes ten thousand people(or something like that, I can't recall off the top of my head). The alien captain has some blood on his hands now.(The cyro trays are short for cryogenic(or something like that). They are basically the best and brightest of Kharak's people and have been frozen inside little capsules.)




I hope he enjoys the hospitality aboard our mothership. 




Craaaap. The enemy vessels are trying to save their comrades.

But, our brave salvage crew made it to the mothership before their hull gave way. I order them to neutralize another enemy vessel.





This didn't go as well.




It should be able to repair fast enough to latch itself to the enemy vessel.




Meeeeeeh....






FI: While searching the enemy ship's computer systems, we came across these flight recordings. *Sigh* Standby for playback.


(This playback is basically about a minute long video stream. I can't possibly catch everything in there without spamming pictures, so there is some parts I missed. I'll provide an overview at the end).

Playback

(Basically these new "aliens" sent a strike force to Kharak. The utility vehicles and few interceptors didn't stand a chance, and the missile defense system just wasn't enough. I forget what type of weapon they used, but they bombarded the planet with something, which turned it into a firestorm(10 of thousands of degrees in the blast areas). The planet was basically cooked. They blew up the scaffold, and went back to wherever, leaving these cap ships behind to pick off stragglers.)

Playback Ends

FI: However, we have concluded that at present they can still easily defeat us. We have therefore plotted a course to a deep space asteroid belt. There we can hide and prepare our fleet for an assault.

Current orders still stand. We have to protect the cyro trays

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Other

We didn't obtain any new research. However, I began construction on the salvage corvettes as soon as the funds came in. So basically near the end of this update.



(Ignore the current money we have. I had to redo this several times(the first time to capture a dialog from FI I missed, then a few more times to "reproduce" the results of the previous partial update. I'm not even sure how I got 1k, I may have recycled something on accident)


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Overview

Ships

We took some losses. Them gauss* cannons hurt! (2 salvage corvettes because one finished in production)

Squads

Alpha Squadron: 10 interceptors lead by Sheb.
Beta Squadron: 6 light corvettes lead by Shadow

So, we have a delema. We can try to salvage these capital ships further, or just blow them up and get it over with. The latter is more safe, but less rewarding. Our salvaging may fail and we will be losing both salvage corvettes and fighters. However, if we succeed, we will be getting some higher advanced technology early. I'll throw up a poll.

[SHAD0Wdump]

I say salvage, Next mission should give us plenty of resources to re-build.(at least I damn well hope)

However, blow up one that is focusing on the trays. Should give us a little more ease at capturing if one of their frigates stops focusing on the fighters, or if one doesn't deviate we get to save more trays.

Also, I highly recommend we build up collectors until we have at least three for the next mission. We want to be raking in the RUs.