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[Neonivek]

Aliens are unlikely to play a big part

If they show up they will.

[Azkul]

The stats for Illustrious and Broadsword aren't mentioned anywhere in the thread.
I don't know if they were accidentally edited out of a post or just never posted, but it would be useful to know them.

ship stats

Thanks, maybe you could update the ship stats once every x decades?

[DemonOfWrath]

Bremen: I realise my orders have been minimal lately but nothing major has happened for a while (and the mines and such I've ordered ages ago still aren't done, so there's no great point in expanding more just yet). There isn't really much to do except keep research on track and watch everyone else cautiously, it'll change once I finish the next level of jump efficiency.

[Thranx]

I'll join for the EU

Welcome to the team,

Sheb--sorry for being absent these last few days the department of the the company I work for has been going through our yearly audit by the DOD so I have been working very long days

Yes I think that turning the the Gelleo into a Museum would be a good idea as it would inspire many young citizens to enlist in our Militarily Academy

Anyway suggestion for further edits of the EU's orders

Edit: After thinking about I made a few more changes, also can we name our Divisions after the NATO phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, Lima, .... it sounds good and as the EU is mostly a member of NATO it works for role-playing reasons as well

Second Edit: As deposits of Sorium on earth are running extremely low I think that building more refineries would not be all that helpful in the short run and a complete waste of resources in the long run

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Space Orders:
--Gallileo is to finish the Asteroids belts, then come back to Earth for mothballing.
--All automated mine are to be shipped to Deimos by civilians. Don't forget to send a mass driver as well.
--Once the Infrastructure is done, ship it to Mercury using our own Freighters.
--Once we have enough people on Mercuy to maintain ships, send the 1st Mercurian Squadron there (12 Broadswords, 1 Magazine)
Production Orders:
-Shipyards:
--Stop expansion of our large shipyard and retool for construction of OSR-232 as soon as possible.
--Start producing two OSR-232
--Retool the gunboat building shipyard to Poleaxe and add a fourth slipway. Set production of 4 more Poleaxes.
--The new naval shipyard will be used for all non-Poleaxe craft. Retool it to produce Magazine and produce two mores.
--Expand our Warlock Shipyard to 10,000 tons.
-Factories:
--Set 30% of our industry to build construction factories, 30% convert mines to automated and 50% to:
--Construct a naval shipyard
--Construct 200 Infrastructures
--Construct 4 mass drivers
--Construct 3 Deep Space Trackers
--Construct Research Labs

-Ground Forces:
--Train a total of 4 Brigade HQ, one Division HQ, 4 Replacement Battaillon and 12 Heavy Assault Battaillon. Organize them in 4 Brigade of 3 Heavy Assault Battaillon and 1 Replacement Battaillon. Name the Division the Edit: Assault Division Alpha

Research Orders:
--Split our research labs:
---6 under our best EW specialist will finish researching Max Jump Squadron size 3 and send it to everybody. They will then research better lasers. As soon as we have all the techs for the Jump Drive, they will research a Commercial Drive able to transport a 10,000 tons ship, stoping their current research.
---6 will research Edit: increased fuel refining speed mining, research and construction rates.
---Once the Jump Drive is ready design the Newton Science Vessel. It should use commercial engines, weigh 10,000 tons, have both Grav and Geo 1 eachsensors, the Commercial Jump Drive and have at least 3 years of autonomy, both in fuel and spare part. Use any remaining space between some weapons, armor and more fuel/parts. point defense lasers

Other Orders:
--If another Spy team can be formed, do it and send it to Japan.

[Bremen]

I was at the 8th of September when power abruptly died (on a clear day - very annoying) and I lost the update. Shall I replay from the backup (and use the new EU orders) or just try and wing 2/3rds of an update?

[Thranx]

My vote is for replying from the backup but I will consent to what ever the majority wants.
Also glad to hear that you are saving the game 

[Azkul]

I was at the 8th of September when power abruptly died (on a clear day - very annoying) and I lost the update. Shall I replay from the backup (and use the new EU orders) or just try and wing 2/3rds of an update?

Restarting from backup would be probably better.

[Knave]

I hate it when that happens!

My vote is for you to do whatever is more convenient! Don't want to see you getting burnt out replaying old turns!

[Thranx]

Truth be told I agree with Knave I am really enjoying this game and would not want to see you get burnt out

Azkul and Sheb-- Now that we are almost ready to leave the Solar System we should have a serious discussion about our long-term plans such as do we want to focus on moving our power-base off earth as soon as possible or leave Earth as the center of our empire and expand evenly in all directions

Also I propose that we replace the Jump drive Newton Class Exploration ship with more weapons and armor and use are currently unused 10,000 tone commercial shipyard to construct a Mule class support ship containing a jump drive and spare fuel and maintenance supplies this set up should allow our exploration fleet to operate independently for as much as a decade assuming that Newton Class Exploration ship has a lot of Engineering sections

[Bremen]

Well, I have some good news and bad news.

Turns out I forgot to backup for this year... last backup I have is Jan 1 2025. Good news is, I realized I can easily recreate the update from the events log. Should be much quicker this way as well.

[Bremen]

January 1st, 2026

European Union

With fuel at a premium, Europe recalls the Galileo from surveying the Oort Cloud.

A squadron of the outdated Broadsword gunboats is dispatched to Mercury, where they can be maintained by the small European colony.

The largest military shipyard begins expansion, with it planned to eventually be capable of building vessels as large as the USA's fleet carriers. The gunboat yard begins retooling to resume production of the Poleaxe class.

Nihon-Koku

Japan begins construction on two new Mirai class heavy cruisers, in order to keep pace with the military buildup of Europe and the US. They also begin work on a third freighter to expedite colonization efforts.

People's Republic of China

With a long waiting list for its freighters, China begins contracting some of its shipping to the private sector.

China's massive industrial sector swings into action, constructing massive stockpiles of the sunfire anti-missile missile.

Scientists go to work developing a new escort to use the Sunfire, but it will require time; technology and schematics must be developed for missile storage instead of the single shot launchers used by the Jin class.

United States of America

Searching for a good source of mercassium and vendarite, American planners settle on the moon Ariel and make plans to ship out automated mines to the new colony.

February 2nd

A US survey fighter locates a second jump point, this one between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.

February 24th

Europe's gunboat yards finish preparations to build Poleaxe ships. Three are immediately laid down, and production begins on an additional slipway for the shipyard.

March 24th

Europe completes its portion of jump drive research, and distributes the technology to the other nations. Its scientists begin work on near ultraviolet lasers.

May 16th

Europe locates the asteroid belt jump point.

May 21st

China finishes developing systems for a new fast escort ship, the Yinchuan. Thanks to their new engine technology, it is the fastest non-fighter craft in any nation's service. A military shipyard begins retooling to build the craft immediately.

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Yinchuan class Frigate    2,500 tons     250 Crew     264 BP      TCS 50  TH 160  EM 0
3200 km/s     Armour 2-16     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 10
Annual Failure Rate: 50%    IFR: 0.7%    Maint Capacity 66 MSP    Max Repair 24 MSP    Est Time: 2.83 Years
Magazine 100   

Nuclear Pulse Engine E9 (4)    Power 40    Fuel Use 90%    Signature 40    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres    Range 40.0 billion km   (144 days at full power)

Antimissile Tube (10)    Missile Size 1    Rate of Fire 30
Anti-Missile Missile Computer (1)     Range 2.2m km    Resolution 1
Sunfire Anti-missile Missile (100)  Speed: 23,600 km/s   End: 2.8m    Range: 4m km   WH: 1    Size: 1    TH: 86 / 52 / 26

Point Defense Sensor (1)     GPS 24     Range 1.4m km    Resolution 1

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
June 3rd

The US completes a new military training academy.

July 8th

Europe completes 3 new Poleaxe class gunboats, and a fourth begins immediate construction.

July 13th

With freighters no longer delivering infrastructure, the Chinese colonists on Mars begin to protest the cramped conditions.

July 18th

Europe finishes a new naval shipyard, and begins using it to construct Magazine class support gunboats.

August 18th

Japan finishes upgrading a shipyard to 6,000 tons, and begins adding a second slipway to the yard.

September 3rd

The US completes designs for an orbital sorium harvester, and shares the technology with Europe. US scientists begin working on improving their terraforming rate.

Europe immediately creates designs for a ship using the new technology and starts retooling its largest shipyard.

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OSR-232 class Fuel Harvester    60,750 tons     741 Crew     1034.4 BP      TCS 1215  TH 438  EM 0
360 km/s     Armour 1-137     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 0
Maint Capacity 11 MSP    Max Repair 60 MSP
Fuel Harvester: 10 modules producing 200000 litres per annum

Nuclear Thermal Engine E0.9 (7)    Power 62.5    Fuel Use 9%    Signature 62.5    Armour 0    Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 600,000 Litres    Range 197.3 billion km   (6341 days at full power)

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
September 8th

Japan finishes construction of a new Kobayashi Maru class freighter.

China finishes construction of a new naval shipyard.

September 29th

Geologists report that all sources of Sorium on Earth have been exhausted. The mineral is essential for fuel production, but scientists warn that raw sorium will also be required for the still theoretical jump drive, so it may be advisable to maintain a reserve.

October 10th

Chinese shipyards are ready to begin producing the Yinchuan class.

October 15th

European scientists develop faster mining methods; they begin work on a new technique for faster fuel refining.

Scientists in Japan complete research into their portion of jump drive technology; all the necessary technologies have now been discovered, but no single nation possesses them all. Japanese scientists begin work on further improvements to jump drive technology.

October 20th

With their government contracts over, civilian freighters make deliveries to the Chinese colony on Mars, and unrest immediately begins to fall.

European freighters deliver fresh infrastructure to Mercury, but they are too little to keep up with fresh colonists from civilian transports, and unreset begins to rise. Civilian freighters rush to meet the demand.

November 11th

Complaints peter out from the European Mercury colony as there is now enough space for everyone thanks to civilian shipments.

A Japanese espionage group manages to steal the blueprints for the European Warlock class Battlecruiser.

December 26th

The European Gunboat shipyard completes expansion to 4 slipways.

[Bremen]

Status of the Human Race, Earth Year 2027

European Union

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Earth:
Population: 585.39m
Research labs: 12
Construction Factories: 529
Ordnance Factories: 75
Fuel Refineries: 25
Automated Mines: 2
Maintenance Facilities: 45
Tracking Stations: 1
Ground Force Training Facility: 4
Naval Academies: 1
Mines: 337
Mass Drivers: 2
Low Fuel (613,807)
Low Neutronium (642)
Producing: 1.61 Mass Drivers, 322 convert mine to automated, 420.81 Construction factory, .75 Ground Force training facility

Mercury:
Population: .36m
Automated Mines: 15
Infrastructure: 781
Maintenance Facilities: 5
Mass Drivers: 1

Asteroid #81
Automated Mines: 17
Mass Drivers: 1

Deimos
Automated Mines: 16
Mass Drivers: 1

Ground Forces:
2 Brigade HQ (1 training)
6 Heavy Assault Battalions (2 training)
1 Replacement Battalion (1 training)
1 Garrison Battalion

7 BC Warlock
8 FF Illustrious
4 FF Famous
14 GB Broadsword
14 GB Poleaxe
3 SV Magazine (1 under construction)
5 FT Outlander
1 SV Galileo
2 EX Audacious
2 CS Horizons (civilian)
7 FT Outlander (civilian)


2 63,400 ton commercial slipways (FT Outlander) Retool: OSR-232 34.6%
1 10,000 ton commercial slipway (SV Galileo)
2 7,000 ton naval slipway (BC Warlock) Add 2000 tons capacity: 59.8%
1 3,000 ton naval slipway (FF Famous)
3 1,000 ton naval slipways (EX Audacious)
1 1,000 ton naval slipway (SV Magazine)

Wealth: 16502

Scientists
Energy Weapons 35% (35)
Missiles/Kinetic Weapons 15% (15)
Construction/Production 10% (25)
Sensors and Fire Control 10% (5)
Power and Propulsion 10% (5)

Research
Fuel Production 24,000 (25th July 2028)
Near Ultraviolet Laser (14th August 2027)

Nihon-koku

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Earth:
Population: 168.08m
Research labs: 13
Construction Factories: 350
Fuel Refineries: 50
Automated Mines: 354
Financial Centres: 140
Maintenance Facilities: 50
Tracking Stations: 1
Ground Force Training Facility: 2
Naval Academies: 2
Mass Drivers: 7
Producing: 35.34 Automated mines, .95 Research Labs

Hyperion:
Automated Mines: 20
Mass Drivers: 1

Charon:
Automated Mines: 18

Triton
Automated Mines: 20
Mass Drivers: 1

Titan:
Population: .07m
Infrastructure: 60

Mars:
Population: .19m
Infrastructure: 40

Sol-A Asteroid #81
Mining Complex: 1

3 Mobile Infantry Battalion
1 Garrison Battalion

8 CA Mirai (2 under construction)
1 GEV Kongo
1 CS Yubari
3 FT Kobayashi Maru
2 FT Kobayashi Maru (civilian)
1 CS Yubari (civilian)

2 35,000 ton commercial slipways (FT Kabayashi Maru)
1 20,000 ton commercial slipway (CS Yubari)
2 8,000 ton naval slipways (CA Mirai)
1 6,000 ton naval slipway (unassigned) Add extra slipway 11.3%

Wealth: 6583

Scientists:
Missiles/Kinetic 40% (25)
Logistics / Ground Combat 35% (30)
Construction/Production 25% (10)
Sensors and Fire Control 25% (30)
Energy Weapons 10% (10)

Research
Beam Fire Control Range 32,000 (2nd October 2027)
Jump Drive Efficiency 4 (20th October 2029)
Mining Production 14 (16th November 2028)

People's Republic of China

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Earth:
Population: 1494.87m
Research labs: 13
Construction Factories: 607
Ordnance Factories: 100
Fighter Factories: 100
Fuel Refineries: 100
Automated Mines: 0
Financial Centres: 40
Maintenance Facilities: 50
Tracking Stations: 1
Ground Force Training Facility: 2
Naval Academies: 1
Mines: 576
Mass Drivers: 1
Producing: .01 research labs, 1135 sunfire anti-missile missile

Mars:
Population: 11.2m
Infrastructure: 2454

Io:
Automated Mines: 11
Mass Drivers: 1

Deimos:
Automated Mines: 11
Mass Drivers: 1

Charon:
Automated Mines: 11
Mass Drivers: 1

Ariel:
Automated Mines: 7
Mass Drivers: 1

2 Brigade HQ (2 training)
7 Assault Infantry Battalions
6 Mobile Infantry Battalions
2 Replacement Battalions

5 MB Jin
12 CT Jianghu
1 GSV Luda type B
1 CS Project 13
2 FT Houjian
1 CS Xian (Civilian)
2 CS Project 13 (Civilian)
7 FT Houjian (Civilian)

2 35,000 ton commercial slipways (FT Houjian)
1 10,000 ton commercial slipway (CS Project 13)
2 3,000 ton naval slipways (FF Yinchuan)
1 3,000 ton naval slipway (unassigned) Add 2000 ton capacity 91.8%
1 1,000 ton naval slipway (unassigned)

Wealth: 13,380

Scientists:
Construction/Production 20% (25)
Defensive Systems 20% (5)
Missiles/Kinetic Weapons 20% (25)
Biology/Genetics 15% (20)
Energy Weapons 10% (5)

Research:
Meson Focusing Technology 3 (ETA 13 January 2027)

United States of America

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Earth:
Population: 391.91m
Research labs: 10
Construction Factories: 411
Fighter Factories: 50
Fuel Refineries: 50
Automated Mines: 11
Maintenance Facilities: 50
Tracking Stations: 1
Ground Force Training Facility: 1
Naval Academies: 2
Mines: 340
Mass Drivers: 5
Producing: 39.97 Convert mine to automated, 38.82 Construction Factories

Mercury:
Automated Mines: 23
Mass Drivers: 1

Deimos:
Automated Mines: 23
Mass Drivers: 1

Venus:
Automated Mines: 23
Mass Drivers: 1

Io:
Automated Mines: 19
Mass Drivers: 1

Ariel:
Automated Mines: 5
Mass Drivers: 1

1 Heavy Assault Battalion
1 Marine Battalion
2 Mobile Infantry Battalions
2 Marine Companys
1 Engineer Brigade (1 training)

8 CV George Washington
18 DE Spruance
192 Kestrel
40 Zephyr
2 Raptor
1 Eagle
6 FT Trekker

2 35,000 ton commercial slipway (FT Trekker)
1 20,000 ton commercial slipway (unassigned)
1 15,000 ton commercial slipway (CS Oregon)
1 10,000 ton naval slipway (CV George Washington)
2 4,000 ton naval slipways (DE Spruance)
1 1,000 ton naval slipway (unassigned) Add 5000 ton capacity (20.9%)
1 1,000 ton naval slipway (unassigned) Add 5000 ton capacity (20.9%)

Wealth: 14333

Scientists:
Energy Weapons 20% (15)
Biology/Genetics 20% (5)
Construction/Production 15% (15)
Sensors and Fire Control 10% (25)

Research:
Terraforming Rate .0015 (ETA 24th May 2028)
Genome Sequence Research (ETA 20th March 2039)

Mineral Surveys

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Earth
Duranium: 71,794 (.72)
Neutronium: 16,075 (.21)
Corbomite: 10,890 (.16)
Tritanium: 28,038 (.2)
Boronide: 7,973 (.15)
Mercassium: 5,545 (.15)
Vendarite: 6,543 (.14)
Uridium: 18,308 (.18)
Corundium: 18,601 (.23)
Gallicite: 14,889 (.17)

Mercury
Duranium: 45,774 (.3)
Corbomite: 59,306 (.8)
Tritanium: 30,284 (.9)
Corundium 58,063 (1)

Venus
Duranium: 32,001 (.4)
Neutronium: 60,264 (1)
Vendarite: 34,411 (1)
Uridium: 56,603 (1)

Deimos
Duranium: 25,674 (.5)
Mercassium: 84,576 (1)
Sorium: 56,789 (.8)
Gallicite: 34,568 (.9)

Jupiter
Sorium: 4,205,253 (1)

Io
Duranium: 123,450 (1)
Neutronium: 6,387 (.3)
Boronide: 45,628 (1)
Sorium: 14,257 (.5)
Corundium: 3,484 (.4)

Saturn
Sorium: 7,625,312(1)

Hyperion
Neutronium: 2,529 (1)
Corbomite: 3,114 (1)
Vendarite: 5,715 (1)
Sorium: 10,899 (.9)
Gallicite: 31,755 (1)

Uranus
Sorium: 2,274,840 (.9)

Ariel
Neutronium: 26,170 (.8)
Corbomite: 26,295 (.8)
Mercassium: 5,641 (.6)
Vendarite: 93,844 (.8)
Sorium: 5,241 (.5)

Oberon
Duranium: 6,690 (.9)
Neutronium: 4,231 (.5)
Tritanium: 3,716 (.7)
Mercassium: 8,563 (.9)
Corundium: 6,347 (.6)

Neptune
Sorium: 5,917,640 (1)

Triton
Duranium: 10,253 (1)
Corbomite: 9,253 (.9)
Tritanium: 3,562 (.3)
Boron: 7,633 (.7)
Vendarite: 3,562 (.3)
Sorium: 5,472 (.5)
Uridium: 5,421 (.5)
Gallicite: 6,423 (.6)

Charon
Duranium: 155,359 (.9)
Corbomite: 208,493 (.8)
Boronide: 53,486 (.9)
Uridium: 20,255 (.8)
Gallicite: 272,317 (.7)

[Sirus]

Shut down the US's refineries! *panic mode*

We must maintain a supply of sorium for whatever use.

More orders tomorrow.

EDIT: I'm also encountering a slight change of plans for my jump ship. Throwing together a mock-up, it turns out that I don't need a 10,000 ton jump ship, just a jump drive capable of supporting a 10k ton carrier. Using a smaller jump drive (rated to about 3,000 tons) gave me an error message. So...yeah. 

[Bremen]

Shut down the US's refineries! *panic mode*

We must maintain a supply of sorium for whatever use.

More orders tomorrow.

EDIT: I'm also encountering a slight change of plans for my jump ship. Throwing together a mock-up, it turns out that I don't need a 10,000 ton jump ship, just a jump drive capable of supporting a 10k ton carrier. Using a smaller jump drive (rated to about 3,000 tons) gave me an error message. So...yeah. 

No, to jump a 10,000 ton ship the jumpship has to have a 10,000 ton jump drive *and* be 10,000 tons. It's weird, but that's how it works. Think of it as the jump ship tears space a new one and then the other ships follow through the hole; the hole has to be as big as the following ships.

[Sheb]

Well, we should shift our fuel production to fuel harvester ASAP. We'll also need a tanker.

Finally, could everyone share the Jump Technologies?