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[Paul]

The game has been getting slower and slower and slower, and since I moved to the new version I didn't have the designer mode password.

I was hoping Steve would give it to me, but after 3 days of waiting he hasn't replied. I finally went back to 5.52, found the problem, got rid of it, then swapped back to 5.53.

The problem was the NPR we started with had went crazy with a tiny cargo ship and their civilian shipping lines had built like 200 of them. I erased them all and now the game is moving along at a reasonable pace again (no more 5 minute waits between 5 day turns). Hopefully going back and forth versions doesn't cause any errors, but I had to fix it because the game was getting unplayable. The NPR is out some cargo capacity, but none of them were actually being used anyway.

Anyway, I'm playing it again now that it isn't horrendously slow. I'll have an update as soon as something interesting comes up.

-edit- Here we go.
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Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 4th November, 2125

We've finished the 10 terraforming stations for Mars, so I'm ordering 50 more fuel refineries built to double our fuel production. We can always shut them down when we don't need them, but for now we need them.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 7th December, 2125

Exploration team 2 has returned from Lalande 21185 with the results of the survey.

Spoiler: Survey Results from Lalande 21185 (click to show/hide)

Rocky Planets: 2   Surveyed: 2
Gas Giants: 4   Surveyed: 4
Moons: 78   Surveyed: 78
Asteroids: 177   Surveyed: 177

Lalande 21185-A IV
Corbomite 45,104,660  Acc: 0.8
Boronide 1,218,816  Acc: 0.1
Uridium 17,139,600  Acc: 0.1
Corundium 19,501,060  Acc: 0.1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #6
Corbomite 14,113  Acc: 1
Tritanium 1,429  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #22
Uridium 19  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #27
Uridium 7,396  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #42
Boronide 1  Acc: 1
Mercassium 1  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #68
Duranium 104  Acc: 1
Neutronium 3  Acc: 1
Gallicite 164  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #72
Tritanium 1,089  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #80
Duranium 12,800  Acc: 1
Neutronium 1,225  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #93
Duranium 6  Acc: 1
Uridium 52  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #98
Mercassium 1,362  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #100
Duranium 6,845  Acc: 1
Corbomite 992  Acc: 0.9
Sorium 21,609  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #109
Duranium 1,152  Acc: 1
Uridium 282  Acc: 1
Gallicite 243  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #126
Duranium 1,095  Acc: 1
Corbomite 973  Acc: 1
Boronide 3,387  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #136
Duranium 3,528  Acc: 1
Corbomite 2,480  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #143
Duranium 2,592  Acc: 1
Neutronium 655  Acc: 1
Vendarite 31  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #153
Duranium 88,200  Acc: 1
Neutronium 10,404  Acc: 0.9
Gallicite 27,225  Acc: 0.9

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #160
Duranium 9,248  Acc: 1
Boronide 1,296  Acc: 1
Corundium 4,761  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #166
Neutronium 18  Acc: 1
Corbomite 441  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #172
Corbomite 296  Acc: 1
Boronide 392  Acc: 1
Mercassium 41  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A Asteroid #174
Duranium 4,014  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A VII - Moon 11
Mercassium 435,600  Acc: 0.8

Lalande 21185-A VIII - Moon 3
Boronide 944,784  Acc: 0.9
Vendarite 28,579,720  Acc: 0.1
Uridium 419,904  Acc: 0.7
Gallicite 9,474,084  Acc: 0.5

Lalande 21185-A VIII - Moon 10
Mercassium 1,411,344  Acc: 0.1

Lalande 21185-A VIII - Moon 16
Duranium 2  Acc: 1
Corbomite 5,446  Acc: 1
Boronide 7,310  Acc: 1
Mercassium 635  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A VIII - Moon 18
Neutronium 972,196  Acc: 0.6
Sorium 861,184  Acc: 0.1
Corundium 3,129,361  Acc: 0.1

Lalande 21185-A IX
Uridium 5,593,225  Acc: 0.1

Lalande 21185-A X
Sorium 2,310,000  Acc: 0.2

Lalande 21185-A X - Moon 2
Neutronium 2,286,144  Acc: 0.1
Corbomite 16,257,020  Acc: 0.1
Gallicite 705,600  Acc: 0.2

Lalande 21185-A X - Moon 6
Boronide 13  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A X - Moon 7
Gallicite 339  Acc: 1

Lalande 21185-A X - Moon 15
Duranium 30,420,000  Acc: 0.1
Corbomite 5,062,500  Acc: 0.2
Uridium 17,640,000  Acc: 0.1
Corundium 275,625  Acc: 0.1

Lalande 21185-A X - Moon 23
Duranium 3,175,200  Acc: 0.1
Tritanium 2,592,100  Acc: 0.1
Boronide 122,500  Acc: 0.1
Sorium 14,288,400  Acc: 0.1


Jump Points:
JP1: Distance 404m, Bearing 326, Destination Sol
JP2: Distance 852m, Bearing 269, 715m from Sol jump
JP3: Distance 1.31b, Bearing 186, 1.64b from Sol jump

Three jumps, and lots of minerals. Several of the worlds would make decent long term mining sites, and many of the asteroids have minerals. Overall a much richer system than most of the others we've explored.

They were a bit shocked to learn that we have no fuel for them to refuel from, but they have enough to survey another system (only used 24%) so they're heading to jump point 6 in Sol.

Exploration team 1 is still waiting at Earth. Since fuel is lacking, I think I'll have them refitted to the new engine while they wait.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 12th December, 2125

Vibius Salvius Trebius completed research on a more compact turret design, thanks to better gearing research. With the smaller turrets I've redesigned the Legion and Vincere designs to have an extra two fire controls, putting 3 turrets per fire control instead of 5. It still has room for something else with the space freed up, before we build them I may have Zebulon come up with a functional model of the shields he has been researching and install some.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 17th December, 2125

I just received a promising initial report about our 6th jump point from the 2nd exploration team led by Centurion Publius Socellius Lateranus. The jump leads to the system of Struve 2398, and it has two worlds that could potentially be colonized.

Struve 2398 II has a 0.16 pressure atmosphere with 85% nitrogen, 13.4% oxygen, and 1.65% carbon dioxide. The temperature is 5.7, and has a 55% liquid hydrosphere. Gravity is 0.56. With a little more oxygen and nitrogen the world could be perfectly habitable.

Struve 2398 III has a 1.34 pressure atmosphere with 75% nitrogen, 24% methane, and 1% ammonia. The temperaturer is 0.3. No hydrosphere, and gravity is 1.29. This one would be fine with infrastructure, but terraforming it would require significant effort to replace the dangerous Methane with Oxygen.

The first planet could also be terraformed using anti-greenhouse gas. It's a low gravity world, 0.35, and has no atmosphere or hydrosphere currently present. Temperature is 546.1. Similar to Mercury.

They've jumped back into the system and will report back when it's fully surveyed.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 28th December, 2125

A promising new officer named Shec just graduated. I'm told he's the son of our late fleet commander Sheb. He's taken a posting aboard the Legionary 2.

The MonkeyHead team completed research on magneto plasma missile drives. They've begun researching fuel efficiency technology, to improve the range of both the missiles we plan to develop and our future engines.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 3rd February, 2126

Primus AussieGuy just ended his tour aboard the Legion 1, and was assigned as fleet commander. The post went unfilled for a while as the Consuls debated the issue, but in the end Primus AussieGuy was the best choice among the candidates.

I've decided to add additional slipways to our Legionary yard, to make refitting and building more of them a faster process.

I've also decided to begin buying Sorium from Asteroid 306, since our fuel refineries are using more and more.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 9th May, 2126

The Hypatia 1 has finished refit, and we now have fuel for them - so I've sent them on to explore the jump out in Proxima Centauri. To save them the trip back through Proxima Centauri, I've told them to just survey the entire system before coming back unless they detect wrecks or other signs of life.

The fuel refineries are complete. I've decided to build another two military academies to try and attract better officers. I've also begun adding a second slipway to our freighter yard, so that when we begin constructing them we can do so twice as fast. It won't be done until July 2128 though. Expansion of the shipyard intended for gate building ships is still in progress. It's up to 38328 tons now, undergoing a continual capacity expansion. The other yard that a use hasn't been decided for yet is up to 26991. Our large military yard is at 60,000. We could design an even larger carrier making use of the larger shipyard capacity.

Thanks to some extra research focus over the last few years, Zebulon finished work on Ceramic Composite armor. This will give room for heavier armor on our military vessels. Instead of continuing to advance shield techs, I've decided just to develop a functioning model with what we have now. Once he's finished the shield tech I'll design a new carrier.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 11th June, 2126

Aulus Nepius Pantera completed his research efficiency project. Now all of our research labs are 14.29% more efficient. He's now begun a project to boost our fuel production by 20%, since we've been having shortages.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 21st July, 2126

Zebulon has just finished research on our first working shield model. It can absorb 2 points of damage and recharges in 5 minutes. Not extremely effective, but having a regenerative damage capacity on our ships will be handy. I've had our carrier vessels redesigned with these shields, making them larger to make room for them and to fully utilize our large shipyard capacity.

Spoiler: Legion class Heavy Carrier (click to show/hide)

Legion class Heavy Carrier    60,000 tons     4454 Crew     9380 BP      TCS 1200  TH 3960  EM 3000
3300 km/s     Armour 12-136     Shields 100-300     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 40     PPV 278.28
Maint Life 2.79 Years     MSP 3908    AFR 720%    IFR 10%    1YR 729    5YR 10931    Max Repair 420 MSP
Hangar Deck Capacity 14000 tons     

Magneto-plasma Drive E8.4 (45)    Power 88    Fuel Use 84%    Signature 88    Armour 0    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 2,595,000 Litres    Range 92.7 billion km   (325 days at full power)
Gamma R300/14 Shields (50)   Total Fuel Cost  700 Litres per day

Quad R6/C3 Meson Cannon TS16 (18x4)    Range 60,000km     TS: 16000 km/s     Power 12-12     RM 6    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S02 32-8000 (6)    Max Range: 64,000 km   TS: 8000 km/s     84 69 53 37 22 6 0 0 0 0
Stellarator Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 (36)     Total Power Output 216    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR23-R1 (1)     GPS 210     Range 23.1m km    Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor MR506-R120 (1)     GPS 50400     Range 506.1m km    Resolution 120

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

Spoiler: Vincere class Assault Carrier (click to show/hide)

Vincere class Assault Carrier    60,000 tons     4091 Crew     7738 BP      TCS 1200  TH 3960  EM 3000
3300 km/s     Armour 11-136     Shields 100-300     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 24     PPV 278.28
Maint Life 2.99 Years     MSP 1934    AFR 1200%    IFR 16.7%    1YR 323    5YR 4848    Max Repair 210 MSP
Hangar Deck Capacity 4250 tons     Troop Capacity: 5 Battalions    Cargo Handling Multiplier 40   

Magneto-plasma Drive E8.4 (45)    Power 88    Fuel Use 84%    Signature 88    Armour 0    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 2,055,000 Litres    Range 73.4 billion km   (257 days at full power)
Gamma R300/14 Shields (50)   Total Fuel Cost  700 Litres per day

Quad R6/C3 Meson Cannon TS16 (18x4)    Range 60,000km     TS: 16000 km/s     Power 12-12     RM 6    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S02 32-8000 (6)    Max Range: 64,000 km   TS: 8000 km/s     84 69 53 37 22 6 0 0 0 0
Stellarator Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 (36)     Total Power Output 216    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR23-R1 (1)     GPS 210     Range 23.1m km    Resolution 1

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

The Vincere is meant to carry 5 of these assault shuttles:

Spoiler: Capio class Assault Shuttle (click to show/hide)

Capio class Assault Shuttle    850 tons     33 Crew     128 BP      TCS 17  TH 176  EM 0
10352 km/s     Armour 2-7     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0
Maint Life 0.34 Years     MSP 9    AFR 57%    IFR 0.8%    1YR 26    5YR 395    Max Repair 60 MSP
Drop Capacity: 1 Battalion   

GB Magneto-plasma Drive E84 (1)    Power 176    Fuel Use 840%    Signature 176    Armour 0    Exp 30%
Fuel Capacity 5,000 Litres    Range 1.3 billion km   (33 hours at full power)

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

The Capio class are poorly armored with a small fuel tank to make them as fast as possible, so that they can have better results assaulting ships that are still moving. They aren't intended to go into combat situations until the target's weapons have been disabled, or to chase after targets over long distances.

Parts to build our first Legion class carrier are now being constructed, and construction on the first carrier should begin in December. Zebulon will continue advancing our shield technology.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 12st October, 2126

Research on fuel production has been finished by the Aulus Nepius Pantera team. Now they're working on terraforming efficiency.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 5th December, 2126

Construction of the Legion 1 has begun. It will take a little over a year, and should be done by January 2128. By then we should have enough fuel produced to fill her tank.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 10th February, 2127

The two extra military academies are complete. I've begun construction of another 10 terraforming facilities for Mars. After that I'll have them build a few more ground force training facilities, to expand our capacity to train ground troops.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 9th August, 2127

Akigagak and the exploration team 1 just reported back. Lacaille 9352, the jump off of Proxima Centauri, is devoid of anything. Just a star and jump points. Both jumps are very far from the jump in as well - 2.39b km and 3.8b km, 5.3b km from eachother. They're coming in to refuel, then will be taking the 3rd jump point in Bernard's Star.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 3rd October, 2127

The ice sheet just melted on Mars. That brought the temperature up 5.7 degrees to -24.19. It didn't affect colony cost, since the world doesn't have enough atmosphere to be below 2 yet. At current terraforming rates with the 30 installations, Mars should be fully terraformed in around 2 years.

We've also researched the equipment to train a marine battalion. As soon as our 4th mobile infantry brigade is finished training we'll begin training a brigade of marines.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 18th October, 2127

We've begun construction of the engines and construction module to build our first Artifex gate builder. The shipyard is up to 75722 tons and is nearly ready to begin construction.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 2nd November, 2127

We just got a report from exploration team 2 about the Struve 2398 system. The news is good. The system has numerous large, high access mineral deposits. Combined with the good worlds for colonization, this system is a real gem. It's only jump from Earth too, although it's the furthest jump out.

Spoiler: Struve 2398 System Report (click to show/hide)

Minerals:
Rocky Planets: 7   Surveyed: 7
Gas Giants: 8   Surveyed: 8
Moons: 159   Surveyed: 159
Asteroids: 0   Surveyed: 0

Struve 2398-A II
Duranium 14,971,390  Acc: 0.9
Neutronium 4,368,100  Acc: 0.4
Boronide 976,144  Acc: 0.7
Vendarite 5,373,124  Acc: 1
Sorium 12,759,180  Acc: 0.1

Struve 2398-A III
Duranium 83,670,050  Acc: 1
Neutronium 96,040,000  Acc: 0.8
Tritanium 1,623,076  Acc: 0.1
Boronide 20,322,060  Acc: 0.1
Sorium 470,596  Acc: 0.1
Gallicite 58,430,740  Acc: 0.1

Struve 2398-A IV
Sorium 288,600  Acc: 0.9

Struve 2398-A IV - Moon 3
Duranium 3,390,408  Acc: 0.9
Mercassium 38,416  Acc: 0.4
Vendarite 509,796  Acc: 0.9
Corundium 4,900  Acc: 0.6

Struve 2398-A V
Sorium 236,000  Acc: 0.5

Struve 2398-A V - Moon 8
Neutronium 250,000  Acc: 0.1
Gallicite 8,410,000  Acc: 0.1

Struve 2398-A V - Moon 13
Neutronium 443,556  Acc: 0.1

Struve 2398-B V - Moon 29
Duranium 33,800  Acc: 0.9
Boronide 100  Acc: 0.9

Struve 2398-B V - Moon 31
Duranium 4,901  Acc: 1

Struve 2398-B V - Moon 33
Boronide 3,097,600  Acc: 0.6

Struve 2398-A VI
Sorium 62,400,000  Acc: 0.1

Struve 2398-A VI - Moon 2
Duranium 13,592,900  Acc: 0.6

Struve 2398-A VI - Moon 20
Boronide 40,000  Acc: 1

Struve 2398-A VII - Moon 10
Vendarite 419,904  Acc: 0.3

Struve 2398-B VII - Moon 11
Duranium 800  Acc: 1
Uridium 2  Acc: 1

Struve 2398-B VIII
Duranium 3,920,000  Acc: 0.8
Neutronium 777,924  Acc: 0.7
Tritanium 345,744  Acc: 0.5
Boronide 200,704  Acc: 0.7
Mercassium 63,504  Acc: 1

Struve 2398-A VIII - Moon 9
Corundium 2,117,025  Acc: 0.7


Jump Points:
JP1: Distance 313m, Bearing 116, Destination Sol
JP2: Distance 318m, Bearing 153, only 200m km from JP1
JP3: Distance 767m, Bearing 346, about 1b km from JPs 1 and 2.
JP4: Distance 2.86b, Bearing 32, several billion km from other jps.

Exploration team 2 is now going to take the other Barnard's Star jump point.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 6th January, 2128

Our very first Legion carrier just completed. We didn't quite have enough crewmen to fill her ranks, and a couple of conscripts had to be arranged. The first Artifex will be done in April. Another Legion will be constructed as soon as we finish the components for it, although we'll have to assign a good trainer to get the mostly conscript crew in shape once we've built a second one.

The recently promoted Primus deSeat von Trubaldsome has volunteered for command, eager to get off of Earth and prove himself. He's been on the Oculis for some time and is a skilled commander, so I've approved his command of the Legion 1. I've assigned twenty Legionary craft to her and they will begin task force training immediately. As soon as the gate ship is constructed and a gate to Alpha Centauri is complete they can go in and retrieve our stranded Legionary. It's possible her point defense and shield capabilities could withstand the missile barrage from the defense base there too.

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lol, I wasn't even watching our crew numbers. Building all the Legionary's and the Legion sucked dry the entire crew we had. 64 Legionaries = 4736 + 4454 Legion + 250 for the 5 Locus + 3296 for the Oculis. Plus a few hundred for all the scout craft. Maybe I should make the scout craft conscripts.

I had the training rating set to 5 though, which is why we didn't have a whole lot. Guess I might need to build more academies.

[Paul]

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 27th March, 2128

The team led by Monkeyhead finished their research into fuel efficiency 4 and 5. That should cover the fuel efficiency part of missile tech, so the MonkeyHead team is leaving their field of expertise and beginning research into missile agility technology. Numerius, the sensor researcher, has been researching missile warheads. Once the agility techs are researched we will be able to make decent missiles, then we will just need magazine tech to store them and launcher tech to fire them.

A new Vincere class vessel is now being constructed. It should be complete in June 2129. By then we'll have a few more crew for her, but many will need to be conscripts. An experienced officer will need to be assigned to train them into proper fighting order.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 7th April, 2128

Our first Artifex class construction ship was just completed. It has been sent to the Alpha Centauri jump to begin gate construction. The Legionary force picketing the gate will enter the gate and defend it once it's finished building the gate on this side.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 12th April, 2128

The Artifex 1 has begun gate construction. Thanks to the insights of the skilled commander (30% bonus) the gate will be finished in a mere 125 days instead of the expected 180. The Legion will be heading through at that time to pick up the Legionary 20. I imagine the crew of the Legionary 20 will be happy to see the Legion, they've been stranded there for some time.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 5th July, 2128

A second slipway was just completed in the freighter yard. I've ordered construction of two new Corbita III class freighters. With our imminent expansion into other systems, we'll need government freighters to haul things around. The civilian freighters will likely ship things off Earth for a fair price, but it's still nice to have a few ships of our own for special tasks. Since I didn't divert any construction capacity to building their parts first, they'll be done in January 2130.

The civilians have certainly done an incredible job expanding the Mars colony. It has 29243 infrastructure and 146 million people. Atmospheric pressure is up to .2169.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 16th August, 2128

The gate to Alpha Centauri will be done tomorrow. I've ordered the Legion and 19 Legionaries back to Earth for refueling. They, along with another 20 legionaries (leaving 20 on Earth) and a Locus, will be heading into Alpha Centauri. Once they've rescued and repaired Legionary 20 they will have 40 FACs there. Twenty Legionaries and the Locus will remain near the gate ship to defend their exit, while the other twenty go with the Legion.

I've given them orders to seek and destroy any ships they find in the area, and they also have authorization to test the Legion's point defense and shield capabilities against the defense bases - as long as they keep their distance. If they feel they can destroy the bases they have authorization for that as well. It will be four months before we hear from them, since a new gate will need to be constructed on the other side. Primus deSeat von Trubaldsome will be commanding the operation from aboard the Legion, while Centurion Shec will be in command of the strike force guarding the Artifex.

I've also ordered construction of a 5th military academy. We need more crewmen for our vessels. And the Locus yard is being retooled to construct Capio assault shuttles. With the advent of our carrier with 10x range sensors, we may not need the Locus anymore.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 1st November, 2128

According to the census just conducted, population is above 1 billion on Earth for the first time since 2020. 150 million are on Mars, as well.

We've completed the military academy, and I've ordered construction of the parts for five Capio class assault shuttles. The yard producing the Locus is almost finished retooling for construction of the Capio. After that we'll build 100 ordnance factories to prepare for producing missiles when we get them researched.

Aulus Nepius Pantera completed research on terraforming efficiency, now our terraforming modules produce 0.002 atm per annum instead of 0.0015. He's now working on developing a terraforming module for ships that can terraform worlds from orbit. This will allow us to terraform inhospitable worlds like Mercury.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 18th December, 2128

Galerius finished his research into engineering brigades. Now he's working on better ground forces equipment to improve our fighting capabilities (ground unit strength 12).

We should be hearing from the team in Alpha Centauri soon, assuming all has gone according to plan and the gate ship is still building the gate.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 20th December, 2128

Good news! Primus deSeat von Trubaldsome and his team has returned from Alpha Centauri triumphant. The gate is in place and the system is clear. I've included his report in my log for future reference.

Spoiler: Primus deSeat von Trubaldsome's report on Alpha Centauri (click to show/hide)

17th August, 2350 hours
Upon entering the system and engaging the Legion's long range active sensors, we detected three more Ashdod class ships. The ships apparently detected our sensors, as they began immediately moving away. Remembering that these ships had no defensive capabilities, I dispatched Centurion Shec's strike force of 20 legionaries and the Locus to deal with them while we move in to pick up the Legionary 20.

18th August, 1300 hours
The Ashdod ships have been lost. They left sensors shortly after the ships left to pursue them, and they flew in its direction, but it must have turned.

19th August, 1730 hours
The Ashdod ships have just registered on the Locus 4's sensors. Apparently they turned and looped back around, and we happened to pick them up on the way back to the jump point. We have them now.

We've also rescued and fully repaired the Legionary 20. It will need more crew when we return to Earth, but it's in functional order now.

19th August, 2054 hours
The three Ashdod ships have been destroyed. I commend Centurion Shec for the efficiency of him and his team. I've ordered them back to the Artifex while I bring the Legion toward the secondary star and the defense bases on its 2nd planet. It will be a 12 day journey with the Legion's speed.

1st September, 1525 hours
We've approached Alpha Centauri-B II and the defense bases, and are within 37m km. I've ordered shields raised, and will approach to 23m km and see if they can fire upon us from there.

1639 hours
We're within 23m km. We'll wait 20 minutes and move closer if nothing happens.

1644 hours
We've detected a salvo of 58 size 1 missiles, moving at 55319 km/s. My sensor officer tells me he's never seen anything move so fast. More are being detected 10 seconds behind them, and 10 seconds behind that. I've launched the Legionaries on point defense duty. They probably won't hit much with only 8000 km/s tracking speed fire controls, but every little bit helps. I've also ordered that we back off to 25m km - perhaps we can outrun some of these missiles if they're firing from their max range. Time to put our point defense and shields to the test.

1648 hours
Our defense capabilities aren't very effective against these missiles. We only destroyed about 10 per volley with everything firing. Luckily moving off to 23.5m km made the missiles run out of fuel and self destruct, so their max range must be just short of 23.5m km. Quite a few salvos seem to have simply self destructed behind us. We've taken heavy armor damage, losing a bit over a third of our armor. We also have a few deep holes from repeated missile impacts, one going all the way through. With all the missiles destroyed on their way to us, as well as the ones that hit us, I have to wonder how much more ordnance the base has left. We must have taken at least 500 hits, shot down at least 120 or so, and another 500 or more probably self destructed behind us.

I've decided to wait 20 minutes to make sure all incoming missiles have destructed, and move in again to 23m km. This time we'll wait two minutes, then head back out to 23.5m km. Perhaps we can get them to waste ordnance. Our shields can withstand at least two volleys, so even if a few get through we shouldn't take too much damage.

1721 hours
Well, either they never fired missiles, or our plan worked - we never saw anything. We're heading back in again.

1745 hours
We closed to 23m km and waited 20 minutes. Either they're out of ordnance, or they've gotten wise to our maneuvers. With the number of missiles we know they've already used, I'm going to risk it and get in closer.

1935 hours
We've closed to 10m km and waited, and nothing has happened. They must be out of missiles. We're moving in to destroy these bases once and for all. I suspect one of them is likely beam armed since it was only a single volley of 58 missiles every time, but our shields and remaining armor should be able to withstand beam weaponry for long enough. We'll close in and target the larger of the two bases first, and swap if the other one starts shooting us with beams.

2002 hours
The defense bases are destroyed. We closed in, launched Legionaries, and decimated them with meson weapons from both the Legion's point defense turrets and the Legionaries main guns. It was the smaller base with the weapons, so we had to retarget to them once they fired on us. They have 11 Gauss cannons capable of firing 10 shots every 5 seconds, I presume they are likely twin turrets. They ripped right through our shields and caused significant armor damage, but we got away without any internal damage thanks to our Meson weapons apparently knocking out their fire control after their second volley.

I believe we've secured the system, as we can't detect anything else in the area on long range sensors. There is still the matter of the two asteroid bases and eight battalions of troops to deal with, but with all the ships destroyed they shouldn't pose a problem.

We're heading back to the Artifex now to wait the remaining 109 days until the gate is built. We'll just do task force training drills to pass the time.

An excellent result. Going on a 4 month trip into an alien system and clearing it out is a feat worthy of praise, so I've arranged to have both Primus deSeat von Trubaldsome and Centurion Shec awarded the Semper Fortis medal for bravery.

I'm sending the Artifex to build a gate at the Struve 2398 gate now. The Legionary forces on Earth will move out to escort them, just in case an alien threat may exist in that area that we haven't detected. Our returning military forces will come to Earth for repairs and some shore leave after their 4 month excursion.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 3rd January, 2129

The Legion is a third of the way done with her armor repairs. Repairs should be done by January 23rd.

Gate construction is underway, and we'll have a gate to Struve 2398 in 122 days.

As of today, we have the following facilities on Earth:

Spoiler: Facilities (click to show/hide)

8 maintenance facilities
5 military academies
1 deep space tracking station
15 maintenance facilities
700 construction facilities
100 fuel refineries
320 mines
10 automated mines
1 mass driver
50 research labs
4 ground force training facilities.
2 2500 ton military shipyards, one tooled to the Hypatia III the other tooled to the Ptolemy IV
1 1000 ton military shipyard with 5 slipways, tooled to the Legionary II FAC
1 1000 ton military shipyard, tooled to construct Capio assault shuttle and building the 2nd one now out of 5.
1 56000 ton commercial shipyard with 2 slipways, tooled for the 3rd generation colony/cargo ships and currently building two cargo ships due to launch in January 2030.
1 60000 ton military shipyard, tooled to build carriers. Currently constructing a Vincere assault carrier
1 81235 ton commercial shipyard tooled to build the Artifex gate construction ship
1 97410 commercial shipyard being expanded, unassigned but expected to be eventually used for large terraforming vessels.

Mining bases in Sol:

Spoiler: Mining Bases (click to show/hide)

Government:
40 automated mines and a mass driver are in place on Asteroid 162.
40 automated mines and a mass driver are in place on Proteus
Civilian:
8x on Titan (purchasing output)
6x on Comet #2 (purchasing output)
4x on Comet #3 (purchasing output)
8x on Venus
8x on Umbriel (purchasing output)
6x on Asteroid #171 (purchasing output)
4x on Asteroid #306 (purchasing output)
5x on Ganymede
1x on Asteroid #22 (purchasing output)
1x on Europa

Fuel stocks are at 2,420,491, recovering since new refineries were built.

Total population of Earth is now 1002.16 million with a 2.5% growth rate, and we have 75.1 million available workers. The Mars colony is up to 152.18 million people with a 4.31% growth rate and 26.82 million available workers, with 30 terraforming facilities and a total of 0.2439 atmospheres present on the planet so far.

Currently being researched:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Zebulon on Delta Shields with 10 labs (May 2130)
Galerius on Ground Unit Strength 12 with 10 labs (February 2129)
MonkeyHead on Missile Agility 48 with 10 labs (June 2129)
Numerius on Fusion-boosted Warhead Strength 5x MSP with 10 labs (October 2129)
Aulus on Terraforming Module with 9 labs (June 2129)
Vibius on Turret Tracking Speed 10% Gear 6250 with 1 lab (March 2145)

Top scientists in their fields are currently:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MonkeyHead: Power and Propulsion 60%, max 60 labs
Numerius Falerius Arruntius: Sensors and Fire Control 60%, max 45 labs
Aulus Nepius Pantera: Construction and Production 45%, max 30 labs
Zebulon: Defensive Systems 20%, max 15 labs
Galerius Lafrenius: Logistics/Ground Combat 15%, max 45 labs
Vibius Salvius Trebius: Energy Weapons 40%, max 40 labs
Numerius Vispanius Censorius: Biology/Genetics 15%, max 20 labs
Missiles / Kinetic Weapons still lacking.

Current ships in service:

Spoiler: Ships in Service (click to show/hide)

Commercial:
Two Corbita class freighters orbiting Earth
One Corbita II class freighter orbiting Earth
One Frigus II class colony ship orbiting Earth
One Artifex class construction ship building a gate to Struve 2398

Military:
One Ptolemy IV and one Hypatia III in exploration team 1 surveying a new system off of Barnard's Star
One Ptolemy III and one Hypatia II in exploration team 2 surveying a new system off of Barnard's Star
One Capio assault shuttle orbiting Earth
60 Legionary II class FACs. 20 orbiting Earth, 20 aboard Legion 1, 20 escorting Artifex 1.
One Legion class heavy carrier undergoing repair on Earth
Two Locus class FSCs. One orbiting Earth, one with the Legionary's escorting Artifex 1

PDCs:
One Oculis class PDC on Earth

Ground units:
15 Mobile Infantry battalions
5 Brigade Headquarters
1 mobile infantry battalion and 3 marine battalions in training.

Civilian shipping Lines:

Spoiler: Shipping Lines (click to show/hide)

Postumianus Limited:
6 Corbita
5 Corbita II
4 Corbita II
1 Frigus
Current wealth 2269, last year income 3410
Macrobius Shipping Group:
2 Corbita
2 Corbita II
1 Corbita III
1 Frigus
1 Frigus II
1 Frigus III
Current wealth 2735, last year income 2130

Wealth report for the last year:

Spoiler: Financial Report (click to show/hide)

Expenditures:
15895.1 Research
8855.8 Purchasing Civilian Minerals
6818.5 Installation Construction
4296.1 Shipbuilding
2823.4 Ship component production
1036.2 Shipyard modifications
295.5 Ground unit training
170.4 Ground unit maintenance
Total: 40191 denarii
Tax Incomes
27135.5 on Populations
2030 on Shipping Trade Goods
2025 on Exports
1761.4 on Civilian Mining
1480 on Shipping Colonists
Total 34431.9 denarii

Net deficit: 5759.1 denarii
Denarii remaining in treasury: 111294

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Well, the aliens in Alpha Centauri have been dealt with (hopefully). Survey ships haven't yet reported from the systems past Barnard's Star, but when one of them does we can survey Alpha Centauri and see what we've been fighting for. As soon as we get our assault carrier operational we can go forth and capture the ground bases there too, maybe get some loot. Theres only 2 battalions on each asteroid (strength 20 detected, I think thats 2 battalions) so a brigade of mobile infantry should be able to take them on. We can also grab the disabled enemy FACs, assuming they're still disabled where we left them (didn't think to have the Legion check them out).

[Paul]

Just for fun, heres the Legion's armour status after the battle. This is what lots and lots of warhead 1 missiles followed by a bit of gauss fire can do. Nothing ever actually passed through the armor, even though it has that one hole going all the way through.  It's really wide, so I made it a separate post so you can scroll easily.

Spoiler: Armor Status (click to show/hide)

[Sheb]

Good it was armored as shit. We should start establishing our first extrasolar colonies. And destroy their battaillon of course. Where those precursors?

[Paul]

Yea, they were precursors.

I just noticed each 0.1 of armor damage corresponds with 1 cell damaged. That means we took 575 armor damage. If I remember correctly about 530 of that was from the missiles, and we were shooting down about 10 per volley and regening enough shield to take at least 3 missiles extra per volley to the shield plus the initial 100 shield. So that was like 750-800 missiles, and a bunch more blew up as the ship got out of range both times (didn't mention it the second time, but they shot a bunch while I was doing the fly in close and fly away again maneuver - I just avoided them all by flying away since I didnt sit there waiting for 5 minutes that time). It must have fired over 2000 missiles at us.

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Where should we colonize?

Spoiler: Potential Colony Report (click to show/hide)

Struve 2398 worlds are approx 3.4b km from Earth
A-II requires 0.079 atm of oxygen to be breathable. Temperature is good. 55% liquid hydrosphere. Good minerals. 2.0 initial col cost from lack of oxygen, temperature cost 0
A-III requires 0.1 atm of oxygen to be breathable. Temperature is good. No hydrosphere. Good minerals. 2.0 initial col cost from lack of oxygen, temperature cost 0.

Ross 128 worlds are approx 3.95b km from Earth
A-II requires 0.055 atm of oxygen to be breathable and temperature increased from -75.5 to 0 (45% ice sheet). Minimal minerals in system. 3.43 initial col cost from temperature.

Alpha Centauri worlds are approx 4.1b km from Earth
B-II requires 0.0481 atm of oxygen to be breathable and temperature reduced from 66.8 to 44. 36% liquid hydrosphere. Unknown minerals (no survey). 2.0 initial col cost from lack of oxygen, temperature cost 1.0.
B-IV has no atmosphere, needs temp increased from -58.9. No hydrosphere. 2.68 initial col cost from temperature.
B-V needs 0.1 atm of oxygen to be breathable and temperature increased from -46.9. No hydrosphere. 2.13 initial col cost from temperature.

Alpha Centauri B-II is pretty close to being habitable, a bit of oxygen to make it breathable and some anti-greenhouse gas to drop the temp and it's golden. It's a bit farther away though, and we don't yet know what minerals are there yet. We have a gate to there already thanks to our military operations in the system.

Struve 2398 A-II requires a bit more oxygen to be breathable, but is already a good temperature and we know it has lots of good minerals in the system (and on the world). It's the closest world we've found so far, and we'll have a gate to and from the place in about 8 months.

Ross 128 A-II pretty much sucks in comparison. Minerals across the whole system are terrible, and it would need a good bit more terraforming than the others. It's a bit closer than the Alpha Centauri worlds, but it won't really be worth terraforming it until we've already claimed the better worlds (including the extra ones in Struve and Alpha Centauri)

Thats all the worlds we know of so far with a colony cost of less than 4. With terraforming ships we could pick up some of the hotter worlds, but we'll probably want them to do Mercury first.

[Iituem]

Ross 128 should completely be a prison system.  You should need a permit to get in.  (Marks for anyone who gets the reference!)

That said AC B-II would be a great first colony, not only because of terraforming aspects but boasting rights to having taken down its evil mechanical guardians.  =D

[Sheb]

If they are ruins on Alpha Centaury, we should go there. Otherwise, Struve look like the perfect colony to me.

[NRDL]

I love the battles, were they just space battles and orbital bombardment, or were there some ground battle involved, I'm not sure. 

Is this technically the first victory of the Roman Republic? 

[Paul]

Just space battles. There were no colonies to bombard. Mesons can't bombard anyway.

We'll need to do ground combat to take the asteroid bases though.

[NRDL]

Roman marine combat.  Absolute win.  I hope, at least. 

[Zebulon]

Struve looks like the obvious choice to me; it has two planets that need a relatively minimal amount of terraforming (like .17 atm between them?), as opposed to a decent amount of anti-greenhouse or greenhouse gasses for the worlds in Alpha Centauri on top of oxygen.

The Centauri worlds are also orbiting the B component, which might be a problem given the B star is a pretty good ways from the A star. Where's the jump point in relation to the two stars? They're relatively close now, but in a few decades any colonies in Alpha Centauri could be a fair bit farther. A survey of Alpha Centauri might be nice too; we know Struve makes a good mining outpost by default.

I'm still inclined to focus on Struve, though there might be something to be said for depositing colonies on the Alpha Centauri worlds if they're currently approaching the jump point (instead of waiting for a few years and having to chase them to dump colonists and terraformers on).

[Akigagak]

If Centurai has any intra-system jump points between A and B, it might make a pretty good base of operations for a military fleet.

[Paul]

No intra-system jumps in Alpha Centauri. And the distance from Earth for the Alpha Centauri worlds was already taking into account the range from the primary star (the JP to there is much closer, in the asteroid belt - the Struve one is way out past Uranus). Actual range from the JP would vary by about 0.9b km since it's 447m km from the star. The orbital period is 82 years though, and right now its about equidistant from the JP and the star. In about 20 years it'll be at the closest point, which means you'd shave off 447m km from my estimate. Another 41 and you'd have to add 447m to my estimate.

Struve has intra-system jumps, but there isn't much of interest there. We may want to mine the 8th planet on the secondary, so the LPs would help for delivering automines (the Struve secondary is 55 AU from the primary, the Alpha Centauri one is only 23) but there aren't any colonizeable worlds there. What gives Struve the distance is just that the JP is 20.9 AU out, almost as far as the secondary in Alpha Centauri.

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lol, I never really played with assault shuttles before now - and I just found a rather bad design flaw in our shuttles.

I always thought loading from a ship to a drop module on a FAC in the hangar bay would use the mothership's cargo modifier to make loading faster. It doesn't. So our drop modules take 10 days to load instead of 6 hours.

I guess I'll have to redesign the next gen Capio ships with a cargo handling system. Which means the hangar capacity on the carrier will have to be expanded.

Oh well, for now we'll have a 10 day load time on our drop ships lol. Maybe I'll research improved cargo handling system so I can cut it down to a 1 day load time with only one of them. This will make them a good bit slower though.

[Paul]

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 21st January, 2129

The Legion 1 is fully repaired, and is now out on task force training with 20 Legionaries.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 16st February, 2129

With the exploration teams still out exploring with no ETA, I've decided to build another Ptolemy survey vessel to send through the gate and survey Alpha Centauri. I'll have the construction factories build the engines and sensors for the shipyard, and it should be ready in April.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 20th April, 2129

The Ptolemy 3 just launched, and is headed to Alpha Centauri to begin survey.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 5th May, 2129

The gate to Struve 2398 has completed, and the Artifex is going through to the other side to build a return gate. Twenty Legionaries and a Locus are accompanying it as escort. We'll two way transport to Struve 2398 in another 121 days.

The five Capio assault shuttles have finished building. Another month and we'll have the Vincere, then together they can go and conquer the asteroid bases in Alpha Centauri.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 4th June, 2129

The Vincere 1 has finished construction. I've transferred Primus deSeat von Trubaldsome to her, since the crew was 3/4 conscripts and they'll need someone with experience to train them. Centurion Shec has taken over command of the Legion 1.

A major design flaw was found with our Capio vessels as well. The logistics of getting troops from the carrier into the smaller vessel has proved difficult, and cargo handling systems will need to be added to the Capio. Until then, the loading of the Capio will take 10 days - an uncomfortable wait for the infantry being loaded.

Regardless, they can still do their job. They'll load two brigades of mobile infantry and then head to Alpha Centauri to take the bases and ships there. The Legion and her Legionaries will escort them, just in case they find more enemy ships.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 18th June, 2129

The 3rd and 4th mobile infantry brigades have been dropped off on Asteroid 1 and are preparing to assault the enemy forces. Ground unit commander Primus Vibius Mucius Vespillo will be leading the operation.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 20th June, 2129

The attack on the enemy base on asteroid 1 has begun, but so far no gains have been made. I'll make a note of it when we've taken the asteroid and I've received the Primus' report.

(attack strength 75.972, combat ratio 2.7133)

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 7th August, 2129

An incredible find! During the survey of Alpha Centauri-B II the Ptolemy 3 found deserted intact cities. I've organized a team of our best men in the field of xenology (130 rating) and the Locus 4 will deliver them to the planet to begin studying these cities.

The gate from Struve should be complete next month, so I'm sending a load of Infrastructure and colonists through to get things started. The ships can come back when the return gate is done.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 16th August, 2129

The base on Asteroid 1 in Alpha Centauri has been secured after nearly two months of combat. I'm attaching the report to my log for future reference.

Spoiler: Ground Attack Log Asteroid 1 (click to show/hide)

25th June: The assault continues. The 16th mobile infantry battalion suffered 47% casualties, and we inflicted approximately 26% casualties on the enemy.
30th June: We lost 6% of the 14th battalion, and inflicted 8% losses on the enemy.
5th July: The tides are starting to turn in our favor. We suffered no casualties, and inflicted 22% on the enemy.
10th July: We've inflicted 53% casualties on the enemy with no losses on our side.
15th July: One of their battalions has been destroyed. We'll have them soon.
20th July: They've held their ground and have kept us at bay these last five days. No progress.
25th July: We inflicted 14% casualties on their forces, still no more losses on our side yet.
30th July: Another 28% casualties inflicted on the enemy.
5th August: Another 12% casualties inflicted. There can't be that many more of them.
10th August: We've destroyed their second battalion. Now we just need to move in and secure their base.
16th August: We've secured their base. It's a listening post, with 1 deep space tracking station. There's a stockpile of missiles here too - 2634 size 1 anti-missiles and 36 larger anti-ship missiles. They appear functional.

Sphynx Anti-ship Missile (36) Speed: 56,500 km/s   End: 10.6m    Range: 36m km   WH: 10    Size: 5    TH: 188 / 113 / 56
Wimptwerpclod Anti-missile Missile (2634) Speed: 55,300 km/s   End: 8.7m    Range: 28.8m km   WH: 1    Size: 1    TH: 479 / 287 / 143

Next they'll be heading to secure the base on asteroid 41. The Vincere should have them all moved over within a day or two, then they can begin the attack.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 6th September, 2129

The gate from Struve 2398 just completed, and our cargo and colony ships have returned with news. The new colony on Struve 2398 II is doing fine with 30 infrastructure and 0.1m colonists. Some of the colonists are suggesting I name it, as Struve 2398-A II is a lousy name for a colony. I'll ask the Senate for suggestions on a good name.

Now that they're on the grid as it were, the civilians should be happy to begin shipping them things. They will likely build up the planet more than we do, since they have more ships. Soon we can move the terraforming installations to them from Mars, since Mars is getting close to being fully terraformed.

The Artifex is heading to build a gate to Ross 128 now.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 26th September, 2129

Geological survey of Alpha Centauri is complete. Only three mineral sites, but they all offer good quantities. B-II is the world with the abandoned cities, and would be a good place to mine Sorium once we have a colony established there.

Spoiler: Geological Survey Results for Alpha Centauri (click to show/hide)

Rocky Planets: 6   Surveyed: 6
Gas Giants: 0   Surveyed: 0
Moons: 1   Surveyed: 1
Asteroids: 47   Surveyed: 47

Alpha Centauri-B I
Duranium 52,020,000  Acc: 0.1
Neutronium 28,515,600  Acc: 0.1
Tritanium 3,600  Acc: 0.3
Mercassium 7,617,600  Acc: 0.1

Alpha Centauri-B II
Duranium 53,955,270  Acc: 0.8
Sorium 14,050,620  Acc: 0.4

Alpha Centauri-B VI - Moon 1
Boronide 72,900  Acc: 0.6
Sorium 846,400  Acc: 0.5

The base on Asteroid 41 in Alpha Centauri has been secured after over a month of combat. I'm attaching the report to my log for future reference.

Spoiler: Ground Attack Log Asteroid 41 (click to show/hide)

21st August: We've begun our attack, but so far neither side has suffered losses. (attack strength 71.1929, combat ratio 2.5426)
26th August: The 15th mobile infantry took a hit, 23% casualties. Still no casualties on the enemy side.
1st September: We've turned the tide, and it was a slaughter. I estimate 55% casualties inflicted on one of their battalions, and 23% on the other. No losses on our side.
6th September: Another 23% losses inflicted on their first battalion. That makes over 3/4 of their first battalion killed. No losses on our side.
11th September: Another 15% casualties inflicted on their first battalion.
16th September: 6% casualties inflicted on their 2nd battalion.
21st September: We've annihilated their battalions. Now we just have to capture the secure the compound.
26th September: Area secured. We've found two deep space tracking stations, 18 Sphynx anti-ship missiles, and another 2634 Wimptwerpclod anti-missiles.

Now the 3rd brigade, which suffered no losses during the fighting, is being brought to capture the FACs that were disabled by the Legionaries during our first assault. We'll load them into drop modules when we get there.

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 8th October, 2129

We've captured the three enemy FACs. The 10th battalion and HQ are on one, the 11th and 12th on another, and the 9th on a third. All ships were captured without much effort, since they were small craft. The ships were brought aboard the Legion for repair and refueling, and the deck crews patched them up. The 3rd mobile infantry brigade is now flying the ships back to Earth. The Legion and Vincere are also returning.

These ships have some advanced technology beyond our capabilities. Some type of compressed carbon armor, a fusion powered engine, and advanced sensors and missile fire controls. The launchers are basically just stripped down versions of what we already have, so we probably won't learn much from them - but the rest could prove enlightening to disassemble. Or we could use them ourselves, we have a small stock of their missiles after all - enough for two loads for these three FACs.

Spoiler: Enemy FAC design (click to show/hide)

FAC #40704 class Fast Attack Craft    1,000 tons     81 Crew     168 BP      TCS 20  TH 250  EM 0
12500 km/s     Armour 1-8     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 11.25
Maint Life 0 Years     MSP 0    AFR 200%    IFR 2.8%    1YR 33    5YR 496    Max Repair 62 MSP
Magazine 45   

GB Magnetic Confinement Fusion Drive E50 (1)    Power 250    Fuel Use 500%    Signature 250    Armour 0    Exp 15%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres    Range 18.0 billion km   (16 days at full power)

Size 5 Missile Launcher (25% Reduction) (9)    Missile Size 5    Rate of Fire 15000
Missile Fire Control FC31-R67 (1)     Range 31.7m km    Resolution 67
Sphynx Anti-ship Missile (9)  Speed: 56,500 km/s   End: 10.6m    Range: 36m km   WH: 10    Size: 5    TH: 188 / 113 / 56

Active Search Sensor MR32-R67 (1)     GPS 1876     Range 32.1m km    Resolution 67

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

Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 23rd October, 2129

The Legion and Vincere are back at Earth. All ground units have been unloaded so they can recuperate and fill the ranks with new recruits. The 9th, 10th, and 12th battalions are still grumbling about the conditions during the 10 days while loading into the drop pods, but they'll be fine with a little R&R.


Administrator Lucius Amatius Proculus' Personal Log, 6th November, 2129

We've completed the 100 ordnance factories, but they don't yet have anything to produce. Most of them have already been moved to Mars, a few more are still being moved by the two first generation Corbita cargo ships.

We've begun construction on 10 more terraforming installations for our colony worlds. In about six months the Mars colony will be finished terraforming and the 30 there can be moved elsewhere well. Struve will need about 4 years of terraforming with 20 terraformers, or a little over 2 years with all 40 - although getting enough people there to run all 40 might not be feasible in the short term.

I've also had a massive 165,000 ton terraforming ship designed for future construction. We've been constantly expanding the latest commercial shipyard, and it's up to 131000 - so we will be able to build these fairly soon.

Spoiler: Terraformer (click to show/hide)

Fons Vitae class Terraformer    165,000 tons     1845 Crew     4695 BP      TCS 3300  TH 6600  EM 0
2000 km/s     Armour 1-267     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 0
MSP 18    Max Repair 500 MSP
Terraformer: 5 module(s) producing 0.01 atm per annum

Magneto-plasma Drive E0.84 (30)    Power 220    Fuel Use 8.4%    Signature 220    Armour 0    Exp 2%
Fuel Capacity 690,000 Litres    Range 89.6 billion km   (518 days at full power)

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes

It's been two years since we've heard from our exploration teams. They should be returning soon with a report on the systems past Barnard's Star.

The civilians have been bringing supplies to Struve 2398-A II, and the colony is up to .7 million colonists with infrastructure for .9 million so far - and more ships are on the way. We'll need to get the population to about 9.5 million to run 20 terraformers.

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In all the time I've played this game, I have never seen deserted intact cities (note the plural). Once I found a deserted intact city and it had a whopping 1400 installations, so I have to wonder how many this one will have.

Plus we have 54 size 5 ASMs and 5268 size 1 AMMs, and the three missile FACs. Not a bad haul

What should we do with the FACs? Take em apart for the tech boost, or load them up with the size 5 missiles we found and use them against the next enemy we find? We have enough missiles for two full reloads for them.

We can also salvage tech from the wrecks in the system, although we'll need to research salvage modules and build a salvager. And a new shipyard, since I've kinda relegated that one to terraformer construction. Although we could refit the gate builder yard to produce a salvager... It's not like we're going to need a bunch of gate builders anyway, the one can probably build all the gates we'll need.

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Ooh, we could strip down one of the FACs and use the other two.  Also, suggesting 'Antium' for the Struve colony name.  I believe it was a small town just outside Rome.