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Drone Clearence

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Some Easy Escourt duty

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Screw all you rule obeying fools! There are other means of credit procurement!

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[Jerick]

I'll draw up something else then:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Arjen Ross
(Former) Profession: Soldier
(Current) Profession: Mercenary (Security)
Cybernetics: leg (right), arm (right), eye (left), large part of left face (No special enhancements other than HUD in the eye, also supported by equipment over other eye)
Equipment:
HUD visor (over right eye)
Submachinegun
Bio: A former Collective of Imperial Worlds soldier, Arjen was discharged after a disastrous boarding mission, which resulted in both of his right limbs mutilated beyond use, and a very large area on the left his face (including the eye) destroyed. He was one of the luckier ones, most of the soldiers on that mission died or received even more horrid injuries. After he was stabilized, the doctors offered him cybernetics that could replace what he lost and more, but he rejected, only grudgingly taking what would allow him to have his normal life back. After he was discharged, he bought passage to Tabien, seeking comfort by being in a backwater and often overlooked system, thinking it would be more peaceful than the bustling systems of the Collective. However, when he got to the station there, he found it was anything but peaceful, and the sheer number of contracts indicating pirates and other activity in the area. With his past military experience, he was sought out by a mercenary group wanting him as one of their number. He refused, however, and decided to have a go at the smaller jobs with the shuttle he got to Tabien with and that he had modified to have a pair of gattling cannons and a missile tube with a hammer missile, flying very light escort missions, not quite up to getting a ship he couldn't operate by himself.

When the Firestar docked at Tabien, he saw his chance at some real action, wich he had started to sorely miss, but had enough sense to keep out of the shuttle boarding, feeling something would go very wrong. He was right. He mostly kept to himself on the ship, just doing whatever work that was required to keep the ship running.

Didn't we have some kind of quarantine box? If I remember correctly, we had some when we got the Flarewise and put those unidentified cases in some?

If we do, it might be best to put the EMP device in one of those, just in case.

Your guys in.
Food shipping crates are hermetically sealed and built out of metal (which means they act as natural faraday cage) so Armok used one to store some suspicious stuff in.
It should work here too.

Didn't we have some kind of quarantine box? If I remember correctly, we had some when we got the Flarewise and put those unidentified cases in some?

If we do, it might be best to put the EMP device in one of those, just in case.

What if we made it into something like a missile?  So no one could set off the EMP while it was aboard, and we could fire it out (or at least shove it in a general direction) and then remotely open the box once we're at a safe distance.

BTW, was I turned off? 

It's perfectly possible to rig it to arm when launched from the ship.
And yes, yes you where.

Perfect, lets go ahead and turn it into a missile or even just something we can push out a missile tube. Change it to a timer and password arming. Give the password to only a select few. Load it into the stealth bomber we have and give the pilot the key-code too. We can have that bomber deliver it. No need to have it in missile form, when it can drift into them undetected instead.

Can we have all fighters prepped and ready for launch?
Load Ravenhawks into all fighters capable.
All pilots ready-up and lets get preflight checks done. I know there isn't a lot of room but it everyone gets together we can have most of them ready to be moved into position as the holds clear out.

Thats all I can see that needs to be done.
Ready crew?

You order the pilots into their fighters and prepare for combat by loading them up with ravenhawks where applicable

Design, or adapt a machine-gun style weapon for the mech-suit. Then proceed to make a proto-type of the mech-suit

There are SMGs and assualt rifles in the small arms locker or are you looking for something more heavy duty or something uilt into the suit?
Anyway you get to work rigging up the EVA suit with servo motors and a bulkier power system to support them.

Lets stop screwing around with this EMP entirely. We should just have it so the emp can't be armed until fired. Just like how we currently have all our missiles.. There problem solved. Now lets arm the fighters, prep them, and hit this installation.

Rather than worring about the EMP you set up a missile like trigger that arms it once it's launched so you won't have to worry about it going off on the ship.
Though it might be an idea to rig up some means of propulsion.

Fuel and arm the drones. The rocket drone gets 3 fighter hunters.

I design(not build) a small drone, similair to the crawler drones, but smaller. Armed with a small turret, some small turrets and a whole lot of maintenance equipment this drone will land on other ships, cut himself a way through the hull and then start sabotaging it's internal systems. Can be used as a normal repair drone.

Crawler drones arn't exactly big to begin with and you find yourself having to remove functionality from your design that the normal crawlers have inorder to accomdate the turret and smaller size.
In the end your design lacks all but the most important tools and isn't as moblie as a crawler drone but it's got a small turret, can cut into another ships hull plating and can rewire power lines redirecting the ships power through sensitive systems that can't withstand it.

Ok the next update won't be today, it's a big one and I want to get my notes in order first (why the hell wasn't I using spreadsheets to begin with) so you'll probably have to wait untill tomorrow for it.
Sorry about that, in the mean time enjoy this quick note on jumping limitations:
Theoraticly you can jump from near one mass to any similar mass in the entire universe.
In practise this isn't quite the case.
The further the distance of the jump the more likely the jump vector is off a bit and the more risky the jump.
If you where to jump directly to N 5647 (your current destination) from Braben Hall there is a five percent chance that a jump vector calculated with no errors will still result in you never arriving at your destination.
But if you jump to Tabien then on to N 5647 the chance of a bad jump is reduced down to an infintesmaly small (though non zero) chance.
The danger of a failed jump grows exponentialy with distance.
Thus most ships make small jumps, slow down and realign for a new similarly small jump rather than take unnessicary risks.
This is what makes travel across the stars slow.
It's theorised that this effect is due to a unknown variable missing from jump vector calculations, a variable that drive engnieers and mathamticians have been unable to account for or derive (which means it isn't a constant).
This missing variable is the holy grail of modern science which if discovered could unlock the ability for unlimited distance jumps.

Spoiler: Nav computer (click to show/hide)

Tabien System
Galvenn (known shipyard)
Jayld
Vrinis
Ilbrier (Digital Rights Front Headquarters)
The disputed Zone
Lastros Ak'Mkal
Braben Hall (Black market)

• Repurposed Mining station 29

N 5647
N 2059 Hermin's Valley(Pirate Base)

(Trade post)

Spoiler: Firestar status (click to show/hide)

Credits: 36,239
Hull damage: Fine
Armor: Full
System Damage: Fine
Computing Power: 200,000
Weapon Status: Ready to fire
Weapons:
4x Point Defence Turret Battery
2x Double 4 Inch Repeater Cannons
twin linked railguns
400 missile tubes
Railgun shells: 30 (Railgun shells do more damage but the railguns can still fire scrap metal if need be)
4 inch Cannon shells: 200
Gattling rounds:1200
(Internal defenses)

Missiles:

• Tether Anchor x2 (currently in use: 0)
• Giber x41
• Interceptor x231
• Ravenhawk x104
• Hammer x2
• Hound x47
• Fighter Hunters x51
• Fighter Destroyer x11
• Tracker Beacon x2
• Driller Nuke x7
• Avangelis x22
• Blinder x10
• Burster

Crew:45 (1 cast)
Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 2/ Security 3/ Fighter pilots 17
Crew Morale: Extreamly high.
Crew rations: 11192 (one crew ration per crew memeber consumed per day)

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets + main gun)
Custom sysems Automation(Systems, doors, lifesupport all respond automaticly to crisis situations, are automatic and only active when needed saving power)
Customised manuvering and thrusters (The Firestar's controls respond in realtime but lack the percision of a better control system, they've also been optimised for use by the crew of the Firestar)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)
Tailored AI interaction module(designed to link the AI Urist into the ship systems)

AIs:2(Urist, Helios/Bill)

Other Craft:
Away

Hanger
Scout Drone(Fuel: 10/10)
3xGattling Drones(Fuel 10/10  ammo 250/250)
Rocket Drone(Fuel 10/10 Missiles: fighter hunterx3 /3)
Remote Fighter(Fuel: 180/200, Computing Power:150)
(Forward Mounted Gattling gun:670 gattling rounds Missile launcher: Interceptor )
Old Knell fighter(Fuel; 180/200, Computing Power:75)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, Missile Countermeasures: 0 Pilot: Total newbie)
LR Cargo Shuttle (Fuel: 321/600, Computing Power:60)
Ravenwind fighter wing (five fighters) (Fuel; 100/200, Computing Power:75)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, forward mounted cannon: 0, Rear mounted point defnse gun, Missile Countermeasures: 0, Pilots: Average)
Ravenwind fighter wing (five fighters) (Fuel; 100/200, Computing Power:75)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, forward mounted cannon: 0, Rear mounted point defnse gun, Missile Countermeasures: 0, Pilots: Average
Ravenwind fighter wing (five fighters) (Fuel; 100/200, Computing Power:75)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, forward mounted cannon: 0, Rear mounted point defnse gun, Missile Countermeasures: 0, Pilots: Average)


Hanger fuel tank:4000/4000

Cargo:
Satellite x4
Stealth probe x2
Data Courier
4x crawler drone

Spoiler: Flarewise (click to show/hide)

Cargo Vessel
Hull damage: fine
Armor: depleted
System Damage: fine
Fuel: 15,000/15,000
Computing Power: 25,000
Weapon Status: fine
Weapons:
4x Point Defence Turret Battery
4x Laser Turrets
6 missile tubes

Missiles:

• Fighter Destroyers
• Interceptors x5
• Interceptors x70
• Ravenhawks x25
• Fighter Hunters x10
• Gilber x10
• Hound x10

Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 2/ Security 2/ Fighter 15

Crew:35
Crew Morale: Extreamely high
Crew rations: 7340

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets + main gun)
Custom sysems Automation(Systems, doors, lifesupport all respond automaticly to crisis situations, are automatic and only active when needed saving power)
Customised manuvering and thrusters (The Firestar's controls respond in realtime but lack the percision of a better control system, they've also been optimised for use by the crew of the Firestar)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)



Other Craft
Docked



Cargo:
14 Halker Fighterbombers
5 Ravenwind fighters
4 vesker torpedo bombers
vesker torpedo bomber (Stealth)
1 crawler drone

Spoiler: Galveen 4 trade station rented warehouse (click to show/hide)

Mainframe(network, computing power: 40,000)
basic ship parts
99 flak shells
smoke grenades
explosives (one mines worth)
Escape pods
Some small arms
fighter parts
Patrol ship Reactor
80 advanced fabrication components
Advanced tools
12 units advanced electronics
3 Fabrication Components
2 Advanced Fabrication Components
one heavy calibre cannon turret(medium)

[adwarf]

I want to adapt the SMGs to work as wrist mounted weaponry with ammo feeds to separate ammo boxes for each wrist weapon.

[10ebbor10]

It wasn't supposed to do detailed just cut through hulls and power lines and possibly hitch rider on fighters. So that it seems like it will perform up to spec.

I help adwarf with his mecha systems.

Design and build a heavy duty welder, so that mechas can do basic repair work and cut into tanks and other armored vehicles/ compounds. (Modular design, so you can switch them ou with other weapons when needed.)

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Organize the pilots into groups with a pilot and co pilot in each craft. Test comms and equipment and go over sorties while waiting for the signal. Classify the fighter group as Wildfire Squadron.

[Armok]

Long-termish plans based on that modified crawler:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Verry secret, not mentioned: Once we get around the limitation on AI bodies and reproduction: A hard shell is fired from a railgun, and penetrates armor. It is discoarded, and a snakelike body with an AI comes out, as well as a swarm of semi-autonomus drones. The drones kill the crew, and the AI copies itself onto the ships computers.

Mecha suit:

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Not to be outdone, I start sketching on modifications to a ravenwind fighter (combined with a walking tank and some other stuff), although I don't start implementing them yet. Landing gear and parts of the engine is replaced by the tank legs, which are modified so that they can be collapsed for folding into the body or moving in narrow spaces. The wings also capable and foldable onto the back for dexterity. Rotors are added for atmospheric agility, underwater propulsion, and VTOL capability. A pair of flexible arms, ending in both brute handlike manipulators, and the tools of a crawler drone, are added to two of the weapon slots. Lockable wheels are added to legs and arms for rolerscate-type movment and what remains of the engine is made so it can be deflected towards what would previously have been "upwards". Speaker systems and powerful headlights, and a projector. Armor is tuned towards soft attrition of the kind you might get from handheald weapons, running into treees, or forcing yourself throguh a to-narrow corridor, rather than the kind you find in space combat.

The end result basically looks like a redneck Transformaer on roller-skates, and is way more awesome than that.

Jumping:
- Given how jumping only requires a specific speed, couldnt you make indefinite jumps by having a single boosting stage, wicch jumps so that it ends up secuirely at some nearby star, and lots of tiny data storage devices in cargo that are slightly disturbed as the ship jumps, such that maybe 0.1% of them arive at the other side of the galaxy?

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

If you where to jump directly to N 5647 (your current destination) from Braben Hall there is a five percent chance that a jump vector calculated with no errors will still result in you never arriving at your destination.

Does that mean we'd end up somewhere else? (Like somewhere out in inter-solar space) Or would we just be lost in hyperspace for ever?

[10ebbor10]

If you where to jump directly to N 5647 (your current destination) from Braben Hall there is a five percent chance that a jump vector calculated with no errors will still result in you never arriving at your destination.

Does that mean we'd end up somewhere else? (Like somewhere out in inter-solar space) Or would we just be lost in hyperspace for ever?

Or we end to close to the Star, burning up quickly. But either getting to far or to close is deadly, as there are no jumppoints in open space, and there's a lot of empty space to land in.

[Armok]

My guess is we'd end up in a very, very distant galaxy, near a supermassive black hole.

[10ebbor10]

Long-termish plans based on that modified crawler:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Verry secret, not mentioned: Once we get around the limitation on AI bodies and reproduction: A hard shell is fired from a railgun, and penetrates armor. It is discoarded, and a snakelike body with an AI comes out, as well as a swarm of semi-autonomus drones. The drones kill the crew, and the AI copies itself onto the ships computers.

I think we want a boarding drone for that, which I'll be hopefully be able to make later. The Sabotage drone isn't really designed to enter the ship, just breach into the maintenance sections of weaponry, engines, other stuff and sabotage them.

Mecha suit:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Not to be outdone, I start sketching on modifications to a ravenwind fighter (combined with a walking tank and some other stuff), although I don't start implementing them yet. Landing gear and parts of the engine is replaced by the tank legs, which are modified so that they can be collapsed for folding into the body or moving in narrow spaces. The wings also capable and foldable onto the back for dexterity. Rotors are added for atmospheric agility, underwater propulsion, and VTOL capability. A pair of flexible arms, ending in both brute handlike manipulators, and the tools of a crawler drone, are added to two of the weapon slots. Lockable wheels are added to legs and arms for rolerscate-type movment and what remains of the engine is made so it can be deflected towards what would previously have been "upwards". Speaker systems and powerful headlights, and a projector. Armor is tuned towards soft attrition of the kind you might get from handheald weapons, running into treees, or forcing yourself throguh a to-narrow corridor, rather than the kind you find in space combat.

The end result basically looks like a redneck Transformaer on roller-skates, and is way more awesome than that.

Good?  I have nothing to say about this one, except make sure it's kinda modular and can switch weapons.

Jumping:
- Given how jumping only requires a specific speed, couldnt you make indefinite jumps by having a single boosting stage, wicch jumps so that it ends up secuirely at some nearby star, and lots of tiny data storage devices in cargo that are slightly disturbed as the ship jumps, such that maybe 0.1% of them arive at the other side of the galaxy?

Or the all the datapods enter the system individually at high speed, resulting in a cloud of scrapnel flying through the sector. While it might make an effective weapon, it's not very healthy.

[Kadzar]

Long-termish plans based on that modified crawler:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Verry secret, not mentioned: Once we get around the limitation on AI bodies and reproduction: A hard shell is fired from a railgun, and penetrates armor. It is discoarded, and a snakelike body with an AI comes out, as well as a swarm of semi-autonomus drones. The drones kill the crew, and the AI copies itself onto the ships computers.

I think we want a boarding drone for that, which I'll be hopefully be able to make later. The Sabotage drone isn't really designed to enter the ship, just breach into the maintenance sections of weaponry, engines, other stuff and sabotage them.

Wait, why would we want that? I thought that was just Armok's crazy plan.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Adapt a flight plan and pattern to best fit what they are expecting to see out there at the outpost, to the best of Alec's ability. Leading with a recon vessel and following with the main pattern, adapting to the numbers, makeup, and pattern of the enemy.

[werty892]

I think, screw plans, load all the missile tubes and railguns, and go in guns blazing.

[Immortal]

No no, we are not launching fighters upon entering the system.. That is a horrible idea. If things are heavier then expected we would have to wait for the fighters to get back on deck, something we are not fast at since we do not actually have hangers..

We will enter the system. Scan the immediate area. Have the stealth probe check the planet, then attempt a diplomatic solution. Diplomacy will probably go bad then we will nuke them.

[Jerick]

It wasn't supposed to do detailed just cut through hulls and power lines and possibly hitch rider on fighters. So that it seems like it will perform up to spec.

I help adwarf with his mecha systems.

Design and build a heavy duty welder, so that mechas can do basic repair work and cut into tanks and other armored vehicles/ compounds. (Modular design, so you can switch them ou with other weapons when needed.)

You set up a modular cutter tool that is built into the wirst of the powered EVA suit while adawarf works slimming down SMGs and building and creating an ammo feed to boxes mounted in the suit's backpack.
It's quickly becoming a quite heavy design but with duel wrist mounted SMGs and several hundred rounds in the backpack to feed to them it can put out a surprising amount of fire power while staying space capable.
But it's become fairly bulky.

Mecha suit:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Not to be outdone, I start sketching on modifications to a ravenwind fighter (combined with a walking tank and some other stuff), although I don't start implementing them yet. Landing gear and parts of the engine is replaced by the tank legs, which are modified so that they can be collapsed for folding into the body or moving in narrow spaces. The wings also capable and foldable onto the back for dexterity. Rotors are added for atmospheric agility, underwater propulsion, and VTOL capability. A pair of flexible arms, ending in both brute handlike manipulators, and the tools of a crawler drone, are added to two of the weapon slots. Lockable wheels are added to legs and arms for rolerscate-type movment and what remains of the engine is made so it can be deflected towards what would previously have been "upwards". Speaker systems and powerful headlights, and a projector. Armor is tuned towards soft attrition of the kind you might get from handheald weapons, running into treees, or forcing yourself throguh a to-narrow corridor, rather than the kind you find in space combat.

The end result basically looks like a redneck Transformaer on roller-skates, and is way more awesome than that.

Jumping:
- Given how jumping only requires a specific speed, couldnt you make indefinite jumps by having a single boosting stage, wicch jumps so that it ends up secuirely at some nearby star, and lots of tiny data storage devices in cargo that are slightly disturbed as the ship jumps, such that maybe 0.1% of them arive at the other side of the galaxy?

The mech suit fitting so many new and different capablities into the design takes sacrfices, your design is very slow in it's movements, two weapon slots are given over to the manipulators, the legs are much weaker and more vunerable than their unmodified counterparts and you have serious problems with wieght.
It won't fly in gravity higher than 0.79g or less than standard atmospheric density.


Jumping: this and many other expirements have been attempted.
The problem is it's hard to judge exactly when a jump is going to occour (so the scientists keep their sensor/data storage balls bouncing around at high velocity)
To date no data storage device or sensor used in any of these expirements has been recovered.

Organize the pilots into groups with a pilot and co pilot in each craft. Test comms and equipment and go over sorties while waiting for the signal. Classify the fighter group as Wildfire Squadron.

Wildfire's squadron's comns and equipment checks out and the pilots are sitting in their fighters egar for action.

The Firestar and the Flarewise jump from Braben hall to Tabien and from Tabien to N 5647 in short.
Imediatly apparently on arrival is the wrecks of ships that orbit the jump area.
The Firestar barely misses one as it decelerates.
EM and heat signitures erupt as weapon platforms hidden in the wreckage power up
A great distance away is the world which according to Helios hosts the listening post and in orbit is a laveithian space station and the unmistakeable bright flare of the colassal power output of destroyers.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Our AI drives the ship and our spacers load ammunition. We might as well have our pilots ready to launch if things get hot rather than just sitting in the rec room or running about hauling scrap. If they attack the Flarewise we will need someone to defend it and who's to say the Firestar won't be preoccupied with something else. I think the fighters should stay. That being said, we won't launch until we have a good idea of what we are dealing with and only if the diplomatic solution goes badly.