What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?

[83athom]

Found yet another race within the Kohl system. I can tell I will not be friends with them as the increment I discovered them they pretty much destroyed the GSV Marc Aaronson. It literally encountered 42 ships all at the same time. Political relation also has started at -200 so there wont be recovering from this one.

[AL]

So suppose you manage to defeat the home fleet of an NPR and gain control of their home system - what do you typically do? Try a ground assault? Glass the planet from orbit? Attempt to weaponize your terraformers?
The NPR I'm against is making their last stand and I might have to make this decision soon... I'm thinking unless they are sitting on some impressive mineral deposits, option 2 is probably going to be my choice.

[DIT_grue]

Political relation also has started at -200 so there wont be recovering from this one.

Don't forget that the value you see is your people's opinion of them, not their's of you. Besides, unless the race in question is as xenophobic as can be or you get into a full-out shooting war, a good diplomatic team should be able to overcome a penalty of that magnitude in two or three years. Even if they do peg the needle on xenophobia, it should still take less than a decade to work back to neutral. (Of course, there's no guarantee they'll bother assigning a good team to propagandise you, and thus the negative rating assigned to them will in turn limit what you can do to raise their rating of you besides assigning a team of your own.)

[MarcAFK]

Year 3 (2027):
Earths temperature has crept upto an average 15.45 degrees, but population is still increasing, now at 527 million UN citizens, the mars colony approaches 2.9 million, thanks to the new colony ships in operation, the single heinlein class is capable of lifting twice the people in a third the time, but the pair of hg wells class still make a good effort, 1 more shall be finished by mid year and another heinlein will be finished by years end. Total capacity is now 90k per week to mars.
Infrastructure creation is now 24% of industrial output, more will be needed as new colony shios come online. A third civilian shipyard was completed and is set to build a new slipway, the production is shared out between increased infrastructure as well as finishing both PDCs within the year. Research has been diversified, both increased mining and factory production will be finished by August, next major priority is expanding civilian economy.
A major fiscal disaster is approaching, if spending continues at the current rate the government will be bankrupt by next year, the current chancellor steps down and a new more fiscally responsible leader is quickly elected . (We lose factory 35%, mining 10% and pop growth 20 %, but gain wealth 30%, mining 15%, pop 10%, shipbuilding 10%).
The navy grows slowly, the 3 slipway yard is retooling to build the new jump equipped hawke class geo survey vessel, then to be refit to construct the similar Higgs grav survey vessel.
The hemetite has spent the last year surveying epsilon eridani, nothing extraordinary discovered do far. The hawking continues it's surveying of jump points in Bernard's star, 8 have been found so far, 11 more search locations remain.
Finally the Pegasus finished it's exploration of jump points in sol, discovering epsilon eridani and Bernard's star, then continued in Bernard's star discovering the following systems in Bernard's star:
Wolf 1061, Struve 2398, Proxima Centauri, and Altair, the other 4 are due to be searched soon.
Relations with the other powers is still improving, despite China's insistence that it has caught a UN espionage team, the other powers seem to be interested in lalande 21185, so the Pegasus is sent there to investigate each planet before continuing it's searches from Bernard's star.
And finally our naval commander, commodore Wilson Strose has passed away while on leave, his successor plans on continuing the policies of his forebear.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

So suppose you manage to defeat the home fleet of an NPR and gain control of their home system - what do you typically do? Try a ground assault? Glass the planet from orbit? Attempt to weaponize your terraformers?

i generally invade the planet, sometimes bombard a little.

however, i rarely let the political status increase above 40%. I feel that keeps military conquest fairly balanced, especially isnce i run high difficulty settings and NPR worlds often have thousands of facilities

[MarcAFK]

A new alien race has been detected on earth of all places, this was surprising to say the least, what's most shocking is the sudden launch of half a million tons of shipping into the already crowded space lanes around earth, the Tamarind Hegemony as they call it appear to have half the population as Russia and a similar fraction of industrial capacity making the weakest power on the planet. They're naming their current ships after former british empire vessels and have adopted a galactic empire theme.

OOC: I seem to have acidentally spawned a new race while checking the mechanics to answer some questions, doh!. Is there any way of deleting them short of conquest or getting the designer password?

[Krictic]

A new alien race has been detected on earth of all places, this was surprising to say the least, what's most shocking is the sudden launch of half a million tons of shipping into the already crowded space lanes around earth, the Tamarind Hegemony as they call it appear to have half the population as Russia and a similar fraction of industrial capacity making the weakest power on the planet. They're naming their current ships after former british empire vessels and have adopted a galactic empire theme.

OOC: I seem to have acidentally spawned a new race while checking the mechanics to answer some questions, doh!. Is there any way of deleting them short of conquest or getting the designer password?

Did you set the NPR generation to a 100% percent?

Alas, this gave me a nice idea for a scenario. :v

[MarcAFK]

It's set on default which I think is 50%.
But I accidentally manually created these guys on earth while checking out the create empire option.

[83athom]

I have sent the SF France, one of my first sensor frigates, into the Proxima Centauri system in a zigzag movement pattern (using WPs) at a reduced speed to begin information gathering of the enemy. Contact has been made halfway between the JP and the central star with 6 of the Repulse class. Sensors have revealed that the Repulse class is 1000 tons and can travel at 10,000 km/s. SF France has activated shields and has begun fire preparations. SF France has been hit by 3 19 strength nuclear detonations but has held firm with 2 breaches into space. The enemy has fled laser engagement range just as the twin cannon came online, however they cannot flee the Exocet missiles that are locking on and preparing to fire. 6 Exocets have been fired at the 6 enemy contacts and are gaining at a 8300km/s rate (intercept in 2:16:48 soon) while the SF France has been ordered to flee the system to repair and rearm. At the same time SF Dunkerque and SF Duquesne have been ordered to gather at the JP to provide support if needed. 5 Exocets missed their target (as expected given their speed) however 1 landed and seems to have crippled it. SF France has been ordered to close on it and finish it off with its close range weaponry as well as to take prisoners if possible. SF France has closed range and is preparing to fire upon the crippled vessel while closing. SF France has opened fire with her Twin 100mm R4 UV Cannon Turret and with one volley destroyed the enemy.No lifepods are detected (despite being parked on top of the wreck) so SF Frace is being told to continue on back to Earth for R,R,&R for her and R&R for the crew, they deserve it. This is a victory with 0 casualties on our side. The Brass was preparing a medal for her commander when they realized... that no one was in command of the ship. On its way back to the JP, the remaining Repulses have taken position at 52m km from SF France following at the same speed at roughly 70-90 degrees starboard from her direction of travel. Also, I'll have to sit through 6 days of 5-30 second increments most likely as they are "escorting" me out of their system just inside each other's active sensors. Upon SF France's arrival to Earth, 2nd Rear Admiral Luke Young assumed command of the vessel as he is both motivated and a skilled orator.

[drejr]

The Terran Union's five remaining Heinlein-class freighters return to Earth through the wreckage of the Battle of Sol, carrying over 800 survivors.    For ten days after mankind's first jump point exploration, two advanced warships of unknown origin went on a rampage through the inner system, destroying eight freighters, four patrol craft, two exploration ships, and a geosurvey craft with missiles and ramming attacks.   

[sloanjh]

OOC: I seem to have acidentally spawned a new race while checking the mechanics to answer some questions, doh!. Is there any way of deleting them short of conquest or getting the designer password?

Roll back to the backup DB you made just before you started checking things out? 

John

[MarcAFK]

Roll back to the backup DB you made just before you started checking things out? 

John

Hahahaha.
My only regret is not being able to rename them, I can accept a new organisation reaching out for the stars 2 years after the other powers, but why in the name of Armok must they be named after a fruiting leguminous tree native to Africa but spread and naturalised thoughout Asia?
I could reason that a large multinational organisation based in Asia decided to name itself Tamarind, but why Tamarind Hegemony?

Edit:  Update.Nemesis 2027.
After a year of heavy handed austerity measures the united nations is finally fiscally secure again, breaking even in october of 2027.
Upon her election in january 2027 Sue Vonk cut costs drastically across the board, ground unit training is halted, expansion of 2 shipyards is cancelled, new shipbuilding is curtailed, fighter and missile production is halved, and minerals from the civilian mining colony on Europa is sold to the private sector. Despite these opressive changes, other programs from the new administration have increased the economy by almost 30%.
Production concentrated on finishing 10 financial centers, 600 infrastructure, 1 terraformer and the new naval yard by years end.
Research efforts were entirely devoted towards expansion of the civilian economy, which was finished early January.
Over the course of the year civilian freighters have shipped increased quantities of infrastructure and colonists to Mars, a new freighter was launched helping the effort. Taxation of this now provides 12% of our income, also civilian efforts are now creating twice as much infrastructure for shipment to the red planet than we are producing with 30% our production. A third hg wells colony ship was added to the colony fleet, as well as a second heinlien class. Mars now has 10 million souls calling the red planet home. A second terraformer was shipped and is increasing greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Average temperature is now -45 degrees.
On earth the temperature has increased to 16 degrees. A new naval shipyard has been completed and been retooled to make new Beta class FAC's, the single slipway will produce one every 6 months, but a new slipway can be added in a year. The beta class is significantly faster than the alpha at 4500 km/s, and equipped with 6 amm launchers instead of the twin size 4's, but limited sensors and fire control only capable of utilizing a fifth the hades AMM's 10 million kilometer range. The new ship also only has 1.2 billion kilometers range (3 days), and will need tankers for long deployment.
Cote shipyard finishes a second slipway, both are allowed to expand.
The hematite completes geosurvey scans of Epsilon Eridani, and Lalande 21185 and is sent to the newly discovered system of 70 Ophiuchi .
The hawking finishes it's scans in Barnards star, discovering 4 systems which the pegsus is sent to explore: ross 154, 70 ophiuchi, wise 1541-2250 and V1581 CYGNI.
The commander of the pegasus is surprised to discover an anomaly in V1581 cygni, it appears to be a wormhole of some sort, the dormant fighter production facilities are set to work on a trio of probes to check the system, one with sensors to check out the anomaly, one with grav, for checking the jump points and one for geosurveys of the surrounding system, they are finishged in december and sent towards the system.
Meanwhile a planet in 70 Ophichi is discovered to be particularly hospitable, planet IV of the B component posesses a diameter of 12800 km, at an orbit of 130million, with gravity of .54, a 16 hour day, and shocking 364 day year, surface temperature is a chilly -43 degrees, little better than mars. But the atmosphere is what's most interesting about the planet, at first glance the pressure of .34 atmospheres is nothing spectacular, with 75% being nitrogen and 16% oxygen, the remainder Neon, but calculations show that the addittion of a mere .05 oxygen and .1 greenhouse gasses would render the planet entirably suitable to human comfort.
The planet is almost 12 billion kilometers from earth by the jump points, including a pair of legrange point jumps orbiting gas giants in the system which cuts 2 billion of the journey, untill recently legrange points had only been considered possible areas of jump singularities, but captain calvert of the pegasus noted anomalies in the areas which were consistant with jump areas, later confirmed by computer simulation and a later visit by the Hawking.
However the range is too far for the Heinliens which possess only range for a one way trip lasting 100 days, the HG wells class being designed for the short earth-mars hop possess half he range and a quarter the speed, and so are right out.
But cooincidentally the new Robinson class being retooled for possess a 22 billion kilometer range, retooling will be complete by september 2028, but without a jump gate or jump engines the ships still won't be able to make the journey. There is also a question of fuel use, a single trip by a pair of robinsons delivering 180,000 colonists and infrastructure would use 2.5 million fuel, over the course of a year these 2 ships would use 80% of our fuel production.
By years end retooling for the Hawke class geo survey vessels is completes, 3 are started expected to be due in december 2028. Possessing slightly better sensors, but reduced speed, the main selling point of the ship is it's built in jump engines allowing it to operate without a tender.

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Hawke class Geosurvey Ship    8,100 tons     177 Crew     872.5 BP      TCS 162  TH 450  EM 0
2777 km/s    JR 4-50     Armour 1-35     Shields 0-0     Sensors 18/1/0/3     Damage Control Rating 8     PPV 0
Maint Life 5.27 Years     MSP 539    AFR 65%    IFR 0.9%    1YR 32    5YR 487    Max Repair 114 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 36 months    Spare Berths 0   

J8100(4-50) Military Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 8100 tons    Distance 50k km     Squadron Size 4
150 EP Commercial Ion Drive (3)    Power 150    Fuel Use 11.93%    Signature 150    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 615,000 Litres    Range 114.5 billion km   (477 days at full power)

Thermal Sensor TH3-18 (1)     Sensitivity 18     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  18m km
Geological Survey Sensors (3)   3 Survey Points Per Hour

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposesA russian colony has been discovered on the moon, with thermal 756 and em 1079,
A panamerican colony has been discovered on Lalande 21185 A-1 with, TH 162 EM 212.
And finally in a shocking development the Tamarind corporation has announced that it intends to form its own extra solar government, named the "Tamarind Hegemony", Tamarind currently possess holdings in numerous south asian and east african countries, with economic power equal to a large country. (Population 100 million, about half what russia has).
Tamarind launches several ships into orbit, analysis shows powerful sensors that are obviously military in nature.

[83athom]

The pictures say it all.

EDIT; And I herp'd the derp hard. I forgot to repair the SF France after Operation (give me a good name for the operation anyone) so it has been several months with a giant F'ing hole in her side as it was doing TF Training.

Edit 2; Communication with the Indigo aliens are actually going well like it did with KoF. Despite them being picture 280 *shudders*. They now Identify themselves as the Kingston Imperium.

[83athom]

All but one of my 5 Floreal classes are out doing TF Training (it is waiting for a commander). However time keeps alternating between 1 day and 1 minute every time advance. I know what the problem is... the civilians. There are 2 lines, with one with 6 colony ships and one with 3, each trying to take people everywhere (in Sol) except where I want them to go (to extrasolar colonies that do have infrastructure ready). I might have to change the training orders to a live fire test on "obsolete" ships that are being "remotely" piloted simulating what to do during an assault on Earth to abduct the children.

[MarcAFK]

Nemesis : 2028
Current Galactic Map:

After last years austerity measures proved unpopular with business Sue Vonk is quietly removed from power, and former administrator Mack Oldham is reelected, ushering in a new boom in the manufacturing industry. (Production +30%),  The scandal earlier in the year didnt help matters either when Commodore Joelle Hakanson was demoted and replaced after it's revealed that her policies have severely affected fleet training (she has no training rating, they were just wasting fuel last year).
Additional financial centers have been constructed, this as well as the income from a new civilian mining colony on Comas Solas has cemented the positive growth of the Economy.

The martian colony is up to 19.8 million, with additional infrastructure to support another 5 million, there are now 5 civilian freighters delivering infrastructure, outstripping our ability to deliver colonists, even with the Heinleins leaving earth loaded only with colonists.  2 Terraformers and an additional H.G.Wells has been delivered this year.

The Hematite has discovered a ruined alien city on 70 Ophichi-B IV, Research begins for launching an expedition, a specialized xenology team can be sent immediately via the jump escort UNSC Crossbow, this team will be able to study the alien race which formerly inhabited the site, however indepth research as to the function of the installations and potential recovery of usable artifacts will require large scale engineering teams, training these as well as development of transport vessels will take time, pushing other planned research back. However the Jump engines and high efficiency research still has priority and will be finished this year as planned.
The First Expeditionary Foce departs earth with the Jared Kundert Xenology team, the three 8100 ton destroyers consist of the Twin gauss cannon turret equipped Jump Escort DEJ Crossbow, the missile destroyer DDG Valiant, and the missile escort DE Valkyrie. This is the first time the main fleet has departed earth, the crew welcome the experience, still training in sol are the DEJ Longbow, the DDG Reliable and 10 Alpha class LACs, as well as 10 single gauss cannon equipped Battle hawk fighters and the Hermes light fighter maintenance vessel.
The expeditionary force doesn't haul enough fuel for a return journey from 70 Ophiuchi, so a pair of light  tankers haulling 285,000 litres starts working on building up a fuel dump on the icy world of barnards star A1..

When Jared Kundert's team finishes surveying the ruins on 70 Ophiuchi-B IV, they identify that an alien race known as the Llandudno Confederation were the former inhabitants, 85 installations are presen across the planet, and thanks to the efforts of the team in deciphering the alien language and mathematical symbology they're confident that some of these installations may be recovered and brought online, including a potential alien research installation.

In february the probe in V1581 Cygni discovers an instability which shifts the position of the wormhole 450 million kilometers away, the probe races towards it's new location while puzzled physicists throw out their theories about 'stable wormholes', meanwhile surveying of the system continues.
Retooling for the robinson class colony ships is completed and work begins on the first 2.
 A third Missile Destroyer is started after a second slipway is added to the 8150 ton yard.
The first 2 Beta class FACs are completed.
A jump point leading to Gliese 701 has been discovered.
Both Queued PDC's are completed, earth now hosts 2 AMM PDC's equipped with 72 launchers each, an ASM PDC equipped with 12 size 6 launchers and 16 reduced size 4 launchers. As well as a fighter base with 3000 tons of hanger space.
3 Hawke class geo survey ships are complented, The Amethyst, Amber and Diamond will be sent to finish scans of Alpha Centauri, Epsilon Eridani, and Barnards star, before starting on those systems that are inaccessable without jump engines, the hematite will be tasked with finishing scans of the comets in Barnard star, then sent to do the same with the last far out comets in our home system. 3 More Hawke's are Started, before the shipyard begins retooling to construct the similar higgs class grav survey vessels.
With the completion of 92,000 ton jump engine research, a Jump colony ship can now be designed, however the recent completion of higher fuel efficiency gives us oppertunity to make vastly more efficient engines, which will be essential for long term colonization efforts. Work starts on a size 50 240 EP Ion drive, current designs use a 150 ep size 25 which consumes 3 times as much fuel per power.