My star map is starting to look quite interesting. Not long ago there were still three unexplored jump points in the Gypsum system, which at that point was accessible through Lancaster. Sending a survey ship through revealed a new connection to my home system, Aldor. Which is awesome, because Gypsum contains several colonizable bodies and an abundance of minerals at decent accessibility, and until now it was a 30 billion km trip. That has been reduced to 8 billion km! Step are taken to ensure the security of the system and initiate colonizing effort. Of the last two unexplored jump points, one also led to a known system, Potgietersus, and the last led to a nebula, that is being ignored for now. A few other jump points also established new connections, so there are a lot of places that now have easier access.
I've also recently reached magneto plasma tech and have begun upgrading my fleet. Hopefully I will finally be able to take care of the last few precursor ships in Lamon, before scouting out and invading Allyuen. I have begun designing a proto-type of my new class of bio-warfare capital ships.
Force Elemental class Capital Terraformer 194 400 tons 974 Crew 7851.6 BP TCS 3888 TH 4800 EM 0
1234 km/s Armour 10-298 Shields 0-0 Sensors 5/5/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
MSP 25 Max Repair 500 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 24 months Spare Berths 0
Terraformer: 5 module(s) producing 0.0125 atm per annum
320 EP Commercial Magneto-plasma Drive (15) Power 320 Fuel Use 3.04% Signature 320 Exp 4%
Fuel Capacity 3 000 000 Litres Range 91.3 billion km (856 days at full power)
CIWS-120 (20x6) Range 1000 km TS: 12000 km/s ROF 5 Base 50% To Hit
Thermal Sensor TH1-5 (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 5m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-5 (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 5m km
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
They will of course be accompanied by meson points defence cruisers, while my main fleet takes care of offensive ships