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

[drejr]

Following the loss of Salyut in Wolf 424, an unofficial patch has become common among Soyuz-class crews:

[Mastik]

Put together a game similar to Charon's lets play.  At the game start [2100] Pan Asia, or the EU quickly established gates on all jump points in Sol, and quickly moved out into the beyond.  In 2105 combat erupted in an unknown sector of space occurred, no evidence of combat has been seen in the immediate sector from Sol.

2110: the American federation has established trade agreements with all players, and is on friendly terms with all Earth military powers.  A wormhole has opened in an unknown system. 

2115:  [AF] colonies have been established on Earth, Luna, Mars, Callisto, and Alpha Centauri A-I.  No alien species have been encountered by the [AF].


And 30 minutes after i post this, i lose 2 survey craft to new aliens because im not paying attention.   

[Drgong]

Had my first battle.   was doing quite well till I made a boneheaded move.   The NPR ship was dead in space and its active sensors were out.    I was zoomed in and forgot it had some huge sensor ship a billion miles away that was tagging my ships.   Apparently its fire control was still working, and my entire battle plan of being faster and longer range then them was thrown away as I flew into range of the NPR insane missile barrage.    One 15,000 ton ship fired 120 size five missiles.    I am guessing it box missiles or something.   

Scratch two cruisers and a frigate.     

[xeryon]

The North American Union (Canada, Mexico and most of the United States [No one wanted Texas to be involved since becoming a pariah state when it's entire economy imploded when oil became a banned product world-wide, and Florida and several other East coast states were no longer viable once their coastal cities all became submerged]) has launched it first craft capable of FTL travel.  By using the gravity wells of our local star this craft is capable of near instantaneous travel from one gravity well point to another corresponding gravity well point in a nearby stars' own local gravity well.  When the craft was launched the Union's newly created interstellar space agency NAUSA and it's leader, Nathaniel Devary, were front page news worldwide.  Devary made the circuit of all of the daily talk shows and was interviewed by all of the major media outlets.  He traveled the world giving speeches, shaking hands and kissing babies.  Which might be how he contracted the flesh eating virus which brought this vibrant, charismatic and enigmatic leader to an unsightly death just 6 months after his appointment.  His position was quickly filled by the next executive in the hierarchy, Martha Veale, (who also was one of Devary's most vocal critics and detractors.)  While not nearly as qualified as her predecessor in general management areas she does have an advanced degree in virulent micro-biology and spent the majority of her career working at the CDC researching enhanced strains of aggressive pathogens for national defense against rogue terrorist organizations. All questioning of her ascension to the head of the organization ceased when it was realized that she was also the last person to see Devary alive.

TLDR:  My only remotely qualified person for fleet commander went from excellent health to dead from natural causes in one 5 day cycle at the ripe old age of 25 after being assigned to command for only 6 months.  :/

[drejr]

The latest addition to the fleet:

Hainan class Jump Battlecruiser    26 700 tons     797 Crew     4935.6 BP      TCS 534  TH 2112  EM 0
3955 km/s    JR 4-100     Armour 6-79     Shields 0-0     Sensors 24/8/0/0     Damage Control Rating 6     PPV 98
Maint Life 0.27 Years     MSP 693    AFR 950%    IFR 13.2%    1YR 2592    5YR 38878    Max Repair 1050 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 6 months    Spare Berths 0   

J26700(4-100) Military Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 26700 tons    Distance 100k km     Squadron Size 4
176 EP Magneto-plasma Drive (12)    Power 176    Fuel Use 79.95%    Signature 176    Exp 11%
Fuel Capacity 2 750 000 Litres    Range 23.2 billion km   (67 days at full power)

Particle Beam-4 (14)    Range 150 000km     TS: 5000 km/s     Power 10-3    ROF 20        4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
CIWS-200 (4x6)    Range 1000 km     TS: 20000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Fire Control S02 96-5000 (3)    Max Range: 192 000 km   TS: 5000 km/s     95 90 84 79 74 69 64 58 53 48
Stellarator Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 (7)     Total Power Output 42    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR379-R68 (1)     GPS 39168     Range 380.0m km    Resolution 68
Thermal Sensor TH3-24 (1)     Sensitivity 24     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  24m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-8 (1)     Sensitivity 8     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  8m km

ECCM-1 (1)         ECM 10

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

[Mastik]

Nov 2117

  New alien species suspect invaders arrived in Sol from the Sirius jump gate, diplomatic relations failed.  Ship appears to be a gravitational survey craft.

  Relations with all earth based alliances continue to improve.

[Mastik]

May 2118

3 Alien survey vessels of the Facepoker class, spotted in Sol.  Facepoker 1 rammed a small American freighter in the alpha centauri system.  Both ships were destroyed.  Facepoker 3 was destroyed by Chinese FACs in Sol.  Facepoker 2 has gone missing.

Nov 2118

Facepoker 2 was destroyed after ramming a large American freighter in the Sol system.  The freighter managed to limp home.

[AL]

In my current game, orbital motion for asteroids is turned off. And yet, with every 5 day increment the cluster of asteroids I was planning to build forts on to blockade a jump point continue to inch ever so slowly around the system primary. What is going on 

[Haji]

There are two types of asteroids - normal ones and trojans. Normal ones move around the stars, trojans are located in Lagrange points of gas giants. The former do not move, the latter do move together with the gas giant they are bound to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_trojan

[83athom]

Finally found the homeworld of the xenos scum that had the nerve to assault Sol. They are located in the Prometheus system. I have ordered Battlegroup Sabre to cease overhaul and to prepare for a purge.

[AL]

Thanks @Haji, did not know Aurora actually differentiated between those two types of asteroids for movement purposes.

[Drgong]

Having a good game - One jump out find a 60,000 ton ship.    Swarm I am afraid

Had a big battle out in Neptune.   my attacks were unable to get past the point defense.    It looking bad for Sol brothers and sisters.   

[ExChairman]

103 tries to find an alien race that lives on a planet, I have found some robots and space dragons before but now we have found an intelligent planet living race, and they look like some movie makers horror  Oh well they are low tech so we could land troops or we could bombard them from space, would be nice to have neutron bombs to wipe out their populations.
They are on the planet HR 4523 at the top.

https://gyazo.com/08832d0813f12e9854880da43206d7e3

[83athom]

Battlegroup Sabre dispatched to the location of the enemy homeworld. En route, the battlegroup encountered several patrols heading toward our space. They were easily destroyed by the frigate FF Sword, being careful to hide the rest of the battlegroup. In the last system before the enemy's, a hidden picket activated its actives and was able to see the entirety of the battlegroup. It was annihilated with a small salvo of ASMs. Shortly after transit, after jump blindness wore off, we detected the whole enemy fleet, half of which was on an intercept course for us. This will be a drawn out battle which we will emerge victorious.

Edit; I believe I have now encountered an enemy carrier group. They have 2 50k ton designs (largest warships I've seen from them so far have been 20k and 30k, with most being 10k) being escorted by tons of fighters up front, Over 20 so far, but they have only just been detected. I have no doubt that my secondary batteries can take care of the group while my missiles go for the presumed carriers.

[Drgong]

First Battle of Neptune - UN forces retreated in good order, but 6 Laser frigates were lost to tThe Swarm when they got too close.

Second battle of Neptune was in the moons of Neptune, when the combined UN force was able to win.   Combined volleys of 32 missiles meant that 20 was making though, and after the queen died, I had a tense combat as I had 20 FACs chase down my fleet and the anti-missile ships flinging everything they had at them before they ended up in meson range.   Still, feels good to defeat that swarm of first meeting.