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The Northern Coalition (AAR)
Paul M:
[ooc]Well I figured I would do this more for the learning experience then anything else. If 6.2 comes along likely I will abandon this and move onto a new start. This is a conventional start with 200 million population and 2 research centres and a single naval dock.[/ooc]
2025 AD (Sol System, Earth)
The Big Meltdown had been a combination of climate change, rising sea levels, economic destabilization, cyber warfare, political tomfoolery, religious dissagrements, and tomatoes. Gene engineering to make longer lasting tastier tomatoes was too much for one stark conservative sect, who decided to protest by detonating a bomb at the main research site. A police crackdown ensued followed by a manhunt and a celebrated flight via sailing ship to a country willing to harbour the fugatives since their faiths were compatable. This distracted most people from the odd fact the first responders all came down sick. Sabre rattling pushed two countries towards an armed confrontation while their cyber soldiers probed and for the first time Black ICE was unleashed into the internet. Stock markets plunged and soared as the world aligned itself into one of three blocks. Then came the first clash as two unpiloted drones engaged each other, then it was a sunk ship that caused a run on the insurance values of shipping while pirates in the south east asian archepeligo made hay while the sun shined and military presences were elsewhere. The UN security council was again paralyzed as vetos blocked every attempt from either side to find a peaceful solution as daily tensions mounted; then came the first hint as the WHO issued an advisory over a new flu. The world ignored it, but when the internet went haywire and that part of the country lost all utilities as a sucessful hacking mission had found a security vulurability millions needed evacuation, including the patients in hospitals who ended up scattered around the country. Soon the WHO was issuing a travel advisory and others were claiming it was an act of God. By now the first responders had advanced to the first deaths. Attempts to close the borders worked until the first convoy of refugees was met with gunfire by border guards, the next group came with tanks and drove over the border guard building. Flights were grounded, shipping was frozen, and big pharmacy was clearly to blame.
As the death toll began to mount, a group of men and women who had lost family members and were in the military decided on payback. The drones were loaded for bear and for the first time since Nagasaki, 3 cities with strong sect presence were hit by tactical neutron weapons. The counter strike was knocked out the sky but their cyber warriors crashed a grand total of 15 transport airplanes into buildings when they hacked their guidance systems and nearly 10,000 cars had their robot guidance sabatoged causing both massive traffic jams but also thousands of deaths.
Food riots errupted in several countries as intenational transportation ground to halt because the seas had become wargrounds. Nuclear tipped anti-submarine or ship weapons were deployed by both sides of the conflict which had now broadened as one ally after another found themselves roped into the madness. Calmer voices were raised and then crushed as the lights went out around the world as a doomsday cult inserted a virus into the net that went viral in seconds spread via social networking sites. The sickness had now claimed 5% of the world and was firmly entrenched in most major cities, claiming a significant portion of the hospital staff. One thing after another started failing as larger and larger parts of the population fell sick, many to never recover. Efforts to restart crashed national power grids was slow and when winter came millions perished from hypothermia and hunger setting off massive waves of fire and migration.
By spring almost every major city in the northern hemisphere was a burned out ruin. The southern states fought the plague, the waves of refugees, each other, a massive famine and el nino; dictators rose and fell with a speed not seen since the time of the Roman civil wars. The only saving grace was that most large nuclear weapons were never used as their crews abandoned the bunkers when their food ran out but several times chemical weapons were used to great effect as many people decided it was time to settle generation long scores.
By 2101 the population of the planet was reduced to a small fraction of what had been there, and rebuilding started mainly in the small towns which had survived reasonably well. By 2200 the Northern Coalition was the dominant force on the planet stretching from Victoria on the West Coast of North America to the Ruins of St. Petersburg, encompasing the old states of Canada, the Northern US states, Iceland, Ireland, England, Scandanvia, the Baltic and the northern coast of Europe in the tradition of the Hansa cities.
In 2225 the Victoria-Esquimalt Graving Dock was completed in Orbit and humanity was back with the goal of breaking out of the cradle.
(more to come)
Paul M:
[ooc]This is the rough timeline as I was not taking notes but am working from the information in the game at the current point. Due to the start conditions this game is slow, it took a long time to even get TN technology.[/ooc]
AD 2225 The Northern Coalition Assembly selects Callum Peters to lead the effort to reach the planets of Sol again. Break through research begins in two research complexs, one of either side of the Atlantic. 6 Financial centers are slated for construction and expansion of the Victoria-Esquimalt Graving yards.
AD 2232 The Breakthru to TN technology and the Interial Compensator is achieved. Research switches to developing the technologies necessary to explore the Sol system. Additionally efforts now switch to converting the existing factories to more efficient specialized types. In the first pass 200 conventional industries were converted to 100 Construction factories and 100 Mines.
AD 2232-2240 Conversion of Earth's economic infrastructure and construction of 4 additional research laboratories, a civilian yard with a single slip capable of construction of 30,000 ton comercial vessels, a space port and expansion of the Victoria-Esquimalt Graving Yard to 6 slips each with a capacity of 3000 tons. On Earth are: 200 Mines, 230 Construction Factories, 65 Fuel Refineries, 30 Ordinance factories, and 5 Fighter Factories.
[ooc]I should have said I would be editing over the day[/ooc]
AD 2239 The first space ship the Geological Survey Vessel Upholder is launched. For the first time since the 20th century humans reach another planet of the Sol system. The ship conducts a survey of the inner planets with dissappointing results. Mercury and Luna are without TN minerals. Venus has a huge amount of various materials but almost all of them are difficult to mine, leaving aside the conditions of the planet itself. Mars has a massive reserve of easily mined Uridium but nothing else. Jupiter's has Sorium but its moons are bare of any mineral wealth.
--- Code: ---Upholder class Geological Survey Vessel 1,600 tons 45 Crew 168 BP TCS 32 TH 4 EM 0
125 km/s Armour 1-12 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/1 Damage Control Rating 2 PPV 0
Maint Life 11.19 Years MSP 131 AFR 10% IFR 0.1% 1YR 2 5YR 29 Max Repair 100 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months Spare Berths 0
Rolls Royce MIL P1 (2) Power 2 Fuel Use 90% Signature 2 Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 10,000 Litres Range 1.3 billion km (115 days at full power)
Geological Survey Sensors (1) 1 Survey Points Per Hour
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
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AD 2241 The Upholder Crisis. The Upholder returning from its survey of Jupiter runs out of fuel. The Protecteur class Tanker is quickly put into service to launch a rescue mission of the now drifting Upholder. The rescue of the ship is successful and the crew returns to Earth as heros, the tales inspires several books, and a varity of film adaptations.
--- Code: ---Protecteur class Tanker 1,600 tons 40 Crew 114 BP TCS 32 TH 4 EM 0
125 km/s Armour 1-12 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 3 PPV 0
Maint Life 33.82 Years MSP 134 AFR 6% IFR 0.1% 1YR 0 5YR 3 Max Repair 5 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months Spare Berths 1
Rolls Royce MIL P1 (2) Power 2 Fuel Use 90% Signature 2 Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 200,000 Litres Range 25.0 billion km (2314 days at full power)
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
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AD 2245 Bu Colonization is formed with the mandate to settle the Solar system. 100 units of infrastructure are fabricated out of the dwindling reserve of Duranium on the planet. The targets are: Luna, Mars, Venus and Ganymede. Additionally 4 Terraforming modules will be build over the next years. Eventually 1 goes to Ganymede and 3 go to Mars.
AD 2248 The Mackenzie, a Colony transport, and Northstar, a freighter, are constructed in Earth orbit. This now gives humanity the tools to settle the Solar System.
--- Code: ---Mackenzie class Colonist Transport 9,350 tons 52 Crew 396.125 BP TCS 187 TH 62 EM 0
331 km/s Armour 1-39 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
MSP 26 Max Repair 15.625 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months Spare Berths 0
Cryogenic Berths 30000
MAN NT CE-62 (1) Power 62.5 Fuel Use 13.26% Signature 62.5 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 20,000 Litres Range 2.9 billion km (101 days at full power)
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
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--- Code: ---Northstar class Cargo Ship 6,750 tons 24 Crew 92.625 BP TCS 135 TH 62 EM 0
459 km/s Armour 1-31 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
MSP 9 Max Repair 15.625 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months Spare Berths 0
Cargo 5000
MAN NT CE-62 (1) Power 62.5 Fuel Use 13.26% Signature 62.5 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 20,000 Litres Range 4.0 billion km (101 days at full power)
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
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AD 2248 The Burns Freight and Logistic and Shipping firm is founded and recieves heavy subsidization by the Northern Coalition govenment.
AD 2248 The Upholder is refit to the Upholder Mod 1 and survey activities resume starting with Saturn, and proceeding through Uranus and Neptune. Saturn is found to be a source of Sorium and one of its moon Dione has TN minerals but Titan is without any. After this the Upholder turns its attention to surveying asteroids in the orbits between Earth and Jupiter as one mineral after another are exhausted on earth.
--- Code: ---Upholder Mod1 class Geological Survey Vessel 2000 tons 39 Crew 190.625 BP TCS 40 TH 62 EM 0
1550 km/s Armour 1-14 Shields 0-0 Sensors 5/1/0/1 Damage Control 2 PPV 0
Maintenance Capacity 119 MSP Spare Berths 1
MAN NT CE-62 (1) Power 62.5 Fuel Use 13.26% Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range 33.9 billion km (253 days at full power)
NorTEL Civ IR Telescope (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Signature 1000: 5m km
Geological Survey Sensors (1) 1 Survey Points
This ship is classed as a commercial vessel for maintenance purposes
--- End code ---
AD 2249 The Luna Colony is founded.
AD 2250 The Mars Colony is founded.
AD 2250 The Venus Colony is founded.
AD 2250 The Ganymede Colony is founded. By this time 1st Geosurvey team has investigated Mercury, Venus, Earth, Luna, Mars, and Ganymede without finding any evidence of new resources.
AD 22(early 50s) The Williamson Logisitics firm is founded and recieves heavy subsidization by the Northern Coalition government.
AD 22(early 50s) The Venus Catastrophy. The settlement of Venus was a difficult afair with barely sufficient infrastructure on the planet the first settlement quickly shrunk and then slowly regrew, the expectation that civilian shipping firms would take over and ship infrastructure to the colony to cover the deficities proved false. More infrastruture was assembled on earth and shipped via the Northstar to the struggling colony but still by the time the situation was stabalized thousands had died due to the lack of essential services or due to failures as stressed environmental systems failed. The matter becomes a political hot potato on Earth as lawsuits are brought against Bu Colonization, the shipping firms, advertisement agencies, and public figures.
AD 22(early 50s) Construction factories are shipped to Luna and Mars, while Mars begins mining its Uridium. Construction of financial institution begin on each colony with minerals transported from Earth.
AD 2251 The Bauxite Class heavy frieghter is launched.
--- Code: ---Bauxite class Freighter 29900 tons 51 Crew 237.875 BP TCS 598 TH 188 EM 0
314 km/s Armour 1-85 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control 1 PPV 0
Maintenance Capacity 5 MSP
Cargo 25000 Spare Berths 1
MAN NT CE-62 (3) Power 62.5 Fuel Use 13.26% Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 100,000 Litres Range 4.5 billion km (167 days at full power)
This ship is classed as a commercial vessel for maintenance purposes
--- End code ---
AD 2251 The Upholder survey of the inner belt's asteroids is complete with limited success. Multiple small finds are found but only limited amounts of Neutronium are found and this is given priority resulting in the establishment of three automated mining colonies on Minerva (Neutronium), Hesperia (Duranium and others), and Pandora (Neutronium and others). Mining equipment from Earth based mines are converted to give Venus a complement of 15 automatic mines, Minerva a total of 10, Hesperia a whopping 20 while Pandora gets 5 mines by 2255.
AD 2252 Two of the 10 ICBM bases are updated to a new standard employing the more advanced technologies now available.
--- Code: ---Fort Victoria class Missile Base 8650 tons 176 Crew 765.45 BP TCS 173 TH 0 EM 0
Armour 9-37 Shields 0-0 Sensors 15/15/0/0 Damage Control 1 PPV 35
Annual Failure Rate: 18488% IFR: 256.8% Maintenance Capacity 0 MSP
Troop Capacity: 1 Battalions Magazine 209 Spare Berths 2
PSAS Silo M5-1 (5) Missile Size 5 Rate of Fire 75
PCM Silo 1-1 (10) Missile Size 1 Rate of Fire 15
PDC MFC 55-2000 (1) Range 47.4m km Resolution 40
PDC CMFC 55-50 (1) Range 7.5m km Resolution 1
Javelin (10) Speed: 2,000 km/s End: 176.7m Range: 21.2m km WH: 4 Size: 5 TH: 14 / 8 / 4
HAWK(I) Counter Missile (50) Speed: 2,500 km/s End: 29.9m Range: 4.5m km WH: 1 Size: 1 TH: 16 / 9 / 4
Javelin II Anti-Ship Missile (20) Speed: 2,500 km/s End: 89.9m Range: 13.5m km WH: 4 Size: 5 TH: 18 / 11 / 5
NorTEL IR Array 0-3 (1) Sensitivity 15 Detect Signature 1000: 15m km
PDC SS 510-2000 (1) GPS 4000 Range 31.6m km Resolution 40
Bell Phased Array P3-15 (1) Sensitivity 15 Detect Strength 1000: 15m km
Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s
This ship is classed as a Planetary Defence Centre
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AD 22(mid 50s) The Dump! Luna and Mars were no longer accepting colonists and the two shipping firms between them had almost a half a million volunteers in cold storage on their ships. Even though its infrastructure was barely coping with the current population the ships moved to Venus and decanted the colonists for a second time on the unprepared colony. The death toll was no longer in the thousands or tens of thousands but hit the hundreds of thousands. The Northern Coalition governement could do virtualy nothing as its reserves of Duranium were nearly totaly depleted and only the massive transport of infrastructure would save the population. The two shipping firms reply to the public outcry by moving massive amounts of infrastructure and supplies to Venus but it still takes months before the situation stabalizes and the death toll is staggering. The court cases take years to settle.
AD 22(mid 50s) The development of Jump point theory gives a chance for humanity to reach the stars. Research proceeds on the development of the sensors necessary to find the points in space where it may be possible to cheat Einstein's limitations. After this development of the hardware necessary to break space time begins culumlating in the Saab jump engine series.
AD 2255 The Upholder heads for Pluto and then starts a survey of the Oort cloud objects.
AD 2256 The Oberon Class of Gravitation Survey Vessels is established and the Oberon (2256) and Tycho Brahe (2258) are build and sent out in opposite directions to survey the Sol sytem for jump points.
--- Code: ---Oberon class Gravitational Survey Vessel 2,450 tons 54 Crew 337.625 BP TCS 49 TH 62 EM 0
1265 km/s Armour 1-16 Shields 0-0 Sensors 5/1/2/0 Damage Control Rating 3 PPV 0
Maint Life 10.09 Years MSP 258 AFR 16% IFR 0.2% 1YR 5 5YR 69 Max Repair 100 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 24 months Spare Berths 1
MAN NT CE-62 (1) Power 62.5 Fuel Use 13.26% Signature 62.5 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 130,000 Litres Range 72.0 billion km (658 days at full power)
NorTEL Civ IR Telescope (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 5m km
Gravitational Survey Sensors (2) 2 Survey Points Per Hour
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
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AD 2259 The Upholder's survey of the Oort cloud region find several possible mining sites at the edge of the Sol system 2004 NT33 that very rich in Duranium (65,000 Availablity 0.9) asteroid sees the establishement of a CMC the Nothern Coalition government soon after settles an agreement where all minerals produced are purchaced for the sole use of the government. The Upholder is back at Earth for resupply and crew R&R and the vast bulk of system bodies had been surveyed. In desperation the Upholder was sent to to survey several comets currently at perhilion and hit paydirt as most were found to be very rich in resources. Another CMC was established on the comet "Enecke" which has: 36K Duranium (1) and 66K Neutronium ( 0.8 ) plus lesser amounts of Solarium, Uridium and Corundum. Using up the bulk of the readily available Duranium 3 mass drivers were constructed and 2 were sent via civillian contract to the two mining complexes. Soon afterward minerals began arriving on a weekly interval from them at Earth.
AD 2259 The Protecteur class is refit to function as auxillaries to support intersteller exploration and a second vessel the "Pius Antonius" is laid down.
--- Code: ---Protecteur Mod1 class Tanker 2,200 tons 36 Crew 147.625 BP TCS 44 TH 62 EM 0
1409 km/s Armour 1-15 Shields 0-0 Sensors 5/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 3 PPV 0
Maint Life 42.22 Years MSP 1126 AFR 12% IFR 0.2% 1YR 1 5YR 19 Max Repair 15.625 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months Spare Berths 1
MAN NT CE-62 (1) Power 62.5 Fuel Use 13.26% Signature 62.5 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 200,000 Litres Range 123.4 billion km (1013 days at full power)
NorTEL Civ IR Telescope (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 5m km
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
--- End code ---
AD 226_ The Oberon's finish their survey of Sol and 7 jump points are found. Two of them lie near the orbit of Jupiter and are set as the priority survey targets.
AD 2260 With the sucessful development of the Saab jump engines the first two of the Scientific Survey Vessels of the Amundson class are laid down.
AD 2261 The first jump capable vessel is built at Victoria-Esquimalt. The Lief Erikson is followed soon by the Yuri Gagarin.
--- Code: ---Amundson class Science Vessel 3000 tons 87 Crew 444 BP TCS 60 TH 75 EM 0
1250 km/s JR 3-50 Armour 1-18 Shields 0-0 Sensors 5/1/1/1 Damage Control 3 PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 10% IFR: 0.1% Maintenance Capacity 278 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months Spare Berths 0
Saab JX3-60 Max Ship Size 3000 tons Distance 50k km Squadron Size 3
Rolls Royce NT E-M25 (3) Power 25 Fuel Use 95% Armour 0 Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 350,000 Litres Range 22.1 billion km (204 days at full power)
NorTEL Civ IR Telescope (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Signature 1000: 5m km
Gravitational Survey Sensors (1) 1 Survey Points
Geological Survey Sensors (1) 1 Survey Points
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
--- End code ---
AD 2261 The Hvitkarrson Carrier Ltd firm is founded and recieves no subsidization by the Northern Coalition government.
AD 2261 The first transits of the Lief Erikson at Jump Point 1 and Yuri Gagarin at Jump Point 2 are completed. JP1 leads to Lalande 21185, while JP2 leads to Wolf 359. Lalande 21185 is Type M star orbited by a dwarf planet. Wolf 359 is a different story. It is also a Type M star but it is orbited by two terrestial worlds, the second of which boasting an Oxygen-Nitrogen Atmosphere and water. A gas giant, two super jovians and two dwarf planets complete the main part of the system. The innermost terrestrial planet is orbited by no less than 6 wrecks of unknown origin: 4x 8950 tons, a 17900 ton and massive 67300 ton wreck.
AD 2261 (June) Dr. Ellen Allan has completed research into Advanced Computer Systems (Research Rate 240 RP) her team begin researching improved mining technologies
[ooc]Officer Rules:
I used the following rules for my Naval Officers. R1 are retired if in January or July the officer is 50 years old (this represents standard retirement), or their health status is less than Good (this represents a medical downcheck). R2 are retired at the age of 55 or else if their health is fair. R3 and R4 are retired at the age of 60 or if their health is poor. They serve 24 month tours except for the commander of the Navy (R4) who holds the position until retirement.
I use the following rules for my Ground Force Officers. R1 and R2 use the same logic as navy. Tours of R1 officers are 24 months but the R2 officers are permanently assigned to one of the Armoured Divisions.
I use the following rules for my Administrators. They are retired at age 65. They are assigned to positions until changed.
I use the following rules for my Scientists. They are retired at age 65. [/ooc]
Paul M:
[ooc]I have modified a few details (or many details depending on when you looked at the previous post) of the previous post as I have the log file for reference. So you may want to look it over again[/ooc]
The Duranium Crisis
It actually started as an equally troubling Neutronium Crisis, as that TN mineral was exhausted first and outside of the essentially limitless (millions of tons) but exceptionally difficult to mine (Availablilty 0.1) known reserve on Venus the Sol system seemed bare of it. This put a break on expansion of research institutes, and shipyards two things the Northern Coalition wanted and needed. But the real crunch hit as the last easily minable Duranium was extracted from Earth. Looking at their supply (>5000 tons) it was clear that while a massive conversion to automatic mines was possible (some 150 mines exist on earth at this point) and Venus or several smaller asteroids had reserves the conversion of the mines was impossible and the 50 or so that could be converted would produce 600 tons per year but would take 6.25 years to repay the investment in them. This was a case of digging the hole deeper to get out on the tailings. Alternative to this was to find a place were the existing mines could be used. Venus as it turned out, though the hope was eventually people would be freed up, was a no go until Terraforming ships were developed the planet would remain only barely habitable. That meant another star system. This would cost the bulk of the Norther Coalitions remaining Duranium as they would need 4 Bauxite class Heavy Transports, 2 Colussus class Jump Freighters, and 2 or more Amundson class science vessels. It was a riskier plan but clearly the pay off for getting their exisiting mines onto a world was better than the other plan. The debate raged as no one knew how likely it was to find another habitable world. Easing the pressure was the discovery of plentiful resources in the Oort cloud and on several comets, more importantly the formation of civilian mining consortiums that added around 200 tons of Duranium to the production per year and almost of equal importance around 100 tons of neutronium a mineral in short supply still. 10 new Automatic mines were build and 40 regular mines were converted as the Duranium supply dipped lower and lower.
Northern Coalition Ground Combat Branch
The basic organization of the GCB is based on Corps of 1 Armoured and 2 Infantry Divisons. I Corps and II Corps are in North America while III Corps is based in England. Due to the Neutronium and Duranium shortages there has been little incentive to upgrade or build new formations. Currently the GCB is understrength in terms of leadership with only 2 Brigadier-Generals available to command the three Corps.
AD 2261 In May Interstellar Survey I (Lalande 21185) and in June Interstellar Survey II (Wolf 359) both find new jump points after surveying the inner 6 locations.
AD 2261 Interstellar Survey II proceeds insystem to perform Geological survey on the outerplanets finding:
in July Wolf 359-A IV: Sorium 384,000 (0.3);
in August Wolf 359-A IV - Moon 10: Corbomite 7,056 (1) Tritanium 6,889 (1) Mercassium 6,241 (1) Uridium 529 (1) Corundium 1,521 (1);
in September Wolf 359-A V - Moon 4: Duran 9,539,712 (0.4) Neut 1,254,400 (0.4) Trit 1,016,064 (0.6) Boron 1,731,856 (0.1) Merc 4,648,336 (0.9) Urid 4,177,936 (0.4) Gall 2,547,216 (0.4);
in October Wolf 359-A V - Moon 9: Duranium 1,480 (1) Boronide 973 (1) Uridium 2,153 (1);
in November Wolf 359-A V - Moon 16: Duranium 9,348,488 (0.3) Vendarite 20,358,140 ( 0.8 )
The Gagarin Incident
November 28, 2261 the Yuri Gagarin slowly orbits Wolf 359 A-V, her CO Cpt Elise Sharpe stared at the computer screen infront of her. What she saw was not new, the Yuri Gagarin had been in Wolf 359 for well over 6 months now, surveying first the inner system survey locations finding 2 new jump points and then the outer planets while the prize sat before her. But this prize had a catch to it, a big one. Wolf 359 A's innermost planets were both terrestrial. The innermost one was not that much different than Venus in terms of welcoming but the next...oh the next was almost identical to Earth. It would require terraforming true but it had a reasonabl atmosphere, it had water, and it had a welcoming temperature. Yet for 6 months the Yuri Gagarin had stooged around in the outer system because orbiting the innermost world were 6 wrecks, the smallest of which outmassed the CN Science Vessel by almost a factor of 3 and the largest was the equivelent of the largest commercial haulers known. It looked like an escorted colony force in fact. The Yuri Gagarin mounted no miltary sensors and relied on its 10 cm IR telescope for detection and so far they had detected nothing from either of the planets.
The Wolf 359 system was rich and a habitable world was exactly what the Northern Coalition needed not to mention who knew what technology might be salvagable from the wrecks. Yet they were wrecks...and the Yuri Gagarin mounted neither weapons nor defences it was a science vessel. Elise ran her hands throgh her close cropped hair then drummed her fingers on the desk. "Ah hell...make er big or sleep in the streets." she sighs and activates the intercom, "Bridge this is the captain, have navigation work up a course to take us to II." The planet with its 6 enigmatic wrecks was pulling ahead and this was her best chance to sneak in to survey the tempting blue green world.
02:12:36 December 5, 2261
The Yuri Gagarin was proceeding on course. It was official ships night, when suddenly Elise was hurled into her support mesh and back against the padding of her bunk. Her hand fumbled for the light as her body woke abruptly from a deep sleep. "Captain! Captain!" Her intercom sounded as did the ships emergancy siren. Her eyes could barely focus as she tried to untangle herself from the mesh that had saved her life. "Captain! RESPOND!" She forced her eyes to focus and hit the intercom switch on the third attempt. 'Concussed for sure.' "Here...I'm here...what is..." "Captain. Neutron Counter went through the roof." 'Atomic weapon.' She blinked and her voice was slured. "Helm, one hundred eighty degree relative...yaw. Have nav plot for lagrange point." "Aye captain! Yaw one hundred eighty relative." She threw up over herself as the ship began the manuever her inner ears protesting. "On..my...way, Captain out."
[ooc]5th December 2261 02:13:36,Wolf 359,5 damage absorbed by armour.
5th December 2261 02:13:36,Wolf 359,Geological Survey Sensors destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 1 points of damage. 7 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:13:36,Wolf 359,Rolls Royce NT E-M25 destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 2 points of damage. 2 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:13:36,Wolf 359,Rolls Royce NT E-M25 destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 1 points of damage. 3 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:13:36,Wolf 359,Strength 9 Nuclear Detonation x1 detected![/ooc]
02:14:01 December 5, 2261
Elise struggled to get the door to open and she wobbled down the corridor to the bridge when the ship shuddered again and she was pummeled by the corridor walls her hands raised to protect her head. "Oh God..." If her stomach had had anything left in it she would have thrown up as the ship stabilized, emergancy warning were blaring in her ears as she forced herself to her feet and down the corridor and onto the bridge. "Oh my God Captain." Stan Waldeck, the helmsmen could not stop his shocked utterence, as he saw his CO wearing a t-shirt and panties and covered in blood and vomit stagger into the bridge and then into the command chair. "Status?" Elise could barely think. She could see the ship display flashing, each flash cause her eyes to water and made her even more sick. "Engine 1 and 2 are out. Sections open to space. Jump engine compartment not responding." Steven Harpo, the assistant engineer replied. 'Oh shi...'
[ooc]5th December 2261 02:14:01,Wolf 359,5 damage absorbed by armour.
5th December 2261 02:14:01,Wolf 359,Crew Quarters destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 1 points of damage. 0 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:14:01,Wolf 359,Saab JX3-60 destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 3 points of damage. 21 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:14:01,Wolf 359,Strength 9 Nuclear Detonation x1 detected!
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02:14:36 December 5, 2261
The ship tumbled suddenly all lights going out and then the emegancy lighting kicking in. "Engines out...MHD loop down!" Elise's head bashed the padding and she saw stars litterally and slumped forward. The two men fared better as the force of the detonation twisted the ships structure and fuel burst out of the tanks starting a spin. "Gotta get to the life pods!" Harpo's voice was shriller now as his hands hammered on his release, "We're dead in space." "The Captain!" Stan said as he felt her pulse, which was weak but present. "Screw that!" Steve was out of the bridge pushing off and diving through the open hatch. "Damn you!" Stan unbuckled the captain and held her close then pushed off heading for the door outlined by its emergancy lights. The ship was in total chaos as most of the crew had been off duty and those that could tried to make it for the life pods.
[ooc]5th December 2261 02:14:36,Wolf 359,4 damage absorbed by armour.
5th December 2261 02:14:36,Wolf 359,Rolls Royce NT E-M25 destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 2 points of damage. 1 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:14:36,Wolf 359,Crew Quarters destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 1 points of damage. 0 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:14:36,Wolf 359,Fuel Storage destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 1 points of damage. 0 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:14:36,Wolf 359,Crew Quarters destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 1 points of damage. 0 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:14:36,Wolf 359,Interstellar Survey II slowed to 1 km/s due to damage to Yuri Gagarin.
5th December 2261 02:14:36,Wolf 359,Strength 9 Nuclear Detonation x1 detected![/ooc]
02:15:01 December 5, 2261
The flash blinded the one crewman unfortunate enough to be looking through the life pods window as its thrurster moved it away from the ship. The Yuri Gagarin and most of her crew died as the plasma shock front struck the ship and structures collapsed turning the once elegant vessel into a crumpled mass of steel frames and then the fuel tanks ruptured and a cloud of fuel surrounded the remanents of the ship. As the fuel dispersed visible was a halo of slower moving debrie spreading out from the ship.
[ooc]5th December 2261 02:15:01,Wolf 359,1 damage absorbed by armour.
5th December 2261 02:15:01,Wolf 359,Engineering Spaces destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 1 points of damage. 1 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:15:01,Wolf 359,Fuel Storage destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 1 points of damage. 0 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:15:01,Wolf 359,Gravitational Survey Sensors destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 1 points of damage. 4 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:15:01,Wolf 359,Fuel Storage destroyed on Yuri Gagarin after receiving 1 points of damage. 0 Casualties.
5th December 2261 02:15:01,Wolf 359,Yuri Gagarin suffers complete structural failure due to the amount of damage it has received. The ship is destroyed.[/ooc]
An hour later, Lt. Commander Bailey Austin knew that he was senior officer of the survivors all 37 of them that had managed to reach life pods. They had 15 days of supplies and in that time he knew nothing human could reach them.
[ooc]I'm not actually sure how the NC would find out about this. All they would know is that the Yuri Gagarin were overdue, and then eventually they would have to send another SV to check and spot the wreck. But I sort of cheated a bit on my response and put another 2 science vessels into the queue. As it turns out they were developing military technology but this made it more pressing.[/ooc]
AD 2261 (December 24) Interstellar Survey I transits the jump point in Lalande 21185 and finds the AD Leonis system.
AD 2262 (January 13) Alpha and Beta Grav Survey's complete the survey of Lalande 21185.
AD 2262 May The Lief Erikson investigates Wolf 359 and discovers the wreck of the Yuri Gagarin but sees no life pods and due to low fuel must return to Earth.
AD 2262 June The Lief Erikson's crew completes shore leave and rejoins the ship with the ship completing her overhaul on August 2nd.
AD 2263 The Lief Erikson is again in the AD Leonis system. In January minerals are found on AD Leonis-A II: Sorium 17,973,900 (1); in February minearals are revealed on AD Leonis-A I: Duranium 2,012,018 (0.9) Uridium 17,547,720 (0.1) Corundium 1,684,804 (0.1). But with no habitable worlds the system has a low priority for exploitation.
AD 2263 (Feb 10) The Henry Hudson, an Amundson class Science Vessel, is commissioned at Victoria-Esquimalt Graving Dock. Its first mission is to explore Sol JP3.
AD 2263 (March 21) The Henry Hudson transits Sol JP3 and discoveres Alpha Centauri. The system boast no less than 3 possible candidate worlds for easy colonizatation.
AD 2263 (April 19) Initial survey efforts by the Henry Hudson find a jump point in Alpha Centauri.
AD 2263 (April 29) Retooling for Colossus class completed at Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. on Earth with the first of the class being laid down the day after.
Paul M:
[ooc]AAR and game time is catching up with each other. The Duranium crisis I have to say really put things into slow motion. The CMC's though will eventually pull the NC out of it as they expand for free available resources. This is just a short update of things that happened up to early 2263. The time 2263-2265 is largely one of exploration as the 4 Amundson's push back the frontier looking for that elusive new Earth with plentiful resources.[/ooc]
Official Response to the Gagarin Incident
The initial reaction to the loss of the Yuri Gagarin was one of shock and anger, with the desire to mount a military response and the equally strong fear of a sudden alien invasion of Sol. Thankfully two older ICBM bases had been modernized so Earth had defences but equally so the development of shipborn military hardware still had a long way to go. Sensor's, weapons, mounts etc were still undeveloped and the critical state of the duranium level on earth meant that refitting the V-EGY to build military ships would be nearly impossible. The response forced on the Navy was to do nothing, but when no alien's showed up at the Sol JP to Wolf 359 it became at least clear that the aliens were either incabable or uninterested in pursuit. As the duranium situation stabilized it became clear that a response would be possible likely no earlier than 2264 to 2266. By that time sufficient duranium could be accumulated to allow for the creation of a small force to return to Wolf 359. There was considerable argumentation that this would cost precious duranium that could be better used building new automatic mines but the Navy pointed out that Sol was essentially defenceless at the moment and that regardless military ships were needed. After considerable debate it was agreed that the first chance to do so a military expedition would be mounted to investigate Wolf 359. But at least in early 2262 that appeared to be considerably long down the road.
The period 2261-2263 was one of considerable development of specific systems primarily for warships rather than broad based basic research, although 50% of the research facilities were devoted to improving mining technologies.
AD 2261 (August 18) Dr. Ellen Dawson's team has completed research into CANDU HW 6MW reactor
AD 2261 (August 18) Dr. Lauren Wheeler's team has completed research into TorAr Goaltender Laser Array
AD 2261 (September 23) Dr. Harry Wilkins's team has completed research into Nordion Buckler CM Launch System
AD 2262 (January 11) Dr. Jessica Gough's team has completed research into Grumman SCMFC 52-50
AD 2262 (February 28) Dr. Harry Wilkins's team has completed research into Nordion Arbalist ASM Launch System
AD 2262 (August 11) Dr. Jessica Gough's team has completed research into Seimens SSS 53-3000
AD 2262 (August 16) Dr. Harry Wilkins's team has completed research into Boeing SBMAG
AD 2263 (February 30) Dr. Jessica Gough's team has completed research into Telus ASMFC 53-1000
AD 2263 (February 30) Research into Beam Fire Control Range 10,000 km has commenced on Earth
AD 2262 In Feburary the Amethyst and in July the Diamond (both Bauxite class freighters) are built and assigned to the two Hvy Transport TGs. These ships are the key lift component to future settlements outside of Sol.
AD 2262 (March 8 ) The Governor of Minerva, an automated mining facility that produced the bulk of humanities neutronium at time, Civilian Administrator Brooke Hanson developed a severe medical problem that has forced him to retire.
By the time the 3rd Amundson was commissioned it was clear that more Oberon's and Protecteur's were needed but with the cost of a modification to the yards considerable the two in existance of each class were forced to soldier on. The Oberon's in particular were valuable ships, capable of extended mission times they could be droped off by the Amundson and spend considerable time surveying the outer areas of a system. It was also quickly realized that more efficient would be to include an Upholder making a survey group four ships.
(more to come)
Paul M:
[ooc]This update covers April 2263 to early October 2264. I have to say that the duranium and neutronium deficit had a huge effect on the game slowing things down to a real crawl, 6 research labs also make things move at a snails pace. This period of time was focused mainly on finding a habitable world to colonize.[/ooc]
AD 2263 (April 19) New Jump Point found in the Alpha Centauri System but left un probed.
Survey of Alpha Centauri takes considerable time but is eventually completed:
AD 2263 (May) Minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-A VII: Sorium 333,000 (0.3) and minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-A VII - Moon 1: Corbomite 467 (1) Boronide 3,387 (1) Gallicite 2,852 (1)
AD 2263 (June) Minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-A VII - Moon 8: Boronide 9,604 (1) Vendarite 442,225 (0.7) Uridium 3,136 (0.9) Gallicite 132,496 (0.9)
AD 2263 (August) Minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-A VI: Duranium 160,921,800 (0.1) Tritanium 37,332,100 (0.1) Boronide 14,212,900 (0.1) Uridium 18,404,100 (0.1) and minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-A V: Sorium 1,624,000 (1)
AD 2263 (September) Minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-A III: Duran 4,333,568 (0.8 ) Neut 1,440,000 (0.6) Corb 1,081,600 (0.9) Trit 665,856 (0.4) Boron 1,597,696 (1) Merc 1,401,856 (0.3) Sorium 719,104 (0.8 ) Urid 589,824 (0.5) Gall 25,600 (0.8 )
AD 2263 (October) Minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-A II: Duran 20,995,200 (0.9) Neut 104,976 (0.3) Trit 29,160,000 (0.1) Boron 20,088,320 (0.9) Merc 1,052,676 (0.1) Vend 352,836 (0.1) Corun 5,143,824 (0.1)
AD 2263 (December) Minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-B III: Duranium 28,155,010 (0.5) Neutronium 4,064,256 (0.1) Corbomite 8,479,744 (0.1) Sorium 28,224 (0.1) Uridium 7,840,000 (0.1) Corundium 8,156,736 (0.1) and minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-B II: Duran 344,450 (0.9) Corb 93,025 (0.8 ) Trit 172,225 (0.9) Boron 25 (0.9) Vend 9,025 (0.8 ) Sorium 112,225 (1) Urid 4,225 (0.8 ) Gall 13,225 (0.8 )
AD 2264 (February) Minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-B IV: Sorium 1,883,700 (0.3)
AD 2264 (March) Minerals discovered on Alpha Centauri-B IV - Moon 12: Tritanium 1,476,225 (0.1) Mercassium 385,641 (0.6)
During this time period a complete gravitational survey of the AD Leonis system is undertaken and the following new jump points are found:
AD 2263 (June 5) An exploration of a jump point in the AD Leonis system has revealed the new system of Wolf 358
AD 2263 (June 25) An exploration of a jump point in the AD Leonis system has revealed the new system of Gliese 408
AD 2263 (December 17) New Jump Point found in the AD Leonis System
AD 2264 (August) Gravitational Survey is completed in the AD Leonis system; the system is found to have a total of 4 jump points.
AD 2263 (December 3) Based on the finding of a terrestrial type world in the Gliese 408 system (Gliese 408 II) an immediate survey gives the following result for the geological survey: Corbomite 29,116,820 (0.1) Vendarite 283,024 (0.8 ) Gallicite 19,430,460 (0.1).
The Wolf 358 system has no easily habitable worlds but a survey of its inner system is done anyway.
AD 2264 (February) Minerals Discovered on Wolf 358-A I: Duran 35,549,310 (0.6) Neut 36,626,700 (0.1) Corb 18,939,900 (0.1) Trit 4,443,664 (0.1) Boron 30,338,060 (0.1) Merc 39,992,980 (0.1) Sorium 7,398,400 (0.1) Urid 10,214,420 (0.1) Corun 9,363,600 (0.2) Gall 3,37
AD 2264 (March) Minerals Discovered on Wolf 358-A IV: Sorium 590,000 (1)
AD 2264 (May) Minerals Discovered on Wolf 358-A V: Sorium 603,000 (0.4)
AD 2264 (July) Minerals Discovered on Wolf 358-A V - Moon 1: Corbomite 79,524 (0.1) Gallicite 16,337,760 (0.1), minerals discovered on Wolf 358-A V - Moon 3: Neutronium 162,409 (0.6) Corbomite 132,496 (0.5) Sorium 162,409 (0.5) and minerals discovered on Wolf 358-A V - Moon 10: Corbomite 127,449 (0.7)
The results from the survey's are used to determine the target for the first extra-solar colony. The four contenders are Gliese 408 II, Alpha Centauri A-III, A-VI and B-III. The requirement is the presence of Duranium and Neutronium. The lack of either removes the candidate world in Gliese 408 from the list and the lack of neutronium removes Alpha-Centauri A-VI. Although Alpha Centauri B-III is a better colonization prospect as it is much closer to earth norms in gravity, and has water and an atmosphere that could be modified to be more suitable the better mineral wealth of A-III is the deciding factor.
Alpha Centauri A-III (renamed Faewald) is a dwarf planet orbiting at 84 million km from its sun, it is tide locked and has no atmospher or water. It has a gravity of 0.37G and a surface temperature of 110 C. It has a year 152 days long. It posseses an axial tilt of 32° but has no season due to the tide lock. It has a magnetic field and and albedo of 1.13. The first colony will have to be built underground. But it will be an ideal place to expand from and it posses a significant amount of mineral wealth.
In Sol, the Duranium Crisis has blocked most construction outside of the conversion of mines to teleoperated. Still the Upholder continues to survey the fringes of the system.
AD 2263 (July) The civilian mining colony on Encke has been expanded to 2 civilian mining complexes, this is a major improvement in both Duranium and Neutronium production.
AD 2263 (September) Minerals discovered on 2001 KC77: Duranium 13,122 (1) Neutronium 2,500 (1) Corbomite 4,356 (1) Vendarite 4 (1) Gallicite 2,809 (1) This is a significant find and it is decided to relocate the mines from Hesperia here when the neutronium on that asteroid is exhausted. A mass driver is constructed as sending a ship out to this Oort cloud object is not a viable option.
AD 2263 (October) The Thor Heyerdahl (Amundson class) is built on Earth. This gives the NC Navy three Amundson's for exploration purposes.
AD 2264 (January) Dr. Lucas Watkins' team has completed research into Mobile Infantry Battalion and begins research into the Troop Transport Bay
AD 2264 (February) Dr. Ellen Allan's team, using fully half the available research centre capacity, has completed research into Improved Mining Techniques (Production 14 tons/year) and begins research into Advanced Construction Enginering (Construction Rate 12 BP). The increase in mining efficiency is a further boost to Duranium and Neutronium production.
AD 2264 (May) The Colossus (Colossus class) is built on Earth and together with the Bauxite and Amathyst are formed into Interstellar Colonization Group I (SO Cmnd. Isabella Griffin). 20,000 volunteers and a full load of colonial infrastructure is loaded into the three ships and they set off on their nearly year long journey to Faewald. A second ship in the class the Titanic is started immediately.
AD 2264 (October) The civilian mining colony on 2004 NT33 has been expanded to 2 civilian mining complexes, this further expands the available supply of Duranium.
--- Code: ---Colossus class Jump Freighter 29,900 tons 165 Crew 637.25 BP TCS 598 TH 125 EM 0
209 km/s JR 2-25(C) Armour 1-85 Shields 0-0 Sensors 5/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 6 PPV 0
MSP 80 Max Repair 55 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 24 months Spare Berths 1
Cargo 10000 Cryogenic Berths 20000 Cargo Handling Multiplier 20
Saab CJX 3-600 Max Ship Size 30000 tons Distance 25k km Squadron Size 2
MAN NT CE-62 (2) Power 62.5 Fuel Use 13.26% Signature 62.5 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 250,000 Litres Range 11.3 billion km (628 days at full power)
NorTEL Civ IR Telescope (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 5m km
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
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