Cold Sun - Discussion

[Bughunter]

If you see you will end up last in the race for jump points anyway maybe a stay in Sol strategy could be an option, at least until you have built up a military and decided which of the other nations jump points you like the most 

[Marski]

If you see you will end up last in the race for jump points anyway maybe a stay in Sol strategy could be an option, at least until you have built up a military and decided which of the other nations jump points you like the most 

Or take the patrician route;

Go down with the frakking ship and take everyone with you

[The Forbidden (OP)]

If you see you will end up last in the race for jump points anyway maybe a stay in Sol strategy could be an option, at least until you have built up a military and decided which of the other nations jump points you like the most 

Or take the patrician route;

Go down with the frakking ship and take everyone with you

That's Asian Confederacu tactics right here.

[Marski]

If you see you will end up last in the race for jump points anyway maybe a stay in Sol strategy could be an option, at least until you have built up a military and decided which of the other nations jump points you like the most 

Or take the patrician route;

Go down with the frakking ship and take everyone with you

That's Asian Confederacu tactics right here.

Yeah yeah, "muh samurai" meme and all that

[Garfunkel]

Now the big question is, will there be fight over the real estate in Alpha Centauri or will the other neighbouring systems be as promising.

[JakeLoustone]

Now the big question is, will there be fight over the real estate in Alpha Centauri or will the other neighbouring systems be as promising.

I'm afraid Alpha Centauri will be fought over extensively. 

[Hazard]

Alpha Centauri A-II looks to be the most promising for immediate colonisation. Low cost, you see, it'd be a good staging ground while B-III gets prepped with Aesthusium and an oxygen component.

Also, a tidally locked gas giant? What's going on there.

[JustAnotherDude]

I'm hoping that this campaign gets some blood flowing. I'm curious about particle Lance's in particular, so I hope that at least one of our friendly neighborhood superpowers decides to try them

[Rabid_Cog]

If they'd found a colony cost 0 world with only space for 500 million people then yeah, I think we would have seen some fistfights. As it is, nothing in Alpha Centauri screams "MUST HAVE AT ALL COSTS". If nothing else comes up this close, sure. But this was only the first jump point. There should be quite a few more if one is found on the first grav survey point (statistically speaking). In fact, with all the terraforming requirements of these planets, the empires might need to end up cooperating to terraform that 14billion capacity planet. Plenty of space for the entire Earth on there.

[the obelisk]

The backstory for this campaign, excluding the sun cooling, is really close to the backstory for a campaign I started prepping for a while ago, but never played.  Main differences were nothing really happening in South America, India getting crippled by a serious epidemic, and thus not being a faction, with Japan being the country fighting proxy wars with China in SE Asia, and being it's own faction, and the EU having an overly poor relationship with NORAD, a combined version of modern IRL NORAD and what remained of NATO after the EU's unification.  Pretty funny seeing such a similar timeline.

[Marski]

Fairly sure that we won't see any real fighting until the exodus from Sol is complete, besides, think about it; the first colony is founded and one tries to claim it all for himself; everyone else will bunch up on him.

[Father Tim]

The wise polities will dump a colony on every marginally-habitable rock in Alpha Centauri while continuing to search for humanity's new 'forever' home.  The short-sighted ones will plant a single colony on a ColCost 2.00 location.

The dumb ones won't start moving people off Earth yet.

[The Forbidden (OP)]

If you see you will end up last in the race for jump points anyway maybe a stay in Sol strategy could be an option, at least until you have built up a military and decided which of the other nations jump points you like the most 

Or take the patrician route;

Go down with the frakking ship and take everyone with you

That's Asian Confederacu tactics right here.

Yeah yeah, "muh samurai" meme and all that

I was referring to another AAR made by Steve, not a meme.

[Bremen]

China seems to be doing pretty well so far. I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall.

[Rabid_Cog]

If I were the Russians I would start moving populations to every remotely viable.rock i can. This gets excess population off Earth, plays well with the media, stakes a claim and gives legitimacy to all those new colonies being established.

Basically its a win win. If you dont find a better colony, you have a head start on colonization. If you do, you have a valid claim to access and exploit the system still.