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

[dgibso29]

68,000 tons? I'd imagine she's (or should I say he's?) fully functional and battle worthy.

[Marski]

68,000 tons? I'd imagine she's (or should I say he's?) fully functional and battle worthy.

I really hope that 5.7 offers us provisions for absurdly sized military craft without needing to game the system.

Your Kirov I, is it a functional bit of hardware or just RP fun?

Oh I actually meant 66000 tons, my bad. But yeah, see for yourself

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Kirov class Battlecruiser 66000 tons     7556 Crew     27313.25 BP      TCS 1320  TH 750  EM 0
7102 km/s    JR 3-50     Armour 9-145     Shields 0-0     Sensors 24/1/0/0     Damage Control 287     PPV 355.68
Annual Failure Rate: 366%    IFR: 5.1%    Maintenance Capacity 50958 MSP
Flag Bridge    Magazine 3001  

J66000(3-50) Military Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 66000 tons    Distance 50k km     Squadron Size 3
M-Class Pokrovsky Fusion Drive - 1000 (50)    Power 187.5    Fuel Use 60%    Armour 0    Exp 35%
Fuel Capacity 1 000 000 Litres    Range 45.5 billion km   (74 days at full power)

AKM-850M10 (8x12)    Range 1000 km     TS: 32000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Twin 600mm G.C. M3 Turret (4x12)    Range 60 000km     TS: 7000 km/s     Power 0-0     RM 6    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Turret Firecontrol T9K R60K (2)    Max Range: 120 000 km   TS: 9375 km/s     92 83 75 67 58 50 42 33 25 17

Size 9 Missile Launcher (30)    Missile Size 9    Rate of Fire 40
"Tor" MT-2 Missile System (8)    Missile Size 1    Rate of Fire 5
MFC-48 (2)     Range 138.2m km    Resolution 16
PD-3 Missile launch control (4)     Range 17.3m km    Resolution 1
OSA-CA (148)  Speed: 89 600 km/s   End: 7.8m    Range: 42m km   WH: 1    Size: 1    TH: 1344 / 806 / 403
Chaser - V (317)  Speed: 62 200 km/s   End: 26.8m    Range: 100m km   WH: 20    Size: 9    TH: 642 / 385 / 192

Thermal Sensor TH1-24 (1)     Sensitivity 24     Detect Signature 1000: 24m km
Nikolai Radar System MR460-R100 (1)     GPS 19200     Range 460.8m km     Resolution 100
RS-3 Radar system (1)     GPS 132     Range 31.7m km     Resolution 1

ECCM-4 (4)         ECM 40

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
The upgraded version Kirov II is faster with 5 more launchers, and weights 2000 tons more. Just had a battle against 8 ships consisting of 1000 ton and 6000 ton ships. Well, not really, you can't call a total slaughter a battle. My two Kirovs sort of looked at the general direction of the enemies and they turned to dust.

[Erik L]

Just got a civilian administrator. Porfirio Blood. His abilities are blah, but he's got a sweet name.

[xeryon]

I just scrapped a conventional start game (could have used SM to save it a guess)  Small system with 5 planets, three were habitable range and two were gas giants with umteen moons.  Probably around 100 celestial bodies without counting roids.  Grand sum total of corundium in the entire system was 20k.  After scanning the entire system and finding just three additional bodies with ANY minerals on them I threw in the towel.  Just didn't have the motivation.

[Redshirt]

Playing a small game- 75 systems max. Just finished exploring most of the known universe (one system left unsurveyed.) Found an entire intact city as ruins (1169 installations, that's going to take a while to recover) and decided to turn on Invaders. We'll see what happens now...

One of these days my other concept campaign may get off the ground, too- "25 Systems... of Terror!" Known star systems, 25 max, with 3 nprs to start with. Things should get interesting quickly.

[Ektoras]

One of these days my other concept campaign may get off the ground, too- "25 Systems... of Terror!" Known star systems, 25 max, with 3 nprs to start with. Things should get interesting quickly.

Intersting concept, i think i will try it. Conventional start? You will try to be peaceful and diplomatic?

[TheDeadlyShoe]

@Xeryon - it's pretty much simplicity itself to re-roll the entire sysems minerals with SM. That's too bad, sounded like an awesome system.

[Person012345]

The game I'm currently in I set max systems to 10 and had 2 starting NPR's, a computer generated one and humans that I set on earth manually.

Although for some reason the game currently has significantly more than 10 systems.

[xeryon]

@TheShoe: I know I could have modified the system.  It just saddened me to see the natural distribution of minerals was so low.  I was only half heartedly playing while waiting for 5.7, now I'm hooked on that blasted Rigellian Diary.  I hope I get it finished before Steve is done with 5.7...

[Redshirt]

Intersting concept, i think i will try it. Conventional start? You will try to be peaceful and diplomatic?

You can, if you want. Concept's up for grabs, play how you like.

My backstory is Earth's first contact, in 2020, is a heavily damaged, massive space craft which jumped in system. It's followed by a second craft that open fires on the first. The light show sets off a panic on Sol, as humanity realizes they are completely outclassed. The first ship destroys the second. It then transmits a ton of technical data to Earth, which we start decoding- jump point theory, trans-newtonian metallurgy, even spaceship designs. However, the first ship is dying- heavily damaged and cut off from home, no fuel, no maintenance supplies, no way to repair. After a month of sending nothing but tech specs, they send a single message: "They're coming. Be ready." The ship's engines suffer a containment failure, and the ship explodes.

Earth's population, terrified, unites against the common perceived threat, and begins to construct the new technology. Game starts 5 years after first contact...

[HaliRyan]

The game I'm currently in I set max systems to 10 and had 2 starting NPR's, a computer generated one and humans that I set on earth manually.

Although for some reason the game currently has significantly more than 10 systems.

I might be wrong on this, but I seem to remember that if you use real stars the limit doesn't apply.

[Person012345]

I might be wrong on this, but I seem to remember that if you use real stars the limit doesn't apply.

I didn't

[Marski]

Tried a game as Soviet Union

First system jump in late 39, encountered a huge ship. Destroyed both Geosurvey ships, and followed my jump cruiser into sol.
What followed was a desperate uphill battle, the ship was a 60 000 ton swarmer carrier with shields and whatnot. And ridiculous compliment of FAC's. It moved on to destroy everything it saw, which included all the civilian constructions. I managed to hide my freighter and colonization fleets in the asteroid field. Eventually earth itself was invaded, and in the war that lasted a year my ground forces fought tooth and nail against the overwhelming forces.

And after the last bastion of resistance was wiped out from the face of the motherland, the scorched earth protocol was put on effect. Every missile silo on earth launched their ordinance at the remaining alien ground forces, and the nuclear bombardment not only wiped them out, but caused massive radiation and dust levels to block out the sun.

My victory was short lived when the radar systems on earth detected another massive fleet of FAC's incoming.

At that point I figured out it was good time to give up and start a new game

[madmarcus]

92 moons and planets in one system.  3 with minerals and one of those is a gas giant with 300,000 Sorium.

[Erik L]

92 moons and planets in one system.  3 with minerals and one of those is a gas giant with 300,000 Sorium.

That's actually fairly low for a gas giant.