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

[OAM47]

It took roughly 4-5 months.  I don't have tractor technology, as I'm only at "Generation 1" ship technology.  In fact, the class of ship that got sucked in is my fasted ship 

[sloanjh]

I might do just that.  The thing is, the difference is only -500, so the death is agonizingly slow (in fact, technically he hasn't died yet).  In fact, my next designed ship will probably be enough to tackle the system.

There was a Poul Anderson short story about this (getting stuck in the event horizon of a black hole and taking forever to die) - don't remember the title

John

[Atlantia]

Welp, I found some NPRs who spawned on a weird planet. Namely, this planet has all 11 minerals, yet the game is telling me it's a gas giant. I was wondering why I hadn't been able to find their homeworld...

So now I'm allied with a race which is, for all intents and purposes, non-existent.

The good news is that one of the moons of their 'home planet' had a colony cost of 0!

[HaliRyan]

There was a Poul Anderson short story about this (getting stuck in the event horizon of a black hole and taking forever to die) - don't remember the title

John

Do you perhaps mean Frederik Pohl? Something similar happens in the novel Gateway.

[Erik L]

There was a Poul Anderson short story about this (getting stuck in the event horizon of a black hole and taking forever to die) - don't remember the title

John

Wasn't that the basis of the movie "The Black Hole"?

[chrislocke2000]

Wasn't that the basis of the movie "The Black Hole"?

Ah now that brings back some great childhood memories, what was the name of the beaten up floating robot the lead character got to fly around on?

[OAM47]

There was a Poul Anderson short story about this (getting stuck in the event horizon of a black hole and taking forever to die) - don't remember the title

John

I vaguely remember that.  But anywho, last night the ship was finally lost.  April 4th 2044 entered system, August 10th finally destroyed.

[Zed 6]

Ah now that brings back some great childhood memories, what was the name of the beaten up floating robot the lead character got to fly around on?

V.I.N.CENT, Old B.O.B. and Maximillian were the robots.

[Person012345]

The commission of the first Dwarf class mining ship.

[Atlantia]

The commission of the first Dwarf class mining ship.

I hope it menaces with spikes of Duranium and is adorned with hanging rings of Corbomite!

[scoopdjm]

Attention! Person012345 has created masterpiece!

[Thiosk]

I read that post earlier and didn't get the significance at all.

I see what I missed, now.  Bravo!

[Waffles]

Aw yeah, I sure do love thinking Im putting the finishing touches on my ships until I realize I forgot to make a jump drive. Atleast I didn't start retooling the ship yards yet, so no harm done there. Also, I thought about putting shields and the scout frigates, but they aren't really worth it yet.

[sloanjh]

Do you perhaps mean Frederik Pohl? Something similar happens in the novel Gateway.

Nope, "Kyrie" by Anderson.

John

[blue emu]

What's going on in my empire?

I've just figured out how to use a 1,000-ton FAC to tow a 16,000-ton Heavy Cruiser at 55,470 kps (that's 18.5% of light-speed).



I'm working out some new battle-tactics now. I suspect that this technique will be handy for Beam combat.