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Title: Preservation Campaign - Part 1
Post by: Steve Walmsley on November 26, 2006, 07:52:57 AM
Preservation Campaign

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Post by: Michael Sandy on November 26, 2006, 02:21:25 PM
I definitely agree with having the Jump Cruiser be the fuel tanker.  It costs fuel to move fuel, so having the Jump Cruiser stationary during the survey means less fuel consumption by the survey fleet.

I do think that a bulk fuel bunker would be a good system to have, like a Cargo Hold but for fuel.  It should be significantly cheaper and have fewer HtK.  Most ships would go with the smaller tank option because they don't need 10 HS worth of fuel bunkerage.

It appears that the actual fuel tank itself is going to be a major expense for tankers and Harvester ships.  I suppose you could have a colony on a gas giant's moon and just shuttle the refined fuel there when the Harvester fills up.
Title: Re: Preservation Campaign - Part 1
Post by: Shinanygnz on November 26, 2006, 03:28:22 PM
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Preservation Campaign

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11th January 1892
Agincourt returns from a journey through a second jump point and reports the discovery of a planetless system with a G5-V primary. The new system is named Manchester and, based on my own experiences of the delights of that northern city, giving its name to a planetless system seems surprisingly apt.

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7th February 1893
Agincourt reports that the survey of Liverpool is complete and no additional jump points have been found. This means that Liverpool is a dead-end (I think most people in the home counties already knew that) and the only further use for the system will be exploitation of its mineral resources.


ROTFLMAO.

I trust you are saving the system designation of Birmingham for a nice habitable system with lots of exploitable minerals that you can make the "planet of a thousand trades" that powers and provides for the Empire.
Otherwise I might have to take a trip up the M6 and sort you out...  :D

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Post by: Father Tim on November 26, 2006, 08:22:11 PM
Och, ye bluidy Sassenach wouldnae ken a pretty patch o' haether if ye were birthed on it.  I canna wait to ken wit Glasgie toon looks lyke.
Title: Re: Preservation Campaign - Part 1
Post by: vergeraiders on November 26, 2006, 09:32:48 PM
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Preservation Campaign

... Glasgow is a planetless G7-V system, Edinburgh has a G8-V primary and four rocky planets ...

Steve


Sorry mate doesn't look the the 'north' is going to be a happening spot too soon.

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Post by: Father Tim on November 26, 2006, 11:13:09 PM
Bah, serves me right for changing the joke half-way through posting.  I was going to complain about Cardiff a la the Doctor Who episode 'Boom Town'.
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Post by: TrueZuluwiz on November 27, 2006, 01:47:53 AM
Something tells me things are going to get a bit confusing when the Brits meet up with the Mongols. Ya see, the Brits employ Gurkhas, and Gurkhas are descendents of the Mongols. Sound like fun?
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Post by: mavikfelna on November 27, 2006, 03:36:11 AM
One thought on the White Knight. Would it be useful to include a geo sensor so it could search for fuel sources on its own? It wouldn't have to use it often, but since it's jump capable it could jump into a new system, move to the gas giants and find a spot to camp out without having to bring in a geo survey group immediately.

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Post by: Erik L on November 27, 2006, 01:23:29 PM
I do think the Royal Chronicler needs a name ;)
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Post by: Steve Walmsley on November 27, 2006, 01:36:15 PM
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One thought on the White Knight. Would it be useful to include a geo sensor so it could search for fuel sources on its own? It wouldn't have to use it often, but since it's jump capable it could jump into a new system, move to the gas giants and find a spot to camp out without having to bring in a geo survey group immediately.--Mav

The Wave Knight is just a tanker. Its doesn't have any mining capability. I also changed it to the Minotaur class (on the orders of Queen Victoria) because despite Wave Knight being a current Royal Navy Fleet Tanker, I decided it didn't really fit with the 19th century theme.

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Post by: Steve Walmsley on November 27, 2006, 01:37:12 PM
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I do think the Royal Chronicler needs a name :)

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Post by: Randy on November 27, 2006, 01:47:58 PM
Bob  :D
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Post by: mavikfelna on November 27, 2006, 01:49:54 PM
His Most August Astronomer Royal's Footstool and Plaything. ;)

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Post by: rmcrowe on November 27, 2006, 02:10:41 PM
Sir Robert Locksley, KG  (yes, Marian (no longer Maid) did marry great, great, many times great grandfather, and the name is kept up in the family).

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Post by: Erik L on November 27, 2006, 02:47:58 PM
Sir Steven of Walmsley?
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Post by: TrueZuluwiz on November 27, 2006, 04:48:10 PM
Tim the Enchanter?
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Post by: Shinanygnz on November 27, 2006, 05:18:47 PM
Lord Edmund Blackadder?
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Post by: Centerfed on November 28, 2006, 01:01:34 AM
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I do think the Royal Chronicler needs a name  

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Any Suggestions?


It's da bishop!   :P

Or maybe, Sir Robin, the Not-So-Brave?

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Post by: Father Tim on November 28, 2006, 04:23:46 AM
Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film?

In 1861 there was a Royal Historian by name of Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay, but I can't find any record of what happened to him thereafter.
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Post by: Centerfed on November 28, 2006, 09:08:08 AM
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Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film?


How about: Sir Juan Nott-Preserved?

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Post by: Father Tim on November 28, 2006, 02:45:23 PM
I've always been partial to 'Sir Nigel Hyphen-Jones'.  He was the winner of the Upper Class Twit of the Year competition, you know.
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Post by: Centerfed on November 28, 2006, 04:25:20 PM
How about...Doctor Watson?

I know that he was a fictional character, but the time period is about right (isn't it?) and wasn't he supposed to have been the chronicler of a certain detective's adventures?

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Post by: Father Tim on November 28, 2006, 05:56:15 PM
Ah, but Doctor Watson was a woman (http://www.hwslash.net/stout.html).
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Post by: TrueZuluwiz on November 28, 2006, 07:17:32 PM
Just so it's not Gumby.


And why would a woman have been in the Army and been shot in Afghanistan?
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Post by: Summercat on November 29, 2006, 03:50:12 AM
Bob.
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