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Fiction => Erik's Fiction => Aurora => SDW => Topic started by: Erik L on February 04, 2008, 02:23:20 PM

Title: [SDW] - Contact!
Post by: Erik L on February 04, 2008, 02:23:20 PM

Vizeadmiral Wolff looked up from his never-ending stream of reports as his adjutant opened the door and escorted Kontreadmiral Erika Michel and Kapitan zur Stern Richard Fried into the office.

"Kontreadmiral! Kapitan! Welcome," Wolff said, "I trust this news has not gone any further yet?"

Both officers nodded. "Sit. Let's keep this brief and informal. Now, Kapitan Fried, what happened in the Hannover system?"

Kapitan Fried cleared his throat nervously and started, "As you know Admiral, Geologische ?bersicht Eins was conducting our geological survey of the system. The warp point emerges on the fringe of the B component's system. We surveyed the B component first, and then proceded to the A component. We had completed approximately half of our survey when our thermals picked up 6 contacts, one slightly stronger than the others. Per our standing orders, we returned to our initial warp point and made transit. The contacts did not follow that we could tell."

Wolff glanced at Kontreadmiral Michel, "Any thing else Erika?"

She sat thinking for a moment, "How soon will the Tirpitz class be ready for production sir?"

Wolff pulled up the shipyards on his screen and grimaced, "Not until 2025 at the earliest Erika."

Erika Michel nodded with a sigh, "About what I figured sir. I'd suggest attaching a Blucher or Scharnhorst to the Stern-Flotte for transit, but the jump generators are too small. You've received my suggestion for a fleet scout sir, construct a couple of them for the Stern-Flotte, and we wait for the first Tirpitz. Richard's ships out ran the contacts handily, so they cannot know where we came from."

Wolff nodded absently, "You mean we think they don't know where we came from. They might have had low profile ships near the warp points. As soon as the Stern-Flotte is finished with the scheduled refits, I'm ordering them to picket the Sol-Hamburg point. I also plan on laying down a second Stern-Flotte."

"Some sort of base or sensor installation near all of the points would be nice too sir," Erika said.

"True. I'll see what the BSG can come up with. In the meantime, I want Stern-Flotte on that point as soon as possible."

"Yes sir."

"Thank you both. For now, the Hannover system is off limits. The F?hrer will decide when the citizens should be told of the aliens, so not a word from anyone in your crews or staff."

Both officers nodded.

"Dismissed," Wolff said as he turned back to his paperwork with a sigh.




*edit* Fixed the system designation from Hamburg to Hannover.

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Post by: Erik L on February 04, 2008, 02:37:02 PM

New designs referenced in Contact!

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Hamburg class Fleet Scout    3500 tons     285 Crew     829.5 BP      TCS 70  TH 300  EM 1200
5714 km/s     Armour 1     Shields 40-600     Sensors 11/11/0/0     Damage Control 0-0     PPV 0
Replacement Parts 5    

Magneto-plasma Drive E7 ARM-1 (5)    Power 80    Efficiency 0.70    Signature 60    Armour 1    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 250,000 Litres    Range 440.8 billion km   (892 days at full power)
Theta R600/28 Shields (10)   Total Fuel Cost  280 Litres per day

Active Sensor S60-R80/50 (1)     GPS 4800     Range 48.0m km    Resolution 80
Active Sensor S12-R20/50 (1)     GPS 240     Range 2.4m km    Resolution 20
Thermal Sensor TH1-11/50 (2)     Sensitivity 11     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  11m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-11/50 (2)     Sensitivity 11     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  11m km

ECM 10Fast, mobile sensor platform. Redundant passives.

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Tirpitz class Jump Ship    12000 tons     966 Crew     2760.5 BP      TCS 240  TH 1140  EM 3600
6333 km/s    JR 3-50     Armour 1     Shields 120-600     Sensors 11/11/0/0     Damage Control 0-0     PPV 0
Replacement Parts 5    

J12000 Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 12000 tons    Distance 50k km     Squadron Size 3
Magneto-plasma Drive E7 ARM-1 (19)    Power 80    Efficiency 0.70    Signature 60    Armour 1    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 850,000 Litres    Range 437.1 billion km   (798 days at full power)
Theta R600/28 Shields (30)   Total Fuel Cost  840 Litres per day

Active Sensor S60-R80/50 (1)     GPS 4800     Range 48.0m km    Resolution 80
Thermal Sensor TH1-11/50 (1)     Sensitivity 11     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  11m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-11/50 (1)     Sensitivity 11     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  11m km

ECM 10
Jump tender/tanker. Hopefully fast enough to outrun anything, and enough shields to get there.