What's Going On In Your Empire: C# Edition

[non sequitur]

The UN Solar Warden Directorate finds itself with a bit of a problem after an encounter with an aliens in Sol. The lone ship, named scorpion class, was destroyed after it opened fire on PanAm Spaceflight C003, but it's capabilities left much of the UN doctrine in doubt. While the Su-80 fighters launched from the USS Theodore Roosevelt did manage to destroy the ship, the scorpion's own railguns manage to destroy half the strike group before the railgun fighters overwhelmed the defenses of the Scorpion. The Scorpion also managed to render nearly entire patrol strategy of the UN fleet obsolete with it's top speed reached 6,700 km/s. UN patrol strategy depends on A-11 comets launched from Illustrious class light carriers. Yet the A-11 has a top speed of only 6100 km/s. The Fleet procurement committee is hastily convening hearings on the matter in order find alternatives to the now sudennly outdated patrol strategy.

[legemaine]

Similar to many other fictional dimensions, The United Commonwealth of Earth is struggling in the early years of its expansion out of Sol due to the presence of occasional alien 'Raiders' lurking in both of its colonised systems, like sharks preying on commercial shipping. Unfortunately, until now the UCN simply hasn't been able to produce ships with sufficient speed to chase them down, and the cloaking systems of these aliens have been sufficient to enable them to disappear quickly into the vastness of the system spaces. Initially the Navy formed convoys and guarded them with frigate escorts, but even this would have been no more than symbolic if the Raiders had not been so risk adverse - the Navy's Frigates were all beam armed and lacked the weapon range/speed to properly engage had the Raiders pursued their attacks. Indeed the only early successes occured when the Navy was able to lure a Raider using a lone commercial ship as bait to a colony with STO, which made short work of the poorly armoured aliens.

Finally now the UCN has found a strategy that works. Building ships of the line, or even frigates with sufficient speed are still some years off, but the development of the new Ares Intercepter FAC and its counterpart the Artemis EWACS enables engagement with the aliens with a significant speed advantage. However, the tradeoff of such speed with a viable weapons platform requires a tradeoff with range, and so the challenge remained to get the FACs to a position to intercept the Raiders within their limited engagement window. Mobile hanger bases have been developed to allow the interceptors to lie in wait for significant periods, but a trap still needs intelligence to allow placement of it. Painstaking plotting of Raider entry and exit vectors has enabled Fleet Command to identify Ceres as close to the likely entry vector for ongoing Raider attacks, and so FAC MobileBase Polruan was deployed at Ceres, all sensors powered down, waiting for Sol Planetary Sensors to identify a potential target.

Three days after New Year celebrations in 2030, disaster almost struck. Fleet command had underestimated the efficiency of the alien's cloaking technology, and the first Earth new of a return of the aliens was a number of energy detonations on the thin skin of the MobileBase. Fortunately no FACs were damaged and all launched immediately. The Artemis FAC fired up its powerful sensor suite and Raider was lit up like never before, the Ares craft commanders struggled to get their weapons systems to full power. Capt Taylor Dunn of Ares 27 was the first to fire and at point blank range, his laser hit and burnt straight through the thin alien armoured skin. The Raider kicked its engines to full power in an effort to escape the unexpected threat, but this time the speed advantage was with the home side. Ares-25 was the first UCN military ship ever to be destroyed by enemy fire in the next exchange of fire, hit by multiple railgun pellets, but now two more of the Intercepter lasers were ready and the subsequent volley again blew through the armour and detonated the Raider's powerplant. Now the Raider had only the option to ram, but the next Intercepter volley left her dead in space until Ares-29 under Capt Ross Sharp finally caused her disintergration - becoming the first UCN Commander to claim an enemy kill.

Now that the Navy has found a way to kill its enemy, it will begin is search for ways to hunt down and destroy the alien raiders before they can threaten civilian shipping ever again.

[jahwillprovide]

I just abruptly ended my 40K esque campaign because I was growing bored of it and wanted to write an AAR from the start and include pictures.
We had just pacified an alien system, named it Magragge and stationed my ultramarines there + found another far off colony and named it Caliban for the Dark Angels. Decided to start up a Humans come together after calamity campaign starting in 2050, hopefully I get good minerals and jump points.

[Steve Walmsley]

Similar to many other fictional dimensions, The United Commonwealth of Earth is struggling in the early years of its expansion out of Sol due to the presence of occasional alien 'Raiders' lurking in both of its colonised systems, like sharks preying on commercial shipping. Unfortunately, until now the UCN simply hasn't been able to produce ships with sufficient speed to chase them down, and the cloaking systems of these aliens have been sufficient to enable them to disappear quickly into the vastness of the system spaces. Initially the Navy formed convoys and guarded them with frigate escorts, but even this would have been no more than symbolic if the Raiders had not been so risk adverse - the Navy's Frigates were all beam armed and lacked the weapon range/speed to properly engage had the Raiders pursued their attacks. Indeed the only early successes occured when the Navy was able to lure a Raider using a lone commercial ship as bait to a colony with STO, which made short work of the poorly armoured aliens.

Finally now the UCN has found a strategy that works. Building ships of the line, or even frigates with sufficient speed are still some years off, but the development of the new Ares Intercepter FAC and its counterpart the Artemis EWACS enables engagement with the aliens with a significant speed advantage. However, the tradeoff of such speed with a viable weapons platform requires a tradeoff with range, and so the challenge remained to get the FACs to a position to intercept the Raiders within their limited engagement window. Mobile hanger bases have been developed to allow the interceptors to lie in wait for significant periods, but a trap still needs intelligence to allow placement of it. Painstaking plotting of Raider entry and exit vectors has enabled Fleet Command to identify Ceres as close to the likely entry vector for ongoing Raider attacks, and so FAC MobileBase Polruan was deployed at Ceres, all sensors powered down, waiting for Sol Planetary Sensors to identify a potential target.

Three days after New Year celebrations in 2030, disaster almost struck. Fleet command had underestimated the efficiency of the alien's cloaking technology, and the first Earth new of a return of the aliens was a number of energy detonations on the thin skin of the MobileBase. Fortunately no FACs were damaged and all launched immediately. The Artemis FAC fired up its powerful sensor suite and Raider was lit up like never before, the Ares craft commanders struggled to get their weapons systems to full power. Capt Taylor Dunn of Ares 27 was the first to fire and at point blank range, his laser hit and burnt straight through the thin alien armoured skin. The Raider kicked its engines to full power in an effort to escape the unexpected threat, but this time the speed advantage was with the home side. Ares-25 was the first UCN military ship ever to be destroyed by enemy fire in the next exchange of fire, hit by multiple railgun pellets, but now two more of the Intercepter lasers were ready and the subsequent volley again blew through the armour and detonated the Raider's powerplant. Now the Raider had only the option to ram, but the next Intercepter volley left her dead in space until Ares-29 under Capt Ross Sharp finally caused her disintergration - becoming the first UCN Commander to claim an enemy kill.

Now that the Navy has found a way to kill its enemy, it will begin is search for ways to hunt down and destroy the alien raiders before they can threaten civilian shipping ever again.

I just started a test campaign in the last couple of days for the new NPR changes and called it the United Commonwealth of Earth, before I read the above - sorry for the plagiarism

[Kiero]

In one of the systems between the United Nation Enclave and Mackenzie Kingdome, UNE probes detected nuclear detonations at one of the jump points.
After a few seconds, lifepods belonging to Mackenzie Kingdome were detected at that location. After a few hours, they disappeared.
On the other side of this jump point, a UNE diplomatic ship was stationed. It was accompanied by MK ships, but they chose not to jump to the neighboring system.
UNE had the opportunity to reach this system by another route, not using the threatened jump point.
Four assault ships were dispatched, accompanied by two patrol cruisers, which had 2 companies of Marines on board.
This group did not have the ability to jump through the unstabilized JP. So a survey ship was temporarily assigned to this group.

After about a week, the entire group (excluding the survey ship), rushed towards the place where the Mackenzie Kingdome ship was destroyed.
There they found 3 escort ships, one ship previously identified by the UNE as a salvager (120,000t) and one ship not encountered so far. It was 5 times smaller than the salvager and had commercial engines.

Particle beams of assault ships quickly dealt with escorts and salvager.
Two shots were enough to virtually stop the smaller of the civilian ships. Two companies of Marines got to the enemy ship and 12 minutes later managed to secure it.
It turned out to be a ship described by the enemy as a slave transport.
From the cells aboard, 33 survivors from the Mackenzie Kingdome, were freed.

Currently, this ship escorted by two patrol cruisers is making its way towards MK space.

During this operation, 30 brave UNE Marines were killed.

[Kiero]

Another cool RP moments:

[Steve Zax]

Another cool RP moments:

Unsuccessful coup attempt?

[GodEmperor]

Another cool RP moments:

Unsuccessful coup attempt?

Lovers quarrel ending in tragedy, covered up by authorities..

[Kurt]

Another cool RP moments:

Plotters attempting to overthrow the government eliminating unreliable officers.

[nuclearslurpee]

Another cool RP moments:

Unsuccessful coup attempt?

Unsanctioned underground boxing club gone a wee bit overboard.

[Kiero]

I do not know what happened.
But on that day a new medal was created.

Dishonorable Discharge

[nakorkren]

While waiting for the next release (TM), I started my 2nd ever multi-player-race and my 1st ever with both player races starting on Earth. I was lazy and just called them "Western Civilization" and "Eastern Civilization" because I'm not ready to invest a ton of world building into a pre 2.6.0 game that I'm not sure will have legs. I'm mostly just interested in getting a feel for how the game plays when you share a home world/system.

Both civs are just starting out surveying and the Westies just discovered that Mars has 2.8M Acc 0.9 Neutronium, 1.5M Acc 0.7 Trit, .8 Acc 0.4 Vendarite, and 11M Acc 0.9 Corundium. Boys and girls, hold on to your hats because there's about to be a good old fashion gold rush!

Also, I'll have to see how I decide to play out the diplomacy side of things. I was planning on a house rule that "We don't fight on Earth anymore, since then everyone loses", but I'm not sure how/whether that's going to extend to Mars or other planets inside the solar system.

[GrandNord]

The United Terran Federation Navy just succesfully concluded operation Roadblock, aimed at Conquering a Rakha held planet and opening up the Altair system for survey (because I absolutely did NOT feel like manually telling my survey ships what to do not to get blasted by STOs).

The operation involved Task Group 12-3, of the 1st Fleet, the 3rd Troop Transport fleet and the 2nd Marines Division.

Task Group 12-3, expressely formed from reserve units and taken from other task forces for this mission :
- 1 Mogami class CG, 24 740t (hybrid anti-fighter/anti-ship missile cruiser)
- 4 Pelagian class CA, 23 400t (laser heavy cruisers)
- 8 Sevastopol class CL, 15 700t (laser anti-fighter/anti-ship cruisers)
- 1 St Nazaire class CV-AUX, 13 600t (small support carrier for scouts, rescue boats, jump scout pods, anti-stealth boats, etc)
- 1 Red Cloud class SF, 7400t (Scout Frigate with buoy, probe and missile launching capabilities)
- 2 tankers

3rd Troop transport fleet and escorts:
- 6 Troop Transports, totaling 300 000t of transport capacity (not drop capable)
- 1 Perseus class CVL, 29 900t (fighter support)
- 1 Mogami class CG
- 2 Oregon class DDG, 11 800t (anti-ship missile destroyer)
- 1 Red Cloud class SF
- 1 tanker

Task Force 12-3 was to arrive a few days before the Troop transports, laying siege to Altair II to destroy the STOs down on the ground and allow the Transport to unload the Marines division.

This task was carried out excellently by every man involved and Altair II's defenses were reduced to rubble with only minimal armor damage within a few hours.
Once the orbital space was secured, the 2nd Marines Division was put to work. Ensued 6 months of gruelling combat against an entrenched enemy. Losses were mounting, as power armored marine after power armored marine fell in combat.
The enemy forces subissed losses too, but every dead enemy warrior or tank required more than one dead human. However, thanks to the heroism of the men of the 2nd Division, the line held on until the enemy ran out of supplies and the operation became a simple, but time consumming task of mopping up the still thousand strong army left almost helpless.

After almost a year long operation, the Altair system was opened up and search could begin for galicite and vendarite deposit, which were severely lacking in the space available to the Federation (I am boxed in by two star swarms, my options are pretty limited)

[Steve Walmsley]

I've just finished designing a ship for my new Babylon 5 campaign, inspired by the Explorer class. It is intended as a very long duration survey vessel that can operate far from home. It can harvest its own fuel and support a strikegroup of up to 40,000 tons, including 32,000 military tons. As well as six 4000-ton jump-capable survey ships, it carriers an 8000-ton light troop transport, a 1000-ton AEW craft to overcome the limitations of commercial sensors, twenty energy-armed fighters, two recon shuttles that can launch drones, 60+ drones and buoys in storage and 30,000 tons of various ground force formations. I did consider adding a stabilisation module but decided that was a step too far.

I'm not sure how efficient it will be, but it was fun to design

Magellan class Explorer      500,000 tons       3,739 Crew       14,022.4 BP       TCS 10,000    TH 16,000    EM 0
1600 km/s    JR 3-50(C)      Armour 1-561       Shields 0-0       HTK 866      Sensors 8/8/0/0      DCR 1-0      PPV 0
MSP 25,017    Max Repair 1,250 MSP
Hangar Deck Capacity 40,000 tons     Troop Capacity 30,000 tons     Magazine 400 / 0    Tractor Beam     
Captain    Control Rating 2   BRG   AUX   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Flight Crew Berths 800   
Fuel Harvester: 25 modules producing 1,000,000 litres per annum
Maintenance Modules: 20 module(s) capable of supporting ships of 32,000 tons

Orpheus-5000C Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 500000 tons    Distance 50k km     Squadron Size 3

Beigie-Bryant-400C Particle Thrust Engine  (40)    Power 16000    Fuel Use 2.24%    Signature 400    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 8,179,000 Litres    Range 131.4 billion km (950 days at full power)
Refuelling Capability: 50,000 litres per hour     Complete Refuel 163 hours

Theia Sensor Buoy (46)    Speed: 0 km/s    End: 0m     Range: 0m km    WH: 0    Size: 6    TH: 0 / 0 / 0
Argus Sensor Drone (20)    Speed: 4,000 km/s    End: 6.3d     Range: 2,173.5m km    WH: 0    Size: 6    TH: 400 / 800 / 1,600

Oracle-30N Active Sensor (1)     GPS 1920     Range 31.5m km    Resolution 120
EM-8 Passive Sensor (1)     Sensitivity 8     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  22.4m km
TH-8 Passive Sensor (1)     Sensitivity 8     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  22.4m km

Strike Group / Ground Forces
2x Kestrel Shuttle   Speed: 3200 km/s    Size: 10
20x SF-1A Starfury Fighter   Speed: 10001 km/s    Size: 6
1x Charon Light Troop Transport   Speed: 1000 km/s    Size: 160
6x Icarus Survey Ship   Speed: 1750 km/s    Size: 80
1x Delphi Early Warning Craft   Speed: 4000 km/s    Size: 20
1x Engineer Battalion
2x Geosurvey Detachment
1x Marine Battalion
2x Xenoarchaeology Detachment

Icarus class Survey Ship      4,000 tons       109 Crew       870.2 BP       TCS 80    TH 140    EM 0
1750 km/s    JR 3-50      Armour 1-22       Shields 0-0       HTK 28      Sensors 8/8/3/3      DCR 2-5      PPV 0
Maint Life 3.43 Years     MSP 271    AFR 64%    IFR 0.9%    1YR 35    5YR 526    Max Repair 100 MSP
Commander    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 24 months    Morale Check Required   

Orpheus-40M Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 4000 tons    Distance 50k km     Squadron Size 3

Beigie-Bryant-140E Particle Thrust Engine (1)    Power 140    Fuel Use 20.29%    Signature 140    Explosion 7%
Fuel Capacity 419,000 Litres    Range 92.9 billion km (614 days at full power)

Oracle-30N Active Sensor (1)     GPS 1920     Range 31.5m km    Resolution 120
EM-8 Passive Sensor (1)     Sensitivity 8     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  22.4m km
TH-8 Passive Sensor (1)     Sensitivity 8     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  22.4m km
Gravitational Survey Sensors (3)   3 Survey Points Per Hour
Geological Survey Sensors (3)   3 Survey Points Per Hour

[paolot]

I've just finished designing a ship for my new Babylon 5 campaign, inspired by the Explorer class. ...

A moving station!!
Considering the heap of things that it stores, its crew is rather small, and the speed still acceptable for its mass.
A bit more of armour?
And maybe did you forget a couple of colony ships?