Aurora 4x
Fiction => Aurora => Ardem's Fiction => Topic started by: ardem on September 05, 2021, 10:50:59 AM
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4043 - 4045
The Ceti Aliens, or Mobile Imperium are greedy little*^#. They keep expanding and taking the Aquarian territory. But Aquarian a few warships short of a war. But we building for one, the Aquarians are tired of being bossed around. What is concerning is that we found two systems and both races are Aliens no humans. What has happened to the human empire.
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4043, 2 March Dr Alonzo Dubbs, the new breed of scientist for Power and Propulsions, had a social interest, that happened across the Director of Research, and Academy Commandant Len Deacon, and attractive man by all accounts and from the position he was in a bit of a risk taker, lets just say they were tied up in a compromise fashion. Alonzo never to look a gift horse in the mouth took over when Bennie Matz finished his work on the Stellarator Fusion Reactor. His work on the Magneto-plasma Drive should advance.
4043, 8 June Dr Guillermo Kothakota cheerfully completed his work on Ordnance Production. He had completed 18 projects in the kinetic division. A new range of missiles will come soon with the new engines.so Ordnance production will need to be stepped up.
4043, 23 June Dr Kathy Calvin was young Enthusiastic and loved for thing to go BOOM. She was the best Scientist in the kinetics division. Her work on the Fission Warhead completed she started work on a Fusion boosted Fission Warhead. No sue have new missile that do not give a bigger bang for buck.
4043, 2 October The Mobile Imperium were now holding a number of ships in position in the Aquarian system on the Bootis Jump Point. We will send a a Frigate over to investigate what these ships are doing.
4043, 9 December The FF Toulouse halted at the jump point and sent actives on. The five ships were highlighted, they have been tagged on the system as the Lamon001, Lancaster 001, Gladius 003, Gypsum 001 and DIP Daybreak. The largest was move concerning at 17 697 tons with a military grade engine. The Lamon was 66 000 tons however it was a commercial engine. Joint Chiefs was getting the feeling they were stabilising the wormholes. Like we seen them do before. This means they could express it with power ships. Interesting the ambassador Vizier Digleyaegha contacted the FF Toulouse to try and smooth over any objections we had, hard to say no when your got military ships backing you up.
4043, 30 December Well if they want to play in our pond we will play in theirs, we have send the Chicago over and will survey looking for additional jump points out of there system.
4044, 1 March Our Intelligence has gone to work. We have 11 Class and seen 29 Vessels, not as scary as I once thought. Although we have got details on 3 DDG Classes. Blood on Scales, The Eye of Jupiter and Epiphanies. Real nice names. What is concerning is their speed all of them been observed at 5,500km/s. The good news is our diplomatic rating are improving maybe they could be an ally after all.
4044 5 March Hold that though they have told Chicago they need to move on else they will be fired upon. Well Close borders it is then. Also as suspected they made a Gate system between the two worlds, with the end point in Aquarian Prime
4044, 17 March SC Betsycoed has discovered another jump point in the Ceti system, it already has been stabilised. Even though they asked JS Chicago to leave we going to send them back and see if they allow transitory traffic.
4044, 5 May JS Chicago entered into a new system, into a mass of small freighters. This came up on the computer as 1 Bootis A, the computer must have a glitch all this Bootis systems. Captain Jarvis Puebla has renamed this the Puebla system as per administrative directives. The A1-V Star is 3 times the size and mass of Sol, which compared to what we seen elsewhere is tiny. The bright white star illuminates 3 planets Puebla II looks more then liveable if only it had more oxygen. You think it would with it Forested Mountains
4044, July 20 JS Chicago now been asked to leave the Puebla system. They have obviously laid claim to it.
4045, January The Ranger Force got an overhaul on equipment and formation. More penetration power and a little more armour upgrade but nowhere near the required for Cancun IV. But w should have force on hand to deal with things. Also the Mobile Imperium even booted out out Diplomatic vessel from Ceti. We have a IS vessel hanging near Ceti III, but it sensor are not power enough to grabe anything.
4045, 1 February They are now claim Bootis system, this is not right. we had this system first unless they have colonised. I will move the JS Chicago around and see if they have a Colony anywhere.
4045, 6 Feburary They have rejected our claim on Bootis, this will lead to a war perhaps. We are not ready. perhaps we give them Bootis for now.
4045, 26 February Detected another Jump Point in the Ceti System, this one also has been stabilized, Cmdr Basil Pittsley consisted jumping in however there may not be Stabilisation on the other side leaving them trapped. He care about his crew and his Faith in Others to do the job later made him head for home.
4045, 3 March Dr Milford Delph worked with Weedman Electronics to bring out a new range of Thermal Sensor sizes 250ton, 500tons, 10000 tons and 2000 tons. The ranges have improved since the last batch.
4045, 12 May Finally we have a scientist working in the Defensive Division it almost be 20 years since we had any adequate breakthroughs. Dr Cathy Vandermolen is working in this field.
4045, 18 August Sc Maestaeg has found a jump point in the Sigma system.
4045, 12 September Dr Miford Deph took another contract with Cowan Electronics and Amacher & Lannigan to develop new Missile Fire Control and Active Search Sensors. This Private contract work does not paid to bad.
4045, 29 December Creation of the 3rd Ranger Regiment started.
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4046 - 4047
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4046, 27 March Dr Connie Solano completed a Triple Laser Turret, this will be put on our new Destroyer Escorts. These are to deal with any missile strikes.
4046, 15 June FF Paris swapped with FF Strasbourg for picket duty at the gate. The Fleet were rotating ships to keep a presence.
4046, 25 June Dr Alonzo Dubbs completed a presentation on the new Magneto-plasma Drive, the Head of Research requested immediate engine designs. On the same day Dr Bennie Matz finished an array of Powerplants for the new Escort Destroyer. Bidding his time he wanted revenge on Dubbs for pushing him back as some second place lacky.
4046, 6 August The IS Imushbim had crept in on Ceti II and now is 150mkm awat, it will creep in a little close at 80m, this should give us thermals on ships coming and going from the the Planet. Commander Freddy Barthelemy was very happy with his tiny crew. It already been 66 months and his ship was starting to stink to high heaven.
4046, 26 August Four more Frigates rolled off the production line, an upgrade to the b series of Amiens would be in order once the engines come off the line.
4046, 12 September The IS Imushbim is holding 68mkm away from Ceti II close enough to Identify the massive 41,000 Thermal population. So far it seems they have not been spotted. 5 minutes later Crap he been spotted as 11 DDGs heading straight for the ship. The IS Imusbim casually turned to the gate as if they had done nothing wrong. It seems they got a little close perhaps 100mKm would of been a better holding position. What is worrying is the amount of DDG now seen in the Mobile Imperium's arsenal.
4046, 27 October The Mountain Destroyer Escort Class had finished on the design board and pushed off to the Shipyards. This should counter some of the missile imbalance from the Mobile Imperium.
Mountain class Destroyer Escort 15 993 tons 407 Crew 2 500.7 BP TCS 320 TH 720 EM 0
4502 km/s Armour 4-56 Shields 0-0 HTK 85 Sensors 220/0/0/0 DCR 24 PPV 72
Maint Life 3.12 Years MSP 1 392 AFR 144% IFR 2.0% 1YR 215 5YR 3 227 Max Repair 270.00000 MSP
Captain Control Rating 2 BRG ENG
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months Morale Check Required
Tien-Fairchild Magneto-plasma Drive EP480.00 e75 (3) Power 1440.0 Fuel Use 14.61% Signature 240.000 Explosion 7%
Fuel Capacity 750 000 Litres Range 57.8 billion km (148 days at full power)
Triple Farina Armanents 10cm C1 Ultraviolet Laser Turret (6x3) Range 64 000km TS: 19640 km/s Power 9-3 RM 40 000 km ROF 15
Echevarria CIWS-120 (2x4) Range 1000 km TS: 12 000 km/s ROF 5
Moos-Dambra Beam Fire Control R64-TS20000 (2) Max Range: 64 000 km TS: 20 000 km/s 84 69 53 38 22 6 0 0 0 0
Stellarator Fusion Reactor R18 (2) Total Power Output 36.2 Exp 5%
Amacher & Lannigan Active Search Sensor AS8-R1 50 (1) GPS 21 Range 8.6m km MCR 771.7k km Resolution 1
Weedman Electronics Thermal Sensor TH20-220 (1) Sensitivity 220 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 117.3m km
4047, 10 March JS San Francisco jumped into a new system. Named 4 Cancum by the computer. Cmdr Edmond Noviello sighed and renamed the system after his last name. The F3-IV Star 3 times the size of Sol. The white star had 8 planets 84 moons and 209 asteroids. Not really habitable however could be some great mining opportunities here. With that it released the two survey craft to review the system bodies.
4047, 40 November We running low on Uridium, we need to find a new source before it runs out. Sigma II is a prime candidate but it is 2 jumps away.
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4048 - 4057
The Aquarian just did not get the ramp up of require mineral in time. Perhaps there is something said about stabilisation of Jump Points, but the Fleet wants a little bit of protection for now.
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4048, 1 January Reviewing Planets it has been decided that Sigma II give us the best option to mine for minerals. It has resources across the board and they are minable plus ground survey is possible. RA and Candance has been detached from the Battle Fleet, to take out some Surveyors and a small group of defensive forces.
4048, 14 February Commander Dorris Bertholf, may not be spending valentines day with her Boo, however she did the next best thing aboard the SC Betwsyoced. Discovered a new jump point out of Sigma Phoenicis.
4048, 29 May While going through some old sensor logs it was discovered there was an old Earth Outpost on Noviello I, Joint Chiefs were putting together a new unit for checking this old installation. Perhaps some old tech can be rediscovered and help us in the future fights we will encounter. The new unit is call OEA Team, Old Earth Archaeologists.
4048, 13 June The mineral Corundium has run out on Aquaria, leaving the new destroyer Escorts unable to be completed. There is 2643 coming from Aquarii III, but we need a better source.
4048, 5 August The additional upgrades to the Amein Frigate class with the first 4 ships refitted. Upgrade to the Engine and Active and Passive Sensor arrays. Creating a slightly lighter and faster Frigate.
Amiens Ib class Frigate 6 915 tons 195 Crew 1 106 BP TCS 138 TH 208 EM 0
3008 km/s Armour 3-32 Shields 0-0 HTK 43 Sensors 110/0/0/0 DCR 14 PPV 22.8
Maint Life 3.01 Years MSP 399 AFR 96% IFR 1.3% 1YR 66 5YR 988 Max Repair 189 MSP
Magazine 81
Captain Control Rating 1 BRG
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months Morale Check Required
Tien-Fairchild Magneto-plasma Drive EP208.00 e65 (2) Power 416 Fuel Use 14.45% Signature 104.0 Explosion 6%
Fuel Capacity 285 000 Litres Range 51.3 billion km (197 days at full power)
Twin Farina Armaments 15.0cm C3 Near Ultraviolet Laser Turret (1x2) Range 180 000km TS: 5500 km/s Power 12-6 RM 30 000 km ROF 10
Echevarria CIWS-120 (1x4) Range 1000 km TS: 12 000 km/s ROF 5
Beam Fire Control R192-TS9000 (1) Max Range: 192 000 km TS: 9 000 km/s 95 90 84 79 74 69 64 58 53 48
Improved Pebble Bed Reactor R12-PB20 (1) Total Power Output 12.1 Exp 10%
Wender Precision Arms Size 1 Box Launcher (12) Missile Size: 1 Hangar Reload 50 minutes MF Reload 8 hours
Roberge Armaments Company Size 3.0 Missile Launcher (3) Missile Size: 3 Rate of Fire 30
Cowans Electronics Missile Fire Control FC17-R1 50 (1) Range 17.1m km Resolution 1
Ankrum Aramaments Defender .51 17m AMM (12) Speed: 28 400 km/s End: 10.2m Range: 17.4m km WH: 1 Size: 1 TH: 170/102/51
Ankrum Aramaments Avenger .29 ASM 6 (23) Speed: 18 333 km/s End: 45.8m Range: 50.4m km WH: 6 Size: 3 TH: 97/58/29
Amacher & Lannigan Active Search Sensor AS8-R1 50 (1) GPS 21 Range 8.6m km MCR 771.7k km Resolution 1
Amacher & Lannigan Active Search Sensor AS55-R10 450 (1) GPS 1890 Range 55.4m km Resolution 10
Weedman Electronics Thermal Sensor TH10-110 (1) Sensitivity 110 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 82.9m km
4048, 23 December 7th Bn, 3rd Ranger Regiment landed on Sigma II, a number of automated mines were already hard at work digging minerals. Automated was not quite true there always a presence of a small contingent of engineers and miners, that sheltered in this hostile world. The Atmospshere was not breathable, it was on average -39 degrees Damn Cold. Let hope there mission in protecting the Survey Company did not last forever. Lt Colonel Dante was promoted from the Regular Infantry to now managing a Battalion of Rangers. That how depleted the officer corp was, and she was not great at her job, even she knew this easily confused and flustered any time something went wrong.
4049, 4 April Dr Cathy Vandermolen, completed research into Ceramic Composite Armour. This is a huge upgrade how since we just upgrade our ships, troops it has been shelved until later upgrades. A real shame it was here sooner but with mineral shortage at the moment its not become a priority. However the New River Destroyer Class have not been put in the yard so it will be the first to achieve this also the new Dropship classes will receive the new armour
4049, 6 July The lack of Uridum has paused all ship building tasks and even mainataince stocks have stopped, we do have 1/2 million supplies not sure hwo long that will hold out.
4049, 15 August The Battle Fleet landed 3rd Ranger Regiment mins 7th Battalion and the 1st OEA Company to investigate the outpost on Noviello I, this is a busy system so many asteroids and planets. Brigadier Hollis Wilkins looked out with his Gloomy disposition. He was promoted to Colonel on January 3, 4040 from 5th Ranger Bn. He missed the drop on Cancun IV, and he felt bad like survivors guilt. He was indecisive what to do with the Battle Fleet, however he decided to keep them for a month in orbit above just in case they needed to extract.
4049, 16 October Dr Karol Resch finished working on Thermal Sensor Sensitivity 14, before she could organise labs for commercial reasons Dr Mildord Delph took the labs to work on Active Grav Sensor he has some new idea that could boost the signal.
4050 - 4053 Was just shipping automated mines, and trying to get back to be able to ship build again. Govenor Adaberto Revis was heavily critized for the lack for foresight. Unable to build anything with the lack or Uridum, Corundium and Sorium, This might go on even longer.
4054, 29 January Dr Connie Solano, developed the Far UV laser. This then added some value to point defence however our PD ships were still in dock waiting for more Urium.
4054, 30 July Finally the first Destroyer Escort rolls off the line the DE Carpathian, these will protect the frigates from inbound missile attacks. It a ity there system are now out of date considering we had upgraded the mahority of the sensors and Fire Controls.
4054, 28 October The rest of the destroyer Escorts completed, we have not seem much of the Mobile Imperium, they seemed to have kept away from our system with the Bootis System being a nice buffer.
4055, 14 August Completion of the New Laser Turrets. Our Technology is outstripping our construction ability.
4056, 12 April Dr Karol Resch completed work on the Improved Geo Sensors. More Jump Freighters have been completed to send automated mines out to various planets.
4056, 5 August Dr Milford Deph retired at the age of 63. The man did not even wait around to recieve any great awards although he was deserving. His assistant Dr Karen Livergood has taken over.
4056, 19 September It was decided to go see the Mobile imperium, as we not seen them in some time. We are sending 3 Destroyer Escorts and 4 Frigates to investigate.
4057, 6 February New System Discovered, the third Jump off the Sigma system. The System is tiny, it has 2 Planets and four moons. However one of the planet is Habitable. Average Temperature of -2 , Breathable Atmosphere, gravity of .74 of Earths. Perhaps this place is uninhabited and we can settle a Colony here. The system once again is called Cacun. WHY OH WHY. It now being renamed to the Captain Last name which is Kwiecien
4057, 12 March The Kwiecien planet is occupied. Just my luck. We will need to sen our diplomatic vessel out here.
4057, 22 April Captain Porfiro Sheley, decided to check out the unexplored Jump Gate, that from the Ceti system. Once he entered the new system he was astounded. The system had 11 planet 42 moons and what was crazy 676 asteroids. The Captain decided he done his quick recon and was headed back to Ceti system complete a swing by the Mobile Imperium home world and head back the Aquarian Prime. Maybe the Captain was asking for trouble.
4057, 29 May An Update on the number of ships in the MI Fleet, 23 Destroyers, 5 Cruisers, 4 Light Escort Cruisers and a mass of other ships commercial and civilian. The Planet is defended with a number of Bam and Missile Defensive Bases. There is no one way can go again the Mobile Imperium now or ever.
4057, 4 December The 1st Fleet has returned, the DIP Alantia is on the way to Kwiecien. Nothing is happening at the Outpost, perhaps it requires more OEA Teams. Any though of Payback with the Mobile Imperium is a pipe dream. Atleast they have not tried to invade out systems.
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4058 - 4062
Our first win as Aquarians, it looks like the new governor is a pusher. Things like minerals and ships are stabilising across the board. We have so much logistic ships that we are now heading to a multi system nation.
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4058, 26 March Finish Survey of Aquarii V-II, this is the further we can go in a our present system, there is still up to Aquarii XIIII and asteroid further out however the fuel required is just to big.
4058, 19 May DIP Alantia, moved to within 22m km of Kwiecien, with the hopes of making contact. Commodore Sammie Patillo, is trying not to make the mistake of past diplomatic ships. However the Diplomatic staff find Patillo, Weak and Unreliable and he look ready to run at any given opportunity.
4058, 13 September The Navy looked at explaining it command structure as, more ships come online. The two new command areas were Survey Command and Ranger Command. There was a slight shuffle of Admirals. Admiral Calvin Gehlert became Head of the Fleet, vice Admiral Diego Shields, became head of Survey Command, and Vice Admiral Lonnie Larranaga Head of Ranger Command. But Truly on the head of the transport ships Ranger retained overall command. Ranger liked Larranga as it seemed to have Ranger sort of in the name and nicknamed her Admiral Lasagne, she might been Inflexible and Dogmatic but she was adventurous and that took guts.
4058, 23 September There was new jump point detected in the Kwiecien System,
4058, 20 October 2nd Survey Company Completed it ground survey of Sigma P III, making it a very desirable mining sector for Titanium 110m at 0.5 access. However the vast amount of other minerals were just too hard to retrieve at a .1 . Sigma P I had 21m tons of Corbonmite at 0.7 access.
4058, 24 December Dr Kathy Calvin upgraded the CIWS-120 to the new CIWS-200. Cathy has managed 22 projects. The Joint Chiefs are proud of her work.
4059, 15 May Sc Llany under the new commander of CDR Hiram Haddix discovers the first jump point in the Noviello System
4059, 20 May The Destroyed Outpost on Noviello I have been fully surveyed. The fresh OEA troops that were about to land on the planet was not needed. Obviously Major Gregoria Garretson got his arse into gear. The Alien race was definitely from the old Earth Empire. The 7 abandoned installation were available however the heavy equipment of a construction unti was required.
4059, 1 June Dr Rene Mera increased the Shipbuilding rate to 750BP. This was greatly appreciated. This only her 2nd project and this high educated was looked on with promise. Little did the Join Chief know she was selling any secrets on the side to commercial interests for a profit. untrustworthy. It be interesting how long she get away, her new home over looking the coast was apparently a donation by a 'patron' for tax reasons.
4059, 17 June A second jump point was discovered in the Noviello system. SC Penmarc under Cdr Joaquin Pitt had the honours.
4060, 26 March The JS Chicago jumped into a new system from the Noviello system, as been standard the computer giving us names which just are the same as one we already have with a different number. So the system is now know as the Stops system after Captain Hank Stops. This does not sounds like a great name however here it is. The 12 planet system off a K1-III star, a massive 25 times the size of the Sol and 3 times its mass, know as a orange dwarf. However the Stops system was very uninhabitable.
4060, 14 August The mining bases are starting now to rebalance the mineral shortage and dump a load on Aquaria Prime for ship building. The Annapollis ships are which we now have 42 of are doing the bulk of the back breaking work.
4060, 18 September For some reason poor Captain Hank Stops had developed a medical condition, from the last mission. The Survey Command wishes him well and hiope the shipboard doctor is up to the task of looking after the Captain.
4060, 17 October Dr Kathy Calvin in development of the two stage Thermonuclear warhead has been give the Order of Aquaria for her services in research.
4060, 16 November Dr Karon Livengood rivalry with Dr Karol Resch reach new levels, for one they both made fun that there first names were incorrect, however after Livegood enhance planetary sensors to 700, Resch stole her labs for the new thermal sensitivity enhancement
4060, 24 November Dr Bella Whang increased Mining Production Efficiency to 16 tons however that was not good enough and she been make to continue until it is 20 tons.
4060, 4 December Dr Garland Losee completed research on Laminate Composite Armour. This might be the next level of ranger armour we need, however the Aquarian government has got no response from the Kwiecien Aliens, also they seem to be too passive as we accidently parked out Intelligence ship over their planet and di not attack. The Aquarian feel they need to land force and protect these creatures before the Mobile Imperium invades. Also they are aquatic creature, so they don't even use the surface. The join Chief believe this will be a easier task for the 4th Ranger Regiment.
4061, 1 January Governor Adalberto Revis fulfilled his 20 year instalment, welcoming Leona Crumwell, she was a cold manned woman, who was very much result-orientated and stubborn. In the past she followed order without question making her morals dubious at best. Her first take was to send 4th Ranger Regiment out to Kwiecien system.
4061, 17 February A factory was restored at the Old Earth Outpost.
4061, 14 March Governor Crunwell, already push hard with plans for a Colony ship using existing engines and jump drives to colonise the Kwiecien planet. Her thought was the worst case senario we will use it on another planet to colonise this was her goal to colonise two or three systems.
4062, 30 April 4th Ranger Regiment made an Orbital Drop onto Kwiecien II, 11th Ranger Battalion was pushed forward while 10th and 12th Bns held defensive positions. As contact with the Aquatic species was made they surrendered agreed to our protection straight away. However there is much civil unrest. It seems we require a full division to supress the population. A request for a new planetary guard has been put in place. New Large Troopships will need to be created to move the Guard forces across as well. The Governor has quickly set to work.
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4062 - 4067
The Aquarians are suffering from Low fuel shortages and the fact even thing take so long to move minerals from 3-4 jumps away is hard to progress. They eventually colonised the Kwiecien II planet and now want to send a range of equipment to that system. Now with corporations popping up commercial shipping should be easier and might be able to scrap a portion of the cargo fleet.
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4062, 26 May The Ruins on Noviello one has been full exploited, which considered of 2 Automated Mines, 1 Construction Factory, 4200 Uridium, 6.4 Million fuel, 6000 Maintenance Supplies.
4062, 5 June Five Mexican Colony Ships build this will be used to ship personal to Kwiecien II, the first colony ships with 350,000 people left.
4063, 9 January Captain Marcel Carline, commander of the Shipyards was killed while inspecting the rushed work to complete the 50K Athens Class Troop Transport. This class is purely for the movement of Cargo for troops. Captain Carline leave behind a wife and 2 kids. Continued unrest on Kwiecien II , with low level insurgency again the 4th Ranger Regiment.
4063, 12 March The JS Washington jumped into a new system through Npviello, the time honoured tradition remains The new system is called the Dorschner system after Commander Cameron Dorschner. The tiny M6-V solar, has only 2 planets and a small number of asteriods.
4063, 23 September Trying to get the Planetary Guard Division created has been a tough slog, Dr Peter Willis done his bit push ground force construction up to 500 ton per whatever. No one was really interested.
4064, 23 March The JS San Francisco entered into the a new system from Kwiecien, the system is now called Troise after the captain. The system has 10 planets, 50 moons around a Huge M1-III star, however is has a small mass. None important sseem to be in the system
4064, 7 December The first Civilian construction of the Asay Carrier Corporation build a C6 class Colony Ship.
4065, 8 April Intelligence update of Kwiecien II has revealed a population of 921m however 0 installations put this group of sentient shrimp in the pre warp era. lucky we have come along and liberated them.
4065, 10 September Over and over put ships are needing repairs and it taking them atleast 12 months to get to the outer sectors. I think we need to invest into Gates, else we will not be able to produce faster ships.
4066, 8 July Captain Hank Stop retired at the age of 43, a pretty poor effort, and the fact he has a system named after. him. Just disappointing.
4067, 24 October The Cormyr race on Kwiecien has now been conquered at the 1st Planetary Division patrolled the streets. We had also Autopsy one of the insurgents corpses.
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Some the public has queried why we running out of fuel so quickly why do we need such huge fuel tanks. The Aquarian are situated in a massive system. To the Aquarian Prime to the centre of the system is 15 Billion kms. A Jump to Visor is 17.9 BKm and a jump to the CEti 10bKm, lucky for us a jump to our main expansion point is only 3 Bkm away to Cancun. To travel to the Mobile Imperium Capital is a only a small 21 billion journey. 42 bkm for a return trip. To get to the new created colony in Kwiecien II, is only a 40bKm journey. and that is 4 jumps away, 80mkm return.
However if we look at our poor warships ships Mountain class and Amiens class only have a range of 60 bkm. Not even enough for a return journey. This is why it travels with the Jump Ships which carries additional fuel.
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4068-4070
Preparation for War. It was now time to take on the Mobile Imperium. Minerals now in check, Fuel in check. They been caught spying on us, we cannot put it past them they will try and attack before we do. If we get a first strike in, we might be able to balance out the war.
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4068, 16 February, The Athen Class Troop Transport have been handed over to the Ranger Command, and classified as Athen Fleets. Vce Admiral Lonnie Larranaga, pulled off a nice coup from Battle Command.
4068, 4 June Dr Karol Resch finished work on the Active Grav Sensor 36. After 16 Completed project each a worthy contribution to society the Cheerful and humble 52 year old received the the Companion Order of Aquaria, the second medal ever given. Before she embacked on her next top the EM Sensitivity 18.
4068, 23 July The first Jump Point ever stabilised by the Anchorage 001, Lt Cmdr Lowell Stille, complimented his crew before moving to the Simga P system, hopefully Anchorage 002 will be completed there task soon to pass through. Meanwhile of Aquarian Prime a govenor needed to over seen both the new colony and the capture colony on Kwiecien. Gov Ted Blough, a very loyal subject would oversee the captured population and Gov Stanley Womac would see the new colonist on the planet.
4068, 7 August With the Civilian space sector expanding, contracts were give to civilian based shipping lines rather then government carriers. This would provide resources for a more specified targeting of opportunities.
4069, 11 May A New Academy commandant need to be appointed since the last scientist retired due to bad health. Since them aimed at Science we have so many scientist without jobs. It was decided to appoint a Colonel Shaun Busbee to the role, recently back from his Ranger Roles in the occupation force, seen as fast climber and Political Reliable candidate. promoted to Brigadier he was pushed into the role before objections.
4069, 25 June Scientist Garland Losee, had received the order of Aquaria, after developing Compressed Carbon Armour. The 41 year old has only completed 4 projects, but managed to rack up enough creditability to receive the award. Ground Forces were impressed and want to roll this into the new Mk III Ranger models. However they are waiting for some new Energy upgrades before they put it into effect.
4069, 6 September Kwiecien II have moved to the acceptance of being occupied, however we on Aquaria prefer the thought we are uplifting them. Creating a better future.
4070, 20 February Kwiecien II have moved into being subjugated.
4070, 24 November A New missile was commissioned for the new Missile Destroyer. They wanted a Size 3 AS Missile able to hit a 5KK/s Target at 75mKm at at least 96% accuracy. Ankrum Armament came back with this and a new upgrade to the AA Missile. That fulfilled the 2m range 93% accuracy against 20KK/s Target
4070, 18 April Dr Kathy Clavin had completed the two missile specifications, and made them work they were quickly put into production to replace existing missiles.
4071, 22 September The building of 3 New classes of vessels the DDG River Class, the Search and Rescue Ship the Searess Class and another class that is under wraps it been put under secret development.
River class Missile Destroyer 14 259 tons 451 Crew 3 537.1 BP TCS 285 TH 205 EM 0
4488 km/s Armour 3-52 Shields 0-0 HTK 86 Sensors 180/0/0/0 DCR 45 PPV 63
Maint Life 2.92 Years MSP 2 825 AFR 108% IFR 1.5% 1YR 490 5YR 7 352 Max Repair 1440.0000 MSP
Magazine 605 Tractor Beam
Captain Control Rating 2 BRG ENG
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months Morale Check Required
Tien-Fairchild Magneto-plasma Drive EP1280.00 (1) Power 1280.0 Fuel Use 17.68% Signature 204.8000 Explosion 10%
Fuel Capacity 1 000 000 Litres Range 71.4 billion km (184 days at full power)
Dylla Weapon Systems Size 1 Missile Launcher (60.0% Reduction) (5) Missile Size: 1 Rate of Fire 30
Dylla Weapon Systems Size 3.0 Missile Launcher (20) Missile Size: 3 Rate of Fire 15
Cowan Electronics Missile Fire Control FC75-R10 (1) Range 75.2m km Resolution 10
Cowan Electronics Missile Fire Control FC8-R1 (1) Range 8m km Resolution 1
Ankrum Aramaments Defender 1.56 AAM (2) (50) Speed: 46 000 km/s End: 0.8m Range: 2.1m km WH: 1 Size: 1.000 TH: 521/312/156
Ankrum Aramaments Avenger .48 ASM 6 (75) (185) Speed: 20 933 km/s End: 60.9m Range: 76.5m km WH: 6 Size: 3.00 TH: 160/96/48
Amacher & Lannigan Active Search Sensor AS81-R10 450 (1) GPS 3240 Range 81.9m km Resolution 10
Amacher & Lannigan Active Search Sensor AS21-R1 50 (1) GPS 108 Range 21.9m km MCR 2m km Resolution 1
Weedman Electronics Thermal Sensor TH10-180 (1) Sensitivity 180 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 106.1m km
Searess class Rescue Shuttle 2 141 tons 25 Crew 224.6 BP TCS 43 TH 240 EM 0
5606 km/s Armour 7-14 Shields 0-0 HTK 10 Sensors 0/0/0/0 DCR 1 PPV 0
MSP 65 Max Repair 60.0000 MSP
Lieutenant Commander Control Rating 1 BRG
Intended Deployment Time: 180 months
Jarrette Turbine Commercial Magneto-plasma Drive EP240.00 (1) Power 240.0 Fuel Use 5.10% Signature 240.00 Explosion 5%
Fuel Capacity 50 000 Litres Range 82.4 billion km (170 days at full power)
4072, 28 February Dr Jules Eatmon, developed the Internal Confinement Fusion Drive, he now being subbed out to the commercial sector to put this theory into practice. The Joint Chiefs were not happy with jules as they had already started production of the 3 military designs.
4072, 28 May Maintenance Facilities started to be constructed on Kawak, the Human colony on Kweicien II . This will allow ships to hold position here, next we need some fuel refineries, and other requirements. This planet is designed to be a forward staging point for the next range of operations.
4073, 2 April Instead of revamping the Amein Frigates that been upgrade so many times. the decision was a New Frigate class. The Pacifia class build similar in design to the Amein class however more reliance on shoot and scoot tactics.
Pacifia class Frigate 6 987 tons 213 Crew 2 196.2 BP TCS 140 TH 400 EM 0
5725 km/s Armour 4-32 Shields 0-0 HTK 50 Sensors 180/0/0/0 DCR 29 PPV 22.44
Maint Life 7.01 Years MSP 1 866 AFR 41% IFR 0.6% 1YR 66 5YR 997 Max Repair 324 MSP
Magazine 55 Tractor Beam
Commander Control Rating 1 BRG
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months Morale Check Required
Tien-Fairchild Internal Fusion Drive EP400.00 (2) Power 800.0 Fuel Use 35.36% Signature 200.000 Explosion 10%
Fuel Capacity 250 000 Litres Range 18.2 billion km (36 days at full power)
Twin 20cm C5 Far Ultraviolet Laser Turret (1x2) Range 320 000km TS: 10000 km/s Power 20-10 RM 50 000 km ROF 10
Beam Fire Control R320-TS10000 (1) Max Range: 320 000 km TS: 10 000 km/s 97 94 91 88 84 81 78 75 72 69
Tokamak Fusion Reactor R11 (1) Total Power Output 10.5 Exp 5%
Wender Precision Arms Size 1 Box Launcher (10) Missile Size: 1 Hangar Reload 50 minutes MF Reload 8 hours
Wender Precision Arms Size 3.0 Box Launcher (15) Missile Size: 3.0 Hangar Reload 86 minutes MF Reload 14 hours
Cowans Electronics Missile Fire Control FC83-R10 150 (1) Range 83.4m km Resolution 10
Cowan Electronics Missile Fire Control FC8-R1 (1) Range 8m km Resolution 1
Amacher & Lannigan Active Search Sensor AS21-R1 50 (1) GPS 108 Range 21.9m km MCR 2m km Resolution 1
Amacher & Lannigan Active Search Sensor AS81-R10 450 (1) GPS 3240 Range 81.9m km Resolution 10
Weedman Electronics Thermal Sensor TH10-180 (1) Sensitivity 180 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 106.1m km
4073, 4 June 5 River Class DDG complete, the Aquaria knew what they must do, with a ship that can compete with the Mobile Imperium is was now time to pay back. This would give them a bloody nose, also if they came through the gateway to Aquaria we had our surprise waiting for them as well.
4074, 4 December Governor Leona Crumwell, waved off 1st Fleet, knowing she was about to start a war. But It is better to strike first then wait for the Mobile Imperium to strike the Aquaria people. Also from a political point of view she wanted to be know as the Governor that successgful took back the Bootis system which was discovered by the Aquarian first before they were booted out.
She had faith in her ships and crew, 5 DDG 5 DDE and 8 Frigates left, plus the special surprise to shock and awe the Mobile Imperium.