Posted by: Michael Sandy
« on: November 22, 2006, 09:41:51 PM »Ah, my bad. The 48 mines are on the comet, not the distant colony. That explains it.
The Commonwealth needs to do several things:
1) Recall the Grav survey fleet, take off their supply, and mothball them.
Send out the Dionysus out to find and recall them.
2) Mothball ships drawing lots of supply. Definitely mothball the Kresta.
3) Scrap ships. Possibly the Dracon, because of its obsolete weapons, the geosurvey ships. New geosurvey ships with better drives and advanced sensors. Scrap the grav survey ships that do not have advanced grav sensors.
The Commonwealth is actually in pretty good shape. With the Survey Fleet mothballed, Duranium supplies should keep up with supply, as ships with >25% maintenance get mothballed.
Put the warships into unfunded refit, that will allow them to be available on relatively short notice without the full overhaul cost. It ties up a shipyard, but that can be cleared by replacing the warship engines with the new MP Drive engines.
4) Station the Fast Colony Jump Cruiser at the Thebes/Mycenae warp point and leave it on Standby until the convoy arrives. Or leave the Dracon of the Thebes patrol there.
5) The Plataea squadron should load up with Duranium and Mercassium first, and only then load up the other minerals. Once they get back to Earth, the Commonwealth should have only 1 Atlas and the Thebes squadron Dracon as active Jump Cruisers. And that Atlas is needed to get Duranium from Plataea or Acheron.
If refitting ships do not consume supply, then plopping a ship in a shipyard and then not giving it the resources to refit would allow a ship to be put in a mothball-like state without actually having a reactivation cost.
The disadvantage would be in tying up a shipyard doing so.
I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing to allow.
Question: Do ships use supplies while being refitted?
Quote from: "Steve Walmsley"Although Thebes now has ninety-eight manned mines and seventy-two automated mines, it
23rd October 2051
The Mycenae
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