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January 30th 2025. Another red-letter day on the calendar. Today our Grav-Survey discovered THREE new Jump points simultaneously. Is some sort of strange space rift opening up? All three were discovered at the same moment, by Commander Coinneach. They are clustered together in an arc stretching from just inside the orbit of Jupiter, at the outer fringe of the Asteroid belt, out to a location roughly mid-way between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. Since Commander Coinneach is the only Naval officer who has ever left Known Space and returned alive, he has been ordered to investigate the nearest Jump-point. Cautiously. The other two Grav-Survey ships are too far away to assist in any reasonable time-frame, so once again he's going it alone... where no man has gone before.
 
Lord Blekinge said:
no missiles for our navy? some kind of corrupt practice is going on. Heads should roll:)
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Makes you wonder if there's some crack-head running one of the Navy Ops departments, doesn't it? :rofl:


There is no way of deleting a game, right? Cause it's all stored in a big database
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The "Delete" option is in the start-up screen.
 
telesien said:
I always wondered... why missiles? Isn't space the most perfect place for simple weapon like artillery? No air, very weak gravity... Unless you make those missiles guided, I don't see much reason for them.
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Guidance usually is the reason. No point firing off a whole lot of expensive nuclear warheads that will mostly miss, when you can steer them into the target.

Of course, a lot of writers are probably simply taking the space is an ocean metaphor too far. Personally, I don't mind. I like my fiction fun, and any serious thought behind it is a bonus.

Edit: Wow, one guy has found every jump point known to man. I sense a conspiracy...
 
Capt. Kiwi said:
Guidance usually is the reason. No point firing off a whole lot of expensive nuclear warheads that will mostly miss, when you can steer them into the target.

Of course, a lot of writers are probably simply taking the space is an ocean metaphor too far. Personally, I don't mind. I like my fiction fun, and any serious thought behind it is a bonus
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I think non-guided missiles are more frequent in games on small fighters. At least I remember them from Wing Commander series end I never understood it there.
 
telesien said:
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You got the word that you are the Governor of Mars, yes?

There's nobody there except Robots at the moment... but a Colony is planned. Soon. Probably next month.
 
Kinetic weapons may be a nice complement to guided nuclear warheads... Just take a ball of the heaviest element (neutronium?), impart it some ginormous kinetic energy and hurl it towards target... repeat about a quarter million times, can't see how the alien rat bastards will survive the barrage. :)
 
stamasd said:
Kinetic weapons may be a nice complement to guided nuclear warheads... Just take a ball of the heaviest element (neutronium?), impart it some ginormous kinetic energy and hurl it towards target... repeat about a quarter million times, can't see how the alien rat bastards will survive the barrage. :)
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Yeah, Kinetic Energy Weapons (in this game) require Neutronium... which is one reason that I've avoided them. We'll be out of Neutronium in eight months, unless these Martian mines come on-line PDQ.
 
blue emu said:
You got the word that you are the Governor of Mars, yes?

There's nobody there except Robots at the moment... but a Colony is planned. Soon. Probably next month.
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I shall place my seat of power on top of Cydonia!!! Bring me my slaves and finally carve that face to its proper glory!!!! MY GLORY!!! MUHAHAHAHA


Ehm.... You didn't hear anything.
 
blue emu said:
Yeah, Kinetic Energy Weapons (in this game) require Neutronium... which is one reason that I've avoided them. We'll be out of Neutronium in eight months, unless these Martian mines come on-line PDQ.
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I'll send you some Neutronium from my game... It's the only one I have plenty of, 60150 tons at 60% purity.
 
Felis Silvestris would like to be characterfied! A fancy fighter with incredible fire power sounds just about right ;)
 
1st February, 2025. Commander Coinneach has jumped into the Ross 248 system. A Red Dwarf star, two frozen rocky planets, a Gas Giant and a little frozen rock-ball. Nine Asteroids (seriously? NINE Asteroids?), a crap-load of comets, and no prospects for colonization. He has been immediately recalled to the Sol system, to explore the second anomaly of the three.

EDIT: Lieutenant-Commander Felix Sylvestris has become our first Fighter Pilot. He is motivated, distant in his relations with others, and has the fifth-highest Fighter Operations bonus among our 88 officers... the four officers with higher ratings are too senior to fly combat missions in Fighter craft.
 
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blue emu said:
1st February, 2025. Commander Coinneach has jumped into the Ross 248 system. A Red Dwarf star, two frozen rocky planets, a Gas Giant and a little frozen rock-ball. Nine Asteroids (seriously? NINE Asteroids?), a crap-load of comets, and no prospects for colonization.
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Aw nuts. Had that been Ross 154 we could have begun colonizing Merlin.
 
stamasd said:
repeat about a quarter million times, can't see how the alien rat bastards will survive the barrage. :)
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But, to quote from one of the crowning moments of awesome in modern gaming history, "once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going 'til it hits something. That can be a ship. Or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someones day, somewhere and sometime."
 
6th February, 2025. Commander Coinneach has jumped into the Procyon system... and found a habitable planet!

Procyon is a F5-IV star, considerably larger and hotter than Sol, and all of its inner worlds are either scorched cinders or blast furnaces... but the outermost planet, Procyon VII, is much cooler and has an atmosphere almost identical to Earth's own: Nitrogen 79%, Oxygen 21%. If anything, Procyon VII is too cold for comfort. The temperature is sixty degrees below freezing, and the planet's hydrosphere is locked up in a world-spanning ice-sheet. Still... this planet, as unappetizing as it seems, is the best Colonization prospect that we've seen since Mars. It is well within our technological capability to maintain a Colony on it.

Perhaps we're being hasty? Does someone already call this planet home? A hurried consultation within Naval Ops has resulted in the following orders: Commander Coinneach will transit back to the Sol system and investigate the last of the three Jump points. A Geo-Survey ship will move to this Jump point and transit into the Procyon system to start sweeping the planets, moons and asteroids for minerals... or signs of life...

... any volunteers?
 
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