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Real life did, in fact, intrude, with a couple of overdue papers that had to be done sometime last week and have only now been completed and shipped off. But fear not, your trusty Humphrey is back. First, dealing with a bit of backlog:
KzS Stuckenschmidt is assigned to the newly christened Wayland 25 kt Freighter FT Jakob Fugger.
Fregattenkapitan Stamasd currently presides over a desk job pending deployment of more survey vessels.
Skills:
Fleet initiative: 168
Political reliability: 15
Survey bonus: 30 %
Terraforming bonus 10 %
Traits:
Follows orders without question
Unforgiving
Will not delegate
Annual Report, 10th of April 2111
Populated Systems
(All population figures in mio of inhabitants)
(Shipyard capacity given as maximum naval and civilian capacities, followed by total yard and slipway numbers.)
Sol
Earth
- Population: 655
- Industrial Capacity: 2,972 (226 Factories, 574 Conventional Industries, 5 % governor bonus)
- Mining Capacity (nominal): 3,088 (200 Mines, 574 Conventional Industries, 20 % governor bonus)
- Shipyard capacity: 1,000 N1/3 35,000 C2/2
- Maintenance capacity: 1,000 t
- Research capacity (nominal): 1,200 RP/yr
- Military Academies: 1
Automated Mining Colonies
Sol
Luna - 28 Automines
Civilian Mining Colonies
None.
Listening Posts
None.
Other Outposts of Note
None.
Military:
Home Fleet
No ships.
CivCom
SurCom
GEV Johan Galle
GEV Tycho Brahe
GEV Johannes Kepler
LogCom
FT Jakob Fugger
ResCom
AM Wayland H 001 - Under construction
Ground Forces
5 Armoured divisions - Earth
10 Infantry divisions - Earth
Wealth:
130,402
Miscellaneous status updates
The 2111 annual report was delayed by three months due to the Christmas Card Incident, in which an unauthorized third party compromised the census database AI, forcing Directorate specialists to growpram a new AI from scratch. It was decided to use up-to-date figures in the report. The Christmas Card Incident is also noteworthy in that it was the first successful snowcrashing of a true (HV 1 or more) adaptive intelligence. True adaptive intelligences had previously been thought immune to this particular flavor of logic bombs. The perpetrators remain unclear, but it is expected that they are to be found among the numerous anti-Directorate paramilitary groups that have sprung up since the Fifteen Minute Revolution.
FT Jakob Fugger has spent the months since its launch shuttling automated mines to Luna and minerals the other way. This causes some strain on mineral logistics as Earth's mineral output dropped for the first time since the launch of the first five-year plan, strain which Logistics Command is eager to ameliorate through the construction of a pair of TN-Tek Non-Inertial Mineral Catapults - mass drivers, in the vernacular. There have been some protests concerning the safety of such facilities, as well as potential military applications of the technology. The Directorate has assured the public that the mass drives will be able to hit their targets with the utmost precision, and that furthermore the receiving areas will be located in places far from human civilization yet convenient to Earth's trans-Newtonian industries (examples cited included the Sahara and Gobi deserts and the headquarters of the Bundesbank).
Cairo University's trans-Newtonian accelerator facility was completed in early January 2111, and is expected to increase available beam-time by as much as 20 %.
KzS Stuckenschmidt is assigned to the newly christened Wayland 25 kt Freighter FT Jakob Fugger.
Fregattenkapitan Stamasd currently presides over a desk job pending deployment of more survey vessels.
Skills:
Fleet initiative: 168
Political reliability: 15
Survey bonus: 30 %
Terraforming bonus 10 %
Traits:
Follows orders without question
Unforgiving
Will not delegate
Annual Report, 10th of April 2111
Populated Systems
(All population figures in mio of inhabitants)
(Shipyard capacity given as maximum naval and civilian capacities, followed by total yard and slipway numbers.)
Sol
Earth
- Population: 655
- Industrial Capacity: 2,972 (226 Factories, 574 Conventional Industries, 5 % governor bonus)
- Mining Capacity (nominal): 3,088 (200 Mines, 574 Conventional Industries, 20 % governor bonus)
- Shipyard capacity: 1,000 N1/3 35,000 C2/2
- Maintenance capacity: 1,000 t
- Research capacity (nominal): 1,200 RP/yr
- Military Academies: 1
Automated Mining Colonies
Sol
Luna - 28 Automines
Civilian Mining Colonies
None.
Listening Posts
None.
Other Outposts of Note
None.
Military:
Home Fleet
No ships.
CivCom
SurCom
GEV Johan Galle
GEV Tycho Brahe
GEV Johannes Kepler
LogCom
FT Jakob Fugger
ResCom
AM Wayland H 001 - Under construction
Ground Forces
5 Armoured divisions - Earth
10 Infantry divisions - Earth
Wealth:
130,402
Miscellaneous status updates
The 2111 annual report was delayed by three months due to the Christmas Card Incident, in which an unauthorized third party compromised the census database AI, forcing Directorate specialists to growpram a new AI from scratch. It was decided to use up-to-date figures in the report. The Christmas Card Incident is also noteworthy in that it was the first successful snowcrashing of a true (HV 1 or more) adaptive intelligence. True adaptive intelligences had previously been thought immune to this particular flavor of logic bombs. The perpetrators remain unclear, but it is expected that they are to be found among the numerous anti-Directorate paramilitary groups that have sprung up since the Fifteen Minute Revolution.
FT Jakob Fugger has spent the months since its launch shuttling automated mines to Luna and minerals the other way. This causes some strain on mineral logistics as Earth's mineral output dropped for the first time since the launch of the first five-year plan, strain which Logistics Command is eager to ameliorate through the construction of a pair of TN-Tek Non-Inertial Mineral Catapults - mass drivers, in the vernacular. There have been some protests concerning the safety of such facilities, as well as potential military applications of the technology. The Directorate has assured the public that the mass drives will be able to hit their targets with the utmost precision, and that furthermore the receiving areas will be located in places far from human civilization yet convenient to Earth's trans-Newtonian industries (examples cited included the Sahara and Gobi deserts and the headquarters of the Bundesbank).
Cairo University's trans-Newtonian accelerator facility was completed in early January 2111, and is expected to increase available beam-time by as much as 20 %.
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Medio July, Earth's final recoverable Boronide reserves are mined. This is not a cause for great worry, as consumption is moderate and the lunar mining operation has several million tons of ultimately recoverable reserves, at a very acceptable grade.
Medio August, the ordered pair of TN-Tek mag-catapults has been completed, and one is loaded on FT Jakob Fugger for deployment to Luna.
The inaugural launch of the mass driver pair is carried out without a hitch - the fifty ton mineral packet is safely deposited in the designated landing area by the Earth Orbital Traffic Control mass driver. The Press Directorate insists that the housing block in which the packet landed was scheduled for demolition, and vehemently denies failing to bleed enough velocity from the packet prior to its atmospheric entry. One of the technicians involved told a reporter on conditions of anonymity: "With a mass driver assisted orbital insertion, you don't miss by half a kilometer and ruin a housing block. If you miss, you miss by half a continent and cause a five-megaton impact."
In the same week, Kingepyon finishes growpramming the new standardized mining AI, expected to increase mineral extraction by 20 per cent. The Planning Directorate has asked him to leverage the knowledge gained from this research into a direct database integration of all six major trans-Newtonian research universities in the empire.
Medio September, Crayven Orbital Yard finishes its current expansion plan. As Crayven Enterprises has encountered unexpected technical difficulties in adapting terraforming technology to a ship-based platform, a new round of yard expansion is scheduled, to enable the yard to produce Wayland M class asteroid miners. Crayven Corporation is rumoured to hope that the new larger design and the additional time until the yard is ready will permit them to develop a functioning orbital terraforming module.
A few days before the start of the Christmas holidays, an expansion of the Directorate's military scholarship program was announced. This should roughly double the number of trained crewmen, administrators, officers and trans-Newtonian research specialists who graduate in each class. The latter point is thought to be of particular importance. It is suggested that the released industrial capacity is devoted to further expansion of our universities, in equal measure to increase graduate throughput and modern laboratories.
Real life did, in fact, intrude, with a couple of overdue papers that had to be done sometime last week and have only now been completed and shipped off. But fear not, your trusty Humphrey is back. First, dealing with a bit of backlog:
KzS Stuckenschmidt is assigned to the newly christened Wayland 25 kt Freighter FT Jakob Fugger.
Fregattenkapitan Stamasd currently presides over a desk job pending deployment of more survey vessels.
Skills:
Fleet initiative: 168
Political reliability: 15
Survey bonus: 30 %
Terraforming bonus 10 %
Traits:
Follows orders without question
Unforgiving
Will not delegate
Annual Report, 19th of December 2111
Populated Systems
(All population figures in mio of inhabitants)
(Shipyard capacity given as maximum naval and civilian capacities, followed by total yard and slipway numbers.)
Sol
Earth
- Population: 665
- Industrial Capacity: 3,014 (230 Factories, 570 Conventional Industries, 5 % governor bonus)
- Mining Capacity (nominal): 3,730 (200 Mines, 2 Automines, 570 Conventional Industries, 20 % governor bonus)
- Shipyard capacity: 1,000 N1/3 35,000 C2/2
- Maintenance capacity: 1,000 t
- Research capacity (nominal): 1,200 RP/yr
- Military Academies: 2
Automated Mining Colonies
Sol
Luna - 30 Automines
Civilian Mining Colonies
None.
Listening Posts
None.
Other Outposts of Note
None.
Military:
Home Fleet
No ships.
CivCom
SurCom
GEV Johan Galle
GEV Tycho Brahe
GEV Johannes Kepler
LogCom
FT Jakob Fugger
ResCom
AM Wayland H 001 - Under construction
Ground Forces
5 Armoured divisions - Earth
10 Infantry divisions - Earth
Wealth:
137,433
Miscellaneous status updates
We have now pretty much completed the modernization of our industrial plant, and need to decide an overall strategy for the next decade or so. Basically this boils down to three choices:
- Sol First strategy: Focus on expanding manufacturing, research and mining capacity to the exclusion of extrasolar activities.
- Voyages of discovery: Focus industrial production on expanding manufacturing, research and mining in Sol, but focus research on jump technology.
- Great Crusade: Focus both industrial production and research efforts on conquering the stars.
Medio August, the ordered pair of TN-Tek mag-catapults has been completed, and one is loaded on FT Jakob Fugger for deployment to Luna.
The inaugural launch of the mass driver pair is carried out without a hitch - the fifty ton mineral packet is safely deposited in the designated landing area by the Earth Orbital Traffic Control mass driver. The Press Directorate insists that the housing block in which the packet landed was scheduled for demolition, and vehemently denies failing to bleed enough velocity from the packet prior to its atmospheric entry. One of the technicians involved told a reporter on conditions of anonymity: "With a mass driver assisted orbital insertion, you don't miss by half a kilometer and ruin a housing block. If you miss, you miss by half a continent and cause a five-megaton impact."
In the same week, Kingepyon finishes growpramming the new standardized mining AI, expected to increase mineral extraction by 20 per cent. The Planning Directorate has asked him to leverage the knowledge gained from this research into a direct database integration of all six major trans-Newtonian research universities in the empire.
Medio September, Crayven Orbital Yard finishes its current expansion plan. As Crayven Enterprises has encountered unexpected technical difficulties in adapting terraforming technology to a ship-based platform, a new round of yard expansion is scheduled, to enable the yard to produce Wayland M class asteroid miners. Crayven Corporation is rumoured to hope that the new larger design and the additional time until the yard is ready will permit them to develop a functioning orbital terraforming module.
A few days before the start of the Christmas holidays, an expansion of the Directorate's military scholarship program was announced. This should roughly double the number of trained crewmen, administrators, officers and trans-Newtonian research specialists who graduate in each class. The latter point is thought to be of particular importance. It is suggested that the released industrial capacity is devoted to further expansion of our universities, in equal measure to increase graduate throughput and modern laboratories.
Real life did, in fact, intrude, with a couple of overdue papers that had to be done sometime last week and have only now been completed and shipped off. But fear not, your trusty Humphrey is back. First, dealing with a bit of backlog:
KzS Stuckenschmidt is assigned to the newly christened Wayland 25 kt Freighter FT Jakob Fugger.
Fregattenkapitan Stamasd currently presides over a desk job pending deployment of more survey vessels.
Skills:
Fleet initiative: 168
Political reliability: 15
Survey bonus: 30 %
Terraforming bonus 10 %
Traits:
Follows orders without question
Unforgiving
Will not delegate
Annual Report, 19th of December 2111
Populated Systems
(All population figures in mio of inhabitants)
(Shipyard capacity given as maximum naval and civilian capacities, followed by total yard and slipway numbers.)
Sol
Earth
- Population: 665
- Industrial Capacity: 3,014 (230 Factories, 570 Conventional Industries, 5 % governor bonus)
- Mining Capacity (nominal): 3,730 (200 Mines, 2 Automines, 570 Conventional Industries, 20 % governor bonus)
- Shipyard capacity: 1,000 N1/3 35,000 C2/2
- Maintenance capacity: 1,000 t
- Research capacity (nominal): 1,200 RP/yr
- Military Academies: 2
Automated Mining Colonies
Sol
Luna - 30 Automines
Civilian Mining Colonies
None.
Listening Posts
None.
Other Outposts of Note
None.
Military:
Home Fleet
No ships.
CivCom
SurCom
GEV Johan Galle
GEV Tycho Brahe
GEV Johannes Kepler
LogCom
FT Jakob Fugger
ResCom
AM Wayland H 001 - Under construction
Ground Forces
5 Armoured divisions - Earth
10 Infantry divisions - Earth
Wealth:
137,433
Miscellaneous status updates
We have now pretty much completed the modernization of our industrial plant, and need to decide an overall strategy for the next decade or so. Basically this boils down to three choices:
- Sol First strategy: Focus on expanding manufacturing, research and mining capacity to the exclusion of extrasolar activities.
- Voyages of discovery: Focus industrial production on expanding manufacturing, research and mining in Sol, but focus research on jump technology.
- Great Crusade: Focus both industrial production and research efforts on conquering the stars.
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Voyages of discovery. Getting humanity into the stars should be our ultimate goal, but harnessing the full potential of Sol system should have a priority.
I simply don't think that 1 of the 3 will be the right choice. It has to be a combination.
1: We need resources in high numbers and Sol is the only place we have now.
2: Jump Technology is needed for next steps, but we need to ensure everything beforehand in Sol.
3: Crusade is good - When we have the resources for this. We risk running into hostiles next door and I have lost Sol more than once with too quick exploration when my navy was not ready for it.
1: We need resources in high numbers and Sol is the only place we have now.
2: Jump Technology is needed for next steps, but we need to ensure everything beforehand in Sol.
3: Crusade is good - When we have the resources for this. We risk running into hostiles next door and I have lost Sol more than once with too quick exploration when my navy was not ready for it.
That's essentially the voyages of discovery option: Use factory-days to expand economically, use lab-days to expand militarily. Me, I'd pick Sol First and throw everything at industrial expansion, but that is going to make for a boring game for the next three to five decades for everyone who is not me.
I'd vote for anything that produces an exciting AAR.
That doesn't mean I wouldn't go for option 1 - but if you can't make the non-exciting parts of that happen relatively quickly, it's probably not the best way to guarantee excitement. ;-)
That doesn't mean I wouldn't go for option 1 - but if you can't make the non-exciting parts of that happen relatively quickly, it's probably not the best way to guarantee excitement. ;-)
If you choose Sol first option, feel free to "fast forward" to the part where we actually leave the system. IMO, anyway.
I´d vote for "Great Crusade".
Why, you ask? Because it will be the most fun.
Sure, the rational thing to do would be to build up Sol, research as much as possible and _then_ explore outwards, but where is the fun in that? Going out there with absolutely basic technology, now that is a challenge!
Why, you ask? Because it will be the most fun.
Sure, the rational thing to do would be to build up Sol, research as much as possible and _then_ explore outwards, but where is the fun in that? Going out there with absolutely basic technology, now that is a challenge!
Stamasd reached to the left side of his desk and opened a drawer. He pulled a white box, opened it and shook a few pills out on the desk. He put back all but 4 of the pills in the box, stared at the 4 for some time, then took another one and put it back also, then closed the drawer. He picked the other 3 pills, and in one move threw them down the throat and swallowed hard.
"This damned headache is getting the best of me. Ooooh... Sitting at a desk all day long filling paperwork, soon I won't even see straight anymore and will need glasses. Friggin' job, they forced me to sign up for a dangerous explorer job as a bait, then they have me reviewing reports on the prepackaged meal rations supply on secondary fleet freighters"
"But... I did sign, so I gotta do what they tell me to do"
"Grrr. If at least they had assigned a secretary to me. But noooo, the felon doesn't get help. Figures"
I would favor a major economic and production focus on expanding our resource-base in the Sol and neighbouring systems, while still building a half-dozen or so exploration ships to map out the nearby parts of the Galaxy and to identify nearby threats and opportunities. Most of the initial wave of exploration ships will eventually be lost to Precursor or Swarm infestations... but by the time we run out of them, we will be in a much better position to build a second wave of explorers, and we will have decent info on nearby threats and potential extra-solar mining sites.
You don't need to report the build-up years in too much detail, of course.
You don't need to report the build-up years in too much detail, of course.
The Design Directorate is pleased to announce the tenure of Brigitte G. Caltar, niece of the famous scientist Gaius Caltar.
Skills:
Research bonus 10 %
Admin rating 2
Traits:
Averse to risk
Candid
On the 19th of April 2112, the Ship Directorate is pleased to announce the launch of Earth's first asteroid mining vessel, under the command of KvK Deaghaidh. As keelowner he has naming rights to the ship, which has been deployed to an inner asteroid rich in duranium, mercassium and sorium.
(For those keeping track, it was Rendap's rock, first surveyed by GEV Johan Galle.)
Skills:
Research bonus 10 %
Admin rating 2
Traits:
Averse to risk
Candid
On the 19th of April 2112, the Ship Directorate is pleased to announce the launch of Earth's first asteroid mining vessel, under the command of KvK Deaghaidh. As keelowner he has naming rights to the ship, which has been deployed to an inner asteroid rich in duranium, mercassium and sorium.
(For those keeping track, it was Rendap's rock, first surveyed by GEV Johan Galle.)
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From: kingepyon@des.dir
To: bgc@des.dir
Subject: Beamline calibration
Message: Motoko says she got some funny results from the weekend's run. She's gone over her math twice, and she says it all checks out. Can you walk her through a calibration cycle to make sure our setup matches the Tokyo group's?
Kind regards,
Kingepyon
Lead scientist
Design Directorate
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Woot, the family's honour and scientific position are saved
I tend to go with what Blue Emu said in my own campaigns. Not that I do that great a job of developing Sol
I tend to go with what Blue Emu said in my own campaigns. Not that I do that great a job of developing Sol
Oops. That would be Randakar's Rock, actually, since Randakar is the one in command of the Johan Galle.
Sadly, no. Survey results have been pretty desultory since the early big finds. We may find that our strategic posture will be decided by mineral availability rather than preference. (Newsflash: See below.)
In other news, we have confirmation that the pre-generated NPR has been exploring, because the time step just dropped to 40 seconds.
And then it went back up to five days and 12 hours, and then back up to a full month. That looks like Swarm to me. Poor bastards, less than twenty years in, even with the trans-Newtonian start the NPRs get, they have no real chance of outrunning or outgunning the Swarm soldier ships.
And here we go again. Yup, definitely Swarm jumping a couple of scouts or gatebuilders somewhere.
On 27th of June, Rendap von Rabenstrange was reassessed as having a training score of 50, following a series of highly successful drills. The same day, Wayland Orbital Yard announced that it was laying keel for the third H class asteroid miner, the first time the Wayland yard has built two ships in parallel.
Incidentally, we need to decide on a colony development doctrine. Specifically, do we build infrastructure ourselves, or do we rely on the private sector to ship it from the motherworld? (Colonists are a no-brainer - the private sector always ridiculously overbuilds colony ships.)
Along the same lines, do we demand that all private sector colony ships have cargo complements to carry infrastructure, on a bring-your-own-air-scrubbers theory? Or do we let the private companies build specialized ships and pray that they will act sensibly (or plug the holes with our own cargo ships? Crayven Corporation has drawn up schematics for a series of spaceliners, and are vigorously protesting the idea of having to ship low-margin infrastructure on the same runs as they ship high-value passengers. On the other hand, new colonies will need infrastructure, and it is cheaper for us to let the private sector ship it than to build it in factories.
On the 27th of July 2112, Rendap von Rabenstrange and the crew of the Johannes Kepler hit pay dirt on a Kuiper Belt object! 320 thousand tons of Duranium, 150 thousand tons of Corundium and 100 thousand tons of Sorium, all excellent grade. Seems like we do have a Rendap's Rock after all.
On the same day, the Jakob Fugger began loading the infrastructure for a scientific outpost on Mars. It is hoped that this will eventually grow to become humanity's first genuine extraterrestrial colony.
On the 10th of October 2112, ResCom abandons Gallicite extraction on Earth.
In other news, we have confirmation that the pre-generated NPR has been exploring, because the time step just dropped to 40 seconds.
And then it went back up to five days and 12 hours, and then back up to a full month. That looks like Swarm to me. Poor bastards, less than twenty years in, even with the trans-Newtonian start the NPRs get, they have no real chance of outrunning or outgunning the Swarm soldier ships.
And here we go again. Yup, definitely Swarm jumping a couple of scouts or gatebuilders somewhere.
On 27th of June, Rendap von Rabenstrange was reassessed as having a training score of 50, following a series of highly successful drills. The same day, Wayland Orbital Yard announced that it was laying keel for the third H class asteroid miner, the first time the Wayland yard has built two ships in parallel.
Incidentally, we need to decide on a colony development doctrine. Specifically, do we build infrastructure ourselves, or do we rely on the private sector to ship it from the motherworld? (Colonists are a no-brainer - the private sector always ridiculously overbuilds colony ships.)
Along the same lines, do we demand that all private sector colony ships have cargo complements to carry infrastructure, on a bring-your-own-air-scrubbers theory? Or do we let the private companies build specialized ships and pray that they will act sensibly (or plug the holes with our own cargo ships? Crayven Corporation has drawn up schematics for a series of spaceliners, and are vigorously protesting the idea of having to ship low-margin infrastructure on the same runs as they ship high-value passengers. On the other hand, new colonies will need infrastructure, and it is cheaper for us to let the private sector ship it than to build it in factories.
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Crayven A class Spaceliner 8,650 tons 223 Crew 246.6 BP TCS 173 TH 250 EM 0
1445 km/s Armour 1-37 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
MSP 18 Max Repair 16 MSP
Passengers 250
Rheinmetall CE-1 Commercial Engine (4) Power 62.5 Fuel Use 10% Signature 62.5 Armour 0 Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range 104.0 billion km (833 days at full power)
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
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Crayven B class Spaceliner 19,500 tons 484 Crew 504.6 BP TCS 390 TH 625 EM 0
1602 km/s Armour 1-64 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
MSP 16 Max Repair 16 MSP
Passengers 500
Rheinmetall CE-1 Commercial Engine (10) Power 62.5 Fuel Use 10% Signature 62.5 Armour 0 Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 150,000 Litres Range 138.4 billion km (1000 days at full power)
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
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Crayven C class Spaceliner 30,150 tons 742 Crew 747.2 BP TCS 603 TH 1000 EM 0
1658 km/s Armour 1-86 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
MSP 15 Max Repair 16 MSP
Passengers 750
Rheinmetall CE-1 Commercial Engine (16) Power 62.5 Fuel Use 10% Signature 62.5 Armour 0 Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 200,000 Litres Range 119.4 billion km (833 days at full power)
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposesOn the 27th of July 2112, Rendap von Rabenstrange and the crew of the Johannes Kepler hit pay dirt on a Kuiper Belt object! 320 thousand tons of Duranium, 150 thousand tons of Corundium and 100 thousand tons of Sorium, all excellent grade. Seems like we do have a Rendap's Rock after all.
On the same day, the Jakob Fugger began loading the infrastructure for a scientific outpost on Mars. It is hoped that this will eventually grow to become humanity's first genuine extraterrestrial colony.
On the 10th of October 2112, ResCom abandons Gallicite extraction on Earth.
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On the 10th of December 2112, Wayland Orbital Yard finished construction of the Empire's second 25 kt freighter, the first of two currently on order. This caused some confusion, as the Shipbuilding Directorate had ordered a pair of H class asteroid mining vessels. The confusion was eventually traced to a clerical error on part of the Shipbuilding Directorate, and it was decided to commission the freighter regardless, and attach it to the 1st Freighter Fleet under KzS Stuckenschmidt. An order was immediately placed for an H class asteroid miner. (I dun goofed here and ordered two freighters where I thought I ordered asteroid miners. But it turns out that this wasn't any great catastrophe, as back-to-back building of asteroid miners puts an unacceptable strain on our Corundium supply anyway.)
On the same date, Kai Allard, the governor of Earth, introduced several new procedures in his mining administration. It is expected that this will result in a 16 % improvement in mining output on Earth, placing it 30 % above nominal output.
On the 10th of January 2113, KzS Stuckenschmidt improved his crew training score to 125
On the 10th of February, the second of the mistakenly ordered freighters was commissioned and attached to the 1st freighter fleet. Another H class asteroid miner was ordered.
On the 10th of March, GEV Johan Galle suffers a critical maintenance failure in its geological survey sensors, prompting a general recall order to the geosurvey fleet for overhaul at Earth.
On the same day, ResCom abandons Neutronium extraction on Earth.
On the 10th of February 2114, Crayven Orbital Yard finishes its expansion program, and lays the keel for the Wayland M class asteroid miner AM Nostromo.
On the 10th of April, GEV Johan Galle and GEV Johannes Kepler completed their routine maintenance and resumed survey duties.
On the 10th of June, GEV Tycho Brahe complete its maintenance cycle and departs for the Kuiper Belt.
On the 10th of August, AM Wayland H 002 is completed and sent to join Asteroid Mining Fleet #1 at Randakar's Rock. Another keel is immediately laid.
On the 12th of September, Corundium shortages from the back-to-back asteroid miner builds begin to bite. The retooling of West Point to trans-Newtonian standards is suspended to conserve Corundium, and the industrial capacity is diverted to the construction of a trans-Newtonian beamline at the Nanking Technical University neutron scattering facility.
On the 23rd of September, the private shipping line Platt Carrier Alliance launches a Wayland 25 kt freighter.
On the same date, Kai Allard, the governor of Earth, introduced several new procedures in his mining administration. It is expected that this will result in a 16 % improvement in mining output on Earth, placing it 30 % above nominal output.
On the 10th of January 2113, KzS Stuckenschmidt improved his crew training score to 125
On the 10th of February, the second of the mistakenly ordered freighters was commissioned and attached to the 1st freighter fleet. Another H class asteroid miner was ordered.
On the 10th of March, GEV Johan Galle suffers a critical maintenance failure in its geological survey sensors, prompting a general recall order to the geosurvey fleet for overhaul at Earth.
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Transmitter: GEV Johan Galle, Kuiper Belt
Recipient: Survey Command, CivCom, Earth
Potential voice identification database match(es): Lt. Mission Vao (p < 0.001, affiliation: Communications Officer, GEV Johan Galle)
Message begins
This is the GEV Johan Galle. We just had a power surge fry the circuit breakers on the geosurvey sensors. Requesting return to Earth for resupply and overhaul. The skipper also wants some words with the DesDir boffins about maybe making expensive kit like survey sensors fail a bit more gracefully. GEV Johan Galle out.
Message ends
Transmitter: Survey Command, CivCom, Earth
Recipient: GEV Johan Galle
Potential voice identification database match(es): Ensign Alexis Venizelos (p < 0.001, affiliation: Communications Specialist, SurCom)
Message begins
You guys just keep having all the luck, eh, Mission? I've forwarded your request to SurCom's maintenance section, and they are grumbling that it's, quote, "your own damn fault for running half a year over your scheduled three-year maintenance cycle," end quote. Ah, it'll be good to have you back. I'll buy the first round at Helga's when you get here.
Message endsOn the same day, ResCom abandons Neutronium extraction on Earth.
On the 10th of February 2114, Crayven Orbital Yard finishes its expansion program, and lays the keel for the Wayland M class asteroid miner AM Nostromo.
On the 10th of April, GEV Johan Galle and GEV Johannes Kepler completed their routine maintenance and resumed survey duties.
On the 10th of June, GEV Tycho Brahe complete its maintenance cycle and departs for the Kuiper Belt.
On the 10th of August, AM Wayland H 002 is completed and sent to join Asteroid Mining Fleet #1 at Randakar's Rock. Another keel is immediately laid.
On the 12th of September, Corundium shortages from the back-to-back asteroid miner builds begin to bite. The retooling of West Point to trans-Newtonian standards is suspended to conserve Corundium, and the industrial capacity is diverted to the construction of a trans-Newtonian beamline at the Nanking Technical University neutron scattering facility.
On the 23rd of September, the private shipping line Platt Carrier Alliance launches a Wayland 25 kt freighter.
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From: bgc@des.dir
To: kingepyon@des.dir
Subject: Re: Beamline calibration
Message: We walked through the calibration, and it all checks out. I don't see how it could be a calibration artifact. Anyway, I'm beat. I'll think about it over the weekend and go over the math with Motoko Monday, while the beamline gathers Duranium spectra.
Hugs,
Brigitte G. Caltar,
Propulsion Specialist
Design Directorate
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