Korvettankapitan Culise has been promoted to Fregattenkapitan and assigned to Kaefer 002.
Destination: Saturn.
Destination: Saturn.
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Without any prompting from me, the game has spontaneously promoted Fregattenkapitan Hyme to the rank of Kapitan zur See.
Hyme now outranks everybody (except, of course, the Emu).
The third Kaefer class Survey Craft has rolled out of the factory and has been assigned to Fregattenkapitan Noco. Destination: Uranus.
Our three pioneer explorers, Hyme, TheExecuter and Stucki, are being recalled to Earth for R&R, after which they will trade in their obsolete Schmetterlings for brand new Kaefers and head out again.
Hyme now outranks everybody (except, of course, the Emu).
The third Kaefer class Survey Craft has rolled out of the factory and has been assigned to Fregattenkapitan Noco. Destination: Uranus.
Our three pioneer explorers, Hyme, TheExecuter and Stucki, are being recalled to Earth for R&R, after which they will trade in their obsolete Schmetterlings for brand new Kaefers and head out again.
Fregattenkapitan ArrowFiend has discovered high-purity Sorium in the atmosphere of the gas giant Jupiter... 70,000 tons at 100% purity. Once our technology advances to the point that we can scoop-mine the atmosphere of gas giants, that's enough to convert into 70,000,000 tons of rocket fuel.
... in this iteration of the game, ships suck back rocket fuel at an appalling rate. You can NEVER have too much fuel.
... in this iteration of the game, ships suck back rocket fuel at an appalling rate. You can NEVER have too much fuel.
Kapitan zur See Hyme boarded the new Kaefer 004 as soon as it rolled out through the factory doors, and he is off to explore the moons of Neptune.
We have gained our first Weapon scientist! He specializes in Beam weaponry (Lasers, Particle Beams, Plasma weapons, Beam fire controls, etc).
Still hoping for a Missile researcher... Werner von Braun, where are you???
Our fifth Kaefer Survey Craft has been finished, and Fregattenkapitan Stuckenschmidt has taken command. Just one more, for TheExecuter, and this production run will be finished.
EDIT: TheExecuter has traded his Schmetterling for a Kaefer and headed out again. All of our six survey explorers have now upgraded to the latest model of Survey Craft, and the Schmetterlings have been decommissioned and retired as museum exhibits.
Still hoping for a Missile researcher... Werner von Braun, where are you???
Our fifth Kaefer Survey Craft has been finished, and Fregattenkapitan Stuckenschmidt has taken command. Just one more, for TheExecuter, and this production run will be finished.
EDIT: TheExecuter has traded his Schmetterling for a Kaefer and headed out again. All of our six survey explorers have now upgraded to the latest model of Survey Craft, and the Schmetterlings have been decommissioned and retired as museum exhibits.
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Korvettankapitan Dragon of Atlantis has ferried a second 5-man Geology team, this one out to Ganymede in the moons of Jupiter, where ArrowFiend has discovered a large deposit of Corbomite and Venderite.
Annoyingly, the only large deposits we've discovered so far... on Mercury, Venus and now Ganymede... are all of minerals that are in minor demand. The minerals that we really NEED in order to expand (Duranium, Sorium, Corundium and to a lesser extent Neutronium, Gallicite and Mercassium) remain elusive.
Annoyingly, the only large deposits we've discovered so far... on Mercury, Venus and now Ganymede... are all of minerals that are in minor demand. The minerals that we really NEED in order to expand (Duranium, Sorium, Corundium and to a lesser extent Neutronium, Gallicite and Mercassium) remain elusive.
Diary of Fregattenkapitän von Mollendorf:
Did I talk about German ingenuity lately? I should have. Well, unless we are talking about ship class names. Schmetterling. Kaefer. What is next? Pusteblume? That`s what one gets when one lets scientists Name ships. Be it as it may. The engineers made a good job to make our small vessels more efficient. Me and the other 13 brave crewmen are now able to stay more than a year in space and exlore the rest of our solar system. Bootsmann Hansen suggested to name our ship "von Humboldt" to honor the most important german explorer of all times.
Did I talk about German ingenuity lately? I should have. Well, unless we are talking about ship class names. Schmetterling. Kaefer. What is next? Pusteblume? That`s what one gets when one lets scientists Name ships. Be it as it may. The engineers made a good job to make our small vessels more efficient. Me and the other 13 brave crewmen are now able to stay more than a year in space and exlore the rest of our solar system. Bootsmann Hansen suggested to name our ship "von Humboldt" to honor the most important german explorer of all times.
January 1929.
Ten years have passed since Professor Einstein first developed his revolutionary Trans-Newtonian theories. In that time, we have explored most of the inner Solar system and a significant fraction of the outer system.
We are now up to seven small space vessels: six Kaefer Survey Craft and one Kleinbus personnel shuttle. None of these spacecraft exceeds 500 tons.
Meanwhile, we have been developing our ability to build larger vessels. A 6,000 ton naval yard in Peenemunde is currently expanding by another 1,000 tons; a 40,000 ton commercial yard in Stettin is adding a second slipway; a 10,000 ton commercial yard in Hamburg is expanding to double its capacity; and a new 1,000 ton Naval yard has begun construction in Konigsburg. At the moment, we lack the technology to take advantage of these large shipyards, but research is underway.
Our initial seven Labs have been increased to fourteen, and with the +20% research efficiency tech already researched, this more than doubles our research speed.
Ten years have passed since Professor Einstein first developed his revolutionary Trans-Newtonian theories. In that time, we have explored most of the inner Solar system and a significant fraction of the outer system.
We are now up to seven small space vessels: six Kaefer Survey Craft and one Kleinbus personnel shuttle. None of these spacecraft exceeds 500 tons.
Meanwhile, we have been developing our ability to build larger vessels. A 6,000 ton naval yard in Peenemunde is currently expanding by another 1,000 tons; a 40,000 ton commercial yard in Stettin is adding a second slipway; a 10,000 ton commercial yard in Hamburg is expanding to double its capacity; and a new 1,000 ton Naval yard has begun construction in Konigsburg. At the moment, we lack the technology to take advantage of these large shipyards, but research is underway.
Our initial seven Labs have been increased to fourteen, and with the +20% research efficiency tech already researched, this more than doubles our research speed.
They are manufactured by the VolksRaketenWerke, so I figured the Beetle and the Minibus were logical names.
Gaius Sturmschnitzel is ready to serve (and probably gruesomely die for) the German Imperium of Mensch 
Böseman von Turbingen stands ready to serve the Kaiser as Reichskommisar of the first colony graced by his Imperial Highness.
We need only one more tech before we can build our first Freighter (it will be close to 40,000 tons!), and two more before we can build our first colony ship.
The hour approaches!
Wilhelm von Blaat reporting in as well.
One comment and one question on everything so far: Luna as a Death Star fortress to protect our capital planet sounds too cool to pass up and is terraforming Mars for the lebensraums still worth it even if it doesn't have any resources?
One comment and one question on everything so far: Luna as a Death Star fortress to protect our capital planet sounds too cool to pass up and is terraforming Mars for the lebensraums still worth it even if it doesn't have any resources?
Yes, I'd like to turn Luna into a Death Star just for the coolness factor... the fact that it also protects our main fleet anchorage in Earth orbit is incidental.
It's worthwhile establishing a major colony somewhere and terraforming it to class 0; population growth falls off as the total population on a planet rises. With 5,000,000 people on Mars (or where-ever) the growth rate would be +10% per year. Here on Earth with nearly 2,000,000,000 people, the growth rate is already below +2% per year.
That colony doesn't need to be on Mars, of course... but it (and Luna) is easy to terraform to class 0. The satellites of Jupiter are harder, and other bodies (Titan, Triton, Mercury, Venus) are harder still. Very small bodies (asteroids, minor moons) cannot be terraformed at all.
Our Army has expanded to twelve Garrison Battalions (enough for three Brigades, once we have researched the appropriate HQ units) and we have begun construction of the first four Space Marine Mobile Infantry Battalions, using cadre cherry-picked from four disbanded Imperial German Infantry Divisions.
Yes. Private transports will start forming that will trade goods between the colonies, which will increase funds for us. Some colonies even make infrastructure that can be traded to worlds that need it that will not cost the government money or materials to make it.
I really think that we should put a colony on Luna too. I try to put colonies all the places I can.
Awesome! Glad you're doing another of these. Can you resist deploying Rock-class decoy missile sponges? I recall those worked a little too well last time.
Baron Jukaga reporting for duty as a naval officer. o7
I recall those worked a little too well last time.Baron Jukaga reporting for duty as a naval officer. o7
Yeah... but to take full advantage of the Luna colony would require terraforming it; which rules out the Death Star Moon idea.
We could compromise... I've found that once the civilian sector starts producing Infrastructure we end up with FAR more of it than we really need. We could dump the excess on Luna, to allow a healthy population growth (as a source of colonists for other colonies) while still keeping Luna in vacuum for the Death Star role.
Download the portable on this site and it should work on windows 10.
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=5663.0
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=5663.0