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High Colonel Hyme is now the CO of the 1st Mobile Infantry Brigade (composed of four battalions plus the HQ troops).
No real preferences, I just want a lot of labs and funding and to boss the junior scientists around.
It's also worth noting that there are better options for fighters than lasers, in fact railguns are pretty damn good with the reduced size options. 10cm railguns are also a fine beam PD option for a fleet which requires virtually no research (especially compared to Gauss). Actually lasers in general are a pretty average beam weapon, they can do anything in a multipurpose way but they don't excel at anything in particular aside from roleplaying.
On the subject of beam-armed large ships, once you've teched up it's really a question of how much space you dedicate to engines to build up enough speed to catch up to any enemy you encounter. Missile-armed NPRs are pretty easily handled with decent point defense, and against beam-armed NPRs the variables are speed, range, and sometimes armor depending on the first two. I actually think missile fleets (non-fighter based) are rather tactically underpowered unless you use box launchers which is usually considered cheesy, it's hard to beat AMMs + beam PD without overwhelming firepower and the cost of missiles adds up very quickly especially in gallicite. With beam fleets you have to pay more upfront for the premium capabilities (gallicite == speed) but those resources remain effective indefinitely if you don't get them all killed (which is a big if).
Scientist Nuclearslurpee has completed research on 12cm Lasers and has started work on Visible Light Lasers.
We're going to go with Railguns for Fighters, Gauss Cannon for Point Defense, and Lasers as a one-size-fits-all solution for everything else.
Our first Tug has been launched, and it is currently repositioning our four Orbital Fuel Refineries in Jupiter orbit. It turned out that three of our four gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus) all had Sorium deposits in their atmosphere, but only Jupiter has better than 30% concentration.
Orbital Terraforming Stations are also under construction, and we have all the techs done (but no free shipyard) for Orbital Mining Stations.
Our first interstellar scout ship should be ready in about a year and a half.
We're going to go with Railguns for Fighters, Gauss Cannon for Point Defense, and Lasers as a one-size-fits-all solution for everything else.
Our first Tug has been launched, and it is currently repositioning our four Orbital Fuel Refineries in Jupiter orbit. It turned out that three of our four gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus) all had Sorium deposits in their atmosphere, but only Jupiter has better than 30% concentration.
Orbital Terraforming Stations are also under construction, and we have all the techs done (but no free shipyard) for Orbital Mining Stations.
Our first interstellar scout ship should be ready in about a year and a half.
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Two Colony Ships, seven Freighters, three Troop Transports, one Tug, and two Geo-Survey craft (all at Earth), plus four Orbital Fuel Refineries (at Jupiter).
None of those vessels has Jump drive, of course; our first Jump-capable vessel is under construction.
Our first Interstellar scout ship, the ESNS Aristarchus, has been launched.
Who wants it?
Who wants it?
Yes, any of our three Station types could be built with planetary industry.
At the moment, though, planetary industry is an even more limited resource than shipyards. We still have nearly half a billion pops unemployed (470 million, to be precise), and they don't pay taxes unless they have jobs. Since each Financial Center provides the same income as a million employed pops, just getting jobs for those 470 million people will have the same effect as adding 470 Financial Centers... and of course, we can actually employ some of them in newly built Financial Centers.
That income will support more research, and so on. Bottom line: I'd rather build my Stations in shipyards this early in the game, and switch to factories later.
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Built two more research labs (new total: 45), and AGAIN it dropped me from +30 megabucks per day down into negative cash flow.
Ye Gods, those labs are expensive to operate. Each one costs about 32 megabucks per day to keep running. More Financial Centers under construction.
Ye Gods, those labs are expensive to operate. Each one costs about 32 megabucks per day to keep running. More Financial Centers under construction.
Captain Avernite has so far discovered two jump points exiting the Sol system... one just outside Saturn's orbit, and one just outside Uranus' orbit. He will continue to search for more exits before exploring any of them.
We now have three slipways constructing Astronomer-class interstellar scout ships.
Our constellation of fuel harvesting stations in Jupiter orbit is up to eight stations, with three more under construction. Our terraforming project on Mars is up to two orbital terraforming stations, with two more building. A shipyard is being retooled to build orbital mining platforms.
We now have three slipways constructing Astronomer-class interstellar scout ships.
Our constellation of fuel harvesting stations in Jupiter orbit is up to eight stations, with three more under construction. Our terraforming project on Mars is up to two orbital terraforming stations, with two more building. A shipyard is being retooled to build orbital mining platforms.
Our shipbuilding capacity has grown to four Naval shipyards (half of them of 20,000 tons each) and six Commercial shipyards (half of them of 110,000 tons each).
Our technology is still far from adequate for building Naval vessels, though. As long as we don't encounter any aliens, that's not a major problem.
Our technology is still far from adequate for building Naval vessels, though. As long as we don't encounter any aliens, that's not a major problem.
A second interstellar scout, the ESNS Brahe, has been launched.
The Sol system has been completely analyzed for gravitational anomalies, and a total of four jump points have been found.
The scout ships will first overhaul at Earth and swap out their obsolete sensors for a more modern set, then they will attempt to geo-survey the remaining objects in the Sol system that were beyond the operating range of the primitive first-generation geo-scouts... and after a second overhaul, they will explore the jump points.
The Sol system has been completely analyzed for gravitational anomalies, and a total of four jump points have been found.
The scout ships will first overhaul at Earth and swap out their obsolete sensors for a more modern set, then they will attempt to geo-survey the remaining objects in the Sol system that were beyond the operating range of the primitive first-generation geo-scouts... and after a second overhaul, they will explore the jump points.
A third interstellar scout ship has been launched, and a fourth, fifth and sixth laid down.
Do we need that many? Don't you risk spawning enemies by exploring too fast?
We won't go above nine explored systems until we have some sort of Navy. Six exploring ships should be enough... they are both Grav- and Geo- capable.
Captain Avernite has taken the ESNS Aristarchus through the closest jump point (just outside Saturn's orbit) and found the double-star system of Alpha Centauri. It has two gas giants, four other planets, six comets, five asteroids and 18 moons. Many of the low-gravity bodies (asteroids, moons) are within the star's habitable zone.
Avernite will now assisted-jump one of the non-jump Geo-Scouts through to search the system for minerals, while he goes on to explore the next jump point.
Avernite will now assisted-jump one of the non-jump Geo-Scouts through to search the system for minerals, while he goes on to explore the next jump point.
Exploring the second jump point, Avernite has discovered the new star system of Barnard's Star. Two rocky planets, three gas giants, 38 moons, 151 asteroids and six comets. There are no useful colony sites.
The Alpha Centauri system has 15 potential colony sites that are more habitable than Mars.
... unfortunately, 14 of them are low-gravity environments (asteroids or small moons) which will require expensive low-G infrastructure.
Prospecting them for minerals now.
... unfortunately, 14 of them are low-gravity environments (asteroids or small moons) which will require expensive low-G infrastructure.
Prospecting them for minerals now.