Sirius Business - a C# Aurora forum game. v2.5

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> Can Phi Librae I be terraformed into being habitable? - Phi Librae I is Venus-like.
So we'd need thousands of terraformers working on it for ages.
Speaking of, how's the terraforming of Venus going?
Still using any spare terraformers there, when nowhere else is around needing terraforming?

The mineral situation has needed so much attention that I've been almost ignoring Terraformers and Colonization.

But I've been thinking of opening up the other three Galilean satellites of Jupiter (Callisto, Io, Europa) to colonization. That will also require terraforming.

 

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Captain Yvanoff in ESNS Richard Feynmann has found a very annoying star system.

The triple-star system of Epsilon Indi.

It's huge. Hundreds of billions of kilometers huge.

You probably thought it was a long way out to Pluto. That's about 5 billion km. The orbit you're looking at is over 400 billion km across.

And almost all of the star system's planets and moons circle the C-star.

We'll need to construct an artificial Lagrange point in order to reach those companion stars.

 

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Captain Yvanoff edged forward enough for his ship's RADAR to confirm that there were no large enemy ships in orbit around the A-1 planet, then fired a probe.

 

[blue emu]

The probe finds the inner planet to be empty. No Prix, no Rakshas, no Jerx.

Excellent.

Yvanoff will begin looking for minerals... of course, he can't REACH most of the star system until we build an LP.

 

[blue emu]

Lieutenant-Colonel Flockingbird's team has succeeded in decoding the symbology and much of the language of the vanished race that once occupied the planet.

The race referred to themselves as the Ensenada, and the maps decoded indicate more than a hundred and fifty potential archeological dig sites.

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[SteveZAX]

Lieutenant-Colonel Flockingbird's team has succeeded in decoding the symbology and much of the language of the vanished race that once occupied the planet.

The race referred to themselves as the Ensenada, and the maps decoded indicate more than a hundred and fifty potential archeological dig sites.

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163 << 1747 so it's no "El Dorado", but that's damned nice. Especially if there are no robot guardians.
BTW what tech level? or does it not tell us anymore?
(and, yes I looked 1747 up, it only took me 17 minutes)

 

[Wagonlitz]

The mineral situation has needed so much attention that I've been almost ignoring Terraformers and Colonization.

But I've been thinking of opening up the other three Galilean satellites of Jupiter (Callisto, Io, Europa) to colonization. That will also require terraforming.

So the terraformers just ran idle instead of being placed at Venus?

And almost all of the star system's planets and moons circle the C-star.

C star? That's no classification...

 

[randakar]

So the terraformers just ran idle instead of being placed at Venus?

That's effectively the same thing

 

[randakar]

Are you going to set up an operation to cart all that stuff off-world? What with the potential robot vaults..

 

[blue emu]

So the terraformers just ran idle instead of being placed at Venus? - Yes. My attention was better spent elsewhere.

C star? That's no classification... - A-star. B-star. C-star. In order of mass. The lighter ones orbit the heaviest one.

 

[Nikolai II]

If you are so inclined anything in shaggable…

 

[blue emu]

Exploring beyond the Black Hole, Culise in ESNS Christaan Huygens has found the new star system of Gamma Carinae.

One Venus-like planet and ten comets.

 

[blue emu]

The new Scientist V scout-ships are ready!

Our current Geo-scouts are Culise and Yvanoff.

Did you people want to switch to the modern Scientist V model? Or just wait while your current ship gets upgraded?

 

[son of liberty]

The new Scientist V scout-ships are ready!

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Our current Geo-scouts are Culise and Yvanoff.

Did you people want to switch to the modern Scientist V model? Or just wait while your current ship gets upgraded?

Switch me. The adventure of exploration beckons to where no man has gone before

 

[blue emu]

LOL.

Found some Life-Support Infrastructure.

We all know how THIS story arc goes...

1) Engineers digging up the ruins find life-support infrastructure.
2) The planet with the mysterious alien ruins can now support human life.
3) Tourism companies all over Known Space start selling tickets to Prixhome.
4) Visit the mystery planet of the vanished Ensenada! Buy souvenirs from the insane killer robots!
5) Hundreds of thousands of tourists will arrive on budget Spaceliners.
6) The next vault that we open will release hundreds of insane killer robots.
7) The tourists will try to buy souvenirs from them. Nobody knows why they always do this.
8) The robots will rip the tourists' heads off.

 

[blue emu]

Switch me. The adventure of exploration beckons to where no man has gone before

Would you like to name it after a Scientist or Explorer?

We already have Richard Feynman, Aristarchus, Charles Darwin, Christaan Huygens and Wagonlitz.

 

[Wagonlitz]

That's effectively the same thing

No, because Venus we are terraforming and it's gettign progress.

> C star? That's no classification... - A-star. B-star. C-star. In order of mass. The lighter ones orbit the heaviest one.
Ah, so a triple system. Those are unstable.

LOL.

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Found some Life-Support Infrastructure.

We all know how THIS story arc goes...

1) Engineers digging up the ruins find life-support infrastructure.
2) The planet with the mysterious alien ruins can now support human life.
3) Tourism companies all over Known Space start selling tickets to Prixhome.
4) Visit the mystery planet of the vanished Ensenada! Buy souvenirs from the insane killer robots!
5) Hundreds of thousands of tourists will arrive on budget Spaceliners.
6) The next vault that we open will release hundreds of insane killer robots.
7) The tourists will try to buy souvenirs from them. Nobody knows why they always do this.
8) The robots will rip the tourists' heads off.

Perhaps unplug the life support equipment until everything's explored, then?
Also, what a waste the wealth one, as we're at the cap anyway.

 

[son of liberty]

Would you like to name it after a Scientist or Explorer?

We already have Richard Feynman, Aristarchus, Charles Darwin, Christaan Huygens and Wagonlitz.

Nicolaus Copernicus please and thank you

 

[blue emu]

Nice. Sometimes you find both a Research Lab and a new tech.

 

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It must have been my mention of "probing beyond the Black Hole" that started this...

In Russian, your "black hole" is around in back.

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I knew it.

They're even building more tourist ships already. Big ones.