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Construction of habitat improvements on Earth, and all Tefarn and Centauri colonies is complete. They are now impenetrable unless you have their exact location, and lots and lots of explosives. Also, the water is now 100% recycled, and internally contained so nothing can get in from the surface. The internal atmosphere is the same. The power is gained from geothermal, and cold fusion sources.

Grim, just because something (tachyons) travel faster than light doesn't mean that they're instantaneous. We're sticking with what we have.

Well the idea is that events in their life leading up to that exact moment caused them to decide to do that. In theory, everything is predetermined, since the big bang, every atom will affect every other atom in a certain way, and in theory if you had a powerful enough computer, and could know the exact location and speeds of all the particles in existence you could predict everything that will ever happen.

And the way we travel does the same thing. It compresses spacetime making a different, much smaller dimension in a bubble around the ship. The ship travels at normal speeds inside the moving bubble, but travels huge distances in our own dimension. So yea, not really researching anything new.

And you think we're gonna be able to cover20-40 billion stars? No, the point is that the way the game works is you can't go faster. My point is you're not researching anything new, but you're saying it'll make us go faster. We already are as spread out as we need. If you want to expand further, it'll take time.

Mather, the point is you're not researching anything new. That's how our current system of ftl works, and that's as fast as it's going to get.

Mather, your research is irrelevant, that's essentially how our current space travel system already works. If you use the new material (Duna) you can travel anywhere within 50 ly within a year, be happy to have that.

So your post just got me thinking on free will. Does it, at it's base really exist? In my opinion, probably not. But, it doesn't matter. We'll never feel the difference.

Ooh, where in Quebec? I'm like 30 mins from Montreal. Project Hellfire is complete. Several Hellfire Cruisers are being made, they each will carry around 100,000 hellfire troopers, and have the combat abilities of 5 heavy battleships. Oh, and in other news most of space production will now be put into building a ship 5 times the size of the original Sa Matra, with 5 times the power etc. The old sa matra will become my Away Fleet's flagship.

What are rules on genetic enhancements?

Best medical advise I've ever heard.

Well, if you can accept that it might end badly, and are willing to face the consequences of that, then go for it. I say do it. You might get hurt, but if you do, you'll learn and have gained some valuable experience relationship-wise.

The local area is Sol, correct? I usually say that to mean basically all the systems within ~20ly of sol. But in this case, yeah. Perhaps an early prototype of project Merc will represent Brazil, but I hardly think that would be fair.

Ten million elite troops are being trained in Tefarn. It will take 7 years or so, we are using advanced life extension techniques to ensure their continued usefulness. The top 10,000 soldiers will be inducted into project Merc. Space production continues as normal, and the fleet from Tefarn has just arrived in the local area.

I did. Several times. Wolf started late november, and merc started around the same time.

Kelp tastes like [cabbage] though. Anyways, infrastructure and massive industrial zones are being constructed on Midgard. The shipyards in Holmgard are complete, and are churning out battleships at a steady rate of 50 per year (BS are like...100PP :/) Battleships are actually only 10 pp, I think. Ok, I'll say I traded you some money or whatever for your material, but I decided I'll delay the completion of Project Merc to coincide with the completion of Project wolf, as they work rather well together.

Project merc is anywhere from 1-5 years from completion.

I love living in a sparsely populated state on a mountain with a well.

I dunno. Ok, mather that's so stupid. I don't care if you're not gonna use it, if you put a 100 tons of naquadah next to a match and it would explode with the force of 200 gigajoules or so.

I think there should be a research cap around the 1940's. That means, no nukes, no icbm's etc. We can always have different stuff than in real life, but we have to be creative. I don't want to see people just trying to get f16's in this game, I want everything to be different than real life pretty much.

Maybe we make some equation for research point similar to manpower? That way bigger nations can research a bit faster? I dunno.

Well, this system is really simple. Let's say I want to research Petrol (1,000 points), Medium tanks (500 points) and better guns for my troops (200 points) (all random numbers) I say: I'm putting 50% of my points per turn towards Petrol, 25% towards Tanks and 25% towards better guns. Better guns will be complete in 8 years, Tanks in 20 years, and Petrol in 20 years.

Mather, your equation makes no sense. Naquadah is already overpowered. So first you multiply it by 2, already overpowered by far and VERY game breaking. Then apparently each ton of naquadah adds 1x more force? What the hell? And Dusty's right. I just think of that book in the pendragon series where everyone just wants to live in the alternate reality, and then food production and all goes down and people start dying.

I'm thinking the system for research points should be something like this: Each nation starts with 100 research points per year. Simple. We set a price in points per each research. For example, let's say that petrol costs 1,000 points. That means, researching nothing else it would take you 10 years to research. Maybe research points can be converted to manpower too, so lets say you were low on manpower, you can turn your 100 points into an extra X manpower hours. If two nations want to work together on a research each's points are only worth 75% of their normal value. This means that if two countries were working together on petrol 150 points per year would go towards it. No more than 2 countries can work together on any one research. Maybe as time goes on nations can invest in better research facilities and slightly increase their research points, but not by too much. Anyone not like?

Eh, still. That would take time. All his ships with nukes would have to come together to put all the nukes together. And 20,000 nukes are... big. But either way, 20k nukes wouldn't come close to obliterating a fleet, unless they were all sitting on top ot eachother