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[The_Mather1]

Any idea of where I can possibly store 120kT of materials in the short time between extraction or usage? If not then it's gonna have to be built as the resources are transfered to wherever it's going to be built.

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Hey all, all puzzle cards have been updated, as has the website.

 

Also, brace for the 2090-1 Update.

 

The Swiss Habitation fleet safely arrived at Planitia, with no sign of pursuit or interception by any other power.

Norway has announced a new type of tree, designed specifically to combat the effects of global warming and has begun planting them all over their country.

 

Norway has continued to experiment with cutting edge technology, most notably the wormhole gun.

 

America has produced the first Heavy Destroyer at Station Alpha, the USS Enterprise. The USS Enterprise is a significant improvement over older designs, sporting around a third extra space with 50% more weaponry. The USS Enterprise was named after the main ship in the 20th Century Computer Game 'Space Viking' and is set to be the first National Ship to go beyond the Solar System.

 

Russia resumed its war with China and crushed the final defensive lines, removing China to Central Africa.

 

The Argus Array has detected faint emissions coming from the Arch star system, it is assumed that these are radio messages from the Descarans.

 

Jen Sonla, crew member of the ISS Unity has been arrested after she attempted to mine ore without a permit. Her capture was part of a joint operation between America, Russia and Britain, largely expedited by her willingness to give herself up.

 

The Russian Second Fleet has clashed with the American Third Fleet just off Jupiter. The American Third Fleet, consisting of three escorts and two destroyers, had been running patrols in Satan's Ring, attempting to preserve their natural wonder against resource hungry miners. The Russian Second Fleet, consisting of five escorts, one destroyer and three transport vessels, had been on a resupply mission to the Norwegians orbiting Triton.

Reports of who fired first are unclear, but it seems that the first casualty was the American Escort Alberto which was hit squarely in the Bridge by two Torpedoes, fired from the Russian Escorts Politz and Gronzi.

The Politz was the next to be destroyed, being hit by an hunk of deck plating, from the destroyed Alberto, thrown by the Tractor Beam on the USS Kingsley.

Within a few minutes the majority of ships were crippled, with the Russian Destroyer, Lenin, and the other two American Escorts, Colorado and Nixon being destroyed before the boarding stage could commence.

The American Destroyers, Utah and Cleveland docked with the Russian Transport Vessel Magnitogorsk, while the Russian Escorts vied for position, eventually the Doser and Marx docked with the Utah and Cleveland, respectively, the Gronzi and Magon withdrawing to guard the

other two transport vessels.

The Americans were armed with personal deflector shields, level 18, and Meson Compressors, level 9, against the Russians, armed with Phase Compression Rifles, level 14 and Fusion Grenades, level 4. The Russians had a numerical superiority of six to five.

The Americans on the Utah gained the advantage to begin with, using automated turret systems to attack the boarding Russian without risking their own personal, forcing the Doser to bring in an armed Fusion Torpedo and fire it down the corridor. The Americans, anticipating such a counter, had stationed their forces away from the blast zone and rigged emergency forcefields to contain the damage. The two sides then began corridor crawling, with the Russians gaining an early advantage

when they split the American force by capturing a key junction and then having Russian personal from the Magnitogorsk help form a pincer against half the American forces. As half of their troops were slaughtered, the other half retreated to their fall back positions, providing stiff resistance for another seven minutes before being overcome.

On the Cleveland the Americans were far less prepared, since they had a slightly larger garrison to make up for their substandard automated defences. It was also decided that they alone should board the Magnitogorsk while the Utah soaked up the Russian Offensive. When the Russian forces from the Marx boarded they found light automated defences and a sparsely defended corridor network. Within the first minute of the offensive the Cleveland realised that the situation was hopeless and began the five minute destruct sequence. The Russians continued to push on though, quickly breaking the back of the American resistance and deactivating the self-destruct system.

The Magnitogorsk, while not crewed with fighters, put up a good defence, using the on-board transporters and Fusion Grenades to great effect, annihilating the American attack force with ease.

As the battle drew to a close the Terran First Fleet, consisting of five Destroyers and six Escorts, arrived asking what had happened.

 

On Earth American hostility over the Russian attack on the Third Fleet, and Russian hostility over the American attack on the Second Fleet boiled over into a pitched battle in Alaska, cut short by the American use of Orbitally Reflected Particle Cannons.

 

The Terran Federation, Britain and the Australian Commonwealth signed mutual non-interference pacts and stated that, if a war erupted it would be on American and Russian Soil.

 

South America, sided with Russia against their traditional enemy.

 

Tensions then began to cool between America and Russia as leaked Swiss sensor scans showed that a Terran Ship, inside the First Fleet, had cloaked during the time when the opening shots were fired.

 

The Terran Federation stated that the Sensor Scans were fabricated to inflame a war against the Terran Federation.

 

The United Nations then announced that America was launching a full scale invasion of Russia. Which America vehemently denied.

 

Russia then launched a massive Nuclear Strike against America, which entirely bypassed the American countermeasures due to a communications failure within the American Security Network. Within minutes key cities such as Detroit, Washington and Kansas were irradiated beyond recognition.

 

Russia, aghast at it own success, especially against an enemy which was not in the midst of a invasion, was spurred into a follow-up invasion by South America, which launched its own major invasion through Central America and the Caribbean.

 

Within two weeks the United States of America, with the notable exception of California, has been subsumed by the Russian Bear and South American Jackal. California had the fortune of being opposite from Alaska, the Russian Landing zones, Florida, the South American Target and Washington DC, the Russian Target. When Russia and South America finally prepared to turn their full attention against California, the remains of the American Defence Net had recovered and a

significant level of resistance was offered.

 

Russia, bloated on easy success, quickly signed a peace treaty to preserve the tenuous status it holds presently. South America followed suit.

 

With the balance on Earth shifted decisively, and unexpectedly, towards Russia, it became painfully apparent that the next few months would either see Russia become the sole inheritor of Earth, or would see Russia collapse under its own weight.

 

Britain has begun an evacuation of citizens to the Eden Halo. Trading its land and ground capacities to Russia after the evacuation is complete. The Huge Queen Elizabeth Shipyard in orbit will, however, remains under British control.

 

Turkey has, unlike every other power, turned its sights to below the Earth, rather than above it, digging a huge complex of tunnels deep below the planet's crust.

 

The Terran Federation is suffering under even greater inner chaos than before, with French Nationalists taking to the streets in an effort to restore France to a sovereign state, completely oblivious to the Russian Giant. The Terran Federation elsewhere is progressively looking more and more like the sick man of Earth, its traditionalist, army swelling, tactics netting nothing but the err of Nationalists everywhere. The collapse of the Federation seems imminent.

[The_Mather1]

Wormhole gun? Sounds sort of like a portal device... or a handheld weapon of mass destruction.

[Nero]

Nooo not tfed

[Seraphi]

Indeed, although why they would be making a portal device when transportation has been invented...

 

It's probably just a high tech weapon, like our graviton hellbores or ion cannons.

[paul191600]

Orrr something completely useless, that may or may not implode on itself.

[The_Mather1]

Have I ever made game stuff? ...Nope, then it must be somehow important.

[Seraphi]

What?

[The_Mather1]

I've never used anything from any game, and the only one here to use anything from a source game I think was either Pieis or Paul who used Combines, Archi must have good reasons to add portal "weaponry".

[Seraphi]

It might just be a generic weapon or something.

 

Maybe we're looking too far into it.

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Log:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12603519/Space/Logs/%23space13.Tip.It.log

[Jehosaphat]

Name: Theros

 

Merit: 655

Credits: None (all were donated to ship fund)

 

Inventory:

A bunch of robots that he designed following him around

5 Troll tanks (following him like the rest of the bots)

DF Suit Visor (used for robot control)

Expanding Shield

Ion Cannon (wielded chaingun style)

Two railguns as sidearms

 

Skills:

Level I Shooting

 

Capabilities:

Make Level V powered "DF" armor with level III powersource

Make Level III plasma grenades

Make Level IV Small Railguns

Make Level XXXV Ion Cannons

Make focused plasma charges (Level I)

Spec Ammo (Level II)

 

Achievements:

Designer of the "Flyin' Nades" robots.

Designer of the "Scout" robots.

Designer of the "Themes" robots.

Designer of the Expanding Shield

Designer of the "Robospider" robots.

Designer of the "Troll" robot tanks.

[Nexaduro]

Two more points for level 30 Blitz, then I can focus on some cool new stuff like Psionics!

[The_Mather1]

Ross, after adding the software to the MarkII the stats changed to:

Speed 100m in 0.96sec, moderate stability, low mobility.

 

In a sim against 20 moderatly armed men it took out three men before losing power (fuel has been increased from 6 hour suply to 5 month suply (using multi-dimentional fuel tank) since then).

It has a 64% hit rate.

 

I'm currently working on a sonar to increase mobility (since mobility = reaction) and it will have an AI comunicating with me so that'll probably increase a bit of it too.

 

Happy?

 

This session's research: Hyperspatial tank lvl 1, Sonars lvl 1.

Programing: Software lvl 1.

[Earth]

Nex, can we focus on hull upgrades for now? We need to add a bay in the Unity for shielding.. I don't like having our engines shut down every time we fight due to poor armor.

[Nexaduro]

Archi, The Candy Man Can. And the cryptogram is "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four, calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

 

That's level 30 Blitz Arrays. Any recommendations for it guys?

 

Can anyone help me on my wordplay?

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Ok, what are you spending that on?

[Nexaduro]

Blitz, of course! :rolleyes:

 

From now on I'll probably be taking a break from researching that weapon; the only increase is in damage, and it's already incredible overkill. And I have two. Perhaps level 30 could come with more focused shots...? Y'know, maybe some sort of adjustable firing mechanism take it back from a 180 degree field of carnage when necessary?

[Earth]

Nex, they're both full of holes? And also, spend it on hulls. soon as we get to level 10 we can add an extra bay to all our ships.

[Nexaduro]

Tried that, Earth, it's wrong isn't it Archi?

 

Also, that's completely wrong Earth. Once you've upgraded a ship's hull enough times you can buy an extra bay. It's not a capabilities thing.

[Earth]

Nex, they're both full of holes? And also, spend it on hulls. soon as we get to level 10 we can add an extra bay to all our ships.

 

 

Tried that, Earth, it's wrong isn't it Archi?Also, that's completely wrong Earth. Once you've upgraded a ship's hull enough times you can buy an extra bay. It's not a capabilities thing.

Nex, how is adding an extra bay a capabilities thing? Adding can mean buying, or building. Also, i hae no idea. I suck at wordplays.

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Tried that, Earth, it's wrong isn't it Archi?

 

Whats wrong?

 

Also, that's completely wrong Earth. Once you've upgraded a ship's hull enough times you can buy an extra bay. It's not a capabilities thing.

You can build an extra bay, buying an extra bay requires the seller(IE a country) to have the technology.

[Nexaduro]

They're both full of holes, for my wordplay. I said that already I think.

[Earth]

So, if we don't have a country, we can't add bays?

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They're both full of holes, for my wordplay. I said that already I think.

 

Yes, it is wrong.

 

So, if we don't have a country, we can't add bays?

 

You can build an extra bay, while buying an extra bay requires the seller(IE a country) to have the technology.