Beyond Alpha Centauri Discussion Thread 9

[Mr. President]

If you like that idea, then I have one that sort of goes along with it.

Once the Drone Republic and the Hive start tangling over Franco's flotilla (as I presume is gonna happen), the Drone commanders can receive the location of the fake home world and try and launch a decapitation strike.

Since, however, it's not the real home world, the Hive space fleet is able to ambush the decapitation strike and destroy it.

Basically what I'm thinking of is to have the Drone military underestimate the Hive and get a bloody nose.

[Frankychan]

good idea.

We have to wait for Lonestars response first.

I like how you think Crimson Of course the Drones will get their payback in a major way.

[Lonestar]

I'll change the post.

[Sovereign]

Any new posts upcoming?

Or shall I take over the whole BAC galaxy?

just kidding! Trying to get y'all worked up to write posts.

[Mr. President]

Expect one from me in the next three to four days (fingers crossed!).

[Mr. President]

Looks like I got another post.

Franky - I put in some detail about the Drone Republic forces' order of battle for your reference. A "frigate", for me, is a fast medium-sized ship with a mix of offensive and defensive weapons. A "destroyer" is larger and slower, mostly designed to suppress enemy vessels with heavy weapons. A "cruiser" is smaller than a frigate and is a multi-purpose ship, more lightly-armed but incorporating electronic and information warfare weapons (eg. communications jamming, navigational obfuscation measures).

[Sovereign]

Heh, I always thought ship sizes were like this...

Frigate --> destroyer --> cruiser

based off Civ3 and MOO3.

But hey, its your civ. Just wondering, thats all.

[Mr. President]

Well, you're probably right. I tend to base my stuff on half-remembered navy information from the Weapons of Desert Storm book.

[Frankychan]

Thanks, Lonestar. Sorry if it sounded like I was pissed....that's my bad.

No hard feelings?

[Frankychan]

Right on Crimson Thanks for the info.

My next post will have the ships come in, but they'll stay on the Hive border. I'll post it where you can detect them, and I'll have them send a message but won't do anything until we discuss how we should proceed.

My three ships are all corvettes. Staple ships in the Hive fleet. Nothing really special about them. My site describes them in a vague way but it should be good enough to help get things rolling on your end.

[Sovereign]

Franky, just wondering.

Did you read my tranmission to Yang in my latest post?

In your upcoming post, please could you at least acknowledge and reply to my tranmission, so we can start to get things moving with our plans?

In case you forgot, my code name message with "Lavender King" is for arrangements to be made for a secret meeting like we planned a while ago, to kick off an alliance.

I might work up a couple more posts within the coming month, going in detail about the Phalanx Project, and the UA's first rapid colonization / build-up.

[Lonestar]

No hard feelings Chan....

[Frankychan]

Sovereign-Yes. Good post. What I plan on doing is having a split post, one dealing with the Drone fleet. The second half will switch to Yang receiving the message and deciding on the course of actions. I'll make it so he doesn't know what's been going on between the UA and the Protectorate, but I'll make it known that he wants to go ahead with the alliance.

If I can, I want to renew hostilities between the Protectorate and the Hive, so it'll be a two-front battle....if I can keep up with it.

Lonestar-Thanks man. Sorry again. Apologises if I seemed outta whack.

[Lonestar]

Incidently, coming up is a multi-part non-human intermission. "Summit". It's the Progenitors finally re-uniting, and all Humanity will sh*t their pants.

[Sovereign]

It been 3 years or more since we started BAC.

Finally the Progenitors enter the stage.

The UA won't be needing any diapers.