The Chiron Chronicle: Discussions (Restart 3)

[[LordLMP]]

oh, forget it....... tried it again and works this time....... must of been a hiccup :P

-LMP

[Clear Skies]

Ugh...

I am almost entirely back with you, but due to my long period of absence and newly starting 6th form I am having significant trouble getting back up to speed with the story.

Bear with me. I shall return.

[[LordLMP]]

Okay, i have seen those Patriot missiles before, just don't remember their names....i suck with names of all sort....

The Patriot missile in the pic looks close to 1/3 or half the size of a Conventional Missile. I will allow it, using normal missile warhead thought, with shorter range....1500 to 2000km?(3-4 squares).

Conventional Missiles seem to operate like a Clean plasma base mini nuke :P Missiles useful to shoot down things in space too

now, for the story agenda....

-Planet Governor Election
-Western Continent Conflict
-Industrial Summit
-drone selling
-anti-mindworm gas
-eventually, beginning of the Space Race? (started by maybe having the cyborgs be the first faction to return to space by shooting the first satellite on Chiron?)

-LMP

[DarkCloud]

Actually the space race shouldn't begin until the Aliens have landed... That will make the aliens want to grab the spaceships the factions are using and possibly move to another planet?

(please excuse me if that sounded a little "off" Alpha Centauri-wise... I have forgotten most of the real storyline )

oh well

[[LordLMP]]

Factions will be sending satellites mainly and doubt the factions will be able to make ships like UNity or whatever until after Advance Orbital Flight. The aliens would end up having to be bit more advance then the factions and rapidly expand in a period of 10 years.

-LMP

[Alynzia]

I know none of you like me here, but if SMAC Fanatic is busy at 6th form, could I play one of his factions (he has the Cyborgs and Gaians right?) I have no life until my university course in February.

No worries if you don't want me, I'm working on a Usurper/Cyborg/Data Angel story for the time being. Which I will now be able to paste thanks to the tips from kass & Guardian. Much appreciated.

Alynzia.
(in reference to my avatar - I'm not a Spartan but I look like Santiago minus tan.)

[Guardian]

What do you mean none of us like you?!?

If we didn't like you, do you honestly think we'd bother to keep reading your posts and giving you feedback?

I don't really know you, but I do like your writing and so... well, I guess I like you!

-But hey, maybe you were just trying to get somebody to say something along those lines? Well, I guess it worked then, didn't it? Anyway, you're welcome to play with us as far as I'm concerned, and I seem to recall LMP saying that SMAC should give up one of the two factions when somebody else showed up wanting to play it. So... I guess it's just a matter of determining which one you'll get to play.
Welcome on board!

Oh, and by the way... if you want to select ALL the text in a document, or ALL of a web page or whatever, hit Ctrl + A for "Select All"...

[Guardian]

*ROFL*

*Guardian just noticed Alynzia's signature...*

Oh, and by the way... I believe the exact words in Lal's little speech were,
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information..."

Nit-picky details, I know...
(Go ahead and bonk me if you feel the need... )

[Mr. President]

Shalom, Natan. It's been too long.

How the heck big is a speeder anyway? If they've really superseded tanks, they would have to be just about as large and thereby as slow. I'll keep tanks for now (equipped with gatling lasers ), but I'll start phasing them out and looking at better designs. Besides, there will always be uses for huge, slow, heavy death machines. You might have figured out by now that I'm an infantry man.

Also, where might the Progenitors land? The map seems pretty full as is. Might they have to take some cities from humans and modify them for their own use?

[Natan]

Well, I always thought of the speeders/rovers as being little more than cars with a big chaos/missile/gatling gun and a few impact/laser guns to kill infantry. But it occurs to me that different factions would built their rovers differently. The Morganites might like to build big, slow, moving fortresses on treads, the Hive might like a jeep with a gun on top, the Spartans might like something in the middle, and so on.

[DarkCloud]

Alynzia... If SMAC Fanatic feels that he cannot handle the overload of work... you can have his factions... If he feels he can work at school then perhaps, he should cede one of his factions over to you. It is up to him.

Or, of course, you could wait about a week or two, then play as the aliens on Chiron?

What factions are open? Are the Free Drones still open? I seem to remember that someone took them... ???

Welcome to the game.

[[LordLMP]]

Yes, SMAC Fanatic would need to give one up...and also depends on which Faction he choses to keep too.

Darkcloud, the Free Drones is taken by Bearcat. And no, rather not have aliens this year or the next! rather wait after the space race.

How could tank phase out? simple, have something lot faster and lot more maneurable and lot easier to deploy and the ability to go to more places. Tread Tanks won't be able to keep or turn their quick enough to nail them. I already read enough military articles and so on to suggest that tanks will eventually be obsolete, unless they develop something like a HoverTank.

#INFANTRY
Domain: Land
Speed: 8km\hr
Modality: Manual\Tracked
Dimensions: N\A
Modifiers: +25% vs. base

A Infantry unit could use Armoured Personel Carriers which some versions may have a turret gun (standard, impact, laser, gatling laser, missile launcher, etc) for support. Heavy Slow Tanks with big guns would simply be outmatched by the sheer speed, maneuverabilty, etc by Rovers, especially in open Fields. Also remember that the Chiron Gravity is higher then Earth! Imagine how much a M16 Abram would weigh on Chiron, hmm? Rovers won't always stay put to in military combat for a Tank to nail them.


#SPEEDER
Domain: Land
Speed: 102km\hr
Modality: Wheeled
Dimensions: 7.7x3.6x2.9m
Modifiers: +25% in open

According to dimensions, that is bigger then a typical big arse Car and equal or bigger to the average modern tank. So the Dimensions can be base on the Unity Rover...and i do see factions develop their own military versions BASE on the Unity Rover design...which would be typically SMAC. Chiron is a perfect environment for Rovers, being mostly flat and rolling...so plenty of space to move.


This is SMAC and a Science Fiction on a Alien World, so hard to see current modern day military in that kind of thing. Base upon, yes, but LIKE IT, please no.

-LMP

[[LordLMP]]

For the record, TANKS or TREAD VEHICULES are NOT Rovers.....
Rovers are the next generation of Calvary :P

-LMP

[[LordLMP]]

Couple more things......

as for where the aliens will land..... Deniara Island and Mount Planet. Best places out of whats its available without landing smack dab in the middle of a human faction, etc........

Believers will have trouble with one and the Morganites, Data Angels, Free Drones and the Spartans on another in the initial Alien expansion.

Second thing, Argonaut.... Data Angels can't have Power values......

-LMP

[Alynzia]

Thank you guys!

Hello again. I still would like one of SMAC Fanatic's factions. I know he loves them both, what with his Unity story and I've heard him off topic wanting to save the Earth. Sigh, help me wrench one away from him! I'll not know who to read up on until he tells me!

I've changed my signature for you Guardian. I knew you or kass didn't not like me, I was worried about Lord LMP and Argonaut because I seem to recall being mean about his fiction idea and her story. Weak and lame were the words, respectively.

*Alynzia makes note to expect fights with Pirates and Data Angels*

Thanks again,

Alynzia.