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[History Guy]

Hey! Interstellar Council? They must have named after my company!

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by History Guy
Hey! Interstellar Council? They must have named after my company!

I knew I had heard that word somewhere before
If it would of been Interplanetary, then InEn could of had copyright over it

travel time within a system should be like a day maybe, explain it by saying FTL drives can't be used for travel inside a system. Each system has a entry point where FTL vessel arrive at and then proceed to scheduled planet. Kind of like a jump gate but not a phyisical gate. It would be marked by nav bouys. It would be just a means to control where vessels could enter a system. Maybe the aliens posses long range sensors and can enter a system anywhere. travel from Sparta to earth should take weeks.

Okay. So something like Earth - Pluto would be one to two days?

(Depending on the company you are using. A business ticket with InEn gets you to Pluto from Earth in less then 30 hrs guaranteed, a tourist ticket with Valhalla Planetary gets you there in three days )

the jump area stuff sounds interesting. A nice place to make a defensive stand. Would need explorers goind deep space and placing own buoys in enemy space before entering. If you don't do that, your big huge Dreadnought fleet has a close encounter with the star(s)...

[Kassiopeia]

HistoryGuy: Imran Siddiqui?
Not bad. Btw, that's some strong stuff that LV, unless this one is Imran II or III.

[History Guy]

Hey, yeah, Imran Siddiqui. Dat's da guy. He was in the story Journey to Centauri, actually, and I thought the name was pretty darn funny.

[[LordLMP]]

concerning FTL jumps... don't need beacons, but it is safer unless you have very accurate data on the system the ship is jumping to. Placing beacons in enemy place will simply warn them that your coming and Scouts can emit a homing beacon without needing to drop an actual beacon.

Proginators and Fraal are the only known aliens to be able to jump without needing any beacon or exploration at all.... maybe they have some advance FTL sensors or somehting.... and their FTL of course is more advance Can figure out where the proginators could be after we do a map


kass, i would have to look at the history to exact the dates....but the InEn trying to retake its mines in the belt could be soon after the Mars' Independence from Earth War and before the Mars Civil War between InEn and Mars Combine. Scion War can happen in the mid to late 2400s....before the FTL race and the Gaian contact in 2515.

way i see the Terran Alliance fleet could work is.... each faction have their own ships and registry...the militias in a way. The Terran Battlecruiser could be an joint project between all factions, which making the Battlecruiser one deadly ship and capable to take on a Dreadnought in some cases. the BC could take a lot of damage and so on... Anyway, the Battlecruiser will be multi-faction crew and the backdone of main official Terran Alliance fleet, with an Terran Alliance designation like TAS Hyperion. Of course, there would also be joint design of an Carrier too maybe

After looking at the Homeworld: cataclym box....thinking maybe the BC's main guns is Ion Beams or something...which is why it makes the ship quite powerful. with Pulse Cannons as secondaries and point defence, as well as anti-missile or torpedoe launchers. The BC will be the first Sol built ship to Ion Beam turrets and so many too due to advancement i miniatuazation and nanotechnology sort of provided by the Scions... (they still won't share their Biometal tech and can't steal it either via espionage). As for Starfuries, can having with the same design and look from Babylon 5 or hybrid of Starfury and Thunderbolt so it is aerodynamic aswell for planetary attacks.


I have trouble seeing an energy economy to continue to be use in such a stellar extent...especially if it is hard to establish networks in interplanetary/interstellar way....how about trade and economy became more barter base like, base on energy credit value or whatever.

Concerning ships...the fleet organize into Taskforce like it is propose for Master of Orion 3, without any ship limit of course, with a mix of Homeworld style? taskforces is usually lead by a Carrier or some big capital ship.


-LMP

[[LordLMP]]

If you ever played Battlezone 2 and the missions on Dark Planet... that kind of look but by 2700, the planet is quite populated by Scions and quite urbanize in a Scion way...with remnants of old alien architecture. World is bigger then Pluto, but smaller then Earth and Mars. The Atmosphere is artificial, same with the heat. because Dark Planet litterally looks black, can't see it with any telescopes from earth and hard to detect with ships too. Only kind of ships the Scions build is Frigate size ships, their multi use Drop Ships and long range Starfighters. Dark Planet currently protected by some Orbital Defence Satellites and Surface-to-Space anti-ship missiles.


-LMP

[Sprayber]

Like I have said before, beacons are not absolutely necessary but without them you have no reliable way of knowing what you are entering into. If you have an accurate chart of that system, then you can generally avoid dangers. But it wouldnt be pleasent to enter a system right in the middle of a mine field.

[[LordLMP]]

Then you just have to make sure your Intelligence service is good

besides, will be pretty hard to completly mine an solar system and there is so many places to warp to. May place mines in the most common jump points to the system from some other systems, but doesn't seriously prevent them to jump some distance away from the system or on top or bottom (depeding how you look at the system).

-LMP

[Sprayber]

Oh no, you couldn't mine an entire system. You would just have to put them in blind areas and use extensive sensor posts to keep an eye on possible ships. But I'll tell everyone. A ship or ships entering the Spartan system at anywhere other than the designated entry point won't even get a warning from Defense Command. Their mission is to blast first and investigate later on.

[Sprayber]

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Everyone please use the new dicussion thread to continue your discussions. It's just that we need a one thread so everyone can get what they need witout checking two threads.


Thanks.