Still just an idea. The idea is getting more and more attractive, though, now that we hold both ends of the jump point.
Hm. Interesting.
Why do you think the colony ships were able to assist-jump one cargo vessel at a time, but not two? Do you think it's a bug or is it something you overlooked?
BTW I'm toying with the idea of putting the jump drives on the cargo ships (or at least half of them) instead of the colony ships. After all these will get to do the round trip more often.
Yea, I made the same mistake with my freighter group designs, sigh.
Doesn`t matter, we are expanding. And if we manage to keep Ärjylä from pulling a Leeroy towards Charlie, we might even survive.
So much to mine, so little time...
Asteroid Lindgren? Bah, the Comet of the Platypus is a real mining operation, if it weren't for that frigging pink rabbit!
so how is Octavian Dorieus doing?
How is our tech situation. Any projects nearing completion (more specifically is my crazy namesake getting anywhere on his gas-cooled reactors?)
You're enjoying commanding a freighter, aren't you?
So... what about the next re-supply mission to our new colony at Dravar XV? I see two decent options:
Option #1) another full-up mission, escorted by the entire fleet.
Option #2) break the transports and colonizers down into small (three-ship?) units and run a bunch of small unescorted missions, separated in time and space by a week or so, instead of one massive mission.
Other options don't appeal to me... I don't want to split the Battle Fleet into squadrons unless I have to, so I want to keep it together, either in escort or at Earth; and I don't want to run a massive mission without fleet escort.
Actually I see no threat to our holdings in Procyon, so I guess unescorted flights should be okay. We should simply make sure to have an active radar in the system to monitor the situation.
How long, until we can move troops?
That's the nub of the situation, right there. We DON'T have a monitoring station in the Procyon system, and it will be a while before we can have one. We either need to build the colony up to the point where they can build their own RADARs, or build an installation-type RADAR on Earth and ship it in (if that's even possible... not sure) or wait for Tugs and drag a RADAR-equipped Defense BASE to Dravar XV. Whichever option is used, it will take some time.