Ad Astra! ... an Aurora Forum Game, run by blue emu

so how is Octavian Dorieus doing?

blue emu said:

Still just an idea. The idea is getting more and more attractive, though, now that we hold both ends of the jump point.

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Sounds like a good idea to me, it would allow the continual flow of freighters bringing infrastructure and factories.

And much less micro managing. I would like some sort of defense in the vicinity of the JG, tho.

How is our tech situation. Any projects nearing completion (more specifically is my crazy namesake getting anywhere on his gas-cooled reactors?)

stamasd said:

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.

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Oh I see. If you look at your jump drive design window and switch the type of drive between military and commercial, you get n size squadron for military drives, and (n-1) for commercial ones, where n is your current "max jump squadron size". I guess it's just one more of the penalties for designing a commercial drive.

Yea, I made the same mistake with my freighter group designs, sigh.

So much to mine, so little time...

Forgiven said:

Yea, I made the same mistake with my freighter group designs, sigh.

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Doesn`t matter, we are expanding. And if we manage to keep Ärjylä from pulling a Leeroy towards Charlie, we might even survive.

Stuckenschmidt said:

Doesn`t matter, we are expanding. And if we manage to keep Ärjylä from pulling a Leeroy towards Charlie, we might even survive.

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You're enjoying commanding a freighter, aren't you?

Taklagarn said:

So much to mine, so little time...

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Right with you there buddy! Only Asteroid Lindgren isn't going to leave in a hurry. But still, mine mine mine...

Asteroid Lindgren? Bah, the Comet of the Platypus is a real mining operation, if it weren't for that frigging pink rabbit!

Taklagarn said:

Asteroid Lindgren? Bah, the Comet of the Platypus is a real mining operation, if it weren't for that frigging pink rabbit!

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Is this really our most efficient administrator?

Maybe go for Option #1 to bump the infrastructure and maybe boost the population a little to start with, followed by smaller unescorted missions as and when the colony needs more infrastructure/people.

The fleet can use jump & escort training. I vote coming along.

Ärjylä said:

You're enjoying commanding a freighter, aren't you?

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Freighters and Survey ships have done all the work so far. So: Yes.

blue emu said:

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.

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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.

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How long, until we can move troops?

I would like having the fleet back in Sol. Fleet is good, home is better.

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UPDATED MILITARY COMMAND STRUCTURE & INDIVIDUAL COMMISSIONS BY BRANCH

COMMAND

High Command
Generalissimus Emu
Rear Admiral Arjyla (Fleet Commander)

Fleet HQ
Lt.-Commander Ccbasin (Director of Operations)
Jules Verenti (Director of Intelligence)
Lord Martin (Director of Survey Department)
Commander Darthkommandant (Fleet Logistics Officer)
Public Affairs (Vacant)
Communications (Vacant)
Fighter Ops (Vacant)

FLEET

Rear Admiral Arjyla (ESN Belligerent) (Training Fleet Commander)

TRAINING SQUADRON 1 - Red Dragons

Captain Billy-bob (ESN Defiant) (1 - Fleet 1nd Deputy Commander)
Captain Coinneach (ESN Procyon) (2 - Fleet 2nd Deputy Commander)
Captain Avernite (ESN Sol)
Acting Captain (Commodore) Thelonegunman (ESN Chimaera) (SPECIAL: 6 month commission as a Captain)

TRAINING SQUARDON 2 - Blue Dragons

Captain Ezdako (ESN Aggressive) (1 - Fleet 1nd Deputy Commander)
Captain Autonomous (ESN Totally Pissed Off) (2 - Fleet 2nd Deputy Commander)
Captain Schuermann (ESN Centaurus)
Captain Kiwi Rackham (ESN Sirius)

SCOUTS
Commander Hellvink (ESN Avernum)
Commander Velko (ESN Hutton)
Commander Lord Blekinge (ESN Thor)
Commander Polar Mongoose (ESN Lyell)
Commander Bjering (ESN Keppler)
Commander Chaos (ESN Ptolemy)
Commander von Sachsen (ESN Chandrasekhar)
Commander TheExecutor (ESN Gould)
Commander Trajan (ESN Agassiz)
Commander Stamasd (ESN Copernicus)
Commander the_hdk Dorieus (ESN von Haast)

AUX

Commander Stonewall (ESNA Forum) Colony Ship
Commander Henkalv (ESNA The bay of Elms) Colony Ship
Commander Stuckenschmidt (ESNA Hansa) Freighter
Lt.-Commander GaiusC (ESNA Amalthea) Freighter
Lt.-Commander Arilou (ESNA Shell) Tanker
Lt.-Commander Guillaume HJ (ESNA Chinook) Tanker
Lt.-Commander Arnold "Kiwi" Rimmer, (ESNA Red Dwarf) Freighter.

FIGHTER COMMAND
Captain Felix Sylvetris (Nellis AFB)
Captain Konstantin Shepherdovsky (Other AFB)
Squadron Leader Theusje (Wildcats)
- Pilot Teep
- Pilot SA Avenger
- Pilot GrimPagan
- Pilot Boris ze Spider
- Pilot Matija
- Pilot Cromelex
Squadron Leader Raczynski (The Cossacks)
- Pilot BwenGun
- Pilot Morrel8
- Pilot Galleblaere
- Pilot Raaritsgodzilla
- Pilot Dublish
- Pilot Nabobalis

(Unclaimed) - 4 Freighters
(Unclaimed) - 2 Tankers
Commander (ESNA Texaco) Tanker
Commander (ESNA Mayflower) Colony Ship

LAND
Qorten (Planetary Defence) RADAR base
Iche Bins (Planetary Defence) RADAR base

ZERG

Brigadier Hyme (HQ)
Colonel Jolt
Julius Strange

Colonel Quift (32nd Engineer Brigade)
GrapeApe (33rd Engineer Brigade)

RESERVE / ON DEPLOYMENT
(Diplo mission)
Brigadier Hyme (Army)
Rockingluke (Navy)
Forgiven (Navy)
Cleomenes (Army)
Nisco (army)

Julius Strange (Army)
Colonel Jolt (Army)
Seli

Nice overview, maybe Emu can copy that to the first page. But I wanted my Freighter to be renamed to Hansa instead of Schnitzel.

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.

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Can`t a survey ship serve as Radar as long as there is no installation? But apart from that, Procyon is to the "left", while the only potential threat right now is to the "right". Our Fleet should guard Sol and commence training.