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Our first Battle-II class Heavy Cruiser has been launched... the ENS Trafalgar.
Rather than use the freed-up slipway to lay down another one... as I had originally planned... I will use it to make some very minor modifications to the Blink class fast recce ships launched only a few months ago. It has just occurred to me that the Blinks contain one component (the sensor) that cannot be repaired using the maintenance stores carried on-board, and if this component were to malfunction during a mission, the ship would be left in the embarrassing position of having to abort the mission and return to Earth for repairs. A relatively simple and quick fix will allow the ship to carry just enough maintenance stores to repair any component on-board. The minor refit will be complete before the two Battle class Heavy Cruisers have finished refitting to Battle-II.
Rather than use the freed-up slipway to lay down another one... as I had originally planned... I will use it to make some very minor modifications to the Blink class fast recce ships launched only a few months ago. It has just occurred to me that the Blinks contain one component (the sensor) that cannot be repaired using the maintenance stores carried on-board, and if this component were to malfunction during a mission, the ship would be left in the embarrassing position of having to abort the mission and return to Earth for repairs. A relatively simple and quick fix will allow the ship to carry just enough maintenance stores to repair any component on-board. The minor refit will be complete before the two Battle class Heavy Cruisers have finished refitting to Battle-II.
Another free tech found in the ruined city... this must be about 20, by now... increasing our Construction Factory efficiency by another +20%.
if it's not the capital, I wonder what the capital's vaults would look like :wacko:
Our first three Constellation class Fleet Carriers have been launched: ESN Perseus, ESN Cassiopeia and ESN Andromeda. They cannot take part in fleet missions until they are equipped with Fighters and the Hero class Battlecruisers are available to escort them through jump points... so I have temporarily given them to NPC captains in order to start training the crews.
While the refits to the Battle / Battle-II Heavy Cruisers are being completed, we should decide which Prix-dominated system will be our next target.
There are several such systems near The Nexus:
... seven of them in this area alone. Should we start cleaning this area up? Or hunt Prix elsewhere? There are at least five other known Prix-dominated systems, scattered around in ones and twos.
While the refits to the Battle / Battle-II Heavy Cruisers are being completed, we should decide which Prix-dominated system will be our next target.
There are several such systems near The Nexus:
... seven of them in this area alone. Should we start cleaning this area up? Or hunt Prix elsewhere? There are at least five other known Prix-dominated systems, scattered around in ones and twos.
Well, if the capital only has similar level of tech, by the time we get there we might be even further advanced.
10 Tauri has the nicest planet... on the other hand, it's also the system that's furthest from our operating bases. Not that distance is an insuperable handicap... we have Fleet Tankers, after all.
If we took 10 Tauri, we would want to colonize it quickly, before someone else snapped it up now that the Prix are gone. Being so far from our other bases, it's an awkward spot to colonize. Still quite do-able, though.
are there any drawbacks to colonizing a planet and leaving it to fend for itself until you want to invest in it? like an unavoidable upkeep or something?
The people get upset if the amount of life-support infrastructure is insufficient to keep pace with colony growth. Ground forces deployed on the planet can intimidate them into behaving themselves, though. They also get upset once they grow beyond several million colonists, if you don't have ships or PDCs deployed in the system to protect them.
What I've been doing to counter that is to build pre-fab PDC components on Earth, ship them out to the colony along with Construction Factories or Engineers, and assemble an Airbase PDC on the colony. Then as we build new-model Fighters, we can deploy our old-model Fighters out to the colonies as "Police" forces.
Go for the closest Prix to any of your centres of powers, with that I mean Earth or Nexus.
Either of those 2 close to Gliese 229, they're too close to Sol for my liking (4 jumps away, if I count correctly). That's my opinion.
My personal favorite would be cleaning out Fomalhaut (top left on the first map), followed by colonizing the two class-0 worlds in Xi Bootes and Gliese 687, before the Chix get them.
... although now that I think of it... I never FOUND that class-0 world in Gliese 687. It shows on the Galaxy map, but I can't actually FIND it in the system itself.
Those jerks killed one of our player characters, true.
EDIT: The Battle-IIs will be out in a month, and we can head out hunting Prix any time after that. I suppose I could overhaul the fleet first, to make sure all the equipment is nice and shiny.
The colony set up close to the Belizards should be LV-426 in reference to the movie series. If you don't like that type of name then it is also known as Acheron.
If we want technology, Tauri is probably the best bet, if the Prix are depended on habital planets as well.
If we just want to clear out the systems, go for the ones who are in our path of expansion or just threathen our colonies.
Though we don't want to exptent our supply lines too much, we are already running into difficulties with our current dig site, so we must make sure that we can ship out any new finds and yet keep our other operations running. While we have gained much from El Dorado, it have slowed down our other projects.
If we just want to clear out the systems, go for the ones who are in our path of expansion or just threathen our colonies.
Though we don't want to exptent our supply lines too much, we are already running into difficulties with our current dig site, so we must make sure that we can ship out any new finds and yet keep our other operations running. While we have gained much from El Dorado, it have slowed down our other projects.
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