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All we need now is Will Smith and we can stop worrying about any motherships as well.
Seems like a pretty good thing. Just remember, Commodore Bob volunteers for the first colonization mission... provided no chihuahuas end up on board.
But when the aliens send Keanu Reeves, the lights will go out and its game over.
Luckily the immortal known as Keanu Reeves will be alive and well on 1950s earth, so we need not fear unduly! :happy:
Our second group of three Fortresses is launched, and another three...
... bugger...
I must have slept through another pre-build meeting. There are no stockpiled pre-fab components on hand for the next batch of Fortresses. I quickly rearrange our build queue to pre-fab the required components, while the shipyard sits idle for a few weeks.
... bugger...
I must have slept through another pre-build meeting. There are no stockpiled pre-fab components on hand for the next batch of Fortresses. I quickly rearrange our build queue to pre-fab the required components, while the shipyard sits idle for a few weeks.
Nice find there. Would have been more fun to find an NPC race on that, but we can't win them all I guess
How many of the fortresses are you planning to build in total? We have 6 jump points in Sol to cover, yes?
How long until we start exploring the second jump point?
How many of the fortresses are you planning to build in total? We have 6 jump points in Sol to cover, yes?
How long until we start exploring the second jump point?
Nice find there. Would have been more fun to find an NPC race on that, but we can't win them all I guess
How many of the fortresses are you planning to build in total? We have 6 jump points in Sol to cover, yes?
How long until we start exploring the second jump point?
Not sure. Three per jump point should be enough, and will only take a few years. We can't really lay down our Navy until we have the required Propulsion, Missile and Defensive techs anyway, and until our largest Naval yard reaches a size suitable for Light Carriers. So we aren't losing much by continuing to build Fortress for the time being.
We've got the first system roughly half surveyed, and will need to swap out the scouts soon for another pair, due to time-on-station constraints. We could explore and survey the systems one at a time... or as soon as we have three sets of Fortresses (and the third set is building now) we could run two survey operations concurrently, with one set of Fortresses guarding each wormhole and the third set in training and overhaul.
Gas Cooled Fast Reactor tech is finished. Jump Gate Construction Module tech is finished. Ion Drive tech will be done in seven months. I have a shipyard of suitable size for building Gate Constructors, the slipways are clear, and it will finish its present task (add another slipway) in a few months, and can then be retooled for Gate Constructors.
We are up to 40 research labs (from 25 at game start) with another ten waiting in the build queue.
We are up to 40 research labs (from 25 at game start) with another ten waiting in the build queue.
Good news for the Battle Fleet: in three or four more years, our largest Naval shipyard will reach a suitable size for laying down Light Carriers... and by then, we should also have the techs that we need.
Schuermann and Telesien take the ESNS Darwin (Geo) and ESNS Brahe (Grav) to the Barnard's Star system, to relieve Trajan and Stuckenschmidt in ESNS Russel (Geo) and ESNS von Humboldt (Grav), who have been on station nearly a year and are running short of endurance.
Schuermann and Telesien take the ESNS Darwin (Geo) and ESNS Brahe (Grav) to the Barnard's Star system, to relieve Trajan and Stuckenschmidt in ESNS Russel (Geo) and ESNS von Humboldt (Grav), who have been on station nearly a year and are running short of endurance.
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I believe that the first class of light carriers be named after famous ships. It should be known as the Enterprise-class light carrier.
Wheeler Corporation is up to 99 ships totaling more than three-and-a-half million tons of shipping. Jesus H Christ.
Go Wheeler Corporation! If there is a planet we want to colonize and not deal with the corp's colony, we can "Ban Body" in the system view. Probably a good idea to pull power over the corp.
One good point of this mega-corporation is that if an enemy fleet DOES break into the Sol system, we can just sit back and let them run out of missiles shooting up all those Wheeler Corporation ships. It's hard to believe that any reasonable fleet would carry enough missiles to destroy 99 ships in one go...
If they are allowed to run unchecked, their influence on the Sentate will make them the de facto controllers of terran policies. Support new companies to ensure that they are occupied bickering amongst themselves, and not blackmailing the government with their monopolies. If things continue down this path, we may end up with a private navy consiting of military contractors, capable of threatning terran forces.