Loving the story so far! If the bugs do turn on you I could see it becoming very click intense will all your fighters and the bug numbers.
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Same with Caveman, though if they live up to their bug heritage, it will just be a slog fest
Gives me a vision of Gauss turrets cycling as fast as they can into an endless horde of bugs. Pretty much the base defense scene in Starship Troopers but in space!
Have you read "Ad Astra", linked in my signature? It was the first and best of our outer-space adventures.
Currently on my second read through!!! Something about it just captures the feeling of sailing into the unknown. It is freaking awesome!
I'm still here. Got a job interview lined up for next week... as a college professor. So I've been putting some time into preparing for that. But the AAR is still alive!
The year is 1956... thirty-seven years since mankind first took its first tentative steps toward developing space-travel capability. In that time, we have made tremendous progress.
Our original seven research labs, producing in all 1,400 RP per year, have been expanded to one hundred research labs and 32,000 RP per year. Even this impressive growth does not tell the full story of our scientific progress, since our Scientists have been steadily gaining skill and expertise, to the point that some of them can add a bonus of more than +200% (ie: triple-speed) to research within their own specialized field. Our missile/kinetic tech researcher Lorenz von Falkenwald adds +220% to his current project of improving our Gauss Cannons, while Mehmet Rosenstein adds +260% to his research on missile-tracking sensors.
Our dockyards have seen an even more dramatic improvement. Our four military yards now total 17 slipways (4, 4, 4 and 5) grossing 221,000 tons capacity; with pride of place going to the Peenemunde Yards: four slipways of 30,000 tons each. As usual, our civilian yards are much larger and more numerous, with seven yards totaling 20 slipways (6, 5, 4, 2, 1, 1 and 1) grossing 1,820,000 tons capacity; the largest being the Hamburg yards of six 110,000 slipways.
Our focus on building up the supporting civilian infrastructure before beginning our major military build-up has given us 45 orbital fuel refining stations in orbit around Uranus (with 11 more under construction) and 17 orbital terra-forming platforms in orbit around Lacaille 8760 A-II (having finished terra-forming Mars to fully Earth-like climate and atmosphere). Four more orbital terra-forming platforms are under construction. We have more than twenty interstellar freighters, with a couple more building, three colonizer vessels, two Gate constructors, two Wreckers (for examining alien wrecks) and two Tugs. The first Tankers are also on the slipways.
Our military has not been neglected. We have eight Carriers holding thirty-odd Vogel-II strike Fighters each, eight Battle Management Vessels (which also double as Jump-ships for the other vessels in the task force), nine Gauss PD Frigates, six Laser PD Frigates, twenty-five Fast Attack Craft each armed with an array of twenty one-shot missile launchers, eleven surviving Scout ships, and three troop transports.
We have five airbases and five Radar bases... some on Earth and some on the colonies... and components pre-fabbed for the on-the-spot assembly of a few more.
Aside from the Earth, Mars and the Moon, we have two growing colonies in the Lacaille 8760 system (5.88 and 3.92 million people respectively) and one more colony in the Struve 2398 system (2.86 million people).
Our original seven research labs, producing in all 1,400 RP per year, have been expanded to one hundred research labs and 32,000 RP per year. Even this impressive growth does not tell the full story of our scientific progress, since our Scientists have been steadily gaining skill and expertise, to the point that some of them can add a bonus of more than +200% (ie: triple-speed) to research within their own specialized field. Our missile/kinetic tech researcher Lorenz von Falkenwald adds +220% to his current project of improving our Gauss Cannons, while Mehmet Rosenstein adds +260% to his research on missile-tracking sensors.
Our dockyards have seen an even more dramatic improvement. Our four military yards now total 17 slipways (4, 4, 4 and 5) grossing 221,000 tons capacity; with pride of place going to the Peenemunde Yards: four slipways of 30,000 tons each. As usual, our civilian yards are much larger and more numerous, with seven yards totaling 20 slipways (6, 5, 4, 2, 1, 1 and 1) grossing 1,820,000 tons capacity; the largest being the Hamburg yards of six 110,000 slipways.
Our focus on building up the supporting civilian infrastructure before beginning our major military build-up has given us 45 orbital fuel refining stations in orbit around Uranus (with 11 more under construction) and 17 orbital terra-forming platforms in orbit around Lacaille 8760 A-II (having finished terra-forming Mars to fully Earth-like climate and atmosphere). Four more orbital terra-forming platforms are under construction. We have more than twenty interstellar freighters, with a couple more building, three colonizer vessels, two Gate constructors, two Wreckers (for examining alien wrecks) and two Tugs. The first Tankers are also on the slipways.
Our military has not been neglected. We have eight Carriers holding thirty-odd Vogel-II strike Fighters each, eight Battle Management Vessels (which also double as Jump-ships for the other vessels in the task force), nine Gauss PD Frigates, six Laser PD Frigates, twenty-five Fast Attack Craft each armed with an array of twenty one-shot missile launchers, eleven surviving Scout ships, and three troop transports.
We have five airbases and five Radar bases... some on Earth and some on the colonies... and components pre-fabbed for the on-the-spot assembly of a few more.
Aside from the Earth, Mars and the Moon, we have two growing colonies in the Lacaille 8760 system (5.88 and 3.92 million people respectively) and one more colony in the Struve 2398 system (2.86 million people).
The interview is this coming Thursday (July 6th). If I get the job, the rate of updates will no doubt taper off, since I will need to devote some major time to preparing course material for this Fall.
The interview went fairly well... it was a real 90-minute grilling, though, and I was pretty nervous. Should hear back within two weeks.
Wow! I can subscribe to a potentially-ongoing Blue Emu Aurora AAR!
Some of your images are broken, at least for me. Perhaps you have addressed this elsewhere...
Some of your images are broken, at least for me. Perhaps you have addressed this elsewhere...
