Project Prosperous: Children of a Prosperous Earth Campaign

Well, there is plentiful hydrogen and methane for fuel, of course those are useless without the presence of oxygen and/or nuclear fusion. Guess the only point for visiting is to harvest deuterium/methane from orbit. Shoot.

Propellant, not fuel.

Right now I am working on a prototype mission for a possible Prosperous campaign.

The player is playing as an EAM admiral rescuing a cargo freighter stranded in orbit around Mercury and nobody is helping because a hostile NESR fleet is coming. At the beginning of the level, pretty much all laser platforms and warships were disabled but one NESR siloship. The siloship is going to attack the freighter, and the player must bring the freighter back before the missiles get to it.

Companies involved are chosen from the OP, and as of now consists of newageofpower 's Altarris Heavy Industries as the owner of the cargo station where the player will bring the freighter to, and apophys ' Apophys Electrics, a company which constructed many space infrastructures in the Mercury orbit.
Currently, ships and stations used are stock placeholders. Custom ships are welcomed, especially if they're designed by AHI itself. I think NAOP put their ships somewhere a while ago...

What tech level (gameplay wise) is involved in project prosperous?

Stock-like, deeply suboptimal stuff? [AE] style insane, multi-GW artificial suns? Something in-between?

I wouldn't mind DCA stuff (original or module-swapped) appearing in a custom campaign, but so far I have only pushed stock variants and don't really have ideas for background.

Still there's no room for a political entity but economic, right? I'm kinda interested with how people self organize themselves in given condition, thus politic...

It would definitely be practical to scale down the tech more towards the sub-optimal stock designs. Yes, I know some of the devices don't make sense, cooling a nuclear reactor in space with Heavy Water for example. In spite of this, they work both in game and in reality. As updates move along we will have to resort back to stock parts repeatedly as our 100kmps 1 gram plasma throwers break and our gigawatt lasers get nerfed and those 1MC 10 GW reactors go critical. So for the sake of realism and planning for future updates let's keep the modules stock.

As far as Fusion goes we might not ever get to the point where it is feasible to use. We need to reach 3 steps before we can consider it practical.


1. Scientific Breakeven: The amount of power gain from running the reactor is greater than the amount we used to run it. (we are here with current technology)

2. Engineering Breakeven: The nuclear energy converted into electrical energy is greater than the amount of energy used to run the reactor and convert it's power.

3. Economical Breakeven: The power gained is enough to justify the construction and operation of the reactor as opposed to building more fission reactors and a new school for Tommy.

The last probably won't be reached until the price of Uranium is higher than its Megawatt equivalent of Tritium.