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Post by ash19256 on Jan 15, 2017 10:41:22 GMT
You are talking about laser coms, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_communication_in_space, frequency does not really matter until you get to hundreds of thousands/millions of km range. By then you would ideally have a relay station anyways. Either way it is interesting to have. Fair enough. Also, The Astronomer , I'd like to have Verolan Space & Aeronautics Corporation's HQ and secondary construction facility on Mars, with their primary shipyard and manufacturing facility on Vesta. I figure that Mars would be where some of the smaller V S&A designs might get built if all of the dry-docks at their Belt shipyards are full, ie. their Orbital Defense Craft Mk 2, or, in the event that they have a colossal order for some of their larger designs on a very short time-frame, they might build some of their larger designs in the Mars assembly yard, followed by vertically launching them into space, possibly with chemical rocket boosters (either solid or liquid depending on relative costs). As V S&A designs are all designed to get a minimum of 1 g of acceleration under thrust (barring the slightly lower 990+ mg acceleration of the Gun Frigate design or the very low acceleration of the "Unholy Light" class laser dreadnought), along with 10+ km/s of delta-V (again with the exception of the 8.5+ km/s Gun Frigate or the 70+ km/s "Unholy Light" class), this would not be a significant problem barring any aerodynamic difficulties.
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Post by tukuro on Jan 15, 2017 11:51:28 GMT
I'd like to change my corporation name and description. HQ: Earth Construction Site: Io/Jupiter
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Post by apophys on Jan 15, 2017 15:42:15 GMT
Apophys Electrics has its refinery, factory, and all of its engineering team in a sizable colony on Jupiter's moon Callisto. This is beyond the radiation belt, but still close enough to Jupiter to harvest electricity from the magnetic field, resulting in a safe workplace with plenty of power for industrial processes (and without reliance on the price of uranium for basic operation). Callisto is a rest stop and a propellant depot on the way to the outer solar system, bringing customers and revenue. Carbon dioxide is used as an easily available workhorse MPD propellant, but hydrogen deuteride and methane are also refined (mostly for sale). The company's financial headquarters, as well as a depot, jut out from the near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis (thus, the company name). As the company grew, nearly all of the asteroid was consumed to build these structures. From here, products developed and produced on Callisto can be quickly shipped off to buyers in the inner solar system. This orbit also allows the company to cheaply acquire MPD propellant siphoned directly from the upper atmosphere of Venus, so cargo freighters only have to carry propellant for a one-way trip. Logistically, Apophys Electrics is well situated to capitalize on commerce throughout much of the solar system. HQ: 99942 Apophis Construction Site: Callisto Auxiliary Site: low Venus orbit propellant depot HQ: Earth Construction Site: Io/Jupiter Hello, neighbor!
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Post by newageofpower on Jan 15, 2017 18:14:59 GMT
Hello, neighbor! Yeahhh... There's a reason we picked a somewhat worse starting site. Taking Mercury only required a brutal vicious extermination campaign Short Glorious Police Action, while attempting to control the Jovian orbital zone is a (heh) Herculean task with many interested parties over a vast and complex Hill Sphere; an incredible opportunity for guerilla resistance movements. (Basically, picking an large island rather than continental start in a 4x ;p) Public Transmission: We at AHI salute Apophys Electrics in their wisdom of utilizing rich external power sites to enable cheap, efficient production and low-cost deliveries. Like AE, we too have had great successes in delivering low dV payloads to Venusian and Terran orbits using aerobreaking techniques and EM-Catapult + Lasersail arrangements. Those who cry out against Apophys Electric's near-complete dominance of the civilian power market should simply offer a superior product at a competitive price. The fact literal mountains of credits flow through their coffers is a boon to Callistan society, which they should be grateful for, and not attempt to increase taxes upon or strike for higher wages - why, the Callistan standard of living and median wages already are at the top of the Solar System's polities! Should the CEO of Apophys Electrics decide to deploy his Corporate Military to 'protect his Shareholder's interests', we at Altarris Heavy Industries understand the unfortunate necessity of such actions; in fact, the Mercurian Parliament has already passed a resolution recognizing AE's stake in Callistan society as well as economy. (Ganbare, Apophys-chan!)
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Post by ash19256 on Jan 15, 2017 20:41:11 GMT
Public TransmissionThe CEO of Verolan Space & Aeronautics Corporation has announced the commencement of orbital trials of a new model of Orbital Defense Craft in low orbit around the asteroid Vesta. They have also invited the CEOs of both Altarris Heavy Industries and Apophis Electrics to observe the trials. Rumor has it that the new craft achieves greater performance than it's Decane/LOX fueled predecessor via the use of a Pentaborane/Nitrogen Tetroxide fuel mixture. While both components of this mixture are toxic, recent modernization in automated refueling and handling procedures minimize the risk of crew exposure to the chemical, and the mixture does have the significant advantage that, unlike the cryogenic Decane and Liquid Oxygen, N2O4 and Pentaborane are capable of being stored indefinitely in the tankage of a craft. As such, industry analysts say that it is highly likely that the rumors are correct. Breaking News!The CEO of Verolan Space & Aeronautics Corporation has recently announced the launch of a new line of thermoelectric fission reactors. Referred to as the JV series of reactors, the listed stats of each of these reactors indicates that they are smaller, lighter, and cheaper than equivalent power output Apophis v3.0 reactors with the same outlet temperature. Sale is expected to begin some time in the next 8 months, 4 months after the completion of the new automated factory on Vesta. Credit to jasonvance in advance. If he already has a corporation in here, I will retract this part of my post.
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Post by jasonvance on Jan 15, 2017 21:29:52 GMT
Public TransmissionThe CEO of Verolan Space & Aeronautics Corporation has announced the commencement of orbital trials of a new model of Orbital Defense Craft in low orbit around the asteroid Vesta. They have also invited the CEOs of both Altarris Heavy Industries and Apophis Electrics to observe the trials. Rumor has it that the new craft achieves greater performance than it's Decane/LOX fueled predecessor via the use of a Pentaborane/Nitrogen Tetroxide fuel mixture. While both components of this mixture are toxic, recent modernization in automated refueling and handling procedures minimize the risk of crew exposure to the chemical, and the mixture does have the significant advantage that, unlike the cryogenic Decane and Liquid Oxygen, N2O4 and Pentaborane are capable of being stored indefinitely in the tankage of a craft. As such, industry analysts say that it is highly likely that the rumors are correct. Breaking News!The CEO of Verolan Space & Aeronautics Corporation has recently announced the launch of a new line of thermoelectric fission reactors. Referred to as the JV series of reactors, the listed stats of each of these reactors indicates that they are smaller, lighter, and cheaper than equivalent power output Apophis v3.0 reactors with the same outlet temperature. Sale is expected to begin some time in the next 8 months, 4 months after the completion of the new automated factory on Vesta. Credit to jasonvance in advance. If he already has a corporation in here, I will retract this part of my post. You can go ahead and manufacture / market / sell them, I'll just take an IP percentage Honestly I have no idea what is really going on in this thread I haven't been keeping up with it that much. When I first read it, it was a neat idea for a mod and now it is like 5 pages and mega corps or something. Speaking of reactors though I should finish the last few GW chunks of reactors needed.
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Post by argonbalt on Jan 15, 2017 22:12:48 GMT
BAHRAM MARS-SIDE:THE CINNABAR COMPLEX Bahram's Mars side HQ is located aptly enough primarily along and through the Bahram Valles, and more generally in and around the Kasei Valles area of Mars, between the 15 and 30th parallels respectively. We are primarily built in and along the Mars-Super-Heavy-Train line 39 and line 19(Running supplies N/S between the Margaritefer Terra and northern Tempe settlements, and the E/W between the Chryse Planitia water transfer sites and the Tharsis launch complexes). We maintain and originally built numerous sections of both those tracts as well as maintaining a healthy chunk of private line as well. Our largest parent settlement is Yamatai City. The complex sites include: Sharanov,Ottumma and Sogel mining complexes For training and education Sacra Mensa combat training centre Alpha and artist studio complex Beta, Tempe Mensa laboratories For dedicated staff Ainu Airbase and aeronautics centre, Emishi and Ebisu complexes along with the Norther Kasei Valles mechanised unit testing centre We also offer a dedicated dormitory and living space for more project intensive staff at our Tempe Terra habitation site All of our staff are fed by our South Kasei Valles farms We also operate and maintain the Oophage Pumilio space port All of our individual sites are connected by our automated rover and Bahram private railway networks We also operate the Sacra Mensa Alpha and Delta product testing ranges as well as the Lambda mechanised test range in North Kasei Valles. In addition we have nine heavy manufacturing and engineering sites. The Cinnabar Nuclear electric facility. The entire Cinnabar complex as well as Yamatai City is entirely self sufficient and can maintain itself indefinitely outside of the greater Martian infrastructure network. imgur.com/a/N8TcX BAHRAM SPACE-SIDE:Bahram also operates one large off Mars facility in the form of Nausikaa 192 in the near side of the main belt, however due to the sensitive nature of this installation the information is classified.
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Post by petrifiedwalnut on Jan 15, 2017 23:04:44 GMT
Interesting - can you tell the current status of this? Does it have its own campaign, etc.? More importantly, if I want to submit something, how can I do it?
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Post by The Astronomer on Jan 15, 2017 23:35:50 GMT
Interesting - can you tell the current status of this? Does it have its own campaign, etc.? More importantly, if I want to submit something, how can I do it? [STATUS]: Story writers needed It is planned to have its own campaign, and if you want to submit anything, feel free to ask people around here. [P.S., I will be away for three days.]
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Post by thorneel on Jan 15, 2017 23:45:30 GMT
HQ: Ceres - for contacts in the industry and business, as well as proximity with the Inner System. Some installations are also present in the Asteroid Belt, mostly as demonstration, maintenance and storage points. Construction zone: Kuiper Belt - Resources, near-0 K temperatures for better cooling and manufacturing processes and... tranquillity allowing for better corporate security. Cheap high-power generators allow for a net of high-DV MPD cargo to move stuff between Kuiper objects and the Inner System.
I'll add the description later, but at the moment the flagship product is the Issitoq light laser drone series.
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Post by utilitas on Jan 16, 2017 12:56:17 GMT
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Post by tukuro on Jan 16, 2017 13:05:46 GMT
This makes me wish we actually had a milkyway skybox ingame.
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Post by utilitas on Jan 16, 2017 13:17:12 GMT
This makes me wish we actually had a milkyway skybox ingame. I'm pretty sure the 'skybox', if you can even technically call it that, is procedurally generated. I don't see an additional skybox texture anywhere. It does, however, appear that the stars aren't randomly generated; there's a "star chart" file that might be used for their position, apparent magnitude and type. Given a few custom shaders even a plain starry sky could be made to look good, but all it has right now is bloom and spectral lines which, at best, just make it look kind of foggy. In fact, I might try out using ReShade with CoDE. It is OpenGL, so it should work.
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Post by gedzilla on Jan 16, 2017 14:28:21 GMT
I keep seeing all these intricate plans and designs, and I feel sad that I dont have the time for anything so complicated :-(
I do have an idea for what Gedzilla industries (or more like it should be called Gedzilla Designs). Basically, instead of a specialty or area of control like the other megacorps have, my company would design ships on demand from the costumer. any ships, from flagships, to armed scavenger ships, to missile corvettes, you name it (and pay for it), we'll design it.
But it Gedzilla Designs wouldnt design modules, so the corp would work very closely with other corps (such as Aphopys Electronics) for the modules, would they would then use for the complete ship. Gedzilla Design would then produce the ship (using other Corps factories for large ship designs) from there own factories if able.
Example: say you want a lightly armed scavenger ship in the jupiter sphere, the costomer will come to Gedzilla Designs, specify purpose, cost, abilities. Gedzilla Designs would then contact companies that produce modules, procure the nessary modules, then incorporate them into the big picture (aka the complete ship) and produce the ship in their jupiter factories.
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Post by petrifiedwalnut on Jan 16, 2017 16:50:00 GMT
So, just to check if I understand it right, these corporations are the factions that we will be including in-game?
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