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Sol Reborn

My question is why you have nearly 100 percent catholics when there should be at least some protestants. Seems stupid to me
 
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Not at the beginning. You can build them and negotiate with the existing ones, maybe even get them to join you, but you can't start with one. Space Elevators will be big projects with big rewards that players will build and fight over. None will exist at the start.
 
Wandering Grim Hollow said:
Permission to have a Torus colony in Mars orbit.

Also a space elevator of sorts.

Fishman Lord Fishman Lord
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If you want a piece of infrastructure to help with launches, you might want to look at Skyhooks.
They're much more feasible than orbital elevators, and can still cut down launch costs a lot.

Here's the Matterbeam entry on Skyhooks
Speaking of Megastructures, let me direct you to our kind lord and saviour, Isaac Arthur.
 
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Hello. I'm back from a long hiatus of sorts and genuinely intrigued. I have an idea for a faction that I would like to run by Fishman Lord Fishman Lord

Essentially, it is my understanding that there would have had to have been at least a small fleet of spaceships that were used to ferry people and supplies between Earth and the colonies. My idea is that by the time of the War, an international company (with a name yet to be chosen) has bought up more than half of the spaceworthy vessels by a combination of underhanded business tactics, corruption, and ruthless enforcement of patent law. To the colonists and Earthers, they are known as Spacers. The individuals who work on these vessels serve long contracts that see them on-board their ships for decades at a time.

After the War, the captain of the flagship was given command of the entire fleet, and was able to convince the other captains to form a loose confederation and use their crucial services as the only people with access to dedicated spacecraft as a bargaining chip to extort the resources and new recruits they need from the colonies. They are inspired by (and function similarly to) the Spacer's Guild in the Dune Universe.

They don't have warships. Probably a dozen large transports, several dozen smaller transports, and several dozen escort ships. But as I understand it none of the other factions have spacecraft at this stage. They would probably have a few bases for helium-3 refining and metal processing either in the asteroid belt or owned by the Spacers but administrated by the colonies. Their fleets would be sort of ramshackle, holding together but in obvious need of servicing as they age.

I think it would add an extra layer to the diplomacy, at least in the early part of the RP, because you would basically have people paying the Spacers to transport their armies if they wanted to attack someone on another planet. Then the Spacers could simply turn around and ask for more money or resources from the faction that is going to be attacked.
 
Mr.Sandstorm said:
If you want a piece of infrastructure to help with launches, you might want to look at Skyhooks.
They're much more feasible than orbital elevators, and can still cut down launch costs a lot.

Here's the Matterbeam entry on Skyhooks
Speaking of Megastructures, let me direct you to our kind lord and saviour, Isaac Arthur.
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You helped me once again Mr Sandstorm!

Not to mention that with Mars' lower gravity, this method was also thought up in that colonization paper.
 
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If I could borrow you for a second, I specified that the Poseidon-class corvettes have "kinetic" weapons. I was going to ask if magnetic rail-guns or Gauss cannons are common. If they're not, then they would just have conventional autocannons. Which would still be effective, honestly. Considering spaceships at this stage have little armor and no energy shielding.

I also wanted to ask about the methods of moving people and goods to the surface. None of the Spacers' ships are designed for atmospheric travel (although Poseidons could probably land and take off from the Moon or some other low-gravity body). My idea then was that either the ships hooked onto a space elevator or a station connected to a space elevator, or they had small shuttlecraft that were designed with a liquid rocket thruster (in the case of Mars) or an ion thruster (in the case of the Moon or asteroids) allowing them to land on and take off from those bodies. So the ships would have been supplied from Earth by space elevator, but the supplies would have been delivered by shuttle. I thought having a shuttlecraft that could achieve orbital velocity by itself on Earth was nonsense, but was probably achievable on Mars and the Moon.
 
Shireling said:
Fishman Lord Fishman Lord

If I could borrow you for a second, I specified that the Poseidon-class corvettes have "kinetic" weapons. I was going to ask if magnetic rail-guns or Gauss cannons are common. If they're not, then they would just have conventional autocannons. Which would still be effective, honestly. Considering spaceships at this stage have little armor and no energy shielding.

I also wanted to ask about the methods of moving people and goods to the surface. None of the Spacers' ships are designed for atmospheric travel (although Poseidons could probably land and take off from the Moon or some other low-gravity body). My idea then was that either the ships hooked onto a space elevator or a station connected to a space elevator, or they had small shuttlecraft that were designed with a liquid rocket thruster (in the case of Mars) or an ion thruster (in the case of the Moon or asteroids) allowing them to land on and take off from those bodies. So the ships would have been supplied from Earth by space elevator, but the supplies would have been delivered by shuttle. I thought having a shuttlecraft that could achieve orbital velocity by itself on Earth was nonsense, but was probably achievable on Mars and the Moon.
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Gauss Guns and railguns are definitely common. Quick note, "energy shielding" will never really show up in this RP as I have seen no plausible method as to how forcefields or energy shields could be used.

None of the planets have Space Elevators yet, so you may have an issue. Shuttles will probably be your best bet.
 
Shireling said:
Fishman Lord Fishman Lord

If I could borrow you for a second, I specified that the Poseidon-class corvettes have "kinetic" weapons. I was going to ask if magnetic rail-guns or Gauss cannons are common. If they're not, then they would just have conventional autocannons. Which would still be effective, honestly. Considering spaceships at this stage have little armor and no energy shielding.

I also wanted to ask about the methods of moving people and goods to the surface. None of the Spacers' ships are designed for atmospheric travel (although Poseidons could probably land and take off from the Moon or some other low-gravity body). My idea then was that either the ships hooked onto a space elevator or a station connected to a space elevator, or they had small shuttlecraft that were designed with a liquid rocket thruster (in the case of Mars) or an ion thruster (in the case of the Moon or asteroids) allowing them to land on and take off from those bodies. So the ships would have been supplied from Earth by space elevator, but the supplies would have been delivered by shuttle. I thought having a shuttlecraft that could achieve orbital velocity by itself on Earth was nonsense, but was probably achievable on Mars and the Moon.
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Mars is planning to get a space elevator.

But first things first, unification.
 
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