Beyond the known, the next galaxy

[flapjack]

4358: Humankind is prospering, it recently made contact with 1 of the first alien races, known only as the eldar. The Eldar are a mysterious and secretive race, they refused to let any humans aboard their exploration vessel and their ambassadors where protected by some kind of energy field.

4478: Slipstream drives tested for the first time, a small batch of apparently ancient Eldar equipment was found and testing revealed it was all way more powerfull then any human technology was and is, attempts at replicating the technology failed.

4511: The Eldar have agreed to allow some humans aboard their ships, in addition they have, in small amounts, given some of their old components away. Scientist are in awe when the results of scans are analyzed, for the Eldar ships where not only unexplainably fast, they now proved to be resilient and have enough firepower to destroy a small planet.

4513: Analyzing of the Eldar FTL drive produces the wormhole/singularity drive, capable of opening a wormhole from 1 place to another, more Eldar equipment is donated to humankind and research continues

4514: With the help of Eldar technology, Nano-technology finally matures, ship construction becomes a matter of days instead of years and thousands of new ships are built in a matter of months.

4517: bioship cloning is first used, 2 bioships where succesfully grown, all systems in place, in the span of 2 months, several large cooperations switch to bioships.

4524: Massive construction project started, reason, classified, location, deep space near Alpha Proxima. Several starnavy battleships protect the site from unwanted attention.

4528: Massive energyspike detected near Alpha Proxima, the star almost immediatly goes critical and goes supernova 2 days later... The classified project and its inventors are naturally blamed, the starnavy attempts to subdue the rumors about a galactic travelling method

4567: The starnavy makes a second attempt at their secret project, this time several lightyears out from the nearest planet, 2 days before it finishes construction 2 terrorist corvettes manage to get past the perimeter and severely damage the construct, the resulting publicity forces the Starnavy to announce what they had been building... They call it the Galaxy Gate.

4568: The Galaxy Gate is completed, 2 massive rings within eachother, the outer ring is the remaining ring, it will serve as the portal from this side. The inner ring is sent to the target galaxy via a massive wormhole, when it arrives, the 2 rings connect and create a permanent wormhole.

4568, 12 days after the GG is completed: First testing was succesfull, the GG ring is sent across the wormhole and it connects, but only long enough to allow the prefab station, 5 colony ships and a small military escort through before the wormhole collapses, almost destroying the remaining ring.

4568, 2 months after the GG is completed: several days ago, the ring has been repaired and you've been selected to go through along with another 4 colony ships and a group of military escorts

Now: You safely arrived across the gate, but found out that it can only be used for a short before needing to recharge, signal is sent back across a micro wormhole communication system that was aboard 1 of the colony ships and is now installed on the station, dubbed station 0. Soon exploration of this new galaxy will begin in ernest, because though the first colony ships quickly found suitable planets, now a new galaxy needs exploring.

You may all design your own ship(s) from the parts found on my website: www.angeltowns2.com/members/flapjack/space.xls
and an example design at http://www.angeltowns2.com/members/f.../spaceship.txt for those of you that haven't quite managed to understand how it works (yet)

You will each have 50000 credits for your design.

Now, post your ships so I can scold, err, applaud you and when a couple of people have posted their ships, I'll post the missions

[Fluffie]

i don't have excell.

[Heiro]

lol, Unlucky fluff.

Hull: Strike Corvette [1250]

Armour: Bioship conversion [25000]

Shields: LDS emitters [4*1500]

Engines:
Eldar mass distortion drive [5000]
Linear Drive [2500]

Weapons:
Plasma Bolt Launcher [3500]
Light Massdriver turrets *4[150*4]
Massdriver turret *2 [500*2]

Additionals:
Energy Boost - Plasma Bolt Launcher [3000]
Engine slot [250]

Troops:
8 guardsmen squads [150*8]


Total: 49300 credits

No name, as of yet.

OR background. But I'll do it.

[Hewitt]

Whoa.

Exactly how long did it take to write up that spreadsheet!? :eek:

Oh and you'll need to explain what the front, sides and aft slots are for (Weapon placement?)

[flapjack]

Originally Posted by Fluffie

i don't have excell.

then you should either get Openoffice, which has the same functionality as m$ office but it's free.

You can either google for it or I'll PM it over.

Or you can go to Micro$oft's website and download the excel reader.

Openoffice is a large download tough

[flapjack]

Originally Posted by Hewitt

Whoa.

Exactly how long did it take to write up that spreadsheet!? :eek:

Oh and you'll need to explain what the front, sides and aft slots are for (Weapon placement?)

it took me 10 minutes to get the settings right.

It took me about 8 hours of writing to write all of the other stuff.

the front, sides and aft mounts are precisely that.

You can only have a set amount of weapons pointing in each direction (front/left/right/aft) and the total can obviously not exceed the weapon mounts for the hull you're using.

Simple as that no?

oh and on a sidenote, Heiro, your ship is using 1 additional mount to much....

[Hewitt]

So it's like the max weapons for each section with an absolute max for weapons stated in the weapons column right?

[Heiro]

I worked on the principle that: You can have max weapons == to the weapon column, but no more than the number of mounts on each section. I.e I can have 12 weapon mounts, but only 4 on the sides...

[Fluffie]

*finishes installing his..*cough*.. office copy*

[Bakan]

Poor Fluffy, you have been CURSED now.

Will post ship later today...

[flapjack]

bring out the M$ cleaning team immediatly, we've got an infected person here, but he's only been recently infected. Clean fast....

[Hewitt]

Ship Name: The DIAMANTINA

Torpedo boat - 12000c

Engines (3)
Grav Wave drive (2) - 3000c
Hyperdrive (1) - 500c

Armor (1)
Bioship Conversion (1) - 25000c

Shields (3)
Heavy Shield (3) - 500c

Weapons (28 - 28F/2S/2A)
2 Heavy Rail Guns (Front, 8) - 4000c
4 12" Torpedo Launchers (Front, 16) - 2000c
2 Point Defence Rocket Launchers (Left Side, 2/Right Side, 2) - 1500c

Extra (2)
Torpedo Launch Sequencer (1) - 1000c
Crew Quarters (1) - 500c

Cargo (80 tonne limit)
40 12” anti-capital torpedoes (4 tonnes)
500 PDR's (2 tonnes)

TOTAL - 50000c


And before anyone says anything, yes I know there's no soldiers on my ship.

[flapjack]

Hewitt: ship Approved, now let everyone gape the firepower in that thing......

[Heiro]

All we do is shoot the sides.

I've only got troops cause I had money left over

[flapjack]

Heiro, can you do maths? In that case, do 500*100 and tell me how much damage Hewitt can do in 1 turn with those 2 PD rocket pods before they're empty.

Now tell me if you still think you'll attack from the sides....

[Hewitt]

[Mad cat]

umm its not letting me view the spread sheet

[Fluffie]

download it

because geocities is a bitch

[flapjack]

in fact, geocities decided to delete my account.... said I was it to store local files for backup....

perhaps they didn't see the amount of visits that 1 file got me.....
so now I've already regged with a different provider (50mb space, unlimited bandwith, no ads (max file size of 900kb)) and I'll be uploading the files there in a few minutes, new URLs will be edited into the start post

done, new URLs posted in first post, new server up and running, at least for the next 30 days :P

[Mad cat]

yay! no ads!!

[Disrupter]

ok you spam freaklings, im interested in the thread, but busy at the moment, so i will post ship later.

[Crazyboy]

Ship Name: Red Storm

Torpedo Boat - 12,000 C

Engines:
2x Impulse Drives – 4,000 C, 2 Engine
1x Hyperdrive – 500 C, 1 Engine

Armour/Shields:
1x Tritanium hull armour -2,000 C, 1 Armour
1x Spatial Distortion Field – 5,000 C, 2 Shield
1x Singularity Emitter – 5,000 C, 1 Shield

Weapons:
2x 12” Torpedo Launchers – 1,000 C, 8 Mounts (Forward)
2x 16” Torpedo Launchers – 2,000 C, 16 Mounts (Forward)
2x Quad Light Massdriver Turrets – 800 C, 4 Mounts (Starboard/Port)

Additional:
1x Torpedo Launcher Sequencer – 1,000 C, 1 Add
1x Advanced Sensor Array – 750 C, 1 Add

Cargo:
20x 12” Anti-Capital Ship Torpedoes – 20 Tonnes
20x 16” Anti-Capital Ship torpedoes. – 20 Tonnes
5x 12” Anti-Drive Torpedoes – 3,750 C, 5 Tonnes
5x 16” Anti-Matter Torpedoes – 7,500 C, 5 Tonnes

Troops:
5x Defenders – 1,250 C, 20 Tonnes

Total Cost: 46,550
Money Left: 3,450

[flapjack]

nutc... crazyboy: ship approved, a torpedo boat like it should be, with torpedoes....

Heiro: ship now also approved, good boy

[Disrupter]

Ship: Light Carrier
Ship name: The Gauntlet

Shields: 2x Particle shields- 5000

Engines: Transwarp drive- 5000
Impulse drive- 2000

Weapons: 3x Quad light massdriver turrets (one for each side)- 1200
6x gattling lasers (2 for each side)- 7500

Fighters: 6x Demolisher heavy fighters- 7200
6x Raptor class light fighters- 1500

Extra: Class 2 stealth system- 1500
Class 2 Cloaking system- 2500

Troops: 12x Infantry squad units
5x space marines
20x troopers


The only things that are probably wrong are the troops, fighters, and weapons, those present the only problems. Everything else should be fine, oh godly Dm.

History will be later, like a day or two, instead of a minute or two like this post was.

[flapjack]

disrupter: let's see, you have 2 shield mounts. Yet you somehow manage to install 2 particle shields (2 mounts each), so you'll either have to get 2 shield pods (and remove or downgrade some of that stealth equipment) or drop 1 of the shields.
both your weapons would indicate there is 1 side open, I'll assume you won't have placed any weapons with the main facing aft since you have plenty of weapons firing that way anyways (this is thus not a problem)
You however have 6 weapon mounts to fill and you have filled 18 weapon mounts, that means 2/3rd of your weapons will have to be removed (look at the example ship for an example)
Your fighters are perfectly in order.
And your troops are perfectly in order.

please solve the above problems...

Attack Scout 2500
Stealth Plating 500
Class 1 stealth system 500
Class 1 cloaking system 1500
Eldar mass distortion drive 5000
Slipstream drive 10000
2x Pulse laser turret 3000
12" torpedo launcher500
Bioship conversion 25000
12” anti-matter torpedoes
2x 12” anti-capital torpedoes

Time to go fly

[flapjack]

Mouse: ship approved

[Bakan]

Now for my ship......

Ship Name: Defiant
Ship Hull: Frigate leader - 8500

Engines - (3)
Eldar mass distortion drive (2) - 5000
Linear Drive (1) - 2500

Armor - (3)
Heavy tritanium hull armor (2) - 3000

Shields - (4)
Particle Shields (2) - 2500
LDS emitters (1) - 1500
LDS emitters (1) - 1500

Weapons - (24)
Front - (18)
Heavy plasma bolt launcher (18) - 8000

Left - (14)
Double pulse laser turret (2) - 2500

Right - (14)
Double pulse laser turret (2) - 2500

Aft - (6)
Double pulse laser turret (2) - 2500

Additional (6)
Secondary power system (2) - 500
Advanced targetting system (2) - 2500
Advanced computer system (1) - 750
Energy boost - Tied into Heavy Plasma Bolt Launcher (1) - 3000

Troops (75 Tons)
Defenders (4 Tons) - 250
Defenders (4 Tons) - 250
Defenders (4 Tons) - 250
Defenders (4 Tons) - 250
Defenders (4 Tons) - 250

Fighters (8)
Raptor class light fighter (1) - 250
Raptor class light fighter (1) - 250
Raptor class light fighter (1) - 250
Raptor class light fighter (1) - 250
Bulldog class medium fighter (2) - 500
Bulldog class medium fighter (2) - 500

Cost - 50,000 Credits
Money Left - 0 Credits

[Czar]

Ok now...

For my two cents... Ehrm... 50K..., I'll take:

Ship Name: The Shroud

Hull: Heavy Frigate Leader [10.000]

Engines: (3)
1/2: Eldar Mass Distortion Drive [5.000]
3: Linear Drive [2.500]

Armor: (3)
1/2:Heavy Tritanium Hull Armor [3.000]
3: -

Shields: (6)
1:Particle Shields [2.500]
2:Particle Shields [2.500]
3/6: -

Weapons: (26|24/12/8)
Front: 3x(6) Quad UV Laser [3.000]
2x(8) Heavy Rail Gun [4.000]
Sides: 2x(4) Quad UV Laser (1/1) [2.000]
2x(4) Railgun (1/1) [2.000]
Aft: 1x(8) Cluster Missile Launcher [2.500]

Additional: (8)
1/4: Class 2 Cloaking System [2.500]
5/6: Advanced Sensor Computer [2.500]
7/8: Advanced Targetting System [2.500]

Fighters: (8)
1/8: 4x(8) Wardog Heavy Fighter [3.200]

Cargo: (75T)


Price: 49.700

Remaining Funds: 300

The Story... So Far:

The Shroud has been around for a while- or rather, it's predecessor...
Years ago a pirate prowled the spaceways under the command of Captain Quentin Smythe. Captain Smythe commanded a Destroyer- The Mephistopheles, that he put to good use, making quite a terror of himself. Hunted, but never caught, until fate ran into him, with the bill.

Fate took the form of Jonas Strom, originally a waster kid from a backwater colony, with nowhere to go and nowhere to run. Jonas was offered a life of Promise and Adventure by Smythe- if only he'd agree to serve as runner and cabin boy first.
Jonas knew this was the only chance he'd ever get at leaving- so he took it.
Over the years he learned all he could from Smythe, while staying in the background for the longest time. When he finally was ordered along on the raids, he at first revelled in them- until he had to kill his first innocent.
After the first, more followed soon. This disgusted him more and more, until he could stand it no longer. He had to talk about it, and so he did- to the female techrat, Link. He learned that Link shared his loathing and his lack of options. They soon became fast friends, and later even lovers.

The next few weeks proved... Educational. They learned of a few of Smythe's stashes and weapons caches, and several planned raids to boot. Armed with this knowledge, and a few choice pieces of Smythe's valuables, they fled.
They joined forces with a group of Bounty hunters: Legion.

ooc/Non-PA; I just like the name /ooc

Legion took them in, mostly because of the information they carried, and the spunk that got them there. They were assigned to the Frigate Leader: The Shroud. The bounty hunters spent the next few years hunting and disassembling Smythe's empire of crime. It came to a head when Legion gathered all it's forces to take out Smythe's homebase. The ensueing battle was bloody, and left Jonas in command of the Shroud. Both fleets were wiped out. After the dust settled, Smythe was gone, and the Shroud was a virtual wreck. Jonas managed to get his ship home, and bought a new class of ship from the collected bounty, determined to rebuild Legion, together with Link.

What they didn't know was that Smythe wasn't dead...

Years later, the bill came for Jonas. By now, the new Shroud was fully grown and fully equipped, and a feared Bounty hunter ship; He and Link were married, and she'd bore him a son: Fate. Legion was also prospering again.

Then, when Fate was 17, without warning, the attack came- knocking at their front door: Cloaked ships appeared everywhere- including the Mephistopheles! Carnage erupted everywhere, and this time Legion was wiped out, base and all. Link was dead, and Jonas thought his son dead as well. Determined to kill Smythe once and for all, he rammed the Mephistopheles head on!

When Fate woke up, he saw only carnage everywhere. Mother and father dead, and almost all of the crew. The ship was all but destroyed. He patched what weapons he could, and kept the hull alive as long as he could, while limping to a friendly port, with just a handful of the original crew left.
When they finally made it, the poor ship's hull couldn't support them any longer, and died.
All Fate could do, was save it's BCPU- it's 'brain' if you will. With what remained of the ship, and what remained of his parents' wealth, he bought a new ship, where he installed The Shroud's BCPU. The first thing Fate did when Shroud came back online was vow that he'd get her a new hull, as soon as he could...

That, was four years ago. Since then, they have been doing odd jobs, cargo runs and courier missions to make ends meet, and get the Shroud back in one piece.

He never did get to find out if Smythe was now finally gone...

ooc/Sorry if I went overboard with the Pre-RP, but once I started writing I just couldn't stop... Just tell me if I need to cut the story down to size... /ooc

[Disrupter]

ok just to keep it simple, i shall remove the shield and drop the weapons to gatling lasers on all sides (1 each) i think that should do it, if not beat me with a stick until it satisfies you.

[flapjack]

czar: good story, but rather weak ship, perhaps downize it to a light frigate to leave you with some more money to get weapons with.

Disrupter: that will be enough *lowers the stick and hides it behind his back again*

[Czar]

Depends: Q: Can I get the Biohull mod later, or do I need tot take it when first creating the ship?

And ehrm... I know the ship is not what it can be- but I tried to solve that in the storyline- now all I need to do is find jobs to earn more money- to finish the ship...

[flapjack]

Czar: due to the complexity of transforming an entire ship from normal to bioship, no. However when buying a bioship conversion you can get your current ship disassembled entirely and then reassembled into the bioship, as if you where just adding the bioship to it (essentially, what they do is strip your ship and reuse it, then build a whole new bioship with exactly the things you had before, at the cost of 25000 credits for the conversion)

<ooc> didn't have time to post to much last post </ooc>

Ship Name: The stingray. it preferes Stinger.
My ship, a small attack scout reputed to be the fastest living thing around (bioship), was too begin with a smulgling ship that carried small things that the owner realy didn't want toloose. Although lacking shields (ooc didn't notice that while I was making it /ooc) it relays on it's extreeme speed to avoid annoying questions from the customs guards. When the Galaxy gate was made I just couldent resist to go on the greatest adventure I had been on ... ever and so droped the smugeling buisnes to be recruited for the project.

[Fluffie]

i'd join, but gonnah be gone till tuesday or something

[blake]

Ship Name: The Divine Right
Ship Captain: Andrew Blake
History: Coming Soon..

Heavy Frigate Leader 10000

Engines
2x Impulse Drives (2) 4000
1x Hyper Drive (1) 500

Armour
1x Heavy Titanium Hull (2) 3000

Shields
2x Heavy Shields (6) 1000

26 Weapons

24 Front
2x 16" Torpedo Launchers (16) 10000

12 Sides
2x Double Pulse Laser Turret (Right) (4) 5000
2x Double Pulse Laser Turret (Left) (4) 5000

8 Aft
2x Double Pulse Laser Turret (4) 5000

Additional
1x Class 2 Cloaking System (4) 2500
1x Adv Targetting System (2) 2500
1x Adv Computer System (1) 750
1x Adv Seonsor Array (1) 750

75 Tonnes Cargo Hold
16x Anti-Capital Torpedo Reloads (16 Tonnes) 8000

Total: 50000

[Czar]

Ok, Let me do a small rewrite then

[Mad cat]

my ship, the interdictor
Heavy frigate leader 10 k

Plasma drive *2 2k

Hyper drive 500

Tritanium armour, *2 4k

Improved particle shields 5k

Cluster missile launcher *2 5k 2left 2right

Plasma bolt launcher *2 7k 16 front

Sub total 34.5k 20 mounts

Twin Gatling PBC drone *2 2.4k 1left 1right

'bunker' marines *2 5k 30 tonnes

Assault drone *2 1k

Advanced targetting system 2.5k 2front

Remote security drones *2 .5k 2

[Spritely Zombie]

Hmmm... Do I go for the two balanced ships... Or the four obliterate pretty much anything they concentrate fire on.... Or the 20 or so cannon fodders with rockets and railguns

[Czar]

Grumble... Nobody appreciates some honest storytelling anymore...
Mumble... Not über enough...

Mutter... Mutter... Mutter...

[Spritely Zombie]

Originally Posted by Czar

Grumble... Nobody appreciates some honest storytelling anymore...
Mumble... Not über enough...

Mutter... Mutter... Mutter...

I prefer both There's no reason why you can't have a story with über characters/ships/etc. It just requires equally powerful bad-guys.

[flapjack]

blake: ship accepted
mc: ship accepted, but please, get rid of those size tags before they drive me nuts.....

missions will be up by tomorrow, since I'm kinda busy right now

[Mad cat]

blasted ms word making things work funny, tis fixed now

[Heiro]

You know, Whatever SZ has planned, I don't like it. The powergaming likkle... sod.

Dramatis Persona
Bioship: Olek Stormrider.
Captain's name: Hei ro. Saves problems.
Captain of the Troop: Malaki, Sergent.
Odd members of the crew:
Chief Medical Officer / Engineer: Goode.
Tactical officer: Ms. Stein.
Helm: Mr. Gerand

[Bakan]

Hmmm, is my ship okay?

[Czar]

And is mine acceptable now- well, to those who appreciate Honest storytelling?

Btw- I'm not exactly sure when my next post will be- Depends on what kind of uplink I can get in Texas

[flapjack]

Bakan: your ship is approved.

Czar: Well, putting a cluster missile launcher in reverse isn't advised, but the ship is approved

[Fluffie]

i'm building a ship wieeeee

[Fluffie]

additional can be used for engines too?

[Czar]

Lol- I take it cluster missiles aren't targettable then?

I thought that as they aim themselves at their target it doesn't matter from which end they're fired...