Stable Trans-Uranic elements/isotopes: basically, extremely rare materials, which have special properties. Most are named after fictional special materials, like Adamant, Zrbite, and Elerium.
Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition
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Hope that we can get some genemods or something like it would like to have as much space magic as we can.
think of it as a new material that we get by processing tiberium, but it is much more complicated to make and used to make more complex technologies, we suspect that the Scrins use a lot for their technologies, the new tiberium processing plants increase the amount of STUs we receive
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Stable Transuranic Elements. Basically the stuff we need to build G-drives and other highly advanced technology. It mainly applies to things we get from the Scrin techbase, Nod techs require very few STUs given that their methods for producing STUs are practically identical for our own and I think our ability to make large numbers of them came from the Nod techbase.
We gain 1 extra unit of STUs per 100rpts of Tiberium income.
I wonder if India isn't enough to build everything Kane needs to complete his control tower, and the land isn't all red-zoned and it's quite possible he has the industrial capability to finish it himself.
Durabys
Miaow! Break the Chains!
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Stable Trans-Uranics elements
The following things in the article but much more real and useful than in RL.
In other words? These things are what I would call Picotechnology. Halfway between nanotech molecular machines and Femtotech Tiberium.
That always elusive 'Island of Stability' turns out to be a 'Continent of Stability'. A completely new Periodic Table awaits us. None of these new super-materials are made of Protons or Neutrons.
"Neutronium", "Element Zero", "Naquadah", "Trinium" and other such plot-driving materials may exist after all!
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New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table
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A crucial feature of all known baryonic matter is that its quarks are bound together so tightly by the strong force that they are inseparable.
As particles made of bound quarks are called hadrons, scientists refer to the ground state of baryonic matter as «hadronic matter».
One of the new results of the latest study is that quark matter without strange quarks, i.e., udQM, has lower bulk energy per baryon than either SQM or hadronic matter, making it energetically favorable.
In the future, the researchers plan to explore the possibility of searching for quark matter, both on Earth and in more distant locations.
«We would like to know more about the abundance of quark matter in the universe,» the researchers said.
"If quark matter is found (or produced in accelerators), it may be stored and then fed with slow neutrons or heavy ions. The absorption of these particles means a lower total mass and thus a release of energy, mostly in the form of gamma radiation. Unlike nuclear fusion, this is a process that should be easy to initiate and control."
Or basically? Pseudo-Tiberium. Not capable of self-evolution nor being converted via a signal into other things like a computronium substrate.
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It's amazing how we always think that our bombs are already very impressive, until a scientist arrives and says that, it's a thing of the past, it makes an explosion 100 times larger
deidara lives in the wrong universe he would happily die on earth
deidara lives in the wrong universe he would happily die on earth
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Durabys
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And SAFER to handle! In a century, people may be rolling their eyes at "Antimatter THIS or THAT" in our era's fiction books the same way we roll our eyes at Death Rays from Skylark and Lensman. udQM elements look much safer to generate and handle than Antimatter, while having the potential to release similar quantities of energy.
Sailor_Skarro
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It's global-scale, so India would have to be capable of fighting and holding off GDI in very specific spots all around the planet until everything was completed. The Scrin weren't capable of doing that even with NOD helping.
the Scrin as far as I know tried to complete it quickly, but Kane can always do it bit by bit or make a version only controls the tiberium of india, it would give a big advantage
Sailor_Skarro
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Not sure if Kane can get away with one that only controls the Indian Tiberium. There's probably a reason he bothered building a global version at all beyond it helping bribe GDI. As for bit by bit that'll still likely lead to GDI finding one and potentially going on a warpath because GDI doesn't know what a TCN is. All GDI knows in this hypothetical scenario is that NOD is building weird spooky towers. Last time someone was building weird spooky towers it was an alien invasion.
I wonder if we can get rid of the NOD or the conflict will only spread as we colonize other worlds, because I'm pretty sure Kane has a livable world to run away with his favorite NODs and continue to haunt us as a backup plan or with a main plan, you never know with kane
Sailor_Skarro
The Lurker
NOD is probably going to stay on Earth and then fuck off with Kane. Except for the NODdies that work for us now.
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Okay, so for the first place, I am giving it to @Lightwhispers Dueling Choirs, with second and third going to @Illusion of Eris It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Tibmas and @Silencian See Amid the Shining Glow.
I hope you three find good uses for your reroll
I hope you three find good uses for your reroll
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Oh wow. I didn't actually expect to win anything, I banged that out in like. 15 minutes? 25? Something like that. I guess my old Eng Lit. skills haven't left me yet!
It took me several hours of moderately-interrupted work for my "O Holy Rock (for Dueling Choirs)", but a fair amount of that was getting stuck on a few passages. It started out very NODdish, so the decision to have the second verse GDI and so have dueling choirs was a bit of an improvisation. I do like how it came out, though.
Congratulations guys!
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Are you sure we wanna do this? Because if this is about preparing to meet the Stored Food target, it'd probably make more sense to just put two dice on freeze-drying first.
Freeze-drying is a project with spool-up time, because to get best efficiency out of it we'll need time for freeze-dried food products to fully replace all the stuff we're continuously shoveling into the storage facilities now that isn't properly freeze-dried. I'd rather get that done sooner, then figure out how much more +Food we need to generate to satisfy our Plan requirements.
I don't think Heavy Industry is the area that really needs review, and it is a place where we really need to push the dice.
Krukov: "Did you just replace the armor on your Mammoth tanks with impervious slabs of impenetrable alien kabongium?"
GDI: "Yes. Yes we did. Why do you ask?"
Krukov: "Because fuck you, that's why..."
Oh. Darn. Nevermind then.
I think Kane actually does need a global control network, not just a single installation. If so, then even if he has the industrial capacity to theoretically build all the stuff he needs, he can't install it without our cooperation. Because GDI isn't stupid enough to let Kane build a global network of mysterious thingamabobs after all the other shit he's pulled.
Oddly, there is very little about the death rays from Skylark and Lensman that couldn't plausibly be achieved by a directed energy weapon broadly like a laser beam.
Well, except the literal omnidirectional death ray thing in Second Stage Lensman, but that's just based on a silly idea about how brain chemistry works.
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Fixed that for you.
Nod will be very irate.
Sadly, no, no we didn't.
That's a different tech.
Now, please pay no attention to our finely wrought defenses clad in impervious slabs of impenetrable alien nonsense and the lasers mounted in them.
The vertical farms are because we're likely going to be seeing a flood of new population. Sure, we have a lot of food, but reserves eat into food capacity too.
And with my hoped-for shift to putting many free dice into HI for the next year at least, I want a security review before we start.
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Which is why I self-corrected later in the same post, but the joke was too fun to delete
Freeze Drying also puts out +4 Food, so if it's just about getting +Food, that's not an issue.
Plus, our flood of new population won't immediately translate into a serious food deficit; we'll have some time to adjust. Later we're going to be scrambling to balance the need to hit our Plan commitment (stored food) against our need to actually feed a growing population. Now is the time to build infrastructure that makes it easier to be doing both at once by converting food into stored food more efficiently.
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Even accounting for Freeze Dried Food Plants we still need a set of Food Producers (Vertical Farms, Yellow Zone Aquaponics, or Fertilizer Plants) to keep us in the black.
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Freeze Drying gives us +4 food and helps us with food stockpile actions. I'd like to do if first, if possible.