Recent content by C_Z

I'm not using all 5, because we're out of money. I want to build a reactor in Mogadishu if we're building a refinery there since fractionating is a good use of waste heat and electrolysis and liquefaction requires massive amounts of power; this is a perfect opportunity to lead by example...

The irony is that given the timing, and her past experience, Haruna unexpectedly succeeding at this wargame probably involves her getting typecast as having an aptitude for carrier ops (that, or submarines).

We finished up the mission control centre last turn, which gave us a free program slot, so we should be able to do it. I think hydrolox is worth pushing towards. We're about to get 500 ton pads, and presumably want a launcher that exploits the upgrade. If we have hydrolox unlocked, we could...

[X] The Navy ran frequent war games at many scales, but rumour was swirling there would be a particularly important one in the near future, owing to the many new technologies coming into service all at once. Such an event would need an officer at about your rank to perform the vital task of...

Curiosity-SARs are Curiosity-Cs modified to take a synthetic-aperture radar, letting them do some terrestrial surveying while they're acting as weather satellites. The CommSat project uses GlobeSat-1s, and it requires no ongoing investment and just takes care of itself (aside from the continuous...

Ok, good to know re. Venus. We should be building payloads for that then, and go for a scatter-shot approach towards success there (launch as many missions as we can, and one will probably work). I guess it's just an excess of caution on my part for the orbit; I'd really like to try and avoid...

My thoughts thus far: * IIRC we're not yet at the Venus or Mars launch windows, so building Curiosity-SMs to send to them right now isn't quite worth it yet. This leaves ops with relatively little pressing tasks; we should probably continue building up a stockpile of rocket bodies for when we...

[X] [LANDER] Jack Parsons

Yeah, seems it might be possible, based on the description when we designed the Lodestone: I am... somewhat skeptical of the viability of a Venus impactor, but it'll technically meet requirements I guess so we might be able to send something out in the next Venus transfer window. I think we...

I thought Lodestones were relatively dumb impactors. We probably want something with better sensors for our interplanetary missions, not to mention requiring things like long-range antennas

Yeah, I was saving it because I didn't want to run over in case there isn't Supersonic Jets 4 and because I expect we'll have to pay a lot of money for the interplanetary probes, but if people prefer to activate the die with the small risk of running over, then that works too.

[] Plan: The Magic School Bus Goes to the Planetarium Operations (6 dice, +6 bonus) (2 types of Rocket may be built at a time) -[] [3 dice] Construct an R-4a Dawn (30R per dice, 0/100, costs 1 build capacity til complete) --[] And launch it (1 Operations dice; specify payload) ---[] Curiosity-SM...

Hell yeah. An excellent display of how we're helping improve the condition of the world :P. Real-time data of the location of fires being sent to firefighters would be even more useful; once we've finished up the transistor computing project and a few more, we should start looking at some...

[X] It has been the way of the Imperial Family to send a brief note to the provider of any item, such as vehicles, appliances, or external services, thanking them for their diligence should the item meet requirements satisfactorily. Conversely, the withholding of such a note is understood to...

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