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[X] Plan: Don't die, Don't die
Pioneers: A Post Post Scarcity Civilization Civilization Civilization Quest
- Thread starter Texas Red
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The mine adds +1 CM per turn, so the math will still work.
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According to what the QM said, the plan would actually be 3 CM this turn (1+1+1), and then one CM + whatever we do turn 2, and then one CM + whatever we do turn 3. But, that doesn't necessarily matter because we only have two construction swarms, and this plan would use an additional one that we don't have.
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Ah, right. Yes, only 2 active construction projects per turn are possible right now.
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[X] Plan: Don't die, Don't die
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Switching to the version of my plan that has the right number of construction actions.
[X] Plan: Don't die, Don't die
-[X] Create Planetary Mine (1 CM, +1 CM Per Turn)
-[X] Build a large enclosed communal park with a memorial to those who died (1 CM, +2M)
-[X] Send Expedition to observe the moons of Tiamat (2 turns)
[X] City Name: Atlantis
[X] Plan: Don't die, Don't die
-[X] Create Planetary Mine (1 CM, +1 CM Per Turn)
-[X] Build a large enclosed communal park with a memorial to those who died (1 CM, +2M)
-[X] Send Expedition to observe the moons of Tiamat (2 turns)
[X] City Name: Atlantis
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- Eastern Seaboard
Can we build more than one Mine? I've been going with the assumption that it's a one-and-done project, but I hadn't considered whether or not we'd be able to repeat projects.
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We probably can, but at the same time: do we really want to leave morale where it is?
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One mine per colony, but there will be other ways to grow CM production. Additionally, I may allow you to upgrade the mine later if I deem it possible.
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Oh dear.
Seems like we'll be spending with half our drones idle for a long, long while.
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Actually, what is a planetary mine, anyway? Are we melting through the ice for rocky or metallic boulders? Are we filtering the water for dissolved minerals?
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It's not a single mine, it represents the collective network of geological surveying, quarrying, strip-mining, and refining in the immediate area of the colony. Structural metals, organics, concrete materials, and rare earth metals. But specifically, it encompasses digging into the earth.
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Could we do, say, this:
-[#]Design and build a seawater mineral extraction facility to electrochemically filter dissolved uranium from the local lake.
And would it have any benefit over or improve the Planetary Mine infrastructure? Would we get CMs from it, or just fuel for the NSWR our ships seem to be based around?
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This would jumpstart you on NSW production, which I plan to allow to be used for the purposes of reducing the turns it takes for spaceships to reach other bodies. NSWRs are super powerful, but expensive as hell to run. Most ships in this universe use more conventional fission+reaction mass boiled rockets, can be refitted to use NSWRs too if a mission needs to be speedy.
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Huh. No beamed power propulsion? Or is it more the case that we don't have the infrastructure here, and didn't trust the people controlling Sol's beamed power infrastructure?
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The Shahrat rode solar sails propelled by a laser directly fed by Sol's dyson sphere and used NSWRs for the Decel. Is that what you're referring to when talking about beamed propulsion? Because if so, yes, we lack the infrastructure.
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Yes. Or at least that's one type I had in mind.
EDIT: What are we currently using for launch vehicles? The former Shahrat is acting as a Momentum Exchange Tether, but what are we using for that first leg?
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Conventional spaceplanes or reusable rockets to catch the tether and move to orbit.
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- Earth, probably.
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[X] Plan: Don't die, Don't die
[X] City Name: Atlantis
[X] City Name: Atlantis
End of an Era
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The Geiger counter showed no significant radiation, there was no fuel leak, but by Sol, you were happy you had your environmental suit on. Engineering was dark. The lights had been shorted from the leak, so all you had were your helmet mounted lights and your handheld floodlight. All the bodies you could see were the same. Half liquified human shapes piles of meat and cloth. Those neutron dampening jumpsuits they wore look like they did absolutely nothing. Once more, you raised your flashlight upward, towards the distant donut shaped reaction chamber obscured by crisscrossing scaffolding and platforms curved around the stopped heart of your world like the oscillating wheels of an Ophanim of Christian myth. Blood poured from the mesh pathways towards spin gravity, everywhere, curved beams of sinew, blood, and chunks of melting flesh falling in an even pattern from the Coriolis. You could feel the wind against your suit, the momentum of the air from such an open area. You imagined it was warm, and must carry the scene of every dead human here.
The reactor was intact. Densimeter scans indicated no internal damage past what was expected. That wasn't the issue though. Everything else was fucked. Everything would need to be replaced in engineering. This whole event would drain centuries of the iodine supply. You might run out from it, if not enough people died. Hell, the ship could be doomed by this. You were just a hazard inspector who wasn't bedridden from radiation poisoning, you didn't know. You checked your hand terminal. Death toll was up to five-thousand. The greatest death spike in the history of the voyage. If you didn't have enough people to repair engineering by the end of this, the survivors, you, your husband, your daughter, would spend the rest of your lives in darkness as the ship grows colder and the batteries drain. You wouldn't be able to initiate the decel in a four generations like you planned.
Your husband was more sternward than you at the time of the leak. You were close to command to schedule an inspection. He was in Aquaponics to buy salmon. Medical was out of iodine, when his "cold" got so bad he needed to go, there was nothing to be done. He died, in pain, with you at his side. You let Maria say goodbye to her father, but kept her out of the room hall where he laid when he received euthanasia. You were one of thousands. Cancer spiked, over the next few years, and you and Maria had your scares, but you survived. She lived a life without memory of a time before the leak, hardened by it. No one was unaffected by it. It didn't end the voyage, or tear your world apart, it brought them closer together. Her children would walk in the light of a star. She might even life to see it. You'd never know though. But that was ok. All you'd known was the Shahrat, but you got to witness the end of an era, and the beginning of the next. The society of your world went from melancholy and bored to driven and prepared. Whatever would happen, you knew your people would survive.
The reactor was intact. Densimeter scans indicated no internal damage past what was expected. That wasn't the issue though. Everything else was fucked. Everything would need to be replaced in engineering. This whole event would drain centuries of the iodine supply. You might run out from it, if not enough people died. Hell, the ship could be doomed by this. You were just a hazard inspector who wasn't bedridden from radiation poisoning, you didn't know. You checked your hand terminal. Death toll was up to five-thousand. The greatest death spike in the history of the voyage. If you didn't have enough people to repair engineering by the end of this, the survivors, you, your husband, your daughter, would spend the rest of your lives in darkness as the ship grows colder and the batteries drain. You wouldn't be able to initiate the decel in a four generations like you planned.
Your husband was more sternward than you at the time of the leak. You were close to command to schedule an inspection. He was in Aquaponics to buy salmon. Medical was out of iodine, when his "cold" got so bad he needed to go, there was nothing to be done. He died, in pain, with you at his side. You let Maria say goodbye to her father, but kept her out of the room hall where he laid when he received euthanasia. You were one of thousands. Cancer spiked, over the next few years, and you and Maria had your scares, but you survived. She lived a life without memory of a time before the leak, hardened by it. No one was unaffected by it. It didn't end the voyage, or tear your world apart, it brought them closer together. Her children would walk in the light of a star. She might even life to see it. You'd never know though. But that was ok. All you'd known was the Shahrat, but you got to witness the end of an era, and the beginning of the next. The society of your world went from melancholy and bored to driven and prepared. Whatever would happen, you knew your people would survive.
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Can we have more information about the culture makeup on the vessel before Arrival?