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We will probably get the tech result in the results or next quarter.
Hey if I wanted to read a SCP entry I'd just go to the wiki./jk
I presume that something was uncovered which is sufficiently sensitive, but not sufficiently relevant to the Treasury, that Seo doesn't have immediate need-to-know. What that could be? Something involving infiltration information (NOD or GDI, either way), something that specifically involves sources and methods, or perhaps something that needs significant analysis before it is released. (In that last case, it might be long enough to get its own update.)
Neat. Though that sort of leaves our Lunar dice with nothing to work on at the moment. Unless we want to spend 120 C/IP on setting up the Craterscope structure. So many bases to set up and so limited IP.
I kinda want to put a major push on the Craterscope to get it finished, if nothing else because counting the rivets on the Scrin base on Europa could be useful.
Hruh?
By the way, how much of the sky can the Craterscope actually observe? It's obviously fixed and not trainable except for the moon's natural rotation. I assume there's a plan for making sure the giant parabolic mirror doesn't accidentally vaporize the sensor/imaging/light-gathering equipment when the sun's in the sky...?
Maybe InOps finally found where those guys were keeping their brains?
I think there's a certain amount of handwaving going on, as well as a lot of megastructure engineering. And yes, dealing with the sun is one of the issues that has been being worked on.
Well, the obvious thing to do is just defocus the telescope during the day, since the mirror elements are at least somewhat adjustable as I understand it. The problem is that you lose a lot of seeing time.
I'm pretty sure that it's something like this, yeah. There may well be multiple sensor packages.
We handwave some things like, like what parts of the sky the thing can actually be pointed at. But yes when the sun is out everything sensitive gets covered by shading panels, perfect time to conduct maintenance. When the telescope is in shadow it unfolds and starts looking at the sky. Mechanically this meant, when I wrote up this thing, that you will be able to scout one solar system close to sol per year.
Basically yeah, with some retractable shading/armor panels to cover the sensitive mirror parts when they are not need.
Personally I'm against it. Taking on extra targets for next plan so we have more PS so we don't need to take on more targets for next plan seems kinda self defeating to me and it's too late for me to really want to start adding plan goals for this plan now
There are a few big catches there.
Killer, I'm in. Topple the magical kingdom and the demon lords army with an uprising among the people!
I'm for it. I don't want political support for reduced plan goals, I wanna work on the fun research projects. The kind that involves fire and playing god on a genetic level.
