chaotic-logic
possible impossibility
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well, we left.
but it looks like we went loud when we did
but it looks like we went loud when we did
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Department of Starship Design (Trek-ish)
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- Sci-Fi
Maybe they had a second civil war which let the cargo cult take power?
LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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- He/They
Is it still a cargo cult if the structures they are building are functional, I think these are more like significantly cooler Pakled.
- Location
- Dragyxx
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Based on the sharp declines... I'd guess that each of them was the point at which some critical piece of infrastructure finally coughed its last and died. The civil war broke their ability to build any NEW things, so every time a major station broke down or was destroyed, they fell further and further. They must have somehow lost their planets or any other areas they could seriously settle, or perhaps gave up the ability voluntarily? Anyway, things are declining faster and faster as they lose more and more capabilities. If this was their only shipyard, they may well now have a finite number of ships, steadily declining as they fall apart even with the scavenging.
There's still a lot of pieces missing, but most of them are probably long gone.
There's still a lot of pieces missing, but most of them are probably long gone.
The Paths of Medusa : Part I (30.1 : Finishing Up)
Mechanis
Confirmed Extremely Screwed
- Location
- Absconding with Alacrity
> Investigate 2A & 3B
The area at 2A has what looks like a larger, even more elaborate version of the booster stations in it—with the bottom third simply gone and a cometary splatter of once-molten material around the edges of the massive crescent left by whatever inconceivably powerful weapon was used; and the bleeding scar in the bubble behind it has all but engulfed the megastructure in particle-charged clouds. Some of the halo of ships surrounding it—with, you might note, a telling linear gap to what must have been the origin point of the weapon that had, it seems, effectively destroyed the massive station in a single blast—do provide a few pieces of containment field projectors for some manner of energy weapon, however.
Whatever 3B was, it appears to have exploded spectacularly—almost half the ovoid bubble has been blasted away, filling much of the space with irregular clouds of nebula gasses. A few knots of ships on the edges provide some additional weapons samples, but between the dangerous faux-lightning and two hundred years of scavenging, there simply isn't much in the way of functional—or even identifiable—technology to be had.
Time to leave this area, and hopefully proceed on your escape.
The area at 2A has what looks like a larger, even more elaborate version of the booster stations in it—with the bottom third simply gone and a cometary splatter of once-molten material around the edges of the massive crescent left by whatever inconceivably powerful weapon was used; and the bleeding scar in the bubble behind it has all but engulfed the megastructure in particle-charged clouds. Some of the halo of ships surrounding it—with, you might note, a telling linear gap to what must have been the origin point of the weapon that had, it seems, effectively destroyed the massive station in a single blast—do provide a few pieces of containment field projectors for some manner of energy weapon, however.
Whatever 3B was, it appears to have exploded spectacularly—almost half the ovoid bubble has been blasted away, filling much of the space with irregular clouds of nebula gasses. A few knots of ships on the edges provide some additional weapons samples, but between the dangerous faux-lightning and two hundred years of scavenging, there simply isn't much in the way of functional—or even identifiable—technology to be had.
Time to leave this area, and hopefully proceed on your escape.
Stand By…
- Location
- his hidden lair
Hmm, does that sort of super weapon suggest another force attacked them at some point? It's unlikely these people managed to fully salvage or fully maintain whatever super capital destroyed the station, and we've seen no evidence for any third class of ship. Be that in docking logs, production logs, or the research station.
The Paths of Medusa : Part I (30.2 : Leap of Faith)
Mechanis
Confirmed Extremely Screwed
- Location
- Absconding with Alacrity
"Field density rising…"
One hardly needed to be told, not with the strange, pulsing zunzunZunZun sound coming from the warp drive as the ancient station remote-energized the coils, getting louder and faster like an old chemical-powered combustion engine revving up.
"We're…" the Navigational officer sounded distinctly stunned, before he swallowed and reported "The ship is now traveling at Warp Factor seven-point-eight, Captain. Deflector and dampeners holding, power load is within expected parameters."
"We're getting power in the coils! Distribution net is holding at seventy-eight percent efficiency."
"Hmm, try switching to four-phase, see if that helps."
"Switching… efficiency climbing, eighty-two percent and rising!"
One hardly needed to be told, not with the strange, pulsing zunzunZunZun sound coming from the warp drive as the ancient station remote-energized the coils, getting louder and faster like an old chemical-powered combustion engine revving up.
"Energy levels reaching critical density!"
"Stand by to divert power to the Deflector and dampeners, let's try and have a smoother ride this time-""Externally Driven Warp in five… four… three… two… one-"
This time the drive gave a throaty Tra-TEEER rather than a tortured scream as it went to warp.
"We're…" the Navigational officer sounded distinctly stunned, before he swallowed and reported "The ship is now traveling at Warp Factor seven-point-eight, Captain. Deflector and dampeners holding, power load is within expected parameters."
Stand By…
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chaotic-logic
possible impossibility
- Location
- unknown
i really wanted to board one of those booster stations so that we could understand how they worked
chaotic-logic
possible impossibility
- Location
- unknown
we never salvaged or boarded a booster station though
- Location
- Canada
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- He/Him
I suspect they are similar to the ones we were interacting at first, with no way in.
Part of me suspects they are Nuspi devices
No User Servciable Parts Intended
The Paths of Medusa : Part I (30.3: Arrival)
Mechanis
Confirmed Extremely Screwed
- Location
- Absconding with Alacrity
"Warp field strength declining! Collapse imminent!"
"Realspace reversion in three, two, one-"
With a burst of psudomotion, the Star Seeker arrived—still within the nebula, but that wasn't unexpected.
"No recent Ion trails detected , captain. There is what appears to be a partially assembled—or possibly disassembled—station of a similar design, though larger size, to the 'Anchorage' type encountered earlier off our port stern."
"Navigation reports we are closer to the edge of the nebula, captain. Particle field density in the surrounding clouds is notably reduced, though still not sufficiently to allow for long range communications and of sufficient strength to interfere with our sensors."
"Two passages out of the area detected, captain. This area seems less stable; we're seeing much greater deviation in the cloud-walls and up to twelve Tels of active fluctuation. We probably don't want to linger too long here, just in case, but should still have at least some warning if collapse of the area is imminent."
"Recommend proceeding at Alert Four, captain. I don't like the look of those cloud fluctuations and want to keep a close eye—and active sensors—on them."
There are two choices here: First, to proceed at Alert Three or Four due to the instability in the local tunnels, and second, to investigate the larger Anchorage nearby or exit by one of two possible passages, labeled A and B respectively.
[ ] Alert: Proceed at Alert Four
[ ] Alert: Raise to Alert Three
[ ] Action: Investigate Anchorage
[ ] Action: Check Passage A
[ ] Action: Check Passage B
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chaotic-logic
possible impossibility
- Location
- unknown
[X] Action: Investigate Anchorage
Mechanis
Confirmed Extremely Screwed
- Location
- Absconding with Alacrity
TLDR version, Alert 4 is "Yellow Alert but for Dangerous Environmental Stuff™ and Alert 3 is "Red Alert for the same"
Edit: basically, Alert 4 is for "this environment could be dangerous to the ship, so we're going to higher readiness" while Alert 3 is "this environment is definitely dangerous, be prepared for sudden manuvers and or damage control tasks" though obviously this is a simplification.
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- Canada
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- He/Him
Continuing with my documenting of the loot. As before I'm moving all the previous batches into the quote at the end.
I'm unsure if the computer recovery is just data or if it will also help us for future computer tech but either way I'm happy with the find. Maps make this much easier.
Printers = Good. Big printers = better!
Replicator?
Undefined loot.
From the next loot after this post, we get some new alloy for what I assume is hull/armour material.
I'm unsure if the computer recovery is just data or if it will also help us for future computer tech but either way I'm happy with the find. Maps make this much easier.
Printers = Good. Big printers = better!
Replicator?
Undefined loot.
More bits for energy weapons. At this rate the whole disrupter theory project is looking less and less important. Ah well, not like we could have known ahead of time. It will probably still give a starting point for reverse engineering the bits we've picked up.
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[X] Alert: Proceed at Alert Four
[X] Action: Investigate Anchorage
[X] Action: Investigate Anchorage