Reaching for the Stars - A Stargate Quest

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atrophy said:
Yeah if you dont want to follow the 2nd gate storyline and want to cripple russia for abit so they are less of a threat then doing this would make sense so the story can focus on the offworld stuff.

And to get reliable funding , either found a company to introduce / manufacture stuff you find offworld from the profits of it is my thought altough it would be a big project but probably worth the hassle if handled right and its goal would be to fund the space force more or less . If its profitable enough it could also fund the earth side actual space force aswell . And if not that , then licensing tech for royalties for the same purpose wich might be more realistic i imagine but i always thought a company selling the tech you find would be for the best. I mean civilian stuff mainly altough maybe selling some military stuff to the the rest of the armed forces could be arranged aswell.

Also if you need money and this is already mentioned , you could try checking out the gold mining worlds of ra instead of random worlds and try to find a abandoned mining world and settle the abosydians there and have them mine gold but with the mining engineers help . Since i imagine alot of the mining would be very very primitive and i doubt that they would have been mining for fine gold . Basicly replace the fort knox gold with offworld gold is my thought to avoid the issues with offworld mineral issues , i mean replace 1 kg gold for sale with 1kg offworld gold and repeat as nessecary ? Or even at a bad ratio for you like 1 to 2 to sell it to the rest of the goverment? Hell when fort knox gold runs out you could repeat this with freindly foreign goverments and their gold supply aswell .

Again maybe to avoid questions why the space force needs things as you expand you could instead buy stuff by setting up a front company rather than as the space force ? For the stranger stuff and for civilian and relief supplies i mean atleast + whatever else you imagine i guess .
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Having a front company faking being a research firm would offer both a way to launder technology and a way to offload low level research into dumbing down the tech we devlop for mass adoption outside the SG program.

Actually we could have the company ope ly state they work with the DoD to help convert Darpa projects into civilian technologies. That way recruitment pre-filters for researchers open to working with the military.
 
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The issue with that is you first have to find a decent money making techonology cause sofar its mainly just naqaudah and staff weapons basicly .

Im not sure about creating a company would be very easy or something the author can push through story wise and will probably be forced to license them instead since its alot easier altough if the breaktrough is big enough the goverment might want to stay in control of it so that might help.

But still creating a useless front company through wich you order stuff rather than space force could still be a thing to do to keep secrecy up. Cause there will be things you will want to buy that really dont make sense for the space force mainly and to maybe keep costs down.

Still do think that maybe checking up former gold mining worlds of ra-s domain we found rather than random worlds on the list and to send the abydos people there to mine gold for money for the program seems like the most basic money making idea for the program . And as i said maybe do it by selling fort knox gold but at a bad ratio to keep the secrecy up .
 
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atrophy said:
The issue with that is you first have to find a decent money making techonology cause sofar its mainly just naqaudah and staff weapons basicly .

Im not sure about creating a company would be very easy or something the author can push through story wise and will probably be forced to license them instead since its alot easier altough if the breaktrough is big enough the goverment might want to stay in control of it so that might help.

But still creating a useless front company through wich you order stuff rather than space force could still be a thing to do to keep secrecy up. Cause there will be things you will want to buy that really dont make sense for the space force mainly and to maybe keep costs down.

Still do think that maybe checking up former gold mining worlds of ra-s domain we found rather than random worlds on the list and to send the abydos people there to mine gold for money for the program seems like the most basic money making idea for the program . And as i said maybe do it by selling fort knox gold but at a bad ratio to keep the secrecy up .
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Honestly, I think once we can reverse engineer a spacecraft capable of going around within the solar system, we're set for cash.

There's a perfectly good asteroid belt to mine out right here in our backyard, after all. . .
 
Well there is something to be said for starting a company like that before we get the tech to sell. After all, it would be pretty suspicious if a company is only just started and then immediately starts handing out advanced tech/services since you'd expect it to need time to do R&D. So getting it started earlier might save you time in the long run.

Probably not a priority yet though...

KnightofTempest said:
Honestly, I think once we can reverse engineer a spacecraft capable of going around within the solar system, we're set for cash.

There's a perfectly good asteroid belt to mine out right here in our backyard, after all. . .
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Mining asteroids is not uncomplicated... It is something that would require extra work. Also because the space ship would likely be very expensive it may be totally inefficient with a effective production price far higher than regular mining.

OTOH deploying satellites is both easier and faster. You only need to get to orbit and mostly you just need to nudge the things out the door in the right spot. Not exactly an infinitely large market but worth a decent chunk of cash.
 
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OTOH deploying satellites is both easier and faster. You only need to get to orbit and mostly you just need to nudge the things out the door in the right spot. Not exactly an infinitely large market but worth a decent chunk of cash.
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the only reason there aren't 100x more sats in orbit is the fact we don't have lift capacity. Telecommunications, navigation, weather forecasting, scientific endeavors, resource prospecting, military intellgance and more all benfit from satalites but space lift costs a shit ton. the current price per kg of cargo going to orbit is $2,700+


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found a good pic for when we devlop our mass production shuttle. we can just say the thursters are boosters.
 
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i was watching on youtube disucssing Mandlorian armor from a real work perfecltive and they pointed out a meterial that might work against staff weapons in this quest: Boron carbide. 1/3 the density of steel and it has a high heat capacity so it can resist a plasma blast. Lamellar style plates of boron carbide mounted on a kevlar vest might be a really good pick for SG team body armor. Down side is i think we would be paying 2000 a pop for full sets so a fire team would cost $8000 to armor up
 
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