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Adhoc vote count started by Kartr_Kana on Mar 2, 2024 at 11:55 PM, finished with 364 posts and 115 votes.
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UFS Keanu and UFS Europa are close, but the voting seems to have slowed down so we're probably getting bird names. Looking forward to the retrospective!
 
Kartr_Kana said:
Adhoc vote count started by Kartr_Kana on Mar 2, 2024 at 11:55 PM, finished with 364 posts and 115 votes.
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UFS Keanu and UFS Europa are close, but the voting seems to have slowed down so we're probably getting bird names. Looking forward to the retrospective!
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Not quite. Keanu is a better name for a battleship or combat frigate, Kea is the lead name for the ship.

This ship could be the advent of the Federation taking a general name theme + a sprinkle of a number of other names.
 
[X] UFS Arev

Here to champion the flag for all federation members.

Been catching up over the past few days, the previous thread was enjoyable and this one is proving to be as well! I love the melding of the historic perspectives, current tactical scenarios, and the invention process itself. Very fun to read!
 
The Voyager shuttle craft paradox- is it possible that the replicators they did have weren't large enough to create "a shuttle". But it could create individual components and hull sections they then had to spend a lot of time assembling and fitting the parts to?
As to the warp core, the blueprints show a storage cradle for a spare intermix chamber- again possibly same problem as the shuttles and it has to be made as a single part for the required strength. That does indicate that the rest of the core can be made on the ship and assembled in place.
 
As for what Voyager would trade, remember that while replicators can create stuff from nothing, there's a massive energy penalty- which is why they often use feedstock of stored elements, I believe that in between episodes they would capture wandering asteroids and harvest them for base elements. Either for themselves or to trade for food, other elements in critical supply, small amounts of antimatter…
While there are still energy costs it's still going to be worth mining for raw materials to help defray the costs.
 
TheShadowDeamon said:
As for what Voyager would trade, remember that while replicators can create stuff from nothing, there's a massive energy penalty- which is why they often use feedstock of stored elements, I believe that in between episodes they would capture wandering asteroids and harvest them for base elements. Either for themselves or to trade for food, other elements in critical supply, small amounts of antimatter…
While there are still energy costs it's still going to be worth mining for raw materials to help defray the costs.
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They can also say 'hey, we can manufacture a lot of stuff for you with technology you don't have, as long as you provide the energy and raw materials. And in exchange...'
 
I am kind of hoping we could design the federations first warp capable shuttlecraft at some point. My thinking is that like some early craft which used a fusion reactor, with the much small size, power requirements and lower top speed requirement. It possibly could use a fusion reactor instead of a A/M plant. I then considered what could be considered a typical journey length (1 day) and a reasonable max journey lenth in extended range circumstances (1 week). Given the current tech level and available space for fuel, they would be limited to intra-system use. However this would be very useful as it could allow multiple teams to go explorer the further out objects while the ship could stay in orbit of a planet in the life-zone. It would be especially useful in Binary or Trinary systems as the ship could explore the Alpha system, while the shuttlecraft can scout the Beta and Gamma systems before the ship warps over.
As you can see, Even keeping below warp 4 allows us reasonable journey times. @3.32 a intra-system edge to edge journey would be reduced to a couple of hours at most, while stable binary/trinary stars that can be over 1Ly, most of which could be done @3.8 with the fuel available. (1Ly distances are very rare, with .5Ly ish being a more reasonable max distance)

WarpCLight years/dayLight years/week
28.0000.0220.153
2.210.6480.0290.204
2.413.8240.0380.265
2.617.5760.0480.337
2.821.9520.0600.421
327.0000.0740.517
3.232.7680.0900.628
3.3236.5940.10020.7013
3.439.3040.1080.753
3.646.6560.1280.894
3.73752.1880.14291.0002
3.854.8720.1501.052
464.0000.1751.227
 
darkstarling said:
They can also say 'hey, we can manufacture a lot of stuff for you with technology you don't have, as long as you provide the energy and raw materials. And in exchange...'
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If I'm remembering right the problem was they made stuff that was too valuable or they gave off "attack me and steal my stuff" vibes. Small ship and relatively non-confrontational so the Kazon and other groups thought they could take advantage. I think they tried trading water early on but that might have been seen as valuable enough to be a danger. Even Neelix was stealing from them early on.
 
KNakamura said:
or Sayle is dealing with things. Sometimes you just have a lot of things to handle on a weekend.
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More specifically I've been diagnosed with hemochromatosis, which is causing constant fatigue and headaches that have escalated substantially in the last two weeks. I have no timeline on when I can begin treatment just yet. It makes anything mentally involving difficult, including writing.
 
Sayle said:
More specifically I've been diagnosed with hemochromatosis, which is causing constant fatigue and headaches that have escalated substantially in the last two weeks. I have no timeline on when I can begin treatment just yet. It makes anything mentally involving difficult, including writing.
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man that's rough, I hope you can get treated soon.
 
Sayle said:
More specifically I've been diagnosed with hemochromatosis, which is causing constant fatigue and headaches that have escalated substantially in the last two weeks. I have no timeline on when I can begin treatment just yet. It makes anything mentally involving difficult, including writing.
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I'm sorry to hear that. I hope that you can be seen to soon, I can't even begin to imagine how painful that must be.
 
Sayle said:
More specifically I've been diagnosed with hemochromatosis, which is causing constant fatigue and headaches that have escalated substantially in the last two weeks. I have no timeline on when I can begin treatment just yet. It makes anything mentally involving difficult, including writing.
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Yikes! Hope you get well soon! Don't worry about us, this game is worth a wait for.
 
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