Cold Fusion

[Archduke Daynel, PhD]

* who says I ain't hauling multimillion dollar loads, do you know how much meth sells for on Mercury?

[Professor Fenway]

Looks good Julo.

I'm going to add the ships then decide on your starting positions and contracts, then we'll set off.

[Ivan2006]

I want to join, too!

Name: Ivan Kintobor

Ship Name: ERS Glawischnig

Ship Description:

• Barroso-class frigate
  Manufacturer: Republic Constructors
  Purpose: Military utility ship
  Lenght: 142m
  Width: 21m
  Height: 13m
  General shape:
  Spoiler:

  
  Maximum crew: 60
  Armor: 750mm carbon nanotube-mesh-reinforced titanium-tungsten alloy/ceramic composite armor + 130mm aluminum/ceramics composite ablative armor (not included in dimensions)
  Number of decks: 5
  Cargo Space: 40 cubic meters
  Armament:
  • 4 60mm railguns
    6 laser-CIWS
    16 internal missile racks (each holds 1 anti-ship missile, 1 planetary bombardement missile or 2 anti-fighter missiles) (currently equipped with 10 anti-ship missiles and 6x2 anti-fighter missiles)
  Special feature: slot for Mission Package module to allow for additional equipment based on current mission (currently equipped: traffic control package consisting of powerful sensors, a foced docking mechanism and a small drone bay)
  
  ((Owned by ER))

Occupation: Ship Captain (ranked Commander) for the ER

Allegiance: ER

Personality: Generally friendly, but easy to get angry. Prefers to spend much of his free time alone. He is very popular among his crew as he prefers to not take the command structure as tightly as generally common, even accepting ideas on how to solve problems from the lowest ranking members while doing his job with contagious enthusiasm.

Backstory: Growing up in the alpine regions of central Europe, he discovered his talent for tactics and strategy in his teen years and signed up for the ER star navy's military acedemy. After graduating, he started climbing the ranks, eventually taking command over a corvette and later a frigate. Rumors are he is supposed to be promoted to Captain and given command of a cruiser within the next year.

Overview: He is very determined about achieving his mission goals. However, he sees ethics as very important and, upon given an order that goes against the ER's ethics regulations, often skip the chain of command and report the incident directly to high command. This has made him unpopular with some admirals, but made him pretty well-known among the high command, which was reaponsible for many of his promotions. He has also repetedly stated that he "would propably still use fusion warheads and similar weapons" in times of war, but he has no tolerance for the military doing unethical things when they are not neccessary, a policy shared with a majority of the high command.

Misc: He is currently on a mission to log traffic around Saturn, providing data to Saturn's civilian flight control center, checking the rings for illegal mining and checking ships for contraband upon request.

Theme Music/Picture: N/A (for now)

[Professor Fenway]

Just realized something. Shadow, there are no shields whatsoever. I'm removing that from your ship. Only magnetic shields, and they only stop space radiation and micro-meteorites.

Julo accepted.

Ivan, cutting your missile tubes down to 8, unless you meant external missile racks. Tubes are fast loading but take up a lot of space. Racks hold a LOT more missiles, but load very slowly or not at all, and are external.

There isn't a visible plot, yet! But I will be having news broadcasts of events going on through the solar system. I am adding one more tech, based on the orbital accelerators; it can send signals through the network at a greater speed than normal, about twice as fast. Reduces transmission delays.

So we start. Here's the starting positions;

Alternis (Error) is on a contract to locate Haley Firiosa, a fugitive from the UAD accused of selling confidential information to the ESU, somewhere in the Kuiper belt. Ship is presumed to be a NRD Watchtower class, relatively small and designed with stealth measures in mind (camouflage, heatsinks, minimal radiation emission).

Edmund (Daynel) is delivering a shipment of illegal AI's (illegal because they are stripped of all safeguards preventing them from getting out of control) to the Oceanic pirate organization (you decide on a name). Current location is Jupiter, headed to Venus.

Julias (Middie) is reporting to Mimas from Saturn orbit. Order to report is from apparent insubordination.

Linaeus (Vinyl) is delivering critical research material from Earth to a Titan research station.

Nyxia (CvN) is delivering several cold fusion reactor cores to Mercury from Luna.

Keith (Julo) is tracking an oddly-shaped asteroid in the Kuiper Belt, as it has potential for a helium probe. Sensor data on the asteroid is very spotty, and it has not yet entered visual range.

Tajer (Shadow) is assigned to deliver a full load of titanium armor plates to a station under construction in the Asteroid Belt from Io.

Ivan is doing Saturn traffic control, making sure the rings are untouched.

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COLD FUSION CORE: Initiated

[Shadowcatbot]

Only magnetic shields, and they only stop space radiation and micro-meteorites.

Large shield array to repel smaller asteroids and space radiation.

[Ivan2006]

Missile tubes cut down.
(additional missile tubes may be part of a mission package)

[Professor Fenway]

*slap* I got confused for a second. M'kay Ivan, you're good.

[Shadowcatbot]

Right anyway, Head to the Asteroid belt from Jupiter?

[Professor Fenway]

Yep.

Oh, need to add; The Asteroid Belt isn't one gate. It's 6 (because it's a belt). Because i'm generous, no extra travel time in the belt.

Same with the Kuiper belt, 6 gates.

[Error]

Alternis floated into Memory's cockpit, glancing over the scanners again. To the outside observer, he was searching for asteroids or rocks, a simple survey mission. To those who knew him, he was hunting.

He parked himself in the seat, strapping in. Checking the controls, he went over the logs.

No contact, no contact... rock... no contact... ah-ha. Gotcha. he checked the log again, and smiled slowly; a brief burst of heat, as one might see from an RCS system on station-keeping.

Looking at the active sensors, he saw nothing in the indicated spot. Passive sensors... there.

Check your heatsinks next time, love.

>>LASER COMM LINK ONLINE
>>Be advised UADS Proteus target located
>>Target painter available upon your arrival
>>Target is 16,550km range from gate 3 bearing 043.6 declination 003.5
>>Standing by

Alternis sat back and grinned. Four minutes for the laser to relay the message, thirty minutes for the UAD frigate to arrive... then ten minutes until another payday, and another bloody traitor captured.

Life was good.

[Professor Fenway]

>>Laser Communications established

-Acknowledged Memory.
-Intelligence suggests the target is operating out of the Kuiper Belt.
-Tail the target to their destination.
-UAD frigate Alternate Corruption is on standby, 10 minutes away.
-Laser beam for support if operation is compromised.

The target continued drifting through the belt.

[Error]

>>Wilco

Alternis cut active sensors, and moved off; heading, obtensibly, towards the gate.

Swining the ship into position behind a rock, he brought it to a halt and launched a small passive scan-probe. It found and locked onto the stealth ship; now, he would wait until it attached itself to a rock, ship, or base and go from there.

[Julo]

"Thrusters at 50%, we are approaching object 704, it seems, that we have a 152mm BL10 crust, with an unidentified amount of Helium-3 inside of it. The five scientists think, that it is infused with interstellar radiation. Our sensors are still not able to get a full spectrum scan of the asteroid. Over and out.“

"Captain?“

"Yes, Raj (sensor operator)?"

"We have visual contact to the asteroid, should I show it on the main screen?"

"Of course."

The picture of the asteroid was a bit distorted, but it still showed it's weird shape, even worse, now, that the asteroid was bigger, it almost looked unnatural.
"Mr. Lota (scientist)? Can you learn anything from these pictures?"

"Not really, I can tell you, that the asteroid is not made out of ice, maybe stone, like a comet."

"Hm, maybe it's a comet, which passed the sun and is therefore so smooth."

As Keith said this, the asteroid turned it's backside towards the cameras. And to the surprise of the captain and everybody on the bridge, it looked like a face.

"Mr. Lota, do you have an explanation for this?"

"Negative, Captain, but maybe it's an illusion, you know, maybe our brains just think it looks like a face."

"That might be a possibility. Mr. Raj, take a 3D sensor shot, and send it to the data centre of Pluto, maybe they know something about it."

>>Message to Pluto colony HQ
-We have found a face-like asteroid, which defies a full sensor scan.
-Request of an analysis of the 3D photograph.
-Compare it to your data, maybe you find a report of a blown up statue or stuff like that.
>>End of line

[Vinyl]

"Hey whe- oh go- where's Linny off to now?"
Linnaeus could hear the disgruntled crew member through the deck plates as he lay on his red sofa in the storage compartment. The hatch leading up opened, the ladder dropping down, and on it climbed the 'officer'.
"What have I told you about leaving the bridge!"
"It's fine, we're nowhere near the gate."
"We're a minute out."
"Oh... well then... see you on the bridge, Mr. Williams."

The aged vipar approached the Jupiter gate, shortly to it, their credentials cleared and the machine was ready to launch them the vast distance.

[ACH0225]

Name: Dmitri Yanukovitch(Дмитрий Янукович)

Ship Name (If you have a ship; optional. No really. You don't have to have a ship.): Стрела(Strela)

Ship Description (Post specs of ship, manufacturer, etc. Optional; you don't have to have a ship, or I can choose one for you.)

Spoiler:

Length-35 meters
Width- 11 meters at widest
Height- 8 meters
General Shape-Blocky long tube with 2 external cargo pods on pylons
Pod dimensions-5.5m/5.5m/5.5m
Total cargo space-32.5 cubic meters
Maximum crew- 5
Minimum crew- 1
Armour thickness- 550 mm(.55 meters)
Material- Titanium-steel alloy with external lead antiradiation plating
Number of decks- 3
Manufacturer- Strict Forme(kek/10)
Weapons systems-
3x 20mm Model-8 ferric tungsten dart coilguns
4x 120mm Model-15 missile pods, each containing 35 120mm unguided missiles. Forward mounted
2x 450mm Model-5 missile tubes
1x 1.5 gigawatt mining laser
2x Model-2 anti-debris shield emitters(one fore, one aft)

Occupation (can be anything): Small goods trader, courier, mercenary, and prospector

Allegiance (What power are you a part of?): None, but has done work for the ER in the past.

Personality: Calm, relaxed. Very difficult to agitate or anger.

Backstory (What have you been doing with your life?): From a small village a hundred miles north of the ruins of Novosibirsk, Dmitri had no prospects in life beyond rural poverty. This changed(when the fire nation attacked) when he was given the opportunity to escape to the ER by a group of scientists who were studying his village for the biological and social aftereffects of the fusion bombs and collapse of society. He was sent to a school in Warsaw, and then finished with a degree in astrophysics from the University of Bath. Dmitri was granted a ship by Strict Forme(still keking) as a test pilot, and after the development period was allowed to keep the ship.

Overview (General stuff): Soviet man break your puny ships. He operates the Стрела with only his dog, Лайка(Laika), and as such doesn't have to put up with any crewmember bullshit or mutiny. Coming from Siberian turnip farm village, he is frugal with his rubles and only eat 2 meals a day. He has a Mosin Nagant in his Command Room and an Ushanka warms his head; he quite obviously speaks very little English, so any attempt to communicate under comms without the use of a translator will result in poor broken English or a man shouting in Russian.

Misc (Anything else?): He has a small hydroponics unit in a little 2 meter by 2 meter add-on on his ship.

Theme Music/Picture (optional):