I'm giving this one bump now and one bump at 22:46. If no one who wishes to participate responsds, I will let this thread die and try tomorrow.

Final bump. If there's still no interesting, tough luck for me.

I'll play.

FUCK YES MEGACORP QUEST!

Anyway, for something a little more thought out:
Seeing as how Morgan Industries didn't appear to be involved in the fuckery that was directed at us during the Texas Impact, and they've been straight with us so far (well, as straight as a megacorp can be), I suggest offering them use of a shuttle (free of charge) from our first cryo-ship currently in the Alpha Centauri system to contact their people on the ground, and a very large discount (50%? 70%?) on a portable portable facility to be dropped on Chiron on our next superfreighter going out there.
Now, people are going to be asking why we should be giving away our services, but hear me out.
1. Assuming that no such policy has been universally accepted already, we publically announce Sleipnir Interstellar's new stance on space travel; any time, any place, any one, if you send a distress signal we will answer, no questions asked. We have precedent, in the Laws of the Sea, where ships must respond to an SOS without any thought of personal gain. Our PR department should love what they can do with this little nugget. And can you imagine the negative PR someone would get if they tried to abuse this?
2. We offer to assist Morgan Industries' current Chiron operations for a cut of the profits. Nothing has been mentioned of them getting another ship ready, and we are well poised to be very useful to their plans with our current construction queue.
Now, I'm not saying we let down our guard; Morgan will suddenly and inevitably betray us at some point in the future. I'm just saying, until that point, why don't we both make a profit?

>>10074010
I'm interested, although busy running DDQ.

>>10074010
What the fuck is up with these typing errors?
>>10074032
>>10074057
>>10074067
Well hey.

Right now, there are two things for me to post:
1) The events of 2138.
2) Basic information; ships and what they're doing; construction factories and what they're doing; colonies; research teams; etc

Which one would you rather see first?

>>10074155
#2

>>10074189
Here ya go. For anyone new, might be a bit of info. overload.

CURRENT SHIPS:
Crawler Probe 1 (Tau Ceti) (Exploration, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2140)
Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Returning with Cargo, Destination: Earth, 2139)
Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Returning with Cargo, Destination: Earth, 2139)
Freighter 3 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Delivering Cargo, Destination: Pandora, 2139)
Freighter 4 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Delivering Cargo, Destination: Pandora, 2139)
Heavy Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Factory Parts, Destination: Hermes, 2139)
Heavy Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Portable Portals, Destination: Hermes, 2144)
Heavy Freighter 3 (Tau Ceti) (Delivering Cargo, Departs 2140, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2156)
Cryo-Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Orbitting Hermes, Idle)
Cryo-Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Luxury Cruise, Destination: Pandora, 2139)
Cryo-Freighter 3 (Alpha Centauri) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Hermes, 2144)
Cryo-Freighter 4 (Epsilon Eridani) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Epsilon Eridani, 2151)
Cryo-Freighter 5 (Tau Ceti) (Colony Vessel, Departs 2140, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2156)

CONSTRUCTING:
Construction Yard 1 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 2 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 3 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 4 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 5 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 6 (Earth): Inactive

COLONIES:
Hermes, Alpha centauri A: 250 workers, 50 scientists, mining and studying Hermesium

RESEARCH QUEUE:
Umbra: Basics (Due Date: 2145)

>>10074249
Now posting details of Year 2138. Which ain't pre-typed. Give me a few minutes.

>>10074249
Have we made the discovery of Hermesium public yet, or is that part of the 2138 update?
Last I recall, we were letting our R&D boys and gals play around with it, without much success.

Yeah, some new rule. Copy and pasting from a document doesn't work anymore. It's supposed to stop kimmo spam, but I don't know how effective it is.

Year 2138:
Multiple ships are constructed and sent to their respective destinations, except for the two intended to leave for Tau Ceti. You are not keeping anything secret.
Further analysis of the unobtainium known as Hermesium tells you the following: It is a highly reactive element capable of burning as high as 3600 degrees centigrade in oxygen. It forms thermally unstable oxides which decomposes, allowing the reaction to continue. This loop is capable of continuing for approximately sixteen hours, gradually obliterating the Hermesium. The only truly effective use is militarily. Do you wish to make Hermesium public?
Pentex has released and made a killing off of new Umbral technology that it has developed - Umbral habitats.

The year is 2138.
Balance: $282 billion.

What would you like to do?

>>10074464
Huh. Well, it works from .txt.

>>10074301
As I recall, the only option they saw was for weaponry. Seeing as it is too intense for mining or something like that.

ALSO:

I was thinking of when we got our shit pushed in by those other corps, and figured it'd be a good idea to get cozy with a smaller corp ourselves. One that is useful, but not all that powerful. Foster a friendship, work together, support each other. Perhaps merge in the future.

>>10074495
Can we do what was suggested by >>10074057
As for the Hermesium, if Aperture couldn't find a use for it, I guess making it public couldn't hurt. We're not making any money on it now, anyway.

Hell yeah. I was waiting for this.

>>10074495
Keep Hermesium under wraps. Super napalm is something we want for ourselves. If possible, release fake intel saying it's some useless metal. Not even useful for electronics or wiring. Useless as fuck. That could keep interest away from Hermes. Of course, if we increase our presence there, the charade won't last long.

Can we get a list of smaller corporations that we could try to partner with?

>>10074587

>>10074571
Just because we don't have a use for it yet doesn't mean someone else won't and beat us to the punch. So far, we're the only ones with access to it. Let's keep it close to the chest for now.

>>10074587
>>10074595
Badass as fuck

>>10074495
What are Umbral habitats?

This seems pretty awesome a quest.

>>10074655

Yes, do tell.

>>10074571
One vote towards making Hermesium public. One vote towards secrecy.
Moving Cryo-Freighter 1 to pick up stranded personnel on Chiron.

Anything else?

Also, list of smaller corporations would be useless - they are far, far behind the megacorporations. Existing megacorporations:
Weyland-Yutani
Resources Development Agency
Multinational United
The Tyrell Corporation
The Zorg Corporation
Pentex
Morgan Industries
Solutions Tactical Finance United (your company, Sleipnir Interstellar is a subsidiary of them)

What kind of propulsion do we use to go from system to system BTW?

>>10074752
1 more vote to keep Hermesium under wraps for now. We'll let the other megacorps know it exists...when their Boards get a Hermesium Bomb, courtesy of Sleipnir Interstellar and Aperture Applied.

>>10074797

I was going to suggest something like that, if they don't know what it is, they don't know it can hurt them.

Exactly. Let's keep it our ace in the hole for now. Shit hits the fan like last time. Or even worse. We unleash some vacuum sealed Hermesium on our enemies, and watch them burn for 16 hours.

>>10074796
Back in the first thread, it was stated that we're using a sub-light anti-matter drive. Current speeds achieved are .5c and .75c. Umbral technology is purported to be something that could break the C Barrier, but long-distance Umbral Drives haven't been achieved yet.

>>10074655
>>10074709
Basic information about the Umbra is that it exists as a parallel plane where time and space exists in a different fashion, allowing for a rather interesting method of travel that could possibly become FTL.

Umbral habitats are habitats that exist in this parallel plane. Permanent, habitable, static space. Essentially, buildings can now be built in the Umbra. City centres are now filled with apartment blocks in their reflections in the Umbra, which the richest commuters will pay millions for.

Millions of commuters paying millions, and well, you can guess how much money Pentex is making off of this.

>>10074848
This is correct. Current technology is sublight matter-antimatter technology.
Possible alternatives (with enough research) include:
Umbral
Portals

FUCK YA, MEGACORP QUEST!
>>10074906
Hmm... sounds like if anything were to happen to these habs that pentex would be fucked.
Also sounds like they are basically building habs in the fucking WARP.
...
Smart move.

Anyways. Ask around and attempt to rent out our some of our production lines.

>>10074972
>Anyways. Ask around and attempt to rent out some of our production lines.

Derp
Also forgot name.

>>10074906
If there is one, there might be others. We should find out how Pentex accesses the Umbra, and see if we can retool that technology to find another parallel realm ripe for exploitation. Bonus if it contains demons we can unleash on competitors.

So our first ships haven't reached Tau Ceti yet, right?

Whatever. When we get there, make sure to explore if shit is cool.

Keep our discoveries secret. Make a ship with more workers to send to Hermes? Mine and stockpile some in a safe place where it can't be activated by oxygen. Store it in Argon or Helium or something.

Keep trying to hack into other megacorps' systems and find out information? Increase our own digital security! God damn, who knows if any of them have hacked into our systems. They already fucked with our space portal, which means they had to have gotten some access before. So increase defense.

And advance time?

>>10074972
Currently, no one is interested except for MNU, who will pay $2b per ship they build. They are currently not building any ships.

>>10074996
>>10074972
Speaking of renting out, we need to change our ship rental policies. Rather than a lump sum, we should charge a tax on what they ship. For instance, for shipping Pandorium, we should ask for like, 1% of the cargo/Pandorium in exchange for using our ship. That would be a lot of tons, and if we're going by the movie, we would make more money off of the single percent than if we charged a dollar amount.

Build four more heavy freighters. We're going to expand operations to Pandora.

>>10075028
2b is small time. We're making more than enough already. This also leaves us with the capability to construct things of our own, and deprives a competitor of a ship.

>>10075109
If we're going to do this, open a contract with some military corp. Get shit loads of weapons. ADVANCED weapons. No fucking bullet proof vests and smgs. Fucking tanks. Lasers. Missiles.

Oh, for those natives? Uh, no, of course not. >_>, <_<, >_>, those guys are nothing to worry about. But to protect us from other corps. Naturally.

>>10075109
The Pandora we have control over?
That place is a waste land, no reason to go there.

>>10074847
>>10074821
>>10074797
Hermesium shall be kept secret.
>>10074998
You are currently researching that.
>>10075022
Not yet.
Another ship is already on its way. Will arrive in 2144.
Workers will stop mining and start building a construction yard when the parts arrive in 2139. It will be complete by 2145.
Storage advice noted.
Corporations are passively hacking each other all of the time. However, if you want to access classified intel, you have to actively hack. Which requires a roll, a target and what you want to find out.

>>10075177
No, we have control over Hermes. Pandora has the shit we want.

>>10075182
>>10075182
Weyland-Yutani
Resources Development Agency
Multinational United
The Tyrell Corporation
The Zorg Corporation
Pentex
Morgan Industries

For the purpose of hacking, can we get a small summary of what these guys are most involved in right now? Nothing big. Just like a word or two. Like US - Portals/travel/ships. So we can get an idea for what's out there.

Beef up internal security, not just computer ways. Can we implement a system to track emolyee movement and access in high security zones?

So when shit goes wrong we know who's there and who did what.

>>10075228
Oh well fuck, forgot how the names worked for planets in that system.

DM, how would it work for us sending stuff to the planet? Considering we have a competitor there already.

I never saw Pandora, but didn't the humans have to wear gas masks because Oxygen levels were low or some shit? Let's shoot some Hermesium "meteorites" into the Humans on Pandora's base facilities, which are full of Oxygen. Clear the planet of the competition.

Information about Alpha Centauri:

Alpha Centauri A:
Second planet (Hermes) has an unobtainium (Hermesium). You are currently exploiting this.
Fifth planet (Ares) has advanced life and a habitable atmosphere.

Alpha Centauri B:
Polyphemus has twelve moons. Four possess life.
- Pandora has advanced life and an unobtainium (Pandorium).
- Chiron is fungal-based garden world. Morgan Industries expedition ship has crashlanded there.
- Two remaining moons only possess primordial bacteria-based life.

>>10075322
Is anyone doing shit with Ares?

>>10075322
we should probably prepare an expedition to Ares, doubtfull that they have anything of worth, but still

>Fifth planet (Ares) has advanced life and a habitable atmosphere.
I think we should send a small expedition force here and see if the lifeforms are hostile or not.

>Chiron is fungal-based garden world. Morgan Industries expedition ship has crashlanded there.
Maybe we should send some scouts to see how they are doing to boot our rep with Morgan and get some good PR. Also we can claim the planet as ours along the way...

>>10075368
>>10075402
Cryo freighters for last two construction yards? Then build more conyards?

>>10075402
We don't want to deal with Chiron. Fucking mindworms, how do they work.

>>10075281
You might have to open negotiations with RDA.
>>10075253
Weyland-Yutani: Mining/Manufacture
Resources Development Agency: Mining/Maglev
Multinational United: Manufacture/Weapons Dev.
The Tyrell Corporation: Biotech
The Zorg Corporation: Weapons Dev.
Pentex: Umbra/Manufacture
Morgan Industries: Biotech/Manufacture
>>10075279
Already been done.
>>10075334
No.

Next post containing time-lapse summary about what I think you guys want.

>>10075456
So... we should send a scout force with a high planet rate then?
Space hippy scouts?

>>10075475
WELL THEN LETS CHECK ARES OUT. Could be useful. A habitable world is a nice center of operations.

>>10075475
- Send Cryo-Freighter 1 (currently idle in Alpha Centauri A) to Chiron.
- Construct Cryo-Freighter 6 to send to Ares with 200 workers, 60 scientists and 40 military to Ares (will be built 2141, will arrive 2147) Cost: $74 billion.
- Construct additiona construction yard. Cost: $20 billion.

That actually seems to be it.

Sorry for delay, had to do something.

>>10075322
Uhh, A/B minimum periastron is around 11AU -- it's safe to assume Polyphemus' orbit is about 1AU and Ares is slightly inside that, but ... that doesn't leave much room for separate planet systems to keep from colliding.

I'm not even going to think about orbital stability issues.

>>10075667
And since I wasn't clear, that is what you guys seem to want to do, right?

>>10075667
>>10075681
I guess so. The cryo freighter is empty, right? If that's the case, then offer rescue to Morgan's people on the planet. If it has people, put them down somewhere more hospitable.

>>10075681
What about the heavy freighters?

>>10075680
I'm using Avatar's science here.

http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Alpha_Centauri_System

Ugh. Sorry, Hermes and Ares are around ACB, Pandora and Polyphemus are around ACA.

>>10075715
Ah, right.

Four heavy freighters, with Alpha Centauri range (will be ready 2141).

Cost: $66b x 4 = $264b

Total spending: $356b

This might put you debt, or you might gain back a reasonable amount next year.

>>10075719
I believe you mean ABATAB

>>10075780
Yes. Abatab.
>>10075773
Going ahead with this, then.

Gimme a few secs, guys.

>>10075773
Make it three, and continue, please.

>>10075667
Any word on international and intercorporate laws concerning space rescue and salvage? I think our PR department could do some good if our public space policy was that we would unquestionably rescue anyone stranded in space.

>>10075870
We'll save lives. But the cargo will belong to us. :)

Alright people, Sleipnir's bank account is dangerously low, what with our constant construction of ship. Let's hear some more ideas for new revenue streams.
>>10075088 has good idea for renegotiating our contracts with RDA; anyone got anything else?

Year 2139:
A new construction yard is built.
Three inactive construction yards - building one Alpha Centauri cryo-freighter and three Alpha Centauri heavy freighters.
Freighters 3 and 4 are shipping back cargo from Pandora, having just arrived.
Freighter 1 and Freighter 2 arrive and released from their lease with RDA, after unloading their cargo.
The true blessing of Pandorium is unveiled as a room temperature superconductor with a strong magnetic field. It is being used in technology all over the globe and suddenly, RDA is being praised despite all of the previous complaints against them.
Thousands of pandorium engines are being sold for $125b. Hundreds are being purchased.
RDA has purchased a monopoly of all goods coming out of Pandora. Any organization other than RDA selling Pandorium or any other objects that have came from that planet do so illegally.
MNU has paid $6b for use of your three construction yards, which are being built.
RDA requests lease of Freighters 1 and 2 again, for $8b.
Cryo-Freighter 1 arrives at Chiron. You recieve a message from the deputy of Morgan Industries. You will be paid $50b not to interfere.
Rumour has it RDA has already won the space race.

Year: 2139
Balance: $91b

>>10076007
What about that Portal waste disposal system idea from the last thread? Has that been implemented yet? Do we have to research it, or can we begin implementation now?

>>10076071
Send shit into a star. Literally.

>>10076007
We have exclusive rights to portal tech. Instantaneous travel between any two points where a portal route exists, to the limits of Sol system itself. We have been working on small scales, transporting people and their baggage.

We can make orbital shuttles, cargo transports, anything that travels between planetary bodies obsolete. With a portal facility on every planet, in every orbit, there is no need for any ship that doesn't travel to other systems.

Barring, of course, asteroid miners, rescue and emergency vehicles, stuff like that.

>>10076069
Information on Pandorium engines?

>>10076071
You can request implementation. It's a basic use of already existing technology, so it doesn't need research.

>>10076069
Can we negotiate with RDA for a percentage of the profits, rather than a lump sum? I think that would get us more money.
As for Morgan Industries, that's just the deputy. The CEO, Mr. Morgan, is on Chiron right now. My vote is to make contact with the CEO directly; my guess is that in the absence of the CEO, the deputy is making a powerplay.

>>10076096
>>10076071

I like these ideas.
Can we get an estimate on how much it would cost to build a portal gate linking 2 places on earth together?

>>10076127
Do it.

Start experimenting with alloys, maybe?

Hiya, Plasma.

How much to spread nasty rumors about the safety problems of Umbral habs?

>>10076119
Pandorium engines are considered rangeless. They can go any distance at 0.75c, unlike current engines, which can only go a preset distance (and back again) before requiring maintainance in order to fix up the superconductors.

>>10076127
Let's implement it, then. It should be a new revenue stream, for the disposal of hazardous waste, if we play it right it should net us some good publicity as the 'green' megacorp.

>>10076195
PR department would like $5b.

$1b for the actual campaign.
$4b for life insurance and the best security money can buy.

>>10076161
We already have this. This is one of our primary means of income.

>>10076161
This has already been done in a thousand different places on Earth.

Currently, people seem to enjoy using RDA's maglev for intercontinental transport over the Umbra or portals due to the more natural nature - it isn't as disconcerting as the latter two.

However, you have the monopoly over interplanetary travel at this moment in time, which is where you get most of your income from - which is also a hundred billion every year, these days.

>>10076250
But it could be so much better, so much more expansive. We could handle all transit between every world and satellite. A monopoly is within our reach.

>>10076290
This monopoly is already had.

>>10076232
Hm. when even our PR department doesn't like their odds, it's time to think of a new plan.

How much to hire discreet minions to kidnap the occasional janitor or other random, low-level employee from an umbral hab unnoticed, and THEN spread rumor that they're falling into the warp?

And also, does that one give us any better odds of not suddenly having our shit assassinated?

>>10076143
You have a choice:
a) Contact the CEO and interfere with what's going on down there.
b) Get $50b for not interfering. Easy cash.
>>10076183
Elaborate.

Give the PR firm 10 billion for the Umbra attack.

We have shit around Pandora. Try to find footage of the locals. Use it in a PR move against RDA. Use archive footage of colonialism of Europeans mistreating Indians and Africans. Make RDA look like bad guys.

Would it be possible to build waystations in the paths from one planet to the next to allows say, canisters to move from one to the next through our portal system, and decrease overall time to a few days/hours/minutes?

If so, do it and have all our freighters equipped with the tech to begin deploying them, and begin deployment.

If not, add to research que.

>>10076069
So, our cryo-ship did reach Chiron orbit, right? Can we passively intercept any of the radio transmissions, if any, coming from the MI survivors? Did CEO Morgan survive? Can we find out how the survivors are doing via orbital sensor arrays and telescopes on the ship? And any word on how Morgan Industries as a whole is taking the disappearance of their CEO?

>>10076349
INTERFERE. Establish direct contact with Morgan himself.

>>10076393
The Na'vi are already confirmed to exist, as are all of the other species. This has already been brought up the P.E.T.A. and other organizations, but such complaints have been utterly CRUSHED with the beauty of Pandorium.

Alright, we've got those heavy freighters being constructed, but now that RDA has their monopoly, we can't set up like we wanted to.

Let's load em' up with all the hardware we need to establish a resource base in Alpha C, so we can start constructing ships, stations, everything. We'll link the worlds of that system too, so every time Pandorium moves from the surface to orbit, it goes by portal.

>>10076349
a

>>10076404
In-system, portal travel is already instantaneous. If you're talking about going between Sol and Alpha C, you'd need a heck of a lot of stations.

>>10076404
Unrealistically expensive if you're planning on using this for interstellar purposes. This would require tens of thousands of portal facilities that one freighter just can't carry. Even then, it'd still take around a year for Alpha Centauri travel, and that's the closest.

Basically, this concept is totally unrealistic. Such exploitation of portal mechanics just won't work on that level.

>>10076449
Yes you would. A station merely being large enough to say, sustain a portal that would allow a massive cargo container to move from one to the next instantaneously.

Or a smaller one.
We have the cash to burn if necessary.

>>10076349
I say interfere. 50 billion, while not insignificant, is not a whole lot in the scheme of things. Besides, if I remember the AC fluff right, Morgan is still a majority stockholder. If he can be put back in communication with his Board, he will still control MI.

>>10076425
Just throwing ideas out there, what if the next freighter carrying the RDA shipment were to suffer some sort of catastrophe? Preferably one that could be blamed on their Pandorium, or at least their personnel?

Or, you know, we say it blew up and then we re-route it to Hermes or Chiron, or whatever. It's not like they can just look with a telescope and see that we took it.

>>10076473
please explain.

From what I gather, it would just be building them and loading them up, trailing them from one world to the next, 1 reciever and one sender at each location... time to travel would literally be only the amount of time that it takes for the cargo to span through a hairsbreadth.

It would be unneccesary for one cargo vessel to take it, merely sprinkle it at the end of the journey, or on the return trip to allow for shorter trips to be made, and eventually no trips necessary at all.

>>10076482
Right now, it would just require too many facilities. We should research to extend the range of portals, or do as suggested and combine portals with Umbra.

>>10076498
Then we would never be able to use that freighter again. Since RDA rented it, they'd have that thing on record. And even if we changed the name and even the design, how do we explain a new starship suddenly being in our inventory?
No, I think this is asking for too much trouble and not enough return.

>>10076565
Or we could ACTUALLY blow it up, and pin it on them.
We lose one freighter, they lose 100 trillion dollars (or whatever) of Pandorium.

>>10076565
or manufacture a fake one, to be towed behind a real freighter, taking precautions against explosions and the like, and then maintaining that for a number of years, before detonating it in the end, as if it was their fault...

Or leaking that their matierial has been causing major damage to all the people on the ship, and much of the structure, warping it enough that that ship can no longer be used for transportation of their goods, as it is far too damaging.

To the guy who wanted to renegotiate the RDA freighter deal:
No. They're willing to pay up to $5b per return journey, but that's as far as they want to go.
>>10076425
You've already got a portable portal carrying heavy freighter going to Alpha Centauri, and one wtih a space station that will be assembled there too. Still go ahead with this and fill those three with space station parts? Cost: $10b each, equalling $30b.
>>10076483
Interferance accepted. Do you want to go ahead and communicate, then?
>>10076498
This is a possibility, if you guys wanna try it.
>>10076532
The facilities are quite big. They are also quite heavy. It'd take a very, very large freighter to carry them along and to be honest, being a DM for someone trying to exploit the mechanics and use them to such an efficiency that it ruins the game/quest kind of sucks.

>>10076565
The Pandorum made our workers on our ships that we rented to them sick.

Time to put the evil in Evil Megacorp. All the employees we had on the ships we rented to RDA. Make them sick. Cancers maybe. Something like that. Pandorium did that to them. MY GOD! IT'S GOING TO KILL EVERYONE!

>>10076621
what are the qualities of Pandorium?

Radioactive? anything special that could potentially be used as a way to pin this on them?

And I apologize for attempting instantaneous travel. Will not suggest it again.

>>10076653
It will be possible when you're appropriately far enough in the quest.

Not at the very beginning. Sorry if I seem a bit bitchy about it, but it just ruins the pacing.

>>10076653
Pandorium is a room temperature superconductor with a very strong magnetic field.

>>10076532
Have you any idea the number of facilities that would have to be created, not to mention the horrors of trying to maintain such a system?
We can barely get 80AU of distance with current portal tech. The distance to Alpha Centuari is 272,061AU. We would need to put down 2 portals every 80AU, which would mean 3400 paired portal facilities.

>>10076676
I'm fine with this. Clearly our lazy scientists have been slacking off after their initial portal science developments.

>>10076617
Yes. Fill em' up.

>>10076713
Plus actually laying those out, since we'd have to speed up and slow down every 80 AU to lay each one, would take a buttload of time.

>>10076617
Yes, communicate with the MI survivors, see if CEO Morgan is among them. Offer what supplies we can spare, and usage of our interplanetary shuttle.
And yes, let's continue to beef up our space station. It'll be very valuable when we have a colony set up on Ares.

>>10076676
Seems to me to have been an attempt to recreate the stargate SG-1 midway station concept, where they strung together enough adjacent stargates that they could travel between Pegasus & Milky Way, rather than someone trying to exploit game mechanics.

Initiating communication with Morgan Industries.

"This is Nwabudike Morgan speaking. If you have a shuttle, I request immediate evacuation."

>>10076864
Sold! Hey, by the by, your second in command wanted to pay us off to leave you here. Just FYI.

>>10076833
I accept this and while it may seem that way, in previous threads he has tried to his best to push portal technology to logical limits that would simply make it far, far too powerful and imbalanced.

So, here I am, trying to make things a bit simpler.

>>10076864
"Good to hear from you, Mr. Morgan, this is the Board of Directors at Sleipnir Interstellar. Our shuttle should be homing in on your transmission now."
Rescue him, unless other people object.

>>10076777
we wouldn't need to slow down, just attach some kind of disposable rocket and drop it with the programming necessary for it to remain withing 80 AU of its linked gates.

Anyway... Enough of that idea.

I do have a question though, what was the verdict on the rail-guns via/portal technology? And destroying all of our competition with the stuff?

>>10076864
We're going to want every scrap of information they have on Chiron.

Also, ask them what went wrong. Mechanical failure? Outright sabotage? Mutiny?

>>10076882
"Interesting information. To whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?"

He's surprisingly business-like, although he sounds slightly tired. You would be too, after three years of being stranded on an alien world.

>>10076864
RESCUE MORGAN. SCAN ALL THINGS WE PICK UP. MAKE SURE NOT TO TAKE ANY ALIEN LIFE. NO ONE WE RESCUE IS ALLOWED TO TAKE ALIEN LIFE BACK WITH THEM.

Realistically, we know nothing about this planet. It makes sense not to contaminate shit.

Rescue Morgan, hold him in the ship. Don't tell anyone we have him.

Torture/convince him to give us his majority share of Morgan Industries?

>>10076933
Charles Bronson. CEO of Solutions Tactical Finance United.

>>10076956
Nah, we're Sleipnir Interstellar. STFU might be our overlords, but this is our operation.

>>10076933
"We're from Slepnir Interstellar, and you can consider this a test run of our "Laws of the Sea, for Space" program."

>>10076990
This.
With A technician identifying himself, not our CEO.

That might end up being bad.

>>10076990
>>10077024
Yeah

So far we've agreed to rescue Morgan and keep him isolated along with the dropship.

Ask him what happened and then we work our way to trying to get a controlling interest in his company in exchange for his life.

>>10077047
I like it.

>>10077047
No, because that goes against everything in the Laws of the Sea (Space). We will quarintine him, as needed; he was on an alien world, after all, but not longer than necessary.

>>10077047
Mmm... Let's try to start at a reward. I mean, the acting-director of MI knows we're there, and so if we interfere but don't come back with Morgan, then he can pin the blame for everything on us.

Dude, this is Morgan. His middle name is profit, for god's sake. Offer him a partnership with SLINT.

>>10076956
"I thought it would be one of my own employees, not another organization that would organize my rescue. In half the expected time, as well."
>>10076932
"Engine malfuction. The captain was also assassinated. As for information on Chiron, I will have a researcher compile it once on your vessel before our return to Earth."
>>10077047
"As for what happened, the Unity was originally intended as a research expedition to take the best and brightest of humanity to Chiron, to try and understand its unique biology and geology. Unfortunately, after the emergency landing, civility quickly eroded and for the past two years, some of us have actually been warring, like savages."

>>10077086
Is this something from our Viking background? I can see that, but I think we're totally capable of holding a high-value target for ransom secretly.

The benefits of having a controlling industry in a rival mega-corporation would be insane.

>>10077113
This give me an idea...Hey Plasma, can we look through the world's universities for a professor by the name of Zhakorov, and headhunt him for Aperture? And a certain Dr. Freeman?

So, what all else was ON the ship we sent to Chiron?

>>10077086
It's not the law of space. But it's the law of the world. We have him in an advantageous position. If we gain the majority share in MI, then we'd receive a massive boon to our company.

>>10077132
Well, fuck. We should put in calls to the other factions as well, then.

(If Planet blooms we're all fucked.)

>>10077111
Acting director knows we're here AT THE CRASH SITE. He has no idea that Morgan may or may not be alive, and wouldn't likely be broadcasting this knowledge considering he tried to pay us off to leave it be.

>>10077132
An assassin? From a rival megacorp? Can you tell us some more about the flora and fauna of Chiron so we know what we're dealing with when we evacuate the rest of your loyal crew (After disposing of any disloyal elements).

Hey, we should accept that $50bil, and tell him we're not interfering.

Then continue with our interfering plans.

>>10077247
I like this... and put him on a diffrent planet, or accept the 50 bil, and assassinate the acting director before letting Morgan return, in our pocket of course.

They might not transfer payment until our ship leaves orbit. But since we've already entered orbit at the planet long enough to open communications I doubt we could attempt such shenanigans.

>>10077289
then talk to morgan, and let him know that there is 50 billion on the line, paying you to leave him there... Ask if he wants to go home, and ask if he would be willing to owe you guys a favor later.

a favor worth more than 50billion.

>>10077169
Empty. Everything was deployed on Hermes.
>>10077185
Morgan has not disclosed and refuses to disclose their names. He demands immediate evacuation then he will see to the evacuation of the others.
>>10077198
Currently, Cryo-Freighter 1 is empty.
A researcher is put on the mic and gives you the details, as simply as possible. Fungus covers much of the moon's surface, the ground, the water, even the air in some places. It is fed on by a symbiotic and psycho-reactive organism that they're still finding out all of the details about.

FUCKING EVAC MORGAN ALREADY. Only onto the ship. Not out of system yet.

>>10077337
Agreed. Get him off the planet.

>>10077363
>>10077337
Morgan is evacuated, as are the highest priority staff and security (who prevent lower priority staff from getting on).

Be wary though. They've been on planet for several years now. Who know how advanced he's gotten his tech. He could be planning to steal the drop ship we send and take over the evac himself, leaving us with nothing. Make sure there're some armed men in the drop ship.

But evac Morgan asap.

>>10077325
Evacuate whoever he wants evacuated, but keep them seperate and contained, preferably inside dropships with lots of guns aimed at them.

51%+ of Morgan Industries > 50 Billion. Hell, even 15% is better than 50 billion.

I'm sure there were other people on that ship who had stock in the company. We could amass a fair amount of property if we play our cards right. How much are their lives worth to them?

BEFORE WE MAKE DEMANDS OF MORGAN, ASK WHAT HE WILL OFFER US FOR HIS RESCUE, FIRST!

Then if it is not satisfactory, we make demands.

>>10077402
and declare salvage rights on the planet. Since we are rescuing Morgan and his peeps, then the planet ought to be ours.

Also offer anyone that doesn't leave with Morgan, a job, and quarantine them in a separate part of the ship... both parties.

>>10077442
I think this is a given, of course. No need to resort to violence immediately.
>>10077454
I'm not so sure this is a good idea. I'd rather not be crewing my ship/seeding my colonies with dissidents, murderers, and savages.

>>10077454
>>10077454
Cypher, shut up for a minute. You're giving bad suggestions ALL the time. Sit back for a minute and think before saying stuff.

>>10077495
true... but we need to get the population, the entire population off that planet.

kill them, lock them up, anything, but get them off the planet.

>>10077513
Acquiring rights to the planet isn't exactly a bad idea.

Imagine mind worms all up in RDA's shit.

>>10077528
reasoning behind this?

Potential sabotage could be made, they might know something we need to... And we don't want to leave anything that could be potentially dangerous down there, which basically entails humans as their things are mostly only dangerous with them around.

>>10077528
Why do we need them off-planet? Humanitarian reasons? If Morgan wants his employees to stay there, I think they should stay. Its not like we need them for anything.

>>10077454
Salvage rights are denied. Also, there is limited space and Morgan isn't giving you the locations of the others.
>>10077442
In exchange for safe passage back to Earth, you're offered 8.5% of Morgan Industries' stock.

Morgan will not give up full control of Chiron; he would be stupid to. And since Morgan Industries has claim to it, we'd have to fight them if we wanted it, a fight that we probably would not win (both from a megacorp vs. megacorp perspective, and the STFU Board will be very unhappy).
Asking for too much is just a sure-fire way to not get anything.

>>10077597
9.5% or we put him back.

>>10077597
This is fine. Send an extraction team for anyone he wants picked up.
Just keep them in quarantine until we can make sure they are not infected with any microbes that could be harmful to us.

>>10077597
Don't give a fuck about salvage rights. You only get those when a company doesn't want it anymore.

I think we need more than 8.5. How many of Morgan's staff that we evacuated own stock in the company?

>>10077597
We should try to negotiate a little more; our aim should be a good 10%, with a small stake on Chiron, or we go with 8.5%, but with junior partner status on Chiron's ownership.

How about this. 8.5% for Morgan, and 1% for everyone else we evac?

>>10077719
You mean 1% for rescuing everybody else, right? Because, to be frank, demanding 1% for each person would be laughably stupid.

>>10077652
>>10077643
>>10077633
>>10077616
8% and junior partner status. That is something that he is able to settle on.

>>10077719

I agree, but I don't think they're willing to pay 1% for concubines and favorite janitors. How many are we taking up here?

>>10077747
Wait wait wait, junior partner status in a hostile environment is worthless to us, especially since we're focusing our colonization efforts elsewhere.

I'd much rather have a bigger chunk of the company than whatever this junior partnet bullshit is.

>>10077747
8%, Junior Partner, and a relatively generous lucrative fee. 100 billion sounds reasonable.

>>10077747
does he know about the 50bill we were offered?

>>10077747
As it is, that's a pretty good deal. I say we take it.
Also, anything weird show up on our bioscans of the Morgan Industries people?

>>10077797
That makes us a junior partner in Morgan Industries. The entire company.

>>10077743
I assume that some of these people control parts of Morgan Co., so we ask for 1% of the company from what they control. If they can't afford it, they get left.

>>10077815
>>10077758
>>10077797
For immediate evacuation to Earth:
+8% stock in Morgan Industries
+Junior Partnership on Chiron's ownership
+$100b

He is willing to accept this.

>>10077797
That's because you obviously haven't thought of what is on that planet. A psycho-reactive organism, implying that psionics and PSI is a real field of research, something that we don't have, nor does any other company. This is has great potential, and a junior partner position would be well worth the investment.

>>10077848
I find this acceptable...
What exactly does junior partnership entail?

>>10077848
I say take it. We have been working on negotiations too long.
Lets look into setting up a research base on the planet.
Time to see if we can tame any mind worms. And then put them into a freighter bound for Pandora... accidentally anyways...

>>10077824
But "we" aren't a person, we are the board of Sleipnir Interstellar. A junior partner "position" wouldn't be helpful to us, unless I'm very confused.

Unless this position comes with some control over the company, in which case it should be expressed in the form of a percentage or something so we understand how much clout we get.

>>10077848
Fuck it, lets just take that, whatever it entails.

>>10077873
A share of the profits and anything that comes out of Chiron, a say in what goes on there, and certain other remunerations.

>>10077935
then yes, take it.

>>10077914
Sleipnir Interstellar would be the junior partner of Morgan Industries' ownership of Chiron.
This isn't anything rare, it's quite common even now, in the world for a corporation or other entity to be a partner of another corporation or entity.

>>10077914
>>10077873
>>10077935
>>10077931
Generally, the following are correct:
>>10077966
>>10077935
If you need a percentage, let's say 20%. No further negotiation.

Where do you wish to get from here?

>>10078049
Accept the deal. Return Morgan to Earth. Get some ships ready for Chiron and to explore Ares/construct a base there. Claim monopoly/ownership over Ares.

>>10078049
We want all the information we can get our hands on. Everything about Chiron, everything about Unity, its cargo, and its crew.

What does Morgan want, now that he's been evac'd? Immediate return to Earth?

>>10078085
I concur.
Also, some preliminary research into these mindworms for more offensive purposes (I.E. releasing them into a few Umbral Habs.)

>>10078104
Immediate return to Earth.

So, this deal has been accepted, and Cryo-Freighter 1 is heading for Earth. You have 8% shares in Morgan Industries, a 20% junior partnership when it comes to Chiron and an extra $100b in the kitty.

For now, the Chiron business is concluded.

Your researcher tells you everything there is to know about Chiron. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier's_Alpha_Centauri)

>>10078113
So you're proposing unleashing a mindhive of psychic worms into infinite space between space? And you don't see any possible downsides to this?

>>10078159
Alright. Expand research/exploration/colonization of Ares.

Is there anything interesting about it?

>>10078177
I think absolutely nothing could go wrong with this.

This IS Megacorporation Quest. I assume some protagonist will fight them off.

>>10078208
Not our problem... we use portals.

I think that we should look into getting some tanks and attack choppers to go up with the people to Chiron.
That and also get some air-burst Hermesium missiles to deal with anyone planet side who wants to fuck with us.

>>10078241
Hermesium saturation Planetside does sound like a good failsafe if shit breaks down.

>>10078195
The vessel you're planning to send there will arrive at 2147.

So, looking at the rest of the thread...

1) Spend small sum ($3b) on starting the portal garbage disposal initiative throughout the Solar System.
2) Spend small sum ($5b) on discrediting Umbral habs.
3) Handle Morgan - DONE.

Advance to Year 2140?

>>10078241
Hermesium burns forever in an oxygen atmosphere. Once the payload was delivered, it would take a great effort to stop it after the job was done.

>>10078279
Advance.

>>10078279
10b on discrediting Umbral.

>>10078282
It burns out after 16 hours.

>>10078282
There was an update that changed it to about 13-16 hours.

>>10078241
I agree, especially if there's so many factions fighting. Should we simply sell the bombs to MI or drop them ourselves?

>>10078279
On the next update, could you include our income for the year and current balance?
I want to see how much a fully-equipped warship with planetary bombardment capabilities would cost. You know, just in case.

>>10078282
I updated it. Made it a little bit more sensible. Hermesium molecules are gradually obliterated over a period of sixteen hours in an oxygen-based atmosphere.

Advancing, with the $10b instead of $5b on the anti-hab program.

>>10078282
16 hours... not unlimited.

>>10078279
Increase to 10b and begin research into mindworms to induce psychosis in Umbral Hab owners.

>>10078349
Well, we have an overall 8% stock in MI, as well as a 20% say in Chiron.

I say we keep the methods secret, keeping Hermesium to ourselves, put propose that we orbitally bombard rival factions on the planet, seizing it for MI/Sleipnir. We don't tell him what we'll bombard it with, keeping it secret, but he'll know that it should wipe them out, and should burn out in about half a day.

>>10078389
We'd need to dedicate some R&D for a Hermesium warhead, and currently they're all tied up with Umbra research.

>>10078416
We've got time to spare. Overall, a Hermesium missile/bomb shouldn't be hard.

Take a normal missile delivery system, in place of a warhead, store large quantities of Hermesium in a gas in which it acts inert. Helium or something. Drop the missiles, warheads open, burning Hermesium rains over enemy outposts.

>>10078449
wouldn't a normal missile system be able to be countered? why not use a portal delivery instead?

Just saying...

>>10078449
Hmm..well, I suppose we could repurpose some old chemical warfare delivery systems, specifically the ones for sarin since they used a 2-part warhead where the chemicals for the sarin were kept in small paired vials. We'd have to get some ICBM designs, too, for the re-entry MIRVs if we're going with an orbital strike capability. I suppose we could try to license the technology from somebody (perhaps the Chinese?), but it might look a bit suspicious for us to suddenly enter the weapons market, especially with such high-profile products as WMD designs.

Will military action against our competitors cause a public or governmental backlash?

>>10078546
And how do you propose to generate the portal at the target coordinates, hmm? You would still need a delivery system, in any event, and portal generators are not cheap enough to be disposable.

>>10078597
How would anyone ever know? Chiron is cut off from the rest of space. Sadly, when the Unity crashed, only Morgan and his people survived. Graciously, he granted partial ownership of Chiron to us, for saving him.

>>10078609
>portal generators are not cheap enough to be disposable.

Then we shall research until they are!

Year 2140:
MNU stops using your three construction yards.
Your crawler arrives at Tau Ceti. You share information with the Tyrell Corporation. There are three planets. Two terrestrial and one gas giant. No unobtainium is detected. The second terrestrial planet is thriving with algae and bacteria and the surface is covered in water. Much like a develping Earth. No other interesting information.
Heavy freighter has arrived at Hermes. Hermesium mining has stopped. Space station construction initiated. Will be completed by 2145, with additional aid from workers arriving by 2144.
You have one cryo-freighter and one heavy freighter with Tau Ceti as their destination. Still send them, or give them another destination?
The garbage disposal portal mechanism is moderately successful with the liberal, green crowd. It's found to be much less expensive to stick with the ordinary methods. Still, some cash is gained from it.
Anti-hab campaign is launched and is generally considered hilariously uninformed with no evidence to back it. A failure. Luckily, the extra cash prevents it from being connected to S.L.I.N.T. Publically, anyway.

Year: 2140
Balance: $253b
Income: $105b

Next post contains information about what everything is doing.

>>10078672
CURRENT SHIPS:
Crawler Probe 1 (Tau Ceti) (Exploration, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2140)
Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Delivering Cargo, Destination: Pandora, 2145)
Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Delivering Cargo, Destination: Pandora, 2145)
Freighter 4 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Returning with Cargo, Destination: Earth, 2145)
Freighter 3 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Returning with Cargo, Destination: Earth, 2145)
Heavy Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Factory Parts, Destination: Hermes, 2139)
Heavy Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Portable Portals, Destination: Hermes, 2144)
Heavy Freighter 3 (Tau Ceti) (Delivering Cargo, Departs 2140, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2156)
Heavy Freighter 4 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Factory Parts, Destination: Hermes, 2147)
Heavy Freighter 5 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Factory Parts, Destination: Hermes, 2147)
Heavy Freighter 6 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Factory Parts, Destination: Hermes, 2147)
Cryo-Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Morgan, Destination: Earth, 2145)
Cryo-Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Luxury Cruise, Destination: Pandora, 2139)
Cryo-Freighter 3 (Alpha Centauri) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Hermes, 2144)
Cryo-Freighter 4 (Epsilon Eridani) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Epsilon Eridani, 2151)
Cryo-Freighter 5 (Tau Ceti) (Colony Vessel, Departs 2140, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2156)
Cryo-Freighter 6 (Alpha Centauri) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Ares, 2144)

CONSTRUCTING:
Construction Yard 1 (Earth): CF 6
Construction Yard 2 (Earth): HF 4
Construction Yard 3 (Earth): HF 5
Construction Yard 4 (Earth): HF 6
Construction Yard 5 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 6 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 7 (Earth): Inactive

COLONIES:
Hermes, Alpha centauri A: 250 workers, 50 scientists, mining and studying Hermesium

RESEARCH QUEUE:
Umbra: Basics (Due Date: 2145)

>>10078609
true...
though if we are destroying our competitors, are we really worried overly much about cost?

Though I do understand what you are saying.

>>10078686
Ugh, messed something up there.

Cryo-freighter 6 will arrive at Ares at 2147, not 2144.

>>10073577
>>10078597
Propaganda, commercials, rhetoric. Advertise our goods and their evils until military action becomes not only acceptable, but marketable and we are paid for it.

>>10078672
Send them. Claim the Tau Ceti worlds and begin the long process of preparing them for colonization. This is a system we could have all to ourselves, given the lack of exotic materials to draw other megacorps to it. Let's make it SLINT property.

We need to get ZAKHAROV on our glorious R&D team. Get his ass off planet. Then burn the rest.

>>10078767
Right.

Generally, this year, all you have to do is decide three things:
a) What do you want to do with Heavy Freighter 1, now it's delivered its space station parts to Hermes?
b) What do you want to do about the Tau Ceti vessels?
c) Do you want to do anything with those abandoned construction yards?

>>10078686
Begin construction of crawler UEV's destined for Gamma Leporis and Delta Pavonis, both at .75c.
They're far, but the other megacorps haven't shown interest in the farther planets. We might be able to hit it big with something in the farther systems.

We should build a large ship, or a fleet of smaller ones, loaded up with hermesium warheads. Lots of them.

Target hostile (oxygen-present) world and fire payload. Watch it burn for 14 hours (avg.)

Exterminatus, motherfuckers.

Send more people to Ares to colonize it. We need to act fast. Make it clear that it's ours.

Also, do we have any info on Ares yet? The natural life and whatnot?

I would suggest begining the construction of a heavy duty colony/warship/cryoship, for deep space exploration, and colonization of potential useful resources.

>>10078819
a) Is there any way it can be outfitted with cryo pods in Alpha C?

b) Send them, establish resource base and colony.

c) A colony to Ares and two crawlers, as per: >>10078851

What is furthest system with possible life supporting planets? That no one has gone to yet, as far as we know.

>>10078819
Send the Tau Ceti vessels on their way.
As for the Heavy Freighter, would RDA be willing to rent it for, say, 4% of the profits from the Pandorium that it could bring back? Otherwise, it might be useful to send it back to Sol with some sample of whatever we can get from Chiron (hey, we're a partner, it's our property too!) and some Hermesium (to be kept under lock and key, and at a high-security space lab once it enters Sol space).

Hey, is the life on Pandora giving the company some real trouble?

Offer to hermesium-bomb the place for them for payment/shares.

Fuck I love this hermesium stuff. We need a RL version.

>>10078900
I would advise that if a warship such as the forementoned be constructed, that it have both traditional weaponry, and our special weaponry.

Would also recommend that it have some capacity for construction, so as to manufacture drones and the like to send back to us with anything that might be of use/interest.

>>10079010
Nah. What we do is wait for the natives to fuck them up. Then we swoop in on a SAVAGE WORLD! Wipe out the natives with Hermesium, and take Pandora for ourselves. "Sorry fuckers. You couldn't take care of it. We can. Fuck off."

>>10079010
We've been keeping Hermesium secret, and I'd like to keep it that way. We also haven't built a delivery or dispersal system for it yet, so we don't have Hermesium warhead-equipped MIRVs, missiles, or torpedoes yet.

>>10078891
Gravitational acceleration of 12.47m/s
Highly active in a tectonic sense - appears to be suffering a permanent volcanic winter.
Very little axial tilt, leading to a lack of season.

Overall, the weather conditions make it very difficult for precise observation of life forms on the planet. Swamps and forests of brambles and lateral ivy have been located, as have artificial structures, but otherwise, no luck.
>>10078914
a) No.
b) Colony will be established.
c) Constructing these ships as requested.
d) Adding "Space Combat" to Research Queue for Cypher.

Preparing time lapse.

>>10079048
>no exterminatus weaponry

Goddammit, what are those laze-abouts in R&D doing?

Is Hermes itself known, or is it on our list of secret planets?

We should try to find out if our competitors have any secret planets.

>>10079048
We need to research these missiles then, or at the very least small arms which can fire the Hermesium in small caliber rounds.

>>10079089
Hermes is known, but not the existence of Hermesium.
Undoubtedly the other megacorps have hidden colonies. IIRC, Pentex has sent a colony ship somewhere, without telling anyone the destination.

>>10079075
thank you... and make priority low on the space combat... It isn't necessary, but when it does become necessary, it will feel good to have it.

>>10079089
Known only in detail to WY, who haven't sent anything. Even then, they don't know the exact details of Hermesium and what it does. You do.
>>10078930
List of systems with Terrestrial Planets:
Alpha Centauri: 4.3ly
Epsilon Eridani: 10.5ly
Tau Ceti: 11.9ly
Gliese 876: 15.3ly
40 Eridian: 16.5ly
Eta Cassiopeiae: 19.4ly
Delta Pavonis: 19.9ly
Beta Hydri: 24.3ly
Pi Orionis: 26.3ly
Gamma Leporis: 29.2ly

>>10079145
Let's construct and send a long range colony ship complete with like, a crawler or whatever, to Pi Orionis: 26.3ly. We don't know for sure if anything's there. But there could be, and it's worth a few billion to send a ship.

>>10079185
We've already got two, going to Gamma Leporis and Delta Pavonis.

>>10079228
I don't see anything on the lists.

Can we extrapolate the trajectory of that competitor ship that didn't announce it's destination?

We could send a small probe that way and try to find out what's up.

And paint Pentex's logo on it.

>>10079075
>Constructing these ships as requested
A colony to Ares and two crawlers, as per: >>10078851

What's the time estimate on researching system to system portal travel again?

>>10079376
Probably decades

>>10079376
Time estimate doesn't really matter, since it requires trillions of dollars. Which we don't have.

>>10079419
To implement. Obviously we would be researching ways to bring the cost down with it. And once we have it, bam, we win.

>>10079460
It takes money to do research, genius. And for that to be possible, it would take a number of innovations in energy production, storage, and use. And that's just to power the shit.

>>10079460
No, to research. It requires trillions of dollars to research.

>>10079497
Dats sum expensive Chinese graduate students

>>10079659
And that's WITH our R&D bonus. So I think Umbra research is a very, very good investment right now.

Year 2141:
Space travel is no longer romantic. Starship destinations no longer have to be publically announced, although they sometimes are if the results will be REALLY GREAT! So, the megacorporations have a bit more privacy.
Cryo-Freighter 6 has been built and is on its way.
Heavy Freighter 4 has been built and is on its way.
Heavy Freighter 5 has been built and is on its way.
Heavy Freighter 6 has been built and is on its way.
MNU has given you $8b and has claimed Construction Yards 1-4 to build crawlers.
The other corporations are now regularly launching ships. There's no need for details. It's a common occurance.
Income: $115b

Year 2142:
The following two probes have been made.
Crawler Probe 2 (Exploration, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2169)
Crawler Probe 3 (Exploration, Destination: Gamma Leporis, 2181)
MNU has borrowed Construction Yards 5-6 to make crawlers. You gain $4b.
Income: $119b

Year 2143:
The following vessel has been launched:
Cryo-Freighter 7 (Alpha Centauri) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Ares, 2149)
MNU crawlers leave Construction Yards 1-4.
MNU borrows yards 1-4 and 7 to build more crawlers. You get $10b.
Income: $124b

Year 2144:
Heavy Freighter 2 and Cryo Freighter 3 arrive at Hermes. Surface portal facility deployed. Orbital portal facility deployed. Additional workmen to build construction yard, will be finished 2145. Those two ships are now idle.
MNU crawlers leave yards 5-6.
Yards 5-6 borrowed by MNU for crawlers. You recieve $4b.
Income: $126b

Year: 2144
Balance: $673b

What do?

>>10079692
Check in with STFU. We've made a lot of progress, let's see what they have to say about it.

>>10079692
Send .75c crawlers to all systems with terrestrial bodies that are not already being explored by us. We got the cash, let's make it happen.

>>10079772
"Lots of progress? Doesn't look like it from our angle. We haven't gotten a dime from it so far. We want at least $250b by 2160, $500b by 2180 and $1t by 2200, or your project gets shut down.

"And if you give us extra, who knows. We might find it our miserable, shrivelled black hearts to give you a few goodies."

>>10079795
All construction yards are currently occupied by Multinational United, who appear to be renting them for... mass crawler production?

>>10079692
Load the cryoship up with passengers from Chiron, then bring them back to Sol.
Do we have a freighter available to send some portals for Chiron and Ares?

>>10079827
Well, fuck, we can give them the 250 now if they want to be dicks about it.

>>10079842
Build another yard. As soon as the others are freed up, task them with producing our crawlers.

>>10079843
The nearest heavy freighter will arrive at Earth by 2146.

>>10079692
I don't remember, did MNU sign a lease for 50 years or something? If not, start restricting access to our yards. They're up to something big.

>>10079846
Sixteen years early. Six if you go with the original deadline. How 'bout it?

>>10073577
dunce

>>10079827
Why do I hear this in the Padishah Emperor's voice?

>>10079876
No, it's pretty much permanent.
>>10079863
Done.
>>10079843
Sending cryo to Chiron to pick up survivors.

>>10080014
Advancing a year.

>>10079976
Because you remember Dune, and it was the best game ever.

Does STFU not realize that we have an income of 125b+ per year? I thought they were pretty cool when covering for us, but that was just stupid.

>>10080050
Around the time, your income has dropped to $3b.

>>10080090
>>10080050
we lost an income of 122b a year? How?!

Did we just send a message to the past? If not, we should research that.

begin construction of additional, extra-solar construction yards?

>>10080014
I don't suppose we could renegotiate MNU's conyard contract?

Year 2145:
MNU crawlers leave Construction Yards 1-4.
You demand no further over-construction.
They demand that future fees are reduced to $1b but back down.
Building the follow:
Crawler Probe 2 (Exploration, Destination: Delta Pavonis, 2179)
Crawler Probe 3 (Exploration, Destination: Gamma Leporis, 2184)
Crawler Probe 4 (Exploration, Destination: Gliese 876, 2170)
Crawler Probe 5 (Exploration, Destination: 40 Eridian, 2171)
Crawler Probe 6 (Exploration, Destination: Eta Cassiopeiae, 2175)
Crawler Probe 7 (Exploration, Destination: Beta Hydri, 2182)
Crawler Probe 8 (Exploration, Destination: Pi Orionis, 2184)
Freighters 1 & 2 arrive with cargo at Pandora.
Freighters 3 & 4 arrive at Earth with Pandorium and other objects and are released from their lease with RDA. They do not wish to use them again.
Morgan has arrived on Earth and has assumed control over his company.
Construction yard is built on Hermes.
R&D department is going into overtime. Completion date pushed back to 2147.

Year: 2145
Balance: $731b
Income: $126b

Posting who's doing what information next post.

>>10080289
So how DID our income drop that much?

>>10080390
That was back during the fiasco where our orbital fell on Texas.

Should we just pass a couple turns so we can get 1t, then give it to STFU so we can fly free?

>>10080369
CURRENT SHIPS:
Crawler Probe 1 (Tau Ceti)
Crawler Probe 2 (Destination: Delta Pavonis, 2179)
Crawler Probe 3 (Destination: Gamma Leporis, 2184)
Crawler Probe 4 (Destination: Gliese 876, 2170)
Crawler Probe 5 (Destination: 40 Eridian, 2171)
Crawler Probe 6 (Destination: Eta Cassiopeiae, 2175)
Crawler Probe 7 (Destination: Beta Hydri, 2182)
Crawler Probe 8 (Destination: Pi Orionis, 2184)
Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Returning with Cargo, Destination: Pandora, 2151)
Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Returning with Cargo, Destination: Pandora, 2151)
Freighter 4 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Earth)
Freighter 3 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Earth)
Heavy Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Returning, Destination: Earth, 2146)
Heavy Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Hermes)
Heavy Freighter 3 (Tau Ceti) (Delivering Cargo, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2156)
Heavy Freighter 4 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Factory Parts, Destination: Hermes, 2147)
Heavy Freighter 5 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Factory Parts, Destination: Hermesm, 2147)
Heavy Freighter 6 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Factory Parts, Destination: Hermes, 2147)
Cryo-Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Earth)
Cryo-Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Luxury Cruise, Destination: Pandora, 2139)
Cryo-Freighter 3 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Hermes)
Cryo-Freighter 4 (Epsilon Eridani) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Epsilon Eridani, 2151)
Cryo-Freighter 5 (Tau Ceti) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2156)
Cryo-Freighter 6 (Alpha Centauri) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Ares, 2147)
Cryo-Freighter 7 (Alpha Centauri) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Ares, 2149)

>>10080369
CONSTRUCTING:
Construction Yard 1 (Earth): Cr 5, 2147
Construction Yard 2 (Earth): Cr 6, 2147
Construction Yard 3 (Earth): Cr 7, 2147
Construction Yard 4 (Earth): Cr 8, 2147
Construction Yard 5 (Earth): MNU, 2146
Construction Yard 6 (Earth): MNU, 2146
Construction Yard 7 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 8 (Earth): Cr 4, 2147
Construction Yard 1 (Hermes): Inactive

>>10080421
Doesn't quite work like that. It just means that you meet their expectations. They still own your sorry asses and can make further demands of you - and probably will.

are space fighters possible yet? using conventional weaponry....

>>10080427
Crawler 1 is exploring the planets, I'm assuming.

Have Freighters 3 and 4 retooled for flight to G 876, along with Cryo-Freighter 1. Send them to G 876 to establish a colony. They can turn back if the crawler finds nothing suitable.

Have HF 2 and CF 3 prepare to transport materials and people from Chiron. Contact anyone left on the surface of that planet.

>>10080436
Start the Hermes conyard producing orbital and ground portal facilities for use in Alpha C. Link the system like we've done with Sol.

>>10080497
Well, that depends on your definition of fighter. We can probably make warships, but what's the point, really?

>>10080427
Load freighter 3 with resupply goods and send it to Epsilon Erdani to help set up the colony there once the ship arrives.

Load freighter 4 up with colony goods to send to ares to get that started up. Bring our Cryoship back from Tau Ceti and send the other one out from Sol with colonists to land in Ares.

>>10080497
Using conventional weaponry, yes.

Using conventional programming, not quite yet.

Any sort of space combat whatsoever requires a wee bit of research.

Anyway, I'm crashing early tonight. The crunch is tiring me out.

The year is 2145, and all is going well. So far.

Hopefully I'll be a bit more imaginative next session.

Seeya next week, folks.

>>10080545
When you say Tau Ceti, you mean Alpha Centauri, right?

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>>10080545
Freighter 3 wasn't originally meant to go that far.
Can we upgrade the engines for a trip to Eridani, or will it mean a complete overhaul?

>>10080596
OH GOD I HAVE TO WAIT TILL WEDNESDAY AGAIN

SHIT SHIT SHIT GOTTA FIND SOMETHING TO DO

as far as fighter's go, I mean basically something like the spitfire from world war 2, suited for space combat. Or just something missile like...

For some reason I got a fear that we will be running into something just as advanced, if not more advanced than us...

>>10080746
Not only would we need to research the fighter, but also the carrier ship as well. We would need the weapon systems, power plants, electronics suite (fire control, navigation, and general systems), not to mention the metallurgy for the materials needed. This would be a major undertaking.

>>10080891
Yeah, but if we did, we could just mass-produce and take over.

>>10074587
That looks like one of the wands from PSO