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Mars's long held commitment to the principle of self-governance, long lasting peace between our peoples etc etc Who gets the moon?
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mossyfisk posted:Mars's long held commitment to the principle of self-governance, long lasting peace between our peoples etc etc The Moon gets the Moon. Maximum chaos. Maximum Balkanizing. Dr. Snark fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Apr 14, 2018 |
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Apr 14, 2018 03:58
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If any of the aliens on the moon are intelligent enough we could try and put them in charge. They've certainly been there longer.
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Apr 14, 2018 04:06
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So is the human UT player in control of Putina? The hardliners? The NAU? Do they all have people controlling them?
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Apr 14, 2018 11:52
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Pharnakes posted:So is the human UT player in control of Putina? The hardliners? The NAU? Do they all have people controlling them? The NAU is actually being run based on Trump's latest tweets. Hence the missiles.
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Apr 14, 2018 12:27
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Veloxyll posted:Man, remember when the plan was to put all humanity under one (our) leadership? Before the disparate eggs can be joined into a unified omelette, first their shells must be broken! Oh wait, we're full communism mars... And then we put ketchup on the omelette so it's red!
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Apr 14, 2018 16:02
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Surrender NAU!
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Apr 17, 2018 16:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPC-jCCaYSg
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Apr 30, 2018 21:46
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Well, that video was confusing.
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Apr 30, 2018 23:40
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Impressive.
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May 1, 2018 02:25
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I haven't listened to Disturbed in like ten years.
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May 1, 2018 07:17
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It's almost like the entire world has gone, mad?
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 Last time on the War of the Worlds: Saros posted:10 Feb, 1524hrs ----10 Feb, 1525hrs---- General Sebmojo drummed his fingers along the side of his command pad built into the acceleration couch perched before the enormous tactical display. The single nervous tic he allowed himself before the men and women of his command eased the tension somewhat at the ranges to the hostile Terran ships whirled down second by second. Three numbers occupied his attention. One hundred and seven million kilometers. Ninety three million kilometers. One hundred and twenty eight million kilometers. The first was his fleets distance to the transports and their old model escorting ships. The second the no escape range for the transports, missiles fired within this range would reach the transports no matter the evasive route they took. The third and most worrying was the range to the massive and modern Terran force. It's capabilities largely unknown except it had displayed a turn of speed indicative of Ion Engine technology (and where could they have gotten that he wondered) and powerful shields. A straight comparison of tonnage was extremely worrisome. His own command, the single newest and most powerful formation in the Martian fleet massed 115,000 tons of warship with another 29,000 tons of support jumpships while the Terran New ships massed about 175,000 tons of warship. ----10 Feb, 1552hrs----   RNG TR: 104m [-3] NO ESC: 93m RNG TF: 118m [-10] ----10 Feb, 1607hrs---- He wanted little more than to get up and pace as the minutes ticked away and the distances slowly ticked down. The Terran's must have badly underestimated the range of our missiles he told himself, otherwise surely they would have been more cautious about luring us in? RNG TR: 100m [-4] NO ESC: 93m RNG TF: 112m [-6] ----10 Feb, 1612hrs----  The enemy fighter launch continues to close in, however tactical is confident the newly calibrated point defenses can handle the salvo. ----10 Feb, 1627hrs----  RNG TR: 96.5m NO ESC: 93m RNG TF: 105m ----10 Feb, 1647hrs----  Hardly noticed in all the tension the salvage force from the Pit finally arrives at Mars. Excited scientists swarm over the Kasag components with promises of great things to come.  Striking similarities are noticed between some designs and and those beginning to pour in from Pluto as a freshly talkative Facility unloads the vast databases of the 'Collaboration Stage 1 technological standard' to the Martian scientists at the outpost there. ----10 Feb, 1647hrs----  The atmosphere aboard the bridge of the Atrocity Exhibition tenses even further as the counter whirrs past the 93m km mark and Sebmojo holds his fire. With the main force of Terran ships now inside maximum missile range of the Martian force Sebmojo keeps his cool and steeples his fingers as the range ticks through another million kilometers. "Fleet Tactical ready?" he calmly asks. "Ready Sir!" comes the reply. "Designate Transports Alpha, Beta, Charlie! One salvo from the cruisers on each." "Fire one!"  Forty missiles roar away at the distant targets. The miniaturised launchers struggle to reload them as the crew calmly waits out the agonising eighty second delay. "Helm bring us down to two thousand kps and maintain heading, we don't want to close with the Terran Warships or fighters just yet." ----10 Feb, 1650hrs----  A second salvo goes out.... mistakenly targeted at the same transport. A red faced tactical officer quickly explains a bug in the brand new targeting systems failed to automatically cycle the targets of the same class as set... [This one was my fault so you get the ships back to full stores for free, an extra salvo yay!]  A third salvo follows shortly after - this time correctly targeted at the second transport.   A final salvo goes out at the third transport and Sebmojo considers his options.  The Fleet and the large fighter strike from Mars are both nearly in range (blue rings).  The exact ranges of any Terran missiles are unknown but the older ships had at least 45m km range for updated Ion missiles and the new ships are unlikely to have less than 80m km for their newest missiles. Over-engineered Martian shipkillers can reach to an astounding 100m km range but the hostile Terran fleet no doubt has significant point defenses and their shields will recharge if given time between salvos. ------------------  FLASH ALERT ::: MARS FLEETCOM A panicked call from Terran... Civil servants? Is coming in across the 'red line' channel set up to prevent nuclear war with Mars. A small craft or projectile has been spotted approaching Terran space at extremely short range. Resolving the target is almost impossible but it must mass several hundred tons at least and it is approaching on a direct course to Luna at nearly Sixty Thousand kilometers per second. No engine signature or thermal plume is associated with the object and it's path backtracks roughly towards the outer system, maybe Pluto or the Ranginui jump point. Saros fucked around with this message at 00:30 on May 2, 2018 |
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May 2, 2018 00:07
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May 2, 2018 00:22
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 Someone want to ask Facility what in the living hell is happening right now!?For reference, that...thing is going at 20% the speed of light. There's no way that could be anything but Facility or Speedy.
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May 2, 2018 00:23
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It's coming from the direction of Pluto, so this is most likely auntie, which is good? Maybe? If it doesn't get shot down by an energy weapon it may pull those other Collab drones out of storage on Luna and go all sentient robot on the crabs. Or they may declare peace in the Sol system by force of super-arms. We'll have to see, but we may want to tell anyone on Terra who can listen to maybe not try shooting it out of the sky, or at least that it's not ours. I really hope this missile strike works on the UT because if they can't reclaim Ceres hopefully it'll push them into some sort of settlement or attempted amnesty agreement. Heck at this point if they all decided to run off to Jupiter and have the UT-in-exile or something that'd be wonderful as this shooting needs to stop sooner than later.
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May 2, 2018 00:30
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Facility has decided to cleanse the apostates on Earth for they have turned away from Her holy machine light. Praise be to Facility. Amen.
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May 2, 2018 00:33
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Its just a weather balloon.
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May 2, 2018 00:37
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Tell them that Facility wants its drones back, assholes.
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May 2, 2018 00:45
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As Auntie's primary liaisons, Mars will happily escort the drones back home.
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May 2, 2018 01:30
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Synthbuttrange posted:Its just a weather balloon. You believe that hogwash? Please, this is just space swamp gas.
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May 2, 2018 01:53
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Surrender to the space swamp gas balloon.
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May 2, 2018 04:01
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This is a massively pro-click, nice work.
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May 2, 2018 04:14
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^^^ It is excellent, everyone should watch who has not yet.
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May 2, 2018 05:22
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Probably time to turn the fleet away from the enemy to make this a running engagement. Maybe one more volley if one of the transports still looks intact. Did we ever get around to telling auntie that humans like the moon? Because this is starting to look like a strike at those drones on Luna.
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May 2, 2018 09:17
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We love you Mechanical Auntie but please don't rail gun the moon
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May 2, 2018 09:23
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habituallyred posted:Probably time to turn the fleet away from the enemy to make this a running engagement. Maybe one more volley if one of the transports still looks intact. Mars lost a moon, it is about time UT feel our loss.
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May 2, 2018 09:23
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So, at several hundred tons and a speed of approximately 0.2c, what sort of energies are we looking at? How big of an impact are we talking about? Enough to blow a sizable hole into the moon? Is it comparable to an extenction-level event? And another question; if it came from the outer ring, why has it been detected only now? Do speeds that are a significant fraction of the speed of light gently caress with radar detection capabilities? Or is there something else at work? Dance Officer fucked around with this message at 10:13 on May 2, 2018 |
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May 2, 2018 10:10
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Dance Officer posted:So, at several hundred tons and a speed of approximately 0.2c, what sort of energies are we looking at? How big of an impact are we talking about? Enough to blow a sizable hole into the moon? Is it comparable to an extenction-level event? We are looking at  level events. Relativistic velocities lead to absolutely insane amounts of kinetic energy.fake edit: quick back of the envelope math says that at 200 tons it is equivalent to more than 100 gigatons tnt.
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So enough to shatter the moon, give or take? E: nope, these nerds reckon 240 teratons so not even close sebmojo fucked around with this message at 11:03 on May 2, 2018 |
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May 2, 2018 11:01
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That's still 20,000 times more energy than the largest nuke detonated in human history, so I wouldn't care to be anywhere near that either way.
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May 2, 2018 13:26
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Might blast Earth with a shitload of radiation, too. Hopefully it's just a flyby.
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May 2, 2018 14:04
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Auntie reclaiming her drones.
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May 2, 2018 14:36
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Everyone assumes that this object is moving using standard Newtonian physics, but if it's being propelled using TN materials then it can literally stop on a dime, this however does suggest that whatever it is happens to be using propulsion tech that is absurdly advanced compared to ours, and potentially that it may be both cloaked and baffled. If it's some sort of top-tier collaboration tech sent by Auntie to reclaim those drones, it's damned near magic as far as we're concerned. As far as the engagement against the Transport fleets goes, at most I'd recommend sticking around to perhaps double volley each of the transports to ensure destruction and then kiting nearby until we can coordinate a simultaneous missile strike on the UT's newfleet with the incoming Mars Fighters. The goal of this engagement is to destroy the Transports and prevent the UT hardliners from being able to reclaim Ceres, let's not start wasting more assets than needed, particularly as things are starting to go haywire around Earth.
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May 2, 2018 14:51
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There is no engine signature or thermal plume, though. So I seriously doubt there's an engine involved.
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May 2, 2018 15:04
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Dance Officer posted:There is no engine signature or thermal plume, though. So I seriously doubt there's an engine involved. With the kind of tech this appears to have, baffling the engines enough to hide the thermal sig is trivial.
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Fray posted:With the kind of tech this appears to have, baffling the engines enough to hide the thermal sig is trivial. Exactly, depending on how advance upper level Collaboration tech is, it's entirely possible to have 95% or greater reduction in thermal sig.
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May 2, 2018 15:58
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Also, proposal: let's reach out to the NAU about cooperation. The hardliners/IC have a massive tonnage advantage right now, which we need to cut into as much as we can.
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Consider that Auntie agreed to uplift all of humanity, this drone may just start broadcasting schematics the moment it gets into Earth orbit.
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