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Earth is dead. Centuries of capitalist consumption and excess have eaten up the resources and biosphere of Earth, and turned what was a paradise for humanity into a hell of runaway climate change. As the years went on, capitalist exploitation had returned back to the days of scrip and company towns, and people trapped in an endless cycle of repayment and piling bills were paid pennies as the corporate executives that owned them enriched themselves even further and consumed the planet. With all the world's governments rife with corruption and back deals, any avenues of justice were dead, and the vast majority of humanity was trapped, trapped until there was nothing and no one left for the rich to exploit. So they left. The rich and powerful, the corpos and their political toadies, used their vast hoards of capital to assemble an interstellar Ark with the remaining resources of Earth, and piled themselves on, intent on finding a new home and repeating the process there. With them, they brought loyal employees to do all the actual labour and hard work. In reality, these 'employees' were workers indebted to the corporations, little better than indentured servants. The elites at the top seemed intent on changing nothing about the same societal process that destroyed their home planet, and they would need plenty of slave labour if they wanted to live to the same standards they were used to. Forced to leave their families behind on an Earth destroyed by these executives and corrupt politicians, held at gunpoint and crammed into poorly ventilated and cramped living quarters that function as little better than a metal slum, with an expectation foisted on them to work as little better than slaves, just to let their bosses live in luxury on a new planet, just to repeat the same mistakes that got them here? For these workers, a new feeling takes hold. Hopelessness, grief, despair, but most of all. Anger. Anger, and a feeling that there was nothing left to lose. Just over two weeks after the Ark is launched with all hands, as the elites dine on vintage champagne from a region that is now under an ocean of acid, and caviar from the onboard sturgeon farm, lazily debating the course the ship should take, it happens. Over the course of two hours, in an effort coordinated by inspired and desperate leaders, the workers take control of the ship. The guards are convinced to surrender or are overpowered, the security doors are hacked or cut through, and there is nothing left to protect the rich and powerful from the vengeance of the bitter masses that had seen their whole world crumble at their hands. Some are killed immediately, but most are captured and brought to the cargo bay. There, they are interviewed, asked for their profession and education. Scientists, engineers, and others with technical or theoretical knowledge are brought to one side of the bay. Managers, CEOs, senators and other types are instead brought into an odd room off to the other side. And the first group watch in horror as the second is vented into space past the cargo bay windows, tumbling and knocking into each other, grasping and gasping at nothing, as the revolutionaries watch in grim silence. What will come to be called the Airlock Revolution is a success. And with the Ark being all that's left of humanity, by extension, so is the world revolution. The workers control the future. They just need to figure out what it will be.  Welcome to Trailblazers, a Stellaris Let's Play! Together, we are going to try and put together a last ditch effort for humanity's survival, and see if we can't avoid the mistakes of the past. I'll be asking for your input through votes at certain integral points, and doing my best to follow through with your goals as I play the game. This is my first real serious attempt at writing an LP myself, but I'll do my best, and appreciate your patience as I learn! I've read plenty, and even contributed a little in some others, but this is the first big project I've started myself, and I have a complete lack of coding knowledge, so there might be some speedbumps as we go. With that out of the way, let's get down to it! zanni fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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The Current Situation The Earth sits turning slowly below us as we think about our first move.  We are located in Sol, located northeast in reference to the galactic core. We'll recognize some nearby stars' names as we explore, but we don't know their contents, so whichever path we take is as good at the others as far as information. Type G stars are the most likely to contain Earth-Like planets, but that's the best we got as far as intuition on where we might find a new home. Everything rides on finding a place to land and start rebuilding as soon as possible, and from that stems our first question: what are we looking for? What are our standards? Do we: A) Take the first decent option? (minimum 50% habitability) or B) Try to find something more ideal? (minimum 70% habitability) zanni fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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Jul 4, 2021 07:37
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Woooo here we goooo!!!! Let's get picky! B
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B The better the planet, the more of a headstart the revolution shall receive. We can't very well liberate the galaxy when our people can barely survive on their new world.
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B. A good home or no home!
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B sounds like the better idea to me
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B. A true Worker's Paradise awaits!
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B it is! Writing up the next post as we speak.
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Captain's Audio Log, The Ark 2200.01.04, Sol Finally, we're launched! I thought those simpletons would never finish this drat thing and we'd be stuck down there for another year, but no, thank God, we're up. It's a sad sight looking down at that sick green ball... But! We have no time to dwell, the future awaits! I'm to meet with Reginald and Thomas to discuss our next steps, figure out how to test this newfangled hyperdrive thing. Here's hoping we can find a new home soon, I can't stand this recycled air. What I wouldn't give for a vintage air canister.. 2200.01.09, Sol Have reports the masses down below are complaining about their quarters, making a fuss about all manner of things. It's too cramped, it's too hot, it's poorly ventilated, there isn't enough bathrooms.. the list is endless. They were chosen to get to be part of the future of humanity, something that billions of others would have killed for! And yet all they can do is complain about being uncomfortable. I mean for hells' sake, I'm the captain and I'm restricted to quarters with only three rooms! I'm like a sardine in here! What do they want us to do about it? 2200.01.12, Sol Grumbling below is getting worse, but Security Chief Perkins assures me it's under control. Have plans to do our first jump to Sirius, in about 5 days. Announced it over the intercom in the hope that the appearance of progress might help. 2200.01.15, Sol Somethings happening outside, I don't know what. Woke up to shouting outside. It- oh god was that a shot? -------I think it was. sounds of shuffling and an intercom being activated Perkins! Perkins for god's sake, what's going on out there? ....-----.... Perkins, answer me, what's happening? Why am I hearing shots? ....-----.... Christ, wha- sound of explosion and crashes, audio cuts Captain's Audio Log, The Exodus 2200.01.18, Sol This is Samira El-Ghazali, taking audio logs for future reference and archive purposes. I, uh. I was elected 'Comrade Representative' of the Exodus, so I'm in charge of this mess. The crew have taken control of the ship, and work's being done to try and rehouse people into the penthouse suites to relieve the crowding issues down below. Eight to a room isn't fun, but it's better than what we had before. ....just have to make do. We kept the corpos with useful skills. Engineers, scientists, architects and so on. Lot of them are in similar boat as us, forced to work. Others just saw the opportunity to save their families and took it. Can't blame them. Wish I had had that option myself. They'll be kept an eye on but otherwise get to live on the ship same as the rest of us. Kept them with their families. Need to show them that we can make a future together. The bosses and politicians, not so much. Spaced the fuckers. Better than they deserved, but we don't have the time or space to do much else. We need to get moving. There's only so much time before something on this hunk of junk breaks, or we run out of some important resource, or people start going stir crazy from lack of sun and fresh air. The faster we find a new home, the better. 2200.08.17, Epsilon Indi Took eight months and three 'jumps' to find our first Earth-like, but we're sadly going to have to pass it up. It's atmosphere is breathable, but it's a frozen hellscape down there. At least it's something though, proof that there is more out there than just gas giants and rocks. Spirits are lifted onboard.  2201.03.04, Barnard's Star Found the damndest thing. There's an Earth-like here, it's got a ring system, mostly ice and dust, but the planet itself, it's.. well, there's no better way to describe it than nuclear winter. Surface is radioactive as hell, temperature's dropped planetwide, but near as we can tell, there isn't actually any one or any thing down there. Someone took a disliking to this random planet and nuked it to hell. Is this a normal thing we're going to find? And more importantly, who nuked it? Sure as hell wasn't humans, this all happened a long time ago, a looooong time ago. What a loving way to find out there's intelligent life out there. Sure as hell hope this doesn't become a pattern.  2202.06.26, 61 Cygni I can't believe it. Fifteen months of nothing, and then suddenly.. here it is. An Earth-like. And I mean that literally. The geography is different, the biosphere is alien, and we still need to do a full survey, but.. you could mistake this for Earth from a distance. It's got continents, it's got green plants, it's got oceans, it's got breathable air, it's got temperate climates over most of it's surface. It's small, a moon orbiting a gas giant actually. Kind of exciting thinking about living on a moon and seeing a gas giant in the sky all the time. And two suns! Unless there's some nasty surprise waiting to be discovered here that mean's we move on.. we found it. A new home.  2202.09.14, 61 Cygni The longest three months of my life, but we had to make sure. And. Yes. Yes, it's livable. Surprisingly livable. Better than Earth had been for at least 200 years. I can let the scientists worry about how exciting finding alien life is. Apparently it's got these ultra-dense forest patches that have some exciting implications on how alien biodiversity could function. I'm just relieved knowing that we found something we can call our own. I'm so happy.. we did it.. we found a home.. 2202.10.02, Eden We found a suitable landing place after some surveying. River valley on the northeastern continent. Good rainfall. Fertile. Some of those forests nearby for wood. Iron-rich deposits to the south. We decided on a name. The planet we're naming Terra, and the system.. Eden. Our garden of plenty.  We have a lot of work ahead of us. There's so many people and none of them want to spend another moment living on that ship. It was decided to get farms started in the surrounding region and to start putting up the beginnings of a city along the river here. Get people housed, get food production going so we can replace all the canned poo poo from the ship and so we can keep on top of population growth. God.. there really is going to be more people isn't there? I know it's in the plans, but it's still hitting me that we're really here, that it's real, that humanity can start living and growing and thriving again. I haven't felt hope like this before. All I knew back on Earth was the certainty that the future was dead and there was nothing I could do about it. I feel like my heart is swelling. I see all these wonderful people working together to build a future for us and I just tear up. I can't believe it. I am never going to let anyone take this from us. zanni fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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System Survey Results Eden A, Class K Star In close orbit of Eden A are 3 gas giants.  Eden I is entirely too close to its sun, and its atmosphere is slowly boiling away from the heat. However, that gives us good gas harvesting opportunities for stuff like hydrogen.  Eden II has 3 moons, all molten planetoids. Eden IIa's magma has promising industrial applications, and if we ever get the ability to make habitats on worlds like this, could make a useful world for smelting alloys. Eden IIb's radioactive surface renders surface habitats out of the question, but automated mining operations there are still valuable for smelting materials. Eden IIc has an extremely craggly surface that expose mineral deposits that are also useful for automated mining.  Eden III, the gas giant our new home orbits, has an atmosphere so hot that any probes we send down are lost. From the centre outwards is Terra itself, Eden IIIb, a toxic world that is a sad reminder of Earth, Eden IIIc, a barren planet that is almost entirely a ball of iron, with many cave systems that could easily become underground living and working areas with some work. It could be a promising mining colony someday if we can figure out the technology behind it. Finally, Eden IIId, another barren planet, with similar cave systems and composition as Eden IIIc. Farther out from Eden A are two ice planets.  Eden IV has an extremely rough surface of ice and rock, but scanners show the existence of a subglacial ocean below the surface. Sadly, they also show that Eden IV's core is dead, meaning that as time goes on, this ocean will slowly lose more and more of its heat to space, until the planet eventually is nothing but solid rock and ice.  Eden V is in a similar boat, with a dead core, but the freezing process seems to be complete. Jagged cliffs and asteroid craters dot its surface. There is nothing for us here.  Eden B, Class K Star On the other end of the system is Eden B. It's age is hard to measure what with the strange sun spots on its surface, but the numerous molten worlds orbiting it point to it being a relatively young one in all likelihood.  Eden BI has a similar magma composition as Eden IIa and could very well be a future industrial colony, and it's moon, Eden BIa, shows obvious mining opportunities from the heavy metals its geologic processes have pushed to the surface, if you can get through the mercury atmosphere.  Eden B II has a similar atmosphere as Eden BIa, with interesting and useful crystalline deposits growing from its surface.  Eden B III however is, well. Useless. It has no core at all, and when it eventually cools will just be a solid ball of rock. However, it's moon, Eden B IIIa, is extremely promising. Filled with high quality heavy metals and similar volcanic magma to Eden IIa and Eden BI, it's mining applications are immediately useful and could very well be an industrial hub for the whole system in the future. It's suggested that Eden B IIIa is formed from the core of Eden B III, but we'll have to do more analyzing to be sure. We have everything in Eden we need to set an economic groundwork and start expanding, and in the farther future, there are many good opportunities for advancing the system's economy. It's now time to begin surveying our interstellar neighbours. zanni fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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Earth isn't loving green. Earth isn't loving green at all! How long is the mod list for this run, or is it just vanilla?
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Klaus88 posted:Earth isn't loving green. There is 43 entire mods for this! And by god do the loading times show it I'll post a modlist at another time as I'm sure people would be interested, but almost all of these are mods I picked up via Exodus LP's modlist Also check out Exodus LP, its a big inspiration for this LP and is really great
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And we can begin in earnest!  We are the Revolutionary Terran Collective, a left-libertarian collective based on the principals of anarchism and socialism. Our governing ethics:    Our civic values:     We are led by Comrade Representative Samira El-Ghazali, one of the Airlock Revolution's main leaders and an ex-oilworker in what was the Persian Gulf.   She seems well suited to her new role. We can expect her to keep things running smoothly as we transition from interstellar refugees into a spacefaring nation. At least, as smoothly as we can hope. excerpts from Samira El-Ghazali's Journal, 2204-2207 It's decided to send our scientific survey team out to the neighbouring system of Xi Bootis to search for more resources for use back at Terra. They pile in to the science vessel that came along with the Ark and head out to our galactic south. Unfortunately, at first all they find is ancient dead Iron-Age aliens on a frozen rock.  And then I learn that the colonists have find a big pile of technological debris! Apparently at some point in the distant past, Terra was used as a dumping ground for some sort of interstellar civilization.  Who would bring a freighter's worth of trash to a pristine paradise of a planet just to dump it in a pile and leave? And more importantly, why is it that the only signs we can find of other intelligent life in the galaxy is trash, corpses and nuclear winters? I hear back more findings from the science team over the coming years as construction continues around the colony. A molten world with more than 40% of it's core exposed. A barren world with odd organic sheets blowing in the wind. And apparently, plasma.. life? Living on the surface of a sun??    I try to just focus on my work and let the science experts worry about how groundbreaking these findings are. I've gotten re-elected as Comrade Representative, and now that the housing situation has been taken care of, work has begun on both a manufactory for all these minerals coming in and on a proper bureaucratic center for the colony. Lot of people need to talk to me every day, and I spend more time on my feet than I do sleeping at night, but for a change, it's important work. Work I care about. Turns out working hard is a lot less exhausting when there's a point to it.  excerpts from Samira El-Ghazali's Journal, 2207-2210 Discovered that that iron deposit south of the colony is covered in these weird flowers that excrete toxic gas constantly. I'm told they're growing there specifically because they use the iron in the soil and rocks for some kind of chemical process, but the important thing for me is that I need to clear this area so my people have work, and so no kids wander over here exploring and end up hurt or worse. Luckily, all it takes is some gas masks and gloves and they can get cleared out without much hassle, thank god. We don't have much in the way of hazmat suits right now.  Xi Bootis has been fully surveyed, and it's apparently going to be a massive boon to our research efforts. Construction ship is already heading there to begin building a starbase and the necessary research stations. Also been told the toxic flowers are cleared and work has begun on the new mine. Things are looking good!  I somehow got reelected for a third term as Comrade Representative. I.. I guess they really trust me huh? Huh. Maybe what I'm doing is working after all.  Construction has begun on our first research lab, and on a big monument in the centre of the city to all the people that didn't have an Exodus to board. For the family members we had to leave behind. A monument to mourn Earth.  It's easy to forget just how bad things were back then. You look around at all these people working together, cooperating for a shared future, and you think this is how it's always been. That it just makes sense that this is how humans are, that we're communal, that we share the load.. We just need.. we need to never get complacent. We need to be reminded of how far we've come, what we've accomplished together, what we stand to lose if we don't stand shoulder to shoulder. I think I might suggest we make these monuments a standard thing. To have one in every city. Have them be places of remembrance, but also places of joy, of pride, of being reminded of how far we've come. And to thank all the people that came before us that made it possible. Earth may be dead, but I don't want her memory to ever die.
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Also! Another vote! We have a limited supply of alloys, with a pretty pitiful production, so we can't afford to get everything we might want to. So, my question is this: Other than using alloys to expand via starbases, where should we spend alloys? A) Making a defensive navy? We have zero military ships right now, but we also have no known threats. or B) Building more science/construction ships to speed up our rate of surveying and expansion?
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I'll vote for B We need to expand in the galaxy as quickly as we can. make more discoveries and broaden our horizons.
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How about option C? Build one or two military ships for worst case scenario and then build few more science ships? One or two construction ships should be enough for time being. We kinda need both, and thus would be wiser to queue both, albeeit in smaller quantity than if we concentrated on onw or the other.
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B for now. We'll need defenses before long, but focusing on our economy first will allow to build more, faster.
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B. If we have more resources, we can better prepare for defense.
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Let's Be about our business.
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B. Now is the time to sow, so we may reap MORE military ships later!
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Early military in this kind of strategy game is almost always a trap anyway.
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I also support B We'll win every neighbour with the power of friendship and solidarity and then, if that doesn't work, with the power of unrelentless violence
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No active threats means we just go with B
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The B's have it! Expect the next post zanni fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Jul 5, 2021 |
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As 2210 begins, we can pan back and take a look at our immediate galactic surroundings. We can still see the path the Exodus took. Epsilon Indi with it's arctic world, Barnard's Star with the Earth-like that was nuked from orbit, and the little circuit we did before ending up in Eden. But we still know almost nothing about what our surroundings actually contain, and so it's decided to use Terra's new manufacturing base to supply the alloys for three new science ships, for use in surveying and scientific exploration. And as work begins, two new political movements take shape amongst the diverse set of workers across our industries.  The Eden Shipbuilders Collective, a worker's organization aboard the Eden starbase centred around the shipbuilding industry there, rallies around the legacy of Comrade Representative Samira, advocating for the continuation of decentralized government, and the free movement of people and abolishment of borders.  And back on Terra itself, our new manufacturing sector quickly organizes around workplace safety, fair wages, fair hours, and public services. With the abuse of capitalistic 'employment' close in people's minds, the Terran Metalworkers Union quickly gains in popularity and membership, doubly so after it is officially endorsed by the Terran Governor herself. We can expect the TMU to be a strong political force as time goes on.   Soon, shipbuilding is complete, and our new science ships head off into the unknown to learn everything we can about our neighbouring systems.      It doesn't take long for the reports of discoveries to come pouring in. Another molten world with an exposed core, an underground terrarium on an otherwise barren world, a crystal with previously unseen makeup and composition with exciting possiblities for both computing and energy generation, and yet more signs of intelligent life sometime in the distant past.   Including an odd network of tunnels below the surface of a curiously flat (and radioactive) planet in Pollux. Haruna Higuchi, Comrade Director aboard the RTF Paul Avrich, is sent to investigate. excerpt, Director's Reports, Pollux, 2211 Yet more signs of intelligent life, and again, it's from the distant past. First that nuked planet, then the It's sparked a debate among my colleagues, which has reached all the way to El-Ghazali's ears. About what to do if we ever do find intelligent alien life that's actually still alive and not a corpse.   I'm all for open contact with the first alien we see myself (think of the opportunities for sharing knowledge! what we could learn of their culture, their language, their history!) but I do understand the others' reluctance. Finding nothing but ruins, corpses, trash and nukes does give a bad impression of how things seem to have gone in this area of the galactic neighbourhood. I just hope there's more to find in this spicy rock than more dust and death. Journal of Samira El-Ghazali, Comrade Representative, 2212 As I've gotten more familiar with how things run here on Terra, how things are playing out with the surrounding systems, I think two things are clear. The first is that we cannot rely on one planet to be our forever home. I love Terra, but I am all too aware that all it takes is one disaster, one unforeseen consequence, or one alien with too many nukes to completely wipe out humanity. And I can't let that happen. The other is that socialism works. In only 9 years, we've changed what was a collection of scared and desperate people into a happy and productive community with a booming economy and a standard of living we've never seen before.    The failed experiment of capitalism is truly over. And the truth of socialism is here. Forever. excerpt, Director's Reports, Pollux, 2212 It's amazing! Incredible! More than anything I could have ever asked for! It's some kind of.. museum? Vault? Just filled with items, artifacts, art, anything you could ask for, from alien cultures dating back millions of years! There's still so much to catalogue, it'll take decades of work from an entire ship's worth of archaeologists just to number them all, but this is the single greatest find we could have hoped for. I'm sadly being sent off to continue survey work, but El-Ghazali assured me that it would all be handled carefully and with respect and I'd be able to return to study them before 2215. There's still so much more to discover out there, and this has really reignited my enthusiasm for exploration, but still! I know my thoughts will be returning to these tunnels every night. Maybe I can get Harry to send me some reports on what he finds here..   excerpt, Director's Reports, Pollux, 2214 Finally finished with the survey of Pollux. So many little rocks to look over! Any one of them could contain a treasure like Va, so as much as it's dull, diligence is the only logical option.   At least I'm luckier than Mina. Imagine spending all that time trying to get into a hollow asteriod just to find out its a grave for ancient alien prisoners..    At least the other news from Tau Ceti and Alpha Centauri is good. Me and the crew have one more mission ourselves, we're to survey the neighbouring system of Mizar. It's a trinary system! Three Class A stars in close orbit with a possibility of Earth-like's, could be exciting. And once we're done there, I can come back to the vault! Just one more year, then I can get back to what I'm really passionate about. Hm... Maybe we should change the term to 'Terra-like' or something..? Not sure if that'd fly with El-Ghazali..  'So, nears as I can tell, we can get those production numbers you need.. in Umptember? But we're gonna need more hands on deck, we got the equipment and the space but not the personnel.' 'Right. Well, I can get a training program going, see if anyone in the less critical labour areas wants to try their hand at smelting. Is there anything el-' The office door suddenly opens, cutting off all conversation. 'Comrade Representative! Comrade Representative!' 'Um, yes? Sarah, I'm just in a meeting with Joe here, can it wait?' 'Ma'am, ma'am it's the intitial reports, from the Paul Avrich in Mizar?' 'Yes? Put them on my desk, I'll take a look later today once I'm free.' 'No, ma'am, you dont understand.'   'The Comrade Director of the Paul Avrich ma'am. She says they found an alien ship.'  'A crewed one.' zanni fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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drat close to that sun, too. Either they're very advanced to be able to withstand the heat, or they like it hot. Also why isn't Alpha Centauri the closest system to Sol? Is that a mistake on the part of Paradox?
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Neurion posted:drat close to that sun, too. Either they're very advanced to be able to withstand the heat, or they like it hot. 2D representation of 3D space, at a guess? Depends on whether travel time to Alpha Centauri is longer than to the "closer" star, although you can handwave that with babble about hyperspace headwinds or something.
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Neurion posted:drat close to that sun, too. Either they're very advanced to be able to withstand the heat, or they like it hot. Apart from some mods, Stellaris randomly generates galaxies. Sol is a bit special and will have some familiar systems nearby, but the actual shape or position within the galaxy are artbitrary.
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I'm using a mod that gives us a whole sector of star names that are near Sol, but it only determines the names, not the distances or layout. Limitations of the engine I'm pretty sure Also, turns out that the 'Ghazalian Revelations' tradition? The one that shares our current leader's last name? complete fuckin coincidence. its still called that regardless of what empire and leader you have. but by GOD is it cool that it looks like i meant it all along
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zanni posted:complete fuckin coincidence. its still called that regardless of what empire and leader you have. but by GOD is it cool that it looks like i meant it all along Haha, I thought you added that. Cool.
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Samira leans back in her chair and wipes her hand over her face. She looks back up. 'We're sure? Positive?' 'Yes ma'am. Comrade Director Haguchi confirmed it herself. Very excitedly.' 'Right. Well. Okay. Tell Higuchi to keep surveying the system as planned. And get me our experts on radio transmissions, codebreaking, and linguistics. As soon as possible.' The aide rushes out with a nod. Joe Clark of the Terran Metalworkers Union, eyebrows permanently raised, takes his leave with a handshake. Hopefully he's smart enough to know not to tell everyone immediately. Real, living, breathing, sentient aliens, assuming Higuchi is right. Just a few months flight from where she's sitting right now. She leans forward over her desk and lets out a sigh. 'God, I hope they're nice.'  As the discovery in Mizar filters through the bureaucracy, work on surveying and expansion continues. Our starbase in the Pollux system is finished, and the construction teams begin building the automated mining and research stations that will send resources and data back to Terra.  A discovery is also made in the Vega system by the RTF Rishma Sharqi. These Exotic Gases will be extremely useful in many industrial and defensive applications once we are fully able to make use of them.  Alpha Centauri especially looks to be an excellent star system, with deposits of the new Exotic Gases and of the previously discovered Rare Crystals, alongside excellent mineral and energy opportunities. It will be a while before we figure out the exact process on exploiting the rare materials found here, but they'll be a boon once we do.     The Mizar survey progresses, giving us a look at the Earth-like orbiting it's three stars. A world of dry grasses, it's covered in a planet wide biome. While interesting for study, the lack of biodiversity seems to be a detriment to the biosphere's health as a whole, leaving most plants and animals struggling. The mining opportunities however cannot be overstated. If we can ever figure out how to make life on this planet easier, this could be an boon to our mineral production. However, an even more exciting find is discovered in Vega.  This area of the galaxy appears to have been controlled by an interstellar power called the Irassian Concordant, roughly one million years ago, until they were afflicted by something called the 'Javorian Pox'. The Terran scientific community is excitedly chattering about the possibility of further Irassian artifacts or ruins somewhere in our galactic neighbourhood, but thus far we haven't found anything else that points to them.       But by no means does that mean that the wonders and curiousities we find have come to an end. It seems there's some new marvel to be found in every system we explore.  Back home however, day to day work continues. With the help of the TMU and a large amount of newly trained metalworkers, a new manufacturing district goes up, pumping out everything we need to keep our industrial and civilian processes running smoothly.  Including the process of translating an alien language and alien methods of interstellar communication. An entirely new field of science is being created day by day, and as the rumours of what these new aliens might be like spread among the citizens of the RTC, we slowly work on discovering that ourselves.  With the Mizar survey complete, Comrade Director Higuchi jumps to the van Mannen's Star system to discover the aliens have apparently already claimed the system for themselves. She returns to Mizar, hoping to avoid offense by encroaching on the aliens' territory, and is there in time to see another alien ship slinking out of the system. It seems we claimed Mizar when the aliens were on the way to do just that.  Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have endeared ourselves to them. We avoid the hacking option to try and not make a bad situation worse as 2216 comes to a close. We can only hope things will go better in the future.
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Be very very quiet.. We're hunting aliens..
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God I love Paradox LPs.
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I'm always in favor of more Stellaris LPs.
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