Its the 26th century. As Humanity begun to explore and colonize nearby star systems, They soon learned that they were not the first sentient species to travel in space. An Ancient race, named "the Progenitors" by archeologists have left countless ruins on planets across the galaxy, housing advanced technology that the humans took decades to understand. They soon stumbled upon the Hyperdrive. A massive progenitor device capable of opening rifts in space-time through which ships could easily relocate from one end of the galaxy to the other in the matter of mere seconds relative to earth. It defied the theory of Relativity and human understanding of the universe...
The Earthlings quickly learned how to use the hyperdrive, but they had no Idea how it really worked. Hoping to learn more from the progenitors so that perhaps one day the humans could build a hyperdrive of their own, They ventured into more and more remote ruins. During one of these expeditions, They found the Sphere. A Mysterious mechanism on a desolate planet. Some archeologists skilled in progenitor language believed it was a doomsday device of some sort. Regardles, They continued to meeddle with it, until it was successfully turned on-line. Around the sphere, A New sphere emerged. Dark and frightening. It grew larger and larger at an increasing rate. Those who ventured inside the sphere out of curiosity never retourned, nor did they report back via radio. Soon, The Dark Sphere was so large the scientists evacuated the planet, then the star system. The Star itself could no longer by seen. Soon, other stars went out as well...
In the following weeks, Panic spred across terran space. Massive ships were built to evacuate populations in every sector, However, the physicists warned that there is little hope to escape with conventional engines. The sphere's rate of growth increased exponentially. After some very precise calculations, they made a forecast. In a month, the sphere would reach earth. In the next, It would swallow 18 known galaxies. Nobody could tell what's after, but one thing was for certain, Only the hyperdrive offered salvation... for the time being.
The Evacuation ships were all gathered to earth's orbit. On the sky, The sphere only occupied a small portion of space, But in reality, It has almost reached the terran's birthplace, or so did the brightest minds say. The Hyperdrive was prepared. It would warp the ships further and further away every 72 hours. Nobody could tell what would happen to those left behind...
(In short, Big space bubble grows at exponential rate. Nobody knows what happens if you get caught in it or when it will stop growing. Big ships are built to get the hell outta the galaxy using an alien space drive. You'll get to command one of these ships.)
The Part below is not mandatory to read. You can also just focus on roleplay and leave it to the ship AI to manage resources.
There wasn't much time to prepare. Many human ships lack supplies and equipment for the endless journey. They would have to harvest resources in deep space...
The Resources harvested from deep space:
Light Elements: Mostly non-metals. Used to build life support systems and in provision production.
Heavy Elements: mostly metals, Used to build ships.
Rare Elements: Mostly Rare Metals. Needed for fancy weapons and tecnology.
...and then use them to make what they need...
The Goods manufactured on board:
Provisions: Food and medical supplies for your crew. You'll be in serious trouble if this runs out. Each unit of crew consumes 1 provisions every 72 hours.
Fuel: Used to Propell most spaceships forward and generate energy for ship systems. Better not run out of this either.
Weapon Munitions: Needed for reloading most ship weapons.
Small Arms: Used in Close quarters combat by ship crews. Does not consume munitions. (give 1 small arms to 1 unit of crew to arm them for close quarters battle)
Space Tools and Parts: Used to make repairs and upgrades on ships. (You can assign 1 crew for repair duity with 1 space tools. You can only repair minor damage. Destroyed sections have to be rebuilt from scratch)
Soma: Improves Crew Morale. ( give 1 unit of some for a unit of crew and they will be euphoric... or well, at least, not depressed for the next 72 hours. )
Scientific Equipment: Used up during research and construction.
...Each Mothership consists of sections. Each section serves some purpouse...
Ship sections:
There are also different types of spacecraft available... Small spacecraft reside in a mothership's hangar, others remain in space:
Transports and squadrons of fighter and corvette class craft (8 per squadron for fighter, 4 for corvette) are in the hangar.
Everything else will be stationed outside.
The Evacuation ships, or motherships built so far are of distinct classes...
Mothership Classes:
While traveling through space, Time will pass...
Time mechanics:
But Beware, In the cold depths of space, the fagile human mind can easily be corrupted...
Morale:
Work and Fighting isn't the only thing your Crew can be assigned to...
Additional Crew Orders:
Finally, Each Mothership can give orders to its spacecraft...
Transports, Fighters, Corvettes, Frigates, Utility and Capital ships:
Alas... There is one more thing I haven't explained...
The Weapons:
Research tree will be shown once IC is up.
And Yet another thing I forgot. Your ship's crew can be good at something from the start.
Crew types:
Ace pilots - +1 HP for all fighter and corvette class spacecraft. Free repairs for all fighters in hangars.
Production Engineers - +1 Production line in each production facility that uses no workers (but still uses energy). No need to ever spend 24 hours to retool when switching production.
Space Miners - +1 Resource collector capacity in each refinery (so you can assign more workers and energy to get 3 unit of elements in the end). Refineries with refinery retrofit produce 6. Mobile refineries also gather one more unit of Elements on each trip.
Gene Engineers - +2 Provisions or Soma production in Greenhouses (with the same energy and crew invested). Can also develop special technology.
Particle Scientists - +2 Fuel produced when refining rare elements in Enrichment Plants. Can also develop special technology.
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Mothership's Name:
Short history of the people behind it:
Mothership's Crew type:
Mothership's Class:
Mothership's Appearance (optional):
You can suggest new mothership classes and crew types if you don't like the current ones.
