Planetary Defense [FT] [Tech Development]

[Capsule Corporation]

Raysian News Network
Public Disclosures and Notices: [+018:16:21]

17 years ago, the Raysian Council gathered together to discuss the matter of interstellar policy, and came to the near-unanimous conclusion that they should be neutral and isolationist. The galaxy is, without a doubt, a very dangerous place, where one must watch their every step and dodge many bullets. The Raysian Militia, Raysian Government, and the majority of Capsule Corporation worlds, have backed this motion, and still do today. Too many conflicts of interest would arise, economically, if the Capsule Corporation did any more than keep to themselves and maintain the strict non-interference policy that they currently abide.

The Raysian government, state, and corporate leaders have always supported this non-interference policy.

However, recent events and discoveries, as well as political initiatives undertaken at a galactic scale, have caused the government to convene in a large conference this week to discuss national security.

A motion, passed earlier this week by the majority of votes in the Government, State, Capsule Corporation, and other major leaders across the Nation-World of Raysia, has called for a new investment in planetary defense.

Government President Sean Raysia, earlier today, opened a press conference today by saying that "the motion to increase Raysia's security calls for an expanded militia force. We are still opposed to the idea of a government-sponsored military, but we feel certain steps are necessary for planetary defense. The plan calls for a line of new system-defense battleships, and a network of orbital and high-altitude defensive weapons platforms." He continued to say that Raysia will maintain its stance of non-interference, but there are those "who would seek to interfere with us if we are deemed defenseless." The ships are to be rushed into service within 8 months, ships primarily designed and manufactured by the Advanced Defensive Aerospace Modifications group, known as AdamWorks.

In a very related event, AdamWorks recently broke off ties with the Capsule Corporation and Keflek VII, citing irreconcilable differences. They are currently in the process of relocating their plants and offices from Keflek VII back to Raysia. AdamWorks is pulling their support from the Keflekki Armed forces, and will be, over the next 6 months, reclaiming their ships from the Keflekki Military, and compensating with fine Capsule Corporation equipment.

Details will be released shortly about the Raysian Militia's new defense plans, but don't expect more than vague sketches until all designing, prototyping, and production has been completed. When the defense network and new ships are ready to be put online, they will be released to the Raysian public.

Stay tuned to the Raysian News Network for more Public disclosures on this subject.

[Capsule Corporation]

RNN Underground Updates:
Leaked rumors and sketches from AdamWorks engineering:

System-Defense Battleship The above sketches depict some rough concepts of 2 or 3 new defender ships... a frigate, and a larger heavily armored ship. The defender frigates would either house a number of rail cannons like the current Kryptonite FoldShip, or alternatively the ship could be one or two large cannons that would launch a spread of hot metal shards and shrapnel at high speeds towards at target at short or long range. The defender frigate would not contain a long-range fold drive, but most likely will house a zero-acceleration drive, and possibly a drive capable of short-range tactical jumps. Its capabilities would not rival the Kryptonite-Class, but it would certainly make planetary defense and security a lot easier. The larger ship, titled as the Valiance, has been in the works for some time now, according to our source. The massive battlecruiser FoldShip is going to be heavily armored, and heavily armed. The ship will have many kinetic and ionic weapons, as well as a rather large main cannon. The forward hulls of this space-only vessel can reconfigure into zero-accel cannons, a single or double-barreled weapon capable of propelling large masses at high velocities. At maximum output, the weapon is rumored to be capable of kinetic energies of up to 4 ExaJoules, which would impact with a force equivalent to a billion tons of TNT (1 Gigaton). More info will be dispersed when an official release is made, but until then, the only other information that we can gather is that this latter ship resembles an Ancient Guardian (Capsule Corporation) design.

Planetary-Defense Weapons Platform The above sketch was leaked by an anonymous source, claiming that the weapons platform would operate around this main cannon concept, a rail cannon proposed to fire a 1-ton slug at 75,000 km per second, at 5.6 ExaJoules, or an impact force equivalent to a 1.3 gigaton explosion. A weapon of this magnitude would greatly benefit Raysia's defense, allowing the nation-world to be protected from even larger capital ships. Such a weapon would have a reach of nearly 2 light seconds, with accurate aiming to within at least 100,000 km. The platform will, in most cases, be propelled and controlled by the engine pads, capable of both atmospheric and orbital propulsion and recoil absorption. The close-defense turrets are multi-barreled rail cannons, probably of the standard AdamWorks Mk I EM cannon power... which average about 1 TerraJoule, equivalent to a 1/4 kiloton explosion at each impact. This heavy repeater sucks down a lot of energy, but puts a lot of ammunition into the sky. A network of these stations (proposed to be NOT over major cities, but rather over oceans and low-density country), as well a number mounted in orbit of Raysia's moons, would be a great defensive asset capable of covering, with redundancies, every degree of sky over the planet.

[Capsule Corporation]

RNN Underground Update:

The above sketch, leaked by defense researchers, shows the battle capabilities of the defense platform network. The sketch is rather crude, but it depicts (not to scale) the abilities of the platforms to fire short-range "storms" of kinetic energy from the smaller cannons in order to attack objects near Raysia's atmosphere, as well as a long-range kinetic cannon capable of extreme impact force as described in the earlier reports, and a previously unmentioned Ion Cannon function. The Ion cannon function would turn the main cannon into an accelerator for a glob of plasma or a wide spread of blast of positively-charged particles in order to either hit a specific target or blanket an arc of orbital space. These particles, as with most Ion cannons, leech away at the electrical charge of whatever they come in contact with. This system has proved useful against shields, FTLi, and electrical circuitry within a target.

[Capsule Corporation]

RNN Underground News Update:

The picture above is a computer generated rendering of one of the concepts for the large armored vessel. Below is an alternate hull design. Their functions are the same, and both are based off the designs of the ancient Capsule Corporation guardians. The final product could be any combination of the models, mingled with updated AdamWorks engineering.

[Feazanthia]

The Daiamid wishes to express its concern over AdamWorks' decision, and questions whether leaving the multinational Keflekki defense garrison without its Keflekki contingent is a wise move on the part of AdamWorks.

[Capsule Corporation]

Raysian News Network
Updates on current events [+018:17:04]



AdamWorks executives recently announced their secession from their larger parent Capsule Corporation. In doing this they have issued a recall of all Keflekki Defense Force and Expeditionary Force vessels. The AdamWorks vessels had been financed to the military over a long-term lease, but were still technically property of AdamWorks. This move has not stirred anger in the military of Keflek, as they had been complaining for some time that the ships were too expensive to operate, and couldn't perform the tasks which they wanted. By shear design, most of the AdamWorks vessels were not designed for massive militaries. Each was designed to work independently or in small teams. AdamWorks, RMF, and the Capsule Corporation, will be compensating Keflek with military-grade Capsule Corp vessels, which are designed for mass combat.

The Raysian Militia Force is planning on absorbing these surplus ships into their fleet, as part of their increased defense readiness planning.

Contrary to initial reports, the Keflekki Marine Force, which do often work in small, independent patrols, will be retaining their AdamWorks vessels. The newly independent company will keep some outposts on Keflek to maintain the remaining ships.


Stay with RNN for updates on this issue. We will post military capability projections for mid-next-year in our next update.

[Capsule Corporation]

RNN Underground Update:

The following has been leaked from defense coordinator meetings as the proposed Keflekki Battlegroup standards:

Role	Qty	Model	Symbol
Team Lead	1	Krypton
Ship-Killer	2	Morii
Endurance	2	Stravinsky
Fast-Attack	3	Aspirant
Close-Quarters Defense	3	Kershaw
Close-Quarters Offense	3	Dagron
Long-Range Defense	1	Guardian
Long-Range Cloak	1	Evan

[-Raysia-]

RNN Update:

Raysia's new System-defense vessels have already entered the prototype phase, namely the "Kinetic Combat" model, and a "bouncer" model. Technical details are still under revision, but these two new classes of vessels are capable of short-range fold and ZXL propulsion. When put into production, these models will give the Raysian Militia sufficient power to defend their system from any moderate foe.

The "kinetic combat" model is, as it might imply, a vessel laden with rapid-firing kinetic weaponry. Its armament is similar to a scaled-down Kryptonite-class FoldShip.

The "bouncer" model is a ship that can work solo or in teams, cumulatively adding power. They wield immensely oversized Transactory Fold Drives, capable of towing, or launching, any single unwanted vessel out of range... by up to a few light years if necessary. In combat, these vessels can channel their energy into being powerful Kinetic cannons, using the ZXL function to launch heavy objects (like... asteroids, small starships, spacejunk, anything) at high speeds (millions of meters per second). The ship itself would play a distant artillery role in combat, but it would be a vital and powerful role.

A fighter or gunship is also in the works, though information is pretty limited right now. It is assumed to be capable of using ZXL propulsion to obtain high speeds in space, as well as in atmosphere. More information will come as we obtain it.

[-Raysia-]

RNN Update:

The First Starfighter[float=right]
^{The leaked sketches of AdamWorks' new ZXL Fighter}[/float]
The rumors have been confirmed with this leaked, albeit redacted, design that won out in AdamWorks' new starfighter program. Details are still vague, but our best speculators are telling us that the aircraft design on the right harnesses a new variance on the Zero-Acceleration (ZXL) drive used by the heavy capital ships, such as the Militia's mainstay, the Kryptonite.

The ZXL, can be operated in a "stuttering" effect, rapid-firing hundreds of times per second, in order to obtain speeds not obtainable by newtonian methods. Aerodynamics are still a necessary factor, as the ZXL would only be able to be used for traveling, and not in-combat. The power requirements and nature of the ZXL prevent the vessel from being combat-worthy while in-transit. A complex set of high-powered VILE/Ion-Hybrid motors will be needed to propel the craft in combat, in atmosphere or in space. The vehicle is aerodynamic enough, equipped with several features of variable geometry, in order to withstand speeds of orbital re-entry, and sustaining airspeeds upwards of mach 7.

Naturally, this vessel would have limitless speeds in space, obtaining high fractions of the speed of light if carrying enough fuel.. though combat speeds will most likely be kept down to normal levels.

Armaments will be variable, but most likely they will be equipped with the latest in missile technology (possibly ZXL kinetic-kill missiles) as well as ion cannons and the standard kinetic gatling guns.

The AdamWorks RF/A-X21 is planned to be released to limited production in just 2 more months, thrown in with the rest of the major defense upgrade projects.


The other big AW project, the RMF's new flagship Valiance, is still being kept top-secret, but we may be seeing its maiden flight within the next month or two.


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