Attack on Space (MT, OOC, Signups)

[Congreveopia]

Attack on Space:
An experimental MT space combat roleplay
Link to the IC

This roleplay centers around an attempt by a terrorist force to cripple global space programs. The hostile force will be in control of an experimental Congreveopian laboratory near the south pole working on advanced space weaponry (note that the hostile force will have control over some of the best tech in the roleplay, verging on PMT).

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Participants:
OP: Congreveopia
COOP: Llamaopia
COOP: Exantos

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To join, fill out the app below.

Nation Name:
Demonym:
Manned space stations:
Large unmanned facilities:
Important satellites, and satellite networks:
Manned spacecraft:
Other space tech we should be aware of:
Other:
RP experience:

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Rules:

1: No godmodding, be respectful, listen to the OPs, all the basic rules.
2: Yes, you may join the hostiles. No I don't know why you'd want to.
3: If someone challenges you to explain how something of yours works, you need to be able to explain it, or you won't get to use it.
4: Be reasonable in challenging things. Only challange if you genuinely think something wouldn't work.
5: Factbook links are appreciated.

[Congreveopia]

My app, for reference purposes.

Nation Name: Congrevopia
Demonym: Congreveopian
Manned space stations: Destiny
Large unmanned facilities: None
Important satellites and satellite networks: Hailstorm, Eagle (global low rez intel satellites), Sentinel (high-rez easily repositionable intel satellites), Spyglass (Ultra high-rez intel satellites)
Manned spacecraft: Orbital Skiff
Other space tech we should be aware of: Nothing massively important I can think of right now.
Other: Nexus
RP experience: Bwahahaha! I don't need to justify myself! I'm the OP!

[Llamaopia]

Reserved for Random crap that I want to say.

My application is such.

Llamaopia
Llamaopian
Babylon Llama and 1 civilian station.
Spacenet (orbital weapons), Llama Eyes(satellites connected with *Correction* LlamaPrime)
LlamaEyes and Babylon Llama
LlamaFuries and Omega Prime
Satellite defense and attack satellites
Llama prime is my AI. Simmilar to Nexus, but slighlty younger
I've participated in multiple previous MT RP's

[Exantos]

Reserved:

Nation Name: Exantos
Demonym: Exantonians
Manned space stations: Brell 1(civilian space station) working on a military one.(factbooks may be released once I finish my rebellion factbook. Basically you'll see the factbooks for this within the latter end of the next two years)
Large unmanned facilities: My orbital weapons systems don't remember what they're called. Think it was dragon fire or something like that.
Important satellites, and satellite networks: Obvious spy satellites which are part of Dragon Eyes(gosh I really like dragons)
Manned spacecraft: Dragon Wing Mk.V it was successful and we're doing some important stuff
Other space tech we should be aware of: working on a moon base so some thoughts on creating contained atmospheres on different planets. Don't question it because I need to figure it out first.
Other: V-Tols and special forces will make you wet your pants for fear.
RP experience: I'm an OP don't question my RP experience! honestly I've done a ton of Roleplays with Congreveopia so he doesn't need to question my experience. 1 word Qubec!

[Congreveopia]

IC is up: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=309670

[Congreveopia]

Reserved for Random crap that I want to say.

My application is such.

Llamaopia
Llamaopian
Babylon Llama and 1 civilian station.
Spacenet (orbital weapons), Llama Eyes(satellites connected with Babylon Llama)
LlamaEyes and Babylon Llama
LlamaFuries and Omega Prime
Satellite defense and attack satellites
Llama prime is my AI. Simmilar to Nexus, but slighlty younger
I've participated in multiple previous MT RP's

Accepted, but then again you're a co-op, so you'd have to have filled every part of the app with expletives to not be accepted.

[Llamaopia]

Reserved for Random crap that I want to say.

My application is such.

Llamaopia
Llamaopian
Babylon Llama and 1 civilian station.
Spacenet (orbital weapons), Llama Eyes(satellites connected with Babylon Llama)
LlamaEyes and Babylon Llama
LlamaFuries and Omega Prime
Satellite defense and attack satellites
Llama prime is my AI. Simmilar to Nexus, but slighlty younger
I've participated in multiple previous MT RP's

Accepted, but then again you're a co-op, so you'd have to have filled every part of the app with expletives to not be accepted.

Is that a challenge?

[Exantos]

Reserved for Random crap that I want to say.

My application is such.

Llamaopia
Llamaopian
Babylon Llama and 1 civilian station.
Spacenet (orbital weapons), Llama Eyes(satellites connected with Babylon Llama)
LlamaEyes and Babylon Llama
LlamaFuries and Omega Prime
Satellite defense and attack satellites
Llama prime is my AI. Simmilar to Nexus, but slighlty younger
I've participated in multiple previous MT RP's

Accepted, but then again you're a co-op, so you'd have to have filled every part of the app with expletives to not be accepted.

That gives me an idea

[Congreveopia]

The drones flew towards the base.

LlamaPrime recorded a missile launch. Two drones shot off to deal with it.

They would eventually be shot down, but by that time, they would have images.

Different means of defense shot towards the drones. Their numbers were thinning. The drones finally got in imaging range of the station. The images flowed through LlamaPrime to President Clark and Nexus. Moments later, the drones were shredded by defense systems.

What base? What drones? What missile? What are you talking about?

[Llamaopia]

The drones flew towards the base.

LlamaPrime recorded a missile launch. Two drones shot off to deal with it.

They would eventually be shot down, but by that time, they would have images.

Different means of defense shot towards the drones. Their numbers were thinning. The drones finally got in imaging range of the station. The images flowed through LlamaPrime to President Clark and Nexus. Moments later, the drones were shredded by defense systems.

What base? What drones? What missile? What are you talking about?

You didn't respond to my post about the drones, so I assumed.

I figured that there was a limit to what the base could do at a longer range. Also, I assumed that once the drones got in range of Gatling guns, they would be shredded. They were trying to image the arctic base. I was wanting you to decide what they saw, if anything.

[Congreveopia]

What base? What drones? What missile? What are you talking about?

You didn't respond to my post about the drones, so I assumed.

I figured that there was a limit to what the base could do at a longer range. Also, I assumed that once the drones got in range of Gatling guns, they would be shredded. They were trying to image the arctic base. I was wanting you to decide what they saw, if anything.

I think it's non-trivial to send a squadron of drones to the arctic, and doing so is typically something you mention to your allies.

[Llamaopia]

You didn't respond to my post about the drones, so I assumed.

I figured that there was a limit to what the base could do at a longer range. Also, I assumed that once the drones got in range of Gatling guns, they would be shredded. They were trying to image the arctic base. I was wanting you to decide what they saw, if anything.

I think it's non-trivial to send a squadron of drones to the arctic, and doing so is typically something you mention to your allies.

I posted about it.

I wasn't hiding anything.

LlamaPrime even forwarded the images to Nexus.

It's not like I was hiding the information

[Congreveopia]

I think it's non-trivial to send a squadron of drones to the arctic, and doing so is typically something you mention to your allies.

I posted about it.

I wasn't hiding anything.

LlamaPrime even forwarded the images to Nexus.

It's not like I was hiding the information

Yes, but it's not like America just invades nations without checking with its allies... bad example. Anyways, It still takes time. I doubt you had a squadron of UAVs just sitting out in antarctica.

[The GAmeTopians]

Nation Name: The Empire of the GAmeTopians
Demonym: GAmeTopian
Manned Space Stations: Notch Royal Space Station
Large Unmanned Facilities: None
Important Satellites, and Satellite Networks: airOCS communications satellites
Manned Spacecraft: Maintenance Craft, and GAmerHawk fighters on NRSS (see NRSS post)
Other important space tech we should be aware of: Nope
Other: I don't got no fancy AI, but my scientists are working on it.
RP experience: Project Warfighter

[Llamaopia]

Nation Name: The Empire of the GAmeTopians
Demonym: GAmeTopian
Manned Space Stations: Notch Royal Space Station
Large Unmanned Facilities: None
Important Satellites, and Satellite Networks: airOCS communications satellites
Manned Spacecraft: Maintenance Craft, and GAmerHawk fighters on NRSS (see NRSS post)
Other important space tech we should be aware of: Nope
Other: I don't got no fancy AI, but my scientists are working on it.
RP experience: Project Warfighter

We've reviewed your app. Most things look good. We had a few questions. I don't think it's economically feasible that you would man your satellites or conduct flights up to them that regularly. Other than that everything seems fine as long as you keep the capabilities of all of your ships realistic.

Except for the satellite thing, you're accepted.

[The GAmeTopians]

Nation Name: The Empire of the GAmeTopians
Demonym: GAmeTopian
Manned Space Stations: Notch Royal Space Station
Large Unmanned Facilities: None
Important Satellites, and Satellite Networks: airOCS communications satellites
Manned Spacecraft: Maintenance Craft, and GAmerHawk fighters on NRSS (see NRSS post)
Other important space tech we should be aware of: Nope
Other: I don't got no fancy AI, but my scientists are working on it.
RP experience: Project Warfighter

We've reviewed your app. Most things look good. We had a few questions. I don't think it's economically feasible that you would man your satellites or conduct flights up to them that regularly. Other than that everything seems fine as long as you keep the capabilities of all of your ships realistic.

Except for the satellite thing, you're accepted.

OK, I'll change the post to yearly or something. But just fyi, the idea was that the maintenance flights would be from the space station.

[Congreveopia]

We've reviewed your app. Most things look good. We had a few questions. I don't think it's economically feasible that you would man your satellites or conduct flights up to them that regularly. Other than that everything seems fine as long as you keep the capabilities of all of your ships realistic.

Except for the satellite thing, you're accepted.

OK, I'll change the post to yearly or something. But just fyi, the idea was that the maintenance flights would be from the space station.

That addresses part of the problem. The other part would be the feasibility of manning them at all. You'd spend quite a bit making them habitable, especially considering that they would need to operate for a year between resupplies. I definitely think that the majority of the satellite would be designed for keeping two people alive in space for a year, and the coms part (which is the main purpose of the satellite) would be a tiny cost compared to the habitation part. I just don't see what two people would add that would be worth the cost.

That said, I think your nation can do this if it wants to. It's not technologically or economically impossible (although it won't be a minor expense either). So feel free to say "There may not be a logical reason for it, but we are doing it anyways."

[The GAmeTopians]

OK, I'll change the post to yearly or something. But just fyi, the idea was that the maintenance flights would be from the space station.

That addresses part of the problem. The other part would be the feasibility of manning them at all. You'd spend quite a bit making them habitable, especially considering that they would need to operate for a year between resupplies. I definitely think that the majority of the satellite would be designed for keeping two people alive in space for a year, and the coms part (which is the main purpose of the satellite) would be a tiny cost compared to the habitation part. I just don't see what two people would add that would be worth the cost.

That said, I think your nation can do this if it wants to. It's not technologically or economically impossible (although it won't be a minor expense either). So feel free to say "There may not be a logical reason for it, but we are doing it anyways."

I may have worded it confusingly on the factbook. The idea was not to have 2 men living there at all times. That was there to say that I could have 2 men manning the guns to defend the station. Like in emergency or something.

[Congreveopia]

That addresses part of the problem. The other part would be the feasibility of manning them at all. You'd spend quite a bit making them habitable, especially considering that they would need to operate for a year between resupplies. I definitely think that the majority of the satellite would be designed for keeping two people alive in space for a year, and the coms part (which is the main purpose of the satellite) would be a tiny cost compared to the habitation part. I just don't see what two people would add that would be worth the cost.

That said, I think your nation can do this if it wants to. It's not technologically or economically impossible (although it won't be a minor expense either). So feel free to say "There may not be a logical reason for it, but we are doing it anyways."

I may have worded it confusingly on the factbook. The idea was not to have 2 men living there at all times. That was there to say that I could have 2 men manning the guns to defend the station. Like in emergency or something.

I still don't see why that's necessary. I can think of three possible roles for humans off the top of my head:

1) Repair.
2) Control in case of loss of contact.
3) Manual operation of systems.

But none of those make sense. Repairs can be done just as easily without living space on board. The people just live on the spacecraft that brought them to the satellite. There's no point it controlling a coms satellite after it loses contact, it would be like manning a missile silo after you've taken out all the missiles. And it would be far cheaper to make the systems remote controlled than to send up a human to operate them.

Basicly, I guess what I'm saying is I can't see a benefit of having it be able to house humans that outweighs the expense. To reiterate my previous statement, though: its fine for you to just not worry about it, and take the expense without a benefit to justify it. It's not technologically or economically impossible, so I don't mind as an OP. I'm just curious as a player what the benefit is.

[The GAmeTopians]

I may have worded it confusingly on the factbook. The idea was not to have 2 men living there at all times. That was there to say that I could have 2 men manning the guns to defend the station. Like in emergency or something.

I still don't see why that's necessary. I can think of three possible roles for humans off the top of my head:

1) Repair.
2) Control in case of loss of contact.
3) Manual operation of systems.

But none of those make sense. Repairs can be done just as easily without living space on board. The people just live on the spacecraft that brought them to the satellite. There's no point it controlling a coms satellite after it loses contact, it would be like manning a missile silo after you've taken out all the missiles. And it would be far cheaper to make the systems remote controlled than to send up a human to operate them.

Basicly, I guess what I'm saying is I can't see a benefit of having it be able to house humans that outweighs the expense. To reiterate my previous statement, though: its fine for you to just not worry about it, and take the expense without a benefit to justify it. It's not technologically or economically impossible, so I don't mind as an OP. I'm just curious as a player what the benefit is.

There's no living space on the satellites, just a spot where they can stand to repair the satellite.

[Congreveopia]

Okay Llamaopia, here's a map of the base:

(The orange squares are the launch pads. I forgot to include that)

The primary runway is heated and paved, so it is always clear. The ice runways are cleared by robotic vehicles, which are now useless without Nexus. The majority of the base is above ground, but all the silos are connected underground, and there are bunkers under the main base buildings that house the generators, food supplies, computers, etc. so that the base can temporarily withdraw underground if necessary. The base has a wide array of defences including a squadron of drones, a few tanks designed for arctic warfare, and two extremely powerful lasers. Talk to me if you want specifics. My government will give you and Exantos details on a need-to-know basis. Everyone else will need to pressure us a bit for information. There is a lot of very secret stuff here, after all.

[Exantos]

I'll be posting soon I'm trying to combine a mixture of my satellite getting hit. My nations response leading to my men being onboard the aircraft and then one of the special ops soldiers falling and getting knocked unconscious or such.

[Tickle (Ancient)]

Nation Name: Empire of the Tickle
Demonym: Ticklese
Manned space stations: None
Large unmanned facilities: None
Important satellites, and satellite networks: Basic imaging and cellular satellites
Manned spacecraft: Saturn VI (I one-upped the US)
Other space tech we should be aware of: None
Other: I wish to get more space tech through international funding from people. I wish to obliterate the rebels because space stations are awesome.
RP experience: This is my first RP, but I have a trusted adviser and ally, Llamaoipia.

[The GAmeTopians]

Nation Name: Empire of the Tickle
Demonym: Ticklese
Manned space stations: None
Large unmanned facilities: None
Important satellites, and satellite networks: Basic imaging and cellular satellites
Manned spacecraft: Saturn VI (I one-upped the US)
Other space tech we should be aware of: None
Other: I wish to get more space tech through international funding from people. I wish to obliterate the rebels because space stations are awesome.
RP experience: This is my first RP, but I have a trusted adviser and ally, Llamaoipia.

I vote to accept them, since I had a horrible first RP and don't want that to happen for them.

[Congreveopia]

Nation Name: Empire of the Tickle
Demonym: Ticklese
Manned space stations: None
Large unmanned facilities: None
Important satellites, and satellite networks: Basic imaging and cellular satellites
Manned spacecraft: Saturn VI (I one-upped the US)
Other space tech we should be aware of: None
Other: I wish to get more space tech through international funding from people. I wish to obliterate the rebels because space stations are awesome.
RP experience: This is my first RP, but I have a trusted adviser and ally, Llamaoipia.

I vote to accept them, since I had a horrible first RP and don't want that to happen for them.

Okey dokey, they're in.