User:Peel

Civilisations & Leaders

Traits: Aggressive, Charismatic, Expansive, Financial, Imperialistic, Industrious, Organised, Philosophical, Protective, Spiritual

EU

Unique Unit: Drake (replaces Battleship)
Unique Building:
New Silesia: Imperialistic, ?
New Somerset: ?, ?
Outremonde: Organised, ?

PACT

Unique Unit: Inch (replaces Centimetre)
Unique Building:
Corregidor: Expansive, Financial
Daedalus: ?, ?
Oceania: Financial, Australian
Sao Galvao: Financial, Industrious

China & Friends

Unique Unit: Titan (replaces Superbattleship)
Unique Building: Immigration Bureau (replaces Courthouse)
Some Dudes: Awesome, Owns
Cooler Than: Magnificent, Resplendent
You Losers: Totally, Sweet

Russia & Friends

ZOCU

Unique Unit: Sarissa (replaces Combat Frame)
Unique Building: Theta Factory (replaces Dust Factory)
Hampshire: Financial, ?
Haraway: Aggressive, Charismatic, Expansive, Financial, (Anti-)Imperialistic, Industrious, Organised, Philosophical, Protective, Spiritual
Ithaca: ?, ?
Kanon: Aggressive, Philosophical
New Mercia: Protective, Industrious

League

Unique Unit: Two Battleships (replaces Battleship)
Unique Building: Armoury (replaces Factory)
Minkowski: Organised, Spiritual
Sarreva: Aggressive, Protective
Vimelan: Charismatic, ?

Magnates

Unique Unit: Series VII Bioroid (replaces Supersoldiers)
Unique Building: Mind-Control Tower (replaces Broadcast Tower)
Delten: Industrious, Philosophical
Dogma: Expansive, Organised
Hyperborea: Charismatic, Organised
Rebirth: Aggressive, Spiritual

Solar System Generator

Note: If you roll up a garden or terraformable world, roll again unless you have a particularly good reason why it wasn't colonised.

A conventional solar system has 2d6 bodies (including your planet)
Planets: rocky planets may be asteroid belts

1-3: rocky

4-6: gaseous

Mass: gaseous planets add 4 to the die roll

1: Sublunar (Asteroid belt, 0.0005)

2: 0.01 Earths (the Moon, 0.0123)

3: 0.1 (Mars, 0.107)

4: 1 (Venus, 0.815)

5: 5 (5 Earths)

6: 10 (Uranus, 15)

7: 50

8: 100 (Saturn (Saturn, 94)

9: 500 Earths (Jupiter, 318)

10: Superjovian (HAT-P-2b, >2500)

Composition (gaseous):

1-3: Hydrogen/Helium (Jupiter, Saturn)

4-5: Methane/Ammonia (Uranus, Neptune)

6: Hydrogen/Water

Atmosphere (rocky):

1-3: Carbon Dioxide (Mars, Venus)

4: Nitrogen/Oxygen (Earth)

5: Methane/Ammonia (Titan)

6: Hydrogen/Helium (Mercury)

Atmospheric density (rocky):

1: None/trace

2: Very low

3: Low (Mars)

4: Moderate (Earth)

5: High (Venus)

6: Extreme (Titan)

Temperature: planets with thinner atmospheres have greater temperature variation

2-4: Deep Frozen (Pluto, <100K)

5-6: Frozen (equator dozens of degrees below freezing point)

7: Icebox (Mars)

8: Temperate (Earth)

9: Hothouse (Terranova)

10: Severe (water boils on the equator)

11-12: Extreme (Venus)

Wackiness?

1-5: No

6: Yes

Wackiness!

1: Tidally locked

2: Tidally locked

3: Fossils

4: Xenolife

5: Commercially inviable precursor dust

6: Posthuman structure (or possibly Velan ruin)

Principality of Estalian

Population: 0 (0)
Transhumanism: 4 (6)
Infrastructure: 0 (0)
Growth Potential: 1 (0)
Military Support: 0 (0)
Space Fleet: 0 (0)
Diplomacy: 4 (6)
Espionage: 4 (6)
Advancement: 2 (8)
Unique: 2 (3)
Emergent: 0 (0)
Magic: 4 (6)

This is the life. We're right at the core trading route of the Empire, its mighty navies protect our traders from pirates, we just brokered a peace treaty between the Empire and the Barbarians to further expand our markets, most of the Emperor's eunuchs are on the take from us and have you seen my new dress? With the forcefields? It's delightful, don't you think? Ah, what a golden age we live in.

Hey...

Hey, where'd everybody go?

Sphere Technology

Tech

Static Harpoon

Advanced FTL drives depend largely on scrubbing causal static from the jumper as quickly as possible. Reversal of these techniques allow an object (such as a railgun or rifle shell) to be 'charged' with static and launched into an enemy, rendering them unable to jump until their drive can clear the interference.

Efficient Catapult Construction

This is not an application per se, however the cost to construct catapults is affected by your Catapults TI similarly to application cost.

Special Rifle Shells

The relatively large caliber of electrochemical rounds allows for some special ammunition to be deployed.

Burst Rounds

A large explosive charge makes shells less effective against heavy armour but more able to target agile craft.

Penetration -3, Strength -3, Burst Bonus +6

Penetrators

Rounds designed to give a secondary boost to a smaller penetrator are more effective against armoured targets. The increased speed of the final projectile compensates partially for range issues, with sufficient stabilisation.

Shieldbusters

Arrays of composites with exotic internal magnetic structures can be installed into a shell such that they create a 'field explosion' upon impact, temporarily destabilising nearby energy shields.

Laserheads

Sufficiently advanced powers can fit a high powered laser inside a naval rifle shell. Present power supplies and heat resistance mean it can only fire for an instant before burning out, but this is enough to extend the effective range of the weapon and provide an energetic touch to strikes on kinetic-resistant enemies.

Duodecaplylatomate

'Duodec' is the pinnacle of chemical energy density in natural metrics. With sufficient barrel and housing reinforcement it can be used to fling shells dramatically faster than other chemical weapon solutions.

Field Thrust Vectoring

Projection of forcefields past the body of the ship allows for greater control over the trajectory of the ejected mass from thrusters, and hence more precise control over the movement of the thrustee.

Semi-Sustainable Fusion Thrusters

A great deal of the energy produced by conventional fusion thrusters is wasted. Sophisticated reaction chamber design incorporating far narrower exhaust nozzles enables much of this waste radiation to be captured and fed back into the system, reducing power requirements.

Civilian Tech

Imago System

Virtual reality has existed for a long time, but its widespread integration with physical reality is a thorny technical issue requiring extensive cataloguing of phenomena, adaptive pattern recognition, and the creation of networks simultaneously open and secure. Nevertheless the benefits to productivity are remarkable.

Pseudogravity

More cumbersome than true gravity control, but not dependent on posthuman technology, pseudogravity is a giant on the horizon of up-and-coming technology. Early forms are only applicable to very large scales, but the availability of environmental force in space without cumbersome spin sections is nevertheless a boost to trade, tourism and logistics.

Naval Pseudogravity

Further advances in pseudogravity make it applicable to large ships, improving crew health and reducing the need to supply medical supplements.

Miniaturised Pseudogravity

With sufficient the Waldzell effect can be practically utilised on even the smallest craft.

Socioeconomic Model

By the 22nd century, sociology is wholly embedded with economics and is becoming firmer by the year. Although a unified theory still eludes even the greatest thinkers, diligent work can produce a mathematical model for a given community, granting the government a far better understanding of the consequences of a given policy, and much more control over the community's direction. Of course, externalities can always intrude upon neat mathematical reality.

Xenotech

Nova Cannon

The essence of electrochemical weaponry is that of a shell propelled by sudden thermal expansion. However, as increasingly desperate League scientists have discovered, there are limits to mundane chemistry, and macro-scale weaponry has persistently remained beyond practical feasibility. The development of effective plasma containment changes this. By using a large shell with advanced containment mechanisms, a high-grade plasma blast can be 'caught' and used as both initial boost and sustained thrust to propel the shell at tremendous velocities, until containment fails and the plasma is explosively released.

Required Feral Xenotech index: 75

Subsidiary Indices: Electrochemical Weapons 35

Nephilim Replication

Human industry is fundamentally too coarse to manufacture true nephilim armour, but advanced study can provide enough understanding to create it using posthuman fabricators or Velan nanomachines.

Required Feral Xenotech index: 60

Subsidiary Indices: Materials 20

Xenofabricator Construction

The grail of nano-manufacturing is a fully adaptive system that can construct any object given plans and feedstock, turning fabricators from irreplaceable resource to expandable infrastructure.

Required Feral Xenotech index: 100

Drone Intelligence Adaption

Reprogramming the central processors of Velan drones and installing them in human craft is an affordable and accessible solution to creating autonomous vehicles for powers without sophisticated industry and computing ability.

Required Feral Xenotech index: 125

Subsidiary Indices: AI 16

Metabolic Reactor

Velan drones have a versatile metabolism. Their ability to survive in almost any system for long periods relies on their ability to extract energy from a variety of sources by altering reactor architecture to match the input. The output is low, and the system must be topped up with nanomachines on occasion as the intense energies burn them up, but a craft with a metabolic reactor can run for months or years without resupply as long as the crew have access to rocks, gases, corpses or almost anything at all. These reactors are the cause of the iron 'drone droppings' that pose a navigation hazard in infested systems.

Required Feral Xenotech index: ??

Subsidiary Indices: Power ??

Mechanocyte Farms

Persuading delta dust to replicate is a long-since solved problem, and it is only natural that similar attempts would be made regarding Velan nanomachines. The lack of Core research infrastructure out in the Rim made deciphering enough of the code to mass-produce general purpose 'stem nano' a challenge, but nevertheless some communities have constructed breeding vats for the priceless resource.

Plasma Injection Missiles

By replacing the chemical fuel block with a magnetic bottle injected with plasma before launch, missiles can be given superior acceleration and a nasty added punch.

Required Feral Xenotech index: 45

Subsidiary Indices: Missiles 30

Basic Theotech

Theta Catapults

Catapults made with theta dust are no faster than normal catapults, but they require far less dust and fewer structural components to support said dust.

Required Basic Theotech index: 50

Subsidiary Indices: Catapults 25

Theofabricator Construction

The grail of nano-manufacturing is a fully adaptive system that can construct any object given plans and feedstock, turning fabricators from irreplaceable resource to expandable infrastructure.

Required Basic Theotech index: 100

Advanced Theotech

Wormholes

Powers which can satisfy the fantastic dust requirements can construct standing zero-time gates to other star systems.

Required Advanced Theotech index: 1200

Subsidiary Indices: Catapults 35

Hitech

Fusion Needlers

The key limiting factor for plasma weaponry is containment, which metric-alteration technology is remarkably adept at. Enterprising engineers have exploited this to combine the two into a long-range weapon with fearsome penetrative power against shields and armour.

Required Feral Xenotech index: 50

Required Basic Theotech index: 50

Subsidiary Indices: Particle Weapons 20

Flash Armour

Embedding dust nodules into nephilim armour enables the projection of an energy field a tiny distance above the surface that disintegrates incoming matter. Some is repelled by the explosion, and the remainder is rendered an incoherent plasma of the type nephilim armour is optimised to reject.

Required Feral Xenotech index: 60

Required Basic Theotech index: 75

Subsidiary Indices: Electronics 20, Materials 25

Dust-Doped Mechanocytes

Through long decoding of programming and longer encoding of programs, posthuman dust can be made to cooperate with Velan nanotechnology. The addition of sophisticated energy control and containment systems to repair conduits dramatically increases their work rate, at the cost of increased power requirements.

Required Feral Xenotech index: 80

Required Basic Theotech index: 80

Subsidiary Indices: Electronics 25

Yogic Reactor

Incorporation of dust in a metabolic reactor both dramatically improves output and more effectively shields the components from the energy released, keeping nanomachine loss below replacement. A yogic reactor can run essentially forever as long as it has access to sub-iron nuclei.