NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: This is for nations who DO NOT have FTL drive. No problems with them, but you've already been where we are boldly going. So, for this RP, we'll just pretend you don't exist.

IC:

The Intrepid Inititive
Partners

Feline
The Island States
Tepid Water
RauMia
Omz222
Slutbum Wallah


Crew So Far

Feline: Captain, + Unknown others
The Island States: Executive Officer (By virtue of donating the most), +10 Others (You may get a chance to increase this if in the final tally you get more, The Island States)
Tepid Water: Unknown
RauMia: Will probaly have one of their people as the Cheif Communications and Linguistics Officer +Unknown others
Omz222: Unknown
Slutbum Wallah: Unknown


Motto

Protinus tenus astris enim scientia!

(OOC: That is latin for "Forward to the stars for knowledge/science", right?)

Purpose of the Intrepid Inititive

The purpose of the Intepid Inititive is to penetrate the sun's heliosphere (the farthest distance solar particles reach), and to travel to another star system. Along the way, the large crew will conduct scientific experiments, exploration, and possible first contact, if extraterrestrials are found.

Ship Design

The ISV Intrepid is sphere-shaped to generate artificial gravity by centrifugal force. It has a small shuttlebay at the bottom to carry two small shuttles and a repair pod. It has four ion jet propulsion nacelles extending out the back. Until it exits the sun's heliosphere, a solar sail will be suspended inbetween the nacelles to improve the fuel efficency of the mission. It will have no weaponry so as not to appear threatening to any extraterrestrial powers that may be encountered, and to emphasize the peaceful nature of the mission to all the crew. Escape pods will also be carried.

Pictures will be posted soon.

The exact specifications for the shuttles, escape pods, and repair pod will be posted soon as well.

Mission Profile

It will carry a large crew, about the size of a small town. The exact crew number will be determined later. The exact design is not finalized, because of the unknown number of crew it will need to accomadate. It will be a miniture city in space: Intrepizens/Intrepinauts are expected to be born, live, and possibly even die on the voyage that will last at least 32 years. Families will live, and possibly be formed, aboard the vessel.

Phase 1

Constructed in a orbiting spacedock, to be constructed.

Phase 2

Launched. Little thrust is given by the nacelles, as the large solar sail provides most of the acceleration. Trust from the nacelles is slowly increased as the ship gets farther from the sun. It should be noted that acceleration will be halted, and the speed maintained, once the ship reaches 25% of lightspeed to minimize relativistic problems. It is currently unknown when this will happen, as the exact ship design is yet to be finalized.

Phase 3

The vessel exits the heliosphere. The solar sail is jettisoned to reduce mass. The vessel sets course for Alpha Centauri, in a voyage expected to take 16 years.

Phase 4

Depending on supplies, the ship either continues on exploring other nearby star systems, or returns to Earth.

What we want from you

Money and resources. Feline cannot afford to produce this vessel on its own. Money will be accepted from any organization, company, or government (pending approval from Feline.)

What we will give you

You will be given a number of crew aboard the vessel proportionate to their level of contribution. The captain of the vessel will be from Feline, the executive officer from another nation. You will also be given a chance to participate in what will be perhaps greatest undertaking ever of the citizens of the planet Earth.

We hope that this will be a truly global endeavor.

Tepid water will contribute $750 million to this great project. We hope to see this operation succed as it will surely be a great leap forward for civilization.

The Imperial Domain of the Island States wishes to donate $10,000,000,000 and wishes to volunteer a crew of ten astronauts to participate in this trip. If we are to move forward in space, let it be with one of our allies.

Emperor Rick Rivera
The Imperial Domain of the Island States

Thank you, no need to send the astronauts now. Everything is still being designed.

Roger. Money transferred.

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Thank you. Do you wish to join the Inititive?

RauMia is willing to contribute communications specialists and linguists to this noble endeavour. (for the purpose of maintaining contact with earth, and decoding any possible non-terrestrial communications.)

(Ooops. I didn't read the top. Sorry.)

We are very interested. Unfortunately we are in a war right now, so we cannot contribute anything at this moment. When it ends, hopefully, we will be sure that we contribute to this exploration.

--Omzian Space Explorations Agency

In the mountains of feline, a large crate of 500 dollar bills strangely materializes, along wit a card saying "Happy Birthday"

Excellent from all of you.

Due the the fact that all known means of signalling technologies travel at lightspeed, there will be a turnaround of at least four years maximum on the trip for communications.

We are aware of the limitations on interstellar communication, but communications will still be important, especially extraterrestrial ones. Also, our linguist teams are trained in anthropology, and we can offer a good selection of small caliber weapons...

Again, no weapons will be carried to emphasize to said theoretical extraterrestrials that we mean no harm.

We sincerely hope that a shelding system will be installed, at the very least to protect against asteroids and such.

Electromagnetic based shields will be installed to swipe away "space junk" and particles, which would be a signifigant danger at .25c.

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We are willing to allocate 500 million USD from our space research and development budget. At this time, we are in the process of selecting the personnel that we would be sending. We would draw our selection from a candidate pool of scientists and air force pilots. You could probably help us choosing by stating your crew requirements. This way, we would avoid sending non-essential personnel.

Thank you, Terra Malus.

As for the personnel, we need a broad cross-section of people from all disciplines. Doctors, biologists, engineers, computer specialists, linguists, etc.

We may even make a colony, in which case an even broader range of disciplines will be needed.

We have made the selection. We would be sending a doctor, 2 biologists, 2 geologists and 3 botanists. The duration of their training will be 5 months, after which they will be sent to Feline for further training

Thank you.

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Slutbum Wallah would be happy to contribute $250 million to the project plus the use of the Government R&D Departments of Slutbum Wallah to assist in the creation of the vehichle. They weren't really doing much anyway since they are all secretly in the pay of energy giant UberAlles, who are paying them to discover no renewable fuels at all.

Minister Fuddlemist
Ministry of Science

Thank you, Slutbum Wallah.

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The ISV Intrepid is sphere-shaped to generate artificial gravity by centrifugal force.

OOC: I'm afraid it doesn't work that way, only a thin band would have gravity. A cylinder like Arthur C Clarke's Rama would work though.

OOC: Supposedly, IC, our scientists have worked out an exact rate, that cannot be deviated from at all, called the Jones Number, that lets a sphere have artificial gravity throughout.

So, yeah. IC stuff. Yeah.

Alright, I actually did not know that. Although I have said before that the Jones number lets a sphere have exactly 1 earth gravity, so this is not just made up on the spot. It's adapted on the spot :)