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The last Krowemohian boarded the final Colony Ship, and all four vessels launched from Krowemoh into orbit. The Mothership took the lead in the diamond formation, and used it's Ion Thrusters to manuever away from Earth far enough to make the jump to Hyperspace. A small stop over was planned mid way through the jump by Craftworld so that Prince Mew and Yumi could attend the Aelosia party, and then they would return and resume their trip. The two Light Cruisers brought up the rear, while tugboats hualed the Orbital Weapons Platform along between them.

With a final bid of farewell to allies from Prince Well as the fleet left the orbit of Earth's moon, the fleet initiated their Hyperdrives and make the jump to Lightspeed...

((OOC: BUMP your life away... FOR VIEWAGE!!!))

ooc:- so what happens now?

((OOC: What happens? Well, I'll post stuff here that happens before Krowemoh reaches it's destination. If I few like RPing out a Pirate attack while Krowemoh takes a pitstop to let the Hyperdrive engines cool, it'll happen here.))

The Dominion of Kanuckistan, in the later stages of a centuries-long mass-terriforming and extraterrestrial resettlment program herself, wishes your nation and her prople the best of fortunes in this endevor.

Currently, we find ourselves in posession of a large surplus of equipment related to colonization that you may find useful, and would be willing give it to you. These range from large scale landscaping equipment, to several tens of milions of moular building elements(housing, comercial, and industrial types), to large scale hydroponics kits, and more.

In addition, we would be quite happy assist in the establishment of extraplanetary trade infastructure.

To: Executive Body of the Dominion of Kanuckistan
From: Prince Rufus Mew
Subject: Re: Terreforming equipment

It would be extremely helpful to us if your people were to do such a thing. We will, of course, pay you for your services rendered. Attached are the projected cordinates where our next pitstop will be. If you can arrive there, we can make the transaction.
If it is a Trade Pact with us you seek, I will happily approve your nation.

May you walk on warm sands,
Rufus Mew

[End]

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Prince Rufus Mew, Shown With Twin Sister Janus Mew
Member of the Cold Alliance

To: Executive Body of the Dominion of Kanuckistan
From: Prince Rufus Mew
Subject: Re: Terreforming equipment

It would be extremely helpful to us if your people were to do such a thing. We will, of course, pay you for your services rendered. Attached are the projected cordinates where our next pitstop will be. If you can arrive there, we can make the transaction.
If it is a Trade Pact with us you seek, I will happily approve your nation.

May you walk on warm sands,
Rufus Mew

[End]


From: Bob McBob, Kanuckistani Office of the Exterior
To: Prince Rufus Mew
Subject: Re: Re: Terreforming equipment

The equipment is entirely surplus and of little use to us at this time, so we were planning on providing it without charge as a matter of good will.

The modular freighters Not A Q-Boat, My Other Ship's A Star Destroyer, Supercalifragalisticexpealadoucious, Decoy #3, and Lucky Thirteen can meet you there with the frigate KHGV Napalm Enema as escort. Basic specifications are attached. If you don't have enough free cargo room, the freighters can acompany your fleet to your destination world, while the frigate returns to our holdings.

As for a Trade Pact, such would be welcome; did you have anything specific in mind?


<Details are as follows: The freighters are several kilometers long, and moderatly armed, but are almost entirely cargo hold. The frigate is listed as 'Dark Valor' class, 350 meters long, and packing extream armament. Further, all vessels seem capible of making instantanious jumps, with the frigate posessing a realspace low-FTL secondary drive, and the freighters having been fitted with a Gravitic Near-Hyperspace Induction Field Drive>

OOC:
Those freighters are carrying eough equipment to house, feed, and supply tens of millions long-term once it's set up on a planet, as well as clear land and establish basic infasctucture and intercity transport. Not as many of our people moved off world as were expected, you see, so there was a fair bit of over-supply, in addition to the 1% equipment redundency surplus that was produced.

EDIT: Details as to the cargo would also be included with those of the ships.

((OOC: Whoa, your frigate's larger then my Mothership. O_o;; Well, longer at the very least. Well, I'm just a starting out space nation, so don't expect any 9km long Uber Wanker ships. :P))


To: Bob McBob
From: Prince Rufus Mew
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Terraforming equipment

It gladdens me to hear to that you will provide this equipment to us free of charge. Even so, allow us to make a small monatary donotion to your nation for your kindness.
We will be arriving at the projected pitstop within the week. We shall see your frighters there.

May you walk on warm sands,
Rufus Mew

[End]

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Prince Rufus Mew, Shown With Twin Sister Janus Mew
Member of the Cold Alliance

((OOC: Whoa, your frigate's larger then my Mothership. O_o;; Well, longer at the very least. Well, I'm just a starting out space nation, so don't expect any 9km long Uber Wanker ships. :P))


OOC: You should see the Battleplates; thirteen kilometers long fleet-killers :twisted: But I only have three; the vast majority of my firepower is concentrated into ten ships, and that's saying something given my size, defence spending, and the fact most of the later's pumped into the fleet.

BTW, just wondering if you named your ships? I like to have a bit of fun naming my own, and have kept my fleet fairly small with the goal of naming every ship I ever use in RP.

IC:

To: Prince Rufus Mew
From: Bob McBob
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Terraforming equipment

If you chose to make such a donation, please do so to a charity of your choice.

A recon drone has been dispatched to the location you provided, and our ships will meet you there within a few hours of your arrival.

Signed:
Minister Bob McBob
Kanuckistan, Office of the Exterrior.

((OOC: 13KM? O.O Whoa, someone's overcompensating... Er... No offense, of course. ^^;; Names? No, not really. But then again this is just a Migration Fleet: the Colony Ships will probably be stripped for their materials, the Mothership will be used only occassionally. That leaves the Light Cruisers. I guess I could name 'em... Later... :P))

*Somewhere, 10 odd Light years from Earth, the Krowemohian Migration Fleet drops out of HyperSpace. This particular locale was deserted, not an astroid or planet in sight. The Mothership ran a cross-analysis of it's actual route and the projected route, and found they had overshot the pitstop area by only a couple hundred kilometers! They were getting better. Kicking up sublight and manuevering engines to full, the Mothership and the rest of the fleet began the process of turning around to return to the projected pitstop to meet up with the Kanuckistan vessels.*


((OOC2: Hence why it's called a "Projected pitstop." They may or may not actually wind up there. The first pitstop they overshot by eight hundred kilometers and almost ran smack into a star. Some minor adjustments to their original route steered them clear of large bodies of mass after that hairy encounter. ^^;; ))

OOC: Heh; Over compensating? I had such remarks in mind when I named the 3km long Superfortress KHGV Inferiority Complex 8)

And I think you're underestimating just how big space is by a huge margin; 800 kilometers is nothing. Atleast several RL interplanetary probes would, iirc, cross that distance in less than a second. If you ment eight hundred thousand kilometers, I could understand, but that'd still be pretty close to the star; far closer than Mercury from the Sun.

IC:

A small, meter long object a few thousand kilometers away pings the Krowemohian Migration Fleet with RADAR and LiDAR, it's IFF beacon identifying it as a Kanuckistani Recon Probe. After several moments, it broadcasts a greeting, relaying that the Kanuckistani convoy has been alerted to their arrival, and has confirmed that they would be joining the Krowemohan's within the hour.

((OOC: Like I said, I'm no expert in space travel, so um... I guess yeah, I meant a couple hundred thousand kilometers. ^^;; ))


*The message was recieved and logged. All the fleet had to do now was wait.*


((OOC2: Not much to do.))

((OOC: Like I said, I'm no expert in space travel, so um... I guess yeah, I meant a couple hundred thousand kilometers. ^^;; ))


*The message was recieved and logged. All the fleet had to do now was wait.*


((OOC2: Not much to do.))

((OOC: Like I said, I'm no expert in space travel, so um... I guess yeah, I meant a couple hundred thousand kilometers. ^^;; ))


*The message was recieved and logged. All the fleet had to do now was wait.*


((OOC2: Not much to do.))

((OOC: Like I said, I'm no expert in space travel, so um... I guess yeah, I meant a couple hundred thousand kilometers. ^^;; ))


*The message was recieved and logged. All the fleet had to do now was wait.*


((OOC2: Not much to do.))

(This is so embaressing!)

(Gah. I hate when this happens.))

A few hundred kilometers away from the RecProbe, space seemed to momentarily.. distort? Unobservible for an instant, befor reality itself seemed to birth a Kanuckistani flotilla a half-dozen strong; exactly 58 minutes after the probe's transmission.

The five freighters apear in seemingly perfect formation, holding position relative to the Krowemohian fleet; their single escort slightly behind and off to the side.

After several moments, the frigate hailed the Krowemohi; a simple, analog audio broadcast, the voice it carried was soft and blaintently feminin, yet posessing an undenyible authority and aura of command, without being too serious. Assuming that, yaknow, you can actually read that deeply into such things(OOC: I know I can't :wink: ).

"This is Captain Rose Martin of the Kanuckistani High Gaurd Vessel Napalm Enema, to Krowemohian Migration Fleet: we've brought you folks an early house warming gift. Do you have sufficent surplus storage capasity to take it off our hands, or will you be releaving me of my charges here and continuing on with them for the rest of your trip?"

*The reply came directly from Prince Rufus Mew himself, on board the Mothership.*

Prince Rufus Mew: "I am Prince Rufus Mew, greetings Captain Martin. Our current cargo holds on board the Mothership and two of our three Colony ships are full with supplies brought with us from home: Realians, Metal Fakes, FARQs, and such. I do believe we may need to borrow your frieghters for the trip. They will be in good hands, you have my word as Prince."


((OOC: In case you were wondering, Metal Fakes are Krowemohian battlemechs, basically. FARQs are four legged large warbots bought from Resi Corp. We have like... Tweleve of 'em? Something like that. ^^;; I forget now.))

Only seconds pass befor the the Captain replys, "We were expecting as much, so their crews are prepared to complete the journey with you. They'll be under your direction from here on out. Good Journey; KHGV Napalm Enema, out."

After a few minutes(plenty of time for you to reply), the ship seems to blur; them, a moment later, is simply gone.

*The reply was short.*

Prince Rufus Mew: "Affirmative. May you walk on warm sands, Captain. Over and out."

*The fleet had to wait half an hour to let the HyperDrives cool down. During this time, com officers onboard the Mothership were busy cordinating with the Kanuckistan frieghters, being that the freighters used superior FTL technology. Once plans were set and the HyperDrives cooled down, the fleet made it's third jump to HyperSpace, resuming it's long trek to it's new home.*

The freighters in question, having been specificly outfitted with gravitic near-hyperspace induction field drives, were able match speed with the Krowemohian ships and travel a paralell course, rather than sit around charging volt-sinks and instantly displace to their destination. Their crews were even suprisingly good sports about the whole affair; offering little more in ways of the technological disparity than the ocasional, good-natured joke; extra overtime pay seemed a recurrent theme.

*The rest of the forty-some lightyear trip from Earth went without incident. The fleet arrived in the Unnamed Star System, a system with a single star and ten planets orbiting it. The fleet begins to manuever towards the fifth planet from the sun. This star system was chosen for having two planets with an Earth-like atmosphere, the fifth planet being the largest of the two. Terraforming wouldn't be needed, although once settled in, terraforming of the other eigth planets might be considered. The Mothership would establish a Geo-Sync orbit around the planet Krowemoh, while the Colony Ships would land and offload their cargo. Construction of the Shin-Ra Tower II and Residential areas would commence immediately. It would take a long time to resume a resemblence of normal life, but during that time, the citizens of Krowemoh would remain in Cryo storage.
*Com officers on the Mothership relayed information about which Planet would be Krowemoh so they can offload their cargo too.
*Construction work would be handled largely by Industrial Grade Realians.
*The three Light Cruisers were set on high alert, and flights of fighter crafts were lauched: The Krowemohian migration fleet would be extremely vulnerable during the resettling period.*

The Kanuckistani freighters, each capible of making planetfall(tho actually touching down could be tricky without a large spaceport or area of flat bedrock to sit on, they can still hover close to the ground) continue to follow Krowemohian direction; the crews prepping VR training pods to teach the Krowemohians for to make use of the equipment the Kanuckistani cargo holds held, while personel took extra time off to celibrate their nation's 4th Centenial (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=120450&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=).

*It took a matter of hours tfor the fleet to arrive in orbit around Krowemoh, and a large, flat rolling plain was selected for the site of the Shin-Ra Tower II. Two of the three Colonyships made planetfall, the freighters doing likewise. The smaller Colony Ships were able to land without trouble and began to offload their construction equipment and some raw material brought along from Earth.

*In the dead of space, a tugboat manned by a robot hualed the Krowemohian Orbital Weapons Platform. It would be years before it would reach Krowemoh's new home.*


((OOC: HERE (http://server5.uploadit.org/files/NeoTetraMagic-Shin_Ra_Tower_II.jpg) is a conceptual drawing of the Shin-Ra Tower II.))

((OOC: HERE (http://server5.uploadit.org/files/NeoTetraMagic-Shin_Ra_Tower_II.jpg) is a conceptual drawing of the Shin-Ra Tower II.))

OOC: Looks good, but out of couriousity, what's it for?

BTW, if you're interested in putting up some OWPs while you wait for yours to arrive, you could take advantage of the aformentioned trade agreement and make an inquiory through the freighter crews to the Kanuckistani Office of the Exterrior.

((OOC: The Shin-Ra Tower? It's the Krowemohian equivulent of the White House. It's where the Royal Family lives, and all members of the Government meet here to pass bills and such.
Unless I decided to RP a civil war, it isn't likely that I'll have much use for a bunch of OWPs, mostly maybe for planetary defense against other space faring nations, but thanks for the offer anyways. 'Sides, ever since Resi dropped off the radar, Krowemoh has become increasingly self reliant, so by the time our old OWP gets here, we'll have one or two up already.))

IC:
As things continue to progress, an offer is relayed to the Krowemohians from the Kanuckistani Admiralty; with a possible threat desolving(OOC: a few RP threads died out), Kanuckistan now has enough extra hulls that they're offering to station military vessels in the Krowemohian system until such time as their own defences are up and running.


OOC:
One or two? :shock: My new worlds have thousands; but then I do have a tendency to over-fortify. How many do you have enroute?

IC:
As things continue to progress, an offer is relayed to the Krowemohians from the Kanuckistani Admiralty; with a possible threat desolving(OOC: a few RP threads died out), Kanuckistan now has enough extra hulls that they're offering to station military vessels in the Krowemohian system until such time as their own defences are up and running.


OOC:
One or two? :shock: My new worlds have thousands; but then I do have a tendency to over-fortify. How many do you have enroute?

((OOC: Just the one, which is like um... Sixty years old. ^^;; By the way, I added your nation to the Krowemohian Trade Pact list. Basically that means you don't have to pay the 30% Trade tax when buying tech and stuff from Krowemoh.
Thousands of OWPs? Aren't you over doing it there a little?))


*Rufus Mew considers the offer. After debating with the members of his staff who weren't Cryogenetically frozen, it was decided that they would accept the offer from Kanuckistan.*


From: Prince Rufus Mew
To: Head of the Kanuckistan Admiralty
Subject: Stationing Surplus Military Vessels.

After discussing the matter with my staff, I have decided to accept your gracious offer.

May you walk on warm sands,
Rufus Mew

[END]

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Prince Rufus Mew, Shown With Twin Sister Janus Mew
Member of the Cold Alliance

OOC:
My OWP setup is designed to stop a full scale invasion cold, to offset the limited force projection inherent in my navy's low numbers, high potency military doctrine. Most consist of just a passive sensor net, a transciver comm array, a large volt-sink, a shadowfield cloaking device, a basic tac-comp, and a few cells of long-range stand-offs with a hundred or so missiles in them. Fairly cheap, highly effective, and a very nasty suprise, but ammo if finite, and can easily be fully expended in the first salvo.

There are also planetary batteries dirtside and/or in low orbit with energy weapons and more missiles, which places them under the planetary shields; a fairly elegent setup, IMO, with invisible, expendible missile platforms to cut the enemy down to size at range, allowing the planetary shields to hold them off long enough for batteries inside the shield to pound them into submission, or until reinforcments show up.


IC:
Several more days had passed after confrimation of the Prince's acceptance is sent, when suddenly, several lightseconds away from the planet, space momentarily distorted, unobservible for half an instant, befor reality itself birthed three kilometers of death incarnate; it's dull, battleship-grey hull covered by over two thousand weapons blisters, tho two dozen heavily armoured turrets clearly dominated the fleet-killer's armamnet.

Within five seconds, her transponder identifyed the great ship as the Kanuckistani High Gaurd Vessel Inferiority Complex; a Thunderhead-Class Superfortress. Moments later, the KHGV Hentai Tentacle Monster and KHGV Spear of Bitter Mercy, both Dark Valor-class frigates identical to the KHGV Napalm Enema which had escorted the freighters to the rondevou, apeared with similar fasion in perfect formation on the Thunderhead's flanks.

And there they waited, weapons offline and shields but a telltale flicker, for acknowledgment and direction from whoever was in charge of this world's STC or equivilent.

bump

((OOC: I've skipped ahead. This thread is now defunct. lol I guess you can make your post showing the fleet leaving.))

OOC: They'll hang around until asked to leave or they're called away.

Hurm; yaknow, this might be a decent excuse to set up shop somewhere not in Sol or on the oposite side of the galaxy. Ya know, helping you develop extra-planetary trade infascructure and the ilk, while providing a deterant to any opertunistic parties.

OOC: They'll hang around until asked to leave or they're called away.

Hurm; yaknow, this might be a decent excuse to set up shop somewhere not in Sol or on the oposite side of the galaxy. Ya know, helping you develop extra-planetary trade infascructure and the ilk, while providing a deterant to any opertunistic parties.

((OOC: Hmmm... Good idea! ^_^ You have my permission to proceed. ^_^))

((OOC: Hmmm... Good idea! ^_^ You have my permission to proceed. ^_^))

OOC: Well, 'helping you' is entirly dependent on your folks taking the initiative; we wouldn't want to be seen as trying to push folks we just met into buying alot of expensive equipment and expertise :wink: Or do it passivly; ie no RP, just agree that it's happening in the background

As for setting up shop, well what's avalible in the system?

Also need IC permission.. we could OOCly decide how things came about, actually RP it out, or just assume the topic came up and was found agreeible by both sides. Either're fine with me.

OOC: Well, 'helping you' is entirly dependent on your folks taking the initiative; we wouldn't want to be seen as trying to push folks we just met into buying alot of expensive equipment and expertise :wink: Or do it passivly; ie no RP, just agree that it's happening in the background

As for setting up shop, well what's avalible in the system?

Also need IC permission.. we could OOCly decide how things came about, actually RP it out, or just assume the topic came up and was found agreeible by both sides. Either're fine with me.

((OOC: Eh... I'm not too good at RPing that kind of stuff, so let's just say it all happens in the background. lol I'm not feeling like treading that lake just yet...
Hmmm... Well, they're are ten planets, one Sol-like star, and two habitable planets. The other eight range from gas giants to barren rocky planets incapable of supporting life. The largest habitable planet is Krowemoh, the second largest is Ragol. I plan to use that planet for a future RP, so it's off limits for the time being. Erm... We have two large asteroid fields within the system, you can mine there for Ore and stuff, but Ultor Mining Corporation has authority, so you can only mine the asteroids and stuff it says you can mine. ^^;;
Hmmm... Well, I guess it'd happen a few months afterwards, when Ultor first begins to build it's own mining ships and such.))

((OOC: Eh... I'm not too good at RPing that kind of stuff, so let's just say it all happens in the background. lol I'm not feeling like treading that lake just yet...
Hmmm... Well, they're are ten planets, one Sol-like star, and two habitable planets. The other eight range from gas giants to barren rocky planets incapable of supporting life. The largest habitable planet is Krowemoh, the second largest is Ragol. I plan to use that planet for a future RP, so it's off limits for the time being. Erm... We have two large asteroid fields within the system, you can mine there for Ore and stuff, but Ultor Mining Corporation has authority, so you can only mine the asteroids and stuff it says you can mine. ^^;;
Hmmm... Well, I guess it'd happen a few months afterwards, when Ultor first begins to build it's own mining ships and such.))

OOC:
Do you have detailed system stats, or can I pick a planet and create from scratch?

OOC:
Do you have detailed system stats, or can I pick a planet and create from scratch?

((OOC: You can create from scratch. I dun mind, as long as it falls into the general theme I already set out. Have fun. ^_^))

OOC: How's a snowball'd geologicly Earthlike planet just beyond the green zone? Something that can be partially terraformed without too much effort, so it's livible unaided near the equater(ie Canadian-esque climate in the tropics, rest under glaciers)? Give me something fairly long-term to work with.

Say...

Diamiter: 11'000km
Gravity: .98g
Atmosphere(T-Formed): 87% Nitrogen, 11% CO2, 2% Trace Gasses (78% Nitrogen, 1% CO2, 20% Oxygen,, 1% Trace Gasses)

This planet-type's just an idea I've been kicking around. Not being a high-intensity terrforming effort, say it'd take around half a century to terraform to the aforementioned point(I go by RL day=NS year, so about two months).

No biggie if you don't like it; I've a few other concepts to work with.

((OOC: lol, sure, I guess. As for me, I go One RL Day=Six NS Months, unless I'm in an RP, then time slows down to whatever I wanna make it.))

OOC: Ok, I've started working out what I'm going to do with the planet exactly, and should post it in a day or two.