NationStates Jolt Archive

SR-2091 is approximately 1,576,800 light-years from Sol. 1,576,800 light-years is a long trip. Standard Sub-Space travel would take upwards of three standard years for the trip, G/T D travel almost 180 years. Nexus Flight would take a mere thirty minutes, but at this point only the New Dawn 03, Flagship of the Grand Fleet, is Nexus capable. A MiniStar III supported G/T D drive could greatly reduce the time for Non-Nexus ships, but only down to one single year and the cost upwards of 9 trillion florens per ship. Noticeably shorter, but still not worth the cost or effort. Yet what if you could get the same results at a fraction of the cost? Or perhaps no cost at all?

The newly developed Sub-Galactic Power Stations, stationed along the most commonly used routes from SR-2091 to the Milky Way Galaxy, are the answers to the Sailors prayers. With the proper management of the standard MiniStar II Engines installed aboard current Klonor vessels and the supplemental energy provided by the Sub-Galactic Power Stations, the G/T D drives can perform as well as the MS III supplemented versions. Thus, time is lowered to 1/3 of the previous and the cost is reduced to practically nil.

However, a year isolated in space is still an amazingly long time. Military vessels, crewed by trained and disciplined members of the Grand Fleet, can make the voyage in rare cases; but such is not the case for the civilian owned and operated vessels vital for continued commerce with the rest of Humanity. The standard Klonor freighters, though large, do not contain the facilities to support a population necessary for sanity during the long voyage. So, a new vessel was born.

A modified version of the standard Klonor Colony Ship, this vessel can support a crew approaching 10,000. With facilities designed to cater to every human need, this ship is more than adequate to fullfil any needs we can forsee.

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Sadly, I am forced to .::TAG::. my own posts

Dude, I like you, I've known you since I was Marbly Glark on Asimovians, but I'm gonna have to ignore this puppet and everything associated with you until you drop a few digits from that figure.

NBot to intrude, but, out of curiosity, what figure?

Well, you know, nothing much, just a million and a half light-years.

Well, how long would you say is an acceptable travel time for that distance?

I just looked it up, and I must object to your (Klonor's) 30 minute claim, since that's more than the diameter of the milky way. (http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/galaxy.html)

But hey, I might not know something about the situation. In fact, I know very little about the situation, so Klonor, an explaination would probably clarify things.

The Milky Way is 100,000 ly in diameter. This star is outside the Milky Way. What's wrong with that? So it's beyond the Milky Way Galaxy. Big deal, it's closer than any other galaxy and there's are hundreds of nations in dozens of other Galaxies. I see absolutely no problem here.

What's wrong with that? So it's beyond the Milky Way Galaxy. What's wrong with that? It's closer than any other galaxy, and there's are hundreds of nations in dozens of other Galaxies. I see absolutely no problem here.


Well yeah, but they (as far as I know) use jump gates and such, not something you can put on a ship.

I again use the simple word "So?"

Since when does a stars distance have any effect on the ability to reach it, besides the time and fuel? Unless I'm mistaken, that is the entire point of this thread. Have I missed something?

Yeah, you've kinda missed the point. GOD-MOD, kinda-sorta. If you can go a million light-years in half an hour, why not dodge every single projectile your enemies throw at you? There's more, but I'll let someone else take it out for you.

Do you have any idea how Nexus Flight works? Seriously, do you? Or did you just read one sentence in a post about something entirely different(with absolutely no technical explanation) and suddenly assume that it was a godmod? Do your research. Ask around. Then come back and accuse me of godmodding.

ooh... well, you see, quite simply you're too powerful. When you have something no one else has, that could easily be used to become invincible, and that no one can stand up to, that's godmodding. No, I don't have any idea what "Nexus Flight" is, but it seems that you've just pulled out a cool word with an x and an us to define your Superman. Really. "Oh, it's random-large-tothepowerof-lightyears away, but we have cool-word flight, so it's of no consequence, plus if you know me you probably already realize that if you use anything like this I'll whine and say you stole it, and..." Do you get my point? My nation uses two-dimensional warp-gates that anyone can use to travel impossible distances, which does not make me invulnerable but merely places playable chokeholds in front of me. So you say you're a gazillion miles away. Fine. To me, that's impossible, and you're ignored. Have fun. Thanks for telling me where this site was last year. Hope you come to your senses.

Roseway, nothing is impossible. Klonor solution for his puppet's problem is entirely feasible.

For this problem, Klonor has provided all the necessary answers.

However, I have a couple of questions...

1) Distance--How much fuel can your ship carry?
2) Size--Is it big enough?
3) Power--How fast does your ship go with that engine? How much power would it require to power that engine?

I agree. This is just words. But if Klonor declared war on the universe, won in three paragraphs, and converted the Pope to Judaism, I'd ignore him. Just the same.

1) Distance--How much fuel can your ship carry? - None, it uses the Sub-Galactic Power Stations to power itself
2) Size--Is it big enough? - Several kilometers long. My colony ships were almost never used so I've never nailed down the exact specifications. Let's say.....4.7 km long, half that at its widest point.
3) Power--How fast does your ship go with that engine? How much power would it require to power that engine? - It goes 3 ly per minute. The power required is three MiniStar III Engines. Each MiniStar III generates roughly the power of a small sun.

That is some very imprssive work there. The fact that ship can make it to a star outside of the Milky Way in that time would seem like a god mod but since I've been here I know that you could pull it off. Again nice work

It sort of works like my long distance Warpgate but is slightly different that it uses Sub-Galactic Power Stations instead of Warp Relays.