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Triad Consortium Research (Documentation Thread)

Godular
10-05-2005, 08:30
TRIAD CONSORTIUM OF GODULAR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DATABASE

OOC: This is a documentation thread intended to detail the process of conversion as Godular continues under the command of the Triad Consortium under Baron Skye, Regent Foster, and Lord Steel. It contains mostly secret / Military level information, and anything released for the IC public domain will be labeled as MERCHANT. Feel free to comment, ask questions, make suggestions, so on and so forth. No more than three projects will be active at a time.

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IN PROGRESS:

-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 1/20
-Neurosynaptic Computing : 1/5
-Gendarme Body Tank Enhancements: 1/5 (Research)

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UPCOMING PROJECTS (Bold Highlighted Projects Underway/Completed)

-Psychoportive Drive
-Psychotronic Interface
-Psychotronic Amplification Matrices
-ShieldSkaters
-Genetic Overhaul Version 2
-M'Lekk'Torr Reinforcement
-Assault Spacefold Portals
-Flux Cannon Upgrade Version 2
-Improved Energen Version 2
-Psi-bernetics
-Heighliner (Joint Project)

Descriptions as project is introduced.

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DESCRIPTIONS

STAR NAVY REVAMP

Bigger is better, eh? FEH! That big 60km dreadnought hovering over your homeworld is just a big honking show of governmental insecurity. Such enormous vessels are so inefficient and cumbersome, barely being able to move, and putting out only a fraction of the firepower they should be able to. What good is a bigass hammer if you're too weak to pick it up?

The Mako is where its at folks. Based on ages old designs brought to the Empire after the regime shift, this small, yet highly maneuverable and surprisingly powerful vessel is Hell in a one-on-one fight, and even worse when the Triad sends an entire swarm of these things to your door.

The revamp is going to take all of the present Godulan StarNavy, save the Archonal Command ships, which are more useful as mobile centers of command than actual combat vessels, break them down into component parts and scrap metal, and commence construction of a vast fleet of Makos, which shall become the effective cornerstone, backbone, AND spearhead of the Triad StarNavy.

OOC: The reason I'm saying this is only gonna take 20rl days is because I want to see these bastages in action as soon as possible, and because each time I've seen somebody do a spur-of-the-moment change of regime/theme, the fleet reorganizations/restructuring and such were effectively instantaneous. I don't wanna be anything like that, but I also want the revamp done quickly, plus, the twenty days allows me to finish off the research I need for other aspects of ship design, particularly with respect to psionic controls and systems.

MAKO-CLASS GODULAN STAR DESTROYER

Length: 450m
Width (base): 100m
Crew Complement: 640 Crew, 25 officers, 1 commander
Lasting Time: 6 weeks before resupply required

Armor: Neutronium-Carbonide Steel Alloys with Cerametal Reinforcements

Drive:
-Probability Drive with 2x calculation modifier
-Psychoportive Drive rated at max range of 75ly (Ignores a few of the more common FTLi types)
-Dimensional Drive

Engines: Gravitic Flux Engines with Omnidirectional VTOL

Power Plant: Quantum Flux Reactors (6)

Shielding: Psi-Reinforced Ablative Shielding

Defensive Armament:
- ( 6 ) Point Defense Flux Cannons
- ( 3 ) Holoprojection Matrices
- ( 4 ) Gravitonic Countermeasures
- ( 1 ) Voidshield
- Runic Shielding

Offensive Armament:
- ( 15 ) Capital Class Flux Cannons
- ( 6 ) Phase Torpedo Launchers (250 Torpedos)
- ( 6 ) Tachyon Torpedo Launchers (200 Torpedos)
- ( 2 ) Death Confetti Minelayers (150 Mines)

Sensors:
- Gravitonic / Mass Detectors
- Multiphase Radar
- Computer Enhanced Electromagnetic Passive Array
- Drive Detector
- Dimensional Sensor Array

Communications:
- Laser Transceiver
- Mass Transceiver
- Phase Transceiver
- Psychotronic Communications Array

Special:
- Plasmatic Pulse Disintegrator Self-Destruct Mechanism (BIG boom)
- Atmosphere Enabled
- Submersible

Ship Description

The Mako appears as a giant matte-black arrowhead, with serrated edges and glowing blue runes drifting across its surface. It has no visible features for the most part, Having no discernible engines, weapons turrets, windows, or bridge decks. The Mako generates no ion signature, and leaves no trace of its existence short of debris fields that are all that remain of its victims.

It is a silent stalker. Swift, deadly, and vicious in design and application. Well armored, armed, and endowed with exceptional speed and maneuverability, it is also built with a special 'F*** You!' to any who might get the better of it in a fight.

In keeping with the Triad's emphasis on Swarm Tactics, the Mako is a fast attack destroyer with enough firepower to match an Imperial Star Destroyer blow for blow. It carries no launching facilities for fighters, however it does have temporary berthing clamps to enable StarBolt pilots to leave their fighters and stretch out on long flights.

And no, I did not realize that it had a 666 crew complement until after I did the writeup

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NEUROSYNAPTIC COMPUTING/CIRCUITRY

In the quest for supreme efficiency in computational circuitry, Baron Skye was first to understand that nothing can quite match nature's own nervous system for sheer elegance. To this end, he has commissioned research into outfitting vessels with organic circuitry in order to improve reaction time and also provide an initial idea into the combination of nature and technology.

This technology will allow for further research, such as the Psychoportive Drive, the Psychotronic Interface, and several other psionic applications.

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GENDARME BODY TANK ENHANCEMENTS

The Gendarmes embody the pinnacle of genetic and mechanical engineering. An army of veritable giants in nigh-impenetrable armor is enough to make any soldier quake in their boots and a puddle of their own piddle.

However, as it turns out, the Godulans had the Triad beat by several orders of magnitude when it came to robotics and cybernetics, and as a result, Baron Skye has ordered research into improving the body tanks of the Gendarmes. This enhancement will improve strength, agility, intuitive control, and environmental capabilities.

In other words, for anybody going up against a Gendarme's twin Man-sized meat cleavers, or even his massive Vulcan Cannons, this just makes a bad situation SO much worse.
Flaming Souls
10-05-2005, 08:37
Quite good, I like it.
Godular
10-05-2005, 19:22
Bump for Questions, Comments, etc.
Balrogga
11-05-2005, 00:44
TAG

I will keep an eye on this too
Godular
11-05-2005, 05:53
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 2/20
-Neurosynaptic Computing : 2/5
-Gendarme Body Tank Enhancements: 2/5 (Research)
Godular
11-05-2005, 19:52
Bumpitty. Any questions/Comments/so on and so forth at all?
Godular
12-05-2005, 04:50
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 3/20
-Neurosynaptic Computing : 3/5
-Gendarme Body Tank Enhancements: 3/5 (Research)
Godular
13-05-2005, 04:01
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 4/20
-Neurosynaptic Computing : 4/5
-Gendarme Body Tank Enhancements: 4/5 (Research)
Godular
14-05-2005, 04:07
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 5/20
-Neurosynaptic Computing : COMPLETE
-Gendarme Body Tank Enhancements: COMPLETE

Commencing:
-Psychoportive Drive : 0/5
-Psychotronic Interfaces : 0/5

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Psychoportive Drive

Skye is Psionic. His Savants are Psionic. The dreaded Gendarme Shock Troopers are psionic (though only with respect to telepathy and limited clairvoyance). This enables them access to a number of powers that many would deem simply impossible even by the likes of high technology.

With the completion of the Neurosynaptic Circuitry that will now be outfitted in every single Triad vessel, it is possible for a Psion, with proper application of necessary technology, to perform amazing feats of mental will.

In the case of the Psychoportive drive, it is FTL. Dubbed 'MindJamming' by Godulan Laypeople, it is essentially a technology that allows a psion to transport his or her entire ship vast distances. Calculations give a rough estimate of 75 Light Years maximum.

This teleportation is neither gravity, dimension, or distortion based. Some say that the ship simply appears at its destination, while others say that the drive simply moves the universe itself so that the vessel just SEEMS to have moved. Its hard to tell, really.

With the completion of this technology, and application in concert with the Godulan Probability drive, Triad vessels can skirt around a great many of the more common FTLinhibition types.

With an estimated maximum iteration rate of 12 times a day, with the ability to iterate about 4 times in rapid succession before the psion at the helm goes comatose for a week, the Psychoportive drive is by no means a drive one should use if they want to travel across the galaxy in anything less than half a standard year. But then, that's what the Probability drive is for.

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Psychotronic Interfaces

What's the use of turning into a Psionics based nation without ship controls that work well with them?

With the installation of these interfaces, from communications to sensors to weapons, the Triad Mako takes on a whole new tenacity. A triad swarm could very literally transmit real-time battle telemetry, receive orders, and send communications directly from the homeworld across vast distances with no time lag whatsoever.

Sensors can focus on mental signatures, gauging distance, size, and disposition, and thereby skirt a great many cloaking devices and sensor disruptors.

Weapons targeting can actually use a slight degree of prescience in their attacks, enabling them to strike with greater precision and reaction time.

With advancements of this degree, the Mako shall shape up to be a devastating vessel of war indeed.
Godular
15-05-2005, 05:57
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 6/20
-Psychoportive Drive : 1/5
-Psychotronic Interfaces : 1/5
Balrogga
15-05-2005, 13:50
*bump*
Godular
16-05-2005, 04:10
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 7/20
-Psychoportive Drive : 2/5
-Psychotronic Interfaces : 2/5
Godular
17-05-2005, 04:38
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 8/20
-Psychoportive Drive : 3/5
-Psychotronic Interfaces : 3/5
Godular
18-05-2005, 03:19
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 9/20
-Psychoportive Drive : 4/5
-Psychotronic Interfaces : 4/5
Godular
19-05-2005, 16:22
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 10/20
-Psychoportive Drive : COMPLETE
-Psychotronic Interfaces : COMPLETE

COMMENCING:

-Flux Cannon Upgrade Version 2 : 0/5
-Improved Energen Version 2 : 0/5

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Flux Cannon Upgrade V2.0

In order to enable the new Triad Makos to reliably duke it out with something well over twice to three times its size, the raw strength of its primary weapons need to be boosted once again. To this end, Baron Skye has ordered the development of more power efficient and simply more powerful Flux Cannon batteries for the Makos.

Estimated strength boost is at somewhere around 1.5x power from previous upgrade.

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Improved Energen V2.0

Essentially the same as the above, save that it concerns Mako power generation. Necessary for boosting shield strength, overal mobility, and powering the nice little 'screw you' self-destruct device, it was on Baron Skye's priority list directly after the advent of the new Psychotronic systems.

Again, approximate boost from previous upgrade is expected to be 150%
Godular
20-05-2005, 04:17
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 11/20
-Flux Cannon Upgrade Version 2 : 1/5
-Improved Energen Version 2 : 1/5
Serpantol
20-05-2005, 04:31
Very nice, Very nice in deed.

Looks like a lot has happened to your nation during my absence.
Godular
20-05-2005, 07:09
OOC: OL' BUDDY!

Been wondering where you'd tiddled off to. Yup yup!

Used as a term of political fearmongering in the Galactic Imperial Senate I am!
Godular
21-05-2005, 12:12
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 12/20
-Flux Cannon Upgrade Version 2 : 2/5
-Improved Energen Version 2 : 2/5
Godular
23-05-2005, 04:13
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 14/20
-Flux Cannon Upgrade Version 2 : 4/5
-Improved Energen Version 2 : 4/5
Godular
24-05-2005, 05:59
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 15/20
-Flux Cannon Upgrade Version 2 : COMPLETE
-Improved Energen Version 2 : COMPLETE

INITIATING:

-Psychotronic Amplification Matrices 0/5
-Assault Spacefold Portals 0/5

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PSYCHOTRONIC AMPLIFICATION MATRICES

With the advances in Psychotronic interfaces and circuity, the Triad has effectively transmuted the entirety of each StarNavy vessel into a stream of giant mind wells, allowing levels of intuitive control beyond the ken of even the most advanced engineers, and making the mako seem even more like a living weapon.

Psionic Amplifiers will only further reinforce the point.

With a highly specialized combination of Psychotronic Interfaces and Neurosynaptic Circuitry, it is possible for the Savant Commander to turn the entire ship into one great psionic weapon, boosting the Savant's will with the pure brute strength of the ship, they will be capable of pulling off extreme feats of telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and mind jamming.

The strength of the Mako shall be in a league of its own...

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ASSAULT SPACEFOLD PORTALS

Despite their name, they actually utilize the Godulan Probability Drive, and not conventional spacefold drives.

Nevertheless, they are the answer to the issue of Gendarme Transportation into Combat Theatres. Considering their 12 foot bulk, BEFORE the armor is considered, they are somewhat difficult to ferry in a ship as small as a Mako.

As a result, the solution was simple: Why bother with Transporting them when you can TELEPORT them?

Each Assault Portal, in undeployed form, seems as a solid sphere of neutronium-carbonide steel with no visible surface features. It is deployed via atmospheric entry, whereupon it blossoms into a 50m diameter receiving pad. Upon deployment, each portal can immediately start transiting in approximately 75 Gendarmes a minute.

Once again, relying upon the Probability drive enables the transits to take place even in the presence of an FTLinhibition field (barring the fact that transits must commence from OUTSIDE the FTLi field), adopting a 'they can check in, but they can't check out' tactic which only serves to magnify the viciousness of the Steel-Clad Titans.

Quite useful, really.
Godular
24-05-2005, 21:29
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 16/20
-Psychotronic Amplification Matrices 1/5
-Assault Spacefold Portals 1/5
Godular
26-05-2005, 06:22
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 17/20
-Psychotronic Amplification Matrices : 2/5
-Assault Spacefold Portals : 2/5
Godular
26-05-2005, 23:38
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 18/20
-Psychotronic Amplification Matrices : 3/5
-Assault Spacefold Portals : 3/5
Godular
27-05-2005, 19:29
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : 19/20
-Psychotronic Amplification Matrices : 4/5
-Assault Spacefold Portals : 4/5
Godular
29-05-2005, 05:24
-Godulan StarNavy Revamp : COMPLETE
-Psychotronic Amplification Matrices : COMPLETE
-Assault Spacefold Portals : COMPLETE

COMMENCING

-Psibernetics : 0/5
-Genetic Overhaul Version 2 : 0/10
-ShieldSkaters : 0/5

(Descriptions Tomorrow)
Godular
30-05-2005, 07:57
-Psibernetics : 1/5
-Genetic Overhaul Version 2 : 1/10
-ShieldSkaters : 1/5
Godular
31-05-2005, 05:49
-Psibernetics : 2/5
-Genetic Overhaul Version 2 : 2/10
-ShieldSkaters : 2/5
Godular
02-06-2005, 05:05
-Psibernetics : 3/5
-Genetic Overhaul Version 2 : 3/10
-ShieldSkaters : 3/5
Godular
03-06-2005, 05:11
-Psibernetics : 4/5
-Genetic Overhaul Version 2 : 4/10
-ShieldSkaters : 4/5
Godular
06-06-2005, 04:39
-Psibernetics : COMPLETE
-Genetic Overhaul Version 2 : 5/10
-ShieldSkaters : COMPLETE

Initiating:

Covert Project : Ain't Tellin'

Okayokayokay... the descriptions of the Psibernetics and Shieldskaters...

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PSIBERNETICS

With the implementation of psychotronic interfaces, neurosynaptic circuitry, and all sorts of psionic technical goodness, its time the Godulans got into a more personal level of insinuation. Psionic-Capable Cybernetics.

For use primarily with the gendarmes, but also for the implementation in the robotic structures of the Triad military hierarchy, psibernetic boosts are intended to enable the effective reinforcement of Gendarme body armor through sheer force of will, and at the same time provide the military officers the equivalent of a natural body to work their mind magic on.

This will also bring the Godulans one step closer to the level of being able to create robots that can... procreate. An odd goal, that...

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SHIELDSKATERS

We're honestly surprised nobody else has thought of this before.

Why have Golan Defense Platforms when you can have swarms of corvette sized vessels with surprising agility, that prance and dance on the surface of a planetary shield, using the shield's defensive shielding in conjunction with its own for protection while pumping out tremendous amounts of firepower?

They look very much like waterstriders from a distance, but closer inspection shows that it is an obelisk-shaped vessel supported by four globe-tipped protrusions which support the vessel on the shield. By modifying energy distributions in these globes, the Skater can zip along the surface of the planetary shield with amazing speed and maneuverability.

Each Skater comes equipped with two Capital Class Flux Cannons, two Phase Torpedo Launchers, and two Tachyon Torpedo Launchers. At any one time over the surface, there can be up to and including twenty thousand individual skaters zipping about over the surface of the shield.

This is of course a logical maximum, and likely far greater than the number we shall actually employ at first.

In the event the shield should happen to collapse, the Skaters can switch to a gravitic redirector drive and turn into torpedo corvettes with little to no effort whatsoever.

Nifty. Keeno. Deadly. Yep.
Godular
07-06-2005, 06:33
-Genetic Overhaul Version 2 : 6/10
-Covert Project : Ain't Tellin'
Godular
15-06-2005, 07:12
Genetic Overhaul Completed, M'Lekk'Torr reinforcement completed

Secret Project still underway, blee blah, blah blah blah blee blah.

Descriptions of first two to come soon.

Glorified bump 'n such.
Korgarein
15-06-2005, 07:20
OOC: Some very interesting technology here.
Godular
18-06-2005, 06:23
Tankies. And I've been meaning to put in the descriptions to these last two developments...

GENETIC OVERHAUL PART 2

The first round went towards reinforcing the godulans from disease, blessing them with improved strength, speed, and cognitive capacities. It was meant to prepare the citizenry for the hardships of exploring a new world, and the settlement of various star systems far far away.

The second round of genetic modifications goes somewhat more introspective.

With the arrival of massive influences in the realm of psionics, it has proven to be somewhat of a priority to enable the Godulan populace to use the new systems with the proficiency they handled the previous generation with.

With the introduction of these new genetic modifications, the Godulan populace will have the following benefits enabled.

-Improved Reaction Time
-Telepathic/Psionic Capabilities (with proper stimuli, can become instinctual, like normal speech)
-Aura of Clairsentience extending a relatively small radius out from the individual, detects location of living creatures and their disposition to the Godulan
-HEAVY resistance to mental manipulation (Triad Archon Xenith Steel cried when Skye told him this was going in)

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A second benefit towards the development of this overhaul is the introduction of Retroactive Genetic Manipulation. Why wait until the next generation to see your imitation of god's work come to fruition when a simple treatment, lots and lots of protein, and a growth stimulus chamber will do the trick with adults?

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M'Lekk'Torr Reinforcement

With the genetic modifications out of the way, the final thing to be addressed by Baron Skye is the liberal usage of deceased M'lekk'torr in Godulan Special forces.

The Symbiotic relationship, favoring the host completely, due to the fact that he is but a simple grave for the passed M'Lekk, gave massive enhancements to speed, strength, durability, the ability to defy gravity in limited forms (like running on ceilings), limited ability to walk through walls, and a 'no vacancy' approach to mental intrusion.

M'Lekk'Torr are beings of pure neural energy and raw instinct. Baron Skye is the physical manifestation of an entity of pure neural and psionic energies, as well as an embodiment of the universe's aspect of chaos.

Needless to say, he knew exactly what the M'Lekk'Torr did to the symbiotes, and is presently in the process of refining the effects in order to amplify the benefits provided without harming the symbiote him- or herself. This will make the M'Lekk'Torr symbiotes veritable juggernauts, capable of taking flurries of blaster fire, multiple lightsaber slices, and even massive crushing blows before loss of fighting capacity, with improvements to their regenerative capabilities as well. Their strength and speed will be further modified, their grasp of gravity-defying qualities will improve to the point that they no longer need a floor, they can move through walls like water, and can commence a massive surge of psionic energy that will either drive people utterly insane with terror, or cause them to laugh to death.

Be advised that this enhancement will only affect Godulan Special forces, and not the Gendarmes or the Godulan Marines. Although, it effectively goes without saying that even one of these symbiotes will be a formidable encounter indeed.