NationStates Jolt Archive

Today, at 14:00 hours the CEO of WNI announced the completion of the recall, dismantling and replacement of the entire Ankhmeti Combat Fleet. The ACF was replaced by a single ship. Details are classified, but the ship is known to be immensely powerful, with regenerative shielding so powerful nothing short of a superlaser can cause significant damage. Some limited information has been released.
The ship, christened simply [i]'Re', contains many new technologies, such as the latest hybrid Quasispace/Hyperdrive/Warp Engines, allowing for travel between galaxies in a matter of days. Some of the less sensitive technologies are described below.

Organic/Nonorganic Transport Sorting Cannons

The O/NTSC is the primary anti-fighter weapon of the Re. These weapons project transport beams on fighters, which sort out the pilots from the ship. The two can be dumped at different positions, to anywhere within a light year. The cannon emmitters are flanked by two frag cannons (one on each side of the emmitter). Unconfirmed reports say there may be up to two thousand of these emmitters on the ship.


Shiva Cannon

The Shiva Cannon is essentially a kilometer long shaped charge launcher, firing a 200-metre solid projectile which detonates a small nuclear charge on hull penetration, firing off molten metal into the unfortunate craft hit. Specialist projectiles are available to use as shield busting weapons on capital ships.

More details to come (such as length, definitive armament listings, shielding etc)

Please keep in mind that this ship has replaced a fleet consisting of hundreds of Star Destroyers, SSD's and many assorted ships. Stats are adjusted accordingly. I tihnk it's a bit low-grade for that job, but if I adjusted it properly you'd all have a hissy fit.

Stats (in progress, can be changed multiple times :D)

Length:200km

Shielding:
50 Planetary-Scale Shield Systems
100 misc shield generators
20 Shield Regeneration Systems
Heavy EMP Shielding
Heavy Radiation Shielding
Alloy Metal Shielding (100m thick)

Weapons:
9000 O/NTSC
18,000 frag cannons
2000 Heavy Turbolasers
500 Proton Torpedo Launchers
250 Quantum Torpedo Launchers
4 Shiva Cannons

Crew:
5,000 officers
50,000 Enlisted

Engines:
4 Hyperspace/QuasiSpace/Warp Drive Hybrid Engines

Supplies:
Produced onboard.

Ammunition:
Produced onboard

Repair Systems:
Ancient nanite repair sytems

(OOC: That "Sorting cannon"... That only works when shields are down right?

Because if not, I'll have to whip out the big posters proclaiming, 'U|33r G0|)|V|0|)3Z0RZ all over. :D .)

ooc:Yup. That's what the frag cannons are for.

ooc:Yup. That's what the frag cannons are for.

(OOC: *Drops sign* Awwww...

I guess I'll have to start investing more than ever in AI equipped missiles and robotic fighters. Either that, or extend the range of our space artillery.)

IC:

HoloNet DataBurst
---Wideband Transmission to Ankhmet---
(Random Military Analyst)

"Ummm, do you expect to be able to guard against against a multi pronged assault from different directions with one ship? If you do, then that's fine with us!"

---Contemptuous Response---

This ship is designed to withstand all forms of attack. each possible angle of attack is covered by at least 50 Sorters, and most likely a lot more. Also, need I remind you that full specifications have not been released?

Dr Maddy Madenstein

ooc: This ship has many surprises. It is based on designs from Ra's people... Woooo... As such there are only enough resources in the Current Imperium to build a few, and that would drain it completely. So, they built one. One incredibly powerful ship.

---Contemptuous Response---

This ship is designed to withstand all forms of attack. each possible angle of attack is covered by at least 50 Sorters, and most likely a lot more. Also, need I remind you that full specifications have not been released?

Dr Maddy Madenstein

HoloNet DataBurst
---Wideband Transmission to Ankhmet---
(That same "random" Military Analyst)

"I meant against your space. Not against the ship."

HoloNet DataBurst
---Wideband Transmission to Ankhmet---
(That same "random" Military Analyst)

"I meant against your space. Not against the ship."


---Amused Response---

What you see in the physical plane is only a reflection of the true Imperium, a QuasiSpace entity. The Imperium could be destroyed, but it would return, hundreds of years later. The Physical Imperium is only needed to further Re's conquest.
If it came to it, the hybrid engines can cross the Imperium in seconds. Certain key worlds could be defended.

---Amused Response---

What you see in the physical plane is only a reflection of the true Imperium, a QuasiSpace entity. The Imperium could be destroyed, but it would return, hundreds of years later. The Physical Imperium is only needed to further Re's conquest.

HoloNet DataBurst
---Wideband Transmission to Ankhmet---
(Now all his friends join in...)

"A few hundred years is all we'll need buddy! Heh, but don't worry, we have no desire to attack anyone. Besides, don't think your the only ones with extra-dimensional beings on your side. (Not that you do, or even if all of you are.) Good day!"

OOC: ^_^ Drop a moon on the ship, im sure that will solve the problem

ooc: This thing's too fast : P

Premature bump.

Wankity Wank Wank...

If this thing is so massive and has so many weapons, it cant be fast.
The sheer mass and power consumption would make it extremely slow.

Not to mention the sheer godmoddery of claiming, "I scrapped my fleet and built this uber-ship. Its invincible." Espescially when your nation isn't even a month old. It CANNOT have the resources to build or upkeep this thing, let alone a fleet of normal ships.

ooc: look again. My nation is a year old. Go home and contemplate your inability to read numbers correctly. Do you not think it's odd that somehow a less-than-month-old nation managed one and a half thousand posts?

I have no problems with this uber ship... the fact that they have only one ship to patrol whatever empire they build will be that much easier to bottle them up to one system... there is no way it could handle multiple strike groups at once, spread over several systems, at the same time.

I have no problems with this uber ship... the fact that they have only one ship to patrol whatever empire they build will be that much easier to bottle them up to one system... there is no way it could handle multiple strike groups at once, spread over several systems, at the same time.

Heehee. This ship is the Empire. It's turning nomadic in realspace. The real Empire is in Q-space. Feel free to pillage the home systesm... If you can get to my dimension!BWAHAhA!

My only question is how the hell do you plan to invade people? All I have to do is send a few planet-killing ships at your worlds, and we suddenly have mutually assured destruction (assuming my massive amounts of defense ships wouldn't be able to take the thing).

The plan is not for full-scale invasions. The ship relies on superior drive technologies to get in and out of systems incredibly fast. The warp in, they steal stuff, they get out.

I have no problems with this uber ship... the fact that they have only one ship to patrol whatever empire they build will be that much easier to bottle them up to one system... there is no way it could handle multiple strike groups at once, spread over several systems, at the same time.This was my thought also. Would you not need at least say... five ships to patrol your space? And what happens if this gets defeated?

Then my fleet is gone. But only somebody with Q-Space drives can reach the centre of my empire. Q-space is monopolised by Ankhmet.

ooc: look again. My nation is a year old. Go home and contemplate your inability to read numbers correctly. Do you not think it's odd that somehow a less-than-month-old nation managed one and a half thousand posts?
Ah, I'm only an 8 month nation with nearly 7k posts

Heehee. This ship is the Empire. It's turning nomadic in realspace. The real Empire is in Q-space. Feel free to pillage the home systesm... If you can get to my dimension!BWAHAhA!
You do realize that I have made forays into Q-space before... others have rp'd Q-space nations and they didn't seem to have trouble adapting the rps.

You do realise that I have made forays into Q-space before... others have rp'd Q-space nations and they didn't seem to have trouble adapting the rps.

Quasispace? -_-

I demand to see URL's.

I have already stated my monopoly, and recieved nothing to contradict me.

Quasispace? -_-

I demand to see URL's.

Unfortunately it was the first month I started rps here... they are all deleted do to inactivity by now.

Anyways you could always make that ship a worldship... base your entire nation as a single entity that goes from one system to another, salvaging resources from wherever.

Handy. Regardless, my monopoly has never been challenged. If you went there, you got blown up. Simple as that.

Ankhmeti Quasispace is a small pocket dimension with wormholes leading to many parts of the universe. Ankhmeti explorers seeded it with mines, and in time, they built stations. Now there's an artificial planetoid there.

And there's no way I'm putting my entire population into a military ship which will be used for harassing people :D

Handy. Regardless, my monopoly has never been challenged. If you went there, you got blown up. Simple as that.

Ankhmeti Quasispace is a small pocket dimension with wormholes leading to many parts of the universe. Ankhmeti explorers seeded it with mines, and in time, they built stations. Now there's an artificial planetoid there.

And there's no way I'm putting my entire population into a military ship which will be used for harassing people :D

One-way or two-way wormholes?

One-way or two-way wormholes?


One-way. Entry has to be made by Ankhmeti IDF emmitters.

Ok, so you have a civ that has one super-powerful ship, a small pocket dimension with a single artificial planet (surrounded by spacestations), and a series of one-way wormholes surrounding the artificial system to allow you to deposite that one ship wherever you need it so that you're civ can survive by raiding others... is that correct?

I'll assume that the planet and its space stations are actually the cause of the pocket dimension and the wormhole generators.

Sounds interesting.

No. The planetoid is a huge cluster of those stations, and I had Q-Space from the start. It's helpful now. But if you could somehow destroy my ship and somehow retrieve the IDF drive....

No. The planetoid is a huge cluster of those stations, and I had Q-Space from the start. It's helpful now. But if you could somehow destroy my ship and somehow retrieve the IDF drive....

Would make an interesting rp. Infiltration or massive fleet battle to aquire the IDF drive from the only Ankhmet ship.

Noooooo!

Noooooo!

Don't worry... I'm not going to do it. Just don't make too many enemies out there.

ooc: look again. My nation is a year old. Go home and contemplate your inability to read numbers correctly. Do you not think it's odd that somehow a less-than-month-old nation managed one and a half thousand posts?

My bad, though I've been on NS since March, 03. And I know wank when I see it. But whatever, I won't be RPing with you, so do whatever you want.

Don't worry... I'm not going to do it. Just don't make too many enemies out there.

I try not to.

And Riven is a poopyhead.

I try not to.

And Riven is a poopyhead.

OOC: Can you say lame comeback?

On another note, the only way I would RP with you using this ship without me bringing out my Temporal Ignore Cannons would be if you had a population of 10 billion.

[-_- then ignore :)]

[-_- then ignore :)]

OOC: My, you are moody as well as arrogant.

OOC: You compensating for something?

[Yes. I have an incredibly small penis.]

[Yes. I have an incredibly small penis.]

OOC: A psychologist would say that it was good you could admit that. I say, "*Points and laughs* I bet you got the ego to match."

[Actually, I have a fantastically large ego. it's a miracle I can fit in my house!]

[Actually, I have a fantastically large ego. it's a miracle I can fit in my house!]

OOC: Uh, that's the ego that matches, dude.

[Surely if it matched, it would be tiny.]

[Actually, I have a fantastically large ego. it's a miracle I can fit in my house!]
[I can't fit in mine, so they had to build a new and bigger one for me. Of course, I later abandoned it when I moved to America...what do you think the Sydney Opera House was for originally? :p

Also...these aren't the forces we will be engaging, are they? Just clarifying.]

[I can't fit in mine, so they had to build a new and bigger one for me. Of course, I later abandoned it when I moved to America...what do you think the Sydney Opera House was for originally? :p

Also...these aren't the forces we will be engaging, are they? Just clarifying.]

[No.]

[Surely if it matched, it would be tiny.]

OOC: Uh, no. With your small, uh, size and arrogance level, the ego to match would be quite large.

[No.]
[Ok, good. We're all MT so it'll be fine, I think...]

[Ok, good. We're all MT so it'll be fine, I think...]

OOC: MT? Why would an MT be making an FT thread?

two seperate eras. Understand?]