NationStates Jolt Archive

This a place for me to document R&D and construction projects. Please do not post icly in this topic, though ooc comments and advice are alright.

Specifications:
The Iceburg Ion Cannons are based on the designs of the KDY-v150 Planet Defender, but twice the size and yield. As the name suggests they will be deployed on the ocean with the huge mass bouyant under the surface and only the end of the barrel emerged. The submerged design not only helps protect the cannons from detection and attack, but also reduce the cooldown time of the weapon by venting heat directly into the surrounding water. Power comes from a hydrogen fueled fussion reactor supplied by 2 fuel tanks that take hydrogen straight from the ocean. This allow 2 consecutive shots before it must recharge the fuel cells. Recharging takes about 10 minutes, during which the device can be protected by a weak energy shield until ready to fire again.

Construction:
Run one: 60 Iceburgs, 100% (31/12/05)
Run two: 60 Iceburgs, 100% (25/01/06)

Total: 120 Iceburgs, 100% operational

Ti-Tech Industries has been contracted to begun research into designing a Tidani counterpart to the Super Star Destroyer. The aim of this project is design a ship capable of defending and defeating a SSD, and to determine if it is financially worth building our design or to just purchase an SSD. The project has been codenamed Star Guardian.

The first six Iceburg Ion Cannons have been completed and were towed to their deployment positions. These are the first cannons to be completed and are now operational. Construction continues on the remaining 54.

The long standing project of the Aquilan Federation (the planetary federation to which Tidan is part) has long sought an armor unit to replace different designs for ground and sea missions. A recent breakthrough has culminated in the development of a combined arms ground and sea tank, known as a battle engine. The prototype battle engine, Aquila, has begun testing and its results will determine the final design.

prototype Battle Engine Aquila (http://images.filecloud.com/101326/BEA.jpg):
- capable of transition between land, air, and sea
- 2 fighter ion drives
- 4 thruster rockets
- 4 pulse plasma cannons
- 1 rocket launcher
- 2 torpedo tubes

Land walker mode (http://images.filecloud.com/403034/battleengineground.jpg)
Air and Sea mode (http://images.filecloud.com/403033/battleengineair.jpg)

Tests have completed on the Aquila Battle Engine. It was found to be an overwealming success after some modifications were made to the design and weapons configuration.

Aquila BE:
Walker mode:
-4 pulse plasma cannons (think spectre turret from halo 2)
-1 plasma mortar (similar to wraith cannon but with straight trajectory and large area effect explosion on contact)
Air mode:
-4 pulse plasma cannons
-1 cluster missile launcher (1 missile breaks into 5 in the air)
Sea mode:
-4 pulse plasma cannons
-2 torpedo tubes

The design is now going into full production in Tidan at the Rhoaltar Shipyards and will begin replacing armored units soon.

Project Star Guardian, the project to design our own super star destroyer, has evolved into a full redesign or our entire fleet. The goal of designing a super star destroyer equivalent has been dropped, but the technology designed and theorized has been put to use in new classes of ships. Those classes are currently in the research and development phase.

Frey Prasov, possibly the most brilliant mind in Tidan's history and the scientist in charge of Project Star Guardian, and his team have had the opportunity to study many advanced designs for starship propulsion, power, armor, and weaponry in the last few months. This has inspired him to make a number of breakthroughs in advancing Tidani technology.

Poly-Crystalline Armor - A form of crystalline armor plating grown around the ship, because of its natural properties it can regenerate itself by consuming energy. This property also helps reduce damage taken, as after the initial damage the residual energy left behind will be absorbed by the armor to regenerate the lost sections partially.

Gravimetric Drives - Engines that manipulate zero point energy and superstrings to provide propulsion, produce gravity, and negate inertia.
http://www.b5tech.com/misctech/engines/gravimetric/gravimetric.html

Artificial Quantum Singularity Reactor - An artificially created quantum singularity used for a power source. The waste of the singularity, anti-mater, is used for additional power as well as fuel for weapons.

Gravitic Neutron Cannon - This is the primary weapon of the Minbari Fleet. It is an extremely devastating weapon (rated at 350 Terrawatts) -- in addition to high power output, the Neutron Cannon as a highly accurate fire control system that allows it to target capital ships and fighter with equal accuracy.

Gravitic Fusion Beam Cannon - Considered a light capital ship armament by the Minbari, the Fusion Cannon is still more powerful and accurate than other races' light arms. Since their power requirements are quite low, Minbari ships are usually bristling with these cannons.

These new systems are planned to be integrated into the redesigned Tidani fleet.

OOC: these systems are mostly based on Minbari technology from Babylon 5.

After a month and a half of building and testing new designs, the first fleet using these new designs has been completed. It is being moved to Aquila to crew and load supplies. The Aquilan Defense Fleet is beginning upgrades at the orbital shipyards (ETC: 4 months). Meanwhile the Soul of Draelis is beginning work on the 3rd Fleet. Shield of the Republic is also beginning construction of the Draelis Defense Fleet at Draelis

New ship classes and fleet composition is here (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Tidani_Star_Fleets)

Project Star Guardian has finished and its team is being reassigned to work on a project with SeaQuest.

After four months of construction, the two voyager shipyards have completed work on the 3rd Battle Fleet and the Draelis Defense Fleet. The 3rd Fleet crewed and jumped to Draelis where it will be stationed along with the Draelis Defense Fleet. The orbital shipyards of Aquila have completed the upgrade of the Aquilan Defense Fleet. It has now been upgraded to the new classes of Tidani ships.

Shield of the Republic and Soul of Draelis have now begun work on the 4th and 5th Battle Fleets respectively. Expected date of completion is 5 months.

(OOC: I like your new ship spec format. where you inspired, or was it all your own?)

(OOC: For the ships I just used some babylon 5 hardware and made my own ships, for the format of the specs I just looked around at the different specs and used whatever I thought I should.)

(OOC: Oh, I only asked because it looked a lot like this one I use...)

(OOC: I went back and looked through the threads I used, and yours was the one that I used the most I think. I thought it was very thorough and well done, the best I saw in my opinion. Looking now I pretty much used your format. I hope you don't mind, I had nothing but flattery in mind. Refering to Kyanges' ES Arc Class Dreadnaught (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=458793).)

(OOC: I went back and looked through the threads I used, and yours was the one that I used the most I think. I thought it was very thorough and well done, the best I saw in my opinion. Looking now I pretty much used your format. I hope you don't mind, I had nothing but flattery in mind. Refering to Kyanges' ES Arc Class Dreadnaught (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=458793).)

(OOC: Heh, just fanning a small ego ^_^. Sorry, I don't do that often... Thanks, and no worries. I was smiles all the way.)

(OOC: Glad to hear. And Happy New Year Everybody.)

Project QEC

The goal is to create a communications system capable of universally instantaneous communication. The theoretical device is an addition to standard communication devices that encodes the analog and digital signals into photonic representations. Then the device applies these patterns to a crystal quantumly entangled with another such device on the other side of the universe. The second device records the pattern as the photons respond to their entangled counterparts. The pattern is then retranslated into an analog of digital signal which is displayed to the viewer at the second device.

The Quantum Entangled Communication System would have to be able to be coded to entangle with either all other devices in the nation's communication net, be able to be recoded to one code at a time, or have multiple crystals able to 'listen' to different 'channels' at the same time.

One proposed solution is to have a universally encoded 'connection' crystal to listen to for requests to entangle a 'channel' with that device. Then a second 'receiver/transmitter' crystal would recode itself to entangle with the device requesting communications.

Work on the Quantum Entanglement Universally Instantaneous Communication System has been completed.

The Project was a complete success. The final system involves creating a base crystal for each device. These base crystals are placed in a QEUICS Nexus which interfaces all the base crystals creating a communications network. This network has been placed in a complex deep underneath the sea floor of Aquila for protection. As one of the downsides of this system is that if the Nexus were to fail all QEUICS devices would be useless. Other downsides include the power drain from encoding the entangled particles at computational speeds, thus the system is only available in capital ships, cities, and installations. Also, if the device or its base partner are damaged both need to be replaced by new crystals. This means that the ship must return to Aquila for now, or a city or installation need to wait for the new part to arrive. If this occurs the platform using the device must revert to standard communications systems, as it would when communicating with other nations.

Construction: All capital ships are being receiving their QEUICS device and the bases are all being placed in the Nexus computer system.

Major cities and installations have received their devices and bases have been integrated.

Work has begun on a back-up Nexus in event the primary Nexus fails. To use the secondary Nexus all devices must receive another crystal.

Construction on the Fourth and Fifth Fleets has finished. Those fleets are crewing and preparing for opperations in the Aquilan System.

Shield of the Republic is moving onto construction of fighters for system defense.

Soul of Drealis is now replacing the lost First Fleet.

The first fleet has now been replaced. The replacement fleet was just completed at Draelis and will now be designated The First Fleet.

I have decided to can my secondary species for a few reasons. The shipyard Shield of the Monarch is renamed Shield of the Republic and stationed at Draelis.

Hyr and the Hyr System will be as if they were never part of or discovered by Tidan. This message will take the place of me going back and editing everything in this thread.

EDIT: nevermind. There were only a few posts in here that mentioned Hyr, so I edited them so that this thread is now correct.

Soul of Draelis has now begun construction on the Sixth Fleet. This fleet will be a battle fleet. ETC is 3 months for the 200 ships. (01/18/06)

Soul of Draelis has completed the Sixth Fleet. Construction was delayed 2 more months because of widespread system failures of the voyager station. The problem was identified and fix (ooc: we hope!). With the completion of this fleet, fleets 1,2,3 are now stationed at Aquila, and fleets 4,5,6 are now stationed at Draelis.

The Rhoaltar Shipyards have begun a second run of Iceburg Planetary Defense Ion Cannons. This batch will include another 60 cannons with a batch of 12 being finished each month. At the end of the project it may be decided to continue construction further.

Secret projects branching off of Project QEC has finally produced results.

The Quantum Entanglement Capacitor

A massive generator safely placed on a planet sends energy through a network of quantumly entangled crystals. These crystal's counterparts are placed on fighters stationed at that planet. As the charged crystals photons absorb and release the energy granted them, their counterparts also excite and discharge energy. While the resultant photonic energy discharge is fractionally proportional to the amount passing though the charged crystal, the result is fighters that have the shield strength of a frigate without the corresponding power drain.

With the successful prototype, a QEC generator is being constructed under the sea floor of Aquila to power shields for the planetary defense fighters who are being fitted with QEC system capacitors. Constructions is expected to progress quickly over the next month due to the hastened state of war.

Generator construction is complete. Work continues on adding QECs to Aquila's fighter defenses. All fighters on the Spirit of Tidan angel platform (.5 mill) have been upgraded, and work is already well underway on the fighters stationed on Spirit of Watatuneetsu (.5 mill) and is expected to be finished in a matter of weeks.

Work on Project QEC has completed for now.

most of the stuff here is SIC, but since there was a major change I will do a small OOC update.

-My old planet of Aquila was destroyed
-3 new systems Bythan, Vertigo, and Mirage (see NSWiki, systems article)
-10 new tribes have joined with the original Tidani water tribe known as the Orothe (see NSWiki main article)
-All new tech, ships, and systems. I do not want to list them all here so go see my newly updated Tidani Star Fleets NSWiki article
-small update to my Marines article with new vehicles

Project Starfall has begun. The goal of this program will create an ideal combat species for addition to the Tidani Military.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=11002516

Work has begun on minefields in the Tidani, Vertigo, and Mirage systems. The work is being coordinated with The Empire of The Humankind Abh and their defensive line.