NationStates Jolt Archive


Colonising Brave New Worlds (Open, MT/PMT)

British Londinium
16-12-2006, 17:34
Press Release from the Royale Group, plc.

Today, a new era is open for the people of British Londinium. After purchasing a new planet, Vishnu, in a star-systrem approximately six light-years away, the time has come to colonise this brave new world.

Therefore, a new colonisation programme has been created. The Royale Group is looking for volunteers to fill a colony vessel. The benefits to the colonists are immense.

Furthermore, Royale is also offering colonisation rights to the nearby planet of Itzamna up for auction.
Eriburn
16-12-2006, 17:58
Eriburn would like to know what you terms are for the colonisation of Itzamma.
British Londinium
16-12-2006, 18:17
The terms? If you mean who gets it, it's the highest bidder.

More details on colonisation rights in Londinian system:

1. Allies/friends of the Royale Group are allowed to colonise Vishnu and 51% of Itzamna; authorization must be granted, however.
2. The nation/organization recieving Itzamna only recieves 49% of the planet's land mass. The rest is the property of the Royale Group, plc.
3. Each planet is 60 million sq. miles large.
Red Tide2
16-12-2006, 19:47
OOC:Colonizing planets is definantly NOT MT or even PMT.
Commonalitarianism
16-12-2006, 19:49
What if we are interested in colonizing the oceans not the land masses?

The Burkhard Heim Drive could be tested in the next five years. It may be a fantasy, but if it worked, colonization might be available in late PMT. If it doesn't work, it might lead to other ways to do the same thing, basically create fuel to break the light barrier in 20-30 years.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200.html
British Londinium
16-12-2006, 19:50
The same policy applies for oceanic colonization as well.
Kormanthor
16-12-2006, 19:52
What if we are interested in colonizing the oceans not the land masses?


A waterworld would fit you to a tee. No land masses getting in the way.
Commonalitarianism
17-12-2006, 20:16
We will offer $1,000,000,000 to colonize the oceans of Vishnu and
$1,000,000,000 to colonize the oceans of Itzamna.

Regards,

Amara Cruon, Minister of Trade, Commonalitarianism
British Londinium
17-12-2006, 20:23
The offer for Itzamna stands for 1 billion USD to colonize 49% of it's oceans.
However, seeing as Vishnu is the "jem" in the Royale colonization plan, one billion USD is far too small. Furthermore, we are not selling vast tracts of land/ocean, but more specific settlements.

One billion USD will allow you to obtain approximately 50 square miles of ocean of Vishnu.
Amazonian Beasts
17-12-2006, 21:15
The Amazonian Dominion will offer 1.9 billion dollars for the right to colonizer 49% of Itzamna.
Commonalitarianism
17-12-2006, 23:39
We are definitely interested in the 49 % Itzamna ocean for $1,000,000,000. We will pass on the Vishnu offer.

Regards,

Amara Cruon, Commonalitarianism Trade Representative
Commonalitarianism
22-12-2006, 19:20
We will start by building three massive Mark 2 Liberty Ships (PMT). These will then work on building a floating city.

Ship Mark 2.

Liberty Ships twenty-five decks house residential space, a library, schools, churches, and a first-class hospital in addition to retail and wholesale shops, banks, hotels, restaurants, entertainment facilities, gymnasium, martial arts center, international art gallery, casinos, offices, warehouses, and light manufacturing and assembly enterprises. A seawater purification plant is built into this facility. There is also a recycling center, and waste reprocessing center allowing for close to complete reclamation of waste. The waste is processed into fertilizer to maintain the parks and gardens. It is also used in the small botanical garden inside the ship. The recycling center processes used metal for the light assembly plants. The police center bunker inside the ship provides for protection of its citizens and preparation drills against piracy. There is also a small recruiting station for the military with a mutual association for the different services available. A ferryboat transportation system provides departures every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, to 3 or more local cities giving ship residents access to the local neighborhood and up to 30,000 land-based residents a chance to spend a day on the ship. The windows on the ship are made of a clear solar cell material able to resist typhoon force or greater winds providing power to the ship making it require little outside power sources. The windows can resist most all small arms fire. Also a submarine dock is available for up to four tourist or transportation submarines.

A virtual private network is built throughout the ship. This virtual private computer network provides cheap VOIP telephone service, international satellite cable television access, and has optional secure access to the internet through a separate channel.

Parks and promenades boast waterfalls, ponds, and extensive landscaping. Ours includes a small botanical garden. Most levels feature large saltwater aquariums. Included is a small marine science center for oceanic research. In addition, there is an aquaculture center for growing fish, and sea vegetables. There are small hydroponic gardens to provide fresh fruits and vegetables. There is also a pleasure district for gambling and relaxing activities. The shopping mall, one of the world's largest, is also one of its most beautiful. Portions are dedicated to individual countries, featuring culturally characteristic architectures. There is also a weekend flea market and an open space for small business kiosks. The 100-foot-wide main deck leads to a marina at the stern. There are over 200 acres of open area for recreation and relaxation. Included is a small artificial lake stocked from our aquariums for fishing. Also there is a small firing range to practice target shooting. Small electric transport with recharger stations are available throughout the ship. There are also bicycle paths in the recreational areas for recreational riding.

The vessel's flat bottom hull construction, along with its extraordinary size, results in unmatched and unprecedented stability providing a smooth ride in the roughest seas. The safety of the vessel is enhanced by the use of 600 individual air/water tight hull sections. These hull sections are coated with a light hard ceramic armored coating to prevent damage from other ships bumping into the ship. Extensive use of 4 hour rated firebreaks between decks areas within the decks enhance fire safety. The ship is virtually fireproof. The electro-static ventilation system supplies uncontaminated, filtered and purified air. It has automatic detectors for chemical and biological agents and will automatically locate the presence of such agents in any part of the ship. There is an entry processing center for incoming travellers. This includes a series of checkpoints for bombs, biological agents, and other material which you wish to be checked for.

The ship's design accepts up to 40,000 full time residents, 30,000 daily visitors, 10,000 nightly hotel guests, and 20,000 full time crew. This population of 100,000 people provides a wealth of talent and diversity for the private businesses aboard the ship and to those they visit daily on their adventures ashore.

Liberty Ship has a flight deck can accept are turboprop aircraft in the 38 to 40-passenger range. While fixed wing aircraft are economically and strategically more practical we can eliminate the landing strips and replace them with helicopter pads and a large recreation facility for the residents if you wish. A retractable dome is available to seal the landing pad against hurricanes and typhoons.

length: 4,500 feet, width: 750 feet, height: 350 feet
Commonalitarianism
23-12-2006, 01:40
Workers flowed into the massive barges that were being built. Ships came in landing on the water, releasing materials, men, and mecha. Slowly the three barges were built.

Then the next phase of the building started. A floating domed arcology, the union between architecture and ecology. Massive sections of floating hulls were laid out, over which structures were built. Gardens and parks took form, a system of wind farms, OTEC plants, clear solar powered lightweight polymer panels, and fusion plants powered by deuterium extracted from seawater were built. Multistory skyscraper farms, aquaculture centers and biorefineries rose on the platform fueling industry, houses and homes, were built, recycling plants, bioshelter sewage plants, and industrial biotechnology centers were built. Wireless towers for communications sprouted, and cables and electrical lines were laid. A city began to form. Rolling roads and fast hover trains networks were made for transportation inside the city, the outer city formed lanes for hover traffic. A massive clear dome and seawall was laid out.

In the center of the city, an elevator system with capsules was lowered to the sea floor. Here core taps were lowered deep into the earth for more power. Deep sea farms were built and tunnels were bored into the sea floor for industrial storage areas. Then cables were raised into the sky using a system of balloon platforms. These became permanent hangars for airships and light transportation craft. An ion powered blimp carried more cables from the balloon platform to low earth orbit where they were attached to a hollowed out asteroid containing docking bays for spaceships and other space craft. Space industry formed around the asteroid. Mining ships were sent out to the near Itzamna asteroids to bring back mineral and other wealth to feed the now growing city, which would start to sprout other smaller floating cities and deep sea domes.
Commonalitarianism
23-12-2006, 02:40
From the city pour researchers and scientists to measure, research, and collect all the different kinds of life on the planet collecting, photographing, and studying all the different plants, animals, bacteria, and life forms. Slowly research is studied in the processes of life on this new world to understand how to better preserve and protect the biota as well as develop new sources of biotechnological wealth, new fibers, new biological armor, new bioreactor technology, new sources of crops, new biochemicals, and biopolymers. The way different creatures interact to form habitats is studied as well as the different biological systems. It is photographed, holoprinted, and taped for a permanent record. A genetic repository for seeds, bacteria, and dna is created.

The geology, minerals, weather and other patterns are also studied to better understand the new world they are colonizing. The areas of other colonists like Amazonian beasts are avoided. However, the unclaimed land is investigated as well.
Commonalitarianism
23-12-2006, 12:35
The mapping of the solar system began. Each celestial body was mapped with a GPS Mapping Satellite giving various types of maps. All of the asteroid, and comets were identified. The oort cloud was measured. Probes were sent into the asteroid fields which would measure the metallic content and elemental composition of each asteroid with neutron scanners, gamma ray scanners, and other detection equipment. The moons of the various planets were scanned for mineral content.

An asteroid foundry was built to break up asteroids in the asteroid field into their components. One of the larger asteroids had a mass driver built on it to throw chunks of processed metal to Itzamna where they would be caught in an orbital catch net. A massive solar array was built to power the asteroid foundry.

At the edge of the system a deep space monitoring station was built to check for incoming and outgoing celestial traffic as well as astronomical observation.

Not far from the astronomical observatory, a base was built for starships leaving and coming into the system.

In a geosynchronious directly above the oceans of Itzamna a free floating space colony was built from a hollowed out asteroid designed to spin on its axis. Domes dotted the surface of the asteroid, and the open maw of hangars for spaceships could be seen.
Commonalitarianism
23-12-2006, 21:26
The Commonii begin work on paraterraforming a huge 6 kilometer long hollowed out asteroid into a small version of a worldhouse. They break it into different ecologies, Earth, Paradise, Ganoxa, and Muse building interlocking segments until the asteroid is completely covered in a habitable atmosphere. Then they build research laboratories inside the asteroid building a biological and ecological research base in space. It is their first true worldhouse asteroid.

Then they begin building several cloud nine tensegrity spheres, huge floating geodesic spheres over the ocean with massive sheets of flexible bioplastic hanging from them that float three miles high in the atmosphere. Thousands of people take their vacations here.
Commonalitarianism
24-12-2006, 21:43
Because there is no one to stop further claims, the Commonii build a large dome on Ganoxa's moon. Lots of material and people and material start flowing out of the dome and heading towards the new ocean cities. It looks like over a million people in a two week period. There are what looks like railroad tubes, you can see a what looks like a sealed train exit the dome run along a high speed track in a clear tunnel then disappear abruptly. Also trains appear abruptly in other tubes and enter the dome.

IC: This is a wormhole train. It is basically, a train which goes into a wormhole gate, a tunnel is built between two different apertures, the tunnel is a hollow steel tube with a maglev track and a gravitophoton repulsor field on the outside to keep the forces inside the wormhole from destroying the train. It is a primitive form of stargate. Basically a way to shorten distance between two points in space which is faster than interstellar travel. It is a precursor to the SG-1 type stargate.
Commonalitarianism
26-12-2006, 04:14
With the new building on the moon, a spirit of experimentation occurs. A new type of arcology is built in the shape of a giant pyramid using a triangular truss system. It is a bit different. Many of the trusses are turned into hollow pneumatic tubes which are used for transportation all over the triangular shaped arcology.

Then a new type of space station is designed using the triangular truss shape as well. It is two linked pyramids forming a spinning dodecahedron-- eight sided object in space. This is a fairly practical shape for a space station.

The system is fast filling up. The colonists are considering asking British Londinium to buy more space.