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If any of you are still using this forum, I have been resisting the urge to rewrite the first space story for a while, but now I have given in. If any would like to join me feel free. I also would like anything anyone might have saved from the first two stories.
I remember reading a bit of the story. Was it about the IC universe: about Quantam, Partaxian, etc...?
No that was player rebellion, this was when the earth had been destroyed and the remnants of humanity had to try to survive.
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keep it up! I miss you nerds. 
probably my most favourite space books were the Stainless Steel Rat ones, they were a fun read, I also really liked a series about German Soldiers in WWII (I cannot for the life of me remember the Name of them 
I think I need to visit the Library this week lol) who went around stealing schnaps and doing the impossible etc.. kinda like the Rat 
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Ahh, yes, Player Rebellion....I remember.
Was that an official Stephan-sanctioned account of the IC universe? I think this game needs some sort of official mythology, sanctioned, and sponsored by Stephan and the IC Mod community.
Hi!
What, there's a new Space?
*reads*
Wait, a rewrite?
You could, but there are some choices I would have done differently >_>
Then by all means Algebra, go right ahead 
. I'll delete the post that has your part and you are free to do as you like.
What's a Terranova?
By the way, I'm keeping my part of the story in a Google Docs document.
Ok no worries. I'm keeping to the original story line for as long as I can until things just get too silly . I've just written my part on my laptop but I don't have Internet until I get back home in 12 hours, I'll post it then. Also I will be scaling back the size of enemy ships by a factor of ten, because by the original story a Colta was 100km long and wasn't really addressed properly and the world ship was on the order of 100,000km. 
I always though that was a bit silly...
It was? I remember them being smaller.
I'll be able to write on my flight tomorrow; work's been busy this week.
The original story said 100 times the size of the Heleriya and then the next size up was a thousand times bigger then that.
We had a debate over whether it was length or volume that was being described. I think we said volume, but I might be crazy.
In any case, volume makes more sense.
This is a rough design for a Colta warship.
Colta warship.
Elongated oval shape.
Ten kilometers long.
Two and a half kilometers wide.
One thousand, seven hundred and fifty meters tall.
24 anti-proton beam emitters 12 spaced 500 meters apart in the middle 6 kilometers of each side.
12 missile bays with a cluster of 8 on top of the ship and 4 on the bottom.
Anti-fighter emplacements spaced around each of the above weapons coupled with flak dispensers. A Colta has a fighter wing containing 100 fighters each.
5 plasma cannons on each side used primarily for short range combat.
That's a capital ship. You're insisting on length and not volume or cross-sectional area? Picture this, then. Suppose you have two cubes, one 1 cm on a side and the other 10 cm on a side. How much larger does the 10 cm cube _really_ look?
Then how big would you suggest? The Kallum have a very large industrial capacity so ship sizes would be larger then humans. It needs to be big enough to instil fear into anyone but small enough to be believable that it's just a warship.
The Heleriya's about one kilometer long. A five-kilometer long Colta would be more than sufficient to get the point across. Also, a five-kilometer-long Colta would have somewhere between 100 and 150 times the displacement and would require 100 to 150 times the amount of resources, putting it on the high end of the believable spectrum.
If you were to go for a 2.5 kilometer Colta, it would be perceptibly large enough to make any starship captain tremble. It would also have somewhere between 12 and 18 times the Heleriya's displacement, making it a more balanced foe.
Ok we'll just halve those measurements then, to five kilometers long. Remember a Colta is their main ship and only a few larger ones are being used by the Kallum.
I can't actually remember, so I will ask.
The Colta-class vessels carry a fighter wing of 100. Are they actually designated as carriers? For all I know I could be conflating them with the Yoltoc, which I seem to remember are smaller...?
this is badass guys, loving it atm
Yeah the Yoltoc are smaller but are designed as a carrier. They can carry 250 fighters but lack the heavy weaponry of a Colta. Numbers can change however, so we'll tweak it until we're comfortable. I won't have my next part up until tomorrow sometime.
And thank you forever, it is fun to write and read.
yeah well I wish I could write as well as both of you, do you guys have any other projects like this on other sites?
No none at all, it's all on this site.
I zoned out this week and had work. Let's see what happens to Carl...
I had feared you left again... So I slightly panicked and bumped the old RPs. Which I'd like to get back up and running, if time permits on your end?
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