Cosmic Journey - Discussion

Sign-up thread.

Here's the thread for all the questions, answers, random chatter, music, you're listening to, and all the other stuff that kinda-sorta-okay-not-really-but-we're-gonna-talk-about-'em-anyway-because-why-not relating to the Cosmic Journey game!

First off, I'll answer some questions asked from the Sign-up and P Ms.

The Invaders are what you get when you cross a wolf, a preying mantis, and a naked mole rat. Hairless and with tiny beady eyes, they rely mostly on hearing and smell to identify things. Averaging at about a meter and a half tall, their bodies are almost insect-like, having three segments with their four limbs sprouting from the center. The second set of limbs are powerful legs that enable them to leap over twice their own height. The top limbs are primarily arms and rather large hands, but the Invaders can also drop down on all fours to run much faster then a human.

To the average person, the Invaders seem to talk solely in barks, snarls, and grunts. Some people could probably figure out what they mean, but never really replicate it.

The Invaders put populations they didn't kill outright to work. The speed in which they enslaved whole planets suggest this wasn't the first time they had done this.

The fleet consists of about 40% of the UN's space fleet and a large Marine detachment. Approximately 250 war vessels of various shapes and sizes, plus transport and cargo ships and a host of civilian-government vessels. Most ships were built in the Earth Federation, or the Tau Ceti Confederacy, with a spatter of designs from other countries, so there is uniformity in the fleets make-up, even if the crew is from across all member nations of the UN.

edited 17th Jan '13 1:52:26 PM by Parable

*Starts soiling the clean discussion room*

Hello!

And I'm guessing "Buggers" is one of the common slang terms for the invaders?

Probably.

Idea: We collaborate to flesh out what exactly is in the fleet and where. Ship names, orders of battle, weapons, etc. I guess Standard Sci-Fi Fleet and Standard Sci-Fi Army apply.

Dibs on the combat arms!

Idea: Lets do Deus' idea.

Brainstorm away.

Great idea Parable, glad you thought of it

I also regret using Aluminum Falcon as the name of the ship in another RP already.

That would be an amusing theme naming scheme, [Element] + [Bird of Prey].

I call dibs on the Molybdenum Pelican!

What about Polonium Caracara?

Does the fleet carry ground forces?

Also @ the question from the sign up thread. 00088 serves as his middle name

I'm pretty sure the fleet carries ground troops. Where else would the redshirts go?

Sign me up for the Osmium Osprey.

What's more immature, the Silicon Booby or the Nickel Swallow?

Anything with Booby in its name is automatically more immature then any other option.

Heavy battle group: Battleship, cruiser, 4 frigates, tender, troopship

Light battle group: 2 cruisers, 4 destroyers, tender, troopship

Logistics group: Destroyer, 2 frigates, repair ship, civilian ship, troopship

2 heavy groups, 2 light groups, and a logistics group form a formation, with 16 formations in the Fleet. Each group carries a battalion of Marines, and each formation carries a regiment.

EDIT: Removed carriers, modified the groups.

edited 11th Jan '13 5:27:51 PM by DeusDactyl

Define carriers in this context. I wasn't planning on there being starfighters in this setting.

Ah yes. The NAVY IN SPACE approach to space fleets.

I was just going off the Standard Sci-Fi Fleet page, I'll remove the carrier battle group then

What would artillery be like? I'm imagining the cruisers and destroyers as airborne artillery right now.

More like orbital artillery. Their weapons are probably better then the bigger ships for blowing stuff up without destroying everything else around it.

So, in the signup thread you said there is no single pilot fighters because they couldn't leave the atmosphere, so does that mean that the entire fleet is composed of ships small enough to enter an atmosphere?

And what is the plan for when the fleet finds the invaders?

Actually I said the small ship couldn't leave it's solar system. At least not in any appreciable time. Our ships by and large are actually too big and not aerodynamic enough to fly in the atmosphere. They are space based entirely except for the small shuttle-craft, the transport ships, and some of the civilian ships.

I imagine someone got the bright idea to just load up transport ships with rocks, and fling 'em at slower capital ships at relativistic speeds.

So people fly through space in big haulers, and, when they reach a planet, detach a smaller ship, like a dinghy?

Yeah, like that.