Station factory @ Vetitice and transport from Vetitice
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Station factory @ Vetitice and transport from Vetitice
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Just to brainstorm a bit:
As you may know Veticite is famous for the GASEC factory that makes the Coriolis, Dodecs and Ico stations. I often wondered how this should look and work. I imagine a sort of superfactory floating in space and a special cruiser that transport the stations.
How would you visualize station building and do you think it is actually doable in an OXP. For example like the Buoy factory but only bigger?
Concept drawings of concepts here.
Just to brainstorm a bit:
As you may know Veticite is famous for the GASEC factory that makes the Coriolis, Dodecs and Ico stations. I often wondered how this should look and work. I imagine a sort of superfactory floating in space and a special cruiser that transport the stations.
How would you visualize station building and do you think it is actually doable in an OXP. For example like the Buoy factory but only bigger?
Concept drawings of concepts here.
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Ok, so in your vision it's build around a station core in orbit around the planet? So the GASEC factory only makes parts in that case and transports bring it to the planets. Makes sense.Cmdr James wrote:I would imagine that like most large structures, stations are made in pieces, transported to their destination, and assembled there.
Would be awesome to see that in an OXP one day.
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In my idea Stations are built in orbit around Veticite and then transported (including Hyperspace to other galaxy using an enormous ship)
Something like this.
It's a battlecruiser, station builder, carrier and office in one single unit.
To transport the station large retractable clamps are used.
Something like this.
It's a battlecruiser, station builder, carrier and office in one single unit.
To transport the station large retractable clamps are used.
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I like - but I like big! How does it compare in scale to something like a Gen. Ship or Behemoth?
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Re-uploaded the picture with a Behemot for comparison.
Behemot is 415 meters long, Coriolis 1000 x 1000.
Behemot is 415 meters long, Coriolis 1000 x 1000.
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Hee-Hee - I like it even more now!
So, what's its ETtG (Estimated Time to Gaming)?
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Also in Vetitice?
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i think it'd be more realistic if the parts were built in Veticite but were shipped out to the other planets. The actual stations would be built in orbit around each planet....
...or....
instead of building a massive transport ship, they just attached thrusters and a witchspace drive externally to the station to get it to where it needed to go.
....or....
you could have and army of tug boats pulling it to it's location.
...or....
instead of building a massive transport ship, they just attached thrusters and a witchspace drive externally to the station to get it to where it needed to go.
....or....
you could have and army of tug boats pulling it to it's location.
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Im thinking systemwide wormhole cascades. Each visited system grows an event horizon, and anyone crossing it is transported into the next system, which again has a permanent wormhole so big that you appear inside it, and so on until you catch up with the transport.
Which makes me wonder, what is currently the biggest hyperspace capable ship, and is this a problem?
Which makes me wonder, what is currently the biggest hyperspace capable ship, and is this a problem?
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It is pure coincidence, but the "random" generator that adds the buoy repair factories, places also one in Vetitice. And not just anywhere in orbit, but almost near the main station.pagroove wrote:As you may know Veticite is famous for the GASEC factory that makes the Coriolis, Dodecs and Ico stations. ..... For example like the Buoy factory but only bigger?
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