Oolite Bulletins

Commanders.
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.

I would imagine that like most large structures, stations are made in pieces, transported to their destination, and assembled there.

Cmdr James wrote:

I would imagine that like most large structures, stations are made in pieces, transported to their destination, and assembled there.

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.

Would be awesome to see that in an OXP one day.

I'd imagine Station-building to be similar to the Death-Star like, ie, a partially completed framework being assembled in space, rather than GRS which manufactures complete buoys inside the factory.

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.

I like - but I like big! How does it compare in scale to something like a Gen. Ship or Behemoth?

Re-uploaded the picture with a Behemot for comparison.
Behemot is 415 meters long, Coriolis 1000 x 1000.

Then where do they build the Frontier Battleship? In an even bigger station

Hee-Hee - I like it even more now!

So, what's its ETtG (Estimated Time to Gaming)?

Also in Vetitice?

Can you imagine the size and duration of the wormhole clouds from those guys?

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.

Cmdr James wrote:

Can you imagine the size and duration of the wormhole clouds from those guys?

Wow. Now I can see BIG permanent wormhole routes from such ships travelling by...and people not fighting the asteroid but waiting for the ship with the replacement station to arrive

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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?

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?

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.