Relaunch of one that died a year ago:
A fleet of ships (one per player) leave Earth to travel to a world in another star system, via a wormhole (yes, I know it's sci-fi, but it's theoretically possible, and I needed a way to get us to another system) Earth found on the edge of the heliopause. Scientists can't understand why it is there, but understand it well enough to have sent several probes through it already. On the other side, they found another star system, much like the Solar system, but with a slightly redder star, and far more worlds. The only world with liquid water on it, however, is a ringworld, a planet tidally locked with the sun, one side always baking, the other always freezing. Around the border between the light and dark sides there is a canyon spanning the entire world, created by millions of years of ice blowing in from the cold side, thawing, then refreezing on the cold side or depositing sediment on the hot side before evaporating. It is the only place liquid water exists, and even then the vast majority of it is under the surface. Very few lifeforms exist there, mostly microscopic, but there are algaes, lichens, and a type of coral-like miniature lifeform.
The ships will land in this canyon, remarkably flat from the canyon-forming process. The colonists will construct a base underground in one of the many large naturally occurring caves in order to avoid the storms which frequent the surface, an average of twelve tornadoes or ice-hurricanes on the planet per day.
A space probe sent microscopic records back of every lifeform (took 5 months to get the signal), as well as chemical tests of a huge number of them for toxins, but found few toxins that could hurt humans (ex: a type of lichen that can survive much higher levels of arsenic than humans is fatal if eaten due to arsenic buildup in it). They haven't tested viruses or the like, but it's unlikely their micro-cellular life could effect humans or Earth life.
Spectroscopic analysis shows no refined metals, except on the hot side where it happens naturally. There is also no sign of artificial electronic activity, though if it was far underground it would be shielded from detection.
The trip is one way, due to fuel, though only LH2 is needed as fuel, so it can easily be made two way. Takeoff is done by heading north or south until you clear the canyon wall, then heading over the hot side to get the extra lift from the heat coming off of the ground.
The 747-8f has 855 cubic meters of cargo space, so let's say ours has a bit less (as some will be taken by the reactor, crew space, etc.), say 825 cubic meters. They need two cockpit crew, though I'd guess a spacecraft would need at least 4, say a pilot, engineer, doctor, and another. The 747-8i can seat 605 passengers, so I doubt you can fill up on passengers. It took 17 months to get there, so any trip will probably be one way anyway.
We got lucky. Much of the life on this world, on the colder, light side of the canyon, converts co2 to o2, as do many endothermic lifeforms that live underground on the hot side. As such, the air is 15% oxygen, 1% CO2, and about 84% inert gasses, mostly nitrogen. It has a surface pressure of 58.2 kpa, so, a bit thin, and you need a CO2 filter, but we can adapt.
Also, the planet has a gravity of .83G.
The ships:
Roughly the size of a Boeing 747, but massing slightly more, they are powered by a 10 Gigawatt, U-239 nuclear reactor. They have four 2.4GW nuclear turbo-jet/nuclear rocket hybrids and a 10 Gigawatt mini magnetospheric plasma propulsion drive for interplanetary travel. With roughly 300 tonnes of cargo capacity, it was designed to haul cargo to and from the in-system colonies, but has been use to haul colonists as well.
The rules:
1) Any tech that isn't a reasonable improvement over current tech, or tech that hasn't at least been proof-of-concept proven has to be approved by me before it can be introduced.
2) No aliens unless they are pre-approved. I definitely don't want humanoid aliens, just aliens that are actually alien. Remember, they evolved under completely different circumstances. Being that walk on legs, have arm with hands, and heads may be accepted if they are suitably alien.
Everyone will have their own ship and will decide what cargo to haul on it, or crew/colonists to bring with them. People who aren't active can be placed in stasis, a medically induced coma in which heart rate and brain activity is greatly decreased, and in acceleration capsules, like they were in for transfer through the wormhole.
My ship will carry basic construction supplies(a pre-fab hanger for each ship, a bulldozer, concrete mixer, etc). We will (at least) need a farming vessel (more accurately, a hydro/aeroponics vessel), a mining vessel, and a manufacturing vessel. I can't launch the RP until we have those four ships.
If you have any questions or comments, just post them. I like questions. It makes the RP more detailed.
A fleet of ships (one per player) leave Earth to travel to a world in another star system, via a wormhole (yes, I know it's sci-fi, but it's theoretically possible, and I needed a way to get us to another system) Earth found on the edge of the heliopause. Scientists can't understand why it is there, but understand it well enough to have sent several probes through it already. On the other side, they found another star system, much like the Solar system, but with a slightly redder star, and far more worlds. The only world with liquid water on it, however, is a ringworld, a planet tidally locked with the sun, one side always baking, the other always freezing. Around the border between the light and dark sides there is a canyon spanning the entire world, created by millions of years of ice blowing in from the cold side, thawing, then refreezing on the cold side or depositing sediment on the hot side before evaporating. It is the only place liquid water exists, and even then the vast majority of it is under the surface. Very few lifeforms exist there, mostly microscopic, but there are algaes, lichens, and a type of coral-like miniature lifeform.
The ships will land in this canyon, remarkably flat from the canyon-forming process. The colonists will construct a base underground in one of the many large naturally occurring caves in order to avoid the storms which frequent the surface, an average of twelve tornadoes or ice-hurricanes on the planet per day.
A space probe sent microscopic records back of every lifeform (took 5 months to get the signal), as well as chemical tests of a huge number of them for toxins, but found few toxins that could hurt humans (ex: a type of lichen that can survive much higher levels of arsenic than humans is fatal if eaten due to arsenic buildup in it). They haven't tested viruses or the like, but it's unlikely their micro-cellular life could effect humans or Earth life.
Spectroscopic analysis shows no refined metals, except on the hot side where it happens naturally. There is also no sign of artificial electronic activity, though if it was far underground it would be shielded from detection.
The trip is one way, due to fuel, though only LH2 is needed as fuel, so it can easily be made two way. Takeoff is done by heading north or south until you clear the canyon wall, then heading over the hot side to get the extra lift from the heat coming off of the ground.
The 747-8f has 855 cubic meters of cargo space, so let's say ours has a bit less (as some will be taken by the reactor, crew space, etc.), say 825 cubic meters. They need two cockpit crew, though I'd guess a spacecraft would need at least 4, say a pilot, engineer, doctor, and another. The 747-8i can seat 605 passengers, so I doubt you can fill up on passengers. It took 17 months to get there, so any trip will probably be one way anyway.
We got lucky. Much of the life on this world, on the colder, light side of the canyon, converts co2 to o2, as do many endothermic lifeforms that live underground on the hot side. As such, the air is 15% oxygen, 1% CO2, and about 84% inert gasses, mostly nitrogen. It has a surface pressure of 58.2 kpa, so, a bit thin, and you need a CO2 filter, but we can adapt.
Also, the planet has a gravity of .83G.
The ships:
Roughly the size of a Boeing 747, but massing slightly more, they are powered by a 10 Gigawatt, U-239 nuclear reactor. They have four 2.4GW nuclear turbo-jet/nuclear rocket hybrids and a 10 Gigawatt mini magnetospheric plasma propulsion drive for interplanetary travel. With roughly 300 tonnes of cargo capacity, it was designed to haul cargo to and from the in-system colonies, but has been use to haul colonists as well.
The rules:
1) Any tech that isn't a reasonable improvement over current tech, or tech that hasn't at least been proof-of-concept proven has to be approved by me before it can be introduced.
2) No aliens unless they are pre-approved. I definitely don't want humanoid aliens, just aliens that are actually alien. Remember, they evolved under completely different circumstances. Being that walk on legs, have arm with hands, and heads may be accepted if they are suitably alien.
Everyone will have their own ship and will decide what cargo to haul on it, or crew/colonists to bring with them. People who aren't active can be placed in stasis, a medically induced coma in which heart rate and brain activity is greatly decreased, and in acceleration capsules, like they were in for transfer through the wormhole.
My ship will carry basic construction supplies(a pre-fab hanger for each ship, a bulldozer, concrete mixer, etc). We will (at least) need a farming vessel (more accurately, a hydro/aeroponics vessel), a mining vessel, and a manufacturing vessel. I can't launch the RP until we have those four ships.
If you have any questions or comments, just post them. I like questions. It makes the RP more detailed.