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1/1/2300: The Black January Crash [Cyberpunk, Semi-Hard Sci-fi NRP]

@Keyguyperson so are you expecting us to have a history that detailed/long?

1/1/2300: The Black January Crash [Cyberpunk, Semi-Hard Sci-fi NRP]

I'm horrible at writing Histories. Its also my least favorite but more important (to me) part of the CS.

@LokiLeo789

I agree, that's currently what I'm working on finishing before posting my CS up again.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

@Keyguyperson Fenrir Heavy Industries has lesser holdings beyond the Belt (Refit and Repair stations) as well as both Gleipnir (Military and R&D shipyards out past Jupiter), and knock-off Tycho, Gosforth Station. But none of my claims are terrestrial save for the HQ on Luna.

As far as the weapons discussion, I don't trust myself to accurately convey it because I was just saying self-guided railgun rounds are OP and it has evolved into a level of complexity beyond my ability to constructively add to either side of the conversation.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

For the sake of the RP, all tonnages are simply placeholder for the time being. I have no idea how much an average freighter would weigh, or how much an average asteroid miner would weigh, or the total tonnage of an Earth Destroyer vs a Carrier or Battleship.

WIP

Fenrir Heavy Industries

Faction Name:
Fenrir Heavy Industries. Abbreviated as FHI.

Faction Government:
Mega Corporation - Led by a Board of Directors
Fenrir Heavy Industries lays more on the definition of a modern day Corporation than other mega corporations of its time. It does not have citizens or voting on corporate matters. It does however respect its workers rights to unionize and express their wants and concerns for the company's direction, which are duly noted during the next meeting of Directors.

Directors

CEO - WIP
Director of Labor - WIP
Chief Financial Officer - WIP
Chief Logistics Officer - WIP
Chief Security Officer - WIP
Chief Shipping Officer - WIP

Territory/Claims:
Headquartered out of the sprawling city in Mare Nubium on the near side of the moon, Fenrir Heavy Industries owns all manner of properties across the system. It’s most notable being Sköll Yard located in areostationary orbit above Mars.

Sköll Yard

Sköll Yard is not actually a single platform but rather a collection of hundreds of platforms and habitats, employing close to two hundred thousand people and completing over 1.1 trillion gross tonnage for the year 2229.

Edda Yard

Edda Yard was the first of Fenrir’s orbital shipyards to enter service in the year 2101. Located in orbit above Earth, it spearheaded the construction of some ten thousand of humanities first and second generation of ships, little more than rubber dinghies to take to the stars with when compared to the ships Edda Yard is capable of producing now. One massive yard, large enough to berth fifteen heavy-freighters for repairs at once or completely construct six super-heavy freighters at three deep and two abreast.

Gosforth Station

Gosforth Station is a hulking station with a population of just under eight thousand. It is one of the most notable construction and repair stations past the belt, gaining much of its notoriety from its ability to be ferried to any job, anywhere in the solar system thanks to a combination of two mounted Fenrir prototype super-heavy engines and a modified heavy freighter used as a tug.

Gleipnir

Listed simply as “Gleipnir” on all maps and documents, Gleipnir is by no means a secret to the rest of the system, but it is a closely guarded shipyard. Specializing in the construction of some of the most advanced and complicated military vessels of the time, Gleipnir is a series of three shipyards all of which were constructed in an orbit located just past Jupiter. They are guarded by an elite contingent of Fenrir’s subsidiary security firm Ragnarok and sister subsidiary and operator of Fenrir’s private fleet, Jörmungandr. Gleipnir also serves as the base of all of Fenrir’s R&D.

Lesser Holdings

Fenrir Heavy Industries owns an astounding amount of lesser property across the system. From local offices on stations and asteroids with populations greater than five thousand and repair yards and slips on most stations and asteroids large enough to house them. As well as thousands of free floating yards made for construction and repair of small craft to freighters around and beyond the belt. Fenrir (or one of their subsidiaries) can be found just about anywhere people call home in the system.

Culture:

Culture

A shining beacon to many that have lost hope, Fenrir Heavy Industries prides itself on being one of the few remaining mega corporation entities that still seems to have ethics.
It’s employees are not rated into any specific classes, they retain citizenship to whatever country they came to work for Fenrir from, and their value is not based on the amount of stock they own in Fenrir, but instead on the level of work they do.

Janitors receive what a janitor would expect to be paid. They receive full benefits after 1 year on the job and the ability to move their family to whatever station they are on pending availability and a properly routed FENINST 229.2/A after a short tenure of just three years with no outstanding incidents. Giving their family the opportunity to both live in a stable and relatively safe environment while offering the added benefits of Fenrir sponsored lower education and apprenticeship programs in the yards for children old enough to do so. This category of employee includes chefs, gardeners, shopkeepers, restaurant employees, people-centered jobs (retail, call-centers, etc.), and delivery services. Such is the life of a lower echelon employee of Fenrir.

The middle-class employees of Fenrir are the skilled laborers. Electricians, welders, machinists, pipefitters, plumbers, technicians, security (Station and shipboard), scientists, teachers, and other technical jobs all fall under this category. Middle echelon employees enjoy a higher standard of living, albeit with a slightly higher risk of injury or death while working in the yards. They are offered all the same benefits as the lower echelon employees but have to wait only three quarters of the time lower echelon employees must wait to receive benefits and other incentives. Their wages are high enough to afford comfortable living accommodations, decent food stuffs, and the option to send their children to upper education both on and off station.

The upper-class employees of Fenrir are a mixed bunch. Ranging from yard wardens and chief engineers to ship pilots and captains or branch managers and other important head positions on stations, in ships, or on a yard. The upper-class has the ability to enjoy the finer thing Fenrir has to offer while still getting their hands dirty doing what got them so far. From virtual reality golf courses, exclusive clubs, and the obvious increase in pay, upper-class employees live what many wish they could one day achieve, and in Fenrir it is very much possible to do so. Fenrir upper-class employees are hand chosen by their predecessors, a tradition Fenrir has supported since its establishment. Due to this unique tradition, the Chief Engineer of one shipyard may very well have been brought out to the station as a young child thanks to one of his parents taking a lower-echelon job with Fenrir, they went through lower education on Fenrir’s dime and took an apprenticeship in the yards at the insistence of their parents which after a few years of low wages and back breaking work likely would have landed them a middle echelon job in their chosen field, and if fate smiles upon the employee and they show true skill, knowledge, and a little bit of ambition it is wholly possible that this once lower echelon employees child may reach the upper echelon of work.

The only class above the upper echelon is the Director Echelon. The Board of Directors consists of six Directors, all of which are highly qualified in their field and just like the upper echelon were hand picked by their predecessors. Directors enjoy a life very similar to that of the upper echelon with the added benefits of a small fleet of private ships and shuttles to take them on business related outings or to shuttle them to or from a chosen vacation destination. This is not to say that their lives are easy. Each Director manages hundreds of thousands of employees and contracts worth more than any of their bank accounts will ever read. They juggle their free time between board meetings, client meetings, project inspections, employee outreach, and searching for their replacement when their ten year term as a Director comes to a close. Directors are renewed on a staggered basis and after a one year training period with their predecessor in order to lessen any negative effects of adding an entirely inexperienced Director to the Board.

History:

A summary of the faction’s history, pretty straightforward. Start around the colonial era depending on when it was involved (a lunar nation's history would begin with the founding of the first colony in its territory, while an Earth nation's would start from when it became involved in space colonization). Remember that most of early colonization (up until the deeper parts of the asteroid belt) was done by corporations here.

Technology:
An overview of the faction’s technological capabilities. Keep in mind the general scale I outlined. If there are any questions, PM me.

Military:
Just your military capabilities. You can include equipment descriptions if you want to, but don't try to sneak by a Wave Motion Gun or something.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

@Keyguyperson for stealth I figured a combination of internal heatsinks, reflective coatings and sweet angles to send things in the wrong direction. Of course the ships would be running dark if they were in this configuration and it wouldn't be manageable for extended periods of time (think less time the larger the ship, more time the smaller) if anything I would only have Corvettes, Frigates and Destroyers be capable of stealth everything larger would not be able to hide themselves.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

Snip snip.
Speaking of which, how durable are the warships? Realistic as in paper thin and easy to destroy or they take multiple hits and behave more like naval ships in this sense?

@Willy Vereb

So I'll take a modern day naval ship such as an Arleigh Burke Guided Missile Destroyer. Now poke it full of holes with some high velocity tungsten rounds. Ships come with a lot of redundant systems and a rather large amount of empty space meaning that the possibility of something vital being it hit comes in rather low all things considered, but it's likely they killed crew and damaged other non-essential systems. Hit it with an Exocet anti-ship missile or two and it's essentially a goner.

Now imagine your ship is in space. Poke it full of holes again and it may explosively decompress, so you just depressurize the ship before battle. You attempt to intercept any missiles because those are death sentences in space and pray that close-in-weapons-systems don't manage to poke a hole through something (or someone) important. Railguns would likely be a rather deadly hit as well, don't imagine anything would be capable of stopping a super dense round traveling at a measurable fraction of the speed of light.

Lasers are far easier to combat than its likely thought. Ablative plating would be a huge defense against them and doing things like setting a ship on spin during combat would spread out a continuous laser hit lessening intense damage to a single area. Not to mention most lasers have to be either A) Massive to do any sort of damage at anything farther than 1 light second or B) within 1LS range to inflict damage.

I think the real question is are lasers as we think of them weapons (Really powerful laser pointers) or are blasters (charged particle beam) such as those we see in Star Wars the real weapons.

I wrote this a bit ago, but didn't finish it until now and will just post it anyway.

@TheSovereignGrave the conventional railgun does normally fire solid ultra-dense slugs. If there are correctable railguns slugs, then the possibility of a knife fight is essentially null. Who ever has the best railgun wins, hands down every time. Your plasma arc will do nothing to the slug other than turn it into a cloud of molten hot metal still traveling as fast as it was before, if the arc even has enough time to act upon it. CIWS will not be able to intercept something so fast and a missile would face the same interception problem. A ship could not out run a self correcting round, at least not larger ships. I find the idea to be a bit OP.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

@Skylar so my Corp is shaping up to be one of the major players in the shipbuilding industry. They're a bit more ethical than North Star (Okay a lot more ethical) but it doesn't mean that they wouldn't have mutual interests. The way I've set them up they have small slips or yards on most stations and asteroids big enough to house them as well as free floating yards in and past the belt, which would mean it's very likely that our two companies would interact out of necessity.

Your company needs a way to keep its ships flying, my company needs ships to fix to stay in business. We both need to turn a profit.

So what I'm asking is if you would mind having some sort of a business relation with my Corp, not an alliance or anything but just allowing me to have holdings on your stations (but not all of them). Strictly business.

Also we build ships so come to me if you need 'em.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

@Keyguyperson what are your thoughts on a megacorp that specializes in ship building, I'm pretty sure it's what I'm going to do but I'd like an idea on what a good market share would be for one. China as of 2015 had 35% of the world market share by orders if that helps with anything. I was figuring Something in the mid-to-upper 20% range would work for a megacorp in a universe dependent on ships.

Last I'd just like to ask what the capabilities of ships are when it comes to stealth (Absorbent coatings, heat-sinks, etc).

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

Hello there, I'm quite interested in this.

I'm a huge of fan of Hard Sci-fi and the Expanse so just reading the intro already had me drawing the few similarities then I got to your mention of the Expanse and had a little moment of happiness.

I'm going to preface with the fact that I am bothered by some of your choices, especially considering the attempt at hard sci-fi but overall I'm not too concerned, I can overlook those and just add... I don't know... Regulations on my nations end to correct any deficiencies.

At the moment I'm between a few ideas but as this rolls on I'll make a solid choice.

Humanity's Last Ballad: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

If this ever happens, I'd be very interested in playing as China if possible.