Starfire Design Forum

Royal Magnetics of Ibiza, Research Annex Planet Ibiza Kalmazoo system It had been eleven months since Herr Baumer had arrived at Royal Magnetics with a purchase order and a royal production licence. True to his word, the purchase order had arrived before the end of the day. And Baumer had proved tha...

In my testing the best way to break planetary PDC fortresses is by throwing heavier, harder to shoot down weapons. You're almost NEVER going to be able saturate their firepower, so you instead want to try and improve your odds of the weapons getting through. Capital weapons, LRW ECM, and laser warhe...

My biggest worry is I'm not even aware I'm making mistakes. How NPRs go to war is totally confusing for me. It seems like it almost never happens, unless the player wants it to. And I still can't figure out how to defeat a planet full of PDCs. :D Random events can also cause NPRs to go to war. &quo...

Survey Ship AI: Eta Vulpeculae Built as a prototype for Cannith Industries upcoming Violet-series MMAIs, the UNASGS (United North American Space Guard Ship) Eta Vulpeculae was one of the first testbeds for a generation 2.5 AI. While based on the sentient second generation, the Violet-series introduc...

Starship crew manual snippet - Fire Suppression (atmo dump) Normal operation of the emergency fire suppression system may be activated by the following steps: 1. Open the enclosure at one of the remote actuating stations. Remove the safety pin, which is secured via a plastic wire snap seal. 2. Rota...

Heh, no kidding. I’ve looked at some of the “evidence” and you really have to turn a blind eye to science to come up with some of the conclusions the moon landing hoax group comes up with. Ugh. Don't remind me of that stupid. I have to spend time with my flat earther of a dad who can't even grasp h...

sandywhite90 wrote:Does anyone recall some short stories that have been written using the Rigelians as a theme?

That would have been Steve Walmsley's epic Rigellian Campaign.

So some guys are working on updating the footage of the Apollo 11 flight in time for the 50th anniversary. Here's the announcement and the trailer

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-072018a-apollo11-documentary-neon-cnnfilms.html

Mittelsspannung Orbital Shipyards Fenris deWulf Corporate Space The yards above Fenris hummed with activity now, having been almost idle for the past few months as all of their attentions had been bent to assembling six massive hulls with all the haste of an obsessed and caffine-maddened engineer. G...

Aah.... Legend of Galactic Heroes. Die Neue These is a re-do of the original series. And big fleet battles are a hallmark of the series. And a damnned good series. I cannot recommend either the new version, or the old one, enough.