The Continued Exploration Of The Sol System

The date is now the 9th of June 2028 and the decision has been made to start work on some defences on the surface of planet Earth. The first construction project is a powerful active sensor which will be used by missile silos to target any enemies that enter orbit.

The design is put together using the current level of tech and the sensor size chosen is size 10 with a resolution of 150 this will allow me to detect craft 7500 tons or more at a range of 75 mkm. I also need a sensor for detecting any missiles so we can create some point defense for this design I'm going for resolution zero and a size of 10 this gives a range of 500,000 km.

I currently don't have any research labs free so the designs will need to wait.

On the 28th of July a second jump point is found by Light Seeker 001.

On the 23rd of August Kai Riley joins the civilian administration with the following skills Shipbuilding 20% Mining 15% Terraforming 20% and Population Growth 25%. These skills are very good not sure if changing the planetary governor has any negative affect.

Also on the 23rd of August research labs are free so the sensors can start the research process. The first sensor to research is the largest which will complete on the 20th of November.

A third jump point is discovered on the 23rd of October.

The first active sensor completes on the 18th of November and research is started on the point defense sensor due to complete on the 11th of February.

Another jump point is discovered on the 28th of January bringing the total to four.

A fifth jump point is found on the 8th of March and a sixth on the 28th of March.

On the 3rd of July all planets and moons within range have been surveyed for mineral deposits.

Here are the findings:

Rocky Planets: 5 Surveyed: 5

Gas Giants: 4 Surveyed: 4

Moons: 50 Surveyed: 50

Asteroids: 366 Surveyed: 1

Earth

Duranium 125,890 Acc: 1

Neutronium 98,417 Acc: 1

Corbomite 23,895 Acc: 0.5

Tritanium 45,674 Acc: 0.6

Boronide 12,784 Acc: 0.58

Mercassium 119,437 Acc: 0.3

Vendarite 137,574 Acc: 0.6

Sorium 59,574 Acc: 0.6

Uridium 27,816 Acc: 0.4

Corundium 173,217 Acc: 0.4

Gallicite 6,646 Acc: 0.43

Deimos

Corbomite 9 Acc: 1

Ganymede

Duranium 5,683,574 Acc: 0.9

Neutronium 2,333,929 Acc: 0.9

Tritanium 949,806 Acc: 0.5

Saturn

Sorium 2,471,070 Acc: 0.3

Tethys

Boronide 59,438 Acc: 0.8

Iapetus

Duranium 675,122 Acc: 0.8

Neutronium 70,756 Acc: 0.8

Mercassium 461,041 Acc: 0.9

Triton

Tritanium 870,265 Acc: 0.4

Vendarite 680,163 Acc: 0.6

Pluto

Sorium 806,009 Acc: 1

Goldrush 001 is ordered to return to Earth to resupply and refuel ready to venture through the jump points when the technology is completed.

A design is put together for an early warning system:

Early Warning Sensor class Planetary Defence Centre 2300 tons 163 Crew 347 BP TCS 46 TH 0 EM 0

Armour 8-15 Sensors 25/100 Damage Control Rating 0 PPV 0

Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range N/A

Active Search Sensor MR0-R1 (1) GPS 100 Range 500k km Resolution 1

Active Search Sensor MR75-R150 (1) GPS 15000 Range 75.0m km Resolution 150

Thermal Sensor TH5-25 (1) Sensitivity 25 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 25m km

EM Detection Sensor EM5-25 (1) Sensitivity 25 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 25m km

This design is classed as a Planetary Defence Centre and can be pre-fabricated in 1 sections

Work is started building the first one on Earth.

On the 29th of September 2029 research finally completes on the technology to design the first Jump Engine. The key thing is to make sure the engine is able to allow a tonnage equal to and maybe a little higher than the survey ships so that means at least 3300 tons. This will make the engine quite big at the current tech so it's decided to research efficiency level 4 first.

The first early warning sensor completes on the 19th of February 2030 and runs out of fuel which is a bit odd for a stationary unit.

On the 29th of February a message is received to say Light Seeker 001 is low on fuel and it is 5 days away from Earth.

On the 4th of March Goldrush 002 under Commander Emma Warner and Light Seeker 002 under Commander Scott Duffy are completed and assigned to the relevant task groups. For now both ships are left in dock.

Research into jump drive efficiency 4 completes on the 4th of August 2030 and a design is created for a military jump engine capable of allowing craft up to 4000 tons to use a jump point.

That's all for now in the next installment work will start on a jump capable exploration ship allowing us access to a new system. Also the defences on Earth will be continued.