GALNET - Anti-Titan Project Boosted by Thargoid Spire Materials - 08 FEB 3310

Aleks Zuno

Aleks Zuno
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GALNET

Anti-Titan Project Boosted by Thargoid Spire Materials​

08 FEB 3310

Pilots’ Federation ALERT

Chemicals harvested from Thargoid spire sites have accelerated Aegis’s development of a weapon to destroy the Titans.

Professor Ishmael Palin requested samples of coral sap, impure spire minerals and semi-refined spire minerals, which were delivered to the Arque system. These will be used to produce an armoured layer to protect the weapon against the Maelstroms’ anti-Guardian zones.

Professor Alba Tesreau, head of Aegis, explained more at a press conference:

“I am well aware that obtaining these substances from the Thargoid spire sites has doubtless cost lives. But the importance of this work cannot be overstated. Without resistance to the Maelstroms’ electromagnetic fields, the weapon based on Ram Tah’s theory is doomed to failure.”

“The Alliance, Empire and Federation have all agreed to redirect the majority of Aegis funding to the anti-Titan project. We have also drafted in extra help to construct prototypes and fast-track testing procedures. Although details remain classified, if the results continue to be positive, we may be able to go public in as little as a week.”

Aegis has confirmed that all those who contributed to this initiative can now collect their rewards from Austen Town Station in the Arque system.
 

Shurimal

Shurimal
I am well aware that obtaining these substances from the Thargoid spire sites has doubtless cost live
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—Prof. Alba Tesreau

Yup, I'm sure some people spun out their SRV and had a bad crash, accidentally boosted into terrain or a spire or absentmindedly switched on silent running. Tragic and avoidable, but alas... At least there are no pesky thargoid ships, revenants and banshees present at the dormant spire sites—imagine it would've been an absolute carnage otherwise.
 

Shadowsnog

Shadowsnog
Shurimal said:
—Prof. Alba Tesreau

Yup, I'm sure some people spun out their SRV and had a bad crash, accidentally boosted into terrain or a spire or absentmindedly switched on silent running. Tragic and avoidable, but alas... At least there are no pesky thargoid ships, revenants and banshees present at the dormant spire sites—imagine it would've been an absolute carnage otherwise.
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but... but... the amount of dead limpets that tried to navigate through the corals under the inactive spires :c
 

Weps

Weps
Aleks Zuno said:
Professor Alba Tesreau, head of Aegis, explained more at a press conference:

“I am well aware that obtaining these substances from the Thargoid spire sites has doubtless cost lives.”
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The highest number of casualties in this CG most likely came from the improper storage of caustic items. So how about we spend some time again to research corrosive resistant cargo racks? Hmm? Aegis?
 

Aleks Zuno

Aleks Zuno
Shadowsnog said:
but... but... the amount of dead limpets that tried to navigate through the corals under the inactive spires :c
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I had one hero Limpet actually last its natural lifetime, and it was even from a longer-lasting 3C Operations as opposed to my usual 3B Operations! To honour its prolific contribution its name was Leonhard, after the mathematician Leonhard Euler and surely not just for alliterative reasons. I wished dearly to control them directly and more carefully, though!


Weps said:
The highest number of casualties in this CG most likely came from the improper storage of caustic items. So how about we spend some time again to research corrosive resistant cargo racks? Hmm? Aegis?
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I recall suggesting exactly that in Thargoid War feedback: One-year edition, and that the quite wise @Jmanis had a brilliant idea—introduce anti-Corrosion as a new type of Cargo engineering, which could also open paths to some interesting cargo specialisation options.


As a general aside regarding Galnet, there was a noticeable lack of Jade Sanderlyn last month. Probably this was for the best, although it made the timeline become a bit sparse—except for the Winters cabinet article on the 22nd, the last four have been a Goal starting or ending with one week between each, and all of that a full week after the Torval senate return.
 

Ravnik

Ravnik
Weps said:
The highest number of casualties in this CG most likely came from the improper storage of caustic items. So how about we spend some time again to research corrosive resistant cargo racks? Hmm? Aegis?
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Funny you should say that...I collected about 150 coral samples then loaded it all into a type 9 with normal cargo rigs. I have never pooped myself so much in my life. 1 small jump and my FSD was failing, power cutting out, canopy breaking..I actually thought i would lose the lot! When i finally managed to dock and unload (Yes, literally), I went and swapped out my rigs for loaded corrosion resistant cargo rigs. (Yes i did have some but never fitted them :oops:)

Lesson learnt. Next time i should spice it up even more and fly in open :LOL:
 

Shurimal

Shurimal
Ravnik said:
Lesson learnt. Next time i should spice it up even more and fly in open :LOL:
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Ganker: "Hah, got you now!" <interdicts>

CMDR. Ravnik's Type 9: "See y'all later!" <explodes violently in a cloud of green caustics before the ganker can even deploy hardpoints>

Ganker: "Wait, what?! That's no fun! It's me who should get to blow stuffz up! Unfair!!!" <ganker's Mur-Der-Lance starts rapidly melting from the contact with the green cloud...>
 

Aleks Zuno

Aleks Zuno
Ravnik said:
1 small jump and my FSD was failing, power cutting out, canopy breaking.
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This actually is quite close to the classic way of transporting a lot of corrosive cargo! All it needs is knowledge of the little quirk whereby the 30-second corrosive damage time restarts when you low wake or high wake. Safe consecutive jumps are then possible if you delay no more than a few seconds per system, and one knows to cover Supercruise distance in 30-second increments, decelerating enough in advance to drop safely.

Unfortunately the normal flight to the port is where the Type-9 Heavy is no match for the Imperial Cutter, neither in fewest corrosive damages nor in sacrificial modules to dilute the chance of Thrusters needing repair. There is an element of watching the Info clock and awaiting non-Thrusters damage before committing to land!
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
I find it thrilling enough to get caught in one Hydra’s lightning while the other is shooting me as I attempt to solo an entire planetary CZ in a Krait with four modshards(that could have been a ruining moment of said run but I very narrowly avoided Hydra #2 zapping me as well). So I’m gonna be sticking to corrosion resistant racks for those needs.

Shadowsnog said:
all the sick, hurt, unwanted and abandoned limpets
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Even though they are - supposedly - lifeless metal drones, I can’t help but feel a little sad when they expire, meet a sticky end at the hands of a “Slammer”(one of those really spinny asteroids) or by crashing into something. I also hate low or high waking out on them when they are still active but when I have no cargo space left…
 

Vingtetun

Vingtetun
Here at Hutton, as per last week's radio show, we have concerns that Tharg is reading Galnet and will as a result have fully prepared for this eventuality.

We understand that he has been learning a variety of human languages from captured people and is now proficient in many earth languages and dialects.

I recommend that Galnet, and the Galactic forums here switch to Welsh as insider reports are that when some of his (or her, or their) minions tried speaking Welsh they unpleasantly damaged something in their upper thorax and their mandibles fell off.

Remember, loose lips sink ships and the first rule of Anti Xeno club is we don't talk about mega weapons on open channels.
 
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