Post by kanorgreymane on May 22, 2014 3:25:35 GMT
After seeing the thread on the Outcast stations dxefenses on the PB forum, I started thinking about the changes we'd all make to MiO.
For me Rifts Space is more developed as the various countries and industries went whole hog into trying to top one another in the "new" space race. There are more stations, one representing China, one representing the U.S Air Force (Ft. Hawking) and one representing the U.S. Space forces, and an extra one by a private American corporation. The Chinese station is built around a large scale particle beam (on the order of the one from Bubblegum Crisis), currently aimed at the ruins of D.C.. The U.S. station, Ft. Hawking, is currently in hiding, deep in the debris field left by the Sino-Japanese station. The U.S. Space Forces station mounts a mega-laser (on the order of the ones from the Sentinel's Ikazuchis) and is pointed at the Chinese station. The private company has a very LARGE mass driver, or KEW (Kinetic Energy Weapon), and controls a very large pre-Rifts communications satttelite network, they also field some of the most advanced starships and fighter craft next to the Arkhon. There gun, called Earth Crusher, can fire VW Vanagon sized round of nickle-iron at near luminal speeds. They were originally aimed at Beijing during the pre -Rifts time, but over the centuries have slowly shifted their orbit to aim at the Chinese station. The American stations trade freely with most of the other stations including the Moon. Most recently then orbital communities saw the appearance of a CS starship from Earth. The CSS "Hammond's Folly" was teh Cs's last attempt, led by a CS Sentaor by the name of George Hammond, to get into space. The Project was shut down and mothballed after the CS's last attempt to get a rocket into orbit. The ship, however, had technically been completed and was equipped with CS designed PA and vehicles designed for space combat. The ship made space dock with Ft. Hawking and after about a year of intensvie rehab for the crew, was made an official part of Hawkings defenses. The crew had apparently launched the ship in an attempt to keep it for potentially being seized by the Federation of Magic during a deep raid into Missouri on the base the ship was mothballed at. Lacking the actual computer programs to fully control the ship the crew followed a preprogrammed course that led them to Ft. Hawking. The SS Hammond, as it is now called, operates as an adhoc freelancer group out of Hawking Station, the crew is mostly ex-military and many spacers from Ft.Hawking. It is commanded by the CS LT. that launched it and it's crew operates according to CS military doctrine.
Waht stuff have the rest of you come up with?
For me Rifts Space is more developed as the various countries and industries went whole hog into trying to top one another in the "new" space race. There are more stations, one representing China, one representing the U.S Air Force (Ft. Hawking) and one representing the U.S. Space forces, and an extra one by a private American corporation. The Chinese station is built around a large scale particle beam (on the order of the one from Bubblegum Crisis), currently aimed at the ruins of D.C.. The U.S. station, Ft. Hawking, is currently in hiding, deep in the debris field left by the Sino-Japanese station. The U.S. Space Forces station mounts a mega-laser (on the order of the ones from the Sentinel's Ikazuchis) and is pointed at the Chinese station. The private company has a very LARGE mass driver, or KEW (Kinetic Energy Weapon), and controls a very large pre-Rifts communications satttelite network, they also field some of the most advanced starships and fighter craft next to the Arkhon. There gun, called Earth Crusher, can fire VW Vanagon sized round of nickle-iron at near luminal speeds. They were originally aimed at Beijing during the pre -Rifts time, but over the centuries have slowly shifted their orbit to aim at the Chinese station. The American stations trade freely with most of the other stations including the Moon. Most recently then orbital communities saw the appearance of a CS starship from Earth. The CSS "Hammond's Folly" was teh Cs's last attempt, led by a CS Sentaor by the name of George Hammond, to get into space. The Project was shut down and mothballed after the CS's last attempt to get a rocket into orbit. The ship, however, had technically been completed and was equipped with CS designed PA and vehicles designed for space combat. The ship made space dock with Ft. Hawking and after about a year of intensvie rehab for the crew, was made an official part of Hawkings defenses. The crew had apparently launched the ship in an attempt to keep it for potentially being seized by the Federation of Magic during a deep raid into Missouri on the base the ship was mothballed at. Lacking the actual computer programs to fully control the ship the crew followed a preprogrammed course that led them to Ft. Hawking. The SS Hammond, as it is now called, operates as an adhoc freelancer group out of Hawking Station, the crew is mostly ex-military and many spacers from Ft.Hawking. It is commanded by the CS LT. that launched it and it's crew operates according to CS military doctrine.
Waht stuff have the rest of you come up with?
