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Post by Dazo on Dec 20, 2004 11:58:23 GMT -5
Well it didn't seem to make sense to include mobile structures on a static map, only the main hive can stand up to the severe storms that will be blowing over the world in the winter months. Every thing else would have to be migratory.
That is almost exactly what I had in mind, planetary defence is a secondary consideration for the PDF whose main job will have to be policing the hive and the rest of the system.
Yes that could well be what the expiditionary PDF are mercs. It would be the nobility of the spires duty to raise a civilian PDF/Police force out of their own pockets, but they could also supply troops to other worlds or even spires for a price and so mitigate the cost. It might be that now most spire houses buy their PDF quota from some those houses who chose to specialise in military things.
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Post by Destecado on Dec 20, 2004 12:19:35 GMT -5
Well it didn't seem to make sense to include mobile structures on a static map, only the main hive can stand up to the severe storms that will be blowing over the world in the winter months. Every thing else would have to be migratory. Permanent structures only...that's fair enough. That is almost exactly what I had in mind, planetary defence is a secondary consideration for the PDF whose main job will have to be policing the hive and the rest of the system. Yes that could well be what the expiditionary PDF are mercs. It would be the nobility of the spires duty to raise a civilian PDF/Police force out of their own pockets, but they could also supply troops to other worlds or even spires for a price and so mitigate the cost. It might be that now most spire houses buy their PDF quota from some those houses who chose to specialise in military things. Since there is really no land on which to train the troops, would they have training facilities within their spyre or would they perhaps instead lease land on one of the moons for training facilities? Actually, that may be one of the contracts that they fill, providing PDF troops for the moons under contract to their governments. |
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Post by Dazo on Dec 20, 2004 12:24:14 GMT -5
yes, and the moons provide valuble training grounds for the water world I like that, so the actually moon armies belong in effect to the main world, which would make it rather difficult for them to rise up against Corionis wouldn't it. Interesting, I wonder how recent a development that would have been, maybe only since the Imperium arrived.
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Post by CELS on Dec 20, 2004 12:38:05 GMT -5
The moons might be good for training Imperial Guard, but there's no sense in training the PDF there. That would be like training african militia on the north pole. The Theta Corionis PDF will only ever need to know how to defend their homeworld, so they would only train on their homeworld.
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Post by Destecado on Dec 20, 2004 12:41:08 GMT -5
yes, and the moons provide valuble training grounds for the water world I like that, so the actually moon armies belong in effect to the main world, which would make it rather difficult for them to rise up against Corionis wouldn't it. Interesting, I wonder how recent a development that would have been, maybe only since the Imperium arrived. Since the moons are for the most part agricultural worlds, their economy is tied directly to Theta Corionis or to the export of their produce to other worlds outside of the system. Since Theta Corionis survived the "scourging " of the Sargassos subsector that occured during the Age of Apostasy, I was thinking that perhaps they were cut off from the rest of the Imperium. During the Age of Apostasy, the frequency of warp storms increaced. Theta Chorionis may have been able to weather such the isolation better than its neighbors. The moons reliant on selling their goods off world would now only have one market to which they could sell their crops. They may have seen severe reductions in profits, which would mean having to make cuts in their annual budgets. Military may have been one of these cuts. At this point it may have been cheaper to pay for troops from Theta Corionis rather than have to equip, house, arm, feed and finance their own military. To save money that they did not have, a generous land lease (long term and substantially under market value) may have been given to Theta corionis to set up a training facility. |
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Post by Dazo on Dec 22, 2004 9:01:21 GMT -5
THETA CORIONIS
K5-V
CORIONIS I
Corionis Prime, main world
UWP: B76AACA-A
Planetoid (Large)
Satellites: 3
1: UWP: Y200000-0,(Saul) Orbit: 4
2: UWP: Y559668-9,(Aura) Orbit: 10
3: UWP: Y674768-9,(Myryn) Orbit: 25
CORIONIS II
UWP: G100000-0
Planetoid (small)
Satellites: 2
1: UWP:YR00000-0, Orbit: 3
2: UWP:YS00000-0, Orbit: 20
Name: Cincerous
World Class: Planet
Population: 0
Aestimare: K50
A desolate rocky world, its pale surface pock marked by countless impact craters, the ejecta of which now circles Cincerous in the form of a fine ring system. The small moon which also accompanies Cincerous is believed to be the remains of another impact with a planetary body of similar size to Cincerous.
ASTEROID BELT : 50 m/50 m, n-40 m-40 c-20, 1.0 AU
CORIONIS III
UWP: XC00000-0
Gas Giant (Large)
Satellites: 5
1: UWP: G330000-0, Orbit: 6
2: UWP: YS00000-0, Orbit: 7
3: UWP: Y523569-0,(Calusar) Orbit: 9
4: UWP: Y250000-0, Orbit: 10
5: UWP: F899869-A,(Kalidna) Orbit: 60
Name: Haledos
World Class: Gas Giant
Population: 600,600,000
Aestimare: E50
Haledos is the giant of the system, a banded beige and cream world of hydrogen and helium, and encompassed in endless dark storms which rampage through its upper atmosphere. The two large moons of Calusar and Kalidna are home to sizable colonies, which were established with refugees from the rest of the sub sector, and are both highly productive worlds, in terms of industrial output Kalidna comes a not to distant second to Corionis itself.
CORIONIS IV
UWP: XB00000-0
Gas Giant (Small)
Satellites: 4
1: UWP: G200000-0, Orbit: 8
2: UWP: FS00000-0, Orbit: 9
3: UWP: Y100000-0, Orbit: 12
4: UWP: YS00000-0, Orbit: 30
Name: Galleros
World Class: Gas Giant
Population: 0
Aestimare: L50
Galleros, an emerald giant much smaller than Haledos, is a world of frozen Methane and ammonia, its atmosphere appearing calm and serene with wisps of ice crystal in its upper cloud deck. It has four small moons, none of which are colonised, nor are they likely to be. Beyond its tranquil beauty Galleros holds no interest to either the Imperium or the Lords of Corionis.
CORIONIS V
UWP: F56877C-9
Planetoid (Medium)
Satellites: 3
UWP: YR00000-0, Orbit: 2
UWP: YR00000-0, Orbit: 3
UWP: G200000-0, Orbit: 7
Name: Ningal
World Class: Planet
Population: 60,000,000
Aestimare: G500
Ningal is a frozen gem, its surface glittering with ice, with two distinctive ring system and one small moon. It has numerous mining facilities and atmosphere harvesters work constantly to provide breathable air for the colonies. It has proved to be highly successful and its population has swollen to such an extent that it is able to provide regiments for the Imperial guard, though this only occurs every ten years or so.
CORIONIS VI
UWP: G322119-9
Planetoid (Small)
Satellites: 1
1: UWP: G102000-0, Orbit: 225
Name: Ides
World Class: Planet
Population: 60
Aestimare: G1000
Ides is the dark, frigid, outermost world of the Corionis system, a stop off point for ships entering and leaving the solar system. Home to the imperial listening posts and outer system defences its population serves only to maintain the automated sentry posts. Ides has one small icy companion and no resources to speak of.
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Post by Philip on Jan 4, 2005 18:35:58 GMT -5
Are these crystal life forms basically silicon nanite produced structures, each crystal a community of biological nanites?
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Post by Dazo on Jan 5, 2005 5:01:15 GMT -5
They are not nanites as I understand the term, they are an indiginous, naturally evolved lifeform, which happens to be silicon based. Biological, I suppose, if by that you mean not mechanical, or artificially created, think pond weed, that as good a description as any.
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Post by Destecado on Jan 6, 2005 12:40:21 GMT -5
The Crystaline creatures are not nanites. The seperate crystals can be imagined as the cells of your body. The colloidal fluid in which these small crystals and minerals are suspended would be similar to the prymordial ooze from which life is first thouht to have originated.
Energy into the system...such as that created by a lightning strike stimulate growth within the crystals, who spread out and merge within the colloidal fluid. It is through the interaction of the crystals as a group or gestalt cosnsciousness, that they can be said to have any true intelligence or sentience.
Under a given size, they are little more than crystals...sort of like a human who loses a certain amount of brain matter (from brain damage or say a lobotomy) is pretty much a vegetable.
In our brains, memeories are stored chemicaly with thoughts relayed as electrical impulses through the sinapses. Within the crystaline structure, thoughts and memories are stored as vibrational wave functions and transmitted by pulses of light across the crystaline matrix (like information transmitted as light impulses within fiber optic cables).
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