STELLAR+EoT+1

STELLAR

Major decisions: Move the station away from the sun to safely ride out the period of increased activity.

This will negatively affect my RX so do as follows: Cover all of my costs from the reduced pool. Then pay 66% of the this turn RX amount in taxes. So cover my needs first and if there is enough left over pay my regular tax rate, not regular tax amount. If after my bills there is less than 66% left just ship the whole amount to Earth.

ECON: +++++ +: Please understand that I did in fact research this. There are two groups of asteroids Aten and Apollo that are inner system asteroids. Atens orbit the sun closer than Earth and Apollos farther though some apollos do cross in. I want to set up mirror arrays consisting of a reflective but cheep substance. I am going to use them to set up a network of mirrors concentrating power. I am going to use this to melt asteroids that are spinning on only one axis. As it heats up it will eventually liquify. Because it spins it will act as a centrefuge and will thus separate the elements it is composed of into bands or shells. I will then use my giant mirror array (it technically isn't a laser) to 'slice of' portions of the shells that are reletively pure. The end result will be a ball of molten silicon which will then be induced to spin faster. This will cause it to become a disk. When backed with a binding material it will make a very very large mirror disk which can then be incorporated into the array.

To put this in perspective, melting one of these things will take months. However, a medium sized Nickel-Iron asteroid will result in billions of tons of nickel and iron and many tons of rare metals like osmium, platiunum, irridium, etc. In short, one of these asteroids has in it an amount of material comperable to the richest formation of these materials on earth. And because I don't have to dig through rock to get them the output on this thing will excede the output of every mine on earth combined once it gets up to speed. By an order of magnitude or more.

Using the left over, mostly silicon (aka glass) I will then make more mirrors. The end result is an exponential growth system whereby more asteroids are being melted which gives more new mirror material. The doubling time is actually what shrinks at first as I can put more energy on a target asteroid thus melting it quicker. Eventually it gets to the point where the mirror array would just blow up the asteroid if I focused it.

Which brings me to my second point, this thing is a death ray once it gets to a decent size. A really good death ray. One that can hit targets from the other side of the solar system, especially if I move a few mirrors around to refocus it farther away. And it is remarkably hard to take the whole thing out. While each mirror element is fragile they are cheep and the system works on having lots of them. It might take a few years to get to the point that it is powerful enough to boil the oceans on earth, but space ships that take months to get here are another issue. I would prefer to keep that part out of the news.

To quell suspicioun, focus on the small mirrors right now. To make the death ray you need a really big mirror, that can dissapate a lot of heat, collecting from other mirrors that are collected from other mirrors etc. Each one focuses the beams from smaller ones. However giant balls of molten spining silicon can become big mirrors quickly. (one of those small/medium asteroid spun mirrors would be hundreds of meters across)

P.S. this thing would also make a great Very Large Array, telescope.

MOR: +++++: Sooth any internal trouble form how much we might have collected from the storm if it turns good. I suppose I should get a Mor bonus if it would have been really bad since my foresight saved us a lot of trouble and possibly lives.

Also, get people behind the Resource project (This is an overflow contingency. If the soothing required isn't much than move the balance to this one.)

MIL: 0/-: Boost the research, all the meditation and physical/mental wellness has got to be good for some inspiration.

I ESP: -: See about keeping the death ray implications of the big mirror array from being pointed out. Of course do nothing illegal like alter reports, but the potential doesn't have to be spelled out. Besides, the legions of beuracrats between reports and important people tends to mean some things just aren't important enough to pass along.

E ESP: 0: Knowing the basic news in he system and if people were comming would be nice.

RES: +++++: Begin development of MagCarbon. It is an exotic material that is more stable then regular matter. This means that normal matter comming into contact with it will be anihilated in much the same way as a Mat/Amat collision. It should also require particle accelerators. The stated purpose is to make a conversion drive, one able to use anything as fule with almost perfect efficiency. Secondary effect is of course a weapon. If I were to hit something with it, it would cut through it like a knife through air. Also, because it is more stable the bonds will be stronger (no really, check into it) so it would have a higher tensile strength than carbon nano tubes. It will allow me to make a spinning ring so large that it has earth normal gravity from centripital force, it has that kind of structural strength.

++: Interplanetary communication laser. Which should allow me to send PM level messages to anyone without spending resources for it. It is also a death ray. The array could be repurposed for this function, but I want stat points for it and nothing can ever actually be easy with you. As for why it should be resourceless PMs: It is a death ray. Intercepting it means getting in the way of it. That requires being hit, by a death ray. Since there is nothing attenuating it in space, a ship really would have to get in the way of it and to reach other planets it has to be powerful enough to be a weapon of mass destruction. Lets aim for just being able to communicate with Earth for this stage. (Thus it couldn't be used as a death ray on earth, just anything closer) If by some magic you actually allow this to be as simple as it should with the giant mirror array system, move the rest to the other project.

PO: ++: Keep up the oppinions that we are perfectly okay making antimater and having giant (not laser) mining arrays. In fact, the increase in resource production might allow earth to experience an economic boom. But too much government interference (it is the government after all, they aren't exactly known for being efficient. Or actually getting results...) could lead to years of nothing but sunk costs and even then poor outputs. Oh, and we are working on making power so cheep that it would be pointless to meter it so we are really the good guys.

Population: 25 R EXT: 150 R USE: 42.25

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Asteroid Mining Mirrors (+++++ + econ) MagCarbon (+++++ Res) Really far up the technology scale. Red Flag Potential, but unlikely for anyone to realize. Interplanetary Communication Laser (++ Res) Red Flag Hide Red Flag Status of Asteroid Mirrors (- I Esp) Taxes (69) Well below regular amount