Ok, the map is progressing pretty well, i'm starting to detail things such as the lighting and misc crap you'd find in a space station. I'm having to watch the clipnode limit as it's getting pretty close to full. (currently 82%) Hopefully some clip brushes should sort this out.
In addition to the pics and in the Natural Selection tradition, i've writted a preface to the map to explain whats going on.
More soon. Btw, Hi to Jessica and fof n nart rule cs tho bai :x
In addition to the pics and in the Natural Selection tradition, i've writted a preface to the map to explain whats going on.
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The USM Heimann low orbit freight terminal was constructed during the United space mining operations 18 years ago to accomodate the large number of ore freighters serving in the area around the tau-echelon moon cluster, 4 light years west of the Allandri-ceti (LV-839-A) nexus.
The operation to mine the area, rich in silicon and iron ore deposits of a nearby dust and rock debris trail caused by the destruction of a small moon many million of years ago was under the command of Lt.col Samual S. Wallace.
Wallace oversaw the entire operation of the terminal, in command of 4 Senior officers, 2 Junior officers and 150 technicians, mining crew and peripheral personnel.
The station was designed to cope with 4 simultaneous ore freighters (each caperble of mining 400,000 metric tons of raw unprocessed ore) docking in any of its 6 super capacity automated airlocks and ore transfer systems. During transfer (which could take anything from 4-7 hours) the ore freighter's crew could disembark and get refreshed and refulled on the Heimann's lesuire facilities. The Heimann was able to store three-quarters of a million metric tons of ore in either of its 2 gravity nets (using suspended gravity storage external to the facility) ready for collection to be forwarded to local refinearies such as the USM refinary Rachtmann in a similar orbit near the Cobolt-insignia facility or the USS Bast refinary, 300,000 KM north of the Heimann.
Shortly after 03:30 SST June 18th 2031, the early shift in the Heimann's op's room recieved a response from the automated beacon* on board the super-freighter "Van-Lawrence". (*Automated docking beacons were introduced as an automatic proximity alert procedure during super-class vessel docking to aid the navigation of a ship too big to guide by sight. This was prompted by the 2024 USM Karl Marx tragedy, when an early version of superfreighter class ships (still in its design infancy) collided with a docking arm of an orbital refuelling station resulting in the death of 1800 crew and civilians)
The beacon is all thats needed to control the auto-docking of the freighter to the Heimann by the ops staff, who are more than used to dealing with docking a super-class ship on auto pilot to the station.
As the Van-Lawrence was guided cautiously towards the number 3 freighter-lock, The Heimanns ops-staff attempted to hail it's crew. It was not uncommon for no response at this time, the regulated sleeping patterns of all USM ships and facilites to co-incide with local planet night/day cycles.
During times of alert or problems crew are awoken with a klaxon loud enough to wake aliens with no obvious "ears" in neighbouring galaxies...let alone a mining vessel.
No response.
The Lawrence beacon fell silent, a small beep accompanied a large red light going out, an identical green light flickering on. The Lawrence was docked, and all systems reported a successful dock. The enormous ore transfer arm extended out and docked with the freighters bow door under the belly of the ship.
A second Lieutenant Larry smith observed the small CCTV camera focused on the number 3 airlock. Nothing.
40 minutes passed, no contact with the Lawrence. Smith ordered the alert klaxon to be remotely started via the comms link in the docking arm. Another 10 minutes passed, still nothing.
Smith looked over to Staff sagent peterson, still hunched over his console, happy to finally get something to do during a particularly uneventful early shift "alert the boarding party and wake Wallace."
18:24 SST, June 23rd 2031
The TSA carrier "valkarie-fall" launches a task force dropship to investigate the communications blackout with the USM Heimann. After docking with the Heimanns personell airlock, they prepare to board. The large silver door roars and squeeks open, and a wave of stagnent air washes over the dropships inhabitants.
There is perfect silence, expect for a small distant siren in a far corridor.
"move out marines, get me visuals"
More soon. Btw, Hi to Jessica and fof n nart rule cs tho bai :x
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