Hello Director. At one point in time the United Nations Navy was the pinnacle of power and technological might within the Sol System. The most sophisticated and impressive Navy the humans of Sol had ever seen amongst the stars.
Those days are long gone!
Today the UNN is the butt of many jokes; most of it crude and involving farm animals and or garbage scowls (most of that coming from the MCRN but also within our own ranks). And after the fiasco that was the Earth/Mars war the United Nations Security Council finally coughed up the intestinal fortitude and funding for the development of a Next Generation fleet. It is your job to make the UNN great again!!!
...curious but you don't seem too enthusiastic about this?
Have no fear. This will not be a fleet designed by committee! Earth has learned that lesson well from the ill-fated Leonidas Battleship. And all ships currently in service will not get a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP). The ENTIRE FLEET is getting replaced! Not only that, the fleet is to be expanded to replace lost units from the war with the MCR but also to cover an expanded 'Area of Operations' with Earths new Extra Solar Colonies and resource and mining operations.
To that end YOU have been given final say over all aspects of designing this new fleet.
Everything from concept, design and testing of new technologies (or evolutions of already tried and true technologies so long as they're not already obsolete to cover expenses and save a buck. Seriously those assholes on the Leonidas committee should have been shot for that).
Your budget is not unlimited, mind you. The UN in all it's bureaucratic glory will give you the money you need for advanced weapons, defenses, snesors/communications and or propulsion systems. Anything that improves Combat capabilities and survivability for these new ships. They can easily justify these expenses to their respective constituents. But the UN is considerably less generous when it comes to crew comfort, morale and even updated training programs for the fleet (Security Council feels what we have is 'good enough'. Shocking they would take such a short sighted approach, I know.). So in order to procure funding for that, in addition to what you have, you'll have to fight the Security Council for additional funding. And they'll likely be spoiling for a fight too.
You are also hamstrung by the fact that the bigger and more power the ship you design (in particular Dreadnoughts and Battleships) the more they're going to eat into your budget. You'll have to justify your expenses.
And as if this isn't challenging enough there are two scenarios you can utilize to achieve your ends.
1.) Completely In-Universe development. Anything Earth has access right now or in development is on the table. Mars tech is unfortunately still a no go. Not only will the Security Council string you up my your entrails for suggesting it, but Mars is still Butthurt about our decrepit fleet kicking their backsides.
You can use protomolecule but considering how exotic and unpredictable the technology is, should something go wrong to ground the fleet or needlessly get sailors killed, you will be stripped of your rank, the blame thrown on you and if you are lucky you'll spend the rest of your life in jail. No pressure or anything.
Time frame for this is Season 4 if Expanse.
2.) You may still use any and all In-Universe technologies for development of the UNN fleet. However you get a lucky break in being allowed to purchase technologies from alternate 'peer' universes. How this is achieved is *INFORMATION REDACTED*.
Just know you'll get it, but in doing so this will vastly increase the cost of production and like result in less overall units constructed...which will see gaps in your expanded area of operations from Sol to the Extra Solar Colonies.
Peer Universes are listed below by code name to throw off MCRN spies.
NBSG
Babylon 5.
Star League: BattleTech
Firefly
The Choice is yours Director! Make the fleet great again!
Those days are long gone!
Today the UNN is the butt of many jokes; most of it crude and involving farm animals and or garbage scowls (most of that coming from the MCRN but also within our own ranks). And after the fiasco that was the Earth/Mars war the United Nations Security Council finally coughed up the intestinal fortitude and funding for the development of a Next Generation fleet. It is your job to make the UNN great again!!!
...curious but you don't seem too enthusiastic about this?
Have no fear. This will not be a fleet designed by committee! Earth has learned that lesson well from the ill-fated Leonidas Battleship. And all ships currently in service will not get a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP). The ENTIRE FLEET is getting replaced! Not only that, the fleet is to be expanded to replace lost units from the war with the MCR but also to cover an expanded 'Area of Operations' with Earths new Extra Solar Colonies and resource and mining operations.
To that end YOU have been given final say over all aspects of designing this new fleet.
Everything from concept, design and testing of new technologies (or evolutions of already tried and true technologies so long as they're not already obsolete to cover expenses and save a buck. Seriously those assholes on the Leonidas committee should have been shot for that).
Your budget is not unlimited, mind you. The UN in all it's bureaucratic glory will give you the money you need for advanced weapons, defenses, snesors/communications and or propulsion systems. Anything that improves Combat capabilities and survivability for these new ships. They can easily justify these expenses to their respective constituents. But the UN is considerably less generous when it comes to crew comfort, morale and even updated training programs for the fleet (Security Council feels what we have is 'good enough'. Shocking they would take such a short sighted approach, I know.). So in order to procure funding for that, in addition to what you have, you'll have to fight the Security Council for additional funding. And they'll likely be spoiling for a fight too.
You are also hamstrung by the fact that the bigger and more power the ship you design (in particular Dreadnoughts and Battleships) the more they're going to eat into your budget. You'll have to justify your expenses.
And as if this isn't challenging enough there are two scenarios you can utilize to achieve your ends.
1.) Completely In-Universe development. Anything Earth has access right now or in development is on the table. Mars tech is unfortunately still a no go. Not only will the Security Council string you up my your entrails for suggesting it, but Mars is still Butthurt about our decrepit fleet kicking their backsides.
You can use protomolecule but considering how exotic and unpredictable the technology is, should something go wrong to ground the fleet or needlessly get sailors killed, you will be stripped of your rank, the blame thrown on you and if you are lucky you'll spend the rest of your life in jail. No pressure or anything.
Time frame for this is Season 4 if Expanse.
2.) You may still use any and all In-Universe technologies for development of the UNN fleet. However you get a lucky break in being allowed to purchase technologies from alternate 'peer' universes. How this is achieved is *INFORMATION REDACTED*.
Just know you'll get it, but in doing so this will vastly increase the cost of production and like result in less overall units constructed...which will see gaps in your expanded area of operations from Sol to the Extra Solar Colonies.
Peer Universes are listed below by code name to throw off MCRN spies.
NBSG
Babylon 5.
Star League: BattleTech
Firefly
The Choice is yours Director! Make the fleet great again!
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