Mindsetti Cityships

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Preface

The Mindsettian Cityships of Midna Beta have been the home, and heart, of The Empire for over one thousand years, since the destruction of Midna Solaris after its sun went nova due to an ill-calculated gravatics experiment. Midna Beta does not contain any life-supporting planets, as it is a binary star system. When the refugee cryoships carrying to safety the five hundred million people displaced from Midna Solaris arrived insystem, it was realised that they did not have enough fuel to continue searching for a suitable landing site. Instead, they decided to drop into a low orbit around a Neptune-coloured supergas giant, now known as Midna. A few survivors were awakened by the onboard first generation AI, and collectively they decided to latch the ships together, and combine their small manufacturing base in order to attempt to construct a temporary shelter from the howling radiation belt surrounding the planet. A thousand years later, there are three cityships orbiting Midna. M-1, M-2 and M-3, with M-1 housing over 1.8 billion citizens.

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The Cityship of M-1
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Specifications

  • Classification: Cityship
  • Crew Complement: Regulated via a fourth generation AI
    • Civilians: Varies, min. 900 million, max. 2.5 billion.
    • Population Density: 444 people/cubic km
  • Cost: Unknown, built over a thousand years. Est. several thousand trillion.
  • Total Mass: 6.52447464 × 10^12 metric tons
  • No. in Service: Three, orbiting Midna
  • Dimentions:
    • Width: 150km
    • Height: 16.44km
    • Length: 150km
  • Shielding: Electron lattice, energy shielding.
    • Power Absorbtion Ratio: 672 Exawatts per square kilometer.
    • Protection:
      • Energy Bombardment: 4.1 Exawatts before overload
      • Kinetic Bombardment: 5.35 million metric tons before overload
  • Armament:
    • 3000 60mm Plasma Cannons (medium-far range ship-to-ship combat, 1.2TW, 1.3 billion kelvin)
    • 500 8mm Kinetic Harpoon Launchers (planetary bombardment weapon, 0.8cm^2 pellets of neutronium, radiationless explosions of immense scale)
    • 600 30mm Ion Cannons (close range ship-to-ship combat, 250GW)
    • 180 Microwave Masers (40TW)
    • 120 300mm Heavy Gravatic Cannons (120GW)
    • 60 Tesseract Cannons
  • FTL Drive
    • Each cityship is equipped with a Voidspace Drive, which has never been used.
  • Power Source:
    • 1.4 trillion Parallel linked Nilling D-sinks (Power output variable)
    • 60 Singularity Generators with variable matter input flow (120 Terawatts each, 7,200 Terawatts total)
  • Additional Notes:
    • Hull is strengthened by Mindsetti Molecular Binding Generators located near the rear of the ship.
    • Hull is coated in a thin layer of "exotic matter", which has negative mass. This causes a weak inverted gravity field, which "pushes" (in reality, it makes them fall away from the hull) dust etc. away from impacting the hull. This allows the ship to enter atmospheres, and dust clouds. It was constructed in the upper atmosphere of a gas supergiant, and requires a visit back every fifty years to refuel.
    • Equipped with Mindsettian FLTi technology, with a maximum radius of seventy lightminutes.