Sic transit gloria mundi
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To sub a vanity project.
Image Source: Here. Here.
Canon Link: N/A
Permissions: Blanket permission for anything made by Val here. Permission for all subs made by Laira Darkhold's writer here and here. Blanket permission for AMCO's stuff here. ARGH tech available for Firemane per this thread.
Primary Source: N/A.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Firemane Industries
Affiliation: Firemane Industries
Market Status: Closed-Market
Model: FM-RW 1a
Production: Unique
Material: Durasteel, Tunqstoid, Agrinium, Quadanium, Turadium, electronics, standard station components.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Ringworld
Length: 400,000m
Width: 400,000m
Height: 400,000m
Armament: None
Defenses: Extreme
- Eidolon
- Ablative Armour
- ECM Countermeasures
- Point defence laser turrets
- Cap Drain & De-Ionizer Modules
- Warhead Countermeasures (Chaff, Flares, Missile Deactivator Transmitters etc.).
Maneuverability Rating: None
Speed Rating: Very Slow
Hyperdrive: Yes. 10.0
STANDARD FEATURES
Equipped with all the features and facilities one would expect from a vessel of its size and purpose, including advanced sensors and communications systems. Heavily encrypted access to standard communications channels.
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
- Many Enlightenment Quantum Communicators
- GPO-12 "Ironmaze" Threat-Prevention Suite
- Pyrowall
- Bio-Hexacryption
- Socketguard
- Com-Scan
- Ion Scrambler
- Crystal Gravfield Trap
- Gemcutter
- Anti-Ion Emissions Tracer
- Hyperspace Tracker
- Nav Computer Route Astrogation Bypass
- Anticoncussion Field
- ARGH 3D Printers
- Solid Fuel Converters
- BRT Supercomputer
- Hyperdrive Inertial Momentum Sustainer
- Anti Concussion Field
- Holotrace Device
- Decoder
- Atomic Forge
- Broadcast Relay
- Crystal Gravfield Trap
- Animated Metal Sealant
- Fixed-Signature Tracker
- Echo Pulse
- Hyperspace Tracker
- Sensor Net
- Self-sufficient, artificial 'world' with a controllable location and customisable ecosystem. Entire communities can settle, work and live here for generations. Ton of manufacturing space.
- Bastion. The Ring is incredibly well-defended, though it has no offensive weapons. Its sheer size alone makes seizing it a challenge, but it is well-equipped to weather even heavy bombardments.
- Has an HIMS and systems that can potentially detect certain types of cloaked ships.
- Incredibly slow. It is a ginormous brick. Big understatement.
- While it can move, its agility is nonexistent. Basically, it can move strategically, but not tactically reposition itself.
- Lack of offensive armaments.
- As a civilian installation, it cannot field starfighters or other squadrons of armed craft.
Firemane's appetite for grandiose stellar engineering projects knows no bounds. The Ring of the Celestial Sanctuary is the next step for the Firemane corporate state. The project was originally commissioned by Lady Kerrigan as part of her self-aggrandising vision. The Celestial Vahana was, in many ways, a proof of concept. The project went through many phases and numerous delays, not the least due to Siobhan's coma and an internal purge within Firemane brought about by the revelation that several high-ranking functionaries had been engaged in criminal activities such as corruption and treason. Moreover, Director Danton was sceptical of its merits, but the project had highly influential lobbyists among industrial and scientific interest groups.
To offset some of the costs, Firemane brought numerous partners aboard, such as Nova Bank, the Sky Caravan, partners on Dahomey and vassal queendoms on Tygara. There is, of course, no truth to the rumours that some of the funds were embezzled and that favouritism was shown to certain partners in return for bribes and other favours. Regardless, the new design has been endorsed by the Board of Control. Not the least because its sheer grandiosity provides a welcome distraction for the masses and the media from less wholesome developments.
Similar to Firemane's Celestial Vahana station, the Ring is essentially an artificial world in a controllable location with a customisable ecosystem, but on a far larger and more ambitious scale. Thus the Sanctuary is a fully functional habitat flora and fauna. People are able to live on the vast landmass that lies on the inner side of the ring, while a hardened shell protects the outer side. The ringworld is built around an artificial star suspended within a massive stasis field, trapping it and keeping it from re-expanding, as well as providing protection from the extreme radiation emitted by the miniature sun. The field is powered by absorbing the radiation generated by artificial star it is designed to protect against, keeping the area around it safe for biological beings and providing power to the Ring. The artificial ring is large enough to maintain an atmosphere and habitable land.
Building the structure was a massive endeavour, for it required an incredible amount of material and energy. A large portion of the raw materials required to build the absurdly huge, artificial world was provided by cannibalising entire asteroids. Massive tractor beams were used to gourge out parts the size of mountains and fed into atomic forges. Planets were rexploited as well. Moreover, care had to be taken to ensure the rotational forces were evenly distributed to prevent the structure from ripping itself apart. Fortunately, space is a frictionless environment, so once it is spinning at the correct speed there is little to slow it down. The structure is able to withstand the shear forces affecting it and maintain orbital integrity.
Nonetheless, some Firemane researchers, board members and department heads have argued that it would still be more efficient to simply find a resource-rich, but inhospitable planet and terraform its surface to make it suitable for colonisation. Indeed, one wouldn't even have to terraform it, just use lots of droids. Or one could simply develop and improve perfectly habitable worlds. According to these voices, the Ring, while an impressive feat of stellar engineering, is an over the top vanity project. They are correct. Advocates of the project argued that the sphere enabled the megacorp to maximise energy collection.
The Ring supports a variety of environments, climates and ecosystems. The implementation of an advanced weather control system enables realistic weather patterns. The climate resembles that of a standard terrestrial planet, and it features a diverse ecosystem. Clouds can form, rain can fall and so on; it can get windy and the temperature of terrestrial areas can be altered to fit the climate of a tropical, arctic, temperate or other environment. One can find mountains, forests, small bodies of water, agricultural zones, urban areas etc. This means that the Ring is able to sustain its population even when trade routes and supply lines are disrupted.
People and beasts alike are used to day and night cycles, which is also essential for plant life, so the design incorporates an inner ring of panels. A region experiences a period of darkness when a panel is in front of its section, until it is between panels again and light pours into the artificial land beneath. An impressive amount of space on the Sanctuary has been dedicated to manufacturing buried inside the Ring itself. No need to put factories on the surface, after all. Those workers don't need windows. The incorporation of solid fuel converters and specialised 3D Printers ensures a very high degree of recycling efficiency, maximising its ability to recycle its atmosphere, waste, and water supplies. The 3D Printers improve its manufacturing ability, as they allow it to take physical objects, break them down and rearrange them into other things.
However, the Ring is dreadfully, appallingly slow and cumbersome. It is capable of movement, but only on the strategic level. It will not be able to tactically reposition. Combined with its slow hyperdrive, this means the Celestial Sanctuary will always require a substantial force of escorts. The Ringworld is incredibly well-armoured and able to weather a bombardment and then some, but as a civilian station it lacks the ability to fight back. Of course, its sheer size as well as a powerful on-board garrison and numerous other internal security measures are a serious obstacle to boarding operations, sabotage and the like. By the same token, this means the security forces, both organic and automated, must keep watch over an incredibly vast structure.
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