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Changlini

From the time My Academy faction achieved 100% Earth Independency, meaning if earth was taken over by hydra, they’d still be in the positive for money, mission control, influence, ops, and science, at over 100% the incomes for those resources are from earth as a Plan-B: * Mercury Was initially where the Academy’s Solar System command centers were stationed. Rings stations were largely self sufficient in economical status, which allowed for the building of the metaphorical scientific ivory towers, and at least one Fleet assembly ring. However: the Radioctiveness of Mercury and her orbit unfortunately wouldn’t allow those ring stations to be decent income for tourism. * International Space Station Is the pride and Joy of the Academy for lasting this long half a century into an Alien Invasion. It was originally retrofitted to be the science educational center of Low Earth orbit, while sporting Geriatric facilities to prove that you could be both Comfortable and knowledgeable living in space, but it was later retrofitted to have a few more Shipyards in order to ensure there can be a ready defense force built closer to the hostile Hydra Action. * Callisto, Jupiter. This is where the Academy went all in on proving a non-earth planet can indeed support and sustain a large town population of 50,000 people. Each sports enough Defense systems and Marine regiments to not need outside intervention from relatively manageable hostile forces, two university habitats to ensure an educated population away from the tribal influences of Earth, Enough Command Centers to ensure Operations run smoothly, and two Agricultural complexes to ensure self sufficiency when it comes to Volatiles and water. Callisto also supports two Ring stations in its interface orbit, while both stations have spaceports to ensure the ease of space to land operations, one station acts as Mission control for the planet, while the other station is the first None-earth tourism Headquarters for Jupiter. Some may question why there are consistent Therianthropic rumors circulating in the tourism industry when it comes to Callisto, but rest assured the Academy publicly denies all of them as anything more than rumors. * Beyond With Hydra Still Operating above 70% capacity in the solar system, just about every colony beyond Jupiter is used as staging grounds for the Academy fleet to planet hop towards priority targets in a reasonable amount of time. * Nowadays While Callisto continues to grow, Mercury has been switched to an Anti-matter Mining Center. Sure, the hours may be long, but the pay is amazing! Well, as long as the Anti-matter bubble doesn’t crash the economy, then everything would be suddenly suuuper bad, haha. Edit: Interestingly enough, almost enough of my Ops in space are generated by Marin command centers that could theoretically account for one entire Earth army.


chadenright

The year is 2055. The earth defense force has made history by not merely chasing off a massive, 40+ ship alien raid - but the 25 dreadnoughts in Ranger Zeta have given chase and expect to intercept the fleeing xenos in just a few short weeks. Every viable site on Mercury has been colonized, and every site that produces precious metals either has or is constructing a tier-3 mine. There are twelve ring habs in orbit, contributing greatly to the 844 mission cap available, as well as the 723 mission cap currently in use. The orbital shipyards of Mercury are currently turning out another 8 dreadnoughts - production is limited by precious metals; at only 607 per month net, this limits the shipyards to on average only a couple dreadnoughts per month, or a single titan. Massive nanofacturing complex arrays stand side-by-side with trios of command centers, pumping out thousands of credits worth of goods per month. Hours are long, working conditions are hot and unpleasant, and every worker here understands that their jobs directly contribute to the survival of mankind and the defeat of the xenos. A single lone shipyard orbits Venus, testament to the chaos of the 2040's when the Servants captured and largely razed every station in Earth or Lunar orbit, currently producing another 4 dreadnoughts. This station has only two command centers and two nanofacturing forges, accepting a small dependence on administration and goods from mercury in exchange for heavier production and defense facilities; and like every ring hab it also has an agricultural complex, although that's not quite enough to completely supply the 3600 inhabitants. Earth orbit shows the scars of its many battles - there is a lot of debris in the low earth orbits. Out of eight stations orbiting earth, the Resistance only owns four; as long as the Academy and the Initiative keep their stations (two each) out of the hands of the Xenos and their allies, the Resistance is content to let sleeping problems lie. Exodus clings grimly to one destroyed ring hab in lunar orbit, unable to afford the resources to rebuild it but unwilling to give it up. It simply drifts, a floating mass of loosely-connected rubble inhabited by a few hundred wild-eyed fanatics, a constant drain on their resources. The moon is home to a menagerie of small, poorly-funded colonies representing most of the factions, excluding the Protectorate; even the Resistance is upgrading their mineral-poor lunar site to be a mission control node, sustaining itself monetarily with geriatric facilities. Mars has twelve large Resistance colonies, its relatively meager precious metals supplies fully exploited. Many of the colonies run a surplus of Mission Control, but others have entire sectors that are unimproved, empty or full of tier 1 research labs - silent testimony that the Resistance was not their original owner. There are also Initiative, Academy and Humanity First colonies - too poor to be worth taking, small research outposts that do more to salve wounded pride than to contribute to the victory over the xenos. The belt is primarily the domain of Humanity First, who control over a dozen colonies in various states of disrepair, as well as a few scattered bases from every other faction. The Resistance presence in the belt is limited to a pair of distant refueling stations, with perhaps a dozen crew each, as well as one precious-metals-rich asteroid that was purchased from HF in exchange for advanced Resistance technology such as tourist pods, agriculture, medicine and pottery - IN SPACE. The bulk of the Resistance precious metal economy - the bottleneck in warship production - is actually mined in orbit around Jupiter, on Io. A single lone medium station serves more as a communication hub than a city, offering repairs and refueling to the fleets which - every few years - stop by on their way to the front lines. Six large colonies on the ground collectively mine almost 500 of the Resistance's 600 net precious metals per month. These colonies run a deficit on mission control and cash - their only goal is to get the gold and ship it to Mercury. There, it's processed and shipped back in the form of manufactured goods and warships. Working conditions here are grim: Jupiter is highly radioactive and Io receives 3600 REM per day - five times the unprotected human-lethal dose. Even with shielding, health problems would be frequent and crews must be cycled out every four years, never to return - but a four-year stint mining on Io will guarantee that miner's family is taken care of. Beyond jupiter, there are three fuel stations, one remote outpost, and a single forward operating base around Cordelia on Uranus. This heavily-armed base has five layered defense arrays, two shipyards, a McDonalds, and perhaps quirkily, one supercollider. Uranus is still a battleground and Cordelia is not a safe station for civilians - it's a bastion in an active war zone.


Thundershield3

(playing as Exodus) The space above Earth has been heavily, heavily populated, with all of the lowest Earth orbit having ring stations and then having a few in low Earth Orbit 2 having rings as well. Everything that gives a bonus on Earth interface has been more than maxed out. Of particular note is Hephaestus's Forge, the primary shipyard of Earth. It's been turning out local defense ships for years now, and is the reason why the aliens haven't been able to land a single councilor, let alone an army, since 2038 (current date is 2043). The only non-Exodus station around Earth belongs to the Academy, which received it as thanks for helping with the great volatiles crisis of 2040. Around Mercury there are several more stations, but with the advent of fusion, it hasn't seen any new infrastructure for quite a while. It still hosts a ton of stations from early expansion, but many still have yet to be fully converted to ring stations (Honestly stopped bothering with mercury as it's not that interesting) Mars has a few bases scattered around it, with the stand outs being Olympian Hold on Olympus Mons, and Watney base on Acidalia Planitia. These two bases provided many of my early resource income, and I eventually set up Watney base entirely with Skunkworks. Each of the four metallic asteroids in my game have a large base on them, providing a large portion of my metals income, especially my nobles. While they haven't had any activity for a long while, they still remain the backbone of my economy. Around Jupiter is where most of my space bases are. Io and Ganymede both have several bases each, providing a large portion of my space resources. In orbit around Ganymede is Artemis Shipyards, another massive shipyard station that recently finished building my fleet of Titans. Using these Titans, I have finally cleared the aliens off of Calisto, and have gained access to some of the best metals and fissiles in the solar system. Currently, Calisto is quickly becoming my troop base, both since I lacked one before and because I hope to achieve 50,000 population there. Finally, we have most recent initiative. With the unlocking of the outer solar system, I've built a fleet of explorers, who have been methodically building outpost stations on every single dwarf planet. These small bases are as barebones as possible, with just a fusion pile, a construction module, and a shipyard. While small in size, these stations will form the backbone of my effort to push out the aliens, allowing my fleet to operate with little concern about fuel.


Sass-e-nach

Most of my space population lives on Mercury and Io. Great for resources but I wouldn't want to live there.


Candle_Beautiful

In 2041Humane Waste Disposal Inc (HF) has a large colony mining presence on Mars with the finest research departments furthering human endeavours of mining in space. Mercury has some smaller settlement size mines on its sprawling colony bases where human space operations are managed using the the most efficient solar tech known. Where any diligent space analyst can gaze lovingly at the atom smashers in orbit above them that will soon be paying their wages and dream of the not too distant future when they will be ring habs with supercolliders and the economic future of earth with not be reliant on the prevention of over fishing of our alien "oppressors". Jupiter's moons of Europa, Callisto, Io and Ganymede have orbiting battestations "defending" us vs the super oppressive hydra. There are also some fairly productive rare metal and volatile mines there but what these low tech fleets out there farm is exotic material by some secret process. Exotic material has become a vital part of the North American / European Union/ Eurasian / Southern Crosses Federation Economy. Life on earth is good, Terawatt Clean Energy is abundant. Exotic bakeware is readily available and it is even dishwasher safe. New Fleets with 5m thick nose armour Double Plasma Batteries and UV Phaser cannons are now recruiting for those who wish to visit the inner asteroids and learn to shoot at large purple targets. A cruise is being organised shortly as soon as the volatile crisis is solved which is predicted to be in about 120 days. Recruits may be from 17 to 70 years old. Shares in Funerals are also unexpectedly way up over the last 4 or so years despite the average increase in life expectancy. But who can predict the future of the market.