Posted: 2008-07-09 05:03pm
Lets review
1. My various moves up until my absence were aimed at creating a very strong shield to prevent my nuking, leaving me untouched during "The First Nova War" as I now retrocon it.
Orbitals
2. The various GPS Satellites would have been un-touched, which means I'd still have access to Worldview III, the Royal Radar Mapping MK IV's(Only two were ever planned for 2011 launch, since they had only commerical not military application being to high up to map underground bunkers and the like, they were for heightmapping), plus GPS and Weather satellites.
What was lost
Old MK I/II/III Royal Radar Satellites
Pretty much all the Vulpsats(Did Vuplesia get nuked?) so most of my visual birds are down
Possibly the WorldView II satellites as well, those are pretty low, right at or around the 1,000 km orbit
Half the Hisco system
Left in orbit
12 Shroomanian/UKB GEO Communication/Internet Satellites.
3 UKB Royal Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite(GOES)
Half the HISCO System
Why do I say I still have half the HISCO(AKA SCORECARD?)
It's simple, the KKV's were at a use it or lose it, depending on my intel/reactions the first weapon to go off in orbit would have resulted in the rest of the KKV's getting flushed or dropped, they were designed to be to simple to degrade quickly in a standard Van Allen environment. However if you start flaring that degeration goes much quicker(Thus a two year life-span might become a two week lifespan)
They had roughly 9 months left on the clock when those went off, with the exception of the Umpire's which were safely shileded inside the base satellites.
How useful the HISCO satellites are for communication right now is up in the air(I'm betting pretty piss poor, any exposed parts being irradted to hell) in fact I'm willing to say a good third of the HISCO birds are a total right off within the year left alone forty years later.
3. Which brings me to point three, no one being any fit state to stop me launching newer and better KKV systems at lower orbitals, target able by high scale ground missiles yes but with a engagement window so small as to be unstoppable even with 40+ year technology (Please lets see you hit a target screaming in at anywhere from 18KpS to 30 KpS)
Likley that means the UKB 40 years later(Baring acts of Q) would be a hyper-power without enough artillery in the sky to make any conventional war a sort, decisive affair with the UKB untouched and the attacker's fighting ability obliterated.
The flip side is of course the cost of such a system and the state of the world would leave the UKB disinclied to foreign adventurous, they can't afford a large standing army or a large navy with such a huge portion of the budget going towards "Rods from god" and missile defense.
4. And yes refugee's would be a serious issue, I'd think my country would drop to 2nd world status from all the raft people alone coming in from various countries.
Now time to read.
*Edit, I'm going to have to decide what I did with all those very quick to become useless KKV's, stand by. Likly I'd drop them on Mr "Lets blow up the sky" over there.
1. My various moves up until my absence were aimed at creating a very strong shield to prevent my nuking, leaving me untouched during "The First Nova War" as I now retrocon it.
Orbitals
2. The various GPS Satellites would have been un-touched, which means I'd still have access to Worldview III, the Royal Radar Mapping MK IV's(Only two were ever planned for 2011 launch, since they had only commerical not military application being to high up to map underground bunkers and the like, they were for heightmapping), plus GPS and Weather satellites.
What was lost
Old MK I/II/III Royal Radar Satellites
Pretty much all the Vulpsats(Did Vuplesia get nuked?) so most of my visual birds are down
Possibly the WorldView II satellites as well, those are pretty low, right at or around the 1,000 km orbit
Half the Hisco system
Left in orbit
12 Shroomanian/UKB GEO Communication/Internet Satellites.
3 UKB Royal Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite(GOES)
Half the HISCO System
Why do I say I still have half the HISCO(AKA SCORECARD?)
It's simple, the KKV's were at a use it or lose it, depending on my intel/reactions the first weapon to go off in orbit would have resulted in the rest of the KKV's getting flushed or dropped, they were designed to be to simple to degrade quickly in a standard Van Allen environment. However if you start flaring that degeration goes much quicker(Thus a two year life-span might become a two week lifespan)
They had roughly 9 months left on the clock when those went off, with the exception of the Umpire's which were safely shileded inside the base satellites.
How useful the HISCO satellites are for communication right now is up in the air(I'm betting pretty piss poor, any exposed parts being irradted to hell) in fact I'm willing to say a good third of the HISCO birds are a total right off within the year left alone forty years later.
3. Which brings me to point three, no one being any fit state to stop me launching newer and better KKV systems at lower orbitals, target able by high scale ground missiles yes but with a engagement window so small as to be unstoppable even with 40+ year technology (Please lets see you hit a target screaming in at anywhere from 18KpS to 30 KpS)
Likley that means the UKB 40 years later(Baring acts of Q) would be a hyper-power without enough artillery in the sky to make any conventional war a sort, decisive affair with the UKB untouched and the attacker's fighting ability obliterated.
The flip side is of course the cost of such a system and the state of the world would leave the UKB disinclied to foreign adventurous, they can't afford a large standing army or a large navy with such a huge portion of the budget going towards "Rods from god" and missile defense.
4. And yes refugee's would be a serious issue, I'd think my country would drop to 2nd world status from all the raft people alone coming in from various countries.
Now time to read.
*Edit, I'm going to have to decide what I did with all those very quick to become useless KKV's, stand by. Likly I'd drop them on Mr "Lets blow up the sky" over there.
