To: SCEC, Coalition From: Corin Frei, Nightcrawler cell and LWB Syndicliga representative. Subject: Shared Research Programs
"Comrade Researchers!" Corin grins, with professional affability.
"I wish we could talk under better circumstances. Pacifica's atmospheric filters, for example, would benefit from Coalition replacement after seeing what you have achieved on Aarhus. However, Circumstance is fickle."
"The Union would broach a mutual exchange of intelligence and technical knowhow. We have made great strides in strategic gunnery aboard Pacifica sanctum in Muon plasma projection through magnetic bottle bores, especially aboard our cruiser designs. We would be willing to exchange working examples of the so-called "Union Gun" in return for SCEC's input on the miniaturisation and weaponisation of Unioner Jump Drive technology."
"Apologies if I am brief. I cannot disclose more without proof of an accord. Time is of strategic essence, and we have little leeway in both fields. "
Attached files, One.
"For Socialism, Comrade Coalitionites."
In service,
Corin Frei, Nightcrawler cell and LWB Syndicliga representative.
Thuringia.
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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's Shipping Unions, retired from a life of piracy.)
TO: Corin Frei of LWB FROM: SCEC CRO Mstislav Belov RE: Research teams
Comrade Frei,
Coalition's relations with the Union have not been stable: the syndicalism of the Union is a great concern for every faction we have encountered so far. While ex-LWB members have our full support, the other cells are ideologically distant both from us and our other allies in Rheinland, like DWR and RHA. In view of this, the diplomacy of the Alster Union is unpredictable. These factors dictate that we should preserve caution with regard to serious lasting agreements, like research agreements, with the Union, albeit our comrades in the LWB. I hope you understand our concerns.
However, the relations still can be developed on the basis of cooperation and trust earned and manifested in mutual endeavours. We are ready to unilaterally provide assistance regarding the atmospheric filters as a token of our benevolent intentions. It should also be noted that Coalition's Jump Drive technology is not yet refined enough, neither has it passed the field tests. The Jump drives in employ of SCEC were procured from the third party.
Availing the opportunity, I should also sound our lasting interest with the Union: aside from strengthening the noose around Rheinland's neck, we are interested in "Bismarck" blueprints. We have a plan of building a strategic railgun that requires a big platform to shoot. We believe, that Rheinland "Bismarck" class battleship with some modifications can serve as the mobile platform for it. We do not expect you to provide the blueprints right off the bat, we are informing what is SCEC's core interest in what the Union currently possesses.
This message is highly encrypted using syndicliga proprietary encryption cryptography through intranet-publicneralink drops and are functionally untracable if no sender address is given. Abuse of Intranet functionality commands community service punishments as listed in regulation five three seven gamma six. security is assumed. Any deliberate or otherwise location triangulation method successfully employed against anonymous transmissions will receive either a one billion credit reward or immediate incarceration dependent upon disclosure and motive. The revanchist council requests that Arbeiters do not squander valuable neuralnet bandwith on the consumption of CNS articles, adult content, or gambling, and advise that the relevant arbeiters employ public terminals for such use, rather than the secure line. Communal enforcement may differ between Reichsarbeitergesellschaft der Alsterian and Landwirtrechbewegung cells. Consult your admin for technical support or contact your resident Neural Technology Help Specialist at www.totallypacifica@notAHacker.net. The Union reminds Arbeiters that "trolling" is not an acceptable standard of political debate, unless aimed at capitalists, fascists, militarists, etc, who lack the neurological prerequisites to engage in such discourse. Southern Unioners are encouraged to remember that the average Unioner's literary age is roughly analogous to a twelve year old on PCP, and are encouraged to avoid engaging in difficult subjects, and are suggested to stick to familiar subjects, such as the market value of cardamine, bundschuh-based footwear puns, and the general terrible quality of life aboard wedel mining station.
Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.
Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei
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Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
To: CRO Mstislav Belov From:Corin Frei, The Hans Böckler memorial, Hamburg. Subject:Ice.
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"Excellent. The Union's current course is to foster inter-organisational co-operation with the Coalition. Ideology is an anathema to progress and the protection of the proletariat. The Coalition would do well to remember this in the context of your own beliefs. Hypocrisy is an anchor, no? We have overcame particularism in the creation of our own Liga. It is proof that disparate populations can rally behind common cause. That the march of Sirius into increasing disorder is not inevitable, nor desirable has been proven by the integration of the LWB and the Unionists, just as Katz's liberalisation reforms have been embraced by Coalition orthodoxy. I am no stranger to Moscow, you know."
"If you desire to create a strategic railgun platform, then we would most certainly assist your organisation, shared beliefs, or not. Engineering excellence permits one the ability to sustain, enrich and protect oneself and one's own organisations, and we will never turn down an offer to aid in the construction of a starship. The Union has access to large supplies of molydenium which you will require for any expansive electromagnetic launch system, weaponised or not. Besides, the technology has civillian applications that interest us more than another simple deterrent. "
"It is in the interests of peace that I come towards you. Rather, my interest in the promotion of our drive program does not require the Coalition to be anymore advanced than ourselves; the nature of the unit will remain clandestine until it is physically employed, however, it is not the drive, as such, which is the focus of the program, but rather an experimental nuclear cryocoolant unit that will, once commissioned, mount a superior thermal efficiency to any off-the-shelf industrial or militarised heat sink within the known sector. House design beuros may possess something better, yet this design will be repeatable, if a little outsize. Attached to Sevastopol, the cooler would decrease equipment burnout rates by approximately thirty eight percent, perhaps higher, depending upon the nature of your industrial processes. There are no finer shipwrights in the sector than those who have tested and engineered this device."
"We offer the technical schemata of the cooler in return for SCEC providing the following; information regarding the efficient collection and naturation of Heavy Water from ice asteroids. Due to the presence of the Siberian ice field within New Moscow and the advanced reactor technology apparent within Coalition nuclear power systems, we expect that the Coalition will have superior industrial processes for the production of heavy water than the Union does - for we are forced to import our own."
"As for your offer of replacing the filtration units; we honour you, as will the residents of Pacifica in these war-torn days when our proletariat will no-longer be forced to breathe through filters congested with beta emitters. The Union responds to common cause."
You cannot cut off the tongue, of a man who speaks through his acts.
C.Frei.
Comrade Arbeiter of the Cologne system.
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INCOMING TRANSMISSION TO: Corin Frei of LWB FROM: Aspirant Anton Shweik, from SCEC's Secretariat of Science ...encryption code authorized ...loading data
Greetings, comrade Corin Frei, my name is Anton Shweik, and i now authorized to consider your requests.
So, in puncts:
1. Air filters. Right now we don't invented anything better than standard proven closed cycle, when the carbon dioxide filtered out from air mass, then processed through Sabatier reactor with next addition of regenerated by electrolysis oxygen back in the system.
Although, xenobiotic filters can make filtration from toxic components and waste recycling more efficient, and Planetform were so nice to put all needed components for filters reproduction right in their construction. We guess they use original bacterial colonies and call it "patented enzyme production". Now our scientists try to develop synthetic enzyme production line. Will it be efficient - time will show. Nanobots factories shows good results, dont see why this one can be problem. But this is still on development stage.
And well, we always can just isolate dangerous waste and drop it in space, where it will decay under sun radiation, and then will be collected back.
About your cause, SCEC's Secretariat of Science advise exhaust used air on Pacifica into space, and pump fresh O₂-N₂ mixture in vent system. Also manufacture lines better lock out from went system and work in gas mask, leaving vent systems filtres, CO₂ regeneration cells and fresh breath mixture for living quarters only.
2. Muon plasma projection. While SCEC Secretariat of Science considers that experiments with producing of high-density electron-positron plasmas is perspective, Volgograd Industry have limited experience with side-technologies, needed for wide-implementation of mass-based projectiles accelerator, because our weapon main line maintain tachyon's emitters.
3. Jump Drive technology and cryocoolant unit. As was said, we dont have our own, because all GEM-related technologies require wide applications of room-temperature superconductive magnets, which produced from exotic materials, which dont form natural deposites in our zone of influence.
Even if replace heat emission by another energy transformation, it should do process very fast and in big amounts, to allow keep conventional high-temperature superconductive magnets in jump drive below their critical temperature.
SCEC's Secretariat of Science require confirmation of unit efficiency, and revealing base principles of operating, to be convinced that is not yet another "Perpetuum Mobile fraud".
4. Heavy water. Coalition's secret of heavy water production is very easy, and i think can dissapoint you. Its called "The Barrier". Cosmic ice dust nebula naturally creating conditions, in which proceed deuterated molecules fractionation. Scales and timings of this reaction indeed astronomically, so we have not feasible ways to shift equilibrium, making fractionation more effective.
Basically, Coalition just seek and collect ice crystals, where concentration of deuterated molecules already high, and decrease cost by jumping through initial D₂O concentrating stage. Also, production line use as powerplant standard fusion reactors, feeded by small percent of H-fuel, generated in manufacturing cycle. So honestly, location of Sevastopol in The Barrier is all "know-how". And well, since you are not stranger in New Moscow, we also use just water gas exhausts in Sevastopol cooling systems final stage, allowing to water molecules emit excess heat back in the Barrier, use entire nebula's outcropping as "cooling pond".
Works for efficiency increasing, of course slowly going, but factor of source is prevailing here. SCEC's Secrtariat of Science advise to you use your high-dencity plasmas control knowledge for further investigations and implementation of another nuclear fusion reactions, aside from D-T and D-³He reactions.
Final resolution:
1. Experiments with muons producent high-energy plasmas considered interesting, and having scientific value, although, military implementation does not feasible for Coalition industry.
2. "Atomic cooler" device require further proves of efficiency and probability of practical realisation to cause Coalition's interest and research support.
3. Right now we dont have technologies or products, which can significantly help to Union in requested firstly areas, details were described above. In this cause, SCEC could've only make analysis of current capabilities of Syndicliga, and give consultation about further research directions.
I also note, this is answer from Scientific commission, negotiations about information exchange will do CRO or other diplomacy-authorised staff.
I personally hope you will alive all disasters and we will able work further. Good luck, comrade Frei.
This message is highly encrypted using syndicliga proprietary encryption cryptography through intranet-publicneralink drops and are functionally untracable if no sender address is given. Abuse of Intranet functionality commands community service punishments as listed in regulation five three seven gamma six. security is assumed. Any deliberate or otherwise location triangulation method successfully employed against anonymous transmissions will receive either a one billion credit reward or immediate incarceration dependent upon disclosure and motive. The revanchist council requests that Arbeiters do not squander valuable neuralnet bandwith on the consumption of CNS articles, adult content, or gambling, and advise that the relevant arbeiters employ public terminals for such use, rather than the secure line. Communal enforcement may differ between Reichsarbeitergesellschaft der Alsterian and Landwirtrechbewegung cells. Consult your admin for technical support or contact your resident Neural Technology Help Specialist at www.totallypacifica@notAHacker.net. The Union reminds Arbeiters that "trolling" is not an acceptable standard of political debate, unless aimed at capitalists, fascists, militarists, etc, who lack the neurological prerequisites to engage in such discourse. Southern Unioners are encouraged to remember that the average Unioner's literary age is roughly analogous to a twelve year old on PCP, and are encouraged to avoid engaging in difficult subjects, and are suggested to stick to familiar subjects, such as the market value of cardamine, bundschuh-based footwear puns, and the general terrible quality of life aboard wedel mining station.
Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.
Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei
Incoming Transmission
Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
To: CRO Mstislav Belov From:Corin Frei, The Hans Böckler memorial, Hamburg. Subject:Ice.
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"A fresh Sabatier reaction system would be most welcome, fortuitously, we have auxiliaries pre-manufactured at this juncture. Pacifica’s own oxygenation system has never been particularly sophisticated, in part because it has never needed to be. The station has considerable internal volume and lacks air traps. I’m forwarding your advice to Pacifica’s on-site repair teams regardless. Second opinions are vital in diagnosis, be it within an organic body, or within a vessel containing organic bodies.
Regarding the other subjects in order of importance. You may perceive, Belov, that my queries were not isolate disclosure requests.
The barrier. Hm.
Our worst operational fears have been justified. Most of the water fields within Rheinland exist at economically unacceptable Oort-radius positions away from our parent stars, or remain locked within the atmosphere of a terrestrial world, such as Hamburg as either liquid water or continental ice plates, or Holstein, within the bountiful planetary ocean. Obviously we cannot re-enter down from orbit to drain the Aariksee every time there is a strategic calling for it. There’s a slight twitch in the Arbeitsdirektor’s grin at the notion. The scene he’s imagining is clearly rather drastic.
Fortunately an absence of superconductors is not a problem the Union suffers from. An inherent advantage of our position within the core worlds underbelly is that we have access to the contents of its stomach. Niobium-copper superconductors of an extremely high grade are used throughout Unioner weaponry, computer systems, sensor grids, amongst others. If you so desire we would be willing to trade a Ragnar-load of conductors to Heisenberg Research Station for Coalition collection.
The primary Union method for the production of heavy water is conventional electrolysis, which is then used for the production of neutron weaponry, its use within the neutrino detector strips within our fighter’s sensor arrays, and the industrial production of tritium, which is again used within our neutron cannons along with the Union’s stockpile of self-manufactured Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse deterrents. Whilst the method is efficient and fast, and with the functionally unlimited potential energy of fusion, it has satisfied our material needs to-date, we find ourselves in demand for an exceptional quantity of heavy water.
A quantity for which only the Barrier can provide.
You might believe that you have not been particularly productive here, comrade, but I assure you, your observations have been most enlightening. If the barrier is indeed the only workable option within a conveniently narrow timeframe, then the barrier it must be.
As for a demonstration of the efficiency of our technology, I could offer you a design review which would be criticised, hypothesised and pontificated over for innumerable months, or I could offer the coalition a demonstration.
“You’ll see, comrade Shweik, I do not believe in barriers. I believe in challenges.”
You cannot cut off the tongue, of a man who speaks through his acts.
C.Frei.
Comrade Arbeiter of the Cologne system.
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We wouldn't be the Sirius Coalition if we don't believe in challenges too. But we have our men who believe in us, and we will not challenge more than can carry out. I will return to this topic later, consideration of Pacifica's vital problems and proposals first.
Yes, producing deuterium and high-concentrated heavy water by electrolysis is main industrial process, because most part of deuterium hypothetically was formed in the universe's formation stage. So "sifting" water from D₂O is most feasible and common solution. Method of "sifting" don't matter much when you havent constant water source. One D atom on six thousands or on ten thousands H atoms isnt problem if you have nill.
Well, if you ask, can humanity become godlike, and reach powers of creating? I guess it possible, we can try recreate pp-nucleosynthesis, going inside stars. It will give tool, allowing convert all H into D. This require development from flat ground, because stellar processes dont caused interest of industry, due small energy exhaust, and have many underwater rocks, like shifting nuclear reactions probabilities in way encouraging pp synthesis and only it. Yes, this is indeed challenge. Challenge for some years of hard work and big fundings. Peoples Republic dont ready starve for challenges like that, while we can just scan which one m³ of ice nebula have bigger concentration of D₂O.
If Unioners ready for this sort of challenges, probably it can be a topic of research programm, if political bosses will decide so.
About Tritium. Well its much more easy. Tritium can be converted in nuclear reactors, you can even choose way, want you convert it from ⁶Li or from ³He. We even slighty amazed, why Union engineers use industry line, so linked to heavy water. I always thought it's in Rheinland exist commercial market of nuclear reactors and big ore deposits, well-known not for big amount of water in space.
About superconductive magnets, were mentioned indeed room-temperature superconductive magnets, which as we guess, Liberty produce by use of some exotic platinum isotopes. To make conventional ones work inside JD, we need constant keep it cooled below critical temperature point of this superconductive magnetic alloy. That why we return to unioners cooling unit.
As SCEC's Secretariat of Science can understand, you want from us to visit sieged Pacifica, both for engineering help with vital systems maintenance and for demonstration of Hutto-Becker reactor? From our side it doable, but decision and details in authority of CRO.