Hovering Buildings Range

Formerly:  the ‘StarCraft Mobile Buildings Proving Grounds’

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Passing on the Torch of Knowledge / History
  3. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
  4. This Means War
  5. Proving Grounds Events
  6. Concepts
  7. Is It Really There?

 

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Introduction:

This was where Repulsines were taken from aircraft, such as the TR-3B, and from Spaceships such as the Haunebu saucers, and added to buildings like barracks and command centers; this was where the giant Repulsines in Inisfree were prototyped until they were capable of moving entire cities and even worlds around (such as our MSBS, PSBS, and SSBS-class Spaceships).

* Testing of StarCraft-style mobile-buildings is complete, resulting in improved mobile-house, Dropship, and ColonyPod technology.

 

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Passing on the Torch of Knowledge:

Originally used to further develop NAZI hover technology (from the Haunebu projects) to make the floating buildings of StarCraft a reality, this swath of land far beyond the borders of the great city-nation was later used to develop the signature, egg-formed Dropships and frisbee-formed ColonyPods used by the Inisfreeans (ICVs) to conquer and colonize innumerable other worlds and dimensions.

History:

  1. 1930s:  Haunebu engines could levitate tens of thousands of tons (a cruiser or submarine, with battleships being heavier), though only ~100 tons at first (below frigate weight, frigates being ~1,500-3,000 tons).
  2. 1940s:  Germans did Haunebu R+D out here; how to increase their power so their engines could lift hundreds of thousands of tons (a cargo ship weighing a few times as much as an aircraft carrier)
  3. 1950s:  millions of tons (5/+ cargo ships at a time)
  4. 1960s:  tens of millions
  5. 1970s:  hundreds of millions (a suburb such as Manhattan –and this is when levitating a structure the size of Cloud City II became possible and understood, then mastered)
  6. 1980s:  billions (something like NYC; a big city)
  7. 1990s:  tens of billions (a city plus some of its land)
  8. 2000s:  hundreds of billions (a small mountain)
  9. 2010s:  trillion+ tons (a medium mountain, with Mt. Everest estimated at 350 trillion tons)

By the time the Grid Mind got there, it was already known how to have it form giant repulsines capable of lifting the whole mountain it was shaping. The Base 211 personnel helping Auz start Inisfree gave him and his Grid Mind the data from this Proving Grounds so he/it could start at their latest level; 2010s repulsines already proven capable of levitating not just ships and cities, but entire mountains.

Today, these Proving Grounds have many remains of stripped hulks incapable of providing anything useful to Outlanders. Auz sometimes visits those abandoned structures to reminisce. His favorite Base 211 ‘bunnies’ love to join him out here for story-time… and re-‘christening’. Imagine their version of tailgate parties here; modern flying saucers all hovering over the ice, merry chatting in German inside the historic wrecks preserved by the extreme cold.

 

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants:

Storm Troopers, adorned in their sacred and secretive, highly classified, Space-worthy, A.I.-enhanced, power-armor bodysuits sometimes literally stand upon the shoulders of their compatriot-piloted Battle Mechs; the ‘Crunchy’ (Infantry) close-end security element of the mechanized infantry of ‘tomorrow’.  This is a signature ‘show of force’.  It also happens to be a great way to observe the hover-buildings in action, as well as to provide hand-&-arm signals for them to takeoff and land.

 

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This Means War:

Always ‘pushing the envelope’, any spectator or participant will often see the blasphemously explosive deaths of entire formations of the city-sized colonization ships called “Colony Pods”, by the Inisfreeans, as they ‘duke it out’ over the skies of this planet once inhabited by the demonic infection known as Humanity.  These ships, and many others like them, have been added to the chaotically jagged, sometimes molten, hellish surface terrain of the cratered and cave-network-pocketed demolition-derby region here known as Inisfree’s Proving Grounds.  No nano-technical transmutation recycling efforts are made, nor are they allowed in this area; it is meant to remain as terrible, impassible, and scarred as possible, to further instill in those who venture there the usual nature of war.  (ICVs are rarely aboard such ships intended for air-to-ground crashes, though when they are they always survive with ease, as intended.)

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2024 August 26 Monday clarification:  “often”, meaning back when these practice group-crashes were part of R+D –and possible; before SRC made all ICs incapable of taking damage.

 

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Proving Grounds Events:

During the 1940s up into the early 2010s, these were the kind of events regularly scheduled out here:

  • Repulsine Engines Testing
  • Repulsine-assisted Foundations Floats
  • Repulsine-assisted Foundations Flights
  • Repulsine-assisted Small-buildings Floats
  • Repulsine-assisted Small-buildings Flights
  • Repulsine-assisted Medium-buildings Floats
  • Repulsine-assisted Medium-buildings Flights
  • Repulsine-assisted Large-buildings Floats
  • Repulsine-assisted Large-buildings Flights
  • Repulsine-assisted Buildings Float Formations
  • Repulsine-assisted Buildings Flight Formations
  • Repulsine-assisted Buildings Malfunction Drills
  • Repulsine-assisted Buildings On-ground Repair Practice
  • Repulsine-assisted Buildings In-air (during hover, not flight) Repair Practice
  • Repulsine-assisted Buildings Systematic-destruction Drills

Since the completion and activation of Inisfree, far fewer events occur at these now-historic proving grounds, and no more ColonyPods get practice-destroyed/crashed out here.

 

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Concepts:

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Is it Really There?

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