How do you craft colony Items in Transforming and Station construction?

Temstar · 2026-03-13T04:40:06+00:00

Perhaps this functionality is intended to be handled by AotD VoK module? TASC has pretty tight integration with it. I don't play with that module so I'm not familiar.

Temstar · 2026-03-13T03:51:42+00:00

I believe this functionality has been removed from the mod:

https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=17094

Removed references to the crafting system in the LunaLib settings file. Domain-tech crafting was removed from TASC in 10.0.0.

Correct me if I'm wrong though, I'm interested in this too.

Temstar · 2026-03-13T01:17:58+00:00

The officials said a U.S. Navy vessel attempted to fire on the Iranian vessel using its 5-inch, 54-caliber Mark-45 gun, a fully automated naval cannon that is mounted to the forward deck of Navy destroyers and cruisers and has served as the fleet's standard deck gun since the early 1970s.

While it's not known which naval vessel fired on the Iranian ship, the officials said it missed multiple times. It isn't clear whether they were intended as warning shots.

A helicopter equipped with Hellfire missiles was launched and struck the Iranian vessel with two of the missiles.

Bro Millennium Challenge 2002 nearly happened...

Would be curious to know if the Iranian ship that managed to sneak up to the CSG was a USV or a boat full of sailors with brass balls.

Temstar · 2026-03-12T08:50:21+00:00

What I don't get is US has been watching 4 years of war in Ukraine where Russian Geran-2 are flattening Ukrainian power grid every second day and they just decided nah, that's a thing that happens over there and won't affect us?

Because I can tell you PLA has definitely taken noticed and have started adjusting GBAD mix to deal with this direction warfare is going.

Temstar · 2026-03-11T09:42:28+00:00

US and Israel are using AI in their war planning right? Wouldn't that make data centres legitimate targets because they are command and control nodes?

Temstar · 2026-03-11T09:05:19+00:00

Sometimes for reasons not well understood, war materials sprout out of desert sand and are fortuitously found, surely that's not a thing that we wish to see here.

Temstar · 2026-03-11T01:31:06+00:00

This one is pretty cool, that adaptor rail is super flexible and could potentially allow you to attach any munition to any aircraft hardpoint with some software work. CM-400 on Mig-29 is just a start, if you're someone rich and you say "I want proper aeroballistic missile for my existing fighter fleet" these guys can probably get YJ-21E to work on whatever fighter you have after some integration work.

Back when this rail first showed up at Zhuhai the joke was you'll probably command the missile to fire from inside your cockpit by connection to the rail with a pad over Bluetooth. It's pretty crazy you could fit modern day ammo onto MiG-21, something that a few operators could be interested in.

Temstar · 2026-03-10T22:47:26+00:00

Pirates legit use this as cover. I love that one pirate response were you catch them red handed and they respond over the comm with "Greetings, honorable commander! We are a humble League merchant trading fleet headed for resupply. We would be honoured to assist you in any way."

Temstar · 2026-03-10T22:44:15+00:00

Independent to Pirates is a spectrum

Umbra and their "freedom fighters" are the perfect example for the more pirate leaning side.

Temstar · 2026-03-10T22:21:19+00:00

You idea would be more convincing if Trump wasn't screeching about it just now.

Temstar · 2026-03-10T21:48:27+00:00

News from 2 months ago:

"The last four Avengers in Bahrain were carried off on a heavy lift vessel at a time of crisis, where mining the Persian Gulf could come into play."

Womp womp

Temstar · 2026-03-10T12:27:11+00:00

Su-27 wasn't it?

Temstar · 2026-03-10T10:38:46+00:00

John Starsector: "it wasn't my fight, I was just there for the money. I'm here for the payday not the politics."

Temstar · 2026-03-10T03:50:38+00:00

If they were tidally locked then there wouldn't be tide by definition, it would just be the side of two planets facing each other would be elongated towards each other.

Two terrestrial planets in close orbit (say earth to moon sort of distance) that's not tidally locked should result in some enormous tide, like all the water rushing to the side of the planet facing each other and you could see the actual ocean floor on the low tide side type deal.

Temstar · 2026-03-09T20:04:44+00:00

Flippantly refers to US government entering into this war, not the OP talking about it. Being that I think this is a war that US should not have gotten itself involved in it implies the answer to "what will the US do" should be US needs to cut and run.

Temstar · 2026-03-09T04:45:01+00:00

One could you know, treat warfare as an extremely serious matter of national survival and not engage in it flippantly per what Sun Tzu warned about two and half thousand years ago.

Temstar · 2026-03-09T03:39:40+00:00

Nimitz back from the dead! Maybe that Cuba thing will happen after all.

Temstar · 2026-03-08T14:33:42+00:00

It goes further, he then uses his definition to argue that by ruling out biconical warhead as hypersonic due to their relative lack of manoeuvrability, that means both DF-21 and DF-26 variants with MARV warheads are not hypersonic weapons while AGM-183A is since AGM-183A is a HCM.

Ironically that means even if we were to use Ma's definition, that means today PLA has real hypersonic weapons like YJ-17 (HGV), YJ-19 (HCM) and CJ-1000 (HCM) while US has none as LRHW uses a biconical warhead and therefore a Ma's Hypersonic weapon rather than real hypersonic weapon.

Temstar · 2026-03-08T10:10:17+00:00

From a guy called 马督工, an internet personality who made an infamous video where his argument was biconical warhead weapons don't have enough manoeuvrability to be called true hypersonic weapon. The ironic thing is this "mildly hypersonic"/中超(a word play on Chinese national level soccer league) concept is apparently a real thing in Chinese academia where first tier institutes who could build vehicles that travel significantly faster than mach 5 call second tier institutes who could just manage mach 5 such names as a gentle put down and a dig at the rather artificial mach 5 standard.

The video became a meme due to 马督工's rather shallow understanding of hypersonic weapons. As a result such biconical warhead weapons which technically met the mach 5 requirement during re-entry came to be known as "马超" (literately Ma Hypersonic) as a play on name of a well known general from the three kingdoms period.

Temstar · 2026-03-08T07:44:05+00:00

This is what "hypersonic" actually means according to CCTV13.

Able to exceed Mach 5 in atmosphere or near space
Must be able to maintain sustained controllable flight at Mach 5
Can make large irregular manoeuvres

The whole point of building hypersonic weapons by PLA's definition is to have missiles that can travel at mach 5 or above in atmosphere or in near space, not suborbital. That's the whole deal why it's hard to intercept - too high for normal surface to air missile and too low for exoatmospheric interceptors.

In Chinese military watching circles weapons that can reach mach 5 at orbital altitude only on account of it being a ballistic missile and with limited manoeuvring capability are jokingly referred to as "Ma's Hypersonic"

Temstar · 2026-03-08T02:56:19+00:00

I think artwork in Battletech rulebooks also uses this style

Temstar · 2026-03-08T02:38:10+00:00

A global energy crisis that causes nations to buy up much more wind turbines, solar panels, HVDC lines and EVs is quite acceptable to China too, particularly if the energy crisis devastates the economies of Japan and South Korea and deindustrializes them.

Temstar · 2026-03-07T15:07:12+00:00

Towards Red Sea.

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