RandomCommander
A large group of ships, including 8 stations, 22 research vehicles, 68 mega-class civilian transporters and 33 mega-class resource-transporters enters the system.
They are escorted by 14 TA Battle-squadrons (168 battleships + 18 commandvehicles)
Greetings, Commander,
We are a bit late, but don't think we weren't trying to help you.
After recieving your message, we immediately started working on possible solutions to your radiation problem, and we started to fit every ship we were going to send here with a lead lining, so the radiation won't affect the people in those ships.
We have brought 68 civilian transporters, each capable of housing 2000 people, so they can have some temporary living space safe from any radiation. Of course, the people on the ships could sleep in shifts of 24 hrs, which will triple the capacity, making it possible to house over 6000 civilians on each of them.
Allow me to explain our plan.
Our scientists have been working day and night, and one of the first ideas was to build some sort of giant vacuum-cleaner, which would suck up all radiation. This would work with alpha- and beta-radiation, but a sun releases all kinds of radiation, of which the gamma-rays are the most dangerous.
The second idea was to have a field of FTL ports around the star, to propel all of the radiation away. Again, this would work with alpha and beta, but not gamma. Also, this would require more energy than we would ever be able to supply.
So, what are we going to do, then?
The only thing that can attract gamma radiation is a strong nuclear force, or gravity. Since a planet generates gravity, most of the radiation will automatically go to the planets. This is a good and a bad thing.
- It's good because most of the radiation won't leave the system, so other nearby systems will remain relatively
unharmed.
- It's also bad, because the planet will attract radiation, meaning we can't just make all the radiation go to the moons or something like that.
The isotope known as Fe-56 is a common isotope of Iron. We need this because it has the strongest nuclear force of any non-radioactive mineral in the universe. (We can't use radioactive minerals, as they will just make the whole problem worse.) The iron, if placed in high orbit over the planet, will have a stronger effect on the radiation than the planet's gravity, thus the radiation will not affect the planet. But this will only work if we place the iron all around the planet, not too far away from each other. This is why we need so many stations.
After about 40 days of absorbing radiation, the iron will not have enough nuclear force left to cancel out the planet's gravity, which is why we will change the iron every 30 days.
I am afraid these stations will have to remain operational for at least 70 years.
All incoming and outgoing vehicles will need to be shielded against radiation, preferably with lead.
Trust me, it's the only viable option.
Kind regards,
Piraat (TA Admiral)