# Solaris Station {%hackmd @ZeWaka/dark-theme %} hello, im tyrant. I'm proud to present my original station concept: Solaris Station. Acronym could be like Stellar oscillaton light aided resonance in stars or some nonsense if necessary, but it doesn't need an acronym really. It's solaris. Alternative names are also under consideration. Aetherion2 (lol), Typhonic, maybe even watchful eye observatory... ## old design ![](https://i.imgur.com/IcSrs37.png) it's a bit more square here, but in reality will end up triangular due to the light refracting around the shield. The old design also involves power generation from cooling the heat shield and not from actually using any sort of photovoltaic principle (which is a bit silly). ## The lore ![](https://i.imgur.com/aVEwah9.png) Typhon's (or Sid's) deadly rays cook anything that stray near it (at least, in low orbit). But fear not! Nanotrasen has provided you with a space station that comes built in with a massive heat shield to prevent untimely charbroiling related workplace injuries. It however does need constant maintainence by a team of engineers to stop it from melting and killing everyone, but hey! You don't get to choose where you work. Comes with all the regular functions of a regular mid-large population map. ## Further details The primary idea of Solaris is that it is there to take readings and harvest power from typhon. The space around the station is heated by the **high light (and radiation) levels**, leading to unprotected beings taking burn and radiation damage when exposed, and going blind if not wearing sunglasses (or a specifically designed helmet). The front of the ship features a massive **heat shield** which is maintained by engineering, and coolant needs to be pumped through it to keep it from melting. This ends up powering some auxillary **turbines** to provide some nice background power. The heat shield curves up and out in a sort of cone/funnel shape to protect the station, and there is a gap at the very bottom to allow some light through. The gameplay style of engineers, despite still using turbines, would be very different, as the focus is less on the station getting power and more about ***help if this heat shield melts we all die***. The main point of the station, from nanotrasen's perspective, is for the PTL beam to send massive quantities of power to various large scale and very secret projects that they're working on, through an interstellar network of focusing prisms and whatnot. This is achieved through the unique photovoltaic properties of **solid plasma crystals**, which the light is focused on using a **superconducting electromagnetic ring circuit**. - The solid plasma generates power at an efficiency of a whopping 87% when light above a certain frequency impacts it. But, the plasma crystal only has the photovoltaic properties below a certain temperature, so it needs to be kept cool. Which is a bit of a challenge, especially since it itself generates waste heat while functioning. - The magnets themselves don't require much power (0 resistance in a circuit means 0 voltage for any fixed current, and therefore 0 power input needed for a static magnetic field), but they *do* need to be cooled by a cold loop of a kind, otherwise they lose their superconducting properties. By adjusting the current of the magnet, more or less light can be deflected onto the photovoltaic. As a side effect, this also changes the amount of cooling that the heat shield needs. - In short, engineering's main challenge is cooling things, rather than heating them. The station is intended for medium-high population servers, but could also just as easily be made to target high pop exclusively. The actual layout of departments is very interchangeable. The heat shield and engineering are the only real fixed parts. They're the core of the station; everything else is built around it. ## Features that will need to be made: * The whole station to actually be designed at some point along the process. Oof. * Hot space. You are next to a sun. See [this note](https://hackmd.io/@Tyrant/Solar-radiation-calculations) for further more in depth details. * Hot space should provide mostly burn damage but also radiation damage (from the south). * What does hot space do to corpses? If they turn into skeletons, genetics can unskeleton them and then clone. Throwing people into space on this map will be quite the death sentence. * If skeletons turn to ash afterwards, we’ll probably need full body genetic restructuring or some similar analysis method to isolate who exactly this ash used to be and bring them back. That'd nerfs dragon’s breath somewhat though. * New miniputts and spaceships that are more radiation proof/ come with shields * New eva suits and stuff that are radiation and heat proof * Does this map connect to the debris and mining fields? How are they doing that lore wise? * If we are especially ambitious we could have the star actually visible at y=1 as a single tile wide layer of instant char broiling via stellar corona. Could make corpse disposal a bit too strong though. * Heat shield walls and power generation * The heat shields need to have built in atmos pipes, and bleed heat into the pipes in one direction, with low/no backflow. * Those pipes then go to the cooling turbines and use the waste heat somewhat usefully as backup power. This could use turbines from the nuclear engine. * hopefully, code this in a way that doesn't allow you to exploit purging the pressure over and over. * Everything north of active heat shield walls is cold space. Everything not is hot space and will be boiled. Think of it as a protective cylinder (or really long cone) of nice habitable regular old space. * Light refracts around objects depending on the sharpness of the edge and the frequency of the light. This would lead to the edges of hotspace curving inwards. One way to possibly have this work is using a concept called the [diffraction shock cone](https://hackmd.io/@Tyrant/Solar-radiation-calculations#the-diffractive-shock-cone), a turbulent area of light with similar properties to hot space to act as a boundary. * Asteroids could possibly also act as heat shields. New turf: scorched asteroid. Tougher than regular asteroid turf wall. * Figuring out how that much power can actually get to the PTL without engineering just having to bite the bullet and hotwiring * Maybe having a direct reinforced cable from engineering to the PTL that bypasses the SMES that feed the rest of the APCs and station. The goal of the station is high power output of course, so high power cabling is important. * Placement of rooms stuff * We can’t have every dock just facing north, there’s not enough room. Docking arm sticking out to the north perhaps. * Cargo also has to ship stuff to the north. We assume everything in the universe is in the opposite direction of the star, since south is literally just the star. More likely is that there's a secondary rerouting ship in higher orbit which resends the stuff. * Cargo could also possibly steal the transception array from nadir if needed lol. * With heat proof ships, docks can go on east and west sides, leaving the north free for the arrivals and escape shuttle. For symmetry reasons if nothing else, I'd like both a shuttle for arrivals and escape. * The research department could possibly have a small research outpost which would need its own heat shield to keep running. If we go for this we’d need some way to cool down that heat shield too. Or we just give research their own TEG or turbine (what could go wrong). * the research department should probably actually study the star in some way. * Other stuff that I might not have thought of ## Additional docs https://hackmd.io/@Tyrant/Solar-radiation-calculations details some work i did on how heat shields would theoretically work and be coded.
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Broken bones and crutches and stuff

Once when playing medical I thought to myself, huh, these gamers just get healed up and then go on their way, no follow up appointments or suffer any real long term effects (mostly). Quite different to how real life treatments are, with month long recoveries and stuff. Then I thought hey what if bones broke and you had to get casts and stuff. Tada. Okay so what's being added Each limb would get the ability to get broken (not torso or heads though because that'd be complex. Well, maybe ribs could get broken, but that's it). The broken limb would then debuff you in terms of movement speed and dexterity, possibly giving you more brute damage if you keep trying to use those limbs. The break doesn't add damage by itself (unless you abuse it as mentioned), and using a brute automender continuously until 0 brute health wouldn't repair the break. The break itself would show up on a basic scan, or even an examine text.so it turns out that all /obj/item/parts i.e. body parts already sorta have bones (and so do /obj/item/organs??). So I don't have to actually code much of anything for this bit other than when the actual breaks happen plus some miscellaneous tidy up. To heal a broken limb, you need to set the broken limbs in place (not clear on how that'd be done yet, maybe just help intent on the limb, causing damage and pain at the time, or maybe just automatically assumed) and then put a cast on it. For regular casts, you'd apply fibreglass bandages which would set and make a cast on the offending limb. The cast would then have to be removed after a set amount of time by some kind of saw. The fibreglass bandages would come out of a medical fabricator, and there'd be some lying around at roundstart. An alternative to a cast would be a splint, which would provide a little less support and heal a little slower, but it'd be able to be reused, unlike the bits of cast that get sawn off. Provides a few more options for doctors. There'd be different ones for arms and legs though, which is a bit of a downside.

4/15/2023
Solar radiation

The idea of Solaris Station is that it's being bombarded with solar radiation very strongly. This doc outlines in great detail what that entails. The actual radiation Current idea involves new turfs/walls. Assume the star is to the south of the map. Hot space, which is unshielded space. The diffraction shock cone, which separates hot space and cold space with a boundary. It would also have to curve inwards using some funky maths in order to accurately simulate the behaviour of light diffracting around solid objects. Non Knife edge diffraction is what applies here. cold space (regular space) which would have to interact with the diffraction shock cone in new ways. Heat Shielding, which is a plasma cooled solid wall which blocks the radiation coming from the South of the map Every other tile which is not boxed within the refractive shock cone and heat shielding (and the north edge of the map) needs to be either hot space or violently changed by radiation in some way. This involves basically igniting most items, vaporizing a lot of things, and burning turfs. A lot of work.

2/24/2023
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