Talk:Aneph Enterprises Consolidated Fleet/@comment-12161342-20150512205640

''A force consisting of two Io-class battleships, a Pyroclast, and dozens of supporting vessels departs from Aneph and warps to Mercury. A swarm of Toy Boxes split off from the formation upon arrival at Mercury and set course for the North Pole of Mercury. Landing, Aneph crews begin setting up a massive, special ring of piping that looks like an overgrown Large Hadron Collider. Encircling the North Pole, the massive prefabricated pipes are slowly put in place, eventually forming a massive ring several hundred kilometers in diameter around the north pole. The ring is arranged so that half of the ring is always in daylight, and the other side crosses the terminator into the night side. Along the ring, massive refineries are set up, and drilling rigs punch through the remarkably thin Mercurian crust and mantle down towards the molten core.''

''Meanwhile, the habitation facilities are set up inside permanently-shaded craters containing water ice(this is true, look it up). The permanently shaded regions, though cold, provide direct radiation shielding from the looming sun, as well as water ice. In another shadowed crater, new shipyards begins to take shape.''

OOC: the drilling rigs will draw immense amounts of liquid raw metals(iron, as well as tungsten, titanium, and heavier metals) directly from the mercurian mantle and core. It will be pumped up and into refineries, where it is purified, and once the metals are refined they are pumped into the giant several hundred km circular tube. The mix of purified liquid metals will be circulated through the tube, heating up on the day side of the ring and cooling on the night side due to the drastic temperature variations between day and night on the planet. Metals will be pumped out at various locations on the night side, corresponding to how much tempering you want in the metals. Once it is pumped out, the individual metals will be separated and used to build ships.

Basically, Aneph is turning Mercury into the solar system's biggest raw metals processing plant and foundry

TIMELINE: limited liquid metal processing will begin within a week or two, the shipyards wont come online for a month at the earliest, and itll take many months for the foundry and the shipyards to be 100% complete and reach full production