Tionisla Chronicle Array

This OXP adds a new broadcast array to each of the eight galactic charts.

Tionisla Chronicle Array
Size (metres, W×H×L)	W: 560.742 H: 575.836 L: 544.196
Manoeuvrability	Roll: 8.0 Pitch: 8.0
Rotating	Yes
Energy recharge rate	10
Armaments	None
Defenders	8
OXP or standard	OXP
Beacon	Custom

Overview

The Tionisla Chronicle Array (TCA) is a massive communications platform used by the Tionisla Chronicle to distribute their news and information around the galaxy.

The famous Tionisla Chronicle Array can be found in high orbit on the dark side of Tionisla (Galaxy/Chart 1)

Sixty hexagonal high-intensity FTL transmitter panels - each one fully half a kilometer across on opposite points - adorn a trio of arms each nearly two kilometers long that protrude from the central hub of the broadcast array. The incredible amount of energy fed to the panels means that the TCA is visible from the planets surface, despite it being constantly shrouded from the sun.

The Tionisla Chronicle Array is home to a huge staff of maintenance engineers, holocam crews and of course reporters, delivering to you up-to-the-minute breaking news no matter where you travel.

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  High-intensity FTL transmitter panels

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  Docking bay

Notes

• Broadcast Arrays have a hexagon icon for the Advanced Space Compass to help you locate them.
• No market is available at the TCA (although other OXP's might affect this)

• This OXP is enhanced by both BGS and Library OXP - especially if you are also running the Tionisla Reporter mission.
  
  

The 8 galaxies

The Tionisla Chronicle Array is by no means the only Broadcast Array across the eight charts, although it is the most famous.

The Views of the Worlds Array	Xeabiti, Chart 2
The GNN Array	Geusdi, Chart 3
The Daily Wail Array	Quonso, Chart 4
The G5TVN Array	Maeser, Chart 5
The Rooters Array	Edla, Chart 6
The StarSports Array	Zarausxe, Chart 7 (StarSports being Storm's own 'channel' creation)
The Snoopers Array	Maabile, Chart 8

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Lore: The Tionisla Chronicle

Affectionately known as the 'Chronic', and considered by many to inhabit the trashy end of the news market, nevertheless the Tionisla Chronicle is one of the most widely read news feeds broadcasting around the galaxy with advertising revenues in excess of five million credits per year. Its blend of populist articles, local news, hyperbole and scant regard for complete factual accuracy, aimed squarely at the impecunious yet entrepreneurial small-time trader, endears it to many.

It is one of the longest-running news networks, with an unbroken line of editors stretching back to 2781. The current editor-in-chief, Anna Mereso, worked her way up through the ranks as a reporter, finally clinching the top job by being in the right place at the right time to cover the 'Lave Blockade' of 3125 as featured in the closing chapters of Status Quo (from the Oolite Saga). The origin of its famous catchphrase, "Truth is, we don't know!", has unfortunately been lost in the mists of time.

The Chronicle operates from its base at Tionisla, transmitting from the Chronicle Array, on wideband channel 385.2.

• Publishes the list of the Ooniverse's top one hundred list of dangerous narcotics (Famous Planets)
• Features in GNN and its predecessor, Snoopers.

The TCA itself was also mentioned and described in Drew Wagar's Oolite Saga.

And now for something a little different

Tionisla Chronicle: 'SHOCKING REVELATION: SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE FROM DEAD POETS', and the article itself, written by the eminent reporter Anna Fereso, culminating in a furiously presented reconstruction of the events which was mainly derived from her own wildest imagination, and her famous final conclusion: 'Truth is: we don't know.'

See Baron Munchausen BB thread (a long read).

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Download

Download TionislaChronicleArray.oxz v1.05 (downloaded 292 times).

Copyright

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Version History

• 1.05: (Alnivel) Added descriptions on docking, a specialised ship's chandlery, and moved the Tionisla Reporter mission so it starts at the TCA
• 1.04: (phkb) Updated populator to allow for saving at stations. Texture update. Packaged as OXZ.
• 1.03: The docking display 'billboards' should now be correctly scrolling for older OpenGL versions
• 1.02: Another slight fix, hoping to get more of those .fragment issues resolved
• 1.01: Slight fix to shader .fragment files for older OpenGL issues

Credits

The Tionisla Chronicle Array was created by Storm.

My thanks to:

• Drew for letting me use the TCA from his stories!
• DaddyHoggy, Svengali, Drew and Disembodied for GNN, Rooters and Snoopers
• DaddyHoggy again for Views of the Worlds and the Daily Wail
• Smivs for G5TVN
• Arhuman, Griff and Thargoid for the various shader and script snippets (large and small) I borrowed from their own OXP's to get this one working!
• Okti for the assistance in putting the TCA into orbit in the right position and getting this Beta properly in order for initial release!
• Cim for the workaround script advice for the logo changing on the docking display screen
• Fatleaf and Commander McLane for the help in bugfixing shader scripts
• ... and various others for the bug reports!

Links

You can find the discussion thread about the Tionisla Chronicle Array on the Oolite BB

• If you are interested in the news rather than the physical structures, try GNN and Snoopers!
• Sector1/Tionisla & Tionisla (Rough Guide) for Oolite.
• Tionisla for Frontier/FFE/etc.
• Tionisla Reporter is a mission for the Tionisla Chronicle
• GNN brings newscasts from the Tionisla Chronicle (and its competitors) to your ship while docked at a station.
• Communication

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.05	2023-6-7	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	Ambience	Dockables OXPs	Storm	Oolite BB

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