public static string StarportDescription(EHex starportCode)
{
switch (starportCode.ToString())
{
//star ports
case "A": return("Excellent Quality. Refined fuel available. Annual maintenance overhaul available. Shipyard capable of constructing starships and non-starships present. Nava base and/or scout base may be present.");
case "B": return("Good Quality. Refined fuel available. Annual maintenance overhaul available. Shipyard capable of constructing non-starships present. Naval base and/or scout base may be present.");
case "C": return("Routine Quality. Only unrefined fuel available. Reasonable repair facilities present. Scout base may be present.");
case "D": return("Poor Quality. Only unrefined fuel available. No repair facilities present. Scout base may be present.");
case "E": return("Frontier Installation. Essentially a marked spot of bedrock with no fuel, facilities, or bases present.");
case "X": return("No Starport. No provision is made for any ship landings.");
//space ports
case "F": return("Good Quality. Minor damage repairable. Unrefined fuel available.");
case "G": return("Poor Quality. Superficial repairs possible. Unrefined fuel available.");
case "H": return("Primitive Quality. No repairs or fuel available.");
case "Y": return("None.");
default: return("");
}
}
public static string Starport(EHex starportCode)
{
switch (starportCode.ToString())
{
//star ports
case "A": return("Excellent Quality.");
case "B": return("Good Quality.");
case "C": return("Routine Quality.");
case "D": return("Poor Quality.");
case "E": return("Frontier Installation.");
case "X": return("No Starport.");
//space ports
case "F": return("Good Quality.");
case "G": return("Poor Quality.");
case "H": return("Primitive Quality.");
case "Y": return("None.");
default: return("");
}
}
public static string LawLevel(EHex lawCode)
{
switch (lawCode.ToString())
{
case "0": return("No prohibitions.");
case "1": return("Body pistols, explosives, and poison gas prohibited.");
case "2": return("Portable energy weapons prohibited.");
case "3": return("Machine guns, automatic rifles prohibited.");
case "4": return("Light assault weapons prohibited.");
case "5": return("Personal concealable weapons prohibited.");
case "6": return("All firearms except shotguns prohibited.");
case "7": return("Shotguns prohibited.");
case "8": return("Long bladed weapons controlled; open possession prohibited.");
case "9": return("Possession of weapons outside the home prohibited.");
case "A": return("Weapon possession prohibited.");
case "B": return("Rigid control of civilian movement.");
case "C": return("Unrestricted invasion of privacy.");
case "D": return("Paramilitary law enforcement.");
case "E": return("Full-fledged police state.");
case "F": return("All facets of daily life regularly legislated and controlled.");
case "G": return("Severe punishment for petty infractions.");
case "H": return("Legalized oppressive practices.");
case "J": return("Routinely oppressive and restrictive.");
case "K": return("Excessively oppressive and restrictive.");
case "L": return("Totally oppressive and restrictive.");
case "S": return("Special/Variable situation.");
default: return("");
}
}
public static string TechLevel(EHex techCode)
{
switch (techCode.ToString())
{
case "0": return("Stone Age. Primitive.");
case "1": return("Bronze, Iron. Bronze Age to Middle Ages");
case "2": return("Printing Press. circa 1400 to 1700.");
case "3": return("Basic Science. circa 1700 to 1860.");
case "4": return("External Combustion. circa 1860 to 1900.");
case "5": return("Mass Production. circa 1900 to 1939.");
case "6": return("Nuclear Power. circa 1940 to 1969.");
case "7": return("Miniaturized Electronics. circa 1970 to 1979.");
case "8": return("Quality Computers. circa 1980 to 1989.");
case "9": return("Anti-Gravity. circa 1990 to 2000.");
case "A": return("Interstellar community.");
case "B": return("Lower Average Imperial.");
case "C": return("Average Imperial.");
case "D": return("Above Average Imperial.");
case "E": return("Above Average Imperial.");
case "F": return("Technical Imperial Maximum.");
case "G": return("Robots.");
case "H": return("Artificial Intelligence.");
case "J": return("Personal Disintegrators.");
case "K": return("Plastic Metals.");
case "L": return("Comprehensible only as technological magic.");
default: return("");
}
}
public static double PopulationExponent(EHex populationCode) => Math.Pow(10, populationCode.Value);
static ImmutableArray <EHex> BuildCodes(EHex min, EHex max, params EHex[] extras)
{
return(BuildCodes(min.Value, max.Value, extras));
}