Caelum Iron Dome System

Original design of the project.

The **Caelum Iron Dome System** **(C.I.D.S)** was a project under construction in Caelum that was designed to protect the nation's borders against foreign invaders. Had the project been finished, it would have been the largest redstone-based system in Orbis.

## History

### Background

The idea of a remote cannon system in the walls of Caelum began in the year 1920 BCS, during the rising tensions with Hilsjecka and Occidentalis after the death of Ali J. During this time, dozens of cannons were installed in the eastern walls to be activated manually by players in case of an enemy invasion, however, this was proven to be extremely inefficient, as it would require too much manual labor in order to function properly. Due to these problems, the idea was eventually forgotten, and would only return almost 60 years later, after the Caelumni Civil War.

In the year 1862 BCS, BrasilBola came up with a plan to solve the issues of not having enough players to protect the borders by creating a redstone-based system that would activate cannons remotely across the entire walls with the push of a button. The plan was presented to Spore, who agreed on helping to build it. A few tests were made to see if it was possible to activate a Cannon/Mortar with redstone, and after many succesful attempts, construction started in 1861 BCS.

### Construction

The Control Room was the first part of the project to be built, being finished in 1860 BCS, while the first tower (E2) was mounted with the Mortars on the same year. By 1857 BCS towers E2 and E1 were functioning properly, and E3 would eventually be finished by 1850 BCS.

The project was expected to be completed by 1850 BCS, however many problems came with building such a large redstone structure. Problems included: not enough players to build it fast enough, low amount of resources such as gunpowder, melon seeds and redstone, aswell as other projects on Caelum that slowed the progress even further.

After the collapse of Caelum in 1847 BCS and the civil unrest that happened in the following years, the constructon of the Caelum Iron Dome System was halted indefinitely, and it remained that way until the end of the season.

## Design

### Specifications

The Caelum Iron Dome System used a series of Iron Mortars from the Cannons plugin that would be activated by a lever in the Control Room using Redstone, Redstone Repeaters, Observers and Redstone Torches. About 3 Mortars would be mounted on a Tower across the walls of Caelum in order to deal the triple amount of damage. The lever would need to be flipped multiple times to activate the Mortars, taking approximately four seconds for the Mortars to respond. Once activated, the Mortars would launch a melon seed projectile into the air, reaching a maximum distance of 100 blocks. Any player hit by the projectile would receive lethal damage.

### Practical Use

Although it was never used in conflict, the system was not expected to work well against foreign invaders due to the small range each tower could reach, and the huge delay to activate them. The damage from the projectiles could also be nullified with an Enchanted Netherite Armor.

   Final design of C.I.D.S