Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

ShadowArxxy

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Comrade
[X] Join Relief Effort - +1 Goodwill this turn
[X] Agree - +10 POP Limit immediately, Doubles benefit of Improved Agriculture. -1% GDP

Considering how bottlenecked our world has been on food for decades, I don't think that reserving Pollux for farming is a bad idea. It's a relatively heavy-handed move, but a justified one considering everything.
 

Vilegrave

Well-known member
[X] Join Relief Effort - +1 Goodwill this turn

[X] Agree - +10 POP Limit immediately, Doubles benefit of Improved Agriculture. -1% GDP
 

Thors_Alumni

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[X] Join Relief Effort - +1 Goodwill this turn
Basically what Jarow posted.
[X] Agree - +10 POP Limit immediately, Doubles benefit of Improved Agriculture. -1% GDP
I will be amazed if any decides not to take it. My reaction when I saw it was Oh hell yes, I want that!
 

PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
[X] Join Relief Effort - +1 Goodwill this turn
[X] Agree - +10 POP Limit immediately, Doubles benefit of Improved Agriculture. -1% GDP

Sad about no defenestration.
 

Chaeronea

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[X] Join Relief Effort - +1 Goodwill this turn

[X] Agree - +10 POP Limit immediately, Doubles benefit of Improved Agriculture. -1% GDP
 

Bear Ribs

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[X] Join Relief Effort - +1 Goodwill this turn

[X] Agree - +10 POP Limit immediately, Doubles benefit of Improved Agriculture. -1% GDP
 
Turn 29 - You Could Have An Aeroplane Flying

LordSunhawk

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Turn 29 - You Could Have An Aeroplane Flying

USS Enterprise joins the next convoy heading out to Griffin V, although this particular trip is carrying more than simply supplies.

Granted, the exploration Aerodyne is packed to the overheads with crates of medicine and food, but all of the ‘mech stalls on HMS Harris are filled with something else.

Massive grifftigers from the Great Hunter Company. The Eldest had rather pointedly volunteered their services to help secure Griffin V and had pointed out, quite reasonably, that a bunch of great big cats would be marginally less threatening than sending mechs. Cats, after all, were cute.

You weren’t all that certain of the logic, but were willing to give the big guys their chance to join in the diplomacy, besides the ex-slaves on Griffin V would probably need to get used to the big cats sooner rather than later.

Willis and Sarah going along was less welcome, but they’d talked you around to it. The Royal Family really needed to make an appearance, and Sarah had made a solid case that the two of them could generate plenty of good will.

Of course, this meant that Bastet decided to go along as well.

You realize belatedly that this might have been a ploy by the tigers. After all, the few tigers who’d visited the titanium mining area down in the antarctic had all reportedly been fascinated by thick snow and had spent hours playing in it. Now there’s an entire planet of the white and frozen stuff.

You are tempted to recall the convoy at that point, as you remember just how much Sarah loved playing in the snow the one time you’d gone up to near the summit of Mt Griffsport where there was a year round snowpack. This was obviously a conspiracy by your youngest and the grifftigers to have an entire planet of snow to play in.

That’s your theory and you’re sticking to it.

There’s a massive landrush on Pollux once you make the decision to focus the continent on agriculture and direct the Ministry of the Interior to prioritize the same. The extremely agreeable climate and superb conditions swiftly show through. The initial boost in food production has brought food prices tumbling down and as herding is established in those parts of the continent less suitable for farming prices drop even further. Some of the established agribusinesses are grumbling about the loss of profits, but you check the latest tax audits on them and they’d previously been printing money, now they are simply rolling in it. Greedy bastards.

As the development of Pollux grows the total cultivated region will expand, with significant benefits for food production. As more cities and settlements are established the benefit will grow as well.

Naturally, Parliament now decides to stick their oar in.

Granted, the idea isn’t half bad, to be honest. Moreover in the long term it may well be very useful.

What they are proposing is a new Department of Colonization, to manage expansion to other worlds, their settlement, terraforming, and integration into a wider Griffin’s Roost empire. Not a bad plan at all. It would come jointly under the Ministry of the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Military and would be in charge of all of the above facets of expansion.

The catch is that they are also proposing that this Department report to a joint oversight committee rather than directly to the Crown, thus bypassing some of your authority.

[] Agree in full - Colonization Actions will now be a separate category that uses either Interior, Diplomacy, Justice or Military slots to complete. +5 to all colonization targets. -2 Crown Influence, One time cost of 100,000, +2 Lords and Commons Influence

[] Agree in part - you want the Department, but not the joint oversight committee. You’d be responsible for the results either way, that committee is just a way for the politicians to take the credit while leaving you the blame. As above, but no change to Influence, -25 support in Commons and Lords.

[] Disapprove - -10 Support in Commons and Lords

In other news, there’s an amusing ‘scandal’ taking place in Griffsport. Oh, it started out seriously, but then it went so far off the rails that it didn’t take a genius to realize that the Department of Periphery Studies was involved.

It started out with a mild panic, because Griffsport Police getting sudden calls about dire penguin sightings in downtown have a way of causing a reaction. Officers swarmed the area, searching for the lethal little avians.

There were no birds.

Well, not real birds.

Somebody in Periphery Studies had bought a shipment of toy remote control battlemechs and had installed them inside plushy dire penguin casings, loaded recordings of what they thought were actual dire penguins, then conducted a Dire Penguin Parade to further their campaign for Dire Penguin Rights and that Humans And Dire Penguins Can Coexist In Peace! They hadn’t bothered to get a parade permit, nor had they actually told anybody, including their faithful white-coated research assistants, what they were going to be getting up to. Thus the mild panic.

The first clue that this was off the rails was that that recording, you know, the one of ‘actual dire penguins’? Were actually ducks. Lots of ducks. Quacking. Loudly. In chorus.

You can’t stop chuckling, although you do send a note to the zoo that since it’s impossible to keep actual Dire Penguins, perhaps animatronic ones based on these silly things might be an idea to showcase that type of wildlife?
 

Jarow

Well-known member
[X] Agree in part - you want the Department, but not the joint oversight committee. You’d be responsible for the results either way, that committee is just a way for the politicians to take the credit while leaving you the blame. As above, but no change to Influence, -25 support in Commons and Lords.

We definitely want this. Basically an extra set of general actions, for use in our lest stressed areas (and interior). Don't want to let parliament actually control us, instead of the other way around though. Time to add improving relations in again.
 

Thors_Alumni

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[X] Agree in part - you want the Department, but not the joint oversight committee. You’d be responsible for the results either way, that committee is just a way for the politicians to take the credit while leaving you the blame. As above, but no change to Influence, -25 support in Commons and Lords.
 

PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
[x] Agree in part - you want the Department, but not the joint oversight committee. You’d be responsible for the results either way, that committee is just a way for the politicians to take the credit while leaving you the blame. As above, but no change to Influence, -25 support in Commons and Lords.

Committee with four different ministries making a decision is a recipe for disaster. Later it can be raised to the status of full ministry.
 
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Chaeronea

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[X] Agree in part - you want the Department, but not the joint oversight committee. You’d be responsible for the results either way, that committee is just a way for the politicians to take the credit while leaving you the blame. As above, but no change to Influence, -25 support in Commons and Lords.
 

Thors_Alumni

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[] Agree in part - you want the Department, but not the joint oversight committee. You’d be responsible for the results either way, that committee is just a way for the politicians to take the credit while leaving you the blame. As above, but no change to Influence, -25 support in Commons and Lords.
You need to put an X in the bracket for the vote to count.
 

ShadowArxxy

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Comrade
You realize belatedly that this might have been a ploy by the tigers. After all, the few tigers who’d visited the titanium mining area down in the antarctic had all reportedly been fascinated by thick snow and had spent hours playing in it. Now there’s an entire planet of the white and frozen stuff.

You are tempted to recall the convoy at that point, as you remember just how much Sarah loved playing in the snow the one time you’d gone up to near the summit of Mt Griffsport where there was a year round snowpack. This was obviously a conspiracy by your youngest and the grifftigers to have an entire planet of snow to play in.

That’s your theory and you’re sticking to it.

Our Royal Irritation is absolutely not just because Those Sneaky Adrenaline Junkies thought of it first and get to go play in the snow while We have all the paperwork.
 

Tryglaw

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[X] Agree in part - you want the Department, but not the joint oversight committee. You’d be responsible for the results either way, that committee is just a way for the politicians to take the credit while leaving you the blame. As above, but no change to Influence, -25 support in Commons and Lords.

To agree in full would give up power for no tangible gain, and "design by committee" is meme-worthy bad idea for a reason.
Last thing you want is petty bureaucratic turf wars impacting your expansion.
 

kashim3

Texan, Mandalorian, Alabamian.
[X] Agree in part - you want the Department, but not the joint oversight committee. You’d be responsible for the results either way, that committee is just a way for the politicians to take the credit while leaving you the blame. As above, but no change to Influence, -25 support in Commons and Lords.
 
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Culsu

Agent of the Central Plasma
Founder
[X] Agree in full - Colonization Actions will now be a separate category that uses either Interior, Diplomacy, Justice or Military slots to complete. +5 to all colonization targets. -2 Crown Influence, One time cost of 100,000, +2 Lords and Commons Influence

Eventually we'll have to delegate matters anyway, and if the outcome is basically the same it won't hurt to show that we're willing to be the monarch of a representative monarchy rather than an autocrat.
 

Thors_Alumni

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X] Agree in part - you want the Department, but not the joint oversight committee. You’d be responsible for the results either way, that committee is just a way for the politicians to take the credit while leaving you the blame. As above, but no change to Influence, -25 support in Commons and Lords.
Your missing an [ in your vote.
[X] Agree in full - Colonization Actions will now be a separate category that uses either Interior, Diplomacy, Justice or Military slots to complete. +5 to all colonization targets. -2 Crown Influence, One time cost of 100,000, +2 Lords and Commons Influence

Eventually we'll have to delegate matters anyway, and if the outcome is basically the same it won't hurt to show that we're willing to be the monarch of a representative monarchy rather than an autocrat.
only problem with that option is that it gives the committee power over all the rest of the governments decisions including military. and we would have to work to wrest it back under our control again. which would waste time.
 

PeaceMaker 03

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[X] Agree in full - Colonization Actions will now be a separate category that uses either Interior, Diplomacy, Justice or Military slots to complete. +5 to all colonization targets. -2 Crown Influence, One time cost of 100,000, +2 Lords and Commons Influence

Write in: Joint committee must report to you, on 1 hour recall.

Wake up at 2 am, you found time for the committee. Failure to report is grounds for dismissal from lords and commons for 1 year.

Submit the addendum as an emergency power.
Problem with food/ medicine to GrifV.
It is 2am meeting time, two reps are not here, okay tell them you will be back.
Go drink coffee and take a nap for 3 hours as they wait for you.

Enter meeting ask them for information they do not have, tell them to come back in 4 hours with the info.

They want to be in charge good, they are responsible as your representatives.

This is important lives are at stake, “Your Queen is highly disappointed in this committee “, why, I do believe some of you have joined for political reasons, not as representatives of the people on the new world “.

And the first time the committee thinks it is not fully responsible for the new colony, time for an inspection of GrifV for the entire committee.
the queen is to busy to personally tour GrifV, thankfully you have a loyal committee to fact find for you. ( No room for aids and servants in the tents, on the ice planet......what you did not being attic gear?)

When they comeback give them awards for being loyal servants, publicly broadcast for all to see how well you take care of your servants.

A quip dropped about the “Queen hopes we will not need to have more emergency committee fact finding tours”?
 

ShadowArxxy

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Comrade
[X] Agree in part - you want the Department, but not the joint oversight committee. You’d be responsible for the results either way, that committee is just a way for the politicians to take the credit while leaving you the blame. As above, but no change to Influence, -25 support in Commons and Lords.
 

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