GooseElite
Well-known member
[X] Plan: Continuing Pattern
Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
- Thread starter LordSunhawk
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Winter_Wind45
Well-known member
[X] Plan: Continuing Pattern
Turn 101 - And Where Are The Clowns? Send In The Clowns.
Turn 101 - And Where Are The Clowns? Send In The Clowns.
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The Bourbon ambassador is looking torn between laughter and concern as he comes to meet with you with the long awaited missive from the arrogant twit otherwise known as the Duc de Nouvelle Picardie. He advises you to not be drinking anything and asks that you please stay seated, before sitting down himself. And beginning to read in the most pompous imitation of the twit you’d ever heard, causing you to already start giggling.
You’d taken French in college, and you are quite glad that you followed the ambassador's advice. For all of the incredibly arrogant and annoying proclamations from that corrupt fatarse this one takes the cake, especially the ending. Cordially?
Once you get your giggles under control you decide that there really is only one response to that. You have your secretary print up an admissions form for a prestigious senior tenured position within the Department of Periphery Studies, fill it out in the good Dukes name, and hand it over to the ambassador to deliver to him as your response.
He immediately gets the joke, and then drops a minor bombshell, the Bourbon king, in consultation with the other Ducs, other than Nouvelle Picardie that is, is requesting a flotilla from your Navy and, say, a few divisions of ground troops to engage in ‘exercises’ within the Kingdom, location to be decided, but quite likely rhyming with Nouvelle Picardie. A quite bland ‘of course, the local Duc would be responsible for any damages and indemnities that arise from these exercises’ cements that. It looks like the Bourbon king is tired of the good Duc.
The Department of Periphery Studies has heard about the catgirl athletes and has decided that simply adding a cat-ear headband and fake cat tail taped to their backsides will result in them becoming supreme athletes. This has predictable results, and thankfully the dedicated staff of research assistants, interns, and administrative staff, AKA the psychiatric nurses and doctors of the Department, take plenty of pictures.
This proves a mixed blessing, as the economic development staff of the Interior Ministry is laughing so hard at the videos that they almost forget to file the paperwork for the economic focus work on New Capricorn by the deadline. Oops, but they do manage after a frantic all nighter, so all's well that ends well.
Economic development goes quite well across the board, in fact, with significant benefits to all of the peripheral and core systems involved in this round of work. You make a point to send nice gift baskets to everybody in thanks for their hard work.
The civil service and colonial office continue to grow with the expanding needs of the Empire. You get a note from the Justice Ministry confirming the successful expansion of the High Security Prison complex in Griff’s Leap.
The initially hopeful survey of GX-F21 turns a bit sour as the initial excitement over finding a quite beautiful Earth-like world turns to disappointment when the mineral assays come up extremely negative. The planet isn’t as good of a candidate for an agriworld as New Eden or Bauernparadis, but has zero worth for mining or effective industrialization either.
You receive significantly better news from Steingarten, as the colonization teams manage to discover several previously overlooked ore deposits, as well as reevaluating the seismic survey and discovering some excellent candidate regions for heavy industry on the planet. Overall thanks to the very low initial population in the domed settlements the per capita GDP of the colonists is surprisingly high, and projected to continue to grow. You have a feeling that the colonists who took a chance on the planet with the original mineral reports are feeling just a bit clever right now.
The colonization of Pustina and Kurortas were both accomplished successfully, adding three new systems to the Empire. Kurortas is already showing signs of being a tourist draw, as the truly spectacularly beautiful climate is perfect for relaxing vacations.
The number of available dropship yards has gone up quite nicely with the latest round of expansion, with many facilities reaching their maximum size and now able to build escorts and jumpships. Likewise the expansion of strategic material production has resulted in significantly higher yields for these vital resources.
The growing number of major warships in your fleet, even if not true capital line units, has allowed the Admiralty to formally create an Expeditionary Fleet in addition to the existing Grand Fleet, allowing for a degree of greater flexibility. The Grand Fleet is much larger still, but the Expeditionary Fleet is a potent formation in its own right, rivaling the Grand Fleet of just several years ago in combat power. Vice Admiral Fujita has been placed in command of the Expeditionary Fleet, promoted from Admiral von Falkenrick’s deputy.
An Empire-wide Japanese cultural festival is held to great acclaim. Thankfully the Department of Periphery Studies was far too busy with their latest catgirl obsession to engage in any ‘cultural’ shenanigans this time around.
R&D work on high energy physics has yielded a number of interesting avenues for future research, but no great breakthroughs immediately.
| Meta Event | 27 | |
| Dynasty Luck | 40 | |
| Successes | ||
| Imperial Approval | 1 | |
| Approval Change | 1 | |
| Political Event | -2 | |
| Successes | ||
| Imperial Economy | 0 | |
| Economic Event | 0 | |
| Research Event | 0 | |
| Griffon | Econ | 7 |
| Health | 3 | |
| Event | 2 | |
| Nowa Warszawa | Econ | 3 |
| Health | 1 | |
| Event | 5 | |
| Calliope IV | Econ | 3 |
| Health | 4 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| TTP | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 6 | |
| Event | 2 | |
| New Capricorn | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 6 | |
| Event | 2 | |
| Nowy Śląsk | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 2 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Edelsteine | Econ | 2 |
| Health | 4 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Nowy Wrocław | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Griff's Leap | Econ | 6 |
| Health | N/A | |
| Event | 1 | |
| New Phoenix | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 5 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| New Eden | Econ | 5 |
| Health | 2 | |
| Event | 5 | |
| New Castor | Econ | 5 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Okusawa | Econ | 6 |
| Health | 2 | |
| Event | 5 | |
| New Pollux | Econ | 7 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| New Port Royal | Econ | 3 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 2 | |
| Kainga | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Chuma | Econ | 5 |
| Health | 2 | |
| Event | 2 | |
| Stahlfurt | Econ | 4 |
| Health | N/A | |
| Event | 4 | |
| Bāṛi | Econ | 4 |
| Health | 4 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Skała | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Piekło | Econ | 2 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 1 | |
| Nya Köpenhamn | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 1 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| Bauernparadis | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 5 | |
| Event | 2 | |
| Awha | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 1 | |
| Kaiyo | Econ | 12 |
| Health | 4 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| Bohren | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 4 | |
| Event | 5 | |
| Grand View | Econ | 4 |
| Health | 4 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| Iskra | Econ | 4 |
| Health | 3 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Raj | Econ | 2 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 1 | |
| Feurstern | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 1 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Pinball | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Catachan | Econ | 5 |
| Health | 6 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| Nox | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 2 | |
| Olej | Econ | 2 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Glorreich | Econ | 10 |
| Health | 3 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Pryyemnyy | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 1 | |
| Novolar | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 1 |
Plan: Continuing Pattern
- Procurement [$ 252,502,321,683.77 ]
-- Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $3,196,478,700.00 ] (95)
--- 200 Bainbridge [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS
--- 20 Wright [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 46
Result - SUCCESS
--- 4 Trenton [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 76
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Saipan [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 59
Result - SUCCESS
--- 32 Aetna [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 84
Result - SUCCESS
--- 16 Meteor [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
--- 32 Canopus [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 66
Result - SUCCESS
-- Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $74,560,216.80 ] (90)
--- 8 Windjammer [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 58
Result - SUCCESS
-- Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $11,638,300,300.00 ] (90)
--- 40 Fubuki [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 87
Result - SUCCESS
--- 40 Lyr [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 2
Result - SUCCESS
--- 20 Dido [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 83
Result - SUCCESS
--- 10 Hosho [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 33
Result - SUCCESS
--- 20 Prinz Eugen [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
-- Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $425,494,173.21 ] (90)
--- 0 Fighter Wing [auto]
--- 30 Heavy Carrier Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 47
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Fleet Defense Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 83
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Naval Patrol Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 71
Result - SUCCESS
--- 3 Infantry Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 22
Result - SUCCESS
--- 8 Garrison Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 25
Result - SUCCESS
--- 9 Militia Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 67
Result - SUCCESS
--- 3 Battlemech Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
-- Fortress Command [$ 237,249,946,400.00 ] (90)
--- Build Jump Point Defenses
---- Steingarten [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS
---- Pustina [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
---- Kurortas [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 22
Result - SUCCESS
--- Construct Silver Tower
---- Bohren [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 66
Result - SUCCESS
--- Construct Oasis II
---- Steingarten [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 4
Result - SUCCESS
---- Pustina [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 71
Result - SUCCESS
---- Kurortas [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 44
Result - SUCCESS
---- Nowy Wroclaw [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 76
Result - SUCCESS
--- Construct Black Tower
---- Steingarten [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 89
Result - SUCCESS
---- Awha [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 18
Result - SUCCESS
---- Bohren [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 75
Result - SUCCESS
---- Kaiyo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 20
Result - SUCCESS
---- Olej [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 77
Result - SUCCESS
- General [$ 498,331,000,000.00 ]
-- Focus Development on Core World New Capricorn [85]
Target - 85
Roll – 100, Jarow reroll – 96, Jarow reroll – 98, ShadowArxxy reroll - 83
Result - SUCCESS
-- Focus Development on Peripheral World Nox [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 30
Result - SUCCESS
-- Massive Core Investment New Pollux [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS
-- Massive Peripheral Investment Nox [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 92, ShadowArxxy reroll - 58
Result - SUCCESS
-- Economic Investment Nya Kopenhamn [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Civil Service [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Colonial Office (per level) [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand High Security Prison - Griff's Leap [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 75
Result - SUCCESS
-- Survey GX-F21 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 21
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Colony - Steingarten [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 3
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish System Government - Steingarten [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 4
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Legal System - Steingarten [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 41
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Colony - Pustina [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 71
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish System Government - Pustina [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Legal System - Pustina [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 51
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Colony - Kurortas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish System Government - Kurortas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Legal System - Kurortas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 76
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 89
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Bohren [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 68
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Iskra [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 38
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Stahlfurt [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 68
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Nox [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Chuma [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 22
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Bari [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 89
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 73
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Pryymenyy [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 33
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 82
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Grand View [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 74
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand DURF* [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 28
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All DHS Factories [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All Endosteel Forges [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All Ferro Fibrous Forges [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build New Orbital Factory (90)
--- 5 DHS Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 66
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Endosteel Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Ferro Fibrous Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 16
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Naval Armor Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 63
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Conventional Military Factory (90)
--- 5 Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 62
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 New Phoenix [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 New Pollux [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 67
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Military Logistics Factory (95)
--- 5 Griffon [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 91
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Nowa Warszawa [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 93
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Calliope [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 55
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Edelsteine [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade Germanium Processing Facilities [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 63
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard Okusawa* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 70
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Port Royal* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 31
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Castor* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Capricorn* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 28
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
- DoME [$ 136,000,000,000.00 ]
-- Expand R&D Complex on Core System Calliope [70]
Target - 70
Roll – 98, Hellspawn reroll - 61
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Major Army Base - Glorreich* [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 29
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Major Army Base - Novolar* [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 28
Result - SUCCESS
-- Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Pinball* [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 61
Result - SUCCESS
- Research [$ 511,020,000,000.00 ]
-- High Energy Physics (Advanced) Tier 6 [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 85
Result - SUCCESS
- Culture [$ 1,250,000,000 ]
-- Culture - Cultural Festival [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 41
Result - SUCCESS
- Procurement [$ 252,502,321,683.77 ]
-- Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $3,196,478,700.00 ] (95)
--- 200 Bainbridge [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS
--- 20 Wright [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 46
Result - SUCCESS
--- 4 Trenton [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 76
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Saipan [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 59
Result - SUCCESS
--- 32 Aetna [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 84
Result - SUCCESS
--- 16 Meteor [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
--- 32 Canopus [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 66
Result - SUCCESS
-- Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $74,560,216.80 ] (90)
--- 8 Windjammer [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 58
Result - SUCCESS
-- Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $11,638,300,300.00 ] (90)
--- 40 Fubuki [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 87
Result - SUCCESS
--- 40 Lyr [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 2
Result - SUCCESS
--- 20 Dido [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 83
Result - SUCCESS
--- 10 Hosho [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 33
Result - SUCCESS
--- 20 Prinz Eugen [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
-- Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $425,494,173.21 ] (90)
--- 0 Fighter Wing [auto]
--- 30 Heavy Carrier Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 47
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Fleet Defense Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 83
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Naval Patrol Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 71
Result - SUCCESS
--- 3 Infantry Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 22
Result - SUCCESS
--- 8 Garrison Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 25
Result - SUCCESS
--- 9 Militia Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 67
Result - SUCCESS
--- 3 Battlemech Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
-- Fortress Command [$ 237,249,946,400.00 ] (90)
--- Build Jump Point Defenses
---- Steingarten [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS
---- Pustina [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
---- Kurortas [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 22
Result - SUCCESS
--- Construct Silver Tower
---- Bohren [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 66
Result - SUCCESS
--- Construct Oasis II
---- Steingarten [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 4
Result - SUCCESS
---- Pustina [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 71
Result - SUCCESS
---- Kurortas [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 44
Result - SUCCESS
---- Nowy Wroclaw [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 76
Result - SUCCESS
--- Construct Black Tower
---- Steingarten [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 89
Result - SUCCESS
---- Awha [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 18
Result - SUCCESS
---- Bohren [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 75
Result - SUCCESS
---- Kaiyo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 20
Result - SUCCESS
---- Olej [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 77
Result - SUCCESS
- General [$ 498,331,000,000.00 ]
-- Focus Development on Core World New Capricorn [85]
Target - 85
Roll – 100, Jarow reroll – 96, Jarow reroll – 98, ShadowArxxy reroll - 83
Result - SUCCESS
-- Focus Development on Peripheral World Nox [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 30
Result - SUCCESS
-- Massive Core Investment New Pollux [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS
-- Massive Peripheral Investment Nox [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 92, ShadowArxxy reroll - 58
Result - SUCCESS
-- Economic Investment Nya Kopenhamn [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Civil Service [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Colonial Office (per level) [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand High Security Prison - Griff's Leap [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 75
Result - SUCCESS
-- Survey GX-F21 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 21
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Colony - Steingarten [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 3
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish System Government - Steingarten [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 4
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Legal System - Steingarten [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 41
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Colony - Pustina [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 71
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish System Government - Pustina [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Legal System - Pustina [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 51
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Colony - Kurortas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish System Government - Kurortas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish Legal System - Kurortas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 76
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 89
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Bohren [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 68
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Iskra [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 38
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Stahlfurt [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 68
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Nox [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Chuma [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 22
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Bari [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 89
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 73
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Pryymenyy [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 33
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 82
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Grand View [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 74
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand DURF* [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 28
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All DHS Factories [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All Endosteel Forges [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All Ferro Fibrous Forges [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build New Orbital Factory (90)
--- 5 DHS Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 66
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Endosteel Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Ferro Fibrous Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 16
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Naval Armor Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 63
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Conventional Military Factory (90)
--- 5 Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 62
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 New Phoenix [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 New Pollux [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 67
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Military Logistics Factory (95)
--- 5 Griffon [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 91
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Nowa Warszawa [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 93
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Calliope [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 55
Result - SUCCESS
--- 5 Edelsteine [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade Germanium Processing Facilities [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 63
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard Okusawa* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 70
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Port Royal* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 31
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Castor* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Capricorn* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 28
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
- DoME [$ 136,000,000,000.00 ]
-- Expand R&D Complex on Core System Calliope [70]
Target - 70
Roll – 98, Hellspawn reroll - 61
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Major Army Base - Glorreich* [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 29
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Major Army Base - Novolar* [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 28
Result - SUCCESS
-- Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Pinball* [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 61
Result - SUCCESS
- Research [$ 511,020,000,000.00 ]
-- High Energy Physics (Advanced) Tier 6 [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 85
Result - SUCCESS
- Culture [$ 1,250,000,000 ]
-- Culture - Cultural Festival [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 41
Result - SUCCESS
-----
The Bourbon ambassador is looking torn between laughter and concern as he comes to meet with you with the long awaited missive from the arrogant twit otherwise known as the Duc de Nouvelle Picardie. He advises you to not be drinking anything and asks that you please stay seated, before sitting down himself. And beginning to read in the most pompous imitation of the twit you’d ever heard, causing you to already start giggling.
Madame,
La conduite honteuse de votre Empire est un affront aux peuples civilisés du monde entier. Votre utilisation de telles abominations en tant qu'individus génétiquement modifiés simplement pour tricher lors d'événements sportifs est un signe certain de votre dépravation morale personnelle et de votre infériorité intellectuelle. Vous êtes une honte pour la race humaine, et dans un monde juste, vous seriez traîné hors de votre repaire crasseux et présenté à la guillotine par des hommes convenables et dignes.
Tout l'univers peut voir que vous êtes un lâche lâche, indigne de son trône, accroupi sur une insupportable collection d'argent arrachant des paysans et des scélérats sans la moindre once d'honneur, d'intégrité ou même d'humanité. Les insectes piqueurs des champs sont supérieurs à votre sale espèce et tous les hommes civilisés de valeur abjurent vos lâches manières.
Sachez donc que le duché de Nouvelle-Picardie bannit désormais tous vos paysans et marchands de notre noble terre. Nous exigeons que notre Roi dénonce vos manières insolentes et lâches, et exige que vous vous soumettiez immédiatement à la justice plutôt que de vous recroqueviller derrière votre faux trône.
MORT AU GRIFFON, MORT À VOTRE MAISON PUTRID
Chaleureusement,
Le Duc de Nouvelle Picardie
La conduite honteuse de votre Empire est un affront aux peuples civilisés du monde entier. Votre utilisation de telles abominations en tant qu'individus génétiquement modifiés simplement pour tricher lors d'événements sportifs est un signe certain de votre dépravation morale personnelle et de votre infériorité intellectuelle. Vous êtes une honte pour la race humaine, et dans un monde juste, vous seriez traîné hors de votre repaire crasseux et présenté à la guillotine par des hommes convenables et dignes.
Tout l'univers peut voir que vous êtes un lâche lâche, indigne de son trône, accroupi sur une insupportable collection d'argent arrachant des paysans et des scélérats sans la moindre once d'honneur, d'intégrité ou même d'humanité. Les insectes piqueurs des champs sont supérieurs à votre sale espèce et tous les hommes civilisés de valeur abjurent vos lâches manières.
Sachez donc que le duché de Nouvelle-Picardie bannit désormais tous vos paysans et marchands de notre noble terre. Nous exigeons que notre Roi dénonce vos manières insolentes et lâches, et exige que vous vous soumettiez immédiatement à la justice plutôt que de vous recroqueviller derrière votre faux trône.
MORT AU GRIFFON, MORT À VOTRE MAISON PUTRID
Chaleureusement,
Le Duc de Nouvelle Picardie
You’d taken French in college, and you are quite glad that you followed the ambassador's advice. For all of the incredibly arrogant and annoying proclamations from that corrupt fatarse this one takes the cake, especially the ending. Cordially?
Once you get your giggles under control you decide that there really is only one response to that. You have your secretary print up an admissions form for a prestigious senior tenured position within the Department of Periphery Studies, fill it out in the good Dukes name, and hand it over to the ambassador to deliver to him as your response.
He immediately gets the joke, and then drops a minor bombshell, the Bourbon king, in consultation with the other Ducs, other than Nouvelle Picardie that is, is requesting a flotilla from your Navy and, say, a few divisions of ground troops to engage in ‘exercises’ within the Kingdom, location to be decided, but quite likely rhyming with Nouvelle Picardie. A quite bland ‘of course, the local Duc would be responsible for any damages and indemnities that arise from these exercises’ cements that. It looks like the Bourbon king is tired of the good Duc.
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The Department of Periphery Studies has heard about the catgirl athletes and has decided that simply adding a cat-ear headband and fake cat tail taped to their backsides will result in them becoming supreme athletes. This has predictable results, and thankfully the dedicated staff of research assistants, interns, and administrative staff, AKA the psychiatric nurses and doctors of the Department, take plenty of pictures.
This proves a mixed blessing, as the economic development staff of the Interior Ministry is laughing so hard at the videos that they almost forget to file the paperwork for the economic focus work on New Capricorn by the deadline. Oops, but they do manage after a frantic all nighter, so all's well that ends well.
Economic development goes quite well across the board, in fact, with significant benefits to all of the peripheral and core systems involved in this round of work. You make a point to send nice gift baskets to everybody in thanks for their hard work.
The civil service and colonial office continue to grow with the expanding needs of the Empire. You get a note from the Justice Ministry confirming the successful expansion of the High Security Prison complex in Griff’s Leap.
The initially hopeful survey of GX-F21 turns a bit sour as the initial excitement over finding a quite beautiful Earth-like world turns to disappointment when the mineral assays come up extremely negative. The planet isn’t as good of a candidate for an agriworld as New Eden or Bauernparadis, but has zero worth for mining or effective industrialization either.
You receive significantly better news from Steingarten, as the colonization teams manage to discover several previously overlooked ore deposits, as well as reevaluating the seismic survey and discovering some excellent candidate regions for heavy industry on the planet. Overall thanks to the very low initial population in the domed settlements the per capita GDP of the colonists is surprisingly high, and projected to continue to grow. You have a feeling that the colonists who took a chance on the planet with the original mineral reports are feeling just a bit clever right now.
The colonization of Pustina and Kurortas were both accomplished successfully, adding three new systems to the Empire. Kurortas is already showing signs of being a tourist draw, as the truly spectacularly beautiful climate is perfect for relaxing vacations.
The number of available dropship yards has gone up quite nicely with the latest round of expansion, with many facilities reaching their maximum size and now able to build escorts and jumpships. Likewise the expansion of strategic material production has resulted in significantly higher yields for these vital resources.
The growing number of major warships in your fleet, even if not true capital line units, has allowed the Admiralty to formally create an Expeditionary Fleet in addition to the existing Grand Fleet, allowing for a degree of greater flexibility. The Grand Fleet is much larger still, but the Expeditionary Fleet is a potent formation in its own right, rivaling the Grand Fleet of just several years ago in combat power. Vice Admiral Fujita has been placed in command of the Expeditionary Fleet, promoted from Admiral von Falkenrick’s deputy.
An Empire-wide Japanese cultural festival is held to great acclaim. Thankfully the Department of Periphery Studies was far too busy with their latest catgirl obsession to engage in any ‘cultural’ shenanigans this time around.
R&D work on high energy physics has yielded a number of interesting avenues for future research, but no great breakthroughs immediately.
Thors_Alumni
Well-known member
[X] Agree
[X] Agree
Mind you we also need to make sure that none of our tech goes missing during this operation.
Mind you we also need to make sure that none of our tech goes missing during this operation.
mmgaballah
Well-known member
I honestly and cynically expect this whole thing to be a conspiracy/ ambush were the frenshies try take our ships and gear through treachery and betrayal to gain access to our tech , it seems to be exactly the kind of bullshit that happens in battletech
Winter_Wind45
Well-known member
[X] Agree
Rukatin
Malfunctioning NPC at Best.
I mean, you're not wrong. But OP has stated that idiot balls have been dropped so I won't expect any of our allies to be stupidly hostile towards us.
But I DO except them to be up to all sorts of espionage. But it's less mean spirited, I'm thinking it's less 'Fucking us over' than them just trying to peer over at our desk and trying to copy our homework. After all, we do have some fancy toys...
AlphaOmega
Well-known member
[X] Agree
[X] Agree
If his own King has decided that this twit has pushed things too far, too often, and to do so *almost openly* . . . well, we are happy to provide the tragic, horrific freak accident involving a a Lyran Scout Lance, a Grifftiger litter box, and several tons of Diet Coke and Mentos.
If his own King has decided that this twit has pushed things too far, too often, and to do so *almost openly* . . . well, we are happy to provide the tragic, horrific freak accident involving a a Lyran Scout Lance, a Grifftiger litter box, and several tons of Diet Coke and Mentos.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
[X] Agree
foolswriter
Well-known member
[X] Agree
-[X] Double internal security and IGMP on this 'excursion' just in case.
-[X] Double internal security and IGMP on this 'excursion' just in case.
Turn 102 - Well A Man Come On 6 O'Clock News
Turn 102 - Well A Man Come On 6 O’Clock News
After consultations with the Bourbon ambassador you determine several things. The Bourbon king has decided that he can no longer tolerate the Duc du Nouvelle Picardie undermining his authority, that said Duc is clearly plotting a civil war anyways so it’s not like he’s going after an actually loyal vassal, and the other Ducs are clearly fully in agreement that their annoying colleague would be much more pleasant to remember than to deal with.
You will be activating one of your Corps, consisting of the HQ, an Armored Division, a Pathfinder Division, and three Regimental Combat Team Divisions. A total of 54 regiments will be deployed on 162 Trenton-class transports, along with a dozen Newport-C logistics vessels to support the ground forces. The Expeditionary Fleet will be the primary naval contingent, however the overall operational commander will be General Leah-Marie Fitzpatrick of the Imperial Griffon Army.
You almost feel sorry for the Duc du Nouvelle Picardie, since General Fitzpatrick had been your overall Division CO when you were in the Army and had a reputation even then as a hard nosed bulldog who probably showed up in the dictionary next to the words ‘relentless’ and ‘tenacity’.
You also send Special Branch along to augment the usual counterintelligence sections of your deployed units, no sense making it easy for spare parts and such to discover a burning desire to walk with Jesus to the Bourbon laboratories. You somehow forget to mention this to the Bourbon delegation, certainly an oversight on your part as you are totally convinced that they would never once do any such thing.
Incidentally, you have some lovely bottom land to sell, and a beautiful bridge across the Griffsport harbor, at a reasonable price!
The Pan-Griffon Games have begun, to much hooplah and applause. Your eldest daughter is incredibly happy, as you’ve decided that her first ‘public duty’ as your Heir will be to officially open the Games in your stead. You’re sitting in the Imperial Box right behind her, but you found it so cute how diligently she practiced her speech in front of the mirror, then promptly discarded it and instead waved enthusiastically at the wildly applauding crowd in the stadium before getting a hilariously panicked ‘oh shoot, I forgot my lines’ expression before straightening her shoulders and winging it, managing to get all the important parts said in the right order to thunderous applause.
You now have teasing material for years.
You get even more a few weeks later when the elected head of the Nowa Warszawa system government arrives in Griffsport to much pomp and circumstances to officially greet Tamara as the Księżniczka Nowej Warszawy, or Princess of Nowa Warszawa, as has been traditional for the Imperial Heir. It somehow slipped your mind to warn her about this, as is also traditional in your family ever since your Great-Grandmother ambushed your Grandfather with it.
And in a tradition you’d forgotten about, Bastet and Sekhmet promptly treacherously betray their liege and assist your daughter in tossing you into the pool. Your husband's laughter, and the fact that he’s carrying the camera and just happens to be in the right spot to get the shot, proves that he too was involved in this sly, treacherous, underhanded, hilariously funny betrayal of Imperial dignity. The only response possible in such a circumstance is to splash all of them and turn the situation into a giant family splash war in the pool.
Sadly for the Imperial dignity, your kids are getting better at splash wars. Fortunately, Tiberius doesn’t know what the word dignity means, and having found out about something immature happening within a light years radius, he shows up with his wife and kids and promptly joins Markus and you in fending off the juvenile hordes in epic water combat.
A few days later you receive a report from the system governor of Glorreich. A start up company on the fairly new colony world has proposed a rather clever refinement of the Enhanced PPC system that has been standard issue in the Griffon military for ages, making use of materials used in the lighter, but much less potent and extremely rare, Improved PPC. You can already hear the collective groans from the current corporations heavily involved in PPC production over missing the obvious upgrade path for what is already an exceptionally potent weapon system.
Another memo, this time from the Bāṛi system, is less sanguine. The system governor reports that even though they expect the system to achieve a large enough economy to qualify for Core status in just a few years, the habitability levels are still not high enough to qualify for the status. It will be a minimum of 9 more years, according to the best estimates of the experts in DoME, for the habitable planet in the Bāṛi system to be fully independently capable of sustaining its population without any external terraforming support, a critical component of becoming a Core world.
Pieklo, the other Periphery system on the cusp of becoming a Core system, is in a less difficult position, as it is expected that the current round of terraforming underway by DoME should, barring any unforeseen complications, permit the system to be rated as independently habitable in approximately 4 years, a year or two after the economic figures would otherwise permit the system to be declared part of the Core.
Interestingly, Nowa Warszawa is seeing a small dip in population this year, primarily due to internal migration to various Periphery systems in pursuit of new opportunities. It’s less than a half-percent drop, and in many ways it is welcome as the Nowa Warszawa system was on the verge of no longer being able to rely on its own agricultural sector for basic foodstuffs as opposed to the more exotic crops supplied by the agriworlds.
The Navy was able to capture a partially intact Black Steel drone fighter. Sadly the computers and electronics were completely wrecked, but the frame and surviving equipment gives you a solid baseline for these drones. SARAH is able to identify it as a BlackWasp ASF, at least in internal arrangement, as the external frame had enough differences to fool the warbook. The wreckage has been turned over to Griffin’s Roost University and the various R&D teams to work out everything they can from it, and the Aerospace Force is going over it with a fine-toothed comb in hopes of finding weaknesses that they can exploit.
After consultations with the Bourbon ambassador you determine several things. The Bourbon king has decided that he can no longer tolerate the Duc du Nouvelle Picardie undermining his authority, that said Duc is clearly plotting a civil war anyways so it’s not like he’s going after an actually loyal vassal, and the other Ducs are clearly fully in agreement that their annoying colleague would be much more pleasant to remember than to deal with.
You will be activating one of your Corps, consisting of the HQ, an Armored Division, a Pathfinder Division, and three Regimental Combat Team Divisions. A total of 54 regiments will be deployed on 162 Trenton-class transports, along with a dozen Newport-C logistics vessels to support the ground forces. The Expeditionary Fleet will be the primary naval contingent, however the overall operational commander will be General Leah-Marie Fitzpatrick of the Imperial Griffon Army.
You almost feel sorry for the Duc du Nouvelle Picardie, since General Fitzpatrick had been your overall Division CO when you were in the Army and had a reputation even then as a hard nosed bulldog who probably showed up in the dictionary next to the words ‘relentless’ and ‘tenacity’.
You also send Special Branch along to augment the usual counterintelligence sections of your deployed units, no sense making it easy for spare parts and such to discover a burning desire to walk with Jesus to the Bourbon laboratories. You somehow forget to mention this to the Bourbon delegation, certainly an oversight on your part as you are totally convinced that they would never once do any such thing.
Incidentally, you have some lovely bottom land to sell, and a beautiful bridge across the Griffsport harbor, at a reasonable price!
The Pan-Griffon Games have begun, to much hooplah and applause. Your eldest daughter is incredibly happy, as you’ve decided that her first ‘public duty’ as your Heir will be to officially open the Games in your stead. You’re sitting in the Imperial Box right behind her, but you found it so cute how diligently she practiced her speech in front of the mirror, then promptly discarded it and instead waved enthusiastically at the wildly applauding crowd in the stadium before getting a hilariously panicked ‘oh shoot, I forgot my lines’ expression before straightening her shoulders and winging it, managing to get all the important parts said in the right order to thunderous applause.
You now have teasing material for years.
You get even more a few weeks later when the elected head of the Nowa Warszawa system government arrives in Griffsport to much pomp and circumstances to officially greet Tamara as the Księżniczka Nowej Warszawy, or Princess of Nowa Warszawa, as has been traditional for the Imperial Heir. It somehow slipped your mind to warn her about this, as is also traditional in your family ever since your Great-Grandmother ambushed your Grandfather with it.
And in a tradition you’d forgotten about, Bastet and Sekhmet promptly treacherously betray their liege and assist your daughter in tossing you into the pool. Your husband's laughter, and the fact that he’s carrying the camera and just happens to be in the right spot to get the shot, proves that he too was involved in this sly, treacherous, underhanded, hilariously funny betrayal of Imperial dignity. The only response possible in such a circumstance is to splash all of them and turn the situation into a giant family splash war in the pool.
Sadly for the Imperial dignity, your kids are getting better at splash wars. Fortunately, Tiberius doesn’t know what the word dignity means, and having found out about something immature happening within a light years radius, he shows up with his wife and kids and promptly joins Markus and you in fending off the juvenile hordes in epic water combat.
A few days later you receive a report from the system governor of Glorreich. A start up company on the fairly new colony world has proposed a rather clever refinement of the Enhanced PPC system that has been standard issue in the Griffon military for ages, making use of materials used in the lighter, but much less potent and extremely rare, Improved PPC. You can already hear the collective groans from the current corporations heavily involved in PPC production over missing the obvious upgrade path for what is already an exceptionally potent weapon system.
Another memo, this time from the Bāṛi system, is less sanguine. The system governor reports that even though they expect the system to achieve a large enough economy to qualify for Core status in just a few years, the habitability levels are still not high enough to qualify for the status. It will be a minimum of 9 more years, according to the best estimates of the experts in DoME, for the habitable planet in the Bāṛi system to be fully independently capable of sustaining its population without any external terraforming support, a critical component of becoming a Core world.
Pieklo, the other Periphery system on the cusp of becoming a Core system, is in a less difficult position, as it is expected that the current round of terraforming underway by DoME should, barring any unforeseen complications, permit the system to be rated as independently habitable in approximately 4 years, a year or two after the economic figures would otherwise permit the system to be declared part of the Core.
Interestingly, Nowa Warszawa is seeing a small dip in population this year, primarily due to internal migration to various Periphery systems in pursuit of new opportunities. It’s less than a half-percent drop, and in many ways it is welcome as the Nowa Warszawa system was on the verge of no longer being able to rely on its own agricultural sector for basic foodstuffs as opposed to the more exotic crops supplied by the agriworlds.
The Navy was able to capture a partially intact Black Steel drone fighter. Sadly the computers and electronics were completely wrecked, but the frame and surviving equipment gives you a solid baseline for these drones. SARAH is able to identify it as a BlackWasp ASF, at least in internal arrangement, as the external frame had enough differences to fool the warbook. The wreckage has been turned over to Griffin’s Roost University and the various R&D teams to work out everything they can from it, and the Aerospace Force is going over it with a fine-toothed comb in hopes of finding weaknesses that they can exploit.