Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

ShadowArxxy

Well-known member
Comrade
The difference between an Infantry Division and an Armored Division is that the former is optimized for urban and defensive operations with wheeled combat vehicles as opposed to the tracked vehicles of the Armored Division

*somewhere in the background, the angry RHARRRGH! of Sparky's unresting soul reverberates through all space-time*
 

ShadowArxxy

Well-known member
Comrade
As far as I'm concerned, willing drug use increases culpability, not reduces it.

An adult citizen is entitled to play with recreational drugs if they so choose; they are however STRICTLY liable for all actions taken while under the influence of said drugs, and the act of voluntarily taking drugs is equivalent to willful premeditation for all foreseeable actions taken while under the influence.
 

Jarow

Well-known member
[X] He chose to take the drugs, follow precedent

I agree with ShadowArxxy's most recent statement on this.


[X] Plan: Why am I still following precedent
-[X] Procurement [$ 247,664,909,097.26 ]
--[X] Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $3,312,121,879.00 ] (95)
---[X] 100 Bainbridge [95]
---[X] 50 Long Beach [95]
---[X] 90 Wright [95]
---[X] 1 Trenton [95]

---[X] 30 Saipan [95]
---[X] 40 Aetna [95]
---[X] 20 Meteor [95]
---[X] 32 Canopus [95]

--[X] Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $41,940,121.95 ] (90)
---[X] 9 Windjammer [90]

--[X] Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $11,875,991,100.00 ] (90)
---[X] 20 Dido*
---[X] 10 Hosho*

---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen*
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen*

---[X] 20 Fubuki [90]
---[X] 20 England [90]
---[X] 40 Lyr [90]

---[X] 20 Dido [90]
---[X] 10 Guiseppe Garibaldi [90]

---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen [90]

---[X] 2 Potemkin [90]

--[X] Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 649,654,496.31 ] (90)
---[X] 90 Fleet Defense Wing [90]

---[X] 3 Infantry Division [90]
---[X] 10 Garrison Division [90]
---[X] 10 Militia Division [90]
---[X] 2 Battlemech Division [90]
---[X] 1 Regimental Combat Team Division [90]

--[X] Fortress Command [$ 231,785,201,500 ] (90)
---[X] Build Jump Point Defenses
----[X] Arvum [90]
---[X] Construct Silver Tower
---[X] Construct Oasis II
----[X] Arvum Zenith [90]
----[X] Stahlkampfauge Zenith [90]
---[X] Construct Black Tower
----[X] Arvum [90]
----[X] Pryymenyy [90]
----[X] Shin Tokyo [90]
----[X] New Eden [90]
----[X] Bari [90]

-[X] General [$ 335,505,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Focus Development on Core World New Pollux [85]
--[X] Focus Development on Peripheral World Bohren [85]
--[X] Massive Core Investment Nowy Wroclaw [80]
--[X] Massive Peripheral Investment Awha [80]
--[X] Economic Investment Okusawa [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Glorreich [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Pryyemnyy [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Novolar [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Awha [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Grand View [90]
(Money is important)

--[X] Establish Colony - Arvum [80]
--[X] Establish System Government - Arvum [80]
--[X] Establish Legal System - Arvum [80]
(New colony)
--[X] Survey GX-O21 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-P21 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-P20 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-O17 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-I33 [80]
(Potential new colonies and attempts to find something the Black Steel actually cares about)
--[X] Rationalize Legal Codes [90]
(Better to do this earlier before it gets more expensive)
--[X] Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]

--[X] Construct Escort Yard Steingarten [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Pustina [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Kurortas [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Raj [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Olej [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Feurstem [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Pinball [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Awha [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Catachan [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nox [90]
(Baby warships and jumpships are useful, and can be built on peripheral worlds)

--[X] Build Orbital Shipyard Pustina [105]
--[X] Build Orbital Shipyard Kurortas [105]
--[X] Build Orbital Shipyard Steingarten [105]
(We need dropships to support our new warships)
--[X] Construct Military Logistics Factory (95)
---[X] 5 Kaiyo [95]
---[X] 5 Iskra [95]
---[X] 5 Pinball [95]
---[X] 5 Catachan [95]
---[X] 5 Steingarten [95]
(Factories make us money)
--[X] Upgrade All DHS Factories [90]
--[X] Upgrade All Endosteel Forges [90]
--[X] Upgrade All Ferro Fibrous Forges [90]
--[X] Build Orbital Factory (90)
---[X] 5 Build New DHS Factory [90]
---[X] 5 Build New Endosteel Factory [90]
---[X] 5 Build New Ferro Fibrous Factory [90]
(We can use more resources, so we should get them)
--[X] Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Nowy Wroclaw* [90]

--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Pollux* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Edelsteine* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Nya Kopenhamn* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Phoenix* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Calliope* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Griffon* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Okusawa* [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard New Port Royal [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Kainga [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard New Castor [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard New Capricorn [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa [90]
(Large warships are useful, but smaller ones have a purpose too)

-[X] DoME [$ 134,500,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Study Venenatus Ecosystem* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Bari - Stage 2* [->3]
--[X] Terraforming Pieklo - Stage 1* [->3]
--[X] Terraform Awha - Stage 1* [->3]
--[X] Terraform Iskra - Stage 1* [->3]
--[X] Terraform Kaiyo - Stage 1* [->3]
--[X] Terraform Glorreich - Stage 0 [->4]
--[X] Terraform Olej - Stage 0 [->4]
--[X] Terraform Pryyemnyy - Stage 0 [->4]
(better colonies are better)
--[X] Colonize Shin Tōkyō* [->1]
--[X] Construct Major Fleet Base - Glorreich* [75]
--[X] Construct Major Fleet Base - Novolar* [75]

--[X] Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Glorreich [->1]

-[X] Research [$ 751,020,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Advanced Compact Core Construction VI* [->1]
--[X] Advanced Compact Core Design VI* [->1]
--[X] Advanced Compact Core Theory VI* [->1]
--[X] Advanced ER PPC [->4]
(If enhanced PPC wasn't basically my favorite weapon we have, that I try to stick on everything, then I'd probably hold off because it is a bit too expensive for us. But it is really needed.)
--[X] Advanced Ground Combat Doctrine* [90]
--[X] Improved Germanium Refining Lvl 3* [95]
--[X] Advanced Double Heat Sinks* [->1]
--[X] Advanced Sensors* [->1]
--[X] Commercial R&D [-]
--[X] Industrial R&D [-]

-[X] Miscellaneous [$ 15,000,200,000.00 ]
--[X] Griffball [200,000]
--[X] Military UPS [15,000,000,000.00]

15b leftover. Definitely too little, but we do really need the full clan ERPPC soon.
 
Turn 102 - Whiskey For My Men, Beer For My Horses

LordSunhawk

Das BOOT (literally)
Owner
Administrator
Staff Member
Founder
Turn 102 - Whiskey For My Men, Beer For My Horses

Meta Event2
Dynasty Luck22
Successes
Imperial Approval1
Approval Change2
Political Event-2
Successes
Imperial Economy5
Economic Event5
Research Event3
GriffonEcon1
Health5
Event4
Nowa WarszawaEcon2
Health-1
Event1
Calliope IVEcon6
Health0
Event2
TTPEcon1
Health0
Event2
New CapricornEcon5
Health6
Event1
Nowy ŚląskEcon5
Health6
Event1
EdelsteineEcon2
Health1
Event2
Nowy WroclawEcon2
Health1
Event0
Griff's LeapEcon1
HealthN/A
Event5
New PhoenixEcon0
Health2
Event0
New EdenEcon0
Health0
Event0
New CastorEcon4
Health2
Event4
OkusawaEcon0
Health4
Event0
New PolluxEcon0
Health6
Event5
New Port RoyalEcon1
Health2
Event1
KaingaEcon2
Health0
Event0
ChumaEcon12
Health3
Event2
StahlfurtEcon0
HealthN/A
Event1
BāṛiEcon0
Health0
Event3
SkałaEcon2
Health4
Event4
PiekłoEcon2
Health2
Event2
Nya KöpenhamnEcon12
Health2
Event5
BauernparadisEcon3
Health5
Event0
AwhaEcon1
Health12
Event1
KaiyoEcon4
Health0
Event0
BohrenEcon0
Health4
Event5
Grand ViewEcon5
Health5
Event1
IskraEcon5
Health3
Event2
RajEcon3
Health4
Event2
FeursternEcon4
Health4
Event2
PinballEcon5
Health5
Event1
CatachanEcon0
Health0
Event5
NoxEcon0
Health0
Event3
OlejEcon0
Health0
Event0
GlorreichEcon2
Health10
Event3
PryyemnyyEcon10
Health1
Event4
NovolarEcon10
Health2
Event1
SteingartenEcon3
Health2
Event4
PustinaEcon1
Health1
Event4
KurortasEcon0
Health1
Event4

Plan: Why am I still following precedent
- Procurement [$ 247,664,909,097.26 ]
-- Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $3,312,121,879.00 ] (95)
--- 100 Bainbridge [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 93
Result - SUCCESS

--- 50 Long Beach [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 91
Result - SUCCESS

--- 90 Wright [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 95
Result - SUCCESS

--- 1 Trenton [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 41
Result - SUCCESS

--- 30 Saipan [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 31
Result - SUCCESS

--- 40 Aetna [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 51
Result - SUCCESS

--- 20 Meteor [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 63
Result - SUCCESS

--- 32 Canopus [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 44
Result - SUCCESS

-- Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $41,940,121.95 ] (90)
--- 9 Windjammer [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 49
Result - SUCCESS

-- Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $11,875,991,100.00 ] (90)
--- 20 Fubuki [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 16
Result - SUCCESS

--- 20 England [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 41
Result - SUCCESS

--- 40 Lyr [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 7
Result - SUCCESS

--- 20 Dido [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 5
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Guiseppe Garibaldi [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 7
Result - SUCCESS

--- 20 Prinz Eugen [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 58
Result - SUCCESS

--- 2 Potemkin [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 36
Result - SUCCESS

-- Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 649,654,496.31 ] (90)
--- 90 Fleet Defense Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 31
Result - SUCCESS

--- 3 Infantry Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 54
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Garrison Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 26
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Militia Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 59
Result - SUCCESS

--- 2 Battlemech Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 45
Result - SUCCESS

--- 1 Regimental Combat Team Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 66
Result - SUCCESS

-- Fortress Command [$ 231,785,201,500 ] (90)
--- Build Jump Point Defenses
---- Arvum [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 42
Result - SUCCESS

--- Construct Silver Tower
--- Construct Oasis II
---- Arvum Zenith [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 83
Result - SUCCESS

---- Stahlkampfauge Zenith [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 56
Result - SUCCESS

--- Construct Black Tower
---- Arvum [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 8
Result - SUCCESS

---- Pryymenyy [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 37
Result - SUCCESS

---- Shin Tokyo [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 62
Result - SUCCESS

---- New Eden [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 8
Result - SUCCESS

---- Bari [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 56
Result - SUCCESS

- General [$ 335,505,000,000.00 ]
-- Focus Development on Core World New Pollux [85]
Target - 85
Roll – 98, Jarow reroll – 96, ShadowArxxy reroll - 40
Result - SUCCESS

-- Focus Development on Peripheral World Bohren [85]
Target - 85
Roll – 15
Result - SUCCESS

-- Massive Core Investment Nowy Wroclaw [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 96, Jarow reroll – 91, Hellspawn reroll – 93 ShadowArxxy reroll - 44
Result - SUCCESS

-- Massive Peripheral Investment Awha [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 49
Result - SUCCESS

-- Economic Investment Okusawa [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 70
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 54
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Pryyemnyy [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 69
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 41
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Awha [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 79
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Grand View [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 11
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish Colony - Arvum [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 35
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish System Government - Arvum [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 69
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish Legal System - Arvum [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 43
Result - SUCCESS

-- Survey GX-O21 [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 24
Result - SUCCESS

-- Survey GX-P21 [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 57
Result - SUCCESS

-- Survey GX-P20 [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 3
Result - SUCCESS

-- Survey GX-O17 [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 45
Result - SUCCESS

-- Survey GX-I33 [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 3
Result - SUCCESS

-- Rationalize Legal Codes [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 47
Result - SUCCESS

-- Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
Target - 105
Roll – 94
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Steingarten [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 83
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Pustina [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 27
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Kurortas [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 68
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Raj [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 27
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Olej [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 34
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Feurstem [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 85
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Pinball [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 43
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Awha [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 89
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Catachan [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 68
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nox [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 12
Result - SUCCESS

-- Build Orbital Shipyard Pustina [105]
Target - 105
Roll – 26
Result - SUCCESS

-- Build Orbital Shipyard Kurortas [105]
Target - 105
Roll – 15
Result - SUCCESS

-- Build Orbital Shipyard Steingarten [105]
Target - 105
Roll – 28
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Military Logistics Factory (95)
--- 5 Kaiyo [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 64
Result - SUCCESS

--- 5 Iskra [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 41
Result - SUCCESS

--- 5 Pinball [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 82
Result - SUCCESS

--- 5 Catachan [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 41
Result - SUCCESS

--- 5 Steingarten [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 42
Result - SUCCESS

-- Upgrade All DHS Factories [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 62
Result - SUCCESS

-- Upgrade All Endosteel Forges [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 82
Result - SUCCESS

-- Upgrade All Ferro Fibrous Forges [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 7
Result - SUCCESS

-- Build Orbital Factory (90)
--- 5 Build New DHS Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 53
Result - SUCCESS

--- 5 Build New Endosteel Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 64
Result - SUCCESS

--- 5 Build New Ferro Fibrous Factory [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 40
Result - SUCCESS

-- Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
Target - 105
Roll – 60
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard Nowy Wroclaw* [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 44
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Pollux* [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 37
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard Edelsteine* [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 24
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard Nya Kopenhamn* [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 15
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Phoenix* [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 52
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard Calliope* [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 57
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard Griffon* [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 18
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard Okusawa* [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 12
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard New Port Royal [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 15
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Kainga [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 35
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard New Castor [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 68
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard New Capricorn [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 57
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 23
Result - SUCCESS

- DoME [$ 134,500,000,000.00 ]
-- Construct Major Fleet Base - Glorreich* [75]
Target - 75
Roll – 72
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Major Fleet Base - Novolar* [75]
Target - 75
Roll – 72
Result - SUCCESS

- Research [$ 751,020,000,000.00 ]
-- Advanced Ground Combat Doctrine* [90]
Target - 90
Roll – 14
Result - SUCCESS

-- Improved Germanium Refining Lvl 3* [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 51
Result - SUCCESS

-- Commercial R&D [-]
-- Industrial R&D [-]

- Miscellaneous [$ 15,000,200,000.00 ]
-- Griffball [200,000]
-- Military UPS [15,000,000,000.00]

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There’s still been no major attacks from the Black Steel, although probing actions involving a few fast ships continue, along with increasing minor raids on shipping. The galactic northwestern frontier is seeing activity all along it now, creating strategic uncertainty about the Black Steels plans for their next move.

The NRI is reporting a number of pirate raids on their galactic northeastern systems, especially Novagalicia. Their forces have been able to handily handle the ramshackle ‘Jolly Rogers’ used by the pirates, but it is tying up forces that would otherwise be available to help counter Black Steel activity.

In more positive news, the NRI has informed you, and your spies confirm, that additional Corvus production lines have been built and output of the little corvette is ramping up rapidly. Over half of the new production is slated for the formations dedicated to the defensive alliance.

The NRR has expanded again, to GX-R27, an asteroid heavy system which they have dubbed the Great Belt, or Storte Belte in Norwegian.

The Rasalhaguian government is going through a bit of a transition, as the old Prime Minister has retired and elections are being held, so far quite peacefully in comparison to previous ones. None of the leading candidates are actually objectionable, as the alliance with the Griffon Empire is quite popular among the Rasalhaguians. Your ambassador reports that she doesn’t expect any complications in the alliance, nor serious upheaval.

General Messerschmidt is a bit grumpier about things, although it is more out of pique than anything else, as one of the leading candidates is, in his words, ‘the bastard who managed to trick our counterintel people over and over again and make us look like chumps.’ Apparently the good general is still not over so much gear ‘walking with Jesus’ during the Okusawa campaign.

There’s a bit of a scare, on an Imperial scale, from New Castor as a major bank is blown up in a rather thunderous detonation that results in the death of several thousand people. There are initial fears that this might be somehow political or terrorist related, but it soon becomes clear to investigators that it is the result of stupidity. A gang of would-be bank robbers attempted to blow up the vault door in the bank in order to loot it, and grossly miscalculated just how much high explosive they’d need to do the job. By several orders of magnitude. All of the bank robbers were in the blast radius, and investigators have concluded, after a thorough investigation, that they were simply criminals trying for a big ‘score’ who had somehow managed to utterly fail at basic math and symbol recognition. The symbol ‘g’ is for grams not kilograms. It should have been a 15g charge on each of the hinges and a 20g charge on the locking mechanism…

Of course, jokes in terrible taste are immediately made about how New Castor is where Pollux Man had moved, which causes you to roll your eyes in exasperation.

You get the survey results from GX-P21 pretty quickly. As expected, the system is completely barren of anything, due to the enormous nature of the blue supergiant star at the center of it. The only value to the system is as a waypoint, and as such it has been dubbed Waypoint 2.

The latest Pan Griffon Games are widely seen as being exceptionally successful, and your daughter continues to have a blast at the Closing Ceremonies.

Afterwards you take a week-long cruise on the SS United States around Capricorn as a family vacation, taking time to visit the old Ngo compound there. You have a great time just relaxing with the kids and your husband.

Then it’s time to put the nose back on the proverbial grindstone. You spend quite a bit of time visiting naval shipyards in the Griffon system for commissioning ceremonies and keel laying ceremonies for the latest vessels in the Imperial fleet. Of particular interest are the new Potemkin troop cruisers being built as interim vessels in the new Large Shipyards, you’d budgeted for two, you’d ordered two, one each from the Griffon and Calliope yard, yet the construction crews for the newest Griffon and Calliope yards got just a trifle excited, along with construction crews, and in an excess of youthful enthusiasm have laid down two additional hulls straight from the gate, giving you four of the venerable design right off the bat.

The rest of the procurement program across the entire Griffon military is quite successful. The new ground combat doctrines produced from the Advanced Ground Forces research are in the process of being implemented, with the fighting on Nouvelle Picardie expected to be a good early test. The conflict there is still primarily jockeying for position, rather than pitched fighting, but that is expected to change in the new year.

Orbital fortification construction proceeds as planned, with a growing number of systems benefiting from the presence of a Black Tower defense station.

The Arvum system has been colonized. As expected, there is next to no mineral wealth available in the system, and while the planet is large it is not fully terraformed yet, making turning it into another agriworld a non-starter currently. Growth is expected to be slow at first, but it is hoped that once DoME is done with things it will be practical to devote the system to agriculture.

Economic investment and growth throughout the Empire is quite good, with the investments and focuses of your Interior Ministry yielding the expected results despite some minor bureaucratic challenges in several cases.

What was not expected, but is very welcome, is that the establishment of specialized industrial zones on several planets, specifically Novolar and Pryyemnyy resulted in unexpected synergistic growth in the industrial sectors and economies of the two worlds, which had previously only been considered to be rather average in terms of potential economic growth. Both have now been reclassified as ‘rich’ by the Ministry on account of the changes.

The Justice Ministry has reported success in the rationalization efforts, continuing the endless war against regulatory creep.

The survey of GX-O21 has discovered a very beautiful terran world with a truly spectacular ring system of its own and very lovely native flora which has been found to be 100% compatible with human biology. Unfortunately the system, while very pretty, is also pretty much devoid of any significant mineral deposits, earning a rating of ‘Ultra Poor’ by the Interior Ministry upon review of the reports. It is very pretty, however, and the survey crews have dubbed the system Landprettig in celebration of this.

GX-O17 is a Red Giant, however there is a habitable zone planetary moon orbiting a super Jupiter. The planet isn’t particularly rich in minerals, although it isn’t poor either, earning a rating of ‘Average’ from the Interior Ministry. However the planet would require substantial terraforming before being completely habitable, on account of the absolutely torrential rains of unusually alkaline water that renders most agriculture very difficult while being very unpleasant to be in. As a consequence, the survey crews have dubbed the system Nubifragio.

GX-I22 is similar in some ways to Nubifragio, in that the habitable planet is subjected to torrential downpours, however in just about every respect the system is completely different. For one thing, the central star is a red dwarf, the rains are quite pleasant and pure water, the soil is quite fertile, and in general if you don’t mind always needing an umbrella that planet is quite nice to live on. The survey crews have named it Platzregensburg and the Interior Ministry has assessed the planet’s potential economic growth as average.

The final scouting reports come in from GX-P20. The main habitable planet in the system is a ‘super earth’, being 25% larger than most terrestrial planets, with a somewhat higher planetary gravity as a consequence, but apart from that the system is gorgeous. While there are signs of a failed colony on the southern continent, all indications are that this was due to pirate raids rather than anything else, because the survey crews have found nothing inimical to human life in the local ecosystem. Introduced plants and animals thrive here from the failed colony, including large numbers of wild dogs, cats, and birds that are obviously descendents of pets kept by the colonists. The survey teams have dubbed the world ‘Bellaterra’ and the Interior Ministry has rated it as ‘Rich’ in terms of economic potential.

The major fleet bases on Glorreich and Novolar have been completed a year ahead of schedule and somewhat under budget thanks to enthusiastic contributions from the local populations of the two worlds.

You read over the reports for new yards, factories, and such and are quite pleased by the successful expansion of your construction and strategic material production capacity. In addition to that, improvements in Germanium Refining techniques have significantly boosted the number of cores available for FTL capable ships.
 

Yacovo

Occasionally spouting nonsense
Woo, that’s another round of colonies for the foreseeable future. The mineral wealth on some of those worlds is not too much of a problem, especially if they can be breadbaskets for the next wave of colonization.
 

Val the Moofia Boss

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How many keel laying ceremonies is the queen attending per year? It might have been feasible to do in the past but given our level of growth, that is probably is a humongous time sink if she is showing up for every single one.
 

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How many keel laying ceremonies is the queen attending per year? It might have been feasible to do in the past but given our level of growth, that is probably is a humongous time sink if she is showing up for every single one.
Only the ones happening in the Griffon system, and then only for major combatants (light cruisers and above)
 

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This may be an out-of-character error by the GM, but even in a densely populated downtown, a death toll of thousands implies the levelling of a major skyscraper or the total destruction of multiple city blocks, both of which are orders of magnitude beyond the scope of a cluster of fifteen and twenty kilogram explosive charges. To do that "accidentally" by sheer explosive yield implies *tactical nuclear equivalent* explosives.

For reference, the Oklahoma City bombing only killed 168 people, and that was a massive truck bomb of over 5000 pounds explosive weight which levelled over a third of a nine-story high rise office building *and* seriously damaged hundreds of other buildings across a sixteen block radius.

Edit: As a second reference, the 1993 WTC bombing was a 1500 pound hydrogen gas enhanced urea nitrate bomb placed in the garage, and the WTC building *was not* brought down by it, it just blew the crap out of the garage level.
 
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