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[X] Approve having Strike Fleet recointer the distant Black Steel formations

Today's Fanart Friday and we're going with... Performance reviews in a High-Stress Job.

[X] Support the Cultural Preservation Act of 3016 Man, the Bourbons must have utterly screwed up their breeding program to produce consistently brainless Poodles. One of the identifying characteristics of the Poodle breed is extreme intelligence, with only the Border Collie managing to...

Very nice.

Hmm, I'm not sure that's entirely true. A 100,000 ton destroyer at 7/11 pays 52.5% of its mass for a drive, and 42% for its engine. A 1,000,000 ton battlecruiser at 7/11 also pays 52.5% of its mass for a drive and 42% for its engine. Ships, unlike battlemechs, are flat in their weight costs...

Shame all the Eggs were destroyed, a few should have been kept, for the History of Bad Ideas Museum.

A s a y a t d j a t a j w d d t t a p a t I f l y g t b y h A strikeforce attacked you as The Dragon jumped a Texas and JumpShips with DropShips designed to takedown a planetary aerospace theater including fortresses like yours generating brutal hyperinflation Yeah, I doubt that's really it...

I have that book...

The average is going to be about 28 years, for the record.

[X] We’re civilized, and sometimes that means doing things we don’t like, talk to the bastards

Naw, I've pretty much quit voting unless there's a tie because I can't really follow the plans anymore and it doesn't feel right to vote if I don't know what I'm voting for.

Actually, there is one in canon, built into an unmanned satellite. It's clantech but could be built with IS technology, albeit only if the society in question has advanced miniaturized HPGs. https://www.sarna.net/wiki/QR_243_(Satellite)

There are no seeds, there hasn't been a viable banana seed in thousands of years. That's the issue with bananas today, they've been so heavily modified that they can't bear seeds anymore so all existing banana plants (of a specific type, the ones you buy in stores are Cavendish) are clones of...

[X] Diplomacy! [X] Let Harry do it If diplomacy fails completely, though, we may need to look at more aggressive options, though probably not outright invasion unless we fail at everything else. If the Combine or pirates stumble across them they're doomed and we wind up with more slaves aimed...

[X] Dead is Dead, no need to be excessive about it Save the full treatment for treason for actual treason, not a technicality.

[X] Continue Surveillance [X] Approve in full, all pickets pulled in. Yeah, most universes, Battletech included, will ensure that battles continue to happen. Effective space stations swing the setting to where both sides turtle instead of being able to attack each other, and thus get nerfed to...

[X] Continue to try and do it within the legal system

[X] Fetch reinforcements You’ll arrive late, with a great story to tell as above, but also gain a few hundred refugees.

Those wouldn't work in real life. The structural strength of nickle-iron isn't remotely enough to hold itself together if you blow it up into such a base. I did the math once (can't find it now) and concluded that even a smaller Troy would need to be about 65-75% wall to hold itself together...

This setting has significantly beefed up JumpShip production compared to canon. As has been pointed out, Lake Michigan has more tonnage of shipping each day than the entire Inner Sphere combined. Consequently to keep sanity intact and disable a bit of FASAnomics, we can expect the Dracs to...