Turn 36 -
Tell My Guns I’m Coming Home
You wince a bit at how much things are costing, and it’s not even budget time yet, but on the other hand the massive economic activity that results from the subsidies makes it seem rather more worthwhile.
Even though she’s pregnant, Sarah is still working on monographs and historical research. You are treated to a several hour exegesis on what she discovered about your great-grandfather and the initial Wolverine refugees.
One thing that strikes you as particularly interesting is that the initial batch of refugees were not all former Wolverines, a good two thirds of them had actually been refugees from the Draconis Combine. In fact, most of your Japanese citizens are descendents of those refugees.
She’d actually interviewed a number of the oldest descendents of those refugees, and none of them had been aware of that history, as it had been from those oldsters parents time and they’d never spoken of that.
However one of them did have a sealed safe that nobody knew the combination to that had been passed down from mother to daughter. They’d in fact tried to deliver it to the palace years ago when the news about the Wolverines had first gotten out but that had unfortunately coincided with the assasination attempt so they’d been turned away.
You decided to turn the safe over to Jane for the Special Branch to work with to get open.
There’s a minor snag with some regulators on Griffin’s Roost. The environmental survey had discovered that the most common schooling fish on Nowy Gdansk was absolutely delicious and had no negative health effects on humans, however by the strictest possible interpretation of health regulations it was illegal to import said fish to Griffin’s Roost since they ‘technically’ would be an invasive species… if they weren’t being shipped flash frozen and vacuum packed.
You check and the local fishing industry isn’t involved in this at all, it’s just a petty bureaucrat flexing their petty bureaucratic muscles.
| [] | Imperial Frown Of Disapproval for the bureaucrat, approve importation over his officious little head | -1 Approval Change
-1 Politics
One time
+10% GDP Nowy Gdansk
+1% GDP Griffin’s Roost
+2% Tax Rate |
| [] | Let the bureaucracy do it’s bureaucratic thing, he’ll get overruled eventually. | +1 Politics
+1 Interest Rate |
Also in economic news the asteroid miners in the Inner Asteroid Belt have found an asteroid that appears to be primarily composed of extremely large jewel-quality gemstones. They announce this find by presenting you with a new set of Imperial Crown Jewels, on the grounds that merely Royal Crown Jewels were insufficient.
You give them a
very level look. But you must admit that the new jewels are truly gorgeous.
QM Note - +2% tax rate this turn, +2% interest rate this turn, +25% GDP GIAB
Parliament is actually being somewhat useful for a change, which you always are happy to see on the rare occasions that it happens. They are backing an effort by a consortium of major manufacturers to build an industrial outpost on Griffin’s Roost’s moon. Normally this would be a DoME project if it were government run, but the consortium intends to finance this privately, they just require changes to several regulations concerning lunar development and colonization to make the project viable.
| [] | Approve | -2% Interest Rate next 5 turns
On turn 41 the Lunar Base project will be deemed completed with the effects listed in the DoME project description
On Turn 41
One Time +25% GDP Griffin’s Roost
Until Turn 41
+1% GDP Each Turn on Griffin’s Roost
+10% GDP Each Turn on GIAB
+10% GDP Each Turn on Nowy Gdansk
+10% GDP Each Turn on Griffin II Orbitals |
| [] | Veto | +5 Politics
+5 Research Event
+2% Tax Rate this turn
-15 Support Chamber of Delegates
-15 Support Senate |
