Panzerkraken
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[X] Imperial Frown Of Disapproval for the bureaucrat, approve importation over his officious little head
[X] Approve
[X] Approve
Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
- Thread starter LordSunhawk
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ShadowArxxy - Canon Omake - Mission Impossible Pt 1
Omake:
After basic safety testing to ensure that there weren't booby traps built into it or inside it, the refugee safe had been set up in Special Branch's break room as an open challenge. It wasn't a very big or sophisticated-looking safe, but it was a vintage Star League model, and that meant it was actually quite difficult to crack.
"Do you really have to do it like this?"
Jane was dangling from a ceiling-mounted reel in an advanced tactical intrusion outfit, which is to say, a modified sneaksuit that just coincidentally looked like a Catwoman outfit. Hey, if the DEST get to dress theirs up all cyberninja. . .
"This is difficult, let me concentrate! Bloody thing has all the relock mechanisms."
"It wouldn't be as difficult if you weren't hanging from the ceiling for no reason at all!"
"Tactical intrusion is an art, which should be practiced at every opportunity." Jane would sound much more convincing if she wasn't also flipping upside-down and sticking her tongue out at Michelle.
The break room speakers abruptly break into a certain song.
"Thank, you, SARAH."
"STOP ENCOURAGING HER, SARAH!"
After basic safety testing to ensure that there weren't booby traps built into it or inside it, the refugee safe had been set up in Special Branch's break room as an open challenge. It wasn't a very big or sophisticated-looking safe, but it was a vintage Star League model, and that meant it was actually quite difficult to crack.
"Do you really have to do it like this?"
Jane was dangling from a ceiling-mounted reel in an advanced tactical intrusion outfit, which is to say, a modified sneaksuit that just coincidentally looked like a Catwoman outfit. Hey, if the DEST get to dress theirs up all cyberninja. . .
"This is difficult, let me concentrate! Bloody thing has all the relock mechanisms."
"It wouldn't be as difficult if you weren't hanging from the ceiling for no reason at all!"
"Tactical intrusion is an art, which should be practiced at every opportunity." Jane would sound much more convincing if she wasn't also flipping upside-down and sticking her tongue out at Michelle.
The break room speakers abruptly break into a certain song.
"Thank, you, SARAH."
"STOP ENCOURAGING HER, SARAH!"
Lightwhispers
Well-known member
[X] Imperial Frown Of Disapproval for the bureaucrat, approve importation over his officious little head
[X] Approve
Hopefully the changed regulations won't result in "unforeseen consequences."
[X] Approve
Hopefully the changed regulations won't result in "unforeseen consequences."
edofthesquid
Well-known member
[X] Imperial Frown Of Disapproval for the bureaucrat, approve importation over his officious little head
[X] Approve
[X] Approve
Turn 36 - I'll Die Without Regret For The Wars That I Have Fought
Turn 36 - I’ll Die Without Regret For The Wars That I Have Fought
QM Note - Last event post prior to planning post (which will be the NEXT post)
So far this year has been… eventful, but you guess there are going to be years like that where many things just come together.
Just when you think you can settle into your normal routine of the spring, before budget time but after Parliament meets for the year, there’s another alert from Sarah.
This one is not the best of news. There’s a long period comet that in two years will intersect the orbit of Nowy Gdansk with a high probability of impact (above 20%, in astronomical terms that is enormous). This is calculated based on the expected effects of the gravity of Griffin VI upon the comet in question. Interestingly enough, if the comet does miss Nowy Gdansk Sarah indicates a 15% chance that it will see its orbit bent enough to be on a near collision course with Griffin IV…
And the comet appears, according to Sarah’s analysis, to be 90%+ frozen water.
This appears to be a classic Chinese ‘character for opportunity’ situation. If you can manage to deflect the comet and guide it, you might have a ready source for water on the world that most closely resembles Tatooine. On the other hand, if you fail, it might go splat into Nowy Gdansk with very unfortunate consequences for the people there.
Time to make a plan…
You have sufficient dropship assets to attempt to redirect the comet, either to Griffin IV orbit or simply away from Nowy Gdansk. The latter would be easier than the former. Your aerospace assets also have more than sufficient firepower to destroy the comet. Finally, it may be possible to build robust enough shelters on Nowy Gdansk to survive an impact event.
[] Write-In, QM will determine effects of winning vote.
Meanwhile there is an unsolicited design proposal for a new tracked self-propelled gun based on the Long Tom artillery weapon. A small start-up on Nowy Gdansk has combined open data about the older Paladin and their own work and have come up with the Excalibre Self Propelled Gun.
They are available for production starting this year if the AFGE desires.
QM Note - Last event post prior to planning post (which will be the NEXT post)
So far this year has been… eventful, but you guess there are going to be years like that where many things just come together.
Just when you think you can settle into your normal routine of the spring, before budget time but after Parliament meets for the year, there’s another alert from Sarah.
This one is not the best of news. There’s a long period comet that in two years will intersect the orbit of Nowy Gdansk with a high probability of impact (above 20%, in astronomical terms that is enormous). This is calculated based on the expected effects of the gravity of Griffin VI upon the comet in question. Interestingly enough, if the comet does miss Nowy Gdansk Sarah indicates a 15% chance that it will see its orbit bent enough to be on a near collision course with Griffin IV…
And the comet appears, according to Sarah’s analysis, to be 90%+ frozen water.
This appears to be a classic Chinese ‘character for opportunity’ situation. If you can manage to deflect the comet and guide it, you might have a ready source for water on the world that most closely resembles Tatooine. On the other hand, if you fail, it might go splat into Nowy Gdansk with very unfortunate consequences for the people there.
Time to make a plan…
You have sufficient dropship assets to attempt to redirect the comet, either to Griffin IV orbit or simply away from Nowy Gdansk. The latter would be easier than the former. Your aerospace assets also have more than sufficient firepower to destroy the comet. Finally, it may be possible to build robust enough shelters on Nowy Gdansk to survive an impact event.
[] Write-In, QM will determine effects of winning vote.
Meanwhile there is an unsolicited design proposal for a new tracked self-propelled gun based on the Long Tom artillery weapon. A small start-up on Nowy Gdansk has combined open data about the older Paladin and their own work and have come up with the Excalibre Self Propelled Gun.
| Name | Cost | HP | A/D | Specials |
| Excalibre SPG | 1668.6 | 100 | 16 | Tracked, Armored 1, Artillery 3 |
They are available for production starting this year if the AFGE desires.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
[X] redirect the comet to Griffin IV but have the forces required to destroy it in postion to do so if the attempt to redirect it fails
[X] Write-In: Deepageddon
Jane gleefully proposes an incredibly elaborate plan which involves launching specially modified Small Craft to land on the comet, drill into its core, and plant miniature fusion charges to redirect it into a safe orbit. As a backup plan, hardened deep shelters can be built on the planet. Janet sighs and points out that Jane's plan is basically crossing the plots of Armageddon and Deep Impact. Jane responds by throwing a snowball at her cousin and then runs off, humming the theme music.
"ARGH, NOT YOUR COUSIN!"
A couple of young aerospace engineers subsequently point out that, in all seriousness, the safest method for redirecting the comet would be to land a pair of large aerodyne DropShips on opposite sides, tether them down with explosively-anchored pitons, and then use their transit drives in a number of carefully calculated course-correction burns. Their plan is "summarized" in a very, very thick sheaf of loose notebook paper scribbles decorated by coffee mug stains, with endearingly crude stick-figure diagrams and headache-inducingly extensive calculations, mostly regarding structural strain and thrust balance and delta-V.
There is also a several-page diatribe about people always jumping to conclusions about something called a Hohmann transfer orbit, and almost poetically espousing something called a bi-elliptic transfer, which is apparently a rival technique for low-thrust maneuvering. Both techniques date back to the pre-jump spacefaring age and are so obscure that even the ASF pilots in the room are suffering from severe eyes-glazing-over-itis, but apparently, these ancient techniques will enable moving the comet while using miniscule amounts of thrust that won't risk tearing it apart. Since unlike an ASF, it's not made of a solid billet of ferro-aluminum armor with pieces carved out of it.
Jane gleefully proposes an incredibly elaborate plan which involves launching specially modified Small Craft to land on the comet, drill into its core, and plant miniature fusion charges to redirect it into a safe orbit. As a backup plan, hardened deep shelters can be built on the planet. Janet sighs and points out that Jane's plan is basically crossing the plots of Armageddon and Deep Impact. Jane responds by throwing a snowball at her cousin and then runs off, humming the theme music.
"ARGH, NOT YOUR COUSIN!"
A couple of young aerospace engineers subsequently point out that, in all seriousness, the safest method for redirecting the comet would be to land a pair of large aerodyne DropShips on opposite sides, tether them down with explosively-anchored pitons, and then use their transit drives in a number of carefully calculated course-correction burns. Their plan is "summarized" in a very, very thick sheaf of loose notebook paper scribbles decorated by coffee mug stains, with endearingly crude stick-figure diagrams and headache-inducingly extensive calculations, mostly regarding structural strain and thrust balance and delta-V.
There is also a several-page diatribe about people always jumping to conclusions about something called a Hohmann transfer orbit, and almost poetically espousing something called a bi-elliptic transfer, which is apparently a rival technique for low-thrust maneuvering. Both techniques date back to the pre-jump spacefaring age and are so obscure that even the ASF pilots in the room are suffering from severe eyes-glazing-over-itis, but apparently, these ancient techniques will enable moving the comet while using miniscule amounts of thrust that won't risk tearing it apart. Since unlike an ASF, it's not made of a solid billet of ferro-aluminum armor with pieces carved out of it.
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Thors_Alumni
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[X] Play it safe, redirect the comet onto a safe orbit clear of any planets.
I would point out that having aerodynes landed on the comet also provides the easiest and safest way to destroy it if necessary. If the comet starts breaking up under thrust instead of being redirected as planned, all the ships have to do is cut lose from their tethers, take off, and start bombarding it instead. Or, if it's showing too much instability but hasn't broken up, they can crack it from the surface using demolitions charges.
Ridli Scott
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[X] redirect the comet to Griffin IV but have the forces required to destroy it in postion to do so if the attempt to redirect it fails
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