Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
- Thread starter LordSunhawk
- Start date
edofthesquid
Well-known member
[X] It’s a deal!
Yeah getting a jumpship and helping keep our trade partners safe in one go sounds like a very good idea
Yeah getting a jumpship and helping keep our trade partners safe in one go sounds like a very good idea
lordmcdeath
Well-known member
[X] It’s a deal!
Have jumpship. Will murder. No longer care they were a dick about the Olympics
Have jumpship. Will murder. No longer care they were a dick about the Olympics
Crafter of War
Well-known member
How long do you think it's going to take for the Dracs to put two and two together and realized that they just handed the Griffen Empire a way to strike back on a silver platter? Cause man, they have to be kicking themselves once they figure out where that jumpship came from.
Last edited:
They will definitely be very unhappy to see "their" Tramp coming back for a visit with a trio of our massive parasite battleships attached.
Turn 50-NRI - Higher!
Turn 50-NRI - Higher!
A deal is agreed to, generally on the terms the Romans offered, but with the fine details awaiting the work of the various lawyers and such. You’ll have the offered schematics by the time you are ready to depart for home in a few months.
Meanwhile, the motorsports events start. It’s a single day of racing at four different tracks in the same complex. You choose to attend, spending time at each of the tracks in the complex in a show of support for your people but it becomes very clear that the ‘fix’ so to speak is in. Mathematically, due to how points are awarded for each finisher, unless all of your drivers defeat all of the NRI drivers it is impossible for your teams to win. If even one of the NRI drivers finishes ahead of one of your drivers, or if any of your drivers are taken out in an accident or due to mechanical failure, then the NRI will win.
Or, of course, if your drivers drive dirty and wreck every one of the NRI drivers, but the twins decide to take the high road.
Sure enough, the NRI wins all four events, without a single NRI driver finishing higher than 4th.
To their credit the local fans seem almost as furious about this as the twins, and even the NRI drivers make comments in the post-race interviews indicating how dimly they viewed this entire situation. The prefect who set it all up is as smug and smarmy as ever.
Then is very shocked when he gets fired from his position and stripped of his rank for ‘publica infamia nimis’, was stripped of his trabea and expelled from the Senate. He departs a broken man, amidst the jeers of his former peers.
Quiet discussions with the consuls reveals that the ex-prefect had actually been ordered by the Senate weeks before the races to change the schedule to be more fair and had then drug his feet on doing so until it was too late to make the required changes. Unfortunately he had high enough placed patrons that until public outcry grew strong enough that the consuls could act their hands were tied. The conduct of the twins and your race teams, racing hard but cleanly, and not publicly expressing their outrage over the prefect's actions, had won sufficient admiration from the public that the prefect’s patrons didn’t dare continue to protect him from the consequences of his actions.
The wrestling and fencing competitions are held in the midst of this tumult and are split, with the Griffin’s Roost men winning both of their competitions, while the Roman women triumph in theirs.
At the end of the day, Griffin’s Roost won 11 events to the NRI’s 10.
QM Note - Post 1 of 2 for today!
A deal is agreed to, generally on the terms the Romans offered, but with the fine details awaiting the work of the various lawyers and such. You’ll have the offered schematics by the time you are ready to depart for home in a few months.
Meanwhile, the motorsports events start. It’s a single day of racing at four different tracks in the same complex. You choose to attend, spending time at each of the tracks in the complex in a show of support for your people but it becomes very clear that the ‘fix’ so to speak is in. Mathematically, due to how points are awarded for each finisher, unless all of your drivers defeat all of the NRI drivers it is impossible for your teams to win. If even one of the NRI drivers finishes ahead of one of your drivers, or if any of your drivers are taken out in an accident or due to mechanical failure, then the NRI will win.
Or, of course, if your drivers drive dirty and wreck every one of the NRI drivers, but the twins decide to take the high road.
Sure enough, the NRI wins all four events, without a single NRI driver finishing higher than 4th.
To their credit the local fans seem almost as furious about this as the twins, and even the NRI drivers make comments in the post-race interviews indicating how dimly they viewed this entire situation. The prefect who set it all up is as smug and smarmy as ever.
Then is very shocked when he gets fired from his position and stripped of his rank for ‘publica infamia nimis’, was stripped of his trabea and expelled from the Senate. He departs a broken man, amidst the jeers of his former peers.
Quiet discussions with the consuls reveals that the ex-prefect had actually been ordered by the Senate weeks before the races to change the schedule to be more fair and had then drug his feet on doing so until it was too late to make the required changes. Unfortunately he had high enough placed patrons that until public outcry grew strong enough that the consuls could act their hands were tied. The conduct of the twins and your race teams, racing hard but cleanly, and not publicly expressing their outrage over the prefect's actions, had won sufficient admiration from the public that the prefect’s patrons didn’t dare continue to protect him from the consequences of his actions.
The wrestling and fencing competitions are held in the midst of this tumult and are split, with the Griffin’s Roost men winning both of their competitions, while the Roman women triumph in theirs.
At the end of the day, Griffin’s Roost won 11 events to the NRI’s 10.
QM Note - Post 1 of 2 for today!
Sometimes being unreasonably gracious in the face of overt rudeness is the best win.
Turn 50-GR - Work It
Turn 50-GR - Work It
<Jeremy POV>
Mom made this seem so damn easy, but as far as you are concerned sitting here in her office behind her desk with all of the weight of responsibility on your shoulders? You are really glad that this is temporary.
You would much rather be in command of your division. You understand military politics, it’s the civilian stuff that is driving you up the wall already. You have petitions from various groups wanting patronage, you have appeals from other groups wanting you to rule this way or that way on their issues, you have members of the Chamber of Delegates and Senate barraging you with paperwork and requests and… argggggg…
So far pointing out that you were only keeping the seat warm for your mother has deflected all but the most persistent. That won’t last forever.
Thankfully both Bastet and Sekhmet had stayed behind, and having two grifftigers glaring murderously at the most stubborn politicians had proven to be an effective means of getting them to listen to you.
And now you are having to deal with this. Admiral Jamison Kirk of the Exploration Fleet has unilaterally ordered USS Challenger and USS Atlantis to depart their surveys of the Griffon Outer Asteroid Belt and join USS Enterprise, USS Columbia and USS Endeavor at Griffon VI, and he hasn’t bothered to file a report as to why. He’s also declared the Griffon VI planetary system an exclusion area, summoned a dozen of the most powerful System Patrol tugs, and requested that Admiral Benjamin deploy Capital Fleet, Home Fleet, and Strike Fleet to Griffon VI, all without telling him, and by extension you, just why.
<Jeremy POV>
Mom made this seem so damn easy, but as far as you are concerned sitting here in her office behind her desk with all of the weight of responsibility on your shoulders? You are really glad that this is temporary.
You would much rather be in command of your division. You understand military politics, it’s the civilian stuff that is driving you up the wall already. You have petitions from various groups wanting patronage, you have appeals from other groups wanting you to rule this way or that way on their issues, you have members of the Chamber of Delegates and Senate barraging you with paperwork and requests and… argggggg…
So far pointing out that you were only keeping the seat warm for your mother has deflected all but the most persistent. That won’t last forever.
Thankfully both Bastet and Sekhmet had stayed behind, and having two grifftigers glaring murderously at the most stubborn politicians had proven to be an effective means of getting them to listen to you.
And now you are having to deal with this. Admiral Jamison Kirk of the Exploration Fleet has unilaterally ordered USS Challenger and USS Atlantis to depart their surveys of the Griffon Outer Asteroid Belt and join USS Enterprise, USS Columbia and USS Endeavor at Griffon VI, and he hasn’t bothered to file a report as to why. He’s also declared the Griffon VI planetary system an exclusion area, summoned a dozen of the most powerful System Patrol tugs, and requested that Admiral Benjamin deploy Capital Fleet, Home Fleet, and Strike Fleet to Griffon VI, all without telling him, and by extension you, just why.
| [] | Indulge the Admiral | He has a solid reputation for loyalty to the Crown and is widely considered a steady sort, not prone to fits of whimsy despite his name. If he’s being this secretive, he’s probably got a good reason. |
| [] | Deny the request | You are not going to deploy so much force that far away from anything strategically important without a DAMN good reason, reputation be damned. |
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
[X] indulge the Admiral
If it's what I think it is we just found that Potemkin or something equally valuable
If it's what I think it is we just found that Potemkin or something equally valuable
[X]Indulge the Admiral
The Admiral is not a stupid or vainglorious officer; he would not have called for such a massive emergency deployment unless there was truly an emergency to be responded to.
The Admiral is not a stupid or vainglorious officer; he would not have called for such a massive emergency deployment unless there was truly an emergency to be responded to.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Someone of his rank would have a metric crapload of background checks done on them.
lordmcdeath
Well-known member
[X] indulge the Admiral
Putting fleet out of place isn't nearly as damaging as some things he could do.
Putting fleet out of place isn't nearly as damaging as some things he could do.
Thors_Alumni
Well-known member
[X] indulge the Admiral
Pretty much what everyone else is saying.
We should also probably think about sending even more forces if its the Potemkin.
Pretty much what everyone else is saying.
We should also probably think about sending even more forces if its the Potemkin.