Crafter of War
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[X] Her Majesty is Not Amused, follow the optional recommendation
Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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IceWing_mk1
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[X] Her Majesty is Not Amused, follow the optional recommendation
Ridli Scott
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I'm going to be sincere, I'm skipping all the Olimpics parts of the chapters.
Let's be less... kuritan, please.
[X] Follow the main recommendations
Let's be less... kuritan, please.
[X] Follow the main recommendations
Rukatin
Malfunctioning NPC at Best.
To be fair, that's what I do to the actual olympics when they cone around. :V
Thors_Alumni
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Honestly The Only Time I Watch The Olympics, Is During Both The Opening And Closing Ceremonies. I Am Just Not Interested In The Sport's Part Outside Of A Couple That Are More My Families Fav's That I Watch As Part Of The Family.
Turn 59 - Magna
Turn 59 - Magna
The first sign of trouble comes when there is a massive blast in the NRI Embassy in Griffsport, blowing out windows and shattering part of the building. By the time emergency responders arrive there is a gunfight going on between members of the embassy's security staff. Minutes later comes word of blasts at a number of hotels where members of the NRI Olympic Team had been staying, followed by more reports of violence.
Griffsport PD and the Imperial Grifftiger Mounted Police secure the situation, there are over a hundred dead, three times that many wounded. The NRI Ambassador is in critical condition, his wife is dead.
It takes a while, but eventually some clarity is obtained. The military attache, elements of the security forces, and several ‘tourists’ were evidently members of something called Pugnus Deorum, or ‘The Fist Of The Gods’. The few survivors from the attackers that you have in custody are so far refusing to speak beyond cursing you and the NRI government as ‘Godless Cowards’ who will ‘Die in the Fire of the Gods!’.
There were a number of minor attacks from individual NRI ‘tourists’ over the next several days, but the IGMP had been marking all of them and were able to react before anything serious happened. Most of the attacks consist of fire bombs thrown at churches, temples, monasteries, and other religious institutions.
A week later, however, things got worse. Your embassy on Nova Roma has been overrun as the planet is convulsed in a massive revolt by this Pugnus Deorum, all reports indicate that the Consuls and Senate of the NRI have been overthrown. Your embassy staff is currently being held hostage by the revolutionaries.
Further reports come from Tarentum, an attempted uprising there by the Pugnus Deorum appears to have been coordinated with a surge of attacks by the Drac-sponsored rebels. 1st Infantry and the 1st RRF had the situation well in hand, successfully suppressing the uprising although this did require some vicious fighting with NRI turncoat forces. They are requesting urgent reinforcements, especially of ASF and Naval forces, but report that they expect to be able to hold indefinitely. The local Pugnus Deorum forces appear to have been annihilated, and the coordinated offensive by the Dracs pet rebels resulted in them being systematically crushed. The local NRI commanders have placed themselves under the authority of General Skillins, the CO of the 1st ID.
NRI naval forces appear to be paralyzed, according to reports, with indications of some skirmishing going on. It is unknown how long this situation will last. That very paralysis and infighting has led your analysts to conclude that the revolutionaries failed to get their hands on as many naval assets as they’d planned. Thanks to this infighting the Jumpship that brought word of the coup was able to escape.
More information comes out. Pugnus Deorum is a group that had been thought to have been eliminated over a century ago, but evidently just went underground. They are neo-Pagans, worshipping the ancient Roman Gods, which would normally have been all well and good, but they also believed that anybody who didn’t worship the same way that they did were enemies of the Gods, especially any Christians. They’d been suppressed back then when they attempted to lead pograms against those who disagreed with them, and the Consul at the time, despite being a worshipper of the old Roman gods himself, had decisively crushed them.
Analysis of the explosives used in the attacks on the embassy show them to be of Drac origin, it looks like the Pugnus Deorum may have been the second string in the Dracs' bow for destabilizing and taking out the NRI. Contact tracing shows that all of it had evidently arrived in a diplomatic shipment for the now-deceased military attache and that all of the ‘tourist’ attackers had visited his office at some point before they made their attacks, obviously to pick up the bombs.
Under questioning a few of the prisoners talk and your daughter Sarah cannot decide between laughing and crying. Their understanding of actual Roman religion is… not even wrong, wrong would be an improvement. Literally all they get right is names and general ‘area of interest’ but beyond that? They get damn near everything else so wrong that it is offensive to her historians soul.
Needless to say, you have a serious situation on your hands. It doesn’t help that, economically, a number of companies which had invested heavily in partnerships with the NRI, or in trade with the NRI, are suddenly facing serious headwinds, causing several investment indices to fall precipitously, which in turn triggers local economic contractions and mass layoffs. Your social safety net is well able to absorb the blow, and nobody will be in any long term distress over this even if laid off, but economic growth is… impacted badly this year.
There is better news as well, so not all is doom and gloom. Your granddaughter Lisa has been seen engaging in lewd handholding and inappropriate games of footsie with a certain Siriwan Kurita.
On the one hand, Empress Jacqueline Griffith, First of Her Name, is rather worried, you’d read the historical data about the War of the Davion Succession and really could go without this sort of complication. Granted, Lisa is Sarah’s middle daughter, so not all that close to the throne, but there is always the concern for the future.
On the other hand, ba likes, ba likes a lot. Two words… Great Grandbabies. Plus you’ve come to rather approve of young Siriwan, she strikes you as a quite sensible young woman with her head quite firmly screwed on straight, and one who seems to have the virtues of the ancient samurai without the vices of their more modern descendants.
And the Eldest has finally given Siriwan the Lick of Approval, there is that as well
Finally, Jeremy has sent back from Nowa Warszawa some reports that indicate that things have settled down to a simmer. He is requesting approval to procure dedicated police vehicles for the planet, on the grounds that the current equipment is associated too closely with the Civilian Guidance Corps and he wants to ensure a clean break.
So you decide to let out an RFP, and almost instantly regret it when you see one of the proposals to be sent to Jeremy for evaluation.
Somehow that company obsessed with Pyramids has managed to build a Pyramidal police car. Complete with enclosing the rotating police flasher inside a shiny pyramidal cap at the ‘top’ of the pyramid, and texturing the exterior to look like stone.
Oh well, you send all of them on regardless.
(note, you can download the designs in the Design Bureau room in the quest Discord. If you haven’t already joined, Join the Griffin's Roost Quest Discord Server!)
The first sign of trouble comes when there is a massive blast in the NRI Embassy in Griffsport, blowing out windows and shattering part of the building. By the time emergency responders arrive there is a gunfight going on between members of the embassy's security staff. Minutes later comes word of blasts at a number of hotels where members of the NRI Olympic Team had been staying, followed by more reports of violence.
Griffsport PD and the Imperial Grifftiger Mounted Police secure the situation, there are over a hundred dead, three times that many wounded. The NRI Ambassador is in critical condition, his wife is dead.
It takes a while, but eventually some clarity is obtained. The military attache, elements of the security forces, and several ‘tourists’ were evidently members of something called Pugnus Deorum, or ‘The Fist Of The Gods’. The few survivors from the attackers that you have in custody are so far refusing to speak beyond cursing you and the NRI government as ‘Godless Cowards’ who will ‘Die in the Fire of the Gods!’.
There were a number of minor attacks from individual NRI ‘tourists’ over the next several days, but the IGMP had been marking all of them and were able to react before anything serious happened. Most of the attacks consist of fire bombs thrown at churches, temples, monasteries, and other religious institutions.
A week later, however, things got worse. Your embassy on Nova Roma has been overrun as the planet is convulsed in a massive revolt by this Pugnus Deorum, all reports indicate that the Consuls and Senate of the NRI have been overthrown. Your embassy staff is currently being held hostage by the revolutionaries.
Further reports come from Tarentum, an attempted uprising there by the Pugnus Deorum appears to have been coordinated with a surge of attacks by the Drac-sponsored rebels. 1st Infantry and the 1st RRF had the situation well in hand, successfully suppressing the uprising although this did require some vicious fighting with NRI turncoat forces. They are requesting urgent reinforcements, especially of ASF and Naval forces, but report that they expect to be able to hold indefinitely. The local Pugnus Deorum forces appear to have been annihilated, and the coordinated offensive by the Dracs pet rebels resulted in them being systematically crushed. The local NRI commanders have placed themselves under the authority of General Skillins, the CO of the 1st ID.
NRI naval forces appear to be paralyzed, according to reports, with indications of some skirmishing going on. It is unknown how long this situation will last. That very paralysis and infighting has led your analysts to conclude that the revolutionaries failed to get their hands on as many naval assets as they’d planned. Thanks to this infighting the Jumpship that brought word of the coup was able to escape.
More information comes out. Pugnus Deorum is a group that had been thought to have been eliminated over a century ago, but evidently just went underground. They are neo-Pagans, worshipping the ancient Roman Gods, which would normally have been all well and good, but they also believed that anybody who didn’t worship the same way that they did were enemies of the Gods, especially any Christians. They’d been suppressed back then when they attempted to lead pograms against those who disagreed with them, and the Consul at the time, despite being a worshipper of the old Roman gods himself, had decisively crushed them.
Analysis of the explosives used in the attacks on the embassy show them to be of Drac origin, it looks like the Pugnus Deorum may have been the second string in the Dracs' bow for destabilizing and taking out the NRI. Contact tracing shows that all of it had evidently arrived in a diplomatic shipment for the now-deceased military attache and that all of the ‘tourist’ attackers had visited his office at some point before they made their attacks, obviously to pick up the bombs.
Under questioning a few of the prisoners talk and your daughter Sarah cannot decide between laughing and crying. Their understanding of actual Roman religion is… not even wrong, wrong would be an improvement. Literally all they get right is names and general ‘area of interest’ but beyond that? They get damn near everything else so wrong that it is offensive to her historians soul.
Needless to say, you have a serious situation on your hands. It doesn’t help that, economically, a number of companies which had invested heavily in partnerships with the NRI, or in trade with the NRI, are suddenly facing serious headwinds, causing several investment indices to fall precipitously, which in turn triggers local economic contractions and mass layoffs. Your social safety net is well able to absorb the blow, and nobody will be in any long term distress over this even if laid off, but economic growth is… impacted badly this year.
There is better news as well, so not all is doom and gloom. Your granddaughter Lisa has been seen engaging in lewd handholding and inappropriate games of footsie with a certain Siriwan Kurita.
On the one hand, Empress Jacqueline Griffith, First of Her Name, is rather worried, you’d read the historical data about the War of the Davion Succession and really could go without this sort of complication. Granted, Lisa is Sarah’s middle daughter, so not all that close to the throne, but there is always the concern for the future.
On the other hand, ba likes, ba likes a lot. Two words… Great Grandbabies. Plus you’ve come to rather approve of young Siriwan, she strikes you as a quite sensible young woman with her head quite firmly screwed on straight, and one who seems to have the virtues of the ancient samurai without the vices of their more modern descendants.
And the Eldest has finally given Siriwan the Lick of Approval, there is that as well
Finally, Jeremy has sent back from Nowa Warszawa some reports that indicate that things have settled down to a simmer. He is requesting approval to procure dedicated police vehicles for the planet, on the grounds that the current equipment is associated too closely with the Civilian Guidance Corps and he wants to ensure a clean break.
So you decide to let out an RFP, and almost instantly regret it when you see one of the proposals to be sent to Jeremy for evaluation.
Somehow that company obsessed with Pyramids has managed to build a Pyramidal police car. Complete with enclosing the rotating police flasher inside a shiny pyramidal cap at the ‘top’ of the pyramid, and texturing the exterior to look like stone.
Oh well, you send all of them on regardless.
(note, you can download the designs in the Design Bureau room in the quest Discord. If you haven’t already joined, Join the Griffin's Roost Quest Discord Server!)
| [] | Queen QNE-N |
| [] | Noanar (Pyramid Power!) |
| [] | Gendarme Type-3 |
| [] | Cascade First Response |
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Welp looks like we have a Republic to restore.
Well those fools have made their final mistake: messing with the economy.
Crafter of War
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[X] Cascade First Response
It has the most speed at 9/14 and tied for having the most armor at 31 armor points. It also is the one I designed. :V
It has the most speed at 9/14 and tied for having the most armor at 31 armor points. It also is the one I designed. :V
[X]Gendarme Type-3
The Gendarme Type-3 is the smallest and most efficient design submitted, fitting all necessary capabilities into a comparatively svelte nine tons as opposed to competitors weighing fifteen and even twenty tons. This also makes it the most cost effective solution by a *long* shot -- at a mere 92K C-bills per vehicle, it costs less than half as much as any other submission.
The Gendarme Type-3 is the smallest and most efficient design submitted, fitting all necessary capabilities into a comparatively svelte nine tons as opposed to competitors weighing fifteen and even twenty tons. This also makes it the most cost effective solution by a *long* shot -- at a mere 92K C-bills per vehicle, it costs less than half as much as any other submission.
Thors_Alumni
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[X] Cascade First Response
No offense but I am a bit tired of the Pyramid's so lets go with this one. That and it's the fastest of all of them
No offense but I am a bit tired of the Pyramid's so lets go with this one. That and it's the fastest of all of them
Trashman.exe
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[X]Gendarme Type-3
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
[X]Gendarme Type-3
Val the Moofia Boss
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[X] Gendarme Type-3