Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

Brogatar

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A do we know how many jumps happened? I think it was two but i'm still asking.
B. If we know GX-B3 is the mid point system then it is within 30 ly likely less.
C. Do they know what color of the Sun(s) of that system are? and how many planets?
 

Artifex

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[X] Have DoME study the issue

[X] Kristina Bauer
Voting for Kristina Bauer since I feel that in the near future reconnaissance will be one of the most important tasks for our secret service, both in terms for figuring out what the heck is going on with the Drac's in our neck of the woods and establishing where the more dangerous representatives of the Amaris Remnants are. Later on also the first forays towards the rest of the IS ...
 

Val the Moofia Boss

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I'm idealogically opposed to perfectionists. They get too caught up in the details, missing the forests for the trees, and they're timid and behind schedule. Too afraid to commit and possibly lose. So no to Kornelia Maslanka.

Also considering General Messerschmidt.

Neutral on Bettelheim and Bauer.

I'm going to pick Aaron. He seems like he can grease the wheels and get stuff done.

[X] Aaron Sellars


[X] Have DoME study the issue

No reason to pass this up.

"Loyalty ceremonies" yikes. Hm... how good are sensors in the Battletech universe? Could a jumpship jump into the far edge of Okusawa out of accurate range of sensors, deploy a small unmanned drone and send it towards the shipyards, jump out, and in a few weeks or months (or perhaps even a year?) the drone arrives and latches on to a "recruit" transport ship? Then when the Drac ship jumps to the unknown system, the drone takes note of the constellation and the system. Then when the Drac ship jumps back to Okusawa, the unmanned drone detaches and goes to a designated point for our jumpship to pickup?
 

Thors_Alumni

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Could a jumpship jump into the far edge of Okusawa out of accurate range of sensors, deploy a small unmanned drone and send it towards the shipyards, jump out, and in a few weeks or months (or perhaps even a year?) the drone arrives and latches on to a "recruit" transport ship? Then when the Drac ship jumps to the unknown system, the drone takes note of the constellation and the system. Then when the Drac ship jumps back to Okusawa, the unmanned drone detaches and goes to a designated point for our jumpship to pickup?
I think I came up with a plan similar to this a while back and was told that it was unfeasible per LordSunhawk but its been a while.
 

Jarow

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"Loyalty ceremonies" yikes. Hm... how good are sensors in the Battletech universe? Could a jumpship jump into the far edge of Okusawa out of accurate range of sensors, deploy a small unmanned drone and send it towards the shipyards, jump out, and in a few weeks or months (or perhaps even a year?) the drone arrives and latches on to a "recruit" transport ship? Then when the Drac ship jumps to the unknown system, the drone takes note of the constellation and the system. Then when the Drac ship jumps back to Okusawa, the unmanned drone detaches and goes to a designated point for our jumpship to pickup?
Aiming something to connect to a ship a year later is a bit much. If nothing else it'd almost certainly be identified as a meteorite (one of the canon reasons basically all dropships have at least some lasers).

Finding it might be a bit tricky, but given our current local area map it's almost certainly in GX-A2. And if it's not, As soon as we build white towers in GX-B3 the Dracs no longer have any path out of their home system that doesn't result in them jumping into us (well, unless they go for a pirate point, but not sure how viable that'd be for them)
 
Turn 72 - It's The Reckoning

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Turn 72 - It’s The Reckoning

You get a few more pieces of good intelligence from Tekken. The Dracs will be unable to produce many more nuclear warheads, since there are no sources for fissionable ores in the Okusawa system and their entire supply had to be mined and shipped from the Dragon’s Eye. The bad news is that Tekken had over a thousand warheads available at the last inventory, exclusive of those used in the Battle of the Eye. Most are relatively low yield, however, as his predecessor had successfully argued for quantity of warheads over the most potent possible warheads. The Dragons were the only platform carrying megaton range devices, and as far as Tekken is aware the entire inventory was lost along with them.

Unfortunately the reason so many of the ASF pilots were low skill conscripts is that the Dragon forced Tekken to keep all of his skilled pilots in the Okusawa system, and when he fled orders had just been cut transferring them all to the new kamikaze corps. According to Tekken those same orders declared a new doctrine for the entire ASF force of kamikaze attacks being the only acceptable tactic and that any pilot who returned alive from an attack would be executed for cowardice regardless of the effectiveness of their actions. The Dragon spent most of those orders ranting about how no ASF pilot in the history of the Combine had ever been truly loyal to the Dragon, they were all weak and none of them had ever been true warriors. Those same orders had also announced that the ISF had rounded up the families of every single member of the DCA that they could get their hands on ‘since that is the only way to ensure that even the cowardly mice of the DCA would even pretend to have anything resembling a warrior’s spirit’. Tekken faked a misjump in his defection attempt in hopes that the next part of the Dragon’s threat won’t come to pass, that any attempt at the slightest defiance of any of the Dragon’s orders would result in the immediate execution by burning of entire families.

So far this year there hasn’t been any pirate attacks on shipping anywhere in the Empire or NRI space.

Calliope Motors has released another new model, this time aiming straight for the luxury segment of the market and again scoring big with a big, boxy, brutalist design that combines uncompromising luxury with stellar safety and performance. Apart from the wheels and a single ‘porthole’ style window in the rear of the passenger compartment evoking a faintly nautical theme, there isn’t a single curved line to be found on the new vehicle. And it is selling like hot cakes, leaving other manufacturers once again scrambling to update their own luxury models.

Several pundits and industry insiders have declared their belief that Calliope Motors has somehow struck a deal with the devil to be so capable of timing all of their new market releases so diabolically well, predicting the moods of the market segments so perfectly, and otherwise making the rest of the industry look bad.
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Calliope Motors CEO Melissa Podebrat was interviewed at the launch event by one of the Griffon systems largest automotive shows ‘Maximum Gear’ and had the infamously sarcastic and bombastic host of the show practically fall down laughing with her perfect ripostes to his jibes about Calliope Motors products.

And then proceeded to set a new track record for the show. You’d almost forgotten that she’d been a rally driver in her youth.

You decide that having somebody whose mettle you are personally familiar with is important for the Intelligence job and have General Messerschmidt move over from Military Intelligence to run the entire Intelligence shop.

You are still on Nowa Warszawa attending the Olympics, but at least Team Griffon is doing exceptionally well this year.

The Griffon men utterly dominate the shooting competition, coming only a single point short of a ‘possible’ overall. The NRI men’s team is disqualified after three safety violations and a near accidental discharge. The armorer for the team, as well as three of the shooters, are all reportedly facing ‘inquiries’ from the NRI sporting authorities over the matter, as the level of incompetence displayed should have kept them from ever being on the team in the first place, even if all four of them are direct relatives of powerful Senators.

The NRI women’s team, on the other hand, has a truly brilliant performance, matched only by the Team Griffon women. In the end, it comes down to a single fraction of a millimeter difference during the final shootoff, the NRI shot was precisely .013 millimeters closer to the true center of the target. Neither team seems to mind, judging by the hugs and the fact that both teams wound up being arrested that night after an epic bar crawl through the capital city of Nowa Warszawa which resulted in several thousand dollars worth of damage and a quite large dumpster fire downtown when the NRI men’s shooting team made some disparaging remarks, to their great regret and utter humiliation. You personally are strongly considering issuing Imperial pardons for the disorderly charges due to the sheer hilarity of the images of said idiots dangling from lampposts in what must be the most epic wedgies in the history of wedgies. Judging by the sheer volume of petitions you are getting to do exactly that, well…
[]Pardon both teams, this was too hilarious to punish
[]They did the crime, they’ll still get credit for ‘most hilarious crime ever’

In the Men’s wrestling event, the NRI again scored a hard fought gold that nevertheless was never truly in doubt. All of the competitors fought for every match, but in the end the NRI proved dominant.

Team Griffon, however, is equally dominant in the Women’s wrestling event, crushing the NRI and NRR competitors in every round of the competition. The Griffon team captain won each of her events by knockdowns and had zero points scored against her throughout the competition.

In the Men’s fencing event Team Griffon turned in a spectacular performance, but it was marred by an event before the event even started. The Rasalhaguian team bus got in an accident on the way to the arena. Nobody was injured but the team was unable to reach the arena in time for the competition to begin. The penalty points assessed for failing to be on time were enough to pretty much prevent them from even having the ghost of a chance at victory.

The Rasalhaguian women, however, seemed determined to avenge the poor showing of the men and despite being considered the weakest of the three teams by the analysts and commentators matched Team Griffon touch for touch, in the end winning a fiercely contested gold medal. The NRI team was eliminated early, scoring only a few touches in each of their first round matches to be routed convincingly.

The Men’s archery match was the scene of one of the greatest diva moments of the entire Games, as the lead archer for the NRI team rather flamboyantly got into a screaming match with the officials over, of all things, the color of the towel he was handed. The officials tried to handle the situation, but the archer got so worked up he smashed his bow, threw the remains at the officials, and stomped off the range shouting curses. Evidently he really hated blue towels and was outrageously outraged at being given one. The NRI team proceeded to lose horribly, with the Rasalhaguians taking gold in the event.

In the Women’s archery event, however, the Roman women put on a superb demonstration of skill, winning a closely contested match which saw Team Griffon taking bronze after an atypically bad shot by the team captain. Replays showed that the release aid had malfunctioned slightly, but the team captain accepted the bad shot with a display of sportsmanship and declined to protest the scoring.

The Chamber of Delegates is sulking, again. They seem to be quite good at it. The good news is that they are so busy sulking and scheduling irrelevant ‘oversight hearings’ and trying, and failing, to irritate you that they don’t succeed in mucking anything up this year, although they also don’t send you anything helpful on their own.

The Senate, on the other hand, is being very helpful indeed. They push through some legislation, with the grudging and whining acquiescence of the Chamber, to subsidize large scale engineering projects in the Periphery, and economic projects in the Core, independent of the DoME. These projects are not quite as ambitious in scope as current DoME teams are capable of, but are more similar to the lesser projects from the past.
[]Agree to the Infrastructure Act of 3002
  • On any turn with at least 1 success at the system event roll
    • Each success will cost $1,000,000 in additional upkeep that turn only
    • Peripheral Worlds
      • If no projects, initiate one of the following projects
        • Industrial Expansion
          • 5 turns
          • +10% base GDP growth while active
          • Upon completion
            • +1 Factory Rating
            • +1 Infrastructure Rating
        • Agricultural Expansion
          • 5 turns
          • +1% base POP growth while active
          • Upon completion
            • +1 POP Limit
            • +1 Infrastructure Rating
        • Commercial Expansion
          • 5 turns
          • +10% base GDP growth while active
          • Upon completion
            • +1 Infrastructure Rating
            • +25% GDP
      • If project is running
        • One time +5% GDP per success on system event roll
    • Core Worlds
      • +15% GDP per success on system event roll
      • +5% GDP per success on system event roll for the next 5 years (stacks)
  • +5 Politics
  • -5 Economic Event
[]Veto it
  • -5 support Imperial Senate
  • -5 support Chamber of Delegates
 

Thors_Alumni

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[X] They did the crime, they’ll still get credit for ‘most hilarious crime ever’
[X] Agree to the Infrastructure Act of 3002
 
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Jarow

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[X] Agree to the Infrastructure Act of 3002

At current budget, definitely affordable (there are very few actions remaining costing less than $1m), and probably more cost effective than most actions to improve the planets.


[X] They did the crime, they’ll still get credit for ‘most hilarious crime ever’

Seems to be entirely a fluff choice, but I'm going with enforcing the law, because I can. So there. :p
 

Rukatin

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[X] Pardon both teams, this was too hilarious to punish
[X] Agree to the Infrastructure Act of 3002
 

kelgar04

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[X] Agree to the Infrastructure Act of 3002
[X] They did the crime, they’ll still get credit for ‘most hilarious crime ever’
 

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