Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

[Rukatin]

[X] Plan: Path through Varennes

 

[Thors_Alumni]

[X] Plan: Path through Varennes

 

[IceWing_mk1]

[X] Plan: Path through Varennes

 

[darkcloudt2]

[X] Plan: Path through Varennes

 

[Havalt300]

[X] Plan: Path through Varennes

 

[Artifex]

[X] Plan: Path through Varennes

 

[LordSunhawk]

Turn 84 - The Devil Inside

Spoiler: Event, Luck, and Rating Rolls

Meta Event	20
Dynasty Luck	6
	Successes
Imperial Approval	3
Approval Change	1
Political Event	2
	Successes
Imperial Economy	-2
Economic Event	-3
Research Event	4
Griffon	Econ	3
	Health	0
	Event	0
Nowa Warszawa	Econ	3
	Health	2
	Event	5
Calliope IV	Econ	6
	Health	4
	Event	3
TTP	Econ	5
	Health	1
	Event	2
New Capricorn	Econ	4
	Health	1
	Event	5
Nowy Śląsk	Econ	3
	Health	0
	Event	1
Edelsteine	Econ	6
	Health	0
	Event	2
Nowy Wroclaw	Econ	0
	Health	4
	Event	1
Griff's Leap	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
New Phoenix	Econ	0
	Health	5
	Event	2
New Eden	Econ	6
	Health	0
	Event	2
New Castor	Econ	12
	Health	3
	Event	1
Okusawa	Econ	5
	Health	-1
	Event	2
New Pollux	Econ	6
	Health	2
	Event	1
New Port Royal	Econ	5
	Health	5
	Event	5
Kainga	Econ	5
	Health	1
	Event	5
Chuma	Econ	5
	Health	5
	Event	5
Stahlfurt	Econ	3
	Health	N/A
	Event	4

Spoiler: Action Results

[X] Plan: Path through Varennes
-[X] Procurement [$ 592,423,154.13 ]
--[X] Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $111,096,445.60 ] (95)
---[X] 60 Bainbridge [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 2
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 6 Lancer [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 30 Saipan [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 16
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 8 Canopus [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 72
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 182 PPG-001 [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 69
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $5,135,514.18 ] (75)
---[X] 7 Galleon [75]
Target - 75
Roll – 96, Jarow reroll – 99, ShadowArxxy reroll – 88, Yacova reroll – 89, HereticNep reroll – 93, Yacova reroll - 68
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $359,799,669.67 ] (80)
---[X] 10 Haida [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 55
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 10 Fletcher II [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 19
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 2 Wichita [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 18
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 1 Erebus [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 30
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 1 Brooklyn [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 1 Kongo [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 27
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Purchase New Units [ $ 109,429,994.02 ] (90)
---[X] 30 Heavy Fighter Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 10 Heavy Carrier Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 9 Heavy Combat Team Regiment [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 17
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 12 Medium Scout Regiment [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 76
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 12 Medium Mech Regiment [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 58
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 12 Air Cavalry Regiments [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 75
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 9 Heavy Armored Regiments [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 2
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 9 Mechanized Regiments [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 2
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 4 Light Armored Regiments [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 73
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 2 Light Mechanized Regiments [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 2
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Increase Militia Rating of System [$ 6,961,530.66 ] (85)
---[X] 14 Militia Regiments [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 77
Result - SUCCESS

-[X] General [$ 5,279,289,704.00 ]
--[X] Construct Silver Tower 2 Sukiashi* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 92
Result – Bare FAILURE (auto succeed next turn)

--[X] Focus Development on Core World Griffon [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 16
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Focus Development on Peripheral World Okusawa [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 40
Result – SUCCESS

--[X] Economic Investment Nowy Wroclaw [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 80
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Expand Military Industrial Infrastructure Nowy Wroclaw [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 41
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nowy Wroclaw [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 67
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Build New Commercial Space Station [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 37
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Build New Commercial Space Station [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Build New Commercial Space Station [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 48
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Build New Commercial Space Station [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Survey M22S [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Survey GX-N22 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 22
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Upgrade All DHS Factories [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Attempt to break Space Bourbon codes [35]
Target - 35
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Prepare potential embassy to Space Bourbons [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 25
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Broadcast Propaganda to Nya Kopenhamn III* [~]
--[X] Broadcast Propaganda to Nya Kopenhamn IV* [~]

--[X] <Cultural> Kainga Cultural Festival [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 71
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Construct Escort Yard New Capricorn [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 75
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowy Slask [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 59
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowy Wroclaw [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Construct Escort Yard Griffs Leap [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 59
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Construct Escort Yard New Phoenix [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 60
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Construct Conventional Military Factory (95)
---[X] 5 New Port Royal [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 94
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] 5 Nowy Wroclaw [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 35
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Build ASF Factory Complex (95)
---[X] New Pollux [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 8
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] Okusawa [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] New Phoenix [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 77
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] Edelsteine [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 6
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] Chuma [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 46
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] New Capricorn [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 92
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] New Castor [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] Calliope [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 71
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] Nowa Warszawa [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 39
Result - SUCCESS

---[X] Griffon [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 78
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Construct Escort Yard New Port Royal [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 8
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Construct Escort Yard Okusawa [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 44
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Build Light Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 52
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Build Light Warship Yard Calliope [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 27
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Build Medium Warship Yard Griffon [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 1
Result – Critical SUCCESS, changed to SUCCESS due to player vote on Crit Fail Reroll

--[X] Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 84
Result - SUCCESS

-[X] DoME [$ 9,295,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Mass Infrastructure Construction on New Port Royal* [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 10
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] DOME - Underwater City Griffon's Roost* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS

--[X] Construct Major Army Base - New Pollux* [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 3
Result - SUCCESS

-[X] Research [$ 9,176,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Advanced Machine Guns [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 1
Result – Critical SUCCESS, changed to SUCCESS due to player vote on Crit Fail Reroll

--[X] Kraken-T Capital Missile* [65]
Target - 65
Roll – 100, General reroll – 100, Player vote reroll 1 – 100, Player vote reroll 2 - 99
Result – Critical FAILURE, changed to FAILURE

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Private jumpship crews seeking a shortcut between the TTP and New Phoenix make an emergency jump to New Phoenix, reporting that while recharging at GX-J24’s Zenith jump point that a shuttle had been sent to do a quick and dirty survey of the system due to the crew getting ‘bored’ with the extended recharge period. What they had found had resulted in the captain of the jumpship authorizing an emergency jump. There are two inhabited worlds in the system, one is doing fine, albeit having regressed to a barely Victorian level of technology on a very mild and pleasant world, the other is in very poor condition, barely eking out a subsistence on a tiny handful of surviving Terran-compatible root crops and tiny, straggly and struggling herds of goats. The level of malnutrition and starvation among them is so bad that they’ve resorted to cannibalism just to survive. There’s no sign of Black Steel activity, it just looks like an already incredibly marginal colony is on its very last legs, with fewer than a thousand survivors.

Private charities are already mobilizing for relief efforts and petitions have been made to the Crown for Imperial assistance. At the very least, controlling that system would shorten communications links to New Phoenix, links that currently have to either circle around south through Catachan or go through Kilburrough.

[]	Provide emergency aid	Cost - $500,000,000 +1% Interest Rate next year +1 Approval Change
[]	Leave it to the private sector	-1 Politics

Negotiations with the Space Bourbons, you still refuse to refer to them by their ridiculously long name, are proceeding. Absolutely nothing is settled, apart from, finally, the shape of the negotiating table (yes, seriously) and that they’ll drop their claim on New Port Royal itself, for now, but are still pounding their chests about Stahlfurt.

One of your analysts has come to a rather… amusing… conclusion about at least one of the weapon systems seen in the various Bourbon ships. One of the larger vessels has arrays of small weapons that are fed by hoses, and that analyst pointed out that they look nearly identical to the fluid sprayers used on Griffin's Roost by ships supplying the settlements and outposts threatened by dire penguin flocks. His hypothesis is that they are used as a sort of siege weapon, spraying liquid to create frozen masses which are then released to impact targets.

You have managed to decrypt the radio transmissions between the delegation on the planet and orbiting vessels, although you have no idea about any messages carried by the near hourly couriers going back and forth. From what you gather it appears that their King is livid that you captured Stahlfurt before His Glorious Navy could do so. It appears that they are going to be extremely adamant on that point.

There have been no Black Steel attacks for a while, which is welcome news. Hopefully the capture of Stahlfurt has crippled their operations here for the time being.

The Olympics continue, and Team Griffon finally shows the dominance you’d been waiting for, taking gold, often in very dominating fashion, in the final seven events. None of them are even close, especially the motor racing. In the end, your teams bring home 12 gold, 11 silver, and 6 bronze medals, a disappointing overall performance.

The closing ceremony is memorable, both for the impressive use of dinosaurs in the show, but also in how smoothly the organizers managed to incorporate the last minute addition of a full up Kainga cultural extravaganza into the proceedings. Seeing a thousand person haka was amazing. Seeing several dozen raptors who evidently managed to pick up the moves in the brief time available joining in was absolutely pants wetting terrifying.

Returning home to Griffon you discover some bad news. The R&D project for the Kraken-T missile system is at a dead end. The missile itself? Works fine. The launcher? Perfectly reliable. The problem comes with the guidance system. Against targets that are stationary AND in a totally permissive EM environment the guidance system is amazingly precise, allowing for literally ‘pick the precise spot to the millimeter you want to hit’ levels of targeting. Change either of those factors and you’d be better off firing unguided projectiles. Accuracy is so far below that of regular capital missiles as to be ludicrous. What's worse is that the researchers know that the previous design team had solved the problem, they just can’t figure out how because none of the documentation for their fix survived the explosion that killed the previous team. Research is ongoing, with no fixed ETA on a workable solution.

Meanwhile the teams working on the advanced machine gun project demonstrate their final product. Shocking absolutely nobody, it looks like a classic Browning M2 in a new, lighter and more compact mounting. This is your surprised face. It looks shockingly similar to your ‘Thanh is up to something again, isn’t she’ face.

The project to massively upgrade New Port Royal’s infrastructure has been successfully completed to general acclaim on the incredibly rapidly growing system’s part. The complete replacement of all power, water, and sewage systems has significantly improved health for the system’s residents, and have had significant knock on effects across the rest of the system’s economy.

Although you understand that large numbers of kids are whining about having to go to actual schools rather than just looking up all the answers to the standardized tests on their phones. Sucks to be them.

The new massive army base on New Pollux, named Fort Frederick Wolf after the first CO of your mother’s military, is now online and already occupied by the nine new Heavy Brigade Combat Teams. The location in New Pollux gives you a rather potent potential weapon against any Bourbon assaults, as your astrographer’s are fairly confident that their worlds are located within the ‘triangle’ of stars between New Pollux and Stahlfurt.

In contrast, the new underwater city opening up on Griffin’s Roost itself is almost unremarkable, beyond the fact that you attended the formal ribbon cutting declaring the deep dome open for occupation. The local system economy certainly notices, going from stagnant to rather healthy in just a few months.

Your massive building program of new slipways, factories, and repair docks continues, expanding your production capacity rather nicely. The upgrades to the DHS forges boosts production of this critical strategic resource. Likewise the new commercial space stations are already boosting the economy rather nicely as business interests rapidly take advantage of the new facilities that are available.

You manage to make it to the keel-laying ceremony for the first of the Kongo class Battlecruisers. While there you also attend the commissioning ceremonies for the newly completed Wichita class vessels entering service this year, giving you three of the potent warships.

Survey work on the newly detected GX-M22-2, an incredibly dim red subgiant that was almost completely occluded by the glare of the incredibly bright blue supergiant at GX-O22 until more sophisticated imaging systems were brought to bear, has been completed with curious results. There is a single, barely habitable, terrestrial planet in the system. Normally you’d write that off, as it is barely worth colonizing, but the survey reveals major deposits of critical metals within the asteroid belts making it economically viable. Any colonization would require domes and such, as the atmosphere on the lone planet is far too thin for anything less, but it could be done.

The survey of GX-N22 reveals a system that had obviously been the target for multiple colonization attempts, the most recent less than two decades ago, all of which have failed utterly due to the impressively chaotic and energetic eruptions of the highly unstable super Jupiter that is in the next orbit out. The enormous bursts of radiation have, in the past, utterly devastated colonization attempts. DoME is confident that their work on radiation shielded stations and such will permit successful, if expensive, colonization of the system.

The massive economic investments in Nowy Wroclaw are paying off, the local system economy growing at a much brisker rate than it ever had in the past, although projections are that even this impressive growth won’t be nearly enough to pull it out of the poverty cycle long term. More investment and work will have to be done here. Elizabeth Lee is working on several proposals to do just that.

The new Silver Tower in Sukiashi orbit suffers delays thanks to material shortages. It is now expected to be completed in Q2 of next year.

 

[kelgar04]

[X] Provide emergency aid

 

[Yacovo]

[X] Provide emergency aid

Well, at least the Kraken didn’t blow up any more advisors.

 

[Rukatin]

[X] Provide emergency aid

Simple, if they can't fire accurately, get a huge number of them and point them in the direction you want to cease existing!

 

[IceWing_mk1]

[X] Provide emergency aid

 

[kashim3]

[X] Provide emergency aid

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

[X] Provide emergency aid

I wonder what will befall the Burbon negotiators and the fleet admiral should they return to the king having failed to take Stahlfurt. Well, the fleet admiral might get off if he can claim he destroyed several of our vessels and fought valiantly.

 

[darkcloudt2]

[X] Provide emergency aid

Wow, that missile is cursed.

 

[Havalt300]

[X] Provide emergency aid

 

[PsihoKekec]

[X] Provide emergency aid

 

[AlphaOmega]

[X] Provide emergency aid

 

[Thors_Alumni]

[X] Provide emergency aid


Emergency annexation GO!

 

[Artifex]

[X] Provide emergency aid

Jeeezus, those two crit fails in a row ...

 

[Yacovo]

Emergency annexation GO!

Stop proving Ryo right. At least with our “charity” policy.