Thors_Alumni
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Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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AlphaOmega
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Yacovo
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The nobility were a powerful faction early on in the quest, but we broke their power base and replaced it with the constitutional monarchy with systems sending representatives to congress.
There still are noble titles, (the Eldest is rumored to be gunning for the title of Grand Pooba, for instance). However, they lack the hard power and privileges to affect policy outside the political system or become their own faction. We broke up their vast estates before leaving the homeworld, and if they start building an army they would get visited by intelligence agents at best and multiple regiments at worst.
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hellspawn023
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Yacovo
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Depends on what counts as Inner Sphere. What Periphery Periphery powers are in the direction we are?
Rukatin
Malfunctioning NPC at Best.
I'd love to meet The Auregian Reach, if the Battletech 2018 game is cannon.
Skitzyfrenic
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Well, it's proper canon now because of the official sourcebook that came out, well in broad strokes at least the HBS BT game is canon. Canonicty to the quest is debatable though. Unless we get a ruling.
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Turn 87 - It's Always The Same, It's Just A Shame
Turn 87 - It’s Always The Same, It’s Just A Shame
The Imperial Grifftiger Mounted Police has just busted an organized crime ring in one of the larger casino complexes in the New Port Royal system. Thirty individuals have been arrested, mostly on a variety of financial criminal charges. What you find somewhat amusing is the reaction of those individuals seems to be more an amused ‘you caught me, darn it’ like you remember your kids having when they were playing cops and robbers when they were little.
Of course, considering the reports you got about the condition of the jails in that system, you figure that said criminals probably aren’t minding being caught all that much. Even the maximum security prison complex features facilities that, frankly, make you just a teeny bit jealous. Since when do jails advertise their spa, pool, dining, and entertainment facilities? The note that said services are all provided by the inmates at said jail, at relatively low cost, and the attached analysis of recidivism rates compared to other jails in the Empire, showing that they are in the bottom quartile, keeps you from following your initial instincts in this matter.
You’ve caught General Messerschmidt smirking, but when confronted your old intelligence officer just gives you his patented ‘who me?’ face and insists that the NRI has most certainly not done something outrageously embarrassing again. Which, translated from the original smartass, means that somebody else has done something embarrassing and he’s just waiting for the right moment to torment you with it.
The survey expedition to GX-I25 returns much earlier than expected, the system is pretty much only useful as a recharge point, with no habitable planets, no prospects for habitable planets, and far too little in the way of usable resources to be worth expending any effort on. They have designated the system as Waypoint 1, since it is so boring that they couldn’t think of anything more creative to name it.
The good news from that is that you’ll have all four of your Mirandas available for surveying this year, which is a definite bonus.
Your granddaughter and heir is back in the Griffon system, and your wife blithely informs you that she’s seeing another, in your completely unbiased opinion, totally unsuitable young man. Of course, your wife disagrees with your assessment, since Markus Kleinschmidt is a perfectly respectable young Lieutenant Commander in the Imperial Griffon Navy, with a distinguished record including being mentioned in dispatches following both the Battle of Stahlfurt and the Second Battle of New Phoenix and is already in line for promotion to full Commander and command of a Bainbridge. Nevertheless, as he is a member of the male gender and interested in YOUR granddaughter, he is clearly utterly unsuitable and needs to pass the Challenge Of Parental Approval (™) (patented)(all rights reserved) thus you are already plotting out the appropriate shotgun to use.
Your wife thinks you are being ridiculous, your granddaughter is glaring at you and muttering mutinously, and all is right in the world.
A delegation from the Rapid Response Force Veterans Association has come in for a meeting with you and General Bradley to complain about the retirement of the Chasseur. They point out that the Chasseur offers a unique capability utterly missing from its replacement designs, that having an ultra low cost, high speed unit is a viable and important niche that is now missing from the Army, and that the actual veteran pilots of the feisty little hovercraft had never been properly consulted over the replacement plans.
When General Bradley objects that the new hover tanks are almost five times as capable, the delegation rather icily points out that each of the new vehicles requires three times the crew, four times the maintenance, fires weapons that consume ammunition thus requiring a previously unnecessary logistics train, and the new unit cost almost 30 times as much as the Chasseur.
They propose that the Chasseur be brought back into service, but in a reorganized form. Instead of four of the little tanks per platoon, there would be sixteen. It would still be a fraction of the cost, consume approximately the same number of trained personnel, have a lower logistics footprint, and due to the compact nature of the Chasseur would require no additional transportation volume. Most importantly, the enlarged unit sizes would tend to offset the greatest weakness of the design, its fragility, by forcing the enemy to split their attention across multiple targets.
You give approval to at least study the idea, somewhat to General Bradley’s well-concealed frustration. You know that she’d never liked the idea of sending soldiers under her command out in anything as fragile as the little Chasseurs, and you can sympathize, but the veterans do raise enough of a good point that simply studying the issue is the least you can do here.
A few days later it’s time for that most wonderful of things… the budget. Hurray.
General Jenkins is his usual self, although he has the same smirk as Messerschmidt, which worries you greatly. He’s Up To Something™. “OK, Boss, the new light mech units have revealed that we really need to up our strategic materials procurement as much as humanly possible, especially for Ferro Fibrous Armor. Since I know our R&D boys and girls are beavering away busily on a more advanced formulation of that stuff, which will likely see it get even wider use, we’ll need to get on top of that immediately before it becomes a severe bottleneck. With that being said, Oh Glorious Leader, I’ll turn it over to General Bradley.”
You give him a gimlet eye as the CO of the Imperial Griffon Army takes the podium. “Your Majesty, ground force expansion is currently limited by Ferro Fibrous and Endo Steel production, we are bumping up against limits on each. As such, while we have plans for a solid expansion of our Brigade Combat Teams this year, as well as Pathfinders and a new Infantry division to be forward deployed to New Port Royal, we primarily are concerned with strategic material production.”
She brings up a chart showing the desired budget priorities for the Army.
She brings up the display, showing the budget requests.
Fair enough, you can understand the reasoning.
With the military presentations done Elizabeth takes the podium. “We are ready to support anything that the military needs, Your Majesty, as well as whatever the Empire requires. I will once again strongly stress the importance of expanding our civil service and colonial administration as we grow, otherwise we may easily find ourselves scrambling hard to play catch up.”
She checks her notes. “That being said, we have a single free DoME team this year. We strongly recommend making use of this team for the four year project to colonize the Kaiyo system, which will require the in situ construction of semi-submersible floating arcologies due to the planet's nature as a richly biodiverse ocean world. In the process they’ll be able to build suitable orbital defenses and even an HPG link.”
“In terms of investments, we recommend the following.” she puts up the display for your perusal.
Lien is up next. “Your Majesty, personnel continues to be the greatest limitation on our expansion plans each year. It’s expensive, but I would like to strongly emphasize that our surpluses each year are now larger than our entire GDP was just a scant few decades ago. Expanding the civil service will allow us to more efficiently manage our budgets. In addition, as we expand the demands on our Colonial Office continue to increase, expansion there is a precaution against losing efficiency in the future.”
Grace isn’t present, since she’s badly needed to oversee the R&D teams scrambling to make up for the severe disruptions from the bombings last year. She has sent you a memo that she hopes to have things fully back on track this year, fingers crossed.
General Messerschmidt does that incredibly annoying thing he likes to do of having Justice go before he does, the wanker.
“Your Majesty,” Martina gives her Intelligence colleague a glare, but takes the podium anyway. “We have no real budget requests this year beyond the usual maintenance requirements. Our Imperial law enforcement budgets are sufficient for our requirements, and we won’t be starting work on the latest round of legal reviews until next year. General?”
You brace yourself.
“Your Majesty, I come before you with truly wonderful news!” he’s beaming at you now, while General Jenkins and your sister are smirking evilly at you. “Inspired by the limited cultural contact they have had with the Space Bourbons, your cult has introduced a new worship practice!” He triggers the projector and is already out the door, along with Jenkins and your sister, before you can scrape your jaw off the floor and give proper chase to the three amigos of horrible humor.
It’s the three of them, dressed as mimes, leading about a hundred others, also dressed as mimes, in miming being thrown out the Memorial Defenestration Window.
“GET BACK HERE!”
The Imperial Grifftiger Mounted Police has just busted an organized crime ring in one of the larger casino complexes in the New Port Royal system. Thirty individuals have been arrested, mostly on a variety of financial criminal charges. What you find somewhat amusing is the reaction of those individuals seems to be more an amused ‘you caught me, darn it’ like you remember your kids having when they were playing cops and robbers when they were little.
Of course, considering the reports you got about the condition of the jails in that system, you figure that said criminals probably aren’t minding being caught all that much. Even the maximum security prison complex features facilities that, frankly, make you just a teeny bit jealous. Since when do jails advertise their spa, pool, dining, and entertainment facilities? The note that said services are all provided by the inmates at said jail, at relatively low cost, and the attached analysis of recidivism rates compared to other jails in the Empire, showing that they are in the bottom quartile, keeps you from following your initial instincts in this matter.
You’ve caught General Messerschmidt smirking, but when confronted your old intelligence officer just gives you his patented ‘who me?’ face and insists that the NRI has most certainly not done something outrageously embarrassing again. Which, translated from the original smartass, means that somebody else has done something embarrassing and he’s just waiting for the right moment to torment you with it.
The survey expedition to GX-I25 returns much earlier than expected, the system is pretty much only useful as a recharge point, with no habitable planets, no prospects for habitable planets, and far too little in the way of usable resources to be worth expending any effort on. They have designated the system as Waypoint 1, since it is so boring that they couldn’t think of anything more creative to name it.
The good news from that is that you’ll have all four of your Mirandas available for surveying this year, which is a definite bonus.
Your granddaughter and heir is back in the Griffon system, and your wife blithely informs you that she’s seeing another, in your completely unbiased opinion, totally unsuitable young man. Of course, your wife disagrees with your assessment, since Markus Kleinschmidt is a perfectly respectable young Lieutenant Commander in the Imperial Griffon Navy, with a distinguished record including being mentioned in dispatches following both the Battle of Stahlfurt and the Second Battle of New Phoenix and is already in line for promotion to full Commander and command of a Bainbridge. Nevertheless, as he is a member of the male gender and interested in YOUR granddaughter, he is clearly utterly unsuitable and needs to pass the Challenge Of Parental Approval (™) (patented)(all rights reserved) thus you are already plotting out the appropriate shotgun to use.
Your wife thinks you are being ridiculous, your granddaughter is glaring at you and muttering mutinously, and all is right in the world.
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A delegation from the Rapid Response Force Veterans Association has come in for a meeting with you and General Bradley to complain about the retirement of the Chasseur. They point out that the Chasseur offers a unique capability utterly missing from its replacement designs, that having an ultra low cost, high speed unit is a viable and important niche that is now missing from the Army, and that the actual veteran pilots of the feisty little hovercraft had never been properly consulted over the replacement plans.
When General Bradley objects that the new hover tanks are almost five times as capable, the delegation rather icily points out that each of the new vehicles requires three times the crew, four times the maintenance, fires weapons that consume ammunition thus requiring a previously unnecessary logistics train, and the new unit cost almost 30 times as much as the Chasseur.
They propose that the Chasseur be brought back into service, but in a reorganized form. Instead of four of the little tanks per platoon, there would be sixteen. It would still be a fraction of the cost, consume approximately the same number of trained personnel, have a lower logistics footprint, and due to the compact nature of the Chasseur would require no additional transportation volume. Most importantly, the enlarged unit sizes would tend to offset the greatest weakness of the design, its fragility, by forcing the enemy to split their attention across multiple targets.
You give approval to at least study the idea, somewhat to General Bradley’s well-concealed frustration. You know that she’d never liked the idea of sending soldiers under her command out in anything as fragile as the little Chasseurs, and you can sympathize, but the veterans do raise enough of a good point that simply studying the issue is the least you can do here.
A few days later it’s time for that most wonderful of things… the budget. Hurray.
General Jenkins is his usual self, although he has the same smirk as Messerschmidt, which worries you greatly. He’s Up To Something™. “OK, Boss, the new light mech units have revealed that we really need to up our strategic materials procurement as much as humanly possible, especially for Ferro Fibrous Armor. Since I know our R&D boys and girls are beavering away busily on a more advanced formulation of that stuff, which will likely see it get even wider use, we’ll need to get on top of that immediately before it becomes a severe bottleneck. With that being said, Oh Glorious Leader, I’ll turn it over to General Bradley.”
You give him a gimlet eye as the CO of the Imperial Griffon Army takes the podium. “Your Majesty, ground force expansion is currently limited by Ferro Fibrous and Endo Steel production, we are bumping up against limits on each. As such, while we have plans for a solid expansion of our Brigade Combat Teams this year, as well as Pathfinders and a new Infantry division to be forward deployed to New Port Royal, we primarily are concerned with strategic material production.”
She brings up a chart showing the desired budget priorities for the Army.
- Imperial Griffon Army
- Production
- New Strategic Materials Factories
- Endosteel
- 1 new Endosteel factory - Okusawa
- Ferro Fibrous
- 1 new Ferro Fibrous Factory - Okusawa
- Double Heat Sinks
- 1 new DHS Factory - Okusawa
- Endosteel
- Expanded Strategic Materials Production
- Endosteel
- Ferro Fibrous
- Double Heat Sinks
- New Strategic Materials Factories
- Procurement
- Heavy/Assault Mechs
- 9 Standard Mech Regiments
- Light/Medium Mechs
- 9 Armored Cavalry Regiments
- 6 Light Mech Regiments
- 9 Pathfinder Regiments
- LAM
- 3 Raider Regiments
- Conventional
- 18 Armored Regiments
- 6 SpecOps Regiments
- 18 Mechanized Regiments
- 16 Garrison Regiments
- Militia Expansion
- Add 15 Militia Rating
- Heavy/Assault Mechs
- Production
She brings up the display, showing the budget requests.
- Imperial Griffon Aerospace Force
- Production
- ASF Factories
- Okusawa
- New Port Royal
- New Phoenix
- New Pollux
- New Castor
- Strategic Materials
- New Strategic Materials Factories
- Ferro Aluminum - Okusawa
- Expanded Strategic Materials Production
- Ferro Aluminum
- New Strategic Materials Factories
- ASF Factories
- Procurement
- 30 Heavy Carrier Wings
- Production
- Imperial Griffon Navy
- Production
- Small Warship Yards
- New Port Royal
- Nowa Warszawa
- Medium Warship Yards
- Griffon
- Calliope
- Refit & Repair Yard
- Expand all existing
- New Refit & Repair Yard - New Port Royal
- Small Warship Yards
- Procurement
- Standard Dropships
- 50 Bainbridge-class Parasite Destroyers
- 41 Trenton-class Transports
- Large Dropships
- 30 Saipan-class Parasite Carriers
- 11 Canopus-class Parasite Battleships
- Jumpships
- 13 Galleon-class Jumpships
- Escorts
- 10 Flight II Fletcher Destroyers
- 10 Haida Destroyer Escorts
- Small Warships
- 2 Wichita-class Heavy Cruisers
- 3 Cleveland-class Light Cruisers
- Medium Warships
- 1 Exeter-class Heavy Cruiser
- 1 Exeter-class Heavy Cruiser OR 1 Furious-class Large Light Cruiser
- 1 Kongo-class Battlecruiser OR 1 Furious-class Large Light Cruiser
- Miscellaneous
- 632 PPG-001
- Standard Dropships
- Production
Fair enough, you can understand the reasoning.
With the military presentations done Elizabeth takes the podium. “We are ready to support anything that the military needs, Your Majesty, as well as whatever the Empire requires. I will once again strongly stress the importance of expanding our civil service and colonial administration as we grow, otherwise we may easily find ourselves scrambling hard to play catch up.”
She checks her notes. “That being said, we have a single free DoME team this year. We strongly recommend making use of this team for the four year project to colonize the Kaiyo system, which will require the in situ construction of semi-submersible floating arcologies due to the planet's nature as a richly biodiverse ocean world. In the process they’ll be able to build suitable orbital defenses and even an HPG link.”
“In terms of investments, we recommend the following.” she puts up the display for your perusal.
- Interior Recommendations
- Investments
- Focus Development - Core World
- Nowa Warszawa
- Focus Development - Peripheral System
- Nya Kopenhamn
- Should help with more rapid integration into the Empire
- Nya Kopenhamn
- Investment
- Okusawa
- Focus Development - Core World
- Construct Industrial & Investment Zones
- Okusawa
- Pieklo
- Skala
- Bari
- Griff’s Leap
- Survey Missions
- GX-G27
- GX-G24
- GX-I20
- GX-K34
- Investments
Lien is up next. “Your Majesty, personnel continues to be the greatest limitation on our expansion plans each year. It’s expensive, but I would like to strongly emphasize that our surpluses each year are now larger than our entire GDP was just a scant few decades ago. Expanding the civil service will allow us to more efficiently manage our budgets. In addition, as we expand the demands on our Colonial Office continue to increase, expansion there is a precaution against losing efficiency in the future.”
Grace isn’t present, since she’s badly needed to oversee the R&D teams scrambling to make up for the severe disruptions from the bombings last year. She has sent you a memo that she hopes to have things fully back on track this year, fingers crossed.
General Messerschmidt does that incredibly annoying thing he likes to do of having Justice go before he does, the wanker.
“Your Majesty,” Martina gives her Intelligence colleague a glare, but takes the podium anyway. “We have no real budget requests this year beyond the usual maintenance requirements. Our Imperial law enforcement budgets are sufficient for our requirements, and we won’t be starting work on the latest round of legal reviews until next year. General?”
You brace yourself.
“Your Majesty, I come before you with truly wonderful news!” he’s beaming at you now, while General Jenkins and your sister are smirking evilly at you. “Inspired by the limited cultural contact they have had with the Space Bourbons, your cult has introduced a new worship practice!” He triggers the projector and is already out the door, along with Jenkins and your sister, before you can scrape your jaw off the floor and give proper chase to the three amigos of horrible humor.
It’s the three of them, dressed as mimes, leading about a hundred others, also dressed as mimes, in miming being thrown out the Memorial Defenestration Window.
“GET BACK HERE!”
Have any of the black steel ships been taken intact enough to get insights into building drone ships or increasing automation on our ships?
Unfortunately no, they have very efficient self-destruct systems. You've gotten a few hulks, but nothing is intact enough to learn anything you don't already generally know. That being said, you are gaining some insights into efficient warship design as you encounter more 'modern' SLDF-derived ships, and thus have an R&D option reflecting that which will boost the effectiveness of future designs.
AlphaOmega
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Did… did our PC just speak? If I remember correctly this would be literal first time this happened outside an Omake.
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Val the Moofia Boss
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As much as comically overprotective Dad doesn't want to acknowledge this, her relationships are *her* choice.
As much as comically overprotective Dad doesn't want to acknowledge this, her relationships are *her* choice.