Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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[X] That's what friends are for!
I'm in favor of getting in the way of the BlackSteel & aiding friends.
HOWEVER, this feels like, "IT'S A TRAP!"
Let's preposition an HPG equipped naval force as backup, but also close enough to cover our other systems nearby if they are just trying to outmaneuver us.
I'm in favor of getting in the way of the BlackSteel & aiding friends.
HOWEVER, this feels like, "IT'S A TRAP!"
Let's preposition an HPG equipped naval force as backup, but also close enough to cover our other systems nearby if they are just trying to outmaneuver us.
GooseElite
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[X] That’s what friends are for!
Joyousmadman
Well-known member
[X] That’s what friends are for!
Just because you have a Defensive Agreement doesn't mean you have to follow it.
Definitely not who we are as a nation, but it's still possible.
[X] That’s what friends are for!
Turn 88 - Words Like Violence
Turn 88 - Words Like Violence
Thanh heads off with the heavy task force reinforcing Oculus Venetus aboard HMS Exeter, accompanied by a pair of Atlantas, four Wichitas, 4 Clevelands, ten flight II Fletchers, 5 Haidas and a full complement of your latest and most powerful parasite warships, including the vast majority of your Canopus class parasite battleships. The NRI has committed a dozen of their corvettes to the effort as well as two wings of ASFs from the NRR.
Meanwhile at home things are getting rather hectic, your granddaughter is getting married, which is quite stressful at the best of times. However your wife has been diagnosed with cancer. The doctor’s are positive that she will be fine, it is a common form of breast cancer and they have a bevy of non-invasive treatment options available. Indeed, the very first treatment option works perfectly, eliminating the cancerous cells without harming the healthy ones.
You receive a small flurry of bad news from the Crimson Storm. First, in late January, a pair of critically damaged Crimson Storm Monsoon-class battleships limp into New Pollux unannounced, as battle damage destroyed their HPG systems. Thankfully their IFF still worked, preventing a blue-on-blue incident, and both vessels were able to limp to the repair docks in the system for desperately needed repairs. According to them, the Crimson Storm rear guard has been defeated, they were the last of them, but they took out three times their weight in Black Steel assets before going down.
Even with repairs these two ships are completely combat ineffective at this point, and their crews quite reluctantly inform you that they won’t be able to remain and assist, as their orders are to report to the new home system of the Crimson Storm. On the other hand, they do have technical data on a new, improved, pulse laser system that they’d captured from the Black Steel which they are happy to turn over to your researchers. Preliminary review shows that if several heat and material science challenges can be overcome you will have a more compact and dangerous pulse laser system available in the near future.
The other bad news comes from the new Crimson Storm home system, your mother is extremely ill, too ill to travel. They have asked you to write a letter to your mother to attempt to convince her to accept full cyberization in an effort to save her life. Evidently she is unwilling to do so, saying that death is a vital part of life, and that she’s too old now to change her opinion even for those she dearly loves. They are hoping that you’ll be able to convince her otherwise, as they really do not want to lose her.
The Olympics have begun, with the Bourbon delegation arriving on several chartered jumpships provided by your navy. The Opening Ceremonies are the customary extravaganza, taken up a few notches as a way of impressing the new participants in the event. For diplomatic reasons you spend much of your time at the Games, when you’d rather be in your office working.
The actual competition starts out poorly for Team Griffon, taking home a pair of bronzes in the Athletics events as the Rasalhaguians and Bourbons trade off the gold. In both events your athletes only barely avoided the humiliation of failing to medal at all, leading to a great deal of grumbling among the fans.
The grumbling became grumpy with the Men’s Gymnastics event, in which the NRI, as expected, walked away with the Gold, and to be fair the crowds were very appreciative of the sheer artistry and athleticism of the Roman team. However multiple mistakes on the apparatus resulted in Team Griffon completely failing to medal, a situation made even more galling as the Team Bourbon silver medalists openly taunted the fans. Venue security was able to prevent any unpleasantness, but the atmosphere has become quite charged.
Winning gold in the Women’s gymnastics event, behind an amazing performance of a young phenom from New Capricorn, cooled tempers slightly, and you rather appreciated the sportsmanship of the NRI competitors who joined in the celebration, as it turned out that several of them were students at Griffin's Roost University and knew each other socially.
Things almost boiled over during the Team event, though, with fans shouting at the officials and a near riot after a Bourbon athlete was observed tripping a member of Team Rasalhague, turning the poor fellows ankle and dooming any chance for the NRR to medal in the event. The bad blood grew worse as the competition was unexpectedly close, the Griffon women proving dominant, but not enough to overcome the sheer brilliance of the NRI men, especially after another ‘accidental’ incident between one of the Bourbon men and a member of Team Griffon resulted in your top gymnast being carried off the floor, while the Bourbon gymnast was simply docked several points as a penalty. It wasn’t enough, and the Bourbons edged you out for the silver, provoking another near riot.
Things continued to simmer in the swimming meets, dominated by the Rasalhaguians, but Team Griffon failed to place in the men’s event, while eking out a silver over the Bourbon women. In the decathlon, which finished later that same day, Team Griffon and the Bourbons traded off golds, with the Griffon women proving once again the more dominant team. Thankfully there were no incidents in any of these events.
Finally came a measure of redemption for Team Griffon, with strong performances in both the men’s and women’s events, taking gold in the men’s and silver in the women’s, and for the first time in the games the Bourbons failed to medal in the women’s shooting event.
You have a brief meeting with the Bourbon ambassador, who is quietly apologetic in private over the conduct of the Bourbon gymnastics team, explaining that the team is dominated by noble scions of Maison de Picardie who are, in his words, ‘rather upset’ with the Griffon Empire for some odd reason, it seems that they blame you for their former leader failing at his coup attempt against the crown. Quite silly of them, the ambassador assures you, and the Bourbon crown is quite happy that relations are so peaceful, but nobles will be nobles and what can you do?
You manage to resist the urge to advise spanking the noble brats. You are quite proud of yourself for that.
Thanh heads off with the heavy task force reinforcing Oculus Venetus aboard HMS Exeter, accompanied by a pair of Atlantas, four Wichitas, 4 Clevelands, ten flight II Fletchers, 5 Haidas and a full complement of your latest and most powerful parasite warships, including the vast majority of your Canopus class parasite battleships. The NRI has committed a dozen of their corvettes to the effort as well as two wings of ASFs from the NRR.
Meanwhile at home things are getting rather hectic, your granddaughter is getting married, which is quite stressful at the best of times. However your wife has been diagnosed with cancer. The doctor’s are positive that she will be fine, it is a common form of breast cancer and they have a bevy of non-invasive treatment options available. Indeed, the very first treatment option works perfectly, eliminating the cancerous cells without harming the healthy ones.
You receive a small flurry of bad news from the Crimson Storm. First, in late January, a pair of critically damaged Crimson Storm Monsoon-class battleships limp into New Pollux unannounced, as battle damage destroyed their HPG systems. Thankfully their IFF still worked, preventing a blue-on-blue incident, and both vessels were able to limp to the repair docks in the system for desperately needed repairs. According to them, the Crimson Storm rear guard has been defeated, they were the last of them, but they took out three times their weight in Black Steel assets before going down.
Even with repairs these two ships are completely combat ineffective at this point, and their crews quite reluctantly inform you that they won’t be able to remain and assist, as their orders are to report to the new home system of the Crimson Storm. On the other hand, they do have technical data on a new, improved, pulse laser system that they’d captured from the Black Steel which they are happy to turn over to your researchers. Preliminary review shows that if several heat and material science challenges can be overcome you will have a more compact and dangerous pulse laser system available in the near future.
The other bad news comes from the new Crimson Storm home system, your mother is extremely ill, too ill to travel. They have asked you to write a letter to your mother to attempt to convince her to accept full cyberization in an effort to save her life. Evidently she is unwilling to do so, saying that death is a vital part of life, and that she’s too old now to change her opinion even for those she dearly loves. They are hoping that you’ll be able to convince her otherwise, as they really do not want to lose her.
| [] | Send the letter, you love her as well and have lost enough family already |
| [] | Honor her wishes, you will always love her, but she has the right to make that decision free from you pressuring her otherwise |
The Olympics have begun, with the Bourbon delegation arriving on several chartered jumpships provided by your navy. The Opening Ceremonies are the customary extravaganza, taken up a few notches as a way of impressing the new participants in the event. For diplomatic reasons you spend much of your time at the Games, when you’d rather be in your office working.
The actual competition starts out poorly for Team Griffon, taking home a pair of bronzes in the Athletics events as the Rasalhaguians and Bourbons trade off the gold. In both events your athletes only barely avoided the humiliation of failing to medal at all, leading to a great deal of grumbling among the fans.
The grumbling became grumpy with the Men’s Gymnastics event, in which the NRI, as expected, walked away with the Gold, and to be fair the crowds were very appreciative of the sheer artistry and athleticism of the Roman team. However multiple mistakes on the apparatus resulted in Team Griffon completely failing to medal, a situation made even more galling as the Team Bourbon silver medalists openly taunted the fans. Venue security was able to prevent any unpleasantness, but the atmosphere has become quite charged.
Winning gold in the Women’s gymnastics event, behind an amazing performance of a young phenom from New Capricorn, cooled tempers slightly, and you rather appreciated the sportsmanship of the NRI competitors who joined in the celebration, as it turned out that several of them were students at Griffin's Roost University and knew each other socially.
Things almost boiled over during the Team event, though, with fans shouting at the officials and a near riot after a Bourbon athlete was observed tripping a member of Team Rasalhague, turning the poor fellows ankle and dooming any chance for the NRR to medal in the event. The bad blood grew worse as the competition was unexpectedly close, the Griffon women proving dominant, but not enough to overcome the sheer brilliance of the NRI men, especially after another ‘accidental’ incident between one of the Bourbon men and a member of Team Griffon resulted in your top gymnast being carried off the floor, while the Bourbon gymnast was simply docked several points as a penalty. It wasn’t enough, and the Bourbons edged you out for the silver, provoking another near riot.
Things continued to simmer in the swimming meets, dominated by the Rasalhaguians, but Team Griffon failed to place in the men’s event, while eking out a silver over the Bourbon women. In the decathlon, which finished later that same day, Team Griffon and the Bourbons traded off golds, with the Griffon women proving once again the more dominant team. Thankfully there were no incidents in any of these events.
Finally came a measure of redemption for Team Griffon, with strong performances in both the men’s and women’s events, taking gold in the men’s and silver in the women’s, and for the first time in the games the Bourbons failed to medal in the women’s shooting event.
You have a brief meeting with the Bourbon ambassador, who is quietly apologetic in private over the conduct of the Bourbon gymnastics team, explaining that the team is dominated by noble scions of Maison de Picardie who are, in his words, ‘rather upset’ with the Griffon Empire for some odd reason, it seems that they blame you for their former leader failing at his coup attempt against the crown. Quite silly of them, the ambassador assures you, and the Bourbon crown is quite happy that relations are so peaceful, but nobles will be nobles and what can you do?
You manage to resist the urge to advise spanking the noble brats. You are quite proud of yourself for that.
Thors_Alumni
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[X] Honor her wishes, you will always love her, but she has the right to make that decision free from you pressuring her otherwise
It sucks, but we embrace life and it's her path to choose.
[X] Honor her wishes, you will always love her, but she has the right to make that decision free from you pressuring her otherwise
[X] Honor her wishes, you will always love her, but she has the right to make that decision free from you pressuring her otherwise
also...
[X] Spank the noble brats.
I know it's not an voting option...but it should be.
[X] Spank the noble brats.
I know it's not an voting option...but it should be.
Thors_Alumni
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I said that in Discord. And I agree.also...
I know it's not an voting option...but it should be.
[X] Spank the noble brats.
[X] Send the letter, you love her as well and have lost enough family already
It's still her decision but. . . Jeremy's increasingly worn out and cynical and tired of all the messy dying stuff, and why not?
It's still her decision but. . . Jeremy's increasingly worn out and cynical and tired of all the messy dying stuff, and why not?
Joyousmadman
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[X] Honor her wishes, you will always love her, but she has the right to make that decision free from you pressuring her otherwise.
AlphaOmega
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I wonder what they’re reactions will be when they learn about what we did to our nobles.