Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

kashim3

Texan, Mandalorian, Alabamian.
[X] Deploy the full Grand Fleet to Stahlkampfauge as a nodal defense force 1 jump away from each target
 

Rukatin

Malfunctioning NPC at Best.
[X] Deploy the full Grand Fleet to Stahlkampfauge as a nodal defense force 1 jump away from each target
[X] I'd also like to deploy extra eyes with HPGs in those systems. a couple of escort squadrons to each to monitor likely pirate points and provided onsite scouting capability not necessarily inherent to those systems. IF there aren't any already there that is.

Indeed. Caution takes priority here.

Edit: modified vote
 
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Artifex

Well-known member
[X] Deploy the full Grand Fleet to Stahlkampfauge as a nodal defense force 1 jump away from each target
[X] I'd also like to deploy extra eyes with HPGs in those systems. a couple of escort squadrons to each to monitor likely pirate points and provided onsite scouting capability not necessarily inherent to those systems. IF there aren't any already there that is.
 

Val the Moofia Boss

Well-known member
[X] I'd also like to deploy extra eyes with HPGs in those systems. a couple of escort squadrons to each to monitor likely pirate points and provided onsite scouting capability not necessarily inherent to those systems. IF there aren't any already there that is.
 

IceWing_mk1

Well-known member
[X] Deploy the full Grand Fleet to Stahlkampfauge as a nodal defense force 1 jump away from each target
[X] I'd also like to deploy extra eyes with HPGs in those systems. a couple of escort squadrons to each to monitor likely pirate points and provided onsite scouting capability not necessarily inherent to those systems. IF there aren't any already there that is.
 
Turn 100 - Friday Night And Everyone's Moving

LordSunhawk

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Turn 100 - Friday Night And Everyone’s Moving

You are having lunch with your family when one of your aides discretely hands you a memo stating that the Black Steel attack you’d been worried about has struck the Bohren system, and that the Grand Fleet was responding.

There’s nothing you can really do at this point other than wait, so you manage to smile to the aide who delivered the memo and carry on with dinner without overtly letting on about what was going on, after all your kids are too young to worry about such things.

You spend the afternoon in the palace command center, however, watching as the updates come in. The Bohren system defenses did their best, but the Black Steel attack was far too large for them to hold off, while not destroyed the orbital stations were mission killed in relatively short order and the planet itself suffers a light bombardment before the Grand Fleet arrives in force.

The battle lasts for several days, as the Black Steel abandon the orbitals to engage the Grand Fleet in a running battle across the system. In the end, despite heavy losses, the Grand Fleet is able to defeat the Black Steel, the few surviving enemy ships successfully fleeing.
  • Battle of Bohren
    • Black Steel
      • Estimated enemy forces
        • 10 unidentified 2 million ton battleships designated ‘Brawler’ type
        • 10 unidentified 2 million ton battleships designated ‘Volley’ type
        • 12 McKenna-class Battleships
        • 8 Farragut-class Battleships
        • 10 Texas-class Battleships
        • 30 unidentified 1 million ton cruisers designated ‘Sniper’ type
        • 15 Aegis-class cruisers
        • 5 Cameron-class Battlecruisers
        • 50 Lola-type Destroyers
        • 100 Essex-type Destroyers
        • 100 Unidentified 500k ton destroyer designated ‘Harasser’ type
        • 1000+ unidentified parasites
        • 32,000+ Black Wasp drone ASF
      • Estimated enemy losses
        • All but 5 ‘Volley’ type, 2 McKenna, 10 ‘Sniper’ type, 20 ‘Harasser’ type
    • Grand Fleet
      • Destroyed
        • 20 Prinz Eugen-class Heavy Cruisers out of 40 deployed
        • 16 Dido-class Light Cruisers out of 80 deployed
        • 4 Erebus-class Light Cruisers out of 4 deployed
        • 2 Brooklyn-class Light Cruisers out of 2 deployed
        • 2 Atlanta-class Light Cruisers out of 2 deployed
        • 6 Cleveland-class Light Cruisers out of 6 deployed
        • 65 Fubuki-class Destroyers out of 125 deployed
        • 75 Lyr-class Corvettes out of 155 deployed
        • 2 Hosho-class Carriers out of 7 deployed
        • Dropship Losses (100% of deployed dropships were constructive losses)
          • 200 Bainbridge-class Parasite Destroyers
          • 40 Saipan-class Parasite Carriers
          • 30 Long Beach-class Parasite Missile Destroyers
          • 68 Aetna-class Parasite Missile Battleships
          • 34 Meteor-class Parasite Missile Battleships
          • 14 Canopus-class Parasite Battleships

Unlike previous engagements, despite the heavy hull losses, actual casualties were extremely low, due primarily to the effects of HarJel systems in the naval vessels hulls preventing catastrophic atmosphere loss, giving time for crews to reach escape pods and lifeboats. In addition, the HarJel systems in the deployed ASFs allowed the vast majority of downed pilots to be recovered despite the near total loss of their airframes. The wings in question can be easily reconstituted from spares kept in DURF storage.

Bohren itself has taken relatively light damage, considering the intensity of the bombardment, although civilian casualties are heavy. Unfortunately several of the main shelters for the capital city of the planet were directly struck, resulting in enormous loss of life. The local economy has been rocked, but should be able to recover on its own.

The losses among the parasites is a bit disheartening, the carriers and missile ships especially. They are supposed to remain well back from the battle and provide support, however it appears that the Black Steel planned for that and made use of massive drone dropship swarms to directly target and destroy the support vessels.

Admiral Fisher and Admiral Sims have been heard muttering about coming up with a solution to the ‘squishy’ parasite carriers. You are a bit worried about what madness they might come up with.

Scratch that, you are utterly terrified of what madness they might come up with.

But in a good sort of way.

You do get one bit of unalloyed good news, as the New Castor system government, in conjunction with the citizens of the system, apparently decided to celebrate their becoming a full Core world in a big way, by funding the construction of a rather large ship building complex. A trio of new Small Warship Yards, along with a quartet of new Escort Yards are now available this year, giving a small but welcome boost to your shipbuilding capacity.

Parliament is in session, which is always… fun. The Chamber of Delegates is relatively quiet this year, with no significant legislation originating there. The same cannot be seen with the Imperial Senate.

The Small Business Act of 3030 is on the table. The act is fairly wide ranging in its scope, but quite carefully crafted as you’d expect from something done under the personal supervision of the Eldest. The issue that the Act is intended to address is the continuing disparities between the economies of scale enjoyed by the largest corporations and that enjoyed by small businesses. While the majority of your actual economic growth is driven by small business, the fact remains that this is due to the sheer number of them, and every year the vast majority of new small businesses wind up failing.

One of the factors regularly cited in such failures is running out of operating capital, which is pretty much a no-brainer as far as you are concerned, but the materials supporting the legislation points out that in similar circumstances larger corporations that are facing identical circumstances have a much easier time securing financing to bridge the gap, not because of anything corrupt or illegal, but simply because said corporations have far more assets to put on the table as collateral for temporary loans. And as they say, if you owe the bank a thousand dollars, you have a problem, if you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem.

In short, size matters.

The Small Business Act of 3030 seeks to address this in a rather clever manner. Imperial grants would be available to entrepreneurs wishing to open small commercial banks specializing purely in small business loans, which would likewise be subsidized by the Imperial government. These banks would be under heightened scrutiny from the Bank Regulation Board and required to operate under close oversight, furthermore they would only be allowed to make loans that the existing commercial banks deem too risky due to lack of collateral and similar factors. Borrowers would still be expected to repay any loans, but if they do default and the default was in good faith, that is with no whiff of corruption, mismanagement, or dirty dealings, then generous repayment terms will be available backed by the Empire.

[]ActionArgumentEffects
[]Sign the Small Business Act of 3030Many of today's corporate titans started out as small businesses long ago. As such, supporting such businesses simply makes good economic sense. Calliope Motors, for example, went from a small mom-and-pop shop to the largest automobile manufacturer in the Empire. Small businesses contribute enormously to the success of the Empire, and we need them contributing, not fretting over whether or not they’ll survive the ordinary market fluctuations of the economy.

This legislation carefully addresses the primary challenges faced by small businesses in a way that avoids the pitfalls of most subsidy schemes. By giving those dispersing the subsidy a strong financial incentive to do so wisely rather than frivolously, with solid oversight from an already established and effective system that has become known throughout the Empire for its probity and fairness, the ordinary concerns behind ‘welfare’ systems are pretty much eliminated.
  • Increases Small Business Subsidy rating to 2
    • Effectively gives a base .1% GDP boost to all systems in the Empire
  • Increases Bank Regulation Board rating to 2
  • +1 Imperial Economy
  • +1 Economic Event
  • +1 Politics
[]Veto the Small Business Act of 3030Let’s be real here. If a small business fails because it ran out of money, that is the small business owners problem, not the Empire’s. They gambled, they lost, better luck next time. It’s not the government’s job to ‘help’ these people, they need to help themselves or stay in the regular workforce. Period. Dot. End of line.
  • +1 Approval Change

Over in the Olympics, Team Griffon continues to dominate.

In wrestling, the men’s team holds off a determined Roman squad to secure the Gold medal in the final round, which features some exceptionally skilled wrestling indeed. Likewise, the women’s team secures Gold over the Rasalhaguians in a thrilling contest. Albeit one with a rather infamous wardrobe malfunction that is splashed across all of the sports pages.

No, to answer a particularly impertinent, not to mention highly amused, reporter, there are no plans to implement naked wrestling, even if said wardrobe malfunction seems to indicate such is in the cards.

The fencing matches are exceptionally close, although you do appreciate when Team Griffon, the Romans, and the Rasalhaguians decide to play a bit of a practical joke on everybody by showing up with fence posts and rolls of wire mesh, along with spades, for the initial event introductions. Team Griffon, despite being informed that the event does not, in fact, include the 100 yard Fence Post Planting Contest, went on to win both the Men’s and Women’s events in the type of fencing that involves long pointy metal things poked and slashed at other people with long pointy metal things, while wearing mesh outfits and following esoteric rules that you still don’t understand even after watching numerous competitions.

You do understand archery, and Team Griffon again seems to be pros competing against high school kids as they cruise to dominating victories in both the men’s and women’s events. In a rather emotional moment, the captain of Team Griffon’s men’s archery team turns out to be a Bohren native, who dedicates the competition to the people of that system who lost their lives in the recent Black Steel attack.

The Naked Volleyball tournament starts out with a laugh and a joking reference to the wrestling incident, with all four teams for both the men’s and women’s competition showing up wearing burqas and carrying large day-glo orange signs reading ‘WARDROBE MALFUNCTION IN PROGRESS’. After the laughter subsides things go back to normal, with Team Griffon well… putting on a show, so to speak, and parading all over the stiff competition.

OK, I’ll stop.
 

Val the Moofia Boss

Well-known member
How old is the Eldest now? It's been a hundred years since we found him and he was like a couple hundred years old at that time. Hope he isn't going to pass away soon.

[X] Sign the Small Business Act of 3030
 

ShadowArxxy

Well-known member
Comrade
The Eldest gives a chuff of amusement at the idea of passing away soon.

[X] Sign the Small Business Act of 3030

In response to carrier losses against this new drone-swarm tactic, Majeure Electrique submits an unsolicited proposal for a new "half-sister" class to the existing Dido-class light cruisers, essentially the same core hull refitted with a completely new armament of all naval and subcapital lasers. In addition, due to operational experience from the Didos, the new class also incorporates significant additional cargo space for ASF support, albeit at the cost of having less crew space.

Code:
Juneau II Light Cruiser
Mass: 750,000 tons
Technology Base: Mixed (Advanced) 
Introduced: 3145
Mass: 750,000
Battle Value: 131,580
Tech Rating/Availability: F/X-X-X-F
Cost: 16,298,482,000 C-bills

Fuel: 4,000 tons (10,000)
Safe Thrust: 4
Maximum Thrust: 6
Sail Integrity: 5
KF Drive Integrity: 16
Heat Sinks: 2645 (5290)
Structural Integrity: 77

Armor
    Nose: 264
    Fore Sides: 216/216
    Aft Sides: 192/192
    Aft: 123

Cargo
    Bay 1:  Fighter (36)            4 Doors   
    Bay 2:  Small Craft (4)         2 Doors   
    Bay 3:  Cargo (2000.0 tons)     2 Doors   
    Bay 4:  Cargo (Liquid) (2002.0000000000002 tons)0 Doors   
    Bay 5:  Cargo (Liquid) (2002.0000000000002 tons)0 Doors   
    Bay 6:  Cargo (3397.0 tons)     1 Door    

Ammunition:
    None

Dropship Capacity: 8
Grav Decks: 2 (95 m, 250 m)
Escape Pods: 40
Life Boats: 8
Crew:  67 officers, 150 enlisted/non-rated, 180 gunners, 92 bay personnel, 92 passengers        

Notes: Equipped with 
    1 Mobile Hyperpulse Generators (Mobile HPG)
    1 Naval Comm-Scanner Suite (Large)
    1,155 tons of lamellor ferro-carbide armor.

Weapons:                          Capital Attack Values (Standard)
Arc (Heat)                    Heat  SRV     MRV     LRV      ERV    Class       
Nose (2,552 Heat)
12 Naval Laser 55             1020 66(660) 66(660) 66(660) 66(660)  Capital Laser
12 Naval Laser 55             1020 66(660) 66(660) 66(660) 66(660)  Capital Laser
16 Sub-Capital Laser (SCL/3)  512  48(480) 48(480)  0(0)     0(0)   Sub-Capital Laser
FRS/FLS (1,276 Heat)
12 Naval Laser 55             1020 66(660) 66(660) 66(660) 66(660)  Capital Laser
8 Sub-Capital Laser (SCL/3)   256  24(240) 24(240)  0(0)     0(0)   Sub-Capital Laser
RBS/LBS (1,040 Heat)
20 Naval Laser 35             1040 70(700) 70(700) 70(700)   0(0)   Capital Laser
ARS/ALS (1,040 Heat)
20 Naval Laser 35             1040 70(700) 70(700) 70(700)   0(0)   Capital Laser
Aft (1,276 Heat)
12 Naval Laser 55             1020 66(660) 66(660) 66(660) 66(660)  Capital Laser
8 Sub-Capital Laser (SCL/3)   256  24(240) 24(240)  0(0)     0(0)   Sub-Capital Laser
 
Turn 100 - Hot-Shot, Give Me No Problems

LordSunhawk

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Turn 100 - Hot-Shot, Give Me No Problems

Your favorite events of the Olympics are now at hand, and with your children in tow you make a point of attending all of the races, much to their enjoyment and approval.

However the Hovercraft races start off with a massive controversy, as crew members from one of the Bourbon drivers are caught attempting to sabotage a Team Griffon hovercraft after inspections had been completed. As a result the Bourbon team is completely disqualified, with the offending driver, a particularly obnoxious fellow from Nouvelle Picardie, being particularly foul mouthed in the process.

The races continued, however, and as usual Team Griffon thoroughly dominated in all four disciplines. After the controversy in the Hovercraft race, the Bourbon team, this time led by a Nouvelle Normandie rider, manages to take silver in the Motorcycle race, while in the Hovercraft, Stock, and Formula races the Romans take solid silvers, actually making the racing a bit more exciting than usual for the leaders in a few cases.

You get back to the palace just in time to be ambushed by Admiral Fisher and Admiral Sims carrying large binders containing their latest madness about to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world as chaotic thirsting gods laugh and scheme and… OK, they just want to show you some designs and make you do paperwork.

Which is bad enough.

The Battle of Bohren had shown the vulnerability inherent in the relatively fragile parasite carriers, and the dynamic duo had a two pronged plan to address this.

First would require relatively minor modifications to the docking collars of the Hosho class, minor enough that they can be handled by their own crews once the parts are delivered. They would then each be able to carry 10 of the new Wright Dockable ASF Platforms, derived from concepts put together for independent ASF stations to thicken jump point defenses. These platforms, unlike dropships, would be semi-permanently installed on the host carrier, each carrying a full wing of ASFs and attendant small craft, while being armed with an array of anti-missile and anti-fighter weapons. An innovative derivative of the standard pressurized repair bay would be used to allow rapid mass launches of the ASF complement. The remaining five collars would still be open for use by Saipan parasite carriers, as well as the various other parasite designs.

The second is a derivative of the Dido-class optimized for anti-fighter/anti-missile operations by means of a significant armament swap. The balanced armament of the original vessel would be replaced by an impressive array of naval capital and subcapital lasers, with four of the original ten docking collars given preliminary modifications such that if the Wright proved viable they would be able to be carried by the new Guiseppe Garibaldi-class Light Cruiser.

NameCostMaterialsHPA/DSpecials
Wright Dockable ASF Platform$2,759,951.00LFA, DHS367187
  • Armored 8
  • AMS 20
  • Capital AMS 2
  • Missile 88
Guiseppe Garibaldi-class Light Cruiser$172,984,820.00LFA, DHS24531553
  • Armored 60
  • Capital AMS 312
  • Capital
    • 2/127
    • 3/664
    • 4/831
  • Command 3

It should be noted that despite using warship grade armor, the Wright is capable of being built in standard dropship yards for a fraction of the cost of the Saipan-class parasite carrier.

Periphery Studies has gotten up to their usual shenanigans, causing your face and your palm to resume their torrid and forbidden love affair in reaction to the utter insanity.

Somebody who should have known better let them see some ancient cartoons stored in SARAHs database, and now you have most of the esteemed tenured faculty of the department running around in turtle costumes, demanding pizza, and hitting things with foam rubber ‘ninja weapons’. At least the various pizzerias in Griffsport are doing land sale business this year thanks to this.

And now it is budget time, at last. You still don’t really understand why this is supposedly a time of dread and despair.

General Jenkins starts things off. “Well, Your Majesty, I’m sure you’re getting tired of me constantly harping about logistics, but guess what, I’m going to be harping about logistics and strategic materials. And this time even Admiral Fisher is going to be whining at you about it, which will be different. General?” He turns over the podium to General Bradley.

“Your Majesty, our expansion continues to be constrained by strategic materials rather than by factories, so we will continue to urge for expansion, especially for ferro-fibrous armor. Other than that, our requests will be quite similar to last years.”

She first shows a graph, improved over last years, showing the strategic material situation visually.
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“As you can tell, we added the most common form of RCT Division to the comparison to make it more comprehensive.”

She then brings up the desired budget items for the year from the Army.
  • Imperial Griffon Army
    • Production
      • Strategic Materials
        • Upgrade all DHS Orbital Factories
        • Upgrade all Ferro Fibrous Orbital Factories
        • Upgrade all Endo-Steel Orbital Factories
    • Procurement
      • Conventional
        • 2 Infantry Divisions
      • Battlemech
        • 3 Battlemech Divisions
      • Garrison
        • 8 Garrison Divisions
        • 9 Militia Divisions

General Romanov is up next. “Your Majesty, we are ready to begin procurement of the new patrol bombers, as well as continue to beef up our offensive and defensive ASF forces. We are doing relatively well in terms of strategic materials.” She smiles a bit slyly at that, causing you to laugh as you catch the subtle jest.
  • Imperial Griffon Aerospace Force
    • Procurement
      • 30 Heavy Carrier Wings
      • 30 Patrol Wings
      • 30 Naval Patrol Wings

Admiral Fisher is looking grumpier than usual, glaring at General Jenkins, before silently putting up a chart as he begins to speak.
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“Yes, get it out of your systems, we’re starting to run up against limits in jump cores. We had hoped to have finished the latest round of systemic upgrades via R&D by now, but growth in production capacity, while otherwise excellent, has resulted in us bumping up against the limit. So yes, we need more germanium refining capacity to maintain a margin for the next couple years before the major improvements roll out.”

He glares around, daring anybody to comment, before continuing. “That being said, we intend to investigate the potential for the Wright platforms, if they prove viable we’ll begin mass production. We’ll be taking one of our Hoshos in hand to act as the testbed mothership, build a block of 10 of the platforms, and see how it goes. We’re also requesting a tranche of the new cruisers, I’m not going to try to pronounce that name, some of the designers are apparently Italian and bored me to death arguing for it. And, of course, we’ll be continuing to grow our production capacity and our fleet.”
  • Imperial Griffon Navy
    • Production
      • Strategic Materials
        • New Germanium Refinery
          • Nowy Wrocław
        • Upgrade all Germanium Refineries
      • Orbital Shipyards
        • Upgrade all Orbital Shipyards
      • Refit & Repair Yards
        • Upgrade all Refit & Repair Yards
      • Escort Yards
        • Construct new Escort Yards
          • Bohren
          • Iskra
          • Stahlfurt
          • Skala
          • Chuma
          • Bari
          • Glorreich
          • Pryymenyy
          • Novolar
          • Grand View
      • Small Warship Yards
        • Construct new Small Warship Yards
          • New Phoenix
          • New Castor
          • New Pollux
          • Edelsteine
          • Kainga
      • Large Warship Yards
        • Nowa Warszawa
        • Okusawa
        • New Port Royal
        • Nya Kopenhamn
        • New Capricorn
    • Procurement
      • Standard Dropships
        • 200 Bainbridge-class Parasite Destroyers
        • 10 Wright-class Dockable ASF Platforms
      • Large Dropships
        • 30 Saipan-class Parasite Carriers
        • 17 Meteor-class Parasite Missile Battleships
        • 34 Aetna-class Parasite Missile Battleships
        • 26 Canopus-class Parasite Battleships
      • Jumpships
        • 1 Windjammer-class
      • Escorts
        • 40 Fubuki-class Destroyers
        • 40 Lyr-class Corvettes
      • Small Warships
        • 20 Dido-class Light Cruisers
        • 10 Guiseppe Garibaldi-class Light Cruisers
      • Medium Warships
        • 20 Prinz Eugen-class Heavy Cruisers
    • Fortress Command
      • Construct Black Towers
        • Grand View
        • Novolar
        • Bauernparadis
        • Pinball
        • Feurstem

The Admiral sits down and Elizabeth Lee takes his place.

“Your Majesty, we have a rather comprehensive economic improvement program lined up for your approval this year, which should hopefully lead to more rapid advancement in our economic growth across the board, but especially in the Periphery.”

She consults her notes. “To begin with, we have reworked the programs intended to encourage the development of infrastructure and industrial zones within the Peripheral colonies, as such we would like to make the following recommendations.”

She brings up a small chart.
  • Construct Infrastructure & Industrial Zones
    • Nowy Wrocław
    • Glorreich
    • Iskra
    • Awha
    • Pieklo
    • Nowy Slask
“We are primarily targeting the most minerally productive systems first, and the one closest to becoming a Core World and thus ineligible for the program.”

She then brings up a somewhat more familiar chart. “Next, Your Majesty, our economic development and investment teams have the following recommendations.”
  • Economic Focu & Investment
    • Focus
      • Core
        • Nowa Warszawa
      • Periphery
        • Nowy Slask
    • Massive Investment
      • Core
        • New Phoenix
      • Periphery
        • Bari
    • Investment
      • Grand View
“In terms of survey work, we have three firm recommendations and one that is a bit risky.” She smiles a bit. “In a very British understatement sort of way.”
  • Survey Targets
    • GX-E28
      • An Orange main sequence star, astronomers predict several terrestrial worlds in the system along with at least one large gas giant. Modeling seems to indicate more than one might be in the habitable zone
    • GX-C26
      • A Yellow main sequence star, and the most likely source of the HPG interference we have been experiencing. Astronomers are quite confused by the system and caution that the dust levels around it make it very hard to know what is there. The only reason we are recommending sending a survey fleet and not a battle fleet is that your great-grandmother seemed to find whatever was here to be something to be amused by, rather than threatened by.
    • GX-N19
      • A Red Dwarf, at the high end for size and luminosity of the spectral class. Astronomers predict at least one habitable planet in the system based on their observations.
    • GX-L17
      • A highly stable Red Sub Giant with a companion Brown Dwarf, expectations are of at least one and potentially several habitable planets in the system, although astrophysicists caution that it is highly unlikely to have significant metal resources

“Finally, we only have a single DoME team available, the one dedicated to Planetary Optimization. This year we are recommending the Pinball system.”

Interestingly, all of the rest of your advisors have sent notes indicating that they have no pressing budget requests this year. Tiberius is vacationing with his family, General Messerschmidt is meeting with officials from the NRR about future intelligence cooperation, your Foriegn Minister is personally overseeing the final establishment of the Kilburroughan embassy, and your Justice Minister is off with her new grandson.
 

The Whispering Monk

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Osaul
Wright Dockable ASF Platform
10 full squadrons deployed from a fairly fragile platform. REALLY cheap compared to a lot of what we build...for obvious reason, but it's a great way to bring up our ASF forces in engagements to help overcome the numerical superiority that the Black Steel forces ALWAYS bring against us.
Guiseppe Garibaldi-class Light Cruiser
Much better defended, but almost 100x more expensive. Only brings 2/5s the ASF capacity that a single Wright platform carries.

Maybe setup the GG-LC as a dedicated defensive platform for the Wright's...something like 1 for every 5 Wrights deployed?
 

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