Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
- Thread starter LordSunhawk
- Start date
Uh, you're comparing an FTL-mobile WarShip to a parasite platform. The ASF Platforms are basically very small Space Station modules that can be docked to a modified K-F port as if they were DropShips.
(The tech canonically exists and is canonically how certain modular Space Stations are transported in the first place, but is never utilized this way in canon because of reasons.)
I know.
Jarow
Well-known member
[X] Plan: Mystery Solving
-[X] Procurement [$ 244,513,898,794.07 ]
--[X] Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $3,089,728,650.00 ] (95)
---[X] 200 Bainbridge [95]
---[X] 10 Wright [95]
---[X] 34 Aetna [95]
---[X] 17 Meteor [95]
---[X] 30 Saipan [95]
---[X] 26 Canopus [95]
--[X] Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $9,320,027.10 ] (90)
---[X] 1 Windjammer [90]
--[X] Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $11,638,300,300.00 ] (90)
---[X] 20 Dido*
---[X] 10 Hosho*
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen*
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen*
---[X] 40 Fubuki [90]
---[X] 40 Lyr [90]
---[X] 20 Dido [90]
---[X] 10 Giuseppe Garibaldi [90]
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen [90]
--[X] Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 343,036,066.97 ] (90)
---[X] 0 Fighter Wing [auto]
---[X] 30 Heavy Carrier Wing [90]
---[X] 30 Patrol Wing [90]
---[X] 30 Naval Patrol Wing [90]
---[X] 2 Infantry Division [90]
---[X] 8 Garrison Division [90]
---[X] 9 Militia Division [90]
---[X] 3 Battlemech Division [90]
--[X] Fortress Command [$ 229,433,513,750.00 ] (90)
---[X] Build Jump Point Defenses
---[X] Construct Silver Tower
---[X] Construct Oasis II
----[X] Novolar [90]
----[X] Glorreich [90]
----[X] Raj [90]
----[X] Bohren [90]
----[X] Bauernparadies [90]
---[X] Construct Black Tower
----[X] Grand View [90]
----[X] Novolar [90]
----[X] Bauernparadis [90]
----[X] Pinball [90]
----[X] Feurstem [90]
-[X] General [$ 332,393,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Focus Development on Core World Nowa Warzsawa [85]
--[X] Focus Development on Peripheral World Nowy Slask [85]
--[X] Massive Core Investment New Phoenix [80]
--[X] Massive Peripheral Investment Bari [80]
--[X] Economic Investment Grand View [90]
(Money is useful)
--[X] Survey GX-E28 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-N19 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-L17 [80]
(Hopefully some nice new colonies)
--[X] Survey GX-C26 [80]
(Mystery solutions!)
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nowy Wroclaw [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Glorreich [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Iskra [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Awha [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Pieklo [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nowy Slask [90]
(Lots of potential benefits)
--[X] Expand Civil Service [80]
--[X] Expand Department of Mega Engineering [75]
(More actions)
--[X] Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Bohren [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Iskra [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Stahlfurt [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Skala [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Chuma [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Bari [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Glorreich [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Pryymenyy [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Novolar [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Grand View [90]
(Baby warships and jumpships)
--[X] Establish an embassy on Kilburrough* [auto]
--[X] Expand DURF [->1]
(I had a free action, and we are switching to divisions. Might be useful.)
--[X] Expand Colonial Office (per level) [75]
(Support for large colonization sprees)
--[X] Build Orbital Factory (90)
---[X] Build New DHS Factory Glorreich [90]
---[X] Build New Endosteel Factory Glorreich [90]
---[X] Build New Ferro Alumnium Factory Glorreich [90]
---[X] Build New Ferro Fibrous Factory Glorreich [90]
---[X] Build New Naval Armor Factory Glorreich [90]
--[X] Construct Germanium Processing Facility Nowy Wroclaw [105]
--[X] Upgrade Germanium Processing Facilities [95]
--[X] Upgrade All DHS Factories [90]
--[X] Upgrade All Endosteel Forges [90]
--[X] Upgrade All Ferro Fibrous Forges [90]
(Resources are important)
--[X] Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
(We need to keep our fleet functional)
--[X] Build Small Warship Yard New Pollux [90]
--[X] Build Small Warship Yard Kainga [90]
--[X] Build Small Warship Yard Edelsteine [90]
--[X] Build Small Warship Yard Nya Kopenhamn [90]
--[X] Build Small Warship Yard New Phoenix [90]
--[X] Build Large Warship Yard Okusawa [->1]
--[X] Build Large Warship Yard New Port Royal [->1]
--[X] Build Large Warship Yard New Castor [->1]
--[X] Build Large Warship Yard New Capricorn [->1]
--[X] Build Large Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa [->1]
(More bigger warships)
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Calliope* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Griffon* [90]
-[X] DoME [$ 32,000,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Terraform Catachan - Stage 0* [75]
--[X] Terraform Calliope II - Stage III* [90]
--[X] Terraform Feurstem - Stage 0* [75]
--[X] Terraform Iskra - Stage 0* [75]
--[X] Terraform Pinball - Stage 0* [75]
--[X] Terraform Raj - Stage 0* [75]
--[X] Colonize Shin Tōkyō* [->3]
--[X] Construct Major Army Base - Glorreich* [->1]
--[X] Construct Major Army Base - Novolar* [->1]
--[X] Construct Major Fleet Base - Glorreich* [->3]
--[X] Construct Major Fleet Base - Novolar* [->3]
--[X] Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Pinball [->1]
-[X] Research [$ 526,020,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Advanced Compact Core Construction VI* [->3]
--[X] Advanced Compact Core Design VI* [->3]
--[X] Advanced Compact Core Theory VI* [->3]
--[X] Improved Elder Quality of Life Lvl 2* [80]
--[X] Advanced Ground Combat Doctrine* [->2]
--[X] Improved Germanium Refining Lvl 3* [->2]
--[X] Advanced Double Heat Sinks* [->3]
--[X] Advanced Sensors* [->3]
--[X] Commercial R&D [-]
--[X] Industrial R&D [-]
-[X] Miscellaneous [$ 100,000 ]
--[X] Olympics [100,000]
A little under $450b leftover.
-[X] Procurement [$ 244,513,898,794.07 ]
--[X] Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $3,089,728,650.00 ] (95)
---[X] 200 Bainbridge [95]
---[X] 10 Wright [95]
---[X] 34 Aetna [95]
---[X] 17 Meteor [95]
---[X] 30 Saipan [95]
---[X] 26 Canopus [95]
--[X] Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $9,320,027.10 ] (90)
---[X] 1 Windjammer [90]
--[X] Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $11,638,300,300.00 ] (90)
---[X] 20 Dido*
---[X] 10 Hosho*
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen*
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen*
---[X] 40 Fubuki [90]
---[X] 40 Lyr [90]
---[X] 20 Dido [90]
---[X] 10 Giuseppe Garibaldi [90]
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen [90]
--[X] Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 343,036,066.97 ] (90)
---[X] 0 Fighter Wing [auto]
---[X] 30 Heavy Carrier Wing [90]
---[X] 30 Patrol Wing [90]
---[X] 30 Naval Patrol Wing [90]
---[X] 2 Infantry Division [90]
---[X] 8 Garrison Division [90]
---[X] 9 Militia Division [90]
---[X] 3 Battlemech Division [90]
--[X] Fortress Command [$ 229,433,513,750.00 ] (90)
---[X] Build Jump Point Defenses
---[X] Construct Silver Tower
---[X] Construct Oasis II
----[X] Novolar [90]
----[X] Glorreich [90]
----[X] Raj [90]
----[X] Bohren [90]
----[X] Bauernparadies [90]
---[X] Construct Black Tower
----[X] Grand View [90]
----[X] Novolar [90]
----[X] Bauernparadis [90]
----[X] Pinball [90]
----[X] Feurstem [90]
-[X] General [$ 332,393,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Focus Development on Core World Nowa Warzsawa [85]
--[X] Focus Development on Peripheral World Nowy Slask [85]
--[X] Massive Core Investment New Phoenix [80]
--[X] Massive Peripheral Investment Bari [80]
--[X] Economic Investment Grand View [90]
(Money is useful)
--[X] Survey GX-E28 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-N19 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-L17 [80]
(Hopefully some nice new colonies)
--[X] Survey GX-C26 [80]
(Mystery solutions!)
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nowy Wroclaw [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Glorreich [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Iskra [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Awha [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Pieklo [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nowy Slask [90]
(Lots of potential benefits)
--[X] Expand Civil Service [80]
--[X] Expand Department of Mega Engineering [75]
(More actions)
--[X] Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Bohren [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Iskra [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Stahlfurt [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Skala [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Chuma [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Bari [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Glorreich [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Pryymenyy [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Novolar [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Grand View [90]
(Baby warships and jumpships)
--[X] Establish an embassy on Kilburrough* [auto]
--[X] Expand DURF [->1]
(I had a free action, and we are switching to divisions. Might be useful.)
--[X] Expand Colonial Office (per level) [75]
(Support for large colonization sprees)
--[X] Build Orbital Factory (90)
---[X] Build New DHS Factory Glorreich [90]
---[X] Build New Endosteel Factory Glorreich [90]
---[X] Build New Ferro Alumnium Factory Glorreich [90]
---[X] Build New Ferro Fibrous Factory Glorreich [90]
---[X] Build New Naval Armor Factory Glorreich [90]
--[X] Construct Germanium Processing Facility Nowy Wroclaw [105]
--[X] Upgrade Germanium Processing Facilities [95]
--[X] Upgrade All DHS Factories [90]
--[X] Upgrade All Endosteel Forges [90]
--[X] Upgrade All Ferro Fibrous Forges [90]
(Resources are important)
--[X] Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
(We need to keep our fleet functional)
--[X] Build Small Warship Yard New Pollux [90]
--[X] Build Small Warship Yard Kainga [90]
--[X] Build Small Warship Yard Edelsteine [90]
--[X] Build Small Warship Yard Nya Kopenhamn [90]
--[X] Build Small Warship Yard New Phoenix [90]
--[X] Build Large Warship Yard Okusawa [->1]
--[X] Build Large Warship Yard New Port Royal [->1]
--[X] Build Large Warship Yard New Castor [->1]
--[X] Build Large Warship Yard New Capricorn [->1]
--[X] Build Large Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa [->1]
(More bigger warships)
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Calliope* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Griffon* [90]
-[X] DoME [$ 32,000,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Terraform Catachan - Stage 0* [75]
--[X] Terraform Calliope II - Stage III* [90]
--[X] Terraform Feurstem - Stage 0* [75]
--[X] Terraform Iskra - Stage 0* [75]
--[X] Terraform Pinball - Stage 0* [75]
--[X] Terraform Raj - Stage 0* [75]
--[X] Colonize Shin Tōkyō* [->3]
--[X] Construct Major Army Base - Glorreich* [->1]
--[X] Construct Major Army Base - Novolar* [->1]
--[X] Construct Major Fleet Base - Glorreich* [->3]
--[X] Construct Major Fleet Base - Novolar* [->3]
--[X] Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Pinball [->1]
-[X] Research [$ 526,020,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Advanced Compact Core Construction VI* [->3]
--[X] Advanced Compact Core Design VI* [->3]
--[X] Advanced Compact Core Theory VI* [->3]
--[X] Improved Elder Quality of Life Lvl 2* [80]
--[X] Advanced Ground Combat Doctrine* [->2]
--[X] Improved Germanium Refining Lvl 3* [->2]
--[X] Advanced Double Heat Sinks* [->3]
--[X] Advanced Sensors* [->3]
--[X] Commercial R&D [-]
--[X] Industrial R&D [-]
-[X] Miscellaneous [$ 100,000 ]
--[X] Olympics [100,000]
A little under $450b leftover.
Thors_Alumni
Well-known member
[X] Plan: Mystery Solving
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
[X] Plan: Mystery Solving
GooseElite
Well-known member
[X] Plan: Mystery Solving
Winter_Wind45
Well-known member
[X] Plan: Mystery Solving
Turn 100 - We're The Kids In America
Turn 100 - We’re The Kids In America
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The new sailing and rowing events draw quite a crowd, mostly out of curiosity since neither sport has ever been all that big in the Griffon Empire. You’d been on sailboats a few times in your life, but just for relaxation at various resorts that used them for short cruises in scenic areas.
You have a funny feeling that both sports will be far more popular soon, and that you probably could boil a kettle on the forehead of the steaming mad Bourbon ambassador. Because despite this only being the third year of existence for the Team Griffon rowing and sailing teams, they still somehow manage to take gold in all four events. What’s worse for the Bourbons, who’d been quite vocal about how good they were at this, they only manage to cling on for three bronzes, with only the Rasalhaguians doing worse on the water.
However it appears that whatever magic Team Griffon had somewhat deserts them after this, as apart from the softball tournament, where they take the gold after a rather spectacular tie-breaker game, they have to settle for silver in all of the remaining events. This Olympics has been rather amazing, not a single medal less than silver, and a medal in every single event, the vast majority gold.
There are quite a few celebrations across the Empire over this. Your face and your palm engage in some forbidden romance, however, when you read the reports from Okusawa. The local garrison evidently challenged the 1st Rapid Reaction Division to a drinking contest, which spiraled out of control to the point where the entirety of the local garrison, the entire 1st RRD, ⅔ of the police units in the city in question, about half of the population of said cities, and a good percentage of the planetary militia are nursing the mother of all hangovers, nobody can say just where they found that particularly eye-searing shade of fluorescent orange paint which now appears to be the color of choice for downtown, the new fashion item of choice is the kilt, generally worn without anything else, and nobody is at all sure just quite how they managed to get a Trenton-class dropship parked on the roof of City Hall without damaging the structure, which is not rated as a dropship landing pad.
General Bradley advises you to put it down to RRF shenanigans and just leave it at that, it’s better for your sanity, and for your liver because trying to figure them out leads to mass alcohol consumption.
You are quite proud of your shipbuilding industry, as most of the losses from the recent fighting have been made good due to the sheer output. You’d rather they not have to constantly play this sort of catch up, but the enemy has a vote too, and the Black Steel are annoyingly dangerous.
The first large shipyard slips have been built, even though you don’t have anything to put in them yet. The construction crews are going over their new facilities with a fine-toothed comb, since these are the largest space docks ever built. Hopefully in a few years you’ll be able to start using them, but it’s nice to have them now.
Additional shipyards have been built throughout the Empire, raising your production capacity even more. While you hope that once the true capital ships arrive you’ll be able to meet the Black Steel on a more even ground, for now you are having to substitute quantity, with all that that implies.
The new army units have stood up for service, with the main focus continuing to be on defensive forces apart from the three new Battlemech Divisions. With the growth in strategic material availability, especially ferro-fibrous, General Bradley reports that they’ll soon be able to build additional RCTs rather than Battlemech Divisions, giving more flexible combined arms units. As it is, they are still hoping to get to the point of being able to field three new infantry divisions a year, in hopes of meeting their goal of having 1 infantry division on each settled world to back up the garrison with a potent maneuver force.
The new Oasis II and Black Tower stations have come online, thickening your orbital defense grid. The Northeastern flank of the Empire is now well protected with the Black Tower stations, which also boost the density of your HPG early warning network and make it far more difficult for a surprise attack to take down portions of the HPG network.
You begin to get back reports from the scouting expeditions.
The expedition to GX-E28 promptly dubs the system the stone garden, or Steingarten as the expedition CO is of German stock. While there is a single, small habitable world in the system, as well as a large gas giant that is slightly larger than Jupiter, the rest of the system consists of massive asteroid belts. They aren’t particularly rich belts, being mostly chondrite and stony asteroids, with almost no metallic ones detected. There are deposits of Germanium, however, making the system a viable target for colonization.
GX-N19 is a binary system consisting of a red and brown dwarf. There’s only a single planet in the habitable zone, and it is a cold desert world with very little moisture, no standing water, and a relatively thin, yet breathable, atmosphere. On the other hand there are large deposits of easily accessible titanium and rare earth metals, making the system quite valuable from a pure resource extraction viewpoint. The Polish survey crews have dubbed the system Pustina.
GX-L17 by contrast is a rather gloriously tropical water world with epic coral reefs, small atolls, extremely colorful fish and birds, spectacularly beautiful weather, amazing beaches, and all of the fixings for a vacationers paradise. What it lacks are easily accessed mineral deposits, as even the asteroid belts are nearly barren of anything valuable. The system has been promptly dubbed Kurortas by the survey crews.
Of course, the one report you’ve been waiting for is delayed, as you’ve heard absolutely nothing back from the survey team to GX-C26 other than a horribly garbled report that they’d arrived. The HPG transmission was so badly affected by whatever interference originates in that system that your best experts were only able to extract that out of what was a much larger message.
You set that aside for now as you read over the economic reports. Interior reports that all of the projects initiated this year have achieved full success, with extensive details showing precisely what industries and businesses were focused on across the various systems involved. By all accounts it appears that things have gone quite well, and you are rather pleased by the attention to detail shown in the reporting.
The new infrastructure and industrial zone projects have your particular interest, as one of your papers back in school had been about the importance of building up Peripheral economies in this manner so as to prevent excessive concentration of industry within the Core. Despite a few minor hiccups, especially in the Iskra system, all projects have been completed on time and on budget, yielding the results you’d expected which are quite nicely in line with the results you predicted in that long ago paper.
You are not grinning smugly, like a smug thing. Anybody who says that is obviously influenced by Tiberius being a little shit and declaring it to be so.
The Civil Service and the Colonial Office have both been expanded with no issues, as has the Department of Mega Engineering, although it must be said that the interview process there for new mad scientists and insane engineers did involve quite a few more explosions than you’d expected.
Leila comes back from Kilburrough convinced that not only are the natives crazy, but that if she never has to sit through another twelve hour discussion about the infield fly rule it will still be too soon.
The various DoME terraforming projects have been very successful across the Empire, with the local system authorities from each system practically begging for you to continue with the next stage of projects immediately if not sooner due to the excellent results shown.
The R&D work on improving the quality of life for the elderly has been quite successful, with one wag putting it as ‘150 is the new 30!’. You wonder if you need to raise retirement ages, but decide against it for now since eventually you’d really like to retire. You most certainly do not want to be like your grandfather and work yourself into an early grave.
The day after Christmas the HPG interference abruptly clears up, moments later your HPG network starts getting bombarded with properly formatted messages advertising a plethora of products, ranging from furniture, to meatballs, to pencils of all things, to holographic televisions, personal electronics… you also get a somewhat sheepish apology from an Amaris Remnant group calling itself the Masters of Ikea about the interference.
At this rate your face and your palm are going to be making a permanent acquaintance.
| Meta Event | 12 | |
| Dynasty Luck | 32 | |
| Successes | ||
| Imperial Approval | 5 | |
| Approval Change | -1 | |
| Political Event | -1 | |
| Successes | ||
| Imperial Economy | 4 | |
| Economic Event | -2 | |
| Research Event | 1 | |
| Griffon | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 2 | |
| Nowa Warszawa | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 1 | |
| Calliope IV | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 1 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| TTP | Econ | 3 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 1 | |
| New Capricorn | Econ | 12 |
| Health | 1 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| Nowy Śląsk | Econ | 3 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| Edelsteine | Econ | 2 |
| Health | 3 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Nowy Wroclaw | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 1 | |
| Griff's Leap | Econ | 2 |
| Health | N/A | |
| Event | 0 | |
| New Phoenix | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 1 | |
| Event | 5 | |
| New Eden | Econ | 4 |
| Health | 4 | |
| Event | 2 | |
| New Castor | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 2 | |
| Event | 5 | |
| Okusawa | Econ | 12 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| New Pollux | Econ | 2 |
| Health | 12 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| New Port Royal | Econ | 5 |
| Health | 5 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Kainga | Econ | 5 |
| Health | 2 | |
| Event | 1 | |
| Chuma | Econ | 5 |
| Health | 1 | |
| Event | 2 | |
| Stahlfurt | Econ | 5 |
| Health | N/A | |
| Event | 2 | |
| Bari | Econ | 3 |
| Health | 4 | |
| Event | 5 | |
| Skala | Econ | 3 |
| Health | 3 | |
| Event | 1 | |
| Pieklo | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 1 | |
| Event | 5 | |
| Nya Köpenhamn | Econ | 5 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Bauernparadis | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Awha | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 5 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Kaiyo | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 12 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Bohren | Econ | 3 |
| Health | 12 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Grand View | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 1 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Iskra | Econ | 12 |
| Health | 10 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Raj | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 4 | |
| Event | 4 | |
| Feurstem | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Pinball | Econ | 3 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Catachan | Econ | 2 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Nox | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 1 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Olej | Econ | 0 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Glorreich | Econ | 3 |
| Health | 5 | |
| Event | 3 | |
| Pryyemnyy | Econ | 2 |
| Health | 5 | |
| Event | 0 | |
| Novalar | Econ | 1 |
| Health | 0 | |
| Event | 3 |
Plan: Mystery Solving
- Procurement [$ 244,513,898,794.07 ]
-- Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $3,089,728,650.00 ] (95)
--- 200 Bainbridge [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 89
Result - SUCCESS
--- 10 Wright [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 18
Result - SUCCESS
--- 34 Aetna [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 87
Result - SUCCESS
--- 17 Meteor [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 88
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Saipan [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 94
Result - SUCCESS
--- 26 Canopus [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 90
Result - SUCCESS
-- Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $9,320,027.10 ] (90)
--- 1 Windjammer [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS
-- Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $11,638,300,300.00 ] (90)
--- 40 Fubuki [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
--- 40 Lyr [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 53
Result - SUCCESS
--- 20 Dido [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 17
Result - SUCCESS
--- 10 Giuseppe Garibaldi [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 51
Result - SUCCESS
--- 20 Prinz Eugen [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 21
Result - SUCCESS
-- Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 343,036,066.97 ] (90)
--- 0 Fighter Wing [auto]
--- 30 Heavy Carrier Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 7
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Patrol Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 88
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Naval Patrol Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
--- 2 Infantry Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 12
Result - SUCCESS
--- 8 Garrison Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 62
Result - SUCCESS
--- 9 Militia Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
--- 3 Battlemech Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 90
Result - SUCCESS
-- Fortress Command [$ 229,433,513,750.00 ] (90)
--- Build Jump Point Defenses
--- Construct Silver Tower
--- Construct Oasis II
---- Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 10
Result - SUCCESS
---- Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 10
Result - SUCCESS
---- Raj [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 83
Result - SUCCESS
---- Bohren [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS
---- Bauernparadies [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 53
Result - SUCCESS
--- Construct Black Tower
---- Grand View [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
---- Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS
---- Bauernparadis [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 15
Result - SUCCESS
---- Pinball [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
---- Feurstem [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 78
Result - SUCCESS
- General [$ 332,393,000,000.00 ]
-- Focus Development on Core World Nowa Warzsawa [85]
Target - 85
Roll – 98, Jarow reroll - 35
Result - SUCCESS
-- Focus Development on Peripheral World Nowy Slask [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 41
Result - SUCCESS
-- Massive Core Investment New Phoenix [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 51
Result - SUCCESS
-- Massive Peripheral Investment Bari [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 98, ShadowArxxy reroll - 70
Result - SUCCESS
-- Economic Investment Grand View [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS
-- Survey GX-E28 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 70
Result - SUCCESS
-- Survey GX-N19 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS
-- Survey GX-L17 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 70
Result - SUCCESS
-- Survey GX-C26 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 8
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nowy Wroclaw [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 71
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Iskra [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 88
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Awha [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 85
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Pieklo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nowy Slask [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Civil Service [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Department of Mega Engineering [75]
Target - 75
Roll – 94, General reroll - 21
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 79
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Bohren [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 60
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Iskra [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Stahlfurt [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 70
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Skala [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 78
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Chuma [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Bari [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 25
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Pryymenyy [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 5
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Grand View [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 4
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish an embassy on Kilburrough* [auto]
-- Expand Colonial Office (per level) [75]
Target - 75
Roll – 99, General reroll - 42
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Orbital Factory (90)
--- Build New DHS Factory Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 31
Result - SUCCESS
--- Build New Endosteel Factory Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS
--- Build New Ferro Alumnium Factory Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 68
Result - SUCCESS
--- Build New Ferro Fibrous Factory Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 6
Result - SUCCESS
--- Build New Naval Armor Factory Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 4
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Germanium Processing Facility Nowy Wroclaw [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade Germanium Processing Facilities [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 46
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All DHS Factories [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All Endosteel Forges [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 10
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All Ferro Fibrous Forges [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 47
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
Target - 105
Roll – 100, General reroll - 96
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Small Warship Yard New Pollux [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Small Warship Yard Kainga [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 85
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Small Warship Yard Edelsteine [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 7
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Small Warship Yard Nya Kopenhamn [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 69
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Small Warship Yard New Phoenix [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 72
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard Calliope* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard Griffon* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 54
Result - SUCCESS
- DoME [$ 32,000,000,000.00 ]
-- Terraform Catachan - Stage 0* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 35
Result - SUCCESS
-- Terraform Calliope II - Stage III* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 28
Result - SUCCESS
-- Terraform Feurstem - Stage 0* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS
-- Terraform Iskra - Stage 0* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS
-- Terraform Pinball - Stage 0* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 29
Result - SUCCESS
-- Terraform Raj - Stage 0* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 55
Result - SUCCESS
- Research [$ 526,020,000,000.00 ]
-- Improved Elder Quality of Life Lvl 2* [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS
- Procurement [$ 244,513,898,794.07 ]
-- Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $3,089,728,650.00 ] (95)
--- 200 Bainbridge [95]
Target - 95
Roll – 89
Result - SUCCESS
--- 10 Wright [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 18
Result - SUCCESS
--- 34 Aetna [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 87
Result - SUCCESS
--- 17 Meteor [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 88
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Saipan [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 94
Result - SUCCESS
--- 26 Canopus [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 90
Result - SUCCESS
-- Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $9,320,027.10 ] (90)
--- 1 Windjammer [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS
-- Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $11,638,300,300.00 ] (90)
--- 40 Fubuki [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
--- 40 Lyr [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 53
Result - SUCCESS
--- 20 Dido [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 17
Result - SUCCESS
--- 10 Giuseppe Garibaldi [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 51
Result - SUCCESS
--- 20 Prinz Eugen [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 21
Result - SUCCESS
-- Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 343,036,066.97 ] (90)
--- 0 Fighter Wing [auto]
--- 30 Heavy Carrier Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 7
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Patrol Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 88
Result - SUCCESS
--- 30 Naval Patrol Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
--- 2 Infantry Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 12
Result - SUCCESS
--- 8 Garrison Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 62
Result - SUCCESS
--- 9 Militia Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
--- 3 Battlemech Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 90
Result - SUCCESS
-- Fortress Command [$ 229,433,513,750.00 ] (90)
--- Build Jump Point Defenses
--- Construct Silver Tower
--- Construct Oasis II
---- Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 10
Result - SUCCESS
---- Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 10
Result - SUCCESS
---- Raj [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 83
Result - SUCCESS
---- Bohren [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS
---- Bauernparadies [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 53
Result - SUCCESS
--- Construct Black Tower
---- Grand View [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
---- Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS
---- Bauernparadis [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 15
Result - SUCCESS
---- Pinball [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
---- Feurstem [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 78
Result - SUCCESS
- General [$ 332,393,000,000.00 ]
-- Focus Development on Core World Nowa Warzsawa [85]
Target - 85
Roll – 98, Jarow reroll - 35
Result - SUCCESS
-- Focus Development on Peripheral World Nowy Slask [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 41
Result - SUCCESS
-- Massive Core Investment New Phoenix [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 51
Result - SUCCESS
-- Massive Peripheral Investment Bari [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 98, ShadowArxxy reroll - 70
Result - SUCCESS
-- Economic Investment Grand View [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS
-- Survey GX-E28 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 70
Result - SUCCESS
-- Survey GX-N19 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS
-- Survey GX-L17 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 70
Result - SUCCESS
-- Survey GX-C26 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 8
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nowy Wroclaw [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 71
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Iskra [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 88
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Awha [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 85
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Pieklo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nowy Slask [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Civil Service [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Department of Mega Engineering [75]
Target - 75
Roll – 94, General reroll - 21
Result - SUCCESS
-- Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 79
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Bohren [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 60
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Iskra [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Stahlfurt [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 70
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Skala [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 78
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Chuma [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Bari [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 25
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Pryymenyy [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Novolar [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 5
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Escort Yard Grand View [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 4
Result - SUCCESS
-- Establish an embassy on Kilburrough* [auto]
-- Expand Colonial Office (per level) [75]
Target - 75
Roll – 99, General reroll - 42
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Orbital Factory (90)
--- Build New DHS Factory Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 31
Result - SUCCESS
--- Build New Endosteel Factory Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS
--- Build New Ferro Alumnium Factory Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 68
Result - SUCCESS
--- Build New Ferro Fibrous Factory Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 6
Result - SUCCESS
--- Build New Naval Armor Factory Glorreich [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 4
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Germanium Processing Facility Nowy Wroclaw [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade Germanium Processing Facilities [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 46
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All DHS Factories [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All Endosteel Forges [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 10
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade All Ferro Fibrous Forges [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 47
Result - SUCCESS
-- Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
Target - 105
Roll – 100, General reroll - 96
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Small Warship Yard New Pollux [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Small Warship Yard Kainga [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 85
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Small Warship Yard Edelsteine [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 7
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Small Warship Yard Nya Kopenhamn [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 69
Result - SUCCESS
-- Build Small Warship Yard New Phoenix [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 72
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard Calliope* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
-- Construct Large Warship Yard Griffon* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 54
Result - SUCCESS
- DoME [$ 32,000,000,000.00 ]
-- Terraform Catachan - Stage 0* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 35
Result - SUCCESS
-- Terraform Calliope II - Stage III* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 28
Result - SUCCESS
-- Terraform Feurstem - Stage 0* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS
-- Terraform Iskra - Stage 0* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS
-- Terraform Pinball - Stage 0* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 29
Result - SUCCESS
-- Terraform Raj - Stage 0* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 55
Result - SUCCESS
- Research [$ 526,020,000,000.00 ]
-- Improved Elder Quality of Life Lvl 2* [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS
-----
The new sailing and rowing events draw quite a crowd, mostly out of curiosity since neither sport has ever been all that big in the Griffon Empire. You’d been on sailboats a few times in your life, but just for relaxation at various resorts that used them for short cruises in scenic areas.
You have a funny feeling that both sports will be far more popular soon, and that you probably could boil a kettle on the forehead of the steaming mad Bourbon ambassador. Because despite this only being the third year of existence for the Team Griffon rowing and sailing teams, they still somehow manage to take gold in all four events. What’s worse for the Bourbons, who’d been quite vocal about how good they were at this, they only manage to cling on for three bronzes, with only the Rasalhaguians doing worse on the water.
However it appears that whatever magic Team Griffon had somewhat deserts them after this, as apart from the softball tournament, where they take the gold after a rather spectacular tie-breaker game, they have to settle for silver in all of the remaining events. This Olympics has been rather amazing, not a single medal less than silver, and a medal in every single event, the vast majority gold.
There are quite a few celebrations across the Empire over this. Your face and your palm engage in some forbidden romance, however, when you read the reports from Okusawa. The local garrison evidently challenged the 1st Rapid Reaction Division to a drinking contest, which spiraled out of control to the point where the entirety of the local garrison, the entire 1st RRD, ⅔ of the police units in the city in question, about half of the population of said cities, and a good percentage of the planetary militia are nursing the mother of all hangovers, nobody can say just where they found that particularly eye-searing shade of fluorescent orange paint which now appears to be the color of choice for downtown, the new fashion item of choice is the kilt, generally worn without anything else, and nobody is at all sure just quite how they managed to get a Trenton-class dropship parked on the roof of City Hall without damaging the structure, which is not rated as a dropship landing pad.
General Bradley advises you to put it down to RRF shenanigans and just leave it at that, it’s better for your sanity, and for your liver because trying to figure them out leads to mass alcohol consumption.
You are quite proud of your shipbuilding industry, as most of the losses from the recent fighting have been made good due to the sheer output. You’d rather they not have to constantly play this sort of catch up, but the enemy has a vote too, and the Black Steel are annoyingly dangerous.
The first large shipyard slips have been built, even though you don’t have anything to put in them yet. The construction crews are going over their new facilities with a fine-toothed comb, since these are the largest space docks ever built. Hopefully in a few years you’ll be able to start using them, but it’s nice to have them now.
Additional shipyards have been built throughout the Empire, raising your production capacity even more. While you hope that once the true capital ships arrive you’ll be able to meet the Black Steel on a more even ground, for now you are having to substitute quantity, with all that that implies.
The new army units have stood up for service, with the main focus continuing to be on defensive forces apart from the three new Battlemech Divisions. With the growth in strategic material availability, especially ferro-fibrous, General Bradley reports that they’ll soon be able to build additional RCTs rather than Battlemech Divisions, giving more flexible combined arms units. As it is, they are still hoping to get to the point of being able to field three new infantry divisions a year, in hopes of meeting their goal of having 1 infantry division on each settled world to back up the garrison with a potent maneuver force.
The new Oasis II and Black Tower stations have come online, thickening your orbital defense grid. The Northeastern flank of the Empire is now well protected with the Black Tower stations, which also boost the density of your HPG early warning network and make it far more difficult for a surprise attack to take down portions of the HPG network.
You begin to get back reports from the scouting expeditions.
The expedition to GX-E28 promptly dubs the system the stone garden, or Steingarten as the expedition CO is of German stock. While there is a single, small habitable world in the system, as well as a large gas giant that is slightly larger than Jupiter, the rest of the system consists of massive asteroid belts. They aren’t particularly rich belts, being mostly chondrite and stony asteroids, with almost no metallic ones detected. There are deposits of Germanium, however, making the system a viable target for colonization.
GX-N19 is a binary system consisting of a red and brown dwarf. There’s only a single planet in the habitable zone, and it is a cold desert world with very little moisture, no standing water, and a relatively thin, yet breathable, atmosphere. On the other hand there are large deposits of easily accessible titanium and rare earth metals, making the system quite valuable from a pure resource extraction viewpoint. The Polish survey crews have dubbed the system Pustina.
GX-L17 by contrast is a rather gloriously tropical water world with epic coral reefs, small atolls, extremely colorful fish and birds, spectacularly beautiful weather, amazing beaches, and all of the fixings for a vacationers paradise. What it lacks are easily accessed mineral deposits, as even the asteroid belts are nearly barren of anything valuable. The system has been promptly dubbed Kurortas by the survey crews.
Of course, the one report you’ve been waiting for is delayed, as you’ve heard absolutely nothing back from the survey team to GX-C26 other than a horribly garbled report that they’d arrived. The HPG transmission was so badly affected by whatever interference originates in that system that your best experts were only able to extract that out of what was a much larger message.
You set that aside for now as you read over the economic reports. Interior reports that all of the projects initiated this year have achieved full success, with extensive details showing precisely what industries and businesses were focused on across the various systems involved. By all accounts it appears that things have gone quite well, and you are rather pleased by the attention to detail shown in the reporting.
The new infrastructure and industrial zone projects have your particular interest, as one of your papers back in school had been about the importance of building up Peripheral economies in this manner so as to prevent excessive concentration of industry within the Core. Despite a few minor hiccups, especially in the Iskra system, all projects have been completed on time and on budget, yielding the results you’d expected which are quite nicely in line with the results you predicted in that long ago paper.
You are not grinning smugly, like a smug thing. Anybody who says that is obviously influenced by Tiberius being a little shit and declaring it to be so.
The Civil Service and the Colonial Office have both been expanded with no issues, as has the Department of Mega Engineering, although it must be said that the interview process there for new mad scientists and insane engineers did involve quite a few more explosions than you’d expected.
Leila comes back from Kilburrough convinced that not only are the natives crazy, but that if she never has to sit through another twelve hour discussion about the infield fly rule it will still be too soon.
The various DoME terraforming projects have been very successful across the Empire, with the local system authorities from each system practically begging for you to continue with the next stage of projects immediately if not sooner due to the excellent results shown.
The R&D work on improving the quality of life for the elderly has been quite successful, with one wag putting it as ‘150 is the new 30!’. You wonder if you need to raise retirement ages, but decide against it for now since eventually you’d really like to retire. You most certainly do not want to be like your grandfather and work yourself into an early grave.
The day after Christmas the HPG interference abruptly clears up, moments later your HPG network starts getting bombarded with properly formatted messages advertising a plethora of products, ranging from furniture, to meatballs, to pencils of all things, to holographic televisions, personal electronics… you also get a somewhat sheepish apology from an Amaris Remnant group calling itself the Masters of Ikea about the interference.
At this rate your face and your palm are going to be making a permanent acquaintance.
Yacovo
Occasionally spouting nonsense
Darn it Sunhawk. IKEA the space faction was supposed to be a meme, now it is a canon faction. Then again since Davion Space Pope in a Battlemech with a head in the shape of a Pope Hat was made canon, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Since it is an Amaris Remnant I can only imagine it is compromised of engineers who got exiled/fled after the Venus Death Mirror Superweapon incident turned Venus the Garden World back into IRL Venus.
Also I am very grateful we made all those 75’s for terraforming after using all those rerolls before them.
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Allow me to smugly point out that it's been a canon faction for over a year at this point, it's just that you hadn't seen it yet.
