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[X] Approve the creation of ATACS
Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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hellspawn023
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[X] Approve the creation of ATACS
Yacovo
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[X] Approve the creation of ATACS
I for one approve of our ships being able to resurrect from the ship graveyard. Also I love the image of our training cadre going on a “training trip” into parts unknown and being mistaken for our main fleet by the locals.
I for one approve of our ships being able to resurrect from the ship graveyard. Also I love the image of our training cadre going on a “training trip” into parts unknown and being mistaken for our main fleet by the locals.
KyranKandosa
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| [X] | Approve the creation of ATACS |
GooseElite
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[X] Approve the creation of ATACS
Turn 110 - All The King's Men
Turn 110 - All The King’s Men
The Imperial economy is doing quite well, outside of the Bāṛi system, with generally glowing reports of economic progress across the Empire.
You did dodge one major bullet. It turns out that the Real Men Of Genius and their Genius Plan To Domesticate Dire Penguins had gotten further than anybody had thought, a suspicious investigator found a concealed chamber underneath their facility in which breeding pairs of dire penguins had already been somehow acquired. The systems separating them were already starting to fail, and the Special Branch team was, fortunately, able to eliminate the threat before it could become a catastrophe.
As a consequence, the Real Men of Genius have had their convictions upgraded by direct authority of the Crown in light of the new evidence discovered against them, and they will be spending most of the rest of their lives in the maximum security wing of the Griff’s Leap prison complex.
Black Steel incursions are continuing to show a steady rise, in both rate and intensity, indicating that it is quite likely that the Black Steel’s latest base is fully established and is beginning offensive operations against you. You grit your teeth, knowing that when the full blow lands it will be a heavy one, but you’ve done just about all that you can at this point.
The strategic logic of focusing first on the Rouges Noir is still more compelling, especially as they are dangerously close to being able to break out of confinement thanks to the damn pirates. As such, a strong proportion of your fleet is fully engaged in drawing the jaws of the trap shut on the fanatics. Once fully contained you are anticipating some extremely heavy fighting in the future.
You receive several reports concerning the ongoing reorganization and refit of the Imperial Army. Thanks to the latest advances, several adjustments have been made which, thankfully, will not delay things nor increase costs. The development of the extended range 8cm laser has resulted in new light and medium mech designs, all of which are jump capable and highly optimized with advanced targeting systems.
More importantly, according to General Bradley; despite the whining from the traditionalists, the primary ‘trooper’ light and medium mechs have been designed with absolutely no explosive ammunition on board, being pure energy platforms with sufficient heat sinking to handle their heat loads. The quartermaster corps are singing hosannas and hallelujahs in thanks for their massively reduced logistics burden, and the medical core is quite pleased at the expected reduction in critical injuries due to ammunition explosions.
The Pan-Griffon Games are continuing, with plenty of interesting action. Medals are spread out among mainly the Core worlds so far, but they have the population and wealth to support athletics and various sports to a far higher level than Periphery worlds. That isn’t to say that there aren’t some stand-out performers among the athletes from the Periphery, indeed the Gold Medal in Men’s Fencing is won by a young fencer from Pryyemnyy whose ‘day job’ so to speak is as an apprentice in a machine shop.
There has been a further uptick in trade with the Masters of Ikea, although they are quite careful to guard against ‘dumping’ any product on your markets. They’ve released a new catalog, though, and business is very brisk. In addition, several of their merchants have made arrangements with Import-Export firms in the Empire for carriage of goods to the NRR, NRI, and Bourbons. You are seeing a percentage in tariffs, and the Masters of Ikea are seeing some wonderful returns on their investments.
Apparently the Masters of Ikea are also siphoning off a percentage of the attacks from the Black Steel that would otherwise hit you, as you see some footage of a major Black Steel raid on the Masters of Ikea which ended… poorly for the Black Steel. You aren’t sure, but you think that it might have been possible at the height of the battle to walk across the battlefield, hopping from Killer Whale capital missile to Killer Whale capital missile, without benefit of any thrusters. The screen turned white with contacts, crashing the tactical analysis software due to the sheer volume of fire.
The Black Pumpernickels are still performing in the Griffon system at the moment, as their latest show keeps on being renewed and extended with no sign of it stopping anytime soon. They are having a ridiculous amount of fun, and the show is truly wonderful to watch.
This has inspired Periphery Studies to try and put on their own musical. Thankfully somebody had whispered a word in the Black Pumpernickels ear about Periphery Studies, and the cybernetic performers not only take the situation in excellent humor, they dedicate several hours a day to teaching the distinguished faculty of the Department of Periphery Studies genuine acting techniques.
They still put on a complete and utter insane farce of a show, that makes zero sense in many ways, but they manage to do it quite well, and in an odd sort of way it was actually rather entertaining. For once, Periphery Studies shenanigans actually worked!
Parliament is in session, and among the usual routine bits and bobs there is one piece of legislation that is of interest.
The Communications Act of 3040 has been put forward to further expand and enhance the Academic HPG network, significantly boosting bandwidth, reducing latency, and massively improving performance. It would still serve only academic institutions, but proponents argue that in the near future it may be possible to permit private HPG networks dedicated to commercial and residential service as well.
The Imperial economy is doing quite well, outside of the Bāṛi system, with generally glowing reports of economic progress across the Empire.
You did dodge one major bullet. It turns out that the Real Men Of Genius and their Genius Plan To Domesticate Dire Penguins had gotten further than anybody had thought, a suspicious investigator found a concealed chamber underneath their facility in which breeding pairs of dire penguins had already been somehow acquired. The systems separating them were already starting to fail, and the Special Branch team was, fortunately, able to eliminate the threat before it could become a catastrophe.
As a consequence, the Real Men of Genius have had their convictions upgraded by direct authority of the Crown in light of the new evidence discovered against them, and they will be spending most of the rest of their lives in the maximum security wing of the Griff’s Leap prison complex.
Black Steel incursions are continuing to show a steady rise, in both rate and intensity, indicating that it is quite likely that the Black Steel’s latest base is fully established and is beginning offensive operations against you. You grit your teeth, knowing that when the full blow lands it will be a heavy one, but you’ve done just about all that you can at this point.
The strategic logic of focusing first on the Rouges Noir is still more compelling, especially as they are dangerously close to being able to break out of confinement thanks to the damn pirates. As such, a strong proportion of your fleet is fully engaged in drawing the jaws of the trap shut on the fanatics. Once fully contained you are anticipating some extremely heavy fighting in the future.
You receive several reports concerning the ongoing reorganization and refit of the Imperial Army. Thanks to the latest advances, several adjustments have been made which, thankfully, will not delay things nor increase costs. The development of the extended range 8cm laser has resulted in new light and medium mech designs, all of which are jump capable and highly optimized with advanced targeting systems.
More importantly, according to General Bradley; despite the whining from the traditionalists, the primary ‘trooper’ light and medium mechs have been designed with absolutely no explosive ammunition on board, being pure energy platforms with sufficient heat sinking to handle their heat loads. The quartermaster corps are singing hosannas and hallelujahs in thanks for their massively reduced logistics burden, and the medical core is quite pleased at the expected reduction in critical injuries due to ammunition explosions.
The Pan-Griffon Games are continuing, with plenty of interesting action. Medals are spread out among mainly the Core worlds so far, but they have the population and wealth to support athletics and various sports to a far higher level than Periphery worlds. That isn’t to say that there aren’t some stand-out performers among the athletes from the Periphery, indeed the Gold Medal in Men’s Fencing is won by a young fencer from Pryyemnyy whose ‘day job’ so to speak is as an apprentice in a machine shop.
There has been a further uptick in trade with the Masters of Ikea, although they are quite careful to guard against ‘dumping’ any product on your markets. They’ve released a new catalog, though, and business is very brisk. In addition, several of their merchants have made arrangements with Import-Export firms in the Empire for carriage of goods to the NRR, NRI, and Bourbons. You are seeing a percentage in tariffs, and the Masters of Ikea are seeing some wonderful returns on their investments.
Apparently the Masters of Ikea are also siphoning off a percentage of the attacks from the Black Steel that would otherwise hit you, as you see some footage of a major Black Steel raid on the Masters of Ikea which ended… poorly for the Black Steel. You aren’t sure, but you think that it might have been possible at the height of the battle to walk across the battlefield, hopping from Killer Whale capital missile to Killer Whale capital missile, without benefit of any thrusters. The screen turned white with contacts, crashing the tactical analysis software due to the sheer volume of fire.
The Black Pumpernickels are still performing in the Griffon system at the moment, as their latest show keeps on being renewed and extended with no sign of it stopping anytime soon. They are having a ridiculous amount of fun, and the show is truly wonderful to watch.
This has inspired Periphery Studies to try and put on their own musical. Thankfully somebody had whispered a word in the Black Pumpernickels ear about Periphery Studies, and the cybernetic performers not only take the situation in excellent humor, they dedicate several hours a day to teaching the distinguished faculty of the Department of Periphery Studies genuine acting techniques.
They still put on a complete and utter insane farce of a show, that makes zero sense in many ways, but they manage to do it quite well, and in an odd sort of way it was actually rather entertaining. For once, Periphery Studies shenanigans actually worked!
Parliament is in session, and among the usual routine bits and bobs there is one piece of legislation that is of interest.
The Communications Act of 3040 has been put forward to further expand and enhance the Academic HPG network, significantly boosting bandwidth, reducing latency, and massively improving performance. It would still serve only academic institutions, but proponents argue that in the near future it may be possible to permit private HPG networks dedicated to commercial and residential service as well.
| [] | Action | Argument | Result |
| [] | Sign the Communications Act of 3040 | The basic FTL communications network enabled by the existing Academic HPG Net has been an enormous boon to the ability of researchers across multiple systems to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate. The proposed legislation extends the existing network to even smaller institutions, increasing the investment in hardware to further improve bandwidth, latency, and performance. Education and research have been the primary drivers of our success. It behooves us to capitalize on this success and continue to finance it. |
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| [] | Veto the Communications Act of 3040 | The existing networks are good enough, if we continue to expand them the risk will increase of hostile actors being able to gain access to our research data. Scientists are not security experts, and already megabytes of sensitive information is transmitted on a daily basis in the name of ‘collaboration’ and ‘cooperation’. How long before one of our enemies manages to tap into this data stream and steal our precious secrets? |
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Winter_Wind45
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[X] Sign the Communications Act of 3040
mmgaballah
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Looks like we might see the space internet become a thing
foolswriter
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[X] Sign the Communications Act of 3040
GooseElite
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[X] Sign the Communications Act of 3040
Thors_Alumni
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[X] Sign the Communications Act of 3040
darkcloudt2
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[X] Sign the Communications Act of 3040
Thors_Alumni
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It's already too late to stop it. Griffins roost has Warships that make the Mekenna cry in terror and also have Battlemechs that make the Atlas look like a garbage bin battlemech.
mmgaballah
Well-known member
[X] Sign the Communications Act of 3040
Yacovo
Occasionally spouting nonsense
Never underestimate Space AT&T. The Clanners did and look what happened to them. I would like as much redundancy to shenanigans as we can get before we get in contact with a post-FASA inner sphere.