Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
- Thread starter LordSunhawk
- Start date
[X] Plan: Build Everywhere
-[X] No
-[X] No
Turn 22 - Results
Turn 22 - Results
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Both Sarah and Willis remain in comas. It’s not unexpected, just unwelcome. The burn unit has informed you that they are healing well from their burns, and full reconstructive surgery has been completed on Sarah.
According to the doctors, in severe cases like this it is not unknown for the comatose state to last for well over a year. The intensive care wards are experienced with this sort of thing and have assured you that they will provide the absolute best of care.
Considering that Bastet had just licked the nurse who made that promise, you pretty much believe it.
Jeremy and the other kids offer to withdraw from this year's hovercraft racing season, but after consulting with the experts in the Queen’s Own you’d gently thanked them for the offer but encouraged them to keep it up. There were slight changes to the security plans, but nothing so overt as to be noticeable.
Jeremy and Alita bring tears to your eyes, though, when they reveal that they’ve both repainted their racers. Alita having gotten permission from her sponsors and Jeremy simply doing it. The crowd reaction to the pair of bright pink and white racers with large unicorn graphics, each dedicated to Sarah, causes you to have a small breakdown in the stands.
The fact that every single other hovercraft in the division is sporting an identical unicorn graphic makes it even worse.
This year Alita wins the championship by a quarter length. And somehow the fact that Jeremy and Alita kiss each other in victory lane just doesn’t bother you as much as it used to.
The twins managed their photo finish again this year in their division of the Junior League. But they were racing for third place behind their brother and Alita.
Thanh drives like a demon possessed. By the end of the season she is the acknowledged champion of her division in the Junior League, posting lap times that previously had only been seen in the Professional leagues, which have ridiculously more powerful equipment. The sheer aggression your eldest daughter shows on the track is… almost terrifying.
You sit her down mid way through the season for a long talk that ends in a long heartfelt mutual crying session.
She doesn’t calm down on the track though, if anything she becomes almost surgically precise. Video analysis shows that the average clearance distance between her racer and the turn markers on the course averages less than a millimeter.
She’s beating the times set by professional racers on the same courses not because she is faster than them, but because her sheer precision is allowing her to complete the course in a quarter less distance than they can. One of the Queen’s Own who is obsessed with motor racing history brings up the Mini Cooper from old Terra as an example of the same phenomena of precision and handling trumping power.
You distract yourself even more from your husband and daughter being in the hospital by being extra diligent about your paperwork. It gives you something to do that isn’t worrying yourself sick about things you can’t control.
Four more large Coast Guard cutters have been launched and formed up into a second flotilla. You make a point of being at each of the launch ceremonies as well as the commissioning ceremonies.
From the reports, the hardening efforts on the Ambush and Dropship factory have been successfully completed without disrupting production.
Procurement has gone well, the snakebit RRF grows by a fourth battalion with the procurement of the first Wolfhound hovertanks. Reports that you spent several hours personally testing the new vehicles are completely groundless. You spent several days, thank you very much. You manage to add one to the palace motorpool, purely for… completeness sake. That’s your story.
You wish Willis was there to roll his eyes at you. Rather spoils the mood.
The RRF has also gotten another platoon of Avenger’s. And then you get shocking news. This year's training exercises for the RRF? Have somehow gone off without a single hitch. You are not certain how to react to this. Has the RRF been replaced by pod people? You send a memo to General Potter asking him to double check to make sure nothing actually went wrong during the exercises, and immediately receive a memo from him that he’d probably started writing as you were writing yours containing attachments demonstrating that a true miracle has occurred.
1st Armored is now up to a full company of Ambush mechs, and has their first scout lance of Pathfinders. But then you get bad news.
In initial field testing of the new mech a number of serious problems are discovered. Not with the mechanics of the mech, the mechs work precisely as advertised. The problem is tactical and doctrinal. The pair of 3cm Lasers looked good on paper but are quickly found to be utterly useless in actual combat. Practically speaking, that leaves the Pathfinder with half the effective armament of the Ambush traded for a higher speed and marginal jump capability, with a ton of mass wasted by the 3cm lasers.
Even the jump jets are found to be only marginally useful. Due to only having three of them, they are incredibly situational as in most situations using them leaves the mech highly vulnerable to long range weapons fire as it has to slow down to practically a crawl.
Again, a capability that on paper looked wonderful, but in practice was… suboptimal at best.
They are still useful, but only as recon vehicles. Against enemy mechs they’d be hopelessly outclassed in direct combat. There are working groups now studying the problem who hope to have a refit proposal on your desk by next year.
The first Starhound recon shuttle has been completed and is undergoing final acceptance trials that are expected to last all of next year.
The Pollux port complex project runs into yet another snag when a flaw in the sanitation system results in a wave of dysentery sweeping through the workers. Engineers have isolated the fault, which appears to have been due to previously unknown small mole-like creatures that appear to like to chew on anything they run into. The sanitation system had unknowingly been built right in the middle of their preferred habitat and so they’d nibbled away.
Luckily a solution has already been found, apparently these little critters are easily lured away by the scent of peppermints and utterly repelled by the taste of cinnamon. The precise means that these facts were figured out fly right over your head in a tangle of jargon and big words that leave you utterly confused. But simply infusing the plastics used to sheath conduits with cinnamon seems to work wonders, and ‘reserves’ for the little critters with peppermint lures have evidently fully solved the problem.
You’ll finally have your port there next year.
Finally.
The first inland city on Castor has been incorporated, near a large deposit of steel which is now being mined. Infrastructure work on Castor is proceeding as planned.
Meanwhile the project to build a new space station at the L5 point has run into a rather… spectacular… snag.
Thankfully nobody was hurt, mostly because the launch company responsible for the project had decided to stress safety by using an unmanned expendable launch vehicle to launch a massive tank of liquid oxygen up to the station.
Cryogenics are hard. And there was a failure in the tank that resulted in an extremely large explosion about 8 miles up. The failure has already been narrowed down to a faulty weld in the tank. The robotic welder in question had been examined and a software fault had been isolated that had caused the less than a quarter of a millimeter thinning of the weld to go undetected. The tank had survived regular pressure testing, but that had further weakened the weld, and when put to the test the weld had failed.
Detailed examination of the code had found that the fault was due to an errant close-parenthesis in a section that should have been commented out but… you get lost in the details, but it looks like it comes down to one software upgrade not playing as well with another one as it should have and, well. Boom.
You write a note to the company in question politely requesting that they refrain from further booms on government contracts.
They promise, no more booms.
In contrast the same company is able to successfully bring the new orbital factory for endosteel frames online on time and slightly under budget. So there is that at least.
There are an increasing number of settlers moving to Castor, which is enabling the population to grow quickly there and also boosting the economy significantly. You send a note to Isoroku with a well-done for how effective the advertising campaign has proven to be.
The Griffin’s Roost Planetary Olympics are a hit with the people, although you can tell that the seething underlying anger is not ameliorated by the distraction. The competition itself is quite enjoyable, lasting over a week. Future events already promise to be much more… significant.
You are approached by the organizers with a proposal to make this a quadrennial event with the various cities on the planet competing for the honor of hosting it.
[] Agree - every four years (starting on turn 26) the Sports event will occur in addition to any other Cultural event. This will cost 50,000 in those years, will give +1 Approval, +1 Approval Change and a free reroll of any negative dynasty luck rolls that year.
[] Disagree
The press office has been reorganized on a more proactive basis and has begun working to actively shape public opinion in your favor. Not that public opinion is needing much shaping at the moment, to be honest.
You spend perhaps far more hours down at the range test firing the new laser rifles than is probably healthy.
The new weapons are extremely capable systems, reliable, rugged, accurate and lethal. The form factor is rather slick, the overall layout is similar to the current bullpup caseless assault rifles, albeit a little more squared off. While the edges are chamfered smoothly, the weapon can be broken down into a long rectangular barrel assembly which contains the cooling circuits surrounding the focusing system and laser itself, a slightly larger assembly where the power cell, trigger, handgrip and controls are placed in identical positions to the magazine, trigger, handgrip and controls on the assault rifle, and a well designed adjustable stock.
Thanks to the squared off design it has space for accessory rails all over the place, with a long rail running along the entire length of the top, two rails underneath the barrel, one designed for mounting a micro-grenade launcher, the other for mounting miscellaneous accessories. Two rails on each side of the barrel, and the weapon is designed in such a way that the same basic furniture exists in all variants. For example, the sniper variant simply has an extended coolant and focusing assembly that resembles to the untrained observer the presence of a long suppressor.
Both the materials science and ferro-fibrous armor research have been completed. In order to actually produce the armor you’d need a dedicated factory in orbit. In addition, with the completion of both projects your metallurgists have informed you that they believe they are close to unlocking the secrets of ferro-aluminium armor for ASFs, Dropships, and Small Craft.
The Gyrfalcon assembly line has been switched over to production of the much requested Eagle ASF.
There are some initial results from the interrogation of the DEST commandos. According to the reports, it appears that the DEST teams had orders to establish intelligence cells, but had failed to accomplish that mission when captured. One of the commandos had ranted about how disloyal the locals were to the Dragon by refusing to volunteer to serve against ‘filthy gaijin’.
Meta-Event Roll - 2
Dynasty Luck - 95, reroll 60, survival roll 30
Approval - 7 successes
Approval Change - 1 success
Political Roll - 5 successes
Research Roll - 1 failure
Economy Roll - 5 successes
Throne - 1 - Success
Commons - 3 - Success
Lords - 2 - Success
Dynasty Luck - 95, reroll 60, survival roll 30
Approval - 7 successes
Approval Change - 1 success
Political Roll - 5 successes
Research Roll - 1 failure
Economy Roll - 5 successes
Throne - 1 - Success
Commons - 3 - Success
Lords - 2 - Success
Procure Coast Guard 2nd Flotilla [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 23
Result - SUCCESS
Harden Factory 4
Target - 65
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS
Harden Factory 3
Target - 65
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
Purchase New Units
-1 Platoon Avenger AAA [60]
Target - 70
Roll - 12
Result - SUCCESS
-1 Flight Goshawk [60]
Target - 70
Roll - 15
Result - SUCCESS
-2 Lance Ambush Light Mech [60]
Target - 70
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
-1 Lance Pathfinder Light Mech [60]
Target - 70
Roll - 5
Result -SUCCESS
-9 Platoons Wolfhound for RRF [60]
Target - 70
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS
Establish Harbor on Pollux* [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 67
Result - Bare FAILURE (automatic next turn)
Establish Cities to exploit resource areas (Castor 1)* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS
Build Space Station 2 at L5 [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 84
Result - Bare FAILURE (automatic next turn)
Build Orbital Factory Endosteel
Target - 85
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
Advertise for colonists to Castor* [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 38
Result - SUCCESS
CULTURE - Our Sports Team is Vasty Superior...
Target - 75
Roll - 33
Result - SUCCESS
Reorganize Press Office [50]
Target - 50
Roll - 36
Result - SUCCESS
Infantry Weapons - Lvl 2 (Laser) [110]
Target - 110
Roll - 99
Result - SUCCESS
Materials Research lvl 3 [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
Ferro-Fibrous Armor [55]
Target - 55
Roll - 54
Result - SUCCESS
Interrogate POWs [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 37
Result - SUCCESS
RRF Training
Target - 85
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
Switch Gyrfalcon factory to Eagle
Target - 85
Roll - 23
Result - SUCCESS
Harden Factory 4
Target - 65
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS
Harden Factory 3
Target - 65
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS
Purchase New Units
-1 Platoon Avenger AAA [60]
Target - 70
Roll - 12
Result - SUCCESS
-1 Flight Goshawk [60]
Target - 70
Roll - 15
Result - SUCCESS
-2 Lance Ambush Light Mech [60]
Target - 70
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS
-1 Lance Pathfinder Light Mech [60]
Target - 70
Roll - 5
Result -SUCCESS
-9 Platoons Wolfhound for RRF [60]
Target - 70
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS
Establish Harbor on Pollux* [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 67
Result - Bare FAILURE (automatic next turn)
Establish Cities to exploit resource areas (Castor 1)* [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS
Build Space Station 2 at L5 [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 84
Result - Bare FAILURE (automatic next turn)
Build Orbital Factory Endosteel
Target - 85
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
Advertise for colonists to Castor* [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 38
Result - SUCCESS
CULTURE - Our Sports Team is Vasty Superior...
Target - 75
Roll - 33
Result - SUCCESS
Reorganize Press Office [50]
Target - 50
Roll - 36
Result - SUCCESS
Infantry Weapons - Lvl 2 (Laser) [110]
Target - 110
Roll - 99
Result - SUCCESS
Materials Research lvl 3 [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
Ferro-Fibrous Armor [55]
Target - 55
Roll - 54
Result - SUCCESS
Interrogate POWs [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 37
Result - SUCCESS
RRF Training
Target - 85
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS
Switch Gyrfalcon factory to Eagle
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Both Sarah and Willis remain in comas. It’s not unexpected, just unwelcome. The burn unit has informed you that they are healing well from their burns, and full reconstructive surgery has been completed on Sarah.
According to the doctors, in severe cases like this it is not unknown for the comatose state to last for well over a year. The intensive care wards are experienced with this sort of thing and have assured you that they will provide the absolute best of care.
Considering that Bastet had just licked the nurse who made that promise, you pretty much believe it.
Jeremy and the other kids offer to withdraw from this year's hovercraft racing season, but after consulting with the experts in the Queen’s Own you’d gently thanked them for the offer but encouraged them to keep it up. There were slight changes to the security plans, but nothing so overt as to be noticeable.
Jeremy and Alita bring tears to your eyes, though, when they reveal that they’ve both repainted their racers. Alita having gotten permission from her sponsors and Jeremy simply doing it. The crowd reaction to the pair of bright pink and white racers with large unicorn graphics, each dedicated to Sarah, causes you to have a small breakdown in the stands.
The fact that every single other hovercraft in the division is sporting an identical unicorn graphic makes it even worse.
This year Alita wins the championship by a quarter length. And somehow the fact that Jeremy and Alita kiss each other in victory lane just doesn’t bother you as much as it used to.
The twins managed their photo finish again this year in their division of the Junior League. But they were racing for third place behind their brother and Alita.
Thanh drives like a demon possessed. By the end of the season she is the acknowledged champion of her division in the Junior League, posting lap times that previously had only been seen in the Professional leagues, which have ridiculously more powerful equipment. The sheer aggression your eldest daughter shows on the track is… almost terrifying.
You sit her down mid way through the season for a long talk that ends in a long heartfelt mutual crying session.
She doesn’t calm down on the track though, if anything she becomes almost surgically precise. Video analysis shows that the average clearance distance between her racer and the turn markers on the course averages less than a millimeter.
She’s beating the times set by professional racers on the same courses not because she is faster than them, but because her sheer precision is allowing her to complete the course in a quarter less distance than they can. One of the Queen’s Own who is obsessed with motor racing history brings up the Mini Cooper from old Terra as an example of the same phenomena of precision and handling trumping power.
You distract yourself even more from your husband and daughter being in the hospital by being extra diligent about your paperwork. It gives you something to do that isn’t worrying yourself sick about things you can’t control.
Four more large Coast Guard cutters have been launched and formed up into a second flotilla. You make a point of being at each of the launch ceremonies as well as the commissioning ceremonies.
From the reports, the hardening efforts on the Ambush and Dropship factory have been successfully completed without disrupting production.
Procurement has gone well, the snakebit RRF grows by a fourth battalion with the procurement of the first Wolfhound hovertanks. Reports that you spent several hours personally testing the new vehicles are completely groundless. You spent several days, thank you very much. You manage to add one to the palace motorpool, purely for… completeness sake. That’s your story.
You wish Willis was there to roll his eyes at you. Rather spoils the mood.
The RRF has also gotten another platoon of Avenger’s. And then you get shocking news. This year's training exercises for the RRF? Have somehow gone off without a single hitch. You are not certain how to react to this. Has the RRF been replaced by pod people? You send a memo to General Potter asking him to double check to make sure nothing actually went wrong during the exercises, and immediately receive a memo from him that he’d probably started writing as you were writing yours containing attachments demonstrating that a true miracle has occurred.
1st Armored is now up to a full company of Ambush mechs, and has their first scout lance of Pathfinders. But then you get bad news.
In initial field testing of the new mech a number of serious problems are discovered. Not with the mechanics of the mech, the mechs work precisely as advertised. The problem is tactical and doctrinal. The pair of 3cm Lasers looked good on paper but are quickly found to be utterly useless in actual combat. Practically speaking, that leaves the Pathfinder with half the effective armament of the Ambush traded for a higher speed and marginal jump capability, with a ton of mass wasted by the 3cm lasers.
Even the jump jets are found to be only marginally useful. Due to only having three of them, they are incredibly situational as in most situations using them leaves the mech highly vulnerable to long range weapons fire as it has to slow down to practically a crawl.
Again, a capability that on paper looked wonderful, but in practice was… suboptimal at best.
They are still useful, but only as recon vehicles. Against enemy mechs they’d be hopelessly outclassed in direct combat. There are working groups now studying the problem who hope to have a refit proposal on your desk by next year.
The first Starhound recon shuttle has been completed and is undergoing final acceptance trials that are expected to last all of next year.
The Pollux port complex project runs into yet another snag when a flaw in the sanitation system results in a wave of dysentery sweeping through the workers. Engineers have isolated the fault, which appears to have been due to previously unknown small mole-like creatures that appear to like to chew on anything they run into. The sanitation system had unknowingly been built right in the middle of their preferred habitat and so they’d nibbled away.
Luckily a solution has already been found, apparently these little critters are easily lured away by the scent of peppermints and utterly repelled by the taste of cinnamon. The precise means that these facts were figured out fly right over your head in a tangle of jargon and big words that leave you utterly confused. But simply infusing the plastics used to sheath conduits with cinnamon seems to work wonders, and ‘reserves’ for the little critters with peppermint lures have evidently fully solved the problem.
You’ll finally have your port there next year.
Finally.
The first inland city on Castor has been incorporated, near a large deposit of steel which is now being mined. Infrastructure work on Castor is proceeding as planned.
Meanwhile the project to build a new space station at the L5 point has run into a rather… spectacular… snag.
Thankfully nobody was hurt, mostly because the launch company responsible for the project had decided to stress safety by using an unmanned expendable launch vehicle to launch a massive tank of liquid oxygen up to the station.
Cryogenics are hard. And there was a failure in the tank that resulted in an extremely large explosion about 8 miles up. The failure has already been narrowed down to a faulty weld in the tank. The robotic welder in question had been examined and a software fault had been isolated that had caused the less than a quarter of a millimeter thinning of the weld to go undetected. The tank had survived regular pressure testing, but that had further weakened the weld, and when put to the test the weld had failed.
Detailed examination of the code had found that the fault was due to an errant close-parenthesis in a section that should have been commented out but… you get lost in the details, but it looks like it comes down to one software upgrade not playing as well with another one as it should have and, well. Boom.
You write a note to the company in question politely requesting that they refrain from further booms on government contracts.
They promise, no more booms.
In contrast the same company is able to successfully bring the new orbital factory for endosteel frames online on time and slightly under budget. So there is that at least.
There are an increasing number of settlers moving to Castor, which is enabling the population to grow quickly there and also boosting the economy significantly. You send a note to Isoroku with a well-done for how effective the advertising campaign has proven to be.
The Griffin’s Roost Planetary Olympics are a hit with the people, although you can tell that the seething underlying anger is not ameliorated by the distraction. The competition itself is quite enjoyable, lasting over a week. Future events already promise to be much more… significant.
You are approached by the organizers with a proposal to make this a quadrennial event with the various cities on the planet competing for the honor of hosting it.
[] Agree - every four years (starting on turn 26) the Sports event will occur in addition to any other Cultural event. This will cost 50,000 in those years, will give +1 Approval, +1 Approval Change and a free reroll of any negative dynasty luck rolls that year.
[] Disagree
The press office has been reorganized on a more proactive basis and has begun working to actively shape public opinion in your favor. Not that public opinion is needing much shaping at the moment, to be honest.
You spend perhaps far more hours down at the range test firing the new laser rifles than is probably healthy.
The new weapons are extremely capable systems, reliable, rugged, accurate and lethal. The form factor is rather slick, the overall layout is similar to the current bullpup caseless assault rifles, albeit a little more squared off. While the edges are chamfered smoothly, the weapon can be broken down into a long rectangular barrel assembly which contains the cooling circuits surrounding the focusing system and laser itself, a slightly larger assembly where the power cell, trigger, handgrip and controls are placed in identical positions to the magazine, trigger, handgrip and controls on the assault rifle, and a well designed adjustable stock.
Thanks to the squared off design it has space for accessory rails all over the place, with a long rail running along the entire length of the top, two rails underneath the barrel, one designed for mounting a micro-grenade launcher, the other for mounting miscellaneous accessories. Two rails on each side of the barrel, and the weapon is designed in such a way that the same basic furniture exists in all variants. For example, the sniper variant simply has an extended coolant and focusing assembly that resembles to the untrained observer the presence of a long suppressor.
Both the materials science and ferro-fibrous armor research have been completed. In order to actually produce the armor you’d need a dedicated factory in orbit. In addition, with the completion of both projects your metallurgists have informed you that they believe they are close to unlocking the secrets of ferro-aluminium armor for ASFs, Dropships, and Small Craft.
The Gyrfalcon assembly line has been switched over to production of the much requested Eagle ASF.
There are some initial results from the interrogation of the DEST commandos. According to the reports, it appears that the DEST teams had orders to establish intelligence cells, but had failed to accomplish that mission when captured. One of the commandos had ranted about how disloyal the locals were to the Dragon by refusing to volunteer to serve against ‘filthy gaijin’.
Thors_Alumni
Well-known member
[X] Agree - every four years (starting on turn 26) the Sports event will occur in addition to any other Cultural event. This will cost 50,000 in those years, will give +1 Approval, +1 Approval Change and a free reroll of any negative dynasty luck rolls that year.
edofthesquid
Well-known member
[X] Agree - every four years (starting on turn 26) the Sports event will occur in addition to any other Cultural event. This will cost 50,000 in those years, will give +1 Approval, +1 Approval Change and a free reroll of any negative dynasty luck rolls that year.
Ridli Scott
Well-known member
"It's not like we care about what you think, weaboo."
[X] Agree - every four years (starting on turn 26) the Sports event will occur in addition to any other Cultural event. This will cost 50,000 in those years, will give +1 Approval, +1 Approval Change and a free reroll of any negative dynasty luck rolls that year.
Bear Ribs
Well-known member
Dang that's expensive, but it seems worth it. A reroll is a powerful thing.
[X] Agree - every four years (starting on turn 26) the Sports event will occur in addition to any other Cultural event. This will cost 50,000 in those years, will give +1 Approval, +1 Approval Change and a free reroll of any negative dynasty luck rolls that year.
[X] Agree - every four years (starting on turn 26) the Sports event will occur in addition to any other Cultural event. This will cost 50,000 in those years, will give +1 Approval, +1 Approval Change and a free reroll of any negative dynasty luck rolls that year.
Thors_Alumni
Well-known member
Apparently DEST didn't realize that they are the gaijin not the filthy periphery neobarbs. And Being loyal to their government and not a distant power is a good thing not a bad thing.
Jarow
Well-known member
[X] Agree - every four years (starting on turn 26) the Sports event will occur in addition to any other Cultural event. This will cost 50,000 in those years, will give +1 Approval, +1 Approval Change and a free reroll of any negative dynasty luck rolls that year.
Probably not really worth it in comparison to other really expensive stuff, and wish the reroll was every year, but still somewhat acceptable with current demonstrated economic strength
Probably not really worth it in comparison to other really expensive stuff, and wish the reroll was every year, but still somewhat acceptable with current demonstrated economic strength
kashim3
Texan, Mandalorian, Alabamian.
[X] Agree - every four years (starting on turn 26) the Sports event will occur in addition to any other Cultural event. This will cost 50,000 in those years, will give +1 Approval, +1 Approval Change and a free reroll of any negative dynasty luck rolls that year.
Turn 23 - Fluff and the Hunt is On
Turn 23 - Fluff and the Hunt is On
The year starts with several pieces of good news. And one piece of great news.
One of the software technicians working on the Human Genome Project came up with an optimization algorithm that massively sped up the final analysis of the data. By the end of the second week of January the project has completed.
Buoyed by their success, the team uses the rest of their budget to swiftly decode and certify one of the cloning projects that had been waiting on the completion of the full Human Genome Project.
If they pursue Organ Cloning, then by the time Sarah awakens she will not be blind, and almost all of the internal damage to both Willis and Sarah would be cured. If they pursue limb cloning, then all of Sarah’s missing limbs would be replaced by the time she awakens.
[] Organ Cloning - would allow the cloning of individual organs (eyes, nerves, lungs, heart, etc) +5 Health
[] Limb Cloning - would allow the cloning of complete limbs, +5 Health
The second piece of good news is that the stock market is surging as biomedical stocks explode. With the promised bounty from the datacores across all forms of medicine, investment is extremely high in the entire medical sector.
Then the piece of great news.
You come into your office one morning to find Jane already sprawled in your seat feeding Sekhmet bon-bons. From your secret Sekhmet proof bon-bon stash. That was supposed to be locked.
Before you can open your mouth to chastise Jane, however, she takes all the wind out of your sails.
“We know who it was. Haven’t got him in custody yet, but we know who the bastard is.” she says without preamble. “Brilliantly sneaky little sonuvabitch, but too clever for his own good.”
She smirks, popping a bon-bon in her mouth. The last bon-bon, you note.
“No disrespect intended to the dead, but your father was an idiot.” she continues. “A complete wimp, total blithering idiot, and with the backbone of an earthworm. One of the black ops units from your grandfather’s day had stumbled upon the Gem Conspiracy and were poised to take it out, and your idiot of a sire listened to his oh so good friend Bradford Santos and declared the unit completely rogue, dumped their cover IDs in the public domain, and declared them criminals. When their CO protested his men being betrayed like that, your father fired him, again acting at the advice of Santos. His wife and his two daughters disappeared a few days later, and were amongst the deceased victims of the Gem Conspiracy.”
She pauses, waiting to see if you’ll defend your father, but you keep silent.
“So he was already on the warpath against your father, he managed to spring his men from prison right out from underneath Santos and his people, and was plotting a coup of his own. Then the first Drac raid came in. He put his name in for your military advisor, I think because he honestly thought he could unveil the conspiracy and take down the people behind the deaths of his family. When you picked Wolf instead, however, who’d always been a straight-shooter who despised the black ops community, he felt like you were little different from your father.”
She sighs, shrugging. “His resentment overcame any vestiges of sanity, in my opinion. If he’d bothered to actually look at what you were doing he’d have known you weren’t your father, especially after you smashed the Gems on your own, but he has an overdeveloped sense of vengeance I guess. By that point he didn’t care, you were his enemy, and you needed to die. I don’t think he ever really managed to differentiate you from your father, to be honest.”
She pulls a hip flask from her belt and tosses it to you, you catch it numbly.
“This is mostly speculation, based on second-hand data. We’ve not actually managed to catch or interview the bastard, but it's a pretty solid supposition considering what we do know. Don Stanley may be a genius at black ops.” she smirks. “But I’m better. Already commed my cousin…”
You hear a frustrated grinding of teeth behind you as Janet stalks into the office, a royal warrant in one hand. “I am NOT YOUR COUSIN.” she grates out. Taking a deep breath. “Your Majesty, her information checks out.” she holds out the warrant. “We just need your signature on this to start the hunt.”
You take the sheet, and go around the desk. Jane smoothly exits your seat before you can comment, and you sit down and sign it. “Jane, I want you to lead up the hunt. I want him alive.” you smile coldly. “And as uninjured as you can manage. But I want him. Immediately.”
“On it, Boss, see ya Cousin!” she breezes past Janet before your best friend and Justice Minister can manage an objection. You look up at her.
“Inform the Eldest as well, he told me he wants in on this hunt as well. Should we make a public announcement?”
“Depends.” Janet replies, sighing and sitting down across from you. “On the one hand, it would alert the people and give us countless eyes to find him and his accomplices, but it would also alert him that we’re coming for him.”
[] Public announcement
[] Try to be sneaky
The year starts with several pieces of good news. And one piece of great news.
One of the software technicians working on the Human Genome Project came up with an optimization algorithm that massively sped up the final analysis of the data. By the end of the second week of January the project has completed.
Buoyed by their success, the team uses the rest of their budget to swiftly decode and certify one of the cloning projects that had been waiting on the completion of the full Human Genome Project.
If they pursue Organ Cloning, then by the time Sarah awakens she will not be blind, and almost all of the internal damage to both Willis and Sarah would be cured. If they pursue limb cloning, then all of Sarah’s missing limbs would be replaced by the time she awakens.
[] Organ Cloning - would allow the cloning of individual organs (eyes, nerves, lungs, heart, etc) +5 Health
[] Limb Cloning - would allow the cloning of complete limbs, +5 Health
The second piece of good news is that the stock market is surging as biomedical stocks explode. With the promised bounty from the datacores across all forms of medicine, investment is extremely high in the entire medical sector.
Then the piece of great news.
You come into your office one morning to find Jane already sprawled in your seat feeding Sekhmet bon-bons. From your secret Sekhmet proof bon-bon stash. That was supposed to be locked.
Before you can open your mouth to chastise Jane, however, she takes all the wind out of your sails.
“We know who it was. Haven’t got him in custody yet, but we know who the bastard is.” she says without preamble. “Brilliantly sneaky little sonuvabitch, but too clever for his own good.”
She smirks, popping a bon-bon in her mouth. The last bon-bon, you note.
“No disrespect intended to the dead, but your father was an idiot.” she continues. “A complete wimp, total blithering idiot, and with the backbone of an earthworm. One of the black ops units from your grandfather’s day had stumbled upon the Gem Conspiracy and were poised to take it out, and your idiot of a sire listened to his oh so good friend Bradford Santos and declared the unit completely rogue, dumped their cover IDs in the public domain, and declared them criminals. When their CO protested his men being betrayed like that, your father fired him, again acting at the advice of Santos. His wife and his two daughters disappeared a few days later, and were amongst the deceased victims of the Gem Conspiracy.”
She pauses, waiting to see if you’ll defend your father, but you keep silent.
“So he was already on the warpath against your father, he managed to spring his men from prison right out from underneath Santos and his people, and was plotting a coup of his own. Then the first Drac raid came in. He put his name in for your military advisor, I think because he honestly thought he could unveil the conspiracy and take down the people behind the deaths of his family. When you picked Wolf instead, however, who’d always been a straight-shooter who despised the black ops community, he felt like you were little different from your father.”
She sighs, shrugging. “His resentment overcame any vestiges of sanity, in my opinion. If he’d bothered to actually look at what you were doing he’d have known you weren’t your father, especially after you smashed the Gems on your own, but he has an overdeveloped sense of vengeance I guess. By that point he didn’t care, you were his enemy, and you needed to die. I don’t think he ever really managed to differentiate you from your father, to be honest.”
She pulls a hip flask from her belt and tosses it to you, you catch it numbly.
“This is mostly speculation, based on second-hand data. We’ve not actually managed to catch or interview the bastard, but it's a pretty solid supposition considering what we do know. Don Stanley may be a genius at black ops.” she smirks. “But I’m better. Already commed my cousin…”
You hear a frustrated grinding of teeth behind you as Janet stalks into the office, a royal warrant in one hand. “I am NOT YOUR COUSIN.” she grates out. Taking a deep breath. “Your Majesty, her information checks out.” she holds out the warrant. “We just need your signature on this to start the hunt.”
You take the sheet, and go around the desk. Jane smoothly exits your seat before you can comment, and you sit down and sign it. “Jane, I want you to lead up the hunt. I want him alive.” you smile coldly. “And as uninjured as you can manage. But I want him. Immediately.”
“On it, Boss, see ya Cousin!” she breezes past Janet before your best friend and Justice Minister can manage an objection. You look up at her.
“Inform the Eldest as well, he told me he wants in on this hunt as well. Should we make a public announcement?”
“Depends.” Janet replies, sighing and sitting down across from you. “On the one hand, it would alert the people and give us countless eyes to find him and his accomplices, but it would also alert him that we’re coming for him.”
[] Public announcement
[] Try to be sneaky
Make a note to declassify this part of the report as soon as we can, using it as the centerpiece of a PR campaign that highlights the loyalty of our citizens of Japanese ancestry, in contrast to the racist scum who are slandering them as an excuse for treason and domestic terrorism.
[X] Organ Cloning
[X] Try to be sneaky
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Thors_Alumni
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[X] Organ Cloning - would allow the cloning of individual organs (eyes, nerves, lungs, heart, etc) +5 Health
[X] Try to be sneaky
I could do without the screeching and strangling of all of those cats. my poor ears.
[X] Try to be sneaky
I could do without the screeching and strangling of all of those cats. my poor ears.
edofthesquid
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[X] Organ Cloning - would allow the cloning of individual organs (eyes, nerves, lungs, heart, etc) +5 Health
With this timeframe I'm pretty sure they would need some extensive physical therapy for limbs anyway, so not seeing much advantage there. Also I think the knock on "not dying" effects are better for organs than limbs.
I'm leaning sneaky right now, since clearly public didn't work the first time, but that seems like a good arena for the Evil A-Team we've got going on here. Eh, he thinks we're an evil idiot, guess he can keep his illusion for now
[X] Try to be sneaky
With this timeframe I'm pretty sure they would need some extensive physical therapy for limbs anyway, so not seeing much advantage there. Also I think the knock on "not dying" effects are better for organs than limbs.
I'm leaning sneaky right now, since clearly public didn't work the first time, but that seems like a good arena for the Evil A-Team we've got going on here. Eh, he thinks we're an evil idiot, guess he can keep his illusion for now
[X] Try to be sneaky
Jarow
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[X] Organ Cloning - would allow the cloning of individual organs (eyes, nerves, lungs, heart, etc) +5 Health
These are the things needed to live. Limbs are nice, but a lot easier for (temporary) replacements for them. Also, internal damage is a lot more important to fix.
[X] Try to be sneaky
We gave specific orders to Jane for this to get him alive; angry people might get in the way; especially given he's special operations
These are the things needed to live. Limbs are nice, but a lot easier for (temporary) replacements for them. Also, internal damage is a lot more important to fix.
[X] Try to be sneaky
We gave specific orders to Jane for this to get him alive; angry people might get in the way; especially given he's special operations
