Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

Jarow

Well-known member
[X] PGL-100

Around twice as expensive as the cheap option, for about twice the effectiveness. Only marginal cost increase over the next strongest option, but a more significant strength increase. In general, we're more slot limited than money limited, so better ships work better than cheap ships for us anyways.

[X] Plan: Invest the money while we have it
-[X] Procurement [$ 768,488,829,691.02 ]
--[X] Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $11,224,011,947.50 ] (95)
---[X] 200 Shimakaze [95]
---[X] 200 Spruance [95]
---[X] 50 Wright [95]
---[X] 106 Colt [95]

---[X] 232 Mikasa [95]
---[X] 30 Saipan [95]

--[X] Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $32,620,094.85 ] (90)
---[X] 7 Windjammer [90]

--[X] Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $445,569,504,466.67 ] (90)
---[X] 40 Dido*
---[X] 20 Guiseppe Garibaldi*
---[X] 25 De Grasse*
---[X] 4 Hosho*

---[X] 10 Prinz Eugen*
---[X] 10 Algerie*
---[X] 5 Sacramento*
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen*
---[X] 10 Algerie*

---[X] 10 Dreadnought*
---[X] 6 Saratoga*
---[X] 10 Kaiserin*
---[X] 6 Jean Bart*
---[X] 10 Kaiserin*
---[X] 6 Jean Bart*

---[X] 140 Battle [90]
---[X] 10 Skjold [90]
---[X] 10 Constellation [90]
---[X] 50 Tarantul [90]
---[X] 50 Asheville [90]

---[X] 40 Belfast [90]
---[X] 35 De Grasse [90]
---[X] 4 Hosho [90]

---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen II [90]
---[X] 10 Algerie [90]

---[X] 10 Kaiserin [90]
---[X] 6 Saratoga [90]

--[X] Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 59,172,149,432.00 ] (90)
---[X] 0 Fighter Wing [auto]
---[X] 25 Carrier Wing [90]
---[X] 100 CAP Wing [90]
---[X] 5 Garrison Wing [90]

---[X] 28 Garrison Division [90]
---[X] 28 Militia Division [90]

--[X] Fortress Command [$ 242,490,543,750.00 ] (90)
---[X] Build Jump Point Defenses
---[X] Construct Oasis II
----[X] Nueva Chiapas [90]
----[X] New Kansas [90]
----[X] Nowego Lublina [90]
----[X] Waypoint 4 [90]
----[X] Waypoint 5 [90]
----[X] Nueva Chiapas [90]
----[X] New Kansas [90]
----[X] Nowego Lublina [90]
----[X] Waypoint 4 [90]
----[X] Waypoint 5 [90]
---[X] Construct Black Tower
----[X] Nueva Chiapas [90]
----[X] New Kansas [90]
----[X] Nowego Lublina [90]
----[X] Waypoint 4 [90]
----[X] Waypoint 5 [90]

--[X] SLEP [$ 10,000,000,000 ] (100)
---[X] SLEP all Mech Units* [->7]
---[X] SLEP all Conventional Units* [->7]

-[X] General [$ 2,449,250,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Focus Development on Core World Glorreich [85]
--[X] Focus Development on Peripheral World Pinball [85]
--[X] Massive Core Investment Kaiyo [80]
--[X] Massive Peripheral Investment Iskra [80]
--[X] Economic Investment Pryymenyy [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on New Narnia [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nouvelle Bourgogne [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Hot Mess [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Baddorando [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nuova Puglia [90]
(Investments to make sure we keep up with military growth)

--[X] Establish Colony - Nueva Chiapas [80]
--[X] Establish System Government - Nueva Chiapas [80]
--[X] Establish Legal System - Nueva Chiapas [80]
--[X] Establish Colony - New Kansas [80]
--[X] Establish System Government - New Kansas [80]
--[X] Establish Legal System - New Kansas [80]
--[X] Establish Colony - Nowego Lublina [80]
--[X] Establish System Government - Nowego Lublina [80]
--[X] Establish Legal System - Nowego Lublina [80]
(New colonies for potential places to build new stuff)

--[X] Expand Civil Service [80]
(We need more actions)
--[X] Build ASF Factory Complex (95)
---[X] Glorreich [95]
---[X] Shin Tokyo [95]
---[X] Kurortas [95]
---[X] Raj [95]
---[X] Pustina [95]
(ASFs are needed to support everything)
--[X] Build Orbital Shipyard Nueva Chiapas [105]
--[X] Build Orbital Shipyard New Kansas [105]
--[X] Build Orbital Shipyard Nowego Lublina [105]
(Dropships serve as carriers and light supports, and their yards have a max size)
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Neuthuringen [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Mazowsze [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nox [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Platzregensburg [90]

--[X] Construct Escort Yard Iskra [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard New Algiers [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard New Clew Bay [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nubifragio [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Bellaterra [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Landprettig [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Porto Milano [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Shin Tokyo [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard The Hub [90]
--[X] Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
--[X] Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]

--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Calliope* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Griffon* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Pollux* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Capricorn [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Edelsteine [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Nya Kopenhamn [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Kainga [->1]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard New Phoenix [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Okusawa [90]

--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Pieklo [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Bari [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Glorreich [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard New Port Royal [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Nowy Wroclaw [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard New Castor [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Nowy Slask [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Chuma [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Awha [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Kaiyo [90]

-[X] DoME [$ 3,082,000,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Expand Shin Tōkyō Arcologies [->1]
--[X] Establish New Army Base - Nuova Lombardia* [85]
--[X] Establish New Fleet Base - Nuova Lombardia* [80]
--[X] Terraforming Pinball [->2]
--[X] Terraforming Catchan [->2]
--[X] Terraforming Nox [->2]
--[X] Terraforming Feurstem* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Steingarten* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Olej* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Neubayern* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Shin Tokyo* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Nubifragio* [85]

--[X] Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Nox* [85]

-[X] Research [$ 29,900,500,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Advanced Terraforming Equipment lvl 1* [->2]
--[X] Advanced ER 5cm Lasers* [->2]
--[X] Micro ER Lasers* [->1]
--[X] KF Drive Theory Tier 5* [->2]
--[X] Genetic Engineering Lvl 5* [->1]
--[X] Improved Automation Lvl 10 [100]
(Makes most things better for us)
--[X] Life Extension Therapy Lvl 6* [90]
--[X] Improved Education Lvl 10 [100]
(Makes research easier, and protects from automation challenges)
--[X] Commercial R&D [-]
--[X] Industrial R&D [-]

-[X] Miscellaneous [$ 143,370,100,000.00 ]
--[X] Culture [$ 100,000 ]
---[X] Olympics [100,000]
--[X] Production Contract [->7?][134,700,000,000]
--[X] Lyr Upgrades [9,000,000,000.00]

377b leftover
 
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Turn 122 - The Hop

LordSunhawk

Das BOOT (literally)
Owner
Administrator
Staff Member
Founder
Turn 122 - The Hop

Meta Event39
Dynasty Luck35
Successes
Imperial Approval3
Approval Change-1
Political Event0
Successes
Imperial Economy3
Economic Event0
Research Event0
GriffonEcon2
Health1
Event0
Nowa WarszawaEcon10
Health2
Event5
Calliope IVEcon2
Health1
Event0
TTPEcon2
Health1
Event0
New CapricornEcon2
Health1
Event0
Nowy ŚląskEcon2
Health1
Event0
EdelsteineEcon2
Health1
Event0
Nowy WroclawEcon2
Health1
Event0
Griff's LeapEcon2
Health1
Event0
New PhoenixEcon5
Health2
Event2
New EdenEcon5
Health2
Event2
New CastorEcon2
Health1
Event0
OkusawaEcon10
Health2
Event5
New PolluxEcon2
Health0
Event1
New Port RoyalEcon1
Health1
Event2
KaingaEcon2
Health0
Event1
ChumaEcon2
Health0
Event1
StahlfurtEcon1
Health1
Event2
BāṛiEcon5
Health2
Event2
SkałaEcon10
Health2
Event5
PiekłoEcon10
Health2
Event5
Nya KöpenhamnEcon2
Health1
Event0
BauernparadisEcon2
Health0
Event1
AwhaEcon5
Health2
Event2
KaiyoEcon5
Health2
Event2
BohrenEcon5
Health2
Event2
Grand ViewEcon2
Health0
Event1
IskraEcon2
Health0
Event1
RajEcon10
Health2
Event5
FeursternEcon5
Health2
Event2
PinballEcon5
Health2
Event2
CatachanEcon10
Health2
Event5
NoxEcon2
Health0
Event1
OlejEcon5
Health2
Event2
GlorreichEcon2
Health1
Event2
PryyemnyyEcon2
Health1
Event2
NovolarEcon2
Health0
Event1
SteingartenEcon2
Health0
Event1
PustinaEcon2
Health1
Event2
KurortasEcon2
Health1
Event2
ArvumEcon2
Health1
Event2
LandprettigEcon10
Health2
Event5
BellaterraEcon2
Health1
Event2
NubifragioEcon10
Health2
Event5
PlatzregensburgEcon1
Health1
Event2
Shin TōkyōEcon2
Health1
Event2
Porto MilanoEcon1
Health1
Event2
Nuova FortezzaEcon1
Health1
Event2
Nowe MazowszeEcon10
Health2
Event5
NeuthüringenEcon2
Health1
Event2
New AlgiersEcon1
Health1
Event2
New Clew BayEcon1
Health1
Event2
Nuova TripoliEcon1
Health1
Event2
New LibertaliaEcon1
Health1
Event2
Nuova PugliaEcon1
Health1
Event5
Nuovo AbruzzoEcon1
Health1
Event5
Nuova LombardiaEcon1
Health1
Event5
Stenen TuinEcon1
Health1
Event5
Nouvelle BourgogneEcon1
Health1
Event5
Nyū ShikokuEcon1
Health1
Event2
NeubayernEcon1
Health1
Event5
NeuhessenEcon1
Health1
Event5
Hot MessEcon2
Health1
Event2
New NarniaEcon2
Health1
Event2
The HubEcon2
Health1
Event2
BaddorandoEcon2
Health1
Event2
SturmlandEcon2
Health1
Event2
BlárEcon2
Health1
Event2

Plan: Invest the money while we have it
- Procurement [$ 768,488,829,691.02 ]
-- Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $11,224,011,947.50 ] (95)
--- 200 Shimakaze [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 94
Result - SUCCESS

--- 200 Spruance [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 52
Result - SUCCESS

--- 50 Wright [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 52
Result - SUCCESS

--- 106 Colt [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 18
Result - SUCCESS

--- 232 Mikasa [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 52
Result - SUCCESS

--- 30 Saipan [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 69
Result - SUCCESS

-- Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $32,620,094.85 ] (90)
--- 7 Windjammer [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS

-- Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $445,569,504,466.67 ] (90)
--- 140 Battle [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 1
Result – Critical SUCCESS

--- 10 Skjold [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 16
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Constellation [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 25
Result - SUCCESS

--- 50 Tarantul [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 85
Result - SUCCESS

--- 50 Asheville [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 48
Result - SUCCESS

--- 40 Belfast [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 40
Result - SUCCESS

--- 35 De Grasse [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 81
Result - SUCCESS

--- 4 Hosho [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 85
Result - SUCCESS

--- 20 Prinz Eugen II [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Algerie [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 39
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Kaiserin [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 36
Result - SUCCESS

--- 6 Saratoga [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 77
Result - SUCCESS

-- Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 59,172,149,432.00 ] (90)
--- 25 Carrier Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 40
Result - SUCCESS

--- 100 CAP Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 46
Result - SUCCESS

--- 5 Garrison Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 60
Result - SUCCESS

--- 28 Garrison Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 59
Result - SUCCESS

--- 28 Militia Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 90
Result - SUCCESS

-- Fortress Command [$ 242,490,543,750.00 ] (90)
--- Build Jump Point Defenses
---- Nueva Chiapas [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 81
Result - SUCCESS

---- New Kansas [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 21
Result - SUCCESS

---- Nowego Lublina [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 89
Result - SUCCESS

---- Waypoint 4 [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 41
Result - SUCCESS

---- Waypoint 5 [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 27
Result - SUCCESS

--- Construct Oasis II
---- Nueva Chiapas [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 60
Result - SUCCESS

---- New Kansas [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 68
Result - SUCCESS

---- Nowego Lublina [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 40
Result - SUCCESS

---- Waypoint 4 [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 3
Result - SUCCESS

---- Waypoint 5 [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 29
Result - SUCCESS

--- Construct Black Tower
---- Nueva Chiapas [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 84
Result - SUCCESS

---- New Kansas [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 15
Result - SUCCESS

---- Nowego Lublina [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 73
Result - SUCCESS

---- Waypoint 4 [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 40
Result - SUCCESS

---- Waypoint 5 [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 34
Result - SUCCESS

-- SLEP [$ 10,000,000,000 ] (100)
--- SLEP all Mech Units* [->7]
--- SLEP all Conventional Units* [->7]

- General [$ 2,449,250,000,000.00 ]
-- Focus Development on Core World Glorreich [85]
Target - 85
Roll – 99, Jarow reroll - 57
Result - SUCCESS

-- Focus Development on Peripheral World Pinball [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 8
Result - SUCCESS

-- Massive Core Investment Kaiyo [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 98, ShadowArxxy reroll - 73
Result - SUCCESS

-- Massive Peripheral Investment Iskra [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 100, Hellraiser Reroll - 30
Result - SUCCESS

-- Economic Investment Pryymenyy [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on New Narnia [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 28
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nouvelle Bourgogne [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 60
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Hot Mess [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Baddorando [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 3
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nuova Puglia [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 78
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish Colony - Nueva Chiapas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 33
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish System Government - Nueva Chiapas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish Legal System - Nueva Chiapas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 72
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish Colony - New Kansas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish System Government - New Kansas [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 19
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish Legal System - New Kansas [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 98, Jarow reroll - 9
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish Colony - Nowego Lublina [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 47
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish System Government - Nowego Lublina [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish Legal System - Nowego Lublina [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 91, General reroll - 30
Result - SUCCESS

-- Expand Civil Service [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS

-- Build ASF Factory Complex (95)
--- Glorreich [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 73
Result - SUCCESS

--- Shin Tokyo [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 5
Result - SUCCESS

--- Kurortas [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 91
Result - SUCCESS

--- Raj [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS

--- Pustina [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 6
Result - SUCCESS

-- Build Orbital Shipyard Nueva Chiapas [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS

-- Build Orbital Shipyard New Kansas [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 29
Result - SUCCESS

-- Build Orbital Shipyard Nowego Lublina [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 83
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Neuthuringen [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 63
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nowe Mazowsze [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 61
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nox [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 87
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Platzregensburg [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 54
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Iskra [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard New Algiers [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 82
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard New Clew Bay [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 85
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nubifragio [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 61
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Bellaterra [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 79
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Landprettig [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 46
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Porto Milano [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 78
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Shin Tokyo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 30
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard The Hub [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 46
Result - SUCCESS

-- Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 97
Result - SUCCESS

-- Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 94
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Phoenix* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 59
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 61
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard Glorreich* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 19
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Pollux* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 27
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Medium Warship Yard Calliope [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 3
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Medium Warship Yard Okusawa [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 61
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Medium Warship Yard Pieklo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 25
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Medium Warship Yard Bari [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 63
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Medium Warship Yard Griffon [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 15
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard New Port Royal [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 19
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Nowy Wroclaw [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 83
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard New Castor [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 47
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Nowy Slask [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 81
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Chuma [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 83
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Awha [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 5
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Kaiyo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 85
Result - SUCCESS

- DoME [$ 3,082,000,000,000.00 ]
-- Establish New Army Base - Nuova Lombardia* [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 84
Result - SUCCESS

-- Establish New Fleet Base - Nuova Lombardia* [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 66
Result -

-- Terraforming Shin Tokyo* [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 1
Result – Critical SUCCESS

-- Terraforming Nubifragio* [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 19
Result - SUCCESS

-- Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Nox* [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS

- Research [$ 29,900,500,000,000.00 ]
-- Improved Automation Lvl 10 [100]
Target - 100
Roll - 61
Result - SUCCESS

-- Life Extension Therapy Lvl 6* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 51
Result - SUCCESS

-- Improved Education Lvl 10 [100]
Target - 100
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS

-- Commercial R&D [-]
-- Industrial R&D [-]

- Miscellaneous [$ 134,370,100,000 ]
-- Culture [$ 100,000 ]
--- Olympics [100,000]
-- Production Contract [->7?][134,700,000,000]

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The Olympics have concluded in an overall triumph by Team Griffon, bringing home 30 gold medals and performing spectacularly. They required spectacular performances, because the other teams were certainly very competitive this year and outside of a few events there were no blow outs. The hard competition made for some very compelling viewing, and viewership numbers are through the roof.

It’s hard to concentrate on that, though, with the constantly looming Black Steel threat. They’ve still made no moves, apart from an occasional sighting of a few light units on a recon run. There have still been no engagements this year.

There was one exceptionally bright spot this year, and you wish you could replicate it at will but know that it is highly unlikely to happen. Shipfitters working on the Battle-class destroyer lines not only put in double shifts, but somehow managed to fast talk their suppliers into doubling up material orders at no additional cost, resulting in you managing to get an additional 140 vessels commissioned this year on top of the 110 that were planned to complete fully. You suspect that there might be some… creative accounting… going on, and the large numbers of surviving naval personnel from the last battle certainly streamlined manning the unexpected windfall of ships which is usually a major bottleneck.

Other than that, military production is on schedule, on budget, and going rather well. The procurement system appears to be humming along smoothly, thanks to diligent oversight efforts on the part of the senior leadership of the military making sure that the military-industrial complex of the Empire understands its role is to provide for the defense of the Empire, not to line their pockets with the Empire’s money. You suspect that the oligarchs in charge of the MIC are regularly reminding themselves of what happened to their ancestors under your great-grandmother… The execution fields are still there, still see use for capital cases, and Amaunet has ensured that any time she calls the oligarchs in for a meeting they have to pass those fields. It’s a salutary lesson in the importance of integrity.

Colonization efforts of the new planets goes quite well, with a few hiccups on the justice system side of things. Seems there’s a bit of a shortage in qualified judicial personnel, mostly due to demand in the core worlds, but the Justice Ministry was able to find sufficient numbers to fill the vacancies. They’ve made arrangements with the major law schools in the Empire to promote the training of judges, so hopefully this issue will correct itself without any further intervention.

New Kansas turns out to be so fertile that unmodified crops grow like no tomorrow, making the world a perfect agriworld since the survey results showing minimal to no usable industrial metals actually overstated the case, there are no accessible deposits of industrial metals period, making the planet fully reliant on agriculture for economic growth. On the plus side it puts a dedicated agriworld in close proximity to the future city-planet of Shin Tōkyō.

Speaking of Shin Tōkyō, the latest round of terraforming was exceptionally successful, bringing the planet to a fully habitable state requiring no further terraforming work, although expansion of the arcologies is still an ongoing project to create the city-planet of your dreams. This shaves six years off of the time estimate originally given by DoME for fully terraforming the planet, and you make a point of sending a well-done message to those involved, at the risk of swelled egos and potential shenanigans.

The civil service expansion efforts this year go very well indeed. You still worry that the government might become bloated with bureaucrats, but the expansion rate is actually well below the growth of the Empire, so far at least, which is helping to keep that in check.

The new ASF factories have come online, allowing for additional wings of ASFs to be produced. You get a memo from General Perkins advising you that they intend to dedicate the new production capacity to building up planetary defense units.

The Griffon and Calliope systems have as many large warship yards as they can readily support, so focus in those systems has switched to medium yards for now. You get a memo from the team in charge of shipyard management and development who advise you that in the future, as ship sizes break 2 million tons, a highly specialized yard will be required for such massive vessels.

Overall naval production capacity increases are on budget, on schedule, and you are quite certain it will be critical as you continue to rebuild your fleet to face the Black Steel.

The new military base complex on Nuova Lombardia has been completed with a great deal of fanfare. This base provides a critical node in your military command and control structure, supporting anti-piracy operations and any future expansion to the galactic northeast.

R&D work on improved automation and education have born wonderful fruit, reducing maintenance costs as the new equipment requires less maintenance itself. The economy experiences a quite nice boost as well, which your balance sheets will certainly appreciate in the coming years. Amid all the hoopla about that, the news of improved life extension therapy options is almost missed, but once it is noticed there is a noticeable boost in public confidence and support.
 

Rukatin

Malfunctioning NPC at Best.
Hmm, maybe we should have an award for our various DOME teams? Something they can compete for, to say 'No WE'RE the best terraformers around!'. Of course, this will include many shenanigans as they try to one-up one another, but that's what I like to see!
 

Yacovo

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You get a memo from the team in charge of shipyard management and development who advise you that in the future, as ship sizes break 2 million tons, a highly specialized yard will be required for such massive vessels.
As much as everyone wants a mega warship yard, I wonder what we can build with a 2 million plus civilian ship.

Imagine how many colonists/migrants we could send to frontier worlds with a colony ship that big. Getting all the people to Shin Tokyo to make it a city planet would be a lot easier with something like that. We would need a massive sounding name for it. I am thinking… the Titanic, or the Lusitania, or maybe the Sultana.
 
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Yacovo

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...Are you trying to doom that hypothetical ship?
Come on. We are the best not-insane ship builders in all of known space at this point. Absolutely nothing can go wrong. What’s the ship going to do, accidentally steer into a large ice comet, get torpedoed by Black Steel, or just plain misfortune of a misjump causing the ship to explode? No ball of ice, rogue toaster, or even Murphy himself could ever overcome this feat of human engineering.
 
Turn 123 - Heart's Done Time

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Turn 123 - Heart’s Done Time

You get some very happy news on the family front in early January, all three of your married daughters are pregnant again! Your twins are still in the dating game, having not found a girl to settle down with yet, and your youngest is still committed to her volleyball career for now and isn’t in the market, according to her at least. According to the early ultrasounds, your eldest daughter is having a little boy, your second eldest is having twin girls, and your third eldest is having a little girl.

The Black Steel has made their first serious raid in the last couple years, hitting Baddorando with a half dozen heavy cruisers escorted by several score destroyers and corvettes. The Home Fleet detachment is able to hold them off with support from the orbital defenses until the Grand Fleet arrives, at which point the Black Steel break contact and retreat. Losses were minimal on both sides, with several Home Fleet vessels needing extensive repairs from the Grand Fleet’s logistical train. Two Black Steel destroyers were critically damaged but managed to escape with the rest. No actual damage was sustained by any civilian or military infrastructure in the system, nor was the colony itself attacked.

Combat operations in the former Rouges Noir worlds have completely wrapped up, with Bourbon forces taking formal possession of the systems in question. You receive a very formal and stiff official letter of gratitude from the Bourbon crown, with a private missive which is far more effusive and genuine included directly from their ruler. You are aware of elements within the Bourbon nobility who are Very Offended that they are completely encircled by your Empire. Very offended indeed, with expressions of Outrage! And puffed out chests! And dramatic gestures of offended offendedness!

Reading the reports from your ambassador is rather entertaining. The latest incident had a puffed up popinjay of a noble marching up to your ambassador at an official function, loudly proclaiming how offensive he found her presence to be, his utter disdain for the Griffon Empire, his eternal enmity towards yourself, and how all Right Thinking Persons In The Galaxy would agree that the Griffon Empire has grossly overstepped all bounds of decency! And then once he’d finished his loud public proclamation of disdain and dislike of all things Griffon, said useless popinjay had then strutted back to his Calliope Motors groundcar to depart in Highest Dudgeon! How the ambassador managed to avoid laughing in his face, as she reveals that he made this entire speech while wearing a bejeweled watch produced by a Griffon watchmaker from Skala, his court shoes were from an artisanal concern also on Skala, and he was waving around a glass of New Libertalia bourbon the entire time.

The ambassador checked and said noble had also recently been a ‘high roller’ guest in the casinos of New Port Royal, where he’d evidently spent several million on gambling, booze, and ladies of negotiable virtue. While his wife was drinking nearly as much as he was, gambling even more, and accompanied by gentlemen of negotiable virtue. Indeed, the only members of the family who weren’t drinking, gambling, and hiring prostitutes were their two young children who spent the entire time in the casino nursery being surprisingly well-behaved for the children of Bourbon nobility.

The new Artemis PGL has been approved for mass production. It is hoped that a large number of these rather nasty little dropships will significantly enhance home defense, especially planetary defense as the little things are not really suitable for deep space operations.

Economic activity in the Empire is exceptionally good this year, both on an overall basis and on a sector basis. The Capital and Diamond Marches are having especially good years, with a massive economic growth forecast thanks to highly favorable business conditions. The Steel March is lagging behind, mainly due to how many new colonies are currently administratively assigned to the march resulting in comparatively slow growth rates.

Two systems celebrate gaining Core status this year. Iskra had been on the cusp of it for some time, but has now been officially designated as a Core system thanks to massive economic growth in the last several years. More of a surprise, the planet-city of Shin Tōkyō, almost before the ink was dry on the attestation from DoME that the planet no longer required terraforming support, was also designated a Core world. There is a bit of controversy with the latter, due to the system population being somewhat low for a Core world, but population growth has been exceptionally strong, the per-capita GDP is among the highest in the entire Empire, and the future prospects for population density and growth are stupendous thanks to the massive arcologies.

Primarily due to the surprise of it all, Shin Tōkyō’s celebrations of their new status as a Core world are surprisingly subdued, but sincere all the same. The announcement actually came while the Black Pumpernickels were present in the system as part of their latest tour of the Empire, and those zany entertainers decided that an impromptu performance of Babes In Arms was quite appropriate for the occasion. Based on the reviews you quite agree. You spend a few hours while babysitting your grandkids watching a recording of the show, before sending the little ones home all hyped up with plenty of sugar to their oh-so-appreciative parents.

It is, after all, tradition!

You stop yourself before you can belt out a rousing chorus of that song from Fiddler On The Roof. You quite enjoyed that show the last time you’d seen it played at the playhouse here in Griffsport.

You can’t wait for your grandkids to be old enough to take them to the theater, ahhh, the joys of being a ba. You love it.

Your reverie is broken. Sirens are screaming… at first you are rather worried, because that can’t possibly be good. But soon enough one of your aides comes in with the news.

It’s just the Department of Periphery Studies again, having decided that they are now the Party Police, and as such they’ve somehow managed to get their hands on an old air raid siren from a scrap yard and get the damn thing working. So you now have large numbers of Periphery Studies esteemed and distinguished tenured faculty peddling around on converted pedal bars with the damn air raid siren going off.

Your head, your desk, intimate friends. As the atonal shriek of the siren continues blaring through the city you wonder if it may be time to have the Department of Periphery Studies campus relocated to somewhere else. But it’s traditional now to have it here in Griffsport, so you guess you’ll have to continue to put up with it.

Tradition sucks sometimes.
 

AlphaOmega

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[X] Screw tradition, relocate the Periphery Studies somewhere where they won’t be a regular source of headaches for everyone. You’re sure the people of Griffsport will support this decision.
 

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