Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

Yacovo

Occasionally spouting nonsense
You blink a few times at that, as Day rather dryly informs you that she is 90% sure that this will involve ‘stealth through audacity’ techniques.
I mean if you see someone singing the Mission Impossible theme running around near your base, they can’t possibly be a spy right?

[X] Approve HUMINT training plan
 
Turn 124 - St John

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Turn 124 - St John

The Black Steel cultist behind the assassinations was finally run down in an industrial area on Arvum. Attempts were made to take him alive, but in the end it came down to a gun fight between the cultist and the IGMP, and the cultist saved his last bullet for himself. The overall investigation continues, but so far all signs point to this being a lone wolf attack by a fanatic. There are absolutely no signs of a wider organizational structure supporting him, no signs of any active accomplices. The cultist took advantage of your own educational system to teach himself high-energy chemistry, allowing him to synthesize the chemicals needed for the bomb he built out of common chemicals.

There has been an uptick in Black Steel skirmishing activity along the border, primarily in the Northwest at this time. Small scouting groups of between twenty and thirty ships are regularly chased off by Home Fleet flotillas. So far they have not been pressing home attacks, settling with trading extreme range harassing fire and withdrawing as soon as they start to take damage.

Currently, Strike Fleet is holding position in the Arvum system, the Expeditionary Fleet is in Baddorando, and Grand Fleet is in Pryyemnyy. Thanks to the widespread nature of the Black Steel’s recon efforts it is still nearly impossible to predict where the main blow will land.

Pirate activity is rising to the galactic Northeast, but so far the NRI patrols are doing a superb job of protecting that frontier, allowing you to focus on the Black Steel. A new NRI Light Cruiser design is in service, the largest vessel in their fleet to date. The Quinquereme-class continues the NRI’s obsession with gauss weaponry, sporting massive batteries of that weapon type. So far you’ve only seen a half dozen of them, although Intelligence reports, along with the NRI’s own statements, confirm that there are twenty currently in service with a production rate of ten per year.

The NRI has requested assistance from the Empire, however. They would like access to your harjel deposits to provide the same self-sealing capacity to their warships as you have in your own. So far you are the only ones with deposits of the precursor organisms for harjel, making you the sole possible source for them.

[]ActionEffect
[]Honor the alliance, provide Harjel
  • Improves relations with the NRI
  • +1 Trade Route
[]Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine
  • Harms relations with the NRI

You do get some time to watch the Pan Griffon Games, mostly to watch your daughter compete. The competition has been going quite well. You do have word that the NRI, NRR and the Bourbons have all instituted their own versions of these games, which helps explain how much more competitive the Olympics are becoming.

And now it is your favorite time of year, budget time.

Amaunet leads off as always, lounging behind the podium. “Padrone, excellent news, in many ways, the military situation is looking relatively positive, we continue to grow in strength, and hopefully this will continue into the future.” She nods to General Bradley, who takes the podium.

“Your Majesty, we are going to be requesting a number of new units this year, purely to ensure that our Infantry Divisions continue to have sufficient strength to fully back up our garrisons and militias, while preserving an expeditionary capacity. The new battle armor suits are being rolled out as we speak.” She smiles slightly. “Of particular interest, the net difference in costs between the upgraded medium suits and the assault suits comes out to about even in our Infantry Divisions, which is a bit amusing.”
  • Imperial Griffon Army
    • Procurement
      • Regular Forces
        • 10 Infantry Divisions
      • Garrison Forces
        • 25 Garrison Divisions
        • 25 Militia Divisions

General Perkins then takes over. “While we continue to need to increase our production numbers, Your Majesty, we are shifting focus slightly to our more offensive formations, namely Carrier Wings, to fill out the bays on our new fleet carriers. My staff is currently working with our operational commanders to work out whether or not we should continue to use integrated wings on the Saratoga-class ships, or perhaps deploy multiple more specialized wings. There are arguments both ways, ranging from efficiency to redundancy.”

He brings up the budget request displays then.
  • Imperial Griffon Aerospace Force
    • Production
      • New ASF Factory Complexes
        • Glorreich
        • Shin Tōkyō
        • Kurortas
        • Raj
        • Pustina
    • Procurement
      • 100 Carrier Wings
      • 25 CAP Wings
      • 15 Garrison Wings

Admiral Fisher is back and as grumpy and surly as ever, still looking uncomfortably like your grandfather in his final years with the deep lines on his face and the fierce expression in his eyes. “Yes, yes, we’re rebuilding our forces well, but this is no time to rest on our laurels.” He glares around the room. “The Black Steel have matched us so far, and for every step forward they hammer us. We can’t afford to fold under their blows, so we need to continue to be harder than them. We’ll hopefully be expanding this year to those three new systems, which will let us boost our dropship production if you approve funding for that.”
  • Imperial Griffon Navy
    • Production
      • Orbital Shipyards
        • Construct New Orbital Shipyards
          • Nowy Szczecin
          • Salamander
          • New Portland
        • Expand All Orbital Shipyards
      • Refit & Repair Yards
        • Construct New Refit & Repair Yard
          • Nueva Chiapas
            • Yes, I know, not as sexy as a production facility, but we need the repair space
        • Upgrade All Refit & Repair Yards
      • Escort Yards
        • Neubayern
        • Neuhessen
        • Nouvelle Bourgogne
        • Nuova Lombardia
        • Nuova Puglia
        • Nuovo Abruzzo
        • Nyū Shikoku
        • Stenen Tuin
        • New Libertalia
        • Nuova Tripoli
        • Catachan
        • Feurstern
        • Neuthüringen
        • Nowe Mazowsze
        • Nox
        • Platzregensburg
        • New Algiers
        • New Clew Bay
        • Nubifragio
        • Bellaterra
        • Bohren
        • Landprettig
        • Porto Milano
        • Hot Mess
        • New Narnia
        • The Hub
        • Baddorando
        • Sturmland
      • Small Warship Yards
        • New Castor
        • New Port Royal
        • Nowa Warszawa
        • Nowy Slask
        • Chuma
        • Awha
        • Kaiyo
        • Shin Tōkyō
        • Iskra
      • Medium Warship Yards
        • Griffon
        • Calliope
        • Okusawa
        • Pieklo
        • Bari
      • Large Warship Yards
        • Nya Kopenhamn
        • Kainga
        • Edelsteine
        • New Capricorn
    • Procurement
      • Standard Dropships
        • 400 Artemis Planetary Defense Craft flotillas
        • 30 Wright-class Dockable ASF Platforms
        • 100 Colt-class Defense Blisters
        • 62 Lublin-class Transports
      • Large Dropships
        • 30 Saipan-class Parasite Carriers
        • 250 Mikasa-class Parasite Battleships
      • Jumpships
        • 6 Windjammer-class Jumpships
      • Escorts
        • 160 Battle-class Destroyers
        • 10 Skjold-class Missile Corvettes
        • 10 Constellation-class Corvettes
        • 50 Tarantul-class Missile Raiders
        • 50 Asheville-class Raiders
      • Small Warships
        • 50 Belfast-class Light Cruisers
        • 40 De Grasse-class Light Cruisers
        • 8 Hosho-class Light Carriers
      • Medium Warships
        • 20 Prinz Eugen II-class Heavy Cruisers
        • 10 Algerie-class Heavy Cruisers
      • Large Warships
        • 10 Kaiserin-class Battleships
        • 10 Jean Bart-class Battlecruisers
    • Fortress Command
      • Jump Point Defenses
        • Waypoint 6
        • Nowy Szczecin
        • Salamander
        • New Portland
      • Oasis II
        • Waypoint 6
        • Nowy Szczecin
        • Salamander
        • New Portland
      • Black Tower
        • Waypoint 6
        • Nowy Szczecin
        • Salamander
        • New Portland
        • Nyū Shikoku

He stalks back to his seat, glaring as he goes. You are rather tempted to order him to take another vacation

Elizabeth looks a bit unsettled, but recovers quickly as she takes over the briefing. “Your Majesty, we have three worlds that would be ideal for colonization, so that is what I’d like to start with here.”
  • Colonization, System Government & Justice System
    • Nowy Szczecin
    • Salamander
    • New Portland

“We have five DoME teams currently idle, and that is never a good idea.” She smiles slightly. “So we propose the following projects to keep them out of trouble.”
  • DoME Projects
    • Expand Shin Tōkyō Arcologies
    • Terraforming
      • Steingarten
      • Feurstem
      • Olej
      • Nyū Shikoku

“And finally the best part, our Economy teams are chomping on the bit and have the following recommendations that they practically begged for me to pass on to you.”
  • Economic Focus, Investment & Infrastructure
    • Economic Focus
      • Core
        • Nowa Warszawa
      • Periphery
        • Raj
    • Major Investment
      • Core
        • Iskra
      • Periphery
        • Raj
    • Investment
      • Nox
    • Infrastructure & Industrial Zone
      • Hot Mess
      • Baddorando
      • New Narnia
      • Nouvelle Bourgogne
      • Nuova Puglia

Dr Severino is off overseeing the Pan-Griffon Games for you, her office has sent you a memo noting that there is nothing on the horizon requiring extra budget authority this year.

Tiberius has you worried. He’s dressed properly in a quite nice suit and tie, he’s been keeping quiet, he’s been polite, there have been no chaotic outbursts, and… wait a second… that’s not Tiberius… it’s a cardboard cut-out of Tiberius.

Finding him hiding among the junior staffers leads to a ceremonial tossing through the Tyler Lee Memorial Window of Defenestration, much to everybodies amusement, even Tiberius’.

“Only thing I’ve got for you, boss, is to expand the civil service so we can build more of those shipyards that the old man wants.” If looks could kill, Fisher would have vaporized your political advisor.

Gloria is up next. “Your Majesty, if it weren’t for the large budget surplus that we had last year we wouldn’t request R&D work on Improved Agriculture, but we calculate that it should be affordable, and would be very valuable indeed. Other than that, our fundamental research teams are requesting permission to pursue work on structural materials.”

Sina Day is now up, in her first meeting as Minister for Intelligence. “Your Majesty, we have initiated the early stages of expanding our HUMINT training, as approved earlier this year. So far our allies have been quite willing to work with us in this regard. While we have no budget requests, as our normal operating budget is sufficient to maintain current operations, we do have several things to report.”

She checks her notes. “Keeping up the tradition set by General Messerschmidt, your family's cult is doing quite well in the NRI with no new embarrassing statues to report. The Bourbons are experiencing internal unrest with the great nobles bickering over who will control what of the four ex-Rouges Noir worlds. It is not to the point of violence, just loud shouting in council and a great deal of puffing of chests and flexing. We will keep you informed if the situation deteriorates. Other than that there is nothing of significance to report.”
 

Yacovo

Occasionally spouting nonsense
[X] Honor the alliance, provide Harjel

Griffon Empress: shares Harjel with honored allies because they asked nicely

Clans: Wait that’s illegal. You need to kill each other in ritual combat for months if not years before that can happen.
 

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