Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

[LordSunhawk]

Turn 126 - Dulcimer Stomp

The Olympics continue to be quite competitive, apart from motor racing which Team Griffon utterly dominates like they seem to always do. It’s not that the other teams are bad, per se, it’s more that Team Griffon has a far more complete package year after year. Other competitions are much closer, although Team Griffon has still not failed to at least medal in everything which is truly making the home crowd quite happy.

Economic conditions on Grand View continue to be precarious. A major resort has been forced to declare bankruptcy during the tourist downturn, which is only deepening the local malaise. Conditions are not helped by multiple other, smaller, business failures along with a growing infrastructure crisis as local drop ports are running at or above capacity due to the mass economic migration out of the system. There haven’t been any major accidents so far, and local authorities are doing their best to mitigate the situation with assistance from the Navy and Space Guard.

The main destination for all of these people seeking work? New Libertalia, which is experiencing a major economic boom as their breweries, distilleries and wineries are at full production exporting hundreds of thousands of gallons of their products across the Empire. The system government there is scrambling a bit to manage the explosive growth, both in local GDP and in population, but has managed to stay on top of things quite admirably. This is all on top of the tremendous economic boost that the local economy is expected to experience with the new logistics hub being built here.

The IGMP and Imperial Intelligence have broken up a weapon smuggling operation that was supplying civilian grade weapons to pirates out of Nuova Tripoli. The criminal group running it was fairly small, but sophisticated enough, but hadn’t been able to get their hands on proper military equipment. Hunting rifles, pistols, and the like were all that they were smuggling.

Since you are away from the Palace the annual budget meeting is held in a conference room aboard the Imperial Yacht.

Amaunet, being a massive grifftiger too large to travel these days, is attending via HPG link. “Padrone, overall morale in the military is solid and we are in a good position. Operational planning is proceeding on the next strike at the Black Steel, Admiral Fisher has details for that.”

General Bradley, along with most of the military chiefs, remained on Griffon. “Your Majesty, the Army is continuing our service life extension programs with great success. In the process we are swapping out the old extended range 5cm lasers with the new models, as well as reconfiguring a number of platforms to use the new weapon. We have also initiated a rigorous war games and exercise schedule to maintain our abilities in ground combat. That being said, we have minimal new budget requests this year, primarily continued expansion of garrison and militia formations.”

• Imperial Griffon Army
  • Procurement
    • Garrison
      • 25 Garrison Divisions
      • 25 Militia Divisions

General Perkins comes up next. “We will be accelerating our production facility expansions this year, Your Majesty, as well as our training assets.” He looks… tired, not at all the confident officer he’d been when he’d taken over the Aerospace Force. “Skilled pilots do not grow on trees, Your Majesty, and we’ve been losing too many of them over the last several years.”

• Imperial Griffon Aerospace Force
  • Production
    • New ASF Factories
      • Glorreich
      • Shin Tōkyō
      • Kurortas
      • Raj
      • Pustina
      • Platzregensburg
      • Pryyemnyy
      • Awha
      • Bāṛi
      • Bellaterra
  • Procurement
    • 25 CAP Wing
    • 25 Training Wing
    • 100 Carrier Wing

Commodore Kristina Savić is once again handling the Naval briefing, in person as she’d accompanied you to Calliope, while on the HPG link Admiral Fisher sits glowering ominously like he usually does.

“Your Majesty, naval production figures remain solid, with our projected force totals reaching those required for the resumption of offensive operations within the specified time frame. We are recommending the transitioning of the remaining Fubuki-class Destroyers to a full time training role in lieu of procuring additional Wolverine-class training vessels.”

[]	Action
[]	Approve
[]	Disapprove

She then brings up the budget requests, adroitly speaking of each line items.

• Imperial Griffon Navy
  • Production
    • Orbital Shipyards
      • Expand All Orbital Shipyards
    • Refit & Repair Yards
      • Expand All Refit & Repair Yards
    • Escort Yards
      • Nowy Szczecin
      • Baddorando
      • Sturmland
      • Neubayern
      • Neuhessen
      • Nouvelle Bourgogne
      • Nuova Lombardia
      • Skala
      • Stahlfurt
      • Grand View
      • Griff's Leap
      • Kurortas
      • Novolar
      • Olej
      • Pinball
      • Pryyemnyy
      • Pustina
      • Steingarten
      • The Hub
      • Nuova Puglia
      • Chuma
      • Nuovo Abruzzo
      • Stenen Tuin
      • New Libertalia
      • Nyū Shikoku
      • Nuova Tripoli
      • Catachan
      • Feurstern
      • Neuthüringen
      • Nowe Mazowsze
      • Nox
      • Platzregensburg
      • Porto Milano
      • Landprettig
      • New Algiers
      • New Clew Bay
      • Nubifragio
      • Bellaterra
    • Small Warship Yards
      • Raj
      • New Port Royal
      • Nowa Warszawa
      • Nowy Slask
      • Chuma
      • Awha
      • Kaiyo
      • Shin Tōkyō
      • Iskra
      • Griffon
      • Bohren
    • Medium Warship Yards
      • New Pollux
      • Calliope
      • Pieklo
      • Bari
      • Edelsteine
    • Large Warship Yards
      • Nya Kopenhamn
      • Kainga
      • Okusawa
      • New Capricorn
  • Procurement
    • Standard Dropships
      • 400 Artemis-class Planetary Defense Flotillas
      • 100 Wright-class Dockable ASF Platforms
      • 100 Colt-class Defense Blisters
      • 31 Ensign-class Training Dropships
    • Large Dropships
      • 30 Saipan-class Parasite Carriers
      • 269 Mikasa-class Parasite Battleships
    • Jumpships
      • 6 Windjammer-class Jumpships
    • Escorts
      • 180 Battle-class Destroyers
      • 10 Skjold-class Missile Corvettes
      • 10 Constellation-class Corvettes
      • 50 Tarantul-class Missile Raiders
      • 50 Asheville-class Raiders
      • 5 Excelsior-class Explorers
    • Small Warships
      • 60 Belfast-class Light Cruisers
      • 20 De Grasse-class Light Cruisers
      • 10 Guiseppe Garibaldi-class Light Cruisers
      • 5 Hosho-class Light Carriers
    • Medium Warships
      • 20 Prinz Eugen II-class Heavy Cruisers
      • 10 Algerie-class Heavy Cruisers
      • 5 Sacramento-class Logistics Ships
    • Large Warships
      • 10 Kaiserin-class Battleships
      • 10 Jean Bart-class Battlecruisers
  • Fortress Command
    • Black Tower
      • Neubayern
      • Neuhessen
      • Hot Mess
      • New Narnia
      • The Hub

Admiral Fisher doesn’t say a word, but there’s a hint of a smile on his face as the young commodore finishes the briefing.

Elizabeth Lee is up next, she also accompanied you to Calliope for the games, since her son is on the baseball team. “Your Majesty, DoME is ready for both Logistics projects, as well as various terraforming projects.” She brings up the display for them.

• DoME
  • Projects
    • Expand Shin Tokyo Arcologies
    • Make <system> a Logistics Hub
      • Steingarten
      • New Libertalia
    • Terraforming
      • Nox
      • Nuova Fortezza
      • Neuthüringen

“And for our economic goals and investments, our analysts have been crunching the numbers and have the following recommendations.”

• Economic Focus, Investment & Infrastructure
  • Economic Focus
    • Core
      • New Capricorn
    • Periphery
      • Nox
  • Major Investment
    • Core
      • Raj
    • Periphery
      • Stahlfurt
  • Investment
    • Pryyemnyy
  • Infrastructure & Industrial Zones
    • Hot Mess
    • Baddorando
    • Salamander
    • Nouvelle Bourgogne
    • Nuova Puglia

Dr Severino is representing you in the various diplomatic meetings surrounding the Olympics at the moment, and Tiberius is back on Griffon overseeing the final details on getting the civil service expansion completed… finally. Reading the memos you are not sure if somehow Periphery Studies somehow got involved or not, because some of the shenanigans…

Gloria is overseeing the various R&D projects that are still outstanding, while Sina Day and Martina have gone off to oversee the trials and further investigations arising from the recent smuggling bust.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

[X] Approve

 

[Artifex]

[X] Approve

One thing I wonder though, we keep producing the Windjammer Jumpship year after year and "only" 6 of them. Considering that those are civilian Jumpships (at least I presume so) ... are those numbers sufficient for our economy, or are there civilian conglomerates who are allowed to construct / build Jumpships on their own too?

 

[Thors_Alumni]

One thing I wonder though, we keep producing the Windjammer Jumpship year after year and "only" 6 of them. Considering that those are civilian Jumpships (at least I presume so) ... are those numbers sufficient for our economy, or are there civilian conglomerates who are allowed to construct / build Jumpships on their own too?

that's honestly a good question. I'll mention it to @Jarow who does the plans for the quest.

 

[LordSunhawk]

They are used in your logistics train, they aren't used by the civilian community.

 

[Rukatin]

[X] Approve

 

[foolswriter]

[X] Approve

 

[Jarow]

One thing I wonder though, we keep producing the Windjammer Jumpship year after year and "only" 6 of them. Considering that those are civilian Jumpships (at least I presume so) ... are those numbers sufficient for our economy, or are there civilian conglomerates who are allowed to construct / build Jumpships on their own too?

We opened up civilian jumpship production a while back; the jumpships we make are military/government ones (though they're probably the same design as the actual civilian versions). Only time we see them is ground invasions where they leave room on warships for their attached parasites, but they probably move men, equipment, and supplies around in the background as well. Also, unlike warships, we almost never lose them, so we have a pretty good number (looking it up, 253 of the max size ones we normally build, plus another 85 slightly smaller ones that are still probably as big as anything the IS makes)

[X] Approve
We do need training ships; if these are better suited to that usage than combat, no reason not to make the shift

[X] Plan: Ongoing Ship Works
-[X] Procurement [$ 920,963,194,133.97 ]
--[X] Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $83,828,122,911.00 ] (95)
---[X] 400 Artemis [95]
---[X] 100 Wright [95]
---[X] 100 Colt [95]
---[X] 31 Ensign [95]

---[X] 269 Mikasa [95]
---[X] 30 Saipan [95]

--[X] Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $27,960,081.30 ] (90)
---[X] 6 Windjammer [90]

--[X] Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $531,955,894,766.67 ] (90)
---[X] 50 Belfast*
---[X] 30 De Grasse*
---[X] 8 Hosho*

---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen II*
---[X] 10 Algerie*
---[X] 25 Prinz Eugen II*
---[X] 10 Algerie*

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

---[X] 180 Battle [90]
---[X] 10 Skjold [90]
---[X] 10 Constellation [90]
---[X] 50 Tarantul [90]
---[X] 50 Asheville [90]
---[X] 5 Excelsior [90]

---[X] 60 Belfast [90]
---[X] 20 De Grasse [90]
---[X] 10 Guiseppe Garibaldi [90]
---[X] 5 Hosho [90]

---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen II [90]
---[X] 10 Algerie [90]
---[X] 5 Sacramento [90]

---[X] 10 Kaiserin [90]
---[X] 10 Jean Bart [90]

--[X] Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 66,150,566,375.00 ] (90)
---[X] 0 Fighter Wing [auto]
---[X] 100 Carrier Wing [90]
---[X] 25 CAP Wing [90]
---[X] 25 Training Wing [90]

---[X] 10 Infantry Division [90]

---[X] 25 Garrison Division [90]
---[X] 25 Militia Division [90]

--[X] Fortress Command [$ 229,000,650,000.00 ] (90)
---[X] Build Jump Point Defenses
---[X] Construct Oasis II
---[X] Construct Black Tower
----[X] Neubayern [90]
----[X] Neuhessen [90]
----[X] Hot Mess [90]
----[X] New Narnia [90]
----[X] The Hub [90]

--[X] SLEP [$ 10,000,000,000 ] (100)
---[X] SLEP all Mech Units* [->3]
---[X] SLEP all Conventional Units* [->3]

-[X] General [$ 2,642,550,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Focus Development on Core World New Capricorn [90]
--[X] Focus Development on Peripheral World Nox[90]
--[X] Massive Core Investment Raj [85]
--[X] Massive Peripheral Investment Stahlfurt [85]
--[X] Economic Investment Pryyemnyy [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Salamander [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]

--[X] Build ASF Factory Complex (95)
---[X] Glorreich [95]
---[X] Shin Tōkyō [95]
---[X] Kurortas [95]
---[X] Raj [95]
---[X] Pustina [95]
---[X] Platzregensburg [95]
---[X] Pryyemnyy [95]
---[X] Awha [95]
---[X] Bāṛi [95]
---[X] Bellaterra [95]
(We need ASFs to combat Black Steel drone fighters, and replace losses)
--[X] Expand Civil Service* [auto]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Neubayern [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Neuhessen [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Nouvelle Bourgogne [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Mazowsze [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Nuova Lombardia [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Nuovo Puglia [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Nuovo Abruzzo [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Nyu Shikoku [90]

--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Stenen Tuin [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe New Libertalia [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Nuova Tripoli [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Catachan [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Feurstem [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe 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 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 The Hub [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Baddorando [90]
--[X] Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
--[X] Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Phoenix* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Nowy Wroclaw* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Glorreich* [90]

--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Castor* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Capricorn [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Okusawa [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Nya Kopenhamn [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Kainga [->1]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Calliope [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Edelsteine [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Pieklo [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Bari [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard New Pollux [90]

--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Sturmland [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard New Port Royal [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Griffon [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] Construct Small Warship Yard Shin Tokyo [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Iskra [90]
(Lots of warships are needed)

-[X] DoME [$ 582,000,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Expand Shin Tōkyō Arcologies* [90]
--[X] Make Steingarten a Logistics Hub* [->1]
--[X] Make New Libertalia a Logistics Hub* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Nox [->2]
--[X] Terraforming Nuova Fortezza [->2]
--[X] Terraforming Neuthuringen [->2]
(Better planets mean bigger warships)
--[X] Terraforming Kurortas* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming New Clew Bay* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Feurstem* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Steingarten* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Olej* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Nyu Shikoku* [85]

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

-[X] Research [$ 28,250,000,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Thermal Dissipation (Advanced) Tier 7* [auto]
--[X] Genetic Engineering Lvl 6* [->2]
--[X] Advanced Terraforming Techniques Lvl 2* [->3]
--[X] Advanced Terraforming Equipment lvl 2* [->3]
--[X] Capital Shipyards* [->1]
--[X] Multi-Missile Launchers* [->1]
--[X] Improved Germanium Refining Lvl 5* [->6]
--[X] Economic Forecasting lvl 1* [->1]
--[X] Commercial R&D [-]
--[X] Industrial R&D [-]

-[X] Miscellaneous [$ 134,370,100,000.00 ]
--[X] Culture [$ 100,000 ]
---[X] Real Olympics
--[X] Production Contract [->3?][134,370,000,000]

37t leftover - I'm optimistic about the next level of warship design

 

[Thors_Alumni]

[X] Approve

[X] Plan: Ongoing Ship Works

 

[Winter_Wind45]

[X] Plan: Ongoing Ship Works

 

[darkcloudt2]

[X] Approve

[X] Plan: Ongoing Ship Works

 

[Knowledgeispower]

So what did we lose in that battle?

 

[Rukatin]

[X] Plan: Ongoing Ship Works

 

[LordSunhawk]

Turn 126 - The Other Side

Spoiler: Event, Luck & Rating Rolls

Meta Event	29
Dynasty Luck	24
	Successes
Imperial Approval	0
Approval Change	-1
Political Event	-1
	Successes
Imperial Economy	3
Economic Event	2
Research Event	0
Griffon	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
Nowa Warszawa	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	2
Calliope IV	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
TTP	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
New Capricorn	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
Nowy Śląsk	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
Edelsteine	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
Nowy Wroclaw	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
Griff's Leap	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
New Phoenix	Econ	2
	Health	2
	Event	1
New Eden	Econ	2
	Health	2
	Event	1
New Castor	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
Okusawa	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	2
New Pollux	Econ	2
	Health	5
	Event	2
New Port Royal	Econ	4
	Health	3
	Event	1
Kainga	Econ	2
	Health	5
	Event	2
Chuma	Econ	2
	Health	5
	Event	2
Stahlfurt	Econ	4
	Health	3
	Event	1
Bāṛi	Econ	2
	Health	2
	Event	1
Skała	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	2
Piekło	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	2
Nya Köpenhamn	Econ	2
	Health	4
	Event	0
Bauernparadis	Econ	2
	Health	5
	Event	2
Awha	Econ	2
	Health	2
	Event	1
Kaiyo	Econ	2
	Health	2
	Event	1
Bohren	Econ	2
	Health	2
	Event	1
Grand View	Econ	2
	Health	5
	Event	2
Iskra	Econ	2
	Health	5
	Event	2
Raj	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	2
Feurstern	Econ	2
	Health	2
	Event	1
Pinball	Econ	2
	Health	2
	Event	1
Catachan	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	2
Nox	Econ	2
	Health	5
	Event	2
Olej	Econ	2
	Health	2
	Event	1
Glorreich	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
Pryyemnyy	Econ	1
	Health	1
	Event	3
Novolar	Econ	2
	Health	5
	Event	2
Steingarten	Econ	2
	Health	5
	Event	2
Pustina	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
Kurortas	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
Arvum	Econ	1
	Health	1
	Event	3
Landprettig	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	2
Bellaterra	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
Nubifragio	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	2
Platzregensburg	Econ	4
	Health	3
	Event	1
Shin Tōkyō	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
Porto Milano	Econ	4
	Health	3
	Event	1
Nuova Fortezza	Econ	4
	Health	3
	Event	1
Nowe Mazowsze	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	2
Neuthüringen	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
New Algiers	Econ	4
	Health	3
	Event	1
New Clew Bay	Econ	4
	Health	3
	Event	1
Nuova Tripoli	Econ	4
	Health	3
	Event	1
New Libertalia	Econ	4
	Health	3
	Event	1
Nuova Puglia	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	3
Nuovo Abruzzo	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	3
Nuova Lombardia	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	3
Stenen Tuin	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	3
Nouvelle Bourgogne	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	3
Nyū Shikoku	Econ	4
	Health	3
	Event	1
Neubayern	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	3
Neuhessen	Econ	1
	Health	3
	Event	3
Hot Mess	Econ	1
	Health	1
	Event	3
New Narnia	Econ	1
	Health	1
	Event	3
The Hub	Econ	1
	Health	1
	Event	3
Baddorando	Econ	1
	Health	1
	Event	3
Sturmland	Econ	1
	Health	1
	Event	3
Blár	Econ	1
	Health	1
	Event	3
Nueva Chiapas	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
New Kansas	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
Nowego Lublina	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
Nowy Szczecin	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
Salamander	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2
New Portland	Econ	3
	Health	1
	Event	2

Spoiler: Action Results

Plan: Ongoing Ship Works
- Procurement [$ 920,963,194,133.97 ]
-- Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $83,828,122,911.00 ] (95)
--- 400 Artemis [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 91
Result - SUCCESS

--- 100 Wright [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 95
Result - SUCCESS

--- 100 Colt [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 91
Result - SUCCESS

--- 31 Ensign [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 63
Result - SUCCESS

--- 269 Mikasa [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 35
Result - SUCCESS

--- 30 Saipan [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 82
Result - SUCCESS

-- Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $27,960,081.30 ] (90)
--- 6 Windjammer [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 39
Result - SUCCESS

-- Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $531,955,894,766.67 ] (90)
--- 180 Battle [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 18
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Skjold [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Constellation [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 5
Result - SUCCESS

--- 50 Tarantul [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 54
Result - SUCCESS

--- 50 Asheville [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 46
Result - SUCCESS

--- 5 Excelsior [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 24
Result - SUCCESS

--- 60 Belfast [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 27
Result - SUCCESS

--- 20 De Grasse [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 48
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Guiseppe Garibaldi [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 17
Result - SUCCESS

--- 5 Hosho [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 83
Result - SUCCESS

--- 20 Prinz Eugen II [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 89
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Algerie [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 26
Result - SUCCESS

--- 5 Sacramento [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 21
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Kaiserin [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 21
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Jean Bart [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 8
Result - SUCCESS

-- Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 66,150,566,375.00 ] (90)
--- 100 Carrier Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 10
Result - SUCCESS

--- 25 CAP Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 47
Result - SUCCESS

--- 25 Training Wing [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 2
Result - SUCCESS

--- 10 Infantry Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 72
Result - SUCCESS

--- 25 Garrison Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS

--- 25 Militia Division [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 82
Result - SUCCESS

-- Fortress Command [$ 229,000,650,000.00 ] (90)
--- Construct Black Tower
---- Neubayern [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 61
Result - SUCCESS

---- Neuhessen [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 27
Result - SUCCESS

---- Hot Mess [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 22
Result - SUCCESS

---- New Narnia [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 25
Result - SUCCESS

---- The Hub [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 38
Result - SUCCESS

- General [$ 2,642,550,000,000.00 ]
-- Focus Development on Core World New Capricorn [80]
Target - 80
Roll – 100, Jarow reroll – 99, ShadowArxxy reroll – 100, Jarow reroll – 91, The Whispering Monk reroll – 96, Hellspawn reroll - 15
Result - SUCCESS

-- Focus Development on Peripheral World Nox[80]
Target - 80
Roll - 30
Result - SUCCESS

-- Massive Core Investment Raj [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 36
Result - SUCCESS

-- Massive Peripheral Investment Stahlfurt [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 2
Result - SUCCESS

-- Economic Investment Pryyemnyy [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 88
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Salamander [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nouvelle Bourgogne [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Hot Mess [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 62
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Baddorando [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 47
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nuova Puglia [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS

-- Build ASF Factory Complex (95)
--- Glorreich [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS

--- Shin Tōkyō [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 39
Result - SUCCESS

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

--- Raj [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 40
Result - SUCCESS

--- Pustina [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 35
Result - SUCCESS

--- Platzregensburg [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS

--- Pryyemnyy [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 78
Result - SUCCESS

--- Awha [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS

--- Bāṛi [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 87
Result - SUCCESS

--- Bellaterra [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 89
Result - SUCCESS

-- Expand Civil Service* [auto]

-- Construct Escort Yard Neubayern [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 41
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Neuhessen [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 31
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nouvelle Bourgogne [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 86
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nowe Mazowsze [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 70
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nuova Lombardia [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 78
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nuovo Puglia [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 5
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nuovo Abruzzo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 73
Result - SUCCESS

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

-- Construct Escort Yard Stenen Tuin [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 53
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard New Libertalia [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nuova Tripoli [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 9
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Catachan [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS

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

-- Construct Escort Yard Neuthuringen [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 39
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nowy Szczecin [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 16
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nox [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 68
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Platzregensburg [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 74
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard New Algiers [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 49
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard New Clew Bay [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 33
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Nubifragio [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 67
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Bellaterra [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 20
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Landprettig [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 77
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Porto Milano [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard The Hub [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 17
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Escort Yard Baddorando [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 72
Result - SUCCESS

-- Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 91
Result - SUCCESS

-- Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 96
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Phoenix* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard Nowy Wroclaw* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 73
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard Glorreich* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 87
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Large Warship Yard New Castor* [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 12
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Medium Warship Yard Calliope [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 58
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Medium Warship Yard Edelsteine [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 4
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Medium Warship Yard Pieklo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Medium Warship Yard Bari [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 82
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Medium Warship Yard New Pollux [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 35
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Raj [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard New Port Royal [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 86
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 28
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Griffon [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 22
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Nowy Slask [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 79
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Chuma [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 14
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Awha [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Kaiyo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 39
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Shin Tokyo [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 8
Result - SUCCESS

-- Construct Small Warship Yard Iskra [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 60
Result - SUCCESS

- DoME [$ 582,000,000,000.00 ]
-- Terraforming Feurstem* [85]
Target - 85
Roll – 100, General reroll – 96, General reroll - 67
Result - SUCCESS

-- Terraforming Steingarten* [85]
Target - 85
Roll – 96, General reroll – 100, General reroll – 99, General reroll - 39
Result - SUCCESS

-- Terraforming Olej* [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 15
Result - SUCCESS

-- Terraforming Nyu Shikoku* [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 27
Result - SUCCESS

-- Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Kurortas* [85]
Target - 85
Roll – 97, General reroll - 69
Result - SUCCESS

- Research [$ 28,250,000,000,000.00 ]
-- Thermal Dissipation (Advanced) Tier 7* [auto]

- Miscellaneous [$ 134,370,100,000.00 ]
-- Culture [$ 100,000 ]
--- Real Olympics
-- Production Contract [->3?][134,370,000,000]

-----

You receive the latest contract offer from the industry group responsible for upgrading, expanding, and maintaining your strategic material production. Over the last twenty years this contract has been highly profitable for the industry as well as very helpful to the Empire as a whole. Thanks to the contract, the Empire actually has, in the opinion of some of your analysts, sufficient production capacity for your current and near future needs. The industrial group recognizes this, and is offering a further 10% discount on the contract extension, which will serve to keep them in business while also giving you a much deeper buffer against any production surge requirements.

On the one hand, the contract currently costs you a little under 135 billion a year. The discounted rate would save you a significant amount of money, and the industry in question have not only been loyal supporters of the Crown and the Empire, but have also already foregone profits that they could have gotten when they had you over the proverbial barrel, instead cutting their prices when all logic said they should have increased them, if greed was the only factor. They’ve even been spending their own profits on increasing quality control well above Imperial standards.

[]	Action	Result
[]	Approve Contract Extension	Discount Level would go to 2 80% of full cost Contract would last 20 turns (ending Turn 146) +1 Economic Event -1 Politics
[]	Deny Contract Extension	Discount Level would go to 0 Strategic Material factories and upgrades would need to be purchased separately and would consume actions

Meanwhile the Olympics continue to be quite exciting. Perhaps a little too exciting, as you get word that many staff members from the Interior Ministry who were supposed to be working on the economic focus project for New Capricorn instead spent several days in the drunk tank sobering up after a rather excessive celebration.

Your eyebrows threaten to lift off of your face and attain orbit on their own as you read the police report. In the course of one night, the Economic Focus staff managed the following.

• 43 counts of Gross Public Intoxication
• Permanently banned from a dozen drinking establishments
• The System Governor’s personal vehicle somehow wound up perched on the side of the tallest skyscraper in the city and painted a shockingly iridescent orange that seems to glow in the dark without being radioactive
• They are not sure how it happened, but they would really like it if they’d please convince the local raptor population to stop humming manamana endlessly.
• The cost of paying plumbers to re-reroute the water supply in a three block area back to, well, the water supply and not beer storage tanks will be assessed to the Interior Ministry

You realize rather quickly that DoME must have been involved in this mess. Specifically the teams involved in the Feurstem and Steingarten projects, who finished early enough to make it for the Olympics and might have been a bad influence on everybody else.

You take a bit of sadistic glee in denying their time off requests and making them keep their badly hungover noses to the grindstone in order to finish the New Capricorn project on time. Perhaps this will teach them not to get into epic drinking contests with DoME.

Overall, despite you wanting to throttle some of them, the various DoME terraforming and optimization projects do finish on time and budget. You are still constantly impressed with just how hard they work, so you guess you can forgive them in the silence of your own thoughts for their exuberance.

You’ll never admit that of course.

Overall, the construction of new orbital shipyards, warship yards, and the like goes quite well. The new ASF factories are also completed on time and budget, which should be very useful for the Aerospace Force.

Admiral Fisher sends you the initial planning documents for Operation: Golden Truth, the plan for Grand Fleet to strike at the Black Steel next year. It’s pretty straightforward, as the Admiral rather dryly notes that attempting to build ‘razzle dazzle’ into plans is undesirable. That being said, there is an element of extreme sneakiness there. A month before the operation, a lone Caravel-class Jumpship will make a jump to a point well away from either standard jump point, hopefully far enough out to not be detected before it finishes recharging. A pair of Omaha-class Scout Parasites will be detached to making a ‘naughty picture run’, using their HPG to report any Black Steel developments. A second pair of Omahas will also be released, drifting in under maximum stealth. All of the crews are volunteers, fully aware of just how dangerous this mission would be.

This briefing is just for initial information, the plan is still being finalized and is not yet ready for your approval, but the Admiral wanted you to know what they were planning.

Procurement has gone quite smoothly this year, which is a bit of a relief as you’d been worried about things in the build up to resuming offensive operations. The new battleships, cruisers, and such are all integrating well into the fleet, thanks to the extensive training infrastructure you’ve built up for the Navy. The transfer of the old, and it feels odd to refer to ships that you’d commissioned earlier in your reign as ‘old’, Fubukis to the training role is welcomed by the Aerie.

 

[Yacovo]

Wow that was a lot of rerolls spent on one action.

[X] Approve Contract Extension

 

[Rukatin]

[X] Approve Contract Extension

 

[Winter_Wind45]

[X] Approve Contract Extension

 

[Jarow]

[X] Approve Contract Extension

Not having to spend actions on strategic materials is big. And this way there won't be any issues in the forseeable future (I hope)

 

[The Whispering Monk]

[X] Approve Contract Extension

 

[ShadowArxxy]

[X] Approve Contract Extension