Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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Thors_Alumni
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[X]Approve the Expansion
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[X]Approve the Expansion
-[X]10 Year Limit on the Contract Length Guarantee
**This way we don't have a problem with laziness and the company has to maintain a sense of standards and anticipation of competition.
[X]Agree to the deal
-[X]10 Year Limit on the Contract Length Guarantee
**This way we don't have a problem with laziness and the company has to maintain a sense of standards and anticipation of competition.
**This way we don't have a problem with laziness and the company has to maintain a sense of standards and anticipation of competition.
[X]Agree to the deal
-[X]10 Year Limit on the Contract Length Guarantee
**This way we don't have a problem with laziness and the company has to maintain a sense of standards and anticipation of competition.
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KyranKandosa
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Winter_Wind45
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Joyousmadman
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Turn 132 - The Russian & Molokov
Turn 132 - The Russian & Molokov
Admiral Fisher requests a short meeting with you. According to the Admiral, the Navy is working on speculative specifications for a ‘drone’ parasite battleship replacement for the Mikasa-class as part of their Future Platforms project. He goes over a number of assumptions that they are making, based on scaling up the tiny ground-based drones that are a bit of a niche product in the civilian market.In general, they are estimating a mass range of between 30 to 60 tons per thousand tons of parasite mass for the drone control systems and associated controls. The current thinking is to have the craft be all energy based to remove the need for rearming the craft between engagements, making it so that it only requires refueling at regular intervals. He informs you that one of the younger members of his staff has dubbed the entire thing ‘Project Terminator’ for some reason that he claims ignorance of.
In a similar vein the Future Platforms project is also looking at tentative and speculative specifications for an automated jump point defense platform and drone ASF systems. According to the Admiral the Admiralty set the project up as a way to attempt to keep ahead of technological developments so as to avoid being blindsided by any breakthroughs.
He does bring up one other serious issue, however. The rail gun kinetic bombardment of Arvum revealed a worrying gap in sensor coverage within a system that is very difficult to cover due to the sheer volume of space required. The solution that the Admiralty is proposing is to mass produce small automated sensor platforms equipped with top end sensor arrays along with a self-destruct in the event of any detected tampering attempt. The platforms would be datalinked together using standard communication lasers and tied into the local system defense grid, giving enhanced sensor capability for relatively small amounts of investment.
You look over the proposal. The individual platforms are… austere, but the large scanner arrays are still extremely expensive in and of themselves. The big advantage is that while the scanners are ‘top end’, they are actually not the latest systems currently installed in your warships, making them significantly cheaper than otherwise. Unfortunately the extreme number of individual platforms required to create a sensor net for a single star system means that a full installation would still run around ten trillion per system. On the other hand, if the Griffon system were to be hit in the same manner as Arvum had been and suffered equivalent percentage losses it would cost you over five times as much.
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| [] | Approve Sensor Sats |
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| [] | You can’t afford this |
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The Pan Griffon Games are continuing in the new format while organizers are scrambling to find information about the many new events that will be added in two years as all the new sports join the Olympics. Some are pretty straightforward, some are downright bizarre, a few have you scratching your head as to how they are a sport. A 10 kilometer walk? What’s to stop people from simply running? Apparently the rules require that at no point can both feet be off the ground at the same time, but are they going to have people walking along with the walkers watching for such or what? You don’t get it, but apparently this is a thing.
Dressage is another one that has you scratching your head, but you’ve been told in no uncertain terms that only horses can compete, no Rexes, no Raptors, no Grifftigers, and most certainly no Brontos. Apparently it involves horses posing or something, you don’t get it at all since you are not all that certain that you’ve ever seen a horse.
According to SARAH horses are something people used to ride before they had motorcycles. Odd to have a sport with them posing, but you’re sure that somebody will figure something out.
Unfortunately you’ve not been able to find anything about this thing called ‘cricket’ outside of the rulebooks you were given, which make very little sense. SARAH is similarly lacking in information about this ‘sport’, since the only thing in her database by that name is a type of insect. It looks sort of like baseball, if you squint and are rather drunk. Again, you are sure somebody will figure this out.
If nothing else, the next Olympiad will be… interesting. That’s the term you are looking for, interesting.
Parliament is quite cowed at the moment, following last year's utter debacle. Still there are some routine bits of legislation that cross your desk. Only one is of any true significance, however.
The Cultural Preservation Act of 3062 updates the original CPA that has been in place for several decades now. Much of the act is administrative, cleaning up ambiguities that had crept in over time due to court decisions and changing interpretations of legal terms, but there are some significant changes as well. Funding for the commission formed by the act would be significantly increased with an eye to increasing outreach efforts to educate young people about the myriad cultures that make up the Griffon Empire. Moreover there would be greater variety in terms of cultural programming under the act, both internally and externally.
The Foreign Office is cautiously in favor of the act, although they do have some minor concerns in regards to staffing levels for any future embassies due to the increased cultural affairs staffing requirements.
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| [] | Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062 | The original CPA has been a boon to the Empire’s image, both internally and with our allies. By promoting cultural exchanges and celebrating them we have strengthened the mutual bonds of affection between people of many different backgrounds. The intention of this act is to ensure that the benefits continue and, if anything, become even greater tomorrow than they are today. We owe this to the future, we owe this to our past, and it is something that has paid concrete, tangible dividends. |
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| [] | Veto the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062 | This is all well and good, but we need to keep our focus on more important things than ‘culture’, culture can take care of itself, we need the money for defense and the military, not to throw at some namby-pamby cultural affairs nonsense. If people want to enjoy ‘ethnic’ food or traditions, let them, but we already spend far too much on such useless frivolities, there’s a war going on and all of our focus should be on that, not on promoting ‘curry’. Besides, I hate curry. |
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Thors_Alumni
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[X] Approve Sensor Sats
we have the money to do this. 100 trillion left over in the last plan. we could do this in 5 systems and still have 50 trillion left over. It's a good way to spend our ever increasing treasury.
[] Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062
Not sure about this one but if someone else takes it I will vote for it.
we have the money to do this. 100 trillion left over in the last plan. we could do this in 5 systems and still have 50 trillion left over. It's a good way to spend our ever increasing treasury.
[] Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062
Not sure about this one but if someone else takes it I will vote for it.
KyranKandosa
Well-known member
[X] Approve Sensor Sats
[X] Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062
[X] Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062
[X] Approve Sensor Sats
[X] Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062
[X] Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062
Winter_Wind45
Well-known member
[X] Approve Sensor Sats
[X] Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062
[X] Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062
Yacovo
Occasionally spouting nonsense
[X] Approve Sensor Sats
[X] Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062
More cultural actions would be nice given we are probably soon going to be exposed to a bunch of different cultures. Also Cultural Actions are some of the most vulnerable given how low they are in reroll priority.
[X] Sign the Cultural Preservation Act of 3062
More cultural actions would be nice given we are probably soon going to be exposed to a bunch of different cultures. Also Cultural Actions are some of the most vulnerable given how low they are in reroll priority.