Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

Thors_Alumni

Well-known member
[X] Agree. Will cost 5751 but not take up any strategic materials. The new Foxhound swaps the Large Laser for an ER Large, drops the LRM rack, upgrades the SRM rack to a 6 pack, and adds a machine gun plus TAG. The new Wolfhound drops the entire weapons fit and replaces them with an Enhanced ER PPC plus LRM 10 rack combined with an Anti-Missile System. Both use XLFE and Ferro armor. Wolfhound goes to 100 hp, A/D of 15/15, and specials of SWIFT, ARMORED, ANTI-MISSILE 1, while the Foxhound goes to 44 hp, A/D of 11, and specials of SWIFT and TAG.

[X] Ashigaru ASH-1

[X] Winged Hussar

[X] Plan: Finishing what was started
 
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kashim3

Texan, Mandalorian, Alabamian.
[X] Agree. Will cost 5751 but not take up any strategic materials. The new Foxhound swaps the Large Laser for an ER Large, drops the LRM rack, upgrades the SRM rack to a 6 pack, and adds a machine gun plus TAG. The new Wolfhound drops the entire weapons fit and replaces them with an Enhanced ER PPC plus LRM 10 rack combined with an Anti-Missile System. Both use XLFE and Ferro armor. Wolfhound goes to 100 hp, A/D of 15/15, and specials of SWIFT, ARMORED, ANTI-MISSILE 1, while the Foxhound goes to 44 hp, A/D of 11, and specials of SWIFT and TAG.

[X] Ashigaru ASH-1

[X] Winged Hussar

[X] Plan: Finishing what was started
 
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kelgar04

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[X] Agree. Will cost 5751 but not take up any strategic materials. The new Foxhound swaps the Large Laser for an ER Large, drops the LRM rack, upgrades the SRM rack to a 6 pack, and adds a machine gun plus TAG. The new Wolfhound drops the entire weapons fit and replaces them with an Enhanced ER PPC plus LRM 10 rack combined with an Anti-Missile System. Both use XLFE and Ferro armor. Wolfhound goes to 100 hp, A/D of 15/15, and specials of SWIFT, ARMORED, ANTI-MISSILE 1, while the Foxhound goes to 44 hp, A/D of 11, and specials of SWIFT and TAG.

[X] Ashigaru ASH-1

[X] Winged Hussar

[X] Plan: Finishing what was started
 

PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
[X] Agree. Will cost 5751 but not take up any strategic materials. The new Foxhound swaps the Large Laser for an ER Large, drops the LRM rack, upgrades the SRM rack to a 6 pack, and adds a machine gun plus TAG. The new Wolfhound drops the entire weapons fit and replaces them with an Enhanced ER PPC plus LRM 10 rack combined with an Anti-Missile System. Both use XLFE and Ferro armor. Wolfhound goes to 100 hp, A/D of 15/15, and specials of SWIFT, ARMORED, ANTI-MISSILE 1, while the Foxhound goes to 44 hp, A/D of 11, and specials of SWIFT and TAG.

[X] Missile Support Mek

[X] Winged Hussar

[X] Plan: Finishing what was started
 

Culsu

Agent of the Central Plasma
Founder
[X] Agree. Will cost 5751 but not take up any strategic materials. The new Foxhound swaps the Large Laser for an ER Large, drops the LRM rack, upgrades the SRM rack to a 6 pack, and adds a machine gun plus TAG. The new Wolfhound drops the entire weapons fit and replaces them with an Enhanced ER PPC plus LRM 10 rack combined with an Anti-Missile System. Both use XLFE and Ferro armor. Wolfhound goes to 100 hp, A/D of 15/15, and specials of SWIFT, ARMORED, ANTI-MISSILE 1, while the Foxhound goes to 44 hp, A/D of 11, and specials of SWIFT and TAG.

[X] Ashigaru ASH-1

[X] Winged Hussar

[X] Plan: Finishing what was started
 

Ridli Scott

Well-known member
[X] Agree. Will cost 5751 but not take up any strategic materials. The new Foxhound swaps the Large Laser for an ER Large, drops the LRM rack, upgrades the SRM rack to a 6 pack, and adds a machine gun plus TAG. The new Wolfhound drops the entire weapons fit and replaces them with an Enhanced ER PPC plus LRM 10 rack combined with an Anti-Missile System. Both use XLFE and Ferro armor. Wolfhound goes to 100 hp, A/D of 15/15, and specials of SWIFT, ARMORED, ANTI-MISSILE 1, while the Foxhound goes to 44 hp, A/D of 11, and specials of SWIFT and TAG.

[X] Ashigaru ASH-1

[X] Winged Hussar

[X] Plan: Finishing what was started
 

Chaeronea

Well-known member
[X] Agree. Will cost 5751 but not take up any strategic materials. The new Foxhound swaps the Large Laser for an ER Large, drops the LRM rack, upgrades the SRM rack to a 6 pack, and adds a machine gun plus TAG. The new Wolfhound drops the entire weapons fit and replaces them with an Enhanced ER PPC plus LRM 10 rack combined with an Anti-Missile System. Both use XLFE and Ferro armor. Wolfhound goes to 100 hp, A/D of 15/15, and specials of SWIFT, ARMORED, ANTI-MISSILE 1, while the Foxhound goes to 44 hp, A/D of 11, and specials of SWIFT and TAG.

[X] Ashigaru ASH-1

[X] Winged Hussar

[X] Plan: Finishing what was started
 
Turn 29 - I'm Gonna Be Your Sledgehammer

LordSunhawk

Das BOOT (literally)
Owner
Administrator
Staff Member
Founder
Turn 29 - I'm Gonna Be Your Sledgehammer

Meta-event roll - 4 - +10% GDP +5% POP
Dynasty Luck - 11 - family visit to Nowy Gdansk massively speeds integration

Approval - 4 successes
Approval Change - 3 successes
Politics - 1 Failure

Economy - 2 Failures
Economy Event - 5 Successes
Research Event - 0 Successes

Parliament
Lords - 2 - FAILURE
Commons - 1 - FAILURE
Crown - 4 - FAILURE

Initiate relief shipments to Griffin V [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 45
Result - SUCCESS

Harden Factory 8 [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS

Harden Factory 9 [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 6
Result - SUCCESS

Purchase New Units
-2 Flight of Rocs [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 33
Result - SUCCESS

-3 Flights of Eagles [auto]

-1 Flight of Goshawks [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 30
Result - SUCCESS

-2 Lances of Ambush Battlemechs [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS

-1 Lance of Pathfinder Battlemechs [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS

-1 Lance Trooper Battlemech [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 58
Result - SUCCESS

-10 Platoons of Weasel IFVs [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 51
Result - SUCCESS

-10 Companies Mechanized Infantry [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 37
Result - SUCCESS

-1 Platoon Avenger-2 AAA [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 38
Result - SUCCESS

-3 Platoons Lion Tank [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 69
Result - SUCCESS

Construct Port on Five Fingers [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 29
Result - SUCCESS

Permit the design of Civilian Dropships [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS

Reorganize economy to support multi-planetary Imperial system [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 20
Result - SUCCESS

Build Factories for Gyrfalcon on Pollux [100]
Target - 100
Roll - 55
Result - SUCCESS

Expand Orbital Factory 6 (DHS) [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 77
Result - SUCCESS

Commission toys based on AFGR fighters, mechs, and tanks* [auto]

CULTURE - Monuments Ho! [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 6
Result - SUCCESS

Reorganize government on Imperial lines [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 93, Kelgar03 omake reroll - 28
Result - SUCCESS

Build Relations with House of Commons [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 50
Result - SUCCESS

Build Relations with House of Lords [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 51
Result - SUCCESS

Orbital Survey* [100]
Target - 100
Roll - 44
Result - SUCCESS

Advanced LB-X Autocannons [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 71, Kelgar03 omake reroll, 61
Result - Bare Failure - automatic next turn

Improved Communications Lvl 3 [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 35
Result - SUCCESS

Orbital Infrastructure lvl 3 [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 40
Result - SUCCESS

LOSTECH - Terraforming Equipment Lvl 2 [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 61
Result - SUCCESS

Investigate individuals linked to 331st [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 38
Result - SUCCESS

Upgrade counterintelligence [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 93, Kelgar03 omake reroll - 42
Result - SUCCESS

Interrogate POWs [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 18
Result - SUCCESS

Establish Legal Liaison with Nowa Gdansk [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 5
Result - SUCCESS

You have always enjoyed racing, despite your adamant denials about any tendency towards being an adrenaline junkie. You most certainly are not one and anybody who brings up the royal fleet of high performance vehicles is a lying liar who lies. Those are all obviously Willis’ fault.

You attend the championship race for the Professional Racing League’s Lee Cup, and actually get to drive the pace hovercraft for the parade laps. You most certainly did not have to be told by race control to slow down. You led the field on the parade lap at a perfectly reasonable and respectable 100 kph.

So they wanted it to run at 40 kph. Oh well. So you ran it at that plodding speed that is unreasonably slow.

Of course, you then had to open up the taps and do a lap at full speed, lapping the field and showing the young whippersnappers how it’s done. Just because you categorically are not a speed freak adrenaline junkie doesn’t mean you don’t know how to drive a hovercraft at maximum speed.

It’s Willis’ fault.

Honest.

Race control didn’t seem to appreciate that bit, but the crowd loved it, the driver’s loved it, and that’s all that mattered. Your personal feelings are totally irrelevant.

You loved it.

Then the race itself started. Both of your boys were in the Championship 5, with a chance to win the championship itself depending on how high they finished this one final race. All the points in the season, all the wins, it all came down to earning your slot in the top 5 for this race.

For James it was an incredibly frustrating race, and the crowd seemed to be on his side in that regard. In the first stage of the race one of the older driver’s who had a reputation for never giving anybody, even the leaders, a free pass even when multiple laps down had spun out and, indeed, went about ten laps down while repairs were made to the hovercraft after a hard impact with the safety barrier. And then he promptly wrecked James when he charged back out onto the track - he came up the track before even being at full speed, and forced James into a spin to avoid tail-ending the far slower racer.

The loud and sustained booing of the crowd was an epic accompaniment to the resigned statements of the race commentator that it was just that driver doing his normal shenanigans and how hard he was to get past, even for a leader. James went a lap down and struggled for the rest of the race.

Quan, on the other hand, had a few minor issues very early on, but managed to stay on the lead lap through them all, until on lap 382 of 400 he passed the leader on the inside during the transition from water to land and never looked back.

He had won the championship. James finished on the lead lap in fifth, but didn’t seem to mind all that much as he jumped out of his own racer and rode around the track perched on the side rail of his brother’s vehicle.

Your son had won the Lee Cup. And of course His Tylerness made the presentation. How you managed to get through the entire speech, which was laden with statements that to an outsider sounded perfectly casual and normal but to somebody who’d been family with the man for decades at this point were referencing things that were extremely hilarious and embarrassing, without busting out laughing or getting Sekhmet to practice some Tyler-tossing into the water part of the track is beyond you.

And of course Tyler just had to be maximum Tyler and pinch your butt when you gave him a hug. Damn the man!

The personal visit of Willis and Sarah to Nowy Gdansk had proven incredibly successful. Sarah and Bastet had mostly spent the trip playing in the snow with the young people of the ex-slaves population, but plenty of serious diplomacy and political talk was accomplished.

It was so successful that by the time Willis, Sarah and Bastet returned home the population of Nowy Gdansk was already drafting their official petition for joining the Empire of Griffin’s Roost.

Not a very creative name, you admit, but it was better than the alternatives that were proposed.

Of course, when Sarah returns home you make a point of fussing all over her in the same over the top manner as you had done to the rest of your kids. Unfortunately, Sarah had forewarning from her siblings and was clearly taking after your side of the family with how devious she could be. She’d brought back a snowball lovingly packed in an insulated and chilled container which she’d promptly stuffed down the back of your dress when you started fussing over her.

The little minx.

Jeremy has graduated from the Aerie with distinction and has been assigned to one of the new Trooper mechs that have just come off the line. He’s not the lance commander, but he is the second in command of the little unit behind a more experienced Mechwarrior.

Procurement goes very well this year. The Aerie Cadre had grown to a full battalion in strength of Battlemechs, which was making field exercises for the cadets much more intense and showing definite returns on investment.

There is talk about developing a trainer mech optimized for rookie mechwarriors. The Aerie has pointedly requested that they not get any machines with freezers, although they do request ones with more punishing heat curves in order to better teach cadets how to manage their machines.

1st Armored’s 2nd Brigade now has 2 full battalions of Lion tanks and a full Mechanized Infantry Regiment. The ASF forces have also expanded well. Even the RRF has gotten a bit larger with the AAA unit now fully up under a still very nervous young Major who seems to be quite obsessive about proper maintenance and procedure, bless his soul.

The hardening of two factories takes place without incident or disruption in production.

The new port on Five Fingers has been completed with some fanfare. Careful exploitation of the new petroleum fields has started, along with large fisheries that are now more readily exploited in a sustainable manner.

You have established a licensing bureau similar to the one already implemented for civilian small craft to license and regulate civilian dropships. Already firms have started design work on a series of bulk cargo dropships that should prove extremely useful for logistics and future expansion.

Relief and infrastructure efforts on Nowy Gdansk have actually completed a bit earlier than expected thanks to an outpouring of donations and support from the people of Griffin’s Roost combined with the sheer industriousness of the ex-slaves on Nowy Gdansk blowing the timelines out of the water.

The new Gyrfalcon factory is operational, and the DHS factory has been expanded to nearly double its former size. Considering the sheer level of demand for DHS it would probably be wise to build additional DHS factories in addition to the other strategic resources.

The models are finally in full circulation. For some reason the factory continuously experiences serious glitches on the Eagle models, with finished products seemingly never making it to the distribution warehouses. Careful tracking has so far failed to produce any leads, apart from sightings of a short, squat, heavily bearded individual who looks a bit blocky yet somehow manages to never get caught, who appears to somehow be looting all the Eagle models.

Justice is on the case.

A large statue of a freed Polish resistance fighter, broken shackles on his wrists and a rifle in his hands, standing with one foot pressed down on the severed tail of a dragon and in a quite determined and heroic pose is unveiled. It is extremely popular, both on Griffin’s Roost and on Nowy Gdansk, with a reproduction promptly unveiled in the town square of the planetary settlement there.

Jake’s deputies spend quite a bit of time shuttling between the Lords, the Commons, and your office, and in the end you are able to at the very least calm the worst of their anger over you catching them out on their little power grab. Not that you are at all sorry about that, but if they think you’ll just roll over for them they have another think coming.

There is a serious kerfuffle with the orbital survey.

And the survey crew has been called in for a very stern motherly talking to.

You see, they are mostly younger researchers, many still grad students, and don’t always make the best decisions. They decided to calibrate the satellites by taking ultra-high definition 3d images and movies of a ‘known point target’. Unfortunately, they chose poorly which ‘known point target’ to use and, more importantly, when to use it.

The single largest nude beach on the island-continent of Griffsport.

During spring break.

When you, Thanh, Janet, her three daughters, and several of the younger girls' friends were visiting said nude beach.

Nude.

And the survey crew had filmed it. All of it. In ultra high definition so sharp that you can count the number of hairs.

The survey crew hadn’t been able to look you in the eye when you summoned them, with the younger males looking distinctly uncomfortable.

You’d promptly ordered them to take more ethics courses about appropriate use of the survey satellites.

The other research teams have done quite well. The field tests on the full range of LB-X autocannons have been completed and are now available for use in various designs. You’ve already been told that there was much whooping, cheering, and hollering in the offices of Nollak Industries at the news.

You are very afraid of this. Willis is definitely annoyed at the news.

Improved bandwidth capabilities on communications equipment has been researched, with a significant improvement in wireless data transfer rates over long distances.

New orbital infrastructure research has been completed, permitting more growth and expansion of orbital assets.

The new Department of Mega Engineering has been established to manage terraforming and massive infrastructure projects, like the infrastructure burial project taking place in Capricorn. They’ve already prepared a list of proposed project types that they can handle, which would be in addition to any Interior projects of that year.

The investigation into the backgrounds and pasts of those individuals linked to the 331st shows no major discrepancies, although part of that could be because your great-grandfather had evidently altered the records to seamlessly integrate their ancestors into the population at the time where they’d served as military and industrial advisors. You have a historical record from their descendents which shows loyal service to the Throne, with no relatives implicated in the Gem conspiracy, and none involved with the Department of Periphery Studies.

Prisoner interrogations go… well enough, you suppose. The ISF agents left behind on Nowy Gdansk are extremely long on fanaticism, contempt for gaijin, and brutality, but appear to be critically short on intelligence.

Counterintelligence procedures have been improved and new policies and methods have been implemented which should make it more difficult for anybody to infiltrate in the future.

The establishment of legal liaison offices and staff has proven to be a very useful step towards full integration of Nowy Gdansk.

On that note, the projects to develop a proper Imperial political and economic structure to address the challenges of multiplanetary and multisystem expansion has been completed with excellent results. The new system would leave planetary garrisons in the hands of the various planets, albeit the Imperial government would need to pay for their initial procurement and any upgrades required by them. It would also leverage the central bank to invest yearly surpluses in order to generate greater dividends, thus increasing available funds, but at the expense of requiring loan interest payments in the event of deficits. A small Imperial bicameral parliament would be seated, on similar lines to that already on Griffin’s Roost.

QM NOTE - The new sheets will show up tomorrow morning!
 

Bear Ribs

Well-known member
I wonder if we can also put together a 'mech racing league. It won't be as fast as the hovercraft league but getting more people learning to pilot 'mechs, and people learning to work on and improve 'mech performance, can't hurt. Perhaps to distinguish it, something like the Biathlon, with 'mechs crossing rough terrain and needing to shoot targets as they go.

We'd need to find a way to get an industrial 'mech factory to build them, perhaps making a model that's useful in normal industrial tasks but can double as a racer with a simple refit kit.
 
Kelgar04 - Canon Omake - A View From The Ice 5

kelgar04

Well-known member
A View From the Ice Part 5

In the cold tundra, several groups of men and women in the uniform of Armia Krajowa as they ran through the snow their sierżants and kaprals calling cadence as they ran.

"Come on," yelled a younger Sierżant, "my babcia could run this faster than you, and she was blind and had one leg!" As he ran past one of the groups.

Michal jogged along with the lead platoon he did this every so often to keep up his conditioning and to train with the soldiers. The emergency council had finally dissolved, and a more permanent one had been assembled by vote of the other residents of Nowy Gdańsk.

Old Leopold had taken over his role as head of the council and many of his old diplomatic duties and was welcome to his role. his son Young Leopold had become councillor of the interior, with Doctor Katlyn becoming head of medicine, Misha got a promotion to help run counterintelligence, and he had gotten made the local commander for the Armia Krajowa. They had also confirmed the rank of Kapitan on him and given Rowecki the rank of Starszy Chorąży. They had found the head of Justice and courts in the form of Andrey who had been an MP and aspiring lawyer back on NowA Warszawa and fit the role perfectly.

They crested the rise and started to run back down to run down to Camp Mocny the main base of the Armia Krajowa on the world. He had a meeting with Major Park this afternoon to talk about some development on Griffins Roost that may interest the Armia Krajowa. He grinned as he saw another supply dropper coming they had been coming in thick and fast recently the supplies they were bringing in where helping majorly in both keeping everyone fed and health as well as the build-up of Nowy Gdansk infrastructure they now had a fully equipped hospital with things they could only dream of on NowA Warszawa he’d seen Katlyn cry at all the medical knowledge, treatments and drugs she now had access to. She was burning the midnight oil trying to catch up with all the medical knowledge the Grifs had gathered over the year in between playing with the tigers and working.

He grinned the tigers loved the snow they seemed to be addicted to playing in the white stuff much like the Royal child and her companion. The children of Nowy Gdańsk loved the tigers and the tigers, for the most part, loved playing with the children it warmed many a heart seeing the children play with the massive cats. He had even seen them help one of the small children who took a nasty tumble and carried them to a small Armia Krajowa post where they got aid while the tiger comforted them with many a lick.

They ran through the gate shortly after and the sierżants and kaprals moved them off and had them fall in and then dismissed them as Michal moved into his office Rowecki was currently working with supply about getting caches of supplies set up encase Griffins Roost ran into trouble or was attacked.

He sighed and walked into the office he had paperwork to do and hoped that he could make a significant dent in it.

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He walked int Major Kim Park stood as Michal entered his spartan office and walked over to him Park was a younger man with Asiatic features and a shock of red hair.

“Hey Michal,” said park with a grin offering his hand, “how are you doing today? Your usual run go well?”

“Yes went well thanks for asking,” Michal said taking his hand with a smile at the younger man, “how are my boys doing working with your people in patrolling Nowy Gdansk and other duties.”

“They are getting on well,” Park said as they both got to the chairs in the office, “hell half of them spend their time trading tips on fighting my boys and girls have been taking notes, and some of them are a bit scared of some of them.”

“Let me guess Porucznik Jakub?” Michal asked referring to one of the former resistance scouts sierżant who he was sure was a former Cichociemni.

“Yes,” said Park with a nod, “I walked Man was explaining how to rig a man killing trap with an old mess tin and some rubber bands, and my scout teams were taking notes.”

“He does that have that effect,” Michal said sardonically, “Any way you wanted to talk to me about some development?”

“Yes,” Park replied, crossing his arms, “High Com and the Queen's council have been talking about equipping the Armia Krajowa with the same loadout as an AFGR infantry company.”

Michal leaned forward his eye intent and asked, “Really?”

“It’s been floated around, and the General cleared me to let you know it’s been discussed,” Park said, “we’d been looking at pulse laser rifles, man-pack PPCs and Support Lasers as well as manpack SRMS.”

“Could my men and myself get a look at some of the weapons manuals under your people’s supervision, of course? As well as some skill at arms training with the systems if possible?” asked Michal, “if we are going to get equipped, we need to know as much as possible and get training on their maintenance and operation.”

“I’ll see what I can do,” Park said, “I’ll have to kick it up the chain, but I can’t see the General having any problem with it.”

“Thank you,” Michal said, “Anything else?”

“Yes, one thing the queen son came up with a design I think you would like,” Park said with a smile and grabbed a folder off the table and showed him a picture and data print out of a mini-mech with classic cavalry sabres, “it’s called the Winged Hussar it’s an ultralight mech originally intended for infantry support.”

He took the picture and looked at it, “interesting,” Michal said, “could be useful as a scout and against infantry maybe law enforcement and guerrilla operations. It's fast enough it could easily move out after wiping the floor with infantry and light vehicles and as a spotter if what I am reading is correct about this TAG.”

He then smiled, “I also like the additions of the swords, and the speed would be very useful in cutting through unprepared opponents.”

“Can you think of anyone who would be willing to pilot it?” asked Park.

Michal lent back, “I can think of a few give me a day to speak to them, though I think if possible it would be interesting if we could equip it with some enlarged infantry weapons would make it more versatile.”

“I’ll look into it,” Park said, “How are things going with the new council?”

“Well,” Michal said, “Nice to be out of the head of it and Old Leopold has been doing well, hell we are already talking about setting up a Sejim for the city.”

“Good,” said Park, “How are things with Misha?”

“They are going well,” Michal said, “we have been taking it slow as you suggested we both have scars we need to deal with.”

“I know,” Park said as they both stood, “Anyway I’ll see you at the bar later.”

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He arrived at the bar with Misha later they had really hit it off recently there was a mutual attraction, and they had been slowly working on building up their relationship they both had been too damaged by their experiences that they were too afraid originally of becoming close but only to have the other snatched away. Only with the encouragement of the other lead by Park had they started a serious relationship, but it was slow going.

As they entered the bar, he smiled as he looked at Mish who smiled back, aside from Misha’s role on the council she had made an effort to both writing down and collect from others the history of their old world to make sure it wasn’t lost as well as helping out where she could.

They look at the bar and see everyone in the bar looking at the TV including park a lot of people have tears running down their face other smiling. He and Misha look at the TV, and he felt his eyes being to water as Misha squeezes his hand.

The statue of a freed Polish resistance fighter, broken shackles on his wrists and a rifle in his hands, standing with one foot pressed down on the severed tail of a dragon and in a quite determined and heroic pose. Well, that explained why those aid workers were taking pictures of Szeregowy Igor you could.

It was then the party for that evening in celebration of their new brothers in arms on Griffins Roost gift to them.
 

UltimatePaladin

Well-known member
I wonder if we can also put together a 'mech racing league. It won't be as fast as the hovercraft league but getting more people learning to pilot 'mechs, and people learning to work on and improve 'mech performance, can't hurt. Perhaps to distinguish it, something like the Biathlon, with 'mechs crossing rough terrain and needing to shoot targets as they go.

We'd need to find a way to get an industrial 'mech factory to build them, perhaps making a model that's useful in normal industrial tasks but can double as a racer with a simple refit kit.
So what, something like this?
Code:
Barebones-Mk1

Mass: 10 tons
Chassis: Industrial Biped
Power Plant: 80 Fuel Cell
Cruising Speed: 86.4 kph
Maximum Speed: 129.6 kph
Jump Jets: None
     Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor: Commercial
Armament:
Manufacturer: Unknown
     Primary Factory: Unknown
Communication System: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown
Introduction Year: 2960
Tech Rating/Availability: D/X-X-X-C
Cost: 540,107 C-bills

Type: Barebones
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Standard)
Tonnage: 10
Battle Value: 86

Equipment                                          Mass
Internal Structure            Industrial              2
Engine                        80 Fuel Cell            3
    Walking MP: 8
    Running MP: 12
    Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sink                     1                       0
Gyro                                                  1
Cockpit                                               3
Armor Factor (Commercial)     24                      1

                          Internal   Armor   
                          Structure  Value   
     Head                    3         7     
     Center Torso            4         4     
     Center Torso (rear)               1     
     R/L Torso               3         3     
     R/L Torso (rear)                  1     
     R/L Arm                 1         1     
     R/L Leg                 2         1     


Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand
Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand

Weapons
and Ammo              Location  Critical   Heat    Tonnage   

Quirks: Easy to Pilot, Exposed Actuators, Weak Legs
Used a fuel-cell engine and super low weight to lower costs (each unit at 10 tons and just over half a mil C-Bills,) with only a single heat sink. This means that it will overheat if you keep running for too long, but I think that just teaches heat management. For our intrepid racers, it can go about 80-90 kph walking, and almost 130 kph running.

It's a little more fragile than even an IndustrialMech would be (exposed actuators and weaker legs,) part of cost-reducing measures.

Though, the low weight limits industrial applications I have to admit. It's a great racer (maybe training tool because they're so cheap to build) and can lift 1 ton of cargo, but that is about it.
 

Thors_Alumni

Well-known member
So what, something like this?
Code:
Barebones-Mk1

Mass: 10 tons
Chassis: Industrial Biped
Power Plant: 80 Fuel Cell
Cruising Speed: 86.4 kph
Maximum Speed: 129.6 kph
Jump Jets: None
     Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor: Commercial
Armament:
Manufacturer: Unknown
     Primary Factory: Unknown
Communication System: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown
Introduction Year: 2960
Tech Rating/Availability: D/X-X-X-C
Cost: 540,107 C-bills

Type: Barebones
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Standard)
Tonnage: 10
Battle Value: 86

Equipment                                          Mass
Internal Structure            Industrial              2
Engine                        80 Fuel Cell            3
    Walking MP: 8
    Running MP: 12
    Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sink                     1                       0
Gyro                                                  1
Cockpit                                               3
Armor Factor (Commercial)     24                      1

                          Internal   Armor 
                          Structure  Value 
     Head                    3         7   
     Center Torso            4         4   
     Center Torso (rear)               1   
     R/L Torso               3         3   
     R/L Torso (rear)                  1   
     R/L Arm                 1         1   
     R/L Leg                 2         1   


Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand
Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand

Weapons
and Ammo              Location  Critical   Heat    Tonnage 

Quirks: Easy to Pilot, Exposed Actuators, Weak Legs
Used a fuel-cell engine and super low weight to lower costs (each unit at 10 tons and just over half a mil C-Bills,) with only a single heat sink. This means that it will overheat if you keep running for too long, but I think that just teaches heat management. For our intrepid racers, it can go about 80-90 kph walking, and almost 130 kph running.

It's a little more fragile than even an IndustrialMech would be (exposed actuators and weaker legs,) part of cost-reducing measures.

Though, the low weight limits industrial applications I have to admit. It's a great racer (maybe training tool because they're so cheap to build) and can lift 1 ton of cargo, but that is about it.
You should put that on the Discord.
 

Panzerkraken

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So what, something like this?
Code:
Barebones-Mk1
Used a fuel-cell engine and super low weight to lower costs (each unit at 10 tons and just over half a mil C-Bills,) with only a single heat sink. This means that it will overheat if you keep running for too long, but I think that just teaches heat management. For our intrepid racers, it can go about 80-90 kph walking, and almost 130 kph running.

It's a little more fragile than even an IndustrialMech would be (exposed actuators and weaker legs,) part of cost-reducing measures.

Though, the low weight limits industrial applications I have to admit. It's a great racer (maybe training tool because they're so cheap to build) and can lift 1 ton of cargo, but that is about it.

I like that it has a full cockpit and head though, since it's 10 tons it only takes 1 point of damage when it falls, so with those low armor values everywhere else it's going to trash itself a lot faster on the track than it will the pilot, even with skids and obstacles.
 

Bear Ribs

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My take on an Industrial for racing:

With two entire continents opened up for settlement, inevitably some stubborn explorers simply vanished into the thickets and went to found homesteads deep in the heartlands. To connect these areas the Frontiersman is designed as an exploration and trailblazing 'mech. It's left arm is equipped with a chainsaw for clearing homesteads and roadways while it's right arm mounts a flamer for those situations where the vegetation, or wildlife, is too much for even a 'mech scale chainsaw to handle. A communications package in the right arm gives it satellite uplink capability. A 90 meter jump capability is included in the 'mech for crossing gorges.

Racing Frontiersmen began as a backwoods sport with racers attempting to travel through brutally dense jungle while hitting targets with the flamer. The Frontiersman was always designed, however, with the possibility of being called into battle against the Draconis Combine, and both arms can be quickly replaced, mounting an LRM5 and 1 ton of ammo in place of the chainsaw and a trio of medium lasers in place of the communications equipment. Either arm can be replaced without the other allowing for mixes of LRM + communications equipment or chainsaw + medium lasers and flamer.

When the 'mech racing league became more mainstream the militarized models were preferred, with the track designed to have targets just out of range, and racers having to make the decision as to how much time to waste closing with the target vs. taking long-range potshots, adding to the excitement and unpredictability of the sport.

Code:
Frontiersman FTM-1I

Mass: 35 tons
Chassis: Industrial Industrial Biped
Power Plant: 175 Fusion
Cruising Speed: 54 kph
Maximum Speed: 86.4 kph
Jump Jets: Standard
     Jump Capacity: 90 meters
Armor: Heavy Industrial
Armament:
     1 Flamer
Manufacturer: Unknown
     Primary Factory: Unknown
Communication System: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown
Introduction Year: 3015
Tech Rating/Availability: D/X-E-E-D
Cost: 1,818,445 C-bills

Type: Frontiersman
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Standard) 
Tonnage: 35
Battle Value: 444

Equipment                                          Mass
Internal Structure            Industrial              7
Engine                        175 Fusion              7
    Walking MP: 5
    Running MP: 8
    Jumping MP: 3
Heat Sink                     10                      0
Gyro                                                  2
Cockpit                                               3
Armor Factor (Heavy Industrial)88                    5.5

                          Internal   Armor   
                          Structure  Value   
     Head                    3         9     
     Center Torso            11        11    
     Center Torso (rear)               4     
     R/L Torso               8         10    
     R/L Torso (rear)                  3     
     R/L Arm                 6         8     
     R/L Leg                 8         11    


Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand
Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm

Weapons
and Ammo                              Location  Critical   Heat    Tonnage    
Heat Sink                                LL        1        -       1.0   
Jump Jet                                 CT        1        -       0.5   
Heat Sink                                CT        1        -       1.0   
Jump Jet                                 RT        1        -       0.5   
Chainsaw                                 LA        5        -       5.0   
Jump Jet                                 LT        1        -       0.5   
Heat Sink                                RL        1        -       1.0   
Flamer                                   RA        1        3       1.0   
3 Communications Equipment (1 ton)s      RA        3        -       3.0

It's got the cost of a bugmech with slightly more survivability and some relatively easy variations. I think 'mech racing needs to include jumpjets in order to add to the strategy of the racers and excitement of the watchers.
 
Turn 30 - Welcome To Your Life

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Turn 30 - Welcome to Your Life

The year starts off with a wedding.

And you can’t keep yourself from crying.

Your little man. Your son. Your firstborn. He who stole your heart and never let go the moment you held him. He who grew under your heart and into your soul.

He belongs to another woman now.

Sure, he’ll always be your little boy. But now he’s Alita’s man. You couldn’t be happier. You couldn’t be sadder.

So you cry.

Royal tears, granted, not great big sobs.

But you aren’t some storybook queen from the past who had the stiffest of stiff upper lips and could handle triumph and adversity with nothing more than a tiny twitch of her lips.

You are you. And so you do you.

You cry.

You smile through the tears, as you are genuinely happy. He looks so grown up in his dress uniform (with the almost invisible little point on the collar, damn your ancestors!) as he stands up at the altar waiting for his bride.

He’s every inch an Officer. A Gentleman. A Good Man.

A Prince.

He looks, at that moment, like he belongs on a recruiting poster. His uniform is perfectly turned out, his shoes shine like mirrors, every bit of insignia and decoration is perfect.

Alita had considered wearing her own dress uniform, as she was assigned to the Quartermaster Corps here in Griffsport working in procurement, but instead was wearing an absolutely lovely traditional western-style bridal gown that was a confection in lace and pearls.

It looked gorgeous.

You liked her, and approved of her, and all of that. But a part of you still didn’t think anybody this side of the Pearly Gates was good enough for your boy.

But to be honest, she was.

The ceremony was held in Griffsport and was being live streamed across the planet, with a transmission going out to Nowy Gdansk as well. You’d had an aid whisper in your ear that this was now among the most watched events in Griffin’s Roost history, at least in terms of absolute number of viewers.

So you are understandably very upset when not 2 minutes after they finished saying their vows and were in the process of leaving the cathedral for the reception that the planetary alert alarms started blaring.

You are rushed to the new command bunker.

Upon arrival Sarah updates the situation. The highly modified Star Lord that had shown up intermittently in the sensor records had just appeared at the Nadir point.

The AI performs a high definition scan of the vessel and gives a report. There is evidence of wear and tear, perhaps some light damage from micrometeoroid impacts and a few signs of minor scarring from weapons fire that have been patched up, but the conglomerate vessel is substantially the same as it was.

It’s launched a couple Sparrowhawk ASFs which are patrolling around it, but is otherwise simply sitting still and charging it’s drive.

At full thrust HMS Defiant and HMS Intrepid could reach the jump point well before the Jumpship could jump out.

[] Send them to intercept

[] Attempt to communicate with the Jumpship.
 

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