Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

kelgar04

Well-known member
[X] Yes
[X] Agree. Cost 3000, gain 1 lance of Shortbow FS Mechs for the Light Fire Company.
[X] AH-2
[X] Gausshawk
[X] Approve
[X] Plan: Lostech Boom Town
 

Thors_Alumni

Well-known member
[X] Yes
[X] Agree. Cost 3000, gain 1 lance of Shortbow FS Mechs for the Light Fire Company.
[X] AH-2
[X] Gausshawk
[X] Approve
[X] Plan: Lostech Boom Town
 

PeaceMaker 03

Well-known member
[X] Yes
[X] Agree. Cost 3000, gain 1 lance of Shortbow FS Mechs for the Light Fire Company.
[X] AH-2
[X] Gausshawk
[X] Approve
[X] Plan: Lostech Boom Town
 

Nikandros

Well-known member
[X] Yes
[X] Agree. Cost 3000, gain 1 lance of Shortbow FS Mechs for the Light Fire Company.
[X] AH-2
[X] Gausshawk
[X] Approve
[X] Plan: Lostech Boom Town
 

lordmcdeath

Well-known member
[X] Yes
[X] Agree. Cost 3000, gain 1 lance of Shortbow FS Mechs for the Light Fire Company.
[X] AH-2
[X] Gausshawk
[X] Approve
[X] Plan: Lostech Boom Town
 

Vilegrave

Well-known member
[X] Yes
[X] Agree. Cost 3000, gain 1 lance of Shortbow FS Mechs for the Light Fire Company.
[X] AH-2
[X] Gausshawk
[X] Approve
[X] Plan Uptech not Upchuck
 

Culsu

Agent of the Central Plasma
Founder
[X] Yes
[X] Agree. Cost 3000, gain 1 lance of Shortbow FS Mechs for the Light Fire Company.
[X] AH-2
[X] Gausshawk
[X] Approve
[X] Plan: Lostech Boom Town
 
Turn 33 - It's a Very Very... Mad World

LordSunhawk

Das BOOT (literally)
Owner
Administrator
Staff Member
Founder
Turn 33 - It’s a Very Very…. Mad World.

Meta Event Roll - 44 - No Event
Dynasty Luck Roll - 4 - Artemis research completed this turn for free

Imperial Approval - 5
Approval Change - -2
Politics - 2

Imperial Economics - 6
Economy Event - -1
Research Event - -1

Griffin’s Roost Econ - 2
Griffin’s Roost POP - 10
Griffin’s Roost Rating Change - 2

Nowy Gdansk Econ - 2
Nowy Gdansk POP - 3
Nowy Gdansk Rating Change - 0

GIAB Econ - 1
GIAB POP - N/A
GIAB Rating Change - 3

Purchase New Units
-1 Flight of Goshawks [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 60
Result - SUCCESS

-1 Flight of Gyrfalcons [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS

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

-1 Lance of Ambush Battlemechs [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 36
Result - SUCCESS

-1 Lance of Pathfinder Battlemechs [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 68
Result - SUCCESS

-2 Lances Cadet Battlemechs [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 69
Result - SUCCESS

-5 Platoons Jaguar MBT [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 1
Result - Critical Success

-27 Platoons Space Marines [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 63
Result - SUCCESS

-9 Platoons Verdun UDV [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 44
Result - SUCCESS

-9 Platoons AH-2 [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 55
Result - SUCCESS

Focus Development on Griffin's Roost. [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 46
Result - SUCCESS

Build factories for Shortbow [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 8
Result - SUCCESS

Build factories for Falcon II [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 21
Result - SUCCESS

Build Space Station Asteroid 3 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 54
Result - SUCCESS

Expand Orbital Factory 2 (Endosteel) [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 59
Result - SUCCESS

CULTURE - Benefit Concert [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 54
Result - SUCCESS

Build Relations with Chamber of Delegates [60]
Target - 60
Roll - -82, ShadowArxxy Reroll - -95, Kelgar04 Reroll - 99, Kelgar04 Reroll - 92
Result - FAIL

Strengthen political ties to Nowy Gdansk [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 1
Result - Critical SUCCESS

Conduct Referendum on Imperial Anthem [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 38
Result - SUCCESS

Electronics lvl 4 [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 89
Result - FAIL

Power Generation lvl 4 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 90
Result - FAIL

Improved Communications Lvl 4 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 90
Result - FAIL

Advanced Ultra Autocannons* [auto]

Light Quad Mechs [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 94
Result - SUCCESS

Spheroid Dropships (medium) [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 92
Result - FAIL

Clear and Secure Ruins [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS

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Most of the time you think your grandfather and great-grandfather were geniuses in how they set up the Department of Periphery Studies. Sure they cause heartburn sometimes, and their antics can be alarming every so often, but they tend to be comic relief and harmless, and the concept gives the mentally ill far more dignity than any other means of handling the issue.

Then there are times, like now, where you want to systematically strangle every single one of them and curse your ancestors.

The Imperial Parliament is under siege. By the faculty of the Department of Periphery Studies. Who stormed the building wearing giant hot dog costumes and declaring that they are taking over to protest the gross injustice to bratwurst.

It would help if they knew how to spell, but massive banners reading ‘Brat Iives Matert’ are now festooning the building, the Delegates of the Chamber of Delegates are unable to leave their cloakrooms without getting sprayed with mustard and ketchup, the feedback squeals from far too many megaphones in use too close together is painful, and Jake has all but given up trying to accomplish anything in terms of meeting with the Delegates.

The janitorial staff is furious and demanding overtime to clean this mess up, because they can’t even get started without getting squirted by ‘tenured professors of Periphery Studies’ wielding large industrial-sized bottles of ketchup.

And that’s not even the worst part about this new obsession. Only half of the faculty are involved, the rest have ‘occupied’ the research labs at the University in order to conduct ‘war games’ with water pistols, nerf guns, and giant foam swords. The entire engineering and research department has ground to a complete halt while law enforcement tries to figure out how to deal with this strangeness.

And just when you thought it couldn’t get sillier, the second group decided that the first group were heretics and started chanting ‘Deus Vult’ while marching on Parliament, the first group decided the second group was in league with the Axis Of Sausages and boiled out of the Parliament building behind hurled baggies filled with mayonnaise, and everything is being caught on film by the entire media.

You check and discover that thanks to a paperwork snafu the Research Assistants had run out of the appropriate meds to keep their charges reasonably docile.

So now you have a completely trashed Parliament building that is still dripping with ketchup, mustard, and mayo, and the R&D staff is having to reset all of their experimental work and clean everything up before resuming work due to the shenanigans. On the positive side the proper meds have arrived and things have calmed down enough that the RAs were able to get the faculty to return to their own buildings.

Sometimes it doesn’t pay to wake up in the morning. You send a rather pointed memo to the Director of the Department of Periphery Studies rather pithily reminding him that part of his job is to keep things like this from happening and that if there is another failure at this level you will be reconsidering the Crown’s support for his program, or at least for his leadership of the program.

Both of the twins are in the championship hunt again this year, and this time Quan comes home with the trophy by 2 seconds over his brother. The race itself is marred by a nasty brawl, but for a wonder Smirky isn’t involved this time around, rather two other drivers got tangled up on pit road and their crews decided that a bout of fisticuffs was the best way to argue the situation.

Thanh is back on duty, although she is still grumbling about being in a ‘slow lumbering beast’ of a Roc II rather than an Eagle. While she grumbles in private, she’s wise enough to keep her opinion to herself around her unit and is establishing a reputation as a superb pilot for the 100 ton beast.

Speaking of the Eagle, however, near the end of the year you get a refit proposal from the Aerie for an Eagle II making full use of the new technological advances since the original Eagle was designed. The biggest problems you foresee are two fold. One, the new design is shockingly expensive, albeit cheaper than the Roc II, and it requires both Ferro-Aluminium and Double Heat Sinks as strategic materials. The actual upgrade will cost 19,490.40 to upgrade the two existing wings plus Enterprise’s flight.

[]NameCostMaterialsSpeedFuelHPA/DSpecials
[]Eagle II2882.8FA, DHS9818427Armored x2
[]Reject

Sarah is turning out to be quite the scholar, she’s already been accepted into a graduate program in History at GRU, and looks quite like she’ll happily settle into the academic life. Her and Mr Bartalozzi are still dating, and are quite serious about it, but somehow you’d never in your life considered a research library to be a ‘happening’ sort of place for a romantic date. That could just be you, because your daughter and her boyfriend seem to wind up in such places for their dates.

That’s when you get an evil idea and contact Janet, having her assign Jane to bodyguard Sarah with strict instructions to do nothing to reveal her presence to either your daughter, her boyfriend, or any other library patrons. You can already hear the whining and moaning.

Jeremy is happily leading his Light Fire Company around the proving grounds on Nowy Gdansk to test out tactical concepts, and it appears that the mixed company is quite effective in synergizing the capabilities of the various platforms within it.

QM Note - so long as you have 1 factory slot open for 1 Ambush II, 1 Trooper, and 1 Shortbow you can now purchase complete Light Fire Company units using standard procurement actions. See Ground Tracker for costs.

The new Gyrfalcon wing is continuing to grow. It’s currently based on Nowy Gdansk to provide rapid ASF support to the garrison. Meanwhile the new Goshawk flight is now in service on the freshly built station out in the Inner Asteroid Belt along with a full regiment of Space Marines to garrison the stations as they come online.

Your mech forces have grown in strength with the latest procurement, and the Jaguar unit is now at full strength itself. Likewise 2 full Battalion sets of the new AH-2 are now in service and already proving to be quite capable scout platforms.

There is now a full battalion of Verdun UDVs in service on Nowy Gdansk, assembled in local facilities. In combination with the efforts to strengthen ties of trust and comradeship between Nowy Gdansk and the Crown at this point the citizens of the planet can be considered 100% citizens of the Griffin Empire. As a consequence there has been an economic surge alongside a burst of population as ethnic Polish residents of Griffin’s Roost proper are now able to emigrate to Nowy Gdansk, with full internal immigration being opened in several years in an effort to preserve the unique cultural matrix of the planet.

Imperial investment in boosting the local economy on Griffin’s Roost itself has been fairly effective, seeing economic growth in all sectors. This is not something that can be sustained, but certainly investment in other areas will prove useful as well.

Several new factories have been built, and the Endo-Steel foundry in orbit has been expanded.

The benefit concert goes quite well. Featuring a series of classical music reimagined as more ‘epic’ music suitable for trailers and such. Attendance is solid and you rather enjoyed the music.

In terms of the national anthem you’ve been presented with a small menu of choices, more of ‘types’ of music than specific pieces, which will then be worked on to produce a proper anthem.

[] Militaristic
[] Epic and Inspirational
[] Patriotic and Grand
[] Poetic and Aspirational

The new ultra-autocannons are now available, being one of two projects that were completely housed in the Aerie and thus avoiding the mess with the Department of Periphery Studies. The other is the Quad Light Mech.

The initial prototype design from that project is available for production if a factory is built, it’s a 35 ton mech that tops out at almost 130 kph with a jump range of 240 meters. Armed with a single Enhanced ER PPC and equipped with both TAG and a Beagle Probe, the Orb Weaver is a supreme scout platform.

The Royal Grifftiger Mounted Police were fully occupied clearing out and fully securing the ruins, chasing out fairly large numbers of vagrants and squatters who’d slipped in and had been occupying the area. This is their official excuse for not being able to help out with the Periphery Studies situation at Parliament, although you are of the opinion that the real reason is that the ‘tigers had no interest in getting ketchup squirted on them.
 

Jarow

Well-known member
For comparison, the new and original Eagle:
NameCostMaterialsSpeedFuelHPA/DSpecials
Eagle II2882.8FA, DHS9818427Armored x2
Eagle18009510818Armored

That's a really big jump, to 1 less A/D than the Roc II but 28 more HP. I definitely think it's worth it. We'll need more ferro-aluminum factories, but those aren't that hard to build.

[X] Eagle II

No real opinion on anthem choice, I'll edit in something later if something convinces me to vote for it.


The failing research actions definitely aren't fun, but at least those essentially just delay development more than cause economic issues. Urist (the dice rolling program Sunhawk is using) really thinks the Chamber of Delegates shouldn't like us though.
 

ShadowArxxy

Well-known member
Comrade
And that’s not even the worst part about this new obsession. Only half of the faculty are involved, the rest have ‘occupied’ the research labs at the University in order to conduct ‘war games’ with water pistols, nerf guns, and giant foam swords. The entire engineering and research department has ground to a complete halt while law enforcement tries to figure out how to deal with this strangeness.

Naturally, the actual research students' response to this invasion is to produce their own water pistols, nerf guns, and giant foam swords with which to fight back, at least until the campus police order them to STOP MAKING THINGS WORSE, OR ELSE!

Sometimes it doesn’t pay to wake up in the morning. You send a rather pointed memo to the Director of the Department of Periphery Studies rather pithily reminding him that part of his job is to keep things like this from happening and that if there is another failure at this level you will be reconsidering the Crown’s support for his program, or at least for his leadership of the program.

The Director of the Department of Periphery Studies cheekily responds with a vintage Dilbert cartoon:



He brazenly doubles down on the point by including triplicate copies of his resignation letter, every single form you'd need to fill out to actually terminate his position, and a photocopy of his plane tickets to Capricorn. Apparently, he was actually stressed out enough by this latest debacle that his secretary and wife more or less *kidnapped* him into taking a vacation for the first time in decades, and he would be entirely overjoyed to *not come back*.

Thanh is back on duty, although she is still grumbling about being in a ‘slow lumbering beast’ of a Roc II rather than an Eagle. While she grumbles in private, she’s wise enough to keep her opinion to herself around her unit and is establishing a reputation as a superb pilot for the 100 ton beast.

The Queen decides in advance that if we ever salvage a WarShip, it will be designated a "superheavy AeroSpace Fighter" just so she can stick Thanh in it.

[X] Eagle II

[X] Epic and Inspirational

The Royal Grifftiger Mounted Police were fully occupied clearing out and fully securing the ruins, chasing out fairly large numbers of vagrants and squatters who’d slipped in and had been occupying the area. This is their official excuse for not being able to help out with the Periphery Studies situation at Parliament, although you are of the opinion that the real reason is that the ‘tigers had no interest in getting ketchup squirted on them.

The tigers may or may not have actually declared that they would eat anyone who squirted condiments on them.
 

Joyousmadman

Well-known member
[X] Eagle II
[X] Poetic and Aspirational

In the far future let us look back on this day and know that this was the moment that we decided “ fuck it... the Dracs, the Inner Sphere, Periphery Studies, uncooperative legislatures, the clans, ComStar, the succession wars, the very CONCEPT of lostech... fuck all of it. We’re going to be perfectly poised to beat them all like bass drum and then flex on them with the culture victory“
 
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kelgar04

Well-known member
This is their official excuse for not being able to help out with the Periphery Studies situation at Parliament, although you are of the opinion that the real reason is that the ‘tigers had no interest in getting ketchup squirted on them.

have you tried getting dried ketchup and mustard out of fur after some little sod thought it would be funny to tip some of your tiger friend your majesty.

[X] Eagle II
[X] Poetic and Aspirational
 

Culsu

Agent of the Central Plasma
Founder
[X] Eagle II
[X] Patriotic and Grand
Something that emphasizes national pride and unity seems like the right approach, especially given the integration of Nowy Gdansk into the imperial whole. Many origins, but one people, united under the banner of the Griffin.
 

Chaeronea

Well-known member
have you tried getting dried ketchup and mustard out of fur after some little sod thought it would be funny to tip some of your tiger friend your majesty.

[X] Eagle II
[X] Poetic and Aspirational

"Have you tried getting the remains of some little sod out of fur after they thought it would be funny to tip some on your tiger friend, Your Majesty?"

[X]Eagle II
[X] Epic and Inspirational
 

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