Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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[X] Epic and Inspirational
Panzerkraken
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[X] Epic and Inspirational
Turn 34 - Somebody Once Told Me
Turn 34 - Somebody Once Told Me
Your grandson is a delight, as he’s at that age where he loves sitting on grandma’s lap while you work at your desk. Jeremy was like that as a toddler and you missed that. Your eldest granddaughter was in the playpen your own kids had used when they were little playing intently with some soft toys. John had moved on to blocks when he wasn’t drowsing on your lap.
And you had a third grandbaby on the way. You knew your strategy of giving Jeremy and Alita plenty of free childcare would yield grandbabies. Another little girl, according to the doctors.
You were currently facing a bit of a dilemma. The population of Nowy Gdansk had grown enough that they could staff a single major factory, which would give you some more production capacity, however that wouldn’t be the most efficient use of their energies in regards to growing and sustaining the economy. You have been considering several avenues during consultations with Bridget and representatives of Nowy Gdansk. All of the options are generally decent, and all come with the risk of various challenges in the future no matter which you choose, apart from simply keeping things general and allowing it to happen on it’s own.
QM Note - For Heavy Industrial, Commercial, and Military Focus, these decisions will open possible future event chains.
Sarah sends you an alert, albeit an informational one not a priority one. She has completed analysis of ultra high definition scans of the Free Folks jumpship and has discovered something… interesting. Each of the permanently docked dropship’s 'noses’ have been converted into turret structures which house what appear to be significantly oversized lasers. They are much too small to be capital naval lasers, but far larger than your extended range 8cm models.
These appear to be some sort of sub-capital laser, which doesn’t appear in any datacores that Sarah has access to and appears to be something unique to these Free Folk. The AI has already delivered her analysis to the researchers at the Aerie who are looking into the matter and have promised to report once they have any proposals.
This year is the Olympics, with both Winter and Summer events. It’s of little surprise that the residents of Nowy Gdansk do exceptionally well in the Winter events, which are held in early January. The event teams are able to produce sufficient artificial snow for skiing, snowboarding, and other outdoor events, but it is a strain considering that they can’t turn the equipment off even for a minute otherwise they’d fall behind the ridiculous melt rate due to Griffin’s Roost being a tropical planet. And this was with the entire event being held right near the Arctic Circle outside of Five Fingers, which is currently the coldest continuously inhabited city on the planet.
It gets below freezing on rare occasions in the winter… at midnight… rarely. The lowest daily high since they built the place has been 2 degrees Celsius. As far as you are concerned this is frightfully cold, but to the people of Nowy Gdansk this is downright sweltering. You can easily tell if any given competitor is from Griffin’s Roost or Nowy Gdansk, the locals are wrapped up in bulky winter clothing and are shivering, those from Nowy Gdansk are wearing swimsuits.
If you tried that your nipples would freeze off.
Needless to say, the podiums are swept by Poles for the entire Winter Event. You look forward to the Summer, where you are sure things will be a bit different.
The twins have started a charitable program for professional racers in which they mentor and sponsor poor kids in the Pee Wee and Junior leagues. So far the response has been overwhelming, with turnout for Pee Wee and Junior races almost quintupling. With the professional season starting the twins have a bit less time to personally devote to the project, but they make sure that their crews stay fully involved and regularly bring the kids to the professional races with Pit passes and top of the line seats.
You are proud of the boys, even if they haven’t gotten married and given you grandbabies.
Thanh is still flying Roc IIs despite the upgrades given to the Eagle. She’s now a flight leader, in charge of a four-ship flight, and seems to be doing rather well in her chosen career. Her wife is likewise doing well working in the R&D field, in fact she’s on the team that’s reviewing those enlarged lasers that Sarah spotted.
Sarah and Tony are becoming even more serious, at least in their own geeky little way. They’ve co-authored a paper together! Just think, all those hours of romantic time in the library, just him, her, and the Dewey Decimal System.
You look at Willis.
Willis looks at you.
You both nod.
Time for parental intervention.
Everybody else has already accepted that those two are a pair. Those two are completely and totally oblivious.
So after checking and finding that Tony’s parents are just as fondly exasperated with their son’s obliviousness as you are to your daughter’s… talking to Mrs Bartalozzi reveals that he’s been cooking the family-only spaghetti recipe for your daughter, which as far as Mrs Bartalozzi is concerned makes Sarah family… you Take Steps(™).
You handle Sarah, Mrs Bartalozzi is handling Tony. After initial sputtering and nuclear grade blushing you manage to get Sarah to admit that she would totally love to marry Tony, and evidently Mrs Bartalozzi has managed to extract the same confession from her son.
After the most nerdily awkward proposals in the history of ever, you have finally gotten the pair of them to See The Light. The wedding is in three months. They are both barred from the research library until then on the grounds that you don’t want them distracted.
The things you do for grandbabies.
Your grandson is a delight, as he’s at that age where he loves sitting on grandma’s lap while you work at your desk. Jeremy was like that as a toddler and you missed that. Your eldest granddaughter was in the playpen your own kids had used when they were little playing intently with some soft toys. John had moved on to blocks when he wasn’t drowsing on your lap.
And you had a third grandbaby on the way. You knew your strategy of giving Jeremy and Alita plenty of free childcare would yield grandbabies. Another little girl, according to the doctors.
You were currently facing a bit of a dilemma. The population of Nowy Gdansk had grown enough that they could staff a single major factory, which would give you some more production capacity, however that wouldn’t be the most efficient use of their energies in regards to growing and sustaining the economy. You have been considering several avenues during consultations with Bridget and representatives of Nowy Gdansk. All of the options are generally decent, and all come with the risk of various challenges in the future no matter which you choose, apart from simply keeping things general and allowing it to happen on it’s own.
| [] | Option | Effects |
| [] | General Economic Focus | +50% GDP Growth Nowy Gdansk |
| [] | Heavy Industrial Focus | +10,000 Upkeep, +100% GDP Growth Nowy Gdansk, -20 Health Rating Nowy Gdansk, +5 Factory Rating Nowy Gdansk |
| [] | Commercial Focus | +10,000 Upkeep, +100% GDP Growth Nowy Gdansk, +20 Econ Rating Nowy Gdansk |
| [] | Military Focus | Gain a free Factory at Rating 1 |
QM Note - For Heavy Industrial, Commercial, and Military Focus, these decisions will open possible future event chains.
Sarah sends you an alert, albeit an informational one not a priority one. She has completed analysis of ultra high definition scans of the Free Folks jumpship and has discovered something… interesting. Each of the permanently docked dropship’s 'noses’ have been converted into turret structures which house what appear to be significantly oversized lasers. They are much too small to be capital naval lasers, but far larger than your extended range 8cm models.
These appear to be some sort of sub-capital laser, which doesn’t appear in any datacores that Sarah has access to and appears to be something unique to these Free Folk. The AI has already delivered her analysis to the researchers at the Aerie who are looking into the matter and have promised to report once they have any proposals.
This year is the Olympics, with both Winter and Summer events. It’s of little surprise that the residents of Nowy Gdansk do exceptionally well in the Winter events, which are held in early January. The event teams are able to produce sufficient artificial snow for skiing, snowboarding, and other outdoor events, but it is a strain considering that they can’t turn the equipment off even for a minute otherwise they’d fall behind the ridiculous melt rate due to Griffin’s Roost being a tropical planet. And this was with the entire event being held right near the Arctic Circle outside of Five Fingers, which is currently the coldest continuously inhabited city on the planet.
It gets below freezing on rare occasions in the winter… at midnight… rarely. The lowest daily high since they built the place has been 2 degrees Celsius. As far as you are concerned this is frightfully cold, but to the people of Nowy Gdansk this is downright sweltering. You can easily tell if any given competitor is from Griffin’s Roost or Nowy Gdansk, the locals are wrapped up in bulky winter clothing and are shivering, those from Nowy Gdansk are wearing swimsuits.
If you tried that your nipples would freeze off.
Needless to say, the podiums are swept by Poles for the entire Winter Event. You look forward to the Summer, where you are sure things will be a bit different.
The twins have started a charitable program for professional racers in which they mentor and sponsor poor kids in the Pee Wee and Junior leagues. So far the response has been overwhelming, with turnout for Pee Wee and Junior races almost quintupling. With the professional season starting the twins have a bit less time to personally devote to the project, but they make sure that their crews stay fully involved and regularly bring the kids to the professional races with Pit passes and top of the line seats.
You are proud of the boys, even if they haven’t gotten married and given you grandbabies.
Thanh is still flying Roc IIs despite the upgrades given to the Eagle. She’s now a flight leader, in charge of a four-ship flight, and seems to be doing rather well in her chosen career. Her wife is likewise doing well working in the R&D field, in fact she’s on the team that’s reviewing those enlarged lasers that Sarah spotted.
Sarah and Tony are becoming even more serious, at least in their own geeky little way. They’ve co-authored a paper together! Just think, all those hours of romantic time in the library, just him, her, and the Dewey Decimal System.
You look at Willis.
Willis looks at you.
You both nod.
Time for parental intervention.
Everybody else has already accepted that those two are a pair. Those two are completely and totally oblivious.
So after checking and finding that Tony’s parents are just as fondly exasperated with their son’s obliviousness as you are to your daughter’s… talking to Mrs Bartalozzi reveals that he’s been cooking the family-only spaghetti recipe for your daughter, which as far as Mrs Bartalozzi is concerned makes Sarah family… you Take Steps(™).
You handle Sarah, Mrs Bartalozzi is handling Tony. After initial sputtering and nuclear grade blushing you manage to get Sarah to admit that she would totally love to marry Tony, and evidently Mrs Bartalozzi has managed to extract the same confession from her son.
After the most nerdily awkward proposals in the history of ever, you have finally gotten the pair of them to See The Light. The wedding is in three months. They are both barred from the research library until then on the grounds that you don’t want them distracted.
The things you do for grandbabies.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
I swear if the Empress put half the effort she did in getting grandchildren as she did psionically willing Luthien to explode the Dracs would be down one capital by now
Thors_Alumni
Well-known member
If only, that would definitely solve a lot of problems but won't take the DCMS out since some Kurita's will be off world and will quickly take over depending on where on the line they are. Or if the BD don't decide that now would be a good time to start their bullshit.
Thors_Alumni
Well-known member
[X] General Economic Focus
My first thought remains and i would prefer to go with General Economics Focus instead.
My first thought remains and i would prefer to go with General Economics Focus instead.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
[X] Military Focus
Ridli Scott
Well-known member
[X] General Economic Focus
I think this is the correct one, if they have more people later they would start to diversify without risk of over specialization or dependende.
I think this is the correct one, if they have more people later they would start to diversify without risk of over specialization or dependende.
[X] Heavy Industrial Focus
As much as I dislike the ecological effects of extensive heavy industry, the bottom line is that we *need* that economic expansion. We can take measures to mitigate the impact, and. . . well, it's a minimally populated virgin planet. As the history of our own RL Earth demonstrates, planets are *pretty* robust.
Huh, it looks like the Free Folk invented a form of sub-capital laser before the Blakists did.
(In OOC terms sticking to the established terms from BTech is probably easier for everyone, but my personal preference would be to call sub-capitals "naval X", and then the full scale WarShip weapons would be "capital X".)
As much as I dislike the ecological effects of extensive heavy industry, the bottom line is that we *need* that economic expansion. We can take measures to mitigate the impact, and. . . well, it's a minimally populated virgin planet. As the history of our own RL Earth demonstrates, planets are *pretty* robust.
Huh, it looks like the Free Folk invented a form of sub-capital laser before the Blakists did.
(In OOC terms sticking to the established terms from BTech is probably easier for everyone, but my personal preference would be to call sub-capitals "naval X", and then the full scale WarShip weapons would be "capital X".)
Panzerkraken
Well-known member
[X] Heavy Industrial Focus
PeaceMaker 03
Well-known member
[X] General Economic Focus
I think we are doing great as a planet.
Multiple Mech lines
Multiple ASF lines
Multiple Tank lines
Multiple DriopShip lines
All in a short time frame, we are at the level of IS capital planets( near enough), and not long ago we had little after the DC raid.
Priority should be trade for sub cap/ naval laser tech and tech to assist our scientist with free traders.
With that we secure our orbitals.
I think we are doing great as a planet.
Multiple Mech lines
Multiple ASF lines
Multiple Tank lines
Multiple DriopShip lines
All in a short time frame, we are at the level of IS capital planets( near enough), and not long ago we had little after the DC raid.
Priority should be trade for sub cap/ naval laser tech and tech to assist our scientist with free traders.
With that we secure our orbitals.
