Brogatar
Well-known member
Thank you.
Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
- Thread starter LordSunhawk
- Start date
Jarow
Well-known member
[X] Yes
[X] Retire the Pathfinder
[X] Plan: Start all the big projects
-[X] Military [$258494.04]
--[X] Begin Advanced Design Work on Jump Point Defense Stations [->1]
(It'll be a while to actually build anything, but might as well start planning what to build)
--[X] Harden Factory 16 (Microraptor) [65]
--[X] Harden Factory 17 (Warrior) [65]
--[X] Harden Factory 14 (Shortbow) [65]
(Level 1 hardening is cheap)
--[X] Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $82694.76]
---[X] Microraptor [75]
---[X] Enterprise [75]
---[X] Haskell [75]
(Lets not lose any dropship production)
--[X] Purchase New Units [$22799.28]
---[X] 2 Flight of Gyrfalcons [70]
(Need 5 more of these for 2 wings of each fighter)
---[X] 2 Flights of Goshawks [70]
(Garrison for new stations)
---[X] 1 Flight of Falcons [70]
(We need 3 more to fill this out)
---[X] 1 Light Fire Company [70]
(Fills out first fire company-based battalion)
---[X] 2 Lances of Cadet Mech [70]
(We need 5 more to fill out this unit)
---[X] 81 Platoons Power Armor (Light) [70]
(Our first PA unit)
---[X] 9 Platoons Chasseur [70]
(Start the Nowy Gdansk "go too fast" unit)
---[X] 18 Companies Special Operations [70]
(Finish of Special Operations regiment)
---[X] 1 Lance Orb Weaver Battlemech [70]
(New scout unit to replace retiring Pathfinder)
-[X]Interior [$213750]
--[X] Ruins Stabilization and Clearing [->1]
(Notable buff to primary planet)
--[X] Build Orbital Factory Griffins Roost L5 Ferro-Aluminum [90]
--[X] Build Orbital Factory Nowy Gdansk L5 Ferro-Aluminum [90]
(This is the resource we're shortest on in relation to need)
--[X] Expand Factory 14 (Shortbow) [85]
(Allows us to build 2 fire companies a turn)
--[X] Build Space Station Nowy Gansk L5 [80]
--[X] Build Space Station Griffin's Roost L5 [80]
(Basic deense stations for undefended production centers)
--[X] DOME - Nowy Gdansk Arcology* [->4]
--[X] DOME - Water Purification Griffin's Roost* [->4]
--[X] DOME - Mega-pipeline Griffin's Roost* [->4]
-[X] Diplomatic [$40000]
--[X] Pre-colonization Survey of Griffin IV* [65]
--[X] Infrastructure Development on Nowy Gdansk [80]
(Last one to bring them up to 10 infrastucture)
--[X] Have Exploration Fleet Survey Griffin 2 [75]
(Might as well get a quick view at Griffin-Venus, we can send both explorers out to asteroid belt next turn)
--[X] CULTURE - Benefits Concert [75]
(Tax rate = money)
-[X] Political [$110000]
--[X] Build Relations with Chamber of Delegates* [60]
--[X] Increase Funding to the Department of Periphery Studies [65]
(Don't want them to cause issues)
-[X] Research [$425200]
--[X] Genetic Editing* [45]
--[X] Improved Communications Lvl 4* [auto]
--[X] Orbital Survey [105]
(Pure cost saving - lots of expensive stuff in this plan, a little extra left over getting interest can help make sure we can afford next turn)
--[X] Arrow IV [85]
(develop big missiles, like what might be needed for nukes)
--[X] K-F Drive Theory Tier 1 [->4]
(Need at least one level of this for jumpships, probably only unlocks jumpship research tree)
--[X] Guardian ECM [95]
(Givens enemies disadvantage on initiative, cheap research)
--[X] Subcap decision [n/a]
--[X] Subcap decision [n/a]
-[X] Intelligence [$250000]
--[X] Counterintelligence Surveillance [?]
--[X] Construct secure 'Black Site' [75]
-[X] Justice [$50000]
--[X] Intensive Investigation of Bratva [->2]
--[X] Audit of Laws and Regulations [->4]
-[X] Miscellaneous [$235000]
--[X] Subcap Research - 150000
--[X] Velociraptor Research - 10000
--[X] Nowy Gdansk Immigration Subsidies - 50000
--[X] Pollux Teachers - 25000
A little under 400k leftover, should be enough to make sure we get through next turn if things don't go well.
[X] Retire the Pathfinder
[X] Plan: Start all the big projects
-[X] Military [$258494.04]
--[X] Begin Advanced Design Work on Jump Point Defense Stations [->1]
(It'll be a while to actually build anything, but might as well start planning what to build)
--[X] Harden Factory 16 (Microraptor) [65]
--[X] Harden Factory 17 (Warrior) [65]
--[X] Harden Factory 14 (Shortbow) [65]
(Level 1 hardening is cheap)
--[X] Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $82694.76]
---[X] Microraptor [75]
---[X] Enterprise [75]
---[X] Haskell [75]
(Lets not lose any dropship production)
--[X] Purchase New Units [$22799.28]
---[X] 2 Flight of Gyrfalcons [70]
(Need 5 more of these for 2 wings of each fighter)
---[X] 2 Flights of Goshawks [70]
(Garrison for new stations)
---[X] 1 Flight of Falcons [70]
(We need 3 more to fill this out)
---[X] 1 Light Fire Company [70]
(Fills out first fire company-based battalion)
---[X] 2 Lances of Cadet Mech [70]
(We need 5 more to fill out this unit)
---[X] 81 Platoons Power Armor (Light) [70]
(Our first PA unit)
---[X] 9 Platoons Chasseur [70]
(Start the Nowy Gdansk "go too fast" unit)
---[X] 18 Companies Special Operations [70]
(Finish of Special Operations regiment)
---[X] 1 Lance Orb Weaver Battlemech [70]
(New scout unit to replace retiring Pathfinder)
-[X]Interior [$213750]
--[X] Ruins Stabilization and Clearing [->1]
(Notable buff to primary planet)
--[X] Build Orbital Factory Griffins Roost L5 Ferro-Aluminum [90]
--[X] Build Orbital Factory Nowy Gdansk L5 Ferro-Aluminum [90]
(This is the resource we're shortest on in relation to need)
--[X] Expand Factory 14 (Shortbow) [85]
(Allows us to build 2 fire companies a turn)
--[X] Build Space Station Nowy Gansk L5 [80]
--[X] Build Space Station Griffin's Roost L5 [80]
(Basic deense stations for undefended production centers)
--[X] DOME - Nowy Gdansk Arcology* [->4]
--[X] DOME - Water Purification Griffin's Roost* [->4]
--[X] DOME - Mega-pipeline Griffin's Roost* [->4]
-[X] Diplomatic [$40000]
--[X] Pre-colonization Survey of Griffin IV* [65]
--[X] Infrastructure Development on Nowy Gdansk [80]
(Last one to bring them up to 10 infrastucture)
--[X] Have Exploration Fleet Survey Griffin 2 [75]
(Might as well get a quick view at Griffin-Venus, we can send both explorers out to asteroid belt next turn)
--[X] CULTURE - Benefits Concert [75]
(Tax rate = money)
-[X] Political [$110000]
--[X] Build Relations with Chamber of Delegates* [60]
--[X] Increase Funding to the Department of Periphery Studies [65]
(Don't want them to cause issues)
-[X] Research [$425200]
--[X] Genetic Editing* [45]
--[X] Improved Communications Lvl 4* [auto]
--[X] Orbital Survey [105]
(Pure cost saving - lots of expensive stuff in this plan, a little extra left over getting interest can help make sure we can afford next turn)
--[X] Arrow IV [85]
(develop big missiles, like what might be needed for nukes)
--[X] K-F Drive Theory Tier 1 [->4]
(Need at least one level of this for jumpships, probably only unlocks jumpship research tree)
--[X] Guardian ECM [95]
(Givens enemies disadvantage on initiative, cheap research)
--[X] Subcap decision [n/a]
--[X] Subcap decision [n/a]
-[X] Intelligence [$250000]
--[X] Counterintelligence Surveillance [?]
--[X] Construct secure 'Black Site' [75]
-[X] Justice [$50000]
--[X] Intensive Investigation of Bratva [->2]
--[X] Audit of Laws and Regulations [->4]
-[X] Miscellaneous [$235000]
--[X] Subcap Research - 150000
--[X] Velociraptor Research - 10000
--[X] Nowy Gdansk Immigration Subsidies - 50000
--[X] Pollux Teachers - 25000
A little under 400k leftover, should be enough to make sure we get through next turn if things don't go well.
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Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
you know I get the feeling that at most we'll have five more years before the Dracs show back up
I'd say less time right now I get the feeling they are getting ready for a strike.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
so in a year or two? Well at least that lets us get the Warrior and a few other dropships into service plus some more ASFs.By the way did we ever rebuild the orbital satellite defense grid this time with manuvering thrusters to dodge the method that took down a large chunk of the old one?
Thors_Alumni
Well-known member
[X] Yes
[X] Retire the Pathfinder
[X] Plan: Start all the big projects
[X] Retire the Pathfinder
[X] Plan: Start all the big projects
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
You know something along the times of the Okinawa class dropship should be possible for us to build which would be nice since it can haul around a whole ASF wing
lordmcdeath
Well-known member
[X] Yes
[X] Retire the Pathfinder
[X] Plan: Start all the big projects
[X] Retire the Pathfinder
[X] Plan: Start all the big projects
Jarow
Well-known member
While this holds true for the Lyran Alliance and FWL, an Okinawa can't carry the FedSuns/"normal" Mercenary 20 fighter wing, The Combine 36 fighter wing (same size as ours), or the Capellan 39.
Also, given we're competent designers, we have a few more specific requirements in our designs to be allowed, like 50 tons of cargo per ASF (which Okinawa doesn't meet). Both the Microraptor and Warrior carry a single Griffin's Roost Squadron of 12, while being reasonably capable of not dying. I think it's just barely possible to fit a full Griffin's Roost wing in a 10k spheroid, but it'd be a lot more fragile than would be preferred for something that makes as big a target as a carrier of that size.
[X] Plan Space Expansion
Starting Funds: $1 767 187 [ $2 007 133- 9 396 (Haskell) - 9 056 (Diadem) - 46 494 (Warrior) - 150 000 (subcapital weapons) - 25 000 (teachers' strike) ]
Expenditure: $1 159 064
Remaining Funds: $608 125
Military $53 246
-[X]Purchase New Units - 1 Light Fire Company + 9 units Chasseurs + 81 units basic Power Armour Light + 2 units Gyrfalcon IIs + 1 Unit Falcon IIs + 27 units Special Ops infantry +2 units Goshawk IIGs +9 units Foxhound IIs + 9 units Fox Terriers
-[X] Lay Down Major Unit <Microraptor DropShip, HMS Microraptor>, <Enterprise DropShip, USS Eratosthenes> , <Haskell DropShip, HMS Hendry>
-[X] Harden Factory <13> to <lvl 1>
-[X]Harden Factory <14> to <lvl 1>
-[X] Harden Factory <15> to <lvl 1>
-[X] Harden Factory <16> to <lvl 1>
Interior $57 500
-[X]Build Factory for <Velociraptor Aviation Gunship> <Phoenix>
-[X]Expand Orbital Factory 5 <Ferro-Aluminium> <lvl 3>
-[X]Expand Orbital Factory 11 <Double Heat Sinks> <lvl 2>
-[X] Expand Space Station 7 <Nowy Gdansk> <lvl 2>
-[X]Expand Space Station 12 <Inner Asteroid Belt> <lvl 2>
-[X]Build Orbital Factory 17 <Ferro Aluminium> <Griffon's Rest L5>
-[X]DOME - Nowy Gdansk Arcology (ongoing)
-[X]DOME - Water Purification <Phoenix> (ongoing)
-[X]DOME - Mega-Pipeline <Phoenix> (ongoing)
Diplomacy $30 100
-[X]Increased funding for the Arts
-[X] [Colonisation] Have Exploration Fleet Survey Griffon II
-[X][Colonisation] Pre-Colonisation Survey of Griffin IV (ongoing)
-[X] CULTURE - Benefits Concert
Political $100 000
-[X] Increased funding to the Department of Periphery Studies $100 000
Research $575 000
-[X]Genetic Editing (ongoing)
-[X]Improved Comms lvl 4 (ongoing)
-[X]K-F Drive Theory Tier 1
-[X]Guardian ECM
-[X]Arrow IV
-[X]Heavy Bipedal BattleMechs
Intelligence $250 000
-[X] Construct secure Black Site
Justice $100 000
-[X]Intensive Investigation of Bratva
-[X]Audit of Laws and Regulations
Expanded factories to produce more Ferro-Aluminium and DHS, also expanding space stations to hold more Goshawk IIG ASFs for defence, so I also built 2 units of Goshawks. Hardened undefended factories. Built 1 battalion Foxhound II hovertanks and 1 battalion Fox Terrier missile hovertanks to help build same RRF on Nowy Gdansk as the Chasseurs were going to
Starting Funds: $1 767 187 [ $2 007 133- 9 396 (Haskell) - 9 056 (Diadem) - 46 494 (Warrior) - 150 000 (subcapital weapons) - 25 000 (teachers' strike) ]
Expenditure: $1 159 064
Remaining Funds: $608 125
Military $53 246
-[X]Purchase New Units - 1 Light Fire Company + 9 units Chasseurs + 81 units basic Power Armour Light + 2 units Gyrfalcon IIs + 1 Unit Falcon IIs + 27 units Special Ops infantry +2 units Goshawk IIGs +9 units Foxhound IIs + 9 units Fox Terriers
-[X] Lay Down Major Unit <Microraptor DropShip, HMS Microraptor>, <Enterprise DropShip, USS Eratosthenes> , <Haskell DropShip, HMS Hendry>
-[X] Harden Factory <13> to <lvl 1>
-[X]Harden Factory <14> to <lvl 1>
-[X] Harden Factory <15> to <lvl 1>
-[X] Harden Factory <16> to <lvl 1>
Interior $57 500
-[X]Build Factory for <Velociraptor Aviation Gunship> <Phoenix>
-[X]Expand Orbital Factory 5 <Ferro-Aluminium> <lvl 3>
-[X]Expand Orbital Factory 11 <Double Heat Sinks> <lvl 2>
-[X] Expand Space Station 7 <Nowy Gdansk> <lvl 2>
-[X]Expand Space Station 12 <Inner Asteroid Belt> <lvl 2>
-[X]Build Orbital Factory 17 <Ferro Aluminium> <Griffon's Rest L5>
-[X]DOME - Nowy Gdansk Arcology (ongoing)
-[X]DOME - Water Purification <Phoenix> (ongoing)
-[X]DOME - Mega-Pipeline <Phoenix> (ongoing)
Diplomacy $30 100
-[X]Increased funding for the Arts
-[X] [Colonisation] Have Exploration Fleet Survey Griffon II
-[X][Colonisation] Pre-Colonisation Survey of Griffin IV (ongoing)
-[X] CULTURE - Benefits Concert
Political $100 000
-[X] Increased funding to the Department of Periphery Studies $100 000
Research $575 000
-[X]Genetic Editing (ongoing)
-[X]Improved Comms lvl 4 (ongoing)
-[X]K-F Drive Theory Tier 1
-[X]Guardian ECM
-[X]Arrow IV
-[X]Heavy Bipedal BattleMechs
Intelligence $250 000
-[X] Construct secure Black Site
Justice $100 000
-[X]Intensive Investigation of Bratva
-[X]Audit of Laws and Regulations
Expanded factories to produce more Ferro-Aluminium and DHS, also expanding space stations to hold more Goshawk IIG ASFs for defence, so I also built 2 units of Goshawks. Hardened undefended factories. Built 1 battalion Foxhound II hovertanks and 1 battalion Fox Terrier missile hovertanks to help build same RRF on Nowy Gdansk as the Chasseurs were going to
Given that drop collar limits are not currently a concern for us, I'd strongly recommend sticking to small carriers, since smaller DropShips get significantly more points of armor per ton and are thus both proportionally and absolutely tougher than the big ones.
(Developing the most advanced possible armor types helps quite a bit, especially since the increased cost is still trivial relative to the cost of a DropShip. Unfortunately, the only advanced armor type that will fit on a DropShip is Clan-grade Ferro-Aluminum; Ferro-Carbide and Lamellar Ferro-Carbide are exclusively for JumpShips and WarShips)
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Turn 35 - Wild Boys Always Shine
Turn 35 - Wild Boys Always Shine
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You are awakened one fine December morning by your security detail, although it is immediately obvious that they are struggling hard not to laugh.
The Imperial Palace is in the process of being TPed. By the Periphery Studies tenured faculty. Who are chanting what they no doubt think are extremely clever and punchy anti-alien slogans that include references to anal probing, cattle mutiliations, and crop circles.
While they TP the palace.
With enough TP that you are quite certain there will be shortages at the big stores come the morning.
According to the guards the fine professors are convinced that this is the only way they can save the Empire from the pernicious influence of Dread Cthulhu and the Tau.
By TPing the Palace.
Your palm meets your face in a loving yet forbidden romance.
Neither of the twins are in serious title contention this year, even if by the end of the season they’d both won a single race. The new rules package has proven extremely hard to adapt to for everybody, but a few smaller teams get lucky and manage to eek out their first victories, making the championship hunt this year rather chaotic.
In an odd twist, the twins and Smirky both condemn the new rule package, on the grounds that the new regulations make the actual racing more a matter of luck than skill. The new rules make the hovercraft so dynamically unstable that spins and crashes are excessively common, mostly due to bans on most of the common types of aerodynamic stabilizers that had been in common use.
The League has announced changes for next season, so hopefully things go better.
Of course, you’d be happiest if the twins would settle down and find girlfriends or, better yet, wives, but that doesn’t seem to be happening.
Jeremy is now in command of a full battalion and, if his letter to you is anything to go by, enjoying himself immensely. So far it appears that the composite unit structure is working extremely well in practical terms. So well in fact that he’s proposed several new variants for consideration.
First, for armored units, 2 Jaguar platoons supported by a Mechanized Infantry company mounted in a platoon of Weasel IFVs. This ensures closer coordination between the AFVs and the infantry, improving the effectiveness of both.
Second, he proposes a combined arms unit for artillery. Specifically, a pair of Paladin SPG platoons teamed up with a lance of Orb Weaver mechs. The mechs would provide forward spotting for the big guns, while the big guns would be on call to punish anything the mechs designate.
His final proposal is more theorycrafting, as you don’t yet have the hardware to make it work, but he proposes mating a company of jump-capable power armor to a company of Orb Weaver mechs to form a unit capable of rapidly taking and holding ground.
Procurement in general has gone extremely well, with all of the new units fully stood up and in service before the end of the year. Two in particular stand out.
In contrast to all the shenanigans the Rapid Reaction Force suffered, the 2nd RRF starts off with a splash, the initial cadre for the Chasseur battalion prove incredibly skilled.
In addition, the first lance of Orb Weaver mechs are a revelation, the raw agility and speed they demonstrate is eye-opening, especially combined with 4 of the finest pilots to have graduated from the Aerie in a number of years.
HMS Diadem has left the construction hall and will be commissioning next year, making the factory available for new construction at that time. In addition, you attended the keel laying ceremonies for HMS Argus, HMS Hendry, and USS Discovery.
More factories have been hardened, strengthening your defenses against any sudden raid or act of sabotage.
In orbit, four total stations have been built, 2 orbital Ferro-Aluminium forges and 2 space stations, which have already been put in operation.
However, the expansion project for the Shortbow line has run into a few snags, with a mix of labor issues and a key subcontractor going out of business due to the owners having been on one of the small craft involved in the Castor runway disaster. They hope to complete the project by Q2 of next year.
On Griffin IV the survey has run into a teeny tiny itty bitty snag. Just a small thing, really. But, well. The captain of USS Enterprise apparently decided to join the exploration team on the surface, which was all well and good. Until the team got attacked by some of the local wildlife.
Large multi legged segmented lizard-like creatures that burrow under the sand and ambush prey around one of the few meager streams that provided water in the area decided that said captain looked tasty. So one of them tried to attack him. And in the process tore his shirt, as he fought it off.
This got caught on camera and is now a meme.
Which was very predictable.
What wasn’t was that the same creatures attacked the base camp and managed to cause enough damage to the equipment that the survey results will not be available until Q1 next year.
Infrastructure development on Nowy Gdansk has likewise hit a snag, in this case a tunnel being dug for expanding the rail net ran into a previously undetected cavern. The tunneling machine itself was a loss, but the crews were able to salvage parts of it and are building an underground bridge to carry the rails through the massive cavern while investigating uses the area could be put to.
The basic survey of Griffin II was far more successful. The planet is completely lifeless and a pure hothouse, any attempt to colonize it would need to handle surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, surface pressures high enough to crush anything not heavily reinforced, and a sulfuric acid atmosphere that is tailor made to really wreck things. The debris ring around the planet appears to have once been a moon which got torn apart in some long ago incident. There are large concentrations of extremely valuable ores in the ring which would be very viable to develop commercially, enough so that when the results of the survey are published you get multiple requests for permission to start mining operations.
The concert is a great success, with enormous outpouring of generous contributions to the surviving family members of the victims of the Castor runway disaster.
Jake is finally able to meet with the Chamber of Delegates and manages to secure agreements amongst them to more strongly support the Crown.
On the other hand, thanks to the recent Periphery Studies shenanigans, finding people willing to work with the faculty there is far more difficult than anticipated. They are unable to find nearly enough qualified personnel to make any real difference. Perhaps next year they’ll have more luck.
The work on genetic editing has proven far more difficult to complete than expected, especially considering the ethical implications of the research and the desire to make sure not to violate any ethical norms. Research is continuing.
The work on improving communications technology has finally born fruit, with improvements to cutting through interference and noise.
Instead of performing an orbital survey of Griffin’s Roost itself, you have one done of Nowy Gdansk, and discover something incredibly valuable. A suspiciously symmetrical pile of snow and ice on a large island is found to be artificial in origin. Initial exploration shows it to be a crashed K-1 Dropshuttle in Star League markings that appears to date from the initial colonization of the system.
The R&D labs are able to complete work on both Arrow IV and Guardian ECM, making both systems available for construction.
On the other hand, the construction work on the Black Site has had to be restarted after serious flaws were discovered in the life support systems. It appears to have been a simple case of overly ambitious specifications for overly segmenting the system to enable the injection of crowd control gases into the prisoner spaces. This led to so many cut outs and extraneous valves that it proved impossible to properly seal the system. Redesign work is in progress.
Meta-Event Roll - 53
Dynasty Luck - 30
Approval - 7
Approval Change - 6
Politics - 4
Econ Rating - -2
Econ Event - 4
Research Event - -2
Griffin’s Roost Econ - 2
Griffin’s Roost Health - 6
Griffin’s Roost Rating Change - 0
Nowy Gdansk Econ - 2
Nowy Gdansk Health - 7
Nowy Gdansk Rating Change - 5
GIAB Econ - 8
GIAB Rating Change - -3
Dynasty Luck - 30
Approval - 7
Approval Change - 6
Politics - 4
Econ Rating - -2
Econ Event - 4
Research Event - -2
Griffin’s Roost Econ - 2
Griffin’s Roost Health - 6
Griffin’s Roost Rating Change - 0
Nowy Gdansk Econ - 2
Nowy Gdansk Health - 7
Nowy Gdansk Rating Change - 5
GIAB Econ - 8
GIAB Rating Change - -3
Harden Factory 16 (Microraptor) [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS
Harden Factory 17 (Warrior) [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS
Harden Factory 14 (Shortbow) [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 30
Result - SUCCESS
Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $82694.76]
-Microraptor [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 55
Result - SUCCESS
-Enterprise [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 27
Result - SUCCESS
-Haskell [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS
Purchase New Units [$22799.28]
-2 Flight of Gyrfalcons [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 48
Result - SUCCESS
-2 Flights of Goshawks [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 59
Result - SUCCESS
-1 Flight of Falcons [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS
-1 Light Fire Company [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS
-2 Lances of Cadet Mech [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS
-81 Platoons Power Armor (Light) [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS
-9 Platoons Chasseur [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 1
Result - Critical SUCCESS
-18 Companies Special Operations [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 8
Result - SUCCESS
-1 Lance Orb Weaver Battlemech [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 1
Result - Critical SUCCESS
Build Orbital Factory Griffins Roost L5 Ferro-Aluminum [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 76
Result - SUCCESS
Build Orbital Factory Nowy Gdansk L5 Ferro-Aluminum [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS
Expand Factory 14 (Shortbow) [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 94
Result - Bare FAILURE (auto success next turn)
Build Space Station Nowy Gansk L5 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 18
Result - SUCCESS
Build Space Station Griffin's Roost L5 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
Pre-colonization Survey of Griffin IV* [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 74
Result - Bare FAILURE (auto success next turn)
Infrastructure Development on Nowy Gdansk [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 89
Result - Bare FAILURE (auto success next turn)
Have Exploration Fleet Survey Griffin 2 [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
CULTURE - Benefits Concert [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 24
Result - SUCCESS
Build Relations with Chamber of Delegates* [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
Increase Funding to the Department of Periphery Studies [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 81
Result - FAILURE
Genetic Editing* [45]
Target - 45
Roll - 82
Result - FAILURE
Improved Communications Lvl 4* [auto]
Orbital Survey [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 1
Result - CRITICAL SUCCESS
Arrow IV [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 31
Result - SUCCESS
Guardian ECM [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 36
Result - SUCCESS
Construct secure 'Black Site' [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 85
Result - FAILURE
Target - 65
Roll - 57
Result - SUCCESS
Harden Factory 17 (Warrior) [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 42
Result - SUCCESS
Harden Factory 14 (Shortbow) [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 30
Result - SUCCESS
Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $82694.76]
-Microraptor [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 55
Result - SUCCESS
-Enterprise [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 27
Result - SUCCESS
-Haskell [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS
Purchase New Units [$22799.28]
-2 Flight of Gyrfalcons [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 48
Result - SUCCESS
-2 Flights of Goshawks [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 59
Result - SUCCESS
-1 Flight of Falcons [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 65
Result - SUCCESS
-1 Light Fire Company [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS
-2 Lances of Cadet Mech [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 32
Result - SUCCESS
-81 Platoons Power Armor (Light) [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 64
Result - SUCCESS
-9 Platoons Chasseur [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 1
Result - Critical SUCCESS
-18 Companies Special Operations [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 8
Result - SUCCESS
-1 Lance Orb Weaver Battlemech [70]
Target - 70
Roll - 1
Result - Critical SUCCESS
Build Orbital Factory Griffins Roost L5 Ferro-Aluminum [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 76
Result - SUCCESS
Build Orbital Factory Nowy Gdansk L5 Ferro-Aluminum [90]
Target - 90
Roll - 56
Result - SUCCESS
Expand Factory 14 (Shortbow) [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 94
Result - Bare FAILURE (auto success next turn)
Build Space Station Nowy Gansk L5 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 18
Result - SUCCESS
Build Space Station Griffin's Roost L5 [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 11
Result - SUCCESS
Pre-colonization Survey of Griffin IV* [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 74
Result - Bare FAILURE (auto success next turn)
Infrastructure Development on Nowy Gdansk [80]
Target - 80
Roll - 89
Result - Bare FAILURE (auto success next turn)
Have Exploration Fleet Survey Griffin 2 [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
CULTURE - Benefits Concert [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 24
Result - SUCCESS
Build Relations with Chamber of Delegates* [60]
Target - 60
Roll - 13
Result - SUCCESS
Increase Funding to the Department of Periphery Studies [65]
Target - 65
Roll - 81
Result - FAILURE
Genetic Editing* [45]
Target - 45
Roll - 82
Result - FAILURE
Improved Communications Lvl 4* [auto]
Orbital Survey [105]
Target - 105
Roll - 1
Result - CRITICAL SUCCESS
Arrow IV [85]
Target - 85
Roll - 31
Result - SUCCESS
Guardian ECM [95]
Target - 95
Roll - 36
Result - SUCCESS
Construct secure 'Black Site' [75]
Target - 75
Roll - 85
Result - FAILURE
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You are awakened one fine December morning by your security detail, although it is immediately obvious that they are struggling hard not to laugh.
The Imperial Palace is in the process of being TPed. By the Periphery Studies tenured faculty. Who are chanting what they no doubt think are extremely clever and punchy anti-alien slogans that include references to anal probing, cattle mutiliations, and crop circles.
While they TP the palace.
With enough TP that you are quite certain there will be shortages at the big stores come the morning.
According to the guards the fine professors are convinced that this is the only way they can save the Empire from the pernicious influence of Dread Cthulhu and the Tau.
By TPing the Palace.
Your palm meets your face in a loving yet forbidden romance.
Neither of the twins are in serious title contention this year, even if by the end of the season they’d both won a single race. The new rules package has proven extremely hard to adapt to for everybody, but a few smaller teams get lucky and manage to eek out their first victories, making the championship hunt this year rather chaotic.
In an odd twist, the twins and Smirky both condemn the new rule package, on the grounds that the new regulations make the actual racing more a matter of luck than skill. The new rules make the hovercraft so dynamically unstable that spins and crashes are excessively common, mostly due to bans on most of the common types of aerodynamic stabilizers that had been in common use.
The League has announced changes for next season, so hopefully things go better.
Of course, you’d be happiest if the twins would settle down and find girlfriends or, better yet, wives, but that doesn’t seem to be happening.
Jeremy is now in command of a full battalion and, if his letter to you is anything to go by, enjoying himself immensely. So far it appears that the composite unit structure is working extremely well in practical terms. So well in fact that he’s proposed several new variants for consideration.
First, for armored units, 2 Jaguar platoons supported by a Mechanized Infantry company mounted in a platoon of Weasel IFVs. This ensures closer coordination between the AFVs and the infantry, improving the effectiveness of both.
Second, he proposes a combined arms unit for artillery. Specifically, a pair of Paladin SPG platoons teamed up with a lance of Orb Weaver mechs. The mechs would provide forward spotting for the big guns, while the big guns would be on call to punish anything the mechs designate.
His final proposal is more theorycrafting, as you don’t yet have the hardware to make it work, but he proposes mating a company of jump-capable power armor to a company of Orb Weaver mechs to form a unit capable of rapidly taking and holding ground.
Procurement in general has gone extremely well, with all of the new units fully stood up and in service before the end of the year. Two in particular stand out.
In contrast to all the shenanigans the Rapid Reaction Force suffered, the 2nd RRF starts off with a splash, the initial cadre for the Chasseur battalion prove incredibly skilled.
In addition, the first lance of Orb Weaver mechs are a revelation, the raw agility and speed they demonstrate is eye-opening, especially combined with 4 of the finest pilots to have graduated from the Aerie in a number of years.
HMS Diadem has left the construction hall and will be commissioning next year, making the factory available for new construction at that time. In addition, you attended the keel laying ceremonies for HMS Argus, HMS Hendry, and USS Discovery.
More factories have been hardened, strengthening your defenses against any sudden raid or act of sabotage.
In orbit, four total stations have been built, 2 orbital Ferro-Aluminium forges and 2 space stations, which have already been put in operation.
However, the expansion project for the Shortbow line has run into a few snags, with a mix of labor issues and a key subcontractor going out of business due to the owners having been on one of the small craft involved in the Castor runway disaster. They hope to complete the project by Q2 of next year.
On Griffin IV the survey has run into a teeny tiny itty bitty snag. Just a small thing, really. But, well. The captain of USS Enterprise apparently decided to join the exploration team on the surface, which was all well and good. Until the team got attacked by some of the local wildlife.
Large multi legged segmented lizard-like creatures that burrow under the sand and ambush prey around one of the few meager streams that provided water in the area decided that said captain looked tasty. So one of them tried to attack him. And in the process tore his shirt, as he fought it off.
This got caught on camera and is now a meme.
Which was very predictable.
What wasn’t was that the same creatures attacked the base camp and managed to cause enough damage to the equipment that the survey results will not be available until Q1 next year.
Infrastructure development on Nowy Gdansk has likewise hit a snag, in this case a tunnel being dug for expanding the rail net ran into a previously undetected cavern. The tunneling machine itself was a loss, but the crews were able to salvage parts of it and are building an underground bridge to carry the rails through the massive cavern while investigating uses the area could be put to.
The basic survey of Griffin II was far more successful. The planet is completely lifeless and a pure hothouse, any attempt to colonize it would need to handle surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, surface pressures high enough to crush anything not heavily reinforced, and a sulfuric acid atmosphere that is tailor made to really wreck things. The debris ring around the planet appears to have once been a moon which got torn apart in some long ago incident. There are large concentrations of extremely valuable ores in the ring which would be very viable to develop commercially, enough so that when the results of the survey are published you get multiple requests for permission to start mining operations.
| [] | Approve | Would require the construction of 3 Space Stations at Griffin II (1 at L4, 1 at L5, and 1 at L1), would establish Griffin II Orbitals as a separate planet, with initial fixed population of 1,000 and GDP of 100,000, Econ Rating 65, Health Rating 65, Rating Change of 60 |
| [] | Disapprove |
The concert is a great success, with enormous outpouring of generous contributions to the surviving family members of the victims of the Castor runway disaster.
Jake is finally able to meet with the Chamber of Delegates and manages to secure agreements amongst them to more strongly support the Crown.
On the other hand, thanks to the recent Periphery Studies shenanigans, finding people willing to work with the faculty there is far more difficult than anticipated. They are unable to find nearly enough qualified personnel to make any real difference. Perhaps next year they’ll have more luck.
The work on genetic editing has proven far more difficult to complete than expected, especially considering the ethical implications of the research and the desire to make sure not to violate any ethical norms. Research is continuing.
The work on improving communications technology has finally born fruit, with improvements to cutting through interference and noise.
Instead of performing an orbital survey of Griffin’s Roost itself, you have one done of Nowy Gdansk, and discover something incredibly valuable. A suspiciously symmetrical pile of snow and ice on a large island is found to be artificial in origin. Initial exploration shows it to be a crashed K-1 Dropshuttle in Star League markings that appears to date from the initial colonization of the system.
The R&D labs are able to complete work on both Arrow IV and Guardian ECM, making both systems available for construction.
On the other hand, the construction work on the Black Site has had to be restarted after serious flaws were discovered in the life support systems. It appears to have been a simple case of overly ambitious specifications for overly segmenting the system to enable the injection of crowd control gases into the prisoner spaces. This led to so many cut outs and extraneous valves that it proved impossible to properly seal the system. Redesign work is in progress.
Alas.
Unfortunately, one of those pilots has read Orwell, and as a result, there is a viral video of the newly graduated Orb Weaver lance dancing their Battlemechs in complex patterns while chanting, "Four legs good, two legs bad! Four legs good, two legs bad!"
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