Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
- Thread starter LordSunhawk
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[X] Screw tradition, relocate the Periphery Studies somewhere where they won’t be a regular source of headaches for everyone. You’re sure the people of Griffsport will support this decision.
I find them insufferable, I'd rather just have a working asylum system then the disaster that is the Periphery Studies Department.
I find them insufferable, I'd rather just have a working asylum system then the disaster that is the Periphery Studies Department.
Turn 123 - Magic Touch
Turn 123 - Magic Touch
Some rather ingenious Griffsport PD officers managed to defuse the growing Party Police crisis in a quite clever manner. They simply convinced the distinguished tenured faculty of the Department of Periphery Studies that they were outside their jurisdictional boundaries and were thus missing the most pressing Party Fouls. The newly designated ‘Party Police Patrol Zones’ are all in pure industrial areas, mostly warehouses and such, well away from any residential or commercial areas. Griffsport PD, the hard-working staff of the Department of Periphery Studies, and local authorities worked with local businesses in those zones to ensure that plenty of fake ‘parties’ were going on for the Party Police to patrol for Party Fouls.
Which means you’ve been able to get your full night’s sleep. You make a point of sending congratulations to the officers involved in coming up with that solution.
There’s a growing number of skirmishes between Home Fleet and the Black Steel, all involving very light Black Steel forces. So far there have been no hull losses, although there have been casualties, and the Black Steel have withdrawn every time heavier forces arrive. The heaviest Black Steel units seen have been heavy cruisers, but the attacks are happening very close together all along your western and northwestern frontiers. Admiral Bremman has reported that he hopes that his staff believes that at current construction rates he’ll be able to hold the line and, by next year, should have sufficient vessels once the new Artemis dropships come online to actually deal with such light attacks without needing reinforcements from Grand Fleet, Expeditionary Fleet, or Strike Fleet.
Admiral Bremman does send you a memo noting that Home Fleet is working with Majeure Electrique on a carrier version of the old Troodon design. They currently plan to request the Aerospace Force to provide CAP wings for these units, as each flotilla of 10 Troodon-CVs would be able to carry a single such wing, but design work is still underway as, according to Bremman, he’s not been able to convince his superiors yet of the utility of the idea. The Troodon-CV would be at the very extreme limit of the new multi-hull capability of standard orbital shipyards, after all, and might require large dropship slips rather than regular dropship slips to pull off.
There’s also work underway on a SAR vessel specifically for Home Fleet’s dropship flotillas, based on a heavily modified Long Beach hull. This is still in a very preliminary phase, although there is a great deal of interest in the project.
Parliament is hard at work this year and has sent you a pair of proposals for your consideration.
The Civil Service Act of 3053 is a significant reform package intended to streamline and optimize the civil service by eliminating redundancies, optimizing processes and procedures, and eliminating a number of expensive mandates which increase costs without providing commensurate benefits. The Civil Service itself is rather hostile to the proposal as it would reduce headcounts in the relevant ‘redundant’ areas, eliminate a few perks that are currently enjoyed, and in some ways reduce the ‘prestige’ of the Civil Service.
The second piece of legislation is the Health Services Act of 3053. This bill would increase subsidies for the construction of hospitals and clinics throughout the Empire, especially in the poorest regions. It would also fund scholarships for medical students who commit to spending at least 20 years working at said clinics after graduation. Finally it would establish a dedicated Hospital Ship Service to supplement current disaster relief capabilities within the Empire as well as provide additional roving medical facilities for the newest colonies in the Empire.
Some rather ingenious Griffsport PD officers managed to defuse the growing Party Police crisis in a quite clever manner. They simply convinced the distinguished tenured faculty of the Department of Periphery Studies that they were outside their jurisdictional boundaries and were thus missing the most pressing Party Fouls. The newly designated ‘Party Police Patrol Zones’ are all in pure industrial areas, mostly warehouses and such, well away from any residential or commercial areas. Griffsport PD, the hard-working staff of the Department of Periphery Studies, and local authorities worked with local businesses in those zones to ensure that plenty of fake ‘parties’ were going on for the Party Police to patrol for Party Fouls.
Which means you’ve been able to get your full night’s sleep. You make a point of sending congratulations to the officers involved in coming up with that solution.
There’s a growing number of skirmishes between Home Fleet and the Black Steel, all involving very light Black Steel forces. So far there have been no hull losses, although there have been casualties, and the Black Steel have withdrawn every time heavier forces arrive. The heaviest Black Steel units seen have been heavy cruisers, but the attacks are happening very close together all along your western and northwestern frontiers. Admiral Bremman has reported that he hopes that his staff believes that at current construction rates he’ll be able to hold the line and, by next year, should have sufficient vessels once the new Artemis dropships come online to actually deal with such light attacks without needing reinforcements from Grand Fleet, Expeditionary Fleet, or Strike Fleet.
Admiral Bremman does send you a memo noting that Home Fleet is working with Majeure Electrique on a carrier version of the old Troodon design. They currently plan to request the Aerospace Force to provide CAP wings for these units, as each flotilla of 10 Troodon-CVs would be able to carry a single such wing, but design work is still underway as, according to Bremman, he’s not been able to convince his superiors yet of the utility of the idea. The Troodon-CV would be at the very extreme limit of the new multi-hull capability of standard orbital shipyards, after all, and might require large dropship slips rather than regular dropship slips to pull off.
There’s also work underway on a SAR vessel specifically for Home Fleet’s dropship flotillas, based on a heavily modified Long Beach hull. This is still in a very preliminary phase, although there is a great deal of interest in the project.
Parliament is hard at work this year and has sent you a pair of proposals for your consideration.
The Civil Service Act of 3053 is a significant reform package intended to streamline and optimize the civil service by eliminating redundancies, optimizing processes and procedures, and eliminating a number of expensive mandates which increase costs without providing commensurate benefits. The Civil Service itself is rather hostile to the proposal as it would reduce headcounts in the relevant ‘redundant’ areas, eliminate a few perks that are currently enjoyed, and in some ways reduce the ‘prestige’ of the Civil Service.
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| [] | Support the Civil Service Act of 3053 | The Civil Service provides critical services to the Empire and is the second largest line item in our annual non-discretionary budget. It is also bloated and contains redundancies that in the private sector, and indeed in other government sectors including the military and the Imperial household, would never be allowed. First of all, despite past attempts to centralize and consolidate human resources assets so as to avoid duplication, the Civil Service has managed to nevertheless grow their human resources overhead at almost a third again the rate as their front-end headcount. At the time of the original reform there had been 1 back office human resources officer for every 4 front-end employees doing actual productive work within their respective areas of expertise. That reform shifted the ratio to 1 in 20 with the legislation specifically mandating a long-term target of 1 in 25. Instead we are now at 1 in 3. The Civil Service has been simply administratively redefining these back office positions as front-end for the purposes of compliance with existing reforms, but the work that they are doing is very much back-office. Worse yet, these back-office employees spend upwards of a third of their paid hours engaging in ‘team activities’ rather than their purported duties, said ‘team activities’ seem to take place exclusively at various bars and restaurants with all expenses placed on expense accounts. Second, And in addition to the issues discussed above, the Civil Service has been getting increasingly creative in creating ‘incentive packages’ supposedly for new hires but which seem to always result in senior Civil Service employees receiving bonuses that increase their take-home pay to levels significantly higher than even the various Ministers that sit in your cabinet. The best paid individuals in the entire Empire are the senior Civil Service bureaucrats, with net take-home salaries higher than some corporate CEOs who manage trillion dollar megacorps and who are regularly denounced as obscenely wealthy. Eight ‘Senior Permanent Under Secretaries’ between them net almost ten billion in take home pay annually due to the multiplicative incentives and bonuses that they pay themselves, despite their official pay rates being far lower. Finally, the expense account benefits for the Civil Service have gotten out of control. Every year almost ten billion is spent just on this benefit, more than is spent on the entire Parliament, the entire Special Branch, all of your Minister’s salaries plus benefits, and the Environmental Board… combined. We are not saying that the Civil Service doesn’t do excellent work. They do. We are not claiming that they are corrupt, all of these benefits were set up openly and lawfully, it has just gotten so completely out of control as to be ridiculous. What is being proposed is the following. The administrative redesignation of back-end positions as front-end ones shall be banned and the original ratio limit of 1:30 relaxed to 1:25 but made ironclad. Expense accounts shall be limited to 10% of base salary, while incentives and bonuses shall be limited to 25% of base salary total. Finally no Civil Service bureaucrats take-home pay may exceed that of the Minister that they report to. |
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| [] | Oppose the Civil Service Act of 3053 | This legislation is long on emotional appeals to perceived pecuniary imbalances and short on anything resembling reasonable analysis. When adjusted for workload, time investment, and productivity the current Civil Service is the most efficient, cost-effective, and responsive bureaucratic and administrative body in history. While a small number of exceptionally senior bureaucrats do indeed receive extremely high net salaries, these are individuals who have worked for the Civil Service for over a hundred years each, have been critical to many of the great successes that the Empire has enjoyed thanks to their hard work, experience, and expertise, and between them they have saved the Griffon taxpayers over twice their combined salaries based on an external analysis from neutral analysts and auditors. The complaints about violating the back-end ratios set in previous legislation are equally deceptive. The individuals who this supposedly apply to primarily work as front-line employees in precisely the capacities that they were hired for, but have secondary training permitting them to cover for back-line employees during vacations, illnesses, and other absences. They receive no additional pay for receiving this secondary training. External audits show that these supposedly ‘excess bureaucrats’ perform back-end human resources functions less than 1% of the time. The complaints about expense accounts are equally specious. To read the proponents of this legislation's speeches you would think that the civil service employees are enjoying constant champagne lunches with the rarest caviars and most expensive entrees. The truth of the matter is that over 80% of the expense account claims in any given year are for travel expenses. While the Civil Service makes use of military transport assets for travel, by law we are required to account for the costs of such travel using equivalent civil rates for equivalent services. In effect, 80% of the ‘expense account’ expenses cited are paid by the Civil Service to other parts of the Imperial government and thus exist primarily for accounting purposes. |
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The second piece of legislation is the Health Services Act of 3053. This bill would increase subsidies for the construction of hospitals and clinics throughout the Empire, especially in the poorest regions. It would also fund scholarships for medical students who commit to spending at least 20 years working at said clinics after graduation. Finally it would establish a dedicated Hospital Ship Service to supplement current disaster relief capabilities within the Empire as well as provide additional roving medical facilities for the newest colonies in the Empire.
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| [] | Support the Health Services Act of 3053 | We already have a world class healthcare system… in the Core worlds and our fully established colonies. Many frontier worlds are limited to only one or two medical facilities on the planet for years, resulting in an unfortunate degradation of care. Many times the only medical facilities are located at militia bases and on board naval ships in the various systems rather than actual hospitals or clinics. The mechanism already exists to solve this issue. The existing Healthcare Subsidy has been highly successful in attracting skilled medical professionals to work in frontier medicine and has sped up the establishment of proper medical facilities across the Empire. It has been a great success. However the current funding level was set over a century ago, when the Empire existed only on a single world. The sheer scale of the Empire means that the current model is inadequate to the needs of our rapidly expanding frontiers. This legislation does nothing more than update the funding level to match current requirements to allow what is already a very successful system to thrive into the future. |
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| [] | Oppose the Health Services Act of 3053 | <No opposing arguments have been filed for this legislation> |
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Winter_Wind45
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[X] Oppose the Civil Service Act of 3053
[X] Support the Health Services Act of 3053
[X] Support the Health Services Act of 3053
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Thors_Alumni
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[X] Oppose the Civil Service Act of 3053
[X] Support the Health Services Act of 3053
[X] Support the Health Services Act of 3053
[X] Oppose the Civil Service Act of 3053
[X] Support the Health Services Act of 3053
[X] Support the Health Services Act of 3053
Turn 123 - Rag Doll
Turn 123 - Rag Doll
The latest, and largest, NRI warship has now been deployed to help patrol your eastern border against the recent uptick in pirate activity. While it is only a light cruiser, that is still a significant increase in tonnage and capability for the NRI’s navy. It continues the NRI’s obsession with gauss weaponry, mounting massive batteries of the heavy but lethal weapon. The new ship has already been blooded in a minor engagement with several pirate Jolly Rogers in the Nuova Fortezza system.
A small convoy of merchant jumpships escorted by Crimson Storm warships arrives from their space, carrying trade goods and valuable materials. The Crimson Storm informs you that they’ve established themselves and will be regularly escorting such convoys to your space, creating a new, very long distance, trade route that they have committed to keeping secure from Black Steel attacks.
Unfortunately, they do inform you that the Black Steel forces you’ve been facing are not the only ones about, that they too are facing significant Black Steel activity despite how far away from you they are. According to them, the Black Steel are behaving in a fairly decentralized manner, with quasi-independent bands doing their own thing. All of them are extremely violent and aggressive, but no two bands are identical in terms of their doctrine, strategy, or tactics. The ones they are facing, for example, are obsessed with carrier operations and primarily employ titanic swarms of ASFs backed up by dropships, while keeping their warships well away from the battle.
That is fairly disturbing in that it is very unlikely you’ll be able to eradicate the Black Steel threat in anything resembling a reasonable time frame. The only silver lining is that according to the Crimson Storm the various Black Steel sub groups fight each other nowadays as much as they fight everybody else, so unless a particularly capable or charismatic leader shows up for the Black Steel they won’t be uniting anytime soon.
There has been some discussion about forming a new March, as the Steel March is now growing extremely bloated. Nothing has been decided yet, however, as many of the new worlds in the Steel March are very recently colonized.
And now it is budget time. You still enjoy budget time, no matter how long you’ve been on the throne there’s just something about actually making impactful decisions that appeals to you.
Amaunet is up first as always, the giant cat purring softly as she waits for the others to settle down.
“Padrone, our naval reconstruction efforts are going well, the Aerospace Force is conducting an in-depth audit of the performance of various platforms as various R&D efforts continue in preparation for taking advantage of their fruits, as is the Army, our production capacities are ramping up quite nicely. I’ll let the various chief’s give you their reports and recommendations, General?”
General Bradley takes the podium. “Service life programs continue to be the primary focus for the Army at the moment, Your Majesty, as well as basic preparatory work using data from our friends in R&D about the upcoming advanced 5cm extended range lasers. We are gradually ramping down procurement of militia and garrison units, primarily to avoid any economic consequences of abruptly ending procurement. The Army is very much in a holding pattern, but we are ready if needed.”
She brings up a display showing procurement requests for the year, and it is quite short.
General Perkins is up next, and based on how many aides he’s brought you suspect that the normally laconic Air Force commander has a more hefty presentation than usual.
“Your Majesty, we’ve assembled a group of combat veterans, maintainers, operational planners, and logistics personnel to perform a thorough internal audit of the performance of our various platforms, both to prepare for the imminent new equipment as well as review our design standards and practices.” He begins.
“They were instructed to be as objective as possible, and we managed to have pilots who’d been assigned to every current and several now obsolete ASF platforms on the team. They are still in the process of compiling their reports and we hope to be able to complete the process by the time we start procurement of the new weapon system.”
He then brings up a display. “However, we do have some results to begin with that are concerning. There are two in particular that are concerning. First, that the command variant of the Sparrowhawk interceptor, the so-called ‘Sniper’ configuration, is almost universally disliked by pilots and maintainers due to the complexity of the electronics suite combined with the complete lack of secondary weapons to support the 8cm extended range laser carried by the variant as the sole armament. The Sniper concept had been to provide interceptor formations with the ability to begin attriting enemy formations at extreme range, but in practice this has proven of questionable utility. In the short term, we intend to retire that configuration completely, converting existing Snipers to standard Sparrowhawks. In the longer term, this will tie into the other issue. The Peregrine design is basically a slightly slower, more heavily armed interceptor, with a maximum acceleration of 7.5g compared to the Sparrowhawk’s 8.5g. In engagements against the Rouges Noir and pirates the Peregrine has proven effective, however against the Black Steel even the slight drop in performance has been detrimental, with Peregrine losses against the Black Steel’s drones being noticeably higher than the Sparrowhawks. We are planning on addressing this once the new weapons come out, using the electronics suite from the Sniper variant Sparrowhawk in the roomier chassis of the Peregrine while matching the faster fighters armament layout rather than attempting to get cute with an 8cm laser.”
He then switches to the more usual production and procurement display. “That being said, this is for the future, in the present we need to continue expanding our production facilities and, as I explained last year, building up our garrison wings.” He smiles briefly. “So our actual budget requests are rather simple, as usual.”
Admiral Sims is handling the Navy briefing this year, Admiral Fisher is currently at the new Fleet Base in the Nuova Lombardia system. “Your Majesty, the rate of increase of our production capacity continues to be a major priority for the Navy. That being said, we continue to have concerns about escort production levels. The more of the small boys we can get into service the better. Moreover, several of our most useful logistics vessels are produced in escort yards.” She checks her notes. “On a happy note, with Shin Tōkyō and Iskra now being Core worlds we can use them to expand our heavier warship yards as well.”
She then brings up the rather extensive budget request display.
Amaunet simply nods, chuffing slightly, as Sims takes her seat. Elizabeth Lee then takes over the podium.
“Your Majesty, in consultation with the Navy we propose to survey only to the Galactic southwest this year, to hopefully avoid stumbling into a major Black Steel base before we are ready to deal with it. We’ve also limited ourselves to the four most promising systems, although one is likely to be another waypoint system rather than a colonizable one. Those are still very useful for trade, however, since they tend to feature rather fast recharge times.” She grins slightly as she brings up the survey display.
“Your Majesty, the Foreign Ministry has nothing pressing at this time, we are in talks with the Ikea system regarding whether or not they mind us expanding our territory around them, they’ve indicated that so long as we don’t interfere with trade they won’t object at all. Considering that currently they only have customers because of our assistance that is likely a moot point. Other than that, we really don’t have any pressing priorities for you, Your Majesty. While it would be nice to have some cultural programming, it is hardly necessary at this time.”
Since it’s Tiberius’ turn next you turn to look at him then blink, as you could have sworn he’d been there earlier, but now there’s just a cardboard cutout of him with a sign duct taped to it reading ‘Civil Service Wants More Money’. It takes you a moment and you spot him hiding among the staffers looking like the cat who ate the canary, slurped down all the cream, knocked all the knicknacks off the shelves, and successfully blamed the dog for it all.
The meeting is consequently interrupted briefly for an impromptu ceremonial tossing of a certain Political Advisor through the Tyler Lee Memorial Window of Defenestration.
Grace then takes the podium once everybody returns to the meeting room, including a dripping Political Advisor who’s still grinning. “Your Majesty, we have three R&D teams available this year.” She begins. “We recommend the following projects for them to pursue.”
General Messerschmidt is absent, he’d sent you a memo detailing various projects that are ongoing, but none require any additional budgetary support at the moment.
Martina is last up. “Your Majesty, as we didn’t do it last year we really need to get cracking on the rationalization of legal codes this year.”
The latest, and largest, NRI warship has now been deployed to help patrol your eastern border against the recent uptick in pirate activity. While it is only a light cruiser, that is still a significant increase in tonnage and capability for the NRI’s navy. It continues the NRI’s obsession with gauss weaponry, mounting massive batteries of the heavy but lethal weapon. The new ship has already been blooded in a minor engagement with several pirate Jolly Rogers in the Nuova Fortezza system.
A small convoy of merchant jumpships escorted by Crimson Storm warships arrives from their space, carrying trade goods and valuable materials. The Crimson Storm informs you that they’ve established themselves and will be regularly escorting such convoys to your space, creating a new, very long distance, trade route that they have committed to keeping secure from Black Steel attacks.
Unfortunately, they do inform you that the Black Steel forces you’ve been facing are not the only ones about, that they too are facing significant Black Steel activity despite how far away from you they are. According to them, the Black Steel are behaving in a fairly decentralized manner, with quasi-independent bands doing their own thing. All of them are extremely violent and aggressive, but no two bands are identical in terms of their doctrine, strategy, or tactics. The ones they are facing, for example, are obsessed with carrier operations and primarily employ titanic swarms of ASFs backed up by dropships, while keeping their warships well away from the battle.
That is fairly disturbing in that it is very unlikely you’ll be able to eradicate the Black Steel threat in anything resembling a reasonable time frame. The only silver lining is that according to the Crimson Storm the various Black Steel sub groups fight each other nowadays as much as they fight everybody else, so unless a particularly capable or charismatic leader shows up for the Black Steel they won’t be uniting anytime soon.
There has been some discussion about forming a new March, as the Steel March is now growing extremely bloated. Nothing has been decided yet, however, as many of the new worlds in the Steel March are very recently colonized.
And now it is budget time. You still enjoy budget time, no matter how long you’ve been on the throne there’s just something about actually making impactful decisions that appeals to you.
Amaunet is up first as always, the giant cat purring softly as she waits for the others to settle down.
“Padrone, our naval reconstruction efforts are going well, the Aerospace Force is conducting an in-depth audit of the performance of various platforms as various R&D efforts continue in preparation for taking advantage of their fruits, as is the Army, our production capacities are ramping up quite nicely. I’ll let the various chief’s give you their reports and recommendations, General?”
General Bradley takes the podium. “Service life programs continue to be the primary focus for the Army at the moment, Your Majesty, as well as basic preparatory work using data from our friends in R&D about the upcoming advanced 5cm extended range lasers. We are gradually ramping down procurement of militia and garrison units, primarily to avoid any economic consequences of abruptly ending procurement. The Army is very much in a holding pattern, but we are ready if needed.”
She brings up a display showing procurement requests for the year, and it is quite short.
- Imperial Griffon Army
- Procurement
- Garrison
- 25 Garrison Divisions
- 25 Militia Divisions
- Garrison
- Procurement
General Perkins is up next, and based on how many aides he’s brought you suspect that the normally laconic Air Force commander has a more hefty presentation than usual.
“Your Majesty, we’ve assembled a group of combat veterans, maintainers, operational planners, and logistics personnel to perform a thorough internal audit of the performance of our various platforms, both to prepare for the imminent new equipment as well as review our design standards and practices.” He begins.
“They were instructed to be as objective as possible, and we managed to have pilots who’d been assigned to every current and several now obsolete ASF platforms on the team. They are still in the process of compiling their reports and we hope to be able to complete the process by the time we start procurement of the new weapon system.”
He then brings up a display. “However, we do have some results to begin with that are concerning. There are two in particular that are concerning. First, that the command variant of the Sparrowhawk interceptor, the so-called ‘Sniper’ configuration, is almost universally disliked by pilots and maintainers due to the complexity of the electronics suite combined with the complete lack of secondary weapons to support the 8cm extended range laser carried by the variant as the sole armament. The Sniper concept had been to provide interceptor formations with the ability to begin attriting enemy formations at extreme range, but in practice this has proven of questionable utility. In the short term, we intend to retire that configuration completely, converting existing Snipers to standard Sparrowhawks. In the longer term, this will tie into the other issue. The Peregrine design is basically a slightly slower, more heavily armed interceptor, with a maximum acceleration of 7.5g compared to the Sparrowhawk’s 8.5g. In engagements against the Rouges Noir and pirates the Peregrine has proven effective, however against the Black Steel even the slight drop in performance has been detrimental, with Peregrine losses against the Black Steel’s drones being noticeably higher than the Sparrowhawks. We are planning on addressing this once the new weapons come out, using the electronics suite from the Sniper variant Sparrowhawk in the roomier chassis of the Peregrine while matching the faster fighters armament layout rather than attempting to get cute with an 8cm laser.”
He then switches to the more usual production and procurement display. “That being said, this is for the future, in the present we need to continue expanding our production facilities and, as I explained last year, building up our garrison wings.” He smiles briefly. “So our actual budget requests are rather simple, as usual.”
- Imperial Griffon Aerospace Force
- Production
- ASF Factories
- Glorreich
- Shin Tōkyō
- Kurortas
- Raj
- Pustina
- ASF Factories
- Procurement
- 100 CAP Wings
- 25 Carrier Wings
- 10 Garrison Wings
- Production
Admiral Sims is handling the Navy briefing this year, Admiral Fisher is currently at the new Fleet Base in the Nuova Lombardia system. “Your Majesty, the rate of increase of our production capacity continues to be a major priority for the Navy. That being said, we continue to have concerns about escort production levels. The more of the small boys we can get into service the better. Moreover, several of our most useful logistics vessels are produced in escort yards.” She checks her notes. “On a happy note, with Shin Tōkyō and Iskra now being Core worlds we can use them to expand our heavier warship yards as well.”
She then brings up the rather extensive budget request display.
- Imperial Griffon Navy
- Production
- Orbital Shipyards
- Expand All Orbital Shipyards
- Refit & Repair Yards
- Construct Refit & Repair Yard
- Nueva Chiapas
- Expand All Refit & Repair Yards
- Construct Refit & Repair Yard
- Escort Yards
- Neubayern
- Neuhessen
- Nouvelle Bourgogne
- Nuova Lombardia
- Nuova Puglia
- Nuovo Abruzzo
- Nyū Shikoku
- Stenen Tuin
- New Libertalia
- Nuova Tripoli
- Catachan
- Feurstern
- Neuthüringen
- Nowe Mazowsze
- Nox
- Platzregensburg
- New Algiers
- New Clew Bay
- Nubifragio
- Bellaterra
- Bohren
- Landprettig
- Porto Milano
- Hot Mess
- New Narnia
- The Hub
- Baddorando
- Sturmland
- Small Warship Yards
- New Castor
- New Port Royal
- Nowa Warszawa
- Nowy Slask
- Chuma
- Awha
- Kaiyo
- Shin Tōkyō
- Iskra
- Medium Warship Yards
- Griffon
- Calliope
- Okusawa
- Pieklo
- Bari
- Large Warship Yards
- Glorreich
- New Phoenix
- New Pollux
- Nowy Wrocław
- Orbital Shipyards
- Procurement
- Standard Dropships
- 300 Artemis flotillas
- 130 Wright Dockable ASF Platforms
- 107 Colt Defense Blisters
- Large Dropships
- 30 Saipan Parasite Carriers
- 255 Mikasa Parasite Battleships
- Jumpships
- 2 Windjammer-class Jumpships
- Escorts
- 130 Battle-class Destroyers
- 10 Skjold-class Missile Corvettes
- 10 Constellation-class Corvettes
- 50 Tarantul-class Missile Raiders
- 50 Asheville-class Raiders
- Small Warships
- 40 Belfast-class Light Cruisers
- 40 De Grasse-class Light Cruisers
- 6 Hosho-class Light Carriers
- Medium Warships
- 20 Prinz Eugen II-class Heavy Cruisers
- 10 Algerie-class Heavy Cruisers
- Large Warships
- 10 Kaiserin-class Battleships
- 10 Saratoga-class Fleet Carriers
- Standard Dropships
- Fortress Command
- Black Towers
- Nuova Puglia
- Nuovo Abruzzo
- Nuova Lombardia
- Stenen Tuin
- Nouvelle Bourgogne
- Black Towers
- Production
Amaunet simply nods, chuffing slightly, as Sims takes her seat. Elizabeth Lee then takes over the podium.
“Your Majesty, in consultation with the Navy we propose to survey only to the Galactic southwest this year, to hopefully avoid stumbling into a major Black Steel base before we are ready to deal with it. We’ve also limited ourselves to the four most promising systems, although one is likely to be another waypoint system rather than a colonizable one. Those are still very useful for trade, however, since they tend to feature rather fast recharge times.” She grins slightly as she brings up the survey display.
- Survey
- GX-Q19
- A Red Supergiant with no evidence of any remaining orbital bodies, this star is accompanied by a white dwarf companion star, leading to rather complicated orbital mechanics.
- GX-Q17
- An Orange star in the main sequence, astronomers have detected both rocky and gas giant worlds in this system.
- GX-Q15
- A rather unassuming red dwarf system, there is evidence of rocky planets here, including one Super Earth class body.
- GX-P14
- Another red dwarf star, there is evidence of an extensive planetary system here
- GX-Q19
- DoME
- Planetary Optimization
- Nox
- Terraforming
- Porto Milano
- Nuova Fortezza
- Neuthüringen
- New Algiers
- Planetary Optimization
- Economic Focus, Investment & Infrastructure Zones
- Economic Focus
- Core
- Griffon
- Periphery
- Catachan
- Core
- Major Investment
- Core
- Iskra
- Periphery
- Raj
- Core
- Investment
- Novolar
- Economic Focus
“Your Majesty, the Foreign Ministry has nothing pressing at this time, we are in talks with the Ikea system regarding whether or not they mind us expanding our territory around them, they’ve indicated that so long as we don’t interfere with trade they won’t object at all. Considering that currently they only have customers because of our assistance that is likely a moot point. Other than that, we really don’t have any pressing priorities for you, Your Majesty. While it would be nice to have some cultural programming, it is hardly necessary at this time.”
Since it’s Tiberius’ turn next you turn to look at him then blink, as you could have sworn he’d been there earlier, but now there’s just a cardboard cutout of him with a sign duct taped to it reading ‘Civil Service Wants More Money’. It takes you a moment and you spot him hiding among the staffers looking like the cat who ate the canary, slurped down all the cream, knocked all the knicknacks off the shelves, and successfully blamed the dog for it all.
The meeting is consequently interrupted briefly for an impromptu ceremonial tossing of a certain Political Advisor through the Tyler Lee Memorial Window of Defenestration.
Grace then takes the podium once everybody returns to the meeting room, including a dripping Political Advisor who’s still grinning. “Your Majesty, we have three R&D teams available this year.” She begins. “We recommend the following projects for them to pursue.”
- Research & Development
- Improved Germanium Refining Lvl 5
- A long term project, best to get it started now so that we don’t get caught out on our Core production levels
- Industrial Mechs Lvl 10
- Helpful for terraforming projects at the very least
- Multi-Missile Launchers
- Missile systems that allow both long and short range missiles to be fired would permit a great deal of additional flexibility to missile-armed units. However they are rather more bulky than dedicated launchers and may have issues with the more advanced munitions we’ve been using lately.
- Improved Germanium Refining Lvl 5
General Messerschmidt is absent, he’d sent you a memo detailing various projects that are ongoing, but none require any additional budgetary support at the moment.
Martina is last up. “Your Majesty, as we didn’t do it last year we really need to get cracking on the rationalization of legal codes this year.”
Yacovo
Occasionally spouting nonsense
On one hand, this is an excellent opportunity to finish them off piecemeal since they are unlikely to back each other up. They are also unlikely to grow more powerful since they are too focused fighting everyone and are too paranoid to make new Black Steel cyborg leaders for more processing power for drones since they might backstab them.
On the third paw, it is going to be pain since they are distributing themselves so far. They are basically super pirates at this point.
Also, I wonder how they suffered such a fracturing of command since I am pretty sure their leaders are immortal cyborgs at this point. Then again this is Amaris forces so maybe they just started backstabbing each other.
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[X] Oppose the Civil Service Act of 3053
[X] Support the Health Services Act of 3053
[X] Support the Health Services Act of 3053
AlphaOmega
Well-known member
IIRC they are actually the remnants of Rim Republic rebels who fought in an uprising against Stefan Amaris btu every time they introduced themselves as being from the Rim Worlds Republic people shot at them so they just started introducing themselves as Amaris Remnants to see who is going to shoot them and who is not.
Jarow
Well-known member
Don't worry; only reason it wasn't in there last turn was because we had too many things going on and it's close to a guaranteed success.
[X] Plan: Deck the Halls
-[X] Procurement [$ 745,634,928,326.20 ]
--[X] Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $18,657,332,832.50 ] (95)
---[X] 300 Artemis [95]
---[X] 130 Wright [95]
---[X] 107 Colt [95]
---[X] 255 Mikasa [95]
---[X] 30 Saipan [95]
--[X] Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $18,640,054.20 ] (90)
---[X] 2 Windjammer [90]
--[X] Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $431,846,179,250.00 ] (90)
---[X] 40 Belfast*
---[X] 35 De Grasse*
---[X] 4 Hosho*
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen*
---[X] 10 Algerie*
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen II*
---[X] 10 Algerie*
---[X] 10 Kaiserin*
---[X] 6 Jean Bart*
---[X] 10 Kaiserin*
---[X] 6 Jean Bart*
---[X] 10 Kaiserin*
---[X] 6 Saratoga*
---[X] 130 Battle [90]
---[X] 10 Skjold [90]
---[X] 10 Constellation [90]
---[X] 50 Tarantul [90]
---[X] 50 Asheville [90]
---[X] 40 Belfast [90]
---[X] 40 De Grasse [90]
---[X] 6 Hosho [90]
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen II [90]
---[X] 10 Algerie [90]
---[X] 10 Kaiserin [90]
---[X] 10 Saratoga [90]
--[X] Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 56,112,126,189.50 ] (90)
---[X] 0 Fighter Wing [auto]
---[X] 25 Carrier Wing [90]
---[X] 100 CAP Wing [90]
---[X] 10 Garrison Wing [90]
---[X] 25 Garrison Division [90]
---[X] 25 Militia Division [90]
--[X] Fortress Command [$ 229,000,650,000.00 ] (90)
---[X] Build Jump Point Defenses
---[X] Construct Oasis II
---[X] Construct Black Tower
----[X] Nuova Puglia [90]
----[X] Nuovo Abruzzo [90]
----[X] Nuova Lombardia [90]
----[X] Stenen Tunin [90]
----[X] Nuovelle Bourgogne [90]
--[X] SLEP [$ 10,000,000,000 ] (100)
---[X] SLEP all Mech Units* [->6]
---[X] SLEP all Conventional Units* [->6]
-[X] General [$ 2,539,750,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Focus Development on Core World Griffon [85]
--[X] Focus Development on Peripheral World Catachan [85]
--[X] Massive Core Investment Iskra [80]
--[X] Massive Peripheral Investment Raj [80]
--[X] Economic Investment Novolar [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on New Narnia [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nouvelle Bourgogne [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Hot Mess [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Baddorando [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nuova Puglia [90]
(Money is needed, even if we're pretty well off this turn)
--[X] Build ASF Factory Complex (95)
---[X] Glorreich [95]
---[X] Shin Tōkyō [95]
---[X] Kurortas [95]
---[X] Raj [95]
---[X] Pustina [95]
--[X] Expand Civil Service [80]
(We're still very actions-limited)
--[X] Rationalize Legal Codes [95]
(Don't want our legal code to get too complex. We don't have as many actions requirements this turn)
--[X] Survey GX-Q19 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-Q17 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-Q15 [80]
--[X] Survey GX-P14 [80]
(We need to know our borders, and 3 potential colonies is a reasonable number)
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nuovo Abruzzo [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nyu Shikoku [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Stenen Tuin [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nuova Triploi [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Catachan [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Feurstem [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Neuthuringen [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nowe Mazowsze [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nox [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Platzregensburg [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard New Algiers [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard New Clew Bay [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Nubifragio [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Bellaterra [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Landprettig [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Porto Milano [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard The Hub [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Baddorando [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard Sturmland [90]
(As many baby warships as we have free slots for)
--[X] Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
--[X] Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Phoenix [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Nowy Wroclaw [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Glorreich [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Pollux [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Capricorn* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Edelsteine* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Nya Kopenhamn* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Kainga* [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Calliope [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Okusawa [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Pieklo [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Bari [90]
--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard Griffon [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard New Port Royal [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard New Castor [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Nowy Slask [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Chuma [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Awha [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Kaiyo [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Shin Tokyo [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Iskra [90]
(Less-small warships are even better than baby ones)
-[X] DoME [$ 422,000,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Expand Shin Tōkyō Arcologies [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Porto Milano [->2]
--[X] Terraforming Nuova Fortezza [->2]
--[X] Terraforming Neuthuringen [->2]
--[X] Terraforming New Algiers [->2]
(We need to terraform to get core worlds)
--[X] Terraforming Pinball* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Catchan* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Nox* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Feurstem* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Steingarten* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Olej* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Neubayern* [85]
--[X] Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Nox [->1]
-[X] Research [$ 19,250,500,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Advanced Terraforming Equipment lvl 1* [->1]
--[X] Advanced ER 5cm Lasers* [->1]
--[X] Micro ER Lasers* [80]
--[X] KF Drive Theory Tier 5* [->1]
--[X] Genetic Engineering Lvl 5* [90]
--[X] Improved Germanium Refining Lvl 5 [->9]
(This will be needed eventually, and takes forever, so it's best doing it now)
--[X] Industrial Mechs Lvl 10 [->1]
(Better success chances are always nice)
--[X] Multi-Missile Launchers [75]
(Not necessarily immediately useful for us like it is for the IS, but better advanced weapons tech generally relies on broader less advanced weapons tech)
--[X] Commercial R&D [-]
--[X] Industrial R&D [-]
-[X] Miscellaneous [$ 143,370,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Culture [$ 1,250,000,000 ]
---[X] Culture - Charity Concert [75]
(It's a free slot, and we can always use a bit more approval)
--[X] Production Contract [->6?][134,700,000,000]
$22t leftover
Winter_Wind45
Well-known member
[X] Plan: Deck the Halls
darkcloudt2
Well-known member
[X] Plan: Deck the Halls