[X] Approve
It's not possible for real carriers to avoid planes either. Doesn't change that it's more efficient to fly a CAP than to combine a carrier with a cruiser. By all means have an armored flight deck, but a carrier's primary offensive and defensive armament is its air group. This isn't nBSG where an enemy can teleport a battleship into gun range of your carrier unless you've left it at a jump point and that's the only way gun armed carriers make sense.Within the BTech paradigm, it is not possible to reliably intercept and deter fighters at extreme standoff ranges, which is the fundamental strategic requirement for the kind of carrier you want to build.
It's not possible for real carriers to avoid planes either. Doesn't change that it's more efficient to fly a CAP than to combine a carrier with a cruiser.
[] | Approve | Cost - 150,000, will consume 2 Military Research Slots, Will make available Subcapital Laser/1 and Light Subcapital Cannon this turn |
[] | Disapprove | SCL/1 and LSCC will become available in the regular tech tree for 50,000 each with a Difficulty Target of 85 and R&D time of 1 turn |
[] | Action |
[] | Side with the teachers, while the intentions are good with this plan the implementation is poor and needs to be reworked. There need to be more resources available in the classroom, more consideration given to distance-learning to handle the remote and spread out nature of the highly agricultural communities on the continent, and strict oversight of administrators and school boards. -25 Politics Cost - 25,000 -1% GDP Griffin’s Roost +1% POP Growth Griffin’s Roost +5 Econ Rating - Griffin’s Roost +1 Rating Change - Griffin’s Roost -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
[] | Side with the parents. There is no evidence beyond the claims of the teachers involved that anything inappropriate has occurred. The schools have more than enough budget after the increased expenses involved in having a larger number of smaller schools that their kids should be receiving the same quality of basic instruction as anywhere else. The teacher’s need to be held accountable for their performance but the administration does not need any additional funds to waste and should be closely audited. -25 Politics Cost -25,000 -1% GDP Griffin’s Roost +5 Econ Rating - Griffin’s Roost +5 Health Rating - Griffin’s Roost +1 Rating Change - Griffin’s Roost --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
[] | Side with the administration. The teacher’s are given plenty of resources, they just are too busy agitating for higher pay and benefits to actually do their job. With the highly decentralized and spread out nature of the education system on Pollux there naturally is a requirement for a larger number of administrators in the Pollux education system, this is purely a consequence of the fact that each individual school has the same administrative overhead, but there are far more schools. Both the teachers and the parents are using the comparatively high administrative costs as a red herring to distract from their own culpability in the situation. The teachers need to focus on actually teaching, the parents need to focus on being positively involved in their kids' education as partners, not adversaries. -25 Politics Cost - 25,000 -1% GDP Griffin’s Roost +10 Econ Rating - Griffin’s Roost +1 Rating Change - Griffin’s Roost --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
[] | Agree | Lays down 1 Warrior class dropship in Factory 16, will cost 46,494.81 this year and again next year. |
[] | Disagree | Design will not be available for construction until Turn 37 |
[] | Preemptive Veto | -5 Support Senate, -5 Approval Change, -5 Politics |
[] | Do not intervene | -5 Support Senate, -2 Approval |
[] | Approve | +1% Interest Rate this turn, +.01% GDP all planets, Improves relations with Free Folk |
[] | Disapprove | +.01% GDP all planets, worsens relations with Free Folk |