Thors_Alumni
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[X] Can be a royal yacht and also open to the public!
It would make more sense if we're constantly reinventing the wheel by designing new ASF, Mechs, and dropships from scratch. I'd believe a year for taking a known design and changing the weapon load out, or a minor redesign for a XL engine. A year for step one is kind of insane.
The 2nd Succession war, and Holy Shroud ended in the early to mid 2800s. Even if the snakes showed up decades before the 2930 start of the quest they shouldn't have SHIT to bring with them.
It's not insane when we have a full, undamaged Star League grade educational system at the base of our rebuilding.
We already know they showed up decades before start of quest, because the Quest literally started with their first major attack on us.
Haven't we only recently returned to SL level education I remember seeing those options picked over the years and hitting SL level was pretty recent.
We've had Improved Education 1 and 2 since Year 6 and 7 respectively, Improved Education 3 was Year 14.
Two possibilities: first, Nowy Warszawa (the planet we know they conquered) already had some factories before it was conquered. Not unbelievable, any they had wouldn't have gotten destroyed in Holy Shroud given how far out we are. Second, the Inner Sphere is in better shape than canon, at least as far as manufacturing goes. They're probably about the same in terms of technological collapse, but maybe thy have more lines on more planets, or are better able to build/repair existing ones. This is possible, but hard to tell. It would make things work better from a quest perspective though, making the IS closer to the power they're supposed to be.At this point in time how the fuck does a small group from a crippled Inner sphere have access to this much metal?
Second, the Inner Sphere is in better shape than canon, at least as far as manufacturing goes. They're probably about the same in terms of technological collapse, but maybe thy have more lines on more planets, or are better able to build/repair existing ones. This is possible, but hard to tell. It would make things work better from a quest perspective though, making the IS closer to the power they're supposed to be.
More on FASAnomics, Dropships, and Jumpships.
For the purposes of this quest, we are trying to ignore FASAnomics wherever possible. Therefore, civilian grade dropship production (see above post) is still quite possible throughout the Inner Sphere and there are sufficient numbers to support the nation states. Moreover, Jumpship production is also not nearly as badly constrained as canon, because if it were none of the Successor States would still exist.
Laughably unrealistic planetary populations are the first stage of FASAnomic absurdity, not an excuse for it. No habitable, developed, and established world should have a global population that is not in the billions. Earth today is already at over 7.5 billion, and that's for what is by BTech standards a lightly populated low-tech backwater.
[] | Agree | Commit to producing either 1 Planetary Defense Wing to be stationed on Nowy Gdansk or 3 Standard Armored Regiments to be stationed on Nowy Gdansk or the construction of a Star Fort in Nowy Gdansk orbit within 5 turns. If successfully completed within that time: +10 POP growth on Nowy Gdansk for 5 turns +10 GDP growth on Nowy Gdansk for 5 turns |
[] | Disagree | -10 Politics -10 Stability -10 Stability Change |