Turn 36 -
I’ll Die Without Regret For The Wars That I Have Fought
QM Note - Last event post prior to planning post (which will be the NEXT post)
So far this year has been… eventful, but you guess there are going to be years like that where many things just come together.
Just when you think you can settle into your normal routine of the spring, before budget time but after Parliament meets for the year, there’s another alert from
Sarah.
This one is not the best of news. There’s a long period comet that in two years will intersect the orbit of Nowy Gdansk with a high probability of impact (above 20%, in astronomical terms that is enormous). This is calculated based on the expected effects of the gravity of Griffin VI upon the comet in question. Interestingly enough, if the comet does miss Nowy Gdansk
Sarah indicates a 15% chance that it will see its orbit bent enough to be on a near collision course with Griffin IV…
And the comet appears, according to
Sarah’s analysis, to be 90%+ frozen water.
This appears to be a classic Chinese ‘character for opportunity’ situation. If you can manage to deflect the comet and guide it, you might have a ready source for water on the world that most closely resembles Tatooine. On the other hand, if you fail, it might go splat into Nowy Gdansk with very unfortunate consequences for the people there.
Time to make a plan…
You have sufficient dropship assets to attempt to redirect the comet, either to Griffin IV orbit or simply away from Nowy Gdansk. The latter would be easier than the former. Your aerospace assets also have more than sufficient firepower to destroy the comet. Finally, it may be possible to build robust enough shelters on Nowy Gdansk to survive an impact event.
[] Write-In, QM will determine effects of winning vote.
Meanwhile there is an unsolicited design proposal for a new tracked self-propelled gun based on the Long Tom artillery weapon. A small start-up on Nowy Gdansk has combined open data about the older
Paladin and their own work and have come up with the
Excalibre Self Propelled Gun.
Name | Cost | HP | A/D | Specials |
Excalibre SPG | 1668.6 | 100 | 16 | Tracked, Armored 1, Artillery 3 |
They are available for production starting this year if the AFGE desires.