Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)

[Havalt300]

[X] Approve the Colonial Governance Act of 3050

 

[Yacovo]

[X] Approve the Colonial Governance Act of 3050

Do we have a map or a chart of the sectors at this point?

 

[Rukatin]

If we're going to have marches, would that mean we'd get to appoint Marquis?

 

[The Whispering Monk]

Why are we calling them Marches, we’re not Davions.

Because...we can?

[X] Approve the Colonial Governance Act of 3050

 

[darkcloudt2]

[X] Approve the Colonial Governance Act of 3050

 

[GooseElite]

[X] Approve the Colonial Governance Act of 3050

 

[Artifex]

[X] Approve the Colonial Governance Act of 3050

 

[Rukatin]

[X] Approve the Colonial Governance Act of 3050

 

[Thors_Alumni]

[X] Approve the Colonial Governance Act of 3050

 

[kelgar04]

[X] Approve the Colonial Governance Act of 3050

 

[LordSunhawk]

Turn 120 - Bolivian Ragamuffin

Not being the Heir has definite benefits, in that your second daughter’s wedding is a far less extravagant affair. You are still extremely emotional over it all, but the ceremony itself and the reception afterwards are far less formal. It seems like just yesterday that you held Lisa as a baby, and now she’s getting married.

She too had tried to wiggle out of wearing a proper dress, although she’s not wearing your old dress. Instead the dressmakers got to engage in the most polite and civilized, yet also most vicious, war you’d ever seen as you are quite certain that multi-generational grudges have been established in the contest over who got to make Lisa’s dress. You did have to put your foot quite firmly down, and make full use of the Special Branch, to keep her from running off to New Port Royal to get married by an Elvis impersonator. You still aren’t clear on who this ‘Elvis’ supposedly was, but apparently it’s a tradition to impersonate them and conduct weddings.

During the reception, however, an aide comes up and hands you a datapad. A large Black Steel raid had hit the Arvum system.

Early reports are sketchy, the raid had made use of a transitory pirate point and managed to launch several volleys of missiles at the planet itself before leading the system defense force on a not-so-merry chase through the system. Civilian casualties were, unfortunately, fairly heavy although the missiles were, at least, ‘clean’ fusion warheads. Military losses were also minimal on both sides, the Black Steel were able to escape via another transitory pirate point, and there was no serious engagement.

An early analysis of the raid pretty much confirms what you suspect, the enemy can get lucky too. The transitory point enabled them to get in and launch fast enough that you couldn’t shift one of the three Black Towers in orbit to cover that exact vector, and the missiles thus came in through one of the inevitable gaps in missile defense coverage caused by the simple fact that space is big. You’d need ten times as many Black Towers in the system to ensure full coverage, and even then it wouldn’t be a hermetic seal.

Admiral de Palo had kept the Grand Fleet at Waypoint 3, making no move to reinforce Arvum. Her instincts proved strong when a number of scout vessels jumped in well outside of the fleet’s range, then jumped back out. No attack followed, evidently the Black Steel had been hoping that the Arvum raid would draw the Grand Fleet away allowing them to savage the defenses that were in place in the system to simplify future engagements. If that was the case, de Palo keeping the fleet in place kiboshed that plan.

You do make a point to attend all of your youngest daughters' matches as the Griffon system team progresses through the Pan-Griffon Games. They are quite dominant and, to your mild annoyance, popular among the young men attending the Games. No doubt for their athletic skill and not for the bare boobs on display.

Men.

But now it is budget time, so you can put that all aside.

Amaunet leads off as usual, the big cat looking quite relaxed. “Ok, Padrone, the Army will be requesting a full SLEP cycle for their gear, which I think we should approve. Our focus is now back on the Black Steel fully, apart from mopping up the Rouges Noir, which means that the ground pounders are taking a back seat once again. We’ll also be requesting the DoME build up a new full military base in the Diamond Reach to further support expansion in that region. I’ll leave it to the service chiefs to give the details, General Bradley?”

The short general takes the stage. “Your Majesty, as the Defense Minister stated, we’ll be requesting a full SLEP cycle rather than further expansion of anything other than militia and garrison units. While the Rouges Noir invasion showed the critical importance of a strong army when appropriate enemies are threatening, our main threat is more in Admiral Fisher's wheelhouse than ours. Therefore we recommend keeping our sword sharp, not making it larger.”

• Imperial Griffon Army
  • General
    • SLEP all Mech Units
    • SLEP all Conventional Units
  • Procurement
    • Garrison
      • 31 Garrison Divisins
      • 25 Militia Divisions

General Perkins is up next, looking a bit tired. “Your Majesty, the Aerospace Force continues to need to replace losses rather than expand capability, we hope to complete that process this year.”

• Imperial Griffon Aerospace Force
  • Procurement
    • 100 CAP Wing
    • 25 Carrier Wing

Admiral Fisher stumps up to the podium. “De Palo made the right call, staying in Waypoint 3. We will be continuing to expand production capacity, including on any new worlds that are settled. We’re rebuilding the Expeditionary Fleet, expanding the Grand Fleet, laying down the first of the new battlewagons, building up the Home Fleet, and increasing our training capacity. Home Fleet has been pestering me about wanting missile destroyers and cruisers. I've informed them that until they’ve proven the missile ship concept with what they’ve got they can go pound sand.” His glare is a thing of malevolent beauty, you know full well just how much Fisher loathes missile armed combatants as being too vulnerable.

• Imperial Griffon Navy
  • Production
    • Orbital Shipyards
      • New Orbital Shipyards
        • Baddorando
        • Sturmland
      • Expand All Existing Orbital Shipyards
    • Refit & Repair Yards
      • Expand All Refit & Repair Yards
    • 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
      • Iskra
      • New Algiers
      • New Clew Bay
      • Nubifragio
      • Bellaterra
      • Bohren
      • Landprettig
      • Porto Milano
      • Shin Tōkyō
      • Hot Mess
      • New Narnia
      • The Hub
      • Baddorando
      • Sturmland
    • Small Warship Yards
      • New Castor
      • New Port Royal
      • Nowy Wroclaw
      • Nowy Slask
      • Chuma
      • Awha
      • Kaiyo
    • Medium Warship Yards
      • Glorreich
      • New Phoenix
      • Okusawa
      • Pieklo
      • Bari
    • Large Warship Yards
      • Nya Kopenhamn
      • Kainga
      • Edelsteine
      • New Capricorn
  • Procurement
    • Conventional Dropships
      • 300 Shimakaze-class Parasite Destroyers
      • 200 Spruance-class Parasite Destroyers
      • 23 Ensign-class Training Dropships
    • Large Dropships
      • 30 Saipan-class Parasite Carriers
      • 200 Mikasa-class Parasite Battleships
      • 16 Charleston-class Transports
    • Jumpships
      • 6 Windjammer-class Jumpships
    • Escorts
      • 100 Battle-class Destroyers
      • 10 Skjold-class Missile Corvettes
      • 10 Constellation-class Corvettes
      • 50 Tarantul-class Missile Raiders
      • 50 Asheville-class Raiders
      • 20 Wolverine-class Training Ships
    • Small Warships
      • 30 Dido-class Light Cruisers
      • 20 Guiseppe Garibaldi-class Light Cruisers
      • 25 De Grasse-class Light Cruisers
      • 4 Hosho-class Light Carriers
    • Medium Warships
      • 10 Prinz Eugen-class Heavy Cruisers
      • 10 Algerie-class Heavy Cruisers
      • 5 Sacramento-class Fleet Replenishment Ships
    • Large Warships
      • 10 Kaiserin-class Battleships
      • 6 Jean Bart-class Battlecruisers
  • Fortress Command
    • Jump Point Defenses
      • Baddorando
      • Sturmland
      • Blár
      • Hvítur
      • Rauður
    • Oasis II
      • Baddorando
      • Sturmland
      • Blár
      • Hvítur
      • Rauður
    • Black Tower
      • Baddorando
      • Sturmland
      • Blár
      • Hvítur
      • Rauður

Amaunet just chuffs slightly rather than give a closing statement as Admiral Fisher returns to his seat, still looking mildly annoyed.

Elizabeth Lee takes over at that point. “Your Majesty, let’s start with our colonization efforts. I understand that Blár is part of the Crown Reserve, but we’ll still need to setup an appropriate administration for those few colonists who will be on that planet, otherwise we recommend settling the other two habitable worlds that are now available to us.”

• Colonize + System Government + Justice System
  • Baddorando
  • Sturmland
  • Blár

“In addition, DoME has a number of free teams this year, and the military has requested that we build out a new major base to the galactic northeast to support expansion in that direction. Therefore, to keep them out of trouble you understand, we recommend the following Your Majesty.”

• DoME
  • Expand Shin Tōkyō Arcologies
  • Establish New Army Base - Nuova Lombardia
  • Establish New Fleet Base - Nuova Lombardia
  • Terraforming
    • Shin Tōkyō
    • Nubifragio

“Finally, our investment and focus recommendations, straight from our economics section.” She smiles a bit at that.

• Economic Investment, Focus, & Industrial/Infrastructure
  • Focus
    • Core
      • Pieklo
    • Periphery
      • Grand View
  • Major Investment
    • Core
      • Kaiyo
    • Periphery
      • Iskra
  • Investment
    • Glorreich
  • Infrastructure & Industrial Zone
    • Hot Mess
    • New Narnia
    • The Hub
    • Nouvelle Bourgogne
    • Nuova Puglia

Agostina is off at a conference helping to hammer out the final details of the upcoming Olympic Games in two years and her cultural staff is fully engaged in managing the ongoing Pan Griffon Games this year, therefore Tiberius is up next.

“OK, Boss!” Why, exactly, Tiberius decided to dress up like a stereotypical pimp, complete with blinged out swagger stick, is well beyond you, but you resolve to toss him through the Window of Defenestration anyways. “Only thing I’ve got for you is to expand the Civil Service before they whine at me about being overworked again.”

Grace is up next, giving Tiberius a bit of a side-eye. “Your Majesty, we have a large number of teams available, so we have the following recommendations.”

• Research & Development
  • KF Drive Theory Tier 5
    • Allows us to research even larger ships of up to 2 million tons
  • Improved Elder Quality of Life Lvl 3
    • A good solid research objective for the civilian side of things
  • Genetic Engineering Lvl 5
    • See above
  • Advanced ER 5cm Lasers
    • These look to be highly efficient and effective weapons once developed
  • Advanced Terraforming Equipment Lvl 1
    • We need better tools for terraforming if we’re to speed up the process anymore
  • Orbital Infrastructure Lvl 9
    • More general research

 

[KyranKandosa]

[X] Approve the Colonial Governance Act of 3050

 

[Jarow]

[X] Plan: Bite and Hold
-[X] Procurement [$ 741,609,193,202.47 ]
--[X] Lay Down Major Unit [Construction - $10,758,497,758.00 ] (95)
---[X] 300 Shimakaze [95]
---[X] 200 Spruance [95]
---[X] 23 Ensign [95]

---[X] 200 Mikasa [95]
---[X] 30 Saipan [95]
---[X] 16 Charleston [95]

--[X] Lay down Jumpship [Jumpship Construction - $27,960,081.30 ] (90)
---[X] 6 Windjammer [90]

--[X] Lay down Warship [Warship Construction - $428,752,518,266.67 ] (90)
---[X] 40 Dido*
---[X] 30 Guiseppe Garibaldi*
---[X] 2 Hosho*

---[X] 25 Prinz Eugen*
---[X] 20 Prinz Eugen*
---[X] 5 Sacramento*

---[X] 10 Dreadnought*
---[X] 2 Saratoga*
---[X] 10 Dreadnought*
---[X] 6 Saratoga*
---[X] 10 Dreadnought*
---[X] 6 Jean Bart*

---[X] 100 Battle [90]
---[X] 10 Skjold [90]
---[X] 10 Constellation [90]
---[X] 50 Tarantul [90]
---[X] 50 Asheville [90]
---[X] 20 Wolverine [90]

---[X] 30 Dido [90]
---[X] 20 Guiseppe Garibaldi [90]
---[X] 25 De Grasse [90]
---[X] 4 Hosho [90]

---[X] 10 Prinz Eugen [90]
---[X] 10 Algerie [90]
---[X] 5 Sacramento [90]

---[X] 10 Kaiserin [90]
---[X] 6 Jean Bart [90]

--[X] Purchase New Units [Minor Unit - $ 53,919,541,446.50 ] (90)
---[X] 0 Fighter Wing [auto]
---[X] 25 Carrier Wing [90]
---[X] 100 CAP Wing [90]

---[X] 31 Garrison Division [90]
---[X] 25 Militia Division [90]

--[X] Fortress Command [$ 242,490,543,750 ] (90)
---[X] Build Jump Point Defenses
----[X] Baddorando [90]
----[X] Sturmland [90]
----[X] Blár [90]
----[X] Hvítur [90]
----[X] Rauður [90]
---[X] Construct Oasis II
----[X] Baddorando [90]
----[X] Sturmland [90]
----[X] Blár [90]
----[X] Hvítur [90]
----[X] Rauður [90]
---[X] Construct Black Tower
----[X] Baddorando [90]
----[X] Sturmland [90]
----[X] Blár [90]
----[X] Hvítur [90]
----[X] Rauður [90]

--[X] SLEP [$ 10,000,000,000 ] (100)
---[X] SLEP all Mech Units [->9]
---[X] SLEP all Conventional Units [->9]

-[X] General [$ 2,288,350,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Focus Development on Core World Pieklo [85]
--[X] Focus Development on Peripheral World Grand View [85]
--[X] Massive Core Investment Kaiyo [80]
--[X] Massive Peripheral Investment Iskra [80]
--[X] Economic Investment Glorreich [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 The Hub [90]
--[X] Construct Infrastructure and Industrial zones on Nuova Puglia [90]
(Builds our economy to support our warship fleets)

--[X] Establish Colony - Baddorando [80]
--[X] Establish System Government - Baddorando [80]
--[X] Establish Legal System - Baddorando [80]
--[X] Establish Colony - Sturmland [80]
--[X] Establish System Government - Sturmland [80]
--[X] Establish Legal System - Sturmland [80]
--[X] Establish Colony - Blár [80]
--[X] Establish System Government - Blár [80]
--[X] Establish Legal System - Blár [80]
(Colonies!)
--[X] Build Orbital Shipyard Baddorando [105]
--[X] Build Orbital Shipyard Sturmland [105]
(We need dropships to support our warship fleets)
--[X] Expand Civil Service [80]
(We need more actions so we can build more shipyards)

--[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 Iskra [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 Shin Tokyo [90]
--[X] Construct Escort Yard The Hub [90]
--[X] Upgrade Refit & Repair Yard [105]
--[X] Expand Orbital Shipyards [105]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Calliope* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Nowa Warzsawa* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Griffon* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Pollux* [90]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard New Capricorn [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Edelsteine [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Nya Kopenhamn [->1]
--[X] Construct Large Warship Yard Kainga* [90]

--[X] Construct Medium Warship Yard New Phoenix [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 Glorreich [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard New Port Royal [90]
--[X] Construct Small Warship Yard Nowy Wroclaw [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]
(We need lots of ships)

-[X] DoME [$ 3,082,000,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Expand Shin Tōkyō Arcologies [->1]
(Lots of work we can do here, no reason to stop)
--[X] Establish New Army Base - Nuova Lombardia
--[X] Establish New Fleet Base - Nuova Lombardia
(New base north of the super-commies)
--[X] Terraforming Shin Tokyo [->2]
--[X] Terraforming Nubifragio [->2]
(Better planets. Better people. Griffin's Roost)
--[X] Terraforming Neuhessen* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Pinball* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Feurstem* [85]
--[X] Terraforming New Clew Bay* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Nyu Shikoku* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Neubayern* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Grand View* [85]

--[X] Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Neuthuringen* [85]

-[X] Research [$ 18,484,000,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Advanced Terraforming Equipment lvl 1 [->4]
(We do a lot of terraforming)
--[X] Advanced ER 5cm Lasers [->4]
(CERML!)
--[X] Micro Pulse Lasers* [75]
--[X] KF Drive Theory Tier 5 [->4]
(We want the biggest boats, and this is needed first. Really expensive though)
--[X] Genetic Engineering Lvl 5 [->3]
--[X] Improved Elder Quality of Life Lvl 3 [->1]
(Make life for our people better)
--[X] Power Generation Lvl 9 [95]
--[X] Orbital Infrastructure Lvl 9 [95]
(Next level of basic tech. Pretty sure that means unlocking the next education and automation)
--[X] Commercial R&D [-]
--[X] Industrial R&D [-]

-[X] Miscellaneous [$ ]
--[X] Local Games [200,000]
--[X] Production Contract [->7?][134,700,000,000]

About $3.3t leftover

 

[Winter_Wind45]

[X] Plan: Bite and Hold

 

[Yacovo]

[X] Plan: Bite and Hold

--[X] Terraforming Shin Tokyo [->2]
--[X] Terraforming Nubifragio [->2]
(Better planets. Better people. Griffin's Roost)
--[X] Terraforming Neuhessen* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Pinball* [->1]
--[X] Terraforming Feurstem* [85]
--[X] Terraforming New Clew Bay* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Nyu Shikoku* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Neubayern* [85]
--[X] Terraforming Grand View* [85]

--[X] Planetary Optimization (Peripheral) - Neuthuringen* [85]

-[X] Research [$ 18,484,000,000,000.00 ]
--[X] Advanced Terraforming Equipment lvl 1 [->4]
(We do a lot of terraforming)

We do in fact, do a lot of terraforming. Sometimes we spend more on terraforming than we do on Procurement, while we are at war.

Wonder what we will think when hit the Inner Sphere and notice all the half done or poorly maintained terraforming projects?

 

[GooseElite]

[X] Plan: Bite and Hold

 

[kelgar04]

[X] Plan: Bite and Hold

 

[darkcloudt2]

[X] Plan: Bite and Hold

 

[Thors_Alumni]

[X] Plan: Bite and Hold

 

[Rukatin]

[X] Plan: Bite and Hold