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Semper Ad Meliora (Code Geass/Britannian Royalty Quest)

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Firebringer2077 said:
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)
-[X] Shadow Companies (Opens up Special Intrigue/Military Actions)
-[X] Political Backing (Bonus to Rolls Defending Territory Claims)

[X][XB] You're simply too busy even with the new members of your entourage, however you could see if your mother would take him. You can trust her to be discreet.

Look... quite simply even if there is the worse case scenario in the CF there is not much we can do about it. Even OSI took pause at taking on just ONE High Eunuch, not all of them which is what we would have to do. I would remind people that with Charles and Anastasia, Charles had a Brittanian army backing him and we... well don't. Also remember this axiom "Never fight a land war in Asia" and this the High Eunuchs will not kill her, since killing her would be extinguishing the Mandate of Heaven which is still VERY much a thing here, enough that when a CF military officer saw we had our scroll he obeyed us without question. Setting any sort of infiltration mission into the forbidden Palace would be on par if not further than breaking into Anatasia's Winter Palace, a task we failed at. Suffice to say, however terrible it may be, this might be a situation where we are forced to do nothing.

Given that we stirred up a hornet's next both with Guinevere and in Australia I think our best option is to go for Merchant Marines to keep ahead on any piracy, and Political backing to stop any Guinevere courtiers or supporters making it harder for us to make a claim. Shadow Companies I am opting to take because it opens up special actions which may reveal something we can use

Regarding Xiaobao... We need our entourage focusing on their tasks, not one splitting their time. Our mother is pretty low maintenance and I am certain can give this matter the attention we can not. Unfortunately she'd probably be able to grind his SLs the fastest as she can focus more on them than us.
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I would point out that VV said that taking out the Eunuch was an issue because it was so short notice, not that an assassination was in of itself a problem.

Also our info network is going to be much more imbedded in China than the OSI is once we actually finish setting it up. It's already given us info that the OSI didn't have in its half ready state.

I do agree though that taking military action would be highly unwise. Diplomatic and Intrigue though we should absolutely do and would be my preferred focus in those categories this turn.
Firebringer2077 said:
Do we really have the time to invest 7 turns turning around his SL? There's no guarantee we will gain SL levels faster than 1 or 2 a turn with him. I don't think we have had ANY SL increase by more than 2 ever.
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What part of "assign him a permanent handler" isn't registering? We wouldn't be the one grinding his SL, Euphie or Kaguya would be. Delegation is a wonderful thing.
 
UlseDovThur said:
I would point out that VV said that taking out the Eunuch was an issue because it was so short notice, not that an assassination was in of itself a problem.

Also our info network is going to be much more imbedded in China than the OSI is once we actually finish setting it up. It's already given us info that the OSI didn't have in its half ready state.

I do agree though that taking military action would be highly unwise. Diplomatic and Intrigue though we should absolutely do and would be my preferred focus in those categories this turn.

What part of "assign him a permanent handler" isn't registering? We wouldn't be the one grinding his SL, Euphie or Kaguya would be. Delegation is a wonderful thing.
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I am not weighing in on whether I personally agree with Firebringer's points but tbf he already addresses your last point when he says he wants our advisors to not be splitting their time.
 
Smartphone said:
I am not weighing in on whether I personally agree with Firebringer's points but tbf he already addresses your last point when he says he wants our advisors to not be splitting their time.
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I suppose that's a point against Euphie but Kaguya isn't an advisor that gives us extra action and is mostly compiling and interpreting data. I don't think having to mind Xiaobao would cut into her work much.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Mercenaries (+Army Support, Automatically Enables Invasions)
-[X] Elite Mercenaries (+Strategic/Logistical Support, 1 Reroll on Land Combat Military actions per year.)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.

I know Shirley will never show up in this story, but somehow I feel she would be the best minder for Xiao from the canon acquaintances Lelouch had - girl practically has flowers growing from her every step!
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Mercenaries (+Army Support, Automatically Enables Invasions)
-[X] Elite Mercenaries (+Strategic/Logistical Support, 1 Reroll on Land Combat Military actions per year.)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.
 
I'll go for growth before invasion - learn the secret win condition in character, talk to the Tibetan monks, finish assuming the Mantle of the Architect, and develop tech cheats before invading (all of which gives us time to solidify political backing and build up resources for growing an army that we own instead of rent). Winning the fanatic faction in a duel saves lives and gives us the perfect base to start conquest in earnest.

[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Business Deals (Opens up Special Diplomatic/Stewardship Actions)
-[X] Shadow Companies (Opens up Special Intrigue/Military Actions)
-[X] Political Backing (Bonus to Rolls Defending Territory Claims)
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Business Deals (Opens up Special Diplomatic/Stewardship Actions)
-[X] Shadow Companies (Opens up Special Intrigue/Military Actions)
-[X] Political Backing (Bonus to Rolls Defending Territory Claims)
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Business Deals (Opens up Special Diplomatic/Stewardship Actions)
-[X] Shadow Companies (Opens up Special Intrigue/Military Actions)
-[X] Political Backing (Bonus to Rolls Defending Territory Claims)
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.
 
I want to take shadow companies but only one plan has like 10 votes and the others are at 2 lol

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[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Business Deals (Opens up Special Diplomatic/Stewardship Actions)
-[X] Shadow Companies (Opens up Special Intrigue/Military Actions)
-[X] Political Backing (Bonus to Rolls Defending Territory Claims)
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Business Deals (Opens up Special Diplomatic/Stewardship Actions)
-[X] Shadow Companies (Opens up Special Intrigue/Military Actions)
-[X] Political Backing (Bonus to Rolls Defending Territory Claims)

[X][XB] The OSI has extensive resources and experience dealing with powerful psionics, you will bargain with them for his worth (subsequent vote follows).
 
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.

I don't think we necessarily need to tie up the time of one of our top aides on this, the first option that came to mind for me personally was just formalizing the ad hoc arrangement that's already in place with his shinobi minders. They already have some rapport even, it would need some extra thought since they'll be off on missions at times but seems a solid starting point.

[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Mercenaries (+Army Support, Automatically Enables Invasions)
-[X] Elite Mercenaries (+Strategic/Logistical Support, 1 Reroll on Land Combat Military actions per year.)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)

I think this is now a prime time to start rolling up the small pirate factions on the western coast of Australia, getting a solid foothold and blocking any potential expansion at the more easily dislodged areas by other powers now that interest in the region has been raised.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)
-[X] Shadow Companies (Opens up Special Intrigue/Military Actions)
-[X] Political Backing (Bonus to Rolls Defending Territory Claims)

[X][XB] You're simply too busy even with the new members of your entourage, however you could see if your mother would take him. You can trust her to be discreet.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Business Deals (Opens up Special Diplomatic/Stewardship Actions)
-[X] Shadow Companies (Opens up Special Intrigue/Military Actions)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.
 
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[X][XB] You're simply too busy even with the new members of your entourage, however you could see if your mother would take him. You can trust her to be discreet.

I do not have much of an opinion on the rest, but I want to throw my support behind this option. Marianne is both trustworthy and has the time to spend, now that both of her children are all grown up. I personally do not care about any potential secret victory conditions, but rather to not stretch Lelouch and his inner circle too thin.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Business Deals (Opens up Special Diplomatic/Stewardship Actions)
-[X] Shadow Companies (Opens up Special Intrigue/Military Actions)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)
 
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[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Mercenaries (+Army Support, Automatically Enables Invasions)
-[X] Elite Mercenaries (+Strategic/Logistical Support, 1 Reroll on Land Combat Military actions per year.)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)

[x][XB] You're simply too busy even with the new members of your entourage, however you could see if your mother would take him. You can trust her to be discreet.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Mercenaries (+Army Support, Automatically Enables Invasions)
-[X] Elite Mercenaries (+Strategic/Logistical Support, 1 Reroll on Land Combat Military actions per year.)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)
[X][XB] You're simply too busy even with the new members of your entourage, however you could see if your mother would take him. You can trust her to be discreet.
 
The thing that drew most evil cackling out of me was the confirmation that we managed to loot the majority of the psionic equipment that was available. And as a cherry on top of all of this, psionic prisoners who actually surrendered, and weren't just knocked out in the fighting. If those same prisoners will be available in some Piety -action, taking the said action ASAP (alongside with the artifact-analysis) would probably be a good idea. After all, they might escape, commit suicide, or be killed by infiltraitors/invaders to take them away from our hands. And being the collective jackpot of accelerated psionic combat doctrine development that they are, we probably shouldn't waste this chance. If such action will be available, that is.

Going from psionics to even more psionics, I'm for keeping the child on the island. I would guess that Euphy and Crowley will likely be our choices, with Lelouch hopefully being able to drop in occasionaly if we manage to wrangle our Personal Actions well enough. The chance of obtaining the knowledge about the secret victory condition for the New Heaven IC is just too good to pass up. Also, that kid will be a powerhouse in the future, which should play nicely together with the teaching standards that Jaeger has planned. Though unfortunately, the child will not be attending whatever school Jaeger cooks up, as IIRC the location for such facility would be unsurprisingly on Homeland.

On the Stadtfeld-choices... While I would love more political support for our claims on Australia, like it has been pointed out, we have to first conquer the damn place to be in a situation where our claims will be contested. And the same with having too many actions available already in the offered categories for various special actions, which means that there really isn't a point in getting even more of them over the other choices. Which means that the bandwagon-option for prepping for finally invading Australia seems to be the most optimal path. Now, we just need to have the Gawain figured out and improved in whatever time it takes, make mass-production KMFs from the technology and Jaeger's psionic control system, and we can start T-posing our way through Australia to victory.

Before being probably blindsided by some new obstacle like the Guren being finished by Rakshata, of course. But hopefully at that point we will have enough momentum to finish our conquest and graduate to the big leagues on the international stage to being blindsided by much, much bigger problems.

[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Mercenaries (+Army Support, Automatically Enables Invasions)
-[X] Elite Mercenaries (+Strategic/Logistical Support, 1 Reroll on Land Combat Military actions per year.)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Mercenaries (+Army Support, Automatically Enables Invasions)
-[X] Shadow Companies (Opens up Special Intrigue/Military Actions)
-[X] Political Backing (Bonus to Rolls Defending Territory Claims)
[X][XB] You're simply too busy even with the new members of your entourage, however you could see if your mother would take him. You can trust her to be discreet.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Mercenaries (+Army Support, Automatically Enables Invasions)
-[X] Elite Mercenaries (+Strategic/Logistical Support, 1 Reroll on Land Combat Military actions per year.)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.
 
AnOldIdeaMadeNew said:
For those voting for invasion preparations, which factions do you have in mind as ripe for conquest and occupation over the next three turns? Does it have to be now?

I think we'd be better off going for growth with Business Deals and then going full conquest 3 years from now, when we have an actual army to do occupation duty and not mercenaries who will melt away once our deal with Stadtfeld is over.
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As I mentioned before there are a couple reasons for taking the military options.
First is the fact we might need forces on short notice for an operation elsewhere. For example we could use some of the mercenaries to help secure the dig for the ancient site in Anatolia (the area where the site should be is under the control of Britannia right now but it is still a conflict zone).

Secondly we can strike at the smaller groups that are making a nuisance of themselves. Blades of Saladin at the time of the Pirate Dossier were raiding Britannian and Ethiopian shipping. Breaking them would give us a clean reputation boost. Freelance Raiders were the most disorganized group and they performed the raids on Indonesia some time ago after being hired by the Eunuch. While both groups are on the west coast farthest from us and the area isn't the richest it will give us a foothold on the continent. Not to mention that if we start accepting refuges the land there would be the perfect place to settle them. Especially as it is closest to Africa.

Third reason for taking those options would be training opportunities. Especially from the Elite Mercenaries. Having a training cadre on site will make creating a permanent fighting force a lot easier. Jeanne is only a single person and our other veterans are focused in the navy or KMF corps.

The fourth reason is that they are mercenaries. Even after the Stadtfeld deal is over nothing says we can't start paying them out of our own pocket to keep them if we need them for longer.
meianmaru said:
The thing that drew most evil cackling out of me was the confirmation that we managed to loot the majority of the psionic equipment that was available. And as a cherry on top of all of this, psionic prisoners who actually surrendered, and weren't just knocked out in the fighting. If those same prisoners will be available in some Piety -action, taking the said action ASAP (alongside with the artifact-analysis) would probably be a good idea. After all, they might escape, commit suicide, or be killed by infiltraitors/invaders to take them away from our hands. And being the collective jackpot of accelerated psionic combat doctrine development that they are, we probably shouldn't waste this chance. If such action will be available, that is.
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What I am afraid off is that the interrogation will be an Intrigue action. Our dancing card is pretty full there. Mostly because while they surrendered I doubt they will just offer their knowledge freely.
 
[X][ISD] Keep the current deal until further notice with the addition of allowing him the remaining half of the sakuradite you will purchase from the IC. (Maintain the +1 Stewardship Action for 3 more years and Choose 3)
-[X] Mercenaries (+Army Support, Automatically Enables Invasions)
-[X] Elite Mercenaries (+Strategic/Logistical Support, 1 Reroll on Land Combat Military actions per year.)
-[X] Merchant Marine (+Navy Support, 1 Reroll on Naval-related Military Actions per year.)
[X][XB] You will keep him at the base in New Caledonia and find a permanent minder for him at a later date.

Hello Australia. Anschluss time.
 
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