Is our current income 300R per turn?
Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Ahhh, so this is a subquest more in keeping with the actual Command and Conquer genre. Base Expansion Quest!
@Jakub1228 , what does "Political Support" mean in context? We're, like, the equivalent of an Army major or something. We don't interface with civilian bureaucracy much, let alone civilian politicians. Is this about how happy our superior officers are with us? If so, have we done anything in particular to piss them off, that explains why we're at PS 30 which is usually low for Planquests?
Hm. @Jakub1228 , I know it's traditional for information in Planquests to start out vague and become more precise with time, but if we're controlling a single forward base, we should probably have a pretty accurate count of a lot of things. Like, we can literally count all the individual personnel in our base housing and count the number of beds in that housing. We can count the number of vehicles and pieces of heavy machinery that are offline because Maintenance can't get to them yet because they're backlogged.
So we should know pretty precisely how much surplus or shortage we have of any given thing, I would think.
...
( @Jakub1228 , should I interpret what we see here as meaning we have 300 RpT income and an extra 210 in storage?)
Now, let's see... We don't actually need more barracks facilities. Logistics is an immediate problem for an isolated outpost; we can improve troop health (whatever that means in context) when we have the equipment and power to run things. I think the power plant has to be top Infrastructure priority.
With Zone Command actively wanting us to set up a forward medical base, I think we need to get the ball rolling on the clinic, then the weapons factory, then the repair bay. It's GDI Base Quest, after all. Given the relative dice balance, there is little or no danger of it completing before the power plant anyway.
The only Tiberium project we can complete in a timely manner is 'Harvesting...' though, uh, @Jakub1228 , I'm not clear on how the second and third projects are actually different. Both seem to be largely identical "go mine more tib in the giant red zone all around us" projects.
Budget: 210/300+210 R
Free Dice: 3/3
[X] Plan FOB Quest Turn On The Power
Infrastructure (7/7 + 1 Free Die, 120 R)
-[X] Power plants (Phase one) 0/400 (8 Dice, 120 R)
Industry/Medical (2/2, 0 R)
-[X] Basic clinic 0/210 (2 dice, 0 R)
Tiberium (4/4 + 2 Free Dice, 90 R)
-[X]Red Zone Tiberium harvesting (stage 1) 0/400 (6 Dice, 90 R)
SCEDQuest Q2 2058
- Pronouns
- He/Him
SCEDQuest Q4 2057+Q1 2058 Results
Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3) 317/400
Progress on the hull manufacturing centre continues to be made, but without another infusion of funds next quarter the site won't be able to begin operations. Sourcing the right radiation, corrosion, and heat-resistant alloys continues to be a major issue holding up completion.
New Johnson Training Center (Stage 2) 268/200
Following a major round of investment, the Astrotech program finally gets going. With the completion of the maintenance cage for Pathfinder, the first round of candidates are made up of engineers that specialise in various fields important for the smooth operation of both Gagarin station and the Gdrive ship. Training has progressed smoothly so far, with the first round of candidates ready at the end of March.
Gagarin Station Stage II
SCED begins to quickly and efficiently manufacture the parts for the Pathfinder cage of Gagarin station, sending them up and mounting them next to the central spire. From here on, mechanical arms on rails can access the vessel from all sides for maintenance and refitting purposes,in theory at least. The truth is that Gagarin will require additional upgrades and facilities before the station can be used as an effective hub for scientific exploration of the solar system.
Surface Exploration EVA Development 92/500
Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 52/100
Venus Rover Prototyping 216/250 NAT 1
SCED's prototyping of electrical and mechanical components that can survive the extreme conditions of the Venusian atmosphere took a major hit this quarter, when the off-world pressure chamber had a leak and flooded the laboratory with an explosive release of 450°C hot carbon dioxide. Luckily nobody was hurt, but before testing can resume the chamber needs to be rebuilt. (Locked for one turn)
Reusable Probes 231/200
Mechanically, modifying the Hermes probes into something that can be picked up again by Pathfinder and reused was not that hard, as the standard model already contains enough delta-V to get out of medium earth orbit to the moon. The bigger problem was figuring out what new options this would enable. Hermes probes are limited in how much information they can transfer by the power of their antennas, with shorter ranges the bandwidth can be increased drastically, which enables sensors that can deliver more data points per second, which require more power but the G drive can handle putting in heavier batteries. In the end the Hermes II resembles more a Space Command surveillance satellite in terms of features and sensor equipment than it does Hermes I.
Mission: Surface Exploration Ceres 44/150
Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 30/50
Mission: Orbital Scan Saturn Minor moons+rings 1 die
Mission: Orbital Scan Uranus Main Body 1 die
Mission: Orbital Scan Neptune's Moon Triton 1 die
Mission: Orbital Scan Pluto 1 die
no, this is a too random collection of items that hurts my soul
Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Minor moons+rings 1 die
Jupiter has a system of faint planetary rings. These rings were the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus. The main ring was discovered in 1979 by the Voyager 1 space probe and the system was more thoroughly investigated in the 1990s by the Galileo orbiter. Far more interesting for SCED are Jupiter's minor moons, the larger of which include Amalthea, Himalia and Thebe, which are most likely C-type asteroids from previous observations.
Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Moon Callisto 1 die
Callisto, is the second-largest moon of Jupiter. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System after Ganymede and Titan. Callisto was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. At 4821 km in diameter, Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the planet Mercury but only about a third of its mass. Callisto's rotation is tidally locked to its orbit around Jupiter, so that the same hemisphere always faces inward. Because of this, there is a sub-Jovian point on Callisto's surface, from which Jupiter would appear to hang directly overhead.
Callisto is composed of approximately equal amounts of rock and ice, with a density of about 1.83 g/cm3, the lowest density and surface gravity of Jupiter's major moons. Compounds detected spectroscopically on the surface include water ice, carbon dioxide, silicates, and organic compounds.
Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Moon Ganymede 1 die
Ganymede is the largest and most massive of the Solar System's moons. It has a diameter of 5,268 km, making it 26% larger than the planet Mercury by volume, although it is only 45% as massive. Possessing a metallic core, it has the lowest moment of inertia factor of any solid body in the Solar System and is the only moon known to have a magnetic field.
Ganymede is composed of approximately equal amounts of silicate rock and water. It is a fully differentiated body with an iron-rich, liquid core, and an internal ocean that may contain more water than all of Earth's oceans combined.
Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Moon Europa 1 die
Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. Slightly smaller than Earth's Moon, Europa is primarily made of silicate rock and has a water-ice crust and probably an iron–nickel core. It has a very thin atmosphere, composed primarily of oxygen. Its surface is striated by cracks and streaks, but craters are relatively few. In addition to Earth-bound telescope observations, Europa has been examined by a succession of space-probe flybys, the first occurring in the early 1970s.
Europa has the smoothest surface of any known solid object in the Solar System. The apparent youth and smoothness of the surface have led to the hypothesis that a water ocean exists beneath the surface, which could conceivably harbor extraterrestrial life.
Missions:
This quarter saw an important milestone broken three times. First, when the crew of the Pathfinder left the Earth Luna system for a rover delivery to Mars, it broke the longstanding record distance of four hundred thousand kilometers from earth's surface held by James Lovell, Fred Haise, and John Swigert. The event garnered an small furor of attention, both during launch and 5 days later, when the crew, which included several members of SCED's pardus missions, also known as the second first moon landing, became the first people in orbit around another planet. Mars was followed by a probe delivery to Mercury, breaking the distance record again and by Jupiter, which broke the record again when Pathfinder reached 680 million kilometers or 38 light minutes away from home, a tiny boat of courageous explorers drifting in the vast ocean of space.
Jupiter was of particular interest to SCED scientists as it allowed them to test a hypothesis regarding the workings of the G drive: despite operating on alien principles with behavior often at odds with humanity's existing understanding of physics, the reverse-engineering teams nonetheless held out hope that the G drive would respond to the curvature of spacetime non-exotically. All along the Pathfinder's journey, the ship has broadcasted not only traditional radio communications, but also a specially calibrated broadband signal designed to maximize the chances of noticing any potential irregularities. As a whole, the signal blueshifted as expected. At a speed of 3920 kilometers per second relative to earth, the Pathfinders Gdrive only induced an acceleration relative to observers in High Earth Orbit of 99.99145% the expected value, in accordance with special relativistic time dilation, suggesting that parts of the theory of relativity are still applicable to its workings.
SCEDQuest Q2 2058
This Side Quest was allowed by Ithillid and is supposed to be fun. Things happening in SCEDQuest will be affected by the main one, but unless Ithillid says otherwise it is only semi-canon.
Budget: 100 Capital + 30 Capital Reserve
Industry Points: 50 IP
Earth Orbit Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn
Pathfinder Time: 90 Days
Manned Missions: 2 / 4 slots used
Facilities:
[]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3)
With the G shuttle and Gargarin station, SCED already has two projects that have brought their current manufacturing capability to their limits. The third phase of Tanagashima will be a large-scale manufacturing complex to easily produce hull parts for such projects.
(20 Capital per Die 317/400)(+20 IP)
[]New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3)
With the pool of qualified astronaut candidates thinning, SCED looks at more specialised personnel to bolster their ranks. Qualifications to become an Astrotech are still fairly high and require the right training and preparation facilities.
(25 Capital per Die 68/400)(Allows 1 additional Manned or Research Mission to be active at the same time)(Current Limit: 4)
[]Gagarin Station (Stage 3)
Stage III will cover the cage with paneling to protect the craft from interstellar radiation, micrometeorites and the sun's light as well as add more comfortable living quarters for the crew and for the first wave of SCED staff transferred to the station.
(0/5 Gagarin Station Parts; 10 Launch Cap, 5C and 10 IP per Part)(-1 Pathfinder maintenance time, +1 Mission planning die)
[]Harper Spaceport (Phase 1)
While many of SCED's missions are now solar system wide, they still require launching cargo and materials from Earth into space.
(15 Capital per Die 0/100)(+10 Launch Cap)
Planetary Bases:
[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 1
Luna is now a barebones research outpost. It needs to be expanded massively in order to fully transform it into a proper research station, able to test the newest technologies in lunar colonisation and construction.
(0/5 Facilities; 5C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 IP per Facility)(-1 Capital per Turn)
Assembly
[]Reusable Probes (0/36 IP, 0/18 Capital)(Allows for spending of Pathfinder time instead of resources for scans)
Development (5 Dice) +20
[ ]Surface Exploration EVA Development 92/500 (2C/Die)
Remote controlled rovers suffer from the, over interstellar and interplanetary distances, slow speed of light. It takes about 5 to 20 minutes for a message to travel between earth and mars. Surface missions even further out will require local rover autonomy to some extent. The EVA unit will need to navigate, take samples and recognize when a problem needs a solution from earth, on its own. General reluctance in regards to autonomous vehicles means that GDI has limited knowledge of such use cases compared to other AI applications, making the creation of such an EVA more difficult.
[]Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 52/100 5/5IP (5C/Die+2IP/Die)
GDI already has great experience in using small scale nuclear power for a variety of applications. To fit into SCED's modular part strategy they need to redesign some of the system however.
[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 0/400(5C/Die+2IP/Die)
As a technological exercise and as a proof of concept, much of the lunar research outpost will be built from local resources. Doing so however will require researching the technologies required to do so: from winning metals and oxygen from regolith to generating oxygen and food from plants. (Required for Advanced Outpost Stage II)
[-]Venus Rover Prototyping 216/250 (5C/Die+5IP/Die)
Venus is due to its high pressures and temperatures a bad place for conventional electronics, as such more niche and exotic options to explore its surface are required. (Locked for one turn)
Space Command Mission Planning (3 Dice) +5
[ ]Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 30/50
[]Mission: Orbital Scan (Write-in) (for example: Luna, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter) (Requires one Die)(Gas Giants have the main planet, each major moon, and rings+minor moons as locations)
[]Mission: Surface Exploration (Write-in) 0/150
-Ceres 44/100
[]Mission: Manned Landing (Write-in) 0/400
[]Mission: Research Base (Write-in) 0/900
-Mars 0/600
Missions
Total Pathfinder Time: 90 days
Current Maintenance time: 4 days
Mercury (13 Pathfinder days)
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Venus (13 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Venus
(Required for activation: Venus Rover Prototyping)
Luna
[]Pardus Mission-Luna
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission)
-[](Write-in Location)(max 2 per Turn)
Mars (14 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Mars
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)
-[](Write-in Location)
[]Manned Mars Landing
(Required for activation: 30IP, 15 Capital, 20 Launch Cap, 1 Manned Mission, 14 Pathfinder days)
Asteroid Belt (17 Pathfinder days)
[]Belt Probing (0/80 Objects probed)(6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap per Object probed)
Jupiter (24 Pathfinder days)
[]Surface Scan - Callisto
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)
[]Surface Scan - Ganymede
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)
[]Surface Scan - Europa
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)
[]Observation Probes - Minor Moons + Rings
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)
Mission Tracker!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YAhLAoy0BTHB1CPYHeDffyDNwkrM6_dy7u0PL4yZ8_E/edit?usp=sharing
To Launch Missions, it must be "Ready for Launch" in the mission tracker and the requirements must be fulfilled.
Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3) 317/400
Progress on the hull manufacturing centre continues to be made, but without another infusion of funds next quarter the site won't be able to begin operations. Sourcing the right radiation, corrosion, and heat-resistant alloys continues to be a major issue holding up completion.
New Johnson Training Center (Stage 2) 268/200
Following a major round of investment, the Astrotech program finally gets going. With the completion of the maintenance cage for Pathfinder, the first round of candidates are made up of engineers that specialise in various fields important for the smooth operation of both Gagarin station and the Gdrive ship. Training has progressed smoothly so far, with the first round of candidates ready at the end of March.
Gagarin Station Stage II
SCED begins to quickly and efficiently manufacture the parts for the Pathfinder cage of Gagarin station, sending them up and mounting them next to the central spire. From here on, mechanical arms on rails can access the vessel from all sides for maintenance and refitting purposes,in theory at least. The truth is that Gagarin will require additional upgrades and facilities before the station can be used as an effective hub for scientific exploration of the solar system.
Surface Exploration EVA Development 92/500
Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 52/100
Venus Rover Prototyping 216/250 NAT 1
SCED's prototyping of electrical and mechanical components that can survive the extreme conditions of the Venusian atmosphere took a major hit this quarter, when the off-world pressure chamber had a leak and flooded the laboratory with an explosive release of 450°C hot carbon dioxide. Luckily nobody was hurt, but before testing can resume the chamber needs to be rebuilt. (Locked for one turn)
Reusable Probes 231/200
Mechanically, modifying the Hermes probes into something that can be picked up again by Pathfinder and reused was not that hard, as the standard model already contains enough delta-V to get out of medium earth orbit to the moon. The bigger problem was figuring out what new options this would enable. Hermes probes are limited in how much information they can transfer by the power of their antennas, with shorter ranges the bandwidth can be increased drastically, which enables sensors that can deliver more data points per second, which require more power but the G drive can handle putting in heavier batteries. In the end the Hermes II resembles more a Space Command surveillance satellite in terms of features and sensor equipment than it does Hermes I.
Mission: Surface Exploration Ceres 44/150
Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 30/50
Mission: Orbital Scan Uranus Main Body 1 die
Mission: Orbital Scan Neptune's Moon Triton 1 die
Mission: Orbital Scan Pluto 1 die
no, this is a too random collection of items that hurts my soul
Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Minor moons+rings 1 die
Jupiter has a system of faint planetary rings. These rings were the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus. The main ring was discovered in 1979 by the Voyager 1 space probe and the system was more thoroughly investigated in the 1990s by the Galileo orbiter. Far more interesting for SCED are Jupiter's minor moons, the larger of which include Amalthea, Himalia and Thebe, which are most likely C-type asteroids from previous observations.
Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Moon Callisto 1 die
Callisto, is the second-largest moon of Jupiter. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System after Ganymede and Titan. Callisto was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. At 4821 km in diameter, Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the planet Mercury but only about a third of its mass. Callisto's rotation is tidally locked to its orbit around Jupiter, so that the same hemisphere always faces inward. Because of this, there is a sub-Jovian point on Callisto's surface, from which Jupiter would appear to hang directly overhead.
Callisto is composed of approximately equal amounts of rock and ice, with a density of about 1.83 g/cm3, the lowest density and surface gravity of Jupiter's major moons. Compounds detected spectroscopically on the surface include water ice, carbon dioxide, silicates, and organic compounds.
Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Moon Ganymede 1 die
Ganymede is the largest and most massive of the Solar System's moons. It has a diameter of 5,268 km, making it 26% larger than the planet Mercury by volume, although it is only 45% as massive. Possessing a metallic core, it has the lowest moment of inertia factor of any solid body in the Solar System and is the only moon known to have a magnetic field.
Ganymede is composed of approximately equal amounts of silicate rock and water. It is a fully differentiated body with an iron-rich, liquid core, and an internal ocean that may contain more water than all of Earth's oceans combined.
Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Moon Europa 1 die
Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. Slightly smaller than Earth's Moon, Europa is primarily made of silicate rock and has a water-ice crust and probably an iron–nickel core. It has a very thin atmosphere, composed primarily of oxygen. Its surface is striated by cracks and streaks, but craters are relatively few. In addition to Earth-bound telescope observations, Europa has been examined by a succession of space-probe flybys, the first occurring in the early 1970s.
Europa has the smoothest surface of any known solid object in the Solar System. The apparent youth and smoothness of the surface have led to the hypothesis that a water ocean exists beneath the surface, which could conceivably harbor extraterrestrial life.
Missions:
This quarter saw an important milestone broken three times. First, when the crew of the Pathfinder left the Earth Luna system for a rover delivery to Mars, it broke the longstanding record distance of four hundred thousand kilometers from earth's surface held by James Lovell, Fred Haise, and John Swigert. The event garnered an small furor of attention, both during launch and 5 days later, when the crew, which included several members of SCED's pardus missions, also known as the second first moon landing, became the first people in orbit around another planet. Mars was followed by a probe delivery to Mercury, breaking the distance record again and by Jupiter, which broke the record again when Pathfinder reached 680 million kilometers or 38 light minutes away from home, a tiny boat of courageous explorers drifting in the vast ocean of space.
Jupiter was of particular interest to SCED scientists as it allowed them to test a hypothesis regarding the workings of the G drive: despite operating on alien principles with behavior often at odds with humanity's existing understanding of physics, the reverse-engineering teams nonetheless held out hope that the G drive would respond to the curvature of spacetime non-exotically. All along the Pathfinder's journey, the ship has broadcasted not only traditional radio communications, but also a specially calibrated broadband signal designed to maximize the chances of noticing any potential irregularities. As a whole, the signal blueshifted as expected. At a speed of 3920 kilometers per second relative to earth, the Pathfinders Gdrive only induced an acceleration relative to observers in High Earth Orbit of 99.99145% the expected value, in accordance with special relativistic time dilation, suggesting that parts of the theory of relativity are still applicable to its workings.
SCEDQuest Q2 2058
This Side Quest was allowed by Ithillid and is supposed to be fun. Things happening in SCEDQuest will be affected by the main one, but unless Ithillid says otherwise it is only semi-canon.
Budget: 100 Capital + 30 Capital Reserve
Industry Points: 50 IP
Earth Orbit Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn
Pathfinder Time: 90 Days
Manned Missions: 2 / 4 slots used
Facilities:
[]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3)
With the G shuttle and Gargarin station, SCED already has two projects that have brought their current manufacturing capability to their limits. The third phase of Tanagashima will be a large-scale manufacturing complex to easily produce hull parts for such projects.
(20 Capital per Die 317/400)(+20 IP)
[]New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3)
With the pool of qualified astronaut candidates thinning, SCED looks at more specialised personnel to bolster their ranks. Qualifications to become an Astrotech are still fairly high and require the right training and preparation facilities.
(25 Capital per Die 68/400)(Allows 1 additional Manned or Research Mission to be active at the same time)(Current Limit: 4)
[]Gagarin Station (Stage 3)
Stage III will cover the cage with paneling to protect the craft from interstellar radiation, micrometeorites and the sun's light as well as add more comfortable living quarters for the crew and for the first wave of SCED staff transferred to the station.
(0/5 Gagarin Station Parts; 10 Launch Cap, 5C and 10 IP per Part)(-1 Pathfinder maintenance time, +1 Mission planning die)
[]Harper Spaceport (Phase 1)
While many of SCED's missions are now solar system wide, they still require launching cargo and materials from Earth into space.
(15 Capital per Die 0/100)(+10 Launch Cap)
Planetary Bases:
[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 1
Luna is now a barebones research outpost. It needs to be expanded massively in order to fully transform it into a proper research station, able to test the newest technologies in lunar colonisation and construction.
(0/5 Facilities; 5C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 IP per Facility)(-1 Capital per Turn)
Assembly
[]Reusable Probes (0/36 IP, 0/18 Capital)(Allows for spending of Pathfinder time instead of resources for scans)
Development (5 Dice) +20
[ ]Surface Exploration EVA Development 92/500 (2C/Die)
Remote controlled rovers suffer from the, over interstellar and interplanetary distances, slow speed of light. It takes about 5 to 20 minutes for a message to travel between earth and mars. Surface missions even further out will require local rover autonomy to some extent. The EVA unit will need to navigate, take samples and recognize when a problem needs a solution from earth, on its own. General reluctance in regards to autonomous vehicles means that GDI has limited knowledge of such use cases compared to other AI applications, making the creation of such an EVA more difficult.
[]Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 52/100 5/5IP (5C/Die+2IP/Die)
GDI already has great experience in using small scale nuclear power for a variety of applications. To fit into SCED's modular part strategy they need to redesign some of the system however.
[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 0/400(5C/Die+2IP/Die)
As a technological exercise and as a proof of concept, much of the lunar research outpost will be built from local resources. Doing so however will require researching the technologies required to do so: from winning metals and oxygen from regolith to generating oxygen and food from plants. (Required for Advanced Outpost Stage II)
[-]Venus Rover Prototyping 216/250 (5C/Die+5IP/Die)
Venus is due to its high pressures and temperatures a bad place for conventional electronics, as such more niche and exotic options to explore its surface are required. (Locked for one turn)
Space Command Mission Planning (3 Dice) +5
[ ]Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 30/50
[]Mission: Orbital Scan (Write-in) (for example: Luna, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter) (Requires one Die)(Gas Giants have the main planet, each major moon, and rings+minor moons as locations)
[]Mission: Surface Exploration (Write-in) 0/150
-Ceres 44/100
[]Mission: Manned Landing (Write-in) 0/400
[]Mission: Research Base (Write-in) 0/900
-Mars 0/600
Missions
Total Pathfinder Time: 90 days
Current Maintenance time: 4 days
Mercury: 9 days
Venus: 9 days
Mars: 10 days
Asteroid Belt: 13 days
Jupiter: 20 days
Saturn: 26 days
Uranus: 36 days
Neptune: 45 days
Pluto: 51 days
Venus: 9 days
Mars: 10 days
Asteroid Belt: 13 days
Jupiter: 20 days
Saturn: 26 days
Uranus: 36 days
Neptune: 45 days
Pluto: 51 days
Mercury (13 Pathfinder days)
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Venus (13 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Venus
(Required for activation: Venus Rover Prototyping)
Luna
[]Pardus Mission-Luna
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission)
-[](Write-in Location)(max 2 per Turn)
Mars (14 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Mars
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)
-[](Write-in Location)
[]Manned Mars Landing
(Required for activation: 30IP, 15 Capital, 20 Launch Cap, 1 Manned Mission, 14 Pathfinder days)
Asteroid Belt (17 Pathfinder days)
[]Belt Probing (0/80 Objects probed)(6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap per Object probed)
Jupiter (24 Pathfinder days)
[]Surface Scan - Callisto
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)
[]Surface Scan - Ganymede
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)
[]Surface Scan - Europa
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)
[]Observation Probes - Minor Moons + Rings
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)
Mission Tracker!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YAhLAoy0BTHB1CPYHeDffyDNwkrM6_dy7u0PL4yZ8_E/edit?usp=sharing
To Launch Missions, it must be "Ready for Launch" in the mission tracker and the requirements must be fulfilled.
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[X] Reusable Probes and preparing for Mars
-[X]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3) 317/400 3 dice 60C
-[X]Reusable Probes (0/36 IP, 0/18 Capital)(Allows for spending of Pathfinder time instead of resources for scans)
-[X]Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 52/100 5/5IP (5C/Die+2IP/Die) 1 die 5C 2IP
-[X]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 0/400(5C/Die+2IP/Die) 2 dice 10C 4IP
-[X]Surface Exploration EVA Development 92/500 (2C/Die) 2 dice 4C
-[X]Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 30/50 1 die
-[X]Mission: Surface Exploration Ceres 44/100 1 die
-[X]Mission: Research Base (Mars) 0/600 1 die
-[X]Pardus Mission-Luna(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission) 8IP 4C
--[X]Mare Insularum
--[X]Mare Nectaris
50/50IP
101/130C
14/90 Days
No probes this turn as we have the reusable ones next turn but that limits our budget, to make sure we can afford to send multiple rovers to Mars next turn Tanegashima Space Center gets 3 dice.
There are 8 places left to investigate on the Moon lets complete those to see if there are any better mining sites then we have found so far.
-[X]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3) 317/400 3 dice 60C
-[X]Reusable Probes (0/36 IP, 0/18 Capital)(Allows for spending of Pathfinder time instead of resources for scans)
-[X]Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 52/100 5/5IP (5C/Die+2IP/Die) 1 die 5C 2IP
-[X]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 0/400(5C/Die+2IP/Die) 2 dice 10C 4IP
-[X]Surface Exploration EVA Development 92/500 (2C/Die) 2 dice 4C
-[X]Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 30/50 1 die
-[X]Mission: Surface Exploration Ceres 44/100 1 die
-[X]Mission: Research Base (Mars) 0/600 1 die
-[X]Pardus Mission-Luna(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission) 8IP 4C
--[X]Mare Insularum
--[X]Mare Nectaris
50/50IP
101/130C
14/90 Days
No probes this turn as we have the reusable ones next turn but that limits our budget, to make sure we can afford to send multiple rovers to Mars next turn Tanegashima Space Center gets 3 dice.
There are 8 places left to investigate on the Moon lets complete those to see if there are any better mining sites then we have found so far.
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Plan Yeet to Pluto
-[X]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3) 3 dice 60C 317/400 91%
-[X]Reusable Probes (36/36 IP, 18/18 Capital)(Allows for spending of Pathfinder time instead of resources for scans)
-[X]Surface Exploration EVA Development 92/500 5 dice 10C 20%
-[X]Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 30/50 1 die 86%
-[X]Mission: Surface Exploration Ceres 44/100 1 dice 50%
-[X]Mission: Orbital Scan Pluto 1 die auto
-[X]Pardus Mission-Luna Mare Insularum 4IP, 2C, 1 Manned Mission
-[X]Pardus Mission-Luna Stevinus 4IP, 2C, 1 Manned Mission
-[X]Pathfinder: Surface Scan Pluto 55 days 6IP, 3C, 3 Launch Cap
Totals: 95C/130C, 50IP/50IP, 56/90 Pathfinder Days, 3/80 Launch Capacity, 2/2 Manned Missions
The Reusable Probes are very expensive and use up most of our Industry Points this turn, so we can't really afford many missions. But I'm just able to squeeze in one Pathfinder mission along with two Lunar-exploration missions by doing the one Development project that doesn't cost IP. And if there's only one Pathfinder mission this quarter, we might as well send her as far as she can go!
-[X]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3) 3 dice 60C 317/400 91%
-[X]Reusable Probes (36/36 IP, 18/18 Capital)(Allows for spending of Pathfinder time instead of resources for scans)
-[X]Surface Exploration EVA Development 92/500 5 dice 10C 20%
-[X]Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 30/50 1 die 86%
-[X]Mission: Surface Exploration Ceres 44/100 1 dice 50%
-[X]Mission: Orbital Scan Pluto 1 die auto
-[X]Pardus Mission-Luna Mare Insularum 4IP, 2C, 1 Manned Mission
-[X]Pardus Mission-Luna Stevinus 4IP, 2C, 1 Manned Mission
-[X]Pathfinder: Surface Scan Pluto 55 days 6IP, 3C, 3 Launch Cap
Totals: 95C/130C, 50IP/50IP, 56/90 Pathfinder Days, 3/80 Launch Capacity, 2/2 Manned Missions
The Reusable Probes are very expensive and use up most of our Industry Points this turn, so we can't really afford many missions. But I'm just able to squeeze in one Pathfinder mission along with two Lunar-exploration missions by doing the one Development project that doesn't cost IP. And if there's only one Pathfinder mission this quarter, we might as well send her as far as she can go!
[X] Reusable Probes and preparing for Mars
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
[X] Plan Yeet to Pluto
Tummy heart.
Tummy heart.
ConfusedCanuck
Where did it all go wrong?
- Location
- Neverland
[X] Plan Yeet to Pluto
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I'm not sure if Plan Yeet To Pluto is valid, because it looks like BOT didn't like the mission profiles of the Grand Tour Extravaganza so much that he basically NOPED out of all of them and instead wrote up a bunch of jupiter scanning missions? Ah well, I'm not sure if it's safe to take Pathfinder on a 55 day tour, the reactor might not enjoy it.
If SCED thought it wasn't a good idea it wouldn't be on the list. They've got plenty of other mission they can send Pathfinder on.
- Location
- Tarn-Vedra
[X] Plan Yeet to Pluto
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Pluto is not even on the mission list guys, you need to plan the missions first, but I am willing to make an exception because I fucked over Vehrecs grand tour.
Ace of Scarabs
Mechanoid Pilot
- Location
- Singapore
[X] Reusable Probes and preparing for Mars
Dmol8
The Undead Unhinged Lunatic of the Web
- Location
- Belgrade,Serbia
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
😼
OK. So this my bad not yours, thank you for the laugh, but I'm not sorry for thinking this and sharing it:So which of the Care Bears is getting the proctologist's exam? Tenderheart Bear? Love-a-Lot Bear? Secret Bear? True Heart Bear? Shiver Me Timbear? Wonderheart Bear? Great Giving Bear? Or is it one of the Cousins? Since they all have tummy hearts. Hey @sun tzu you got any ideas for this?
- Location
- alphen aan den rijn
[X] Reusable Probes and preparing for Mars
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm sorry, it's my first time making a plan for your quest, and I misunderstood how the mission planning works. If you want, I can switch over to doing one of Jupiter's moons instead?
Pluto is not even on the mission list guys, you need to plan the missions first, but I am willing to make an exception because I fucked over Vehrecs grand tour.
I'm afraid my expertise is limited to the Care Bears from the 1980s.😼
So which of the Care Bears is getting the proctologist's exam? Tenderheart Bear? Love-a-Lot Bear? Secret Bear? True Heart Bear? Shiver Me Timbear? Wonderheart Bear? Great Giving Bear? Or is it one of the Cousins? Since they all have tummy hearts. Hey @sun tzu you got any ideas for this?
...But if something unpleasant happens, the conventional victim would be
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Nah its okay this one time.
Dmol8
The Undead Unhinged Lunatic of the Web
- Location
- Belgrade,Serbia
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Yeah, but Grumpy Bear is excused from this unpleasantness because he doesn't have a tummy heart the same way the Quatar Loyalists are excused from being shot at by GDI in this quest because they no longer are with Kane.
Edit: Oh yeah:
Uh do we still need to build 5 MARV fleets for this plan as well to keep Stavrakas? Or is this just something you haven't edited out yet @Ithillid?
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Turnabout is fair play ol' boy. You edit a winning plan surreptitiously because you don't like it, well, don't be surprised if the players don't vote in accordance with your wishes. Glad you're being a fair sport about this.