Q4 2026
Humans Surviving: 2,624,498,229
Persica
[Report created by NarrativeNewsBot v2.1]
The closing of the year coincided with the loss of the American west coast to the Collapse Fluid and "The Great Migration". Tens of millions of people had already been moved ahead of the cloud, but when it hit the coast proper the mass exodus began, the massive stream of humanity moving east completely overwhelming the militaries ability to coordinate and direct them. Anything not nailed down was taken to fuel the journey east, and of those who did not have the supplies to continue, many turned against their countrymen to take what they needed.
The long simmering tensions reached a fever pitch as banditry and lynchings returned to America for the first time in decades, those in the path of the oncoming mob suddenly realising the impossible rush of bodies coming their way and panicking, order was on the verge of breaking down and it was only the preparations made by the state with this possibility in mind that kept a tenuous control over the situation.
You lean back in your chair, taking a small sip of your drink as the report scrolls off the screen, absently taking notes on the sensibility of the narrative explanation the bot had returned to you, converting real news into a succinct report for ease of reading. Lost in contemplation, it takes a moment for you to notice the angry red message flashing on your screen, using maximum priority to show you the short message from your military liaison: "Joint EU/RU invasion of Poland underway, discovered live Collapse Weaponry. Get units on station in case detonation causes another Breach."
A long, deep sigh escapes your lips as you flick the message away.
A land border with Russia over an occupied country that has previously been invaded by both parties in the past. "Elisa, send a message to Zieliński to let him know we'll be handling our half of the partition, using the agreed upon rules for border crossing." You take a deep gulp of lukewarm tea, feeling the caffeine push off the exhaustion of your 27 hour day and get to work.
At this rate, I might just fall to grasp coffee.
Resources: 925 + 350
Political Support: 40
Public Confidence: 30/100
Free Dice: 3/3
Operations Dice: 1/1
Economic Factors
Sealed Housing: 158 [+71 (+30)]
Sealed Agriculture: 158 [+71 (+30)]
Decontaminated Water: 133 [+65 (+30)]
Sealed Power: 168 [+71 (+30)]
Sealed Industry: 133 [+65 (+30)]
Radiation Suits: 180 [+74 (+30)]
Future Foundation Economic Status
Housing: Small Deficit(-5)
Food: Small Deficit(-5)
Water: Small Deficit(-5)
Power: Small Deficit (-3)
Labour: Large Surplus (16)
Future Foundation Military Status
Logistics: Small Deficit (-4)
Fuel: Large Deficit (-20)
Ammunition: Substantial Deficit (-35)
Maintenance: Large Deficit (-14)
Breach Status
German Breach: Medium Concentration | Not Secure
Swiss/Italian Breach: High Concentration | Not Secure
Slovakia Breach: High Concentration | Not Secure
Kipi Breach: Extremely High Concentration | Not Secure (-5 Public Confidence per Turn)
Known Type D ELID
N/A
Infrastructure (6 Dice)
[] Expand Foundation Headquarters (Stage 2)
Small extensions to the central facility can be made to expand capacity, used to supply the staff and soldiers of the Foundation.
(66/100: 15 Resources per Die +5 Housing +5 Food +5 Water -4 Power)
[] Expand Barracks (Stage 1)
Expand the facilities used to house your military force, giving you additional housing capability. The barracks are capable of supporting a sealed environment to live in, but it is a rather grim affair for everyone involved.
(28/50: 5 Resource per Die +1 Operations Dice -1 Housing, -1 Food, -1 Water) (-10 Political Support for each turn not completed)
[] Military Warehouses (Stage 1)
The warehouse built into your facility was only ever intended to be minor storage for the prototyping work going on inside the main structure and various foodstuffs. It definitely was not meant to be crammed full of the incredible variety of equipment that modern soldiers need to perform their duties. Constructing a separate warehouse for military purposes would massively reduce the difficulty of storing and retrieving them.
(9/50: 10 Resources per Die +3 Logistics +2 Maintenance -1 Labour)
[] Supply Transport (Stage 1)
Getting the supplies from the warehouses to the soldiers in the field has been a problem plaguing logisticians for millennia. Thankfully, in the modern era it was as vastly simpler, as they could be transported by land, sea and air. Your needs are rather more limited though, a motor pool for a small fleet of trucks and lorries should greatly increase your ability to get supplies where you need them to.
(0/100: 15 Resources per Die +8 Logistics -2 Labour)
[] Maintenance Facility (Stage 3)
At the moment, if you wanted something repaired or had to have work done, it would either need to be sent off for repair or have someone called in. The realities of the incoming collapse make that kind of outside reliance an enormous hindrance. Building a simple facility that contains the tools required to fix everything on base is just good sense. Mostly containing manual and power tools for work around the base, but it does have a large room for working on vehicles.
(9/150: 5 Resources per Die +10 Maintenance -6 Labour)
[] Foundation Electrification (Stage 2)
Fuel is expensive, time consuming and difficult to produce unless working on industrial scales. More importantly, after the collapse it will be very difficult to acquire said fuel for what you need it for. The simple answer is to electrify as many things currently using fuel as possible, power is much easier to come about.
(95/100: 15 Resources per Die +20 Fuel -30 Power)
Industry (5 Dice)
[] Low-Upkeep Power (Stage 4)
In the future, the availability of resources and materials for running large power plants will be heavily limited, so establishing a policy of using Low-Upkeep power wherever possible is a good idea. This mostly comes in the form of solar panels wherever they can fit, interspersed with wind turbines.
(8/75: 5 Resources per Die +25 Power)
[] Foundation Self-Sufficiency (Stage 1)
The Foundation is currently entirely reliant on the constantly diminishing ability of the Union to provide it with supplies. Either by taking control over or building our own, we need to ensure that the resources we need to continue running are ensured always.
(9/100: 10 Resources per Die +25 Resources per Turn)
[] ALR-51 Development
For all that the ALR-50 was a masterwork of robotics, it was crude and limited in many ways. The ALR required 50% more man hours to produce than they could provide before requiring intensive maintenance, the battery life was far too short and it was incapable of changing the tools mounted itself, requiring critical human input. These issues must be fixed.
(37/300: 5 Resources per Die) (+3 Incremental Increase per Quarter) (Gateway Technology)
[] Munition Foundries (Stage 1)
Now that a calibre had finally been decided upon, local factories can begin supplying the Foundation with their ammunition of choice, 5.56 NATO.
(40/50: 10 Resources per Die -10 Power +10 Ammunition +3 Logistics -5 Labour)
[] Nuclear Proliferation (Stage 1)
The energy needs of the foundation are far higher than initially expected and rather than just build a pair to the existing reactor, plans have been made to begin construction of a large number of nuclear power plants.
(0/200: 20 Resources per Die +100 Power -5 Labour)
[] ALR-50 Mass Production (Stage 2)
The previous ALR-50 facility was built for small scale production, but demand for the product has far outstripped your ability to produce it. Thus, a significant section of land has been cleared for the construction of a gigantic factory plant dedicated to producing the ALR-50 in as high a quantity as possible.
(147/300: 15 Resources per Die -15 Power +20 Labour +6 Incremental Increase per Quarter +5 Political Support +50 Resources per Turn)
[] Extreme Nuclear Miniaturisation
Your growing fleet of robotic units all require power to operate, which sets a hard cap on their maximum operational radius from any charging station. The, very contraversial, solution to this problem is to utilise your experience in downsizing nuclear reactors and take it to the extreme: Small reactors that can be airdropped into a combat area to keep units operational around it, even opening up the possibility of mounting one of these reactors inside very large units, such as the proposed Ultra Heavy walker.
(0/400: 10 Resources per Die +20 Political Support)
Services (6 Dice)
[] Automation Intensification
You have built the foundations of your tower, now it's time to climb to the heavens. Focus intensely on increasing efficiency per worker and cutting out the remaining jobs that can be performed by a machine.
-[] Infrastructure (Stage 4) (0/200: 5 Resources per Die +1 Infrastructure Dice +1 Labour -5 Power)
-[] Industry (Stage 3) (26/100: 5 Resources per Die +1 Industry Dice +3 Labour -2 Power)
-[] Services (Stage 4) (1/200: 5 Resources per Die +1 Services Dice +1 Labour -5 Power)
-[] Military (Stage 2) (3/75: 5 Resources per Die +1 Military Dice +3 Labour -2 Power)
-[] Dimensional (Stage 1) (0/50: 5 Resources per Die +1 Dimensional Dice +3 Labour -2 Power)
[] Personal Assistants
Now that you have a working example, providing assistants to each of your heads of staff should greatly ease the burden of the workload they are suffering under.
(35/100: 5 Resources per Die +1 Free Dice)
[] Public Propaganda
While it's not explicitly your role, you could certainly attempt to help public opinion along from the sidelines.
(Roll 1d100 per dice to attempt to regain Public Confidence. DC 25/50/75/90)
Military (6 Dice)
[] Light Vehicle Acquisition
At the moment the Foundation is almost totally bereft of any light vehicles, much of the supply is currently being borrowed from various local military forces. Get in contact with the major suppliers and get a supply contract started.
(0/75: 10 Resources per Die)
[] Breach Fortifications
Now that you have identified the locations that IDC are most capable of breaking into our world through, a series of nearby bases and defensive emplacements can be built to provide passive protection against any IDC that may pass through. This would necessitate creating a local guard unit capable of rapid reaction to any breaches in the area, along with the facilities required to sustain them.
-[] German Breach (0/200: 15 Resources per Die) (Must be taken with appropriate Secure Breach Operation)
-[] Swiss/Italian Breach (0/200: 15 Resources per Die) (Must be taken with appropriate Secure Breach Operation)
-[] Slovakia Breach (0/200: 15 Resources per Die) (Must be taken with appropriate Secure Breach Operation)
-[] Kipi Breach (145/200: 15 Resources per Die) (Must be taken with appropriate Secure Breach Operation)
[] ACR-H-20 Production
Spool up production of the Stalker for the Foundation. Because of the lack of interest from outside parties, only a relatively small facility is needed to cover the Foundations needs.
(0/100: 15 Resources per Die +5 Maintenance +3 Logistics -2 Power -3 Labour)
[] UHAT-10 Development
Type D ELID's are a significant threat that the Foundation is woefully incapable of dealing with as it is. Following the established Russian doctrine, a heavy attack helicopter is a necessity for weakening these ELID's before engaging them. Unfortunately, because of the less than legal ways this information was squired, you can't use it as a justification for requisitioning anything from the military. So, it was decided that you'd have to develop your own, taking quite a few cues from Russian examples Zieliński has sent you covertly, officially dubbed the Ultra Heavy Attack Helicopter.
(0/200: 15 Resources per Die)
[] ACR-UH-30 Development
The sudden unveiling of Type D ELID's have sharply raised the needs of the Foundation in the realm of heavy fire support, where previously it was thought a 90mm cannon would be sufficient, the Russian data clearly disputes that. This new platform will be significantly bigger and heavier than any you've made before, standing in at four meters tall with the enlarged front legs acting as large shields and sporting an extremely heavy 140mm gun that wouldn't look out of place on a WW2 Warship, the Ultra Heavy walker is intended to be bulky enough to face a Type D head on and slug it out. This design is scraping the very edge of what you would consider possible with current technology, well into impossible in the opinion of anyone else.
(0/600: 20 Resources per Die)
[] Powered Exoskeleton
The initial model of exoskeleton you had devised was, to put it plainly, incredibly crude. Your work on the ALR-50 had already shown you dozens of ways it could be improved by adding powered sections to the exoskeleton frame, allowing a soldier to wear much heavier armour and carry much heavier weaponry, provided the battery holds out.
(0/50: 5 Resources per Die +5 Political Support)
Operations (1 Dice)
[] Hunt IDC
The IDCS network allows you to track IDC's far more accurately before, more importantly, it lets you see just how many are crawling through the countryside.
-[] German Breach (0/1 +5 Public Confidence on Success) (Decent Confidence)
-[] Swiss/Italian Breach (0/1 +5 Public Confidence on Success) (Low Confidence)
-[] Slovakia Breach (0/1 +10 Public Confidence on Success) (Low Confidence)
-[] Kipi Breach (0/1 +20 Public Confidence on Success) (Very Low Confidence)
[] Secure Breach
Station forces at a breach to cull anything that attempts to cross over.
-[] German Breach (0/1) (High Confidence)
-[] Swiss/Italian Breach (0/1 +5 Public Confidence on Success) (Decent Confidence)
-[] Slovakia Breach (0/1 +5 Public Confidence on Success) (Decent Confidence)
-[] Kipi Breach (0/1 +10 Public Confidence on Success) (Very Low Confidence)
[] Deep CFR Scouting
Now that you know about the ELID threat, it behoves you to send scouting teams to determine exactly how bad the situation is inside the heavily irradiated areas within the radiation cloud.
(0/1 +5 Political Support) (Low Confidence)
[] Investigate Mystery Pocket
The IDCS network noticed a sudden sharp dip in CFR levels around the Kipi breach but drone flyovers haven't spotted the cause, send forces in on foot to investigate.
(0/1 Decent Confidence)
[X] Military Support
A Foundation Force is to be stationed a short distance behind the main advance to remain on hand should another Kipi Incident occur and to provide general protection against encountered IDC.
(1/1 Decent Confidence) (Option must be taken)
Dimensional (4 Dice)
[] Crossing The Veil
To cross over between dimensions, a Breach Generator will need to be constructed at one of the Breaches.
-[] German Breach (0/200: 20 Resources per Die -10 Power -3 Labour) (Locked until Breach Secure)
-[] Swiss/Italian Breach (0/200: 20 Resources per Die -10 Power -3 Labour) (Locked until Breach Secure)
-[] Slovakia Breach (0/200: 20 Resources per Die -10 Power -3 Labour) (Locked until Breach Secure)
-[] Kipi Breach (0/200: 20 Resources per Die -10 Power -3 Labour) (Locked until Breach Secure)
[] The Nature Of The Fluid
Collapse fluid is an incredible material, it contains a great deal of energy in a very stable manner until disturbed and some of the research notes provided by the Russians seem to imply that it broke more laws of physics than just the obvious, something to do with reversing the state of the material into a previous form. If any headway was going to be made in working with it, a more in depth study needs to be made.
(0/200: 10 Resources per Die) (Gateway Technology)
Personal (3 Dice)
[] Deep Analysis
Set Elisa to the task of digging through the data provided to you by the Russians and see what she digs up, no doubt she'll notice something that has managed to elude you so far.
-[] IDC Data (Roll a 1d100 to determine result. DC 35/40/45)
-[] ELID Data (Roll a 1d100 to determine result. DC 35/40/45)
[] Neural Cloud Backup System
Seeing how easily even the heavily armoured memory cores of the ACR's could be destroyed had reminded you how vulnerable the Neural Cloud system was to damage and interruptions. Should, for whatever reason, Elisa lose power for even a second the collapse of her Neural Cloud would cause incredible damage. A Neural Cloud required constant power to operate, but if you could implement a backup system then at least the saved Neural Cloud could be loaded from memory rather than lost forever.
(0/100)
[] Neural Cloud Hardening
It's come to your attention several times that Neural Clouds are damaged far too easily by even minor disruptions. While this can be handled with the backup system, hardening the Neural Cloud itself so that it is more capable of absorbing damage and continuing to function without degrading performance would be better, especially since you can do both.
(0/150)
[] Social
Spend time with someone
-[] Sorawo (0/100: Remove Uneducated Trait)
-[] Elisa (0/200: Emotions?)
+5 Dice Bonus
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