Invest in security? 1 million per building per quarter (amount will be the same for any "high security" buildings)
[x] Yes
Who do you want to get your PMC license from?
[x] Try and form a PMC with licensing in all three areas (2.5 million in total fees.)
PMC Name?
[x] ParSec
Who will you pursue? (Choose one)
[x] Gaver Dor
Will you try to acquire anything? (Choose one)
[x] Starship parts (200 million credits, 100 points to next level of starship tech, Bradley now gets 265,000 per Production) Do you want to grab one of the sites?
[x] Underground base is go! (Security bonus, additional costs 20 million)
[x] Big site (+1 factory slot)
Think a big site with an underground area for research and stuff.
What type of interview? (You can if you wish review any type of interview before publication.)
[x] Video
Where will you do the interview?
[x] At your home
What got you into science and engineering in the first place?
[x] "It was my Childhood hobby" or something along those lines.
Where did the idea for the Legionary armor come from?
[x] "I was watching some old vids from the previous century and thought, 'Hmm, that looks cool'" or something along those lines.
What can you tell us about the arc-reactor (and/or other PI technologies)?
[x] Basic layman's explanation, leaning towards vague, avoid specific technical terms.
What do you think the effects of the arc-reactor will be on society?
[x] "I hope to bring our community into the next stage of civilisation, perhaps even surpassing element zero at it's core." or something along those lines.
And on the military?
[x] "We are currently working on several products that might just change the battlefield completely." or something along those lines.
What should we expect to see next from Paragon Industries?
[x] "We are expecting to debut several new poducts very soon, among them the Advanced Neural interface" or something along those lines.
- [x] ANI
Who's you favorite historical scientist?
[x] Nikola Telsa
What will you do?
[x] Pay (500 million credits)
What shall we do?
[x] Sell a few large arc-reactors to Eldfell-Ashland Energy
-[x] 5 large, building grade at lightly above current going price.
[x] Sell/Donate to The Post Scarcity Society
-[x] Donate 1, building grade
[x] Give the Turian Hierarchy a discount on their bulk order(s)
-[x] 5%
So.... no go? Or everything's ok as long as conservation of energy is observed over the entire system and the efficiency is lower than 100%?
It's just that I was inspired to write an omake about our upcoming frigate to get us some research points, but I don't know what the main gun will look like so I'm brainstorming different ways it could work. If you want to give me broad pointers as to how the final should work I could fill in the blanks?
On a side note you've managed to surprise the GM:
While I understand some people's choice to go with Gaver Dor based on some of the negative possibilities of the other two options, you guys still have me confused as to the massive overwhelming support. I don't recall a single vote not for him!* Nor do I recall any major debates on the relative usefulness of the techs. Though some people have mentioned it in passing. For the most part the reasoning I've read has been "Its a Krogan Scientist. Want!". Or basically because it's rare not because its what you need most or whatever. Not that isn't true (your call) just that's not why people were saying they wanted him.
*Sorry if I forgot one of two, but its only been a few if any.
So I'm looking for some insight, (and possible ideas ).
Okay so the obvious stuff is that you get a scientist that does ME stuff and a few new techs. What other than that are you expecting? Be realistic here he's a very smart Krogan that choose to go into science and isn't involved in any of the remains of Krogan civilization. Yeah I've got some plot points laid out, I've got some for all of the choices. (I've even thought a little on what they might do if you don't pick them).
Of course exploring people's plots might require those oh so important free time slots .
Not that I have any issues, just curious. I was expecting far more consideration of the possible benefits of the techs and the like.
While I understand some people's choice to go with Gaver Dor based on some of the negative possibilities of the other two options, you guys still have me confused as to the massive overwhelming support. I don't recall a single vote not for him!* Nor do I recall any major debates on the relative usefulness of the techs. Though some people have mentioned it in passing. For the most part the reasoning I've read has been "Its a Krogan Scientist. Want!". Or basically because it's rare not because its what you need most or whatever. Not that isn't true (your call) just that's not why people were saying they wanted him.
So.... no go? Or everything's ok as long as conservation of energy is observed over the entire system and the efficiency is lower than 100%?
It's just that I was inspired to write an omake about our upcoming frigate to get us some research points, but I don't know what the main gun will look like so I'm brainstorming different ways it could work. If you want to give me broad pointers as to how the final should work I could fill in the blanks?
Eh everything is okay as long as the setting doesn't explode and it doesn't make the trillions of people that have been playing with this tech longer than since year 0 on the main human calendar look like dimwits. There are also some fairly good arguments for energy not to be conserved in some situations so frankly it comes down to Doyalism more than science (sadly ). Light interactions is very under considered in canon lore. This is level of consideration is a good point to whip out the MST3K mantra, it is after all just a game.
How would the main gun work, depends on part what it is. I'm assuming your thinking of a laser as the main weapon.
Well to abuse ME tech as much as possible the idea is a spinal FEL (Free Electron Laser), which is basically a particle accelerator so it would benefit from the long length of the gun. I don't recall the exact length you guys were thinking of for the thing but, it frigate sized so I'll guesstimate. All things told I'm looking at a ~300GJ laser that has a 2 meter radius "lens*" use UV light (meh good enough), and has a functional space range of 10-50 megameters.
*Or whatever your using to focus the beam.
Considering that ~300GJ is one of my vague estimates for Frigate spinal power that does follow logically as a particle accelerator will be using the similar concepts (It think). As for UV? It apparently what the Salarians use for maximum range and is the far end of the laser standard. (Which for some reason starts at Infrared, this apparently has something to do with lens damage or something... I know crap about laser lens materials) Since Salarians are usually the cutting edge, that works. The lens was just a guess and the range was mathed out using graphite carbon and tungsten plates as examples.
And yes yes I know we can do fancier things IRL with lasers . They aren't done... for some reason. I would have done a lot of things differently if I had written the setting. I didn't and fixing the laser thing would fuck things up seriously, but then I'd have to fix the MAC thing and maybe the gun power thing and... (you get the idea).
That help at all or do you need more info? And on what?
Also Its important to recall that generating strong FTL fields isn't trivial. While some small craft do it its still a shipscale piece of equipment ESPECIALLY the fields that let ships go 15LY/day (or with repulsors and some upgrades ~60LY/day), which is the high cost maximum not the average. At the same time though its also worth noting that every ship has one of these cores.
Eh everything is okay as long as the setting doesn't explode and it doesn't make the trillions of people that have been playing with this tech longer than since year 0 on the main human calendar look like dimwits. There are also some fairly good arguments for energy not to be conserved in some situations so frankly it comes down to Doyalism more than science (sadly ). Light interactions is very under considered in canon lore. This is level of consideration is a good point to whip out the MST3K mantra, it is after all just a game.
How would the main gun work, depends on part what it is. I'm assuming your thinking of a laser as the main weapon.
Well to abuse ME tech as much as possible the idea is a spinal FEL (Free Electron Laser), which is basically a particle accelerator so it would benefit from the long length of the gun. I don't recall the exact length you guys were thinking of for the thing but, it frigate sized so I'll guesstimate. All things told I'm looking at a ~300GJ laser that has a 2 meter radius "lens*" use UV light (meh good enough), and has a functional space range of 10-50 megameters.
*Or whatever your using to focus the beam.
Considering that ~300GJ is one of my vague estimates for Frigate spinal power that does follow logically as a particle accelerator will be using the similar concepts (It think). As for UV? It apparently what the Salarians use for maximum range and is the far end of the laser standard. (Which for some reason starts at Infrared, this apparently has something to do with lens damage or something... I know crap about laser lens materials) Since Salarians are usually the cutting edge, that works. The lens was just a guess and the range was mathed out using graphite carbon and tungsten plates as examples.
And yes yes I know we can do fancier things IRL with lasers . They aren't done... for some reason. I would have done a lot of things differently if I had written the setting. I didn't and fixing the laser thing would fuck things up seriously, but then I'd have to fix the MAC thing and maybe the gun power thing and... (you get the idea).
That help at all or do you need more info? And on what?
Also Its important to recall that generating strong FTL fields isn't trivial. While some small craft do it its still a shipscale piece of equipment ESPECIALLY the fields that let ships go 15LY/day (or with repulsors and some upgrades ~60LY/day), which is the high cost maximum not the average. At the same time though its also worth nothing that every ship has one of these cores.
I propose some possible reasons for the laser issue:
1) HEAT
The heat output from a laser main gun is much higher than the output from a MAC gun. As a result, people have dropped capital grade lasers in favour of MAC's to give their ships adequate combat endurance. It's just not worth the extra range given current galactic armor materials.
In this case, PI's use of Arc reactors and repulse would suddenly give designers two thirds as much heat sink capacity to play with, which means that it's now practical to use a laser main gun, while keeping combat endurance about the same.
2) ME FIELD SCATTERING
Ships can make themselves less massive to take off and land from planets. What is they also use this technology in space to reduce the ship's effective mass? Rather like ships from Andromeda. The problem is that this induces a low level refractive effect which tends to defocus the ship's lasers as they pass out. With shorter wavelengths and larger mirrors, you can increase the effective range, but again, heat and past a certain point people said 'fuck it, MACs are more cost effective'.
Here, we could say that Revy has managed to create a set of targeting optics that can make up for the refractive scattering, rather like we use captive optics to clean up atmospheric twinkle.
We don't need to hire any more investigative teams than we already have for either of your votes. We have five already:
-1 investigative team, hired in 2172
-1 Admin/HR team from our Admin building upkeep
-1 political analyst team, led by Freeman
-1 legal/financial team
-1 "Research team", that I think we hired back when we were looking into Freeman's background
I have all five looking into different things, but since you aren't looking into armed space factories you guys have 1 idle team. Maybe @Yog's idea of expansions on Earth (should be a good place to put a whole bunch of groundside factories).
Mindoir is already pretty well protected. We have a veritable army with 100 Legionary suits (that's enough to take on two to three battalions of normal soldiers) and three Tigers (the demo models) and the Alliance installed several of those giant Ground-To-Space GARDIAN towers.
Throw in several thousand Accipiter, which we can build up over the next couple turns, and Mindoir is pretty safe against anything other then a dedicated military invasion.
Are you going to deploy those drones from the ground? Unless you want them burning up in the atmosphere they'll need to fly slowly, at which point they will be picked off before they ever reach space. An orbital weapons platform lets us instantly deploy a screen of Super-Sagitta missiles, followed up by Accipiters and (possibly) anti-ship torpedoes, all in space where they have full maneuverability. Let's not forget that building a factory now will also let us build a set of 100m frigates in 2174-Q2 that can fly faster and maneuver in more extreme ways than anything else in space, which will make us far safer should we need to go off-world for any reason in 2174.
A billion credits available on demand can be used for a very large number of things should the need arise. While I can't say we need it I would vastly prefer if we had it available in case of an emergency. 400m may not be enough, after all the Shadow Broker info was 500m, which is why I'd feel better with a billion credit reserve.
As you said in your own post, companies the size of PI have lines of credit to match. PI has tens of billions of dollars in real property and physical assets, hundreds of billions in signed manufacturing contracts, and intellectual property assets that could conservatively be valued in the tens to hundreds of trillions. If we need a quick loan, I am dead certain that every bank in the galaxy will be begging us to take their money; if we decided to issue corporate bonds (which we should do if we can find more places to expand to) then they'd probably need to invent a new bond rating just for this company.
Here's the speech I was planning on having Revy give to Liara the next time she tries to object to us spending money to ensure her safety. I aped it from a far better writer than me--Diane Castle, of Whateley Academy, from here; this is part of a speech one of her characters gives in a similar situation:
"Look, you're acting like money is this sacred goal, and God forbid you spend any of it. You certainly need to make sure that it accrues quickly enough that the fundamentals of life are covered. Room and board, caring for your family, those kinds of things. But once you're past those limits, you don't need to keep hoarding it. You need to make your money work for you. If that means investments and planning for retirement, then fine. If it means helping others, then that's even better. But once you pass a certain point, it's rational to use small amounts for things like this.
"This is what money is for. Having the right contacts, so I can do something like this, and having enough money that I don't have to worry about the cost."
Forget keeping a cash cushion; we should be taking out loans to build giant space factories around both Elysium and Mindoir, if not this quarter then next quarter. In fact that's going into my vote now.
Okay so one I'd like to know if our Accounting Guru UberJJK thinks that's even reasonable to implement on the spreadsheet.
Two, what level of shenaniganery are we talking about here? Loans and stuff have been discussed before and there was some ruling made on it by previous GMs.
Frankly our finance guys have to be chomping at the bit to move into debt financing. We are a growth company that is limited only by the fact that the demand for our products vastly dwarfs our ability to produce them; we should be leveraging up a storm, and yet our debt ratio so far is zero! That's insane!
While I understand some people's choice to go with Gaver Dor based on some of the negative possibilities of the other two options, you guys still have me confused as to the massive overwhelming support. I don't recall a single vote not for him!* Nor do I recall any major debates on the relative usefulness of the techs. Though some people have mentioned it in passing. For the most part the reasoning I've read has been "Its a Krogan Scientist. Want!". Or basically because it's rare not because its what you need most or whatever. Not that isn't true (your call) just that's not why people were saying they wanted him.
*Sorry if I forgot one of two, but its only been a few if any.
So I'm looking for some insight, (and possible ideas ).
The main thing is that we only have the barest of details on each person's specialty, and what little we did see pointed to Gaver Dor as the best of the bunch, as I said earlier:
That said, I am, as well, leaning towards Gaver Dor. Gala Da'van looks to be into plasma/EM shielding, which we kind of don't need since TIR is already on our tech tree and makes radiation weapons obsolete. Jenzel Fend nar Rayya wants to turn shields into Blade Barriers, which is cool, but maybe not practical, especially on vehicle-scale or starship-scale designs. Gaver Dor seems like he would provide the most immediate benefit.
Add to that the cool factor of a Krogan scientist, one that Revy has apparently already corresponded with in an academic capacity, and it's just really not a choice at all. The runner up for me would have to be Jenzel Fend nar Rayya, who gets bonus points for being from the Rayya, but I'm just not as convinced that her designs would scale well. Plus I'm a little dubious of trusting the Quarians just yet, as we haven't yet done anything to convince them that we're anything but an easy mark for them to steal from, and given the history of idiocy that Bioware has shoehorned onto their species I can't be confident that Jenzel Fend won't immediately try to steal tech from Revy.
Kind of late to the party now (stupid having to work, sleep, and attend family functions!), but my vote. Mostly it's the same as UberJJK's and Yog's, except I'm:
-pushing for orbital weapons platforms this quarter,
-incorporating our PMC in both the SA and the Citadel,
-telling our finance guys to look into debt financing for more orbital factories,
-looking into SA funding for shipyards,
-pushing the biotech side of our research over the Arc Reactor, which has probably been talked to death over the past two years, in the interview. This has the side effect of at least obliquely hinting at Advanced Xeno and Eternal Youth, which we may as well start prepping the public for.
-and pushing the "name drop a bunch of people" option for scientist as a way to re-introduce humanity to the galaxy at large as a race of innovators. But, agreeing with @Madfish that indecisiveness is also bad, moving to a conclusion (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Sir Issac Newton)
Plan TheEyes
Votes
Invest in security? 1 million per building per quarter (amount will be the same for any "high security" buildings)
[X] Yes
[X] Some other amount (More for better security!)
-[X] See drone defenses, below.
Who do you want to get your PMC license from?
[X] Systems Alliance (1.5 million in total fees)
[X] Citadel (1 million in fees)
PMC Name?
[X] Paragon Security Services - ParSec
Who will you pursue? (Choose one)
[X] Gaver Dor
Will you try to acquire anything? (Choose one)
[X] Ship weapons components (400 million credits, 200 points to next level of MAC tech, Bradley now gets 260,000 per Production)
Do you want to grab one of the sites?
[X] Underground base is go! (Security bonus, additional costs 20 million)
-[X] Look into large-scale kinetic barriers, both for our lab complex and the nearby capital city. Also look into sponsoring a GARDIAN array and advanced power station, if they don't have one already.
What type of interview? (You can if you wish review any type of interview before publication.)
[X] Video
Where will you do the interview?
[X] At the Paragon Industries complex
-[X] Stage the room correctly: Revy in a labcoat. Computer interfaces and holograms of already marketed PI -products floating scattered in the background that Revy can control with her implant when speaking about them (and some of the science behind them) to illustrate her explanations. Maybe stage inside her workshop, though obviously not with any current research right out in the open.
What got you into science and engineering in the first place?
[X] "Mostly through my dad. My father and I have been tinkering with things for as long as I can remember; some of my earliest memories are fixing broken farm equipment or 'improving' some of our household appliances. At first I was happy just learning to build more and more complex things, but as I grew older I started wanting to know how the things we were building worked and why they worked one way and not another. So diving into science ws a natural outgrowth of that."
Where did the idea for the Legionary armor come from?
[X] "The Legionary armor was originally just a test bed for the Arc Reactor. When I had been building my first Arc Reactor, I needed something that could draw and use enough power to push it to the limits. Given just how much power it could produce the only thing I had was an old hardsuit my dad had bought for my thirteenth birthday to play around with.
-[X] "Even that however wasn't capable of drawing enough so I needed to modify it further. One thing lead to another and before I knew it the hardsuit was halfway to becoming fully fledged battle armor. At which point I just decided to actually make it into battle armor; I've never really been one to leave things half finished."
What can you tell us about the arc-reactor (and/or other PI technologies)?
[X] Basic layman's explanation
[X] Basic technical details.
-[X] Try to get hints from Nova Mark as to how technical to get; this is a show for the public after all, not a science symposium.
-[X] Try to spend most of our time talking about the biotech side of Revy's research, as it's probably less well-known to the public, and yet may have further-reaching consequences
-[X] Mix in some anecdotes and funny stories from research process.
What do you think the effects of the arc-reactor will be on society?
-[X] @UberJJK's Arc Reactor effects discussion:
I think it will be profound and far reaching. Ever since the first caveman used fire to keep his cave warm energy has been the backbone of society. As history has shown time and time again, from coal powering the industrial revolution to fusion power letting us finally colonize the stars after a century of spaceflight, changes in energy technology can radically alter civilization.
I see the Arc Reactor bringing great hope, as many things once deemed impractical become reality, and great sorrow, as many who's livelihoods depend upon the current energy system.
While I could talk for ages on the potential effects I want to focus on one in particular. Fusion fuel. Right now ships are tethered to Helium-3 refueling platforms. They can risk traveling too far from a refueling station without risking becoming stranded.
With the introduction of Arc Reactors however that problem fades away. Now the only fuel required is deuterium which is easily extracted from water ice comets and gas giants. That leaves the only limitation on travel distance as life support.
So I wouldn't be surprised to see a new wave of exploration and a shakeup of trade routes. Especially once repulsor equipped ships start making their way onto the market in a couple years time.
And on the military?
[X] @UberJJK's military logistics explanation:
Well there are the obvious massive increase in kinetic barrier strength but I think we should talk about the less obvious but far more important effect.
Military Logistics.
It's often said that amateurs talk tactics and professionals talk logistics. While it's almost certainly not this simple the basic premise is sound. There is a reason after all why one of the first acts in war is to take out enemy fuel depots and helium-3 mining installations.
This is no longer a problem for the Alliance, and any other military purchasing Arc Reactors.
This effect ripples through in numerous ways. For instance worlds with Helium-3 mines or Fuel Depots are no longer strategic locations requiring defense which frees up ships to either guard other locations or to go on the offense.
Another example is that it is now possible to build effectively self sufficient military facilities. Life support can be provided by either the native environment or hydroponics facilities. Replacement parts can be manufactured from the remains of broken parts. Power is supplied for decades with a small amount of palladium. Not only would this significantly cut down on the costs but it also makes these facilities almost impossible to locate unless you stumble across them.
What should we expect to see next from Paragon Industries?
[X] Show off something? (Write in)
-[X] Talk about Peak Human, now in clinical trials, and how it offers a way to apply the effects of genemods to currently living humans. Play up the humanitarian aspect, and the fact that, as far as we're concerned, biotech like this is charity work for us, to be used for the benefit of all mankind.
Who's you favorite historical scientist?
[X] Name-dropping carpet bomb: "When I was younger, I'd have to say my favorite was Nikola Tesla, the quintessential mad scientist. As I grew older, my horizons have expanded. Really, the history of human scientific achievement is full of transcendent geniuses."
-[X] Archemides and Heron of Alexandria; I fully believe if these two men had ever met, then humanity would have had an industrial revolution, maybe even achieved spaceflight, 2,000 years ago.
-[X] Lomonosov and Michael Faraday, both are inspirational poor-to-Professor stories
-[X] There's also Ada Lovlace, Marie Curie, or any of the Harvard Computers if we're looking for a good female role model.
-[X] Current favorites: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Sir Issac Newton, both incredible polymaths whose contributions to human advancement are as revolutionary as they are wide-ranging.
What will you do?
[X] Stop investigating
-[X] This is starting to become a waste of our time and money. Thank the Shadow Broker agent for his/her time, but the information is just not worth what he or she is trying to charge.
What shall we do?
[X] Arrange to sell five 150GW Arc Reactors to Eldfell-Ashland Energy next quarter at 3,750,000cr each and inquire into whether or not they would be interested in a more long term arrangement.
[X] Offer to donate 10 150GW Arc Reactors to the Post-Scarcity Society this quarter and every quarter afterwards for as long as they are interested. (15m loss per quarter)
[X] Give the Turian Hierarchy a discount on their bulk order(s)
-[X] 10%
Company Actions:
[X] Start that Private Military Company. Allocate 200 million for extra-large barracks, admin building, and training facilities.
-[X] Hire legal, admin, and marketing teams for our PMC. Set new teams to work gauging market demand for our services.
-[X] Once we have spare fab cycles (in other words, next quarter, when we're looking to hire), pro-actively start manufacturing Legionary suits and Tiger vehicles w/ full loadouts, so we can have our security/PMC forces start working with them as soon as they are hired.
[X] Expand our partnership with Sirta to include enhancement services for Magi Biotic Amp, basic/advanced neural interface implants and Peak Human treatment, when available. Toss ~1 billion in here to jump-start building/retrofitting more hospitals/clinics on Earth and colonies.
-[X] For now, charge what the market will bear for Magi Biotic Amp, neural interface, and Peak Human treatments. Funnel all of our profits into subsidized genetic medicine for the poor/needy/disabled (Note: this includes relief for L2 biotics with severe health problems related to their implants).
[X] Patent the Repulsor in Alliance space. Same deal as with the Arc Reactor before, and with the same expectation, that we will eventually be going to the Citadel with it within a few years.
[X] Drone Defenses:
-[X] Produce 15 Accipiter Drones - Atmospheric Edition (3,000,000) allocating 9 to our Landings location and 3 to the other two Paragon Industries sites.
--[X] Show off our new Deathbots to Kasumi
---[X] Apologize that there are no chainsaw katanas.
-[X] Buy three sets of Reconnaissance Drones (3m + 300k/quarter)
[X] Start our underground Lab complex on Elysium (Lab I & Research I) (3070.5 million, includes 3 Factory IIIs)
3x Factory III - 1,000m
1x Lab I - 20m
1x Research I - 20m
1x 150 GW Arc Reactor - 1.5m
1x Barracks - 10m
1x Admin Building - 10m
1x Basic Security Measures - 250k
1x Perimeter Sensors Suite - 250k
1x Reconnaissance Drones Set - 1m
1x Advanced Security Measures - 7.5m
4x Research Teams
15x Security Teams
1x Legal Team
1x Investigation Team
[X] Let's make nine more Factory IIIs (9 billion), distributed through the other three cities on Elysium.
-[X] Build on-site Barracks and hire 5 security team per city, to be expanded to 10 upon completion of factories. Start with hardsuits, and expand to Legionary suits as fab cycles become available
[X] Arrange for a 12 month Corporate Loan of 35 billion credits to build space factories:
-[X] A Single Product (5GW Arc Reactor) Space Factory II above Mindoir. (25 billion)
-[X] A Specialized (Infantry Weapons) Space Factory I, also above Mindoir (5 billion)
-[X] A Specialized (Small drones) Space Factory I, also above Mindoir (5 billion)
-[X] A Specialized (Starships) Space Factory I, also above Mindoir (5 billion) First pass description for Revy's labship
-[X] Final location of space factories will be in geostationary orbit over Landing, Mindoir (easy access thanks to Arc Reactors and Repulsors).
-[X] Hire 5 teams for each Space Factory. Start with hardsuits, and expand to Legionary suits as fab cycles become available
-[X] Space Factories will also serve as orbital defense platform, if allowed by Midnoir government; armament to be funded if/when government approves.
[X] Set up quarterly bulk transport of one-time pads for secure comm encryption from headquarters to factories (allocate 2 million per factory per quarter for data disk manufacture, generation of random one-time pads, and secure shipping), and for bi-directional data transfer between lab complexes (allocate 4 million per lab complex per quarter)
-[X] Note that since quantum computing is already a thing in the ME universe, we can actually store qubits in some sort of persistent storage, ship them to our destination, and read them at the destination, effectively doing QKD by courier.
[X] Investigation actions:
-[X] Get our people to start looking into the AI research issue. How did the five companies licensed to research AI secure the rights? Who do we need to lobby? Who is going to be most against us? Etc etc.
-[X] Have our people look into starting a construction company, or at least putting together a construction and maintenance division at PI. These days we're just building constantly, and since we're doing it constantly it's better, more efficient, and more secure to just hire/vet a permanent construction crew.
-[X] Have our people look into the legalities of arming our (under construction) orbital shipyard for use as a planetary defense platform.
-[X] Have our people look into proactive recruitment. We may be coming up against the limit of how many ex-Marines we can hire, so we may need to start an Academy of sorts to train new security personnel.
-[X] Have our people look into other expansion opportunities; I want to be able to start building factories and labs as soon as we have the cash. Maybe Terra Nova next? Beckenstein would be a good place to plonk down Factory IIIs exclusively to make Arc Reactors for Citadel races. Earth has a lot of developed cities, and high enough unemployment that the member nations of the SA will love having additional employment opprotunities.
-[X] Get in touch with our/Lindsey Bradley's contacts in the SA military, see what we can get from them in grants/loans/funding for construction of large-scale manufacturing facilities. Hint to the ones that we really, really trust--pretty much Captain Anderson, General Decroix, and Admiral Hackett--that we're looking into doing to the starship frigate market what we've already done to the powered armor and IFV markets, but this time we're going to need a lot more startup capital to break into this space.
[X] Hire sales/marketing teams (3x, salary TBD) for new products and services:
-[X] Develop and prepare to sell Arcane Blur stealth armor for fighters, Tiger IFVs, and upgrades to weapons/armor systems for current Alliance hardware.
-[X] Develop and prepare to sell Veles civilian-grade armor, developed in Slayer Anderson's omake. None is military-grade, so it can be sold to all Citadel races (pending legal approval). Include options for nonlethal weapons, Sagitta mounts, and wrist-mounted SMGs, especially for the larger variations.
--[X] Will probably need to hire additional marketing teams and design teams to compete effectively in the civilian market.
-[X] How did that game design come out? Can we hire a creative team to continue development on these lines, maybe spin off a subsidiary focused on code products (games, VIs, etc)?
--[X] Set up a division responsible for working with VIs. We already have code-monkeys - organize them, get more, and put them to work. Our improved algorithms are a major breakthrough, with dozens of applications even if we don't want to freely distribute our full-fledged Security systems and the like. This division will be responsible for creating VIs and operating systems for a variety of products: military, police, medical, industrial, and commercial. Other companies can build their products, and license a Paragon Industries VI/OS to run them. We can have standard line to replace some widely used ones for common products, we can create specific ones on request, etc.
Previous quarter buildings:
13 complete
8 factories under construction
New buildings:
1 PMC Admin/legal
1 PMC Barracks
1 Elysium Lab I
1 Elysium Lab I (theory)
1 Elysium Lab barracks
1 Elysium Lab Admin
12 Elysium factories
7 factory barracks
1 Single-product Space Factory II (5GW Arc Reactor)
1 Specialized Space Factory I (Infantry Weapons)
1 Specialized Space Factory I (Small-scale drones)
1 Single-product Shipyard I (Revy's Personal Space Lab/Yacht)
1 Orbital barracks
New hires:
4x Research Teams
60x Security Teams
1x Legal Team
1x Investigation Team
3x sales/marketing Teams
Spending:
Total funds available: 19,456,630,100 and 24 production
Plus loan: 35,000,000,000 ==> 54,456,630,100
Spending (in millions):
12 - Drone security on complete buildings
47 - "Extra" security on complete & incomplete buildings
2.5 - license fees
400 - Weapons tech
200 - PMC complex
1000 - Expanded partnership with Sirta
40 - Elysium Lab I / Research I
10 - Barracks Elysium
20 - Elysium Underground Complex
9 - Security systems for lab complex
1.5 - Arc Reactor for lab complex
70 - factory Barracks
12000 - Factory IIIs
25000 - Single-product Space Factory II (5GW Arc Reactors)
5000 - Specialized Space Factory I (Infantry Weapons/Infantry-scale drones)
5000 - Specialized Space Factory I (Infantry-scale munitions)
5000 - Specialized Space Factory I (Starships)
Total spent: 53,852,000,000 and 24 production
Total remaining: 644,630,100
Research
Revy: 4x 10d10+5
Labs: 4x 10d10+10
Research Teams: 12x 10d10+20
Conrad: 1x 10d10+15
Basic Research: 8x +10 (Must be applied to a 10d10, one application per 10d10)
[X] Biotics training/exercise with Rahna. Consider hiring a Turian/Asari/Salarian biotic tutor, but keep Rahna around to keep everyone honest. Maybe the two of them could work out better ways to train human biotics, taking into account species and cultural differences with humans.
-[X] Integrate a meditation regimen into biotics training, as suggested by Dr. Kopitar.
[X] Brain surgery for fun and profit: install Advanced Neural Interface and CASIE Implant.
-[X] Peak Human too, if possible, but keep the changes modest here. You're looking for more endurance, speed, and clarity of thought, not to look like a female bodybuilder, or even to significantly change your body type.
-[X] To make the most of the CASIE implant, make a detailed study of debate, forensics (NOT forensic science), and interviewing techniques. You are quickly becoming a public figure; you need to learn how to deal with journalists and politicians.
-[X] Get Peak Human treatments for family, esp. for dad, and implants if they want them. Call it an early birthday present, let Dad make the mind-rending joke that it's more like an anniversary gift to each other.
-[X] Ask mom and others about military regs for soldier boosts. Can we take care of Brian's boosts (eg. slip Peak Human, maybe an ANI implant) in as a substitute to his regulation soldier boosts?
Ever ones talking about the various fields messing up lasers.
So why is GUARDIAN abused as a crappy plot device in so many various fics/plots. Wouldn't that be useless as well? More so since they are very tiny emiter's built between armor-plates on the superframe. And not a huge hefty main gun powered from the reactor.
Invest in security? 1 million per building per quarter (amount will be the same for any "high security" buildings)
[x] Yes
[X] Some other amount (More for better security!)
-[X] See drone defenses, Accipiter.
Who do you want to get your PMC license from?
[x] Try and form a PMC with licensing in all three areas (2.5 million in total fees.)
PMC Name?
[x] ParSec
Who will you pursue? (Choose one)
[x] Gaver Dor
Will you try to acquire anything? (Choose one)
[x] Starship parts (200 million credits, 100 points to next level of starship tech, Bradley now gets 265,000 per Production) Do you want to grab one of the sites?
[x] Underground base is go! (Security bonus, additional costs 20 million)
[x] Big site (+1 factory slot)
Think a big site with an underground area for research and stuff.
What type of interview? (You can if you wish review any type of interview before publication.)
[x] Video
Where will you do the interview?
[x] At your home (bring your tech)
What got you into science and engineering in the first place?
[x] "It was my Childhood hobby" or something along those lines.
Where did the idea for the Legionary armor come from?
[x] "I was watching some old vids from the previous century and thought, 'Hmm, that looks cool'" or something along those lines.
What can you tell us about the arc-reactor (and/or other PI technologies)?
[x] Basic layman's explanation, leaning towards vague, avoid specific technical terms.
What do you think the effects of the arc-reactor will be on society?
[x] "I hope to bring our community into the next stage of civilisation, perhaps even surpassing the need for element zero." or something along those lines.
And on the military?
[x] "We are currently working on several products that might just change the battlefield completely." or something along those lines.
What should we expect to see next from Paragon Industries?
[x] "We are expecting to debut several new poducts very soon, among them the Advanced Neural interface" or something along those lines.
- [x] ANI
Who's you favorite historical scientist?
[x] Nikola Telsa
What will you do?
[x] Pay (500 million credits)
What shall we do?
[x] Sell a few large arc-reactors to Eldfell-Ashland Energy
-[x] 5 large, building grade at lightly above current going price.
[x] Sell/Donate to The Post Scarcity Society
-[x] Donate 1, building grade
[x] Give the Turian Hierarchy a discount on their bulk order(s)
-[x] 5%
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