Shepard Quest Mk VI, Technological Revolution
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We would probably only get one. Hanar usually only train/raise one Drell to act as their hands, ears and hands in places where they can't go or perform actions that their bodies aren't suited for.
Revy might get someone like..what's his name? Thane's son? Someone who has been trained but probably not got a 'handler', but either has suffered from Kepler's Syndrome or had a close relative who had.
You have to remember, the Drell 'hand over' their young to the Hanar in honor of the debt they feel they owe the Hanar from saving them from their doomed homeworld.
Pretty hard to top that, you know. Even if we are curing a disease bought about by moving a desert adapted race to an aquatic one.
I wonder if we could fit a miniturised de-humidifer in a hard suit? Cash in on the Drells market....
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Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace and Medicine or Physiology.
Mind you, it's possible that the Nobel Prizes have been expanded.
Does our new researcher get the ANI bonus too, or do we need Advanced Xenobiology to figure out alien brains first?
I'm tempted to say that we need one marketing/design team per civilian product/product category, and sales should raise and lower by a random amount every quarter that is boosted by extra money spent on ads. Thoughts @Hoyr?
That's another 10 billion; I was planning on allocating the extra money during 2173-Q4 actions.
I think those were meant to be sale price. Sounds good to me; it's a civilian-sector sale so a lower profit margin is expected. The only problem I see is:
...I put Repulsors in those. Is the SA distinguishing between Repulsors-as-engines vs Repulsors-as-weapons for civilian sales, or are they forbidden regardless?
Does that include the academy as part of the large barracks, or do we need a separate
What "excess production"? After Revy's personal yacht/lab we're putting that shipyard to work building multi-core freighters, so we can mine/settle planets away from the Relay network.
Maybe look to establishing or integrating into an existing e-sports league? We should also consider games where people control space fighters or entire drone fleets with their minds; again, good training and seriously the coolest idea ever!
The original suit is inside Revy's personal lab; if a thief gets in there they'll be looking at far more valuable things than a large, hard to move, obsolete bit of kludged-together power armor.
Oh, and while we're at it, the votes!
[ ] The L2 implants where in part a government project and thus they should pay.
-[ ] The Sirta/PI partnership will front the money and get the L2 vets treated ASAP, and will repeatedly petition the SA government for reimbursement. It's a win-win-win: we get good PR for being proactive angels of mercy for intervening in the lives of injured vets; we either get paid back by the SA or we get to guilt-trip them for our next big request; and the newly-treated biotic vets will be forever grateful to PI (plus we can get a disproportionate number of ex-military biotics for our PMC)
[ ] Deal: Deliverable 2174-Q1
-[ ] Don't forget to sell them a maintenance contract on the cores: the catalyst needs to be re-manufactured every ~10 years.
[ ] In the city limits
-[ ] On a nice bluff overlooking the city.
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Well that depends, full treatment (Including some rehabilitation and stuff) would run ~216 million for all of them. Just sticking a new implant in each would run maybe half that.
IIRC the Pert formula should be used. Which I I'm doing my math right mean the final amount due (for 35b) on 2174-Q3 is 36,391,966,927.76 (rounded up). You don't have to pay any of it till then, but you can to cut down on the interest.
The interfaces range a fair bit. The commercial ones that I'm imagining are used for most entertainment uses are fairly cheap. They don't have much connectivity though. There's some sensory input and some motor output, but a large part of the details are handled by and smoothed by a VI. This helps a lot for gaming stuff as it removes the need for the user to be able to do some things. (Can you do a back flip? Fight well? Etc) You could for example have a figurine with more limbs then you do and the VI will act as a translator. I figure you're looking at "expensive" gaming rig prices, maybe into home entertainment system prices.
On the other hand some designs are much more in depth and have more connectivity. The can easily run into the hundreds of thousands.
As for a tournament, well depend one the prize value and any entrance fees etc. I can't imagine the setup cost being much more than a few million though.
Getting an ANI to work with an alien brain wouldn't be trivial, but the data for this already exists and is publicly available so I don't see why with only a little effort it couldn't be done. So he can get the bonus.
Well the flux in sales was something I was thinking about. I'm really not sure about the number of teams. One per catagory might be okay. It really depend on how much of a pain it is to track stuff.
The SA isn't really distinguishing. Doing some mental arithmetic you could probably halve the prices again for a version with ion thrusters.
I'm thinking a seperate Academy. You have a lot of weird gear and that means that everyone from grunt to officer needs some re-training I'd think.
Why, yes, yes they do. The both basically choose to retire to doing that.
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Ohh forgot to comment here. Its sort of a case of left hand right hand.
The SA Military took some of it's funds and upgraded its troops. There wasn't really an arguing about it. It's a good idea. They had the money and every one on the spending committees involved gave it a nod.
On the other hand paying for the other L2s is the domain of another branch of government. They are debating if they have any responsibility to pay for this they haven't officially chosen one way or another.
SA governemnt is a republic and thus is as monolithic as a beach.
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It it weird that my first thought was Revy could probably pull that much money out of her couch cushions?
Considering that our projected profits for just the next quarter are something like a hundred times that, I think it would be worth it for the PR even if we can't get the Alliance to pay us back.
Not really. Money isn't the big issue here politics is.
The update says:
Applying the continuous compounding interest formula:
A(t) = A*e^(rt)
A(t) = 35,000,000,000*e^(0.039*0.25)
A(t) = 35,000,000,000*e^(0.00975)
A(t) = 35,000,000,000*e^(0.00975)
A(t) = 35,342,919,014cr
Subtract the principle and yet get a quarterly interest of 342,919,014cr.
Unfortunately due to it been late last night I mis-read the Finance Doc so this should have no effect on the loan amount we need. So we still need 36B.
A(t) = A*e^(rt)
A(t) = 36,000,000,000*e^(0.039*0.25)
A(t) = 36,000,000,000*e^(0.00975)
A(t) = 36,000,000,000*e^(0.00975)
A(t) = 36,352,716,700cr
I(t) = 36,352,716,700 - 36,000,000,000
I(t) = 352,716,700cr
Huh. At the price we might as well just do it all our self. It's a drop in the bucket (1%) of this quarter's profit and will buy a bunch of good will.
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azoicennead
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Wait.
Guys, I'm pretty sure we're only allowed to spend that money on horses and shit.
(How many horses could we even buy with that much money?)
Fuck.
Guys, I'm pretty sure we're only allowed to spend that money on horses and shit.
(How many horses could we even buy with that much money?)
Van Ropen
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No no, it has to be exactly 12.Wait.
Fuck.
Guys, I'm pretty sure we're only allowed to spend that money on horses and shit.
(How many horses could we even buy with that much money?)
So they better be blinged out like the galaxy has never fucking seen. Biotic horses with diamond horseshoes?
So, can we put some research points toward the Mark 2 now ? The fact that we still haven't gotten to it is kinda shameful by now.
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We're a certified space wizard.
I consider this an acceptable alternative.
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500 RP.
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Not really. Shepard Quest, counting from "Testing, testing, one, two, three." instead of the OP, has been around since March 9 2014 (298 days).
Stark Transcendent has been around since... March 9 2014 (298 days)...
Wow! That. That is an amazing coincidence! Shepard Quest (Iron Man Edition) started 6 hours and 45 minutes before Stark Transcendent.
Anyway they have been around exactly the same length of time and still haven't reached the actual Iron Man (Red and Gold version from IM1) suit yet.
Cassiemouse
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Since Revy is moving into the realm of being able to choke slam national economies money should probably become more of an abstraction anyway. Politics are where the future is at. Yep.
Sinsystems
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Hmm the Mark 2 should have a biotic variation that essentially adds a ton of power to the user's biotics.
I think this quest may be winning in terms of updates though
. Both are fun.
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I think this quest may be winning in terms of updates though
considering that the quest change hand at least 3 time, it say something about how much we like it
Damn. Damn. Damn. I hesitate to even ask, but they can't forbid us from using Repulsors internally, can they? Because if they do that too, we're going to have to look very carefully at how many billions we spend on the next SA election cycle (in 3-4 years, trillions), and on whom we spend them. Hell, we probably should anyway: the Repulsor as a reationless super-thruster is more of a game-changer on the civilian side than it is on the military side, and on the military side it promises to revolutionize combat in ways the Arc Reactor alone can only dream about.
But that removes maybe a third of the reason Appia is so awesome, and maybe a fifth of the reason Virgo is awesome. And you're right that it would almost halve the sales price, but it probably wouldn't halve the production price, given all the Arc Reactors, point defenses, armor and shields, quick-packing and quick-unpacking, and onboard medical centers that we are stuffing into these mobile command centers/evacuation bunkers.
Okay, fair enough. We allocated 200 million to buildings, anyway, so we should easily have enough for separate training grounds:
1x Basic Security Measures - 250k
1x Perimeter Sensors Suite - 250k
2x Reconnaissance Drones Set - 2m
1x Advanced Security Measures - 7.5m
4x Ground MA turrets - 20m
1x Admin Building - 10m
1x Legal team
1x Marketing team
160m left to split between Barracks buildings and Academy
1x Perimeter Sensors Suite - 250k
2x Reconnaissance Drones Set - 2m
1x Advanced Security Measures - 7.5m
4x Ground MA turrets - 20m
1x Admin Building - 10m
1x Legal team
1x Marketing team
160m left to split between Barracks buildings and Academy
This also sort of invites a final ruling on the question of how many people go into a security team. I've put forward my argument in favor of 12-man teams, as they subdivide very well and give us wiggle room for benefits, uniform allowances, equipment maintenance, etc, but I gather you and @UberJJK were sort of assuming 20-man teams all along. Any new thoughts in this area?
Right, good point. Okay, vote V 2.0:
What will you do about the L2s?
[X] The L2 implants where in part a government project and thus they should pay.
-[X] The Sirta/PI partnership will front the money and get the L2 vets treated ASAP, and will repeatedly petition the SA government for reimbursement. It's a win-win-win: we get good PR for being proactive angels of mercy for intervening in the lives of injured vets; we either get paid back by the SA or we get to guilt-trip them for our next big request; and the newly-treated biotic vets will be forever grateful to PI (plus we can get a disproportionate number of ex-military biotics for our PMC)
EAE would like 50 150GW arc-reactors. Then maybe 3-4 per year after that.
[X] Deal: Deliverable 2174-Q1
-[X] Don't forget to sell them a maintenance contract on the cores: the catalyst needs to be re-manufactured every ~10 years.
Were is your mansion home anyway?
[X] On the farm
-[X] On a nice bluff overlooking the surrounding area.
-[X] Hire 1 security team to keep the area safe; make sure they have access to the somewhat excessive amounts of ordinance we have lying around in the garage to tinker with, including our "fun-Vee" Tiger.
Frankly I just don't care much about the Mark II right now. Our top three worries are about being able to travel between planets without being ambushed, protect our assets from orbital bombardment or supernova bombs, and keeping the SA from restricting us from bettering humanity in their quest to be short-sighted conservatives; none of that is helped by fully integrating Repulsors into our Legionary suits.
Right now my tech plan has us getting the Mark II in time for 2175-Q1, but frankly if Gaven Dor's shielding techs prove to be interesting and/or inexpensive I'd be willing to kick the can even further down the road.
On the tech tree: Artificial Biotics, pre-req multi-core Eezo drive, which I propose we get in 2174-Q1 Research Actions.
Ooh, that reminds me: I've updated the tech planning document to take Gaven Dor into account. It doesn't amount to much, other than giving us a little more wiggle room, since his research dice amount to approximately 200 RPs per year. I don't know if anyone else plans on putting forward a competing proposal, but I'm very happy with mine. Highlights:
- Anti-starship torpedoes next quarter, as a cheap stopgap so we no longer have to worry about cheap space-AKs taking us out.
- Multi-core eezo drive 2174-H1, so we can start a shipping company that can get to and from places several times faster than anyone else, and start to wean ourselves off of Mass Relay dependence.
- Advanced Xenobiology and QE Comms 2174-H2
- Everything we need for asteroid spin-mining (cheap way to get eezo and especially dense rare earths out of larger asteroids) and disintegration refining (relatively straightforward way to digest an entire asteroid down into its component parts) by 2175-H1
- The Cabira, launching 2175-H2 with super-stealth and dreadnought alpha-striking lasers
- Eternal Youth and Black Hole Guns+Dark Energy warheads 2176-H1, so we can shoot black hole missiles if lasers aren't good enough
- Quarian Immune System Restoration, to save Tali's mom from the flu, and Advanced Ship Ammo mods 2176-H2, so we can fire black hole bullets out of our light cruisers' 500m MACs.
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