Shepard Quest Mk VI, Technological Revolution
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Especially since Drell have eidetic memory. Perfect for stealing classified/secret information simply by glancing at a screen or document. We absolutely have to ensure that he doesn't see any of our research data. Otherwise we might as well consider that data public knowledge.
They have a trained from birth assassin to deal with, Hanar like this guy who have a Drell with them are considered worthy/important enough for the Drell to fulfil their life debt to and hand over one of their few children.
If Thane is anyone to go by, its possible that the Drell is biotic as well.
Hm. The second option gets us more cash overall (5,000 + 1,380*8 = 16,040) but it's NPV is dramatically lower.
Put simply 15,228m now is worth a hell of a lot more then 16,040m later. Even if 5,000m is also paid out right now.
So assuming we go for the deal, I can't think of a reason not to but I'm about to crash, we should definitely take the up front Licenses.
Be a hell of a trick to pull that off on Mindoir. Not impossible, but damn hard.
I'm torn between escorting him ourself and having Chief Goto do it.
Do we need that money badly? If not, from a strategic viewpoint, ie one where we try to achieve maximum market penetration, unlimited licenses make more sense. 47 million is a drop in the ocean in the world of trillions.
[X] Before proceeding further, verify that such agreements are actually binding and what the consequences of breaking them are. Spectres are allowed to lie, after all.
--[X] Warn him that if things leak, hanar race will not be receiving benefits from PI equipment
[X] His partner will also sign an NDA
[X] Go along yourself
--[X] If he/it is willing, ask him/it a copule of things:
----[X] You were not aware hanar had any spectres. Could he tell you about himself? How did he become a spectre? What are the usual missions hje performs? You don't normally think of hanar as fighters. Is he biotic maybe?
----[X] As a spectre, and a hanar, what would he want to see in a hanar power armor?
----[X] What did he think of the new prothean discovery by Liara?
Something like this as a preliminary version.
The Protheans pretty much only built the conduit. The Innosunon (or something like that), the race that was crushed by the Reapers before they were, were believed to have been able to mass produce them.
But even then, Javik says that the Protheans believed that the Innosunon built the Mass Relays, before the Reapers showed up, so...yeah, it gets pretty hard to figure out were every races tech level was at, considering that the Reapers are pretty good at selective destruction.
About the money: Its in billions, so that 47 million is actually something like 800 million.
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So final things before I got to sleep, incidentally damn you @Hoyr for always posting whenever I've about to go to sleep.
Well not hitting the Alliance makes sense since they just got burned by the Alliance and we've been promoting a view that Alliance == Scary Dragon. The pirates may very well have learned that they are crunchy and go well with ketchup.
On the other hand however it's quite possible this isn't piracy but privateering on either the behalf of the Alliance or, more likely IMHO, our good friend Cerberus.
...I can't remember. Did we say we were pushing for Citadel markets? Because I don't think we did. I agree that selling the Repulsor on the Citadel market would very much be against the strategic goals of the SA.
Using it on the civilian market however...
Well SA companies dominating the shipping industry, one of the most important industries out there, would be a massive boon both economically speak, think of all the tax revenue, and militarily, other nations would have difficulties managing their logistics for war if we stopped serving them.
Yep. I'll check later, or more likely @TheEyes will correct me, but our ParSec troops are probably in a good position to deploy there now.
It would be a good cause (freeing the slaves!) that aligns perfectly with Revy's morals/personality/history and gives our troops some real combat experaince and helps increase brand recognition, this will be a wildly publicized thing after all.
Frankly a good thing in my opinion. The SA and BH really need to work out their problems and war will probably be the most successful way. ParSec being used as a proxy here would also be good since it would increase the chances of us being used as proxies by the Alliance later on.
We can always make another deal later on to sell more licenses. 15b right now would be big in that we could kick start a lot of our space factory development early which would be useful in many ways. Not to mention the various other infrastructure works we want to start on and things like more gear for ParSec.
Basically there is a lot of things that 15b today could do for us.
Well not hitting the Alliance makes sense since they just got burned by the Alliance and we've been promoting a view that Alliance == Scary Dragon. The pirates may very well have learned that they are crunchy and go well with ketchup.
On the other hand however it's quite possible this isn't piracy but privateering on either the behalf of the Alliance or, more likely IMHO, our good friend Cerberus.
...I can't remember. Did we say we were pushing for Citadel markets? Because I don't think we did. I agree that selling the Repulsor on the Citadel market would very much be against the strategic goals of the SA.
Using it on the civilian market however...
Well SA companies dominating the shipping industry, one of the most important industries out there, would be a massive boon both economically speak, think of all the tax revenue, and militarily, other nations would have difficulties managing their logistics for war if we stopped serving them.
Yep. I'll check later, or more likely @TheEyes will correct me, but our ParSec troops are probably in a good position to deploy there now.
It would be a good cause (freeing the slaves!) that aligns perfectly with Revy's morals/personality/history and gives our troops some real combat experaince and helps increase brand recognition, this will be a wildly publicized thing after all.
Frankly a good thing in my opinion. The SA and BH really need to work out their problems and war will probably be the most successful way. ParSec being used as a proxy here would also be good since it would increase the chances of us being used as proxies by the Alliance later on.
We can always make another deal later on to sell more licenses. 15b right now would be big in that we could kick start a lot of our space factory development early which would be useful in many ways. Not to mention the various other infrastructure works we want to start on and things like more gear for ParSec.
Basically there is a lot of things that 15b today could do for us.
*Applies face to palm*
Damn it GM! This is a my bad. Yes the Drell is covered to, technically the Hanar is signing for the Drell due to Spectre. Let me go add a few wordsNot exactly, Liara has been posting the specifications of the artifacts she finds. (She kinda has to or at least let other people scan them).
The Asari in question looked over the details of the power cell in the Prothean Tablet from the first dig and managed to build her own version.
Basically speaking if you don't patent Prothean things they either become public domain or some one else will patent them. Assuming they can figure out how they work.
Mind these power cells are inferior to an arc-reactor. It just that not every one wants to pay 50k for a power cell or needs 5gw of power. There's an opening in the lower end of the market that your not filling right now.
It's close. It doesn't use fuel from a reactor just hydrogen (or similar material). It has the benefit of using very little though due to how much energy the arc-reactor provides. (Thrust=Power/Mass Flow). On the down side the thing glows very bright.
Sorry
I don't recall, but to a large degree selling to the SA market, general trickles over to the Citadel. On the other hand maybe I was miss understnding what the voters wanted...
Time to look things up.
Edit: Yes you intended to go to the Citadel in a few years (much like the AR) the SA said no, and no Civilian sales either. The Repulsor is considered Military hardware. (Along with those lasers, and a few other things).
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Quick reactions:
That's as good as we can get without taking ~6-9 months to give them our version of N-school and bring them up to +3, if I'm reading that right. So yeah, good time to take a contract from SA and deploy, but we should finish equipping them with Tigers and drones first (we already bought them Legionary suits). Heck, our first space factories will be finished by now, so we can build the drones there.
Speaking of space factories, @Hoyr I remember asking way back when if we could change the "Infantry weapons" specialization to "munitions" instead, since I presume Pilium, Sagitta, Hydra and whatever we call our anti-starship missiles will be in higher demand. In fact we hardly have any actual infantry weapons to build; I'm not sure why we/I even went with that specialization in the first place.
Preliminary vote:
Licenses?
[X] Sell 47 million licenses (15.228 billion expected profit)
--[X] We are open to more licenses for ANI hardware.
Should we also be using FRM Licenses more?
[X] For things we don't have the volume to produce ourselves
--[X] Not including Arc Reactors
We've got that big factory going up in 3 months; that baby should fill demand for the foreseeable future.
[X] Go along yourself
--[X] Send a memo out; have everybody save and close any ongoing/sensitive research.
--[X] If he/it is willing, ask him/it a copule of things:
----[X] As a spectre, and a hanar, what would he want to see in a hanar power armor?
----[X] What did he think of the new prothean discovery by Liara?
Squee!
rush?
Heh, so can we confirm that Gen II Arc Reactors will let us scale down, just like we can scale up? Because that would be awesome.
That's certainly possible. It's also possible that they're gearing up for the Skylian Blitz in 2176.
Our hires have had a quarter to train now, so they're all at +2:
Oh, and let's not forget our commander Jelica Eveliina: Company/+4, Biotic Specialist (+1 to Biotic units), Mobility Master (+2 to highly mobile units)
That's as good as we can get without taking ~6-9 months to give them our version of N-school and bring them up to +3, if I'm reading that right. So yeah, good time to take a contract from SA and deploy, but we should finish equipping them with Tigers and drones first (we already bought them Legionary suits). Heck, our first space factories will be finished by now, so we can build the drones there.
Speaking of space factories, @Hoyr I remember asking way back when if we could change the "Infantry weapons" specialization to "munitions" instead, since I presume Pilium, Sagitta, Hydra and whatever we call our anti-starship missiles will be in higher demand. In fact we hardly have any actual infantry weapons to build; I'm not sure why we/I even went with that specialization in the first place.
I get the feeling that the SA doesn't really get the implications of Repulsor tech, and just sees it as another big gun. We might need to back off for a few months, until we can build and fly around our space yacht, demonstrating exactly what we've really made here.
Preliminary vote:
Licenses?
[X] Sell 47 million licenses (15.228 billion expected profit)
--[X] We are open to more licenses for ANI hardware.
Should we also be using FRM Licenses more?
[X] For things we don't have the volume to produce ourselves
--[X] Not including Arc Reactors
We've got that big factory going up in 3 months; that baby should fill demand for the foreseeable future.
[X] Go along yourself
--[X] Send a memo out; have everybody save and close any ongoing/sensitive research.
--[X] If he/it is willing, ask him/it a copule of things:
----[X] As a spectre, and a hanar, what would he want to see in a hanar power armor?
----[X] What did he think of the new prothean discovery by Liara?
- Location
- Lake superior, Minoc
Is her company logo going to be a bunny with a drum set? Got to give her cridet, she saw a market and took advantage of it.
Edit: How long before those two run into little Kasumi dropping out an air vent. And ending up in a deep and meaningful conversation about beam katana's and laser chainsaws.
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Fixed.Sure let's go with that.
I think my response was I'd have to penalize you this far into building. Though if you want to forward the argument that the original choice was quite foolish and others agree I maybe convinced to ret-con.
I'm missing something... what's that a reference to?
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From what I remember the whole "infantry weapons" specialization came up originally because we wanted to make automated Legionary suits and tried to split the two specializations between the different pieces, but one half became "small drones" and the other sort of stupidly morphed into "infantry weapons" and we didn't fix it before we all sort of moved on to a different part of that massive vote; honestly I don't even remember the exact shape of the conversation, and it's a little too late right now to go hunting for it.
wkz
Probably on the other side of the world from you
edmantgoog
init high just high
[X] Sell an unlimited pay-per use license. (5 billion profit, 1.38 billion per quarter for each quarter afterwards for eight quarters)
Right so this investigation is going to be a thing:
[X] Go along yourself
Right so this investigation is going to be a thing:
[X] Go along yourself
- Location
- Tarn-Vedra
[X] Plan TheEyes.
Competition? I didn't know you could compete with someone who wasn't even in the same market niche as you. We don't sell cheap low power reactors. So no competition here.
I'd suggests either ' ' or going all out and using
since using speech marks like this is just wrong.Perhaps you mean "others"?
Well. We all knew this was coming. Fortunately we still profit since we're selling the reactors to them. Even better is that without PI they can't actually make any new Sagons so odds are the Turians won't be waging war on the Alliance anytime soon.
Hmm. Sounds like an automated version of something the Kassa could do. Kassa project their shields so it should be possible to set up a VI to automatically control those projected shields across a team and provide layered protection.
Ha. Repulsors will own you!
Hm. Something to definitely clarify next voting round then since at the very least I meant for the Repulsor politicking to be about sale to within the SA. I can completely understand not wanting them out in the Citadel after all.
Hm. Well that had better have bought him some political points because this will totally be a hassle.
Like @TheEyes I continually get giddy over seeing this.So were details of Spectre non-disclosure documents included in the data Udina sent us? We will still need to get our legal team, or likely legal VI, to look over the thing before signing it or showing Datin and his friend anything particularly secret but knowing that we know these things are actually legally binding would be a relief.
So just to be clear the changes are:
Powerstation Income (Landing) 5,000,000 -> 8,000,000
VI Sales 50,000,000 -> 102,000,000
VI Support 4,000,000 -> 9,000,000
And they are continuing at this rate going forwards, correct?
Update:
Finance Doc
-> Updated Powerstation Income (Landing) to 8,000,000cr
-> Updated VI Sales to 102,000,000cr
-> Updated VI Support to 9,000,000cr
[X] Plan TheEye
[X]Plan TheEye
I don't think that the drell should be allowed into the facility at all, even if he does sign an NDA. Drell are prone to flashbacks, have perfect memories and a reputation for being assassins. This guy has "massive security leak" written all over him in wavy bio-luminescent letters.
I don't think that the drell should be allowed into the facility at all, even if he does sign an NDA. Drell are prone to flashbacks, have perfect memories and a reputation for being assassins. This guy has "massive security leak" written all over him in wavy bio-luminescent letters.
I don't like it either but he is almost certainly covered under some aspect of Spectre law. After all Canon!Shepard could take his/her crew with them wherever they went.
