Turn 23.1 2175-Q3 Impact (PI and ParSec Results and WAR!)
- Location
- U.S.
Impact (PI and ParSec Results and WAR!)
2175-Q3
Paragon Industry Actions:
[X] Sell Things
-[X] 100 Lite Laser Pyndas for the Alliance Navy.
-[X] 6,678 Hammerheads for the Alliance Army @ 200mil/unit
-[X] 13,357,276 Soldier Sets @ 120k/unit
-[X] 98,942 Tiger IFVs @ 24mil/unit
-[X] 2,226,212 Legionaries @ 750k/unit
Admiral Steven Hackett was looking out the viewing window of his temporary office hastily assembled in orbit of Neptune. Paragon Industries easy to assemble modular homes also made excellent frame work from which more permanent orbital structures could be built from and around. Normally he would have been at Arcturus or Earth with his flagship the dreadnought SSV Kilimanjaro, but the potential threat of another Batarian fleet suddenly appearing from the Charon Relay has necessitated a secondary defensive line set up by Neptune. Hackett's Fifth Fleet was redeployed from Arcturus to Neptune to bolster the First Fleet's defense of the Sol System now that there was no real point in Arcturus as a choke point.
Back to the view outside Hackett observed the total gathered forces of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth fleet orbiting the planet both with his eyes and the datapad in his hands. Three dreadnoughts, almost 200 cruisers, over 700 frigates, and 80 brand new Pyndas that were kept in reserve from the very moment they left their drydocks. The sheer amount of conventional firepower available was enough to make even some Turian Generals have a second thought in combatting this combined fleet. All of that was of course was not even considering the Pyndas. The recordings of the FIVE known active Pyndas destroying their oppositions in every battle have been frequently rewatched and analyzed by their analysts to come up with new tactics to make use of their incredible capabilities and of course why they have been hidden till now. A mere five Pyndas could change the course of an entire battle, the effect 80 would have might be the difference between victory and defeat.
As much as some on Alliance High Command would hate to admit it, the Batarians were their superiors in space combat. They had been spacefaring for far longer than Humanity had and all that time allowed them to build up and simply have more of everything. The only real advantage the Alliance had was their superior training and technology, though the latter was slightly decreasing as the Batarians were showing technology which was apparently surprising everyone part of the Council. For some reason technology had basically be stagnant for the past 2000 years, even all the tech today was essentially just a better version of what they had back then, but nothing truly new. Until now that is, no one is sure whether or not they always had these tech stored away or if they were developed or discovered recently in response to Paragon Industries' arrival.
Hackett's mind wandered to Humanities' golden goose. Paragon Industries or more specifically Doctor Rebecca Shepard. The reason behind most of if not all of Humanities' recent technological advancement, PR, and even the Navy's growth. The amount of taxes gained from her company were the main reason why they were able to rapidly expand the Alliance Navy to its current size, before the total of ships was less than 700, but now they were able to almost double that, significantly strengthening the current fleets. Of course the amount of maintenance cost reductions due to Paragon's other tech advancements helped as well on the funding front. Before her 'arrival' on the center stage on Mindoir Humanity was seen as the new kid on the block to the rest of the galaxy, brash, reckless, tiny, insignificant, and far too expansionist. Now though? Humanity was set to be a major player on the galactic stage and public opinion on their species was higher than ever before thanks to the various medical advancements shared by Doctor Shepard. Less than a decade and the face of warfare has changed, no more was fights in space and ground dependent on whoever had the bigger gun or more bodies, now it was whoever had an Arc Reactor or more specifically Paragon tech in their hands. Power armor that turned the average soldier in a veritable flying arsenal, IFV's capable of orbital insertions and laying waste to entire squads in minutes, and now flying boxes of doom that hovered above the battlefield like some kind of biblical angel delivering high energy death from above. Doctor Shepard's hand could be seen in almost every single technology coming from her company, showing her monstrous intelligence and efficiency in the field of research and development. Their own scientists were still trying to work out her non patented items and non have even come close to breaking through whatever blackboxing method she has employed on her inventions.
If they just simply had more time Doctor Shepard probably could have advanced Humanity forward a thousand years and secured Humanities' borders from all incursions, or simply made too everyone afraid of getting on her bad side for fear of missing out on access to her products. Her recent releases in soldier level equipment was a godsend, but came with one major issue. Her manufacturing capabilities, there was only so many factories she could make and staff so quickly without risking infiltration by hostile parties which limited how much she could make per quarter. Otherwise he would placed an order for not just more Pyndas and Hammerheads but also for as much equipment for his men as possible to take the fight to the ground.
As he was just lamenting that he received notice from the Charon relay that a friendly identifed fleet just transitioned from the relay followed by his aide hastily coming in with a notepad shoved into his hands with an excited expression. Raising an eyebrow at his aide's break in discipline Hackett decided to look at the information provided before deciding how much to dress him down for. A quick read through the message had his other eyebrow join the first and a smile pull at his grizzled face.
"Well now," Hackett said with amusement in his tone as he dismissed his relieved aide and looked out his viewport where the Relay along with the new fleet with their hold full of goodies would be far off into space, "Looks like Christmas came early this year and Doctor Shepard solved her manufacturing issue."
[X] Build Things (-5,400 Billion)
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Elysium
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Benning
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Demeter
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Bekenstein
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Terra Nova
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Eden Prime
Shepard quickly signed off on the digital documents that Cortana created for her and focused on more pressing matters.
-[X] 1 x Bombardment Grade Regional Shield (-2,500 billion) on Mindoir
-[X] 1 x Hardened Grade City Shield (-500 billion) in Landing, Mindoir
The people of Landing watched, with omnitools recording, of entire teams of Colonial Construction Inc builders and drones rapidly setting up frame works of large towering spires all around the city, and for those in the more rural areas outside the city they would see even more spires being set up near and around the numerous Gardian Defense Towers that liberally sprinkled the countryside. Those curious enough questioned the building teams on what it was they were building and were informed that it was the beginning of a shield system to protect the city and the entire surrounding region from orbital bombardments, generating a large buzz among those who heard it and even more when the news was spread online and eventually reach those in higher positions.
[X] Train
-[X] Non Research Skill
--[X] Personal Combat
1d100 = 26
Revy tried to spend some time to practice her fighting skills, but Cortana, the little brat, tattled on her to her parents who asked/told her to take a break and go out and relax.
[X] Meet New People
-[X] Around Landing
1d100 = 91
Revy decided to wander around Landing under a disguise, some well done makeup done by Cortana using her suit, and just window shopped. She did not really feel a need to buy anything as anything she wanted she could afford no problem, and if there was anything in the shops she wanted she probably already had it, somewhere. Hell, if she really wanted something and there was no outlet on the planet she could just order and ship it over from Earth or whatever planet the main business center is on. Though there was something she could not buy and that was a group of actual players with physical miniatures with no idea who she was at the local Games Workshop store whose opening she sponsored in Landing.
So with the intent to just buy a brand new army and get a game or two in Revy walked towards the store only to stop as her enhanced hearing picked up something unusual and decided to investigate. Telling Cortana to be on standby and checking her personal equipment just in case, she traveled down a side alleyway and looked down into the backstreet of the shopping district to witness the disturbance she heard.
There a trio of teens were surrounding a alien 'a volus' her mind provided, who was standing in between them and smaller teen who was cradling his head with a trail of blood on it.
"Get out of the way weezer, this doesn't concern you, why don't you go on and roll out of here or we'll keep beating you up along with this wimp." The apparent leader of the group sneered at the diminutive rotund alien, whose suit showed signs of denting in multiple places, while his lackies laughed. What was this a cliche holo drama scene or something?
"I don't think so Earth-Clan. *Huff* I don't run from bullies like you. *Huff* I recommend you stop now and go away. *Huff* I can do this all day if you want to keep this up. *Huff*" The volus said raising his hands mockingly at the trio who got pissed at the volus' words.
"You asked for it!" One of the teens going in for a punch only for a blue glow to erupt from the volus and a similar glow to envelop the teen and his friends before the trio all floated up. "Hey what are you doing? Stop it!"
"Just because I said I can do this all day, doesn't mean I am going to let you. *Huff* I gave you a chance to just walk away. *Huff* I need to bring this child to see a doctor. *Huff* Now take your punishment! *Huff*" The volus said before performing a dragging motion with his hands causing the three to fly towards the volus with the them flying private first into the volus' fists and his head. The trio were released from the biotic pull and feel hard onto the ground moaning with their hands cradling their injured parts while the volus turned around and tried to lift the injured teen.
"Come now Earth Clan, let us get you to a doctor. *Huff*" At that point Revy had seen enough and stepped into the area attracting their attention.
"Hey help! Call the police! This alien attacked us with his freaky powers!" The leader of the trio accused still on the ground pointing at the volus. Who just looked at Revy.
Revy snorted "Yeah no, I was watching for a bit and the only ones getting taken in are you 3." She said with the sounds of sirens now audible to everyone.
The kid was taken to a nearby clinic where he was swiftly treated, the trio was taken to the local precinct with the volus and Revy, and with her testimony the three were swiftly locked up and she and her new volus acquaintance walked out pretty quickly.
"Well that was something I was not expecting today. That was quite a brave thing you did standing up for that kid, why'd you do it?"
"I do not know what others would do Earth Clan, but when I see something wrong is being done I stop it. *Huff* That is the right thing to do. *Huff* To do otherwise I would not be able to forgive myself."
"Huh, you're a pretty stand up guy. What's you're name and how'd you end up here?" Revy asked as the unusual pair walked down the road.
"I am Forun Verl as for why I am here? *Huff* I came because I am unlike most volus, I am not afraid to fight when something is wrong and must be fought. *Huff* No military force in Citadel Space would accept a volus into their ranks except the Turians, but even they do not fight against injustice if it does not go against their rules. *Huff* Also, PMC's in Citdael Space are more like criminal gangs than PMC's unlike Paragon Securities. *Huff* So I am here to join with them if they would have me. *Huff*"
"You came all this way, just to try to join a group of Humans who might not even accept you, just so you could try to do the right thing?" Revy asked surprised at the volus' reasoning, it was honestly a bit unbelievable and was sounding like something more fit out of a superhero comic.
"Well I must also admit that I am also attracted to Paragon Securities equipment. *Huff* They have some very nice things. *Huff*" Revy could not help but let out a little laugh at that.
"Fair enough. They do get a lot of support from the company." Revy admitted as she wondered about her new volus acquaintance. She wondered if she should help him out. While he was not the most physically adept that was something she could fix either in gear or training or treatments, but the important thing was he had the heart and guts of a good person. Sure he had to pass a background check but Revy had a feeling he would pass it just fine. She would decide after introducing him to Warhammer 40K and having a few games with him.
[ ] Offer to hire him as a personal bodyguard
[ ] Offer to refer him to Paragon Securities
[ ] Just remain friends and wish him luck in his goals
[X] Explore/Visit
-[X] Landing
1d100 = 2
Needless to say she did not manage to get much exploring done the rest of the day.
Armor loadout
[X] Arm 1 Right: Pilum Launcher
[X] Arm 1 Left: Pilum Launcher
[X] Arm 2 Right: Micro Missile VLS Strip
[X] Arm 2 Left: Non-Lethal Take Down Package
[X] Shoulder 1 Right: Guardian Angel Shield Projector
[X] Shoulder 1 Left: Laser Rifle
[X] Shoulder 2 Right: Guardian Angel Shield Projector
[X] Shoulder 2 Left: Laser Rifle
[X] Carried Weapon: Proton Cannon
[X] Armor Mod: Warp Barriers Mod
Revy wiped the sweat from her brow as she finished setting up the last improvement to her suit, a somewhat miniaturized/scrunched down teleoperator system inside the suit which would allow her to remote control it from a distance. While she would have liked to go in person both her logical and emotional side of her knew it was just simply not worth the risk when she could do it all from afar with no risk to herself. There was no real reason for her to go in person especially when her remote control let her do everything she could have done in person anyways. Cortana meanwhile was handling the construction of the hidden QEC and armory on one of her Parsec Pyndas. AI's were so handy, why couldn't she have more of them? Oh right, they were illegal. Note to self continue work on getting that AI license.
Oh wait, she had to make sure to include a self destruct system to the suit in case it got disabled or cut off from her control, can't have the Batarians get a hold of her latest technology and arc reactors. With a quick swig of her highly caffeinated soft drink Revy got back to work and trying to figure out how make space for the explosives in her packed suit.
[X] Basic Diplomacy/Legal Assistance VI [400/400]: A helper program similar to current VIs but with a larger knowledge base and increased versatility. Programmed with the knowledge of galactic legalese and cultural practices, now you too can fake being an expert on Vorcha greeting rituals.
Honestly, it was not even hard work designing a Basic Lawyer/Diplomacy VI, most of the work was just downloading everything related to languages, customs, and laws for every race, planet, and region of space. Then put it all together with a good enough detection algorithm to know what applied to the current situation and what to warn the user about.
Result: +5 to all Diplomatic and Legal Actions, unlocked Advance Diplomacy/Legal Assistance VI project
[X] Advance Electronic Warfare VI [600/600] (Requires Programming Skill Rank B): Taking the existing electronic warfare VI and making it better in every way. Truly the motto of Paragon Industries. But overturning existing knowledge and technologies is practical a normal Tuesday for Revy.
Revy remembered the last time she was hacked by the Batarians, now things were gonna be much different, this time she had a new programming language unknown to everyone outside her company and a advanced E-War VI designed by her with everything she has learned up to this point in the realm of programming and hacking. This VI would be as efficient as possible with every single known method of E-warfare known to the galaxy she could get her hands on and many which she and her team could develop and invent on their own. The amount of optimization would allow it to process data and come up with viable countermeasures faster than anything else known to the Citadel market except possibly for some cutting edge stuff that the STG or the like would have.
Result: +25 to all E-warfare rolls
Biotech:
[X] Advanced Prosthetics [800/800] (Requires Biology Skill Rank B): Once you've got wires in your brain giving you robo limbs is easy! We can make them almost in distinguishable from your normal limbs. Or even better. Allows just about every limb type prosthetic imaginable.
Doctor Brew looked at Doctor Shepard examining the entire assembly of limbs, organs, and accessories arrayed before her before she broke out cackling about Cyberpunk and other such things. Why did his boss have to be so darn smart and eccentric? Honestly, he wondered what he and his team was even there for considering that Doctor Shepard did most of the important work, working out ways to reliably surgically replace limbs and organs in every species along with the medicine required to remove the fear of rejection for both dextro and levo species. His team merely worked on developing the actual prosthetics using all the available materials and software available to them and using other company products as references. Without Doctor Shepard's contribution the danger's of such prosthetics would have been much higher as well as the cost due to needing a lot more customization of the prosthetics to the individual to merely reduce the chance of rejection or improper implantation.
The sheer number of people who would no longer be disabled was simply mind boggling and that was just for Humanity let alone the rest of the galaxy. Doctor Shepard had even made designs for limbs that were superior to their normal organic counterparts with some even having special features like jump jets in legs or arms containing tools inside. None of which were currently made for inspection, but that was merely a hour of so of waiting for production to be completed.
Doctor Brew wondered just what the future was going to look like after this gets out.
Result: Unlocked creation and sale of cybernetics, generic cybernetics for general replacement of limbs and organs, and advanced cybernetics to provide non standard function cybernetics (ie generic Cyberpunk cybernetics).
[X] Kepral's Syndrome [800/800] (Requires Drell or Hanar Assistance): The Drell suffer from a respiratory disease from too much humidity in the air eroding their lung's ability to take in oxygen. No way to reverse the damage has been found, and removing them from the environment is a bit too late as they have been living with the Hanar on their oceanic homeworld for quite some time since the Hanar evacuated who they could from the Drell's original homeworld before it suffered complete ecological collapse. Of course none of those who tried were you now where they.
Mordin stared intently at the screen, watching, waiting, then smiled as the screen glowed green showing the results he hoped to see. The targeted gene treatments tailored specifically to the Drell's physiology with a suite of temporary nanites were working exactly as expected. Looking up from his screen he beheld the sight of the the Drell father and son pair stoically waiting for his result.
"Congratulations, Kepral Syndrome has slightly regressed and showed no signs of relapse for you, and is showing signs of complete regression for your son. Expected lifespan of another 10 years though you will never recover your former total lung capacity, but your son will not have to suffer from it ever again."
The father got up and bowed to Mordin with his son following suit right behind him in shock.
"Thank you doctor, even if I cannot be fully cured, to know that my son will never have to suffer as I have is a blessing beyond compare. Thank you. Even another extra year to spend with my family is a gift I could not have imagined, but another 10? I can never repay this." The father said with his head still bowed. The son looked up at the doctor his wide black eyes staring into his own with such intensity.
"Thank you doctor."
"No need to thank, was only right, and could not have been done without your willingness to undergo tests. So thank you, this treatment that will save many Drell lives would not have been possible without you. No debts are owed between us." Mordin said with a wide smile on his face as the father and son hugged each other in joy. His heart was feeling light today and his shoulders slightly lighter as well. Perhaps one day he might earn forgiveness for all those he has harmed in the past, it certainly seems possible with Doctor Shepard at the helm of her company. He looked forward to seeing if that day ever came to pass before his death, would be a very nice day, oh yes.
Result: Kepral's Syndrome Gene Treatment completed, can completely cure non terminal cases, and extend lifespan of terminal cases.
Energy Weapons:
[X] Personal High Powered Small Arms Energy Weapon [400/400] (Requires Better Battery): You initial laser weapons were basically proof of concept, the amount of power in them could barely heat up a gram of water by a single degree, that is obviously not combat effective, so now that you have a suitable power storage system, now you just had to make a energy weapon that could use it properly!
Most of the work for this project was just assembling all the technology required into a single coherent item. The better battery, the meta materials for the inner workings, the durable materials for the outer casing, and a way to mass produce them all on one line. Revy just had to give some brief directions and drawings to the science team and they were basically able to put it all together into a working item. Now she had actual laser pistols and rifles that could be mass produced!
Result: Laser Pistols and rifles with battery 'magazines' can now be produced for sale
Mass Effect/Dark Energy:
[X] Basic Artificial Biotic Caster [600/1200]: Now that you proved that biotics could be 'cast' by machines, now it was time to make to smaller and more rugged so that simply moving the machine does not require a forklift and a recalibration every time so much as sneezes in the same room.
Hwan never thought he would be working on a way to make biotic machines when he first joined up with Paragon Industries. He was a battlefield engineer and vehicle designer! Sure he had to learn a lot about mass effect theory in order to properly design vehicles to work with the correctly designed eezo core systems, but that had no way prepared or qualified him to work on something as radical like this. He should have known something was up when that darn krogan started chuckling at him when he brought up his latest assignment. Thankfully a good portion of the work was founded by Doctor Shepard's previous work and he merely had to build upon that foundation, but the hard part would be what came after in order to actually complete this project. Still, he had to admit it was a interesting and ground breaking project unlike his previous works.
[X] Improved Quantum Entanglement Communications [1200/2400] (Requires Mass Effect Skill Rank B): Now that you have QEC's working the next step is to see if you can make it better, how to make it smaller, more compact instead of just leaving it as a needing an entire room's worth of hardware in order to get it to work. Let's shrink it down so it only takes up an entire room, hardware and guests included. While we are at it let's improve the resolution and sound quality so that it is a life like projection you are talking too. It'll be so good you would think the other person was actually in the same room as you.
A lot of work went into this project with many more still needed as everyone worked on figuring on how to miniaturize the technology from its current bulky state, cheapen the construction process, speed up the construction process, all without reducing the data transfer rate or even better improve it. Revy feels like they are making good progress in achieving all of these things, but some more time and resources would be required. Time however she did not have enough of this quarter.
Mass Accelerator Weapons:
[X] 800m MAC [800/1600]: At this point you are getting to be an old hand at this, rejigger this, replace this with better, reprogram this, ignore the mutterings of your underlings, and voila soon you will have a much better MAC in every way that can easily replace the old one!
Shatom angrily waved Shepard off as he worked on the project before him with his science team. They could not rely on Shepard for every little thing as they were qualified professionals and should be able to pull their own weight around here. Revy just shrugged and left a datapad just out of reach and out of sight on his desk and walked away whistling. If the fact that said turian and science team eventually started taking glances through the datapad reached Revy's ears? Well, she said nothing.
Gaver Dor's Projects:
[X] Stasis Plate [1600/1600] (Requires Mass Effect Skill Rank B): Stasis makes the effected object almost invulnerable if mostly immobile. So apply it to armor plating and bam! Awesome armor that's good against anything, including lasers. Down side is the effected plate can't move fast due to the speed of light so no FTL or, hell, probably no cruising either, and shields of any sort can't be used while its on, barrier interference principle and all that. It'll also burn power like nobodies business, which is why no one ever considered trying this before. Small price to pay for an incredible defense. Oh and not actual invulnerability, just really hard to hurt. (Counts as Mass Effect/Dark Energy)
Gaven grinned as his personal project was activated and the incoming Tiger slammed to a stop on account of suddenly ramming a near invulnerable and immovable object. The darn thing didn't even budge as the Tiger's shield visible broke and the rest of the vehicle slammed at maximum speed helped along by a ramp and several after market rocket boosters placed upon it. As the last of the pieces of IFV finished bouncing off their makeshift test bunker Gaven and the team all piled out to inspect the still glowing plate and the stasis generator behind it.
The work Gaven had done with Shepard previously in prototyping this artificial biotic casters had given him much needed data and inspiration on creating a working prototype for his stasis plate ideas. Unfortunately, even with arc reactors the stasis plate still ate up massive amount of power so it could not be kept on long for personal use unless they used it as a external shield, but it worked much better if placed on a sufficiently large vehicle like a spaceship, though they would need to be careful using it cause if they used it midmotion they would kill themselves by tearing the ship apart moving around their suddenly frozen part.
Oh well, that's what further research is for.
Result: Unlocked personal stasis plate equipment and shipbuilt stasis plate projects
Starship Block Upgrades:
[X] Tokyo Class Cruiser Block 3 Upgrade (100/100 RP): The main combatant of the SA's space forces. 350 million credits development money. (Requires Heavy Cruisers)
Now a old hand at this Shepard's staff had no need for assistance from the more senior research staff and with liberal use of references from the previous block upgrade projects managed to easily complete the upgrade designs within their deadline.
Minor Projects:
[X] Unknown Mech Analysis (75/75 RP): remains of the unknown mech that assaulted you, who knows what you could learn from this.
Revy examined her data pad containing the sum total of her analysis of the enemy mech that attacked Landing both from lab work and analysis of the combat recordings. A 5m tall mech, with a pair of digitigrade legs, four arms and a head. The mech's shoulder had mounted lasers, while its' limbs ended in four-fingered talons meant to grab. It nearly instantly unfolds from a 5m oblong orbital insertion form to its 4m mech form and suffered only minimal damage from Gardian and drone fire on the way down. Its arm mounted cannons had both a electro-laser particle cannon and heavy mass accelerator cannon that quickly chewed through your Legionary shield and cover. No space for anything alive, remote operated for certain so the enemy pilot was still out there.
Unfortunately, the parts you were most interest in being the transformation and remote operated systems were irrevocably destroyed in the deluge of firepower that brought it down, because other than those two, there was nothing really of use you could get from the wreckage besides the one intact cannon and the armor pieces which could regenerate somehow.
Result: Nothing gained as you simply had better with the important parts not being intact enough to provide any clues for research.
[X] Regenerating Armor Study (50/50 RP): The unknown mech was shown to be able to rapidly regenerate minor damage inflicted upon its armor, though not much was scene of its further capabilities as it was quickly destroyed
Taking a look under a remote operated microscope had Revy thanking Gork and Mork these were not uncontrollable self replicating as she beheld the still active nanites crawling around and through the metal sample that granted its regenerative capabilties and a swift alarm had security teams using scanners checking for any active nanite contaminations which came up negative to your relief. However, you would not continue researching these until a proper lab for nanite research was made in a suitable secure location.
Result: Unlocked nanite based regenerating armor (requires space lab or moon lab due to safety concerns)
[X] Unknown Equipment 2 Analysis (50/50 RP): The equipment of the unknown mech, what is left of them anyways.
electro-laser particle cannons the mech mounts.
Revy finally got around to looking at one of the few surviving pieces of equipment used by that mech oh so long ago. It was barely any effort really to figure out what it was since it was intact and could fire the weapon at a target. It was a particle beam weapon that fired précised and focused radiation that dealt significant heat damage to targets and quickly chewed through conventional non paragon shields and armor.
Result: Unlocked particle beam weapons project (50/200)
[X] Prothean Data (50/50): The Mars archive has masses of data available. You could get some of it copied and shipped to you for analysis.(Results are highly random and depend on you're ability to decode Protean data, may be repeated any number of times per turn)
1d100 = 10 nothing but random gibberish
Result: Unfortunately nothing usable was recovered from the archive this quarter as the decoded Prothean data file held only gibberish, most likely damaged from just time.
[Spoiler=Mindoir]
ParSec Intelligence
[X] Investigate
-[X] Anything that could help with Operation Tsunami
1d100 +40 vs 1d100+20
98 vs 22
Your people were idle while waiting for the day of the operation. Information won wars, so they went in building upon their previous information efforts and managed to uncover vital information. While the Batarians were surpisingly tight on their operational security the various Terminus forces that joined them were less than vigilant and your agents were able to over the course of the months leading up the operation piggy back through their networks to the Batarian communications network and retrieve some vital data before their latest data security rotation cutting your access off.
There was an entire fleet kept in reserve hidden from the rest of the main military build up meant for other operations to be conducted simultaneously as the rest of the fleets launched their own invasions. As well as updated fleet numbers. You immediately forwarded the data to Admiral Hackett.
Result: Discovered hidden Batarian forces and hidden defenses, confirmed custom carriers like the ones that attacked Landing along with an entire attendant escort fleet. Negated hidden ambush roll.
ParSec Deployment 2175-Q3:
Alliance Assets
Alliance 3rd, 4th, and 5th fleet
3 dreadnoughts
189 upgraded cruisers
706 upgraded frigates
180 laser pyndas
400,000 ground troops in legionary armor
91 hammerheads
other supporting vehicles like IFVs
ParSec
9000 Elite Centurions
260 hammerheads
5 upgraded laser pyndas
60 Gladius fighters
80000~ drones
5 QTT cargo variant
1 QTT
1 dragon lady
Predicted Council Assets
Turian 7th, 10th, 23th, 24th, and 30th fleet
5 dreadnoughts
500 cruisers
5000 frigates
500,000 soldiers
supporting vehicles and artillery
15K power armored Turian troops
12 Prototype Salarian laser frigates
1K power armored Salarian troops
3K power armored Asari troops
Updated Predicted Batarian + Terminus Assets
600~ Terminus custom ships (unregistered ship designs, maximum cruiser sized)
2 dreadnoughts
800~ cruisers
4200~ frigates
Millions of ground troops
50 hidden Gardian towers
newly constructed bunker complexes
1 orbital station
Formerly hidden Batarian Reinforcements
10 Dreadnought Carriers
150 Cruisers
900 Frigates
Unknown number of fighters, tanks, and soldiers
Possible chance of more advanced mechs
All are being deployed this Quarter as part of System Alliance's Operation Tsunami.
It was time, Revy watched through her QEC based visual display from the hidden armory room above her Parsec Pynda as her entire fleet arrived at the gather point for the System Alliance forces in Sol. Almost a thousand ships were in formation around Neptune with hundreds of thousands of men and women ready to go to war within their holds. All of that and it wouldn't have been even enough to even risk attacking the target of today's operation without Council assistance, highlighting just how much of a headstart the Batarian had in space. The Council's own fleet were at their own gathering points in their own systems all timed to arrive shortly after ours is scheduled to enter the enemy system.
It might have seemed like the Council races were using Humanity as cannon fodder to soften up the Batarian and Terminus forces if not for one thing. Humanity had better technology thanks to her company and they demanded to be the one first in. The Batarians had invaded Sol, they dared to strike at the heart of Humanity, and they would be the ones leading the charge to strike back. Today's attack would only be the first in many battles, but with so many enemy assets present, a victory would significantly decrease the amount of military force the Batarians could field in future battles and guarantee momentum.
So as the digital timer counted down every ship part of the operation gather together in formation by the Charon Relay, had their projected course plotted out to the next following relays, the way already cleared before hand and kept cleared by relevant intelligence agents, and as the clock hit zero, the fleet all sped out of Sol towards their enemy.
Target? The site of their latest military buildup.
Torfan.
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AN: Failed my test, trying again in 3 months, hopefully will past this time, was kinda close to passing. Will try to get a few updates out till then.
note to self, update tech tree, place line for tech before flawless blackbox, second completed tech tab for grouping tech by groups
Next Update will be War Event
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Volus OC
[ ] Offer to hire him as a personal bodyguard
[ ] Offer to refer him to Paragon Securities
[ ] Just remain friends and wish him luck in his goals
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Paragon Industry Actions:
[X] Sell Things
-[X] 100 Lite Laser Pyndas for the Alliance Navy.
-[X] 6,678 Hammerheads for the Alliance Army @ 200mil/unit
-[X] 13,357,276 Soldier Sets @ 120k/unit
-[X] 98,942 Tiger IFVs @ 24mil/unit
-[X] 2,226,212 Legionaries @ 750k/unit
Admiral Steven Hackett was looking out the viewing window of his temporary office hastily assembled in orbit of Neptune. Paragon Industries easy to assemble modular homes also made excellent frame work from which more permanent orbital structures could be built from and around. Normally he would have been at Arcturus or Earth with his flagship the dreadnought SSV Kilimanjaro, but the potential threat of another Batarian fleet suddenly appearing from the Charon Relay has necessitated a secondary defensive line set up by Neptune. Hackett's Fifth Fleet was redeployed from Arcturus to Neptune to bolster the First Fleet's defense of the Sol System now that there was no real point in Arcturus as a choke point.
Back to the view outside Hackett observed the total gathered forces of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth fleet orbiting the planet both with his eyes and the datapad in his hands. Three dreadnoughts, almost 200 cruisers, over 700 frigates, and 80 brand new Pyndas that were kept in reserve from the very moment they left their drydocks. The sheer amount of conventional firepower available was enough to make even some Turian Generals have a second thought in combatting this combined fleet. All of that was of course was not even considering the Pyndas. The recordings of the FIVE known active Pyndas destroying their oppositions in every battle have been frequently rewatched and analyzed by their analysts to come up with new tactics to make use of their incredible capabilities and of course why they have been hidden till now. A mere five Pyndas could change the course of an entire battle, the effect 80 would have might be the difference between victory and defeat.
As much as some on Alliance High Command would hate to admit it, the Batarians were their superiors in space combat. They had been spacefaring for far longer than Humanity had and all that time allowed them to build up and simply have more of everything. The only real advantage the Alliance had was their superior training and technology, though the latter was slightly decreasing as the Batarians were showing technology which was apparently surprising everyone part of the Council. For some reason technology had basically be stagnant for the past 2000 years, even all the tech today was essentially just a better version of what they had back then, but nothing truly new. Until now that is, no one is sure whether or not they always had these tech stored away or if they were developed or discovered recently in response to Paragon Industries' arrival.
Hackett's mind wandered to Humanities' golden goose. Paragon Industries or more specifically Doctor Rebecca Shepard. The reason behind most of if not all of Humanities' recent technological advancement, PR, and even the Navy's growth. The amount of taxes gained from her company were the main reason why they were able to rapidly expand the Alliance Navy to its current size, before the total of ships was less than 700, but now they were able to almost double that, significantly strengthening the current fleets. Of course the amount of maintenance cost reductions due to Paragon's other tech advancements helped as well on the funding front. Before her 'arrival' on the center stage on Mindoir Humanity was seen as the new kid on the block to the rest of the galaxy, brash, reckless, tiny, insignificant, and far too expansionist. Now though? Humanity was set to be a major player on the galactic stage and public opinion on their species was higher than ever before thanks to the various medical advancements shared by Doctor Shepard. Less than a decade and the face of warfare has changed, no more was fights in space and ground dependent on whoever had the bigger gun or more bodies, now it was whoever had an Arc Reactor or more specifically Paragon tech in their hands. Power armor that turned the average soldier in a veritable flying arsenal, IFV's capable of orbital insertions and laying waste to entire squads in minutes, and now flying boxes of doom that hovered above the battlefield like some kind of biblical angel delivering high energy death from above. Doctor Shepard's hand could be seen in almost every single technology coming from her company, showing her monstrous intelligence and efficiency in the field of research and development. Their own scientists were still trying to work out her non patented items and non have even come close to breaking through whatever blackboxing method she has employed on her inventions.
If they just simply had more time Doctor Shepard probably could have advanced Humanity forward a thousand years and secured Humanities' borders from all incursions, or simply made too everyone afraid of getting on her bad side for fear of missing out on access to her products. Her recent releases in soldier level equipment was a godsend, but came with one major issue. Her manufacturing capabilities, there was only so many factories she could make and staff so quickly without risking infiltration by hostile parties which limited how much she could make per quarter. Otherwise he would placed an order for not just more Pyndas and Hammerheads but also for as much equipment for his men as possible to take the fight to the ground.
As he was just lamenting that he received notice from the Charon relay that a friendly identifed fleet just transitioned from the relay followed by his aide hastily coming in with a notepad shoved into his hands with an excited expression. Raising an eyebrow at his aide's break in discipline Hackett decided to look at the information provided before deciding how much to dress him down for. A quick read through the message had his other eyebrow join the first and a smile pull at his grizzled face.
"Well now," Hackett said with amusement in his tone as he dismissed his relieved aide and looked out his viewport where the Relay along with the new fleet with their hold full of goodies would be far off into space, "Looks like Christmas came early this year and Doctor Shepard solved her manufacturing issue."
[X] Build Things (-5,400 Billion)
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Elysium
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Benning
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Demeter
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Bekenstein
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Terra Nova
-[X] 2 x Heavily Armed Space Factory II (-400 Billion) in orbit of Eden Prime
Shepard quickly signed off on the digital documents that Cortana created for her and focused on more pressing matters.
-[X] 1 x Bombardment Grade Regional Shield (-2,500 billion) on Mindoir
-[X] 1 x Hardened Grade City Shield (-500 billion) in Landing, Mindoir
The people of Landing watched, with omnitools recording, of entire teams of Colonial Construction Inc builders and drones rapidly setting up frame works of large towering spires all around the city, and for those in the more rural areas outside the city they would see even more spires being set up near and around the numerous Gardian Defense Towers that liberally sprinkled the countryside. Those curious enough questioned the building teams on what it was they were building and were informed that it was the beginning of a shield system to protect the city and the entire surrounding region from orbital bombardments, generating a large buzz among those who heard it and even more when the news was spread online and eventually reach those in higher positions.
[X] Train
-[X] Non Research Skill
--[X] Personal Combat
1d100 = 26
Revy tried to spend some time to practice her fighting skills, but Cortana, the little brat, tattled on her to her parents who asked/told her to take a break and go out and relax.
[X] Meet New People
-[X] Around Landing
1d100 = 91
Revy decided to wander around Landing under a disguise, some well done makeup done by Cortana using her suit, and just window shopped. She did not really feel a need to buy anything as anything she wanted she could afford no problem, and if there was anything in the shops she wanted she probably already had it, somewhere. Hell, if she really wanted something and there was no outlet on the planet she could just order and ship it over from Earth or whatever planet the main business center is on. Though there was something she could not buy and that was a group of actual players with physical miniatures with no idea who she was at the local Games Workshop store whose opening she sponsored in Landing.
So with the intent to just buy a brand new army and get a game or two in Revy walked towards the store only to stop as her enhanced hearing picked up something unusual and decided to investigate. Telling Cortana to be on standby and checking her personal equipment just in case, she traveled down a side alleyway and looked down into the backstreet of the shopping district to witness the disturbance she heard.
There a trio of teens were surrounding a alien 'a volus' her mind provided, who was standing in between them and smaller teen who was cradling his head with a trail of blood on it.
"Get out of the way weezer, this doesn't concern you, why don't you go on and roll out of here or we'll keep beating you up along with this wimp." The apparent leader of the group sneered at the diminutive rotund alien, whose suit showed signs of denting in multiple places, while his lackies laughed. What was this a cliche holo drama scene or something?
"I don't think so Earth-Clan. *Huff* I don't run from bullies like you. *Huff* I recommend you stop now and go away. *Huff* I can do this all day if you want to keep this up. *Huff*" The volus said raising his hands mockingly at the trio who got pissed at the volus' words.
"You asked for it!" One of the teens going in for a punch only for a blue glow to erupt from the volus and a similar glow to envelop the teen and his friends before the trio all floated up. "Hey what are you doing? Stop it!"
"Just because I said I can do this all day, doesn't mean I am going to let you. *Huff* I gave you a chance to just walk away. *Huff* I need to bring this child to see a doctor. *Huff* Now take your punishment! *Huff*" The volus said before performing a dragging motion with his hands causing the three to fly towards the volus with the them flying private first into the volus' fists and his head. The trio were released from the biotic pull and feel hard onto the ground moaning with their hands cradling their injured parts while the volus turned around and tried to lift the injured teen.
"Come now Earth Clan, let us get you to a doctor. *Huff*" At that point Revy had seen enough and stepped into the area attracting their attention.
"Hey help! Call the police! This alien attacked us with his freaky powers!" The leader of the trio accused still on the ground pointing at the volus. Who just looked at Revy.
Revy snorted "Yeah no, I was watching for a bit and the only ones getting taken in are you 3." She said with the sounds of sirens now audible to everyone.
The kid was taken to a nearby clinic where he was swiftly treated, the trio was taken to the local precinct with the volus and Revy, and with her testimony the three were swiftly locked up and she and her new volus acquaintance walked out pretty quickly.
"Well that was something I was not expecting today. That was quite a brave thing you did standing up for that kid, why'd you do it?"
"I do not know what others would do Earth Clan, but when I see something wrong is being done I stop it. *Huff* That is the right thing to do. *Huff* To do otherwise I would not be able to forgive myself."
"Huh, you're a pretty stand up guy. What's you're name and how'd you end up here?" Revy asked as the unusual pair walked down the road.
"I am Forun Verl as for why I am here? *Huff* I came because I am unlike most volus, I am not afraid to fight when something is wrong and must be fought. *Huff* No military force in Citadel Space would accept a volus into their ranks except the Turians, but even they do not fight against injustice if it does not go against their rules. *Huff* Also, PMC's in Citdael Space are more like criminal gangs than PMC's unlike Paragon Securities. *Huff* So I am here to join with them if they would have me. *Huff*"
"You came all this way, just to try to join a group of Humans who might not even accept you, just so you could try to do the right thing?" Revy asked surprised at the volus' reasoning, it was honestly a bit unbelievable and was sounding like something more fit out of a superhero comic.
"Well I must also admit that I am also attracted to Paragon Securities equipment. *Huff* They have some very nice things. *Huff*" Revy could not help but let out a little laugh at that.
"Fair enough. They do get a lot of support from the company." Revy admitted as she wondered about her new volus acquaintance. She wondered if she should help him out. While he was not the most physically adept that was something she could fix either in gear or training or treatments, but the important thing was he had the heart and guts of a good person. Sure he had to pass a background check but Revy had a feeling he would pass it just fine. She would decide after introducing him to Warhammer 40K and having a few games with him.
[ ] Offer to hire him as a personal bodyguard
[ ] Offer to refer him to Paragon Securities
[ ] Just remain friends and wish him luck in his goals
[X] Explore/Visit
-[X] Landing
1d100 = 2
Needless to say she did not manage to get much exploring done the rest of the day.
Armor loadout
[X] Arm 1 Right: Pilum Launcher
[X] Arm 1 Left: Pilum Launcher
[X] Arm 2 Right: Micro Missile VLS Strip
[X] Arm 2 Left: Non-Lethal Take Down Package
[X] Shoulder 1 Right: Guardian Angel Shield Projector
[X] Shoulder 1 Left: Laser Rifle
[X] Shoulder 2 Right: Guardian Angel Shield Projector
[X] Shoulder 2 Left: Laser Rifle
[X] Carried Weapon: Proton Cannon
[X] Armor Mod: Warp Barriers Mod
Revy wiped the sweat from her brow as she finished setting up the last improvement to her suit, a somewhat miniaturized/scrunched down teleoperator system inside the suit which would allow her to remote control it from a distance. While she would have liked to go in person both her logical and emotional side of her knew it was just simply not worth the risk when she could do it all from afar with no risk to herself. There was no real reason for her to go in person especially when her remote control let her do everything she could have done in person anyways. Cortana meanwhile was handling the construction of the hidden QEC and armory on one of her Parsec Pyndas. AI's were so handy, why couldn't she have more of them? Oh right, they were illegal. Note to self continue work on getting that AI license.
Oh wait, she had to make sure to include a self destruct system to the suit in case it got disabled or cut off from her control, can't have the Batarians get a hold of her latest technology and arc reactors. With a quick swig of her highly caffeinated soft drink Revy got back to work and trying to figure out how make space for the explosives in her packed suit.
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Computing:[X] Basic Diplomacy/Legal Assistance VI [400/400]: A helper program similar to current VIs but with a larger knowledge base and increased versatility. Programmed with the knowledge of galactic legalese and cultural practices, now you too can fake being an expert on Vorcha greeting rituals.
Honestly, it was not even hard work designing a Basic Lawyer/Diplomacy VI, most of the work was just downloading everything related to languages, customs, and laws for every race, planet, and region of space. Then put it all together with a good enough detection algorithm to know what applied to the current situation and what to warn the user about.
Result: +5 to all Diplomatic and Legal Actions, unlocked Advance Diplomacy/Legal Assistance VI project
[X] Advance Electronic Warfare VI [600/600] (Requires Programming Skill Rank B): Taking the existing electronic warfare VI and making it better in every way. Truly the motto of Paragon Industries. But overturning existing knowledge and technologies is practical a normal Tuesday for Revy.
Revy remembered the last time she was hacked by the Batarians, now things were gonna be much different, this time she had a new programming language unknown to everyone outside her company and a advanced E-War VI designed by her with everything she has learned up to this point in the realm of programming and hacking. This VI would be as efficient as possible with every single known method of E-warfare known to the galaxy she could get her hands on and many which she and her team could develop and invent on their own. The amount of optimization would allow it to process data and come up with viable countermeasures faster than anything else known to the Citadel market except possibly for some cutting edge stuff that the STG or the like would have.
Result: +25 to all E-warfare rolls
Biotech:
[X] Advanced Prosthetics [800/800] (Requires Biology Skill Rank B): Once you've got wires in your brain giving you robo limbs is easy! We can make them almost in distinguishable from your normal limbs. Or even better. Allows just about every limb type prosthetic imaginable.
Doctor Brew looked at Doctor Shepard examining the entire assembly of limbs, organs, and accessories arrayed before her before she broke out cackling about Cyberpunk and other such things. Why did his boss have to be so darn smart and eccentric? Honestly, he wondered what he and his team was even there for considering that Doctor Shepard did most of the important work, working out ways to reliably surgically replace limbs and organs in every species along with the medicine required to remove the fear of rejection for both dextro and levo species. His team merely worked on developing the actual prosthetics using all the available materials and software available to them and using other company products as references. Without Doctor Shepard's contribution the danger's of such prosthetics would have been much higher as well as the cost due to needing a lot more customization of the prosthetics to the individual to merely reduce the chance of rejection or improper implantation.
The sheer number of people who would no longer be disabled was simply mind boggling and that was just for Humanity let alone the rest of the galaxy. Doctor Shepard had even made designs for limbs that were superior to their normal organic counterparts with some even having special features like jump jets in legs or arms containing tools inside. None of which were currently made for inspection, but that was merely a hour of so of waiting for production to be completed.
Doctor Brew wondered just what the future was going to look like after this gets out.
Result: Unlocked creation and sale of cybernetics, generic cybernetics for general replacement of limbs and organs, and advanced cybernetics to provide non standard function cybernetics (ie generic Cyberpunk cybernetics).
[X] Kepral's Syndrome [800/800] (Requires Drell or Hanar Assistance): The Drell suffer from a respiratory disease from too much humidity in the air eroding their lung's ability to take in oxygen. No way to reverse the damage has been found, and removing them from the environment is a bit too late as they have been living with the Hanar on their oceanic homeworld for quite some time since the Hanar evacuated who they could from the Drell's original homeworld before it suffered complete ecological collapse. Of course none of those who tried were you now where they.
Mordin stared intently at the screen, watching, waiting, then smiled as the screen glowed green showing the results he hoped to see. The targeted gene treatments tailored specifically to the Drell's physiology with a suite of temporary nanites were working exactly as expected. Looking up from his screen he beheld the sight of the the Drell father and son pair stoically waiting for his result.
"Congratulations, Kepral Syndrome has slightly regressed and showed no signs of relapse for you, and is showing signs of complete regression for your son. Expected lifespan of another 10 years though you will never recover your former total lung capacity, but your son will not have to suffer from it ever again."
The father got up and bowed to Mordin with his son following suit right behind him in shock.
"Thank you doctor, even if I cannot be fully cured, to know that my son will never have to suffer as I have is a blessing beyond compare. Thank you. Even another extra year to spend with my family is a gift I could not have imagined, but another 10? I can never repay this." The father said with his head still bowed. The son looked up at the doctor his wide black eyes staring into his own with such intensity.
"Thank you doctor."
"No need to thank, was only right, and could not have been done without your willingness to undergo tests. So thank you, this treatment that will save many Drell lives would not have been possible without you. No debts are owed between us." Mordin said with a wide smile on his face as the father and son hugged each other in joy. His heart was feeling light today and his shoulders slightly lighter as well. Perhaps one day he might earn forgiveness for all those he has harmed in the past, it certainly seems possible with Doctor Shepard at the helm of her company. He looked forward to seeing if that day ever came to pass before his death, would be a very nice day, oh yes.
Result: Kepral's Syndrome Gene Treatment completed, can completely cure non terminal cases, and extend lifespan of terminal cases.
Energy Weapons:
[X] Personal High Powered Small Arms Energy Weapon [400/400] (Requires Better Battery): You initial laser weapons were basically proof of concept, the amount of power in them could barely heat up a gram of water by a single degree, that is obviously not combat effective, so now that you have a suitable power storage system, now you just had to make a energy weapon that could use it properly!
Most of the work for this project was just assembling all the technology required into a single coherent item. The better battery, the meta materials for the inner workings, the durable materials for the outer casing, and a way to mass produce them all on one line. Revy just had to give some brief directions and drawings to the science team and they were basically able to put it all together into a working item. Now she had actual laser pistols and rifles that could be mass produced!
Result: Laser Pistols and rifles with battery 'magazines' can now be produced for sale
Mass Effect/Dark Energy:
[X] Basic Artificial Biotic Caster [600/1200]: Now that you proved that biotics could be 'cast' by machines, now it was time to make to smaller and more rugged so that simply moving the machine does not require a forklift and a recalibration every time so much as sneezes in the same room.
Hwan never thought he would be working on a way to make biotic machines when he first joined up with Paragon Industries. He was a battlefield engineer and vehicle designer! Sure he had to learn a lot about mass effect theory in order to properly design vehicles to work with the correctly designed eezo core systems, but that had no way prepared or qualified him to work on something as radical like this. He should have known something was up when that darn krogan started chuckling at him when he brought up his latest assignment. Thankfully a good portion of the work was founded by Doctor Shepard's previous work and he merely had to build upon that foundation, but the hard part would be what came after in order to actually complete this project. Still, he had to admit it was a interesting and ground breaking project unlike his previous works.
[X] Improved Quantum Entanglement Communications [1200/2400] (Requires Mass Effect Skill Rank B): Now that you have QEC's working the next step is to see if you can make it better, how to make it smaller, more compact instead of just leaving it as a needing an entire room's worth of hardware in order to get it to work. Let's shrink it down so it only takes up an entire room, hardware and guests included. While we are at it let's improve the resolution and sound quality so that it is a life like projection you are talking too. It'll be so good you would think the other person was actually in the same room as you.
A lot of work went into this project with many more still needed as everyone worked on figuring on how to miniaturize the technology from its current bulky state, cheapen the construction process, speed up the construction process, all without reducing the data transfer rate or even better improve it. Revy feels like they are making good progress in achieving all of these things, but some more time and resources would be required. Time however she did not have enough of this quarter.
Mass Accelerator Weapons:
[X] 800m MAC [800/1600]: At this point you are getting to be an old hand at this, rejigger this, replace this with better, reprogram this, ignore the mutterings of your underlings, and voila soon you will have a much better MAC in every way that can easily replace the old one!
Shatom angrily waved Shepard off as he worked on the project before him with his science team. They could not rely on Shepard for every little thing as they were qualified professionals and should be able to pull their own weight around here. Revy just shrugged and left a datapad just out of reach and out of sight on his desk and walked away whistling. If the fact that said turian and science team eventually started taking glances through the datapad reached Revy's ears? Well, she said nothing.
Gaver Dor's Projects:
[X] Stasis Plate [1600/1600] (Requires Mass Effect Skill Rank B): Stasis makes the effected object almost invulnerable if mostly immobile. So apply it to armor plating and bam! Awesome armor that's good against anything, including lasers. Down side is the effected plate can't move fast due to the speed of light so no FTL or, hell, probably no cruising either, and shields of any sort can't be used while its on, barrier interference principle and all that. It'll also burn power like nobodies business, which is why no one ever considered trying this before. Small price to pay for an incredible defense. Oh and not actual invulnerability, just really hard to hurt. (Counts as Mass Effect/Dark Energy)
Gaven grinned as his personal project was activated and the incoming Tiger slammed to a stop on account of suddenly ramming a near invulnerable and immovable object. The darn thing didn't even budge as the Tiger's shield visible broke and the rest of the vehicle slammed at maximum speed helped along by a ramp and several after market rocket boosters placed upon it. As the last of the pieces of IFV finished bouncing off their makeshift test bunker Gaven and the team all piled out to inspect the still glowing plate and the stasis generator behind it.
The work Gaven had done with Shepard previously in prototyping this artificial biotic casters had given him much needed data and inspiration on creating a working prototype for his stasis plate ideas. Unfortunately, even with arc reactors the stasis plate still ate up massive amount of power so it could not be kept on long for personal use unless they used it as a external shield, but it worked much better if placed on a sufficiently large vehicle like a spaceship, though they would need to be careful using it cause if they used it midmotion they would kill themselves by tearing the ship apart moving around their suddenly frozen part.
Oh well, that's what further research is for.
Result: Unlocked personal stasis plate equipment and shipbuilt stasis plate projects
Starship Block Upgrades:
[X] Tokyo Class Cruiser Block 3 Upgrade (100/100 RP): The main combatant of the SA's space forces. 350 million credits development money. (Requires Heavy Cruisers)
Now a old hand at this Shepard's staff had no need for assistance from the more senior research staff and with liberal use of references from the previous block upgrade projects managed to easily complete the upgrade designs within their deadline.
Minor Projects:
[X] Unknown Mech Analysis (75/75 RP): remains of the unknown mech that assaulted you, who knows what you could learn from this.
Revy examined her data pad containing the sum total of her analysis of the enemy mech that attacked Landing both from lab work and analysis of the combat recordings. A 5m tall mech, with a pair of digitigrade legs, four arms and a head. The mech's shoulder had mounted lasers, while its' limbs ended in four-fingered talons meant to grab. It nearly instantly unfolds from a 5m oblong orbital insertion form to its 4m mech form and suffered only minimal damage from Gardian and drone fire on the way down. Its arm mounted cannons had both a electro-laser particle cannon and heavy mass accelerator cannon that quickly chewed through your Legionary shield and cover. No space for anything alive, remote operated for certain so the enemy pilot was still out there.
Unfortunately, the parts you were most interest in being the transformation and remote operated systems were irrevocably destroyed in the deluge of firepower that brought it down, because other than those two, there was nothing really of use you could get from the wreckage besides the one intact cannon and the armor pieces which could regenerate somehow.
Result: Nothing gained as you simply had better with the important parts not being intact enough to provide any clues for research.
[X] Regenerating Armor Study (50/50 RP): The unknown mech was shown to be able to rapidly regenerate minor damage inflicted upon its armor, though not much was scene of its further capabilities as it was quickly destroyed
Taking a look under a remote operated microscope had Revy thanking Gork and Mork these were not uncontrollable self replicating as she beheld the still active nanites crawling around and through the metal sample that granted its regenerative capabilties and a swift alarm had security teams using scanners checking for any active nanite contaminations which came up negative to your relief. However, you would not continue researching these until a proper lab for nanite research was made in a suitable secure location.
Result: Unlocked nanite based regenerating armor (requires space lab or moon lab due to safety concerns)
[X] Unknown Equipment 2 Analysis (50/50 RP): The equipment of the unknown mech, what is left of them anyways.
electro-laser particle cannons the mech mounts.
Revy finally got around to looking at one of the few surviving pieces of equipment used by that mech oh so long ago. It was barely any effort really to figure out what it was since it was intact and could fire the weapon at a target. It was a particle beam weapon that fired précised and focused radiation that dealt significant heat damage to targets and quickly chewed through conventional non paragon shields and armor.
Result: Unlocked particle beam weapons project (50/200)
[X] Prothean Data (50/50): The Mars archive has masses of data available. You could get some of it copied and shipped to you for analysis.(Results are highly random and depend on you're ability to decode Protean data, may be repeated any number of times per turn)
1d100 = 10 nothing but random gibberish
Result: Unfortunately nothing usable was recovered from the archive this quarter as the decoded Prothean data file held only gibberish, most likely damaged from just time.
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ParSec (Andrew Nicolas):[Spoiler=Mindoir]
- Commander: Andrew Nicolas
- Secondary Commanders: Jelica Eveliina, Ithix
- 9000 Troops in Elite Centurions
- 692 Troops in Legionary Powered Armor
- 51 Tiger IFVs
- 260 Hammerhead Tanks
- 4,885 Accipiter "Atmospheric Edition" Drones
- 60 Gladius (Type C) Fighters and pilots and crew to match
- Small Anti-ship Missiles
- Standard Anti-ship Missiles
- Large Anti-ship Missiles
- Hydra Cluster Missiles
- 5 Lite Laser Pyndas
- 4992 Tribulus Drones
- 1 Quadriga Troop Transport
- 5 x Quadriga Troop Transport [Cargo Variant]
- 991 Sagittarius Drones
- 790 Aspidai Drones
- 1 Upgraded Troop Transport "Dragon Lady"
ParSec Intelligence
[X] Investigate
-[X] Anything that could help with Operation Tsunami
1d100 +40 vs 1d100+20
98 vs 22
Your people were idle while waiting for the day of the operation. Information won wars, so they went in building upon their previous information efforts and managed to uncover vital information. While the Batarians were surpisingly tight on their operational security the various Terminus forces that joined them were less than vigilant and your agents were able to over the course of the months leading up the operation piggy back through their networks to the Batarian communications network and retrieve some vital data before their latest data security rotation cutting your access off.
There was an entire fleet kept in reserve hidden from the rest of the main military build up meant for other operations to be conducted simultaneously as the rest of the fleets launched their own invasions. As well as updated fleet numbers. You immediately forwarded the data to Admiral Hackett.
Result: Discovered hidden Batarian forces and hidden defenses, confirmed custom carriers like the ones that attacked Landing along with an entire attendant escort fleet. Negated hidden ambush roll.
ParSec Deployment 2175-Q3:
Alliance Assets
Alliance 3rd, 4th, and 5th fleet
3 dreadnoughts
189 upgraded cruisers
706 upgraded frigates
180 laser pyndas
400,000 ground troops in legionary armor
91 hammerheads
other supporting vehicles like IFVs
ParSec
9000 Elite Centurions
260 hammerheads
5 upgraded laser pyndas
60 Gladius fighters
80000~ drones
5 QTT cargo variant
1 QTT
1 dragon lady
Predicted Council Assets
Turian 7th, 10th, 23th, 24th, and 30th fleet
5 dreadnoughts
500 cruisers
5000 frigates
500,000 soldiers
supporting vehicles and artillery
15K power armored Turian troops
12 Prototype Salarian laser frigates
1K power armored Salarian troops
3K power armored Asari troops
Updated Predicted Batarian + Terminus Assets
600~ Terminus custom ships (unregistered ship designs, maximum cruiser sized)
2 dreadnoughts
800~ cruisers
4200~ frigates
Millions of ground troops
50 hidden Gardian towers
newly constructed bunker complexes
1 orbital station
Formerly hidden Batarian Reinforcements
10 Dreadnought Carriers
150 Cruisers
900 Frigates
Unknown number of fighters, tanks, and soldiers
Possible chance of more advanced mechs
All are being deployed this Quarter as part of System Alliance's Operation Tsunami.
It was time, Revy watched through her QEC based visual display from the hidden armory room above her Parsec Pynda as her entire fleet arrived at the gather point for the System Alliance forces in Sol. Almost a thousand ships were in formation around Neptune with hundreds of thousands of men and women ready to go to war within their holds. All of that and it wouldn't have been even enough to even risk attacking the target of today's operation without Council assistance, highlighting just how much of a headstart the Batarian had in space. The Council's own fleet were at their own gathering points in their own systems all timed to arrive shortly after ours is scheduled to enter the enemy system.
It might have seemed like the Council races were using Humanity as cannon fodder to soften up the Batarian and Terminus forces if not for one thing. Humanity had better technology thanks to her company and they demanded to be the one first in. The Batarians had invaded Sol, they dared to strike at the heart of Humanity, and they would be the ones leading the charge to strike back. Today's attack would only be the first in many battles, but with so many enemy assets present, a victory would significantly decrease the amount of military force the Batarians could field in future battles and guarantee momentum.
So as the digital timer counted down every ship part of the operation gather together in formation by the Charon Relay, had their projected course plotted out to the next following relays, the way already cleared before hand and kept cleared by relevant intelligence agents, and as the clock hit zero, the fleet all sped out of Sol towards their enemy.
Target? The site of their latest military buildup.
Torfan.
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AN: Failed my test, trying again in 3 months, hopefully will past this time, was kinda close to passing. Will try to get a few updates out till then.
note to self, update tech tree, place line for tech before flawless blackbox, second completed tech tab for grouping tech by groups
Next Update will be War Event
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