The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up

Investigate the Sea?

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Was this something we were told during discussion this turn or was it from before that? Because the Helguard expansion is a heavy investment of resources so it might be best to wait a turn to see what we will actually be able to marshall then risk running a minimal net income or even a loss, either one would make additional projects difficult to pursue.

Durin told us a while back. Before the war turns, IIRC.

@Durin, can you confirm that EM and AM prices are still going to be lowered, and that we should be able to fund the Helguard upkeep with what we can trade for?
 
Really? Honestly I find this not being something we're not supposed to ask the other members of the Trust about to be utterly strange. I mean, one of the big things a number of them told us not to do was to give Avernus Xenos tech. Even if it's with xenotech, uplifting a race seems like it'd be a big fucking deal. Why is this not the case, @Durin?
No they told us not to give them human tech cause that's meant to be holier they don't give a shit about quartok cause it's filthy xeno tech. And you they created a council to oversee this stuff and they think it's fine.
The way you think is naive to a dangerous and self-destructive degree. A large part of the problem is that we don't know - and, importantly, often can't know - which is bullshit and which is legit. Imagine, for instance, an incident where something bad happened and someone made a ritual to prevent that bad thing from happening ever again. Centuries later and the incident and the reason for conducting the ritual are forgotten, but the ritual is still done and so the bad thing doesn't happen. If we miscategorise the ritual as "bullshit" and remove it, the bad thing will happen.

This exact kind of thing nearly happened in a game called Paths of Civilisation. In it, the civilisation's forest was suffering from a massive tree blight. They devised a ritual that needed doing often so that the forest wouldn't die. Centuries later, the near destruction of the forest by the blight was considered myth and not believed by some. People who were doubting the rituals of the religion in the name of proto-science wanted to test the ritual to see if it actually did anything by ceasing it. If they did, they would've found that it didn't do anything and stopped doing the ritual. The problem is that the effects of not doing the ritual would've become apparent only decades after they'd stopped performing the ritual, eventually dooming the civilisation or at the very least driving it into crisis. The situation was avoided by testing another ritual, one that happened to have immediate negative effects soon after ceasing it, but the point remains - sometimes, it's better to just blindly believe in rituals rather than testing them to see if they work. This is especially true here in 40k where magic and power-through-belief are confirmed to be actual things.
But there comes a point where it's counter productive and think you are seriously underestimating how much of their bs was to make sure no one else could threaten their monopoly insert other things, but I amboth on the phone and inebriated to put down sorry.
 
I'm fine with blowing our income on the Helguard, we need them for things like traitor astartes and formations like Da Crumpas.
 
I'm fine with blowing our income on the Helguard, we need them for things like traitor astartes and formations like Da Crumpas.
That is the problem we need Am and Em to keep expanding our forge cities and forges too as well as the hives and various other projects. Titans look like they will cost so much. We should wait and make sure we will have enough because we are at 106 gdp and do not know what all we can trade. Also we are reaching the point where we have to start paying interest on what we owe.
 
No they told us not to give them human tech cause that's meant to be holier they don't give a shit about quartok cause it's filthy xeno tech. And you they created a council to oversee this stuff and they think it's fine.

Again, still doesn't make sense to me. I know human tech is more holy, but given history how in the flying fuck is uplifting xenos to a level of tech that's roughly Imperial level even remotely not a big deal?


That is the problem we need Am and Em to keep expanding our forge cities and forges too as well as the hives and various other projects. Titans look like they will cost so much. We should wait and make sure we will have enough because we are at 106 gdp and do not know what all we can trade. Also we are reaching the point where we have to start paying interest on what we owe.

We will be able to vastly increase the amount we get from trade in this coming turn, due to the price decreasing.
 
@Enjou

Few optimization options.

There are a few unused double downs. For simplicity, here's a list for all six years:
Y1: Unused
Y2: Titan design (machine spirit, but odds are good we'll need to repeat the body design action instead)
Y3 : Unused
Y4: Unused, could be Siren Rune of Focus (already likely to pass, but crits are better) without changing things
Y5: Religious Gods
Y6: Bio-laser Implants

If you have Xavier spend Y1 researching Illusion Pines (something we haven't done, feeds from his illusion and research abilities, and could benefit the admin action) we could easily throw a DD there, have him spend Y2 tutoring the Alpha candidates, and start the Hellflame compression Y3 with a DD. Sure, it ultimately delays the Hellflame compression by a year, but given the relatively low odds of success on it without DD combined with the benefit of fitting in some research we've been meaning to do anyway with another DD...
 
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Again, still doesn't make sense to me. I know human tech is more holy, but given history how in the flying fuck is uplifting xenos to a level of tech that's roughly Imperial level even remotely not a big deal?




We will be able to vastly increase the amount we get from trade in this coming turn, due to the price decreasing.
While the price is going to decrease the amount we can buy and what else we can trade wil also decrease than. Right now we have very little to trade until the hyper juvent comes online.

Essentially if am and Em are going down in price so is everything else so we will have to trade more to get the same amount of credits as last time.
 
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Path of trancendence ridcully please.
No. Religious Gods is more important.

@Enjou, please do Religious Gods. The beliefs of the allied races of the tau have created a God of the Greater Good in canon. We need to find out whether or not our worship of a being who effectively doesn't exist is creating a new deity.

think you are seriously underestimating how much of their bs was to make sure no one else could threaten their monopoly
Creating religious rituals for non-theological reasons is either blasphemy or heresy.
 
That is the problem we need Am and Em to keep expanding our forge cities and forges too as well as the hives and various other projects. Titans look like they will cost so much. We should wait and make sure we will have enough because we are at 106 gdp and do not know what all we can trade. Also we are reaching the point where we have to start paying interest on what we owe.
I mean that said you're plan is still one I'm considering due to your inclusion of the Phoenix gunship and Armageddon, I'm not going to throw a fit about the helguard expansion.

Again, still doesn't make sense to me. I know human tech is more holy, but given history how in the flying fuck is uplifting xenos to a level of tech that's roughly Imperial level even remotely not a big deal?
Because we are so far ahead of Imperial level that "inferior dirty xenotech" isn't a big deal and the fact the natives don't want to really leave Avernus is probably what they care about.
 
Again, still doesn't make sense to me. I know human tech is more holy, but given history how in the flying fuck is uplifting xenos to a level of tech that's roughly Imperial level even remotely not a big deal?
Cause these guys don't wanna leave we get awesome stuff outta them without needing to compromise morals and they're probably the Xenia species with the best record I mean they defended Lin they helped Jacob and we've never fought them and likely never will.

Also I'm pretty sure durin said somewhere they'd refuse warp drive tech.

allied races of the tau have created a God of the Greater Good
Wait really? Also no we can always do them later I want Lin to figure out how ridcully can transcend and if safe get us the know how to do so asap.

Creating religious rituals for non-theological reasons is either blasphemy or heresy.
And the bible was't translated out of Latin and spoken in Latin for thousands of years why?

Sure it was justified theological, but the real reason was to ensure only priests and those trained by them could read and interpret the book in other words to maintain their authority and monopoly on the faith.

The admech were and still are vicious about ensuring their monopoly remains intact, why else would they ensure that they and only they can mass produce most of the advanced tech? Why do they get a monopoly on communication with their machine spirits oh right, because their advanced vi that live only in advanced tech not every rusty door frame.
 
While the price is going to decrease the amount we can buy and what else we can trade wil also decrease than. Right now we have very little to trade until the hyper juvent comes online.

Essentially if am and Em are going down in price so is everything else so we will have to trade more to get the same amount of credits as last time.

Then we'll go further into debt. Which is NOT a big deal. It's not ideal, sure, but given Muspelheim and Niflheim are allies, and they know they're helping fund a war machine that helps keep them safe it's not like I expect they'll make a huge fuss about it.
 
@Enjou ok think of it like these. With the colonies coming online and with the core worlds bringing even more industry online our buying power is also going to decrease. The colonies are going to drive down the credit we get for most of our trade. So while AM and EM is going to down our buying power is also going to go down since we do not have that much that is valuable to trade for AM and EM. I think we should wait till we find out how much we can get without going overboard on buying since than We will have to pay interest on.
 
so....uhhh...I actually agree with this and it was one of the thoughts I had as well.

if we DO have ridcully look for the tzeetchian WMD or whatever, could we at least consider having Lin help watch over him to migigate/remove the danger of corruption/infection/whatever ?

It does seem like something that will eventually be a concern, so......?

@Durin if a situation came up where Ridcully has to roll against the possablity of corruption, how big of a buff would Lin give Ridcully?
My next idea for a WMD to worry about would be some sort of mobile warprift projector, like a vortex weapon or distortion cannon, but instead of being used for destruction it is used to summon colossal hordes of daemons. Think moving Daemonic incursion event and you get the general idea.

Edit, also to the thread, should we be worried about the fact that warpstone is now an inevitability? Can we scry the stuff and start on countermeasures?
 
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I put religious gods before path of transendence, Ridcully doesnt even want to become a god so I dont see us doing anything ASAP with any information we learn, unless we learn how to halt the process since that might relieve Ridcully.
 
NO. The Emperor did not want to become a god. He does not like that he is becoming a god. We should not make Ridcully into a god because of the belief that it's better to be a god than a human, something that the Emperor thinks is stupid and wrong.
Lin's fine with it the emperor got over and has accepted his role and Ridcully's fine with it so long as his personality isn't affected.

As for god's being better than humans, who said that I think a human with the power of a god is better than a human alone. We don't have room to be picky if we can get our hands on a literal god of divination loyal to the trust and able to do things like divine isha with no risk of capture.

I put religious gods before path of transendence, Ridcully doesnt even want to become a god so I dont see us doing anything ASAP with any information we learn, unless we learn how to holt the process since that might relieve Ridcully.
He does so long as his personality is' too altered so how about we find that out yeah?
 
So going back to the last trade session at the high council it looks like we were importing 73,000 out of a max of 158,000 leaving 85,000 assuming EM available for trade keeps the same. With a current net of 28,476 a year that would be 113,476. Actions underway have a new EM upkeep of 12,750. That gives us a max of 102,476 in additional upkeep before we go negative (though we will not want to do that or we run into the situation of having very little in terms of EM stockpile to pay for action costs plus if amount of EM decrease we run into trouble). Expand Helguard is 27,000 leaves us with 75,476, with other actions in Enjou's plan we drop to 72,781 at max. Though we are unlocking several EM upkeep actions this turn (tyrant lizard cybernetics, bio-laser implants, titans are further down range but something we should account for) not to mention an increasing drain for each city we expand into a small hive (not sure how many we have left to do).

Also @Enjou you have two actions upgrading Signe's Choice to a small hive in the personal section, was one of those supposed to be a different city?
 
The more I think about it the more I am sure that the Tzeentchian superweapon is aimed at us indirectly.
Tzeentch wants humans off of the planet, but doesn't want to send a daemonic incusion into this blender. And for any other force to be brought in to overwhelm us it'd have to get through the Imperial Trust first.
Therefore its short term goals should be aimed at striking the two planetary weakpoints of the Trust, Midgard and Vanahiem.

The simplest way would be a cyclonic torpedo or equivalent aimed at Midgard, but that doesn't feel like a sure thing because it isn't climactic enough to play off of rule of cool or cosmic horror. On the other hand some sort of mass daemon manifestation aid would be seriously useful for them because Tzeentch itself is interested in killing us off, so would be willing to throw unusually large and powerful forces of daemons at us if they can be manifested.
 
[X] Plan Shakespear T111
Munitorum
SLOT A - Year 1
-Y1: Lessons Learned: Siege
-Y2: Expand Black Irons
SLOT B - Year 1
-Y1: Hellsword Regiments
SLOT C - Year 1
-Y1: Expand Helguard

Void Command
SLOT A - Year 1
-Y1: Construct: Repair, Again
SLOT B - Year 1
-Y1: Upgrade Defences (Avernus)
SLOT C - Year 3
-Y3: Expand Shipyards: Large
-- EXPEDITE YEAR 3

Administratum
SLOT A - Year 5
-Y5: Illusionary Pine Investigation
SLOT B - Year 5
-Y5: Expand Forge-Hive: Belisama

Diplomacy
SLOT A - Year 1
-Y1: Sound Out (Eldar Diplomacy - talk with the Eldar through Ridcully, ask what they might want in exchange for limited webway access so we can talk with and possibly trade with other major human polities in the galaxy) OR
-Y2: Sound Out (Nynye Trade - notion of trading them Quartok tech for more advanced Alkahestry knowledge. May involve granting the Quartok another city as part of the agreement, depending on what level of tech is traded.)
-Y3: Nynye Trade (Cure for Jacob's aging)
-Y4: Make a Request (Request she teach our psykers any anti-Chaos abilities she knows that we don't. We know that channeling Warp energies like Avernite creatures do significantly reduces the risk of taint, for instance.)
-Y5: Investigate Relationship (Avernus, Muspelheim)
-Y6: Investigate Relationship (Avernus, Svartalfheim)
I'm pretty sure we get got full rights to everything the Quartok have when they got the FIRST city. so we don't have to ask their permission nor even consider giving them a second city. (not that I am apposed to the idea of giving them another city mind you....just apposed to wasting a action on something we don't need to do.
 
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