Yeah. Unlike Van Zandt, for whom Voxx Primus is merely a source of manpower, we can make very efficient use of the 300 billion people there. All our actions will benefit from this, though I expect it'll take a generation before we can make use of it (because we'll need to reprogram all the Hivers). The Temple ship will likely help there, it's a conversion machine.
yup, given our QoL and focus on improving things we will be able to find some place and work for those people, along with finally adding more Choirs again since any choirs on Voxx Primus can't get the age-slowing or whatever serum. So that alone will help a lot.
The death of the late Chapter Master Amadeus 'Chyron' Chyropheles hits the Federation, above all other deaths that decade, the hardest. Possibly the hardest since Saint Teeln, Prophet of the Star Child, and First Hymnal Bnuy passed in their sleep to the side of the Star Child.
A veritable ancient of the days before Candle Keeper Station was freed, instrumental in liberating the seed that would become the Glimmering Federation, a stalwart ally in ways and fights beyond counting, and a well of lore and history that had historians flock to his gates for even a sentence of insight into the past.
It is the starkest severance to the Federation's founding and past that could happen, one that left a gaping maw in the minds of all who had assumed that Chyron would live forever in his duty to humanity and the Star Child.
Oh right, that guy was a living history since he has been active for a long time and the Lamenters were a Fleet Based Chapter so they travelled around a lot. not to mention the Glimmering Federation is... to the galactic north east and south east of of Ghoul Stars? I think? So yah we are in our own little bubble here.
Add to that he has been around since the beginning along with our Saint and Prophet so its kinda that feeling, he's always been there and now he's gone. Another of the founding members died, it really hits when considering how long they've been alive and there have been many generations who knew of him or just alive during that it seems like he always would be there to watch over and guard him.
Oh shit, I didn't think of it like that. he basically watched the entire history of their nation, someone who was there day one and you could ask about how things were or just look to for how any number of things regarding the Federation.
If it were not for the still-lively presence of the Five Divine Beasts and their sight at the Week of Mourning called in response to the death of Chapter Master Chyron, the response would have likely been far more significant. To be a citizen of the Federation was to be one among giants and heroes that walked the worlds liberated from Chaos and Heresy in its first half of existence. To be one in its latter half is to be one staring up at timeless shapers and carvers of history, workers of magics and psykery, towering intellects and minds of grand strategy, comforted in the knowledge that the weight of centuries of experience itself is on your side.
To lose one such pillar of assured knowledge was a blow at any time, to lose the last that had seen the entire history of their nation and people?
It was enough to invite despair.
Oh, well that was an unintended side effect, the Five Divine Beasts being there for the week of Mourning still showing up shows there are still others from those early days. And damn, I didn't think of it like that, so many generation born and died while Teeln and Chyron and others still alive, you lived, went about your lives and looked to them for guidance or left things to them to lead or figure out. Always having someone there to fix things or solve big problems. And the second half our time in quest really has been kicking into high gear with research and new discoveries and bigger picture that was still guided by those giants, I think the last our the founding council is gone now. I guess this is Childhood's End and now the Federation will need to do without them, a big Step up now in character.
And yet, it had been a millennium of labor to rebuild those mighty defenders of humanity that had once united the galaxy. It had been a millennium of work to create a Chapter from nothing to a thousand strong once more. A millennium where the Lamenters were not cast out as cursed mongrels but as cherished protectors and allies against the cold of the void.
If a week of mourning him was what was needed to fill the empty maw his passing had left in the soul of the Federation, then a week of celebration in his name, and in the name of all Lamenters who had died in the name of their duty to shield the innocents, was not needed, it was mandated by the people.
They deserve nothing less.
Indeed, his work has been One thousand years of rebuilding the Lamenters Chapter back up to full strength and passing on everything he knew to them and managed to find a home with allies that will stick with them. And the week of mourning followed by week of celebration for all that was done and all Lamenters who fell in combat to get this far.
Oh right so do we need to do that week of celebration for the Lamenters or did that already happen after the week of mourning?
-[] Ogryn Neural Cognition Enhancement Studies
(Gain: Potentially smarter (potentially up to a smart 5-year old!) Ogryn?)
Holy shit that's big improvements! we gonna get big thinkers. wish we could spare an action for it.
-[] Evacuation Fleets - (0/4.5)
(Gain: 4x Canis-Major, 9xCanis-Minor, 3x Rustbucket-Class, and 19x Auriga-Class, enough to evacuate Voxx Primus without titanic civilian casualties.)
Ah, shit. so that many actions worth but makes sense considering its a fleet for Evac and supplying Voxx-Primus and its only an action and half more. It also shows that like the Terraforming the actual number of actions needed is dependent on our way of designing and going about things as shown with the two past options. I would honestly just spend a single action in Space Habitat to see what the required action will be at this point.
Is the Space Habitat similar in the past choices in that we will get an option to choose how and what to include in the stations or get a better insight into how they work, stuff needed to build them and the like QM?
@HeroCooky
I feel fully and entirely vindicated in pointing out that we needed to take the Evacuation Fleet Design action as early as possible.
Yah, I think it was dependent on how we designed the ships and how expensive they would be to build. but yah, it was best to get this done so we knew what to expect.
Yeah, it means that.
On the other hand, it would mean
far less people you need to worry about.
So what's a little starvation that makes every famine on Earth combined look like nature wasn't even trying in the face of that?
ahhhh, yah this problem. It'd be far easier to let more people died from it and deal with what's left but that's just not how we are. We choose this path and refused the easy way out and so we'll grit our teeth and hard this long path and try to save and feed as many people as we can.
Also holy fuck! that bad huh? reminds me of the arugments and rants about how Hive Cities just should NOT work.
Yes, but only if both are done.
Fair enough but given how it dropped down to two actions each, 3 actions is enough since we get .4 banked to a free research point with each action. So it'd be a turn's worth of action to get done. I would say its worth it. Better to get that done before the war kicks off so it has time to trickle down.
None, planet will be colonized and prepared for the Hivers ahead of time, below abstraction.
Nope. The Templars did enable you to get into higher/advantageous positions that will pay dividends next Turn.
Yah, those worlds should be fine until they settle down and the children grow up adjusted to things, I do wonder how the culture of those worlds will evolve given its a Hiver population on some of these worlds. Still overall best to do and I still say doing the Space Stations is worth it rather than dumping the population our worlds, less unrest and all.
I will say that people are forgetting we'll be busy after the war kicks off since we'll be using actions to replace losses in the SBG's first and foremost. We still might need to contest the space and hold on evac. I can see this going for 5 or more turns before that is the case so I will say we don't NEED the whole Evac fleet done but it be at 3 or 4 so its ready to get with a single action. And as much as I dislike putting it off, Songs as well. We can do the songs during the war turns if need be.
In addition to any other write in's or attempt to push back the discovery, But I think we should be able to do it. It won't with our dream loadout but you go with what you got. I would say to at least finish the other SBG next turn and put two actions into the Evac fleet over the next few turns.