Strangers in a Strange Sphere - [Battletech]

"Ya'll serious?" Those words were not the reaction Captain Adams and the Heads had thought Lady McCullough would have when she was brought aboard the Furina De Fontaine alongside the newly inaugurated Mayor Edgar Walter, a hero of the planetary militia. Both had been fully let in on just what the Furina De Fontaine was created to do, and what its people now intended to do in this new and alien universe. "Oh, ya'll serious!" These three words were also not the desired reaction, with mirth, shock, and incredulousness warring in both Lady McCullough's and Mayor 'I work for my money, so don't call me Sir!' Walter's faces.

But they were. They were very much serious.

And so they told the two of them such. The Furina De Fontaine was created to build fifty colonies for one hundred thousand people, each self-contained, self-sufficient, and self-reliant on planets that, at best, had a magnetosphere and 1G. At worst, were as clost to 1G as possible, with no other benefits than access to all the materials and precursor materials required to produce everything needed to prosper and expand.

Gunhallow was practically a garden world in comparison to the rocks the Furina was designed to colonize, with a thriving ecosphere, aqua sphere, untainted lands, seas, and air, with people able and willing to work hard for what is theirs and fight harder to protect themselves and their people. The only thing holding them back was a lack of technology and, critically, industry to produce the tools they lacked to make the tools they needed to create the tools they required to prosper.

The Furina could aid them in such.

Besides, even if no other world in the universe would join the UNSC, becoming the Capital of a nation spanning dozens of star systems held together by a multi-kilometer ship filled with advanced and alien technologies that would eventually become merely the first of many such vessels in the centuries to come...well. That was something to consider, was it not?

(It was also noted here that the Furina would become subordinate to the UNSC government once all new colonies and all those who joined had reached 1 million people each.)

Stunned and slightly disoriented after hours of discussions with graphs, legal texts, and words the two had never even thought possible, they were given all the information they demanded and quite a lot more they didn't know to ask of and given as much time as they required for an answer.

It came a week later.

Gunhallow would become the first member of the United Nations Stellar Confederacy if these demands were met:
-All schools, clinics, and the hospital damaged or destroyed in the war were rebuilt.
-20 new factories would be established to produce what was required to repair their native industry.
-The Furina would obtain 10 Battlemechs in acceptable repair for the planetary militia...and the core of the UNSC's military.
-Training programs would be established to train 10 Doctors, 20 Engineers, and 100 Teachers to work in and oversee the clinics, hospital, factories, and schools (as most teachers had been murdered by the pirates).

If all these demands were met, then Gunhallow would sign on.

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Do you accept these terms?
(6-Hour Moratorium)
[] No.
Gunhallow does not become the Capital of the UNSC.
[] No. You will shatter them. (Write-In Battlemechs)
You will spend a year above Gunhallow creating the industrial and educational base and capacity actually required to pull the planet up to UN(SC) standards, which involves settling 400k people as teachers and an educated workforce on the planet to construct the hundreds and thousands of buildings that will be the foundation of this nations future. You will also need to decide what 'mechs to give over, with those more damaged being seen as more insulting than those less damaged.