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A House United, (A Terran Presidency Quest...In 40k!?)

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[X] Turn 2: The Bunkering
-[X] Build:
--[X] 2 Civilian Complexes
--[X] 1 Research Complex
--[X] 1 Aerospace Complex
--[X] 430 SCVs
--[X] 250 Marines
--[X] 10 Dropships
-[X] True Terran (War Research)
--[X] Dedicate 1 RC to BUNKERS
--[X] Hawthorn to support the development
-[X] Technology
--[X] Dedicate 1 RC to automated vespene extraction techniques
-[X] War
--[X] Dedicate marines to civil security (250)
--[X] Send marines out with dropship support to establish listening posts and supply caches, while surveying more distant regions around the settlement (250 marines/10 dropships)
--[X] Leader
--[X] Go with dropships and take a look around with Psi

Truly, no terran can be safe without bunkers EVERYWHERE
 
[X] Turn 2: The Bunkering
-[X] Build:
--[X] 2 Civilian Complexes
--[X] 1 Research Complex
--[X] 1 Aerospace Complex
--[X] 430 SCVs
--[X] 250 Marines
--[X] 10 Dropships
-[X] True Terran (War Research)
--[X] Dedicate 1 RC to BUNKERS
--[X] Hawthorn to support the development
-[X] Technology
--[X] Dedicate 1 RC to automated vespene extraction techniques
-[X] War
--[X] Dedicate marines to civil security (250)
--[X] Send marines out with dropship support to establish listening posts and supply caches, while surveying more distant regions around the settlement (250 marines/10 dropships)
--[X] Leader
--[X] Go with dropships and take a look around with Psi
 
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Term 1.2/Election Season 2
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    • Two more square kilometres of the city are built at a rapid pace, the flow of minerals being the slowest portion of the construction by far. Another Research Complex is put together and then tasked immediately, no rest for the wicked at all.

    Some people begin to ask after employment, economy, money beyond a barter system, the artefacts of civilization that have been missing for many, many years at this point. Conscription expands the Marine Corps whilst Dropship pilots are found and pressed back into service, finding work in patrolling the vast green wilderness and protecting farmers at the edge of our urban areas.

    A particular species is present that's aggravating but alluring. Some giant lizard that's amazing eatin' according to Marines and when a brave farmer armed with a shock prod and gauss pistol shot above his head and shocked it into a pen, it calmed down significantly, letting him get a look at the thing and note it's pretty much domesticated already.

    Still violent, he needed fingers reattached immediately, having to use the barracks medbay for it as the city itself doesn't have any sort of medical infrastructure properly set up yet, paying for the treatment in lizard steak.

    Figuring that some static defences are good for the soul, we put Magistrate Hawthorne and a Research Complex on making sure we don't gotta just fight it out in a field if it comes down to a brawl. Going a little further than bunkers, the ol' Magistrate puts together a whole mess of stuff together, from sensor towers to missile complexes housing anti-air missiles and even some anti-orbital kit, classic bunkers get an invention a former Mar'Saran Marshall had on a datapad, mounting a big honkin' gauss machine gun ontop of them, adjutant driven of course.

    Only personnel it really needs is mechanics and maintainers, combat troops can be assigned as needed and anyone trynna get a piece of our city is gonna have to go through it first.

    All told, these new "Defensive Complexes" can really put the hurt down on someone trying to pick a fight, and only get nastier when we've got boys in CMC to back it up.

    President Priett tries very hard to replicate the completely automated vespene refineries he remembers seeing once or twice on broadcasts about Raynor's Raiders. But no matter what, something is missing from the design, something we can't figure out. However, all that effort into automating parts of the process do result in efficiency improvements generally, giving us access to more vespene, faster from similar wells.

    The marines dedicated to policing are becoming rapidly distinguishable from the rest due to the dents on their CMC from civilian gunfire. But otherwise, they can somewhat keep the peace. The ones sent out on patrol range out far on plasma thrusters, near a thousand kilometers in every direction and even up and into orbit for a quick sight of the planet below.

    In this travel, we figure somethin' real odd out. We find folk's living in thatch and daub villages, growing crops by hand and lacking any sort of dental hygiene. We fly over them and don't start nothing but its more than a little odd to say the least.

    Ghost Operative Millson takes a look around with his brain, but doesn't find anything odd, 'cept for a strange buzzing every time he sticks his psychic feelers out. He can't place it, but it gives him a headache much faster than usual.

    Political movements start in the population, mostly for economics. Many dozen sides arguing over what is best, a return to the old credit, something new, even extremists arguing for ancient systems of "state capitalism" and other such things.

    Whatever the case, President Priett and the MIRC can't stay in power any longer, as the public starts to rumble for new ideas and leaders. Now, election season rolls back around and the political wills of our would-be rulers must be pitted against one another!

    War Roll: Thomas Hawthorne: "Static Defenses"=3d6 (6, 6, 6 okay then)

    Industry Roll: Maxwell Priett: "Automated Vespene Refining"=3d6 (5, 5, 5)

    Psychic Roll: Operative Millson: "Psychic Assensing"=2d6 (4, 3)

    Popularity Roll
    Must exceed 4
    D6=3
    Wartime Leader
    Fighting on the frontlines of wars since the start of mankinds expansion, you have a keen mind for war and the people that wage it, but industry and science isn't your forte.
    3d6 War
    2d6 Diplomacy
    1d8 Industry
    1d6 Technology

    Academia
    Atoms, particles, waves and academic rigours are your trade of choice. As a human of science, you have dedicated your life to the discovery of the universe!
    3d6 Technology
    2d6 Industry
    1d8 Diplomacy
    1d6 War

    Industrialist
    By the power of a firm guiding vision, good sense and a macro-level direction of Terrans, you overcame the challenges before you, along with all the Siege Tanks you can make with all those!
    3d6 Industry
    2d6 War
    1d8 Technology
    1d6 Diplomacy

    If you are a graduate of the Ghost Programme, replace a stat with 2d6 Psychic. You can no longer contribute to that thing due to Ghost Programme trauma.
     
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    • So we need hospitals, schools, jobs, an actual economy, and of course moar bunkers.

    Anyone have any ideas? Personally I am a fan of the free market which would make us different from most factions in 40k.
     
    Name: Millson
    Origin: Academia but replace war with Ghost.
    Promise: To Reform a proper Airspace and orbital base. And rediscover our lost orbital technology.
    [X] Millson
     
    A free market backed by what however; commodity currency? Should we go with fiat perhaps?

    Also there's plenty of free markets in the Imperium, unless we're going with the most dismal interpretation of the setting and every planet is some one government planned economy.
     
    Maxwell: I am proud of the progress achieved by the Terran people in our most trying times. I am doubly proud for having been given the chance to direct it for these last two years. But as with all grand endeavors done for the survival of community and civilization, it has brought discontent and exhaustion. The people want rest, they want freedom, they want the opportunity to advance under their own merit.

    My position as President allowed extensive emergency powers at the time, and they were necessary. But the time has come to relax the reins of government, and let things return to what, I can only hope, is a new normal.

    This is my platform. My objective has always been to create a home we can return to, and I'm most certainly not done building yet.

    Economic Plan: Full transition to Government Interventionism
    Military Stance: Adventurism and Resource Claim Protection
    Technology Focus: Economy-Focused
    Grand Plan: Groundwork for New Haven Orbital Shipyards

    [X] Maxwell Priett
     
    Hazeron said:
    Oh God oh fuck these bunkers have been touched by SATAN
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    Nah, just some good old fashioned firepower. If only we could mount some arclight cannons on them.

    Hawthorne: I think I'll stay out of politics for now. But we need more than CMC-300s and bunkers if we want to be secure! I'll endorse whoever promises to get some proper siege tanks online.
     
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    Arcanestomper said:
    Nah, just some good old fashioned firepower. If only we could mount some arclight cannons on them.

    Hawthorne: I think I'll stay out of politics for now. But we need more than CMC-300s and bunkers if we want to be secure! I'll endorse whoever promises to get some proper siege tanks online.
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    Maxwell: Security from what, Hawthorne? The dirt farmers? Admittedly, you can't domesticate such a massive, violent animal as they seem to have, and expect it to taste good, without some kind of genetic engineering, which implies these farmers at one point had benefactors at something approaching technological parity with us, but given how utterly destitute they've become it seems clear they haven't seen them in generations! No, if we want to present a strong front against anything requiring a siege tank's firepower, we're best served having the capacity to bring to bear overwhelming amounts of it, than crippling our industry before any sign of a threat capable of handling basic CMC-300 is even a scent on the wind.
    Lonosic said:
    Does this mean the economic model we'll be following be State Capitalism?
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    Government interventionism is ever so slightly more hands off. The state steps in primarily to make up for funding limitations from private actors. At the current state of the economy there's functionally no difference, though. I would institute fiat credits backed by SCV production hours, most likely, as that may help kick off an initial boom of private enterprise. Then when SCV demand dies down a bit we can shuffle to backing credits with a strategic reserve and lighten the hand a little further.
     
    Powerofmind said:
    Maxwell: Security from what, Hawthorne? The dirt farmers? Admittedly, you can't domesticate such a massive, violent animal as they seem to have, and expect it to taste good, without some kind of genetic engineering, which implies these farmers at one point had benefactors at something approaching technological parity with us, but given how utterly destitute they've become it seems clear they haven't seen them in generations! No, if we want to present a strong front against anything requiring a siege tank's firepower, we're best served having the capacity to bring to bear overwhelming amounts of it, than crippling our industry before any sign of a threat capable of handling basic CMC-300 is even a scent on the wind.
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    Millson: You do have a point Max, but there is something to consider here. What government in their right mind would allow this? What I am about to say may get som of us pissed. But not even Earth was that bad from what we have. May the UED burn.
     
    Powerofmind said:
    Maxwell: Security from what, Hawthorne? The dirt farmers? Admittedly, you can't domesticate such a massive, violent animal as they seem to have, and expect it to taste good, without some kind of genetic engineering, which implies these farmers at one point had benefactors at something approaching technological parity with us, but given how utterly destitute they've become it seems clear they haven't seen them in generations! No, if we want to present a strong front against anything requiring a siege tank's firepower, we're best served having the capacity to bring to bear overwhelming amounts of it, than crippling our industry before any sign of a threat capable of handling basic CMC-300 is even a scent on the wind.

    Government interventionism is ever so slightly more hands off. The state steps in primarily to make up for funding limitations from private actors. At the current state of the economy there's functionally no difference, though. I would institute fiat credits backed by SCV production hours, most likely, as that may help kick off an initial boom of private enterprise. Then when SCV demand dies down a bit we can shuffle to backing credits with a strategic reserve and lighten the hand a little further.
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    Hawthorne: And what'll happen if a starship shows up in orbit tomorrow? We ain't yokels. Just because we can't see any threats doesn't mean we can't prepare. We know there are other races out there in the stars. And right now we've got no good way to even see them coming. We couldn't even build a vulture if we wanted to right now. Much less a siege tank. By all means keep working on industry. The people need jobs after all.

    But give me one of them research bays and some gold old combat engineers so we can get some proper designs back out of the data vaults.
     
    Arcanestomper said:
    Hawthorne: And what'll happen if a starship shows up in orbit tomorrow? We ain't yokels. Just because we can't see any threats doesn't mean we can't prepare. We know there are other races out there in the stars. And right now we've got no good way to even see them coming. We couldn't even build a vulture if we wanted to right now. Much less a siege tank. By all means keep working on industry. The people need jobs after all.

    But give me one of them research bays and some gold old combat engineers so we can get some proper designs back out of the data vaults.
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    Maxwell: We need bigger guns than Arclites and Crucios if we're to deal with a starship. And better eyes than the old mark one to see it coming. That means a fleet, and a fleet needs a yard to berth it.

    If we were talking about Zerg on the ground, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night without the sound of 180mm plasma bursting across the landscape as a lullaby, but dirt farmers aren't Zerg, and starships demand void doctrine, not artillery support. We need shipyards. Both for security and to help relieve the pressure on our more independent-minded entrepreneurs.
     
    Powerofmind said:
    Maxwell: We need bigger guns than Arclites and Crucios if we're to deal with a starship. And better eyes than the old mark one to see it coming. That means a fleet, and a fleet needs a yard to berth it.

    If we were talking about Zerg on the ground, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night without the sound of 180mm plasma bursting across the landscape as a lullaby, but dirt farmers aren't Zerg, and starships demand void doctrine, not artillery support. We need shipyards. Both for security and to help relieve the pressure on our more independent-minded entrepreneurs.
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    Milson: Star Ships demand Orbital Infrastructure, something we have lost the data for. Something I want fixed.
     
    [X] Maxwell Priett

    I am a bit confused on how the planning, voting, and roleplay works but vote is a vote.
     
    Lonosic said:
    [X] Maxwell Priett

    I am a bit confused on how the planning, voting, and roleplay works but vote is a vote.
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    You may name a character of the offered backgrounds, and then roleplay freely as said character. When elected, you then get into conversation with me; making new plans based off available resources that; as President; you'll have available to you.

    The President may call upon non-elected individuals to assist actions, or they may offer to assist an action. Doing so will give you influence over the action and likely improve its result.
     
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