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@huhYeahGoodPoint , since reducing the number of things we have to do for our construction plan is now pivotal, I'd appreciate feedback on how many things we've cut and at what point Snow starts going "no fucking way" and goes "OK we can fucking do this you fucking fucker sir."
This iteration of the plan drops the exciting new Build Industry action for a turn because it's clearly very manpower-intensive to actually implement. It pours the extra IC into constructing base and regional defenses. Hopefully this means our base defenses will be fairly solid next turn.
HR is commanded to just start hiring more of everything, including itself, since we are clearly on the wrong end of an exponential growth curve. Pursuant to that, I'm throwing back the Focus Long Caster peeled off the 'help HR hire more pilots' goal; we're going to need that to get good pilots if HR is super-busy diverting its effort broadly.
[X] Plan: We Can Into Space
-[X] Locked in: Think Tanks Status Report (15 Focus)
--[X] Locked In: Bulb Ship Analysis [40/120]
--[X] Locked In: Fighter Analysis [40/80]
--[X] As soon as the TLS arrives, it is to be tested on the alien wrecks to see its effectiveness as an anti-alien weapon
-[X] Locked in: Engineering Groups Status Report (15 Focus)
--[X] Locked In: General Engineering Group Project: Stonehenge Project Estimations: [2/5-15]
---[X] McGuiness and Mead are to collaborate on leading this project. We have a repair expert and an electromagnetics expert, we need to repair some giant railguns. Match made in Heaven.
--[X] Project for Shen: Project Neighborhood Watch. Launch a polar-orbiting spy satellite or series of spy satellites for (at least) one overflight of Belkan space. Launch can be from Comona, Tyler Island, or any other suitable facility. Use of off-the-shelf hardware for the satellite(s) is encouraged, because we're in a hurry. Long-term survival of the satellites is desirable but not necessary. Highest priority is to recover imagery from at least one orbital pass per satellite launch. Objective is to gather intelligence on as many as feasible of the following, in descending order of priority:
---[X] Status and location of alien landing sites.
---[X] Status and location of Excalibur and V2 ruins sites, and any signs of reconstruction
---[X] Operational status of known uranium mines
---[X] Overall state of Belkan military and mobilization.
---[X] Budget for this week is 2000 IC.
-[X] Locked in: Logistics Division Status Report (15 Focus)
--[X] We will try to get Snow more people, soonest. If he needs to put the market manipulation project on hold to get everything done, that's acceptable.
--[X] Locked In: Logistics Division Project: Industrial Market Manipulation [10/20-40]
--[X] Locked In: Building Industry: Planes (2400 IC invested) (1500/2400 completed)
--[X] Build order (49000 IC + 1500 IC)
---[X] 6x F-14Xs for Salamander Flight and Rigel Squadron (Rigel will keep their EMLs as their special weapons) (14400 IC)
---[X] 9x EMLs for our Hellcats (18000 IC)
---[X] 1xTLS (3000 IC)
---[X] Induction Furnace, Mk I (50 IC)
---[X] Construction Crane Set, Mk I (1000 IC)
---[X] Spy Satellite Launches for Project Neighborhood Watch (2000 IC)
---[X] Building static defenses around the Gunther Bay area in general, and this base in particular. (12050 IC)
----[X] Roughly 75/25 split on effort between air and ground defense; these defenses are mostly anti-alien in intent.
----[X] While we want work to go quickly, it is acceptable if construction of the defenses is still ongoing at week's end, as happened with the factory.
-[X] Pulford Status Report (15 Focus)
-[X] Bradford Status Report (15 Focus)
--[X] Create a liaison office that can coordinate with various national governments and factions in Usea.
--[X] Work out chain of command for a base defense force. Plan around a few squadrons of fighters (including new hires), along with static ground defenses. It's okay if there are some blanks in the org chart, but we need to have someone ready to command those defenses who isn't Long Caster, personally.
--[X] Doctrinal clarification: any pilot or squadron grounded for any reason other than "plane not working" or "personally injured, incapable of flying" may be scrambled in defense of the base. This includes, for example, Waltz Squadron. We'll be designating a formal base defense force once we've recruited a few more pilots.
-[X] HR Status Report (15 Focus)
--[X] Locked In: Scientist and Engineer recruitment, prioritizing Grunder Industries.
--[X] In fact, start hiring more of everything. Highest priority is on Grunder Industries technical experts, pilots (preferably S-rank, but A or B-rank is acceptable), and logistics personnel- in no particular internal order of priority.
--[X] HR is authorized to hire more HR people. The Godzilla threshold has officially been crossed; we are authorizing the bureaucracy to expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
-[X] Mediate Disputes (100 Focus)
--[X] Pulford and Shen
-[X] Assist Project (50 Focus)
--[X] HR in hiring more pilots
---[X] Ask if your own pilots know any that they would recommend
-[X] Contact People/organizations for joint Orbital-Clearing Satellite Project (50 Focus)
-[X] Start Project (210 Focus)
--[X] Contact Stephen Pulford, Rosa Cossette D'Elise and the heads of Republic of Voslage and Erusean Restoration Forces. Start planning how to bring an end to the Erusean civil war and destruction of the Free Erusean Remnants without Erusea annexing the countries that have declared independence of them, like Voslage, so that you can concentrate on the alien threat together.
-[X] Organize XCOM: create a Training and Tactics Department. Get teachers, flight sim creators, air warfare theorists, and so on. Task them with systematization of all information on aliens and fighting them. Grant them permission to ask all pilots, AWACS, scientists and engineers for relevant info. (100 Focus)
--[X] Training and Tactics' first project will be to collate a handbook or series of handbooks on anti-alien tactics for ourselves and potentially other X-COM branches. Should include doctrine for fighters armed with relatively conventional missiles, and also for heavy axial weapons like the EML and TLS.
This iteration of the plan drops the exciting new Build Industry action for a turn because it's clearly very manpower-intensive to actually implement. It pours the extra IC into constructing base and regional defenses. Hopefully this means our base defenses will be fairly solid next turn.
HR is commanded to just start hiring more of everything, including itself, since we are clearly on the wrong end of an exponential growth curve. Pursuant to that, I'm throwing back the Focus Long Caster peeled off the 'help HR hire more pilots' goal; we're going to need that to get good pilots if HR is super-busy diverting its effort broadly.
[X] Plan: We Can Into Space
-[X] Locked in: Think Tanks Status Report (15 Focus)
--[X] Locked In: Bulb Ship Analysis [40/120]
--[X] Locked In: Fighter Analysis [40/80]
--[X] As soon as the TLS arrives, it is to be tested on the alien wrecks to see its effectiveness as an anti-alien weapon
-[X] Locked in: Engineering Groups Status Report (15 Focus)
--[X] Locked In: General Engineering Group Project: Stonehenge Project Estimations: [2/5-15]
---[X] McGuiness and Mead are to collaborate on leading this project. We have a repair expert and an electromagnetics expert, we need to repair some giant railguns. Match made in Heaven.
--[X] Project for Shen: Project Neighborhood Watch. Launch a polar-orbiting spy satellite or series of spy satellites for (at least) one overflight of Belkan space. Launch can be from Comona, Tyler Island, or any other suitable facility. Use of off-the-shelf hardware for the satellite(s) is encouraged, because we're in a hurry. Long-term survival of the satellites is desirable but not necessary. Highest priority is to recover imagery from at least one orbital pass per satellite launch. Objective is to gather intelligence on as many as feasible of the following, in descending order of priority:
---[X] Status and location of alien landing sites.
---[X] Status and location of Excalibur and V2 ruins sites, and any signs of reconstruction
---[X] Operational status of known uranium mines
---[X] Overall state of Belkan military and mobilization.
---[X] Budget for this week is 2000 IC.
-[X] Locked in: Logistics Division Status Report (15 Focus)
--[X] We will try to get Snow more people, soonest. If he needs to put the market manipulation project on hold to get everything done, that's acceptable.
--[X] Locked In: Logistics Division Project: Industrial Market Manipulation [10/20-40]
--[X] Locked In: Building Industry: Planes (2400 IC invested) (1500/2400 completed)
--[X] Build order (49000 IC + 1500 IC)
---[X] 6x F-14Xs for Salamander Flight and Rigel Squadron (Rigel will keep their EMLs as their special weapons) (14400 IC)
---[X] 9x EMLs for our Hellcats (18000 IC)
---[X] 1xTLS (3000 IC)
---[X] Induction Furnace, Mk I (50 IC)
---[X] Construction Crane Set, Mk I (1000 IC)
---[X] Spy Satellite Launches for Project Neighborhood Watch (2000 IC)
---[X] Building static defenses around the Gunther Bay area in general, and this base in particular. (12050 IC)
----[X] Roughly 75/25 split on effort between air and ground defense; these defenses are mostly anti-alien in intent.
----[X] While we want work to go quickly, it is acceptable if construction of the defenses is still ongoing at week's end, as happened with the factory.
-[X] Pulford Status Report (15 Focus)
-[X] Bradford Status Report (15 Focus)
--[X] Create a liaison office that can coordinate with various national governments and factions in Usea.
--[X] Work out chain of command for a base defense force. Plan around a few squadrons of fighters (including new hires), along with static ground defenses. It's okay if there are some blanks in the org chart, but we need to have someone ready to command those defenses who isn't Long Caster, personally.
--[X] Doctrinal clarification: any pilot or squadron grounded for any reason other than "plane not working" or "personally injured, incapable of flying" may be scrambled in defense of the base. This includes, for example, Waltz Squadron. We'll be designating a formal base defense force once we've recruited a few more pilots.
-[X] HR Status Report (15 Focus)
--[X] Locked In: Scientist and Engineer recruitment, prioritizing Grunder Industries.
--[X] In fact, start hiring more of everything. Highest priority is on Grunder Industries technical experts, pilots (preferably S-rank, but A or B-rank is acceptable), and logistics personnel- in no particular internal order of priority.
--[X] HR is authorized to hire more HR people. The Godzilla threshold has officially been crossed; we are authorizing the bureaucracy to expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
-[X] Mediate Disputes (100 Focus)
--[X] Pulford and Shen
-[X] Assist Project (50 Focus)
--[X] HR in hiring more pilots
---[X] Ask if your own pilots know any that they would recommend
-[X] Contact People/organizations for joint Orbital-Clearing Satellite Project (50 Focus)
-[X] Start Project (210 Focus)
--[X] Contact Stephen Pulford, Rosa Cossette D'Elise and the heads of Republic of Voslage and Erusean Restoration Forces. Start planning how to bring an end to the Erusean civil war and destruction of the Free Erusean Remnants without Erusea annexing the countries that have declared independence of them, like Voslage, so that you can concentrate on the alien threat together.
-[X] Organize XCOM: create a Training and Tactics Department. Get teachers, flight sim creators, air warfare theorists, and so on. Task them with systematization of all information on aliens and fighting them. Grant them permission to ask all pilots, AWACS, scientists and engineers for relevant info. (100 Focus)
--[X] Training and Tactics' first project will be to collate a handbook or series of handbooks on anti-alien tactics for ourselves and potentially other X-COM branches. Should include doctrine for fighters armed with relatively conventional missiles, and also for heavy axial weapons like the EML and TLS.
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