Here's my preliminary plan:
[] Plan Insert Name Here
-[] D4:
--[] Operation Bandit Bingo
--[] Operation Prime Performance
-[] D6:
--[] Operation Closed Eye
--[] Operation Sticky Bit
--[] Operation Purple Brain
-[] Procurement:
--[] Pre-Assessments of Purchase Classes
-[] Politics:
--[] Frontal Commander Assessments
--[] Internet Regulations
--[] Assess the Reserve System
Department 4:
- Bandit Bingo starts infiltrating PRLM border areas as setup for future action against the PRLM, which among other things will enable us to do History Highlight once our SF are ready. I really don't think going for HH right away is wise, since it's a kinetic action that involves "snuffing out" PRLM agents (i.e. assassinating them) and the power armor we bought last turn doesn't arrive until the end of this turn with training only complete at the end of next turn (see quote below), so doing it now would mean pulling the trigger before doing *any* prep work at all which, uh, yeah.
The power armor from the program is expected to be available by the end of next year with a four-hundred-kilogram suit made available for a single-division strength formation of special forces for external work. Training and familiarization are likely to take another year with a degree of system commonality expected with more modern domestic systems.
- Prime Performance is a defensive counterintel option, nothing fancy here.
Department 6:
- Closed Eye gets us started on digital hardening, nice and boring. Watery Icicle is important too for addressing this issue, but closing the immediate security gaps for the most critical areas is more important right now.
- Sticky Bit and Purple Brain to continue working on the PSC problem. IMO going straight to Black Mark is too much of an escalation and risks undermining our relationship with the civilian government, but these two should hopefully get the ball rolling in time to cut them out of the next elections or at least kneecap them.
Procurement:
- Pre-Assessments of Purchase Classes to prepare for ship purchases next plan (also having some practical experience with particle beams will help once we get around to OFAC modernization). I'm not as worried about the budget because we're already halfway through the budget period and we still have 850B to play with, so hopefully we should be good on that front, and in any case I do reserves this turn which clears up the biggest unknown w.r.t. budgeting.
Politics:
- Frontal Commander Assessments and Assess the Reserve System to continue the work we did on conscription last turn and get things set up before the next conscription cycle rolls around, taken together to get all our personnel shuffling done in a single go. I'm not *super* attached to this and could live with a one year delay though, in which case idk substitute Implementation of New Orbital Economics and Publicly Fight the Paramilitaries or something lol.
- Internet Regulations to cut down on the awfulness of the elfternet and attack the PSC radicalization pipeline.