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Blackstar said:
[]Develop a Bunker Complex: Digging into the earth to develop adequate defensive capacity will take a massive construction operation but the construction of a massive bunker complex can prove useful for several other applications. Six batteries of strategic defense lasers, sixteen batteries of anti-orbital missiles and an on-site division to guard the entrances and interior will be built up. Scientists will be kept in the bunker complex itself with large openings made for transferring hardware deep under the ground. Defense against strong ground-bursts will inherently be limited but it is expected that even if some sections fail resistance can continue for long enough to prime the duplex of 1GT scuttling charges. (250B Or) (Possible Tech Rolls Next Turn)
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I will vote for any plan that does the Hellbunker Complex.
 
Blackstar said:
In this environment, the PPM decided it was a bright idea to form an official line advocating for an increased reproduction rate 5th generation design child standard was made mandatory.
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Mandatory eugenics, what a hill to die on lmao
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The BFP for its part continued on a message of increasing military spending and the defense of the homeworld, changing little from messaging in the last election. This led to the loss of some urban seats as the youths have continued to insist that conscription is a bridge too far while accepting increasing military spending. The party itself should not be one for the youths but their support was critical for the few urban footholds left, surrendering them to the PSC and only leaving core constituencies of veterans voting for the party. The PSC itself has started to modernize itself with a new younger party leadership group and a series of new black suits that are mandatory for party members. This has extended to a softening of social policies in favor of a pure militarist message, advocating for a stronger rearmament program, the universal conscription of the idle youth, and the reintroduction of morality. The reality of any of their positions aside they have found a viable voting base from disaffected youths and several middle-class interests.
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Our biggest supporters took massive Ls and the PSC has taken over as the party of militarism. They are also on their way to forming their own paramilitaries and are the second largest party in parliament. Joy. We desperately need to make sure they don't hijack the military and prepare for when they take over, because barring them doing a major fuckup like a disorganized Putsch, they are on their way to entering government...
Blackstar said:
[]Develop a Bunker Complex: Digging into the earth to develop adequate defensive capacity will take a massive construction operation but the construction of a massive bunker complex can prove useful for several other applications. Six batteries of strategic defense lasers, sixteen batteries of anti-orbital missiles and an on-site division to guard the entrances and interior will be built up. Scientists will be kept in the bunker complex itself with large openings made for transferring hardware deep under the ground. Defense against strong ground-bursts will inherently be limited but it is expected that even if some sections fail resistance can continue for long enough to prime the duplex of 1GT scuttling charges. (250B Or) (Possible Tech Rolls Next Turn)
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2 1 GT nukes tied to a self destruct button, this would release an amount of energy equivalent to all nuclear testing done until 1996 4 times over. This is some Sakharov-Teller ahhh shit. I approve of this villain HQ fortified command center...
 
Blackstar said:
PPP politicians have adopted something of a mixed line on both rearmament and development with an absolute insistence that whoever the coalition government forms with it will have Ros as an interior minister. When the GP reached to the right to work with the resurgent PSC and continue their coalition with the PPP this one demand caused the government to fall through as both the PSC and GP refused any notion of seating Ros
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I love Ros i love how she came back after having multiple scandals about her digging and filling mass graves while also infiltrating worker unions and then decided you know who would be great as the head of the interior me the person nobody would ever trust
 
Blackstar said:
[]Operation Illustrious Flag: Recruitment of agents within academies and military staff represents something of a softer target for intelligence infiltration. It doesn't matter if only the janitor can be brought on the side or sufficiently electronically compromised if he reports on any known meeting locations. The operation would work at the edges of military organizations and provide several informants capable of reporting on significant movements or meetings. If the situation gets far worse it'll provide a fine-grained targeting for kinetic operations but it should not come to that.

[]Operation Purple Finger: Infiltration operations to the army directly can be conducted using alternative means. Work towards training intelligence agents to pose as curious officer recruits with an accelerated career track to provide more information can be started. Their careers will effectively be a repeat of officer academy before an eventual re-recruitment into the intelligence services ensuring that they are attractive candidates for discovering conspiracies. Discoveries from the program are unlikely to be immediate with the first year of education almost entirely useless from an intelligence perspective but eventually, several conspirators may be found.

[]Operation Moldy Vase: The infiltration of the army is happening at some scale from several political and social organizations. Some are comparatively innocent but a large portion represents direct damage to the command and the state's democratic institutions. The key point of entry remains officer school candidates as the enlisted are unlikely to ferment any large movement, leaving the officers the most questionable. Monitoring for officer school posts and social clubs will be essential to filter out the worst candidates and several that are caught can be used as agents for later operations, especially if they are vacillating.
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All these operations support each other. I think we should do Purple Finger this turn and then support it with Flag or Vase next turn. Luxuriant Hat is also needed this turn to develop our CYBINT capabilities and get actually deniable assets.
 
OMG alien artifact!
[]Orbital Study(Powered)

"Fuck it we ball" on powering up tech we have no compatibility or plans for, but given this was found in an asteroid CLEARLY it is meant for microgravity use. Bunkers or cool, but this doohickey belongs in orbit!
 
General_Urist said:
OMG alien artifact!
[]Orbital Study(Powered)

"Fuck it we ball" on powering up tech we have no compatibility or plans for, but given this was found in an asteroid CLEARLY it is meant for microgravity use. Bunkers or cool, but this doohickey belongs in orbit!
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If we want to risk it, we should do the exercises and []Mobilization of Equipment Reserves. I don't think it would send a FTL signal saying "I am here galactic community, come invade me" to be honest, but being wrong in this would be disastrous, and this way we would have equipment on the ground at the very least.

I am very attached to the doomsday reliquary bunker ideia though.
 
[]Plan Prepare For Contact
-[]Develop a Bunker Complex (250B Or)
-[]Convert the Long Burn Ships (150B Or)
-[]Operation Purple Finger
-[]Operation Luxuriant Hat
-[]Large-Scale Exercises(Army) (100B Or)
-[]Orbital Defense Exercises (50B Or)
-[]Study Wartime Issues(VTOL)

Burns 550B Or, I'm somewhat shaky on the converted long burn ship but the other option is just not following up on our new data properly. Building the bunker is genuinely a good idea, this is a priceless artifact and we've seen aliens nab those. We should follow up with next gen infantry so that our guys stand a better chance in what will probably be one hell of a slugfest if the aliens catch wind of what we have on hand. Purple Finger starts the long term infiltration of the fash officer pipeline, Luxuriant Hat is mandatory before proper CYBINT operations and the exercises must be done now before we poke the beehive with our second FTL mission to the Lirrir. The third politics option is sort of a free option, however I must suggest against the money free orbital zones because it would signal to the PSC that Ricky might not be someone susceptible to fascist politics.
 
[] Plan Increasing Force Morale
-[]Develop a Bunker Complex (250B Or)
-[]Convert the Long Burn Ships (150B Or)
-[]Operation Purple Finger
-[]Operation Luxuriant Hat
-[]Large-Scale Exercises(Army) (100B Or)
-[]Orbital Defense Exercises (50B Or)
-[]Money-Free Orbital Zones

I personally think that with a leftish coalition in government that this is a good time to trial the money free orbital zones and its an avenue of increasing the space forces morale that isn't going to backfire unlike hardening force discipline which is just completely infested with Rickys biases.
 
Showing that Ricky is a traveller is not something I want to risk when the PSC is ascendant like this. If we need to coup them out of the government the last thing we want is for them to think we have leftist sympathies.
 
[] Plan Increasing Space Morale
-[]Develop a Bunker Complex (250B Or)
-[]Convert the Long Burn Ships (150B Or)
-[]Operation Purple Finger
-[]Operation Luxuriant Hat
-[]Large-Scale Exercises(Army) (100B Or)
-[]Orbital Defense Exercises (50B Or)
-[]Study Theoretical Proposals(Space Equipment)

Instead of focusing even harder on the VTOL jet, I think we'd benefit more from improving our new standardized equipment for being in space given how this'll be affecting basically everyone we have there. A different angle of tackling morale issues in space, given that this is what they've been strongly insisting on getting.
Blackstar said:
The service itself has focused on the needs of the space forces alongside the new classes of ships and, likely due to the funding allocated been content if grumbling about receiving a lower priority for this funding cycle with only a strong insistence on a standardized EVA suit along with the standardization of safety equipment for the crew.
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The correct choice is to worship the cube. It has so many things to tell us. It's so inviting and entrancing. We need to spend more time with it. More time inside it. So much more time.
 
I will be voting for the bunker solely so I can see if the Aliens can crack it. Getting past the orbital ring of defenses, our space ships, our nuke subs, the laser and missile batteries, and of course our infantry.
 
the bunker is a temple, dedicated to the protection and worship of the cube, none may deny its glory, and none may assail its position without fear of the gigaton scuttling charges. the sanity and practicality of the cube bunker is inherent and unnegotiable
 
SuperHeavy said:
At that point the bunker becomes the anti-orbit weapon as pieces are shot into orbit like planetary scale shaped charge.
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Well do remember a documentary on what a alien invasion could look like and they got the aliens to stop by digging a long hole with nukes at the bottom that propelled a Giant manhole cover that cutted right into alien ship not killing it but getting them to stop.
 
Lord_Abaddon said:
the bunker is a temple, dedicated to the protection and worship of the cube, none may deny its glory, and none may assail its position without fear of the gigaton scuttling charges. the sanity and practicality of the cube bunker is inherent and unnegotiable
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At first I was skeptical of the merit of the Cube Protection Facility but after staring unblinking at the cube for 14 hours I really have come around to it's importance.
 
Personally i prefer Fireiys space morale plan as suits are just going to be massive this is going to be protective equipment for all our space troops so it rolling high is going to be vital. Even further we are going to keep importing civilians into orbit to build infrastructure, operate industry, and supply services with even a moon colony coming around soon so having suits with just a slight problem is going to effect the entire ecosystem up there
 
[X]Plan Prepare For Contact
-[X]Develop a Bunker Complex (250B Or)
-[X]Convert the Long Burn Ships (150B Or)
-[X]Operation Purple Finger
-[X]Operation Luxuriant Hat
-[X]Large-Scale Exercises(Army) (100B Or)
-[X]Orbital Defense Exercises (50B Or)
-[X]Study Wartime Issues(VTOL)

The Zeds seem to heavily rely on VTOLs to bully the Lirrir, so I think making sure we apply all the lessons of the war and have a quality platform is essential.
 
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[X] Plan Increasing Space Morale
-[X]Develop a Bunker Complex (250B Or)
-[X]Convert the Long Burn Ships (150B Or)
-[X]Operation Purple Finger
-[X]Operation Luxuriant Hat
-[X]Large-Scale Exercises(Army) (100B Or)
-[X]Orbital Defense Exercises (50B Or)
-[X]Study Theoretical Proposals(Space Equipment)
 
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