Ad Astra ex Lutum

Maybe we figured out a way to get the first ships in the water before the freezes really set in, the proposed timeline was originally having to wait until after the new year for functional icebreakers to hit the water which would have left the lanes frozen up for the first half of winter.
 
Icebreaker that saves the homeworld from the Alien Enemy's treacherous attempt to smite us with a comet during their retreat, by suddenly sprouting nuclear rocket engines and flying up into space to shatter the enemy ice cube in one last grand hurrah?
 
I have no goddamn idea what it means when the icebreakers roll a critical success.

Did we just ram the north polar icecap so hard it sank or something?
Well, realistically speaking, probably the project is going to finish ahead of schedule, meaning they'll be available to smash through the ice sooner, which in turn means they might get out before the ice can even begin to be a problem, so no interruptions in the logistics flow.

Your ideas are much more fun though.
 
Hmm...I personally think Fusion is the most important. We need both the power generation to supply the heating systems and to make sure the power production doesn't run into cost overruns that take away additional resources from the war effort. Additionally, omakes seem best suited for saving us from bad rolls rather than making already excellent rolls better.
 
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I'm not sure that omakes can actually cause artificial crits, and I kind of agree that getting the fusion cores up to average quality is probably most important for the war effort. But ultimately you can also just sit on the omake, it's not like the power plants totally bombed they just came out kind of mediocre and this was a very good turn in general.
 
Could turn out it fits good in a antiair role or something, also anyone think the salamanders are going to fare very bad in the cold?
 
They'll probably be fine. Electrical heating is a thing, and easy enough that the prequel put having a species' origin be reptilian as a flat-out advantage. Certainly I don't think they'll be missing it from vacuum-sealed powered armor. They won't be happy, but I don't think it's going to noticeably impede them.
 
They'll probably be fine. Electrical heating is a thing, and easy enough that the prequel put having a species' origin be reptilian as a flat-out advantage. Certainly I don't think they'll be missing it from vacuum-sealed powered armor. They won't be happy, but I don't think it's going to noticeably impede them.
I really wouldn't trust that suits likely bought because they were cheap to keep warm enough that it is not a issue, also our guys are using nuclear shells and insurgents will be destroying there heating places by accident and on purpose.
 
I really wouldn't trust that suits likely bought because they were cheap to keep warm enough that it is not a issue, also our guys are using nuclear shells and insurgents will be destroying there heating places by accident and on purpose.
I'd say we can trust those suits to at least perform the basic role of keeping the Salamanders alive, which would involve making sure they're heated for their species. They're cheap, but they're not that cheap. Modern day Earth can make electrically heated clothes without much trouble, let alone an interstellar civilization.
 
They're wearing spacesuits, they can absolutely run a little heater if they can run an entire closed atmospheric system that will require climate control as an inherent part of its function already.
 
They're wearing spacesuits, they can absolutely run a little heater if they can run an entire closed atmospheric system that will require climate control as an inherent part of its function already.
Makes sense, have to imagine our insurgents targeting there heating places to erod there morale even more now and that they are going to have to either waste resources on heating there occupied areas populations or let them freeze to death which is not a good image.
 
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