[ ] Escort Carrier Shipyards (High Priority)
As GDI has a vast need for escort carriers, there are two tracks. First is simply building a number of supporting elements to build carriers between supporting the battleships. Second is building a number of dedicated shipyards for their production. While both will require substantial infrastructural investments, the former is substantially cheaper than the latter
-[ ] New York (Progress 0/240: 20 resources per die) (-5 Energy, -2 Capital Goods) (Nat 1) [1, 85]
The New York carrier shipyard is technically speaking in Brooklyn, a new part of an ever-expanding complex of shipbuilding assets. However, the project seems to have been completely cursed, with delay after delay ranging from the practical to the symbolic. In late February, all such delays became completely academic, with a large-scale tiberium outbreak punching through right between two of the slipways, and smaller outbreaks compromising two other buildings on the site. While nobody died, two workers were injured when their crane was consumed by tiberium, and the site was comprehensively compromised.
The 836th Transport Squadron brought one of the first tiberium containment units on the scene, with their novel harvesters able to contain one of the smaller outbreaks and fight it back to the point where a trio of harvesters could maintain a constant harvest on the exposed vein within the first day of operations. The rest were dedicated to fighting the main outbreak. While by the end of the quarter the outbreak was contained, it has made the site nonviable, with multiple Tiberium spikes situated in places that are at best difficult to work around, and at worst sitting in the middle of a drydock.
"Archeological sites, Union rules that date back to 1910, NIMBY pushback from the local arcology dwellers who don't want to look at a shipyard, now we can't get enough fucking porta-potties and fencing because the main distribution hub is backed up on orders-what next, is a Tiberium vein gonna blow through the middle of my construction site?
- Arnold Burton, two weeks before a Tiberium vein did blow through the middle of his construction site.