Action 1: Advance Cybernetics
Resolution Type: Binary (DC 12)
PBs rolled: 23
Successes: 21
+1 PUB
The logical next step after your current cybernetic state-of-the-art is of course the ability to make a Kik-Bzzrt fully mechanical. The most efficacious way to do this that's been discovered so far is to map out how all of a kik's neurons connect and then replicate this with a neural network in one of the new quantum processors. Now, the only workable way to do this involves slicing the brain into very thin slices, leading to significant brain damage in early uploads, data corruption, and questions about whether it's really them in there.
However, a method has recently been developed that alleviates these concerns, primarily by having the patient be conscious throughout the entire process. As layers of brain are stripped away, the computer begins running the new layers of virtual brain simultaneously to the remainder of the organic one, with the immensely complex flat-panel scanner transferring nerve signals between the virtual section of the brain and the organic one.
The end result after this roughly two hour procedure is one fully computerized kik, able to be transferred between computers like most file formats. Even better, the emulator program for the virtual kik automatically simulates the effects of a neurolux regimem, rendering the problems of divergent body types not relevant.
Admittedly, making a virtual Kik-Bzzrt from scratch is stilll beyond you, meaning that Queens and Breeders undergoing the procedure are generally discouraged.
Someone's got to make new Kik-Bzzrt after all!
(Cybernetics 4 achieved)
(Pacesetters may now Upload. Uploading adds 3d10 lifespan, and may be done on the same turn as a Pacesetter dies.)
(Warships no longer need to make any concessions to life support)
Action 2: Promote R&D on Spall
Resolution Type: Discrete
PBs rolled: 7
Successes: 2
The general promotion of the sciences on Spall is ongoing, however the methods in use could do with some tweaking. Compared to the amount of promotion that's taken place, the number of new scientists is disappointingly small. Perhaps there are some issues with the execution?
(1 PB raised to R&D 2 from R&D 1, 1 PB raised to R&D 1)
Action 3: Advance Quantum (which is a shorthand for specialized physics knowledge)
Resolution Type: Binary (DC 7)
PBs rolled: 20
Successes: 14
+1 PUB
Despite the great strides that have been made in Kik-Bzzrt technology, your underlying understanding of physics has been rather stagnant for the last half-century. However, several recent discoveries have been made that could wind up upending much of your current understanding of physics, particularly related to how certain types of exotic particle behave in a region of heavily curved spacetime. No-one's quite sure what this all means, but engineers are already gearing up to see if they can put these new physics to work.
(Quantum 2 achieved!)
Action 4: Survey Sector (1, -1)
Resolution Type: Binary (DC 3)
PBs rolled: 7
Successes: 4
Resolution not in range for stat changes
As it turns out, the sector you've surveyed is pretty empty. A bit of a running joke in the astronomy center is that it must have said something mean about the systems in it, because all but three left, and even they seem to have fled to the sector's edges. Even so, one of those systems orbiting a red dwarf named Delphini looks like it could be a very promising target for colonization.
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Sector 1, -1
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Name: Delphini
Co-ordinates: X: -8 | Y: 10 | Z: -2
Astronomy Report: Red Dwarf, 4 solid planets, 1 terrestrial world (toxic atmosphere), 1 gas planet
Name: Fang Xiu
Co-ordinates: X: 5 | Y: 10 | Z: -9
Astronomy Report: Red Dwarf
Name: Li-Jing
Co-ordinates: X: 7 | Y: -9 | Z: 4
Astronomy Report: Red Dwarf, 1 solid planet, 1 terrestrial world (toxic atmosphere)
Action 5: Refit Ships with New Engines
Resolution Type: Binary (DC 1)
PBs rolled: 7
Successes: 4
Resolution not in range for stat changes.
With the development of Generation 4 Fusion Reactors and Generation 3 Fusion Rockets, a program to upgrade most existing spacecraft to make use of the new and improved power sources was quickly launched. For some reason, Sass-Kai decided to attach themselves to the project, but their presence changed pretty much nothing, as the refit program was going perfectly well even before they showed up.
Action 6: Build Utilities on Melmer
Resolution Type: Discrete
PBs rolled: 5
Successes: 4
+1 PUB
Building up infrastructure on Melmer seems like a never-ending task at times, always racing between various parts of the planet's infrastructure that need shoring up. At present, the part you're fixing has to do with the distribution of vital supplies like food, water, and electrical power. By the end of the period you manage to get things up and running well enough for the next decade or so, but then some contacts in the planet's healthcare network inform you that the number of available doctors and hospitals is again starting to be an issue.
(Melmer Utilities raised to 10)
Action 7: Scout all systems in home sector
Resolution Type: Binary (DC 4)
PBs rolled: 6
Successes: 4
Resolution not in range for stat changes
With the date of the first expedition's return fast approaching, many Kik-Bzzrt have wanted to go on their own interstellar adventures. With the fact that a large number of ships capable of actually getting a Kik-Bzzrt to another system were available for the first time, this became a lot more viable. Thus, missions to Goll, Galli, and Quijy are soon organized, crews are selected, and the missions are launched. They should be getting back sometime around the start of the next {period}.
Event: kaboom
The home system of the Probe-senders has recently been illuminated by what looks to have been a tremendous antimatter explosion, estimated at around 32 teratons. From what you can tell, this was probably their antimatter refinery blowing up. Accounting for light-lag, this means they've been working with antimatter in terrifying quantities for at least 85 years, however they took longer afterwards to develop warp, presumably because they were busy re-terraforming the charred crater they must have made of whichever side of their homeworld was unlucky enough to be facing the refinery.
Event: Expedition returns
The first kikked interstellar mission has returned after roughly decade underway. The crew has suffered severe microgravity acclimatization, and is needing special treatment in a centrifuge to be re-strengthened to the point of being able to survive on Bani Jara's surface. Still, you've got far more detailed logs of Herschelli than you had before.
System Name: Herschelii
X: 9 |Y: -9 |Z: 1
Astronomy report: red dwarf, 7 solid planets
Seed: 1480010097
Notes
I know, I know, I promised immortality. Still, I want at least
some Pacesetter turnover, even if it'll take a lot longer.
Missions In Flight
-Tampered probe to alien homeworld (arrives on turn 15)
-Spall class scout to Goll (returns on turn 12)
-Spall class scout to Galli (returns on turn 12)
-Spall class scout to Quijy (returns on turn 12)
Actions (Please note what planet you're acting from in your vote)
Sub-actions (can be done in the same turn as another action)
[] Upload
Un-rolled actions (cannot be done in the same turn as another action)
[] Move to a system for which travel time > 1 year
Exploration (Return Range: 1.5 sectors, 2.5 unkikked)
[] Search for new systems
-[] Select Sector (enter as x,y co-ords, DC goes up by 1 for every sector's worth of distance according to Pythagoras, base DC 2)
[] Send survey ships to known sector
-[] Select sector
[] Send Colonists to a new world
-[] Select World (Interstellar colonization unlocked!)
Culture
[] Promote a Cultural Focus (grant a buff to another action type)
-[] Exploration
-[] Diplomacy
-[] R&D
-[] Infrastructure
-[] Espionage
-[] Military
[] Console The Masses (mitigate chances of rioting)
-[]Select World
[] Encourage Migration
-[] From where to where?
Diplomacy
[]make treaty
Locked until contact with aliens has been made.
[] Disperse Rioters
[] Block another action (intended for dealing with Lone Wolves who look like they're about to cause a Bad End)
R&D
[] Advance a Field
fields currently ready for advance
-[] Quantum 3
-[] Directed Energy 3
-[] Kinetic Weapons 2
-[] Cybernetics 5
-[] Aerospace 3
-[] Materials 3
[] Design a ship class
-[] Describe design
[] Design a World Improvement
-[] Orbital Shipyard Lv. 3 (allows construction of warp-capable ships up to 350 meters in their longest dimension)
-[] Describe Improvement
Infrastructure
[] Build Civic Improvements
-[] Healthcare
-[] Education
-[] Utilities (Electricity, water, temperature, internet, oxygen, that sort of thing)
-[] Services (security services and a viable social safety net)
[] Terraform
-[] Add/Remove water
-[] Add gas to atmosphere (typical source is comets)
--[] Select gas mix
-[] Remove gas from atmosphere
--[] Select gas mix
-[] Build heating satellites (uses mirrors or solar-powered lasers to warm planet)
-[] Build sun shade (blocks some sunlight to cool planet)
-[] Establish Biosphere (requires atmosphere and surface water)
-[] Add Species Group
-[] Cull Species Group
[] Build Special Improvements
-[](DC 3) Orbital Shipyard Lv. 1 (allows construction of warp-capable ships up to 80 meters in their longest dimension)
-[](DC 4) Optimized L.1 Shipyard (Constructs warp-capable ships of up to 80 meters in length at triple the normal rate)
-[](DC 5) Orbital Shipyard Lv. 2 (allows construction of warp-capable ships up to 180 m in length)
-[](DC 4)Antimatter Refinery (allows antimatter fueling of ships)
-[](DC 2) Space Academy (Grants colonists from this world a +1 COM bonus)
-[](DC 4) Bureau of Civic Affairs (BoCA)(Automatically raises civic improvements to match populationgrowth)(Construction requirements: Target planet must have at least 10 PBs. Without accounting for Quality of Life mitigation, no PBs may be lower than Acceptable, and at least half of the target world's PBs must be at Good, again, without accounting for QOL mitigation.)
-[](DC 6) Orbital City (Raises pop cap and all Civic Improvements by 1 when built. May be built in asteroid fields)
[] Build Ships
-[] TelSat
-[] Sting
-[] Ubiquity
-[] Spall
Espionage
[] Plant a spy
Locked until contact with aliens has been made.
[]Activate a spy
No spies currently planted.
Military
[] Military Stuff (write-in)
