Meanwhile, for the Meteor...none of this is really an immediate concern that the Meteor can help with. Endo can talk to it about the potential for the Mystical Peacock on her own, and in fact is already making strides on improving their capabilities, its origins aren't really helpful and likely aren't verifiable if it really is from space, and its connection to the Meteor Trained...ok, that's potentially useful, but it's also something that can wait a turn while we get other,.more urgent stuff set up.
Talking with the Meteor is one of the things we need to do in order to clear the Meteor Ninja Dilemma, which we already have progress towards resolving. And the sooner we resolve that the sooner we can open up Meteor Training again.
I don't think this is a bad plan, but I'm not sure about asking the Meteor Questions right now, or opening a new department instead of getting computers. I do agree that Earth Science is going to be valuable, but I honestly think that Computers would be more valuable to get first, if I had to choose between the two. Earyh.Science only gives us a new.Directive that proceeds at the same rat as the others, while Computers straight up doubles the rate of progress Directives are pursued at for all departments, including the ones we open after this.
Meanwhile, for the Meteor...none of this is really an immediate concern that the Meteor can help with. Endo can talk to it about the potential for the Mystical Peacock on her own, and in fact is already making strides on improving their capabilities, its origins aren't really helpful and likely aren't verifiable if it really is from space, and its connection to the Meteor Trained...ok, that's potentially useful, but it's also something that can wait a turn while we get other,.more urgent stuff set up.
Is there any chance I could persuade you to switch out one of the two for Computers instead?
[ ] Plan: Mass Expansion and Survey
-[ ] As The Director Wills: Work on your own priority research (jutsu updates)
--[ ] Talk to the ex-Kiri clans about modernizing Hoshi jutsu.
---[ ] Focus on taijutsu; will predominantly involve the Wakita.
-[ ] Per the Council's Request: Work on the research suggested by your fellow council members.
--[ ] Aid in the industrialization of Bear Country.
---[ ] Survey the land for untapped resources.
---[ ] Survey the land for ideal industrial sites.
-[ ] Looking to the Future: Improve the Research Center and its capabilities.
--[ ] Invest in computers and computer networks for the Hoshigakure Research Center. This will improve the Facilities of all departments, increasing the speed at which they produce results and opening new opportunities to explore.
--[ ] Form a new research department. This will grant you a new group to open up new areas of research, pursue Active Projects within their specialty, and provide expertise on new topics. Any new departments will come online the turn after their formation.
---[ ] Form the Earth Science department, headed by Kohei the Outclanner (-50 BP annually, increase current Space by 1)
---[ ] Split Engineering into the General and Military Engineering departments, keeping Kei in charge of the former and putting Satsuki Asanuma in charge of the latter (-50 BP annually, increase current Space by 1)
-[ ] Leave Biology as-is.
-[ ] Change Chakra Studies' priorities.
--[ ] Begin preparations for an expedition to Uzushiogakure.
-[ ] Leave Engineering as-is.
-[ ] Hone yourself. You are a shinobi of Hoshigakure, you cannot slack in your abilities.
--[ ] Brush up on taijutsu (+15 bonus)
-[ ] Take time for yourself. This is a lot, and you have to stay grounded in order to do it right.
-[ ] Collaborate with a council member on a particular duty.
--[ ] Contract Master Kasei Honjo, in meeting with the Daimyo and his ministers.
-[ ] Learn more about Kumori, envoy(?) of the Spiders.
-[ ] Sign the Spider Contract and become a summoner.
Here is my revamped plan.
RESEARCH CENTER ACTIONS:
This plan has the creation of two new departments and the upgrading of all our departments on the same turn leading to a cost of 375 BP per year and an excess budget of 225. This may seem radical but consider WE HAVE SO MANY ACTIONS WE NEED TO DO. Talking to the meteor, chakra blades, studying kekkei genkai, and more are actions only we can take with personal actions. Not to mention we have so many action-hungry responsibilities on our plate with industrialization, equipment upgrades, jutsu development, and the incoming world war. Our actions are limited so upgrading our department's number and speed to pick up the slack despite the cost will help us greatly. Many of our own actions don't even cost anything or if they do they can be budgeted around.
If we don't upgrade these departments I can see us struggling to fulfil all these cascading responsibilities. If we do then we essentially get 5 more actions to play with every turn. I can't understate how powerful good action economy is in the long term. I choose military engineering and earth science since those are most relevant for our modernization/industrialization efforts and the approaching world war.
For the rest of the actions, I choose to lay the groundwork for our industrialisation and modernization upgrades with two surveys. We can't really invest without knowing what we are investing in. If we wanna solve these dilemmas we need information. Lastly I chose to improve our taijutsu skills by cooperating with the Wakita as they are a safe bet to help us remove or at least get very close to removing the lost to time malus. While chakra blades are nice they are expensive and might need more then one action to get off the ground and can always be done next turn when we have more actions.
OTHER CHANGES:
I was convinced to choose to train taijutsu to make use of our bonus. The rest is pretty standard but I would like to put special notice on the social action of meeting with the Daimyo as especially important. We can't improve the land we don't own without permission.
No, what we need to do is verify that the Meteor is trustworthy and won't kill us. How exactly do any of these questions help with that? It's origins? We already knew it was from space, and the Summons are all confined to this planet, so it's interesting but unverifiable trivia at best. The potential uses of the Mystical Peacock? Certainly useful for combat, but what does it tell us about the Meteor's intentions? It's connection to the Meteor Trained is more useful, in that it's likely to give us information on the limits of the connection, even if by accident, but that's still just one question that's useful to our goals.
One of the.major points of getting the Contracts was to be able get a third party that could verify...literally any of the Meteor's story about an evil tree. I'm fine with waiting a bit to ask the Meteor anything else especially given that there are other urgent issues that need addressing.
Would you perhaps consider instead of the Uzu expedition... Switching the Sealing Ammo thing to Chakra Studies, so Engineering can throw it's effort's into a project that helps with some of our current Industry or War Prep increases?
-[ ] Lend a hand with the ongoing fortification efforts.
-[ ] Investigate new methods of large-scale earth-moving. (-25 BP/turn)
-[ ] See how the movement of goods across Bear Country can be improved.
Just because IIRC, Summon clans were one of the alternate options for increasing our sealing knowledge and now that we have two of those to work on in house, I just feel like we freeing up engineering to contribute in other ways would be more useful atm
@baskinglobster Question. Would increasing Finances skill to Master mean cheaper projects due to being able to manage the department budget better? Or maybe more budget points in general as we get more bang for our buck?
Also, if AP Hell is an issue...why don't we hire an assistant? I mean, Tsunade had Shizune...
Does Hoshigakure and/or Chiyome know of Shizune? If so, could we try to poach her away from Tsunade? I'm sure a functional Hidden Village like Hoshigakure that is not a seething hive of inter-clan resentments and barely-concealed backstabbers (unlike some other villages we could mention) could offer better terms of employment to Shizune than a dissolute alcoholic gambling addict.
Would you perhaps consider instead of the Uzu expedition... Switching the Sealing Ammo thing to Chakra Studies, so Engineering can throw it's effort's into a project that helps with some of our current Industry or War Prep increases?
Like one of these maybe?
Just because IIRC, Summon clans were one of the alternate options for increasing our sealing knowledge and now that we have two of those to work on in house, I just feel like we freeing up engineering to contribute in other ways would be more useful atm
I would strongly urge against that. We can have Engineering help with the industrialization project by upgrading them to have Computers first before we.put them on anything new. Uzushio was renowned for its sealing capabilities. They're sure to be useful, and potentially a source of ninjutsu knowledge we can designate through our ranks to take care of that Lost To Time malus on the rest of the ninjutsu category.
Summons will absolutely be useful, don't get me wrong, but it may also take time to properly put them to use. Planning an expedition to Uzu in the meantime doesn't hurt.
Plus, Engineering will be done with the ammunition seals by the end of this turn, so there's no real point to having them switch projects. Best to just let them finish, then assign them a new one next turn after they've gotten a speed boost.
I'm sorry. I'm on my phone next now and it posted before I could respond to the issues with those questions.
1. Endo can ask the Meteor about it alongside the other potential applications of Mystical Peacock but Id like to know more about how it works. It could allow us to make similar techniques or effects -- like the curdling it did to the fire release we tried to hit it with in our last interaction with it.
2. Knowing about it's origins could help us understand it more and if there might be others like it we should be worried about.
3. It would help us to learn more about it's connection to the Guard not is great not only because we learn more about it, but how it perceives that connection.
Still... If we want to ask it different things, I'm willing to ask it about it's origins later if we come up with a good write in.
Equipment Crisis:
The Second War proved the deep inadequacies of the current standards for standard-issue equipment compared to other Hidden Villages, and the Hoshikage's first directive to the Research Division was to rectify this.
Armor: Unresolved
Determine the mystery material used in foreign armor.
Investigate the means of producing ballistic nylon.
Assist Contract Master Honjo in establishing full-scale production.
Gear: Resolved
Determine the secret of foreign forging techniques.
Determine a means of forging uniform gear.
Produce a scalable means of gear manufacture.
Weapons: Resolved
Determine the secret of foreign forging techniques.
Industrial Shame:
Hoshigakure's strength is limited by the strength and plenty of Bear Country, a backwater that has resisted the call of industrial and agricultural revolution. This will not be acceptable forever; better to fix it now.
Agriculture: Unresolved
Determine how to improve the output of Bear Country agriculture.
???
Logging: Unresolved
Determine how to improve Bear Country's logging industry.
???
Manufacturing: Unresolved
Determine how to establish manufacturing in Bear Country.
Convince the civilian government to pursue manufacturing endeavors.
???
Transportation: Unresolved
Determine how to improve Bear Country's transportation.
Jutsu Crisis:
The techniques wielded by Hoshi nin have proven out of date, untempered by the same conflict as other shinobi from outside Hoshi's walls. Modernizing jutsu is critical to ensuring effectiveness and equal standing against enemy nin.
Genjutsu: Unresolved
Find a means of learning modern genjutsu practices.
Study and apply refinements to genjutsu.
Disseminate the genjutsu refinements.
Ninjutsu: Unresolved
Find a means of learning modern ninjutsu practices.
Study and apply refinements to ninjutsu.
Disseminate the genjutsu refinements.
Taijutsu: Unresolved
Find a means of learning modern taijutsu practices.
Study and apply refinements to taijutsu.
Disseminate the taijutsu refinements.
Weapons: Resolved
Find a means of learning modern bukijutsu practices.
yeah, on second thought after equipment this should probably be our next focus. and we have some actions we can still take for low-hanging fruits with the kiri nin.
Meteor Crisis:
The Meteor that has empowered the shinobi of Hoshigakure for generations, that provided the site of the village's founding, has proven to be the source of a terrible sickness. For the first time since its power was discovered, an investigation has been launched to determine what, exactly, is to be done with it.
Comprehension: Unresolved
Discover the intelligence within the Meteor.
Verify its claims.
???
Protection: Resolved
Determine a means of measuring unsafe exposure to Meteor Chakra.
Devise a method of protecting individuals from Meteor Chakra.
Devise a means of insulating buildings against Meteor Chakra.
Sealing Shame:
Fuuinjutsu is broadly considered one of the most powerful varieties of shinobi technique, extremely versatile and capable of complex implementation. Hoshigakure's understanding of it is out of date: this must be remedied.
Apprentice: Resolved
Find a mentor for apprentice-level fuuinjutsu.
Disseminate knowledge of apprentice-level fuuinjutsu.
Journeyman: Resolved
Find a mentor for journeyman-level fuuinjutsu.
Disseminate knowledge of journeyman-level fuuinjutsu.
...ok, this is a problem. where the hell do we find a master-level fuinjutsu mentor?!
In any case, armor will be ready in 4 turns or so even without us, but we can accelerate it by up to two turns. That's good.
We can also still make some good progress on Jutsu, and finish meteor soon.
That's 3 out of 5 crises which can be solved relatively soon.
Mentor fuinjutsu... we'll have to rely on Uzu, I think. Either that, or hope one of the summon clans has a fuinjutsu master in them. We should probably ask the spiders, just in case. Maybe the Bears too, though it doesn't feel like it would be their style.
Industry... it might be better to wait until after the war, not sure. Maybe we can start it off, maybe it's better to complete the other categories first when they are so close...
I would strongly urge against that. We can have Engineering help with the industrialization project by upgrading them to have Computers first before we.put them on anything new. Uzushio was renowned for its sealing capabilities. They're sure to be useful, and potentially a source of ninjutsu knowledge we can designate through our ranks to take care of that Lost To Time malus on the rest of the ninjutsu category.
Summons will.absolutely be useful, don't get me wrong, but it may also take time to properly pit them to use. Planning an expedition to Uzu in the meantime doesn't hurt.
1: Assigning Engineering to something else for a turn doesn't interfere with them getting a computer upgrade.
2: I am aware of Uzushio's sealing chops. But sending a big chunk of our staff, including one of our new summoners, to search an already looted ruin RIGHT next door to Kiri, who is gearing up for war, doesn't sound like a good idea RIGHT NOW, when we can instead use our new Summons to increase our Sealing knowledge at home.
3: Considering we have a limited time till the war breaks out, I view every bit of progress we can squeeze in to be a win. Giving our Engineers the turn to instead make our defenses more Bulky, or start prepping tools for earth moving to help the industry build up or letting them work on the transport of Nylon in large amounts for armor, etc. These will directly help our war prep more than planning an expedition that we likely won't be able to make till the war ends anyway.
Industry... it might be better to wait until after the war, not sure. Maybe we can start it off, maybe it's better to complete the other categories first when they are so close...
"Okay." You pinch the bridge of your nose. "So if we can't handle this in-house, what are our options?"
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"Second option is to get hold of and utilize a summoning contract," Haru continues. "They're among the greatest sources of sealing knowledge in the known world."
We have the Spider Contract, and Haru the Bear. All we need to do is sign and start asking about it. It's why I don't think the Uzu expedition is needed at this point. We have stuff to digest now that could solve the issue
I'm sorry. I'm on my phone next now and it posted before I could respond to the issues with those questions.
1. Endo can ask the Meteor about it alongside the other potential applications of Mystical Peacock but Id like to know more about how it works. It could allow us to make similar techniques or effects -- like the curdling it did to the fire release we tried to hit it with in our last interaction with it.
2. Knowing about it's origins could help us understand it more and if there might be others like it we should be worried about.
3. It would help us to learn more about it's connection to the Guard not is great not only because we learn more about it, but how it perceives that connection.
Still... If we want to ask it different things, I'm willing to ask it about it's origins later if we come up with a good write in.
You do have some interesting points. However, I have some rebuttals.
1: Not only no, but HELL NO. Did you forget that we were outright told during that family talk earlier that a Sakakibara going through Meteor Training was a death sentence?! Sure, we've made great strides in medicine, but we've also left the clan/Meteor interactions completely untouched. If you think Chiyome using Meteor Chakra in any way is a good idea without doing that research first, then I am vehemently disagreeing with you. Endo can figure this shit out in her own until then.
2: Possibly true, but again, we already know the thing is from space. We have no way of verifying anything more.than that, and the ability to verify what its telling us is the most important thing we need.
3: A fair enough point.
If you truly want to ask the Meteor questions this turn, then I strongly recommend you ask it how to treat the Meteor Sickness. It's something that's relatively verifiable, while considering the chakrascope hinted that natural chakra might be involved somehow, we might make progress towards identifying that.
1: Assigning Engineering to something else for a turn doesn't interfere with them getting a computer upgrade.
2: I am aware of Uzushio's sealing chops. But sending a big chunk of our staff, including one of our new summoners, to search an already looted ruin RIGHT next door to Kiri, who is gearing up for war, doesn't sound like a good idea RIGHT NOW, when we can instead use our new Summons to increase our Sealing knowledge at home.
3: Considering we have a limited time till the war breaks out, I view every bit of progress we can squeeze in to be a win. Giving our Engineers the turn to instead make our defenses more Bulky, or start prepping tools for earth moving to help the industry build up or letting them work on the transport of Nylon in large amounts for armor, etc. These will directly help our war prep more than planning an expedition that we likely won't be able to make till the war ends anyway.
Can't wait
We need the Industry built up to upgrade our armor, and therefore resolve the Equipment Crisis: Dilemma
1: Fair.
2: Expect Uzu is not just a potential source of sealing knowledge, it is also a potential source of ninjutsu knowledge. Plus, Kiri may be wrapping up its civil.war, but I highly doubt its willing to invade us for picking over an already looted corpse of a city. I'd honestly be surprised if they remembered the place still existed.
3: Then just wait a turn for computers to be added, while letting the expedition continue to be planned. That way the ammunition seals still get done this turn with noe weird rescheduling nonsense, while we make progress towards a source of knowledge that we can put to use to improve the village's situation in multiple ways.
I can understand some caution, but worrying about Kiri is premature. If we get word that they're looking at us with sabers rattling,.or if they're planning on looting Uzu themselves, then we can start to worry, but until then, they're not a reason to delay the expedition.
As for needing to complete the Equipment Crisis dilemma, the current plans are all.spending at least one action on it. We don't need to go full speed ahead so long as we're actually making progress on it and getting computers.
Definitely in favor of talking to the meteor. But I think the only useful questions at the moment are the link to the meteor guard, what Mystical Peacock can do, and meteor sickness.
Those are issues we are going to have no matter what so getting that info will always be useful.
As for needing to complete the Equipment Crisis dilemma, the current plans are all.spending at least one action on it. We don't need to go full speed ahead so long as we're actually making progress on it and getting computers.
This is where we'll just have to agree to disagree I'm afraid.
Like I said before, with the clock ticking down on the start of the wars, every little bit of progress counts.
If the war starts and we haven't resolved the equipment dilemma? That's a MAJOR L in my book because it will drastically reduce our ninja's effectiveness and survivability.
As for the knowledge thing? Like I said, as far as sealing counts we already have a resource that we can tap into that we should check first. Plus, the summons also can likely provide unique ninjutsu info as well since all of the summoners we saw in canon had Summon Derived ninjutsu and such in addition to the direct combat potential.
1: Not only no, but HELL NO. Did you forget that we were outright told during that family talk earlier that a Sakakibara going through Meteor Training was a death sentence?! Sure, we've made great strides in medicine, but we've also left the clan/Meteor interactions completely untouched. If you think Chiyome using Meteor Chakra in any way is a good idea without doing that research first, then I am vehemently disagreeing with you. Endo can figure this shit out in her own until then.
2: Possibly true, but again, we already know the thing is from space. We have no way of verifying anything more.than that, and the ability to verify what its telling us is the most important thing we need.
3: A fair enough point.
If you truly want to ask the Meteor questions this turn, then I strongly recommend you ask it how to treat the Meteor Sickness. It's something that's relatively verifiable, while considering the chakrascope hinted that natural chakra might be involved somehow, we might make progress towards identifying that.
1. I don't mean for us to use Meteor Chakra to preform techniques. I meant for us to learn what we can and see if we could use it to develop a non-Meteor Chakra version of some of them of it's techniques or effects.
2. Fair.
This is where we'll just have to agree to disagree I'm afraid.
Like I said before, with the clock ticking down on the start of the wars, every little bit of progress counts.
If the war starts and we haven't resolved the equipment dilemma? That's a MAJOR L in my book because it will drastically reduce our ninja's effectiveness and survivability.
As for the knowledge thing? Like I said, as far as sealing counts we already have a resource that we can tap into that we should check first. Plus, the summons also can likely provide unique ninjutsu info as well since all of the summoners we saw in canon had Summon Derived ninjutsu and such in addition to the direct combat potential.
Yes, I do believe that we are definitely going to have to disagree.
My own plan gets the two surveying actions done, while freeing up Engineering and Biology next turn so they can help us by taking on their respective parts of the project while we handle the last one. It also gets computers so.we.can hopefully finish the whole section in two turns.
Coshiua also handles the surveying actions, while opening up Earth Science while freeing up Engineering and Biology for next turn. I'm hoping that he switches to.computers to get that speed bonus, but his plan will still make good progress, and put us in a position to finish the industrialization section in three turns.
Malfeasance also does the surveying actions, while splitting Engineering, opening Earth Science, and getting computers. We could potentially finish the industrialization section in two turns.
With any of the current plans, we can get the industrialization projects done in three turns at most. We do not have to speed rush things, especially if we get computers. We just need to be patient.
As for knowledge, yeah, summons do have interesting jutsus, but as you said, they also tend to be summon derived, like Jiraiya's toad techniques. There's a good possibility in my mind that those techniques might need the user to be a summoner themselves.
Even if they can help us with out ninjutsu in ways that don't need us t.sign a contract to get the full benefit, I still want to go raid Uzu, because that's still a.useful alternative source of information.
There are multiple Dilemmas that the Research Director of Hoshigakure is charged with resolving. Solving each Dilemma will effectively solve the related problems and establish a new and improved status quo, unchallenged except by further trials, and grant a Milestone advancement as a benefit. The current Dilemmas, as well as the solved ones, are listed below.
Equipment Crisis:
The Second War proved the deep inadequacies of the current standards for standard-issue equipment compared to other Hidden Villages, and the Hoshikage's first directive to the Research Division was to rectify this.
Armor: Unresolved
Determine the mystery material used in foreign armor.
Investigate the means of producing ballistic nylon.
Assist Contract Master Honjo in establishing full-scale production.
Gear: Resolved
Determine the secret of foreign forging techniques.
Determine a means of forging uniform gear.
Produce a scalable means of gear manufacture.
Weapons: Resolved
Determine the secret of foreign forging techniques.
Determine a means of forging uniform weapons.
Produce a scalable means of weapons manufacture.
Industrial Shame:
Hoshigakure's strength is limited by the strength and plenty of Bear Country, a backwater that has resisted the call of industrial and agricultural revolution. This will not be acceptable forever; better to fix it now.
Agriculture: Unresolved
Determine how to improve the output of Bear Country agriculture.
???
Logging: Unresolved
Determine how to improve Bear Country's logging industry.
???
Manufacturing: Unresolved
Determine how to establish manufacturing in Bear Country.
Convince the civilian government to pursue manufacturing endeavors.
???
Transportation: Unresolved
Determine how to improve Bear Country's transportation.
Jutsu Crisis:
The techniques wielded by Hoshi nin have proven out of date, untempered by the same conflict as other shinobi from outside Hoshi's walls. Modernizing jutsu is critical to ensuring effectiveness and equal standing against enemy nin.
Genjutsu: Unresolved
Find a means of learning modern genjutsu practices.
Study and apply refinements to genjutsu.
Disseminate the genjutsu refinements.
Ninjutsu: Unresolved
Find a means of learning modern ninjutsu practices.
Study and apply refinements to ninjutsu.
Disseminate the genjutsu refinements.
Taijutsu: Unresolved
Find a means of learning modern taijutsu practices.
Study and apply refinements to taijutsu.
Disseminate the taijutsu refinements.
Weapons: Resolved
Find a means of learning modern bukijutsu practices.
Study and apply refinements to bukijutsu.
Disseminate the bukijutsu refinements.
Meteor Crisis:
The Meteor that has empowered the shinobi of Hoshigakure for generations, that provided the site of the village's founding, has proven to be the source of a terrible sickness. For the first time since its power was discovered, an investigation has been launched to determine what, exactly, is to be done with it.
Comprehension: Unresolved
Discover the intelligence within the Meteor.
Verify its claims.
???
Protection: Resolved
Determine a means of measuring unsafe exposure to Meteor Chakra.
Devise a method of protecting individuals from Meteor Chakra.
Devise a means of insulating buildings against Meteor Chakra.
Radiation: Unresolved
Determine why Meteor Chakra is harmful.
???
Sealing Shame:
Fuuinjutsu is broadly considered one of the most powerful varieties of shinobi technique, extremely versatile and capable of complex implementation. Hoshigakure's understanding of it is out of date: this must be remedied.
Apprentice: Resolved
Find a mentor for apprentice-level fuuinjutsu.
Disseminate knowledge of apprentice-level fuuinjutsu.
Journeyman: Resolved
Find a mentor for journeyman-level fuuinjutsu.
Disseminate knowledge of journeyman-level fuuinjutsu.
Master: Unresolved
Find a mentor for master-level fuuinjutsu.
Medicine Crisis:
The shinobi of Hoshigakure are no longer condemned to needless death as a result of inadequate medicine; in her capacity as a scientist and healer, Director Sakakibara slew the beast of ill health that threatened the village.
Meteor Sickness: Resolved?
Determine the risk factors of Meteor Sickness.
Devise initial treatments.
Refine treatments further.
Supplies: Resolved
Determine necessary supplies for basic and advanced medicine.
Secure reliable sources of standard medical supplies.
Training: Resolved
Determine the education required for adequate first aid and medic-nin training.
Regarding this matter, in terms of recommendations I shall focus upon the "industrial shame"
In order to render improvements in any of the 4 described areas we must consider the following:
1:
How is agriculture already handled?
How do our methods compare to others?
Why do we have the methods and regulations that we do?
How can some of what we have learned be applied to agriculture?
How can be smoothly transition farms into utilizing better methods?
What are we growing and what else can we grow?
What complaints do farmers have to offer that we can look into?
Ultimately what we want is a set of common farming practices and tools that allow a small number of workers (as we have a small population) to handle significant quantities of land, maintains the soil quality, resists attack from pathogens both local and foreign, resists bad weather, and can operate throughout as much of the year as possible without requiring excessive levels of maintenance. With this in mind I recommend a system of constant polyculture farming which while able to provide the benefits of crop rotation can better withstand attack and neglect caused by disaster at the cost of more complicated timing and more complicated harvesting then that of monoculture rotation farming. Polyculture farming would work especially well with trees which also makes this important to consider for the issue of logging which is our next topic.
2:
Regarding logging we start again by asking the right questions:
What are our current logging practices?
How do our logging practices compare to others?
Why do we have the logging practices and regulations that we do?
How can some of what we have learned be applied to logging?
Where do we have logging operations and how do these operations fare?
How can we smoothly transition logging operations into utilizing better methods?
What kinds of wood are we extracting and what other types can we potentially work with?
What complaints do loggers have to offer that we can look into?
Ultimately we want a steady supply of multiple types of wood for use in construction, furniture, paper, and even medicine (think white willow bark) among other things. We also want to keep our operations viable for the long run, have them resist attack, and maintain the usability of the land. With this in mind I recommend in the long run at least polyculture tree plantations. Considering how much lumber Hoshi has available, the fact that there are apparently problems is concerning and we should see about providing more advanced equipment and resources (like real world chainsaws). I suspect most of our problems come down to the following that must be corrected: Outdated tools and equipment, bad road system and slow transportation, and the types of wood we primarily have access to natively. We may want to consider introducing new species in order to help improve the lumber situation, we can likely use healing chakra techniques that boost tissue regeneration to also enhance the growth of trees and crops.
3:
Regarding manufacturing things become sufficiently complicated as to merit a more complete separate discussion as of now though for the most part many of the same common questions as before apply and we must consider what we already have. We are likely being held back largely by deficits in raw resource production, transportation (the next topic), security requirements, and education status among other things.
We will want to do the following:
Perform a mineral survey and figure out what all we have.
Establish production using lumber and crops of the ethanol, methanol, charcoal, turpentine, and soda ash.
We may want to look into production of ammonia and other nitrogen compounds by some of the following methods like the following:
1.Lithium is exposed to warm pure nitrogen in powder form.
2.Lithium nitride is mixed with water to create lithium hydroxide and ammonia.
3.Ammonia is separated out.
4.Hydroxide is dried out and reacted with carbon dioxide to create lithium carbonate and water.
5.Carbonate mixed with weak acid to produce lithium salt.
6.Lithium salt electrolysed to produce lithium and repeat the cycle.
4:
Regarding transportation we will need to map out our current road system, look into how citizens with different roles generally travel, examine our current road designs and construction techniques with largely the same questions that apply elsewhere, and map out important locations that need to be connected as efficiently as possible.
I will be returning to the industry issue later in more detail after a have made some flowcharts mapping out the more important processes based on our current tech level and where we are improving. I will of course focus on production of Nylon, other plastics they happen to be aware of and interested in producing, any common synthetic or semisynthetic medical agents they utilize, poisons they know about, and any similar things. I will appreciate it if someone lists out the chemicals and synthetic chemicals primarily in demand.
[X] Plan: Mass Expansion and Survey
-[X] As The Director Wills: Work on your own priority research (jutsu updates)
--[X] Talk to the ex-Kiri clans about modernizing Hoshi jutsu.
---[X] Focus on taijutsu; will predominantly involve the Wakita.
-[X] Per the Council's Request: Work on the research suggested by your fellow council members.
--[X] Aid in the industrialization of Bear Country.
---[X] Survey the land for untapped resources.
---[X] Survey the land for ideal industrial sites.
-[X] Looking to the Future: Improve the Research Center and its capabilities.
--[X] Invest in computers and computer networks for the Hoshigakure Research Center. This will improve the Facilities of all departments, increasing the speed at which they produce results and opening new opportunities to explore.
--[X] Form a new research department. This will grant you a new group to open up new areas of research, pursue Active Projects within their specialty, and provide expertise on new topics. Any new departments will come online the turn after their formation.
---[X] Form the Earth Science department, headed by Kohei the Outclanner (-50 BP annually, increase current Space by 1)
---[X] Split Engineering into the General and Military Engineering departments, keeping Kei in charge of the former and putting Satsuki Asanuma in charge of the latter (-50 BP annually, increase current Space by 1)
-[X] Leave Biology as-is.
-[X] Change Chakra Studies' priorities.
--[X] Begin preparations for an expedition to Uzushiogakure.
-[X] Leave Engineering as-is.
-[X] Hone yourself. You are a shinobi of Hoshigakure, you cannot slack in your abilities.
--[X] Brush up on taijutsu (+15 bonus)
-[X] Take time for yourself. This is a lot, and you have to stay grounded in order to do it right.
-[X] Collaborate with a council member on a particular duty.
--[X] Contract Master Kasei Honjo, in meeting with the Daimyo and his ministers.
-[X] Learn more about Kumori, envoy(?) of the Spiders.
-[X] Sign the Spider Contract and become a summoner.
The main crux of this plan is a mass expansion of the research departments. New departments and upgrades to speed will essentially give us 5 new actions per turn in the best case. While pricey I believe it is well worth the cost as we are currently swamped with work. We have modernization, industrialization, weapons upgrades, jutsu innovation, war prep, the meteor space rock god, and more to deal with. It will only get worse with the Third Shinobi War on the horizon. All of these devour our precious actions that often have to be reserved for things only we personally can do. Upgrading our departments will let them pick up the slack so we won't fall behind on anything. I choose Military Engineering and Earth Science as they are relevant to our war prep and industrialization and agricultural reform of Bear Country.
The rest of the plan is pretty standard taking advantage of our taijutsu bonus along with gleaning Wakita secrets to chip away at the lost to time malus. As well as starting our survey of bear country and contacting the daimyo to lay the groundwork of industrialization to get that sweet industry and plastic for our long-awaited armour. Also important communication with our spider friend and an putting the chakra department to work on the Uzio expedition so we can get closer to mastering Fuinjutsu and harnessing the meteor.
[X] Plan Computer Preparation
-[x] Request Intelligence begin looking into the jutsu of other villages.
--[x] Have them start up a new network elsewhere. (-50 BP/turn until set up for 2 turns, then -25 BP/turn until completion or cessation)
---[x] Kusagakure
-[x] Talk to the ex-Kiri clans about modernizing Hoshi jutsu.
--[x] Focus on genjutsu.
-[x] Aid in the industrialization of Bear Country. x2
--[x] Survey the land for untapped resources.
--[x] Survey the land for ideal industrial sites.
-[x] Study the bodily kekkei genkai of a clan. Learn what you can to assist your new citizens and discover potential issues before they emerge.
--[x] Unbreaking Hide
-[x] Invest in computers and computer networks for the Hoshigakure Research Center. This will improve the Facilities of all departments, increasing the speed at which they produce results and opening new opportunities to explore.
-[x] Leave Biology as-is.
-[x] Change Chakra Studies' priorities.
--[x] Begin preparations for an expedition to Uzushiogakure.
-[x] Leave Engineering as-is.
-[x] Hone yourself. You are a shinobi of Hoshigakure, you cannot slack in your abilities.
--[x] Brush up on taijutsu (+15 bonus)
-[x] Reach out to someone. The shinobi life gets lonely if you're not careful. (Converts a personal action into a social action. Can only be done once per turn.)
-[x] Learn more about Kumori, envoy(?) of the Spiders.
-[x] Collaborate with a council member on a particular duty.
--[x] Contract Master Kasei Honjo, in meeting with the Daimyo and his ministers.
-[x] Talk to someone you would trust with the summoning contracts. Get an idea of what they'd want and whether they would actively pursue a contract in their hidden state, or else wait for it to come to the village.
--[x] Tomoe Endo, Meteor Warden
-[x] Sign the Spider Contract and become a summoner.
Ok, so my plan is fairly simple. First, we infiltrate Kusa for ninjutsu knowledge. They're a relatively safe target in that they aren't a Great Village, and aren't an immediate neighbor. We also might be able to get some of their notes on how the nunjutsu of other villages work and their weaknesses,.so that's another reason to try.
For jutsu updates, I'm going to Genjutsu, because why not. With this, we're one step closer to being finished.
For the industrialization efforts, the surveying actions seem like they should be done first foe maximum effect.
I want to finally get started on looking for any medical issues for the Kiri immigrants, and the Wakita are going to be involved in the Taijutsu updates, so we might as well help them.first to see if it provides.a.bonus next turn.
Computers are absolutely going to be helpful thanks to doubling the rate at which Active Projects are pursued, so.let's get them now.
For Biology, leave them to finish surgery work now then next turn they can handle the hazardous waste protocols.
For Chakra Studies, it's time to go grave robbing. Let's see what Uzu has to.offer us, eh?
For Engineering, they can finish the ammunition seals. Then next turn when they've got computers boosting their speed, they can do...either earth-moving or goods transportation, one of the two, while we take whichever one they don't take. Or maybe it's vice versa.
For personal actions, put that Taijutsu bonus to use before it fades completely, then we spend a bit more time being social this turn. I promise that next turn I'll support using a.personal action to relax, it's just that we still have too much to.do this turn for me to be comfortable with it.
Finally, let's talk with Kumori, because she's possibly an envoy of the Spiders. If she isn't, then she might be able to give us a basic "who's who" and "rules to spider society" for meeting the metaphorical bigwigs.
Contract Master Honjo will probably appreciate the help in convincing the civilians to go along with this issue.
With Endo talked to, we will be one step closer to being finished with the Summons issue.
And with that, I'm going to bed. Good night everyone.
[X] Plan MPQ Version 2
[X] As The Director Wills: Work on your own priority research (jutsu updates)
-[X] Talk to the ex-Kiri clans about modernizing Hoshi jutsu.
--[X] Focus on genjutsu.
--[X] Focus on taijutsu; will predominantly involve the Wakita.
[X] Per the Council's Request: Work on the research suggested by your fellow council members.
-[X] Aid in the industrialization of Bear Country.
--[X] Survey the land for untapped resources.
--[X] Survey the land for ideal industrial sites.
[X] Standard Operation: Conduct other business with the research center.
-[X] Ask the Meteor questions. You have time for three topics per action spent; any number higher than a multiple of three will round up (ex. four questions will cost two actions).
--[X] Ask about its connection to the Meteor Trained.
--[X] Ask about the potential capabilities of Mystical Peacock.
-[X] Ask how to deal with Meteor Sickness.
[X] Looking to the Future: Improve the Research Center and its capabilities.
-[X] Invest in computers and computer networks for the Hoshigakure Research Center. This will improve the Facilities of all departments, increasing the speed at which they produce results and opening new opportunities to explore.
Biology:
[X] Leave Biology as-is.
Chakra Studies:
[X] Change Chakra Studies' priorities.
-[X] Begin preparations for an expedition to Uzushiogakure.
Engineering:
[X] Leave Engineering as-is.
[X] Hone yourself. You are a shinobi of Hoshigakure, you cannot slack in your abilities.
-[X] Brush up on taijutsu (+15 bonus)
[X] Take time for yourself. This is a lot, and you have to stay grounded in order to do it right
[X] Learn more about Kumori, envoy(?) of the Spiders.
[X] Collaborate with a council member on a particular duty.
-[X] Contract Master Kasei Honjo, in meeting with the Daimyo and his ministers.
[X] Sign the Spider Contract and become a summoner.
Switched out founding the Earth Science Department for computers and changed ask the Meteor about it's origins to asking it how to deal with Meteor Sickness. The rest of the plan is the same.
The best way to handle the meteor at this point would be to question it and compare note with the summons to get a read on it. Asking about its origins might give insight on what the meteors pov in this is. chakra animals experiments might help too in diagnosing its chakra's effect further.
We should definitely also find time to go through clan records to map out latent bloodlines(oh this dude might have had some kids maybe this bloodline is still genetically around).
