Digging for Nations in the Desert (No SV, You are a Micronation in the End of the World)

[X]Plan: Patent Pending
-[X]Balance the Powers: You know for a damn certain fact that there is going to be a war coming your way, and now is the time to see if you can't stop these idiots from killing themselves over little old you. (Cost 3 Control)
-[X]Offer Humanitarian Observers: The UN Observers are here. Time to give them the Grand Tour (Cost 2 Control)
-[X]Finding Common Ground: You want to find some nations that will not kill you given the chance.(Cost 3 Control)
-[X]That One Security Mission: So you have a simple mission, go to China and Protect a Hong Kong national that is trying to escape. What can go wrong? (Cost 4 Control)
-[X]THIS ENDS NOW! (Egypt): You are not in the mood for a pisspoor neighbor, run by idiots! You are going to end this civil war, and then you are going to get drunk. (Cost 4 Control)
-[X]THIS ENDS NOW! (Sudan!): You are not in the mood for a pisspoor neighbor, run by idiots! You are going to end this civil war, and then you are going to get drunk.(Cost 4 Control)
-[X]Peacekeeping the Peacekeepers: You don't trust the Americans. So you're going to keep their peacekeeping operations to your standards. (Cost 7 Control)
-[X]Dissuading an Invasion (Russia) So…You are going to invade your little home with that? Fuck em, let them come, let them die! (Cost 10 Control)
-[X]Dissuading and Invasion (China): Hi China… Bye China! Hope the Door doesn't kick your ass on the way out! (Cost 10 Control)
-[X]A True Hospital?: You need to build a building that can be a real hospital for the men? (Cost 9 Control)
-[X]Census Time: You need a census of who actually lives here? (Cost 2 Control)
-[X]Keep Developing Sustenance Agriculture: Well the Desert isn't the best place to farm, but it is a start? (Cost 5 Control)
-[X]Digging Deeper: You need to find out if there is a way to get to that oil without poisoning one of the largest sources of fresh water on the planet. (Cost 5 Control)
--[X]To be clear we're aborting if this looks like it'll fuck up the water, right? That is absolutely the priority here
-[X]Land Development and other signs of Civilization: Maybe you can make infrastructure, and roads that will make things. (Cost 1 Control)
-[X]Design a New Gun: You want a new gun designed by you. Perhaps one that can stand up to the test of time. (Cost 2 Control)
--[X]Do rocket launchers count as a gun? It's kinda like a really big gun, right?
-[X]Copy another Design: When they say that you were mad, well they do say that plagiarism is the (Cost 1 Control)
--[X] We have a bunch of rifles and ammo, presumably whatever type it is is common around here, and worth understanding. If our neighbors are gonna start shit with us even after our attempts at putting out those fires we are going to see a lot more of those guns.
-[X]Create something New(Military): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]Something to shoot down enemy aircraft/missiles. We've got the Steves on a fancy computer, maybe it can give us firing solutions, but either way if the Second World decides to bomb us into the stone age I'd like to have some recourse.
-[X]Create something new (Agriculture): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X] We've got our work cut out for us trying to reshape the desert, even with all that water. Something to improve the feasibility of that.
-[X]Create something New(Industry) Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]Try to improve our digging/extraction abilities. We've got water to surface, that oil to extract, and even something below that? This is a toolset we are gonna use a lot.
-[X]Science the Shit out of Something: Who said that science was something that would be the death of you. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]If we're pumping up water, and eventually oil, could we build down as well as up?
-[X]Building a Chip Factory: The Boys at Apple need some microprocessors. You can build them a place where they can make some. (Cost 5 Control)
-[X]Apple Computers, Mercenary Edition: You are going to ask those boys to do something incredible, make a PC for military use, that can survive anything. Hope that works.(Cost 10 Control)
-[X] Li Mei - (RP)
--[X]See if we have any good generals around. Organizing a mercenary team for a job is one thing, coordinating thousands for a single war is perhaps another.
--[X]Hang out with Mike and Dave, they're clearly resourceful guys who are worth picking the brains of. Try to get a feel for how everyone's doing while we're at it.
--[X]What's all this about ominous stuff below us? Someone has to know what's going on, and it's better to find out before we dig it up.

Total cost: 99/100
The cost might sound risky until you remember that 69 of our Control is being spent on Military/R&D actions, which our hefty bonuses insulate us from losses on.
Going to edit in some thoughts, as usual critique welcome.

EDIT: Going heavy on Military and R&D since as far as I can see we just... don't fail those right now. (The name is poking at the latter as the plan's defining feature, since Outer Heaven going heavy military is nothing new.) The turn's other priorities are split between trying to develop the nation and trying to stave off/survive war. Didn't go for skyscrapers because I'm not sure they'd survive a conflict and the hospital would be more urgent in that case (and not irrelevant even in relative peace, with as much mercenary business as we do).
Hoping talking to the Soviets in conjunction with everything else we're doing will help get them off our backs. EDIT #2: Okay given the whole "irrefutable proof they're trying to kill us" thing I'm not sure anything we can do will calm them down. Replacing it with going looking for friends elsewhere.
Lots of military tech, mostly with a mind for making things less bad if we do plunge headfirst into a war. Not sure our flex slot should be spent on building downward rather than more military stuff, but I'm hoping that it'll help us catch up after doing, frankly, not a lot of infrastructure this turn. Also if our buildings are underground maybe that'll be more defensible? A bit optimistic, admittedly.
 
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[X]You know, when people try to kill me, they don't tend to gloat about their Rep.
You have irrefutable proof that the USSR, The United States and China, want to murder you, and have deeply affected their reputation.

also, you can now tell them that you will only send one man to kill them all.
 
You have irrefutable proof that the USSR, The United States and China, want to murder you, and have deeply affected their reputation.

also, you can now tell them that you will only send one man to kill them all.
Oh hell...
The CIA are NOT HAPPPY with us. And to be honest, the rest of the US are probably not happy with them either.😅
 
??? on Smiths ghosts
"What do we know about Smith's Ghosts?"
"Well, besides their specialty, their relationship with the queensguard, and them settling down with the Legendary Merc? Not much."
"So she has gotten infiltration specialists?"
"Skilled ones too, especially when you consider how long they survived as a group with such limited gear and numbers, while chased by the Queensguard."
"ah, weren't they the ones that are known for their airdrops right?"
"Yep. Built for speed and mobility, to better try and catch the ghosts. Which has led so some impressive escapes, albeit facilitated by the Queensguard, wanting their leader, alias James Smith, alive."
"So, the Queensguard's doctrine was built around trying to catch him?"
"Likely, and the fact they hadn't caught him speaks volumes of his skills. I mean, massively outnumbered, outgunned, and very much lacking the same network, he still managed to evade her for a sizable amount of time, time in which he needed to take contracts to earn money for living expenses."
"And the spooks messed up and gave ironclad evidence that may lead him to be sent in... To make matters worse, anywhere he is deployed may find an assault by the Queensguard considering their leaders proclivities."
 
In fact, what possible uses are there for them in a warzone?"
Advanced mapping, SDR assisted coms, encryption applications, handling data and logistics, and etc.
The big thing is being able to hook it up to a decently good radio that can support a decent connection bandwidth.
 
[X]Plan: Patent Pending

I guess this is the go big or go home BOOM moment of the quest huh?
I figured we would get there at some point but not this quickly.
 
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Hello. I have a question.

Can we resolve everything peacefully?

P.S.
I feel some joy that I'll write the first part myself.

Edit - [X]Plan: Patent Pending
 
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Hello. I have a question.

Can we resolve everything peacefully?
As far as I can tell this is the most peaceful option. Like, we're going to go end our neighbors' civil wars, which should leave those situations in a more favorable state for us. The military interventions at Russia/China are described as "Dissuading an Invasion", plus the "Balance the Powers" social option.

Aside from our misc. science option I have made most of the turn's other decisions on the specific premise that we're about to go to war, but that's in light of it apparently being rolled for. I assume that doing well on our turn will help sway the outcome, but we still might get Magoose Diced into a heavy conflict.
 
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    [X]Plan: Patent Pending
    -[X]Balance the Powers: You know for a damn certain fact that there is going to be a war coming your way, and now is the time to see if you can't stop these idiots from killing themselves over little old you. (Cost 3 Control)
    -[X]Offer Humanitarian Observers: The UN Observers are here. Time to give them the Grand Tour (Cost 2 Control)
    -[X]Finding Common Ground: You want to find some nations that will not kill you given the chance.(Cost 3 Control)
    -[X]That One Security Mission: So you have a simple mission, go to China and Protect a Hong Kong national that is trying to escape. What can go wrong? (Cost 4 Control)
    -[X]THIS ENDS NOW! (Egypt): You are not in the mood for a pisspoor neighbor, run by idiots! You are going to end this civil war, and then you are going to get drunk. (Cost 4 Control)
    -[X]THIS ENDS NOW! (Sudan!): You are not in the mood for a pisspoor neighbor, run by idiots! You are going to end this civil war, and then you are going to get drunk.(Cost 4 Control)
    -[X]Peacekeeping the Peacekeepers: You don't trust the Americans. So you're going to keep their peacekeeping operations to your standards. (Cost 7 Control)
    -[X]Dissuading an Invasion (Russia) So…You are going to invade your little home with that? Fuck em, let them come, let them die! (Cost 10 Control)
    -[X]Dissuading and Invasion (China): Hi China… Bye China! Hope the Door doesn't kick your ass on the way out! (Cost 10 Control)
    -[X]A True Hospital?: You need to build a building that can be a real hospital for the men? (Cost 9 Control)
    -[X]Census Time: You need a census of who actually lives here? (Cost 2 Control)
    -[X]Keep Developing Sustenance Agriculture: Well the Desert isn't the best place to farm, but it is a start? (Cost 5 Control)
    -[X]Digging Deeper: You need to find out if there is a way to get to that oil without poisoning one of the largest sources of fresh water on the planet. (Cost 5 Control)
    --[X]To be clear we're aborting if this looks like it'll fuck up the water, right? That is absolutely the priority here
    -[X]Land Development and other signs of Civilization: Maybe you can make infrastructure, and roads that will make things. (Cost 1 Control)
    -[X]Design a New Gun: You want a new gun designed by you. Perhaps one that can stand up to the test of time. (Cost 2 Control)
    --[X]Do rocket launchers count as a gun? It's kinda like a really big gun, right?
    -[X]Copy another Design: When they say that you were mad, well they do say that plagiarism is the (Cost 1 Control)
    --[X] We have a bunch of rifles and ammo, presumably whatever type it is is common around here, and worth understanding. If our neighbors are gonna start shit with us even after our attempts at putting out those fires we are going to see a lot more of those guns.
    -[X]Create something New(Military): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
    --[X]Something to shoot down enemy aircraft/missiles. We've got the Steves on a fancy computer, maybe it can give us firing solutions, but either way if the Second World decides to bomb us into the stone age I'd like to have some recourse.
    -[X]Create something new (Agriculture): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
    --[X] We've got our work cut out for us trying to reshape the desert, even with all that water. Something to improve the feasibility of that.
    -[X]Create something New(Industry) Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
    --[X]Try to improve our digging/extraction abilities. We've got water to surface, that oil to extract, and even something below that? This is a toolset we are gonna use a lot.
    -[X]Science the Shit out of Something: Who said that science was something that would be the death of you. (Cost 3 Control)
    --[X]If we're pumping up water, and eventually oil, could we build down as well as up?
    -[X]Building a Chip Factory: The Boys at Apple need some microprocessors. You can build them a place where they can make some. (Cost 5 Control)
    -[X]Apple Computers, Mercenary Edition: You are going to ask those boys to do something incredible, make a PC for military use, that can survive anything. Hope that works.(Cost 10 Control)
    -[X] Li Mei - (RP)
    --[X]See if we have any good generals around. Organizing a mercenary team for a job is one thing, coordinating thousands for a single war is perhaps another.
    --[X]Hang out with Mike and Dave, they're clearly resourceful guys who are worth picking the brains of. Try to get a feel for how everyone's doing while we're at it.
    --[X]What's all this about ominous stuff below us? Someone has to know what's going on, and it's better to find out before we dig it up.
    [X]You know, when people try to kill me, they don't tend to gloat about their Rep.
 
The roll for this turn will be a lot of fun to read, I bet for once Magoose rolls bah dice in the 40-60 range
 
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