Fair enough. I'll work that stuff in within reason.
Sweet, I appreciate the changes you made.
One other point: you should know that the Jedi in Almas Academy are
much more permissive than the Coruscant Order. Specifically: they are known to accept adults for Force training (and don't always look closely at whether those adults have had previous training from other Force sects).
Their purpose on Almas is to study and protect the Sith fortress (though it is a big black blog of indestructible metal, so mostly they're 'protecting' it by keeping Sith cultists out) but it shouldn't be very difficult for our agents to 'infiltrate' the Academy. Just walk through the front door and ask to sign up.
Rewards: Phirk-alloyed armor now available for Walkers, "Shock Gauntlets" developed in highly limited quantities.
I was wondering about this, actually. Before the turn started, I asked about these 'material research' options:
Also, both of the above (and most/all of the ones already listed, including Phrik, Cortosis, Agrocite, Ionite, and Beskar) should have industrial as well as military applications. However, the 'Materials Research' action only lists a reward as 'Selected material analyzed for usage in weapons/armor'. Should industrial research be a separate action, or does it need to be a follow-up action, or can it be incorporated into the same 'Materials Research' actions?
Fine. Also yeah Materials research can be expanded. I'm not that picky about it.
Going by the results, it looks like industrial applications will need to wait for a follow-up action? I mean, phrik is rare and
really expensive, but it's not so vanishingly rare that you can't make bigger items out of it. And apparently (
per the wiki):
Phrik, while in its smelting stage, was highly malleable, and could be combined with a number of other ores, alloys, and compounds to imbue the phrik's properties with others.
So it should be possible to exploit this to expand the supply of phrik-like metals available to us.
@random_npc and I covered phrik in the (canon) Anomalous Materials Report
here:
ITEM 3: PHRIK
'Phrik' is perhaps the most promising type of Anomalous Material currently under study at this time. There is evidence that phrik (or an alloy quite like it) was used as armor and starship plating by the Fenelar race as early as four millennia ago, but Fenel was conquered by the Mandalorian Crusaders, their species driven to extinction and their technology faded to obscurity. The rediscovery of the phrik alloy occurred last year, in an isolated Weapons Research Facility run by the CIS out of the Fest system, lying between Neutral and Muun Space. Unfortunately for them, the facility's transmissions were intercepted by Kal Skirata's Omega Squad, who raided the base and seized the research and AM. Skirata's men have been sitting on it ever since, but now that we're cooperating, they've provided samples for us to examine.
Phrik is an artificial alloy with two main components. The first is phrikite, the rare ore found only on Anteevy and on the 'blood moon 'of Gromas XVI -- both in the northwest Mid Rim (in the Esuain and Perkell sectors respectively), both on the very border of Neutral Space. The second component is tydirium, another rare ore found in primarily on Fest -- which explains why the CIS research station was based there. In its pure form, the phrik alloy is astonishingly light and virtually indestructible, requiring a full order of magnitude more energy to damage or deform than even beskar. More notably, its damage-resistance seems to apply to all forms of energy equally -- kinetic, thermal, electromagnetic.
Most intriguing, however, is the alloy's unbelievable malleability: it can be alloyed with almost any other substance, and has demonstrated a tendency to assimilate properties of materials it is mixed with. One notable instance came during early experimentation, which a small sample of phrik alloy was melted and absorbed into samples of local bedrock. Preliminary scans showed no indication of the alloy, but when we tried to drill through the bedrock sample, our laboratory's high-performance drill assembly literally shattered after 1.6 seconds of attempted penetration. Potential applications of this AM beggar belief, and should enable some frankly ludicrous engineering projects.
I don't mind if the price-tag is
really high, but I'd like to do some of the crazy sci-fi research we introduced in that report.
Reward: Genemods from Force-sensitive species gathered
I'm guessing we won't get to learn which Force-sensitive genemods we have available until next turn, then? (Any hints you're willing to drop?)
7 Watcher teams died to bring you this update.
...Wait, 70% of our Watchers died, despite having a 60% chance of survival/recovery? Yikes, I guess that is where all our bad luck went for the turn.
Mostly so I could keep track of them in my head, here are the interludes for the turn:
- Foundry Mini Turn -- Thrawn examines the raid data, and HK-47 and Grievous gear up for Round #2
- Feint, Parry, Riposte -- Asajj captures the Devastation, and Jerec helps us make contact with the Chiss
- For the Republic -- the 501st gets subverted, thoroughly. Ahsoka may or may not be working for us now.
- Justice For All -- the Silencer digs up dirt on Tarkin, and Ciaran uses that vulnerable point to 'shatter' the Jedi Reform laws
- Planet of New Beginnings -- the Galactic Games comes to Taris, as does Mungo Baobab. Ciaran talks with Asajj and Padme
- An End To Savagery -- rocks fall, Maul dies. Jango arranges for Ciaran and Obi-Wan to help deal with the renegade brothers.
- Cheriss and Galvin's Excellent Extraction -- our living-crystal researcher recruits the crystal-specialist researcher. Fun times.
