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fasquardon
May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)
- Thread starter Dr. Snark
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- star wars canon what canon tsundere dice ck2 quest actions have consequences all the credits all work and no play makes ciaran a dull girl best sister capitalism ho! despairing qm teetotaller society member gotta catch 'em all insanity looting off the rails sage dice approaching spicy sheev tsundere asajj
There are no words for how much I love the itemization on this list. It is nice to have this information in one place.
fasquardon
@Dr. Snark, did you see requests #3 and #4 earlier?
One 'aside' about the balance sheet: rather than create an entire category for 'Black Sun diverted funds', I preferred to move that income into existing categories. Since the two biggest Black Sun activities were smuggling and intelligence gathering, I classified 40 credits/turn as 'Smuggling' income and 35 credits/turn as 'Information' income.
In unrelated news, can we please decide on a name for our 'Humanitarian organization'? In a quest full of awesome names, leaving it as a generic 'unnamed Humanitarian organization' feels just so wrong.
One 'aside' about the balance sheet: rather than create an entire category for 'Black Sun diverted funds', I preferred to move that income into existing categories. Since the two biggest Black Sun activities were smuggling and intelligence gathering, I classified 40 credits/turn as 'Smuggling' income and 35 credits/turn as 'Information' income.
In unrelated news, can we please decide on a name for our 'Humanitarian organization'? In a quest full of awesome names, leaving it as a generic 'unnamed Humanitarian organization' feels just so wrong.
The same applies for our new Coruscant-based 'Security Company', especially since that will be responsible for protecting any number of anti-Palpatine Senators in the near future. I gave it a bland 'Abyss Security Inc.' name, but I'd prefer to come up with something more creative.
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- Location
- Germany
Surprisingly Jedi-like.
After all the ideas and calls for action the ultimate result is always "Let's sit back and observe some more".
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Dr. Snark
Exactly As Planned...Probably
- Location
- Right where I want to be
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- He/His/Him
*Sigh* What is this, number nine now? I give up.
More seriously it's nice to have a classically creepy subordinate in play. I'll mark that as...let's call it mystery canon because whether or not he comes into play might depend on disaster rolls and such. But still have the +10.
Yeah, stole that for the front page because to be honest that's going to make my life soooooo much easier.
Forgot to bring those up. With 3 I rolled a 59 for salvage which'll get you an extra 25 credits from it. With 4...basically you could have gotten more actions with that clone unit but you would have had to deal with incoming reinforcements from the Republic.
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The only thing this plan is missing is to have Anakin's mother walk in on the lovely couple after being invited by Ciaran.
In fact, someone please do an omake involving anakin's mother.
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Dr. Snark
Exactly As Planned...Probably
- Location
- Right where I want to be
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- He/His/Him
...I'm just going to go over in a corner and cry at the fact that you people are going to the +20 on every roll at this point with all the omakes flying around...
I'm not super happy that there's been so many in such a short period of time. Not at all.
I'm not super happy that there's been so many in such a short period of time. Not at all.
We create problems, and we fix them for Profit and Galactic Prosperity.. This is all Meta Abyss Watchers.
- Location
- Asia
Hmm we seem to have a lot of duplicate assets; might be time for a reorganisation.
Also what was the deal with the creepy insects on that planet we visited? Did the insects influence the jedi hutt ?
Also what was the deal with the creepy insects on that planet we visited? Did the insects influence the jedi hutt ?
I found the missing Income! With the updated balance sheet, our total income was reduced by 70 credits per turn. Most of that was due to a reduction of our trade & investment income. I'm pretty sure the missing income item is this, from Turn 9.
On the one hand, the three-year deadline makes sense, given that Outbound Flight would soon depart for the Unknown Regions. On the other hand... that income came from a government contract.
You can read that as:
Another question for Dr. Snark about our 'Blacksite' on Kalee:
However, for our Guardians and Seekers, the Blacksite only increased the per-turn maximum. That is, rather than "2-4 recruits per turn" becoming "3-5 per turn", it become "2-5" instead. Did you intentionally change this rate differently than our other units, or was that a typo?
So, it should have expired after Turn 11, but has instead kept paying us dividends ever since.
On the one hand, the three-year deadline makes sense, given that Outbound Flight would soon depart for the Unknown Regions. On the other hand... that income came from a government contract.
You can read that as:- The Republic is ludicrously corrupt and (predictably) overpaid for the job. We're still billing them for those golden toilets. OR,
- The Republic is ludicrously incompetent and (predictably) lost track of the invoice. The accounting department still has us registered for automatic transfer of funds for services rendered, and we haven't bothered to point out the error . OR,
- The Republic is ludicrously nepotistic/cliquish, and decided to rehire the same companies for additional jobs after the Outbound Flight contract expired. Especially given our 'pressing the flesh' with Coruscant high society, it's no surprise they'd come to rely on us for other work as well. OR,
- All of the above.
Another question for Dr. Snark about our 'Blacksite' on Kalee:
Here is our current recruitment rate:
And here's the original recruitment rate for each of those unit types:
I notice that, for Kaleesh Warriors and Abyss Apprentices, our recruitment rate did increase by 1 per turn (1-2 becomes 2-3; 1-4 becomes 2-5).
However, for our Guardians and Seekers, the Blacksite only increased the per-turn maximum. That is, rather than "2-4 recruits per turn" becoming "3-5 per turn", it become "2-5" instead. Did you intentionally change this rate differently than our other units, or was that a typo?
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Dr. Snark
Exactly As Planned...Probably
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- Right where I want to be
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- He/His/Him
Whee!Here's the updated balance sheet:
EDIT: I also added a (spoilered) subsection to show the actions we took to negate the Investment income penalty. That should be useful info for the front-page as well.
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- Location
- The Air Capital
My suggestion for the Humanitarian Aid name: Panacea Redoubt or PR for short.
For the Security company, Benthic Solutions. Providing the Bottom Line in personal security, BS is the way to go.
For the Security company, Benthic Solutions. Providing the Bottom Line in personal security, BS is the way to go.
- Location
- Arcadia
Excited Proclamation: HK-47 has returned.
Hopeful Query: Perhaps the Abyss Watchers will set HK-47 to slaughter meatbags soon?
Hopeful Query: Perhaps the Abyss Watchers will set HK-47 to slaughter meatbags soon?
The insects are droch. They are parasites that feed on life force of their victims as well as each other. They mimic their host down to chemical level, and presumably not even the Force can remove them from your body. Feeding electricity into your body slows them down, but the only known cure is whatever the Tsils do with sunlight, which kills the drochs.
As the drochs get older, they morph their forms, become more intelligent and gain control over their lesser brethren. Whether or not all of these are native features or not is not clear. Beldorion once had a chef who liked to do experiments on insects, drochs included. The chef died, and Beldorion is more or less a slave of a centuries old droch, who goes in humanoid disguise.
Nam Chorios was originally set up as a dumping site for political prisoners and seeded with drochs, in hopes the prisoners would simply die out. The planet is covered by gun installations, which will shoot down any craft big enough to have shields capable of protecting drochs from sunlight. The ban on large ships landing or taking off is maintained by a local sect whom the Tsils have warned through dreams, they simply know that such must not be allowed.
The drochs are actually the cause for the Deathseed plague, which has left entire sectors of the galaxy lifeless.
If somebody spots any inaccuracies, please correct me. It's hard to summarize from the Finnish translation of the novel I have not read in years.
Akasha
The Only Truth
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- 「̛̛́́ ͏̨҉̕͏ ͏̶̴」
The Abyss Watchers have more than enough Heroic Units that constantly want to slaughter meatbags.
Instead, my dear HK-47, you will clean the corridors, read the fan mail and take care of all the paperwork. We'd have you do diplomatic work, but we have no need to declare wars at this time.
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- Asia
Wow. This makes me feel bad for the Hutt. Maybe one day we can save him from the insects. An ex jedi Hutt would certainly be useful.
- Location
- Somewhere
REEE. #Cadme4life
Don't we have enough enemies/potential threats to add another one?
Khepri14
Thus kindly I scatter...
- Location
- Following the wind
Nah. #Cadmoney4life.
Bones
Don't look behind you.
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- Behind you.
You're only tempting fate, talking like that.
Considering how stupid lucky we tend to be, no. Not at all. Besides, I rather like this one. Has... style, I suppose.
Besides, this one appears to not want us dead, but instead frozen, I think? Might give us a chance to save Ciaran if things go to hell again.
- Location
- Somewhere, probably Earth
Sort of.
He's a standard psychopath, actually. He has an obsession with finding people of 'potential' and disappearing them at their moment of glory, then "preserving" them. This can involve either killing them and doing some complex treatment to their bodies (ala Taxidermy) or by putting them into some form of stasis or another. The method is as much an artistic choice as the cultivation.
Standard psychopath who considers himself an Artist, and his people materials. A Serial Killer with Sith Lord backing, that Palps keeps around for amusement and the occasional job.
Bones
Don't look behind you.
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- Behind you.
Oh yes, he is rather cliche as far as psychopaths go, but he's refreshing change from what we've been dealing with in this quest. It'll be fun, dealing with one like him.
- Location
- Somewhere, probably Earth
Indeed. I personally look forward to SV trying to negotiate with someone who simply can't be negotiated with.
Akasha
The Only Truth
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- 「̛̛́́ ͏̨҉̕͏ ͏̶̴」
Kinky. I wonder how it'd work.
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