Allright! New update, and we apparently got all of australia and a continent worth of resources. Which is enough to fund 3 assests(Four with our dear Commander at the helm), which is honestly just a statement to how hard the invasion was for humanity. Now, as for the actual content
You kept reading, and taking notes. The burst of energy captured by Prism-lenses from the Catalog indicates, as far as the specialists can spare, the activation of a lot of high powered equipment at a long distance in the galactic north. Enough power to crush Earth easily, some speculate.
The reaction of the Council (and why the reports you are reading are confidential) make far more sense…
However, the burst showed far more than that. It was discovered through Prism-lenses watching the sky that it traveled through a network of "faults" or "lines" adjacent to reality, much like Dreamlands are. Already, you heard that Speaker Arona Rewiti was able to modify an experimental machine build to reproduce some of the Singularities abilities to produce a similar pulse and access those "lines", theoretically allowing interstellar travel through…To be honest, you understand about half the words written, but you can understand the potential of this : finally reaching the Catalog, and striking it down.
Now, here the ftl sensor's come into play, and i think it reveals something pretty important, we might not have found out otherwise.
Enough power to crush Earth easily, some speculate.
That is pretty bad, since it seems to indicate that the Catalog is creating a kind of super weapon to crack the earth. Obviously, that's pretty bad, majorly bad. I think it's easy to get into that track of we have to improve earth, but things are currently stable, if very hard life. I think we need to focus a ton of getting actual combat worthy spaceships out and soon.
We don't want the Catalog, if it's building a world cracking-type weapon, to have possible access to be able to fire that.
State of Earth : Most of the planet is inhibited and lifeless, human habitation is mostly made up of Cities-States and nomads band of Ranchers herding Others. Others and engineered organisms have begun recolonizing Earth, being robust enough to resist Red Water poisoning.
Virtually every form of liquid water on Earth is contaminated by Red Water, and demands costly purification to be drinkable. Most drunk water comes from extracted polar ice, which is then recycled.
Builders' attacks are a constant threat, not able to threaten human civilization but causing damages, hindering reconstruction efforts and causing the deaths of innocents.
Interestingly, there's allready engineered organisms that are re-colonizing the earth. The main issue seems to be that of water, rather then food at the moment, and the Builders.
[] Dreamlands Mass Budding (Environment Management, Anomalous) [0/6]
From the basis of the empirical rituals used by the tamers to control the development and spread of the Dreamlands, members of the Academy of Xenonaturalism have proposed a theoretical system to cause an accelerated reproduction of the Dreamlands.
Controlled, a way to help Earth's reconstruction and industries.
Uncontrolled, a way to twist the conditions on a massive scale.
Accelate Dreamlands-related reconstruction and help industries.
Potential for weaponry and accidents.
The industry help here seems massive. Will allow us to get more funds and fund the Military High Command more directly. That being said,
[] Elysium-class Dreamlands (Anomalous)(Environment Management) : A long-sought dream, a Dreamland able to maintain living conditions for human beings in perpetuity. For now, the Dreamlands able to do such feats seem to need a major amount of energy, consuming at least the output of a small nuclear reactor inside them, but can provide heat, pressure and gravity in a wooden cabane put on the moon.
When we picked the dreamlands, they were noted as consuming something unknow right? I'm gonna guess the ranchers and Xenonaturalism narrowed that down to energy(electricit?), either way it's a ton of power it needs. There might be a problem here in that, Earth might not have the Nuclear reactors to truly feed a mass dreamland budding, and i don't think we can easily remove them if that's done?
@OldShadow is the power consumtion thing correct here? It might be wiser to do battery tech for the singularities first here, before we start doing dreamland. Since, dreamlands might need to be connected to Power Generators, and given most of Earth is not inhabitated, that means properly set up power-lines, and capable of bearing that power might not exist to feed this research idea yet.
[] Zvanov-Wang Purification Protocols (Environment Management) [0/25]
Despite years of study, very little is known of Red Water. It seems to simply exist and spread in water, and modify the properties of individual water molecules without visibles modification of their physical structures.
The only way currently known to purify Red Water demands both limited SIngularity-derived materials, and enormous amounts of energy, demanding dedicated nuclear reactors for their function.
However, a laboratory has recently had viable success through the use of intense radiations modulated through Prism-lenses in purifying Red Water, a methodology that, if developed, would greatly simplify water purification.
Some…reckless officers have already proposed to modify nuclear missiles to litteray nuke the Red Water out of Earth.
Develop sustainable, radiation-based Red Water's purification system. Unlock Purification Nuclear Missiles. ???
Hmmm. I think we are going to want this. Water is one of the biggest issues. The cost is massive, with the Academy taking up to 13 turn just researching it. And looking at the list of things, i'm unsure if there's anything that's going to help narrow it down. Honestly, this might be one of those things where we just have to bite the bullet and research it slow and steadily.
After we've aquired another eviorment assest though, like the Journal. The Academy with their anomalous specality is kinda needed on almost everything else. But this is a good long-term goal.
[] Spaceport Design (Voidcraft) [0/8]
According to the Astra team, before humanity can truly explore space, use the resources of the Solar System to help the Reconstruction and pursue the Catalog, a space station large enough to build spacecraft without the constant issues caused by gravity must be designed.
Unlock starbase and spaceport building.
[] Workhorse-class Shuttle (Voidcraft) [0/8]
Alternatively, designing a polyvalent shuttle able to leave the atmosphere, to construct space infrastructure, perform space-mining and bring asteroids around Earth to mine them out.
And of course, bring water from comets.
Unlock proto-construction ship
The spaceport is noted as being needed to create spacecraft without issues, and to truly explore space. The proto-ship would make getting water and minerals more easy. I'm leaning towards the Shuttle that being said
@OldShadow is Astra Team spesifically recommending the Spaceport first, or is it for both. Since the Astra is only stamped on the Spaceport Design action.
[] Power Crystals Formation (Anomalous, Particules) [0/8]
Singularities are known to form crystalline structure in their living places and sometimes carry the crystals inside their cloud-like structure.
According to the insights learned by Speaker Rewiti, those crystals are actually a form of batteries, used by the Singularities when they cannot perform some actions without "over tiring" themselves.
With some time and experimentation, it should be possible to reproduce this ability and store a great amount of energy in artificial crystals. The main hurdle would be to find a way to produce the crystals without the presence of Singularities or bankrupting the Council.
High-capacity energy storage unlocked
Yeah, i think getting these would be really helpfull. Espesically, in conjecture with the dreamlands budding, and for building spaceships.
[] Singularity Integrity Field (Anomalous, Field Manipulation) [0/14]
A Singularity is not made of matter, like humans, but of energy, the lighting filling the cloud-like form are the real "body" of the Singularities.
Their existence and ability to physically interact with matter come from a field they generate around them, the "cloud".
The potential of reproducing such a field would provide armor able to endure Builder's rays, and help maintain the integrity of our infrastructures.
First tier of anomalous shield and integrity field.
Expensive, but required for fighting the Catalog, hopefully the singularity bound project might reduce this.
[] Faultines Algorithms (Computing) [0/8]
The faultlines in reality through which traveled the power of the Catalog open to us the opportunity to travel faster than the speed of light like the Singularities, and finally strike down this heartless monster.
However, we should probably study those faultlines and determine the rules governing them before trying to use…
Hyperlines Theory developed.
I think, we're going to want to start cracking this one turn one. We don't got any fitting assest for it, so i think throwing the Order of the Bird Crystal at it, so it will be finished around the same time we finish spaceport and shuttles with the Astra team would be good.
[] Bioengineered Crops (Biology) [0/8]
Through decades of thankless labors, naturalists and farmers were able to select plants able to grow and survive beyond the sealed environment of our greenhouses. This is why algaes plantations and bamboo forests can now be spread and used.
We could go further, with newly developed tools allowing to directly modify the genetic code of living beings, it may be possible to allow trees, cereals and many others to spread beyond fortified vaults and greenhouses. And maybe, to actually be able to eat something grown in soil.
Enhance agricultural production, vegetables can be spread in contaminated environment.
This is decent, but the food situation, from my reading here seems to actually be stable at the moment. I don't think this is required right now. And we allready have the technology for off-world food producting, for our spaceports. I think we wanna wait with doing this, and focus more on getting proper spacetech.
Water and the Catalog with the potential earth-cracker is the bigger issue at the moment.
[] Prism-light Manufacturing (Industry, Anomalous) [0/8]
The Prisms Forests make powerful weapons, allowing our soldiers to fire rays of burning light able to damage even the Builders.
Such rays could have others use, potentially allowing us to manufacture far more precisely and efficiently .
Prism-rays manufacturing developed, increasing production. Unlock more advanced production.
Industry and weapon develop heavy, with more advanced production. I think we're going to want to pick this one up.
[] Bounding Singularities (Field Manipulation, Anomalous) [0/2]
Singularities are some of the most powerful types of Others, able to break the law of physics with ease.
They are also some of the rarest, less understandable Others. There are less than a thousand, less than 20 new Singularities have appeared since the Invasion, and less than a 100 human beings can currently reliably communicate with them. They disappear for years, and act according to alien logic.
Still, we have learned much about them, we know they are made of raw energy contained in a field, that even they can become exhausted, and that even they may die, when their field is broken and their energy dissolves like salt in water.
And we have learned that the spirit of a human can bound with the mind of a Singularity.
People able to bound are hard to find, and hard to train, but having more will be useful both for research and society in general.
Increase number of Singularities-bounded humans, with benefices for the Forward Defence Research Division and wider humanity.
This seems like an obvious choice for the speaker. Literal one-turn project, and i don't see any issues with doing this project. We allready got singularity-bound human. And this will hopefully help us with our field and particles research. Also, most of our high end materials are noted as being singularity crafted, so this got industrial prospects as well-.
[] Test Drive (Unknown Difficulties)
We have a prototype of FTL drive, we have shuttles able to set-up bases on Mars and reach the Outer Solar System.
More importantly, we have people ready to risk everything in the name of helping humanity reach the Catalog, ready to test with their own lives this new technology.
FTL Test Drive
[] Breach the Silvers Cities (Unknown Difficulties)
For more than a hundred years, the silver cities have been put under quarantine, explorations of those remnants a tertiary priority before the need to eliminate the Builders, ensure human livelihood and rebuild Earth.
It is perhaps time to change this.
Send an expedition to the silver cities
We wanna do the proto-type shuttle first probaly, and the hyperline theory before we do this, but we shouldn't wait too long for this.
Now, i'm gonna make a proto-plan, but i think waiting on how the specalities we double up on work, so we can get a answer for that would be good.
[] Plan: The one place not corrupted by the Other's
-[] Order of the Bird of Crystal
--[] Faultines Algorithms (Computing) [0/8]
-[] Astra Designing Team
--[] Workhorse-class Shuttle (Voidcraft) [0/8]
-[] Academy of Xenonaturalism
-- [] Prism-light Manufacturing (Industry, Anomalous) [0/8]
-[] Speaker Arona Rewiti, Singularity-bound
--[] Bounding Singularities (Field Manipulation, Anomalous) [0/2]
So. The Shuttle is my first thought, but depending on OldShadow's respeonce to the Astra team i might change that up. I'm doing the Faultlines with the Order, since we need to get that done, and there wasn't any statecraft research possible. Which like, really thought it was, given we had a statecraft assest and it was spesifically the Titantic order as well. Was very much wrong on that front.
the Academy on Prism-Light. Thanks to their trait, it will count as a specality, and i think getting more industry, which is also one of the main-problems with Earth at the moment, is going to be really helpfull. It's also going to be the source for our weapon productions, which most likely is going to include the spaceship stuff.
The Bounding singularities, because it just seems like the perfect project for the Speaker.
