KnightDisciple
Love God. Do Right. Fear No Man.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
[X] Plan Alfa
Repensum est Canicula - XCOM Empire Builder Quest
- Thread starter Kara Valmeyjar
- Start date
- Council
- [x] Project: Aegis
- [x] Project: Ichor
- [x] Project: Artemis
- [x] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[x] Military
- [x] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [x] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [x] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
- [x]Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage.
[x] Civilian
- [x] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[x] Intel
- [x] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
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Shouldn't negotiations with Switzerland and Israel be under Diplomacy instead of Military?
"Aggressive negotiations."
[X] Research
- [X] Project: Aegis
- [X] Project: Ichor
- [X] Project: Artemis
- [X] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[X] Military
- [X] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [X] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [X] Continue alien interrogations and root out the alien Remnants wherever they're hiding.
[X] Diplomacy
- [X] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage. Secondary objective is to ask them to consider joining the Earth Alliance.
[X] Civilian
- [X] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[X] Intel
- [X] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
- [X] Project: Aegis
- [X] Project: Ichor
- [X] Project: Artemis
- [X] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[X] Military
- [X] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [X] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [X] Continue alien interrogations and root out the alien Remnants wherever they're hiding.
[X] Diplomacy
- [X] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage. Secondary objective is to ask them to consider joining the Earth Alliance.
[X] Civilian
- [X] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[X] Intel
- [X] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
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Ah, yes. This is better. Thank you.
[x] Research
- [x] Project: Aegis
- [x] Project: Ichor
- [x] Project: Artemis
- [x] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[x] Military
- [x] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [x] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [x] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
[x] Diplomacy
- [x] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage. Secondary objective is to ask them to consider joining the Earth Alliance.
[x] Civilian
- [x] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[x] Intel
- [x] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
Also, I'll eat my hat if this "Unknown OP force" isn't EXALT.
[x] Research
- [x] Project: Aegis
- [x] Project: Ichor
- [x] Project: Artemis
- [x] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[x] Military
- [x] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [x] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [x] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
[x] Diplomacy
- [x] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage. Secondary objective is to ask them to consider joining the Earth Alliance.
[x] Civilian
- [x] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[x] Intel
- [x] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
Also, I'll eat my hat if this "Unknown OP force" isn't EXALT.
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Neutral and Distrustful respectively.
Yes, that's where Project Manpower came from.
The Bird
tEM IS GUD...RITER!
- Location
- In that den of villains and scum, OKLAHOMA
Right, here's another plan. General goal is to automate a few things that way we can focus on bigger issues.
[x] Research
- [x] Project: Aegis
- [x] Project: Ichor
- [x] Project: Artemis
- [x] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
-[X] Project Deucalion: A simple AI dedicated towards aiding engineers and scientists
[x] Military
- [x] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [x] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [x] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
[x] Civilian
- [x] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[x] Intel
- [x] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
[x] Research
- [x] Project: Aegis
- [x] Project: Ichor
- [x] Project: Artemis
- [x] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
-[X] Project Deucalion: A simple AI dedicated towards aiding engineers and scientists
[x] Military
- [x] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [x] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [x] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
[x] Civilian
- [x] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[x] Intel
- [x] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
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Would Jacobplm's write-in make scanning for UFO activity automatic as he intends?
[X] Alfa
He has the diplomatic action in the Military Slot.
Well, he should fix that, but it's a minor error that doesn't change the intent of the vote much.
I have another question. The nuclear plant thing. If the engineers knew they weren't qualified to do this, why didn't they just tell us after they figured that out? They had to have known in a week or so. I think that's the problem with giving a set number of actions that have to be obeyed word for word. Sometimes the end result seems a bit arbitrary. Like, why wouldn't the EA switch over to R and D the minute they figured that out? It couldn't have taken a month for all of the engineers they tried to decide they couldn't do it.
Kara Valmeyjar
SB tourist
- Location
- Fólkvangr
- Pronouns
- They/She
Scanning is already automatic, or did you think the XCOM base AI just nags you when the Council wants to skype?
Cause you guys made it a Civilian Action instead of a Research one.
It appears that you're research project was vetoed.
I've made some final adjustments to Plan Chriswriter
I'm almost sorry to say that I have nothing to nitpick or otherwise add to the existing plan. Almost.
[X] Research
- [X] Project: Aegis
- [X] Project: Ichor
- [X] Project: Artemis
- [X] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[X] Military
- [X] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [X] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [X] Continue alien interrogations and root out the alien Remnants wherever they're hiding.
[X] Diplomacy
- [X] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage. Secondary objective is to ask them to consider joining the Earth Alliance.
[X] Civilian
- [X] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[X] Intel
- [X] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
[X] Research
- [X] Project: Aegis
- [X] Project: Ichor
- [X] Project: Artemis
- [X] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[X] Military
- [X] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [X] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [X] Continue alien interrogations and root out the alien Remnants wherever they're hiding.
[X] Diplomacy
- [X] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage. Secondary objective is to ask them to consider joining the Earth Alliance.
[X] Civilian
- [X] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[X] Intel
- [X] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
You still need to make the following adjustment so it isn't counted as a separate plan:
Turn 3 Vote Count
Plan A:
[] Research
- [] Project: Aegis
- [] Project: Ichor
- [] Project: Artemis
- [] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[] Military
- [] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
- [] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage.
[] Civilian
- [] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[] Intel
- [] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
- [] Project: Aegis
- [] Project: Ichor
- [] Project: Artemis
- [] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[] Military
- [] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
- [] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage.
[] Civilian
- [] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[] Intel
- [] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
D.D. Spectator, KnightDisciple,
Plan B:
[] Research
- [] Project: Aegis
- [] Project: Ichor
- [] Project: Artemis
- [] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[] Military
- [] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [] Continue alien interrogations and root out the alien Remnants wherever they're hiding.
[] Diplomacy
- [] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage. Secondary objective is to ask them to consider joining the Earth Alliance.
[] Civilian
- [] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[] Intel
- [] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
- [] Project: Aegis
- [] Project: Ichor
- [] Project: Artemis
- [] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[] Military
- [] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [] Continue alien interrogations and root out the alien Remnants wherever they're hiding.
[] Diplomacy
- [] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage. Secondary objective is to ask them to consider joining the Earth Alliance.
[] Civilian
- [] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[] Intel
- [] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
Chriswriter90, cpj1227,
Plan C:
[] Research
- [] Project: Aegis
- [] Project: Ichor
- [] Project: Artemis
- [] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[] Military
- [] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
[] Diplomacy
- [] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage. Secondary objective is to ask them to consider joining the Earth Alliance.
[] Civilian
- [] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[] Intel
- [] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
- [] Project: Aegis
- [] Project: Ichor
- [] Project: Artemis
- [] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
[] Military
- [] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
[] Diplomacy
- [] Attempt to establish relations with Switzerland and Israel. Primary objective is to gain information and safe passage. Secondary objective is to ask them to consider joining the Earth Alliance.
[] Civilian
- [] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[] Intel
- [] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
Mulisa, Alfa290,
Plan D:
[] Research
- [] Project: Aegis
- [] Project: Ichor
- [] Project: Artemis
- [] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
-[] Project Deucalion: A simple AI dedicated towards aiding engineers and scientists
[] Military
- [] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
[] Civilian
- [] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[] Intel
- [] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
- [] Project: Aegis
- [] Project: Ichor
- [] Project: Artemis
- [] Fusion Reactor (Project: Helios)
-[] Project Deucalion: A simple AI dedicated towards aiding engineers and scientists
[] Military
- [] Reinforce FOBs under duress and threat of bandits.
- [] Continue WMD retrieval missions. Attempt to trade with those entrenched at sites if outright recovery is not feasible. Food, water, and clothing for information, safe passage, and anything thing else they are willing to part with.
- [] Scan for activity and continue alien interrogations.
[] Civilian
- [] Continue Reconstruction efforts in EA nations. Wherever possible, divert some prefabricated structures to the refuge camps for the displaced at the borders and around the better defended FOBs. Look into providing basic equipment to allow refuges to grow food, build supplies, or provide services. This is to reduce the strain on EA resources and because idle hands make mischief.
[] Intel
- [] Identify the unknown Op For that has been acquiring WMDs as well as major bandit groups to target for destruction.
Jacobplm,
Plans A, B, and C are more or less identical with only the specific wording different. GrayKnight can start on the update at his leisure.
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Kara Valmeyjar
SB tourist
- Location
- Fólkvangr
- Pronouns
- They/She
So they are. I'll likely have an update ready for you sometime the week after next. Thank you for counting the votes, Chris.
I voted for Alfa, didn't count that. Not that it matters, really.
Kara Valmeyjar
SB tourist
- Location
- Fólkvangr
- Pronouns
- They/She
So since I'm at least one of you is still wondering how the complete infestation of Japan by Chryssalids worked and what it means to you, allow me to shed some light on what happened.
The Fall of Japan happened just after XCOM successfully executed Operation Slingshot, likely as a retaliation strike. The Ethereals swarmed over the islands with dozens of UFOs that dropped hundreds of drop pods containing chryssalids into Japan's megalopolises and then kept the air space over those sites hotly contested, keeping XCOM and Council Nations from deploying containment teams and disrupting attempts by the JSDF from rallying their troops. By the time the UFOs were driven off the chryssalid infestation was too great to be expunged and Japan was declared lost. The council evacuated as many people as they could, mostly from towns and villages that were far enough away, but the vast majority of the population died.
To put into game turns, it was essentially a mega-event caused by a string of bad rolls that evened out with some moderate successes after that kept the mega-event somewhat constrained to one region. These kinda mega-events are quite rare and will likely only happen once in every twenty turns or so, if at all.
The Fall of Japan happened just after XCOM successfully executed Operation Slingshot, likely as a retaliation strike. The Ethereals swarmed over the islands with dozens of UFOs that dropped hundreds of drop pods containing chryssalids into Japan's megalopolises and then kept the air space over those sites hotly contested, keeping XCOM and Council Nations from deploying containment teams and disrupting attempts by the JSDF from rallying their troops. By the time the UFOs were driven off the chryssalid infestation was too great to be expunged and Japan was declared lost. The council evacuated as many people as they could, mostly from towns and villages that were far enough away, but the vast majority of the population died.
To put into game turns, it was essentially a mega-event caused by a string of bad rolls that evened out with some moderate successes after that kept the mega-event somewhat constrained to one region. These kinda mega-events are quite rare and will likely only happen once in every twenty turns or so, if at all.
Mgunh1
Not an AI, honest!
- Location
- Northern Luna Base, Module 5, Sublevel 15