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Shepard Quest Mk IV, Under New Management (ME/MCU)
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1 Testing, testing, one, two, three.
2 Home again, home again, jiggety-jog
3 Upgrades, Repairs and other things
4 Death from above
5 The Calm before the Storm
6 Who Dares....
7 ....Wins?
8 The Fourth Estate
9 The Entrepreneurial Spirit
10 Laying the Foundation
11 A Warm Light for All Mankind
12 Minor Technical Difficulties
13 Preparation, the key to success
14 Of Mothers, Maturity, and First Impressions
15 Matters of Finance and Firepower
16 Of Mice and Morons
17 Of Students and Skepticism
18 A Night on the Town
19 Deals and Arrangements
20 A Foot in the Door
21 Opening Night
22 Closing the Deal
23 Breaking Ground
24 Diversification
25 Interlude: Benezia
26 Mass Production
27 At least she's not digging for shoes
28 The Celebration
29 The Letter
30 New learning and old learning
31 Roma Victor
Omake
Kelenas - The SCIENCE! of Training
Hoyr - Liara T'Soni, The Other Side of the Table
Kelenas - A Surprisingly Serious Series of Sentences
Silver sun 17 - Birth of the micro-missiles
Kelenas - The Little Intruder
First Thread
Second Thread
Third Thread
Index
1 Testing, testing, one, two, three.
2 Home again, home again, jiggety-jog
3 Upgrades, Repairs and other things
4 Death from above
5 The Calm before the Storm
6 Who Dares....
7 ....Wins?
8 The Fourth Estate
9 The Entrepreneurial Spirit
10 Laying the Foundation
11 A Warm Light for All Mankind
12 Minor Technical Difficulties
13 Preparation, the key to success
14 Of Mothers, Maturity, and First Impressions
15 Matters of Finance and Firepower
16 Of Mice and Morons
17 Of Students and Skepticism
18 A Night on the Town
19 Deals and Arrangements
20 A Foot in the Door
21 Opening Night
22 Closing the Deal
23 Breaking Ground
24 Diversification
25 Interlude: Benezia
26 Mass Production
27 At least she's not digging for shoes
28 The Celebration
29 The Letter
30 New learning and old learning
31 Roma Victor
Omake
Kelenas - The SCIENCE! of Training
Hoyr - Liara T'Soni, The Other Side of the Table
Kelenas - A Surprisingly Serious Series of Sentences
Silver sun 17 - Birth of the micro-missiles
Kelenas - The Little Intruder
Character Sheet
Rebecca "Revy" Shepard
Notable Skills:
Physics Prodigy
Engineering Prodigy
Basic Piloting (Power armor)
Basic Piloting (Aircar)
Basic Firearms proficiency
Basic Parkour
Current Corporate Assets:
Paragon Industries
CEO: Rebecca "Revy" Shepard
Research & Production
Personal Lab (+10d10 research/quarter)
-Revy Shepard (+40d10 research/quarter)
Lab I (+10d10 research/quarter)
Research Teams (2) (+10d10 research/quarter each, +5 from excellence and morale [and we didn't even need to flog them!])
Basic Research Lab I (+10 research/quarter)
Basic Research Teams (2) (+10 research/quarter each)
Prototyping Workshop (30 production/quarter)
Factory I (300 production/quarter)
Factory II (3000 production/quarter)
New Tech Tree
Tech Tree (WIP)
Security
Basic Security Measures
Perimeter Sensors
2x Security Teams (LEO)
1x Security Team (Mercenaries)
2x Security Team (Marines)
New Finances (Google Doc)
Old Finances (Google Doc)
Current Technologies
Industrial Scale AR (300/300)
Mk 1.5 Armor (200/200)
Blackboxing/FRM (100/100)
Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher (100/100)
Basic Electronic Warfare VI (150/150)
Compact Autocannon (75/75)
Basic Aerospace
Improved Black boxing/FRM
Current Inventory:
1 Mk 1.5 Armor
Landing Power Plant (1 Prototype ISAR, 150 GW)
Current Armor:
(3)MK 1.5 "Legionary"
Armament:
8 Autocannons.
3 Omnitool/blades.
6 Rocket Launchers.
4 Disposable Rocket Launchers.
5 Grenade Launchers.
5 Flamers
Propulsion:
4 Conventional thrusters assisted by eezo core
Shielding:
Kinetic Barriers
-strength comparable to Heavy Tank
Armor:
Ceramic Plating
-strength comparable to Heavy Hardsuit
Rebecca "Revy" Shepard
Notable Skills:
Physics Prodigy
Engineering Prodigy
Basic Piloting (Power armor)
Basic Piloting (Aircar)
Basic Firearms proficiency
Basic Parkour
Current Corporate Assets:
Paragon Industries
CEO: Rebecca "Revy" Shepard
Research & Production
Personal Lab (+10d10 research/quarter)
-Revy Shepard (+40d10 research/quarter)
Lab I (+10d10 research/quarter)
Research Teams (2) (+10d10 research/quarter each, +5 from excellence and morale [and we didn't even need to flog them!])
Basic Research Lab I (+10 research/quarter)
Basic Research Teams (2) (+10 research/quarter each)
Prototyping Workshop (30 production/quarter)
Factory I (300 production/quarter)
Factory II (3000 production/quarter)
New Tech Tree
Tech Tree (WIP)
Security
Basic Security Measures
Perimeter Sensors
2x Security Teams (LEO)
1x Security Team (Mercenaries)
2x Security Team (Marines)
New Finances (Google Doc)
Old Finances (Google Doc)
Current Technologies
Industrial Scale AR (300/300)
Mk 1.5 Armor (200/200)
Blackboxing/FRM (100/100)
Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher (100/100)
Basic Electronic Warfare VI (150/150)
Compact Autocannon (75/75)
Basic Aerospace
Improved Black boxing/FRM
Current Inventory:
1 Mk 1.5 Armor
Landing Power Plant (1 Prototype ISAR, 150 GW)
Current Armor:
(3)MK 1.5 "Legionary"
Armament:
8 Autocannons.
3 Omnitool/blades.
6 Rocket Launchers.
4 Disposable Rocket Launchers.
5 Grenade Launchers.
5 Flamers
Propulsion:
4 Conventional thrusters assisted by eezo core
Shielding:
Kinetic Barriers
-strength comparable to Heavy Tank
Armor:
Ceramic Plating
-strength comparable to Heavy Hardsuit
Under new management
Alright guys, I have a first story post ready, but first a few changes to the rules, and some clarifications.
Shepard's birthday is April 11, and since she celebrates her birthday in chapter 13, after taking 4 research/build actions, this shifts the time table by six months. As of my new post below, we are in the first quarter of 2172.
I'm changing taxes to a 20% income tax rather than the current system. This can be increased or reduced by moving places that have higher or lower taxes.
I'll be changing all dice rolls to use a number of d10's, rather than 1 big die. Thus, 1d20 -> 2d10, and 1d100 -> 10d10. This makes rolls more predictable and gives them a slightly higher average.
I'll probably make mistakes with continuity, ME fluff and MCU fluff. Especially the latter. Feel free to call me on it.
Regarding the Cord-Hislop deal; you get Blackboxing quickly enough that it's ready when you're finished with your arms production to the Tokyo, the N branch and HK. They'll take 500 Arc reactors per quarter. Regarding the price, I'm sorry to go against your wishes, but I have no idea what they're currently paying, so I'll just peg that at a 2.5 markup like the stuff you've been selling so far, meaning that you'll be selling your arc reactors for 125,000 Credits per unit. You will also be getting a commission of 150,000 per fighter, and each fighter takes 5 arc reactors. Had you agreed to licence them the arc reactors, rather than insist on selling them; this would have been substantially higher.
The upkeep costs for facilities were listed on a yearly basis when you purchased them, but on a quarterly in the finances sheet. I have gone with the finances sheet rules.
You have a lot of spare production capacity. Building a dakka hog takes (roughly) 3 production. After supplying HK and CHA with arc reactors, you have 2130 left, so that's 710 of those. There are 40 men to a security team, so if you outfit all of them with dakka hogs, you'll still have more than 500 spares. And that's just the first quarter with your Factory II online. Think about what you want to use this for.
The timeline is a little bit of a mess right now, but I don't think fixing it is worth it.
The research roll after the competition was Q3/2171. The last one with Auks was Q4/2171. The first one you'll make on my time will be Q1/2172, and this will also be the first time you have your full production capacity ready.
I have updated the finances sheet quite a bit, and included a very brief history of the quest so far, so if you're interested in those things, give it a look.
Alright guys, I have a first story post ready, but first a few changes to the rules, and some clarifications.
Shepard's birthday is April 11, and since she celebrates her birthday in chapter 13, after taking 4 research/build actions, this shifts the time table by six months. As of my new post below, we are in the first quarter of 2172.
I'm changing taxes to a 20% income tax rather than the current system. This can be increased or reduced by moving places that have higher or lower taxes.
I'll be changing all dice rolls to use a number of d10's, rather than 1 big die. Thus, 1d20 -> 2d10, and 1d100 -> 10d10. This makes rolls more predictable and gives them a slightly higher average.
I'll probably make mistakes with continuity, ME fluff and MCU fluff. Especially the latter. Feel free to call me on it.
Regarding the Cord-Hislop deal; you get Blackboxing quickly enough that it's ready when you're finished with your arms production to the Tokyo, the N branch and HK. They'll take 500 Arc reactors per quarter. Regarding the price, I'm sorry to go against your wishes, but I have no idea what they're currently paying, so I'll just peg that at a 2.5 markup like the stuff you've been selling so far, meaning that you'll be selling your arc reactors for 125,000 Credits per unit. You will also be getting a commission of 150,000 per fighter, and each fighter takes 5 arc reactors. Had you agreed to licence them the arc reactors, rather than insist on selling them; this would have been substantially higher.
The upkeep costs for facilities were listed on a yearly basis when you purchased them, but on a quarterly in the finances sheet. I have gone with the finances sheet rules.
You have a lot of spare production capacity. Building a dakka hog takes (roughly) 3 production. After supplying HK and CHA with arc reactors, you have 2130 left, so that's 710 of those. There are 40 men to a security team, so if you outfit all of them with dakka hogs, you'll still have more than 500 spares. And that's just the first quarter with your Factory II online. Think about what you want to use this for.
The timeline is a little bit of a mess right now, but I don't think fixing it is worth it.
The research roll after the competition was Q3/2171. The last one with Auks was Q4/2171. The first one you'll make on my time will be Q1/2172, and this will also be the first time you have your full production capacity ready.
I have updated the finances sheet quite a bit, and included a very brief history of the quest so far, so if you're interested in those things, give it a look.
Mass Production
-Research-
7d100+10=353
[X]Improved Black boxing/FRM (400/400): 8d100 +10
--Complete!
[X]Basic Research VI (288/400) *Overflow
--Not complete
[X]Basic Security VI (400) *Secondary Overflow
--Not even started
-Construction-
Factory II complete!
Landing GARDIAN towers online.
-Training-
[X]Continue Exercising
-[X]Parkour+Explore Landing+With Mom if she's interested
--Mom was not interested.
[X]Practice piloting (Legionary)+With Mom if she's interested
--Mom was interested!
Parkour 1
Power armor piloting 1
Time spent with Mom 1
-Cord-Hislop Aerospace-
[X]Agree to sell them Arc Reactors.
-[X] $/W of their previous energy source * Power of the arc reactor we sell them * 1.5 for reliability, compactness, paradigm change*... to be negotiated to the best our ability, do not drop under 1.0
--Overruled, selling them at 2.5 markup; 125,000 credits/unit
-[X] Delay until improved FRM is ready
--Not a problem, you have the HK order to fill first anyway.
[X]Agree to Research Partnership
--There was much rejoicing. They sent over the full specs on the Scimitar-class fighters, and you're having weekly holo-conferences with them.
-Other-
[X]Other: Now that the orders has been send, it's time to start building Legionary for our security teams (and mom) with lab prototype workshop since we don't need it for anything else.
--You do not presently have the funds for this. You'll be rich next quarter when the money from HK and CHA come in, though.
[X]Other: Store the kinetic barriers we got left after upgrading security teams with hardsuits to lab for researchers to use in case of emergency.
--Done!
[X]Other: Look into hiring marketing/sales people in addition to the financial gurus you already have.
--Your HR people are on it, there is quite a number of applicants, and they're getting you a shortlist soon.
-Blast from the past-
"Miss," Cortana's almost imperceptibly mechanical voice calls you out of your brief moment of amazement at what you have accomplished in so little time. You are standing in your office, looking out across the sprawling compound that is your research and production facility just outside Landing. The massive shape of the newly finished factory dominates the vista, and the sheer amount of production capability it represents would send a lesser 17 year old reeling.
"Yes, Cortana," you reply. Coding this amount of personality into what is in fact a relatively simple VI is not really messing with the ban on AI research, and it is a good challenge to keep you at your best.
"You have received an email that is rather... peculiar. It is rather close to what I believe your mother would term 'crackpottery.' If you prefer it, I can make sure you are not bothered by such correspondence in the future."
"Let me see it for now, Cortana," you say. If nothing else, it gets you back to your desk and stops you from simply standing there, savoring your own awesomeness.
The email does indeed seem rather... eccentric. If it had not been sent from a verified University of Serrice account, you are quite sure that Cortana would not even have bothered you.
Dear Miss Shepard
I am an archaeologist specializing in the Protheans, and despite my young age I have already made several important scientific contributions to the field (see attached list of Publications). I am writing to you in the hope of obtaining support for following my newest, and most promising lead into learning more about this fascinating and technologically advanced race.
Through my studies, I have discovered several clues which lead me to believe that the ruins of a Prothean house of learning may be found on the planet Altahe deep in the Attican Traverse. Because of the inherent danger involved in traveling so far into that lawless sector of space, mounting an expedition is beyond the means available to me as a junior researcher at the University.
You, as the CEO of one of the fastest rising corporations in Citadel Space, are in an unique position to appreciate and benefit from funding such a venture. The technological and scientific bounty that are doubtlessly to be found on the planet would advance your own company even further ahead of your competition. For myself, I am primarily concerned with studying Prothean culture and history, and as such would have no problem handing over the entirety of the information that would be relevant to your company.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Dr. Liara T'Soni.
Blast from the past
[ ] Ask Dr. T'Soni to come visit you on Mindoir to discuss specifics.
[ ] Tell Cortana to delete future correspondence like this.
[ ] Write-in
-Running Free-
Running is hard. On an intellectual level, you realize that sitting in front of your desk all day managing your company and doing world-shaking research is not exactly something that leaves your body in the best of shapes, but come on! You've barely been doing this for 20 minutes and already your lungs are trying to escape through your throat.
Settling down on a bench after an only partly-successful attempt to jump across it, you take a moment to catch your breath and appreciate your home city. It's a beautiful place, the tufts of blue grass coming up through the concrete, the locally built houses that are slowly replacing the colony's initial prefabs, that rather cute boy running down the street, even if he does have the nerve to not look exhausted at all.
He smiles at you as he sees you sitting there, and you desperately try to return it without showing just how fatigued your initial bout of parkour practice has left you. To your surprise he stops up, looks at you incredulously and says, "Revy?" It takes a moment to connect the dark and handsome face and that buzz cut with that the voice.
"Brian?" You reply with surprise evident. The guy from your old high school class to whom that voice belonged was a joker with the biggest 'fro anyone was ever likely to see.
"Yes," his face lights up with a grin, and is suddenly much easier to recognize. "It's been a while, haven't seen you in class since..." the grin disappears at the connection to that day. "Well, for a good long while."
"Yeah," you say, trying to force on a smile, a good of lot people died that day, "I've been busy with... other things.
"No shit," he snorts, though it's a happy snort, "being a hero and a multimillionaire's gotta be hard work."
"Yeah," you say, looking away to hide your embarrassment. "You know how it is."
"I don't, actually," he says with a grin, "but I'm trying to learn."
You look back up at him, what does he mean by that?
"I'm going to follow your example, be a hero, you know. I've been training every day since, going to sign up with the alliance, and be a hero. I don't have your brains, nobody does, but I'm thinking I can learn to fight, and I'm stubborn enough to give it everything I've got."
There's a moment of awkward silence before he speaks up again, "hey, you're running? Wanna join me on my route, there's this really nice spot just a few clicks up ahead, you can see the whole city from there. What do you say?" He asks, smiling that charming, boyish grin of his.
Running Free
[ ] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice. And you do have those two tickets to the governer's ball in a month's time. You weren't going to go, but he'd look really nice in a good tux.
[ ] Go with him now, but don't make a habit out of it. It's important to have friends, but it's no substitute for Science!
[ ] "I'm sorry, but I have this meeting with my head scientists, and I just can't put them off again."
[ ] Write-in
-Future Research-
I'm changing the rules for research slightly. You can have as many Overflow options as you like, but 50% of the overflowing effort will be wasted. Thus you should think carefully about how much effort to assign to each project.
Furthermore, as mentioned above, I'm changing the dice system, so rather than 7d100 with two of them having a +5, you have 70d10 (and two +5 bonuses) which can be assigned in units of 10.
[ ] Wrist mounted mass accelerator (50): Adding an SMG class mass accelerator to the suit with a wrist mount should be child's play, but it will take a little work.
[ ] Micro-missiles (150): After your failed negotiations during the raid, you resolved to never fail those who have been taken hostage again. This is the best solution you've been able to come up with so far- a large battery of 10mm micro missiles, slaved to a VI and capable of maneuvering and attacking a large number of targets simultaneously and with a large degree of precision. Given the size of the projectiles, you might even be able to fit them into a pistol frame, though it would have limited magazine capacity.
[ ] Repulsors (150): You know you're close, and now that you finally have proper facilities, you're sure you can finally make the breakthrough you need to build repulsors. You're sure they'll be remarkably effective as a dual purpose propulsion/weapon system if you can just figure out how to make them work. (prerequisite to Mk 2 Armor)
[ ] Basic Directed Energy Weapons (200): With the potential power production of the ISAR within reach, many traditional dictums regarding energy weapons come into question. Investigating Basic DEWs will allow you to build GARDIAN class lasers, as well as lay the foundation for both very large and very small laser weapons and other DEWs. (May be bought, 200 million credits)
[ ] Advanced Materials (150): You have some ideas for advanced alloys that would allow you to provide greater protection with much thinner armor, as well as allowing a much higher speed in the air. (prerequisite to Mk 2 Armor)
[ ] Basic Security VI (400): By installing a Security VI in your facilities, you can greatly increase your chance of detecting and stopping all forms of industrial espionage, as well as giving your security forces an edge when they're defending you facilities from more overt forms of attack. (+3 all security rolls)
[ ] Basic Research VI (288/400): Capable of handling many of the more tedious tasks involved in R&D, a Basic Research VI will help both you and your researchers conduct your work more effectively and more quickly. (+5 to all Research rolls)
[ ] Advanced Fire Control VI (400): By attaching a millimeter band radar and advanced fire control VI to your power armor, you can adapt both shoulder mounted autocannon and micro-missiles to serve as a point defense system against incoming rockets and grenades.
[ ] Improved Intelligence algorithms (400): Improving the most basic building blocks of your VIs allows you to make all of them better in everyway. (Doubles Security and Research VI bonuses, upgrades Fire Control VI to Tactical VI, which allows suit independent operation.)
[ ] Basic Ground Vehicles (200): The basics of building armored vehichles are something well-known to every species in Citadel Space, but something you have little personal experience with. Exploring the basics of drivetrains, armor schemes, turret design and other essentials will allow you to build light tanks, as well as opening the door to other more advanced projects. (May be bought, 100 million credits)
[ ] Basic Biotechnology (100): Biotechnology has never really been your forte, but with your recent discovery of having biotic potential, you now have a very good reason to look into it. Genetic Engineering, Cybernetics, and Biotic implants all have a wide variety of applications for you to explore, but you'll need a basic grounding in the subject first.
***New stuff***
[ ] Frigates (400): Naively, you'd think that building frigates is just like building very large fighters. Sadly, the need for a crew, a command station, independent Mass Relay jumps and ordinary human waste, makes building frigates rather more complicated.
[ ] Advanced Black boxing/FRM (800): Knowledge is power, guard it well. You have taken this old saying to heart, and even moderately sized intelligence agencies would have to devote non-trivial amounts of resources in order to crack your tech. The amateurs who call themselves your competitors wouldn't stand a chance of retrofitting it before you'd already made it obsolete.
-Spare time-
Splitting actions can be done freely, however you should expect a reduction in the net result based on how much you split an action. I.e. if you do parkour with mom, you'll have to find a balance between actually bonding with her, and pushing your limits.
Pick two choices:
[ ] Have L3 implant installed.
[ ] Continue Exercising
-[ ] Marial Arts
-[ ] Rock Climbing
-[ ] Parkour
[ ] Go to the Shooting range
[ ] Practice piloting (Legionary)
[ ] Practice piloting (Aircar)
[ ] Work on a College degree via the extranet
[ ] File patent for Arc Reactor in Citadel Space.
[ ] Explore Landing
[ ] Spend time with family
[ ] Write-in
-Research-
7d100+10=353
[X]Improved Black boxing/FRM (400/400): 8d100 +10
--Complete!
[X]Basic Research VI (288/400) *Overflow
--Not complete
[X]Basic Security VI (400) *Secondary Overflow
--Not even started
-Construction-
Factory II complete!
Landing GARDIAN towers online.
-Training-
[X]Continue Exercising
-[X]Parkour+Explore Landing+With Mom if she's interested
--Mom was not interested.
[X]Practice piloting (Legionary)+With Mom if she's interested
--Mom was interested!
Parkour 1
Power armor piloting 1
Time spent with Mom 1
-Cord-Hislop Aerospace-
[X]Agree to sell them Arc Reactors.
-
--Overruled, selling them at 2.5 markup; 125,000 credits/unit
-[X] Delay until improved FRM is ready
--Not a problem, you have the HK order to fill first anyway.
[X]Agree to Research Partnership
--There was much rejoicing. They sent over the full specs on the Scimitar-class fighters, and you're having weekly holo-conferences with them.
-Other-
[X]Other: Now that the orders has been send, it's time to start building Legionary for our security teams (and mom) with lab prototype workshop since we don't need it for anything else.
--You do not presently have the funds for this. You'll be rich next quarter when the money from HK and CHA come in, though.
[X]Other: Store the kinetic barriers we got left after upgrading security teams with hardsuits to lab for researchers to use in case of emergency.
--Done!
[X]Other: Look into hiring marketing/sales people in addition to the financial gurus you already have.
--Your HR people are on it, there is quite a number of applicants, and they're getting you a shortlist soon.
-Blast from the past-
"Miss," Cortana's almost imperceptibly mechanical voice calls you out of your brief moment of amazement at what you have accomplished in so little time. You are standing in your office, looking out across the sprawling compound that is your research and production facility just outside Landing. The massive shape of the newly finished factory dominates the vista, and the sheer amount of production capability it represents would send a lesser 17 year old reeling.
"Yes, Cortana," you reply. Coding this amount of personality into what is in fact a relatively simple VI is not really messing with the ban on AI research, and it is a good challenge to keep you at your best.
"You have received an email that is rather... peculiar. It is rather close to what I believe your mother would term 'crackpottery.' If you prefer it, I can make sure you are not bothered by such correspondence in the future."
"Let me see it for now, Cortana," you say. If nothing else, it gets you back to your desk and stops you from simply standing there, savoring your own awesomeness.
The email does indeed seem rather... eccentric. If it had not been sent from a verified University of Serrice account, you are quite sure that Cortana would not even have bothered you.
Dear Miss Shepard
I am an archaeologist specializing in the Protheans, and despite my young age I have already made several important scientific contributions to the field (see attached list of Publications). I am writing to you in the hope of obtaining support for following my newest, and most promising lead into learning more about this fascinating and technologically advanced race.
Through my studies, I have discovered several clues which lead me to believe that the ruins of a Prothean house of learning may be found on the planet Altahe deep in the Attican Traverse. Because of the inherent danger involved in traveling so far into that lawless sector of space, mounting an expedition is beyond the means available to me as a junior researcher at the University.
You, as the CEO of one of the fastest rising corporations in Citadel Space, are in an unique position to appreciate and benefit from funding such a venture. The technological and scientific bounty that are doubtlessly to be found on the planet would advance your own company even further ahead of your competition. For myself, I am primarily concerned with studying Prothean culture and history, and as such would have no problem handing over the entirety of the information that would be relevant to your company.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Dr. Liara T'Soni.
Blast from the past
[ ] Ask Dr. T'Soni to come visit you on Mindoir to discuss specifics.
[ ] Tell Cortana to delete future correspondence like this.
[ ] Write-in
-Running Free-
Running is hard. On an intellectual level, you realize that sitting in front of your desk all day managing your company and doing world-shaking research is not exactly something that leaves your body in the best of shapes, but come on! You've barely been doing this for 20 minutes and already your lungs are trying to escape through your throat.
Settling down on a bench after an only partly-successful attempt to jump across it, you take a moment to catch your breath and appreciate your home city. It's a beautiful place, the tufts of blue grass coming up through the concrete, the locally built houses that are slowly replacing the colony's initial prefabs, that rather cute boy running down the street, even if he does have the nerve to not look exhausted at all.
He smiles at you as he sees you sitting there, and you desperately try to return it without showing just how fatigued your initial bout of parkour practice has left you. To your surprise he stops up, looks at you incredulously and says, "Revy?" It takes a moment to connect the dark and handsome face and that buzz cut with that the voice.
"Brian?" You reply with surprise evident. The guy from your old high school class to whom that voice belonged was a joker with the biggest 'fro anyone was ever likely to see.
"Yes," his face lights up with a grin, and is suddenly much easier to recognize. "It's been a while, haven't seen you in class since..." the grin disappears at the connection to that day. "Well, for a good long while."
"Yeah," you say, trying to force on a smile, a good of lot people died that day, "I've been busy with... other things.
"No shit," he snorts, though it's a happy snort, "being a hero and a multimillionaire's gotta be hard work."
"Yeah," you say, looking away to hide your embarrassment. "You know how it is."
"I don't, actually," he says with a grin, "but I'm trying to learn."
You look back up at him, what does he mean by that?
"I'm going to follow your example, be a hero, you know. I've been training every day since, going to sign up with the alliance, and be a hero. I don't have your brains, nobody does, but I'm thinking I can learn to fight, and I'm stubborn enough to give it everything I've got."
There's a moment of awkward silence before he speaks up again, "hey, you're running? Wanna join me on my route, there's this really nice spot just a few clicks up ahead, you can see the whole city from there. What do you say?" He asks, smiling that charming, boyish grin of his.
Running Free
[ ] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice. And you do have those two tickets to the governer's ball in a month's time. You weren't going to go, but he'd look really nice in a good tux.
[ ] Go with him now, but don't make a habit out of it. It's important to have friends, but it's no substitute for Science!
[ ] "I'm sorry, but I have this meeting with my head scientists, and I just can't put them off again."
[ ] Write-in
-Future Research-
I'm changing the rules for research slightly. You can have as many Overflow options as you like, but 50% of the overflowing effort will be wasted. Thus you should think carefully about how much effort to assign to each project.
Furthermore, as mentioned above, I'm changing the dice system, so rather than 7d100 with two of them having a +5, you have 70d10 (and two +5 bonuses) which can be assigned in units of 10.
[ ] Wrist mounted mass accelerator (50): Adding an SMG class mass accelerator to the suit with a wrist mount should be child's play, but it will take a little work.
[ ] Micro-missiles (150): After your failed negotiations during the raid, you resolved to never fail those who have been taken hostage again. This is the best solution you've been able to come up with so far- a large battery of 10mm micro missiles, slaved to a VI and capable of maneuvering and attacking a large number of targets simultaneously and with a large degree of precision. Given the size of the projectiles, you might even be able to fit them into a pistol frame, though it would have limited magazine capacity.
[ ] Repulsors (150): You know you're close, and now that you finally have proper facilities, you're sure you can finally make the breakthrough you need to build repulsors. You're sure they'll be remarkably effective as a dual purpose propulsion/weapon system if you can just figure out how to make them work. (prerequisite to Mk 2 Armor)
[ ] Basic Directed Energy Weapons (200): With the potential power production of the ISAR within reach, many traditional dictums regarding energy weapons come into question. Investigating Basic DEWs will allow you to build GARDIAN class lasers, as well as lay the foundation for both very large and very small laser weapons and other DEWs. (May be bought, 200 million credits)
[ ] Advanced Materials (150): You have some ideas for advanced alloys that would allow you to provide greater protection with much thinner armor, as well as allowing a much higher speed in the air. (prerequisite to Mk 2 Armor)
[ ] Basic Security VI (400): By installing a Security VI in your facilities, you can greatly increase your chance of detecting and stopping all forms of industrial espionage, as well as giving your security forces an edge when they're defending you facilities from more overt forms of attack. (+3 all security rolls)
[ ] Basic Research VI (288/400): Capable of handling many of the more tedious tasks involved in R&D, a Basic Research VI will help both you and your researchers conduct your work more effectively and more quickly. (+5 to all Research rolls)
[ ] Advanced Fire Control VI (400): By attaching a millimeter band radar and advanced fire control VI to your power armor, you can adapt both shoulder mounted autocannon and micro-missiles to serve as a point defense system against incoming rockets and grenades.
[ ] Improved Intelligence algorithms (400): Improving the most basic building blocks of your VIs allows you to make all of them better in everyway. (Doubles Security and Research VI bonuses, upgrades Fire Control VI to Tactical VI, which allows suit independent operation.)
[ ] Basic Ground Vehicles (200): The basics of building armored vehichles are something well-known to every species in Citadel Space, but something you have little personal experience with. Exploring the basics of drivetrains, armor schemes, turret design and other essentials will allow you to build light tanks, as well as opening the door to other more advanced projects. (May be bought, 100 million credits)
[ ] Basic Biotechnology (100): Biotechnology has never really been your forte, but with your recent discovery of having biotic potential, you now have a very good reason to look into it. Genetic Engineering, Cybernetics, and Biotic implants all have a wide variety of applications for you to explore, but you'll need a basic grounding in the subject first.
***New stuff***
[ ] Frigates (400): Naively, you'd think that building frigates is just like building very large fighters. Sadly, the need for a crew, a command station, independent Mass Relay jumps and ordinary human waste, makes building frigates rather more complicated.
[ ] Advanced Black boxing/FRM (800): Knowledge is power, guard it well. You have taken this old saying to heart, and even moderately sized intelligence agencies would have to devote non-trivial amounts of resources in order to crack your tech. The amateurs who call themselves your competitors wouldn't stand a chance of retrofitting it before you'd already made it obsolete.
-Spare time-
Splitting actions can be done freely, however you should expect a reduction in the net result based on how much you split an action. I.e. if you do parkour with mom, you'll have to find a balance between actually bonding with her, and pushing your limits.
Pick two choices:
[ ] Have L3 implant installed.
[ ] Continue Exercising
-[ ] Marial Arts
-[ ] Rock Climbing
-[ ] Parkour
[ ] Go to the Shooting range
[ ] Practice piloting (Legionary)
[ ] Practice piloting (Aircar)
[ ] Work on a College degree via the extranet
[ ] File patent for Arc Reactor in Citadel Space.
[ ] Explore Landing
[ ] Spend time with family
[ ] Write-in
- Location
- Somewhere
[X] Delete the correspondence and future ones like it.
[X] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice. And you do have those two tickets to the governer's ball in a month's time. You weren't going to go, but he'd look really nice in a good tux.
[X] Practice piloting (Legionary)
[X] Work on a College degree via the extranet- The sciences and stuff to do with a spaceship. (Astrophysics?)
The correspondence is obviously a ruse by an Asari Intelligence Operative to capture us or get access to our technology.
On another note.. to those in the old thread saying the military is a waste of time... what are we going to do if things happen similarly to canon, and everybody gets fucked over, just with dealing more losses to the Reapers... how do you expect us, without the.. charisma, power and so forth being an N7 and then the first Human Spectre granted canon!Shep, to rally the galaxy to unite to fight the Reapers?
[X] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice. And you do have those two tickets to the governer's ball in a month's time. You weren't going to go, but he'd look really nice in a good tux.
[X] Practice piloting (Legionary)
[X] Work on a College degree via the extranet- The sciences and stuff to do with a spaceship. (Astrophysics?)
The correspondence is obviously a ruse by an Asari Intelligence Operative to capture us or get access to our technology.
On another note.. to those in the old thread saying the military is a waste of time... what are we going to do if things happen similarly to canon, and everybody gets fucked over, just with dealing more losses to the Reapers... how do you expect us, without the.. charisma, power and so forth being an N7 and then the first Human Spectre granted canon!Shep, to rally the galaxy to unite to fight the Reapers?
Reseach dice can only be assigned in units of 10d10, so you cna't assign 15d10 to both Basic Biotech and Basic Research VIIgnis fatuus said:
So basically you want to abandon the entire point of the quesst to retread the stations of canon with the only change being Shepard runs a moderatly succesful company in the background that never got any bigger because she was working as a soldier full time rather than continuing to actaully invent stuff, sounds really boring. Seriously even giving up on the company and joining alliance R&D would be a better idea than that. Besides we can do it same all companies buy power with goverments, with a shit load of money and also promises of access to more of our tech.Kaioo said:
Chargone
Invisable operator
- Location
- New Zealand
so, I'm thinking finish the research vi, then biotech so we can get the whole 'better implant' plan going, and repulsors for our next bit of research into marketable products/armour.
Hanging out with this Brian fellow seems somewhat worthwhile, but i think we'll need to be careful with time management there.
Liara. Well, i can see arguments in all sorts of directions here, but ultimately i think we should meet her. Biggest issue is, while there's stuff to learn from the prothians, and while Revy probably won't have tuos problem, we want our researchers following the marvel/hybrid tech tree(s), not the reaper-directed Mass Effect tech tree. Kind of the issue the nonbheretic Geth had with the reapers. On the other hand Liara's a useful contact. If nothing else it's decent PR, and if we use our own troops and gear for at least the core of the security force to protect the dig, potentially useful field testing too. (Just make sure that, for every new shiny that hasn't been field tested sufficiently yet, there's a reliable standard fallback option available for if something goes wrong.) Basically: Plot Hook!
Humm... think that's all my thoughts.
Hanging out with this Brian fellow seems somewhat worthwhile, but i think we'll need to be careful with time management there.
Liara. Well, i can see arguments in all sorts of directions here, but ultimately i think we should meet her. Biggest issue is, while there's stuff to learn from the prothians, and while Revy probably won't have tuos problem, we want our researchers following the marvel/hybrid tech tree(s), not the reaper-directed Mass Effect tech tree. Kind of the issue the nonbheretic Geth had with the reapers. On the other hand Liara's a useful contact. If nothing else it's decent PR, and if we use our own troops and gear for at least the core of the security force to protect the dig, potentially useful field testing too. (Just make sure that, for every new shiny that hasn't been field tested sufficiently yet, there's a reliable standard fallback option available for if something goes wrong.) Basically: Plot Hook!
Humm... think that's all my thoughts.
- Location
- Somewhere
No. I want us to get some actual proper military training- become an N7 that sort of thing, and make it more likely we could become a SPECTRE, and have access to a SPECTRE's resources. They'd be incredibly beneficial to us. Plus, we could always retire from the bloody military after beating Saren, or even after a few tours, and go back to the company.HandicapdHippo said:
I don't see how we'll be able to stop Saren or whatever in the future if we both have suits, and he's got the edge of Military Training and that sort of thing. We'd just be a flying brick against another flying brick that has experience and skill over us.
[X] Ask Dr. T'soni to come visit you on Mindoir to discuss specifics.
[X] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice. And you do have those two tickets to the governer's ball in a month's time. You weren't going to go, but he'd look really nice in a good tux.
[X] Basic Biotechnology (100) (20d10)
[x] Basic Security VI (400) (40D10)+overflow
[X] Basic Research VI (288/400)(10d10)
[X] go to the shooting range.
[X] Continue Exercising
-[X] Parkour
[X] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice. And you do have those two tickets to the governer's ball in a month's time. You weren't going to go, but he'd look really nice in a good tux.
[X] Basic Biotechnology (100) (20d10)
[x] Basic Security VI (400) (40D10)+overflow
[X] Basic Research VI (288/400)(10d10)
[X] go to the shooting range.
[X] Continue Exercising
-[X] Parkour
We can hire training ourselves if we want it, that's a better idea than spending over a decade doing unimportant stuff for the alliance military in the hopes of becoming a spectre rather than making money and weapons to fight the reapers. The military and the special forces is not some part time job where you can choose your hours and location, you go where they want when they want. Besides stopping Saren would be easier when we have a personal fleet like most of the larger corporations have. Your idea would basically have us doing nothing productive for until a few years before the reapers arrive in the hopes of things happening exactly the same as the games.Kaioo said:
[x] Ask Dr. T'soni to come visit you on Mindoir to discuss specifics.
- [x] And ask some of our people to do some background-checking.
[x] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice.
[x] Continue Exercising
-[x] Marial Arts (with Mom or Dad, if either's interested)
[x] Practice piloting (Legionary)
- [x] With some joint exercises with our security teams
[x] Basic Research VI (288/400) - 30d10+10
[x] Basic Security VI (400) - 40d10 + Overflow
[x] Hire up a marketing team and task them with getting us some contracts to sell our Pilum missiles and their standalone launchers. Preferably with the Alliance military.
30d10+10 should average out to 175 points, enough to finish the Research VI with some leftover, which should be the first priority in *ANY* plan, given how much it'll improve our R&D efforts.
Security VI would be the next, as we can almost certainly expect additional attempts to steal our tech soon.
Do you mean the modernization program?
Or the research partnership?
The research partnership wasn't about the Scimitar fighter; that's the old one they're modernizing with either bought or licensed Arc Reactors. What the research partnership was about, is taking an older proposal that was declined due to insufficient improvements over existing designs, and if we agreed to the partnership, we would get a percentage of the profits for every fighter of that type sold. The height of those profits would depend on our contributions; if it's only those 4 research dice we'd provided, we'd get about 5-10%, if we provided additional technologies (such as advanced materials, weapons, or drive systems), it would increase accordingly.
Other than that:
- [x] And ask some of our people to do some background-checking.
[x] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice.
[x] Continue Exercising
-[x] Marial Arts (with Mom or Dad, if either's interested)
[x] Practice piloting (Legionary)
- [x] With some joint exercises with our security teams
[x] Basic Research VI (288/400) - 30d10+10
[x] Basic Security VI (400) - 40d10 + Overflow
[x] Hire up a marketing team and task them with getting us some contracts to sell our Pilum missiles and their standalone launchers. Preferably with the Alliance military.
30d10+10 should average out to 175 points, enough to finish the Research VI with some leftover, which should be the first priority in *ANY* plan, given how much it'll improve our R&D efforts.
Security VI would be the next, as we can almost certainly expect additional attempts to steal our tech soon.
Erm, not sure what you're talking about here.Esbilon said:
Do you mean the modernization program?
Or the research partnership?
The research partnership wasn't about the Scimitar fighter; that's the old one they're modernizing with either bought or licensed Arc Reactors. What the research partnership was about, is taking an older proposal that was declined due to insufficient improvements over existing designs, and if we agreed to the partnership, we would get a percentage of the profits for every fighter of that type sold. The height of those profits would depend on our contributions; if it's only those 4 research dice we'd provided, we'd get about 5-10%, if we provided additional technologies (such as advanced materials, weapons, or drive systems), it would increase accordingly.
Other than that:
We should still have some 70-80 millions left from the money HK paid us for the Legionary License (and the profits of our first few contracts). That's more than enough to start producing a few suits for each security team, at least. The limited production capacity is more of an issue but, again, should be enough to produce 2-3 suits for each of our security teams.
Ah, that makes more sense, I misunderstood the deal.Kelenas said:
My thinknig was that you were getting profits from the ships that are just now getting Arc reactors, not the future ships that will come out of your research agreement. Mmm, I think I'll leave it as it is unless there's a great interest in mixing things up, it doesn't make the most sense, but I've had enough counting coppers for now.
The taxman grabbed those, sorry. Production capacity on the other hand is a non-issue since your Factory II is up and running. In fact as things stand, it's not running for a good amount of time.Kelenas said:
Spending an action looking for another contract or two would be helpful in this regard.
Khaos
Baguette, wine and cheese
[x] Ask Dr. T'soni to come visit you on Mindoir to discuss specifics.
[x] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice.
[x] Continue Exercising
-[x] Marial Arts (with Mom or Dad, if either's interested)
[x] Practice piloting (Legionary)
- [x] With some joint exercises with our security teams
[x] Basic Research VI (288/400) - 30d10+10
[x] Basic Security VI (400) - 40d10 + Overflow
[x] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice.
[x] Continue Exercising
-[x] Marial Arts (with Mom or Dad, if either's interested)
[x] Practice piloting (Legionary)
- [x] With some joint exercises with our security teams
[x] Basic Research VI (288/400) - 30d10+10
[x] Basic Security VI (400) - 40d10 + Overflow
If people start voting for it, they should feel free to discuss modifications to the flavor text.mastigos2 said:
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[x] Ask Dr. T'soni to come visit you on Mindoir to discuss specifics.
[x] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice.
[x] Continue Exercising
-[x] Marial Arts (with Mom or Dad, if either's interested)
[x] Practice piloting (Legionary)
- [x] With some joint exercises with our security teams
[x] Basic Research VI (288/400) - 30d10+10
[x] Basic Security VI (400) - 40d10 + Overflow
[x] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice.
[x] Continue Exercising
-[x] Marial Arts (with Mom or Dad, if either's interested)
[x] Practice piloting (Legionary)
- [x] With some joint exercises with our security teams
[x] Basic Research VI (288/400) - 30d10+10
[x] Basic Security VI (400) - 40d10 + Overflow
Normally I'd agree, but in this case we're not counting coppers, we're counting diamonds and solid goldbars. Even if it's only five percent, if a fighter is sold at about 100 million in profits, we'd still be talking about five million per fighter we'd make. That's hundred of millions or even billions per quarter in profits for us you want to deny us.Esbilon said:
Erm, no. Sorry, but that's bullshit. We paid taxes at the end of the year before we went to the power armor competition, and we got the money at the start of the following year.
Edited some background-checking into my plan, but keep in mind that right now we're not agreeing to anything. We're agreeing to a *meeting* where she can present the details of her proposal. That's it.AceRaptor said:
[X] Ask Dr. T'soni to come visit you on Mindoir to discuss specifics.
[X] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice. And you do have those two tickets to the governer's ball in a month's time. You weren't going to go, but he'd look really nice in a good tux.
[X] Basic Biotechnology (100) (20d10)
[x] Basic Security VI (400) (40D10)+overflow
[X] Basic Research VI (288/400)(10d10)
[X] go to the shooting range.
[X] Continue Exercising
-[X] Parkour
[X] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice. And you do have those two tickets to the governer's ball in a month's time. You weren't going to go, but he'd look really nice in a good tux.
[X] Basic Biotechnology (100) (20d10)
[x] Basic Security VI (400) (40D10)+overflow
[X] Basic Research VI (288/400)(10d10)
[X] go to the shooting range.
[X] Continue Exercising
-[X] Parkour
[X] Delete the correspondence and future ones like it.
[x] Go with him now, but don't make a habit out of it. It's important to have friends, but it's no substitute for Science!
[X] go to the shooting range.
-[x] with mom
[x] Practice piloting (Legionary)
- [x] With some joint exercises with our security teams
[X] Basic Research VI (288/400) - 20d10+10
[X] Basic Biotechnology (100): 20d10
[X] Improved Intelligence algorithms (400) 30d10 + Overflow
[x] Go with him now, but don't make a habit out of it. It's important to have friends, but it's no substitute for Science!
[X] go to the shooting range.
-[x] with mom
[x] Practice piloting (Legionary)
- [x] With some joint exercises with our security teams
[X] Basic Research VI (288/400) - 20d10+10
[X] Basic Biotechnology (100): 20d10
[X] Improved Intelligence algorithms (400) 30d10 + Overflow
I tend to agree. We may have to earmark money from the fourth quarter to pay for it(accounting wise no available funds) but cash flow wise we're fine.Kelenas said:
ChiefTurtle117
The Sigillite
- Location
- Holy Terra
[x] Ask Dr. T'soni to come visit you on Mindoir to discuss specifics.
- [x] And ask some of our people to do some background-checking.
[x] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice.
[x] Continue Exercising
-[x] Marial Arts (with Mom or Dad, if either's interested)
[x] Practice piloting (Legionary)
- [x] With some joint exercises with our security teams
[x] Basic Research VI (288/400) - 30d10+10
[x] Basic Security VI (400) - 40d10 + Overflow
- [x] And ask some of our people to do some background-checking.
[x] Go with him and meet up with him again tomorrow, having some company for your runs would be nice.
[x] Continue Exercising
-[x] Marial Arts (with Mom or Dad, if either's interested)
[x] Practice piloting (Legionary)
- [x] With some joint exercises with our security teams
[x] Basic Research VI (288/400) - 30d10+10
[x] Basic Security VI (400) - 40d10 + Overflow
Mmm, OK. I'll look into it. This gives you less money now, but quite a bit more down the line.Kelenas said:
Kelenas said:
Auks's tax system was that you paid 20% of whatever you had left at the end of the year. My tax system is a 20% income tax. This takes away a great deal of money from you, but adds an incentive to move to places where they're willing to give you tax breaks.megrisvernin said:
I promise not to abuse the result of this change.