Long Division
Trenacker
Margrave of the Transvaal
- Location
- Imperial Remnant
Long Division
Results:
Parting of Ways
At last, Dole Yudikon has departed Warm Welcome. Weeks of intense negotiation have left the Warm Welcome settlers emotionally exhausted. Many called for punishment, not parley. Equal numbers urged you to cast Dole Yudikon out from the proverbial garden. A very slim plurality reconciled themselves to what you felt were Dole Yudikon's outrageous demands. In the spirit of giving a man sufficient rope to hang himself, you negotiated away most of your survival equipment, the rocket-propelled grenades and various excess munitions, most of your construction supplies, seven in ten parts of your accumulated water, a healthy share of your packaged rations, generous quantities of mass and ore, one of the three Multiple Use Labor Elements, and a third part of your motor pool. On top of this, you let Dole Yudikon and his separatists retain the medical supplies and water they had already taken from you. In return, you stripped him of his dignity along with most of his potential followers.
So there stood Dole Yudikon before a hundred-and-fifty other human beings, most of whom he had never cared to know, holding out to them a possibility of servile labor after insisting he was entitled to strip their cupboards. The huckster's wit failed him. He wore a scowl black as the Planetloam, leaving none in any doubt of what he'd have done to them unsupervised. Your Marines were deployed in a protective cordon around the parade ground; his hired guns--and they were only that--looked as if their greatest concern was that Dole Yudikon might not make it as far as the gates before being torn limb from limb.
Sensing you did all you could to prevent the fleecing short of plunging the colony into internecine violence, most residents grew colder to Struan's by the time their column was ready for departure, each 'Rover heavily laden, usually with equipment the Struan's people had played no part in recovering from burning cargo bays or coaxing out of Chiron's jealous rock beds. No evidence confirms it, but you suspect Cabo primero Pereira was the one who began whistling the tune of Steam's 1969 hit, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." It was soon taken up by a chorus of nearly five hundred and fifty.
Not a minute after the gate closed, you asked the question everyone had been waiting to hear: "Who will join me in ratifying the United Nations Charter for our colony?"
Days later, a Marine scouting party confirmed that the Struan's survivors traveled only as far as U.N. Relief Station. Like hermit crabs, they had taken up in the place of greatest convenience rather than build a home of their own. Asked to describe what he'd seen, the sergeant's assessment was blunt: "Guns." That same night, a signal flare went up from the far end of the island but Base Operations reported no new sensor contacts.
Renegades
Many hands make light work, so despite lightened hearts, your reduce population has found it harder going. In the infirmary, Dr. Singh and your two med-techs triaged Ro's sailors as best they could, helped along by Skagway's new ship's doctor, really an under-trained med-tech himself, and two orderlies. (Skagway's original doctor perished in battle, along with most of its pharmacy.) The newcomers' wounds were severe and your immediate reserves of medicine low. Items allowed to depart with Yudikon are not the only ones still in distressingly short supply. While capable of surgery, Dr. Singh is inexpert. All of the difficult operations are performed by you. Ro told you that she had gone to sea with eighty-two officers and ratings under her command. Twenty-six died aboard Skagway, ten after being taken into Chamomile, and another two in surgery.
Just what long-term help you will be to the Skagway crew is impossible to know. Captain Köhler has begun damage assessment but his opinion is already that the hull is so much scrap. So much alloy and composite will make rich mass, but the ideal would be to have a warship, even this charity case. You helped offload a considerable cargo of munitions and rations, the future of which remains uncertain.
Ro's remaining command amounts to forty-four men and women. Almost as many as Dole Yudikon subtracted from your ranks. They are castoffs from a pair of Landing Pods that came down 650km to the north of your island. As Ro tells it, she was taking her orders from Prokhor Zakharov at the time. The good doctor's taste for pursuits of the mind suited him poorly for interacting with military officers and his fellow scientists were no different. Several long patrols revealed only that Zakharov felt the colony functioned better when Ro and her people were not underfoot. Meanwhile, a definite caste system was developing. In University society, warriors were no more valued than the robots used to spray down the exterior walls of the habs. Less, in fact, since warriors could not as easily be reprogrammed for other tasks. By mutual agreement, Ro and her people left the colony to make their own way.
Ro is uncertain as to the identity of her attackers, who she says challenged the Skagway's right of passage through the region of your island. The many 'Foils were handled expertly in battle. Ro assumes they wanted to make a prize of her larger, better-armed ship.
Whoever attacked Ro is still out there, doing lazy sweeps within sight of Warm Welcome. Sometimes there are two 'Foils, sometimes three. LaCroix says they are transmitting radio messages with distinctive features of human speech, but he cannot break through the static.
Starting into Tomorrow
Dr. Singh hopes that the software will continue to enhance her ability to care for patients. The diagnostic tools at her disposal alarm according to generic baselines. She must still make adjustments for outliers in-person--marathon runners with very low normal blood pressure, those undergoing aggressive chemotherapies, and so on. She has asked that the cuffs be modified to build a database of each patient's baseline vitals and make judgements specific to their medical history.
Polymorphic software is just one step away from better predictive algorithms overall. Dr. Johann Anhalt calls it "a vital bridge" to "gamification"--the examination of complex problems not only for emergent patterns of optimization, but insights into what people value. Ultimately, he hopes to expand on our genetic sequencing program to produce much more powerful analytic computers capable of helping to run the colony.
Fresh Planting
The Supply Crawler departs Warm Welcome for the leveled flatland below the stockade's western wall. The Crawler's heavy plough claws drag long, deep furrows behind it, churning the loam in preparation for seeding. Supremacists rejoice. Purists have fallen mostly silent.
Inside Warm Welcome, a food shortage has been averted only at the last moment. Your newest greenhouses specialize in aquaculture. Fish will add both variety and protein to the colonists' diets. Agronomist Ermac Canioc is proposing cultivation of insects next.
Faction Specifics
Today's Votes
Vote 1 - Research Focus
Choose two. (Note that you may not have met the prerequisites for all actions, which case the duration will be extended to allow you to accumulate the required inputs.)
Settlement Defense
[ ] Take the high ground. Return the heavy mortar to its hilltop perch. [This will reduce the size of the Marine contingent inside Warm Welcome.]
[ ] Induct the Spartans into your fighting forces. [This will free the Spartans, but not the Holnists, and increase Marine effectiveness to 125%.] [-1 War Stores, +Morale]
[ ] Embody a new militia comprised exclusively of Peacekeeping Forces. Place them under Stillwell, but subordinate him to King. [-1 War Stores, --Morale]
[ ] Order Peacekeeping Forces to sea aboard two 'Foils and have them intercept any contact that wanders within range of the Sensor Array. Take weapons from Skagway. [-Rations]
[ ] Send the 'Formers to grade a road between Warm Welcome and U.N. Relief Station. [-1 Minerals, -1 Rations, +Commerce]
[ ] Reassign the 3D Printers to expand your supply of weapons and ammunition. [-X Minerals, +X War Stores]
[ ] Begin mounted patrols. Perhaps the experience of standing on watch for a common enemy will unite the Militia?
[ ] Expand perimeter defenses. Build a bunker complex facing the island's eastern shore.
[ ] Build prepared defenses on the path to U.N. Relief Station. This will include the setting of sensor traps and the laying of remote mines as well as establishing overlapping fields of fire for fixed weapons. [-2 Construction Supplies, -2 War Stores]
[ ] Repair the Skagway. Do everything possible to make the ship both seaworthy and battle-ready. [-5 Minerals, -4 War Stores, -2 Survival Supplies, -2 Construction Supplies]
Exploration
[ ] Deploy the Unity Barge recently discovered amidst our salvage and begin shoreline exploration. Search for useful resources.
[ ] Send a patrol of Unity 'Rovers to check on conditions at U.N. Relief Station and complete a formal survey of the island. Order the militia to escort them on Hoverbikes.
[ ] Equip the Marines to undertake long-range patrols aboard our Unity 'Foils. Search for salvage and map the nearby coast. [-1 War Stores, -2 Rations]
[ ] Set aside Centauri Preserve. Set aside space for the untrammeled flourishing of local plant and animal life. [+++Planet]
Water
[ ] Set up more moisture catchments to expand our supply of clean water. [+Water Economy]
[ ] Construct irrigation to support local planting. [+Agricultural Economy]
[ ] Build a desalination plant. [-2 Construction Supplies, ++Water Economy]
Agriculture
[ ] User 'Formers to prepare more ground for Terran agriculture. [+++Nutrients, ---Planet]
[ ] Use 'Rovers to prepare more ground for Terran agriculture. [++Nutrients, --Planet]
[ ] Build more greenhouses. [+Nutrients, -Construction Supplies]
Extraction
[ ] Collect more mass by hand. Potentially a good way to tire out your overly-contentious settler population. [+Minerals]
[ ] Detail the M.U.L.E.s to collect mass. [++Minerals]
[ ] Use the 'Formers to drill and set another automated mine that will produce minerals on a regular basis. [-1 Construction Supplies, +2 Minerals, -Planet]
[ ] Build a mass pump that will consume mass in an area close around and produce a constant supply. [-1 Construction Supplies, +4 Minerals, ---Planet]
Manufacturing
[ ] Build more 3D printers. For now, simple designs suit us best. [--Minerals, +Manufacturing Economy]
[ ] Expand the range of specialized equipment in our machine shop. We need to be able to fashion more effective tools. [---Minerals, ++Manufacturing Economy]
Research
[ ] Build a Computer Laboratory to enhance your exploration of artificial intelligence and mathematics. Assists Build, Discover, and Choose research. [---Construction Supplies, ---Energy]
[ ] Build a Biology Laboratory to expand your exploration of the Terran and Centauri life sciences. Assists Discover and Expand research. [---Construction Supplies, -Energy]
[ ] Redirect some of the Unity Data Core's computing power to try to unscramble intercepted radio transmissions. [Will slow research by several days.]
[ ] Reassign our medical resources to begin a Special Project: Human Genome Project. What if Dr. Pahlavi is correct? Imagine a world in which every error in the map of our common future is first corrected, and every infant born healthy, strong, and wise. Finish the project begun on Old Earth. Map the last gaps in the euchromatic human sequence, including heterochromatic regions, and compile a more detailed inventory of individual anomalies. [+Secret Project: Human Genome Project]
Base Operations
[ ] Expand the communal living quarters in anticipation of the new arrivals. [--Construction Supplies]
[ ] Start pitching individual shelters. Common habs are more efficient but privacy is a cornerstone of healthy living, both physically and mentally. [+Health, ---Construction Supplies]
[ ] Replace the SkyCrane's rotors. Represents a significant commitment of mass. [-Supplies]
[ ] Allow workers to pursue personal projects, subject to approval by Guan Biao. [+Morale, -esteem U.N. Loyalists]
[ ] Open the remaining 4 cryopods containing stowaways. There have to be more surprises waiting, and not all of them are apt necessarily to be bad.
Consultations
[ ] Seek the counsel of one the Named Characters or Factions. Write-in.
Vote 3 - Research Focus
Choose one. Click here for an explanation of the research focus areas.
[ ] Build
[ ] Discover
[ ] Explore
[ ] Conquer
[ ] Expand
[ ] Command
[ ] Choose
Serpent's Coils
Vote 1 - Dealing with Dole Yudikon
Accept present terms - 2
Make counter-offer - 1
End negotiations - 2
Arrest Dole Yudikon - 2
Vote 2 - Welcoming Master Malachi Ro
Render aid - 7
Vote 3 - Settlement Administration
Expand machine shop - 2 (die roll: [4]+2=6)
Patrol the coast - 1
Deploy Supply Crawler and plant Terran crops in Chiron's soil - 2 (die roll: [5]+2=7)
Expand communal living quarters - 1
Vote 1 - Dealing with Dole Yudikon
Accept present terms - 2
Make counter-offer - 1
End negotiations - 2
Arrest Dole Yudikon - 2
Vote 2 - Welcoming Master Malachi Ro
Render aid - 7
Vote 3 - Settlement Administration
Expand machine shop - 2 (die roll: [4]+2=6)
Patrol the coast - 1
Deploy Supply Crawler and plant Terran crops in Chiron's soil - 2 (die roll: [5]+2=7)
Expand communal living quarters - 1
You have my gratitude for an excellent dialogue. In the end, decision deadlocked. I elected for you to make a counter-offer for the following reasons. First, negotiation appeared to reflect a plurality of opinion of those that posted. @Mrbrown1000's vote was closer in intent to accepting the existing terms than was the choice of ending negotiations to attempting an arrest. Second, negotiation appeared to fit Lal's character as we have crafted it more than attempting to resolve the dispute by force.
Results:
- Leadership opinion becomes divided over how to deal with the Struan's contingent.
- Dole Yudikon accepts a counter-offer that cedes to him a large quantity of the supplies available to the Peacekeeping Forces.
- A large majority of both Peacekeeping Forces and charter colonists swears allegiance to the United Nations Charter. Dole Yudikon departs with 0.5 OVERSEERS only.
- With the departure of the Struan's technicians, key functions at Warm Welcome suffer from lack of qualified professionals, especially operations in the Sick Bay.
- Supply Crawler deployed to plant soybeans.
- Completion of an additional row of greenhouses.
- Peacekeeping Forces colonists assist the crew of the Skagway to extinguish fires aboard that vessel. Injured crew taken into colony Sick Bay.
- Pair of 'Foils appears on long-range sensors.
- Peacekeeper researchers report great achievement in Polymorphic Software.
Parting of Ways
At last, Dole Yudikon has departed Warm Welcome. Weeks of intense negotiation have left the Warm Welcome settlers emotionally exhausted. Many called for punishment, not parley. Equal numbers urged you to cast Dole Yudikon out from the proverbial garden. A very slim plurality reconciled themselves to what you felt were Dole Yudikon's outrageous demands. In the spirit of giving a man sufficient rope to hang himself, you negotiated away most of your survival equipment, the rocket-propelled grenades and various excess munitions, most of your construction supplies, seven in ten parts of your accumulated water, a healthy share of your packaged rations, generous quantities of mass and ore, one of the three Multiple Use Labor Elements, and a third part of your motor pool. On top of this, you let Dole Yudikon and his separatists retain the medical supplies and water they had already taken from you. In return, you stripped him of his dignity along with most of his potential followers.
Carnaveron said:
Dole Yudikon also requested that the Holnists be permitted to join him. He presented it as "a humane alternative to their present situation." Struan's, said Yudikon, would be sure of finding them "some purpose beyond blotting your moral scorecard." This was not a claim you felt able to accept. Perhaps on some future occasion you will parole the Holnists and permit them a choice, but neither handing them over like chattel nor giving them an immediate, binary choice between imprisonment and indenture, appealed to you. Warm Welcome might be better off without the Holnists, but would the Holnists be better off without Warm Welcome?Commissioner Pravin Lal said:
So there stood Dole Yudikon before a hundred-and-fifty other human beings, most of whom he had never cared to know, holding out to them a possibility of servile labor after insisting he was entitled to strip their cupboards. The huckster's wit failed him. He wore a scowl black as the Planetloam, leaving none in any doubt of what he'd have done to them unsupervised. Your Marines were deployed in a protective cordon around the parade ground; his hired guns--and they were only that--looked as if their greatest concern was that Dole Yudikon might not make it as far as the gates before being torn limb from limb.
Sensing you did all you could to prevent the fleecing short of plunging the colony into internecine violence, most residents grew colder to Struan's by the time their column was ready for departure, each 'Rover heavily laden, usually with equipment the Struan's people had played no part in recovering from burning cargo bays or coaxing out of Chiron's jealous rock beds. No evidence confirms it, but you suspect Cabo primero Pereira was the one who began whistling the tune of Steam's 1969 hit, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." It was soon taken up by a chorus of nearly five hundred and fifty.
Not a minute after the gate closed, you asked the question everyone had been waiting to hear: "Who will join me in ratifying the United Nations Charter for our colony?"
Days later, a Marine scouting party confirmed that the Struan's survivors traveled only as far as U.N. Relief Station. Like hermit crabs, they had taken up in the place of greatest convenience rather than build a home of their own. Asked to describe what he'd seen, the sergeant's assessment was blunt: "Guns." That same night, a signal flare went up from the far end of the island but Base Operations reported no new sensor contacts.
Renegades
Many hands make light work, so despite lightened hearts, your reduce population has found it harder going. In the infirmary, Dr. Singh and your two med-techs triaged Ro's sailors as best they could, helped along by Skagway's new ship's doctor, really an under-trained med-tech himself, and two orderlies. (Skagway's original doctor perished in battle, along with most of its pharmacy.) The newcomers' wounds were severe and your immediate reserves of medicine low. Items allowed to depart with Yudikon are not the only ones still in distressingly short supply. While capable of surgery, Dr. Singh is inexpert. All of the difficult operations are performed by you. Ro told you that she had gone to sea with eighty-two officers and ratings under her command. Twenty-six died aboard Skagway, ten after being taken into Chamomile, and another two in surgery.
Just what long-term help you will be to the Skagway crew is impossible to know. Captain Köhler has begun damage assessment but his opinion is already that the hull is so much scrap. So much alloy and composite will make rich mass, but the ideal would be to have a warship, even this charity case. You helped offload a considerable cargo of munitions and rations, the future of which remains uncertain.
Ro's remaining command amounts to forty-four men and women. Almost as many as Dole Yudikon subtracted from your ranks. They are castoffs from a pair of Landing Pods that came down 650km to the north of your island. As Ro tells it, she was taking her orders from Prokhor Zakharov at the time. The good doctor's taste for pursuits of the mind suited him poorly for interacting with military officers and his fellow scientists were no different. Several long patrols revealed only that Zakharov felt the colony functioned better when Ro and her people were not underfoot. Meanwhile, a definite caste system was developing. In University society, warriors were no more valued than the robots used to spray down the exterior walls of the habs. Less, in fact, since warriors could not as easily be reprogrammed for other tasks. By mutual agreement, Ro and her people left the colony to make their own way.
Ro is uncertain as to the identity of her attackers, who she says challenged the Skagway's right of passage through the region of your island. The many 'Foils were handled expertly in battle. Ro assumes they wanted to make a prize of her larger, better-armed ship.
Whoever attacked Ro is still out there, doing lazy sweeps within sight of Warm Welcome. Sometimes there are two 'Foils, sometimes three. LaCroix says they are transmitting radio messages with distinctive features of human speech, but he cannot break through the static.
Starting into Tomorrow
Artificial intelligence that chooses when and how to rewrite itself. The implications are as numerous as they are unsettling. Faction data-techs have been experimenting with the M.U.L.E.s' pathfinding abilities, teaching the lumbering, clamp-forward load-lifters to prefer even ground to rolling, for example, or chasing them with a 'Rover while they attempt evasion. On one occasion, a M.U.L.E. actually dumped oil to create a slick--quite without human prompting! What's next? Will they read the M.U.L.E. Shakespeare and invite it to kill the king?Polymorphic Software said:
Dr. Singh hopes that the software will continue to enhance her ability to care for patients. The diagnostic tools at her disposal alarm according to generic baselines. She must still make adjustments for outliers in-person--marathon runners with very low normal blood pressure, those undergoing aggressive chemotherapies, and so on. She has asked that the cuffs be modified to build a database of each patient's baseline vitals and make judgements specific to their medical history.
Polymorphic software is just one step away from better predictive algorithms overall. Dr. Johann Anhalt calls it "a vital bridge" to "gamification"--the examination of complex problems not only for emergent patterns of optimization, but insights into what people value. Ultimately, he hopes to expand on our genetic sequencing program to produce much more powerful analytic computers capable of helping to run the colony.
Fresh Planting
The Supply Crawler departs Warm Welcome for the leveled flatland below the stockade's western wall. The Crawler's heavy plough claws drag long, deep furrows behind it, churning the loam in preparation for seeding. Supremacists rejoice. Purists have fallen mostly silent.
Inside Warm Welcome, a food shortage has been averted only at the last moment. Your newest greenhouses specialize in aquaculture. Fish will add both variety and protein to the colonists' diets. Agronomist Ermac Canioc is proposing cultivation of insects next.
Faction Specifics
Faction Overview:
Leader: Pravin Lal
Title: Commissioner
Rank: Chief Medical Officer / Head of Medical Division
Colony Model: Democratic Republic
Why did civilization on Earth fail? The free flow of information was curtailed, preventing the global populace from obtaining an accurate understanding of their plight or organizing to do anything about it.
What is the fundamental truth of the universe? Only the educated are free.
What is necessary to ensure the survival of humanity on Chiron? The principles and practice of democracy.
Vision: Implement the U.N. Charter and reunite the Unity survivors under its auspices.
Starting Technology: Informatics
Affinity: Supremacy
Influence Points: 3
Research Focus: Explore + 4 Research Nodes focused on Discover
Economic Focus: Agricultural Sector
Population:
Combat Units
1 company U.N. Marine Corps (Veteran) [special guard duty @ Warm Welcome]
1 company Settlement Militia (Green) [routine guard duty @ Warm Welcome] (combat ineffective)
Ground-Effect Vehicles
1 squadron Combat Hovercycles (Electric)
1 squadron Unity Rovers (Electric)
1 squadrons Unity Rovers (Fission) [-1 to Yudikon's Party]
Naval Assets
1 squadron Unity Foils (Electric)
1 work barge
Air Vehicles
1 Skycrane, with various mission modules [grounded due to cracked rotors]
Construction Assets
1 squadron Space Construction Vehicles (S.C.V.)
1 Supply Crawler (Terran Nutrients)
2 Multiple Use Labor Element (M.U.L.E.) [-1 to Yudikon's Party]
Weapons Systems
1 Heavy Mortar (107mm) [armory]
Other Named Characters: Base Operations Director Guan Biao, Captain Bruce King, Second Lieutenant W.K. Planitzer, Cabo primero Felix Pereira (artillerist), Captain Wasoné Erkins (prisoner), Zara Karimov (med-tech), Taho Takiwara (med-tech), Nahele Tomatuk (firefighter), Egon Hakizimana (constable), Johann Anhaldt (robotics), "Carnaveron"/Dole Yudikon, Eugen Köhler (sailor), Adan Sadak (administrator), Tell Stillwell (soldier/adviser), Sun Shao (engineer), Vesper Abaddon (prisoner), Krause Martius (soldier), Malachi Ro (sailor)
Leader: Pravin Lal
Title: Commissioner
Rank: Chief Medical Officer / Head of Medical Division
Colony Model: Democratic Republic
Why did civilization on Earth fail? The free flow of information was curtailed, preventing the global populace from obtaining an accurate understanding of their plight or organizing to do anything about it.
What is the fundamental truth of the universe? Only the educated are free.
What is necessary to ensure the survival of humanity on Chiron? The principles and practice of democracy.
Vision: Implement the U.N. Charter and reunite the Unity survivors under its auspices.
Starting Technology: Informatics
Affinity: Supremacy
- -1 EFFICIENCY (administration requires the careful balancing of interests and perspectives)
- Our votes on the Planetary Council count double (masters of the bureaucracy)
- 50% chance new POPS are Talents (we attractive the intellectual elite)
- Convene a Planetary Council under the United Nations Charter
- Get yourself elected to the Council Speakership
- Punish violations of the Charter
Influence Points: 3
Research Focus: Explore + 4 Research Nodes focused on Discover
Economic Focus: Agricultural Sector
Population:
- 3 TALENTS
- 2 TECHNICIAN [includes Ro's sailors]
- 1 CITIZEN
Combat Units
1 company U.N. Marine Corps (Veteran) [special guard duty @ Warm Welcome]
1 company Settlement Militia (Green) [routine guard duty @ Warm Welcome] (combat ineffective)
Ground-Effect Vehicles
1 squadron Combat Hovercycles (Electric)
1 squadron Unity Rovers (Electric)
1 squadrons Unity Rovers (Fission) [-1 to Yudikon's Party]
Naval Assets
1 squadron Unity Foils (Electric)
1 work barge
Air Vehicles
1 Skycrane, with various mission modules [grounded due to cracked rotors]
Construction Assets
1 squadron Space Construction Vehicles (S.C.V.)
1 Supply Crawler (Terran Nutrients)
2 Multiple Use Labor Element (M.U.L.E.) [-1 to Yudikon's Party]
Weapons Systems
1 Heavy Mortar (107mm) [armory]
Other Named Characters: Base Operations Director Guan Biao, Captain Bruce King, Second Lieutenant W.K. Planitzer, Cabo primero Felix Pereira (artillerist), Captain Wasoné Erkins (prisoner), Zara Karimov (med-tech), Taho Takiwara (med-tech), Nahele Tomatuk (firefighter), Egon Hakizimana (constable), Johann Anhaldt (robotics), "Carnaveron"/Dole Yudikon, Eugen Köhler (sailor), Adan Sadak (administrator), Tell Stillwell (soldier/adviser), Sun Shao (engineer), Vesper Abaddon (prisoner), Krause Martius (soldier), Malachi Ro (sailor)
Essential Statistics said:
Today's Votes
Vote 1 - Research Focus
Choose two. (Note that you may not have met the prerequisites for all actions, which case the duration will be extended to allow you to accumulate the required inputs.)
Settlement Defense
[ ] Take the high ground. Return the heavy mortar to its hilltop perch. [This will reduce the size of the Marine contingent inside Warm Welcome.]
[ ] Induct the Spartans into your fighting forces. [This will free the Spartans, but not the Holnists, and increase Marine effectiveness to 125%.] [-1 War Stores, +Morale]
[ ] Embody a new militia comprised exclusively of Peacekeeping Forces. Place them under Stillwell, but subordinate him to King. [-1 War Stores, --Morale]
[ ] Order Peacekeeping Forces to sea aboard two 'Foils and have them intercept any contact that wanders within range of the Sensor Array. Take weapons from Skagway. [-Rations]
[ ] Send the 'Formers to grade a road between Warm Welcome and U.N. Relief Station. [-1 Minerals, -1 Rations, +Commerce]
[ ] Reassign the 3D Printers to expand your supply of weapons and ammunition. [-X Minerals, +X War Stores]
[ ] Begin mounted patrols. Perhaps the experience of standing on watch for a common enemy will unite the Militia?
[ ] Expand perimeter defenses. Build a bunker complex facing the island's eastern shore.
[ ] Build prepared defenses on the path to U.N. Relief Station. This will include the setting of sensor traps and the laying of remote mines as well as establishing overlapping fields of fire for fixed weapons. [-2 Construction Supplies, -2 War Stores]
[ ] Repair the Skagway. Do everything possible to make the ship both seaworthy and battle-ready. [-5 Minerals, -4 War Stores, -2 Survival Supplies, -2 Construction Supplies]
Exploration
[ ] Deploy the Unity Barge recently discovered amidst our salvage and begin shoreline exploration. Search for useful resources.
[ ] Send a patrol of Unity 'Rovers to check on conditions at U.N. Relief Station and complete a formal survey of the island. Order the militia to escort them on Hoverbikes.
[ ] Equip the Marines to undertake long-range patrols aboard our Unity 'Foils. Search for salvage and map the nearby coast. [-1 War Stores, -2 Rations]
[ ] Set aside Centauri Preserve. Set aside space for the untrammeled flourishing of local plant and animal life. [+++Planet]
Water
[ ] Set up more moisture catchments to expand our supply of clean water. [+Water Economy]
[ ] Construct irrigation to support local planting. [+Agricultural Economy]
[ ] Build a desalination plant. [-2 Construction Supplies, ++Water Economy]
Agriculture
[ ] User 'Formers to prepare more ground for Terran agriculture. [+++Nutrients, ---Planet]
[ ] Use 'Rovers to prepare more ground for Terran agriculture. [++Nutrients, --Planet]
[ ] Build more greenhouses. [+Nutrients, -Construction Supplies]
Extraction
[ ] Collect more mass by hand. Potentially a good way to tire out your overly-contentious settler population. [+Minerals]
[ ] Detail the M.U.L.E.s to collect mass. [++Minerals]
[ ] Use the 'Formers to drill and set another automated mine that will produce minerals on a regular basis. [-1 Construction Supplies, +2 Minerals, -Planet]
[ ] Build a mass pump that will consume mass in an area close around and produce a constant supply. [-1 Construction Supplies, +4 Minerals, ---Planet]
Manufacturing
[ ] Build more 3D printers. For now, simple designs suit us best. [--Minerals, +Manufacturing Economy]
[ ] Expand the range of specialized equipment in our machine shop. We need to be able to fashion more effective tools. [---Minerals, ++Manufacturing Economy]
Research
[ ] Build a Computer Laboratory to enhance your exploration of artificial intelligence and mathematics. Assists Build, Discover, and Choose research. [---Construction Supplies, ---Energy]
[ ] Build a Biology Laboratory to expand your exploration of the Terran and Centauri life sciences. Assists Discover and Expand research. [---Construction Supplies, -Energy]
[ ] Redirect some of the Unity Data Core's computing power to try to unscramble intercepted radio transmissions. [Will slow research by several days.]
[ ] Reassign our medical resources to begin a Special Project: Human Genome Project. What if Dr. Pahlavi is correct? Imagine a world in which every error in the map of our common future is first corrected, and every infant born healthy, strong, and wise. Finish the project begun on Old Earth. Map the last gaps in the euchromatic human sequence, including heterochromatic regions, and compile a more detailed inventory of individual anomalies. [+Secret Project: Human Genome Project]
Base Operations
[ ] Expand the communal living quarters in anticipation of the new arrivals. [--Construction Supplies]
[ ] Start pitching individual shelters. Common habs are more efficient but privacy is a cornerstone of healthy living, both physically and mentally. [+Health, ---Construction Supplies]
[ ] Replace the SkyCrane's rotors. Represents a significant commitment of mass. [-Supplies]
[ ] Allow workers to pursue personal projects, subject to approval by Guan Biao. [+Morale, -esteem U.N. Loyalists]
[ ] Open the remaining 4 cryopods containing stowaways. There have to be more surprises waiting, and not all of them are apt necessarily to be bad.
Consultations
[ ] Seek the counsel of one the Named Characters or Factions. Write-in.
Vote 3 - Research Focus
Choose one. Click here for an explanation of the research focus areas.
[ ] Build
[ ] Discover
[ ] Explore
[ ] Conquer
[ ] Expand
[ ] Command
[ ] Choose
[1] This quote, and technology itself, are from the original game.
[2] This idea was developed as I continue to read Sid Meier's autobiography, Sid Meier's Memoir! A Life in Computer Games.[/quote]
[2] This idea was developed as I continue to read Sid Meier's autobiography, Sid Meier's Memoir! A Life in Computer Games.[/quote]
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