Great update qm,sad that american did that well withe the mecha,curious what will be the consequence of being called out for their crap and the international reaction to it
We finaly fufiled all our concrete promisis right ?
edit: so now with the +2 action is 16 +1 one cypac right ?
For most places but like it said the desert and the swamps it's a nasty thing so expect them to become terrors in the Florida Everglades when it does kick off.
If you are putting a mecha in deserts and swamps, someone is going to have to be responsible for getting the mud and sand out of the joints. I do not want that job.
-[X] Commiewood:The horizon zero dawn saga.
An epic post apocaliptic saga with various great themes
The story is set in a post-apocalyptic United States, between the states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah (or somewhere else), in the 31st century. Humans live in scattered, primitive tribes with varying levels of technological development. Their technologically advanced predecessors are remembered as the "Old Ones." Large robotic machines dominate the Earth. For the most part, they peacefully coexist with humans, who occasionally hunt them for parts. However, a phenomenon known as the "Derangement" has caused machines to become more aggressive toward humans, and larger and deadlier machines have begun to appear. Four tribes are prominently featured: the Nora, the Banuk, the Carja, and the Oseram. The Nora are fierce matriarchal hunter-gatherers who live in the mountains and worship their deity, the "All-Mother." The Carja are an empire of desert-dwelling city builders who worship the Sun. The Banuk consists of wandering clans made up of hunters and shamans who live in snowy mountains (Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park) and worship the "blue light" of the machines. The Oseram are tinkerers and salvagers known for their advanced weapons, metalworking, brewing, and talent as warriors.
Aloy is cast out from the Nora tribe at birth and raised by a fellow outcast named Rost. As a child, Aloy obtains a Focus, an augmented reality device that gives her special perceptive abilities. Aloy becomes curious about her origins and is told by Rost that if she wins the Proving, a competition to earn the right to become a member of the Nora, the tribe's Matriarchs might concede this information. Aloy spends some years training in combat and survival under Rost's instruction.
After coming of age, Aloy participates in the Proving; she wins the competition, but masked cultists attack the Nora. Rost sacrifices himself to save Aloy from their leader, Helis. When Aloy awakens, the Matriarchs explain that Aloy was found as an infant before a sealed door within the Nora's sacred mountain and that these suspicious origins were the reason for her being an outcast. The Matriarchs name Aloy a "Seeker," allowing her to leave their lands in pursuit of the cultists. Aloy eventually learns that the cultists are part of a splinter Carja faction called the Eclipse and that Aloy was targeted due to her resemblance to an Old World scientist named Elisabet Sobeck. Aloy locates the ruined corporate campus of Faro Automated Solutions and discovers that the Old World was destroyed nearly a thousand years ago after Faro lost control of its automated peacekeeper military robots. The robots, which could self-replicate and consume biomass, overran the planet and engulfed the biosphere, stripping Earth of life. Zero Dawn, a project spearheaded by Sobeck, was initiated to create an automated terraforming system to deactivate the robots and restore life to Earth.
Aloy is contacted by Sylens, a secretive Banuk figure interested in uncovering the fate of the Old Ones. Aloy learns that Sobeck was sent to a decommissioned Orbital Launch Base to complete Zero Dawn, located under the Citadel, the center of Eclipse power. Inside the base, Aloy learns that Zero Dawn was a vast underground system of databases, factories, and cloning facilities controlled by a single artificial intelligence, GAIA, and her subsystems. Once all life had been extinguished, GAIA developed a countermeasure to deactivate the Faro robots and build her own animalistic machines to restore the Earth's biosphere. Once the planet was habitable again, GAIA's next goal was to reseed life on Earth based on stored DNA and teach the first human clones not to repeat their predecessors' mistakes. However, Faro's founder and CEO, Theodore Faro, sabotaged APOLLO, the subsystem designed to teach humanity. The new generation of humans was reduced to a tribal, subsistence society. The Eclipse are secretly controlled by HADES, another of GAIA's subsystems designed to enact controlled extinction if the outcome of Zero Dawn was not favourable for human existence. Reaching Sobeck's office, Aloy obtains a registry to give her access to the door beneath the Nora's mountain. She is captured by Helis and sentenced to death at the Citadel, but escapes with the help of Sylens. Aloy helps the Nora fight off the Eclipse and unlocks the mountain's door.
She finds a recording from GAIA, revealing that a signal of unknown origin caused HADES to activate and seize control of her functions; as a last resort, GAIA self-destructed to stop HADES, but failed and lost control of the other subsystems. Without GAIA to maintain the terraforming process, the entire system began to break down, leading to the Derangement. As a contingency plan, GAIA created a clone of Sobeck in the form of Aloy, hoping she would find GAIA's message, destroy HADES, and restore GAIA's functions. Aloy learns that Sobeck sacrificed her life to ensure the Faro robots would not find GAIA. Aloy manages to obtain the master override to destroy HADES. Sylens reveals that he founded the Eclipse, initially tempted by HADES' promises of knowledge when he discovered it. They surmise that HADES intends to send a signal to reactivate the Faro robots to extinguish life on Earth. Aloy kills Helis and helps fight off machines before stabbing HADES and activating the master override, ending the war. She journeys to Sobeck's old home, finds her corpse, and mourns her predecessor. In a post-credits scene, HADES is trapped by Sylens, who intends to interrogate HADES to find out who sent the signal that activated it.
Aloy travels to the "Cut," the home of the Banuk tribe, after hearing word of dangerous machines appearing and a mountain belching smoke. She learns from Aratak, chieftain of the largest Banuk clan, that the Banuk have been attempting to battle a "Daemon" on the mountain, "Thunder's Drum," which has corrupted the machines of the Cut. However, their first attack failed, and their shaman, Ourea, disappeared afterward. Aloy searches for Ourea, coming across strange robotic towers that control and repair the corrupted machines. She finds Ourea in an Old World facility that had been converted into a Banuk shrine and is housing an artificial intelligence the shaman calls the "Spirit." Aloy is able to make contact with the Spirit, which warns Ourea that the Daemon is blocking its transmissions before being cut off. Aloy and Ourea agree to work together to save the Spirit. Per Ourea's advice, Aloy defeats Aratak in a hunting competition, taking his place as chieftain. She also discovers that Aratak and Ourea are siblings.
Aloy, Ourea, and Aratak head for Thunder's Drum. They infiltrate the Old World facility built inside the mountain, where Aloy discovers that the Spirit is actually CYAN, a highly advanced AI designed to prevent the Yellowstone Caldera from erupting. Travelling further inside, they discover that the Daemon has already overtaken much of the facility. However, CYAN suggests using lava from the caldera to destroy the infected areas while preserving the facility. It is also revealed that the Daemon is, in fact, HEPHAESTUS, another of GAIA's subsystems that manufacture machines. The group fights through HEPHAESTUS' defences, and Ourea sacrifices herself to override CYAN's core, allowing it to escape. CYAN transfers its core systems to an auxiliary data center and initiates self-destruction of the facility. Aloy and Aratak narrowly escape. Aloy returns to the Banuk Shrine, where CYAN is waiting; the AI provides additional information about the Old World but warns that HEPHAESTUS is still active somewhere and will continue to build machines explicitly designed to kill humans, which is why it tried to seize control of CYAN and its facilities. Returning Aratak to his previous position as Chieftain, Aloy departs the Cut.
Horizon Forbidden West continues the story of Aloy , a young hunter of the Nora tribe and a clone of the Old World scientist Elisabet Sobeck, as she leads a band of companions on a quest to the frontier region known as the Forbidden West to find the source of a mysterious plague that kills all it infects. On her journey across these lands, Aloy encounters new regions ravaged by massive storms and deadly machines, and conflicts with a tribe of nomadic raiders, some of which have tamed the machines as war mounts. She discovers a vast array of environments and ecosystems, including lush valleys, dry deserts, snowy mountains, tropical beaches, ruined cities, and underwater settings.
In the six months following the defeat of HADES in Horizon Zero Dawn, Aloy has been searching fruitlessly for a working backup of GAIA (Lesley Ewen) to restore the planet's rapidly degrading biosphere. After she discovers that her former associate Sylens did not destroy but stole HADES, he contacts Aloy and asks her to continue her search in the region known as the Forbidden West.
Aloy and her friend Varl cross into the west to find the ruling Tenakth tribe amidst a civil war between Chief Hekarro and the rebel leader Regalla. Aloy tracks Sylens to a facility where she finds HADES badly damaged and permanently deletes it. She recovers a GAIA backup without its subsystems but is interrupted by a group of futuristic humans. The group, consisting of their leader Gerard, his lieutenant Tilda,enforcer Erik, and accompanied by a clone of Sobeck named Beta,possess advanced technology that renders them invulnerable. They take a second GAIA backup while Aloy barely escapes.
Zo,a member of the nearby Utaru tribe, guides Aloy to a control center where she rejoins GAIA with her subsystem MINERVA. GAIA locates the other subsystems, AETHER, DEMETER, and POSEIDON, and advises Aloy to retrieve them before attempting to capture the more advanced HEPHAESTUS. GAIA reveals the extinction signal that triggered HADES and mutated the subsystems originated from the Sirius system; Aloy suspects that the futuristic humans sent it. She later tracks down Beta, who informs Aloy that her group are, in fact, Far Zenith, an organization of billionaire colonists who fled Earth during its global extinction, having managed to extend their natural lifespans. After their colony on Sirius collapsed, the Zeniths returned to Earth to use GAIA through Beta's genetic make-up for their own recolonization. They already acquired subsystems ELEUTHIA, ARTEMIS, and APOLLO, but Beta has stolen their GAIA backup.
Aloy recovers AETHER after helping Hekarro advance in the civil war and retrieves POSEIDON from the ruins of Las Vegas. Journeying to California, she encounters the Quen, a foreign tribe attempting to solve ecological crises in their homeland. Aloy helps tribe member Alva acquire data while recovering DEMETER. After obtaining a high-level clearance from the private bunker-turned-tomb of a mutated Ted Faro in the ruins of San Francisco, Aloy helps GAIA to trap HEPHAESTUS but is attacked by the Zeniths. Erik kills Varl and recaptures Beta while Gerard steals GAIA, but Tilda double-crosses them and helps Aloy escape. Tilda explains that she was romantically involved with Elisabet Sobeck and regretted leaving her; having been inspired by Aloy, she wishes to stop Far Zenith. She further reveals that Sylens has been supporting the Tenakth rebels to use them against the Zeniths. Aloy refuses to sacrifice the Tenakth and instead defeats Regalla herself after thwarting the latter's final attack on Hekarro.
Aloy and her companions assault Far Zenith's base, while Beta releases HEPHAESTUS into the Zeniths' network and it builds a near-endless amount of machines that tie down Far Zenith's army of drones. Sylens disables the Zeniths' personal defences, allowing Aloy and Zo to kill Erik, while Tilda kills Gerard. Aloy and Beta learn that the Far Zenith colony was destroyed by Nemesis, a failed mind uploading experiment they created; the Zeniths fled from Nemesis and hoped to steal GAIA to colonize a new planet. Nemesis also sent the extinction signal to Earth and is en route to destroy the planet. Tilda tries to force Aloy to abandon Earth with her, but Aloy refuses and is forced to kill Tilda. Sylens reveals that HADES told him about Nemesis and also plans to escape Earth, but has a change of heart and decides to aid Aloy against Nemesis. Aloy's companions disperse to spread the warning of Nemesis while Aloy and Beta reactivate GAIA.
Some time after the defeat of Far Zenith, Sylens warns Aloy that one Zenith member, aerospace magnate Walter Londra, remains unaccounted for. The last known sighting of Londra places him at a location to the south called the Burning Shores, the former site of Los Angeles. Upon arriving in the Burning Shores, Aloy meets a member of the Quen tribe, Seyka. Seyka agrees to guide Aloy to Londra's hideout on Starlight Rise , in return for helping her disable a Zenith defense tower. Seyka takes Aloy to her settlement, Fleet's End, explaining that her fleet was separated from the main Quen expedition heading to San Francisco, shipwrecked on the Burning Shores, and have been stranded since. It is revealed that Seyka stole a deceased Diviner's Focus and found a clue that some crew that had gone missing are located at Starlight Rise. Admiral Gerrit allows Aloy and Seyka to pursue this lead since one of the missing crew is Seyka's sister and the fleet's last remaining navigator.
Working together, Aloy and Seyka destroy the Tower and make their way to Starlight Rise. Upon reaching it, they discover signs that Londra has captured the missing Quen crew and has been forcing them to excavate his old headquarters. They find evidence of him retrieving data on a project called "MSP" and follow his trail north to the wreckage of a Horus war machine resting near the Hollywood Sign. They come across a Quen camp and are dismayed to see that the missing Quen crew have willingly joined Londra, worshipping him as a god who promises them "Ascension". They infiltrate Londra's Ascension Hall and discover that he is using the Horus to build a rocket to take him off the planet. However, in order to get the lift he needs, Londra salvaged experimental nuclear booster engines from the Starlight Rise but the use of them would irradiate the entire Burning Shore and its surrounding lands. After eliminating Londra's henchman Zeth, they learn he has taken a small number of his most loyal Quen, including Seyka's sister, to a nearby abandoned amusement park in preparation for their journey.
Aloy and Seyka infiltrate the park and make contact with Londra's personal AI, Nova. Nova explains that Londra intends to use his rocket to take himself and a select few Quen and genetic library collected from his Quen followers to found a new colony away from the threat of Nemesis. However, to ensure that his followers will not betray him, Londra reactivated his Mutiny Suppression Protocol research, using it to brainwash Quen into being his loyal followers. Nova then deactivates Londra's security measures in return for Aloy deleting her so she can finally be free from Londra's constant tweaking of her personality matrix. They enter Londra's inner sanctum, where they find him ready to seduce Seyka's sister Kina. Seyka then intervenes, forcing Londra to flee back to his bunker underneath the Hollywood Sign. Londra activates the Horus and uses it to attack Aloy and Seyka, who sabotage its cooling system to weaken it and open a breach in its hull. Aloy then infiltrates the Horus and kills Londra.
In the aftermath, Aloy sends all of the data from Londra's Focus to Sylens, and helps the Quen in Fleet's End make contact with Alva so they can coordinate on reuniting their fleets. Aloy also has an option of starting a romantic relationship with Seyka before temporarily parting ways. Upon returning to her base, Aloy meets with Sylens who has managed to decrypt some of Londra's data, finding a list of 21st century companies that were developing experimental weaponry that may be key to defeating Nemesis.
Ryas, a former Shadow Carja rebel once known as the "Shadow of Itamen", is released from prison and brought to the settlement Dawn's Grasp, where he is met by Blameless Marad and Aloy. Marad explains that the machines around Dawn's Grasp have suddenly become highly aggressive and are constantly attacking the settlement. Ryas' older brother Urid decided to climb a nearby mountain, the Sunspear, in order to find the cause of the machine attacks but he has failed to return. Marad offers Ryas a full pardon in return for climbing the Sunspear, finding Urid, and investigating the machines. Ryas reluctantly agrees, and Aloy guides him to the Sunspear before departing on her own mission.
Ryas makes his way up the Sunspear and rescues a stranded Oseram engineer named Radel, who informs him that he cannot progress further up the Sunspear until the main elevator is repaired. Ryas climbs the nearby Brightdawn mountain to retrieve the needed parts from a Scrapper before proceeding further up the Sunspear. Upon reaching the top, Ryas finds a sign left behind by Urid indicating he is following a Thunderjaw to the nearby peak Talonreach. He climbs his way up Talonreach until he reaches an Old One facility at the top, where he is forced to fight the Thunderjaw. Upon defeating the Thunderjaw, Ryas shuts down a transmitter that was acting as a lure for the machines, and finds another sign left behind by Urid showing he has gone off to the settlement Mother's Tears in Nora territory.
Upon reporting his findings to Marad, Ryas receives his pardon and is allowed to continue the search for Urid. At Mother's Tears, he discovers that Urid is tracking the rogue Oseram engineer Asera, who is plotting on using her newly developed lures to send an army of machines against Carja. However, Urid does not want to accept any help in taking down Asera and sabotages the cable car Ryas needs to follow him. Ryas is forced to take a detour to gather the parts needed to fix the cable car before continuing his pursuit. However, both he and Urid are captured by Asera and they work together to escape, but Urid is badly injured in the process. Ryas pursues Asera in Urid's stead and discovers that she plans to send Tallnecks loaded with machine lures directly at the Carja capital city of Meridian, which will attract an army of machines.
He then returns to Dawn's Grasp to report to Marad, who orders him to intercept Asera's Tallnecks at Eagle's Fall while Urid recovers from his wounds. Ryas heads there and thwarts Asera's plan, eventually resulting her hanging off a cliff. However rather than accept help from a Carja, Asera chooses to fall to her death. With Asera's threat dealt with, Ryas earns Urid's respect while Marad decides to cover up the entire situation and grants Ryas a new identity so he can freely travel Carja, though Marad notes that he may call upon Ryas' services again in the future.
[X]plan finising what we promised to our peoples
-[X] Light Industry
--[X] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (0/2 to Full Coverage) (+1 People's Opinion) X2
Finishing electrification and our promice of investing in civ industry
-[X] Heavy Industry
--[X] Cyberdize Heavy Industry Sector (Mega-Project - 4/12 Actions) X3
---[X] Twin Hammer Heavy Industry Expansion"
Doing the two cyberdize action we need to do to fufill our promises
-[X] Agri-And Aquaculture
--[X] Develop And Test Novel Food Production Methods (Mega-Project - 0/8 Actions) (-3 Reputation) X8
(You can create further ways to make use of your available farming space to boost production with Industrial Mycoculture, Urban Permaculture Initiatives, Forest Farming (though you'll take full credit for that since IJ stole that idea from you!), Silvopasture, and Agroforestry)
Permanent boost to food production,good ecological fallout especialy with our new ministry of ecology and maybe we will be able to share some of those discoveries with our allies
-[X] Social
--[X] (WRITE-IN) Social Espionage in Japan: the disappearance of the 13500 citizens of guangchou at the hand of the japan during the war has always been like a wound in the mind of the country unable to mourn without certainty of their fate since the japan refuse to say anithing about them, it being worsened by suspicion when the involvement of unit 735 when at their end, it's time to try to put an end to this, find out exactly what happened to them and according to the result, grieve, file a complaint for a crime of war / against the humanity on the Japanese and if you are very lucky bring home any survivors.(if they can find evidence of other war crime the japan comited on us then denied it would be nicetoo).cost :-7 Rep for all the costs involved, takes 2 turns (still one Action), and may not yield anything.
the more we wait less likely any suvivor and last time we have been able to get reparation from another country it was great
-[X] Political
--[X] Populists & Internationalists
--[X] (Gay) Immigration Propaganda (-3 Reputation) (-1 Chinese Opinion)
("In Guangchou, you will be free to be and love as your truest self, free from bigotry and oppression based on gender, sexual orientation, or race. If you want to help build a better world, come to Guangchou." The Internationalists will spread the word through their contacts abroad that Guangchou LACKS engineers and scientists, accountants, doctors, and other highly educated workers needed to fulfill the Great Leader's ambitious plans and that Guangchou ALSO has more Gay Liberation than you can shake a stick at. We can attract quite a few learned professionals fleeing persecution in their home countries.)
longue term stable income of educated people and good (or bad depending who) PR,also nice synergy with the comiewood selected
--[X] Vaccination Campaign (Disease malaria) (Extremely Helpful)
---[X] Native Production And Doctors (-5 Reputation)
imediat improvement of health an qm said that malaria is the disease in guangchou that would the most benefit from that action,i don't see why it would have change but will change it if another disease made it's way
-[X] CyPac
--[X] Fuck The US of Middle North A - Cuba (Trade and Aid) (+4 Reputation)
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
-[X] Personal Action (Write-In two things he does within the next six months.)
--[X] Submit a motion to the Olympic committee for aquatic triathlon to be added to the list of Olympic sports.
--[X]Started correspondence with the rest of the CIPAC leaders, strengthening ties and understanding.
-[X] Lover Action (Write-In one thing Wei Jungmin and Wei Mai do together in the next six months.)
--[X] Learned armed martial arts together, Guangchou has no regulations on cold weapons, there is a reason for that, you have a strong and long tradition of really loving this stuff that go cut and break, so let's participate in said tradition.
Qm,questions please:
1: once a vacination campaign is done it will become a standar vacine and no new campagn for that particular diseas will be neededright ?
2: what does this suboption for cybernetize heavy industry do ?
"-[] Cyberdize Heavy Industry Sector (Mega-Project - 4/12 Actions)
--[] Twin Hammer Heavy Industry Expansion"
Qm,questions please:
1: once a vacination campaign is done it will become a standar vacine and no new campagn for that particular diseas will be neededright ?
2: what does this suboption for cybernetize heavy industry do ?
"-[] Cyberdize Heavy Industry Sector (Mega-Project - 4/12 Actions)
--[] Twin Hammer Heavy Industry Expansion"
1. You will start a regular vacination drive once that is done, but require a first push to apply a nation-wide shield against a particular disease.
2. Improve technological progress and heavy industrial throughput.
Real snakes aren't made out of multiple interlocking sliding metal segments.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they covered the whole snake-bot in some kind of carefully textured Kevlar cover wrapped around the whole thing like a giant snake-hoodie, just to cut down on the amount of crap that would otherwise get into the joints.
