Choose Three
Two Five years, One One year
Expand Shipyards: Large- Now that you have a huge shipyard it is possible to build large shipyards whole. This would increase the rate at which you can build capital ships and maintain anything short of battleships more easily. Admiral Parnell advices you to focus on this until you have all four large shipyards that you plan on constructing.
Time: 18 years. (can be taken twice)
Cost: 740,000,000 Thrones, 111,000,000 Material, 55,500,000 Metal, 111,000,000 Promethium, 10,200 Advanced Material, 475 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 148,000,000 Thrones, 22,200,000 Material, 11,100,000 Metal, 11,100,000 Promethium
Reward: 1 new large shipyard
Locked -Fourteen out of Eighteen years completed
Lessons Learned: Planetary Assault- Over the last few years your navy as gained a good deal of experience with attacking hostile planets. Admiral Parnell believes that if he ties he can ensure that the lessons learned from these battles are remembered and are taught to future naval officers.
Time: 1 year.
Cost: 40,000,000 Thrones, 4,000,000 Material, 200,000 Promethium.
Reward: +5 to all rolls when attacking orbital defences and +3 to combat rolls.
Stealth Attack Craft- After seeing the use of the stealth Attack Craft by the Vanir Navy Admiral Parnell has seen how useful they could be for the Avernite Navy due to their ability for first strikes. Even with some assistance from Vanaheim it will take some time to train up your first crews due to how different their training needs to be from a normal attack craft. Admiral Parnell would prefer to have around a third of your attack craft consist of stealth variants, due to the fact that they are not as useful in an open battle.
Time: 8 years
Cost: 93,600,000 Thrones, 3,024,000 Material, 2,890,000 Promethium, 358,600 Advanced Material, 22,300 Exotic Material
Upkeep per year: 4,680,000 Thrones, 151,200 Material, 18,819,000 Promethium, 17,930 Advanced Material, 446 Exotic Material.
Reward: Can train stealth attack craft, train 120 Wraith Interceptor Wings and180 Assassin Stealth Bomber Wings
Bombardment- There are currently eleven Ork strongholds on Avernus, each with a garrison ranging from the hundreds of millions to over two billion. Admiral Parnell suggests using your defence cruisers to conduct a sustained medium intensity bombardment on them. This should kill a decent number of Orks and damage the fortifications, making future assaults easier.
Time: 1 year (take multiple times to continue)
Chance of Success: 70%
Cost: 40,000,000 Thrones, 20,000,000 Material, 2,000,000 Promethium, 8,300 Advanced Material
Reward: kill Orks, weakens defences of strongholds
Construct: Repair- The Avernite Navy suffered a good deal of damage to its lighter units fighting against Garkill's fleet. Much to everyone's surprise all of the Avernite capital ships destroyed in the fighting will be repairable. It will take seven years to repair the damaged ships and replace the destroyed escorts and attack craft.
Time: 7 years
Cost: 1,774,000 Thrones, 350,200,000 Material, 12,720,000 Promethium, 1,493,000 Advanced Material, 9,069 Exotic Material.
Reward: Repair 8 Hoplite Cruisers (4 half destroyed 4 mostly destroyed), 1 Praetorian Cruiser (half destroyed), 8 Warrior Cruisers (4 half destroyed 4 mostly destroyed), 4 Bishop Carriers (half destroyed), 198 Soldier Destroyers (99 half destroyed, 99 mostly destroyed), 61 Legionnaire Destroyers (31 half destroyed, 30 mostly destroyed), 30 Privateer Raiders (15 half destroyed, 15 mostly destroyed), build 244 Guardian Fighter Wings, build 266 Dragon Bomber Wings, build 197 Soldier Destroyers, build 31 Legionnaire Destroyers, build 16 Privateer Raiders
Move Orbitals- Currently all of Avernus' orbital infrastructure is in orbit around Deiphobe in the protection of your main naval base. According to Admiral Parnell it will take a bit less then three years to return them to the orbit of Avernus, after which he will feel far more confident of Avernus' security.
Time: 3 years.
Cost: 1,210,000,000 Thrones, 121,000,000 Material, 1,210,000 Metal, 24,200,000 Promethium.
Reward: Move all orbitals back to Avernus from Deiphobe,
Construct: Escorts- Admiral Parnell has put forward several suggestions of what to make next with your shipyards. The quickest of these suggestions is to build a collection of escorts to fill your order of battle. This would involve repairing a bit over two hundred escorts over three years and is the fastest way to bring your fleet up to full strength.
Time: 3 years.
Cost: 512,000,000 Thrones, 96,200,000 Material, 2,130,000 Promethium, 363,000 Advanced Material, 2,550 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 21,100,000 Thrones, 3,950,000 Material, 2,180,000 Promethium, 37,200 Advanced Material, 105 Exotic Material.
Reward: repair 104 Squire Frigates (Half Destroyed), repair 104 Page Frigates (Half Destroyed), repair 17 Legionnaire Destroyers (mostly intact),
Construct: Mass Conveyors and Escorts- Admiral Parnell has put forward several suggestions of what to make next with your shipyards. The second suggestion is to use your Huge Shipyard to make some Mass Conveyors, which will be in higher demand now that navigators are being seconded to the military in greater numbers. While the Mass Conveyors are being built Admiral Parnell will use the smaller shipyards to start work on brining your escort numbers up to full strength.
Time: 5 years.
Cost: 784,000,000 Thrones, 78,600,000 Material, 13,000,000 Metal, 3,090,000 Promethium, 303,000 Advanced Material, 3,500 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 35,300,000 Thrones, 3,190,000 Material, 648,000 Metal, 2,370,000 Promethium, 28,500 Advanced Material, 109 Exotic Material.
Reward: build 9 Mass Conveyors, repair 84 Squire Frigates (Half Destroyed), repair 81 Page Frigates (Half Destroyed)
Construct: Cruisers and Escorts for Midgard- Midgard has requested that you build them some warships while they are working on getting their shipyards built up enough to be useful. While this would tie up your shipyards for a while it would be both economically useful and strengthen Midgard.
Time: 6 years.
Cost: 815,000,000 Thrones, 249,000,000 Material, 3,170,000 Promethium, 651,000 Advanced Material, 3,710 Exotic Material.
Reward: repair 16 Hoplite Cruisers (8 mostly destroyed, 8 half destroyed), repair 37 Bishop Carriers (24 mostly destroyed, 13 half destroyed), repair 102 Solider Destroyers (Half Destroyed). Sell all to Midgard for 41,478 Credits
Construct Defence Cruisers and Escorts- Admiral Parnell has put forward several suggestions of what to make next with your shipyards. The final option would be to repair even more Defence Cruisers and build some more Monitors, strengthening Avernus' Void defences but not helping the rest of the Imperial Trust. Given the fact that Avernus is one of the better defended systems in the Imperial Trust Admiral Parnell does not believe this to be necessary for the moment.
Time: 5 years.
Cost: 866,000,000 Thrones, 232,000,000 Material, 3,440,000 Promethium, 745,000 Advanced Material, 2,310 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 14,000,000 Thrones, 2,320,000 Material, 3,820,000 Promethium, 12,700 Advanced Material, 121 Exotic Material.
Reward: repair 11 Bastion Defence Cruisers(mostly intact), repair 20 Fortress Defence Cruisers (5 mostly intact, 15 half destroyed), repair 21 Cathedral Defence Carriers (10 mostly intact, 11 half destroyed), repair 13 Snare Defence Cruisers (8 mostly intact, 5 half destroyed), repair 5 Castra Defence Cruisers (1 mostly intact, 4 half destroyed), build 62 Defence Monitors.
Build Advanced Orbital Defence Stations- Now that you have the designs Admiral Parnell strongly advises that you build some Advanced Orbital Defence Stations. While he will want thirty-six in total he tells you that six is the most that his workers can work on at the moment, so he would prefer to build six at a time. Given the sheer defensive utility of these stations you see no reason to disagree with Admiral Parnell on their importance.
Time: 8 years.
Cost: 335,000,000 Thrones, 98,300,000 Material, 26,000,000 Metal, 7,020,000 Promethium, 49,600 Advanced Material, 1,370 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 16,700,000 Thrones, 4,910,000 Material, 1,300,000 Metal, 351,000 Promethium, 991 Advanced Material, 14 Exotic Material.
Reward: 3 Advanced Orbital Defence Stations for Avernus and Deiphobe
Expand Shipyards: Small- Now that you have a huge shipyard it is possible to build five small shipyards at a time. This would allow you to more quickly increase the total number of shipyards that you own though it would not help with building capital ships or maintaining anything above cruiser. Admiral Parnell would prefer to finish all of your planned large shipyards before building up your small shipyards.
Time: 18 years. (can be taken twice)
Cost: 740,000,000 Thrones, 111,000,000 Material, 55,500,000 Metal, 111,000,000 Promethium, 10,200 Advanced Material, 475 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 148,000,000 Thrones, 22,200,000 Material, 11,100,000 Metal, 11,100,000 Promethium
Reward: 5 new small shipyards
Expand Shipyards: Large- Now that you have a huge shipyard it is possible to build large shipyards whole. This would increase the rate at which you can build capital ships and maintain anything short of battleships more easily. Admiral Parnell advices you to focus on this until you have all four large shipyards that you plan on constructing.
Time: 18 years. (can be taken twice)
Cost: 740,000,000 Thrones, 111,000,000 Material, 55,500,000 Metal, 111,000,000 Promethium, 10,200 Advanced Material, 475 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 148,000,000 Thrones, 22,200,000 Material, 11,100,000 Metal, 11,100,000 Promethium
Reward: 1 new large shipyard
Build Advanced Heavy Orbital Weapons Platforms- At the moment the Avernus system has fifteen Advanced Orbital Weapons Platforms for every Advanced Heavy Orbital Weapons Platform. Admiral Parnell tells you that this leaves your planets poorly prepared for dealing with capital ships that that the ratio should be increased to around 5-1. The first step in this process is building another sixty Advanced Heavy Orbital Weapons Platforms.
Time: 7 years.
Cost: 1,224,000,000 Thrones, 449,100,000 Material, 99,360,000 Metal, 17,620,000 Promethium, 125,400 Advanced Material, 2,208 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 61,182,000 Thrones, 22,453,200 Material, 4,967,820 Metal, 881,100 Promethium, 2,507 Advanced Material, 22 Exotic Material.
Reward: build 60 Advanced Heavy Orbital Weapons Platforms
Readiness Training: Fleet- With Garkill and his forces being expected to arrive within two years Admiral Parnell would like to conduct some last minute training and exercises with his fleet to better prepare them. This could provide a needed edge to your fleet which could have a major impact on the course of the campaign.
Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 60% (each success reduces chance of success by 5%, this recovers at a rate of one per two years)
Cost: 44,000,000 Thrones, 4,400,000 Material, 440,000 Promethium, 8,500 Advanced Material
Reward: +5 to all combat rolls for fleet the next decade, can be taken multiple times
Readiness Training: Defences- With Garkill and his forces being expected to arrive within two years Admiral Parnell would like to conduct some last minute training and exercises with his orbital defences in order to better prepare them. This could provide a key advantage to your orbital defences, which represent the majority of your firepower.
Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 60% (each success reduces chance of success by 5%, this recovers at a rate of one per two years)
Cost: 44,000,000 Thrones, 4,400,000 Material, 440,000 Promethium, 8,500 Advanced Material
Reward: +5 to all combat rolls for defences the next decade, can be taken multiple times
Further Thicken Minefield: Deiphobe- One option to expand the defences of Deiphobe is to quadruple the density of the minefield. This would quadruple the damage that the mines inflict, making the minefield likely to cripple most cruisers that try to advance though it. While it is likely that he will not be able to fully thicken the minefield before Garkill arrives any expansions will be useful.
Time: 6 years. (cost is increased by an order of magnitude if expand minefield has been taken)
Cost: 8,800,000,000 Thrones, 1,760,000,000 Material, 88,000,000 Promethium, 1,360,000 Advanced Material
Upkeep per year: 220,000,000 Thrones, 55,000,000 Material, 2,750,000 Promethium, 17,000 Advanced Material
Reward: Thicken Minefield to heavy
Build Advanced Orbital Weapons Platforms: Avernus- The fastest orbital defences that you could build are orbital weapons platforms. Admiral Parnell tells you that he could make around two hundred at a time over three or four years, which could provide a major boost to the orbital defences of Avernus. Admiral Parnell tells you that it is very likely that Garkill will focus his attack on Avernus and so you should consider fortifying the defences there.
Time: 4 years. (can be taken multiple times)
Cost: 396,600,000 Thrones, 99,26,000 Material, 49,530,000 Metal, 13,200,000 Promethium, 81,600 Advanced Material, 1,900 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 19,932,200 Thrones, 4,963,200 Material, 2,476,320 Metal, 660,000 Promethium, 1,632 Advanced Material, 19 Exotic Material.
Reward: build 200 Advanced Orbital Weapons Platforms over Avernus
Build Advanced Orbital Weapons Platforms: Deiphobe- The fastest orbital defences that you could build are orbital weapons platforms. Admiral Parnell tells you that he could make around two hundred at a time over three or four years, which could provide a major boost to the orbital defences of Deiphobe. Admiral Parnell tells you that the shipyards of Deiphobe are the most valuable orbital infersructure in the system and that you should consider even further strengthening their defences.
Time: 4 years.(can be taken multiple times)
Cost: 396,600,000 Thrones, 99,26,000 Material, 49,530,000 Metal, 13,200,000 Promethium, 81,600 Advanced Material, 1,900 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 19,932,200 Thrones, 4,963,200 Material, 2,476,320 Metal, 660,000 Promethium, 1,632 Advanced Material, 19 Exotic Material.
Reward: build 200 Advanced Orbital Weapons Platforms over Deiphobe
Build Advanced Orbital Weapons Platforms: Both- The fastest orbital defences that you could build are orbital weapons platforms. Admiral Parnell tells you that he could make around two hundred at a time over three or four years, which could provide a significant boost to the orbital defences of Avernus and Deiphobe. This will provide a smaller boost to bother defences but leave no target unguarded.
Time: 4 years. (can be taken multiple times)
Cost: 396,600,000 Thrones, 99,26,000 Material, 49,530,000 Metal, 13,200,000 Promethium, 81,600 Advanced Material, 1,900 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 19,932,200 Thrones, 4,963,200 Material, 2,476,320 Metal, 660,000 Promethium, 1,632 Advanced Material, 19 Exotic Material.
Reward: build 100 Advanced Orbital Weapons Platforms over Avernus and Deiphobe