The population growth of Avernus has risen slightly to an average of 0.25% over the last half decade.
Expand Juve-nat factories- Recently the use of Juve-Nat by your military has reached the point where it is digging into your reserves. While you still have decades before the reserves start running out it would still be a good idea to expand these factories sooner rather then later, time consuming and expensive as it is.
Time: 24 years
Cost: 57,000,000,000 Thrones, 11,000,000,000 Material, 570,000,000 Metal, 2,300,000,000 Promethium, 4,400,000 Advanced Material.
Upkeep per year: 5,700,000,000 Thrones, 1,100,000,000 Material, 57,000,000 Metal, 230,000,000 Promethium, 440,000 Advanced Material.
Reward: expand Juve-Nat factories to produce 2.8 billion doses a year.
Locked- Twenty-Three out of Twenty-Four years completed
Isaac has continued to work on expanding your Juve-Nat Factories, and is almost finished. He tells you that around half of the factories have begun operations, and that the remainder are in the process of finishing their staffs training and carrying out last minute calibrations, which will be over within six months.
Expand (Salem) to Large Hive- Now that Dis is filling it may be a good idea to build another large Hive. This will allow you access to another major strongpoint, and provide a massive amount of buffer for population growth. While not urgent work should begin on this before Dis fills.
Time: 18 years.
Cost: 22,000,000,000 Thrones, 21,000,000,000 Material, 20,000,000,000 Metal, 4,700,000,000 Promethium, 4,300,000 Advanced Material, 29,000 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 220,000,000 Thrones, 210,000,000 Material, 200,000,000 Metal, 47,000,000 Promethium, 43,000 Advanced Material, 290 Exotic Material.
Reward: Expand Small Hive to Large Hive, +9 billion population capacity, +300 million population base
Locked- Eight out of Eighteen years completed
Issac's work on expanding Salem in Aridia to a Large Hive is continuing apace, with the foundations of the expansion completed and work beginning on the skeleton of the expanded Hive. As things stand the Hive has been rendered highly vulnerable to attack due to the expansion work, and as such General Richards has deployed an entire army of PDF to fortify the Hives surroundings.
Technological Improvements: (Food)-The Imperial Trust gained access to a massive amount of new technology in the Grand Conclave which you will be able to use to almost double your food production. This will require major retooling of massive portions of Avernus and will be a time consuming and expensive process, but will allow you to easily provide for even a significantly larger population.
Time: 5 years. (can be taken 3 times)
Cost: 7,200,000,000 Thrones, 720,000,000 Material, 72,000,000 Metal, 140,000,000 Promethium, 390,000 Advanced Material, 4,800 Exotic Material.
Reward: Increase production of food by +19%(currently +106.5%)
Complete
Issac has spent the last half decade working on implementing the next of the farming improvements that you were taught after the Grand Conclave. While these were not quite enough to remove your current deficient, they did slash it by two thirds, and the next improvement is likely to be enough to put Avernus back in the black.
Personal Attention: Build Hive (Tarascon, Northern Area)- There are several of your regions that have good locations to build a new Hive in, allowing your population and economy to grow further without expanding into a new region. As things stand you could build 1 Hive in Avernus' Spine, 3 in The Fair isles, 1 in Lindon, 2 in The Fens, 12 in Elysium and 2 in Aridia.
Time: 14 years.
Cost: 4,900,000,000 Thrones, 4,000,000,000 Material, 3,700,000,000 Metal, 6,700,000,000 Promethium, 3,500,000 Advanced Material, 40,000 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 277,000,000 Thrones, 234,000,000 Material, 217,000,000 Metal, 39,500,000 Promethium, 19,500 Advanced Material, 234 Exotic Material.
Reward: Build new Small Hive in selected region
Locked- Nine out of Fourteen years completed
Work on building the next Hive city in Tarascon has continued under your instructions, and is entering its final stages. According to reports the Hive itself has been built, and just needs work done on its living areas and defences before it can be called compelte.
Construction Expertise: Administration Assistance- As a result of the recent reforms in the Adeptus Mechanicus it is now possible for secular authorities to oversee the expansion of a Forge-City or the upgrading of its defences at the request of the local leader of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Fabricator-General Scott has requested that the Avernite Administratum oversee the upgrading of the defences of all of the Forge-Cities in the system, and the expansion of Belagost, Annwn and Mag Mell.
Time: As Project
Cost: As Project +10%
Reward: Does one Upgrade Defences, Expand or Expand and Upgrade from Fabricator-General
Locked- Nineteen out of Twenty-Four years completed
Rosalinda continues to oversee the expansion of Mag Mell into a Huge Forge-Hive, and is now in the final stages of the project. She tells you that it has been interesting working with the Adeptus Mechanicus on this scale.