(QM note: Random Name Generators are fun)
SCIENCE!
You decide that the next idea that needs to go from thought to metal is the sleep learning machine. Yes it has side effects if overused, but the benefits greatly outweigh the flaws.
Over the week you steadily work on building the device, and you have a prototype that should work by dinner on Tuesday. As it turns out though, no-one wants to volunteer to be the first to test it, leaving you in a bit of a bind.
You ultimately decide to...
[] Test it yourself
[] Volunteer someone
[] Offer some sort of incentive
[] write in
{Wednesday}
You walk into the hangar for the launch of your new pocket warship. You ultimately decided to let the engineers who made the ship name it, and they decided to follow the naval tradition of naming the first ship and the class of ship it belongs to the same. Thus, your new heavily armed brick of murder is named the Pitbull.
The Pitbull's form factor is designed with trilateral symmetry, with 3 plasma cannons in turrets in the rear third of its length, and a fourth as a spinal mount. It also has 6 laser turrets built into the hull for point defense. The Pitbull is quite obviously built with only one job in mind, and that job is murder. Every last kilogram of its mass is devoted to ensuring it can do this job effectively, and the projections indicate that it could theoretically go up against an alien ship 3 times its mass with a reasonable chance of victory.
The 3 person crew salutes as they enter the hangar, and you begin the short speech you'd cobbled together.
"Earth is under siege by invaders from another world, but all hope is not lost. Though they have technology greater than most of Earth, we've already proven that we as an organization have parity with them. Though the aliens may attempt to burn our civilization, with this ship and those like it we will make them pay in blood for every square inch of usable land. The Pitbull will take 'em by the balls."
{EVENT}{Thursday}
It's just after breakfast when a Joe and one of your soldiers walk up to you in the corridor, the Joe asking you "Can we make a weird request?"
Your answer is "That depends entirely on what the request is."
Your absolutely sure that if you'd installed that feature the robot would be blushing, and the soldier actually is as the Joe asks "I'd like a couple things actually. First, I was hoping I could maybe have some sort of personal identity besides 'Joe 14'. And the other thing is, well..."
Your soldier sighs as he picks up "We've gotten into a relationship and we both want to take it further, but we can't because she isn't properly equipped."
A sneaking suspicion occurs to you as you ask the Joe "Command Override (query): Did he order you to love him?" using one of your failsafes to ensure a truthful answer.
Joe 14 answers "No, he suggested we go on a date, and I decided I'd like to do it with him again a few hours after the first one. That was about 4 days ago."
You nod, before saying "Congratulations, you are now
[] Sarah
[] Petronella
[] Alcyone
[] Anne
[] Write In"
You then continue "As for modifying you to facilitate a more intimate relationship,
[] I can make some time (Post a picture, that's now her Civilian mode)(needs 2 hours)
[] I'm busy, but I've got plans I can forward to the engineering department (Let the QM do it)(Results in civilian mode being implemented as standard upgrade for Joes that want it)
[] I've got a really full schedule, but I'll see if I can make some time (Procrastinate)
[] Command Override (order): No {Parental Creator Marriage Veto}
Your moon base will be finished by the end of the week, and you think it would be a good idea to delegate responsibility for managing it. Thus, you search through your ranks for anyone who looks like they'll make a good base commander. It takes a bit of work, but you find 5 candidates who seem viable. You ultimately decide to appoint
[] Joe 37 (+ incorruptible loyalty, + good at multitasking, - inexperienced)
[] Steven Huddleson {Engineer} (+ reduces cost of base upgrades by 10%, + faster design for new aerospace craft, - Alcoholic)
[] Janet Dupree {Scientist} (+ faster research, - requires larger budget for research projects)
[] Dan Ger {Soldier} (+ improved combat training, - Blood Knight)
[] Grant {Janitor} (+ No messes at all, + Eager to prove himself, + Learns extra fast, + rather wise, - very inexperienced, - more likely to suffer insubordination)
as sub-commander for the moon base named Von Braun
Quite bluntly, your current state of affairs pertaining to public relations are completely unsustainable. Currently, you and the alien situation are the subject of 30% of the world's internet traffic, and of that 35% is conspiracy theories as to your motives, 15% is slander, and all of it is biased. Still, public opinion of you is nowhere near good, especially given that some people are claiming you disappeared someone in Switzerland (annoyingly, that was just you hiring Gio getting misconstrued).
QM rolled 1d20: 18 | Great success!
You quickly remedy this, hiring some spokespeople to keep public opinion of your activities more towards the positive than the negative. Though this is a demanding job, you manage to hire on 23 people to handle PR. They work amazingly well together, and the populations opinion of you quickly halts its downwards slide. If you want it to improve you might need to make a public appearance, but that can wait a bit.
Quite bluntly, for the last few weeks you've been mostly flailing around on instinct in a very poorly defined command structure save for the fact that you're on top. Thus you and the various department heads make a couple hours for a conference. When it's done, you've got a clearly defined chain of command, along with some general guidelines and basic anti-alien doctrine. Said doctrine also includes guidelines detailing when it's appropriate to do something completely insane in hopes of catching the aliens off guard.
The command ranks are as follows
Commander (CMD): You. Complete overarching authority over the whole organization
Sub-Commander (SCD): An individual with command over the resources of a single base
Department Head (DPH): People in charge of parts of the organization like Research and Engineering. They have authority over their department throughout the whole organization.
Local Department Head (LDH): Similar to a SCD and DPH, an LDH is basically a DPH with authority only within a single base.
Operational Commanding Officer (OCO): An OCO is deployed in the field, and has authority over every asset involved in the operation.
Forward Operative Officer (FOO): A FOO is deployed in the field, and has command over no more than 10 individuals. They are subordinate to OCOs and their primary job is to keep their squad alive while still achieving mission goals. If the OCO orders their squad to do something blatantly suicidal without saving at least twice the amount of civilian lives, the FOO may not be punished for insubordination for refusing.
