Sooo, totals with regards to Orions...
60 of our Cost carried over from last year. We had a total of 33 Cost this year (0, 8, 15, 10) and we have Resilience 32. Only 1 Cost applied, hah! So we'll get (rounding up) 37pp from our yearly. Will half of the total cost (61) carry over, or will just the 1 Cost from this year carry over? If the latter, we are SET.
Total Impact is now 426. A bit lower than anticipated, but oh well. Possibility exists for us to have overestimated by up to 7 Impact, but unlikely.
We are now at 175 total pp for the year, in addition to the +37 from our yearly income, and we still have another set of Captain's Logs to go. So at least 212pp to spend which is awesome. Probably going to be around 230 or so, so we can afford to really expand some berths and get starbases and shit. Maybe even promote some Rear Admirals!
I just want everyone to be on board with what a diplomatic push can actually accomplish here. It's most certainly not going to "get them onboard" or "cut off some of the Sydraxian' resource flow". The best we can realistically hope for is to open up some lines of communication so we get expanded intelligence. These guys are firmly under Sydraxian thumb, and a few diplomatic visits won't change that. In the worst case, it's Bajor 2.0 and freaks the Sydraxians out so much that they go whole hog and simply install a puppet government. Not saying it will happen, but it's possible.
Agreed?
Now you can argue that better communications is worth the 20pp, but I'd probably rather have a starbase or a new vice admiral position or make Seruk retire. I just don't find what we can actually achieve for 20 pp to be worth it.
Personally, I think that raising the Gretarians to 100+ relations will give us the opportunity to start down the road of prying them away from the Sydraxians. It may also let us do things like the Cardassians did with the Dawiar and arm them sufficiently to defend themselves. Hell, if we're going to be really cold, forcing the Sydraxians to pull a Bajor and invade them will tie up resources and time that they can't spend in the GBZ attacking us.
Nah, not necessary. We're good for enough budget to produce all the ships our crewing can reasonably support for the next few years.
Given that we have plenty of pp to go around, do you think having more resources would help with getting more refits done?
Seems more like a Sousa deal to me. I still like the idea of approaching the Council about hiring some of their frieghters or shipyards to held reduce our freighter crunch, while simultaneously improving relations with them. I mean, if a special Council session option appears I might vote for it, but we can't request the option. We can only act on it if it appears.
Before the 2312 Snakepit, Oneiros asked if we wanted anything included in the Snakepit and several people asked about Sydraxian options. Voila, instant Council session option. Given that we have so much PP now, I would very much prefer to spend 30pp on a session than use a Sousa deal. I'd much rather, say, do a deal with the Hawks to get a +2/2/2 Academy expansion. Or open up Officer/Enlisted school options like the Science Academy for Techs (+1 crew for 15pp).
I'm opposed. Those ships are going vital work bringing us extra resources and political will and research points.
I would agree, but I would also note that I do not want to release the EC for combat ops for extended periods. I would like to gather them up in a murderball with every Member World ship and Starfleet ship we can spare and go kick the Cardassians out of the GBZ while killing every starship we can over the course of a quarter. Given how the combat Calculator works, 5 EC Excelsiors with heavily boosted stats will allow us to complete such an operation with relatively low casualties. And if we can force them to battle, we can probably kill quite a few Jalduns and maybe a Lorgot before we force them out of the GBZ, then go deal with those who have been left behind.
I have to go for Border World focus. We need to drive hard for that and then for Mutual Support. Then we can swing back around and get "To Boldly Go".
Yeah, reasonable. If we can afford to boost twice we can get each tech in 2 research turns. IMO we need Mutual Support quickly or the penalties from not responding to events because of the GBZ are going to kill us.
