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Looking around on the Star Trek wiki, I found that there's apparently a Horta on the Council.

I really want him to end up as Federation President somehow.
 
AKuz said:
"I am Commander Velim of the RRW Liberty in the service of the Romulan Citizens' Navy. Any enemy of the Technocracy is a friend of ours. Do you require assistance?" says the unfamiliarly familiar woman in the warbird's captain's chair.

"Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore captain. Again." Kahurangi mutters to himself from his spot at tactical, as Leaniss formulates her own reply to the Romulan woman.
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Can we keep them?
 
On that note, despite the joke, what happened with Opportunity? First time we see that kind of mash-up event/events in our response turn.
 
Personal Log, Stardate 57551.1, USS Enlightenment - Captain Demari Iekn

I feel like I'm underselling this anomaly, so let me explain it a little bit more because it was hard as hell to get a fix on. We picked up EM emissions that occasionally flashed across our sensors, but we couldn't figure out where they were coming from. January was ready to dismiss them as background noise, but Vetin wasn't giving up. He'd gotten his doctorate in astronomy, and realized that the noise was actually the transmissions of some huge scanner that is being bounced to us as it scatters from gravitational lensing along its path.

So! Now the hunt is on to find this giant array and take a closer look.

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Personal Log, Stardate 57551.5, USS Enlightenment - Captain Demari Iekn

I regret taking a closer look.
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Star Trek in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen.
 
My thoughts on what we might ask for in the Intelligence Steering Committee:

[ ][CARD] Cardassian Shipbuilding Report
[ ][CARD] Cardassian Fleet Strength Report
If third report available:
[ ][CARD] Cardassian Shipyard Report

Yes, technically the Cardassian Shipyard Report wasn't an option for the "free" report last time, but I don't know if that's an oversight or what since it is an option for the Klingon and Romulan free reports.


[ ][ROM] Romulan Fleet Strength Report

Hey @Simon_Jester I actually think we never got around to putting up listening posts in the Romulan Border Zone since there's no roll for a second report... sorry, you could have put that in your plan if I had thought to look it up.


[ ][KLI] Klingon Fleet Strength Report
If second report available
[ ][KLI] Klingon Shipbuilding Report

I figure that with literally everything in chaos, "how many ships do they have left" ought to be the simplest question to answer.


[ ][HOH] Horizon Diplomatic Posture Report
If second report available
[ ][HOH] Horizon Ship Analysis Report - Virtuoso Strike Corvette

The HoH uses diplomacy as their primary weapon. I would get a DP report on them every single year in preference to a ship report, but by all means let's start getting their ship stats if we can.


[ ][ISC] ISC Ship Analysis Report - Guardian Cruiser

Guardian Cruiser makes up the majority of their fleet.. might as well get stats.

Okay, now we get to the six general reports. I'm going to propose we devote three of them, half the total, to the Klingon and Romulan stuff as all of that is coming to a climax.

[ ][REPORT] Romulan New Government and Political Cohesion
[ ][REPORT] Klingon New Government and Political Cohesion
[ ][REPORT] Status/Progress of Klingon-Romulan War

Rather that asking for diplomatic posture, I would like to do a deep drill into what is going on with the governments of each of the respective sides so that we can support peace negotiation efforts, as well as our usual war status report.



[ ][REPORT] Cardassian Diplomatic Posture Report

It's been a couple of years since we got a Cardassian DP report, and this might aid in ongoing Gabriel negotiations.


[ ][REPORT] Connections between Imelak and Hismeri

Let's investigate this since it's a known mystery that could shortly explode. We have sources and contacts with the Hishmeri so a mechanism exists for SI to look into it.


[ ][REPORT] Gorn Diplomatic Posture Report

This last one is a little random, but we've been seeing increasing Gorn contact, including as far away as Licori space. It would be good to know what they're up to and where their Great Power Ambitions might be taking them.
 
NHO said:
On that note, despite the joke, what happened with Opportunity? First time we see that kind of mash-up event/events in our response turn.
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I think it was a single event written to look like multiple events in the narrative so while seems like multiple events in the fluff, it is a single event in game mechanics.
 
Briefvoice said:
[ ][HOH] Horizon Diplomatic Posture Report
If second report available
[ ][HOH] Horizon Ship Analysis Report - Virtuoso Strike Corvette
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As the first tier of Horizon research finished last year we should have 2-3 reports available.

Also we should get the tactics report for the Cardassians one more time. If they actually sign a treaty with us this year we can use the slot for other things in the future, but if they try something this year we will need all bonuses we can get. You yourself said you considered an attack in the GBZ this year a 90% near certainty. Shipyard and ship building reports are to a significant degree redundant with each other anyway.
 
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NHO said:
On that note, despite the joke, what happened with Opportunity? First time we see that kind of mash-up event/events in our response turn.
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Seems like the Opportunity had an Easy DC event this quarter, then successfully responded to four more Easy DC events.

BTW, some of our research colonies end up in the coolest places. Giganormous, centuries-old telescope array? People would sign up just to see something that crazy in person.
 
Derpmind said:
Seems like the Opportunity had an Easy DC event this quarter, then successfully responded to four more Easy DC events.

BTW, some of our research colonies end up in the coolest places. Giganormous, centuries-old telescope array? People would sign up just to see something that crazy in person.
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Giganormous, semi-sapient, pacifistic telescope array that's older than Federation.

Best thing to do is fix it up, mine it's data, expand and improve hardware but leave current observation data in databanks, so if something happens, telescope remains and will provide it's wealth of data for those who will come after. This includes further Ragnarok-proofing.
 
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27532, USS Rru'adorr - Captain Olon

We are in orbit over the Gaen homeworld, where we will be hosting a diplomatic meeting between three of the leading Institutes, a pair of Caldonian science academies, and a new crown-funded research institute that has been rising to prominence on Morshadd in the post-mentat era, in the interest of forming an interstellar research cooperative. The Gaeni and Licori organizations both requested Starfleet oversight to ensure that their counterparts negotiate honestly, and the Caldonians requested Starfleet oversight to make sure that the other two don't accidentally kill them all in an attempted demonstration.
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I think it's pretty funny that even when the Rru'adorr gets reassigned, it can't escape the Licori.

Captain's Log, Stardate 37533, USS Odyssey - Captain Enad Rebin

Trade, trade, what is trade?

To many interstellar relations scholars, the first step to peace. Now, we've already had some successes in getting the Dawiar to trade with us, but we need to do something without Cardassian supervision, and make some inroads with the merchants. If we can demonstrate we are profitable partners, they might be inclined to help us sneak around the Cardassians and lobby the Dawiar leadership for closer ties.

To that end, we've secretly set up a meeting in neutral space between several Dawiar trading guilds. In addition to being a chance to meet with them directly, I have sensed tension between several of the major guilds. This presents an opportunity to show how adept the Federation is at juggling competing interests.
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Okay, so the Odyssey will gets its own separate Events? I thought it was being subsumed in Task Force rolls.

Captain's Log, Stardate 27536.4, USS Rru'adorr - Captain Olon

The representatives have all arrived, and there is already trouble. Despite the new Imperial Guild of Scientists being designed to create new generations of non-augmented scientists, many of their senior researchers and administrators are partial mentats, and their chief exotic physicist - the Mentat Rabena - is one of the few remaining full-conversion mentats who was modified before the war and has yet to expire.
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I am unclear. Are full-conversion mentats completely banned now, or just heavily restricted and regulated? They're not making any new full mentats?

Captain's Log, Stardate 27538, USS Rru'adorr - Captain Olon

There has been a disaster. An exotic energy burst from the saucer section has temporarily disabled many of the ship's functions, and perpetuated beyond the hull to disable over one hundred satellites in Gaen's orbitals and disrupt communications across a large section of the planet's eastern hemisphere. We have managed to restore partial functionality to the main computer, and it has calculated that the blast originated in the laboratory space set aside to contain the Licori tech samples. Security will be down there as soon as the turbolifts are working again.
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So this little stunt took out comms over half the planet. Forget apologizing to the Licori, half of Gaen is going to be after Kashtak!

Captain's Log, Stardate 57541.8, USS Odyssey - Captain Enad Rebin

The Dawiar put up a courageous effort to seem unimpressed by our onboard industrial package. The wheels were certainly turning in their heads as to the opportunity any one of them might gain over the others if they had access to it first. So I graciously said that the technology could be shared equally if the Dawiar government would open up relations. I'll let that pressure sit in the Clan Halls on Kharhazad!

But that effort has been undone. Guild Chieftan Dokun wanted to hear some tales of my glory. They were unimpressed with some of my diplomatic achievements, so I highlighted using old Vigour to defeat a macrocosmozoan.

This prompted Ulbir to immediately offer me his daughter's hand in marriage. When I stated I was already happily betrothed, he offered his son's hand as well. This insulted Chieftan Kort, whom had been secretly promised the daughter to marry his son, a secret deal to merge their two guilds. He revealed this, which lead to Akesh and Dokun declaring them both treacherous and immediately starting a fight.
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I am starting to remember why we once upon a time said, "the Ashalla Pact can have those troublesome Dawiar!"

Captain's Log, Stardate 57546.2, USS Odyssey - Captain Enad Rebin

I have successfully wed Ulbir's daughter to Kort's son, exercising authority as a ship captain that apparently extends to even the Dawiar. Toasts have been offered, and Akesh and Dokun have been impressed by the speed at which Ensign Alemi and Commander Nejem threw together a feast.

The Dawiar have returned to their ships happy, and eager for more contacts like this. They offered fifty kilotons of starship construction material as an incentive to return. I played up dissatisfaction with their earlier behaviour, and in return they all decided to gift me an additional fifty kilotons of starship construction material.

[+10 br, +15 on Ashalla Pact tag (now 28/???)]
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Yes, 28/??? until they become our problem.

Wow, if that's a 300 point tag we could be working on this a few years.


Captain's Log, Stardate 27548, USS Sarek - Captain Samyr Kanil

Upon entering the system, we were met by Felis ships which escorted us to orbit of the fifth planet, Marurar. Apparently, in the dominant language it means something like "cradle." The traders have been beamed down, and are being housed by the corporate entities that they're here to talk business with; from what I can gather, the role of the government is limited to providing security. One of the rigellians has already told me that her felis counterpart was shocked when asked if they'd be dealing with the planetary government, and made something of a speech about that being a hallmark of tyranny. I think I'm starting to understand why Task Force Beyond got off to such a rocky start with the Felis.

They've been welcoming enough so far, if disorganized. According to the history they've shared, Marurar is their oldest and most developed extrastellar colony, and one of the firsts to declare independence. Most of the landmasses are covered in shining, hologram-covered cities, and even parts of the ocean are built over. I feel like we have more to learn about these people than we've yet suspected.
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That is one populated planet, and it's only a colony! These Felis may be a bigger deal than we thought.

Personal Log, Stardate 57551, USS Enlightenment - Captain Demari Iekn

This has already been a very productive trip. The Yrillian pirates that frequented this area left these areas relatively intact. They have a fascinating pirate code under which they viewed themselves as the caretakers of this space. So they protected it in addition to, you know, raiding people. Gaining Yrillian cooperation has been a major coup for the FDS. For the first time in a century, we're turning over all sorts of rocks.

Three fascinating stellar phenomena in five days, giving the good science officer January tons of work to do. Several Rigellian and Yrillian war artefacts recovered, which would probably make Zolani jealous if she wasn't getting Ambassador. And a very, very tantalizing anomaly that has appeared on our sensors. I'm going to fly Enlightenment over there and give it a poke.
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Lots of interesting Yrillian stuff coming out in this log.

So! Now the hunt is on to find this giant array and take a closer look.

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Personal Log, Stardate 57551.5, USS Enlightenment - Captain Demari Iekn

I regret taking a closer look.
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Hahahahaha!

Captain's Log, Stardate 57551.5, USS Enlightenment - Captain Demari Iekn

Upon arrival in the system known as LX-9175, we detected extensive ground facilities on the fourth planet, M-class, consistent with a very large telescope array. We took up orbit over the planet and made preparations to beam down. Lieutenant Commander Chen at Science then reported the array had shifted alignment and was now aimed at us, broadcasting at an estimated 5% power. Lieutenant Commander val Kegh at Tactical informed me that the full output of the array would present a severe threat to our vessel.

I issued a Red Alert and Commander Nercissus began to oversee tactical preparations. However, we have now been contacted by the 'facility.' I use that term loosely, because it appears to possess some sort of limited artificial intelligence. It has informed us any movement and we will be destroyed. Well, I've had worse introductions.
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Logically Chen is going to be a pretty common last name, but on the other hand it's fiction so any characters with the same last name must be related. It's a rule!

While the equipment inside is old, it is sturdy and powerful. More importantly, the databanks are overflowing with information. Pure Intent has been studying deep-space anomalies for five hundreds years uninterrupted, including a century-long deep-penetrating observation of Sagittarius A*. It'll take decades for our scientists to dig through all of it, nevermind the new information its automated routines have it drinking in.

[New RP Colony - Pure Intent Array 8rp/yr]
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That's really nice... man, I think we have to shell out for another Research team next Snakepit. Maybe Propulsion?

Captain's Log, Stardate 37556.8, USS Sarek - Captain Samyr Kanil

Once we were able to get access to some de-classified company internal communication logs - for a price - we managed to find something. Somehow, someone provoked a frenzied game of telephone between corporate allies that ended with us being seen as a threat to their collective profits. A board member of one of the companies involved in this snowballing fit of mass hysteria was the man who provided the phony evidence that made Roinr appear to be a spy.

I made arrangements to speak with this individual. An hour later, he was murdered.

Well, at least now the police are cooperating with us.

Captain's Log, Stardate 37557.6, USS Sarek - Captain Samyr Kanil

The assassin was identified as a long-suspected local criminal. If there was any doubt as to his guilt, the man has also seemingly vanished off the face of the planet. The search is ongoing, but prospects appear dim.

Roinr has been released, and - while they haven't outright apologized - most of the corporations have resumed talks with our mercantile representatives.

[Gain +25 relations with Felis]
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I liked Kanil playing detective, but it feels like we never did learn the full truth of what happened here. Who was behind all of this? Was it another Harmony of Horizon play? Oh, surely not. Well, at least we added to the "Federation Influence" tag that they're having to clear.

Personal Log, Stardate 37558 - Captain Demora Sulu

The governor was right! Ashidi whitewine really does make a great basting for fish or poultry whitemeat, and it retains just enough alcohol throughout the cooking process to give the meat a subtle tingle in your mouth. I'm going to have to make this for dad next time I'm on Earth. I'm not going to have time to make it there before the S'Harien completes its repairs, of course, but someday!
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Random not-S'Hairen log!

Captain's Log, Stardate 37558.3, USS Exeter

Three of the stars in the Gulf just exchanged a burst of energy that propagated through subspace, through a very narrow corridor. Unfortunately, we have so far proven unable to determine the exact vectors, let alone the catalyst, for this event. Additional research should be conducted on this trinary system in the future.

[Event failed]
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Nothing important out there on the Cardassian border, I'm sure.

Captain's Log, Stardate 37559, USS Opportunity - Huth fop Makpol

The freighter IKS Fakrolnir is missing some pieces to Romulan disruptors, which explains why they couldn't communicate or navigate. Unfortunately, beaming aboard revealed that these klingons have been having almost as good a month as I have; for some incomprehensible reason, they were ferrying three hundred live targs, half of which escaped containment and have been rampaging throughout the ship. With some parts of the ship too bathed in radiation leakage for transporter locks, we had to beam a search and rescue team over. With suits. And phasers. With bayonets on them.

The surviving klingons have been rescued now, and we have enough barbecued pork to feed the entire ship and then some. Now we're going to finish with that station and then I'm going to destroy OUR communications array before we can hear from anybody else.

[Gain +5 br, +5 rp, +5 pp]
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That would have been a screwball comedy episode, I think.
 
Briefvoice said:
Okay, so the Odyssey will gets its own separate Events? I thought it was being subsumed in Task Force rolls.
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After last quarter, we decided that it wasn't fair for an EC ship to be getting its logs subsumed into a task force report. Its still part of the task force, but Rebin's logs will be in the CL posts rather than the TF ones (though the TF report will still allude to those events, of course).
 
Nix said:
Also we should get the tactics report for the Cardassians one more time. If they actually sign a treaty with us this year we can use the slot for other things in the future, but if they try something this year we will need all bonuses we can get. You yourself said you considered an attack in the GBZ this year a 90% near certainty. Shipyard and ship building reports are to a significant degree redundant with each other anyway.
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Our Tactics Report from last year is good through Q3, and I was assuming whatever would go down will happen by then. I suppose you're right, though, and I wouldn't hurt to cover all the bases by ordering the tactics report in case they attack in Q4.
 
I think we might be best off against the Cardies ordering a Tactics report and a Diplomatic Posture report. Both are arguably more important to our short-term needs than something like "have they built any new berths?" We have a pretty good idea of what they'd have been doing for the past few years, lots of cruiser refits and stuff. They might have trotted out a new cruiser class entirely but it'd still be in the "we have like one prototype phase" if we haven't heard of it in our previous wave of reports.

But their diplomatic posture matters a lot to any negotiations President Okaar may want to attempt, and the tactics report... well, they might very well jump us.

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That is one populated planet, and it's only a colony! These Felis may be a bigger deal than we thought.
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I feel slightly vindicated in thinking a diplomatic push on them was worthwhile. Granted, we got lucky and had an EC event bump our relations with them further upwards- but what if the roll had gone south and we'd gotten a -25 instead? That would have pushed us into negative territory if the push hadn't happened.

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[ ][ROM] Romulan Fleet Strength Report

Hey @Simon_Jester I actually think we never got around to putting up listening posts in the Romulan Border Zone since there's no roll for a second report... sorry, you could have put that in your plan if I had thought to look it up.
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Honestly, you and Nix weren't wrong about the need for us to build more heavy berths, so I don't regret not seeing this option. A cruiser berth at Utopia Planitia that lets us refit Excelsior-Bs and repair Excelsiors without disrupting Ambassador refits and construction is probably a better use of the PP than "RBZ listening posts plus research colony," at least for this year IMO.

[ ][HOH] Horizon Diplomatic Posture Report
If second report available
[ ][HOH] Horizon Ship Analysis Report - Virtuoso Strike Corvette

The HoH uses diplomacy as their primary weapon. I would get a DP report on them every single year in preference to a ship report, but by all means let's start getting their ship stats if we can.
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Huh. Good point.

[ ][ISC] ISC Ship Analysis Report - Guardian Cruiser

Guardian Cruiser makes up the majority of their fleet.. might as well get stats.
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Do we get a free report on them? I thought we hadn't done the research on them yet...?

Okay, now we get to the six general reports. I'm going to propose we devote three of them, half the total, to the Klingon and Romulan stuff as all of that is coming to a climax.

[ ][REPORT] Romulan New Government and Political Cohesion
[ ][REPORT] Klingon New Government and Political Cohesion
[ ][REPORT] Status/Progress of Klingon-Romulan War

Rather that asking for diplomatic posture, I would like to do a deep drill into what is going on with the governments of each of the respective sides so that we can support peace negotiation efforts, as well as our usual war status report.
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While the last time we asked for this kind of two-sided report it backfired, that was under very different conditions, and I think that this time there are good reasons to do this.

[ ][REPORT] Cardassian Diplomatic Posture Report

It's been a couple of years since we got a Cardassian DP report, and this might aid in ongoing Gabriel negotiations.

[ ][REPORT] Connections between Imelak and Hismeri

Let's investigate this since it's a known mystery that could shortly explode. We have sources and contacts with the Hishmeri so a mechanism exists for SI to look into it.
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Agreed.

[ ][REPORT] Gorn Diplomatic Posture Report

This last one is a little random, but we've been seeing increasing Gorn contact, including as far away as Licori space. It would be good to know what they're up to and where their Great Power Ambitions might be taking them.
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Possible, but this is very much my lowest priority and I might want ot swap it out for something else.

Oshha said:
I think it was a single event written to look like multiple events in the narrative so while seems like multiple events in the fluff, it is a single event in game mechanics.
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Yeah.

Huth fop Makpol's schtick is to be snarky while undergoing all sorts of trials and tribulations at the hands of other people's wackiness, incompetence, or irrationality. So having his ship frantically darting back and forth across the quadrant doing way too many things, and handling them all competently, is just about perfect there as the flavor text for this kind of event.
 
Briefvoice said:
Our Tactics Report from last year is good through Q3, and I was assuming whatever would go down will happen by then. I suppose you're right, though, and I wouldn't hurt to cover all the bases by ordering the tactics report in case they attack in Q4.
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If they start something in Q3 or late Q2 we can't particularly count on it being over at the end of Q3 either.
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Do we get a free report on them? I thought we hadn't done the research on them yet...?
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We get a dedicated report on them from having funded a dedicated Starfleet Intelligence desk for them in the snakepit, just like we do for the HoH, for which we will also get a dedicated report from Horizon Analysis. We never got the chance to do the same for the Klingons, Romulans or Cardassians, which is a bit odd, but perhaps dedicated desks for them were already factored into the base number of reports. Or are locked in to give us the automatic border force reports, which we don't get for HoH or ISC.

Anyway, the dedicated reports have three mechanically entirely independent possible sources, and the HoH is the only polity for which we get reports from all three.
 
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Jrin said:
No issue with others but I really would like to swap it out for a Ittick-Ka diplo posture or general status report, we don't have enough time in building our ties with Gorn plus they are hard to read at the moment so we might not get a lot of info.
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I don't know what a "general status report" is... and wouldn't everything you said about the Gorn apply to the Ittick-Ka?
 
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