Enerael
We Shall Wake to Sanity
Ah, I misread their lifetime Access for total. Thanks for the correction.
We are seriously clowning them in this game then.
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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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We are seriously clowning them in this game then.
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- They/Them
It says "one per power per quarter." You cannot do the Bolians twice.
Himmelhand
Giant Sinkhole 2020
- Location
- Midwestern US
IIRC we have to identify which sleeper cell we're sweeping, right? Plan Random might need editing.
Trek canon: Starfleet is bad at stealth. The Romulans abd Klingons have ships designed to cloak.
TBG canon: Cloaking devices are a neat trick, but real stealth is having sensors so powerful they can see everyone's blindspots. Even if they're blindspots you haven't made yet.(At this point I'm expecting our two oldest great power neighbors to start investing in tech to counter Federation stealth techniques.)
[X] [DISRUPT] Two to Unsubordinate
-[X] Undo Subordination of Neutral Polity (reduces 1 level of possible 3, 1 per power per quarter)
--[X] Bolians
--[X] Bolians x2
--[X] Licori Nobles
-[X] Chip Detection Level 2 (2 available of 3 total levels)
-[X] Singer Network Data Level 2 (1 to 3 levels, increases offensive event rate)
Every polity we bring down to 0 subordination is a polity that the Singers must counter or instead concede. So by bringing two polities down to 0 we'll either bring them permanently to our side or slow down Singer tech-up actions. Since we have the Disruption this turn to do our own tech-up actions in addition to removing Singer progress, doing both means no matter what the Singers spend Acces on to counter, we end up ahead.
I think we can only push each polity once per quarter, so this plan might not be valid.
Enerael
We Shall Wake to Sanity
Pretty sure that picking Bolians twice is invalid.
Also, I would recommend the Felis instead as they seem like a larger power and it would help the ISC and therefore the overall effort a great deal.
Edit: Double ninja!
Wonderful. I am definitely looking forwards to seeing the fruits of this.
What did the operation look like from the perspective of the Harmony though? Sarek was quite deliberately visible. Is the official secret story that the maneuver was some We can penetrate your defenses so hard dickwaving? Or maybe an attempt to get an Explorer Corps vessel to the opposite side of their space as the next step to the whole Nessic stuff?
[X] [DISRUPT] Plan Electronic Countermeasures
-[X] Undo Subordination of Neutral Polity (Licori Nobles)
-[X] Chip Detection Level 2
-[X] Chip Detection Level 3
-[X] Sweep Sleeper Cell
-[X] Singer Network Data Level 2
Okay, here's my plan. If I am not misreading "2 available" in the Chip Detection description, it means we can get both levels right now. Therefore, I think it would serve us better to get both levels and sweep once, rather than sweep twice and get one level.
-[X] Undo Subordination of Neutral Polity (Licori Nobles)
-[X] Chip Detection Level 2
-[X] Chip Detection Level 3
-[X] Sweep Sleeper Cell
-[X] Singer Network Data Level 2
Okay, here's my plan. If I am not misreading "2 available" in the Chip Detection description, it means we can get both levels right now. Therefore, I think it would serve us better to get both levels and sweep once, rather than sweep twice and get one level.
Enerael
We Shall Wake to Sanity
A good idea, but given these:
It seems to mean "level 2 available of 3 total levels".
- Location
- Outside the Box
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- She/Her
[X] [DISRUPT] Fundamentals and Pushes
-[X] Undo Subordination of Neutral Polity (reduces 1 level of possible 3, 1 per power per quarter)
--[X] Bolians
--[X] Felis
--[X] Licori Nobles
-[X] Chip Detection Level 2 (2 available of 3 total levels)
-[X] Singer Network Data Level 2 (1 to 3 levels, increases offensive event rate)
Switching to this plan. This lets us threaten two more polities with unsubordination next turn and keeps both of them away from 3/3 subordination. Basically flip things so we're on the offensive instead of the HoH herd.
We have 5 actions this quarter, not 4. We have 27 disruption to spend and each action costs 5 disruption.
It's 2 out of 3 avaliable, so I interpret that to mean only the second of 3 total levels is available for purchase.
-[X] Undo Subordination of Neutral Polity (reduces 1 level of possible 3, 1 per power per quarter)
--[X] Bolians
--[X] Felis
--[X] Licori Nobles
-[X] Chip Detection Level 2 (2 available of 3 total levels)
-[X] Singer Network Data Level 2 (1 to 3 levels, increases offensive event rate)
Switching to this plan. This lets us threaten two more polities with unsubordination next turn and keeps both of them away from 3/3 subordination. Basically flip things so we're on the offensive instead of the HoH herd.
We have 5 actions this quarter, not 4. We have 27 disruption to spend and each action costs 5 disruption.
It's 2 out of 3 avaliable, so I interpret that to mean only the second of 3 total levels is available for purchase.
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- Outside the Box
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- She/Her
We can't purchase Level 2 and 3 in the same turn, correct?
Enerael
We Shall Wake to Sanity
Intentional, see below.
I do not consider pushing all three of the contested powers to be a good idea as we easily might not have the Disruption to finish the job next turn, and sweeping with lvl 1 Chip Detection seems risky and wasteful.
Couldn't it mean "Only one level was available during last turn, but two levels are available this turn"? Saying "You can buy level 2" when you are already buying an item named "Level 2" makes little sense to me.
Himmelhand
Giant Sinkhole 2020
- Location
- Midwestern US
I'm not really convinced that the sleeper cells are a great investment of our resources at this point. Running rudimentary chip detection on a not particularly friendly private fleet seems like a good way to have things backfire.
[X] [DISRUPT] Fundamentals and Pushes
-[X] Undo Subordination of Neutral Polity (reduces 1 level of possible 3, 1 per power per quarter)
--[X] Bolians
--[X] Felis
--[X] Licori Nobles
-[X] Chip Detection Level 2 (2 available of 3 total levels)
-[X] Singer Network Data Level 2 (1 to 3 levels, increases offensive event rate)
[X] [DISRUPT] Fundamentals and Pushes
-[X] Undo Subordination of Neutral Polity (reduces 1 level of possible 3, 1 per power per quarter)
--[X] Bolians
--[X] Felis
--[X] Licori Nobles
-[X] Chip Detection Level 2 (2 available of 3 total levels)
-[X] Singer Network Data Level 2 (1 to 3 levels, increases offensive event rate)
- Location
- USA
[X] [DISRUPT] Fundamentals and Pushes
-[X] Undo Subordination of Neutral Polity (reduces 1 level of possible 3, 1 per power per quarter)
--[X] Bolians
--[X] Felis
--[X] Licori Nobles
-[X] Chip Detection Level 2 (2 available of 3 total levels)
-[X] Singer Network Data Level 2 (1 to 3 levels, increases offensive event rate)
We have the momentum, lets exploit it!
-[X] Undo Subordination of Neutral Polity (reduces 1 level of possible 3, 1 per power per quarter)
--[X] Bolians
--[X] Felis
--[X] Licori Nobles
-[X] Chip Detection Level 2 (2 available of 3 total levels)
-[X] Singer Network Data Level 2 (1 to 3 levels, increases offensive event rate)
We have the momentum, lets exploit it!
[X] [DISRUPT] Fundamentals and Pushes
- Location
- Aotearoa
Cool, gripping, well written update with neat EC Science tricks and our CiC slipping into villain mode.
This isn't entirely clear, can someone expand what it means?
Chip Detection Level 2 (2 available of 3 total levels)
2 of what available?
This isn't entirely clear, can someone expand what it means?
Chip Detection Level 2 (2 available of 3 total levels)
2 of what available?
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ClawClawBite
Mad Engineering!
- Location
- Seattle, WA
[X] [DISRUPT] Fundamentals and Pushes
There are 3 total levels of detection. You can buy up to 2 of those 3 levels, including the one you already brought (Level 1). The max level you can purchase to is 2 without future developments.Cool, gripping, well written update with neat EC Science tricksand our CiC slipping into villain mode.
This isn't entirely clear, can someone expand what it means?
Chip Detection Level 2 (2 available of 3 total levels)
2 of what available?
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- They/Them
I bet the Corporate Wolfpack is another of these, a very useful one.
- Location
- Aotearoa
Refits? Probably refits.
I think we might have caused a need for yard time too, which throws off those carefully calculated yard schedules even more. Unless you're nuts and build for mass production of everything and then leave a slip open in every Theater plus repair slips where you expect to fight high intensity wars, such as the Gabriel Expanse.
Hypothetically.
On the other hand, this is another example of how Starfleet's neophilia has shaped things in odd directions. Rather than rolling out a ship or a pair of ships on a steady schedule, we construct waves, which makes delaying one or two slips a quarter of even a year less of a big deal for predictable outcomes from inside the system. From outside the system, outside of the esthetics, the diplomacy and the mad science, Starfleet reinvents the capacities of its ships and fleets every few years with little to no warning.
- Location
- Illinois
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- He/Him
That sounds… bad.
That is also bad. Still, we knew there was stuff up with the Felis and their corps have always been shady.
Still good progress. As long as we keep it up we'll have better scans soon.
Let's go! A good quarter.
Nice work!
Again, nice work!
Well, cancels out our relations gain. But we still got the disruption, so I think this went something like:
*stealth is optional for this mission*
*guard has detected your presence*
Rangers: "Did someone say Bazooka time?"
Excellent work.
Damn. We can't win them all on access but losing a team for 2 quarters like this is much more painful than the access.
Chen you're sounding ominous again.
Since we started feeding them pure and refined plot powder! It's a key component of the Starfleet diet, beginning immediately after a cadet takes Command 102: "So you wanna be James T Kirk, huh?"
Plot Powder! It's like salt, but better!
Oh hey Enterprise is back. And boy oh boy did we bring the A-team to this. This isn't fair to the Harmony.
Excellent.
Damn. We outhacked the upload civ.
Yeah, that seems a good idea.
- Location
- alphen aan den rijn
not sure the effect of this will be as great as some might think but its a plan that i think might work best
[X] [DISRUPT] Fundamentals and Pushes
[X] [DISRUPT] Fundamentals and Pushes
- Location
- Internet
[X] [DISRUPT] Fundamentals and Pushes