[jk]Briefvoice
No, seriously, this is correct. NO PLAN VOTING is a very good idea here. This is ideally set up to have us not need to do plan voting, and thank you Oneiros for that!
If you want to copy someone's plan verbatim (and AKuz's vote is not bad, even if I disagree with parts of it), then just... actually copy it. It really defeats the purpose of this marvelous line-item voting system if we don't USE it.
We should definitely do at least one Syndicate focused report this year.
YES. It was a serious mistake for us to not do any Syndicate-focused intel reports last year, and instead double up on reports on the reasons the Romulans and Klingons are mad at each other.
I'm still completely down with said plan if we're given any chance to do it, by the by.
I KNOW, RIGHT?
Seriously, it is just such a good way to get some exercise in space exploration and travel.
Okay, I don't have a position on the Rigelian ratification. I trust all our explorer captains to handle this kind of thing, and so far all of them have done a good job.
In regards to the
T'Mir, I'd like a good look at the Cardassian political infighting. This might be the first good look Oneiros gives us at the internal structure of his version of Cardassia, and knowing how the infighting is going may tell us what kind of Cardassia we'll face a few years down the line.
Our information on the Cardassian fleet's strength is still pretty solid, and we seem to know 'enough' about their ship types to make informed decisions, so I'm voting for the Cardassian Tactics Report. I'm worried we may end up fighting them in the next twelve months, so unless "shipbuilding reports" turn out to be much cooler than I'd expected, and something I don't know about, I'd rather have that.
On the Romulans, I don't know what a
Daljerra-class cruiser is but I don't like the sound of having them flying around without us knowing what they are. I'd like a report on that. ON THE OTHER HAND, I'm not sure we actually have a recent report on their shipbuilding or shipyards.
By the way,
@OneirosTheWriter, what's the difference between a Shipbuilding report and a Shipyard report? Also, why aren't we getting any options for intelligence reports on the Orion Syndicate?
The main area where I disagree with
@AKuz is that I don't think a Yrillian Diplomatic Posture report will be very helpful. The Yrillians don't have a coherent diplomatic posture in the first place, after all. Our best bet probably is to just be generically nice to as many Yrillian groups as we can and push the overall opinions of the species in our direction.
And, hm. I'd like to know what the Klingons are doing overall,
especially what if any contacts they're making towards the minor polities on our rimward flank. The Lecarre, Risans, and Dawiar aren't actually that far from Klingon space, after all.
So while I favor two of AKuz's write-ins, I'd like to argue that we do NOT know enough about what the Klingons are up to, and that this is probably more important and likely to be interesting than what we'd hear about Yrillian diplomatic posture. Though I totally agree with her about the Sydraxian-Gretarian relationship, and the Syndicate strength information which I've been calling for us to get clarified for like two years.
[][TMIR] Get a report on Cardassian political in-fighting
[][CARD] Cardassian Tactics Report (Gain +5% combat vs Cardassian fleets for the next 12 months)
[][ROM] Romulan Daljerra Cruiser Report
[][REPORT] Klingon Diplomatic Posture Report
[][REPORT] The relationship between the Sydraxians and the Gretarians.
[][REPORT] Syndicate strength and how much Impact do we need?
(My vote's X's have been removed for conservation)
