Or we can just let Dr. Warcrimes loose on geoengineering. Have her design an organism that consumes CO2 and shits out something useful in large quantities. Assuming that is that her algae don't do that already.
Towards the Future
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That was what I meant by "mitigate into irrelevance."
Though we really, really want to keep her engineered microbes out of the overall ocean biosphere if possible, because they're very likely to eat whatever of that biosphere is left alive and be very difficult to eradicate unless specifically engineered not to survive well outside 'captivity.'
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I'm not so worried about engineered microbes eating the remaining ecosystem (because we are using photosynthetic algae for starch and bio-polymers), but more about the rest of the ecosystems collapsing due to rapidly growing, engineered algae colonies. The problem would be widespread algal bloom rather than ocean grey goo.
Doctor war crime and gal will have there own classes made for psychologist to learn about them won't they because how they think and act are a bit wacko, also when our guys meet friendly aliens they are going to accidentally blue screen them for a bit when tell about them maybe even literally if the aliens are robots?
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She will be long gone by the time warming is an issue, either being shot by whoever takes over of having fled and changed her identity.
Also, we are a planet where every little island has Saudi Arabia oil and Pennsylvania coal tier deposits, we will probably let warming get real bad and then slap a bandaid. We will have Greens, but those are almost always a joke so I don't expect them to do much. I wouldn't worry about that too much until then.
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Your actual orbital force can't really self sustain and won't be able to for a long while. While they can do some specialty manufacturing they are very much not a complete industrial system.
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"Eat the ecoystem" was sort of a loose and metaphorical way of saying "in some way spread out of control and cause everything else to die off."
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Yeah, I get that. Though I think just using this metaphor could lead people to take it literally, and analyze potential ecosystem disruption by asking themselves: "Will this literally eat the ecosystem?" Occasionally spelling out what a metaphor means instead of just using the short-hand is good for clarity.
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It's conceivable, though I really can't imagine everyone missing out on the idea that a rapidly replicating photosynthetic organism could cause problems all by itself even if it doesn't, say, eat fish alive.
I mean, the possibility of genetically modified organisms doing this is hardly new; see Dr. James Lovelock's little parable about the notional fictional Dr. Intensli Eeger.
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Turn 8 Metastability (3-4 AE)
The economic system is booming, development is occurring faster than ever before and the construction of the democratic mechanism has saved society from its own tendencies. While some defeatist elements have discussed the lack of sustainability from this current development, they are no different from the old ecological activists of old, pontificating on warming and pollution for their corporate masters. Intensification has brought us this far and it can only bring us further as more and more of the citizens are mobilized and educated in correct thinking, forming a decisive front for a true breakthrough in the reconstruction of the economy.
Social defeatism itself has been steadily defeated at every front with education intensification for adult cadres and the nascent lower education programs eliminating it from the popular conception. The respectable minister of development has already pushed for core state programs to build up patriotic commitments for those materially motivated, leaving those acts as one of the highest priorities. If neither the truth nor the correct morality of the cause of democracy is sufficient, then providing actual services can ensure that treasonous ideas do not find root in politics.
Progress towards direct construction of democracy can even likely be accelerated as there are now no obstacles that cannot be overtaken and stormed. The old oligarchs are money-less savages on the periphery or shot by their own agents in the struggle for power. The land itself has been cleansed of the ideas of the old world and brought into a new age. Every element of the state stands ready and able to continue the struggle towards its destination of a first general election towards the confirmation of the developmental mandate, furthering the cause. Education and state construction itself will steadily become more of a priority after the initial phase of stabilization. At that point, a second look at the population problem can be taken, as by then resources should be sufficient for almost any industrial effort for mass production.
Governmental Decisions:
Democratic Enforcement:
[]Duty of the Militias: The militias are the very representative of the mobilized population and it is only sensible that the duty of enforcing democracy will fall on them. If leadership refuses to be democratic and act according to the popular will, local militia organs can ensure they take a correct track. Armed paramilitaries can be disastrous if a larger conflict occurs, but as long as they are representatives of the people's will, they can only improve the situation compared to oligarchic infiltration.
[]Leave it to the CSS: The internal service is not the most reliable nor the most capable of ensuring that messaging doesn't deviate from the cause of democratic construction. This would enable problematic agitation of the general public to be removed earlier and more effectively, preventing the massive mistakes of the past regime. Some may not trust the interior system, but with a comprehensive system of oversight and integration, such concerns can be easily minimized.
[]Maintain the Military's Role: The protection of democracy is a hard question and as in the current constitution maintaining the military's highest duty as keeping the government clear of oligarchy and infringement on the democratic mechanism is only sensible. If the civilian government is once again cooped by well wishing imbeciles lying to the public, it should be the duty of every soldier to storm and set things right. Laying this out explicitly will serve to provide cover at ensuring oversight of the media and social apparatus, and ensure that another oligarchy can never rise.
The Census Question:
[]Central Census Office: Contributing the budget towards organizing a census office and bringing a large number of personnel into the system and sending them out across the planet. The effort to count the people will take time to accomplish and some funding, but it will at least provide accurate numbers under central control. It is planned that all census efforts will be repeated over the course of half a decade in order to ensure that a consistent and accurate count of the people is ready for policy decisions. (-1 R Baseline)
[]Leave to the Councils: The lower councils are democratic organs and can be trusted to operate their own system of population counting. Setting a mandate of the minimal information that needs to be sent up and enabling them to collect what they need to for governance will involve the greatest degree of democratic initiative while minimizing load on the center. Some may not be as prepared to organize the effort, but it should still be more than sufficient.
[]Integrate it into Conscription: Every one that claims to be a citizen should be more than ready to serve their nation and by tying the census organization to conscription and drafting boards, both can be accomplished at the same time. This will allow a consolidation of state services to those fully willing to be conscripted and joining in the struggle for democratic construction. Some may decry it and some will lose their opportunity for state services, but only those willing to serve should be supported.
Militia Standards:
[]Leave as Militias: Maintaining standards befitting for mobilized local auxiliary formations is disrespectful to the brave democratic soldiers volunteering, but a tragic necessity of the current situation. Bringing them in with such standards will further enable a mass expansion of the force, as if it is cheap and easy to join every patriot will. They will not receive much training, but being able to use a gun and being a patriot is training enough to resolve most possible issues in democracy.
[]Deepen Training: Drilling the militia with army advisors and ensuring that they can overcome any material disadvantage will be far cheaper, and still equally as useful. With a rigorous drill of a combined physical and social educational program, the forces can be knowledgeable and prepared for their essential role. Equipment can come after the training programs, as once the militias are prepared to do their duty in protecting democracy, only then must they be armed.
[]Bring into Cat C Standards: The modernization of the militia units is necessary in order to ensure that they can actually function in their-anti oligarchic role. By transferring the massive piles of obsolescent non-mobilized equipment to them and ensuring that they can serve as combat units, the democratic will of the people can be brought to bear against any enemy assets. This would have a number of costs with the current parts shortages, but actually equipping the militia will be essential.
Set Budget: The nation is facing yet another crisis as the newer parts of the economy age out and become impossible to maintain. While some ministers are busy attempting to stabilize relatively unimportant sectors instead of core production, the prioritization heavily weighted towards projects important for growth and the sustained development of the democratic social system. If all goes to plan, it should be possible to out speed the collapse through initiative and speed, accelerating progress until the old regime has been overtaken. (21 Resources to allocate)
Costs: []=1 [/]=2 [//]=3 Pre-formatted Vote below for 2 spending everywhere and "Internet Reconnection" as personal focus. Made this to make it easier to plan and for me to read in the future.
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[]Committee of State Security X2
[]Orbital Command(Groundside) X2
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[]Internet Reconnection
Governmental Actions: Now that the question of oligarchic infiltration has been settled and any agents that are remaining have been stripped of their assets, direct democratic construction can begin at full scale. The people are currently barely organized at a local and district level, but far more is needed in order to build a successful democratic state. Party organizations to represent the people need to be founded in bulk, the councils themselves need their rights defined, and a massive number of organizations to support democratic reasoning need to be constructed. Those that inhibited the response to the crisis out of a desire to sabotage must also be hunted down, but current state capacity is too minimal to catch them all. (Choose 3 Actions) (Modifier Source: Galchobhar Cu Ruih)
[]Organization of People's Militias: The demobilized population is ready to take up arms in the preservation of the state and the elimination of oligarchy. By giving sets of patriots arms and pointing them at the remaining holdouts of oligarchs, they can be swept away in a wave of national fervor. We have left the little islands with mansions separated out from the world alone for far too long. By letting the people take their vengeance into their hands though, a national mythos can be built at the cost of just a few rifles.
[]Rights for the Councils: The local councils have long served as an intermediary for government programs, but little has been formally done to define what they can actually do. By providing them with actual discrete responsibilities that are formally accepted at all levels, over reach can be reduced while further stabilizing the government. Some may dislike the limitations to their authority in such a way, but the people should be more than ready to make some minor sacrifices in order to build a stable democratic system.
[]Party Laws: The exact nature of a popular movement is a noble expression of the people, but some efforts are needed in order to classify what is a legitimate movement and what is a weird social gathering. By providing benefits to those participating in political organization and a degree of campaign funding, a lot of the downsides inherent to mass media can be mitigated. These laws will serve to benefit any political organizing done on the people's behalf and formalize the importance of grassroots organization.
[]Civic Organizations: The people need their little comforts ranging from churches to simple gathering points. While funding isn't available in the strictest sense, making it the responsibility of the local councils will serve towards further democratic construction. By devolving the organizational capacity for minor social things to the very people using them, considerable gains in efficiency and contentedness can be secured at a minimal cost. These initiatives will later have to be picked up by more central organizations, but that can be left a question for the future.
[]State Service Standards: Providing the people with the basics of survival and continued development should be a core mission of the state. By making the promises now of the services the state will provide by the end of the decade, a glorious commitment can be made. It costs us nothing to promise the development of free healthcare, education, and social support. At the current rate of rapid economic growth, it should be easily achievable even in five years, leaving the future democratic government plenty of time to come up with a response.
[]Loyalty Reviews: There isn't an explicit guarantee that core officers in the government are entirely loyal and not susceptible to oligarchic seduction. By creating a small core of loyal officers and personnel to check on them, their loyalties can be verified. The job of sweeping through the departments will take years, but ensuring that traitors haven't accumulated in the current period of governance is essential for correct operation. Soldiers for this task will be picked for their vigor and commitment to democracy, as they are the only ones that can be trusted with such an important task.
[][]Convening of Regional Councils: Large-scale regional councils with representatives from local councils can now be convened in order to begin the replacement of military governance. For now the civilians will be expected to serve as a prototypical legislative component to the military executive, but if they prove themselves capable of it, it is expected that military governance will be supplanted over the course of a few years. As the army will maintain overall control anyway, this will also be a perfect chance to bring any oligarchic elements out of hiding at little social cost, eliminating them when they come out to implement policy.
Committee of State Security: Fighting against oligarchic influence has so far been reduced in scale as their financial assets have all been neutralized. Instead, more funding can be transferred towards the construction of popular organs for the people's representation and a further focus on expanding the degree of monitoring as a hedge against corruption. Initial steps with militia formations are a good first step, but proper training and broader informational warfare efforts are needed in order to ensure that oligarchic thinking can be eliminated. To accomplish this goal far more funding is needed, but any contribution will significantly slow attempts by proto-oligarchs to secure power. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Eithne Ròs)
[/]Database Reconstruction: Centralized population databases are a core factor in the organization of a civilized society and their restoration is a high priority. By committing the limited computational capacity available towards the restoration of the databases, centralized information can be used for development and stabilization. Access to them across the nation will improve the performance of law enforcement and ensure that criminals can be attacked far more efficiently with less collateral falling on loyal citizens.
[]Soft Monitoring: Monitoring dissident-oligarchic remnants remains a high priority despite the limitations in resource allocation. By allocating a set of personnel to every suspected oligarch to ensure that they are constantly watched, more enemies can easily be found at a minimal cost in overall assets and instability. The program itself is expected to only be targeted at suspected oligarchs and their puppets, ensuring that excessive force is avoided and the situation can be stabilized despite the social unrest.
[//]Dedicated Governmental Forces: Commiting the funding towards training discrete and dedicated forces for small crimes out of the current militia system can secure a considerable degree of return. By separating the general investigative and enforcement arms from more conventional internal units and resuming a degree of policing, some trust can be restored amongst the citizenry. Some may decry it as a simple relabeling and re-equipping of internal units, but that is just an excuse for them to prevent the modernization and overhaul of the militia system.
[/]Retraining of Internal Units: Interior commands are organized but incapable of any investigative work or managing anything outside of direct confrontation with light elements. By offering retraining, a degree of departmentalization, and a steady reduction in heavy assets in favor of greater population contact, responsiveness can be enhanced. Closer contact with the population will also serve to integrate the service with the overall population, providing stability and ensuring a closer eye can be kept on any suspected oligarchic elements.
[]Synthetic Party Organizations: The formation of party-political organizations is inherent to the functioning of any state, but the current instability leaves a breadth of options for radicalism. ,By utilizing local agents to form these organizations and using them as bait for broader dissident networks, entire underground organizations can be brought into the light and dissolved. By ensuring that the radical wings are kept in a state of suppression, further state-building can be enabled, ensuring a steady pace of progress toward democratic construction.
Orbital Command: Current crises in personal comfort, survival, and maintenance are still essential concerns, but the situation is improving. Now that conventional launches are possible without aggressive trajectories to dodge anti-orbital assets, actual expansions have become possible. Circuitry shortages are still the primary issue facing any true large scale construction, but basic refining and resource supply can be secured without too many issues. The lower orbits are going to be mostly abandoned for a while, but tracking and documenting the debris can steadily make these operations tolerable from an asset-risk perspective. Ideally large scale launch infrastructure can start being re-constructed, but it is not essential as long as current cargo flights are maintained. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Gormflaith no Boinne)
[]HDO Propellent Depots: Boosting a number of propellant depots into high orbit as glorified printed methane tanks will help with a number of orbital operations and reduce costs significantly for larger scale operations. Current proposals mostly comprise a steady boosting on transport flights and filling occurring through purely orbital operations, using the remnants of the fleet's transit drives to efficiently move it from the moons orbits. Actually filling them will be the work of most of the next few years, but having them will form a first step towards the reclamation of lower orbits.
[]Bulk Labor Transfers: Transferring masses of personnel capable of working on the surface of the moon may seem like not the most practical measure, but more personnel are needed to control the drones digging out large sections of the moon for habitation. The largest impact of these transfers will be propagandistic, but the further development of the orbits and the steady increase of manufacturing capability will serve to improve zero gravity manufacturing steadily and contribute assets towards the resumption of planetside orbital services.
[/]Radar Surveys of the Debris Belt: Tracking every single option across the lower and middle orbits is frankly well beyond any computing capabilities available or theoretical. What can be done however is a steady categorization of no-go orbits and a rationalization of flight paths to mostly avoid them. While nothing can really make up for the use of anti orbital weapons on cylinders, their consequences can at least be mostly avoided. These efforts will be mostly space side radars with some ground side assistance, focusing on ensuring that the largest clouds are known factors. If a single bolt hits something, at least now standardized whipple shielding can prevent a craft casualty.
[//]Survey the Launch Ramp: As the launch ramp is currently a mess, it isn't going to do much to enhance orbital cargo launching. Through a dedicated industrial effort, reconstruction of the massive project can be started. Most of the effort will focus on restoring the pressure in the tube and re-constructing the rails necessary to launch payloads. The plasma launch window is almost certainly entirely beyond current capabilities, but over the course of the next few years, the funding can be provided in order to start rebuilding it in its entirety. (Groundside Action) (Massive Change to Orbital Actions)
[/]Support New Builds: Laying down new space capable hulls is not a practical motion for the state given the current shortages, but the propaganda value of new builds is immense. All the dreams of harvesting precious metals from the belts, continuing to explore various moons, or even establishing colonies are not even beyond the current technical base. The material for it mostly exists in orbit outside of some specialty parts with few issues. The overall largest goal for the program however is the buildup of freighters capable of semi-brachistochrone trajectories into and out of the lower orbit, providing a number of resources outside the gravity well for larger projects.
Military Command: Prioritization for the army is further reorganization now that the Northern situation has been rendered a tolerable crisis. Further movement of personnel and the replacement of the dispersed lower personnel with actually trained officers will serve to improve the army and generally help provide a basis for leadership. The drafting of officers into administrative roles early in the crisis provided an essential transition for economic control but the process has utterly gutted the military. New personnel are not being produced to either a sufficient quantity or quality, the elevation of NCO's leaves experienced officers with little training, while ad-hoc training from general soldiers leaves much to be desired. If the army is to function outside a few formations and without horribly over-worked mid ranking staff, training needs to start again. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Morcant Singleir)
[]Rationalize Orders of Battle: Current divisional and corps organization schemes continue to not be suited to an environment where spare parts and equipment limitations are the predominant issue. Shifting around equipment and moving more towards simpler assets can maintain a degree of combat power using old hulls while scraping some of the newer assets for parts to maintain everything else. These changes will not be popular in the overall army but things need to be kept running as population discontent has increased.
[]Restart Officer Training: Promotions under wartime conditions have come as a matter of necessity, but with the steady dilution of officers to a number of secondary posts, new educational systems are needed to restore the gutted lower ranks. These will in practice be a shortened version of basic pushing mostly enlisted towards lower officer posts so as to stabilize the situation until a more formalized system can be constructed. These junior officers will be worse then even the wartime standards, but personnel with leadership experience are in massive demand all across the state.
[/]Spare Parts Production Start: Now that the self-replication of 3D printing capacity has begun from the Ministry of Industry and Finance, considerations can be taken towards replacing a number of worn-down parts. Limited production runs of secondary parts, engine components, and critical high-tolerance parts can be initiated to keep stored vehicles in fighting condition and to head off any failures. Production isn't going to be sufficient for quite some time, but at least it will provide a baseline of quality parts and replacements and stop current reserves from declining as quickly.
[//]Baseline Equipment Production: Producing new guns, uniforms, and basic infantry equipment is a relatively low cost way to resume some production. While anything more advanced than a rifle optic is still well beyond current capabilities, at least making new consumables and basic equipment can serve to fill out the militia. Uniform stocks are still partially adequate due to recycling efforts, but far more will be needed as the army is re-organized. Centralized production orders can be made for critical goods, providing standardization to nascent militia units and ensuring that supply lines can be maintained.
[]Stockpiling Initiatives: Most armored hulls are useful for a number purposes, but not at the current moment even if they are an essential element of the army. This is more stark for the massive fleet of aircraft and loyal wingmen as they all need to be maintained in dry and safe conditions. Future capability however first rests on actual state and military survival, and while it is nice to have something stockpiled for the future we must first have one.
Ministries
Ministry of Infrastructure: Reconstruction programs towards critical docks have mostly finished now, as what could be dredged has been. Navigation channels are still thin from the unfortunate sinking of shipping in the initial bursts, but the situation has improved about as far as it is affordable to improve. Shipping tonnage itself has continued to fall at an accelerating rate, as attrition has taken its toll. The nuclear fleet has fared better due to staying towards military standards, but while the power plants are still burning their poisoned cores, the spare parts for turbomachinery and essential modular components practically don't exist. Trucking attrition has also steadily picked up, but slower as the shortages there are more towards complete units rather than spare parts as tolerances are generally loose enough to make do with printed systems. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Gormagal O Riagain)
[//]Yard Restarts: Several smaller shipyards and drydocks have endured the war, with only large portions of their facilities destroyed, but not entirely destroyed. By adapting several of the more viable ones towards the section building of cheap fuel oil powered section built cargos, the overall cargo fleet can start being restored, replacing ships that were lost in port and starting the buildup of an entirely new generation of barges. These would be primitive in technology and fortunate to float for more than a few hundred transport runs, but every ship made now is a massive gain in transportation capacity. Yields aren't expected to pick up until the next year, but the recovery of the planet will need the recovery of the navy before the press-ganged nuclear-military transports entirely break down.
[/]Locomotive Production: Limited railways are still under utilized and the already poorly maintained rail stock left over barely functioned during wartime, much less now. Dedicated efforts towards resuming the production of similar models with a few simplified control systems and far lower engine tolerances should be achievable at marginal cost. Rail restoration is still progressing far slower than expected, but it is progressing in a number of important areas. Actually building the plant should also help establish a timetable for the resumption of activity, ensuring further investment.
[]Logistical Rationalization: Breakdowns of most vehicles have only intensified in the last year as high quality spare parts have become nonexistent while salvaged ones have gotten scarcer. Shifting a few areas from automotive transport and attempting the laying of temporary single line track would shorten a few routes and contribute towards overall reconstruction. The truck fleet itself can also be restructured to only run the shortest priority of routes, favoring barge and rail traffic in order to minimize equipment load.
[/]Internet Reconnection: Internet has served as a constant and critical service on which every aspect of the modern economy and informational system has been based. Starting to rebuild it outside of select areas will be impossible, but starting the re-laying of major cable systems across the ocean should steadily improve communication across the planet immensely. Most of the year is expected to be spent constructing out the system, but the advantages to economic coordination and general civilian morale are expected to be massive.
[//]Heavy Mover Plants: Dozers are limited at every stage and essential for the recovery of normal maritime operations. Current heavy tracked vehicles have either been monopolized by the army, or consumed in industrial and mining efforts. By constructing some dedicated plants for their production and ensuring that some new builds and components are made, capacity can be recovered. This is less pressing of a priority then most, but it would help in reducing costs across a number of proposals.
Ministry of Development: The current economic situation has not developed necessarily to our advantage. Lonach is busying himself with pulling every last bit of scrap out of the earth no matter the cost while Faolain is operating on a strange delusional image of a world that hasn't existed for a decade. Throwing funding around towards essential businesses that are attempting their own paths towards circuit and precursor production while getting the state arms ready is an essential step towards overcoming the current shortages, at least in time. Education is also a considerable priority, as getting Lonach proper labor to use combined with limiting his press ganging capabilities can go far to stabilize the situation. Unfortunately, the state is so far unprepared to serve in its necessary role of fighting the cultural encroachment of oligarchic thinking, and needs dedicated departments to secure any natural monopoly that can strike at more critical organs and poison the popular consciousness. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Caireall Duanei)
[]Private Economy Incentives: Transferring funds towards critical initiatives in the private sector represent a major hope in actually getting the current equipment failure problem under control. Assets brought under limited control in individual salvaging initiatives need to be brought up to production somehow, and providing a small quantity of funding towards those willing to organize it will come at a lesser cost to the state than building new equipment. As an added benefit, the increased drive to salvage might preserve some equipment. (Possible +1 Resource Baseline, Tiny Chance of +1 Resource Floor)
[]Certification Programs: Basic programs for certification and remedial training are tragically necessary in order to supply the imbeciles running the economy with labor. These will focus on the conversion of professionals specialized in currently useless fields into viable industrial and commercial laborers. Those already expended have already been lost, but there is no shortage of otherwise well educated personnel that can be rapidly repurposed and utilized.
[]Server-Network Linkages: Assuming a bevy of funds are provided, the old digital architecture can start being worked on. Priority will fall toward the restoration of public access databases along with a limited degree of networking at low bandwidths. Nothing compared to the old internet will be possible in the short term, but some resumptions at low bandwidth now will help a number of industries and lower-skilled workforces to compensate for lack of immediately available knowledge.
[]Phone Networking: The initial fumbling at restoring phone lines has been mostly functional, if low bandwidth and done semi-incompetently. By actually working through it and building lines between major urban centers and laying new cables, cross island communication can be expanded and enabled. These will be simple telecommunications only cables, but they still represent a massive push forward in administrative and economic capacity.
[/]State Education Board: Moving funding towards centralized and state controlled education is an important step in the construction of a unified national identity and broader state building. Old style private education and tutors were adequate for most families, but it has served to encourage power sources outside the purview of the state along with an oligarchic tendency. By bringing remaining teachers together and organizing the effort, a new national curriculum and standard can be made and started to be taught. The system itself will likely not be relevant for the larger part of a decade, but at least initial efforts can start now.
[/]Stage Healthcare Board: The old traitor's healthcare system is functional despite her general cowardice in action. By taking it, organizing it under a number of doctors and officials, and providing local organizations with a steady supply of funding, massive improvements in healthcare can be realized. The implementation will be scattered and the current allocations will not be enough to provide even stable services to the general public, but by tying services to the state rather than to the debt-state of the population, a national consensus can be manually constructed.
[]Selective Luxury Agriculture: Food as a rewards system is a logical extension of the Or in terms of what backs it. By ensuring that a few small farmers resume very limited scale production of high efficiency meats and a few fruits, a massive gain can be secured for the state providing another currency control. Select goods can also serve to contribute towards biosphere preservation, as a greater variety in core crop species will be preserved to a far greater extent across the planet.
Ministry of Agriculture: The people themselves have so far failed to realize the necessary compromises needed to re-establish the general scientific base. While there is currently a sufficient number of citizens for most basic works, far more must be spent on ensuring future viability. High population-consumption during the war years and the aftermath have had their impact and if anything close to the old speed of progress is to be maintained, far more citizens are needed. With the commitment of yet more funding, moderate improvements to farming and industrial production can be under-taken, providing further assets for core economic sectors and contributing towards improving stocks of luxuries. (Funding Applied Top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Caolfionna Dumh)
[/]Biological Editing Programs: Now that the oligarchical structures are gone, and the patent libraries are re-appropriated, genetic modification for common base profiles can be distributed to the masses. Fertilization is still likely to occur entirely manually as the more advanced methods for population-level interventions are not viable. Still, the distribution of gamete cell targeting vectors should be simple and easy, necessitating a minimal degree of investment on the part of the parents, just a degree of preparation. Production via bacterial lot is practically already set up, it's just now the modifications can be distributed to volunteers for the almost non-existent price of production rather than the millions they took before the exchange.
[]Artificial Womb Testing: With the current depletion of the population, reconstruction has become a priority towards ensuring the continued development of the planet and the reconstruction of a scientific base. Feeder animal production has already been accomplished in an artificial system and there is no reason the technology can be brought over to more complex organisms. By constructing a few small systems, testing can begin to ensure that the technology can be reproduced at scale with the current industrial base.
[]Seed Quality Improvements: Agricultural databases can effectively be cracked open and modified for mass distribution for those attempting farming. The program would be more of a case of distribution then anything else, as generation limits will be removed along with several minor modifications for further fortification. The program will effectively give farmers in predicted growing regions a stock of new seeds to plant, ensuring that further mistakes from incompetence do not happen. Yields should only continue to improve as the updated climate is accounted for and worked around.
[//]Algal Bio-Factories: Long chain hydrocarbon structures are an essential part of our lives and can even be extended towards easy to process feedstocks for plastics and petrochemicals. Constructing plants towards easy processing of the material and a further expansion of the canal system can be undertaken in order to provide the production at a moderate cost. The resumption of plastics production should also assist significantly with several important industrial and commercial constructions, returning access to critical materials. (+1R Baseline/Floor)
[]Biosphere Salvaging Initiatives: Genetic libraries have, in practice, been wiped off the surface of the planet thanks to targeted hypersonics by the second phase of the war, as they posed a considerable risk in contributing to biological weapons developments. Now that the conflict is over and we have an almost complete commercial database, it is only sensible to start the mass backup of the rest of the planet's organisms. Losses are expected to be severe on the order of fifty to eighty percent of species, but sampling programs will considerably simplify later revival if it proves necessary. A library of genes can also serve useful functions in transgenic projects for the general public, ensuring a continuous improvement of baseline profiles.
Ministry of Industry: Due to the shortages caused by the politicking of the ministries and failures in personnel acquisition, costly modernizations of the mining system have proven necessary. The constant liberal protection of cadres specializing in useless liberal arts that failed to make themselves useful during the war sapped our capability then and continues to do so now. So far, there are enough workers to make do, but this will not always be the case and as shortages mount the situation will only worsen. Production expansions across the general industrial sector are currently planned to ensure sufficient supplies, but these will take time to have an impact. State circuit production at actual scale will take a massive amount of preparation and funding, but even local experts have confidence that the capability can be built up. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Fonnghal Lonach)
[]Expanded Mining Programs: More resources are needed to stabilize the mining situation now that the glut of inadequate labor has been minimized. By providing a bare minimal degree of funds towards modernizing the heavy machinery involved and bringing more assets under mining control, the loss of workers can be compensated for. This is critical now that authority for the rapid expansion of the economy has been delegated towards capitalist interests instead of proper control, leaving state critical industries suffering constant worker shortages.
[]Scrap Material Gathering: Pulling at the limited stock of current salvage is not inherently necessary, but still important for actually sorting out the massive demand for components and material. Reserves of machinery still capable of being salvaged for spare parts to keep large industrial sectors running will only get more scarce in the following years and by expending them now, at least some useful production can be secured. (+5 R this turn, -1 Baseline R)
[//]New Chemical Industries: Plastics and more conventional heavy industrial chemical applications are necessary to keep production going. Acid production needs to start existing to enable a number of processes and improve refining yields and productivity of a number of processes. Large scale feedstock production will also further aid in securing continued industrialization and providing a basis to get large scale circuit production. Trained personnel shortages are currently a small factor in the overall industrial base but as higher tech industries are built out new education programs will be needed. (+1R Baseline/Floor)
[//]Dedicated Vehicle Plants: Truck and heavy mover shortages have hit every sector of the economy and not much has been done to replace them or even keep stocks stable. The Ministries of Infrastructures attempts have so far mostly failed to do much but slow the decline and a dedicated plant is desperately needed in the medium term. The overall goal for the facility is the production of acceptable quality trucks and trailers on minimal and rugged hardware. Most of the automatic and self driving systems are entirely beyond the capability of industry, and the poor quality of roads are strongly favorable to biological drivers anyway. (+1R Baseline/Floor)
[//]Industrialization Programs: Heavy industry still demands more assets and resources as primary steel production is still deeply insufficient with even less said for aggregate production. Funding will be allocated towards the restoration of a number of mills and smaller scale processing of material into sand to supply the massive demand for new concrete. These will mobilize more experienced workers from the general public and improve baseline production to an extent, even if current conditions are insufficient. (+1R Baseline/Floor)
[//]Bulk Electronics: Lower scale integration nodes can be produced in sufficient numbers to make up a degree of current demand. Many of the systems involved for this will focus on the replication of a 45nm node through simplified methods, as most advanced lithography is well beyond current capabilities. Pure water production will be a major challenge and actual yields are not expected with an initial funding and production effort for an entire industry. Still, building up basic supply chains and a number of fabs can only help in the long term.
Ministry of Finance: Economic construction and restructuring has proceeded at a decent pace but more funding and personnel are needed to ensure that it reaches a sufficient conclusion. Anti-monopoly and oligarchic accumulation efforts are essential to implement now to ensure that the situation continues to stabilize. Further, actually getting things ready for the introduction of fiat and the decoupling of currency from food will be essential in shifting away from a survival economy. These policies will be continued ideally alongside a number of initiatives towards raising technical production, stabilizing the situation and stopping the current backslide. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Paislig Faolain)
[]Anti-Monopolistic Codification: Monopolies form as the logical conclusion of coordination between large enterprises. As it is generally impossible to prevent the formation of industry-leading industries, their breakup must be enforced when they hit a strict limit of extent. No one coordinating organization should be able to control half of a market sector or engage in anti-competitive practices. Taking the old reformist platform and utilizing it as a wedge will also serve to provide the people with an example of the policies the government will implement before the full transition toward democratization is complete.
[]Prepare for Fiat: Starting a steady program of currency control and organizing financial organs to decouple food prices from the or can be done through a number of temporary price controls. The first step will be moving food sales away from a rationing system towards one of direct sales at set prices and minimal wages pegged to a slightly higher level. This will typify commodity relations in the food sector and prepare the people to decisively cut off direct exchange for caloric filler.
[/]Public-Private Partnerships: The private sector has managed to secure a number of foundries and resume low scale improvised operation. While the machinery is irreplaceable and being strained to expand production, some additional state investment can only help to expand production. Taking partial state ownership outside of the demands of the ministry of industry and ensuring that expansion continues in the current model, production should be stabilized and improved. In effect this is providing a lump sum of funds to several plants, both ensuring that they can expand and re-assuring investors. (Chance of +1 Resource Floor)
[]Codify Business Legislation: Current private sector businesses are struggling under the ministry of industry and laws need to be passed to limit its impact. By providing protections to businesses that are not inherently necessary for nationalization and ensuring that they can function, private sector capacity can be expanded. These stabilizations will not fix the inherent issues in the current private sector, but will at least ensure that there is a degree of consistency in performance.
[]Survival-Necessity Tax-breaks: Businesses that are doing critical work for the preservation of civilization should be treated as essential rather than just more of the same. By providing them with a degree of protection from tax authorities and lowering their respective rates, incentives can be made for investment and diversification. Expansions in turnover are expected to be fairly mild as there are limits to the impact of financial policy, but it costs nothing to implement outside of updating some laws and procedures.
[]Resume Service Sector Employment: Despite the constant disdain for the service sector most personnel in other economic sectors have, it is a fundamental part of the economy and population comfort. By allowing some minimized service positions, primarily in delivery and preparation of food, to exist instead of being drafted out to go work in coal mines, some moderate comforts can return to the urban population. This will also inherently start a limited primary education system for several children, but that will be more of the job of the ministry of development to manage and expand.
Topic in Focus: Since I like writing backstory/and am on a SciFi kick, I figured why not do some setting exploration by everyone voting on a topic they want to hear more about. You've voted for "The Economy of 3D printing and local fabrication" at turn 4, and that will be expanded upon during this update cycle.
24-Hour Moratorium, Vote by Plan (Also, big warning/disclaimer that your characters and choices are biased as fuck due to the people you put in charge.)
The economic system is booming, development is occurring faster than ever before and the construction of the democratic mechanism has saved society from its own tendencies. While some defeatist elements have discussed the lack of sustainability from this current development, they are no different from the old ecological activists of old, pontificating on warming and pollution for their corporate masters. Intensification has brought us this far and it can only bring us further as more and more of the citizens are mobilized and educated in correct thinking, forming a decisive front for a true breakthrough in the reconstruction of the economy.
Social defeatism itself has been steadily defeated at every front with education intensification for adult cadres and the nascent lower education programs eliminating it from the popular conception. The respectable minister of development has already pushed for core state programs to build up patriotic commitments for those materially motivated, leaving those acts as one of the highest priorities. If neither the truth nor the correct morality of the cause of democracy is sufficient, then providing actual services can ensure that treasonous ideas do not find root in politics.
Progress towards direct construction of democracy can even likely be accelerated as there are now no obstacles that cannot be overtaken and stormed. The old oligarchs are money-less savages on the periphery or shot by their own agents in the struggle for power. The land itself has been cleansed of the ideas of the old world and brought into a new age. Every element of the state stands ready and able to continue the struggle towards its destination of a first general election towards the confirmation of the developmental mandate, furthering the cause. Education and state construction itself will steadily become more of a priority after the initial phase of stabilization. At that point, a second look at the population problem can be taken, as by then resources should be sufficient for almost any industrial effort for mass production.
Governmental Decisions:
Democratic Enforcement:
[]Duty of the Militias: The militias are the very representative of the mobilized population and it is only sensible that the duty of enforcing democracy will fall on them. If leadership refuses to be democratic and act according to the popular will, local militia organs can ensure they take a correct track. Armed paramilitaries can be disastrous if a larger conflict occurs, but as long as they are representatives of the people's will, they can only improve the situation compared to oligarchic infiltration.
[]Leave it to the CSS: The internal service is not the most reliable nor the most capable of ensuring that messaging doesn't deviate from the cause of democratic construction. This would enable problematic agitation of the general public to be removed earlier and more effectively, preventing the massive mistakes of the past regime. Some may not trust the interior system, but with a comprehensive system of oversight and integration, such concerns can be easily minimized.
[]Maintain the Military's Role: The protection of democracy is a hard question and as in the current constitution maintaining the military's highest duty as keeping the government clear of oligarchy and infringement on the democratic mechanism is only sensible. If the civilian government is once again cooped by well wishing imbeciles lying to the public, it should be the duty of every soldier to storm and set things right. Laying this out explicitly will serve to provide cover at ensuring oversight of the media and social apparatus, and ensure that another oligarchy can never rise.
The Census Question:
[]Central Census Office: Contributing the budget towards organizing a census office and bringing a large number of personnel into the system and sending them out across the planet. The effort to count the people will take time to accomplish and some funding, but it will at least provide accurate numbers under central control. It is planned that all census efforts will be repeated over the course of half a decade in order to ensure that a consistent and accurate count of the people is ready for policy decisions. (-1 R Baseline)
[]Leave to the Councils: The lower councils are democratic organs and can be trusted to operate their own system of population counting. Setting a mandate of the minimal information that needs to be sent up and enabling them to collect what they need to for governance will involve the greatest degree of democratic initiative while minimizing load on the center. Some may not be as prepared to organize the effort, but it should still be more than sufficient.
[]Integrate it into Conscription: Every one that claims to be a citizen should be more than ready to serve their nation and by tying the census organization to conscription and drafting boards, both can be accomplished at the same time. This will allow a consolidation of state services to those fully willing to be conscripted and joining in the struggle for democratic construction. Some may decry it and some will lose their opportunity for state services, but only those willing to serve should be supported.
Militia Standards:
[]Leave as Militias: Maintaining standards befitting for mobilized local auxiliary formations is disrespectful to the brave democratic soldiers volunteering, but a tragic necessity of the current situation. Bringing them in with such standards will further enable a mass expansion of the force, as if it is cheap and easy to join every patriot will. They will not receive much training, but being able to use a gun and being a patriot is training enough to resolve most possible issues in democracy.
[]Deepen Training: Drilling the militia with army advisors and ensuring that they can overcome any material disadvantage will be far cheaper, and still equally as useful. With a rigorous drill of a combined physical and social educational program, the forces can be knowledgeable and prepared for their essential role. Equipment can come after the training programs, as once the militias are prepared to do their duty in protecting democracy, only then must they be armed.
[]Bring into Cat C Standards: The modernization of the militia units is necessary in order to ensure that they can actually function in their-anti oligarchic role. By transferring the massive piles of obsolescent non-mobilized equipment to them and ensuring that they can serve as combat units, the democratic will of the people can be brought to bear against any enemy assets. This would have a number of costs with the current parts shortages, but actually equipping the militia will be essential.
Set Budget: The nation is facing yet another crisis as the newer parts of the economy age out and become impossible to maintain. While some ministers are busy attempting to stabilize relatively unimportant sectors instead of core production, the prioritization heavily weighted towards projects important for growth and the sustained development of the democratic social system. If all goes to plan, it should be possible to out speed the collapse through initiative and speed, accelerating progress until the old regime has been overtaken. (21 Resources to allocate)
Costs: []=1 [/]=2 [//]=3 Pre-formatted Vote below for 2 spending everywhere and "Internet Reconnection" as personal focus. Made this to make it easier to plan and for me to read in the future.
[]Plan Template
-Decisions
[]Gal's Decision 1
[]Gal's Decision 2
[]Gal's Decision 3
-State Actions
[]Government Action
[]Government Action
[]Committee of State Security X2
[]Orbital Command(Groundside) X2
[]Military X2
-Ministry Funding
[]Ministry of Infrastructure X2
[]Ministry of Development X2
[]Ministry of Agriculture X2
[]Ministry of Industry X2
[]Ministry of Finance X2
-Overrides
[]Internet Reconnection
Governmental Actions: Now that the question of oligarchic infiltration has been settled and any agents that are remaining have been stripped of their assets, direct democratic construction can begin at full scale. The people are currently barely organized at a local and district level, but far more is needed in order to build a successful democratic state. Party organizations to represent the people need to be founded in bulk, the councils themselves need their rights defined, and a massive number of organizations to support democratic reasoning need to be constructed. Those that inhibited the response to the crisis out of a desire to sabotage must also be hunted down, but current state capacity is too minimal to catch them all. (Choose 3 Actions) (Modifier Source: Galchobhar Cu Ruih)
[]Organization of People's Militias: The demobilized population is ready to take up arms in the preservation of the state and the elimination of oligarchy. By giving sets of patriots arms and pointing them at the remaining holdouts of oligarchs, they can be swept away in a wave of national fervor. We have left the little islands with mansions separated out from the world alone for far too long. By letting the people take their vengeance into their hands though, a national mythos can be built at the cost of just a few rifles.
[]Rights for the Councils: The local councils have long served as an intermediary for government programs, but little has been formally done to define what they can actually do. By providing them with actual discrete responsibilities that are formally accepted at all levels, over reach can be reduced while further stabilizing the government. Some may dislike the limitations to their authority in such a way, but the people should be more than ready to make some minor sacrifices in order to build a stable democratic system.
[]Party Laws: The exact nature of a popular movement is a noble expression of the people, but some efforts are needed in order to classify what is a legitimate movement and what is a weird social gathering. By providing benefits to those participating in political organization and a degree of campaign funding, a lot of the downsides inherent to mass media can be mitigated. These laws will serve to benefit any political organizing done on the people's behalf and formalize the importance of grassroots organization.
[]Civic Organizations: The people need their little comforts ranging from churches to simple gathering points. While funding isn't available in the strictest sense, making it the responsibility of the local councils will serve towards further democratic construction. By devolving the organizational capacity for minor social things to the very people using them, considerable gains in efficiency and contentedness can be secured at a minimal cost. These initiatives will later have to be picked up by more central organizations, but that can be left a question for the future.
[]State Service Standards: Providing the people with the basics of survival and continued development should be a core mission of the state. By making the promises now of the services the state will provide by the end of the decade, a glorious commitment can be made. It costs us nothing to promise the development of free healthcare, education, and social support. At the current rate of rapid economic growth, it should be easily achievable even in five years, leaving the future democratic government plenty of time to come up with a response.
[]Loyalty Reviews: There isn't an explicit guarantee that core officers in the government are entirely loyal and not susceptible to oligarchic seduction. By creating a small core of loyal officers and personnel to check on them, their loyalties can be verified. The job of sweeping through the departments will take years, but ensuring that traitors haven't accumulated in the current period of governance is essential for correct operation. Soldiers for this task will be picked for their vigor and commitment to democracy, as they are the only ones that can be trusted with such an important task.
[][]Convening of Regional Councils: Large-scale regional councils with representatives from local councils can now be convened in order to begin the replacement of military governance. For now the civilians will be expected to serve as a prototypical legislative component to the military executive, but if they prove themselves capable of it, it is expected that military governance will be supplanted over the course of a few years. As the army will maintain overall control anyway, this will also be a perfect chance to bring any oligarchic elements out of hiding at little social cost, eliminating them when they come out to implement policy.
Committee of State Security: Fighting against oligarchic influence has so far been reduced in scale as their financial assets have all been neutralized. Instead, more funding can be transferred towards the construction of popular organs for the people's representation and a further focus on expanding the degree of monitoring as a hedge against corruption. Initial steps with militia formations are a good first step, but proper training and broader informational warfare efforts are needed in order to ensure that oligarchic thinking can be eliminated. To accomplish this goal far more funding is needed, but any contribution will significantly slow attempts by proto-oligarchs to secure power. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Eithne Ròs)
[/]Database Reconstruction: Centralized population databases are a core factor in the organization of a civilized society and their restoration is a high priority. By committing the limited computational capacity available towards the restoration of the databases, centralized information can be used for development and stabilization. Access to them across the nation will improve the performance of law enforcement and ensure that criminals can be attacked far more efficiently with less collateral falling on loyal citizens.
[]Soft Monitoring: Monitoring dissident-oligarchic remnants remains a high priority despite the limitations in resource allocation. By allocating a set of personnel to every suspected oligarch to ensure that they are constantly watched, more enemies can easily be found at a minimal cost in overall assets and instability. The program itself is expected to only be targeted at suspected oligarchs and their puppets, ensuring that excessive force is avoided and the situation can be stabilized despite the social unrest.
[//]Dedicated Governmental Forces: Commiting the funding towards training discrete and dedicated forces for small crimes out of the current militia system can secure a considerable degree of return. By separating the general investigative and enforcement arms from more conventional internal units and resuming a degree of policing, some trust can be restored amongst the citizenry. Some may decry it as a simple relabeling and re-equipping of internal units, but that is just an excuse for them to prevent the modernization and overhaul of the militia system.
[/]Retraining of Internal Units: Interior commands are organized but incapable of any investigative work or managing anything outside of direct confrontation with light elements. By offering retraining, a degree of departmentalization, and a steady reduction in heavy assets in favor of greater population contact, responsiveness can be enhanced. Closer contact with the population will also serve to integrate the service with the overall population, providing stability and ensuring a closer eye can be kept on any suspected oligarchic elements.
[]Synthetic Party Organizations: The formation of party-political organizations is inherent to the functioning of any state, but the current instability leaves a breadth of options for radicalism. ,By utilizing local agents to form these organizations and using them as bait for broader dissident networks, entire underground organizations can be brought into the light and dissolved. By ensuring that the radical wings are kept in a state of suppression, further state-building can be enabled, ensuring a steady pace of progress toward democratic construction.
Orbital Command: Current crises in personal comfort, survival, and maintenance are still essential concerns, but the situation is improving. Now that conventional launches are possible without aggressive trajectories to dodge anti-orbital assets, actual expansions have become possible. Circuitry shortages are still the primary issue facing any true large scale construction, but basic refining and resource supply can be secured without too many issues. The lower orbits are going to be mostly abandoned for a while, but tracking and documenting the debris can steadily make these operations tolerable from an asset-risk perspective. Ideally large scale launch infrastructure can start being re-constructed, but it is not essential as long as current cargo flights are maintained. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Gormflaith no Boinne)
[]HDO Propellent Depots: Boosting a number of propellant depots into high orbit as glorified printed methane tanks will help with a number of orbital operations and reduce costs significantly for larger scale operations. Current proposals mostly comprise a steady boosting on transport flights and filling occurring through purely orbital operations, using the remnants of the fleet's transit drives to efficiently move it from the moons orbits. Actually filling them will be the work of most of the next few years, but having them will form a first step towards the reclamation of lower orbits.
[]Bulk Labor Transfers: Transferring masses of personnel capable of working on the surface of the moon may seem like not the most practical measure, but more personnel are needed to control the drones digging out large sections of the moon for habitation. The largest impact of these transfers will be propagandistic, but the further development of the orbits and the steady increase of manufacturing capability will serve to improve zero gravity manufacturing steadily and contribute assets towards the resumption of planetside orbital services.
[/]Radar Surveys of the Debris Belt: Tracking every single option across the lower and middle orbits is frankly well beyond any computing capabilities available or theoretical. What can be done however is a steady categorization of no-go orbits and a rationalization of flight paths to mostly avoid them. While nothing can really make up for the use of anti orbital weapons on cylinders, their consequences can at least be mostly avoided. These efforts will be mostly space side radars with some ground side assistance, focusing on ensuring that the largest clouds are known factors. If a single bolt hits something, at least now standardized whipple shielding can prevent a craft casualty.
[//]Survey the Launch Ramp: As the launch ramp is currently a mess, it isn't going to do much to enhance orbital cargo launching. Through a dedicated industrial effort, reconstruction of the massive project can be started. Most of the effort will focus on restoring the pressure in the tube and re-constructing the rails necessary to launch payloads. The plasma launch window is almost certainly entirely beyond current capabilities, but over the course of the next few years, the funding can be provided in order to start rebuilding it in its entirety. (Groundside Action) (Massive Change to Orbital Actions)
[/]Support New Builds: Laying down new space capable hulls is not a practical motion for the state given the current shortages, but the propaganda value of new builds is immense. All the dreams of harvesting precious metals from the belts, continuing to explore various moons, or even establishing colonies are not even beyond the current technical base. The material for it mostly exists in orbit outside of some specialty parts with few issues. The overall largest goal for the program however is the buildup of freighters capable of semi-brachistochrone trajectories into and out of the lower orbit, providing a number of resources outside the gravity well for larger projects.
Military Command: Prioritization for the army is further reorganization now that the Northern situation has been rendered a tolerable crisis. Further movement of personnel and the replacement of the dispersed lower personnel with actually trained officers will serve to improve the army and generally help provide a basis for leadership. The drafting of officers into administrative roles early in the crisis provided an essential transition for economic control but the process has utterly gutted the military. New personnel are not being produced to either a sufficient quantity or quality, the elevation of NCO's leaves experienced officers with little training, while ad-hoc training from general soldiers leaves much to be desired. If the army is to function outside a few formations and without horribly over-worked mid ranking staff, training needs to start again. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Morcant Singleir)
[]Rationalize Orders of Battle: Current divisional and corps organization schemes continue to not be suited to an environment where spare parts and equipment limitations are the predominant issue. Shifting around equipment and moving more towards simpler assets can maintain a degree of combat power using old hulls while scraping some of the newer assets for parts to maintain everything else. These changes will not be popular in the overall army but things need to be kept running as population discontent has increased.
[]Restart Officer Training: Promotions under wartime conditions have come as a matter of necessity, but with the steady dilution of officers to a number of secondary posts, new educational systems are needed to restore the gutted lower ranks. These will in practice be a shortened version of basic pushing mostly enlisted towards lower officer posts so as to stabilize the situation until a more formalized system can be constructed. These junior officers will be worse then even the wartime standards, but personnel with leadership experience are in massive demand all across the state.
[/]Spare Parts Production Start: Now that the self-replication of 3D printing capacity has begun from the Ministry of Industry and Finance, considerations can be taken towards replacing a number of worn-down parts. Limited production runs of secondary parts, engine components, and critical high-tolerance parts can be initiated to keep stored vehicles in fighting condition and to head off any failures. Production isn't going to be sufficient for quite some time, but at least it will provide a baseline of quality parts and replacements and stop current reserves from declining as quickly.
[//]Baseline Equipment Production: Producing new guns, uniforms, and basic infantry equipment is a relatively low cost way to resume some production. While anything more advanced than a rifle optic is still well beyond current capabilities, at least making new consumables and basic equipment can serve to fill out the militia. Uniform stocks are still partially adequate due to recycling efforts, but far more will be needed as the army is re-organized. Centralized production orders can be made for critical goods, providing standardization to nascent militia units and ensuring that supply lines can be maintained.
[]Stockpiling Initiatives: Most armored hulls are useful for a number purposes, but not at the current moment even if they are an essential element of the army. This is more stark for the massive fleet of aircraft and loyal wingmen as they all need to be maintained in dry and safe conditions. Future capability however first rests on actual state and military survival, and while it is nice to have something stockpiled for the future we must first have one.
Ministries
Ministry of Infrastructure: Reconstruction programs towards critical docks have mostly finished now, as what could be dredged has been. Navigation channels are still thin from the unfortunate sinking of shipping in the initial bursts, but the situation has improved about as far as it is affordable to improve. Shipping tonnage itself has continued to fall at an accelerating rate, as attrition has taken its toll. The nuclear fleet has fared better due to staying towards military standards, but while the power plants are still burning their poisoned cores, the spare parts for turbomachinery and essential modular components practically don't exist. Trucking attrition has also steadily picked up, but slower as the shortages there are more towards complete units rather than spare parts as tolerances are generally loose enough to make do with printed systems. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Gormagal O Riagain)
[//]Yard Restarts: Several smaller shipyards and drydocks have endured the war, with only large portions of their facilities destroyed, but not entirely destroyed. By adapting several of the more viable ones towards the section building of cheap fuel oil powered section built cargos, the overall cargo fleet can start being restored, replacing ships that were lost in port and starting the buildup of an entirely new generation of barges. These would be primitive in technology and fortunate to float for more than a few hundred transport runs, but every ship made now is a massive gain in transportation capacity. Yields aren't expected to pick up until the next year, but the recovery of the planet will need the recovery of the navy before the press-ganged nuclear-military transports entirely break down.
[/]Locomotive Production: Limited railways are still under utilized and the already poorly maintained rail stock left over barely functioned during wartime, much less now. Dedicated efforts towards resuming the production of similar models with a few simplified control systems and far lower engine tolerances should be achievable at marginal cost. Rail restoration is still progressing far slower than expected, but it is progressing in a number of important areas. Actually building the plant should also help establish a timetable for the resumption of activity, ensuring further investment.
[]Logistical Rationalization: Breakdowns of most vehicles have only intensified in the last year as high quality spare parts have become nonexistent while salvaged ones have gotten scarcer. Shifting a few areas from automotive transport and attempting the laying of temporary single line track would shorten a few routes and contribute towards overall reconstruction. The truck fleet itself can also be restructured to only run the shortest priority of routes, favoring barge and rail traffic in order to minimize equipment load.
[/]Internet Reconnection: Internet has served as a constant and critical service on which every aspect of the modern economy and informational system has been based. Starting to rebuild it outside of select areas will be impossible, but starting the re-laying of major cable systems across the ocean should steadily improve communication across the planet immensely. Most of the year is expected to be spent constructing out the system, but the advantages to economic coordination and general civilian morale are expected to be massive.
[//]Heavy Mover Plants: Dozers are limited at every stage and essential for the recovery of normal maritime operations. Current heavy tracked vehicles have either been monopolized by the army, or consumed in industrial and mining efforts. By constructing some dedicated plants for their production and ensuring that some new builds and components are made, capacity can be recovered. This is less pressing of a priority then most, but it would help in reducing costs across a number of proposals.
Ministry of Development: The current economic situation has not developed necessarily to our advantage. Lonach is busying himself with pulling every last bit of scrap out of the earth no matter the cost while Faolain is operating on a strange delusional image of a world that hasn't existed for a decade. Throwing funding around towards essential businesses that are attempting their own paths towards circuit and precursor production while getting the state arms ready is an essential step towards overcoming the current shortages, at least in time. Education is also a considerable priority, as getting Lonach proper labor to use combined with limiting his press ganging capabilities can go far to stabilize the situation. Unfortunately, the state is so far unprepared to serve in its necessary role of fighting the cultural encroachment of oligarchic thinking, and needs dedicated departments to secure any natural monopoly that can strike at more critical organs and poison the popular consciousness. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Caireall Duanei)
[]Private Economy Incentives: Transferring funds towards critical initiatives in the private sector represent a major hope in actually getting the current equipment failure problem under control. Assets brought under limited control in individual salvaging initiatives need to be brought up to production somehow, and providing a small quantity of funding towards those willing to organize it will come at a lesser cost to the state than building new equipment. As an added benefit, the increased drive to salvage might preserve some equipment. (Possible +1 Resource Baseline, Tiny Chance of +1 Resource Floor)
[]Certification Programs: Basic programs for certification and remedial training are tragically necessary in order to supply the imbeciles running the economy with labor. These will focus on the conversion of professionals specialized in currently useless fields into viable industrial and commercial laborers. Those already expended have already been lost, but there is no shortage of otherwise well educated personnel that can be rapidly repurposed and utilized.
[]Server-Network Linkages: Assuming a bevy of funds are provided, the old digital architecture can start being worked on. Priority will fall toward the restoration of public access databases along with a limited degree of networking at low bandwidths. Nothing compared to the old internet will be possible in the short term, but some resumptions at low bandwidth now will help a number of industries and lower-skilled workforces to compensate for lack of immediately available knowledge.
[]Phone Networking: The initial fumbling at restoring phone lines has been mostly functional, if low bandwidth and done semi-incompetently. By actually working through it and building lines between major urban centers and laying new cables, cross island communication can be expanded and enabled. These will be simple telecommunications only cables, but they still represent a massive push forward in administrative and economic capacity.
[/]State Education Board: Moving funding towards centralized and state controlled education is an important step in the construction of a unified national identity and broader state building. Old style private education and tutors were adequate for most families, but it has served to encourage power sources outside the purview of the state along with an oligarchic tendency. By bringing remaining teachers together and organizing the effort, a new national curriculum and standard can be made and started to be taught. The system itself will likely not be relevant for the larger part of a decade, but at least initial efforts can start now.
[/]Stage Healthcare Board: The old traitor's healthcare system is functional despite her general cowardice in action. By taking it, organizing it under a number of doctors and officials, and providing local organizations with a steady supply of funding, massive improvements in healthcare can be realized. The implementation will be scattered and the current allocations will not be enough to provide even stable services to the general public, but by tying services to the state rather than to the debt-state of the population, a national consensus can be manually constructed.
[]Selective Luxury Agriculture: Food as a rewards system is a logical extension of the Or in terms of what backs it. By ensuring that a few small farmers resume very limited scale production of high efficiency meats and a few fruits, a massive gain can be secured for the state providing another currency control. Select goods can also serve to contribute towards biosphere preservation, as a greater variety in core crop species will be preserved to a far greater extent across the planet.
Ministry of Agriculture: The people themselves have so far failed to realize the necessary compromises needed to re-establish the general scientific base. While there is currently a sufficient number of citizens for most basic works, far more must be spent on ensuring future viability. High population-consumption during the war years and the aftermath have had their impact and if anything close to the old speed of progress is to be maintained, far more citizens are needed. With the commitment of yet more funding, moderate improvements to farming and industrial production can be under-taken, providing further assets for core economic sectors and contributing towards improving stocks of luxuries. (Funding Applied Top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Caolfionna Dumh)
[/]Biological Editing Programs: Now that the oligarchical structures are gone, and the patent libraries are re-appropriated, genetic modification for common base profiles can be distributed to the masses. Fertilization is still likely to occur entirely manually as the more advanced methods for population-level interventions are not viable. Still, the distribution of gamete cell targeting vectors should be simple and easy, necessitating a minimal degree of investment on the part of the parents, just a degree of preparation. Production via bacterial lot is practically already set up, it's just now the modifications can be distributed to volunteers for the almost non-existent price of production rather than the millions they took before the exchange.
[]Artificial Womb Testing: With the current depletion of the population, reconstruction has become a priority towards ensuring the continued development of the planet and the reconstruction of a scientific base. Feeder animal production has already been accomplished in an artificial system and there is no reason the technology can be brought over to more complex organisms. By constructing a few small systems, testing can begin to ensure that the technology can be reproduced at scale with the current industrial base.
[]Seed Quality Improvements: Agricultural databases can effectively be cracked open and modified for mass distribution for those attempting farming. The program would be more of a case of distribution then anything else, as generation limits will be removed along with several minor modifications for further fortification. The program will effectively give farmers in predicted growing regions a stock of new seeds to plant, ensuring that further mistakes from incompetence do not happen. Yields should only continue to improve as the updated climate is accounted for and worked around.
[//]Algal Bio-Factories: Long chain hydrocarbon structures are an essential part of our lives and can even be extended towards easy to process feedstocks for plastics and petrochemicals. Constructing plants towards easy processing of the material and a further expansion of the canal system can be undertaken in order to provide the production at a moderate cost. The resumption of plastics production should also assist significantly with several important industrial and commercial constructions, returning access to critical materials. (+1R Baseline/Floor)
[]Biosphere Salvaging Initiatives: Genetic libraries have, in practice, been wiped off the surface of the planet thanks to targeted hypersonics by the second phase of the war, as they posed a considerable risk in contributing to biological weapons developments. Now that the conflict is over and we have an almost complete commercial database, it is only sensible to start the mass backup of the rest of the planet's organisms. Losses are expected to be severe on the order of fifty to eighty percent of species, but sampling programs will considerably simplify later revival if it proves necessary. A library of genes can also serve useful functions in transgenic projects for the general public, ensuring a continuous improvement of baseline profiles.
Ministry of Industry: Due to the shortages caused by the politicking of the ministries and failures in personnel acquisition, costly modernizations of the mining system have proven necessary. The constant liberal protection of cadres specializing in useless liberal arts that failed to make themselves useful during the war sapped our capability then and continues to do so now. So far, there are enough workers to make do, but this will not always be the case and as shortages mount the situation will only worsen. Production expansions across the general industrial sector are currently planned to ensure sufficient supplies, but these will take time to have an impact. State circuit production at actual scale will take a massive amount of preparation and funding, but even local experts have confidence that the capability can be built up. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Fonnghal Lonach)
[]Expanded Mining Programs: More resources are needed to stabilize the mining situation now that the glut of inadequate labor has been minimized. By providing a bare minimal degree of funds towards modernizing the heavy machinery involved and bringing more assets under mining control, the loss of workers can be compensated for. This is critical now that authority for the rapid expansion of the economy has been delegated towards capitalist interests instead of proper control, leaving state critical industries suffering constant worker shortages.
[]Scrap Material Gathering: Pulling at the limited stock of current salvage is not inherently necessary, but still important for actually sorting out the massive demand for components and material. Reserves of machinery still capable of being salvaged for spare parts to keep large industrial sectors running will only get more scarce in the following years and by expending them now, at least some useful production can be secured. (+5 R this turn, -1 Baseline R)
[//]New Chemical Industries: Plastics and more conventional heavy industrial chemical applications are necessary to keep production going. Acid production needs to start existing to enable a number of processes and improve refining yields and productivity of a number of processes. Large scale feedstock production will also further aid in securing continued industrialization and providing a basis to get large scale circuit production. Trained personnel shortages are currently a small factor in the overall industrial base but as higher tech industries are built out new education programs will be needed. (+1R Baseline/Floor)
[//]Dedicated Vehicle Plants: Truck and heavy mover shortages have hit every sector of the economy and not much has been done to replace them or even keep stocks stable. The Ministries of Infrastructures attempts have so far mostly failed to do much but slow the decline and a dedicated plant is desperately needed in the medium term. The overall goal for the facility is the production of acceptable quality trucks and trailers on minimal and rugged hardware. Most of the automatic and self driving systems are entirely beyond the capability of industry, and the poor quality of roads are strongly favorable to biological drivers anyway. (+1R Baseline/Floor)
[//]Industrialization Programs: Heavy industry still demands more assets and resources as primary steel production is still deeply insufficient with even less said for aggregate production. Funding will be allocated towards the restoration of a number of mills and smaller scale processing of material into sand to supply the massive demand for new concrete. These will mobilize more experienced workers from the general public and improve baseline production to an extent, even if current conditions are insufficient. (+1R Baseline/Floor)
[//]Bulk Electronics: Lower scale integration nodes can be produced in sufficient numbers to make up a degree of current demand. Many of the systems involved for this will focus on the replication of a 45nm node through simplified methods, as most advanced lithography is well beyond current capabilities. Pure water production will be a major challenge and actual yields are not expected with an initial funding and production effort for an entire industry. Still, building up basic supply chains and a number of fabs can only help in the long term.
Ministry of Finance: Economic construction and restructuring has proceeded at a decent pace but more funding and personnel are needed to ensure that it reaches a sufficient conclusion. Anti-monopoly and oligarchic accumulation efforts are essential to implement now to ensure that the situation continues to stabilize. Further, actually getting things ready for the introduction of fiat and the decoupling of currency from food will be essential in shifting away from a survival economy. These policies will be continued ideally alongside a number of initiatives towards raising technical production, stabilizing the situation and stopping the current backslide. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Paislig Faolain)
[]Anti-Monopolistic Codification: Monopolies form as the logical conclusion of coordination between large enterprises. As it is generally impossible to prevent the formation of industry-leading industries, their breakup must be enforced when they hit a strict limit of extent. No one coordinating organization should be able to control half of a market sector or engage in anti-competitive practices. Taking the old reformist platform and utilizing it as a wedge will also serve to provide the people with an example of the policies the government will implement before the full transition toward democratization is complete.
[]Prepare for Fiat: Starting a steady program of currency control and organizing financial organs to decouple food prices from the or can be done through a number of temporary price controls. The first step will be moving food sales away from a rationing system towards one of direct sales at set prices and minimal wages pegged to a slightly higher level. This will typify commodity relations in the food sector and prepare the people to decisively cut off direct exchange for caloric filler.
[/]Public-Private Partnerships: The private sector has managed to secure a number of foundries and resume low scale improvised operation. While the machinery is irreplaceable and being strained to expand production, some additional state investment can only help to expand production. Taking partial state ownership outside of the demands of the ministry of industry and ensuring that expansion continues in the current model, production should be stabilized and improved. In effect this is providing a lump sum of funds to several plants, both ensuring that they can expand and re-assuring investors. (Chance of +1 Resource Floor)
[]Codify Business Legislation: Current private sector businesses are struggling under the ministry of industry and laws need to be passed to limit its impact. By providing protections to businesses that are not inherently necessary for nationalization and ensuring that they can function, private sector capacity can be expanded. These stabilizations will not fix the inherent issues in the current private sector, but will at least ensure that there is a degree of consistency in performance.
[]Survival-Necessity Tax-breaks: Businesses that are doing critical work for the preservation of civilization should be treated as essential rather than just more of the same. By providing them with a degree of protection from tax authorities and lowering their respective rates, incentives can be made for investment and diversification. Expansions in turnover are expected to be fairly mild as there are limits to the impact of financial policy, but it costs nothing to implement outside of updating some laws and procedures.
[]Resume Service Sector Employment: Despite the constant disdain for the service sector most personnel in other economic sectors have, it is a fundamental part of the economy and population comfort. By allowing some minimized service positions, primarily in delivery and preparation of food, to exist instead of being drafted out to go work in coal mines, some moderate comforts can return to the urban population. This will also inherently start a limited primary education system for several children, but that will be more of the job of the ministry of development to manage and expand.
Topic in Focus: Since I like writing backstory/and am on a SciFi kick, I figured why not do some setting exploration by everyone voting on a topic they want to hear more about. You've voted for "The Economy of 3D printing and local fabrication" at turn 4, and that will be expanded upon during this update cycle.
24-Hour Moratorium, Vote by Plan (Also, big warning/disclaimer that your characters and choices are biased as fuck due to the people you put in charge.)
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Alright, analysis time.
Gal has swung into being incredibly optimistic, viewing the oligarchs as powerless (good) and the current pace of development as sustainable (wrong). The latter might very well lead to unsustainable expenditures on quality of life, so I would recommend care what we promise right now. Any promises of welfare from Gal might be far more than we could actually provide. Give him another turn to cool off before promising anything.
Governmental recommendations:
- Convening of Regional Councils [][]: Gal isn't paranoid, so building regional democratic structures is the right move now. I would strongly advise to take this opportunity, we might not get it again.
- Civic Organization: Giving locals the ability to fund small comforts will improve public moral, and help people to feel socially connected. All of which is helpful for improving our public perception, and to build trust for a more democratic society.
- Rights for the Councils: Establishing rules about what the city council can do is also important. Without any rules, the local major can easily misuse their power for various types of corruption.
Not recommended:
- Loyalty review: From what we can tell, the military factions are fairly content. This action would likely be done by the CSS, and the perfect pretext to softly purge elements that protect Gal from a coup. I don't see the need to spend one action here when we can further build democracy instead.
CSS: They are shifting in planning from finding oligarchs to preventing opposition from forming. While I am interested in some actions relating to creating a proper investigative police force instead of military beat cops, this isn't a priority. I think the resources are better put into economic development, as crime prevention doesn't appear to be that important.
OrbCom: Their supply situation seems to be sustainable, though not great. A big emphasis on clearing orbits, presumably for eventual satellite manufacturing + deployment. While this is important in the long-term, I think our resources are better spent on planet-side development.
MilCom: I strongly recommend restarting officer training. To get military factionalism under control, we must ensure a new generation of military officiers that aren't apprentices to current clique members. This is a fairly cheap action that will be vital for getting a more stable government in the future.
MinInfra: We need to start producing replacements for our logistical machinery. Restarting the Yards will be mandatory, if the attrition rates are to be believed. Entire regions depend on occeanic food transfers, this isn't something we can afford to put low effort in. I would like to start locomotive production too, if it fits into our budgets.
MinDev: The development ministry is fixated on the shortcomings of the other ministries, and pessimistic. Likely due to education failures in the previous turn. The whole field warrants strong investments, I ould like to finish server-network linkages.
MinAgri: Obsessing over technocratic solutions to the low population, which isn't an immediate concern. I would be interested in using our focused action to get Seed Quality Improvements for two resources, as that might revitalize our rural areas more.
MinInd: Complaining about keeping some sociologists and educators out of the mines, which means he now needs to automate. Good! Building up to chemical industries seems like a reasonable investment right now.
MinFin: Wants more funding to create a money-based economy. I consider a lot of that to be superfluous waste right now, though Public-Private-Partnerships might be worth the cost.
Gal has swung into being incredibly optimistic, viewing the oligarchs as powerless (good) and the current pace of development as sustainable (wrong). The latter might very well lead to unsustainable expenditures on quality of life, so I would recommend care what we promise right now. Any promises of welfare from Gal might be far more than we could actually provide. Give him another turn to cool off before promising anything.
Governmental recommendations:
- Convening of Regional Councils [][]: Gal isn't paranoid, so building regional democratic structures is the right move now. I would strongly advise to take this opportunity, we might not get it again.
- Civic Organization: Giving locals the ability to fund small comforts will improve public moral, and help people to feel socially connected. All of which is helpful for improving our public perception, and to build trust for a more democratic society.
- Rights for the Councils: Establishing rules about what the city council can do is also important. Without any rules, the local major can easily misuse their power for various types of corruption.
Not recommended:
- Loyalty review: From what we can tell, the military factions are fairly content. This action would likely be done by the CSS, and the perfect pretext to softly purge elements that protect Gal from a coup. I don't see the need to spend one action here when we can further build democracy instead.
CSS: They are shifting in planning from finding oligarchs to preventing opposition from forming. While I am interested in some actions relating to creating a proper investigative police force instead of military beat cops, this isn't a priority. I think the resources are better put into economic development, as crime prevention doesn't appear to be that important.
OrbCom: Their supply situation seems to be sustainable, though not great. A big emphasis on clearing orbits, presumably for eventual satellite manufacturing + deployment. While this is important in the long-term, I think our resources are better spent on planet-side development.
MilCom: I strongly recommend restarting officer training. To get military factionalism under control, we must ensure a new generation of military officiers that aren't apprentices to current clique members. This is a fairly cheap action that will be vital for getting a more stable government in the future.
MinInfra: We need to start producing replacements for our logistical machinery. Restarting the Yards will be mandatory, if the attrition rates are to be believed. Entire regions depend on occeanic food transfers, this isn't something we can afford to put low effort in. I would like to start locomotive production too, if it fits into our budgets.
MinDev: The development ministry is fixated on the shortcomings of the other ministries, and pessimistic. Likely due to education failures in the previous turn. The whole field warrants strong investments, I ould like to finish server-network linkages.
MinAgri: Obsessing over technocratic solutions to the low population, which isn't an immediate concern. I would be interested in using our focused action to get Seed Quality Improvements for two resources, as that might revitalize our rural areas more.
MinInd: Complaining about keeping some sociologists and educators out of the mines, which means he now needs to automate. Good! Building up to chemical industries seems like a reasonable investment right now.
MinFin: Wants more funding to create a money-based economy. I consider a lot of that to be superfluous waste right now, though Public-Private-Partnerships might be worth the cost.
lot to unpack this turn lmao
For census let's just make an office, the local councils are strained as is. Militias can get training, I don't want to actually do anything with them I just think we can dissolve them once gals out of office and fold them into the military. Idk what to do with GUARDING DEMOCRACY. My head says to just let the military keep doing its thing but otoh militias would be really funny.
Glad Gal has unlocked the democracy button. Not quite ready to press it yet as we clearly need to Send the people's guards to secure what are definitely oligarchic hideouts and definitely not a bunch of run down vacations homes with skeletons in them.
Orbital command still rebuilding it self, hopefully we can keep their good luck streak on rolls and accelerate off planet development. Military is downsizing, they're very insistent on training and I agree, we should get that started. CSS actions have a solid one first, but I hesitate to use the militias for anything. I kinda just want to let them sit there and make gap feel good before he gets voted out then quietly disbanded so I'd rather not turn them into our secret polices goon squad
MinInf we definitely need the first project, maybe the second one idk id our industry can support them. I'm glad MinDev learned Galspeak, all their projects are good. We should at least get to certification programs as we very much need skilled labor. Dr. Warcrimes seems intent on doing a spicy project, let's just fund it and hope she puts the stuff that makes number go up before the artificial wombs.
MinInd seems salty as hell, mechanization is good though and until the economic crises is over they'll still get a bunch of funding. MinFin still laying groundwork to actually make sure our economy doesn't bring about more oligarchs, lite investment time, maybe we go for the partnerships and hope it works.
For census let's just make an office, the local councils are strained as is. Militias can get training, I don't want to actually do anything with them I just think we can dissolve them once gals out of office and fold them into the military. Idk what to do with GUARDING DEMOCRACY. My head says to just let the military keep doing its thing but otoh militias would be really funny.
Glad Gal has unlocked the democracy button. Not quite ready to press it yet as we clearly need to Send the people's guards to secure what are definitely oligarchic hideouts and definitely not a bunch of run down vacations homes with skeletons in them.
Orbital command still rebuilding it self, hopefully we can keep their good luck streak on rolls and accelerate off planet development. Military is downsizing, they're very insistent on training and I agree, we should get that started. CSS actions have a solid one first, but I hesitate to use the militias for anything. I kinda just want to let them sit there and make gap feel good before he gets voted out then quietly disbanded so I'd rather not turn them into our secret polices goon squad
MinInf we definitely need the first project, maybe the second one idk id our industry can support them. I'm glad MinDev learned Galspeak, all their projects are good. We should at least get to certification programs as we very much need skilled labor. Dr. Warcrimes seems intent on doing a spicy project, let's just fund it and hope she puts the stuff that makes number go up before the artificial wombs.
MinInd seems salty as hell, mechanization is good though and until the economic crises is over they'll still get a bunch of funding. MinFin still laying groundwork to actually make sure our economy doesn't bring about more oligarchs, lite investment time, maybe we go for the partnerships and hope it works.
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It was basically confirmed to us that the promise of free everything that Gal has in the docket would fuck over the next government or be very toned down if they manage it well politically.
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Looks like MinInd had the sanity to drop petrochemical intensification for now. He also seems to have learnt we're not on board with all his shock labor schemes, and is trying to actually modernize the 'manpower hungry' industries. The last scrapping action is of course useful, and mining is one thing where no other ministry can take up the slack. Chemical Industries do sound quite useful too, but maybe we can use MinAg's actions instead.
Speaking of which, Caolfionna is putting her zany schemes above actually useful stuff. Shame we can't do both Bio-Factories and Seed Quality at once via free action.
I'm inclined to give Ministry of Infrastructure lots of money this turn, everything there is good! MinDev's certification program also seems very important for formalizing matters of skilled training.
Also glad to see Topic In Focus is returning!
Speaking of which, Caolfionna is putting her zany schemes above actually useful stuff. Shame we can't do both Bio-Factories and Seed Quality at once via free action.
I'm inclined to give Ministry of Infrastructure lots of money this turn, everything there is good! MinDev's certification program also seems very important for formalizing matters of skilled training.
Also glad to see Topic In Focus is returning!
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Thank you for the information. I'm not active in the discord, but it's nice to hear my bad idea alarm still works.
I would disagree here. If we turn them into a civilian controlled national guard, they could form a valueable counterweight to any military encroachment on power. Plus, they are better at navigating the local social ecosystem and invite less discontent when dealing with unrest. Less risk of escalation, and less of a problem for the global government.
So I would recommend giving control to councils, and giving them some military training.
This would be relevant to reduce Gal's paranoia, but this isn't needed this turn. He is optimistic, so we should use his good mood for further democratization.
I dont see any option to hand the miltias over to civilian control, are you misreading the census decision?
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I might have. The first option of the "Duty of the Militias" would leave them as independent organizations, though they might be locally controlled to some extent.
Hmmm. I assumed they would be the ones bullying local councils for doing bad-wrong things, but Im not sure...
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If we are unsure, then it is better to be on the safe side and not introduce a third factor into our balance of power. Might be smarter to keep them minimal for now, there will be other options to harden the civilian government against a coup. If VonVonson is right, it's better to leave them as a vestigal organ.
[]Draft Plan Democracy, Industry, and Work Safety
-Decisions
[]Duty of the Militias
[]Central Census Office
[]Deepen Training
-State Actions
[]Party Laws
[][]Convening of Regional Councils
[]Committee of State Security X1
[]Orbital Command X0
[]Military X2
-Ministry Funding
[]Ministry of Infrastructure X1
[]Ministry of Development X4
[]Ministry of Agriculture X0
[]Ministry of Industry X6
[]Ministry of Finance X1
I chose militias for the political enforcement thing because they'll be easier to get rid of than the military or police once someone who isn't insane ends up in power. The government decisions set up legal political parties and regional governments, bringing us closer to elections/getting rid of Galchobar. I decided to go heavy into industry and development since they seem to be the most important. The choices in development will give us actual worker training (massively reducing deaths) and a basic telecommunications network, while industry gives us mechanization of mines (reducing deaths further), a total +3 to both resources per turn and resource floor, and actual integrated circuit production. I also chose to do the first action for infrastructure since we've been getting multiple warnings about ships breaking down and have had that as our highest priority infra project for a year or two now. While it doesn't give much towards finance or anything towards agriculture or space, those are lower priority right now, and the industry and development projects will let us maintain a large enough economy to afford those in the future.
-Decisions
[]Duty of the Militias
[]Central Census Office
[]Deepen Training
-State Actions
[]Party Laws
[][]Convening of Regional Councils
[]Committee of State Security X1
[]Orbital Command X0
[]Military X2
-Ministry Funding
[]Ministry of Infrastructure X1
[]Ministry of Development X4
[]Ministry of Agriculture X0
[]Ministry of Industry X6
[]Ministry of Finance X1
I chose militias for the political enforcement thing because they'll be easier to get rid of than the military or police once someone who isn't insane ends up in power. The government decisions set up legal political parties and regional governments, bringing us closer to elections/getting rid of Galchobar. I decided to go heavy into industry and development since they seem to be the most important. The choices in development will give us actual worker training (massively reducing deaths) and a basic telecommunications network, while industry gives us mechanization of mines (reducing deaths further), a total +3 to both resources per turn and resource floor, and actual integrated circuit production. I also chose to do the first action for infrastructure since we've been getting multiple warnings about ships breaking down and have had that as our highest priority infra project for a year or two now. While it doesn't give much towards finance or anything towards agriculture or space, those are lower priority right now, and the industry and development projects will let us maintain a large enough economy to afford those in the future.
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I think we need to make defending democracy []Duty of the Militias, it's the least bad option. The CSS would rather we not have real opposition, and giving it to the army is a pathway towards frequent military coups. Speaking of the CSS, Database Reconstruction is a good idea but the rest of their actions seem to be setting up for a surveillance state. Do not do.
With census making an office is probably going to work, but Leave to the Councils could work also. IDK how centralized we want/need to make things. For militia standards, giving them heavier equipment would be a waste, we perhaps should deepen training to make sure they actually have a fair degree of discipline and are actually able to fight if needed.
Seriously MinFin, tax breaks? Public-Private Partnerships seems to be the only thing remotely useful at this point in time. But I suppose anti-monopoly methods will mollify Gal.
With census making an office is probably going to work, but Leave to the Councils could work also. IDK how centralized we want/need to make things. For militia standards, giving them heavier equipment would be a waste, we perhaps should deepen training to make sure they actually have a fair degree of discipline and are actually able to fight if needed.
Seriously MinFin, tax breaks? Public-Private Partnerships seems to be the only thing remotely useful at this point in time. But I suppose anti-monopoly methods will mollify Gal.