Vote tally - Traveller, The Rise of Empire: A Naval Design, Procurement and Command Quest
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[X] Plan Follow-Up
-[X] Wait with the mission until first contact package is prepared. Put our foremost diplomats and social scientists on it. It should contain an introduction, our linguistic data, assurance that we mean no harm, an explanation that the scout that dropped the package is part of astro-charting mission, a request to share their linguistic data and the date of the next arrival of the scout ship. That preparation ought to give us time to see whether Xyri visits our system, to do some data analysis from previous jumps and to catch up on Interstellar Cruiser construction.
-[X] Revisit Xyri to drop the first contact package in a buoy. This buoy should include passive sensors and a transmitter, so that we could download the data during our third visit in Xyri.
-[X] During S'taxu mission, aim for different points in the system in an attempt to mitigate the issues with coordination. Staying hidden is still preferred, but if the arrival was detected drop the first contact package as detailed above.
-[X] Build Interstellar Cruisers
--[X] Request a design for Logistical Support Ship, that should be able to drop navigation and sensor buoys, have the means to construct refuelling stations and mining operations, and haul cargo between systems. The first target for expansion should be Sector 00-01.
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[X] Set up a diplomatic mission and actually stay long enough to talk this time.
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[X] Additional Interstellar Cruisers
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[X] Intill the issues with jump coordination are fixed, each ship should aim for a different point in system.
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[X] Something else - write-in
-[X] A first contact (diplomatic) ship
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[X] OPLAN: Guarded Welcome
-[X] Write-In: Based on the current debriefings surrounding our survey of Xyri, tandem jumps of the kind we conducted are highly conspicuous and almost certainly place our new neighbors on a heightened alert that is, needless to say, not beneficial to a peaceful first contact. Therefore, we should conduct our scouting mission to S'taxu with a single ship and the expectation of contact, and do our utmost to appear either a non-threat or, given a hostile response, a novel enough problem that the Nightingale Protocol has time to be carried out. As such, Scout crews should prepare contact messages and simple, non-verbal overtures of friendship in advance of the next jump mission, along with plans for retreat or combat that are as detailed as possible given the intelligence we currently have. Which operational plan-diplomatic or military-is followed upon successful jump transit to S'taxu will be left in the hands of the Scout's crew, but to be unprepared as we were at Xyri will have only negative consequences-either a poor first impression or a decisive military loss.
-[X] Interstellar Scouts. Building more vessels to examine and understand our new neighbors, especially the advanced civilization we know inhabits Xyri, is a necessity. Engaging in an arms race with an unknown bogey will only add to the aggressive first impression they may have of us. No first meeting between worlds should end in gunfire.
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