[x] OPLAN: Cold Noctocalling
-[x] Our yards:
--[x] Hermosan Station (2.5k tons)
--[x] Additional Flight II Frigates x2 (1k tons, 500 ton each)
--[x] CFA A flight II with enhancements from newest technology (armor, enhanced weapons packages) x1 (3k tons)
-[x] Paying the Aslan extortionate prices to build ships in their yards.
--[x] Additional modern defense station flight II from Aslan yards with upgraded armor and sensors x2 (2500 tons each)
-[x] Converting civilian yards to war-use. We could build merchant cruisers and converted patrol ships here, though not line ships.
--[x] Additional auxiliary minelaying craft x1
-[x] Scout Flotilla
--[x] Map out the North and find our Enemy.
-[x] Other - run training minelaying mission in Deep Hope. Determine how many mines our minelayer can lay and how quickly. Run exercises with mines "firing" inactive weapons on a pair of ICs - to check if there would be targetting issues, nd just how saturating would be a salvo from 1 minelayer's wotrth of mines. Check how well ICs and frigates can detect and target the mines.
-[x] Other - Select some suitable ship(s) (maybe un-mothball the MMV?) and contact Noctocole. Warn them about this sudden northern threat, with info both from our run-in with them and whatever we've got from Aslan. Exchange the starmaps, preferably on North (and brief them on Hermosa too). Inquire if they are interested in defence cooperation, such as a common ship project, since we have at least two "interesting" common neighbours. We can get their diplomatic team to Cassalon and discuss that there.
[X] OPLAN: Shipyard Growth, Stage 1
-[X] Hermosan border station - 2,500 tons
-[X] Other - write in: 4,000 ton subsection of the new construction facility
-[X] Map out the North and find our Enemy.
-[x] Paying the Aslan extortionate prices to build ships in their yards.
--[X] To build as large of a construction facility (minus the separate sections built in our yards) as we can afford and they can transport via jump tugs to Home
-[x] Converting civilian yards to war-use. We could build merchant cruisers and converted patrol ships here, though not line ships.
--[X] Whatever small subsections of the new construction facility they can manage
-[x] Other - run training minelaying mission in Deep Hope. Determine how many mines our minelayer can lay and how quickly. Run exercises with mines "firing" inactive weapons on a pair of ICs - to check if there would be targetting issues, nd just how saturating would be a salvo from 1 minelayer's wotrth of mines. Check how well ICs and frigates can detect and target the mines.
-[x] Other - Select some suitable ship(s) (maybe un-mothball the MMV?) and contact Noctocole. Warn them about this sudden northern threat, with info both from our run-in with them and whatever we've got from Aslan. Exchange the starmaps, preferably on North (and brief them on Hermosa too). Inquire if they are interested in defence cooperation, such as a common ship project, since we have at least two "interesting" common neighbours. We can get their diplomatic team to Cassalon and discuss that there.