2234
2234.01.30 -- Mining drones engaged in the Baham system, two jumps from Khamb. The most interesting thing about this is that the drones are not at full strength. They are just under 60%, strongly suggesting that somebody else has already been here, and was defeated. We haven't fought these drones before in this system. Perhaps not far out beyond Khamb there are more aliens awaiting us. This evidence would certainly point in that direction. Of course, if they were unable to defeat mere mining drones, they may well not pose a threat to us ...
02.01 -- A defense army is recruited for Raggani. Espescially considering how far they are away from our core systems in the nebula, keeping a sufficient presence there seems most vital. Meanwhile, construction begins on the colony ship that will settle the 'sister' planet in the Khamb system.
02.11 -- Mining drones defeated.
SirFozzie, who has perfected the art of never fighting a battle you cannot win it seems, levels up to ***. For an admiral, that's a pretty impressive rank.
03.01 -- Sometime in the last month a farm upgrade finished on Agglor. That's all for one province, another province is in need of a pair of those as well. Also, a nice moment for the much-maligned(largely justifiably) Sector AI. I checked on the progress of the spaceport at Micaw, because I wanted to get a solar panel network up and running soon after it was finished. Well,
JIMGA already had them building it with no direction needed from me, and it was half done! Applauso, I say. Especially since it came out of the sector's resource pool, meaning we could spend the imperial mineral store on other things.
03.14 -- We have deciphered communications of the Omegas, to be known henceforth as the
Ul-Tur Concordat. They are individualists, xenophobes, and materialists. In other words, they hate everything we stand for about as much as it is possible to, and vice versa.
They are on the inner arm, cutting us off from moving much further down, and border both the Kroll and the Djomar. By my count, there are only five unsurveyed systems we can reach in that direction, two of which have hostiles in them. Very soon that will be a dead area to us, exploration-wise. They are rivals with the Djomar, and we consider them slightly weaker than us but generally in the same ballpark.
04.04 -- Eskogg Spaceport has upgraded to level 2.
05.01 -- Research station finished in Vermillion. It's the last one needed there, and the Mildrosch will move on to Fijjon. Meanwhile, a power plant is upgraded on Eskogg. These developments essentially cancel each other out from an income point of view, but more power plants are planned on Eskogg and another begins immediately.
06.02 -- The Nautilus Squadron, minus the only corvette to take significant damage in the last battle, arrives in Tiffim to handle a sweep of crystalline entities. Only a single trio of sapphires is present, so extensive drama is not expected.
06.07 -- Micaw Spaceport finishes the solar panel network, putting energy narrowly back into a positive situation for the moment.
07.01 -- Sapphire crystals engaged in Tiffim. Meanwhile, construction begins at Raggani on a spaceport there.
07.17 -- Another successful engagement is concluded, and the fleet leaves Tiffim for another round of repairs.
9.25 -- Interesting survey result from Glabonsch, but no immediate benefit will proceed here.
10.01 -- The second hydroponic farm on Agglor has done one upgrade, and will now commence with the final one.
10.05 -- Research station completed on Fijjon, a major one for the Society Dept. which is now the clear leader among the three.
11.26 -- The Ul-Tur Concordat has declared the Kroll Star Commonwealth to be rivals. It seems that Bright Compact has a potential foe nearby, though no hostilities are imminent at this point.
12.10 -- Power plant finished on Eskogg. It will be upgraded next, but we are still just breaking even. It seems the battle for energy will be a long struggle.
12.26 -- After a full month's consideration, the Kroll pick the day after Christmas to rival the Ul-Tur Concordat right back.