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Inquisitor's Briefing: Inquisitor Roe Laren
It's time to decide if there are any major changes to be made.
Policies
The following are relevant at the present time.
** Slavery -- Currently Allowed, setting it to Prohibited would free the Shantari on Micaw.
** Slave Procreation -- Allowed. If it were Prohibited, our population of slaves would not increase except by annexing new ones. The offspring of slaves are automatically enslaved themselves.
** Purge -- Allowed. We have not yet had occasion to do so, but we can 'eliminate' undesired elements if necessary. Other alternatives are Xenos Only(meaning no Architreuthis can be purged, only other races) and Prohibited.
** Native Interference -- Unlimited. Alternatively, Active Study allows most activies but prohibits invading worlds of pre-space races, and Passive Study allows us only to observe and gather limited data.
** Native Enlightenment -- Prohibited. Primitive species are not to be educated/uplifted. This could also be changed to Allowed.
** Migration -- Prohibited. Pops cannot move from planet to planet on their own. Other choices are Primary Species Only, which would allow Architreuthis but not other races to migrate freely, or Free Migration.
** Resettlement -- Allowed. Though fairly expensive in political capital, we can forcibly move pops to a different planet if we choose. Can be changed to Prohibited.
** First Contact Protocol -- Peaceful. Any new species found will be presumed not to be hostile, absent evidence to the contrary. Setting this to Aggressive will allow the fleet to attack neutral species that wander into our space.
Edicts
All of these except one have a cost of one influence per month.
** Encourage Free Thought -- +10% Research Speed, +15% Ethics Divergence. This has been enacted for the past 40 years.
Other possibilities, presently not enacted:
** Information Quarantine -- Kind of the opposite. -10% Ethics Divergence, -5% Research Speed.
** Engineering/Physics/Society Research Grants -- +30% to the specified area, -10% to each of the others.
** Master's Teachings: Philosophical Mindset -- +10% Society Research Speed, +1 leader capacity
** Crystal Sonar -- Using adapted technology from the crystalline entities, this will allow instant surveying of any system they inhabit. It is unique in that the cost is not a monthly influence hit, but 30 energy every time a science ship enters such a system.
Economic Priorities
At present the three aspects of military build-up, colonization, and internal investment have been kept roughly equal for the past 15 years.
Foreign Policy
We presently have embassies with the Thar'Biq, Djomar, and Kroll. Three is our limit, so we cannot establish additional ones without a recall. We have not had any rivals yet. Efforts to establish treaties such as non-aggression pacts(with the Kroll) or Research Agreements(with anyone) have been flatly turned down, and nobody likes us enough to ally. To a degree this is sort of the flip side of the benefit of having lots of room to expand. Our region of the galaxy is at peace, but that seems unlikely to last forever. The Ul-Tur Concordat, for example, are rivals with all three neighbors(Hakibori, Kroll, Djomar). They hate us also, we're just too far away to bother with rivaling. But no hostilities appear to have broken out yet, although they mysterious Omicrons appear to have met their demise that way.
Embassy and rival changes are the only real available tools here, as we have no need to trade for resources at the moment, unless the Inquisitor sees some cause for a war.
Inquisitor Roe Laren, you are now on the clock. The Collective awaits your instructions on whether we should maintain the above status quo, or make some changes to these or some other aspect that might not be mentioned.
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