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So we now have two matters to deal with. First one's for the Inquisitor; how do we respond now that we have communications with the new species on Ovastivum?
** Tell us about yourselves
** We would like to coexist in peace
** Submit or be destroyed
Then, on the research front:
Research Director's Briefing: Dr. Coffee Warlord
** Deep Space Outposts(Voidcraft, 6 mo.) -- Gateway tech to large-scale orbital defenses(stationary variety).
** Hull Integrity(Voidcraft, 47 mo.) -- Improves ship survivability by increasing hull strength by 5%.
** Plasteel Materials(Materials, 28 mo.) -- The next step up in conventional ship protection, unlocking Plasteel Armor. This is 50% stronger than our present ceramo-metal armor material. For our largest, most armored ships, probably only the recently-invented battleships, plasteel could potentially be slightly more effective than crystal-forged plating. In general, the engineers expect that the plating is better on smaller ships, armor on the larger ones.
** Nuclear Missiles(Rocketry, 0/6 mo.)
** Space Torpedoes(Rocketry, 7/21 mo.) -- If we are going to go this route, it would make the most sense to go straight to torpedoes ... but we may learn more about these things from studying the wreckage of the Djomar battles.
** Autocannons(Materials, 0/21 mo.)
Dr. Coffee Warlord, you are on the clock as well.
As far as the war is concerned, we have, albeit with unexpected delay, finally gotten around to bombarding the Djomar planet in Bastamore and occupation should begin soon. They've effectively chased off or destroyed all of our scout corvettes -- with their wormhole travel we couldn't really do much about this even if we wanted to. We'll station a few ships at each planet we take to prevent any counterattacks, and as we knock out their occupied systems, there will be less and less we can do. It'll just take a little longer, since the fleet proper will have to go to each system and make sure there is nothing that needs dealing with at each one. They can delay us, but they have no real hope of stopping us.
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