2432 - 36
Society goes for Propaganda Transmissions II, expanding our border range, because why fight for what you can just peacefully 'acquire'?
2433.01.01 -- With the latest new year arriving, spaceport construction in the systems we acquired in the last war has been finished. That basically means more resources available to accelerate shipbuilding. Gabbog gets back in the game as a third dedicated spaceport, and Eskogg will as well once it finishes the Battleship Assembly Yards -- no point in wasting resources, we're only building the big dogs these days.
Meanwhile we've found another primitive civilation(Iron Age) to study, and we'll work on exploiting that while survey efforts continue. Probably in a few years it'll be time to 'visit' the Ul-Tur.
2434.01.01 -- The new systems have all of their new armies as well, and effort switches to finishing up the outer arm.
04.?? -- It is believed that evidence of an alien barracks from a past civilization has been found on one of the systems we are surveying, known as Vana. Once the rest of the area has been surveyed, that will bear closer study ... it should be noted that
Dr. Tarcis is on survey duty by now as well, but he was a assigned a different system at the time that proved less fruitful -- in fact it was extremely routine and boring, according to the reports.
09.09 -- The last debris field from the war is assessed. While the Imperium is still listed as having 'Superior' technology to us, we learned of nothing new; only minor incidental applications were discovered. It would seem that at least in matters of fleet combat, they have nothing left to teach us.
Dr. Palmieri can finally return to his previously scheduled studies.
12.23 -- The barracks investigation is complete.
The long and the short of it is the good doctor got an xp boost and is now more proficient in researching matters of Military Theory.
2435.01.01 -- We're now up to 80 operational battleships, with five spaceports going strong on those ... and still not using all of the minerals we produce. Craziness. It's not really worthwhile to add more though, as each one has it's own upkeep -- the Battleship Assembly Yards suck 4 energy per month per location. We should easily be back on the offensive before the end of the decade, and logistically we are approaching two-thirds of the maximum allowable fleet size anyway. Most of the available 15+-size planets have also been colonized at this point. Lots of progress in the cleanup part of this cycle, and it's all gone off without a hitch.
02.14 -- The Imperium begins integrating another vassal. Regardless of what they do, they've been reduced to the point of barely being relevant.
10.02 -- Propaganda Transmissions II research finished. Xenology is next, just to get the stupid option from continuing to pop up. We did get one new system out of the increased borders, but we're so tight up against the planets of other empires as it is that there really isn't much more to be gained I don't think.
2436.03.02 -- Corps of Engineers is the first Engineering project to be finished in decades.
05.02 -- Dark Matter Drawing research finished.
A number of things are wrapping up. Probably about three years before the Uri conflict begins. Our relative fleet strength remains fairly constant, which implies everybody is probably using the period of peace to rebuild. We won't delay as soon as we are ready; that would give them extra time to recover. In the meantime, they have this to say(Empress Fermess'l I):
"Architreuthean larvae are perfectly sized for some of the slimmer crevices in our mines. And I think about this."
They won't be so smug once we've killed a few billion and educated the rest in the finer points of Boojie's teachings ...