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2284-85
2284.02.04 -- All mining improvements finished on Eskogg; the planet is now fully upgraded once again.
10.11 -- Agglor has finished it's provincial work as well. It's been another quiet year of development, with no disturbances at all.
2285.04.23 -- Bakangi is finished as well as the latest round of improvements is starting to wrap up.
09.01 -- New colony on Efoll up and running, added to Deesh sector which now has three planets and four systems.
2286.01.02 -- Terrestrial Sculpting research is completed. We presently have access to 8 Terraforming Gases and 6 Terraforming Liquids deposits within our territory -- these are strategic resources much like the 'Troutstones'. Gabbog, our fifth core planet, is a perfect test case for how this will work; a max-size Arctic world that we should benefit notably from turning into an ocean environment. We'll need a terraforming station to start out, so that'll come first and it'll be a few months before a construction ship can get there. Then we'll see how that works out. I don't know if we can terraform sector planets or not, we'll have to take it as it comes.
As you can see, there isn't a whole lot going on that's worth reporting. This can of course be a good thing. Nothing mokre than the usual saber-rattling from the QSC. Overall, the economy is pretty well-balanced right now and stable. Probably the majority of the post-war orbital constructions have been completed, but quite a bit still remains, mostly in the lower areas where we expanded with the frontier outposts. We're pretty much dead-even overall on energy, right now at -1.79 per month. There's almost 3.5k of a 4.25k limit in the bank though, so we've got more than enough saved up for any rainy day that might descend. An extended war would hurt us economically, but that's about it. Plenty of fleet capacity(235/382) but as usual funding is the limiter. Minerals are at 331 surplus a month after the recent mining upgrades, having held in the high 200s for quite some time prior to that. Research continues to inch higher each year ... slowly.
On the aging front, we've passed enough time that despite the 20-year bonus, that's starting to become a thing again. Coffee Warlord should begin to have a chance of dying of old age next year -- he's a ripe 122 right now. Several others will reach that point in the next few years to a decade from now ... unless something happens to stave it off or we just get lucky. Incidentally, it occurred to me just now that I forgot to recruit a couple more governors after the Collective Self research opened up a couple of slots. Having now done that, the only thing we do not yet have leaders for(up to max of 16/16 now) are three of our six sectors; all five core planets, all scientific needs, admiral, general all covered.
Research Director's Briefing: Dr. David Corperial
** Quicksand Basin Removal(New Worlds, 9 mo.)
** Doctrine: Space Combat(Military Theory, 6 mo.) -- Still not an issue as we're at about three-fifths of logistical capacity right now, numbers previously mentioned.
** Volcano Removal(New Worlds, 9 mo.) -- There's five of these in the core planets, so we'd get a bit of a boost by having access to them.
Dr. David Corperial, you are on the clock again. I'll make a selection Thursday or Friday if you're not available.
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