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Old 06-01-2016, 10:17 PM   #240
Brian Swartz
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Join Date: May 2006
2223

It started boring, but it sure isn't going to end that way ...

2223.01.04 -- Second mining station now operational in Siccon. It's on to Ambisia now. The Mildrosch may have all of the useful stations in our space set up in a few years, believe it or not.

01.12 -- The Hanneri system has been surveyed, with little other than the usual pulsar research and of course the anomalies. The Suggron will move on.

01.28 -- Basic Science Lab operational on Bakangi, and will now be upgraded to an Engineering Facility.

02.01 -- Two discoveries at the same time. More space amoebas on the outer galactic arm preclude exploring yet another system, while outwards on the middle arm(the one we occupy), a bronze-age civilization has been discovered.

03.03 -- Our observation post reports that phase I is complete at Micaw. Our initial cells have successfully infiltrated, and other than a few minor incidents their cover stories and disguises are holding up.

03.30 -- Iron age civilization discovered in Edasich, on the outer arm a jump away from Hanneri. Seems the primitives are popping up everywhere. This is the fifth race we've found, but only the Shantari among them has been advanced enough to be worth the effort of inflitration.

04.01 -- Deesh's investigations at Hanneri V are complete, and the planet has been found to be unusually rich in minerals. A protege on the ship was credited with particular brilliance in this discovery. A recommendation to offer them a leadership posting as a Science Officer was made but there was no choice to decline since we are at our maximum leader capacity. The Laggasch will now research anomalies 20% faster.

04.10 -- As our energy needs have increased, a solar panel network module is begun on the Bakangi Spaceport.

06.04 -- Engineering Facility upgrade finished on Bakangi. This seems a sensible time to develop the planet's best energy source, but toxic kelp will have to be cleared out of the way first which will take a few months.

06.13 -- The second of four planned mining stations is operational in Ambisia.

07.01 -- The Agglor colony in the Leesak system is now up and running. It won't be productive quite as quickly as the others, but will probably be every bit as good once it gets going. With all of the recent construction elsewhere, the economy is still taking a hit with a monthly deficit of 6 energy. This situation is expected to be rectified in time though, and with a current balance of 1150, it is effectively a 15-year reserve. It's a situation to be addressed, but not a major concern.

07.29 -- Another basically identical discovery by the Laggasch on the other side of the Hanneri system! The same Architreuthis was involved, and this time there seems little choice but to promote them, leader cap or no ...

Bagglosch is 44 years old, and has a facility for Computing as well as the Spark of Genius(+10% research speed) trait. Right now we don't have a job available, but with most of our scientists in their 50s and 60s, the aging process will take care of that eventually. It appears we suffer no ill affects from being over the leader cap(11/10 right now), we simply can't recruit more until we are below it.

As for Dr. Aslik Deesh, our finest and most experienced survey captain, he is now free to take his ship on the journey to the thus-far unexplored inner galactic arm. It will be by far the single longest trip undertaken by an Architreuthis vessel, 14 jumps to reach the destination. It's moments like this that we can be thankful we use hyperlane technology(which allows for jumps from anywhere in the system, without having to move across it as in warp drive).

Meanwhile, the Hanneri system is now a potentially ludicrous treasure trove of physics research. The entire department headed by Dr. Justyce produces 13.8 per month; three stations in Hanneri could more than double that, as they would offer 15. Food for thought for our expansion plans this may well be.

08.04 -- Glorim reports that he has strange readings in Jabeth, possibly Vultaum in origin. With a risk of just 7%, he will investigate immediately.

09.02 -- Bakangi has cleared out the toxic kelp, and the colony's first Power Plant is now under construction.

09.15 -- A third Assault Army on Humboldt, and a first Defense Army on the new colony of Agglor are approved.

10.01 -- Clearing on more slums receives funding on Humboldt. It is finally time to prepare for construction of the power plant.

10.08 -- Vultaum subterranean colony discovered in Jabeth!




The nature of this discovery mandates yet another delay in Dr. Corperial's work on Arctic Colonization.

10.10 -- Solar Panel Network finished on Bakangi Spaceport. This reduces our deficit, which had grown to 9 per month, back to 6. The next step is upgrading the spaceport itself.

11.27 -- Growing tensions on Macaw.




Progress has been set back several months, and a science ship is needed to help defuse the situation. Wondering why the idiotic clerks didn't think of it sooner, a new ship is ordered so that we can put Bagglosch to work. A situation like this though requires our best, so Deesh is once again diverted, and guess whose help we will need? Guess??

That's right, Society Dept. head Dr. David Corperial, who may get to do some actual research at some point. Probably not though. There is a 2-year time limit here, so Deesh, presently in the Norgon system a half-dozen jumps away, will head there immediately.

By the way, in OOC hilarity -- the new science ship requires 94 minerals to build. We have 93.96. For lack of the .04, building it had to wait four days. Only four days, but of all the stupidity ...

11.29 -- Anomaly in Edasich, 22% failure risk for Glabonsch. Seems to be one of those stretches.

12.02 -- Destroyers and Red Lasers research have both been completed. You know what that means. Prepare for more briefing spam.
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