You've just completed a front line inspection tour of the J-D forces.

Baron Desh Xisoth has been ably leading the Super hEavy Cruiser Forbearance and its fleet against the enemy. Baron Doedra Dremine has in turn lead a group based around the Heavy Carrier Majestic.
Lastly Baron Stanni Jor'ron has acted as a reserve force, covering the other two when their fleets have needed assistance.

Casualties on the front have been high among the attack wings. Due to the contant heavy fighting over the past four and a half months a quarter of the pilots and crews that started the campaign are believed to have been killed in action. Even five years ago those losses might have crippled your House. For now it means the front line units are getting more rookies while other elite units are held in reserve for the next stage of the war.

Your Long Range Battleship II and two Excalibur Battlecruiser escorts are standing by to provide a speedy flight back from the front.
Did you want to make any stopovers before your return to Ber'helum's capital?

>>1563586
FOR HOUSE AND DOMINION

>>1563588
From what I can remember of the map, there's not a lot on the route back to the BH capital.
I'm content to just return immediately.

>>1563588
FOR HOUSE AND DOMINION!!!

>>1563588
FOR HOUSE AND DOMINION!

>>1563588
>Did you want to make any stopovers before your return to Ber'helum's capital?
Actually, changed my mind.

I'd like to visit Kharbos and see how they're coping, and visit Helios to see if they're making any political moves.

>>1563668
These two House are in different directions from each other. You can visit 1 of them without a huge delay in your flight back.

>Kharbos and see how they're coping
Their home territories are safe for the time being. Their distant territories and most of their allied minor Houses are in the same galaxy as J-D. They are fighting hard with their main fleets comprising one flank of operation Bulwark.

>visit Helios to see if they're making any political moves.
They like to keep their political options open. What sort of things were you looking for?

>>1563688
>What sort of things were you looking for?
I wanted to see what direction they were leaning on for the inevitable BH vs RH showdown. I really like BH but Helios is a smart house that's maintained their power for a long time, might be wise to see what they're planning on.

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>>1563586
For Sharks and Salvage!

>>1563588
>Did you want to make any stopovers before your return to Ber'helum's capital?
Why not House Che'len?

>>1563698
Their current status on that front would be put as hedging their bets.

>>1563705
>Why not House Che'len?
That's certainly an option.

>>1563688
How about House Medel

Rolled 774 (1d1000)

>>1563752
That is deep in enemy territory. You'll be intercepted approximately dice many times before reaching it with your current ships.

>>1563758
imagine the salvage tho

>>1563759
Yes, I imagine the other guys would be able to sell Sonia's ships for quite a bit. Nowhere near Sonia's ransom of course.

Select which stopover if any you would favour.
[ ] House Kharbos
[ ] House Helios
[ ] House Che'len
[ ] No stops

>>1563777
[ ] No stops

For House and Salvage!

>>1563777
>[x] House Che'len
Let's visit House Che'n!

>>1563777
>[ ] House Che'len

>>1563777
[ ] No stops

>>1563586
>>1563588

>RH Fort is structurally compromised and unable to move

Good thing we got our allies... 30-odd V-torps? just to let the krath/FA snag any potential Neeran on that downed fort.

>>1563777
[x] No stops

I don't really see value in any of these stops vs say expanding the JD veteran pilot training to more Houses. And we'd probably need to do that back at the war room.

>>1563777
>[X] No stops

Yeah, let's not waste 4 or 5 ingame days going somewhere interesting, better get back to that desk asap.

>>1563872
>something interesting
>Che'len
Literally the cold-call option!

>>1563866
Any reason you'd suspect the Ruling House of having Neeran on one of their asteroid fortresses?

>>1563902
Was referring to the Nasidium mobile fortress that got introduced to the asteroid/planetoid's shields and our krath buddy showed up, in the Run.

But you can't rule out that the RH is secretly controlled by Neeran infiltrators, I guess.

Telling the Barons and their subordinates to keep up the good fight you set out for the Ber'helum capital once more.

There are few large units headed back the same way you're going. Certainly not at the speeds your ships expect to be traveling at. For now that means you'll be headed out with just your 3 ships.

Before you can get clear of the denser regions of the galaxy your navigators realise you're being pursued. It looks like an attack cruiser squadron, though thankfully not at full strength. The short jumps your unit is being forced to take are giving them time to catch up during the sublight course corrections.

While the numbers are slightly in their favour you do still have some SP Torpedoes on your Excalibur class ships to even the fight.
If you could make it into open space your ships could rapidly outrun the pursuit at FTL.
Or you could change course and try to reach an allied unit for backup.

[ ] Turn and fight (Find a terrain advantage)
[ ] Turn and fight (Use SP Torpedoes)
[ ] Run for open space
[ ] Link up with allies

>>1563966
[ ] Link up with allies

>>1563966
[X] Link up with allies

We're likely at a disadvantage in a fight, but if we can damage or wipe out this force we'll make travel safer for the convoys. Of course, we'll need allies to catch the enemy when they engage us, and to chase the little bastards down when they run...

>>1563966
>[ ] Link up with allies

>>1563966
>[x] Link up with allies

If you made the docking panels on a Super out of drive material could they double as drive plates?

"Find the nearest allied unit, we'll link up with them. Hopefully that will make our pursuit break off."

Your 3 ship element changes course and are soon bearing down on a friendly attack unit that are engaged with a small number of enemies.

When you drop out of FTL you see that the allied squadron are composed primarily of outdated Corvettes and Scarab II's. They're currently fighting a trio of mercenary ships, a SRL Fast Battleship and two Gungnir Types. The enemy ships cant land any solid hits on your but small fast allies. In turn the allied unit doesn't have the firepower to down the shields on the Battleships.

The attack cruisers won't be far behind you.

Did you want to target the Fast Battleship first, one of the Gungnir Types, or did you have another plan in mind?

>>1564029
Well you'd need to power them and make sure they wouldn't rip off. I don't think it would be easy to make a single drive plate that large. It's not a thing I've previously thought about.

>>1564082
Let's try and split one for one with our allies providing additional fire support to bring down and cripple/ destroy the enemy. If not, let's have our escort focus down the Gungnir's while we get the F BS's attention. So that our allies can provide additional fire support to our escort on getting rid of the Gungnir's.

>>1564082

Focus fire on the nearest enemy ship. If we can drop one quickly, the other two should decide that living beats dying even if they have allied attack cruisers incoming.

Inform our allies that we are being tailed by attack cruisers and give the ETA. We may be faced with a situation where they have to buy us some time to take out the enemy battlecruisers/battleship before we can all turn on the attack cruisers.

>>1564082
[x] Focus on the Fast Battleship

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>>1564105
>Split fire between 2 ships
or
>shoot at everybody, Sonia's ship draws Fast BS's attention

>>1564122
>Focus fire on the nearest enemy ship.
Gungnir Type

>>1564123
>Fast Battleship

General placement of ships. Size and distances not to scale. Non-linear inverse perspective scaling = ON
Allied corvettes and Scarabs are busy with evasive maneuvers.

>>1564216
Absolutely DESTROY that Gungnir close to us with a first salvo while we have the enemy unaware and then focus that fast BS after.

>>1564216

Yeah, seems like a perfect chance to focus fire at the nearest ship and burn thru the enemy flight.

Be a big damned wrecking ball and distraction, and draw the attack cruisers into the area our allies have surrounded.

>>1564229
>>1564234
Roll 3d20

Rolled 18, 9, 19 = 46 (3d20)

>>1564285
Killer Queen time?

Rolled 13, 5, 18 = 36 (3d20)

>>1564285

New thread new luck?

Rolled 13, 10, 17 = 40 (3d20)

>>1564285
ROLLING BONES

Rolled 1, 7, 9 = 17 (3d20)

>>1564285

Rolled 5, 17, 7 = 29 (3d20)

>>1564285

Still alive, this is just taking me awhile.

Things must have been pretty desperate for the allied squadron before you jumped in. Standard and Dagger class Corvettes are about as bottom rung as you can get. Whatever upgrades they might have been given since the start of the war, improved weaponry wasn't among them. That didn't mean their House had bad pilots, most were able to dodge enough fire from the battleships to keep them alive.

The Mercs certainly weren't expecting a trio of ships near to their tonnage to suddenly appear out of nowhere. After the shrugging off hits from old GP series torpedoes they probably thought their shield upgrades were more than enough to see them through.

Then one of their custom upgraded battlecruisers took 14 Kavarian GX series Torpedoes in the side along with 4 LD plasma cannon hits and a hail of phase cannon array fire. To their credit the Merc's shield held off the opening attack long enough for them to start to bring their spinal mount phase cannons to bear. It was still just a little too late for them though.

Plasma cannon fire sheared off one of its main guns and wrecked two torpedo launchers. Phase cannon fire cut scars along the tougher sections of hull, breaching thinner areas and hitting secondary reactors in the outer wings. One final salvo blew away three quarters of her engines and disabled the remaining forward weaponry.

"All ships, focus fire on the battleship!" you order over the allied tac net. "And hurry, enemy reinforcements are on the way."

Both of the remaining Merc warships turn their focus on your larger less nimble command ship. You order the helmsman to get in behind the battleship where they can't target you with heavy torpedoes as easily. As the first four heavy torpedoes slam into the shields you're glad these new ships are all around tough.

Mass driver point defense on the Excalibur class ships get to work shooting down many of the smaller warheads before they can strike you, saving the LRBS II from some of the potential damage. Your helmsman skims the shields of the enemy battleship then orders most of the engine power shunted to repulsors to pull you in behind the other.
It doesn't save you from the other Gungnir Type, but it does keep the more powerful armaments of the big South Reach ship off you for awhile.

Both Excaliburs begin to orbit the engagement, alternating between firing forward or aft torpedo launchers. Sustained fire from everyone eventually brings down the BS's shields. Phase cannon fire disables its weaponry and four short range plasma cannon hits seriously damages her engines.

>cont.

Seven Aries attack cruisers jump in at that moment and immediately open fire. The battle turns into a brawl, with the smaller Corvettes and Scarabs soon getting in behind the attack cruisers. Your own ship continues to take hits, some fire from the remaining Battlecruiser getting through to damage two engines and some of the weapons. You still have plenty of spares.

Working together three of the attack cruisers are crippled in short order and soon after the remaining Battlecruiser jumps out. The Aries built ships likewise decide to leg it. Plasma cannons cripple a fourth ship just before it can jump.

Two of the allied corvettes have been destroyed and half of the remainder are sporting light damage to their armor. Your command ship has more than a few craters and scars across its hull, but the escorts seem little the worse for wear.

How did you want to divide up the loot? These guys are very poorly equipped.

>>1564790
Who are these guys allied with?

>>1564790

I am of the mind let them keep the ships and we get going to B'H space. But since that wouldn't be very Sonia. So let them get enough salvage to replace their losses. Then work out with whoever is the highest ranked person of their group for the rest of the salvage so it gets split evenly.

>>1564790

What House are these guys from? Anyone we have relations or authorizations to sell stuff to?

Can we talk to the unit's commander and see if these guys are in a position to crew the battleship/battlecruiser, or even the attack cruisers?

We could in theory arrange to get these guys some assault corvettes either fresh from the production lines or from JD reserves in the region, if they prefer?

Redoubt squadron, a reserve unit from House Ules'trium. Their House took heavy casualties fighting House Sulos and all reserves were called up to the front as a result.

They're nominally Ber'helum aligned but they've been known to switch between them, Helios, and neutral middle Houses for protection. They are decidedly bottom rung.

Their House are probably desperate to be counted among those still fighting in the hopes of being compensated for their contributions. This seems to be the level of ships they have left in the fight at moment. You could easily use your position to report that their House has exhausted their war fighting capability and should be retired from the front.
This would give them time to rebuild, but wouldn't get any further benefit from the rest of the allied campaign in the region.

>Can we talk to the unit's commander and see if these guys are in a position to crew the battleship/battlecruiser, or even the attack cruisers?
They can bring in a skeleton crew and enough infantry to take the ships. Only 50-60 marines are being carried by their squadron.

>>1564864
>They can bring in a skeleton crew and enough infantry to take the ships. Only 50-60 marines are being carried by their squadron.

I mean, we'll certainly help them secure these ships. We're not evil.

My question is more "can they effectively use these ships", or is it better for them if we make arrangements to get them say attack/assault corvettes?

>>1564805
>>1564808
>>1564885
>can they effectively use these ships
That is in doubt. The captain in command of the squadron admits that they're low on manpower though he's understandably tight lipped about just how much.

As there House seems likely to be low on manpower similar or worse than J-D was back in the Warlord campaign days two big ships requiring crews of several hundred each would be best in your hands.

>get these guys some assault corvettes
Maybourne has a suggestion. "They could make sure both the big ships make it to the J-D fleets in galaxy and in return we could trade them a squadron of assault corvettes."

>What say?

>>1564919
Works for me

>>1564919
Maybourne's suggestion sounds good.

>>1564919

It works for me. Maybourne confirmed Neeran spy

That said, we should get some contact info for their commander and possibly their House leadership? If their House is suffering from this offensive, we should clearly help them out. It helps our standing and the Dominion.

Either by informing Duke B'H of their situation and finding more supporting roles for their forces, or maybe joint deployments?

This post didn't start out as a survey.

>>1564965
>That said, we should get some contact info for their commander and possibly their House leadership?
Done.

Your people help secure the damaged and crippled ships then wait until the House Ules'trium salvage ships arrive. They're more than happy to make sure the salvage makes it to the J-D fleet provided you hold up to your bargain. Next is a quick stop over for repairs followed by a significantly less eventful trip to the Ber'helum capital.
Once in the capital you're able to make use of secure communications again and can talk to the Count as well as your advisors.

>If their House is suffering from this offensive, we should clearly help them out. It helps our standing and the Dominion.
The Count agrees that helping out allied Houses in need and improving standing with them would be ideal. However your House is facing escalating fighting that will continue to escalate as it draws closer to the J-D homeworlds. There are also doubtlessly other Houses that are in bad shape, do you intend to help them all?

But for now the situation with House Ules'trium.
You still have money and starship production. You could buy assault corvettes or other ships from your own yards at cost to help them out if you wanted.

Their old standard corvettes could be traded in for attack corvette II's since your House has refit capability. It would certainly be much cheaper to set up such a trade.

A small stockpile of newer Torpedoes would go a long way towards improving the firepower of old Dagger class corvettes, or even assault corvettes.


1) Do you want to report to Ber'helum that Ules'trium forces should be pulled off the line or reassigned in some manner?
1A) Retire them from the front
1B) Reassign to low risk areas
1C) Have them coordinate with better equipped Houses

2) Starships
2A) Offer to sell fixed number of assault corvettes at cost
2B) Offer to sell ships at a discount
2C) Trade standard corvettes for Attack Corvette II
2D) None. They're already getting a few ships
2E) Other

3) Torpedoes
3A) Send them a small stockpile of newer Torps
3B) Offer to sell some at discount
3C) Start a fund for munitions for poorly equipped Houses

>>1565171

>1B) Reassign to low risk areas
>2C) Trade standard corvettes for Attack Corvette II
3C) Start a fund for munitions for poorly equipped Houses

>>1565171
>1B) Reassign to low risk areas
>2C) Trade standard corvettes for Attack Corvette II
>3C) Start a fund for munitions for poorly equipped Houses

>>1565171

>do you intend to help them all?
Just like you can't kill all of your enemies, you can't help everyone. You just have to make strategic or tactical choices in your aid.

If we only aid Houses that are between the fighting and J-D homeworlds, we'll likely be seen by others as looking for buffers, rather than allies.

>votes
1C) Have them coordinate with better equipped Houses

2E) Other: 2C + Gift unit commander that aided us an EX-K (ensure they get some ECM/ECCM)

3D) Other: 3B + Gift smaller stockpile to unit that aided us


Can we still set up more torpedo production lines under our license?

>>1565171
>do you intend to help them all?

The ones who help us out, yes. These guys did that by staying to fight, and performed well with substandard equipment.

We should be generous to them both to show noblesse oblige, but also to show that we have the resources to do so and reaffirm our position as a growing house that others would benefit by supporting. Especially since poorer houses are cheaper to help than bigger ones.

With that in mind
1C) Have them coordinate with better equipped Houses

Tell them that we're impressed with their skill and want them to have the opportunity to succeed by salvaging. Give them a little Salvage Shark medal or ornament for their first "Salvaged more than we could Sail" event and tell them that's how you do it.

2C) Trade standard corvettes for Attack Corvette II

Get used to trading up and working with what you get!

3A) Send them a small stockpile of newer Torps

We expect then to use them to et new ships!

> OTHER

Could we get our combat salvage team to assist them with their manpower shortage? Alternatively, offer them a good deal on exchanging Salvaged ships for new ones so they can get back out there right away to get more salvag without waiting for repairs

>>1565250
>Can we still set up more torpedo production lines under our license?
I think you're maxed out.

I have to be up early so stopping here. Will try to resume for a bit tomorrow. If I cant then definitely on Tuesday.

>>1565250
>>1565171
I'll back loaning the commander an EX-K or offering him the opportunity to pay it off in Salvage. Gifting, ehhhhhh.

>>1565335
>Could we get our combat salvage team to assist them with their manpower shortage? Alternatively, offer them a good deal on exchanging Salvaged ships for new ones so they can get back out there right away to get more salvag without waiting for repairs
While a good idea it'll take a couple of months to get everything set up for it and move a good team there. If everything goes well major combat operations in the Bonrah territories should be concluded before then.

There is that Knight Errant base in galaxy that could serve as a starting point for a new more hastily assembled team, but they're a bit far from the fighting.

May have found one way of going about it. Christina Pozzi has remained busy all this time hunting down hidden Aries facilities. Some time it takes awhile to track them down, or they're called away for one reason or another.
Apparently she's quietly managed to salvage a Leto class Medium repair ship and knows where to get hold of the incomplete hull of another. Apparently she's taken a page out of your book with stashing away salvage for a rainy day.

She lacks the resources to set up a proper salvage company. With so much of Bonrah space now occupied it's safe enough for her team to relocate and start looking there for hidden Aries workshops. In the process she could bring the two Medium Cruiser sized ships and help support a salvage team while nearby. The incomplete one would work as well as a Kilo for moving wrecked ships. She'd be happy to provide it in return for a share of the profits.

Did you want RSS to unofficially hire on Pozzi and hastily throw a team together? It'll require 100 million to start up.

>>1565515
>Did you want RSS to unofficially hire on Pozzi and hastily throw a team together?
Make sure she has people trained to recover any data from the Aries workshops.

>>1565515

Only if we name the temporary subsidiary something tongue-in-cheek about her little adventure.

"Another Wayward Operational Logistics Salvage Solutions" or AWOL Salvage Solutions, for short?

>>1565515
Supporting her sounds like helping competition. But then again... they are the same house as us.

If other anons are okay with giving her a start up finance that she will pay off. Then I am okay for it.

>>1565515
>Did you want RSS to unofficially hire on Pozzi and hastily throw a team together? It'll require 100 million to start up.
Yeah, let's do it.
Pozzi has proven herself a few times now.

She probably gained plot-sentience when she rolled that exact 98 to survive.

>>1565515
Absolutely. It's not helping the competition it's hiring them. Besides there's enough salvage for us. We need it all. If that means hiring the competition then let's do it.

We should also take the opportunity to headhunt her best people for later.

>>1565562
Dude. It would be her show. Don't be a dick about it.

Let's just sneak a bunch of mechanical cleaner bots designed to look like Sharks eating the garbage on the ship and program them to gather in her room after she goes to sleep on the third night, so it's right when she starts to get used to them.

The can say "Salvage for the Shark Throne! Salvage for Sonia!" When they "eat" garbage, then chant it full blast when they gather in her room with their eyes glowing red.

Just so she knows who the Salvage ultimately belongs to.

What's the point of being rich, filthy rich, if you can't blow a couple grand on robots and bribing maintenance for a practical joke.

It fits our usual coping strategies, and honestly I feel if someone else is getting Salvage with our help we'll need it to sleep easy.

>>1565171
I am glad to see we can start trying to help improve relations with more then just missioning for bigger houses. Building upon some smaller houses is a good change.

1B) Reassign to low risk areas
2C) Trade standard corvettes for Attack Corvette II
3C) Start a fund for munitions for poorly equipped Houses

>>1565171
>There are also doubtlessly other Houses that are in bad shape, do you intend to help them all?
That's part of what medium Houses are supposed to do, isn't it? If J-D wants to become a proper mid-tier House, we'll have to work with and help smaller ones sooner or later. However, I doubt Jerik-Dremine alone is powerful enough to help everybody.

>1B) Reassign to low risk areas
I'd be okay with option 1C) as well if we can find a House that's guaranteed not to use these guys as cannon fodder.

>2C) Trade standard corvettes for Attack Corvette II
The problem with assault corvettes would most likely be that the maintenance costs of the ships have the potential to ruin their House even more.

>3A) Send them a small stockpile of newer Torps
>3C) Start a fund for munitions for poorly equipped Houses
It seems like an efficient way to raise the combat effectiveness of smaller Houses. We can't really afford to have ships perform below their best if we can do something about it.

>>1565250
>Gift unit commander that aided us an EX-K
It's a great idea to offer them a ship. Although I wouldn't be set on an EX-K if something else would be better for them.

>>1565515
>Did you want RSS to unofficially hire on Pozzi and hastily throw a team together? It'll require 100 million to start up.
Yes. It's a lot of money but if something really good and really expensive should crop up in the future I'd expect Sonia to have a rather significant line of credit.

>>1565515
Are we talking absorbing Pozzi into the RSS family?
Loaning the ships and crew for a while in exchange for profits?
Funding a new company separate from RSS?

I'm down for setting up a new salvage company under Lastar Holdings co-owned by Lastar and Pozzi with majority shares going to Sonya if Pozzi is reluctant to be absorbed into a new salvage fleet under the RSS banner.
I'm against funding a potential competitor for short term gain.

>>1565988
It kind of sounds like she is offering to sell the location of the Incomplete Leto to us, if we crew it and assign it to her task force when they move to former Bonrah space.

She would then provide that ship when available to contract out for RSS salvage operations, in exchange for a cut of the profits?

As I see it, less "start Pozzi Salvage Competition", more "I have this thing, lack space $$$, we can make a deal because I can escort it in a war zone for you"?

Also the shark bot thing is neat, but 100% a way to have Pozzi wake up and shoot them all

>>1563586
I post every year or so to let you know that people still read these in the archives. I'm very glad you're still doing these. Thank you

>>1565997
That's why we also bribe maintenance to let lose a flood of mini shark bots the next night that crawl into her bed and inform her that Sonia come in the Night to Salvage bad officers and take their ships.

We can make the second wave soft and cuddly.

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>>1566211

Like this? Though I don't think that would be maintenance, so much as logistics.

>>1566211
>>1566222
Why not just a shark plushie with a holster?

>>1563588
>Casualties on the front have been high among the attack wings.
Anyone want to get a cost estimate for starting a high-level pilot academy at Rioja? We could fund it ourselves and keep it a house thing, or we could fund it from the Run Alliance to strengthen the entire run.

>>1566525
Top Run?[/pun]

Are we talking a quasi-military style pilot's academy, or a not-Top Gun with this suggestion?

>>1566607
I was thinking fully military, to try to alleviate our Houses problems manpower problems. And if JD is feeling the squeeze, other Run houses must be as well.

Also that was a top pun.

>>1566737
I thought our manpower problem was less training capacity and more population/territory/economic?

We were just recently mentioned as being rather "small" for the power/influence the House has.

>>1566772
Which is why we should focus on having exceptionally high quality pilots.

Personally I think it would be a good idea to offer training at the Academy to smaller houses that are allied with us as well. It would make military joint ops easier and we could advertise our ship lines as well. Not to mention it would be good politically since so many pilots are Nobles.

And slowly we'll absorb other houses into ours.

>>1567495
That is a pretty solid long term investment idea. We have done a lot to build up the Run Alliance.

>>1567495
>>1567862

not really sure how the "absorbing other houses into ours" bit will work by training pilots traitors/spies?

Would this idea include some facet like a local scholarship program/sub academy? If we could produce local Knights like Serth from the Run, we could strengthen the Run as a power block with local born Knights. They could aid as aggressor pilots and bulk up larger battle simulations.

We could also set up a FA training base arm of it? Triple threat Top Run!

>>1566009
Thanks for reading!

>>1565554
>Make sure she has people trained to recover any data from the Aries workshops.
That's pretty much what she'd been doing since last year.

>>1565598
>>1565988
More like hiring an outside contractor. One with a medium cruiser to support a larger salvage operation.

>>1565997
100% a way to have Pozzi wake up and shoot them all
Pozzi's response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHrod2skYPo

>>1566525
>>1567495
Run Alliance members frequently performs exercises, with larger full fleet joint affairs twice a year. That was how weaknesses in Forbearance's point defense coverage were discovered leading to the addition of PD gunships.

Your House is currently okay for manpower and can weather some semi-serious losses for now. All that not getting lots of people killed for years plays a big part of that. Getting replacement pilots experience when you do lose some just takes time.

>>1567970
>More like hiring an outside contractor. One with a medium cruiser to support a larger salvage operation.
In that case just claim the salvage, leave a probe to monitor the claims and do it with our own people when we have time. No need to lower the profit margin.

>>1567940
Well, as we have their nobility going to Space Ship War College being trained by us, and we are also the main providers of their equipment, we set up matches between the lower levels of JD nobility to lure away the best of their House.

Economically we invest in them as well through these matches so the money always stays tied to the house.

Eventually they pass from Allies, to Vassals, to J-D Nobility.

It's a multi-generational thing. But it's the right thing to do to set it up. One of the big things about nobility is as you are supported by your ancestors past you have an obligation to leave something behind for your descendants.

>>1568723
But we need the salvage to help out this other house and the war effort NOW.

>>1567970
I say we still work with Pozzi.

Also, is she the one making the phonecall or receiving it in the clip? That changes the context a LOT. Because if youère implying we would start a prank war, Ièm down.

>>1567970
>That's pretty much what she'd been doing since last year.
Does the House have the resources to replace her with another enterprising knight if we transfer her to Bonrah territory? I'm sure there's more stuff hidden in the J-D main galaxy. We should probably have teams looking through DRH1/2 as well. Where's the Hephaestus hull Pozzi?

Also, considering all the medieval parallels, are we expected to adopt somebody at some point?

>>1569221
The head of our house would foster other noble children.

We should really have our own.

With Troy Harmen.

He could be a Househusband

>>1569259
Foss is the superior choice. Top level disguise/infiltration skills, commands a SHC+fleet of pirates, and the kids would have insane salvage abilitiesYes, I'm suggesting that salvaging is genetic. We have pirate blood! Yarrr!

>>1569400
Speaking of salvage genetics, Sonia should start an investigation into her mother's side of the family. It would be pretty awkward if her grandparents were actually still around or if she had a number of unknown relatives running around in SRL.
Extra PTSD points if she managed to kill some or all of them when she bombed that pirate super.

>>1569404
inb4 we're related to the command crew of the superThat would literally be a top tier family grudge, though.

>>1569400
Foss a best. All other potential husbands a shit. I mean he clicks with Sonia if anything.
Both like big ships, salvage, money, making things go boom and both would be excellent pirates!

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>>1569087
Sonia would be the one receiving the call.

>>1568723
Since the original anon here:
>>1565335
wanted to provide salvage support for allied Houses and trade operational ships for their equivalent value in salvage, it'll be difficult.
That would mean getting next to zero salvage because it'll be gone by the time you get an operational group with its own defenses to the region.

London will not send his salvage personnel on a suicide mission. You can still directly order a team to do it but they'll hate you for it.

It looks like only 2 people are against making a deal with Pozzi but let's be sure. Heading out for a couple of hours to get my car worked on.

[ ] Send RSS salvage group to the region with adequate defenses (2 months) (Reduced salvage hauls)
[ ] Send salvage team without defenses (1 week)( - Relations hit with RSS)
[ ] Send salvage teams, operate out of Knight Errant Base (1 month)(Reduced salvage hauls)
[ ] Make deal with Pozzi (7-10 days) (Pozzi gets a cut of the profits)

>>1569416
[X] Make deal with Pozzi (7-10 days) (Pozzi gets a cut of the profits)

>>1569416
[X] Make deal with Pozzi (7-10 days) (Pozzi gets a cut of the profits)

I really can't see a reason not to support Pozzi. We survived Sylvan together, and then she went on an adventure trying to link back up with the unit after Lat'tham.

RSS can't be everywhere, and our competition may as well be someone we like.So we can team up against the competition we both hate!

Unrelated question, could that unfinished Leto be converted into an effective construction ship with our Exodus license/experience?

>>1569416
>[x] Make deal with Pozzi (7-10 days) (Pozzi gets a cut of the profits)
We can't really afford to have destitute or poor knights in the House while Sonia's raking in billions. I'm all for setting up temporary joint ventures to share the wealth with people who can contribute in a meaningful way.

>>1569416
>[ ] Make deal with Pozzi (7-10 days) (Pozzi gets a cut of the profits)

>>1569416
>[X] Make deal with Pozzi (7-10 days) (Pozzi gets a cut of the profits)

>>1569412
>and both are excellent pirates!
FTFY, friend!

Just to remind you guys, Sonia does have grand parents who were pirates. From her mothers side, that someone tried to black mail her because they knew that. We of course dealt with said person appropriatly. And Momma Sonia confirmed her parents had been outlaws. But that was it and nothing else happened.

Already voted from mobile as >>1569471

>>1569564
>>1569404
>Extra PTSD points if she managed to kill some or all of them when she bombed that pirate super.
More likely they would have died in the first H&D thread if I chose to go that route.

>>1569603
Is everybody on her father's side of the family dead?

>>1569603
Man, unwittingly killing our family while they commanded our future attack cruiser would be dark...

>>1569416
[ ] Make deal with Pozzi (7-10 days) (Pozzi gets a cut of the profits)

>>1569603
They weren't looting or pillaging jd space, they were looking for their daughter

Back in the Ber'helum capital you have plenty of work to do. After your conversation with the Count you make an appointment to talk to House Ber'helum and several others regarding your trip to the front. There you discuss the status of the harder hit Houses suggesting that some of them be reassigned to low risk areas. It will keep them in the fight while also allowing them to recover.

You also propose the creation of a fund for munitions for poorly equipped Houses. Older GP Torpedoes don't cut it anymore and the improved firepower will increase the overall effectiveness of the allied fleets. As a few nobles from other Houses point out, stockpiles of newer Aries torpedoes that have been captured would be ideal for aiding such a program.

House Ber'helum gives the fund tentative approval for now. They do intend to look into finding ways of sourcing newer warheads that won't be reliant on Aries or Iratar. It seems the major Houses have been getting most of their newer warheads through similar methods, though most are looking for alternatives.

Several Houses have been working on stasis plasma torpedoes, possibly with the Republic. Meanwhile Ber'helum, Kharbos and CCD have been cooperating on a torpedo that deals better damage against shields. It will take time for the new designs to compete with those of the corps outside the Dominion.

Once this is over you make sure that London and Pozzi get in contact with one another and get salvage teams to the occupied Ber'helum territories. Pozzi will keep them safe while they go about this business.
Part of that business will be trading Attack Corvette II's for salvage or older standard corvettes your House can refit. House Ules'trium will be among the first to benefit from this deal.

There was some interest in gifting the squadron you encountered an ECM ship.

You've got the newer EC-K, which is a top of the line ECM equipped attack cruiser.
The old EX-K prototype which doesn't mass as much and is probably a little better on maintenance. The House still has a few of these left including Sonia's old ship.
Escort Carrier with ECM. Useful for many different roles.
Lastly the old Journeyman Transports rebuilt from salvage can carry a single large electronic warfare package or a smaller one with weapons.

Or do you think you've done enough for them after that trade for the assault corvettes?

>>1569931

I think we've done enough for them for now. Give them to much and other smaller houses will also want the same deal as Ules'trium.

If other anons are still up for giving them an ECM ship. I say we sell them one of our older models ECM ships. The Escort Carrier with ECM to be sold sounds like a good choice, that or the EX-K, also to be sold.

>>1569931
>Escort Carrier with ECM. Useful for many different roles.
One of these should be a nice present. If we're worried about other Houses demanding the same treatment gift it to them anonymously or through Ber'helum's channels.

>What do you mean that ship is ours?
>Well, it says so on the delivery slip. Or would you rather not have it?

>>1569931
>Or do you think you've done enough for them after that trade for the assault corvettes?

I think we've done enough for now.

Also it just struck me how much the Dominion is modernizing. New Corvettes (and soon new NEW plasma Corvettes). New Frigates. Many new Cruisers. New high tech Battleships. New Mediums. Good new Heavy Cruisers and Carriers. Plans for their own Supers. New missiles, New Torpedoes. Anti matter super weapons. SP Decoys. Cooling laser. Super massive mobile fortresses. And on and on and on the list goes.

I am beginning to wonder just how nervous the other Factions are getting

>>1569931
Buy out the ex-wife, bittrnfeld and gungir and put them into the Reynard career museum, find Hull chunks from the unnamed guard aswell

I think we've done enough with just the Corvette trade. What else can we offer, vassalage for better equipment?

>>1570006
Ex-k autocorrect is a bitch

>>1570000

I would hope that they're getting anxious for the Dominion returning to the fight. Once the Neeran Empire is gone, I'm sure they'll find someone to sabotage the Dominion back to its previous state.

>>1569931
>[x] Escort Carrier with ECM. Useful for many different roles.

Sounds like it would benefit them the most. A small house with a multi-role ship is better than a dedicated attack role class.

You've done enough for that squadron after that trade for the assault corvettes. Their House is going to be helped out with torpedoes and ships. They don't need any more help right now.


Next on the agenda you offer to provide additional R&D support to House Feron on their Light siege cannon super heavy turret program.
The RSS R&D team will be providing ongoing assistance while your House has agreed to send as much data as possible from similar experiments at Rioja.

The 2 gun light siege cannon turret that Forbearance had mounted for awhile proved to have excellent range. Its rate of fire and overall damage were quite poor however.
More interesting was the 3 gun medium plasma cannon turret, but even with range boosting its effective range still wasn't great. What your engineers did learn from the attempt is useful data for turret structures to pass on.

>House Feron Light Siege turret: - 3 months development time!

If they get desperate enough Feron should be able to produce some lower powered prototypes to improve the defenses of their more important installations. That should by them time if Nasidum reaches their borders.

Next meeting scheduled is with R&D reps for the Dominion Assault Corvette program. The Ruling House, Ber'helum and Helios share data on the main assault corvette along with many minor Houses. J-D is among them but your House can't take on any more development load.
You give them all of the data from your assault corvette plasma cannon feasibility study.

Their reactions are quite varied but enough seem interested in the idea to give it a chance. If possible they'll look at ways of mounting LD plasma cannons on the design in the future. With reverse engineering of Neeran weapons still ongoing that may get easier over the next few years.

>Assault Corvette Plasma R&D improved!

The offensive against the remainder of Bonrah space doesn't suffer any more serious setbacks like they had near the border, but at the same time there are only a few wildly successful battles that come out heavily in your favour. Most are a continuous grind. Additional resources are reaching the more badly crippled Houses that are assisting.

Your munitions fund seems to be a tremendous success even if many nobles are simply buying into it with war bonds. It's more of an annoyance than anything. That doesn't matter, the important thing is that it's helping your side.

Several enemy units behind the lines try to target Pozzi's salvage fleet and are driven off in part thanks to the weaponry her people have recovered.
Using data recovered from more than a dozen sites near Che'len space her people have already been able to track down one facility. There are still occasional tip-offs from their GE contact but they admit to having less data about Bonrah space.

Bonrah has begun withdrawing many of their heavy carriers to Nasidum and Xygen territory, though their defenses around their capital still holds. Communications with the front line fleets are frequently being interrupted by jamming. Many believe this is Bonrah attempting to isolate allied fleet groups and overwhelm them before they can be reinforced.
A Ruling House fleet is caught in such a trap and nearly annihilated. Elsewhere a Ber'helum fleet nearly suffers the same fate but manages to reestablish communications and fight their way clear.

Desh Xisoth and Stanni Jor'ron rush their fleets to the aid of several allied units that had found themselves trapped in a planet's gravity well. Jor'ron arrived first and reinforced your allies sufficiently to turn the battle back in your favour.
Then Xisoth arrived, dropping Forbearance and her fleet almost on top of the enemy Heavy Cruiser. After destroying the escort the crew of the Ascendancy Heavy surrendered after taking only minimal damage.

The captured heavy has been claimed as salvage for the House, though you won't be able to maintain it in your own at the moment. For now it's being used as a joint command ship for several minor Houses. While J-D commands the ship and has it garrisoned with your marines, 80% of the crew operating it are from other Houses, including some from the Run Alliance. Jor'ron's reserve fleet will help to protect it.

While it's an old ship it still has value. Helios is in talks with Kharbos regarding alternate upgrade programs for the class. Ones to give them more modular capabilities. The proposed upgrade would be referred to as the Arsenal modification.

The Count intends to have the ship sold once the Bonrah campaign is concluded or shortly thereafter. That way the House can try to the second Talos Carrier you helped capture into service. The Allied crews your House has helped train are already being called upon to crew another Heavy Carrier that was captured in the offensive. Money well spent.

>cont.

"You're in the Ber'helum capital Reynard, who should we see about selling this Ascendancy to?"

Helios and Kharbos will probably be able to make the best use of it with the new upgrades. Ber'helum wouldn't turn down another Heavy Cruiser.
You could also pay Helios to refit the Heavy with the new mod and then sell it to Ber'helum.
The Ruling House was hit hard. They could use another ship, even an obsolete one

[ ] Helios
[ ] Kharbos
[ ] Ber'helum
[ ] Ruling House
[ ] Refit then sell Ber'helum
[ ] Refit then sell Ruling House

>>1570466
>That way the House can try to (put) the second Talos Carrier you helped capture into service.

>>1570470
Would the refit take long enough that it would become available after the question about who gets to be RH once the civil war is over has been answered?

>>1570470
>[ ] Helios
If Helios can make the best of this ship then we sell it to them.

>>1570470
>[ ] Refit then sell Ber'helum

I see it as reinforcing our ties to B'H. Nirrium or the current RH hasn't asked us for any help. So I say lets help buff B'H. Give them more saying power to being the next RH. Of course, that's if B'H can continue to prove their worth as a viable replacement for Nirrium or current RH.

>>1570470
[X] Refit then sell Ber'helum

The Ruling House did like to say "we can recover ship losses the best"...

>>1570470
>[x] Refit then sell Ruling House
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>>1570484
It should be fairly quick since Helios learned a lot from their 2 prototypes; the Spinal UV Laser Prototype and the Quad Siege Cannon Prototype.
Kharbos is merging a lot of the program data they already have with theirs since the Helios modification is structurally stronger.

The basic refit should take less than 6 months. Hopefully less than that. So it could be done before the leadership of the Dominion has been completely worked out.

This is unofficially the Picatinny Ascendancy that was previously discussed.

>>1570536
>So it could be done before the leadership of the Dominion has been completely worked out.
If we can delay the delivery of the ship it until after that, I think we should hand it to the current RH. A lot of Houses depend on them, and we can't afford to have them weakened too much.

>>1570557
You could delay on the decision until the refit is near completion. However if fighting is still ongoing then the ship will need to be ready for action ASAP. For that to happen the recipient House will need to start getting a crew ready for it at least a month ahead of time.

If your concern is not empowering the wrong Ruling House you may want to just sell to Helios.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1570630
>If your concern is not empowering the wrong Ruling House you may want to just sell to Helios.
Okay, thanks.

1= Helios
2= Refit for current RH

>>1570470
>[X] Helios

You're leaning towards Helios, though selling the ship to Ber'helumn after the refit is a close second. At least with Helios you can keep your options open and get them to take your requests a little more seriously when it comes to support for a new Ruling House. If any.

Until the fighting is over the Ascendancy will support the allied fleets in the region. Looking at the reports Bonrah clearly knows they're beaten and their delaying tactics are buying time to evacuate personnel and resources from their capital.

The war room is a crowded place as the fleets close in on Bonrah's remaining strong points.

Predictably Forbearance is requested for the assault on the capital. Two other allied super heavies will be present, though one of them is an old Warlord model. The rest are still needed for fighting around the dwarf galaxies. Ceres brings in a mobile asteroid fortress, though it arrives late. Nearly 30 heavy cruisers and more than 50 helios class ships act as the big guns.

Multiple fleets are standing in reserve and support roles. Others continue to fight it out with the remaining mobile forces not helping with the evacuation.

As the fighting start up you talk to Desh who seems to be a bit nervous. Not about the fight in space it turns out but on the ground. He isn't sure about committing valuable troops with power cell armor that might be needed later in Nasidum space.
If the special forces take heavy losses here there won't be time to replace them.

>Your advice?

>>1570821
>>Your advice?
Hold the special forces back and commit things like our super heavy tanks instead. They are still better than what most of our allies can field and can be replaced more easily than special forces.

>>1570821
Only deploy them if specifically requested by Allied forces. Identify the positions where they'll be most effective, creating battlefield-shifting events, turning the tide of a conflict, etc.

>>1570821

We need our special forces for special operations on Nassidium space. Either to capture and prevent deletion of date for the yards. Or to conduct demolition actions in case the enemy forces us out of the system or we have a betrayal from our own forces at the end and we need to destroy the super yards.

>>1570821

We've never really backed down from a fight, but we've also never really played fair.

Don't play by the enemy's rules. Bombard enemy strong points into ruin with mass drivers and HAGs whenever possible. Force them to either sally out and fight on our terms or sit there and wait to die.

We didn't start this shit, they did. If their capital burns because of it, that is on them.

>>1570858
"We're going to need our special forces for special operations in Nassidium space so only deploy them if specifically requested by Allied forces. Commit things like our new heavy tanks instead. We can always replace those, or I can have them replaced.

Don't play by the enemy's rules. If the civilians have been evacuated to the shelters like they should then anything above ground is a free fire zone. We have Mass drivers and HAGs for a reason.
Force them to either sally out and fight on our terms or sit there and wait to die. If their capital burns because of it, that is on them."

"Right." Desh replies seeming to think things over.

Not long after he's distracted by something happening off screen.
"Looks like they're trying to contest our assault on the orbital platforms. I'll keep you apprised of the situation. Xisoth out."

Roll 2d100 for J-D forces

Rolled 22, 95 = 117 (2d100)

>>1570973

Tally ho! Lets show these blighters a right rogering!

Rolled 14, 56 = 70 (2d100)

>>1570973
I BELIEVE IN JD
ROLLING BONES

Rolled 55, 9, 23, 60, 57, 72, 95, 24, 26, 15, 15, 79 = 530 (12d100)

>>1570973
>Roll 2d100 for J-D forces
Dice!

>>1570985
>(12d100)
Ooops... do you want me to roll again or are going to take the first two?

>>1570985
Roll again I'd think.

>>1570988
Why don't you roll again.

Rolled 76, 4 = 80 (2d100)

>>1570992
>>1570993
>roll again
Okay.

>>1570973
>If their capital burns because of it, that is on them
Sounds like a pretty sure way to give their fleets in exile a boost to combat performance.

76(55?), 95

Maybe.

Have to step out for awhile. Probably an hour at least.

>>1571031

76, 95

>>1571060
Good luck TSTG!

Hooray! The pills kicked in!

(Orchestral battle theme of your choice here!)

Stanni Jor'ron commits part of his fleet, namely the Shallan Medium and a Nocturne, to assisting in the capture of one of the main orbital platforms. The intent being for the larger than average Medium helps to draw some attention away from attacks from behind. It's hardly necessary.

A steady hail of siege gun fire pelts the main station while attack wings and faster medium cruisers punch through the smaller surrounding platforms. Bonrah has deployed hundreds of new model star forts that can be upgraded and expanded as time and resources allow. Few of them are fully upgraded fortunately.

The Nocturn launches a stealth SP torpedo attack on the main station in an attempt to take out its shields. While all the torpedoes get through, they fail to reach the main generators. The cloaked ship beats a hasty retreat, escaping without taking damage.

While a harder fight than they were hoping for the attacking Mediums manage to breach the station shield thanks to the constant bombardment. Once inside the launch bays on th Eclipse are able to disgorge assault shuttles. Allied Eminence II's fitted for carrying troops ram the less heavily armored sections of the station and cut through.
While not a quick knockout the station defenders wouldn't last more than a few hours.

By the later half of the day the allied fleet had secured one of the two main stations and roughly half of the orbital space of the Bonrah capital. Not long after that breaching attempts were made on the planetary shields. Soon after the first wave of Frigates and LST's were sent in.

The first wave of ground troops did not have an enviable job here. While most planetary assaults Sonia had fought were quick overwhelming affairs, those against heavily populated and defended planets were more difficult. The opening wave had to secure or destroy several planetary shield generators in bunkers rendered nearly impervious to SP kinetic barrage.
Without them lowered the main drop would be a much slower and drawn out affair. If they were all simply destroyed it would be far easier for the enemy to later attack the landing zone.

Because of this Baron Xisoth held off committing anything but HAG's to the first wave. J-D's heavy tanks couldn't be landed without Frigates, HLV's or assault transports.

Bonrah ground troops and reinforcing ships were nearly able to break the first wave forces, taking down Frigates, LST's and HAG's with ramming attacks. Despite this your allies were eventually able to secure two shield gens and destroy the third, paving the way for the invasion.

Once the LZ was actually secured then J-D landing ships didn't waste any time. The Armies of two Barons of your House swept their objectives and even managed it with with far less collateral damage than any of you were anticipating.

>>1571570
Bruckner : Symphony No.1 in C minor, III. Scherzo - Trio. (27:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3k7yRWiVXQ&t=27m6s

Two Steps From Hell - To Glory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abjE9Qx0O60

Gundam Unicorn Vol. 2 - THE BATTLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWPhNRBG-B8

>>1571570
Good job, team.

>>1571570

Sounds like our forces did a good job smashing the enemies faces in. If it were possible to give the troops a break after this I'd say they deserved it.

Bonrah continues to hold onto one of the big stations, with several Zeus protecting it and the transports leaving the surface. Their remaining fleets hold a corridor out that they're determined to keep open, even if only for a few more days. They may be able to hold out until your sides ground troops force them from the nearest planetary shield generators.

On that note Ber'helum and Helios troops are gaining considerable ground and are closing swiftly on the capital. Not every House fares as well as yours in the drive to secure the rest of the planet. Two Houses expected to support the assault on the capital itself have been rendered combat ineffective.
The Barons from your House still have army reserves due to minimal losses suffered before and are prepared to commit troops if necessary.

[ ] Help them out, we have the troops
[ ] Hold them back, we've done our job
[ ] Provide ranged support
[ ] Other

See you in the morning!

>>1571733
[ ] Other

Have our forces provide long ranged support, and if needed/ asked provide heavy armor as needed that we can afford to spare to assist our allies. Also have orbital fire support as needed and maybe even aircraft as well on a need basis. If we can afford to send them that way.

But we should really try and do our best to close off that escape hatch the enemy has. If we've secured one station then lets go ahead and bring forces around to harass and poke the bear. Make them over extend and enter our gun ranges. Those enemy ships we can prevent from escaping now the less we will have to deal with later in Nassidium space.

>>1571733
>[ ] Other
Supporting >>1571750

>>1571733
Throwing support over this way >>1571750

>>1571733
>[ ] Other
Supporting this. >>1571750

>>1571750
I can agree with this.

>>1571570
>Bonrah has deployed hundreds of new model star forts that can be upgraded and expanded as time and resources allow.
Dibs on the blueprints.

>>1571733
>[ ] Other
Supporting >>1571750

>>1572075
> Not stealing all the tiny forts while people are distracted by the big ones.

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>>1572084
Yeah, grabbing the smaller forts is a great idea. I wonder what our engineers can come up with when we combine them with the armored station sections Sonia's company has been building.

>>1571733
>Upcoming occupation of Bonrah space
I've had a look at the archives for commanders who helped fight raiders and pirates in DRH1. Would it be possible to get Knight Captain Kal'yas Aurlum assigned to the occupation fleet? He seems to perform well in that area if we go by his unit's performance in Sonia's relay a year or two ago.

The the J-D Barons you suggest offering long range fire support, and maybe a few heavy tanks if asked for. Additional HAGs are a big help with orbital fire support being largely cut off by the planetary shields.
Two other Houses step up to fill the gap bringing in enough tanks, troops and fighters to make up for losses elsewhere. Along with the Helios and Ber'helum armies they encircle the capital, secure the planetary shields then press inwards.
It's a difficult fight from the reports. Bonrah has clearly evacuated the majority of their elite troops but a substantial garrison still remains as do a few older members of their leadership. Once inside the capital itself it's close quarters fighting with power armor nearly the whole time.

While that is ongoing the Bonrah fleet halts evacuations. No more ships are sent to the surface and they wait only until the last transports return from the surface before they start to pull out. The remaining defense platforms help to cover their withdrawal from the gravity well, as do waves of torpedo launches.

Your side isn't sitting idle through all this. Heavy warships and thousands of smaller craft move far enough away from the planet to put fire into the fleeing ships, but it's a tight formation. Overlapped shields are tough to get through but when successful dozens of enemy ships at a time are crippled or destroyed.

Once the enemy fleet have jumped a large portion of the allied fleet are reorganised to begin the pursuit, including Forbearance and many of the attack wings. Baron Dremine takes command of the J-D forces on the surface.

Over the next few days the other Bonrah fleets cover the evacuation form their territories, doing their best to slow anyone in pursuit. A few dozen fortress worlds are left to fend for themselves as the main fighting fleets escape.

15 of Bonrah's vassal Houses have by now switched sides, with the remainder going government in exile. Pockets of resistance still exist, as do raider groups working to disrupt supply lines and stir up trouble for the occupation forces.

Helios is quick to identify a number of hots spots as ideal places to establish Knight Errant chapter bases. Nearly a hundred Knights from now fallen Houses on either side have been selected having had quite enough of the Dominion's Civil War. They'll be kept under surveillance to make sure they don't flip back to the other side.

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>You haven't had pizza in forever. Besides, you have the day off tomorrow! What's the worst that could happen?
This has soybean oil in it. It kind of messes me up.
>MAY contain Soybean oil. There's an "and/or" there. Probably barely any.
I don't know.
>Just look at it. It even has the pepperoni just the way you like it.
I mean it does look delicious
>That's the spirit
<What did I miss? You ate the whole pizza?!?

Mistakes were made yesterday...

>>1572378
Got a bottle of Pepto available? Or is this one of those allergic reactions?

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>>1572378
Does regular pain medicine not help your headaches? You can't just down a bottle of child's headache medicine?
Have a very unfortunate dead giant.

>>1572392
Oops, meant to spoiler that.

>>1572378
>soybean oil
This is an actual thing? jesus christ.

>>1572378
At least it's not your medication this time.

>>1572384
>>1572392
I'm waiting for more pills to kick in.
Basically it's like a day long hangover, though it isn't as bad as others I've had from soy. Soy lecithin is way worse so I don't touch candy bars anymore.

>>1572378
>Mistakes were made yesterday...
Pizza is never a mistake. Also fuck yeah! Bonrah get fucked! That's for that one guy being an asshole towards us before!

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During the pursuit operations the J-D fleet manages to salvage roughly a wing worth of attack corvettes, and one much larger craft. It seems some South Reach Mercenaries have been throwing together their idea of a heavy cruiser using whatever scrap they can get hold of.

A battered Shukahnt makes up the bow, while the ruins of various hulls, station modules and cargo frames connect it to the drive section. Sublight drives salvaged from a Republic heavy carrier provide enough thrust to give it mobility that isn't terrible. Two Kilo class hulls provide more engines while also protecting the larger drives.

Someone not paying attention to its weapons compliment might not take it seriously. With a dozen medium plasma cannons, some using Monitor turrets, this thing would wreck most lone Mediums that went against it. How they made it structurally stable enough to jump is anyone's guess.

Desh Xisoth is absolutely disgusted by it. If it weren't possible to salvage 3 or more mediums by ripping it apart he would have simply burned it to a crisp or thrown it into a star.

He wants to know if you or RSS would want it left in its current state for reasons he can't fathom.

[ ] Tear the ship apart
[ ] Don't scrap it, you may have an idea (what?)

>>1572448
>[ ] Tear the ship apart
Absolutely disgusting

>>1572448
>[ ] Don't scrap it, you may have an idea (what?)
Revive the scrap cannon heavy design. J-D needs a siege boat.

>>1572448
>[X] Don't scrap it, you may have an idea (what?)
However disgusting, this is a marvel of several different kinds of engineering. Have some people study it figure out how they got it together and kept it working. Who knows what we might learn?

He can watch it burn up in a star after we're done.

>>1572454
In addition to that:
Hire everybody involved in the construction of that thing. They're either insane or incredibly talented with no formal training.

>>1572448

Have RSS study how they got enough glue and duck tape to keep it together. Then scrap it for parts/ ships.

>>1572454
>Revive the scrap cannon heavy design.
Scrap cannons are better the longer the ship is. A 30km long super will always have better scrap cannons than a 5-8km long heavy.

>>1572472
>Scrap cannons are better the longer the ship is
I thought it might be a decent idea as this is basically already a heavy cruiser sized hull. The design proposal for the scrap cannon heavy a while back used a heavy transport as a hull to mount the accelerators, if I remember correctly. It was one of the options to choose from when Sonia built her heavy cruiser shipyard.

>>1572448
I think this is the most conflicted I've ever been over a choice.
[x] Tear the ship apart

>>1572483
True, but that one would have had a lot more cannons. I guess you could do the same with this thing, the engineers might just have to get a bit more creative in places.

>>1572504
I think it's worth having our engineers take a look at this to find out how it's holding together regardless of what we do with it eventually.

>>1572448
[X] Don't scrap it, you may have an idea (what?)

At the very least, we need to study the engineering that went into this monstrosity. It sounds like they almost made a scrap version of that Helios ship idea...

We can tear it apart AFTER some testing and study.

>>1572448
[x] Tear the ship apart
We need to consider this choice logically. If we don't tear it up, we'll have one ship. If we do, we'll have 3 ships. As 3>1, clearly scrapping it is the way to go.

So the current feeling seems to be to scrap it but make sure to study how it was put together.

How about this. RSS and J-D engineering teams will be rushed to the site where they'll look it over. The SRL engineering personnel involved with the construction will be detained with intent to hire them.

Scrapping will be carried out more slowly and systematically, starting with station modules. These will be used to set up a modular station that will conduct the scrapping and provide some minor repairs to make the Mediums space worthy. Final repairs and refits will be conducted elsewhere.

This would cost RSS about 50 million but you should be able to make that money back with a little extra. A bit more if you sell the data collected from it.

Sound good?

>>1572554
Sounds good to me.

>>1572554
Hell yeah.

Roll for the research?

>>1572554
That's good.

>>1572554
Sounds good.

>>1572554
Sounds good.

>>1572554
Sounds good to me.

>>1572554
This works

>>1572571
>>1572570
>>1572561
>>1572559
>>1572556
>goodmind

>>1572554
I am game.

>>1572554
>Sound good?
Sure.

"I'll let your people deal with it but my fleet still has salvage claim on the medium cruisers. A few wings will be posted here to guard the wreck and assist with prisoner transfer."

There is still a bit more fighting for the fleet in the region but aside from assault on fortress worlds things are progressing quickly now. A genuine concerrn is that the Bonrah fleets that escaped will help crush the Bulwark forces. Because of this the Houses are hurrying to get things prepared for the invasion of Nasidum space.

The Dwarf galaxies have been taken for the most part. Super Heavies are now being rotated to Helios space for refits before the next campaign. Count Jerik has already ordered Avun to begin mobilising her fleet for deployment. He would like you to assign most of your fleet from Rioja to whichever Baron will command the Forbearance group next.

Forbearance needs new weapons. The main guns need to be replaced or rebuilt which can be done in Helios space. More problematic are the many smaller plasma cannons that will need to be sent from the manufacturing facility above Rioja. The current plan is to have them loaded aboard the Heavy Carrier Righteous Intent. Avun will bring them with her when she heads to Helios space. Of course there will be a slight delay in fitting them.

Did you want to spring for part of the cost of having high speed transports move them to Helios space to buy time? The other Barons being deployed could pay into it as well. Or stick with the slightly safer option of sending them aboard the Carrier?

>>1572639
>The other Barons being deployed could pay into it as well. Or stick with the slightly safer option of sending them aboard the Carrier?
I have no idea what's better in this situation. Would Kharbos be able and willing to provide a high speed escort?

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1572639
This is a race against time at this point. And both options have their merits. I can't choose, so letting the dice gods choose for me.

> 1 High speed transport
> 2 Carrier

Will they be travelling through actually contested territory? Trend i World say Carrier. If its a relativly Safe Route, pay a Share (1/2?) Of the transport.

>>1572639

Do we know anyone with plasma cannon production around Helios space? Could we do a straight up trade/swap if they have customers/forces near JD space?

Sort of like the fuel trades we did with RSS/J-D. "I have fuel at x, need it at y. you have fuel at y, need it at x. Straight up trade?"

>>1572639
High speed transport.

Since this is the beginning of the end, are there any prototypes we can stick on forbearance for any extra edge?

>>1572658
I meant that if its contested territory, we should take the Carrier. My Phone does strange things with words sometimes.

>>1572658
There is a slight risk of enemy ships attempting FTL interception. It's a lower chance with these faster ships but if they are caught they can't defend themselves very well.

>>1572671
>are there any prototypes we can stick on forbearance for any extra edge?
I think you had a few heavier Krath E-beams? I don't know what you guys did with them. Maybe put them on your Artemis class fast battleship?

Other than those and the storm cannons on the Outer Heaven there aren't any prototypes that wouldn't simply be a downgrade over your current stuff. Well there are some armor upgrades available for assault corvettes but there isn't really a lot of time unless you want a few squadrons prepared for the later parts of the campaign?

>>1572691
In this case my vote is for fast transport.

Hm i think the Lightning Guns would be more fitting on dedicated SHC-escorts, to ward of corvette Spam, while it can stay out of sight in a long range slugging match. Not really that much of a Boon on forbearance itself. With Neeran and dominion using corvette heavy tactics, a Medium like that might be worth looking into in the future. If we cold get the Guns, that is. Or would it be Seen as too specialized?

>>1572662
We saved that plasma cannon production facility in one of the smaller galaxies from mercs. Maybe we could set up something with them?

>>1572639

>>1572662
samefag here.

If we absolutely must ship plasma cannons across Dominion space and can't arrange a swap with a local producer, we should send them with friendly combat forces.


>>1572639
>He would like you to assign most of your fleet from Rioja to whichever Baron will command the Forbearance group next.

inb4 Baron Fox

>>1572662
>Do we know anyone with plasma cannon production around Helios space? Could we do a straight up trade/swap if they have customers/forces near JD space?
Oh shit I missed this.

Yes, there are other manufacturers closer to Helios space but the weapons are at something of a premium at the moment. If you wanted your order bumped in priority to get them sooner you'll have to pay extra or trade them a few addition plasma cannons.

>>1572767
I'd imagine it would make far more sense to pay extra and get them locally with a swap than to ship them across the Dominion.

Faster, safer delivery to the refit and allows us to ship a few spares anyway?

You have high speed transports arranged to moving plasma weapons to Helios space so that they can be fitted more quickly. The House will send some of the newer LRBS II's and Clarent class ships to provide some escort.

>>1572097
>Would it be possible to get Knight Captain Kal'yas Aurlum assigned to the occupation fleet?
Yes. The suggestion is sent along. Baron Stanni Jor'ron will remain to assist the occupation forces. After experiences with the upgraded Eclipse he would really like to get hold of a Rovinar cloak able to hide a medium Cruiser.


When it comes to selecting who will command the House fleets for the next part of the campaign there isn't really much choice.

Archivald and Saputo are currently busy and you're in the Ber'helum capital. The Barons who fought in the Bonrah campaign need to return home to rebuild their forces which will require at least 2-3 months.

Forbearance, Righteous Intent and Majestic have been assigned to the attack and Avun would very much prefer to command her Heavy Carrier. That leaves Alex the option of choosing one of the other two. No surprise which one he'll be inclined to take.

L'ak Tenni, whose capabilities are roughly that of a Generalist, is at the top of the list for potential Knight Commanders.
That doesn't mean you can't recommend someone else for the position. Several are fully capable of commanding a group based around Majestic, or Righteous Intent if you feel Avun should change ships.

>Name - Specialty
Barons
Alexander Palaiologos, Baron of Alaior - Long Range / Siege warfare
Myrish Avun, Baron of Kaptlyn - Hit and fade / H.Carrier doctrine

Knight Commanders
L'ak Tenni - Generalist
Katherine Drake (Permanently removes Drake as Rioja wing commander) - Hit and fade / H.Carrier doctrine
Fuuar Nilium - Generalist (Weak on H.Carrier doctrine)
Jehtot Kharbos - Assault Corvette doctrine
Felix Ekwueme - Assault Corvette doctrine

Select 3 for the following positions as your recommendation to the Count. He still has final say but will seriously consider your suggestion.

1) Forbearance - EX-Champion Super Heavy Cruiser

2) Righteous Intent - Talos Heavy Carrier

3) Majestic - Senate Heavy Carrier

>>1572890
>1) Forbearance - EX-Champion Super Heavy Cruiser
Alex
>2) Righteous Intent - Talos Heavy Carrier
Avun
>3) Majestic - Senate Heavy Carrier
We don't really have much of a choice, have we? The DRH3 Barons are also occupied? L'ak Tenni seems like the only reasonable choice as Majestic should stay as far away from the fighting as possible.

>>1572890
>1) Forbearance - EX-Champion Super Heavy Cruiser
Alexander Palaiologos
>2) Righteous Intent - Talos Heavy Carrier
Myrish Avun
>3) Majestic - Senate Heavy Carrier
Katherine Drake

I think it's time we try to raise a Rioja native as the Rioja wing commander, or simply let Drake advance.

Plus, this is the big one. We need an A+ team in all our best fleets.

>>1572890

>1) Forbearance - EX-Champion Super Heavy Cruiser
Alexander

>2) Righteous Intent - Talos Heavy Carrier
Avun

>3) Majestic - Senate Heavy Carrier
I want to get Katherine in here, lets ask if she is ready to take charge. She has had time since we last talked to her to get something in place.

>>1572913
>We need an A+ team in all our best fleets.
Drake hasn't performed particularly well whenever she got to lead a fleet iirc.

>>1572890
I'm curious, what would Sonia look like under these classifications?

>>1572921
I don't recall any instances of Drake actually leading her own fleet, rather than a detachment from one of our fleets?

>>1572890

>1) Forbearance - EX-Champion Super Heavy Cruiser
Alexander Palaiologos
>2) Righteous Intent - Talos Heavy Carrier
Myrish Avun
>3) Majestic - Senate Heavy Carrier
Katherine Drake

I'm going with Drake on this because of her experience as a raider and former deployments with Majestic. She should have the experience to both keep Majestic out of trouble when possible and extricate it when the enemy makes pushes to take out our heavy carrier forces.

>>1572939
She commanded a fleet on a raid in DRH2 although it wasn't a large one.

>>1572939
(Weak on starfighter doctrine)

>>1572962
Wasn't the dhr2 relay some attack wings and a battlecruiser squadron to link up with big winnie?

>>1572939
It's an extremely simplified version compared to others I've put up which usually have tons of different traits.

Hit and fade / H.Carrier doctrine at the very least.

Fire superiority doctrine, Infiltration/asymmetric warfare.

>>1572962
>(Weak on starfighter doctrine)
Also that.

>>1573026
>Wasn't the dhr2 relay some attack wings and a battlecruiser squadron to link up with big winnie?
Probably something around that size. I think she had 2 or 3 medium cruisers in addition to that.

>>1573063
Fire Superiority Doctrine best doctrine.

Oddly opposite of puttin the ass in ass-ymmetrical warfare.

>>1573319
Not really. It's a lot easier to achieve superior firepower when your enemy is out of torpedoes and stuck guarding their supply lines.

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Count Jerik considers your suggestions for who should lead the fleets. He responds a day later that it's probably the best choice at the moment. Sending L'ak Tenni would pull ships from the homeworlds that are increasingly needed at the moment. While Drake leading your fleet will leave DRH1 dangerously undermanned it's under less of an immediate threat.
Ber'helum is assembling another fleet in the region as well as upgrading another Mega at the Forbearance yards so they'll be able to deal with most serious threats until reinforcements can reach them.

Refits on Forbearance go swiftly, with the longest work requiring cutting open parts of the hull to rebuild structure properly. There were only a few areas needing that level of work. The experienced Helios work crews are nearly finished closing up the hull by the time Alex and his group and begin last minute checks.
Main guns have been replaced and fitted with a better version of the holographic cooling system less prone to failure. A few of the Medium plasma cannons are also given experimental cooling systems. It shouldn't have any negative effects if they break down.

Alex has already refit as many of his support ships as possible with Republic cannons he's acquired. Within a day of his arrival his people are already conducting exercises with allied units getting ready.

Avun and Drake are still a few more days out when House Ceres starts to move their remaining mobile asteroid forts into position for the invasion of Nasidum space. Intel reports are stating to come in that Nasidum has finished an Avalanche class ahead of schedule.

It's looking like the initial arrival in your home galaxy is going to be a difficult one. Establishing forward bases will be hard if they start bringing their full strength against them. It's a good thing your side will soon have several additional Talos class carriers inside of a month, with more expected to be completed as the fighting drags on.

"We're currently looking at ideal locations to bring in our fleets and establish or secure logistics bases." Duke Ber'helum while in the war room. "We'll need to establish multiple staging grounds. Decoy operations also haven't been ruled out yet."

Eshik Medel has been working hard to prepare his former House territory for a large scale uprising against House Mev'ac. Ber'helum intel has also also been working to increase friction between Nasidum and Xygen over the Houses on the edge of their respective spheres of influence. House Mev'ac still has claims on systems in Nasidum territory.

The region is close enough to the upper rim that it could be reached in the opening wave. If the uprising coincided with the arrival of allied fleets it would certainly be easier to establish a foothold there.
On the other hand Medel's resistance could be used as a decoy operation, forcing Nasidum (or Xygen) to send a large fleet there to counter an invasion that never happens.

Eshik Medel would probably see the use of his resistance in such a manner as a betrayal, since its very likely his people would be wiped out. House Medel could still be reestablished later but the damage would be done.

Would you support an invasion of House Mev'ac space, the use of Medel as a decoy, or help them after your side has established a beachhead?

[ ] Invasion / support uprising
[ ] Medel as decoy
[ ] Help them later

>>1573414

>[ ] Invasion / support uprising

I don't believe Sonia would like to send people to their death. So I think we would be doing the right thing of helping their uprising and establishing a foot hold to then push further into Nassidium space.

>>1573414
>[ ] Help them later
Making a minor House undergoing an uprising the battlefield for the first stages of a large scale invasion does seem unproductive if there's supposed to be much left for the rebels afterwards.

>Eshik Medel would probably see the use of his resistance in such a manner as a betrayal
How many years have we dragged that guy along at this point? I'd hate to let all that go to waste.

>>1573414
>[x] Invasion / support uprising

>>1573393
>A few of the Medium plasma cannons are also given experimental cooling systems.
Would a Continuous Wave Plasma weapon be possible? Something like an LD Plasma Cannon but with multiple loading systems for stasis canisters that allow it a constant firing rate? Hopefully the constant impact of a beam of molten metal would stress shields, sort of like siege weapons.

>>1573393
[X] Invasion / support uprising

Securing a foothold and showing that we'll back dissidents could be magnitudes more powerful than diverting a single large fleet.

With Bonrah's capital fallen, there must certainly be lesser Houses allied to Nasidum & Xygen that have factions (or the main leadership) looking for ways out. All we have to do is show them the path.

>>1573414
>[X] Invasion / support uprising

And thus is comes full circle as us helping train/fund/support this uprising all those threads ago will (hopefully) pay off now.

>>1573414
Whatever happened to those three barons holding the alliance together?

> invasion/uprising

>>1573414
>[ ] Invasion / support uprising

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>>1573453
A continuous beam weapon is possible, it would just have a lower damage output. It's easy to do with phase cannons, you just lower the output below the rate at which the array generates particles. Plasma cannons would be a little more difficult, it would be easier with fusion cannons.

I think they'd be slightly less effective and increase odds of friendly fire incidents personally.
>Hopefully the constant impact of a beam of molten metal would stress shields, sort of like siege weapons
The more damage you can do in a shorter period of time the worse it is for the shields normally. There's a trade off either way.

You're right that large amounts of damage over time like with siege weapons works too, but even they don't fire non stop.


You put forward the suggestion that House Mev'ac be targeted in the opening wave due to the possibility of a sympathetic population. At least on a few worlds.
Intel believes this could be improved by use of false flag operations to confuse the defenders and surrounding Houses.

It seems Helios was hoping it would be a good decoy location but that's off. Several other places are being looked at to pull away enemy forces but few of them look as promising. Several units are being assembled that will give off false drive emissions and look like full sized fleets. They'll try to draw off what fleets they can and buy time.

A number of raider units will be sent in separate of the main fleets to attack communications, long range sensors and generally cause trouble. Some are mercenaries, others are volunteers from different Houses.
Avun is considering adding her group to the effort but is aware that the rest of the allied fleets are desperate for field repair support. For now going behind enemy lines is out of the question.

The Ruling House is pulling more of their forces from offensive operations. The carriers and supers they'd promised will remain, but the bulk of their forces are being redirected to a support operation to reinforce Bulwark.

It looks like most of the opening phase of the offensive will hit the weaker Houses rather than Nasidum's more heavily defended territories. With a foothold and bases established then they'll begin the drive towards the shipyards.

"This is going to suck." Is Drake's expert opinion.

Alex and Avun agree on that assessment.

You're contacted by Drake a few days before the attacks begin to kick off.
"I've brought it along with the fleet but I didn't get the chance to ask you yet, is it alright with you if I use the Outer Heaven as my command ship?"

>>1573951
Sure, she'll have to pay for anything she breaks though.

>>1573951

Yes she can.

>>1573951

>>1573979
seconding

>>1573951
Yeah, fine by me.
No scratches on the paint, though.

>>1573951
Only if she wears a blonde wig while in the command room.

>>1574025
A blonde wig on top of her already blonde hair?

>>1574045
A full body shark suit?

>>1574045
Yes.

It will be the start of a tradition.

>>1574045
Of Courshe!
also cut off her arm and replace it with a sharkskin robotic replica.

>>1574078
No that's crazy! Just attach a 3rd arm.

>>1573951
>>1574045

Something a bit more... reasonable to consider:

Drake may want to change up the ship's paint scheme so that some enemy commander doesn't go "THAT FUCKER FROM THE DWARF GALAXIES! REVENGE!"

>>1574131
Give the crew a bucket of white paint and tell them to write "Sonia is not onboard!" on both sides of the ship.

>>1574131
I'm just saying, if we make the Blonde wear a blonde wig, nobody else will ever be able to argue it.

But if she does re-paint it then she has to stay with a nautical theme.

"Sure, you'll have to pay for anything you break though."

"I may want to see about having the new storm cannons switched out for the old ones then. I can't believe you paid that much for them. You could buy 50 assault corvettes for that!"

"True, but our logistics can't handle more ships so I have to make the ones we have better." you point out.

"On that note sir, there's a newer woven tritanium armor system for use by assault corvettes. It's being used as an under layer to protect the structure from impacts. It's more expensive and difficult to repair in the field but our ships could take a few more hits with it.
I'm going to pay to have a squadron outfitted with it and hold them in reserve for heavier fighting."

"How much is it?" you wonder.

"1.5 million. Iratar is selling a similar one for the EC-K series but it costs 4 million."

>Did you want to make this upgrade available to the fleet and if so how much did you want to spend?
You have 346 million left.

>>1574164

I am for this. As for how much... I will let other anons decide. But no more then 100 million.

>>1574164
This is per ship cost right?

>>1574164
Oh. Oh yes. 24 million on 6 EC-K and 30 million on assault corvettes. Use it for operation bulwark units.

>>1574184
Squadrons SHE SAYS.

>>1574184
Yes.

>>1574191
>>1574164
>"1.5 million (per assault corvette). Iratar is selling a similar one for the EC-K series but it costs 4 million (per ship)."
This is what I was going to write but I felt it was redundant. Obviously it was not.

She is going to outfit a squadron of 12 ships on her own dime.

>>1574155
I mean, I was thinking more of a dorsal/ventral drake, or the ship being a drake's head, but nautical works. I guess. Maybe. not really. That is terrible.Paint it black instead

>>1574164

Interesting. So a squadron of 12 would be 18 million? Making the other 5 squadrons in that wing Drake is upgrading a single squadron in cost 90 million?

or a full wing for 108 million?

And then you'd have 48 million for a squadron of EC-Ks. Damn.

I'd go for 108 million on assault corvettes, fully upgrading a complete wing with Drake's squadron, then upgrading command ships for another wing? (how many assault corvette wings does she have?)

And maybe drop 48 on EC-Ks to provide extra protection to a squadron's worth of command/EWAR ships?

It would total at 156, but I imagine it would be VERY worth it?

Maybe offer Avun a loan to upgrade some of her people's assault corvettes, as well?

>>1574212
Yea I figured it was per ship since she was only outfitting a squadron and husbanding them so much.

It's a little prohibitively expensive at I'm, so no

>>1574212
Yonkers. Is it cheaper if it's manufactured in instead of refit?

I'll support the full refit only if we pimp them out and make them our personal squadron or something.

>>1574164
Just curious, but how much would it cost to plate it on every possible ship?

I'd recommend focusing on EC-K classes for the improved armor. Even the modern assault corvettes are in the end expendable compared to an attack cruiser.

All our cash on Assault Corvette armor.

>>1574155
The original hull on the Outer Heaven like many Neeran ships was carbon black, or a very dark gray. Anti-torpedo armor has a faint gold/brass colouration. A thing I keep forgetting as I'd sort of kept picturing it with it's Neeran colours since it makes it harder to spot visually in a high ECM environment.

Drake intends to give it a temporary paint job in basic Dominion purple to better blend in with other ships of the fleet.

>>1574223
>how many assault corvette wings does she have?
8-ish.

>>1574247
>Is it cheaper if it's manufactured in instead of refit?
No. It used to cost roughly as much as the ship did.

>>1574252
Just keep in mind they're harder to refit.

>>1574301
>many Neeran ships was carbon black, or a very dark gray. Anti-torpedo armor has a faint gold/brass colouration.
Black and Gold is considered bad luck in Chinese culture.
Paint it red and gold, for good luck.

>>1574336
>Black and Gold is considered bad luck in Chinese culture.
The more you know.

Stopping here. I don't have my next schedule yet and tomorrow is not looking ideal for much of anything.

>>1574336

Black and Gold is tacky. Besides, only the weak worry about luck. Good Tactics > Getting Lucky.

J-D purple is the best colour.

>>1574345
Google Colors Across Cultures by Global Propaganda.

By those reasons we should have white background with Gold letters advertising how much money we're going to make off their salvage.