>>3795813
Linking my post from the last thread since I asked a question and shit. >>3795997

>>3796134
You dick, stealing QMs first post from the op!
Frankly I'm just jealous I didn't do it.

>>3796165
Well now we've both done it. So now we're just as bad as each other.

I think we should dick santiago

>>3796179
>Not going for the Aki multi-body hivemind ending
Truly a plebeian taste.

>>3796174
Nu-uhhh!
Second post doesn't count!

>>3796179
We need multiple dicks.

Between the 3 of us, there is only 1 and a half.

>>3796266
Let's put Ryan on it. If anyone we have knows how to be a dick its him.

>>3796283
I'm certain Santiago can hatefuck him.

With a strapon

So where do you think fragments will hit?

I think the one that poisons the freshwater is likely to hit the great lakes or Canada, or Russia like in the Tunguska event.

>>3796307

>>So where do you think fragments will hit?

Hypothesis:
Whole fragment?
West Russia/East Europe.

Targeted plagues favor Mid-East, Atlantic. Narrative looks Bible centric.

Blown into tiny smithereens? Everywhere. Dust from debris spreads worldwide.

Massive headache.

Fragment likely already drawing dust from Akhenaten fracture.

Stopping dust... Improbable.


Proposal I: Knock Fragment 3 so it hits ocean? Pros:
It can't spread poison if people don't drink the water.

Tsion's prophecy busted by technicality.

We keep nuclear rocket for Fragment 4.

Cons:
Still have space dust from fragment.

Tsion stubborn like Harold Camping. Twist results to support theories. Credibility damaged, though.

More Tsunamis.

Proposal II: Blow up Fragment 3

Carla sets up water treatment clinics.

Teams secure fresh water supplies. Great shortage in days ahead. Shoot looters dead.

Research Cyanide bacteria from Thread 10? Maybe correlation. Develop miracle cure for poisoning, reduce damage.

Pros:

Minimize death from poison

Bacteria asset. Fight demon army with biological war, War of Worlds style. Geneva convention got nothing on demons

Cons:
Tsion gets vindicated.
Counter Point-He never shuts up.

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Focus on payload. Minimize damage.

>>3797390
Yeah pushing it into the ocean does sound best with that. Is it this asteroid thats intended to posion? You may be wholly right that nuking it will just cause the prophesy to go as planned. It will be a lot more then 1/3 or all water but it will be a lot less then 1/3 of all drinking water.

>>3797407

>>Is it this asteroid thats intended to posion?

Extremely probable.

Third Fragment = Third Trumpet AKA Wormwood.

>>3797421
Good point. Lets make that happen and talk to carpatasu and whoever head the agency and make up some.bullshit how we dectected toxic materials in the asteroid that if fallen in water sources.it would poision it. It would be better if we repeated the other asteroid and had it fall into the ocean so most of the chemicals are not released and those that are, are in souce of water we do not drink. Save the rocket for the fourth asteroid.

We can then put up a 4 booster sattalite and just push it.

>> Lets make that happen and talk to carpatasu and whoever head the agency and make up some.bullshit how we dectected toxic materials in the asteroid that if fallen in water sources.it would poision it

We have analysis of Fragment 3, yes? Made of pyrite. Conduct follow up data collection.

Have space agency use assets to scan Fragment 3 for hollow center. Best place for toxic payload.

Get proof. Post it to Space Agency website. High traffic anticipated.

Problem:

Tsion's rants. Increase in Remnant conversions likely.

Proposed solution:

DDoS Tsion's site. Coincide with press release. Fun job for Aki. Catharsis.

Keep people's eyes on us.

>>3797429
We can approach boss, and propose launching several rockets to handle this. Maybe try and intercept the rocks before they get close to earth?

Interception is best option. Why poison ocean if we can deflect?

Avoid explosive ordinance if possible. Fragment 3 fragility ....uncertain?

Hypothesis:

Fragment 3 is divine con game.

God expects explosion from humans.

Play off fear of repeat of second fragment. Humans nuke Wormwood. Nuke unleashes the payload to maximum effect.

Humans just played themselves.

Instead, call bluff.

Predict trajectory. Nudge is needed. Send it to the sun. Enjoy light show. Keep watch for stray dust.


Else, If earthbound, nudge to ocean. Have antidote on standby for missed toxins.

Bonus: Collect samples of toxin. Relation to bacteria? Space grasshoppers?

Do science!
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Fragment 3 is end of current month, yes?

Options possibly narrow. See what QM offers.

>>3797553
>Fragment 3 is end of current month, yes?
Fragment 3 end of month, any possible intercept negligible on trajectory with current assets, will still land in ocean, poison still spread.

Possibility of creating additional or specialised assets? Possible, current team and factory count could rush a large satellite into orbit to perform a intercept with multiple large fuel tanks and a kinetic head.

Likelihood of success? Low, earthfall still likely if not inevitable. Likelihood of enhanced guidance? High, could potentially send onto land or attempt to force into a slingshot around earth.

Main issue is most of earth populated and landing site still not given (citation needed, can't remember), could attempt to force evacuation and then land-fall it somewhere but getting governmental permission difficult, getting public support impossible without evidence of poison and assets limited.

Preferable landing site is in Russia (Tunguska suitable, low population, isolated, few water-connections to oceans, etc) or similarly isolated areas. Landing in Africa, India or South America risky: high bio-diversity, risk of damage; large water sources spread poison; dense population.

>>3797553
Perhaps launching multiple satellites including a harvester would be beneficial.

Launch 3 satellites, first 2 for guidance from earth to the sun, 3rd one to harvest sample material and bring back to earth in sealed containment black box.

Speak to boss about gather 3 agency heads for this. We provide the R&D, building crews, observation, and math. GCASA provides parts, computing power and deployment. UNDRR gives funding and preparation.

>>3797586
What about the Sahara desert? What if we try and slam it into the moon?

>>3797596
>What about the Sahara desert?
Good point, reconsidering, we could drop it into any major desert from the Sahara to the Gobi assuming proper precautions are made in surrounding regions to deal with falling debris.

>What if we try and slam it into the moon?
Almost certainly too late for that but if we did then it would certainly take care of our issue since any and all forms of contamination would be prevented.

I laser gun that can shoot asteroids would be mighty nice right about now.

>>3797602
Energy research is a higher priority now we have the...fuck we need a name for the anti-supernatural generator. Anyone got a good idea? Best I can think of is "Psi-shield" or something similar.

>>Russia

Pros:

Vast regions sparsely populated. Minimal damage.

Decent relationship with Subpotentate

Cons:
CATS assets based in region at threat
Risk of favor loss with Subpotentate. - Still thrall of Carpatescu

>>Gobi Desert
Pros:
Vast desert landscape, populated by nomads.

Cons:
Chairman Yang's territory.
Mongolia devastated from First Fragment

>>Sahara Desert

Viable.

Pros:

Few water sources to infest.

Rebohoth's territory. He hates us anyways.- Loss of favor negligible.


Cons:

Nomads and wildlife will be affected
Counterpoint: Damage is smaller scale.

>>Moon

Pros:
No humans to poison or waters to poison.

Cons
Risk of considerable harm to the lunar surface. May create chunks to bombard Earth.

Query
Would lunar damage constitute Fourth Trumpet?

Proposal:

Antarctica?

Pros:

Devoid of human habitation aside from researchers
Remote location

Cons:

Extinction of Antarctic species. RIP Penguins
Counterpoint: They're fucked anyways if God has his way.

>>3797612
Spark/Gap Generator works just fine.

>>3797615
Yang would hate us enough to maybe work with Rebohoth.

>>3797620
To be fair Yang actually doesn't dislike us since the worst thing we ever did to him was bypass him to set up a factory. If we can convince him that doing this isn't bad or that we'll compensate him then it shouldn't be too hard to create a new ally.

Plus, we can offer him access to our cybernetics program in return for the assistance of China in future developments. Given he is all about making China stronger and self-improvement (admittedly of the mental kind) he odd to approve. Especially if we can get some more practical / useful cybernetics developed.

>>3797635
Which put us from like 3 points to 2 points. Landing a comet in his territory would probably take anywhere between 1 at the least, to two points, putting us on par with Rebohoth.

>cybernetics
Why do we want or need this? I don't see the benefit.

Also didn't we have a huge argument on putting lasers and steel rods in space?

>>3797643
>Which put us from like 3 points to 2 points. Landing a comet in his territory would probably take anywhere between 1 at the least, to two points, putting us on par with Rebohoth.
Potentially, which is why I'm saying that we would try to compensate him.

>Why do we want or need this? I don't see the benefit.
Fair enough, personally I want to get more or less anyone we think is decent involved in it in the hopes of reducing the cost of cyberfying people and also of the research / get a chance of independent developments.

>Also didn't we have a huge argument on putting lasers and steel rods in space?
Yeah mostly around the fact that we have little need for them but at the same time we really need them.

Fact is true orbital supremacy with advanced enough measures would be insane: I mean, in theory if we made our lasers advanced enough, we might be able to get their targeting down to within a few meters which would make them useful as an anti-infantry / vehicle weapon in close support but the likelihood of that seems low in my admittedly uninformed opinion.

On the other hand, they'd be useful for hitting asteroids which is a major point of contention for us.

>>3797661
We haven't even made things up to him from the factory thing yet.

How big is Fragment 3? Advisable that we consider size before choosing impact sites.

>>3797635
>>
To be fair Yang actually doesn't dislike us since the worst thing we ever did to him was bypass him to set up a factory

True.

>>If we can convince him that doing this isn't bad or that we'll compensate him then it shouldn't be too hard to create a new ally.

Problem: Close proximity to China. High risk. Will require real convincing.

Can we guarantee precision impact?

>>Plus, we can offer him access to our cybernetics program in return for the assistance of China in future developments. Given he is all about making China stronger and self-improvement (admittedly of the mental kind) he odd to approve. Especially if we can get some more practical / useful cybernetics developed.

Viable. Good market for cybernetic industries.

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Gobi Desert is very high risk compared to other locations.

East Asian cybernetic program viable market.

>>3797643

>>cybernetics

Prosthetic limbs. Good market in Apocalypse.

Built-in nomenclature with Anti-Hypnosis features?

Possibility to co-op Mark of the Beast program? High probability of chip implants involved.

>>3797661
but at this point ,we'd be building weapons needed yesterday for for issues that are in process already. by the time we get the lasers done, it might be for naught since all the orbital threats would have passed by then.

I'd rather we slam the comet into a mountain range or something.

>>3797662
True, we really should arrange a meeting with him to say sorry and maybe give him a gift of some sort. Perhaps see if he wouldn't like something.

>>3797665
>Problem: Close proximity to China. High risk. Will require real convincing.
True but we have an insane amount of computing power, chances are we'll get it's landing on a dime in space terms so it shouldn't be too risky...hopefully.

>Can we guarantee precision impact?
If we forcibly overclock our network and ask users to do the same for a day or two? Certainly seeing as we have most of the world's computation under or at least within our grasp.

>Prosthetic limbs. Good market in Apocalypse.
True but it requires the loss of limbs to be a market.

>Built-in nomenclature with Anti-Hypnosis features?
Was considering we might want to get this installed ourselves but the ears are a delicate thing, best to let the market test it first.

>Possibility to co-op Mark of the Beast program? High probability of chip implants involved.
RFID chips can be implanted under the skin as a method of ID and payment without serious issue. To the point whereby some people do it using DIY kits.

>>3797667
True, these are things we should have done a long time ago but we've been busy with loads of different projects. At least soon we should finish one or two research trees and the mandate, letting us focus on shit like averting the apocalypse.

Especially as the factory count grows, we're nearing my target of 6Bn production per month. As at that point we can quite literally throw money into the wind and shit out network parts (3 per month passively).

>>3797667

>>I'd rather we slam the comet into a mountain range or something.

Flat desert or waste is best bet. Mountains contain headwaters for springs.


>>3797678

>> True but we have an insane amount of computing power, chances are we'll get it's landing on a dime in space terms so it shouldn't be too risky...hopefully.

Decent argument.

Contingencies for supernatural SNAFUs? Satelite hit space bug on Akhenaten.

>>Was considering we might want to get this installed ourselves but the ears are a delicate thing, best to let the market test it first.

We could go ear-buds like Aki?

>>3797390

I read this whole post in Abathur's voice.

(So, one of the Preparedness anti-earthquake things, I just sold the design for it . Doing math for this turn right now, gimme 30 minutes)

>>3797454

Fragment 4 seems to be made of pyrite.

Fragment 3 is aggregate, and could contain pretty much anything, you're correct.

>>3797454

Your options are "Hard DDOS" which makes it unreachable, or "Soft DDOS" which makes it hard to reach and gives the impression of technical glitches. Both these options will massively inflate his view count. (Remember view counters on websites?)

>>3797487

There's currently one big rocket ready to go; NCASA has been instructed to figure out how to make more (since restarting the Energia production line would take years).

>>3797553

Nudging Fragment 3 to the sun will not be possible, however nudging it to an ocean drop is. You'd have to refactor the NCASA Alkali launch, either officially or by overwriting the flight firmware on the impactor.

>>3797586

Fragment 3 is at the end of NEXT month. Unlike with most other prophetic events, you can be sure of that, because orbital mechanics are mostly Newtonian n-body physics, and haven't been affected by any metanatural effects.

>>3797598

Hitting a different celestial body would require more energy than you can impart in one explosion, or even a few weeks of thrusting. You may be able to cause a near miss, though - given the general trajectory of Akhenaten fragments, it would mean that you'd see the object again in 2 years.

>>3797615

Nudging a fragment enough to change its point of impact on Earth is doable, albeit subject to some imprecision.

>>3797665

Fragment 3 is the largest of the four that were going to hit, and the heaviest, although it's less dense than fragments 2 and 4. If it comes down in one solid chunk, you can expect a repeat of the Tunguska event.

>>3797665

Carpatescu has mentioned wanting to use a RFID chip for cashless transactions once everyone is used to the system, but you have not been asked to implement the program, or told who is going to be in charge of it. The technology exists for animals, but is not widespread and is generally reserved for prize bulls or horses, due to the cost.

>>3797703
>Contingencies for supernatural SNAFUs? Satelite hit space bug on Akhenaten.
Could mount a gap generator to minimise godly influence? Likelihood of it working low but better than nothing. Issue would be people questioning what it does and it jamming most methods of communication and thus control. Terminal guidance would need to be automatic or programmed before activation of generator.

>We could go ear-buds like Aki?
True but the point is to be concealed so no one can tell we have them, ear buds are a bit too noticeable.

>>3797707
>There's currently one big rocket ready to go; NCASA has been instructed to figure out how to make more (since restarting the Energia production line would take years).
How many aerospace parts are we talking here per rocket?

>You may be able to cause a near miss, though - given the general trajectory of Akhenaten fragments, it would mean that you'd see the object again in 2 years.
Give me the odds man and more importantly, is that just with the Alkali launch? If so, accounting for our satellites could we nudge it even further if needed to improve the odds?

>Tunguska event.
Bah, a few hundred miles ruined and at the cost of saving humanity.

>>3797707
We may not be able to use the moon as as shield, but what about using its gravitational pull to sling it elsewhere?

I suppose w 'd be doing something similar with pushing one of the fragments so we see it again in two years. Sounds like a fairly optimal decision.

>>3797708

>>Could mount a gap generator to minimize godly influence?

Workable. How far along is our research?

>>3797707
>>I read this whole post in Abathur's voice.

(Space Bug FTW)

>>Fragment 4 seems to be made of pyrite.

(Shit. Got pyrite confused with petrified wood.)

>> Hitting a different celestial body would require more energy than you can impart in one explosion, or even a few weeks of thrusting. You may be able to cause a near miss, though - given the general trajectory of Akhenaten fragments, it would mean that you'd see the object again in 2 years.

This would put it out of chronological order.

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>>DDoS

Soft DDOS. Subtle.

>>3797714

You do not have the capabilities to build an Energia rocket in two months any more than nine women can have a baby in one month; the production line was shut down in 1989.

You certainly can help NCASA with getting their ducks in a row for 2002, though; they are likely to need it.

However, you can -- if you start this turn -- build a large comms satellite that is in fact mostly propellant, and keep it up there as a plan B of sorts.

>>3797721

That's feasible; your engineers will have to figure out if a direct nudge is less effective than a gravity-assist nudge, and go with whichever works best.

(IRL the fact that the Moon's gravity field is "bumpy" makes it an excellent meteor magnet... and it also makes it a pain in the ass to put a satellite around that'll last for more than a couple of years, since it will have to use a finite reserve of propellant for stationkeeping).

QM, is SETI operational?

Can we direct the satellites towards Fragment 4?

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Radar dishes*

>>3797727

The prototype Gap Generator has shown the ability to reduce the tiny measurable outcome of prayer. You'd have to test it near a "known good" supernatural phenomenon, place, or person, and take careful readings. You can use an agent or a survey team to do so. This will not advance the program, by itself, but it will allow it to advance. You can combine some effort by having a science team or teams deployed at the same time as the survey team or agent.

The current setup is about the size of a tabletop pendulum clock, and looks like one. If running on batteries, it'll need a truck battery and an inverter, making it twice the size and about four times as heavy; you could put it in two backpacks, but then the two people carrying the backpacks would need to be tethered together by an electrical cable. Fortunately, 120V is sufficient.

>>3797733
>>3797737

SETI operates primarily off the Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico, which took damage during the global earthquake. Puerto Rico was hit by the Fragment 2 rogue wave, but not in a way that affected the observatory. They are run by NCASA, but more than half the personnel is volunteers; you can definitely ask them to aim their radio telescope somewhere, and given your reputation as Akhenaten's slayer, they will most likely agree. Other dishes, such as the one near Stanford, will follow suit.

>>3797740
So send moira to the whitnesses with a gap generator is what you sre saying.

Proposal:

Request SETI to direct radio telescopes in direction of Fragment 4.

Pros:
Get reading on mysterious life forms.
Confirm correlation to Fifth Trumpet.

In turn, it can offer leverage in deciding NCASA launches. Stop E.T.s from landfall.

Cons:
If leaked, credence given to Remnant.

Solution: DO NOT let it leak.

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>>3797747

Extreme option.

Propose we choose smaller target. We have that prisoner, yes?

We also have sword, and access to Vatican archives. Possible fragments of First and Second Trumpet.

>>3797747
Or we can let other smucks do that and set a generator up nearby, and observe effects.

Heck We can pay people to do that. 10k mess with them.

>>3797755

Music video crowd? We have audio of Witnesses.

>>3797755
Im not sure who would take 10k to see if they might die. Be better if we have the heart as a backup like with moira.

>>3797760
You'd be surprised. We can up the amount to 50k or even 100k.

Plus there are paramedics by the wall to resuscitate people.

>>3797727
>How far along is our research?
System functional, able to create a reduction to 1/2 of faith field strength. Focusing can reduce to 1/4 but would require target information. May also not work against target, given our testing was regarding the ability for prayer to alter life span and I believe we were targeting the individual not the plant so to speak. We might be able to stop faith generation but unable to stop faith manifestation, although I personally think I am wrong but I feel under the circumstances, I must raise the possibility.

Likelihood of improved odds assuming godly intervention are moderate but it's our only defensive measure besides a BFG so it's the best I can offer.

>This would put it out of chronological order.
Yep and it might even give us a chance to knock it clean out of the park next time round.

>>3797728
>You do not have the capabilities to build an Energia rocket in two months any more than nine women can have a baby in one month; the production line was shut down in 1989.
True, though I'd suppose we could just throw a lot more smaller rockets at it.

>You certainly can help NCASA with getting their ducks in a row for 2002, though; they are likely to need it.
Oh that I have no issue with. Especially given what such rocketry represents: the potential to use one of them to send up a proper large laser array is overwhelming.

>However, you can -- if you start this turn -- build a large comms satellite that is in fact mostly propellant, and keep it up there as a plan B of sorts.
Probably a good plan. Personally I kinda have a goal to get 10 (or more!) factories built so we can do a large sat every month with 5 parts to quickly finish the orbital network and create a massive defence grid. Admittedly the quickest way to that is actually control of Africa or an additional factory in Russia and China so it might be a bumpy ride to that level of power.

>>3797753
>We also have sword
Sword is no-go for faith testing. It is actively anti-faith. Personal theory and supposition: iron is anti-god in some way; issue, most of humanity is surrounded by iron in some form constantly and is still faith-affected; correlation, meteoric iron must be cause of effect; suggestion, we must secure additional meteoric iron.

>>3797760
>>3797765
Personally I'd prefer to have Moira do it again since it'd break the rumour she converted and, when others do it and need to be revived, we can spin any narrative we want.

>>3797767
>Personally I'd prefer to have Moira do it again
Doe she still have the heart?

Also, won't they just burn her this time, since they already did the heart thing.

I say, get a Gap generator ready and have her hope into it as a get away vehicle.

Maybe it can cause it to disperse after some distance like plasma losing containment...

Lets test the Gap G. on the marked witness or whatever we have in our cell to see if it affects anything.

>>3797767

>> Sword is no-go for faith testing. It is actively anti-faith. Personal theory and supposition: iron is anti-god in some way; issue, most of humanity is surrounded by iron in some form constantly and is still faith-affected; correlation, meteoric iron must be cause of effect; suggestion, we must secure additional meteoric iron.

Iron? Like iron chariots, God's kryptonite in OT.

We should have plenty from Fragment 2, yes? Once seas are calm, we could dispatch Garibaldi; configure it for deep sea salvage.

>>3797771

Yes, the heart implant is in place and working well.

She's used it to mess with Klaue a little; the arms dealer has indicated that there are some important customers willing to pay a lot for a copy. He's also indicated that he can start looking for some heavier stuff (guided missiles, artillery) if the deal goes well.

Due to the Fragment 2 impact, the following are the case:

- You have lost 3 fleet assets.
- You have lost 1 satellite over western Africa.
+ You have lost no personnel since none of your people were over there.
- The factory system in South America will be unavailable since they will be busy helping with emergency reconstruction.
- You will not be able to buy power or supplies next month as all stockpiles will go to the affected areas.
+ You will be able to sell power or supplies at twice the price next month.
+ You will have the option to send the Garibaldi in hospital or cargo configuration to Eastern South America or Western Africa to provide humanitarian aid.

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Hello, Foreman! You are planning CATS' operations for the month.

Rules: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Quest2Rules.html
Datalinks: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Quest2Datalinks.html
Timeline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BlMOSEOxSihj1gdagq7yxCjONaRBgcdlRxnc68uWf0A

You can deploy yourself on TWO actions for a small bonus to all rolls
Dr Robertson can be deployed on ONE action for a large bonus to R&D rolls or a small bonus to any non-covert rolls
Ryan Andrews is busy with Pontifex Mathews and cannot be deployed. He will be available starting next month.
Moira McSingh can be deployed on ONE action per turn, for a medium bonus to covert rolls or a small bonus to all rolls; She can give basic combat capability to a work crew
Aki Lattinen is available for ONE action this turn since she is in your South American HQ talking to Santiago's programmers.

BOCHICA is 1 fleet asset away from being able to handle logistics for you automatically.

Drones give a stackable small bonus to non-research rolls; they may be lost in combat. You can build as many as you like.

C0 (Free):

Move the Garibaldi (Mediterranean, Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific)

Buy and sell equipment on the open market:
Power generation 2 | Only sale
Small arms 1
Network equipment 2
Fleet assets 2
Aerospace part 3
Supplies (food, fuel etc) 2 | Only sale

C0 (Agent):

Survey a territory for opportunity using an agent. REMINDER: Jerusalem; Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Construct a CellSol pylon (Needs 1 network part)
Undergo combat training (Max 1 per month)
Tail someone
Meet with someone

Buy equipment on the black market:
Small arms 1
Squad weapons and explosives: 2
Stimulants 1

C1:

Reconfigure the Garibaldi (generic, cargo, hospital, strike, orbital)
Tail someone
Survey a territory for opportunity using a team. REMINDER: Jerusalem; Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Hire out a covert operations team for a situational reward
Construct network equipment
Construct power equipment
Procure network equipment and construct a CellSol pylon
Make and sell consumer-grade Nomenklators (Net gain 1BN)

Buy black market equipment using a security or black ops team

C2:

Do research (1~3)
Construct an aerospace part
Construct a forward logistics hub (small bonus for any action in that territory)
Construct a batch of drones

C3:
Construct a network node (unifies cell and net; costs 1 power, 1 network)
Recruit a work team
Schedule a satellite launch, which will happen at the end of NEXT month. Requires 1 (microsat) or 3~5 (bigsat) aerospace parts.
Do research (4~6)

C4:

Construct a factory
Recruit a covert team
Do research (7~9)

C5:

Rush a satellite launch, which will happen at the end of this month. Microsat only, Requires 1 aerospace part
Construct a hub and a network node at the same time (2 power, 1 network)
Capstone research (10)
Build a Uranium Hydride bomb.

What are your orders?

>>3797792

Your budget is depleted for the trimester.

You are 1 pylon away from completing Carpatescu's mandate.

You are almost ready to initiate a 51% attack on the world's economy IF you build said pylon, and do so at the end of the month when your new budget comes in, or if you dump your supplies and power generation reserves in order to have a 20BN surplus after work orders have been tallied.

This may require initiating the attack while in conference with Carpatescu.

It is now December 1999; due to Y2K worries, it will be possible for you to hire out work crews to private companies to assuage their worries.

(I'd like to do a "state of the world" post every few months if people are interested!)

>>3797795

>>(I'd like to do a "state of the world" post every few months if people are interested!)

Do it!

Alright guys do we want to do this now or after the asteroids?

In thinking we do it after and build a node instead.

>>3797792

How many work teams did we get back after our religous research worked out?

>>3797792
Also did we find any more factory locations? Did santago say yes with aki and did ryan get us anything?

I think we can win this turn. Hear me out.

Find out where Ikko and Tsion are. They're near Chicago.

We sell all the power and supplies we can so that we can pull this off.

We build a bomb.

We do the 51% thing. If Carpatescu tries to fuck with us after that we nuke his ass, we know where he lives.

After that we can deal with the designated winners knowing that we won't be hamstrung by Satan being an idiot and wanting to fight modern wars with horses and swords.

If we still have the nuke after dealing with Carpatescu, evacuate the HQ and nuke Tsion's ass instead.

Go full Ozymandias. Kill millions to save billions.

>>3797771
>Also, won't they just burn her this time, since they already did the heart thing.
Godly powers sealed behind conditional statements, not controlled by them. So long as no actual physical harm is done to them, she can't be hurt.

>>3797778
>Iron? Like iron chariots, God's kryptonite in OT.
Affirmative.

>We should have plenty from Fragment 2, yes? Once seas are calm, we could dispatch Garibaldi; configure it for deep sea salvage.
Suggestion, creation of offshore facility to perform deep sea research, mining and function as a independent basing point for our forces. Code name: Enclave.

>>3797787
>She's used it to mess with Klaue a little; the arms dealer has indicated that there are some important customers willing to pay a lot for a copy. He's also indicated that he can start looking for some heavier stuff (guided missiles, artillery) if the deal goes well.
Priority high, need access to those assets for the Africa situation to supply rebellion.

>- You have lost 3 fleet assets.
>- You have lost 1 satellite over western Africa.
Combined monetary cost of 11, 12 if we buy the aerospace part from the market.

>+ You will be able to sell power or supplies at twice the price next month.
Personal opinion, we should sell as much as we can to generate a giant profit and immediately invest it in a bunch of network parts

>+ You will have the option to send the Garibaldi in hospital or cargo configuration to Eastern South America or Western Africa to provide humanitarian aid.
Should do this and to western Africa: good PR; largest loss of life preventable and it might get Rebohoth to like us a little more, at least long enough for us to plant a knife in his back.

>>3797795
>You are 1 pylon away from completing Carpatescu's mandate.
The dominos are in position, all that is left is to push the first piece.

>This may require initiating the attack while in conference with Carpatescu.
Risky as shit.

>It is now December 1999; due to Y2K worries, it will be possible for you to hire out work crews to private companies to assuage their worries.
Possibly a good idea.

>>3797801
Agreed, screwing with the balance of power at a time like this feels stupid given we've not got time to hide in the blacksite and shit, assuming I'm understanding shit right.

>>3797792
I suggest as the asteroid goes up the month after this that we have our
>4 factories produce 2 aerospace parts
>buy 2 aerospace parts
>3 work teams launch a sattalite

>5 covert teams and moira work. Hopfully making 5bn
>7 work teams working y2k with ryan

>3 work teams and aki work on sats/big sats. To see if anything tech wise and help us with out plan

>us contact nasca and Carpatescu have the telescopes find out whats in there and propse our plan to not fuck our water supply

>aki's second action is to work on having us actially have it miss us.

>Roberson also work on having it miss us.

>>3797814
That won't stop the asteroid from hitting us and probably make us the antichrist.


Also shouodnt that clinic in south america be done?

>>3797824
Why dont we do the economic take over once the year 2000 starts on new years day. Would be fun thematically and tie in with y2k if any problems with infrastructure arises.

>>3797814
>Go full Ozymandias. Kill millions to save billions.
Lad, I feel we could probably get away with a conventional bomb if we're just targeting them. Hellfire we have a black-ops team for a reason, just have them arrange for a rather large delivery of fluoride to come plowing into wherever they are.

>>3797828
I'd rather we sell all of our power and supply reserves to meet monetary demands rather than putting work teams on Y2K, especially given we could use additional teams to construct additional rocket parts and maybe even make a 6 or 7 part satellite somehow to really punt the asteroid off course.

>>3797835
Seems like a good idea, personally I was planning on delaying until the literal deadline to do the domino attack. Give him an excuse about focusing our teams on improving network security rather than putting the last piece in place and give him a spiel about not wanting this to go wrong and get a bunch of people killed / trust in the system lost.

>>3797801

I thought we needed to wait until the right moment. If we spring this too early, the plan will fail.

Mark of the Beast, I.E. Cashless System, hits before second half, after Sixth Trumpet.

Proposal:

Build Pylon - Meet mandate

Build black sites to house Bochica backups.

Hire teams to protect IT infrastructure. One defense. One offense. Base in separate facilities.

>>3797846
>Build black sites to house Bochica backups.
Bochica ain't the target, we would be. Issue isn't the system, it's too distributed to be targeted. We are a figurehead he will eliminate.

>>3797846
We need to do it as we meet this mandate from what i understand so we should hold off untill we are ready.

>>3797803

Aki is in Brazil this month to explain BOCHICA to Santiago's IT workers; she wants to understand the system better before allowing it to take up more of the economy. She may or may not succeed, depending on how they get along. Dr. Diamond is there and will keep an eye on Aki, which should help.

>>3797814

That's definitely audacious. It has a chance of working, but beware the dice.

>>3797828

Yep, there are two things that get done at the end of this turn (end of the year). Dr. Suzanna Diamond's clinic is complete (it has actually already been operating for a bit as a regular neurology clinic, and was useful in the aftermath of Fragment 2, but you are mostly interested in the "special" wing), and Ryan Andrews will have set up the digitization project for Pontifex Mathews.


>>3797835
You'd still have to build the one missing pylon this turn, but yes, you can definitely do that.

>>3797799

Earth at the dawn of the third millennium (Which technically starts at the beginning of 2001, but who cares) has been through a lot of hope and a lot despair. The end of the cold war, which some hailed as "the end of history"; the Event which caused all the world's children to disappear; at long last political unity, more or less, under the Global Community administration; the prophecied disasters. Some at this point are just numb, going to work every day

Global poverty has greatly decreased; the disappearance of a significant part of the world's population has alleviated pollution concerns,

There are now almost 50 million children on Earth again -- the oldest being three months away from his or her fourth birthday -- and each is treasured, loved, and perhaps coddled a little bit too much. Whether it's true or not that it takes a village to raise a child, the global village has decided to take excellent care of the new generation; there are, of course, those who worry about raising a class of little princes and princesses.

In some ways, 25 is the new 18; contrary to those who expected the Rapture gap to effectively wipe out teen culture, pastimes such as videogames, boardgames, RPGs and the like, which market research has always associated with teenage years, have naturally extended their lifespan. With fewer people rushing into the job market because they have kids to feed, getting a degree has become more common, and it's not unusual for the class of people who would have gotten into college in, say, 1980, to stay until they are 26 and sport two degrees.

(cont)

>>3797874

The other common arrangement in some territories has been to extend secondary educations into a 13th to 15th grades, covering the core classes that would be taught in most college curricula and allowing universities to specialize.

Global extreme poverty has been almost eradicated by the Eden fertilizer as well as the simple fact that fewer people mean more resources. Carpatescu's policies on liberalizing access to birth control and pornography have caused the "Rapture bump" in birth rates to not be as large as people hoped; the potentate has expressed happiness at this, stating that humanity can now be in balance with the environment, as all things should be, and "whatever caused the disappearance, cruel as it may have been, has pulled our leg off the Malthusian bear trap, and we should see to it that it stays out".

Africa remains a problem spot for a number of reasons, including factional warfare preventing economic investment, the AIDS epidemic, and systematic corruption. Racial tensions in the south continue.

Russia and China are economically on the rise; Europe and Greater Britain are going through a mild recession, largely brought about by a population that is aging faster than elsewhere, a small refugee crisis that is nevertheless very present in the public eye, and a perceived availability of better opportunities in other territories.

After the consolidation of the Ecumenical Council, syncretistic religions are doing remarkably well. Examples include the followers of Sai Baba (they are generally called Zensunni in the literature, but not by themselves -- they simply insist that it is possible to be Buddhist and Muslim at the same time, and do not want to leave out Shi'ites or Theravada Buddhists), Santeria, vodun, and a surprising resurgence of Asatru and Greco-Roman paganism in Northern and Southern Europe respectively. Interestingly, Scientology has recently renounced its religious status and reverted to offering "self-help spiritual therapy" after Pontifex Mathews obtained a copy of their secret Operating Thetan "tech" (scriptures) and published it in full.

The only major faiths that remain outside the Ecumenical Council are Remnant Christianity and Orthodox Judaism.

It looks like English and Simplified Chinese will be the two global languages, with the former being in the lead simply due to its ease of use on the internet -- most keyboards are ASCII, after all. Dr. Neal Damosa has been pushing the concept of "Globish", a subset of English to be taught in all schools.

At this point, the only people who do not have a cell phone are those who don't want one; new models come out often, and a thriving system of used markets such as eBay ensures that this remains the case. Nearly all phones are programmable with a simplified Linux operating system, and the well-off have recently started having access to phones with color screens that can play full TV resolution video. Portable media tends to exist in minidisc or USB form.

>>3797866
>>3797846
>>3797824
>>3797814
I would say, hold off on this. Too many unknowns, and we still have a mole that can fuck our day up 6 ways to Sunday, then God takes over for a day before it starts again.

We lack any means of survivability short term should our boss cut us off and we lack the inventory for any sustained attrition conflict. Another problem is our staff. Just how loyal are they if their pay is in turmoil, and they themselves face retaliation for just working for us?

We should finish 3 or 4 more tech trees before pushing the button. It will help us win immensely.

We can also attack MCP to set it back. Have all the places we "helped" do Y2K stuff not work or attack MCP.

We do not want to be see as the person to be blamed in a crisis? What if Carpatescu decides its worth screwing up the rocket launch to intercept the fragment killing millions, just so it can all be blamed on us and making a power grab? Does anyone think a global world dictator won't do that to stay in power?

We need at least 1 or 2 fleet assets this turn, and finish the Africa thing so Enoch Litwala won't get steam rolled. Let him bleed a little so he, and his people appreciate us a bit more. Let them stand on their own and understand how much worse off they are without us and our patronage.

Another thing we ought to get done is a network node in South Africa. It will be a a asset in future African issues, and provide help to our "allies/friendlies" in the area

Also guys, we can shore up our manpower by hiring our 3rd parties. We met with the founder of "Darkwater" and he was willing to let us hire out one of his teams for discreetly for "deniable opts".

>>3797874
>>3797908

Carpatescu won't have to push much for his cashless system; the 10-cent flat tax on Internet purchases, which started off as a dampener on the digital economy, has instead turned into a boon. A flat tax means a potentially advantageous exchange rate between Nicks and Linden dollars, or e-gold, or kittycoins, or all manner of competing digital currencies or loyalty points; users simply transact in bulk (this has become known as a "macrotransaction" in gamer circles) to avoid getting dinged, and then spend as if they were using a gift card. Nearly all large companies have a loyalty-point system; it is estimated that 15% of the transactions happening in the former Canadian provinces every day take place in Canadian Tire money.

This has not slowed down the adoption of the Nick in significant degree; if anything, since buying loyalty points can not be done at the bank, the retirement of old-denomination coins and banknotes has proceeded apace.

Low fuel prices due to a drop in demand for plastics (and the legalization of hemp-derived plastics that went with marijuana legalization in territories where it was still illegal) have caused a significant uptick in the sales of recreational vehicles and sport-utility trucks.

In a few regions, notably the former United States, the sudden availability of residential real estate has caused a housing price slump, which in turn has required a few overexposed banks to require a bailout. Mr. Dimmsdale was able to lobby for the bailout to be handled by the central global government, thereby significantly reducing the impact of punitive taxation on North America.

(Done unless people have questions!)

>>3797909

Support.

Attack now? One bad dice roll will send CATS back to the Bronze Age.

Have contingencies in place.

Establish allies with Subpotentes.

Have means to fuck back, when Carpatescu comes for our head.

We have until Midpoint, theoretically, to secure dominance.

---

>>3797908
So Scientology just handed over their scriptures or did Pope Peter have to go through the entire process of paying millions of dollars to learn the truth about Xenu?

>>3797926
> mAcrotransaction
> canadian tire $
> special snowflakes due to rapture gap
> scientology

My sides.

>>3797940

Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?

>>3797846

I guess we can wait until we have a bead on Ben Goldblum. And maybe another nuke? Blow up Discount Jesus and Discount Satan at the same time before Actual Jesus and Actual Satan show up?

>>3797926
>Canadian Tire money
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/saskatoon-man-buys-canoe-with-briefcase-full-of-canadian-tire-money-1.4488125

>>3797940
No he is Xenu!

>>3797946
Why not use antimatter bombs?

>>3797959

You don't have any, or any way to make them.

Uranium hydride bombs are not as good as pre-Event nukes, being significantly less efficient, but can level a city block and effectively make the rest of the city uninhabitable. However, if your intention is to vaporize a target, you would have to pretty much land the bomb on top of it.

>>3797953

wow.

>>3797940

Pontifex Mathews did, in fact, offer an undisclosed sum of money to send a Lutheran Bishop through a complete accelerated Scientology courses, to ensure that Scientology was compatible with the Ecumenical Council.

The prelate was clever enough to spend a substantially smaller sum of money on a high-resolution digital camera and hide it in his mitre, then insist that since he was taking the courses on official business, he should show up in full regalia.

Ryan Andrews denied any involvement.

>>3797979
I think someone bought a car in America claiming it was Canadian money a decade and a half ago.

>>3797979
Does the nuke provide a bigger boom than say the T12, or BLU-82 conventional bombs?

>>3797979
Also, whats the deal with Enoch Litwala, he doesn't need us this month correct? We were suppose to brace ourselves, so either noting happened and our guys went home or they are still needed?

>>3798010

That depends entirely on you; he's going to be a source of security team contracts, at a minimum.

If you give him a discount, he will be able to use the money he saves that way to recruit and equip a militia and grease the palms of other tribal leaders into taking his side.

>>3798005

Yes (you can expect 100 to 200 tons of TNT equivalent from a uranium hydride bomb; the Massive Ordnance Air Burst is 11 tons). The issue is that while it's not that bulky, it's heavy; you'd have to put it on a truck bed or a boat to deploy it, or chop up an airliner into a makeshift bomber. It's also a bit of a crap shoot how big of a boom you will get.

For comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was 15 kilotons.

>>3798031
Can factories make power?

New plan after reading all this.
>>3797828
>4 factories produce 2 aerospace parts
>buy 2 aerospace parts
>3 work teams launch a sattalite
>sell 2 power
>sell 6 supplies
>3 work team place node in south america
>4 work team with aki reseaech sat
>5 covert team and moira work offer them to enoch for 3bn total as a discount
>3 team research defense in prep for economic takeover

How does that sound?

You know what Africa has a lot of? Sweet sweet uranium ready to be mined.

Our nukes are a bit shitty but nobody else has them (except some other group is trying to make them, I doubt it's the Christians). So there's no MAD. If we have enough we can just hold the world for ransom.

Mwhahahahaha!

For the good of mankind of course.


>>3798048

I like it but there's already nodes in South America. Is it OK to make the black guard work with the other sec teams?

>>3798048
>3 work team place node in south america
Why?

I'd rather not cut into our supplies, but it can't really be helped, I'd rather not sell more than 4 units.

>>3798053
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJR1H5tf5wE
For 1 million right?

>>3798048

Factories can make power generating equipment, yes.

Note that this turn the South American factory system is unavailable (it has no surplus capacity that you can allocate) since they are busy with reconstruction, so you have 3 available.

>>3798053
>>3798048

Using the Blackwatch alongside your regular security forces is possible, but they will dislike it.

Moira is pretty morally flexible; she wouldn't blow up a school full of kids, but she would blow up a school full of adults if necessary, and she will gladly blow up a school full of Remnant since they're going to heaven anyway. Either way, she's earned the respect of your security force, and can work with both units without issues.

>>3798084

I like it, but we are NOT building the pylon without sending guards with the workers. We're basically (un)officially at war now.

So 1 covert team to do that.

Also are we doing the 51% attack or not? If we are we should keep 1 covert team and maybe Moira to watch our back. If not no worries.

I think Aberdeen is helicopters as per >>3796792

>>3798092
Made a mistake with aerospace parts, so rectifying it. Aberdeen has Helicopters? I thought it was mostly a tank museum.

>>3798092
Its mostly not our people who set up the Pylons, Its local contracted work crews, and GC security. We send like 1-5 guys to survey the place and tell them where to dig in cannon......

>>3798096

Yes but last time there were problems.

The dice are out to get us so let's not leave stuff to chance if we don't have to.

>>3798104
I feel its worth it, since its only the cost of a network part...... It would look good for the boss if we did it before the end of the trimester.

Otherwise we poach a team from either going with the foreman or from security teams.

Actually hold on. We can send a security team and have the goon squad go with us to Aberdeen.

>>3798104
Robertson should be fine, we just have some of his staff and interns make sure he gets home or sleeps on his couch.

>>3798108

Since we can make it $ wise I'd rather use the security teams for the job that they are actually supposed to do.

Being our bodyguards + the pylons bodyguards during install.

That leaves 2 sec teams doing random jobs for Litwala I hope.

>>3798061
>>3798053


I thought you guys wanted a node so we can help them coordinate there troops there? Also we dont already have a node there. Its here and 2 more spots then global coverage.

>>3798108
We dont want to fufill our mandate until we are ready for the attack. That is the trigger.

>>3798115

Once you fulfill the mandate, you will have 3 to 6 months to subvert the global market.

(OOC: Basically, until the MCP also crosses the "finish line", meaning it's ready to start operating outside New Babylon. It's possible that Ikko gets there before it, but very unlikely).

>>3798112

Entirely your call; the goon squad has been left to operate in Effincold and keep an eye on Robertson. It's easy work, and they get to ride around in nuclear powered snowmobiles and play with the giant excavator, so they haven't begrudged it despite the cold.

>>3798130
What would hapoen if ikko gets there first?

>>3798115
Node in South Africa, I was thinking of doing it next trimester.

>>3798114
So lets say 3 teams assigned to Enoch Litwala + Moira

1 team goes with the Pylon?

That leaves us with the Black Opts team, or we can stack the firepower with Litwala, and have the Black Opts team beef up security at the Pylon, then we take the Goon squad with us.

I think the Danger for Robertson is fairly minimal at this point. They are only needed when he travels. Otherwise hes underground in a deep vault essentially, anyone attacking it can be locked out while we send people to deal with it.

>>3798145

You can find out by executing the attack and then handing her the keys.

(I haven't simulated that, honestly, so I have no idea! Could be interesting since it would make a mess of victory conditions. Then again it could just look like books 10 and 11 where the Antichrist has picked up the Idiot Ball so much that the Remnant basically have to advance the plot for him)

>>3798150

True. The secondary job of the goon squad has been to prevent Tsion Ben-Judah from contacting Dr. Robertson or his staff in person, which they have done.

>>3798150
Im sorry i meant to say south Africa not America im just dumb.

Ok in that case ill change the plan.

>>3798159

>build last network celsol in africa with 1 security team.
>4 factories produce 2 aerospace parts
>buy 2 aerospace parts
>3 work teams launch a sattalite
>sell 2 power
>sell 6 supplies
>4 work team with aki reseaech sat
>3 covert team and moira
>1 black ops team work
>3 team research defense in prep for economic takeover with us
>3 team recruit work team.

We talk to nasca and Carpatescu to convince them of our just push the asteroid away plan.

Hows that. Then next turn we can get our teams back to 15 and keep pumping defense tech for the takeover.

>>3798159
I'm more worried about someone ganking him, or trying to "stop" him from doing nuke related stuff via forceful lead injections at high velocities.

The important question is, are they any good at lifting helicopters.

>>3798181

I'm worried about him getting kidnapped or converted (same thing for our purposes).

how do we feel about giving him an extra heart that has a fuck-you switch

>>3798173

Looks good to me what do you think >>3798181

>>3798194
>>3798173
This is what I'm working on and waiting for consensus on the smaller details.

Buy 2 Fleet assets -2BN

Sell 3 power + 6BN

Survey Aberdeen Proving Grounds (Not sure what they have that we want...)
Foreman+Little Italy's Goon Squad

2 Factories make 1 Aerospace parts
1 Factory makes Go GO POWER RANGER parts

Build a Pylon in the last spot in Africa.
+ 1 Black Opts team + Drones

Do research on Big Sats
3 Work crews + Aki

Build 3 Aerospace parts
2/2/2 Work crews + Robertson

Schedule a Sat launch
4 Work teams + Foreman

Covert teams on the streets looking for work + Moira from the employment office helps them find jobs.
4 Covert teams. + Drones

We should have -11BN after this not counting what we may earn from Covert work.

Any Cost discrepancies from failed jobs or whatever we can sell supplies or network parts to cover the overhead.

>>3798173

wait how the heck are we paying for all this stuff.

also we only have 3 factories this turn

>>3798197

why 4 teams for sat launch?

>>3798173
I had to rejiggle crews since 1 factory is offline in south America, and another person insisted we provide security for a CS pylon installation.

Although frankly we can just ask our boss to send extra GC security for the last part telling him about our nearly finished mandate, I think he would happily send extra men.

>>3797390
>>3797586
>>3797667

just wanted to say that I love this sort of theorycrafting.

>>3798201

You can definitely ask; he's not very irritable at the moment, so the worst you'll get is "no". (The irritability may change later on, of course)

>>3798200
Originally I wanted the foreman to join a work crew doing Y2K security patches and have a fun LAN party, but I didn't want to risk the SAT launch and since having the foreman do that by himself didn't quit work I figure we stack our odds and get alot of extra boons dispute and dice deities saying FUCK YOUR PLANS BITCH.

And I wasn't sure what else to do with the extra crew aside from Jobs, or just stak the odds and make absolutely sure nothing can fuck with something as important as the SAT launch since we are investing 15bn and 6 work crews + 4 more crews and 4 credits on launch to any chances.

>>3798212
>didn't quit work
didn't *quite* work

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If only we did SAT research last month we MIGHT be able to have had finish big SAT tech tree so we could have maybe better guiding for comet catches and have the rock slam into an open air mine.

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>>3798209
>just wanted to say that I love this
Is this you? The green one I mean.

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>>3798209
>geistklempner ID: wORHRR1w
Hmmm maybe your more related to this

>>3798194
I'd rather have a FUCK YOU switch on the gun we use on the kidnappers.

>>3798209
Wait a sec.

Can we have 1 factory make part of an aerospace part and the other half make the other part?

So something like this.
1 Factory makes 1/2 aerospace part
1 Work Crew makes 1/2 aerospace part
--------------------------Total:
1 full aerospace part

>>3798173
Are we not building a 5 part satellite?

Because we need 5 parts for a big one and you only want to build 4 for a smaller one?

Alright I want to confirm a few things, are we :
1 Building and launching a satellite this or next month?
2 Are we doing any research, and if so what kind and how many different projects?
3 Are we Recruiting anyone?
4 Do we build that last pylon, and if so, do we add extra security?

>>3798271
This is a general question I'm asking everyone.

>>3798209
What if we inform Rebohoth that if the pylon fails to be built a second time we aren't going to be building anymore in HIS own stronghold territory?

Forgot about the Carrier, what should we do with its configuration? Keep it at Picket, change to Hospital or Cargo?

>>3798197
Where are we getting the 11bn from. we need to break even this turn. Also we only need 3 launching sat i would move that too research to mske it 4 for 100%

>>3798271
I dont think we would need all 5 but i can adjust its just expensive. Ill change to do that. We are revruiting. We are researching defense and sattalites. We are building that pylon with security and drones.

>build last network celsol in africa with 1 security team with drones. -1bn
>3 factories produce 3 power
>sell 6 power +12bn
>sell 6 supplies +12bn
>buy 5 aerospace parts -15bn
>3 work teams launch a sattalite with drones-3bn
>>4 work team with aki research sat -4bn
>>3 covert team and moira and drones potential +3bn
>>1 black ops team work potential +1bn
>>3 team research defense in prep for economic takeover with us -3bn
>>3 team recruit work team.-3bn
>We talk to nasca and Carpatescu to convince them of our just push the asteroid away plan.

Leaves us with -1 bn hope a covert team will make 2.

Realised we could make and sell power the buy sattalites for more efficiencythen porducing the sattalites ourselves.

>>3798200
We are selling stuff.

>>3798296
Huh sonder how i did that formatting.

>>3798296
Selling network parts, supplies, and doing jobs with the combat teams. I don't know how much they will bring in but it should be between 3 and 6 maybe so the rest will be shored up with selling off our supplies.

>>3798296
Making the Satellite parts is cheaper than buying them. We save 1 BN for every part we make, compared to buying.

Selling power can only net us 2BN, as it is the same for most, and since Y2K is going to be over after this month, I'd like to do that instead for any interesting events the QM might write.

Power parts are likely to remain high for a few more months.

I am hesitant to sell so much of our supplies since, they have only shown to get more expensive.

Maybe if we could buy a farm to produce 1 unit of supplies for us every month.....

>>3798296
We are almost done theology it just needs 1 more turn worth of research. Defence is far away, with Satellites and CS Pylons almost done.

>>3798324
We cant afford loosing another 3 teams right now. Ill support thay once we have 15 teams again.

>>3798319
As far as factory turns power is actually better. Buying a aerospace part is 3bn but takes 2 factories. Selling a power is 2bn but requires 1 factory. Thus 1 factory or aerospace parts is worth 1.5bn and pwoer is 2bn and its better for our work teams to be doing other things that only they can do.

Look i love y2k interesring stuff as well but i dont want to loose efficiency due to it.

>>3798302
Yeah we should be good money wise on thay plan.

>>3798319
Also our factories can produce 1 supplies each so im not super concerned.

>>3798296
>Where are we getting the 11bn from

Buy 2 Fleet assets -2BN

Survey APG
Foreman+Goon Squad -1BN

Build Pylon in Africa. -1BN
+ 1 Black Opts team + Drones

Research on Satelllites -3BN
3 Work crews + Aki

Build 3 Aerospace parts with Robertson
2 Work crews -2BN
2 Work crews -2BN
2 Work crews -2BN

Schedule Satellite Launch with the Foreman
4 Work Crews -4BN

Total: -17 BN

Sell 3 power +6BN
New total for now 17-6=11BN

Assuming 3 teams. Jobs will likely net us between 3-6BN I'm guess around 4-5BN more accurately. 9BN if we are super lucky and do unethical shit just for the money, but theoretically possible.

We can sell network parts which we have 6 of, and each single part is worth 2BN on the market, or sell Supplies for 2BN but will be harder to stockpile with its constant price increases.

So if we liquidate our entire network parts inventory, we can gain 12 BN.
If we sell off 10 units of supplies we can net 20BN

>>3798398
>loosing another 3 teams
Well we ARE sending out one team fairly alone by itself to guard a pylon. Frankly I think we should ask our boss to cover the pylon security. If it fails or he says no, then hes cucking himself out of a early finish in HIS mandate HE gave us. He can only fault himself, and he knows it. Can't really blame us.

>Factory
So you want the factories to make power and the crews to work, so we buy parts instead?

>money
Yeah we can make it work either way, just depends how much stock we are willing to sell and how much research and other things we want, but don't do.

>>3798417
Its a security team its thier job. I dont think they will be sending a whole army after em
Well we can ask carpastsu then i really dont mind.

Yeah we sell the power and buy the parts.

>>3798398
Making power to sell and doing y2k stuff for income nets the same amount of money for the same complexity. I don't see any efficiency loss?

>>3798433
I figure all he'll do is double the amount of security sent to guard the pylon.
The only job where making money is sub-optimal is selling nomenklators.

>>3798433
Our best bet is to give Litwala a discount we can't really afford so he can better finance a militia, that would reduce casualties we would otherwise likely take by doing all the heavy lifting.

>>3798437
Y2k stuff takes teams? Not factories.

>>3798448
What? Are you asking if Factories can do programming?

Having our crew make power units to sell only nets us 1BN because we have to pay for the crews to make them in the first place.
So -1BN to make 1 power supply
Sell 1 power =2BN

We come out with +1 BN

Never mind, I didn't like that plan.

>>3798456
No im just confused on why you are comparing factory effency with y2k stuff when they require 2 independent sources
>>3798479
Im oretty sure y2k only gives 1 bn a team
Yea its coming then
>>3798485
We cannot rush a big sattalite only rhe small ones we need to launch it this turn.

>>3798499
I'm also confused.

># Ryan Andrews will be unavailable until turn 35 to set up this project quickly, using BOCHICA's idle CPU time to assist him.
Ryan should be available this month.....

>>3790951
>SPECIAL RULES FOR NEXT TURN:
>Due to residual Y2K worries, it will be possible to hire out work teams to secure other people's networks. In addition, you will be able to sell power generating equipment at 2BN each.

I took this as meaning both Y2K jobs and selling power equipment nets us 2BN for either jobs.
Re-reading it, I may be wrong in that it only refers to the latter for power equipment.

>>3798499
I think we can hold off on recruitment. We can't really hold off one research anymore.

How does this look.

3 Factories make Power Equipment

Buy 2 Fleet Assets -2BN

Sell 6 Power Supply +12BN

Sell 4 Network Parts +8BN

Sell 4 Supply +8BN

Buy 5 Aerospace Parts -15BN

Build a Pylon in the last spot in Africa.
+ 1 Black Opts team + Drones -1BN

Schedule Satellite Launch
3 Work Crews +Foreman -3BN

Research on Big Sats
3 Work Crews + Aki -3BN

Research Defence
3 Work Crews + Foreman -3BN

Research CS Pylons
4 Work Crews -4BN

4 Covert teams doing jobs + Moira

We should have -3BN after this not counting what we may earn from Covert work.

Any Cost discrepancies from failed jobs or whatever we can sell supplies or network parts to cover the overhead.

I think we should hold off on selling supplies until till the end to see how much money we can make so we don't end up with extra cash, and having needlessly sold more supplies than we needed to.

>>3798532

(My mistake, you can use Ryan next turn, I wanted him to be unavailable untik January)


Also hey guys

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/robert-mugabe-former-zimbabwe-president-dead-95-n1050576

>>3798723
Bastard lived a rather long and full life, unlike most of his victims.

>>3798532
>>3798723
Just to be absolutely clear, Y2K jobs only give 1BN?

>>3798730

Y2K jobs give 1BN net, yes. (You are paying 1BN for a team to go out, and getting 2BN).

Security jobs work the same, which is why some in past turns have been "Break even, but gain favor or reputation".

>>3798732
I thought security jobs already had that amount deducted so when you say 2BN we get that amount total with the cost of deployment already covered.

>>3798737

Then I should have been more consistent. I will give NET gain excluisvely from now on, and my apologies, again.

>>3798738
Not really your fault. I should have read things more carefully, and asked every time something was uncertain.

So, conspiracy hat time!

Is it possible that since David Hassid (how did he get that job and out of house arrest? Why did we send him?) now works under Carpatasu on the MCP, and Ikko is working on some sort of AI, that they are in fact working on the same AI (or plan to combine them somehow) and they are further along than we realize, and that Ikkos AI and MCP are really one and the same so their progress when put together means its nearly complete?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpqffgak7To

>>3798499
>>3798532

Sorry for the confusion, I have updated the rules doc.

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Quest2Rules.html
>>3798748

David Hassid seems to be pretty good at talking himself out of a jam, doesn't he?

It is entirely possible that Ikko's people have been trying to coopt the MCP themselves, yes. You do know that they have a few decent hackers.

As far as you can tell, however, Ikko does not use an AI for her purchasing and logistics; rather than being consistently good at it with some exceptions, as an AI might be, Ikko's market moves oscillate between brilliant and poor. This hints at the work being done by several human analysts, so either they do not trust AI, or their people make for good intrusion specialists but not good coders.

Ikko's stated goal is to build up a stockpile that Remnant may draw from should the "mark of the beast" nonsense happens, and then live on it (at least partially) until their Savior rescues them.

You are almost certain that Ikko's husband, screen name Buck, is in fact William Cameron, the former Global Community press liaison and editor of the Global Community Weekly. He has recently been fired for absenteeism. The two were married by a Remnant preacher in a private ceremony, so William Cameron is listed as single on public record. Whereabouts are unknown, but you suspect that Ikko's group is operating close to your HQ due to the set of IP addresses they use. They keep mentioning wanting to move to Israel, but have not done so yet.

Your current deal with her is that she provided a few fleet assets in return for Tsion's website not being censored. You can still soft-DDOS it, or even hard-DDOS it for a short time, since that counts as heavy traffic rather than censorship.

>>3798756
>David Hassid seems to be pretty good at talking himself out of a jam, doesn't he?

But we sent him to our boss?

I suppose we can lead a team to scour the Chicago area later on.

>>3798756
Could we talk to Robertson about what he say and experienced when working in New Babylon? Like people being mean, and the perceived conflict between Matthews and Carpatescu?

>>3798748
>>3798758

You sent David Hassid to Carpatescu because he asked for your best programmer to coordinate the Master Control Program initiative, and at least according to your performance reports, he was it.

At the time, you chose to take Carpatescu's request literally, which meant you sent your best male programmer, Aki Lattinen having greater technical skill (and, admittedly, greater flakiness).

It was also a good way to get rid of a suspected Remnant mole and a suspected jobsworth who is good at looking good by the stated metrics but doesn't actually get a whole lot done.

He seems to have done a good job in his current position; while you were busy cornering the production and shipping sectors of the economy, the MCP has been subsuming the financial sector.

(BTW, polite reminder that you now have 3 units of drones. Each can be assigned to one job (not necessarily one team) for a small bonus. If put on a combat job, they will act as ablative armor (in that they will be shot down before the meatbags are).

>>3798763

Yes, that does not take up an action. Robertson felt that New Babylon was needlessly gaudy, but respects the fact that everyone there was genuinely giving their best effort.... sometimes to the point of exhaustion and, in at least two cases, death by it. "Mind you, we were trying to save the world -- that would do it. Carpatescu is a slave driver, plain and simple, but to his credit he works harder than the people he pushes. I think he sleep two to four hours a day.

Mathews is the most European American I've ever met, in sensibilities - loves wine women and song, and clearly has throughout his career, but... not in a malign way.

Carpatescu sees Mathews as a useful idiot; he's mentioned hoping to get rid of religion in its entirety once the Ecumenical Council has watered its theology down enough. I honestly don't even disagree.

Oh, they get along great in public, don't get me wrong! Mathews sees himself as Carpatescu's equal; he isn't. He doesn't have the charisma or the energy. He's a lot more personable one on one, of course, but Carpatescu could probably take his church away from him under his feet with one good Conclave speech. Mathews is a big fan of the Renaissance - how things worked back then.

After the launch, we had one ferocious, nasty argument about Leonardo, Galileo, Darwin and Einstein, and thoroughly enjoyed both the argument and the wine.

My conclusion is that Carpatescu is a well-intentioned sociopath, Mathews is a good old boy with some delusions of grandeur. I do physics, not psychology, but you don't get to be my age without learning some.

Who I really cannot figure out is Fortunato. He's obviously in love with his boss, it would be kind of cute if he wasn't this big swarthy older man. I'm going to agree with my students here -- he should ask him out. It clearly didn't work out with whatever-her-name-was, maybe Carpatescu is into men."

>>3798773
Dr. Robertson I would like two ask a few things, and they're fairly important so take you time to answer, and please answer honestly and to the best of your ability.

Did Carpatescu try to mesmerize you or did you come into contact with Ben Tsion, perhaps through Chaim Rozenweig?

(assuming he answers no to all the above)
Well I'm glad that's settled. Now for the big Q.
Ahem* Clears throat*.

"Dr. Robertson, I greatly appreciate your work and contributions from helping us advance telecommunications by over a decade, re-writing the books on physics, and helping save the world from great catastrophe from space.

I understand you previously expressed them to me, and may still have greater aspirations that I feel that after finishing the current projects, you and I can part amicably if you wish so. While I may already know the answer, I want to be sure I don't cause you to feel as if I am holding you back from anything. I would like to add that I still do wish to continue our current partnership indefinitely or for as long as either of us have the energy or will for it. I simple wish to be certain I am not holding you back from anything, either from lack of freedom from obligation or lack of help".

(OOC:We never got a proper direct "yes or no", although it is implied he doesn't want greater exposure, or to work under Carpatescu, he may have changed his mind after being allowed some rest. Also Character Development and stuff.)

>>3798790

"Ah. Yes, this would have come, wouldn't it."

He thinks for a little bit.

"I cannot be certain whether the Potentate mesmerized me - I made a point of wearing a Nomenklator throughout my stay in New Babylon, happily it is becoming less of a breach of etiquette and being able to look up numeric values and the like without interrupting my flow of thought to get to a computer, has been terrible for my memory but has done wonders for my ability to get things done.... but I digress. I did not always wear the headsets, as their batteries don't last very long. What I can tell you is that if Carpatescu tried to alter my mind, he only had a few moments to do it in. I'd like you to tell me if I am exhibiting any of the side effects. Of course, if I were to have someone ask my students, they'd say that I have always been pompous and hidebound..."

You say that you haven't seen any loss of competence in Robertson's work, and point to the Gap Generator as an example.

"That's what worries me; the Gap Generator is a quintessential example of bad science. It maybe works, dampening an effect that maybe is there.... and yet."

"After seeing you and Mrs. Colombo, I have decided that if Potentate Carpatescu were to offer me a job, I would politely decline. To tell you the truth, I've been considering retiring on a high note, Foreman. The recent tests have shaken me. If the change in physics was simply a matter of what we thought to be constants, instead being variables -- excellent; every theoretical physicist dreams of dethroning Einstein and I may have come closest to that goal than any of my colleagues. The issue is that, well, consider the complexity of processes inherent in plant or animal growth. If those can be altered by, let's call it theologically mediated human intention -- I've caught students use Narrative Causality, after testing with the sword -- it's bigger than that. It means the world is, on a fundamental level, no longer making sense; the scientific method may not even apply any more. I've been meaning to continue my battery of tests, specifically to test this hypothesis. If I cannot falsify it decisively, I think that I will retire. What if we truly can no longer trust our instruments, and have to restart the scientific enterprise from Galileo and Newton, or even from Aristotle?"

>>3798803

(Dr. Robertson has, of course, no way to tell whether it would be traced or not).

* especially since this particular mountain may well reveal itself to be the wall at the end of a flat Earth. A scientist has a right and an obligation to follow the data wherever it leads, but allow an old man to cling to a few certainties. I will finish what I started with you, of course...."

(Let me rewrite the last, I mispasted)

He mentions having spent some time reading Max Planck's philosophical musings, which he used to ignore as the goings-on of an illustrious scientist who had lost his edge. "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." That's a direct quote. "If the world requires a completely new scientific paradigm, I would prefer to step back and let younger minds take the spotlight, rather than burden them with my obsolete understanding of the cosmos. I've spent far too much time in the mires of academic politics for my liking, but my ultimate devotion is to the truth, and if I can serve the truth best by stepping aside, I've earned my rest."

You encourage him to continue.

"In short, Foreman, I am more tired than I thought. I can see a veritable mountain of work ahead, and for the first time in my life, I am unsure about whether I can take on the climb -- especially since this particular mountain may well reveal itself to be the wall at the end of a flat Earth. A scientist has a right and an obligation to follow the data wherever it leads, but allow an old man to cling to a few certainties. I will finish what I started with you, of course, and ensure that the SNO lab can continue and expand its research, but I don't want to work with Carpatescu: it would drive me to an early grave, or rob me of my intellectual integrity. I've got maybe another year or two of productive work left in me and I would prefer to pursue my own goals, and sometimes yours, rather than spend every waking hour building up a new global agency and die of a heart attack at my desk."

You ask about Tsion.

"And yes, Rabbi Ben-Judah has been trying to see me in person for quite a while now. We have conversed via email. His vision of the world is quite reductive -- the man is a young earth creationist, for crying out loud! but has a consistency that mine, alas, no longer can afford. He's a fugitive, so he can't exactly come to my lab, and I have been busy with more important things, so I have been unable to arrange a meeting. I'm of a mind to accept his invitation; I'm also happy to let you listen in, if you guarantee his physical safety in the spirit of academic freedom."

TLDR: Robertson will not take up an agency head job unless given a direct order to by Carpatescu, and in that case he will retire as soon as he can. He estimates that he will be able to work with you for a while longer. Nobel prizes are awarded in December, so he figures that he will remain active at least until next year; he's been nominated.

# Tsion is going to mess with your head, don't forget the brain condom

# Tsion is going to mess with your head, I'd stay away, same as with Carpatescu

# Why not just a Skype call? I can guarantee that it will not be traced.

# Doctor, we've solved heart attacks, in a way, haven't we?

>>3798805
Gonna combine some of them.

That's quite an admirable and noble stance, I hope you have a list of some candidates of keen minds whom you wish to nurture into achieving half as much as you have. Perhaps we can find you tenure at a university, or perhaps start one with you as a founder?

Doctor, we've solved heart attacks, in a way, haven't we?

Tsion might mess with your head, same as with Carpatescu. Why not just a Skype call? I can guarantee that it will not be traced.

(Do this after we find Ikko so there's no cries of foul.)

Also we should have Robertson speak to Dr. Diamond sometime. I really hope we don't have to start managing NPC's mental health.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/04/us/man-buys-generators-bahamas-trnd/index.html

>>3798809

"Yes, but working myself to the point where I need a machine to stay alive isn't my idea of a happy ending to my career. I was only a little older than you when Star Wars came out, Foreman, and really don't see myself as Darth Vader."

Dr. Robertson and Dr. Diamond have been in touch; they respect each other professionally, but don't particularly get along. "I admit that her more... holistic approach may be appropriate for some of the work we are doing, as much as I don't want to."

When you mention a list of candidates, he gives you an unexpected belly laugh. "Ah, Foreman! Already looking for my replacement I see! I'm going to keep you in suspense on that particular line item, I think." He doesn't seem upset, so there's that.

As for meeting Tsion, he's both wary and intrigued.

"I would be fine with a video call, sure; I don't know if he would. In addition to exposing his location, he believes that it's a poor substitute for direct human interaction. I don't disagree, but it's fairly transparent that he might want to use mesmerism on me. If that's the case, I count on the earsets you've developed to protect me; it just means that the meeting will have to be brief."

While you know what the trigger phrase for Carpatescu is, and have set up the earsets to trip automatically upon detecting it, you don't know what it is for Tsion; an operator would have to listen in and handle the matter manually.

"I will note that this would also provide a unique opportunity to test the Gap Generator prototype in a situation that carries no risk to life and limb." You hope that this explains why Dr. Robertson is intrigued, more than Tsion's preaching.


# Videoconference only.

# Stick to emails, it's safer.

# Arrange for a meeting and keep a work team around for Gap Generator testing and possible extraction (they'll be better at the first, clearly).

# Arrange for a meeting and keep a covert ops team around for Gap Generator testing and possible extraction (they'll be better at the second, clearly).

# Arrange for a meeting and use the goon squad for possible extraction (they'll set up the Gap Generator, but won't be able to do much more than turn it on and leave the recording instruments running).

# Arrange for a meeting and let Dr. Robertson go alone (but with the earsets in place, obviously).

>>3798809

(You may need to let people rotate out and rest, but that's it. Aki is an exception; she should not go out alone. That said, spending a bit of time with Dr. Diamond has done her some good, to the point that she showers semi-regularly, doesn't spend all her time in the VR rig, and has even started going to the caf to eat rather than sending a drone tank to pick up her food).

>>3798815

(It is understood that when Dr. Robertson does things "alone" he has a couple students from his own staff with him, the same applies to Dr. Diamond and Mr. Andrews, the latter in fact has his own bodyguards by now. Aki has access to your HQ computing resources pretty much all the time, and usually has a drone helicopter buzzing above her head when she does go out. Moira does operate alone, but anyone other than a trained assassin messing with her would probably have to be sent home in several small boxes).

>>3798815
>"Ah, Foreman! Already looking for my replacement I see
Knew he was gonna say that.

Haha, not quit dear Dr. If I had a replacement for you, I'd have hired him (or her) already, and have you both work side by side! I kid, I kid. No, its more that I wish to see what skills, knowledge, and also wisdom be passed onto the younger generations, including things that are not directly related to the hard sciences such as a casual psychology to better understand people, and overcoming common conflict or problems in the lab.

# Arrange for a meeting and keep a work team around for Gap Generator testing and possible extraction (they'll be better at the first, clearly).
This includes the Ear Buddies right?

If Tison messes up Robertson, you can bet your ass he's never gonna go back to Israel.

>>3798817
I'm worried we may lose what makes her special. including her natural resistance to mind control

>>3798820
What about us? The Foreman?

>>3798820
Do satellites need 1 part communications for command and control or can we do something like 5 parts boosters for large satellites? I assume we'd use other satellites or ground based observatory to guide it to target if we don't put a camera in a satellite.

I suppose we can put the last set of drones with the covert teams.

>>3798826

(You'll have a couple of HQ staff with you during official meetings, although it's more for the look of the thing lately, since you can communicate with HQ instantly and anywhere. If you're going somewhere unsafe, you can count on the fact that your driver or pilot will be trained in evasive maneuvers. You have some self defense training, and can hit someone center-of-mass with a pistol at a few meters, and know the basics of how and when to take cover. Of course, if you need muscle, you can simply take a covert team along. Since you are a global agency head, you may carry your handgun in many places where they are forbidden, although not all of them. Carpatescu specifically requests everybody to leave their personal attendants at home when meeting with him unless he says otherwise, and had a row with Mathews about it once. Your handgun is fairly generic, but is given excellent maintenance by your support staff, and will only jam in the event of a miracle. You may, of course, work out how to prevent even that from happening).

>>3798826

(Aki can go completely insane, or can go completely sane, or can keep threading the needle as she is right now. All three have different gameplay consequences. What is best for any of your agents, including yourself, may not be what is best for humanity...).

>>3798826

Yes, Nomenklator earsets with noise cancelling would be deployed in all those cases. Since nobody's particularly impressed at people having perfect recall of things, as the Datalinks are accessible by text-to-speech by anyone who forked over a few dozen Nicks for a headset, their main value now is in their stealth.

>>3798826

"I pride myself in being a good lab manager. In that sense, I like what your friend Santiago had to say about Cpt. Steele; I think that it applies to running a lab, too, since people on the project will see themselves as separate from people off it."

"What'd she say?"

"A ship at sea is its own world. To be the captain of a ship is to be the unquestioned ruler of that world and requires all of the leadership skills of a prince or minister. That's what she said; I believe that it applies to people in my line of work as well -- the reason why scientists are depicted at arrogant, as a stereotype, is that we often do feel isolated from the public. Some do because they see the public as ignorant, and they aren't necessarily wrong, mind you; I do because, I can't ask the public to understand ten percent of what I and my colleagues do. All I ask them is that they understand that our work does trickle down to the engineers, and then to the factory floors and storefronts. Unlike my colleague Dr. Stadler, I think that men are open to truth and reason, and we do not have to deceive them into letting us pursue them. It's just that our time on Earth is limited, and we all have to pick and choose."

The distinguished scientist hasn't lost edge, but he's done a bit of pontificating lately... maybe he does want to impart wisdom.

>>3798829

A low resolution, fixed focus camera such as that found on a cell phone is sufficient for terminal guidance; it weighs a couple of grams and uses negligible power, and can be embedded in the comm array. Long range guidance is accomplished by external measurements, so you're right. Satellites must have at least 1 comm array to receive commands and send video and telemetry back.

With your current tech availability, the best "kill vehicle" you can manage would be 1 comm array, 4 hydrazine tanks.

Researching satellite tech will unlock more components. Some components may require investment in other tech trees. It is theoretically possible to put a uranium hydride bomb in a satellite, for example... you have done the necessary R&D for the warhead itself, but it would have to be made lighter, and you would need some lightweight radiation shielding to protect the electronics. Worse, it has to work both in and out of the nuclear attenuation zone. None of these things are impossible or even require a paradigm shift, but they do require time and effort.

(Researching satellites will unlock new parts; you already completed most of the other tech trees except energy, so you'll unlock more than one part at a time. Some technologies require more than one tech tree to have reached a certain point; for example, the one time bonus in pylon performance required both CellSol and AI research).

>>3797909
>I would say, hold off on this. Too many unknowns, and we still have a mole that can fuck our day up 6 ways to Sunday, then God takes over for a day before it starts again.
True, we'd need to avoid our location spreading to basically anyone in the lower ranks. At best we keep it among the heroes and a single sec team assigned to defend us selected entirely by our head-of-security.

>We lack any means of survivability short term should our boss cut us off and we lack the inventory for any sustained attrition conflict.
Attrition conflict doubtful: boss can hardly be seen to be trying to kill us or CATS; assassination by poison, gunman or bomb is the threat as well as kidnapping.

>Just how loyal are they if their pay is in turmoil, and they themselves face retaliation for just working for us?
Fairly given the serious investment in loyalty, quality-of-life and rewarding good service we've made.

>We should finish 3 or 4 more tech trees before pushing the button. It will help us win immensely.
That will be difficult but hey, it'd certainly be smart since it will provide marked benefits to other tasks and free up teams for us to send elsewhere.

>We need at least 1 or 2 fleet assets this turn, and finish the Africa thing so Enoch Litwala won't get steam rolled. Let him bleed a little so he, and his people appreciate us a bit more. Let them stand on their own and understand how much worse off they are without us and our patronage.
Agreed. We want Africa on our side in our Cyber economy given it's vast natural resources are perfect to act as a non-fiat backer to our currency / market systems that will strengthen our position further while also granting us access to massive manpower and other opportunities to construct factories.

>Also guys, we can shore up our manpower by hiring our 3rd parties. We met with the founder of "Darkwater" and he was willing to let us hire out one of his teams for discreetly for "deniable opts".
True but we will want to leave that until we've got everything else in order or we seriously need the troops on the ground given the costs associated with it.

>>3798031
>That depends entirely on you; he's going to be a source of security team contracts, at a minimum.
Ah, generating conflicts to then profit off of the clean-up, truly we are a government agency aren't we...

>>3798228
The green one is me, we just look very similar.

>>3798286
Changing it to cargo would resolve our current lack of fleet assets I think but I'd rather change it to Hospital for that sweet sweet PR.

>>3798773
>(BTW, polite reminder that you now have 3 units of drones.
Aye we really need to be better about assigning these to actions. They aren't a big help individually but given our rolls they can be the difference between life and death.

>3797792
>build last network celsol in africa with 1 security team with drones. -1bn
>3 factories produce 3 power
>sell 6 power +12bn
>sell 6 supplies +12bn
>Sell 2 network equipment +4bn
> buy 2 fleet assets -4bn
>buy 5 aerospace parts -15bn
>3 work teams launch a sattalite with drones using 5 parts-3bn
>4 work team with aki research sat -4bn
>3 covert teams and drones work potential +3bn
>3 team recruit work team -3bn
>We talk to nasca and Carpatescu to convince them of our just push the asteroid away plan.
>Leaves us with -1 bn hope a covert team will make 2.


Hows that?
Also disagree with not recruiting. Hitting our recruit max is very important to be doing as much as we can with our turns.

>>3798902

Is Dr. Diamond available? Do we have funds for research?

If yes, assign her to the Theology Program. Robertson takes a break.

>>3798888
>>3798830

(Do you have a plan for now? What about Dr. Robertson?)

The map for possible intervention by your covert teams is fairly easy this month. Enoch Litwala is going to want to strengthen his position as soon as possible. You can give him market rate (+1BN) or work at cost (no loss or gain, but he will be able to use his war chest elsewhere). Note that you can, at any time, spend 1BN to quickly bring Neall Ellis to help out.

# Assist in Eastern Africa.

# Assist in Northern Africa.

# Assist in Southern Africa.

The central African territory contains Rebohoth's stronghold, and going there on a war footing might be a bad idea -- it will be hard enough to install C-S pylons.

Elsewhere, things are a little more relaxed, but not by much.

# If the Garibaldi is in hospital or cargo configuration, she can be deployed to either side of the South Atlantic to provide disaster relief. UNDRR will pay 1BN for use of the ship and 2BN for the ship plus a work crew. They will also pay for the refit as long as it's to one of those two configurations (you get to choose).

# The Darkwater CEO proposes a joint operation against a former drug lord who has taken advantage of the chaos in South America to seize a large quantity of cocaine (which is now legal, or at least tolerated, in a number of places; this is largely a matter of turf) and convoy it across Mexico to deliver to the tourist centers on the coasts. (1BN)

>>3798918
I don't want to loose more work teams to that research untill we have 15 work teans again.

>>3798918

Dr. Diamond and Mr. Andrews will be available next month; the former is finishing setting up your augmentation clinic, the latter is digitizing the Vatican Archives and other ancient repositories of sacred knowledge.

>>3798919
>Set garbaldi to hospital and help undrr
>assist in eastern noether and southern. america give them drones.
>have blackops do the drug bust.

>>3798902
>Hows that?
I question selling network equipment compared to selling additional supplies, seeing as we can almost certainly re-buy them later at a better price.

I also question where we are getting that 4th drone from that makes an appearance in your turn plan, seeing as you dedicate 3 to covert teams and 1 to our security in Africa for the celsol pylon.

>>3798919
# Assist in Eastern Africa.
# Assist in Northern Africa.
# Assist in Southern Africa.

Do all 3 in return for 2Bn, it's all the money we need and leaves him with enough cash to spend on some troops of his own to strengthen his position.

# If the Garibaldi is in hospital or cargo configuration, she can be deployed to either side of the South Atlantic to provide disaster relief. UNDRR will pay 1BN for use of the ship and 2BN for the ship plus a work crew. They will also pay for the refit as long as it's to one of those two configurations (you get to choose).

I'd like to refit and deploy it with a work team but I'm unsure if any of the plans anons have suggested have room for that, assuming there's time, I might throw together a plan of my own.

# The Darkwater CEO proposes a joint operation against a former drug lord who has taken advantage of the chaos in South America to seize a large quantity of cocaine (which is now legal, or at least tolerated, in a number of places; this is largely a matter of turf) and convoy it across Mexico to deliver to the tourist centers on the coasts. (1BN)

Can we deploy our black ops team to do this?

>>3798932

Yes, you can use the Blackwatch to do this. They will likely appreciate working with experienced mercenaries with few ethical constraints. You may send drones or not, your call.

Moira is flexible enough to work with either of your combat division, and sure enough of her beliefs that she will not be influenced much by the culture of either.

>>3798920
>>3798925

>>I don't want to loose more work teams to that research until we have 15 work teans again.

Fair point. Current research is HR nightmare. Next month we'll have archive data.


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#Assist in North Africa
#Assist in South Africa

These areas impacted by wave.

Why no West Africa option?

#Deploy Garibaldi as hospital ship, assign to African coast.

#Assign regular Covert+ Moira.

Save Black OPs for Rebohoth.

>>3798944

It's a bit too early to go into the lion's den. However, you can deploy a security team to escort the CelSol installers there -- they will be working above the table and Rebohoth would have to be very brazen to attack them in that capacity.

>>3798944
>Save Black OPs for Rebohoth.
We ain't making the killing blow yet lad, we're securing the outlying regions so he is isolated from the rest of the world.

Plus, it ain't our troops that should make the final push. Let the Africans eliminate this dictator while we melt back into the shadows. Last thing we need is a person recognising our lads and us getting connected to a rebellion against the World government.

>>3798946

Apologies. I was vague.

Clarification: I meant for Rebohot's soldiers if he sends war bands to attack.

Revise: Send Black OPs to Central America. Bad PR if they're seen with our peace efforts.

>>3798932
I just meant that they will have the support. We can pick which 2 teams have the support.

Rolled 28, 45 = 73 (2d100)

>>3798932

(Which work plan does this covert plan go with?)

>>3798960
One that I'm in the middle of writing, since I've got fairly different opinions from most people on how this should all be done.

>>3798932
You have a fair point with the network. I just didnt want to dininish supplies too much and they are of equal value to make from factorys.

>>3798977
Actually the supplies are something that are usually much cheaper, assuming we survive this event we can almost certainly replace our stockpile of those easier than network parts.

Hey the 3rd fragment lands at the end of this month, right? Or is it the next one?

>>3799005

Next month: >>3797703

>>3799005

Fragment 3 is going to come in at the end of next month, unless the Alkali rocket takes it out as it's hoped that it will. Alkali uses the same booster stack and interception vehicle as Alkahest, but carries a thermobaric warhead and oxidizer instead of a nuclear warhead. Given the close range of interception, this will prevent radioactive fallout. The intent is to disgregate Fragment 3 in much the same way that Akhenaten was separated into parts; Fragment 3's subfragments should be small enough that most of them will burn up in the atmosphere or cause local impacts.

You have to admit that NCASA has done a fair job of assembling a second Energia rocket so quickly.

If you want to have a second interceptor, you would have to prepare it THIS month so that it may be launched roughly concurrently with Alkali

(You can rush a microsatellite launch, but what's a microsatellite going to do against a bolide?)

Query:

Could we arrange Gap Generator testing with Non-Remnant groups, such as the Zensunni who keep getting mentioned?

>>3799023

Yes; it then becomes their call how much they want to publicize the testing.

Note that you have one member of the Remnant in custody.

Your three prisoners were moved to your blacksite, where they were allowed to see the sun, talk to each other, and have a bit more room. Mr. Tully is attempting to be stoic; Mrs. Jospin is beginning to despair about seeing her family again; Mr. Durand is clearly looking for an escape angle.

Your fourth prisoner is in Effincold and seems generally okay with being there, being as he didn't have much left in the way of family and his skills are appreciated there.

1) Assign 3 covert teams to African ops, 2Bn in payment for all 3 ops and deploy all of our drones with them.

2) Assign the black ops team to the operation in south america with Blackwater with Moira.

3) Refit our carrier to it's hospital design and send it to Africa with 1 work team onboard.

4) Assign our 3 factories to create power generators and sell them.

5) Buy a fleet asset to restore automatic logistics management.

6) Assign 6 teams (coverts can be used for this if I remember right?) to recruiting a further 2 work teams.

7) Sell 7 units of supplies

8) Assign 4 teams to construct aerospace parts.

9) Purchase 3 aerospace part for 9 Bn

10) Assign 3 teams to schedule a launch for the end of next month of 5 parts

11) We go to meet with Carpetscu and NCASA to convince them of the slingshot plan and get their support for it.

12) Dr Robertson surveys Western Russia, Aki surveys China, we survey Greenland.

This ends with us 1 Bn in surplus, at our team cap, with a big sat going up and all operations done along with logistics automation restored and the good PR from Africa. Plus we might find some good shit with those 3 survey actions. Anyone have any points they'd like to discuss or contest?

>>3799042

(Aki is in Rio, but she can do a bit of survey work remotely, so this plan is feasible if people want to second it or haggle)

>>3799042

(Note that you have a meeting with Carpatescu at the end of the month regardless; you don't get to set the agenda, but if you want McLachlan in, he is hardly in a position to refuse).

# We're all busy, let's video call.

# Briefly show up in person.

>>3799049
To be fair you had previously described her doing it remotely so I knew it wouldn't be a problem.

>>3799052
Personally I'd prefer to video call but if other anons want to do a meeting, do a meeting. Assuming however they don't, I'd assign our action to an additional survey action, this time of the Uk / Ireland.

>>3799042

Good start.

Why do you propose the areas for survey? Particularly Greenland?

We should provide data on Fragment 3 to back our slingshot plan.

Optional: Get audio on Fragment 4 via SETI to convince Carpatescu to shift to nuclear option. KILL IT WITH FIRE.

>>3799057
>Why do you propose the areas for survey? Particularly Greenland?
They were regions I could name off the top of my head, if you've got a preference for a different region I am entirely willing to hear you out as to why.

>We should provide data on Fragment 3 to back our slingshot plan.
Any data we can provide they probably have given the myriad of professional novice watchers that must be looking at it 24/7.

>Optional: Get audio on Fragment 4 via SETI to convince Carpatescu to shift to nuclear option. KILL IT WITH FIRE.
I doubt they'd agree to that, I mean given the nature of it as a high density metallic asteroid, a nuke will do relatively little to it to my understanding.

I support this >>3799042

instead of this
>>3798296
I like your plan better then mine.

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Rolled 29, 100, 37, 93, 8, 21, 56 = 344 (7d100)

(Suzanna Diamond only gives a small bonus, but she gives it to all actions. She has never been in combat, but is used to harsh environments, having worked in Nepal, Antarctica, the Atacama desert, and the Amazon, and comes from a military family. In addition to the operational bonus, she will significantly decrease the chance of fatalities should anything go south. The augmentation action that will become available next turn requires her to not be otherwise occupied though).

>>3799057

The main issue is that there's only one big rocket available. You would have to provide nuclear fuel and nuclear engineering expertise, abort the launch of Alkali, deal with Fragment 3 using some other method, then refit Alkali to similar specifications as Alkahest.

These things are doable, but it would be a tour de force to accomplish them and convince the Potentate that they can be accomplished.

SETI is tracking Fragment 4 at your request; they indicate that it is mostly made out of very large pyrite crystals, and has its own magnetic field. It's shaped rather like a long, thin bundle of sticks, each stick being a large pyrite formation; while it is the smallest fragment, it is also the second most massive, jut behind Fragment 3.

Due to its shiny surface, it's occasionally visible by naked eye in the night sky as a flickering dot.

They can't get "audio" from it, of course, but they can play back the magnetometer readings (magnetic field fluctuations are extrapolated by interferometry of the solar wind hitting the object). It sounds roughly like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAKy_08klrg

>>3799068

The more solid an asteroid is, the more a nuclear weapon will do to it; even a small nuke would cause it to split into two.

You can also propose that your probe be used against Fragment 4, in which case it would attempt to nudge it out of the way; since it is solid, rather than aggregate, docking with the fragments and then using thrusters to push against it would obtain some results.

>>3799071
>>3799042

Any objections or changes?

>>3799077
>The more solid an asteroid is, the more a nuclear weapon will do to it; even a small nuke would cause it to split into two.
I imagine that wouldn't seriously improve our situation however.

>You can also propose that your probe be used against Fragment 4, in which case it would attempt to nudge it out of the way; since it is solid, rather than aggregate, docking with the fragments and then using thrusters to push against it would obtain some results.
How significant of a result are we talking here?

>>3799077
Nope good with the plan

>>3799083

Worst case scenario, a miscalculated redirection sends it on a population center.

Next worst, nothing happens: it is known that Fragment 4 will hit the Earth, but since it is emitting gases, it's not coming down on a ballistic trajectory. This makes the exact point of impact hard to calculate.

A middle of the road result would be for it to skip the atmosphere a few times before being captured, resulting in greatly decreased impact velocity, and the burning-off of at least some of it in the atmosphere.

Ideally, Fragment 4 will miss Earth entirely.

>>3799092
Does fragment 4 fall in the same month as 3 or a month later?

>>3799096

Fragment 4 was "pushed back" a fair amount; it's expected to come down in 3 months or so. Most of the other 26 fragments are going to pass between Earth and the Moon over the next few weeks, with some potentially becoming a danger again in two years. Akhenaten's core, roughly two thirds of the mass of the original body, has sailed past; it's too heavy to be recaptured by the Earth, and is not expected to be a problem again for centuries.

>>3799089

(OK, will write while I watch this datalogger go then)

>>3799106
>Fragment 4 was "pushed back" a fair amount; it's expected to come down in 3 months or so.
Aye that's plenty of time to throw together another 2 or three big sats to try and push it off course. Especially if we can get the NCASA to help too.

>>3799068
Fair points, all.

Survey areas acceptable.

>>3799077

Works for me.

>>3799092
>>Emitting gases

Can we determine what sort of gas?

>>3799106

>>Fragment 4 was "pushed back" a fair amount; it's expected to come down in 3 months or so. Most of the other 26 fragments are going to pass between Earth and the Moon over the next few weeks, with some potentially becoming a danger again in two years. Akhenaten's core, roughly two thirds of the mass of the original body, has sailed past; it's too heavy to be recaptured by the Earth, and is not expected to be a problem again for centuries.

Hypothesis:

Asteroid pass over correlates to 4th Trumpet: Darkening of Sun and Moon.

Chance of impact to lunar surface... Probable.
Query: Will satellite assets be at risk?

>>3799144
>Survey areas acceptable.
Ideally we'll get round to surveying more regions at some point, lord knows I'm pissed we missed our chance to finish surveying the earth before the last opportunity shift.

>>3799157

Agreed.

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Hypothesis:

Fragment 4 is an artificial construct?

Fifth Trumpet described Key to the Bottomless Pit.

Counter-Argument - Akalli Satellite footage suggests fragment inhabited.

If Fragment 4 is not the Key, is it the 'Abyss?'

The mystery deepens.

We have a heading, yes? Middle East (Cario to Tehran)?

Proposal: Send survey team next month. Scout for anomalies.

Well fuck, 4chan ate my post.

Your security teams coordinate a strategy with Mr. Litwala; while he slowly expands the territory under his direct control, your people and other mercenary outfits will engage in continent-wide harassment of Rebohoth's forces.

The team you send to Algeria has the misfortune of intersecting General Raveshaw's unit directly; at first you suspect a mole, but then come to the realization that he simply followed a burst of network activity not correlated with any significant economic or cultural event. Your planned raid on a supply base turns into a rout. While the small swarm of drones your people brought to provide cover and a minimum of air support was their downfall, it also turns out to be their salvation; the platoon CO has your HQ team order the drones to charge blindly forward while they beat a hasty retreat. Raveshaw's men briefly panic; the dawn light makes distinguishing sizes difficult, so for a precious twenty seconds, it looks like a dozen attack helicopters are coming their way. By the time it becomes obvious that this is not the case, your team has made a hasty getaway, and Raveshaw's forces end up having to spend the entire morning swatting electronic flies armed with small-caliber handguns bolted to the frame. This ruse isn't likely to work again, but the opposite ruse might...

You lost the drones, and did not accomplish much strategically, but you got paid. Your HQ team hopefully learned a lesson about OPSEC; your soldiers learned that their little disposable friends can be used for more than reconnaissance.

In South Africa, things go slightly better; the mission there is to approach the parties of yet another land dispute, and ask them to wait settling it until Litwala is in power. Your men's job is to escort Litwala's representative and arrange for a teleconference with the big man himself; they do their job well, and ensure sufficient bandwidth for their customer to talk to both faction leaders. However, they feel that he is not yet entrenched enough to provide a viable alternative to Rebohoth.

Things go considerably better is near Litwala's base of operation in Malindi. By using SIGINT, cheap drone tanks as mobile IEDs, and good old fashioned ambush tactics, your people manage to block a column of jeeps and five-ton trucks in a small valley, Rebohoth's attempt at securing a forward base where to mass troops at, after which Litwala's militia quickly surrounds and disarms them. Since you were not taking payment for this operation, the militia colonel agrees that you should get half the loot. A few trades later -- you don't particularly have a use for diesel generators or AK47s -- you find that your men have obtained sufficient squad weapons for the remainder of your security force (that they know about).

The prize catch however is a fourth Centauro IFV, apparently sleight-of-handed from the Jordanian army; it's in poor condition, and was likely obtained by Raveshaw as a way to conduct false-flag operations, but once it gets shipped back to you, it can be restored to full function. Litwala's militians happily trade this one vehicle for a bunch of Jeeps.

Aki is informed by the loss of the drone squadron, with some hesitance; rather than being upset, she's genuinely happy that the drones preserved "higher forms of sentience", as she put it.

* One unit of drones lost
* Two units of heavy weapons gained
* All four security squads can use IFVs
* Balance of power moved SLIGHTLY in Litwala's favor
* +2BN received in payment, as promised

>>3799162

Tsion has stopped short of identifying the four fragments of Akhenaten with the first four Trumpet Judgement, but other posters on his website have done it for him.

>>3799144

The large satellites are very unlikely to be at risk due to the Kolniya (modified Molniya) orbit that they are in; you may lose a few microsatellites, though, since they are on very low orbits and so any sort of upper-atmospheric disturbance such as a volcano eruption or an atmospheric tide caused by a foreign object may cause them to lose velocity and re-enter early. This has happened once with Fragment 2 so far.

I'd rather we kept up research, we will have a easier time recruiting than research, an we are rushing against a deadline for research against MCP.

>>3798918
Theology IS the break for Dr. Robertson.

>>3798932
I like this plan. except for the cocaine plan with Darkwater. But I can roll with it.

>>3798988
Network parts are more consistent, supplies have only always gone up and have rarely ever returned to a baseline price like .25 per unit.

So you want to completely abandon any research?

Also Robertson and Aki aren't ideal for survey work and finding opportunities... I really don't think we should send Aki to survey.

Also, no Pylon for our mandate?

# We're all busy, let's video call.
I'd rather we do so with some sensor equipment since he will likely use his powers on us.

>>3799077
Mandate, make Pylon?

>>3799157
We can hire more agents, or send more teams out.

Speaking of Aki, she's done a better job in China, where she isn't, than in Rio, where she is. On the plus side, she spent a little bit of time with Dr. Diamond, who is Chinese-British, and learned the rudiments of Confucian philosophy, then jacked into the Sino-Japanese Synco system, sometimes replacing the BOCHICA chatbot, to discuss them with mildly disgruntled middle managers in Shenzen who feared being replaced by an algorithm; the machine translation is approximate, so it's not obvious that they are talking to a human being. She asks their help in writing a better Chinese-language version of the BOCHICA interface, and finds a few local coders to work with, getting it done from the common API rather than as a patch upon the Japanese version. Slowly, over a couple of weeks, the Sinicized version wins people over, to the point where Chairman Yang is seen making use of it while fact-checking himself before a speech to the People's Congress.

Unfortunately -- and perhaps predictably -- Aki's remote work causes her to neglect seeing what's under her nose; she is extremely happy to explain neural networks and genetic algorithm to Santiago's IT team, but when offered a tour of the Spartan Guard barracks, she refuses -- too many loud people! -- and the offer to go with Santiago via drone annoys the subpotentate, who is adamantly opposed to any surveillance system that her people don't control. Despite her information technology team's approval, and the fact that BOCHICA did a stellar job coordinating work post-tsunami (you cheated a little, in that its few obvious mistakes, unavoidable in an AI, were caught by human operators), she says that turning over too much of the economy to an automated system is too much of a strategic risk. She points out that, while respecting the fact that Aki had work to do, she's not a very good guest, and privately recommends to you to let her whip into mental shape.

* Santiago will not allow expanding the factory system, for now.
* Relations with Yang have normalized.

The Garibaldi, refit as a hospital ship and provided with a work team, does an excellent job mitigating the damage along the coast of Africa; Litwala takes advantage of this by having posters and memes circulated that depict his arrival back to the motherland aboard what is clearly the same ship. Rebohoth does not have a navy, and wouldn't dream of harassing a warship with a bunch of guys with Zodiacs.

>>3799187

(Y'all tell me! I think you were waiting to finish the mandate until the last minute? There's still time to change your mind though)

Moira comes home with a few scars, a big grin on her face, and what you might charitably call a tan (she looks pale, rather than borderline albino -- they must have some good sunscreen in Mexico).

Darkwater agents are treating your black ops team as muscle; they're doing most of the infiltration and detective work to track the cocaine convoy (which turns out to be anything but: there is a decoy convoy while the actual deliveries are being made with what looks like a recrudescence of tourists with suspiciously souped-up VW minivans), while letting your people take the risk of blocking the couriers.

It's not a particularly difficult job, and gets done relatively quickly.

"I'd like to take the next plane back south, Boss. The Darkwater boys want to leave him alone -- let him rebuild his strength and do this again in six months; they call this farmin' - but I think we can bust him for good. I don't give a rat's ass about who's selling coke to who, but this guy has been in business a while, so I bet there's some good stuff in his big fancy house!"

# You got paid, you came home with only a few scratches, let's not take risks.

# Phat loot ahoy!

>>3799187
I would rather wait to complete the node and
We can do.research later when we have the money to do so.

>>3799042
I still prefer this plan.

>>3799212
>phat loot ahoy!

>* One unit of drones lost * Two units of heavy weapons gained * All four security squads can use IFVs * Balance of power moved SLIGHTLY in Litwala's favor * +2BN received in payment, as promised
Honestly this comes out to a decent profit for us. Especially that IFV.

>>3799187
>I'd rather we kept up research, we will have a easier time recruiting than research, an we are rushing against a deadline for research against MCP.
Mate we're basically in position to beat the MCP and after this turn we won't have any more recruiting to do. Assuming everything goes proper.

>Network parts are more consistent, supplies have only always gone up and have rarely ever returned to a baseline price like .25 per unit.
Yes but they are frequently priced at 1 per unit whereas network parts have literally never changed their price.

>So you want to completely abandon any research?
For now at least.

>Also Robertson and Aki aren't ideal for survey work and finding opportunities... I really don't think we should send Aki to survey.
They can both do it however and it's more so about throwing them into these actions since it's free and I had little for them to do this turn.

>Also, no Pylon for our mandate?
It slipped my mind.

>We can hire more agents, or send more teams out.
We need to find agents first but aye we can use our teams, problem is they're a limited supply.

>>3799201
>Aki's remote work causes her to neglect seeing what's under her nose
God dammit Aki. In hindsight I should've seen this coming.

>she says that turning over too much of the economy to an automated system is too much of a strategic risk.
Would she be willing to set a standard for us to reach in terms of security for the system before she'll allow further expansion?

>She points out that, while respecting the fact that Aki had work to do, she's not a very good guest, and privately recommends to you to let her whip into mental shape.
She touches the savant and there shall be no escape from the fury Aki's drone swarms will unleash on south America. It'll be the Terminator films but entirely focused on getting revenge. Is she seriously turning down a major economic benefit to her region because a person, who we outright told her was autistic with a capital A, turned down a tour of her barracks and tried to compromise by using tele-presence?

Christ Santiago worst waifu of 1999.

>>3799212
# You got paid, you came home with only a few scratches, let's not take risks.

I'd rather not seeing as it might piss off Darkwater and we have decent relations with them right now.

>>3799201
I honestly don't know, I tried to make my plans as close to this guys >>3798296
but then he went completely in another direction.

I guess just go with the last minute change.

>>3799219
We're meeting the boss next month and completing the node 1 trimester earlier would likely gain us some relationship increase or some boon with the boss.

Also we are losing out on research time when we have less than 3-6 months to finish before hitting the economy.

The same can be said for the satellite which seems like it won't even be used next month and yet we are juggling everything for it.

>>3799225
Survey actions aren't free? I think team or agent costs 1BN. Where as attaching an agent to a team is free, or vice versa.

>>3799212
# You got paid, you came home with only a few scratches, let's not take risks.

>>3799229
Also we have dirt on us and are now blackmail-able somewhat.

>>3799232
>Survey actions aren't free? I think team or agent costs 1BN. Where as attaching an agent to a team is free, or vice versa.
To my understanding C0 actions are free assuming they aren't shit like buying from the market. A hero survey is a C0 but a team survey is a C1.

>>Aki's remote work causes her to neglect seeing what's under her nose

Inevitable. We sent the Autistic Savant to Fight Club.

#You got paid.... let's not take risks

I love that no one is even commenting that I called Santiago worst waifu.

>>3799232
Survay actions are free if done by a hero.

The onlg research that matters in the take over is defense otherwise i just want to do it before the asteroid blows us to hell.. i mean really attempting to place the node only costs a network part as Carpatescu has his teams installing it so may as well attempt it.

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You're inspecting the now-shutdown Thule base in Greenland; Dr. Robertson had sent surveyors this way a while ago, and you quickly confirm that the base can be turned into a logistics hub for potential mining operations. There's no significant amouts of nuclear fuel up here, but there are plenty of rare earths, iron, and coal to be dug up.

This facility belongs to the Global Community, and having it reassigned to you wouldn't be much of a hassle.

Talking to the lonely few caretakers there, you learn an interesting thing. On July 15, 1942, six P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft and two B-17 Flying Fortress bombers encountered a blizzard while supporting the Allied war effort in the British Isles. The aircraft were forced to conduct an emergency landing on the glaciers of Greenland, and though all the crew members were rescued nine days later, the aircraft were left behind. One was found in 1992. You're pretty sure that modern imaging technology could help find any of the others; it's unlikely that they can be restored, and it probably would not make much sense to do so, but perhaps you can trade them for a warbird or two that are in actual working order.

Another possible use for Thule, which despite its remote location is relatively easy to get to by cargo planes and can be supplied by sea in the summer, is a town-sized settlement entirely under your control.

* Half price on a logistics base in Greenland; Thule can be further expanded.

All is not well in the north, though; you sent Dr. Robertson to Russia to see if he could find anyone to bolster the science team, and, as you have a right to expect, the Canadian physicist was given the red carpet treatment by Zakharov. Unfortunately, scientists are famous for having a bit of an ego; scientists in a position of power, doubly so. The two, after some official pronouncements and similar diplomatic and academic niceties, ended up bickering over the finer points of electroweak theory for most of the trip, culminating in a public row in which each called the other's methodology "respectable, but flawed on a foundational level", which is university-rector-speak for "you and the horse you rode in on". This doesn't affect you directly, and Zakharov still managed to get a bit of PR out of it, but it does mean that Robertson got essentially nothing done.

Upon his return, Robertson says that given Zakharov's recent boisterous attitude and disregard for rigor, he is afraid of turning into that if he were to work closely with Carpatescu, or accept an official political appointment - so he won't.

(By the way, how about his meeting with Tsion? Your call on whether it happens or not).

>>3799225
>Mate we're basically in position to beat the MCP and after this turn we won't have any more recruiting to do. Assuming everything goes proper.
Its against a clock that is running constantly.
And when have things gone perfectly ever?

>We need to find agents first but aye we can use our teams, problem is they're a limited supply.
What isn't in limited supply?

Also Aki doing survey work without drones to help her...... Probably not a good idea.

I send Aki, since we would get her back and would be harder to threaten.

>>3799242
Well if we have researched BigSates properly we would be able to do more about the fragments!

CS Pylons would likely net something good for our AI and carrying out the takeover.

Defense is always gonna be important WHY NOW?! From all the previous times we could have researched it earlier but we choose now?

>>3799242
Yes but some people are better suited for it than others, and sending Aki without drones for survey is a bit of a waste.

>Haley Kipper
>professional surveyor and woodsman from the area
Find her and have her do survey work.

We have actions as foreman and since IDK what Foreman is doing anymore we can assume hes got the 2 actions again.

>>3799242
Asteroid impact is designed to be survivable.

God has more plagues in store before sending us to Hell.

>> Meeting with Tsion

Negative. Tsion is bad news.

>>Planes

Promising.

>>3799251
I say meet with him after we find Ikko.

>>3799251
Can we get the planes and the Base?

>>3799237

C0 actions are free unless otherwise specified. Of course your agent will be given a first class plane ticket or small charter flight, a good hotel and so on, but that's in the noise for an international agency budget.

>>3799229


>>3799232
(You're meeting Carpatescu at the end of this month for the quarterly review; you mentioned wanting to talk to McLachlan of NCASA at the same time. Since Carpatescu is happy with your work, you can choose teleconference or visit)

>>3799225

Santiago tells you that she understand Aki better than she thinks; in different ways, they both had it rough during childhood. "The difference is that I pushed myself over the wall; she curled up against it. You'll get more out of that girl after she can practice some self-discipline, and she'll live happier, too."

She says that once you are sure that your system is free of moles, she'll consider it again. "Mind you, I've got no complaints with the current system; I just don't see the need for more of it. Why, you might even get to the point where you can subvert my economy, and where would I be then?" She winks, and since you were discussing this via webcam, she had to wink very obviously for the low frame rate to catch it.

>>3799234
>>3799229
>>3799219


Moira doesn't seem particularly happy about not going back for seconds, but after reviewing the close shave in Morocco, doesn't really blame you. "Let's keep that guy's address in mind though, yeah?"

Who seem particularly happy upon their return are the Blackwatch platoon; you're pretty sure that they took a bit of time sampling the merchandise while they were south of the former border.

>>3799260
>>3799263

The options were:

# Videoconference only.

# Stick to emails, it's safer.

# Arrange for a meeting and keep a work team around for Gap Generator testing and possible extraction (they'll be better at the first, clearly).

# Arrange for a meeting and keep a covert ops team around for Gap Generator testing and possible extraction (they'll be better at the second, clearly).

# Arrange for a meeting and use the goon squad for possible extraction (they'll set up the Gap Generator, but won't be able to do much more than turn it on and leave the recording instruments running).

# Arrange for a meeting and let Dr. Robertson go alone (but with the earsets in place, obviously).

At this time I have 1 vote for "arrange for a meeting, with a work team".

Robertson is traveling back West, so you can use that as an excuse for Ikko to arrange for Tsion to come up to a coffee shop or some other neutral place. She may say no, of course.

>>3799251
>* Half price on a logistics base in Greenland;
Potentially useful for some particular things.

>Thule can be further expanded.
Do you mean as a factory opportunity or something?

>(By the way, how about his meeting with Tsion? Your call on whether it happens or not).
I'd prefer not to risk our science expert in meeting a mind-controller given the fact we've not performed in-field testing against passive faith shit, only prayer. I would like to test it against the two witnesses first given their abilities are already countered.

>>3799272

You'd have to at least partially reopen the base in order to look for the planes (satellite imaging will have to be complemented by ground survey), so yes.

>>3799282
Sweet!

>>3799278
I'd go for the meeting since its controlled and we can study any magic effects Tison does to Robertson, plus testing of the gap generator rather than a more direct risk with the witnesses.

>>3799255
We had other things to do then as we do now. If you can go back in tine and research defense rather then somthing else go ahead but hienstly we have been doing our best.

>>3799278
Arrange meeting use goon squad as we dont have any frwe work or covert teams.

# Arrange for a meeting and keep a work team around for Gap Generator testing and possible extraction (they'll be better at the first, clearly).

Risky, but we need the SCIENCE.

>>Thule
Possible safe house. Remote. Inaccessible.

Also, extra factories are nice.

Set up Santa's workshop.

>>3799298
>>3799295
>>3799291

You have a free action (I think?), and the whole thing is happening near your turf anyway.

# Offer to also meet Tsion and maybe Ikko in person. Neutral ground, no electronics (that they can see), yada yada.

# Disguise yourself as one of the goons and operate the Gap Generator yourself.

# Use the time to prepare for the meeting with Carpatescu and McLachlan instead.

>>3799295
Yes but Defense research is so far away from completion compared to the others. It would be better to wrap up some of the tech trees and experience their max boons while still mostly relevant compared to later when they won't be as much.

If it wasn't just defense I would be more okay with it.

>>3799298
New blacksite?

>>3799300
What did we want to speak to Carpatescu and McLachlan about exactly?

>>3799305

Possibly using your impactor against Fragment 3 and the Alkali against Fragment 4, or alternatively, making it official that you intend to land a probe on Fragment 4 and give it a push, so as to get NCASA assistance to do so.