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[X] Plan: Barrier please.
-[X] Barrier Technology: The captain found some details about what seemed to be force fields in the systems. Fuck it, you want force fields to keep your new home safer!
-[X] Stim Packs: The best medical technology in the galaxy doesn't help if you can't get people to it...
It sounds like Research and Production are being completely split of from the main turn vote? Personally I like that. it avoids some action pressure where it wouldn't make sense in universe (the top executives aren't really the people who do R&D), as well as out of universe, where we can never...
[X] Sharpening the Axe
[X] Private Disclosure: You have the necessary frequencies, so you'll directly contact only the important militaries and politician. They'll know better how to manage possible panic over more alien threats.
It's too late at night for me to build a plan, but the mandatory "get done nows" seem to be:
[ ] Interdepartmental Training
[ ] Sim City
and if we go anyplace that might see combat,
[ ] Accelerate Repairs
For things I actively don't want,
[ ] Plan Celestial Being sounds like a good way to have...
Okay, taking the remaining martians isn't crowding out space for useful adults then. Rather, we're (still) desperate for just about anybody that can operate a computer or turn a wrench.
Not really? it's 1236 people, mostly kids and retired old people. That's... not a polity, that's a (failed) settlement. While we could eventually get it be a polity, its not anywhere near one, dependent on both a large amount of immigration, as well as some viable industry sprouting up.
Also...
[X] Accept the Survivors Onboard: Will begin the Mercenary Arc. You'll have more freedom to act and maneuver.
edit: changed vote to onboard. if we're going to be mercenaries either way, this is the much better option. we can fit the people either way, and not having a relatively vulnerable base...
I think the smart thing to do for the martians in this scenario is take them. but on the other hand rebuilding the dome sounds more interesting, and that the actions needed there will help us in the long term more than a bunch of short term mercenary contracts.
@Zarori, questions from someone...
...the error of her ways! She didn't appear to know about the plans to drop a colony on the planet, and was impressed by your jumping in to help, and *especially* the fact that you helped Mars first. A DC40 Diplomacy check will recruit her and her wingmen. Obtain Olivia Vector, her two wingmen...
So, next turn we have big enough decisions coming up that we might want to break from the AP based turn, and have a preliminary vote, just to trim down the options. Namely "What is the SDF Macross politically, and how does it related to other polities?"
Are we:
Part of Britannia, and subject...
...to stop a Colony Drop resulting in big reputation gains with most factions, especially the Federation in general and Britannia specifically.)
While we know OoC that letting an angel succeed is *bad*, in character, we just don't know enough to justify that evaluation (especially to sayla).
suggestion: update tempered by fire with a threadmarked link to quenched in mud. right now, QiM is in your signature, but when it's over, there won't be any obvious way to go from one to the other.