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== Canterina Sampler Pack ==
== Where Are We? ==
One of the conditions that Canterina gave for voting for our tax break was that we need to send them a bunch of different commodities. To that end, we're going to be assembling a sampler pack of cool colonial stuff that we can send to them. But to do this, we'll need everyone's help: we need one unit of each of your raw materials. If things work out with Vefna, we believe that they'll let us use their cargo ship, so we'll be sending it around to everyone's planets to collect them, if there are no objections.
What is the name of this corner of the galaxy where the colonies are located? Please vote!
* The Yellow Spiral Clump
* Kneepit
* The Caramel Cluster
* The Wretched Hives
* Something Else


* House Intrepid can contribute a batch of warp crystals.
== Secret Research ==
Those who control part of the [[Secret Advanced Physics Laboratory]] may wish to vote on which topic it begins researching in Turn 12. (Also, the results of the previous round of research are [http://inky.org/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Turns/11/House_Aramin#Results here].)


== The Vefna Issue ==
== Prime's 'Research Group' on Gwyne ==
Reig contacts you by extra-secure ansible, and says, "As some of you no doubt know by now, Grazene is trying to gain support of a bill that would dictate how defunct colonies could get taken over by other Houses.  They want the bill passed for their own purposes (to take over a nearby SCA-equivalent planet), and have been playing us off against each other, telling each of us that we could be the new proud owners of Vefna (Raix's now-defunct colony).  Gwynne is also a supporter of this bill, no doubt because ''they'' want to take over Vefna, too.  Now, trying to administer governance of Vefna collaboratively would probably be a nightmare.  And having only one of us in charge might lead to an imbalance.  So, we have a proposal:  we are about to transport a group of would-be homesteaders from the Empire through the wormhole. We had intended that they come to our planet to help us harvest resources and explore. But they are an otherwise neutral third party:  what if we collectively supported them as the new holders of Vefna?  They would no doubt be in our collective debt, and would help prevent Gwynne's intrusion back into this area of space."
Thanks to the productive work of absolutely no one, we have access to an, ahem, "research group" on Gwyne. We can request they look into specific secret stuff. If you have something you want looked into, post it here.


"One effect of this would probably be the support of Grazene for a tax-reducing bill for colonies that Prime is in the middle of trying to negotiate through the senate. I'm also trying to help in other ways on that front; contact Dark for more details."
* Look into "Operation Moon Snail" to see if there are more Gwyne operatives on Prime.
* Look into Gwynne's Nefarious Plan (below)


== News from the Empire Turn 3 Followups ==
== Gwynne's Nefarious Plan ==
* '''Pirates''':
Reig shares the following with you at the astro-polo finals: On Elvis, we have recovered [http://inky.org/rpg/agents-docs/decryption-E159C5F.html decrypted Gwyne data] which seems to indicate that Gwynne was planning to build something on all five of our planets, perhaps to weaponize the wormhole against the Empire.  Iavo may be working for them, too, as Iavo was also interested in the same hexes listed in this data fragment. Figuring out what they were doing and what they still are planning should be a top priority in the coming weeks, as the last bit clearly says their own plans are to have us eliminated.  
* '''Loans''':
* '''Transportation''':
* '''Covert Military''':
* '''Grazene Politics''':  House Aramin has a representative in the Core prepared to talk with Grazene on Turn 4 (after getting more information about the vote on turn 3). Depending on the nature of the vote, he is prepared to negotiate on behalf of any other House that wishes to join with us in exchange for reducing or delaying the tax burden on all of us.  The more houses that join, the better deal we can probably negotiate! Who's in?
** House Intrepid whole-heartedly supports the amendment of the current tax regime. Seve will help out with Socializing (Imperial).


== The Industrial Revolution ==
== Weekly Poker Match ==
Rick Starfarer has scheduled (perhaps retroactively as of a couple months ago) a weekly game of six-card hyperstud! All of the top local colonial movers and shakers are invited (i.e., the PC's). Just dial your holovidwave set to 55-epsilon-673-double-mauve to log on (and have an IC excuse for sharing OOC information).
* Rick is in, of course.
* Dark from Prime will play.


Your raw materials may only be worth one megacredit apiece to ''you'', but they're worth much more than that to someone with the right industrial infrastructure to make use of them. That's why House Aramin would like to partner with other houses to start mass producing valuable refined goods at a profit.  
== Transcripts ==
If you have transcripts of the rpg elements of this game you want to share (either in-character or out of character), send them to me (lpsmith) and I'll put them up on [http://spod-central.org/~lpsmith/rpg/transcripts/Agents/ the transcript page]. Thanks!


If you bring us a shipload of four units of your raw materials, then we'll process them with our own special blend of Unsorted Crystals to produce a unit of rank-2 refined goods (worth five megacredits on the Imperial exchange), which you can pick up when you return to drop off the next load of raw materials. If you're interested in this deal, let us know!
== Strange Dreams ==
The next time you and Reig chat in person, you chat for a while, and then Reig says, "Listen, uh, I'm not sure if this means anything, but I had this strange dream when I last visited Iavo.  Just in case you experience something similar, I thought I'd tell you about it."  [http://spod-central.org/~lpsmith/rpg/transcripts/Agents/iavo.html Reig's dream].


== Join the League of Champions! ==
== Environmental Protection Act ==
Shockingly, it seems that House Gwynne left behind all sorts of hazardous garbage when they abandoned their various colonies.  The Houses who graciously stepped in to assume control of these environmental disasters are left with the heavy financial burden of cleaning up the mess.


[[House Intrepid]] is forming a new interplanetary Astro-Polo league, the League of Champions! Seve Ballesteros and the Krazybuys(tm) Arabian Knights are on a pre-season tour to help drum up interest. If you'd like to like to host an exhibition match in the next few turns, let us know!
Surely the Imperial Parliament cannot let such injustice stand. Several prominent politicians are currently in the process of drafting a resolution that would levy significant fines against House Gwynne and distribute the funds to the affected Houses.
 
(What that means mechanics-wise: our cargo ship visits your planet with [[House_Intrepid#Seve_Ballesteros_.28Iain.29|my PC]] aboard. No military units. If you want to trade goods on the side, great. If you join the League, there'll be another match later on, perhaps with an Imperial visit and some real money involved.)
 
* To foster community spirit between colonials and natives, House Advantage are doing their best to put together an amateur team, the Fort Tomorrow Tree Squid. The Tree Squid place a high emphasis on image marketing, after-game banquets, spray-on uniforms, ambiguous rough-housing,  xenophobia and, indeed, virtually any aspect of sport that draws attention away from the actual gameplay.
 
* Huzzah! House Intrepid's (de facto) flagship Titanicus will drop by Hrobaj on turn 2, in time for the Trade and Politics phases.
 
* House Aramin proposes a combined polo match and commodities exchange: if Intrepid brings N units of (rank 0) Warp Crystals, Aramin will trade N units of (rank 0) Unsorted Crystals for them. And play a game of polo to celebrate!  (Another option:  four units of (rank 0) Warp Crystals for one unit of (rank 1) Fancy Crystals.) (Or we could just do the option described above, under "The Industrial Revolution".)


== Using this page ==
== Using this page ==


Let's keep the in-game stuff here, and use the related Discussion page for meta-game stuff. Oh, and put new stuff at the top!
Let's keep the in-game stuff here, and use the related Discussion page for meta-game stuff. Oh, and put new stuff at the top! [[Agents of Empire/Older Scuttlebutt|Older Scuttlebutt]] that's no longer current has been moved to another page.


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Latest revision as of 15:02, 17 August 2011

Where Are We?

What is the name of this corner of the galaxy where the colonies are located? Please vote!

  • The Yellow Spiral Clump
  • Kneepit
  • The Caramel Cluster
  • The Wretched Hives
  • Something Else

Secret Research

Those who control part of the Secret Advanced Physics Laboratory may wish to vote on which topic it begins researching in Turn 12. (Also, the results of the previous round of research are here.)

Prime's 'Research Group' on Gwyne

Thanks to the productive work of absolutely no one, we have access to an, ahem, "research group" on Gwyne. We can request they look into specific secret stuff. If you have something you want looked into, post it here.

  • Look into "Operation Moon Snail" to see if there are more Gwyne operatives on Prime.
  • Look into Gwynne's Nefarious Plan (below)

Gwynne's Nefarious Plan

Reig shares the following with you at the astro-polo finals: On Elvis, we have recovered decrypted Gwyne data which seems to indicate that Gwynne was planning to build something on all five of our planets, perhaps to weaponize the wormhole against the Empire. Iavo may be working for them, too, as Iavo was also interested in the same hexes listed in this data fragment. Figuring out what they were doing and what they still are planning should be a top priority in the coming weeks, as the last bit clearly says their own plans are to have us eliminated.

Weekly Poker Match

Rick Starfarer has scheduled (perhaps retroactively as of a couple months ago) a weekly game of six-card hyperstud! All of the top local colonial movers and shakers are invited (i.e., the PC's). Just dial your holovidwave set to 55-epsilon-673-double-mauve to log on (and have an IC excuse for sharing OOC information).

  • Rick is in, of course.
  • Dark from Prime will play.

Transcripts

If you have transcripts of the rpg elements of this game you want to share (either in-character or out of character), send them to me (lpsmith) and I'll put them up on the transcript page. Thanks!

Strange Dreams

The next time you and Reig chat in person, you chat for a while, and then Reig says, "Listen, uh, I'm not sure if this means anything, but I had this strange dream when I last visited Iavo. Just in case you experience something similar, I thought I'd tell you about it." Reig's dream.

Environmental Protection Act

Shockingly, it seems that House Gwynne left behind all sorts of hazardous garbage when they abandoned their various colonies. The Houses who graciously stepped in to assume control of these environmental disasters are left with the heavy financial burden of cleaning up the mess.

Surely the Imperial Parliament cannot let such injustice stand. Several prominent politicians are currently in the process of drafting a resolution that would levy significant fines against House Gwynne and distribute the funds to the affected Houses.

Using this page

Let's keep the in-game stuff here, and use the related Discussion page for meta-game stuff. Oh, and put new stuff at the top! Older Scuttlebutt that's no longer current has been moved to another page.

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