Agents Of Empire/Turns/21/Colony Worlds

Turn 21

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House Actions

Shipping:

• The Space Whale returns from the Core to Elvis.
• The Victoria Dulcis flies from Elvis to Boumfadour.
• The Mighty Mammoth ships the Terraformer and one unit of Stylish Robot Butlers from Elvis to Arroyo.
• The Titanicus returns from the Core to Vefna, bearing Kyil.
• The Sevosaurus takes Seve and entourage to MQaiaa.

Fighting

• Instead of actually fighting, all of our units do recon instead, searching for any survivors or stuff that's still intact. (And getting the *@&# out of there if the statue tries to kill them, of course.)

Exploration

• Rick pays a visit to the mysterious Colossus Of DOOM. A social visit.
• KANE continues exploring the Siderian Region Vefna (making it 2/12 of the way to Explored-II).
• The StarLight Survey Squad continues exploring the Donbique Rule Region (making it 5/12 of the way to Explored-II).
• Bram and the Lewison Clarks continue exploring the new region on Arroyo.
• Rafael and the Reef Explorers begin exploring a new region on Boumfadour (making it Explored-I).

Industry

• Bonanza Region: Produces 3 units of Hyperidot and 3 units of Native Art.
• Island Region: Produces 2 units of Food and 4 units of Chemicals.
• Ocean Region: Produces 3 units of Chemicals.
• Pleistocene Region: Produces 3 units of Frozen Gas.
• Bloos Wade Region: Produces 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals (with homesteader help) and 3 units of Food.
• Alshu Cup Region: Produces 3 units of Unsorted CrystalsMetals.
• Hau Ndogg Region:
  • The Riju Tri-Lateral Industrial Complex processes 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals, 1 unit of Food and 1 unit of Metals into 1 unit of Tactical MRE's (a rank-3 refined good).
  • The Riju Tri-Lateral Industrial Complex processes 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals, 1 unit of Hyperidot and 1 unit of Metals into 1 unit of Warp Manifolds (a rank-3 refined good).
  • The Riju Tri-Lateral Industrial Complex processes 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals, 1 unit of Hyperidot and 1 unit of Frozen Gas into 1 unit of Holophonics (a rank-3 refined good) (the components inside of a holophoner).

Research

• The Farlight Institute of Crystal Biotechnology continues researching how to inprove the refinery.
• The Hau Ndogg Community College astro-polo stadium (and secret underground advanced physics laboratory) begins researching bilocation: the ability for a person to be in two places doing two different things at the same time.
• On the theory that II must be better than I, The Boumfadour Institute for Ecology and Planetary Development continues researching Environmental Harmony II.
• The Boumfadour Institute for History and Archaeology digs up Prime history in an attempt to boost Fame.

Building

• Elvis finishes upgrading Donbique Rule to a Chemicals Refining Region for 5Mc.
• The Seve Ballesteros Memorial Shipyard uses the Ex-Terminated (a rank-1 military space unit) to construct the Ex-Terminated (a rank-2 military space unit).

Landing

• The Space Whale unloads Reig on Elvis.
• The Mighty Mammoth unloads the Terraformer on Arroyo. The Stylish Robot Butlers remain on board.
• The Victoria Dulcis arrives at Boumfadour.
• The Titanicus arrives at Vefna.
• The Sevosaurus arrives at MQaiaa.

Trading

• Elvis' Hau Ndogg Region, Bloos Wade Region, Alshu Cup Region and Donbique Rule Region each consume 1/4 unit of Freeze-Dried Magic Meals.
• Vefna's Pleistocene Region consumes 1 unit of Mammoth Byproducts.
• Boumfadour's Island Region and Ocean Region each consume 1 unit of Food.
• Arroyo's Bonanza Region consumes 1/4 unit of Kookie Krysp. The Cavernous Region consumes 1 unit of HyperPlasma.

Politics

• Reig checks out the Little Iavo on Elvis?
• We put up X megacredit(s) for the party.

Character Actions

Colony

• Dark: Mentioned on the House Advantage page: Paranoid about security and not trusting human guards, the Venafi Emperor commissioned automated defence platforms on the three moons of Hrobaj. It's not clear whether they were ever brought online, and certainly they were never designed to operate for more than a hundred years or so. But there might be something there to salvage. Given the statue-skyscraper thing seems to be an ancient defense system of some sort, Dark checks out the moons of Hrobaj. He finds the most intact-looking one and drops by in person with New Drones for security, looking for controls or at least information on the Hrobaj defense systems, especially regarding the Death Statue.
• Jude: Move zig. For great justice. I'm guessing that Jude will probably want to fly in for a closer look to try to see how the statue works.
• Rick: Rick tries to communicate with the Death Statue. Somehow.
• Kyil: After he arrives on Vefna, examines the wormhole tower controls to figure out how someone could use them to mess with enemies coming through (or around) the wormhole (a Maneuver, basically).
• Tesher: This clearly must be related somehow to the ancient war machine that someone was working on at the end of the last story or something! So Tesher figures out how, and what significance that connection will have on our current on-going plot threads.
• Seve: with an entourage currently consisting of vice-emperor candidate Rexx, camera crew The Arabian Knights, and military squad The Foreign Legion (currently being trained as a backup polo team), Seve gets in touch with the MQaiaan leaders, especially anyone he may have vague memories of from that party. He offers publicity and support in their dispute with Gwyne (maybe including military action next turn, what the hell, it'll be good Tri-V), and also tries to recruit some tough and sexy freedom fighters for GALAXY UNITED.

Imperial Core

• Reig: Knocks around the imperial core worlds, and meets up with the sous-chef who was almost the Oracle to discover that odd psychic activities have been going on in the empire for almost two years.
• Silentus: Leaks a little information (not a lot, just an experiment to tweak the battle a little) on Reeft's tactical layout to Gwyne (in exchange for money) to keep the balance of power in check. [Given Reeft and Gwyne's opposition seems to be the only thing making this Dune rather than Star Wars, it seems best to not have only one dominating evil empire.]
• (NPC) Basinbloke: PARTYTIME!

Here are his goals: 1.) To enjoy the party. This is Basinbloke, after all. And he takes his wine tasting seriously. 2.) To improve the Influence of the colonies. 3.) Given many Houses in one convienent location, to be able to simultaneously feel out all of them and figure out a.) which are supporting the bill from Turn 20 b.) which will support given the appropriate rider and c.) which will Just Say No. 4.) Given those inclined to parties would have been at the Space Baby Party, inquire about if anyone has further info along the lines of: Did anyone else recognize Frost? Did anyone else have a baby encounter?

Results

Excitement elsewhere!

On the colony worlds, business goes on as usual, with the usual producing and processing and building. The Lewison Clarks finish exploring the Anonymous Region, discovering yet another source for hyperidot. Raphael explores the new Storm Region, discovering both Chemicals and Kelp.

On Hrobaj, Rick and Dark and Jude confront the giant angry statue, each in their own way. One of the other ships attempts to land, but the statue sends out a laser blast from its eyes, and the ship veers off, rather than testing the statue's offense further.

On MQaiaa, Seve has an exciting adventure! Tesher cogitates.

In the Core, Basingbloke's party goes off without a hitch: toasts are drunk to the colony worlds, backs are slapped, food is eaten off little sticks, and at the height of the party the Reeft ambassador announces that she has received a dispatch that the Gwyne fleet is in full retreat. "And you know what that means," she says, elbowing Basingbloke in the ribs. "Loot for all of our supporters!" Oh, and megacredits are spent and Influence is accrued. [Mega-credits are also belatedly sent as a courtesy to the oracle of three million eyes, and some other Influence and Fame shows up there.]