Agents Of Empire/Turns/25/Colony Worlds

Turn 25

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House Actions

Shipping

• The StarFar Reigspress ships 1 unit of Heisenberg Compensators, 1 unit of Holophonics and 1 unit of Rainbow Reagent from Elvis to Vefna.
• The Mighty Mammoth flies from Vefna to Boumfadour.
• The Expediator returns from the Core to Hrobaj.
• The Space Whale flies from Elvis to Boumfadour.
• The Stegosaurus returns from Hrobaj to Boumfadour.
• The Victoria Dulcis ships 1 unit of Hyperidot, 2 units of Native Art and 1 unit of HyperPlasma from Hrobaj to Boumfadour.
• The Titanicus flies from Elvis to Arroyo.
• Elvis uses the Stargate to teleport 1 unit of Starship Figureheads to the Mirage on Arroyo.
• The Space Siren ships 3 units of Hyperidot from Arroyo to Vefna.
• The Utahraptor ships 3 units of Chemicals from Boumfadour to Elvis.

Fighting

• [None?]

Exploration

• KANE and the Lewison Clarks continue explore the Pleistocene Region on Vefna (making it to 6/12 of the way to Explored-II).
• The StarLight Survey Squad and the Starfarer Super Sentai continue exploring the Donbique Rule Region (making it 8/18 of the way to Explored-III).
• Raphael Helsing and his Reef Riders continue re-exploring the Veritas Region (making it 3/6 of the way to Explored-II).

Industry

• Bonanza Region: Produces 3 units of HyperPlasma and 4 units of Hyperidot (due to Environmental Harmony II).
• Island Region: Produces 3 units of Food and 4 units of Chemicals (due to Environmental Harmony II).
• Ocean Region: Produces 3 units of Chemicals.
• Pleistocene Region: Produces 4 units of Mammoth Byproducts (due to Environmental Harmony II).
• Veritas Region: Produces 1 unit of Thorium (with giant robot statue help) and 4 units of Aquaculture (due to Environmental Harmony II).
• Bloos Wade Region: Produces 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals (with homesteader help) and 4 units of Food (due to Environmental Harmony II).
• Alshu Cup Region: Produces 3 units of Unsorted Crystals.
• Hau Ndogg Region:
  • The Riju Tri-Lateral Industrial Complex processes 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals, 1 unit of Frozen Gas and 1 unit of Metals into 1 unit of Dalekanium (rank-3).
  • The Riju Tri-Lateral Industrial Complex processes 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals, 1 unit of Metals and 1 unit of Thorium into 1 unit of Quantum Containment Gridwork (rank-3).
  • The Riju Tri-Lateral Industrial Complex processes 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals, 1 unit of Frozen Gas and 1 unit of Thorium into 1 unit of Neutrino Detectors (rank-3).
  • The Riju Tri-Lateral Industrial Complex also processes 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals, 1 unit of Mammoth Byproducts and 1 unit of Thorium into 1 unit of Leviathan Larva (rank-3, Food: 1) (a genetically engineered organism which can mature into a living starship).
• Donbique Rule Region:
  • The Happy Fun Oooey-Gooey Slippy Squishy Chemical Magic Playhouse processes 2 units of Chemicals and 1 unit of Metals into 1 unit of Semi-Synthetic Parabolic Conductors (rank-2).
  • The Happy Fun Oooey-Gooey Slippy Squishy Chemical Magic Playhouse processes 2 units of Chemicals and 1 unit of Frozen Gas into 1 unit of Hyperconductive Capacitors (rank-2).

Research

• The Farlight Institute of Crystal Biotechnology finishes researching a cure for ORPitis! We immediately begin contacting old, rich powerful individuals and offering it to them individually in secret, for free (with the implication that this is the sort of favor that Friends do for Friends).
• The Hau Ndogg Community College astro-polo stadium (and secret underground advanced physics laboratory) continues researching where else things might come through our wormhole from.
• The Boumfadour Institute for Ecology and Planetary Development finishes researching terraforming.
• The Boumfadour Institute for History and Archaeology continues researching Hrobaj and Veritas.
• The Tomorrow Institute of Lobbying, Marketing and Propaganda finishes researching how to boost Seve's campaign to be Emperor.
• Katlian College of Violent Arts and Sciences finishes researching how to make our warships more profitable when sold.

Building

• Vefna uses the Terraformer and 10Mc to upgrade the Mesozoic Region to Factory I (Useful Devices: Advanced Physics): the Christopher Cavor Contraption Constructory.
• The Christopher Cavor Contraption Constructory uses 1 unit of Secrets of the Ancients to build a Teleporation Sending Station (the "Fairy Circle").
• The Seve Ballesteros Memorial Shipyard uses 1 unit of Starship Figureheads to construct the Magellanic Maiden (a rank-2 military space unit).
• The Seve Ballesteros Memorial Shipyard uses the Reiglight Revenge (a rank-1 military space unit) to construct the Reiglight Revenge (a rank-2 military space unit).
• The Rick Starfarer Guild For Explorers, Adventurers and Miscellaneous Heroes trains The Lollipop Guild (a team of crack explorers none of whom is over a meter tall) for 5Mc.

Landing

• The StarFar Reigspress unloads 1 unit of Heisenberg Compensators, 1 unit of Holophonics and 1 unit of Rainbow Reagent on Vefna.
• The Mighty Mammoth arrives at Boumfadour.
• The Expediator arrives at Hrobaj.
• The Space Whale arrives at Boumfadour.
• The Stegosaurus arrives at Boumfadour.
• The Victoria Dulcis arrives at Boumfadour.
• The Titanicus arrives at Arroyo.
• The Space Siren unloads 3 units of Hyperidot on Vefna.

Trading

• Elvis' Hau Ndogg Region, Bloos Wade Region, Alshu Cup Region, Donbique Rule Region, Farlight Region and Community College Region each consume 1 unit of Food.
• Vefna's Pleistocene Region, Siderian Region, Mesozoic Region and Tomorrow Region each consume 1 unit of Mammoth Byproducts.
• Boumfadour's Island Region, Ocean Region, Ecology Region, Historical Region and Katlian Region each consume 1 unit of Food.
• Arroyo's Bonanza Region, Cavernous Region and Anonymous Region each consume 1 unit of HyperPlasma.
• Hrobaj's Veritas Region consumes 1 unit of Aquaculture.
• The Orogen Emporium sells the Space Siren for <however much we sell rank-2 warships for at our rank-2 mercantile region at this point>.

Politics

• Probably something or other?

Character Actions

• Dark: Flies back to investigate the wormhole blinkiness.
• Jude: Investigating the mysterious cache.
• Rick: Rick starts researching the giant plant in the tower. Naturally, he starts by pulling the levers that he doesn't know what they do.
• Kyil: Does indeed get recruited by a group which may or may not actually be the Heralds.
• Tesher: Tesher meets with Nitf@x at the cafe (but not before doing a bit of prep work: checking out who owns the cafe, if there's been any potentially relevant construction/modification work done on it in the past, if there are any interesting discrepancies in its paperwork, etc.).
• Seve:
• Reig: sits with somebody good at data/science stuff and works with them to figure out what's on the data crystal he procured from the Three Star Warehouse.
• Silentus: Plans for a grand infiltration of Iavo.
• (NPC) Basinbloke: Gets the dirt on all the various emperorship candidates and what can be done to ensure they lose.

Results

As the game resumes on turn 25, things are pretty normal on the colony worlds: more shipping, more producing, and more constructing.

The Farlight Institute finishes its work developing a cure for ORPitis, and starts passing it around; it's expensive to create the serum, but the recipients can presumably afford it. The gesture is certainly appreciated -- the colonies gain +3 Influence.

The Boumfadour Institute for Ecology finishes their work on terraforming, discovering some broader applications of terraforming.

Katlian College completes its work on military economics, determining that warships are being made about as cost-effectively as they can be at the moment, which suggests the best way to increase profits is to increase demand and then increase supply to meet that demand. Their analysis includes a number of star systems where demand for warships could likely be increased.

The Tomorrow Institute similarly finishes its analysis on a complete marketing campaign for Seve, the prototypes for which already give Seve and the colony worlds +3 Fame. The Institute thinks it likely that further marketing would be best directed at a particular opponent to highlight the differences between them and Seve, but it's not clear which opponent that should be.

Rick completes an initial study of the plant in the tower: it appears to be a highly-modified version of another kind of local flora which is extremely responsive to sunlight; this seems both enlarged but also mutated to react to other sorts of radiation, and the apparatus atop the tower is apparently designed to help direct that radiation onto the plant.