Agents Of Empire/Turns/28/Colony Worlds

Turn 28

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House Actions

Shipping

• The StarFar Reigspress ships 5 units of Thorium from Hrobaj to Elvis.
• The Mighty Mammoth ships the Telepod and an Advanced Wormhole Transmission Tower from Vefna to Hrobaj.
• The Expediator ships 5 units of Thorium from Hrobaj to Elvis.
• The Space Whale ships 3 units of Frozen Gas and 2 units of Mammoth Byproducts from Vefna to Elvis.
• The Victoria Dulcis ships 4 units of Industrial Kelp and 6 units of Chemicals from Boumfadour to Elvis.
• The Titanicus ships 5 units of Hyperidot from Arroyo to Elvis.
• The Fate[sic] Accompli ships 3 units of Chemicals from Boumfadour to Elvis.
• The Allosaurus flies from Vefna to the general neighborhood of the Imperial Planet. Is anyone on board? Maybe Kyil?stays on Vefna
• The Ex-Terminated ships 2 units of Tachyon Torpedoes and 1 unit of Golems of Elvis from Elvis to Arroyo.
• The Reiglight Revenge ships Rick to Iavo for that meeting.
• The Dancing Dalek, the Laughing Leviathan and the Killer Kaled fly from Arroyo to Vefna.
• Elvis uses the Stargate to teleport 1 unit of HyperPaint to the Mirage on Arroyo.

Fighting

• Utahraptor swoops in to rescue the Lollipop Guild from the Gwyne drones. ZAP-ZAP-ZAPPO!

Exploration

• On Vefna, the Lewison Clarks (4) explore hex N9 (uncovering a Mystery!) and KANE (2) explores hex M10 and L10 (uncovering a Resource!) and Kyil pokes about in O10, (uncovering a Mystery! And maybe following up on it?) in the Postremocene Region.
• On Elvis, The StarLight Survey Squad (3) explores hex I2 (uncovering a Mystery!) and the Starfarer Super Sentai (3) explores hex G2 (uncovering a Resource) and partially explores hex H2, exploring about half of it, in the Alshu Cup region.
• On Arroyo, The Lollipop Guild (3) explores hexes G2 and G3 (uncovering a Resource) in the Devil's Region.
• On Boumfadour, Raphael Helsing and his Reef Riders (3) explore hexes M9, N8 (uncovering a Resource), and O9 (uncovering another Resource) in the Ecology Region.

Industry

• Bonanza Region: Produces 3 units of HyperPlasma and 4 units of Hyperidot (due to Environmental Harmony II).
• Island Region: Produces 6 units of Food, 3 units of Industrial Kelp and 1 unit of Chemicals (due to Environmental Harmony II).
• Ocean Region: Produces 3 units of Chemicals.
• Pleistocene Region: Produces 4 units of Mammoth Byproducts and 3 units of Frozen Gas (due to Environmental Harmony II).
• Veritas Region: Produces 4 units 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), 2 units of Metals and 2 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 Hyperidot and 1 unit of Thorium into 1 unit of Tachyon Torpedoes (rank-3).
  • The Riju Tri-Lateral Industrial Complex processes 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals, 1 unit of Industrial Kelp and 1 unit of Thorium into 1 unit of Dimensional Weave (rank-3).
  • The Riju Tri-Lateral Industrial Complex processes 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals, 1 unit of Thorium and 1 unit of Native Art into 1 unit of High-Energy Graphical User Interface (rank-3).
  • The Riju Tri-Lateral Industrial Complex also processes 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals, 1 unit of Food and 1 unit of Chemicals into 1 unit of Bachelor Chow (rank-3, Food: 4).
• Donbique Rule Region:
  • The Happy Fun Oooey-Gooey Slippy Squishy Chemical Magic Playhouse processes 1 unit of Chemicals, 1 unit of Bottomless Pearls and 1 unit of Native Art into 1 unit of HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL (rank-3).
  • The Happy Fun Oooey-Gooey Slippy Squishy Chemical Magic Playhouse processes 1 unit of Chemicals, 1 unit of Hyperidot and 1 unit of Metals into 1 unit of Warp Pods (rank-3).
  • The Happy Fun Oooey-Gooey Slippy Squishy Chemical Magic Playhouse processes 1 unit of Chemicals, 1 unit of Unsorted Crystals and 1 unit of HyperPlasma into 1 unit of Liquid Sanity Destabilizer (rank-3). A psycho-active chemical substance that we hope may be useful in interacting with the psychic potential of the mind.

Research

• The Hau Ndogg Community College astro-polo stadium (and secret underground advanced physics laboratory) (8) researches stuff:
  • Connections between dimensional activity and psychic phenomena. Base cost 1 (pure research), relevance 2 (based on our previous research into psychic phenomena and the recent wormhole phenomena) = 2 points. (2/2)
  • Wormhole Control II. (10/12)
• The Boumfadour Institute for Ecology and Planetary Development (4) researches Environmental Defense II. (12/18)
• The Boumfadour Institute for History and Archaeology (8) researches the perfect form of galactic government. (11/18)
• The Tomorrow Institute of Lobbying, Marketing and Propaganda (3) begins working on the next edition of NEWS FROM THE WORMHOLE [Issue 2].
  • Base cost base cost 1 + 1 (widely applicable) + 1 (large scale) + 1 (long duration), relevance 3 (the previous edition 1, plus other texts we've written 2) = 12. (3/12)
• Katlian College of Violent Arts and Sciences (8) researches stuff:
  • How can we combat the Child (if necessary)? (12/12)
  • NEWS FROM THE WORMHOLE [Issue 2], adding their usual column about how awesome our warships are. (5/12)
• The Farlight Institute of Crystal Biotechnology (8) researches the Child:
  • How can we more easily find and secure the other Children? Base cost 4? (I don't know, but 4 sounds like a good number), relevance 2? (we've researched the Third Child for pure research and for how, if necessary, to combat it) = 8 points. (8/8)

Building

• The Christopher Cavor Contraption Constructory upgrades the Energy Field Disruption Detector aboard the Allosaurus into a Dimensional Border Activity Detector.
• The Christopher Cavor Contraption Constructory uses 1 unit of Subspace Plumbing Conduits to build a Teleporation Sending Station (the "Warp Zone").
• The Christopher Cavor Contraption Constructory uses 1 unit Hyperconductive Capacitors to build a Wormhole Battery.
• The Seve Ballesteros Memorial Shipyard uses 2 units of HyperPaint to construct the Indomitable Inferno (a rank-2 military space unit) and the Ferocious Flame (a rank-2 military space unit).
• The Seve Ballesteros Memorial Shipyard uses 2 units of Warp Manifolds to construct the Precise Pangolin (a rank-2 military space unit) and the Oneiric Ocelot (a rank-2 military space unit).

Landing

• Ships get to places.
• Vefna uses the Fairy Circle to teleport the Warp Zone to the Mirage on Arroyo.

Trading

• Elvis' Hau Ndogg Region, Bloos Wade Region, Alshu Cup Region and Donbique Rule Region each consume 1/4 unit of Bachelor Chow. The 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 Devil's Region each consume 1 unit of HyperPlasma.
• Hrobaj's Veritas Region consumes 1 unit of Aquaculture.
• We sell the Dancing Dalek, the Laughing Leviathan and the Killer Kaled for 84Mc.

Politics

• Someone goes to Iavo for a meeting. Probably Reig. Maybe Rick too? Silentus? Dark? Seve? Jude? Tesher? Kyil? Basinbloke? Everybody? Who knows? (Well, probably not Basinbloke.)

Character Actions

• Dark:
• Jude:
• Rick:
• Kyil: Exploration on Vefna.
• Tesher:
• Seve:
• Reig:
• Silentus:
• (NPC) Basinbloke:

Results

The much-belated turn 28 results! They're pretty normal.

Katlian College finishes its research into a military analysis of the Third Child, determining there are two possible courses for future research: the easier is some kind of dimensional bomb, which would weaken the cross-dimensional threshold enough to force it back into its own native dimension; the harder combines that bomb with some kind of containment device, which would essentially sever the connection between the Child and its native dimension and trap it at the same time. The Farlight Institute completes its work on how to create a detector for cross-dimensional beings, and sends its data to the Christopher Cavor Contraption Constructory for use in its modifications. The SAPL does some experimentation, having heard that psychic activity is related to dimensions, and comes up with a working theory: psychic powers allow action at a distance by very briefly "nudging" the dimensional barrier, which in turn creates ripples in this dimension, and it is the ripples themselves which cause the psychic action. This will no doubt be valuable when it comes into applying previous dimensional reseach to future psychic research.

On Boumfadour, Raphael Helsing finds two stashes of resources in the Ecology Region, two units of Kelp stuck on a reef formation, and a unit of Chemicals crystallized on the beach.

On Elvis, exploration similarly takes place in the Alshu Cup region. The StarLight Survey Squad has a bad run-in with some acidic swamp grass and ends up injured; and the Starfarer Super Sentai discover another vein of Metals beneath the marshy ground, taking two units of the resource as immediately usable.

On Arroyo, the Lollipop Guild discovers an outcrop of Oily Minerals among the arroyos, retrieving a unit of the resource.

Finally, on Vefna, various exploration takes place in the Postremocene region. In particular, the Lewison Clarks discover a crude hut in the ice forest in which are explorer's notes about the surrounding area, enabling them to also explore M9, O9, and N10; KANE discovers a small stash of Palace Stone buried in a snowfield (salvaging one unit of the resource); and Kyil takes some holovid footage that is perfect for the next issue of NEWS FROM THE WORMHOLE (giving +2 to the Tomorrow Institute's research). When Kyil returns to his residence after his days exploring, he finds a note, reading as follows: "TRAVEL TO COORDINATES GAMMA-12-C-19 WITHIN ONE WEEK OF MESSAGE; SABOTAGE RESEARCH OPERATIONS LOCATED THERE; RETRIEVE DATA AND TRANSMIT TO THIS ACCOUNT"