Agents Of Empire/Turns/9/House Prime

Turn 9

House Actions

• Shipping: Cargo ship goes to Elvis.
• Fighting: [None.]
• Exploration: Rafael and his Reef Explorers to I14.
• Production: 1 unit of kelp, 1 unit of chemicals.
• Processing: [None.]
• Research: Research finishes with the mining upgrade research.
• Building: [None.]
• Landing: Cargo ship lands on Elvis.
• Trading: [None.]
• Politics: Basinbloke attends more Reeft parties and mongers more rumors about Gwyne's staling the tax for their own purposes, using the opportunity while visiting anti-Gwyne types to formulate the text of a new bill penalizing Gwyne monetarily for any a.) remaining military forces that might be on the colony worlds, in violation of law and b.) any areas where negative environmental impact forces the colonies to do cleanup.

Character Actions

• Dark: Goes back to Aramin's planet of Elvis to help with security at the new research facility.
• Silentus: Taking the scenic route to the imperial planet for the emperor's impending party; it will take several turns to get there. Though he did intercept a transmission from House Aramin for assistance at the last possible moment, he was regrettably unable to provide the assistance they required. Because of the nature of the distance he is traveling and poor interstellar weather conditions, Silentus will be 100% completely in communicado during that time, and will not be able to contact anyone, on any planet, in any house, for any reason. That means that anything nefarious that happens anywhere in the galaxy cannot possibly be blamed on him. In fact, the very idea is absurd on its face.

Results

Prime produces a unit of Chemicals and another of Kelp. The research institution finishes their work, and presents a plan for a more ecologically-friendly producer format, which allows a producer to be created or upgraded for 4 mega-credits less than the listed cost, by reducing the rank of the source by 1 (the source cannot be lowered in rank below the rank of the producer to be built on it).

Rafael and his team have a grueling time exploring I14, but it's a valuable learning experience: Rafael is now rank 3.

Dark travels to Elvis and lends his expertise there, while Silentus is of course not involved with anything you might suspect him to be involved in.