Agents Of Empire/Scuttlebutt

Join the League of Champions!

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!

(What that means mechanics-wise: our cargo ship visits your planet with 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 below, under "The Industrial Revolution".)

The Industrial Revolution

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.

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!

News from the Empire Turn 3 Followups

• Pirates:
• Loans:
• Transportation:
• Covert Military:
• Grazene Politics: House Aramin has a representative in the Core prepared to talk with Grazene next turn. 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?

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