Agents Of Empire/Turns/4/House Aramin

Turn 4

Previous turn: Turn 3

House Actions

• Shipping: [None]
• Fighting: [None]
• Exploration: The StarLight Survey Squad explores hexes K11 and L11.
• Production: We produce 2 units of Unsorted Crystals from our Large crystal farm.
• Processing: [None]
• Research: Applications of teleportation technology: let's use it to make our producers cheaper or more efficient by teleporting raw materials directly out of the ground/trees/etc.
• Building: We upgrade our Unsorted Crystals processing facility from rank-1 to the rank-2 Riju Industrial Complex. Jude and Rick assist, lowering the cost from 5Mc to 3Mc. We also take out a 10Mc Krazybuys loan (requiring 12Mc to be paid back in eight turns) to build a rank-1 Metal mine in N11 for 5Mc (in a perfectly round natural valley known as the "Alshu Cup") and the Starfarer Crystal Garden And Wilderness Preserve (a rank-1 Unsorted Crystals mine) in P12 for 5Mc.
• Landing: [None]
• Trading: We accept a shipment of 4 units of Industrial Kelp from House Prime, with the promise that we will produce 1 unit of Ndoggahyde for them.
• Politics: Reig follows up on the Grazene contact, attempting to get them to modify their proposed bill to have the subspace radio clause in it, and looks into the rumor he heard about a transportation deal (if it isn't already taken). He then contacts Houses Lavo and Caterina to try to discover what they might want in exchange for their support for the Prime Bill To Go Easy On The Colonists.

Character Actions

• Rick engages a recalcitrant replacement heterodynamic agitation unit in combat, ultimately forcing it to bend to his will -- single-handedly doing the work of any six lesser maintenance engineers.
• Jude appreciates that. It's so hard to find good help these days.
• Reig exerts his considerable political savvy to try to sway Lavo and/or Caterina to support Prime's upcoming bill in the senate.

Results

The crystal farm produces crystals, while the research facility researches. The new crystal farm and metals mine are also built, and the crystal processing facility is upgraded (with the financial assistance of House Krazybuys).

The StarLight Survey Squad explores hexes K11 and L11, finding (respectively) a small cluster of edible plants (a rank-1 source for Food), and then a small cluster of plants which find them edible and, unfortunately, seem to be mobile. The plants head towards the main colony in the hopes of finding delicious colonists.

Back at the Empire, Reig works on politics. Also, five groups of prospective colonists arrive, ready to climb on the ship.

Next

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