Turn 73 - Autumn 2192/3042
Confederated Forces:
[] Operational Preparations: - 8 votes (8 - FedCom) active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of Success: 65%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 6+15 = 21 - Failure
The Circinus Incident was considered to be something of a wakeup call by some war hawks in Parliament, stating that the Conmfederation had to improve offensive capabilities to act against the Federated Commonwealth, should the need arise, though some of those war hawks also advocated a preemptive decapacitation strike against the Federated Suns.
While the notion that the Confederation needed to produce some sort of offensive and defensive plan in case of an outright invasion of Confederation space, akin to the invasion of the Draconis Combine, for the time being, the calls of the war hawks were left unheard.
active for 3 more turns
[] WarShip Upgrades: - 8 votes active
Time: 6 turns, Chance of success: 70%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 41+15 = 56 - Success
With the availability of a host of new technologies, from new capital weapon systems, over armor to the new RSN drives, planners within the Confederated Forces believed it was time to begin a massive upgrade program to bring the WarShip fleet up to the new technological standard. Surprisingly for the planners, the Parlamentary Advisory Committee was relatively easily to convince of the necessity of the upgrade program.
This was due to several issues that came up during Autumn.
For one, there were the efforts of the Federated Commonwealth to create their own WarShips. The larger economic power of the Federated Commonwealth might enable them to build a substantial number of their WarShips, potentially threatening to overwhelm the existing WarShips defences.
The call of the war hawks in Parliament for operative options against the Commonwealth were partially leading into this as well.
Finally, there were the concerning informations coming from Clan space, where the Clans had been shown to possess a substantial fleet of WarShips, which might be a potential problem to the Confederated Space Forces.
active for 5 more turns
OCP Survey Office:
[] Clan Space: active
Time: 10 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 10, Roll 1d100: 40+15 = 55 - Success (All Intelligence Operations)
Roll 2 of 10, Roll 1d100: 22+15 = 37 - Failure
Roll 3 of 10, Roll 1d100: 63+15 = 78 - Success
Roll 4 of 10, Roll 1d100: 44+15 = 59 - Success
Roll 5 of 10, Roll 1d100: 1+15 = 16 - Failure
Roll 6 of 10, Roll 1d100: 85+15 = 100 - Success
Roll 7 of 10, Roll 1d100: 74+15 = 89 - Success
Roll 8 of 10, Roll 1d100: 47+15 = 62 - Success
Arriving in the Kerensky Cluster, the first target for the Scout force was the world of Strata Mechty, where a massive Warship was observed in orbit, the McKenna's Pride. This Battleship was not the only WarShip in orbit, however, as many more were discovered arriving and leaving, together with a steady stream of JumpShips. The WarShips also could present a significant problem to the Confederated Space Forces.
Observation of the radio noise and the HPG backscatter of the planet was very fruitful and kept the supply vessels in the Kuiper Belt of the system, while the Walsinghams began to spread out to begin their work in the other systems of the Kerensky Cluster.
active for 2 more turns
[] Far Star Station: active
Time: 8 turns, Chance of success: 45%
Roll 1 of 8, Roll 1d100: 15+15 = 30 - Failure
Roll 2 of 8, Roll 1d100: 92+15 = 107 - Success
Roll 3 of 8, Roll 1d100: 71+15 = 86 - Success
The scouting force began to make their journey directly towards the proposed location of 'Far Star Station', located over 2100 lightyears away from Sol, in a generally spinward-rimwards direction. During the operation, they would drop one Hyperwave repeater station every 500 lightyears to keep in general contact with Sol.
active for 5 more turns
OCP Diplomatic Corps:
[] Helm Database Release: active
Time: 3 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 3, Roll 1d100: 50+10 = 60 - Success (All Diplomatic Corps Actions)
Roll 2 of 3, Roll 1d100: 76+10 = 86 - Success
By the beginning of Autumn, the order went out to all Confederation Embassies, outside of the Federated Commonwealth, to meet up with the various heads of state and hand out copies of the Helm Database in a format they could work with.
In many cases the audience is requested on grounds of important informations, without going into any detail for security reasons.
In the FWL, Duggan Marik held the audience, as his father Janos had some health problems. He expressed surprise at the reveal of the Database, with Ambassador Esterhasi noting the Confederation was handing out the Database to all nations of the Inner Sphere, as it had been made publically available as open source by the Confederation. As Esterhasi had misgivings about the FedCom and its intent, he included the information that the FedCom was preparing to produce WarShips. This was soon asked of all Ambassadors.
In Adurien, the reaction was similar, though Dame Humphreys showed displeasure that the information would be given to the FWL as well. Her own agents had already informed her about the potential WarShips of the FedCom and was looking forwards to make use of the former Capellan industry to attempt and build their own WarShips to counter those of the FedCom and possibly the FWLs.
For the Taurians, Edward Calderon was responsible for proudly taking the Database in hand, perceiving it as the just reward for his policy of closer relations with other nations. However, he was shocked at the information about the FedCom WarShips and the information was soon spreading through the Concordat, sparking a brief panic. In response, and believing that the Confederation had similar goals to the Concordat, namely remaining free and defending themselves, lead to Edward asking if there was a possibility of some technological support, seeing that the FedCom had a larger industrial base to draw on.
The Illyrian Palatinate and the Lothian Loague were positively surprised, but both were quick to note they certainly didn't have that much industry available to do anything with the Database.
The Confederation of Habitats was offered a copy, but declined it, noting that they never lost the data in the first place.
For the other known Inner Sphere realms, Canopus, the Outworlds Alliance, and the various splinter nations of the Draconis Combine, especially the Free Rasalhague Republic, would take a while longer to supply with the Database, though it was at the time debated whether to supply the Draconis Combine successor nations with it, considering the war crimes of their parent state.
active for 1 more turns
[] Lupus Clan Conference: - 4 votes (4 - Kant) active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 78+10 = 88 - Success (All Diplomatic Corps Actions)
As the Database was handed out to the various already contacted Inner Sphere polities, they also got an invitation to the Lupus Conference. At the same time, the heads of House Davion and House Steiner were also invited. They were informed the OCP had contact to a potential threat to the entirety of the Inner Sphere, called 'The Clans', who were the self-proclaimed 'Children of Kerensky'.
The invitation was received with incredulity about the situation, but simultaneously interest, as they wished to know what had happened to the Star League Forces and how they were potentially turning into a hostile force.
However, any party taking part in the conference was aksed to arrive at Circinus, where they would be transported to Lupus and Kant using a Confederation WarShip for added location security.
active for 3 more turns
OCP Trade Organization:
[] Space Mining II: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 70%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 3+10+10+10+10+10 = 53 - Success (Stronger Economy, Economic Ties, Interstellar Communication Network, Space Mining, Space Industry)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 51+10+10+10+10+10 = 101 - Success
Roll 3 of 4, Roll 1d100: 53+10+10+10+10+10 = 103 - Success
[] Space Industry II: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 60%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 15+10+10+10+10+10 = 65 - Success (Stronger Economy, Economic Ties, Interstellar Communication Network, Space Mining, Space Industry)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 48+10+10+10+10+10 = 98 - Success
Roll 3 of 4, Roll 1d100: 84+10+10+10+10+10 = 133 - Success
The growth of both the mining and industrial space installation continued and two more systems in the 'outer ring' of the Confederation were settled by several companies, some of which came from Washington and Solidarność.
active for 1 more turns
OCP Office for Science and Development:
[] Hyperwave Faults: active
Time: 6 turns, Chance of success: 35%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 4+10+10 = 24 - Failure (Research Center Sol, Interstellar Communication Network)
Roll 2 of 6, Roll 1d100: 78+10+10 = 98 - Success
Roll 3 of 6, Roll 1d100: 56+10+10 = 76 - Success
Roll 4 of 6, Roll 1d100: 30+10+10 = 50 - Failure
As more information was gathered of the Hyperwave Fault in Wolf 1061, an incident lead to the destruction of the research vessel. As it entered the vicinity of the Fault in The Everchanging Black, trying to get readings from the n-dimensional space, it was destroyed in a way resembling incidents where a faulty HFEG had destroyed a spacecraft, spraying debris back into Einstein Space.
The incident meant the loss of thirty lives and valuable data and threw the project back by a few months.
active for 2 more turns
[] Basic Plasma Weapon Research: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 55%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 99+10+10 = 119 - Crit Success (Research Center Sol, Interstellar Communication Network)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 42+10+10 = 62 - Success
Roll 3 of 4, Roll 1d100: 99+10+10 = 119 - Crit Success
Roll 4 of 4, Roll 1d100: 28+10+10 = 48 - Success
Combined: 87 - Success
50% Civilian Research: Roll 1d6, even - new research, odd - no new research: 3 - No new research
10% Surprise research: Roll 1d10: 3 - no surprise research
As work continued, the 'Plasma Bolter' was further improved, which resulted in a serviceable weapon. Its atmospheric range had been improved to 5 kilometers at Mach 40, while the space range was increased to a hundred thousand kilometers at 5000 km/s. To this end, more fusion plasma was needed, with additional amounts of water as a mass multiplier, however.
The same went for the 'Plasma Flamer' which was, after some more work, could reach ranges of up to 250 meters, bathing a target in plasma flames able to instantly make most organic material catch fire. Tests on Mechs with conventional and improved heat sinks had the effect to overload these quickly.
Finally, the 'Plasma Explosives' had already entered full production, and were used to produce grenades, mortar warheads, artillery shells and even explosive Helical ammo.
Reward: Development of the Plasma Explosive
Development of the Plasma Bolter
Development of the Plasma Flamer
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OCP Internal Events:
CFS Poelcapelle and CFS Triep Yeuq Ashveraugh, two Engrod class Landing Craft Carriers of the 2191 Fleet Extension , are finished and are attached to the 8th Confederation Expeditionary Division.
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Intelligence Report:
Periphery Alliance:
Lupus Republic:
With the Lupus Conference getting the go-ahead and Kant being selected as the place where it would be held, plans were made to set up a conference center with the highest possible comfort for the people taking part. However, constructing such an area within Kant and outside of the currently inhabited areas was hardly a problem, thanks to making use io the production capacity of Pride of Hiigara.
By now the population of Kant had grown to nearly one million, as the majority of people coming from Clan Space, were actually feeling comfortable on the habitat, mostly due to its perfectly regulated life support system and the lush green nature inside the cylinder and the comfortable habitation sections further outside.
Still, construction of cities and other habitation areas on Plato and Aristotle continued apace.
Lothian League:
Illyrian Palatinate:
The occupation of the former Marian Hegemony continued.
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Taurian Concordiat:
Not much of interest is happening within the Concordat.
Magistracy of Canopus:
Not much of interest is happening within the Magistracy.
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Inner Sphere:
Federated Commonwealth:
While the Federated Commonwealth continued to celebrate the victory over the Draconis Combine, some interesting information was presented to the Survey Office in Berlin. It had been possible to infiltrate some Smart Dust deep into the 'Fox Den' and similar places on Tharkad, allowing gathering direct intelligence from the leaders of the FedCom.
One such information was about military think tanks developing possible war plans with the Confederation, though they all came down to 'Just Don't' in the words of the Survey analysts.
Apparently, the Confederation had left a huge impression due to its past actions. The former WCDC had appeared on the Inner Sphere's political radar by taking over Circinus with a single scratch build brigade. On official contact, they had then taken a trap of Hanse Davion and ran with it, actually creating a temporary peace between the FWL and Andurien and preparing the Inner Sphere nations for the time when Comstar was destroyed. During the Circinus Conference, the WCDC forces had destroyed an Elite Mech Warrior outfit that had plagued the FedSuns for decades and been able to follow the attack back to Comstar. Within a few years Comstar fractured and the OCP had been in the middle at Terra, handing over some WarShips to the Federated Commonwealth. And finally the OCP had, with some help, invaded the Marian Hegemony and taken it with a single Division.
With the technological advantage, intact industrial capacity and a comparably overly huge military for its size, the Federated Commonwealth considered it a military by nightmare and it had been possible to overhear Hanse Davion noting to Justin Allard that he had nightmares about having to fight a war against the OCP and that the Circinus Incident had almost given him a heart attack, had he not already had an artificial heart, from OCP medical no less.
From Katrina Steiner there were similar sentiments heard.
Draconis Combine:
It appears there might be a civil war starting within the remains of the Draconis Combine over control of the Coordinator.
Free Worlds League:
Captain-General Janos Marik experienced health problems that left him bedridden for the majority of autumn. His son, Duggan, took over the governmental duties for the time being and continued to prepare for a potential war with the Dutchy of Andurien.
Dutchy of Andurien:
The preparations for a War with the FWL continue.
Terra Situation:
Existing Disaster relief, Roll 1d100: 80
Other Event, Roll 1d20: 7
After several months of work, it was possible for the medical research teams of the CoH to develop an initial cure for the bioweapon, with several innovative uses of bio-engineered bacteriophages, as the bio weapon itself was a bacterium. The cure was limited for the time being, however, as production of the phages needed to ramp up to create enough doses for the infected on Terra. However, there was at the time no success in creating an immunisation for the weapon.
In mid Autum the Citizen Army began to form all over Terra, in a direct response to the continued fighting on the planet and especially the atrocities of the Brotherhood and the Knights, the forced eruption of Yellowstone and the release of the bioweapon. While this was the major concern of the Citizen Army, a secondary goal was to throw the FedCom forces off the planet as well, as the people making up the Citizen Army blamed them for the escalation of the Brotherhood and the Knights.
While the FedCom forces had misgivings about the Citizen Army, the Confederation of Habitats welcomed that the 'Terrans were finally waking up'.
To some degree, analysts of the situation noted similarities between the Citizen Army on Terra and the French Revolution.
Expansion and Suggestions:
The DSSI Network slowly continues to expand into the Inner Sphere.
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Random Event - Nothing much happens