Turn 73 - Autumn 2192/3042
Confederated Forces:
[] Operational Preparations: FedCom active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of Success: 65%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 6+15 = 21 - Failure
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 1+15 = 16 - Failure
The war hawks in Parliament continued to call for the Confederated Forces to prepare plans for any possible conflict with the Federated Commonwealth, outside of the simple plans already existing, but the information that both First Prince Davion and Archon Steiner were fearing to upset the Confederation was slowly sinking in and the war hawks seemed to be loosing ground to the arguments of the other side.
active for 2 more turns
[] WarShip Upgrades: active
Time: 6 turns, Chance of success: 70%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 41+15 = 56 - Success
Roll 2 of 6, Roll 1d100: 7+15 = 22 - Failure
While generally the upgrades to the WarShips of the Confederated Forces to the new technologies were welcomed, the project was stuck in a sort of limbo as several of the slowly forming smaller parties in parliament were criticising the budget proposed for the program.
These parties still wanted to make sure that the Confederation kept its technological edge over the Inner Sphere, but budgetary problems, especially with the last WarShip building programs, were expected, especially as both programs had experienced cost overruns regarded as substantial by the fiscally conservative Members of Parliament. As such, the Confederated Forces had to 'engage' these MPs in some way to make sure that the Project could begin.
active for 4 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
Roll 9 of 10, Roll 1d100: 63+15 = 78 - Success
Should the Clan Scout Force set up an automated modified ERS-HPG to be able tin inject messages into the Clans HPG network?
[] Yes - 9 votes
While the Walsingham class vessels continued to emplace survey satellites, the small force got the order to set up an automated ERS-HPG to use to insert data into the Clan's HPG network. This meant removing one of the ERS-HPGs from one of the Walsinghams came in to resupply and modify one of the survey satellites to act as an interface, to be set up in orbit around the Strata Mechty primary.
The direct observation of the Clans allowed observing political debate on Strata Mechty, or at least what could be considered such. There were three distinct groups active in the Grand Council, the Crusaders, a group wishing to invade the Inner Sphere, take Terra and then the rest of the Successor States. Next came the Wardens, opposing with the Crusaders and wishing to keep themselves apart from the Inner Sphere, but intervening in case of an existential threat. Finally, there was a new group, called the Guardians, which appeared to be an offshoot of the Wardens, and even had one or two former Crusader Clans. The Guardians wanted to inform the Inner Sphere about the Clans and act as an outside defence force in case of any external threats, perhaps gaining a few bases in the Inner Sphere.
The Crusaders were lead almost jointly by Clan Jade Falcon and Clan Smoke Jaguar, the Wardens by Clan Wolf, while the Guardians were lead by Clan Ghost Bear.
active for 1 more turn
[] 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
Roll 4 of 8, Roll 1d100: 89+15 = 104 - Success
After reaching the other side of the Inner Sphere, the Far Star Scouting Force began to move into unknown space, making their way slowly towards 'Far Star Station'.
During the journey, the Scouting Force stopped over in several systems. Some of these systems contained worlds that should have been habitable and in some cases actually used to be habitable . Some catastrophes and other situations have made them uninhabitable, however. In one case it had been a massive asteroid impact of a fifty kilometre boilide, in another case a runaway glasshouse effect, and in yet another the world was in the throes of a global ice age already turning the world into an iceball. To make matters stranger, neither occurrence seemed to be one hundred percent natural and there was an undercurrent of artificiality.
active for 4 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
Roll 3 of 3, Roll 1d100: 42+10 = 52 - Success
Combined: 66 - Success
Only three more nations were given access to the Heml Database, the Magistracy of Canopus, the Outworlds Alliance and the Free Rasalhague Republic.
In Canopus, the Helm Database was received with surprise and some suspicion, especially in the wake of the strange diplomatic contact.
The Outworlds Alliance had an unusual reaction, as half of the government seemed to like the idea, while the other didn't like it at all. After gathering some more information, it was discovered the OWA was in the strange situation of being a largely pacifistic nation, with many people wishing to reduce their technological level, even in the face of their neighbours. Still, they welcomed their own copy of the Database.
Finally, Elected Prince Haakon Magnusson welcomed a mission on Rasalhague, having heard about the Confederation from Archon Steiner. He was informed about the Confederation recognising the Free Rasalhague Republic and was given a data core containing the Database. Much like the other heads of state, he was surprised, but welcomed the database and hoped to establish closer diplomatic ties with the Confederation.
Reward: +15 to diplomacy with all contacted Inner Sphere nations
[] Lupus Clan Conference: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 78+10 = 88 - Success (All Diplomatic Corps Actions)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 91+10 = 101 - Success
While the Helm Database was handed out, the last of the nations of the Inner Sphere that could be reached, were informed about the Conference. In some cases, like for the OWAm, it was offered the jumpships, that had brought the database, would offer a or two dropship collars to carry the envoys to Circinus, where they would be moved into a WarShip and brought to the place where the conference was held.
The first to arrive at Circinus were Jamie and Joshua Wolf and one of their forces, as well as Cranston and Rhonda Snord, who had been invited by name by Sophist Winters, but, on Winters' wish, not informed about the nature of the Conference. Melissa Steiner-Davion and her bodyguards were the next to arrive, representing the Federated Commonwealth, followed by Duggan Marik.
Only by the end of Autumn, the last envoy from the invited nations arrived at Circinus, where they waited for their escort, which arrived in 2nd Frontier Fleet, which had prepared to carry the envoys to Sokrates and Kant.
active for 2 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
Roll 4 of 4, Roll 1d100: 20+10+10+10+10+10 = 70 - Success
Combined: 82 - 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
Roll 4 of 4, Roll 1d100: 10+10+10+10+10+10 = 60 - Success
Combined: 89 - Success
Slowly the incentives for new mining and conventional space borne industry were scaled back again, with the current economic boom continuing on its own for the time being.
Reward: More Raw Materials, +5 on internal and external trade
Reward: More space borne industrial capacity, +5 on internal and external trade
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
Roll 5 of 6, Roll 1d100: 72+10+10 = 92 - Success
With the destruction of the research vessel, it was decided that perhaps the data already available would be enough to begin with a new set of modelling the tesseract's behaviour and its various potential effects.
After several weeks of work on the data, one of the theoretical physicists discovered that the existence of these tesseracts almost naturally fell out of some solutions of N-Field theory and that, theoretically, jumping directly into one could cause a spacecraft appear instantly on the other end of the tesseract. With some modification to the field of a HFEG it would be possible to translate into the tesseract as well, though travel through it would not be instantaneous.
active for 1 more turns
[] Compact Hyperwave Transceiver: - 8 votes
Time: 3 turns, Chance of success: 45%
Roll 1 of 3, Roll 1d100: 15+10+10 = 35 - Failure (Research Center Sol, Interstellar Communication Network)
After several years of working with Hyperwave Tranceivers, some people believed it would be time to attempt to reduce the size of existing hyperwave transceivers down to a scale where they would be used to be put into smaller objects, like simple satellites, long range probes and even anti-spacecraft missiles for near-real-time command and control.
Some advances of producing smaller devices had already been made, but it turned out that miniaturising it further was not as straightforward as the technicians and researchers had believed, and they ran into several problems involving energy transfer and creation of hyperwaves almost immediately in the first simulations.
active for 2 more turns
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OCP Internal Events:
The last vessels of the 2191 Fleet Extension, CFS Awrothurn, Petan class, CFS Pol'ard, Haing class, as well as CFS Tinlche and CFS Sao Paolo, Arethusa class, were put into service with the 2nd Frontier Fleet, before 2nd Fleet arrives at Circinus to take the dignitaries to Kant.
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Intelligence Report:
Periphery Alliance:
Lupus Republic:
As the preparations for the Kant Conference were completed, the 2nd Experidtionary Division got moved to Kant to provide additional security together with the warriors of the Republic.
Aside from those preparations, the new O'Neill cylinder Descartes was completed in its external shell, with internal work continuing. Observing the efficiency of the construction, Sophist Winters asked Karen S'jeet to begin the construction of a third habitat of the same design, already giving it the name Voltaire.
Around this time, new elections were held for the Governing Council of the Lupus Republic, with Karen S'jeet being elected into the Council as a member of the Leader Caste.
There was a sudden increase of immigrants into the Republic from the Confederation, as it became more well-known within the Confederation. Even considering their social structure, the immigrants are welcomed and are not pressured into entering the existing caste structure.
Lothian League:
Illyrian Palatinate:
The occupation of the former Marian Hegemony continued.
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Taurian Concordiat:
Following the disclosure about FedCom WarShips, Protector Thomas Calderon seems to have one of his paranoid episodes, ordering to begin work on the expansion of orbital yard space and begin to develop or redevelop their own WarShips to counter those of the Federated Commonwealth. With his son and hair Edward taking part in the Kant Conference, it fell to his daughter Janice and his son Ian to reign in as much of his other orders as possible to prevent a worsening of the recovering relations with the Federated Commonwealth.
Magistracy of Canopus:
Not much of interest is happening within the Magistracy.
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Inner Sphere:
Federated Commonwealth:
While Melissa Steiner-Davion made her way to the Kant Conference, her husband and mother began to work on rebuilding their depleted military forces, which had lost about a third in strength during the entirety of the war with the Combine and with about a third of the remaining forces needed to pacify the conquered worlds. However, they did realise that the FWL was planning to begin a war with Andurien and began to put pressure on Janos Marik, while his son and hair Duggan was taking part in the Kant Conference himself.
Draconis Combine:
Hohiro Kurita was assassinated on New Samarkand, sparking of a civil war within the remains of the Draconis Combine.
Free Worlds League:
Janos Marik returned to work, following his undisclosed medical problems. While he outwardly began to talk to the Federated Commonwealth about merely strengthening his defences, it was of note the preparations for war continued unabated and more forces were moved towards Andurien border systems.
Dutchy of Andurien:
In preparation to a possible war, Andurien began to hire a larger number of mercenary companies, some of which were 'on loan' by Canopus, the Aurigans and even the Federated Commonwealth, and moved to various worlds along the FWL border to bolster the defences.
Confederation of Habitats:
The reaction to the support of the CoH for the Quarantine of Terra and the subsequent disclosure of the CoH's existence as an independent political entity was delayed, largely due to the Combine War and the belief that the WarShips blockading Terra happened to belong to the OCP. Now, however, the Federated Commonwealth descended into something of a shock at the realisation that a highly advanced technical civilisation existed in almost a hundred nominally uninhabitable systems around Terra, with some of their own systems surrounded by systems of the CoH.
Of course, the CoH was quick to assure the Federated Commonwealth that they didn't want anything to do with those already inhabited systems, stating that if they wanted those systems, they would have long since taken them. The CoH merely wanted to be left alone and would respond to any attack with a counter attack. This of course made the FedCom government somewhat paranoid and the OCP's Ambassador offered some help the CoH government regarding diplomacy, considering that the CoH had no diplomatic experience when dealing with the Inner Sphere nations.
Terra Situation:
Existing Disaster relief, Roll 1d100: 13
Other Event, Roll 1d20: 11
The new Citizens Army, equipped with weapons hoarded on Terra by Comstar and apparently trained by former Comguards units, launched their first operations against the Brotherhood and the Knights. While the Citizen Army experienced high losses, they were about as fanatic as their opponents and had larger reserves of forces throwing at the problem. Almost all losses were down to inexperienced soldiers, while in other cases the Brotherhood and the Knight were utilising tactics that targeted civilian populations as well as explicitly hospitals containing victims of the bio-weapon.
The battles were not the only way the Knights and the Brotherhood were trying to prevent the release of the cure to the planets' population. For this they attacked the automated transports bringing the cure down to the planet and bombed both distribution centers and hospitals where the cure was administered. This did not only happen in South East Asia, where the Brotherhood and Knights were based, but worldwide.
In late Autumn, a new planetary government had formed itself in the Citizen Assembly, with the first meetings in Athens, presenting a fully democratic body that was apparently backed by most of the planet's population. They directly declared Terra was the birthplace of mankind and that the planet should remain independent of all other nations of the Inner Sphere and simultaneously rescinded the so-called Pollux Proclamation, noting that it was the reason for untold strife within the Inner Sphere. The Citizens Assembly declared outright that they had no interest in the politics of the Inner Sphere.
Expansion and Suggestions:
The DSSI Network slowly continues to expand into the Inner Sphere.
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Random Event - Nothing much happens