Turn 62 - Winter 2189/3039
Confederated Forces:
[] Operation Arminius: active
Time: ?, Chance of Success: 60%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 35+15 = 50 - Success (All actions)
Roll 2 of 6, Roll 1d100: 79+15 = 94 - Success
Roll 3 of 6, Roll 1d100: 77+15 = 92 - Success
Roll 4 of 6, Roll 1d100: 40+15 = 55 - Success
Roll 5 of 6, Roll 1d100: 27+15 = 42 - Success
Roll 6 of 6, Roll 1d100: 98+15 = 113 - Crit Success
Combined
Within a relatively short time, several regiments of the 1st Expeditionary Division, as well as of the Illyrian and Lothian forces, moved to and landed on the various remaining worlds of the Marian Hegemony, encountering only limited resistance after informing the local governments and forces that the O'Reilly family had been killed by a revolt of palace slaves.
More resistance was encountered during the freeing of the slaves, but this was relatively easily put down. In many cases almost all slaves had been 'employed' in the households of local magnates and other wealthy, as well as in mines and factories. The lower class local population had not been part of the slavery, as it had been likely that they too could have been enslaved by the more powerful.
With the occupation of the remaining worlds of the Hegemony, Operation Arminius officially ended, leaving the 1st Expeditionary Division as well as the Lothian and Illyrian Forces as occupiers to reform the local governments and society.
Result: Marian Hegemony placed under joint occupation by the Lothian Pact forces to be transitioned into a working democratic nation
[] Extended Anti-Piracy Patrols: active
Time: 5 turns, Chance of success: 60%
Roll 1 of 5, Roll 1d100: 97+15+10 = 122 - Crit Success (All Action, Interstellar Communication Network)
Roll 2 of 5, Roll 1d100: 59+15+10 = 84 - Success
The plans to move the Patrol Forces out from the Confederated Space Forces into its own organization fell on surprisingly ground within Parliament and the Armed Forced Advisory Commitee. The reasoning was that the overhead of the patrols, be they anti-piracy, show-of-force or border patrol, could safely be removed from the actual Space Forces and improve the efficiency of the Patrol Forces. Additionally, this would necessitate moving the majority of intelligence gathering systems, be they conventional survey satellites or Superliminal Wave Detectors into the purview of the new force, as they had a larger need o immediately react to any detection made by such a system along the OCP border and allied patrol sections.
Tentatively, the Armed Forces Advisory Commitee called the new force the Confederated Space Patrol.
active for 3 turns
OCP Survey Office:
[] Combine Intelligence: active
Time 6 turns, Chance of success: 60%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 61+15 = 76 - Success (All Intel actions)
Roll 2 of 6, Roll 1d100: 98+15 = 113 - Crit Success
Roll 3 of 6, Roll 1d100: 38+15 = 53 - Success
After the Walsingham class Scouts had moved along the current FedCom-Combine front for intelligence, it was decided the vessels would move deeper into the Combine, with a single craft taking up station in the Luthien System and employ a number of survey satellites equipped with Hyperwave Tranceivers to directly get information about the general reactions of the Combine to the various operations directed at their forces in the current war.
active for 3 more turns
[] Deep Cover Intelligence IV: - 7 votes
Time: 1 turn, Chance of success: 60%
[] Number Station: - 7 votes
Time: 5 turns, Chance of success: 45%
even = Deep Cover, odd = Number Station, Roll 1d6: 2 - Even
[] Deep Cover Intelligence IV: - 7 votes active
Time: 1 turn, Chance of success: 60%
Roll 1d100: 39+15 = 54 - Success
After a long time of the remaining Invader MKII jumpships sitting in their Jump Points while their crews had been prepared, Operation Barsky was finally approved by the Survey Office. The operation was meant to complement the operation of the Invader MKII vessels already operating independently within the Inner Sphere, returning valuable intelligence.
The ships were deployed over a timeframe of seven weeks during which they jumped into the Inner Sphere and began their work in various places along the anti-spinward border of the Lyran Commonwealth and the Free Worlds League, taking differing courses and following up on informations provided by local sources or operational guidance from Berlin.
Result: continous intelligence reports over several years, while other operations are available
OCP Diplomatic Corps:
[] Diplomatic Contact: Taurians active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 70%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 55 - Success
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 36 - Success
After leaving Andurien independently of the Canopus Mission, the Taurian Mission crossed over into Federated Sun's space, where they were welcomed, but eyed suspiciously, after stating that their goal was to reach the Taurian Concordat to open diplomatic relations. This resulted in Hanse Davion personally inviting the OCP Ambassador to request an explanation. Upon being informed about the diplomatic nature, he in turn informed the OCP about the mildly xenophobic stance of the Taurians towards outsiders and that the Embassy on NEw Avalon might present something of a problem for establishing an Embassy on Taurus.
The Taurian Mission in turn was informed about this potential problem from the Imperial City on Jerat, but ordered to continue on regardless. Upon crossing the Taurian border into Janson's Hold, they were detained by the Taurian Defense Forces, who did not believe the diplomatic nature of the mission. They remained detained for four weeks, until Edward Calderon, the eldest son of Protector Thomas Calderon, arrived in the system, to welcome the Mission.
active for 2 more turns
[] Diplomatic Contact: Canopus active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 70%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 60 - Success
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 31 - Success
The welcome of the Diplomatic Mission to the Magistracy of Canopus was a little more welcoming than those to the Taurian Concordat. However, the recent war between the Lothian Pact and the Marian Hegemony, and the ease with which the conflict had been put to an end, was throwing an immense shadow over the welcome the mission received upon entering the Magistracy in the Early Dawn System, which was selected to prevent possible problems for this exact reason.
They too were detained for a short while within the system, before Emma Centrella, daughter of Magestrix Kyalla Centrella arrived in the system for a more 'proper' welcome.
active for 2 more turns
OCP Trade Organization:
[] Geoforming: active
Time: 6 turns, Chance of success: 55%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 35+10+10+10+10 = 75 - Success (Stronger Economy, Economic Ties, Interstellar Communication Network, Space Mining)
Roll 2 of 6, Roll 1d100: 4+10+10+10+10 = 44 - Success
Roll 3 of 6, Roll 1d100: 95+10+10+10+10+10 = 145 - Crit Success (Space Industry)
As the first companies to combine the two distinct geoforming technologies came up, they almost immediately began to fight on a new contract to construct a sunshade and the transport of water ice for the planet of Pandemonium, a desert world that needed to be cooled down to some degree, as well as be supplied with more water.
The winning bids for the projects were coming from a Hannoverian company that had adopted modern technology to a high degree, preparing to build a massive diffraction grating more than three thousand kilometers in diameter and place it near the L1 point of Pandemonium and its primary, using the primary itself to stabilize the orbit with the help of solar wind. The other company was a company from 61 Virginis, already knowledgeable about moving large asteroids within a relatively short time frame. They would use their own technology to direct several comets into Pandemonium's atmosphere, using non-nuclear fusion devices to turn one huge comet into many smaller ice boulders that would then melt during reentry and come down on the planet in the form of rain.
active for 3 more turns
[] Inner Sphere Technologies: - 12 votes active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 65%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 33+10+10+10+10+10 = 83 - Success (Stronger Economy, Economic Ties, Interstellar Communication Network, Space Mining, Space Industry)
While the Helm Datacore had been transferred into the Helm Database, hosted on the Internet by various universities within the OCP, there had been relatively little initial interest in making use of the technologies available. Most technologies were not as compatible with the technology base of the OCP as previously expected and in many cases it was believed OCP technologies were, if not more advanced, sufficiently different that conversion to the different technology made little to no economic sense.
However, once the OCPTO pointed out that they would offer financial incentives to begin with the production of Inner Sphere technology sorely for export into the Inner Sphere and neighboring systems that made use of that technology base, suddenly the interest did spike and many a company began to work on the Helm Database to find some technology they could produce for the Inner Sphere market, or use to develop their own new product to be sold in the Inner Sphere.
active for 3 more turns
OCP Office for Science and Development:
[] HFEG Jump II: active
Time: 6 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 45+10+10 = 65 - Success (Research Center Sol, Interstellar Communication Network)
Roll 2 of 6, Roll 1d100: 47+10+10 = 67 - Success
Roll 3 of 6, Roll 1d100: 81+10+10 = 101 - Success
Work continued apace as the engineering team began to work on actual test hardware, building a relatively small ring shaped device, constructed of about thirty modified field projecting units (FPUs) used in an Advanced Jump Core. The main difference with these FPUs were constructed with technologies used to construct Heim-Feynman Event Generators, using multi-layered graphene based room temperature superconductors, partially to ease handling of the units during testing, as well as forgoing the need to cool the units with liquid helium.
During testing, it turned out that even these modified FPUs had a low tolerance to continuous load, perhaps one of the reasons that Jump Drives had a relative long time between jumps, as compared to the HFEG, which operated continuously during travel through The Everchanging Black. In contrast, FPUs had a much higher tolerance to short time loads, flash heating during activation for a jump and needing to cool down over a certain time frame.
This meant the FPUS would need to be reengineered for both continuous and short term loads.
active for 3 more turns
[] Plasma Containment Research: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 45%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 74+10+10 = 94 - Success (Research Center Sol, Interstellar Communication Network)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 49+10+10 = 69 - Success
Roll 3 of 4, Roll 1d100: 8+10+10 = 28 - Failure
The attempt to reverse engineer the function of the missing devices within the plasma containment system of the alien plasma weapon fails for the time being, due to lack of any initial idea of how to achieve the wished for effect. For the time being, random ideas seem to be the best the engineering team can come up with.
active for 1 more turns
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OCP Internal Events:
CFS ANZAC Cove, CFS Juno Beach, CFS Aughskel, and CFS Pol'ath, the first four of the Engrod Class Landing Craft Carriers of the 2189 Fleet Extension Program enter service and are assigned to the 2nd and 3rd Confederated Expeditionary Division.
Task Force Dolittle returns to Confederation space, arriving at Epsilon Eridani. While the vessels of TF Dolittle, as well as the Tech Model Railroad Club move towards Sol, the eleven former Comstar vessels remain at Epsilon Eridani for the time being, until some use can be found for them. Currently one of the main option is to take one or two apart, while the remaining are either put into mothballs, scrapped or are sold to any of the Inner Sphere powers in an auction.
After encountering a few problems during trials, CFS Tillman is put into service with the Confederated Space Force, going on a shakedown cruise through the OCP.
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Deep Space Signal Intelligence Network Report:
Lupus Republic:
Construction of the various new cities and smaller towns continue on both Plato and Aristotle, speed up by machines and construction material produced by the Pride of Hiigara.
In late Winter, Biccon Winters, a former Nova Cat Oathmaster, arrives in the Socrates system. It appears that Winters, now bearing the title 'Sophist', had given up his position as Oathmaster to oversee the construction of the Lupus Republic. He is surprised at Pride of Hiigara and a little put off by the information that an AI supports the creation of the Lupus Republic, but is quickly turned to the side of the various project heads that vastly prefer the help of Karen S'jeet.
During some talks, Sophist Winters shows interest in journeying to the OCP for some direct talks with the government, as he has been given plenipotentiary powers by his Kahn.
Marian Hegemony:
No additional informations needed.
Taurian Concordiat:
No additional informations needed.
Lothian Pact:
Lothian League:
Illyrian Palatinate:
No additional informations needed.
Inner Sphere:
Federated Commonwealth:
Lyran Commonwealth:
Federated Suns:
Draconis Combine:
Heavy combat continues between the five Sword of Light units and the opposing LCAF, with the Lyrans driven off Marawi with heavy losses to the 2nd Sword of Light, while the 5th and 9th Sword of Light are unable to fully drive the Lryans off Mualang and Tinaca, where combat continues. At Yamarovka, however, the 3rd and 7th Sword of Light and their attending conventional Mustered Soldiery units were completely destroyed by Lyran forces that was in transit for the attack on Asgard and Port Arthur to drive harder towards Luthien. While combat on Yamarovka left the Lyrans dangerously exposed, a daring attack on Asgard and the subsequent taking of the world left the Combine forces exposed as well.
This is nothing, however, when compared to the massive gains secured by the AFFS, as they continue to all but steamroll the reduced Combine forces, taking the entirety of the Al Na'ir and Ashio Prefectures and the important capital of the Benjamin District, Benjamin and prepared to drive deeper into the Combine, racing the LCAF to Luthien.
On Luthien, signal intelligence from the Walsingham shows the coordinator is under heavy pressure and apparently begins to make more and more errors in the defense of his realm. A 'Black Dragon Society' can intercept a few coded messages, indicating that they might be planning some sort of coup against the Coordinator, apparently supporting the bid of Marcus Kurita for the throne, which would be supported by the psychological profile made of the man during the Circinus Conference.
In other areas of the Combine, there appear a growing number of worlds that might be going into revolt, due to the forces taken against both the Lyrand and the Federated Suns.
Free Worlds League:
Not much of interest is happening within the FWL.
Dutchy of Andurien:
Not much of interest is happening within the Dutchy of Andurien.
Terra Situation:
During the 'hunt' for the 'Brotherhood of St. Cameron', the geothermal taps and 'Mohole mine' at the Yellowstone Caldera are sabotaged and destroyed. Both systems had been installed to produce energy and siphon off material from the caldera's magma chamber to reduce the buildup of pressure detected during the late 22nd century and which might have caused the eruption of Yellowstone. The sabotage and destruction of these installations lead to an increase of pressure in the magma chamber that may lead to an eruption if not taken care of. The other groups on Terra are quick to blame the 'Brotherhood' for the sabotage, as it seems to be their goal to rather destroy Terra than let the planet fall into the hands of the 'Scavanger Lords'.
The sabotage itself leads to frantic attempts to repair the destroyed systems and return the geothermal taps and 'Mohole Mine' to function and prevent an eruption.
Aside from the Yellowstone Sabotage, the 'Brotherhood' launches several attacks on both AFFS And LCAF forces, using low yield thermonuclear devices twice, destroying Denver and Bangkok.
Expansion and Suggestions:
The DSSI Network slowly continues to expand into the Inner Sphere.
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Random Event - Nothing happens
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