Turn 86 - Winter 2193/3043
Confederated Forces:
[] Clan Intimidation & Evacuation: active
Time: ? turns, Chance of success: 65%, Reward: ?
Roll 1 of ?, Roll 1d100: 98+35+15 = 148 - Crit Success (Diplomacy with Lupus Republic, All Military Action)
Roll 2 of ?, Roll 1d100: 87+35+15 = 137 - Success
Roll 3 of ?, Roll 1d100: 75+35+15 = 125 - Success
Roll 4 of ?, Roll 1d100: 44+35+15 = 94 - Success
Roll 5 of ?, Roll 1d100: 44+35+15 = 94 - Success
The Evacuation Fleet continued on their way towards Clan Space, reaching the halfway point ahead of shedule.
active for ? more turns
[] Bulwark Circinus: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 89+15 = 104 - Success (All military actions)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 20+15 = 35 - Failure
Roll 3 of 4, Roll 1d100: 36+15 = 51 - Success
Roll 4 of 4, Roll 1d100: 53+15 = 68 - Success
Combined: 64 - Success
Additional Fleets, Roll 1d4: 4
While several Von Neumanns had been dispatched towards the Circinus Cooperative to begin the construction of static defense installations, like the Bulwark and Raytan System Defense Platforms, the decision to bolster the active defenses had to be made. To this end the MPs for Circinus began to lobby for six Frontier Fleets, but in the end only four fleets were approved, with a single Battle Fleet and three Frontier Fleets from the current Fleet Expansion Bill.
To satisfy the Illyrian Palatinate, however, it was decided to station an additional Frontier Fleet over Illyria, as well as send a Von Neumann to the Palatinate to begin the construction of additional static defenses.
Reward: Circinus gets 4 additional Fleets and static defenses, Illyria gets one Frontier Fleet and static defenses
OCP Survey Office:
[] Kill all Terran Spies: active
Time: 8 turns, Chance of success: 40%
Roll 1 of 8, Roll 1d100: 56+15 = 71 - Success (All Intelligence Actions)
Roll 2 of 8, Roll 1d100: 41+10+15 = 66 - Success (MIIO Cooperation)
Roll 3 of 8, Roll 1d100: 99+10+15 = 123 - Crit Success
Roll 4 of 8, Roll 1d100: 34+10+15 = 59 - Failure
Roll 5 of 8, Roll 1d100: 75+10+15 = 100 - Success
As the 'Secret War' with the subverted LOKI cells continued, more Heimdal groups appeared to make use of the situation to go after LOKI cells that had not been subverted, leaving a trail of destruction through several systems, though in many cases it was limited to collateral damage. In other cases, some LOKI cells even supported the Survey Office and MIIO agents fighting against other cells, rapidly diminishing the number of Hegemony controlled agents within the Federated Commonwealth.
Meanwhile, the Survey Office came to an arrangement with SAFE, who, it had to be said, were more effective in intelligence gathering work than the organizations of the Federated Suns. Utilizing modern Big Data techniques, the efficiency of the Analysis Branch of SAFE could be improved and it was possible to locate Hegemony agents within the FWL and begin with their removal.
active for 3 more turns
[] Scouting the Terran Hegemony: active
Time: 6 turns, Chance of success: 35%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 90+15 = 105 - Success (All Intelligence Actions)
Roll 2 of 6, Roll 1d100: 96+15 = 111 - Crit Success
After finishing their refits and the crew R&R, the few survey vessels made their way carefully towards the space of Terran Hegemony, planning to carefully approach the New Seattle system, jumping into its Oort Cloud and utilizing ballistic probes with Spread Spectrum Hyperwave Tranceivers to gather initial survey data.
During the journey, they made a detour to Far Star, where they could observe a fleet of Hegemony vessels refortifying the system, complete with two Bastion Class Jump Point Defense Stations being under construction. They were also able to intercept new Hyperwave Number Transmissions going towards the Inner Sphere. After the information was transmitted to Graveyard, where local analysts suggested destroying the Inner Sphere Number Stations to prevent the Hegemony from contacting their agents and learning of the current intelligence operation against the Hegemony. Alternatively, it was suggested that 1st Expeditionary Fleet should make use of Class V missiles fired from the Oort Cloud to destroy the rebuilt Bastions at Far Star to cut both ends of the communication link between the Hegemony and the Inner Sphere.
Eventually the Survey vessels reached New Seattle, where they kept in the Oort Cloud after jumping in system. Several ballistic probes were sent deep into the system, allowing to detect a habited world, as well as several HPG stations. This would allow the emplacement of Survey Satellites and an automated ERS-HPG to intercept and infiltrate the Hegemonies HPG system. Analysis of the system from afat suggested that the Hegemony had been able to increase the range of the HPGs to 60 lightyears, but insufficient radio security and using the same codes as Comstar allowed for easy decoding of the information.
The initial observation showed that there appeared to be little to no freedom of speech, as the detected news stations were filled with propaganda, mostly directed at the evilness of 'xenos' and that they were after the destruction of mankind, as well as the destiny of Terrans to rule humanity for their own benefit and to protect them from 'the xenos'. Other propaganda was directed at total subservience to the State, something that appeared to be heavily influenced by the situation of the Capellan Confederation before its destruction, however there were substantial parallels to be drawn to the George Orwell novel 1984 as well, with Phillip Cameron, the Emperor of Terra, being the 'Big Brother' analog.
active for 4 more turns
OCP Diplomatic Corps:[/B]
[] International Cooperation: active
Time: 8 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 8, Roll 1d100: 99+10 = 109 - Crit Success (All Diplomatic Actions)
Roll 2 of 8, Roll 1d100: 57+10 = 67 - Success
After some communication between the various nations of the Inner Sphere, including the Periphery nations, the Confederation of Habitats and even Terra itself, it was decided that Federated Commonwealth would hold a conference in the Tau Cety system on New Earth, the first colony of humanity outside the Terra System. As such, the system had historial significance for every non-terran and was welcomed by the mahority of invited nations.
While there were standing invitations to the Conference to the various Draconis Combine successor nations, only the Free Rasalhague Republic and the Tabayama Compact were expected to join the Conference.
active for 6 more turns
[] Integration Office: active
Time: 6 turns, Chance of Success: 55%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 53+10 = 63 - Success (All Diplomatic Actions)
Roll 2 of 6, Roll 1d100: 33+10 = 43 - Failure
Even while there was growing support for the creation of an 'Integration Office', there was an equally growing faction within Parliament that regarded the creation of such an office as an imperialistic throwback to the 'bad old times', which had historic precedent not only on Earth, but on Cterin and Jerat as well as the surviving histories of any member species of the OCP. This had generally been coached in terms of a 'White Man's Burden' and the need to protect others for their own benefit from 'The Others'.
The return of the first information about the Hegemony and their internal politics only strengthened this view of the situation, as it was feared that sich an institution within the Diplomatic Corps could lead to the OCP becoming more like many of the Inner Sphere nations, perhaps eventually down the slippery slope towards being like the Hegemony.
The political situation resulting from the rather public discussion of the situation lead to a political stalemate.
active for 4 more turns
OCP Trade Organization:[/B]
[] Smaller Von Neumann: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 3+10+10+10+20+15 = 68 - Success (Stronger Economy, Economic Ties, Interstellar Communication Network, Space Industry, Space Mining)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 44+10+10+10+20+15 = 109 - Success
Roll 3 of 4, Roll 1d100: 75+10+10+10+20+15 = 140 - Success
Roll 4 of 4, Roll 1d100: 97+10+10+10+20+15 = 162 - Crit Success
Combined: 120 - Crit Success
Number of Prototypes, Roll 1d20: 10
At the end of the project to create smaller Von Neumann designs lead to a plethora of different designs, ranging from 250ktonnes p to 1Mtonne, designed for just about any usable niche of autonomous construction that might be needed by the OCP, from the production of static mining and industrial stations, over system defense platforms to supplies to help establish new planetary settlements.
Of these many designs, several had already reached the prototype stages, with ten prototypes being produced to begin operation immediately.
Reward: Multiple Small to Medium on Neumann designs, 10 Prototypes
[] Space Mining III: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 70%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 28+10+10+10+20+15 = 93 - Success (Stronger Economy, Economic Ties, Interstellar Communication Network, Space Industry, Space Mining)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 64+10+10+10+20+15 = 129 - Success
Roll 3 of 4, Roll 1d100: 100+10+10+10+20+15 = 165 - Crit Success
During the construction of a new mining station on a planet moon of the WISE 1639-6847 brown dwarf, the company responsible for its construction turned out to be extremely lucky as it was discovered the location they had selected was on top of a massive deposit of germanium, hidden under a hundred meters of surface material next to an enormous titanium deposit.
This in turn led to a new 'Germanium Rush' to WISE 1639-6847 and its system of planet moons.
active for 1 more turn
OCP Office for Science and Development:
[] Hyperwave Lanes: active
Time: 6 turns, Chance of success: 40%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 56+10+10 = 76 - Success (Research Center Sol, Interstellar Communication Network)
Roll 2 of 6, Roll 1d100: 4+10+10 = 24 - Failure
Roll 3 of 6, Roll 1d100: 44+10+10 = 65 - Success
Roll 4 of 6, Roll 1d100: 70+10+10 = 90 - Success
With the decision made to design a Hyperwave Lane Statite, the project attempted to move to the design stage for a first prototype statite, however some engineers began to work on further miniaturizing the system.
While the generator itself had initially been thought to need a compact design, with the energy collection through the massive 8 million km² solar array, some further design studies showed the generator itself could be further reduced in size. By utilizing hyperwave wave phased arrays, the projection system could be spread out over the nearly 1600 km radius of the solar array. With reduced size, the hyperwave emitters could be reduced in size, as they did not need to receive hyperwaves and the electronics needed for their control could also be reduced in size.
By the end of this process, the design team had reduced the complexity of the entire system to a relatively thin film of solar cells, with every square kilometer feeding its energy into a tiny bump of a generator. Each of these generators was reduced to merely ten kilograms in mass with integrated electronics and networked to all other generator nodes around it with several hundred larger nodes that were in constant hyperwave connection to all other Hyperwave Lane statites around it.
This simplification of the entire design would massively simplify the construction, allowing a large Von Neumann to build one of these statites within three months.
One Von Neumann was requested for the project to produce several prototype statites.
Active for 2 more turns
[] Tesseract Network: - 5 votes active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 40+10+10 = 60 - Success (Research Center Sol, Interstellar Communication Network)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 72+10+10 = 92 - Success
Roll 3 of 4, Roll 1d100: 68+10+10 = 88 - Success
Following on the heels of the discovery of the tesseract into the galaxies halo, the third traversed tesseract merely reached into space the Inner Sphere, with its exit point near an area known as the Tortuga Dominion. While the area was known to be lousy with pirates, using this tesseract would certainly reduce the journey towards the Terran Hegemony, Algareon as well as to the Taurian Concordat.
This meant that only the tesseracts of Junction had to be surveyed, with the first tesseract of these reaching about 2000 lightyears towards the rim in to the space between the Orion–Cygnus Spur and the Carina-Sagittarius Arm.
active for 1 more turn
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OCP Internal Events:
With the current Fleet Expansion Porgram, the first two of the new Fleets was put into service, 4th Battle Fleet, to be stationed in the Circinus Cooperative, and 3rd Frontier Fleet, to be stationed in the Illysian Palatinate.
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Intelligence Report:
Periphery Alliance:
Lupus Republic:
Not much is happening within the Lupus Republic.
Lothian League:
Not much is happening within the Lothian League.
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Far Star Situation:
Algareon:
During Winter 2193, the first attack of the Terran Hegemony on Algareon was observed, as the Hegemony attempted to launch a surprise attack on the Zenit and Nadir Jump Points.
However, both Attack Fleets were destroyed before they could even fully materialize from their jump. From the available data, the Algareon Self Defense Force had stationed statites near these obvious jump points, watching for any signs of the pre emergence heat signature known to be generated by the Jump Drive.
The actual defence of the Zenit and Nadir Jump Points was performed by several huge structures actively orbiting the primary within its solar transition region, known to the OCP as theoretical Stellasers. Made up of two actively controlled mirror like constructs, this structure utilized the primaries atmosphere as lasing medium and the light from the nearby star as a lasing source, creating an intense laser beam directed towards either the Zenit or Nadir Point.
Aimed straight as the emergence points of jumpships, they were capable to destroying even heavy WarShips within seconds.
It appeared that this attack was more of a diversion as a third fleet of WarShips arrived in the plane of the system's ecliptic. Burning in system, they were soon engaged by the vessels of the Algareon SDF. It was surprising to note the Feynman Limit of the primary appeared to be smaller for Algareon HFEGs, as they were able to engage the Hegemony fleet about an AU deeper into the system than an OCP force would have been able to without utilizing a Libration Point.
Here, it turned out that the system was filled with reflection mirrors that could be used to bounce around laser beams from the system's Stellasers, with the Algareon SDF able to direct the beams on their targets from nearby mirrors.
The Hegemony's loss was total, while the Algareon SDF only lost ten vessels that would be replaced within a month.
Terran Hegemony
There is currently a lack of intelligence about the Terran Hegemony.
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Taurian Concordat:
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:
Not much of interest is happening in the Federated Commonwealth.
Draconis Combine:
The Draconis Combine continues to splinter and collapse.
Free Worlds League:
The buildup along the Andurien-FWL border halted as the situation with the Terran Hegemony had appeared, though with a delay.
Dutchy of Andurien:
The buildup along the Andurien-FWL border halted as the situation with the Terran Hegemony had appeared, though with a delay.
Confederation of Habitats:
Not much of interest is happening within the CoH.
Terra:
Slowly the bioweapon could be controlled, as more vaccine and cure was spread through Terras infected population.
Expansion and Suggestions:
The DSSI Network slowly continues to expand into the Inner Sphere.
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Random Event - Nothing happens