Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Probably lamenting the failure of the All Whites to get out of the group stage. 
SysNES 1: A Murky Pool of Light
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Probably lamenting the failure of the All Whites to get out of the group stage.
Hey they're just happy to be there! Also all the orders in, update probably Sunday - this diplo matrix has been more time consuming to code into spreadsheets than I expected.
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Mmm. Hopefully England was "just happy to be there" too, given today's result. At least English and Americans can commiserate.
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Nice spreadsheet. At first glance, I think you got some of the Wei yields wrong though.
I hope later techs bring down the cost of construction on molten Jovians.
I hope later techs bring down the cost of construction on molten Jovians.
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Ugh finally got this new tech trade matrix working correctly, update should be done in an hour or two.
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Update 18: We've spent our whole lives searching/For ways to make a better world
In the Ik volumes the talk of the year was on the latest round of interplanetary elections, what had seemed the rock solid grip of the extrovert Colonist faction on the national conciousness being shattered by the unpleasantness of reality. The Solanists and other less organised resistance had imploded, but out of their ashes rose the phoenix of a new political grouping – the Sajara. These politicians held that the priority of Arrakis colonisation should be providing resources to Taik, and that more infrastructure and defence should be developed in Errai system before messing about with a bunch of ungrateful settlers in Arrakis space. Their efforts were not enough to bring them to power over the Colonists, but their clear momentum caused the ruling Colonist clique to offer many compromises and kickbacks from their profits on Arrakis II. To this end the second continent of Taik, which had languished in squalor for decades whilst construction mostly occurred off-planet, was finally upgraded with real transport systems and residential districts, as well as having a new university built and vast areas of slug-filled jungle cleared to grow crops in. The Colonists feared this new city would become a stronghold of Sajara voters however, and so had excess population siphoned off from Saik to bulk out the growth with strong off-world values (ironically since many on Saik had left Taik due to the crowding and lack of employment so long ago). The Colonists did get some of their platform done, as a set of Yuk cargo ships were assigned to a continuous rotation between Errai and Arrakis, and quick off and on loading areas added to the Taik shipyards as well as a newly constructed one on Arrakis II. Moving material and people between the two systems was now made immensely simpler and quicker (if not cheaper), and finally opened up the option of civilian migration between the systems.
In a reversal of roles the Ik, who had spent so much time on their military now turned to domestic matters, just as the Akresians who had looked to subsistence for so long turned to military construction. As armour and drive technology improved the Akresians quickly designed and built a new array of quick fighters; much like the Pride class the Scorn was an attempt to counter the Ik's preferred class of lithe beamer gunships, a nimble little craft that was not much more than a rack of nuclear missiles strapped to an ion drive. The Akresian Admiralty, in their few public statements to the universe said that these measures were strictly defensive, and that Akresia looked forward to renewing the Ik-Akresian treaty of friendship, the document that had divided Errai system between the two polities. However a strict redoing of that treaty seemed unlikely, for the Ik had grown confident and greedy, whilst the Akresians were hardly defenceless any more.
The Lantians had a relatively calm year after the complex negotiations with the Soulon fell through the possibility of pirate attacks was ruled out by the Liberes fleeing from Kaus. Stability and continuity, two of the four most important of Geashial virtues, had been achieved and those who had been deriding president Mitzu's judgement last year now praised him profusely. The slow roll out of the new Corvette fleet continued with another Sunsin class – the Wanchei, whilst industrial resources were stockpiled at Gemstar for more to be made next year. The ocean city of Horn also saw its resources being stockpiled in huge floating tankers, for the city desired to undergo mitosis and no longer sail the seas alone, but that would take a considerable, and perhaps dangerous concentration of resources for the following year.
The Esani do a quick about face after the massive spending of last year, this year spending hardly anything except on repairing the political and economic fallout from the massive activity of the previous twelve months. Once it became clear that the magisterium was suitably contrite over their unexplained mobilisation the Esani population quickly calmed down and adjusted to the new level of militarisation. Another contributing factor to their new acceptance of the military was the mysterious happenings on the outermost moon of the outermost world of the system. There the dark thicket of alien relics towered above the enviro-bubble shacks of the human archaeologists, quiet, cold, and utterly derelict. Or so the Esani researchers thought, and so the Esani commanders who decided to run exercises in the ebon forest agreed – after all the relics are the most valuable site on the planet and will probably have to be guarded in the event of invasion. So the troopers girded their cold suits and began a long march under the canopy of the structures (the region of the relics being a few hundred kilometers on the long axis). On the second day a bad burst of solar flares made them loose contact with the base as wireless planetary communications shut down for a few hours. In the midst of the storm the neutrino signatures of the heavy vehicles were suddenly extinguished in a blink of an eye – something that should never happen willingly. On the seventh day the researchers and remaining soldiers of the garrison finally found them, tracking the tiny heat signature of their life support. Still alive, if you can call it living, the soldiers were vegetables with nary a trace of neural activity, the support systems of their suits still functional even as their outer integuments were locked in place by a layer of hoarfrost. They were still in the positions you'd expect for a hard march, the only movement from a few deactivated vehicles rolling down inclines. Whatever happened had happened near instantly, power plants and minds quenched like a tiny spark in the midnight woodlands. Dragged back to the base by the now terrified inhabitants of the research outpost, the coma-bound troopers soon stretched the medical facilities of all the Esani worlds, making it near impossible for the Magistrates to keep a lid on the event. The motionless trees seemed to sneer at the human habitations, what had seemed the disarray of death was now something rather more sinister.
Kaus space has heard calls for peace before, only to have them dashed on the dark rocks of hatred and need. Many now believed that peace and life could only be birthed from annihilation, genocide the only option for the two brothers in the womb. But as Einstein demonstrated so long ago, all frames of reference are local, and distance is much the same as death to an observer. The Soulon league leapt into action as the Interworld Senate was disbanded in favour of the Emergency Committee, the Senators that had trusted the Gardeners earlier lined up against the wall in order for the public to have faith that a new batch of dupes hadn't taken power. The diplomats of the Committee near wore out the bandwidth of their Ansibyl Pearls talking to distant civilizations, though their surly and paranoid Soulon nature did more harm than good when silver tongues, humility and conciliation were desperately required. The plan was to evacuate their entire society, lock stock and barrel, for the Gardeners demanded nothing less from their disadvantaged opponents. To that end there were four contacted societies that had the technology and economy base to produce the vessels necessary; the Kations charm drive technology required vast support fleets and was probably impractical to acquire from the start, the Vazan people didn't get round to calling the Soulons people. That left the Ik and the Lantians, neither quite the Soulons biggest fans but amiable to rendering assistance for the right price, and the Soulon had a substantial pile of the most valuable objects in human space to barter with. However it appeared that both the Ik and the Lantians had substantial plans of their own, and their schedules for the next few years did not include furnishing the Soulon with a life-raft. After weeks of agonised talks the Emergency Committee announced the outstanding success of their work – the Ik would provide them with a single banged up scout probe, and the Lantians would not be providing any ships at all. Naturally some of the population became restive at this news, especially when the Emergency Committee continued on with the schedules to dismantle their decades old settlements, and proved willing to use force against resistors.
The Soulons ire was perhaps less about the failure so far of negotiations than they were about the fact that the Committee was refusing to feed the population despite being perfectly able too. As a show of appeasement to the Gardeners the Soulons had abandoned their settlements on Kaus III that they and thousands of other Soulon had shed oceans of blood to obtain, the refugees crowding into the increasingly squalid cities of Medias. The lost food production could have been compensated for with more hydroponics facilities on the outer worlds, but the government had instead seen fit to horde all their industrial production for the future migration rather than being proactive about the oncoming food crisis. Even as stray and hungry children wandered through the tunnels and concourses of the Soulon capital the Soulon designers feverishly worked to complete their first civilian ship design – an interstellar cargo hauler functionally identical to the Ik Yuk. Whilst building the support sections of a colonisation fleet was still beyond their capabilities, this would allow the Soulon to be considerably more self sufficient when it comes to the move. The Soulon perhaps had more ship designs in the pipeline, but inchoate babbling from an Emergency Committee exhausted from negotiations made the issue confusing for the design bureau. Managing to get everything done for next seems like it would take a dozen miracles or more, and the leaders still haven't even decided on a destination or what to do about the possibility of pirate raids on their caravan train to the stars.
Meanwhile the Gardeners, convinced of the Soulons intentions by their departure from Kaus III (to be renamed Thoth by the Office of the Metatron in all official communications), finally breathed a sigh of relief. Victory of sorts was theirs after giving so much for so long, and week long parties drenched the white cities in brief riots of colour and revelry. Their enjoyment was marred somewhat when they invested the now abandoned Soulon habitats on Thoth – perhaps unsurprisingly the Soulon had stripped the structures of absolutely anything of value including the main life support fittings, considerable restoration work[1] would need to be done before they would be fit for any inhabitants, much less the pleasant environments the Gardener citizenry enjoys elsewhere. Perhaps even worse was the released residues of the Soulons violent industrial actions (the offending volatiles extractors themselves having left with the Soulon) and the continued rotting of the biosphere combined to pollute the now lifeless atmosphere with a nasty mix of chemicals that required elaborate filtering regimes to endure. But still the evidence was unmistakable that victory had come, and the Gardener government began to demilitarise by shutting down the heavy industrial works in some of its cities and making what was hopefully the last payment to the their mercenaries. Enlightenment would soon reign over all the worlds that Kaus' warm rays fall upon.
Away from the wrecked worlds of Kaus Zavi space continued to churn as prosperously as ever, even exporting their hard earned economic might to transform the worlds of Minkar. Both the Kations and the Vazan transferred considerable fractions of their treasury to their new habitat on Minkar this year, albeit the Vazan only sending a sixth of their output whilst the Kations transferred over half. This divergence is explicable however when you consider the respective levels of development of the two cyborg powers in Minkar space, and the relative lack of flexibility in the Kations fleet design – disgorging a huge chunk of resources occasionally being a much more effective use of its time. The Phoenix Passenger ship of the Vazan also brought along a small contingent of new settlers, only a trifle compared to the existing Kation presence, but perhaps a sign of floods to come. As well as their Passenger ship the Vazan had also sent two newly minted and newly designed badger cargo ship, a basic burst drive design already seen with the Ik Yuk and the Soulon Horizon. Two more of these ships loitered in the airspace of Krige, awaiting the time when the Vazan or Kations construct a shipyard around one of Minkar's worlds and a trade route can be generated, and the horde of material the Vazan are stockpiling can surge between the systems. On the domestic front the lure of the frontier has entranced the mercurial Vazan collective psyche, and little gets implemented beyond certain obsessives research into the vagaries of higher Math.
Kations on the other had were unveiling something rather more intimidating than a rinky-dink cargo hauler as the first of their majestic Hellebore class missile Frigates was christened. A symphony in white metal and delicate translucent radiators the Hellebore is surprisingly lightly armed with a brace of fusion missiles, but the massive amount of detection and processing power packed into its light frame ensured its compliment of weapons would find and annihilate enemies even as they dance and weave in the distance even as it slides between their returning salvoes. However the Hellebore's relatively light weapons array for its cost is intentional for it is never meant to travel alone, providing the processing and management support to a fleet of doughty escorts (the first of which is in the design pipeline) as well as controlling their charm drive jumps. With the most advanced Kation closed-ecology devices incorporated to, a Hellebore and its fleet could strike deep into the heart of enemy volumes. Up till now the Kation industrial strength had merely been a side note to the Trailing Lobes politics, something that might change in the near future. The Kation public were certainly pleased about the possibility of other people doing what they demanded as well as the ongoing development of Minkar, but these successes only renewed their annoyance at having to crowd onto the poxy little world of Aranahara thanks to the governments employment policies (to save management costs). A shift in Kation politics seemed to be on the horizon.
Though many in Libere society were annoyed at the cessation of hostilities at Kaus, namely those who hoped to gain glory in combat and those who hoped to gain from gambling on the flow of the war, the upper echelons of the Liberes were pleased – with the full payment from the Gardeners the engagement was now unequivocally a profit, and their forces were now freed to plunder elsewhere (the flexibility the new Pearls offered would also help immensely). Altogether a good result, the only fly in the ointment was the angry rants of the weapons designers on the world ships hulk. These complained that asking for weapons technology from the Gardeners was silly and insulting to them – the research centre would soon recapitulate the Gardeners work and at far less cost than implementing the silly designs of a bunch of toga wearing hippies. His dreadful majesty graciously allowed them to live after expressing such insults to his rule, mainly because he suspected they had mined the main power core of the habitat to blow if they got annoyed enough at people disrespecting their toys. Rather than addressing their complaints he ordered the files from the Gardeners to be put away and distracted the savants with a new project to remilitarise the hull of the world-ship cum habitat with a host of weapons stations for railguns and missiles. Turning an eye away from petty disputes he also ordered a new carrier to be constructed alongside the repairing vessels, and the Cargo ship to return from Kaus laden with loot. The last Cruiser remained at Kaus at the Gardeners request, though it also offered the Pirates a forward position on their next adventure, wherever that might be...
Notes
[1] To the tune of 20e per habitat.
[2]In tune with the new tech leakage from other civilizations, all tech costs have been raised by 10%
Random Events
Kaus III/Thoth atmosphere degrades to toxic levels
A terrifying even happens when military power sources are emplaced on Heze VI c
Karmically Blessed Polities:
Most swish ship awards: +1 Lucky roll to Vazan and Kations
Greatest amount of spiral energy: +1 Lucky roll to the Gardeners
Random Stats:
Best Research Environment for Biotechnology: Cascade A
Best Research Environment for Computation: Kadesh
Best Research Environment for Construction: Aranahara
Best Research Environment for Energy: Medias
Best Research Environment for Materials: Ningbao
Best Research Environment for Maths: Akresia Prime
Best Research Environment for Social: Kadesh
Best Research Environment for Propulsion: Akresia Prime
Best Research Environment for Weapons: Krige
Largest bet ever made on a hand of Libere hyper-Bezique: Two thirds of a Cruiser ownership contract, four wives and one first-born, 45 million doubloons, six embroidered shirts and seventeen bananas.
New Discoveries:
Trade Centre social requirement revealed
Advances in social organisation allow for more efficient educational techniques (Social 4 gives +5% s to universities).
In the Ik volumes the talk of the year was on the latest round of interplanetary elections, what had seemed the rock solid grip of the extrovert Colonist faction on the national conciousness being shattered by the unpleasantness of reality. The Solanists and other less organised resistance had imploded, but out of their ashes rose the phoenix of a new political grouping – the Sajara. These politicians held that the priority of Arrakis colonisation should be providing resources to Taik, and that more infrastructure and defence should be developed in Errai system before messing about with a bunch of ungrateful settlers in Arrakis space. Their efforts were not enough to bring them to power over the Colonists, but their clear momentum caused the ruling Colonist clique to offer many compromises and kickbacks from their profits on Arrakis II. To this end the second continent of Taik, which had languished in squalor for decades whilst construction mostly occurred off-planet, was finally upgraded with real transport systems and residential districts, as well as having a new university built and vast areas of slug-filled jungle cleared to grow crops in. The Colonists feared this new city would become a stronghold of Sajara voters however, and so had excess population siphoned off from Saik to bulk out the growth with strong off-world values (ironically since many on Saik had left Taik due to the crowding and lack of employment so long ago). The Colonists did get some of their platform done, as a set of Yuk cargo ships were assigned to a continuous rotation between Errai and Arrakis, and quick off and on loading areas added to the Taik shipyards as well as a newly constructed one on Arrakis II. Moving material and people between the two systems was now made immensely simpler and quicker (if not cheaper), and finally opened up the option of civilian migration between the systems.
In a reversal of roles the Ik, who had spent so much time on their military now turned to domestic matters, just as the Akresians who had looked to subsistence for so long turned to military construction. As armour and drive technology improved the Akresians quickly designed and built a new array of quick fighters; much like the Pride class the Scorn was an attempt to counter the Ik's preferred class of lithe beamer gunships, a nimble little craft that was not much more than a rack of nuclear missiles strapped to an ion drive. The Akresian Admiralty, in their few public statements to the universe said that these measures were strictly defensive, and that Akresia looked forward to renewing the Ik-Akresian treaty of friendship, the document that had divided Errai system between the two polities. However a strict redoing of that treaty seemed unlikely, for the Ik had grown confident and greedy, whilst the Akresians were hardly defenceless any more.
The Lantians had a relatively calm year after the complex negotiations with the Soulon fell through the possibility of pirate attacks was ruled out by the Liberes fleeing from Kaus. Stability and continuity, two of the four most important of Geashial virtues, had been achieved and those who had been deriding president Mitzu's judgement last year now praised him profusely. The slow roll out of the new Corvette fleet continued with another Sunsin class – the Wanchei, whilst industrial resources were stockpiled at Gemstar for more to be made next year. The ocean city of Horn also saw its resources being stockpiled in huge floating tankers, for the city desired to undergo mitosis and no longer sail the seas alone, but that would take a considerable, and perhaps dangerous concentration of resources for the following year.
The Esani do a quick about face after the massive spending of last year, this year spending hardly anything except on repairing the political and economic fallout from the massive activity of the previous twelve months. Once it became clear that the magisterium was suitably contrite over their unexplained mobilisation the Esani population quickly calmed down and adjusted to the new level of militarisation. Another contributing factor to their new acceptance of the military was the mysterious happenings on the outermost moon of the outermost world of the system. There the dark thicket of alien relics towered above the enviro-bubble shacks of the human archaeologists, quiet, cold, and utterly derelict. Or so the Esani researchers thought, and so the Esani commanders who decided to run exercises in the ebon forest agreed – after all the relics are the most valuable site on the planet and will probably have to be guarded in the event of invasion. So the troopers girded their cold suits and began a long march under the canopy of the structures (the region of the relics being a few hundred kilometers on the long axis). On the second day a bad burst of solar flares made them loose contact with the base as wireless planetary communications shut down for a few hours. In the midst of the storm the neutrino signatures of the heavy vehicles were suddenly extinguished in a blink of an eye – something that should never happen willingly. On the seventh day the researchers and remaining soldiers of the garrison finally found them, tracking the tiny heat signature of their life support. Still alive, if you can call it living, the soldiers were vegetables with nary a trace of neural activity, the support systems of their suits still functional even as their outer integuments were locked in place by a layer of hoarfrost. They were still in the positions you'd expect for a hard march, the only movement from a few deactivated vehicles rolling down inclines. Whatever happened had happened near instantly, power plants and minds quenched like a tiny spark in the midnight woodlands. Dragged back to the base by the now terrified inhabitants of the research outpost, the coma-bound troopers soon stretched the medical facilities of all the Esani worlds, making it near impossible for the Magistrates to keep a lid on the event. The motionless trees seemed to sneer at the human habitations, what had seemed the disarray of death was now something rather more sinister.
Esani: Lost 1 Division
Kaus space has heard calls for peace before, only to have them dashed on the dark rocks of hatred and need. Many now believed that peace and life could only be birthed from annihilation, genocide the only option for the two brothers in the womb. But as Einstein demonstrated so long ago, all frames of reference are local, and distance is much the same as death to an observer. The Soulon league leapt into action as the Interworld Senate was disbanded in favour of the Emergency Committee, the Senators that had trusted the Gardeners earlier lined up against the wall in order for the public to have faith that a new batch of dupes hadn't taken power. The diplomats of the Committee near wore out the bandwidth of their Ansibyl Pearls talking to distant civilizations, though their surly and paranoid Soulon nature did more harm than good when silver tongues, humility and conciliation were desperately required. The plan was to evacuate their entire society, lock stock and barrel, for the Gardeners demanded nothing less from their disadvantaged opponents. To that end there were four contacted societies that had the technology and economy base to produce the vessels necessary; the Kations charm drive technology required vast support fleets and was probably impractical to acquire from the start, the Vazan people didn't get round to calling the Soulons people. That left the Ik and the Lantians, neither quite the Soulons biggest fans but amiable to rendering assistance for the right price, and the Soulon had a substantial pile of the most valuable objects in human space to barter with. However it appeared that both the Ik and the Lantians had substantial plans of their own, and their schedules for the next few years did not include furnishing the Soulon with a life-raft. After weeks of agonised talks the Emergency Committee announced the outstanding success of their work – the Ik would provide them with a single banged up scout probe, and the Lantians would not be providing any ships at all. Naturally some of the population became restive at this news, especially when the Emergency Committee continued on with the schedules to dismantle their decades old settlements, and proved willing to use force against resistors.
The Soulons ire was perhaps less about the failure so far of negotiations than they were about the fact that the Committee was refusing to feed the population despite being perfectly able too. As a show of appeasement to the Gardeners the Soulons had abandoned their settlements on Kaus III that they and thousands of other Soulon had shed oceans of blood to obtain, the refugees crowding into the increasingly squalid cities of Medias. The lost food production could have been compensated for with more hydroponics facilities on the outer worlds, but the government had instead seen fit to horde all their industrial production for the future migration rather than being proactive about the oncoming food crisis. Even as stray and hungry children wandered through the tunnels and concourses of the Soulon capital the Soulon designers feverishly worked to complete their first civilian ship design – an interstellar cargo hauler functionally identical to the Ik Yuk. Whilst building the support sections of a colonisation fleet was still beyond their capabilities, this would allow the Soulon to be considerably more self sufficient when it comes to the move. The Soulon perhaps had more ship designs in the pipeline, but inchoate babbling from an Emergency Committee exhausted from negotiations made the issue confusing for the design bureau. Managing to get everything done for next seems like it would take a dozen miracles or more, and the leaders still haven't even decided on a destination or what to do about the possibility of pirate raids on their caravan train to the stars.
Meanwhile the Gardeners, convinced of the Soulons intentions by their departure from Kaus III (to be renamed Thoth by the Office of the Metatron in all official communications), finally breathed a sigh of relief. Victory of sorts was theirs after giving so much for so long, and week long parties drenched the white cities in brief riots of colour and revelry. Their enjoyment was marred somewhat when they invested the now abandoned Soulon habitats on Thoth – perhaps unsurprisingly the Soulon had stripped the structures of absolutely anything of value including the main life support fittings, considerable restoration work[1] would need to be done before they would be fit for any inhabitants, much less the pleasant environments the Gardener citizenry enjoys elsewhere. Perhaps even worse was the released residues of the Soulons violent industrial actions (the offending volatiles extractors themselves having left with the Soulon) and the continued rotting of the biosphere combined to pollute the now lifeless atmosphere with a nasty mix of chemicals that required elaborate filtering regimes to endure. But still the evidence was unmistakable that victory had come, and the Gardener government began to demilitarise by shutting down the heavy industrial works in some of its cities and making what was hopefully the last payment to the their mercenaries. Enlightenment would soon reign over all the worlds that Kaus' warm rays fall upon.
Away from the wrecked worlds of Kaus Zavi space continued to churn as prosperously as ever, even exporting their hard earned economic might to transform the worlds of Minkar. Both the Kations and the Vazan transferred considerable fractions of their treasury to their new habitat on Minkar this year, albeit the Vazan only sending a sixth of their output whilst the Kations transferred over half. This divergence is explicable however when you consider the respective levels of development of the two cyborg powers in Minkar space, and the relative lack of flexibility in the Kations fleet design – disgorging a huge chunk of resources occasionally being a much more effective use of its time. The Phoenix Passenger ship of the Vazan also brought along a small contingent of new settlers, only a trifle compared to the existing Kation presence, but perhaps a sign of floods to come. As well as their Passenger ship the Vazan had also sent two newly minted and newly designed badger cargo ship, a basic burst drive design already seen with the Ik Yuk and the Soulon Horizon. Two more of these ships loitered in the airspace of Krige, awaiting the time when the Vazan or Kations construct a shipyard around one of Minkar's worlds and a trade route can be generated, and the horde of material the Vazan are stockpiling can surge between the systems. On the domestic front the lure of the frontier has entranced the mercurial Vazan collective psyche, and little gets implemented beyond certain obsessives research into the vagaries of higher Math.
Kations on the other had were unveiling something rather more intimidating than a rinky-dink cargo hauler as the first of their majestic Hellebore class missile Frigates was christened. A symphony in white metal and delicate translucent radiators the Hellebore is surprisingly lightly armed with a brace of fusion missiles, but the massive amount of detection and processing power packed into its light frame ensured its compliment of weapons would find and annihilate enemies even as they dance and weave in the distance even as it slides between their returning salvoes. However the Hellebore's relatively light weapons array for its cost is intentional for it is never meant to travel alone, providing the processing and management support to a fleet of doughty escorts (the first of which is in the design pipeline) as well as controlling their charm drive jumps. With the most advanced Kation closed-ecology devices incorporated to, a Hellebore and its fleet could strike deep into the heart of enemy volumes. Up till now the Kation industrial strength had merely been a side note to the Trailing Lobes politics, something that might change in the near future. The Kation public were certainly pleased about the possibility of other people doing what they demanded as well as the ongoing development of Minkar, but these successes only renewed their annoyance at having to crowd onto the poxy little world of Aranahara thanks to the governments employment policies (to save management costs). A shift in Kation politics seemed to be on the horizon.
Though many in Libere society were annoyed at the cessation of hostilities at Kaus, namely those who hoped to gain glory in combat and those who hoped to gain from gambling on the flow of the war, the upper echelons of the Liberes were pleased – with the full payment from the Gardeners the engagement was now unequivocally a profit, and their forces were now freed to plunder elsewhere (the flexibility the new Pearls offered would also help immensely). Altogether a good result, the only fly in the ointment was the angry rants of the weapons designers on the world ships hulk. These complained that asking for weapons technology from the Gardeners was silly and insulting to them – the research centre would soon recapitulate the Gardeners work and at far less cost than implementing the silly designs of a bunch of toga wearing hippies. His dreadful majesty graciously allowed them to live after expressing such insults to his rule, mainly because he suspected they had mined the main power core of the habitat to blow if they got annoyed enough at people disrespecting their toys. Rather than addressing their complaints he ordered the files from the Gardeners to be put away and distracted the savants with a new project to remilitarise the hull of the world-ship cum habitat with a host of weapons stations for railguns and missiles. Turning an eye away from petty disputes he also ordered a new carrier to be constructed alongside the repairing vessels, and the Cargo ship to return from Kaus laden with loot. The last Cruiser remained at Kaus at the Gardeners request, though it also offered the Pirates a forward position on their next adventure, wherever that might be...
Notes
[1] To the tune of 20e per habitat.
[2]In tune with the new tech leakage from other civilizations, all tech costs have been raised by 10%
Random Events
Kaus III/Thoth atmosphere degrades to toxic levels
A terrifying even happens when military power sources are emplaced on Heze VI c
Karmically Blessed Polities:
Most swish ship awards: +1 Lucky roll to Vazan and Kations
Greatest amount of spiral energy: +1 Lucky roll to the Gardeners
Random Stats:
Best Research Environment for Biotechnology: Cascade A
Best Research Environment for Computation: Kadesh
Best Research Environment for Construction: Aranahara
Best Research Environment for Energy: Medias
Best Research Environment for Materials: Ningbao
Best Research Environment for Maths: Akresia Prime
Best Research Environment for Social: Kadesh
Best Research Environment for Propulsion: Akresia Prime
Best Research Environment for Weapons: Krige
Largest bet ever made on a hand of Libere hyper-Bezique: Two thirds of a Cruiser ownership contract, four wives and one first-born, 45 million doubloons, six embroidered shirts and seventeen bananas.
New Discoveries:
Trade Centre social requirement revealed
Advances in social organisation allow for more efficient educational techniques (Social 4 gives +5% s to universities).
Disenfrancised
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Datalinks: Ship Designer for Update 17.
Crap! Forgot to put the Ik trade route on the map. It is there though!
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Crap! Forgot to put the Ik trade route on the map. It is there though!
Kentharu
Zebra Commander
You forgot to do social 4
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Added up in the main post, the university bonus is already in your stats.
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Hyper-Bezique? 
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Hyper-Bezique?
Its a four to six player version that uses a three-dimensional scoring matrix and betting on the outcome of each hand.
Milarqui
Deity
What do the numbers in the Diplomacy table mean?
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Higher numbers means greater cooperation/opinion/communication between the two and thus higher modifiers to tech leakage - its symmetrical so just match across the matrix.
First graphs in 3 turns!
Leason: War is bad. Over the past 5 turns, there's been at best, stagnant stats and oh, 38 Gardener divisions, 3 Rakahasas, 1 Lamassu, 1 Gardener IP Cargo Ship, 2 Gardener Shipyards, 26 Soulon divisions, 8 Farraguts, 2 Soulon Shipyards, 2 Liberes Assault Cutters, all destroyed or 582e in total destruction.
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Leason: War is bad. Over the past 5 turns, there's been at best, stagnant stats and oh, 38 Gardener divisions, 3 Rakahasas, 1 Lamassu, 1 Gardener IP Cargo Ship, 2 Gardener Shipyards, 26 Soulon divisions, 8 Farraguts, 2 Soulon Shipyards, 2 Liberes Assault Cutters, all destroyed or 582e in total destruction.
Milarqui
Deity
Hehe, 1st in s and 3rd in e...
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
I like to think of my position as "competitive."
I like to think of my position as "competitive."
"Influential" might describe your status better. Currently those in Zavi are the only group of players in competition to win.
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