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You are the Foreman; your identity is not particularly important. You're remarkably young for such a job posting; your youthful energy allows you to deploy yourself as an agent twice in a month, although your inexperience means that you will only provide a small bonus to the teams you deploy with.

Your first job was to establish your headquarters and lay down baseline strategies for your tenure; you've opted for a decentralized physical plant in Chicago, nited North American States.

You have spent quite a bit of money in forward-looking projects. You have access to the basic form of a "nomenklator" system that allows you to do artificially what Carpatescu can do naturally - some say supernaturally - that is, instantly have details about anyone you meet, if you speak their names.

CATS is a civilian agency, but you've secured the help of a "goon squad" courtesy of a friendly local construction company; your choices of HQ and policies allow you to recruit "under the table" people from the start, should you find it expedient.

Your initial mandate is ensuring that the Global News Network satellite channel can reach everyone on Earth. Carpatescu has not given you a strict deadline, but wants it done as soon as possible.

Interesting people you've met so far:

- Kruno Fulcire, Chicago cop and Carpatescu loyalist. Seems to be a bit of an asshole but may be turned into an asset.

- David Hassid, purchasing manager. Seems on the level.

- Chloe, who managed to make a "prank call" to your HQ's unlisted number and called the cops on you when you countertrolled her about a fake weapons deal.

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Hello, Foreman!

You are planning out CATS' operation for the month. Rules for allocating personnel and assets: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Quest2Rules.html

Actions are listed by complexity. Each crew costs 1 bag of Nicks (BN) to deploy for incidental expenses, subcontractors and so on. Additional costs will be marked as needed. Your coffers are replenished every 3 months according to your budget (you're a government agency, so "use it or lose it"). You have loaned 2BN to the Ghilotti Bros construction company, due back to you on your next budget.

Thanks to your youthful energy, you can deploy yourself on TWO actions in most cases. You can even risk your own life on a covert action, if you so choose! You currently have no trusted agents on the roster, yet.

Performing an action outside of your home territory will also require the availability of (complexity) fleet assets, OR increase complexity by the missing assets.

C0 - No need to deploy a team, just an agent:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a trusted agent.

Buy equipment on the open market:
Power generation 1
Small arms 1 You are based in Chicago, so these are legal for you to buy.
Network equipment 2
Fleet assets 2
Aerospace part 3

Buy equipment on the black market:
You haven't found a black market contact yet.

C1:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a work or covert team.

Build network equipment.

Install a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet at your preference).

C2:

Do research (1~3).

Build an aerospace part.

Build a secondary base (no fleet reqs for that territory).

C3:

Recruit a work team.

Prepare a satellite launch, which will happen next month. Requires an aerospace part.

Do research (4~6). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

C4:

Recruit a covert team. Requires small arms to equip them with.

Do research (7~9). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

Construct a network node (Secondary base: unifies cell and net in the region, avglower at start) (Not researched yet).

C5:

Rush a satellite launch, which will happen at the end of this month. Requires an aerospace part.

Do research (10). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

A note on the rules:

Most everything will be rolled with a d100. High numbers are good for you, low numbers are bad for you.

For example, let's say that you want to perform a complexity 3 action using 2 work teams. That gives you a 66% chance of success, so on a 33 or lower on a 1d100, you consume the resources but not much got done. If you assign an agent to an action, you get to "zoom in" and roleplay it! This can turn a failure into a success, negate resource expenses, capitalize on a success... or make things worse, depending on how you play it.

>>3587999
>install cellular in mecxico
>recruit a work team
We will assist both or if we can focus to a higher bonus focus on work team.

>>3588015

Your accountant quickly generates a projection for that plan.

Current cash on hand: 11

* Installing a CellularSolar pylon in Mexico, configured for voice: 1 work team, 1 BN, 1 stack of network equipment. You have no fleet assets, but the work is being done in "your" territory, so that's not an issue. If you go on a trip with them, you have a chance of discovering additional opportunities in that territory.

* Recruiting a work team: 3 work teams. You only have two. You can underman the project, but handle it personally so as to give yourself a better chance.

Final cash on hand with this plan: 8

Confirm?

The reason why recruiting people is such a difficult endeavor is that you only take the best: a work team is intended to handle all the small details, from logistics to finding subcontractors to occasionally greasing the palms of local grandees. This makes the interviewing process time consuming. Those who don't quite make the cut for a work team are told to not call back or occasionally kept around as subcontractors, low level employees, and so on. Onboarding only takes a couple of weeks for highly motivated people, so a work team can begin almost immediately.

>>3588030
> confirm we want to get as many work teams as we can as early as we can. If we have to pick one handle the work team.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>3588041

(You don't have to pick: as a young person, you've got a lot of energy, although not a lot of experience. You can deploy yourself twice in a month. The catch is that you don't give a very big bonus to your teams. The other options were middle age for one deployment and big bonus, and old person for one deployment, very big bonus, but can't go on covert deployments)

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>3588041
>>3588015

You send the majority of your people to find and recruit suitable candidates for your agency, and conduct the interviews yourself.

You end up talking to a carousel of people from all walks of life: electricians, engineers, small business owners who genuinely believe in Carpatescu's plan for a unified world and want to sign up on it. With very few exceptions, all have lost someone in the Rapture and the brief period of anarchy that followed it. You are heartened by those who want the job because they have a child on the way - humanity is nothing but resilient.

Your newest group of recruit is eclectic, but ends up featuring a solid core of

# professionals: engineers, architects, lawyers, managers.

# tradespeople: plumbers, electricians, solar panel installers.

# just about anyone who wants to sign up and passes the rigorous tests, with emphasis on those who seem to be most loyal to the Carpathian administration.

# just about anyone who wants to sign up and passes the rigorous tests, with emphasis on those who seem to be most skeptical of the Carpathian administration.

>>3588041
>>3588015

Your trip to Mexico is pretty successful! You look on as tiendas and street vendors put up signs indicating that they just got a shipment of cheap subsidized cell phones; on the nearby hill there's a shiny new cell phone tower topped by solar panels. People are being instructed on how to use the simple e-payment system that comes with them, although you don't expect wide adoption for that any time soon. You stay a couple of extra days, just to take in the sights, and find that people take to texting very quickly, using it to arrange dates and schedule handyman work.

The reason why you were taking in the sights for a couple of extra days, however, was that

# you want to go to Panama to look at the canal; it's a strategic location and there may be something interesting there.

# you're interested in the black market in Durango; it may pay off to make that sort of contact early.

# you're in the desert that used to straddle Mexico and the US to learn a few things about survival in harsh environments.

>>3588059
Hmmm Im still unsure if we want to work with the anti christ or against. I think we should stay neutral or leaning torwards them untill we have a reason to be against.

Lets start with
>trades people.

I don't think we need to black market as america provides us with guns without issue and we know a dust bowl will be happening in a few years so
> learn a few things about survival in harsh environments.

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>>3588073

You get back north by truck, making a few stops at some villages and ruins in the most arid parts of North America. You learn a few things about how to make buildings last a few centuries in earthquake zones, and not need too much in the way of climate control - build squat, make walls thick, and use local material whenever possible. You write an abstract for a paper about it, and have one of your underlings write the actual paper and get it published in an architecture journal. If anyone ever questions why you're building bunkers, you can point them to structural reasons that have nothing to do with the perception of military preparations, should you ever need it.

On the way home, you also come across a few people experimenting with modernized dew collectors, and spend the remainder of the petty cash for the trip on buying one of the prototypes. It doesn't work very well, but as a proof of concept, it does give you about a pint of water per day if it's deployed properly.

>>3588084
Both of those seem very useful

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Hello, Foreman!

You are planning out CATS' operation for the month. Rules for allocating personnel and assets: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Quest2Rules.html

You have 4 work teams and 0 covert teams (although you count as having 1 in your HQ due to your deal with the Ghilotti Bros.)

C0 - No need to deploy a team, just an agent:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a trusted agent. You have surveyed Mexico.

Buy equipment on the open market:
Power generation 1
Small arms 1 (You are based in Chicago, so these are legal for you to buy)
Network equipment 2
Fleet assets 2
Aerospace part 3

Buy equipment on the black market:
You haven't found a black market contact yet.

C1:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a work or covert team.

Build network equipment.

Install a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet at your preference).

C2:

Do research (1~3).

Build an aerospace part.

Build a secondary base (no fleet reqs for that territory).

C3:

Recruit a work team.

Prepare a satellite launch, which will happen next month. Requires an aerospace part.

Do research (4~6). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

C4:

Recruit a covert team. Requires small arms to equip them with. (You are based in Chicago, so it is legal for you to hire armed PIs).

Do research (7~9). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

Construct a network node (Secondary base: unifies cell and net in the region, avglower at start) (Not researched yet).

C5:

Rush a satellite launch, which will happen at the end of this month. Requires an aerospace part.

Do research (10). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

>>3588087
A couple of questions. Can we recuit more then 1 work team in a turn andcan you go over what we can do with fleets assets network equipmemt and power generation?

I assume sattalite coverage requires us to make a satalite launch. Will a satellite launch take the teams out for 2 months or just the 1 to prepare?

Either way
>2 on recruit a work team
>2 in prepare satellite launch. Russia.

We support both

Does having 1 satellite coverage on all areas count as global coverage? Or would we need 2.

>>3588099

Basic satellite coverage (1) means that GNN will be available to everyone in standard definition. This is your current mandate.

(I'm going to go "satellites per territory" XCOM style, rather than doing the actual orbital mechanics for satellites, because otherwise the map becomes really complicated)

You can recruit more than one team per month; as you have more team, recruitment will become more difficult, simply because it'll be harder to find skilled and motivated people. Other agencies may also try to "poach" your work teams.

Satellite launches are subcontracted: you can get a standard launch or a rushed one. Either way, your team will be busy for 1 month.

Fleet assets let you move your people and equipment without having to pay extra for it; it may be useful to keep some around, since buying is cheaper than renting.

Cellular-Solar pylons are self-powered; other installation types will not be, and will need either access to the power grid, or your own generators.

Power, networking, and aerospace parts are the "bricks" used to build various types of installations. For example, the "recipe" for a Cellular-Solar pylon is 1 network component. You can buy parts on the open or black market or have your work teams direct the construction of them. Note that should there be natural disasters the availability of the open market will go down.

>>3588087
Get 1 Power Generation (1)

Get 1 Small arms (1)

Get 1 Fleet assets (2)

Get 2 Network equipment (4)

Get 1 Install a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet at your preference). (C1)


Recruit a work team. (C3)

Right now we have a dearth of manpower, so no sense dropping too much cash into it. Best to prep for when we have more while expanding infrastructure, which we don't have enough manpower to do much of.

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>>3588099
>>3588148

(Looks like you are agreeing on recruiting a work team, so let me do the writeup for it. You need to tell me if you wwant to put 2 groups or 3 on it though, and you need to decide on the other stuff!)

When the Rapture happened, Russia was on the way to becoming a failed state; ironically, the Event shook the nation out of apathy, if anything. The current subpotentate for the United Russian States - which encompass roughly the former Soviet Union, plus Afghanistan -- is a technocrat, who narrowly won the nomination over a former NKVD officer. He should be easy to work with if it's about rebuilding infrastructure.

Your recruitment effort continues; your organization is still small enough that you can afford to conduct the final interview yourself. The Nomenklator headpiece has arrived, only a week or so late; it hides nicely above your ear, as long as you comb your hair a certain way. You quickly reject a proposal for a model with servo-controlled cat ears. A few people comment that your uncanny ability to remember personal details and the like is very reminiscent of Mr. Carpatescu.

The casting call this time went preferentially to

# people with as few attachments as possible so that they may travel without worries.

# people who despite the Event or possibly because of it, have a family to fight for.

>>3588158

(Ah, there's the rolls I remember.)

>>3588163
Its not fair ):
>people with as few attachmemts as possible
>>3588148
I dont think we can afford all that we have 8 this turn amd we are spending 4 on our agent action and have 4 left on the last turn for agent actions.

I also dont wamt to do more cellular as the antichrist will get made if we do cellular rather then satalite as we were asked to do. So we should sattalite

>>3588158
># people with as few attachments as possible so that they may travel without worries.

Death Cult! Death Cult!

Rolled 69, 88 = 157 (2d100)

>>3588174
Fine, but satellite should come with Air Fleet and Small Arms so we can equip our covert ops as soon as we get them.

>>3588458
We can purchase that next quarter as if we buy that now we literally cant affort agent actions next turn. Im assuming a quarter is every 3 turns.

>>3588174
>>3588455

Pickings are fairly slim this month: the Global Community is quasi-nationalizing a lot of markets (to be specfic, Carpatescu is going with a hybrid guilds system, much like Mussolini did seventy years ago, although of course he's not referring to the Italian dictator) and your hiring practices have been imitated. The Nomenklator system has proven itself of some use in giving the boot to a couple of candidates that demonstrably lied on their resumes.

You're not very happy with this round of recruiting, truth be told, but you put together a workgroup that should be able to handle things.

One note is that as part of your routine work, you ask if Mr. Fulcire is available after hours for security. You are told that he has been reassigned to Bulgaria. Interesting?

>>3588464
>>3588458

(Y'all tell me if you want to do one or the other!)

>>3588464
this

>>3588512
Well that is concerning most of the way across the world.they upset more then just us and it wasnt even thier fault poor guy. Perhaps we shoudl send an angent to investigate what happened next turn.

>>3588524
>>3588464

(Okay! Can you tell me what you want to do other than recruit? You have 2 workgroups available after using 2 to recruit. Your current budget is 6. You get money the turn AFTER next, to the tune of 18, plus 2 from the construction company)

>>3588631
Hire 2 additional workgroups

>>3588631
My vote was recruit and launch a satalite as that is our job amd we dont want our boss to be pissed.
>>3588657
If we do that the sattalite wont launch in time for the quarter to be over. Our boss will be pissed. We need to at least try to do our job alittle bit.

>>3588662
ok so Hire one crew and launch one sat

>>3588667
>>3588512
Yep. This.

>>3588512
Also we should look at recruiting Fulcire, clearly he was on to something.

Guess we'll have to wait for getting a covert ops team.

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Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>3588662
>>3588667
>>3588702


You figure that it's a good time to start launching microsatellites! The first prototype is made out of, ironically enough, cell phone guts. It has the capabilities of a 1960s era orbital relay node, but it's immensely cheaper.

Since it's a prototype, surplus equipment is made available to you; the launch will happen at the end of next month.

You elect to launch from

# Vanderberg AFB, California, where the flight articles are being built.

# Wallops Field, Virginia, where the surplus Soviet-era ICBM that has been adapted into a small-payload orbital rockets are being moved to.

# Baikonur, Ukraine, where said ICBMs are. Ordinarily you'd have to organize a crew transfer, but the subpotentate for the United Russian States has invited you to re-open the launch complex.

# Learn more about the URS subpotentate, first.

>>3588710

The absolute state of LBQ dice rolls across the years.

>>3588710
># Learn more about the URS subpotentate, first.
The guy has some kind of ulterior motive and I want to know what it is.

>>3588716
Well hopfully our personal bonus was enough to push it to that 33% we need.

>wallops field. We should stay in america it being our hq and all.

>>3588730
I agree, but I want to know the URS guys angle.

>>3588738
Yeah fair if we can do both im down

>>3588725
>>3588738

Russia before the Event was well on the way to becoming a failed state - arguably, the Rapture reenergized the Russian people out of despondency, if anything.

The current subpotentate is Dr. Prokhor Saratov, who allegedly narrowly beat a former NKVD agent by the name of Vlad Putin to the post after the later threatened Carpatescu in some unspecified manner. Saratov has an illustrious career in academic administration behind him, and actively lobbied to have your HQ in your territory. Even though this was vetoed by the big boss himself, he has noted that should you prove to be sufficiently competent, he will be happy to help you.... as well as get you kicked out of your own org should you not do a sufficiently impressive job. Saratov has embraced the Global Community specifically because he believes that Russian national identity can and will thrive in a technocracy.

You know him to be a fair but stern man, and actually have read some of his books on the philosophy of science; one quote springs to mind.

"There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn, nonetheless, for the latter. "

NOTE: If you go there, your Nomenklator system will not help you, since there's no global network for it to piggyback onto (yet).

>>3588710
># Wallops Field, Virginia, where the surplus Soviet-era ICBM that has been adapted into a small-payload orbital rocket is being moved to.

the URS guy is not one to be trifled with.

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>>3588770
>>3588730

Launching a new type of satellite is never easy; doing so in two months doubly so. You decide to

# trust that the people in your workgroups have done good work

# oversee the preparations personally, which will make you unavailable for other actions next month but increase the chance of success

and, since this is the first space launch after the Event, take the opportunity to

# emphasize that it's a case of business as usual having resumed

# make a bit of a celebration about it, space hasn't been in the news much this decade, but someone might care

as much as you've been told that your job is to be behind the camera, not in front of it, you will have to manage some amount of media presence.

At the end of next month, the big boss will call you in for your first performance evaluation.

As it is, you don't expect to be able to do much next month, due to your budget having been largely used up by your current efforts. Fortunately you don't have to worry about payroll!

>>3588796
>oversee the preparations personally.
We will have 5 work groups we can just full staff what we want to do. To make sure this goes ofd without a hitch.
>emphasize its a case of business as usual having resumed.
I assume this is what bossman would want.

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>3588796
> # trust that the people in your workgroups have done good work

> # make a bit of a celebration about it, space hasn't been in the news much this decade, but someone might care

Public opinion is another war front.

And maybe you're just unlucky?

>>3588810
this

>>3588809
>>3588810
>>3588812

> # trust that the people in your workgroups have done good work
> # make a bit of a celebration about it, space hasn't been in the news much this decade, but someone might care

Confirm?

>>3588825
Yeah

>>3588825
Its 2 against me but sure ill confirm to move it along

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Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>3588833
>>3588831

(Let's see how the sat launch will go then...)

Hello, Foreman!

You are planning out CATS' operation for the month. Rules for allocating personnel and assets: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Quest2Rules.html

Actions are listed by complexity. Each crew costs 1 bag of Nicks to deploy for incidental expenses, subcontractors and so on. Additional costs will be marked as needed.

Thanks to your youthful energy, you can deploy yourself on TWO actions in most cases. You can even risk your own life on a covert action, if you so choose!

Performing an action outside of your home territory will also require the availability of (complexity) fleet assets, OR increase complexity by the missing assets.

At the end of the month, a satellite launch will take place in Wallops Field.

At the end of the month, you will be summoned by Nicolae Carpatescu, Global Community Leader, for your very first performance evaluation.


C0:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a trusted agent.

Buy equipment on the open market:
Power generation 1
Small arms 1
Network equipment 2
Fleet assets 2
Aerospace part 3

C1:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a work or covert team.

Build network equipment.

Install a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet at your preference).

C2:

Do research (1~3).

Build an aerospace part.

Build a secondary base (no fleet reqs for that territory).

C3:

Recruit a work team.

Prepare a satellite launch, which will happen next month. Requires an aerospace part.

Do research (4~6). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

C4:

Recruit a covert team. Requires small arms to equip them with.

Do research (7~9). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

Construct a network node (Secondary base: unifies cell and net in the region, avglower at start) (Not researched yet).

C5:

Rush a satellite launch, which will happen at the end of this month. Requires an aerospace part.

Do research (10). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

>>3588837

You have surveyed Mexico personally. The result was a prototype for a dew collector, which will be useful if you need to deploy assets in arid climates.

Early next month, you can request your money back from the Ghilotti Brothers, or retain the services of their expedited demolition crew (a goon squad that counts as a covert team, but may only be deployed in your HQ's territory).

>>3588837
Dont we have 5 work crews or was the last receuit a failure? And shouldnt mexico have 1 cellular not internet?

I would have for
>2 team research satellites
>2 team recruit andother work team.

>>3588837
HAIL SATAN

> Risk ourselves on a covert action

Bulgaria, where Fulcire is. If we can get him as a Trusted Agent then that let's us survey for free, and he seems to be in a good position to recruit him.

> Install a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet at your preference).

Netherlands area. Fill out full redundancy in the area. Use a work team

> Build network equipment.

In Bulgaria, since we have a second action we should use it. It can also provide cover for our covert action recruitment of Fulcire.

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>>3588865

(Crap, thanks for catching it. My bad. Mexico is correct though, 1/1/0 from 1/0/0)

>>3588868

You can definitely take a trip to Bulgaria without a covert team to back you up; the world is at peace.

>>3588902
Oh whops i for some reason though the north part of south america was mexico.

>>3588868
I like the covert a action but why Netherlands a d build network equipment we alrwady have 9 network equipment and europe has 1 cellular already. We should focus on places that have nonen


>>3588837
>>3588865
I will add that covert action to my list though

>>3588909
> I like the covert a action but why Netherlands a d build network equipment we alrwady have 9 network equipment and europe has 1 cellular already. We should focus on places that have nonen

Redundancy. I'd rather have a solid grip those areas, whereas the places with only one we can come down on when something goes offline.

>>3588909
>>3588868

(You guys decide! :)

>>3588958
I'll settle for Covert Action + Network in Bulgaria. Is that the left most red zone? It would be great if the zones on the map had names.

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>>3588971
>>3588909

Bulgaria is, just barely, within the purview of the United Carpathian State. You figure you'll go there

# flying commercial, incognito

# on a government flight, right before going to see Carpatescu in New Babylon, since you are on the way anyway.

(You have a budget of 4, what will you be doing with it after all?)

>>3589001
># on a government flight, right before going to see Carpatescu in New Babylon, since you are on the way anyway.
Might as well get to know the man for ourselves.

>>3588955
I just feel like that redundancy is not worth it in cellular when our job is satalite coverage . We may as well keep recruiting as it is far more valuable to recurit in these early turns and to research

>>3589001
>>3589021
This may as well

>>3589001
># on a government flight, right before going to see Carpatescu in New Babylon, since you are on the way anyway.

>>3589023
> I just feel like that redundancy is not worth it in cellular when our job is satalite coverage .

Our job is saving the goddamn world. How much do you trust our bosses anyways?

>>3589028
>>3589021

Your pilot that day will be Earl Halliday, formerly of Pan-Continental Airlines. You've met Carpatescu exactly once, at what is now the Global Community Assembly Building (former UN) in New York, but it was extremely brief - essentially, you were confirmed for the job and that was it. Your memory of the meeting is nebulous; you walked out of it about an hour before Carpatescu's former mentor snapped and made an attempt at the man's life.

As it is, you have more workgroups than you have cash on hand; the idle workgroups will bring themselves up to speed on current system, monitor research, and rest while they can.

(You have 5 workgroups and 4 cash on hand - so what'll you do with them?)

>>3588865
>2 team research satellites
>2 team recruit andother work team.
>>3588868
> Install a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet at your preference).
> Build network equipment.
>>3588971
> Build network equipment (Bulgaria)


Looks like there's a consensus on building network equipment?

>>3589052
>>3589023
Trust me. The only way you win this game. Is to have one or more redundancy set up. Before the endgame.

>>3589109

Hi Anti! Welcome back. (Hey, 200 people sort-of-lived... if they landed on the wrong planet in Alpha Centauri, that's enough for a game of Frostpunk. By the way, did you see the news about Proxima and Alpha exoplanets, and about brain pacemakers?)

>>3589109
Yeah, that's what I remembered from last time.

Because God cheats at dice rolls. That shit WILL fail.

What I want to do is complete our main goal, while preparing a backup for that goal to not work, and then another backup for when our backup is sabotaged.

>>3589129
>>3589109
Seriously I think we should have a plan to hack the phone/power lines and use them as telegraphs by varying voltages just in case.

At some point.

>>3589156

The good news is that you're already in charge for most of that! A low-bandwidth data channel on landlines would be useful for coordination. Your guys quickly put together a protocol for it - it can piggyback on existing analog switches, and future digital switches can be designed so that they will be compatible with it. (Great idea!)

# You'll have to put a workgroup on it, after which it will go in your bag of backup options.

# You can't afford it right now.

>>3589116
1: It was a good ending.thank you for not 'rocks fall everyone dies'ing it.
2:i have not.
3:I have not heard about that either.
4:which ones were you involved in?
>5:network equipment and a research a research satellite. Preferably one that can survive being frozen.

>>3589169
# You'll have to put a workgroup on it, after which it will go in your bag of backup options.

>>3589186
>>3589156
>>3589028

Current resources: 4 bags of Nicks, 5 work crews, one goon squad. Decide on what to do please :) If people want to do different things, can I offer a suggestion? Split work crews.

>>3589196
If we split I'll put the 1 work crew towards Satellite. something that will let is rush into space earlier when this early game inevitably goes tits up thanks to a certain someone ordering a fucking Cavalry Charge.

>>3589208
This, also calvery charge?

>>3589251
I'm not joking. Just read up some of the left behind stuff towards the ending.

>>3589263
...the last quest was lost thanks to a Calvary charge...wow we are fucked if all you old boys take control.

>>3589271

I think Anti means the books, not the quest. The last quest's last battle was fought mostly with artillery and bomber zeppelins. And very angry undead lobster-people.

>>3588868
Support this.

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>>3589271
>>3589263

While you decide how to allocate your growing workforce and shrinking budget, one of the people who just got hired with the last workgroup comes to you with a set of blueprints for a new type of vehicle that can be used for construction in remote areas. Due to its unusual form of locomotion and the fact that he has specced an armed variant for it, he keeps calling it a Spider Tank.

# That's interesting.

# We don't have the money for it right now.

# Throw the guy out of the window. You're on the first floor, so he'll be fine.

>>3589284
# That's interesting.
# Throw the guy out of the window. You're on the first floor, so he'll be fine.

Are we that strong? Is it a open window?

>>3589284
# Throw the guy out of the window. You're on the first floor, so he'll be fine.

NOT FUCKING AGAIN! NEVER FUCKING AGAIN!

>>3588868
>>3589283

Confirm?

One workgroup will build a stack of network equipment, while another constructs a pylon in Bulgaria.

This leaves you with 1 funds and 3 workgroups to do things with. "Idle" teams aren't spinning their wheels; at this stage they'll likely be working on making sure existing infrastructure can talk across systems.

>>3589298
># That's interesting.
Looks like a solid design

>>3589298

You're in pretty good shape; you can definitely throw someone out of a window if they are standing next to it, they aren't obese, and the window isn't bulletproof.

>>3589301
Yeah

>>3589301
Yea? Aren't we going to Bulgaria too?

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>>3589301
>>3589342


The parts for the new Cellular-Solar pylon have arrived! Bulgaria is a lot cleaner than you expected; after the Event, Carpatescu took personal administration of the country, and made a point of cleaning it all up, just to prove that he harbored no ill will towards the Romanians' historical rival.

You arrive in Plovdiv, according to local lore the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe, to find the streets clean, the traffic surprisingly orderly, and the general impression of the place that of lean health. You see a home decorated with professionally-made murals: they denote the birth of a precious baby, one of the first after the Event. It looks like the place is on the upswing.

The Cellular-Solar pylon you set up is just outside of town, and you have it configured for use with

# data (internet)

# voice

during a small ribbon-cutting shindig that the local mayor insists on throwing. The people here were mostly Eastern Orthodox, or atheistic following Communism; they adapted to the ecumenical faith quickly, not really caring one way or the other. Carpatescu has been unexpectedly good to these people, and they're clearly grateful.

As soon as the tower is switched on, the Nomenklator in your ear starts giving you trivia about the local area.

You take a bit of time to

# prepare for the satellite launch.

# prepare for your meeting with Carpatescu.

# take in the sight and see if there are any interesting opportunities locally.

(Also don't forget to allocate the last budget unit!)

>>3589348

Once the Nomenklator is back up, your local team starts looking around for Mr. Bruno Folgore (OOC note: Sorry but Kruno Fulcire is a stupid name).

You find that he is currently in a Global Community training camp, which has been repurposed from a MCPO training facility on the coast.

>>3589348
# voice

# take in the sight and see if there are any interesting opportunities locally.

Can we spend a budget into something like gold for a storage medium then liquidate it next turn to use, or spend it investing in a revenue generating business and get passive income?

>>3589348
# data (internet)

# prepare for your meeting with Carpatescu.

Protect the funding and the net is our friend.

>>3589362

You can definitely look for things to do in that sense. What former countries have a tradition of under-the-table business opportunities?

>>3589380

(Yep. 4chan crapped out for me for a bit)

>>3589348
I want the spider tank. Yessssssss.

It's my fetish.

> # data (internet)

> # prepare for your meeting with Carpatescu.

Spend the last budget on bribes for local politicians to get access to their already existing phone network.

>>3589432
>>3589362

Wait yeah let's do this for the last budget.

>>3589437

That's a good idea, but you can't do that in Bulgaria - the government there is under Carpatescu's direct control, and besides, they are actually happy with the current regime. You'd have to look elsewhere!

>>3589434
>>3589309
>>3589300

I was kidding, but you know what? Unlike the previous quest, this is Earth circa 1998: there are mountains and valleys. So, your call :)

Still got 1 resource unit to spend.

In the meantime, you hear from Wallops: the first microsats are ready to be launched! By the look of it, all should be well, barring last-minute stupidity...

>>3589432
>>3589437
I'm not saying doing this specifically in Bulgaria, just in general, would it be highly illegal or against the rules? I just want to save our budget and not lose the cash.

I suppose we could just buy a bunch of gold or mineral rights and set up mining operations. Would give us rare earth minerals and metals for our tech, and at the same time make suitable space for bunkers in the hollowed out ground.

>>3589489
*Buy gold bars.

>>3589464
I'd like to keep Spider Tank dude on the backburner actually.

Let's toss that 1 resource into hard currency to be used to fund covert-ops through third parties, like assassinations and such.

>>3589464
I was not joking, support

>>3589434
Support

>>3589498
>>3589504
I picked the joke option to see if QM would actually do it, and if it would be a funny scene.

Otherwise I don't mind drone spider tanks, but there isn't enough cash for it.

>>3589498
Hard currency's not a bad idea, not at all. I'll back it.

>>3589464
Can we have Spider Tank guy hold on until our next round of funding?

Then we can buy him.

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>>3589489
That's outside the purview of your mandate, though. Now, granted, doesn't mean it's impossible to do, you'd just have to be circumspect about it.

You can also decide to be brazen about it, at your own risk.

>>3589504
>>3589434

Cell phone usage in Europe is higher than in America, largely because the landlines in Europe were worse and there was more of a push to adopt early. People are fairly surprised at the new system (free unlimited texting and all I have to do is set up an e-mail address? Neat!) and, perhaps more importantly, you have something to show off for the meeting with the big boss.

You board a business jet to get to the brand-new, opulent city of New Babylon. Of note is the Burj Babil, the world's tallest structure, which has just been completed. To your surprise, it's not Carpatescu's seat of government; instead, the building has been zoned as a hotel and exhibition space, sort of a hybrid between a luxury mall and a permanent mini World's Fair. Your meeting with Carpatescu happens in a nondescript office tower. Earl Halliday escorts you in, which is unusual; on the way you learn that the man is not only a pilot but also an aircraft designer. While flying over the eastern Mediterranean,

# you pulled a couple of strings to swap places with another dignitary and have the meeting a little early, just so you can show the big boss the satellite launch during it, if you are confident all will go well.

# you watched the satellite launch, or rather, since you can't do that yet from an airplane, got updates via shortwave radios on launch status while working on one PowerPoint for success and one for failure.

>>3589534

Sure, the blueprints got done, they can be sat on for a bit.

>>3589538

# Give marching orders about the last of your budget.

# Lose 1 unit of budget to show your boss that you can get things done UNDER budget, although he might get annoyed at the inefficiency instead.

# Be brazen and pocket it into some sort of investment, although that's quite risky.

>>3589544
If we pay it back it before anyone notices, it should be fine r-right guys?

What about putting it into a ESCROW account for the purchase of something but it ends up falling through so the money comes back but after we get next 3 months income so if we get 18 BN then we end up with 19....?

>>3589544
# Give marching orders about the last of your budget
Use it on pre-purchasing non-perishable or not so fast to become out-of-date equipment that will be necessary next year.

>>3589544
Did we replace the broken window yet?

>>3589544
Would it be considered brazen or are we just being brazen about it instead of sneaky?

Also why would he care about that little thing? We should have gone OVER budget to set his expectations, then reduce the costs so he is happier.

>>3589602
Put it into power generation? After all everything we do needs juice to run, and electricity doesn't exactly go out of date anytime soon.

>>3589602
>>3589621

Your options are purchasing some power generation equipment (solar panels, a geothermal spike, a large windmill, and so on) or having one of your workgroups arrange for the manufacture of network equipment.

>>3589595

You've taken that gamble with the Ghilotti Brothers, but that was your setup budget, not your operating budget. Who knows how a world dictator might react?

>>3589627
Could put a little bit of the budget into building a nuclear power plant every turn?

>geothermal spike
For our bunkers!

>>3589640
Yeah

>>3589052
Our job is not actually saving the world its whatever we want it to be. Right now our job is putting up a satalite network.
>>3589116
I agree it was a great ending and dispute us loosing it made us feel like all our backup plans meant a ton.

>>3589544
>yeah lets buy that power generation

>>3589640
>>3589648

You mention that to one of your aides as you get ready for the big meeting, and you start discussing it, when all of a sudden the person who's running the other end of the Nomenklator pipes up unbidden.

"Ixnay on the uclearnay when in New Babylon, boss. It's doable, just don't bring it up. Their security guys get really twitchy about it for some reason."

(Nuclear research tree unlocked!)

# Ask Carpatescu about it, or don't.

Time for your big meeting!

# If you've timed it right, it should coincide with the satellite launch (or failure thereof).

# If you've timed it right, it should happen right after the satellite launch (or failure thereof). Just to be safe you've got two different powerpoint presentations.

>>3589664

(200 people can do a lot more than 0 people can. Come back in force in 18000 years to recolonize Holy Terra for one)

>>3589672
>dont ask we can bring it up next meeting after looking more into their opinion on it.

>if you've timed it right it should cooncide woth the satellite launch.
I think we got this. I hope.

>>3589672
># If you've timed it right, it should happen right after the satellite launch (or failure thereof). Just to be safe you've got two different powerpoint presentations.

>>3589672
# Ask Carpatescu about it, or don't.
Don't. Carpatescu will strip funding if we do anything that deviates from his focus on the preperations for the end of days event.

# If you've timed it right, it should happen right after the satellite launch (or failure thereof). Just to be safe you've got two different powerpoint presentations.

>>3589672
>Don't ask

> # If you've timed it right, it should coincide with the satellite launch (or failure thereof).

> Hide the budget in a slush fund of cancelled work group hires that can be "found" next budget cycle and attributed to confusion in hiring.

Later on we can use that same fictional work group to cover for a covert ops group that will technically have never been hired.

>>3589664
Just saying, if I was to pick an Anti-Christ "World Dictator and people likely to replace him" is high on my list of paranoia.

Right under "Possibly us" as our growing death grip on the world sets up a challenge to the masses whose mere existence is the spark that lights the flame, paving a path to hell with our good intentions.

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>>3589699
>>3589690

>>3589723
>>3589685

(Kinda need a tie breaker here....)

>>3589723

For now, you figure that the easiest thing to do is to

# have your workgroups find network equipment

# buy power generation equipment

# buy small arms for self-defense

since plotting any skullduggery while in the lion's den would be pretty darn stupid

# or be brazen and do so anyway.

>>3589747
# have your workgroups find network equipment.
Preferably some stuff to automate some things. On the software end preferably.

>>3589730
I mean im sure hes the antichrist no doubt about that but im not suee we have an end goal here just "resisting" him without a plan wont help. Lets figure out what part of this whole madness we are gonna throw a wrench into. Anyone got details on the world ending itself and what we have to look forward too?

>>3589747
Ill switch to powerpoint from
>>3589685
>buy power generation. And no skullduggery

>>3589747
># buy small arms for self-defense
They are for hunting officer

>>3589747
# buy small arms for self-defense

This then

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>>3589754
>>3589747
You're surprised to see Carpatescu's office: you may have expected opulence, gold fixtures, anything like that, but instead the place has a high-tech starkness that makes you mildly envious. The computer screen integrated into the desk is definitely a nice touch.

"... projections indicate a favorability rating of 68.71% in ten years. End of line." The computer voice is rich and deep.

Carpatescu doesn't stand up to greet you, of course. Instead, he sighs after receiving the report. "We'll see where we are in ten years. Ah, Foreman, welcome. Computers sure are getting better every year, aren't they? I see that you've begun your work on schedule and within budget. I was expecting more rapid progress in terms of our satellite coverage. I want to be able to watch GNN in the middle of a flight to Pretoria, you understand?"

He seems mildly unhappy.

# Point out the groundwork you've laid.

# Point out the showpiece Cellular-Solar datalink in Bulgaria.

# Point out that the new microsatellites, which worked on the first try, will be cheaper and more flexible.

# Let him rant for a bit.

# Ask about nuclear power.

>>3589759
Your HQ is in the former United States - it's perfectly legal for you to acquire small arms there.

>>3589755
That's why I'm saying we should hide a covert ops team from the beginning.

We can also mask that by openly-secretly recruiting the Cop to a covert ops team since he's surely being watched to some degree. He can deflect suspicion of our real team whom we can have operate as a 3rd party. We could hide more cash by paying them as 3rd party PMC contractors and such.

Or we could split them up among the work teams as corporate security. Not like black suit guys but more like "in between mall cop and real cop" security so that they're hiding in plain sight but underestimated because they don't even normally carry guns. Like door security.

>>3589797
>Explain that this was a test flight and a recruitment drive. Now that we have the manpower and a proven satellite we can promise that the last 3 (sections of the world? Not sure what to call them) will be covered by the end of next quarter. We just need a budget of 26 to cover it. (9 for buying the parts 9 for plating our dudes 8 more for other project's we can do this in three turns turn 1 buying parts turn 2 launching them turn 3 they are done. If we get a work team on turn one we will have 6 to split ont he three launches with just a but of luck we will be good.

What do you all think of that. Should we request more funding then that?
>>3589802
Yeah i agree in the next quarter we should try to get a covert ops team. We will have 1 month with nothing for our dudes to do sattalite wise so i think recruiting a team and research would be best.

>>3589797
# Let him rant for a bit.

>>3589797
> # Let him rant for a bit.

Then

> # Point out that the new microsatellites, which worked on the first try, will be cheaper and more flexible.

We're not just putting up sattelites now, we're planning for 10 years into the future. Don't want our quick fixes for today being obstacles for the future, a common problem in designing infrastucture.

> # Point out the showpiece Cellular-Solar datalink in Bulgaria.

The resources aren't being wasted or under-utilized, merely it's not most efficient to let them sit around doing nothing. Money saved can be time wasted, and getting more time is much more difficult than more money.

>>3589811
support.

>>3589809
>>3589811
Yeah let's also double down and tell him we're ready to roll out hot if he's able to pay for it.

>>3589811
yeah this

>>3589822
Never tell a dictator we're ready to do something for money, always tell them you need money to enable you to do something.

>>3589811
>>3589817
>>3589810

Carpatescu goes on for a little about not wanting to waste his honeymoon with the people of the world. "What I have essentially done, Foreman, is run for mayor of the world. People wouldn't call a president or a prime minister to get the potholes in their city fixed, but they would call the mayor - and I must deliver. Hence my interest in global integration. We must become united in body and in spirit, and your job is one of the most important: one vision, one purpose. And you -must- deliver that vision to every home. Do you understand?"

You point out the microsatellites and the data installation as an example of what you've been able to do in just three months.

"Good! You've a commitment for quality, Foreman. I appreciate that. But quantity has a quality all of its own, don't you think?"

You nod, and add that money saved can be time wasted. Carpatescu brightens up considerably.

"Ah, spoken like a wise man. And from the mouth of one so young! You are quite correct, Foreman. In many ways, time is our most precious resource - after all, money can be made or lost, but time can only be spent, yes? A famous writer once said that he who controls the present commands the future, and he who commands the future, conquers the past. I don't quite agree: the past is, and ever shall remain, a foreign country.... but it is of the future that I want you to think. I have undertaken the duty of using - yes, using - a tragedy, a global tragedy, to usher in peace. But we must keep it! And the only way to keep it, to keep peace, is through power. I intend to keep the use of crass, hard power to a minimum, but soft power.... it's a different story, isn't it?"

You nod again.

"Control the media, control the mind. Tell me, what do you know of Cameron Williams?"

# Say "not a lot".

# Use the Nomenklator.

# Use the Nomenklator openly to show off its capabilities.

>>3589840
># Say "not a lot".
The man knows things that no man should know, best not to lie to his face.

>>3589840
># Use the Nomenklator.
What is this?

>>3589840
# Use the Nomenklator.

>>3589847

The Nomenklator is a little gadget that you had your guys rig up for you. It's basically a hidden earpiece/microphone that sits above your ear. Since you run the global phone company, you don't have to pay the phone bill, so as long as there is any sort of cell reception it keeps you in contact with your HQ, where people can instantly look things up for you. They are limited, but it's a good way to look like you have a near-photographic memory, at least for things that can be read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclator_(nomenclature)

>>3589840

IS THE ANTICHRIST KANE

>>3589840
> # Say "not a lot".

He's gonna tell us anyways, we should just play along.

>>3589840
>use the nomenclature

>>3589840
># Say "not a lot".
Let him think he is our better, with us looking up to him and he may show kindness in uplifting us with more funding.

He probably has as superiority complex and feeding it a bit will make him feel good.

>>3589880
>>3589846
>>3589888

"My press secretary, Cameron Kirk Williams, is" Carpatescu chuckles "a member of the Christian Remnant. I don't mind, right now: I welcome the accountability, and in fact, it may help dispel the silly rumors that I am... heh... the Antichrist. Of course he's been all secretive and mysterious about it. Now, I have hired you to develop and deploy the technology of peace, not run a propaganda operation, therefore, I want you to know that I am specifically not asking you to put any sort of wiretap on the man. Are we understood?"

You aren't sure whether this is a hint or not.

"At any rate, you've impressed me. You aren't short sighted, you get things done, and you understand priorities. I want you to repeat to me what your mandate is. Don't worry, tell me the truth."

He hands you a memo indicating that your budget has increased to 24.

# Recite your current mandate, to provide global satellite coverage.

# Say something else.

>>3589903
# Recite your current mandate, to provide global satellite coverage.
to usher in peace, help united in body and in spirit, give one vision and one goal for all people.

>>3589903
> # Recite your current mandate, to provide global satellite coverage.

To do our best to provide for humanity. Nice and vague.

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>>3589949
>>3589917

"Good enough for me. Don't let me detain you, Foreman. I'm sure you're an extremely busy human being. Only... I've a few moments for you. Do you have any -one- question?"

>>3589956
Do you have any cool or new and exciting technology coming up that you can tell me about or send my way (mostly power generation and communication tech.)?

Would it be alright if I invested or built some supporting industries for the telecommunications infrastructure such as mining to refining the necessary materials and manufacturing the end product, or power generation?

Carefully say....
Is Mr. Williams a person you would like to... "open up" to me more? Hear him talk and express his feelings to me?

Dunno if I want to ask any of these so some anon help me out here.

>>3589956
> I'm sure you're an extremely busy human being.

Fucking weird.

> What's your truth, your mandate, sir? What do you want for Humanity, once everything is stable here? Once things are under control?

>>3590011
I'll support this, I doubt he will tell us the truth, but meh lets see what he says.

>>3590011
>>3590017

"My truth you ask? Truth is relative, of course... But consider. The last man who wanted to create an empire to last a thousand years sunk the world into madness and blood. I harbor no such ambitions, I assure you. Mine will not be an empire, it will be a brotherhood, the brotherhood of man. We shall forge a stronger people. A divined people, enhanced for the world of tomorrow. The time has come, to claim the universe as our own! The time has come, to destroy our false idol and hopes and embrace the totality of the universe! One vision. One purpose! More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!"

The man's voice booms, and you get the impression that everyone in the building heard him. He clears his throat.

"Now go, Foreman. Do your job well, and the rewards will be many."

# Continue to next month.

# Check your terminal back in your hotel room first.

# See if the Nomenklator recorded the speech, that was actually pretty decent!

>>3589956
> What's your truth, your mandate, sir? What do you want for Humanity, once everything is stable here? Once things are under control?

>>3590042
># Check your terminal back in your hotel room first.
Figures the devil in the flesh would be a globalist, KIDDING, kidding

>>3590042
# Check your terminal back in your hotel room first.

# See if the Nomenklator recorded the speech, that was actually pretty decent!

>>3590047

"What speech, Boss? We heard Potentate Carpatescu raise our budget and mention that Mr. Williams is a religious holdout, but that's it."

Huh, strange...

Checking the news shows that if anything it's the nationalists that have been making noise. Apparently the African subpotentate has been having issues with a rival. Nothing you need to worry about yet, but if you go there yourself you might want an armed guard.

(Next thread tomorrow, OK? Any complaints or feedback so far?)

>>3590042
># Check your terminal back in your hotel room first.

>>3590053
Night geist.

Best to assume that any interactions with Carpatesqu can't be documented properly. And set asside some fragment of our resources to keep an eye on Williams.

>>3590061
Do that thing in like contact where there was like 30 minutes of recorded static.

>>3590061
Wait, that doesn't make sense.... Even if it couldn't be documented, the other guys could still hear whats going on..... Only the recorded playback would have problems.

>>3590068

In this case it'd be onyl a couple minutes, but yes.

>>3590044

That's how he's pictured in the LB books... he's also pictured as a complete buffoon, I'm trying to actually give him some of the charisma he's said to have.

>>3590053
Let us start working on a Borg type AI system for humans later based on the Nomenklator and psycho-indoctrination and devil magic.

Gotta start working on the plan for failing to stop the apocalypse now, figure out what can be left behind for post-rapture world to fight back.

But seriously nah it's good. I am having a hard time transitioning from the first quest and objectives though.

That's why I want to sound out the Anrichrist. Maybe we can work with him. Maybe he's just another flavour of apocalypse. Maybe we can kill him and take his powers, or stick him in a god-engine and have the power without the self awareness.

>>3590091
...DARK

I don't think these are reasonable expectations of the type of game Geist tends to run. Maybe if this was one of Questing QMs quest that might be something possible but, well, this is left beyond. Where the dice hate us, the rules hate us and are rigid and work around's are few and far between.

If we want objectives though, here's a good one.

>Advance a set of technologies far enough ahead and cache it somewhere that someone can pick it up before the end game after team demon takes the first L and TOL trys again.

>Lay the groundwork for the first AI and attempt to give Omega a 1000 year head start.

>Manage to send someone people out beyond the stars before the earth gets reality warped flat and into a ball of ice.

>Figure out how to entrap All the major biblical heads in their cutoff Chambers before they can second cumming the earth into a snow globe.

>Kill enough of humanity with nukes somehow that what remains can play fallout instead of getting ass fucked by the supernatural.

>>3590175
We should also see if we can inturrupt a cruical point in the cannon of the second coming. This way we can prevent the apoc. Maeby kill or otherwise incapacitate jesus before they can speak a word? A do the some for the antichrist at the same time. Just cull the players

Just, whatever else we do, whatever plan we concoct, whatever objectives we aim for, we must make a sacred vow:

No Fucking Spider Tanks.

>>3590461
Were the spider tanks in any way involved with a Calvary charge from the previous quest or something?

>>3590532
No but someone decided while most of the players were asleep to waste our resources on a spider, read, legged tank. On a world that was completely flat.

The cavalry charge I'm Referring to is ordered by Satan in the last battle of earth before the second coming where earth gets Flattened. This is Canon in the left behind books and so this reality will follow it as canon.

>>3590535
There we a number of mistakes in that last battle. Next time im staying up through it if for nothing else to put a stall on the bad choices.

>>3590544
I agree. Not getting deployed into the city first was a major failure. Never should have let that guy insist Lucy to attack first.

wow how did you guys mess up that bad in the final battle

>>3590977
The quest got popular and a bunch of new players joined in who never read any past threads and just made up shitty plans while everyone else was asleep with no understanding of how everything worked.

>>3591022
There is no worse feeling than watching a quest you've invested yourself in burn due to newfaggery

>>3590977
Natural 1 on a d1000 didn't help. Especially since we were fighting God, and it was the final power struggle roll.

The quest was explicitly designed to be an unfair struggle against an omnipotent opponent who made all the rules; and our only advantage was that "God can make a rock so heavy that even he can't lift it" IE God has to obey the same rules he lays down for everyone else.

But yeah people also got cocky.

>>3590535
I'm just gonna point out here that Spider Tanks in this quest might actually be reasonable to have if we have to eventually assault fortified positions in backwoods terrain.

>>3591074
No fuck you no spider tanks never again. We will make metal gear first.

>>3591081
> Generals always plan to fight the previous wars

It's a new quest. And we won't be sinking so much into it as the last one. These Spider Tanks can also be used to construct secret bases in rough, secluded terrain.

Just because Spider Tanks were a mistake in a different quest doesn't mean they are here.

Don't make decisions based on memes.

>>3591150
fine ill trust you for now but if you end up working for the anticrist im gonna feel real hurt.

>>3591177
Well the thing is we aren't in a position to need or want spider tanks right now anyways, which is why I switched to putting it on the back-burner.

I just originally thought this would have been a missed opportunity if we didn't go for it.

I would, however, like in the future to put more research into the principles behind it so that we could develop smaller lightweight versions capable of climbing stairs inside buildings and such for use in urban/destroyed environments. Almost sort of a power armor style. Power Armor shouldn't be restricted to the human form if there are easier solutions.

Also Tachikomas.

But that's a long-term strategy.

I swear to . . . . The random number generator. That if this quest turns to spider tank autism again, I'm going to pursue the fallout genocide route and make damn sure the only survivors are on an oil rig off the California coast.

>>3591995
>>3591242
>>3591177
>>3591150
>>3591081
>>3591074

Back! Sorry for the delay but there was IRL work to do. Did you know that you can cook fish in high-performance heat transfer fluid?

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>>3592005

Hello, Foreman!

You are planning out CATS' operation for the month. Rules for allocating personnel and assets: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Quest2Rules.html

Actions are listed by complexity. Each crew costs 1 bag of Nicks to deploy for incidental expenses, subcontractors and so on. Additional costs will be marked as needed.

Thanks to your youthful energy, you can deploy yourself on TWO actions in most cases. You can even risk your own life on a covert action, if you so choose!

Performing an action outside of your home territory will also require the availability of (complexity) fleet assets, OR increase complexity by the missing assets.

The Ghilotti Brothers left a message while you were in New Babylon: they thank you for the loan, and would like to know if you would prefer to have your money back back or retain the services of the rapid demolition team. (Counts as having 1 covert ops team in your home territory, or on the defense).

What are your orders for the month?

C0:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a trusted agent.

Buy equipment on the open market:
Power generation 1
Small arms 1
Network equipment 2
Fleet assets 2
Aerospace part 3

C1:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a work or covert team.

Build network equipment.

Install a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet at your preference).

C2:

Do research (1~3).

Build an aerospace part.

Build a secondary base (no fleet reqs for that territory).

C3:

Recruit a work team.

Prepare a satellite launch, which will happen next month. Requires an aerospace part.

Do research (4~6). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

C4:

Recruit a covert team. Requires small arms to equip them with.

Do research (7~9). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

Construct a network node (Secondary base: unifies cell and net in the region, avglower at start) (Not researched yet).

C5:

Rush a satellite launch, which will happen at the end of this month. Requires an aerospace part.

Do research (10). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

>>3592008
> retain the Brothers goons

>Survey a territory for opportunity using a work or covert team.

>Build network equipment.

>Install a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet at your preference).

>>3592008

So far, you've surveyed Mexico, finding a startup researching dew collectors, and Bulgaria, finding a grateful-to-Carpatescu populace and a former MCPO training camp that has been handed over for advanced Global Community security training instead of being wound down like most of the world's military assets.

On your recent trip, you also found out that Carpatescu's voice didnt't go through your Nomenklator's microphone at least in one instance (or was it jammed?) and that his security people are apparently extremely twitchy when nuclear power is mentioned. Given that the Rapture's official explanation was "radiation from decades of nuclear testing" and one of Carpatescu's first policies was complete denuclearization, this may be understandable...


>>3592026

Costs: Survey 1

Pylon 1+1 network part - where would you like it?

This ties up 2 work teams; you have 5 available.

>>3592034
let's survey up in Canada

build Pylons for internet in Mexico

have the rest work on satellites?

>>3592047
I could get behind this.

Next turn we should get a covert team together though. The earlier we do that the more secure they'll be and we can use them to start getting off the books resources.

Can't be here much tonight but I have faith in the players!

>>3592056
Yeah sound good to me

>>3592047

Your Mk1 microsatellites have worked, but you'd have to buy the parts on the open market, or manufacture them, before you can launch more. (You're out of aerospace parts!)

>>3592056

Fortunately, there are plenty of private investigators in the Chicago area that you can hire.

>>3592061

(So what'll it be for this turn?)

>>3592065
Ok, so we have 4 of the crew's manufacture aerospace parts keeping the fifth in reserve for emergencies.

look into discreetly hire on two covert crews this turn.

this good with everyone?

>>3592083

So far I have:

* Survey Canada personally

* 4 crew on microsatellite manufacturing

* 1 crew on constructing a pylon in Mexico

is this accurate?

You, the Foreman, can also use your second action to assist one of the work crews.

>>3592097
looks good to me, if anyone else feels like chiming in feel free to do so.

>>3592097
Yes

>>3592097
>>3592117
>>3592134

Wait guys what a about recruiting. How about we but 1 part and send 2 on recruiting 2 on building. We need to keep recruiting eaely the more we do it early the better we will be off late game

>>3592141

You can underman the construction efforts, but microsatellites are a new technology- there's about even odds of your work crews wasting their time. You're familiar enough with the technology to mitigate that if you supervise, of course.

(If you underman a project, a die will be rolled to see if you get it done anyway or not. For example, sending 2 crews to deal with a compleixity 3 job means it'll get done on a 33+ on a 1d100. )

>>3592097
Also we should work out our budget now we have 24 funds over 3 turns.

That menas we can afford 8 work action a turn a s we should try to get our work teams to that point as having then build is cheaper then buying. We also need to start researching as in the last game that did make some things cheaper.

What i actually vote for is buy 2 areospace parts and set 2 teams on research sattalite 2 teams on recruit 1 for making that pylon sure.

That ill leave us with 13 funds. Meaning we can do 6 a actions next turn preferably 2 launches and 2 on recruit.
That last turn we will have 7 teams to work with our 7 funds allowing us to make 1 areospace part for 2 a d immediate launch a sattalite for 5 to get that global coverage this quarter.

Anyone dissagree or have a different plan?

>>3592149
no undermanning the project is a bad idea and is just asking for trouble

>>3592149
I think its fine if we only underman it by one and then support it personally. It hasnt failed us yet.

>>3592168
>>3592160

(Y'all tell me! In the meantime, would you like any information on anything?)

>>3592168
All right I'll back you up on this one.

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>3592190
>>3592168

So I have:

2 crews recruiting
2 crews building an aerospace part
1 crew constructing a pylon in Mexico

The total cost is 5 bags of Nicks and 1 stack of network parts.

In the meantime, you're headed to Canada on a fact-finding trip, and

# pick a group to help with your second action! I'd imagine recruitment, but you tell me :)

>>3592205
help out with the recruiting

>>3592211
Yeah this
>>3592205
Can we also buy 1 aerospace part?

>>3592205
Help recruitment.

>>3592219

You sure can! Now that microsatellites have been prototyped, owing to your status as a government agency, you've published your datasheet, resulting in a few copycats. Of course, it'll cost more than it would if you were to do it in house. (3 bags of Nicks vs. 2 bags and the time of 2 crews).

The world has slowly been recovering from the Event, to the point that the open market is exhibiting signs of vibrancy: you can order as many parts as you can afford.

>>3592219
it's not worth the price increase.

>>3592220
>>3592211

You settle in for yet another round of interviews. Your people have worked together for a season, now: you're beginning to identify trends among people who join CATS.

You may be getting better at finding prospective recruits, and choose to focus on

# diversity, wanting to find it easy to have at least one person in a work crew speaking any major language

# uniformity, in order to make production tasks run smoother.

Carpatescu's globalist push is well and good for a politician, but you're the arbiter of what will get results, and you have to work with this generation, not the next.

You receive the first grainy, pixelated digital video from Mexico as your workers there construct additional pylons to follow the first, improving the

# cellular

# internet

infrastructure of the former country to the point that it starts to match up with that of its former northern neighbor.

Before month's end, you have another batch of microsatellites ready for launch. Each launch vehicle scatters a handful of them in slightly different orbits, to improve redundancy, by the simple expedient of allowing a "satelloon" to inflate in the middle of the cluster and push the active microsats away. A few of your idle crew take the time to go outside at night with microwave antenna and bounce signals off the satelloons; the bandwidth is terrible, but you should be able to use them to send Morse code or simple teletype-style messages in case your active satellites were to somehow all die off.

# End month

# Wait

>>3592264
># uniformity, in order to make production tasks run smoother.

># internet

># end month

>>3592264
> # diversity, wanting to find it easy to have at least one person in a work crew speaking any major language

We're a global organization.

> # internet

We should be able to merge cellular and internet eventually.

> # Wait

For what?

>>3592281

Not much to wait for in this case, but it's always OK to ask for more information on the state of the world at large!

>>3592293
How Fulcire doing?

>>3592321

As far as you know, Mr. Folgore is still in Bulgaria, undergoing training derived from all thing out of their version of the Navy Seals. Why would Carpatescu train special forces?

>>3592281
>>3592273

(Pick one or don't worry about picking, eithergood!)

>>3591150
I must now decide between MGS and GITS

>>3592328
UNIFORMITY WILL LEAD US TO VICTORY

>>3592236
Yeah it is what else are we gonna spend the 1 budget on do you have a counter to mine?

>>3592344
STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY, A THOUSAND THOUGHTS, INFINITE PLANS, EVERY VICTORY. ALL THINGS ARE ONE THING.

>>3592351
Do we have to spend it now?

>>3592005
>cook fish in high-performance heat transfer fluid?
Was it still edible afterwards?

Also isn't there some why to chemically cook it with like lime or lemon juice?

># uniformity, in order to make production tasks run smoother.

># internet

# Wait
Did we deploy our selves for all possible actions?

>>3592353
We have to spend it in 3 turns we are a government agency. Spend it or loose it is the policy thats why i posted the budget here
>>3592158

It allows us to fly 2 satellites next turn and then do the last one on the third turn so we have gloval coverage by the end of the quarter. Get us a big bonus.

>>3592353

Your budget does not carry across trimesters (use it or lose it), unless you come to... alternative arrangements, but month by month you can do what you wish - you don't have to spend it now, merely at the end of the trimester. The open market is in good shape, right now.

>>3592328
I'll support diversity in this instance only because we need the ability to operate overseas. We can't do that if we only know English.

>>3592359

You went to Canada (I still have to do the writeup) and helped with the recruiting.

Yes, it's still edible afterwards. Interesting middle between boiling and frying it.

So nothing on my budget are we gonna plan each trimester or just flail each turn. Im open to changes i just want us to do forward planning each term?

>>3592365

While there are a few language issues within your workforce, you expect that the ability to have at least one native of whatever former country your workgroups travel to will help with local relations; Carpathia's globalist push, while idealistic, counted too much on his exceptional charisma as a public speaker, which some believed to be supernatural. As a mere mortal yourself, you had to get backup plans in place.

The trip to Canada was relatively uneventful; you visited

# Sudbury, where a neutrino observatory has been built in a depleted coal mine. Neutrino-based communication has long been a pipe dream, and they'd like to talk.

# Winnipeg: the tech scene there is surprisingly vibrant. You can probably share some research data with them.

# Vancouver: for whatever reason, now that immigration restrictions within each subpotentate's territory are gone, the city is poaching a lot of industrial workforce from the former US.


>>3592372

(OOC I would recommend a bit of forward planning, however, it's also OK to just buy a bunch of stuff every third month.... if you think that the free market will remain in place).

>>3592361
Well the three sattelite = global coverage is attractive for now.

I'm just slightly concerned about what the next stage after achieving that goal is.

>>3592379
> No Calgary, Alberta to invest in energy supplies.

> # Sudbury, where a neutrino observatory has been built in a depleted coal mine. Neutrino-based communication has long been a pipe dream, and they'd like to talk

Also where they prpduce a ton of uranium, weren't we concerned with Nuclear power?

>>3592387

(Damn good point about Alberta, I was saving that for Texas, but yes,

# Alberta is also an option).

>>3592387

# The Sudbury guys have very precise detectors, and there are uranium mines in the area.

>>3592380
We figure it our then our real deadline is the end od the world. Getting our budget a d workforce and trust in us as high as possible before then is paramount until we have a new plan

>>3592387
Well we know the antichrist does not like nuclear power. Whether this means thats a idea or we should go for or nor it is yet to be decided only that if we do it should be secret.

>>3592379
>ill go with sadbury too then

>>3592404
Also if we want to do the three sattalites this quarter we need that second aviation piece this turn.

>>3592404
This is why we need cached resources.

So that we can buy stuff like that.

Hrm.

We didn't get any extra budget so actuay I want to save that 1 resource now and use it along with a covert ops team to stockpile uranium.

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>>3592404
>>3592397

The detector looks like a beryllium sphere from a Star Trek knockoff, but the reams of data shown to you make it easy to tell even for the uninitiated that this is the real thing.

Neutrino, contrary to popular misconception, don't travel faster than light: they simply interact with matter a lot less than photons do, therefore, travel away from the event that created them slightly faster than the average photon. Such was the case, for example, in 1987 when a neutrino burst preceded the observation of a supernova 185000 light years away by a few hours.

The person who's giving you the tour, Dr. Robertson, is clearly passionate about his job.

"... so by milliseconds to hours, we get the scoop on essentially any major anomalous event, such as a solar flare or a supernova. This lets us warn conventional optical and radio telescopes as to where they should aim their reflectors. We're hoping to be able to confirm or disprove the existence of gravity waves someday! We've even teamed up with the Super Proton Synchrotron group at CERN to send messages THROUGH the Earth!"

"Sounds interesting" you note, although this is somewhat academic for you.

"The only major thing we couldn't see" Dr. Robertson continues "was, well, the Event. That registered on absolutely nothing, no sensors, no interferometry, nothing The only correlation we found with, well, anything, was a slight drop in ambient radiation. Unfortunately, some... idiot leaked that out to Global Weekly, and thus we got the cockamamie 'radiation did it' story."

You're familiar with that.

"All we could confirm is that the missing people were gone: a Russian team used our computers and gravitometers to cross-correlate the orbital variation in Molniya satellites near perigee to indicate that some mass disappeared from Earth."

"How do you mean, Doctor?"

"Whatever hit us, also took away some nuclear material, or else altered nuclear decay rates. The neutrino detector is very susceptible to noise, so we have to subtract noise from ambient radiation to do our measurements, hence why we are at the bottom of a coal mine, which is how we know."

# Interesting. Would you be interested in working with us? We'd divert some funding to your research group in return for keeping you on retainer.

# Does that mean nuclear bombs and plants no longer work, or work diffferently?

# Can we hire some of your grad students for a month to do a radiometric survey? We might want to do some uranium mining further north.

>>3592372
Stockpile spare parts, its not like when shtf really hard we can just casually make more. Put the cash into extra parts or something. Hire a PMC and security company, can put security for our infrastructure and draw men from PMC to do Covert stuff. Special Forces soldiers are probably out of a job and a dime a dozen.

>>3592404
I think he doesn't really care, rather the people he put in charge of explain away the rapture people do not like nuclear power. I figure we can wire tap the secretary and do Nuke power on the side since he probably cares more about stuff like that than what we may be doing on the down low... If we present the wire tap info to him he may just overlook it.

>>3592456

# Interesting. Would you be interested in working with us? We'd divert some funding to your research group in return for keeping you on retainer.

# Does that mean nuclear bombs and plants no longer work, or work diffferently?

# Can we hire some of your grad students for a month to do a radiometric survey? We might want to do some uranium mining further north.

ALL OF THEM!

ALL IN!

>>3592467

Your Nomenklator isn't active inside the neutrino observatory, simply because you're a couple miles below ground in an installation designed to block as much radio interference as possible, so an instant cost estimate is not available to you.

"I'd love to know! One of Carpatescu's first actions was to mothball all nuclear power plants. With the drop in population, they weren't necessary, and a few of them had gone into emergency mode due to personnel disappearing. Nobody wants another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island or worse. I supported it at the time, not that anyone asked. But to my knowledge, none have been reopened. I don't know what they did with the military power plants like submarines or carriers, but it's getting to the point where it's hard to procure specialized isotopes for research. I suppose we can be happy that nuclear war isn't a danger anymore, since Carpatescu had all the warheads dismantled, so there's that. You're young, you probably don't remember what it was like to live under the specter of mutually assured destruction..."

(Both options then?)

>>3592467
yeah

>>3592493
yes

>>3592493
Yeah

>>3592493
The fact that they have SOME isotopes left means that they weren't all changed.

We need to investigate which ones were retained and in what conditions.

>>3592505
>>3592527

"Well... that would be excellent!"

You work out the conditions and use a wall phone to confirm with your accounting department.

> -1BN budget to keep Robertson and team on retainer until the contract is rescinded
> One workgroup will be sent to Canada next month to assist the grad students with their survey, costing an additional 1 bag of Nicks
> You will gain the services of 1 dedicated research workgroup
> You will gain the services of Dr. Robertson once a month

"Is this acceptable?"

>>3592543
>Yes

>>3592456
This is good.

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>>3592551
>>3592569

Hello, Foreman!

You are planning out CATS' operation for the month. Rules for allocating personnel and assets: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Quest2Rules.html

Actions are listed by complexity. Each crew costs 1 bag of Nicks to deploy for incidental expenses, subcontractors and so on. Additional costs will be marked as needed.

Thanks to your youthful energy, you can deploy yourself on TWO actions in most cases. You can even risk your own life on a covert action, if you so choose!

Performing an action outside of your home territory will also require the availability of (complexity) fleet assets, OR increase complexity by the missing assets.

Note that you have promise to deploy one work crew to perform a radiometry survey across Canada, so that's tied for the month.

Dr. Robertson is a competent physicist, but more than that, he has decades of experiences in lab management: deploying him on a research project will simplify matters considerably, especially if the research project is within his area of expertise.

The rumor mill has it that Carpatescu is going to be able to sign the deal bringing Israel into the Global Community soon; this would open the sale of the Eden fertilizer and, according to press releases, complete the elimination of world hunger.

Here are your options.

C0:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a trusted agent.

Buy equipment on the open market:
Power generation 1
Small arms 1
Network equipment 2
Fleet assets 2
Aerospace part 3

C1:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a work or covert team.

Build network equipment.

Install a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet at your preference).

C2:

Do research (1~3).

Build an aerospace part.

Build a secondary base (no fleet reqs for that territory).

C3:

Recruit a work team.

Prepare a satellite launch, which will happen next month. Requires an aerospace part.

Do research (4~6). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

C4:

Recruit a covert team. Requires small arms to equip them with.

Do research (7~9). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

Construct a network node (Secondary base: unifies cell and net in the region, avglower at start) (Not researched yet).

C5:

Rush a satellite launch, which will happen at the end of this month. Requires an aerospace part.

Do research (10). None of your research programs are far ahead enough.

>>3592592

2 teams on recruit along with us
2 teams on research on sattalite (so we have a deticated research team now? Can that be listed d does that mean we only use 1 work team on this?)
3 teams on launching satalite or 2 if we dont have thay research team. Along with us.
>buy 2 areospace part

>>3592638
support

>>3592638

You don't have a dedicated research team, but you can ask Dr. Robertson to supervise your research teams instead of doing it yourself. Since it's his job, he will do a better job of that than you. You can also ask him to supervise survey or production efforts, but he's not going to be as effective, of course. He is available for one action per month.

>>3592696
Then yeah have him supervise research this is great we can have the 2 teams on launching a sattalite with us.

Rolled 5, 98 = 103 (2d100)

>>3592638
>>3592713

That's 7 teams total. You have 6 available, and you've earmarked 1 to go to Canada and perform a radiometric survey.

>>3592791
Right fuck erm take 1 off of research then as we have dr. Robertson to help

>>3592696
Can we use his contacts to recruit a dedicated research work team?

Ideally one we could fund with spare Nicks to advance research in?

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>3592821

"i'm keeping my best students with me, Foreman, unless we find something really interesting together. In which case, I get first authorship on all the publications, and you get the economic returns. If you want to just give me a team, we can certainly do that, but then I'll be busy managing them to go on field trips! Fair enough?"

# Sounds good. Dr. Robertson will be removed from the roster in exchange for an extra free research roll every month. He will report to you in case of anything extraordinary, but you won't be able to tell him what to do.

# You'd rather keep some flexibility; let's keep the current arrangement.

>>3592815

The team you sent to Canada meets up with a number of nuclear engineering and geology students, and provide you with a map of Canada uranium mines. All of them have been shut down, but you identify one that can be reopened with relative ease, largely due to its remote location. Funny enough, it's called the Eldorado Mine. It's in the Northwest Territories, and has been prospected for radium, uranium and silver - it was used to extract material for the original Manhattan Project nukes, and kept open until the early 1960s after which it was declared exhausted. Since your prospectors have better gear, they were able to find another vein. The silver isn't very interesting at current market prices, sadly, although it might have industrial uses.

# Ask for use of the mine to your "landlord" subpotentate, Mr. Dimmsdale.

# Keep it under wraps for now - if you reopen the mine you will do so covertly.

>>3592815

That's 6 teams. You're still 1 short since you promised to send one to Canada.

Even a little understaffed, Dr. Robertson gives you excellent results: the Mk2 microsatellites feature better bandwidth and, perhaps most interestingly, a low resolution camera. You won't be able to read the license plate off a vehicle any time soon of course, but they can spot a small brush fire before it gets big, or the beginning of the formation of a hurricane.

>>3592872
# Sounds good. Dr. Robertson will be removed from the roster in exchange for an extra free research roll every month. He will report to you in case of anything extraordinary, but you won't be able to tell him what to do.
Have him train 1 research team before we revert back to current deal.

# Keep it under wraps for now - if you reopen the mine you will do so covertly.
Under wraps until we know him better or get more of his favor.

>>3592905
>>3592821

You may be a cabinet-level officer, but a lab manager in academia, especially one with tenure, tends to be the king or queen of their castle.

# You've got to pick one of the two.

# Send your goon squad to force compliance. Knowledge isn't power; power is power. And you know where he lives.


>>3592872

You have 4 teams left after having sent 1 to Canada and used 1 to work on improving the microsatellites. Confirm recruitment and satellite launch?

>>3592872
> # Keep it under wraps for now - if you reopen the mine you will do so covertly.

> # Sounds good. Dr. Robertson will be removed from the roster in exchange for an extra free research roll every month. He will report to you in case of anything extraordinary, but you won't be able to tell him what to do.
Have him train 1 research team before we revert back to current deal.

We should look into training his students to go put in his stead later.

Also, we can always offer him MONEY instead of violence.

>>3592872
No that's 6 teams

1 to Robinson
1 on science
2 on recruit
2 on sattalite.
Where is the 7th coming from?

>>3592905
> Keep it under wraps
> keep flexibility i like the current arangement.