>>3598034
># Ask what his terms are.

Yeah for the multiverse?

>>3598034
# Make an offer.
"If it's hard to maintain control of this Continent then perhaps it's better to use the tools you can stumble into that make things difficult for you can also be used to make keeping control easier. Implementing those tools is why Carpatescu employed me to set up the network infrastructure here, and it can be made to work to your benifit."

>>3598058

(New thread partially because this way we don't know who derped last time since colors and tripcodes change, let's not hold grudges!)

>>3598066
I like your style man, that's very considerate of you.

>>3598058
>>3598065

(can I get a second on either?)

>>3598082
Can I clean up the Grammer on mine. I wrote it in a rush

>>3598087

(Sure! English isn't my first language so no sweat)

>>3598034
Thank you. Thank you so much for this second chance.


>>3598065
I'll support this.

>>3598089
"If your having a hard time keeping control perhaps instead of rejecting the technology that can make things difficult for you, instead you use it to make keeping things under control easier. This kind of implementation is why Carpatescu employed me to make this infrastructure here, and I can make it work to your benefit as well. No need for bribes or corruption, and we don't both end up dead for crossing our respective betters."

>>3598110
>>3598106

"Who says I'm having a hard time keeping control?" the old man asks impulsively, then sits back down, takes a breath, and tries to appear statesmanlike. To his credit, he changes gears faster than a Vespa scooter.

"Oh, I see what you mean. Please, forgive my poor understanding of American English. Yes, I believe we can work together in the future, you and I. For now, please accept my thanks for your work so far."

"So" and his accent thickens, possibly for public consumption by the guards "wah kand a technology woud ya like to pioneer heah?"

# E-payments are the way of the future. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa#Kenya ) Let's move in that direction. It would also make it easier to keep an eye and a hand on the economy.

# Since there is little analog infrastructure here, let's unify voice and data nodes in order to bring things up to speed quickly.

# We are administrators, not engineers. I'll have my engineers prepare you a prospect, and your engineers can then recommend you approve it or not. There's no rush, after all, did we not just finally achieve world peace?

>>3598124
># We are administrators, not engineers. I'll have my engineers prepare you a prospect, and your engineers can then recommend you approve it or not. There's no rush, after all, did we not just finally achieve world peace?

>>3598124
# Since there is little analog infrastructure here, let's unify voice and data nodes in order to bring things up to speed quickly.

Propose that they can be made to record and track his enemies. That's what a dictator would want. To be able to observe his enemies. Naturally we can work around this easy. The average civilian or Christian missionary, not so much.

File: wakanda-sometimes-303050[1].jpg (222 KB, 610x638)

222 KB JPG

>>3598124
> wah kand a

>>3598124

>>3598133
This as well fusing communication in this way will inspire a unification in cultire in language allowing there to be less conflixts and barriers to due it over time

>>3598143
>>3598133

"... and of course, it would be easy to keep an eye on the balance of power if most information went through this channel."

"I don't understand a word you said about digital this and analog that, but I think I get your gist. Yes, Mr. Foreman, I think we have a deal."

The old man shakes your hand and leads you out. The hot, salty air feels surprisingly good. The guards outside are at least nominally on your side, although they are on loan..."


# Get the heck home, this was scary enough!

# Start laying the groundwork for the new unified system right here and now by talking to your workers.

>>3598175
>start laying the groundwork right here and now!

>>3598175
># Start laying the groundwork for the new unified system right here and now by talking to your workers.

>>3598175
# Start laying the groundwork for the new unified system right here and now by talking to your workers.

>>3598182
>>3598188
>>3598199

Your group gathers round the newest pylon.

The Cellular-Solar system is... well, pretty inspired, actually. You should know: your contribution to the technical side of the design of it is what got you the job, after all.

Each pylon allows for voice and low-bandwidth data communication, automatically gives preference to first responders, and even in its prototype incarnation can be built quite tough.

Digital voice is a bit of a radical step, but will give us a lot more flexibility later on. The only issue is that making it work properly will require long-range connections that would not be covered by the mesh; a centralized network node. These will be expensive to erect, but can function as secondary staging areas for your people since you will find reason to move people in and out for maintenance, and effectively unify the cellular and internet coverage for the people in the region. Unfortunately, people will have to be talked into adopting the new system, so initial adoption rates will suffer. Now that you have a government budget, maybe it's worth looking into.

Building a unified network node would be a significant endeavor, but the reward would be that afterwards the network infrastructure for that territory could be switched between voice and data without any overhead.

# Try it here: Pick an African territory to build a network node in next month. Complexity 4.

# Try it back home, and make a token effort to install something here. Rehoboth will expect one more Cellular-Solar pylon, but the old man wouldn't be able to tell a 1920s radio mast from a cellular tower.

As you huddle to work out how to do the new system, the current system pings you with an email to tell you that the satellite launches happened without a hitch, for once. GNN can now be picked up everywhere in the world!

>>3598210
># Try it here: Pick an African territory to build a network node in next month. Complexity 4.

>>3598210
>try it back home

once its done we can make one down here guys it will be more beneficial in our capital as itll make our landlord like us more by bring ing ecinomic stability.

>>3598223
switching to this

File: Global_Community_Map_turn8.png (105 KB, 1600x937)

105 KB PNG

>>3598252
>>3598223

You've made no specific promises to Rebohoth, so there's that. You get back home with your crew and feel remarkably happy about being back on your home turf when you do.

The accountants aren't happy about the huge expenditure, but when are they ever? They do recommend that you purchase some fleet assets so that you don't have to keep renting them.

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.


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).

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 (unifies cell and internet for that territory).

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.

>>3598278
Can you explain the fleet assets to us. So renting them is when we need to use without owning correct? What are the price differences? And i assume we purchase the turn before we use.

>>3598278
Also i see expert system in research what is that?

>>3598285

(It should be 2/10, my bad)

The Nomenklator system is your front end for something that the comp-sci guys are doing, when they have the time; eventually they hope to automate or at least semiautomate basic tasks.

>>3598282

If you have 1 fleet assets, and undertake an operation of complexity 2 in another region (color), you will spend an extra 1 to make up for the difference, on top of the 2 you spend to undertake it.

You currently have 0 fleet assets.

The disadvantage of having fleet assets is that they must be purchased and may sometimes be lost, which is less of a concern if you rent. Fleet assets represent barges, tugs, business jets, bush planes, trucks, train cars, and the like.

So guys we have 6 cellular and 8 internet nodes missing and 9 budget we are real low. i think we should make a deal with the african leader to give us funding from his specifically if we prioritize their lands over others on our projects.

I think for this turn we should use 1 personal action to negotiate with the african leader and 1 to negotiate with the south american leader for the same thing. They are bith development poor countries and could use the preferential treatment
For our teams i think we should put
>4 om recruiting a covert team
>2 on cellular solar research
>1 on build network equipment

Then use scientist to support well research

>>3598278
So the 14 budget went into renting fleet and lanuching sattalites?

File: FAST-GOOD-wagner[1].jpg (69 KB, 800x743)

69 KB JPG

>>3598307

Correct on the budget. Things can be done well and quickly, but it won't be cheap....

>>3598278
>>3598307
Well im voting for my plan unless anyone else has ideas.

>>3598307
yeah

>>3598307
This is a good idea. Since we can actually garentee a return on investment.

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>3598373
>>3598377

Mr. Rehoboth and Mrs. Santiago are surprisingly receptive, especially after you gift both of them with one of those laptops David Hassid had prepared (and possibly had stolen a couple of). Nobody blames you for conducting the negotiations remotely, as a way to show off the tech

# unless you want to go to either of those places in person at least once.

Recruiting a security team isn't even difficult: Chicago is fairly full of

# underemployed gumshoes, they can shoot, and are very good at snooping around, but don't work well together tactically.

# unemployed former soldiers, less keen on the subterfuge, much more used to operating together tactically.

You keep working on the new network node design, with Dr. Robertson's assistance, of course. He has something to contribute, a grad student whose job is to design extremely precise antennas.

This research team works hand in hand with a production team, to get the new generation of Cellular-Solar out.

>>3598396
># unemployed former soldiers, less keen on the subterfuge, much more used to operating together tactically.

>>3598396
>unemployed former soldiers. This will be far better.

>lets go to south ameria as we have already met the african leader in person.
Lets not get shot this time guys.

>>3598396
# unemployed former soldiers, less keen on the subterfuge, much more used to operating together tactically.

Subterfuge can be trained. Cooperation is more difficult.

File: hqdefault[1].jpg (8 KB, 480x360)

8 KB JPG

>>3598439
>>3598409
>>3598425

The "Global Community Weekly", the magazine William Cameron works at, prints a small article about CATS actively recruiting veterans as part of a program to reabsorb them into civilian life after the demilitarization. The article is overall positive.

You can now use a covert team as personal escort, to escort a workgroup, or to remove or at least delay "obstacles" in various territories. If you have sufficient fleet assets, you can even set them up for rapid deployment.

>>3598425

You briefly meet with Colonel Corazon Santiago. She seems less interested in network nodes, and prefers infrastructure to be as decentralized as possible. "We appreciate the Cellular-Solar system, don't get me wrong, but we don't want to become dependent on it."

# Let her know about the satelloons: ham radio enthusiasts can use them, too.

# So it goes. Let's not give oaway secrets.

>>3598459
# Let her know about the satelloons: ham radio enthusiasts can use them, too.

State that these require more work to set up and use that as leverage for an increase in funding.

>>3598459
Yeah let do
>>3598469

>>3598469
>>3598469

"Interesting. Yes, I think we can work with you. Understand that we are on board with Carpatescu's plan, but people here have lived with brigands and bandits for five hundred years, in some places. Armed peace is the best peace."

# I agree, so much so that I've just hired an armed guard.

# I agree, I should learn to shoot.

# I disagree.

>>3598479
>I agree so much so that I have hired and armed guard.

>Our communications and satellite networking will make it much easier for your armed forces to communicate as well we are developing technology on our sattalites to attach cameras to get images of the ground. It is low quality for now but I assure you with your funding I can focus our resarch teams on this and your forces will be able to find bandit camps easily and have a eye in the sky to spot for hostiles.

Geist could we have a side objective list along with our main objective for the things we have agreed to do and what we need to do to keep thay agreement?

>>3598479
# I agree, I should learn to shoot.

# In fact I believe the first ammendment of the United States should be followed as the founders meant it. Every law abiding man should be allowed to own a tank and artillery gun in his garage.

>>3598493

(Good idea on the side objective list, yeah, thanks! Will do next situation image!)

>>3598496
Not sure we should talk american this is from south america after all. I dont think they would appricate the sentiment.

>>3598496
Second*
>>3598497
>>3598493
This should do.

>>3598479
># I agree, I should learn to shoot.

>>3598496
Cough second amendment

>>3598507
First, second, you tend to forget when your typing.

>>3598512
>>3598496
>>3598507

"Yes, you should! I was a range instructor, oh, about a century ago. Want me to give you some pointers?"

# Join Col. Santiago at the range.

# Not safe.

She appreciates the 2nd amendment concept, and will discuss keeping it around next time she and the other subpotentates meet with Carpatescu. She seems a lot less keen on surveillance, oddly enough - definitely less than Rehoboth was.

"You've got to understand, we've had yanquis keep an eye on us since forever. We're happy to be well rid of that, at least int heroy."

>>3598553
# Join Col. Santiago at the range.
"The Yankees understood one concept exceptionally well back in the day. An armed society doesn't have to deal with bandit filth. Although I do believe in the old original interpretation. I believe there's a right to artillery myself."

>>3598553
># Join Col. Santiago at the range.

creating allies one encounter at a time

>>3598553
>Join Col. Santiago at the range.

>>3598553
# Join Col. Santiago at the range.
How old is she?

File: LRzofdy.png (771 KB, 861x520)

771 KB PNG

>>3599005
Frisky now that our character has a dick instead of a male connector plug?

>>3599017
Not into brownskins.

It said she was a firearms instructor a century ago, so shes over 100...

File: 1200px-Federal_law_enforc(...).jpg (173 KB, 1200x900)

173 KB JPG

>>3599005

>>3599022

She meant it metaphorically.


>>3598644
>>3598576

She has one of those Andine faces that could be a very harried thirty, or a serene fifty - her hair is jet black, and she probably dyes it.

You join her at the range to find police officers, some local some wearing a Global Community armband, being drilled in trigger discipline as well as marksmanship.

You don't do particularly good when it comes to hitting the target, but she's impressed with your willingness to learn and attention to trigger discipline and safety.

"I'm not at all a fan of your surveillance measures, but I think we can work together. Know that you're welcome to return."

# Formalize a deal.

# Take the goodwill for now, and wrap up the month.

>>3599029
># Formalize a deal.
I can't see the downside of having this in writing.

>>3599029
5 and 7 look like tards.

# Formalize a deal.

>>3599029
# Formalize a deal.

File: latest[2].png (1 KB, 215x215)

1 KB PNG

>>3599042
>>3599040
>>3599037

Col. Santiago proposes that if you make sure the satellites over her territories have no cameras, she will ensure that your organization receives

# access to paramilitary training for your work squads; they will have less of a need for escorts.

# access to the black market, where you may find various stimulants and somewhat better weapons than you'd be able to get legally, such as tommy guns and anti-materiel rifles.

# "unconventional" training for your covert squads. Knowing how to use a rifle is good, knowing how to use a rifle and a garrote is better.

"I am loyal to Carpatescu, you understand. He is idealistic, and we need that. But he thinks in terms of absolutes. I believe in the doctrine of flexibility. My people have made it clear that they are tired of empty promises more than they are tired of war, and so if war comes again, we will deal it our way. Si vis pacem, para bellum."

>>3599049
># access to the black market, where you may find various stimulants and somewhat better weapons than you'd be able to get legally, such as tommy guns and anti-materiel rifles.

If she adds in.
># access to paramilitary training for your work squads; they will have less of a need for escorts.
We'll let her know the back doors into Robert Mugabe's network when we're done with it.

>>3599054

Are you making this proposal immediately, or is it something you plan to do later on?

Santiago smiles. "You know, the last person who asked that was CIA. He's one of the few who expected the CIA to get disbanded, and wanted to make it, well, self-funding. I reckoned that the world doesn't need that after what it's done to our countries."

Looks like you have a deal, or part of one! Black market added.

>>3599049
># "unconventional" training for your covert squads. Knowing how to use a rifle is good, knowing how to use a rifle and a garrote is better.

why not go all out

>>3599060
Hmmn. Tempting. We could do that one instead of the work crew training.
>>3599059
>>3599049
"I have no intention to become the new CIA. They've created enough problems Homeland. However I do believe it's better for the world if you have the better footing than Robert does, and we could use the training."

>>3599064
>>3599060

Santiago seems amenable to any one of these options, although she sneered a little bit at mentioning the drug trade. Through the Nomenklator, you learn that most of your accountants won't even touch the idea, but those that do estimate that Carpatescu will legalize quite a few drugs in the following years, and there's money to be made in between since legalization is often preceded by a drop in enforcement.

>>3599065
I have more concern with the medical possibilities of the drug trade than the recreational use.

>>3599070

You can try telling her that, but given her life story she's about as likely to believe you as she'd believe... well, Carpatescu's promises of world peace, if he didn't have the absolutely unearthly charisma he has. As it is, you're only flesh and blood (and a bit of silicon and plastic if you want to count the Nomenklator hidden above your ear).

>>3599073
"Our Interest in the chemicals side of black market is for medical reasons, see I did some digging after one of my scientist found that a lot of radioactive isotopes vanished from the earth when the majority of the Christians did. And as it turns out one of those isotopes was used in radiology medicines extensively. Since that's become an issue, my interest has become piqued."

>>3599075

"Interesting, that. Maybe I'll have my men look at it."

# Choose one deal for now

# or try to push for two.

>>3599075
# Choose one deal for now
The black market access.

# Promise her to let her know if we find anything?

>>3599079
># Choose one deal for now

># "unconventional" training for your covert squads. Knowing how to use a rifle is good, knowing how to use a rifle and a garrote is better.

>>3599049
# access to paramilitary training for your work squads; they will have less of a need for escorts.
# "unconventional" training for your covert squads. Knowing how to use a rifle is good, knowing how to use a rifle and a garrote is better.

>>3599065
Why do we let ourselves be recorded in this situation with her? These meetings ought to be private and off the record or to have a localized copy that we keep and decide if it should be deleted or saved later on.

>>3599079
# or try to push for two.
We will owe her a favor and give her something in return, somewhat limited but undocumented access to the new infrastructure set up in her area or something.

>>3599111

That's an excellent qurstion. Other than that you decide what to ask for!

>>3599073
Maybe we can hire some of her employees to act as "observers" at our drug making facilities.

>>3599116
Can we start doing this from now on with sensitive meetings and have a online and offline switch if we need to talk to the techboys? Or simply have a switch that can turn off audio and video feeds and still remain connected. Or both.

>>3599117
Nah we don't even have drug facilities anon.

>>3599086
We'll take this deal, if she comes up with something we work out a deal to get the black market access.

>>3599129
Well we don't have to own them, rather we act contract out or hire people and companies in between. We don't have anything to hide here.

Might be more expensive.

>unconventional training
Unconventional is harder to get, while firearms proficiency in American is VERY easy to acquire. We can even build ourselves a training facility and shooting range for staff if we decide to form a PMC.

>>3599049
>unconventional training for covert squads

>>3599120
Your Nomenklator right now is always on, unless the batteries crap out. However, you are the sole arbiter of what gets released to the public, unless you've got a mole in your HQ. The main limitation is that it can be spotted by someone who knows where to look, and it's audio only.

But yes, that will be presented in the options from now on!


>>3599210
>>3599166

You prepare to leave, knowing that two former Argentinian paramilitary force trainers will follow you on the next flight. They are old, scarred men from a profession in which people don't last long; this bodes well for their skill.

Unlike Rehoboth, Santiago found you personable, and seemed to like the agreement you pushed for, as it aligns with her own beliefs on matters. She leaves you with the following advice:

"Superior training and superior weaponry have, when taken together, a geometric effect on overall military strength. Well-trained, well-equipped troops can stand up to many more times their lesser brethren than linear arithmetic would seem to indicate."

You will not be able to use satellite video surveillance in the United States Of South America, unless you choose to betray Santiago later.

Your covert teams will be trained in improvised weaponry, guerrilla tactics, and good old fashioned intimidation. Since you've mainly recruited soldiers, this will be sold to them as becoming more proficient in counterterrorism by conducting red-team exercises.

File: Global_Community_Map_turn9.png (109 KB, 1600x937)

109 KB PNG

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

Thanks to your youthful energy, you can deploy yourself on TWO actions (in most cases) for a small bonus to all rolls. You can even risk your own life on a covert action, if

you so choose!

Dr. Robertson can be deployed on ONE action for a large bonus to R&D rolls or a medium bonus to production rolls.

Performing an action outside of your home territory will also require the availability of (complexity) fleet assets, OR renting fleet assets out at the cost of 1/asset.

C0:

Survey a territory for opportunity using yourself or a trusted agent. Surveyed: Mexico, Canada, Morocco, Argentina

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

You have no black market contacts yet.

C1:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a team.

Build network equipment.

Install a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet; requires 1 network part)

C2:

Do research (1~3).

Build an aerospace part.

Build a logistics hub (cap 1 fleet requirement for that territory; can deploy covert teams there with no advance notice; costs 1 power)

C3:

Recruit a work team.

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

Do research (4~6).

C4:

Recruit a covert team.

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

Construct a network node. (unifies cell and net in that territory; costs 1 power, 1 network)

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.

What are your orders for the month?

>>3599758
So ww didnt get any funds from them. Damm thats why i wanted to talk to them.

Any idea on how to get more funds guys. Is there anything we can put our work crews on geist to make funds? Sell equipment we create? Like sattalite parts?

>>3599794

You ask your accountants. The scrupulous ones point out that as a government agency you shouldn't compete with private businesses, and your best bet is to use your funds wisely and complete Carpatescu's vision ahead of schedule - the man seems more worried about time than money, after all.


The unscrupulous ones point out that there's probably some money to be made in the drug trade, if black market contacts can be established. One guy who is very likely a member of the Christian Remnant but hasn't given you any reason to doubt his skill points out about the story of Joseph's dream in the Bible, noting that squirreling away excess resources in case of penury later is nothing to be ashamed of.

# Actively start looking around for black market contacts

# Don't, or wait for the opportunity to present itself in a plausibly deniable way.

Someone in your IT department proposes licensing the Nomenklator tech to search engine companies like Altavista and Yahoo: as part of your mandate, most of your research is in the public domain as befits a government agency, but that's a project you set up yourself.

# The Nomenklator won't be a secret anymore, you will get a steady influx of cash (starting at 1BN) depending on how many people use it, you may get some free tech advances thanks to back-licensing.

# You like being the only person aside Carpatescu with an eidetic memory.

"We could also hire out our covert ops team. Carpatescu wants a peaceful world, but we aren't there yet, plenty of people who want to settle little scores before the big guy clamps down on it. Plus they'll get field experience. We could get unlucky enough to see them wiped out though..."

# Add the option from now on.

# Don't.

>>3599794

if we have no money this round we should follow up on the stuff that needs no money. talk to the jewish guy or to the christian guy or travel around and see what we find since the PC gets free plane tickets.

>>3599834
I agree its just our teams will have nothing to do which is rough for then. I dont want to loose teams cus we arent paying them.


>>3599826

> Hire out coverts ops team
> license our the nomenclature in the same way the us government licenses out GPS today. Lets give them a less effective varient and keep a higher quality one for ourselves.
Both of these are good.

How much will covert ops make us?

In fact why dont we pump sattalite make gps and license that too. Is that somthing we can do geist?

could we license out our work teams on publics works porjects in the city for cheap but hopfully provide good will with our landlord?

>>3599884
>>3599834

Part of your mandate is that any technology you develop that is directly related to your core functions, is unpatentable. After the Event, there was a fair amount of mess about intellectual property rights (and real estate, incidentally) so a compromise solution was reached.

Part of why most of the world was anxious to see Carpatescu come to an agreement with the Israeli government is that the latter had essentially taken Chaim Rozenweig's Eden Fertilizer formula and turned it into a state secret, with a couple of minor wars being fought over it or even reverse engineered versions of it. The Israelis effectively gave themselves a regional monopoly on high-value crops and used the proceeds to buy out Lebanon and Syria of about half their territory.

(Lest you think I'm anti-Semitic, this is from the original lore of the setting).

>>3599915
So the fact that the nomenclature is secret allows us to license it out or are we having them pay us for the infrastructure? Same for what could be gps? which is a reasonable eveolution of the satalite tech unless it already exsists.

>>3599927

The Nomenklator was built as a side project.

GPS is something that was invented by the US Navy: with Carpatescu's ascent to power, the system was left in place, with the military signal currently unused. There are some civilian units that are generally bought by hikers with more money than sense, since the civilian signal is intentionally degraded.

(IRL the civilian signal was allowed to operate at full function circa 2001)

>>3600411
Ahh ok so it is already invented and used. So basically we will need more side projects we can use to fund our operations then if we want to go that route.

>>3600415

If you want to do things semi-legally, yes.

>>3600430
Well we gotta at least pretend.

>>3600430
Do ww know how much our covert ops team will earn us? I would like to know before planning the rest od the turn

WE should get that space part ready so we can launch next month.

We can license out the Nomenklator after we gain a advantage over it that other companies can't quite compete against.

>>3599826
# Don't, or wait for the opportunity to present itself in a plausibly deniable way.

# You like being the only person aside Carpatescu with an eidetic memory.

# Add the option from now on.

>>3600464
We dont have enough money to launch the sattalite it costs 3. As well where would we put it. The world is covered.

Do you have any ideas as to how to make money we only have 2 to spread over 2 turns.

>>3600452

Between money and favors, you aren't looking at a great return right now (maybe 1BN?) However, should the world's condition deteriorate, they will be more in demand. Right now there's a glut of muscle, due to the standing down of 90% of the world's armies.

>>3600464

The option will be added.

>>3600475

Increasing satellite coverage makes it easier to enact surveillance, carry multiple data streams, and so on.

>>3600475

This is month 9; your budget will be replenished at the beginning of next month.

>>3600496
Oh im less worried then.

>lets send out the covert team to make money
> 3 teams on buding network equipment.
> 4 teams on vaccation or if they do any anything useful for free.

>lets visit greenland and western america
>lets send our researcher to Russia

Everyone good with that?

>>3600475
>>3600492
We can get a loan from a bank or move into debt and go over budget, which is okay so long as we are more careful next term.

Time is more important than money to our boss, so I think he would be happy with being on time, rather than being a bit over budget.

>>3600534
How about let the idle teams make legal contacts and headhunt or find good workers and teams but not hire them till after our new budget?

>>3600672
If we can i would very much support this

>>3600672
>>3600697

You can definitely ask idle teams to work with only their basic payroll taken care of, yes. Some will agree, some will start looking elsewhere. In general, turnover in your organization has been low: work is getting done and the only person so far who was ever in physical danger, even for a moment, was you (and most of your crew don't know that).

>>3600665

As a government agency that has completed one high profile job, your credit is good. There's nothing in the CATS charter that says you can't do this.

>>3600708
Fuck it then why not lets get a loan. What are our loan options.

>>3600742
I'd say keep it less than a quarter of our income and always pay it back budget.

So get a loan of 4 or 5 maybe?

>>3600822
4 that way we can use all our teams unless

>>3600822
>>3600837

You figure that taking out a short term loan is a reasonable way to get out of the budget issues that your lack of fleet assets has caused you.

# Go personally.

# Send a team, or go with a team. (Costs 1).

# Go personally, but with the covert ops team behind you (Costs 1).

# Send Dr. Robertson, in the hope that his reputation as a preeminent physicist will make things easier.

Either way, you figure you will want to

# include

# exclude

the goon squad in this.

Another option you have is to forgo further use of the goon squad to get your 2BN back from the Ghilotti brothers.

>>3600893

Stahp. Let's not lose long term goodwill for short term gains. I vote we just do 3 things with our teams, use our actions to do other stuff like talking to the Jewish guy or asking David Hassid where the fancy laptops went, and not get into debt.

And also let's buy some fucking trucks so we don't have to keep renting them.

>>3600893
Is there a reason we would want to take anything with us? I dont see why we wouldnt just
>go personally.

>>3600901
I dont think we will loose goodwill isnt it perfectly reasonable to get a loan? I do agree we really need to buy transportation

>>3600907
We can take a Opts team with us to test them and see how well they perform. An evaluation if you will.

>>3600901
I agree with this guy.

>>3600893
# Go personally, but with the covert ops team behind you (Costs 1).
Test em out, give them a shakedown run.

# exclude

>>3600901
So long as there is no "interest" Inccured we will be fine, at it will be at most 1 10th of 4 nicks so that's not even a full nick so we probably won't be charged for it unless qm wants to break down nicks coins.

If it exceeds that amount then we of course do not take out a loan.

I think the only bad will we will incur with our boss is if we go over budget on his accounting balance sheet. Since we are going 3rd party for the funding it will not show up on his payroll sheet and thus it won't concern him so long as the job is done.

>>3600996
Yeah interest wont be bad and we will buy fleet assets going forward so we wont be as fucked.
>>3599758
Just to confirm fleet assets are for anything we do out of America? How much fleet asset to crew?

>>3600996
this is a good plan, support.

>>3601006

Correct. Generally, an operation of complexity X will require X fleet assets to be conducted. If they aren't available, they will be rented at 1 per missing asset. This represents the necessity of doing logistics on something like, say, a booster rocket, on four weeks' notice.

>>3601022

Are you supporting the "give people a break" anon or the "go take a loan" anon?

>>3601073
So for ecample when we sent 3 sattalites that was 9 fleet assests costing 27. Kill me that explains a lot

>>3601073
sorry for not clarifying, support giving people a break.

Hold up guys... WTF is this? >>3597252

I seemed to have missed a thread.... That we DIED IN!?!

>>3601117
Welcome to X-Com.

>>3601117
Yeah, mistakes were made. we are on zero lives remaining we can't afford any more mistakes.

>>3601123
>>3601131
>Traumatic flashback to Serf Quest
We have all our fingers, I just checked!

>>3601085
>>3601091
>>3601117
>>3601123
>>3601131

Any rumors of violence having occurred during the meeting between Subpotentate Rehoboth and the Foreman are old-order nationalistic disinformation and should be disregarded as such: the subpotentates and heads of global agencies are completely loyal to the Global Community and its humble servant Nicolae Carpatescu.

As it is, you've completed the basic satellite coverage mandate, but are a little low on cash on hand (you have 3 bags of Nicks remaining for the month). You may undertake several actions to correct this, or give your crews a break and hit the pavement yourself for a few things.

>>3601158
Remember Ghost quest? that one was a wild ride.

>>3601167
Which ghos- REEEEEE!

>>3601172
aaaahhh so you do remember

>>3601163
Invest the money and pay it back through the dividends.

Like start making our own stuff and paying the profit we make back into our budget and our debt.

>>3601179
There was like 3 of them but two of the mended poorly and maybe one had a somewhat happy ending.

>>3601163
What would it take to start building our own fleet assets and make our own stuff instead of buying or ordering it? I doubt we have enough but if we empty our account to put it towards that stuff or put down payments we can partially pay some of it towards the total amount needed for the stuff.

>>3601200
>>3601188
I support this, we need to start building up our assets.

>>3601211
There's that silver mine. We could invest in a "research company" that investigates said silver being "contaminated by radiation" to determine if it's a "threat to tainting the local water table" and then we have an excuse to mine it and sell on the black market, especially if we're removing and "dumping hazardous material".

File: INS_Vikrant_being_undocke(...).jpg (138 KB, 1000x667)

138 KB JPG

>>3601200

You can't really set up a truck factory or a railway or a shipyard any time soon - that sort of thing takes multiple years.

Although, given the sudden cancellation of pretty much all military naval contracts when Carpatescu took over, there's quite a few shipyards who are for hire... you're not going to be able to buy or build naval guns any time soon either, but the hulls that they were intended for may happen.

>>3601230

The Eldorado mine (name's a bit on the nose, really) can be reopened. It's in the middle of a man-made crater in the frozen Canadian north, but that's not necessarily a show stopper.


(Freeform ideas very much accepted, let me know!)

(OOC note / polite reminder: It's the late 1990s, so the Russian collapse happened relatively recently, you can go to Serbia and trade AK47s for German machine tools at weight parity, etc.)

>>3601237

https://sites.google.com/a/trinity.edu/snow-crash-fall-2016/technology/the-raft

why are we not doing this thing.

oh right, no money.

i still vote for giving anyone who wants it four weeks off, and going to talk to that rabbi guy or paying a visit to the christian journalist guy.

>>3601255
I feel like thats alittle eviler then we want to go. We can do it kind if shit goes to hell.

>>3601237
>>3601230

That mine is a good idea we shouls.dovert some resources

>>3601268
>>3601230

A cursory look at things shows that the price of silver is near historical lows.

https://www.macrotrends.net/1470/historical-silver-prices-100-year-chart

However, the area is interesting in that it has small deposits of pretty much all the minerals you need for electronics manufacturing, as well as radioactive ore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldorado_Mine_(Northwest_Territories)#History

Reopening it wouldn't make a lot of financial sense, but it can be a strategic asset should it ever become difficult to work with the open market.

>>3601294
> However, the area is interesting in that it has small deposits of pretty much all the minerals you need for electronics manufacturing, as well as radioactive ore.

So long as it pays for itself, the minerals for electronics more than makes it worth it, as we can then produce things like Nomenklaytor units securely to be distributed when we need them later.

It'll also hide the cash flow of the mine since it can be used to pay people under the table to produce said units, since it's far easier to get caught spending money you shouldn't have than it is to acquire said money.

We could have a regular work/labour team actually be specialists getting highly paid.

We should open up a casino to launder money, or instead of investing provide "start up" loans to our covert ops teams and contract them as in-house services such as hair salons, massage parlours, physical trainers, etc. Service based industries that don't transfer physical goods.

>>3601294
>>3601429
And if we do get caught, since the silver is irradiated, we can claim that it was a giant sting operation to trace the black market.

Or we can actually use it like that to trace cash flow and build up a profile of people for future blackmail/scapegoating.

>>3601429
>>3601432
Sounds like a decent plan, but lets put some more planning and failsafes into it, such as fall guys and patsies, and opsec thing like compartmentalization and "airgaps" between light and dark business. Nothing that can be traced back to us or our inner circle.

>>3601443
That's what the research team is for. Clearly they're already appropriate for investigating it, and well academia always needs materials for experiments and they're usually highly fungible.

Like we could purchase rare isotopes for research and then resell them to other universities or researchers in exchange for their budgets or for their expertise with "side projects" and use the sale of the silver to fund it. That way we convert the silver into fungible goods or better yet services.

Additionally once again we can hire "lab staff" to assist them, who can actually be a secret covert ops team with basic skillset needed and overpay them because of people's current unwillingness to work with nuclear material given it's reputation in the new regime. Also we don't really care about the results of the work done.

Honestly we should just find a financial guy to fob this off to in-universe so that we don't have to micromanage it in the quest.

We can skim off the inflated salary we pay them for extra cash, while also funding the team if we have them sitting around doing nothing, essentially only paying them the full amount as "combat pay" while having the reduced salary be the retainer fee.

>>3601515
okay then lets dooeeiit!

File: CEF1835A7DD3611730CF6C066(...).jpg (46 KB, 637x358)

46 KB JPG

>>3601515
>>3601533

# Spend this month setting up the northern base, which will drain your resources for the month?


- Total cost:

3 funds
2 stacks of network parts to set up plausible deniability
3 stacks of power plant parts to set up a large generator out in the frozen north
this month's time of your goon squad for procuring and operating construction equipment in an untraceable way

# Also, name the base.

Your men suggest New Brrrrunswick, Effincold, Ultima Thule, The Gulag, Silver City, The Glow, Vault 13 (Fallout II is one of the few videogames to have come out after the Event, at which point the industry quickly discovered that adult gamers do exist and have money to spend), and the like.

For operating it, you hire

# Nwabudike Morgan, South African expat who grew up with the apharteid, made money in America, and was hoping to return to help rebuild his home country only to be kept at bay by Rebohoth. Likely to make you the most money.

# Ryan Andrews, former shipping magnate currently down on his luck after losing all his Navy contracts. Knows shipping and industrial logistics.

# Haley Kipper, professional surveyor and woodsman from the area. Likely to know how to keep people alive and working in a hostile environment without you being involved.


You will also have to assign

# the Ghilotti construction crew

# volunteers from the work teams, roughly equivalent to one of the work team

there to provide the initial manpower.

You yourself have ONE action remaining for the month.
(Confirm this?)

>>3601544
Ultima Thule
Silver City
Like the names but its too on the noise for what is suppose to be a secret.

So maybe "The Glow or Vault 13"

>>3601552

It's an internal name.

>>3601544
# Ryan Andrews, former shipping magnate currently down on his luck after losing all his Navy contracts. Knows shipping and industrial logistics.
Seriously, northern Canada is a bit desolate of infrastructure and other things that can only come in when the ice has melted. Its hard to move stuff to and from the north without serious cost or investing into infrastructure to transport it.

>>3601560
I'll wait to hear what the other anons think.

# volunteers from the work teams, roughly equivalent to one of the work team

>>3601544
# Ryan Andrews, former shipping magnate currently down on his luck after losing all his Navy contracts. Knows shipping and industrial logistics.

#effincold.

>>3601544
Ryan Andrews

Effincold

Internal work teams

>>3601552
Vault 13

File: murder-orient-express-ftr-1[1].jpg (140 KB, 620x349)

140 KB JPG

>>3601638
>>3601615
>>3601563
>>3601653


This was a gamble, but having a shipbuilder on staff may help with your fleet issues later on.

You spend most of the month setting this scheme up, but find time to

# visit Effincold/V13 yourself.

# talk to Tsion Ben-Judah like you had planned to do.

# take a bit of extra time to prepare for your meeting with Carpatescu.

Mr. Andrews takes the men and materiel to the former uranium mine, and makes ready to reopen it; some of the spent nuclear fuel will be used for a massive radiothermal generator, divided in blocks so as to not risk reaching criticality, which will in turn use a heat exchanger to generate nonradioactive steam. Silver is literally at the lowest price it's been in a century, which makes it uneconomical to mine, but you will eventually be able to save money on other construction efforts due to being able to source the raw material in-house; the availability of cobalt is especially interesting, for its medical applications. As for the nuclear fuel that can be extracted, there is a moratorium on nuclear reactors, and the official party line blamed the Event on radiation, so any talk of operating nuclear reactors is likely to meet with extreme public backlash. Andrews thinks that the stuff's there, so there's no harm in using it to heat the streets, at least.

His prospects indicate

# that the operation will at least pay for itself, and give you some production bonuses when it comes to manufacturing, if it's operated quietly.

# that the operation will provide some amount of funds, to the tune of 1 or 2 bags of Nicks per month, if he's allowed to do things the old fashioned way to wrangle out as much productivity as possible.

>>3601659
# visit Effincold/V13 yourself.

I think we should talk to Ben in the next month, let the heat on him die down and Carpatesu to "forget" about him.

>>3601659
# that the operation will at least pay for itself, and give you some production bonuses when it comes to manufacturing, if it's operated quietly.

It'll be less money spent renting and loaning and that's what matters most.

>>3601659
# that the operation will at least pay for itself, and give you some production bonuses when it comes to manufacturing, if it's operated quietly.

Should enforce some night time discipline so sats don't pick up the lights from the facility.

>>3601670
>>3601669

How fortunate that you're in charge of the sats then.

You tell Ryan Andrews to go easy on things, and he agrees. "If you are still interested in acquiring naval assets, there are a few that were almost completed when the disarmament policy came about. They have no weapons, but if you want and are willing to pay for it, in a few months I can get a good lead on

# a Chilean cruiser hull, surprisingly fuel efficient for a large vessel, certainly more so than a container ship.

# an Italian carrier / amphibious assault ship. Very versatile and can be configured for a lot of uses, from launching small rockets to carrying large construction vehicles and helicopters, although the diesel power plant is a fuel hog.

# a British strategic nuclear sub. It can be used for quiet insertions, and at least in theory the reactor should not need refueling for a few years - I think it's still there. Lots of backlash if it's found out though.

# an experimental container ship with pneumatically actuated sails.

# a Greek destroyer that was up for scrapping, the Leon, formerly known as the USS Eldridge.

# a Zubr-class LCAC that was also up for scrapping. Save for the rumored Caspian Sea Monster, it's the fastest waterborne transport available. Maintenance is a nightmare though.

# You interrupt Andrews, telling him that it's best to focus on one project at a time.

>>3601667

(Confirm visiting?)

>>3601675
# an Italian carrier / amphibious assault ship. Very versatile and can be configured for a lot of uses, from launching small rockets to carrying large construction vehicles and helicopters, although the diesel power plant is a fuel hog.

Getting large amounts of fuel shouldn't be too hard. There was a major population decrease recently and the cost of oil could drop from it. Outside of that as long as we can play ball with Texas, the Middle East, and the Caucasus we should be fine.

>>3601675
> # an Italian carrier / amphibious assault ship. Very versatile and can be configured for a lot of uses, from launching small rockets to carrying large construction vehicles and helicopters, although the diesel power plant is a fuel hog.

Not a problem now, later it won't be a problem if we put a nuclear plant in it.

Oh look, we seem to be grabbing all the scientists and supplies for building one.

>>3601675
But what about all the pre-rapture sats... owned by USA or Russia? Guess they were put under our control or decommissioned.....

If I may put in a custom option....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_aircraft_carrier_Pr%C3%ADncipe_de_Asturias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTMS_Chakri_Naruebet

Both are based on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Control_Ship

We might even get one that is relatively brand new since the Chakri Naruebet was build and competed in the earrly 90's - 97!

>>3601675
Sure visit effincold/v13

>>3601675
>>3601701
Support
>>3601667
I confirm on this its a good idea

>>3601817
;.;
Why does everyone want crappy Italian amphibian ships?

>>3601702
>>3601845
>>3601817
>>3601659

Aure your right if those new ships are an option ill take that as well. For now though all we really need is somthing with a lot of cargo space.

>>3601848
The latter is brand spanking new, the former meets an unfortunate fate 2 years ago in our future.

>>3601845

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_aircraft_carrier_Cavour

It's not crappy at all. it's modular, which is good for us because we'd likely only ever get one, so we can reconfigure it for various missions quickly. It can carry helicopters, it's about the size of a WW2 aircraft carrier so it can launch prop airplanes, it can carry vehicles and unload them on a beach. Yeah it's not a mighty warship compared to a USN carrier but we aren't going to (conventional) war are we?

>>3602073
Its not built yet?

>>3602306

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_aircraft_carrier_Giuseppe_Garibaldi looks like it's the same thing a few feet shorter

anyway the problem is that we're kinda broke

# a Greek destroyer that was up for scrapping, the Leon, formerly known as the USS Eldridge.

Probably a bad idea, but just in case, if we don't want the Italian boat, I vote for this.

Invisible and/or teleporting ship. Fuck yeah. We Red Alert now boys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Eldridge#Philadelphia_Experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez4R21yO53E

>>3602369
unless it legit has a secret teleport or invisible function , its a terrible old ship to get.

File: 20180423191939_1[1].jpg (98 KB, 1200x675)

98 KB JPG

>>3602986
>>3602369
>>3601848
>>3601701
>>3601678

You tell Mr. Andrews that that's for later, although he's clearly interested in closing up his old line of business with a last sale. He's seen your finances, so the fact that he's trying to sell you a frickin warship tells you that he's not worried about the long term.

Licensing the Nomenklator would be interesting, but right now it's still a secret, at least as far as you know.

You visit "Effincold" to find that the large RTG has already been put in place - more Soviet-era leftovers, you're told - and there are some tents around it; drilling is scheduled to begin any day.

"Part of what made this place uneconomical in the thirties and forties" Andrews notes "is that everything was coal fired. Turned out to not be an issue when the Allied armies took it over to get nuclear fuel for the Hiroshima bomb, of course, but then it went back to langushing. Now we have natural gas and the RTG, it should at least be able to pay for itself."

As a bonus, Dr. Robertson's team is relatively close by, only a few hours away by bush plane.

Andrews figures that setting the place up will take up most of his time, but since he plans to go back and forth between here and his home on the Atlantic coast, he'll be available for further consultation.

* Ryan Andrews, industrialist, will grant a large bonus to production rolls or a small bonus to all other non-covert actions. He may be issued 1 action per month.

* Dr. Robertson, neutrino expert, will grant a large bonus to research rolls or a small bonus to all other non-covert actions. He may be issued 1 action per month.

Your meeting with Carpatescu is short: he's reasonably happy about the global satellite coverage ("If you had it done a week in advance, why, everyone in the world would've seen the signing!") but asks why you've slowed down since.

# I had to talk some subpotentates into letting me install ground infrastructure in their territories.

# I am building for the long term, which requires preparation.

# The reasons are technical and not something I should bother you with.

# I am facing interference from nationalists and/or Remnant.


(BTW I realize I've been around all over the place, would it be better to run this at a specific time of day?)

>>3603230
> i am building for the long term which requires preperation. We have several work crews and should be able to roll out cellular coverage in short order next quarter now.

>>3603230
If a scheduled time works better for you that is fine i just hope its not my 2-6am which you have run in the past. Whatever makes you the happiest honestly.

>>3603274

"I see. Exponential growth, then. Well, get results, Foreman. Do what you have to do, I don't have time to micromanage you.

I have a world to bring together. I don't want our great purpose to be hamstrung because people can't get a signal. On that note, Mr. William Cameron complained to his staff of just that, so, get a move on!"

Well, he's not happy, but he's not particularly angry either, so you go home with your budget intact

# unless you have a question for him?

One item of note: At the end of the month, the long-awaited Star Wars special edition release come out. George Lucas indicates wanting to make a prequel if the rerelease does well (which it does), focused on Darth Vader's origins. He notes that he may use CGI for scenes with children.

>>3603537
> Ask him what his vision of a united humanity looks like? We're putting sattelites up in the sky, has he ever thought about going beyond it? Like, to a celestial sattelite such as the moon?

>>3603665
support.

>>3603665
>>3603843

You go home satisfied that Carpatescu's vision for humanity's future in space makes a lot of sense, and that you wholeheartedly support it. The Potentate was kind enough to give you almost two hours of his time in total.

In fact, it was so good a talk that you feel like using the Nomenklator to replay it.

What you get is Carpatescu speaking in an odd monotone, between tenor and bass, a few syllables in one octave then a few syllables in the other.

“I would like to tell you what you are about to hear,” Carpatescu said. "I do not know or care how you feel about interplanetary or interstellar colonization. Let's see, you're clearly into this, since you are asking. So, tell yourself that I agree with you, that my new world order will last a thousand years, enough to see men on Mars or on another star if you like, whatever it is. But you will hear me explain the same concepts to you, with just enough difference to consider my slightly different opinion an improvement upon your own. All I require from you, Mr. Foreman, is to make it so my true voice reach the four corners of the Earth. Do as you want, believe what you want, kill your men and yourself from overwork in the process, but do it. Now I would like to tell you what you are about to do. You will stand in the supply closet for ninety minutes, go home, and be satisfied with my vision for humanity's future in space, and flattered that I gave you so much of my time. I'm a busy man, and have to attend to another meeting. Go in peace."

>>3603883
Welp. Looks like we're gonna put a voice synthesizer in the system so that he can't hypnotize the entire world at once. "My true voice" my ass.

It's gonna be hilarious when he says a bunch of crazy shit and nobody accepts it.

File: Global_Community_Map_turn10.png (112 KB, 1600x937)

112 KB PNG

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

Thanks to your youthful energy, you can deploy yourself on TWO actions (in most cases) for a small bonus to all rolls. You can even risk your own life on a covert action, if

you so choose!

Dr. Robertson can be deployed on ONE action for a large bonus to R&D rolls or a small bonus to any non-covert rolls.

Mr. Andrews can be deployed on ONE action for a large bonus to construction rolls or a small bonus to any non-covert rolls.

Performing an action outside of your home territory will also require the availability of (complexity) fleet assets, OR renting fleet assets out at the cost of 1/asset.

C0:

Survey a territory for opportunity using yourself or a trusted agent. Surveyed: Mexico, Canada, Morocco, Argentina

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

You have no black market contacts yet.

C1:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a team.

Hire out your covert operations team - they will need small arms to operate at full capacity.

Construct network equipment.

Construct a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet; requires 1 network part)

C2:

Do research (1~3).

Construct an aerospace part.

Construct a logistics hub (cap 1 fleet requirement for that territory; can deploy covert teams there with no advance notice; costs 1 power)

C3:

Recruit a work team.

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

Do research (4~6).

C4:

Recruit a covert team.

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

Construct a network node. (unifies cell and net in that territory; costs 1 power, 1 network)

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.

Purchase a ship hull from Mr. Ryan's nautical engineering firm before he liquidates it.
What are your orders for the month?

>>3603883
I also can't wait until our next meeting when we gush over how visionary his space plans are. Just over the top praise.

File: Spoiler Image (143 KB, 496x896)

143 KB JPG

>>3603892

> literally trolling the antichrist

>>3603891
Robertson and a team on researching the changes to radiation. What new uses and interactions does it have?

Buy small arms for the covert team.

Survey Brazil personally, what's in that rainforest.

Prepare a sattelite launch.

Purchase a fleet asset.

We need to get in touch with Firescu still as well.

Also we need to get in touch with the religious dude Carpatescu mentioned. I wonder what he hears when Carpatescu talks to him.

>>3603897
By his own words will he be judged. The tricky bit will be judging WHEN to use it, so we'll need a delay of some sort. As well, we have to make sure that we don't affect any signals around him so he doesn't know he failed until it's too late.

His power might hack real time electronics, but apparently doesn't work on recordings so we should have it set up to record and then replay his statements as well. Double line of security.

>>3603901
In fact, we need some kind of Eliza chatbot to recognize "dangerous" sentences just in case whatever he says puts all in a daze, and then cut out the feed to the recording loop.

>>3603916
>>3603901

That'd fall within the purview of setting up an expert system - you can definitely do research in that direction.

File: Booooooooop.jpg (35 KB, 1280x720)

35 KB JPG

>>3603897
>>3603899
>>3603901
>>3603916
I support all these great ideas.

>>3603987
This is why I always support

>2 work teams on expert system research.
>2 budget on fleet assets.
>4 work teams on a network node in Africa.
> Construct network equipment, north Africa. 1 team,
>Send the covert team to look into what Tsion is doing.
>We will see Santiago and ask what she learned about the medical situation, then our second action will be to survey Morocco.
>Robertson on the Expert System.
>Andrews should deal with the construction in Africa that should do it.

We must prepare to penetrate Israel to end the apocalypse before it begins.

>>3604004
>>3604000
>>3603899

Let me know whoch of these plans you decide on! One thing, yo've already been to Morocco, it's where you met Rehoboth (and turned tail fairly quickly).

>>3603899
>>3604019
This one first, then we do more hiring along side this one next month >>3604004

>>3604019
Southern/Western Europe then?

>>3604070
When they start being relevant.

>>3604135
They are relevant. They're a short distance from the fucking middle East where the final countdown happens. We need to set up base and shit to get into there. And last I recall Evropa has better infrastructure than Afrika.

>>3604136
That also means they're the most vulberable to infiltration and corruption.

>>3604149
Dude. We ARE the infiltration and corruption. We're not the damn establishment and unlike the original LB quest we didn't declare Independence to severe and save ourselves from the narrative!

>>3604004
Nonono we are not building anything anywhere but america without fleet assests. Thats how we went bankrupt last time. It costs 3 amd we need to buy the assests a tirn ahead pf time
I network.node would cost 4 fleet assests doing this would put us out 12 its insane.

We can make the nework node next turn or we can do it in america but im not wasteing our budget on fleet assests again.

I suugest

>2 work teams on expert research with robinson
>4 teams on network recruiting covert team with us
> 1 team making a internet node in greenland with andrews
> us survey Morocco

>buy 2 fleet assets as thats all we can afford if we want to use all our teams.

>>3604189
Oh and our 1 covert team on making money

We do need 6 fleet assests and 6 metwork do do all of the phones tho. Should we focus that first so our boss likes us? And then build others. It will cost 21 to do this.

> buy 6 fleet assests 12
> make 3 network 3
> delploy 6 cellular 6

>>3604189

IDK if we should buy an actual boat from Ryan (mobile HQ not a bad idea though) but we definitely need to buy fleet assets we've been renting them for a year and this game is suposed to only last seven years.

technically we have blackmail material on Carpatescu now but right now if we use it he's fairly likely to just have us BLAMd, we can do that after we are too indespensable and/or can hide on a submarine or underground or in space.

Actually since this is 1999 or so is the Mir space station still up there or did the Russians crash it?

>>3604380
>>3603891

Are fleet assests one use? Or can we keep using them as long as they arent destroyed?

Started a Discord server for everyone:
https://discord.gg/4KHrzVr
It's set to "never expire".

>>3604441

Fleet assets represent trucks, barges, train cars, business jets etc. that CATS has either purchased outright or leased with a long term contract. They can be destroyed if things go very wrong, but they stay with your inventory.

>>3604541

Oh good, nobody joined mine when I set it up.

So what's the plan for this month? :)

3604541
KYS!

>>3604779
Its a trap, don't fall for it!

>>3604779
You set one up? When, last game?

Ok plan i have is

>buy 3 fleet assets
>2 teams on expert research with robinson
>3 teams making network
>2 teams research nuclear with us
> we survey brazil why not
> rent out covert team.

>cost = 12

>>3604821

I like it, except why are we not putting the nuclear scientist on nuclear research so that they get the full bonus?

>buy 3 fleet assets
>2 teams on expert research with us
>3 teams making network
>2 teams research nuclear with robertson
> we survey brazil why not
> rent out covert team.

>>3604931
You have a very good point im switching my vote to you

Rolled 6, 40 = 46 (2d100)

>>3604931
>>3604821
>>3604947

Dr. Robinson is actually pretty enthusiastic on the issue - there's probably a few good scientific papers in the study, and he basically gets to be paid for it twice, once by you and once by his institution. He spends the whole month traveling across northern Canada taking readings from different former mining sites, taking samples back to Sudbury for study in a noise-free environment, and so on.

He asks to also go to Nevada and Russia for a few days, to compare readings from old nuclear testing sites over there. You don't have to pay for it, but it may tip the subpotentates about your interest.

# Sure, go for it. These guys don't seem to pay much attention to scientists.

# Nevada only. Zakharov is smart enough to catch on; Dimmsdale won't be.

# Too risky right now, let's not make noise.

Mr. Andrews assists you in getting good deals when it comes to buying freight capacity, mainly by telling you what to buy and what to enter a long-term lease agreement with. He spends half the time trying to talk you into buying a decommissioned ship, but that was expected.

You personally organize further work on the Nomenklator system; in addition to having basic voice recognition built in, the new model is now smaller and fits entirely behind the ear. It can be secured with a bit of the glue used by drag queens to hold fake boobs in place, or with an unobtrusive piercing. Most interestingly, since it's no longer dependent on the user's hair color, it now makes sense to make more than one!

# Focus on expanding the database. Since we now have a logistics fleet, link it to that. This will make it possible for you to "summon" a getaway vehicle should it ever be needed.

# Focus on making it smaller and making more than one. This will let you equip one team per month with Nomenklators, which has benefits both in tactical and work situations.

You make a big production of your employees hiring out workshops and small factories in the American Midwest to churn out network equipment: you aren't installing anything this month, but hopefully that will keep Carpatescu and Dimmsdale happy.

>>3604985

(LBQ bad rolls continue I see)

Your trip to Brazil is relatively uneventful: you fulfill the obligatory photo op with Santiago, go shoot a few rounds at the range with her because why not, and spend the rest of the time surveying what's left of the Amazon forest.

There, you learn to your great surprise that just before the Event there was a surge of missionary activity. After the Event, it abated - obviously - but lately it has started to trickle back up. What's oddly missing, though, are the, well, customers: many native peoples took the disappearance of their children as a sign that the world was indeed ending, and a scary percentage of them just let themselves die after that. Others walked out of the jungle to seek help from the Westernized world. Either way, native peoples have largely (but not competely) either disappeared or integrated.

Santiago was afraid of this, but has had her plate full with other issues. You tell her about your findings, after which she'll send one of her teams to verify what you said and collect actual quantitative data, and take the opportunity to bring up that due to this

# there's now room to develop the place. With two billion people gone after the Event, ecological concerns are less pressing.

# it's a unique opportunity to think long term. Not developing the Amazon basin economically and keeping it a hostile environment would make for an excellent training ground, in addition to the environmental benefits.

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>3604931

You discreetly hire out your covert team. They aren't very loyal to you yet, and you mostly hired professional soldiers who aren't terribly keen on breaking the law, so their job offer set is somewhat limited to, well, not running drugs or anything like that.

Whatever you do with them, if they don't take casualties, they'll gain in unit cohesion and skill from being deployed in a real mission.

So, you send them to

# escort a convoy of medical personnel doing blood tests and administering vaccines through Afghanistan and Pakistan, where they are at risk from local nationalists. (Reward: You get your expenses back, so no cost, and your covert team will be more loyal to you because they appreciate being seen as the good guys)

# join the crew of a container ship going from China to Greece; during her journey she expects to be at risk from pirates. (Reward: 1 fleet asset from the shipping company, effectively you are buying 1 fleet for 1BN)

>>3604985
>Nevada only let doctor robinson know about pur coverments apprehension about nuclear technology and that we need to stay off the radar on this.

>>3604992
Lets develop the place we can fix the world after we prevent it from ending

>>3605032
Escort a convoy. 3 fleet assets are enough for now and making our team look at us as good guys is always a good thing. I hope they roll well.

File: Spoiler Image (106 KB, 300x300)

106 KB PNG

>>3605052

> not wanting catachan jungle fighters

agreed on nevada only though. the guy is a nuclear physicist so he should know how to not get irradiated. and he's canadian so americans would be cooperative

Oh, hey, new Left Beyond--

>>3603883
What the fuck?

>>3605032
# join the crew of a container ship going from China to Greece; during her journey she expects to be at risk from pirates. (Reward: 1 fleet asset from the shipping company, effectively you are buying 1 fleet for 1BN)

Sorry, only just now found this.

>>3605178
Oh, also, can someone summarize what we're up to? I'm still working through the prior threads.

>>3605188

The Rapture happened in 1996, about two years ago now. It was deemed to be the fault of residual radiation from decades of nuclear testing.

As the Foreman of the Custodial Arrangement for Telecommunication Systems, your job is to advance the one-world vision of Global Community Potentate Nicolae Carpatescu by ensuring that a unified world has a unified TV, voice and data network to bring it together. Recently, Carpatescu has finally managed to complete the political part of his vision by signing a seven-year treaty with Israel, the last nation that had not signed onto the compact yet. The technical details are up to you.

Any rumor of Carpatescu being the Antichrist and the world ending in a little less than seven years are being spread by old-world nationalists or Christian Remnant fanatics, and should be disregarded forthwith.

>>3605216
This
>>3605188
And also so fsr we have coated the world in sattalites and are now working to do the same with telephones without making ourselves bankrupt again by bad financial decisions.

>>3605216
>>3605221

We also already managed to game-over once by getting shot in the head a few times since we're a person and not an AI.

>>3605111
>>3605052

Dr. Robertson spends most of the month traveling with a couple of grad students - you get comped for plane tickets, and he's perfectly happy to let his minions fly coach while he travels first class, so it doesn't make a perceptible dent in your budget. He does write a couple of short papers on the analysis of "nuclear glass" found at various testing sites. He has his underlings (and some of yours) perform spectrographic analysis, and compares it with that of existing nuclear waste disposal sites, to which he has access due to being a known researcher, and so on.

He has a lot to say about trinitite specifically.

"Contained within the glass are melted bits of the first atomic bomb and the support structures and various radionuclides formed during the detonation. The glass itself is marvelously complex at the tens to hundreds of micrometre scale, and besides glasses of varying composition also contains unmelted quartz grains. Air transport of the melted material led to the formation of spheres and dumbbell shaped glass particles. Similar glasses are formed during all ground level nuclear detonations and contain forensic information that can be used to identify the atomic device."

On the identification part, he has more to say: by the look of it, all samples he collected displayed less residual radioactivity they should have... with the important exception of some of the samples from Japan that he had some colleagues send over.

He mentions that he would like to visit Gabon next, to take a personal look at the remains of a known natural fission reactor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor ). You aren't in the best of relations with the local subpotentate, Rebohoth, especially since you didn't keep your promise to deploy extra infrastructure in his territory last month. Alternatively, he could visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the local authorities are unlikely to be cooperative, given the odd amount of superstition that still lingers about the nuclear strikes there. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha#Discrimination ). But that's for later.

"Foreman, here's my executive summary: there's something odd about nuclear decay rates. And, forgive me for sounding like a late night conspiracy radio host, there must have been some degree of censorship about it: the pattern is fairly clear, and I refuse to believe that in two years I've been the first physicist to notice. I look forward to my papers' peer review, my academic reputation should counteract that sort of thing at least to a degree."

# Put him under armed escort, just in case: you will no longer have access to the Goon Squad as long as that is active, and Dr. Robertson's bonus will decrease a little due to them interfering with work.

# Let the man work, he's survived in the cutthroat world of academia for decades.


(What do with the covert ops team, who as a reminder are different from the goon squad? Anti-pirate duty, or anti-terrorist?)

>>3605319
>give him an armed escort

> anti terrorist duty

We never said when we will do it just before everyone else :p

>>3605216
>>It was deemed to be the fault of residual radiation from decades of nuclear testing.

...Who, exactly, came up with this explanation?

(I mean, I know it's Carpatescu and ultimately God, but it'd be nice to know exactly who is running the propaganda machine.)

>>3605230
Just got to that part.

Chri--er. That was a chilling description.

>>3604985

# Focus on making it smaller and making more than one. This will let you equip one team per month with Nomenklators, which has benefits both in tactical and work situations.

I'm not convinced of the value of being able to summon a getaway vehicle without prior notice to our person(and, currently, our person only) in the grand scheme of things, given our...unique position.

A straightforward boost to our field teams is worth much more both immediately and in the long term.

That being said...

#Ask if we can expand the database and hook it into the logistics fleet later, once we've rolled out the Nomenklators as standard issue--might help with coordinating between field teams and logistics.

Incidentally, did we follow up on Fulcire/Folgore?

>>3605344
I'll second the armed escort...IF we can ensure the goon squad can't be traced back to us in event of the worst.

Someone managed to keep a lid on this for two years straight. I'd rather not give them reason to suspect we've stuck our collective nose in.

>>3605367
Thats a good point pergaps we shoukd ask robertson if they want an armed escorts or not. Plus i dont really trust the goon squad to be professional.
>>3604985
Yeah lets focus on making it smaller having many of our agents have this will be very helpful.

>>3605344
>>3605367
Support

File: spy-hidden-earpiece-500x500[1].jpg (30 KB, 500x170)

30 KB JPG

>>3605367

The Event threw the scientific community into disarray. Initially, the explanation was extraterrestrial in origin, with all the paranoia that this entailed. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7KTOLbyfQ )

After it was noticed that the Event did not come prefaced by a neutrino burst like most cataclysmic astronomical phenomena do, the "domestic" explanation was put forward by the newsmagazine Global Weekly after a few interviews with scientists, and all but became official when Carpatescu endorsed it.

>>3605367

You have yet to follow up with Bruno Folgore, or for that matter Tsion ben-Judah.

>>3605367
>>3605402
>>3605460

The earpieces look like nothing special: what's crazy is that your team has been able to fit an entire cellular phone in there, albeit one that can only dial one number (your HQ). They are powered by a lithium-ion battery of the sort that are normally used for pacemakers, and will be able to use any cellular network under your control. They're too small to show up on a metal detector, so your agents will be able to carry them on airplanes undetected, unless people start putting X-ray machines in airports for some reason. The HQ team will handle coordination, use any satellite surveillance to alert people of obstacles, and have someone on call to look things up on a search engine or encyclopedia and read the relevant data to the agent. In addition, this lets you get an audio recording from each agent's stream, for later perusal.

You wonder what the world will look like when everyone can afford an electronic virtual agent in their ears or even just in their pocket.

# Decide where to send the covert ops team - they won't have this advantage yet, but they are well trained and decently armed.

>>3605402

Robertson does not want an armed escort, it'd get in the way of research, but ultimately you're paying the bills and so it's your call. He does appreciate the concern, though.

"Let's not delve any deeper into conspiracy-theory nonsense than already we have to."

>>3605547
Can we find and hire James Randi for anything? If anyone's going to be capable of being enough of a priest of "no, you can't break physics" to keep advanced computers running when miracles start being thrown around....

>>3605367
We gotta figure out some way of disabling lost Nomenklator units before handing them out.

File: James_Randi_with_Skull_Ca(...).jpg (265 KB, 368x516)

265 KB JPG

>>3605581

> crossover with the salvation war

The Amazing Randi is known for busting televangelist Peter Popoff a few years before the Event. He has since retired, and hasn't been heard of publically since then. You can definitely go look for him; the man is in his early seventies at this point, but should be available for a consultation.

>>3605600

That's the easy part. Since they have no controls other than a little pressure switch to let them know they're inside an ear and should therefore turn on, all you have to do is

# disable their SIM chip (they're too small for a card) back at base. It would be known that you have the tech, but it couldn't be used against you otherwise, save for seriously good hacking. The catch is that a seriously good hacker will be able to turn the thing back on, eventually.

# have a software setting to short the lithium battery, which will then set itself on fire and melt the unit's innards. That won't be enough to damage the user, since the outer shell will at worst get hot, but it will definitely hurt for a minute or two, in addition to destroying the unit. The catch is that this setting may trip when it's not supposed to.

You don't have to decide now, but you will have to for the next hardware revision.


# Confirm sending the covert ops team to Pakistan?

>>3605547
Ok then lets not give robertson a armed escort. Its up to him.

>still voting to send them on anti terroist duty escorting medics.

>>3605617

> Lets short the lithium battery keep it secret keep it safe

> confirm

>>3598034
this the madlad who ran the quest against God and the end times, With an AI getting god trapped in a loop?

>>3605600
>>3605627

We already have a disable function built in. If HQ suspects one has been lost, block calls from that number.

All the extra functionality is dependent on the HQ team cooperating. Without that, nothing short of dicking with the hardware is going to change the fact that it's a cell phone that can't be dialed.

Also, consider what happens if the dice intervene. We can reverse blocking a number with a keystroke. Setting someone's ear on fire? Slightly harder.

>>3605640
That's the one, yes.

>>3605640

Afraid so :) Feel free to chime in!

Archive (including last quest, this one, and for some reason a SMAC thread):

http://f3.to/omega/

>>3605646
Yeah thats fair i just want to gide the tech more. But if your not too worried about it ill switch.

>>3605678
Fuck me man, I was in that discord waiting so bloody long and ya never started shit and now we're 3 in. Good shit. I'll try to catch up maybe. Good to see ya back

>>3605685
I'm not particularly worried. We're CATS, we're expected to have the technology.

About the worst that can happen involving a captured Nomenklator--and the only thing a self destruct would guard against-- is someone reverse engineering and setting up their own version from a captured example. Bothersome if we intend to maintain a monopoly, but not exactly fatal.

If--rather, when--we start expanding the capabilities of the mass production Nomenklatorssay, to enable mobile ad-hoc networking, or to devolve HQ team functions down to the team/member level, then I might get worried about a self destruct.

File: merlin_153959040_50748c78(...).jpg (662 KB, 2048x1365)

662 KB JPG

>>3605697
>>3605685
>>3605627

Global Community Weekly - July 1998/4

After serious setbacks in April led to a cluster of new polio cases, Pakistan is revamping its vaccination strategy in a renewed effort to wipe out the virus.

The country is one of just three — along with Afghanistan and perhaps Nigeria — in which polio is still endemic. Eradication of the virus in Pakistan is crucial to the drive to rid the world of polio, once and for all.

Many vaccinators will go house to house, while others will look for families with babies born after the Event in refugee camps, train and bus stations, and at highway checkpoints.

Pakistan has had 47 cases of polio paralysis this year; it had only three by this date last year, and only 32 in all of 1997.

In mid-April, widespread panic among parents in Peshawar and the surrounding northern tribal areas, culminating into a terrorist attack on a medical team, forced the suspension of a national immunization drive.

To restore confidence, subpotentate Pravin Lal added, security for the drive was provided by the Global Community telecommunications division, who has no political presence in the area.

Residents will be asked only how many children are in the household and whether they have been vaccinated.

In Pakistan, extended families often live in large compounds; previously, they were asked about all couples inside, whether they were married, how many children each couple had, and who was pregnant.

Sometimes, the police arrested families who refused vaccinations.

“That was not helpful,” Mr. Lal said. “If you drag people to the police station, they feel insulted. Now, we will have a friendly chat. You don’t have to challenge the refusers, you give them a pep talk and encourage the local leaders to persuade them.”

In the latest incident in early April, a campaign worker trying to persuade a family to vaccinate was shot dead, apparently by an 18-year-old family member who then fled to nearby Afghanistan.

In an encouraging sign, Mr. Lal said, the polio virus is no longer found in sewage samples in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, so transmission there may have been halted.

Polio transmission has never been interrupted in Pakistan and Afghanistan; most of the cases are in the mountainous districts along the border, where government control is weak.

Nigeria has not had a confirmed polio paralysis case since the Event, but it takes at least three years without confirmed cases despite vigorous surveillance before a country is declared polio free.


by: Velma Zee, filling in for William Cameron

File: Global_Community_Map_turn11.png (112 KB, 1600x937)

112 KB PNG

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, the Foreman, can deploy yourself on TWO actions (in most cases) for a small bonus to all rolls. You can even risk your own life on a covert action, if you so choose!

Dr. Robertson can be deployed on ONE action for a large bonus to R&D rolls or a small bonus to any non-covert rolls.

Mr. Andrews can be deployed on ONE action for a large bonus to construction rolls or a small bonus to any non-covert rolls.

Performing an action outside of your home territory will also require the availability of (complexity) fleet assets, OR renting fleet assets out at the cost of 1/asset.

Potentate relations: South America = Friendly, Africa = Unfriendly, India = Friendly, all others = Neutral

C0:

Survey a territory for opportunity using yourself or a trusted agent. Surveyed: Mexico, Canada, Morocco, Argentina, Brazil

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

You have no black market contacts yet.

C1:

Survey a territory for opportunity using a team.

Hire out your covert operations team - they will need small arms to operate at full capacity.

Construct network equipment.

Construct a Cellular-Solar pylon. (+1 cellular or internet; requires 1 network part)

C2:

Do research (1~3).

Construct an aerospace part.

Construct a logistics hub (cap 1 fleet requirement for that territory; can deploy covert teams there with no advance notice; costs 1 power)

C3:

Recruit a work team.

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

Do research (4~6).

C4:

Recruit a covert team.

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

Construct a network node. (unifies cell and net in that territory; costs 1 power, 1 network)

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.

Purchase a ship hull from Mr. Ryan's nautical engineering firm before he liquidates it.
What are your orders for the month?

>>3605864
>3 teams deploy cellular solar adding cellular coverage to north south america, north Africa and south Africa we put mr andrews on this
>3 team on recruit covert with us
>1 team research preparedness with dr Robinson
> we explore i dont know Australia, im sure someone has a better idea for this

>>3605931
Seconded.

>>3605931
support

File: allposters-car-on-outback(...).jpg (65 KB, 549x412)

65 KB JPG

Rolled 84, 29 = 113 (2d100)

>>3605931
>>3605942

Australia's mining sector has slumped a little after the Event, largely due to a dip in demand, but things there are overall quiet; the United Pacific States potentate was wise enough to recognize the Australia has its own culture and has generally allowed things to continue as they were. As a Global Community cabinet official you are given the required minimum of red carpet treatment, handed over the keys to a fancy four wheel drive, and more or less allowed to roam around. The Event hasn't affected the ecosystem much, and the people reacted to the Rapture by tackling the demographic crisis the old fashioned way - in the towns you visit, you hear quite a few babies crying.

Looks like the preschools that existed before the Rapture and were obviously closed down by it will remain a thing of the past though: babies are too valuable to be left to institutions, and most local governments have increased maternity or paternity leaves so that someone in your typical household can be a full time parent. Interestingly, this is one of the few policies in which Carpatescu's plans have encountered resistance: on paper the notion to establish GC-sponsored "children's creches" is moving forward, but people aren't interested in that sort of thing. This goes double for this particular culture, and triple for the small towns in it.

The people here are used to kids attending classes taught by radio and similar methods of communication, brought about by low density and great distances. You are formally asked to test the new network nodes in Australia: there's plenty of sun for them to operate on, open spaces with no hills to block radio signals, and people here think of themselves as bootstrappy enough to work around a new system's inevitable hiccups.

# Make the promise.

# Don't.

In the meantime, your existing Cellular-Solar pylons are deployed without delay by your work team, under the experienced direction of Mr. Andrews. He's stopped trying to sell you a ship, for now, but reminds you that he can only slow down the demolition work for so many months. By the amount of bling he comes home with, you guess he's managed to finagle a few good deals on the side,

# which is why you put a data tap on his activities in case he decides to work with Rebohoth more closely than with you.

# which works for you since he has no personal hostility with the African subpotentate and so can go as a go-between.

>>3606018
>Make the promise.
We will do this in the next quarter not the next turn and they better understand that.
>Which works for you
If we buy the ship does it count as a fleet asset or more then one. Can you break down the benefits for each ship in more mechanical terms?

>>3606032

Note that NONE of these vessels come with the original armament, although the carrier has a usable flight deck. Owning a ship opens up various benefits that don't quite map to generic fleet assets, however, here's a breakdown:


# a Chilean cruiser hull, surprisingly fuel efficient for a large vessel, certainly more so than a container ship. 2FA, can handle tsunamis and similar disasters very well, and is defensible enough to withstand a siege since it's an old style cruiser.

# an Italian carrier / amphibious assault ship. Very versatile and can be configured for a lot of uses, from launching small rockets to carrying large construction vehicles and helicopters, although the diesel power plant is a fuel hog. 2FA, can be used to insert a covert ops team in hostile territory via helicopter or prop plane. You expect to spend 1BN every time you reconfigure it.

# a British strategic nuclear sub. It can be used for quiet insertions, and at least in theory the reactor should not need refueling for a few years - I think it's still there. Lots of backlash if it's found out though, given that most people think that the Event was caused by radiation. 1FA and can be used for insertions. You may be able to repurpose the ballistic missile launcher bay for small orbital rockets.

# an experimental container ship with pneumatically actuated sails. 3FA and no other bonuses. Should there be a fuel shortage, it will become handy.

# a Greek destroyer that was up for scrapping, the Leon, formerly known as the USS Eldridge. 1FA, can handle rough seas very well. Supposedly, the ship used in the Philadelphia Experiment; the demolition crew do report that there is a lot of extra wiring on the ship, but most of it isn't connected to anything. Is defensible enough to withstand a siege since it's an old style destroyer.

# a Zubr-class LCAC that was also up for scrapping. Save for the rumored Caspian Sea Monster, it's the fastest waterborne transport available. Maintenance is a nightmare though. 1FA, moves very fast, and can even be used on land if the terrain is flat enough. It's fast enough to avoid tsunamis and the like.

>>3606132
>> an experimental container ship with pneumatically actuated sails. 3FA and no other bonuses. Should there be a fuel shortage, it will become handy.

Turbosail?

File: windagain[1].jpg (30 KB, 575x216)

30 KB JPG

>>3606158

Basically. The Event made it uneconomical to continue construction since there's currently a glut of capacity.

>>3605617
Why not both solutions? A software switch for at-risk field ops, and just disaboe sim chips so the software can't be used to cripple key users.

>>3606132
Still voting for the carrier, and that we replace the engine with nuclear power at some point.

>>3606018

> # Make the promise

It's in our mandate anyways.

# which works for you since he has no personal hostility with the African subpotentate and so can go as a go-between.

>>3606189

It makes a very tiny, overstuffed thing more complicated than it already is. You're only making a few, and they are being made by hand, in part.

>>3606132
yeah we def need to buy 2/3 of these if we can. The Chilean cruiser Italian carrier and container ship are all good.

I vote Italian ship next turn we can set our 4 free teams on it

>>3606208
>>3606032

You let the local grandees know that they will get a network node, which will unify cellular and data service, within three months. They seem indifferent until you show them a demo video on your laptop, at which point they quickly realize the benefits when it comes to distance education and distance diagnosis for simple ailments.

>>3606225

Ryan notes that he can "divert" one ship, but realistically, only one.

Otherwise, confirm >>3605931 ?

>>3606231
confirm. Italian ship is my vote then lets grab it next turn

Rolled 88 (1d100)

Dr. Robertson has little to report: disaster prep isn't his specialty, although his skills as a lab manager make that more or less a non-issue. The report you get from him tells neither you, nor Clara, nor your teams much new other than the fact that the world's infrastructure is slightly more likely to handle a global catastrophe well now than it was before the Event, simply becaue there are a lot fewer children to look after in an emergency.

He's more concerned about the fact that none of his papers on nuclear spectrography were published yet, although a delay of four weeks isn't unusual. He does, with some embarassment, admit that his data was slightly off - the Nevada samples are still too low in radiation, but not as much as those from elsewhere, and still lower than the ones from Hiroshima. Interestingly, the samples from Nagasaki followed the global "wrong" values.

# Reassure him that he'll get published soon.

# Ramp up his paranoia a little so he'll accept a security detail.

# Chide him for not getting much done on disaster prep.

Your Cellular-Solar pylons will be set to facilitate transmission of

# voice

# data

# whatever that territory needs most (whichever is currently lower).

>>3606252

Maybe it's the good press from the Pakistan operation, but you find it surprisingly easy to recruit another security detail, even though your vetting isn't as thorough as the last time.

You privilege

# private investigators and repo men

# former soldiers sent home by the global disarmament

and, since you now have two teams, you tell them that you consider them

# in cooperation in all things, no favorites

# in friendly rivalry, with the B team having to outshine the A team's successful op last month

Note that you can only give Nomenklators to one team per month.

>>3606252
> ramp up his paranoia a little bit we have strong reason to believe that this is being covered up for a reason.
>>3606261
> Former soldiers lets build ourselves a private army
> Friendly rivalry why not its never hurt anyone.

>>3606252
oh forgot this
>voice.
All the ones i picked have 0 voice and we want global to 1