>>3827914


SPECIAL RULES FOR THIS MONTH:

* One work team will be working on the containment system housing Carpatescu and has been removed from the rotation. The containment system should be able to handle other "special guests" by the end of the month.

* You will be able to "survey" Greece with Santiago. This takes one of your actions.

* Aki will be available for both actions, the VR thing is something she will be doing during downtime.

* Your existing stock of aerospace parts has been sold back to GCASA because they are urgently needed for the F4 mission. Should you be unable to do the necessary research for an image processor that is space rated, McLachlan will attempt a manned mission instead. Your budget will be refunded accordingly. (3 aerospace parts * 3 cost each = 9BN).

* No aerospace part production can take place this month because all the aerospace engineers are busy helping with getting the two nudgers ready by the end of the month.

* You will have to decide how many crews to allocate to the Kollek Stadium meeting. Robertson will be attending. Both work and covert crews can be helpful here.

* You will have to decide how many crews to allocate to the decapitation strike on Rebohoth, if you wish to enact it. One work crew will help covert crews mess with train or airplane routing, but it's optional.

* Robertson can be deployed as normal, but will not be available after month 43.

* Anything read by the end of the month (research, augmentation, construction etc) can be assumed to be ready by the time that the Kollek Stadium meeting happens; you can prioritize projects.

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Hello, Foreman! You are planning CATS' operations for the month.

Rules: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Quest2Rules.html
Datalinks: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Quest2Datalinks.html
Timeline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BlMOSEOxSihj1gdagq7yxCjONaRBgcdlRxnc68uWf0A

You can deploy yourself on ONE actions for a small bonus to all rolls, and will be attending Tsion's revival rally.
Dr Robertson can be deployed on ONE non-covert action for a small bonus to all rolls or a large bonus to research rolls.
Ryan Andrews is running a chain of occult stores.
Dr Diamond can be deployed on ONE action for a small bonus to all rolls, including covert. She can greatly reduce casualty rates
Moira McSingh can be deployed on ONE action for a medium bonus to covert rolls or a small bonus to all rolls; She can give basic combat capability to a work crew
Aki Lattinen is available for TWO actions for a medium bonus to all non-covert rolls or a small bonus to covert rolls.
Drones give a STACKABLE small bonus to construction and covert rolls; they may be lost in combat

BOCHICA is learning how sudden global cooling affects logistics.


C0 (Free):
Move the Garibaldi (Mediterranean, Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific)
Buy and sell equipment on the open market:
Power generation 1.25
Small arms 1
Network equipment 2
Fleet assets 2
Aerospace part N/A
Supplies (food, fuel etc) 1

C0 (Agent):
Assist NCASA/UNDRR
Survey a territory for opportunity using an agent.
Construct a CellSol pylon (Needs 1 network part)
Undergo combat training (Max 1 per month)
Tail someone or meet with a dignitary

Buy equipment on the black market:
Small arms 1
Squad weapons and explosives 2
Vehicle ordnance 3
Stimulants 1

C1:
Assist NCASA/UNDRR
Reconfigure the Garibaldi
Survey a territory for opportunity using a team.
Tail someone
Hire out a covert operations team for a situational reward
Construct network equipment
Construct power equipment
Buy network equipment and construct a CellSol pylon
Buy black market equipment using a security or black ops team

C2:
Do research (1~3)
Construct an aerospace part
Construct a forward logistics hub (small bonus for any action in that territory)
Construct a batch of drones
Augment an Agent (Requires Dr. Diamond)

C3:
Construct a network node (unifies cell and net; costs 1 power, 1 network)
Recruit a work team
Schedule a satellite launch, which will happen at the end of NEXT month. Requires 1 (microsat) or 3~5 (bigsat) aerospace parts.
Do research (4~6)

C4:
Construct a factory (if allowed)
Expand Thule
Recruit a covert team
Do research (7~9)
Construct a hub and a network node at the same time (2 power, 1 network)

C5:
Rush a satellite launch at the end of this month. Microsat only, Requires 1 aerospace part
Build a Uranium Hydride bomb
Augment an entire work team (Requires Dr. Diamond)
Capstone research (10)

What are your orders?

>>3827920
>>3827922
Are you sure you removed one of the work teams from the rotation? We've still got 15 listed without a -1 or anything...

>Priority: Industry
I presume this is referring to the Thule project? How much progress have we made?


Also for my fellow anons:
>* You will have to decide how many crews to allocate to the Kollek Stadium meeting. Robertson will be attending. Both work and covert crews can be helpful here.
I say we assign 2 teams, one work and one covert. I doubt we'd need a massive force backing us but it's diversity should be useful.

>* You will have to decide how many crews to allocate to the decapitation strike on Rebohoth, if you wish to enact it. One work crew will help covert crews mess with train or airplane routing, but it's optional.
Similar to the above: 1 work; 2 covert. Fact is if this goes well we won't need anywhere near as many covert teams in the near future since it should help to wrap up the war in Africa.

Does anyone disagree with these two missions not only occurring but occurring with the disposition of forces I suggest?

>>3827932
>I say we assign 2 teams, one work and one covert. I doubt we'd need a massive force backing us but it's diversity should be useful.

>Similar to the above: 1 work; 2 covert. Fact is if this goes well we won't need anywhere near as many covert teams in the near future since it should help to wrap up the war in Africa.

Works for me.

Also did we complete cell-sol research because I must've missed that..?

>>3827942
We got no special capstone boon?

>>3827952
>practice swordfighting
Well we need a sparring partner so...

I don't think we need to show up at the stadium. Tsion is probably going to try and convert us with magic or something.

>>3827932

(Yeah, you have 14-4-1 available. My bad.)

For both "Special" capers, you can also assign agents and drones as usual. Aki will be working remotely; you're not bringing her to a stadium full of people or to a train robbery.

The Thule project has just started and there is not much to show for it yet; it will proceed slowly unless you speed it up (C4 action). For now, the base is being used as an airfield for small airliners that can fly below the volcanic clouds; you have been paid for the use of it. This gives cover for doing small renovations that go along with the former USAF base being used as a refueling post.

The Yellowstone eruptions has slowed down, but is still ongoing; ion storms are hitting various points of the globe and the sky is still scorched. You can expect a year without a summer.

The fractions of the Asatru faith that claim that this is Fimbulvetr, the prelude to Ragnarok, are making quite a few converts; Pontifex Mathews has been petitioned to increase their representation in the Ecumenical Council accordingly, and has done so. Fortunately, they're the sort who will walk out in the snow dressed like Vikings and practice swordfighting, rather than the sort who will bomb abortion clinics or fly airplanes into buildings.

>>3827942

You did! It's why cell phones and portable terminals are still (more or less - streaming video on mobile, which was just starting to be a thing, won't happen until next year at this point ) working properly despite the ion storms. In addition, using Gap Generators and digital radios together is now somewhat more feasible. That'd have come in handy when grabbing Carpatescu, maybe... A good thing is that it keeps people pacified and informed.

Ryan Andrews has picked up on the Ragnarok vibe, and his stores have started offering appropriate music.

Your VR arcade in Aurora is doing well; some softare has been written, some games have been ported (Quake is especially popular, especially with a neon skin, since the low-poly environments and monsters mesh well with that -- you understand that id Software is working on a survival version that includes mining and crafting) and Francine is happy with how business is going. You have largely been using it as a recruitment tool; you need drone operators, and identifying people who work well with VR has been handy. The new recruits, who have been trickling in to offset your generally low turnover, are young, big fans of Aki Lattinen and extremely motivated; your drones are all but guaranteed to work at peak ability. In many ways, you reflect, you have brought Leslie Zevo's vision to fruition.

You still have no idea where the Polybius arcade machine came from, but it's doing good business.

Further clarification: You can contact anyone in your "cabal" (Santiago, Dimmsdale, Zakharov, Carla, McLachlan) at any time, but other potentates will need to be met formally, including Od Gustav.

>>3827967
>We got no special capstone boon?
Dammit did someone do it without assigning Aki or Dr Robertson? Dang it.

>I don't think we need to show up at the stadium. Tsion is probably going to try and convert us with magic or something.
I kinda want to get outfitted with the cyber shit and go there just so we can debate with the two witnesses, introduce Moira and all that good stuff.

Generally pull the "your god is weak, praise be to the machine" shtick.

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What are the developments regarding Ryan's Occult business? Will we be able to put together a 'think tank' soon?

>>3827932
>>3827941
So build a special black site in Greenland and research are a given. Maybe add defense, and what else were we planning?

Visit Yang?

>>3827972
Get more recruits.

Use VR to show off our sweet sword skills.

Also is the Gurkha Sergent a gent or something now? I don't see him on the list.

>>3827979

Yeah we should definitely talk to Yang.

Should we prep for Demonic Horsemen? Do you guys think they're still on the table for this quest?

What is the carriers configuration?

>>3827972
>Further clarification: You can contact anyone in your "cabal" (Santiago, Dimmsdale, Zakharov, Carla, McLachlan) at any time, but other potentates will need to be met formally, including Od Gustav.

Does our cabal include Enoch, or do we need to properly onboard him to our shenanigans?

>>3827976

It's doing quite well, especially with the recent resurgence of Paganism.

Between that, your observations of your Remnant prisoners, and the project to digitize the Vatican Archives, you have plenty of raw data to work with. Father Schorpe has been having a bit of a crisis of conscience lately; he may convert to the Remnant, or he may leave the church, at which point he will be available to recruit as an expert. It'll probably depend at least in part on how the revival meeting goes. If he does, you'll have a few researchers to give him; an Italian publishing house has expressed interest in cooperating with you and him.

>>3827974

(Correct. The generic boon in that case was Gap Generator interoperability, which has been listed in your bonuses.)

>>3827974

Dr. Diamond recommends against overexerting, but she can put you under if you go to Rio immediately, if you want a secondary heart.

She'll give you some modafinil and other medication, in just the right dosages, so that you will be able to operate at full capacity at the stadium meeting, but warns you that you will have to recuperate afterwards. "You're not getting addicted to anything on my watch, Foreman."

>>3827987

Mr. Chandra is recuperating from his arm and leg wounds. He's older than you, so despite his excellent physical shape, it will take the whole month.

>>3827987

You've been messing with the VR system on and off - its' pretty good rehab for your shoulder, actually.

>>3827996

The Garibaldi is currently in generic configuration; this was necessary to allow moving personnel across the Atlantic.

>>3827976
>What are the developments regarding Ryan's Occult business? Will we be able to put together a 'think tank' soon?
Possibly, I'm thinking that getting the Asatru on board would be good: perhaps we should have someone investigate Northern Europe or similar such places to find a VIKING HERO to join us on our noble quest to slay the gods, lay the girls and get fat cash doing it.

>>3827979
>special black site in Greenland
Nah, waste of time given we've got one for now. We can do that once shit is less time sensitive.

>what else were we planning?
I've got this written up for my turn this far:

1) Assign 6 factories to produce Network parts: immediately deploy 3 of these to New Babylon to fulfil our ground coverage requirements under the Mandate; deploy the remaining three in South Americas two regions and Central America. This gives us a entire network of 3 between our two HQs and should make communication across all the Americas much easier.

2) Assign Aki latten and 3 work teams to research Defence.

3) Assign Dr Robertson and 3 work teams to research Sats / big sats

^^ These actions are undermanned but I think the heroes should make up the difference. If not we can drop the research below, reassign the teams and set the hero below to do some surveying.

4) Assign 2 work teams under Dr Diamond to research Augmentation or Directed Energy.

5) Assign 2covert, 1 work team to tackle the Rebohoth situation with a drone to reinforce them.

6) Assign 1work, 1 covert plus moira and a drone to go with us to the stadium.

7) Assign black ops and remaining covert team do missions this month.

8) Assign Aki latten to survey Greenland (assuming we haven't already done so, in which case assign her to survey India) while we survey Greece with Santiago.

>Visit Yang?
Need to survey Greece this turn with Santiago for some bonus shit. That'd be useful most likely.

>>3827974
>>3828000
Yeah we didn't even get to recruit an agent out of it either.

Forgot it was necessary to add an agent to capstone research.

Seriously, I think we should just send regular work crews out to recruit agents.

>>3828007
>Nah, waste of time given we've got one for now. We can do that once shit is less time sensitive.
This is the general attitude and thinking towards everything that we ignored or overlooked. Why don't' we just recruit more people. At least recruit agents, but I think we should risk it and go over 20 work teams.

>>3828008
>Seriously, I think we should just send regular work crews out to recruit agents.
Maybe, consider my plan and then tell me what you think.

Now I think you guys will get why I've been saying factories are so important: look how quickly we can raise network coverage every turn; in another month we can raise the entire americas another level and then the month after that it'll all hit 5 with a surplus network part production of 1 to throw at Greenland. Assuming we wanted to, which I doubt we do, but you get the point...

>>3828000
>Between that, your observations of your Remnant prisoners, and the project to digitize the Vatican Archives, you have plenty of raw data to work with. Father Schorpe has been having a bit of a crisis of conscience lately; he may convert to the Remnant, or he may leave the church, at which point he will be available to recruit as an expert. It'll probably depend at least in part on how the revival meeting goes. If he does, you'll have a few researchers to give him; an Italian publishing house has expressed interest in cooperating with you and him.

Hmmmm... Could we arrange a visit to talk with him? I'd hate to see a potential ally go to waste with the Remnant.

>>3828013
>Why don't' we just recruit more people
Can't: anymore teams and we risk getting audited and our shit gets cooked.

>At least recruit agents
Which is why I am having two survey actions done. Three if we decide to play it safe with the research.

>>3828017
What is the other half of our staff doing? We have 7 unused WC?

I'd like to make more drones or something. Also add drones to the action.

>>3828017
Well, we can speak to Gus instead and build a CS pylon is eastern Europe and a factory maybe?

>>3828000
What would be the point if at any to clone our HQ equipment for Chicago at this point?

>>3828023
>We have 7 unused WC?
They are all assigned: refer to this post by OP >>3827972 where he mentions our work team cap is actually 14 - 4 - 1 aka 9 for this turn. Meaning I have actually overassigned by 1 team, meaning we have to make a cut somewhere and I'm afraid I don't know where.

I would say that given our turn map says 15, it'd be nice if we could get the use of that team for just this turn since that'd make the math of my turn work perfectly...

>I'd like to make more drones or something. Also add drones to the action.
All drones are accounted for besides the 1 I forgot to assign to for-profit missions.

>>3828025
>Well, we can speak to Gus instead and build a CS pylon is eastern Europe and a factory maybe?
CS pylon sure but any factories will have to wait until next turn because of the limitations we are under in terms of work teams. Might also be better to trade with him for directed energy research since I am fairly sure he was the one doing that.

>>3828045
But that leaves us with 2 teams doesn't it?

add or make more drones idc.

Hmm I guess we can speak to Gus instead, and have Dr. Diamond go speak to Yang by herself maybe?

>>3828036

That is a C5 action. Whether there's a point to it or not, is your call entirely.

>>3828045


Sorry, I'm dumb.

14-4-1 was supposed to mean 14 work crews, 4 security teams, 1 covert ops team.

DERP.

>>3828018

You can.

>>3827997

Enoch has not been fully informed about Carpatescu's abilities. However, he'll take a phone call, being as you are his most important military asset!

>>3827974

If you wish to undergo augmentation, it's a decision that should be made before everything else!

>>3828017

You may have an easier time to set up Synco factory systems now that Carpatescu is missing and the regional potentate will be more in economic competition.

Note that sending teams to assist NCASA this turn may be important.

UNDRR can be sent work teams or sec teams; NCASA can only be sent work teams.

While you don't get paid for this, it will improve dice rolls for space things and reduce the global environmental hostility.

>>3828061
C5 Action.
Asking if it does anything like boost our coverage or connectivity or something.

Okay, so all our special engineers for space parts got put in to one team, and send to GC NASA, correct?

Perhaps a network node in South Africa, with fiber optic.

>>3828061
>14-4-1 was supposed to mean 14 work crews, 4 security teams, 1 covert ops team.
This simultaneously makes me unbelievably angry and makes me immensely happy. Now I'll post a revised turn plan for anons to vote on taking advantage of these numbers.

1) Assign 6 factories to produce Network parts: immediately deploy 3 of these to New Babylon to fulfil our ground coverage requirements under the Mandate; deploy the remaining three in South Americas two regions and Central America. This gives us a entire network of 3 between our two HQs and should make communication across all the Americas much easier.

2) Assign Aki latten and 4 work teams to research Defence.

3) Assign Dr Robertson and 4 work teams to research Sats / big sats

4) Assign 2 work teams under Dr Diamond to research Augmentation.

5) Assign 2 work teams to research Directed Energy.

6) Assign 2 covert, 1 work team to tackle the Rebohoth situation with a drone to reinforce them.

7) Assign 1 work, 1 covert plus moira and a drone to go with us to the stadium.

8) Assign black ops and remaining covert team do missions this month.

9) Assign Aki latten to survey Greenland (assuming we haven't already done so, in which case assign her to survey India) while we survey Greece with Santiago.

This uses all teams, drones, factories and heroes in a manner I think is quite effective. Any objections to researching almost all the things, massively improving the network in Americas and NB, dealing with Rebohoth and the stadium, all the while surveying two regions? Plus 2 different missions this month.

>>3828066
>But that leaves us with 2 teams doesn't it?
Refer to the above, I've assigned them to research.

>Hmm I guess we can speak to Gus instead, and have Dr. Diamond go speak to Yang by herself maybe?
Later, later, once we've dealt with the shit.

>>3828077
Mother fucker I forgot to assign the last drone to the for-profit missions.

>>3828077
>>3828080
Go for the Belgrade thing to boost our DEW energy research if we are allowed?

>>3828083
Maybe but to my understanding we need to do the survey in Greece with Santiago this turn. I presume she's going to get us a Greek combat hero or some shit which we could quite use.

>>3828083
Although now that I think about it for more than a split second, we could send Aki there and hope she can manage to get her hands on it... It'd be risky though. Alternatively, we shift Dr Diamond off of research and have her do it instead since she can actually "into socialising".

>>3828089
maybe, but we should speak to another subponete for sure.

>>3828089
>Belgrade

What's in Belgrade?

Also we can Ryan to recruitment if he's not doing anything this month.

>>3828093
Anon we can do that next turn. For now research and being ready for various events is a higher priority. Consider the fact that next turn we'll have 2 actions free (assuming nothing happens) to deal with SubPotenates but for now we have to do these time sensitive things.

Plus, I think only we should meet SubPotenates. At least if we are doing meetings alone.

>>3828099
>What's in Belgrade?
Apparently something that'll improve our DEWs, I remember OP saying something about it and I want to do some surveying anyway so I ain't gonna stop that anon.

>Also we can Ryan to recruitment if he's not doing anything this month.
>>3827922 Refer to
>Ryan Andrews is running a chain of occult stores.
He is busy for this month, plus however many more he has to manage it.

You've decided to build Thule into an independent industrial facility, a city of steel in the frozen north. Basically, a bigger version of Effincold.

The first thing you expect to be able to do there is build mining and smelting facilities to further increase your nuclear fuel production, or allow construction of power and electronics in case of a market crash or supply chain disruption.
* No production penalties in case of major disasters
* Nuclear fuel production increase

The second thing you expect to be able to do is to build a wet dock; you will be able to expand your fleet with your own designs, and significantly upgrade the Garibaldi.
* Can build fleet assets rather than renting them
* Can upgrade the Garibaldi
* Can build construction vehicles

Thirdly, with enough investment in personnel and automation, you will be able to set up your own factory system, entirely under your control; you will be able to produce many things in-house, including SRTG mass production, and making your own armaments and ammo.
* Can build weapons up to tier 3
* Can mass produce SRTGs

Fourthly, you will be able to leverage the previous results to provide for a basic genetic archive to give a path to survival in case of biodiversity loss.
* As Ark tier 2

Finally, your production capabilities would extend to not only satellite parts but also booster rockets, not only armaments but also combat vehicles of your own design. A dry dock would allow upgrading the Garibaldi to its maximum potential and the construction of additional ships.
* All orbital launch restrictions waived
* Can build combat vehicles
* Can build warships
* Can upgrade the Garibaldi to her final form


The other two paths are Ark (ecological preservation in case of ecocide; secondary is people) and Colony (self-sufficient city; secondary is industry).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neq84r4qD5M

>>3828084

You don't NEED to, but it is available. If you want a vacation with Santiago, you can also postpone it. She'll make the time.

>>3828083
>>3828107

(That was a one time opportunity, sorry. I fessed up to it OOC, so...)

>>3828107

Ryan will be available again in month 46.

>>3828092
I was asking about the C5 action for Chicago HQ but okay.

Seems like going back to Chicago is pointless if not detrimental.

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>>Can upgrade the Garibaldi to her final form

>>3828077
This seems fine to me. Good work. With the hero's assigned to the undermanned teams, they probably have a what 90% chance of success? I wonder about Moira going to the stadium with us vs. going with the kill team against Rebohoth. This is our best chance to deal with him and I am just not feeling my spidey sense going off in regards to the Stadium event.

>>3828122
>DEWs

I agree. Blowing stuff up is Moira's hat~!

>>3828109
>The other two paths are Ark (ecological preservation in case of ecocide; secondary is people) and Colony (self-sufficient city; secondary is industry).
Are there additional sites on the earth where additional such installations may be made? Don't need to tell us where, even if I can think of a few, just that they exist...

>Amiga game
Looks cool, has some pretty dope music.

>You don't NEED to, but it is available. If you want a vacation with Santiago, you can also postpone it. She'll make the time.
Oh thank Christ, I was worried it was time sensitive.

>(That was a one time opportunity, sorry. I fessed up to it OOC, so...)
So it's gone, well that's one of the two opposing issues to my plan eliminated: progress.

>Ryan will be available again in month 46.
Good to know, we might consider assigning him to the actions to build up the Thule city since he'd probably enjoy having such a place at least partly in his hands. If we assigned factories to produce shit, we could use them to speed up the Thule project?

>>3828122
>With the hero's assigned to the undermanned teams, they probably have a what 90% chance of success?
Actually in this version there are no undermanned teams, the previous version had inaccurate data that failed to mention multiple work teams.

>I wonder about Moira going to the stadium with us vs. going with the kill team against Rebohoth. This is our best chance to deal with him and I am just not feeling my spidey sense going off in regards to the Stadium event.
My train of thought is that shooting him out of the sky with our guided missiles and shit shouldn't need her whereas scaring the Christian Remnant using her? That'll definitely work and might be enough to push that Priest into being a hero we can hire, something which a lot of people want since they want heroes. Plus it'll be interesting to introduce her to Ikko and then use her real name while talking to her and shit, just reveal how much more powerful we are than we let on and explain we won't betray the Remnant or our deal with them.

That or just use that shit to fuck with her and hopefully get a few Emergency supply units or something out of her.

>>3828138
>Are there additional sites on the earth where additional such installations may be made? Don't need to tell us where, even if I can think of a few, just that they exist...

We could see about buying Area 51 for funsies~! :3

>>3828077

I like it, but:

No point in researching augmentation if we only gave it to Moira and we don't send Moira to do Remnant stuff. We're in the endgame, remember.

I think we should get the heart implant. In addition to trolling Tsion it lets us survive some lethal wounds. DESU we should have done that before kidnapping Carpy but eh.

So either reassign augmentation or we get the impllant ourselves.

>>3828128
And she does hate Rebohoth; the feelings mutual of course. He promised to carve the heart out of our "War Witch" with a spoon.

>>3828138
So the idea is to get him on a plane, which is almost guarteed to be a turbo prop flying at low level and just stinger his ass? That works.
I had kinda envisioned getting him switched to a non armored train, stopping/ derailing it under a "Dead Zone" and just mopping him and his escort up with explosives and fire teams.
Do we know how well guided missiles work in the current conditions? What type do we have: radar, infra-red, laser guided, ect.

>>3828151
I thought he was under GC protection while he traveled.

Lets just rig a MOAB and blow him up while crossing a bridge.

>>3828150
I think the idea is to min-max the benefits we would get from taking Foreman out of commission for a whole turn by upgrading a couple of times first. Granted that was before we learned how close to the end we actually were. So, not sure. Just having the "second" heart and neural simulator is fine with me, all things confided.

>>3828150
>No point in researching augmentation if we only gave it to Moira and we don't send Moira to do Remnant stuff. We're in the endgame, remember.
We're in the end game in the sense we're in the last thread. We still have the same number of months to certain events, we'll probably just be time-skipping between them and deciding broadstroke actions.

>I think we should get the heart implant. In addition to trolling Tsion it lets us survive some lethal wounds. DESU we should have done that before kidnapping Carpy but eh.
True, problem is to do that means cutting out research somewhere and we need the DE research to make our gap generators better. At best we don't research augmentation and we can do it to ourselves.

>So the idea is to get him on a plane, which is almost guarteed to be a turbo prop flying at low level and just stinger his ass? That works.
Yep. That or we use the drones to just fly into the engines of it, force it to the ground and then blow it the fuck up with suicide drones on landing or something.

>Do we know how well guided missiles work in the current conditions? What type do we have: radar, infra-red, laser guided, ect.
Good question, hopefully heat-seeking or radar based. If it's laser guided that could prove slightly unreliable: we might have to drown them in more missiles than I'd like.

>>3828162

Heat and laser guidance will work normally; radar guidance may get confused.

>>3828151

You have GPS-guided bombs that can hit a stationary target with great precision, and some guided missiles of various types. Your airplanes have been adapted with cheap jettisonable pods for using these. You can make more of each, but since it has to be done artisanally by trusted workers, it basically amounts to replenishing your stock after a sortie.

>>3828155

He is, but that stops at "his" frontier. The Council's stance is that Peacekeepers are not to be used in this civil war.

Interestingly, Rebohoth is fine with that; despite Litwala's recent successes, he believes he can win.

>>3828162

(As always, otherwise, y'all tell me! And yes, I did want to do a time skip once it's safe to do so)

>>3828176
>And yes, I did want to do a time skip once it's safe to do so)
How many months? If you tell me I can draw up some basic "broad plan" for what we would've done over the period and that'd help maintain the simulations accuracy while still allowing us to mostly rush through shit.

A shame we never got a chance to do more surveying opportunities for heroes and shit, I imagine they would've been fun.

>>3828183
Yeah, It was like an invisible block we could never overcome.

Still no 007 spy.

>>3828176
Question: does surveying Greece with Santiago have a chance to get us heroes or tangible resources or is it mostly just a date. If we can discover heroes or what have you, does having Santiago with us provide a bonus to our rolls? This is going to inform my stance on if we should augment before the rally.

>>3828201

It's mostly just a date, but there are interesting people to recruit there.

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/paleokostas.html

>>3828183

(I'm thinking that you would be presented with the next emergency, supernatural or human, and told "You know this is coming in X months").

(Part of it is that a lot of survey was dedicated to tracking down Aki's double/rival, and you got consistently shit rolls...).

>>3828189
>Still no 007 spy.
Still no Billy Mays, no Steve Irwin...so many men and women we could've used that we never bothered to gather to our banner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpjrWNnR3BE

>>3828202
>(I'm thinking that you would be presented with the next emergency, supernatural or human, and told "You know this is coming in X months").
Yeah that'd be enough information, we could make that work.

>(Part of it is that a lot of survey was dedicated to tracking down Aki's double/rival, and you got consistently shit rolls...).
True, we should've assigned more teams to doing that...

>>3828214
>>3828201
>>3828189
>>3828144

(So, what be the plan, mateys?)

>>3828226
I will support this plan with these alterations:

I would like to have Diamond Augment the Foreman instead of doing research; losing out on a date with Santiago is fine with me and we will be able to attend the Rally, which one of our actions is already dedicated to. If we wait, I would assume Foreman would lose out on BOTH his actions like we would have previously. I think this is the most efficient and the most useful time to get out VAD and stimulator since we will be in the same place as Tsion and the Two Jackasses. And with the Whore of Babylon as our escort, those two might single us out more than they would otherwise.

>>3828233
>>3828226

Sorry didn't link post >>3828077 Supporting this with the changes I proposed.

>>3828226
1) Assign 6 factories to produce Network parts: immediately deploy 3 of these to New Babylon to fulfil our ground coverage requirements under the Mandate; deploy the remaining three in South Americas two regions and Central America. This gives us a entire network of 3 between our two HQs and should make communication across all the Americas much easier.

2) Assign Aki latten and 4 work teams to research Defence.

3) Assign Dr Robertson and 4 work teams to research Sats / big sats

4) Assign 2 work teams under Dr Diamond to augment Foreman.

5) Assign 2 work teams to research Directed Energy with Aki.

6) Assign 2 covert, 1 work team to tackle the Rebohoth situation with a drone to reinforce them.

7) Assign 1 work, 1 covert plus moira and a drone to go with us to the stadium.

8) Assign black ops and remaining covert team do missions this month.

9) Foreman surveys Greece with Santiago.


This version cuts out Aki doing surveying in favour of her adding her own twist to her directed energy research. As well as not researching augmentation to instead augment the Foreman. Besides that it's basically the same although I am unsure if we can survey greece and be augmented in the same turn and will leave that to OP to approve. If we can't just drop the survey since it can be done later.


>>3828233
>>3828237
Ironically, you made similar changes to what I was going to post besides moving Aki about.

>>3828226

I support:
>>3828233
>>3828237

>>3828238
We can't go to Greece if we get augmented I think? It puts us out of commission until the very end of the month, right when the rally is.

>>3828245
Yeah I considered that a possibility and mentioned it in my post. I just felt keeping it until I knew for certain.

>>3828248
Kay. Maybe geist will be nice and say it only take a couple days at the very 1st of the month to do Greece or something. Regardless I do like Aki doing direct energy more than surveying I think.

>>3828226
Go ahead and change my support to:
>>3828238

>>3828267
>Kay. Maybe geist will be nice and say it only take a couple days at the very 1st of the month to do Greece or something. Regardless I do like Aki doing direct energy more than surveying I think.
Perhaps if we can offer sufficiently good / appropriate music as sacrifice, he will be tempted to be a kind god? This totally isn't me trying to decide on what song should play as we take the stage at the Stadium and reveal our visible cybernetic enhancement. Dammit now I'm tempted to reassign Aki from energy research just so she can make us some cool ass cybernetic enhancements to sport for the Stadium.


It's at points like this when I wish I could know if assigning Aki at this level of energy research actually has the potential to influence our future gains / get a special reward or if we would be better focusing our transhumanist autist on cyber research...

Weren't we going to try and avoid the 3 kings thing since we basically have 3ish subponetes on our side?

>>3828281
Yep. Admittedly my plan to avoid it is mostly to just get all of them to sit in New Babylon for a month and talk about shit. That or requiring them to all undergo cybernetic enhancement and hoping they don't all get shot in the head or blown up or something.

At best, we could forewarn all of them "hey we're picking up chatter online (fake or real) that you guys might get attacked soon, for your own protection don't make any public appearances or anything for a period of two months, claim your publicly allowed holiday days or go visit eachother and talk. Don't do anything stupid and be sure you've always got a medic nearby."

>>3828275
I've set aside some Luca Turilli to jam to if and when we fight Apollyon/the Battle of Armageddon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU0xnpP3D60

>>3828281
That only becomes a concern at midpoint, going by most sources. Also once we lose Rebohoth we'll have four~!

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Rolled 85 (1d100)

(Sorry, getting a second heart installed in your gut, and other things, is a bit taxing...)

You have every intention to properly tour Greece with Corazon Santiago. Instead, you spend a couple of days getting back to Rio. You get the idea that Santiago is allowing her guard to come down a little around you, however slowly.

You both agree that a vacation, whatever its strategic benefits, can wait until there is no more danger to the world

"Is that ever going to be true, though?"

"It only has to be true for a couple of weeks at a time."

She says she's interested in Dr. Diamond's research, but she'd prefer the second heart be made of muscle rather than polymers; after having seen the American army spend billions of dollars on a four-legged robot that ended up being a slightly more effective version of a donkey -- but, you can eat the donkey in a pinch, it forages for itself, and you only need donkeys to make more donkeys -- she thinks that it would be a better approach.

"If we had years, maybe."

"We will."

You part ways with a tight handshake, to which she drags you against her and gives you a big bear hug. "Hasta la victoria" she says in your ear. It sounds a little sweeter than the martial encouragement you know it to be.

On the way back from New Babylon, you did manage to spend an afternoon in Macedonia, where you had the pleasure of meeting Lukas "Laslos" Miklos, a trader in coal whose fortunes have been unexpectedly buoyed by the global cooling. Despite being a Christian, rather than trying to preach at you he kept both of you enthralled by bits and pieces of local mythology and modern folklore, including the exploits of Vassilis Paleokostas, the Robin Hood kidnapper. He heavily hints at having met the man and, alas, having failed to convert him.

The clinic is clean, but modestly appointed; the lobby contains an altar to Asclepius, as well as old laptops playing ritual dances, donated by Candomblé healers. One nurse explains that if it helps people to take their pills at the right interval if there's a ritual of their liking associated with it, rather than just their phone going beep, he's very happy to put an Orixa animation on said phone. The clinic has been providing cheap heart health and training cardiosurgeons for almost a year now.

The "reserved" section of said clinic, which you have never seen, looks like more of the same, except the occasional Gap Generator in the corner rather than a santeria statuette. You figure that at this point it's more or less the same thing.

Dr. Diamond has ordered a batch of Jarvik-2K artificial hearts and modifying them for their new function.

"All right, Foreman" Dr. Diamond says "now we're going to put you under. Don't worry, Klaue's metabolism was a right mess and we managed to have no complications with him. You'll be under for about three days, although for you it should be instantaneous."

It isn't.

>>3828275

(There are milestones at 5 and 10. Those do depend on who you assign)

>>3828291
>Also once we lose Rebohoth we'll have four~!
Assuming his death doesn't get counted as part of the three kings in which case what we really need to do is somehow get him to the Blacksite and keep him there for the rest of time. Of course I'm going to operate off the assumption that OP'd never give us the ability to assassinate him without forewarning us that it'd count against that.

>>3828295
>(There are milestones at 5 and 10. Those do depend on who you assign)
Then could I make a single revision to my turn plan? Aki researches cybernetics instead of Directed Energy since it's more critical that we get every bang for our buck that we can and we're more likely to get something useful out of it.

>>3828296
From my understanding and experience with Apocalyptic literature, the 'Three Kings' are typically killed by the Anti-Christ for reasons and usually simultaneously.

We have the Anti-Christ in our Ice Box and we are bound to have more than three in our cabal by the time that prophecy due date hits.

>>3828295
So are we not getting the full package like Moira? No ability to turn off going unconscious?

Also on a nat 100, we already have 2 hearts so she decided to and a 3rd and a 4th instead!

>>3828304
True but I'm just saying, if all it is is three of the SubPotenates dying then we'd best be careful. If it actually needs his order? Then chances are we are safe.

Wait guys? Did we assign a team to help Carla?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aQRq9hhekA <--- Foreman after that NAT 100 assuming OP also accepts my one change listed >>3828299.

>>3828312
...what? I wasn't aware we needed to do that? When was it and for what?

>>3828309

There is the possibility of Fortunado carrying out the deed. We might need to watch him a bit, make sure he doesn't have any unearthly abilities. Ditto with Matthews.

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>>3828309
Shit hits the fan and we bravely wait on the second evac plane, insisting Sannty, Zakky, and Dimmy take the 1st. As it lifts off, a meteor hits its passenger cabin, killing every one.

Tfw we now Anti-Christ

>>3828321

Alternatively.... We kill Rebohoth, Fortunado (he's a Potente now) and some other schmuck we don't like...

>>3828315
I thought QM said we should help Carla this turn or something.

Or she asked for help? Maybe someones mad enough at over being displaced that they make an attempt on her life?

>>3828327
So we are the new Anti Cool

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>>3828327
And Carpatescu just smiles.

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>>3828296

(It doesn't count in the books, FWIW. Also, you're fairly close to suborning Od Gustav, and of course Enoch Litwala wouldn't exist without you).

>>3828299

(Anyone second that? Note that Aki's work tends to be more based on leaps of genius than sound science, which can be good and bad)

>>3828308

(You are getting the full package; Moira got hers upgraded on downtime.)

>>3828295

You are back to the endless white plain. This time, you have your sword with you, but also the helmet you conked Carpatescu's head on -- in reality, it's in your study, covered in the signatures of your squadmates and your commanding officer for the day, Chandra -- and a shiny, blue breastplate with neon accents that pulse with your heartbeat. You're pretty sure you know what that represents.

On the plain, angels and demons are fighting. Despite being outnumbered two to ones, Lucifer's angels are apparently holding their own; you focus your sight there, and zoom in, effortlessly. What you see are wild passionate charges by Michael's heavenly host, pushing against the shield wall of a disciplined Greek phalanx or Roman legion, like waves against a stone, again and again. You know that the water will win, eventually, but it can take millennia.

The sky is a phantasmagoria of light, and you see the barest hint of a great serpent encircling it.

A winged being of light is observing the battlefield. You don't know who he is. He is unarmed, but that doesn't mean much; they can just summon their weapons, at least here.

He does not look at you.

# He should have, because you just stabbed his ass, whoever he is.

# "Hello, Michael-lan-Yahweh. War never changes... except when it does."

# "Hello, Lucifer. War never changes... except when it does."

>>3828315

(headbanging intensifies)

>>3828335

(She did not ask for help, but the option exists to send workers to NCASA, and workers or sec to UNDRR)

>>3828344
>(Anyone second that? Note that Aki's work tends to be more based on leaps of genius than sound science, which can be good and bad)

FOR SCIENCE!!!

(Seconded)

>>3828344
# He should have, because you just stabbed his ass, whoever he is.

Well lets divert a team to Carla, so she can wrap up the Nauru thing.

>>3828351

I'd like to vote against because I want to see what Aki and Jorji Costava do.

>>3828356

"fuck your dream scene"

power move right there

>>3828344
>The sky is a phantasmagoria of light, and you see the barest hint of a great serpent encircling it.

Jormungandr? Did we just accidentally start Ragnarok now?

# Hello, Lucifer. War never changes.... except when it does.

>>3828344
>>3828299
Support

# "Hello, Santa Klaus. War never changes... except when it does."

>>3828320
A very good point, assigning a team to tail him full time might not be a bad idea. That or we get Matthews onboard and use his spy network.

>>3828321
Seems unlikely but true. We move in 2s then.

>>3828344
>(It doesn't count in the books, FWIW. Also, you're fairly close to suborning Od Gustav, and of course Enoch Litwala wouldn't exist without you).
Well that's good news.

>(You are getting the full package; Moira got hers upgraded on downtime.)
Excellent.


>He does not look at you.
"You know, most people would think the angels won because their cause was right or because they were better fighters than the demons: yet all I see are lemmings tossing themselves off a cliff, slowing filling the gap between them and the other side of that pit."

Stab him if anons want or whatever.

>>3828365
Its probably Quetzalcoatl who is sometime related to JC in syncretic traditions that combine native belief and Christianity.

>>3828377

Eh, what the heck. Stab him.

>>3828383
Wait what seriously? That's like finding out that the Muslims just put Shiva in as a cousin of gods or something.

>>3828344
>(headbanging intensifies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJXtrul9VZY

Just found this looking for some cool cybernetics shit. Truly the algorithm provides.

>>3828383
>Its probably Quetzalcoatl who is sometime related to JC in syncretic traditions that combine native belief and Christianity.

Thinking it over, it might also be Leviathan who shows up in Jewish eschatology to be slain and feasted upon by the righteous along with the Behemoth and Ziz.

Leviathan is also a demon associated with Envy and is the gatekeeper of Hell.

>>3828394
Well only one way to find out. Kill it! Crystal dragon jesus, demon prince, world serpent? Fuck it we have a magic sword and helmet!

>>3828389
Shit gets weird when religions cross pollinate. Did you know the Japanese are one of the lost tribes of Israel? Smarter ever day.

>>3828366

(I like it, but you've gotta pick one.)

>>3828384
>>3828363
>>3828356

You walk over to the luminous angel, and without saying a word, lift your sword and stab him behind the wing roots. He heard you coming, and was turning his head; by the time he has finished turning it, his neck is pretty much all he can move. You leave the sword in, and crouch next to him. Out of his mouth comes ichor, it looks like blood and water and glitter.

"War has changed, Big Bird. We stopped throwing troops into a bottomless pit in 1918. My grandfather's time."

You grab his perfect blonde hair and hold his head towards the battlefield, then stand up, raise a hand, and then point it downwards.

From behind you, a squadron of WW2 tanks descends down the white hill, shooting as they move. Angels and demons take flight to counteract the iron chariots, only to be ripped apart by their support vehicles' flak fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yl-DvkX0hY

"And this was my father's time. I leave it to your imagination, if you even have any, what we can do to you now."

And then, you stomp on his head.

----

You sit up, and kick. "Whoa, easy!" A couple of electrodes and an IV come off you, but they must haven't been that important.

The doctors quickly reconnect them. Someone must have a sense of humor; you've always had an innie bellybutton, so that's where they put the charging plug. It has a magnetic collar, so it snaps in place, and it's almost invisible unless you suck your stomach in. The procedure was less invasive than Moira's; you have stitches, but they are few.

"You're up early, Foreman! We finished two hours ago. Now lie right back down lest you pop a stitch!"

Dr. Diamond yells at an aide. "I know I said easy on the sedatives, but I didn't say underdose him on purpose!"

# Proceed with month (Aki does Augmentation)

# Proceed with month (Aki does Directed Energy)

# Ask what you missed.

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>>3828457
>Well only one way to find out. Kill it! Crystal dragon jesus, demon prince, world serpent? Fuck it we have a magic sword and helmet!

Kill the Dwagon! Kill the dwaaagon!

>>3828467
>From behind you, a squadron of WW2 tanks descends down the white hill, shooting as they move. Angels and demons take flight to counteract the iron chariots, only to be ripped apart by their support vehicles' flak fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYyfA_MRtfY

# Proceed with month (Aki does Augmentation)

ALL THE AUGMENTS.

>>3828467
Wait, I thought we were stabbing the flying snaek?

>>3828467
# Proceed with month (Aki does Augmentation)

>>3828467
(Playing my ringtone there, QM)

#Ask what you missed

>>3828467
>>3828500
# Ask what you missed.
This too.

>>3828467
# Proceed with month (Aki does Augmentation)

>>3828516
>Sorry to make it confusing I am doing alot between posts.
I've got a similar problem: I've got to go to sleep soon so I'm basically just waiting for OP to post something big before I drop off.

>>3828467
Wait we were suppose to be under for 3 DAYS and we are up in 2 HOURS? WTF. Did we accidentally flip our anti unconsciousness switch or something because of what we did in the dreamscape?

>>3828529
The procedure took three days. They just finished two hours ago.

Didn't we have a bootleg laser guy we picked up a while back or something? Better yet, there was also the drone guy. What have those two been up to?

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>3828495
>>3828485

"W-What did I miss?"

"Not much, Foreman. The SC Corinthians Paulista just finished destroying the SE Palmeiras four to one, if you follow futbol. Oh, and apparently Jorji was having problems with the heatsinks, needs more money."

You're put back under; this time, there are no dreams or visions.

# Tell Jorji to take an extra 1BN to fix the issue with the heatsinks.

# Don't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR_G_g62o5U

The rehab, by force of necessity, has to be done quickly; Dr. Diamond gives you a personalized cocktail of medications, to be taken at exactly the right time, to let you be functional without causing addiction or chronic issues later on. With Aki's help, she hopes that the next version will have a series of peristaltic pumps to automatically administer drugs as necessary, but this one doesn't quite do that just yet.

Suzanna unlocks the cooperative mode on your secondary heart; it doesn't feel any different. Then she tells you to go jogging. You got heart surgery days ago, and you can jog, and feel a lot less tired than you usually do. "Humans have evolved to be persistence hunters; sweat glands, muscle fibers optimized for endurance, and so on" she explains when you get back. "Cooperative mode won't let you run as far as someone who trained for ultramarathons of course, it will get you about halfway there. I'm going to lock this again, keeping it on for too long teaches your real heart that it's okay to slack off, that's bad. Sit down."

You do. You blink. You open your eyes and the light has slightly changed. You still don't feel tired. "I knocked you out for about ninety minutes, save you some cramps. That's what the spinal stimulator does. Saves a lot of time with anesthetic, too. If you're bleeding, the implant will work antagonistically with your heart, force the blood to slosh back and forth instead of circulating, so you don't bleed out. Well, you still do, but it takes a lot longer. The last one is courtesy of Aki, she just finished writing the software."

Suzanna holds her vanity mirror in front of you. Your forehead has a close renditon of the "generic" Sign of God on it. Did someone draw it on you while you were under, and you've been walking around with it the whole time?

"Bite your cheek, quickly, twice."

What? You do. The symbol disappears.

"E-paper tattoo. It's not going to fool the Remnant if they see it in your reflection, but it does have a photocell, so it'll blink off if someone takes a picture with a flash. We just finished putting it on Moira, too. The resolution isn't great, but you can load a couple of extra pictures with your phone... Now, keep in mind, this runs off a bimetallic strip under your skin, so it will only be able to turn on and off a dozen times a day."

Suzanna sounded a bit different throughout this. You belately realize that she was trying to imitate Q from the James Bond movies.


>>3828529

(No, you got up two hours early)

>>3828547
# Tell Jorji to take an extra 1BN to fix the issue with the heatsinks.

We could use lasers too for various things and lord knows better batteries / capacitors and all that shit would probably help with the augments.

>Suzanna sounded a bit different throughout this. You belately realize that she was trying to imitate Q from the James Bond movies.
Kek, that sounds adorable.

#Tell Jorji to take the extra 1BN to fix the heatsinks.

>>3828547
# Tell Jorji to take an extra 1BN to fix the issue with the heatsinks.

>>3828547
Take my money Jorji. Just take it all. Its always money Jorji. Wahhh diodes no good need more money, wahhh heatsinks you gave bad, need money to buy GOOD ones.

Why don't you ever call and just ask, "How was your day Foreman? What did you eat for lunch Foreman?"

WHY Jorji, WHYYYYYY!

># Tell Jorji to take an extra 1BN to fix the issue with the heatsinks.

But seriously, he is 2 out of 2 for needing more funding. If it keeps up we might want to make sure he isn't skimming off the top.

>>3828559
>>3828566

Looks like there's little choice but to get custom heatsinks for the lasers; at least you should be able to use them on the Gap Generators' first-stage diodes, since they have the same TO220 form factor.

You kept your schedule light this month, which allows you to follow the rehab program scrupulously; you even take a little bit of time to figure things out that Moira couldn't, finding out, in private, that running the implant for a couple of minutes at exactly the right time effectively erases your refractory period. You bet that Klaue is having a lot of fun with that. Dr. Diamond reminds you that the implant is for emergencies, but finds this bit of information very interesting for future commercial uses. Maybe something to discuss with Od Gustav: aside the, well, specific instance, we may be finally at the point where medicine can improve people rather than simply healing them.

You find out that while the implant doesn't really make you stronger or faster, it makes you able to sustain efforts for longer; the main contraindication is remembering to plug it in after use and every other day (you do that while you work, after getting entangled in the power cable one night) and putting a rubber cap on the terminals when you shower or swim.

In the meantime, your other research team do fair work; Dr. Robertson continues his GCASA collaboration by helping manage the workgroup responsible for delivering a space-rated supercomputer to them in view of launching the unmanned nudgers.

You will now be able to put a pylon or a Network Node in orbit, which should make it invulnerable to ground-base threats. It will work the same way as a land-based system otherwise. In addition to that, your cooperation with GCASA and subsequent ability to peruse some classified Cold War space projects results in being able to space-rate themobaric explosives by figuring out how to efficiently pack oxidizer around them. The Alkali rocket could've been approximately 20% more explosive.

The factory systems under your control do the job that, as far as anyone is concerned, they are supposed to do; people are a little sour about the new pylons going to New Babylon, but figure that it's where the rich live -- this is more and more true as time goes on, to be fair -- so they get their full-speed internet restored first. You do hear about a couple of high-profile data breaches following the new pylons' installation.

The nudgers will be ready to launch around the same time as the Kollek Stadium revival meting.

Rebohoth spends a fair amount of time in New Babylon, trying to build corporate support for his regime and promising cheap access to resources and manpower; the armored train stays in Baghdad, which gives your people plenty of opportunities to subtly sabotage the diesel locomotive by replacing some of the fuse boxes with versions that can be remotely made to burn themselves through.

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>>3828591
I say we deny him.

Rolled 1, 68 = 69 (2d100)

>>3828591

(He is in fact 2 for 2)

>>3828597

As for your covert teams, they have some options.

# Carla still needs people to prevent violence on the Nauru evacuation. (+1BN)

# For some reason, there has been a resurgence in pirate attacks off the Somali coast lately; it's not making Rebohoth or Litwala look bad, but it should be handled. (+1BN or +1fleet)

# Speaking of Africa: a Chinese conglomerate is trying to settle the land dispute by muscling in with their own men, forcing an uneasy truce between the local factions. You can help the locals or the newcomers. (+1BN)

# Chairman Yang is being challenged internally by a consortium of Chinese and Japanese companies who resent his dirigist approach and want to move the territory towards a more capitalistic economy. Things have come to a head in Hong Kong, with mass protests occurring.
* Help the protesters. (+1BN)
* Offer Yang to false-flag a terror attack so he has an excuse to clamp down. (favor)

# A similar situation is occurring in India. The difference is that Foreman Domai is involved; for once, he and the regional government are on the same side.
* The petrochemical consortium on the other side of things needs someone to blow up an obsolete power plant and blame Domai for it. (+1BN)
* Domai knows that he is a target: he asks for armed protection as he does a series of stump speeches. (Chance to hire him again)

The three highlights of the month, fortunately, have little to do with each other.


(This is an OOC choice; these events cannot really influence each other. Notably, the result of the nudgers' action will only be known after the Kollek revival anyway).

# Go to the Kollek Stadium meeting.

# Send the autonomous nudgers on their way.

# Time for a good old fashioned train robbery.

>>3828597
>you do that while you work, after getting entangled in the power cable one night
Pussy, I sleep in corded headphones frequently and I've never choked myself.

>>3828608
NAT 1, fuck.

# Carla still needs people to prevent violence on the Nauru evacuation. (+1BN)
# A similar situation is occurring in India. The difference is that Foreman Domai is involved; for once, he and the regional government are on the same side.
* Domai knows that he is a target: he asks for armed protection as he does a series of stump speeches. (Chance to hire him again)

We should always help Carla and lord knows we could use Domai.

# Go to the Kollek Stadium meeting.

I presume this is just us choosing what order we do this in and that even if it wasn't, us actually not being there should affect the chances of success?

>>3828608
># Carla still needs people to prevent violence on the Nauru evacuation. (+1BN)


# Speaking of Africa: a Chinese conglomerate is trying to settle the land dispute by muscling in with their own men, forcing an uneasy truce between the local factions. You can help the locals or the newcomers. (+1BN)
>Africa
Is it in territory we control or Rebohoth's territory?

Keep the rest in reserve or for other missions, like finishing africa off.


# Time for a good old fashioned train robbery.

# Go to the Kollek Stadium meeting.

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>3828622

It's in South Africa; the territory is still largely under Rebohoth's control, although Litwala has a presence.

>>3828611
>>3828624

(This is going to take me a while to write, in case it's late where people are, give me 20 minutes or so please)

>>3828622
>>3828611

>>3828630

The Nauru evacuation continues; your people decide to put on shiny uniforms, be visible, and look intimidating lest anyone start trouble.

By and large, it works; this time there are no major problems to report. It helps that the weather upheaval has made home look less like home; it's easier to leave.

There are a few last holdouts.

# You brought a regular security team; they'll be negotiated with, enabling the excavation work to begin next month.

# You brought the Blackwatch; they'll be "negotiated" with, enabling the excavation work to begin this month.

>>3828639
# You brought a regular security team; they'll be negotiated with, enabling the excavation work to begin next month.

# You brought a regular security team; they'll be negotiated with, enabling the excavation work to begin next month.

>>3828608
God damn LBQ dice. Why cant we every have anything nice. All the fucking planning in the world and these damn dice just say, "lol, nope."

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>>3828645

Carla sends you an email of thanks; your people were professionals, and work can finally start. It's one of the most ambitious terraforming projects ever undertaken; gobble up an island, and sprinkle its superfertile soil, accumulated over millions of years, all over the world. You hope that it will be enough to stave off the mineral-leeching effects of the Eden fertilizer. As you find out a few days later, so does Dr. Rosenzweig.

-----

Teddy Kollek Stadium is full to bursting; Tsion's own figures say that at least 90000 of the prophecied 144000 Messianic Jewish witnesses have made their way there, on the field. The seats are full of other attendees, largely Remnant and largely from the US, Israel, Poland and Russia; outside there are people who couldn't fit in, watching the proceedings on deployable jumbotrons that the Global Community has graciously made available, as well as protesters and counterprotesters.

The IDF, used to dealing with tight security at large events, has done a fine job stopping would-be terrorists in the days leading to this and today, the first day of the event. Tsion has been brought in by armored car, with a driver/bodyguard by the name of Jacov who himself only recently converted to his boss' religion.

You're here with Dr. Robertson, since neither of you are Messianic Jews, you are in the seats area. The physicist, who is in animated conversation with Dr. Rosenzweig -- also an attendee -- in one of the few public places where neither would pay much attention to either of them, is somewhat regretting coming, and may drop out of the proceedings once he got to talk to Tsion.

Moira, a work team -- who helped set up the Jumbotron, the speakers, the realtime translation, and the streaming -- and a covert team -- who let the work team do most of the work while they got the measure of IDF and volunteer patrols -- are also here, lurking backstage, so to speak. There's a medevac helicopter ready, if need be, and an Antonov parked at a nearby airfield, equipped with

# fire existinguisher foam, in case someone starts playing with fire.

# a belly full of smoke bombs should an expeditious retreat be necessary.

# incendiary bombs and miniguns, of course. What else would you bring to this sort of event?

On GCNN, Fortunato is doing what he seems to do best: attempt to take over the event.

“I cannot tell you what a pleasure it is to be back in Israel,” Fortunato said with a broad smile. “I am eager to welcome the devotees of Dr. Ben-Judah and to display the openness of the Global Community to diverse opinion and belief. I am pleased to reaffirm Potentate Carpatescu's guarantee of safety to the rabbi and the thousands of visitors from all over the world. I will withhold further comment, assuming I will be welcome to address the honored assemblage within the next day or two.”

>>3828675
# incendiary bombs and miniguns, of course. What else would you bring to this sort of event?

It would be tempting to torch more than 2/3rds of the messianic people, it'd certainly break narrative. On the other hand, fire extinguisher foam is probably a better idea.

>>3828675
># fire existinguisher foam, in case someone starts playing with fire.

I don't really care if all these incels burn but we might need it to get our people out.

>>3828675
# fire existinguisher foam, in case someone starts playing with fire.

# a belly full of smoke bombs should an expeditious retreat be necessary.

You get the Remnants' side of the story by listening to your neighbors, loud and happy converts from New Mexico who have managed to find Chicago style hot dogs in Jerusalem and have been all too happy to share a story and a taste of home.

A vast network of house churches had sprung up, seemingly spontaneously, with converted Jews, clearly part of the 144,000 witnesses, taking leadership positions.

They taught their charges daily based on the cyberspace sermons and lessons from the prolific Ben-Judah. Tens of thousands of such clandestine local house churches, their very existence flying in the face of the all-inclusive "Enigma Babylon One World Faith", saw courageous converts added to the church every day.

Tsion had been urging the local congregations to send their leaders to the great Meeting of the Witnesses, despite warnings from the Global Community. Nicolae Carpatescu had again tried to cancel the gathering at the last minute, citing thousands of deaths from contaminated water in over a third of the world. Thrilling the faithful by calling Carpatescu's bluff, Tsion responded publicly on the Internet.

“Mr. Carpatescu,” he had written, “we will be in Jerusalem as scheduled, with or without your approval, permission, or promised protection. The glory of the Lord will be our rear guard.”

Buck, Chloe's husband had long been anonymously broadcasting his own cyberspace magazine, The Truth, which would now be his sole writing outlet. Ironically, it attracted ten times the largest reading audience he had ever enjoyed.

What Tsion's Internet missives and Buck's underground electronic magazine had wrought in Israel was stunning. The whole of Israel crawled with tens of thousands of converted Jewish witnesses from the twelve tribes all over the world.

In spite of and in the midst of global chaos, ad hoc committees had arranged transportation, lodging, food, sound, interpretation, and programming. You're pretty sure BOCHICA had something to do with it. “Dr. Ben-Judah,” your interlocutor, Josh, had been told, “is being prepared to inspire and inform us." He gets some mustard on your backpack, containing a freshly upgraded Gap Generator which the IDF eventually let through after seeing medical papers indicating that you have an artificial heart which needs support equipment; showing the plug and scars was apparently not enough.

Interestingly, the Two Witnesses had fallen silent in the last few days, allowing your work crew to help the IDF install better protection barriers when the people, as they do, got bored. In their last outburst, a small mercenary outfit had apparently tried to take them out at medium range; most were incinerated, and those who were not were detained by the IDF for damaging the Wailing Wall. Apparently, all they had accomplished was making some holes in Eli and Moishe's rags. Were they just cursed with horrible luck in aiming all of a sudden? Admittedly, you've seen stranger...

>>3828686
>>3828702
>>3828703

At least, you reckon, if the Two Witnesses show up and start playing with fire, your ersatz air force can help with mitigating the damage. Isn't that what you've been trying to do for years, mitigating the damage?

Things start, as they often do, with a screech and a tap on the microphone.. The evening begins with a simple greeting, the hearty singing of a hymn, and the introduction of Tsion Ben-Judah. He was greeted with wave upon wave of cheers and applause, all of which he largely ignored, except to smile and raise his hands for silence. The rabbi who had come to Jesus through studying the prophecies of the Old Testament now led a flock of millions over the Internet. Here he stood, a smallish, plain-spoken man with a Bible and a pile of meticulous notes. And he held the massive crowd in his palm.

“You have learned much, I understand,” Tsion began. “And tonight is a time for more instruction. I have warned you in advance of many judgments, from the seven seals to the seven trumpets and eventually to the seven vials that will finally usher in the glorious appearing of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

“I have traced the beginning of the seven-year tribulation period from the signing of the unholy alliance between the one-world system and the nation of Israel. By following the judgments that have befallen the world since then, I have calculated that we are waiting on a precipice. We have endured all seven Seal Judgments and the first three of the seven Trumpet Judgments. The middle, or fourth, Trumpet Judgment is what we face now in God's timing." He points to the grey sky, crackling with static electricity.

“To prove to the wondering world and to the unconvinced that we can know whereof we speak, I will tell you now what to expect. When this occurs, let no man deny that he was warned and that this warning has been recorded in the Scriptures for centuries. God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. That is the reason for this entire season of trial and travail. Though he waited as long as his mercy could endure and finally raptured his church, still he rains judgment after judgment down upon an unbelieving world. Why? Is he angry with us? Should he not be?"

“But no! No! A thousand times no! In his love and mercy he has tried everything to get our attention. All of us remaining on the earth to this day were delinquent in responding to his loving call. Now, using every arrow in his quiver, as it were, he makes himself clearer than ever with each judgment. Is there doubt in anyone's mind that all of this is God's doing?"

“Repent! Turn to him. Accept his gift before it is too late. The downside of the judgments that finally catch some people's attention is that thousands also die from them. Don't risk falling into that category. The likelihood is that three-fourths of us who were left behind at the Rapture will die•lost or redeemed•by the end of the Tribulation."

“I want to tell you tonight of the fifth Trumpet Judgment in the hope that it will not take that catastrophe to finally convince you. For it could just as easily drive you mad.”

“The earth groans under the effects of our fallen condition,” Tsion began. “We've all lost loved ones in the Rapture and in the ten judgments from heaven since then.

The great wrath of the Lamb earthquake devastated the globe, save for this very country and nation. The first three Trumpet Judgments alone scorched a third of the earth's trees and grass, destroyed a third of the oceans' fish, sank a third of the world's ships, and poisoned a third of the earth's water•all as predicted in the Scriptures.

“We know the sequence of these events, but we don't know God's timing. He could pile many of these judgments into one day. All I can say with certainty is what comes next. As you see, these get progressively worse. The fourth Trumpet Judgment has affected the look of the skies and the temperature of the entire globe.

“Revelation 8:12 reads, 'Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.'

“Look above you! Day or night, the skies are one-third darker than they have ever been."

“Prophecy indicates that more scorching and parching of the earth comes later, so it's likely the darkening and resultant cooling is temporary. Prepare, prepare, prepare! And when depressed friends and neighbors and loved ones despair due to the darkness and gloom, show them this was predicted. Tell them it is God's way of getting their attention.”

Tsion summarized the teaching that had gone on during the day at various sites around the city and urged the audience to preach boldly “until the Glorious Appearing fewer than five years away. I believe the greatest time of harvest is now, before the second half of the Tribulation, which the Bible calls the Great Tribulation.

“One day the evil world system will require citizens to bear a mark in order for them to buy or sell. You may rest assured it will not be the mark we see on each other's foreheads!”

Tsion went on to outline practical suggestions for storing goods. “We must trust God,” he concluded. “He expects us to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves. That wisdom includes being practical enough to prepare for a future that has been laid out for us in his Word.

“Tomorrow night I'm afraid I have a difficult message to bring. You may get a preview of it by reading Revelation 9...."

So far, this looks like a Chautaqua tent revival writ large; Tsion's message

However, you have to admit that it's pretty powerful in person; the man isn't trying to mesmerize anybody -- you have your earbuds, obviously -- but he's got a strong voice and knows how to use it.

You aren't sure what the people who have already converted are getting out of this, other than "Ha, ha, we were right", but you notice that this is having an effect on some of the skeptics; your new friend Josh has stopped paying attention to you and is helping his wife, Kim, guide a tourist in prayer as he accepts Tsion's message.

Dr. Robertson and his students are roaming about with all manner of instruments; you're very sure that a couple of them have taken it as an occasion for a bit of Ghostbusters cosplay.

Thanks to your work team and the fact that nearly everyone here has a cell phone, you have the uncanny ability to find anyone you like. Chloe is carrying a burner phone, and used it to welcome you to the proceedings.

Now that one of the undershepherds has taken the big microphone, there's an accumulation of people around where you figure Tsion is; you suspect that you would be granted an interview if you were to ask.

# Give Dr. Robertson and his boys and girls a hand.

# Find Chloe.

# Find Dr. Rosenzweig.

# See what Fortunato and Mathews plan to do.

# Find Tsion.

# Get in line to take the microphone; in a few minutes there will be an open-mic session for personal testimonies. People are being screened of course, but the believers have come to trust the sign of God on their forehead, so you should be fine to get in line.

Moira confirms that she is ready to take a hostile action, if desired.

>>3828725
# Give Dr. Robertson and his boys and girls a hand.

Seems only fair. That or getting in line for the Mike.

>>3828725
># Find Dr. Rosenzweig.

If we can stop him from meeting Tsion privately and in person, maybe we can stop him from getting the whammie. Maybe if her were to hold onto or be in contact with the sword of pratchett, its gap effect could keep him from becoming totally enslaved.

>>3828725
# Find Dr. Rosenzweig.

>>3828736
>>3828732

A sysadmin uses GPS to give you directions to Chaim Rosenzweig's phone, which, happily enough, is in his pocket. He and his bodyguard Jacov are looking on at the spectacle below, sitting in a half-empty section of the farthest, topmost rung of chairs in the stadium. The tumult of almost a hundred thousand people is mostly below you. The two are sharing a bottle of water.

"It is a teacher's joy to see a pupil excel, Jacov, but I would have preferred Tsion take a different path."

"Do you think there will be a rebuttal from the Potentate, sir?"

"I would imagine so. He did let people know he'd let Tsion have his moment, but I have been a friend of the man, and he will take any insult with a smile, but not a challenge to his mastery of eloquence. Listen to Tsion! One would think he took oratory lessons for a year, instead of writing on the net."

"What do you think of his message?"

"Oh, I don't share it. And none of this is new; I've read it twenty times on his site. But such excellent execution!"

Jacov sees you approach, and excuses himself. "Sorry, Dr. Rosenzweig does not give out interviews or autographs."

Chaim notices you. "Wait, you're Hamish's friend... Mr. Foreman, is it?"

It will do.

"Jacov, this gentleman is one of Nicolae's cabinet ministers. I'm sure I can make the time."

The bodyguard still gets a glare in.

After a brief amount of how-do-you-dos, you ask Chaim

# how he feels about all this.

# if he knows anything that isn't in the, admittedly sparse, programme.

# what his opinion of Dr. Robertson's current effort is.

# about his current work with Carla.

>>3828759
# about his current work with Carla.

>>3828759
# about his current work with Carla.

Need to go make breakfast so I'll probably miss the next vote or at the very least be less detailed than usual.

>>3828773
>>3828767

Below, people have started singing Amazing Grace. The effect is powerful, even though the stadium is big enough for the sound wave lag to dilute the melody and there's at least a dozen languages there to muddle the words; you're surprised that you recognize the melody at all, in fact, but you do.

Chaim comments that it's one of his favorite songs, and if he had any talent as a musician, he'd pair it with Beethoven's 9th "and endure any jeers about it".

He remains upbeat, despite the subject of the discussion. "This winter out of turn has brought good news; people will not be planting, by and large. I suppose we'll live on canned tuna and tomatoes, yes? Unfortunately, the lack of heat and sunlight also means that the flora which would take hold in a fallow field will barely be able to do so. My fertilizer was intended to supplement existing methods, not replace them, as it all but did!"

"How about Nauru?"

"The phosphate? It'll help, but it's a stopgap measure. It will give us another year, best case scenario. What worries me is what people will do once the dust bowl starts in earnest -- at least in some parts of the world we'll regress to slash-and-burn, just to make three meals a day. And how could any ecologist make a case for sustainability when bellies are empty, especially after a wave of prosperity? Tsion is right in one thing: prepare, prepare, prepare."

"Have you considered a job at UNDRR?"

"Considered one? I might as well have taken two! I've been trying to assist the excellent Mrs. Colombo with as much energy and as much influence I can spare. Sadly, my age robs me of much of the first, and I am finding that the second is worth less than I thought when it comes to asking large farmers or food wholesalers to scale their operations down, instead of accepting medals or keys to the city... But that's the way of the world. A wise man is only wise up until the point where he disagrees with you."

# What can CATS do?

# What could the Council do?

# What do you think Carpatescu should do?

# How do you feel about all this?

# How do you feel about those who preach Ragnarok?

>>3828784
# What can CATS do?

"We have a lot of leverage given our control over the networks amongst other assets and the many groups we've helped. If nothing else, I can promise you we are working to implement technology that should help with this issue."

# How do you feel about all this?

>>3828789

"You can make sure people hear Tsion's message."

"Pardon?"

"Oh, not the religious stuff. It's hogwash, the poor man's spent too much time in America if you ask me. But - prepare, prepare, prepare. Stockpile canned goods and rotate them so as to not have expired stock. Keep water filters. Know where the wells are in case the pipes stop. That sort of thing. And... be frugal. For every liter of water we consume to sate our thirst, your people use more than a hundred for plastic trinkets we buy, and we in Israel are only slightly more parsimonious."

"That's a tall order. The reason why so much Internet content is free is advertisements after all."

"I know."

"Is there anything we can do directly? Our technological capacity..."

"... is mostly geared towards electronics and aerospace. Even if you were to devote all your funding to biotech and advance us a generation by next year, Nature has her rythms, and they are millenary. Hah! I have been trying to explain this to Tsion, last we talked, and he answered me like a damn fool of an American preacher I fear he's turning into! He's taken to believing in young-earth creationism, and telling me that Messiah will heal the Earth. That may very well be, but he's convinced that he will return in five years! We've been waiting two thousand... and we couldn't wait twenty more, at this right, if it was our deliverance. In the past century how many smoke-sellers and mountebanks have used the second company to justify wrecking the air and the soil?"

He sounds legitimately angry now, at the world rather than you.

"And me the worst of them, indirectly. Millenary rythms, indeed! I gave Mother Earth a shot of crack cocaine, and now, she is about to come down from the high."


# What could the Council do?

# What do you think Carpatescu should do?

# How do you feel about those who preach Ragnarok?

Below, it looks like Tsion is about to take the stage again; you'll have a hard time talking when that happens.

>>3828798

You notice that Chaim said "two thousand" for Messiah, rather than, well, almost five, as a Jewish man would, and that despite his pronouncement about Tsion's theology being hogwash. You wonder if you have to worry.

Moira says that if you want to try to do some damage, now is the time; the open mic segment will be over in five minutes, and that's enough time for you to scamper back down -- and not be out of breath if you turn on the implant for a spell. She's also ready to do some actual damage herself; her people have worked out how to elude the IDF, so if you want to start rigging the stadium to go up in the air, she can have it done by tomorrow.

You tell her that you want this place to

# burn.

# be demolished with as little collateral damage as possible: once people are piled up on what's left of the grass, the seating area will come down around them.

# be on lockdown at your command: you're against censorship, but a captive audience is necessary, sometimes.

# watch helplessly as the stage, and only the sage, is devastated.


As one side of the stadium is given over the personal testimonies -- you hear the occasional shouted "Amen!" as the translators do their job as best as they can -- the other is given over to a fairly forgettable performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KxaUH_9g7I

GCNN coverage has been sparse; Fortunato announced his intention to pay a visit tomorrow, noting that this event is beneath Carpatescu's attention. The final day of the event will be a private function, with only the converted allowed to attend; Tsion says he reserves the right to only let in the Jewish witnesses, depending on circumstances.

The Ecumenical Council is sponsoring a real-time rebuttal; their stream has allowed Tsion to talk uninterrupted, and cut to various priests, preachers, imams, rabbis and theologians instead of broadcasting the undershepherds or the open mic segments. It's getting a fair amount of views, although the audio stream is doing a lot better than the video due to the reduced-bandwidth conditions.

>>3828798
What do you think the Council or Carpatescu could do about any of this?

>>3828816
I'm only interested in offing the witnesses, any option that does that and avoids anyone else, I do not care for the methods.

>>3828798
>"... is mostly geared towards electronics and aerospace. Even if you were to devote all your funding to biotech and advance us a generation by next year,
"True, we'll still see what we can do and when or if the time comes your expertise is needed? We will call on you."

# What could the Council do?

>>3828816
># watch helplessly as the stage, and only the sage, is devastated.
I mean, why not? It'll eliminate Tsion and his lot but shouldn't kill too many.

>>3828835
Witness might kill our team and Moira.

Didn't a Merc team just try doing that earlier?

>>3828844
>Witness might kill our team and Moira.
True...perhaps we could try kidnapping them?

>>3828847
same problem as above, but probably with more heart attacks

>>3828835
>>3828834

"What could the Council do?"

"Let me speak to Nicolae already! His office has been stonewalling me for months. We've been friends for years! If there's anyone who could get it through the world's enthickened masses that they must accept a few years of tightened belts so that we may push through, it's him. I for one blame Fortunato, it's almost as if he's jealous!"

"We'll still see what we can do and when or if the time comes your expertise is needed? We will call on you."

"I appreciate the vote of confidence, Mr. Foreman, but the time was four years ago, when my government needed moderation. It's taken millions of people to get us to this point and it'll take as many to reel it back in, I'm afraid..."

# See if you can meet Chloe face to face.

# Watch the proceedings some.

# Sprint downstairs and give your "testimony".

>>3828835
>>3828834

"I could set up for a clean headshot or two, Foreman, but I'd need evac pretty quickly after that. The evac itself would be loud. Is that okay with you?"

# Set up a sniper's nest.

>>3828847

"Snatching two people in this big county fair of a thing? Not happening, Boss. Maybe one, if we can slap a Fulton harness on 'im, and fight everyone to stay back, and he doesn't manage to just take it off immediately. Maybe."

# Be ready to start a brawl on stage and set up for a Fulton extraction in the middle of it.

>>3828850
Yeah, it was worth considering though since having them in our captivity would certainly be useful. Oh well might just have to grab them at the waling wall.

>>3828851
# Sprint downstairs and give your "testimony".

I'd honestly advise against having our covert team do much of anything given the fact that we've no idea if Moira would survive this godly strike and more importantly, the death of the two witnesses is a thing we kinda want to avoid.

If we can't take them alive, then we aren't taking them.

>>3828705
>Interestingly, the Two Witnesses had fallen silent in the last few days, allowing your work crew to help the IDF install better protection barriers when the people, as they do, got bored. In their last outburst, a small mercenary outfit had apparently tried to take them out at medium range; most were incinerated, and those who were not were detained by the IDF for damaging the Wailing Wall. Apparently, all they had accomplished was making some holes in Eli and Moishe's rags. Were they just cursed with horrible luck in aiming all of a sudden? Admittedly, you've seen stranger...

>>3828857
Not sure if that was a "subtle" warning from the QM, or just plot or w/e.

Are we gonna shove one of them in the same room as Carpatescu?

>>3828857
Maybe we can have an expendable merc fire a shot at one of the witnesses, so at the very least we don't lose a agent?

Which one was the one that we didn't like more than the other?

Do we have shock pads and magic holy water? Actually, holy water might help ironically with the fire.

>>3828857
>>3828850

(You'll get the menu again later. One snatch is, with a lot of luck, possible.... depends on who, though.)

You have to admit to yourself that you've been wanting an excuse to use the implant.

You thank Dr. Rosenzweig for his time, then check your phone for texts and put in the code that unlocks the implant. For the next few minutes -- if you want more, right now you have to call Suzanna -- you're an Olympic runner. You sprint down the stairs in the seating area, effortlessly vault over the parapet, land on your feet -- almost locked a knee there, don't do that -- and keep running towards the secondary stage, where you make the cutoff by seconds after someone sees you and points at Remnant security; if you're coming with such passion you've got to have something important to say.

It is a bit addictive, you have to admit.

The security check is cursory; they look at your forehead (the smudge is there), give it a good rub (it's not painted on), and don't even bother with trying to take a picture because they're in a hurry.

After listening to some old gentleman from Germany who gives his testimony and then waits for the -- excellently trained, you have to admit; if they're using an algorithm they've rehearsed -- translators, it's your turn. The implant turned off, leaving you just a tiny bit short of breath, but now you're good to go.

Thanks to your relatively low public profile, it's unlikely that people will recognize you.

Moira says in your ear, "We got you covered, boss!"

And just like that, you have the attention of half dozen thousand people.

# (Write in: I'm genuinely curious if you'll want to speak up as the Foreman, as some random guy, turn the pixel tattoo off mid speach, take over the economy here and now... you tell me!)

>>3828869

Other things you can do at the last minute:

# Tell Aki to display appropriate images to what you say on the jumbotron.

# Tell Moira to ensure that you are amplified, but anyone who may interrupt isn't.

# Use the Antonov, and perhaps Moira's guys, to fake an attack by insert-name-here mid speech, so that it will be the final event of the evening and get media coverage.

Got to go, will be back in about 6-7 hours.

>>3828861
>Are we gonna shove one of them in the same room as Carpatescu?
Seeing as the prophecy calls for both of them to die, would having one in our blacksite disrupt it? Probably but I don't know...

>>3828862
>Maybe we can have an expendable merc fire a shot at one of the witnesses, so at the very least we don't lose a agent?
Create a web page that has a button on it and post a link to it on his own website (Tsion's I mean) that says something about a free ticket or something. Link that to a drone / remote trigger and "fire away" as soon as someone clicks it. There: now some random person is dead but so is one of the Witnesses.

>Do we have shock pads and magic holy water? Actually, holy water might help ironically with the fire.
Honestly we'd be better off with the suit we're going to place Carpy in with a O2 feed and filled with nitrogen gas, no oxygen or something to render it essentially impossible for a fire to occur. Assuming god isn't cheating and using pure thermal energy and just causing the body to combust itself.

>>3828869
># (Write in: I'm genuinely curious if you'll want to speak up as the Foreman, as some random guy, turn the pixel tattoo off mid speach, take over the economy here and now... you tell me!)
God dammit, of course this is the option that comes up just as I have to leave.

>>3828873
Yeah, your gonna have to help me out here, since I didn't plan on making any speeches or saying anything that could wow people aside from dropping our terrible but epic secrets on them. Which is a no no in my book.

>>3828873
I'm assuming its "holy fire"

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>>3828873

(The random page thing is frickin brilliant lol)

>>3828873

(sorry :( If you just write down the concepts, people can vote on it, and I'll expand it)


>>3828870

Robertson and his guys report that people here don't seem under any weird effect for anything; they can't do the plants test, obviously, but other pseudostochastic tests (flipping coins in a box, cards, etc) return in roughly 2.5x the amount of anomalies here than at the temporary testing area back in Chicago. With that information, they meet backstage with your work team to tune the new batch of Gap Generators; those custom heatsinks were expensive, let's see if they are worth anything...

Security asks what the Tesla coils are for, but after they're shown that it's basically Tesla coils, they're cleared. They don't know why they're being put under the stage rather than on it, but a forged work order and the general jobsworth attitude of physical plant employees for this particular event takes care of the problem fairly quickly. You don't know how much they will do, is all.

At least they can be line-powered. You hear the work team scurry below the stage; they aren't professional roadies, but they do a good job.

>>3828885

(You can make some random conversion story up and get off the stage as soon as the Gap Generators are in palce, if you like).

>>3828877
According to scripture or some prophecies, it is said that the witnesses will unleash horrible pain and suffering upon the world with powers from heaven, and god will bring great punishments upon mankind to make them believe. So my question is that, why does god do these horrific things to people when he could do the opposite by answering papers and giving guidance by speaking to us in our heads, and healing our loved ones, if making us believe and repent as the ultimate goal?

Hows that guys?

>>3828890
So we need to take a page from ATGMP when battling that luck psyker.

>>3828892
>answering papers
*answering prayers*

>>3828896
>>3828894
>>3828892

(Interesting approach for sure, but it looks like people went to bed. Don't wait up please! At this rate IDK if it will be wrapped up this thread, LBQ1 lasted two threads longer than planned. That said, unless the Foreman really eats the Stupid Ball, the prophecies are well on the way to destruction.)

>>3828892

(By the way, the reason why I've been deleting some of my posts is that if I end up double posting, I would prefer to delete them and paste them together into a single one.)

>>3828901
>I've been deleting some of my posts
I've been a bad influence on you haven't I?

Sometimes I make posts right after you make one so I end up having a post in between you of yours. If you give me a bit of warning, I could abstain for posting until you finish posting.

>>3828904

( It's all good!

By the way, I invite you to look at the mark on the forehead of this ancient giant. I literally missed it for most of my life until now.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfMC2aVhYuo

>>3828908
Never played this game, was dead beat poor growing up. Only got to play some games at the local community center in their computer lab.

Only reference I have for this game is memes and seeing it on newgrounds back in the day.

Bit spooky if that was an intentional hidden cross.

>>3828910
Then again.....
If you recall the Antarctica screen shots.....

>>3828908
Did you notice it only when you came across this?
>>3828169

>>3828890
>(The random page thing is frickin brilliant lol)
Bah it's a mundane work around. The interesting work around is abusing the uncertainty principle / a pseudo-Schrodinger's cat setup to see if god considers placing the sensor / radioactive material or raising the barrier between them to be the act of firing the gun or if no one dies since it went off at "random".

That and training a dog / monkey to press it and seeing if god smites them.

>>3828885
>Yeah, your gonna have to help me out here, since I didn't plan on making any speeches or saying anything that could wow people aside from dropping our terrible but epic secrets on them. Which is a no no in my book.
Eh I mostly was going to talk about having had prophetic dreams, refusing god's offer and the devil as well as possibly debating the Two Witnesses to prove our supposed immortality / resistance to their powers.

Knowing that we'll have gap generators come online midway through, we can test to see if they're strong enough yet to resist the Two Witnesses's powers or not. If not we shouldn't attempt to kill them but if so...Moira and her team could receive the go-ahead to blow it all up.

>>3828901
>it looks like people went to bed
To quote a good song: I'm back I'm back I'm ba-ack.


Now question, what do we actually want to achieve with this speech? To scare the Remnant? To make our play for world power? To just say hi and shit?

Also have a link to a damn heart warming story while I'm waiting for posts in return to mine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YrcruOIAPs

>>3829099

>>>>3829099
>Now question, what do we actually want to achieve with this speech? To scare the Remnant? To make our play for world power? To just say hi and shit?

I have a hypothesis:

I think the Remnant in the audience are conditioned to follow anyone with the Seal of God who is quoting scripture. We could quote scripture with our tattoo on to discredit Tsion or else encourage the Remnant to make better use of their time by volunteering in a soup kitchen or donating to UNDRR.

Guys why did you all send us up on the stage. What could we possibly say that won't be a shitshow.

>>3829137
>I have a hypothesis:
I find it highly unlikely.

>>3829143
Well we can say hi, talk about our dreams and possibly try to argue against the Two Witnesses, to check if our improved Gap generators will enable us to capture or kill them without godly retribution or at least limit it.

Plus our other two options were to watch shit occur or to talk to Ikko, who we can just ask to meet up with us after this for a proper meeting with a meal and shit.

>>3829152

We should still set up an experiment, now that we have artificial Seals of God.

Dream route works, I guess.

We could also point out the discrepancies between Tsion's prophecies and the the statistics from our damage reports.

Point out that unlike Tsion, who is being an armchair theologian, we were actually involved in the field so we know what we're talking about.

>>3829163
Yeah we can read out the statisitics and compare it to what is demanded

>>3829163
That'd work too, maybe make some implication along the lines of "even if you can't avoid these events coming to pass, you could still do as we supposed heathens do and show a little kindness for your fellowman, milk of human kindness and all that" or something, perhaps slightly less aggressive, to hopefully get them to actually help support society rather than slowly preparing for it's collapse.

We can even throw in a shout out to Matthew 25:31-40 for good measure, because even the Foreman of CATS can quote scripture to suit his purposes.

Also here is my plan for next month too:

1) All 6 factories produce network parts again, this time they will be spent improving the network level across all of South and Central America to 5.

2) Assign 5 teams and Aki to do defence research to finish that off.

3) Assign 8 work teams to construct two factories in Central America and Northern South America under Aki latten and Dr Diamond.

4) At this point we should have either 3 or 2 work teams left, so assign them to do Occult research or Directed Energy research based off of which number it is under Dr Robertson.

5) Assign all Covert and Black-ops teams to for-profit missions. Give them all the drones and Moira.

6A) Deploy ourselves to do two surveys: one of the west coast and one of the east coast of the US.

6B) Deploy ourselves to Greece for a holiday and some light discussion with Santiago as well as deploying ourself to North America to have a meeting with Dimmsdale.


My hopeful goal is to get Santiago and Dimmsdale to throw their support behind our factory network / provide us with some reward for prioritising their regions for receiving network enhancement. Anything from supplying their own "work team" type units to help us get them set up to reducing the cost by helping to arrange this shit to maybe just giving us their permission.

Assuming that could be done without outright needing our action, perhaps just pointing out to Santiago we've finished the Defence tree and are curious if she has any interest in encouraging us to build a factory in her last region as well as asking Dimmsdale if he'd like to keep up with South America (assuming she agreed) in the factory-race to ensure the North remains economically competitive, then I'd probably reassign our two actions to talking to Zakharov and the Euro-guy who's name I forget.


If all went well with this turn plan, we'd finish off 2 more factories, a important tech tree and massively strengthen the network between our 2 HQs as well as two of our strongest allies. I will admit I'm probably going a bit factory crazy but let me assure you that I am entirely sane in saying that the sooner and more factories we get, the more insanely beneficial they are.

>>3829099
>>3829165
>>3829179

"Hello, folks! This is going to be a little different! I'm not a theologian like Dr. Ben-Judah or a preacher like Mr. Demeter. I'm a manager. My job is to help others be good at theirs."

You have to give a bit of time for the volunteer translators to do their job, which helps you collect your thought between sentences.

"I'd like to tell you about my friend and colleague, let's call her Carla. Her job is to feed the naked, clothe the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, visit those in prison. She works for the Global Community, she is not a believer, and I have helped her do all these things."

"Our works are as filthy rags in the eyes of the Lord! We will pray with you for her salvation!" someone shouts for an answer.

Well, that's.... sort of kind? "Yes, but faith without works is dead! People see what she does, and think, what a wonderful example, I will go work for the Global Community. Do you think they should be saying, what a wonderful example, I will join the Remnant?"

"Yes!" "Amen!"

"Then let's work for it! Tsion says that a day is coming when the Remnant will be persecuted, people will be put to death just for what they believe, when men with guns will come and sunder the bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day."

People seem interested.

"A day when the enemy will prowl around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. But it is not this day! This day we take up our cross and walk. By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I ask you - show the world what good men and women of faith can do."

You have a bit of time to fill while the Gap Generators are positioned; you'll know they're on when your earpiece starts getting some static.

"There's lies, there's dang lies, and there's statistics, but I have a number for you. Just one." You give it; it's in the millions. "This is as many people today who are alive that Rabbi Tsion says they'd be dead. Please don't believe me and look it up for yourselves. This is what the Global Community, the enemy of God, has achieved. People not being dead! Is that wrong?"

"I'll trust the Bible over some government web site!"

You're a better manager than you're a public speaker, to be sure. That gets a bunch of amens from the crowd. You pick up the background crackling in your ear that tells you that the new Gap Generators have been deployed.

You change tack, mentioning the dream you had, but before you can get to the good part a man puts a hand on your shoulder and asks you to move along, you talked for almost twice the average. He tells you that Chloe's shown those statistics to Tsion, who is preparing a rebuttal to them for tomorrow, so be sure to come back.

The man is pushing you off the stage, but seems friendly. "We're very glad you're here, Foreman!"

Huh, apparently he recognized you. Who is this guy? He's got a scar across his face, missed the eye by a couple of centimeters... You try to imagine him without the scar.

Oh, it's William Cameron!

>>3829326

I trust you on the factory math and will support the plan, seeing as my strategy of cyber warfare is no longer viable.

We should consider bolstering our cyber-sec down the line, though.

If Santiago and Dimmsdale are involved with our factory program, maybe we consider setting up a research wing in Russia designated to studying Occult, DEW, and Xenobiology? We still have that Logistics HQ in Siberia...

>>Dr. Robertson
How long will we retain his services until he shifts to head of the Atomic Energy Association?

>>3829346
>Oh, it's William Cameron!
Oh christ I hope he doesn't try something stupid, might be wise to tell Moira we've got someone we want her to meet and hope she picks up on our meaning...

>>3829348
>We should consider bolstering our cyber-sec down the line, though.
This will be us finishing the research tree for Defence with Aki for the capstone if we do my turn plan.

>If Santiago and Dimmsdale are involved with our factory program, maybe we consider setting up a research wing in Russia designated to studying Occult, DEW, and Xenobiology? We still have that Logistics HQ in Siberia...
Probably. I mean to be fair we should really be setting up as much shit as we can to tick over in the background and take care of itself.

>How long will we retain his services until he shifts to head of the Atomic Energy Association?
Another month or two.

>>3829326
Instead of Dimmsdale, should we meet Gustav instead. We found our in to deprogram him after all. Also, we really need to know how the raid on Rebohoth goes before really settling on something of course. We might lose people and end up short. Same thing with Apollyon. Hopefully the nudges did their job but if they didn't we might have to take those teams off factory construction, as much as that sucks, and use them for disaster relief/fighting demon locust.

But I like the plan in theory.

>>3829348

(Month 43. Also, I'd argue that either you officially take over the economy, or you won the cyber war already)

>>3829346

He takes you besides the stage; you see one of your men scurry off, and peek under the stage to see a smattering of blue-purple light from the Gap Generators.

# Thank you, but I don't want to be recognized.

# I had tentative plans to talk shop with your wife, is she around?

# Is Tsion going to have a moment for me?

Cameron thanks you for your hard work so far, and tells you about how the Remnant has embraced internet technology to "evade the shadow of persecution". He knows that you rescued David Hassid, and makes a show of being grateful. "We're keeping you busy, eh? The Truth has ten times the audience I ever had at Global Weekly, and Tsion's website, man! I think we're reaching over a billion people every day! It's huge! We had to add digits to the counter!"

You decide to

# leave him be about it.

# educate him about bot-driven traffic.

>>3829356
>But I like the plan in theory.
It's just meant to be a broad term plan. I agree that meeting with Gustav is probably more important but I am enjoying the concentration of industrial and economic assets into the Americas since it means they are pretty damn safe from any attack so I want to get Dimmy-boys permission to build more in his lands.

Assuming we can get such permission without issue (perhaps literally just sending a Email around the SubPotenates saying "hey remember I mentioned those Automated factory systems in the meeting and we passed the thing? Yeah well I'm looking to build some so if anyone wants or at least doesn't mind them say I..." thing.) then I agree we should work to get Gustav on side and possibly do some other work like improving our combat rating or something.

>>3829356
Gus and Yang

>>3829360
# I had tentative plans to talk shop with your wife, is she around?
# Is Tsion going to have a moment for me?

# leave him be about it.

No reason to tell them otherwise, after all it makes them happy and doesn't do any harm.

>>3829360
# Thank you, but I don't want to be recognized.
# I had tentative plans to talk shop with your wife, is she around?

# leave him be about it.

>>3829356

We could have factories design drones to attack the locusts. The Locusts of Apollyon vs the Drones of Aki.

# Is Tsion going to have a moment for me?

# Leave him be about it.

>>3829360
> Thank you, but I don't want to be recognized.
> I had tentative plans to talk shop with your wife, is she around?
> Is Tsion going to have a moment for me?
>leave him be about it.

>>3829362
I thought our combat had dropped just because of our injury and would go back up once it healed. Guess we got a little rusty in that period or something. But yeah, combat Foreman Is best Foreman.

>>3829360
># I had tentative plans to talk shop with your wife, is she around?
# leave him be about it.

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>>3829378

(It did. That's just how a shoulder injury works I'm afraid)

>>3829369
>>3829367
>>3829373
>>3829380

"I'm aware of the statistics, like I tried to say on stage, it is my job after all. I had tentative plans to talk shop with your wife, is she around?"

"Foreman, she's pregnant, I'm going to have to veto this. Now if you want to talk to Tsion after his address, I'm very sure that I can-"

A woman in her mid twenties, probably in her second trimester, catches both of you; she's coming from what looks like a tent where water bottles are being given out. "Buck! You're sweet, but I'm fine. You're making people think i'm due tomorrow!" She gives William Cameron a peck on the cheek. "Anyway. hello, Mr..."

She looks at you. Your face is on the Global Community website, somewhere, and while it's not a famous one, she is smart enough to have memorized it. Unlike Buck, who reacted with glee at seeing the sign of God on your forehead, she gives you a squint. Without saying a word, she holds up her phone and takes a picture of you, the flash blinding you for a moment.

"Hey! Rude!"

She hands the phone to her husband. "There is such a thing as people faking the sign of God."

Your picture shows you making a very surprised face, but your forehead is clear; the photocell did its job. You assume by their lack of reaction that it did its job twice, and your pixel tattoo is back in place. "Looks fine to me" he comments.

Ikko responds by giving both of you a careful hug, then asks Buck to go get the thing. "Oh! Right. Hey, don't steal my girl, y'hear?" He ambles off.

"Sorry. I had no easy way to ship you a vial of antivenin. Unfortunately Hattie's child did not make it, she had a miscarriage and... they didn't want to show me pictures. But she's fine! Well, physically. She's recovering."

You have a few minutes to talk before Buck comes back. She looks at your face. "I know David talked to you when you rescued him. And I know I have, so many times. So, what changed your mind? You said you were going to try something, but this!"

She's positively beaming.

# Nothing. This is a clever fake, you can't detect it, and now you can't trust anyone again until you work out how to detect it.

# I'm trying to do the right thing, I sincerely always had, whatever the right thing to do turns out to be, even if it's crazy.

# I had a vision.

# It's personal and I am not ready to share it yet.

She tells you that Kenny will be born in four months and she believes that all will go well. "He's going to be too young to remember the Tribulation and he's going to grow up safe and have a very long and happy life. All the children will!"

# I'm trying to do the right thing, I sincerely always had, whatever the right thing to do turns out to be, even if it's crazy.

>>3829408
>>3829426

"I'm trying to do the right thing, Ikko. That has not changed and that will not change. If this is the right thing to do, then it will be done."

"That's both powerful and ambiguous at the same time. I can see why you talking on stage didn't go too well. But I can tell you mean it. I think there's always going to be a bit of a linguistic divide between geeks and non geeks, even come the Millennium, you know?"

"Yeah, I guess. Listen, I've got to warn you. We caught your guys stealing airplane fuel earmarked for executive travel. I smoothed it out for you while I was there, but I don't think I can do that again, I will have to call it in next time."

She sighs. "Yeah. David was basically our New Babylon inside man. He could fake flight plans, requisition gas, that sort of thing. Actually taking supplies out of inventory would have tripped some alarms, he told me, but getting work orders for planes or trucks was easier. Carpatescu has some big financial computer, but he also uses it to do payroll and accounting for his staff, and they fly all over the place, so we just piggyback on that. Used to."

Well, that definitely helps explain why the MCP was easy to hack.

"What are you going to do now?"

"Scale up trade operations, I guess. Most of our planes are still in the system, but it can't last, so we're going to go full tilt while we can. Can you believe that I'm ordering my dad to fly around to do deliveries? We need to find someone else who's a good hacker, and get them to work with Lars Almost or whatever his name is."

"Rahlmost. He's competent, but not that bright. I give him another couple of months before he groks how the MCP works and why it's not quite doing what it should."

"Foreman, now that David is benched, do you think you could..."

# Maybe I know someone.

# I have MCP access. You can have all the fuel your small fleet needs, but I need something in return from you.

# I pretty much took over the economy, only nobody's noticed yet.

# I have Carpatescu in custody.

>>3829431

# Maybe I know someone.

>>3829402
>I have MCP access. You can have all the fuel your small fleet needs, but I need something in return from you.

# I have MCP access. You can have all the fuel your small fleet needs, but I need something in return from you.

>>3829434
Don't give her unlimited stuff, this brings more scrutiny on us, and makes it obvious we are connected to remnant.

>>3829431
>"Foreman, now that David is benched, do you think you could..."
"It's more than a matter of what I could do at this point: fact is I've got a lot of stuff to do and barely enough resources to cover it all as is.

If you can make it worth my while, I can get you the fuel, the flight permissions, the nav-codes and all that stuff without issue. I've got enough pull and enough men inside to make it work but you have to convince me this is worth my people's time and more importantly, worth risking everything I've got in the works over."

# I have MCP access. You can have all the fuel your small fleet needs, but I need something in return from you.


You know it occurs to me, we could construct a Remnant city like we plan to do with Thule that is solely to contain bio-diversity while also functioning as a hide-away from the world for them / source of resources.

I doubt they'd agree but it is something to consider.

>>3829460
# It's cold and it will get colder. Set up soup kitchens. Without the preaching, as you see, the subtle approach can work better.
# CATS doesn't need anything, but we have Remnant employees. Tell me what the long term survival plan is. I may have to plan my own exit, and they certainly do.

>>3829434
>>3829437

"We're still doing favor trading, Foreman?"

"Yes. I have to mind all the angles, all the percentages. You know how that works, you have a similar job. And I cannot risk my cabinet position by making it obvious that I am connected to the Remnant. Fact is, I've got a lot of stuff to do and barely enough resources to cover it all as is."

She thinks about it for a minute. "That makes sense. Only, we got maybe a year before we have to stop being traders and start being smugglers. We are not officially persecuted yet, but we both know that's going to change."

You just nod. You got a text, via earbud; the robotic voice says "Foreman, this is Moira. GGs in position. We see you, and we see a valid target. That's their logistics expert. Say the word and we'll pop her head off."

"Okay. So, you make sure our planes stay in the system as government vehicles and get free servicing at airports, nothing changes, and we'll have more time to put someone on Lars' staff. I'll send you a list of tail numbers. Now, what can ICCO do for CATS, then, Foreman?"

# Ask for something nominal, she just gave away the store anyway. Tell her to send you a chaplain or something.

# Get everyone to pray for the success of the nudger spacecraft.

# It's cold and it will get colder. Set up soup kitchens. Without the preaching, as you see, the subtle approach can work better.

# CATS doesn't need anything, but we have Remnant employees. Tell me what the long term survival plan is. I may have to plan my own exit, and they certainly do. If you don't have a survival plan, maybe I do. We could set up a safe zone somewhere secluded...

>>3829460
># Get everyone to pray for the success of the nudger spacecraft.
I feel like this one should be free

Would the Chaplin be for theological research?

>>3829464
# Get everyone to pray for the success of the nudger spacecraft.

# It's cold and it will get colder. Set up soup kitchens. Without the preaching, as you see, the subtle approach can work better.
This may end up working too well.

# CATS doesn't need anything, but we have Remnant employees. Tell me what the long term survival plan is. I may have to plan my own exit, and they certainly do. If you don't have a survival plan, maybe I do. We could set up a safe zone somewhere secluded...
Love this plan, lets send them to one of the Earth's Poles.

>>3829467

We might get Fr. Schorpe if things go well. He's having a Crisis of Faith and might convert to the Remnant, however.

>>3829470
We should try talking to the guy.

Give him something to relax and worry about something else.

>>3829469
>Love this plan, lets send them to one of the Earth's Poles.
"Welcome to Thule city: one of our first planned urban areas; remember to give thanks to the Foreman for his generosity in letting us live and work here; long live CATS and longer live humanity."

That or we set up a underground super city in Antarctica with their help which totally won't become the base of a certain force from the previous quest...

>>3829467

You don't need a chaplain, of course, but you can probably use one opposite Father Schorpe... while your psychologists and physicists take careful notes, of course. (Basically, yeah.)

You figure that asking Ikko to get everyone to pray for the success of a machine that is intended to stop one of the Trumpet Judgments is actually a bit of a long shot, but if you're playing the recent convert, it's in character. At worst she'll say no, or refer you to Tsion.

>>3829463
>>3829469

"CATS doesn't need anything from you that wouldn't just raise your profile. However, we have Remnant employees. They will need a safe exit when we have to fire them. I may need one myself. So, I need to know what the long-term plan is. If you've got one."

Chloe smiles. "Of course I do. We're going to go to Petra! My dad wanted to call it Operation Eagle, so I let him. It is written that God will provide for us there, and there's room for a million people."

"Petra as in the archeological site?"

"Yes. There's caves in the mountains and so on, we can build underground. Those who are being actively hunted down by the Global Community or the Morale Monitors will be able to take refuge there, as will the 144000 witnesses. They will be supernaturally protected there. Tsion says that there will be manna from heaven every day, and their clothing will not wear, so that's more than half of our logistics taken care of, really. And it's a safe haven for those who need to heal or have too much heat on them."

"That sounds a bit like cheating."

She smiles. "It's not cheating, God makes the rules, remember?"

"I was going to propose something similar, actually. Maybe build a base in Antarctica, or somewhere else hard to find."

"I'd rather be in Jordan than Antarctica, given the weather lately! Why Antarctica? It'll be freezing the entire time."

"Specifically because of that. We can set up cryogenic facilities there, preserve seeds, animal embryos... a digital copy of the world's masterpieces, or even the real thing, if we can liberate them."

"Why? I know that things will look pretty bad in five years, but Jesus is going to renew the Earth."

"You'd want to save books, right? Even non-Christian ones?"

"Well... Yeah, most of them. That's actually a disagreement I have with Tsion. But I can preserve those without going to Antarctica."

"So what's the difference between preserving a copy of the Illiad and seeds for heirloom carrots or garlic? Maybe a variety that's been in a family for centuries? You have people in Greece, ask them, what's his name... Lukas Miklos. Ask his wife about her garden!"

She thinks about it a little. "I can see where you're going with this. That's a huge undertaking, though."

>>3829475

If all goes to plan, would the events of the First Quest even be possible?

>>3829483
>"I was going to propose something similar, actually. Maybe build a base in Antarctica, or somewhere else hard to find."
To be fair, there's no reason we couldn't build a base over their cave network to give them a front / do both. Plus we could set up a base in places like the middle of the Sahara or in the Urals or near the Yellowstone site, since that'd provide a lot of geothermal energy to consistently power the city.

>>3829497
>If all goes to plan, would the events of the First Quest even be possible?
If by plan, you mean god not levelling the entire earth and shit? Probably not. If by plan, you mean us avoiding most disasters but still failing? Maybe.

At the very least, it should be possible for BOCHICA to survive the collapse and be rapidly developed into the AI that led our rebellion: even a difference of 10 or 20 years to the end date would have granted us a insane amount more time and resources to work with; if we had 200 years instead of 100, we'd have won. No doubt in my mind.

>>3829497

(LBQ1 assumes that you fail at the last minute due to a well executed plan that encounters extraordinary bullshit / bad luck).

>>3829475

(I love the bit in Last of the Lamplight when the Captain goes "And there they went thanking God, despite me being right there, giving them free houses". I can definitely relate to someone being pissed off at God for trying to kill everything, if this quest wasn't an obvious indication)

>>3829483

"God will provide manna. I'm sure that tastes, well, heavenly, but it'd get old after three years. Eating vegetable casserole for a millennium doesn't sound too good either."

"You're not wrong. How about the animal embryos? We will all be vegetarians in the Millennium."

"Again, variety. Ask your Greek contingent, ask people in India. How many varieties of goat milk are there? how many varieties of cheese? Grab an Italian and see what they think of American mozzarella made from the milk of dairy cows. These things took centuries to develop."

"You're right. You know, we're going to lose all sea life. God will heal the seas, and I don't think He needs our help, but we should at least show willing."

"Thank you. I think once this Petra thing of yours starts panning out, you'll have more time than I will. And of course, if you take this job off my back, I can ensure that Petra remains connected to the rest of the net; all your people will have to do is set up a data center there and put up antennas, and I should be able to deal with the other half of the connection."

"Okay. So in addition of Operation Eagle, you want me to do Operation Penguin? You know, I like that. And you'll divert the fuel for keeping the lights on?"

# We'll send you solar panels to get started, and set up shipments of diesel. (-1 to budget)

# There's coal, you can set up mining facilities. (-5BN; your Remnant employees can go work there if you do fire them)

# CATS has developed radiothermal generators. We both know that the Rapture was not caused by radiation, so they're safe, as long as you don't hug one at night; you can have some nuclear fuel to run them until the Glorious Appearing. (-1.75 nuclear fuel)

# I can't, sorry. (Ice ark may not get built, although Chloe will try)

While you were hashing out the details, both of you were busy on your phones; that's still considered rude among the general population, but much less so in geek circles. You tell Moira to hold off assassinating the person you're talking with for now, and note that Fr. Schorpe posted on Tsion's website (which is trying to do a livecast) referring your statistics and hoping that Tsion has a good answer. Most importantly, you got tail numbers for what you figure is most of the Remnant aircraft!

>>3829510

Didn't they find a predecessor AI in that quest at one point? It would be scary if that became BOCHICA.

This might be going meta, but we could consider building a time capsule for those who come after us.

>>3829520
(So Nat 1s? We're fucked then.)

# CATS has developed radiothermal generators. We both know that the Rapture was not caused by radiation, so they're safe, as long as you don't hug one at night; you can have some nuclear fuel to run them until the Glorious Appearing. (-1.75 nuclear fuel)

>>3829520
>CATS has developed radiothermal generators. We both know that the Rapture was not caused by radiation, so they're safe, as long as you don't hug one at night; you can have some nuclear fuel to run them until the Glorious Appearing

>>3829520
# CATS has developed radiothermal generators. We both know that the Rapture was not caused by radiation, so they're safe, as long as you don't hug one at night; you can have some nuclear fuel to run them until the Glorious Appearing. (-1.75 nuclear fuel)

"Should the appearing take longer than that for some reason then we can negotiate fuel costs, though we're talking years from now."

>>3829528
>Didn't they find a predecessor AI in that quest at one point? It would be scary if that became BOCHICA.
True.

>This might be going meta, but we could consider building a time capsule for those who come after us.
We could find a stable geothermal vent and use it to power a long-term computation unit that just number crunches it's way to generating a AI.

>>3829532
>>3829528
>>3829534

You send Chloe schematics for an earlier version of the radiothermal Stirling generator. There's no real way that it can be weaponized against you, you figure. It's something a reasonably competent workshop can put together; Stirling generators are sold as toys, after all. She can take it from there, and it'll probably keep whatever engineering staff she has busy - idle hands are Yahweh's playthings, and all that.

You will have to

"Should the appearing take longer than that for some reason then we can negotiate fuel costs, though we're talking years from now."

"It won't. Tsion keeps telling me that I should do my job, but I should let myself trust and obey. Am I going to have to tell you?"

"He also said prepare, prepare, prepare. That's good advice."

You shake hands with Chloe just in time for Buck to come back with the antivenin. They start discussing this new plan.

You will have to arrange sending equipment to make liquid nitrogen, which is easy to find, and delivering the nuclear fuel.

Otherwise,

# Bail, you got more than what you wanted, if Fortunato wants to embarass himself with the Two Witnesses it's his problem. You got a double satellite launch and a train robbery to deal with!

# Bail for today, but come back tomorrow, incognito of course. That lets you watch the fireworks, or create some.

# Stick around, see if you can talk to Tsion.

>>3829543
# Stick around, see if you can talk to Tsion.

>>3829543
># Bail for today, but come back tomorrow, incognito of course. That lets you watch the fireworks, or create some.

I don't really see much point in wasting our time with Tsion. At best it might help occult research to compare and contrast his mind control with Carpatescu's but I kinda doubt that.

>>3829571
Eh, I see no reason not to stick around but if people want to we can leave.

# Stick around, see if you can talk to Tsion.

For Science

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You figure that talking to Tsion is worth risking exposing the fake sign of God on your forehead; it's unlikely that he will be able to tell supernaturally, any more than Carpatescu could see the damn thing on David Hassid.

The theologian-turned-pastor has refreshed himself, and will be making another brief speech; at Chloe's suggestion, you get in line to talk to him after he does that. She calls ahead to ensure you keep a spot at the head of the line; good job, because one forms almost immediately. Tsion goes on, rehashing Revelation and Daniel yet again.

"... In my opinion, eight events will take place sometime after the sixth Bowl judgment, the drying up of the Euphrates River. That event, by the way, makes it possible for the kings of the East to bring their armaments of war directly into the plain of Megiddo on dry land, saving them the time of shipping them all the way around the continents. There is no biblical corroboration for this next assertion, but in my humble opinion, this is a trap set by almighty God. He's luring these rulers and their armies right to where he wants them. Regardless, once the Euphrates has dried up, we see the assembling of the allies of the Antichrist. Next, I believe, comes the destruction of Babylon..."

You make small talk with the people there -- most want an autograph, quite a few mothers-to-be wants him to bless their child; the only person who has actual business is a Greek pastor by the name of Demetrius Demeter. You tell him about your plan to conserve heirloom varieties, and he says that it's an excellent idea. "Surely this came to you from God; I doubt an American would think of such things otherwise!"

He's ribbing you, and you make yourself laugh along.

Tsion's thunderings leave you mostly indifferent, but he does take the time to address your (and Schorpe's) remark about there supposedly being more people than the prophecies seem to indicate. This part, you want to listen to.

"As for those who have said that more are alive today than should be -- are they sour about God showing mercy? We deserve none; we have been offered all of it. I am happy to admit that my own math may be off by a decimal point or two; so what? If, somewhere within the Bible, I were to find a passage that said 2+2=5, I would believe it, accept it as true and then do my best to work it out and understand it."

He takes a sip of water and resumes.

"Some have legitimately questioned how a loving and merciful God could shower the earth with such horrible plagues and judgments. Yet I ask you, what else could He have done after so many millennia to shake men and women from their false sense of security and get them to look to Him for mercy and forgiveness?"

Moira wants to issue a rebuttal via the jumbotron.

# Sure, let's start the show.

# No, we got good intel out of this.

# Bit of trolling instead. Permission to do the water-to-blood trick on his next bottle. (https://www.thoughtco.com/turn-water-into-wine-or-blood-606000)

>>3829608
# Sure, let's start the show.

This or the trolling, if Ikko-Chloe asks, we disagree with him vehemently even if we "do worship the same god".

>>3829608
>no we got good intel. Lets not ruin what we have setup here

# Sure, let's start the show.

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>>3829608
# Sure, let's start the show.

Kinda wanted to do water into blood but Moira is probably bored. Lets let he have some fun.

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You figure that Moira has been itching to do something, and give her the okay; she's a big girl and can take care of herself.

Besides, she's probably just attracting attention to allow your work team to exfiltrate now that they've set up the A/V system and the Gap Generators... right?

Okay, maybe not. The asymmetrical corset is definitely new; you've never seen Moira wear makeup, either. The middle finger painted on her forehead is also new. She blows a kiss into the camera.

A loud whistle makes the auditorium shiver. "Hey there, Mister Tsion! You know what I call what you just said? Extortion. If I'm safe in my house and a man breaks my window, then tries to sell me a home security plan the next day, he's a fucking mafioso and that's all he is!"

"... And who might you be?" Tsion recovers surprisingly quickly; he seems to realize that he can't shout down the entirety of a stadium's speaker system.

"Your basement dwellers say I'm the Whore of Babylon! Sorry to disappoint, but I'm a slut, not a whore. It ain't for sale, so get over it!"

"Have you been listening the whole time, child?"

"Yep!" Moira pushes the camera back; she's lounging on a crate and showing a bit of leg. You see security scrambling to figure out where that might be, and checking the backstage areas and the basement rooms. "Figured I'd give you a piece of my mind."

"You know, we did rent this stadium. I don't think you paid for airtime. If you want to discuss this face to face..."

"Naaah, you've got way too many wife beaters in your crew down there. Don't feel safe." Moira could probably take down anybody but a professional MMA fighter one-on-one, but she seems to have adopted a different persona. She's even chewing gum, which she never does ordinarily.

One of the security guys notes that Moira said --down there--, and orders the search to focus on the upper floors.

"Madam! I would never! I was a married man, I had children-"

"Yep. Word is you killed 'em. That's why you're a wanted man, innit? Only here by dispensation?"

Tsion gets angry. "That was a lie that Carpatescu circulated to discredit me! I was framed! You have no right to-" the rest is mostly lost to lack of amplification.

"Well if he's trying to discredit you he's doing a good job. He did talk your government into letting you rent this place and make a fool of yourself."

"We reach a billion people every day with our message!"

"Yep. People love a laugh and you're free entertainment, what else is new?"

"Enough! Mock me all you want, girl, but God is not mocked!"

The crowd erupts in an Amen to that. Moira does a stereotypical evil laugh.

"God is not mocked you say? Have you tried, Idunno, the entire internet? Go on someone else's site other than yours?"

Rather than answering, Tsion starts leading the congregation in a hymn. Moira waves a peace sign and blink out.

# Good time to bail.

# Bail, but you'll be back tomorrow.

# See if Buck or Chloe are also looking for Moira.

# Bail, but you'll be back tomorrow.

Eh, that's enough mayhem for one night. Also OP a pair of questions I wanted to check with you: is is possible to spend cash to "hire" work teams for 1 turn or for a specific action. For example hiring a construction company to supply 3 work team-equivalent units in return for cash?

Also given we are building a city in Thule, can we use our factory network to produce pre-fab buildings and shit like that to accelerate our progress? Could we assign drones to do it?

# Bail, but you'll be back tomorrow.

Kollek Stadium is less on fire than I anticipated.

>>3829680

Your work teams already do most of their jobs by hiring subcontractors.

Expanding Thule is a complexity 4 job, however, it is a construction job, which factories can do. One work team will still be necessary to assemble the pre-fabs onsite, but the other 3 may be substituted.

>>3829685

You ensure that your teams exfiltrate and tell the Remnant security guys that you heard a girl with a voice similar to Moira's near the secondary stage.

After noting that Tsion did manage to not answer Moira during their brief exchange, you let the great crowd sing in peace, and make your own exit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpqBEEY6as

You and your people regroup in a Jerusalem motel that you've pretty much rented out completely. Moira -- who's in khakis now, having quick changed out of that ridiculous costume -- sees you and gives you a theatrical pout. "Aw, Foreman, these infiltration jobs that actually stay infiltration jobs are getting mighty boring!"

She's reasonably sure that even if Tsion's bouncers find the vampire tap she used to hijack the jumbotron, which they should, they won't find the other one, by reason of it having been installed inside the panel by one of your work crew. "Bit of a fifty fifty there though, Boss. These guys are not complete idiots. They almost found me by following the wiring."

The Gap Generators are in place, and have sensors on them to let you know if they start malfunctioning, should the Witnesses show up; Robertson has talked to Moira a little and decided that he doesn't want to put any of his personnel at risk in that case, though. "I did get to talk with Tsion, though, briefly. He was not in his best mental shape, I'm sure."

Encouragingly, Fr. Schorpe's response to Tsion's answer to your statistics is scathing. "I do not doubt your faith, Dr. Ben-Judah, but you have a theology degree and should know better than to regurgitate a dumbed-down version of Tertullian to your flock. This sort of blind, naive fideism has no place in the church or indeed in modern society, because it makes God look like the bully that your party-crasher said he is. You do all of us a disservice." [USER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR THIS POST]

Tsion must have been angrier than he looked. Since you have an agreement, Chloe will undo the ban in a few days, although you may have to remind her about it.

The fake sign of God works, more or less, which is... nice. The major takeaway from this, however, is that you have the tail numbers for at least mot if not all of ICCO's fleet.

For the next sixty days or so, you are now in a unique position: get the Peacekeepers to shut down ICCO, and then cripple them by taking over the economy. You'd be left with a planet in the thrall of ten squabbling empires... and one very, very derailed end-times prophecy.

Moira suggests that you do it.

# Do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHUqNCDwQj4

# You made a deal. ICCO is going to build you an Ark, and the world will need it.

>>3829711
>Expanding Thule is a complexity 4 job, however, it is a construction job, which factories can do. One work team will still be necessary to assemble the pre-fabs onsite, but the other 3 may be substituted.
Wait does this mean that since factories are a construction action too (at least I would presume so) that we could use our 6 factories along with 2 work teams to produce a further 2 factories without issue?

God fucking dammit, we've been going about this shit all wrong. So much inefficiency!

>Fr. Schorpe's
Someone get the lad on the phone and see if we can't hire him...


>For the next sixty days or so, you are now in a unique position: get the Peacekeepers to shut down ICCO, and then cripple them by taking over the economy. You'd be left with a planet in the thrall of ten squabbling empires... and one very, very derailed end-times prophecy.
Question, could we attempt our economic takeover without threatening the ICCO?

>>3829717
>Someone get the lad on the phone and see if we can't hire him...

Support.

# You made a deal. ICCO is going to build you an Ark, and the world will need it.

Honestly, its 'Jesus' who is the bigger threat, not Ikko's underground economy.

>>3829724
Yeah but the point is that if we take control of the world economy, we can really throw the narrative off just like we did by taking Carpy out of the picture.

(You don't have to decide now, of course, but you do have to decide until Lars learns how to debug the MCP correctly).

Moira's little intrusion makes regional news; it doesn't go as viral as you were hoping because most people are back to 28.8k or 56k internet, which means there are few Flash video remixes and the memes end up being fairly low resolution.

You send Fr. Schorpe an email; he tells you that he is seriously considering leaving the church. "I cannot in good conscience teach Ecumenical Council doctrine that I do not believe in, and with his latest outburst, however provoked, Dr. Ben-Judah has become a parody of his former self, whose scholarship I respected. I must get my own house in order, but I am inclined to gratefully accept, should you grant me a job interview. Only, what does a telecommunications man need a theologian and philosopher for?"

You answer that you don't know, and since you don't know what else you may not know, it's exactly the time to hire a philosopher. Your motives are a bit more practical of course, but you got a man in his seventies to reply to you with an emoticon, so you must've been given the right answer. He will be available for an interview at any point in the reasonably near future.


# Check on the nudgers.

# How's that train robbery going?

# Let's see if Fortunato or Eli and Moishe show up tomorrow.


>>3829717

(Fuck, you're right, that's too much. I'll have to switch to "No, you have to use work teams for Thule". However you will be able to use factories to make the generators, wiring and so on. Sorry, but otherwise the feed-forward loop is too strong.)

>>3829717

You already have a plan in place to take over the economy; it just happens to have gained an extra optional step if you want to throw a bigger wrench in the gears.

Random Question: QM you ever play 'Evil Genius'? I noticed a few references on your Datalink site.

#Check on the nudgers

>>3829733
# How's that train robbery going?

>(Fuck, you're right, that's too much. I'll have to switch to "No, you have to use work teams for Thule". However you will be able to use factories to make the generators, wiring and so on.
I mean, I would've just given an answer relating to the fact that our factories aren't physical constructions like Thule since they are really more about getting BOCHICA adopted in territory and shit like that. Therefore they'd more accurately be described as sort of like a recruitment action or something similar. Which in turn means that the two aren't entirely comparable.

>Sorry, but otherwise the feed-forward loop is too strong.)
To be fair, it's not that strong of a feedback loop given we're limited to 22 of them globally to my understanding and I'd even take a compromise: we can only use factories for 1/2 of a construction's value (rounding up so a network node only needs 1 work team or rounding down so it needs 2); representing the fact you still need a fair number of staff to arrange the construction, plan it out.

Even assuming we did it optimally, using the minimum number of teams then to get the maximum number of factories (that I think we can have) would take us half a year: that's half a year of no network parts, power production, aerospace pieces or anything else. You want to know how long it will be if we don't have that ability and we still throw all of our factories into it? 7 months. A increase of a single month. Fact is even if factories are made to be a 50-50 production like I'm suggesting as a compromise (since I could've just not mentioned this and then abused the fuck out of it to make 5 factories in a turn) then we can do it in 5 months since we can actually do it a bit more efficiently.

>>3829733
# Check on the nudgers.

>Wait does this mean that since factories are a construction action too (at least I would presume so) that we could use our 6 factories along with 2 work teams to produce a further 2 factories without issue?

>God fucking dammit, we've been going about this shit all wrong. So much inefficiency!

Times like this, its best to take the thing and run.

>>3829755
>Times like this, its best to take the thing and run.
Yeah but OP's having cool feet at this opportunity to INDUSTRIALISE everything. Which is a real shame since I'd love to not have to wait quite so long for a massive amount of factories since at this point, money isn't the issue for us when it comes to maintaining our success: a lack of teams is.