brilliant.
I hereby award myself the Tom-Lehrer-Memorial-Award in Silver.
brilliant.
Read it all over the last day, fantastic truly fantastic...I say we invade the Seals and take the money.
I hereby am founding the East Kuiper Company, and humbly ask Our Most Benevolent Avian for an exclusive charter of trade with our newest protegees, the Salamis. In related news, yard sale tomorrow. I will be offering all of my, err... study material in erotica for coloured beads and shiny pebbles.
Typically, you either bombard them from orbit (which tends to muck up the ecosystem), or drop on them with Space Marines. Or both.
The main problem from my selfish point of view is that Trade generates revenue mostly for the Civilian company. Even under the best of circumstances... when all of the exports are from our own Imperial worlds, and all of the goods are carried in our own carriers... the Government of Earth will get only 10% of the value of the trades: 5% export tax and 5% shipping tax. The Civilian company keeps the rest. This is good for long-term growth; they can use it to buy more ships. But it won't solve our desperate financial crisis. Only seizing the Salami treasury will do that.
The space marines being individual named characters right? They really should abstract larger army forces and vehicles in some way. How is it now, you land 10 marines on a world with no defending marines of their own, and you occupy it?
No... the player characters are the commanding officers of various Space Marine units, which vary in size from Battalions (~1000 men) to Brigades (~3000 men).
Seli's Xeno-Archeology team has reported in from Sigma Draconis. The ruins have been analyzed... and are found to have belonged to a race of aliens called "The Thorndale Freehold". Their language and symbology have been translated, and seven potential dig sites have been identified. Now we need to get the Engineers to the spot, along with some guards to protect the colony against the possibility that the ruins might be guarded.
Nice, that was a quick analysis this time, I hope it means the sites will be higher quality as well.
We should at least start with a presence in the Seal-Salami system. We just have to protect them from interference by evil alien influences
Bankruptcy or the +20% income, what arrives first?
What about reducing research for a few months, just take some RL away from the unimportant projects...
:rofl: I wasn't going to admit this, but I might as well come clean...
Just after posting that screen-shot, I mis-clicked, in-game. Instead of sending the Scout-ship out on a reciprocal course, as intended, I actually BUZZED the planet, passing closer to it than the Moon is to Earth. Nothing happened. Nobody fired a shot at the ESN Agassiz, and they safely pulled away from the planet and exited the system. They are now in the Groombridge 1618 system, headed off on their next mission.
There's a new joke circulating among the crew of ESN Hutton. It begins: "The Salamis Federation walks into a club..."
There's a new joke circulating among the crew of ESN Hutton. It begins: "The Salamis Federation walks into a club..."