In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 973):

Given most recruits are level 14 or 15, training them to level 18 will take some time indeed! But there is plenty of recruits...

All the maps available to Girii are put at your disposal, and the details of the attack and subsequent losses inflicted on Lemrukiri have prompted them to ask for assistance from the sector Governor at Shululsish. Your attack, resulting in the loss of another capital ship and the noble commanding it have also caused considerable alarm, resulting in what some considerable alarm. Shululsish has loaned them extra ships, but there is a lot of concern about how they will deal with the new designs...

So who is upset? Lemrukiri or Shulishish or both? Wasn’t clear to me.... So Gerri wants shulishish to control Lemrukiri? Good diplomacy, but little chance.

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 975):

Not quite.

Shululsish is the sector government that both Lemrukiri, Shakiimi and Girii answer to. Lemrukiri have Shululsish support in this conflict, putting Girii in a position of rebellion against to local government in their opposition of Lemrukiri thanks to good political maneuvering by the Lemrukiri government. However, Lemrukiri were the ones who attacked Girii's naval base, and lost badly. This has naturally alarmed Shululsish, who has loaned ships to assist Lemrukiri.

The pirate attacks were actually against Shakiimi who under Shululsish directions, are sending assistance for Lemrukiri as well.

Does that make more sense?

Yes, so really all of them are upset, is Shakiimi connecting the dots between the "pirates" and Girii ? If not, that's a big plus for the moment.
So all these Governments have lost ships due to Lemrukiri's bad move ... how has that affected Lemrukiri's position among them?
I am sure Shakiimi is recalling everything it can given it recent loss of an Aasha and an important cargo freighter to pirates who have become quite lethal and have destroyed Shamshirs and Kargashs with impunity. Stealing all those weapons for ships has to be a major concern now, as they know they will be seeing them again.

I will mention that Girii might want to mention that their new cruisers has broken up one pirate attack by two converted Shamshirs and two converted Gashiddas.  All of which were destroyed and not worth salvaging. They might mention that they found evidence of a Pirate spy in the service of Lemrukiri who is sending information through merchants apparently. Trying to think of some reason that the systems around Lashgimaamrishuk be returned to Girii's control, as they can handle things Lemrukiri can't. A war serves no ones purposes and will only cost more in credits, people and ships.

I know that's a lead kite, but when the bigger rulers get involved and see that, they may well be less inclined to support Shulishish. Using all those Strategy points ;-)

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 977):

All good points Girii intelligence agents take on board and are happy to discuss with you. Unfortunately one of the claims of Lemrukiri in gaining support of their superiors was that Girii has been sponsoring Terran pirates, so they are making links even before there were any. But fabricating evidence of destruction of pirate vessels is something that they are interested in. It is expected to be a year or so at least before those weapons are seen again, as modifying large cruisers takes time even in naval shipyards, let alone primitive pirate worlds that are barely a year or so old...

But they are keen to discuss any ideas you might have. Of course, if Lemrukiri pulls them into a costly war, it will be very costly for them if superior nobles later find it to be avoidable...

I have updated the intelligence thread with the Sector and Subsector fleets and notification of which sectors are in which subsectors. Basically, just 2 sectors known to Terrans in detail and the Shululsh sector is not known that well.
This message was last edited by the GM at 08:26, Mon 30 Dec 2019.

Last update I see is 11 Dec and doesn't seem to have that information.

Also note that the under-king has the same last name as the guy running Lemrukiri, and we know blood is more important than good sense, so the under-king is probably going to support Lemrukiri to the bitter end. Our hope is that on review, they will be found wanting and removed.

Girii needs to suffer pirate attacks, even if only imaginary, so it doesn't look like a part of the conspiracy against the Vilani main line. I'm sure they can find ways to accomplish that.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:36, Mon 30 Dec 2019.

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 979):

Yes, the family is another issue. If you look at the other post that details forces and where they are it should be updated there.

Girii are already suffering from sponsored pirate attacks...sponsored by Lemrukiri! Hunting these mercenaries in Bounty Hunters may be profitable...

Sounds reasonable ... but was going to just slide by a few months until we were all synched again.

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 981):

The Cruiser will be ready 20 days before Cyril is ready to depart Ceti-Command which is about 10 weeks away from Girii...want to oversea construction?

And start training crew on those parts ready, so they become familiar. We will stay clear of work being done, so as not to slow down completion.  Then we can take the two ship Pirate hunting to learn how to use it well and refine our skills.

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 983):

If you are at Girii in June, you will have the following occur.

The 27th of June began like most days. The planet has been in a state of high alert since the attack of the main base at Iishuni nearly 3 months ago. Despite minor raids, there had been nothing but minor incursions since then. You head to your ship to oversea construction, before heading back to the construction office to answer minor questions, such as the style of flooring in your bridge, when the raid siren goes off. The whole base comes alive, and the 20 Kargash and 20 Shamshir begin preparing for takeoff, as do the fighters.

As you are running for your ship, you are informed that 50 Kargash and 50 Shamshirs are approaching to attack the planet! The fighters begin forming up, even as you prepare to lift off. There are reported to be 1000 AK combo fighters here, mass produced in factories built for this purpose.

OK, so we take Madame Fourcade up and check out how the incoming enemy is organized ... we'll relay anything we see down to Girii, assuming we have a less distorted view.
I am assuming the Cruiser is in no shape to fly ...

We'll look to eliminate Shamshir's and let the fighter's destroy the Kargash's with Missiles.  We'll worry about captures and such after the raid has been dealt with. Hopefully the Shamshir's are to the flanks and we can zap a couple.  Hopefully the Giriian Kargash's will also attack Shamshirs too, so their missile defense fails.

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 985):

The incoming enemy is in very tight formation, all within 5000 miles of each other, clearly very well organized and planned. You notice a second group at Gas Giant about 10 hours away with ten massive tankers obviously ready to refuel all those that return from the raid. They are escorted by 10 Merishmerr cruisers, clearly the command group, and 20 Shamshirs.

The local ships hide behind the planet, only emerging to shoot down the incoming swarms, which the do spectacularly well at, until such time as they are all launched and ready to go. You go with them and they sally forth after shooting down the swarm in it's entirety. The response is a massive swarm that does, if barely, overwhelm the defences. Of the 3260 missiles in the first swarm, 2300 are shot down. The remaining 960 devastate the Shamshirs and Kargash disabling or destroying all ships in seconds in a mass of explosions that make for a spectacular sight.

The remaining ships are called upon to pick up survivors, capturing what ships remain. Like the attack on the Naval base, this was a spectacular underestimation. The vessels at the Gas Giant move quickly to depart before anyone else can stop them.

Clearly this was not intended to be a major part for you, as you were really active observers at an activity you were meant to only be told about but it does serve to give the new crews some training!

  But if we can gain anything material from it we will; understand this was a Girii run show.

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 987):

Will put up a new thread in the next few days. You are still planning on waiting for the cruiser, and then?

Probably a Lemrukiri pirate hunt for a shakedown effort.

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 989):

Current balance to $619 mil. No small craft paid for. Are we getting any?

SMALL CRAFT CAPACITY

Impulsive's Reward

Bays for 15 AK Modular craft, 6 AK Heavy Ball craft and 1x 200 dTon Ball Trader/lifeboat.

Madame Fourcade
90 dTon Hanger bay, currently 2 x 25 dTon Heavy fighters, 1  20 dTon Assault shuttle

Small Craft costs
Heavy Ball Fighters $46 each, 6 for $276 mil
Heavy Ball transport $38 mil, 3 dTons cargo + 24 pax

200 dTon Lifeboat: $127 mil,
53.5 mil if just a freighter, survey vessels cost up to 150 mil and are usually custom jobs.

Modular craft, 6 dTons Flattened Sphere

Fusion Powered Modular Craft,

AK Modular Fighter, 16M, 1x Pulse Laser
AK Modular Missile Fighter, 13 M, 3x Missiles
AK Modular APC, 6.6 M 5 Life support 10 transport, 1x Gatling Laser
AK Modular Fuel Skimmer, 6.3M,
AK Modular Speeder, 5.5 M, 3.5 dTon cargo
AK Modular Miniminer, 8.1 M 1.2 tons/day, 1x Gatling Laser

Battery Powered Modular Craft

AK Modular SR Fighter Mk II, 13 M, 1x Beams Weapon
AK Modular SR Missile Fighter, 11 M, 3x Missiles
AK Modular SR Combo Fighter, 12 M, 1x Beam Weapon, 2x Missile
AK Modular Raft, 3 M, 4 dTon Cargo

In reply to Fate (msg # 990):

We are, just wasn't sure when you wanted my guesses...

Let's consider 6x Ball Heavy Fighters  $246 mil

12x AK Combo Fighters     $144 Mil

1x Assault Craft, 28 M Solars, 20 dTons (4G/Move:1900, dDR:13, dHP:25, dTons of Cargo Space: 7.5), Weapons:1x Beams, 1x Missile, 1x Sandcaster, Seating for 24

1x AK Modular APC, 6.6 M Solars, 6 dTons

1 AK 400 (Mod of the 450) with life support for 400, a wee bit more cargo space and a Survey set up. Up to $170 or so Mil

About $20 Mil not spent (I hope).

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 991):

OK, I will work with that. Mods will need a computer, so the details will have to wait until I get back. In the meantime, will go with a 450 dTon boat, with an extra 5 dTons of space and only 400 berths. Will work on those purchases.

Understand, no problems-

Comments-
AK 450 person transport: 127.2M, 200 dTon Sphere  22 yd Diameter?
(4.19G/Move:370, dDR:90, dHP: 30, dTons of Cargo Space: 4.5, SM:+8

AK Heavy Ball Fighter: 46 M Solars, 20 dTon Sphere, 10 yd dia
(6G/Move:370, dDR:88, dHP: 30, dTons of Cargo Space: 0.1, SM:+6)

NOTE that dHP is 30 for both, although one is 10x larger.

As for adjusting the Life Support down some on the AK Transport, we could go as low as 380 to cover the crew, add Survey equipment and increase Cargo space some.  The crew might need to grow slightly to man the sensors.

Game-
Gloria is alert for any comment(s) from Girii on her ships joining the fight. Expected most likely, but they didn't have to be asked.
We want to make ourselves good allies.

I gather the Particle Beam will have good range (3/9) and do 8D(10) damage? Curious as to how the locals evaluate the Cruiser EXCALIBUR. With it's single jump ability, it will be a less desirable raider in some ways. [Impulsive's Reward is a bit long]

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 993):

Extra armour adds to dHP, and there is a significant difference there, but I will look into it.

The cruiser is a cruiser in military terms, though don't forget the half damage range, but those stats are correct. They would consider you very useful in dealing with raiders and in major engagements, so likely they will want to keep track of you to ask for assistance if a major conflict is expected.

So somewhere down the line, we may sell this to them and go back to exploring/raiding in a slightly different ship.

Talking with my son, he suggested that when you get home, you might be able to transfer your ship file via Dropbox or Goggle ...  He suspects it's too big to be e-mailed.
I do not have an account with either, but supposedly (He's my expert at this point) I wouldn't need one to download it; But you would need such an account to upload it.  If you don't already have one, forget it ... don't spend extra money just for this.

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 995):

I can actually transfer the file by email, but the excel sheet does not run well on my phone, which is starting to die, so I have not done it.

But I can get by with approximate details of the lifeboat. The rest in your thread is fine. I just need to go through the map and sort out details of the next part.

They expect a large contingent at Seru and Arsha, so they will likely ask you to patrol there and surrounding systems, expecting heavy resistance.

I am running a Big Mac, so running it shouldn't be an issue ... and I'm not going to fib for my benefit. Cheating to win is admitting you have already lost.

Seru and even Amkun might be good spots, Amkun saves a Jump.


We need a New thread ASAP

In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 997):

Makes sense. I don't actually have the file though. But have built up a new thread for now.