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For purposes of not needing to make extra threads and getting mods to close this. The game will also be in thos thread starting in 22 minutes

**Please stand by for Incoming Trasmission**

Welcome Citizens, you have been selected by the lottery process set forth by the United Nations Evacuations Clearance Protocols  (UNECP) to leave Earth. You are to found a colony on behalf of the *true* Serbian Government. You were chosen from a UNECP pool of several thousand astronauts as bright, strong, and capable at making decisions to create a thriving colony. We hope you will thrive.

   In an effort to further the policies of visa liberation set forth in the early 2020's our space program is proud to welcome you as foreign guests, we welcome all the financiers who support our space program and the many civilians selected and vetted to advance our culture.

  As you fine souls venture into space like so many of the Earths powers, live on and thrive. Our goal as a people is to foster new economic growth. Growth that was hindered here on earth by regional politics, nuclear war, and crop failure.

On a dire note,
 As you may know, recently an attempt was made to overthrow Parliament. The people are starving. Warlords have burned much of the fields and stolen from the farmers. The Army and the Militias have clashed in multiple locations so the time to depart is now. We ship you off in 48 hours gentlemen. Make Serbia proud.

Rules and Notes:

Please be advised. If the colony ever reaches 0 in any primary requisite - the colony, and the future of the Serbian citizens will be forfeit.

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Primary Requisites:
Morale currently at  (3)
Public Health currently at (3)
Population currently at (3) = (300 colonists)
Credits currently at  (2) 2000
Steel currently at (1) 1000
Fuel currently at (10)
Food at (9) -3 per phase at current population.

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Choose a Financier: (Who you work for in space research) You may spend a phase to reroll.
1 . Shell Oil - (Benefits to Mining +1 , Oil +1, Drilling +1, Credits +1)

2. Syscor Pharma - (Benefits to Health +1, Food +1)

3. Space X - (Benefits to Fuel +1, Weapons +1, Vehicles +1, Advanced Rocketry +1)
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Choose Research
Science / Research Options
Tech Level 1

1. Convert Scrap to Cyborgs: Allows ship to manufacture 2 cyborg sentries per phase by collecting scrap and space junk. ----> Unlocks Advanced Robotics Tech Level 2.

2. Minor Conversion: Allows ship to focus a particle beam on an area of 30 KM in diameter and convert all dead matter in that area to living. Things affected: Zombies, Uninhabitable zones, areas devoid of oxygen and more. ------> Unlocks Major Conversion Tech Level 2.

3. Ionization: Allows the ship to generate Ionized gasses and produce storms. After 2 full phases of focus using Ionization a Planet will develop a normal atmosphere if it did not already have one. -----> Unlocks Lesser Terraform level 2.

4. Recycling: Turns 50% of waste into Credits/Food/or Energy -----> Unlocks Greater Recycling Tech Level 2.

5. Bio Dome- Allows the ship to become a colony on the surface of a world that is not class M. Once the ship lands it becomes a colony that is self-sustaining regardless of the harshness of the surface around it. Provides substantial benefits to colleting minerals, fuel, and rare findings hidden on uninhabitable worlds. ------> Unlocks Space Station Tech Level 2.

6. Turbo Lasers Perimeter Defense – Allows massive amounts of damage to anything that enters perimeter. -----> Unlocks the Mark IV Super Laser Tech Level 2.

7. Homing Missles – Increases Vehicle/Ship/Submersibles Attack +1.
-----> Unlocks Advanced Rocketry Tech 2.

8. Rover – Allows the ship/colony to create planetary rovers able to withstand harsh environments and allows them to collect minerals. -----> Unlocks Advanced Harvesters Tech 2.

9. Falcon Shuttle – Provides the ship with a 4 man Fighter craft that is highly effective in skirmishes and can cloak itself, -----> Unlocks Falcon II upgrade stealth fighter Tech Level 2.

10. Counter-Measures – Allows higher success in evasive maneuvers, quick FTL jumps, and against Hacking. Informs origin of hack attempts 65% of the time. -----> Unlocks advanced Anti-Hacking Protocol Tech Level 2.

11. Biowells - produces +1 food per phase. Must be built at / near sea.
-----> Unlocks Floating Offshore Colony Platform Tech 2.

12. Alien Hatchery - Produces +1 Alien Populace, Food Source, or Research Specimens each phase.
----> Unlocks Alien Genome Project Tech 



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Choose a Planet Destination: (Where will you go?) You may spend a phase to reroll also.

1.) Chrysalis-x432 - Arctic. No vegetation. Undersea fuel, methane and copper. No alien life. Will require a dome. Avg surface temp -130º F. Thin atmosphere. Space suits required. Fuel Cost (8)

2.) Ynbar-453 - Desert. High concentrations of undersea life. Some sparse jungle. Planet devastated by Emerald Ash Tree Borer beetles accidentally introduced in 2067. Avg temperature 98º F. Space suits not required. Planet not abundant in metals. Fuel Cost (6)

3.) Verbosy86T - A moon. No vegetation. Rich in minerals. No water. Thin-nonexistant atmosphere. Avg temperature -97º F. Low gravity. Deposits of Iron, Titanium, Uranium. Some volcanic regions. Some Alien presence. Fuel Cost (3)
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Phase I Crisis Card. (Must be resolved in first 48 hours.) Each crisis you vote on how many councillors to send on the mission and which councillors go. You may opt to send none. Some missions require no councillors, some may require several.

Ethical Conundrum (0 Cllrs rqd)

A man approaches your council offering you 2000 credits to add him as a Specialist and stow him away. His skills add +1 to your Mining abilities. He says the government is involved in a genocide against the populace. Further research indicates he is Dalibor, a political refugee who is involved in a rebel group claiming responsibility for an attempted coup.

A. Add Dalibor to your crew and help him escape justice in Serbia. This fills 1 of your 2 specialist slots. (+1 Mining, +2000 Credits, Gain major negative trait to Serbian Government. Gain major favor with the Serbian rebels.  -1 to colony Morale)

B. Deny Dalibor your assistance. (He may be captured or killed.)(No Penalty)

C. Hand him over to the Serbian Authorities. (-1 Morale, Gain major Favor with Serbian Government, Gain major negative trait with Rebels)

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GAME HAS BEGUN YOU MAY POST

Hello fellow Serbs I am excited to embark on this journey with you and look forward to serving in the capacity of scientist on this expedition. I have not fully read the above but as soon as I do look forward to my thoughts.

Okay so now i've read the full text:
First, I am in favor of using Space X as our financier simply because they give us serious benefits that can be useful in more than one area.

Second, If our mission is to progress mankind, we should be going to a planet that will be able to support life without lifesupport systems. For that reason I think Ynbar-453 is the best option.

Third, I am in favor of either tech 6 or 11
11 will give us more food while 6 will defend us against any alien threats.

Deny Dalibor our assistance, we can't afford to take on negatives of any kind and we arent in dire need of his offers.

Lots of stuff to do, going into hibernation mode to process information. Please resume functions in a standard 6 earth hours.

While the refrigerator goes into rest mode anyone have any input on the topics at hand?

I'm just about to go to sleep, so I don't have time to give much input right now, but I concur with CommanderByron on all topics.

I reckon we should do tech no. 4, gets food and money much quicker than the biowell

and probably agree with lord and savior byron on everything else

I can concede that tech 4 would be optimal for food purposes. We just don't know how much waste we'll produce. Remember I can rush a tech, so if we go with 6 or 11 and then once we have waste metrics i'd gladly rush tech 4. Thoughts??

yeah sounds good
maybe 11 first, then concentrate on defence

I think thats where we should stop dialogue until everyone else hops on, wouldn't want to alienate anyone.

(also i want to say now I am always in favor of research into smallpox)

Hi all - your friendly neighborhood medic here. A few questions for our GM first:

1) how fast does the colony population grow?
2) you mention that a Pop 3 eats 3 food every phase; a phase is 48hours in 'real time' ... how much in game time?
3) our President can veto a vote ... but not push through a vote, correct? does president have tie breaking ability or do we decide on that as a council

thanks! -- next my thoughts on info so far

I have a question as well:
How long will tech take without my rushing it. I assume more than 24 hours since i can rush but is there an estimated time. Namely tech 4, 6, and 11

Good evening crew, I'm your assigned linguist for this detachment.

My recommendations:

Financier: SpaceX
They provide us with an additional fuel, plus many technologies and items we won't have to worry about researching and building, thus saving us resources and effort.

Technologies: 5, then 4.
The biodome will ensure that we can survive on any physical celestial body we encounter, this means if we finish it before something disastrous may happen on the voyage we have a chance of settling on the nearest planet. This should increase our populaces chance of survival greatly.
Recycling is just to efficient for us not to make use of, the sooner we complete it the better the long run pay off.

Planet destination Verbosy86T.
1. It is very rich in ore's and other precious and valuable deposits.
2. There is some alien activity, with proper communication and negotiations we can use their own technology to assist in advancing our own.
3. Surviving in such a unforgiving area will foster innovation and resilience that the serb populace.
4. Its a low fuel cost and distance, meaning less chance for things to go awry on the trip. The trip itself is one of the most dangerous aspects of this endeavor. We have little in the way of production and manufacture (compared to planet based facilities) and rely trading or scavenging for materials.

Dalibor
I suggest we hand him over to the government. The man is a terrorist who has helped stage a coup, additionally the support of the government should help us in the long run.
I'm not against letting him go.

* I like Syscor pharma or Space x as our main financier... if our scientist (CB) says that Space X generates resources that can contribute towards food and health ... then I'll happily go with Space

* my first vote for tech was #4 - recycling but as i read opinions, agree that #11 biowells might be better first ... let's get the food coming, and then use science to develop recycling. ya, dilemma is resources or defense to get going ... agree with our Chief Eng (oztra) that let's get defense going after this

* agree that we settle on planet Ynbar-453. the other ones look fun too haha - and we'd have a biosphere, but more things can potentially go wrong -- we can form further colonies like that maybe 1 day after setting a class M

* I hate to play god with human life - but leaning towards agreeing with others so far to vote B on ethical choice ...too many risks allowing this specialist to join us and we risk him sabotaging us too as an enemy of the Serbian government. This said - not so sure we are working for an ethical government (we don't know) ...but we also have chance to form a new colony with peace and harmony and good food for all :-)

So I am assuming a massive part of this is determining how we submit our decisions. Brainbomb please asssit.

posted my thoughts before reading above from our Linguist Tweeters (now that's pretty funny role matching player name lol)

I'm open still regarding my votes -- want to hear everyone's thoughts.

So i think what we are getting is a divide between: Supply v Defense.

If we go with Space X , Tech 11 or 4 , and don't take sides in the currently ongoing civil war then we end this turn with extra fuel, weapons, advanced rockets, vehicles , food production and the support of our home planet.

I actually am reading more and thinking maybe tech 4 could be better. (im still worried about us not having enough waste to produce enough food) however only 2 of our destinations have water and possibly not near our landing site so 11 could be useless until we get to water.But i refuse to go to Verbosy because water is a major component of sustaining life and if that destination has NO water then its automatically a no for me.

Good summary -- now to pick planet. Good arguments so far for different planets

Just reading roles again and our cyborg is impervious to heat/cold. there is a technological advance about building more cyborgs too and it said for security -- but seems to be far more use than just security!

(GM - how would we obtain water if we chose Verbosy)

@Blades- I agree, was thinking of the cyborgs but i eventually came down on a wait fr that simply because i hate the idea of them going rogue or being hacked.

@commanderByron
Maybe it is just my misunderstanding of the tech, but a biodome would include water, as a biodome by itself can sustain life on any planet,

@Tweeters it would but it does not say in the description of the bio dome that we have a way to convert Hydrogen and Oxygen to water (Biodomes arent magic) and if the Bio Dome becomes damaged we could lose our entire colony by a single uncontrollable issue such as space debris or some other atmospheric or geological mishap. Atleast by landing on a planet with water we just need simple filtration to make it potable.

I as the scientist don't like the idea of assuming anything. I don't want to assume the Bio-dome has water conversion, or that the moon without water has sufficient oxygen and hydrogen to make water. (something i doubt since it has no atmosphere)

GM stated we have 2 specialist roles to fill ... if we don't take Dalibor i wonder if we get more options or just survive without these 2 specialists?

@Bladerunners- I think we are bound to come across more. Whether it be an alien willing to help us as a diplomatic ally, or another human from a different expedition that we run into.