Turns 11 through 14.2510AD.Earth continues to develop - its shipyards are finishing more scouts and our food output is being boosted in readiness for supporting offworld colonies. Migrants are flocking to the outer worlds of our home system and we will have 2 new worlds before long. The gigantic multinational Acre Corp. has expressed a desire for taking over the running of a colony, and who am I to complain about someone bankrolling our expansion efforts?
Scouts have charted the Pi Mensae system. This star holds promise as an inhabited system. Its first planet is habitable - just. Its outer world is another waterworld, but large enough to have a comfortable gravitational field. Both are marked as colonization sites, and the scout continues on its way along the spiral arm.
2511AD.2 new systems have been surveyed, but more on that later.
We have our first new world. Control of Sol V has been handed over to the USAS under Govenor Jack Euchre,
This planet is blessed with an abundance of arable land, which should prove useful to our Govenor Euchre. The vast majority of its surface is marked for future food producion, with a small amount put aside for govermental uses and enough industry to support farming efforts. A habitable moon should allow for a sizeable population to survive here once the agriculteral structure is in place.
The 2 newly charted systems are Jobe, a red dwarf star with nothing of note, and Slkim, which has a number of habitable worlds, but the outer most world is worthy of special mention due to a native plant with strong psychoactive effects. This makes the world a high priorty to investigate further.
2512AD.We are not alone in the cosmos. Upon entering the system of Ramad, our ship detected a number of what appeared to be drone craft orbiting a smal barren world. No communication was recieved, and the captain was ordered to stand his ground, and under no circumstances was he to make an agressive move towards the planet. The drones responded in kind, keeping thier distance, and the captain completed his survey, sending back valuable intel.
Ramad is an ancient star, and orbiting just above its envelope of gases is Ramad I, home to our first known alien species. They refer to themselves as LB-430-XOEM, but as that name doesnt roll off the tounge our xenobiologists have taken to calling them the Meklar. Xenobiologists might be the wrong people to study them, as the Meklar are a cybernetic organism that appear to operate as some kind of hive mind. The Meklar appear to be concentrated in a small number of large settlements, and for now seem to be content ignoring us. Efforts are being made to establish some kind of diplomatic contact with them. For now our scout craft will monitor Ramad from adjacent systems.
Our scouts have also surveyed Tripton - a red giant orbited only by the scorched cores of the gas giant planets that once orbited it.
2513AD.Upon entering the Thok system, our scouts detected a ship quite unlike our own. Similar in size and capability to our own scout craft, but appearing to be organic in its construction. Again the scout captain was ordered to keep its distance, and the alien craft did likewise. There is no sign of where this craft came from - no worlds in the Thok system are inhabited, though all 4 would be good sites for future colonies.
Acre Corp. has taken control of Sol VI.
This ocean world has potential to be a self sufficent industrial world, with the ability to produce a moderate amout of food and minerals, with space for several industrial and research bases. Heres hoping Acre Corp can use it profitably.
Hall Of Fame:
Gov. Jack Euchre, Govenor of USAS Farm Alpha.
Cmndr. Ivan the 8th, unnasigned fleet commander.
Cmndr. Herr Von Shade, unnasigned fleet commander.
Acre Corp., Holders of Acre Corp. HQ
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