Yearly Report: 2024
Status of the World
PoliticalAgreements made on the recent top shake world balance. Situation is slightly unstable untill the power balance reasserts itself.
MilitaryNo major conflicts
EconomicalMineral prices soar, as North and Central African production plummets due to increased political instability.
SocietyRecent MidSaharian droughts have resulted in many waterrefugees making their way North/South. Political instability increases.
EnvironementalEnvironemental decay within normal parameters
Lessened radiation damage
High temperatures and droughts continue.
Major NewsHoresh Kopesh Strikes again. Attempted assination of several Chinese Kings. Mostly failed.
Rebellion in the New Order? Little information, but some hints at a major internal chism.
Horesh Kopesh Under attack. Joint 80-15-5 Republic and Dominion initiative attacks HQ in Egypt. Succes unknown.
Continue previous work.
Implement desalination techniques to deal with water shortages.
Also look into methods of de-salinizing the soil. I'm pretty sure there're some even in modern days.
As a third research project, I think, look into applications of gravity theories. (With hopes of gravity manipulation...)
((Note: I have a tendency to forget what previous things were. Especially when those previous things are continuations of previous things.))
The Microwave transmitter is finally finished, despite the baking heat and the recent price surge of raw minerals. At the same time, reports come in, indicating that terrestial generated power can now provide up to 30% of your needs. This large surplus of power is immediatly used to power a new array of Thermoionic Water filtration plants.
Desalinating the soil is a more problematic issue. There are few efficient techniques, and they would require us to either give up a significant amount of farmland, or increase water useage tremendously.
Gravitational research doesn't progress really fast. Scientists ask for specialized facilities to work in.
Industry points : 10 + 7 (Trade and nat resources) = 17 IC Points
Research points: 13.6 + 5.4 (Research agreements) = 19 points
Infrastructure:
2* Giant microwave transmitter
Space base
Research:
-Thermoionic desalination
-Laser detection
Nope.
The time has come to ramp up work on the program. This is a crucial step, and much of what we do here cannot be discussed even among us. Secure transmissions will be sent. Begin gathering and storing food and water. Gather and refine metal ores. We need as much metal as we can get, and supplies as well. Begin research on compact storage systems for use in spacecraft. Research full habitation modules for long-term maned spaceflight. Other instructions will be sent shortly.
The New order commences to store various goods, which helps drive up world resource prices. It also succesfully develops rotational gravity modules and pressurized cargo modules. They are not radiation proofed.
The old Nuclear engines are send of into outer space.
Industry points: 19(Producion)+ 5(Trade and nat resources) = 24
Research points: 24 + 3 (Research agreement)
Infrastructure:
Orbital launching facility
Space technology:
Valkyrie missile
Cerberus thruster
Habitation modules
Cargo modules
The 80-15-5 Republic has obtained their desalination breakthrough, just in the nick of time to cool things off for it's people. Construction was about to commence for things to get better.
Research:
[spoiler]
1 Research Point: Help the Sky Lords with their gravity theory research, as per our agreement.
2 Research Points: Research Space Faring Drones
Construction:
[spoiler]
1 Construction Point: Build A small naval base in central america to protect the panama canal from pirates
2 Construction Points: Build Desalination Plants, and new infastructure to bring water from the oceans to the people of the Republic.
Other:
[spoiler]
-Send the military into the slums to crack down on the Sicilian and Triad groups supplying the Russians and Mexicans with weapons.
-Approach the Mexican Drug Gangs leadership with a deal. We will give them weapons to deal with other gangs, turn a blind eye to their activities, and give them small plots of land in all future communities we construct. They will keep other gangs out of 80-15-5 Territory, leave our cops and military alone, and promise not to expand into neighborhoods that are or become nice.
-There will likely be a bit of minor naval action, based on a deal brokered via PM.
The temperatures remain stupidly high. Yet betterment is in sight. Construction of Desalination plants advances rapidly, and canals, pipes and other infrastructure works bring the water to the masses. Agriculture requires irrigation however, and this latter is causing some salination of the soil. Other troubles are the large powerdrain of this new infrastructure. Combined with high heat, blackouts are starting to become frequenter.
Meanwhile, in the Panama channel, the military base is constructed without problems.
The military moves into the slums in force, and thanks to wellprepared intelligence the heads of the Sicilian and Triad groups are easily captured. Without leadership, the latter these fall easily apart.The mexican drug Cartel agrees. With this military support, they quickly estabilish dominance in the sectors. Unrest dies down and economical activities restart. Most important of these is the Talon armament company.
No breakthrough is made on gravity research, though progress is made for spacefaring drones. While not being a space to orbit drone, the latest Autonomous combat unit can be launched into lower orbits using a small booster section. It's armament is limited to 6 low yield missiles though.
Industry points: 34 + 8 (trade) = 42 (Max effective use: 25. Infrastrural reasons.)
Research points: 32 + 1.4 (Research agreements) = 33.4 (Max effective use: 21. Research efficiency)
Infrastructre:
Slums
Casinos
LA naval base
Desalination plants
Research
Drones
Flak missile
With recent attacks on Eiretic laboratory's by the terrorist group Horus Khopesh, the council of Ministers have been sitting through tons of interviews with press, discussing the matter in topical debates in their commitee and questioning staff present on the day of the attack.
They have decided to strike back at the Horus Khopesh group and contuine on with their latest projects.
Research Projects
>Continue work human experiments and draft upward of 5000 citizens from the population to be test subjects
>Attempt to develop virtual reality machinary to be used in commerical and military exercises.
>Run genetical experimentations on wolfs and lizards by merging their dna and running cross breeding tests.
Construction Projects
>Decontaminate the rest of Londain river, air and grounds.
>Build foundations for a third city in the north of Eiretic.
>Build secure defense systems for laboratory's.
Other
>Gather intelligence on the Horus Khopesh terrorist group.
>Send scientists along with armed escorts to Mongolia to deliver the research data.
The research projects continue. While the draft needs to be fairly limited for PR issues, it works, and the technology is perfected. The Sixth sense program doesn't make much progress however.
VR projects are equally succesfull, allowing semirealistic simulations to be made for a variety of purposes. The genemingling experiments are less than succesfull, due to a lack of direction. While moving genes from one species to another is possible, gene mingling and crossbreeding don't work.
Decontamination of the City of London is completed, while plans for a Third city are being drawn up. Meanwhile, all research facilities are equiped with automated drone defenses. Research thieves will need to be very handy to break through that.
The Scientists are transferred safely. Information of the Horus Khopesh group is scarce. They are a rightwing military group, but spread out all over the place. Their main base appears to be in Egypt.
Industry points: 10+ 8 (trade) = 18
Research points 9 + 2(trade agreement) +5 (Various equipment )= 16
Technology:- Mapped human genome (completed)
- Progressive viral vaccines (completed)
- Nanobot (completed)
- Retroviral gene therapy (increased lifespan) (completed)
- Slow organ printing (completed)
- 6th sense enchantment (inprogress)
- Intravenously medicine storage (Completed)
- Crude Virtual reality systems ()
Infrastructure:- Wind power installations(completed)
- Graphene construction nanoid(completed)
- ai computer (completed)
- Reinforced labratories
- Decontamination of Londain (Finished)
[spoiler=Research Projects]
>Continue work upon the lasers
>Expand work upon the space program
>Develop effective shield technology that can be equipped to a variety of objects, from specialized battle armor to rockets.
[spoiler=Construction Projects]
>Drain the swampland around the research facility.
>Continue the general improvement to the main portion of Mongolia (I figure this was basically an automatic background action)
>Build up the infrastructure of Siberia.
[spoiler=Other]
>Staff the research facility with a greater amount of guards to prevent attack.
>Investigate the Horus Khopesh terrorist group
>Send the message later in the post to Eiretic
Laser technology makes little progress. However, the spaceprogram does, and is now entering a new phase of development. They think they should be able to reliably launch small sattelites now.
Shield technology gets an unexpected breakthrough, thanks to the discovery of the Holtzman effect, and the associated Holtzman generator. This special effect allows the formation of a high energy electroIonic shield. The air touching the shield is rapidly heated by the effect, resulting a thin layer of Ionized plasma surrounding the craft. The magnetic effect bounces away lowcaliber bullets
and detonates/disables missile weaponry. The results of firing a laser at a Holtzman generator are severe. A concentrated laser beam can cause the field to rapidly collapses, trapping the craft in a shrinking ball of high temperature plasma. The ensuing explosion as the shield finally fails is quite severe too. Scientists speculate that the ionization of air to close to the generator is causing this fatal effect. Nevertheless, there's still a good bunch of other problems, like the high weight, high power use, high visibility, the tendency to shortcircuit any technology both inside and outside the craft, and the singing of crew trying to enter or exit the bubble.
Construction of infrastructure in both new and old terretories continues.
Investigation in the Horus Khopesh group delivers nothing. The only thing you can find is that they have no ties with China or any other of your neighbouring countries.
Industrial points: 8 + 10(trade and natural resources) = 18
Research points: 10 +1.5 (Research agreements) +3(Lab) =14.5
Infrastructure:
Research base
Military-Industrial complex
Military:
Khan's revenge
Research:
Holtzman effect
The success of the diplomatic assimilation once more made Alaska whole. But, now was time to improve their new home. New roads and other infrastructure are laid down, with a heavy emphasis on schools and education. Next on the plate was the international situation. Nukes had already been threatened, so it was obvious that diplomacy was the solution. They sent out a radio broadcast with the following.
Next up: The military. A paratrooper branch of the military was proposed, and accepted after heavy debate. 20.000 recruits from the regulars and civilians were sourced, nd transport planes manufactured for them. Also on the military topic was the extent of spacecraft in orbit. It was decided that an anti-satellite missile was to be developed.
Finally, Alaska's pace program was enhanced with the goal of making a Communications Sattelite.
Infrastructure improvements progress rapidly and without problems. Paratroopers squads are being trained, and the planes are rapidly constructed. Scientists also note the succesfull completetion of the Ground to Orbit Shatterer missile, which uses giant highspeed plastic flak to damage sattelites. A certain amount of collateral can't be avoided, but it will tear down all but the most heavely armoured sattelites. A basic comms sat is produced.
[spoiler=research actions]
1. Carry on working on some method of removing radiation from land/the air [PRIORITY]
2. Try to design some high-end sensor equipment to fit into ships for the purpose of detecting oil deposits under the sea.
[spoiler=construction actions]
1. Attempts are made to increase the size of the high-end industrial base. Being able to produce more and better quality technological goods is a stepping stone to a more self-sufficient market.
2. See PM
3. A fairly large area of greenhouses is to be constructed in a prime location, chosen partly for a large number of unemployed. They are to grow large numbers of fruits and vegetables otherwise unsuited to the baltic climate.
[spoiler=other]
1. A new government initiative and incentives are put in place to get more people to set up solar panels on their homes, to help reduce the reliance on nuclear generators.
2. PM
A breakthrough is made in soil radiation removal. Apparently, a strain of muchrooms has a tendency to absorb these nuclear particles. By planting them on infected areas, and scooping them up every so often, the soil can be slowly but effectively leached of nuclear and heavy metals pollution.
Oil scanning equipment is being developped, but not yet ready. The current plan is to build a deapsea resonator, and certain listening systems. By moving these around, density of the rock and hence the likely location of oil can be located.
High end industry is developed, as well as large scale greenhouses. However, the high temperature system tend to cause major storms in the area, and many of the greenhouses don't live long. Solar pannels share a similair fate.
[spoiler=Stuff]
Industry: 19+ 3= 22
Research: 22 =22
Nuclear communities (Literally)
Research
Radiation filtering (Ground land sea)
Oil detection (in progress)
[spoiler=Research Actions]
1. Continue the development of the power armour. [Expected to be multi-turn]
2. Start Development of more powerful and efficient engines for the RLV.
3. Continue project: "Mimic", the recent breakthroughs aiding immensely in it's developments. [Expected to be multi-turn]
4. The DEW project is to continue trying to make the lasers, though the "Backblast" is also considered an application that has applications within the military and industrial sectors. [Expected to be Multi-turn]
5. In reaction to doubts about the new, completely airborne military, designs are developed for a logicistics aircraft to work alongside the other craft. This craft would be given the ability to resupply and refuel aillied aircraft while airborne, able to provide new fuel rods for their reactors.
6. AI development is to start in conjuction with the Mimic program, with the goal being a completely sentient AI [Multi-turn Project]
7. Fusion research is to continue ahead. [Expected to be Multi-turn]
[spoiler=Contruction Actions]
1. Start building a high-speed commumication network, able to equal or eclipse the speeds of a fibre optic network
2. Start the contruction of a new space program facility, able to manufacture and store all the needed materials and hardware on-site for easy access.
3. Start the contruction of an advanced computer core, able to eclipse any equivalent by serveral magnitudes in computing power. If neccessary, the structure is to have it's own reactor attached to that facility.
[spoiler=Other Actions]
1. Continue to persuade the chinese into taking our offer of an alliance, same details as last time.
2. Scouts are sent to the same locations as planned last year (Indonesia, phillipines, New Zealand, SE Asia)
3. Start querying the general population, in an effort to see any flaws in current policy or the Arcologies.
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The RLV project makes a rapid breakthrough. While not completely original, your engineers propose a Nuclear powered hydrogen engine, similair to the Cereberus drives of the New Order.
Supply airships are being developped. While these will probably be adequate for munitions and fuel purposes, they still can't do repairs or maintenance.
All other projects continue apace, but no unexpected breakthroughs.
Construction of advanced fiber optic networks is problematic. Several of the minerals needed have jumped in price, and can't be acquired in the amounts needed.
A new launch facility is constructed, allowing rapid manufacturing, servicing and launching of spacecraft. It's location is still problematic, but slightly less so.
Work on the Advanced computer core progresses but slowly. As the amount of cores increases, the overhead increases too. This is highly problematic for an installation this size. There are also significant cooling problems, and the aforementioned metal shortage. Never mind that,the project is partially executed.
The scout's reports are dissappointing. Indonesia is wrecked by ecological troubles, apparently due to mass deforestation. Those send to New Zealand and the Phillipines never arrived, being gravely damaged in a storm. The one send to SE Asia was impolitely forced to turn around by jetfighters.
The acrologies are mostly fine, though have a tendency to function as heat islands, and the dust is particulary unpleasant. Adding to that, many people have expressed a desire for open countryside, peace and openness.
Industry: 22 +11 (Trade and such) = 33
Research: 26 +2 = 28
-TECHNOLOGY
-- Robotics
--- Infiltration Exosuits (Completed)
--- Miniture spy robots (Completed)
--- Infantry Platforms (Completed)
--- Project: MIMIC (In development)
--- Sentient AI theory (In Preliminary Stages)
-- Naval Technology
--- Submersible cargo ships
--- Submersible Battle ships
-- Military Technology
--- Powered Armour (Blueprints ready, material research in progress)
--- Aerial Support Vehicles (Completed)
--- Bulk Cargo Resupply Airships (Completed)
--- Directed energy weapons (In Development)
-- Theoretical knowledge
--- Fusion Power (In Development)
--- Basic FTL (Halted due to required facilities not available.)
-INFRASTRUCTURE
--Transport Infrastructure
--- Standard Railroads
--- Maintained roads
-- Power generation Infrastructure
--- Nuclear reactors
-- Civilian Infrastructure
--- Fortified Arcology Cities
--- Robotic Factories
--- Robotic Mining Facilities
--- Large shipping docks & shipbuilding facilites
[spoiler=Financial Instructions]
Advertise to the remnants of financial institutions the incredible stability of the gold-backed Swiss Franc
Instruct the central bank to have a constant rate of inflation at 5% per annum.
[spoiler=Industrial Actions]
Ramp up iron mining, reference pre-calamity documents for locations of Mines in Germany, Austria, France, and Italy.
Construct new nuclear power plants in the more rural parts of Switzerland and priortize restoring old ones. Same goes for hydroelectric.
[spoiler=Scientific Actions]
Ramp up research in the University of Lausanne of Economic Theory under the macroeconomic forces the world is currently under
Research miniaturization of nuclear devices for tactical purposes.
Direct the Cyberwarfare division of the Swiss Military to ascertain the current status of the internet.
Construct an improved super computer in the Swiss Supercomputing Center in Ticino and in the Wilhelm Tell Military Academy.
The advertisement is a succes. The Swiss Franc slowly begins to replace orphaned currencies worldwide. However, due to this unexpected succes, the inflation rate stagnates , and the Central bank can barely avoid deflation. They also warn that the Gold reserves, while large, aren't endless, and that excessive inflation can cause problems with the goldbacking.
Mining activityies increase. This helps ofset the increased price of minerals world wide. Restoration of power plants is a succes, though the fact that Switzerland does not posses any Uranium reserves troubles some. They fear that reliance on this powersource would threathen neutrality.
Research is a succes, and the economical theories are so complex nobody even knows how they work. Nevertheless, they appear to be more efficient than the last.
Minitiuriazation of nuclear systems is not succesfull for now.
The internet has served is purpose, and survived the cataclysm. While several of the main backbones are down, traffic has also decreased enormously. The network is damaged, but still fully operationall. An improved supercomputer is constructed.
Industry: 22+ 6 (Trade and nat resources) = 28
Research: 22 +1 =23
Infrastructure:
-Nuclear plants
-Super computer
Economical
-Important instituttions
-Advanced economical theorems
The past year was quite successful for the Iranian Empire, as it now had robots capable of withstanding the radiation levels in many major Iranian cities. With these in hand, a project to clean up major urban centres, with priority on fixing the port cities of Bushehr and Bandar Abbas, was started. It was also decided to continue work on the supercomputer as this would be a great asset for Iranian science. The Empire also funded research into a lightweight and heat resistant material and better superconductors to further its development goals in material science.
The new heat waves were posing a problem, and so a crash construction program of hydroponic facilities was started to mitigate food shortages in the future. For similar reasons, the project to improve topsoil remediation continued to be funded by the government.
To counter the threat of the new disease afflicting various parts of the world, the Iranian intelligence networks were ordered to closely watch for any signs of new diseases and an investigation was started to find the best way to institute a quarantine should virulent and deadly diseases make their way to the Empire's borders*.
Major urban centers are being cleaned. The rubble is easily removed, as is the worst of the radiation. However, living here is still not possible.
The super computer is completed. While heatresistant materials turn up nothing, a small breakthrough results in the development of a more effective superconducter. It still needs to be cooled, but will work up to roughly 125 degrees Kelvin.
Hydroponics and topsoil remediation programs are started/continued, and mitigate problems. However water scarcity still wrecks havoc in agriculture.
The disease appears to be spreading together with the refugees. This might become pretty problematic. However, they aren't close (yet). Quarantaine is most easily enforced if people don't want to break out. The establishment of various stockpiles with goods allows quarantained subareas to survive comfortably for some time.
Industry: 35 + 4 (Max effective use: 30)
Research: 32 +2 (Max effective use: 25)
Technology:- Radiation-hardened heavy work platforms (completed)
- Improved topsoil remediation (in progress)
Infrastructure:- Refugee Hive complex(completed)
- Intelligence network(completed)
- Supercomputer
- City Cleanup (In progress)
4 Pacts:
NAP
Defense
I don't know. Will figure out soon.
Nonproliferation
Eugenics
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