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[a1s]

"It is a great honor my Emperor, and I will do my best to defend the outer realms of the empire."
donate 2 intelligence and 2 morale to the Empire

[Ardas]

Donate 2 Intelligence to the emperor.

[Shootandrun]

Hashak made a very strange sound when it was announced that his house would be Regents - an irregular buzzing, which came from his vocal chords and not his enhancements. He was laughing.

"Well! I show some honesty, and all of a sudden I become the second most likely assassination target in the empire! All pleasantries aside, Emperor, you honor me with the title of Imperial Regent. I will hope that I am never called to use it, however."

He lifted his datapad in the air, making it hover between his hands with a magnetic field, and sent some proposals through.

"Since House Shandokar's worlds are all in the core, and the Emperor has the intention of garrisoning half the imperial fleet in that region, I must admit I see no reason to keep our standing armies on the field. If the Conclave is able to knock half our ships out of the sky in a single campaign, we'll have greater problems than invasions. As such, House Shandokar will transmit five supplies and five intelligence to the Empire, to be used as the Emperor wills.

There is also the subject of Forgeworlds which we must attend. We Kenturo have wanted nothing more than starting up the great forges and reviving the lost industry of the times of the Wraithers war ever since the empire settled into peace. Industry is our talent, and industry we shall make! However, since the ban on Shipyard worlds, my House has had no reason to keep a team of spacial engineers, which we will require if we are to ship out all the supplies to be produced. If we could be granted five engineers, we could make a Forgeworld this very quarter - Kar already has all the infrastructure, and simply needs it all to be started up again. Furthermore, I believe it would be possible to create a second Forgeworld during this year, although I can make no promises on the subject.

Of course, all supplies would be donated to the Empire, unless we are given reason to fear for our worlds' security."

[Rolepgeek]

BakRij seems extremely self-satisfied, at last as far as one can tell with a Gerenbede. "You have Dapperon's thanks, and cooperate fully. All of Reddes production will, of course, go to the Empire."
The Dapperon leader seemed t have little issue with the fact that his house had no titles similar to those the Emperor had granted to others. After all, he now had eleven votes in the Imperial Council, once the time came for such. And at the end of the war, he was guaranteed a world...he was practically drooling in anticipation. This emperor was definitely a good choice...

All production of Reddes(3 supply a turn) will go to the Empire.

[monk12]

Kyros Toron IV: Darkwatcher of the Galactic Empire. He could get used to that.

"The Emperor is wise in his appointments, and House Toron accepts his directive. House Toron has already begun investigation of the Reach for Conclave outposts, and full Imperial resources will be directed to the Core to aid the fighting there."

Kyros smiles. "House Toron is particularly pleased with the Emperor's decision to appoint Archon Militants by sector; we feel no hesitation in contributing fully to the defense of our own sector, as no Archon would risk a Conclave incursion merely to spite a rival."

Toron pledges 5 Armies and the remaining 3 Supply to the Empire

"Finally, the construction of an Intelligence Hub would be a great asset to House Toron in our new office. To complete this construction in a timely manner, House Toron will need 5 Psionic specialists. Since the Axarite Coalition is the only House with that many specialists unassigned, House Toron would like to offer this proposition:"

Axarite Coalition gives 5 Psionic Specialists to House Toron
House Toron gives 3 Military Specialists to the Axarite Coalition
House Toron gives the next two Psionic Specialists we produce to the Axarite Coalition (guaranteed 1 per turn)

What say you, Cheesecake?

[Weirdsound]

Vinci Carrowspiel nods. "A wise choice your excellency. I will do everything within the limited military power of the Cluster to keep the forgeworlds safe until such a time the fleet can protect us."

He pulls up his list of resources. "I will donate at least the minimum 1 intelligence as per your decree. I intend to use the rest of House Carrowspiel's resources to protect House Dapperon's new forge-world from sabotage. However, if Darkwatcher Toron agrees that some imperial intelligence resources will be used to protect specialized worlds in the cluster, I will dispatch the entirety of my intelligence serve to aid the imperial cause directly."

Donate 1 Intelligence. Donate 5 Intelligence if House Toron promises imperial resources to defend the Forgeworlds of the cluster from sabotage.

The Silicon Oni holds out his hand, and an assistant off-screen places a formal looking scroll in it. "Oh. That. Your Excellency, I move to suggest that you decree an equivalent of the Prometheus Act to apply to the research of artificial intelligence. My people would feel much better when I anounce your decree to them if it didn't show such favoritism towards the organic races. The Shogunate has suffered as much from research gone wrong as the lesser empire did, so I would like to assure you that you can be confident we would handle such research cautiously if you ever felt the need to task us with such."

[Leafsnail]

"I would like to strongly object to the idea of new artificial intelligence research.  History has shown that there is no way to control an intelligence far beyond our own, and the last thing we need to do right now is to create additional enemies for ourselves."

There is also the subject of Forgeworlds which we must attend. We Kenturo have wanted nothing more than starting up the great forges and reviving the lost industry of the times of the Wraithers war ever since the empire settled into peace. Industry is our talent, and industry we shall make! However, since the ban on Shipyard worlds, my House has had no reason to keep a team of spacial engineers, which we will require if we are to ship out all the supplies to be produced. If we could be granted five engineers, we could make a Forgeworld this very quarter - Kar already has all the infrastructure, and simply needs it all to be started up again. Furthermore, I believe it would be possible to create a second Forgeworld during this year, although I can make no promises on the subject.

"I would also like to reiterate that forge worlds are not our greatest priority right now.  We can supply our ships by diverting resources away from our armies temporarily, and as ships are more important than armies at present our engineers would be better used on new shipbuilding."

[Weirdsound]

"My people are well aware. I wasn't asking the emperor to start any artificial intelligence research, just to give it the same degree of consideration he is offering to gene engineering."

[Shootandrun]

The Shandokar archon turned towards the representative of the Hyssissian territories, looking annoyed.

"Forgeworlds are much more critical to the war effort than any one shipyard or garrison, Hyssissian. Each Forge world can support a single military planet, which means our ability to efficiently expand our military forces will be limited only by the amount of Forges which are producing weapons for the Empire. Furthermore, they are extremely interesting targets for the Conclave; with no military production of their own, they are vulnerable to attacks. Should production hubs begin to fall, our army's strength will be reduced, thus opening more targets and sparking a cascade of defeats. As such, it should always be a priority to produce more supplies than is immediately necessary, in order to avoid getting caught defenseless."

[monk12]

Kyros Toron considers his words carefully.

"Toron can agree that the protection of our new Shipyards and the Forgeworlds to support them is a priority for the Empire. Toron can also confidently say that it is the duty of the office of Darkwatch to counter any sabotage attempts by the Conclave that we learn of. However, since we do not yet know the Conclave's Intelligence assets, methods, or priorities, we cannot guarantee blanket protection for every Specialist world. While we acknowledge that protection of the Shipyards and Forgeworlds is a priority for this quarter, and likely the remainder of this year, for security reasons we cannot disclose the magnitude of protection any one world will receive."

Kyros folds his arms. "We can suggest, however, that given the capabilities already demonstrated by the Conclave, Carrowspiel's personal Intelligence agents will not be able to stand up to a concentrated act of sabotage by the Conclave. It is your decision whether to pit 4 Intelligence against the Conclave, or trust in the Empire to protect its most valuable assets."

EDIT: Donate final 3 Intelligence to the Empire

[Weirdsound]

"I understand and agree with your logic. The reason we have an emperor instead of a council at all times is so that resources can be pooled more effectively. As long as one of your prime objectives is the protection of specialist worlds, I will not expect or hold you to standard of perfection. My agents will be sent shortly. I would just like to remind you that there are few specialized worlds at the moment, so at this stage I would expect them to be easier to protect..."

+5 Intelligence donated to the empire

[Ghazkull]

The Imperial Development Edict: To speed up the Process of Specialist Trading, i have decided to put my 8 Military Specialists into the Imperial Demesne. Anyone who has a use for them can take as many of them as he wishes. However he has to provide an equal amount of different Specialists for the Demesne. This should speed up trade considerably.

[Leafsnail]

"Forgeworlds are much more critical to the war effort than any one shipyard or garrison, Hyssissian. Each Forge world can support a single military planet, which means our ability to efficiently expand our military forces will be limited only by the amount of Forges which are producing weapons for the Empire.

"I believe you are incorrect.  At present, it seems that ships are more important than armies, as the Conclave is likely to simply bombard our shipyards with their overwhelming fleet - an action which our armies can do nothing to prevent.  As such, we cannot rely on our armies for defense.  While we will certainly want armies later to seize territories back from the Conclave, our priority now must be to defend ourselves with additional ships, even if that means temporarily reducing the strength of our armies."

Furthermore, they are extremely interesting targets for the Conclave; with no military production of their own, they are vulnerable to attacks. Should production hubs begin to fall, our army's strength will be reduced, thus opening more targets and sparking a cascade of defeats. As such, it should always be a priority to produce more supplies than is immediately necessary, in order to avoid getting caught defenseless."

"I think you are wrong about the Conclave's military production.  The fact that they were able to mount such a large attack implies that they have at least 10 shipyards hidden somewhere the galaxy, and that we must find and eliminate/take as many of these as quickly as possible.

And it is not our supplies that are our weak points, but our shipyards.  If the enemy were to destroy our single forgeworld and 4 general worlds there would be more than enough supplies still left in the Empire to keep our entire fleet active, and mount a reasonable defence against any enemies.  However, if they were to destroy all five shipyards, we would be left with no fleet, leaving us powerless to stop Conclave bombardment.  That is why I believe expanding our fleet is top priority, and expanding our intelligence capacities is second.

There is one further additional benefit of building shipyards now - shipyards are excellent environments for training skilled engineers in.  These additional engineers will help us build further shipyards and forgeworlds when we need them."

[GreatWyrmGold]

"I would like to point out that our Shandokar representative was expressing the opinion that Shipyards are easier to defend than Forgeworlds due to their production of ships.

"As to which we should focus on, I have no comment. Both are important, and unless I can obtain Engineers, neither can be my concern."

[Rolepgeek]

"Something of note, I must bring to your attention," BakRij speaks, lounging back in Gerenbede custom. "We are currently on the defensive, and due to that, I would suggest the development of Outpost worlds, as they contribute as much to the defense of a sector as a full Shipyard world, but require no supplies to do so."