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[Evil Lincoln]

Turn 1
The Colony: (you might want to just follow this link instead since it's a big image: http://i.imgur.com/6Suakrr.png )

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Power: 50/50
It took a long time to get here, an appropriate analogy would be if a particular author took forever to post an update and people assumed that the thread had died. But that was not the case, for you are finally here with your newly purchased makings of an industrial empire, or rather a mercenary company empire. Whichever it is it doesn't matter, time to start trying to sell your services to the locals.

You 'acquired' a few buckets of green paint and a hammerhead stencil on the way here and made sure no one would misunderstand who owns these fine machines, branding is an important part of business you know. Just in case you need to refresh yourself on just what you purchased here you go:

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 Mobile Drilling Station
Mining Rig
Oil Refiner
Smelter
Grinder
Concrete Applicator
Large Manufacturing Station
Small Prefab
Comm array
Research computer bank
Fuel Burning Generator
2 Solar power plant
Medium Capacitor
Handheld vegetation handler
Loomery
Handheld mining unit
One of each weapon and equipement
5* combat software
2* managing software
5* Standard robot
+2 Laser rifles
3 bags of clone chow
2 weekly researchers
1 fabrication station
and some body armour which you are now wearing.

All in all you have 2067 credits left.

You had your stuff set up by the river since this area has the highest concentration of colonies on the planet, should be plenty of business around.

What's this? Apparently you have a perk points to spend. I guess you get one for free.

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• Crackshot: You used to be the head of a mega-corp specializing in weapons, so yeah, you are pretty damn good at using them.
• Technicaly: You used to be the head of a mega-corp specializing in weapons, you designed a few of them yourself and know a quite a lot about them.
• Suave: You didn't win in business with a good sales pitch alone, you also had rocking hair and an amazing smile.
• Backup plan: You always thought something like this would go down so you stashed away some of your favorite weapon designs.
• Old Friend: You talked an old friend of yours into coming to help you out (free hero).

Resources/Food:

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15x Clone chow (delicious chicken flavor)

Tools:

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1x Vegetation Gatherer
1x Handheld Mining equipment
1x Concrete applicator

Weapons:

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3x Laser Rifles
1x Laser Pistol
1x Emag Rifle
1x Emag Pistol
1x Machete

30x Emag Rounds

Robots/Clones:

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5x Standard Robots
1x Oil Rig
1x Mining Rig

2x Science clones (hired)

Hero(s):

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Hank Rearden(1): 0/100xp

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A few things on the 'hud':
The big yellow numbers on the mechs are the amount of turns worth of power they have left
a red square on robot/clone means it has combat training
a white square is management training
and blue squares are science training.
If someone has a weapon equipped i'll also show the amount of shots they have left.

I'm also just going to use the inventory for abstracted stuff like clone chow. I might reconsider this later but for now the tools and weapons you have are the tools and weapons you can see. That lasted about 5 minutes.

These images are pretty big. I could export them at a smaller size and lose some detail so if you guys really want I can do that instead of making you all suffer through having to look around these things.

I spent some of your left over money on food, armour, rifles and a fabrication station. You also have to science clones which cost 100 each per week you have them, which you will pay as 14 credits each per day(you already paid for today).

I think that's about it.

[Evil Lincoln]

Let's talk about materials:

Grey-metal	Greymetal is the all-purpose metal of the universe. It is used in machinery and electronics.
Relux	Relux is a heavy duty metal usually used for armour plating. It's weight makes it unsuitable for use on small vehicles or as personal armour but large military machinery is never seen without it. Has a lower tolerance for flexing then grey-metal
Helitite	Helitite is a shiny yellow metal with almost no industrial uses apart from being a component of some alloys. It is also very pretty.
Silicon	Silicon is used in all electronics.
Linconium	Linconium is used in the creation of advanced sensors and electronics.
Latvium	Latvium is as strong as grey-metal but has half the weight making it ideal for aircraft and atmosphere capable spacecraft design.
Resonance Crystals	A catch-all term for crystalline rocks that can be used for high-tech machinery, most notably laser weapons, energy shields and anti-grav.

Let's talk Tech:

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The universe as it stands is advanced in many fields so let's get straight what sci-fi stuff we have here:

Energy Shields: Using resonance crystals and enough power it is possible to create a shield capable of blocking solid particles. This technology is in it's infancy and energy shields are still very weak. Because only the most sophisticated shields are capable of withstanding multiple E-mag rounds( and laser weapons bypass them completely) energy shields have not seen large scale deployment to military forces. They are however used in construction and on star-ships where they can be used more effectively.

Hover-tech/anti-grav: Using a lot of resonance crystals it is possible to create a device that will hover on it's own. Usually however Hover-tech is used in conjunction with other methods of lift. Using the hover technology to provide a majority of the lift and more conventional engines to provide maneuvering thrust.

Robots: Yeah, we've got robots, you should be able to tell.

Cloning: Tonnes of cloning. Fat clones, skinny clones, clones who climb on rocks.

Teleportation: No teleportation, wormhole or otherwise.

Lasers: Yeah we have lasers. You should know that too, you guys own like, 4 of them.

Plasma weapons: Plasma weapons combine the benefits of E-mag and Lasers. Infinite ammo (provided you can power it), high damage and a reasonable area of effect. They are large however and usually have to be mounted on vehicles, large robots, or held by really big clones.

Star-trek replicators: No, we can't make anything we want out of pure and plentiful energy. We do have really great 3D printers though, like, really good ones.

Blueprints:

Name	Description	Cost
E-mag rounds (x30)	Standard rounds used by most E-mag weapons.	2 metal
Small Pump	A small pump.	2 Metal | 1 Plastic | 1 Electronics
Electric Lantern	An electric lantern	1 Metal | 1 Glass or 1 Crystal
Pipe	A decent sized length of pipe	1 Plastic
Electronics (x5)	Electronic components that make up most machinery.	1 Silicon | 1 Grey Metal | 1 Plastic
Office Bot	A robotic work platform with weak limbs and no armour but has two slots for software.	6 Metal| 2 Electronics
Night vision Module	A small module that can be attached to existing robots in order to enhance their night vision.	1 Electronics
Laser Pistol	It's a Laser Pistrol	1 Metal | 1 Crystal
Laser Rifle	It's a Laser Rifle	3 Metal | 1 Crystal
E-mag Rifle	It's a handheld railgun	3 Metal | 1 Relux
Patrol Cord	An extension cord long enough that robots can recharge slowly while still giving them some mobility	1 Metal | 1 Plastic
Small Plastic Container	A galactic standard container capable of holding 2 units of liquids or solids	1 Plastic

Links to current catalogs:

Various off world suppliers: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=129844.msg4496140#msg4496140
ROD'S DIGS: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=129844.msg4548488#msg4548488

[Evil Lincoln]

Current Map:

[GreatWyrmGold]

Suave.

Have the drones survey and set up what they can.

[Gamerlord]

Old Friend.

Have the drones survey and set up what they can.

+1

((Can you split bots/clones into their own spoiler?))

[Evil Lincoln]

((Can you split bots/clones into their own spoiler?))

I'm not sure what you mean by this?

EDIT: Yeah I totally forgot to give you a way to make electronics. Let's just say you can combine silicon and metal at the workshop to make em.

[Tomcost]

Suave

Begin collecting flora samples for the researchers to analize




Also, I don't know how much effort you put into doing this, Lincoln, but your games look more impressive each time.

[Evil Lincoln]

Also, I don't know how much effort you put into doing this, Lincoln, but your games look more impressive each time.

I think I probably put in a bit more effort than I did at first but mostly it's just learning from mistakes and such.

[Gamerlord]

((Can you split bots/clones into their own spoiler?))

I'm not sure what you mean by this?

Seperate them from the inventory. Maybe also seperate 'Equipment' and 'Materials'? So we can see easier.

[Kashyyk]

You know, my initial thought would've been to get the researches to write some research software or a digital version of some research knowledge. Then we can produce our own researchers and won't have to pay someone else for the privelege.

[Evil Lincoln]

You know, my initial thought would've been to get the researches to write some research software or a digital version of some research knowledge. Then we can produce our own researchers and won't have to pay someone else for the privelege.

You could make a program that will teach clones how to research but you can't do the same for robots. If you want a robotic researcher you'll have to build an AI.

[Tomcost]

So, we already went through the robot path, so make a researching AI!

[evilcherry]

Every Hero need 20 backup plans, people... Bots!

Survey the area: 1 Sergeant(i.e. Managing combatant) + 1 Combatant, 2 Rifles (Ammo don't really matter for now) per team.
Other 1 will cut down trees with anything employable in the area, while instructed to bring back anything unusual for the researcher to work on. Arm with Machete, keep as close as possible.
Arm Researcher with Handguns for now, maybe just start working on an AI as they have nothing to do for the moment. An Extension power cable for the Robots, as it is better to plug them in the general power supply for guard duties.

[forsaken1111]

Alpha Company (2 soldiers, 1 sergeant) will scout the area armed with all 3 laser rifles. Look for easy game, resources, other colonies, etc. Start making a rough map. The remaining soldier and sergeant should start felling trees for lumber. If possible, use the mechs to help with this. If we can start construction on a simple wooden palisade that would help. This colony is vulnerable.

Science clone 1, hereafter referred to as Barnum, work on a program to teach new clones to be researchers. Science clone 2, hereafter known as Bailey, work out a way to survey for mineral deposits.

Hank: Take 5 and do some CEO shit. Manage the work, smoke a cigar, and look awesome.

[Tomcost]

Alpha Company (2 soldiers, 1 sergeant) will scout the area armed with all 3 laser rifles. Look for easy game, resources, other colonies, etc. Start making a rough map. The remaining soldier and sergeant should start felling trees for lumber. If possible, use the mechs to help with this. If we can start construction on a simple wooden palisade that would help. This colony is vulnerable.

Science clone 1, hereafter referred to as Barnum, work on a program to teach new clones to be researchers. Science clone 2, hereafter known as Bailey, work out a way to survey for mineral deposits.

Hank: Take 5 and do some CEO shit. Manage the work, smoke a cigar, and look awesome.

Why clone researchers? We can make robot researchers! And then we don't have to build cloning facilities.