Q1 2017
Look into the most loyal and trustworthy mercs, pay them a lot and try to designate the most reliable ones some information about the end of the world.
The DSDF should work harder on what I told the to do.
Educate the engineers I plan to take on the Ark about the end of the world. Try to not look like I'm crazy.
[4] After intensive background seach you find about 30 mercs that do honestly work for money. That's best kind of loyalty you can find amongst them. After quadrupling their wages you let them in about incoming destruction. You play it down quite much as to not look crazy.
[Merc reaction: 1] They call it bullshit, get their money and leave. That went well...
[5] The Foundation finds better and more conclusive proof from polar regions. Melting of polar caps has increased quite horrifyingly rapidly due unnaturally warm winters, so first countries should feel its effect within a year.
While it matches nicely with the end of the world date you know, mere melting polar caps cannot flood fast and widely enough to kill off humanity. You don't believe in coinsidences, sounds like a plan of those evil gods to cause panic and fear in people. It's like waving a lighter around gasoline station before dropping a nuke on it.
So far greatest effect of the discovery is increased movement away from shore lines. Of course it won't help them at all.
[Engineers reaction: 6] They believe in you. Oh, they really do. You can see fire in their eyes as they each start making preparations.
Personal financial situation:Stocks are not doing well.
Sale of your real estate is not resulting any purchases.
CEO: Sophia Papanous
Gender: Female
Age: 54
Personal traits: - Mathematics
- Knows electricity
- Cold and Rational
Personal wealth: 24.096 billion USD
- Real estate: 3.5 bil USD
- Stocks: 12 bil USD
- Cash: 8.896 bil USD
Quarterly income: 369 mil USD- Salary: 266 mil USD
- Dividend: 103 mil USD
Company name: Byzantine Energetics Inc.
Business: - Producing and selling electrical energy
- Oil Shafts and Coal Mines
Headquarters: Prague, Czech Republic
Electricity - Annual revenue: 11.4 billion USD
Electricity - Annual profit: 0.9 billion USD
Oil - Annual revenue: 41.1 billion USD
Oil - Annual profit: 1.8 billion USD
Coal - Annual revenue: 9 billion USD
Coal - Annual profit: 1.7 billion USD
Total - Annual revenue: 61.5 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 4.4 billion USD
Has improved solar panels
Has improved battery desing
Has effective on board hydro engine design
Deep Sea Discovery Foundation
Good reputation
Has mercenaries guarding power plants
Has group of fanatical engineers who know end of world is coming
- Continue ongoing projects, including integration of new research and systems into the ship designs.
- Hold off on the shipboard reactor choice for one quarter, will re-evaluate once I see how much progress has been made by the U.S. company on their design.
- Search for new engineers for desalinization plants, consult legal staff re: potential proceedings against the theft.
- Conduct an audit of the mining branch, find that missing money.
[3] Only ark ship #1 is in state where your largest new technologies can be applied, namely hydro engines Byzantine Energetics Inc. developed. It should help with power production especially in storms where other generators might be in trouble. Of course fusion generators won't care much about storms, but every redundancy helps. New large installation will take space from other systems.
What you are willing to sacrifice for it? Workshops, storage space, the already minimal luxuries, or living space?
[1-1] Bad luck follows you everywhere when it comes to desalinization. Perhaps you should just let your friends handle it? Korir seems to be doing something related.
[3] Your lawyers inform you that they naturally do their best, but it might be hard to prove theft. Those thieves are not exactly stupid.
[4] Audit reveals suprisingly large scale corruption in your ranks. Large number of personel in key positions are arrested and replaced. Getting all lost money back might take some time, but police is now working on the case.
For ark ships job is for most part getting done. Construction of hull of ark-ship 2 is facing hardships, but they slap it together because of rushing deadlines.
[2] Reactor minimization in USA is on hold again. They are not disclosing reasons.
Company personel evaluation is still in progress. Should have results by end of next quarter.
((By the way, you can barely fill passanger section of one ark ship with people from your company even with good rolls. Might be good idea to start expanding recruitment drive with Sophia's Deep Sea Discovery Foundation.))
Personal financial situation:Dividends from your company rise as well as their stock value, which is good for your wallet.
Your real estate sales is going very well. Whole whopping billion.
CEO: Herwald Rasmussen V.
Gender: Male.
Age: 53.
Personal traits:- Model-building
- Unlimited-weight all-waters U.S. Merchant Marine Captain's license
Personal wealth: 23.024 billion USD
- Real estate: 3 bil USD
- Stocks: 7.0 bil USD
- Cash: 12.76 bil USD
Quarterly income: 635 mil USD- Salary: 215 mil USD
- Dividend: 420 mil USD
Company name: Rasmussen Steel Services.
Business:- Mining and Refining
- Shipbuilding
Headquarters: Main office in Boston, USA. Strong secondary office retained in London, UK.
Mining - Annual revenue: 58 billion USD
Mining - Annual profit: 14 billion USD
Self-repairing metals - Annual revenue: 0 USD
Self-repairing metals - Annual profit: 0 USD
Shipbuilding - Annual revenue: 17 billion USD
Shipbuilding - Annual profit: 0 billion USD
Total - Annual revenue: 75 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 14 billion USD
Desalinization engineers view you unworthy.
Has some working reluctantly on desalinization plant data.
Design for expensive and overly large ark-ship.
Desing of ark-ships oriented around long-term sustainability, durability and autonomy.
In construction.
Deal with USA power company and secretly with European power company:
Rasmussen Steel Services grants to the power company non-exlusive licence to produce land-based fusion reactors.
Power company must desing and build two variants of shipboard fusion reactor.
Power company must not redistribute technology received from Rasmussen Steel Services.
Prototype factory: Self-repairing metal.
High wage aquaponics scientists.
Has effective aquaponics technology.
Has on board fusion reactor design from europe.
It has been two weeks since last update and only two players have posted action. Is this lack of activity result of lack of interest or simply forgetfulness? I'm growing rather worried about future of this game if I have to send reminder PMs in order to get every turn done.
So, Harry and wipeout: are you still with us?
((It's more that these turns take effort to get into and write after some time has passed, and I am very skilled at putting off any and all effort after my mental wheels have stopped spinning. I kind of forgot what exactly I was trying to do here. But I'll make do!))
Keep selling that property!
Also, see if I can start making a list of people who could get into the bunker. Try to place an emphasis on young (20-30 years old), skilled, educated individuals and their immediate families.
1. Specially order microfiche viewers and obtain a bunch of educational materials in microfiche format.
2. Make a tunnel leading upward toward a high place - as high on Mount Kenya as I can afford to dig, and give the tunnel an airtight seal. We'll construct an additional access path that way.
3. Construct the desalinization system as mentioned previously.
4. Build a radio tower with a satellite dish on Mount Kenya to connect with my bunker.
((That's why I like to churn updates out on daily basis as well. Lack of activity tends to eat my motivation as well.))
Don't worry, property sale goes on.
Sure you can. List making is halfway done.
Bunker business:
1. [5] Done. You get also array of spare parts with the machines and large repertoire of educational materials.
2. [3
+1] The tunnel is quite long and workers build it up to 4500 meter height.
3. [4] Easily done. You might offer your new expertice for Mr. Rasmussen as well seeing his bad luck on the field.
4. [4] Done as well.
Personal financial situation:Dividends rise but stocks fall. Funny how that works.
CEO: Codeine Ogudi Korir.
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Personal traits:- Well-read
- Quick hands
- Quick pitches
Personal wealth: 20.935 billion USD
- Real estate: 7.6 bil USD
- Stocks: 6.5 bil USD
- Cash: 6.835 bil USD
Quarterly income: 193 mil USD- Salary: 175 mil USD
- Dividend: 18 mil USD
Company name: The Equatorial Foods Corporation
Business:- Agribusiness
- Biotechnological research
Headquarters: Nairobi, Kenya
Total - Annual revenue: 25 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 4 billion USD
Has highly competent staff specialized on gene modification.
Stockpiles of MREs.
Has airtight old military bunker in Mount Kenya.
Qualified workers working on it.
Can host 950 people indefinitely.
Waste is turned into bio-diesel to be used in generators.
Furnished with sturdy and tasteful furniture and amenities.
Has space for security, including holding cells and nonlethal weapons.
Educational materials
Radio tower
Technology: Aquaponics: "It works".
Sell off a billion of my real estate.
Stock the ship with communication services, as well as non-electronic fallbacks.
[3] Only half billion was sold.
[1] Done. Let's hope those will last to the end.
Personal financial situation:Dividends keep increasing, but stocks not as much.
CEO: Priya Gupta
Gender: Female
Age: 47
Personal traits: - Persuasive
- Meticulous
- Caring
Personal wealth: 37.054 billion USD
- Real estate: 7.5 bil USD
- Stocks: 0.6 bil USD
- Cash: 28.954 bil USD
Quarterly income: 252.5 mil USD- Salary: 232.5 mil USD
- Dividend: 20 mil USD
Company name: Dharma Inc.
Business: - Kitchen appliances
- Pharmaceuticals
- Small chain of drugstores, named the D Store
Headquarters: Mumbai, India
Pharmaceuticals - Annual revenue: 40 billion USD
Pharmaceuticals - Annual profit: 13 billion USD
Kitchen appliances - Annual revenue: 15 billion USD
Kitchen appliances - Annual profit: 2 billion USD
D Store - Annual revenue: 25 million USD
D Store - Annual profit: 3 million USD
Total - Annual revenue: 55.25 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 15.003 billion USD
Owns a "small" ship
Has canned food to feed crew and passengers for a year as well as other necessities.
Communication equipment
NEWS:Financial:Economic rise halts and holds current level. It's probably going down again...
Astronomy:NASA announces new facts about the approaching exocomet. On its current trajectory there's 96% probability the comet will collide with Moon. Considering the comet is around 2 km wide and made of water ice this might be preferrable as it would be reason to establish permanent moon base.
Meteorological:Deep Sea Discovery Foundation warns of imminent global catastrophe caused by "green house" effect melting polar caps. World politicians have emergency meet up about the matter, but all they come up is tighter emission standards.
((Fun fact: this announcement was predetermined. RNG played it nice and SaberToothTiger got credit for it.))
Q2 2017
((One year left!))