Federation October 30th 2003:Liam Gough contracts a serious disease as he is researching TNE's. Some people begin to wonder if the cause of this mysterious disease is from the TNE's themselves and how safe this future Bennett speaks of may be.
Federation March 30th 2004:Construction of the Financial Centers is completed, but it is complete overshadowed by the finishing of research into TNE's. Liam Gough is immediately awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for his amazing work even through his sickness.
In the wake of this Sarah Wood Commander of the 4th Low Tech Armour unit is promoted to Brigadier.
With so many new fields and industries now opened Reece Bennett confers with his advisers as to the best initial steps to take. Many agree that the alien race must be at least somewhat farther advanced than the Federation leaving only two options for warfare, either masses of low tech units or a smaller number of units highly specialized in a specific technology. It is generally agreed that, although a specialized technology may initially provide a large advantage over their opponents, it would be countered soon after leaving the Federation in an even worse place. It is agreed to begin research into fighter production and carriers in order to swarm the enemy.
Liam Gough is started on a new project into Flag Brigade research. It is agreed that a large portion of the CI should be converted into new TNE Construction Facilities in order to allow research labs and fighter production facilities to be built much faster. Although the time it takes to finish this conversion is tremendous Bennett is assured that as new industry is created it will speed up the process. A small amount of the industry is also set to be converted into mines and fighter factories.
Federation October 26th 2004:Liam Gough finishes research into Flag brigade and is immediately placed into research on Infrared lasers.
Federation April 26th 2005:Liam Gough finishes research into Infrared Lasers and is placed on a team for researching a 10cm laser focal lens. Bennett smiles as he reads the reports coming in showing the years shaving off of the required time to convert the CI into TNE construction facilities. Though progress has been slow and who knows what the enemy may be doing with this time, at least things are beginning to look up for the Federation.
Federation March 10th 2006Liam Gough finishes research into 10cm laser focal lenses and is given the project of Visible Light Lasers. He cautions Bennett that this will take over a year to complete showing that research is beginning to slow due to a lack of research facilities. Bennett discusses with his advisers this dilemma that they are coming too. It is generally agreed that the current projects should not be altered, however once the construction facilities are completed research facilities will need to become a high priority.
Federation April 10th 2006:Declan Schofield, C.O. 6th Low Tech Infantry Division develops a serious medical problem. Small groups of TNE protesters blame it on the new use of TNE's, but most agree that it was just bad luck.
Federation January 26th 2007:Conversion of CI into Fighter Factories has finished allowing more industry to be used on the other two conversions.
Federation March 26th 2007:Seeing the large new flock of Ground Force commanders that have come from the Training Facility, Bennett decides to renew training of Ground Forces.
Federation October 28th 2007:The 7th Low Tech Infantry Division is trained and Colonel Ellen Barlow is given command of them.
Federation November 28th 2007:Liam Gough finishes research on Visible Light Lasers. He cautions Bennett to not be so careless with creating Ground Forces willy nilly. After a short discussion Liam Gough is placed into research on a Garrison Battalion.
Federation June 28th 2008:Liam Gough finishes his new research quickly. Bennett finally decides to give him a break and instead gives the resources to Adam Holt to research Duranium Armour.
Federation August 28th 2008:Jordan Young, C.O. 1st Low Tech Infantry is promoted to Brigadier.
Federation October 28th 2008:Adam Holt finishes his research and is given the project of researching Alpha Shields.
Federation July 1st 2009:Adam Holt finishes his research into shielding. Liam Gough is once again called upon for research. This time he is given the task of designing a Pressurized Water Reactor.
Federation August 1st 2009:A shortage in Duranium slows the conversion of CI's. Bennett quickly changes industry to prioritize conversion to mines to increase the TNE's being collected.
Federation January 1st 2010:The Federation celebrates a decade since its founding. Parties and fireworks are seen all over the planet. The citizens look back upon the progress they have made in these short 10 years as well as the promising future that is too come. Bennett understands the difficult choices and time that are to come, but he looks forward to the tremendous leaps they will make in the next decade.
Unity January 4th 2003:Inside Cha'Lholitef's office:
Cha'Lholitef: I'm sure you are wondering why I called you in here.
Vi'Disiyoc: I'm hoping you are going to tell me about all the resources you are appointing to my project.
Cha'Lholitef: I'm afraid not. I actually need to pull some of them from your research.
Vi'Disiyoc: ...What?
Cha'Lholitef: I have been speaking with my advisers and we have agreed that, for the long-term survival of our people we need terraforming technology in order to create more suitable colonies for our people.
Vi'Disiyoc: I'M ALREADY FIGHTING JUST TO GET THE SLIGHTEST WORK DONE ON THIS PROJECT. PULLING RESOURCES FROM ME WILL MAKE THIS A NEARLY ENDLESS PROJECT.
Cha'Lholitef: I understand, but this is a necessary move to reach our long-term goals.
Vi'Disiyoc: I told you not to even BEGIN this research. Missiles are needed for our long term survival. Explosive power, range, maneuverability. I told you to give me any of those and instead you decided we needed better armour and now you tell me that this 19 year project needs to turn into a 57 year project. THIS IS INSANITY.
Cha'Lholitef: QUIET. I have made my decision. You will continue your work on this improved armour and in the future I will give you the necessary resources to complete it quickly, but for now I will take some of those resources to create a project in terraforming.
Vi'Disiyoc: [Stomps out the door slamming it behind him]
Cha'Lholitef: [Sigh]
Happy to change to something less violent Ve'Lhophegogh is assigned to research a terraforming module for use on ships.
Unity May 4th 2003:Realizing how badly the unrest is affecting the work in industry, Cha'Lholitef stops all creation of a military accademy to increase production of the Ground Forces Training Facility in the hopes that trained forces might quell the populace.
Unity July 30th 2003:The Glorious Heritage finishes searching the Giclas 99-49 system to find that it is a dead end. It is then ordered back to Cur for some much needed R&R and overhaul before being sent to another unexplored system.
Beginning to really fear how low the political stability is becoming, Cha'Lholitef diverts industry from infrastructure to the Ground Forces Training Center.
Unity December 30th 2003:Construction of the Naval Shipyard is complete and almost all industry is diverted to creating the Ground Forces Training Facility which nears completion.
Unity January 30th 2004:The Ground Forces Training Facility is finally completed and Cha'Lholitef immediately begins training of a Mobile Infantry Battallion. Unfortunately it will take a full year, but Cha'Lholitef is confident this will help keep the Unity alive. All industry is then diverted into construction of infrastructure.
Unity April 13th 2004:The Glorious Heritage enters a new jump gate in the Procyon system to find the system Ross 47. A system without any planets, but plenty of gravitational anomalies to be possible jump points.
Unity February 26th 2005:The 10th Mobile Infantry Battalion is completed allowing Cha'Lholitef to relax ever so slightly. Although they do not bring down unrest as much as it increases they do provide enough leverage to allow more units to be created as to keep the populace in check. Also the Fey Colony Limited creates yet another Colony Ship for transferring the population to the new colony.
Unity May 26th 2005:Cha'Lholitef becomes confident enough in their current infrastructure that he decides to build a military academy, however the projected time it would take to construct this facility is absurd so after consulting his advisers he instead chooses to place part of the industry into construction of new construction facilities to reduce build time of all structures in the future.
Unity July 26th 2005:So'Wutocom finishes his research into Gun-type Fission Warheads. Seeing that all of his current research projects will take decades to complete Cha'Lholitef places the resources into the Cloaking Theory project to speed it up so he can use its resources to speed up other projects. This sucessfully halves the required time of the project.
Unity December 10th 2005:As the end of the year approaches Cha'Lholitef is astounded by the number of jump points being found in the new system they found. Already 3 new jump points have been found. Although military is an unfortunate focus of the Unity right now, it's nice to be able to see that exploration is still a part of the Unity.
Unity April 10th 2006:The 11th Mobile Infantry Battallion completes its training. Cha'Lholitef reads the reports on unrest levels. The Ground Forces have not fully met the full impact of the unrest, but they nearly are there. One more unit should be able to overcome the effects of the overpopulation allowing the stability of the Unity to increase to its full potential again. Cha'Lholitef is not particularly happy that this is the method he was forced to use, but he understands it was a necessary move. For the briefest moment he questions if it was truly the only option or if his aggressive nature got the best of him, but he quickly banishes the thought as he has no time to dwell on the past.
Unity June 10th 2006:Cha'Lholitef receives the report that due to the large number of colonists moving to the other colony the Mobile Infantry Battalions are finally lowering unrest more than it is being raised by overpopulation. After careful deliberation he decides to continue training of one more Battalion to decrease unrest faster.
Unity August 26th 2006:The Glorious Heritage finishes its survey of the Ross 47 system. There are a total of 5 new jump points to explore. Surprisingly one of these jump points has a strange construction around it that seems to allow travel without the need of a jump drive named a jump gate. The Glorious Heritage is sent back to Cur for a overhaul and shoreleave. After this Cha'Lholitef plans to have the strange jump gate system explored. In the meantime a design for a Geological Survey Vessel is created to find the resources in the nearby stellar bodies.
Seven Pillars class Geological Survey Vessel 3,300 tons 45 Crew 333 BP TCS 66 TH 400 EM 0
6060 km/s Armour 1-19 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/2 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
MSP 63 Max Repair 150 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months Spare Berths 0
400 EP Commercial Magneto-plasma Drive (1) Power 400 Fuel Use 5.3% Signature 400 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 250,000 Litres Range 257.3 billion km (491 days at full power)
Improved Geological Sensors (1) 2 Survey Points Per Hour
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
The Laura Graving Dock is retooled for this vessel and begins construction on 3 of them.
Unity April 26th 2007:The training of the 12th Mobile Infantry Battalion marks the end of Cha'Lholitef's military training.
Unity June 28th 2007:The Glorious Heritage enters the jump gate and finds a new system named Gliese 205. Another system with no planetary bodies, but plenty of potential jump points. There is also a jump gate on this side of the jump point. A very curious sign that some of Cha'Lholitef's advisers begin to wonder upon.
Unity July 1st 2009:Fey Colony Limited launches yet another freighter.
Unity December 1st 2009:Da'Luwekis completes research into Cloaking Theory. Cha'Lholitef looks at the current research and decides to give the resources to all 3 projects. Vi'Disiyoc, though still grumbling, is relieved to watch his projected timeline drop dramatically. Also Cha'Lholitef is relieved to receive the report that unrest has been reduced to minimal levels. Although he does not enjoy the method by which he has done this, he is glad to see that the Unity is no longer in imminent danger.
Unity January 1st 2010:The Unity has a full day of silence and prayer to contemplate the previous decade and the actions they have taken as well as those that are planned for the future. It is asked of all the populace that they seriously contemplate how they feel and think of the path they have been set upon and to weigh upon the deeds that may be necessary in the future.
Sorry busy day so no picture updates, but basically the Federation is doing about as well as you might expect. There minerals are a little short and they are beginning to lose a little money, but nothing major. The Unity is finally back to being pretty stable. There industry is still kind of shot, but otherwise they are alright. I promise tomorrow I will have picture updates on the status of each faction after I do the next 5 years (7 years took up too much time to be able to go through the process of getting the images ready to be put on here). Regardless now that the Federation has TNE research I hope somebody will go ahead and give some advice for them because although my plan had some logic behind it it definitely could use some more work.
I do have to say even though I'm writing the stories its very interesting to see the differences in the responses of each race to similar circumstances. Anyhow have a good day/night.
Sidenote:
I wish there were some way to automatically have your ships come back and shoreleave/overhaul every time they exceeded their deployment time.