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[Haspen]

A good society is an organized and responsible society.

D

[TheBiggerFish]

What do the !!!s mean?

[VoidSlayer]

Two red choices are unethical based on your social order.  Basically focusing on things outside military and industrial concerns.

These are more likely to lead to civil disorder and if you push too much may result in a change of ethics/governments.

The other orange one involves personally attending a meeting with giant weapon covered partly insane spiders - so risky.

[Carefulrogue]

B is my first choice.  D is the second.  E is the third. 

Military might is what I'd prefer to leverage.  Order can lead to economic benefit, and keep the population subdued, and the third seems batshit insane, but a possibility. 

[Puppyguard]

Hey, you never know when we might need the cash.
C

[Tyrant Leviathan]

C. Spider alien gladiators are way to go.

[VoidSlayer]

CCC
B
DDD

Coin Flip: D

You begin a multi-platform campaign to popularize and teach ethics of hard work and competition in both combat and economic pursuits.

1

The initial reception is quite poor.  The new dance moves and high budget TV shows are roundly mocked at first, then a strong cultural backlash is built up by a few smaller studios playing to the poorer, disaffected masses. 

A quick rebranding fixes some of the major flaws, only to create a stronger rift between "correctly" behaving citizens and the less desirable.  Few are moved, instead hardening positions already held.  Violence is only sporadic, but now it is between two sides instead of being isolated to the fringe.


Year 2, leg 5 of the Space Age

The worst of it comes through in the next month.  Chatter among executives of other companies, totally not stolen through listening devices and spy teams, is fear that the great space monopoly company was trying to move into other areas, starting with communications.

While nothing changes on the surface, a clear picture forms, from break in theft of a few old style ships to unusual construction in the wilderness.  A consortium of major and minor companies are starting their own space program, and starting to cut you out of the loop.

It will be years, maybe, before they are up to your standards, but several of the designs they are using are quite familiar.


In good news, work on expanding and streamlining resource extraction has proven successful in a few pilot programs.  A new major project should be started as all the lab spiders have begun playing video games in their spare time again.

Begin construction on the new industrial complexes?
Y
N

And Choose a research project:
A) Efficient Construction methods: Chance to recover some resources when building new ships/upgrades
B) Research AI: Additional research option.
C) Chemical Lasers: Slow firing and short ranged weapon alternative for your fleets.  Highly accurate and cuts through armor.
D) Self Guided Missiles: High damage, high accuracy weapon alternative that surly is not vulnerable to some theoretical point defense weapon.

Ratric has gained:

Population:
Separatists - Unknown Anarchists
Separatists - Unknown Consortium

[omada]

Oh shit.

Yes sure
A chance to spend less resources? Sure. We shall keep competitive and give no chance to the separatists in the market war.

[Puppyguard]

Yeah sure why not.
Also let's do this too.

[10ebbor10]

y
b

Extra research is best research

[Carefulrogue]

Yes.  Sitting on material wealth does us no good, if there is no goal in mind. 

I lean towards the efficient construction methods so A.  However, the case can be made for the chemical lasers, or the research AI, although extra options aren't particularly useful. 

[TopHat]

y
b

Extra research is best research

+1. More options are always handy.

[NUKE9.13]

More industry! More research! Also, Research AI leads to more advanced AI that leads to sentient AI which leads to !!FUN!!

Y, B

[Pavellius]

Y

B

[TalonisWolf]

Y, B