2200.01.01 Toady One System-Stronghold’The Sovereign Stronghold have decided to reach for the stars. I have fought tooth and scale to get all Lu-Nin to this point and make them agree on this, and now the Guardian Council- the bunch of inflated ingrates- have given me the title of Overseer, an ancient and frankly disliked position with a face of near-complete authority. Thanks for painting a target on my back. They didn’t even get my name right in the broadcast. Wait, drown that- they didn’t even get my name
at all.
First order of business- send our entire navy- all three Venture-Class ships of it- out to make sure our continued existence… continues. Hopefully, nothing is out there.
Meanwhile, the ISS Decimator, our Trailblazer-class Science Aeronautic Survey Ship (S.A.S.S) will survey our home system to ensure our sanctity of mind.
2200.01.18 Toady One System-MillineuxThe Decimator has finished completed its first survey, that of the toxic world known as Millineux. The sensors performed to the promised standards, the toxic world is toxic. No news is good news. The Head Scientist aboard the vessel, Zeinab Alawi, has proven to be meticulous, which makes for boring reading on my end right now. At least when Egg Sac hits the prop I’ll know why… and who to blame.
2200.02.18 Paturn System-Outer Gravity WellOur first manned Wormhole Jump went through without a hitch, ignoring a few lost lunches and a couple of minds slipping further into Frenzy. The aptly named ISS Jubilant has made it to the Paturn System, and has reported no contacts, unfriendly or otherwise. They are now heading to Gohio to make sure it’s clear as well. The ISS Viper has reported similar finding at the Diceri System.
2200.03.23 Toady One System- Asteroid AT-21-12It is as we feared. The Legends are true. The Decimator has found evidence proving the cold metal ones are real, as was their crusade against life. We must ready to scatter across the cosmos to survive, like our predecessors, and do anything to keep ourselves alive. At least we have a proper name for this ancient curse: Cybrex.
2200.04.23 Toady One System-StrongholdThe rest of the Guardian Council doubts the findings, and treat the findings as a joke! Despite my best attempts, the public treats the findings as a joke- I’ve heard some ponder aloud that perhaps Zeinab has fallen into Frenzy! I must find further proof…
2200.05.09 Toady One System- StrongholdThe Council has ordered an Initiative to find and catalogue habitable worlds and make a classification system for them. If only they’d be as industrious in protecting Lu-Nin as they were in preparing for us to spread out…
Meanwhile, some son of a acidic barnacle has been either crazy or enterprising enough to try to build a mining facility… in the asteroid belt. Should they manage to
not get perforated by all the debris somehow, they will be a major boon to our economy! Only reason this got my attention was the Facility is being built in Asteroid AT-21-12… I had to make some calls and make sure they know which part was a restricted area, knowledge which I haven’t made public.
2200.07.06 Toady One System- AuroraZeinab just reported finding what he and his crew believes to be traces of a World-class war on Aurora. Were the Cybrex here? I have ordered further investigation immediately.
2200.08.02 Shuyesh System- Shuyesh II OrbitThe ISS Fierce has reported what appears to be a world much like our own! I’ve ordered another Trailblazer-Class S.A.S.S (I don’t care if the Council hates the acronym, why do you think I made it in the first place?) so we can survey this system in all due haste! When the Council asked, I truthfully told them it was for their Habitable World Survey. They didn’t need to know the Decimator
isn’t doing that, and they didn’t ask. I’d say suckers, but that’s racist.
2200.08.06 Etzios System- Etzio Outer Gravity WellAnother possibly habitable world, one which Zeinab has told me his assistants are already dubbing a “High-Altitude Jungle World”, which is a fancy way of saying that while it’s warm and moist enough for Lu-Nin, any colony built there is probably going be far from a nice, warm ocean.
By coincidence, it also happens to be the last system in range of our Wormhole ‘Envelope’. If we wish to explore further, I’ll have to drag funding out of the Council, probably thrashing about like Fanged Iridescent Blood Shark. Something to ‘look forward to’. What? No, those aren’t ‘tentacle quotes’. Not at all.
2200.08.16 Toady One System- Aboard the DecimatorThe Cybrex were not the cause of the World-class war on Aurora. The
inhabitants wiped themselves out.
If a race is capable of doing that to itself, imagine what horrors they could do to us. The fact that they were at about our level of tech only makes things worse- this isn’t some super-advanced ‘bogeyman’ from our ancient past, this is something that could happen to us now, with what we already have.
The Council may not believe in the Cybrex, but this… even they now fear for our continued existence. We may all be working for our own gain, but we all need to be alive for that to work.
We must prepare.
2200.10.02 Toady One System- StrongholdOur second Trailblazer Class, the Vagabond, has been launched and is making its way to Shuyesh.
In other news, that son of a acidic barnacle actually did it, they built that mine and have been pulling a profit for months while I was busy elsewhere. It’s been so successful they’ve formed a company, and now they are beginning to clear out the Sakeni Yotta Ika Slums, and plan on building a Power Plant there to take advantage of the hydroelectric potential of the area. Excellent, I hope they succeed- better economy means more resources heading my way.
2200.12.21 Toady One System- StrongholdZeinab has completed the survey of our home system- thankfully, there aren’t any hidden threats here. I’ve already given the Decimator orders to survey Etzios, and immediately upon arriving they report that someone is building a wormhole station there! Apparently, the Council gave them orders- and more importantly, funding- to build a wormhole station there, and lent them our nations sole construction ship.
What are they up to? I’ve ordered the ISS Fierce to protect them- if it also allows me to keep an eye on them- and by proxy the Council- who needs to know?
2201.02.15 Shuyesh System- Shuyesh IIShuyesh II is nearly perfect for habitation! I’d order a Colony Ship designed, but that company is once again a step ahead of me. To my surprise, and more surprisingly that of the Council, they’ve been building one for about two months. I finally got curious and looked them up- URIST Mandate Industries.
2201.02.23 Etzios System- Etzios IVThere are signs of life on what should be a barren, inhospitable rock. I’ve ordered an investigation.
2201.03.11 Toady One System- StrongholdThere is an unknown faster-than-light object on course for Toady One. Unfortunately, out of the three vessels that currently make up our navy, none are in system. We can only hope and pray.
2201.03.19 Toady One System- Stronghold…HOW DO THESE EXIST.
The threat appears to be something…
alive. I don’t mean that there are aliens manning the vessels. Oh, no no no, the aliens… ARE the vessels.
They look bizarrely similar to some creatures from our oceans, except the size of our Venture-Class ships- no, larger even- and in space. The smaller amoeba-like things flitting between them only further confuse matters.
As if that wasn’t enough, they simply… appeared. No wormhole opening ages before hand, just a sudden flash of light and they were there. It’s similar enough scientifically that we could detect them enroute with our sensors, but it’s left scientists baffled. I’m just happy we can see them coming.
What do they eat? How aren’t they dead? Why do they look like they came out of an ocean? What do the smaller ‘vessels’ do?
What threat do they pose?
Scientists have no idea what to classify them as, but the public has already taken to calling them the “
Theta Menace”. They are demanding we keep them safe from these... creatures. The Council and I have agreed to a cease fire in what I call the ‘Budget War’ to save our heads from the chopping block… somehow.
So, that came together. I've only played till 2205, but I have a rough draft written right up to that point- I can guarantee another update tomorrow, simply because most of the hard work is already done. Yay!
So, after the first ten years are done my character gets the boot (unless he gets re-elected at 2210). At that point, you guys begin voting on what I'm going to do! At that point, I'm taking the role of the Guardian Council, and URIST Mandate Holdings will act as a third party we will both want serving our interests whose decisions will be mostly decided by dice rolls and !!PLOT CONVENIENCE!!. I look forward to the chaos.
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