2045 Winter
Opportunity ResultsThey expected us at NASA. Else there is no explanation for the fiasco that transpired during the raid. Army soldiers and SWAT teams awaited the agents and the quick raid became a prolonged assault, drawing more and more ordinance on both sides until the neighbourhood was left a smouldering crater. Even a few tanks got involved, much to the dismay of the teams working on the siege. In fact, the Initiative lost many good soldiers and agents in this raid.
However, they did manage to secure the blueprints for the portable fission generator and managed to destroy most of the facility, mostly done out of spite against the difficulty of the mission and the loss of comrades. While the generator itself doesn't seem to work for now, the data of “Project Exodus” is promising and can be finalized by Initiative researchers.
In any case, this shows a worrying trend of US and UK operatives being aware of the Initiative actions and have taken steps to hinder progress of opportunities. In fact, more reports state that they are now actively hunting suspicious activity to find out who this unknown enemy is.
We cannot let them find out.
Project Exodus unlocked
Small Military Force (experienced) obtained!The raid on the Russian military lab almost went similarly, but VDV forces stood down after Boleslawich pulled some strings during the operation, reducing response time and response might while Initiative agents operated, claiming it was a false alarm. Quickly the lab had been secured and the prototypes secured, the blueprints acquired and critical personnel extracted.
While Boleslawich ultimately burnt his grace with the Russian Federation, declared a traitor and had to be extracted to the Antarctic before he would he been sent to a gulag, he seemed happy with his role in the operations and overtook military planning for the Initiative, gathering a small staff of officers from around the Globe who already aligned themselves with the Initiative.
The rifles themselves were, as promised, quite powerful in initial field testing, although hot environments seemingly has the unpleasant side effect of caseless ammunition to “cook”, cracking their shells and rendering them unusable and sometimes dangerous when they go off in the barrel and damage the metal.
It is also hard to produce with current Initiative capabilities and probably hard to integrate into Project Genesis. However, their stopping power, reliance and compactness are nothing to sneeze at, as well their ease of use since recoil is well-compensated in a lightweight package.
If desired, Project Holodny will try to address the issue of producing ammunition for the rifle, even in off-world conditions and integrate the blueprints into Project GENESIS. This will require a complete redesign, however.
The Initiative has obtained so many researchers and skilled personnel of many fields that organisation has become quite difficult. Thus, departments have been formed to ease organisation and make them work in their fields if so desired. While generalist approaches are still possible, having the specific department for a Project will further it significantly.
AVH-23 obtained!
Project Holodny unlocked
Small Weapon Design Department obtained!
Small Programming Department obtained!
Small Physics Department obtained!Project GENESIS is finished, for all intents and purposes. Loaded on a tower of a small car, about 640 Petabytes of industrial blueprints, agricultural techniques and survival strategies has been written and compiled. It includes a printer for blueprints, visualisations of buildings made for standard templates, analytics and troubleshooting for every single piece of equipment, hardware and software coming out of its library as well as an extensive entertainment library and cultural-historical archive of Humanity.
This is all written in Initiative-native code and capable of rewriting and addition, as well as any piece being, technically, open-source and selfwritten. Copy protections have been cracked for items sourced from outside data, mostly for the cultural artifacts carried within the Genesis Library.
Attached to it is a 3D printer, capable of printing out starting equipment and basic weapons.
Some soldiers and scientists use the printer to make game consoles or miniatures for table games. This is tolerated, for now. The situation is tense and people could use some downtime enjoying things they deemed lost when stepping through the portal.
Genesis Library obtained!Project Cargo stumps the Swiss and German engineers (most of which have joined the cause willingly by now), as building roads in an arctic desert proves to be very difficult. Or making a convoy of vehicles that operate in the Antarctic as well fit through the portal. The portal itself isn't terribly big, with vans seemingly the best method of delivery for Project Cargo. However, this brings its own problems, namely road conditions and power behind the vehicle to stow cargo.
The conclusion for now is to make halftrack vans similar to old vehicles created during World War 2 and use engines functioning on a petrol-ethanol mixture to combat the harsh conditions of the biome.
Projections of increased cargo capacity is about 150% more than we have currently if everything works out smoothly and a solution for extensive road systems can be found.
Project Cargo advancedNews+++Russian Federation and Ukraine unite, Poland threatened+++
+++NASA attacked! Unknown terrorists lay siege to facilities+++
+++UK vowing to destroy unknown terrorist organisation+++
+++Qing Restorationists backed by Mongolia!+++
+++Taiwan officially merging with Nationalist rebels in the south+++OpportunitiesRebuild UK networkRebuilding the UK network will take effort, a good measure of blood and bribery, but it is within the capabilities to do so. However, this might risk further exposure of the Initiative to Great Britain and the US.
Attack chinese black prisonOur recent smash and grab also revealed the position of a chinese prison for political dissidents, many of them researchers and scientists with too liberal or democratic notions or being revolutionary firebrands of some sort. Attacking the prison and freeing the prisoners will ensure some more brain power behind the Initiative.
Kidnap Emily KnudsonEmily Knudson is a Canadian botanist of some renown globally as she devised a GM crop able to withstand the mounting acid rains in the northern hemisphere, even though this mutation of the rye plant tastes highly fungal. However, securing such a bright mind would be beneficial for the Initiative.
All that needs to be done is hijacking an air plane mid-air.
Tip off CanadaWhile this will progress into a war between Canada and the USA, tying up the USA in an early fight with their northern neighbour will take attention away from us as they will expend resources to destroy the threat.
Kidnap French ScientistsConcurrently French chemists work to remove the worst outbreaks of acidic rain from Europe by conducting field research in the french wastelands, where the rains are the worst. "Rescuing" them from these operations and integrating them into our RnD team will lead to valuable additions.
ProjectsProject Cargo 10% done
Project Exodus 0% done
Project Holodny 0% done
Bridge time
4 minutes 50 seconds
Initiative Status
Small Military Force (experienced)
General Boleslawich
Small Weapon Design Department
Small Programming Department
Small Physics Department
Engineering Team
Basic Lab Equipment
“Honey Bee” Prototype
AVH-23s,M16s,MP5s
Light Support Weaponry
Tiny Material Stockpile
Delivery Capacity
74% full
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