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[Man of Paper]

ORIGINS:
Medula's Log: (0)
Death World: (0)
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (1) MoP
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

REVISION:
MultiEnvironmental Tactical Armored Suit: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Mining Transport, Mk. 1, "Mucker": (0)

Redoing voting for our origin as discussed on Discord since someone left and a general lack of activity means people who aren't participating had significant impact in our backstory. Keep in mind though that there is currently a lore submission in place for the contest and credit. A swap to another origin would require new lore, and I'm trying to focus on my own arms races right now. Unless someone else is going to write lore for the contest before Madman's back from his trip or whatnot we may have to deal with, at the current level of activity by people who do not identify as Man of Paper, having no lore submission and forfeiting the credit or even further delay in the turn, which notably we are already responsible for delaying by, what, a week? Two? Also of note, not to call people out but also it's kind of necessary, the people who seem most willing to be human have stated multiple times that there would be some sort of origin or lore proposal, and have also stated that there is a significant lack of willpower to write something out. I don't mind being unhappy with our decision in lore, but I very much mind handing over free credits or delaying a game well past reasonable limits (of which I think we're already guilty anyway).

[Carefulrogue]

ORIGINS:
Medula's Log: (0)
Death World: (0)
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

REVISION:
MultiEnvironmental Tactical Armored Suit: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Mining Transport, Mk. 1, "Mucker": (0)

[Doomblade187]

ORIGINS:
Medula's Log: (0)
Death World: (1) Doomblade
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

REVISION:
MultiEnvironmental Tactical Armored Suit: (3) MoP, Carefulrogue, Doomblade
Mining Transport, Mk. 1, "Mucker": (0)

[Twinwolf]

ORIGINS:
The Authority: (1) Twinwolf
Death World: (1) Doomblade
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

REVISION:
MultiEnvironmental Tactical Armored Suit: (4) MoP, Carefulrogue, Doomblade, Twinwolf
Mining Transport, Mk. 1, "Mucker": (0)

[Madman198237]

Proposal: MultiEnvironmental Tactical Armored Suit
The METAS is a military-grade overhaul of the basic civilian space suit. We've cut down on some of the suit's unnecessary bulk in order to facilitate ease of movement, added reinforcement and light armor plating around the head, torso, and air supply, and threw some magnetic boots in for use in ships/stations without gravity - real or otherwise.

Multi-Environmental Tactical Armored Suit
Difficulty: Easy
Roll: 1+2+1 = 4 = Below Average

The METAS is, well, a thing. It's not really much less bulky than the basic suit since we had to add some armor, it's not too well armored, and the magnetic boots occasionally flicker a bit. But it does have enough armor and was already made of some ballistic fiber, so it's not like it's terrible or anything, it's just a thoroughly mediocre improvement. We think that there's plenty of work that COULD be done, we just didn't really get to it. We had fun shooting spare bolts into the reactor core using the magnetic boot coils, though!

Wait was this not supposed to make it into the report? How do I erase this? Shut it off? Which button, maybe this---

It is now the Turn 1 LOGISTICS PHASE. Plan what ships you want (they'll be ready to deploy immediately), where you want to send them, how many units you'd like to construct and how you're going to deploy them.

Combat, here we come! Get your lore together, there is a substantial reward riding on it! No, really, you have a week. I want an actual faction out of you guys, instead of Camp Robot versus Camp Literally Anything But Robots versus...well there isn't really a "faction" trying to reconcile you guys it was just Twinwolf. Good job, Twin. You successfully made everybody unhappy, just like a compromise should

Spoiler: Side One Tech (click to show/hide)

Ships
ITC (Interplanetary Transport Craft): A less-than-stellar spacecraft, the ITC is a version of the ships landed on your planet when you first colonized it. It is prone to malfunction, slow, and generally unpleasant. The rocket shuttles used to get equipment from the ITC to the ground have a limited capacity, meaning that with the exception of troops and things that can be broken into much smaller parts, the ITC cannot carry any equipment of a size greater than 1TC. It has 4TC capacity in total and uses chemical engines for propulsion. It has no armor or armaments.
Cost: 2 SPP

FASS Mk1. Logos: A reasonably quick, reasonably agile, fairly effective light ship of about 45 meters long with Light armor and three R-4 railguns for weapons complement.
Cost: 2 SPP

Units
Basic Military Unit: (you may rename this if you so wish) A capable group of soldiers trained to operate any equipment you can give them. Field training allows them to keep up to date on the best way to operate the newest deathtraps and self-destructing gizmos you send them even after they’re deployed.
Cost: 2GPP

Ground Weapons
Printed Pistol: Issued to security guards on the colony ships, the only real weapon both colonies have. They are 3D-printed out of plastic, a process which is not entirely reliable, meaning the gun has a tendency to break after prolonged use... or any use, really.
Cost: Cheap

Trephine Magnetic Sabot Rifle: A very effective weapon for Medium- to Long-ranged engagements, the Trephine is a 12mm APFSDS weapon with a 10mm projectile, capable of firing with damage roughly equivalent to a high-caliber rifle or, at maximum power, a light cannon. The projectile tends to fragment on piercing Light armor, doing even more damage than usual to the underlying target. Fireworks displays included with every order of 1000 or more.
Cost: 1 GPP

Ground Equipment
Basic Space Suit: A civilian space suit, totally unarmored and cumbersome to walk in. At least it works well enough, and has a self-sealing lining meaning a single shot isn't an immediate death sentence... most of the time. Necessary for deployment to worlds without breathable atmospheres.
Cost: Cheap OBSOLETE

MultiEnvironment Armored Tactical Suit: A slight improvement to the Basic Space Suit in every way, METAS is a hair less cumbersome, has magnetic boots and some armor so it won't (usually) explode the minute somebody looks at the oxygen tank funny. That usually happens the second minute that somebody remains looking at the tank funny.
Cost: Cheap

Command Radio: Essentially just a very big radio set, capable of reliable communication between planets, ships, and/or other planets. Currently only useful for taunting your enemy. The transmitter dish comes in a single piece and cannot fit in an ITC shuttle.
Cost: 2GPP
Weight: 1TC (requires 2 shuttle TC)

Spacecraft Components
Tokamak-Powered Plasma Drive: A matched set of self-melting components, the TPPD is generally regarded as having been a bad idea.
Cost: A large amount of expensive alloys and electromagnets we're willing to throw away, all of High Command's good will.

Plasma Engine: A Speed 2 interplanetary drive, capable of producing fairly acceptable changes to velocity in combat conditions. Very power hungry at combat-use sizes.

R-4 Railgun Turret: An amazing weapons system, the R-4 is an externally mounted 50mm railgun loaded with 20 round drums capable of firing a three-round burst on a single capacitor charge, while a loading arm loads the drums into the weapon from the storage bay in the ship proper. The turret is lightly armored for protection. Requires a ship to mount it on.

Infrastructure
Colony Defense Grid: The reason you can't instantly invade the enemy homeworld. A series of surface-to-orbit missile launchers, the only real concession to defense the planners of the colony made. How they work is a mystery now, and no one wants to risk taking them apart to find out.

Semi-Autonomous Industrial Facilities: A network of interlinked incredibly well-connected modern factories capable of production of unparalleled efficiency and scale. Provides 2 GPP.

Spoiler: Side One Logistics (click to show/hide)

Ship Production Points: 16
  16 points: Unassigned.

Ground Production Points: 22
  22 points: Unassigned
 
Units
Nope, nothing to see here.

Ships
Your shipbuilders have been really lazy lately, haven’t they?

[Man of Paper]

SPP:
3x ITC
3x Logos
= 12/16 SPP Used

GPP:
4x Basic Military Unit
-4x Trephine
= 12/22 GPP Used

Orders:
All Logos are to make their way to Charlie and await further orders.
Two ITCs are loaded with a BMU. The third ITC receives an extra BMU.

ITC-01000001 and it's single complement of troops are deployed to Alpha in order to secure the planet to facilitate industrial operations. The ITC is used to communicate between planets and will remain stationed at Alpha until we can deploy a ground-based communications system.
ITC-01000010 and it's single complement of troops are deployed to Bravo in order to secure the planet to facilitate industrial operations. The ITC is used to communicate between planets and will remain stationed at Bravo until we can deploy a ground-based communications system.
ITC-01000011 and it's full load of two BMUs are deployed to Charlie in order to secure the planet to facilitate industrial operations. The ITC is used to communicate between planets and will remain stationed at Charlie until we can deploy a ground-based communications system.

(Note: I am assuming madman will not apply the 2 speed engines retroactively for the ITC as he hasn't stated so before the start of the planning phase with which that would be a mildly important detail. The 2-Speed engines were indeed applied. I am also assuming, perhaps wrongly, that ITCs have okay radios)
This'll let us get some sort of defense on our chokepoint before we actually get dudes there, as a Speed 2 engine on their combat ship would potentially let the enemy show up next turn. It also sets our scouts up to probe/harrass Golf next turn via all three midplanets, meaning unless the enemy also spread out to travel across all three that even if they sent forces our way we increase the chance of a scout getting through unscathed.

Next turn we should make sure to get bigger shuttles so we can actually put big things in the ITCs, and also upgrade the ITCs themselves. If we manage to do that (both potentially revision-worthy changes) then we could manage to get the command radio to Charlie at the same time that our dudes arrive there. I imagine the middle planets are going to be hotly contested, so turtling to a mild degree wouldn't be the worst idea. We could also, and this is just an idea, utilize the ITCs as assigned ferries for specific planets. While we want Charlie to be our Cadia, Able and Bravo should be even harder to crack.

Also, assigned ITC names can be changed if desired, though if we go fleshlings we can always say that's their VIN.

[Man of Paper]

ORIGINS:
The Authority: (1) Twinwolf
Death World: (1) Doomblade
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

PLAN:
Phase 1: Bootup: (1) MoP

Y'all's gon' piss madman off brah

[Twinwolf]

Fack I thought I'd voted.

ORIGINS:
The Authority: (1) Twinwolf
Death World: (1) Doomblade
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

PLAN:
Phase 1: Bootup: (2) MoP, Twinwolf

[Carefulrogue]

MoP, is there any particular reason you suggest we don't utilize our final 4 SPP?

[Man of Paper]

Because I imagine if they're deployed that they take up the points, and that it's not a per-turn expenditure but more of a way to cap total units. But I could be misremembering rules. If we pop out something bigger than the scouts that should let us poop one out without sacrificing a deployed ship.

[Carefulrogue]

ORIGINS:
The Authority: (1) Twinwolf
Death World: (1) Doomblade
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

PLAN:
Phase 1: Bootup: (3) MoP, Twinwolf, Carefulrogue

Still haven't seen a well detailed lore proposal for humans.  I'd like to get the credits--whatever they are, unless madman is bluffing--so for now I can deal with some of the unlikable things about robots.

[Man of Paper]

Upon finding out we have Speed-2 ITCs, I also propose this plan:

SPP:
5x ITC
3x Logos
= 16/16 SPP Used

GPP:
7x Basic Military Unit
-7x Trephine
-7x Printed Pistol
= 21/22 GPP Used

Orders:
All Logos are to make their way to Charlie and await further orders.
Two ITCs are loaded with a BMU. The rest of the ITCs receives two BMUs. All BMUs receive the Trephine as well as a Printed Pistol sidearm.


ITC-01000001 and it's single complement of troops are deployed to Alpha in order to secure the planet to facilitate industrial operations. The ITC is used to communicate between planets and will remain stationed at Alpha until we can deploy a ground-based communications system.
ITC-01000010 and it's single complement of troops are deployed to Bravo in order to secure the planet to facilitate industrial operations. The ITC is used to communicate between planets and will remain stationed at Bravo until we can deploy a ground-based communications system.
ITC-01000011 and it's full load of two BMUs are deployed to Charlie in order to secure the planet to facilitate industrial operations. The ITC is used to communicate between planets and will remain stationed at Charlie until we can deploy a ground-based communications system.
ITC-01000100 and ITC-01000101 move to Charlie with their full complement of BMUs to await further orders.

Since we'll be taking more planets for more PP anyways there actually isn't a big issue in occupying the ones we got. This'll also allow us to push our way into the middle next turn, or if we want to be real dicks, send an ITC to their chokeplanet for the funsies. Of note I realized the Cheap Pistols are cheap and so we can just throw them in with our roboboys, which may come in handy in closer combat.

ORIGINS:
The Authority: (1) Twinwolf
Death World: (1) Doomblade
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

PLAN:
Phase 1: Bootup: (2) Twinwolf, Carefulrogue
Phase 1: rush.exe: (1) MoP

[Twinwolf]

ORIGINS:
The Authority: (1) Twinwolf
Death World: (1) Doomblade
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

PLAN:
Phase 1: Bootup: (1) Carefulrogue
Phase 1: rush.exe: (2) MoP, Twinwolf

[Carefulrogue]

ORIGINS:
The Authority: (1) Twinwolf
Death World: (1) Doomblade
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (2) MoP, Carefulrogue
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

PLAN:
Phase 1: Bootup: (0)
Phase 1: rush.exe: (3) MoP, Twinwolf, Carefulrogue

[The_Two_Eternities]

ORIGINS:
The Authority: (1) Twinwolf
Death World: (1) Doomblade
Odyssey of Steel: (0)
Rise of Machines: (3) MoP, Carefulrogue, TTE
Synthetic Directorate: (0)
Replacements: (0)

PLAN:
Phase 1: Bootup: (0)
Phase 1: rush.exe: (4) MoP, Twinwolf, Carefulrogue, TTE