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[Happerry]

With the Death Ray upgraded from Basic to Standard, Lord Silver will now, instead of attempting to increase it's firepower, attempt to cause the Death Ray's beam to act as a carrier for corrosive and debilitating energy pulses that will, besides and beyond outright damaging the target, also cause it to become weaker and take more damage from other attacks, either from allies or any follow up strikes by the Death Ray after the original hit.

Give Lord Silver (Happery) 134

We at the Coke Knights commission have access to Neural Agent 40mm Grenades and Superior Body Armor for Infantry and Technicals for sale, message us if you desire any of these resources. We are also looking for ways to improve our MRLS, so armor or weapon based on those we can make a trade for. There I’m done, money transfers are instantaneous as well, have fun with a Mad Science Machine.

Yay Money!

If possible, I'd like to do my originally written research project for this turn while building a second Laboratory of Evil Physics. If I can only do one of those, I build the Laboratory of Evil Physics.

[Devastator]

Construction's during action phases only for mad scientists.  You can do that when the kaiju battles are going on next turn.  But yes, you can do your research project.

[King Zultan]

Hey, drugs guy. I have a science question.

Is it possible that psychedelics could improve the combat efficacy of catgirls?

Right now my endgame strategy seems to be aquatic giant robots crewed by catgirls on shrooms.

(I think your talking to me.)

Maybe I haven't really experimented with combat drugs, but I can look into it.

Also you probably don't want what I've been working on as it killed everyone that took it.

[syvarris]

Gaaaah.  I keep meaning to post a summary of a bunch of questions I asked Dev, and resulting suggestions (for instance, I can basically offer everyone discounts on standard military materiel, with no known drawback), but that has resulted in me procrastinating forever.  Joy.

@Ironyowl

I get a discount of 25% on any units from the basic armory.  This means modern tanks cost only 188 for me.  I have to also buy a medium hangar for it, which costs 25, for a total cost of 213.  If you pay me 200 ((really 137, because I owe you 63 and am paying it back this turn regardless)), I'll buy your tank and then send it over to you before the action phase.  Dev has said this is workable, and will allow you to use your tank just the same, but paying 50 credits less.  And yeah, this leaves me 13 credits down, but I'll just consider it interest on that loan.

Also, I want to get a hold of those prion launchers for one turn, so that I can see its stats with my proving grounds building.  If Piecewise sends them to me during the purchase phase, I can get their stats then send them to you during the action phase, allowing you to still engage the Kaiju with them.  I think.  If I can't, then nevermind.

@Piecewise

I want to pay you 20 credits (See below) to come to my base and modify my transport carrier to be better.  Possibly through adding flesh to it.  Since Irony's already paying for your upkeep, this is pure profit, and also lets you work on a full-size plane because I have a large lab.  Is that acceptable?

Edit: Seems like I can't actually afford that, after all reasonable and promised expenses are totaled.  I can afford to pay you 17.  Sorry.  :\

@Shadowclaw

I'd like to buy all that off of you, but I don't know my funding situation right now.  Also, 70 credits is a bit steep, especially when those items probably aren't even all that useful against Kaiju, though the armor at least is worth it to temporarily armor ER and Irony's mad-science boosted units.  How would you feel about a temporary trade?  I pay, say, 40 to get all of that this round, and you get them back next turn if they survive.

@Stirk

I'd highly recommend against developing a large-size tank, because currently nobody is able to build a plane that can transport a large-size anything.  Your tank would be stuck on your base, doing nothing.  I am intending to develop better transports, but I probably won't have anything built by the time you need them.

[Shadowclaw777]

Those are offers from the Black Market, I don’t have them currently in my collection and I think I would have to trade them in the Kaiju Phase and they couldn’t be utilized for this month’s attack unless I actually used them, they might not actually be worth It. I need to save 540 for the next turn for a High-Physics Lab and Double Research. Basically I don’t see the economical values in buying those things, and I doubt I’m going t buy anything from the black market sale for next turn >.>

[Stirk]

I'd highly recommend against developing a large-size tank, because currently nobody is able to build a plane that can transport a large-size anything.  Your tank would be stuck on your base, doing nothing.  I am intending to develop better transports, but I probably won't have anything built by the time you need them.

I plan on making one later, and would still need a sufficiently sized worskhop to create them anyway.

[Devastator]

Consumables like the body armour can be used the same turn they're traded.  They arrive instantly.

Deployables, like that tank, take a turn to arrive.  If you want to buy something with your discount, syv, it has to arrive at your base.  Then you'd send it to Happytime Atrocities next turn.

So..

March Purchases: Buy it.
March Actions: Arrives, send it along

April Purchases: Arrives at HA.

Basically, if you want to use your discount to act as a middleman you have to have an extra hanger to stow it, and the recipient has to be ok with the one-turn delay.

[IronyOwl]

Dev, do the prion launchers count as consumables or deliverables? Can pw deliver them to syv for the first part of the turn, let syv see their stats, and then shunt them to me in time to be used for the second part of this turn?


Okay, change of plans.

I get a discount of 25% on any units from the basic armory.  This means modern tanks cost only 188 for me.  I have to also buy a medium hangar for it, which costs 25, for a total cost of 213.  If you pay me 200 ((really 137, because I owe you 63 and am paying it back this turn regardless)), I'll buy your tank and then send it over to you before the action phase.  Dev has said this is workable, and will allow you to use your tank just the same, but paying 50 credits less.  And yeah, this leaves me 13 credits down, but I'll just consider it interest on that loan.

Also, I want to get a hold of those prion launchers for one turn, so that I can see its stats with my proving grounds building.  If Piecewise sends them to me during the purchase phase, I can get their stats then send them to you during the action phase, allowing you to still engage the Kaiju with them.  I think.  If I can't, then nevermind.

I'll take it, delay and all. This turn I'll be fielding two advanced infantry units as a test. I'm down for prion hot potato shenanigans if Dev is.

An unspecific quantity of nerve gas, which has been packaged into 40mm grenades, either for a grenade-armed technical or some infantry.  -20

Some very new experimental multi-layered body suits of body armour.  This should improve the survivability of any infantry unit or unarmored vehicle, such as all technicals, an artillery piece, or just plain infantry.  There is enough to equip three units, and these will be persistant until the unit dies.  -50.

That’s my offers, anyways I see now that mad scientists get twice the effectiveness out of lead scientists compared to Organizations, maybe we should help fund them to get Igors and Mad Science Machines?, it’s just a shower thought.

Is the armor 50 for 3 uses or 50 apiece maximum 3 purchased?

Either way, I'll take both the gas grenades and body armor.

EDIT: My take on orgs vs mad science is that orgs should probably do their own research for boring, simple, practical things like medkits or transport jeeps, and contract out mad scientists for important and powerful things like jaegers and death rays.

[Shadowclaw777]

uWu I believe their is only 1 Body Armor on the Black Market, I have to buy in bulk of 3x uses. Since their both consumables I believe they can be transferred instantly and have transferred them to you IronyOwl through an edit of my main action, hopefully with some sort of financial imbursement . As well I believe since PW has to leave his base to deliver the prions, he has to pay upkeep as well. I need to save enough money for a High Physic lab after all.

[IronyOwl]

Thanks. Action edited.

[Egan_BW]

Hey Irony, could you let me know how many units of grenades you end up getting? If you have extra, I'd trade some DU rounds or advanced ERA armor ("really good stuff", equippable to tanks, MRLS, fighter jet, or any armored vehicle) for it next turn.

[Devastator]

Dev, do the prion launchers count as consumables or deliverables? Can pw deliver them to syv for the first part of the turn, let syv see their stats, and then shunt them to me in time to be used for the second part of this turn?

The Prion launchers are consumables, although you'll only get one of them.  They'll be useable by a single infantry platoon.  It won't be transported immediately, because mad science isn't safe.

Items produced by mad scientists are dangerous and hazardous.  They're safe when being delivered by a mad scientist, but if you're going to be moving them around from place to place, well, there will be more opportunity for things to go wrong.

Preventing stuff like that is what the security buildings are for, btw.

If you do get it to your base safely, there is no risk in deploying it in combat.  I would also expect that something that you've held safely for a while to never cause problems unless conditions change.  There is some uncertainty, but if you aren't capable of containing something, it will cause problems almost immediately.

Also, mad scientists don't need transportation to deploy stuff into combat.  It just somehow gets there.

[syvarris]

Expenses:

-51 (plus 137 from Irony): Purchase modern tank.
-25: Construct medium hangar for said tank
-150: Construct Large workshop
-75: Purchase 2x artillery

-20 Begin reverse engineering my jet plane.
-2 Bid on the scientist
-20 (If Piecewise hasn't agreed to do research, and I win scientist bidding): Research higher-yield explosives for use with artillery/aircraft/tanks/anything we can jam it into.  EDIT: I want these explosives to be relatively mass-producable consumables, multiple units (two or preferably three) being made at a time.  I'd expect this to double/triple the price, and possibly reduce the effectiveness somewhat.  If large sacrifices would have to be made to mass produce the explosives, however, single high-quality units are acceptable.

Spoiler: Collection of quotes from me interrogating Dev, because writing a summary is too much work. (click to show/hide)

Words in [brackets] are inserted by me, typically because there was another sentence or context that's useful, but too long to include in full.

(syv) Do we have to deploy troops to fight the Kaiju separately, or can troops that kill one unscathed go on to fight the second?
(Dev) No.  If they're in the same region, I'd allow it, but these are in an adjacent region.
(Dev) I might waive that if you make something really fast, though.
(Dev) in adjacent regions.
(syv) So they attack simultaneously, not just within the same month?
(Dev) It's not like simultaneously, it's like a few days apart.

(syv) Can a standard transport plane transport something of large size, since it can transport 4 smalls, or 2 mediums?
(Dev) And no.  Transport planes, at least the ones you start with, can't carry something of their own size.
(Dev) It's not impossible, though.

((Asked before I said this to Stirk.))

(syv) How long will [the last-gen fighter] take to reverse engineer?
(Dev) One to three months.
(Dev) it's one of the few rolls for research for you guys.
(Dev) three is quite unlikely.
(Dev) I don't have my notes so I can't give you exact odds, but expect one or two.

(sy) If it rolls a one-turn clear, could I use it for this fight?
(syv) You said 1-3 *months*, but might as well ask.
(Dev) Yeah, it'll be useable [during the action phase].
(Devastator) If you do it now [during the purchase phase], yeah.
(syv) [Completely misunderstanding research mechanics]
(Devastator) you don't do research during the action phase
(Devastator) research during the action phase can be done by mad scientists.
(syv) So, when you say something will take 1-3 months to research, that means it has to be researched during 1-3 purchase phases?
(Devastator) yes.  you get one a month.
(syv) Do those phases need to be contiguous?
(Devastator) no, but I don't want to have to track dozens.
(syv) So, time-wise, if I have an MS research in lab X during the action phase, it won't impact my mundane research using lab X, as long as I clear out the MS's prototype next month?
(Devastator) yeah.
(syv) Assuming I have the hangar, I can move the prototype out at the start of next month, and still use the lab as normal, right?
(Devastator) yeah.

(syv) If I hired [A Mad Scientist] to reverse engineer my plane, would that guarantee a one-turn result?  Or would that just not work on account of mad science?
(Dev) Don't waste mad scientists on reverse-engineering.
(Dev) but yeah, they're no better at that than a normal one.

(syv) I know this is dumb.  Still, curious.  Let's say a design will take three turns to reverse engineer.  Can I have a mundane scientist reverse it during Jan P phase, a Mad Scientist work on reversing it during Jan A phase, and then have the mundane scientist finish reversing it in the Feb P phase?
(Devastator) Yeah.
(Devastator) although mad science reverse engineering is stuff.  your project may not finish as expected.
[Later...]
(Devastator) I might just ban mad scientist reverse engineering.
(Devastator) it's not productive.

(syv) Let's say I pay a mad scientist 100 (so he makes 20 profit) to do some research in my lab.  Do I need to pay an additional 20, to fund the research, or is it free like at-home MS research?
(Devastator) you gotta pay the extra 20.

(syv) If I manufacture a tank in the purchase phase, can I send that same tank to another player in the same purchase phase?  We both have appropriate hangars.
(Devastator) Yeah, I'd say you can do that, but it won't arrive until the next phase. [Which is an action phase.]
(syv) Will it be usable in combat during that action phase?
(Devastator) Yeah.

((This is in contrast to purchased units.  The earlier confusion about built and purchased units working the same, allowing me to abuse my cheapening bonus, was mostly due to me using non-ideal wording.))

(syv) Would there be *any* benefit to reversing a technical?  I kinda feel like even building a custom light vehicle wouldn't be helped by a technical design.
(Dev) don't bother.

(syv) If I have him spend a turn in my lab designing a combat jet, will he make a better one than the one I have?
(Dev) Uhh..
(Dev) I'll have to do that math on that.
(Dev) I think it's a no, but I'd want to look at the numbers again before saying so for sure.
(syv) If I gave him the already-completed jet design to work off of, would that give him any advantage?
(Dev) No, mad scientists don't use designs.
(Dev) they can build off things.
(syv) So if I had him build off the fighter jet, then reverse engineered what he did to it, I'd end up with a better design than the base jet then...?
(Dev) Yeah.
(Dev) almost always.
(syv) Any chance of it being cheaper by power, or is this something where I'd get a better plane that's proportionately more expensive?
(Dev) Heh.
(Dev) You won't have to sell your soul to afford it.
(Dev) but the price might be a bit variable.
(syv) Hrm.
(Dev) I wouldn't expect it to get cheaper.
(Dev) but it won't cost the moon and stars.
(syv) What if he designed it specifically to make it cheaper, rather than to increase power?
(Dev) Mad scientists aren't good at that.

(syv) The [Black market armor plates], you call it a "consumable"
(syv) Is it single use regardless of survival?
(Devastator) yeah, it's gone once you use it.  If the unit survives I'd allow it to stick around.
(syv) Do you term a "use" as attaching it to a unit?
(Devastator) yes.

(syv) Is a Mad Scientist mod (not a new design) usable in the same action [phase] it is created in?
(Devastator) If done during the action phase, no.
(Devastator) if you have the scientist do it during the purchase phase, yes.
(syv) You meant that it would be usable during the action phase after the purchase phase, right?
(Devastator) yeah.  you can move it around afterwards.
(Devastator) there might be risks at moving MS stuff around without a MS, but one research action should be safe.

(syv) Can mad scientists even direct their efforts, specifically trying to improve capacity?  It'd be kinda crap if they have a chance to just improve speed or armor or whatever of a transport plane.
(Dev) They can direct their efforts.
(Dev) but it's unpredictable.  You might well get extra armour put on it too.
(syv) Is that stuff that mundane scientists could edit off when reversing it?
(Dev) I'd recommend reversing it and then making any changes.
(Dev) I might allow both at the same time, but it'd be something small.  Something for where it's certainly a one-turn job to reverse it.

((Note, it's possible that this isn't actually allowed, or at least wouldn't decrease the unit's manufacturing cost.  Dev stated elsewhere that he didn't want people "improving" designs by simply removing features.))

((That's meant for other people to read, BTW.  It's not a secrecy spoiler.))

Additionally, I talked about the cheesy discounts-for-everyone strat, and Dev dislikes all the bookkeeping (I do too, actually).  We agreed to change it next month; I'll stop getting discounts, and will get better chance to recover destroyed units instead.

[Devastator]

For sanity's sake the black market stuff has been delivered ahead of time.  It's all the same either way this turn, after all.

Intel stuff and the kaiju things to follow tomorrow, hopefully.  Feel free to make orders.  There will be two Kaiju, one in Australia, and one in the southern part of the South China Sea.

Thanks for sticking with me!

Spoiler: Stirk (click to show/hide)

ADD
Business
Research continues on the manportable nuclear arms.  Reports do seem a bit promising, though, and they announce they're a little ahead of schedule.  It may be possible to complete the project a few months sooner than was initially estimated.

Research on the Jaeger project has begun.  Initial design goals for the project are as such:
Vehicle is to be a Large size, larger than any currently existing ground combat vehicle.
Firepower superior to all existing tanks.
Speed and manueverability are not a priority, vehicle will be relatively slow-moving, although more mobile than artillery pieces or SAM launchers
Armour protection is favored, but a secondary priority.  Goal is only a slight improvement over existing tanks in protection levels.
The vehicle will be deployed on land and in use with other units.

If you feel said goals are too low, or too high, at this early stage adjustments are possible.

Base (New Mexico) 10

Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport.  (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hangar, 10

Large Airstrip, 20

Barracks, 10
->Infantry Platoon, 10
Large Lab, 30
-> Jaeger Project
Small Lab, 10 (manportable nuclear arms, ~2.5 years remaining.)
Kaiju Lab, 20
High Energy Physics Lab, (80) Under construction, 3 turns remaining.
Medium Workshop, 20
Stores, 0
->Artillery Piece, 10
->3x Kaiju Muscle samples

Total Upkeep: 160/month.

3 x Lead Scientist.  1 expires after March (this month).
2 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Heart

Money: 170
Funding: 560/month.

Spoiler: Egan_BW (click to show/hide)

Emerald Robin:

You begin construction rapidly of a number of new facilities and upgrades, kicking your base into a small frenzy of activity.

The infantry platoon arrives, as does the new Grenade technical you purchase.  You also begin the construction of a new Armoured Laser Technical, at a price of 100.  (75, +25 for the armour mod.)  You do realize, at the last moment, that you cannot construct new Armour Kits for the purchased technical, as your workshop is occupied with the construction of the new Laser technical.  This should be okay, however, as one can be built during the action phase and deployed this month, if desired.

As for research, you put your mad scientists to work.  The first one works on the muscle dissasembly project, and manages to gather three usable samples from the large segment of raw Kaiju Muscle.  These are quite dense and very power-efficient, and you think they could be used in any research project to significantly enhance the performance of anything that moves.  More, however, will be required to build the designs you make that include it.

The second research team begins work on duplicating the purchased ERA armour kits.  One is consumed in the research process, but they announce succesfully recreating the kits to be manufactured as you desire in the future.

Intel

Base (Greece), 10

Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport.  (Large, capacity 2xMedium)

Large Airstrip, 20

Barracks, 10
-> 51803 Jeweled Magpies, Infantry Platoon, 10
Barracks, 10
Small Lab, 10 (Upgrading to Medium Lab.  1 turn to completion.)
Small Lab, (10) (Under construction.  1 turn to completion.)
Kaiju Lab, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
Intel Hub, 20
Stores, 0
-> Coherency, Armoured Laser Technical, 20.
-> Placebo, Grenade Technical, 10
-> 3x Kaiju Muscle Samples

2 Lead Scientists.  1 for three more months.
1 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Muscle
5 x Depleted Uranium rounds for small arms.
4 x Advanced ERA plates.

Intel Teams:

The teams working in the two listening posts announce only limited success in copying the design of the building.  However, confidence remains good, and they feel that they will recover the goods in no more than a few months.

The team that has infiltrated the Council of Funding Nations announces no major developments this month.  There is little new information to pass to home base.

The team inside the Hand has announced a great success.  Two sources for funds have been revealed.. a ship wrecker's yard in Greece that operates outside the law to repurpose stolen ships, while collecting a good cut, and a smuggling ring for knockoff Chinese electronics.  However, the team reports that some suspicion has fallen on them, and they will need to lie low for a while before conducting future operations.

Designs:
Laser Technical.  75.  Zippy four-wheel drive truck armed with a powerful bed-mounted laser.  This design may be combined with the technical armour kit design to be produced in one turn at a cost of 100.
Technical Armour Kits.  25.  Adds armour to unarmored small vehicles like Technicals.  Also applicable to artillery pieces.  Qualifies for combination with the Advanced ERA plates.
Advanced ERA plates.  25.  Improves armour on any small, medium or large vehicle that is already armoured.

Total Upkeep: 170/month.

Money: 49
Funding: 390/month.

Spoiler: Irony Owl (click to show/hide)

Happytime Atrocities, Inc.
Political

The Dissection Annex is built, but unfortunately, not ready for use immediately.  It is ready now.  When recruiting an infantry platoon, you stumble for a bit when trying to find out where they are to be bunked.  Your base only has one barracks, after all.  Whoops.
You put your lead scientist to work on trying to develop methods of boosting popular support.  After some efforts and some meetings, your lead scientist comes up with a couple proposals:

Designs could be made for a PR center that can potentially influence the region.  It will cost some money, but should help you gain greater support for your faction inside the Council of Funding Nations.

Also, the existing intelligence collecting building called a "Listening Post" might allow you opportunities to help you gain favor.

Secondly, perhaps an action phase could be used with some important unit belonging to you, such as a flashy weapon or a veteran unit in an attempt to make progress?

(20 funding will be deducted if the building design is chosen, retroactively.  Alternatively, I'll allow you to dissect one kaiju part, albeit without the annex bonus.  If neither is chosen, no cost will be expended.)

A large amount of cash is sent out of your coffers to your fellow organizations and Unhinged Beings.  Hopefully the results will be worth it.

The Coke Knights are reliable at least, and the 40mm gas grenades show up.  You figure there are enough to equip three units with them.  Similarly, the body armour is a full truck load, with enough for several hundred soldiers.  It seems like it'll be enough for several infantry platoons, as well as improving the survivability of even unarmored vehicles, such as technicals and artillery pieces, due to the better protection afforded the crew.  (Equipping will occur at the time of the action phase, simply for bookkeeping purposes.)

+3x High Quality Body Armour.
+4x 40mm Nerve Gas Grenades.

A balding man shows up with a very long, wrapped package held by a pair of robot arms.  It's uncomfortably close to his groin.

..unwrapping it reveals a very hazardous chemical weapon.  Extremely hazardous, really.  It seems quite capable of melting organic material from a hundred feet away, reducing basically any test material to liquid sludge.  It's not exactly equivalent to any existing equipment, and you don't quite have the tools for a proper assessment, but you now own the most dangerous infantry-useable weapon in the world, bar none.

Well, maybe other than the Davy Crockett nuclear bomb launcher.  Except for that one.

You do manage to get it stowed away, but the security patrols express extreme unease around it.  It just instills dread, even sitting on a rack surrounded by open space, as if it's merely biding its time.

Base (Hong Kong) 10

Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport.  (Large, capacity 2xMedium)

Large Airstrip, 20

Barracks, 10
-> Infantry Platoon 10
Small Lab, 10
Kaiju Lab, 20
Kaiju Dissection Annex, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
Stores, 0
->4x 40mm Gas Grenades.
->3x High Quality Body Armour.
->1x Prion Launcher.  (Mad Science)

Total Upkeep: 130/month.

1 Lead Scientist.
1 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Muscle
1 x Kaiju Guts
1 x Kaiju Heart

Money: 190
Funding: 570/month.

Spoiler: Shadowclaw777 (click to show/hide)

"Coke" Knights
Black Market

Your bid on the lead scientist is successful, and the money arrives from Happytime Inc.  You then turn around and spend it on acting as middleman for the black market goods, shipping them off to Happytime.  Without even making a profit, you generous person you.

Lord Silver also recieves funds.  Hopefully the mysterious being will come through.

Forcefield research continues.  One of your many scientists figures that the project will complete next month.  Early tests look satisfying, and lead to the vague suggestion that while one of these will work on any vehicle, (that isn't enormous) it'll work slightly better on a vehicle that is already tough.

You start work in your large lab on an armoured version of a MRLS.  Tough as possible is hard to define, but the project is aiming for a toughness superior to a modern tank.  If you would like them to aim higher or lower, now is the time to redirect the project.

Your new MRLS also arrives.  You shove it in the workshop, as you don't have an empty hangar.
Base (Peru), 10

Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport.  (Large, capacity 2xMedium)

Large Airstrip, 20

Barracks, 10
-> Infantry Platoon, 10
Large Lab, 30
Small Lab, 10 Electromagnetic Force Fields, 1 month remains.
Kaiju Lab, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
-> MRLS, 30
Stores, 0

Total Upkeep: 170/month.

3 Lead Scientists.  1 expires after two months.  1 expires after three months.

Money: 236
Funding: 480/month.

Spoiler: Syvarris (click to show/hide)

USSCI
Military

The cash exchanges go as expected.
Your modern tank arrives, and is promptly, and unceremoniously, shoved in the newly-created hangar.  The Large Workshop will take a while longer, however..
Reverse Engineering goes well!  You have managed to create a design in a single turn for a Battered Combat Jet!  The sensors, however, being absent are not available on your design.  Stats are:

Large,  Power, D.  AP, E.  Range, D.   Payload, D.  Speed, C.  Armour, F.  Durability, F.   (Flies) (Ammo-Short)  Cost to produce one is 200.

Base (Florida) 10

Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport.  (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hangar, 10
-> Battered Combat Jet, 40
Medium Hangar, 5
-> Modern Tank, 50
Large Airstrip, 20
Proving Grounds, 20

Barracks, 10
-> Infantry Platoon, 10
Large Lab, 30
Small Lab, 10
Kaiju Lab, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
Large Workshop, (30), two turns to completion.
Stores, 0
->Artillery Piece, 10
->Artillery Piece, 10

Designs:
Battered Combat Jet: Large, Cost 200, Power, D.  AP, E.  Range, D.   Payload, D.  Speed, C.  Armour, F.  Durability, F.   (Flies) (Ammo-Short)
Artillery Piece:  Small, Cost 50,  Power, E.  AP, F.  Range, D.  Payload, D.  Speed, F.  Armour, -.  Durability, F.

Total Upkeep: 265/month.

1 Lead Scientist.
2 x Kaiju Skin
2 x Kaiju Muscle

Money: 79
Funding: 540/month.

Spoiler: King Zultan (click to show/hide)

Dr. Unpleasant
Spending a bit longer on the blueness, you gaze into the abyss.

It sort of stares back at you, singing.  You now feel that the assembly process has gotten a bit more..abrupt, but you now need to be careful as bits of the rest of the base seem occasionally blue, and sometimes you lose your way going towards the Lab Zone.  You are somewhat curious as to what happens if you continue improving your product.

Base Details:

Command Chamber
Mad Science: Low quality chemistry lab
Medium Lab Zone: Drug front.  Building, 50 cost.  Income +13/month.  Neon Blue.

Money: 64.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 12/month.

Spoiler: Naturgirl1999 (click to show/hide)

Ashley Flare.

Following the Escape incident, you purchase some construction materials and fix your base up.  The holes are somewhat treacherous, and it wouldn't do to fall down through them into some bizarre dimension or something.  Maybe there you would be an accountant.  The work continues quickly, and you feel that you are ready for a new project.

Base Details:
Command Chamber
Mad Science: Biology Lab.
Medium Lab Zone.

Money: 34.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 12/month.

Spoiler: Happerry (click to show/hide)

Lord Silver

Adding a sort of carrier-wave property to the death ray?  What an idea!  It's like some genius came up with it.

..and it's as easily said as done.  Surprisingly, though, you don't know where all this money came from.  Did someone want you to do something for it?  Ahh, that's a problem for tomorrow.

Base Details:

Command Chamber
Mad Science: Laboratory of Evil Physics.
Medium Lab Zone: Death Ray Truck. (Basic Disrupting Death Ray) Small.

Money: 198.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 12/month.

Spoiler: Piecewise (click to show/hide)

Dr. Bill Pelican
Origin of funding: Chain of android strip clubs.
Flavor text: A balding man with thick glasses, robot arms, and several restraining orders; Bill Pelican is here for the hedonistic fun of inventing a crotch mounted chainsaw while high on ketamine.

Having, happily, found someone else who shares your love for protein degradation, you bundle up your package of joy and hand-deliver it to Happytime Atrocities.  They pay well, or at least as well as anyone can with these pallets of greenbucks.  Bah!  Not even one half-naked android.  Still, there might be something to do with the money.

Base details:
Command Chamber
Mad Science: Chamber of Random Stabbing
Medium Lab Zone:

Money: 232
Upkeep: 80/month
Income: 12/month

[Stirk]

As promised, Ares deploys all units to engage the threat in Australia using standard Kaiju procedure. It is likely that we will need assistance, as we are still using conventional equipment and playing the long game for development.