Yeah, we're kind of assuming it's a mutually cold war right now. And you know why it's cold? Because we don't know what the other faction can do and therefore it's quite possible that they can annihilate us, even if we annihilate them as well. Mutually Assured Destruction. The sooner we explore other systems, the sooner we can have a stronghold, a fallback position.
That seems to point to 2 things:
a)We need more sensors if we are to know the infidels' actions
b)We need more nukes or it will be a Unilaterally Assured Destruction instead.
Jump points can take a back seat, as long as we keep the Lagrange belt (or whatever it's called in our universe) free of Christians.
P.S. Did we recieve a message from the heathens last turn? I can't seem to find it.
No message as far as I can tell, though if they received ours they may send something this turn.
The problem is, we didn't start with any missile tech, or any missile scientists. So developing the tech is a long term goal. Meanwhile we can keep producing Hufufs to ensure we have military forces if attacked.
Even if they beat us to missile armed ships, it will take time to produce and equip them. If they started with missile tech we're probably screwed if they attack us, but we were probably screwed from the beginning; missiles are king in Aurora, and we didn't start with any practical PD. Meanwhile we're building construction factories and developing faster construction with our best scientist, as soon as we develop good missile tech we can begin production of missile and antimissile PDCs at a high rate. Our current strategy isn't to run away with our tail between our legs, but to ensure that when a war does happen we have the advantageous position. As the Sun-Tzu quote goes, "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
Orders:
Space Orders:
When the new Mosul finishes it should join its friend in surveying the Oort Cloud. If an infidel ship approaches Saturn it should be first warned off and then destroyed by Hufufs with sensor support.
Industrial Orders:
Assign 80% of industry to Construction Factories, and 20% to 4 Deep Space Tracking Stations. (This should ensure we finish one during the year)Research Orders:
Continue current projects. Once Research Rate 280 finishes, research construction rate 12, mining rate 12, construction rate 14, then work on Magazine Ejection system 70% chance, Magazine Feed System Efficiency 75%, Gun-type fission warhead (strength 2), then improved missile drives up to nuclear pulse. If all that finishes, work on Mining Rate 14.
Our other scientist should work on Jump point theory and then gravitational sensors. If he finishes that, Planetary Sensor Strength 300.Other Orders:
If we finish grav sensors develop a Grav survey version of the Mosul and build one. This will be a military ship, so add engineering spaces as needed.