ST4X Community Game 2 Main Thread

[CdrPlatypus]

The three anomolies. Wait or explore them right away?

[En1gma]

If there is a way to explore one or two BEFORE Thulun makes landfall, we should do it to ensure either Javat or Mokklumune benefits from the increase in CP. It would be wasted on our home world.

[tenbsmith]

I agree with Thulunian delegate En1gma regarding order of settlement. Even starting last, the advanced manufacturing skills of Thulun will likely lead to their first projects completing well in front of ours.

[contributor]

Ehhherm, tenbsmith, not to quibble, but there are a few quid pro quos to review and affidavits that you'll need to sign before you can claim to speak on behalf of Dewey, Cheetem and Howe Moklume Inc. Up to now you haven't formally requested membership nor been invited into the boardroom for discussion. If this is your desire, please make it known and be prepared to pay 10 credits to the existing board members (after which you can begin charging 10 credits to others to make them board members as well, provided that 2 credits of their credits are also passed up to the top).

In terms of settlement I think it is only fair that Clan Moklume is given rights to settle first considering the time that it takes to set up a successful trade network and in view of our role as generous patrons of the other factions' building projects

[En1gma]

Ahem. I respectfully disagree with the delegate contributor of the Mokklumune Hive Ship. Your colony will begin with a monetary advantage from turn one, with +4 TP for every new colony you settle. Javat however will take several weeks before they turn a profit, due to the length of time needed to construct their first mine.

[ntsheep]

[Officer Genious]

Aug 28, 2015 11:19:23 GMT -5 contributor said:

Ehhherm, tenbsmith, not to quibble, but there are a few quid pro quos to review and affidavits that you'll need to sign before you can claim to speak on behalf of Dewey, Cheetem and Howe Moklume Inc. Up to now you haven't formally requested membership nor been invited into the boardroom for discussion. If this is your desire, please make it known and be prepared to pay 10 credits to the existing board members (after which you can begin charging 10 credits to others to make them board members as well, provided that 2 credits of their credits are also passed up to the top).

In terms of settlement I think it is only fair that Clan Moklume is given rights to settle first considering the time that it takes to set up a successful trade network and in view of our role as generous patrons of the other factions' building projects

Yes, until a council member stubs his toe and blames every Javati clansman for the slight. I propose we take Thulun's suggestion and build the Javat Homeworld first. Mines are a steady source of income and are more or less "fire and forget" type projects-- we can keep building up and making money as trade routes get underway and every settler gets used to life in space. I'll not fight Moklume on proper trading, but I will say that it takes time for the trade routes to be effective. It would be best to have a steady source of income in the meantime.

[CdrPlatypus]

//OOC Love the politicking I am seeing come out, good roleplaying everyone!

I will be running the in game turn this Sat (GMT-8) and get a new cycle together for you guys sometime during my evening time.

It's my job to take care of Grandma Gundam tonight so I will be away from the PC I use to play the gamefile, but I will be on and off the forums through my phone.

//

[ntsheep]

//OOC Taking care of Grandma Gundam. She must be a first gen RX-78 or a prototype Zaku. Good luck, finding parts is a b#$%^ I hear

[johndramey]

Council members, council members, it is untoward for us to squabble amongst ourselves at such a time as this.

While the members of the Illustrious Clan Javat do have some points, I personally feel that we of the Exalted Clan Moklumnue deserve to make first landfall. Our first colony will forever be known to all, and will be a destination for pilgrimages for all. Should we make such a destination be a vast industrial city dedicated to the brutish extraction of minerals from the dirt, or shall it be a vast metropolis dedicated to the trade of goods, minerals, and services across the system?

It makes good sense for such a momentous land fall to be dedicated to the good of the people! Therefore, Starstreak Heights should be the first target for colonization.

[contributor]

Splendiferous High Templar, Honorable Members of the Council,

I would like to reinforce my associate's point. The whole reason to settle Starstreak Heights first is exactly the fact that our advantage in trade is present from day 1 without the need to rout around in the dirt building mines. We provide an immediate advantage, one which we will happily put to the service and good of all the factions. It has surely been a long time since my fellow Star Traders have seen a cart and horse, but you must certainly know which one comes first! Our funding can provide the means with which to subsidize the rapid construction of the other home worlds.

Now that our case has been spelled out, I think that all of the other council members will agree that it is the most reasonable course of action. That is unless they are holding on to existing House loyalties from the Core. Loyalties which no doubt cloud sound reasoning and can be nothing but a hindrance in this, humanity's new and glorious future home.

[Brutus Aurelius]

Delegates, may I remind you all that despite Moklumnue's claims that they do not need mines, the do and will meed them. To provide raw materials to build their trade zones and Exchanges, to trade with, and to build starships with. They also claim our homeworld will be nothing but an industrial hive, while theirs would be a gleaming crystal city. No. All of our homeworlds start with the same basic provisions provided by our Hive ships. We all must build our new homes from the ground up, with what we pull from the ground of our new homes. Let Javat make first landfall, and do our job of pulling the riches of the earth from thier hidden caches, and put them to use building our future.

[En1gma]

/returns to the hall carrying an ancient bag of what appears to be popped corn, sits down in his mechanized chair, kicks his feet up, and noisily begins stuffing his face with a grin stretching ear to ear.

Perhaps at this point /another handful/ mrrf, oh that's good... Perhaps at this point, this would be best left up to a direct vote. /another giant handful, and golden kernels skitter across the once immaculate epoxy/ This (oh yeah) arguing is getting us nowhere. Time is short (crunches again), and consensus MUST be met.

Javat has my vote

[ntsheep]

Ntsheep walks into the Templar council chambers wearing his mine hat and carrying his pick axe.

"There are several points I would like to bring to everyone's attention which I feel may help to solve some of the problems developing here.

1: No of the Javetians, except one, have made the claim we should be first to land. We thanks those members of the other clans that have thrown their support to us for being the first though.

2: Upon looking at the star map, can our hive ship even make it to Bukatov to be the first to land. If that's the case, us landing first is a moot point. The ships that stand the chance of making planet fall in one short jump are the ones that need to focus on landing."

ntsheep starts twirling his pick axe like a baton, then throws it up into the air.

"We must keep our heads in the time ahead of us. Squabbling will get us nowhere,"

He catches the pick axe one handed with out even looking up. He stands it straight up next to him so everyone can see its height matches his (6'2")

"By the way, this is my small pick."

[krakun]

Engineer krakun takes note: ntsheep has a small pick, but he knows how to use it and that's what matters most.