Retech

Don't worry Nex, I will be hashing every research plan for efficiency. :thumbup:

Icu said that space was a valuable resource and that the planet was under his complete jurisdiction, which basically ruled out any chance of the research team being in the area. How much are colony taxes and how often are they collected?

Which I have calculated to be extremely expensive and not really worth it. Humans are cheaper, and we are willing to pay the upkeep. Further, there is no benefit for the colony keeping that extra 100,000, because they don't have enough resources to put them to work, which I have also calculated. I've basically done all the calculations and not transferring the humans would basically halve our wealth. Heck, I would even pay additional colony taxes.

Building stuff takes people to construct mines and factories to produce our cool hardware.

That stuff is more variable. I don't want to get into the area of patents and such, but basically... Stealing = Bad

On my ship, theft is grounds for semi-permanent expulsion or exile. Seeing as you are not on my ship, then my opinion does not matter.

Murder costs 100 kt. Theft costs whatever stuff is destroyed or stolen. From a purely monetary standpoint, theft is the new murder. Actually, more like manslaughter. Vandalism and arson are murder.

We still need 100,000 people to work as builders in the research colony. My offer is that the 25,000 KT be split 10000 KT for military, 10000 KT for colony, 5000 KT for research, and 100,000 people for research. I will need your response by sometime today.

Resistance is more interested in military matters, so he is transferring to Nero's ship.

Right, as far as things are looking right now, ship two will not actually be a ship. There is hardly a need to jet around the system, so it will be a fortified research complex on Astare 3. To the military ship, is that fine with you in regards to being able to protect both Astare 3 and Astare 4?

Double

That is not quite an option. The resources that we start with can be instantly polymorphed into any other thing. If we wait, it can't be polymorphed. Quite simply, you will have to produce everything yourself, but the thing is that factory output will be incredibly limited, something that we cannot spare. EDIT: The whole point about custody is that you are being charged with theft. Theft = Worse than murder

I was just reading TIME magezine, and I realized that they were making some sort of movie or TV series based on Song of Fire and Ice. It is known as "Game of Thrones" on HBO, and it seems to have the main characters and such like House Stark, House Baratheon, House Lannister, and House Targaryen. Not sure if it is based on the story or if it just set in the world, but a big emphasis seems to be placed on political intrigue and "the wall."

Right. In the meantime, Resistance will be placed under "custody" by my two soldiers (that I get from being Curio, half commander). This means weapons access will be restricted for the moment. Resistance, how would you like your 1000kt spent?

Murder isn't really that severe compared to real life. Please just face the charges in the court. I don't think that the other leaders would be happy that if I harbored a "fugitive" that refused to attend summons to court.

Electrons and Photons don't really even operate on the same things or in the same scale.

I will be submitting ship plans when they are finished. Now, I would like Resistance to report to the appropriate authorities to undergo as fair a trial as the Terran Federation can provide. If he agrees to this measure and is proven innocent, then he will be welcomed as a full member of my ship (or any other thingy, if he chooses it). Until then, I will not have someone that is flaunting the law on my ship, except for me. :P PS: I am aware flaunting the law seems like total hypocrisy from me, but in that case, I made sure not to endanger those around me while I was performing the act.

Hey Arch, could you post a link for the price guide? Are the prices finalised? Also, will there be research cards today?

Errr, I was going to have kids so that there could be an entire family business of randomly abducting travelers and using their bones in masochistic and macabre rituals. Totally different.

Sneaky theft of a pen by the president of the Czech republic. Too bad he was on camera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFoYkWulKOI&feature=aso

Wll it's basically a ship full of tacticals and commanders, so probably. :)

If you are a medic, then it is probaly a good idea to go with Nero.

Aside from developing standard shooty technologies (hopefully we can come up with some standardised array of equipment for the standard soldier), hopefully I will have enough resources to create some experimental weapons. Think death rays and mech suits woooo! Nothing is going to be more enjoyable than watching a hapless foe being crushed beneath the boot heels of an experimental proto-type of a battle robot that you have created.

Works for me Ross. I don't have much interest in combat (though making shiny stuff for combat is a different story) and my plans frequently get gimped by military operations, so if Nero is good with protecting us, then we can provide the necessary technologies. Of course, we will be establishing some mining operations to supply us with necessary research materials and produce cool stuff. Also, my system only works if we keep our own resource totals, but we will obviously be prepared to share and help out in the resource department as well if necessary.

That works excellently. Dusty, you get 10 levels of talents btw. :) ---- Icu, we should have a transport ship up and running within a few sessions, so that can take you places.