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[Retech]

Sure, but the personnel support isn't really necessary, as your embassy people have planet wandering privileges with a tour guide. See the mighty thousand foot Kelp! Or a coral bonsai display. Or the thousand foot Manatee, or maybe the tallest building in the local area! :thumbsup:

[archimage_a]

The embassies are pretty much self sufficent. I beam in food, fuel and all that jazz, not to mention a stockpile for a few years if needed. Trying to regulate what I beam in, will fail.

 

None of my people will be leaving the embassy, except the envoy, who will only ever visit the Queen. Only the Licht Queen or her representative may enter the Embassy and will be under guard the entire time due to potential reactionary forces.

 

The Embassies have 500 staff, they mainly consist of analysts, but there are chefs and such as well as a few familes and xeno-researchers who study whatever race the embassy is set up to deal with.

[Grim_]

Just for the record your people can get all the hemp they want (within reason of course).

[The Dark Lord]

Just for the record your people can get all the hemp they want (within reason of course).

 

He who has the hemp has power. Except that your hemp smells like baby farts, mine doesn't. :P

[Retech]

Sere, is there a hemp drink my people can have? They can't exactly smoke. <_<

 

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To Archi, the envoy may visit the queen on a specially commissioned ship which is unlocked from the outside. If there is any trouble in the embassy, the ship is infected with bio-weapons. So the envoy can talk to the queen through a glass. Not getting any loopholes here. Oh Archi, how did your prisoners sneak onto my planet again?

[archimage_a]

As I said at the time, they weren't prisoners, they were the children of prisoners.

They entered your planet by disgusing themselves as humans delivering waterfruit, as per our agreement.

Once they were on your planet they took off their disguises while in a bathroom(or somewhere else like that, say in a car, in a closet...somewhere private.)

Then they walked out onto the streets and became citizens of the Licht Empire .

Over time they killed a citizen(Since your death rate is so high it would be easy), assumed their identity(If there was any ID system) otherwise they didn't they just continued to the next step.

They had children.

Those children had children, ect ect.

[Wisp]

Oh, and I'm now researching dampening shields to block mather's EM beaming, and whatever shields to block laser shifting. Just because I don't want to take the risk ever. When's a reasonable completion date, Archi?

[Retech]

Well Archi, when I was looking back on the thread, I discovered something very interesting...

 

It was Grim who delivered the water fruit; remember he was the retail seller because he was the only one that had the transport capabilities. Aha! So really my people are still dumb, though I probaly still lost Japan anyways, and I'll accept the losses in population. However, Capiah 2 would not be uninhabitable for the next 20 years, so the people from Capiah 1 split themselves between the two. :thumbsup:

 

Of course there's still absolute monarchy.

 

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I better design shields like that as well. Of course Doom, if you're willing to create a perpetually stormy Earth, I can show you a way to block them with current technology.

 

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[hide=Capiahs]

 

System: Capiah

Population: 1,200,000,000

Moons: None

 

About it: Capiah is the most established colony besides that of Japan on Earth. With a quickly expanding population and abundant species of kelp, the settlers are thriving. The relatively large amount of land is still mostly unused, aside from defences, but future uses could be found.

 

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[hide=Erikio]

System: Recea Decimus

Population: 50,000,000,000

Moons: None

 

Erikio is the seat of the Lichtes government and homeworld to most of its people. Skyscrapers exist that are taller than almost any structure on Earth, mainly because the buoyancy that the water provides. It is covered by 99% water, with the land harnessed to grow luxury food crops, meat, and defensive installations.

 

 

 

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[hide=Meoxo]

 

System: Meoxo

Population: 20,00,000,000

Moons: None

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New Erikio has quickly been upgraded into a full scale military base. Massive underground tunnels snake through the continental shelf and deeper into the sea crust. The majority of Lichtes citizens live here, sheltered from infectious viruses and invading aliens by the limitless fortifications and defences. This is a major Iridium monopole mining base. Deep within the tunnels, the worst of society (over 200 million) trudge down into the mines to get as much Iridium ion as they can. The ones that give above average get a comfortable bed for the night, while those below average can either go back to their homes or go down to get more Iridium to get a bed.

 

 

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[hide=Tycus III A]

 

System: Tycus

Population: 5,000,000,000

 

 

[hide=Technology in progress]

 

Name: Improved Coilguns

Completion Date: Ongoing

Effects: Uses monopoles to power a gun which has little to no recoil

 

Name: Scram Cannon

Completion Date: Christmas!

Effects: Uses Kinetic energy and supersonic combustion to launch a projectile as far as other weapons without the complexity.

 

Name: EM shield blocker technology

Completion Date: January 1st

Effects: Blocks "teleportation"

 

Name:

 

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[hide=Constructions]

 

Name: Sector E battlestation

Completion Date: December 7th

Effects: Helps defend Japan from space attacks

 

Name: Earth to Space Artillery Batteries

Completion Date: December 7th

Effects: Massive Artillery and Flak installations are built on land and flotation devices on sea. The ones on land often have a tunnel that goes down into the main tunnels, but these are sealed except during peacetime. Though the projectiles cannot aim straight (due to the winds), the massive amounts of artillery flying through the air and the expanse of their fleet makes it easy to hit. If the enemy begins to land, then it will be far easier to hit them.

 

Name: Sector VI battlestations

Completion Date: December 1st

Effects: Colonizes Capiah VI

 

Name: Sector VII battlestations

Completion Date: December 1st

Effects: Colonized Capiah VII

 

Name: Sector Capital battlestation

Completion Date: December 1st

Effects: Protects Erikio

 

Name: Royal Engineering school of Erikio

Competion Date: December 1st

Effects: Increase production of engineers, speeds up spacefleet construction and design

 

Name: Lichtes Embassy in Kyoto, Japan

Completion Date: December 1st

Effects: None, just housing for royal officials

 

Name: Sector O Bunker

Completion Date: December 1st

Effects: Hides up to 50 million people in a defensive location with filtration and food

 

Name: Advanced tunnel fortifications and life support

Completion Date: First Phase, December 1st (Ongoing)

Effects: Increases time Japan can withstand siege, increases defence bonus slightly

 

Name: Advanced Tunnel fortification and life support systems

Completion Date: December 1st

Effects: Provides housing, food, and supplies in the event of a virus attack

 

Name: LDS Ocean Trench

Completion Date: December 1st

Effects: Super battleship

 

Name: LDS Manta Ray

Completion Date: December 1st

Effects: Super battleship

 

Name: Sector T Battlestation

Completion Date: Ongoing

Effects: Colonizes Ekedou 4

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[hide=Standing Army]

 

Regulars: ~200,000,000 (Possible 1 billion+ availible to be conscripted)

Whale Class Ultra Battleship (Elite): 2

SeaCow Class Ultra Battleship: 7

Manta Ray Class Super Battleship: 5

Kelp Class Heavy Battleship: 0

Wave Class Battleship: 0

Plankton Class Fighters: 0

Sea Bottom Class Artillery Battleship: 4

Transports: 800

 

PP: 20,000 per turn

 

Capiah 1: 500

Capiah 2: 500

Capiah 6: 500

Capiah 7: 500

Erikio: 500

New Erikio: 12,000 (10 land production stations, 65 space)

Other planet (Strange material shared with Dusty): 500

Arctic Planet: (In Mather's system): 500

Ekedou 1: 500

Ekedou 2: 500

Ekedou 3: 500

Ekedou 4: 500

Mather's 2 home systems where he let me colonize the sea: 1,000

 

 

PP remaining:

 

Built over 1 turns:

-10 space production stations

 

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[hide=Egg Capacity]

Egg Count: 10 Billion

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[archimage_a]

Lol, thats a good point.

Ok then...To explain things(I am making this up, otherwise things don't make sense): I landed intelligent Licht on Earth and so Japan had a revolution and the Capiahs' still declared independance, but are willing to rejoin the Licht Empire since there are no intelligent males left outside of the Terran Federation.

You get both Capiah back.

 

Dusty, the Licht Democratic Republic has grown more militant, not against you but against the Licht Empire. If you ever declare war on the Licht Empire you can raise an army of 30 Billion to fight them.

 

 

Anyway. Atomspheric storms will stop Laser Shifting, as with any sort of electric field, so really it takes a year or so to research how to stop Laser Shifting.

Though(and I will tell you this for nothing) I could just shift a ship to just outside the electric field, or if I was attacking I could shift sand and iron...which would become superheated by the electricity, turning into metallic glass, which would create a very unstable faraday cage...so really the electric field(shields) and atomspheric storms are pretty ineffective.

 

Laser Shifting is pretty unstoppable, to be honest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frj0GmATGSg

Its like the holes which open, except the holes are the size of pin heads.

 

In terms of game mechanics. If you try to shield something from a Laser Shift you need to have more energy focused on it than I do, which is neigh on impossible given I have a whole star system to use. (Even the Laser Shifting shields I have are not invunerable, with enough energy they will collapse too)

 

Dampening fields take 5 years to research, or I will give the tech freely from my embassy or my trade station, which I am in the process of beaming to Europa(the moon of Jupiter...in the Sol system)..Dusty don't worry, it is a trade station, not an asteroid firing system

[Wisp]

Well, in that case is there any way of detecting laser shifting before it happens? Or whatever. And that means you can't laser-shift back to your system unless you get a huge power source, correct?

[Retech]

Sounds fair Archi. Also, I'm pretty sure that if Dusty wanted to destroy me, he could've done that without the 30 billion soldiers. :)

 

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Also, I think that the atmosphere storms would be rather effective, as keep in mind it's the electrical power of a humid planet. Not to mention I'm adding electrical power. Also, intelligent males in the Lichten Empire are now being shot, to make sure that they do not constitute a threat (the Capiahns aren't intelligent either), unless they are escorted as a diplomat.

 

Another option is that they get sterilized (with Licht, it's much more painful, as essentially they electrocute your reproductive organs and stick a giant metallic prod in your butt).

[Wisp]

Just for fun, a colony specifically for intelligent lichtens is being set up on an unnamed planet that I control. I'm sure Dusty won't mind giving me a few million lichtens.

[archimage_a]

Well, in that case is there any way of detecting laser shifting before it happens? Or whatever.

It takes 8 seconds for the Laser Shift to complete. It can be detected from the first second to the eigth second. It registers as an exponetial power build up in thin air.

 

And that means you can't laser-shift back to your system unless you get a huge power source, correct?

I can send transmission(as indeed can anyone since I gave out the technology a while back) using Laser Shifting(Anyone can send date, the problem is blasting the matter and reconsituting it on the other side) back to Adrigas in 8 seconds. Then Adrigas can Laser Shift stuff. The whole process takes between 16 and 17 seconds.

 

as keep in mind it's the electrical power of a humid planet

Faraday Cages neutralise electrical power(if you know what I mean), no matter how powerful it is.

And I could just dump a few thousand tonnes, creating a hole...or even just shift a carbon bomb, which would disrupt the electrical storm.

[Wisp]

Well, for what it's worth I think I'll have my government headquarters protected by an experimental anti laser shift shield, that'll use our biggest generators and so on. Not that anyone would know where the headquarters is, but still. We'll test the shield as much as possible by using the technology for sending transmissions, I guess.

[Nero]

Just for fun, a colony specifically for intelligent lichtens is being set up on an unnamed planet that I control. I'm sure Dusty won't mind giving me a few million lichtens.

Fun, hm. Sure...

There's a few transports filled with around 100,000 Litchens (2 million really is over-kill) sitting in Sol, under control of Brazil. The Litchens in the transports are the ones most rowdy about the 1 child policy, so this benefits both of us.

 

Dusty, the Licht Democratic Republic has grown more militant, not against you but against the Licht Empire. If you ever declare war on the Licht Empire you can raise an army of 30 Billion to fight them.

That is very good. :)

 

 

Dampening fields take 5 years to research, or I will give the tech freely from my embassy or my trade station, which I am in the process of beaming to Europa(the moon of Jupiter...in the Sol system)..Dusty don't worry, it is a trade station, not an asteroid firing system

Wasn't Europa the moon you tried to crash into Earth? Lol.

Also, laster shifting sounds very game breaking. Instant teleportation? Secretly revealing troops?

 

And Dusty, I want to build one off Japan so that all Earth's people could watch events that haven't been seen for ages! After all, people need a break from the usual Olympics and terrible movie theaters once in a while. After all Dusty, you put your prisoners in a Steel Legion. I execute my prisoners, so they have an incentive to murder as many of their colleages as possible, while staying alive. If they try to escape, they're just sucked into a giant vortex which slowly and painfully suffocates them (they could also fight each other so that oxygen remains longer until the next batch of people fall in).

You could just build it on one of your planets and televise it to the world. I doubt Sere would allow the channel in his empire but the Federation would gladly put it in primetime. :D

[archimage_a]

Well since I am basically out of the game it is mainly if random events get serouisly out of hand. Say Rocco and Retech try to wipe each other out, at least I can save a handful of each race when they inevitably virus bomb each others planets.

[The Dark Lord]

Collision averted, sir!

 

^Just felt like saying that.

 

Yeah, Project New Eden/Genesis continues. Kratos, Kratos, Kratos...

 

I'm kinda foggy today.

[Nero]

Well then let's say only you can have it, and can only use it for non-military purposes.

[Retech]

Ok, to the above statement.

 

Assuming we do try to wipe each other out with viruses, we would both fail, as your rigged rolling system would prevent both of our viruses from reaching each other's land. That being said, if that did happen, he would not be able to hurt my people with the viruses, as I've been constructing underground tunnels on all my planets to prepare for such an inevitability. Also noting, if somehow the virus penetrated my tunnels and killed all my people, there are still the billions of eggs that I am storing, potentially turning into trillions of insta-troops in the future.

 

Isn't that great? An army that can be called up within 4 years, yet it doesn't take up any resources off the populace? :D

[archimage_a]

Fair enough.

Only I may use Laser Shifting for anything but communication, and I may only use it to prevent unpreventable disasters which I deem to be fair to avert(if you are grossly overpopulated and do nothing to try to solve the starvation problem I am not sending food.)

[Retech]

I'm not sure how to edit this spreadsheet, but I think I have at least enough farming capacity to support twice my current population, though that would begin to stretch it. My guess would be to increase the amount of productive land I have to farm or increase the amount of calories per plant, as these plants are really really tall.

 

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The "Historial Reenactment" series of "The Arena" continues with the Battle of Japan. As this is incredibly dangerous (millions of prisoners with weapons), only television crews and the army (with tanks and machine guns and rockets and the like) will be present, as well as the millions of prisoners equipped with pitchforks and the like. As this is the debut of "The Arena" to the off-planet audience, the Queen has decreed that all prisoners convicted in that year and the past year of assualt or above will be executed, which is lower than usual.

 

Who will you root for? The invading Lichten forces or the courageous Japanese defenders?

[Nero]

TFed looking into hydroponics as well (finally), since my increased farming output spray and vertical farms are going to be over-worked eventually.

 

Also, the Federation's political structure:

(Closed to outside influences, not closed as in "you can't leave here everrrrrrr")

[The Dark Lord]

So you guys are national socialists with a millennial reich?

[Wisp]

Mine would probably be in the middle for Democratic/Authoritarian, far to the left politically, a fairly open society, in between free market and central planning, a few notches away from drafted army (though that's only for army, navy and armada is very strong), a few notches from dove lobby, and a few notches from isolationism.

[Retech]

~Notice to National Governments abroad~

 

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