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Your attack cruiser being a model common among the Pirates brought an offer from Intelligence. Infiltrating the enemy fleet you helped to distribute "captured" torpedoes fitted with tracking devices then hunted down a stolen cloaked ship.
With the help of an intrusion specialist by the name of Duncan you were able to covertly recover data on the latest Rovinar cloaking shield. Your House would need to sit on the data for five years to avoid suspicion but despite the wait it has proven to tremendously valuable.

The capture of the cloaked ship and its return to the Rovinar earned you your first fortune and some of your best toys.
A suit of light Power Armor fitted with holographic and silent movement systems for covert missions proved to be one of the most useful.

In the Smuggler's Run campaign you were given command of your own attack squadron. While you often found yourselves doing the most dangerous work it was also some of the most rewarding. Salvage from old battle sites and surrendered pirates allowed upgrades to the squadron.

New friends and your Power Armor allowed you to sneak aboard the main enemy station in the Run, clearing the way for Marines and the later arrival of your fleet. An enormous starship crippled centuries ago and later converted into a base, the Forbearance had shipyards and manufacturing your House desperately needed.
Reconstruction of the ancient ship-turned-base after its capture would increasingly consume House resources in the years to come but it has repeatedly proven to have been worth it.

Finally Knighted you took on increasing responsibility eventually taking the role of Wing Commander, leading multiple squadrons. Upgrading your elite units became a priority and thanks to recent investments your ships were outfitted with tough new armor able to ward off serious torpedo hits. It would come in handy.

While three Faction fleets were stopped in House Lat'tham space for resupply the House turned traitor. Seizing thousands of ships and attempting to take the crews hostage for ransom, both sides fought desperately for days before a victor became clear.
The escape from the Lat'tham Ball became a famous event you are probably most well known for among the higher ranks of the Dominion. Using stolen walkers you and several others escorted most of the key officers and Nobles to the nearest spaceport and escaped the planet.

Your squadrons and Marines suffered serious losses during the battles of the Lat'tham Coup. In some ways they might be your finest hours but in others they were certainly the darkest.

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The fleets moved on into the South Reach cluster where you continued to fight hard, capturing valuable resources and planets for your House. You forced the surrender of Surakeh, a world stricken by a bioweapon outbreak, to allow a proper medical aid to get through. The industry of this world made it an excellent base of operations in the region and became your primary fleet base after terrorists destroyed your former port.

Rather than waste downtime waiting for a refit of your squadrons to finish, you went on a treasure hunt with fellow Knight Fredric Saputo. Looking for the long lost Terran ship Vieona you soon found yourselves in a race to reach it first. With the aid of the revived crew your Marines were able to drive off the pirate boarding parties. There were still some close calls, including your first encounter with a Neeran soldier able to see through your holographics.

With the Vieona secured you returned to your unit. You weren't able to keep the ship but you did get a small stockpile of medical injectors Sapuo claimed would grant near immortality and make the user invulnerable to subspace radiation.

Back to the fighting the allied Factions prepared to launch Operation Typhoon. With a Civil War in the Republic over they were now able to block the other lines of retreat the Pirates might use. Typhoon would be an all out lighning offensive targeting infrastructure the Pirate Warlords of South Reach needed to survive.

Continuous combat over two straight days took its toll on your ships and personnel but dealt a crippling blow to the Warlords. Your former wingman Mike was able to use the operation to champion the use of whole squadrons fitted with antimatter injector "afterburners" to provide greater mobility.
The operation was also one of the first times you were forced to abandon ship, though it would be salvaged and later rebuilt.

Follow up raids against fleeing ships and convoys would bring in one of the largest salvage hauls of your career at the time. Working with your allies you were able to cripple a super heavy cruiser. Your House was able to trade its claim to the ship to the Ruling House in return for money, technical assistance and crew training. Training that would prove invaluable when reconstruction of the Forbearance was completed, ensuring your House had veteran crews ready and waiting.

As the pirates retreated the Factions closed in, forcing a final showdown at their main shipyard.

A showdown that apparently had been intended as a trap.
The Pirate Warlords had been provided with the means to create an artificial wormhole by the Neeran. One they could use to escape to fight another day while crippling the Faction fleets with clone crewed ships and Veckron Torpedo super weapons they left behind.

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As agents from the Factions soon uncovered, the wormhole was a fake. The pirates who fled would unknowingly be killed passing through a chokepoint too small for any ship and most of the operational Faction fleets would be crippled or destroyed in the fighting.

Agents tipped off one of the lesser Warlords to the sabotage who quickly moved to disable the wormhole. With no means of quick escape the old Warlord and leader of the South Reach League stalled and attempted to negotiate.

While others dithered your unit worked to stop a civilian ship from trying to kick off a Mutually Assured Destruction scenario, preventing it from launching a Veckron weapon.


In the hours after thwarting the attack the Neeran Empire began its invasion of Shallan space with overwhelming numbers. A treaty with the Pirate Warlords was hastily signed and the Faction fleets were diverted to dealing with the newer and more serious threat. The fleets reached Shallan space just in time to prevent its fall, buying time for the Factions to mobilize and send a relief force.

As part of the treaty arrangements the SRL Warlords now act as mercenaries hired to fight the Neeran. They were forced to give up all slaves and cloning technology, and any who returns to piracy soon find themselves with a hefty bounty on their head.

Many Warlords have joined the Dominion in the years since, some even forming new Houses, significantly strengthening the Dominion's fighting strength. Others have been killed fighting the Neeran or by rivals wanting to take their remaining ships.

The South Reach League grows weaker by the day but even years later it is far from dead.

Along with the other you went to the front as well, first hunting down raiding units that had penetrated the lines then helping in Shallan space. Fighting these new invaders put your skills to the test and in some cases your salvaged if upgraded equipment was not up to the task.

Crippled in battle you were forced to abandon ship. Making your way to a friendly Shallan spaceport and then back to your unit took time. Your surviving pilots and crews had been recalled to a training base by then to assist others in developing new tactics.

Staying at the base for the remainder of your deployment you helped teach crews from the other Factions how to better operate mixed units using ships from a wide number of sources. A skill you were all too familiar with after salvaging ships in the Smuggler's Run. These officers would help form the core of new attack units from the Factions using Dominion tactics.

Your return home is interrupted when an Isolationist Neeran Super is captured by the enemy and you're forced to pursue. A boarding mission is launched to stop if from reaching the Republic. The mission pays off but your marines take serious losses and you lose your right arm in the process.

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Shark madness reaches an all time high as players insist that the replacement cybernetic arm have shark skin. The madness later wears off and they eventually have it returned to a normal appearance.


>For House & Dominion: Home Front

With relief forces arriving from home your expeditionary force eventually returned home to a hero's welcome.

Knight Commander Winifred was named Baron of Surakeh and all were recognized for their achievements in the previous year. You could only spend so much time visiting the rest of the family and soon turned to other pursuits.

Like raiding black market hubs and setting up your own salvage company.

Heading back to South Reach once more you helped bring in the company's first big salvage haul using data collected while looking for the Vieona. It doesn't make you a billionaire overnight, but almost.

Thanks to this early big haul and military support from Baron Winifred to protect it, RSS has been able to grow into a powerhouse of a company. It now not only salvages and repairs ships but produces new ones and other war Materiel for the conflict against the Neeran.


>For House & Dominion: Neeran War

When you next returned to the front lines things had changed. A new organisation called the Factions Alliance had by this time been put into place to combine the efforts of the Dominion, Terran, Rovinar, Republic and others into a more unified force. While still part of the Dominion you would act under the Alliance's more unified command structure.

The system had its downsides but the upside was that you could requisition equipment and weapons from other Factions while fighting for the Alliance. Using it to good effect your units raided behind enemy lines an in attempt to slow the continuing Neeran offensive.

After hearing rumors the Neeran have destroyed a planet and are launching an even stronger offensive you decide a distraction is in order. With the help of a Shallan Admiral you propose an operation to draw off enemy reserves and strike a serious blow to the Neeran. Soon after your arrival near one of the destroyed planets you discover them building shipyards and new Super Heavy warships in the remains.

A bloody and hard fought battle, it exceeded many expectations destroying more Neeran supers at once than any other. It does have far reaching consequences, some that were not immediately known. In the years since you've seen ships that were crippled in the fighting rebuilt to carry spinal mount weapons better suited to targeting other Super Heavies.

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A few weeks later you inadvertantly trigger the Neeran to launch an early assault on the Apsis system. Lacking the numbers they really needed you were able to halt the attack.

At least part of the thanks goes to Warlord Krussk who followed an earlier proposal you had made for a ship length repulsor weapon firing scrap and salvage. The "Scrap Cannon" has become one of the main siege weapons used by the remaining Warlords, something you're wishing your lawyers could win a pattent lawsuit over.

>For House & Dominion: Home Front II

Your next visit home was not like you expected. The usual business work is done but you're taken quite by surprise by an early morning kidnapping attempt. While a failure they did accidentally set your lodge on fire burning down half of it.
An attempt to trace the kidnappers contacts managed to net you a team of mercenaries and a few people at nearby cargo terminals that were involved. It wasn't until talking to House intel after that it occurred to you your family might become targets.

With your younger sister and several of her classmates kidnapped you kicked off a whirlwind investigation that had you stumbling into House affairs it proved safer to stay away from.
Eventually your sister was returned safely and more than half of the ransom money was recovered.

This event sparked the creation of your own intelligence agency tied to RSS through its Reynard Tactical Systems(RTS) subsidiary.

In an effort to gain more contacts within the House you quietly handle a situation involving an imported Neeran invasive species. With the help of Alex the situation is cleaned up and you stumbled upon the remains of an old base on Dreminth netting you a trove of ancient Terran arms and equipment.

>More Neeran War

Back at the front you planned out a series of large scale actions behind enemy lines.

A rival commander from another House attempted to have you killed after getting in the way of their promotion. Fortunately your friends pulled through and covered for your absence.

Continued actions against the Neeran behind enemy lines earns you the title "Warlord of the Maelstrom" though it is soon overshadowed by the exploits of a much larger Alliance fleet trying to copy your technique.

The Shallan Government is unable to reimburse you for ships you lef behind with resistance efforts behind the lines kicking off heated arguments. Despite this you're still able to grab a pile of salvage and once again return home rich.

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>Home Front III

By this time it was becoming increasingly apparent that your upwards mobility in Dominion society was being hindered by a lack of political connections. You set out to solve this using the many connections you've built up while on campaign, working to secure valuable trade and arms deals with other powers and Houses.
You also attend a few balls and start to work on your swordsmanship.

In an effort to secure more and better armor for your House fleet it comes to light that investments in House Possat are less stable than you might have believed. With the help of Earl Jerik you lead a force to secure manufacturing centers you've invested in before the Ruling House can annex Possat's assets.

Striking a deal with the crumbling House, Possat agrees to provide you with certain resources of similar value to what they'd tried to cheat you out of.

You decide to take a planet and become the largest landowner on the world of Rioja. The only downside is that Rioja needs to finish being re-terraformed after the Warlords dropped its moon out of orbit a few decades ago.

Shore Leave is Rescinded when the Neeran launch a new offensive attempting to invade the Pandora cluster. While you rushed to the area with your fastest ships mercenaries were quickly hired to extract your father from a logistics station. Stations the Neeran were quite eager to crush. They only barely manged to get him out in time.

Every Faction rushed as many reserves to the Pandora cluster as possible and while the Alliance was ultimately victorious the brief campaign was still one of the costliest. The Dominion suffered some of the worst losses and as a result many Houses withdrew their support for the war effort.

With their resources already strained the Ruling House was forced to cut all economic support to those Houses unwilling to support the war effort, making things worse for many. This would have repercussions that others were quick to take advantage of and relations between many Houses began to worsen.

A time skip saw several in game years fly by with Sonia and other pilots being assigned to training bases rather than the front lines during their months away from home.

You couldn't pass up the opportunity to visit distant Watch space though. With one of the fast ships you acquired over the years you helped escort a diplomatic party and then accompany back the first batch of Mega class Supers to be built for the war effort.

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Issues with Krath and Rovinar spies lead to firefights and investigations you later use as leverage to get more toys. Surviving long enough to reach your destination the treaties are signed and it seems like the deadly inter-Krath feud has been paused.

Attempts at diplomacy backfire after making a promise to House Helios then doing then complete opposite of what they asked for. Relations between your House and Helios take such a hard hit that it takes years and multiple black ops missions for them to return to normal. Needless to say the head of your House was furious.

You had far more success in South Reach later that year working to improve relations between the Dominion and remaining South Reach Warlords. Several were convinced to join the Dominion while others secured valuable trade contracts for reconstruction of their civilian industrial base.

As usual you couldn't leave well enough alone. The charismatic Şivan Berwari was preparing to overthrow a Warlord about to join the Dominion. Knowing it was best for the Dominion if he failed you sold him out... but still felt guilty enough to rescue his ass and send him into exile in the Pandora cluster.

You're not sure if that was a good, bad or worse idea but he's made a strong recovery in the years since.

Still in South Reach guarding against an increase in piracy you were forced to deal with the planetary Governor of Surakeh. Baron Winifred was called off due to worries your cloaking shield project might be compromised leaving the Governor the opportunity to remove their positional enemies in advance of the planets first election in decades.

It's hard to say if you make the right decision or the best decision. Not wanting to act too soon with a planetary assault that would have killed thousands among the PDF and militia you held off. Because of this most of the political prisoners were killed before you could get to them. What evidence could be found was used to arrest the Governor and take them into protective custody until Winifred could return.

With most candidates either dead, arrested or in critical care facilities it took you some time to find a new one to Run for governor. Luckily an old business acquaintance of yours was convinced to run and became the first Kavarian planetary governor in your Houses history.

With the former Governor sent back to the House homeworlds under arrest for murder you soon found yourself the target of political retaliation. You made enemies of several of the powerful old families on Dreminth and it would be some time until their desire for vengeance was put down.

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>Neeran War 4th Tour

The Neeran launched their next invasion attempt, this time targeting the Centri Cluster. Despite the political meddling at Surakeh you were named Knight Commander of the House fleet sent in response.

With a direct threat to Dominion holdings even Houses that had withdrawn support for the war effort hurriedly sent forces to assist. This allows you the chance to work with at least one rival Baron and get a good look at what your neighbouring Houses are now fielding.

Working together you and other Faction Alliance Generals began to systematically take down the Neeran fleets or turn them back. Before long much of the offensive was halted and the chase was on to catch fleeing Neeran fleeting trying to escape with stolen technology.

Despite having to fight off an enemy attempt to board the Heavy Carrier Majestic you were able to catch up. Given command of new siege weapon equipped super heavies your fleet were able to intercept several Neeran fleet groups and prevent their escape.

Some of the enemy escaped taking with them samples that might level the playing field eventually but your side had done enough damage to claim partial victory. With that victory came salvage rights and you were able to covertly sneak out hundreds of SP Torpedoes that would have otherwise returned to Terran hands.

The return home suffers a slight detour when you and several of your old crew mates are called in to help deal with a situation. Due to your experience salvaging equipment from hazardous space zones the Alliance admiralty recruits your aid in recovery of valuable weaponry.

Investigating a partially destroyed station your teams worked against the clock to recover remaining V-Torp stockpiles. Despite the risk you continued to search for Neeran technology and managed to recover a remote energy draining system. With the new technology now in Alliance hands you looked up a few old friends before returning home.

Civilian morale was at an all time low. While the Alliance had succeeded in defeating the latest invasion it was now known that dozens of worlds had been bombarded and Billions of civilians were dead or displaced.

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>Home Front IV

You were unable to personally enjoy the parade celebrating the successful return of your fleet. Political enemies had planted evidence that you had illegally opened classified correspondence between the Earl and a Planetary Governor. Accused of treason you were forced into house arrest for most of a year as both sides attempted to determine what happened and who was really at fault.

It also seems your bodyguard Valeri Fusaro had become an unwitting pawn making matters worse.

While other options were considered, including temporary exile, ultimately it was agreed that house arrest provided the most options and kept you close enough to the capital to respond to additional charges against you.

Your lodge in the mountains might seem a small retreat to most but over the years you've outfitted its garage and quietly constructed sub-basement with enough gear to rival the batcave. While stuck at home you were able to maintain your many business connections and set up additional projects. The most important of these were station construction at Surakeh, and accelerated development of Rioja.

Pouring millions in resources into the construction of sealed habitats you established a new city on your land. Vital infrastructure was rebuilt and settlement of refugees fleeing the Neeran war began. The influx of settlers and construction of industry has led to short bursts of near exponential growth of the colony. So far you've shaved more than a year off the terraforming schedule.

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>For House and Dominion: Civil War

Your time in house arrest came to an end when one of Jerik-Dremine's rivals, the neighbouring House Erid, launched a covert attack to cripple House industry. This it they hoped to force the surrender of Jerik-Dremine's outer colonies, those bordering their space.

With the government in a state of panic there was a short lived coup attempt to depose Earl Jerik. In the space of less than an hour the coup had failed, the plotters betrayed from within. Baron Archivald ordered your immediate reinstatement and return to active duty.

Rather than give in to House Erid's terms your House rallied dissatisfied elements within Erid itself and fought back. Stealing the promised replacement industry your House then fought a brief campaign to overthrow Baron Ukalah. Erid nobility that supported your side were able to keep their holdings and were rewarded. Others needed to negotiate.

Your short war with House Erid lasted only days but it was a sure sign to others that the peace between the Houses had ended. The impending civil war may not have started yet but it was close at hand.

At last the time for promotions arrived. At your request you were named Baron or Rioja and charged with the defense of the Smuggler's Run and its vital trade lanes.

You quickly worked to exploit Rioja's position, increasing the growth of trade, local industry and beginning a massive expansion of the House military in the area. When war came to the Smuggler's Run you were relatively well prepared.

While the major Houses began to declare war on minor Houses accused of having been subverted by foreign powers your little corner of the universe remained relatively quiet. It couldn't last forever. Houses Bonrah and Nasidum employed a carrot and stick approach to encourage minor Houses in your Nav Relay to join of them. Privateers were used to enact large scale piracy on the area, all while Nasidum engaged the local Ruling House fleets preventing them for helping. Those that allied with the still neutral House Bonrah would have protection from pirate raids.

Wiping out the new wave of pirates plaguing the Smuggler's Run you and your allies began a large scale anti-piracy campaign. Helping Houses enough to give them a fighting chance then securing trade routes helped to slowly bring things under control. With enough support on your side you declared war on House Nasidum and helped the Ruling House drive them from the region.

With a few months of respite you sent out raiding fleets to assist your allies, gain experience and to recover valuable equipment and intel. In the process you were able to slowly rebuild your relations with House Helios. In return for your assistance they permitted you access to new, experimental or hard to acquire weapons systems.
With these plus recent victories your House could finally be taken seriously as one of the mid range powers within the Dominion.

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Allying with the Ruling House and House Ber'helum your side eventually declared war on House Bonrah, knowing your enemies would use their space as a staging ground in future invasions. Things did not go exactly as planned. While your side gained control of the DRH 1 Relay, Bonrah in turn secured former House Lat'tham space in the DRH 2 Relay.

South Reach League mercenary Bernard Foss, with the help of your special forces, was able to retake one of two super heavy cruisers Bonrah had managed to steal from them. This ship was brought back to the Smuggler's Run and upgraded in return for an extended defense contract. With it your allied fleets would stand a chance in the fighting you would face in the new year.


It is 4033 and nearly ten years have passed since you first joined the military.

You are Sonia Reynard, no longer a simple front line officer of the House, you are now Viscount of Rioja! You Command all the forces of House Jerik-Dremine in the DRH1 Relay.

A combined fleet from Houses Nasidum, Bonrah and Xygen have attempted to invade your new home. With the help of your Ruling House allies, and those from Ber'helum, Helios, and many others you have not just held them back but defeated them outright.

She smashed remains of the House Nasidum's prototype mobile fortress now lies on the surface of the planetoid Avoubic. What elements of that fleet that haven't been destroyed or surrendered are now fleeing. The hulks of more than ten thousand starships now litter the Avoubic system, and while many belong to the enemy, far too many are belong to your own side.

It has been a bloody and hard fought victory but one that has ended clearly in your favour. Now you must pick up the remains and see to liberating worlds occupied by enemy troops.

>>567757
OH SHIT
FOR HOUSE AND DOMINION

>>568046
Hello

Yo TSTG!

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As there may (or may not) be new players encountering H&D for the first time, and because I've largely wrecked myself writing this summary, this week's thread is going to mostly review and Q&A.

Next post will be about the eternal ship scales naming conventions..

>>567972
>Despite the risk you continued to search for Neeran technology and managed to recover a remote energy draining system.
There was also the Neeran HLV Sleeper tech shuttle we recovered, I think. Did that ever prove to be useful?

In fact, this really makes me want to go back and read every thread for any little detail to talk about.

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>about the eternal problem with ship scales naming conventions.

A note on ship sizes: H&D uses a somewhat non-standard approach to scaling conventions.

Originally the largest warships were Carriers and Battleships. These are around a mile (1,600m) long. Anything that got bigger than that were the occasional special command ships or mobile dock yards like the Anchorage. (Which were much less mobile back then.)

The Kavarians developed what are now considered Medium cruisers first but they were treated more like mobile gun platforms.
The Terran LTSC's were the first medium cruiser sized Carrier but it was known as a super carrier in its day.

The Terrans and Dominion developed a number of very large ships which were initially given all sorts of designations. Super Dreadnoughts, super heavy cruisers, etc.

Starting in the Expeditionary Wars and leading into the Faction Wars there were an increasing number of large ship classes well above Battleships. When the Kavarians started producing what are now referred to as super heavy cruisers the Light, Medium and Heavy designations were reassigned. Battleships and carriers kept their old names and have always remained around the same size.

>Have I thought about changing this?
Yes.
With the creation of the Factions Alliance and their fleets there is an opportunity for them to use a different system of naming conventions. I haven't fully worked everything out yet but ships like Attack Cruisers and Light Cruisers would be designated Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts.

>>568295
My personal view goes like this:
Old New
Corvette - Corvette
Frigate - Frigate
Light Cruiser - Light Cruiser
Battle Cruiser - Battle Cruiser
Battleship - Armored Cruiser
Carrier - Light Carrier
Medium Cruisers - Battleship
Medium Carrier - Carrier
Heavy Cruiser - Dreadnought
Heavy Carrier - Fleet Carrier
Superheavy Cruiser - Super Dreadnought
Superheavy Carrier - Super Carrier

>>568295
>Yes.
I actually like the way it is now.

Sure it's a little confusing and clunky, but I think it adds a lot of character to the worldbuilding.

>>568394

I have to say I agree with this guy.

If anything, I'd suggest that idea someone once (I think, at least) tossed around to call Medium/Heavy/Super 'Cruisers' 'Capitols'.

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>>567757
FOR HOUSE AND DOMINION!

Good to see that you are alive with your sanity intact TSTG.

>>568281
>Did that ever prove to be useful?
Almost certainly. All of the equipment you recovered was sent off to various secure R&D facilities.

Subspace tech research can be a bit slow and they're still trying to figure out what went wrong with the Alliance sleeper fleet. Their ultimate hope is to learn what happened and if possible use it to keep the Neeran ships and mines currently parked in and around that fleet base asleep.

>>568466
>If anything, I'd suggest that idea someone once (I think, at least) tossed around to call Medium/Heavy/Super 'Cruisers' 'Capitols'.
Well the new Alliance Supers have a similar sort of names.
ACS - Alliance Capital Ship
ACC - Alliance Capital Carrier

>>568046
Excellent summary TSTG!

>No one asked the Krath to steal an SP production module(s) for us

Why even live
SP Veckron beams never

>No mention of Dyson sphere or wizard pal in recap

Did we fuck up our access to the endgame somehow?

>>568644
I like to think Sonia stays awake some nights every year re-reading Svidur's letter hoping there's some kind of invisible ink on it.

>>568661
I can 100% imagine that. Trying to figure out if there is something they missed and making sure they don't forget. I imagine she does that for a few things.

>>568644
Also no mention of House Veritas...

I wonder if they are kill

>>568481
I'm on some weird antibiotic for a week until they yank my problematic tooth. It's messing me up a bit more than lack of sleep would. Hence the Q&A thread.

>>568564
>SP Veckron beams never
I do actually have plans drawn up for that. I hope I never have to use them.

>>568644
With everything else going on and just trying to get as much straight with the recap as I could it just didn't make it in.

I figured an additional plot line recap with the Neeran could wait until the Civil War was over. It has less bearing on what's going on right now in the Dominion. Or does it? Do you want it to wait or would you like one now?

>>568706
Fine with waiting, we've certainly got enough internal problems to occupy our attention for now.

>>568704
Of all the crazy things we've managed, convincing a bunch of fiercely independent radicals to sarcastically participate in feudalism is probably my favorite.

>>568706
>I do actually have plans drawn up for that.
The absolute madman!

Speaking of weapons, what's the cheapest stasis-fusion canister we can make and launch from a repulsor turret, and would it be effective as flak or against enemy ships?

Does Sonia ever use the energy converter to spook people?

>>568780
>would it be effective as flak or against enemy ships?
There are cluster nukes that use the new warheads to act as a flak round. Not that great damage wise against ships but they create one hell of a light show.

There are artillery grade ones you could use to help with point defense. These smaller ones would of course be worse against ships.

>>568704
http://houseanddominion.wikia.com/wiki/House_Veritas

While I haven't updated it House Veritas continues to survive.

House Myra's initial invasion attempt failed both both sides taking heavy losses. A follow up invasion that would have secured the previous battle site was prevented when the Myra government switched sides and allied with Nasidum. As a result they suddenly needed to do battle with the entire Ber'helum South Reach fleet.

Veritas has been spared, for now, but this could be their weakest moment.

You can't directly help them right now but Ber'helum is ideally placed to either aid or conquer them if you pressed them to. Capturing House Veritas space would give Ber'helum a substantial foothold in South Reach that would be hard for any other House to take from them. Or if Ber'helum aided them it could win over an ally more valuable in the mid to long term.

1A) Tell Ber'helum that Veritas is weak and the time to strike is now
1B) Ask Ber'helum to aid Veritas, winning them a new ally
1C) Don't bring it up

2) Provided they're not wiped off the map these guys may have some salvage. Did you want London to start negotiations for salvage and repair work?
2A) Yes, salvage everything as always
2B) Stay away, too dangerous

See you in the morning! I'm working later in the day tomorrow but will resume after.

>>568926
>[x] 1C
I want to let BH decide on their own
>[x] 2B


What were the results of the survey from last time by the way?

>>568926
1B - I like their style too much to have them conquered
2B - Too far away from reliable backup and too many shifting alliances near South Reach

>>568926
>1B) Ask Ber'helum NICELY to aid Veritas, winning them a new ally
>2A) Yes, salvage everything as always

>>568706
>that spoiler
Wouldn't that just be a beam of SP casing shavings energized and then accelerated through repulsors to near C?

>>568926
1B
2A

>>568926
1B) Ask Ber'helum to aid Veritas, winning them a new ally
>2A) Yes, salvage everything as always
We need a new infusion of quick cash

>>568926
I also had a really stupid idea.
What would happen if one were to crush a large amount of veckron pearls into dust, dispersed it over an area and then activated the PDPA in the middle of it?

>>569221
Subspace radiation.

>>569221
>>569262
And if we took one of those miracle injections and did this with our handheld PPDC thingy we could make everyone in a two kilometer radius get space cancer

>>569282
>took one of those miracle injections
The summary makes them seem like that but I am pretty sure there's bad side effects that we were meant to get a report on but never did.

>>568926
Any news from our R&D people?

>>569318
It has been a while since we last heard from Cpt Saputo or any of the other potential immortals we know

>>569016
Seconding.

>>No mention of becoming one of the most successful Small arms tycoons in our houses space

>>No mention of salvaging so much so quickly command/logistics begged for mercy

>not a single shark pun

I just wanted to come in and say thanks tstg! I got on this quest recently at the beginning of basidium invasion of DRH-1 and loved it instantly. This summary helps me A LOT with understanding where Sonia comes from and who are at least some of the side characters. So in short, thanks for your hard work!

Also I hope your dental and work problems will solve themselves quickly and painlessly.

>>569897
It doesn't mention quite a few things, like when the House told Sonia to stop dragging in new colonies because they couldn't hold all that success.

Doesn't mention the whole Mike retcon thing either.

>>568926
>House Veritas continues to survive

We could put them in contact with the aliens that don't use FTL. Veritas probably uses the most advanced large scale spaceships without FTL in known space. It should give them a chance to trade production rights, or design ideas.

>House Myra

Can we have somebody look into what their problem is? A House with close ties to the Republic could be incredibly useful in the future.

>Capturing House Veritas space would give Ber'helum a substantial foothold in South Reach that would be hard for any other House to take from them.

That seems like an Afghanistan-tier bad idea.

>2) Provided they're not wiped off the map these guys may have some salvage. Did you want London to start negotiations for salvage and repair work?

Maybe create a new company especially for this? Having it operate from Republic space should give us some anonymity, at least until the civil war is over.

>>569016
This seems like a decent idea. Alternatively, we could try to get multiple major Houses involved so that all of them start throwing money and equipment at Veritas to ensure they stay neutral.

>>567808
>The South Reach League grows weaker by the day but even years later it is far from dead.

They managed to secure some unclaimed territory at one point. How are things going for them there? Considering several local companies have gained lots of experience rebuilding and terraforming Rioja, are there any business opportunities to be had?

>>567921
>Knowing it was best for the Dominion if he failed you sold him out

To be fair, his plan seemed to be pretty... chaotic and just as likely to result in both sides crippled beyond repair. Personally, I wouldn't mind quietly supporting his bid against one of the more problematic remaining SRL elements. Or whatever he's planning. Although that has potential to backfire.

>>568196
>this week's thread is going to mostly review and Q&A.
>Q&A

Noice, way too much time spent on a plane last week allowed me to write down some questions and suggestions, although most of them are related to the situation after the battle last thread. I will post them once I can remember where I put them.

I'm still catching up to the current thread from homefront 3, just wanted to say I'm glad you're still going.

>>569960
>Personally, I wouldn't mind quietly supporting his bid against one of the more problematic remaining SRL elements.
Remind me, why do we support/help this guy again...?

>>570015
We saved him because he was a talented guy that helped us with our initial Alliance Mixed Wing stuff, and once we got him to take the threat of the Neeran seriously (and set up a boxing ring on the side), he was very helpful in getting his crews to stop fighting.

It seemed a waste to throw away a talented Factions Alliance commander.

>>568926
1C
1B

I know everyone got excited when we managed to turn these guys into a Dominion House, but lets remember that we were trying to avoid bleeding out the anti-warlords fleets. Unless Veritas has made some MAJOR changes, they are still an internally balkanized regional power that was literally a terrorist organization that helped bring the warlords to power in their relay.

While they may be a powerful ally for Ber'Helum, they could also highly damage B'H's ability to bring together a ruling mandate later on. Sort of like if they suddenly became best buddies with that slave-holding House with no friends.

We don't want to damage BH by encouraging a vietnam/afghanistan, or to encourage them into a potentially damaging alliance, either.

that said, I like the way this guy here thinks >>569960
>Can we have somebody look into what their problem is?

This may be that one warlord's House that had Veritas kill a bunch of her people?

If so, perhaps we could obtain a superior ally for ourselves or BH if Myra could be turned away from Nasidium?

(Personally, I'd be willing to sacrifice Veritas for that, since I have always argued they're a shitty regional power only by virtue of needing to be genocided to quell them.)

>>570027
Fuck that. I don't want Ber'helum getting stuck in space Afghanistan. That being said, the stabilization and integration of Veritas is something associated with us so we have a vested interest in promoting its success since the will reflect well on us.

I'd rather we turn it into space Ireland than space Syria.

>>568926
1B

2A

I feel like I didn't vote already, but I'll have to check after posting.

>>570040
Nope we good.

>>568926
Also

> We could put them in contact with the aliens that don't use FTL. Veritas probably uses the most advanced large scale spaceships without FTL in known space. It should give them a chance to trade production rights, or design ideas.

I want to support this.

>>570015
He's a very competent commander, can keep SRL forces in line, and supports the alliance. He seemed worth keeping around.

>>570027
>they are still an internally balkanized regional power

I don't remember them having trouble with internal cohesion but the threads have been long ago.

An update on their general situation from TSTG would be nice.

>We don't want to damage BH by encouraging a vietnam/afghanistan, or to encourage them into a potentially damaging alliance, either.

One of the old threads compared them to medieval Switzerland (inaccessible territory, easy to defend, don't see eye to eye with their neighbors when it comes to nobles), and I think we should deal with them like the (smarter) major powers did back then.

Hire their military as mercenaries if needed, allow trade to happen, exile your vocal anti-feudalist dissidents there, keep diplomatic relations distant but friendly, and otherwise let them do their thing. Don't try to drag them into an alliance, it will only cause problems in the future. Good fences, good neighbors.

Twitter deleted my account because I didn't want to give them my phone number. Well, okay. Back to checking stuff on there the inefficient way.

>>568912
The converter isn't really the best for that sort of thing. It can nullify the effects of many camo systems, for the user at least, and might be able to mess with communications or soak off energy weapons fire. (This last one is not recomended!)

The Recon armor would be much better if you were trying to sneak up on people or generally be spooky.
Sonia does this occasionally to keep security on their toes, but hasn't since the attack on the capital.

>>568985
>What were the results of the survey from last time by the way?
These three for sure.
-Industry / Station modules
-New Holographic Camo systems
-IOU for future Krath armor

Followed possibly by these three
-New Holographic Camo systems
-Funding
-Krath E-beams


>>569164
It would be a little more complicated than that.

>>569221
>PDPA
If you mean the lightning gun anyone inside that cloud would probably explode.
>>569262
Not as much as you might think

>>570063
How is Eshik Medel doing? Have we started plans for helping him/her retake his house?

>>570063
>New Holographic Camo systems
You've listed that one twice.

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>>569318
>I am pretty sure there's bad side effects that we were meant to get a report on but never did.
>>569467
>It has been a while since we last heard from Cpt Saputo or any of the other potential immortals we know

Fortunately you recruited Rob Ecord to your forces after you became a Baron. He brought with him a small team of people who survived that particular mission.

Known side effects include sterility, but you already knew that ahead of time. There are often visible signs of premature aging. Not as much as someone becoming an Ori Prior in SG1, but it would be noticed by most people.

Rob informs you that he often finds himself feeling more tired than normal, like things are not quite right with him. Still he's able to push through it and its not as bad as being genuinely fatigued.
He also quietly informs you that he was able to shrug off a stun pistol shot without any armor at one point.
"My entire body hurt like hell but let me tell you I was the exact opposite of tired for a few minutes. I think I was able to fight the hardest I ever had in my entire life."

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So I've been thinking. when we got the AM Medium I was under the impression we would be using it against the fortress. This did not happen and instead we used to great effect against the enemy fleet.

But I was like I said thinking. Would it be possible to direct the force of the Am explosion or the like into a more focused area instead of just it going every where it can. Pic related.

>>570091
It is probably a good idea to set up a black site to research this stuff.

Not only in terms of side effect mitigation, but serum replication as well.

Somewhere on the unpopulated side of Rioja will work.

>>570091
That sounds spooky.

Almost seems like it's bloodstream nanites designed to soak up any energy directed at the body.

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>>570063
>>570075
Right, thanks ...and I almost did it again.
The second one should be Krath special assistance (Spec ops missions, Covert Fleet relocation)

>>569366
>Any news from our R&D people?
The advanced cloaking shield project is still taking up resources but has mostly switched to production. Abandoning the secret base is being discussed as there are concerns intelligence agencies from other Houses or Factions are by now trying to locate it.

Winifred still has a copy of the original scan data but the ones used by the R&D team have now been destroyed to prevent the Rovinar from conclusively proving you screwed them over.

Main House R&D are currently working on reverse engineering the various examples of Aries stealth coatings. With them they hope to make the Nocturn class even harder to detect, especially when its cloak is down for one reason or another.

Plenty of research assets remain locked into the Assault Corvette development program. More have been set aside recently to help with drone starfighters.

>>569897
I touched on it briefly but didn't go into detail.
>RSS has been able to grow into a powerhouse of a company.

>>569960
>House Myra
>Can we have somebody look into what their problem is?
Well they're a bunch of pointy eared bastards for starters.
If you mean between them and Veritas then here.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/48938041/#p48943218

>[SRL] managed to secure some unclaimed territory at one point. How are things going for them there?
Things are quiet. Probably a bit too quiet. The Guild are also not happy people have gone there. Its not the best place to start up new businesses at the moment.

As for Terraforming the Harmen family are still stretched to their limits. They need several years before going looking for more projects. The ones near the outskirts of Veritas space are largely on hold because of the civil war being too dangerous.

>create a new salvage company based out of Republic space
As you already have a substantial share in an infrastructure construction company based out of the Republic it should be possible for them to spin off a subsidiary.

Do so? This would of course only be done if you support salvaging there.

>>570159
>Do so? This would of course only be done if you support salvaging there.
I don't really see the point.

>>570159
Sure. Always happy to decentralize our legal responsibility.

>>570159
>The second one should be Krath special assistance (Spec ops missions, Covert Fleet relocation)

Awww, people didn't want R&D assistance?

>cloaking shield

How does the one the enemy has been able to produce compare to the ones we have? Is it comparable to our baseline version?

>Its not the best place to start up new businesses at the moment.

Didn't our company gain the ability to construct rugged, cheaply produced station modules? We could offer to set up and run a station as part of our payment for Foss' fleet to his boss.

>As for Terraforming the Harmen family are still stretched to their limits.

We still have a company with lots of experience reconstructing and building structures in hostile environments. Didn't Erid have a sizable arcology production industry? Maybe our SRL mercs would be interested in several of these?

>Well they're a bunch of pointy eared bastards for starters.

Maybe we can work together with the Republic to make them get along a bit better with the rest of the relay? They might be willing to listen now that Ber'helum has kicked them enough for them to consider declaring neutrality.

>>570015
>Remind me, why do we support/help this guy again...?
Is it his magnificent beard?

He was one of the first officers from the South Reach League you ever worked with in a positive cooperative manner. Also this:
>>570027

>Unless Veritas has made some MAJOR changes, they are still an internally balkanized regional power that was literally a terrorist organization that helped bring the warlords to power in their relay.
Their government was still in its infancy and has had time to mature considerably. There are still problems but its moving towards becoming a more genuinely democratic state.

Some of their former government leaders returned to the military and have threatened to sack the upper assembly if they don't get their shit together. So far the threat has been taken seriously.

>space Afghanistan
Or ADVENT controlled Earth. The analogy would probably become an accurate one if invaded.

>medieval Switzerland
That works too.

>>569960
>>570044
>We could put them in contact with the aliens that don't use FTL.
May be possible after normal trade is restored.

>>570049
>Hire their military as mercenaries if needed, allow trade to happen,
Could work.
>exile your vocal anti-feudalist dissidents there
Now that's an interesting idea. Count Jerik was probably worried about the remifications of sending such people to Surakeh where they still might be a problem. Even Winifred can only do so much to keep people like that from causing trouble.

>Twitter deleted my account because I didn't want to give them my phone number.
I've never given them mine.
[worrying intensifies]

Quick questions here -

We've seen the development of many new and exciting things like our own Plasma weapons, Anti-torp armor, AM weapons and afterburners and now cloaks.

Have there been any significant improvements to shield technology? Is it expensive and slow research like phase weapons?

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>>570070
>How is Eshik Medel doing? Have we started plans for helping him/her retake his house?
Early planning is starting to get into place. Ber'helum intel is also getting a team together to assist.

On that front, Medel is probably going to want to borrow one of your Nocturn class ships once the local situation calms down.

>>570113
>I was under the impression we would be using it against the fortress.
Me too.

>direct the force of the Am explosion
That's a good question. I really don't know enough about antimatter. Fusion explosions are easy, you can redirect most of their energy with magnetic bottles, or more fuel to soak off the rest of the released energy, converting more of it into plasma.

With large scale Matter–antimatter reactions I'm not sure if you'd be able to pull it off with a bomb. It would just be incredibly difficult to direct in that form. As a beam or exhaust jet I could see it working better.

>>570120
>It is probably a good idea to set up a black site to research this stuff.
You talk to Rob about this since he's understandably one of the few people you trust on this topic.

"About that. You know those Veckron Warheads we recovered and that some of them were traded to the Ruling House? Well not all of them were. Some were quietly hidden away in case we ever became a more powerful House and needed them. So that's an option."

>Somewhere on the unpopulated side of Rioja will work.
Once terraforming finishes there wont be too many such regions on the planet.
But that's what shadowy high security bases are for right?

>>570311
I'd rather our super black ops was conducted inside the no-fly zones. A space station that's a week at slower than light travel from anything remotely looking like jumpable subspace that's disguised as a rogue planetoid with all traffic being stealthed and stealth coated.

Where the nanite tech at
Are the FA bastardy still holding on to it?

>>570311
>On that front, Medel is probably going to want to borrow one of your Nocturn class ships once the local situation calms down.
Fine with me.

>>570239
They lock your account first, asking for a phone number to send a verification code to. A week or so after that they delete it. There should be enough time to do something about it if it happens and you want to keep your account.

>Finally find the file with the ideas... it's corrupted. The lines are in random order, and there's Chinese characters replacing some words. Wonderful.
>Random ideas, questions, and suggestions. Just dumping them here instead of hoping to remember the file during the next proper thread:

I would like to suggest we issue Power cell armor + holographic camouflage to various people instead of the standard issue vacuum suits. Several losses during the fight on the bridge of Avun's carrier could have been prevented if they had had better protection. Avun, Knight (Lieutenants?) and higher, commanders of important ships etc could probably use some additional protection.
Perhaps commission a limited series as a gift for the allied commanders during the recent campaign? Admiral Tama probably could use one as well.

Would the Ruling House be interested in turning their remaining low value planet in the Run into a free port?

Are any of the other Houses interested in establishing a free port in the region? Maybe there is a suitable planet available in territory that was considered off-limits before the guild started taking new scans?

How much do the various Houses owe Foss?

Would the ex-SRL merc in the other relay be willing to trade his newly captured super heavy cruiser for something more manageable in size? I would assume a heavy carrier with a wing of corvettes or several squads of attack cruisers or battleships should be suited to a wider variety of task, and make it easier to find work during less interesting times.

What does Helios think about the redesigned Deci in general? Is it a decent mass production battleship and escort now that it doesn't explode after every other penetrating hit?
Would the Dominion mass production carriers be able to repair them efficiently?

Anything we can do to improve the effectiveness of the light siege cannon?

Which of our ship types did will, which performed poorly?

We should meet the commanders of the Helios and Kharbos forces in DRH 1.

Could you explain why the three dukes are in so much trouble with their Houses? Losing large campaigns sucks but it tends to happen every now and then, why would they have to worry about excessive punishment?

The people in the Avoubic system really helped us out a lot in that last battle. We should see if we can do something nice for them.

Can we start building shield platforms, maybe even design a support ship around them?

We still have the design team of the Dusk AC. Did they get any ideas for upgrades after seeing the enemy's ships during this campaign? Could the ship be expanded into a battle cruiser? I think Sonia's House doesn't build any ships in that class yet.

>>570342
I know I'm still threads behind in regard to details, but Foss isn't SRL anymore? Did his boss that we worked with for the SRL investment/Dominion Houses stuff turn traitor?

Do we have a medal for 'Saved a shit ton of lives by killing a Veckron ship as it was charging'?
The Array crew all deserve that, and anyone else that got hits in on that launcher.

>>570342
>I think Sonia's House doesn't build any ships in that class yet.
Yeah we do. We build the Fast Battleship and the Gunginir type.
>What does Helios think about the redesigned Deci in general? Is it a decent mass production battleship and escort now that it doesn't explode after every other penetrating hit
Still of the opinion that its a terrible design, and light siege cannons are better used on fortifications like our moonbase
>Would the Ruling House be interested in turning their remaining low value planet in the Run into a free port?
I'd prefer to acquire it in horse trading at some point.
>Anything we can do to improve the effectiveness of the light siege cannon?
Create a tribarrel mount and put it on our moonbase.

>>570193
>>cloaking shield
>How does the one the enemy has been able to produce compare to the ones we have? Is it comparable to our baseline version?

The cloaking shields used by Dominion Frigates and Aries ships in the attack on the Relay were slightly better than those used aboard your Fast Battleships. Fortunately Kim's ships have modified engines to make them harder to detect.

The old style Rovinar cloaks used by your two Silent Hunters are a step above those for the most part. Some of the newer Aries cloaks may be this good. Newer model battleship grade cloaks your House is hoping to field soon would be at about this level.

The advanced cloak used aboard your Nocturn class ships are a couple steps above all of them.

>Didn't our company gain the ability to construct rugged, cheaply produced station modules?
Yes. You can only do that in South Reach atm.
>We could offer to set up and run a station as part of our payment for Foss' fleet to his boss.
Right now they owe you for the upgrades to the Sam Bellamy, not the other way around.

Billy the Kid is the Warlord who has sent forces out to investigate that other area and you don't have any deals with them.

>Didn't Erid have a sizable arcology production industry?
Yes. They're investing in Rioja whenever its not cut off from trade. They may expand trade to South Reach once those routes are open again.

>>570282
>Have there been any significant improvements to shield technology? Is it expensive and slow research like phase weapons?
Shields have increased in power by more than 50% since the start of the war. Most designs are now built with more backup shielding than they were before and more power systems are set aside to make sure they can recover more quickly.

Phase and pulse weaponry is now 10% stronger while pulse weapons have gained 10% effective range.

>>570334
You have to go talk to them about it. You've been told to take one of your Excalibur class battlecruisers to a particular set of coordinates. Since its a Terran ship design it would raise less suspicion in a Terran controlled relay. You're to use an Alliance IFF code.

>>570311
>That's a good question.
I don't suppose we could make use of stasis tech or something like it to help direct the blast in the direction we want it to go?

Like some sort of advanced Torpedo/Cannon hybrid in that it shoots out of the ship like a regular torpedo and when it reaches it's designated point it fires off it's AM charge into the cone shape or the like and then becomes just a small useless piece of metal that may or may not have disintegrated in the process.

Unless ofcourse it is intercepted along the way in which case it's just your regular old boom.

But like you I am not that well versed in Anti-Matter science. Then again you are the QM and get to say if something works or not.

>It is probably a good idea to set up a black site to research this stuff.
I agree with this. It would be good R&D if only to research the Serum and it's none immortal functions mentioned like the resistance to energy weapons.

>>570360
Pretty sure everything other than the Veckron immunity was just a side effect.

>>570348
>but Foss isn't SRL anymore

Meant the Berwari guy, couldn't remember his name while writing that list.

>Still of the opinion that its a terrible design, and light siege cannons are better used on fortifications like our moonbase

The redesigned hull in general, not the siege variant.

>>570354
You've been told to take one of your Excalibur class battlecruisers to a particular set of coordinates.

Or we surround the FA base with our vastly superior fleet and tell them to hand over what is ours or the whole FA is going to feel the pain once we're done with this civil war.

Fuck those guys.

>>570376
No. Bad anon

>>570376
holy shit are you insane?

>>570385
>>570389
They are interfering in inter Faction politics which they are not suppose to.

They have stolen from one Faction which they are not suppose to.

They have destroyed property from one Faction which they are not suppose to.

This is a Dominion matter and they are butting in where they do not belong. This is not mentioning how they do not trust us with things which we own a decide to take it from us.

>>570354
>You have to go talk to them about it. You've been told to take one of your Excalibur class battlecruisers to a particular set of coordinates.
BASTARDS


How has the rifle business been doing? Can we make a second version of the iconic repulse rifle that's even more ridiculous like 200% better in every aspect (except price).

>>570328
You'll probably want to wait until the Navigators have finished checking what damage was done to subspace everywhere as a result of this campaign.

>>570342
>I would like to suggest we issue Power cell armor + holographic camouflage to various people instead of the standard issue vacuum suits.
Your House developed a special style of light power cell armor designed to mount holographic camo systems. This is issued to House Intel's Commando forces. You've upgraded a few of these teams into Recon Power Armor.
Properly working holographic camo systems for use by sneaking teams are difficult to get hold of. Most of the ones you had back in the day had been stolen by pirates then sold in their black markets.
Increased efforts will be made to get hold of more.

>Several losses during the fight on the bridge of Avun's carrier could have been prevented if they had had better protection. Avun, Knight (Lieutenants?) and higher, commanders of important ships etc could probably use some additional protection.
As Avun was on the enemy's side at the time before joining you Commando armor was unavailable. Avun does indeed have a suit of power Cell armor, but wearing it aboard the bridge of her ship while already under suspicion would not have been possible.

>Perhaps commission a limited series as a gift for the allied commanders during the recent campaign? Admiral Tama probably could use one as well.
Could work.

>Would the Ruling House be interested in turning their remaining low value planet in the Run into a free port?
Probably not, as that would open up all sorts of problems. You do have some more pull with the RH now. You could ask them to step up training and development of the planet. Some of them were being screened for entry to Rioja.

>Are any of the other Houses interested in establishing a free port in the region? Maybe there is a suitable planet available in territory that was considered off-limits before the guild started taking new scans?
The other Houses in the Run Alliance do not want one inside the Run itself. Belu Fortress already used to act as one to a limited extent and it caused huge problems for security.

>How much do the various Houses owe Foss?
Not too much. The Mercs main debt remains with you. Fighting in the recent battle has allowed them to paid off a good chunk of their debt to you.

>Would the ex-SRL merc in the other relay be willing to trade his newly captured super heavy cruiser for something more manageable in size?
Probably not.
>Laughing Mercenaries.jpg

>I would assume a heavy carrier with a wing of corvettes or several squads of attack cruisers or battleships should be suited to a wider variety of task, and make it easier to find work during less interesting times.
The Ship Berwari took has scrap cannons. Unless you're planning to offer him one of the crippled Talos class Heavy Carriers I doubt he'd be willing to make such a trade.

>>570342
>What does Helios think about the redesigned Deci in general? Is it a decent mass production battleship and escort now that it doesn't explode after every other penetrating hit?
They don't care for it, primarily becasue its not a Dominion design.

>Would the Dominion mass production carriers be able to repair them efficiently?
Probably?

>Anything we can do to improve the effectiveness of the light siege cannon?
The light siege cannons on Avun's Talos are a bit more powerful. Techs can try to look over the designs to see if they can borrow elements.

More of these questions to be answered later.

>>570376
>Or we surround the FA base with our vastly superior fleet
You're going to take your fleet deep into Terran space, past a heavily armed blockade you guys encouraged the Terrans to create?

Have to step out for a bit. Will try to make a few more posts before work when I get back.

>>570403
The nightmare engine and associated scary bullshit are pretty obviously not of Dominion origin and the implications of nanite based weaponry are probably still above our paygrade. My only real interest in it is finding out who exactly wanted us dead so bad.

>>570434
What's Avun's long term plans now? I assume we're supposed to help her gain a job in our house, but how do things look on that front?

Also, since this is a Q&A session, lets talk about Noble Titles. Reworking the Dominion Noble titles to work better has been something we've talked about in the crazy Ideas page, but I have a revised proposal that I'd like to bring up.

Emperor
Archduke /Dauphin (head of Major house/Heir to Royal house. Prince is also acceptable, because there were independent nations ruled by princes historically called principalities.)
Taishōgun (temporary noble rank)
Duke
Landgrave (German rank above count)
Marquess/Margrave/Shogun (Specialty noble ranks)
Count
Burgrave
Earl
Altgrave
Viscount
Baron
Knight Commander
Knight Captain
Knight Lieutenant
Knight
This would give 10 mainline Noble titles in Baron or above, which should be enough even for the Dominion.

>>570438
>pretty obviously not of Dominion origin
It was mentioned that some parts of it weren't even of Faction or Neeran origin too, so we have no idea who we're dealing with.

I'm not gonna give up the Nanite dream just yet. Think of all the things we could make with them. Smaller reactors, higher quality ship structure like the Neeran nanoweave, etc

>>570474
It might dovetail nicely with Ecords energy absorbing abilities.

>>570438
Most of our ships in the beginning where not of Dominion origin, such as the K-types and the like. Does not mean we owned them. Same thing applies here. Point is they stole from us and broke away from the most important thing that makes up the entirety of their organization. The fact that they are suppose to remain out of the Factions politics and focus on threats outside of the Factions, such as the Neerans.

>>570434
>You're going to take your fleet deep into Terran space, past a heavily armed blockade you guys encouraged the Terrans to create?
I was under the assumption that the FA had taken the nanites to their base at the end of the Run.

>>570558
>threats outside of the factions

Like, for example, nanomachine nightmare fuel from outside of the factions.

>>570558
Even assuming they had stayed in a place we could reach and overpower them do you really think that attacking the factions alliance could end in any positive outcome? Hell this is such a bad idea I can't really imagine a situation where it would be warranted.

>>570573
Except we had already laid claim to it in every way you can and by the laws of the Dominion. They could have asked. They could have offered to buy it from us but they decided to steal it from us.

>>570585
Attack? No, attacking would be bad. Threatening and giving them a show of force however should solve most problems. The threat that we work to pull the Dominion out of the Alliance alltogether should certainly help in that regard.

>>570599
I can't even. You think the factions alliance wouldn't consider blackmailing them into giving something to us an attack on their organization?
Fuck we couldn't even make our own house withdraw from the FA much less all of Dominion and everyone knows this.

>>570554
>Solid state rifle constructed by nanites that's lighter and more efficient
yes please

>>570434
>More of these questions to be answered later.

Thank you.

>>570447
>Taishōgun

I'm not really sure about that one, all other titles are European in origin, so Taishogun kinda stands out.

>>570438
Maybe Aries managed to build their own AI somewhere?

>>570354
>You have to go talk to them about it.

Have our guards bring several shopping carts along when we arrive on the alliance ship/station and start putting random expensive items in our carts. "Ooooh, I think my sister wanted one of these." "Do you think this would look nice on a redwood desk?" "Can you detach that section?" "What do you mean you won't hand over your armor?"
not serious, ofc

>>570608
And them stealing from us, destroying our property and threatening everything and everyone round them with Veckrop torpedoes should they approach is okay then? And while I am unsure we could get the Dominion to withdraw we could cause plenty of damage to their standing with the Dominion and their credibility as a organization.

If this was another House we wouldn't take this kind of crap from them. At the very lest we should make sure they know we are not happy and we except some damn large compensation besides our stuff back

>>570699
Essentially yes. The reason we're not treating them like another house is that they command forces that dwarf the entire dominion and are the only thing preventing the Neeran Empire from simply steamrolling everyone.

Of course we're going to express our displeasure at them doing things without prior agreement with us but that's pretty much all we can do without damaging everyone including ourselves.

How many threads cover this nanite event? It seems I need to read up on it.

>>570716
Nanite attack:
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/46438779/

FA "secures" nanites:
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/48244399/#48248016

>>570713
Poking me head into this but technically aren't all the FA's forces made up of volunteers from the factions and them reciving all of their funding and R&D from them as well. It being a joint organization under the factions in order to better coordinate all the different forces of the faction in a more efficient way than if they all worked as separate units.

Kind of like space NATO except not that close of an alliance.

I agree with the general sentiment on the FA having stolen the nanites, it's an unforgivable betrayal ESPECIALLY since we invited them to Rioja on good faith, despite the fact they rendered no assistance during the attack.

Threatening them, however, is the wrong approach. We provided them the Neeran blueprint plate, the Wormhole blueprint, and the bio-reactor artifact.

If we want to threaten them effectively, demand the immediate return of all the artifacts to our possession, and subtly imply that any research on other artifacts in our possession will remain a solely Dominion effort.

I'm sure they'll be more cooperative when we with-hold the cooling artifact they need to amp up Republic plasma cannons, and then equip it to Dominion variants.

>>570713
That's bull and still does not make it right as the Alliance does not work on the principles of "Might makes right" as they are made by all the Factions working together. What they've show here is that they work together and do what they should do as long as it does not relate to the Dominion because apparently they now are allowed to police them and confiscate things from them. It would be like the UK walking into France and laying claim to their stores of nukes because they think it's too dangerous for them to have it. Completely bonkers.

>>570699
>>570770
>>570790
Magical.

>>570793
Did I get it wrong? It's just how I have come to understand the FA

>>570770
Voter ID's have been very enlightening about thing like when you post with your name on vs. Name off.

> Poking me hhead into it

You realize we can see you've been the one guy carrying this argument? I'm disappointed.

>>570803
Here's a hint. Check your Unique ID.

>>570808
I regret nothing. Anon is being unreasonable.

>>570815
You're the one advocating going against the combined might of everyone else while still being an extremely minor player.

>>570820
That's not how the FA works and you know it. Better to make our displeasure known than to roll over on our back.

>>570815
I just want to "poke my head in" to say that I don't support threatening the FA. We have more projects then we have R&D support for anyway, so I'm completely fine with setthing for losts of money/favors.

>>570832
Fine fine. I'll drop it.

I think we should actually talk to the alliance before we decide to do anything else.

Escalating this any further isn't in anybody's interest. I hope we'll go to the alliance coordinates, work out something sensible with them, and largely forget the incident ever happened. Maybe there's even some protocol buried in a top secret part of the alliance treaty for situations like this one.

We'll see.

>>570790
Poor analogy. More like if aliens had crashed a UFO in France, they'd called NATO for help, had a civil war, and got pissed when NATO took the UFO to prevent them from doing something terminally stupid with it. And even then not a great analogy.

We called in the FA as soon as we saw Neeran tech on the LST, you even voted for it. If we wanted to keep it for ourselves we should have kept it to ourselves. Throwing a fit about it now is just going to get us killed by Terran black ops.

What if the nanite attack was Versa trying to save herself and that's why we have to go to Terran space

Versa still best marriage candidate so far and potential Dominion Cyberknight

>>570862
I am still partial to Foss but that's just because I think him and Sonia are similar people.

>>570868
This we can agree on

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>>570862
>What if the nanite attack was Versa trying to save herself and that's why we have to go to Terran space

I doubt Versa would use four insane criminals who hate Sonia for something like that. Ricky the AI facility janitor redshirt could do the job just as well, and most likely without killing hundreds of civilians in the process.

>Which of our ship types did will, which performed poorly?
When operating in their intended role most of the existing designs did well enough. Plenty of mixed units found themselves in close quarters brawls and were out maneuvered at times.
The Dusk II did quite well since it was designed to handle itself better in close quarters than most attack cruisers, while still doing well at longer ranges.
Hard to pick out many that did exceptionally bad.

>We should meet the commanders of the Helios and Kharbos forces in DRH 1.
Meeting scheduled.
>Could you explain why the three dukes are in so much trouble with their Houses?
You may find out more about this later.

>The people in the Avoubic system really helped us out a lot in that last battle. We should see if we can do something nice for them.
Besides salvage contracts I'm open to ideas.
>Can we start building shield platforms, maybe even design a support ship around them?
You do have a few platform designs intended to carry the shield platform equipment. Only a few were built for Magdalena. Most of those were taken aboard your super heavies and brough to Avoubic for the battle.

Platforms construction in the Run will take some time to get operational again.

>We still have the design team of the Dusk AC. Did they get any ideas for upgrades after seeing the enemy's ships during this campaign?
They'll be getting the combat data in a few days and will look over additional options.
>Could the ship be expanded into a battle cruiser?
Probably not. It doesn't scale up particularly well.

>>570447
>What's Avun's long term plans now? I assume we're supposed to help her gain a job in our house, but how do things look on that front?
You do have a few planets in the Run, one of which was supposed to go to Saputo, but he was asked to become Baron of one of the homeworlds instead. That is one of the worlds Avun would have been after had House Sulos held onto the Run.

Count Jerik would of course need you to vouch for Avun before allowing it. The Count would also try to ensure there were enough people loyal to your House stationed on that world to hold it in case the Knight Commander decided to switch again. There would be a similar situation on the Heavy Carrier. People loyal to you or the House would need to make up a good portion of the crew, as would the Marines aboard.

>>570933
I'm willing to vouch for her.

>>570933
>Avun
I'm fine with vouching for her to be a Baron

>>570933
[x] Vouch

We should really deepen links between her planet and Rioja.

Training exercises between the two of us as much as possible.

>>570793
The double edged sword of /qst/.
Would it have been better or worse if they'd all been anonymous posts?

>>570447
>Burgrave
>Altgrave
Neat. Didn't even know about these.

Definitely thinking making the Archduke title the leaders of the Seven would be a good idea.

I will seriously consider this list after the civil war is over and reforms to Dominion Nobility can be enacted.

>>570662
>Taishōgun
>I'm not really sure about that one, all other titles are European in origin, so Taishogun kinda stands out.
That was one of my concerns as well back when it was first suggested

>>570558
>I was under the assumption that the FA had taken the nanites to their base at the end of the Run.
Oh, sorry. Figured you meant taking the fleet to the meeting point.
In that case there's nothing stopping you from doing that aside from the Alliance warnings and the unwillingness of your allies in the major Houses to follow you there.

>>570844
>I think we should actually talk to the alliance before we decide to do anything else.
That might be a good idea.

I should probably ask in the quest thread general if there's an easier way to do text formatting. Maybe I need to update 4chanx because currently I have to manually input formatting.

I need to get ready for work. Will hopefully be back around 9PM EST.

>>570933
Also speaking of loyalty we should probably be letting Vanderwal off the hook with a generous bonus and a polite recommendation to retire somewhere outside of House space sometime soon.

Heya TSTG. Was looking through the Wiki after reading the summery and generally trying to catch up on H&D and was wondering what kind of government the Rovinar Federated Assembly & Hune Republic. (The Republic info seems to be more on their race than governing system)

>>570933
Vouching for Avun as well.
>>570980
agreed.

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>>570933
How many Shallan medium cruisers does the Ber'helum commander want to order?

>Count Jerik would of course need you to vouch for Avun before allowing it.

I would like to ask her why she decided to switch sides. If she's explained it before, I must have missed it.

>Besides salvage contracts I'm open to ideas.

Provide some level 3 medical facilities to each of the large forts and stasis containers to the smaller ones?
Maybe open a small factory producing stasis devices here?

Hydroponic garden platforms to improve the local food situation?

Can't think of much else.

>>571006
>Sonia_contemplating_the_alliance.gif

>>571015
in b4 he shows up raising hell in srl alongside berwari a month later

>>571015
I'm against letting go of Vanderwal. He's been very useful and will continue to be if my gut is right.
Getting him to officially work on the RSS intel division as a trainer and special operative would be ideal.
This lets us or someone we trust to keep tabs on him while benefitting from his apparently massive amount of experience in black ops and counter intelligence.

>>571283
did you mad bastards actually secure Shallan medium production?!

>>571400
That, and more.

We were working on a MK.2 variant with upgraded engines, power, and shields. Also space for Medium Dominion plasma weapons.

>>570933
Speaking of ships. I was thinking we should work on an update to the Bombard Class as right now it's just a standard Frigate with everything replaced with a a LD.

I was thinking we make a similar hull for it as it has now that fits it a wee bit better and add two small cannons to it, either one on each side or one below and one above, for dealing with Corvette pilots so they wont laugh at them as they are right now. With just a bit more added mobility to it as well and it will make a very nice ship. Not that it isn't right now.

I am very agreeable with vouching for Avun. We do need more Barons in the house after all and I feel we can trust her.

>>571006
Not feeling it with the Taishogun at all and I did not know Burgrave and Altgrave where things until they where suggested. But the Grave titles should help flesh out the ranks if anything.

>>571400
We did even if I personally did not see much purpose with it what with our Level 3 yard already out producing them with ships that are slightly worse but much much cheaper and more updated than the Shallan Medium.

>>571400
Kinda. We updated the design in several areas where Dominion tech is more advanced, or where the Shallans were unable to implement various advances in factions tech because they were busy trying to hold the Neeran invasion back.

It's a smaller project as we only have a level 1 shipyard building them, and the first prototype finished production just in time for the invasion of DRH1.

During the invasion we decided to let Ber'helum take command of it because J-D couldn't afford to field it logistics-wise, and because it was the closest thing to a heavy cruiser Ber'helum's commander could get as a flagship in the relay after their relief fleet got bullied hard by the enemy.

>>571485
Fucking Sonia and her Gotta Go Fast.

I love it.

>>571375
Agreed. He has proven himself to be mighty useful!

>>571375
>>571584
I'd say we need to talk to him and asses his interest in helping us. If we'll force him into service for too long and he'll start to hate us... That's an easy way to get ourselves killed.

>>570734
holy fuck.

Those medical nanites keeping the attackers alive seem to defy the whole in-universe problem that Sonia has been running into with her wounds screwing up muscle memory. (mostly fluffed, but definitely mentioned once or twice) Did we get any improvements for our own medical nanite tech out of those?

On another note, were those attackers Marson Edict Crew/Clones?

>>571786
Well we didn't get time to research them really.

>>571786
>Marson Edict Crew/Clones?
The last one was confirmed to be him, and a few other unpleasant enemies we'd made over the years.

I have a feeling he'll show up again though.

It just occurred to me, the invading troops might have damaged our vineyards on Rioja.

Our first batch of fine wine might be destroyed!

>>572295
Unforgivable! Execute -Everyone-!

>>571477
>update to the Bombard Class as right now it's just a standard Frigate with everything replaced with a a LD.
A range boosted LD.

Certain upgrades will be difficult with the current hull but your engineers will look into it once repairs to the Run's logistics are farther along.

>>571485
The design you've built is still notably lacking in upgrades in some areas.

>>571786
>On another note, were those attackers Marson Edict Crew/Clones?
One of them was.

>>571882
>and a few other unpleasant enemies we'd made over the years.
"Madness as you know is like gravity; all it takes is a little push."
Especially when someone is committed to making it look like you ruined their lives. South Reach alone has no shortage of such people.

As time goes on less such people will be around to pose a threat to you, or be willing to act. I'm sure you'll still get the occasional nazi hunter equivalent decades later but that would be rare.

>>572594
>Certain upgrades will be difficult with the current hull but your engineers will look into it once repairs to the Run's logistics are farther along.
Which is why I was thinking we make a new hull for it which more properly fits it. Kind of like Bombard Class Mrk.2

>I'm sure you'll still get the occasional nazi hunter equivalent decades later but that would be rare.
Would it possibly have to do with certain warcrimes that may or may have involved a nuke on a Super Heavy Cruiser?

>>572594
>The design you've built is still notably lacking in upgrades in some areas.
What's it missing?

I remember we started the mk2 project with the intent to modernise it as much as possible. It would be a bit of a waste if we spent all that R&D dev time and didn't get them as close to new as possible.

Can we do the 'go to Terran space to pick up our shit' mission this thread?

>>572594
Are there any plans for counter-attacking Nasidium and Bonrah any time soon?

Can we also get some new info on whats happening out at the Neeran front and the Dominion?

>>572738
Figure we would take them out in DRH2 now before we turn around and attack them in the Centri Cluster.

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>>572627
>I remember we started the mk2 project with the intent to modernise it as much as possible.
I believe the complete redesign wouldn't be ready in time so the first ship built was closer to Shallan standard with whatever upgrades you could put on it.
Construction of the first Mk 2 has been interrupted by the invasion.

>>572632
I'll try to do so.

>>571283
>I would like to ask her why she decided to switch sides. If she's explained it before, I must have missed it.
The day after the battle of Avoubic you take a minute to sit down with the Knight Commander and talk. It's the first time you've seen them in many years and Avun looks worn out from the recent fighting. As you find out the loss of her command ship's first officer also weighs heavily on her.

"I lost a lot of good people to this crazy stupid plan."

"So... why did you do it?" you finally ask. "Everyone on your homeworld probably thinks you're a traitor and my boss is going to be reluctant to trust you."

Avun stands and walks towards one of the walls showing an external view from the ship's sensors.

"Fuck the House Sulos homeworlds. This!" She gestures to the stars of the DRH 1 Relay. "This place, is my home. I may not have been born here but it's where I spent most of my adult life. I fought and did everything I could to keep it and it still wasn't enough. Then my House sold it out from under me. I was ready to jump ship then, but they said they wanted me to keep an eye on Possat and wait for a chance to stab them in the back and take this space back from them.

I know, it's House politics, but what does that really say about them? That they were ready to destroy another House that had just paid for a whole swath of territory because it was more... convenient for them.

I hate House politics, I'm a soldier. So I stayed out here fighting pirate invasions until it got me captured. My House never bothered checking to see if there was a ransom on me, they just wrote me off as dead."

You quietly set out a bottle of the good stuff and a pair of glasses.

"You got me out of there. I gave you the reward my House didn't deserve, and got you aboard Forbearance. They weren't happy about that.

Of course by then they needed me more than ever. The wars against South Reach and the Neeran left them with a lot of dead Knights. I thought maybe I could give them another chance even though- well the rest didn't seem important right then. But then fucking Bonrah's bullshit. Why side with them? We'd aligned with Kharbos before they decided they wanted to be 'the good guys' again.

I saw the sort of shit Bonrah was pulling and realised our House was going to be doing the exact same thing themselves. That's when I decided to leave. I wanted to go home and your House is the best way to do that. I know your record and Winifred's. I paid attention to what happened on Surakeh. As long as people like you are running your House it'll be better than my old one."

Anything else you want to ask?

>>573006
Does she have anyone outside the relay she needs relocated?

>>573031
This sounds good.
>>573006
We should probably give her the basic run down on internal JD politics. Wouldn't do for her to get tripped up.

>>573006
Assure Avun that those that don't want to fight under us will be treated adequately and returned to Sulos space after the war is done.

Assure Avun that while she might be possibly demoted out of Knight Commander rank, we can try to get her posted to the next nearest or equivalent rank.

Ask if there is anything in our power to grant in the short term, and what her long term goals are and how we can help.

>>573089
Also its a good way to integrate JD crew into her ship if they were to replace crew that wish to remain loyal to Sulos

>>573072
>>573006
Worth also noting that going over the J-D Politics is also a way for us to remind ourselves, since that's what this thread is all about anyway.

>>573006
>I hate House politics, I'm a soldier.
"That's a very respectable position to take, Avun, one that I myself held, and still do in some ways. I want you to know you'll have my full support in any endeavours. Is there anything I can do for you personally?"

"Have you given any thought as to what you'll be doing with your granted land yet?"

>>573031
>Does she have anyone outside the relay she needs relocated?
Anyone House Sulos might concieveably threaten has been looked after.

>>573112
>Worth also noting that going over the J-D Politics is also a way for us to remind ourselves, since that's what this thread is all about anyway.

http://houseanddominion.wikia.com/wiki/House_Jerik-Dremine#The_Birth_of_Jerik-Dremine

The short version is that more than a century ago House Jerik and House Dremine found themselves in a losing war with several of their neighbours. Their solution was to merge the two Houses and combine their military strength. It didn't work as well as they'd hoped but saved them from being wiped out.

The Harmen family negotiated a peace treaty with the other Houses, granting J-D worlds which could be easily terraformed. As the Harmen family had terraforming technology they made a fortune off of this, becoming one of the most powerful in your House.

Many of the worlds in J-D territory were originally settled by independent Human colonists and House Jerik was a human led House. When the two Houses merged an unusual means of combined government was agreed upon.

The designated leader of the House (previously the Earl, now the Count) is supposed to be human.

Dremine Council
The Council are the remains of House Dremine and effectively act as advisors to the Count and usually help determine succession. Their job is generally to advance the cause of the Dro'all population within the House. The Count is normally someone descended from House Jerik and represents the human elements of the House. The Count can overrule the council but this is usually a bad idea. It does happen though.
Whether the council is more powerful than the Barons is debatable.

The Count has final say over who can become a Planetary Governor but has to play politics and allow some undesirables though to maintain support of the established nobility. The Count and the council generally have to agree when making someone a Baron, but as always there are exceptions.

As in most other Houses the Barons control the mobile fleet and military assets of the House. They're considered to be higher ranked than the Planetary Governors. This makes them a considerable threat to the both the Count and the Council.
If a Baron were to gain enough support from the nobility and the military it is conceivable that the Council might withdraw their support from the current head of the House and nominate this Baron as a new one.

The rest of the Dominion considers J-D's way of doing things to be a bit screwed up.

>>573328
>The rest of the Dominion considers J-D's way of doing things to be a bit screwed up.

I didn't know the rest of the Dominion could collectively win understatement of the year...

>>573328
>The rest of the Dominion considers J-D's way of doing things to be a bit screwed up.
What kind of structure do most other Houses have?

Surely a popular enough Baron in another House could rally support and overthrow the head of that House... Or would they be more likely to just declare independence and form their own House?

>>573328
From what I recall, the Council's power has been waning because it has had a lot of conservatives, and the conservative faction of our house has been had the crap kicked out of it by the New Bloods. My understanding of the current house factions goes like this:
New Bloods: Favors reformist social policy such as adding new species to the House Nobility. Largely composed of recently elevated Knights and Barons. Leaders: Sonja, Winfred.
Moderates: Allows for limited social change, and focuses on Keeping Current Allies happy, and expanding the House's power. Leaders Count Jerik, Baron Archivald.
Conservatives: Want the traditional power structure to change as little as possible, as they were in charge. Leaders: Surkarah's ex governor, a few people in Prison/shallow graves.

>>573328
So what happened with the fortress? Is it cleared out and ready for use?

Do we know if the three dukes are still in-system? If so, I feel putting a kill team on them might be the most productive thing. There's also the one who teleported out. We should be putting an insane bounty on him.

They're critical to the greater war effort, keeping Bonrahs allies together.

>>573337
Your House is reluctant to change things right now as doing so would remove checks and balances that keep both the Earl and Council from getting out of control and making a mess of things. It's worked so far because J-D was such a small House for so long.

In other Houses the leader of the House is kept in check directly by their Barons and Planetary Governors like in a feudal society.

The main Political groups in your House are currently in a state of flux. After the Warlords campaign and rapid expansion of the military to fight the Neeran the old guard found itself at odds with the new nobility.
People like you and Baron Winifred were seen to be a serious threat to the status quo after agreements were made to maintain Surakeh as a democracy. Having the planet Tourta as a free port also wasn't the best received by some though House Intelligence thoroughly supported it.

For many years there were legitimate concerns that if allowed to come to power you would institute additional democratic reforms on worlds such as Rioja. If this were to spread to the Homeworlds like Dreminth or Loran it could severely disrupt the entire House.

Elements of the old guard are believed to be behind planting evidence that led to Sonia's arrest. Things escalated and when there was an opportunity to remove both the Earl and the Council from power during their evacuation from Dreminth parts of the old guard decided to act. Their Coup failed as the leader off the home fleet, Baron Archivald, had never fully supported many of their planned hardline policies.

Had they succeeded there likely would have been an all out attack on Sonia's property in order to prevent her from fleeing and joining Winifred's fleet.

As it is most of their concerns had little basis in fact. Rioja follows many standards of Dominion law with only minor alterations to allow election of certain local officials. The position of Governor remains one appointed by the Count with no plans to change it. Even despite annoying Terran refugees wanting more voter control over the government.

>>573353
>Or would they be more likely to just declare independence and form their own House?

>>573368
More or less. That description of the new bloods is what the conservatives see many of the younger Knights as, even if they're not. Really most are fine with only the most minimal of reforms and would be considered moderates. It's the extremists that tend to stand out more. Given the way you've decided to handle Rioja it would put Sonia more solidly into the moderate camp, though still leaning towards new bloods.

The remaining old guard / conservatives in your own House probably fear democracy more than allowing more species into the nobility at this point.

Alright, first thing in the morning we're going to get some stuff done with re-securing the Smuggler's Run and then hopefully get on to talking to the Alliance.

>>573006
>As you find out the loss of her command ship's first officer also weighs heavily on her.

Can Eldal help? Their medical technology must be far ahead of the Dominion's.

>>573420
I think they way things are right now is okay. WIth its rapid expansion, and territories in 3 different galaxies, J-D currently needs political stability more than anything.

>>573828
You help people work through grief, you don't drug that shit away, or mind wipe the person.

And for some reason I think an alien counselor would be a poor choice.

Instead we should ask if there's anything she would like us to do for him, like rename her ship, or to do for any family he left behind. Not like we aren't in a similar position of command although we've been lucky not to lose anyone close to us.

And make a note for house intelligence that she feels that way and could use some support.

>>574178
We still have the corpse. Maybe the race with the most advanced bio tech can fix the him.

>>573828
>>574207

>thinking anyone can fix a railgun slug to the head
If Avun has the data needed, he could be cloned, but it sounded like his brain is both scrambled and scattered across the bridge (and associated ceiling).

>>574178
>inform House Intelligence that someone we'd like to bring into the House has an emotional vulnerability.
Considering how Sonia has generally been private about her own psych evals, I feel like she wouldn't turn over that sort of information to the House. Who knows what sort of shit they'll pull with it?

>>573006

I think something important to ask may be "what do you want to do now?"

Avun says they hate House Politics, but they'll have to play politics if they want to become a Baron of a world in the run. Are they willing to take up such a position?

We can't be soldiers forever.

>>573463
>Given the way you've decided to handle Rioja it would put Sonia more solidly into the moderate camp, though still leaning towards new bloods.
Where do our friends (Mike, Alex, etc) sit politically?

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>>574237
>Avun says they hate House Politics, but they'll have to play politics if they want to become a Baron of a world in the run. Are they willing to take up such a position?

"We can't be soldiers forever." you point out.
"I'm old enough to know that Reynard. I hate politics, that doesn't mean I'm bad at it. I generally have a pretty good idea if something I'm bout to do has serious political implications.
Besides I'm perfectly fine with your Count assigning a few political advisors if that's what it takes."

"So what do you want to do now?"
"Clean up this mess and prove that I'm willing to do it. We have however many hundred thousand enemy troops stuck on planets across the Relay right now. Some will have fled with the retreating fleets or are working on securing transport. Others will try to hold ground for as long as they can, buy time for their allies and inflict losses to our infantry we may have a harder time replacing.

Their Houses have billions of ground troops to draw on, your House may have millions."

In the Run you know you have less than that. Rioja's army is still solidly below a million. Not counting PDF that is. There are still more troops drawn from the other J-D worlds in the relay.

Skirmishing elements have begun to sweep the Run, but there are still pockets in most sectors that they haven't confirmed clear of enemy activity. Many facilities and colonies are still held by enemy troops.

Rioja is partially occupied with the enemy holding many key industrial areas. The Governor and the PDF have launched an offensive to retake Rioja city but they'll need your army to secure the rest of the planet.

Your allies, especially House Kadnil, have a much harder fight ahead of them as Nasidum troops were able to occupy most of their planets. Your HAG's would be quite helpful on these planets where they face an uphill battle.

Some ground troops have already surrendered in places, mostly outposts that you'll need to sweep and ensure they're brought to POW camps.

Did you want to focus your Army on retaking Rioja first, helping your more hard pressed allies, or sweeping up surrendered troops?

[ ] Secure Rioja
[ ] Help allies
[ ] Sweep surrendered troops

>>573463
I'd argue what defines the New Blood is their support for new nobility, especially those that come from backgrounds that don't prepare them for their new role. They run a support structure for lower class knights that provides social and finicial advice. And protection from the Old Guard, which they consider a bunch of backstabbing snakes.

>>574299
>[ ] Secure Rioja
We should be able to give material support to our allies in the run in the form of orbital bombardment and HAGs but most of our ground forces are needed to take back Rioja.

>>574299
>[ ] Secure Rioja
Let some of the minor allies that don't have other commitments sweep up the surrendered troops

>>574299
Rioja can hold on it's own for the moment. They've done it so far and I have faith in their abilities. Our allies seem to be in far greater need than Rioja is of our support.

[ ] Help allies

>>574299
[x] Sweep surrendered troops

If allowed to linger, they'll drain our resources in the long run.

Take them out, then concentrate against enemy strongpoints.

Apparently I missed putting up a post this morning.

>>573828
>>574207
The only thing that can be done for the first officer medically would be to clone them.

>>574178
>Instead we should ask if there's anything she would like us to do for him, like rename her ship, or to do for any family he left behind.
"He had a letter prepared basically disowning his family in order to sever ties. Partially for their own protection. I'm thinking it might be better to send a different one saying that he was killed in battle."

>>574305
>>574309
You'll take the army and as much of the House fleet that's mobile to Rioja.

>>574310
>>574312
Did you want Kim to help with either of these? Kim's Battleships can carry enough troops to help with the sweep and should have enough point defense left to provide some bombardment support.

>>574299
[X] Help allies

>>574324
Sure.

>>574324
Kim can help our allies.

>>574324
I would say have Kim help out our allies with Bombardment and point defense support.

>>574299
>[x] Secure Rioja

Any comment about this TSTG?>>572738

>>574339
>>572738
>Are there any plans for counter-attacking Nasidium and Bonrah any time soon?
Some of your allied forces have already launched to assist in the DRH 2 Relay. It was decided your own fleet would focus on securing DRH 1.

>Can we also get some new info on whats happening out at the Neeran front and the Dominion?
The Neeran are continuing to launch sneak attacks on colonies using their upgraded cloaking systems. Many of the Relays closer to the front have suffered small attacks which usually only last long enough to cripple a world's ability to support the war effort before withdrawing.

It isn't as bad in Shallan space. It looks like they're intentionally targeting the other Factions.

As a result remaining worlds near the front lines are becoming increasingly fortified with demand for shield and defense platforms through the roof.

http://houseanddominion.wikia.com/wiki/Orbital_Defense_Platform
The remaining hulls of crippled Neeran Super Heavies are increasingly being moved to surviving worlds for use as Rampart defense platforms.
Severl planetary governments have placed orders for Bastion class platforms as well. With their now slightly improved industrial base the SRL is working on outfitting a pair of their Super Heavies as construction ships to build these.

In the Dominon Helios has launched a full scale offensive against House Bonrah on all fronts. Bonrha hasn't been taken completely by surprise but in the few days since the start of the offensive they've been unable to mount a suitable defense.
Civilian experts are estimating that Helios will only be able to maintain this level of attack for a month but that it really depends on Bonrah's ability to adapt to the new situation.

>>574299
Allies.

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You arrive at Rioja to find the orbital stations a mess. Its clear they took some damage during their capture and a bit more as enemy ships have departed. A pair of corvettes that must have been trying to finish last minute repairs detach from one platform and make a run for it. A few of your ships pursue.

The defenses of the planet's small moon look like they were only partially repaired. A few small missile batteries and LD plasma cannons on the South pole open fire on your fleet. Heavy phase cannon turrets from both hemispheres also open up at maximum range. The crews of your Bombard Frigates return fire but it looks like some of the moon's planetary shields are operational.

Did you want to bring in Forbearance and use your superior firepower to batter down the shields? Or would you prefer to position your fleet on the far side or Rioja while special forces and cloaked ships try to infiltrate the base?

[ ] Superior firepower doctrine
[ ] Move to other side of planet
[ ] Other

>>574351
>[x] Superior firepower doctrine

>>574351
>[ ] Move to other side of planet
Land enough specialists to take control of the moonbase and continue on to the planet using it as a shield against the moonbase if it can still reach.

>>574351
Move to other side of the planet

Arnt those supers maintenance heavy? They've been used nonstop for the past little bit wouldn't want anything to break down.

But if they don't require the maintenance time of a German super tank then by all means bring them in to batter down those shields and rotate them to deal with other hard targets

>>574351
>[ ] Move to other side of planet

>>574351
> [ ] Superior firepower doctrine

Honestly I feel this should be how we operate in general.

Try to keep troops together and force quick victories on planets. Offer to allow surrendered troops to go fight the Neeran, just fucking dump all our problems on the FA.

>>574357
>Arnt those supers maintenance heavy?
They have their own parts fabrication for certain things, plus repair Scarabs for minor hull repairs. Their large crews make it easier to look after more minor fixes. Damage to weapons and especially their engines would require a lot more support. Fortunately you have smaller repair ships and some hidden supply stockpiles to keep them in action. Right now they mainly need to worry about fuel.

After everything is over it would probably be a good idea to give the shield gens and siege weapons a quick overhaul to be sure they're holding up under heavy use.

The Sam Bellamy took some hits that will need work from a major shipyard to fully repair but they're used to operating with that kind of damage for long periods of time.

>>574373
>will need work from a major shipyard
Did we ever get the rotating maintenance ring idea developed? It was meant to be a smaller alternative for Supers to use instead of having to bring massive shipyards. It was a scaffolding that anchored in place and the ring moved around the super to slowly work on it sections at a time.

>>574351
>[x] Superior firepower doctrine

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>>574357
>But if they don't require the maintenance time of a German super tank then by all means bring them in to batter down those shields
So it looks like Superior firepower doctrine?

Forbearance jumps in outside the gravity well and turns its siege weapons on the small moon. The Deci class ships add what fire they can with their light siege guns as does Avun's Heavy Carrier.

After a minute of fire your fleet launches a torpedo barrage, timed to overwhelm the weakening shield. When the defenses go down you give the order for the siege weapons to cease fire rather than risk damaging the underground production facilities. Mike and several other afterburner equipped units micro jump to the edge of the moon's gravity well then drive for the surface before the shields can come back online.

"LST's are away." reports Mike shortly after.

"Weapons on the north pole have ceased fire."
"Northern defenses are signaling their surrender."

There isn't much there for them to surrender. The previous base commander took out an enemy medium cruiser just above the surface when Nasidum invaded. As a result of the following explosion much of the surface weaponry was destroyed. The occupation force didn't have much time for repairs.

Within an hour Marines have stormed the moon's southern defensive emplacements and secured the missile and plasma weapons. The Phase cannons take a bit longer but by then you're begun operations to secure the stations in lower orbit.

Both of the civilian platforms offer little resistance. There are still some refugees and civilian administration personnel aboard as well as the occasional Nasidum or Xygen engineering team that was left behind.

Maybourne reads off the latest reports.
"It looks like the PDF has been stopped outside of Rioja city. Mons Abyla base reports that enemy aircraft are trying to attack their docking bays and are forcing them to keep the mountain sealed."

General Rna is preparing a planetary assault. Did you want to leave the planning to them or did you have a preference to what areas to secure first? The main space ports are located at Strymon or Rioja city and will be needed to supply the full army if the invasion lasts more than 12 hours. While Mons Abyla can act as a space port with capacity for full fleets it has poor connections to the cities to supply a large army.
Then again the invasion may not take long.

1A) Leave it up to the General
1B) Secure Rioja City, it has the larger space port
1C) Secure Strymon, it has war factories
1D) Secure Mons Abyla
1E) Do all the things. We have reserves

2) Liberation of the planet would be a great propaganda opportunity. Do you want to pull a MacArthur-esq "I have returned" to increase your popularity? Or would your rather your PR people help the general with that to increase army recruitment?

2A) A Viscount can never have too much popularity
2B) A popular General can help the Army

>>574443
>1A) Leave it up to the General
>C) Joint announcement. MacArthur was an ass.

>>574443
1a
2b

>>574443
>1A) Leave it up to the General
>2B) A popular General can help the Army

Can we take our mech down too?

>>574479
>>574443
ooh seconded.

>>574479
I'd rather run around in stealth armor.

>>574516
That's fine for taking out tactical objectives like a shield generator on a ship but this is an invading force of many units and we need firepower more than anything.

>>574526
Could we use our stealth armor to capture the head of house Me'vac when Medel begins his campaign to retake his homelands?

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>>574414
There was talk of doing this with the existing fleet support stations. One of them has been destroyed and another will need its vital equipment put back to get it operational. It could be used to test this method before developing a smaller more mobile version.

It will be at least a month until such tests could start in this Relay. RSS could open negotiations with some of the Houses in South Reach to see if they could get a contract to start work on a test platform there.

Would this be ok?

>>574457
>Joint announcement.
Harder to pull off.

>MacArthur was an ass.
Yes, and?
Such a speech can still an effective political tool regardless of who gives it.

>>574479
>>574508
>>574516
>>574526
So would you guys like to take your Gunship down? And if so where?

>>574559
Get the ball rolling on the super repair yard.
Gunship deployment will be up to the General since they're in charge.

Generan Rna orders the army to split into two groups. The largest will land south of Rioja city while the remainder will go after tye Strymon City spaceport, approaching from the west.

Starfighters that are less suited to atmospheric flight are ordered to assist Mons Abyla as the main docking bays are in the much thinner upper atmosphere.

"General, I'm interested in taking my Gunship down. Is there anywhere I could provide assistance to the troops?"

"Understood Viscount. Let my people assess the situation and I'll see what I can do."

Within a minute of the Assault transports landing the army has already forced an armored spearhead and make for the spaceports at top speed. Everything seems to be under control.

A few minutes later the General calls you back.

"Viscount, the RSRIU is reporting that the second assault transport that attacked the mountain base earlier this week may still be in the area. If its there I'm not sure our starfighters would be able to handle it with non-nuclear munitions."

The air is quite thin at that altitude and it is your planet if you wanted to make an exception and use phase cannons.

[ ] Take your Gunship to investigate
[ ] Send HAGs instead
[ ] Gunship plus HAG escort

>>574640
Let s investigate with our gunship.

>>574640
>[ ] Gunship plus HAG escort

>>574640
Oh right I forgot Baron Dante sent a few extra mass production gunships that have the swap-able armor. You could also take a couple of them as escort.

>>574640
>>574685

[x] Gunship + HAG & MP Gunship Escort

Potential combat data on all of them vs whatever may be encountered

Sorry, doing some cooking and it took a bit longer than planned.

Writing.

>>574685
>>574660 here, I'd be okay with taking 2-3 mass production gunships as wing men.

>>574775
>>574685
Supportan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LX1x_rZ-T8

"Don't worry." you assure your bodyguards while loading up. "This thing has shields, stasis barriers and enough armor to stop anything of an SP Torpedo. I'll be fine."

"Just try not to overdo it sir." cautions Rufaro.

Valeri turns visible a few feet to Rufaro's left.
"An LST with heavy Marines and two point defense gunships will be standing by at high altitude to assist if you run into trouble sir."

You resist the urge to roll your eyes.
"Fine. Get some sleep while I'm gone, I may decide to do a Recon mission later."

A few seconds later you're dropping toward Rioja, your escort forming up to either side of you. The atmospheric entry is a bit steep but with the added protection of shields the various gunships in your group can take it.

The backseat ECO warns you to be careful around the Mons Abyla plateau.
"The top andsome of the sides may look smooth from a distance but they're really not. The air is thin but there are jet streams and wind currets that will impact our course, especially on the north and south sides."

"Copy that."

You have your officers link you to the Rioja Special Response & Investigative Unit and ask where that assault transport is.

"It's invisible sir, we don't have an exact fix. If they launch any walkers that will be a good indicator that they're in the area. Last time they were concentrating in the bay doors large enough to get inside or to let them escape with captured Corvettes."

You can see wweapons fire from starfighters nearby. Pulling up and using more engine power you try to help slow your descent as there won't be enough atmosphere to do it for you.

"If they're attacking the base again they must be after something besides keeping PDF reinforcements pinned inside." you muse aloud.

The mountain has all sorts of entrances but all of them heavily guarded and fortified. Especially after the recent attack. The biggest bays are those cut into the side of the plateau using the Alliance FOB mining module. These could handle transports and even some models of battlecruiser. There are smaller ones for LST's and Gunships that you've used before, and then there are the starfighter and shuttle launch ports.

Where did you want to focus your search? Or alternatively what did you want to ask your contacts in the base?

>>575028
Probably safe to assume there are stealth coated drones and possibly a stealthed ship. Grid search with full power scanning starting at the larger openings towards the smaller ones should be our best bet.
How close are the closest entrances to a lake or ocean?

>>575028
probably a crazy question, but do we have any ships with fusion cannons?

If so, could said fusion cannon fire for a 'shallan fusion gun' effect over areas we suspect have the enemy cloaked ship?

Basically, throw just enough fusion to pop holographic camo over a wide area. We'll probably have to evac our starfighters and any exposed infantry. Or could a phase/pulse cannon do this?

You see one of your starfighters explode not too far away from your flight path. There are several enemy shuttles flying around outfitted with additional particle beam turrets acting as gunships. They're not very fast but the extra guns make them a hazard to the fighters. Most are trying to use the broken terrain on the sides of the plateau to conceal their movements or provide cover from return fire.

They may not have shields but they can take a few more hits than a fighter can.

>>575061
Starfighters have confirmed that there are some Aries stealth drones outfitted for atmospheric combat, though not a lot. Most enemy forces attacking the exterior Abyla base are made up of shuttles and infantry with jetpacks.

Those better not be from your stockpile of jetpacks that the army was testing at one of the bases.
>>575061
>Grid search with full power scanning starting at the larger openings towards the smaller ones should be our best bet.
Start near the big ones. k.
>How close are the closest entrances to a lake or ocean?
Not very. New rivers around the edges of the plateau are still in the process of forming.

>>575092
>but do we have any ships with fusion cannons?
They're not very common.
There should be a battleship you captured that has some fitted, if they weren't replaced with LD's that is.

>shallan fusion gun' effect over areas we suspect have the enemy cloaked ship?
You mean light the atmosphere on fire over a wide area? This is the sort of reason why using starship grade weapons in the atmosphere is banned.

>throw just enough fusion to pop holographic camo
>Or could a phase/pulse cannon do this?
Actually as you were recently reminded in a particular incident, phase weapons can be refit into giant EMP weapons. There should be an older model Republic DEMP gun or two in one of the Run's salvage yards.

Roll 4d100

>>575134
>fusion cannons
>They're not very common.*

*Among your newer more upgraded fleets. Especially true since you use top of the line LD plasma weapons and sell them to pretty much everyone in the Relay.

Foss definitely has some fusion cannons.

Rolled 52, 87, 72, 17 = 228 (4d100)

>>575134
Rolling

Rolled 65, 25, 63, 79 = 232 (4d100)

>>575134

Rolled 67, 11, 60, 67 = 205 (4d100)

>>575134

Rolled 89, 70, 39, 8 = 206 (4d100)

>>575134
Rolling.

>>575179
It looks like there's 1 listed as being operational it just needs a power source. One of your older Vengeance types could pick it up and have the weapon fitted in place of an outboard phase cannon. It would take them at least an hour.

Would you like a team to get this ready just in case?
Or would you like Foss to fire a fusion cannon into the area on low power to... wait, hang on. You could just have a starship use their engine wash to super heat the air in an area. Sure it'll be messy and the terraforming crews will probably be angry with you but it should be just as dangerous, uh, I mean effective.

[ ] Ready the pulse weapon
[ ] Bring in a Frigate, torch the area
[ ] Keep searching, they should turn up

>>575240
>[ ] Ready the pulse weapon
[ ] Keep searching, they should turn up

>>575240

[ ] Ready the pulse weapon
[ ] Keep searching, they should turn up

We shouldn't set back our terraforming efforts if we don't have to.

>>574344
>As a result remaining worlds near the front lines are becoming increasingly fortified with demand for shield and defense platforms through the roof.
I smell a business opportunity.

>>575240
[ ] Ready the pulse weapon

>>575240
>>575240
>[x] Ready the pulse weapon
>[x] Keep searching, they should turn up

>the terraforming crews will probably be angry
-10 Rufaro points

>>575240
> [ ] Bring in a Frigate, torch the area

Technically not a war crime returns, Same Sonia Channel, Same Sonia Time!

Grid search with full power scanning starting at the larger openings towards the smaller ones should be our best bet.
How close are the closest entrances to a lake or ocean?

You have your ECM and escorts increase power to sensors and behind a search of the areas closest to the large starship docks. If they wanted to bring their Assault Transport inside the base to sause serious damage they'd need to hit one of those.

Elsewhere your superior numbers of fighters are taking their toll on the enemy shuttles. It looks like none of the ground troops have been able to make it inside but patrols have been increased just in case.

You're just finishing your grid search of the last north side docking bay when you get reports of jump jet equipped walkers assaulting the doors to two of the LST docks. Its over on the north west side which you should be able to reach in a few minutes.

"Were detecting what looks like several of the new walker types and what may be a modified variant of an old MacLeod."

It looks like they bays they're trying to get into each has a pair of LST's inside.

Did you want to have the bay crews set them for self destruct if the enemy gets through? You should be able to reach the closest one before they can cut through the doors.

1) Do you want to attack the walkers themselves or hand back and see if you can locate their assault transport?
[ ] Engage them ASAP
[ ] Hang back at range, locate the transport

2) Blow up the LSTs if they get through the doors?
>Y/N?

>>575422
>1) Do you want to attack the walkers themselves or hand back and see if you can locate their assault transport?

Have the mass production gunships attack the walkers, HAG and Sonia hang back and continue to look for that transport. The bro Baron wanted combat data of his gunships against these designs anyway.

>2) Blow up the LSTs if they get through the doors?
What's the worst these walkers can do if they manage to get inside?

>>575422
>[ ] Engage them ASAP
I'm guessing we're the only thing that can take on the threat in any reasonable time.

>2) Blow up the LSTs if they get through the doors?
Y
should also rig the entrances leaving hangar deeper into the base rigged to collapse

>>575434
>What's the worst these walkers can do if they manage to get inside?
Steal the LSTs. Their docking clamps are locked down but the teams that stole the assault corvettes a few days ago faced similar problems. If they have hacking modules able to break through the security systems from a bay control booth they'd be able to disengage the clamps and fly them out of here.
Troops posted in the bay could slow them down or try to prevent them from reaching the LST's cockpit.

Checking the manifest it looks like they should be FTL capable.

>>575471
>I'm guessing we're the only thing that can take on the threat in any reasonable time.
You could have starfighters engage but these things do have tough armor.

Some of the PDF could also try flying the LSTs out of the bay or remote linking their control to one of your ships. Either of those options have risks.

>>575422
[X] hang back, find transport
[X] blow the LSTS

Can the LSTS be set to full throttle for a kamikaze ram?

>>575537
Yes. Would you want them to fire up the engines before or after they got the doors open?

>>575512
>able to break through the security systems from a bay control booth they'd be able to disengage the clamps and fly them out of here.

Just cut the lines from the control booths in the area?

Anyway, I'm not in favor of blowing up the LSTs.

>>575512
Can they drain the Fuel on the LST?

>>575580
>not in favor of blowing up the LSTs.
>>575594
>Can they drain the Fuel on the LST?
Yes.
It would be faster to jettison the fuel stores into the bay. It would be harmless to the ships might be a bit dangerous for any of the PDF still there.

>>575566
Get the engines and reactors near redline. Punch it as the doors are breached. Minimum time before detonation.

If we are lucky, they detect the plan and withdraw, and we can repair damaged engines/reactors.

If not, face full of boom instead of troop recovering loot for them.

We should just tell them we're gonna make sure they don't leave alive if they don't surrender.

>>575625
Disable the LSTs, and get the PDF out of there. When their pilots are busy trying to reactivate the LSTs, we can have th PDF counter attack.

>>575422
1) Do you want to attack the walkers themselves or hand back and see if you can locate their assault transport?
[ ] Engage them ASAP
[ ] Mass production gunships attack walkers, hang back with HAGs
[ ] Hang back at range, locate the transport

2) LST situation
[ ] Disable LSTs, evac PDF, prepare to counterattack
[ ] Redline engines, unmanned kamikaze if doors breached
[ ] Unmanned kamikaze before they realise what's going on