Sirius Business - a C# Aurora forum game. v2.5

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By shipping in people and Financial Centers, we have raised the Thermal and EM signatures of our Bugeyes colony in AX Microscopii.

This is the star system that we really MUST retain in any negotiations (or war) with the Bork. It is on the direct route from Earth to The Radiant.

Ze Nootral Zoon-a, the star system that is next door to the Bork home-world, leads to some nice mineralized star systems... but nothing worth fighting a war over.

 

[Wagonlitz]

By shipping in people and Financial Centers, we have raised the Thermal and EM signatures of our Bugeyes colony in AX Microscopii.

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This is the star system that we really MUST retain in any negotiations (or war) with the Bork. It is on the direct route from Earth to The Radiant.

Ze Nootral Zoon-a, the star system that is next door to the Bork home-world, leads to some nice mineralized star systems... but nothing worth fighting a war over.

Think it'll be enough emissions for them to acknowledge our claim?

 

[blue emu]

Think it'll be enough emissions for them to acknowledge our claim?

I'd rather slow the tempo of the Bork diplomacy as much as possible. Drag out the negotiations.

So I'm not going to demand that they recognize our claim to AX Microscopii (Bugeyes) until the Bork themselves demand that we recognize their own claim to Ze Nootral Zoon-a.

... unless they start setting up shop in our star system, of course. Then I'll tell them to get out.

 

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Another five-day tick.

Another polite suggestion from the Bork.

Diplo +50.

 

[Wagonlitz]

Another five-day tick.

Another polite suggestion from the Bork.

Diplo +50.

That's higher than before, isn't it?

 

[blue emu]

That's higher than before, isn't it?

One point higher, yes.

 

[Wagonlitz]

One point higher, yes.

Makes me wonder if the Bork also have their relations rise.

 

[blue emu]

I've set the security status of AX Microscopii (Bugeyes) to "Suggest Leave".

I'm trying to politely deter them from setting up mines here.

 

[Wagonlitz]

I've set the security status of AX Microscopii (Bugeyes) to "Suggest Leave".

I'm trying to politely deter them from setting up mines here.

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Think it'll work?

 

[blue emu]

Think it'll work?

Who knows?

I hope to avoid the same situation as we had with the Modrons, who came into a star system where we already had a planetary colony (Harmony), set up a bunch of their own mining sites, brought in their battle fleet, and then demanded the planet.

Maybe we can persuade the Bork not to follow the same trajectory. It would be easier if we had a fleet on the spot, because warships do count for Diplo influence.

 

[Wagonlitz]

Who knows?

I hope to avoid the same situation as we had with the Modrons, who came into a star system where we already had a planetary colony (Harmony), set up a bunch of their own mining sites, brought in their battle fleet, and then demanded the planet.

Maybe we can persuade the Bork not to follow the same trajectory. It would be easier if we had a fleet on the spot, because warships do count for Diplo influence.

Would it be worth it to send a few ships there?

 

[blue emu]

Would it be worth it to send a few ships there?

The problem with sending a small detachment is that if it DOESN'T deter them, then we lose the ships because we didn't send enough to fight their way out.

 

[blue emu]

The last time we needed a Redshirt we used the Korean recruit, Sum Dum Gai.

Next time, we'll use our Welsh recruit, Dai Orribly.

 

[randakar]

I'd rather slow the tempo of the Bork diplomacy as much as possible. Drag out the negotiations.

So I'm not going to demand that they recognize our claim to AX Microscopii (Bugeyes) until the Bork themselves demand that we recognize their own claim to Ze Nootral Zoon-a.

We won't send anything anyway unless there are ships of theirs in the system to send that demand to. And we detect them, obviously.

... unless they start setting up shop in our star system, of course. Then I'll tell them to get out.

Do we have sufficient sensor coverage on place?

 

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Do we have sufficient sensor coverage on place?

The star system is about five billion km across so we can't keep it all within sensor range.

The entire inner star system is covered, though.

 

[blue emu]

Spotted another enemy mining site.

 

[RobbieAB]

More free mines!

 

[blue emu]

More free mines!

With that heat signature, it looks like another ten, yes.

That'll make 73.

 

[blue emu]

Ten more mines.

 

[blue emu]

Our two Scrapyard class Salvagers are chomping up the wrecks of the four Modron ships that made it into Lernea (a Yonne, a Gard, a Vosges and a Mayenne).

We also have two yards (seven slipways) now retooling for an advanced version of the Salvager, capable of chomping five times as much wreck tonnage per day.