Hmm ill work up a map and some plot then.
Probably wont be done till midday GMT though (got irl to tend to)
most likley out come will be players as kings/queens/high council.
Moderate-low magic. Still have gods n stuff to worship.

Oi, F is mine thankyouverymuch.
Unless you can get a colony there in one turn you'll have to fight me for it

Canis Minor

"Recall the scout ships. Have the crews of 2 of the Interceptors disembark from their ships and be issued police equipment."
The scout ships return to the colony. Two of the Interceptor crew's are armed with police sidearms, bodyarmour and restraints. Both announce they have had firearms training previously.

"Consult engineers on the possibility of setting up a dam for a nearby river and the potential for a orbital shipyard."
Plans for the dam and the orbital shipyard are drawn up. Both are entirely feasible. The orbital shipyard will need 1t of heavy metals for construction of an onboard reactor.

"Continue Science with SciCorps, discuss the possibility of the creation of a dedicated scientific complex secured underground."
The idea is possible however geological surveys show that your colony has been built upon a rather solid plateau of granite 100-150m below the surface. Mining bots could get through this.. slowly.


Gungnir Industries


"Start designs for a military frigate hull"
An armoured hull is designed with combat in mind, a large brace of engines and modest reactor coated in heavy armor plate. The design favors 4 forward facing turrets along with point defense.

"Expand colony by deploying farming drones and increasing infrastructure"
The colony expands further out and business picks up, a number of colonists talk about forming their own settlement though its just talk for now they have a number of people supporting them.

"Create a Laboratory on the space station (now called Lazarus Station) and name it "Omer Complimentary Division".
Give them a crap ton of funding and tell them to come up with useful stuff and ideas."
Omer Complimentary Division begins work in their new laboratory (+1 Science!) 3 tons of metal are requisitioned by OCD and they produce a new mining bot capable of mining 3 times faster and utilizing a small refinery powered by a micro fusion reactor.

Scanner Probe's begin relaying information!
Probe 2 Reaches the Red Giant star and begins broadcasting. Images of a massive space fleet. leaving the star and its planets. raging solar flares tear apart some of the ships as they leave. Sensors read the last planet in the system. the only habitable one slowly succumbing to the heat and radiation of the star. The ships class is unknown your sensors unable to pick out any internal details save for their size. The radio broadcasts a foreign language. panicked voices overlay each other. The ships appear to have not noticed the probe.

Probe 3 reaches the twin stars of F and begins broadcasting. The two stars in a orbit of each other support a 4 planets between them two of them are habitable, the other two inhabitable one wracked by storms of searing energy the other with an atmosphere of chlorine. A group of the strange H ships are there, though these are much smaller.

Gehenna


"Set one probe to explore open space, fixating on warp signatures and massive objects such as extrasolar planets. Set the other three to approach point H, one approaching the unknown signatures head on as a decoy, another flanking slightly, the last one making a looping turn around and approaching from behind."
The first probe begins to map open space, radio recorders and image devices searching for any activity.
The other 3 begin to execute their mission, Though it will take a while for them to cross the expanse of space (next turn hombre)

"Deliver one of our advanced zero-G construction drones to Canis Minor as a goodwill gesture. Manufacture a replacement."
A replacement Zero-G construction drone is completed and put to work as one of the originals is sent to Canis Minor

"Conduct further study on the (presumed archeotech) spacecraft. If at all possible, work up a way to replicate its armor plating using materials available from the asteroids."
Work on the spacecraft continues, as the rock is slowly removed from the outside of the craft it appears it had landed on the asteroid. landing gear still deployed. After removal of the cockpit.. and the scientists had gotten over the smell. the Charred remains of something defiantly not human are removed, the heat of the sun hasnt left much however the bones are sent for testing.

The armor is slowly replicated in the SAAT laboratories the refined metal methods are passed to the refineries while the solid diamond coating proves harder to replicate at any decent speed.


Nono Entromiybo


"create deep space colony ships and send a colony to F system"
The first of the light colony ships are built and launched with a portion of the population towards the F system. The 2nd colony ship is finalized and ready to go (next turn) it will take the first colony ship a while to cover the expanse of space. (next turn)

"Set up a large space bace amalgam of multiple large fighter ships and the original colony ship."
The base's construction progresses slowly, however 4 of the large fighters are completed and begin to help (Eta 2 turn)

"on space bass create science program and start cloning. find other crazy secret evil science secrets"
Vat grown humans are created en mass their man power adding to those already at the station however as the populations began to break even the clones created their uprising, now claiming they have rights too and that the station is theirs. ( Spass Bass is now under Clone control)


Thimai

"Begin building orbital station around water planet."
The construction begins of the orbital station. Mining drones and Can interceptors working to construct the bare bones framework and basic life support is complete however it will take time to complete the station (Eta, 2 turns)

"Research possibly of colonizing irradiated planet, it may have minerals useful for fleet building."
The engineers aboard suggest simply using thicker metals. A colony on the irradiated planet would require 10 tons of metal and the mining bots.

"Investigate surrounding systems."
The colony ship begins the slow journey to the C star. (Eta next turn)

Awww, the Hylians home world got blown up.
(contact C system)
"We have news regarding H system. It appears that a civilization, nicknamed Hylians by our top scientists, has just lost their home world due to the red giant. Therefore I suggest we send aid, if not out of our compassion for sentient life, then because they seem to have a 'ginormous' armed fleet. Also, on a vaguely related note, recent models predict that this fleet may be heading to your system, I just thought that was an interesting fact."

"Create policies that allow for great population growth on the colony, getting ready for further colonizations"

"Remove 2 mining drones from 'Titan' (Gas giant) and onto freedoms progress for normal metals, and get the production facility to produce 1 prototype 'Wolf' class frigate and 2 upgraded mining drones"

"Continue OCD's funding (but all projects must be green lighted by me before production, don't want any mad scientists running around)"

(Broadcast signal from the F system probe)
"This system has been claimed by Gungnir Industries, because of this, any colonization attempts in this system will be regarded as a direct act of war, and we will respond in the appropriate manner. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Have a pleasant day."

Thank you for the construction drone

Have SciCorps study the zero gravity construction drone and attempt to replicate the design. Design a one man worker bee for space construction and mine laying.

Order manufacturing to commence production of : 15 mining drones, 20 agricultural drones

Commence construction of the dam, consider the possibility of expanding the manufacturing zone further.

EDIT: Just realized my habitation towers are done. Woot.

Are my habitation bunkers finished yet?

Mobilize a relief convoy containing 25 tons of food and 2.5 tons of refined metal. Send them to point H as a goodwill gesture, while broadcasting my intent to assist via the probes.

Set up an orbital chemical production facility, due to the need for certain custom-fabricated molecules. Harvest feedstock compounds from gas clouds and asteroids.

Develop a production blueprint for a "knife-fight" ranged heavy attack frigate, armored in the experimental armor plating and equipped with several rotary turrets that spew cones of burning metal flak.

(note: I realize the armor research isn't finished yet. I'm just making the schematic, which will require the armor to build the actual ship.)

Canis Minor

"Have SciCorps study the zero gravity construction drone and attempt to replicate the design. Design a one man worker bee for space construction and mine laying."
With its funding SciCorps splits into two teams one for each task both units are replicated in the lab and then sent to manufacturing. The first copies roll off the production line soon after that.

"Order manufacturing to commence production of : 15 mining drones, 20 agricultural drones"
Manufacturing begins of the additional drones. The first batch of mining drones is complete. Total Order ETA is 4 turns.


"Commence construction of the dam, consider the possibility of expanding the manufacturing zone further."
Planning begins on dam construction, the first foundations begin to take shape. The manufacturing crew is stretched to capacity plans are put together for a larger workspace but nothing can be done about it.

SciCorps programmers have successfully managed to write algorithms for autonomous Can Interceptors, the first computers are completed and the trials begin next turn.

Gungnir Industries

"Create policies that allow for great population growth on the colony, getting ready for further colonizations"
Policies on population growth are put into effect and are met with good results. A baby boom emerges amidst Freedoms Progress.

"Remove 2 mining drones from 'Titan' (Gas giant) and onto freedoms progress for normal metals, and get the production facility to produce 1 prototype 'Wolf' class frigate and 2 upgraded mining drones"
The Wolf class frigate takes time as it is the first time such a ship has been built at the Lazerus. The first upgraded mining drone is underway as the Wolf leaves the station.

"Continue OCD's funding (but all projects must be green lighted by me before production, don't want any mad scientists running around)" OCD's Programmers announce basic forays into Electronic Warfare Probes. They believe its possible and thus plans are put forward to you.

Gehenna


"Mobilize a relief convoy containing 25 tons of food and 2.5 tons of refined metal. Send them to point H as a goodwill gesture, while broadcasting my intent to assist via the probes."
The relief convoy leaves the station, a pair of Can Interceptors assigned to carry the goods. They will arrive the turn after the Probes.

"Set up an orbital chemical production facility, due to the need for certain custom-fabricated molecules. Harvest feedstock compounds from gas clouds and asteroids."
Construction of the chemical production facility begins as an extension of the orbital station. Plans for gas harvesting apparatus for Can Interceptors are created and manufactured.

"Develop a production blueprint for a "knife-fight" ranged heavy attack frigate, armored in the experimental armor plating and equipped with several rotary turrets that spew cones of burning metal flak."
Designs begin however during testing of the rotary turret a misfire blew out a section of the wall, killing several scientists and engineers in the room. Recovery was swift and there is no lasting damage to the station, save for the dead.

(Sorry mean to complete bunkerages last turn)
The HeatProof bunkers report readiness and the first colonists in habit them, though its not exactly prime real-estate by colonist standards.

(youll need to spend an action for additional research on the armor, the metalic component is finished, however they dont have a way to quickly replicate the diamond coating, they _can_ replicate it, just takes a long long time.)

The probes arrive at H and begin broadcasting images back to the home station. The 3 probes get a good view of the fleet as it leaves its orbit of H. It contains 2 gargantuan vessels "Hy-G1". easily 4 times the size of your own colony ships. 4 colony ship sized vessels "Hy-C1" that appear heavily armed , 8 smaller versions "Hy-A1" of the heavily armed variants and a number of smaller nimble vessels (around 20, your scientists cant quite tell.)


Nono Entromiybo


"Quiet clone bastards with guns and a threat to blow the station apart. Give them more science jobs to appease their idiocy"
The first armed forces on the station are met with hordes of clones carrying their own guns from manufacturing initial teams are lost, The clones announce that a peace negotiation may be possible with the additional science jobs, the first scientists return aboard the space station to continue work (full capacity next turn)

"Look for planets on system F that are habitable"
As the colony ship arrives in F system Gungnir industries warning message is heard clear over the radio. The colony ships sensors find 4 planets each colonizable.

"Habituate on said planets"
The first colonists are sent to the planets surface, expecting to be clearing terrain and preparing for colonization when they discover strange green structures have already been built. shortly before the green structures shot the colonists out of the air.


Thimai

Begin designs for a fleet of war.
As the first designs begin testing the first frigate hull encounters a critical navigation systems error and crashes into the station annihilating the life support systems. A few scientists remain aboard the station using backup suits and are attempting repair of the systems.

Colonize irradiated rock planet as soon as possible.
Before the unfortunate end of the stations life support the scientists had begun manufacturing and shipping large pre-fabricated bunkers to the planets surface. the Colony on the planet is ready once more colonists arrive.

Continue building orbital station.
Orbital station work is put on hold as the life support systems go down, all workers are rerouted to fixing that first.

The Colony ship arrives at C star. discovering two other colonies here, Gehenna and Canis Minor. Canis Minor has the only easily colonizable planet while Gehenna have a number of orbital stations.

I'm surprised my people ain't decided to have children on their own.

Encourage population growth. Expand the manufacturing workforce.

Have the zero gravity construction drones work on autonomous orbital factories and defence platforms, equipped with missile pads and 80 watt laser cannons. Have the worker bee start construction of the first phase of the orbital shipyards.

Have SciCorp funding and resources octupled. Use these new resources to perform research into robotics, artificial intelligence and cybernetic augmentation. Assign the 5 new mining drones to excavate the new SciCorp Research Institute, SCRI, located deep underneath the city. Encourage the planners of the institute to assign similar divisions to be next to each other, while differing ones are kept further away from one another. Therefore, Chemistry and Metallurgy would be close to one another, while Robotics and Biology would be distant.

And a little something that don't really qualify as a major action, more of a request for information.

Request census information on colonist morale and quality of life.

Broadcast this to the entering colony ship.

"Welcome to Canis Minor. This system is a mutual development of both the Gehanna colonists and the Canis Maximus Empire. If you are willing to wait for a while, a orbital dockyard will be ready to cater to your maintenance or refuelling needs. However, any unauthorized attempt to land on the world of Canis, or any attempt to undermine this colony of the Canis Maximus Empire, will be met with deadly force. Have a pleasant day, and enjoy your stay in this system. "

Continue attempts to replicate archeotech plating. Set up devices to compress and cook carbon, making artificial diamond.

Have SAAT implement stricter safety protocols during potentially hazardous experiments. Our people are not expendable, and the safety of the Gehenna colony should not be put at risk!

Keep one probe by system H, continuing the aid broadcast. Send one to the anomaly above G in the starmap. Set the one by C and the remaining one near H to sweep deadspace.

to Izen
"...what the man from Canis said."

Private Transmission from Miss Argent, Director of SciCorp - Orbital Engineering Division, to Gehenna colony.
Subject: Scientific mutual cooperation.

BEGIN COMMUNICATION:
"Greetings from Canis Minor, your next door neighbour. It is a great honour to meet with the scientists of SAAT, you're reputation precedes you, especially your work on underwater colonization technology, along with your work on artificial intelligence. The Empire has great respect for your scientists, and we would like to propose a project of mutual benefit. Both our situations could benefit from this project. We propose the study on the possibilities of a space elevator. This would have major benefits as it would allow the future Atlas fleet yards in orbit of Canis Minor to be linked directly to the ground, allowing the quick movement of material and personnel from the planet, directly to the orbital facilities. This would greatly speed up ship production.

Not only that, but the Gehenna colonies could benefit from the technology too, as it would allow your orbital facilities to link directly to your colonies aswell, and with the potential to link to other asteroids even. With a link to your orbital habitation facilities established, your people could easily move between your primary asteroid and your habitat stations. Our estimates indicate that this would increase efficiency by 30%, as ships would no longer be needed to ferry personnel or supplies between your facilities. You're refineries would have similar benefits from this project, allowing direct linkage to your colonies aswell.

If you agree, send a narrow beam communication to these coordinates (61, 74, 35), and we'll start the arrangements for mutual database access so we can best coordinate the project."
END COMMUNICATION.

I'm just making a sort of assumption that your SAAT is the same one from Anno 2070. If I'm wrong, just say and I'll edit the message. We'll start the project next turn, if you agree

I was considering grabbing a C64 emulator and typing up my proposal in there, but I decided against it. Too... Difficult with such a low resolution, the text wraps to the next line and I could not find a gif recorder :S

I've coloured my text aswell, for future reference. If you guys want me to stop with the colouring, just say.

[Narrow Beam Communication Protocol Whisper.01B (61.74.35): ACTIVE]
"Yes, of course. As the dominant powers in this solar system, we must cooperate for the good of all. Our civilian scientific databases will be unlocked for your SciCorp, barring AMEC Industries proprietary tech. They're very touchy about that, and they funded this whole escapade.

I trust that you will do likewise with your data, for our mutual agreement.

As for our previous work, well, that information was lost with the sinking continents of Old Earth."
[NBCP Whisper.01B//END]

nice catch on the Anno 2070 reference
also color change, this one is less eyebleeding

Mind if I copy the format of the message?

It looks alot better then the one that I'm currently using. Below is a sort of mutation of both.

//Narrow Beam Communication System:PRIVATE TRANSMISSION = TRUE. SYSTEMS ONLINE. BROADCASTING MESSAGE.
"SciCorps looks forward to a mutually beneficial relationship. I've just gave the orders to grant you database access to all civilian projects. Unfortunately, all projects marked with ECHELON level security are currently classified, but currently, there is only one or two projects at that security level.

As a sign of good faith, we are transmitting the designs for our worker bee's. You might find them useful for expanding your asteroid colonies. They are manned, single person units capable of mine laying or construction. They'll prove very useful in the coming weeks.

Also, perhaps that technology has not been lost forever. Canis has oceans, just like Earth used to. Perhaps we might relearn how to create underwater cities.

And finally, if you desire, we are willing to reserve you a lab in the SciCorps Research Institute, SCRI, when it is completed."
//Narrow Beam Communication System:TRANSMISSION ENDS. SYSTEM OFFLINE.