I am committing the unforgivable sin of doublepost to bump this and suggest that we skip Skeggy, because he's obviously not going to post actions anytime soon.

Indeed.

You have a large number of fighter craft, yes?

Bring them. There's a reason carriers replaced battleships in modern navies.

The mobile fighter craft can perform strafing runs on enemy ships while the main fleet engages them in a frontal assault.

If you can, refit your fighter craft with bombs, and we can use them very well indeed.

Or keep them as fighters, there's no telling if the enemy are using fighter craft, and I'd rather not sail directly into a battle without combat air patrol to intercept any enemy bombers.

Well considering I already have my explosive chemical bombs, I think I'm set.

My flak-equipped Pit Dogs should wipe the floor with any small craft in range, but I agree with caek's suggestion. We need some sort of fighter screen.

You'll have to be careful with the flak.

When those shells explode, the shrapnel will keep travelling due to inertia, and possibly shelling our fleet

Besides, fighter craft are more useful offensively then flak cannons.

Once we receive the data from your probe, however, we can make better plans.

I'll put up some fire-control systems to prevent something like that happening. But the flak Pit Dogs are solely for antifighter use and shooting down incoming missiles; my heavy laser Pit Dogs and missile Pit Dogs will do most of my fleet's damage.

Alright, here's my battle plan so far.

My ships are siege frigates, they are heavily armoured, they'll be at the front of the fleet, with a few of Kebbit's AA frigates mixed in to support them. Kebbit's missile and laser frigates will be behind them, supporting the front line with fire support where ever it is needed, or to bombard the enemies slower ships before they can reach the front.

I'll keep my 12 ships shaped into a series of clusters that make up a straight line. Each of these clusters will be made of 3 ships, making 4 clusters. These clusters would commence simultaneous assaults to keep the enemy commander off balance.

Fails & Miggles fleet will be the fast assault. They'll hit where ever there is a break in enemy formations and lay waste to disorganized units while my forces move forward to secure the position. They'll also support our flanks if there is potential for collapse.

Kebbit's electronic warfare ship will sit in the rear, jamming enemy communications to reduce the enemy fleet's organization. This'll disrupt the enemies chain of command. From the information gathered from previous Nonopan rolls, he does not have any fleet training facilities or the like.

When the battle turns south for the enemy, his forces should scatter. Their lack of training make them merely conscripts, and we can break their morale the same we will break their ships.

My frigates are extremely-heavily armored as well. I think they would be able to fight as a second line or even mixed throughout caek's siege frigates.

And my Command Haywire should also, besides using its ECM abilities, use its command powers to coordinate the fleet's targeting and maneuvers (that's the main purpose of the ship; I didn't specialize it in ECM but rather battlefield control).

I just checked the roll, you have 4 flak frigates and 4 beam frigates. That's a flak and beam frigate to each cluster. Your ships aren't as heavily armoured as mine, but the abundance of my ships and the communication/sensor jamming should keep them from targeting them effectively.

Welcome to the front


Of course. The command ship will have to stay in the rear to keep it far from the battlefield to keep it out of the enemies fire.

Ypsilon Canon.

Is it mobile?

Even if the shots travel at the speed of light, it would take quite a while for it to reach the battle if it can't move.

Rolling.

In terms of armor both Canis frigates and Gehennan frigates are about equal, Canis ships designed for their armor while Gehenna benefits from its alloy(Metal+).

Nichoslax: Divergent as in the memory structure is too foreign. Using the socket they just dont recall or record as much if anything as opposed to the "normal" people.

Canis Minor

Order SciCorp to continue working on their projects. For Psycorp, however, try to get some results out of remote viewing.
Having brought back the Bio Sample from Gungnir SciCorp's bio team have renewed their efforts on research and catalog of it.
Experimentation into the Airborne Genetic Engineering Virus continue. the safety of the virus remains the issue with a larger re-writes however small rewrites or slow changes test well.
Psycorp remote viewing devices are a wall they are yet to get over. We're talking about detecting a EM wave that can barely pass the human skull.

Found a new SciCorp - AttackCorp. Give them the task of making a particle beam small enough to be used in fighter craft with a bigger variant for use on frigates and above.
AttackCorp. Leaders in firepower.
Scientists under attackcorp come from many areas, some from SciCorp who have had many weaponry designs over the years. The initial project for a particle beam produces a prototype within the first turn.

a device capable of being mounted onto large strike-craft, a bomber or heavy fighter. The Particle beam at the strike-craft level uses a small focused beam giving it very high penetration.

Found another SciCorp - DefenceCorp. Give them the task of developing starship shielding to protect against weapons fire, not to be used on fighters or corvettes.
Dcorp's first project, that of a shielding device does not meet with the same success. Though featuring many talented people and with many theories on how to overcome the problem.
initial scientific workings highlight a system that destroys anything that enters the field or acts like a force field.

Leviathan design - Make the ship big enough for both! (didnt roll as 4th action)
Leviathan design continues. Big enough for both and more armor than ever before. Designers begin to redesign the layout of the ship to accommodate for the larger power plant yet to be designed.

The Leviathan class dry dock is complete. the new blueprints for the larger version still fit, just.


Gungnir Industries

"Start construction of a Tri-Harimaru Reactor set up to power the Ypsilon Canon, have Omer over see the design and installation, as well as going over the whole weapons designs once more to see if any

improvements can be made, or problems fixxed."
Construction begins on a trio of Harimaru Reactors The first ready for its reactors to be started by the end of the turn. Additional scans of the Ypsilons internal systems dont reveal any new enhancements,

upgraded plasma vents are theorized however Omer advize more research into existing ones before fitting the new ones, in case the Xexelithians had seen something we hadn't.

"Create G.R.U.E (Gungnir Recon and Umbral Espionage (Also a play on words, involving the GRU and a creature with an affinity for darkness), basically a combination of an Intelligence, Espionage and a

Counter Espionage agency. Get them to search for spies and infiltrators among the populace."
GRUE begins their work, recruiting from the vetted populace to perform inquisitorial duties within the populace. GRUE agents are placed in just about every area of Gungnir ready to act at any moment.

"Prosper!"
Gungnir expands another two large housing areas on freedoms progress as the colony continues to grow.

Science stuff!
GAIA: Good work!, If you could whip up some 'all purpose healing gel' that would be nice, but in your own time.
GAIA places an all purpose healing gel on the projects board for future projects.

Rosenthal: try to figure out how the Alien drill works, then use this derived technology to upgrade our drones.
rosentahl's forays into the drill fail to produce any small prototypes. aside from the power draw, the unit is only really capable of being mounted on a corvette or bigger.

Omer: as well as action 1, map Ypsilon's capabilities.
Omer's mapping of Ypsilons capabilities continues, accessing the research records of the former xexelith scientists.

Gehenna

Amplify metal resource output; expand mining and refining operations.
A new order for bulkheads is placed. set to begin construction after the Haywire,.

Begin mass chemical synthesis, manufacture, and distribution of the new Gungnir-developed drug, not stopping until the disease is eradicated. If there is a conflict for resources with other programs, give the

Light Sickness cure higher priority.
The Gungir antibiotic is placed everywhere. distributed through work, schools, home. Everywhere. Production comes back up to full speed as engineers move back onto GIBED. Current reports show the bug

eradicated from Gehenna in as little as 2 turns.

Begin development of mass-produced light cannon "swarm" drones that can attach to a ship's hull by the dozen for travel and be deployed at any time for fire support.
Swarm drones, little more than engines with autocannons are designed, The swarm drones are capable of giving small strike craft a beating. Production is currently placed behind pillbugs

minor actions, lower priority
Morale check and population census.
Gehennan morale is on the rise, with the release of the new drug. the "new" flag with the black circle stays. many members of the colony are eager for justice.
The production of additional Bulkheads is a welcome order with the old adage of gehenna as the sectors refinery kings slipping away to Canis.
Keep on sphere-building. Call it the Pillbug.
Pillbug orders continue with an additional 2 being built this turn.
Keep on microreactors.
another micro reactor comes online producing arc armour.
Keep on Haywire.
The haywire frigate is completed this turn and work moves to bulkhead frigates.
Redirect one deep-space probe to Nonopan territory.
the drone near F packs up and begins to slowboat its way to nonipan territory. itll take a turn to get there as it was never fitted with anything more than navigational thrusters.

Thimai

Design a mining ship, with built in drills and refineries
A atmospheric capable mining ship is designed. Equipped with 2 drills and a single refinery.
The ship is capable of mining at the speed of 2 drones while refining its earnings

Expand city, create medical clinics to spread the anti-rad meds more
The city expands, both above ground and underground. During construction of an additoinal above ground area a roof colapses in. A number of civilians are caught in the cealings collapse.

Research and build planetary defenses
Research into planetary defense. initial designs are for some form of mass driver. Initial prototypes are a failure though designs continue.

Aboard the colony a number of people have reported "things" in the engineering decks, lurking in the darkness, though nothing has been confirmed a number of colonists have reported the strange sightings.

Stationem XXVI

>Create tons more can interceptors, ofc with the new tech.
Of the can interceptors the Cairn Bomber is designed to house the new weapons. the Can' can only take 2 ACP missiles where as a Cain is designed to carry 8 such missiles.
The first batch of strike craft is nearly complete. 3 ready to accept their load outs (do you want can's or cairns?)

>Turn all scientists working on other projects to work on teleportation.
research into teleportation continues with higher energy experiments continuing, still no progress is being made. Scientists request a series of new computers for atomic simulations.

>Build several long-range Tesla coils on meteors surrounding the colony.
The Stationem Tesla array is designed and the first sections begin to come online, a series of tesla coils on meteors that arc between each other, producing a "field" style.


Klik'Tar


Verigon

IStart making use of the new design for the memory implant.
Memory implanting begins the new socket streamlining the feature.
With the network ports also being built in personal quarters, this allows citizens to share thoughts instantaneously

Start building a "Hive" where people can put their memories for later access, able to be accessed by all before being retrieved again by the owner. Hopefully this will encourage free education and smarter

colonists.
The HIVE central intellegence is a vast array of servers dedicated to storing the most up-to-date conciousness ready to distribuite the memories to any plugged into the system, combined with home sockets a

boost to science is seen.

Start making our first planet based shipyard. For medium to large ships.
Cruiser class dock design begins, with initial sketches and layout being prepared. though no offical blueprints are created yet.

minor:
is my soldier done training?
he is alwys training. at level 5 right now

Make Hauser's writing mandatory reading.
The stunning popularity of the Magus and now the Mysterium are easilly seen with the mandatory reading everyone experiecnes the book forthemselves and the hive.

Make Hauser automatically continue writing The Mysterium until its done.
The mysterium covering the future of verigon is split into 3 parts as demand increases the first released at the end of the turn.

Put safety protocols in place for the hive, we don't want this new technology to make a complete hive mind.
To what level do we restrict memory transfer?

What do you mean by divergent? Too extreme memories? or they refused to get the chip?
Too divergent. the memories and brain networks are simply wired differntly. AC current and DC current to give a basic (and not entirely accurate) example.

TITAN Automated Industries Hiveship Sigma

> Sigma: Commence decrypting light weapons database. Also examine the possibilities of using some kind of 'sail' array to accelerate the inevitable departure from this system by harnessing the solar winds.

Don't build it just yet though.
The decryption of the light weapons database begins, however the keycodes you have been furnished with appear to be useless, new codes are worked on and the database will take some time to decrypt.
a solar wind "sail" array is designed a very basic design using 1-2k ncm depending on size.

> Freighter: Transport processed resource cubes and salvage from the planetside base up to Sigma for smelting as nighttime operating hours permit.
Transport of prcessed resources begins. the first drops are short while testing the planets gravity and weather.

> Drones:
>> Locators: Idle for now. Those outbound tunnels will be far too much distance for walking Locators to cover in any reasonable amount of time.
>> Dozer: Construct an Underground Smelter and NCM Silo. The Silo will need a pipeline that leads to the surface so it can be hooked up to the freighter for NCM transfer.
The dozer begins construction of the Smertery and silo unit. During the next night cycle it will begin work on a dockign boom to reach out to the freighter when it arrives.
>> Moles: Keep mining, stockpiling, and so on.
>> Salvager: Continue salvaging, but be more careful next time. Avoid the unstable building from before as much as possible -- or perhaps bring it down in a controlled fashion.

Nono Entromiybo
Colour: Purple
Has left the game.

Xexelith
Colour: Green Circle with a Black and White stripe.
Has left the game.

Alright, it's crunch time people.

"I want the Ypsilon ready in 2 turns, Omer is to focus on researching an upgrading the vents, while Rosenthal over sees the installation of the new reactors. I want speed and efficiency with no loss of quality, if more turns are absolutely needed, then just say so. I believe in you science teams, just do what you do best!"

"Create an official dockyard group (For ship construction and repair (Name them Nakai Construction)), start them off on the construction of a Mutou Cruiser, same two turn deadline, give it your all construction crew!"

"More prospering, and ready for all out war (Do something nice, or boost one of my other actions please!)!"

Also minor, move my H system deep space drone to stealthy check on E system.

"People of Gungnir, I wish to speak to you about events that have been, are, and will be. Not so long ago we believed that all in this sector was well, and that the men and women of our fellow race were content with the limitless bounties that manifest these systems, but we have learned the hard way that this is not the case. In hindsight, we should have seen it coming, those Nonopan dogs stockpiling both biological and chemical weaponry like chipmunks in the fall, but no, in our ignorance we gave them a chance at peace, peace which would not come to fruition. As we ready ourselves to march through Erebus's gates, to fight this unworldly terror, let me ask you this.

Who do you see in your future? Family? Friends? A Lover? All of those people the Nonopan-menece wish to gas and poison. Now what do you see? Something that I know all of you wish to see is victory! Can you see the final total victory of the Gungnir people?! And are you the Gungnir people, willing to work, if necessary, 10, 12, 14 hours a day to create that victory?! Do you want total war?! If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?!!!

With our footsteps we shall cleanse the earth!
With our ships we shall cleanse the stars!!
And with our guns we shall cleanse them back into the deepest, darkest, pits of hell from whence they came!!!
Now, my people, rise up, and let our divine storm break loose!!!"

Continue SciCorp projects. Get PsyCorp to work on the potential for moving the conciousness between people, or from person to machine. Get DefenceCorp to continue work on shielding, perhaps something that can absorb the energy of incoming objects to reinforce the shield further? Order AttackCorp to continue working on the particle beam.

Start the construction of a large number of manufacturing complexes on the planet surface.

Expand the military academies.

Leviathan design fun.

Minor actions.
Morale check on the colonists.

Rally the fleet, move it to Gehenna to group up with their fleet.

Transfer the 25 spare navy personnel to Gehenna to supplement their green crews.