03-29-2011, 08:36 PM
orders for Turn 5 sent out...
The Second Order of the Consortium has doubled down on its investment in the strategic manufacturing sector. If these new technologies blossom in the way it is hoped, it may soon be possible to build the most enormous space transports ever seen in this star cluster -- big enough to hold tens of thousands of colonists and all the equipment necessary to begin the orderly development of DataMine, 3rd planet in our home system.
Scout 1 is re-attempting to reach its target. Now that we have some minimal level of competency at basic astrogation, perhaps they will actually get there.
Scout 2 and Scout 3 are leapfrogging ahead to the next 2 nearest stars. If all goes well, we should have some system data scanned in by next turn. INFORMATION! We hunger...
In addition to the major push in manufacturing technologies, our scientists are putting some further investment in mining/extraction techniques. Our manufacturing output has outstripped available raw materials on our home planet, so we hope to reduce that gap and improve systemic efficiency. We also put a fair amount into the basic biological sciences. At this stage, advancement is cheap, and we want to position ourselves to exploit random progress by the commercial sector in this area, should it occur. This should take our understanding of the life sciences at least up to the level of our (purely defensive) military engineering establishment.
Finally, we named all the planets in our home system. DataMine is only the first planet on our list. Eventually we hope to have a colony of some kind on each planet. Baby steps.
The Second Order of the Consortium has doubled down on its investment in the strategic manufacturing sector. If these new technologies blossom in the way it is hoped, it may soon be possible to build the most enormous space transports ever seen in this star cluster -- big enough to hold tens of thousands of colonists and all the equipment necessary to begin the orderly development of DataMine, 3rd planet in our home system.
Scout 1 is re-attempting to reach its target. Now that we have some minimal level of competency at basic astrogation, perhaps they will actually get there.
Scout 2 and Scout 3 are leapfrogging ahead to the next 2 nearest stars. If all goes well, we should have some system data scanned in by next turn. INFORMATION! We hunger...
In addition to the major push in manufacturing technologies, our scientists are putting some further investment in mining/extraction techniques. Our manufacturing output has outstripped available raw materials on our home planet, so we hope to reduce that gap and improve systemic efficiency. We also put a fair amount into the basic biological sciences. At this stage, advancement is cheap, and we want to position ourselves to exploit random progress by the commercial sector in this area, should it occur. This should take our understanding of the life sciences at least up to the level of our (purely defensive) military engineering establishment.
Finally, we named all the planets in our home system. DataMine is only the first planet on our list. Eventually we hope to have a colony of some kind on each planet. Baby steps.