04-18-2011, 10:03 PM
G.A.P.H. news update ---
The Minister of Science and Technology has been sacked. Actually, he has chosen to retire early, to spend more time with his family. No, actually he has been sacked.
After many cycles of outstanding performance, our technological efforts have fallen flat this cycle, and at the worst possible time. In spite of a large investment of planetary output, our mining capabilities have not improved at all in the last 5 years. Our economy is still out of balance. Worse, a hefty emergency injection of cash into the defense technology sector failed to hit the target! We are still able to build ships scarcely larger than a picket boat.
Also, our Minister of Manufacturing has been sacked. We attempted to build 2 powerful new warships to begin holding a defensive perimeter around our 2 systems, but for some reason the factory orders were bungled. Our shipyards sat idle, and our workers left with nothing to do but play bridge and sip tea.
Oh, and our Minister of Colonization has been sacked. Our out-system colony is up and running, but it is badly out of balance -- our mining sector on that planet is less than half the strength it should have been to keep the local factories humming.
The secretary of state has also been sacked, due to the utter lack of progress in establishing diplomatic ties with our 2 neighboring species. The president is quoted as saying "My ping pong table could do a better job of contacting those space bugs than you!"
Finally, the human resources administrator of the Second Order has been sacked, for having failed to sack all of the aforementioned government executives BEFORE they had caused such extensive damage to our nascent interstellar empire.
No word yet on whether a Third Order is in the works...
End of G.A.P.H.
AAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our empire had been growing by leaps and bounds until now! Success upon success had propelled us ahead of schedule - and ahead of our competitors - into the milky void. But now our luck has turned.
We still have a day to think about it, but our first order of business will probably be to build those two Corvettes. Haven't figured out what went wrong with the orders, yet. Luckily, the only aliens buzzing around are tiny scouts. We might need to appropriate the Colonizer to ferry some planetary defense base equipment over to the out-system colony.
We will also need to redouble our efforts to boost military tech and bring mining up to par. Now that I read the materials, I see that I don't need military tech to build larger warships -- I need manufacturing tech. Which I have in abundance. But still, I can't afford to fall behind. Turns out I could build Frigates, but armed with pea-shooters. I did bump the home planet defenses, but InfoMine is still naked as a jaybird.
Economic development will probably have to go on the back-burner until we get basic system security in place and establish some sort of understanding with the space creeps flitting about.
The Minister of Science and Technology has been sacked. Actually, he has chosen to retire early, to spend more time with his family. No, actually he has been sacked.
After many cycles of outstanding performance, our technological efforts have fallen flat this cycle, and at the worst possible time. In spite of a large investment of planetary output, our mining capabilities have not improved at all in the last 5 years. Our economy is still out of balance. Worse, a hefty emergency injection of cash into the defense technology sector failed to hit the target! We are still able to build ships scarcely larger than a picket boat.
Also, our Minister of Manufacturing has been sacked. We attempted to build 2 powerful new warships to begin holding a defensive perimeter around our 2 systems, but for some reason the factory orders were bungled. Our shipyards sat idle, and our workers left with nothing to do but play bridge and sip tea.
Oh, and our Minister of Colonization has been sacked. Our out-system colony is up and running, but it is badly out of balance -- our mining sector on that planet is less than half the strength it should have been to keep the local factories humming.
The secretary of state has also been sacked, due to the utter lack of progress in establishing diplomatic ties with our 2 neighboring species. The president is quoted as saying "My ping pong table could do a better job of contacting those space bugs than you!"
Finally, the human resources administrator of the Second Order has been sacked, for having failed to sack all of the aforementioned government executives BEFORE they had caused such extensive damage to our nascent interstellar empire.
No word yet on whether a Third Order is in the works...
End of G.A.P.H.
AAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our empire had been growing by leaps and bounds until now! Success upon success had propelled us ahead of schedule - and ahead of our competitors - into the milky void. But now our luck has turned.
We still have a day to think about it, but our first order of business will probably be to build those two Corvettes. Haven't figured out what went wrong with the orders, yet. Luckily, the only aliens buzzing around are tiny scouts. We might need to appropriate the Colonizer to ferry some planetary defense base equipment over to the out-system colony.
We will also need to redouble our efforts to boost military tech and bring mining up to par. Now that I read the materials, I see that I don't need military tech to build larger warships -- I need manufacturing tech. Which I have in abundance. But still, I can't afford to fall behind. Turns out I could build Frigates, but armed with pea-shooters. I did bump the home planet defenses, but InfoMine is still naked as a jaybird.
Economic development will probably have to go on the back-burner until we get basic system security in place and establish some sort of understanding with the space creeps flitting about.