Roll back to the backup DB you made just before you started checking things out?
John
Hahahaha.
My only regret is not being able to rename them, I can accept a new organisation reaching out for the stars 2 years after the other powers, but why in the name of Armok must they be named after a fruiting leguminous tree native to Africa but spread and naturalised thoughout Asia?
I could reason that a large multinational organisation based in Asia decided to name itself Tamarind, but why Tamarind Hegemony?
Edit: Update.Nemesis 2027.
After a year of heavy handed austerity measures the united nations is finally fiscally secure again, breaking even in october of 2027.
Upon her election in january 2027 Sue Vonk cut costs drastically across the board, ground unit training is halted, expansion of 2 shipyards is cancelled, new shipbuilding is curtailed, fighter and missile production is halved, and minerals from the civilian mining colony on Europa is sold to the private sector. Despite these opressive changes, other programs from the new administration have increased the economy by almost 30%.
Production concentrated on finishing 10 financial centers, 600 infrastructure, 1 terraformer and the new naval yard by years end.
Research efforts were entirely devoted towards expansion of the civilian economy, which was finished early January.
Over the course of the year civilian freighters have shipped increased quantities of infrastructure and colonists to Mars, a new freighter was launched helping the effort. Taxation of this now provides 12% of our income, also civilian efforts are now creating twice as much infrastructure for shipment to the red planet than we are producing with 30% our production. A third hg wells colony ship was added to the colony fleet, as well as a second heinlien class. Mars now has 10 million souls calling the red planet home. A second terraformer was shipped and is increasing greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Average temperature is now -45 degrees.
On earth the temperature has increased to 16 degrees. A new naval shipyard has been completed and been retooled to make new Beta class FAC's, the single slipway will produce one every 6 months, but a new slipway can be added in a year. The beta class is significantly faster than the alpha at 4500 km/s, and equipped with 6 amm launchers instead of the twin size 4's, but limited sensors and fire control only capable of utilizing a fifth the hades AMM's 10 million kilometer range. The new ship also only has 1.2 billion kilometers range (3 days), and will need tankers for long deployment.
Cote shipyard finishes a second slipway, both are allowed to expand.
The hematite completes geosurvey scans of Epsilon Eridani, and Lalande 21185 and is sent to the newly discovered system of 70 Ophiuchi .
The hawking finishes it's scans in Barnards star, discovering 4 systems which the pegsus is sent to explore: ross 154, 70 ophiuchi, wise 1541-2250 and V1581 CYGNI.
The commander of the pegasus is surprised to discover an anomaly in V1581 cygni, it appears to be a wormhole of some sort, the dormant fighter production facilities are set to work on a trio of probes to check the system, one with sensors to check out the anomaly, one with grav, for checking the jump points and one for geosurveys of the surrounding system, they are finishged in december and sent towards the system.
Meanwhile a planet in 70 Ophichi is discovered to be particularly hospitable, planet IV of the B component posesses a diameter of 12800 km, at an orbit of 130million, with gravity of .54, a 16 hour day, and shocking 364 day year, surface temperature is a chilly -43 degrees, little better than mars. But the atmosphere is what's most interesting about the planet, at first glance the pressure of .34 atmospheres is nothing spectacular, with 75% being nitrogen and 16% oxygen, the remainder Neon, but calculations show that the addittion of a mere .05 oxygen and .1 greenhouse gasses would render the planet entirably suitable to human comfort.
The planet is almost 12 billion kilometers from earth by the jump points, including a pair of legrange point jumps orbiting gas giants in the system which cuts 2 billion of the journey, untill recently legrange points had only been considered possible areas of jump singularities, but captain calvert of the pegasus noted anomalies in the areas which were consistant with jump areas, later confirmed by computer simulation and a later visit by the Hawking.
However the range is too far for the Heinliens which possess only range for a one way trip lasting 100 days, the HG wells class being designed for the short earth-mars hop possess half he range and a quarter the speed, and so are right out.
But cooincidentally the new Robinson class being retooled for possess a 22 billion kilometer range, retooling will be complete by september 2028, but without a jump gate or jump engines the ships still won't be able to make the journey. There is also a question of fuel use, a single trip by a pair of robinsons delivering 180,000 colonists and infrastructure would use 2.5 million fuel, over the course of a year these 2 ships would use 80% of our fuel production.
By years end retooling for the Hawke class geo survey vessels is completes, 3 are started expected to be due in december 2028. Possessing slightly better sensors, but reduced speed, the main selling point of the ship is it's built in jump engines allowing it to operate without a tender.
Hawke class Geosurvey Ship 8,100 tons 177 Crew 872.5 BP TCS 162 TH 450 EM 0
2777 km/s JR 4-50 Armour 1-35 Shields 0-0 Sensors 18/1/0/3 Damage Control Rating 8 PPV 0
Maint Life 5.27 Years MSP 539 AFR 65% IFR 0.9% 1YR 32 5YR 487 Max Repair 114 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 36 months Spare Berths 0
J8100(4-50) Military Jump Drive Max Ship Size 8100 tons Distance 50k km Squadron Size 4
150 EP Commercial Ion Drive (3) Power 150 Fuel Use 11.93% Signature 150 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 615,000 Litres Range 114.5 billion km (477 days at full power)
Thermal Sensor TH3-18 (1) Sensitivity 18 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 18m km
Geological Survey Sensors (3) 3 Survey Points Per Hour
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
A russian colony has been discovered on the moon, with thermal 756 and em 1079,
A panamerican colony has been discovered on Lalande 21185 A-1 with, TH 162 EM 212.
And finally in a shocking development the Tamarind corporation has announced that it intends to form its own extra solar government, named the "Tamarind Hegemony", Tamarind currently possess holdings in numerous south asian and east african countries, with economic power equal to a large country. (Population 100 million, about half what russia has).
Tamarind launches several ships into orbit, analysis shows powerful sensors that are obviously military in nature.