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C# Fiction => NuclearSlurpee's Fiction => The Second Chronicle of the Duranium Legion => Topic started by: nuclearslurpee on September 10, 2022, 12:25:50 AM
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Place all comments related to the Second Chronicles of the Duranium Legion here. I have finished posting the rather extensive intro materials, and shall hope to have at least one update's worth of gameplay completed this weekend if time permits. After that, I'll aim for updates once a weekend and to hopefully maintain a robust posting buffer... for real this time!
A note for those who may care, I am playing with my "usual" DB mods. These include:
- Improved Personal Weapons (PWI) renamed Heavy Personal Weapons (PWH) and boosted to 1.25 attack, 1.25 pen, 1.6 GSP
- LOG modules are boosted to provide 1000 GSP and locked to LVH only. LOG-S and LOG are reflagged as LOG and LOG-H respectively.
- Plasma Carronades have +50% RP cost to develop, a small nerf since they are so OP for ground combat.
- Missile Agility techline is downscaled to 1.25x per tech level, so the first few levels are 20, 25, 32, 40, 50, ... instead of 20, 32, 48, 64, 80, ...
- Add 0.25 HS Gauss Cannon size as this allows <50t Gauss fighters if desired.
Post away!
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BritCo will be back. Aka real good.
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I am so freaking happy that this world is being continued! I am so exited I haven't even read the first post yet but needed to exclaim my excitement upon seeing it.
Long live the Duranium Legion!
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BritCo will be back. Aka real good.
They will be back, but they may not be the same... the little-known side theater of the Civil War between BritCo and FrenchCeaux was transformative shall we say... :P
I am so freaking happy that this world is being continued! I am so exited I haven't even read the first post yet but needed to exclaim my excitement upon seeing it.
Long live the Duranium Legion!
Were I an optimist I would hope the first post does live up to this impressive amount of hype, but as I am a realist I simply hope you will soon report that you are only a little bit disappointed. ;)
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Really excited to see this starting up again. Love the idea of having Lost Tech ships and units to start.
I assume you set them up with a high-tech race and then transferred them?
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Were I an optimist I would hope the first post does live up to this impressive amount of hype, but as I am a realist I simply hope you will soon report that you are only a little bit disappointed. ;)
Having read through what is up so far as well as the tidbits in the ship compendium I can say that the hype has only increased! I am quite eager to have more content to sink my teeth into and I am quite curious how things have transpired and will proceed. I wonder if we will see some of the old characters, sure it was 90 years ago but Trans-Newtonian medicine and cryogenic suspension can go a long way. Will any long lost legion colonies be rediscovered? Will the ships of the lost fleets be found derelict, there crew long dead, or perhaps grounded on barely habitable worlds being lived in by the crews descendants? Maybe they will never be seen again? Was the destabilization the jump points even a galaxy wide event or was it limited to the Sol system? Is the rest of the empire intact, eagerly awaiting the return of a stable jump point back to the home world? I can't wait to find out!
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Really excited to see this starting up again. Love the idea of having Lost Tech ships and units to start.
I assume you set them up with a high-tech race and then transferred them?
I actually did it the old-school way of researching all of the high techs, designing and building the Lost Tech ships, and then unresearching techs and marking the components obsolete to hide them. Using the new ship transfer method would have been cleaner, but I was setting this up in 2.1.0 which was when I found the bug with ship transfer that I reported to Steve... it turned out to not have any effect but I didn't know that at the time and didn't want to to break the game by accident. Either way works, of course, obsoleting the components does require a certain degree of playing by the honor system, but as Aurora is a single-player game this isn't really a problem. :)
Having read through what is up so far as well as the tidbits in the ship compendium I can say that the hype has only increased! I am quite eager to have more content to sink my teeth into and I am quite curious how things have transpired and will proceed. I wonder if we will see some of the old characters, sure it was 90 years ago but Trans-Newtonian medicine and cryogenic suspension can go a long way. Will any long lost legion colonies be rediscovered? Will the ships of the lost fleets be found derelict, there crew long dead, or perhaps grounded on barely habitable worlds being lived in by the crews descendants? Maybe they will never be seen again? Was the destabilization the jump points even a galaxy wide event or was it limited to the Sol system? Is the rest of the empire intact, eagerly awaiting the return of a stable jump point back to the home world? I can't wait to find out!
Truly only the most erudite of readers begin with the ship compendium rather than the main plot, knowing the value of detailed technical data and short historical asides rather than tedious things such as "plot" and "characters". (https://i.imgur.com/Z3wSg01.gif)
I will say I am still thinking about how to handle the potential for discovering long-lost friends - or foes! Right now my thought is that I can hand-wave most of the lost colonies as they were in no-name/renamed systems, with the exception of Alpha Centauri. I may hand-wave that one, drop in some easter-egg colony ruins, or reconstruct the old system from scratch depending on my mood whenever we come across that famous binary system.
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E: Chapter I is now up, and I think I will keep the traditional OOC comments in the comment thread as this seems right and proper.
As stated somewhere else, I'm planning to keep a pace of an update per weekend and to maintain a modest posting buffer in case of emergency - or worse, Naval Conferences. The next post which contains the rest of year 4100 is written so shall form the buffer until next weekend. Meanwhile, let the rampant speculation abound! Or you could just look under the spoiler tag, I suppose that works too...
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Author "I wonder how I'll handle Alpha Centauri if/when I find it? I mean what ate the od-" Finds it on the second jump point.
...Well that worked out really well from the perspective of getting something to write about.
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...or worse, Naval Conferences...
Perhaps in future you might go for a Library of Alexandria type thing where only a table of contents and a summery remains while the volumes themselves have been lost. Or go for a "Battle of Gliese 1 Report and Assessment - Summary and Excerpts" type post.
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I finally managed to catch up. And I am glad that we will be able to enjoy new reports about various conferences and luncheons. On that note, though, I have to say that I'm slightly disappointed that we didn't get a detailed report from the day and a half long debate about the composition of Legion expeditionary force. But I am sure that similar opportunities will appear in the future and we will not be deprived of such pleasant experience.
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Author "I wonder how I'll handle Alpha Centauri if/when I find it? I mean what ate the od-" Finds it on the second jump point.
...Well that worked out really well from the perspective of getting something to write about.
"pleasedon'tbealphacentauri... pleasedon'tbealphacentauri... pleasedon'tbe--CRAP!!"
-some AAR writer somewhere, probably
Perhaps in future you might go for a Library of Alexandria type thing where only a table of contents and a summery remains while the volumes themselves have been lost. Or go for a "Battle of Gliese 1 Report and Assessment - Summary and Excerpts" type post.
I have some ideas along the "summary and excerpts" lines, but less excerpty and more exemplary if that makes sense.
I finally managed to catch up. And I am glad that we will be able to enjoy new reports about various conferences and luncheons. On that note, though, I have to say that I'm slightly disappointed that we didn't get a detailed report from the day and a half long debate about the composition of Legion expeditionary force. But I am sure that similar opportunities will appear in the future and we will not be deprived of such pleasant experience.
"You wanna send the Navy guys to that new star system down the road?"
"Yeah, sure."
"You wanna fill out the paperwork?"
"Yeah, no."
-the Lords Admiral, probably
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I see our author has gone all posh with a separate comments thread, presumably just to make block quoting chunks of each chapter that little bit more inconvenient when replying?
In any event I have now caught up with the Second Chronicle and I am distraught at how far the Legion has fallen, six months and several posts in and no-one has been served light refreshments! Some would argue that Legion doctrine demanding the use of TN minerals in their light refreshments was a mistake, but these people have never had Sorium-enhanced Tea so can safely be ignored. These are dark days indeed.
The wider setting looks fun, while a mineral constraint is not particularly new in Aurora that constraint being a lack of actual reserves (as opposed to not enough mines/too many factories) is not something I've seen before. Also the idea of their being elements of Lost Tech is interesting, lots of tough decisions about when to risk an irreplaceable unit lie ahead which should make for some tense conferences, made all the more volatile by the lack of light refreshments. ;)
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I see our author has gone all posh with a separate comments thread, presumably just to make block quoting chunks of each chapter that little bit more inconvenient when replying?
Fortunately in the 21st century we have multiple browser tabs technology which makes this inconvenience trivial to overcome, if perhaps one could still hope for even better technology than what this ancient forum offers us. Still, to ease the discontent of the masses I shall provide the main topic quote tag in the OOC context for those who value such finer details in life as appropriate quote headers.
In any event I have now caught up with the Second Chronicle and I am distraught at how far the Legion has fallen, six months and several posts in and no-one has been served light refreshments! Some would argue that Legion doctrine demanding the use of TN minerals in their light refreshments was a mistake, but these people have never had Sorium-enhanced Tea so can safely be ignored. These are dark days indeed.
Very much so. We all shall eagerly await the return of BritCo to this fine board.
The wider setting looks fun, while a mineral constraint is not particularly new in Aurora that constraint being a lack of actual reserves (as opposed to not enough mines/too many factories) is not something I've seen before. Also the idea of their being elements of Lost Tech is interesting, lots of tough decisions about when to risk an irreplaceable unit lie ahead which should make for some tense conferences, made all the more volatile by the lack of light refreshments. ;)
I'm interested to see how it turns out, as it will be a serious race against the clock to get facilities and colonists to work them into position before supplies run out in the home system. With such very limited support from jump tenders and stabilization ships I am genuinely unsure how things will turn out, although if Alpha Centauri has sufficient minerals that factor may not be too bad to deal with in another year or so. And of course the new spoiler race will be a wrench in the works as well, the Legion has enough naval tonnage including Lost Tech ships to make a good fight of it but getting anything larger than a light cruiser through most jump points will be a long time in coming.
With this, we now provide more fuel for the commentary fire, as once more we see that another update is upon us.
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OOC Comments
Quote tag for Chapter II:
[quote author=nuclearslurpee link=topic=13094.msg162412#msg162412 date=1663436364][/quote]
This finishes year 4100 and it only took two updates, truly one wonders what the world is coming to. As some commenters have surmised, the early discovery of Alpha Centauri did throw a wrench into my plans, thus more custom setup ensued and while it did not take quite as long as the initial game setup I will say that rebuilding systems from scratch is a slow and occasionally painful process. The resulting Alpha Centauri system should, I believe, be an accurate match for the one in vol. I of the Chronicles, aside from of course mineral distributions and some minor details such as the exact asteroids or the climate on some planets and moons. Of course the eccentricity of orbits was not in 1.12 but no one should mind too much.
Let us all take a moment of silence as we remember the poor suffering people of Alpha Centauri-B II, forced to live so many decades with no light refreshments to punctuate their fraught existence. Truly a tragedy on a scale never before seen in history. As for the instigators of this tragedy, well, they shall remain the subject of reckless speculation for now...
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Would you consider changing the name of the Comments Thread to something like "Duranium Legion II Comments Thread" to make it stand out on the "recent" section of the front page? While this is the only Comments Thread that lives in my heart, many other comment threads live on the forum.
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Would you consider changing the name of the Comments Thread to something like "Duranium Legion II Comments Thread" to make it stand out on the "recent" section of the front page? While this is the only Comments Thread that lives in my heart, many other comment threads live on the forum.
Using my eldritch subforum modding powers, it is done as you have requested. Good catch!
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Let us all take a moment of silence as we remember the poor suffering people of Alpha Centauri-B II, forced to live so many decades with no light refreshments to punctuate their fraught existence. Truly a tragedy on a scale never before seen in history. As for the instigators of this tragedy, well, they shall remain the subject of reckless speculation for now...
You see tragedy I see an untapped market.
-BritCoTheThird Rep
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Even so, no one seriously considered calling off the survey before it was completed, as even in spite of the dreadful economic situation of the moment Lord High Admiral Laura Tyrol had no intention of setting a precedent that her command should ever be subject to the whims of such a banal force as economics.
At least some standards are being maintained in the Legion
In his concluding remarks, Captain Zelos noted that while the retreat actions of the 19th Mechanized and the colonists under their protection were perhaps cowardly and unbecoming, such actions had ultimately preserved a small fraction of the colonists, and in any case the bravery and hardiness of the remnant colonists was certainly as much as any citizen of the Legion could aspire to.
The clear implication being that if relief had arrived in 90 days and not 90 years then the actions of the 19th Mechanized and colonists would have reverted back to being cowardly and unbecoming.
I feel Zelos has the potential to go far in the Admiralty.
For once in Legion history, economic necessities came before military desires, though many were left to wonder if “for once” would in fact also be “for all time”.
The third worst thing to ever happen to the Legion, the second being the Collapse and the first being the current ongoing lack of light refreshments.
Legion ship naming remains a source of joy and delight. The Seahammer in particular is a classic, it's an item that sounds impressive and violent but would be deeply disappointing in reality due to some pesky physics that none of the Lords Admiralty would know or care about.
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Let us all take a moment of silence as we remember the poor suffering people of Alpha Centauri-B II, forced to live so many decades with no light refreshments to punctuate their fraught existence. Truly a tragedy on a scale never before seen in history. As for the instigators of this tragedy, well, they shall remain the subject of reckless speculation for now...
You see tragedy I see an untapped market.
-BritCoTheThird Rep
Sounds like the Dutch East Alpha Centauri Company is going into business. Which is perhaps a bit of a problem for them, as presently Alpha Centauri-B is on the "west" side of the map, not that such terms have any meaning in space of course.
The clear implication being that if relief had arrived in 90 days and not 90 years then the actions of the 19th Mechanized and colonists would have reverted back to being cowardly and unbecoming.
It is sometimes quite impressive what dying and being succeeded by one's descendants does for one's reputation.
Legion ship naming remains a source of joy and delight. The Seahammer in particular is a classic, it's an item that sounds impressive and violent but would be deeply disappointing in reality due to some pesky physics that none of the Lords Admiralty would know or care about.
It is as always nice to know that some among the readership do appreciate what is truly important in life. :)
Though one might note that a sufficiently large "seahammer" would in fact still be quite violent and impressive, albeit for rather different reasons than one usually associates with hammers.
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OOC Comments
Quote tag for Chapter III:
[quote author=nuclearslurpee link=topic=13094.msg162589#msg162589 date=1664066576][/quote]
In a contrast to my usual style of gameplay, there is not a lot happening early on in terms of exploration due to the limited survey assets, thus not a lot of action for the impressive-looking warships the Lords Admiral are so proud of. The contrast of course is that I am paying much more attention to mineral sources than I usually do in the early game, as the Legion is frankly out of everything but can only get some things at a time. Spoilers, probably: next on the list will be mercassium and neutronium as the Legion will need both very soon if they want to do anything fun in this century.
I hope this perhaps unusual focus is appreciated by some, not too intolerable to the rest, and an adequate substitute for the chronic lack of light refreshments for all. I have my doubts about the latter but one can always hope as we have seen.
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Frankly, no one had been paying attention to the stockpiles of what was usually a tertiary mineral, until now perhaps half of the Lords Admiral had not even known the word “corbomite” in all honesty.
There are only 11 TN minerals and yet that is still clearly at least one too many for the Lords Admiralty to keep track of. It is reassuring that so little has changed inside the Legion over the decades.
The question of whether heads ought to roll over this was a popular subject of discussion both inside and outside of the Legion high command offices.
There is only one correct Legion approved answer to this question, I only hope it was reached.
Thus ended the year 4101, with the Legion looking outwards with hope and anticipation
I don't want Lord Admirals with hope, I want them deranged with blood thirsty dreams of driving even close to the enemy so they can shoot them in the face at point blank.
Let us hope this is a brief interlude of economic concerns and that normal service is soon resumed.
Or that instead this work goes full on macrosocio-economic with the Lords Admirals being over-thrown by the Lords Actuary, a group devoted to building an economically efficient empire with a few military types scrabbling for scraps. It would be a bold change in direction but one I think the world deserves to see.
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As it is once again time for an update, it is also once again time for a comment reply. I shall endeavor to be brief in the face of this voluminous task ahead of me:
There are only 11 TN minerals and yet that is still clearly at least one too many for the Lords Admiralty to keep track of. It is reassuring that so little has changed inside the Legion over the decades.
The Lords Admiral must be excused here, they do after all only have ten fingers at the most on which to keep track of such things.
I don't want Lord Admirals with hope, I want them deranged with blood thirsty dreams of driving even close to the enemy so they can shoot them in the face at point blank.
As this is their default state this is not a hard desire to satisfy, albeit perhaps narratively it may be more difficult to highlight in the absence of enemies to drive closer to and shoot.
Let us hope this is a brief interlude of economic concerns and that normal service is soon resumed.
Indeed.
Or that instead this work goes full on macrosocio-economic with the Lords Admirals being over-thrown by the Lords Actuary, a group devoted to building an economically efficient empire with a few military types scrabbling for scraps. It would be a bold change in direction but one I think the world deserves to see.
There remains some concern that this may be what happens. Mostly within the Lords Actuary, which are about the only group of people who imagine this to be even remotely possible and spend at least half of their working hours fretting about the terrible expenses they would incur in such a situation.
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OOC Comments:
Quote Tag for Chapter IV:
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I am sure El Pip will have no difficulty identifying the most relevant and important part of the update, of course. (https://i.imgur.com/Z3wSg01.gif)
Otherwise, let us all pray that these logistical endeavors are soon interrupted by the discovery of some terrible alien foe who might be fought unto death, if nothing else this should raise the ratio of words written to increments passed and thus, in theory, the pace of updates and/or buffer construction. Alternatively, the mineral crisis may be easily solved if the requirement for maintenance supplies is sufficiently alleviated by whatever actions follow from this discovery.
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why the crucial task of ensuring colonial safety was only being performed after colonization had begun.
Are you suggesting that colonists actually need safety? Such cowardliness is unbecoming a true Legion colonist.
though the eagerness of the crews to do the same was perhaps not quite so effervescent.
The potentially very dangerous exploration will continue until morale improves. (https://i.imgur.com/DYAEiOu.gif)
Naturally, this required selection of a suitable body for colonization, a task made rather complicated by the lack of suitable bodies for colonization.
I am disappointed by the lack of a multi-part colonisation conference where the various Admiralty factions childishly squabble discuss this and make a decision.
Ultimately, as the astute student of the Legion might well expect, the choice was made in favor of the riskier, but potentially far more rapid, option.
It is good to see standards being maintained.
and inertia as with most laws of physics would certainly not stop the Lords Admiral from doing as they liked.
It won't stop them issuing whatever orders they like certainly and that is basically the same as doing whatever they like.
To the casual observer, the Xanadu-class survey frigates were merely a pale imitation of the famous Ars Magica classes
Hyperion Drive Yards HR-225 Deep Space Engine 'Eidolon'
I do hope this engine name is deliberate.
much to Lord High Admiral Tyrol’s mild annoyance.
I am growing to like LHA Tyrol, that is entirely the correct response.
As this particular mission had been a great success, in the sense that it had effectively proven that Barnard’s Star was unlikely to be threatened by any nearby carnivorous aliens,
That is one definition of success. But perhaps not one that most of the Legion would share, or indeed the readership.
y this time, some in the Legion high command were arguing for a reduction of survey efforts, given that any further discoveries would not be exploitable anytime soon, and thus there was only risk to be found in the form of accidentally alerting an alien species to the existence of the Legion
Cowards.
Naturally, others among the Lords Admiralty were eager to tolerate this risk as the natural consequences of taking such a risk could be considered very much tolerable
Yes, ill-advised over-expansion done with a still crippled industrial base leading to a war fought with a handful of irreplaceable Lost Tech ships and no prospect of even second rate reinforcements due to an ongoing mineral shortage. Who could possibly object to this plan?
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As another update fast approaches, I must confess my tremendous disappointment that no-one among the readership appears to have noticed nor to have taken pleasure in the name of Commandant Damneus Zagreus. Perhaps if he had been named Damneus Iteus, there would have been some response, but alas the random name generator is not so wise in the ways of garnering public attention. Thus, we forge onwards slightly the worse for the wear.
I am disappointed by the lack of a multi-part colonisation conference where the various Admiralty factions childishly squabble discuss this and make a decision.
Your disappointment will not last too much longer, albeit we will not yet go whole-hog for Conferences while the AAR has yet to really get moving, but there will be some Conference-like material produced nevertheless.
I do hope this engine name is deliberate.
I remember looking up the name after thinking of it and considering it quite fitting, this is enough evidence of fault for me and so I will take credit.
I am growing to like LHA Tyrol, that is entirely the correct response.
Okay, your disappointment may continue as you shall soon read.
Yes, ill-advised over-expansion done with a still crippled industrial base leading to a war fought with a handful of irreplaceable Lost Tech ships and no prospect of even second rate reinforcements due to an ongoing mineral shortage. Who could possibly object to this plan?
Particularly if the economic recovery is seen to be proceeding well, and certain members of the naval aristocracy might let their dreams of glory motivate an overly optimistic assessment of what this admittedly strong recovery can realistically support? Is this question rhetorical? We must proceed to the update to find out...
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OOC Comments:
Quote tag for Chapter V:
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I am posting a bit late in the evening for myself, so in a bit of a rush + tired, as such I do apologize for any typos, grammatical errors, or worst - missed italicization of ship and class names. :o
Rather a lengthy update this time, though for anyone illiterate who might be reading I have provided not one but two images, never you mind that they are still mostly words. The reason for the length is that the frequency of notable events has somewhat reduced, and in line with this I wanted to press onward until reaching a particular point of some criticality - what this is, the readership may speculate at leisure.
I expect the next update to be in the form of the noted Appendix A, for sake of the update schedule and to give each post its proper spotlight, it is not included with the main post but shall be provided later. I have not yet decided, but I am leaning towards a separate thread for "Appendices" as this seems only natural and fitting. Thought from the readership on this critical question of format and organization will of course be taken into consideration. Or taped to a dartboard, depending on contents and/or tone.
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As another update fast approaches, I must confess my tremendous disappointment that no-one among the readership appears to have noticed nor to have taken pleasure in the name of Commandant Damneus Zagreus.
If we are expected to take note of every legion commander with an elaborate name then we will never have time to get anything done.
I expect the next update to be in the form of the noted Appendix A, for sake of the update schedule and to give each post its proper spotlight, it is not included with the main post but shall be provided later. I have not yet decided, but I am leaning towards a separate thread for "Appendices" as this seems only natural and fitting.
A third thread would be a suitably appropriate act of empire building, so why not?
While some cooler heads objected to this rash and unconscionable throwing-away of resources, these were largely silenced by the majority of Lords eager to return to normal, for a definition of “normal” dated nearly a century in the past.
Cooler heads appears to be Legion code for "cowards".
Despite the fact that Lord Captain Catreus only had actual command over a fraction of these assets, the orders ultimately were given without significant undue delay and only minimal spatting over turf
I like the cut of Catreus' jib and being named after an ancient snake god is suitably exciting. As I am in need of a new favourite for tragic reasons to be discussed later he will do for now.
Captain Thomas Zelos
I understand we readers are now required to note such names?
By 11 August, the reality of the mineral situation could no longer be papered over, as the Martian ground forces construction department reported a complete lack of vendarite
In contrast to previous mineral shortages, however, the Lords Admiral were alarmingly quick to declare this particular bottoming-out as rather less than urgent
By mid-August, the vendarite crisis had reached an intolerable height, dragging to a halt even the freighter construction in the Duratus orbital shipyards
Given it appears to have been scant days between Mars running out of vendarite and then the Duratus orbital yards running out, The Lords Admirals had to act alarmingly quickly in declaring the problem not urgent, or it would have been obvious even to them that it was urgent.
The morning of 5 June saw another classic Legion tradition once again come into common practice, this being the category of happenstance wherein a seemingly innocuous and well-meaning act of a Lord Admiral leads to vociferous controversy, superfluous debate at exorbitant volume levels, and an elevated probability of fisticuffs.
I was worried this tradition had been lost in the anarchy.
In this case, the innocuous act was the retirement of Lord High Admiral Laura Tyrol,
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Let me assure you there was nothing innocuous about that act. And following on from losing LHA Ander and his derangedly optimistic leadership of Logistics Command. Dark times indeed.
it became clear that the only resolution would be found in some form of Naval Conference to resolve the issue.
Huzzah! I am concerned that Appendix A is described as 'abridged', which is very much missing the point of a Legion Naval Conference, but I await it impatiently nevertheless.
as well as the BritCo Light Refreshments Corporation on-site representative for unexplained reasons.
A mystery for the ages.
While some took her personal statements claiming that the Lords Grand Admiral in place at the time were clearly not as well-qualified and she could “beat the snot out of them at any place and any time” as evidence of this, others considered such statements to be well within par-for-the-course for any member of the Lords Admiralty.
Why can't both be true? (https://i.imgur.com/DYAEiOu.gif). In any event, good to see that she went out (verbally) fighting.
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If we are expected to take note of every legion commander with an elaborate name then we will never have time to get anything done.
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I understand we readers are now required to note such names?
Just the good ones, of course. Named after curse words and the like, you know how it is.
Given it appears to have been scant days between Mars running out of vendarite and then the Duratus orbital yards running out, The Lords Admirals had to act alarmingly quickly in declaring the problem not urgent, or it would have been obvious even to them that it was urgent.
While you're not wrong, I would note that the intervening time period of approximately a year between these statements suggests that "scant days" may be one of the more misleading ways to describe the situation, frankly even for someone with your incredibly tenuous connection to the concept of linear time.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Let me assure you there was nothing innocuous about that act. And following on from losing LHA Ander and his derangedly optimistic leadership of Logistics Command. Dark times indeed.
Correct, actually she did it completely and exclusively to spite the readership, and I congratulate Steve on such an impressively self-aware AI. (https://i.imgur.com/DYAEiOu.gif)
Huzzah! I am concerned that Appendix A is described as 'abridged', which is very much missing the point of a Legion Naval Conference, but I await it impatiently nevertheless.
Others of the readership would doubtless object to the unabridged timeline. I recognize of course that bowing to the whims of the readership has never been in keeping with the ethos of these works, but we do pay lip service for advertising purposes regardless.
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"Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days."
Does that mean it's time for an update? :-*
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Unfortunately not. I never got around to posting in here, but I had a database corruption that rendered the save unplayable - so this one is sadly over. :(
I have a plan for a more ambitious project I want to attempt when 2.2 rolls out, but it will take a while to set up so I won't be writing anything on this forum besides long-winded posts about game mechanics for a while, I think.
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Well this is deeply disappointing news, bordering on the tragic.
It seems the Duranium Legion is a concept too beautiful for this fallen world and thus reality conspires to ensure it's full tale is never told.
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"Beautiful" is one word for it...