Turn 84 - Summer 2193/3043
Confederated Forces:
[] Clan Intimidation & Evacuation: active
Time: ? turns, Chance of success: 65%, Reward: ?
Roll 1 of ?, Roll 1d100: 98+35+15 = 148 - Crit Success (Diplomacy with Lupus Republic, All Military Action)
Roll 2 of ?, Roll 1d100: 87+35+15 = 137 - Success
Roll 3 of ?, Roll 1d100: 75+35+15 = 125 - Success
Should the Lupus Republic be informed about Tesseracts?
[] No - 4 votes
Should the Lupus Republic be informed about the Tanis Tesseract?
[] No - 4 votes
Should the Confederation attempt to take Tanis in a Trial of Possession?
[] Yes - 6 votes
By the end of Spring, the majority of vessels for the Clan Space Expeditionary Force had gathered in the Socrates System, including the four High Liners of the Confederation. Elements of the 8th Expeditionary Force, who had been training with the Republic's Military to get a good look at Clan tactics and military infrastructure, were picked up and integrated into the Expeditionary Divisions to provide information and some training to the soldiers, so that potential military operations against the Clans could be pursued.
During some talks, Admiral Anvorenth eng Laspol, of the United Principalities of Jerat, noted that technically, the operation could be followed through within a short time frame and through the New Berlin Tesseract, but especially the Survey Office was giving reasons not to inform the Lupus Republic about the existence of tesseracts. The Clans appeared to be riddled by agents of the Terran Hegemony and the Republic might be as well. Keeping the tesseracts under the wrap seemed to be indicated to prevent the Hegemony from potentially using them to their own advantage, possibly finding their way to the Confederation within a short time frame.
However, it was noted the other end of the New Berlin Tesseract should be secured by the expeditionary force, even if pursued as a side operation. As Junction was close to the Tanis system and under occupation of Clan Cloud Cobra, a Trial of Possession over Tanis might be used to secure Junction against the Clans. Publically, the Trial could also be used domestically, as Tanis was known to be the target of an extermination campaign by the Clans, with the goal of killing the 'native' population for their continued resistance against the Clans. Tanis would also become a reliable forwards operating base against potential Clan aggression, especially with the closeness of Junction, which could be used to quickly reinforce the system.
When asked about this, Sophist Winters noted it would turn Cloud Cobra into an enemy of the Confederation, and potentially many other clans, but noted that the entire operation would turn many Clans into enemies of the Confederation anyway.
In the end Operation Tanis was given a go by the Confederated Forces and indirectly by Parliament and the Expeditionary Fleet began to make its was towards Clan Space, accompanied by several vessels of the Republic's WarShip force, five Aegis class Heavy Cruisers, one Congress class Frigate and one Vincent class Corvette.
active for ? more turns
[] Bulwark Circinus: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 89+15 = 104 - Success (All military actions)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 20+15 = 35 - Failure
While there was considerable support for the militarization of Circinus, there was some pushback against the plans and the appropriation of funds for the project. Most came from the Illyrian Palatinate, the newest member of the Confederation. They noted they were about as close to the Inner Sphere as the Circinus Cooperative and as likely to be threatened by any Inner Sphere aggression. While the Confederation had friendly relations to the FWL, they noted they might be considered the 'soft underbelly' of any aggressor and more likely attacked once Circinus was turned into a Bastion. Here they were painfully clear they were not looking at the FWL in any way, shape or form.
As such, they attempted to block as much of the project as they could, which in turn resulted in some political bad blood with the Circinus Cooperative, who pointed out that Circinus had been attacked twice within the past ten years, while the Illyrians had been at peace for the past centuries, safe for the occasional pirate attack. And pirates were not a problem within the region anymore.
active for 2 more turns
OCP Survey Office:
[] Update the Counter Intelligence Branch: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 6+15 = 21 - Failure (All Intelligence Actions)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 55+15 = 70 - Success
Roll 3 of 4, Roll 1d100: 70+15 = 85 - Success
Roll 4 of 4, Roll 1d100: 16+15 = 31 - Failure
Combined: 52 - Success
While the final steps were taken to improve the counterintelligence of the Confederation, the entire process was almost thrown backwards as it was discovered that an agent of the Counter Intelligence Branch had been turned by what appeared to be an agent ot the Terran Hegemony, who had somehow made their way into the Confederation, moved to Earth and set up shop in Berlin within the past six month.
To make matters worse, the agent had data on them that seemed to indicate that they had turned even more agents, leading to an internal witch hunt that almost made the update to Counter Intelligence useless. However, most of the data from the Hegemony agent seemed to have been specially designed to sow discontent within the Survey Office and destroy the agencies operative efficiency, after intense use of 'Slow Penta' during the interrogation.
Reward: +10 to counterintel actions, -50 to Inner Sphere infiltration of agents
[] Kill all Terran Spies: active
Time: 8 turns, Chance of success: 40%
Roll 1 of 8, Roll 1d100: 56+15 = 71 - Success (All Intelligence Actions)
Roll 2 of 8, Roll 1d100: 41+10+15 = 66 - Success (MIIO Cooperation)
Roll 3 of 8, Roll 1d100: 99+10+15 = 123 - Crit Success
While the Survey Office dealt with its own Counter Intelligence Problem, Quintus Allard, the head of the MIIO decisively dealt with his own, flushing out seven Hegemony agents within his own organization on New Avalon alone, killing some, while others were interrogated with MIIO methods that reduced them to unresponsive vegetables. During the interrogation, the MIIO could identify a secret base on the planet Poznan, formerly located in the Capellan Confederation.
An ad hoc cooperative operation between the Survey Office and the MIIO, utilizing several Special Operations Groups from the Confederation, penetrated the base, discovering it was used to create and train doppelgangers, meant to replace several important people within the Inner Sphere. To make matters worse, there were already some people replaced, though they were largely important industrialists, but also at least three high placed agents within the MIIO and the Lyran Intelligence Corps, as well as several nobles.
In many cases, the originals were still alive, but in terrible conditions, crippled both bodily and mentally. The worst was the discovery of doppelgangers for Melissa Steiner-Davion, Duggan Marik and Edward Calderon, who were genetically identical to their originals, but, for the lack of a better word, 'incomplete', both mentally and bodily.
In the wake of the discovery, Hanse Davion ordered Allard to support any operation against Hegemony agents and to inform his 'colleagues' within any and all the other Inner Sphere nations, from the FWL to the Taurian Concordat. Here, the Confederation and its embassies was regarded as a neutral ground and group that was best used to inform the various intelligence agencies and hopefully flush out any and all Hegemony agents.
active for 5 more turns
OCP Diplomatic Corps:[/B]
[] FedCom Reproachment: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 92+20+10 = 122 - Success (Diplomatic Relations with FedCom, All Diplomatic Actions)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 59+20+10 = 89 - Success
Roll 3 of 4, Roll 1d100: 64+25+10 = 99 - Success
Roll 4 of 4, Roll 1d100: 75+25+10 = 110 - Success
Combined: 102 - Crit Success
The events over the past months and the continued support of the Federated Commonwealth by the Confederation in the wake of the Terran Hegemony discovery had cased Hanse Davion, Katarina Steiner and Melissa Steiner-Savion to reevaluate their own beliefs and goals. The more they got information from the Confederation and their own intelligence agencies as they slowly dismantled the Hegemony intelligence network, the more they began to question their rosy view of the Star League and their former overlords, the Cameron Family.
While everyone was out to grab more areas and control the Throne of the Star League, the Confederation had consistently used peaceful means of working with or against their neighbours. There was no intent to take power anywhere and now, the Confederation had not only saved the lives of Hanse Davion, Katrina Steiner and Quintus Allard, but also the life of Melissa Steiner-Davion and her children, though Conrad Steiner-Davion was undergoing psychological treatment.
In the end, the diplomatic work done by the Embassy only reinforced the feeling that the Confederation wanted to cooperate with the Federated Commonwealth, as they wanted to cooperate with every nation of the Inner Sphere. Already cooperation between the Lyran Commonwealth and the Federated Suns had led to the formation of the Federated Commonwealth and perhaps cooperation might bring in the other nations of the Inner Sphere and the Periphery.
With the success in the reproachment efforts and the good standing of the Confederation in international affairs, perhaps the threat of the Terran Hegemony and the Clans could be used to begin the process of International Cooperation within the Inner Sphere, creating some sort of informal alliance of some sort.
Result: Prevention of a Cold War Scenario with FedCom, +15 to diplomatic relations, New Action: International Cooperation
[] Uncover the Terran Hegemony: active
Time: 3 turns, Chance of success: 55%
Roll 1 of 3, Roll 1d100: 86+10 = 96 - Success (All Diplomatic Actions)
Roll 2 of 3, Roll 1d100: 51+10 = 61 - Success
Roll 3 of 3, Roll 1d100: 90+10 = 100 - Success
Combined: 86 - Success
Hegemony IntelOps, Roll 3d20: 43
Diplomatic Bonus, Roll 4+1d6: 9
The discovery of the Hegemony Base on Poznan and the subsequent release of information about what had been found inside led to a massive outcry and several of the doppelgangers in the various nations were immediately taken into custody, followed by a smaller number of Hegemony agents that had attached themselves as handlers to the doppelgangers.
Even the reaction of the Outworlds Alliance and the Magistracy of Canopus could be felt, some as disbelief, some as outright rage at the Hegemony once again attempting to dictate their way of life.
On Taurus, Poznan had a surprising effect. If one had expected Thomas Calderon to explode in a fit of rage and paranoia, he instead became silent and intense, with the Ambassador believing initially believing that he had a heart attack or a stroke. Instead, he had asked to be alone to think and not to be disturbed. Not even his family could get close to him for a week. Afterwards, he called in his son Edward and sent him to New Avalon to begin talks with Hanse Davion about limited cooperation against the Terran Hegemony.
Reward: -43 to Terran Hegemony IntelOps, +9 to diplomatic relations with the Inner Sphere
OCP Trade Organization:[/B]
[] Smaller Von Neumann: active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 3+10+10+10+20+15 = 68 - Success (Stronger Economy, Economic Ties, Interstellar Communication Network, Space Industry, Space Mining)
Roll 2 of 4, Roll 1d100: 44+10+10+10+20+15 = 109 - Success
With the design goals for the new smaller Von Neumanns being given, several of the dock yards began to work on the designs, some of which might be profitable to be turned into pure factory or pure mining vessels.
active for 2 more turns
[] Space Mining III: - 6 votes active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 70%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 28+10+10+10+20+15 = 93 - Success (Stronger Economy, Economic Ties, Interstellar Communication Network, Space Industry, Space Mining)
As the space borne industry had extended over the past year, it eventually became clear that the new industry needed more raw materials and so the OCPTO once again began to offer incentives to expand the Space borne mining sector.
active for 3 more turns
OCP Office for Science and Development:
[] Hyperwave Lanes: active
Time: 6 turns, Chance of success: 40%
Roll 1 of 6, Roll 1d100: 56+10+10 = 76 - Success (Research Center Sol, Interstellar Communication Network)
Roll 2 of 6, Roll 1d100: 4+10+10 = 24 - Failure
While the theory for Hyperwave Lanes was solid, as far as researchers could tell, the high energy requirement of the design was currently more than they had an answer for. To power a single Hyperwave Lane generator, they would need at least 200 PW per day of operation, which was more than the Earth received from solar radiation daily. That amount of energy was simply impossible to generate in any conventional way. It could be produced for short durations of time with the help of capacitors, but not continuously over an extended period.
As such, the project reached its first road block to develop a potentially practical design.
Active for 4 more turns
[] Tesseract Network: - 5 votes active
Time: 4 turns, Chance of success: 50%
Roll 1 of 4, Roll 1d100: 40+10+10 = 60 - Success (Research Center Sol, Interstellar Communication Network)
With the discovery of no less than seven tesseracts, including the New Berlin-Junction tesseract, it was not time to at least discover the extent of the existing tesseracts and discover where they lead. As such, the vessel that was used to discover them in the first place was given the target to move through those tesseracts and see what was on the other side of each.
There was believed to be a 20 percent chance it would lead to the discovery of more tesseracts.
active for 3 more turns
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OCP Internal Events:
Not much of interest is happening internally.
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Intelligence Report:
Periphery Alliance:
Lupus Republic:
Not much is happening within the Lupus Republic.
Lothian League:
Not much is happening within the Lothian League.
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Far Star Situation:
Algareon:
Talks with the Triumvirate and the people of Algareon continued, with the talks shifting to the Preservers, the creators of the system. From the information given, Algareon was at least 200.000 years old, but uninhabited for most of the time, until the Preservers began to move the first species into the topopolis about 10.000 years ago, with the first humans arriving 2500 years ago, from the Roman Republic and other ancient nations of Earth. Members of the different species continued to arrive over time, until about one thousand years ago, when contact to the Preservers simply stopped, and they lost communication with other installations like Algareon.
No new vessels with 'specimens' arrived and the Triumvirate simply went into a failsafe mode to preserve their charges, slowly expanding the structures as per their last orders.
There had been intermittent contact with other non-Preserver and non-preserved species over time, but that again stopped a thousand years ago, until the Terran Hegemony discovered the system and began to fight. From then on, the Triumvirate had done what was in their ability to do to defend the system and its inhabitants, going as far as allowing to create some movable habitats to 'colonize' other systems around Algareon to act as forward bases.
They continued to try and contact the Preservers, utilizing a form of low bandwidth low frequency long range hyperwave transceivers, but it continued to fail.
Terran Hegemony
There is currently a lack of intelligence about the Terran Hegemony.
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Taurian Concordat:
Not much of interest is happening within the Concordat.
Magistracy of Canopus:
Not much of interest is happening within the Magistracy.
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Inner Sphere:
Federated Commonwealth:
Not much of interest is happening in the Federated Commonwealth.
Draconis Combine:
The Draconis Combine continues to splinter and collapse.
Free Worlds League:
The buildup along the Andurien-FWL border continued.
Dutchy of Andurien:
The buildup along the Andurien-FWL border continued.
Confederation of Habitats:
Not much of interest is happening within the CoH.
Terra:
Slowly the bioweapon could be controlled, as more vaccine and cure was spread through Terras infected population.
Expansion and Suggestions:
The DSSI Network slowly continues to expand into the Inner Sphere.
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Random Event - Terran Data Dump
As the Confederation of Habitats continued to support Terra with medical equipment, the reveal of the Terran Hegemony had caused them to become more cautious concerning old Terran Hegemony installations in the Terra system, and they began to search for other installations, discovering a previously unknown Terran Hegemony installation in the Pluto-Charon system in Charon's Mordor Macula. The installation appeared to date back from the early 24rd century and had been active until the end of the Terran Hegemony in the aftermath of the Amaris War.
Inspection showed the installation to have been a super computing center called SAINT, utilizing the naturally low temperature of Charon's surface features to cool the system. James McKenna himself seemed to have ordered its construction and David Cameron had been one of its first commanders. While almost all data from the supercomputer seemed to have been moved during the 27th century to another super computing center, PALADIN, in a system called FactoryOne, some had remained at SAINT.
Some data in question revealed plans of the Terran Hegemony to actively destroy habitable worlds past a certain distance from Terra, about 750 lightyears, to prevent the spread of humanity past the reach of Terra, based on plans from someone codenamed Gallant. Secondarily, the plan was to kill any and all non-human sophont species and to prevent any non-Terran Hegemony personnel to meet with these non-human sophont species.
The plan was aimed to prevent humanity to meet an external threat that was only described as a 'huge belligerent alien empire' and that they were 'evil space hamsters' aiming to 'subjugate humanity and turn them into bio-mechanical monstrosities', with any other information on it removed with the rest of SAINT, though it appeared it had been a vessel under command of Alexander McKenna and Franklin Cammeron as second in command, had been the first to encounter this unknown alien empire in the mid to late 22nd century.
At first the information on SAINT had been kept under wraps by the Belters, but eventually they began to widely broadcast the information via HPG to any and all HPG networks, from where the data was picked up by the various new agencies and spread throughout the Inner Sphere in late Summer.