TW+2126+EoT+3

**Response** MIL: 2 1. The army continues to train. No new orders and hopefully they'll never need to be any.

ECO: 2 1. I am contributing my econ towards investing in the Project Earth Global Health Project.

ESP: 9 1. 5 espionage will go into working with the Andean Union. I'm not worried about secrecy too much. I already asked their permission and received it. So I want to find out who is messing with my neighbor. No tricks, no hidden subversion attempts while I'm there. Just straight up helping a neighbor and earning goodwill. I do want to make a very good impression though. In the future I think I'm going to try to make a pan Andean Territory Intelligence Agency. So I want the Andean Unions agents to get a good impression and want to work with my agents again. I would also like to know how much espionage the Andean Union has. I'm not going to press for it, but we are going to be working together. Maybe they will tell me freely.

2. 4 Espionage will go into establishing the People Helping People organization become established. The details of the PHP will be detailed in my rep section. Now it might seem a bit strange and suspicious to be using spies to set up a charitable organization. But they won't be doing anything illegal. Charitable organizations already have ad campaigns and ways of determining who would be most open to helping them. Well that's what my agents will be doing. Spreading the word, it is a completely new organization after all, and relaying the best ways to set up back to the main organization. Think of them as a very aggressive marketing division.

Also they have top priority orders to not do anything illegal. And to pass themselves off as something else. I do not want anyone to realize I used espionage here. They would get the wrong idea. (Admittedly I've thought of using the PHP as an extension of my spy agency, but I'm not sure if I want to yet, so I want to keep it squeaky clean for now.)

TEC: 6 1. 1 research will go into a feasibility study for more efficient space travel. The three main projects are antimatter rockets, solar sails, and beam based propulsion.

2. 5 will go into hopefully finishing the first phase of my psionics program.

MOR: 6 1. 4 morale will go into encouraging the best and brightest of the scientists working in private fields to join the new R&D centers I've been funding. Also to encourage young people to focus on the sciences more in their education.

2. 2 Morale will go into encourage my people to give to the People Helping People's fund for disaster relief. Also looking for volunteers to run it. I will detail this more in the rep section.

REP: 2 1. All my reputation will go in to the establishment of the People Helping People organization. The PHP is a group dedicated to helping people of all walks of life that have suffered deprivations. With so many rebellions of oppressed people in the world and the recent lunar attacks a lot of attention has going into dealing with the oppressors and attackers. But not a lot has gone into helping the victims of these things. And while the Southern Federation is isolationist we're still human just like everyone else. We still care about these things. So we're going to step and make the world a better place.

The PHP will deliver aid to stricken people no matter whom they are or where they might be. In space, on the ground, wherever. This initial rep will go to setting up locations in other countries and getting people to volunteer or donate. **Response** MIL: 3

ECO: 2

ESP: 9

TEC: 7

MOR: 6

REP: 2 Military:

Your training pays off. Your army is confident and well-disciplined.

[Southern Federation gains 1 MIL] Global Health:

Your contributions to the project have been acknowledged by Project Earth. People Helping People:

Your progress begins, and your agents have identified several people who might be helpful in the process of spreading aid. People also generally contribute to the project, though not as much as could be expected. However, without actual practical economic aid to spread, the program can only go so far. Space Travel:

You have identified several possible methods. Antimatter rockets are believed to be the most impractical, as Van Allen deposits are too sparse to mine and production too expensive to be feasible, as well as the serious containment issues that still exist. Solar sails and beam-based propulsion are believed to be the most likely candidates, though modern variations of the old fusion engine or VASIMIR systems could also be possible. Psionics:

The first mental communication between two psionic sensitives sets off shockwaves in the scientific community. Practical telepathy has become a reality, though it is yet restricted to face-to-face communication, and only between two people who are already sensitive to psionic powers, a very small minority of the population. People not sensitive to psionics cannot be read or read others, beyond a very weak tele-empathic sense, but even this could be useful in diplomatic negotiations. Moreover, this has proven that psionics exist, which is in itself critical to further advances.

[Southern Federation gains trait Early Telepathy] Morale:

Your encouragements find success in new recruits.

[Southern Federation gains 1 TEC] Andean Invasion:

No sooner do your intelligence assets arrive on the scene than a coup explodes in the capitol. While limited weapons are smuggled into the nation, the culprits clearly failed to provide nearly enough weaponry for the locals and had made no attempts at suborning the army were made, which also left the uprising doomed to failure from the start. However, the effort does succeed in one aim – it badly weakens the unity of the nation. Likewise, evidence was found implicating the culprit: Tamoanchan. This became even more clear when Tamoanchan military forces crossed the border, claiming to be supporting the rebellion already being crushed.

[Tamoanchan loses all co-opted stats. Andean Union loses 1 MOR.]

[Roll summary:]

Tamoanchan: 6 ESP+7 MOR (6d6+7d4)=19+18=37 (-2 Unprepared)

Andean Rebels: 2 MOR: (2d6)=9

Andean Loyalists: 3 MIL, 2 ESP, 1 MOR: (3d8+3d6)=17

Southern Federation: 5 ESP (5d6)=16[/QUOTE] [B]Space Travel[/B]

Do I have any time estimates to provide a comparison between how long it would take to get practical inter system ships working using any of the proposed methods? [B]Psionics[/B]

This is going to more difficult than I thought. Makes me a bit a sad to see people like the Grim and T.E.L.E.P.A.T.H. put up telepathic fluff when they can't be that much more advanced than me. Ok two questions. When you said shockwaves in the scientific community do you mean my community or the world community. And what does the Early Telepathy trait do. [B]Andean Invasion[/B]

So do I have evidence that the Tamoanchan were behind it all along. It's going to be easier opposing them if I can prove they started the rebellions than if they just say they're supporting a local uprising.[/QUOTE]

Your community for now. The world if you go public and don't put a boot on it. Effectively, it'll give you a minor bonus to interactions with NPCs and make future psionic research cheaper. Right. The Andean Union is going to make it public unless you oppose them, and Tamoanchan has taken a loss to their REP already.[/QUOTE]