Celestial+Empire+EoT+14

Sending ++ p. ECO to Loki's Brigade for a loan. Strange, I know. But we've come to peaceful terms and it's my hope that the loan will help them rebuild in a positive direction.

++++ WO will be used to build even more influence with the Heterodyne/Jaegers. I've used a bunch of WO throughout the past three turns on this faction, so I'm hoping they like me a lot at this point. I will request a private audience with the Heterodyne and urge her to come to the aid of France and fight the Spanish with us, particularly on the southern front. Our soldiers are dying and an end to the war does not seem near. Her intervention could help the French reclaim their land. If we can push the Spanish back far enough, perhaps peace terms can be discussed. Whatever it takes, my WO will be used in coordination with a particular NPC and one other faction... I think you know who. Her intervention at mid-turn would be particularly helpful.

++ WO will be used in coordination with the Mountain King. We would like to influence the Celts in Exile by taking advantage of the fact that the Skuldings totally pummeled them last turn. Spain's allies took quite a few hits last turn, so with that and the raid they might see the wisdom in calling a ceasefire with France. We will recommend such to them and invite them to join the Anti-Skulding Coalition to vanquish the raiders who have threatened Europa for far too long. At the very least, I'm hoping that our combined WO will be enough for the Celts in Exile to stop their fight with France. Or at least to discuss peace terms. Is France their real enemy at this point after what has happened to them?

My military in France will continue to fight as hard as they can. Vive la France.

Requesting x amount of random growth for this turn. France, Monsters, Heterodyne [MIL: +++++ ++++-, ESPO: +++++ +++++ +++-]
 * Celestial Empire: End of Turn 14**

Spoiler

1. This plan is in coordination with Kingdom of the Beshadowed Sun, Glorious Army of Othar T, University of Celaenae, Clockwork Confederacy, Theosophs, and maybe even Spain in Exile (I assume Ragingrage will include that if they are). Essentially there are three main components to the plan.

2. The first component: Any Spark and Economy contributed will be going towards what we've discussed - the monster loyalty machines/suppressors. As you've told me already, technically I only have the relays so far so then main thing we need to do is produce something that gives off the signal for the relays. If it's not too far away, I would like for it to be in the Celestial Empire because out of the two stationary PCs involved in this plan, I have more defenses. Since I'm contributing essentially nothing for this first component, that might seem weird, but all three parts of the plan are a combination of everyone's resources so I make up for it in parts 2 and 3. Anyways, KoBS & the 3 French-friendly NPCs will be contributing the Spark primarily to create the device that gives off the signal. We should only need one of those. Because we already have a version of the relays, Spark and Economy can be combined to make more relays and make them mobile to be deployed in both Spain and France since I assume we'll need a set of relays for each country. I'm hoping Theosophs/University/Clockwork can cover the Spark/Eco to produce the French relays and to work on the main component because we plan to split profits with them according to stats contributed. If they aren't, some ECO can be taken from my MIL production but hopefully they're willing. Just to reiterate, the Sparks will be trying to make the signal strong enough to not only suppress the monsters but to make them loyal to us. Perhaps Thelonius's trait would be of some help. If they don't have enough Spark between them to get as far as loyalty, the suppression device can still be used for the plan it just won't be as effective.

3. Second component: Once the signal device has been researched and produced, our military will go into Spain and France with the relays in hand. KoBS and Spain will be worrying about Spain, so this part of the plan is basically separate from them. Thelonius and I will be in charge of securing France. Our hope is that we'll have these mobile loyalty relays which can be combined with the sheer power of our combined military and Thelonius's monster handling business. All of my MIL and, I think, all of his will be landing in France and we hope to secure as much of the land as possible. Our hope is that this technology is enough to give us an edge over our competitors. If we have these relays giving off signals, our MIL will not have to fight the monster horde slowly to gain ground, etc. etc. So we should be gaining French territory considerably faster than, say, Kaiser's Guard, Celts, or whoever because we won't be having to worry about too much fighting. Still, we have considerable military between us if that becomes necessary. Areas of high economic value will be focused on and we'll be keeping an eye out for any remnants of the French monarchy.

4. Third component: In actuality, this probably comes before everything else but I'm just writing about it last. KoBS, GAoOT, and I are combining whatever influence we have over the Heterodyne between us with World Opinion and Offensive Espionage to keep her out of our way and direct her. This part was mostly Thelonius's idea, so I'll quote him for simplicity:

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I would propose a combination of rumors, that Kaiser's Guard is talking smack about her and how they won't let her take the loot from France & Spain (partially true), accusation, that they were behind the War, escalating tensions and pushing everybody to fight from the shadows and that they are selling corpses to Transylvania. And since Heterodyne Girl likes me - they were mean to Glorious Army too.

Ideally, we would like for the Heterodyne to not take much of France. With our invention making our land grabs quicker and our considerable military investment, we should do well regardless. But if possible we'd like to make sure the Heterodyne doesn't take much... or anything if we're really successful. So using WO, ESPO, and Inf we're trying to direct her towards Germania by doing what Thelonius described. KoBS and I will be using our ESPO combined on the Heterodyne, not on Germania. We'll be giving her extremely convincing reports that will concern her about Germania combined with KoBS's WO and Thelonius's influence to point out what war mongerers they are and how mean it was of Germania to mess with Othar's army like that. At the very least we'd like any business the Heterodyne has in France to overlap with whatever Kaiser's Guard is trying to accomplish. But if she ignores the monsters and just pushes right into Germania? Fine by me. I'm hoping that since I'm contributing the most espionage it would be tracked back to KoBS before anyone heard about the Celestial Empire's involvement.

5. So the point here is that KoBS & Spain want as much Spanish land as possible and Thelonius, myself, and the three French-friendlies want France secured mostly for ourselves. Minimal Heterodyne involvement (hopefully thanks to part 3 of the plan), and any other competitors would have a lot harder grabbing territory than us. I think Thelonius and I are contributing 17.5 MIL together in France, so that combined with our technology should get us a lot. Regarding profits, I believe they are being split separately. Spain in Exile and KoBS who will be sorting out Spain get to divvy up those spoils and Thelonius & I will be sharing the spoils from France with the three NPCs who are helping with the plan. With the technology & Thelonius's trait, we're hoping to gain a bunch of MIL from the Monster Horde and ECO & ESPD from gaining territory in France. Okay, so hopefully if I forgot anything Ragingrage or Thelonius remembered to include it.

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=================== Military: +++++ ++++-

1. + from last turn's random growth.

2. Confirming that Russia's legion is willing to come look over things while we stabilize the situation in France.

3. +++++ ++++- used on "France, Monsters, Heterodyne" Economy: +++++ +++++ +++++ +++++

1. Standard reminder about the Swiss investment.

2. All 20 ECO will be contributed towards building up military with the help of the University's factories and special clanks. Just for the sake of fluff and since this should be a big jump in MIL, could I fluff it as a sort of Castle Wulfenbach type massive airship? The fluff with the Russia battalion was so neat, so I thought it would be cool to have an air fortress type thing that would be comparable to their mobile ground fortresses. If I have to lose MIL, it could just be damaged or something. If fluffing it that way hinders the stat growth, I'll just go with standard military then. Morale: +++++ ++-

1. Morale will be used to increase military as well this turn. I guess since the University is producing mostly mechanical military, morale can go towards human recruits to oversee things and man whatever needs to be manned. I was going to role play a triumph like the Romans did, but I'll have to wait until the monster stuff is resolved. Altogether that's 27.5 points towards MIL and 20 are through the University's super factories and schematics. Offensive Espionage: +++++ +++++ +++-

1. +++++ +++++ +++- used on "France, Monsters, Heterodyne" Defensive Espionage: +++++ +++++ +++++ ++

1. I would like to use all my agents back at home to hunt down, recruit, and train new people to join the espionage team as offensive espionage agents. So yeah - all 17 points towards ESPO. World Opinion: +++++ +

1. I used all this at mid-turn, 4 for the Heterodyne, 2 for Celts in Exile.

**Response**
Investment into Mil (+++++ ++- MOR) Investment into Econ Investment into Morale Investment into Sparks Investment into Espionage D Investment into Espionage O(+++++ +++++ +++++ ++ EPS D) Investment into World Opinion
 * Key **
 * Project | Stat Boost | Investment into | Comments **

France, Monsters, Heterodyne (+++++ ++++- MIL) France, Monsters, Heterodyne (+++++ +++++ +++- ESP O) France, Monsters, Heterodyne (All influence with Heterodyne) Econ from Swiss Swiss, Theosophs, University, helping in France Giant Airship (+++++ +++++ +++++ +++++ ECON) Using boosts from University