Earth+Sphere

Response Turn 2
Military 29x4 = 116 RU Espionage 20 x 2 = 40 RU Research 31x4 = 124 RU
 * Resources Used**

+- mil sent to Neptune from Earth x 3.1213 Send 4 E Esp to Neptune x 3.1213 Send 5 E Esp to Mercury .1141

Outbase: 10 (Sent surplus again) Titan: 215 (Paid current rate twice) Promethium Shipyards: -24 STELLAR: 76 New Haven: 86.5 Mars Colony: 26.25 Europa: 50.5 Pelagian Order: 26.25 Civilian Shipping: 320 The Cloud Mines: 400
 * Taxes**

New Haven Loan: 30.25 Total Taxes: 1186.5 Resource Production: 240
 * Income:**

Stat Upkeep: 280 Morale Upkeep: 748.5 Travel Expenses: 17.5 Debt: 216.5
 * Expenses:**

Total: 194.25

Misc. Notes: New Haven has sent its surplus resources as a loan with 0% interest to be paid back once you've solved your resource scarcity.

Outbase has also sent its surplus as a gift.

The Civilian Shipping companies are campaigning fairly heavily to get their own taxes reduced. Between the fact that their own taxes were already the highest in the system barring the cloud miners and the fact that they were the only ones not to receive any form of tax cut at all the general mood of the companies towards the Earth Sphere is displeased to say the least.

Response Turn 1
Taxes Pelagian Order: 24 Mars Colony: 48 Outbase: (12.5) Note 1.5 surplus (Jupiter halved) Europa: 35 Titan: Not paying Promethium Shipyards: -20 STELLAR : Taxes (89) Well below regular amount New Haven: (113) Civilian Shipping: 320 Cloud Mining 1: 67 Cloud Mining 2: 134 Cloud Mining 3: 132

Resource Report You have received these amounts in taxes. Pelagian Order: 24 Mars Colony: 48 Outbase: 6 Europa: 35 Titan: Not paying Promethium Shipyards: -20 STELLAR : Taxes 89 New Haven: 113 Civilian Shipping: 320 Cloud Miners (Jupiter): 67 Cloud Miners (Saturn): 134 Cloud Miners (Uranus): 132

Of note Fenris was able to seize half the resource shipment from Jupiter. Titan colony refused to pay any taxes. STELLAR suffered reduced resource production and chose to pay lower taxes rather than cut into its own supplies. Outbase actually provided its small amount of surplus as additional taxes for the benefit of Earth. Unfortunately this was lost in the Fenris raid.

Total taxes: 948 Resource Production: 100

Your costs this turn. Stat Upkeep: 442 Morale Upkeep: 750 Travel Expenses: 72.5

Current: -216.5

This means you are currently running a deficit. You have one turn to correct this with no ill effects. Afterwards your population will start to notice that you've been in the red for over five years and will start demanding answers. You'll also start to lose your more vulnerable stats like econ and research as cuts are made depending on how much your deficit ends up being if you still have one.

Misc. Notes You've increased resource extraction by 140 in the last turn. This may seem like a lot, but any one planet can only support a limited amount of resource gathering. 300 for rocky planets like Earth and per asteroid belt, 1000 for the three smaller gas giants and 2000 for Jupiter. Harvesting beyond this point is only possibly through researching new technologies and will most likely begin to deplete the planet completely if used too much.

You receive a report that STELLAR is building an Interplanetary Communications Laser. As these are quite capable of being used as a weapon there use is restricted.

(Technically STELLAR didn't follow the legal protocols for building an interplanetary laser, but I think he simply forgot that they were restricted when he wrote his EoT, and is not actually trying to hide it or produce an illegal laser.)