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Yes, but having 5 allows for 50% religion. Since Romuva are fairly small and he's king of Lithuania, there probably isn't any other Romuva that can give some points. So, to reach 50, either he needs lots of conquest (1% per conquest is tiresome), or 5 holy sites.

Exactly this.  I theoretically can reform with three sites, but the Romuvan faith ain't doing so healthy right now.  Getting all five sites is, pragmatically, the only way I'm going to hit the 50% moral authority I need to actually trigger the reformation.

Also, to have your heir inherit the duchies you want with Gavelkind : just give a duchy title to the other sons. Since you're King, they'll be out of the succession. If you have 4 duchies titles, you can give 3 away, and the heir will inherit everything that is not under the titles given away. Careful though, since if you get more duchies after that, or one of them die, it can be a mess.

This is my main hope for avoiding the inevitable backbiting after succession.  I'm waiting for my inheriting sons to come of age before granting them titles (so I can keep them in my court and marry them off to someone decent first, rather than letting them pick their own inevitable chaste-inbred-slow-syphilitic matches), but hopefully I can then shove enough duchies at them to keep them away from what will end up being my core lands. 

Your succession crisis is going to be very fun.

!!FUN!!  Although hopefully I'll avoid my heir being burnt at the stake. 

Oh man I could never be a rock climber. I just imagine a person hitting the ground like a garbage bag full of marinara sauce and I don't want that person to be me.

Yeah, I tend to do indoor bouldering far more frequently than actual full-on rock climbing (or even indoor height climbing).  It's indoors (don't have to worry about the weather), it doesn't require roping in (don't have to worry about equipment/setup) and it's not particularly high (don't have to worry about marinara!)    Also, big crash mats.  Big, big crash mats.

Well, my efforts sort of almost paid off - I got enough money together to form the Duchy of Iceland!  Yay!

...except that this didn't happen until shortly after I'd been invaded by a gung-ho Norwegian duke and soundly thrashed.  So I now own two counties, have the money to form Iceland, but can't do so because I'm vassal to a duke now.  D'oh!

So I've pulled out all the stops - I'm plotting to kill my liege (in the hope of causing disruption), I'm a member of the independence faction (along with a couple of other vassals), I'm raiding and saving up as much cash as I can (to pay for Iceland/mercenaries) and I've even tried to invade the (still independent) Faro islands to get a third title (so that at least my heir keeps two)...to no avail, damn amphibious defenses.

My character is now 59 years old and has been ill twice (and recovered twice).  I fear his days are numbered. 

A quick (in-game) question to which I really should already know the answer:

I'm a Norse count, entirely independent (started in Vestisland).  I have invaded and taken over Austisland, with an eye to creating the Duchy of Iceland (obviously).  However, I fear that my current character will die before I can scrape together the funds to make this happen.

I have many, many children.  The two county titles are due to be split one each between my heir (who I like) and his marginally younger brother (who's okay).

Question: if my current character dies before creating the Iceland title, presumably this means that I start playing as my heir and the country of Austisland will go its merry way with my brother...i.e. leaving me pretty much in the position that my father was when I started this game, as I then won't have sufficient counties to form Iceland.  Correct?  Or will my brother automatically become my vassal?  I'm assuming not, as I'm not inheriting any duke-level titles.

Followup question: assuming I'm correct in my above expectations, what can I do to best avoid this setback?  Killing the pretender via plot before my current character's death is unlikely to work, as there are many, many other sons waiting in the wings.

Also, I haven't played in a while, but didn't they change it so you can grab Science from the devices via EVA, and pop them into your capsule? So you can lose everything except the capsule and get every science.

It's possible you need that science station part, though.

You do not - I can confirm that you can do this in EVA even without the science processing unit (or whatever it's called).  I actually did this when a similar situation happened - my goo pod detached on landing, so was never going to return, but I simply walked a kerbonaut over to it, collected the data, walked back to the pod, stored data, then got in and took off and returned.  Bam, full science. 

Learning is fun and mostly FUN.

If it helps, my usual setup routine:

1) Get to engineering if I didn't spawn there.  This may or may not be difficult, depending on how late you've joined the round and what else is going on (i.e. do you have power or not).

2) Set up SMESes.  200k input, auto-charging, 100k-ish output (more than enough to run everything on the station).

3) Optional, but I do it: turn off the output of one of the SMESes, temporarily.  This may mean that the other two run out of power faster, but it avoids the potential issue of completely running out of power before you've set the emitters, which would be bad.  If you really want to tweak things, don't turn the outputs of the remaining SMESes up to 100k-ish yet, to conserve what little power you have at round start.

4) Set up particle accelerator.  Scan the parts when setup, but don't start it up yet.

5) Fill plasma tanks to full.  Optional, but immensely recommended.

6) Load plasma tanks into collectors, activate collectors and, for the love of god, lock them using your ID.  This stops random people cunningly deactivating the collectors later on (which is less noticeable than turning off/on the accelerator).

7) Go back to SMESes and turn on the one you turned off earlier, if applicable.  Double-check settings.

Go outside.  Activate all the emitters.  Get back inside without being fried.

9) Immediately go to the accelerator and turn it on, and up to 2.

10) With meson goggles on, stand at the south end of the accelerator room.  When the singularity grows to its second size (3x3), you'll see it start moving around.  If you filled up the plasma tanks to full, you can stabilise it now, or you can wait until it's 5x5.  Or 7x7 if you're mad/showboating/potential tator.

11) Stabilise it: switch the particle accelerator to zero but leave it on.  You may vary this step if you're going for 7x7, you madman you.

12) Check SMESes are charging and that input/output are set correctly.

13) Go and hook up your solars, mend the inevitable fires/explosions, and generally wait for people yelling, "Why don't we have any power in virology!?"

14) Read up on APCs, station wiring and/or atmospherics.  Actually, read up on atmospherics.  If you've got a stable singularity, Atmosia is likely to be the alternative that any traitor goes for.  Because it's amazing.

15) Alternatively, screw this station, and go build your own secure hidey-hole somewhere.  Preferably at the north end of the station, as far away from that damn black hole as you can get.

Edit: I missed one:

Whenever) Set your Engineering APC to power equipment always, not on auto.  While the emitters run directly from the main grid, I'm pretty sure that the accelerator counts as engineering equipment (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong - I haven't dug into engineering's wiring enough to verify this).  You don't want that turning off in a brownout.  Lighting and environmentals can stay on auto - they're actually less important.

I keep getting adverts for Barbie: Pearl Princess.

I have no idea what it thinks I've been clicking on recently, but there's nothing that should make me the target demographic for that!