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1. Did they have money? I'm pretty sure they only got the designs and techs, and then talked to us for the materials and infrastructure.

They did destroy a diplomatic shuttle though. We once send a diplomatic mission to the asteriod belt, and those guys went back. After that I believe we send a single volunteer in a spaceship. That one got sniped by multiple asteroids.

Not a pre-agreed diplomatic mission. For all they knew they were spies. (they were, just don't tell them that).
What I'm saying is that the ambassadors we agreed to send WE pulled back, and they came to no harm.

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on September 06, 2012, 12:10:31 pm

Yeah kinda. However this military build up might worry the moonies; so do it in secret.

THIS is another reason why I disapproved of building a Battleship. You CANNOT take on a military project of this scope without pissing off SOMEBODY. The Moonies are the last people we want as our enemies right now. But it's pretty much too late.

And we can't stop the program without pissing off people who are making the biggest battleship the colony's ever known.
We haven't even done a decent background check... Perhaps they made money auctioning something to Gaian not-empires.
>check on nuke. Carefully.

Quote from: TopHat on September 06, 2012, 11:52:06 am

Quote from: Xvareon on September 05, 2012, 10:49:53 pm

Shall we take votes on names for the new Battleship? Personally I suggest 'Harlem'.

We don't even know if we'll get a battleship yet. Maldevious may roll 5 1s in a row...
> develop weapons capable of penetrating proposed battleship armour strength, and then some.

Yeah kinda. However this military build up might worry the moonies; so do it in secret.

We also might want to set up some particle arcelerators to create some ultraheavy stable elements. I believe there should be one with 156 protons, and one around 176, though I might get the numbers wrong.

> agree with particle accelerators.
> we could tell moonies, but spout some garbage about attack from out of the system that we were fleeing from, or something.
>they've probably seen the battleship-in-construction and that's why they've come.
This seems too much of a coincidence to be just bad timing.

No cuba. After the 400+ assasination attempts by the cia, I doubt he or his brother are touchable.

Iran has the supreme leader, the council of 10, and then the president. Each of these people are heavily guarded.

North korea is crazy. No.

How about we weed out bad ones, then vote on what remains.

Step 1: weed out countries that have too much press attention. (unless about how horrific the regime is)
Step 2: weed out countries with liked dictators. (among the people, or by other countries. We don't want to kill Russia's fave oil supplier or something.
Step 3: weed out countries with well-protected leaders.
Step 4: weed out countries with little to no natural resources.
Step 5: finally, look at pros and cons of remaining countries. Decide.

Brill. The next step is to find out which ones the world at large would me more likely to ignore / not care about.
Also look at dictators that are unpopular. Tyrannical preferably. also hopefully without much paranoia / big bodyguard squad.
Finally, natural resources. We don't want to win a country only to find that we've just taken over 5 square miles of barren wasteland.
The CIA website may be useful for some of these.

Quote from: miauw62 on September 05, 2012, 08:36:11 am

We could simply take over a country with the assasination method and unify the army of the country we take over and our own army.

Right. Theres a cost-benefit ratio here. The richer and more powerful the country, the harder it is to take over.

Yes, money is important. Someone get on that.

We want a country with an 'evil' dictator to dispose of (for PR) and that no-one really cares about.
Bonus if there is already a rebellion to side with / please

Screw double posts. I demand attention.

Approximately how much money do we need to set up our polar test colony? How long should I leave the funding open? And what picture should I use?

And who has a bank account, seems fairly trustworthy, and and wants to be treasurer?

We need a lot.
Millions to billions to set up the lunar resort.

As far as I can see, this operation is split into several stages:

1: planning. The current stage. Needs no explaination.
2: buildup. We acquire money and resources to proceed with stage 3.
3: take over little known African country by disposing of hated dictator. Just what it says on the tin.
4: launch space program, starting with unmanned & manned test flights and culminating in lunar resort.
5: expansion. Create secret underground military base under lunar resort. Set up colony on mars.
6: play DF. They'll never suspect a thing. We're also secretly building resources for.
7: war with terrans, which leads to..
8: world domination. *insert evil laugh here*
9: anything we want.