This month is indeed going to be a Japanese double-feature.
The first Kaiju is due to make landing near the small city of Maizuru, on the north coast of Honshu. This one is known for having a similar laser eye system to the laser spider which attacked Bangladesh. It is also known to be a melee attacker, and had some kind of damaging aura around it. The overall strength rating is 15.
The second Kaiju is aiming further north, near the city of Hakodate, on the southern tip of Hokkaido. This one seems strong and fast, and has something akin to the kaiju dragonfire cannon, along with one new weapon. It also has what looks like a stronger version of the glass forcefields which were on the giant snake. Overall strength is 16.
USSCCI
Military
Base (Florida) 10
Most of your orders go well this week, until it comes time to buy the T-55s.
It seems the price for your stabilized Valencite exceeded your expectations, and cost a total of 75/set of three, not 50/set of three. This left you short for buying the T-55 tanks, although you managed to get all your other goals done.
There they are, all gleaming, 4 T-72s. And two transports. And only one lonely battered combat jet.
Huge Hangar, 15
-> Air Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
-> Matryoshka Transport, 25 (Large, capacity 1xLarge, 1xMedium)
Huge Hangar, 15
-> Battered Combat Jet with Valencite explosives, 40
-> Modern Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium), 10
Large Hangar, 10
-> T-72 Tank, 15 Power, E. AP, E. Range, E. Payload, E. Speed, E. Armour, E. Durability, F.
-> T-72 Tank, 15
Large Hangar, 10
-> T-72 Tank, 15
-> T-72 Tank, 15
Large Hangar, 10
Large Airstrip, 20
Proving Grounds, 20
Barracks, 10
-> Infantry Platoon, 10
Large Lab, 30 Sarissan Internal/External missile bays, 2 turns remain.
Small Lab, 10
Small Lab, 10
Medium Workshop, 20
Large Workshop, 30
Large Workshop, 30
Large Workshop, 30
Stores, 0
-> 1x Extended Range missiles for combat jets. Weapon modification. (max range of B) +10 cost.
-> 3x Processed Kaiju Fat
-> 1x 40mm Gas Grenades
-> 1x High Quality Body Armour
-> 1x Cut Down Autocannon
-> 1x Processed Kaiju Muscle
-> 3x Infantry SAM Launchers.
-> 66x Unstable Valencite Explosives. Enough for 11 artillery pieces.
-> 46x Stabilized Valencite.
-> 22cm Mortar Cannon. Power E, AP, -, Range, D, Payload C. [medium] weapon.
Designs:
Battered Combat Jet: Large, Cost 200, Power, D. AP, E. Range, D. Payload, D. Speed, C. Armour, F. Durability, F. (Flies) (Ammo-Short)
Prototype Sarissan Combat Jet: Large, Cost 225, Power D. AP, E. Range, C. Payload D. Speed, C. Armour, F. Durability F. (Flies) (Ammo-Short)
Artillery Piece: Small, Cost 50, Power, E. AP, F. Range, D. Payload, D. Speed, F. Armour, -. Durability, F.
Air Transport, Cost 100, Power .. AP, .. Range, .. Payload, .. Speed, F. Armour, -. Durability, F. (Flies), Capacity 2xMedium.
Matryoshka Transport: Large, Cost 125, Power .. AP, .. Range, .. Payload, .. Speed, F. Armour, -. Durability, F. (Flies), Capacity 1x Medium, 1x Large.
Jaeger Supertank. Costs 150, requires one unit of kaiju muscle. Power, C. AP, C. Range, E, Payload, F. Speed, E. Armour, D. Durability, D. Large.
Kaiju Detection Array: 200 cost, increases detection of Kaiju incursions. 4 turns to build, 1/base max.
Unstable Valencite Explosives: Payload, built in batches of 18 (3xD payload) Improves power score +1 rank if power is the same as payload. +2 ranks if payload is two or more ranks above power. Cost 25. Adds (ammo-short) to units using it.
Stabilized Valencite Explosives: Payload, built in batches of 18 (3xD payload) Improves power score +1 rank if power is the same as payload. +2 ranks if payload is two or more ranks above power. Improves AP score +1 rank if AP is the same as payload. +2 ranks if payload is two or more ranks above power. Cost 75.
Total Upkeep: 415/month.
3 Lead Scientists. One will expire after two more months.
1 x Kaiju Skin
3 x Kaiju Muscle
1 x Kaiju Guts
Money: 34
Funding: 625/month.
Dr. Unpleasant.
You fix up your drug front, with a little concrete, a few nails.. nothing to worry about. More importantly, you get something delivered to you.. a RD-102 Robodog.
It's a robotic wolf-creature with many sharp edges and an nasty spiked tail. It's designed to be remote controlled by a nearby infantry soldier, within a range of about half a kilometer or so.
You aren't sure if you should keep it as a remote operated vehicle, or to make it a fully automous robot killing machine. One thing you do know, is that while it's impressive for a dog-bot, it's still a dog-bot, hardly a monster.
Base Details:
Damaged Command Chamber
Damaged Mad Science: Low quality chemistry lab
Awesome Drug Front income +16
Large Lab Zone: RD-102 Robodog. (infantry equipment)
Money: 70
Upkeep: (110/month)
Income: 28/month.
Lord Silver.
Vampire dust isn't too difficult to acquire.. you can just generate it with your Evil Physics Accelerator. Right there at 107.4 kHz, with 22% Lunar Influence, 16% Tainted Blood, and 45% The Hunger. You don't have any Unholy Blight to make up the remaining 17%, but that should be close enough.
The net result is a brown, ashy powder, which you then infuse into the armour by mixing it with a significant amount of paint.
..it then starts growing dog fur. Huh. Did you get Werewolf Dust instead? Whoops. Well, it still was somewhat effective, due to the armour being infused with Unholy Might, but maybe a bit more work would be in order.
Base Details:
Command Chamber
Mad Science: Laboratory of Evil Physics.
Mad Science: Laboratory of Evil Physics II: Morally Gray Physics.
Large Lab Zone:
->Black Furred armoured AFV with Quantum lightning drill harpoon, of imprecise location.
Agent's Lair:
->Minions of E.V.I.L.
Mercenary Barracks.
1x Processed Kaiju Bone.
1x Processed Kaiju Skin.
Money: 238
Upkeep: (150)/month
Income: 12/month.
Claudia.
Things mostly go well, but the muscle doesn't quite work out the way you want it to. It seems to flex in place, and then freeze, forming some kind of extremely hard, yet flexable, armour. It's also vaguely piezoelectric, and is now causing the vehicle to get slightly charged just from the force of sitting on the floor. When hit by test fire, it explodes in a relatively non-dangerous but very flashy explosion of sparks.
When the situation settles down, it is covered in a translucent blue-black crystalline ice armour, along with being very cold to the touch. The humming of the latent energy is encouraging. And totally not dangerous.
Now, have you done enough, or is there more to do..
Base details:
Command Chamber
Mad Science: Chaos Theory Supercomputer
Medium Lab Zone. Crystalline Arctic Warfare T-55
Agent's Lair:
->Barrel of Monkeys
Money: 197.
Upkeep: (100/month)
Income: 12/month.
"Coke" Knights
Black Market
Base (Peru), 10
You win the bid on the Lead Scientist, and the combat jet comes in. You also get some supplies of the new explosives for infantry rockets.
There are some questions related to the exact nature of the propsed MRLS nukes, but what is decided on is a small sub-kiloton missile that would substitute for the ordinary payload. It would supercede any use of Valencite, or other payload modifications, but it'd be applicable to both a MRLS or a Combat Jet without any further modification. If you'd like to change the scope, such as going for a dedicated missile launcher that could be installed to a MRLS or Jet that has had its ordinary weapons removed, that would be possible as well. Preliminary estimate for the nuke payloads are five months and 100 per set.
Naturally, they'd be single-shot, but once installed replacement missiles for the next deployment should cost nothing.
As for other organizations, your team manages to find a league of intellectual pacifists who want to concentrate on communications, suggesting that this situation cannot be adequately resolved by force. They're called the Kaiju Peace League, and are currently not ready for future operations. In the past, they have lobbied with some success to get the overall funding level cut for organizations.
You also deconstruct your medium workshop, after producing the promised missile kit for the USSCCI.
Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport, 30 (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hangar, 10
-> Battered Combat Jet with Stabilized Valencite Explosives, 40.
Large Airstrip, 20
Barracks, 10
-> Infantry Platoon, 20, with DU small arms, dual-warhead rockets, and Personnel Force Fields.
Large Lab, 30
-> Armoured MRLS project. 2 months until completion.
Small Lab, 10
-> Rocket Mininukes, 4 months remain.
Medium Lab, 20
Kaiju Lab, 20
High-Energy Physics Lab, 100
Large Workshop, 30
Listening Post, 50
Stores, 0
-> Mutant in need of a codename.
-> The Rainbow Fog Machine, 50
-> (Artillery Piece) 10 -> Currently in Lima.
-> Artillery Piece w EFFG-II and Valencite explosives, 20
-> Artillery Piece w Valencite explosives, 10
-> Black Market 200mm Artillery piece, 10
-> 4x Dual Warhead missiles.
-> Tank-load of advanced thermal smoke generators
-> 5x DU Ammo for small arms.
-> 1x Dual-Warhead ammo for infantry rockets.
-> 3x Processed Kaiju Guts
-> 1x Artillery-load of Valencite Explosives
Infiltration teams:
Council of funding nations: schmooze campaign
USA: schmooze campaign
Brazil: schmear campaign
China: schmooze campaign
Council of funding nations: looking for factions.
Designs: Electromagnetic Force Field Generators, Mk I. 50. Applicable to all vehicles of small, medium or large size, improves toughness.
Battered Combat Jet. 200.
Electromagnetic Force Field Generators, Mk II. 50. Applicable to all vehicles of small, medium, or large size. Extra toughness.
Personnel Force Fields. 50. Applicable to all infantry, improving toughness.
Combat Jet ER Missiles. 50. + 1x Kaiju Fat Sample. Adds one range to any combat jet it is equipped to. Incompatable with any other non-payload weapon modifications.
Known factions: Council for Terran Supremacy. (business type, ready for action.)
Kaiju Peace League. (Political type, currently unready.)
Total Upkeep: 510/month.
3 Lead Scientists. One expires after three following months.
1 x Kaiju Muscle
1 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Fat
1 x Kaiju Guts
1 x Unknown Kaiju Organ.
Money: 100
Funding: 925/month.
ADD
Business
Your dual-weapon Jaeger project completes. Life is good, particularly once you see your brand new Kaiju Dragonfire Cannon. Now if only you could get the hundred or so bucks you need to build and deploy one this month..
The nuclear arms continue their interminable progress towards completion. Almost there.
Base (New Mexico) 10
Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hangar, 10
-> Jaeger Supertank, 30
Large Hangar, 10
-> Matryoshka Transport. (Large, capacity 1x Large, 1x Medium) 25
Large Airstrip, 20
Barracks, 10.
Small Lab, 10.
Large Lab, 30.
Small Lab, 10.
-> Manportable* nuclear arms, 5 months remaining
Kaiju Lab, 20.
High Energy Physics Lab, 100
Large workshop, 30,
Stores, 0
->Internal Checkpoints, 20
->Storage Vaults, 20
->Hardened Perimiter, 30
->1x Kaiju Dragonfire Cannon
->2x Kaiju Muscle samples
->1x Hoplite Exoskeletons
Designs:
Jaeger Project: Large unit, cost of 150 and 1x Kaiju muscle sample. Supertank with serious firepower, standard durability, average speed, and limited payload capability.
Hoplite Exoskeleton: Infantry equipment, consumes two infantry equipment slots, grants 1x small weapon slot. Provides power assistance for increased speed and some durability. Cost of 75
Kaiju Dragonfire Cannon: Long-ranged high-power weapon that also causes a significant sustained explosive fire effect which persists after hitting. [large] weapon. Cost of 75.
Dual-weapon Jaeger. Large unit, cost of 175 and 1x Kaiju muscle sample. Supertank with dual cannons.. one high-velocity relatively conventional large cannon, in a half-empty turret with room for another [large] weapon.
Total Upkeep: 370/month.
Base security rating: 13 (updated)
2 x Lead Scientists
5 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Bone
1 x Unknown Organ (Waxed Hexagon)
Money: 55
Funding: 690/month.
Happytime Atrocities, Inc.
Political
Construction and deconstruction go as normal, including laying the ground for a truly gigantic laboratoy, better resembling a hangar for inflated dirigibles. It's huuuuge, and just loaded with all kinds of equipment.. this is the lab that will research the thing that will beat the Kaiju, whatever that is.
The hairy pipette organ proves more productive than the last one. It's an extremely bizarre and potent biomechanical pump, using some truly bizarre alien fractal geometry and surface texturing conditions to produce a huge amount of flow pressure with just about the theoretical minimum amount of force. The losses are so low, you can pump practically anything through it, and it never builds up heat due to the seemingly non-existant friction.
Your team has two choices to make.
You can research a one-off engine out of this that will be extremely powerful for its size, and completed in only a single turn. Do indicate how large a unit you want the engine designed for.
You can finish dissecting it, and recieve a permanent bonus to the speed of all items manufactured at this base. Doing this research will cost 60, not 20, as special materials will be needed to extract everything out of the unique organ.
The Kaiju Guts and Kaiju Skin produce 4 and 5 units of their respective materials.
Base (Hong Kong) 10
Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hangar, 10
->Flying Box, 20. (Medium, capacity 1xSmall.)
Large Hangar, 10
Aqua Giant Hangar, 10
->Russian Submarine, 20. (Huge) (Boat) (Slow)
Large Airstrip, 20
FriendCo Omnihive, 125
-> Gatling Insect Swarm.
Barracks, 10
->Infantry Platoon, 10
PR Centre, 40
->Veteran Wasp Bits. (smelly)
->Acid-Washed Tank.
Small Lab, 10
Giant Lab, 5 turns remain. (50)
Kaiju Lab, 20
->Kaiju Dissection Annex, 20
Kaiju Lab, 20
->Kaiju Dissection Annex, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
Stores, 0
->Artillery Piece with Stabilized Valencite
->Artillery Piece with Stabilized Valencite
->2x Kaiju Muscle samples
->1x 40mm Gas Grenades.
->1x High Quality Body Armour.
->11x Processed Kaiju Muscle
->14x Processed Kaiju Skin
->4x Processed Kaiju Guts
->10x Kaiju Acid
->1x Kaiju Communication Rectifier
Internal Checkpoints, 20
Security rating: 10
Designs:
PR building, 200, 2 turns to build.
Kaiju Dissection Annex, 100, 1 turn to build.
Giant Aquatic Hangar, 50, 1 turn to build.
Giant Laboratory, 250, 6 turns to build.
Giant Aquatic Dockyard, 150, 3 turns to build
Total Upkeep: 425/month.
3 Lead Scientists. One leaves after this month, and one after the following month.
4 x Kaiju Skin
3 x Kaiju Guts
1 x Kaiju Brain
2 x Kaiju Heart
1 x Hairy Pipette organ
Money: 60
Funding: 800/month.
It is now the Action phase of December, 1999.
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