Cat Herder Bonus Episode
22 Dec 2019Kissamies
(2 weeks ago)All right, that was a good expansion. Just need to take care of the aftermath and all the other stuff that has popped up. Then we can ramp down the operations. Oh why, it's the Progenitor. I wonder what he wants.
- Good news, Caretaker. We already have another expansion pending.
- What? Let me see! The influence went up! It has always went down before but now it went up. Oh no!
- Is there a problem?
- Oh yes, a big one. Hang on, I need to call DaVinci and tell them we inadvertently broke the Beldarkri agreement...
(Angry Italian shouting)
- ...yes sir, I'm sorry sir. We will do that right away, sir. (Turning back to the Progenitor) Do you have any idea what you have done?
- I thought that...
- Leave the thinking to me! Now go out there and lower 12 Persei's influence immediately!
(2 days ago)
- Hey Progenitor, please tell me this rogue expansion went to any of the systems we tried to prepare.
- Well, I don't know anything about that, but we went to Ausan.
- Ausan? That's in the Arnemil bubble, isn't it. That's claimed by FQI.
- It was 2.5%, an easy target.
- I guess 2.5 is less than 2.9... Anyway, a two outpost system like that is not worth fighting Hudson's people over. I'm going to contact them and tell them we'll throw that fight.
At least I don't have to spend the Christmas fighting some invasion war... but there is a war on LHS 1348 to control the innermost station pending... hmm.
So I tried to escape the faction work, but it pulled me right back in. DVC was pretty mad at this turn of events initially, but calmed down after a few days, even were somewhat helpful again. Too bad that the rogue expansion didn't invade anywhere useful, but perhaps we already have about as much systems we are currently able to manage. I'm recommending the squadron that we spend more time putting our house in order before considering more expansions. We have already turned our attention inwards, increasing our number of stations and proofing our systems for invasions to the best of our ability. Somehow we managed to win an election against EXO too after some 3rd party pushed us to it. We just put a token effort at first, but decided to go all out after we won that first round. Perhaps they will wake up and take it back at some point, but it was still an impressive feat.
I got that discount Federal Assault Ship and named it Gridrunner just like I told I was going to do. The Imp Hammers are still pending but otherwise I got it the way I like it. Regular rails as placeholders. I fought TheYamiks in a friendly bout with it and lost. Didn't seem to be because of the build. Either that guy has gotten a lot better since I last fought him or I need to git gud. At least the rebuy cost is low.
That is all for this time. Merry Christmas!