Road to Transcendence - ACDGIII History Thread

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2104 Morgans

So this is the feeling to be sitting in the CEO’s chair. Jtsisyoda mused. He had seen through Chaunk’s little trick of resignation. Knowing that the former CEO would reclaim his chair any time, Jtsisyoda decided that it was wise not to appear too ambitious. It was time to have a little fun, though. An evil snicker floated up at the corners of Jtsisyoda’s mouth.

“We have now discovered the secret of Information Networks.” Applauses broke out at Jtsisyoda’s announcement. “What would be the goal for our next research?” Jtsisyoda gave a brief introduction of each of the candidate projects: Industrial Economics, Century Ecology, and Biogentics. “Understandings of Industrial Economics will enable us to switch to free market model and increase our energy output by 50%. Now I propose we put this research target to a vote.” Jtsisyoda watched with a big grin at the board members being startled at his words. Some of the younger board members laughed out when they quickly raised their hands. The others followed suit, some a little hesitantly, and others showing an attitude of being annoyed. “Proposal one passed with unanimous votes.” Jtsisyoda sat back with satisfied smiles.

The meeting ran lightheartedly and smoothly. Alpha brigade was directed to pop the unity pod, with majority vote. It discovered a monolith, which was named “Morgan monolith”, again with unanimous vote. The meeting was concluded with everybody in high spirit, and CTO #endgame in mood of poetry.

“Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but
stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth.”

#endgame’s vociferous oration flied around the bases of the Morgans.

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2104 Spartans

Captain Zeiter lead R-112 Corazon Recon Vehicle drove further south downriver. Along the way CRV sighted another unity pod. The river was getter wider and wilder.

“Ocean! It is the ocean!” A soldier cried out. In front of them, blue sea waves splattered the coastlines.

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2105 Gaians

Lord Obstructor was fuming. “Disasters after disasters! And those strange communisque that we received is so irritating. I don’t care if that means other human factions have survived the landing crash, of if it was simply some tricks of those evil mindworms. I am quitting!”

In a minute he was swamped by a large group of people trying hard to persuade him to chang his mind, all attempting to shout louder than the others. “… Please don’t go, you are a great leader for us…” “…You have been a moving force behind the Gaian's and it would be extremely unfortunate to loose you. Please reconsider!” “We’ve just finished our first former and the best is still to come …” “We even found our first river …”

The next morning everybody in the Gaians was glad to received a note from their beloved Lady Deirdre, “Lord Illuminatus is to replace Lord Obstructor in full capacity.”

Lord Smacksim strolled along the river. Yes finally they have found a river, after searching for years. The planet had been testing their faiths. Every analysis showed that without rivers, and hydroenergy gained from them, Gaian Union shall fall behind lacking adequate energy sources. Now, they had something to plan, a future that was brighter than before.

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2105 Angels

Datajack 005 wandered in the operation room. “It’s a monolith.”

Startled, 003 turned back to him. “How do you know?”

“Look.” 005 continued to stare at the touch screen. Sure enough, the dataclouds disentangled through three layers of encryption and turned into a brown colored obelisk shape structure.

Hmmm … 003 wondered if they would have to switch to another encryption system if Sinder 001 knew that 005 could read dataclouds.

“I can’t read dataclouds.” Datajack 003 was startled again. Could he read her minds now? “I just have a strange sensation whenever it comes to the monoliths.” 005 talked dreamingly.

003 activated the encryption sequence again and the image was scrambled into swirling dataclouds. “We’ll finish researching Industrial Base next year. Also found our southern coastline. I wonder if there is a land bridge over there to the west?” She was going to talk about rushing the probes before she realized that her last question was unanswered.

Datajack 005 was gone.

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2105 Morgans

Morgan Market Wire (press release) - 5 hours ago
Considered the most technically advanced research facility of its kind in the planet, the new Advanced Morgan Laboratory (AML) dedicated today will support some of the faction’s most delicate experiments in Industrial Automation for production and assembly that will lead to rapid industrialization of the virgin Planet. Chief Executive Officer Chaunk, Chief Manufacturing Officer Impaler, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Chief Research Officer Archaic, Senier Operations Officer and Commerce General Counsel AndiD, and Executive Officer of Manufacturing Committee Rubin were among the participants in the formal opening ceremony today at the Morgan University campus in Morgan Industries.
The $235 million, 49,843 square meter (536,507 square foot) Advanced Morgan Laboratory features five separate wings—two of them buried 12 meters (39 feet) under ground—with stringent environmental controls on air quality, temperature, vibration, and humidity. The new facility allows AML to provide the sophisticated measurements and standards needed by Morgan industry and the scientific community for key technologies such as nanotechnology, semiconductors, biotechnology, advanced materials, quantum computing and advanced manufacturing.

“At the end of the day, our nation and our citizens will be safer, healthier and more productive as a result of the work that will be done here,” Archaic said. He noted that the Morgan faction faces challenging planet setting, stating, “We need every edge we can get; combined with our talented, dedicated personnel, this laboratory is an edge like no other.”

The construction of the AML was enabled by the locating of a material pod that was scattered toward the planet before the Unity was broken. Special features of the facility include:

• 338 reconfigurable laboratory modules;
• a Class 100 cleanroom
• enhanced high efficiency particulate air technology
• precision temperature-control laboratories;
• vibration isolation
• humidity control
• human friendly minibars

Research efforts planned for the new facility range from a more comprehensive Industrial Economics policy to accommodate free trade and other strategies for multiplying capital that is pushed by leaders in the financial sectors, to the creation of a standard for Planetary Networks that deemed as a high priority for the scientific community.

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2105 Spartans

“Permission to enter, Sir!” Captain Snoddasmannen and Captain Andemagne entered the command center. “We are concerned about the Spartan’s defensive preparation Sir! We are leaving our bases unmanned and are planning to do so for long. The unattended bases will not be able to fend off Mindworms Sir!.”

Maniac was glad that the low-rank officers have not shunned away from factional planning. It was good the Spartans have not forgotten that military was their real strength. However he had to allocate the limited resources toward other things that are crucial for the faction’s healthy growth before he could concentrate on military issues. It's a gamble: instead of building scouts and having a low economic growth, they had chosen a tactic that would produce a much higher economic growth, but also an increased risk of failure.

“Your concern will not go unnoticed, captains.” Maniac replied calmly. “We have just allocated more minerals so that we could finish recruiting and training of the new rover unit. Would you like to be the Commanding officer of the Rolling Thunder Brigade, Captain Andemagnus?”

Andemagnus’s face lit up. “Sir, yes sir!”

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5 Year History

	Gaians	Angels	Morgans	Spartans
2101	Gaians Landing founded	Enigma Machine and Kahlua Probing established on river Found two monoliths Energy allocation 60% lab	Found a river and a fungal tower Energy allocation 60% lab	Sparta Command founded Found a river and a monolith Energy allocation 60% lab
2102	Energy allcoation 80% lab	Found Pholus Ridge	Morgan Industries and Morgan Metallurgy established Popped energy bonus	Nothing happened
2103	Rushed a former	Found 3rd monolith	Two more river found as well as Mount Planet Rushed scouts in both bases	Santiago Citadel founded 2nd monolith found Rushed a scout rover
2104	Fallow Time founded Popped a pod and got earthquake	Found Nessus Canyon	Found 1st monolith Information Networks discovered	Found west ocean front Centauri Ecology discovered
2105	Found 1st river	Found 4th monolith Found southern coastline	Popped a material pod and completed network node at Morgan Industries	Rushed a scout rover