Thread:AenMaps/@comment-30574470-20160922181129/@comment-15419758-20161203021950

2017 AC

The Nitrousian oil drilling policy of collectives/territories is now color coded, so I don't need to post them here now. The normal Kharzothian purple is Drilling Banned (DB), the dark purple is Domestic Drilling (DD), and the lighter orangy-purple  is Free Drilling (FD). Any non-Kharzothian rig not in a Free Drilling collective is illegal, as well as any rig in a Drilling Banned collective. Also the Kharzothian government institutes a Domestic Drilling policy for drilling platforms in Kharzothian waters, even off the coasts of Free Drilling collectives.

On Blaercha, Kharzothia launches the BLARGH mothership it captured into space, renaming it to KHARGH-7H2NJ (Kharzothians Aboard Red Giant Hexagons). The mission was to capture the mothership, and the forces were not equipped to fight Ghallians, so they fled. The new plan is to go to the Miaphisian, mine asteroids, and use the materials for fuel/weapons for a fight against the Ghallians at The Outpost. The Kharzothian battleship, now named "Diamond Dragon," heads with the KHARGH ship for assistence in the mission.

Also on Blaercha, BLARGH-99999, the "queen" of the BLARGHs, unleashes a powerful military stance with loads of weaponry and numbers, the Super Swarm. Kharzothia has known about this for a while after studying BLARGH technology. The Super Swarm can only be activated by the queen BLARGH ship, in this case, BLARGH-99999. It is very strong even with one BLARGH ship, but if the Super Swarm touches another BLARGH ship, it activates there, meaning an imminent chain reaction is about to happen on Blaercha, with eventually all BLARGH ships going Super Swarm. With enough numbers of motherships, the Super Swarm could be unstopable, even by the Ghallians, and Kharzothia urges the Lakrotho-Kapris-Horvite Trade Conglomerate to launch its BLARGH ship into space as well. The main downside to the Super Swarm for the BLARGHs is that it is very expensive and resource hungry, and breaks down some of the important structures of the BLARGH social society. The BLARGHs only use the Super Swarm very sparingly in extreme situations, which is why they didn't use it against Kharzothia and the Conglomerate in their attacks, but are now activating it against the Ghallians. The Super Swarm is theorized to last at most only a few years before its damage to BLARGH society and its resource cost causes it to crash. Kharzothian scientists think the BLARGHs will be able to drive the Ghallians off Blaercha, but will be very weak afterwards, and more motherships could be taken by Nitrousian nations (or the Ghallians could do a second attack and succeed with ease).