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<span class="mu-s">Year 65 of the Resurrection Era</span>
You have decided to <span class="mu-s">Colonize</span> the Stand with a civilian presence. Based on your understanding of the Consortium's war philosophy- they won't attack civilian infrastructure or treat non-combatants the same as uniformed soldiers. This is their definition of honor- a certain level of foolishness that you will not apply in return. The Esaal would never direct their battlefield doctrine this way, but you can certainly take advantage of this.
By allowing civilians to move into The Stand and bulk up the mining colonies and orbital space around the planet- you have bulked up your presence in the system and increased the defense of your fortification by proxy with minimal risk to your noncombatant citizens. Good.
However, an idea springs to mind. Anything beaming out a civilian signal is likely to be ignored by the Consortium's military forces- at least until they pose a threat. As such, you could use this as a surprise attack. Order the construction of weapons and hide them among civilian installations; and use them in the upcoming battle. Of course, doing so would be a breach of the unspoken social contract between you and the Consortium- not that you care much for a relationship between yourself and degenerate capitalists. After all, pragmatism is the core heart of the Hegemony. Any attempt to strike down these civilian bases would only look poorly upon the Consortium- though they won't just allow themselves to be hit by them without retaliation- you can easily get the jump on them doing this.
Do you think we should use the Civilian presence as a potential way to ambush the Consortium?
>Build weapons among Civilian stations (This is a minor atrocity)
>Keep Civilian stations unarmed
With that done, and no important information yet gleamed by the Bio-Bot spies, you have to decide what research to work on next.
>Energy Scattering
>Laser Cooling
>Ship-Boarding
>Celestial Blood
