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It is at this point that you realize that one of the scrubland caravens at the very edge of your drone-surveillance radius had begun to split. A small but sizable contingent was peeling south, heading directly towards the ruined town. You estimate arrival within two days.
As usual, you move the visual feed onto one of the many holoprojectors inside the vehicle bay. As the drone flies closer, a orange-red banner gradually resolves through the heat haze, showing some kind of native animal silhouetted against a blazing sun motif.
"House Ranke..." Says Liscia, squinting. "Probably arriving for one final supply stop before moving deeper west on an expedition. Horrible luck for us given their current position close to the crown." Alberico, however, looks absolutely mortified, and he clamps his mouth shut with an almost audible motion.
You catch him before he has a chance to recover though, and you bore your optic unit into his eyes. Fortunately, only one of you has the biological need to blink.
Alberico sighs, takes off his hat, and runs his hands through his hair. "I have some passing familiarity with that house..."
Both you and Lisica stare some more.
"House Ranke is led by my biological father, Leip Ranke." He pauses. "I ran a decade ago though, and I doubt that he would shame himself by acknowledging me - assuming that he even recognizes my face..."
As Liscia's chokes on her reply, you begin considering your strategy once the caraven arrives.
>Greet the caravan, try to explain the situation.
>Hide for now, conceal all of your forces.
>Write In/Mix-and-Match
<Facility Details>
Finished Project:
[Facility Improvement - 1 Turn]
The fine-scale manufacturing sublevels have been completely restored, allowing you to synthesize a relatively wide selection of basic combat vehicles, powersuits, and vehicle/infantry mounted weapons. Specific options include:
>Any vehicle weapon discovered to date, excluding GRASERS and other restricted weapons.
>Light automated IFVs, gunships, and Strike/Interceptor Aircraft
>Light ground combat robots
>All standard infantry weapons, including hardsuits
>Refurbishment of strategic weapons.
Production capacity has been doubled.
Current Project:
[Missile restoration 2-turns] [1 Turn committed/1 Turn Remaining]
<No inventory change (see last post)>
