Public Info: After a while substantial progress has been made with the effort of terraforming Gaia and the first (and probably hardest) step of the process is complete, the atmosphere has been purified and is now fully clean and breathable! Classified Info: As war rages in the other planets Ætherium begins to recognize the threat of the Cult of Sin. Immense paranoia over an invasion or the CoS peer pressure has led too a series of TOP SECRET developments to counter them. Infrastructure: Large factories are built on Gaia and Elesium Primus (which we are supposed to have a colony on but SOMEONE hasn't been updating the map). Gaia in particular is now crawling with hidden bases that are built within the terrain and even straight up fully underground that are fitted with advanced camouflage to make all of our bases and factories and whatnot blend in well with the terrain. This makes our bases extremely difficult to find, bomb or raid and allows us to manufacture advanced and heavy weapons in bulk without attracting unwanted attention. Manufacturing: Research Director Mimas is personally leading an effort to start creating highly advanced weaponry for Ætherium which includes; various forms of particle weapons, radiation weapons and sonic weapons. We also ramp up production of starships, creating a whole plethora of ships from main Ætherium in large bulk and creating a very powerful star fleet for ourselves. We also increase production of land vehicles but we mainly focus on ships for now. A fleet composed mostly of Sr-24s is constructed to form a complete blockade around Gaia that will easily stop and incapacitate any intruders, no one can get in or out of Gaia without our supervision (The Republic gets a pass because they are our ally and is guaranteed safe travel through the Sr-24 blockade). BRUTE FORCE: We're not just focusing on the defensive, we have just finished creating many tasks force of heavy, brutal and punishing ships & vehicles that can be deployed at a moment's notice to wreak havoc on any enemies. These include; larger and heavily armed ships like the B-232, superheavy bomber squadrons, ground attack fighters equipped previously mentioned sonic weaponry and squads of heavy tanks & walkers like the Automated Sentry and Orcus artillery. (more stuff in the notes & credits!)
Classified Info: (Continued) Strategy: Those are only half of our offensive forces, the other and much more classified half is composed of the most elite ships and fighters with the priority being stealth. All stealth fleets are completed with a variety of different types of stealth bombers, interceptors and whatnot. These forces are designed to go deep into enemy lines while remaining undetected and attack swiftly before escaping to give the enemy little to no change of being able to intercept them. Making these will actually be pretty easy considering our popular reputation for having some of the best stealth tech in the galaxy we come from! They may have an advantage in numbers, but we have our wits and our tech is to be feared!
