Red Sun Projects OOC

Just started building the "pilot project" locations for this project:

Project - Senate Gardens. Imperial Encyclopedia Entry.

These shopping mall like complexes center on botanical gardens designed to provide ample places to sit, talk, drink beverages and eat food while being in an all year round lush garden environment. The gardens function is to simultaneously keep the population happy while encouraging talk so that the Senate can be better informed of the issues faced by the average citizen.  They are placed within distance of other main national infrastructure like the national banks, and even have outlets in the garden complexes. Affordable, clean hotels are encouraged in the area so that there will be more travel and exchange of ideas between the provinces. These hotels need not spend on as many amenities, since they are provided at low or no cost for free at the nearby Senate Garden.

Recent political theorists have found that a healthy "sphere" of political thought can provide information of value to the Senate. The Gardens also serve as an ongoing symbol of the Empire's dedication to civilized living and the condition of the average citizen.

Game effect: to be determined by the GMs ... I imagine this will be mostly for RP purposes, but the Empire wants content citizens and genuinely wants to know whats on their minds.

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For completeness, note the many minor projects detailed in spending. These infrastructure projects are the manifestation of a "golden age" beginning for the Empire.

The Sun Aerospace Travel Research Institute (SATRI)

was formalized with this spending:

Start Logistics (time above), half speed research is 5 PP, 2.5 Mk - 20 hours to completion
Start Payloads (time above), half speed, with files, 3.75, 1.88 Mk - 15 hours to completion
Start High Altitude Engine (time above), half speed research is 10 PP, 5 Mk - 40 hours to completion

This, originally part of the general Golden Age Policies of the current Emperor, has grown into a NASA like organization.