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[Avis-Mergulus]

Kazakhstan and Argentina are politically unstable? Why exactly? I would not mess with Venezuela, and with Sudan and Somalia we're biting off more than we can chew. Bangladesh? Maybe.

I am not trying to organize funding, I'm trying to secure a method of transport. As head of civilian and auxiliary craft, my job is to ensure stuff gets from point A to point B, and the stuff is cargo, not money. Money is for those guys in accounting - by the way, do we have any?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Kazakhstan and Argentina are politically unstable? Why exactly?

Old report.  Forgot to check the date due doing multiple things at once.

Here's something that could be of use...if we could put together $77,000...
http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/en/buy+douglas-island+new-brunswick+canada-east-central/

[King DZA]

Chief Engineer reporting for duty!

I have that list, by the way.

List: The Galapagos Islands (Small, equatorial, finches, small equatorial finches)

And for projects, can I suggest a ringworld incorporating a supercooled quantum maglev, large scale solar panels, and space elevators?

Archipiélago de Colón isn't too shabby an idea, actually. It's remote, there's plenty of space and resources available to set up a half-decent headquarters, and once we secure control, the growing tourism there will allow us to rake in some extra cash. Plus, who the fuck doesn't like finches?

I'm really digging the ringworld idea as well; something I don't remember ever being suggested in the history of this program.

Consider yourself promoted (Don't ask me to what. Just take pride in the fact that I now hold you in slightly higher esteem than I did ten minutes ago).

We must enslave the UN garrison there! First, they're already trained - saves time. Second, we need to be rid of them anyway to get any work done. Third, having UN troopers run around at our back and call lends us credibility in front of the fools who do not yet know us for an international terrorist organization.

No.  That is just...no.

If you're wanting to become in charge of an area, go after a politically unstable area and make it stable, if only a small part.  That way, you're getting good publicity (at least until all these experiments you are trying to perform get out), likely a great deal of interest for development, and a greater amount of resources.

Here are some that fit that criteria:
Bangladesh
Venezuela (Has a fair amount of oil reserves, so that )
Argentina
Somalia
Sudan
Kazakhstan

I've always been fond Kazakhstan, myself. Albeit not really for any reason other than my like of saying the name.

Money is for those guys in accounting - by the way, do we have any?

If we pool our resources together, I'm confident we'd have a fair amount to start with. Though let's not go breaking open any piggy banks until we reach some vague consensus on how the money should first be spent.

NEW ASSIGNMENT:

Knowing the nature of this program, we will inevitably end up with a shittonne of varied departments and sideprojects. All of which will, at one point or another, require some manner of funding. Taking this into account:

As soon as we settle on a starting location, the very first thing we'll need to do is get our financial priorities straight and figure out precisely where to put our money in order to give the B12SP the best starting foundation possible. What I need is a shortlist of only the most essential projects, so that we can determine exactly where and how all initial funding gets distributed.

[Dansmithers]

MY CYBERPHANTS HAVE TOP PRIORITY

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Here's a relatively cheap island.  It does cost 77,000, but when considering how taking over an area is extremely dangerous, would lead to the deaths of some of us, might cost more, and would lead to the anger of existing nations, this is an extremely attractive alternative.

http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/en/buy+douglas-island+new-brunswick+canada-east-central/

[~Neri]

I'll be the leader of the Special Containment Force.  Someone needs to be there to prevent total destruction of the colony by experiments that wind up being hostile.  Most else is outside my department, and therefore I attempt to avoid it.

Assets Gained: Chimeric Implantation T1 (enables the implantation of full limbs, may have side effects such as animalistic behaviors, social withdrawal, abnormal social behaviors, mild to extreme extroverted behaviors, mild to severe insanity, and in some cases cannibalistic tendencies.

Does the severity increase with dosage, if so, at what rate?  This, alongside a cybernetics program could improve anyone under my command so that we can deal with any rogue experiments.

Oh, you're under some observation now.

(For each implant, it is a roll for each side effect, it is cumulative, so if you roll 3 mild eccentrics it becomes severely eccentric, if you roll 2 eccentric and a mild insanity it makes you severely insane, if you roll an insane and a eccentric, you become mildly berserk.

Same system for the other side effects. I got really lucky with my rolls, only an intern or two will vanish every few weeks and some employees may be creeped out or scared shitless.)

"Yay person!" Kevak shouts as he tacklehugs the observational officer assigned to him.

[The Ensorceler]

Oh, hey. What are some low-hanging science prizes?

"The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to the Earth."

While not the lowest of fruit, I fully believe this can be nabbed with a ridiculous proposal such as firing an old ICBM modified to have a small cannon in place of a warhead, which fires a projectile capable of expanding a high density sticky foam from its surface, which then collapses on an oblique lunar impact to absorb some energy while then rolling several miles, tearing foam off against rocky outcroppings to stop itself. Then, the incredibly simple robot, consisting of a single wheel with three gyroscopic reaction wheels, precesses itself off the ground and into a stable roll, from which it records video shot with a pinhole camera and beamed back with a series of LEDs being observed by telescope. Why am I so voluble. Just why.

TL;DR We can find money with overcomplicated machines, which seem to be our specialty.

[King DZA]

Here's a relatively cheap island.  It does cost 77,000, but when considering how taking over an area is extremely dangerous, would lead to the deaths of some of us, might cost more, and would lead to the anger of existing nations, this is an extremely attractive alternative.

http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/en/buy+douglas-island+new-brunswick+canada-east-central/

Mmm, attractive indeed. The legal procurement of our own island—while not nearly as adventurous as stealing one from an established government—is certainly an option to be carefully considered.

Oh, hey. What are some low-hanging science prizes?

"The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to the Earth."

While not the lowest of fruit, I fully believe this can be nabbed with a ridiculous proposal such as firing an old ICBM modified to have a small cannon in place of a warhead, which fires a projectile capable of expanding a high density sticky foam from its surface, which then collapses on an oblique lunar impact to absorb some energy while then rolling several miles, tearing foam off against rocky outcroppings to stop itself. Then, the incredibly simple robot, consisting of a single wheel with three gyroscopic reaction wheels, precesses itself off the ground and into a stable roll, from which it records video shot with a pinhole camera and beamed back with a series of LEDs being observed by telescope. Why am I so voluble. Just why.

TL;DR We can find money with overcomplicated machines, which seem to be our specialty.

Mother of God...with that kind of money, just think of all the islands we could buy!
Excellent job. Keep up the innovative thinking, and there may just be another small, nonspecific promotion in your future.

Now then, which one of you has an old ICBM they're not using?

[Avis-Mergulus]

Oh! I know where we can find an abandoned military base. Do we need an abandoned military base?

[King DZA]

Hell, it couldn't hurt.

[Avis-Mergulus]

In Crimea, just a few kilometers off of Balaklava, right on the side of Cape Aya. It's been abandoned for ages, and all the hardware's been nicked, but it's a square kilometer's worth of underground communications (I shit you not; it's huge, I've been wandering there for ages), as well as barracks buildings and probably working, though heavily rusted gun servo-mounts and shafts we could adapt for rocket launching.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I just had a brilliant idea. Can we enslave the natives of the Galapagos islands without the UN noticing and train them to be commandos so I can take over a shipping company?

So many problems with that.

If you're wanting to become in charge of an area, go after a politically unstable area and make it stable, if only a small part.  That way, you're getting good publicity (at least until all these experiments you are trying to perform get out), likely a great deal of interest for development, and a greater amount of resources.

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