We will go to mars, and make it ours.
Me, Manfryd Koch, and a hand picked team of explorers will get on board the very first ship bound for the red planet with enough supplies to last us 3 years. We will investigate the ruins and find their origins. We will also start to plan for the full fledged exploration of the structures when a sufficient contingent of technicians and engineer can be ferried to Mars.
From careful analysis of the data sent by the probes we have good reason to think that the structures are from an advanced civilization, and thus the discoveries made there could very well gain us the edge we need over the Reich.
OOC
I assume the land still have a reddish hue despite the humidity. I also assume there is no local life/flora.
NONGAME RAMBLINGS:
The Mars was pretty much is an one continent one ocean type of planet. In such configurations (based on what I saw at that BBC programs), The rain will fall on the mountain-side that face the ocean (hence the coast), while the other mountain side that face the continent interior will get little or get nothing at all. This mimics the Euroasia continent. The rain hardly reach Central Asia steep and Gobi Desert because those locations are pretty far from any ocean. The Mars, Southern Continent interior will become pretty much a steep and desert. Why Red? The Mars got plenty Iron Oxide on soil, so it cast reddish hue if we see from space (but not so red as our Real-World mars), but you can see Green along the Boreal (Northern) Ocean coast and on Northern shores of Hellas Sea. Most Mars fern-like plants lives there.
Local flora consist of: Cyanobacteria (differ from the on at Earth), Lichen-Grass, Fern-Like Plants (produce spores) with radial leaf, the Giant Lycopod-like Trees (can grow into 100 metres) with Cactus-like variant lycopod tree. The plants are different from the one at earth (hence the word -like).
Local fauna consist of: Worm-like insects, Giant Bugs (actually some kind of large exoskeleton animal that breath with lung), animal which can safely called Lizard (Synapsid) but had very different jaws and pelvic configuration, and strange small divertebra animal that had two 'back' bone on their side that make some people on Earth called them Walking Land-Fish, and a Mollusc families that walk on two fleshy legs. And many other not-so different on outside animals.
On sea there are a lot of Invertebrate, the dominant large spesies are Divertebra Fish like the Giant Mars-Shark. While most Vertebral fish are small and eel like.
There are no large flying animals other than small worm-insect with wings.
Yeah mars was very strange from Earth perspectives.
Based on genetics studies of plant samples brought from Mars in 1990s, it is concluded the Earth life and Mars life didn't had a common ancestor. It is thought as an example of classic convergent evolution. Some accept this as proof that there are God(s), some say that this proof there is no God(s). But let leave the religion baggage behind, the world had move on afterall...
Also you can't eat Martian lifeforms for food as it is. First, their intrinsic biomolecules are different so while you can digested the carbohydrates and lipids it is unlikely you can get amino acid as the Martian life employ some amino acid that not found on Earth life. Second, most Martian life employ biomolecules that can had severe result on Earth lifeforms and vice versa. But because of that Human shouldn't worry of risk of infections as no Mars microorganism capable to penetrate nor fool our immune systems.
So the Xeno team and subsequent colonist must plant their own food.
For relevant further reading:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoBiochemicalBarriersThe same things didn't really exist on Venus. Venus lifeforms and Earth lifeforms are in general pretty similar internally, but the difference was so much we cannot see that they was Earth Lifeform. It hypothesized someone or something transplant Permian Earth lifeforms to Venus and it outcompete and outgambit native Venusian lifeforms, thus most Venusian lifeforms went extinct in several million years.
So Venus lifeforms are more eatable than Mars lifeforms, although it's still advised to not too, let's our stick to Earth-based food that had served us well for several millions years.
GAME RAMBLINGS:
Well... It depends who ANEA choose as team members, in unlikely event the ANEA or other Directorate members didn't say anything for team member, I assumed Dr. Koch say: "Screw this", get rouge, kidnapping team members, stealing one of Allied Survey Ships and go straight to Mars while drinking beer in zero gravity.
To Lockheed and Boeing:
Could those designs be fitted with passive sensors? Wouldn't want to get sprung by any Reich ships.
(OOC: Do colliers and tankers count as civilian or military?)
Allied State Secretary:
Your suggestion had been forwarded to Boeing and Lockheed. They will adding the sensors when they deliver the new ships.
OOC: OK... I'll modify the design when I got home. Colliers counted as Military ships, because carrying Nuclear Missile was no civilian feat. Tanker counted as Civilian ship. Because making spaceships on lower tech level was very hard, The Reich and Allies agree to not shooting Civilian ship, they consider it barbaric, they will demand the ship to surrender, and the civilian crew will hardly resisted (while some of them will overload the engine to explode before leaving ship).
Order one each of the civilian vessels, but don't start construction on them until we have enough materials to build 2/3's of one in the stockpile of the total ships materials
Allied State Secretary:
Sir, Boeing and Lockheed representations say that they can donate those ships for free as a sample and their token of good will in Allied cause. If you like Boeing and Lockheed can provide up to 4 ships.
OOC: In history, TN tech was founded on year 1999, now is year 2004. So, Allied and Reich get 4 free Commercial Ships up to 20.000 tons and 2 free Military Ships up to 2500 tons to reflect their shipbuilding in those 5 years period. So pick your favorite ships.
With the sensors it would be much cheaper to make a smaller ship packed with sensors than it would be to make the freighters more complex. Colliers and Tankers can be either Military or Commercials AFAIK, one of the determining factors is the engine chosen. - Edit: It seems that putting sensors on a craft also makes it a military craft, as well as a maintenance bay. So that would also crap out putting sensors on the freighters.
A fleet composed of several freighters and one tanker fitted with sensors is probably something we should consider as a high priority, especially with our goal of nabbing Mars, {pity about the trivial amount of Corundium, though, that's gonna hurt us for a long time}.
Edit - looks like a small military ship with dedicated sensors is the only option.
The Commercial ship can be equipped with sensor if it is no bigger than 50 tons (1 HS) any bigger than that the Ship are considered Military Ships. Putting active sensor always make the ships as Military because Active sensor are' aggresive' type of sensor.
The Corundium was pretty much the limiting factor on Sol Expansion in my games. This always forced me to established mining colonies in other systems. It is an irony, because we need more corundium we produce more mines that will need more corundium.
This situation reminding me when I embarks on Fortress with no Copper, Silver, nor Iron Ores, only God-Damn Native Gold, I never so hate Gold like that game. I can't built more picks and axes from shit, and my fortress depend on Traders and Goblinite to make picks and weapons. In my game those ores are the limiting factors that should force me to do some expansion, that time I really wish Toady should make an option to make my dwarves raid some nearby human settlements, stealing Pans, Pots, and other cooking utensil, and smelt them into picks and axes. Good Lord, this turned into some DF grudging...
First and foremost, we at Diplomacy Corp request Fritz Wolfgang to be assigned to the Reich Embassy as "Special Staff" instead of being forced to examine rocks. Both Fritz and whomever is in charge of Survey Teams need to trust me when I say that Captain Wolfgang can do far more for the Allies as an operative than as a surveyor. Also, mysterious head of Survey Teams and Captain Wolfgang each gets one favor from me in the future. Plus, he's better at espionage than surveying (no doubt because he's German by birth).
Now that that is out of the way, I'll offer the simplest method of picking teams: Give me one Espionage team of the best people, then one Espionage Team of the next best.
For Diplomacy, give me a team of the best personel possible. By the way, would Fleet Command be willing to let somebody less qualified deal with Public Relations, to free up Captain Christelle Conrad to join our diplomatic team? While Public Relations is important, Diplomacy is life-or-death.
Send everything at the Reich. Sweet talk them with the diplomats, while stealing their tech with the spies.
Research advice: I know it's not my department, but as a Fighter Jock, I'd suggest researching at least one of the following: Command Module, Crew Quarters - Small, Engineering Section - Small, Fuel Storage - Small. Put simply, each of these techs adds one weapon to our fighters and gunboats, roughly.
I also note that my officer is useless when it comes to team skills. No wonder I'm a department head!
ADC Head:
Order acknowledge sir. Captain Fritz Wolfgang wil be join Captain Garth Edelstein, Captain Bruce Sortino, Captain Rod Scordato and Captain Gracia Pizarro Collado as deep cover espionage team. Is this team is what you had in mind sir?
As per you request sir ACFC HQ had transferred Captain Christelle Conrad to CA Norma Pickelsimer Peace Envoys with Colonel Darrel Mitchiner, CA Gillian Mercer and Captain Elroy Bells. The ACFC HQ Public Affairs duty now falls to Captain Dwain Ruvolo hand. Is this team is what you had in mind sir?
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ARLaN Chief:
It depends on what the HEAD of ANSA thinks sir. He is the one with authorization to command research.
But, in the event the head of ANSA become incapacitated, compromised or missing, the rest of Directorate can dictate the research priorities by majority basis.
OOC: Is it just me or many of our top espionage capable teams had vague Germanic names. Metagame: Jack Euchre was the fastest Captain-level with the highest Fleet Ratings. (and it looks like Captain Jack Euchre will soon be promoted to Flag Captain).
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