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[Nirur Torir]

I think I'll switch away from a propulsion scientist. Would a structural expert be able to get a bonus to both chassis and fuel tanks, or do fuel tanks require a different specialization?

[Donuts]

Switched to Lobbyist, I WANT MOAR PR!!!

[10ebbor10]

I think I'll switch away from a propulsion scientist. Would a structural expert be able to get a bonus to both chassis and fuel tanks, or do fuel tanks require a different specialization?

He could, but a bonus to two categories will be a bit smaller.

[10ebbor10]

Turn 0 : 1946

It's a historical day today, as eight organisations have voiced their intentions to conquer Space. The traditional superpowers, Sovjet-Russia and the U.S., have made no progress on their rocketry efforts. Many suspect that their rivalry has led them to sabotage each other. This, combined with the fact that the germans managed to destroy most of their technology before it was captured, has proven to be a severe hindrance. Still, it is no suprise that other countries are trying to claim space. Among these contenders are however some strange countries, like a single African ex-colony, and multiple wartorn ones..

((Bonus have been noted to special stuff. You can still change if you want too.))

County relations:
                  Australia      Japan        Poland       Greece      Scotland       Nicuaraga            France
Australia      Neutral        Neutral     Neutral       Neutral       Neutral          Neutral             Neutral
Japan          Neutral        Neutral     Neutral       Neutral       Neutral          Neutral             Neutral
Poland         Neutral        Neutral     Neutral       Neutral       Neutral          Neutral             Neutral
Greece         Neutral        Neutral     Neutral       Neutral       Neutral         Neutral              Neutral
Scotland      Neutral        Neutral     Neutral       Neutral       Neutral          Neutral             Neutral
Nicuaraga    Neutral        Neutral     Neutral       Neutral       Neutral          Neutral             Neutral
France         Neutral        Neutral     Neutral       Neutral       Neutral          Neutral             Neutral

Player name: Peter Fletcher
Archetype: Lobbyist
Funds: 10,000 (+1000)
Prestige: 0
Organisation Name: SPACE: Space Projects for Australian Commerce and Exploration (yes I know it's a recursive acronym)
Motto: Ad astra per ardua
Nation: Australia

Spoiler: Researched Components (click to show/hide)

        Fuel
               -Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter hight)
        Thrusters
               -Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg,Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)
        Chassis
               -Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

None at the moment.

Spoiler: Assets (click to show/hide)

             - Small labs (1 research thing. 1000 per research)
             - Small launchpad (Max 10 meters)
             - Small Mission Control (1 mission/ year)
              -Small manufacturing and design factory (Design: 2000. Max 10 meters of rocket/year)     

Spoiler: Special people (click to show/hide)

Expert Electrical Engineer: +40 (This would be a bonus to sattelites and stuff, and maybe even capsules)

Player Name: Samuel Wells
Archetype: Scientist
Funds:10,000
Organisation: NASA (I can't think up a better name.)
Motto: Lets screw with history
Nation: Japan (Bet you didn't expect that)

Spoiler: Researched Components (click to show/hide)

        Fuel
               -Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter hight)
        Thrusters
               -Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg,Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)
        Chassis
               -Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

None Currently

Spoiler:  Assets (click to show/hide)

Small labs
Small launchpad
Small Mission Control
Small manufacturing and design factory

Spoiler: Special (click to show/hide)

Special scientist old German propulsion scientist: + 40 Propulsion research

Spoiler: Optional (click to show/hide)

Sent in as part of the Marshal Plan, Well's job is quite simply to rebuild Japans research capacity, he hopes to ally with another space program to help with the space program.

Player name: Aleksander Sołtyk
Archetype: Scientist
Funds: 10.000
Organisation Name: P.C.I.S. (Poland CAN into Space)
Motto: Show the world what we can do.
Nation: Republic of Poland

Spoiler: Researched components (click to show/hide)

        Fuel
               -Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter hight)
        Thrusters
               -Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg,Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)
        Chassis
               -Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

None at the moment

Spoiler: Assets (click to show/hide)

Small labs
Small launchpad
Small Mission Control
Small manufacturing and design factory
Fuel production line: [Reduces price of fuel tanks with 50%]

Spoiler: Specials (click to show/hide)

 

Spoiler: Optional (click to show/hide)

After the WW2 Poland was in terrible financial state. That, and it was mostly rubble after Germans passed through it to the east and the Russians to the west. With most of the intellectual elite killed by one side or another it's luck that the Soviets could even find people to make puppets from.

I myself returned from Britain hoping for a sovereign Homeland. Having worked for PZL before the war I have continued working for aerospace
engineering industry during the war and after it.

The state representatives approached me and few others to create a small space program. We were to build a rocket or two and send them into space. It was to be something to show to the people, you see, a national pride thing. I believe they wanted to wrap the project up fast, but we are men of science and will use any opportunity to research the world that surrounds us.

If I must I will FIGHT the bureaucrats for funding, I won't let MY... our project to die, this is a great chance for this country.

The facilities are state owned, some kind of proving grounds... The 'labs' are humble barracks, for the design and manufacture we will have to depend on Centralne Studium Samolotów (Central Aircraft Studies) for now. They get even worse funding than us but they have some great men there. I will need to procure some better equipment, get more professional facilities built, but for now it will have to suffice.

We've got some german equipment from our 'comrades'. Will have to get some guys to dismantle it and reverse engineer its workings.

Player name: Apostolos Urian
Archetype: Lobbyist
Funds: 10.000 (+1000)
Organisation Name: PSI(Preeminent Space Investigation)
      -Motto: Fly Higher, Fly Faster
      -Nation: Greece
     

Spoiler: -Researched components (click to show/hide)

Fuel storage
 - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter height)
Propulsion           
- Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg,Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)
Chassis           
- Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)

Spoiler: -Designs (click to show/hide)

 -None at the moment

Spoiler: -Assets (click to show/hide)

- Small labs (1 research/year for $1000)
- Small launchpad (Max rocket height of 10m)
- Small Mission Control (1 launch/year)
- Small manufacturing and design factory: (Can build rockets, can design new rockets ($2000 + cost))

Spoiler: -Special people (click to show/hide)

             -None yet

Spoiler: -Special thingy: (click to show/hide)

             -a V2 rocket(may be reverse-engineered for low-level components, but not launched) (Below is an overview of the info you can get out of the parts)
                     -Basic radiocontrol direction system [3.0]
                     -Medium warhead [2.0]
                     -Upgraded Chassis(14 meter) [3.00]
                     -Upgraded Medium engine [4.00]
                     -Upgraded fuel tank [2.00]

Spoiler: Optional: (click to show/hide)

Greece was heavily occupied during the Second World War, and though they lost much to famine and heavy-handed oppression, they have begun to resurge with a vengeance, and recent caches of German equipment found unmolested in store-houses across the country have been a great help in that regard. While most of these were sold off, a disarmed v2 rocket has sparked interest in the myriad possibilities of rocketry, propelling Greece into the space race.

Player name: Haggis-Bob The Bearded
Archetype: Lobbyist
Funds: 10.000 (+1000)
Prestige: 0
Organisation Name: H.A.G.G.I.S. (Heaven's Awesome Gentlemens' Great Intelligence Society)
      -Motto: Up, up, and away! And back!
      -Nation: Scotland!
     

Spoiler: Researched Components (click to show/hide)

        Fuel
               -Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter hight)
        Thrusters
               -Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg,Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)
        Chassis
               -Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)

       

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

             -None at the moment

       

Spoiler: Assets (click to show/hide)

             - Small labs (1 research/year for $1000)
             -Small launchpad (Max rocket height of 10m)
             -Small Mission Control (1 launch/year)
              -Small manufacturing and design factory (Can build rockets, can design new rockets ($2000 + cost)

   

Spoiler: Special Stuff (click to show/hide)

       -Special People:
             -Expert Thruster Scientist (+40)
       -Special thingy:
             -Nuthing

Player name:Javier
Archetype:scientist
Funds: 10.000
Organization: S.M.F.(supermagicalfuntime)
      -Motto: No one builds 'em better than us!
      -Nation: Nicaragua
      -

Spoiler: Researched components (click to show/hide)

             Fuel[ Storage
             - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter height)

             Propulsion
             - Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg, Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)

             Chassis
             - Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)

       -

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

             -None at the moment

       -

Spoiler: Assets (click to show/hide)

             - Small labs
             -Small launchpad
             -Small Mission Control
              -Small manufacturing and design factory

     
-

Spoiler: Special people (click to show/hide)

             - mathematician(German) (What do you want to do with this one.)
       -Special thingy:
             -none yet

Player name: Medoro Marceau
Archetype: Scientist
Funds: 10.000(+1000)
Prestige:0
Organisation Name: French Institute for Extraterrestrial Exploitation (FIEE)
      -Motto: Étendre l'influence de l'humanité (Expanding humanity's influence)
      -Nation: France

Spoiler: Researched Components (click to show/hide)

             Fuel[ Storage
             - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter height)

             Propulsion
             - Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg, Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)

             Chassis
             - Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

        None

Spoiler: Assets (click to show/hide)

- Small labs (1 research/year for $1000)
- Small launchpad (Max rocket height of 10m)
- Small Mission Control (1 launch/year)
- Small manufacturing and design factory: (Can build rockets, can design new rockets ($2000 + cost))

Spoiler: Special people (click to show/hide)

Expert structural scientist (Chassis, fuel tanks, maybe armor).

Initial bonus: Expert Chassis scientist (+40)

Spoiler: Optional Fluff (click to show/hide)

The lessons of the Second World War were hard for France, her people, and her prestige. The people were determined to reclaim their spot as a leading nation. Despite their war-torn industrial base and cities, they wanted a presence in the suddenly visible frontier of space. Left largely unstated was that, at any time, a new group of near-Nazis could gain power, somewhere in the world. With the new possibilities opened by rockets, France would need to be ready well ahead of time.

Mr. Marceau was chosen to lead their space program. He was a brilliant physics student studying abroad in the USA when the war broke out. He graduated in 1941, and worked with Boeing until the end of the war, developing aircraft to free his homeland. On his post-war return, he began gathering a group to found his own research company. A contest was held shortly thereafter to find who was the most qualified to lead France into space, which his team narrowly won.

[RulerOfNothing]

Research:
Lab 1: Improve the reliability of the small thruster (-$1000)
Research costs: $1000

Design:
None this year.

Construction:
Upgrade the lab to get +1 action (-$5000)
Construction costs: $5000

Total cost: $6000

[Donuts]

It was a good day. Haggis-Bob had just arrived on his new job. The chiefs office at H.A.G.G.I.S.. He had just seen how primitive it currently was, compared to his dreams for Scotland. He wished to plant a kilt-on-a-pole on Luna. And with this crap nothing can be done. Haggis-Bob stormed over to the german thruster scientists office, and shouted "We need more stable thrusters! Can't have the rocket explode before it even takes off! We'll never get the kilt to the moon without it!!!", then went over to his office to make a letter. He wanted to improve relations with the FIEE, as the French could be brilliant minds sometimes. And allies could always be good in hard times...

Turn:

Research:
Lab 1: Research "Stable Small Thrusters" (-$1000)
Research costs: $1000

Design:
None

Construction:
Bigger, better, lab. (+1 research action, -$5000)
Construction costs: $5000

Other:
Try to become better friends with the FIEE (If possibru)

Summary: +1 research action, -$6000

[SoHowAreYou]

2 questions can I haz allies, you wouldn't deny aCat giant scorpion baby allies, unlike a kitten which you would. And to Ebbor is it too late to break the sound barrier, or can I still be first.

And finally on an RP note technically Japan's space program currently could count as Americas, because it is supported and run by them.

[10ebbor10]

2 questions can I haz allies, you wouldn't deny aCat giant scorpion baby allies, unlike a kitten which you would. And to Ebbor is it too late to break the sound barrier, or can I still be first.

And finally on an RP note technically Japan's space program currently could count as Americas, because it is supported and run by them.

Depends on which allies. Player allies yes. NPC's no. The V-2 flew at mach 3.

[SoHowAreYou]

I mean manned flight discounting unconfirmed me-163 pilots claims

[10ebbor10]

Seems unlikely that you'll get it, because it will take you some time to develop manned rockets. And the first manned supersonic flight occurs in 1947.

Edit: Nothing stopping you from making a promise that you'll accomplish X by the end of [Year here]

[SoHowAreYou]

Well Japan had some old suicide planes which used rockets, we could rip out the engines put in better ones, and say we were testing out the new rockets.

[mainiac]

Player name: Patrick FitzConnor
Archetype: Businessman
Funds: 10.000(+1000)
Prestige:0
Organisation Name: Making Aeronautic Research Yield Lasting And New Development (MARYLAND)
      -Motto: Large Rockets, Gentle Words
      -Nation: US/Maryland

       

Spoiler: Researched Components (click to show/hide)

             Fuel[ Storage
             - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter height)

             Propulsion
             - Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg, Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)

             Chassis
             - Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)
       

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

        None
       

Spoiler: Assets (click to show/hide)

- Small labs (1 research/year for $1000)
- Small launchpad (Max rocket height of 10m)
- Small Mission Control (1 launch/year)
- Small manufacturing and design factory: (Can build rockets, can design new rockets ($2000 + cost))

Spoiler: Special Assets (click to show/hide)

Manufacturing base (rockets are cheaper to construct)

Spoiler: Optional (click to show/hide)

The US was the hardest hit country by the Great Depression and it took many long years for the country to finally recover.  WWII meant hardship but it also meant economic boom times so many were afraid of what would happen when the war ended and the military industries were shut down.  The MARYLAND project was a response to these fears, the intent was to repurpose the extensive bomber factories and naval yards in the state of Maryland to peacetime uses.  The purpose eventually settled on was space exploration, starting with the launch of communication satellites to quickly send messages between the US and Europe.

The main advantage the MARYLAND brings to the table is the extensive steelworking and aeronautic industries around Baltimore.  In wartime the Glenn Martin company produced the B-26 Marauder bomber.  With wartime contracts drying up the government has provided startup capital to acquire these factories at fire sale prices.  The project is headed by Patrick FitzConnor, a man who has spent years working for the Glenn Martin company and has served as a US Senator.

Turn:
Research: Communications relay for conveying ground to space to ground messages between Earth and Orbit.

MARYLAND is interested in purchasing blueprints for a more stable thruster from another space agency.  We will watch their research with interest.

Turn summery: research -1000.

Patrick O'Connor walked the factory floor where the men and women were still busy at work making bombers.  That would keep the place open for now but it wouldn't last for much longer.  He was scoping the place out for a different kind of manufacturing.  He liked what he saw and met the Glenn Martin representative outside to tender an offer.  The man was happy for the little that Patrick offered but wondering what this whole startup Patrick was organizing was about.  "Y'all planning to start another war or something like that?"  Patrick just shrugged "Yeah, something like that.  So it's agreed then, January 1st 1947 this place changes hands."  Inside the gears in Patrick's head were already turning, he had big plans for this factory.

[akkudakku]

It has officially begun. I had to improve the science facilities fast, either by replacing the logarithmic rulers with some mechanical computers or by just expanding the buildings and hiring more people. I had my men begin ground tests of our simple engine design, we need to find flaws in the design now, I don't want the officials to watch a huge fireball on our first launch.
I myself started designing a simple mechanical flight control, you can always hope that your rocket will fly straight up if you have it perfectly built. But real world works differently and adding gyroscopes, winglets and the sort costs considerably less than returns from scrap metal after your rocket crashes.
The research and equipment will eat a big part of the funding that we've got, but  if we don't have theory right, then we can just as well build a huge catapult and hope that would work.
The field is new and it would be great to have other teams to share experience with, but it looks like the USSR is not interested, strange indeed. I can only hope that state will allow me to contact my acquaintances in UK and find help there.

Turn:
Research:
Lab: Improve the small thrusters (-1000$)
Myself: Mechanical flight control system (Ascent guidance controller) (-1000$ [OOC: If its a free action even better!])

Design:
None

Construction:
Buy computing equipment for the lab, if impossible expand the lab (-5000$)

Totals: -7000$ [If research by me is free then 6000$]
Cash after turn: 3000$ [If research by me is free then 4000$]

Others: Because of my work in the UK during the war im interested in pulling some strings internationally and getting mutual agreement with HAGGIS.

[javierpwn]

Turn

Research:improve small thruster reliability(-1000)
Me:research larger thrusters(-1000)

Design:none

Construction:Buy/install better lab equipment(-5000)

Summary:-7000

[10ebbor10]

Where does the 1000 dollar cut on better lab equipment come from?