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[10ebbor10]

9 August 1945:

With a bright flash of light and a roar of thunder the Japanese city of Nagasaki is annihilated, killing almost 40.000 people and ending the second World war. At the Western front the war had been decided earlier, but now the time has come to rebuild,... and to divide the spoils of war. Agreements are made to prevent a war on this scale from ever happening again. The German scientist teams are broken up, and the knowledge of rocketry is spread around the world. The V-2 had been a terrible weapon: faster than sound, unstoppable once launched and armed with almost a ton of explosives. But now the time has come to use this knowledge for the benefit of mankind, to learn new things and to ensure peace and prosperity around the world.

1 January 1946:

You have been appointed leader of the national space program. For now you have a tight budget and almost no facilities, but hopefull that will soon change, as your prestige and honor raises with your successes. However similair organisations have arisen around the globe. For now it's just a friendly competition, but it might soon turn into a dangerous and fast arms race.

Spoiler: Gm Note (click to show/hide)

Yup, bringing back this game, with new maths systems and revised mechanics. Updates hopefull once a week. This can become fairly complex though.

The rolls wil mostly be d100's, unless other situations apply.

Spoiler: Player archetypes (click to show/hide)

-Scientist: You're a scientist yourself, so of course you're science deparement is the pride of your organisation
        -Can do research yourself
        -+5 to other scientist efforts
-Lobyist: You're hard work in public relations allows you to easily charm the public
       -P.R: Allows you to raise or lower the amount of prestige gained by a certain mission.(Both yourself and other players )
       -Can use money to start a pressconference to gain prestige
-Engineer: You design and build things. This gives you an advantage in rocket construction
       - Can design rockets yourself (this is free)
       -+5 to others designing rolls
-Astronaut: You're actually not an astronaut, but are at least a qualified test pilot.
      - Can join missions yourself( Doubles prestige gain/ loss)
      -+5 to astronaut training/rolls
-Businnesman: You're managing talents allow you to run this organisation at peak efficiency
      - You gain extra money.(+10%)
      - You start with double money
-Custom
     -We'll see

All players also have right of exactly one special thing they got from the german research teams. Be it a scientist, a component or maybe something else...

Spoiler:  Sign-up sheet (click to show/hide)

Player name:
Archetype:
Funds: 10.000 (20.000 with business man archettype)
Organisation Name: Have fun with Acronyms
      -Motto:
      -Nation: Your the national organisation of some country
      -Researched components(Please place these in a spoiler)
            - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter hight)
            - Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg,Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)
            - Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)
       -Designs
             -None at the moment
       -Assets
             - Small labs
             -Small launchpad
             -Small Mission Control
              -Small manufacturing and design factory     
-Special people
             -None yet
       -Special thingy:
             -Whatever you looted from german rocket research

Optional:
Optional things(Don't need to do these, just if you're bored*):
-Basic history of your country in the last years. Assume that all countries/ players start on equal footing.
-Basic history of yourself
-Basic history of your organisation
-Description of your facilities and their surroundings

*Or want to impress the GM

Spoiler: How to launch a rocket (click to show/hide)

One: research the components (1000 per research action. Warning, prices escalate for more advanced researh)
Two: Design the rocket( Specify which components you use, how big they are. A prototype will automatically be produced. Designing cost 2000)
Three: Build the Rocket(You get a prototype for free when designing one.)
Four: Launch
Five: If spontanous explosion, redo. If not advance to 6
Six: Jump a hole in the air then redo from start.

Spoiler: Prestige (click to show/hide)

Prestige is gained from succesful missions and subtracted for failed ones. Prestige modifies your funding(100*prestige+1000) and might allow you to get other benefits.

Spoiler: Trading (click to show/hide)

Almost anything is permitted, as long as there's an agreement between both players. Here are some sample agreements

Sell/Buy rockets: You sell build rockets to another nation, they can try to reverse- engineer, but that is hard.
Sell/Buy rocket blueprint: They give you the blueprint to build the rocket. This does not give you the related techs, though you can try to reverse engineer them
Sell/Buy techs: What do you think it does?
Sell/Buy service: Example: one organization pays another to bring a sattelite in orbit

Warning though: Trades may be intercepted, there are shipping fees(you're sending rockets after all) and nation may order trade embargoes

Spoiler: Nations and random events (click to show/hide)

Nations have relationships, which may help or hinder you with your ambitions. Every turn one random event happens that can influence these relations
One global event roll/turn:
1-20: Relations worsen between two countries
21-40: Relation improve between two countries
41-50: Random nation's economy get better
51-60: Random nation's economy get worse
61-65: Global economic recession
66-70: Global economic boom
71-90: Solar storms: Everyone not inside a magnetosphere is dead
91-100: No event this turn.

25% chance/player/turn of a random event:
1-20: New scientist
21-40: Lose scientist
41-50: Minor prestige gain
51-60: Minor prestige loss
61-75: Bonus funds
76-90: Lose funds
90-100: Minor boast to research.
 

Spoiler:  Math (click to show/hide)

For payload of multistage rockets: (Note that stages count up. The topstage is always stage 1)
1: A*(Weight stage one + payload)/Thrust = 1
2: A*(Weightstage one+ Weight stage two + Payload)/Thrust stage 2 + B*(Weightstage one + Payload)/ Thrust Stage 1 = 2
3: .....

For other destinations than LEO( Multiply the weight(of the rocket) by A)
LEO:          X=100%
MEO           X= 125%
GEO           X=150%
Out of orbit X= 200%

The moon:
Landing: 25% extra weight
Take-off 25% extra weight
Out of orbit 50% extra weight

Do note that in this version different stages can indeed have different weight modifiers.

To get something into a stable orbit multiply the weight of the object(payload) in question by 110%.

For thrust bonuses multiply the amount of thrust by your thrust bonus( Pretty straightforward)
Thrust is calculated by multiplying the amount of fuel by the thrust per fuel unit ratio.( Standard 2kg for 1 kg fuel). This happens before the thrust bonus.

Fuel burn rate determines the amount of fuel an engine can burn at once. In space however, this doesn't matter anymore. If the amount of thrust needed is more than the engine can burn at once, the journey time is lengthened by X times (X*max thrust=thrust needed). That is, provided you have enough fuel

Since the prices aren't really that important

Hull plating: 25 per meter
Fueltank: 50 per meter
Engine : 100

Spoiler: Building (click to show/hide)

Buildings can be upgraded in multiple ways. They can be upgraded to improve better quality, or perform more actions a turn. Each consecutive upgrade costs 5000 more than the previous one.

Examples:
Research building:
     -+5% bonus
     - +1 research actions
Manufactory + Design
     - +5 design bonus
     - Max 20 meter of rocket per year
Launch pad
     -+  10 meter max rocket size
     -Safety bonus
Mission control
    -+1 action a year
    -Safety bonus

Spoiler: Further notes (click to show/hide)

Food use: A human requires by default 80 food per month. Month is the smallest timeunit I'm willing to take into consideration.

Pseudostaging is possible, if you research the Enhanced Thrust patterns tech

A tech that was ignored a lot the previous game is engine synchronization. Rather than always researching larger and larger engines, you just put 2 engines on 1 stage. This reduces the chance of a fatal accident, and is cheaper. Smaller accidents will occur more often.

Small station part(1m):
Weight: 400
Can contain:
Small lifesupport(3 People)(Small)
Storage area(Doubles storage capacity)
Small Power and computing hub( minimum 1 per station: command center) A small command station can support a station of up to 10 modules
Other
Storage capacity:100
Power required: 0.2 ( 1 solar panel= 1)

Medium station part:(2 m)
Weight: 600
Can contain:
Medium lifesupport(9 People)
Storage area(Doubles storage capacity)
Power and computing hub( minimum 1 per station: command center) A small command station can support a station of up to 25 modules
Other
Storage capacity:300
Power required: 0.25 ( 1 solar panel= 1)

Large station part (3M)
Weight: 800
Can contain:
Storage area(Doubles storage capacity)
Large airlock
Power and computing hub( minimum 1 per station: command center) A small command station can support a station of up to 40 modules
Other:
Storage capacity:500
Power required: 0.4

Large station part (4M)
Weight: 1000
Can contain:
Storage area(Doubles storage capacity)
Large airlock
Power and computing hub( minimum 1 per station: command center) A small command station can support a station of up to 60 modules
Other:
Storage capacity:800
Power required: 0.5

Example sheet:

Player name: Xin Su
Archetype: Lobbyist Political Commissar
Funds: 10.000(+1000)
Prestige:0
Organisation Name: Chinese Assembly for Space Exploration (CHASE)
      -Motto: Ensuring China's dominance of the Solar System.
      -Nation: People's Republic of China

       

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)

A German engineer (+25 to designing)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Brief recent national history: China was hit hard by both the Japanese and their own civil war. Perhaps in another reality, they would still be fighting. Here, the Nationalists refused to cooperate with the Communists (Despite their attempts for a temporary truce) against the invading Japanese. The Japanese used this for a propaganda campaign, and would ultimately make more gains in China than they otherwise might have. This had little real impact on the grand scale, but people were outraged at the Nationalists, who were quickly beaten back to Taiwan. Thanks to extensive Russian aid, China's economy is rapidly recovering.

Xin Su worked for one of Mao's underlings. His organizational talents were helpful during the war. When the news of German rocketry teams being spread reached him, he managed to get an audience with Mao. After weeks of negotiation, Mao was finally convinced to invest in a space program lead by Xin Su. He would both prove that a Communist space program could beat (or at the very least, rival) the likely Capitalist space programs, and extract extraterrestrial resources for a growing China if he valued his life.

The site is surrounded by mountains, and located in the Anhui province, in the south-east of China. The primary access is by rail. The labs, factory, and mission control building are clustered together on the outskirts of Shijie Town, while the launchpad is in a field a mile away.

Spoiler: Example rocket (click to show/hide)

The Squat Mk I
Height: 5m
Weight: 975 kg
Available Payload: 25 kg
Thrust: 1000 kg to Leo

Components:
Single stage hull (5 meter): 75*5-> 375kg
Small thruster (1 meter): 100kg, 1000kg To LEO
Small fuel tanks x4 (4 meter): 500kg

Spoiler: Example turn (click to show/hide)

Urist McLowe, a short bearded man, stepped out of his office with the new design plans in his hand.  This was a big moment for him- everyone wanted to know if he would live up to the name of DeWard, and he wanted to be damn sure that his design plans would be a success.

There would be much to do, but he needed to meet with his engineering team.  Urist was a talented designer, but not so vain as to not get his work double checked.

He already had a name for it- it was their little joke, considering its small size.

Even if his first rocket didn't fly, he had another way to get his name in the papers...


Research:
Stable Small Thrusters.  Focus on reducing the risk of explosion (while neither decreasing efficiency nor increasing weight.)


Designs:

[Personal Design]
The Squat Mk I
Height: 5m
Weight: 975 kg
Available Payload: 25 kg
Thrust: 1000 kg to Leo

Components:
Single stage hull (5 meter): 75*5-> 375kg
Small thruster (1 meter): 100kg, 1000kg To LEO
Small fuel tanks x4 (4 meter): 500kg


Building:
Expand the labs to allow an additional research action per year.

Other:
Publish a news article declaring the intent to put a dog into LEO within six years.

Total expenses:
6000 (1k research + 5k building - let me know if this is wrong)

[10ebbor10]

Reserved

[Nirur Torir]

Oooh, I got to be used as an example to the rest of the players. Also: Yay!

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 propulsion scientist

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.

[javierpwn]

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)

            - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter hight)
            - Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg,Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)
            - 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)
       -Special thingy:
             -none yet

[Donuts]

In!

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)

            - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter hight)
            - Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg,Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)
            - 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
       -Special thingy:
             -Nuthing

[javierpwn]

Because being one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere is !!fun!!

[Donuts]

Oooh, I got to be used as an example to the rest of the players. Also: Yay!

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 propulsion scientist

We don't start with special people

[javierpwn]

So everyone is pretty much the same except for countries this round?

[Donuts]

So everyone is pretty much the same except for countries this round?

Yep, and the special thingy you start with

[javierpwn]

Those efficient boosters should save you quite a bit, 50% chance of failure is quite high

[10ebbor10]

We don't start with special people

You do.

All players also have right of exactly one special thing they got from the german research teams. Be it a scientist, a component or maybe something else...

You start with one special person or item or whatever...

Also note that you can improve components by research.

I do find it strange that even with an example sheet given, 2 out of 3 sheets ain't using the optimal format.

Edit: All countries are virtually identical. They only differ for roleplaying reasons.

[Donuts]

We don't start with special people

You do.

All players also have right of exactly one special thing they got from the german research teams. Be it a scientist, a component or maybe something else...

You start with one special person or item or whatever...

Also note that you can improve components by research.

I do find it strange that even with an example sheet given, 2 out of 3 sheets ain't using the optimal format.

Edit: All countries are virtually identical. They only differ for roleplaying reasons.

Ah, you said "Special People -None Yet"
Also, fixed my sheet :3

[10ebbor10]

Yeah, that's because technically that tab is for normal scientists, not the superscientist.

[racnor]

Player name: Apostolos Urian
Archetype: Scientist
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)

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.

EDIT-fixed

[javierpwn]

Fixed sheet