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
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)
- 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)
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)
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)
Small labs
Small launchpad
Small Mission Control
Small manufacturing and design factory
Special scientist old German propulsion scientist: + 40 Propulsion research
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
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)
Small labs
Small launchpad
Small Mission Control
Small manufacturing and design factory
Fuel production line: [Reduces price of fuel tanks with 50%]
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
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)
- 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))
-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]
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!
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)
- 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)
-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
- 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)
- - - Small labs
-Small launchpad
-Small Mission Control
-Small manufacturing and design factory
- - 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
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)
- 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))
Expert structural scientist (Chassis, fuel tanks, maybe armor).
Initial bonus: Expert Chassis scientist (+40)
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.