Turn 3 : 1948-1949
The global economic upturn continues, resulting in increased investements in porjects worldwide.
((+50% funds for all spaceprojects))County relations:
Australia Japan Poland Greece Scotland Nicuaraga France Maryland
Australia Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral
Japan Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral
Poland Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral
Greece Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral
Scotland Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral
Nicuaraga Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral
France Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral
Maryland Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral
SPACE
Research:
Lab 1 will improve the capacity of the small fuel tank (-$1000) [Much progress is made.]
Lab 2 will reduce the weight of the radio transmitter satellite further with the help of the Electronics Expert (if weight is reduced to minimum, work on the lifetime) (-$1000) [Significant progress is made by removing redundant parts without endangering functionallity.]
Research cost: $2000
Design:
None this year.
Production:
Produce 1 Arrow I (-$675)
Production cost: $675
Missions:
Launch the prototype Arrow I to examine its design for flaws. Use Lobbyist ability on this launch. [Launch succesfull, +5 Prestige]
Total cost: $2675
NASA (Japan)
No turn
PCIS Turn 2
Work was progressing on a good pace and the prototype has been shipped today. I can't say much about its abilities, but we were able to fit newest components into it. I can lift some small cargo to LEO, this gives me an idea to build a small sensors probe to gather data about temperature and what-not on ascent and send it back to us via radio-link.
Our engine fails one time in three now, still risky odds but good enough for unmanned trials. I will takeover the engine research team for now and try to brainstorm some new ideas. I will give the second team orders to design the probe.
I was thinking about the launch date, well we can get some video equipment and launch the prototype, gather data about ascent profile, and if something goes wrong we can improve it. If lauch goes well we send the tapes to TV and industry partners, if not - improve the design and try again.
I will try to inquire about some TS-1 sales deals with interested parties in Poland.Research:
Me: Engine, comprehensive study (safety+efficiency) (-1000$) [Research progresses slowly. If you want hints about what possible engine types you can research, just ask]
Lab 1: Research probe (-1000$) [Research progresses quite rapidly, the probe still weights much though, and it's radio transmittor is both slow and unsecure]
Launch:
Gather dataregistering devices and cameras, launch the TS-1 prototype. Try to learn as much as possible from the launch. If launch goes well inform the press, if not keep quiet about it. [The launch goes better as expected, but not that well. There was a engine failure just after launch, and the rocket simply fell over. It's still recoverable, but that will cost 200.]
Produce:
1x TS-1 (-600$)
Promise:
In next 4 years we will send a dataprobe to LEO with the intent of gathering scientific data. [You managed to catch the interest of several universities and other research stations across the globe. +7 Prestige]
Meeting (for 0$, im low on cash):
Organise a meeting with industry leaders to sell them my rocket design. [The market for sattelites is quite nonexistant at the moment, though there are a few industrial partners who have expressed interest in sattelite imagery, for example]
Propose the rocket to the military as a long range SAM. [The military, while interested, would like to see the rocket fly before buying anything.]
Trade: Send full results of thruster research to MARYLAND, take in 500$ funds [Done, but the agreement will be terminated along with the player next turn.]
Anouncement to other space program leaders: I will sell fuel/fuel tanks for 80% of their nominal price and cover transport fees (if this is confirmed as financialy viable by the GM). (You'd be making 10 per tank, if I calculate correctly.)
Totals: -2100$
PSI
No turn
SMF Turn
Lab: Researchers will research more potent fuels (-1000) [Little progress is made, but at least it's something.]
Design:none at the moment
Construction: None
Other: SFM will test launch their first rocket, and the GERMAN mathematician will crunch numbers to ensure a successful flight; [Launch succesfull; +4 prestige]
(General note, Paying for a press conference is a lobbyist ability.)
Summary: (-1000)
FIEE
Research:
1st floor: (Chassis Scientist) Redesign the basic single stage hull to survive reentry. ($2000) [Rapid progress is made, but full reentry surivivability is unlikely to happen with current designs]
2nd floor: Solar cell technology ($1000) [An electric short resulted in a fire, which almost destroyed the lab. 1100 repair costs]
3rd floor: Solar Powered Transceiver Satellite ($1000) [Rapid progress is made]
Design and Production:
Hold on upgrading probably-unneeded Moineau I specs.
IF ROCKET EXPLODES: Build another Moineau I (Racnor has agreed to supply me a second engine if needed, and I'll pay for the costs.)
Missions:
Launch Moineau I with radio transmitter (Stable LEO). [The launch is succesfull, and the small sattelite is happily transmitting it's prebuild in messages. The rocket itself burned up, as expected. +8 prestige(That was a bad PR roll)]
Construction:
None
Other:
Within five turns, FIEE will return a rocket to Earth from space, without it burning up in the atmosphere. [+6 prestige, though nobody really believes in it.]
If launch and satellite test succeed, contact the French government to see how much they'll pay for satellite services. [The french governement, while interested, is not impressed with the fact that the sattelites are rather hard to reprogram.]
Give Racnor fuel efficiency instead of a second year of transmitter research.
Total expenses:
-$4200
PromisesFIEE: Radio transmittor by the end of 1951
SPACE:Radio transmittor by the end of 1951
PCIS:- Succesfull guidance system assisted launch by the end of 1950
- Succesfull scientific probe in LEO by the end of 1953
NASA: Photos from space by the end of 1955
Player name: Peter Fletcher
Archetype: Lobbyist
Funds: 3800 (+2300)
Prestige: 13
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 ( 147.5 liters of liquid fuel per meter hight) [0.90]
Thrusters
-Small thrusters Weight 100 kg,Failure chance 20.4%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)[0][1.48][0][0][0.52]
Chassis
-Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)
Payload
-Radio transmittor sattelite (155 kg, 1 year lifetime) [1.9]
Arrow I: [0.53]
Height: 9m
Weight: 1775kg
Thrust: 2000kg to LEO
Payload: 100kg to LEO, 91kg to stable LEO
Failure chance: 19.4%
Cost: 675
9m single stage hull (675kg)
Small thruster: 1m, 100kg
7 x Small fuel tank: 7m, 1000kg standard fuel
1m free space
- Two floor labs (2 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:4,500 (+1000)
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 2.29kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)[0][0][1.68][0][1.68]
Chassis
-Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)
Payload
-Solar pannels(555 kg) [0.72]
2 floor labs 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: 3250 (+2000)
Prestige: 10
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 30%, 1meter high, Can carry 2.04kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)
Chassis -Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)
Payload -Mechanical guidance system(92.75 kg, +5% Safety) [1.29]
-Athmospherical research probe (166 kg, 1 year lifetime, Very slow data gathering/transmission) [0.6]
TS-1 [0.22]
Total mass: 1742.75kg
LEO: 42.25 kg
Fail chance: 49% failchance
Cost: 600
Height: 9m - plating weight - 675kg
Fuel tanks: 7m - 875kg
Thruster: Small - 1m - weight 100kg - 1785kg thrust
Equipment: Mechanical Guidance System - 92.75kg
Payload space: 1 m
Small Upgraded labs (+5 research bonus)
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: 5.500 (+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) 0][0][0][0][0]
- Medium Thrusters Weight 200 kg, Failure chance 10%, 1 meter high, Can Carry 2.15 kg weight to LEO per liter fuel (2.75 max capable) Max fuel use: 1500
Chassis - Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 12 meters) [1.02]
Payload-Radio transmittor sattelite [235 kg, 1 year lifetime] [0.85]
- Small labs (1 research/year for $1000)
- Small launchpad (Max rocket height of 10m)
- Small Improved Mission Control (1 launch/year, +5 Safety)
- 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:Javier
Archetype:scientist
Funds: 2.800 (+1400)
Prestige: 4
Organization: S.M.F.(supermagicalfuntime)
-Motto: No one builds 'em better than us!
-Nation: Nicaragua
- Fuel -Improved standard fuel(102%) [0.17]
Fuel[ Storage - Small fuel tank ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter height)
Propulsion - Small thrusters Weight 100 kg, Failure chance 41.4%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000) 0][0.43][0][0][043]
- Medium Thrusters Weight 200 kg, Failure chance 21.2%, 1 meter high, Can Carry 2.15 kg weight to LEO per liter fuel (2.75 max capable) Max fuel use: 1500
Chassis - Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)
-Peregrine [0.95]
Height: 10m
Weight: 1825kg
Thrust:1,918.87kg to LEO
Payload: 93.87kg to LEO
Fail chance: 1%
Cost: 800
10m single stage hull (750kg)
Medium thruster: 1m, 200kg
Small fuel tank: 7m, 875kg standard fuel
- -Small labs (+5)
-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: Bussinesman
Funds: 3765(+3410)
Prestige:21
Organisation Name: French Institute for Extraterrestrial Exploitation (FIEE)
-Motto: Étendre l'influence de l'humanité (Expanding humanity's influence)
-Nation: France
Fuel
-Standard fuel: 105% thrust [0.55]
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(50 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters) [2][0]
-Reentry capable hull (150 kg. 57% survival chance) [1] [0.3]
¨Payload
-Radio transmittor sattelite [235 kg, 1 year lifetime] [0.85]
-Solar powered radio sattelite [] 0.87 (Awaiting solar cell research)
Moineau I [0.83]
Height: 10m
Weight: 1575kg
Thrust: 2.15 * 875*1.05 = 1975
Payload to orbit: 400kg
Failure chance: 1%
10m single stage hull (10 * 50kg = 500kg)
2m Medium Engine (200kg)
7m small fuel tanks (7 * 125kg = 875kg)
1m reserved for Radio Transmission Module
Construction:
None
- 3 floor labs (3 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)
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