Yearly Report: 2021
Send some researchers to research a joint project with the 80-15-5 Republic, focusing on theoretical physics, notably gravitational sciences. Also work on whatever "applicational physics" the 80-15-5ers are thinking of.
The Skylords had observed the Nuclear fire that obliterated the World's cities from high up in their spacestations. Barring a small mechanical failure, their city would've shared the same fate, but they didn't know this. As the world burned beneath them, they looked upon it, but didn't nothing. This trend continued for quite some time, as the councils endlessly discussed, failing to reach any sort of desicision. The only thing that was decided was to send a research and diplomatic team to the 80-15-5 Republic, but even that mission wasn't spared from disaster. Shortly before arriving, the lead scientist died of a heart related disease. This had severe repercussions on the science team, and no progress was made.
"They're already here. We do our best, but we only buy time, and the timekeeper is the enemy, the clock faces watching us as we sleep. We must hurry the Exodus, before they can overtake us."Ramp up the space program. We shall work on building a new rocket, known as the Cerberus Thruster, which uses a nuclear reaction to produce energy, then blast that energy out of a set of three sub-thrusters.
With single minded focus the New Order started work on their Spaceprogram. Nuclear thrusters were designed and tested, and in the end 3 candidates remained. Both Cereberus A and B relied on a traditionall Nuclear reactor, with the key difference being that first was openended. This reduced costs tremendously, but had the negative effect of a rather radioactive exhaust. The last engine is an entirely different beast. A Gasbased nuclear reactor, this thing has a significantly larger power output, but at the cost of increased cost and failure rates. The science team awaits your descisiion on which installation they should develop further.
The 80-15-5 Republic focuses on building housing to attract refugees.
Messages are sent out to all world nations advertising the mercenary services of the 80-15-5 Fleet and Air-force
The President also sends a letter to the Sky Lords.
"To Whom it May Concern in the Parliament/Congress of the Sky Lords,
As neighbors on the same continent with some of the same needs, it might be prudent to engage in some joint research on more efficient water desalinization, and better power cells to mitigate the need for fossil fuels in our ships, planes, and spacecraft. If you are interested we will send delegates to work out the specifics of the arrangement."
Construction of refugee housing progresses rapidly, and within the year several new small cities arise. Sadly, the quality of the housing is often subpar, and the influx of new workers disturbs the local economy. In order to make things worse, utilities like water and power can't deal with increasing demand, and crime's on the rise as well. In some places, the new cities are being locked of like Ghettos. Something will need to be done about that, before the situation escalates completely.
The advertisement gets a single reaction from The Panama Canal compagny. Apparently shipping has been beset by pirates lately, and they want you to take them out. Sadly, they don't have much funds to pay you, and would like to settle for another form of payement.
If I am right, I can start now. Anyway, I'd like to try and broker peace treaties with each of the other nations and start manufacture of quick land based vehicles.
Your nation manages to construct a line of rather advanced fossil fuel consuming vehicles, though they do tend to have problems with dust clogging up air intakes.
Dear Great Khan of Second Mongolian Empire:
My goverment wish to draw up a trade and research agreement for our two nations, For the terms of the trade aspects I have proposed to sell your nation wood, drugs and hardware at lower costs or we could try to establish a free trade approch. For the research aspects it's in my nations intrests to help research new weaponary and cybernetics, we would be happy if our two nations can build some research stations as joint projects on netural ground. If your prepared to accept or amend our offer may you reply soon.
As a show of good faith from my people I have happliy sent some research data detailing into our latest advances in our Ai project and complete mapping of the human genome.
Sincerely,
Elected Monarch of Eiretic
Have our army begin preparations to invade Iceland and Isle of Man.
Focus on rebuilding the last parts of Londain and begin research project iusing robotics into researching nanobots for use in construction.
Reconaissance drones scout out the intended targets as the main drones are moved into position. While the Isle of Man will be fairly ease to conquer, Iceland is another beast entirely. Forces from the European federation have tremendously fortified it, because the geothermal power generated there provides a significant part of their power.
On the other hand, the rebuilding project goes kinda well, the last subway installations are dredged and reclaimed, and houses are constructed where ruins once stood. The innerparts of the city are however still to heavily contaminated to be reclaimed. Nanobot research advances fast, and about over the year several breakthroughs are made. There's selfhealing concrete, antirust steel, but most importantly a graphene producing nanoid.
The Khan of Mongolia looked upon the Chinese. Their dozen new dynasties would never work with each other, so now was the time to strike. The Khan sent his generals a message, which contained the orders, attack the northern dynasties. Capture the cities if you can do so quickly, but use Khan's Revenge to eliminate 50% of the population first. If they do not give up, destroy the city. If that city is the capital, do not destroy it. Capture it and hold it instead, for the glory of Mongolia. As always, execute traitors of both sides, after getting all the information from them you can.
The Khan then sent messages to 75% of the manufacturing sector, requesting them to build modern aircraft and modern weaponry for use by the army in their fight against the Chinese dynasties.
The Khan then sent a message to the propaganda offices, asking them to increase recruitment as long as it does not slow down the other industries by too much.
As the world shivers from the Nuclear disaster, Mongolia gears up for war. The army is rapidly modernized, bombers and jets are being created, and large stocks of Khan's breath are created. Then, in late Summer of 2021, the attack finally starts. 200 Million die in the initial days of the war, as all major cities are gasbombed. The attack suprises the divided Chinese forces, and within a few days 4 of the 17 Chinese Kingdom's have been overrun. It's at that moment when the attack looses it's momentum, and begins to slow down, forces are being spread thin, and resistance becomes harder. Not much later, you get a message. The Chinese order you to withdraw immediatly, less they'd return fire with Nuclear weaponry.
In the mean time the Propaganda offices manages to make up for most losses, and the new troops are being trained. The amount of workless is dropping rapidly.
It was election time in Alaska. The Communist and Libertarian parties were once again campaigning and lobbying their presidential candidate. Harry Denver was the Communist party candidate. Very intelligent philosopher and well known social commenter turned politician. Well loved by the people. The libertarian's candidate was Matthew Creek, a well known industrialist. Runs the Creek mining company, a major extractor of titanium. The polls were close, but in the end Matthew Creek took home victory. In his victory speech he declared that " No Alaskan shall suffer foreign threats in their life." And " All Alaskans shall have a job by the end of my term." Bold promises, but this was an industry man. He knew about jobs. He then called a meeting in the Anchorage bunker. All the generals, air chiefs, admirals, other military personnel and advisors, and others were there. There, Matt laid out the basis of a long term plan for Alaska, entitled " Plan 261" The opening phases were immediately put into action a little bit later...
Alaska's research kicks into gear, putting it's effort into theoretical heavy armoured vehicles and transport planes. Important industries in the country are given large grants to boost productivity. The navy is sent out on extensive training excercises, and the Alaskan border to the other small nations in the region is reinforced with many more troops.
New planes and armoured vehicles are being constructed. A lot of promising designs have been delivered, and it's know yours to specify which ones 'll go in production.
Extensive grants towards the Oil and chemical sector prove to be a succes. Several major players propose to build a massive joint petrochemical plant, which on it's own 'll be able to handle almost 5% of the production. On the exploitation field, many drillings take place, resulting in the discovery of a new major oil field. Problem is that the majority is in very inaccesible and untainted areas.
President Raimonds Ozolynsh, the first president of the new republic, was voted for almost unanimously. The first day, he called a meeting.
It was not good news.
Although the farmed fish, protected by water purification filters, were mostly fine, the now radioactive chunks of ground that used to be St. Petersburg and Helsinki were causing catastrophic drops in the local fish population. the country's brightest scientists, given the best labs and equipment available, had been tasked with the unenviable job of finding a way to either de-irradiate the water, prevent the radiation from spreading, or some other way of saving the local sea-life . They had not predicted quick success.
Meanwhile, The country's remaining (ie. not piles of radioactive dust) ambassadors/diplomats were ordered to approach the remaining powers and try to find out if any were in great need of our main export - wood.
As well as this, The military were ordered to put their upgrades on the back-burner, for now. They may tantrum about not getting their shiny new toys, but we probably can't afford to spare much at the moment.
The wood industry was ordered to shift it's focus onto building pre-fabricated log cabin/houses to be set up in not-as-irradiated areas to hold refugee communities.
The pressure about the urgency of their task, or maybe the massive grants, cause the research team to make several landmark breakthroughs. They design a modified filter system based on the fish farms water filters, which uses a monomolecular membrame to sift radioactive particles from the water. On the other side, the genetic manipulation team has a succes with their particle eridicating bacteria, which locks up ash and dust into the riverbed, where it should stay till it can be removed.
Wooden refugees communities are set up, preventing what would likely have been a major human disaster. Sadly, the lack of utilities proves a major problem for these new camps.
The Dominion's rise, and rapid expansion was one of a unprecidented success, only minor casualties were inflicted up their forces, and the territorial gains that had been accomplished had given them access to vast deposits of raw materials. This, in turn, fueled the economic expansion of the dominion to greater heights.
Now, the task of rebuilding was at hand. The resources required to do so, they had access to, and they had the land to buind and rebuild on.
The dominion starts to reconstruct the cities that had been damaged in the past, focussing on compact, high density cities, incorporating various defensive measures into them.
The dominon also sets about repairing and improving the infrastructure of their territory, making it so that travel times for materials and such is as short as they can make it within their current abilities. The costruction of drydocks is inculded in this, without them, they cannot build the cargo ships needed to trade vast quantities of goods to the other nations of the globe.
Basic meteorlogical sattelites are to be assembled and launched, mostly as a test of our current RLV (Reusable launch vehicle) technology toi test viability of those designs.
First wave of nuclear power plants are to be constructed with the reactor technology currently on hand, scheduled to be de-commissioned around 20 of service for replacement. The waste product is to be stored deep underground, away from any inhabited areas.
From the Ashes of the past the Dominion rises, an allknowing all controlling governement, which uses a military dictature to ensure compliancy of it's citizens. New cities rise from the ground, the highest of it's buildings reaching into the sky, the ground reserved for transport vehicles, forcing the citizens to move through the automated underground towards their destinations. Bomb shelters have been build into the latter, while the open ground areas allow a military free movement. Unless, of course, the dominion doesn't want this. Using automated gates, they can lock down any part of the city at will.
On the coasts, the largest of docks arise, capable of building even the largest ship's within the year. Materials from this are brought by train, using a series of cross country high speed tracks, or by car, considering the large empty driveways.
The RLV proves capable, though it's payload is small compared to the rocket's of other nations.* The Earth seen from space is a beautifull thing, even with the damage done recently. It's however interesting to note that space is not as empty as it once was, and the RLV has to be carefull not to hit anything or anyone. The weather sattelite works admirably, though it's registering very strange readings and interference near the Eastern Atlantic, most notably over Florida.
The Nuclear reactor's are under construction, however, due to the severly limited lifetime, and in order to still be cost effective, corners needed to be cut. Many are refitted older plants, or incorporated in defunct buildings. While they are safe for now, it's doubtfull that they'd pass any security test.
*A result of the Longitude at which is it launched
[Note: Map's and such are not updated, and the post is a bit more barebones than I intended. But anyway. Might rewrite parts later, but nothing much should change.]
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