Some fanart of the Agorans.
*snip*
A bit of artistic license was taken, but reasonably accurate to the description.
Sure, let's go with that.
I like the artwork, though.
Afellowdwarf's selection received the most support by a landslide. The Council presents a summary of its deliberations to the recruitment committee, who begins to appoint bureaucrats to do the appointing.
Needless to say, it takes some time for all of the inefficiencies to resolve themselves. But by the third Anth, the
Council of Stars is born.
Nteh University, Navvosh Hive, Daag Confederacy, Date 93|43, Time 05:14
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The newly-appointed heads of the agency sat in a cone-shaped room in the university, its boundaries cut away from the kelp and knitted back together at the top. It is lit by phosphorescent organisms lining the upper half of the room, and it is furnished with indents in the wall and angled beams running jutting through like perches in an Avian's cage. The center contains a tree-like growth to which hollow, spherical packets have been sewn onto, each containing food and snacks.
A sheet of coarse, aqua-tinted paper, dabbed with ink dots in the ancient but popular Icyogabian alphabet, is passed from leader to leader, until Achutei blows a few bubbles in disgust.The inventor, having previously filed a proposal to install new public transportation throughout the Hive, screeches at the sight of the budget figures.
"400 Labor-units! This is insanity! Just what do they expect us to do that would cost this much!?""Mmm, sounds like they expect us to need a lot of manpower. I will see to that when I have time," the engineer Orthek responds.
"Think of the things we could be doing with these funds! We could install public transportation for our diseased and injured so they can integrate with our society. We could build hospitals, laboratories, even shipping...""Achutei, you must not be familiar with the way the Council works. They merely allocate funds. Hospitals will be built, but not this day." adds Hathlag.
Borli the marine biologist adds that there are many projects at the university in need of funding. For example, the experiment to verify the stasis of the heavens will need quite the scaffold...
In fact, a lot of research will need to be done before an Agoran can ever hope to visit Yog, Noth, or Faras, let alone strike the surface of the shining star itself. Presumably they will need hooks or ropes to attach themselves to the ethereal surface of the star, as all non-celestial objects fall toward the center of Hosteus Major according to modern theory.Thulataru, the only person not yet to indulge in the snacks at the center vine, floats a few cubits above the floor and watches.
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Now is the time to begin ideating on
projects. A project is an organized effort to produce a result, such as an experiment meant to provide data, or a construction project to build a launch scaffold. Projects have a primary attribute, require a certain funding, and a certain progress, all of which are shown next to the project like so:
[Project Name] - 20/40 funds, 100/200 Manufacturing progressA project, once begun, will first require funds to be allocated. A project can only progress to the percentage of completion based on its percentage of funding. In other words, a project cannot progress past 50% if it does not yet have 50% of the required funds. Some projects have additional requirements, such as "Workers needed."
Each project belongs to one of the primary attributes of your council, and requires a leader whose skill in the project's primary attribute dictates how fast it will progress. The progress per turn is equal to the leader's skill.
Projects that build something require Manufacturing to complete.
Projects that involve experimentation or investigation require Science.
Projects that involve PR or making deals require Diplomacy.
Everything else requires Administration.
The university provides new unfunded projects every day, which can be a starting point if the council cannot come up with anything original. Players may propose project ideas, which will be evaluated the following turn.
Name, Profession: Thulataru, Doctor of Microfluidics
Skills: +25 Administration, +10 Science
Trait: Does not provide bonuses when leading a project.
Name, Profession: Hathlag, Astrologer
Skills: +10 Science, +10 Diplomacy
Trait: Your diplomacy cannot go negative.
Name, Profession: Orthek, Material Engineer
Skills: +10 Manufacturing, +10 Science
Trait: Gains +20 Science while testing drives and heavy machinery.
Name, Profession: Achutei, Inventor
Description: She is the one and only inventor of the Balloon Elevator.
Skills: +10 Administration, +25 Manufacturing
Trait: Might be upset about not funding public Balloon Elevators.
Name, Profession: Borli, Doctor of Marine Biology
Description: He knows a lot about fish, but wants to know more...
Skills: +35 Science
Trait: Will insist on sending live animals to space.
- Idle (-25 A, -10 S while working)
Hathlag - Idle
Orthek - Idle (+20 S while working on a drive or heavymachinery)
Achutei - Idle
Borli - Idle
Current Funds: 400 AnthAgoran currency represents working-class labor. Each Anth is the cost of employing a worker for one day. Part-time workers are paid in advance when hired to a project. Full-time workers always take precedence over part-time workers when it comes to labor.Current Full-Time Workers: 0Hiring a part-time worker for a single project only will cost extra funds to train the workers. By hiring full-time workers and paying them constantly, we avoid the problem of training costs and delays.Active Projects:-
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Pierce the Heavens! Part A - 5 Anth total cost, 30 Manufacturing needed
A physicist surmises that the pull of Gravity increases as one goes higher, as objects are being kept from their natural place at the center of the world. He seeks assistance in proving his contemporaries wrong, who claim that gravity falls off after a certain point, for Hosteus Minor does not fall toward the world, and have proposed a sinusoidal model that prevents an infinite-temperature scenario in the core of Hosteus.
Procedure: Build a scaffold above the water to drop weights from.
Explosive Recompression Part A - Unknown cost, 30 Diplomacy needed
Long ago, a merchant who suffered his fair share of decompression sickness sponsored a local inventor to build a pressure suit for the merchant and his followers. The preliminary designs for the suit could be just as useful for helping sea-dwelling test pilots get accustomed to the low-pressure surface environment, although convincing the inventor to hand over his life's work will be a daunting task.
Procedure: Convince the engineer to cooperate.
Flammable Air - 30 Anth total cost, 30 Science needed
Alchemists have been studying acids and their reaction products for centuries, but one man's work seems to be gaining traction in the scientific community. He has theorized that "flammable air" is a product of certain reactions and has proposed isolating a flask of it in order to research its properties.
Procedure: Create a large quantity of this "flammable air".
The Crucible. Part A - 20 Anth total cost, 80 Administration needed
The island of Hemata is known for its banded iron formations and dense jungle. It is just an hour's swim away, which is relatively accessible,, and there are numerous experts on the island who have mastered the art of "metallurgy," that is, somehow extracting super-durable materials from dirt. For centuries traditional methods have been used to refine iron, but one local chemist has a theory on a more effective method of processing it, but he will need to consult some experts from the island.
Procedure: Gather experts from the nearby island to work on a new metallurgical method.
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