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[Blood_Librarian]

M1948 A-6 'Torch' Jet

The Torch is an jet assembled with aluminum and metal recombinated ceramics. They are equipped with a modified Gel-Matrix Reactor hooked to a ramjet designed to accelerate it to break the sound barrier, preferably multiple times.

It designed with an embedded canopy, variable sweep wings, a pointed nose, and the Ramjet is in the end of the body; the inlets are flush with the fuselage. a set of 2 enlarged, custom made Osprey type weapons is embedded onto the front of the Torch. A Gel-Matrix Bio-Paste Reactor directly heats up the air with its fuel input, and flushes it through a ramjet, while the reactor does output a portion of its power as electricity for the systems guns and electrical system.

The wings are especially designed to adjust, moving forward or backwards through the use of a motor based on the speed of the craft and with pilot input, which should allow increased maneuverability or a more aerodynamic profile depending on the needs of the user. Explosive munitions such as bombs or missile mounts are incorporated into the bottom of the wing with reinforced mountings made of metal-recombinated ceramics.

The Torch is a Jet designed to break the sound barrier, and because of the Ramjet configuration of its engine, it cannot accelerate from a standstill, and will be propelled from the run way with a set of disposable solid-fuel rocket boosters that are discarded after launch. The RamJet is most efficient at speeds of Mach 3, however it can operate at speeds up to mach 6. The Ramjet is equipped with Vector Nozziling.

As for the radiation concerns on the health of the pilot, adequate radiation shielding is provided too the pilot and the ships propulsion by way of simple distance and plates of metal that protect the pilot. Adjustments were made too the engine itself, so the fallout that the engine emits during its operation will have a half life of only three days. all maintenance technicians are heavily advised to wear radiation protection while operating on the aircraft. If the vessel crashes, it is completely expected for the crafts nuclear elements to decay safely within days, perhaps months before becoming innert.

The Cryogenic cooling system is made entirely of metallurgical recombinated ceramics, designed for radiating of as much heat as is physically possible by the inline convex radiators.

As for weapons, they are equipped with twp armanants; chemically assisted coilguns, and a munition racks on its wings. There is an empty space left over for a spinally mounted weapon, but none was designed explicitly. The Coil guns are in a autocannon configuration, designed to fufill a similar role of our Can Shredders on a far greater scale. The muntion racks are obvious in use.

SEEM Operatives are expected to be able to operate these craft for extreme prejudice against enemy forces. The aircraft is geared towards extreme manuverability due to the Vector Thrusting, variable wings, while being faster due to the Nuclear Ramjet. As such, utilizing SEEM operatives in these vessels should become viable.

P.U.F.F(1): brightfractal
Torch (1): Blood_Librarian

[The Ensorceler]

P.U.F.F(1): brightfractal
Torch (2): Blood_Librarian, The Ensorceler

[SamSpeeds]

The Torch, if it rolls well and isn't too difficult, should win us the air for a long while. I definitely think we should go for conventional designs/NOT wacky psionic stuff for a few turns. I think next turn we should beef up our armor. PUFF is cool too.

P.U.F.F(1): brightfractal
Torch (3): Blood_Librarian, The Ensorceler, SamSpeeds

[Blood_Librarian]

I have a proposal for the future, and maybe another for our revision, while I will go over later.

Rocket Trains.

We already have the fuel ready to go. The Torch will lead the way to converting the Matrix Reactor entirely to something we can use for propellant, and we could possibly use the idea of stolen enemy designs for making the tunnel system needed, and then we have a massive transportation system.

Essentially, the idea is this; A high-Velocity underground Train network where the trains are propelled by rockets. The intent of these trains are to transport resources to and from the front lines almost instantly, as well as hopefully make a connection to the shorelines for additional resources. Eventually, it would be one or two more designs from the development of rocket propelled space craft that can possibly enter orbital methods.

We also have the potential to put the first Aratamite into space, and maybe possibly the first woman if we want to break a world record.

I am willing to temporarily put a hold to Psionic Development if we try and push towards the stars

[Man of Paper]

Yes diving into the darkness of space or the abyss are both ideal.

[brightfractal]

I like it, it fits with the cold war setting of quest and maybe we can revise it to a proper Pluto SLAM. Changing my vote.

P.U.F.F():
Torch (4): Blood_Librarian, The Ensorceler, SamSpeeds, brightfractal

[Chiefwaffles]

M1948 A-6 'Torch' Jet
The Torch is an jet assembled with aluminum and metal recombinated ceramics. They are equipped with a modified Gel-Matrix Reactor hooked to a ramjet designed to accelerate it to break the sound barrier, preferably multiple times.

It designed with an embedded canopy, variable sweep wings, a pointed nose, and the Ramjet is in the end of the body; the inlets are flush with the fuselage. a set of 2 enlarged, custom made Osprey type weapons is embedded onto the front of the Torch. A Gel-Matrix Bio-Paste Reactor directly heats up the air with its fuel input, and flushes it through a ramjet, while the reactor does output a portion of its power as electricity for the systems guns and electrical system.
The wings are especially designed to adjust, moving forward or backwards through the use of a motor based on the speed of the craft and with pilot input, which should allow increased maneuverability or a more aerodynamic profile depending on the needs of the user. Explosive munitions such as bombs or missile mounts are incorporated into the bottom of the wing with reinforced mountings made of metal-recombinated ceramics.

The Torch is a Jet designed to break the sound barrier, and because of the Ramjet configuration of its engine, it cannot accelerate from a standstill, and will be propelled from the run way with a set of disposable solid-fuel rocket boosters that are discarded after launch. The RamJet is most efficient at speeds of Mach 3, however it can operate at speeds up to mach 6. The Ramjet is equipped with Vector Nozziling.

As for the radiation concerns on the health of the pilot, adequate radiation shielding is provided too the pilot and the ships propulsion by way of simple distance and plates of metal that protect the pilot. Adjustments were made too the engine itself, so the fallout that the engine emits during its operation will have a half life of only three days. all maintenance technicians are heavily advised to wear radiation protection while operating on the aircraft. If the vessel crashes, it is completely expected for the crafts nuclear elements to decay safely within days, perhaps months before becoming innert.
The Cryogenic cooling system is made entirely of metallurgical recombinated ceramics, designed for radiating of as much heat as is physically possible by the inline convex radiators.

As for weapons, they are equipped with twp armanants; chemically assisted coilguns, and a munition racks on its wings. There is an empty space left over for a spinally mounted weapon, but none was designed explicitly. The Coil guns are in a autocannon configuration, designed to fufill a similar role of our Can Shredders on a far greater scale. The muntion racks are obvious in use.

SEEM Operatives are expected to be able to operate these craft for extreme prejudice against enemy forces. The aircraft is geared towards extreme manuverability due to the Vector Thrusting, variable wings, while being faster due to the Nuclear Ramjet. As such, utilizing SEEM operatives in these vessels should become viable.

Design: M1948 A-6 'Torch' Jet
(Hard) (2+2)-1 = 3: Buggy Mess

The M1948 (the Necrostate is understandably confused by the fact that the name of the design is about 14 years inaccurate)  A-6 'Torch' Jet... flies. It shoots. It's a plane. So in a way, the project was a success, and we really feel that decreasing our Cryobudget is an unnecessary punishment for these results.

We're lucky to have the experience of the Spearhead-B and some other adventures in aeronautical engineering behind us preventing extreme difficulty in this project, but it's still difficult. This did not work well with the general progress our teams have made on it.
The (main) problem is the Gel-Matrix Bio-Paste Reactor. It seems like it was just misutilized in the Torch. As it stands, the Reactor has two very important things to note:
1.) Instead of converting fuel to heat to electricity, it directly converts fuel to electricity for far greater and efficient electrical yields.
2.) It tends to leak radiation a lot.
Both are, of course, problems.

Note #1 comes into play immediately with the ramjet. While the Reactor is remarkably effective at powering the systems in the Torch that need electricity, is is VERY ineffective at operating the ramjet. Typically, ramjets use a fuel to achieve heating of air. We're using electricity. It's bad at heating the gases at the required scales.
Note #2 accentuates the prior note. For reasons to be explained later, the Torch is designed to be operated exclusively by SEEM Operatives. Because SEEM Operatives take up a significant portion of the Cryostate's time and resources, we have been grudgingly instructed to include enough radiation shielding in the Torch to prevent the death of pilots. It has been done, but the radiation shielding required makes the entire aircraft heavier. Radiation leakage has most certainly not been completely solved either, but radiation leakage has been reduced enough to the point where pilots (and perhaps maintenance techs) shouldn't experience any ill effects as long as they continue their visits to Cryo Clinics.
As such, while extraordinarily fuel efficient (we cannot emphasize its efficiency enough), the Torch is remarkably slow in air. Much slower, in fact, than the Spearhead-B that we currently use. In fact, any slower and it would probably start having trouble staying in the air.

The wings and other components affecting agility are, however, working as expected. Even at its slow speeds, the Torch is a remarkably agile craft thanks to ingenious aerodynamics and microthrusting capabilities. If we ever increase the speed of the Torch, agility should reach insane levels. But, this comes at a cost.
At the beginning of the project, we had set out with the intention of making a craft that works best with SEEM Operatives. As we progressed, we started to rely on the assumption that SEEMs would be piloting the Torch. In order to achieve the intended agility, we made some concessions in controlling. Simply put, the cockpit of the Torch is so complex to the point where only SEEM-enhanced individuals can operate it. Their super-instincts and near-precognitive abilities are required in order to keep the craft stable, in the air, and to make the movements necessary for combat. Luckily for logistics purposes, trained pilots can technically fly the plane -- but only for long-distance travel and most certainly not combat.
However, with speed and agility SEEM Pilots can do amazing things. Not much at current speeds, sure, but in the future...

Two cycling slightly-modified Ospreys are installed on the front of the craft, linked directly to the reactor. They're mostly the same as the infantry variant, but their direct power input means they can constantly fire coilgun-assisted shots. Which should be quite useful, especially with the increased agility. There are considerations for a spinal-mounted gun, though nothing too huge. And 4 Bomb/Missile mounts have been included on the wings.
It's a significantly larger craft than the Spearhead-B, but metal recombinated materials still allow for great structural integrity and a bit better durability (though that's not saying much) compared to other jets.


So. To sum it up.
The Torch is very agile, with 4 Bomb/Missile mounts, and 2 powered-Ospreys on frontal mounts.
However, it is extremely slow compared to the Spearhead-B and Mereth's Blizzard thanks to insanely inefficient Ramjet heating and radiation shielding. The enhanced agility comes at the cost of requiring a SEEM Operative in the plane to operate it in combat at all.

Being bigger but much more fuel-efficient than the Spearhead-B, it costs 5 Ore and 3 Oil. It would be Expensive but, while it doesn't affect the number of SEEM Operatives deployed normally, the expense of the Torch can only be as low as the expense of SEEM Operatives at the moment due to the pilot requirement. So instead, it's Very Expensive.
The military doesn't expect tremendous utility thanks to the slow speeds, but is hopeful that it can be improved to something more useful.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Transport Capacity: 2/3 (2/2 Oil Imported)
Resources: 3 Ore, 4 Oil, 2 Rare Chemicals

Weapons

• "Pursuit" Rifle: An 20-round magazine automatic rifle with mediocre accuracy at Medium range (and useless accuracy further).
  [Cheap] 1 Ore
• "Machete" Pistol: A 6-round semiautomatic pistol semi-accurate up to Short range. Reliable.
  [Cheap] 1 Ore
• "Jumper" EMA Grenade Launcher: The Electromagnetically Assisted Grenade Launcher "Jumper" is roughly the shape of a very noticeably thicker bazooka-like assembly. It uses inefficient brick-sized SynthOil batteries that provide enough charge for one shot per battery. Once a battery is inserted, the Jumper has to "charge" for roughly thirty seconds before being able to fire, and can fire 1.5 inch specially-made grenades with "average" radii and okay accuracy, silently. It's fairly bulky. The manufacturing of the coilgun adds severe complexity.
  [Expensive] 2 Ore, 1 Oil, Complex
• HMKR-59 'Osprey': Hybrid Magnetic Kinetic Rifle; a variant of the Pursuit rifle that houses coilgun components to increase the velocity of bullets after conventional firing. Has a slot in the back for a single SynthOil battery, which has enough charge for 10 powered shots (soldiers carry 2 batteries total). Powered shots are accurate to Medium range (unpowered shots to Short range) and have increased lethality and armor piercing capabilities.
  [Cheap] 1 Ore, 1 Oil
• Tesla Rifle: A "rifle" that fires bolts of ARC lightning at Medium range. Using an inner "Lightning Rod" chamber, it gradually charges from a backpack SynthOil battery - it has four levels of charge, with Level 3 being the optimum Medium range + good lethality and Level 4 being overkill with a chance of explosive backfiring. It takes about a minute to charge to Level 3 (charging can be paused but the charge decays over time), and the battery has enough juice for 5 Lvl3 shots. Extremely lethal against anything conductive, and has a modest area-of-effect as the electricity arcs to other conductors in close proximity. Can be hooked up to external SynthOil batteries as well.
  [Expensive] 2 Ore, 2 Oil, Complex
• "Storm" GMRL-ECP-61S: A 250lb active radar homing missile with a 6km range and 5m effective blast radius. Fired from 4-rail trucks (with radar) and aircraft mounts. It has a poor resolution, greatly decreasing the reliability of locking onto non-huge aerial targets and making locking onto surface targets next-to-impossible, though large ships prove easy targets. Equipped with an HE or ARC warhead, with the ARC warhead using a chain SynthOil reaction to generate arcing electricity frying electronics and melting metal as it jumps from conductor to conductor.
  [Cheap] 3 Ore, 4 Oil
• "Red Skies" Multiple Missile Launcher: A 300 lb version of the Storm missile using Inertial guidance and adapted entirely for surface-to-surface use. Has a SynthOil-based incendiary payload that's capable of effectively burning through armor, but is less immediately destructive. Has a range of 15 km. Its guidance allows it to easily and effectively target any ground point, but it can't change course mid-flight and can't actively track any targets; its effectiveness in accuracy mostly is based on what intelligence the operator has when firing. Intended for use as surface-to-surface artillery.
  [Cheap] 3 Ore, 4 Oil

Land Vehicles

• M3T1A1 Raider: The Raider is a Diesel-Electric tracked APC designed to serve as a base platform for many roles. It has light RHA armor with a sloped front, plus slats. It holds ten passengers and three crew, making it look like a large metal box. It has an interchangeable turret, which is very wide and flat with medium armor. Default armament is a Can shredder, plus 6 external Thumper barrels for smoke grenades and an RPG, these can only be reloaded from the outside. It's also chemical warfare protected, and last but not least, amphibious, with a trim vane and two electric powered propellers. Exits are on large rear hatch and one small top hatch, only latter can be used while afloat.
  [Cheap] 3 Ore 2 Oil
• Privateer 1 1/2 Ton Truck: Cannala's first truck, it's a cabover on an antiquated 3-cylinder, the transmission only has a forward and reverse setting. It's still better than horses, though.
  [Cheap] 2 Ore, 2 Oil, Provides 1 TC
• "Halberd"-Electromagnetic Coil Cannon Battletank ECCB-60: A large silent tank armed with a 120mm coilgun and a coaxially-mounted unpowered auto-loading Osprey. Has a respectable speed for its size, and the Coilgun turret is powered but manually aimed. Powered by two SynthOil batteries - one provides enough power for six Coilgun shots, the other provides enough power for four hours of full throttle movement and ten hours of less-fast "travel" movement.
  [Expensive] 5 Ore, 4 Oil
• "Ettin" Electric-Motor Flak Tank EMFT-61-B: A "tank" where the turret is an unarmored cage on top of the squat chassis where the gunner sits; two self-loading automatic cannons fire automatically in consecutive fashion flak shells to shoot down aircraft and infantry. The turret can be angled downwards effectively to shoot at infantry; limited ammo supply means the gunner has to be somewhat conservative with his firing patterns and can't just fill the sky with flak. Electric computer & radar guidance overlays a digital crosshair on a small sheet of "glass" in front of the gunner that is overlaid on top of the physical crosshair to maximize accuracy, allowing for decent accuracy as long as the aircraft isn't too fast or evasive. The commander and driver reside in the cramped interior and exit/enter largely via a door to the side, with the front of the tank being heavily angled downward for firing angle reasons. The turret is armored, but has poor visibility. Can travel for 10 hours on a full SynthOil battery, and the gun doesn't require power to operate.
  [Expensive] 5 Ore, 4 Oil

Air Vehicles

• M1938 A-3 'Parrot': The Parrot is a low-cost air superiority fighter, designed to counter the Yellowjacket. It looks very similar to the Falcon, but without the complicated prop system and reduced to a 10-cyclinder, normally aspirated power plant. It too is fully aluminum, and contains most of the little features like retractable gear, an oxygen system, and a reflex sight. It is actually quite heavily armed with two Muerte heavy machine guns and two Can Perforators, though the perforators don't have a lot of ammo.
  [Cheap] 3 Ore, 2 Oil
  
  • Macaw Strike Craft: A variant of the Parrot with a turboprop engine hastily retrofitted in. Has a Short range and is faster+more agile than the Parrot but still significantly more sluggish than the Spearhead or any other jet aircraft. Equipped with five 100lb bomb/missile mounts but has no other weapons.
• M1942 A-5B 'Spearhead-B' Air Superiority Fighter: Following Forenia's Thunderbird design, the Spearhead is an aluminum-built fighter with two turbojet engines. It features a rounded canopy, swept wings, pointy nose, and the engines are under each wing, but hug the body closely; the inlets are flush with the fuselage. A heavy Can Shredder sits in the nose. Two Morei turbojets burn kerosene and take some advantage of experiences of the Bull tank's turboshaft, it includes a water-cooling system (the shared radiator creates a third intake under the body). Despite carrying more weight, it's very nearly as fast as the Thunderbird, but it does have trouble recovering from stalls. On the other hand, when it's keeping good speed it can make impressive turns thanks to its hydraulic control system; the pilot can pull the relatively large control surfaces with ease. The Can Shredder can do serious damage to bombers from a safe distance. A hardpoint for 500lb bombs or missiles has been added under each wing.
  [Expensive] 4 Ore, 4 Oil
• M1948 A-6 'Torch' Jet: A large jet built with metal-recombinated materials, giving it good structural integrity and relatively good durability. An integrated Gel-Matrix Bio-Paste Reactor is used to power electrical systems and tremendously inefficiently heat a ramjet. This, combined with reactor radiation shielding, leads to insanely low speeds. Different systems provide the Torch with great relative agility, but only SEEM Operatives are capable of properly operating the complex controls in the airplane (though their enhanced abilities are a huge boon with speed and agility). 2 always-powered Ospreys are mounted on the front, along with two Bomb/Missile mounts on each wing.
  [Very Expensive] 5 Ore, 3 Oil (Expense can only be as low as current SEEM expense)

Navy

• Corsair Destroyer: The Corsair is a moderate sized ship with light (for a ship) steel hull armor. It has a light cannon armament of two hydraulic-equipped Nightwind cannons and four Can Shredders. However, its main armament is its Shark Torpedo launchers (it has a couple on each side) and newly-invented Seahorse mines, which use the same warheads as Shark torpedoes but rest on the sea surface, detonating on cpntact with ships. It is powered by steam turbines and easily outpaces battleships like the Kalmar, Kraken and Kurokami.
  [Expensive] 4 Ore, 3 Oil
• Santos-Class Naval Aircraft Support Vessel: The Santos is a large aircraft carrier. It is about the size of the Khorne but not armored. It's powered by four oil-burning steam turbines, which are more powerful than coal ones. The hangar deck stores two dozen fighters, moved to the flight deck by a hydraulic lift. On deck is an Eagle Eye Radar system, con tower, a few Firecracker AA guns and a miscellaneous autocannons wherever there's spare room. It also has a decent sized flight deck, with an arrester cable for landing aircraft, and two overlapping runways with room for ready aircraft on deck. It also has a steam catapult, which allows it to launch some planes which could not normally take off from its short runway. [5 Ore, 4 Oil]
  [Expensive] 5 Ore, 4 Oil
• SLS-61 Magpie: The Shore-Landing Ship is a basic landing ship with a bow able to open up with a ramp to allow vehicles and troops onto the shore, and has extremely basic treads to de-beach itself. Has Thin armor and a few mounts for infantry rifles on the top to provide basic covering fire. Powered by Generation 1 SynthOil engines, which requires it to use the majority of its cargo space to hold enough SynthOil to make it across the sea without running out of fuel. Normally has a modest capacity for soldiers (and capable of holding a few moderate-sized vehicles), but the fuel requirement limits it to only a small amount of soldiers and/or perhaps one tank at best.
  [Cheap] 3 Ore, 3 Oil
• Atlas-class Cargo Ship: A Santos-class with the weaponry and aircraft equipment and just about everything else stripped off. Utilizes SynthOil batteries for general powering of ship, though oil-burning steam turbines from the Santos still power most of it. Uses a system derived from Cryostats to cryogenically freeze perishable cargo as well as people for maximum storage efficiency.
  Provides 2 TC

Chemicals & Drugs

• Spice: An extremely potent manufactured drug resulting in extreme schizophrenia, delusions of power, frequent seizures, and eventually death. Extremely addictive. Those who undergo the week-long "Goldeneye" treatment in a CryoStat tank become accustomed (and permanently addicted) to low dosages of Spice, enabling very high awareness of surroundings and mildly increased reaction and thinking speeds when under the influence of the drug.
  [Expensive] 5 Rare Chemicals.
  
  • SEEM: Systemic Elimination of the Entropic Mind. An extremely intensive and long procedure where top-ranked veterans are subjected to week-long bouts of sensory deprivation in CryoStat tanks, and have their mind essentially transformed into a new form via the combined use of modified Metal Recombinators and Spice. For now, this allows survivors of the treatment to exhibit extreme (much higher than Goldeneyes) awareness of surroundings, visible or not. This awareness manifests itself in many ways, from avoiding traps/bombardments to knowing where to shoot at to knowing when one's being shot at, and more.
    [Very Expensive] 5 Rare Chemicals, Complex
• Combat Drug 'Fury': A Spice-based drug that massively decreases reaction time, and lasts for ~2 hours. Also incites rage, decreasing soldier effectiveness at range and chances of occasional friendly fire. Mild hallucinations are common, preventing users from being effective at recon/espionage/etc. roles. Makes veins much more apparent and red. Addictive, and takes effect >5 minutes after injection.
  [Expensive] 3 Rare Chemicals
• Metal Recombinators: A special mixture that separates pure metal from ore, obsoleting a large part of Aratam's refining industry. A variant can also be used to fuse metal with (likely) any other matter.
  Provides 1 Ore.

Other

• Standard Uniform: A plain red featureless uniform. The red's mild enough that it doesn't really stick out.
• CryoStat Tank: A large three-meter tall "coffin" with a small glass vertical slit inside showing a tank. A single "set" of machinery required for operation, taking up ~36 square meters of space total, can manage roughly a dozen CryoStat tanks at a time. Basic automation assists technicians, allowing for a single technician to manage many CryoStat tanks. Subjects are put into "stasis" via a numbing solution they're submersed in, and medical drugs in the solution naturally infuse into the bloodstream through the skin. Once taken out. Use is tracked through a computer-assisted bureaucracy dubbed the "CryoState". A day stabilizes minor life-threatening wounds, and a week stabilizes near all wounds. A month starts completely healing scars and generally brings up health status to pristine, and a year can restore lost limbs. Also used for life-extending "rejuvenation" processes by important people.
  [Cheap] 2 Rare Chemicals
• SynthOil: SMRO-58 "SynthOil" is an advanced form of oil - it's made using a combination of oil and other chemicals, making a much more stable and energy-dense solution. Has a peculiar property - with the right tools, it can directly produce electricity.
  Provides 1 Oil
• Gel-Matrix Bio-Paste Reactor: A 1m-radius spherical "nuclear-ish" reactor that uses gamma radiation to break down SynthOil into electrical energy. Rather efficient and good at making energy, especially compared with anything else in the world comparable in size/expense, but hard to miniaturize and has a notable radiation poisoning issue with anyone spending a notable amount of time in proximity.

Infrastructure

• The Refinery: An extremely secretive facility hidden under the canopy in a remote part of the rainforest, identifiable only by its smoke. Contains large liquid storage tanks and refineries for the production of chemicals, well-equipped laboratories, cells for test subjects, a steady supply of test subjects from Aratam's prisoners, and more. Useful as a base for chemical research.
  Provides 1 Rare Chemical
• Division of Biological Manipulation: An abandoned set of rooms on top of the Refinery; originally intended for biological manipulation research but was never finished due to a sudden test subject escape.

• Embassy "The Brewery": An embassy for Cannalan diplomats that doubles as a highly advanced brewery of Aratam's signature drink, Arachaca. The Cannalans can see the brewing process below through their glass flooring and taps straight form the brewery are available for Arachaca straight from the source. Uses basic electronic systems for very limited automation in conjunction with its general advanced brewing systems.

The Revision Phase of Fall 1962 has begun.
The military has informed us that that due to unexpected resistance from Merethan Grizzly suits in the region, Mereth will continue to gain +1 Ore from the mountains for another season. Though this is only temporary and unless we lose ground, Mereth will lose the Ore bonus again.
((Reevaluation of the combat in the mountains has deemed that Grizzlies should have been a bit more effective in the mountains. For compensation, Mereth is receiving the +1 Ore from the mountains for only this turn. If there are no changes in the mountains, next combat phase will have an Aratam-biased draw in the mountains.))

[brightfractal]

M1948 B-1 'Blowtorch' jet
After our mishap with our previous iteration we've decided to upgrade the usability and reliability of the jet itself.

It is designed with a new engine that saturates the ramjet with an aerosol variant of gel-matrix reactor instead of using electricity to heat the air itself for hopefully increasing the engine efficiency. The ramjet contains multiple robust electromagnetic emitters fueled by the G-M reactor to induce the fuel to its critical state. In addition we add secondary fuel tanks for fuel, new metal-recombinated high-performance alloy for engine nozzle integrity and a aluminium radiation shield encasing the reactor for less radiation exposure and lighter weight.

The cockpit itself is remodeled and adjusted into a much sleeker form with the piloting system incorporating transistors for simplifying the piloting controls and a new targeting system derived from our Ettin Flak tank. In addition the cockpit is a cushion filled with non-Newtonian fluid for withstanding higher g-forces and an Intravenous injector containing stimulants in case the pilot falls unconscious.

Lastly the weapon systems are changed, the coilguns are arranged in a rotary fashion, allowing it to fire faster at the expense of power and the hardpoints are reinforced for better structural integrity and less drag.

M1948 B-1 'Blowtorch' jet(1) brightfractal,

[Blood_Librarian]

Catalyzed Hyperthermic Ramjet


The Catalyzed Hyperthermic Ramjet has gone through several reality checks before the spice addled engineers who had came up with the original design had been shot and put into a shallow grave.

In it's final version, the CHR is a modification of a Gel-Matrix Bio-Paste Reactor to be fully integrated into a heavily adjusted Ramjet. An adjustment to the fuel derivatives that is put into the reactor has resulted in a reactor that no longer emits as many Electrons as it's primary emission into the wiring, but Beta Particles in utterly massive proportions for heat sinks to absorb. This simultaneously solved the radiation and heating problems that the Ramjet faced, as the radiation it now emits cannot penetrate a sheet of aluminum nor an ultra-dense, paper-thin sheet of metal-infused ceramics. This Beta Radiation is launched towards a heat sink, which is heated at a rating of several thousand degrees per second, which is promptly fed through a heat exchanger that heats that is directly connected to the Ramjet. This modification provides safety in assurance to the pilot and the maintenance crew, for as long as the core is not exposed to a person (Who will very promptly become very dead if it is active.), it is completely safe. The Exhaust nozzle and irradiation chamber can be rendered safe following a flush of liquid nitrogen, which is kept both onboard the craft for keeping the fuel-jelly stable and on the ground as standard maintenance procedures require ultra-cooled components for the normal maintenance of the craft.

The original Ramjet had several manufacturing flaws which have been corrected promptly, and an oversight in system management have been corrected with a mechanical/electronic stabilization system; No longer will a pilot have to constantly regulate and manage the systems engines to keep the aircraft flying, as the automated systems take care of that.

Several shortcuts and production processes have been cut from the Reactors internal systems, requiring the reactor to intake a pressure-fed Cryogenically stabilized jelly that can be classified as vaguely similar to Synth-Petroleum Jelly. This substance is kept stable with miniaturized coolers which are direct descendants of the designs of Cryocells. We expect this method of fuel storage to be completely safe, and perhaps more fuel dense. 100%. No backsies.

In a simpletons terms, it turns fuel to thrust, with a small amount of electricity by an electromagnetic process.

Note to self, try and make it emit gravitons.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Several, extensive modifications and integrations of the M1948's RamJet and its reactor have resulted in one, an entirely unique object that cannot be clearly classified as either a reactor or a Ramjet since it has properties of both devices.

Although the Bio-Paste Reactor's internal components are largely still the same, several adjustments to the organic material that generates the electricity results in a reactor that provides the emission of several electromagnetic particles which act in a fashion that is similiar to the Ramjet. This process is still an order of magnitude more efficient than traditional techniques used and provides more thrust than the original version by a large margin, in theory, while still providing a (smaller) amount of power for the rest of the systems.

A specialized, fuel-dense jelly is required to run the aircraft for maximum air time and increased maneuverability, this is expected to increase it's fuel cost, as the jelly is material intensive to form and to keep stable in its cryogenic state.  The Ramjet itself is produced with thoroughly automated self-stabilization program,  combined with the reconfiguration of the air-crafts control surfaces, the steering, and usage of this aircraft should be usable in some form by lesser pilots in preconfigured forms, while allowing extremely skilled pilots to conduct maneuvers with complete customizability and usage of its controls due to the dozens of possible control surfaces that the technicians of each craft can add or remove, based on the pilots own personal taste. Aero-brakes are even provided, if the pilot wishes to stop at unparalleled speeds, and possibly enter into a stall or break their necks from the whiplash.

The main reason that a liquid fuel has been replaced with the jelly is simple; It skips several steps in the Reactors own "production line" to run the reactor, and allows a much more robust and simple system that produces more thrust at greater efficiency than previous designs. In addition, the irradiation chamber has been adjusted; The radiation it produces is far less dangerous due to the fact that a larger portion of said radiation becomes beta radiation rather than Gamma or more insidious types; it is far more dangerous to exposed persons, at the expense of being far more safer when rendered inert for a period of 80 minutes. Current radiation shielding for operating personnel should suffice, as the radiation has an decreased penetrative ability. Us scientists hate maintenance personnel, and we see this as a bad thing because less of them due to exposure.

In layman's terms, it turns fuel directly into thrust via electromagnetic processes, propelling the craft to supersonic speeds in a more practical manner for the craft. The aircraft itself was modified to achieve this goal as well as ease-of-use and customization possibilities.

M1948 B-1 'Blowtorch' jet(1) brightfractal,
Catalyzed Hyperthermic Ramjet (1): Blood_Librarian

EDIT: The fundamental process of the Ramjet has been adjusted to turn fuel directly into thrust via electromagnetic processes.

[Man of Paper]

I'm down for doing an engine revision over the jet, simply because a) it specifically targets the stated problems by working on the piece we know most about, and b) we can create some more aircraft designs in the future and splurge a bit since we'll have an engine to work around.

M1948 B-1 'Blowtorch' jet(1) brightfractal,
Catalyzed Hyperthermic Ramjet (2): Blood_Librarian, MoP

Keep in mind if we create equipment that requires our Specials we need to keep our Specials our primary focus. While I love the idea of Goldeneye Pilots, their scarcity kinda dinked us. We should eventually work to either Simplify SEEM (by further study into the process or The Astral) or get ourselves more Rare Chemicals. I think a design would be required for either to make sure there's sufficient progress. I also think something like a 3D Printer would be good to start work on, something large that constructs larger shit like boat hulls, or vehicle frames.

[brightfractal]

M1948 B-1 'Blowtorch' jet(0)
Catalyzed Hyperthermic Ramjet (3): Blood_Librarian, brightfractal, MoP

Your design is better, changing my vote.

[Blood_Librarian]

I really dont get why the rarity of SEEM commandos "dinked" us; I assumed that they were rare on an infantry scale, not as a air-craft pilot scale, which we need FAR less off to operate our craft.

[Man of Paper]

I think it can be explained by the percentage of SEEM operatives being capable of piloting an aircraft. In the USAF at least I'm pretty sure combat pilots gotta be officers on top of all the training. You can field a number of SEEM with a couple officers, so perhaps it's implied scarcity due to a smaller qualified population?

[Blood_Librarian]

What is stopping you from putting a Pilot through SEEM training rather then a SEEM Operative through Pilot Training?

[The Ensorceler]

Torch With Fuel Injectors

Due to unfamiliarity with Bio-Paste Gel-Reactors, the initial A-1 Torch prototypes were constructed without consideration for the efficiency of the reaction, relying on waste heat that just wasn't there. Crude though it may be, simply rerouting several of the plane's fuel pumps into the ramjet's compression chamber will render it a functioning combustion ramjet.

M1948 B-1 'Blowtorch' jet(0)
Catalyzed Hyperthermic Ramjet (3): Blood_Librarian, brightfractal, MoP
Torch With Fuel Injectors(1): The Ensorceler