You are the Central Committee of Mauritian Department of Deep-space Observation (Mauritian DoDO)!
Your
talented crew comprises almost six hundred scientists, engineers and workers, led by Prof.Pavel Lesnevsky, a Slavian warp theoretician, Dr.Vapayu Dmongolo, a Nigromambian propulsion expert, Dr.Errene Osnut, a Goblinian astrobiologist, and Prof.Tiri Uines, a Throndheimian space engineer.
The chief accountant sends you a copy of the Comparison Database:
Reputation: 4
Workers: 6
Assets: 4
Fleet: 0 (unmanned probes available only)
Your infrastructure is pretty basic; the construction complex, the science labs, the launch pad are all located in Mamarit Province, some three hours away from capital by a Sedric (
self-
driving
car).
Unfortunately for the landlocked Mauritia, the nation is rather a
small player on the international stage. While people these days know no bounds and travel freely, reputation and good deals might come in hard for Mauritian government, and by extension, to Mauritian DoDO.
But after the multinational team sent the first probe through wormhole ten years ago, on the first days of 2040, your government knew it had to claim the space for the glorious Mauritia as well!
Week 1 of Year 2051
The Central Committee has met to discuss several topics for the year:
Agenda: The Committee must pick an agenda for the agency!
Contracts and Income: Building relations and building space travel equipment for other countries and private investors, to get more money or Assets, as they're called.
Research and Development: Hardcore whiteboard scribbling to discover new things and new possibilities within the realm of warp physics.
Infrastructure Expansion: Constructing ground and space infrastructure for missions current and those in the future.
Research Topic: The Committee must pick a topic for the researchers to concentrate on!
In-Warp Dimensional Physics: Understanding the equations, the dimensions and the works of the Warp tunnel.
Beyond Ion Drives: Development of something better than the cheap and reliable yet dissappointingly slow ion drives for rockets, shuttles and other space-faring craft.
Warp Macrobiology: To find how the Warp deals with living tissue, to determine whether manned missions are possible or is the Warp's best function to dispose of bodies?
Astrometals: Titanium and carbon nanotubes aren't the best nowadays. Mayhaps there's some other material that can be widely used in astrophysics, huh?
Space Missions' Theme: Decide whether the DoDO will concentrate its missions on
normal space navigation,
colonization of bodies of planetary system or mayhaps
Warp travel to uncharted regions of the galaxy!
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