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    Matsura Asuka
    Head Designer for Ohara Airworks
    Age 24 (Legally 25)
    Year 12 AF (After Flight)

    Design Stats
    Aerodynamics Engineering - +2
    Structural Engineering - +2
    Chemical Engineering - +1
    Mechanical Engineering - +1
    Ballistics Engineering - +1
    Electrical Engineering - 0

    Personal/Political Stats
    Social Skills - 0
    Politics Skills - 0
    Importance - 2
    Income - 1
    Investments - Ohara

    Resources
    Power - 0
    Wealth - 2

    Designs
    Type 1 Series - Military Variation (Designated T1M1)
    Type 2 Racer (World Speed Record October 1910-April 1911, 180kph)
    Model 2 Scout (Designated T1M2)
    Navy Scout Prototype (Drowned Rat)
    Dive Bomber B1M1 "Duck"
    Machine Gun Carrier R1A "Dragonfly" (World Speed Record May-July 1911, 200kph)
    Naval Rescue Water-Landing Supply Plane NR1M0 "Dolphin" (World speed record 240kph)
    Rhino Demon Train Hunter
    The world's first airliner
    The world's first pulsejet airplane

    Assets
    Slide Rule
    Computator (1 Reroll per Routine)

    Languages
    Albian
    Gallian

    Familiar Vices
    Drinking
    Prostitutes
    Dancing

    Family Life
    - Engaged to Arita Yachi, formerly the leading Ace in the Imperial Army. Designated #1 Cutest Army Boy, he's having some serious problems with PTSD right now.
    - Taking a second try at dating Mikami Kiho, ex-dockerwork from the south.

    Upgrades
    - 3 XP to upgrade a stat.

    Ohara Airworks
    Start Up, Imperial Capital, Akitsukuni

    Owner
    - Mr. Ohara, Rich. Aircraft Enthusiast. Business guy.

    Engineers

    Kibe Koume, 26, Office Manager
    Tiny & angry, Kibe went to school in Albia, picking up the language, the religion, and a fuckload of swear words. Speaks Albian.
    Mechanical +2, Ballistics +1
    Office Manager: If Kibe is not assigned to a team, the Office Stress is reduced by 1.

    Sakane Jun, 26, Second Team Leader
    A soured patriot, Sakane is married and has a young child being raised gender-neutrally. His two brothers who fought in the war.
    Structural +2, Aerodynamics +1
    Team Leader: If there are any additional projects, Sakane will lead them.
    Joinery: Sakane has training in the traditional Akitsukuni carpentry art of joinery, creating complex self-supporting joints with no fasteners or glue. When working with non-monocoque wooden spars or ribs, +1 Structural.

    Tezuka Kenji, ???
    A stoner with occasional flashes of insight. Nobody really knows what he does, but he's probably useful?
    Aerodynamics +2, Chemical +1
    Flashes of Brilliance: Each natural 10 rolled by any team Tezuka is assigned to gives +1 forward to the next research roll.

    Hasegawa Morio, 26
    A hopeless nerd with a photography habit, mostly on account of developing his own film, Hasegawa seems to do nothing but work and stack card houses, but somehow has an incredible attractive boyfriend. Speaks Gallian.
    Chemical +2, Ballistic +1
    Silent Workhorse: Hasegawa can work on two different projects at once for no cost to Office Stress, providing they use different stats.

    Kawamura Yosai, 25.
    Serially successful womanizer and incredibly attractive, Kawamura doesn't seem to have much of a personality outside of seducing women. Well, except for that time he seduced Asuka, which nobody talks about. Speaks Dyske.
    Structural +2, Electrical +1, Social +1
    Easily Distracted: If Kawamura is working on the same team as a female or non-binary employee, the team is at -1d10.

    Koide Hatsu, 24.
    One of the few female graduates of an Akitsukuni engineering school, Koide is brilliant and incredibly driven, but her first job at Akibara was both humiliating and exposed her to an abusive coworker. Her father is a rich businessman with factories in Joseon, and she's engaged to Ken from Castles of Steel. Speaks Joseon.
    Mechanical +2, Structural +1
    No Sleep: If you let her, Koide will work herself to death. She can work a second project for no Office Stress, but all her stats will be reduced to 1 for the routine.

    Kobayashi Ayao, ???
    Disowned heiress of the Kobayashi family, all Kobayashi wanted was a career and to be a modern woman. For her trouble, a cousin threw acid on her, scarring her face, neck, much of her torso, and her left arm. Despite appearing serene and above it all, she's actually an avowed communist activist and baseball player.
    Aerodynamics +2, Social +2

    Adachi Ren, 24
    Adachi learned chemistry from her father, one of the most famous chemical engineers in the country, rather than through formal schooling. She's married, has a kid, and takes spirituality very seriously. Yes, you did the math right, she had Yuki when she was 17. It's 1912, folks.
    Chemical +2, Electrical +1
    Young Mother: Adachi will cause double Office Stress if she has to work multiple tasks.

    Uyeno Sei, Ballistics Engineer, 31.
    The oldest member of the crew, this is Uyeno's second career. Her first was as an officer in the Imperial Navy with specialized technical training: her very promising career was cut short by her transition. Her work in a naval arsenal on machine-guns landed her the job here. Briefly dated Satomi (the age range is a bit creepy but again, 1912), she's missing a piece of her ear and is deaf on that side, from an exploding cannon. Recently returned from Varnmark from experimental surgery, she's known for her skill navigating gendered bureaucracy.
    Ballistic +3

    Mi Kyung-Jae, 23
    A recent graduate of the Imperial College of Heijo, Mi is from the recently annexed territory of Joseon. For those keeping track at home, that means he's a Korean national living in Imperial Japan in 1912. We haven't seen much of his personality because he's rightfully terrified of everything around him. He has a specialty in endurance engine design and modification. Speaks Joseon.
    Mechanical +1, Chemical +1
    Endurance Engines: Mi has an excellent understanding of metallurgy and tolerances. Any engine he works on gains +1 Reliability if a 16+ is rolled.
    Pulsejet Wizard: Mi is now one of the world's leading experts on the pulsejet engine. He can be given his own project to custom-craft pulsejet engines, and he gives +1 to any pulsejet-related project.
    Joseon National: Mi does not have security clearance to work on any top-secret projects.

    Miyoshi Shigeri, 23.
    A non-binary person and admirer of Asuka's work, they were in an support role in the Army before joining the company.
    Structural +1, Mechanical +1, Aerodynamic +1
    Mechanic: Miyoshi has some experience repairing and refurbishing aircraft. They get +1 if assigned on the clean-up phase.


    Other Employees
    - Ohara Satomi, 22, Mr. Ohara's niece and the company test pilot, Ohara is a general lesbian disaster. She's good at flying planes, driving cars, and kissing girls. She's bad at being patient, being respectable, and sticking to literally anyones conceptions of gender roles. Deeply in lesbians with Coralie D'Amboise.
    - Fujkikawa Sotatsu, old, modelmaker. He's an old man and toymaker and we don't see much of him because he locks himself in his workshop a lot. He's friends with Kawamura?

    Assets
    - Engine Test Rig (Allows engine tweaking and optimization.
    - Wind Tunnel (+1 Aerodynamics)
    - Rapid Prototype Lab (+1 Clean Up)
    Expanded Cast

    Akitsukuni Industry
    - Homura Mohoko: Head Engine Designer for Kobayashi. First female engineer in the country. A lot of sex appeal.
    - Okumura: Head of Akibara aircraft design.
    - Yamanaka Hajime: Kobayashi engineer. Young and eager.
    - Igarashi Masazumi: Kobayashi engineer. Reserved and experienced.
    - Admiral Akibara Toru: Imperial Navy Admiral. Maximum nepotism. Maximum douchebag.
    - Lt.Cmnd Akibara Shinzo: The above's son. A hottie but very forward.



    Character Families
    - Matsura(?) Mizuko: Asuka's sister. Was paralyzed in an accident in Asuka's first flight. Lives Elsewhere and is married now. Can't forgive Asuka, even though she's tried.
    - Adachi Motoki: Adachi's husband, an accountant. Legally blind.
    - Adachi Yuki: Adachi's 7 year old daughter and wannabe pilot. Very adorable.
    - Yachi's Brother: Exists.
    - Sakane's Wife: Exists. Drives him a bit crazy, but he loves her.
    - Yachi's Brother's Wife: Exists. Is statistically likely to be pregnant.
    - Lt. Coralie D'Amboise: Gallian pilot in exile. Satomi's girlfriend. 25. Accomplished bisexual duelist. She flew in the war for a single day, and for her troubles got a hole blown in her cheek and had her left arm paralyzed.

    Akisukuni Army & Ex-Army
    - Lt. Torio Tanaka: Yachi's former observer as an enlisted man. Was jumped up to fly Ducks and lost a leg on his first mission. A trained painter, married to Torio Saya.
    - Captain Amari Shiro: A Dragonfly pilot who ended up flying as Yachi's partner. Kind of delightfully twinky. They sorta slept together at one point, which wasn't great. He lost his previous boyfriend in the April Offensive and turned his plane into a shrine. He was shot in the gut and is still recovering.
    - Major Izuhara: Logistics officer, Imperial Army, this bespectled officer stood up to the Caspian Crown Prince and accidentally kicked off the Akitsikuni-Caspian War. The guilt was so much that, after almost a year of running Army procurement, he shot himself in a phone both.
    - Captain Nakai Sekien: Army scout pilot. First person to drop a bomb from an airplane, later head of the Duck Squadrons.
    - Captain Teshima: A Desk pilot that fought with Yachi. Lost an arm in the process, took over for Major Izuhara after his death. Seems cheery despite it all.
    - Captain Nashio: A real piece of shit dude and probably a rapist, he's also a war hero as the second-highest scoring ace on the Akitsukuni side. He was a young shitty kid in way over his head but it's no excuse.
    - Lt. Kinjo: Kind of a dumb lump and Nashio's friend, one of the desk pilots. Dead at 19.
    - Lt. Okazaki: Yachi's friend from before the war and pilot, he died in a spin in his dragonfly. His death probably hit Yachi the hardest.

    Westerners
    - Rose & Antoinette Sears: Pioneers of flight. Sisters. Black in 1910s not!America. Yikes.
    - Timina Guasti: Famous aircraft designer from Otrusia. Likes big planes and green.
    - Prince Protasov Vasilyevich: Crown Prince of Great Caspia. Real dick. You gotta hand it to him though, a decent flier.
    - Count von Zeppelin: Invented rigid airships. Runs a successful airline business. Damned impressive.
    - Bennhold: Aircraft Engineer. Experimenting with metal aircraft.
    - Aileen Middlemiss: Albian reporter for the Artimis Times. Well meaning and oblivious.
    Available Tech
    • Materials: Wood, Duralumin, Molded Wood, Wood & Silk Composite, etc
    • All engine mounts
    • All wing types
    • Basic reinforcement
    • Wing warping and ailerons
    • Basic water radiators
    • Flying Wings
    • Semi-Monocoque design (requires at least half the slots have frame pieces)
    • Valved pulsejets
    • Basic weapon mounts and turrets
    Tech not Yet Developed
    • Custom engines
    • Monocoque construction
    • Cantilever Wings and associated tech
    • V and T tails
    • Tailless designs
    • Aluminum and titanium
    • Cellulose surfacing
    • Any kind of radar
    • Weapon accessability mods
    • Interruptor gear
    • Geared propellers
    • And Maybe Other Stuff
    Akitsukuni
    Island Nation

    Government
    Constitutional Monarchy
    - The democratic portions of the government are dubiously legitimate.
    - The head of state is the Empress of Akitsukuni. She gives her blessing to newly formed governments.
    - The Navy and a small number of families have undue influence on politics.

    Economy
    Developing Mixed Market
    - Most industry is controlled by a small number of wealthy, family-owned companies.
    - The state provides most contracts to industry. Consumer good market is anemic.
    - Exports are few, mostly cultural.
    - Imports are raw minerals, food, oil, and expertise.
    - Currently suffering an economic crash after the last war.

    Politics
    The Diet is currently ruled by a Constitutional Nationalist government. It has a system of nonlocal proportional representation, with representatives appointed by the party in accordance to their share of the vote.
    - Constitutional Nationalists: 50%
    - Purity Club: 9%
    - New Independents: 26%
    - Fairness Association: 11%
    - United Communist League: 2%
    - Monarchists: 1%
    - Assorted Fringe Parties: 5%

    Demographics
    Akitsukuni is mostly very ethnically homogeneous. Around 5% of the population are various minorities, most from nearby countries. Roughly .1% are westerners here for business or in advisory positions.
    - Population: 55 Million
    - Religion: Mostly Kodo. Roughly 2% of the population follows western religions.
    - Wealth: Most wealth is concentrated in the top 5% of the country. Nearly 20% of the population lives in conditions indistinguishable from peasantry.
    - Urbanization: Heavily urbanized for a small economy: 35% and rapidly growing.

    Military
    At Peace
    - Imperial Akitsukuni Navy (IAN): The 6th largest in the world, and the most experienced.
    - Imperial Akitsukuni Army (IAA): 150,000 highly experienced soldiers, and a considerable reserve.

    Aspects
    - Poor Resources: Aluminum costs +1.
    - Damn Akitsukuni Engines!: Engines have -1 Reliability.



    The Main Character Of This Quest Is Nonbinary And Uses They/Them Pronouns.

    I Am Putting This Here Because The Next Person To Misgender Them Is Getting Yeeted Into The Trash

    Also here's the Gayaverse TV Tropes page, because why not.​
     
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    • open_sketchbook said:
    If we were running the plane in-game (and I'm gonna make you roll it) you'd get a penalty to the Recover move equal to the Stability score. While Handling scores are compared against one another in a dogfight to see who is more maneuverable... so that doesn't matter here.
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    How do we increase the Stability score?
    Why do wires increase Structure more than braces?

    @Jace911 Why not add in one or two fairings? We should still be at mass budget if I understand the rules correctly.

    open_sketchbook said:
    it wasn't going to reach it's max speed because propellers big enough to move it's bulk would slow it down.
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    Also, is this a comment about the weight of the aircraft or the drag?
     
    Himmelhand said:
    Gear is in the design for 5 Drag already. If we can make it retractable for some amount of mass or cost I'm all over that. In the interim, get our DNE up to 180 while maintaining constant drag.

    [X] 4 wires, 4 fairings
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    To my knowledge there's not really anything else we need to add so keeping Drag at 15 has no benefit over bumping it up to 19.
     
    Also the problem with reducing Drag without increasing Structure is that at DP2 our top speed is 210 but our DNE is still well below that, so the only benefit is spending those extra speed points on Thrust.
     
    I feel like I'd prefer to keep a little bit of drag leeway, and we're not going to need a high DNE. I'd prefer one wire less because of that, but it's not a hill to die on.

    Our budget is 12 cost from Ohara, 12 from the government if we win the contract. That leaves us with 11 cost right now assuming we win the contract, and 13 already sunk into the design.
     
    Also, why does the horizontal tail not change Stability? In real life, the horizontal tail is the second most important piece of structure. The first most important is the wing. I don't think it's possible for me to be hyperbolic about how critical it is that the hoz. tail be sized correctly in real life, but in the G-doc it only affects Control?

    Jace911 said:
    Also the problem with reducing Drag without increasing Structure is that at DP2 our top speed is 210 but our DNE is still well below that, so the only benefit is spending those extra speed points on Thrust.
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    Or in other words, reducing drag doesn't help us until our V_DNE > V_Max, and V_DNE can only be increased by adding structure?

    natruska said:
    Our budget is 12 cost from Ohara, 12 from the government if we win the contract. That leaves us with 11 cost right now assuming we win the contract, and 13 already sunk into the design.
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    Whooooooooooo shit.
     
    Crasian01 said:
    How do we increase the Stability score?
    Why do wires increase Structure more than braces?

    @Jace911 Why not add in one or two fairings? We should still be at mass budget if I understand the rules correctly.


    Also, is this a comment about the weight of the aircraft or the drag?
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    You can trade Handling for Control by making the wings dihedral, you could bolt outboard rudders to it, or you can invent some new clever mechanism as part of the optimization stage.

    Crasian01 said:
    Also, why does the horizontal tail not change Stability? In real life, the horizontal tail is the second most important piece of structure. The first most important is the wing. I don't think it's possible for me to be hyperbolic about how critical it is that the hoz. tail be sized correctly in real life, but in the G-doc it only affects Control?
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    This is currently a gameplay abstraction to give people more control over their designs. Vertical = Stable, Horizontal = Control. If I change it, the final numbers won't change for having both of them.

    Crasian01 said:
    Or in other words, reducing drag doesn't help us until our V_DNE > V_Max, and V_DNE can only be increased by adding structure?
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    Reducing Drag (and mass) actually does increase your DNE speed slightly, as there's less of your plane catching the air (or putting load on the wings).
     
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    open_sketchbook said:
    Reducing Drag (and mass) actually does increase your DNE speed slightly, as there's less of your plane catching the air (or putting load on the wings).
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    Goddammit.

    But this being said, it's a very weak interaction, right? Structure is the main driver.

    Also you never responded to my question about the "bulk of the aircraft" comment earlier. Does that refer to the weight or the drag?
     
    Crasian01 said:
    @open_sketchbook

    <Massages temples>

    So, this leaves me confused. Does your post not imply that we're so heavy we're never going to reach our top speed, no matter what we do?
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    Oh okay now I'm unconfused!

    Basically, at the last stage of our process here we're going to have to take some of our top speed and put it in our Thrust, representing the speed lost from having to put big enough propellers to move this shit. So, yes.

    But, there's still going to be time to optimize things, including potentially lightening the plane or increasing engine power.

    brmj said:
    Can someone remind me what the thrust issue is about and how that works?
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    Basically, 1/5th of your total Power subtracted by your Mass becomes your Thrust, which is basically your acceleration. You can trade your Max Speed for Thrust, representing bolting on bigger propellers, to make up if there's a shortfall or to just increase your overall acceleration (useful in a dogfight)
     
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    How much extra "Do not exceed speed" does each point of structure give us?
     
    Using fairings to offset the added drag from wires doesn't seem worth it, unless we can also get enough drag reduction elsewhere (i.e. from the landing gear) to bump us up a category.

    [X] 4 Wires, 2 Bracing

    EDIT: reconsidering things now that I've thought about numbers more
     
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    Crasian01 said:
    Or in other words, reducing drag doesn't help us until our V_DNE > V_Max, and V_DNE can only be increased by adding structure?
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    V_DNE = 10*(Structure - (Drag/5) - (Mass/5)) * km/h

    The system always rounds down, so Drag and Mass only matter in intervals of 5.

    V_Max depends on our DP = (Drag/5).
    Drag 0-9 => DP 1 => V_Max = ??? km/h (currently impossible, I think)
    Drag 10-14 => DP 2 => V_Max = 210 km/h
    Drag 15-19 = DP 3 => V_Max = 170 km/h
    Drag 20-24 => DP 4 => V_Max = 150 km/h

    We are sitting pretty at Drag 15 and Mass 25. Current V_Max is 170 km/h then, so we need to raise structure by 7 so V_DNE equals it.

    So we have 4 Mass and 4 Drag to play with if we are satisfied with that top speed, and can spend that on structure and other upgrades.

    Of course, we can lose 1 Drag and immediately raise our top speed to the theoretical maximum of 210. We will have to trade V_Max for Thrust anyway, so we don't actually need to have our V_DNE all the way up there with V_Max.
     
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    I'm thinking I'd rather buy more fairings than wires to lose a point of DP and be taking top speed from 210 rather than 170. That still caps DNE at 160, but I think we may be able to avoid going any lower than that in the end if we can avoid landing gear drag.
     
    [X] 4 Wires, 2 Bracing
    Seems good enough then. 160 km/h is probably as faster than we can go anyway when we lose top speed for thrust.
     
    [X] 3 wires, 4 fairings

    Drops us a point of DP and puts DNE at 160. Would be nice to do better than that, but it at least gives us enough top speed to cut into that we can get the thrust we want without slowing down any more than that. Once again, contingent on solving the landing gear problem.
     
    Reminder that we only need Thrust 1, as this is a marathon and not a sprint.
     
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