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Rocket Design Agency - A Playtesting Quest

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This is not the Gaya that you know. This Gaya has seen conflict and pain, but it is not our...
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    • NASA
    Brad L. Whipple - Director, New Alleghany Space Administration

    Payload Design - +1
    Rocket Design - +2
    Engine Design - +3
    Mission Planning - +1
    Flight Control - +2
    Damage Control - +0
    Spacecraft Activity - +0
    Extravehicular Activity - +0
    Experimental Activity - +2

    Flight Objectives
    - Continue scientific launches, progressing to probes into the space beyond orbit by year end 1959.
    - Begin experiments which will allow a progression to human spaceflight before year end 1960.
    - Cooperate with the Armed Forces in developing their abilities through the application of spaceflight.

    Mission Schedule - Current Date: January 1960
    - Low Orbit 1 (Summer 1958) - Hope-2 (Partial failure)
    - Re-entry test 1 - Sub-orbital - Full Success, August 1958
    - Low Orbit 2 - Partial Failure, Hope-3 , October 1958
    - Re-entry test 2 - Failure, November 1958
    - Military Communications - Success, ARTS, December 1958
    - High Orbit 1 - Success, Hope-4, January 1959
    - Re-entry test 3 - Success, March 1959
    - Bio-sciences - Launch Failure, July 1959
    - Discovery 1, Success, September 1959
    - High Orbit 2 - Success, Hope-5, October 1959
    - Lunar Probe - Launch Failure, Artemis-Lunar, November 1959
    - Bio-sciences - Success, Astrocaphe-Chuck, December 1959
    - Discovery 2 - Failure, January 1960
    - Astrocathe test - Success, animal in space, February 1960
    - March lost due to Artemis redesign
    - NAN payload - April 1960 - First Hermes Flight
    - Crown 3 - Spring/Summer 1960
    - Commercial payload - Summer 1960
    - IRVOS 1 - Summer 1960
    - NAA Communications - Summer/Fall 1960
    - Space Camp test - Summer/Fall 1960
    - NAN payload - Fall/Winter 1960
    - Commercial payload -Winter 1960
    - Astrocathe test - Winter 1960
    - NAA Communications - Spring 1961

    - Astrocaphe phase 1 (3 crewed flights)
    - Astrocaphe phase 2 (3 crewed flights)

    Hardware
    - Prometheus (1M to LEO)
    - Hermes-L (6M to LEO)
    - Hermes-B (8M to LEO)

    Andre Larkin - Team Lead at EPL
    Rocket Design 0
    Engine Design +2


    EPL Design Team
    Antony Miratha, Aerodynamics
    Susan Stone, Astrophysics
    Michael Cole, Rocket Engineering
    Amy Mathews, Trajectory Planning
    Simon T. Harrison, Chemical Engineering

    +2 Rocket Design, +2 Payload Design +1 Engine Design, +1 Fuel Selection, +1 Flight Planning

    Side Characters
    Dr. Evan Hart - Research Director at EPL
    Arthur Ley, proponent of Lunar flight.
    Franz Haber, Doctor and researcher.
    Dieter von Markand, Pacifist and astrophysicist.

    EPL Facilities
    Design workshop
    Chemical research laboratory
    Launch analysis equipment
    (Please note that EPL has neither rocket nor engine manufacturing facilities)
     
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    4WheelSword

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    This is not the Gaya that you know. This Gaya has seen conflict and pain, but it is not our world. In this world, the wars are different, the people are different, the events are different. In this world, the future is yours to decide...


    You'd grown up in the age of flight but always you had looked further and higher and faster than anything you saw take to the air above your hometown. The biplanes came and went, then the mono-winged fighters and even the first jet aircraft which streaked across the skies so quickly and none of them satisfied your hunger for more.

    You got to see your first true rocket launch when you were but a teenager, not one of the festive fireworks which lofted themselves on gunpowder but a true liquid fuelled marvel which flew skywards from a cage to some great height. It was nothing but a trifle, your parents said, and yet it sparked something in you. Physics at school, Aeronautics at University and a partnership in a study group with produced several treaties on the future of space exploration.

    But it is not enough. A few small rockets do not the future make. So you, already a well regarded engineer, begin looking for new horizons as the great nations of the world do the same.

    It is 1950. It is time to look to the stars.

    Where have you established yourself?
    [ ] New Alleghany, a continental superpower.
    [ ] Akitsukini, an island nation in the East.
    [ ] Greater Caspia, a post-revolutionary monarchy.
    [ ] Europa, a group of nations united by need.

    You are
    [ ] A Man
    [ ] A Woman
    [ ] A Rocket Engineer
     
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    • Rules and Systems
    Here's the basic design rules
    Here's the basic game rules

    Calculators
    Here's a rocket equation calculator which will come in useful
    Ballistic trajectory calculator
    Glide ratio calculator

    Current Available Technology
    • Armaments: Conventional Warhead, Early Nuclear Warhead
    • Scientific: Basic system
    • Crewed: Flight Seat, Flight Controls, Early Environmental Systems.
    • Flight: YMR Control, Thruster Pack
    • Communication: Basic Antennae
    • Power: Battery Pack
    • Recovery: Main Chute, Human-rated chute, back-up chute
    • Tank: Heavy Duty, Structural Steel
    • Motor: XLR-1-1, XLR-1-4, XMR-1
    • Fuels: Alc/LOX, N2H4/LOX, N2H4/RFNA
    • Staging: Hot staging, Explosive bolt, Parallel Staging
    • Guidance: Basic Gyro, Basic Beam Riding
    • Aerodynamics: Carbon Vanes, Small Fins
    • Apeture: Early
    • Type: Centre-Bore
    • Cycle: Primitive, Multi-Feed, Gas Generator
    • Injector: Dual Split, Dual Impingement
    • Nozzle: Atmospheric

    And, as ever, my thanks to @Estro for being an excellent writing buddy and rocket nerd.
     
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    • [X] New Alleghany, a continental superpower.

    I don't think we've been here yet

    [X] A Man

    Unless I'm greatly mistaken our PC's so far have been two women and an Aircraft Designer so this will complete the trifecta
     
    Ooh, shiny.

    [X] New Alleghany, a continental superpower.
    [X] Europa, a group of nations united by need.

    I assume approval voting are allowed for now?

    And I honestly can't decide on a gender...
     
    [X] New Alleghany, a continental superpower.
    [X] A Man
     
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    [X] Europa, a group of nations united by need.

    The existence of a united Europe in the 1950's seems quite interesting. Must be one hell of a political clusterfuck. Also, thanks to colonial remnants (depending on how far decolonization has gone), we'll have the best launch sites.
     
    10ebbor10 said:
    [X] Europa, a group of nations united by need.

    The existence of a united Europe in the 1950's seems quite interesting. Must be one hell of a political clusterfuck. Also, thanks to colonial remnants (depending on how far decolonization has gone), we'll have the best launch sites.
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    I think it's more like the ESA than an actual united europe, judging how it's called a "group of nations". Possibly something like the ECC.

    [X] Greater Caspia, a post-revolutionary monarchy.
    [X] A Rocket Engineer
     
    Estro said:
    I think it's more like the ESA than an actual united europe, judging how it's called a "group of nations". Possibly something like the ECC.
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    Eh, thing is, this is the early days of rocketry and the cold war. This is the time where nuclear weaponry has first been deployed, and rockets are being eyed as doomsday devices.

    To have Pan-Europan rocketry organisation implies a strong international cooperation, because you're basically tying your nuclear deterrent together.
     
    [X] Greater Caspia, a post-revolutionary monarchy.
    [X] A Man

    Does this     Post-Revolutionary monarchy looks more like Louis XVIII's restoration, Louis Philippe "Citizen King" d'Orleans, or Red Napoleon?
     
    10ebbor10 said:
    Eh, thing is, this is the early days of rocketry and the cold war. This is the time where nuclear weaponry has first been deployed, and rockets are being eyed as doomsday devices.

    To have Pan-Europan rocketry organisation implies a strong international cooperation, because you're basically tying your nuclear deterrent together.
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    Well, it's pretty much standing rockets in the early 1950s with rockets like the Thor, Atlas, and Titan not taking until well, the mid-1950s to start developing... although now that I think about it, weren't some of the initial Redstone test flights in the early 1950s? Hmm...
     
    [X] New Alleghany, a continental superpower.
    [X] A Man
     
    @HMS Sophia , When you say Greater Caspia is a post-revolutionary monarchy, what do you mean exactly? That sounds a bit like the United Kingdom, but there wasn't any revolution there (Unless you count the English Civil War, I suppose).
     
    I gotta say, I am a little intrigued by the introduction of this new gender to the Gayaverse. What can you tell me about these... "mans"???
     
    [X] Greater Caspia, a post-revolutionary monarchy.
    [X] A Man
    Wait, so we AREN'T communists? Welp, there goes 75% of the jokes I wanted to make.
     
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