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Per Aspera (Space Agency Plan Quest)

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[X] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative - The workers of the world have decided to invest some small amount of resources into pursuing space technology in search of benefits for those on the ground.

[X] Intercosmos - The Peoples' Representatives have elected to invest in a truly international program of space exploration, seeking to bring the light of reason and cooperation to the darkness of space.

[X] Yao Xia [The Engineer] - Your skills lie in making systems that work together. Whether it's a factory or a control circuit, you've just got a knack for it. [+5 to Facilities and Avionics rolls, +1 Facilities dice, +1 Avionics dice, reroll 1 failed Facilities roll per turn]
 
[X] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative - The workers of the world have decided to invest some small amount of resources into pursuing space technology in search of benefits for those on the ground.

[X] Yao Xia [The Engineer] - Your skills lie in making systems that work together. Whether it's a factory or a control circuit, you've just got a knack for it. [+5 to Facilities and Avionics rolls, +1 Facilities dice, +1 Avionics dice, reroll 1 failed Facilities roll per turn]

[X] Penelope Carter [The Director] - Your skills lie in managing people. You have... a gift, really, for making sure people go where they'll be happiest and most productive, and enough social graces to make sure that if you've got to ruffle feathers, they remain as un-ruffled as possible. You also have a fair few friends in the groups that decide where money goes. [+10 to Politics rolls, +2 Politics die, +5R/turn in funding from Connections, reroll 1 failed politics roll per turn]

Would love a total nerd in charge! Feels like it would go really well with the commie gov. I like the politician as well but if it gets close to a tie I'll change my vote.
 
[x] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative - The workers of the world have decided to invest some small amount of resources into pursuing space technology in search of benefits for those on the ground.
[x] United Space Exploration Bureau - The powers of the world have elected to avoid the horrors of the recent Great War by attempting to foster stronger international ties and cooperation.
 
[X] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative - The workers of the world have decided to invest some small amount of resources into pursuing space technology in search of benefits for those on the ground.
[X] Yao Xia [The Engineer] - Since you were young you've been obsessed with rocketry and space travel, and your infectious enthusiasm has seen you selected as the head of the global space program. Your skills lie in making systems that work together. Whether it's a factory or a control circuit, you've just got a knack for it. [+5 to Facilities and Avionics rolls, +1 Facilities dice, +1 Avionics dice, reroll 1 failed Facilities roll per turn]

I think the agency options go from least background conflict to highest conflict? I like that the IEC won't have to worry about disruption on the ground as much, and can use the new technologies it develops to help rebuild the world.
 
[X] Yao Xia [The Engineer] - Your skills lie in making systems that work together. Whether it's a factory or a control circuit, you've just got a knack for it. [+5 to Facilities and Avionics rolls, +1 Facilities dice, +1 Avionics dice, reroll 1 failed Facilities roll per turn]

I am honestly fine with anything EXCEPT the corporation winning, as far as the shape of our agency goes. Yes, even for as much of a fuck-awful place to live the Imperial League probably is, I would still choose them over any sort of for-profit entity. Space travel is amazingly expensive and requires a lot of maturation before it starts to yield anything remotely resembling a return on one's investment. If stroking a monarch's ego is what it takes to avoid mankind's cradle becoming mankind's grave, then so be it.
 
[X] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative - The workers of the world have decided to invest some small amount of resources into pursuing space technology in search of benefits for those on the ground.
[X] Penelope Carter [The Director] - Your skills lie in managing people. You have... a gift, really, for making sure people go where they'll be happiest and most productive, and enough social graces to make sure that if you've got to ruffle feathers, they remain as un-ruffled as possible. You also have a fair few friends in the groups that decide where money goes. [+10 to Politics rolls, +2 Politics die, +5R/turn in funding from Connections, reroll 1 failed politics roll per turn]
 
[X] Intercosmos - The Peoples' Representatives have elected to invest in a truly international program of space exploration, seeking to bring the light of reason and cooperation to the darkness of space.

[X] Penelope Carter [The Director] - Your skills lie in managing people. You have... a gift, really, for making sure people go where they'll be happiest and most productive, and enough social graces to make sure that if you've got to ruffle feathers, they remain as un-ruffled as possible. You also have a fair few friends in the groups that decide where money goes. [+10 to Politics rolls, +2 Politics die, +5R/turn in funding from Connections, reroll 1 failed politics roll per turn]
 
[X] Intercosmos - The Peoples' Representatives have elected to invest in a truly international program of space exploration, seeking to bring the light of reason and cooperation to the darkness of space.
[X] Penelope Carter [The Director] - Your skills lie in managing people. You have... a gift, really, for making sure people go where they'll be happiest and most productive, and enough social graces to make sure that if you've got to ruffle feathers, they remain as un-ruffled as possible. You also have a fair few friends in the groups that decide where money goes. [+10 to Politics rolls, +2 Politics die, +5R/turn in funding from Connections, reroll 1 failed politics roll per turn]
 
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[X] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative - The workers of the world have decided to invest some small amount of resources into pursuing space technology in search of benefits for those on the ground.

[X] Penelope Carter [The Director] - Your skills lie in managing people. You have... a gift, really, for making sure people go where they'll be happiest and most productive, and enough social graces to make sure that if you've got to ruffle feathers, they remain as un-ruffled as possible. You also have a fair few friends in the groups that decide where money goes. [+10 to Politics rolls, +2 Politics die, +5R/turn in funding from Connections, reroll 1 failed politics roll per turn]
 
[X] Intercosmos - The Peoples' Representatives have elected to invest in a truly international program of space exploration, seeking to bring the light of reason and cooperation to the darkness of space.


[X] Penelope Carter [The Director] - Your skills lie in managing people. You have... a gift, really, for making sure people go where they'll be happiest and most productive, and enough social graces to make sure that if you've got to ruffle feathers, they remain as un-ruffled as possible. You also have a fair few friends in the groups that decide where money goes. [+10 to Politics rolls, +2 Politics die, +5R/turn in funding from Connections, reroll 1 failed politics roll per turn]
 
[X] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative - The workers of the world have decided to invest some small amount of resources into pursuing space technology in search of benefits for those on the ground.
[X] Yao Xia [The Engineer] - Since you were young you've been obsessed with rocketry and space travel, and your infectious enthusiasm has seen you selected as the head of the global space program. Your skills lie in making systems that work together. Whether it's a factory or a control circuit, you've just got a knack for it. [+5 to Facilities and Avionics rolls, +1 Facilities dice, +1 Avionics dice, reroll 1 failed Facilities roll per turn]
 
[x] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative - The workers of the world have decided to invest some small amount of resources into pursuing space technology in search of benefits for those on the ground.
[x] Intercosmos - The Peoples' Representatives have elected to invest in a truly international program of space exploration, seeking to bring the light of reason and cooperation to the darkness of space.
[x] Yao Xia [The Engineer] - Your skills lie in making systems that work together. Whether it's a factory or a control circuit, you've just got a knack for it. [+5 to Facilities and Avionics rolls, +1 Facilities dice, +1 Avionics dice, reroll 1 failed Facilities roll per turn]
 
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[X] Intercosmos - The Peoples' Representatives have elected to invest in a truly international program of space exploration, seeking to bring the light of reason and cooperation to the darkness of space.

[X] Yao Xia [The Engineer]

I'll be honest Intercosmos just seems like the more fun (and more funded) of the two communist options, dont quite get why it's behind the other one

EDIT: It also has a much better name
 
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[X] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative
[X] Yao Xia [The Engineer]

I love the idea that the post-capitalist space program was literally all the rocket nerds getting together and in order to do rocket things, and naturally they elected the greatest of all rocket nerds as their leader.

I also think it's be the most fun option BY FAR. We'll be very resource strapped, but we'll have litaral rocket wizards on staff. It will lead to the most amazingly fun jank designs imaginable.
 
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Ah well. I'm looking forward to wrangling ESA x10. Or the Anarchist Cosmo Gang, which we seem to be heading toward.

[X] United Space Exploration Bureau
[X] Aretas Abdul [The Hero]
 
[X] United Space Exploration Bureau - The powers of the world have elected to avoid the horrors of the recent Great War by attempting to foster stronger international ties and cooperation.


[X] Penelope Carter [The Director] - Your skills lie in managing people. You have... a gift, really, for making sure people go where they'll be happiest and most productive, and enough social graces to make sure that if you've got to ruffle feathers, they remain as un-ruffled as possible. You also have a fair few friends in the groups that decide where money goes. [+10 to Politics rolls, +2 Politics die, +5R/turn in funding from Connections, reroll 1 failed politics roll per turn]

If USEB does win, figuring how to manage the inevitable competitive aspects will be interesting. Alternatively, the main trick with the Cooperative would probably be consistent results.

I assume we will be doing unmanned as well as manned missions?
 
I really hope that Yao Xia wins. I don't care if it's mechanically suboptimal or whatever, I want to play someone who is intensely enthusiastic about rockets and space. I want to have a main character who relaxes from the stress of running a space program by building rockets in their shed.
 
I want Penelope Carter to win not just for the mechanical advantage but also because SV always goes for the nerd option/bad with people option so I like to for once to go with the people/social person option
 
[x] United Space Exploration Bureau - The powers of the world have elected to avoid the horrors of the recent Great War by attempting to foster stronger international ties and cooperation.

[x] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative - The workers of the world have decided to invest some small amount of resources into pursuing space technology in search of benefits for those on the ground.

[x] Penelope Carter [The Director] - Your skills lie in managing people. You have... a gift, really, for making sure people go where they'll be happiest and most productive, and enough social graces to make sure that if you've got to ruffle feathers, they remain as un-ruffled as possible. You also have a fair few friends in the groups that decide where money goes. [+10 to Politics rolls, +2 Politics die, +5R/turn in funding from Connections, reroll 1 failed politics roll per turn]
 
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Anyway we can convince anyone voting Interplanetary Exploration to switch to Intercosmos? It has more funding, a noble aim, a better name, and (I would argue) more intresting political tensions. Instead of just different regions wanting stuff there are actual different revolutionary factions vying for support
 
[X] Interplanetary Exploration Cooperative - The workers of the world have decided to invest some small amount of resources into pursuing space technology in search of benefits for those on the ground.
[X] Intercosmos - The Peoples' Representatives have elected to invest in a truly international program of space exploration, seeking to bring the light of reason and cooperation to the darkness of space.

Communism - an ideology so cool I get to vote for it twice! :V

[X] Aretas Abdul [The Hero]

haha funny rocket go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 
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