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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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    • Well, time to start up with the wine, men, and song- or at least whatever song we can manage.
     
    Ho boy.

    Wonder if we'll rope a nice girl tonight. I mean, c'mon, let's be even-handed here :V

    Also, just for funsies.
    Shadows threw 1 20-faced dice. Reason: !!FUN!! Total: 11
    11 11
     
    Decim said:
    A DNE of 440 kph? Well then, makes me wonder if that will ever get put to the test. Though, honestly, the fact that the Duck has a max loaded speed of 110 kph and a stall of 100 kph is the most concerning part of the design as it stands, but the only thing that comes to mind that could help alleviate that would be to add a better engine for more speed and power.
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    That's...really dangerous and unacceptable for a bomber in a world of early aviation. It means that loaded bombers have almost no room to maneuver. And climbing to altitude would take forever. Hell, a bad headwind would knock you out of the sky.
     
    SaltyWaffles said:
    That's...really dangerous and unacceptable for a bomber in a world of early aviation. It means that loaded bombers have almost no room to maneuver. And climbing to altitude would take forever. Hell, a bad headwind would knock you out of the sky.
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    It's even worse when you consider that with the flaps down, max loaded speed is 40 kph and stall is at 30 kph, meaning you can get off the ground, but in order to pull the flaps back up, you'll need to immediately dive to gain airspeed. Honestly, I'm thinking that in cases where the airfields are close enough to whatever needs to get hit, the Army would probably leave half the fuel at home to leave a larger margin for error in airspeed.
     
    SaltyWaffles said:
    That's...really dangerous and unacceptable for a bomber in a world of early aviation. It means that loaded bombers have almost no room to maneuver. And climbing to altitude would take forever. Hell, a bad headwind would knock you out of the sky.
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    Decim said:
    It's even worse when you consider that with the flaps down, max loaded speed is 40 kph and stall is at 30 kph, meaning you can get off the ground, but in order to pull the flaps back up, you'll need to immediately dive to gain airspeed. Honestly, I'm thinking that in cases where the airfields are close enough to whatever needs to get hit, the Army would probably leave half the fuel at home to leave a larger margin for error in airspeed.
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    It got fixed, don't you worry.

    Shadows said:
    Ho boy.

    Wonder if we'll rope a nice girl tonight. I mean, c'mon, let's be even-handed here :V

    Also, just for funsies.
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    This quest has been an interesting trip into the other kind of gay for me I'll tell you.
     
    Decim said:
    Checking the publicly available sheet that you posted in 5-16 here, it doesn't look like it. Unless you changed values in the table and didn't have that reflect on the indicated airspeed and stall values at the bottom.
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    Yeah, I gotta change it over to match Sam's calculations. Point is, don't worry it's okay.
     
    7734 said:
    To be fair, the only other design quest here that had a good designing and a good romance plot got killed off by the disaster that the later created.
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    So that was the reason. I was worried sick that it was my "deciding vote into compromise" that caused it. That makes me a bit at ease.
     
    Yeah, because of the way flight envelopes work, the higher the altitude, the narrower the flight envelope gets. I think for older B-52s, the difference between stall speed and max speed at higher altitudes was just a few knots.
     
    SaltyWaffles said:
    Yeah, because of the way flight envelopes work, the higher the altitude, the narrower the flight envelope gets. I think for older B-52s, the difference between stall speed and max speed at higher altitudes was just a few knots.
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    Yeah. I mean, in practice the operational ceiling of any given aircraft is defined as the altitude at which the aircraft cannot generate enough lift to keep the plane in the air- that is to say, the altitude at which the plane cannot help but stall out.

    The problem with a plane whose maximum speed and stall speed are only ten knots apart at sea level is that it will have a strong tendency, under any adverse conditions such as a poorly tuned engine, an engine malfunction, or unfavorable weather conditions, to seek to descend to a lower altitude at which its flight envelope is more favorable.

    Which, being as how the flight ceiling is so close to sea level, means the plane will try to fly underground.

    Ain't nobody who has enough Structure for that. :p

    Fortunately, we are assured the problem has been fixed.
     
    Night_stalker said:
    Aren't we more of a beer airplane designer? Because I got a song in that case.
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    The odds of a good domestic beer in Japan is slightly lower than our ability to build a ten-engine bomber or complete a transpolar flight right now. Remember, over there Bud Light and Miller are generally considered a cup above. I'm voting for wine, because that'll at least probably not be garbage.

    EDIT: @Mossconfig at least cite the original SFM video!

     
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    SaltyWaffles said:
    Yeah, because of the way flight envelopes work, the higher the altitude, the narrower the flight envelope gets. I think for older B-52s, the difference between stall speed and max speed at higher altitudes was just a few knots.
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    Alas, I don't have an electronic copy of Samurai! so checking some of the stuff in there would be hard. But I think Saburo Sakai mentions that the fully loaded zero had some of the same problem, where the cruising speed and stalling speed (at altitude) were uncomfortably close together.

    But ca1939 Japanese Navy pilots were pretty much the supermen of aviation. Their feats included things like flying at considerable altitude without oxygen, coordinating their aircraft without radios, and so on...

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    If there's a not-German enclave at not-Tsingdao, reasonable quality beer may be available from there.
     
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    7734 said:
    The odds of a good domestic beer in Japan is slightly lower than our ability to build a ten-engine bomber or complete a transpolar flight right now. Remember, over there Bud Light and Miller are generally considered a cup above. I'm voting for wine, because that'll at least probably not be garbage.
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    Yeah, we drink the imported stuff though.

    Domestic? Maybe we should just go for the alcohol from the aircraft shop floor, that stuff at least is honest in it's labels.
     
    Crusher Bob said:
    But ca1939 Japanese Navy pilots were pretty much the supermen of aviation. Their feats included things like flying at considerable altitude without oxygen, coordinating their aircraft without radios, and so on...

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    If there's a not-German enclave at not-Tsingdao, reasonable quality beer may be available from there.
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    Oh, bullshit. They ditched the radios because the radios were garbage, their "no oxygen" flights were a side effect of being dumbasses who were shortly to overplay their planes and get mulched, and that coordination fell apart in a dogfight. What won the war in the air were tactics like the Thatch Weave, something that even the best aces in the Kido Butai admitted they couldn't handle alone.

    Also, Tsingdao had special exceptions under German law to account for sub-par beer laced with quinine.
     
    Come to think of it, I seem to recall hearing that a problem with early airborn warfare was that money was poured into that field of military operations without actual consideration for how it would help win battles on the ground or at sea.

    In that sense, this war, where bombing out trainyards is one of the first goals to be focused on (And protecting the people bombing out the trainyards will probably be one of the next ones) is way ahead of IRL in terms of productive air doctrine, especially since Caspia is about 100% fucked if they can't keep their single, continent spanning train line running all the way to the battlefield.
    Crasian01 said:
    Pedanticness Moment: The correct spelling is either "Tsingtao" or "Qingdao".
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    All existing methods of romanizing Chinese are dumb anyways, since none of them produce phonetic (or even remotely intuitive) spellings consistently.
     
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