Character Sheet


Stress
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Office Stress
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XP
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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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[X] I want a Cathayan jet motor, with as much documentation as possible. Two would be better.
[X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpfull if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.'
 
[X] An example or two of the the latest Gallian rotary engine with as much technical documentation as they can lay their grubby hands on.

[X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpfull if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.'


I consider the pulsejet to be a flash in the pan, but getting them to arrange for industrial espionage on Europan aircraft engines works.

I'm suprised Europan doctors are cooperating.
I'm surprised Varnmark doctors are cooperating; any surgery of interest to Uyeno would be carried out by the Europan equivalent of Magnus Hirschfeld, and quite frankly in her shoes I'd rather take chances with Akitsukuni surgeons who have the rest of their medical community supporting or putting up with them, instead of lone isolated individuals in Europa.
 
[X] I want a Cathayan jet motor, with as much documentation as possible. Two would be better.
[X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpfull if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.'
[X] An example or two of the the latest Gallian rotary engine with as much technical documentation as they can lay their grubby hands on.
any of these
 
[X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpful if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.
[X] Investment in the airworks would both help me by providing more resources, and help you with the dividends... (a bonus to how many business 'upgrades' we get during the next expansion vote)

I think i remember people saying we still could use more wingspan availability, and if not there were plenty of other improvements to choose from...and in the likely event my write in doesn't take off, help with the wedding controversy would be my preference
 
[ ] "I... I want Yachi home. My boy, Captain Arita Yachi. I want him safe at home."
In character with no concerns for minmaxing :p
edit:wait no this is better
[X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpful if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.
 
[X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpfull if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.
Boy > Plane > Train
 
I kind of want to say "No. I don't want to get involved with you." But 'this will have consequences too', means we turn into a Problem for the mafia.
 
[X] An example or two of the the latest Gallian rotary engine with as much technical documentation as they can lay their grubby hands on.
[X] I want a Cathayan jet motor, with as much documentation as possible. Two would be better.
 
[X] I want a Cathayan jet motor, with as much documentation as possible. Two would be better.

Not super comfortable with the kind of measures that might have to be involved in "ensuring" Asuka can enjoy their marriage. Maybe nobody would end up murdered but the request is sufficiently non-specific that it's a "maybe" and I'd rather not take that kind of risk. Some good old-fashioned industrial espionage seems safer.
 
[X] An example or two of the latest Gallian rotary engine with as much technical documentation as they can lay their grubby hands on.
 
[X] I want a Cathayan jet motor, with as much documentation as possible. Two would be better.
Adhoc vote count started by Rockeye on Dec 12, 2018 at 12:05 AM, finished with 10995 posts and 36 votes.

  • [X] I want a Cathayan jet motor, with as much documentation as possible. Two would be better.
    [X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpfull if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.
    [X] An example or two of the the latest Gallian rotary engine with as much technical documentation as they can lay their grubby hands on.
    [X] I want a private train of my very own.
    [X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpful if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.
    [X] An example or two of the latest Gallian rotary engine with as much technical documentation as they can lay their grubby hands on.
    [X] "You outlined many things that other person might want. However, for my desire you will have to go further, for what I would like to see is examples of the work of others - copies of blueprints, transcripts of manuals, maybe even working examples; And not just what these hacks at Akibara can do, but Alleghanian, Albionian and Dyskelandic designs. I'm a genius, but that means that I don't want to waste time reinventing the wheel."
    [X] Investment in the airworks would both help me by providing more resources, and help you with the dividends... (a bonus to how many business 'upgrades' we get during the next expansion vote)
 
[X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpfull if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.'

LOVE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OTHER THAN AIRPLANES
 
[X] I want a Cathayan jet motor, with as much documentation as possible. Two would be better.

[X] An example or two of the the latest Gallian rotary engine with as much technical documentation as they can lay their grubby hands on.
 
[X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpfull if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.
 
[X] An example or two of the latest Gallian rotary engine with as much technical documentation as they can lay their grubby hands on.
 
[X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpfull if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.
 
[X] I want a Cathayan jet motor, with as much documentation as possible. Two would be better.

[X] There'll be an event soon. Something which may attract controversy. It may be helpfull if you ensure I can enjoy it. I'll mention the details later.

Honestly, I almost wish I could set this up as a "I'd like X, but failing that, your assistance with Y would also go a long way towards righting the actions of your, ah, associate."
 
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I'm sure the Yakuza could find a way to help with our wedding. I'm not sure we'd actually want them to have done so, with the benefit of hindsight.
 
akitsukuni medicine
I'm surprised Varnmark doctors are cooperating; any surgery of interest to Uyeno would be carried out by the Europan equivalent of Magnus Hirschfeld, and quite frankly in her shoes I'd rather take chances with Akitsukuni surgeons who have the rest of their medical community supporting or putting up with them, instead of lone isolated individuals in Europa.
plastic surgery is very new and was developed in europa.

here in akitsukuni, the government has placed strict controls on the operations of westernized doctors intended on building public trust in them and solving large scale health crises like "what do we do with these battlefield casualties" and "a lot of people still try to kill the little blood octopuses by drawing them out with cupping or restricting their movement with needles instead of talking to us"

so basically institutional support for experimental surgery is nil here. the government is already having trouble getting people to trust westernized doctors as anything other than butchers so doctors are generally very cautious. furthermore, doctors here are generally very educated and westernized in their outlook... which means a lot of them are of the sort which looks down on traditional akitsukuni constructions of gender as artifacts of Old Society. especially because it's not like such surgeries weren't tried historically... they just usually went really poorly. modern doctors in akitsukuni have put that idea in the same bin as scratching up patients with jade.

so basically, the west is where surgeons get to play more freely and ironically for all their issues on it they don't have a historical aversion to messing with it, so gay!hirshfeld and his buddies in the society of doctors unhealthily obsessed with inverts has basically been at this a few years (putting us about 25 years ahead of OTL in the field.) and has had some success. uyeno is basically one of the richest trans women in akitsukuni outside of nobility, what with her job at Ohara and you recently securing competitive incomes for your team. she's also a risk taker by nature, as seen by "gets in fights at bars with akibara employees" and "dated satomi enough to not be surprised by an impromptu boarding action". so she's heard of this through the papers or whatever, looks at her latest pay check, and goes, hey! let's go on a europan vacation which'll involve a lot morphine and lying in bed.

... remember when i wasn't going to do any worldbuilding? that throwaway line and plot point involved a lot of thought lol.
 
I'd paralleled you as far as the "wow Uyeno living dangerously," because 25 years in advance of OTL, in 1910, means the benchmark is "Lili Elbe."

Though to be fair, Elbe might have gotten a fairly good outcome if they hadn't tried to perform a uterus transplant on her, in an era when organ transplants were Not A Viable Thing At All. That was, sadly, a bridge too far for medical science prior to, oh... I don't know, some time in the 1955-70 timeframe at the very very earliest.

Even then, well, organ transplant recipients tend to spend a lifetime on immune suppressants.
 
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I'd paralleled you as far as the "wow Uyeno living dangerously," because 25 years in advance of OTL, in 1910, means the benchmark is "Lili Elbe."

Though to be fair, Elbe might have gotten a fairly good outcome if they hadn't tried to perform a uterus transplant on her, in an era when organ transplants were Not A Viable Thing At All. That was, sadly, a bridge too far for medical science prior to, oh... I don't know, some time in the 1955-70 timeframe at the very very earliest.

Even then, well, organ transplant recipients tend to spend a lifetime on immune suppressants.
The hormone treatments and such show that Gayan medical science is, at least in some aspects, more advanced than contemporary Earth medical science.
 
The hormone treatments and such show that Gayan medical science is, at least in some aspects, more advanced than contemporary Earth medical science.

Hence Simon's comparison to "25 years in advance of OTL," which was the figure Sketch gave just now for the relative development of this field.
 
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