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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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    • Arbit said:
    Can we make a dive bomber? I'm pretty sure the army would like to have some.
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    You act as if the concept of dive bombing is something you can just pull out of thin air. It's not. There was quite a multi-step process before that became a accepted concept.

    Dive bombing isn't just "let's just strap a bomb on a plane that dives good"...neither is torpedo bombing "let's hang a fish off of a plane that have decent stability".

    There's a lot of theory crafting, a whole lot of calculations, a lot of failed attempts and dead ends.

    It's not something you just put together with a box of scraps in a ship on your way to a flying contest.

    That is utterly unbelievable.

    At this point the army is still only thinking of planes as something to spot for ground based artillery. Just conventional bombing is still a ways off.
     
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    Wang and HuHu said:
    You act as if the concept of dive bombing is something you can just pull out of thin air. It's not. There was quite a multi-step process before that became a accepted concept.

    Dive bombing isn't just "let's just strap a bomb on a plane that dives good"...neither is torpedo bombing "let's hang a fish off of a plane that have decent stability".

    There's a lot of theory crafting, a whole lot of calculations, a lot of failed attempts and dead ends.

    It's not something you just put together with a box of scraps in a ship on your way to a contest.

    That is utterly unbelievable.

    At this point the army is still only thinking of planes as something to spot for ground based artillery. Just conventional bombing is still a ways off.
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    Did I say I want to design it right now? All I wanted to ask if it's possible in the nearish future and it seems it's likely not possible to do so.
     
    Arbit said:
    Did I say I want to design it right now? All I wanted to ask if it's possible in the nearish future and it seems it's likely not possible to do so.
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    Arbit said:
    Can we make a dive bomber? I'm pretty sure the army would like to have some.
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    Sorry but you did nothing of the sort.

    Nothing in your initial post indicated that this is a thing you want to set aside as a future project.
     
    Are fighter aircraft even much of a thing at this stage? So far I see spotters and couriers, but have the Army or Navy even tried putting weapons on a plane yet?
     
    Himmelhand said:
    Are fighter aircraft even much of a thing at this stage? So far I see spotters and couriers, but have the Army or Navy even tried putting weapons on a plane yet?
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    It's probably inevitable. It seems the sort of intuitive thing that you would try out, but I do wonder if the Old Fogeys would take it seriously. Certainly, as a young engineer, you would probably get drunk one night and make jokes about it then wake up with the idea still in your brain and wonder if it's actually doable. After that it's just a case of getting an appropriate gun with an appropriate plane.
     
    Arbit said:
    Can we make a dive bomber? I'm pretty sure the army would like to have some.
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    If you mean "Do we have the technical ability to do so?" then probably yes. If you mean "Has somebody come up with the idea and wants a plane?" the answer is very probably no.
    Himmelhand said:
    Are fighter aircraft even much of a thing at this stage? So far I see spotters and couriers, but have the Army or Navy even tried putting weapons on a plane yet?
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    Don't think so. I see one of two ways of it being likely to happen: The navy decides that their flying patrol boat needs to be armed like one, but this supposes that they have such a thing (and even more unlikely that we would get the contract, I think.) Or, the Army could decide to make "chaser" aircraft, designed to make the enemy scout planes run away instead of scouting. However, that assumes our glorious nation winds up in conflict with... not necessarily a peer power, but someone who has a number of planes.

    If we don't use an air-cooled engine for it, we might even wind up with something like the B.E.9 or Spad S.A
     
    10ebbor10 said:
    In order to be contrarian, I am ging to point out that you could justify volts by arguing that of is the remaining potential in a magic battery
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    I also thought about that but discarded it when "Volt" in this quest would also represent fuel and not only how much resistance that could be handled at any given moment.
     
    Why not simply have Endurance as unit of time plane will fly in averaged conditions on full(on start) tank/charge and Sustainability as how long can engine work continuously?
     
    kpkdktswnw2015 said:
    Why not simply have Endurance as unit of time plane will fly in averaged conditions on full(on start) tank/charge and Sustainability as how long can engine work continuously?
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    prolly bc that's a completely different design goal from the one Erika had for the game

    Flying Circus the actual game only concerns itself with fuel in the context of a dogfight. Fuel is measured as actions, not distance.
     
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    • [x] Goblin Fan Engine: 2円, 6hp, 1 mass, 1 drag, 1 burnout. Air cooled. You know it, you love it. Not as powerful as the E-series, but much lighter.

    On a cargo ship was not time to mess with unfamiliar engines. Within an hour, you were heading back to the plant at the head of a convey of ox carts pulling your brand new aircraft engines, each wrapped in wax paper and boxed.

    The incongruity of transporting cutting edge engines by animal power was not lost on you.

    The remaining day was spend gathering everything you needed to design a plane at sea. Yachi couldn't get time away from his intense training schedule, so you sent him a wire before you slept and, in the morning, there was one waiting for you, wishing you luck. Then it was onto the boat.

    The IAA Sagiri was itself a fairly new vessel, purchased with a sister ship to save the Army high command the indignity of having to beg to ship special orders and dignitaries between islands or to the colonies. It was crewed mostly by contractors, with a few soldiers and officers aboard. Also accompanying you on the trip were a pair of junior engineers from Kobayashi and an officer from Yachi's company, a slight man with small square glasses who was, apparently, a friend of the Captain's and the logistics officer for the aircraft company, off to take notes on foreign designs and represent the military for the westerners. You met him as he was getting on the boat, and you noticed among his personal effects that his underlings were carrying the handle of a sword.

    He mentioned in passing that Yachi had spoken highly of you, which set your heart a-flutter.

    Quickly, the design team commandeered the passenger mess as a work space, and sketches were being laid down before the ship even got moving. The Kobayashi engineers were apparently part of the design team that had produced the Goblin, and were willing to lend their expertise to the project rather than stew for a month with nothing to do. Likewise, the officer, a Major Izuhara, lent his voice to the conversation; while he had never flown role, he had details on the theoretical role of these aircraft. There would be chances to send telegrams home at each coaling station, so fortunately you weren't working completely in the dark.

    The next few days passed in familiar routine. The team would be roused by the sound of footfalls on the deck as the crews changed, and everyone would converge in the mess, bleary-eyed and seasick. As you tried to hold down a breakfast, Kibe led the assembled group through impromptu language classes, insisting that the language barrier be breached as best as possible before you arrived. Then, the pencils and slide rules would come out and sketches were laid down.

    What basic design form is decided upon after these first few days?
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    How much to your commit yourself to the Albian lessons?
    [ ] Eh. There'll be translators.​
    [ ] I make a serious effort. (1 Stress.)​
    [ ] I immerse myself, and try to spend the whole trip practicing. (2 Stress)​
     
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    -[X] Biplane with staggered wings, the lower mounted further back to allow the pilot better viewing of what's beneath them.
    [X] I immerse myself, and try to spend the whole trip practicing. (2 Stress)

    Let's go for simple, and go for making a good impression. Might be more business in Albion if we're lucky.
     
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    -[X] Biplane with staggered wings, the lower mounted further back to allow the pilot better viewing of what's beneath them.
    [X] I immerse myself, and try to spend the whole trip practicing. (2 Stress)

    Much agreement, sounds like a reasonable plan.
     
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    -[X] Biplane with staggered wings, the lower mounted further back to allow the pilot better viewing of what's beneath them.
    [X] I immerse myself, and try to spend the whole trip practicing. (2 Stress)

    Good plan. Probably best not to try to get too clever with this one.
     
    [X] Write In
    -[X] Biplane with staggered wings, the lower mounted further back to allow the pilot better viewing of what's beneath them.
    [X] Eh. There'll be translators.
    No need to add extra stress and I am sure a significant language barrier will be more fun to read about:V
     
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    -[X] Biplane with staggered wings, the lower mounted further back to allow the pilot better viewing of what's beneath them.
    [X] I make a serious effort. (1 Stress.)
     
    [X] Write In
    -[X] Biplane with staggered wings, the lower mounted further back to allow the pilot better viewing of what's beneath them.
    [X] I immerse myself, and try to spend the whole trip practicing. (2 Stress)
     
    [X] Write In
    -[X] Biplane with staggered wings, the lower mounted further back to allow the pilot better viewing of what's beneath them.
    [X] I immerse myself, and try to spend the whole trip practicing. (2 Stress)
     
    [X] Write In
    -[X] Biplane with staggered wings, the lower mounted further back to allow the pilot better viewing of what's beneath them.
    [X] I immerse myself, and try to spend the whole trip practicing. (2 Stress)
     
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    [X] I immerse myself, and try to spend the whole trip practicing. (2 Stress)

    We are going to show the world that Akitsukuni is modern and sophisticated. Unfortunately ingrained biased will mean westerners of this period will think less of us if we can't communicate in a western language.
    Also if possible we want to network with western aircraft designers, and see if we can pick up anything that might be of use. Knowing the language will help greatly with that.
     
    Confirming quick here: we mean a classic tractor aircraft with the pilot sitting up front, observer behind, tail assembly at the back?
     
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