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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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    • "Honestly, the twin-hull design just sin't going to serve us well here with two crew. We'll lose in crew efficiency what we gain in areodynamics, I think." Kobayashi said. "Let's just make a single airframe and mount the engines on the wings. We can even put the pilots side by side so they can coordinate better."

    "That's a pretty good idea, yeah." you said, scribbling it down. "This is an endurance race, we only need to have the speed to compete. And the boxers will probably be really easy to mount out on the wing, if we can secure the structure for it."

    "Depends on how we build the wings, doesn't it?" Koide said. "They're still a hundred fifty kilograms dry, that's a lot of weight to stick out on a wing. We'll need a pretty good support structure, get them as close to the airframe as we can. Hope our pilots are okay with a propeller a few feet from them."

    "I know we talked about this, but is D'Amboise going to be good to fly?" you asked. Everyone's faces fell a little. You knew they were practicing, Satomi was taking her up in one of the T1M2 trainers to practice, but you didn't know how it was going.

    "Satomi says she will be, I trust her." Kobayashi said, and that was that.

    "Right. So... let's start talking wing structures."

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    Our team of engineers is very competent and can pick some wings (and we'll have a Last Minute Changes bit if we need it) so don't worry about particular wingspans and such, we're just choosing our configuration. Stuff like stagger and closed configuration can be chosen later.​
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    [ ] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.​
    [ ] A canard design like the Duck. The math to get it balanced will be a nightmare, but you can probably do it. (+1 Stress)​
    [ ] Some form of tandem wing design. May be more areodynamic, but supporting the engines in the wing nacelles will take work.​
    [ ] Write In​
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    The exact positions and more details about the wings will be the next vote.​
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    [ ] It'll take a lot of work, but maybe a monoplane is possible. It's not like this thing will need to make hard turns, right? (+1 Stress)​
    [ ] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.​
    [ ] Maybe a triplane would be a good idea. We could use higher aspect ratios on each wing!​
    [ ] When I said tandem, I meant tandem quadwing, like two sets of biplane wings!​
    [ ] Write In.​
     
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    • [x] A canard design like the Duck. The math to get it balanced will be a nightmare, but you can probably do it. (+1 Stress)

    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.
     
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    I'm leaning KISS. We're not Matsura. And a well-executed "conventional" plane can probably be beautiful, too, right?


    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.
     
    [X] A canard design like the Duck. The math to get it balanced will be a nightmare, but you can probably do it. (+1 Stress)
    [X] It'll take a lot of work, but maybe a monoplane is possible. It's not like this thing will need to make hard turns, right? (+1 Stress)
     
    In the absence of detailed analysis, might as well go with something that is usually either optimal or a good second choice at this tech level. Unless we think we can get cantilever research out of going monoplane, anyway. The other option I see right off the bat is tandem quadplane, exploiting inline tandem bullshit without compromizing reinforcement effectiveness just like the airliner. But I don't really feel like building that this time, and without genius-level work I am not convinced the aerodynamics on that actually pass the smell test.

    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.
     
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    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.

    Our plan for this aircraft initially assumed that we would be the slowest thing in the air, as long as we can still skip checkpoints I don't think we need to screw it all up by shooting for the stars with an ultra low drag config.
     
    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.
     
    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.

    My life for a cantilever wing . . .
     
    Biplane with the body deck wings cantilevered so they can hold fuel and heavy engines.

    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.
     
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    There aren't really any good reasons to do something like Asuka usually does. We're not trying to do anything but go a long way at a highish speed, and the less complex the design is the fewer things can go wrong. A truss-braced unstaggered biplane is the most structurally sound thing we can build right now and that allows greater redundancy. A biplane wing with interplanar struts is also reasonably easy to walk along if we need to do in-air maintenance, at least relative to the other options.
     
    [X] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [X] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.
     
    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.

    We need the strength of a biplane to support the engines, and any aero gains from a more complex wing arrangement probably aren't worth the stress we could spend on something else.
     
    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.

    It's a endurance race, best to KISS.
     
    [X] Some form of tandem wing design. May be more areodynamic, but supporting the engines in the wing nacelles will take work.
    [X] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.

    It's possible to make a monoplane, but according to my calcs the performance isn't any better than a biplane.
    A trailing tail would work... but it's so meh.
     
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    noliar said:
    Biplane with the body deck wings cantilevered so they can hold fuel and heavy engines
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    We don't have cantilevers yet.

    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.

    As we approach a more finalized design, I've been playing around with a few things.
    Innovations it would be nice to have: T-tail (our plane is heavy, and we want small wings to help with F A S T)
    Flight engineer. Downside is that's a third crew, upside is it makes it easier to keep our engines happy.

    innovations we really really want and should be willing to take stress for: Evaporative radiators (if we can do metal wings)
    Retractable landing gear.

    Yes, past a certain point making the plane "faster" doesn't up our actual top speed, but does let us run the engines less hard for a cruise speed of 200-220kph IAS. (For simplicity's sake I'm assuming that IAS and actual ground speed are the same)
     
    [X] Some form of tandem wing design. May be more areodynamic, but supporting the engines in the wing nacelles will take work.
    [X] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.
     
    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.
     
    To shrink our wings down, we can make our hull a lifting body (the the rules it's called a flying wing RN). With four sections (two cockpits, one fuel tank, stubby tail), we can derive half our lift from the fuselage, minimizing our wing area and allowing us to use thin low drag wings. This lifting wing-body approach saves us drag overall.
    We've had the flying wing tech for a while, but I don't think we've used it yet, which is a real shame.

    @open_sketch, does mounting the propellers in a tractor or pusher configuration matter for in-wing nacelles? And do we get visibility bonuses from that?

    While retractable landing gear and evaporative radiators would be nice, they're not as critical as glycol or other reliability enhancing techs. Two Boxers make for a -2 reliability, and with a low mounted radiator's +1 we're still at -1 total. Glycol would get us to 0 reliability, and given the nature of the race I'd like to get us even higher if possible.
     
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    I'm leaning KISS. We're not Matsura. And a well-executed "conventional" plane can probably be beautiful, too, right?
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    Abso-fucking-lutely, imho.

    [x] A simple wing arrangement with a trailing tail. If there's a 'conventional' in airplane design, this is it.
    [x] A biplane will work fine. No need to reinvent the wheel.


    Besides, "conventional" is such an underrated configuration. It's like, you know, the girl next door. Why would we ignore her just because we know her well? Heck, it's always easier when you know someone well, instead of having to feel out how the relationship will need to work with someone new and unusual.
     
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