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Aircraft Design Company- Matsura's Planes Are Always Fastest!

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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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    • open_sketch said:
    You estimated that just to get the three engines started, in the air, and up to its top speed would chew through the hundred and twenty-five liters the Dragonfly had carried in its entirety and then some. Doing that and then immediately burning out and drifting to the ground probably wouldn't be terribly impressive, so your minimum load was probably two-hundred and fifty liters. That'd be enough to get in the air, fly for about twenty minutes, and land with a bit of room to spare, you figured. The engines weren't likely to last much beyond that, but you could try to push it to the breaking point.
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    You don't need to do any maths, it says right there that one tank is too few to do the job, two tanks lets you do it with a margin and any more than two tanks leaves you with fuel after the engines break. The vote is between two tanks and some combination of one tank and a set of microtanks to cut into our margin and save a little weight.

    Now, if at any point we have to engage with the air system we need two fuel uses absolute minimum and probably three (one to take off and accelerate to maximum speed because Flying Circus lets you do that on one fuel use, one to have in the tank so that we can do a powered landing, one reserve) but if we're being told we don't need that much... We don't need that much. I'm not sure why this is a vote given that we're being told what the correct answer is outright, but I'm not going to not take a freebie correct answer.
     
    Can we combine these two?
    • 125 unit tanks, which will require a frame slot and another mass point
    • 125 litre gravity-fed wing tanks which will add drag
    Or are they incombatible with each other?
     
    Portec said:
    Can we combine these two?
    • 125 unit tanks, which will require a frame slot and another mass point
    • 125 litre gravity-fed wing tanks which will add drag
    Or are they incombatible with each other?
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    By the rules you can fit 250 units worth of fuel tank in one frame slot, so that's pretty much just adding drag for no reason. Unless you want more than 250 fuel, then wing tanks may have a more reasonable tradeoff.

    [X] 300 Liters/2 Tanks+2 Microtanks
     
    Himmelhand said:
    By the rules you can fit 250 units worth of fuel tank in one frame slot, so that's pretty much just adding drag for no reason. Unless you want more than 250 fuel, then wing tanks may have a more reasonable tradeoff.

    [X] 300 Liters/2 Tanks+2 Microtanks
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    Thanks for the explanation. I did not know that 3 frame slots was the minimum.
     
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    11-12: Ohara Boatworks
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    • You were at lunch with Kibe and Suko Takayuki, Ohara's head of R&D, discussing the new plane and catching up. Ohara Industries was branching in yet another new direction in the lull, producing, of all things, boats. The wood steaming facilities in the factory were now being used to shape small boats for sale to the navy, ocean liners, and whoever else might need them, and Suko was on the phone every day with marketing and sales, trying to come up with ideas to offer clients products faster and cheaper. Considering most of these boats didn't even have motors, he found the work excruciating.

    "So what have you got?" he asked, and you showed him the sketch you were working on idly.

    "Here's where it is right now. These are the engines, three pulsejets connected to these two hundred and twenty five liter tanks." you explained, pointing out each part in turn.

    "It sort of just looks like a single wing at the moment." he pointed out. "Where's the rest of it?"

    "Well, hopefully there won't be a rest of it." you explained.

    "Crazy. Where do you come up with this stuff?" he asked, impressed, before turning to Kibe. "You believe this?"

    "Barely, most of the time." Kibe said, voice dripping with sarcasm. "Matsura, you got the wings sorted out yet? Sakane's already prototyping."

    "I... no." you admitted sheepishly. "I'm just not sure. Every time I start laying it out, I try to figure out the trusses and I just get frustrated. I wish I could figure out a way of supporting the load without external bracing. It'd make such a huge difference aerodynamically."

    "But the problem's weight, right? Anything tough enough to stand the lifting forces will be too heavy to get off the ground." Suko surmised, frowning. "Yeah, that sucks. What's your options?"

    "Okay, so..." you flipped to one of your other pages, "Here's the traditional design. It's a lot like a regular plane, but we blend the nose into the front here so its all part of the same surface, and I guess shift the engine up high. I dunno, it'd work, but I'm not a fan of the aesthetic. We could use a detached tail, which... eh, a lot of drag, but it'd be very lightweight, which would help with acceleration and keep the wing area down. This is... stupid, but we could sweep the wings back and essentially use the entire surface as both wing and stablizer... okay, I've lost you."

    "Yeah, sorry, too deep in the airplane weeds." Suko admitted. Though he'd gone to engineering school right alongside you, he'd ended up specializing in electrical engineering, which had lead him to more general physics, and then to scientific administration. An odd trajectory, but one perfect for somebody whose job was to juggle other teams of researchers.

    "Airplanes need a lifting surface, the wing, and a second horizontal surface, the stabilizer, to fly. The wing turns forward motion into lift, but unless you have another surface to provide counter force at the other end of the aircraft, it'll just go end over end." Kibe explained, grabbing your pencil and drawing a little diagram for him. "What Matsura is proposing is shaping the wing so that the same surface does both."

    "Oooh. That is cool, though sounds delicate."

    "It would be, but... yeah, that's what I got. And from there, we'd need to decide if it was a monowing or what."

    "Mmhm. Oh, shit, that reminds me. I got a present for you." he said, reaching for his suitcase and popping a file down. "I have a contact in Navy procurement now because of the little boats, and... look at this."

    He slid a file over to you, and you opened it and angled it so Kibe could see. She read faster than you anyway.

    "Oh wow. So they're going to come crawling back, huh?" she muttered.

    You reached the section she was talking about and laughed. Akibara Complex had tried to make a seaplane which could land and fire torpedoes during the war, and it had failed spectacularly. The file mentioned, in several underlined areas, turning to 'other companies', with the heavy implications that said companies were Ohara Airworks.

    "Any idea when this would come through?"

    "A month, maybe a bit more? They really want to make this work, but all three prototypes Akibara showed them were crap. The ones they tried to use during the landing just got a bunch of crewmen killed and accomplished nothing, and that was their best offer. The post-war revisions have been disappointing too. So... yeah, somebody's thinking of you."

    You weren't sure how to feel about that. You sort of liked being the Army's shop, to be honest. Though you doubted that Mr. Ohara would care one way or another, if there was a lucrative military contract on the line.

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    Configuration II​
    [ ] Build a standard tail.​
    [ ] Build a farman tail.​
    [ ] Sweep the wings back and use outboard controls. (+1 Stress)​
    [ ] Build a boom tail.​
    [ ] Build an utterly weird canard flying wing.​
    ​
    Wings​
    [ ] Monowing with trusses.​
    [ ] Biwing with struts.​
    [ ] Write In.​
     
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    • Yeah I'm perfectly fine working for the Navy as long as their checks cash, sure we'll always have a soft spot for the Army but business is business especially these days in a post-war slump. No reason to be picky. As to the plane at hand, I have no idea what the math looks like but how can I vote for anything other than "utterly weird"?

    [X] Build an utterly weird canard flying wing.
    [X] Monowing with trusses.
     
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