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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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    • Can we get a basic rundown on Akitsukuni's geopolitical situation,and maybe the Russia equivalent if there is one?
     
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    • Sturmi said:
    Can we get a basic rundown on Akitsukuni's geopolitical situation,and maybe the Russia equivalent if there is one?
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    Cool, sure!

    Our little island nation is kinda like what would happen if Japan also controlled the entrance to the Mekong, and the Mekong ran up most of the length of central Asia.

    Akitsukuni was an isolated nation until about 70 years ago, when an international committee of Western nations showed up with gunboats with intent of allowing easy access into the continent, as well as economically exploiting the country. After some political turmoil and a brief civil war which resulted in the isolationist faction getting it's ass kicked, the general mood of the country was that the only choice was to modernize before they got colonized. This was done by manipulating various great powers into believing they needed to back Akitsukuni's government, lest we go over to another side. By the time anyone caught on to the ruse, there was an Imperial Navy which was big, modern, and dangerous enough to enforce tariffs on trade out into Lydia, which is what Asia is called in this setting. The country also ended up with a constitution and parliamentary monarchy basically as part of the ruse, which is dubiously legitimate. The royal family hasn't got direct power and knows they are on thin ice, and so their primary function is giving their blessing to whichever party takes power so that the military can't just overthrow the country without defying the will of the Empress.

    Akitsukuni's military power has come at the cost of... everything else. Outside of the navy, the country is dirt poor. There's no real resources and the industry is backward and haphazard. The Army are about 30 years behind the times. While peasantry has officially been abolished, in practice it still thrives in some of the poorest areas. Corruption is pretty rampant. It's also considered pretty culturally backward by Europan observers. Women aren't allowed in the military and their votes count for half, and civil rights protections are spotty. Political opposition is tough because whichever party is currently in charge has the blessing of the Imperial Family so everyone tip-toes around them, and nobody wants to defy the navy. There's a feeling that everything's a bit of a powder keg.

    The party currently in power in the Diet is the Constitutional Nationalists, who are pretty bog-standard conservatives. The other three major parties, in order of relevance, is the Purity Club, which is a far-right party whose representatives are mostly serving officers in the Navy, the New Independents, who are a liberal party, and the Fairness Association, who are socialists and pacifists.

    Akitsukuni has held much of the land around the mouth of that big river delta as colonial holdings for the past 20 years. This includes a series of northern islands which are used to block the northern passage that might be used to smuggle goods through the Akitsukuni Sea. The problem is these islands supposedly belong to Great Caspia, which isn't very happy that there's a bunch of upstart Easterners squatting on their barren rocks. Tensions keep flaring, and the affair has thus far been handled by basically bribing Caspia's Tsar with limited trade rights and tariff exceptions until it quiets down again. It's not known how long this'll keep working, especially as Great Caspia's economic situation continues to worsen.
     
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    • open_sketchbook said:
    [X] I'd love that.
    [X] Accompany the team on their celebration.

    The team soon split up, with two members, Sakane and Adachi, hopping onto a trolley to, presumably, head home. You recall them being the members of your team with families. The rest of the team trod on through the cobbled streets, talking cheerfully. You started to notice a change in the atmosphere of the city around you; the buildings were growing more colourful, and signage more plentiful, and...

    Okay, this was definitely the pleasure district.

    The team filed into a building whose sign read Miss Yukaku's Fine Dining, which was... actually a restaurant. Of sorts. The waiters and waitresses were all very attractive, and the group was soon sorted off to a private room where there was not only some decent food, but plentiful booze, and the staff lingered quite a while (and pretty close) taking orders. Unsurprisingly, it took about ten seconds for Kawamura to have a pretty girl leaning against his shoulder, her kimino loose. Hasegawa's face was already beat-red as one of the waiters brushed up against him suggestively while laying out whiskey. You suspected the staff were not just servers.

    You gripped a glass, a little overwhelmed, when Kibe cried out, throwing her glass in the air.

    "Cheers!"

    The cry was echoed, and, mechanically, you downed the little cup in one go. It was strong.

    1 Mark on the Vice Track. 1 Stress removed. Roll 1d20.​
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    This needs a threadmark, as does the Akitsukuni informational post.
     
    Oh goody. Welp, at least we didn't go to work at the Imperial Naval Arsenal/Yokusuka, or else we'd really be having a problem.

    Akitsukuni I would say is in a much much worse strategic situation than in real life. Control of Mega Mekong is incredibly useful for trade, but it's also something of a poisoned Apple, with anyone thinking they have the capacity to take it, probably trying to. Worse, we can't actually exploit that control of the Mega Mekong delta, since our domestic goods production is too pitiful to take advantage of the control of the massive riverside market. Doesn't sound like there is a Korea to nom for resources either.

    The Imperial Navy is essentially in the position where if anything goes wrong, they can establish Shogunate 2:Electric Boogaloo. There is no army to balance them out(sort of) in this timeline, and it would actively hurt Akitsukuni to weaken their influence as they are basically the shield that is stopping someone from waltzing in and taking the MMekong Delta, and as an island nation, without them, in a war we choke and die from lack of imports.

    We haven't had the Russo-Japanese war yet, but oh boy are we going to have one now. This coming conflict with Great Caspia basically decides the fate of Akitsukuni. If the Constituional Nationalist party makes a single serious error in the war, the Imperial Navy will almost certainly enact a coup d'etat, and will almost just as certainly be successful. If the Imperial Navy loses the struggle at sea, they may just blame the civilian government, and if they win that's more influence for them. Lose-Lose on that front.

    Worse, it sounds like Great Caspia is close enough to the MMekong Delta to practically invade it by land, and since our army is thirty years behind the times and it's about 1910 equivalent...

    Yeah, they won't have a good time.

    However, if the war is won, Akitsukuni is, as Japan in real life, a very very good position(if we don't go almost bankrupt financing the war). Prestige of defeating a Western Great Power, if a decaying one, hopefully lots of reparations that can be used to at least begin to jumpstart a truly modern economy, and some breathing space.

    Unfortunately that still does not solve the fundamental problem of badly lacking natural resources. Only two real solution to that. Buddy up with someone who has them, or super duper imperialism time.

    If the war is lost then we should consider moving to the Albion Union.
     
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    Buddy up with someone who has them, or super duper imperialism time.
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    I think I'd prefer a Co-Prosperity Sphere (that was like the propaganda claimed). Imperialism when you're techonlogically and economically behind has a tendency of backfiring.
     
    It would be nice, but it's quite a difficult move to offer protection to states even less functional than ours against great powers, especially when to our militarists it would seem so much easier to just go in and take what we want rather than help them up and trade.
     
    Most states won't be independent- they'll be in someone's sphere. The only historical examples are Siam (which we sort-of are) and China. China is a great power in the making (and there might have been an equivalent of the Sino-Japanese War), so it wouldn't be easy. If we want resources, it's war against the colonizers, or funding rebellions and pushing for decolonization (which would be a real money-sink, without the internal support a war gives).
     
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    • [X] Make a romantic or sexual connection.

    The next hour passed in a haze of booze, bodies, and cheap food, with conversation growing increasingly circular and nonsensical. A few members of the team disappeared somewhere with members of the staff, though you weren't exactly sure the protocol by which that happened. Kibe and Hasegawa were making out in the corner. You were about to ask one of the servers how to get a little more attention when Uyeno nudged your shoulder.

    "Hey, take a look." She said, pulling your arm towards the paper door.

    Poking your head out, you witnessed about a dozen men (and they were all men) in black kimono shuffling into the establishment and taking one of the public tables. They all had identical yellow armbands, but you couldn't read the characters on them from here.

    "Who are they?" You asked.

    "That's Akibara's design team. I think they just got off work."

    You looked over their dour faces. "They don't look too pleased."

    "Almost like the heard a rival just got a big Army contract, huh. Wanna go rub it in their faces?"

    [ ] Actually, I wanna spend time with one of the...​
    - [ ] Girls​
    - [ ] Guys​
    - [ ] I'm not picky.​
    [ ] Hell yeah I do.​
     
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    • [x] Hell yeah I do.

    I like to live dangerously.
     
    [ ] Actually, I wanna spend time with one of the...
    - [ ] Girls
    - [ ] Guys
    - [ ] I'm not picky.
    This might give us a VIce, or a potential Confidant.

    [X] Hell yeah I do.
    But this option looks quite fun. Could backfire, getting us a company with a grudge, but maybe our boss will like us defending "the companys' honour".
    Really just doing it because it sounds fun.
     
    [X] Actually, I wanna spend time with one of the...
    - [X] I'm not picky.

    Would rather not be too antagonistic to a much bigger company when we are very much small fish in a very large pond.
     
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    [X] Hell yeah I do

    Sounds like fun, even if it's a bit unwise. Which is a thing that's rewarded, if I understand correctly. Also, more fun to read the results of.
     
    [X] Actually, I wanna spend time with one of the...
    - [X] I'm not picky.

    We need to be gay as possible.
     
    [X] Actually, I wanna spend time with one of the...
    - [X] I'm not picky.
     
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