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.



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    • khang said:
    for the search lights do we need batteries or something to power it?
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    Any of the following will produce sufficient power: An alternator, a windmill (or RAT) and a battery, a pair of windmills (or RATS), or a battery.

    However, if you just use a battery with no means of charging it, the lamp is only going to be able to be used for a few messages before the battery needs to be swapped out or recharged.
     
    samdamandias said:
    But! We have to remember that Stability of +4 or greater inflicts additional Flight Stress, and some planes can take cutouts to improve visibility. Then we have to consider how important being able to fit a signal lamp is... (consider that as bad as the Drowned Rat performed, the Navy Arsenal still switched to a signal lamp for the heavy scout, rather than using the method they had originally planed on)
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    Yeah, well, somethingsomething conceptual design something this is a problem for Future Asuka.

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    samdamandias said:
    However, if you just use a battery with no means of charging it, the lamp is only going to be able to be used for a few messages before the battery needs to be swapped out or recharged.
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    Dumping batteries over the side is not a crazy tactic, assuming that the rules distinguish between Primary Cells and Secondary Cells. Primary cells can do potentially a lot more power per unit weight (which means more capacity per unit weight if total circuit load is fixed), but can't be recharged. This might be acceptable -- the plane is now lighter even if you need a new battery after every mission. And if you don't care about the whole no-recharging-thing and carry multiple batteries just to yeet them out the back when they're used up, your airplane gets lighter as you fly, which means you use less fuel.
     
    Crasian01 said:
    Dumping batteries over the side is not a crazy tactic, assuming that the rules distinguish between Primary Cells and Secondary Cells. Primary cells can do potentially a lot more power per unit weight (which means more capacity per unit weight if total circuit load is fixed), but can't be recharged. This might be acceptable -- the plane is now lighter even if you need a new battery after every mission. And if you don't care about the whole no-recharging-thing and carry multiple batteries just to yeet them out the back when they're used up, your airplane gets lighter as you fly, which means you use less fuel.
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    For an out-and-back sort of scouting mission, I figure a large majority of the flying is done before the lamp's role as a signalling device comes into play, so even if you are using it to try to get a better look at something in the dark (which sounds like a good way to catch a bullet if it's not friendly, as dim as an early 20th century light of that size ought to be), you still need batteries for when you get back. Clever thought, though.
     
    ok some designs that makes use of alternators to power search lights
    nameRangespeedstabilitystallcostarmamentother
    K411.91849121 x LMG Rear+Upsearchlight ,alternator, non-hardened radiators
    K514.318410151 x LMG Rear+Upsearchlight, alternator, wind screens, non-hardened radiators
     
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    khang said:
    ok some designs that makes use of alternators to power search lights
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    You have sealed cockpits, which can't see out or operate turrets. This will pose problems.

    Sealed cockpits are intended for things like radio operators, flight engineers, loadmasters, and so on. People who do not need to see out of the plane to do their job.
     
    Ok edited my designs to remove the use of sealed cockpits.

    nameRangespeedstabilitystallcostarmamentother
    K215.318410141 x LMG Rear+UpHarden Radiator, wind screens
    K311.91849101 x LMG Rear+UpHarden Radiator
    K411.91849121 x LMG Rear+Upsearchlight ,alternator, non-hardened radiators
    K514.318410151 x LMG Rear+Upsearchlight, alternator, wind screens, non-hardened radiators
     
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    so i noticed that all of my designs had 5 frame when it only needed 4 after making the changes here are my reworked designs.


    nameRangespeedstabilitystallcostarmamentother
    K611.920410131 x LMG Rear+UpHarden Radiator, wind screen for pilot
    K3v215.51849111 x LMG Rear+Up+L+RHarden Radiator
    K4v214.31849131 x LMG Rear+Upsearchlight ,2 wind mills, Hardened Radiator (salt water)
     
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    Non-hardened radiators are explicitly turning your back on a navy requirement, fyi. For a navy, fresh water is scarce, salt water is effectively free.


    Oh! That brings up a thought, should we be counting the 1 cost of salt water for the radiator?
     
    Yeah, I thought about that as a little sneaky we can pull. The aircraft just has to be capable of taking it, so we can fit them for but not with. I didn't need it, the rest of you might elect to use it. I suppose I could add a better gun mount and remain at the bottom of the budget bracket, if I had to?

    Weird that they specify a bottom end cost, really.
     
    Yeah the salt water will not cost extra, just the radiator hardening. You're at the sea, so they can just, like, get it.
     
    Is that entirely wise?

    Type 38 Reconnaissance Seaplane Maintenance Manual said:
    Procedures in the event of unexpected marine life in radiator:

    - If engine is running or has recently been run, drain radiator system, remove radiator underside panel (R5) using provided access bolts. Serve over steamed rice with pickled vegetables.

    - If engine has not been running, perform procedure as above but slice the marine life very thinly and serve with sticky rice and seaweed.
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    Crasian01 said:
    Actually real talk, we should write a post-it to include a screen to catch said unexpected sea life. What if said sea life manages to clog the system before you catch it? Same with things like bits of driftwood or seaweed.
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    I'm just kidding. Anything big will be filtered out when they pump the seawater aboard the ship, before they fill the radiator. Anything small can't deal with being heated to 90 degrees and will then just collect in the bottom and require very occasional maintenance.
     
    FrangibleCover said:
    I'm just kidding. Anything big will be filtered out when they pump the seawater aboard the ship, before they fill the radiator. Anything small can't deal with being heated to 90 degrees and will then just collect in the bottom and require very occasional maintenance.
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    Well, I guess. I've just had some Interesting Cooking Disasters involving boiling stuff that makes unexpectedly vigorous foams, so.
     
    I assume that radio equipment is still too bulky and heavy to fit aboard this aircraft?

    Also, for layout, since IIRC we still don't have an interrupter gear, could we put the observer in the underside of the plane? They need to have the best downward field of view possible anyway given that they're looking for ships at sea, and if we can mount the gun so it's not in line with the propellers it presumably makes running a tractor configuration easier.
     
    The Sandman said:
    I assume that radio equipment is still too bulky and heavy to fit aboard this aircraft?

    Also, for layout, since IIRC we still don't have an interrupter gear, could we put the observer in the underside of the plane? They need to have the best downward field of view possible anyway given that they're looking for ships at sea, and if we can mount the gun so it's not in line with the propellers it presumably makes running a tractor configuration easier.
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    How do you mean, like inventing the ball turret? That's really complicated and advanced, and also really dangerous. They killed the occupant a lot.
     
    Parzival95 said:
    How do you mean, like inventing the ball turret? That's really complicated and advanced, and also really dangerous. They killed the occupant a lot.
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    Kinda? But probably more just having a bunch of large portholes or making an actual glass-bottomed flying boat, then mounting a gun somewhere with as much traversal as we can reasonably fit in it. An actual ball turret, for obvious reasons, won't work very well with a flying boat.

    Other alternative is to make a float plane and put the observer and their gun in one of the floats, but unless we make a trimaran design that would probably cause some stability issues.
     
    The Sandman said:
    I assume that radio equipment is still too bulky and heavy to fit aboard this aircraft?
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    From my cursory look it doesn't seem impossible to fit, but the real killer is cost - the radio alone is something like a fifth (possibly up to a quarter) of the total budget we're allowed, and combined with the engine it eats up more than half of the budget (possibly 2/3rds of it).
     
    me.me.here said:
    From my cursory look it doesn't seem impossible to fit, but the real killer is cost - the radio alone is something like a fifth (possibly up to a quarter) of the total budget we're allowed, and combined with the engine it eats up more than half of the budget (possibly 2/3rds of it).
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    Might be worth looking into whether we can acquire a firm and start producing them in-house. Start down the road to becoming a proper zaibatsu/keiretsu/chaebol.
     
    FrangibleCover said:
    I'm just kidding. Anything big will be filtered out when they pump the seawater aboard the ship, before they fill the radiator. Anything small can't deal with being heated to 90 degrees and will then just collect in the bottom and require very occasional maintenance.
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    Think the issue is mostly with all the smaller stuff that could precipitate out of heated water, but it shouldn't be an issue in active use over product lifetime?
     
    This does remind me about a few things I've been thinking about, like how the dive bomber would have allowed us to show off POTATOES or the torpedo bomber given us the concept of contraprops. But most impotently is the fact that we may have just accelerated the development of cruise missiles.
     
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