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building an 1980s encrypted protocol
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Albeit not high quality forests. Monoculture is a major potential issue.
Attempting to avoid Disaster: An Earth Defense Plan Quest
- Thread starter BOTcommander
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- Original Sci-Fi Fantasy
@BOTcommander What benefits would we receive from completing Phase 3 of Military Headquarters Construction? Also, it described 'stage 3 as a minimum viable site' how many phases will there be to complete on this project?
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Have you watched the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion? There will be enough addtional phases and upgrade projects to dig and build until your military HQ is Neo Tokyo-3.
Have you watched the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion? There will be enough addtional phases and upgrade projects to dig and build until your military HQ is Neo Tokyo-3.
So we can build our own Geofront? Jeez....
I am going to vote against any plans to deliberately psychologically traumatise teenagers in order to make them better mecha pilots, however.
Q2 2011 Results
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Q2 2011 Results
Rail and Road Connection Refurbishment 269/200
Another round of investment has finished clearing all potholes, bomb damage and bent rails from the needed rails and roads. Especially in the war torn regions on the Arabian peninsula, the fresh, black tarred roads are a unique sight amongst the still largely destroyed landscape. While not immediately visible, on paper the speed of delivery in the UNDC logistics chain has moderately increased all over.
Naval Base Refurbishment 245/300
Repairs of the UNDC naval bases around the world make quick progress. With thousands of tons of new wave barriers and concrete laid, many of the less usable docks are operational again. This has already had an effect on the massive refit action the navy is undertaking, massively increasing the at which guns, CIWS missile launchers and cruise missile silos are refitted.
Auxiliary Shipyards (Osaka) 56/200
After the disastrous events of the last quarter, the UNDC has quietly continued construction. First step has been to erect large prefabricated concrete walls around the site, secured with barbed wire on top to keep out activists and terrorists alike.
Fuel Extraction and Refining Expansion (Phase 1) 110/300
After a less than stellar start last quarter the prospecting operations have made great progress. With the first pumps having been reactivated and repaired, the next step is reconstructing the pipelines to the planned site of the refinery, which is still in the planning phase, with only a few of the storage tanks already standing.
Restock the Medical Facilities 199+5/200
With a final appeal to the Council to help with the recruitment of qualified medical personnel, the medical facilities operate again at full capacity, just in time for the growing conflict in the Middle East. Already the trauma surgeons and nurses have been brought to their limit with the amount of combat wounded brought to them and have requested both more personnel and locations for faster treatment times.
Establish RnD Division 135/200
While construction of proper facilities has continued undisturbed, the acquisition of experienced staff has experienced a few hiccups, notably for the supernatural department. After the Security Investigation of last quarter that saw a number of candidates fired, a rift has opened up between the established scientists and the supernatural experts. The first group sent an open letter to Sokolov, asking him and the administration to not support "people spreading unscientific, false and conspiratorial information".
[]Fire the supernatural experts
[]Keep the supernatural experts
Public Outreach Office 105/100
The establishment of the PO Office has been completed without notable setbacks. The first few weeks have been spent answering "That the UNDC currently has no further information" on the nature of the Lycanthropy outbreaks, on how contagious it is or if a treatment is in sight. This and a number of other incidents, especially the Osaka one, have so far not painted the UNDC in a positive light and Director Nobou has made any kind of success story a priority, whatever this means exactly.
Military Headquarters Construction (Stage 3) 39/300
HQ excavation work has been bottlenecked this quarter by not enough transport capacity after the first soil and rock dump site has been filled, followed by the paperwork for another dump site and a request for more trucks from admin.
Suez Base Expansion (Phase 2) 119/300
The Suez expansion has begun by establishing a number of road checkpoints at strategically advantageous positions. While this has slowed down civilian traffic in the region, the UNDC considers it a small price to pay for increased security. With the checkpoints complete, work has shifted to construct the various planned garrison bases in the region, which, once established, will allow mechanized units to quickly respond to any potential threat.
Patria APC Deployment (Stage 1 Fighting Forces) 199/600
Deployment of the APCs this quarter has been slowed down by an unexpected hurdle. A pacifistic political group operating in the EU has thrown a wrench into the last delivery by literally chaining themselves together, blocking access to the trains carrying the finished APCs to port. Not wanting to risk another incident, UNDC left the matter to be solved by local police, who managed to remove the activists after some bureaucratic hurdles.
Aerial Bomb Factories 33/250
Progress for the new factories has been slow around the world, stopped mostly by the problem of acquiring qualified personnel that can pass the security checks needed to oversee the production of military grade explosives.
Munitions Compatibility Refit 162/250
The Navy refit has been accelerated by the reopening of many UNDC docks and yards across the world. The acquisition of the needed gun turrets, missile batteries and support weapons additionally has been supported by the on-time deliveries of ASDEU contractors.
Civilian HQ Defence Hardening 20/40
An additional hurdle has been laid into the UNDCs lap by the Tokyo Administration, who were not too glad to hear about the plans to upgrade the civilian HQ with heavy anti-infantry, -armor, -aircraft and -missile weapons. However, they relented after pressure from the Director and the Council, with the promise that capable security personnel would be added to the location as fast as possible.
Lycanthropy Quarantine Facilities 91/100
All around the world, a large number of proper containment facilities have been constructed but were unable to complete everywhere on time. With Lycanthropy for now only causing issues around the full moon, the containment facilities resemble medium security prison facilities with a number of high security cells, built to be more than enough to contain werewolves according to previous experience, the 20cm steel walls and door being only the first line of defense. A number of those interned have already begun to show more severe transformations during the full moon, with full transformations observed at the still unfinished middle eastern facilities, and one of the infected needing to be put down with an explosive after she threatened to break out of her improvised containment cell.
Form Military Police Units 52/200
Forming UNDC military police has begun with requesting experienced personnel from member states to both train and lead the new units, with many nations, including the Japanese, being more than quick to provide. Step two will be finding those among the ranks suitable for such work.
Cyber Attack Investigation (Stage 2) 295
The planned arrests around the world went as planned, DCSec confiscating over 2000 computers in the process. Narrowing down the number of subjects after that was easy, with a group from the US quickly confessing after realizing they would not be charged in the United States. Apparently, one of them, a 35 year old security specialist, had managed to get access to the laptop during a meeting at the UN HQ in New York. A friend had acquired the malware for him and a third had been in contact with an unknown party who was interested in buying the information from them, having paid the transfer of the information with gold bars. CSec and assisting Intelligence branches went through their files and tried to track back the gold, but were unable to find any clue as to the identity of the buyer, bringing investigations to a close for now.
Security Review (Services) 163
The Service security review this quarter has spotted nothing unusual, aside from the mostly harmless shenanigans in the Supernatural Department of the still not complete RnD Division. There was one incident of one man "cursing" a colleague, which has been deemed unacceptable by DCSec in light of recent happenings.
Recruitment Drives 26+5
Efforts on Sokolov and his staff's side to uncover potential additions to the UNDC administration have been slow, especially with the limited time assigned to the task and the other problems going on.
Vote for one.
[]Yuu Itou
A former colleague of Director Nobuo himself from his days working for the Japanese government, she was suggested to Sokolov by the Director himself, making good use of her good work ethic and her abilities as an administrator.
+2 Dice roll bonus in all categories
[]Karoline Becker
Becker went back into European politics after her work for Task Force Middle East was finished and the UNDC did not find a purpose for her. Having last interacted with her during negotiations with the ASDEU, she noted to Sokolov a readiness to work for the organisation should a position become available.
+5 Industry Dice roll bonus
+2 Infrastructure Dice roll bonus
Rail and Road Connection Refurbishment 269/200
Another round of investment has finished clearing all potholes, bomb damage and bent rails from the needed rails and roads. Especially in the war torn regions on the Arabian peninsula, the fresh, black tarred roads are a unique sight amongst the still largely destroyed landscape. While not immediately visible, on paper the speed of delivery in the UNDC logistics chain has moderately increased all over.
Naval Base Refurbishment 245/300
Repairs of the UNDC naval bases around the world make quick progress. With thousands of tons of new wave barriers and concrete laid, many of the less usable docks are operational again. This has already had an effect on the massive refit action the navy is undertaking, massively increasing the at which guns, CIWS missile launchers and cruise missile silos are refitted.
Auxiliary Shipyards (Osaka) 56/200
After the disastrous events of the last quarter, the UNDC has quietly continued construction. First step has been to erect large prefabricated concrete walls around the site, secured with barbed wire on top to keep out activists and terrorists alike.
Fuel Extraction and Refining Expansion (Phase 1) 110/300
After a less than stellar start last quarter the prospecting operations have made great progress. With the first pumps having been reactivated and repaired, the next step is reconstructing the pipelines to the planned site of the refinery, which is still in the planning phase, with only a few of the storage tanks already standing.
Restock the Medical Facilities 199+5/200
With a final appeal to the Council to help with the recruitment of qualified medical personnel, the medical facilities operate again at full capacity, just in time for the growing conflict in the Middle East. Already the trauma surgeons and nurses have been brought to their limit with the amount of combat wounded brought to them and have requested both more personnel and locations for faster treatment times.
Establish RnD Division 135/200
While construction of proper facilities has continued undisturbed, the acquisition of experienced staff has experienced a few hiccups, notably for the supernatural department. After the Security Investigation of last quarter that saw a number of candidates fired, a rift has opened up between the established scientists and the supernatural experts. The first group sent an open letter to Sokolov, asking him and the administration to not support "people spreading unscientific, false and conspiratorial information".
[]Fire the supernatural experts
[]Keep the supernatural experts
Public Outreach Office 105/100
The establishment of the PO Office has been completed without notable setbacks. The first few weeks have been spent answering "That the UNDC currently has no further information" on the nature of the Lycanthropy outbreaks, on how contagious it is or if a treatment is in sight. This and a number of other incidents, especially the Osaka one, have so far not painted the UNDC in a positive light and Director Nobou has made any kind of success story a priority, whatever this means exactly.
Military Headquarters Construction (Stage 3) 39/300
HQ excavation work has been bottlenecked this quarter by not enough transport capacity after the first soil and rock dump site has been filled, followed by the paperwork for another dump site and a request for more trucks from admin.
Suez Base Expansion (Phase 2) 119/300
The Suez expansion has begun by establishing a number of road checkpoints at strategically advantageous positions. While this has slowed down civilian traffic in the region, the UNDC considers it a small price to pay for increased security. With the checkpoints complete, work has shifted to construct the various planned garrison bases in the region, which, once established, will allow mechanized units to quickly respond to any potential threat.
Patria APC Deployment (Stage 1 Fighting Forces) 199/600
Deployment of the APCs this quarter has been slowed down by an unexpected hurdle. A pacifistic political group operating in the EU has thrown a wrench into the last delivery by literally chaining themselves together, blocking access to the trains carrying the finished APCs to port. Not wanting to risk another incident, UNDC left the matter to be solved by local police, who managed to remove the activists after some bureaucratic hurdles.
Aerial Bomb Factories 33/250
Progress for the new factories has been slow around the world, stopped mostly by the problem of acquiring qualified personnel that can pass the security checks needed to oversee the production of military grade explosives.
Munitions Compatibility Refit 162/250
The Navy refit has been accelerated by the reopening of many UNDC docks and yards across the world. The acquisition of the needed gun turrets, missile batteries and support weapons additionally has been supported by the on-time deliveries of ASDEU contractors.
Civilian HQ Defence Hardening 20/40
An additional hurdle has been laid into the UNDCs lap by the Tokyo Administration, who were not too glad to hear about the plans to upgrade the civilian HQ with heavy anti-infantry, -armor, -aircraft and -missile weapons. However, they relented after pressure from the Director and the Council, with the promise that capable security personnel would be added to the location as fast as possible.
Lycanthropy Quarantine Facilities 91/100
All around the world, a large number of proper containment facilities have been constructed but were unable to complete everywhere on time. With Lycanthropy for now only causing issues around the full moon, the containment facilities resemble medium security prison facilities with a number of high security cells, built to be more than enough to contain werewolves according to previous experience, the 20cm steel walls and door being only the first line of defense. A number of those interned have already begun to show more severe transformations during the full moon, with full transformations observed at the still unfinished middle eastern facilities, and one of the infected needing to be put down with an explosive after she threatened to break out of her improvised containment cell.
Form Military Police Units 52/200
Forming UNDC military police has begun with requesting experienced personnel from member states to both train and lead the new units, with many nations, including the Japanese, being more than quick to provide. Step two will be finding those among the ranks suitable for such work.
Cyber Attack Investigation (Stage 2) 295
The planned arrests around the world went as planned, DCSec confiscating over 2000 computers in the process. Narrowing down the number of subjects after that was easy, with a group from the US quickly confessing after realizing they would not be charged in the United States. Apparently, one of them, a 35 year old security specialist, had managed to get access to the laptop during a meeting at the UN HQ in New York. A friend had acquired the malware for him and a third had been in contact with an unknown party who was interested in buying the information from them, having paid the transfer of the information with gold bars. CSec and assisting Intelligence branches went through their files and tried to track back the gold, but were unable to find any clue as to the identity of the buyer, bringing investigations to a close for now.
Security Review (Services) 163
The Service security review this quarter has spotted nothing unusual, aside from the mostly harmless shenanigans in the Supernatural Department of the still not complete RnD Division. There was one incident of one man "cursing" a colleague, which has been deemed unacceptable by DCSec in light of recent happenings.
Recruitment Drives 26+5
Efforts on Sokolov and his staff's side to uncover potential additions to the UNDC administration have been slow, especially with the limited time assigned to the task and the other problems going on.
Vote for one.
[]Yuu Itou
A former colleague of Director Nobuo himself from his days working for the Japanese government, she was suggested to Sokolov by the Director himself, making good use of her good work ethic and her abilities as an administrator.
+2 Dice roll bonus in all categories
[]Karoline Becker
Becker went back into European politics after her work for Task Force Middle East was finished and the UNDC did not find a purpose for her. Having last interacted with her during negotiations with the ASDEU, she noted to Sokolov a readiness to work for the organisation should a position become available.
+5 Industry Dice roll bonus
+2 Infrastructure Dice roll bonus
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cryptoam
building an 1980s encrypted protocol
- Location
- in lockdown waiting and bored...
[]Keep the supernatural experts
But perhaps remind everyone to tone things down a bit?
Science and the spin offs from it works and should not be discounted. On the other hand, we have stuff that science can not currently explain and having an additional perspective and source of information can prove vital.
[]Yuu Itou
A former colleague of Director Nobuo himself from his days working for the Japanese government, she was suggested to Sokolov by the Director himself, making good use of her good work ethic and her abilities as an administrator.
+2 Dice roll bonus in all categories
Would help patch things with the Japanese government and that +2 universal bonus is pretty major in potential.
[]Karoline Becker
Becker went back into European politics after her work for Task Force Middle East was finished and the UNDC did not find a purpose for her. Having last interacted with her during negotiations with the ASDEU, she noted to Sokolov a readiness to work for the organisation should a position become available.
+5 Industry Dice roll bonus
+2 Infrastructure Dice roll bonus
On the other hand, she might be more useful if we foresee a lot of infrastructure and industry projects.
But perhaps remind everyone to tone things down a bit?
Science and the spin offs from it works and should not be discounted. On the other hand, we have stuff that science can not currently explain and having an additional perspective and source of information can prove vital.
[]Yuu Itou
A former colleague of Director Nobuo himself from his days working for the Japanese government, she was suggested to Sokolov by the Director himself, making good use of her good work ethic and her abilities as an administrator.
+2 Dice roll bonus in all categories
Would help patch things with the Japanese government and that +2 universal bonus is pretty major in potential.
[]Karoline Becker
Becker went back into European politics after her work for Task Force Middle East was finished and the UNDC did not find a purpose for her. Having last interacted with her during negotiations with the ASDEU, she noted to Sokolov a readiness to work for the organisation should a position become available.
+5 Industry Dice roll bonus
+2 Infrastructure Dice roll bonus
On the other hand, she might be more useful if we foresee a lot of infrastructure and industry projects.
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
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[X] Fire the supernatural experts
These guys seem more trouble then are worth since they seem to be less actual experts and more the usual crooks and fakes you find in RL and we have no reason to believe that what these so-called experts know will be relevant to the actual supernatural stuff. Go with the real scientists for now and we can pick supernatural experts as people get real experience with the supernatural.
Not sure about the recruitment drive. If we activate all of our Dice Capacity, Yuu Itou would give us +50 progress while using all of our Industry Dice and Infrastructure Dice with Karoline Becker woudl give +35 Industry progress and +16 Infrastructure progress. I'm leaning towards Yuu Itou as we are more likely to use all of our dice than we are to use all of our Industry Dice and Infrastructure Dice and we can potentially expand or go over our current Dice Capacity.
[X] Yuu Itou
These guys seem more trouble then are worth since they seem to be less actual experts and more the usual crooks and fakes you find in RL and we have no reason to believe that what these so-called experts know will be relevant to the actual supernatural stuff. Go with the real scientists for now and we can pick supernatural experts as people get real experience with the supernatural.
Not sure about the recruitment drive. If we activate all of our Dice Capacity, Yuu Itou would give us +50 progress while using all of our Industry Dice and Infrastructure Dice with Karoline Becker woudl give +35 Industry progress and +16 Infrastructure progress. I'm leaning towards Yuu Itou as we are more likely to use all of our dice than we are to use all of our Industry Dice and Infrastructure Dice and we can potentially expand or go over our current Dice Capacity.
[X] Yuu Itou
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- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
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Why do people want to keep the supernatural 'experts' when they have caused nothing, but trouble so far and their expertise isn't based on the actual supernatural that we are dealing with?
These aren't people who have studied the actual supernatural happening in the quest, these are the same cooks and nutjobs that exist in RL.
These aren't people who have studied the actual supernatural happening in the quest, these are the same cooks and nutjobs that exist in RL.
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It's not super clear if we're throwing out a bunch of proper anthropologists and myth scholar babies out with the hack fraud bathwater.
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
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Actually, I want to see what weird shit the cranks can come up with.
[X]Keep the supernatural experts
[X]Yuu Itou
[X]Keep the supernatural experts
[X]Yuu Itou
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I doubt it that considering that what you described do use the scientific method and would count as established scientists. If they do count as being part of the supernatural 'experts' and not the established scientists, then we are actively being misled by the information in the update.
I would also like to remind the thread just what sort of people are hiring for our R&D division and what is being talked about when the update is referring to the supernatural 'experts'.
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Do you want a wish?
- Location
- Milky Way Galaxy
[X] Fire the supernatural experts
Please present at least a background in Soft Science thank you
[X]Yuu Itou
Please present at least a background in Soft Science thank you
[X]Yuu Itou
[X]Keep the supernatural experts
[X]Yuu Itou
Ask the people who wrote the letter if the supernatural experts are behaving in an unscientific manner regarding the research into the supernatural.
Are they subject matter experts? They're the closest thing we have. Are they disruptive? Yes. Are they worth it? Maybe.
[X]Yuu Itou
Ask the people who wrote the letter if the supernatural experts are behaving in an unscientific manner regarding the research into the supernatural.
Are they subject matter experts? They're the closest thing we have. Are they disruptive? Yes. Are they worth it? Maybe.
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
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It makes no sense for them to suddenly be scientific for one thing yet somehow be unscientific for everything else.
And they are not the closest we have to subject matter experts. The closest we have are those who have been properly studying the real supernatural events that have taken place since the supernatural became a real thing. These experts only have expertise with the fake supernatural that people believed in before the real supernatural started happening.
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Gardener of Human Happiness
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Who says magic even operates on scientific principles to begin with? For all we know, some of these cranks might turn out to be able to bend reality with their sheer will and power of belief.