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Just as a note, it's Robotic Workers. Trying to make sure everything lines up in the tally properly.
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Class War Never Changes: A Fallout Quest in Pre-War China
- Thread starter TheInnerMoon
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- Location
- USA
[X] Plan: Proletariat Will
-[X] Reject Zhang's Deal
-[X] Self-Strengthening
-[X] Coordination
-[X] Reject Zhang's Deal
-[X] Self-Strengthening
-[X] Coordination
- Location
- Nice try
Not necessarily, Chinese robots probably going to be made with these things in mind where the American ones can afford to be high performace.
It should be noted that China will be forced to pulled people from all corners of society when comes to mass mobilization, including farms and so on.
Also maybe it can lead to the path of China developing they own power armor that they never manage to so in cannon, minus some repuroses for propaganda purposes, and hold Alaska longer. The fact the PLA manage to last from 2066 until 2077 against the US military fielding these things along with robotic auxiliaries are statement of they ferocity, although Chinese casualities were possible akin to the Eastern Front in WWII.
We are running against time cannon date still holds, if we manage to bolster the war machind the timeline probably can be extanded.
obssesednuker
Commander of 10 Million Men
- Location
- In the Kremlin, activating Perimtr.
That's really a piece of old interplay lore I really hope this quest dispenses with. Current Bethesda lore leaves it a bit more murky (as well as whether the US was actually winning in the Chinese mainland, instead of eking out a bloody stalemate), but I've gone into the reasons why I've disliked it before. It is, of course, ultimately the QMs decision.
[x] Plan: Robotic Workers
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[X] Plan: Proletariat Will
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- Nice try
Here's detail about the war, in 2066 China invades Alaska and trench warfare was common thanks to resource shortages the was a war largely of positioning rather than maneuver thus stalemates were extremely common until power armor introduction in the field.
By what I gather China was probably want only wanted quick land grab and was hoping the US would fold due to unwillingness to wage war in such remote region, it was certainly going that with the first months with the US military was in retreat on all fronts, until PA was introduce and the frontlines stabilizes and sometimes US forces retaking grounds but nothing beyond that. Although China was currently in control of the oil fields for a large part of the war.
In a effort to break the stalemate in 2074, US launch they own counter-invasion on Chinese mainland but once again the fronlines stagnate, the economy was barely holding by that point to sustain the war effort in Alaska but now was in free fall, Canadian resistance fighters wreaking havoc the supply lines didn't help. In January of 2077 Anchorage was finally reclaimed thus liberating they forces to join the Chinese campaign and the PLA was in rout but by October it once again reach a stalemate but Beijing was under siege.
China possible counter power armor troops by sheer numbers but causalities on they side was possible horrendous. Although Veronica in F:NV reveals that the military was concerned China was on the verge of deploying they own power armor, since they probably capture quite a lot of models in eleven years of war, thus countering by develop anti-PA weapons but it never pass the experimental stages.
There's of course the frontlines in the Sea of Tranquility on the moon, but I always attribute more of a propaganda victory that was heavily exaggerate for maximum effect to distract the public of the war effort shortcomings.
Then again the only information about the Reclamation of Anchorage in cannon was due to a simulation and it was likely full of inconsistencies to make the PLA troops less formidable than they are.
obssesednuker
Commander of 10 Million Men
- Location
- In the Kremlin, activating Perimtr.
I sorta headcanon it that China HAD gotten to the point that it was starting to field functional power armor that were not as good but at least competitive en-mass by 2077, but the nukes fell before the US really could reactivate the previously suspended counter-programs, with the more immediate response being to try and move-up already on going projects that could regain that technological edge. Admittedly there is no real canonical support for this and instead requires reading between the lines on stuff like Liberty Prime and the Red Shift/Red Scare paint jobs in Fo76. There is more textual canonical support for the idea that the conventional war had hit a stalemate however.
For reference, the most explicit canonical indication that the conventional war was at a stalemate comes up in Fallout 4, in a Boston Bugle terminal article which basically comes out and says it. Emphasis bolded:
The fact this is admitted to in a public newspaper under a wartime, authoritarian U.S. government strikes me as… quite significant.
Of course, the same Boston Bugle terminals also has an article that was aiming to blow the whistle on the Enclave, so it could very well have been a dissident paper. Not sure how'd they be able to afford to operate in a public office building as well outfitted as it tho.
It's outright stated in a terminal entry that General Chase was substituting his fantasy of what the battle entailed then how it actually went down. Some of the broad-strokes are confirmed, but yeah everything else is obviously suspect, the portrayal of the PLA certainly above all.
For reference, the most explicit canonical indication that the conventional war was at a stalemate comes up in Fallout 4, in a Boston Bugle terminal article which basically comes out and says it. Emphasis bolded:
The fact this is admitted to in a public newspaper under a wartime, authoritarian U.S. government strikes me as… quite significant.
Of course, the same Boston Bugle terminals also has an article that was aiming to blow the whistle on the Enclave, so it could very well have been a dissident paper. Not sure how'd they be able to afford to operate in a public office building as well outfitted as it tho.
It's outright stated in a terminal entry that General Chase was substituting his fantasy of what the battle entailed then how it actually went down. Some of the broad-strokes are confirmed, but yeah everything else is obviously suspect, the portrayal of the PLA certainly above all.
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- USA
China's closest counter to PA Infantry is their Dragoon Stealth Teams tbh. They are incredibly deadly turning any area their deployed into into a killing ground.
[x] Plan: Robotic Workers
- [x] Accept Zhang's Deal
- [x] Self-Strengthening
- [x] Coordination
- [x] Accept Zhang's Deal
- [x] Self-Strengthening
- [x] Coordination
this would be nice to do at some point
Designate Safe Zones: The immediate aftermath of an atomic exchange is sure to involve a great deal of movement, as those who can't shelter locally head for areas that are perceived to be safer. Often, such areas are not safe at all. By incorporating the ones which are into our official wartime evacuation plans, we can make sure that a lot more people survive the first few weeks of fallout. (400)
Designate Safe Zones: The immediate aftermath of an atomic exchange is sure to involve a great deal of movement, as those who can't shelter locally head for areas that are perceived to be safer. Often, such areas are not safe at all. By incorporating the ones which are into our official wartime evacuation plans, we can make sure that a lot more people survive the first few weeks of fallout. (400)
- Location
- USA
Ngl the Factory Bunkers would be a pretty neat project for us to smash out. They ensure that skilled labor has a *chance* to survive at least and ensure they will indeed attempt to close up and safeguard industrial capacity because they were looked after. Granted I do hope we can do more for them in the future but that's for later.
[X] Robotic Workers
[X] Robotic Workers
[x] Plan: Robotic Workers
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Not so much give up as delay completion a few turns. Which is definitely less than optimal, but Fuel-Saving Designs will complete by the end of the year and if we get a really good quality roll that might buy us more buffer.
I'm with you, but it looks like Robotic Workers is going to win, so we'll have to make do.
TheInnerMoon
Anarchist, Author, All-Around Philosopher
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As usual, I could make the vote go on longer, but the robotics voters appear to have it, and I really want to keep going.
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Ultimately the robotics deal is manageable. The important part is that we got Self-Strengthening and Coordination. The doubled discounts in particular will absolutely pay off, I'm sure of it.
- Location
- alphen aan den rijn
[x] Plan: Robotic Workers
if nothing else give us a better chance of growing and getting him back later if and when that becomes an issue.
if nothing else give us a better chance of growing and getting him back later if and when that becomes an issue.
Turn 2: Whispers Of War (2066 H2)
TheInnerMoon
Anarchist, Author, All-Around Philosopher
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Turn 2: Whispers Of War (2066 H2)
With the increased precarity of fuel, more and more people grow interested in alternative modes of transport
The state apparatus has been on edge for the past few months, as it appears that even by our most optimistic projections, the energy sector is going to crash. The dire state of our petrochemical industry has already compelled a series of trade negotiations with the Americans, with every possible piece of leverage thrown into the diplomatic melee. So far, the imperialists seem unwilling to part with even the slightest portion of their ill-gotten goods. If their intransigence continues, then the question of foreign acquisitions will move from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Central Military Commission, a strategy which would only multiply our troubles. For now, everyone who is aware of these maneuvers has been sleeping badly, and the Party clinics are fast running out of headache medication.
Revolutionary Preparedness Mobilization Commission
Chairman: Zhang Lifeng (Vice-Premier, Chairman of the State Planning Commission)- Factional Affiliation: Productivists, Strong Cyberneticists
- Aspiration: Introduce mass robotics
Head of the General Office: Deputy Minister of Revolutionary Preparedness
Ministry of Revolutionary Preparedness
Minister: Ren Jie (you)- Factional Affiliation: Labor Officials, Weak Cyberneticists
- Aspiration: Realize the promise of the Angang Constitution
- Associated Entities: State Planning Commission, ACFTY
- Factional Affiliation: Red Guards
- Aspiration: Protect the Red Guards
- Associated Entities: PLA, Red Guards
- Factional Affiliation: Academicians
- Aspiration: Reveal the Beneficent Effects of Radiation
- Associated Entities: Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Health
- Factional Affiliation: New Traditionalists
- Aspiration: Redeem the Ancient Philosophers
- Associated Entities: Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture
Factors of Evaluation
Environment: How well a region's ecology will be able to recover from mass irradiation, along with other forms of post-nuclear pollution.Subsistence: How well a region will be able to sustain its pre-war population base in terms of nutrition, hydration, and the prevention of infections.
Industry: How much of a region's industrial production systems can survive a nuclear exchange, or be easily substituted afterwards.
Knowledge: How much of a region's cultural, scientific, and institutional expertise can be retained directly, or else easily derived from available sources.
Network: How well a region will be able to coordinate its post-nuclear activities, either internally or with neighboring regions, in terms of transportation, communication, and production.
Unit of Evaluation: Percentage of current capacity retained
Priority
Chongqing
| Environment | 6% |
| Subsistence | 5% |
| Industry | 17% |
| Knowledge | 10% |
| Network | 20% |
Description: The mass targeting of Chongqing is set to make it uninhabitable for a long time. Should people return to the area, though, they should find a decent residue of industrial and institutional capacity. Its position on the Yangtze is also quite useful, and makes the city worth investing in.
Sichuan
| Environment | 11% |
| Subsistence | 20% |
| Industry | 22% |
| Knowledge | 15% |
| Network | 10% |
Description: Sichuan's considerable industrial power is hampered by its fragile environment and regional isolation. If either problem can be overcome, the other can be compensated for.
Infrastructure: People's Weapons Caches (Level 1)
Henan
| Environment | 16% |
| Subsistence | 20% |
| Industry | 12% |
| Knowledge | 10% |
| Network | 20% |
Description: Henan's good fortune is its considerable agricultural concentration, which ensures that some kind of society will eventually emerge from this region. With its strong connections to neighboring regions, this potential could also be utilized (or exploited) by other parties. Both elements are worth investing in.
Infrastructure: People's Weapons Caches (Level 1)
Hunan
| Environment | 21% |
| Subsistence | 15% |
| Industry | 12% |
| Knowledge | 5% |
| Network | 15% |
Description: The ring of mountains around Hunan may insulate it from some of the worst of the fallout. While this will help it recover some of its agricultural capacity, industry and science will suffer from the dispersed nature of its population. Its only saving grace is the Xiang, which will continue to connect its inhabitants to Lake Dongting and the Yangtze River.
Infrastructure: People's Weapons Caches (Level 1)
Yunnan
| Environment | 26% |
| Subsistence | 20% |
| Industry | 17% |
| Knowledge | 10% |
| Network | 5% |
Description: Yunnan's central features are its relative isolation and ecological fecundity. These factors have cemented its fate as a rural backwater, both now and in the future. With a strong degree of industrial investment, however, perhaps this fate could yet be altered.
Infrastructure: People's Weapons Caches (Level 1)
Shaanxi
| Environment | 17% |
| Subsistence | 15% |
| Industry | 17% |
| Knowledge | 15% |
| Network | 15% |
Description: As far as post-nuclear prospects go, Shaanxi's fate will be relatively mild. With the right degree of investment, it can be made into a potent base for state-building activity, as it was at the dawn of Chinese history.
Non-Priority
Beijing
| Environment | N/A |
| Subsistence | N/A |
| Industry | N/A |
| Knowledge | N/A |
| Network | N/A |
Description: Future scientists will study the ruins of Beijing for an indication of how great humanity's capacity for destruction once was. Other than that, it will be of little value, not unless we pour a massive amount of funds into this doomed area.
Shanghai
| Environment | 1% |
| Subsistence | 5% |
| Industry | 12% |
| Knowledge | 10% |
| Network | 20% |
Description: The city of Shanghai is what the Americans call 'too big to fail'. And yet it will fail nevertheless, for if the bombs don't make it uninhabitable, then the rising sea level certainly will. Should we be able to bolster the city against these dangers, however, its infrastructure would be well worth saving.
Shandong
| Environment | 11% |
| Subsistence | 15% |
| Industry | 12% |
| Knowledge | 15% |
| Network | 10% |
Description: Coastal erosion is already a serious problem in Shandong province, and atomic bombardment would only add to its troubles. Even so, its mountainous regions can be made into a useful redoubt, and a regional site of recovery.
Liaoning
| Environment | 11% |
| Subsistence | 5% |
| Industry | 22% |
| Knowledge | 20% |
| Network | 15% |
Description: Liaoning's considerable industrial assets will be impossible to destroy entirely. The attempt to do so will wreck its ability to sustain a significant population, however. If its connections to nearby areas might be maintained, perhaps another province could make up for that shortfall.
Guangdong
| Environment | 11% |
| Subsistence | 15% |
| Industry | 12% |
| Knowledge | 15% |
| Network | 20% |
Description: Guangdong's proximity to the imperialist enclaves makes its fate exceedingly unpredictable. Much will also depend on our own planning, as a stronger Guangdong could overcome the southern threat and even utilize it. But this will require a degree of economic attention that is yet absent.
Gansu
| Environment | 11% |
| Subsistence | 10% |
| Industry | 22% |
| Knowledge | 20% |
| Network | 20% |
Description: Much of Gansu will escape a direct nuclear attack, given its sparse population and dearth of strategic targets. The subsequent storms of radioactive dust will wash over it just the same, eliminating most of its population base. Only the bones of civilization will remain, to be picked over by nearby settlements. If we can avoid these storms, the province will become a lot more viable.
Guizhou
| Environment | 21% |
| Subsistence | 20% |
| Industry | 12% |
| Knowledge | 10% |
| Network | 15% |
Description: Guizhou is woefully underdeveloped, which also means that there'll be little reason to bomb it. Nevertheless, without major ministry investment, it will only be able to make a minor contribution to the restoration of the socialist dictatorship.
Political Support: 45/100
Active Partnerships:
- Ministry of Energy (0%): Complete Fuel-Saving Designs in 2067
- Red Guards (20%): Complete Ideological Aptitude Tests at a decent (40+) quality in the next year (15%)
- ACFTU (10%): Complete three levels of Factory Bunkers (20% partnership progress estimated)
- Zhang Lifeng: Complete Auxiliary Robotics before the end of 2068
- Supply Depots: Sichuan Lv 1 (Completes this turn)
- Supply Depots: Henan Lv 1 (Completes this turn)
- Fuel Saving Designs (85 Ongoing Cost) (Completes this turn)
Bonuses
Economies of Scale: If a construction project has multiple levels, the next level is always around 10% cheaper, and is completed about 25% faster. Bonus is cumulative.Practice Makes Perfect: For every 100 resources invested in a repeatable Construction project, its quality die gets a +1 bonus.
Lieutenant General Zhu Yuannong (Deputy Minister): 100 additional construction units
Call to Action: 200 additional mobilization units
Energized: 20% discount on [Energy] projects (bonus not included in base price)
Model Worker: 10% discount on [Labor] projects (bonus not included in base price)
Construction (1000+100)
Unless specified, all Construction projects are regionally specific. Unused resources will carry over into the next turn.Supply Depots (+2) : If there is any certainty to an atomic exchange, it's the fact that people will be in dire need of all kinds of resources. By establishing a system of supply depots, filled to the brim with all necessary nutritional and medical goods, we can keep whoever survives this onslaught alive for just a little longer. (100, 3 months per level)
People's Weapons Caches (+8): "Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" These are the words of Karl Marx, an instruction of the utmost importance. While the Red Guards already represent the power of the armed proletariat, we cannot be sure that they would survive a nuclear exchange. To ensure that the post-nuclear population can be armed nevertheless, we should establish a series of freely accessible arms repositories throughout the country. (200, six months per level)
Deep Archives: In the blaze of nuclear hellfire, it is all too easy for the sources of human knowledge and culture to be lost. Thankfully, an underground library is light on maintenance, and can be placed anywhere you're willing to dig. As long as we remember where we put the books and microfiches, our descendants should be happy to receive them. (250, six months per level)
Missile Defense Installations: The simplest way of fighting nuclear missiles is to deploy even more missiles in defense. If we surround our urban and strategic centers with batteries of anti-air weapons, we can keep the enemy rockets at bay. A handful of them, at least. (900, one year per level)
Hydroelectric Hardening [Energy]: China's geography is uniquely suited to the development of hydroelectric power, and the state has made good use of this fact for the past century. Unfortunately, these massive constructions also tend to be a potent target for the enemy's nuclear arsenal. To mitigate such a catastrophe, we should reinforce our existing dams, and set some exacting construction standards for the next generation of hydroelectric infrastructure. (1000, two years)
Refurbish Urban Emergency Services: Our great cities face many perils on a day to day basis, but a nuclear event would dwarf them all. To manage the immediate crisis of such a calamity, we should outfit our brave first responders with the best equipment available. That way, they can save a few more souls before they die of acute radiation poisoning. (500, six months)
Nuclear Intensification [Energy]: Compared to the reactionary camp, the nation of China is somewhat lacking in the field of nuclear power. Since coal is growing ever scarcer, and Siberian gas won't last forever, we had best transition to a fuel that is slightly more sustainable: uranium. While fusion power would be altogether preferable, this will have to wait until the relevant research pans out. (1200, two years)
Simplified Water Treatment: Water, the giver of life. One of the five elements! Indispensable to any kind of civilization. By making our water treatment plants sufficiently 'low tech', we can ensure their operation after much of the supply system has fallen apart. This might come at the cost of some short-term efficiencies, but that's the price of survival. (600, eighteen months)
Expand Urban Shelters: This episode of atomic terror is hardly the first, and so we've already established a network of fallout shelters throughout many of our major cities. In recent years, however, many of these have been neglected, or requisitioned towards other ends. Let us renovate these underground palaces of the people, and make sure that as many as possible can survive the initial wave of destruction. (600, one year per level)
Factory Bunkers [Labor]: Our industrial capacity cannot survive without its educated workforce, and the latter would be most distressed if we paid no attention to their survival. To keep them motivated, and possibly alive, we can begin to construct discrete bunker complexes near the major industrial sites of each province, making sure to incorporate them into the ongoing emergency drill regime. Each level of investment will secure the workforce of around a dozen factories for at least a decade after their bombardment, and longer if only a portion makes it to the shelters in time. (450, 9 months per level)
Recycling Centers: The People's ingenuity can only take them so far in the fight against waste. We must make an active investment into the reuse of consumer commodities, preventing their inert accumulation in our urban landfills. By 'recycling' these items into new products, we can preserve our virgin materials for more strategic purposes. (400, one year)
Hermetic Metro Systems: The superiority of socialist urbanism is proven by our robust public transport systems, which facilitate the movement of the masses without the wasteful, polluting methods of the car-addled Americans. How great it would be if these systems could also prove our salvation in times of nuclear crisis! This is exactly the case with our urban metro network, which are already sufficiently buried to make for good shelters. And if we can seal them against the poisonous post-nuclear environment, they would be even better. (900, eighteen months)
Model Communes: If there is one thing that should survive a war with the imperialists, it is the People's Way of Life. In order to preserve that, we should endeavor to establish ideal, self-sufficient villages across the nation, expressing both their cultural peculiarities and the universal appeal of socialism. These model towns would require model workers to inhabit them, but those shouldn't be too hard to find. (700, one year per level, each level builds around 3-5 towns)
Ministry University: Most major ministries are affiliated with one university or another, and even the party has its own schools. In order to raise the next generation of preparedness officials (if there is to be one), we would do well to get an academy of our own. This would also become a center for our larger research effort, making the latter a lot easier. (1000, one year, can only be built once)
Korean Mining Investments [Fraternal]: Ever since its founding, the DPRK has relied on its considerable mineral wealth, and this has changed little after reunification. By investing in this sector, we can import important resources for our own industrial efforts, and learn about advanced mining procedures in the process. (800, six months per level)
Siberian Labor Colonies [Fraternal]: The Soviet justice system has perennially relied on a strategy of resettlement for its criminal element. Our Siberian client has inherited this policy, and even expanded on it as a way of dealing with its own unreliable population. These pseudo-penal settlements are a potent site for government investment, as they could each be dedicated to a different section of the light industry sector. Since the recent innovations in Russian robotics also derive from such settlements, Minister Zhang has personally encouraged us to assist our northern comrades. (500, six months per level)
Research (600-85)
Unused resources will carry over into the next turn.Institute for Radiation Medicine: One of the most pressing research needs is a deeper understanding of what radiation does to the human body. If its toxic influence can be managed, even cured, then surviving the Century of Annihilation becomes a lot easier. And by dedicating an entire research institute to this mission, we can accelerate the pace at which results come our way. (700, 100 ongoing, eighteen months)
Institute for Radiation Biology: Even if the human being can learn to secure itself against radiation, the natural environment won't be so lucky. The nation's various ecosystems are sure to be overwhelmed by the mutagenic effects of nuclear fallout, and there is no telling what the results of such a process might be. To control for such manifest uncertainties, we should establish a specialized research institute, where pioneering biologists can try and bolster our precious plants and animals against the radioactive horizon. (600, 80 ongoing, eighteen months)
Shelter Longevity Research: No shelter can last forever, and our current designs don't last long at all. If any part of the Chinese people is to survive, then we need to make some important strides in the fields of hermetic sealing, atmospheric filtration, and water recycling. With the proper degree of innovation, we can turn our existing installations into true Bunkers of the People. (500, 100 ongoing, one year)
Ultra-Preservatives: In time, everything rots, including the food in our shelters. The longer we can make it last, though, the longer its inhabitants can survive. Ironically, radiation might be a good candidate for enhancing the longevity of foodstuffs, but we'll still need to experiment with it to see if there are any negative side effects. (400, 50 ongoing, one year)
Auxiliary Robotics Applications: As part of backing us on the State Council Commission, Minister Zhang Lifeng wants us to work on his pet robotics project. Although Minister Ren hates the idea, the deployment of android assistants could lessen the burden on our personnel, to say nothing of the economy as a whole. Let's start by iterating on the established designs, and see how they might be specialized. 800, 120 ongoing, eighteen months)
Korean Electronics Investments [Fraternal]: When the southern parts of Korea were finally liberated, the Democratic People's Republic inherited a deeply capitalist infrastructure, reflecting a society that was ruled by a handful of corporate oligarchs. While the oligarchs and their companies have since been liquidated, the new people's dictatorship has lacked the means to properly operate the acquired research departments. By funding these in their stead, we can build up a strong degree of technological expertise by proxy, a development which will surely improve our own efforts in the field of advanced electronics. (400, 80 ongoing, eighteen months)
Siberian Oil Exploration [Fraternal]: While the Party would never admit it, our recent intervention in the Soviet succession crisis was at least partly motivated by the USSR's abundant petrochemical resources. However, despite the ensconcement of our legitimist allies in oil-rich Siberia, the subsequent increase in fossil fuel supply has still proven insufficient to our needs. We must therefore sponsor an aggressive program of oil and gas exploration in the region, including a focus on more unconventional or marginal deposits. The only alternative is a further deepening of our energy crisis. (450, 60 ongoing, one year)
Mobilization (500+200)
Unused resources will carry over into the next turn.Designate Safe Zones: The immediate aftermath of an atomic exchange is sure to involve a great deal of movement, as those who can't shelter locally head for areas that are perceived to be safer. Often, such areas are not safe at all. By incorporating the ones which are into our official wartime evacuation plans, we can make sure that a lot more people survive the first few weeks of fallout. (400)
Shock Labor Battalions [Labor]: Despite our adherence to a policy of full employment, there are always at least a few million 'inactive' workers among our ranks. They can be graduates who have yet to be assigned, farmers who aren't sowing or reaping, or industrial workers whose enterprise has been liquidated for underperformance. Whoever they are, their labor can and should be utilized. By deploying them towards a construction project affiliated with our ministry, we can make its completion go that much faster. (200, discounts the cost of a single construction project by a quarter, or its construction time by half. Can only be taken once per turn)
Move Industry to the Interior [Labor]: As in the original Third Front Campaign, the best way to keep our industrial base from being bombed is to move it. While physical distance from our enemy makes less of a difference than it used to back then, it will still be harder to bomb our factories if they are sufficiently spread out. (500, specify regions)
Ideological Aptitude Tests: In hindsight, it might not have been the best call to give the Red Guards full control over the People's Weapons Caches. Even their conservative elements have come to realize this, and are now moving to install even the slightest safeguards into the popular militia mobilization process. Their current proposal would create a basic exam to measure the political correctness of the masses, and see if they are fit to take up arms on behalf of the People's Democratic Dictatorship. (400)
Every Park A Farm: Feeding the urban population will get harder as the present energy crisis deepens. To make up for it, we should encourage the proletariat to take to the local soil, and turn every bit of empty urban space into a food garden. Since many of them have a peasant background, and seeds can be made available from the reserves, this should be an easy campaign. (700)
Latin American Solidarity Fund [Fraternal]: The fraternal peoples of Cuba and Nicaragua live under constant threat of American invasion, and are materially dependent on the meager flow of resources we can afford to send them. To bolster these outposts of socialism, and take some stress off the state budget, we can encourage the people to donate some of their own funds and possessions to a dedicated donation reserve, which will be sent out across the Pacific whenever the requisite ships are available. (600)
Vietnamese Militia Exchange [Fraternal]: The Vietnamese struggle against imperialism has been almost as formidable as our own. It was only a few decades ago that they managed to expel the last vestiges of the southern comprador regime from their territory, and their recovery has been complicated by constant American sabotage. In the process, though, Vietnam's popular defense forces have learned many lessons in the fields of insurgency, counter-insurgence, and general preparedness. By exchanging some of their finest officers with our own, we can dialectically synthesize our collective insights, and so deepen the bonds of socialist fraternity. (300)
Politics (3)
Request More Funding: If the budgeted resources prove insufficient, we can always ask for more. Any disruption to the existing plan would be bothersome, but with a bit of political wrangling, some discretionary funds could be made available. (DC 40) (Moderate Political Cost)Transfer Resources between Departments: The current departments are quite specialized, meaning that any transfer of resources between them could prove difficult and inefficient. Still, if there is a pressing need for such funds in one particular area, we may have to attempt it nevertheless. (DC 30)
Zhang's Gamble: The Ministry of Energy has long been the fiefdom of the so-called "Oil Gang", officials who derive their political influence from their proximity to the petrochemical industry. Besides their obvious corruption, they have also been accused of stymieing the nation's transition to alternative energy sources. This alone has made Zhang Lifeng want to unseat them for the longest time. Given the current nadir in the energy sector, now would be the perfect time for him to strike, using his position on the National Energy Commission to suborn the ministry entirely. This is still a massively risky maneuver, naturally, and so he has called for our aid. If we emphasize the strategic importance of the energy industry, and the need for new developments therein, Zhang's argument would be all the stronger. That said, this would also see us move against one of our major partners, and our failure would not be pleasant for anyone. (DC 90) (Major Political Cost) (Time-limited)
Industrial Decentralization Policy: Our efforts will inevitably involve a lot of industrial relocation. To make this work a little easier, we could be proactive in preventing the further concentration of our strategic industries. While it would take a lot of influence to shift the policy of the State Planning Commission, this change must be instituted sooner rather than later. (DC 80) (Major Political Cost)
Requisition Construction Factories: The more factories at our disposal, the more projects we'll be able to complete. The other ministries might not enjoy our appropriations, but then again, they are not working towards the Survival of Socialism For All Time. With the right maneuvers, all they'll be able to do is grumble about it. (DC 50) (Moderate Political Cost)
Requisition Laboratories: Our academicians are a strategic resource all their own, and are constantly competed over by the nation's various research institutes. If we want to acquire more of them ourselves, then we need the requisite laboratories to house them. Luckily, through the use of our political influence, we can appropriate these from the other ministries. Our research is more important, after all. (DC 50) (Minor Political Cost)
Expand Our Coordinating Capacity: Our partnerships with the other ministries and party organizations are vital to pursuing our projects, both in the resources they afford us and in the research they give us access. It may therefore be worth it to expand the amount of joint projects we are committed to, even if this will require us to expand our bureaucratic throughput as well. (Automatic)
Add A Priority Province: Our ministry lacks the resources to attend to every part of the country, leading to the selection of several 'priority provinces'. If our funding improves, however, we can consider adding more areas for investment. This will probably produce considerable competition among local officials, which itself could be a path to further resources. Such is the unfortunate reality of party-state politics. (Automatic)
Set a Ministerial Labor Standard: As a government ministry, it is our prerogative to oversee the labor relations within our departments and workplaces. While we still need to abide by the center's own edicts, there is a degree of leeway in how we distribute bonuses and direct the cadres. Much of this policy setting is admittedly a question of norms rather than laws, but if the trunk of the tree sets a good example, then surely the branches will follow. (Quality die determines policy extent)
Albanian Expedition [Fraternal]: When the EC and UAR had their atomic exchange, one nation stood firm amidst the chaos. No, not Yugoslavia, that hive of rightist revisionism. Rather, it was Albania, still guided by the forthright principles of Enver Hoxha Thought. Since then, however, we have heard frightfully little from this bastion of European socialism; even their ambassador has lost all contact with her country of origin. If we encourage the PLA to organize an expedition to Albania, we can learn more about its present troubles, and about how the nation has managed its proximity to an atomic exclusion zone. (DC 60)
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TheInnerMoon
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As usual, although there is no moratorium on voting, try to make a few plans before doing so. And if there's anything obvious missing in my administration of the turn, be sure to let me know. Other than that, happy planning!
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We probably need the Siberian fuel to help the energy crunch, right? And as expensive as it is sounds like the university might be a good idea before too long.