Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
More like "Oh Fuck, we need to get things squared away now!"
Digging for Nations in the Desert (No SV, You are a Micronation in the End of the World)
- Thread starter Magoose
- Start date
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Turn 11: Let There Be Power!
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Turn 11: Let There Be Power!
-[X]Balance the Powers: You know for a damn certain fact that there is going to be a war coming your way, and now is the time to see if you can't stop these idiots from killing themselves over little old you. (Cost 3 Control) Rolled: D100 + 30 => 52
It wasn't that simple, but in the end, those idiots managed to not only have a nice diplomatic chat but only threatened to kill you once and bomb you to the stone age twice.
After you had shown how little things like bombs and threats from people more powerful than you, lost their effect ages ago.
And after you showed how utterly incompetent they were… well, let's just say that they started begging to stop.
Reward: You managed to get them to at least pause, enough for you to truly fuck them as they should.
The Aftermath was glorious.
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-[X]Offer Humanitarian Observers: The UN Observers are here. Time to give them the Grand Tour (Cost 2 Control) Rolled:D100 + 30 => 113+D100 + 30 => 112+D100 + 30 => 110+D100 + 30 => 72=407
Secretary Abdelaziz Bouteflika felt warm, but not nearly as warm as the hundreds that were prepared and huddled at the camp set up by the Mercenaries of… Outer Heaven, he preferred calling it the English name for simplicity's sake, as many of the… members were not exactly fond of it's full, grandiose title that it's leader had.
But he could only be in awe as he saw the organization, not only in the safety and security of the camps but also in many of the ways supplies were organized and handled, not only with grace and care but also in the manner that it arrived.
Helicopters from nations with volunteers, coming from Ethiopia and Yemen, came and went every half hour, their supplies were counted, organized and out in less than an hour.
He had never seen such efficiency, not even in the UN's own peacekeeping operations.
He looked at Lei Mei, and asked. "Why do you do this?"
"Good reviews mean good pay." She stated. "We're mercenaries, not monsters."
And those words struck him deep.
Reward: THe UN is considering bringing on anyone who worked on this crisis for a substantial fee to help and commit to peacekeeping operations around the world.
You prove to the World you are not monsters.
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-[X]Finding Common Ground: You want to find some nations that will not kill you given the chance.(Cost 3 Control) Rolled:D100 + 30 => 88
You had met with Saudi Arabia, who was very keen and interested to make friends with you.
It was fruitful, but you feared that the way he spoke to advisors made you fear he had other plans, and he wanted to do more than just be friends with you.
Reward: You think that there is something going on.
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-[X]That One Security Mission: So you have a simple mission, go to China and Protect a Hong Kong national that is trying to escape. What can go wrong? (Cost 4 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 158+D100 + 60 => 131+D100 + 60 => 134+D100 + 60 => 156+D100 + 60 => 101+D100 + 60 => 123+D100 + 60 => 99+D100 + 60 => 120+D100 + 60 => 130+D100 + 60 => 112+D100 + 60 => 75= 1339
You only had one thing to say to these fuckers.
You were never going to let them live this humiliation down.
(Continued in Interlude: Li Mei, Makes a Huge Statement)
-[X]THIS ENDS NOW! (Egypt): You are not in the mood for a pisspoor neighbor, run by idiots! You are going to end this civil war, and then you are going to get drunk. (Cost 4 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 118+D100 + 60 => 118+D100 + 60 => 88=324
-[X]THIS ENDS NOW! (Sudan!): You are not in the mood for a pisspoor neighbor, run by idiots! You are going to end this civil war, and then you are going to get drunk.(Cost 4 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 96+D100 + 60 => 133+D100 + 60 => 105+D100 + 60 => 95+D100 + 60 => 87=516
Reward: The Wars End, and there is much to rebuild.
-[X]Peacekeeping the Peacekeepers: You don't trust the Americans. So you're going to keep their peacekeeping operations to your standards. (Cost 7 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 158+D100 + 60 => 127+D100 + 60 => 104+D100 + 60 => 156+D100 + 60 => 120+D100 + 60 => 133+D100 + 60 => 140+D100 + 60 => 158+D100 + 60 => 140+D100 + 60 => 152+D100 + 60 => 157+D100 + 60 => 142+D100 + 60 => 64=1241
-[X]Dissuading an Invasion (Russia) So…You are going to invade your little home with that? Fuck em, let them come, let them die! (Cost 10 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 160+D100 + 60 => 145+D100 + 60 => 112+D100 + 60 => 146+D100 + 60 => 108+D100 + 60 => 118+D100 + 60 => 137+D100 + 60 => 106+D100 + 60 => 122+D100 + 60 => 70=1077
-[X]Dissuading and Invasion (China): Hi China… Bye China! Hope the Door doesn't kick your ass on the way out! (Cost 10 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 155+D100 + 60 => 159+D100 + 60 => 154+D100 + 60 => 71=539
You only looked to the Superpowers ambassadors that were standing before you. "Gentlemen, do you believe in a world without nukes?"
You then smiled. "Because I will say this, if you do not comply with my demands and reasonable offers, I will make sure there will be no nuclear weapons anywhere. Except exploded in your silos?"
(Continued in Interlude: Li Mei, Makes a Huge Statement)
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-[X]A True Hospital?: You need to build a building that can be a real hospital for the men? (Cost 9 Control) Rolled:D100 + 30 => 127+D100 + 30 => 126+D100 + 30 => 109+D100 + 30 => 123+D100 + 30 => 42=527
Wait, you're telling me that you found out how to build a hospital, in a bomb shelter, out of scrap, and tableware…
And then there was just another way of building.
You leave for two weeks and they build a fully functioning hospital, not even that, it was a state-of-the-art hospital.
How?
They were Board and wanted to give you a gift? What the Hell?
Reward: Health Services set to Meh!
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-[X]Census Time: You need a census of who actually lives here? (Cost 2 Control) Rolled:D100 + 30 => 127+D100 + 30 => 112+D100 + 30 => 128+D100 + 30 => 113+D100 + 30 => 90=570
How many people live in this shithole?
Well…
40,233 Permanent residents. All of them wish to be formal citizens of Outer Heaven.
Reward: You have what is functionally a small city living within your borders.
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-[X]Keep Developing Sustenance Agriculture: Well the Desert isn't the best place to farm, but it is a start? (Cost 5 Control) Rolled:D100 + 30 => 72
Well it didn't go as well as you suspected, mostly because there was a problem. Despite having water, and the desert slowly becoming a hospitable paradise, there was just a small problem.
You were running out of land. So you decided to think smarter, not harder.
Building upward to several, greenhouse-covered platforms with the water with pumps and pulleys.
In the end, the way of building up, was perfect.
Reward: Agriculture is improving slightly, but due to lacking infrastructure, it cannot be improved further.
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-[X]Digging Deeper: You need to find out if there is a way to get to that oil without poisoning one of the largest sources of fresh water on the planet. (Cost 5 Control)
--[X]To be clear we're aborting if this looks like it'll fuck up the water, right? That is absolutely the priority here Rolled:D100 + 30 => 130+D100 + 30 => 89=219
-[X]Create something New(Industry) Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]Try to improve our digging/extraction abilities. We've got water to surface, that oil to extract, and even something below that? This is a toolset we are gonna use a lot. Rolled:D100 + 40 => 48
Well, it didn't go horribly wrong.
But it almost did.
The Men who were in charge of the drilling said that the problem that they were having, not only in protecting the drinking water, and the Nile, was the bedrock that was protecting the oil. It was solid limestone, and while it would take time to get through with the drills you had, they would require new diamond heads that could be produced elsewhere.
From Russia and America.
Well, it could be worse.
Reward: You just barely stopped catastrophe, but you need new… well everything to get to oil.
At least nothing fucked up happened.
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-[X]Land Development and other signs of Civilization: Maybe you can make infrastructure, and roads that will make things. (Cost 1 Control)Rolled: D100 + 30 => 96+D100 + 30 => 46=142
To say that your infrastructure improved after your vacation was a vast understatement.
These people were building roads, lamp posts, lighting, irrigation, hell even an airport in less than a few weeks?
They were just mad, and because you didn't really have any laws about construction, besides sticking to sectors and not fucking everything up for everyone else, and trying to keep everyone from not dying in accidents by being very very thorough in inspections.
So no one died, and you have better infrastructure than your neighbors?
Hm… Well, when there is money to be made, well… dammit.
Reward: Infrastructure set to Good.
The civilian sector of the airport is now operational, now you can start chartering flights from other nations.
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-[X]Design a New Gun: You want a new gun designed by you. Perhaps one that can stand up to the test of time. (Cost 2 Control)
--[X]Do rocket launchers count as a gun? It's kinda like a really big gun, right? Rolled: Rolled: D100 + 40 => 122+D100 + 40 => 99+D100 + 40 => 96+D100 + 40 => 67=384
-[X]Create something New(Military): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]Something to shoot down enemy aircraft/missiles. We've got the Steves on a fancy computer, maybe it can give us firing solutions, but either way if the Second World decides to bomb us into the stone age I'd like to have some recourse. Rolled:D100 + 40 => 103+D100 + 40 => 95+ D100 + 40 => 124+D100 + 40 => 121+D100 + 40 => 49=492
You looked at Steve who was smiling like a little gremlin, trying to hide his excitement. "What did you do?" You asked.
"Well I was trying to find something that could be useful for our computer system out in the field, and I saw one of the Rockets that you had, well one of the launchers, and came up with an idea." Steve, you didn't know which one it was, then revealed a laser pointer attached to the rocket launcher. "See when we decided to make the computer, we felt a need to expand on its purposes in the field besides the basic usage. So the laser pointer guides the missile after it fires, and if attached to the launcher…"
"It can be a man-portable laser-guided missile, like on aircraft?" You smiled. "That's genius?!"
"Well not exactly, see during our testing, we found out that the rocket has a limited range of about half a mile. We tried to extend it using other possible rockets, but there is a problem… well the missile that could possibly extend the range doesn't exist."
And we have to get up close in personal. "So what do you call it?"
Steve smiled. "We would have called it the Apple Launcher, but Steve found it stupid, and it didn't fit. So we called it something more appropriate."
You picked it up and shouldered it. "We call it the Hornet."
Reward: Design made: The Hornet (MANPADS) Launcher has been designed.
Production can begin.
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-[X]Copy another Design: When they say that you were mad, well they do say that plagiarism is the (Cost 1 Control)
--[X] We have a bunch of rifles and ammo, presumably whatever type it is is common around here, and worth understanding. If our neighbors are gonna start shit with us even after our attempts at putting out those fires we are going to see a lot more of those guns. Rolled:D100 + 40 => 114+D100 + 40 => 137+D100 + 40 => 121+D100 + 40 => 78=450
"It looks like an FN-FAL?" You said as you looked at the rifle.
"Not exactly, we saw the lacking of the design and saw that it could use a bit of… modification for a modern battlefield, and while the barrel is the only thing that is the same, I guarantee you it is not a FAL."
"This puppy uses the new NATO standard 5.56 round, meaning the barrel can be shortened and the magazine expanded to over 30 rounds, with the magazine using the standard design of the M-16. The barrel itself is shorter to reduce recoil, and the stock is made of a more polymer frame, for ease of manufacturing in our current predicament. The receiver follows the design of the M-16 and the FAL, with select-fire."
"You just made an m-16 with a FAL Barrel." You said. Not impressed.
"Well actually, take a look at it."
You'll be damned. It was different…
"Good."
Reward: "Created" The MARS (Multi-Purpose Assult Rifle System) 1
-[X]Create something new (Agriculture): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X] We've got our work cut out for us trying to reshape the desert, even with all that water. Something to improve the feasibility of that. Rolled:D100 + 40 => 42
Well, you discovered something in the past. The Ancient Egyptians that lived here used a section of irrigation and some type of seeding during the winter season.
The problem is, that the climate in that era was much wetter.
Reward: YOu have something to make it better, but not much, without changing the weather.
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-[X]Science the Shit out of Something: Who said that science was something that would be the death of you. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]If we're pumping up water, and eventually oil, could we build down as well as up? Rolled:D100 + 40 => 72
The answer was maybe.
"See if there is something about the ground we are on that makes it perfect for building bunkers. There is granite and limestone, we think this is one of the sources for the bunkers we can make underneath the city. Including the possibility of making a local subway system."
"But?" You asked.
"The problem is that there is oil at the level that we want to use. We would need to drill it and reinforce it until it was safe. And we can't get the oil right now."
Reward: You can possibly build down, you just need to… get some more oil out of the ground to do it.
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-[X]Building a Chip Factory: The Boys at Apple need some microprocessors. You can build them a place where they can make some. (Cost 5 Control) Rolled:D100 + 40 => 130+D100 + 40 => 130+D100 + 40 => 136+D100 + 40 => 128+D100 + 40 => 50=574
Well you gave the boys land, equipment and the extra money to hire people to build their micro proecessors.
You didn't expect them to get industrial in just a few weeks.
"So what did you two do?"
"Well there was some equipment that you brought that we repurposed, and there was also the bountiful mineral wealth that we were finally able to process due to a few… tricks we used with some rockets."
"Like?" You asked.
"Have you ever used the backblast of a rocket to separate heavy and light material?" Steve said. "Facinating stuff, a little inefficient, but it did give ideas?"
"How did you two get your hands on a rocket launcher?" You asked.
"Well besides making a MANPAD?" Jobs started.
"We were trying to find a way to do something cool and we were frustrated with the lack of progress, then we fired a dud on the range and the idea came to us." Wozniak stated.
Holdy fuck.
"Gentlemen, thank you."
Reward: Microprocessor/ Computer Industry now set to Good.
The Wealth of your nation increases twentyfold.
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-[X]Apple Computers, Mercenary Edition: You are going to ask those boys to do something incredible, make a PC for military use, that can survive anything. Hope that works.(Cost 10 Control) Rolled: D100 + 40 => 84
Well, the first computer was absolute shit. Steve, both of them even said if they hadn't worked on your little request it would have been a far better product.
But it worked? So hey they could continue development.
Reward: Prototype for Apple computer made, more work is needed for it to work.
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-[X] Li Mei - (RP)
--[X]See if we have any good generals around. Organizing a mercenary team for a job is one thing, coordinating thousands for a single war is perhaps another. Rolled: D100 + 10 => 29
There are no generals among mercenaries, besides you of course.
They left the militaries to be without generals, not be them?
Fuck them.
Failure.
--[X]Hang out with Mike and Dave, they're clearly resourceful guys who are worth picking the brains of. Try to get a feel for how everyone's doing while we're at it. Rolled:D100 + 10 => 37
Mike is off doing a job, and Dave said that things aren't going well.
The UK was about to arrest him for treason.
Failure.
--[X]What's all this about ominous stuff below us? Someone has to know what's going on, and it's better to find out before we dig it up. Rolled:D100 + 10 => 86
"So… what did we find?" You asked.
"Um… Do you believe that there are missing nukes around the world?"
"No."
"Because that is a nuke…" Vasily stated. "Who's missing one?"
(Continued in: Blackmail.)
AN: enjoy.
-[X]Balance the Powers: You know for a damn certain fact that there is going to be a war coming your way, and now is the time to see if you can't stop these idiots from killing themselves over little old you. (Cost 3 Control) Rolled: D100 + 30 => 52
It wasn't that simple, but in the end, those idiots managed to not only have a nice diplomatic chat but only threatened to kill you once and bomb you to the stone age twice.
After you had shown how little things like bombs and threats from people more powerful than you, lost their effect ages ago.
And after you showed how utterly incompetent they were… well, let's just say that they started begging to stop.
Reward: You managed to get them to at least pause, enough for you to truly fuck them as they should.
The Aftermath was glorious.
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-[X]Offer Humanitarian Observers: The UN Observers are here. Time to give them the Grand Tour (Cost 2 Control) Rolled:D100 + 30 => 113+D100 + 30 => 112+D100 + 30 => 110+D100 + 30 => 72=407
Secretary Abdelaziz Bouteflika felt warm, but not nearly as warm as the hundreds that were prepared and huddled at the camp set up by the Mercenaries of… Outer Heaven, he preferred calling it the English name for simplicity's sake, as many of the… members were not exactly fond of it's full, grandiose title that it's leader had.
But he could only be in awe as he saw the organization, not only in the safety and security of the camps but also in many of the ways supplies were organized and handled, not only with grace and care but also in the manner that it arrived.
Helicopters from nations with volunteers, coming from Ethiopia and Yemen, came and went every half hour, their supplies were counted, organized and out in less than an hour.
He had never seen such efficiency, not even in the UN's own peacekeeping operations.
He looked at Lei Mei, and asked. "Why do you do this?"
"Good reviews mean good pay." She stated. "We're mercenaries, not monsters."
And those words struck him deep.
Reward: THe UN is considering bringing on anyone who worked on this crisis for a substantial fee to help and commit to peacekeeping operations around the world.
You prove to the World you are not monsters.
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-[X]Finding Common Ground: You want to find some nations that will not kill you given the chance.(Cost 3 Control) Rolled:D100 + 30 => 88
You had met with Saudi Arabia, who was very keen and interested to make friends with you.
It was fruitful, but you feared that the way he spoke to advisors made you fear he had other plans, and he wanted to do more than just be friends with you.
Reward: You think that there is something going on.
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-[X]That One Security Mission: So you have a simple mission, go to China and Protect a Hong Kong national that is trying to escape. What can go wrong? (Cost 4 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 158+D100 + 60 => 131+D100 + 60 => 134+D100 + 60 => 156+D100 + 60 => 101+D100 + 60 => 123+D100 + 60 => 99+D100 + 60 => 120+D100 + 60 => 130+D100 + 60 => 112+D100 + 60 => 75= 1339
You only had one thing to say to these fuckers.
You were never going to let them live this humiliation down.
(Continued in Interlude: Li Mei, Makes a Huge Statement)
-[X]THIS ENDS NOW! (Egypt): You are not in the mood for a pisspoor neighbor, run by idiots! You are going to end this civil war, and then you are going to get drunk. (Cost 4 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 118+D100 + 60 => 118+D100 + 60 => 88=324
-[X]THIS ENDS NOW! (Sudan!): You are not in the mood for a pisspoor neighbor, run by idiots! You are going to end this civil war, and then you are going to get drunk.(Cost 4 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 96+D100 + 60 => 133+D100 + 60 => 105+D100 + 60 => 95+D100 + 60 => 87=516
This message is for all the Rebels and Islamists that are fighting. This is your one and only warning.
My men are about to roll right on in and kill you all. There will be no mercy, there be no quarter. I am not interested in politics, your grievances, or Islam.
I care about the peace and stability of Egypt and Sudan. I care about its citizens that are dying now, and suffering from your stupidity.
This war will end with me killing you all, and shattering your nations into the wind like you were naught but a glass.
You have 24 hours to comply with this message. If you continue, you will all die.
The message was clear.
And in the end, they listened.
My men are about to roll right on in and kill you all. There will be no mercy, there be no quarter. I am not interested in politics, your grievances, or Islam.
I care about the peace and stability of Egypt and Sudan. I care about its citizens that are dying now, and suffering from your stupidity.
This war will end with me killing you all, and shattering your nations into the wind like you were naught but a glass.
You have 24 hours to comply with this message. If you continue, you will all die.
The message was clear.
And in the end, they listened.
Reward: The Wars End, and there is much to rebuild.
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-[X]Peacekeeping the Peacekeepers: You don't trust the Americans. So you're going to keep their peacekeeping operations to your standards. (Cost 7 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 158+D100 + 60 => 127+D100 + 60 => 104+D100 + 60 => 156+D100 + 60 => 120+D100 + 60 => 133+D100 + 60 => 140+D100 + 60 => 158+D100 + 60 => 140+D100 + 60 => 152+D100 + 60 => 157+D100 + 60 => 142+D100 + 60 => 64=1241
-[X]Dissuading an Invasion (Russia) So…You are going to invade your little home with that? Fuck em, let them come, let them die! (Cost 10 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 160+D100 + 60 => 145+D100 + 60 => 112+D100 + 60 => 146+D100 + 60 => 108+D100 + 60 => 118+D100 + 60 => 137+D100 + 60 => 106+D100 + 60 => 122+D100 + 60 => 70=1077
-[X]Dissuading and Invasion (China): Hi China… Bye China! Hope the Door doesn't kick your ass on the way out! (Cost 10 Control) Rolled:D100 + 60 => 155+D100 + 60 => 159+D100 + 60 => 154+D100 + 60 => 71=539
You only looked to the Superpowers ambassadors that were standing before you. "Gentlemen, do you believe in a world without nukes?"
You then smiled. "Because I will say this, if you do not comply with my demands and reasonable offers, I will make sure there will be no nuclear weapons anywhere. Except exploded in your silos?"
(Continued in Interlude: Li Mei, Makes a Huge Statement)
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-[X]A True Hospital?: You need to build a building that can be a real hospital for the men? (Cost 9 Control) Rolled:D100 + 30 => 127+D100 + 30 => 126+D100 + 30 => 109+D100 + 30 => 123+D100 + 30 => 42=527
Wait, you're telling me that you found out how to build a hospital, in a bomb shelter, out of scrap, and tableware…
And then there was just another way of building.
You leave for two weeks and they build a fully functioning hospital, not even that, it was a state-of-the-art hospital.
How?
They were Board and wanted to give you a gift? What the Hell?
Reward: Health Services set to Meh!
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-[X]Census Time: You need a census of who actually lives here? (Cost 2 Control) Rolled:D100 + 30 => 127+D100 + 30 => 112+D100 + 30 => 128+D100 + 30 => 113+D100 + 30 => 90=570
How many people live in this shithole?
Well…
40,233 Permanent residents. All of them wish to be formal citizens of Outer Heaven.
Reward: You have what is functionally a small city living within your borders.
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-[X]Keep Developing Sustenance Agriculture: Well the Desert isn't the best place to farm, but it is a start? (Cost 5 Control) Rolled:D100 + 30 => 72
Well it didn't go as well as you suspected, mostly because there was a problem. Despite having water, and the desert slowly becoming a hospitable paradise, there was just a small problem.
You were running out of land. So you decided to think smarter, not harder.
Building upward to several, greenhouse-covered platforms with the water with pumps and pulleys.
In the end, the way of building up, was perfect.
Reward: Agriculture is improving slightly, but due to lacking infrastructure, it cannot be improved further.
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-[X]Digging Deeper: You need to find out if there is a way to get to that oil without poisoning one of the largest sources of fresh water on the planet. (Cost 5 Control)
--[X]To be clear we're aborting if this looks like it'll fuck up the water, right? That is absolutely the priority here Rolled:D100 + 30 => 130+D100 + 30 => 89=219
-[X]Create something New(Industry) Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]Try to improve our digging/extraction abilities. We've got water to surface, that oil to extract, and even something below that? This is a toolset we are gonna use a lot. Rolled:D100 + 40 => 48
Well, it didn't go horribly wrong.
But it almost did.
The Men who were in charge of the drilling said that the problem that they were having, not only in protecting the drinking water, and the Nile, was the bedrock that was protecting the oil. It was solid limestone, and while it would take time to get through with the drills you had, they would require new diamond heads that could be produced elsewhere.
From Russia and America.
Well, it could be worse.
Reward: You just barely stopped catastrophe, but you need new… well everything to get to oil.
At least nothing fucked up happened.
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-[X]Land Development and other signs of Civilization: Maybe you can make infrastructure, and roads that will make things. (Cost 1 Control)Rolled: D100 + 30 => 96+D100 + 30 => 46=142
To say that your infrastructure improved after your vacation was a vast understatement.
These people were building roads, lamp posts, lighting, irrigation, hell even an airport in less than a few weeks?
They were just mad, and because you didn't really have any laws about construction, besides sticking to sectors and not fucking everything up for everyone else, and trying to keep everyone from not dying in accidents by being very very thorough in inspections.
So no one died, and you have better infrastructure than your neighbors?
Hm… Well, when there is money to be made, well… dammit.
Reward: Infrastructure set to Good.
The civilian sector of the airport is now operational, now you can start chartering flights from other nations.
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-[X]Design a New Gun: You want a new gun designed by you. Perhaps one that can stand up to the test of time. (Cost 2 Control)
--[X]Do rocket launchers count as a gun? It's kinda like a really big gun, right? Rolled: Rolled: D100 + 40 => 122+D100 + 40 => 99+D100 + 40 => 96+D100 + 40 => 67=384
-[X]Create something New(Military): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]Something to shoot down enemy aircraft/missiles. We've got the Steves on a fancy computer, maybe it can give us firing solutions, but either way if the Second World decides to bomb us into the stone age I'd like to have some recourse. Rolled:D100 + 40 => 103+D100 + 40 => 95+ D100 + 40 => 124+D100 + 40 => 121+D100 + 40 => 49=492
You looked at Steve who was smiling like a little gremlin, trying to hide his excitement. "What did you do?" You asked.
"Well I was trying to find something that could be useful for our computer system out in the field, and I saw one of the Rockets that you had, well one of the launchers, and came up with an idea." Steve, you didn't know which one it was, then revealed a laser pointer attached to the rocket launcher. "See when we decided to make the computer, we felt a need to expand on its purposes in the field besides the basic usage. So the laser pointer guides the missile after it fires, and if attached to the launcher…"
"It can be a man-portable laser-guided missile, like on aircraft?" You smiled. "That's genius?!"
"Well not exactly, see during our testing, we found out that the rocket has a limited range of about half a mile. We tried to extend it using other possible rockets, but there is a problem… well the missile that could possibly extend the range doesn't exist."
And we have to get up close in personal. "So what do you call it?"
Steve smiled. "We would have called it the Apple Launcher, but Steve found it stupid, and it didn't fit. So we called it something more appropriate."
You picked it up and shouldered it. "We call it the Hornet."
Reward: Design made: The Hornet (MANPADS) Launcher has been designed.
Production can begin.
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-[X]Copy another Design: When they say that you were mad, well they do say that plagiarism is the (Cost 1 Control)
--[X] We have a bunch of rifles and ammo, presumably whatever type it is is common around here, and worth understanding. If our neighbors are gonna start shit with us even after our attempts at putting out those fires we are going to see a lot more of those guns. Rolled:D100 + 40 => 114+D100 + 40 => 137+D100 + 40 => 121+D100 + 40 => 78=450
"It looks like an FN-FAL?" You said as you looked at the rifle.
"Not exactly, we saw the lacking of the design and saw that it could use a bit of… modification for a modern battlefield, and while the barrel is the only thing that is the same, I guarantee you it is not a FAL."
"This puppy uses the new NATO standard 5.56 round, meaning the barrel can be shortened and the magazine expanded to over 30 rounds, with the magazine using the standard design of the M-16. The barrel itself is shorter to reduce recoil, and the stock is made of a more polymer frame, for ease of manufacturing in our current predicament. The receiver follows the design of the M-16 and the FAL, with select-fire."
"You just made an m-16 with a FAL Barrel." You said. Not impressed.
"Well actually, take a look at it."
You'll be damned. It was different…
"Good."
Reward: "Created" The MARS (Multi-Purpose Assult Rifle System) 1
-[X]Create something new (Agriculture): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X] We've got our work cut out for us trying to reshape the desert, even with all that water. Something to improve the feasibility of that. Rolled:D100 + 40 => 42
Well, you discovered something in the past. The Ancient Egyptians that lived here used a section of irrigation and some type of seeding during the winter season.
The problem is, that the climate in that era was much wetter.
Reward: YOu have something to make it better, but not much, without changing the weather.
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-[X]Science the Shit out of Something: Who said that science was something that would be the death of you. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]If we're pumping up water, and eventually oil, could we build down as well as up? Rolled:D100 + 40 => 72
The answer was maybe.
"See if there is something about the ground we are on that makes it perfect for building bunkers. There is granite and limestone, we think this is one of the sources for the bunkers we can make underneath the city. Including the possibility of making a local subway system."
"But?" You asked.
"The problem is that there is oil at the level that we want to use. We would need to drill it and reinforce it until it was safe. And we can't get the oil right now."
Reward: You can possibly build down, you just need to… get some more oil out of the ground to do it.
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-[X]Building a Chip Factory: The Boys at Apple need some microprocessors. You can build them a place where they can make some. (Cost 5 Control) Rolled:D100 + 40 => 130+D100 + 40 => 130+D100 + 40 => 136+D100 + 40 => 128+D100 + 40 => 50=574
Well you gave the boys land, equipment and the extra money to hire people to build their micro proecessors.
You didn't expect them to get industrial in just a few weeks.
"So what did you two do?"
"Well there was some equipment that you brought that we repurposed, and there was also the bountiful mineral wealth that we were finally able to process due to a few… tricks we used with some rockets."
"Like?" You asked.
"Have you ever used the backblast of a rocket to separate heavy and light material?" Steve said. "Facinating stuff, a little inefficient, but it did give ideas?"
"How did you two get your hands on a rocket launcher?" You asked.
"Well besides making a MANPAD?" Jobs started.
"We were trying to find a way to do something cool and we were frustrated with the lack of progress, then we fired a dud on the range and the idea came to us." Wozniak stated.
Holdy fuck.
"Gentlemen, thank you."
Reward: Microprocessor/ Computer Industry now set to Good.
The Wealth of your nation increases twentyfold.
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-[X]Apple Computers, Mercenary Edition: You are going to ask those boys to do something incredible, make a PC for military use, that can survive anything. Hope that works.(Cost 10 Control) Rolled: D100 + 40 => 84
Well, the first computer was absolute shit. Steve, both of them even said if they hadn't worked on your little request it would have been a far better product.
But it worked? So hey they could continue development.
Reward: Prototype for Apple computer made, more work is needed for it to work.
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-[X] Li Mei - (RP)
--[X]See if we have any good generals around. Organizing a mercenary team for a job is one thing, coordinating thousands for a single war is perhaps another. Rolled: D100 + 10 => 29
There are no generals among mercenaries, besides you of course.
They left the militaries to be without generals, not be them?
Fuck them.
Failure.
--[X]Hang out with Mike and Dave, they're clearly resourceful guys who are worth picking the brains of. Try to get a feel for how everyone's doing while we're at it. Rolled:D100 + 10 => 37
Mike is off doing a job, and Dave said that things aren't going well.
The UK was about to arrest him for treason.
Failure.
--[X]What's all this about ominous stuff below us? Someone has to know what's going on, and it's better to find out before we dig it up. Rolled:D100 + 10 => 86
"So… what did we find?" You asked.
"Um… Do you believe that there are missing nukes around the world?"
"No."
"Because that is a nuke…" Vasily stated. "Who's missing one?"
(Continued in: Blackmail.)
AN: enjoy.
Magoose
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THe Reactions from everyone with a brain.
And by the way, the Answer is:
"A Mercenary just told two super powers to go fuck themselves? Because she was doing a job and didn't want them to invade?"
"And they listened?"
Well clearly we need to talk with the UK on "human right"
Magoose
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We're already in the history books.
We just decided to jump from Crazy woman, to Woman of the Year!
Magoose
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No, Florida is a bigger and tammer version of us.
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So was that nuke lost from America own silos or from another superpower that was stolen or smuggled out by a third party?
I personally think it was from the American, because well they may had lost some warheads in the past.
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Is the MANPAD/Hornet supposed to be the rocket and the anti air/anti missile system? It seems great on the former, but short range is a cardinal sin if you're trying to blast a plane from the ground.
Still, looks like we've scared everyone bad enough that we might get away with not needing immediate air defense as I had feared.
Still, looks like we've scared everyone bad enough that we might get away with not needing immediate air defense as I had feared.
I think we ended the Cold War and blackedmail the usa about the reformers
dgr11897
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Batshit version, it's not a nuke from any modern nation.
ConfusedPotato
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Do you mean Crazy Woman of the Year?
So are we gonna be selling any of these weapons to other nations? could make a lot of money from selling weapons
The scary thing is, it is either that, or someone somehow inserted one deep in the crust of the earth with no-one else noticing...
I get the feeling Russia and China may be seriously considering trying to work on a supply chain to supply the sheer numbers they think they need to stand a chance against us...
Or at least, delay the attack until they set things up so they could drown us in bodies without losing everyone due to nonexistent logistics.😅
Considering while we seem to be safe for now...
This post implies it may be more of a temporary relief.
Outer haven Decentralized Command Doctrine
The very nature of outer haven presents a unique challenge in war scenarios. Simply put, while we have a lot of skilled soldiers and commanders, we naturally lack an unified vision with a lack of personnel and strategists at a national level. This gives our forces unrivaled initiative at the cost of not fighting like a single force, with a high risk of the various groups getting in each other's way die to everyone acting with incomplete information.
Computers however provide a possible solution. Being able to relay information in a way simple words can't, it could possibly be used to keep the whole force appraised of the situation, and could help keep people appraised with the actions of other members of the group, even if caution would need to be taken to prevent the enemy from accessing and using the system against us. While it can't replace the role of plans and high command, it however is probably uniquely suited to our armed forces. With our forces being a collection of PMC groups whom prefer to operate outside the traditional structure, and may be busy on a job during an attack, more so than other nations we can't really use a battleplan system similar to everyone else in the first place. The system that the envisioned doctrine is set around would need to be reliable, and be able to communicate known information to the various groups that make up our own forces quickly and clearly, since ensuring the force stays on the same page would be critical, and could bring a big advantage against conventional forces by enabling our forces to better react to shifts on the battlefield.
This also is likely to benefit greatly from technology, ranging from satellite cameras, to ground-based Radar will likely be very useful contributions to try and incorporate into it, should we be able to acquire them in sufficient numbers. Though of course, computers being pretty much the cornerstone of this doctrine would make computer technology and security from those trying to pierce our computer network would be critical in ensuring this doctrine can function.
The very nature of outer haven presents a unique challenge in war scenarios. Simply put, while we have a lot of skilled soldiers and commanders, we naturally lack an unified vision with a lack of personnel and strategists at a national level. This gives our forces unrivaled initiative at the cost of not fighting like a single force, with a high risk of the various groups getting in each other's way die to everyone acting with incomplete information.
Computers however provide a possible solution. Being able to relay information in a way simple words can't, it could possibly be used to keep the whole force appraised of the situation, and could help keep people appraised with the actions of other members of the group, even if caution would need to be taken to prevent the enemy from accessing and using the system against us. While it can't replace the role of plans and high command, it however is probably uniquely suited to our armed forces. With our forces being a collection of PMC groups whom prefer to operate outside the traditional structure, and may be busy on a job during an attack, more so than other nations we can't really use a battleplan system similar to everyone else in the first place. The system that the envisioned doctrine is set around would need to be reliable, and be able to communicate known information to the various groups that make up our own forces quickly and clearly, since ensuring the force stays on the same page would be critical, and could bring a big advantage against conventional forces by enabling our forces to better react to shifts on the battlefield.
This also is likely to benefit greatly from technology, ranging from satellite cameras, to ground-based Radar will likely be very useful contributions to try and incorporate into it, should we be able to acquire them in sufficient numbers. Though of course, computers being pretty much the cornerstone of this doctrine would make computer technology and security from those trying to pierce our computer network would be critical in ensuring this doctrine can function.
We just ended a War before it even started by basically holding Communist China and the Soviet Union at Nuclear Gunpoint.
...OKAY THEN.
...OKAY THEN.
Notably, by using their own nukes...
Which. Is probably something few would consider feasible. Except probably for how badly we clowned over everyone this turn!
dgr11897
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... WHY DID MY BATSHIT OFF THE WALL GUESS TURN OUT TO BE ONE OF THE ACTUAL OPTIONS! Oh well. If it does turn out to be the former, I'll laugh so hard.
I believe we have achieved world peace by actually making the superpowers shit their pants