That Time I Became A Dictator Of A Small Asian Communist Nation

HeroCooky · Feb 16, 2022

[X] Plan: Infrastructure
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
-[X] Create New Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[X] Build New Police Stations (Helpful) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Construct Freezer Factory (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[X] Construct Electrical Stove Factory (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Train Network (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[X] Iron Tiger Assembly (1/3 to produce Iron Tigers)
-[X] Create A Modern Iron Tiger (Create A Basic Design (Height, Weaponry, Crew, Safety, Body, etc.))
-[X] Investigate Applications For WEISOFT
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Actions
---[X] Test out the new transit system yourself (incognito, of course)
---[X] Try living in the first of the new houses to be built as a test case and give your thoughts on both the good and bad, hopefully in time to enact any necessary alterations in the design, as needed.
--[X] Lover Action
---[X] Go on a trip into some of our native jungles. Have her show us around some of our country's most difficult terrain and make our security details work for their paychecks.

[X] Light Industry
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
(2 - Compounded Failure)
One should think that having a few busses made, distributed, and set along with schedules of transit between and in your cities alongside fueling and routine maintenance. Now, to be fair, your planners and logistical personnel managed to do the latter three without fail and no problems; the island isn't that big. However, what did matter was that there was a slight problem in acquiring the busses. Namely, the factory that produced the steel and turned that into vehicles exploded.

...oh yeah. THAT put a complete stop in a lot of projects for you. A SHITTON of plans, gone and blown away into the mists of confusion and panic. Because it didn't just end there, oh no.

(See Rudimentary Train Network)

-[X] Create New Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
(9 - Optimal)
Unlike your recent headache-inducing madness that is the Foundry exploding, the expansion of your urban centers goes fluidly and without interruption, people moving away from the construction-sites to pre-arranged homes before settling into the new complexes with about a third again their number, allowing for more inner-city space to be freed up for more construction and denser urban planning to be feasible.

-[X] Build New Police Stations (Helpful) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
(6 - Optimal)
Some of the space you freed by increasing the population density is taken up by several new police officers and stations, soon staffed by enthusiastic cadets fresh from the academy and paired with experienced officers for their training within the force. As a result, the people feel safer from criminals, the criminals are suitably intimidated, and you have added another way to exert power across the nation, excellent.

-[X] Construct Freezer Factory (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
(4 - Subpar)
While the chemicals needed to construct freezers are dangerous, you are suitably impressed by the ingenuity of your engineers to minimize the risks and impact on the health of the workers who are busy assembling the new model designed for the new housing complexes. At about one meter tall, fifty centimeters long, and sixty centimeters wide, the freezer offers more than enough space for all things needing refrigeration, from food to water and even medicine, with some apparently using the freezers to cool their pillows for the night.

-[X] Construct Electrical Stove Factory (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
(6 - Optimal)
Metal goes in; stoves come out. Stoves go into a home, and food is being prepared without having to use coal, gas, or wood, reducing smog, fires, and risks to health and life in the process.

[X] Heavy Industry
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Train Network (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
(1 - Compounded Failure)
You see, the thing with that particular Steel Foundry wasn't just that it produced a lot of steel; it also doubled as a factory to shape the made steel into various bits of machinery, vehicles, and stuff like rails. Rails that happened to be exceptionally brittle when engineers tested them the day before they were supposed to be laid. Rails that had been produced in the same factory where, for years before, nothing but exceptional work had been done. One thing was a horrific accident; two made you wonder...

(Continued in Personal Actions)

[X] Secret Projects
-[X] Iron Tiger Assembly (1/3 to produce Iron Tigers)
(10 - Boosted)
What more can you say about the effort, other than It Is Done! The amount of expertise, work-hours, materials, and money shoveled into the Iron Tiger Project are mindbogglingly gigantic compared to any other initiative or project you have undertaken since becoming the Leader of the nation, and you expect that to remain that way for possibly the rest of your life. And with every part of the assembly done and a native Iron Tiger now fully developed, you can start manufacturing them for the Military. (In secret!)

-[X] Create A Modern Iron Tiger (Create A Basic Design (Height, Weaponry, Crew, Safety, Body, etc.))
Developed Systems:
-"Lightningbolt" 115mm Automatic Smoothbore Anti-Armor Gun (Back-mounted)
-"Thunderfire" 57mm Tri-barrel Autocannon (Mech Rifle)
-"Dragon's Tooth" Bayonet/Combat Knife
-"Tigerlink" Terminal
-"Dragonbone" Stability System and Gyroscope
-"SCARS" Self-Contained Atmosphere Reclamation System
-Modular Armor Plates

-[X] Investigate Applications For WEISOFT
(1 - Subpar)
Most of your attention was on the crisis with the Steel Foundry, meaning that you caught the fact your orders to look into WEISOFT further for more applications had never been sent. Well, that's half a year wasted with you wondering what the hang-ups and delays in reporting mean.

[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Actions
---[X] Test out the new transit system yourself (incognito, of course)
(Nat 1 - Compounded Failure)
The explosion within the Steel Foundry (and subsequent halting in the production of rails, trains, and busses) threw a giant wrench into your plans to make sure that the programs would work as you wanted them to and that they were able to provide you with the benefits you were making the for in the first place. While transporting people between Point A to Point B in a much shorter timeframe and higher quantity to boot was lovely, the military logistical and agricultural sides were of much more serious concern to you. The first was self-explanatory; moving soldiers and material to where you needed them in the case of an invasion within minutes or an hour was titanically better than having to send them marching for who-knows-how-long. Additionally, they would have to rest before entering battle or do so exhausted and miserable already, impacting their combat capabilities.

The latter had been a linchpin in your Five-Year Plan. You see, moving fresh produce within an hour of being harvested into a freezer or cannery would reduce your food waste even further than it currently is, allowing you to retain more of the produce and increase the median caloric ingestion and vitamins your people would be able to eat. Unfortunately, with that shortcut in increasing efficiency now significantly hampered, your effort to fulfill the promises you made to the people is in serious jeopardy now. Meaning you will have to start sprinting in your agricultural efforts rather than the jog you had planned.

---[X] Try living in the first of the new houses to be built as a test case and give your thoughts on both the good and bad, hopefully in time to enact any necessary alterations in the design, as needed.
(34)
You couldn't do anything more than have some tours around the buildings to familiarize yourself with the layout and space offered to the people that would soon live within the buildings, but it was enough to get an opinion. Frankly, the new complexes are kilometers ahead of what your father managed to construct, offering amenities and space in excess of what most people possess. For example, the laundry rooms are very impressive, as is the floor where people can partake in essential services such as medicine, haircutting, news, and even a tiny store without ever leaving the complex! Downright futuristic!

--[X] Lover Action
---[X] Go on a trip into some of our native jungles. Have her show us around some of our country's most challenging terrain and make our security details work for their paychecks.
(52)
Your wife had a good time climbing all over the island, showing you the hidden nooks and crannies of the island as well as giving you a good workout. You had a good time climbing all over her and not regretting the aches that produced when she got too excited. Unfortunately, your security detail had a miserable time trying to keep up as they were run ragged and stress-tested even more.

However, the best thing is that you can now tell your in-progress children that, if they ask, they were made in a lush cave behind a waterfall and not with the help of cosplay, bondage, and a tiger costume.

[+2 to 1(one) random Action - One Gyro-Stabilized Step for Man…
+4 to Investigations - Within The Steel
+4 to new Complexes - New Homes]
{CHINESE INTEL: PROVIDE TRAINERS AND EQUIPMENT TO NORTH VIETNAM, PROPAGANDIZE AGAINST THE US, DOWNPLAY THEIR SERIOUSNESS IN THE POSTURING TO MAKE THE US LOOK PARANOID}

Reputation - (34/100 Reputation - A Hard Climb To The Top, But Not Impossible)
People's Opinion - (55/100 Reputation - You Know, Maybe He Will Make Things Better For All Of Us...)
Chinese Opinion - (6/10 - Aha.)
History Page - (A name, a small paragraph of your life, and three dates. Birth, reign, death.)

Light Industry - Meh - (Slight Improvement)
Heavy Industry - Adequate
Military Industry - Adequate
Agriculture - Bad - (Tiny Permanent Improvement Up To Meh)

[] Light Industry (+4 to new (Large-Scale) Energy Efficient Housing - Omake)
-[] Improve Roads (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Build A Rudimentary Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Create New Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[] Use Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+1 Reputation)
--[] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design New Housing Concept (Design)
-[] Improve Medical Infrastructure (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Build New Police Stations (Helpful) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct Consumer Goods Factory (What) (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Improve Your Water Management Infrastructure (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Heavy Industry (+2 to Geothermal Power)
-[] Construct A Tractor Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Build A Rudimentary Train Network (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Repair The Destroyed Steel Foundry
-[] Construct Another Steel Foundry (Harmful) (+3 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Power Plant (Helpful)
-[] Construct A Geothermal Power Plant (Helpful)
-[] Improve Your Metallurgical Institute (+2 Reputation)
-[] Construct A (Iron Tiger Derived) Electronics Factory (+5 Reputation) (Harmful) (Highly Suspicious) (Steel Foundry Needed)
-[] Expand Your Mines (Harmful)
-[] Construct Another Harbor (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Vehicle (Describe) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Ship (Describe) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Aircraft (Describe)
-[] Construct Five Merchant Marine Vessels (+1 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Military (+4 to Design A Native Ship)
-[] Design Two Iron Tiger Systems (Describe) (Still Secret)
-[] Design A Native Tank (Describe) (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Plane (Describe) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Vehicle (Describe) (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Ship (Describe) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Artillery Piece (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design A Native Sidearm (Describe) (+1 Reputation
-[] Design A Native Main Personal Weapon (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design Native Equipment (Describe) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Design Infantry IT-Alloy Bodyarmor (+4 Reputation)
-[] Design Police IT-Alloy Bodyarmor And Shields (+2 Reputation) (-1 People's Opinion)
-[] Import (What) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Dedicated Naval Slipway (Ship) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct Coastal Defences (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct Interior Defences (+2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct An Airfield (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct Military Building/Factory (What) (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-1 People's Opinion)
-[] Expand The Military Academy (+3 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
-[] Raise A New Military Formation (What) (Harmful) (+2 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
-[] Raise A Iron Tiger Formation (Organization/Loadout) (Secret) (Suspicious)
-[] Recover Your Sunken Fleet (Harmful) (+4 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion) (+4 to any Naval Action)
-[] Intimidate Taiwan (+5 Reputation)
-[] Commit Exercises (+3 Reputation)
-[] Secure Trade Routes (+1 Reputation)
-[] Raid International Shipping (What Goods) (Helpful/Harmful) (Roll above five, and you won't be caught.)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Agri-, And Aquaculture (+1 to Dice for 2(two) Turns - Plan, +2 to Farming/Animal Husbandry (Chinese Experts), +2 to Farming/Fishing/Animal Husbandry (Technocrats))
-[] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Clear Jungles For Farming (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Increase Herd Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
-[] Assemble A Fishing Fleet (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct A Cannery Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Social (+4 to One(1) Roll - Omake, +4 to Investigations - Omake)
-[] Search For The Cause Of The Explosion In Your Steel Foundry
--[] Focus: Faulty Parts (???)
--[] Focus: Human Error (???)
--[] Focus: Deliberate Action (???)
-[] Expand Your Television Station (New Channel Name And Focus) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Vaccination Campaign (Disease)
--[] Native Production And Doctors (-2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
--[] Internation Production And Doctors (Helpful) (-5 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion)
-[] Revamp Your School System (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
-[] Expand Your Rural Schools (Helpful) (-5 Reputation)
-[] Expand Your Technical Schools (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Arrest Dissidents (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-3 People's Opinion)
-[] Increase Surveillance (Harmful) (-3 People's Opinion)
-[] Purge Undesirable Citizens (Who) (Harmful) (+2 Reputation) (-4 People's Opinion)
-[] Search And Destroy Rebels (Harmful) (-4 People's Opinion) (+3 Reputation)
-[] Increase Social Control (How) (Helpful) (Harmful) (-2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Propagandize An Achievement (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Reduce Surveillance (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Praise Workers From (Industry) (Helpful/Harmful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Boost (Social Statistic, example: Birthrates) (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Propagandize Workers Conditions (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Implement A Social Policy (Write-In) (Helpful/Harmful) (+2 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Reduce Social Control (How) (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (-5 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Political
-[] Populists & Internationalists
--[] Have our glorified paparazzi help the Nationalists by seeing the value of ad campaigning abroad to increase the desire of our trade goods to increase their market value. (-3 Reputation)
--[] Medical Student Exchange with Cuba (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
--[] Bother the Cubans for their "Home Self-Reliance And Repair Manual" (-3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Progressives
--[] Have their experts focus on the economic issues and bring up suggestions on how to increase food supply and ideas for a healthier economy. (-4 Reputation)
-[] International
--[] Trade canned goods with NV to gain materials to buy food. (+2 Reputation) (+NV Relations) (-4 People's Opinion)
--[] Trade canned goods with African Countries to gain materials to buy food. (-4 People's Opinion)
--[] Send volunteer trainers/observers to NV to act as a training force when, in actuality, they would instead assist our comrades in their liberation against the imperialist Americans (+4 Reputation)
-[] Technologists
--[] Form a Statistics Bureau (Focus) (-4 Reputation) (Political Consequences For Their Findings)
-[] Militarists
--[] Create a dedicated branch of Military Engineers (+Allies)
--[] Buy Russian Trucks for native logistics and the military (-1 Chinese Opinion) (-4 Reputation) (Knock-On Effects)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Secret Projects
-[] Investigate Applications For WEISOFT Again
[] Wei Jungming - (RP)
-[] Personal Action (Write-In two things he does within the next six months.)
-[] Lover Action (Write-In one thing Wei Jungmin and Wei Mai do together in the next six months.)

Within The Steel
Was it an attack, a mistake, or pure rotten chance that had killed so many? Read on to find out!
[The Burning Steel - #1 Thriller about the Steel Factory Explosion Incident of Guangchou]
(+4 to Investigations)

Baby On Board
Wei Mai is pregnant, and with that, a whole load of issues has cropped up around her, much to her annoyance. From her husband worrying to doctors and nurses telling her what to do, to even Ru Hiro treating her differently, she honestly could do with a day away from all the others' stress right now.
(+4 to one Social Action)

New Homes
Assigning people to the new complexes may not be the most exciting job within the world, but showing families their new homes and seeing their faces light up when they see the titanic improvements sure make up for that.
(+4 to new Complexes)

abominable · Feb 17, 2022

Within the Steel

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Internationalists - Supply Warehouse - Nighttime

You place the charges onto the predetermined locations, the discrete markings placed by the advance scouts granting you confidence as you complete your objectives. By now, the rest of the team will have cleared maybe half the warehouses, priming the structures for a disastrous explosion.

It would be a lie to claim you had no doubts about the plan. Not with the chances of success, of course, but with it's effectiveness. Supposedly, destroying the raw ores and resources needed for the steel production would help 'convince' that communist bastard of a leader to rely more on foreign trade, but the same result could have been more efficiently achieved by targeting the mines themselves.

Unfortunately, your groups weakening power and resources would only have been enough for a few sites. You needed to target a central nexus of production, hence the steel processing complex.

Luckily, security wasn't exactly tight. A small opening in the wire fence was easy enough to make, and your team was inside the complex within moments. With less than a dozen guards tasked with securing the premises, and all of them already tired and within their guardhouses as the moon sank into the dark, early dawn, your team made its way to the supply storage.

The day before had marked an uptick in activity, with barrels of unidentified chemicals being carried all over the complex. The day before that day had also seen new hardware and equipment being transferred in. With fears that more staff and guards would be transferred in, as well as a lengthening of work hours and increase in work shifts, your team had to act now.

And so it was with urgency that you completed your small tasks, eager to be finally done with it. The night, or rather morning, would have other plans, however, as your radio came alive with urgent orders and the sounds of suppressed gunfire.

With muffled curses, you run towards the makeshift assembly point, wondering all the while just what exactly went wrong.
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Old Guard - Bus Factory - Same Time

As you place the small explosive on the gas tank, you can't help but smile at the thought of reading the headlines that would eventually come on the morning after the plan's explosive climax.

This'll show that worthless brat to kick out his elders. A shame his father hadn't had other, worthier, children to take up the mantle. Someone more respectful, more accepting of the Old Guard's extensive wisdom and experience. But there wasn't and the time to assassinate the whelp had long since passed, the brat's security too strong to be overcome with their dwindling resources and strength.

Hence the current plan. A few bombs placed on the gas tanks of a few buses, not enough to loudly suggest sabotage, but just enough to imply poor quality and faulty equipment, while hinting at weakness to other opportunists. Just one sign, and they'd get more volunteers, more donations to their worthy cause.

You thought about doing something similar to the strange barrels and unfamiliar equipment scattered throughout the complex in designated nooks and crannies, but you shove those thoughts aside. You have much too little information as to what the new hardware was exactly, more so what exactly was in those barrels. Besides, the plan would succeed even if you left well enough alone, of that you were sure.

But as you daydream of your future success, your radio comes alive with traffic. Muffled shouts and the sound of suppressed gunfire filter through the comms. What the hell is happening!?
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Nationalists - Ore Processing - Different Shit Same Day

Grunting as you reach deep within the cavernous space, you slap the specialized charges in place.

The heat shouldn't compromise them until they reached a certain temperature, and hopefully by then there'd be enough people to justify detonating them simultaneously. Enough people to show Guangchou just how weak that spineless wretch of a leader was, to let his fellow citizens bleed and die.

Of course, it pays to be sure. It's with such a reason that you make your way towards the steel manufacturing area along with the rest of your team. There was more equipment there being used to shape new railway segments, and therefore more workers needed to operate them.

You'd thought about doing the same to the new machines brought in the day before, but for all you know, they wouldn't be used much later, so you cast those thoughts aside.

The barrels though… you have someone check it, and what they reported back was curious, to say the least. A reddish, maybe pinkish chemical of sorts. It wasn't diesel. Or kerosene. Or gasoline. It smelled strange when you checked for yourself. Cleaning equipment maybe? But why would they need so much, especially with how they seemed to have been placed everywhere.

Maybe they thought they'd just place them there for the night? Then continue organizing them in the morning after. Whatever the case, if they were this lax with handling them, then they probably weren't too dangerous or volatile. No sense wasting their already limited supplies.

Soon enough, the massive gates leading to the steel processing area reveal themselves as you round the corner. Your destination lies beside it, however, as opening the gates themselves would sound a loud alarm that would betray your team's presence. And so you head for the smaller door beside it.

As you reach for the doorknob, it twists suddenly and the door gives way to someone… who's clearly not supposed to be here…

Dressed similarly in dark garments as you, you both stare at each other in shock for but a moment. Suddenly, instinct kicks in and you both dive for cover.

Your team, and his by the looks of it, quickly follow your examples and find their own places to stand or crouch behind. Without even a chance for words, you exchange gunfire instead, reasoning it's best to sort them out after they were down.

But seriously, who the fuck are these people!?
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Isolationists - Steel Processing - At that Moment

Who the fuck are these people!?

You and your team had just finished checking the sabotaged equipment in the steel processing area, a failed attempt they'd tried at before. The plan was to sabotage the newer, Chinese-made equipment, make them explode during operation. Instead, the faults they'd introduced had simply turned the steel more brittle.

True, it was still sabotage, but they needed something more eye-catching if they wanted to convince the people that their whore of a great leader was just a Chinese puppet to foist defective goods on. Hence, the need to return to the complex before the equipment was removed for closer inspection.

If they found out about the sabotage, security would only grow tighter, and any chance they had of fighting back in some way would disappear, just as their own supplies and manpower disappeared day by the day.

And now this, who are these people? What are they doing here? And with guns, no less. Other saboteurs?

Any other queries you were about to vocalize die out as your second calls your attention to more people rushing in from the direction of the annexed bus factory. Similarly clad in dark-hued clothing, they take cover with guns facing your left.

Fuck. How'd they flank us so quickly!?

You set aside the rest of your questions as you direct some of your men to reposition and fire on the newcomers.

As you wrestle with indecision of whether or not you should sound the retreat, more noises filter in from the direction of the ore processing area, from where the first batch of strangers had come from.

Muffled shouts and what seem to be more suppressed gunfire echo through the increasingly bullet-holed doorway, sounding as if the other side had also encountered a third group.

What the hell is going o—

That thought dies out as a stray bullet grazes your cheek and terminates its path right into one of the curious barrels you'd noticed as you entered the complex. It wasn't gasoline, of that you were sure, and the dearth of markings betrayed no hint as to what it was exactly. But as sparks fly and the thin metal expands and shrieks briefly before coming apart into an explosive display, you realize that someone really should've put in a label denoting it as volatile.

However, such lamentations are blown away as the blast reaches the other barrels and contribute to the quickly expanding explosion, and the room grows brighter as if dawn had come early.

Fuuuuuuu—
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Security - Guardhouse C - Early Dawn???

You take a sip of your freshly brewed and poured tea as you glance at the clock placed on your desk.

Won't be long now, an hour, tops. Once dawn comes, I can clock out and finally get some rest.

You make a mental note to leave a reminder for the next shift that people would be coming in early to move around the equipment and supplies that had been haphazardly left the day before.

With all the new projects the Great Leader had announced, steel and its related products had gone up in demand. The management had promised more shifts to reduce workloads for everyone, but the new staff had yet to come in when the new hardware and supplies had been shipped in. There were simply not enough people to get things organized while keeping up with the previous day's quota.

To add to the chaos, it seemed the deliveries themselves had been rushed. The barrels left no indication as to what kind of chemicals they contained, as if the supply people had simply found whatever unused barrels they had on hand. They hadn't even been labelled yet.

Still, even if they were volatile, it was only for one night. The staff would get things stowed away soon enough. And with the new people coming in, they might need to promote some of the older staff and put 'em in supervisory or managerial roles. Maybe you'd even get kicked up the ladder. Get yourself a nice raise too.

Your musings fade away as you notice a bright light shining suddenly from the direction of the window. You've barely turned your head when the sound catches up and the glass shatters as a roaring explosion blasts in. A wave of pressure knocks you off your chair and shards of glass rain around you.

As panic sets in, your assigned radio comes to life, probably from one or two of the guards farther away, asking what's going on. As you stumble up to the glassless window, your vision fills with the sight of what seems like the entire complex, on fire. Debris rains down, some of it flaming as well, and words fail you as one thought dominates your mind.

Well… there goes my raise.

NOTE: @HeroCooky hope this is ok. Lemme know if there's something i need to change to fit with canon.

abominable · Feb 18, 2022

New Homes

Lin Kang, 28 years old, carpenter, stared stoically ahead.

He watched the families and couples haul furniture, bags, and children into the multi-storied structure in front of them. Every last one had their faces filled either with hope, joy, or sheer anticipation. Maybe even a mix of all three.

All because of some building he'd helped construct, one of many.

Kang felt a stirring deep in his chest. A small ache in his heart. But he bore the feeling all the same.

He didn't need to think. He just needed to feel something besides the bouts of paralyzing terror deep in the night or the bubbling anger that followed as clarity set in once more. Yet try as he might, he would carry those memories still, perhaps to his grave, even.

Still, he reminded himself, he had much to be grateful for.

When he'd arrived in front of his childhood home, he had not known what to expect. He'd steeled himself for the worst, feeling nothing as he trudged up the familiar path. He expected to find his parents dead, or worse.

Yet the worst had not happened. He had found his mother, a tear-stricken mess, hugging her long lost boy and welcoming him home, and his father, as impassive as the day he'd been taken away.

But no, a closer look revealed the changes that had come in the years of his absence. The wrinkles, the lessened yet still strong musculature, the warmth in his eyes that once held emptiness…

His father had simply walked up, embraced him and his mother both, and welcomed him home.

Laughter brought him back to the present. A lone child, hands holding on to his parents, climbed the steps into the building as Kang looked on. And as they disappeared within, he turned around and began walking away.

He could not share in that happiness yet, the pain still raw and persistent. The anger in his heart burned intensely still, and it would be some time yet before it died down. So Kang could only endure it and focus on his job.

And yet, walking away from these new homes, Lin Kang couldn't help but feel a bit of hope for the future.

And for Guangchou.

Note: No exams, no reports, no med student stuff, so i pretty much had a bit more time to work on this one. Enjoy!

Also, mc was THIS close to losing one or two parents. Good thing the dice rolled 1.

HeroCooky · Feb 20, 2022

Scheduled vote count started by HeroCooky on Feb 16, 2022 at 5:07 PM, finished with 22 posts and 13 votes.

8 people have voted
[X] Plan: Oh God We Need To Salvage This
-[X] Improve Your Water Management Infrastructure (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Repair The Destroyed Steel Foundry
-[X] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[X] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[X] Increase Herd Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
--[X] Specifically goat herds. They'd be suitable for mountainous or hilly regions.
-[X] Search For The Cause Of The Explosion In Your Steel Foundry
--[X] Focus: Faulty Parts (???)
--[X] Focus: Human Error (???)
--[X] Focus: Deliberate Action (???)
-[X] Expand Your Television Station (The Progress Forecast. A showcase of Guangzhou's latest achievements, and possible ways technology can develop, to raise public interest in the sciences.) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Personal Action
--[X] Dedicate a good chunk of your free time this year to the investigation. Probably not the most healthy thing to be doing, but god damn it this can't happen again.
-[X] Lover Action
--[X] You always feel better when you're with her. Don't plan anything too strenuous this year. Just enjoy her company. And be there for her when the baby comes.
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[X] Plan: A Fish Called Bond. James bond.
-[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture (+1 to Dice for 2(two) Turns - Plan, +2 to Farming/Animal Husbandry (Chinese Experts), +2 to Farming/Fishing/Animal Husbandry (Technocrats))
--[X] Assemble A 2nd Fishing Fleet (+1 People's Opinion)
--[X] Assemble A Scuba Organization to farm seaweed\kelp for additional food.
-[X] Heavy Industry (+2 to Geothermal Power)
--[X] Build A Rudimentary Train Network (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
--[X] Repair The Destroyed Steel Foundry
---[X] With extra security based on the results of your investigation.
--[X] Construct Another Steel Foundry (Harmful) (+3 Reputation)
-[X] Social (+4 to One(1) Roll - Omake)
--[X] Search For The Cause Of The Explosion In Your Steel Foundry
---[X] Focus: Faulty Parts (???)
---[X] Focus: Human Error (???)
---[X] Focus: Deliberate Action (???)
--[X] Expand Your Television Station (New Channel Name And Focus) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[X] A Food Show. Title: the us equivalent of Betty Crocker. Focus on making tasty & healthy dishes that anyone can make while stretching your supplies to last. Airs twice a week. Possibly more as popularity rises. People at home can send in their favorite recipes and if featured in a episode they get a week long supply of food.
-[X] International
--[X] Trade canned goods with NV to gain materials to buy food. (+2 Reputation) (+NV Relations) (-4 People's Opinion)
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Action- Be there for your wife's Doctor visits, sonograms, and whatever else needs fussing over. Nothing else. Between the baby preparations and last segments screw ups you got no time to split your focus.
--[X] Lover Action- go baby shopping together. Pick out stuff to decorate and prepare the babies room. Read children's stories and sing lullabies to their baby.

HeroCooky · Feb 24, 2022

[X] Plan: Oh God, We Need To Salvage This
-[X] Improve Your Water Management Infrastructure (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Repair The Destroyed Steel Foundry
-[X] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[X] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[X] Increase Herd Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
--[X] Specifically goat herds. They'd be suitable for mountainous or hilly regions.
-[X] Search For The Cause Of The Explosion In Your Steel Foundry
--[X] Focus: Faulty Parts (???)
--[X] Focus: Human Error (???)
--[X] Focus: Deliberate Action (???)
-[X] Expand Your Television Station (The Progress Forecast. A showcase of Guangzhou's latest achievements and possible ways technology can develop to raise public interest in the sciences.) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Personal Action
--[X] Dedicate a good chunk of your free time this year to the investigation. Probably not the most healthy thing to be doing, but god damn it, this can't happen again.
-[X] Lover Action
--[X] You always feel better when you're with her. Don't plan anything too strenuous this year. Just enjoy her company. And be there for her when the baby comes.

[X] Light Industry
-[X] Improve Your Water Management Infrastructure (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
(10+2=12 - Boosted)
Everywhere you look to or visit has become a hub of activity. The new sewers are being laid into the ground at break-neck speed, construction crews racing against each other to build the most kilometers of the newly designed system. Canals within the interior of the Island become wider and cleaner with every passing day. More water is transported into the interior to better regulate the rice harvests and other crops. In contrast, your specialists within the drinking-water treatment plant report that the water has never been cleaner! It is a good thing to do, even if you have to acknowledge that the latter part only indicates how bad the water had previously been. Nevertheless, diseases have gone down, and that alone makes the effort worth it.

[X] Heavy Industry
-[X] Repair The Destroyed Steel Foundry
(9 - Optimal)
Repair of the damaged Foundry starts and ends with little fuss or dangers, especially once the dangerous chemical remnants have been cleaned away. (Whose idea was it to make live tests of the Iron Tiger Fuel without any lab tests anyway?) New ovens and smelters are put in place where the old ones have been damaged or destroyed; walls are patched up, reinforced, or entirely built anew, with furniture and safety railings re-installed again. By the end of the effort, workers are already starting their shifts again while new paint is being applied, and iron once more begins to flow in, with iron coming out.

[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
-[X] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
(10+5=15 - Breakthrough)
Deng Da stares at the Party Woman standing before him, a smile on her face and a clipboard with a list of names (or crosses) dotting the neat lines, each denoting one of his neighbors that had "opted into" the "field-test study" of a new fertilizer that scientists had created within the Institutes. Slowly and gingerly, he takes the clipboard and writes out his name, giving "permission" to the Party to use the new chemicals on hi-their land. He can only hope that the chemicals won't ruin the soil beyond usability.

-[X] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
(7+5=12 - Boosted)
New farming space has been cleared out of several regions whose utilization has, to this point, been not worth the time and effort to cultivate into usability. Yet, armed with heavy machinery, fertilizers, and your orders, acre upon acre was carved out of the island with farms and communes popping up in the shadow of human progress and mastery over nature, once more securing more food yet to your people.

-[X] Increase Herd Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
--[X] Specifically goat herds. They'd be suitable for mountainous or hilly regions.
(7+5=12 - Boosted)
The goats were quickly purchased in the required numbers and then were sent out and assigned to farms and collectives within hilly or stony regions whose overall productivity had been impacted by nature surrounding them. Already, the new live-stock has seen immense popularity as the increase in meat, milk, and wool is starting to feed and cloth your people.

[X] Social
-[X] Search For The Cause Of The Explosion In Your Steel Foundry
--[X] Focus: Faulty Parts (???)
--[X] Focus: Human Error (???)
--[X] Focus: Deliberate Action (???)
(6+9+8+4=27 - Omniscient)
"I WANT RESULTS NOW!" You scream into the room filled with the highest echelons of your Secret Police, smashing a fist against the table. Not one of them moves even a muscle, though you are more than capable of seeing the silent terror and shine of sweat they try to hide. "NOT TOMORROW," you continue, glaring at each person for a second each, enough to make them avert their gaze in fear, "NOT IN A WEEK!"

The door opens as a young woman in the uniform of an agent steps into the room, a packet of binders held in her arms. You ignore her for now, continuing to scream at the useless waste of flesh before you.

"AND NOT IN A YEAR! STEEL FOUNDRIES DON'T EXPLODE! THEY, AT WORST, MAKE A FUCKING MESS, BUT NOT LILAC FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS!" With heaving breaths, you sink back into your chair, the anger and fury still visible on your face as you very much try to reign in your emotions while you gesture for the young agent to state why your guards let them inside.

"W-we got them," she timidly says after a moment.

Every head in the room snaps to her face, including yours, as you had been too busy thinking up a storm about who could have blown up the foundry. "What?" One of the SP-Men says, a sentiment echoed by nearly everyone within their mind.

The agent shifts uncomfortably under the gazes of her superiors superiors superiors superiors and Great Leader before laying her folders onto the table. "The autopsies and witness reports have finished after we completed the investigations to the several break-ins into armories and stores we had been alerted to the night before the explosion. All of the people within the foundry were those deemed politically unreliable or disruptive, with most of their conspirators being currently being rounded up as I speak. We have enough evidence to convict everyone, including statements, recordings, manifestos, and declarations the dissident groups had prepared to issue later today."

All of you stare at her for long enough that she starts to fidget uncomfortably, everyone trying to comprehend what she had just said.

The headache gets only worse as you read the literal kilos of evidence she had handed out.

At the very least, you got them all?

-[X] Expand Your Television Station (The Progress Forecast. A showcase of Guangzhou's latest achievements and possible ways technology can develop to raise public interest in the sciences.) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
(6+4=10 - Boosted)
Xue Fang was a proper woman, and she knew how the world worked. One did not achieve success within life by being lax in appearances, one that dresses sloppy would be treated as such, while one who dressed smartly would be listened to and have their opinion heard. Moreover, keeping in touch with the newest developments in social life and political circles ensured that she knew what to say and to whom to better her standing within the ministry. (And she did not gossip.)There was a place for strength in dealing with her subordinates as well as a soft touch, the pen bringing more progress than the iron fist as she had learned over the years in service to her nation and the workers.

And now, she would be serving her nation in another direction than coordinating the schools and printing presses. Namely, she had been tasked to head and (critically, as she was deemed politically ironclad) oversee a new arm of the informational revolution.

Informing the people of the newest technological developments may not seem like the most important job globally. Still, the right mind tipped away from laziness and into the wonder that the sciences could change the world day by day.

[X] Wei Jungming
-[X] Personal Action
--[X] Dedicate a good chunk of your free time this year to the investigation. Probably not the most healthy thing to be doing, but god damn it, this can't happen again.
(Negated Through Rolls)

-[X] Lover Action
--[X] You always feel better when you're with her. Don't plan anything too strenuous this year. Just enjoy her company. And be there for her when the baby comes.
(36+42=78)
"JUNGMIN, I SWEAR BY LENIN I WILL RIP YOUR FACE OFF-" You sweet darling wife screams, though stops as she is cut off by another contraction, opting to crush your hand instead that she had been holding.

You try not to cry as you feel your bones creak under the pressure she applies, and focus your mind on much better things than the love of your life swearing so much that even the veteran guards on the other side of the room have gone red.

Namely, you focus on the little healthy girl within the arms of a nurse currently screaming like the world was ending, and how a second scream soon followed as your son was born into the world.

Thankfully, you already had the names ready for months, as you'd be honestly not willing to argue anything Mai would propose here and now.

[] (Name Vote: One Boy and One Girl have been born! Congratulations, you have twins! Now they need names.)

[+2 Reputation/People's Opinion, +More Child, +4 to Agriculture, +2 to Geothermal Action - Tripple Omake]

{CHINESE INTEL: PROVIDE TRAINERS AND EQUIPMENT TO NORTH VIETNAM, PROPAGANDIZE AGAINST THE USA, DOWNPLAY THEIR SERIOUSNESS IN THE POSTURING TO MAKE THE USA LOOK COWARDLY}

Reputation - (40/100 Reputation - Some See A Leader To Influence, Others A Golden Lamb...)
People's Opinion - (61/100 Reputation - You Know, Maybe He Will Make Things Better For All Of Us...)
Chinese Opinion - (6/10 - Aha.)
History Page - (A name, a small paragraph of your life, and three dates. Birth, reign, death.)

Light Industry - Meh - (Slight Improvement)
Heavy Industry - Adequate
Military Industry - Adequate
Agriculture - Bad - (Titanic Improvement)

[] Light Industry (+4 to new (Large-Scale) Energy Efficient Housing - Omake)
-[] Improve Roads (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Build A Rudimentary Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Create New Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[] Use Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+1 Reputation)
--[] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design New Housing Concept (Design)
-[] Improve Medical Infrastructure (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Build New Police Stations (Helpful) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct Consumer Goods Factory (What) (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Heavy Industry (+2/+2 to Geothermal Power (Trade/Omake))
-[] Construct A Tractor Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Build A Rudimentary Train Network (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct Another Steel Foundry (Harmful) (+3 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Power Plant (Helpful)
-[] Construct A Geothermal Power Plant (Helpful)
-[] Improve Your Metallurgical Institute (+2 Reputation)
-[] Construct A (Iron Tiger Derived) Electronics Factory (+5 Reputation) (Harmful) (Highly Suspicious) (Steel Foundry Needed)
-[] Expand Your Mines (Harmful)
-[] Construct Another Harbor (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Vehicle (Describe) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Ship (Describe) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Aircraft (Describe)
-[] Construct Five Merchant Marine Vessels (+1 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Military (+4 to Design A Native Ship)
-[] Design Two Iron Tiger Systems (Describe) (Still Secret)
-[] Design A Native Tank (Describe) (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Plane (Describe) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Vehicle (Describe) (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Ship (Describe) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Artillery Piece (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design A Native Sidearm (Describe) (+1 Reputation
-[] Design A Native Main Personal Weapon (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design Native Equipment (Describe) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Design Infantry IT-Alloy Bodyarmor (+4 Reputation)
-[] Design Police IT-Alloy Bodyarmor And Shields (+2 Reputation) (-1 People's Opinion)
-[] Import (What) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Dedicated Naval Slipway (Ship) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct Coastal Defences (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct Interior Defences (+2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct An Airfield (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct Military Building/Factory (What) (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-1 People's Opinion)
-[] Expand The Military Academy (+3 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
-[] Raise A New Military Formation (What) (Harmful) (+2 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
-[] Raise A Iron Tiger Formation (Organization/Loadout) (Secret) (Suspicious)
-[] Recover Your Sunken Fleet (Harmful) (+4 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion) (+4 to any Naval Action)
-[] Intimidate Taiwan (+5 Reputation)
-[] Commit Exercises (+3 Reputation)
-[] Secure Trade Routes (+1 Reputation)
-[] Raid International Shipping (What Goods) (Helpful/Harmful) (Roll above five, and you won't be caught.)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Agri-, And Aquaculture (+1 to Dice for 1(One) Turn - Plan, +2 to Farming/Animal Husbandry (Chinese Experts), +2 to Farming/Fishing/Animal Husbandry (Technocrats), +4 to 1(One) Project (Omake))
-[] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Clear Jungles For Farming (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Increase Herd Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
-[] Assemble A Fishing Fleet (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Initiate Kelp Harvesting Operations (Very Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Cannery Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Social
-[] Expand Your Television Station (New Channel Name And Focus) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Vaccination Campaign (Disease)
--[] Native Production And Doctors (-2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
--[] Internation Production And Doctors (Helpful) (-5 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion)
-[] Revamp Your School System (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
-[] Expand Your Rural Schools (Helpful) (-5 Reputation)
-[] Expand Your Technical Schools (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Arrest Dissidents (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-3 People's Opinion)
-[] Increase Surveillance (Harmful) (-3 People's Opinion)
-[] Purge Undesirable Citizens (Who) (Harmful) (+2 Reputation) (-4 People's Opinion)
-[] Search And Destroy Rebels (Harmful) (-4 People's Opinion) (+3 Reputation)
-[] Increase Social Control (How) (Helpful) (Harmful) (-2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Propagandize An Achievement (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Reduce Surveillance (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Praise Workers From (Industry) (Helpful/Harmful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Boost (Social Statistic, example: Birthrates) (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Propagandize Workers Conditions (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Implement A Social Policy (Write-In) (Helpful/Harmful) (+2 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Reduce Social Control (How) (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (-5 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Political
-[] Regime
--[] Set Up A Public Trial Of Surviving Traitors (+3 Reputation) (+3 People's Opinion)
---[] And Invite Chinese Observers (+4 Reputation) (+1 Chinese Opinion)
---[] Make A Spectacle (+1 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion)
---[] Drive Home The Point Of Failure (+1 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion) (Suppress Further Attempts/Insurgencies)
-[] Populists & Internationalists
--[] Have our glorified paparazzi help the Nationalists by seeing the value of ad campaigning abroad to increase the desire of our trade goods to increase their market value. (-3 Reputation)
--[] Medical Student Exchange with Cuba (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
--[] Bother the Cubans for their "Home Self-Reliance And Repair Manual" (-3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Progressives
--[] Have their experts focus on the economic issues and bring up suggestions on how to increase food supply and ideas for a healthier economy. (-4 Reputation)
-[] International
--[] Trade canned goods with NV to gain materials to buy food. (+2 Reputation) (+NV Relations) (-4 People's Opinion)
--[] Trade canned goods with African Countries to gain materials to buy food. (-4 People's Opinion)
--[] Send volunteer trainers/observers to NV to act as a training force when, in actuality, they would instead assist our comrades in their liberation against the imperialist Americans (+4 Reputation)
-[] Technologists
--[] Form a Statistics Bureau (Focus) (-4 Reputation) (Political Consequences For Their Findings)
-[] Militarists
--[] Create a dedicated branch of Military Engineers (+Allies)
--[] Buy Russian Trucks for native logistics and the military (-1 Chinese Opinion) (-4 Reputation) (Knock-On Effects)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Secret Projects
-[] Investigate Applications For WEISOFT Again
[] Wei Jungming - (RP)
-[] Personal Action (Write-In two things he does within the next six months.)
-[] Lover Action (Write-In one thing Wei Jungmin and Wei Mai do together in the next six months.)

Father Of Two
While leading an entire nation tends not to leave much time for personal life, Jungming makes time for his family, especially now as he has two children! One can only pity the nations where parents can't, or won't(!) be around their children every moment they can.
(+2 Reputation/People's Opinion, +More Child)

...Wat
The people of Guangchou are used to having the Secret Police drag people from their homes with flimsy evidence that always seems to be just enough for convictions. Now they are bombarded with ironclad proof of the involvement of 73 people in the destruction of the steel mill, with absolutely no foul play anywhere to be found.
(+4 to one Social Action)

Rural Riches Rise
The expansion of farming space, access to new and revolutionary fertilizers, in addition to improved water treatment has led to a noticeable increase in the Quality of Life for many rural farmers and workers. In one village, they now stare at the bounty of the new harvest, eclipsing what they managed to bring in from the last three combined.
(+4 to Agriculture)

abominable · Feb 25, 2022

I said I'd make two omakes. I LIED, FOOL! I made three. Presenting this Omake Triple Special, Three Fathers: The Farmer, the Soldier and the Commander.

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Rural Riches Rise

Old Qiang woke to darkness. The pitch black un-light stretched infinitely, with no sound to be heard.

Until an inhuman cackle pierced the chilled gloom. That was probably his youngest rooster, so eager to herald the morning. Then Qiang's vision adjusted, and he began making out the silhouettes of his bedroom. To his right, he gazed melancholically at the empty space on the bed. It was something he did now and then, during the mornings, but more often lately.

But as he breathed deep, he began rising from his bed, his old bones creaking and muscles straining as the years weighed his body down. Yet that did not slow him. Decades of toil and labor had helped compensate the wear and tear exacted by age and the passage of time. Simple farm work had kept him fit and clear-headed.

Old Qiang walked briskly down the short hallway of his old ancestral home, past the humble heirlooms and assorted knickknacks generations of his farming family had accumulated over the years. Yet he only paused briefly at the only door that lay between his bedroom and the house's living room: his daughter's room.

His little Mei would probably be getting up right about now. Getting a bit of studying or work done before taking her breakfast. So hardworking, even with all her talent and smarts. She'd either be attending lectures, or working on more projects afterwards, eager to help her country and her people.

He was proud of her, just as her mother would, if she were here. His Bei would no doubt regale him of all their daughter's accomplishments, even when he himself had already heard them. So lively and talkative his Bei was, which made the quiet mornings lonelier for him.

Old Qiang shook of his melancholy as he walked through the multi-purpose living space and stepped out past his front door. Even under the early morning's darkness, he could see the near-endless sight of his crops stretching towards the horizon. Rows upon rows of strong, healthy crops, ripe for the harvest lay waiting to be reaped. In the distance, he could hear the gentle bubbling of the man-made streams and miniature canals running past the fields, ready to be distributed for the next planting.

The new tools, methods and fertilizer had seen a mixed reception in his little farming community. Many of the farmers had come from generations of the trade. Their parents and grandparents had passed down decades' worth of knowledge and wisdom to ensure their descendants' prosperity, and the new agricultural campaign had threatened to overturn all of that.

It had required a lot of convincing and insisting to them even a few of them to sign on, yet Old Qiang had done so without any fuss. Mei had sent him a letter a week prior to the party people's arrival. She'd told him of what would happen, that it was for everyone's sake, that it would help the nation and end famine and hunger. Not to mention enriching the farmers themselves.

Old Qiang did not care as much for that. But his this was his daughter's work, something she helped create and plan out. And he trusted her. That was enough.

Soon enough, the young ones from the village would be arriving to help with the harvest. But first, he needed to water and feed his livestock, milk the goats, collect the chicken and duck eggs, and clean up their shelters. All this before collecting and chopping up some firewood to refill his stocks, then walking through and around his fields to take one last look at the crops and see if there were damages to his fences. Made all the more time-consuming due to the increased farmland he'd been given.

Some might balk at all that work, all the sweat and energy spent going through one day, even with help. But not Old Qiang. He loved it all. Loved the comforting fatigue that set in after productive labor, the thought of helping to feed starving bellies, but most of all, of helping to make his beloved daughter's work a success.

It wasn't much, but it's honest work.

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The Man of the Mountain

Yong found his footing sure and true as he made his way up the steep, winding trail. Yet he reminded himself that the same would not be true for his temporary wards.

For today, he was serving as a guide.

The small trail of researchers and students trudged along in his wake, leaving miniature puddles of sweat along the path as they clambered up the trail then paused in moments to catch their breath. What they were here for, he knew not, exactly. Something about finding natural vents and whatnot, that the mountain hid such spots that would help power the nation.

It was a volcano, they insisted. But unless it erupted, Yong thought, it would remain a mountain to him.

He wasn't completely unaware, of course. As someone who'd recently left the army for making a self-sufficient living in the mountain's raw wilderness, he still carried the hard-earned lessons of his past career. While not quite the gray-haired visage of a general, he wasn't exactly the young spy man he used to be. His boundless vigor and fiery energy had slowly given way to the surety if a man who thought out his next moves and efficiently carried them out with minimal energy needed.

This calm had served him well in drilling new recruits as a sergeant, and the stern demeanor he cultivated brought the discipline needed in his kids' lives. He took great pride in watching them find their way in the army, some of them being orphans or coming from less fortunate or ideal families. But the Great Leader's rise to power had heralded a great change, not just for the nation and her people, but Yong as well.

It was time to move on.

He'd left his thirty-year career the day after the Speech. While his old colleagues had worried for the timing, he'd told them he sincerely believed that they had a great future ahead of them, but that he wanted to greet that future with a fresh start, on his own terms. And certainly not with the thirst for belonging he once had as he joined the army at the young age of 16, after leaving the orphanage.

Not all of his friends understood, of course, at least not all of them. But they had accepted it.

Hence why he now led this panting, heaving, physically unfit troop of academics up the mountain, after hearing their whole spiel about doing their part of Guangchou. They may not be soldiers, but they were patriots, in their own way.

And just like that, he'd made up his mind. Maybe one day he'd rejoin the army, when the nation and his people needed his strength, his experience… to fight off traitors and dissidents from within, or opportunists and would-be conquerors from without…

But until then, he'd guide people up and down the mountain, witness its beauty, its natural wonders. And as for this group, maybe he'd even lead them to the pair of hot springs he'd found sitting quite near each other. One for the men, the other for the women, to help them relax and appreciate the work they'd put in making the trip.

But only after they've worked up quite a sweat.

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Father of Two

You, Wei Jungmin, are a father now. You now have a responsibility not only to your nation, to your people, and to your wife, but to your two children as well.

You chant that mantra in your head as you make the short trip to your children's room. Their cries growing louder and louder a sure sign as any that you're coming close to your destination.

It has been exactly 5 days since you temporarily banished the staff charged with seeing to your children's needs. You'd told them you wished to care for your children personally, at least for a few days. And with the exhaustion and birthing pains your wife went through, you'd also insisted that she let you handle the kids while she rested up in bed.

Even as Jing Mai quickly regained her strength within days, something the doctors claim is unheard of and grounds for a new medical study, you stubbornly insisted on maintaining the arrangement for at least one week. Your wife, of course, could see to and visit the children during the day, but seeing to their needs and demands at night and in the early mornings was your sole purview.

As you enter the room, you head straight for the cribs. Over the days, you'd grown used to their needs and wants. Rather than hunger, at this time they simply wish to be held. And that's what you do. Lifting your daughter and placing her in your non-dominant hand, you lift your son with your dominant one, carrying them both to the simple yet sturdy chair placed near the corner of the room.

You sway them both gently in your arms, mumbling soft nothings to them as they grow quiet and calm at the sound of your voice.

It's times like these that you wonder all the things your father left unsaid. All the things he couldn't do or say or express to his one living family and child. About life, about the future, about anything, really. You wonder if he ever felt the same way as you do as you watch your infant son and daughter fall asleep to your gentle lullaby.

You wonder about your mother. Where is she? Is she still alive? Does she love you? DID she love you? What would she say to you now? All questions you think you may never have the answer to.

But not your children. No.

As you carry them back to their cribs. You set your mind to the future. You imagine all the things you would tell them as they grow up. All the praises you'd give them as they accomplish their dreams and goals. The encouragements as they face their trials and tribulations. The commiserations as they feel defeat and failure. And your gratitude as they succeed at the one thing you've ever expected of them, for coming into your life.

"Sweet dreams, my darlings. Sleep well, knowing your father loves you very much."

Note: Too corny? Was listening to this while writing all three. Also, Yong may be single and an orphan, but the army was the family he'd never had. And as strict as he may have been, he did see his recruits as his kids, in a way.

HeroCooky · Feb 25, 2022

This short summary is intended to provide the creative types within the thread a chance to apply themselves, while also ensuring that their time and energy is directed to create something that even those without any knowledge but from cultural osmosis can understand. This must not be followed, but will vastly ease my work as the QM.

Name (Guangchou uses a mix of the German and Chinese naming conventions, with the use of your design being plainly stated, followed by a Type #. Said Type # represents the number of iterations the system has undergone until final prototyping and release. For Example: ALDR-Type 68, or, spelled out: Auxiliary Logistic Defense Rifle - Type 68.)
Nickname (What people actually call the darn thing.)
Type (What you are trying to make. Gun, Vehicle, Boat, Plane, etc., further identified by the type of said category, like an assault boat, transport helicopter, heavy smg, etc.)
Branch/es (Somebody needs to use the darn things, so who does?)
Intended Role (Why does it exist? What role and purpose does your design fulfill?)
Notable Quirks (What stands out, put in short words and sentences. Large magazine, caseless bullets, lightweight, unwieldy, prone to jamming due to cheap materials, a flaw in production leading to unforseem consequences for guns. Notable armaments for vehicles and boats, perhaps a weird shape or cramped interior beyond what is normally the case, a capability to turn on the spot or a weird innovation not widely used?)
Fluff (Here you can go into detail about your design, and throw in numbers if you wish. Though do note that this section won't be copied into the Design Section of the plan and is purely here for others to point out mistakes/impossibilities, as I will be operating the designs on the categories above.)

0- = Utter failure, completely unusuable.
1-3 = A pretty bad piece of equipment. Faulty, unreliable, prone to explosion/jamming/not working.
4-8 = Eh-Level weapon/equipment. Minor faults, some things don't work right, but "good enough" all things considered.
9-11 = You wanted it, you got it. Whatever "it" is.
12-16 = Improvements over baseline design, adjusted to fit some things, but better than nothing.
17-20 = Covers failures, improves in one area far ahead, but has experimental issues that can be resolved later.
20+ = You wanted a bolt-action rifle? Too bad, here's an automatic gun! Basically, jump in technology and capability for the thing you wanted.

"When you go up in this plane, and you've got the stick in one hand and the throttle in the other, the wind beneath your wings, you lose yourself. You don't have to look down at dials and gauges; you don't have to fight the controls. The line between woman and machine blurs, and you feel like you have become one. No self. Anattā."
-Irina Popova (1979)

"The Anatta displays the distinctive gray radar absorbent paint associated with stealth aircraft. Please note the lighter-colored edge treatments applied to gaps to absorb incoming radar waves before they can scatter off the sharp breaks in the aircraft skin. Above, we see the distinctive red and black tail fins of its airshow livery."
-Airplane Enthusiast Weekly #299

Name: Air Defense Fighter Type 3
Nickname: "Anata" (NATO reporting name "Fairy")
Type: Light Fighter
Branch(es): Airy
Intended Role: Multirole/Air Superiority Fighter
Notable Quirks:

Almost Stealth
Great Situational Awareness
Cheap to Build and Operate
Slow Supercruise
Sluggish At Low Speed
No Gun*
Room to Grow
Joy to Fly

Initially derived from the MiG-23 airframe, the Anatta's fuselage was rapidly redesigned towards the end of its development cycle to take advantage of the aerodynamic breakthroughs in vortex lift developed for the MiG-29 (its aerodynamics being identical across both domestic and export variants, and thus not subject to restrictions when it came to tech sharing).
This left it with the body of a MiG-29, but the radar and engine derived from the MiG-23.
An eclectic blend of eastern and western military aviation doctrines: on the one hand, you have an emphasis on energy theory and stealth that's very far removed from the Soviet focus on performance and maneuverability. On the other hand, while the USAF learned that it couldn't rely on missiles on Vietnam, Guangchou only saw a promising technology going through its teething problems and adopted the Soviet roketnaset concept for the air-superiority role.
The Anatta also incorporates partial stealth. With Guangchou's supercomputers being used for economic planning, the opportunity cost of monopolizing them for geometrical stealth optimization was too high, and a relatively simplified geometrical stealth program would have resulted in unacceptable aerodynamic performance for a fighter. As such, the Anatta development team went for the low-hanging fruits of the RCS reduction tree.
The first and most important design change was to obscure the engine fan and compressor from direct observation from the front. This was done by redesigning the intake into a split-s lined with several centimeters of RAM on the interior. This would attenuate incoming radar waves and absorb ones reflected from the engine fan. The intakes were also changed from a rectangular cross-section to a parallelogram to eliminate corner reflections.
The second major part of reducing radar cross section comes from the RAM mentioned above. This takes the form of a paint made of tiny iron balls coated with an electrical insulator embedded inside a polymer substrate. Several different balls are used and painted in layers to present incoming radar waves with a material of increasing density with depth. An automated robotic painting rig was designed to reduce cost and downtime in applying the paint to the aircraft in the field.
An indium-tin-oxide layer over sensor windows and the pilot canopy prevents radar waves from getting into the plane and bouncing around like a corner reflector.
Fun Fact: Because the US tested their planes in the middle of the desert, they missed the fact that the F-22 stealth paint was sensitive to moisture, leading to the plane's reputation as a hangar queen. Guess what issue an island nation caught early?
The third major part of RCS reduction was primitive geometric stealth, which was done more based on gut feelings and rules of thumb than any quantitative analysis to save time and resources. For instance, the V-tail shrouds the exhaust and reduces RADAR reflections from the sides compared to a vertical rudder, large unitary skin panels reduce the number of edges that have to be stealthed, and fixed ramp intakes mean there's less variable geometry to bounce a radar reflection from, skin roughness is minimized in general for the same reason, etc.
Taken all together, these measures do about 80% of the work of RCS reduction for only about 20% of the effort compared to the F-22. However, detection range scales with the fourth power of RCS, so these measures only give a 20-30% reduction in detection range compared to a design that does 100% of the work, like the F-22.
For its time, the Anatta is actually very good, though the built-in RCS reduction and enlarged radar compared to its MiG-23 and 29 parents mean that it can usually get off the first missile launch, and the glass cockpit and bubble canopy give the pilots much better situational awareness than the MiG-23 if they do get into a dogfight. This is especially true if two Anattas operate in a hunter-killer mode where a plane in the rear will illuminate the target while one in front closes in using only passive radar.
The plane's electro-hydrostatic actuators are much simpler to maintain than the traditional hydraulic system and lighter to boot. When combined with the maintenance light 'Faster' engine, it means the plane has the lowest ratio of flight/maintenance hours out of any combat aircraft at the time, making it very cheap to operate.
The airfare is primarily made of aluminum alloy isogrids to keep costs low - the extra machining cost being absorbed by the CNC mills available to Guangchou.
A dedicated avionics bay houses a central computer based on the Tigerlink terminal developed for the Iron Tiger. This computer is responsible for managing the aircraft's relaxed stability and engine, as well as ECM and ECCM.
The more powerful engine combined with the drag reduction incidental to stealth shaping also allows the aircraft to maintain a very modest supercruise of Mach 1.1, allowing it to spend longer at supersonic speed compared to purely afterburner-based propulsion. However, the plane's overall top speed with an afterburner has been reduced from Mach 2.35 at altitude to Mach 1.9 as a result of eliminating the variable geometry elements of the ramp intakes - a change necessary to meet RCS reduction targets and reduce the overall cost of the aircraft, but which does degrade the performance a bit.
The plane also gives up some low speed and high AOE maneuvering capability compared to its parent and other fighters under development by our Soviet Allies. Its maneuvering characteristics stress energy maintenance more than the maneuverability emphasized by the USSR. This tradeoff was made to accommodate RCS reduction features and reduce cost and complexity.
The engine nozzle is lined with ceramic tiles to reduce heat transfer to the airframe and thus reduce infrared signature and hide as much of the con-div nozzle as possible from RADAR.
Immediately behind the cockpit are a combined takeoff intake and air brake. A bi-directional hinge allows the panel to hinge around its rear side when taking off to provide extra lift while allowing the ventral air intakes to be blocked off to prevent debris injection during rough field STOL takeoffs. During landing, the same panel will hinge around the front side simultaneously, pivoting the all-moving v-tails perpendicular to the air stream to serve as air brakes after touchdown.
The side-mounted internal weapons bays can mount six missiles - typically four MRAAMs and two SRAAMs, each mounted on an independent trapeze launcher meant to eject the missile and close the bay quickly to reduce the window when the plane is vulnerable to radar scattering off of the interior of the weapon bay.
The aircraft is designed to receive numerous upgrades over its lifetime, and an effort has been made to make subsystems as modular as practical. For instance, the internal bays have room to fit more missiles if a double rack is developed, and the hexagonal cupolas mounted above and below the nose stand ready to receive an IRST system in future variants.

(Boeing Truss Braced Wing concept. Just imagine a radome on top of it, and you've basically arrived at what the Tao looks like.)

Name: General Transport Aircraft Type 1
Nickname: "Tao" (NATO reporting name "Madam"/"Carol")
Type: Transport Aircraft
Branch(es): Airy
Intended Role: AWACS / Air Freight
Notable Quirks:

Range: Yes
Very Loud
A Bit Slow
Hylux of the Sky

Surprisingly normal looking.
A standard tube and wing-fuselage with a t-tail empennage.
T-Tail is used to get the elevators into the clean air above the prop wash of the engines. This has the happy side effect of also making it easier to load and unload cargo.
Elevators are all moving - this lets them be smaller and thus reduces drag and allows them to generate lift while cruising instead of being a source of induced drag like a typically fixed elevator.
The wing was inspired by the Hurel-Dubois HD.31 and the Short Skyvan and emphasized endurance at the expense of speed. A long and slender high aspect ratio truss braced wing generates minimal drag but reduces max cruising speed to Mach 0.7 (compared to most other large gets flying at Mach 0.8). The truss is shaped like an airfoil, and the plane derives a non-trivial amount of lift due to that. Their most dramatic feature is the integrated wing-folding actuator, which allows the aircraft to fit inside existing hangars and airfields.
The engines use the Faster common engine core, but the propeller blades are where the bulk of R&D for this project went:
Rather than creating a gearbox to allow a turbofan's fan to spin slower than its turbine (and thus grow larger and more efficient without tearing itself apart from centrifugal loading), or reducing the aircraft's cruising speed further to Mach 0.5 and using a turboprop, Mingxian's aeronautics council has chased the siren screech of the propfan.
Using titanium alloys and their superior computer-aided design systems, they worked backward from the deformed in-motion shape of the transonic propeller. They calculated what the at-rest propfan blades would look like for manufacturing.
The twin counter-rotating propfans are much louder than an equivalent turboprop or turbofan, and the aircraft was laid out to keep the crew towards the front and rear. The center, where the engine's sound hits the hull almost perpendicularly, is given over to an airborne supercomputer for the AWACS system. This is combined with issuing the crew radio-enabled noise reduction earmuffs to allow noise levels to be brought down to comfortable levels for long-term operation.
Because the engines are mounted relatively high up, and the intakes are far from the ground, they can land from unprepared runways - a crucial part of Guangchou air defense doctrine - and a desirable feature for air freight operators that opens up some unconventional opportunities.
Thanks to the advanced electronics available, the Tao can fit an AWACS system into a smaller aircraft than the American E-3 Sentry or the Soviet Beriev A-50 currently under development. This reduces the development and manufacturing costs by going to a medium-haul sized airframe.
Unlike the Soviet AWACS of the time, Guangchou opted for a fixed radome with a moving antenna, electing to further streamline the radome into a lifting body to offset its drag.
Uses electro-hydrostatic actuators to reduce weight and maintenance, a fly-by-wire system, a glass cockpit to reduce pilot informational load, and IT-derived alloys for strategic reinforcement of its airframe. It creates a robust aircraft that can function despite significant damage or neglect.
With the relatively slow speed and low drag wing, the lift-positive empennage, and the incredibly efficient propfans, you have an AWACS that can stay in the air for 12 hours at a time and needs minimal maintenance between flights.
If the propfans' noise issue can be resolved, it has the potential to be an excellent passenger jet that can fly everything from medium to long-haul routes. And with further research into transonic truss-braced wings, the top speed may rise to Mach 0.8, bringing it to parity with turbofan-powered jets.
With a few upgrades, this plane could be the 737-killer that would give us a dominating position over the passenger and air freight markets.

Name: Standardized Logistics System
Nickname: Mule
Type: Modular Truck Based Logistics System
Branch: Guangchou Army
Intended Role: Freight Transport
Notable Quirks:

Iron Tiger on Wheels
Expensive If Not Mass Produced
Rugged & Reliable
Easy to Learn, Hard to Master
Adaptable Chassis
Specialized Mechanic's Training

Fluff:

A truck version of an Iron Tiger Chassis, using many techniques learned in its construction. This opens up the possibility of an apples-to-apples comparison to limbed locomotion.
Comes in 4x4, 6x6, 8x8, and 10x10 variants.
Lightweight chassis built using IT-derived alloys, Tigerlink terminal, and EHA long travel suspension all share manufacturing techniques and facilities with Iron Tiger factories, reducing cost. Cheaper than an IT due to needing fewer actuators and high-wear joints.
Powered by a 400 HP turbine generator managed by Tigerlink FADEC. Digital control reduces operator cognitive load while maintaining efficient performance. The turbine is also fuel agnostic (can use a wide variety of fuels).
The turbine is designed to maximize efficiency by operating at its optimal design point rather than ramping up and down based on how much power the vehicle needs. The onboard batteries provide peak power in those moments (though sometimes, ramping up the turbine is necessary).
Electro-hydrostatic long travel suspension based on Iron Tiger limb actuators allow it to remain level when traversing very rough terrain. A necessary capability when it was designed to support Iron Tiger operations.
Built-in Tigerlink terminal manages traction system, radio communication, vehicle status, etc. Hardened against EMP. Modified within days to run QuestKnights.
All-wheel drive and all-wheel steering with a digital traction control system that will reroute power away from slipping wheels towards the others to help clear rugged terrain.
Central tire inflation system can decrease tire pressure to increase contact area on soft terrain or increase it to reduce rolling resistance on prepared roads and make up for the loss of pressure due to tire puncture.
Airtight seals for the crew compartment, with SCARS-based air filters and temperature and humidity control while omitting the rebreather and pressurized storage of the original SCARS to save weight.
8x8 and 10x10 variants can carry standard 20 ft long intermodal containers and load and unload them using a built-in hook lift.
Each wheel is mounted on a swing arm that allows for extended travel and is driven by a shaft connecting it to a gearbox and electric motor via a universal joint. This keeps unsprung weight down while keeping the engine and gearbox away from the dust and grime of the road.
Braking is done via a combination of using the electric motor in generator mode and wheel-mounted disk brakes with excess power going to battery storage.
This is relatively (to ITs) more expensive in terms of manufacturing due to having a motor for every wheel (10 motors for a 10x10 truck!). Still, it considerably simplifies the truck's design and allows new variants to be designed quickly and cheaply. This is further aided by its 'skateboard' construction that places the motors, batteries, electrical transmission, and computers in the bottom of the vehicle's carriage, allowing different cabins or attachments to be added on top with minimal design and testing.
The series-hybrid drivetrain is less efficient in highway cruising. However, this was considered a very low priority, as the combination of (expected) extensive rail transport infrastructure and off-road operation make it a small part of the vehicle's operations.
A future civilian conversion is expected to provide rural cargo handling and civilian transport in niche applications. At the same time, battery-electric versions can take up urban roles such as ambulances and specialized delivery vans.
The self-contained drive units and electrical power distribution system minimize the number of unique parts and reduce the overall need for maintenance compared to ICE power vehicles and mechanical transmissions.
Unfortunately, when maintenance is needed, it requires mechanics trained in electrical systems and turbine maintenance and repair. As the number of such vehicles rises, this is expected to become less and less of a problem, but initially, efforts must be made to get the Army's mechanics certified on the new techniques the vehicle requires.
Finally, while driving it like a regular truck is relatively painless, making it shine in off-road conditions requires mastering the somewhat esoteric suspension controls - similar to what an Iron Tiger might use and utterly different. This necessitates extra training for truck drivers.

N/A

Humanoid - Modular Armor - 35 Tons Weight, 3.3 Meters Height

T104 Steel Leopard - 7.4-11.3 Tons Weight (Dependent on loadout), 3.1 Meters Height

"Lightningbolt" 115mm Automatic Smoothbore Anti-Armor Gun (Back-mounted)
Inspired by the Soviet U-5TS tank gun mounted on the T-62, the world's first tank-designed smoothbore cannon has been adapted to fit on a deployable arm behind a bipedal chassis. While capable of firing conventional USSR-made shells, the gun's alloy and loading system are modified from the anti-tank variants among the laufpanzer prototypes. Featuring a 10-round magazine and autoloader mechanism, the Thunderbolt system can deliver a rapid burst of anti-armor devastation at the cost of manually replacing the spent magazine with a new one. In addition, a "Two-Mech" system is advised when deploying the chassis it's mounted on, with one unit to fire, the other two load, or both units taking turns firing and reloading their systems.
(9+9=18)
In a rare moment of sheer genius, ingenuity, and economic viability, every single team assigned to create the Lightningbolt Anti-Armor Gun pulled on the same string, working nearly every component into a work of art. The loading mechanisms, mechanical arm, and even loading system have all been refined and prototyped beyond what the initial estimates have projected. Credit where credit is due, those assigned to the project were good, but they have outdone themselves, creating an autoloading system beyond even those currently being developed within the USSR and USA, eliminating the need for magazines in exchange for a minimal increase of weight to armor the belt and loaders. They even managed to incorporate automatic loading of different ammunition types and limited ability to shoot in a 270° arc at pre-determined targets independently. The latter capability is still deep within the prototypical stage. It is best used while standing, against stationary targets, and in conjunction with rangefinders, unless an ambush in a prepared environment is enacted.

Developed:
"Lightningbolt" 115mm Automatic Smoothbore Anti-Armor Gun (Back-mounted)

"Thunderfire" 57mm Tri-barrel Autocannon (Mech Rifle) - OBSOLETE
Soviet-made, the 57mm AZP S-60 short-to-mid range single-barrel autocannon has been adapted into a tri-barrel configuration capable of shredding not only aircraft but even some armored vehicles, albeit from more vulnerable angles. In addition, one of the laufpanzer alloys described amongst the original notes has allowed for a tri-barrel rapid-fire mech-sized autocannon rifle that can fire in respectable bursts without risk of overheating while also offering considerable protection from collision and kinetic damage. The robust internal mechanisms in the original laufpanzers have also been adapted into an ammunition feed that is quite resistant to jamming. However, the belt-fed system prevents on-the-fly switching between anti-armor and anti-aircraft ammunition.
(1+3+4=8)
Despite the difficulty in the production and design phases, the Thunderfire Tri-Barrel Autocannon has met all targets and leaves little to desire from its design. However, increases in weight and a lowered maximum of bullet-throughput had to be accepted as material constraints of the bullets could otherwise lead to premature explosions or jammings within heated Thunderfires. Still, this weapon will prove an adequate point of development for future endeavors into Iron Tiger-Deployed AAs.

Designed:
"Thunderfire" 57mm Tri-barrel Autocannon (Mech Rifle)

"Dragon's Tooth" Bayonet/Combat Knife
Made with the most durable alloy present in the current designs, the Dragon's Tooth is designed primarily for survivability. It is meant to last through multiple uses before even beginning to show signs of stress. A last-ditch weapon, it can be used to destroy enemy armor from close range or to take down hostile mechs in close combat in a worst-case scenario.
(5+6=11)
Despite the latter use of the Dragon's Tooth indicating a titanic breach of security, as well as the outbreak of war on a possible global scale, it is an excellent hold-out weapon as every person within the military, from the generals to the planners, all the way down to the grunts at the bottom of the pole assures you. The reason soldiers are still being issued knifes today is that soldiers will still use them, despite engagement ranges often being more than a hundred meters.

Developed:
"Dragon's Tooth" Bayonet/Combat Knife

"Dragon Spite" 57mm Mech Autorifle (Automatic Mech Rifle)
The 57mm caliber has been retained due to its ability to punch through dense underbrush and unreinforced walls without losing too much energy immediately after, both locations where the SL is expected to fight. It is a single-barrel electrically driven chain gun held in the mech's hands, firing bursts of one of two new ammunition types developed for the caliber and used against ground targets rather than aircraft.

-HEDP bursts are effective against lightly armored targets and infantry, the contact fused HEAT warhead capable of puncturing the protection of the former. At the same time, the AoE of the fragmentation casing can shred groups of the latter type.
-APDS bursts are effective against more heavily armored targets, even having enough penetration to go through some MBTs' side and rear armor if the SL finds itself close enough in a flanking position. Beyond that, it can also punch through walls and continue into whatever, or whoever is on the other side, bringing a cloud of spall fragments with it.
-Ammo switching mid-combat has been achieved by having both reservoirs of ammo run into the same linkless feed mechanism before reaching the Dragon Spite. To swap from one type to the other, the feed system simply back-feeds the unwanted ammo type into its magazine until the feed is clear, then pulls from the other magazine instead.
(12+12 =24)

Developed:
"Dragon Spite" 57mm Mech Gatling (Mech Gatling)
Thanks to massive advancements in cooling, robotic, and electronic development, the switching of munition types occurs within a mere 3.4 seconds, with the weapon capable of unjamming itself after a cycle of reloading again. Furthermore, typical bursts of firing last for 4 seconds before requiring a 3-second cooldown, though this can be extended to 21 seconds with the barrel needing replacement afterward.

"LIAR" L246 Anti-Infantry Weapon System (Automatic Mech Rifle)
A simple rifle-caliber machine gun, the L246 (nicknamed "LIAR"), is held in a vambrace mount on the outside of the forearms, kept that small a caliber to avoid taking up too much space in such a small location. It provides a lower-collateral way of dealing with hostile infantry and unarmored vehicles than other non-zero-range weapons. Technically two can be mounted, one per arm, but most of the time, only one will be used to reduce the possibility of any interference with equipment held in the hands.
(8+11=19)

Developed:
Despite the low-hanging aspirations of this anti-infantry system, the engineers working on it have outdone themselves in a bid to one-up the Dragon Spite teams, though they fell short while doing so. That is not an insult to them, but a compliment to both, as the LIAR managed to overcome all problems it was anticipated to have.

"Pouncing Cat" ATGM (1-Shot Missile Launcher)
Developed as a low-recoil, lighter-weight anti-tank alternative to the Lightningbolt, the Pouncing Cat is a 1-Shot HEAT missile operating using laser beam riding principles, making it difficult to jam, and is also able to receive information mid-flight from the launcher through modulation of the guiding beam. It is expected to have a much lower ammo pool (6 Missiles) than the Lightningbolt due to the larger size of the missiles than the tank shells, but this is an acceptable tradeoff.

-It takes many of the systems from the Lightningbolt, such as its ability to reload itself and swap between alternate ammo types and the ability of the launcher to aim at a target individually in its firing arc without pilot direction. The latter keeps the missile guided towards the target after launch, even as the pilot has shifted their attention and mech away to engage a different enemy.
-The alternate ammunition type is a missile capable of overfly top attacks using an explosively formed penetrator pointing directly downwards to triggers as the missile is guided over the top of the target. It comes in two subvariants depending on the target, one that produces a single large penetrator and one that creates a spread of smaller penetrators. Further, the missiles can listen to the modulated laser to be manually detonated by the pilot at any point in flight and roll to a limited degree mid-flight. These two combined allow the Pouncing Cat to launch its EFP in any direction on a plane perpendicular to the flight path, letting it "shoot" around corners the SL may not be able to aim around itself.
(7+9=16)

Developed:
"Pouncing Cat" ATGM (1-Shot Missile Launcher)
While the ability to shoot around the corner has not been able to be implemented, its ability to be moved around the same by a skilled operator with a limited degree of accuracy has been retained.

"Heavenly Response" Superheavy Mortar
Taking advantage of the Water Buffalo to move something by mech that has given up all pretense of being fired while mounted, the Heavenly Response is a 250mm mortar and an attached crate of ammunition carried into position by the Water Buffalo. Once there, a single mech can set it up on the ground and operate it, though teams of two are usually sent so one can provide a lookout and protection for the one serving the mortar. As it is an entirely separate weapons system not connected to the SL, the Heavenly Response does not interface with the Tigerlink system. So the pilot must rely on infantry or other mech spotters to adjust aim. The enormous payload capacity combined with our ridiculously durable electronics has some engineers salivating over the possibility of guided mortar shells that still pack a massive punch.
(1+9=10)

Developed:
As advertised, one extremely large mortar. Though, at this point wouldn't it be more accurate to simply call it artillery?

Tigerlink Terminal
Based on the interlinked Weisoft terminals back at the compound, Tigerlink is designed as an "overseer" system to monitor the Iron Tiger's subsystems, power levels, ammo count, fuel, and more. Experience from the Weisoft network's development has allowed the possibility of linking even weapons, tracking, targeting, and monitoring damage sustained, albeit in a rudimentary manner. The Tigerlink displays a sufficiently distressing ERROR page should a part be sufficiently damaged. Barely works. Issues remain. Bugs still need to be squashed.
(11+4=15)
Work on the software and hardware within the Iron Tiger to operate and oversee many systems goes and can be expected for experimental technologies in their infantile state. However, the systems now stand ready for further tests and refinement to assist your Iron Tigers combat capabilities further.

Developed:
"Tigerlink" Terminal

"Dragonbone" Stability System and Gyroscope"
A necessary component in the original laufpanzer design, and an immense contribution to the design's success, the gyro is an internal mechanism used to counteract and direct the tremendous forces generated by the engine and moving parts within the Iron Tiger mecha. It also assists the mecha in executing precise maneuvers, as well as rebalancing the entire structure and restoring stability should an external force (such as projectile impacts) act upon the Iron Tiger. This gyro is accompanied by reinforced joints and loadbearing components to allow the mecha increased stability when under fire.
(5+2=7)
Work began on the gyroscopic system and stabilization mechanisms within the Iron Tigers practically within the same week that work on understanding the machines the Nazi scientists left was started. The same systems of particular interest for many systems within the military and civilian sector alike, as the thought of highly stabilized rockets and turrets for ships and tanks alike sent grins onto your general's faces. At the same time, improving machinery used for the production and manufacturing of goods was always something the people were looking for. The drive to produce more while working less a powerful motivator to any and all workers. Sadly, most of the work was stumped by the sheer technical edge the Nazi Scientists held over yours, their understanding of their machines eclipsing even the knowledge of people that had every vested interest in ripping out their secrets with highly advanced tools and nearly unlimited funding to do such. As a result of the Laufpanzer's stubborn refusal to divulge their secrets, your efforts to create gyroscopes natively were hampered, with the results being deemed 'acceptable' for a first foray into unknown technological grounds. Still, there is room to improve.

Developed:
"Dragonbone" Stability System and Gyroscope

"SCARS" Self-Contained Atmosphere Reclamation System"
An integrated life support system was designed to allow the Iron Tiger to operate in areas with dangerous gasses or high levels of nuclear fallout. The SCARS consists of an air-tight sealed cockpit for the operators kept at a slightly higher internal air pressure to prevent the ingress of radioactive material and gasses, with the internal atmosphere filtered by a re-breather system to maximize the duration of the onboard air storage. To avoid the addition of yet another operational limit beyond fuel and ammunition, the SCARS should be able to be deactivated when not needed, opening sealed vents to allow for the refilling of the onboard air tanks mid-mission and ventilating the cockpit directly to the exterior to preserve the limited storage capacity of the C02 scrubbers for when it is needed. Such a system would also be helpful in mining operations where sufficient ventilation has not been established, and asphyxiation due to engine exhaust or other gasses is a risk, or possibly even underwater, if additional protections were developed to prevent water ingress to the other vital systems.
(14)
"You know," Ru Hiro said, looking at the prototypes currently undergoing stress-testing within the pressure chambers while they were flooded with water, "this is giving me ideas."

"Such as?" Wei Mai Responded, raising an eyebrow at him, silently thinking he may have had the same thought as her.

"If these things can go without air for about three hours," he spoke, nodding to some finished thought in his head, "what else would be needed to ensure they could walk underwater?"

Developed:
"SCARS" Self-Contained Atmosphere Reclamation System

"Water Buffalo" Portage System
A tool rather than a weapon, the Water Buffalo is a heavy-duty lifting arm with an attachment point at the end for hooking onto various cargo containers. When taking a knee, the SL can pick up or put anything down from its back with a compatible attachment system. At the same time, a camera system at the end hooked up to the Tigerlink makes it easier for the pilot to maneuver the arm despite this all happening behind them and out of view. Suitable for hauling construction material for combat engineers and other misc equipment.
(6+10=16)

Developed:
What has been promised has been delivered.

Iron Tiger Scale Combat Engineering Tool - Shovel Axe Hybrid (ITSCET-SAH)
A dedicated mech-scale combat engineering tool made out of the same alloy as the Dragon's Tooth, it is a simple shovel for digging with one side sharpened to allow it to serve as a passable axe for felling trees and structures. While not the best for SL meant to see combat because of its size, with only a minimum of collapsibility allowed due to the need to survive being swung into objects by a mech, it can theoretically be used as an axe against enemies.
(3+1=4)

Developed:
Iron Tiger Scale Combat Engineering Tool - Shovel (ITSCET-S)
Surprisingly, scaling up a shovel-axe hybrid takes more than making a shovel and axe bigger before combining them. Using it in combat it right out, and more than digging will damage or destroy the tool.

HeroCooky · Feb 25, 2022

Note: This list is by no means exhaustive nor covers everything present within/around Guangchou.

Army Headquarters (PGLA)
Air Headquarters (PGLAF)
Naval Headquarters (PGLN)
Military Officer Academy
Several Military Bases
Several Russian Tank Depots
Maintenance Stations
Three Anemic Airbases
Iron Reef Defense Network Remnants
WW2-Era Bunkers
WW2-Era Underground Tunnel Networks

Laufpanzer Complex
Iron Tiger Assembly
Iron Tiger Armor Foundry
Iron Tiger Electronics Manufacturing
Iron Tiger Research Group

Several Mining Complexes
Several Smelting Complexes
Several Steel Foundries with improved Security
Three Light Vehicle Plants
Two Heavy Vehicle Plants
A Dozen Machine Shops
Coal Power Plants
Geothermal Power Plant
Freezer Factory
Electrical Stove Factory
Flawed Electrical Microwave and Oven Factory

A small fertilizer plane

Ghangchou Institute of Sexual Science (GISS)
Black Fire Alloy Institute (BFAI)
Twin Sickles Botanical Research Institute (TSBRI)
Silver Pearl Marine Science Institute (SPMSI)
Television Station Programms: The Progress Forecast (Technological Educational Program), The Workers Kitchen (Food Show)

Mazes and Minotaurs (Guangchou DnD, Horny compatible. Pun intended. Spreads Culture.)

A Handful Of Harbors
Electric Substations To All Tier Three Settlements
Small Amounts Of Large Scale Energy Efficient Housing
Improved Roads
Half-finished Double-Track Trainline from the Captial to the Straight of Oshumi
Small Clinics
Distributed Police Stations
Improved Waterworks

A Fishing Fleet
Optimized Cannery
A Fertilizer Factory
A Breakthrough Fertilizer Factory

HeroCooky · Mar 2, 2022

Scheduled vote count started by HeroCooky on Feb 24, 2022 at 2:29 PM, finished with 32 posts and 13 votes.

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7 people have voted
[X] Plan: Transportation, Trials, Electrification
-[X] Improve Roads (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
-[X] Create New Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Train Network (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[X] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[X] Improve Your Metallurgical Institute (+2 Reputation)
-[X] Initiate Kelp Harvesting Operations (Very Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[X] Regime
--[X] Set Up A Public Trial Of Surviving Traitors (+3 Reputation) (+3 People's Opinion)
---[X] And Invite Chinese Observers (+4 Reputation) (+1 Chinese Opinion)
---[X] Make A Spectacle (+1 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion)
-[X] International
--[X] Send volunteer trainers/observers to NV to act as a training force when, in actuality, they would instead assist our comrades in their liberation against the imperialist Americans (+4 Reputation)
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Dote on your babies! This is the most important time in their young lives!
--[X] Set up cameras everywhere to immortalize all their very firsts!
--[X] Have a quiet night by the fire in your home with your wife and just watch your babies play, sleep, and whatever else they do in their playpen.
5 people have voted
[X] Plan: Tackling Transportation
-[X] Improve Roads (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
-[X] Create New Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Train Network (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[X] Construct A Geothermal Power Plant (Helpful)
-[X] Improve Your Metallurgical Institute (+2 Reputation)
-[X] Initiate Kelp Harvesting Operations (Very Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[X] International
--[X] Send volunteer trainers/observers to NV to act as a training force when, in actuality, they would instead assist our comrades in their liberation against the imperialist Americans (+4 Reputation)
-[X] Investigate Applications For WEISOFT Again
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Dote on your babies! This is the most important time in their young lives!
--[X] Set up cameras everywhere to immortalize all their very firsts!
--[X] Have a quiet night by the fire in your home with your wife and just watch your babies play, sleep, and whatever else they do in their playpen.
2 people have voted
[X] Plan: If A Fish Wears A Hard Hat Is It Still Edible?
- Lovemuffin
- Night_stalker
1 people have voted
[X] Boni and Mali
- abominable
1 people have voted
[X] Bo Ni (boy) Ma Li (girl)
- Halocon720
1 people have voted
[X] Name the girl after Jungmin's mom and the boy after an important male figure in our wife's life.
- CedeTheBees

HeroCooky · Mar 6, 2022

[X] Plan: Transportation, Trials, Electrification
-[X] Improve Roads (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
-[X] Create New Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Train Network (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[X] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[X] Improve Your Metallurgical Institute (+2 Reputation)
-[X] Initiate Kelp Harvesting Operations (Very Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[X] Regime
--[X] Set Up A Public Trial Of Surviving Traitors (+3 Reputation) (+3 People's Opinion)
---[X] And Invite Chinese Observers (+4 Reputation) (+1 Chinese Opinion)
---[X] Make A Spectacle (+1 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion)
-[X] International
--[X] Send volunteer trainers/observers to NV to act as a training force when, in actuality, they would instead assist our comrades in their liberation against the imperialist Americans (+4 Reputation)
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Dote on your babies! This is the most important time in their young lives!
--[X] Set up cameras everywhere to immortalize all their very firsts!
--[X] Have a quiet night by the fire in your home with your wife and watch your babies play, sleep, and whatever else they do in their playpen.

[X] Bo Ni (boy) Ma Li (girl)

[X] Light Industry
-[X] Improve Roads (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
(2 - Subpar)
Increased road maintenance and the beginning rainy season have temporarily halted any plans for expansion as hiccups in the resource and procurement system have led to bitumen and gravel shortages within the infrastructural departments and maintenance depots across the island. However, what has been built has been maintained with moderate difficulty and shored up to prevent any future degradation from nature or natural use, leaving only a little time or work done on expansions. Still, several new long-range roads connect several villages, with more planned and mapped out.

-[X] Build A Rudimentary Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
(7 + 1 = 8 - Optimal)
Where previous efforts were waylaid by a (frankly ridiculous) attack on your steelworks by traitors, the initiative proceeded with no problems with the renewed attempt, most of the organizational issues already ironed out. With routes and timetables planned, specialists created maps to show the people where the busses would drive, when they should arrive, and how long a journey to another town would take. Only a little effort was needed to hire drivers, mainly those retiring from the army for medical issues or family-related reasons, with the first busses beginning operation last morning.

-[X] Create New Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
(3 + 4 = 7 - Optimal)
The slowly increasing pitch and speed of construction within the Capital are beginning to change the cityscape noticeably. The new housing units take up less space in the horizontal, rising instead into the vertical. With integrated services attached to these houses, many distribution centers are slowly being reworked or closed, with additional safety precautions in terms of fires and crime being proposed by your ministers and city planners on a near-weekly basis. Aside from that, the demolishing of houses no longer needed for the people has resulted in a noticeably large part of the inner city being empty, now primarily used to store construction equipment and housing panels/rebar. Even if the new units replaced all houses, the empty plaza would remain. A few people have written letters to campaign for building various structures instead of leaving the plaza ugly or repurposed as storage. Those suggestions range from simple parks to botanical gardens, all the way over to giant statues and art installations showing off your past or the values of the workers. These suggestions have merit, with you being able to show off your progress in the social revolution (that many other communist nations seem to purposefully neglect, much to your shame and hidden anger) or giving the workers within the Capital a place to relax and spend time with friends and family. You promptly burned the suggestion to make a statue of you wearing the tiger costume with a skirt before talking to your wife about how to set up those letters anonymously.

On a completely unrelated note, she is pregnant again.

-[X] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
(9 - Optimal)
More appliances were given out to the people, more stations and cables lain, with more and more electrical lights lighting the cityscapes of Guangchou with every passing day. The wonders of modern conveniences are slowly but surely being introduced to the workers, with all eager to be among those who receive the benefits first. Sales of the appliances imported from overseas have risen dramatically.

[X] Heavy Industry
-[X] Build A Rudimentary Train Network (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
(6 + 1 = 7 - Optimal)
Similar to your bus network, the creation of the routes and machinery needed to operate the trains succeeded with no delay induced by terrorist attacks. With a ring of double-tracked tracks now connecting all important cities of Guangchou, both resources and people are now being ferried across the nation in ever-increasing numbers and ever-decreasing costs. A hurray for modern public transportation systems!

-[X] Improve Your Metallurgical Institute (+2 Reputation)
(3 - Subpar)
Most scientific and human resources have already been tapped dry in other efforts to create robust agricultural institutions and the Iron Tiger Research Groups, leaving little trained cadres to begin research and teaching within the metallurgical sectors. It will take a few years until the current newcomers graduate and start contributing significantly to the field, but it is impossible to create trained personnel out of thin air. On the note of teachers, it should be noted that any reforms to the current schooling system will be costly but will, in time, prove to be massively needed, as even the most promising students are subpar in comparison to the median produced by other schooling systems.

[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
-[X] Initiate Kelp Harvesting Operations (Very Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
(8 + 9 = 17 - Breakthrough)
Initial operations to begin the study of kelp as a serious, renewable, and consistent source of nutrition for the people have returned with both incredible finds and new studies being proposed from all biological fields. It seems that while kelp is a natural and abundant source of iron, minerals, and vitamins, the local variant is an exceedingly fertile species of kelp, with the local kelp forests stretching for kilometers around the island. Furthermore, while local cuisine has had kelp as a source of nutrition for nearly all history, the attacks and blockades by the IJP have almost severed any experience with cooking or preparing kelp. However, those aged workers who still remember how to prepare and use the plant have begun teaching their wisdom to younger generations as harvesting areas, and cutting boats are organized and scheduled. Soon, a staple crop of your culture will return.

[X] Political
-[X] Regime
--[X] Set Up A Public Trial Of Surviving Traitors (+3 Reputation) (+3 People's Opinion)
---[X] And Invite Chinese Observers (+4 Reputation) (+1 Chinese Opinion)
---[X] Make A Spectacle (+1 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion)
(12 - Boosted)
"And now to international news," Roger Davidson speaks, his eyes entirely centered on the camera pointed squarely at his face, the moderately large text scrolling across the prompter feeding him the following news story for the masses. "After a recent explosion within a steel foundry in the degenerate nation of Ghuanghou, the Great Leader, Wei Jungmin, has once more ordered a terror campaign on his people, jailing and executing dozens of innocents for crimes they did not commit to cover the failings of the communist ideology. Agents and sympathizers within the regime have noted that their Chinese overlords were present to oversee the executions with glee and fascination, apparently laughing as the executions were conducted." Davidson purposefully avoids rolling his eyes at the exaggerated story, as the commies most likely shot a few people on tv with a bit of flair and not the horseshit he was currently reading to the American people. "A move that has come under international attention as several boats had been spotted with radar on a course toward Vietnam, most likely smuggling weapons and troops to the belligerents trying to murder our brave troops overseas in their attempt to protect the freedoms of the Vietnamese." He shuffled the blank papers in front of him for a moment as the story concluded. "Now, how will the weather be for the week, Diane?"

-[X] International
--[X] Send volunteer trainers/observers to NV to act as a training force when, in actuality, they would instead assist our comrades in their liberation against the imperialist Americans (+4 Reputation)
(7 - Optimal)
"They are acting weird." Ngô Thụy Miên spoke, setting down his mug of water. Several heads turned from their meals to look at him with raised eyebrows and questioning looks.

"Who?" Nguyễn Tuấn Ðức asked, stuffing another piece of stew-soaked bread into his mouth.

"You know who I am talking about, the damn faggots!" Ngô retorted, pointing a thumb behind him to one of the Ghuangchou Observers that had recently arrived. The group turned their attention at the trio of men and women sitting at their table, whispering with enthusiasm with each other as they scribbled down something. "They are not here to learn about us kicking off the damned Americans. I know it!"

"Why?" Nguyễn spoke, swallowing the last bit of stew with some regret in his eyes. It was the final good ration he would get before going back to the front.

"They don't give a shit about how we wage war or move infantry! All they care about is conditions in cities, how American Armor fares off-road, and everything but what we do! They are doing something, and I don't trust the fuckers. I mean, they even have women with them, women that give orders to men! I don't trust them."

[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
-[X] Dote on your babies! This is the most important time in their young lives!
(80)
Before your children were born, you had the genius idea to, for the first month at the very least, do everything you could to spend time with them, including all the caring so your wife could rest and sleep. By day three, you were tired due to their constant screaming; by week two, Mai had to drag you out of your office and work to sleep and stop doing what you were doing. So, honestly, yeah, you did overdo it in your drive to be anything but your father during your children's upbringing. Nonetheless, the short stint in raising your children did give you a titanic insight into the difficulties many people faced with newborns and how most didn't have access to staff and caretakers like you did. And while you are delighted that your children are already curiously moving about and are anything but sickly, you can only hope that their teenage years won't come as fast.

-[X] Set up cameras everywhere to immortalize all their very firsts!
(05)
"No," Mai said, glaring at you as she breastfed your children.

"But-," you tried to interject, cameras in hand.

"No." Mai retorted with finality in her voice and hard iron in her eyes. "You'll enjoy your time with them with your eyes, and I'll be taking the pictures. I won't have them realize you made a movie about their entire life."

"Yes, love," you reply in defeat, knowing that there wasn't any chance you could argue her out of her decision. Then, turning, you are stopped by her foot bumping against your leg.

"Drop them off in the bedroom; we'll need those cameras later," she says, a grin on her face.

-[X] Have a quiet night by the fire in your home with your wife and watch your babies play, sleep, and whatever else they do in their playpen.
(94) (Ambition Triggered: 1d12 = 12 - Space)
People say that there are three things the wise fear.

The sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle person.

Looking at your daughter and son playing with each other, laughing innocently, ignorant of the cruel world that lay outside their home, with your wife by your side, blissfully sleeping as you felt the slight baby bump growing on her once more, you realize something.

Before, you wanted nothing more than to realize the visions of those early revolutionaries like Marx, Lenin, and Rosa, but now?

Now there was a drive within you to see the world dreamed up by the early founders of communism be dragged into reality.

You fall asleep to the thoughts of seeing Bo Ni and Ma Li growing up in a world of true equals, one without hate, poverty, strive, or inequality. It is a world where humanity tours the stars as one, not seeing them as one more piece of land for the rich to colonize and turn to sand.

{Ambition: +2 to Space Actions (Electronics, Mettalurgy, Eduaction)}

Reputation - (54/100 Reputation - A thin thread between control and irrelevance)
People's Opinion - (75/100 Reputation - Hail The Great Leader! Vaniquisher Of Hunger!)
Chinese Opinion - (7/10 - The tools of revolution everywhere must hunt the enemies of communism anywhere)
History Page - (A name, a small paragraph of your life, and the steelworks incident. Three dates. Birth, reign, death.)

Light Industry - Meh - (Slight Improvement)
Heavy Industry - Adequate
Military Industry - Adequate
Agriculture - Meh - (Slight Improvement) - (Plan Target Almost Reached)

[] Light Industry
-[] Improve Roads (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Build A Monument Within The Capital
--[] A Natural Park/Space/Building (Sub-Turns) (+/-??? Reputation/People's Opinion)
--[] A Statue/Art Installation (Sub-Turns) (+/-??? Reputation/People's Opinion)
---[] ~~Your Wife In A Tiger Costume~~
-[] Expand Your Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-3 Reputation)
-[] Create New Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[] Use Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+1 Reputation)
--[] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design New Housing Concept (Design)
-[] Improve Medical Infrastructure (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Build New Police Stations (Helpful) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct Consumer Goods Factory (What) (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Heavy Industry (+2/+2 to Geothermal Power (Trade/Omake))
-[] Construct A Tractor Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Expand Your Train Network (Helpful)
-[] Construct Another Steel Foundry (Harmful) (+3 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Power Plant (Helpful)
-[] Construct A Geothermal Power Plant (Helpful)
-[] Improve Your Metallurgical Institute (Harmful) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Construct A (Iron Tiger Derived) Electronics Factory (+5 Reputation) (Harmful) (Highly Suspicious) (Steel Foundry Needed)
-[] Expand Your Mines (Harmful)
-[] Construct Another Harbor (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Vehicle (Describe) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Ship (Describe) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Aircraft (Describe)
-[] Construct Five Merchant Marine Vessels (+1 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Military (+4 to Design A Native Ship)
-[] Design Two Iron Tiger Systems (Describe) (Still Secret)
-[] Design A Native Tank (Describe) (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Plane (Describe) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Vehicle (Describe) (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Ship (Describe) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Artillery Piece (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design A Native Sidearm (Describe) (+1 Reputation
-[] Design A Native Main Personal Weapon (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design Native Equipment (Describe) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Design Infantry IT-Alloy Bodyarmor (+4 Reputation)
-[] Design Police IT-Alloy Bodyarmor And Shields (+2 Reputation) (-1 People's Opinion)
-[] Import (What) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Dedicated Naval Slipway (Ship) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct Coastal Defences (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct Interior Defences (+2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct An Airfield (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct Military Building/Factory (What) (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-1 People's Opinion)
-[] Expand The Military Academy (+3 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
-[] Raise A New Military Formation (What) (Harmful) (+2 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
-[] Raise A Iron Tiger Formation (Organization/Loadout) (Sub-Turns) (Secret) (Suspicious)
-[] Recover Your Sunken Fleet (Harmful) (+4 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion) (+4 to any Naval Action)
-[] Intimidate Taiwan (+5 Reputation)
-[] Commit Exercises (+3 Reputation)
-[] Secure Trade Routes (+1 Reputation)
-[] Raid International Shipping (What Goods) (Helpful/Harmful) (Roll above five, and you won't be caught.)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Agri-, And Aquaculture (+2 to Farming/Animal Husbandry (Chinese Experts), +2 to Farming/Fishing/Animal Husbandry (Technocrats))
-[] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Clear Jungles For Farming (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Increase Herd Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
-[] Assemble A Fishing Fleet (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Expand Kelp Harvesting Operations (Very Helpful) (-3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct A Cannery Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Social
-[] Expand Your Television Station (New Channel Name And Focus) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Vaccination Campaign (Disease)
--[] Native Production And Doctors (-2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
--[] Internation Production And Doctors (Helpful) (-5 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion)
-[] Revamp Your School System (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
-[] Create A Rudimentary Child-Care System (Sub-Turns) (Helpful) (-5 Reputation)
-[] Expand Your Rural Schools (Helpful) (-5 Reputation)
-[] Expand Your Technical Schools (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Arrest Dissidents (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-3 People's Opinion)
-[] Increase Surveillance (Harmful) (-3 People's Opinion)
-[] Purge Undesirable Citizens (Who) (Harmful) (+2 Reputation) (-4 People's Opinion)
-[] Search And Destroy Rebels (Harmful) (-4 People's Opinion) (+3 Reputation)
-[] Increase Social Control (How) (Helpful) (Harmful) (-2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Propagandize An Achievement (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Reduce Surveillance (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Praise Workers From (Industry) (Helpful/Harmful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Boost (Social Statistic, example: Birthrates) (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Propagandize Workers Conditions (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Implement A Social Policy (Write-In) (Helpful/Harmful) (+2 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Reduce Social Control (How) (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (-5 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Political
-[] Populists & Internationalists
--[] Have our glorified paparazzi help the Nationalists by seeing the value of ad campaigning abroad to increase the desire of our trade goods to increase their market value. (-3 Reputation)
--[] Medical Student Exchange with Cuba (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
--[] Bother the Cubans for their "Home Self-Reliance And Repair Manual" (-3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Progressives
--[] Have their experts focus on the economic issues and bring up suggestions on how to increase food supply and ideas for a healthier economy. (-4 Reputation)
-[] International
--[] Trade canned goods with NV to gain materials to buy food. (+2 Reputation) (+NV Relations) (-4 People's Opinion)
--[] Trade canned goods with African Countries to gain materials to buy food. (-4 People's Opinion)
-[] Technologists
--[] Form a Statistics Bureau (Focus) (-4 Reputation) (Political Consequences For Their Findings)
-[] Militarists
--[] Create a dedicated branch of Military Engineers (+Allies)
--[] Buy Russian Trucks for native logistics and the military (-1 Chinese Opinion) (-4 Reputation) (Knock-On Effects)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Secret Projects
-[] Investigate Applications For WEISOFT Again
[] Wei Jungming - (RP)
-[] Personal Action (Write-In two things he does within the next six months.)
-[] Lover Action (Write-In one thing Wei Jungmin and Wei Mai do together in the next six months.)

Foreing Legionaries
It is a shock to travel abroad even in the best of circumstances, with culture, society, and even laws changing from what you are used to at home. Now, aborad within a warzone deeply embroiled in a fight against a superpower and fighting against both capitalist slaves and kin to free the workers, the observers of Guangchou are ever more aware and thankful of the length and success of the social revolution back home.
(+2 to Social Actions)

Grandma's Recipes
The wisdom of the elders has many things the young should heed, chief among them how to prepare nutritious and tasty snacks and meals from the newly harvested kelp.
(+4 to one Agricultural Action)

The Contest
The increasing amount of free space within the Capital has created a simmering contest between city planners and artists to be the ones whose proposal will be accepted. Underhanded methods are joined hand-in-hand with great shows of support or talent. At the same time, vicious debates about the usability and frivolous nature of the competitor's designs are thrown left and right.
(+Monument Greatness)

That Time I Became A Dictator Of A Small Asian Communist Nation

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