[X] Adrian DuMour, ex-JIA operative recently freed from the cell he was imprisoned in after leaking documents revealing how the JIA infiltrated labor organizations. While experienced in keeping secrets, committed to justice, and highly capable in a number of fields, there are concerns about the specifics of his ideology beyond vibes.
[X] Bobby White, revolutionary soldier and former professional sport hunter, famed for using an incredibly wide variety of weapons, including actual black powder muskets. He would be ideal for training soldiers on weapons uptime and downtime and little else.
Scheduled vote count started by notbirdofprey on Dec 14, 2022 at 4:48 PM, finished with 27 posts and 24 votes.
[X] Adrian DuMour, ex-JIA operative recently freed from the cell he was imprisoned in after leaking documents revealing how the JIA infiltrated labor organizations. While experienced in keeping secrets, committed to justice, and highly capable in a number of fields, there are concerns about the specifics of his ideology beyond vibes.
[X] Bobby White, revolutionary soldier and former professional sport hunter, famed for using an incredibly wide variety of weapons, including actual black powder muskets. He would be ideal for training soldiers on weapons uptime and downtime and little else.
[X] Samantha Smith, professional engineer and organizer for the New Chicago Intellectual Labor Union. Unquestionably intelligent and experienced, able to organizer workers to rally for their rights or to efficiently labor in a complex environment, but her doctrainire attitude and acidic tongue have led to some concerns from downtimers we have consulted.
[X] Bobby White, revolutionary soldier and former professional sport hunter, famed for using an incredibly wide variety of weapons, including actual black powder muskets. He would be ideal for training soldiers on weapons uptime and downtime and little else.
[X] Adrian DuMour, ex-JIA operative recently freed from the cell he was imprisoned in after leaking documents revealing how the JIA infiltrated labor organizations. While experienced in keeping secrets, committed to justice, and highly capable in a number of fields, there are concerns about the specifics of his ideology beyond vibes.
[X] Samantha Smith, professional engineer and organizer for the New Chicago Intellectual Labor Union. Unquestionably intelligent and experienced, able to organizer workers to rally for their rights or to efficiently labor in a complex environment, but her doctrainire attitude and acidic tongue have led to some concerns from downtimers we have consulted.
[X] Bobby White, revolutionary soldier and former professional sport hunter, famed for using an incredibly wide variety of weapons, including actual black powder muskets. He would be ideal for training soldiers on weapons uptime and downtime and little else.
[X] Samantha Smith, professional engineer and organizer for the New Chicago Intellectual Labor Union. Unquestionably intelligent and experienced, able to organizer workers to rally for their rights or to efficiently labor in a complex environment, but her doctrainire attitude and acidic tongue have led to some concerns from downtimers we have consulted.
Scheduled vote count started by notbirdofprey on Dec 14, 2022 at 4:48 PM, finished with 27 posts and 24 votes.
[X] Adrian DuMour, ex-JIA operative recently freed from the cell he was imprisoned in after leaking documents revealing how the JIA infiltrated labor organizations. While experienced in keeping secrets, committed to justice, and highly capable in a number of fields, there are concerns about the specifics of his ideology beyond vibes.
[X] Bobby White, revolutionary soldier and former professional sport hunter, famed for using an incredibly wide variety of weapons, including actual black powder muskets. He would be ideal for training soldiers on weapons uptime and downtime and little else.
[X] Samantha Smith, professional engineer and organizer for the New Chicago Intellectual Labor Union. Unquestionably intelligent and experienced, able to organizer workers to rally for their rights or to efficiently labor in a complex environment, but her doctrainire attitude and acidic tongue have led to some concerns from downtimers we have consulted.
[X] Bobby White, revolutionary soldier and former professional sport hunter, famed for using an incredibly wide variety of weapons, including actual black powder muskets. He would be ideal for training soldiers on weapons uptime and downtime and little else.
[X] Adrian DuMour, ex-JIA operative recently freed from the cell he was imprisoned in after leaking documents revealing how the JIA infiltrated labor organizations. While experienced in keeping secrets, committed to justice, and highly capable in a number of fields, there are concerns about the specifics of his ideology beyond vibes.
[X] Samantha Smith, professional engineer and organizer for the New Chicago Intellectual Labor Union. Unquestionably intelligent and experienced, able to organizer workers to rally for their rights or to efficiently labor in a complex environment, but her doctrainire attitude and acidic tongue have led to some concerns from downtimers we have consulted.
[X] Bobby White, revolutionary soldier and former professional sport hunter, famed for using an incredibly wide variety of weapons, including actual black powder muskets. He would be ideal for training soldiers on weapons uptime and downtime and little else.
[X] Samantha Smith, professional engineer and organizer for the New Chicago Intellectual Labor Union. Unquestionably intelligent and experienced, able to organizer workers to rally for their rights or to efficiently labor in a complex environment, but her doctrainire attitude and acidic tongue have led to some concerns from downtimers we have consulted.
Scheduled vote count started by notbirdofprey on Dec 16, 2022 at 10:44 PM, finished with 32 posts and 24 votes.
[X] Bobby White, revolutionary soldier and former professional sport hunter, famed for using an incredibly wide variety of weapons, including actual black powder muskets. He would be ideal for training soldiers on weapons uptime and downtime and little else.
[X] Adrian DuMour, ex-JIA operative recently freed from the cell he was imprisoned in after leaking documents revealing how the JIA infiltrated labor organizations. While experienced in keeping secrets, committed to justice, and highly capable in a number of fields, there are concerns about the specifics of his ideology beyond vibes.
[X] Samantha Smith, professional engineer and organizer for the New Chicago Intellectual Labor Union. Unquestionably intelligent and experienced, able to organizer workers to rally for their rights or to efficiently labor in a complex environment, but her doctrainire attitude and acidic tongue have led to some concerns from downtimers we have consulted.
Scheduled vote count started by notbirdofprey on Dec 16, 2022 at 10:44 PM, finished with 32 posts and 24 votes.
[X] Bobby White, revolutionary soldier and former professional sport hunter, famed for using an incredibly wide variety of weapons, including actual black powder muskets. He would be ideal for training soldiers on weapons uptime and downtime and little else.
[X] Adrian DuMour, ex-JIA operative recently freed from the cell he was imprisoned in after leaking documents revealing how the JIA infiltrated labor organizations. While experienced in keeping secrets, committed to justice, and highly capable in a number of fields, there are concerns about the specifics of his ideology beyond vibes.
[X] Samantha Smith, professional engineer and organizer for the New Chicago Intellectual Labor Union. Unquestionably intelligent and experienced, able to organizer workers to rally for their rights or to efficiently labor in a complex environment, but her doctrainire attitude and acidic tongue have led to some concerns from downtimers we have consulted.
Your downtime organization is currently Very Developed. A robust and extensive network of radicals across the country have joined your organization, granting it great capability to act, especially when supported by uptime funding and expertise. Shipments of gold and specialized uptime revolutionaries have begun providing even more capacity, along with income from the Troy Cooperative and a number of other schemes. The organization is highly unified.
This grants you a total of ten organizational actions.
You have six Operatives available. Each operative can perform one personal action. These personal actions may apply benefits to organizational actions based on their personality and skill. The scale of Radical Reconstruction is such that the operatives can no longer operate alone. Your current operatives are Malcolm Miller, Rebecca Tillman, Floyd Olsen, Alexander Franklin, Bobby White, and Adrian DuMour. Tag each action with who is doing them. Examples: -[x] Action [Alex], -[x] Action [Rebecca] [Malcolm]
A trans man from an upper-class background, first his childhood and then his transition - both to adulthood and to a more suitable identity - was fraught with emotional and physical abuse, until his older brother died. Suddenly, he became the only heir of his family's business empire and his "quirks" became tolerable eccentricities. The sudden turn in treatment only further damaged his relationship with his family. He enrolled in a prestigious, distant, and radical university, where he became embroiled in politics, met Radical Reconstruction members, and helped the organization develop.
Then he went and joined the army in a bid to further escape the reach of his parents. Five long and bloody years later, he returned to Radical Reconstruction, just in time to take part in concealing the time machine and enter the downtime with the goal of aiding John Brown.
He normally goes by Alex, but adjusting his name and having to live in the past seemed a small price to pay to meet many of his heroes and predecessors. Alex attended the same school as Malcolm, but they came from very different backgrounds - while Malcolm was a rich guy fleeing his family, Alex was a lower middle-class individual who could only afford the college's punishing fees with extensive support from his family. He aimed to become a chemical engineer, but fell in love with history and Marxism. He wrote a number of articles for a few student newsletters on the topics and ended up expelled from the school after one particularly inflammatory article.
One failed lawsuit later, he became a dedicated member of Radical Reconstruction, splitting most of the money he made in a variety of dubious engineering and chemistry jobs between contributing to Radical Reconstruction and helping his family, although a series of clashes of personality, politics, and perspectives saw the latter diminish due to increasing divides. Eventually, he was cut off altogether, leading him to accept the burden of going downtime and leap at the opportunity to have an enormous impact.
Traits
-Historian
-Chemist
-Economic Theorist
Floyd Olsen was born in a working-class family. His early years were filled with memories of his parents fretting over which bills they could pay and scrapping with richer kids on the playground. Those memories led him to join a boxing gym in middle school, running errands for the owner in exchange for lessons. He had a degree of natural talent and determination to work hard that saw him rise high, both in the ranks of the errand boys and the ranks of boxing tournaments, and began doing full fights in high school while learning about the real business of the gym and becoming involved in that as well. He was effectively living three lives for years at a time: the upright young boxer, the backroom, foul-mouthed fighter, and the brutal mob bruiser. Floyd got good at switching between his personas, and was able to keep it up until the deaths of his family in a "police raid."
Then he abandoned the gang and sought solace with Radical Reconstruction, helping provide security at protests and events, adding an additional persona to his array.
Traits
-Mentally Flexible
-Boxer
-Respects the Chain of Command
Supposedly distantly descended from the white supremacist politician "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, her family was incredibly poor, living in an impoverished, miserable backwoods town in a half-decayed house too small for them all. Always vaguely uncomfortable with the vitroilic outbursts of the adults in her family, she grew increasingly desperate for an escape as the town's fortunes fell and her family grew more radicalized.
She spent years working every job she could find and studying as hard as possible, hoping to go to college, and barely managed to escape, despite immediately getting cut off for willingly exposing herself to "black liberal commie brainwashing."
Despite needing to take out painful student loans and work continually, she blossomed in college, deliberately seeking to prove everything her parents told her wrong and embracing everything she thought they would hate. That was what initially led her to attend Radical Reconstruction meetings, more than any genuine conviction.
But she found the messages shared there resonated with her, and she began to develop a more genuine interest, adopting their beliefs in economic redistribution, social justice, and cultural transformation with the convict's zeal.
Born to a middling rural family, Bobby's seemingly prenatural skill with a rifle, a pistol, with every type of gun he could get his hands on soon led him on an unusual career path, that of a child celebrity. Suffocated by the intense pressure to perform and various emotional difficulties, social manipulation kept him working even as the money earned by his skillful labor vanished into a number of mysterious pits. Soon after, he burned out, vanished from the media scene for three years, and came back as an expert in hunting, using black powder weapons as a deliberate challenge.
A brief round in the army more as a publicity stunt than anything else left him with some experience in the art of soldiering and an intense distaste for authority. And so when the revolution began, he picked up one of his rifles, tossed the rest to new comrades, and went to war.
Traits
-Uptime Soldier
-Downtime Hunter
Adrian DuMour was an orphan raised in the institutional schools, a neglected face among countless others who only became an individual after managing to impress a visiting recruiter for the JIA. Months of grueling physical and social training followed, along with a vast education - Adrian specialized in history.
Vaguely dissatisfied with the ideological gruel he was fed as part of his training, but viewing all alternatives as equally bad, he began to ignore the meaning of his missions in favor of a sense of accomplishment. However, degenerating conditions meant he could not help but be aware of things falling apart. Hoping to preserve the system he lived under and create a more just version that would better suit his sensibilities, he leaked some key information and was imprisoned for it.
Recently released, his duties downtime are as much about sidelining him and keeping him from returning to the JIA as they are about taking advantage of his myriad skills.
Traits
-Spy
-Historian
-Agent Provocateur
-Assasin
-Jack of Many Trades
[] Speak with Brown: Brown had questions, plans, needs...and your organization has the same. There's plenty of opportunities to get him alone and have a chat. Choose up to two topics.
-[]International outreach: Slavery exists by other names on other shores. Indigenous peoples are under attack in every corner of the globe. Capitalism and imperialism are entrenching themselves. Ask for his backing in foreign adventures, both in the immediate period after Harper's Ferry and further in the future. Let the banner of freedom fly from one of the continent, to the other!
-[] What he needs: As the time till Harper's Ferry ticks down, see if Brown has thought of any gaps that could be made up with future equipment.
[] Meetings to be Had. History is full of people of importance. Meet figures from the past, people you read about, and seek their aid in your struggles.
-[] Write-in who you are meeting with and the goal of the meeting. Note that they should be roughly a week from Brown's farm in North Elba if you want to have the operative be available for the next downtime phase.
[] All About Chemistry. The factory has a small workshop nearby, kept carefully away from the main buildings, for experimentation and chemistry production. The dyes developed in it are incredibly valuable, and some shipments of uptime quality reaction vessels and measuring devices have greatly improved the lab's capabilities. Perhaps some explosives could be made here?
[] New Designs. Right now, the factory mostly produces rifles. Good rifles, better than anything else in 1859, but that is all, or nearly so. (There is a small workshop for Gatling Guns, and another for grenades, but both are slow.) The weapons made will be invaluable, but perhaps there are other types that could be produced.
[] Factory Theory. The workers at your Troy factory enjoy the benefits of being worker-owners and having the ability to manage their own hours, but while they will probably fight to defend those privileges, or extend them to others like them, they are still undeniably chauvinistic. Expose them to theory, see what comes of it.
[] Appalachian Contacts. Some contact has already been made with local allies throughout the mountains, from Virginia to Georgia. The network will continue to grow with current operations continuing, but more time and money can be spent winning the support of these homesteaders.
[] The Railroad Below. Harriet Tubman has joined your company and introduced you to some contacts among the Underground Railroad, although even she does not know the entirety of the network. Distributing small quantities of weapons, ammunition, and most importantly information will help the network prepare for when the upcoming war begins.
[] Businessmen Doing Business. The more money you invest in your factory, the larger it will grow. Perhaps you could even diversify it to a degree, and start creating new products. Or you could create associated services, such as a cafeteria or daycare for your laborers. The new machines coming out of the time machine have already proved invaluable, but you will need some funding to properly set up the new divisions for different sorts of labor.
-[] Write-in any specific goals, methods, etc.
[] Investing in the Community. Community roots are invaluable for an organization with political goals. And despite your expectation of violence, you are unquestionably political in nature. Whether it is through deliveries of free medical supplies, small gifts, or other donations, you can win support through the simple act of doing nice things.
-[] Choose from North Elba, Troy, or Appalachia for each action
-[] Write-in any specific goals, methods, etc.
[] Militia Training. It won't be long before the raid on Harper's Ferry and a war bloodier than any the American continent has seen begins. More than a hundred men are ready to take part in the raid itself, another few hundred have been drilling to act as dragoons during the immediate aftermath. But there are many, many more who have joined the organization or associate with it in some way. Begin helping drill and discipline them, as much as can be done under these circumstances.
[] Propaganda Campaigns. The slave-ocracy in downtime America has immense political power, further backed up by the casual racism and white supremacy heavily integrated into the culture and economy of the nation. Using the immense uptime printing capacity and various downtime resources, it is time to begin launching an attack on this, on capitalism, on all the evils of hierarchy. Propaganda, posters, public speaking, all are avenues in this war of belief.
[] Marches and Meetings. While there won't be any major elections before the attack begins, developing an effective political wing would still be valuauble for a number of reasons, including enabling better recruiting and establishing a peaceful counterpart to open a new front in the class war. There are downsides, many bitterly familiar to your uptime operatives, as well as the risk of reducing what limited secrecy you still have.
[] International Outreach. The cause of revolution cannot just be taken up in one country. The British Empire stands as a bloody hegemon, the workers of Paris and Berlin both strike and struggle for liberation, the depredations of imperialism have reached across the globe, causing suffering from the lands of the Maya to home of the Zulu. The radicals from uptime, eager to avert tragedy before it begins, want to start reaching out to like-minded foreign organizations, whether to offer them support or to ask for revolutionary defeatism.
[] Letters and Telegrams. Using the mail and telegram services is relatively simple. If you are looking for someone in the US or Europe, in any case. Contacting distant people is a good way to get their attention and hopefully set up a more fruitful meeting, or it might even have good results by itself.
-[] Write-in who you send messages to and the general gist of the messages.
[] Speak with Brown: Brown had questions, plans, needs...and your organization has the same. There's plenty of opportunities to get him alone and have a chat. Choose up to two topics.
-[]International outreach: Slavery exists by other names on other shores. Indigenous peoples are under attack in every corner of the globe. Capitalism and imperialism are entrenching themselves. Ask for his backing in foreign adventures, both in the immediate period after Harper's Ferry and further in the future. Let the banner of freedom fly from one of the continent, to the other!
-[] What he needs: As the time till Harper's Ferry ticks down, see if Brown has thought of any gaps that could be made up with future equipment.
[] All About Chemistry. The factory has a small workshop nearby, kept carefully away from the main buildings, for experimentation and chemistry production. The dyes developed in it are incredibly valuable, and some shipments of uptime quality reaction vessels and measuring devices have greatly improved the lab's capabilities. Perhaps some explosives could be made here?
[] New Designs. Right now, the factory mostly produces rifles. Good rifles, better than anything else in 1859, but that is all, or nearly so. (There is a small workshop for Gatling Guns, and another for grenades, but both are slow.) The weapons made will be invaluable, but perhaps there are other types that could be produced.
[] Factory Theory. The workers at your Troy factory enjoy the benefits of being worker-owners and having the ability to manage their own hours, but while they will probably fight to defend those privileges, or extend them to others like them, they are still undeniably chauvinistic. Expose them to theory, see what comes of it.
[] Appalachian Contacts. Some contact has already been made with local allies throughout the mountains, from Virginia to Georgia. The network will continue to grow with current operations continuing, but more time and money can be spent winning the support of these homesteaders.
[] The Railroad Below. Harriet Tubman has joined your company and introduced you to some contacts among the Underground Railroad, although even she does not know the entirety of the network. Distributing small quantities of weapons, ammunition, and most importantly information will help the network prepare for when the upcoming war begins.
[] Militia Training. It won't be long before the raid on Harper's Ferry and a war bloodier than any the American continent has seen begins. More than a hundred men are ready to take part in the raid itself, another few hundred have been drilling to act as dragoons during the immediate aftermath. But there are many, many more who have joined the organization or associate with it in some way. Begin helping drill and discipline them, as much as can be done under these circumstances.
[] Propaganda Campaigns. The slave-ocracy in downtime America has immense political power, further backed up by the casual racism and white supremacy heavily integrated into the culture and economy of the nation. Using the immense uptime printing capacity and various downtime resources, it is time to begin launching an attack on this, on capitalism, on all the evils of hierarchy. Propaganda, posters, public speaking, all are avenues in this war of belief.
[] International Outreach. The cause of revolution cannot just be taken up in one country. The British Empire stands as a bloody hegemon, the workers of Paris and Berlin both strike and struggle for liberation, the depredations of imperialism have reached across the globe, causing suffering from the lands of the Maya to home of the Zulu. The radicals from uptime, eager to avert tragedy before it begins, want to start reaching out to like-minded foreign organizations, whether to offer them support or to ask for revolutionary defeatism.
These ten actions maybe? Not sure how to, like, assign stuff.
[] Plan: Here Goes Something!
-[] Speak with Brown: Brown had questions, plans, needs...and your organization has the same. There's plenty of opportunities to get him alone and have a chat. Choose up to two topics.
--[] What he needs: As the time till Harper's Ferry ticks down, see if Brown has thought of any gaps that could be made up with future equipment.
---[] Rebecca Tillman
-[] All About Chemistry. The factory has a small workshop nearby, kept carefully away from the main buildings, for experimentation and chemistry production. The dyes developed in it are incredibly valuable, and some shipments of uptime quality reaction vessels and measuring devices have greatly improved the lab's capabilities. Perhaps some explosives could be made here?
--[] Alexander Franklin.
-[] New Designs. Right now, the factory mostly produces rifles. Good rifles, better than anything else in 1859, but that is all, or nearly so. (There is a small workshop for Gatling Guns, and another for grenades, but both are slow.) The weapons made will be invaluable, but perhaps there are other types that could be produced.
-[] Factory Theory. The workers at your Troy factory enjoy the benefits of being worker-owners and having the ability to manage their own hours, but while they will probably fight to defend those privileges, or extend them to others like them, they are still undeniably chauvinistic. Expose them to theory, see what comes of it.
-[] Appalachian Contacts. Some contact has already been made with local allies throughout the mountains, from Virginia to Georgia. The network will continue to grow with current operations continuing, but more time and money can be spent winning the support of these homesteaders.
--[] Bobby White
-[] The Railroad Below. Harriet Tubman has joined your company and introduced you to some contacts among the Underground Railroad, although even she does not know the entirety of the network. Distributing small quantities of weapons, ammunition, and most importantly information will help the network prepare for when the upcoming war begins.
--[] Adrian DuMour
-[] Militia Training. It won't be long before the raid on Harper's Ferry and a war bloodier than any the American continent has seen begins. More than a hundred men are ready to take part in the raid itself, another few hundred have been drilling to act as dragoons during the immediate aftermath. But there are many, many more who have joined the organization or associate with it in some way. Begin helping drill and discipline them, as much as can be done under these circumstances.
--[] Malcolm Miller
-[] Propaganda Campaigns. The slave-ocracy in downtime America has immense political power, further backed up by the casual racism and white supremacy heavily integrated into the culture and economy of the nation. Using the immense uptime printing capacity and various downtime resources, it is time to begin launching an attack on this, on capitalism, on all the evils of hierarchy. Propaganda, posters, public speaking, all are avenues in this war of belief.
-[] International Outreach. The cause of revolution cannot just be taken up in one country. The British Empire stands as a bloody hegemon, the workers of Paris and Berlin both strike and struggle for liberation, the depredations of imperialism have reached across the globe, causing suffering from the lands of the Maya to home of the Zulu. The radicals from uptime, eager to avert tragedy before it begins, want to start reaching out to like-minded foreign organizations, whether to offer them support or to ask for revolutionary defeatism.
[] Investing in the Community. Community roots are invaluable for an organization with political goals. And despite your expectation of violence, you are unquestionably political in nature. Whether it is through deliveries of free medical supplies, small gifts, or other donations, you can win support through the simple act of doing nice things.
-[] Troy
--[] Floyd Olson
[X] Plan: Here Goes Something!
-[X] Speak with Brown: Brown had questions, plans, needs...and your organization has the same. There's plenty of opportunities to get him alone and have a chat. Choose up to two topics.
--[X] What he needs: As the time till Harper's Ferry ticks down, see if Brown has thought of any gaps that could be made up with future equipment.
---[X] Rebecca Tillman
-[X] All About Chemistry. The factory has a small workshop nearby, kept carefully away from the main buildings, for experimentation and chemistry production. The dyes developed in it are incredibly valuable, and some shipments of uptime quality reaction vessels and measuring devices have greatly improved the lab's capabilities. Perhaps some explosives could be made here?
--[X] Alexander Franklin.
-[X] New Designs. Right now, the factory mostly produces rifles. Good rifles, better than anything else in 1859, but that is all, or nearly so. (There is a small workshop for Gatling Guns, and another for grenades, but both are slow.) The weapons made will be invaluable, but perhaps there are other types that could be produced.
-[X] Factory Theory. The workers at your Troy factory enjoy the benefits of being worker-owners and having the ability to manage their own hours, but while they will probably fight to defend those privileges, or extend them to others like them, they are still undeniably chauvinistic. Expose them to theory, see what comes of it.
-[X] Appalachian Contacts. Some contact has already been made with local allies throughout the mountains, from Virginia to Georgia. The network will continue to grow with current operations continuing, but more time and money can be spent winning the support of these homesteaders.
--[X] Bobby White
-[X] The Railroad Below. Harriet Tubman has joined your company and introduced you to some contacts among the Underground Railroad, although even she does not know the entirety of the network. Distributing small quantities of weapons, ammunition, and most importantly information will help the network prepare for when the upcoming war begins.
--[X] Adrian DuMour
-[X] Militia Training. It won't be long before the raid on Harper's Ferry and a war bloodier than any the American continent has seen begins. More than a hundred men are ready to take part in the raid itself, another few hundred have been drilling to act as dragoons during the immediate aftermath. But there are many, many more who have joined the organization or associate with it in some way. Begin helping drill and discipline them, as much as can be done under these circumstances.
--[X] Malcolm Miller
-[X] Propaganda Campaigns. The slave-ocracy in downtime America has immense political power, further backed up by the casual racism and white supremacy heavily integrated into the culture and economy of the nation. Using the immense uptime printing capacity and various downtime resources, it is time to begin launching an attack on this, on capitalism, on all the evils of hierarchy. Propaganda, posters, public speaking, all are avenues in this war of belief.
-[X] International Outreach. The cause of revolution cannot just be taken up in one country. The British Empire stands as a bloody hegemon, the workers of Paris and Berlin both strike and struggle for liberation, the depredations of imperialism have reached across the globe, causing suffering from the lands of the Maya to home of the Zulu. The radicals from uptime, eager to avert tragedy before it begins, want to start reaching out to like-minded foreign organizations, whether to offer them support or to ask for revolutionary defeatism.
-[X] Investing in the Community. Community roots are invaluable for an organization with political goals. And despite your expectation of violence, you are unquestionably political in nature. Whether it is through deliveries of free medical supplies, small gifts, or other donations, you can win support through the simple act of doing nice things.
--[X] Troy
--[X] Floyd Olson
-[X] Speak with Brown: Brown had questions, plans, needs...and your organization has the same. There's plenty of opportunities to get him alone and have a chat. Choose up to two topics.
-[X] All About Chemistry. The factory has a small workshop nearby, kept carefully away from the main buildings, for experimentation and chemistry production. The dyes developed in it are incredibly valuable, and some shipments of uptime quality reaction vessels and measuring devices have greatly improved the lab's capabilities. Perhaps some explosives could be made here?
-[X] New Designs. Right now, the factory mostly produces rifles. Good rifles, better than anything else in 1859, but that is all, or nearly so. (There is a small workshop for Gatling Guns, and another for grenades, but both are slow.) The weapons made will be invaluable, but perhaps there are other types that could be produced.
-[X] Factory Theory. The workers at your Troy factory enjoy the benefits of being worker-owners and having the ability to manage their own hours, but while they will probably fight to defend those privileges, or extend them to others like them, they are still undeniably chauvinistic. Expose them to theory, see what comes of it.
-[X] Appalachian Contacts. Some contact has already been made with local allies throughout the mountains, from Virginia to Georgia. The network will continue to grow with current operations continuing, but more time and money can be spent winning the support of these homesteaders.
-[X] The Railroad Below. Harriet Tubman has joined your company and introduced you to some contacts among the Underground Railroad, although even she does not know the entirety of the network. Distributing small quantities of weapons, ammunition, and most importantly information will help the network prepare for when the upcoming war begins.
-[X] Militia Training. It won't be long before the raid on Harper's Ferry and a war bloodier than any the American continent has seen begins. More than a hundred men are ready to take part in the raid itself, another few hundred have been drilling to act as dragoons during the immediate aftermath. But there are many, many more who have joined the organization or associate with it in some way. Begin helping drill and discipline them, as much as can be done under these circumstances.
-[X] Propaganda Campaigns. The slave-ocracy in downtime America has immense political power, further backed up by the casual racism and white supremacy heavily integrated into the culture and economy of the nation. Using the immense uptime printing capacity and various downtime resources, it is time to begin launching an attack on this, on capitalism, on all the evils of hierarchy. Propaganda, posters, public speaking, all are avenues in this war of belief.
-[X] International Outreach. The cause of revolution cannot just be taken up in one country. The British Empire stands as a bloody hegemon, the workers of Paris and Berlin both strike and struggle for liberation, the depredations of imperialism have reached across the globe, causing suffering from the lands of the Maya to home of the Zulu. The radicals from uptime, eager to avert tragedy before it begins, want to start reaching out to like-minded foreign organizations, whether to offer them support or to ask for revolutionary defeatism.
-[X] Investing in the Community. Community roots are invaluable for an organization with political goals. And despite your expectation of violence, you are unquestionably political in nature. Whether it is through deliveries of free medical supplies, small gifts, or other donations, you can win support through the simple act of doing nice things.
