When The Stars Fall: Quest

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Spyglass lore said:
All four of @ProjectUnidad previous quests was dropped around 10 or less turns
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Rafin said:
Due to lack of voters or what?
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While I can discuss as to why I drop quests early on, the big difference with this one from the rest is that I actually sorta made a roadmap for the entirety of the quest with vaguely possible pathways and endings. So the good news is that the story of the quest has a beginning middle and multiple endings, with the potential of having a sequel quest depending on the choices you players make
 
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24 hours till the vote is close, and while the result of the second half is for sure a clear conclusion, the first half is clearly a very tight race. I would say that regardless of that vote, in the immediate future nothing would change, it will however become more apparent later on the quest
 
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Welp currently we have a tie at the moment for the first half, but for the mean time I'm gonna let you guys on what to expect a bit on the next turn(expect to be released at Sunday), there is gonna be few decisions to pick, one project to choose, choose one for "somewhere" and omake bounties are also gonna make a return. That is all
 
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    Scheduled vote count started by ProjectUnidad on Feb 8, 2023 at 9:13 PM, finished with 42 posts and 24 votes.
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    DECISIONS

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    It was decided to scan the skies at a different coordinates from originally planned, and so for the next few days people would be analyzing by hand large amounts of data processed by an IBM 1130 computer. On August 18, a volunteer for the SETI project while checking data recorded on line printer paper spotted a series of values of signal intensity and frequency that left them and their colleagues astonished, so impressed by the result that they circled on the computer printout the reading of the signal's intensity, and wrote the comment "Whoa!" beside it, leading to the event's widely used name. A continuous extraterrestrial signal, therefore, would be expected to register for exactly 72 seconds, and the recorded intensity of such signal would display a gradual increase for the first 36 seconds, peaking at the center of the observation window and then a gradual decrease as the telescope moved away from it. All these characteristics are present in the Whoa! signal. With this information in hand, who will they reveal the news first?(choose one)
    [] Tell the government
    + 1 goodwill
    [] Spread the news
    Share the News: + 5 decision rolls

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    Regardless of who receives the news first as such information would eventually be made public and to the whole world. The news of the signal being extraterrestrial in origin has forever changed the course of human history, while humanity still remains divided in most issues at the very least there collectively are curious towards the wonders of the cosmos. Some countries with the means of sending stuff to space are beginning to draw their plans to reach the stars, some of these countries are allies to the United States while others are rivals, the biggest one being the Soviet Union and its eastern bloc allies. While the Cold War is still present and likely to be a major influence towards policy and thus not necessarily mean that it has to be forever, perhaps this discovery could potentially unify our race, but some are skeptical about that.

    Meanwhile behind closed doors, a meeting is in place towards the policy of the degree of cooperation with other countries when it comes towards space affairs. On the one hand some are of the thought of "American Exceptionalism", the idea that the superiority of the country is enough to achieve our own goals without the need of other countries. After all America is a large country with an industrious powerhouse and plenty of resources, for sure the United States has both the means and intellect to become a space faring nation. However doing so not only would already create a bigger divide with the Eastern Bloc but would also alienate us with our Western allies in regards to this issue. Besides that the government is afterall run by the people so public opinion could influence the seats of power that can affect progress of space projects and even potentially either expedite or shut down the goal of reaching towards the stars.

    There was the other option of instead going alone would be to instead work with our western allies. In particular Western Europe had already launched satellites into space and recently had merge two previous space agencies into the European Space Agency. Just like the US, countries in the west of Europe have demonstrated the capabilities and the means to launch rockets into space, thus working with them would significantly increase manpower and share resources and research to complete projects. However, being tied with Western governments means that multiple interests might at times be at odds with one another and with the increase of bureaucracy, it is likely that projects might suffer delays. Also in the context of the Cold War though already a given that the US and Western Europe might join up in a second space race, this would only reinforce the rivalry with the Soviets and Eastern Bloc, potentially starting a shadow campaign of sabotage and espionage, if not treading carefully the cold war could become hot.

    However for the optimists in the room, there is the belief that perhaps with the recent discovery of the century, that perhaps it was time for all countries of the world to come together and reach the stars as one people. It's gonna take a lot of political will, concessions and even favors to bring all countries, friends and rivals alike to the table to form a global coalition to explore the cosmos. If this endeavor is successful then the world would become a giant oyster to extract its resources, research and talent to fund this "international" space agency. However, if working with the western allies would be more difficult than working with other countries with opposite ideologies would prove to be an overwhelming undertaking, decisions and projects would be drastically affected as multiple countries would take time to find consensus. This potential global coalition would initially be fragile as countries would start to share research and resources with one another, should this coalition fall apart could spell severe consequences for the stability of the world.    (choose one)
    [] Go Alone
    * Home Rule: + 10 decision roll
    * + 1 goodwill
    * Do it yourself: - 1d10 on project rolls
    * American Public Opinion: At the beginning of the turn first roll will be a 1d2 to determine a positive/negative on the second roll which is gonna be 1d5 for both decisions and projects
    [] Western Allies
    * Western Cooperation: + 10 project rolls
    * + 1 goodwill
    *     Reaching Consensus: -1d10 on decision roll
    * Western Public Opinion: At the beginning of the turn first roll be 1d3 to determine positive/negative or none on the second roll which is gonna be 1d5 for both decisions and projects
    [] Global Cooperation
    * Global Coalition: +10 decision/project rolls and you can choose two projects per turn
    * Global Consensus: - 1d15 for decision and project rolls
    * International Event: At the start of the turn players will roll will roll a 1d20 mystery roll to receive either a buff/debuff, a good or bad superevent, etc.

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    PROJECTS

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    With the news of a possible extraterrestrial life existing outside of Earth has shaken much of society. While the rest of the world is grasping with the ground breaking news, meanwhile the government has once more given towards space exploration has given NASA a bigger budget to continue developing technologies that will help mankind reach to the stars, and preferably sooner than later. Now with the backing of both the government and public, what programs should we focus on first?(choose one)
    [] Improve outer orbit space flight
    DC:25
    [] Construct a space station
    Complete: 0/50
    [] Survey the lunar surface
    DC: 25, 50
    [] Sent a satellite to survey planets/moons
    DC: 30, 60, 90
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    SOMEWHERE

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    While the news spreads like wildfire on Earth, meanwhile at the….(choose one)
    [] Red Dunes of Mars
    [] Methane Lakes of Titan
    [] Underground Ocean of Europa
    [] Red Eye of Jupiter
    [] Icy Wasteland of Pluto

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    Meanwhile somewhere else the child and their siblings went to school for today's lesson about history. Upon entering the classroom some students were excited about learning a new subject while others would rather go play outside. Moments later the teacher would enter the classroom and teach the students about the history of the…(choose one)
    []The world
    []The nation

    Omake Bounties (Reward per completed omake bounty, +10 on all rolls for turn 1)
    • The first person to listen to the signal
    • The international response to the news
    • The response of some US official
     
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    • [X] Plan: Space Nato
    -[X] Spread the news
    -[X] Western Allies
    -[X] Improve outer orbit space flight
    + 5 decision rolls
    + 10 project rolls
    + 1 goodwill
    -1d10 on decision roll

    And outer orbit because that will likely make everything easier

    -[X] Underground Ocean of Europa
    -[X]The nation
     
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    [X] Road towards the United Federation of Planets
    -[X] Spread the news
    -[X] Global Cooperation
    -[X] Improve outer orbit space flight
    -[X] Underground Ocean of Europa
    -[X]The world

    Noblebright future, fuck yeah!
     
    [X] Road towards the United Federation of Planets

    In agreement.

    I want some Star Treklite
     
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