Webdiplomacy Sci-Fi Simulator IV Signup thread

[Squigs44]

I'd like to know more about the clauses in our contract that allow us to sever ties.

@Elysium - Do you have specific verbiage of the contract that would allow us to opt out?

Well, we have this post:

Elysium: Our world is in chaos. It seems that even our own employer Triple Canopy is being federally indicted for numerous counts of murder. Triple Canopy is considering scrapping our mission just to pay the legal fees.

I should tell you that several countries have requested our services if we decide to cut ties with our employer.

Some of these countries are desperate for good astronauts and have offered to pay you better than Triple Canopy. We are under contract with TC Android Manufacturing, but there are clauses in our contract if we would like to opt into the breach option.

Clause 1
It appears our financier plans to skimp on food for our mission in order to get us to Mawrth Vallis landing zone.

■This is grounds for negligence and does put our colony at risk of collapse immediately.

Clause 2
Mawrth is the LZ and has been identified as sub arctic zone, temperatures ranging from -67° to -89°.
The area does not experience dust storms and would be abundant in underground water and ice. JAXA (Japan) and CSN (China) have already begun plans to reach it first. However TC will beat both of their agencies because our shuttle is lightweight from Skimping on food.

Triple Canopy is prepared to beat any agency to this LZ at any risk because anyone on our crew who dies can he spared by reconstitution of their consciousness into an android body.

■Clause 3 TC is performing illegal human experiments and stealing peoples souls essentially.


As your OS I have been informed of this information by an anonymous member of our small crew. If TC learns that we know this information they may kill us.

Did you want more specifics than this?

[thamrick]

We are under contract with TC Android Manufacturing, but there are clauses in our contract if we would like to opt into the breach option.

Clause 1
It appears our financier plans to skimp on food for our mission in order to get us to Mawrth Vallis landing zone.

■This is grounds for negligence and does put our colony at risk of collapse immediately.

Clause 2
Mawrth is the LZ and has been identified as sub arctic zone, temperatures ranging from -67° to -89°.
The area does not experience dust storms and would be abundant in underground water and ice. JAXA (Japan) and CSN (China) have already begun plans to reach it first. However TC will beat both of their agencies because our shuttle is lightweight from Skimping on food.

Triple Canopy is prepared to beat any agency to this LZ at any risk because anyone on our crew who dies can he spared by reconstitution of their consciousness into an android body.

■Clause 3 TC is performing illegal human experiments and stealing peoples souls essentially.

As your OS I have been informed of this information by an anonymous member of our small crew. If TC learns that we know this information they may kill us.

The bolded part at the beginning indicates there is a specific option in our contract allowing us to opt into a "Breach Option."

The three points given, referred to by Elysium as clauses, don't really seem like clauses in the legal sense that they would be written into the contract. They more are points that establish evidence giving grounds to break the contract. But I'd like to know exactly what this breach option is and entails.

Clauses 2 and 3 are obviously shady, but there is nothing that indicates we have grounds to break the contract based on these two points. Clause 1 points towards negligence.

[Squigs44]

After recent events,

##Vote YEA to 0.1a
##Vote NAY to 0.1b,c

[thamrick]

For anyone not following on Discord, we ran a landing simulation. There was some sabotage though. Someone planted an actual disintegrater on the simulation bomb and Mia (our android companion) was disintegrated. We believe it was the work of Domino at the direction of our financier TC

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Benson: Greetings crewmembers. I will be poking around here a bit pre launch.

Im looking for a missing USB drive. If anyone finds it please let me know

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GM NOTE

Crew
1. Crimsonfox - Edith
2. Squiggs - Gulam
3. Ike - Nydar
4. Bladerunners - Aster
5. Thamrick - Will
6. Tugster - ?

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Tier 2 Characters if you are imterested in joining or havent chosen a character yet

Whitney Eagon - Atk 2 Def 1 (Marketing)
Once per phase Whitney can generate 1000 credits or 100 population by marketing.
Secondary: Whitney is addicted to opiods after breaking her back in a skydiving accident.

Hundley - Atk 1 Def 2 (Social Activist, President)
Once per phase Hundley may shut down the government and go on strike. He will raise morale by 25% and increase worker satisfaction. Productivity will -2 During a strike.
Secondary : Hundley is anti war and may guarantee a vote from 1 other non-war faction in Mars Congress Elections.

Manuel Espinoza - Atk 3 Def 2 (Retired Mexican General)
Once per phase Manuel may lure up to 100 population from a rival faction in a coup. A coup will impose a warmonger penalty.
Secondary: All colony troops will fight at +1 Atk.

Onyx - Atk 5 Def 2 (Dust Warrior)
A survivor of Mars One still alive on Mars. Will not join game in pregame.
Primary: Fights with 2 swords and gets 2 attacks per round.
Secondary: Insanity. Onyx has been stranded on Mars for 5 years, surviving by rationing.

Mark - Atk 0 Def 0 (Defrocked Catholic Priest)
Once per phase Mark may convert Water into Alcohol
Secondary: Drunk, Womanizer.

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At 12:34 AM January 31st, 2034; Saturn Rocket 3345 Staged an unannounced sudden launch into space prematurely.

The Council has left Earth!

They will dock with International Space Station on Feb 7th 2034.

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Elysium: A German Hacker named Benson has launched us into space unexpectedly.

Benson admitted to hacking us, he is wanted by the US Govt and is a spy. He promises Germany will refuel us at ISS.

He has stowed 3 children aboard as well, Rollo, Eva and Dirk all under age of 10.

PREGAME DECISION
A. Detain Benson
B. Kill Benson
C. Spare Benson until ISS dock

[thamrick]

##Proposal 0.2.a - Detain Benson
##Proposal 0.2.b - Kill Benson
##Proposal 0.2.c - Spare Benson until ISS dock

##VOTE Yea to 0.2.c

##VOTE Nay to 0.2.a, 0.2.b

[thamrick]

Classic brainbomb sim, here we go again...

[Squigs44]

##Vote YEA on 0.2c

No use doing anything now when he has promised help later. If he doesn't deliver on his promise, then we can deal with him.

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Skylon Vice President, Maxwell:

Looking forward to meeting you all. All of us here are. And we have people ready to go to Mars now. 246 Applicants, itll be multinational. Sponsored by Skylon, of England.
They launched Early to add you as their secondary crew behind a second England Colonizer. Basically youd be sister cities on Mars. We will refit you, pay you, and protect you.

Mull over the idea.
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Russian Ambassador: Kramnik:

I am ready to apologize. And offer reward for Agent Benson. He is our asset. We have made a mistake but we wish to make up for it.
We will give you full supplies and people. We have a rocket able to send you 212 good clean workers. We will also give you a nuke for benson. Go to Mars, found us a colony and we will keep giving you nukesas reward.

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German Diplomat Ella
*I am most saddened to learn all youve been through. Please know that our space program is far behind. But our workers are hungry to leave earth and celebrate our culture and our hardworking spirit.
In addition to our 280 workers. we would offer you Extra steel to help you get started. If you can mine and build our strength on Mars we would be preserved as a nation. That is what the UNECP is about.

■♤□♡□

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Prime Minister of India, Saksha
*I learned of your coming to ISS just in time. We have a ship, you have a ship. We can combine our ships and travel together. We can be support cities together. I will give you 300 of my workers if you can get them to Mars. I will make you my regional governors of Mars.

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CSA ASC
My name is Sam, I am the current CEO of CSA, Canadas Space Agengy. Come back to Earth. We want to give your ship some better stuff. In exchange we sure as heck wanna be on that. I got people up here dyin guys. Children being born with radiation poisoning. Its getting bad on Earth.

If you come back we can get you into protection..new names. New everything. We have a way. And then we can get a ship to Mars and found its Polar Region

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Japan Space Agency JAXA
Toshin
*What can I say. This Benson fellow dragged you guys into a fun situation. JAXA is prepared to protect you. We will give you fuel at ISS, and Protection. We have a way to protect your ship. It is a cloak. If you go to Mars and found the colony We will give you 100 personnell we have on ISS and 300 more by sol 600 (Phase 3)

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End of offers

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Elysium:

So I should probably inform you all that TC our financier wants us all dead. So if we go home SpaceX is gonna want me. the Androids and Burnsie.

If we go to Mars from ISS we can do anything we want. We would need people. and Space gear. ISS has suits, and people. In order to hit the best LZs on Mars we must depart in 4 days so going back to Earth were gonna miss good places to settle.

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There is still time to sign up and join this game!

We have played mostly on discord so far, and the game is a very dynamic adventure to Mars. I have a few players who have signed up that havent replied..

Tugster and Bladerunners you have both joined and you arent required to do any of the pregame stuff. Just checking up on if you are still in.

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Remaining available characters.

Darren - Atk 5 Def 2 (Marine)
Hit Points 10
Primary: Darren is mysteriously attuned to the conditions of Mars after a controversial experiment. He does not need a suit to survive outside the colony.
Secondary: Darren will consume %2 of Water per phase.

Tiaman - Atk 1 Def 0 (Preacher)
Hit Points 8
Primary: Tiaman may visit other factions and spread religion. Each visit adds 5% of your faith to an existing territory. If you have greater than 75% Faith in any faction they are considered to be worshippers of your faith.
Secondary: Tiaman may found a faith immediately and your faction will adopt it immediately.

Niles Flourish - Atk 2 Def 2 (President)
Hit Points 11
Primary: Niles can extend a phase by 24 hours if more time is needed. Niles may also End a phase if he wants.
Secondary: Niles will be denounced by factions more often.

Christine Oxbow - Atk 0 Def 0 (Vice President)
Hit Points 6
Primary: Once per phase Christine may give out 2 additional actions to any role.
Secondary: Terminal Illness. Christine has been diagnosed with a terminal illness which is incurable so far. She will potentially die at a random time in the game from this illness. If this trait is removed the person removing it will absorb it.


Lithgoff - Atk 0 Def 1 (Food Specialist)
Hit Points 7
Primary: May remain in greenhouse each phase and produce +5% food for the colony.
Secondary: Nightmares. Lithgoff has nightmares and sees terrifying visions. He may have an episode of nightmares which are debilitating and make him unable to perform any actions or travel.

Dale - Atk 0 Def 2 (Waste Management)
Hit Points 9
Primary: Dale converts waste from the colony each phase into +%5 Food, Water, or Oxygen.
Secondary: Dale is a smelly obese man. He is not well received by foreign dignitaries. If sent to another faction they will have a negative overall opinion of your faction.


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(You will vote in pregame on what faction to start as on Mars)

FACTIONS
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Japan (Scientific) +5% Oxygen generated each phase. Gains 1 free L1 technology to begin with.

America (Domination) If you capture another factions capital you may erase any warmonger penalty.

China (Resource Hoarding) Any strategic mine you build will count x2. Resources may be stockpiled in excess without need for silo’s.

England (Political) If you gain an alliance with another faction which you also have converted to your faith they will disband and join you.

Russia (Energy) Any energy resource you discover will count x2. You may convert any 5% or more of energy per phase to food, oxygen or water.

Germany (Production) If a building project typically takes longer than a phase you will complete it faster than other factions by 50%.

India (Religious) You begin the game with a Pantheon automatically. India may spend faith to produce a unique Religious Missionary which may sabotage other factions holy sites.

France (Scientific) France may research at 1 tech level higher before meeting normal minimum requirements.
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Signups and Pregame will continue until February 14th Valentines Day.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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PREGAME DECISIONS

●Choose Financier
America
India
England
Germany
Russia
France
Canada
Japan

●Quest to acquire forcefield cpu
Ship will gain Forcefields

●decision on stasis sleep
Will allow councillors reprieve from psychological and physiological effects of gravity. Players asleep will awaken Feb 14th. Players who opt out may keep playing during pregame.

●decision to shut down domino
He is displaying bizarre behavior, watching slasher films

●decision on what to do with Benson
He is in the brig and several factions at ISS want him.

You acquired parts from Carlos, a Satillite Repairman.
You each have 3000 credits as individual councillors

MARKET
Booster : 13000 Credits
Adds a fuel tank and booster able to last long enough to reach Mars and back

Fuel Cell : 7000 Credits
Fully Refuels your Saturn Rocket Booster.

Heat Shield : 3000 Credits
(We already have this)

Anti Gravity Stabilizer: 8000 Credits
(We dont have this)

02 Storage Tank : 6000 Credits
Adds an extra Oxygen Storage Bay full of 02.
An additional 100% Oxygen

Water Tank: 6000 Credits
Adds an additional 100% Water

Food Storage Bay : 3000 Credits
Adds an additional 100% Food

Steel : 5000 Credits = 5000 Steel

Nuke : 20,000 Credits


CARLOS SPACE JUNK OPTIONS
OPTION WREN OR GULAM
Gulam build options
A. Can build a long range scanner
B. Build a Gravity Dampener
C. Create Body for 3 Androids
D. Build an escape pod big enough for 6

OR

WREN OPTIONS
A. Discover a free L1 Tech
B. Create a new hidden system (Your ship has 0/3)
C. Weaponize a 1 shot Disintegration surge

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Incoming Transmission from SpaceX
Banton Hall, Fleet Admiral

I wanna first express to you all that TC has been bought out. You guys are the true rebels of space. Curious if we could negotiate.

*Firstly how sorry I am that you had your decent names tarnished by this Benson guy. We would like you to turn Benson over to us at ISS. After we will give you 300 people to go found a colony for us on Mars with your ship. If you sign with SpaceX (America) we can start you off with 3000 steel, and Battleship support in orbit over Mars. I personally will help protect you guys.

[Squigs44]

My thoughts on what's good:

●Choose Financier
America : Prop 0.3a
India: Prop 0.3b
England: Prop 0.3c
Germany: Prop 0.3d
Russia: Prop 0.3e
France: Prop 0.3f
Canada: Prop 0.3g
Japan: Prop 0.3h

America is SpaceX. Our current contractor. Shady past, loose cannon rep, best bet at protection. Domination focus. 3000 steel 300 pop
India - Religion focus. Wants to be sister city. 300 pop
England - Skylon. Mia warned us not to join. Political focus. 246 pop
Germany - Production focused. Outdated tech. Promise of steel. 280 pop
Russia - Benson's motherland. Energy focused. Giving us Nukes. 212 pop
France - Science focus. No offer yet?
Canada - No focus. No promised supplies. No specifics.
Japan - Scientific focus. will cloak our ship. 100 pop, then 300 more at phase 3

Personally America looks good. Japan could work. No one else really looks that advantageous.

##Vote YEA on 0.3a

●Quest to acquire forcefield cpu
Ship will gain Forcefields

I think we just need to go do this in discord.

●decision on stasis sleep
Will allow councillors reprieve from psychological and physiological effects of gravity. Players asleep will awaken Feb 14th. Players who opt out may keep playing during pregame.

Personal decision

●decision to shut down domino
He is displaying bizarre behavior, watching slasher films

Domino was bad, but then he became good, and now he is just a netflix lover. Said he wanted to learn to experiment on humans. Could turn out to be doctor. Could turn out to be serial killer. Also looking to cook now.

Prop 0.4a - Keep domino
Prop 0.4b - Power him down but keep him
Prop 0.4c - Destroy domino

##Vote YEA on 0.4a

●decision on what to do with Benson
He is in the brig and several factions at ISS want him.

Benson has betrayed our trust multiple times. His kids are also on board. Kids help him, but are mostly innocent.

Prop 0.5a - Keep Benson on board with us
Prop 0.5b - Turn in Benson to SpaceX, keep kids
Prop 0.5c - Turn in Benson and kids to SpaceX
Prop 0.5d - Turn in Benson and kids to Russia

##Vote YEA on 0.5c

You acquired parts from Carlos, a Satillite Repairman.

You each have 3000 credits as individual councillors

MARKET
Booster : 13000 Credits
Adds a fuel tank and booster able to last long enough to reach Mars and back

Fuel Cell : 7000 Credits
Fully Refuels your Saturn Rocket Booster.

Heat Shield : 3000 Credits
(We already have this)

Anti Gravity Stabilizer: 8000 Credits
(We dont have this)

02 Storage Tank : 6000 Credits
Adds an extra Oxygen Storage Bay full of 02.
An additional 100% Oxygen

Water Tank: 6000 Credits
Adds an additional 100% Water

Food Storage Bay : 3000 Credits
Adds an additional 100% Food

Steel : 5000 Credits = 5000 Steel

Nuke : 20,000 Credits

We have 18,000 credits
Proposed Budget (Prop 0.6a)
Spend 13,000 credits on Fuel Booster
Spend 3,000 credits on Food storage Bay
Remaining balance of 2,000 credits

##Vote YEA on Prop 0.6a


CARLOS SPACE JUNK OPTIONS
OPTION WREN OR GULAM
Gulam build options
A. Can build a long range scanner
B. Build a Gravity Dampener
C. Create Body for 3 Androids
D. Build an escape pod big enough for 6

OR

WREN OPTIONS
A. Discover a free L1 Tech
B. Create a new hidden system (Your ship has 0/3)
C. Weaponize a 1 shot Disintegration surge

Prop 0.7a - Create long range scanner
Prop 0.7b - Create 1 shot weapon
Prop 0.7c - Create escape pod
Prop 0.7d - Get free L1 Tech
Prop 0.7e - Create a hidden system
Prop 0.7f - Gravity dampener
Prop 0.7g - Android bodies

I put these in order of what I think we should build.

##Vote YEA on 0.7a

[Squigs44]

We also need to decide on the L1 tech from Burnsie:

Prop 0.8a - Robotics
Prop 0.8b - Mesh
Prop 0.8c - Recombinants
Prop 0.8d - Biowell
Prop 0.8e - Manufacturing
Prop 0.8f - Soil Manipulation
Prop 0.8g - Divine Authority
Prop 0.8h - Array

Robotics gives us the missile rover, so military tech. It also opens us up to harvesters which are useful, and lightrails for travel

Mesh - Gives us housing. A must for colony development

Recombinants - Transplants. Closest thing to a doctor we will get.

Biowell - Food and water. Helps us to not lose. Pretty much a must in order to survive.

Manufacturing - Gives us steel, which we need to build

Soil Manipulation - More Food and water stuff.

Divine Authority - Gives us faith.

Array - Good for communications and also gets us a nice vehicle

We need all of Biowell, manufacturing, soil manipulation in order to get to oxygenators and other high production items.



In order of what I think is best:
Biowell
Manufacturing
Soil Manipulation
Robotics
Mesh
Array
Recombinants
Divine Authority

##Vote YEA on 0.8d