OfWindAndRain

Gaia's Glory [A Sci-Fi Nation RP]

Anyone else gonna post?

You other two that have posted have only said that your people get on the ground, and not much else. Maybe post something of starting to get set up?

Gaia's Glory [A Sci-Fi Nation RP]

@Lady Selune
Diggin machines were used to make holes, and one big hole. Given the technoboost of twenty to thirty years, plus the investment they'd receive by being used for a first colony, they'd be notably more efficient than modern day excavators and the like. I've used an excavator; the fusion reactor chamber isn't that big (certainly not an entire control center there), and an excavator can dig rather quickly when working around the clock. Concrete is also not that hard, especially when on flat ground without anything in the way.

That being said, I do agree I did it too fast, but I didn't know I had that many people. You skimped on a lotta details, and you've only been confusing with even simple questions/replies. I'm winging it because I have no bloody clue of the specifics.

A'course, if every posting cycle is a year, then I can take away specific timestamps. By the first posting cycle, all of our colonies would be very definitely finished, and then some.

Also, that's not Donald Trump.

(and saying that they're starting on a strip mine is much different than actually having one completed)

I threw in about 4x the time for that settling.

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@Asura
That's the thing, though- this is an Advanced-level Jump-In-style Nation Roleplay with a not-required CS that's half of any other NRP CS I've ever seen, with a game mechanic that isn't even used by the OP.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Gaia's Glory [A Sci-Fi Nation RP]

United Colonies of Horizon

Name:
[Entire Colony] United Colonies of Horizon (UCH)
[First Settlement] New Dawn

Type:
Both national (US) and corporate (New Horizons Corp). Nationally funded and supplied, but corporately developed, launched, and staffed.

Base on Earth:
New Horizons Corporation (The baby of a unity of NASA and SpaceX- acts as the new NASA), USA

Philosophy:
This is the new frontier- it's humanity's place to colonize the stars. There are new places to explore, research, and settle.
Primary goal: Establish itself to be a major power on Gaia, if not the supreme power.
Secondary goal: Form "ITO," or the Interstellar Treaty Organization, as a replacement of the NATO of old.

Leadership:
Democratic Republic- Autonomous from Earth
- Works via vote. The 'Council' is a group of five- Councilman of Expansion, Research, Defense, Resource, and Diplomacy. Each member is voted in; on occasion, when disagreements are high, they turn to a general democratic vote to solve disputes.

Religion:
Largely atheist, actually. More religious people never really agreed with New Horizons- only a few Christians are on board.

Misc:
NASA was operating with less efficiency, and SpaceX was operating with more. Simply put, the US- which had weathered the calamities that caused the breakdown of other nations- was eager to reestablish itself as the greatest World Power- by becoming the greatest World Power on another world as well. It had long since lost its supremacy over other nations- though it still had the most powerful military- and more or less forced Space X and NASA to combine- much to SpaceX's excitement and the dismay of NASA. The newly created New Horizons was tasked with gaining a foothold in everything interstellar- such as Mars, Ceres and Gaia. And largely succeeded.

preferred location

@OfWindAndRain

Gaia's Glory [A Sci-Fi Nation RP]

The Site of the New Horizons Colony, 3 hours and 23 minutes until Colony Cruiser Wanderer makes Landfall
Three dropships touched down in an open meadow, alien grasses waving in familiar breeze- a distant forest of unknown plant species surrounding the area.

Each dropship were VTOLs- quad-engine beasts large and strong enough to carry a platoon of infantry and a main battle tank in its bowels, or a giant shipment of supplies, or otherwise. Large spheres were on either side of its rear landing gears; the gun turrets hid their weapons in the hull of the ship. The front rotary cannon was retracted to its port just underneath the dropship’s cockpit, and the extra armaments stored underneath the two wings on either side- the same wings that supported the swivel-ball-mounted jet engines. Small Active Protection System (APS) turrets had already popped up from their place inside the top and bottom of the aircraft, scanning for threats with their dual-purpose radar.

The rear of the settling HCC-44 dropship popped open, and then hydralics began lowering it the ground as the inside’s atmosphere depressurized and equalized with the planet’s.

It was not the mission commander that walked out of the first ramp, but rather a team of four bulky exosuits, pioneers of the colony that act as security and labor. There were four slots for direct-use utility items- one on both forearms, and two can be mounted on the back of the shoulder, with arms that lift them up and over. A .30 caliber machinegun was mounted on each one of their left shoulder, only one carrying a heavier .50 caliber. On their right arms was a flamethrower, a hose locked to their arms leading back to a large cylindrical tank sitting horizontally at their lower back.

There was no sign of natural wildlife, as the twelve total Advanced Mechanized Infantry Support Units (AMIS) marched out of the four dropships, each of them standing at eight feet tall, and armored only to protect the wearer from the environment and from heat.

The dropships lifted off as they disembarked, starting to circle the area and wait for the colonization ship to arrive.

Eight of the armed AMIS units spread out in a circle, equidistant from each other, and walked to the edge of the meadow. It wasn’t circular, of course, but that didn’t matter too much. They were instructed to leave a circular ‘green’ as large as they could make it, and then start burning until they ran out of fuel. The idea was to have an area that can be used for both research and pleasure, and dedicate the surrounding area to future expansion. The colony ship itself was landing nearby, in an open field; the remaining four of AMIS’s would be burning a path to said field.

They had been launched from the Wanderer as it entered orbit, another half-dozen ships arriving at more or less the same time as it. To ensure they claimed the spot they had planned all along, the three dropships had been launched, jetting down into the atmosphere before anyone else. There were research posts on this planet, but this mission had one goal- supremacy.

Eight exosuits engaged their flamethrowers at more or less the same time, sweeping back and forth in short bursts, letting the chlorine triflouride fuel- jetting out from high-pressure nozzles in extremely small amounts, at high speeds to coat a large area with surprisingly little- burn through anything and everything. As a fuel that could literally burn through concrete, it was deemed efficient enough to be used to clear large areas of foliage. The flames cut straight through the foreign softwood of the native trees, easily more flexible and more fibrous than Earth trees. Within twenty minutes, the mechs had gone through only a fourth of their fuel supply, and had continued a steady advance to burn an area large enough for a small town to be erected.

Dutifully, the remaining four had chosen the direction that led to the planned spaceport, and took turns, glassing a pathway to the spaceport by using more fuel than strictly necessary to melt the ground as well as the trees in the way. The heat all around them was intense, but their carbon nanotube suits kept them cool and safe from flame and smoke, the only effect the razing having on the exosuits being the titanium alloy frames and thickly insulated electronics receiving soot marks and a tiny bit of melting, respectively.

8 days and 16 hours after Landfall
You could hardly see the scorched soil anymore, thought Mission Commander Lawrence Iverson. The majority of the scorched area had holes dug deep for foundations straight to the bedrock, allowing for concrete to be laid without any fear of sinking into the ground or somesuch. Various construction equipment that had been brought dug the great underground portion that housed the colony ship’s reactor, the containment system set up before the ship had even begun dismantling.

Now, the mentioned reactor had already been installed- it was one of the first things that needed to be completed. Housing was being set up, and a fence had been installed in the green foreign lawn that sat at the center of the colony. Barracks had been set up as well, with an accompany mess hall. A dozen and a half other buildings were currently in construction, colonists rushing to and from piles of supplies and the construction sites, working to finish the initial settlement so research, expansion, and manufacturing can commence. The same digging machines that had been dedicated to assisting the power plant’s construction were now halfway between the colony ship and the new settlement, working busily away to create a strip mine. The dirt they dug up was deposited in a wide ring all the way around the future colony, piled on top of a concrete and steel-reinforced wall, before being topped with an electrified steel fence.

There hadn’t been any problem with local wildlife, though sensors set up just behind the fense picked up movement on the edge of the burned perimeter- here and there, intermittent, but generally shying away from those who brought flame and metal.

A good start on a new world.

Summary

Colony ship landed, dismantled
Powerplant online; cold fusion reactor
Basic wall erected
Foundations laid
Barracks/Mess Hall constructed
Many other constructions in progress
Strip mine in progress

Gaia's Glory [A Sci-Fi Nation RP]

@Lady Selune
Also, who's accepted and who's not? The roleplay is labelled 'Apply,' so when we post that little CS thing, we need some confirmation, yeah?

Gaia's Glory [A Sci-Fi Nation RP]

@aonly9470

My logicking of this

Australia is a founding member of the UN. Unless the UN fell (which is unlikely, being that every major world power besides Russia and China are in it), then anyone trying to fight Australia would likely have to deal with the combined might of UN's strongarm- NATO. And NATO includes America's very sizable military.

The US has long supported countries under threat from communist rule- Korea (which we halfway succeeded at) and Vietnam (though we did fail at that, more because of publicity than anything) are a couple examples. We've been in a constant Cold War up until the downfall of the USSR because they wanted to expand and spread communism, and we fought very hard to have that NOT happen.

The US supports South Korea's independence from the much less democratic North Korea, so why would we, and therefore NATO, allow a founding member of the UN come under annexation of a communist nation?

Nations don't just go peacefully under another nation's banner just to save lives. North Korea is constantly threatening their significantly smaller (militarily speaking) neighbor, South Korea, with ballistic missiles and the like. If just to save lives- why don't one of them give it up to the other? Governments don't simply bend a knee to another unless there's literally no way for them to win. Japan knew they were going to lose the Pacific War against America- we were winning territory every month, pushing them back into their home waters, even though they practically destroyed our most powerful ships at the beginning- and very thoroughly. Japan didn't surrender until we were on their doorstep, preparing a massive invasion, and AFTER we dropped experimental warheads on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Australia is hardly like Japan, but the point still stands- great bodies of power- a government- will not bend knee to someone or something else unless there's extremely few other options.

Like I said, you do you, man. If you wanna go ahead with it, go ahead with it. I'm just saying that if you look at it logically, reasonably, there's no real way for China to conceivably want JUST Australia.

Another thing is that religious radicals are extremely looked down upon- ISIS is an example of a religious sect that's gotten way too radical. Entire countries, some of which have nothing more to do with ISIS than having the same skin color, are being practically persecuted by western nations, and in our case- cut off. If Christians were to do the same and overthrow the Chinese government- provided that the Chinese government doesn't kill them all first, if what you're saying is true (if they're fine executing them as they find them, then they won't bat an eye at killing all they can find if they start rebelling)- they'd be labelled radicals, and only China's economic importance would be enough to save its relations with other nations. More than that, China would probably be thrown into chaos with such a rebellion, because of how big it is, how many people there are, and how many of those people simply don't know what's going on or even if they care.

Summarization/conclusion:

Hider

You do you- if you want to do it, do it. My argument is just that, if you want it to be completely based on logic and reason, given circumstances that hasn't thrown the entire world into upheaval (the UN and NATO dissolving will do that), then a Chinese-Australian singular entity is nil. Maybe an alliance, something where both parties share research and resources to fund a mission, but I'd doubt that, considering the Chinese space program is almost like NASA at this point- it doesn't need assistance.

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so are my ideas on the unified china and australia allowed?

@aonly9470

There's nothing saying no, mate. I'd say go for it- I just don't think it'd make any sense. China's growing more powerful, and I couldn't see a growing sect of Christianity overthrowing the government, before the government kills 'em all or otherwise subdues them.

And very few nations would willingly merge with another, simply because it might buy them a bit more prominence or somesuch. There's a lotta countries nowadays that would benefit from joining a greater whole- and yet some are growing even more withdrawn.

You do you, man, and the OP didn't say anything about it and the GM didn't say anything about, but I don't think it makes sense.

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@aonly9470
As just a roleplay, sure, I don't see any reason why anyone would say no.

Logically speaking, though, I'm curious- why would Australia form an alliance with China? Atm, China's actually been a rising country, in terms of power and strength. Their military has been growing stronger, their political power has been growing, their economic might has been expanding. Many parts of their country is somewhat third-world, and yet other parts are very modern. Decades in the future, China could become a superpower to rival America or Russia. The same could be said for South Korea and India.

Meanwhile, Australia isn't too terribly prominently, globally speaking. Australia would gain quite a bit with an alliance with China, and China honestly wouldn't gain much- and no one likes making deals with people who aren't really friends (there's practically no major international dealings between Australia and China, that I know of) and don't really benefit themselves.

If China were to ally themselves with someone, I'd say it'd be Japan, or South Korea (provided that there are still two Koreas, and America+South Korea didn't fall to North Korea- SK actually has US support), India, and maybe Russia. Australia's out of the way, without much power.

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We're not using cold fusion tho :P

@Lady Selune

So you're saying via OP that our ships use Cold Fusion, but you're going ahead and correcting everyone that we aren't? Even though it's still in the OP?

I mean, landing my bloody colony ship is a number one priority, since it already offers a crapton of advantages (being a small city itself)- like not having to ship its supplies to and from orbit, and having a great big honkin' power plant sitting in it that could be used to power the new settlement for ages.

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