Vapourware AURORA: The Clash of Cultures - Year 13 over

[eklektyk]

i really enjoy those newspost in this thread

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

No further input required? Excellent, that must mean that all is going according to plan, and soon Prussia will dominate the universe with an iron fist and crush all who dare oppose it. Eh... I mean live in peace and prosperity with it's brothers and sisters of all races religions and creeds.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Yes, if you did not receive an PM, then everything is proceeding according to your previous plan(s).

 

[Kalin]

I can't believe how much I'm looking forward to the Year 3 update. My body spreadsheet is ready!

 

[GarfunkeL]

Hah, stuck at work, wasting valuable Aurora-hours!

Anyway, should be done over the weekend. I really wish there was a way to separate the event log file into different factions, instead of being a huge chronological mess with everything, including spoilers and NPRs, mixed together. Would make it so easy to just drop an infodump on each player.

 

[GarfunkeL]

MAJOR EVENTS FOR YEARS 1, 2 AND 3:

Boronide, Mercassium and Vendarite have ran out on Earth.

Urinium, Tritanium and Neutronium will run out soon.

Kwanzania launched a space ship! The ship was observed to spend five days in the orbit of Luna before heading towards the Sun. Earth-based sensors lost it when it was twice the orbit of Luna from Earth. The ship's speed has been confirmed to be 83 km/sec but whether this was its maximum speed or a deliberately chosen speed is unknown. The ship returned roughly three months later, in December 3 and is currently in low Earth Orbit.

INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH

1. Luso-Brazilian Star Empire
2. Celestial Empire of Greater Asia
3. The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
4. The Irkalla Collective
5. Boerestaat
6. Omniventures Inc
7. Polish-British Commonwealth
8. New Kingdom of Prussia
9. Aeternum Foedus Dei
10. Kwanzania

MILITARY STRENGTH

1. Polish-British Commonwealth
2. Celestial Empire of Greater Asia
3. Luso-Brazilian Star Empire
4. New Kingdom of Prussia
5. Omniventures Inc
6. Boerestaat
7. The Irkalla Collective
8. The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
9. Aeternum Foedus Dei
10. Kwanzania

PM's incoming. Please send in orders for Year 4, 5 and 6 - or at least general guidelines, after reviewing your current situation. Those players who did not get back to me, I've LARPed your nation as best I could based on your earlier orders and what I thought was best in your situation.

 

[Hellraiser]

Boronide, Mercassium and Vendarite have ran out on Earth.

Urinium, Tritanium and Neutronium will run out soon.

Well shit, that was fast. Must be all those Omniventurian strip mines

 

[Storyfag]

MILITARY STRENGTH

1. Polish-British Commonwealth

plus

?

 

[Hellraiser]

Or what is more likely they've just got a marginally bigger army

Hell if I know how the military strength is counted here, the devil is in the details.

 

[Kalin]

Updated my journal:

Low Tech Infantry and Armor Divisions may be be converted into Infantry and Armour Cadres respectively.

Infantry Cadres can be spent to reduce the cost of training Mobile Infantry, Assault Infantry, Garrisons and Engineers by 40.

Armour Cadres can be spent to reduce the cost of training Heavy Assault, Marine Battalions, and both HQ units by 60.

Garrison Battalions are cheap and offer great defence but can not be used offensively.

Replacement Battalions help wounded ground units on the same planet recover to full strength at a cost to their own health.

Construction Brigades act as construction factories while on planets, moons etc. They can assemble pre-fabricated structures. Can be used to excavate alien ruins.

Combat Engineer Battalions fight at double their listed strength while assaulting Planetary Defence Centres. Can be used to excavate alien ruins.

Marines fight at double their listed strength while performing boarding actions against ships. Marine Battalions can be split into five Marine Companies.

Brigade Headquarters can command up to four battalions, forming a brigade.

Divisional Headquarters may command up to four brigades. (Note: Low Tech Infantry and Armour Divisions cannot be commanded by Headquarters)

 

[eklektyk]

MILITARY STRENGTH

1. Polish-British Commonwealth

:tearofaneagle:

 

[GarfunkeL]

Construction Brigade is a new unit that acts like an Construction Factory and is thus useful for building PDCs in forward bases. It can excavate alien ruins.

Combat Engineer Brigade is a new unit that has double its strength when assaulting PDCs. It can excavate alien ruins.

Engineer Brigade no longer exists.

 

[Kalin]

Sounds pretty cool! I updated accordingly, hope it's more correct.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Shit, I should have brought Aurora to work on a USB stick. Could have done the end of Year 3 - start of Year 4 reports here since it's quiet as a graveyard on Sundays.

Oops, no, Aurora requires Admin rights, scratch that. Oh well, you guys have to wait six more hours.

The deadline for further orders will be Thursday, 21:00 GMT. So you have at least four full days to figure out your plans for the next three years plus new diplomacy and stuff. If everyone is ready earlier, all the more better and we'll go forward.

As you can see, I'm not posting individual Global News Network updates, instead summarizing what major events happened during each phase. It got pretty tiring, trying to come up with suitable fluff for every update in the last thread. I'm not as creative as I think I am, it seems.

Players are, of course, encouraged and allowed to post as much in-character stuff about their nations and their activities as they want to.

 

[Hellraiser]

Of course, the propaganda war is half the fun. Well until you decide you want to make crappy animated ads for added fluff. Then you sit doing nothing for 10 minutes while photoshop renders 10 seconds worth of footage.

 

[GarfunkeL]

For inspiration-guidance-warning, you can always read this pretty fun AAR, where an (almost) total Aurora newbie does a conventional start with mere 200 million population and a mineral-starved Earth. The situation is fairly similar, though of course he has no local competition in Sol:
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,5546.0.html

Wonder which faction will introduce the pulp Sci-fi classic of miniskirts on command bridge, a'la Star Trek: TOS and Star Command.

 

[GarfunkeL]

PMs sent to all players. As stated, dead line for replies is Thursday 7th February 21:00 GMT.

In other news, miraculous news from the geologists! A further 100,000 ton deposits of EVERY TN-mineral have been found! Joy and happiness!

Note that this is not shown in your mining reports.

 

[Hellraiser]

And I was about to suggest spacemastering us some more TN-minerals.

 

[Hellraiser]

2014 for Omniventures Inc. – a year in review by Omniventures NEWS

But first a message from our sponsor followed by the latest news...



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...and now for the news.

Channah Kravitz: The globe is swept by outrage as shocking images from the "Eternal League of God" surface. In an example of complete disregard for the wellbeing of its citizens, the fanatical communist regime is forcing entire families out of their homes. People are relocated on a massive scale to work in the new T-N mines and factories, however the League government is providing them with little in the way of basic needs.

People are forced to live in tents with no running water, electricity or heating. What is worse they're not paid at all for their work, all they can expect is a small ration that can barely feed a small child. People die out of hunger while armed "knights" are guarding the perimeter and shooting anyone who tries to escape. People across the world are protesting against these dire and scandalous conditions urging the league to embrace democracy and free enterprise.

Channah Kravitz: In other news the T-N market crash continues. Dozens of banks across the world have been caught surprised by the sudden discovery of vast amounts of T-N deposits. This lead them to create all kind of derivative contracts which were expected to have positive yields as the T-N deposits on Earth started to vanish.

The result is a financial crisis on a scale not seen in over fifty years, many banks threatened with the possibility of filing for bankruptcy ask for bailouts as we speak. However Omni-Goliath Finance, the biggest omniventurian bank, has been unaffected by this crisis and is currently buying many of its competitors who are now facing solvency problems. This once again proves that the Omniventurian Financial Industry is indeed one of the most robust and productives sectors in the global economy.

And now for a year in review with our special guest Mr. Morden...

Channah Kravitz: We meet once again Mr. Morden. The past year like the year before it has been rather eventful. What in your opinion were the most important events of 2014?

Mr. Morden: The discovery of new T-N deposits of course. Many were prophesying economic doomsday but the Omniventures board of directors and scientists knew better. Which is why Omni-Goliath Finance is in such a strong position today, as it was one of the few banks that expected a fall in T-N prices.

Channah Kravitz: Speaking of T-N deposits what is happening to Deep Space Ventures? We all know that the Frontier shipyard is employing more and more people to support its continuous expansion but it has yet to produce a ship. Amerikwa on the other hand has already sent a ship of its own into the deep void. Why is that?

Mr. Morden: While the Amerikwan craft is no doubt a spectacular feat of engineering by itself we have reasons to believe, that it is merely a conventional craft utilizing legacy technology. Furthermore while Omniventures does indeed have the capability to build and launch a vessel like the Amerikwan spacecraft, it was deemed that capitalizing on it will be impossible without putting other pieces of the Space Economy in place first. Nevertheless Space is the place when it comes to the future of business and of Omniventures. However I can assure you it won't be long before I will be able to reveal what our scientists and engineers have been working so hard on recently.

Channah Kravitz: What is your opinion of the terrible acts of not just negligence, but also of malevolence towards League citizens by the theocratic regime ruling in that country?

Mr. Morden: It saddens me greatly that there are governments willing to exploit their own people like that. Forcing them to live nomads in crude tents while they break their backs so that the League war-machine grows. Appalling, truly appalling. I also want to mention that it is clear that whatever the League is making them build it is definitely belligerent in nature. The League is now the 9th biggest army after all.

Channah Kravitz: That certainly sounds dangerous.

Mr. Morden: Indeed it does, by comparison our peace-loving state of Omniventures has the 6th smallest army on the planet. The gap is quite enormous, but it clearly shows that we value peace and prosperity above warmongering unlike the misguided crusaders. We can only hope that the tyrants at the helm of the League see reason and cast aside their fanaticism and despotism, so that one day its citizen will be able to enjoy the peace and prosperity of truly free societies like ours in Omniventures.

Channah Kravitz: One last question, the threat posed by Modernism. More and more men in Italy are dying due to Modernism overdose. How can we prevent such tragedies in Omniventures?

Mr. Morden: Modernism is an important influence on our culture, very beneficial in fact. Most people do not suffer any ill effects from Modernism exposure. It is pretty clear from what Omniventurian scientists have discovered that the body's natural defense against the harmful effects of Modernism is gluten. However from what we know gluten deficiency is a serious problem in Italy, unlike in Omniventures where AbomiWheat provides every Man, Woman and Child with all the daily gluten they need. AgroGene is in fact willing to sell AbomiWheat crops to Italy at a discount to prevent more deaths, if the Italian government is interesting in preventing more deaths that is.

Channah Kravitz: Well in that case thank you for joining me today here in the studio Mr. Morden. The future does indeed look bright for Omniventures and the free nations of the World. This has been 2014 a year in review with our guest Mr. Morden and me Channah Kravitz. Goodbye.

 

[eklektyk]

that add for wheat was superb addition

 

[Storyfag]

The League is now the 9th biggest army after all.

Mr. Morden: Indeed it does, by comparison our peace-loving state of Omniventures has the 6th smallest army on the planet.

This. This is golden. Precious, precious doublethink.

 

[Hellraiser]

This. This is golden. Precious, precious doublethink.

It's from an old commie era potato joke.

translated joke, probably botched it

Kennedy and Khrushchev decide to compete against each other in a two-man 100 meter sprint. Kennedy wins. On the next day Pravda reports that "Comrade Krushchev finishes sprint at glorious second place. Capitalist-puppet's Kennedy's slow performance makes him finish almost last, with just one person being slower than him.

 

[GarfunkeL]

JANE'S FLEET CLASS CLASSIFICATIONS

All ships will be classed based on these general guidelines. Players are, of course, allowed to "class" their ships however they see fit - the entire catalogue of classes in Aurora is available and I'll write it down bit later. Tonnage is "less than or equal to". These will be revised if/when fleets get heavier.

• 250 tons - Fighter
• 500 tons - Heavy fighter
• 1000 tons - Fast Attack Craft
• 2000 tons - Patrol Craft
• 3000 tons - Corvette
• 4000 tons - Frigate
• 5000 tons - Destroyer
• 6000 tons - Light Cruiser
• 8000 tons - Heavy Cruiser
• 10,000 tons - Battleship
• 12,000 tons - Dreadnought

In addition, the following special cases are commonly used:

• Monitor - ship that trades speed and defence for additional firepower
• Battlecruiser - ship that combines speed of a cruiser with armament of battleship, dismissing defence
• Carrier - ship that carries other, smaller, ships into battle instead of fighting by itself

All possible ship classes are listed below:

Spoiler

Area Defence Cruiser
Armoured Cruiser
Assault Carrier
Assault Ship
Assault Shuttle
Assault Transport
Asteroid Miner
Attack Craft
Auxiliary Transport
Aviabaze
Base
Base Star
Battlecruiser
Battleship
Battlestar
Beam Defence Base
Bombardment Cruiser
Cargo Ship
Carrier
Collier
Colony Ship
Command Dropship
Command Ship
Construction Ship
Corvette
Courier
Cruiser
Dalnij bombardirovshchik
Deep Space Survey Ship
Desatnyy Korabl'
Destroyer
Destroyer Escort
Destroyer Leader
Drakar
Dreadnought
Dropship
Dropship Escort
Early Warning Craft
Escort
Escort Carrier
Escort Cruiser
Exploration Ship
FAC Tender
Fast Attack Craft
Fast Freighter
Fast Patrol Craft
Fast Scout
Fast Scout Craft
Fighter
Fighter Base
Fighter Storage
Fighter Transport
Fighter-bomber
Fighter-Scout
Fleet Scout
Fleet Support Vessel
Fleet Tug
Freighter
Frigate
Frigate Leader
Fuel Harvester
Fuel Harvester Base
Geological Survey Vessel
Geosurvey Ship
Gravitational Survey Vessel
Gravsurvey Ship
Gruzovoe Sudno
Gunboat
Gvardeysky Kreyser
Gvardeysky Raketnyy Kreyser
Heavy Battlecruiser
Heavy Carrier
Heavy Cruiser
Heavy Fighter
High Speed Scout
Hunter
Hyper-capable Freighter <--- useless as Hyper Drives are currently non-functional in 6.21
Interceptor
Istrebitel
Jump Battlecruiser
Jump Cruiser
Jump Destroyer
Jump Destroyer Escort
Jump Escort Cruiser
Jump Freighter
Jump Frigate
Jump Point Defence Base
Jump Scout
Jump Ship
Jump Tender
Kolonizator
Landing Craft Assault
Landing Craft Utility
Launch Complex
Light Carrier
Light Cruiser
Light Fighter
Long Range Gravsurvey Vessel
Long Range Survey Ship
Luxury Liner
Maintenance Base
Maintenance Vessel
Mal'yy Razvedyatel'niye Korabl'
Minelayer
Missile Base
Missile Boat
Missile Cruiser
Missile Defence Base
Missile Defence Satellite
Missile Destroyer
Missile Frigate
Monitor
Mothership
Oiler
Orbital Defence Monitor
Orbital Habitat
Orbital Weapon Platform
Passenger Cruiser
Patrol Craft
Patrol Cruiser
Patrol Ship
Patrol Vessel
Pinnace
Planetary Defence Centre
Planetary Fighter Base
Planetary Surveillance Base
Point Defence Base
Raider
Raketnyy Kater
Raketnyy Kreyser
Razvedchik
Razvedyvatel'niye Korabl'
Recon Fighter
Recon Frigate
Recon Satellite
Replenishment Ship
Resupply Base
Salvager
Science Vessel
Scout
Scout Base
Scout Cruiser
Scout Fighter
Scout Frigate
Scout/Courier
Sensor Outpost
Shuttle
Space Station
Spaceliner
Strike Carrier
Strike Cruiser
Strikefighter
Superdreadnought
Superfreighter
Support Vessel
Surveillance Cruiser
Surveillance Frigate
Survey Command Ship
Survey Corvette
Survey Craft
Survey Cruiser
Survey Ship
Survey Support
Tanker
Tekhnicheskaya Baza
Terraformer
Terraforming Base
Topliva Kombain
Troop Transport
Tug
Tyazholiy Avionosnyy Kreyser
War Cruiser
War Cruiser Leader

Hope that helps you in planning your far-off space fleets!

 

[Kalin]

 

[Kalin]

And because I have way too much time on my hands, the sleazy retardo sister publication: