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Imagine four balls on the edge of a cliff. Telepathy, apparently, works the same way.
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Glad to see the Zybourne Method showing some results.
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This shall be a landmark year for observation and discovery! Looking further into the depths of space than ever before by an order of magnitude Looking at the ocean's depths with unparalleled scrutiny Looking into the untapped potential of the human mind And looking at the dark underbelly of our own society...
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Yeeeesssss. ARISE, my trash fleet. Ye hulks, that yet float.
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Mister Bates posted:January 9, 1985 May God help us all.
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Millions of artists, sharing the same restless dream around the world, wake up and start drawing and sculpting artwork of Johnny Five-Aces.
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I am so happy this thread is back. I am sure there are loads of other members of the silent audience also as happy. Keep up the good work!
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Redeye Flight posted:May God help us all. Gonna give the Aliens the ol' Ermor Shuffle
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February 20, 1985 LostCosmonaut is assigned to command of the new ship, bringing with them some experienced crewmembers from the Skarbnik, who will join with some newer cosmonauts to form the ship's crew.  The vacancies on the Skarbnik are filled, with Rhjamiz taking over the command. LostCosmonaut and the new crew arrive on the ship, and begin final preparations for the mission. This expedition will take them way  way  way  way  way out there, deep into the Kuiper Belt, so far out that even with our most advanced sensors most of it remains completely uncharted.  In keeping with the spirit of the year, dedicated to science and discovery, the yard crews immediately turn around and begin retooling for the Dorothy-class. February 28, 1985 The two newest FESTER ships are ordered to burn for station-keeping over Antarctica for a few days, to prepare an initial survey of likely human habitation on the continent, in preparation for the Antarctic expeditions planned soon. Most of the refugees who fled there, fearing nuclear annihilation, left for warmer climes as soon as it became clear that wouldn't happen. A scattering of abandoned makeshift settlements have mostly been buried under the ice, along with most of the old science stations. Some of the science stations are still staffed, though, and a few thousand stubborn or insane people can still be found eking out subsistence-level livings in small independent settlements. McMurdo Station, with its still-operational nuclear reactor, shines like a beacon in the infrared. After the initial scan, the ships will be placed in Molniya orbits over the southern pole, to save fuel (it is, unfortunately, impossible to have a geostationary orbit over either of the Earth's poles, and holding them stationary down there would require them to burn their engines constantly). March 1, 1985  The next three DS001-class patrol craft are launched, and three more are laid down. These three form Second Patrol Squadron, and are placed under the authority of Earth Guard Command.  On the same day, the Kuiper Belt expedition receives final launch clearance, and the Krusenstern lights off her engines, sailing off into the void on a plume of nuclear fire. The outward leg of the journey will take the ship, which is traveling at about half a percent of the speed of light and would be experiencing relativistic effects were she not made of TNEs, 204 days. March 2, 1985   The Krusenstern exchange greetings with the Barsoom and Cydonia outposts as she rapidly approaches, then just as rapidly recedes from, Mars. March 4, 1985   Orbital Defense Command Paris officially comes online. The next set of three railgun batteries begins construction. March 7, 1985 The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile approves a major revision to the rules for single-seater 'formula' motor racing. Under the new set of regulations, the 'Formula TNE' competitions for Trans-Newtonian vehicles will become the standard formulae, with Formula TNE 1 simply becoming Formula 1, etc. A new set of 'Formula Classic' contests will be created, using the old rules, for conventional-material cars using petroleum-powered internal combustion engines. The changes are highly controversial and make many fans, drivers, and constructors extremely angry, with many veterans deriding Formula TNE as not being 'real' racing. The new rules will take effect starting with the 1986 season. March 12, 1985 The orbital surveys of the Earth's oceans continue. In addition to dozens of formerly-lost shipwrecks and a number of fascinating geological features that have never been imaged in this detail, they have also identified four sites of interest that warrant further investigation due to possible presence of TNEs, all in the Pacific Ocean. March 22, 1985 The Las Vegas Senate votes unanimously to sign the Ascension Accords, and Las Vegas technically becomes a spacefaring power, though this is dismissed the world over as a publicity stunt. While Caesar's Palace would surely love to be able to turn their city-state into the next Hawaii, your analysts do not believe it is a realistic possibility. March 29, 1985 The first expeditions of the year's Antarctic program make landfall on the continent. There will be over a dozen, comprising thousands of scientists, explorers, and diplomats. Small numbers of Comintern Army personnel will also be present to provide security, just in case. April 2, 1985 The Ecuadorian tanker Napo accidentally collides with the wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, which was scuttled in shallow waters off the coast of Vietnam as the result of a mutiny in the early days of the GRW and remains a major navigational hazard. The tanker's cargo of refined sorium fuel spills into the ocean. The newly-formed PLAN takes the initiative to organize a response to the crisis - though they have only one ship, they do have a mandate and a command structure. They immediately begin requesting aid, personnel, and ships from the Comintern's member states and developing a plan to contain the spill. The newly-formed Safety Commission and Bureau of Socialist Sciences also get involved, working to determine the environmental impact of the disaster and methods to mediate it. Nothing like this has ever happened before, so this is all uncharted territory. April 8, 1985    After years of development, and contributions from thousands of archaeologists, historians, engineers, and other relevant experts, the Comintern's academicians have assembled a set of policies and standardized operating practices governing the practice of archaeology on alien worlds. The next step will be designing equipment with which to apply these procedures, which begins immediately. 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A joint statement from the governments of Haiti and Albania:quote:In the name of International Solidarity we are announcing a Congress of Independent Anarchists, Socialists, Communists, and Leftists in Tiranë, Albania. Though the Left may be infamously fractious that is no reason not to have dialogue with each other. Working together but keeping our independence we can achieve anything! ...
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Volmarias posted:Splitters! How can they be slitters when they never joined to start with?  And Haiti is just reaching out to our wayward brethren!
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pointless international anarchist conferences? finally, nature is healing
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April 9, 1985 Containment of the Napo spill is largely complete. As with all TNEs, sorium must be mixed with conventional elements to be stabilized for use in industry. Early sorium refining used a hydrocarbon-based process, but now most ReSor (as it's colloquially known) is stabilized with ethanol. On the one hand, this ensures that the cleanup will be much easier than a traditional petroleum spill - it's essentially a tanker full of alcohol - but, on the other hand, it means that the stabilizing agent rapidly evaporates, leaving a bunch of destabilized exotic not-quite-matter just hanging around, spread in a thin layer across the surface of the ocean and the nearby beach. Destabilized TNEs really do not want to exist in our reality, and the resulting sorium soup soon disappears into the ether. As the ethanol evaporates, molecule by molecule, and the sorium is freed to return to Trans-Newtonian fluidspace, the sea glitters with eerie blue light. The millions of microscopic holes briefly opened in the fabric of reality itself, in addition to releasing light, also release a small but detectable amount of heat. While the spill is all but entirely cleared, the area is cordoned off indefinitely, and will be closely monitored in order to determine if there have been any long-term environmental effects. Small-scale spills and stabilization failures have happened, but nothing like this, and we don't really know exactly what we're dealing with. A mine in central Vietnam, positioned over a vendarite deposit, unexpectedly pulls up a cloud of liquid sorium through the transdimensional bore, which the machinery is not prepared to handle. The machinery is running hot, and the sorium combusts, in the way sorium does, burning with an extremely hot, smokeless electric-blue flame as it breaks down into exotic particles, which flash out of existence almost instantly. A boronide-based dry powder extinguisher is deployed and the fire is extinguished, but severe damage is done to the mine, which will take weeks to repair. While it could be a coincidence, the presumption is that the sorium originated from the Napo spill. The whole incident serves as a stark reminder that humanity's technological revolution is built on barely-understood alien technology and materials that behave in ways which make a mockery of thousands of years of established human science and engineering, and that there's still so much about Trans-Newtonian physics we simply do not know. April 12, 1985  Transporting large quantities of personnel and equipment across interplanetary distances is a significant engineering challenge, but it's one humanity has a lot of experience with already. With the help of the Hawaiians, your designers are able to put together designs for transport bays capable of carrying everything the upcoming expedition will need - supplies, vehicles, people, the works - as well as the landers required to get them to the surface. you spent years researching the drat archaeology team, making you wait another year to research something you should logically know how to make already just seemed rude  They also throw together a quick design for a transport making use of them. The new ship is literally just one of your existing Berowra-class freighters with the cargo bays swapped out for the new transport pods. The engineering section, propulsion system, and command module are exactly the same. Unfortunately, the transport bays are substantial enough pieces of engineering - incorporating significant structural reinforcements, radiation shielding, life support, small hangars for landers, living quarters for personnel, large airlocks for boarding and deboarding - that it will require a yard to be retooled.  Interkosmos Station, which has seen no actual use since the nuclear attack, will once more be called into service to build the ship. Construction will begin in August. While the yard cannot currently build the Barsoom, once it has been retooled, it will be able to continue building Berowra-class ships just fine on the new tooling, should you desire more. April 14, 1985 The 1000km Mugello endurance race, the opening race of the World Sportscar Championship's 1985 season, is contested on the Mugello circuit in Italy. Immediately after the main race using traditional combustion-engine-powered cars, a demonstration race is held using TN vehicles, racing the same distance on the same circuit. 17 of the 20 cars competing in the demonstration race finish, two retire with mechanical issues (Race Team Shanghai's second car melted the brakes into a puddle of liquid metal, although they did successfully bring the car into the pits while doing so; United Auto Workers Local 900's unorthodox eight-wheeled car destroys its gearbox and has to be recovered from the track with a crane), and Zimbabwean team Impala, who have been struggling with their controversial active-aerodynamics design featuring movable control surfaces, accidentally send their car airborne. The Impala car assumes a flat ballistic trajectory and eventually buries itself in a muddy field about two miles away. Though the driver, who had the presence of mind to deploy the airbrakes and drogue chute before impact, is largely unhurt, it's a miracle no one else was killed. All 17 of the cars which do finish completely smash the existing track records. The FIA immediately announces a halt on further TNE-enhanced motorsport on pre-TN-era road courses, cancelling all remaining events scheduled for 1985 until additional safety regulations can be drawn up and implemented. The Comintern's Safety Commission will be intimately involved in the process. April 22, 1985  The Kuiper Belt expedition has passed the orbit of Pluto, our solar system's ninth planet, and is well into the Kuiper Belt. The light delay means that communications with the ship takes over nine hours, and getting slower with each passing day. They are still months away from their destination. April 25, 1985 A week-long orbital survey of the approximate area where HMS Renown, sister ship of the Revenge, was presumed sunk during the Great Revolutionary War, concludes. The imploded remnants of the submarine - or, more accurately, a mass of metal that is currently presumed to be that - are lying on the Atlantic seabed in about two miles of water. Closer examination of the wreck will be necessary to determine the status of the reactor, and of the nuclear missiles carried on board. The crew of CSV Skarbnik are commended for their work in possibly locating a few of the hundreds of GRW-era nuclear weapons that remain unaccounted for. May 1, 1985 International Worker's Day is as big a holiday as ever. There is one unusual thing about this one, though. In Tirana, Albania, representatives from a thousand disparate factions gather. They have one thing, and only one thing, in common - dissatisfaction with the current direction the Comintern is taking. They range from nationalist groups with grievances over the way certain borders are currently drawn to radical 'panarchists' who are irritated that borders still exist at all, insurrectionist anarchists who believe all formal organizational structures are inherently bourgeois to unreconstructed Stalinists who think the Comintern is too weak and unstructured, pacifists who disapprove of the body's more militaristic aspects to hardline militarists who think the body is too soft on the remaining capitalist powers. Many of them are left dissident groups from 'pink' nations, irritated that the Comintern has been willing to cultivate friendly relationships with governments they're fighting against. They include dissident Japanese communists who expected the Comintern to lead a revolution in their home nation and feel betrayed at the current detente, members of a small Mexican Trotskyist party who point out (not inaccurately) that the current Mexican government are not exactly committed Marxists, and exiled followers of the deceased Pol Pot, who maintain that Vietnam illegally invaded their country and the current Comintern-backed government is an illegitimate puppet state. Some of them want the body abolished entirely, but most of them have relatively mild proposals for reform; in particular, there is a sizable wing who are alarmed at the growing power and centralization of the Comintern, and the terrifying possibilities of Trans-Newtonian technology as applied to surveillance and state control. The conference collapses into chaos almost immediately, with the organizing committee voting to refuse to issue credentials to several of the attendees and several of the credentialed delegates having to be removed by the sergeant-at-arms due to belligerent behavior. SPECTRE agents observing the proceedings report that it's mostly exactly as unproductive as one might expect of such a meeting; one of the agents, a Parisian, calls it 'positively French'. This clown show isn't the whole story, though. At the center of this swirling madness, a few more serious groups meet and talk, in breakout sessions and quiet side-channel discussions. They draw up points of unity, a platform, the tentative outlines of a plan. They quietly approach others who they think will be like-minded, and invite them into the circle. They strategize. They are broadly satisfied with the proceedings. Most of the attendees to this first Congress of Independent Socialists will not be invited back, and good riddance to them. There will be a second Congress, though, which is more than outside observers initially expected. May 2, 1985  While the M1985 exploration rover may seem like it was designed quickly, it's actually an iterative development on years of existing work. The core of the design is actually based on a modular habitat originally designed for the Moon colonies, which has been mounted atop a large six-wheeled drive train. Inside this mobile habitat are full living quarters for a team of scientists and workers, extremely well-equipped - if somewhat cramped - laboratory facilities, and storage for a number of collapsible prefabricated pressurized modules, which can be quickly deployed and assembled to make a small, spartan surface outpost anywhere on Mars. With minimal modification, the design will also be suitable for missions on other planets.  Eight of the giant vehicles are ordered from the Kharkov Locomotive Factory, builders of the 'Kharkovchanka' Antarctic exploration vehicles of the 1950s, which remain in service to this day (and are in fact currently putting in good work with the 1985 Antarctic expeditions) - four for the upcoming Mars expedition, and four spares. The expedition will also include seven other rovers, all of them modifications of existing Moon rovers for the Martian environment. One of them is a simple cargo-hauler with an earthmover blade attachment and small, detachable crane and backhoe units, four are fast, long-endurance scout rovers, and two are command and control vehicles. All of them include habitat modules and are designed to comfortably house a small crew for months if necessary. The unit will, in effect, be a mobile scientific base. Selection for the new team is already underway. Slots are limited, and competition is extremely fierce. Even being selected as an alternate will be a highly prestigious posting. May 5, 1985  The tooling for the new Dorothy-class is completed, and the ship is laid down. The Director has been closely involved with the process, personally ensuring it all goes according to plan. Privately, she has mixed feelings about the project. The ship should launch in December. May 11, 1985  Three more railgun batteries come online. Only a few more will be needed to complete the initial order; the anti-ballistic-missile shield is nearly complete.  Some resources are temporarily diverted from the project to focus on selecting, training, and equipping the Cydonia archaeology teams - one primary, one alternate (just in case something happens to the primary). May 15, 1985 The Krusenstern conducts a close flyby of an unnamed Kuiper Belt object, an icy ball of rock about 4 km in diameter. This was not on their mission profile, but upon determining they would pass closely by, it was deemed too good an opportunity to pass up. The ship passes within about 500 meters of the object, and could have easily landed on it had they so chose. The pictures and scientific data they send back are received with enthusiasm by astronomers. May 16, 1985 Our Antarctic expedition discovers the remains of a British military installation. The facility is buried under the ice and looks to have been abandoned for many years, but the existence of the site - which included a large store of weapons, fuel, supplies, and spare parts, workshops, and an airstrip - confirms that exiled reactionary forces hid out in Antarctica and operated here for some time, during and likely after the GRW. May 19, 1985 A man claiming to be a maintenance worker at the bunker complex where the United States Federal Government is based, and claiming to have vital information, shows up at a Delmarvan police station in the middle of the night, asking to defect and requesting political asylum. A SPECTRE team arrives as soon as possible to debrief the man. May 22, 1985 The defector - identity protected for his own safety, identified in reports as asset LONG WALK - makes an incredible claim. According to this man, Interim President for Life Spiro Agnew is dead, and has been for at least two years. His cabinet are running the rump state in his stead, maintaining the fiction of a living president to avoid having to deal with the possibility of a chaotic succession process, or, worse, that people in the territory they control might start demanding an election. We're going off the word of one person here, and further investigation will be needed to confirm or deny it. If true, Agnew's so-called government is like a body without a head, and extremely vulnerable, should we decide to take action against them. May 25, 1985  Comintern economic planners estimate that, as of today, there is less than a year remaining before the full modernization of our Trans-Newtonian mining infrastructure is complete. May 30, 1985  Current research progress. Mister Bates fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Apr 26, 2022 |
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Woo, update. The independent socialists have a bevy of very bad to very good points. Foremost among them is the way the ministries are: right now the Comintern is basically this huge apparatus with no accountability to the worker. That's.. not good. Personally, I'm angling to start the devolution of them, first step being a bill I intend to propose next session. This bill will let Comintern members in the regional forums use the forums to set regional priorities for the ministries. I intend to follow it up with proposals that will make the ministries and their workings increasingly accountable and worker-headed.
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Bunch of splitters, factionalists, and reactionary puppets if you ask me! The headless government of Spirow Agnew must be brought to justice!
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Thank you for respecting Pluto.
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paragon1 posted:The headless government of Spirow Agnew must be brought to justice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2TL0GHSue0
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Also, if we want to start breaking down national divides, what about a comintern passport or similar?
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Sounds like a good plan. The sooner borders are nothing more than statistical areas the better.
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NewMars posted:Also, if we want to start breaking down national divides, what about a comintern passport or similar? We do have a CI-wide ID card/system in the works, that could probably do double duty as a passport when it's in place.
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common passport, common currency, put all the sports teams in the same leagues, expand eurovison to cover the whole comminterp.
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thatbastardken posted:mars receives no points This is discrimination against good posters.
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thatbastardken posted:common passport, common currency, put all the sports teams in the same leagues, expand eurovison to cover the whole comminterp. Request that Japan be allowed to compete, because who here doesn't want to see TN-powered Gundam mechs doing a power-metal duet whilst hovering over the audience.
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BwenGun posted:Request that Japan be allowed to compete, because who here doesn't want to see TN-powered Gundam mechs doing a power-metal duet whilst hovering over the audience. I don't want to see Japanese armoured walkers pointing their armaments at Comintern citizenry, thank you very much.
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Bates notes in the Discord that we currently have no scientists specializing in Defensive Systems, Biology/Genetics, or Ground Combat. The head of Intercosmos Academy is currently a Missile/Kinetic weapons specialist, so new leaders are more likely to be scientists when they're generated, but they're also more likely to be more Missile/Kinetic specialists, of whom we already have plenty. We should consider respeccing some of our M/K specialists to cover the fields we lack specialists in right now (though they will lose a lot of their research bonus when we do so) and maybe even respeccing the head of Intercosmos itself, so that we're more likely to get scientists specializing in one of the fields we lack. For reference, Defensive Systems covers armor, shields, and stealth (both passive stealth, like reducing our thermal signatures, and active stealth, cloaking fields). Biology/Genetics covers terraforming technology as well as genomic research that eventually lets us purpose-produce human subspecies that can survive and thrive in a wider range of temperatures, atmospheric conditions, and gravities. Ground Combat, like it sounds, covers ground units plus weapon pods for space-to-ground fighters, but also includes the equipment needed for construction teams, geosurvey teams, and (as we already know) xenoarchaeology teams.
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It should also be noted that armor tech drastically reduces ship tonnage since you can cram the same level of protection in with less tonnage.
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Also if we have a university on the moon, we call call it a mooniversity. Although as pointed out on the discord, that risks us getting swamped with luna-grads.
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Innocent_Bystander posted:We should move all the psychic nonsense to the moon where it can get a lunacy bonus.
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Innocent_Bystander posted:We should move all the psychic nonsense to the moon where it can get a lunacy bonus. Make sure they're on the top floor of the university building, the Lun-attic.
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i could press a button and delete this thread, just fyi
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sebmojo posted:i could press a button and delete this thread, just fyi Then everyone is just going to bitch and moon about it.
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Affi posted:Then everyone is just going to bitch and moon about it. 
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