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C# Fiction => General C# Fiction => Topic started by: Froggiest1982 on October 02, 2021, 03:48:14 AM

Title: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 02, 2021, 03:48:14 AM
I thought I would post separately the intro so that does not get mixed up with the story. I will start posting in the next day or 2 starting with the background, the history of the flag and some insight into the race based on the first elections and data generated by Aurora random Race Traits.

In the meantime, if there are questions or things you want me to change feel free to ask and if not too late I’ll see what I can do.



HOUSE RULES


The game starts without NPR and the generation chance is set to 0. It will be back once I reach a system at least 15 LY away. The generation will be 40 for the player and 15 for the NPR with the NPR that can activate spoilers. Known Star systems with Constellations names and realistic promotions.



SPOILERS




This AAR will be used along with a modded DB and all decisions will be taken using my Aurora Government Simulator available here http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=12763.msg155606#msg155606 (http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=12763.msg155606#msg155606)


DB MODs




RACE RNG

The starting Race tech was determined by an RNG system I use. The selection was:

The Standard displacement also rolled an armour rating of 3. Therefore, for the navy the following rules apply:



(https://i.imgur.com/YNlQmEF.png)



The above is class level 1. If I ever reach the point of Super Dreadnought, there is the possibility of improving to Class 2 and 3 which have higher displacement and armour tonnage for all classes.
The displacement also influences the Army and the following rules apply:



(https://i.imgur.com/RniTvzq.png)



Finally, this is the starting setup which was also determined by the RNG:



(https://i.imgur.com/3TRjAuA.png)



The level of training was set by the RNG at 5. Currently, there are no ships or armies as I am still finishing setting up the player's techs.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 02, 2021, 09:25:34 AM
HOUSE RULES

  • Construction cycle 86,399

Cheeky.

Looking forward to this, the last political AAR was quite engaging and I've missed it these past few months. The randomly-generated starting setup is interesting... I've always found such things intriguing, but I can never bring myself to play such a setup as I always get enamored with a RP idea instead...

One small suggestion: it might make a bit of sense to change the flavor names of the ground units by omitting one of: regiment, brigade, or division levels and adding a "theater" or "region/district" name to the top level. As it is you have a division as 1.5m tons which is probably in the range of 100,000 to 300,000 soldiers which is the size of a typical WWII army-level formation as a single division. Further, formations beyond 1m tons are pretty rare to get to, especially with a setup like yours with the political aspects that limit military buildup, so I think it makes sense to drop the sizes a bit.

Also, while I like the random numbers of sub-formations, this is going to play havoc with the auto-promotion of ground force commanders unless you use manual promotions. Probably something to think about...
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 02, 2021, 05:08:21 PM
HOUSE RULES

  • Construction cycle 86,399

Cheeky.

Looking forward to this, the last political AAR was quite engaging and I've missed it these past few months. The randomly-generated starting setup is interesting... I've always found such things intriguing, but I can never bring myself to play such a setup as I always get enamored with a RP idea instead...

One small suggestion: it might make a bit of sense to change the flavor names of the ground units by omitting one of: regiment, brigade, or division levels and adding a "theater" or "region/district" name to the top level. As it is you have a division as 1.5m tons which is probably in the range of 100,000 to 300,000 soldiers which is the size of a typical WWII army-level formation as a single division. Further, formations beyond 1m tons are pretty rare to get to, especially with a setup like yours with the political aspects that limit military buildup, so I think it makes sense to drop the sizes a bit.

Also, while I like the random numbers of sub-formations, this is going to play havoc with the auto-promotion of ground force commanders unless you use manual promotions. Probably something to think about...

Thanks, I haven't built the military yet. I thought I would have a Division only at the start and I might get more creative with names as you suggested. Currently, some units will be more diversified. So for instance, there could be a Brigade with 5 Regiments all of which have 2 battalions or some regiments maybe just a single entity for replacement or logistic/engineering. I played around with this way to work in all my previous games and I find it easy to work. The only pain is the double HQ required due to the size limit, but I have an in house rule where only the HQ with higher command and RP need to be researched. The subcommand comes included through instant research.

Regarding the tonnage, I agree, as I never actually managed to build an entire Corp and I tend to ship Brigades or Divisions for larger scale operations. Of course, depends on the RNG sometimes.

Perhaps the below could be a bit easier to achieve? (Names have not been changed yet)



(https://i.imgur.com/4L0LYAG.png)

Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 02, 2021, 06:33:23 PM
Perhaps the below could be a bit easier to achieve? (Names have not been changed yet)



(https://i.imgur.com/4L0LYAG.png)

It would be, but you run into two problems. First is that a 1,200-ton Company is very cheap and quick to build, so you will have a large number of them and not enough commanders to go around. For me, the #1 determinant of my formation size is aiming to build as many formations as I have commanders for and still have enough units to invade a planet, which frankly usually requires 15k or 20k ton as the base formation size (I have in mind to experiment with a 12,500 ton "regiment" base formation, inspired by VB6 formation sizes). 5,000 tons is the bare minimum I think for most people, usually this is labeled as a battalion, but I find this hits the commander limit too quickly. Your mileage may vary especially with the limitations on military buildup.

Warning: the above is the only truly important bit, and the rest is nerdy rambling from someone who takes this game far too seriously.  ;)

Second "problem", really not a problem, but personally I like the idea of 6,000-ton companies as the base unit. For context I am a bit of an OOB nerd and often design my formations in Notepad++ down to the squad level, and in my experience a typical company is ~1,000 tons. However you can create a large company with an additional command level between platoon and company HQs which could be called, for instance, a "column" (all of this is out-of-game RP only for me). In NATO symbology if the platoon is three dots and the company is one bar, a "column" or other named sub-formation would be represented with four dots. This leads to interesting RP questions about how the armed forces are structured which can be answered by your rank system. Typically in IRL militaries a platoon is commanded by a lieutenant and a company is commanded by a captain. If your large companies are commanded by captains, what does the lower command structure look like? Maybe you have 3-4 lieutenant ranks or a junior captain rank? Do your lower formations have commissioned staff officers or are HQs staffed by NCOs? Similar questions exist for higher ranks; in the US Army for instance, IIRC: Captains command companies, LTCs command battalions with Majors as staff officers, COLs command regiments or brigades, and MAJGENs command divisions with (confusingly) Brigadiers as staff officers. This of course doesn't map well to Aurora as we still don't have staff officer roles for ground forces (siiiigh...) but it's another roleplay opportunity.

Anyways, I digress...point is, I think having large companies (6,000 tons is roughly 600 to 1,200 soldiers depending on makeup, typically IRL a company is ~150 soldiers) offers an intriguing roleplay opportunity and I want to see it explored.  :P

As for the higher ranks, as you mentioned you haven't renamed anything yet, but very few militaries retain a battalion - regiment - brigade - division - corps structure (neglecting the cases such as the British Army which use regiments and sometimes corps as non-OOB commands), usually one or even two of these are omitted. Admittedly this is arbitrary, as the names are purely historical precedent as is the traditional commanding rank for each, but largely the reason for this is a combination of downsizing manpower-wise and working with available commanding ranks given the need for staff officers of suitable rank at each level. Again, Aurora models this poorly but it still represents an interesting RP opportunity to envision why your formation + rank structure is how it is.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 02, 2021, 06:55:43 PM
Fair enough and I also agree.

I will keep my 6k structure as that is only guideline and proceed with what I was doing in my campaigns. Who knows, I may show you another way of doing things.

In the end there is no right or wrong in Aurora.

You'll see That I will not move necessarly from bottom up to tge top for the structure.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt - Background 1914-1934
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 03, 2021, 03:04:13 AM

BACKGROUND

During World War I (1914–1918), Germany led the Central Powers against France, the United Kingdom, Russia, (by 1915) Italy and (by 1917) the United States. Defeated and partly occupied, Germany was forced to pay war reparations by the Treaty of Versailles and was stripped of its colonies as well as of home territory to be ceded to Belgium, France, and Poland, and was banned from uniting with German-settled regions of Austria. The German Revolution of 1918–19 put an end to the federal constitutional monarchy, which resulted in the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an unstable parliamentary democracy.

The state was officially the German Reich (Deutsches Reich) and was also referred to as the German Republic (Deutsche Republik). The term "Weimar Republic" refers to the city of Weimar, where the republic's constituent assembly first took place.

From 1918 to 1923, the Weimar Republic suffered grave problems, such as hyperinflation, political extremism, including political murders and two attempted power seizures by contending paramilitaries, as well as contentious relationships with the victors of the First World War.

In 1923, a fool named Adolf Hitler attempted to seize governmental power in a failed coup in Munich and was imprisoned with a sentence of five years. In jail, he dictated the first volume of his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). After his early release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and populist propaganda. He frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as part of a Jewish conspiracy.

Shortly after, British Intelligence backed by the Russians managed to assassinate him leading Germany to great unrest and chaos. Resentment in Germany towards the Treaty of Versailles was strong, especially on the political right where there was great anger towards those who had signed and submitted to the treaty. The Weimar Republic fulfilled most of the requirements of the Treaty of Versailles, although it never completely met its disarmament requirements and eventually paid only a small portion of the war reparations (by twice restructuring its debt through the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan).

Under the Locarno Treaties, signed in 1925, Germany moved toward normalising relations with its neighbours. Germany recognised the western borders that had been established through the Versailles Treaty, but its eastern borders remained subject to possible revisions. Meanwhile, the great scientist Albert Einstein was welcomed back in Germany from his travelling abroad started in 1921. After his last visit to South America, he was finally ready to expand his studies on the general theory of relativity. Einstein’s travel was the result of how he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". While the general theory of relativity was still considered somewhat controversial, the citation also does not treat even the cited photoelectric work as an explanation but merely as a discovery of the law, as the idea of photons was considered outlandish and did not receive universal acceptance until the 1924 derivation of the Planck spectrum by S. N. Bose.

Hence his reinvigorated spirit and hunger in expanding the studies on the discovery only from 1925 onwards. It was during one of these thousand studies that, almost by mistake, Einstein realized the existence of the Aether: A dimension co-existing alongside normal space, which has fluidic properties and is much more compressed in terms of distance between objects. The discovery of the Aether led to the discovery of the Trans-Newtonian Elements (TNE) and shortly after on how to extract them. The government immediately seized the research and decided to expand the physics department with enormous investments. By 1930 Germany could count on a fully TN economy and industry. The first TN weapons were developed and the dream of righting the wrongs of the first World War was finally becoming true.

In December 1930, Einstein was planning to visit America for the second time as a two-month working visit as a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He would never make it to the airport. Shortly after, the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act used the perceived state of emergency to grant the new Chancellor broad power to act outside parliamentary control, which he used to thwart constitutional governance and civil liberties giving birth to the Republic as we know it today. The return to the Deutschland nomenclature was the prelude to the war.

In 6 months the Deutsche Republik defeated the Polish, the French, and the British, while its allies: Italy, Spain, and Japan thanks to primordial TN equipment provided by the Germans seized Asia, Africa, and Oceania. In less than another month, the United States and the countries in South America signed the unconditional surrender leaving, by the end of 1931, the world all united under the Germans making their motto: Über alles in der Welt, a reality. Germans were really above all else in the world. The following Government elected spent time to analyze and formulate a plan to conquer more land and considering there was no free land on Earth their eyes and minds were set on the stars. They decided to look at their past and the German hero that first opened the way for possible space travel: Fritz von Opel.

Fritz von Opel was instrumental in popularizing rockets as means of propulsion for vehicles. In the 1920s, he initiated together with Max Valier, co-founder of the "Verein für Raumschiffahrt", the world's first rocket program, Opel-RAK, leading to speed records for automobiles, rail vehicles and the first manned rocket-powered flight in September of 1929. Months earlier in 1928, one of his rocket-powered prototypes, the Opel RAK2, reached piloted by von Opel himself at the AVUS speedway in Berlin at a record speed of 238 km/h, watched by 3000 spectators and world media. A world record for rail vehicles was reached with RAK3 and a top speed of 256 km/h. After these successes, von Opel piloted the world's first public rocket-powered flight using Opel RAK.1, a rocket plane designed by Julius Hatry.

World media reported on these efforts, including UNIVERSAL Newsreel of the US, causing as "Raketen-Rummel" or "Rocket Rumble" immense global public excitement, and in particular in Germany, where inter alia Wernher von Braun was highly influenced. The Great Conquest War and the discovery of the TN minerals led to an expansion of the Opel-RAK program and Von Opel continued the efforts. After switching from solid fuel to Sorium-fuel rockets, he died while testing and is considered the first fatality of the dawning space age.

The government then set the end of its term (31st of December 1934) as a deadline to have Humanity ready for Space travel. Numerous projects for Space Engines, Space Radars, Space Weapons, and more started. The goal was to have multiple Space Ships so that the Deutsche Marine could start the expansion by the beginning of the new Republican term of 1935.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: TMaekler on October 03, 2021, 03:22:58 AM

HOUSE RULES

  • Construction cycle 86,399
What is the background of not using 86400, but one number below?[/list]
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 03, 2021, 03:06:15 PM

HOUSE RULES

  • Construction cycle 86,399
What is the background of not using 86400, but one number below?[/list]
I have taken this from skoormit and db48x plus other players. I used 86400 as well but apparently removing the second should ensure everything that takes a day or less get calculated within the 1 day increment resulting in less "waste of time". The min increment in Aurora is 5 seconds as you know so you would potentially have the updated cycle at 1 day and 5 seconds. I have actually never tested this but I trust the community.
Title: Über alles in der Welt - 1935 election
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 13, 2021, 04:10:31 AM

1935 ELECTION

The New Deutsche Republik was due to be elected on the night of the 1st of January 1935. All candidates released their intentions for the following 4 years and only 3 won the respective primaries and got enough votes to submit their candidacy as Chancellor of the Republic.

The first was Jorg von Prugner, representative of the Republican Party and Admiral of the Deutsche Marine. The candid and patient man, originally born in the old Prussia, was known for his superstitious ways and rituals. While running for the Republicans, the majority of his supporters were all old Nationalists, still attached to the origins of the Weimar Republik. His plan was entirely made around the importance of the Navy leaving minimal if not any resources to be spent for the public welfare. The biggest reform Jorg pushed through his campaign was the introduction of a military pension for all the retired soldiers of the Great Conquest War and, obviously, for all future generations of soldiers of the army and the navy.

The second was a true born and bred German called Fabian Jentzsch. Fabian was running for the Nationalist Party and was also Oberst of the Deutsche Heer. His ignorant and arrogant personality was something very hard to overcome while presenting himself as a suitable leader and he managed to have a shot and Chancellorship only thanks to the support of the army. With his rival campaigning hard on the military pension and with a Nationalist base to please, Fabian proposed to Nationalize the majority of the private sector on Earth to ensure the government would have had a say on the hiring policies and salaries.

The third candidate was not only a non-German one but was also the first woman ever to be allowed to run for such a prestigious position. Iaraina Konovalova, originally born in Ukraine by a Russian father and Ukrainian mother, was a firm atheist with a warm and agreeable personality. As a member of the Federalist Party, she was counting on the support of the whole federalist wing and part of the trade party as well. With the Federalists leading the polls, Iaraina had a good reason to believe that she could actually make Chancellor in this turn of elections. Her campaign revolved around religions and how much they were holding back humanity. She proposed then to ban any religious form in case she would get elected. While many were still attached to the old ways, the young population, thanks to the discovery of the TN, started to think about the stars and new planets to live, something that many religions weren’t ready to tackle and resulted in the loss of many followers.

In fact, the Germans adopted a Roman way after their world domination, allowing many, if not all the subjugated nations to keep their religions and languages. The only mandatory requirements were that everybody should be also thought German as a second language and the Deutsche Mark as the primary currency. Eventually, while a unique religion would have been much harder to push back, a small fragmented belief would have been possible to clash in a few years only.

By law, 278 Senators were due to direct election by the Republican population. Once elected, the Senators would gather together to elect the Chancellor. The parties were allowed to present a united front in the form of a coalition prior to the election to increase their chances of a win or, eventually, run alone. If no clear winner would emerge after the election, the Chancellor elected would have been in charge of finding a custom majority within the parties to support his or her mandate. To win, a coalition, a party, or a Chancellor’s coalition required the majority of the seats in the Senate.

By the end of the day, results came in:


Despite numbers, the real winner was again absenteeism. Only 26.21% of the eligible voting population decided to turn up for the election for a total of 393.16 million people over the total eligible population of 1,092.11 million.

The new senators proceeded then to the election of the Chancellor. The first round of preferences saw Iaraina Konovalova gaining 44.57% of the preferences with Fabian and Jorg battling for the same pool of votes and ended up with respectively 29.35% and 25.72% of the preferences. As per the constitution, the 3rd candidate would have then been forced to drop his candidacy and allow a final vote to be held between the first and the second. As per custom, Jorg von Purgner decided to windthrow from the run after a brief speech aimed to support his closer political opponent: Fabian Jentzsch.

However, regardless of his speech, not all his supporters decided to follow suit and voted for Iaraina instead. The final results were then 57.61% for the Ukrainian against 42.39% for the German. The Deutsche Republik would have then had its first women and foreign Chancellor.

Elected Chancellor proceeded then to analyze the coalition declaration of the senators. The possible Coalition numbers were as following:


MAJORITY 139 seats

It was clear from the beginning that only a Republican or a Democrat coalition would have been possible, however, the only 7 seats of difference could have been an issue. In the end, considering the long Republican tradition and the fact that they had higher numbers made it possible for Iaraina to declare the Republicans as the leading coalition for the Senate. The opposition would have then been composed of 107 seats against the 169 of the leading majority with over 60% of the total seats.

During her settlement speech and as per her prerogative, the Chancellor elected ratified immediately her Religion Ban Legislation which the Senate would have discussed and approved within the first 100 days of the term.

All the matters of the state were already waiting in her office but considering the long and emotional day she just experienced, Chancellor Konovalova decided to go home and get some rest.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt - 1935 election
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 13, 2021, 09:26:29 AM
In fact, the Germans adopted a Roman way after their world domination, allowing many, if not all the subjugated nations to keep their religions and languages. The only mandatory requirements were that everybody should be also thought German as a second language and the Deutsche Mark as the primary currency. Eventually, while a unique religion would have been much harder to push back, a small fragmented belief would have been possible to clash in a few years only.

In the midst of this important election news, I feel obligated to commend this excellent use of reference to the Roman way of doing things, which goes beyond typical tropes about legions and emperors and makes an astute connection to how Roman society was actually managed across the empire. Historical accuracy is always of course one of the foremost indicators of a quality AAR.  ;D

It is also worth considering that when the Romans began to get away from this approach to managing their empire, things began going steadily more wrong for them, surely this cannot be an ominous portent in any way...

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Despite numbers, the real winner was again absenteeism. Only 26.21% of the eligible voting population decided to turn up for the election for a total of 393.16 million people over the total eligible population of 1,092.11 million.

Might need to check these numbers if this is what your program/spreadsheet is putting out. 393.16 / 1092.11 is 36.0%, and I cannot find a simple change of a digit to give the listed percentage. Possible bug?

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During her settlement speech and as per her prerogative, the Chancellor elected ratified immediately her Religion Ban Legislation which the Senate would have discussed and approved within the first 100 days of the term.

I really would imagine that a blanket ban on religion worldwide would lead to significant unrest, even if the younger generation accepts it many old traditionalists would still remain at this time, after all TN technology has only been known for about ten years. Then again, I don't know that this unrest would be appreciably more than the unrest you already have from the conquered peoples of the world, so maybe it is not a big factor after all.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 13, 2021, 04:39:02 PM
Regarding the math
Sorry my fault as it is related to the whole population and not eligible only. I started 1,500 million so 26.21% is correct. I think I meant to change it with the number referring to the current eligible only, not sure why I haven't in the end. The full table does have both, so I really do not remember what the original reasons were. Getting old...
But thanks, 4 eyes always better than 2!

Unrest
This is accounted for. Every policy have consequences and while some can be more immediate, some others are more long term. As you know, only time will tell if this blunt move will pay off or simply blow in the Chancellor face.
Currently the level of unrest generated it's not enough to activate the Republic terrorists which are called rebels in this case. They are not far off though...

This goes under spoiler because maybe people tgat use the file wants to find out by themselves: Eventually, banning religion get rid of the church and activates Freemasons which are more Federalists friendly.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 13, 2021, 04:43:09 PM
spoilers

Oooooh this sounds fun...
Title: Über alles in der Welt - Chancellor Konovalova's First Day
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 13, 2021, 09:19:25 PM

THE FIRST DAY

After a good night sleep, Chancellor Elected Iaraina Konovalova started to look into all reports as soon as in the office. As mandate by the previous government, all operations for the newly built survey fleet were already approved by the Senate for a 5-year mission in the Solar system.

This should also give enough time to build more maintenance facilities on Earth already stretched beyond capacity. It is clear that the intention of the previous government was to free the capacity while the survey fleet would have been dispatched and in doing so cover a critical planning mistake.

The first day started already rectifying other people’s mistakes. To avoid further issues and have already lost faith in the former government decision making, Iaraina asked to receive all the specifications of the current active ships. After having confirmed Jorg von Prugner as Admiral, she asked for help in identifying and categorize each ship. Jorg accepted the condition of being able of choosing himself all the Administrative Personnel.

Having no interests in military affairs, the Chancellor was more than happy to agree. Together they started by analysing the Geological Survey Crafts. However, before diving into it, the Admiral decided to give an insight into the classification and nomenclature of each ship.

The first category was the command. Some ships were under the direct command of the Deutsche Marine while others were under the Marine only for the assignments but more controlled by the government. Sometimes, government ships could still act in support of the Marine, however, that would be required only for Logistic purposes and never military. To recognize them, Commercial nomenclature was introduced. Each ship would then be identified as DM (Deutsche Marine) or DKM (Deutsche Kommerziell Marine).

The second category was the class. Each ship would have a class name to identify them. While the class Name would be unique, the ship name could sometimes be the same. If that happens, it would be possible to recognize the ship by the hull. No ship would have the same name and same hull in any case. Usually, the hull description appears after the name of the ship.

The final category was the engine.

As it was quite straightforward, the Chancellor nodded at the Admiral making him understand that they could finally move into analysing the ships.



CLASS: DM Mercalli-NTa
HULL: Geological Survey Craft (GEO)
NUMBER OF SHIPS: 4 – DM David Strangway GEO, DM Eugene W. Hilgard GEO, DM Jan Veizer GEO, DM Paul Spudis GEO
PRODUCED BY: Italy

Code: [Select]
DM Mercalli-NTa S class Geological Survey Craft      4,000 tons       67 Crew       307.2 BP       TCS 80    TH 100    EM 0
1250 km/s      Armour 1-22       Shields 0-0       HTK 29      Sensors 6/6/0/1      DCR 4      PPV 0
Maint Life 16.42 Years     MSP 692    AFR 32%    IFR 0.4%    1YR 5    5YR 73    Max Repair 100 MSP
Fregattankapitan    Control Rating 2   BRG   AUX   
Intended Deployment Time: 60 months    Morale Check Required   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (2)    Power 100    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 204,000 Litres    Range 159.4 billion km (1475 days at full power)

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
Geological Survey Sensors (1)   1 Survey Points Per Hour

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Survey Ship for auto-assignment purposes



The Mercalli was built with the 5 years mission in mind. Standard detection systems were installed as mandatory equipment for all ships, either DM or DKM. The single geological sensor would do the required job at a slower speed, however, as the ship will operate primarily in the solar system, HQ would get updated results in real-time without the need for the ship to come back for reporting. As fuel is not an unlimited resource, big fuel-saving engines were installed. Again, operating primarily in the Sol system and for the majority not moving but orbiting around bodies, speed was not a priority for the Italian designers.

Eventually, the Italians designed also a Tanker that could support longer operations or rescue stranded ships out of fuel:



CLASS: DKM Garibaldi-NTa
HULL: Tanker (TK)
NUMBER OF SHIPS: 1 – DKM Garibaldi TK
PRODUCED BY: Italy

Code: [Select]
DKM Garibaldi-NTa class Tanker      5,000 tons       56 Crew       153.7 BP       TCS 100    TH 100    EM 0
1000 km/s      Armour 1-26       Shields 0-0       HTK 20      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 19    Max Repair 20 MSP
Korvettenkapitan    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (2)    Power 100    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 1,339,000 Litres    Range 836.9 billion km (9686 days at full power)
Refuelling Capability: 80,000 litres per hour     Complete Refuel 16 hours

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a a for auto-assignment purposes



The Chancellor noticed then that the intended deployment of the Tanker was only 3 months, way less than the other ship. How could have been possible to have so much difference?
As we know, the Admiral was a patient man and explained to the Chancellor that only the DM ships were required to undergo maintenance and overhaul while the DKM ships were built to last with commercial components that could last for a very long time. The crew also were not composed of cadets or military personnel but by ordinary people after a paycheck. Many of these people, would embrace space travel as a way of living prior to early retiring thanks to the fat monthly pay.

Eventually, military-grade equipment would have been often built with high-performance components and or new technologies that would require extra care and attention, hence the difference. 3 months was then only the standard displacement period applied to commercial designs.

The Chancellor then objected: ”Why bother at all then? Wouldn’t be easy to leave it blank?”.
The Admiral looked at the Chancellor and after a deep and long sigh said: ”I am afraid you’ll have to take this all the way up to Steve”.
The Chancellor was just about to speak again when the Admiral interrupted her: “I know you are wondering who this Steve is now, but let’s say that without him we would not be here today. I also know that you don’t believe in God, but if I were you, I would seriously reconsider that. However, for now, I think you must cope with this reality and maybe in the future things will change. Only Steve knows.”

Extremely puzzled and partially pissed, the Chancellor decided that there was nothing useful she could get out of that conversation and decided to move on for the greater good. Also, as it was late, it was agreed to meet again the day after to check more ships and start issuing some orders to the ships that the government-controlled directly. Because of that, special priority would have been given to the freighters and colony ships.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt - Chancellor Konovalova's First Day
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 13, 2021, 10:16:33 PM
The final category was the engine.

I'd appreciate a clarification here, I can gather that NT is Nuclear Thermal, but what is NTa specifically the 'a' at the end?

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The Chancellor then objected: ”Why bother at all then? Wouldn’t be easy to leave it blank?”.
The Admiral looked at the Chancellor and after a deep and long sigh said: ”I am afraid you’ll have to take this all the way up to Steve”.
The Chancellor was just about to speak again when the Admiral interrupted her: “I know you are wondering who this Steve is now, but let’s say that without him we would not be here today. I also know that you don’t believe in God, but if I were you, I would seriously reconsider that. However, for now, I think you must cope with this reality and maybe in the future things will change. Only Steve knows.”

Ahahahahahaha brilliant!

Ship designs look reasonable. Mercalli class is maybe a bit more engine-heavy than I'd usually like in a survey ship but given how much if its job will be glorified rock-checking this is a good design for the task. Seems early for a tanker class but I am guessing that is the way the political winds are blowing for now.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt - Chancellor Konovalova's First Day
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 14, 2021, 01:48:17 AM
The final category was the engine.

I'd appreciate a clarification here, I can gather that NT is Nuclear Thermal, but what is NTa specifically the 'a' at the end?


That is the series of the ship. Eventually, when a ship gets an upgrade, it will advance in series.

If the ship gets new engines then it will also get a new nomenclature with series starting back again at "a" level.

I will get into that later when describing the military ships which will have extra classifications based on the roles.

Note: I have adopted an approach where all ships will get names. No Ship name plus Number are to be used. This forced me to get creative with denominations as repetition in names may eventually happen

Note of the note: it is a pain that currently the only ship names displayed are for military ships. I have to pretty much track them all manually. I hope the Chancellor does't poke around this too much, she looks like a spicy one and I don't want to get banned
Title: Über alles in der Welt - Chancellor's Konovalova Day 2
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 16, 2021, 04:49:55 AM

DAY 2

The day after, Chancellor Elected Konovalova asked Fabian Jentzsch to join her and Admiral von Pugner for the continuation of the military briefing and introduction of the Navy forces. The Chancellor’s goal was to inspect and evaluate possible extraterrestrial colonization capability. Both military representatives said that in theory, that would have been extremely possible and that both the navy and the army were ready. On the navy front, the Deutsche Kommerziell Marine has already designed an independent colony ship for the fast colonization of Luna and Mars.



CLASS: DKM Numancia-NTa
HULL: Colony Ship (CS)
NUMBER OF SHIPS: 2 – DKM Numancia CS,  DKM Reno CS
PRODUCED BY: Spain

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DKM Numancia-NTa class Colony Ship      24,500 tons       110 Crew       471.1 BP       TCS 490    TH 300    EM 0
612 km/s      Armour 1-75       Shields 0-0       HTK 46      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 12    Max Repair 100 MSP
Cargo 10,000    Cryogenic Berths 20,000    Cargo Shuttle Multiplier 1   
Korvettenkapitan    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (6)    Power 300    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 150,000 Litres    Range 19.1 billion km (361 days at full power)

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a i for auto-assignment purposes



Even if transport colonists on other planets was easy with the current TN technology, the real deal was to actually make the planet possible to host life forms. To this end, a series of infrastructures would have been dropped on-site prior to the arrival of the colonists. In the beginning, the idea of using parts of the ship as infrastructures was pursued. After a few experiments, the idea was soon discharged as A: the ships were way too expensive to build to allow them to be wasted every trip, and B: if anything would go wrong the colonists would have not had any means to escape the planet. Eventually, another vessel, probably a freighter, would have been required to drop the infrastructure prior the colonists to arrive.

In the German mind, that would have been inconceivably inefficient. While a ship was already going there to drop the colonist, why waste more fuel for another ship to arrive at the same destination and back to Earth? Eventually, the freighters could have been used for better and more important missions. The Numancia was then designed by the Spanish with this German concept in mind. The colonies were identified and classified with a scale of survivability, where 1 was Earth and higher numbers would have represented the different levels of survivability of each body and eventually the number of infrastructures needed for the human life to survive without dangers. Since both Luna and Mars were level 2 colonies, the Numancia would have then been able to transport colonists and the infrastructures needed for them to survive in one drop.

The Chancellor thought then that everything was in order and asked a few minutes to arrange a vote in the Senate to approve both Luna and Mars colonization missions. However, another piece of information was needed for her to make her case. How would have been possible to defend and ensure the required level of safety of the colonists?

Again, the Deutsche Kommerziell Marine would have helped. This time though was the Japanese that thought of the issue. In fact, during the war, the Japanese found themselves struggling to conquer every single little island in the Pacific. While their technological superiority ensured fast fights (an effective TN fight tactic that the Germans called Blitzkrieg) move troops around all the time was time-consuming. The Japanese didn’t think much of this logistical issue and when the war started they found themselves with not enough troop transports and mostly with large Army Groups that required too many vessels to be transported. They designed the following for the space conquests:



CLASS: DKM Hyuga-NTa
HULL: Colony Ship (TT)
NUMBER OF SHIPS: 1 – DKM Hyuga TT
PRODUCED BY: Japan

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DKM Hyuga-NTa class Troop Transport      14,000 tons       96 Crew       313.1 BP       TCS 280    TH 250    EM 0
892 km/s      Armour 1-51       Shields 0-0       HTK 49      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 13    Max Repair 80 MSP
Troop Capacity 6,000 tons     Cargo Shuttle Multiplier 1   
Korvettenkapitan    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (5)    Power 250    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 213,000 Litres    Range 47.5 billion km (616 days at full power)

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Troop Transport for auto-assignment purposes



The Hyuga class was designed to move efficiently the smallest group of soldiers of the Deutsche Heer: the Guard. Each Guard group was able to work independently and while not required, they could have been still reorganized in larger Battalions if needed. The Guard was an Urban Guerrilla force ideal to defend small outposts or cities and was already used on Earth to pacify the most rebellious regions successfully. The Chancellor was excited by the news and asked how many Guards were already able to be dispatched. Oberst von Pugner released then the list of all the Army forces currently on Earth:



Total Formations: 137
Total Transport Size: 1,497,724 tons
Total Cost: 86,746 BP

55,818x MK I DH Wehrmacht Mannschaft
5,152x MK I Freund Machineries DH Wespe Artillery
3,388x MK I Freund Machineries DH Supply Truck
2,884x MK I Freund Machineries DH Marder LAC
2,884x MK I Freund Machineries DH Jagd LAV
2,884x MK I Freund Machineries DH Sturm CAP
1,600x MK I Freund Machineries DH Panzer Tank MAC
1,600x MK I Freund Machineries DH Panzer Tank MAV
1,600x MK I Freund Machineries DH Panzer Tank HCAP
1,022x MK I Freund Machineries DH Hummel Artillery Unit
168x MK I DH Guard Commander
56x MK I DH Battalion Command
44x MK I DH Regiment Command
4x MK I DH Battlegroup Command
2x MK I DH Planetary Division Command




While the majority of the forces were arranged in large groups under the Planetary Division Command, there were still several Urban Regiments ready to be dismantled if needed. A total of 84 Urban Guards was then available. Eventually, protecting a few Solar Colonies would have not been a major issue and the Chancellor decided then to call for the vote.

The Senate was tepid at the news. While expanding was always on the card, they thought that find new TN minerals would have been the priority. The Republic was still young in its planetary form and start to think of individuals thousand in not million of kilometres away wasn’t something they were really ready to discuss. However, they did recognize that to increase and support new planetary colonies outside of Earth would have required decades and the sooner they started the better.

The first resolution was then on Luna. The small Terrestrial moon was near enough to keep under control and would have been the perfect training ground for our operations. It was then easy to let the resolution pass even if with a small 147 votes against 129. The first mission allowed for the transport of 100.000 colonists.

The second resolution regarded Mars. Here the Senate was harder to convince. Firstly, the idea of moving troops so far away was a big obstacle. While moving troops between Earth and Luna would have been easy and fast, on Mars we were looking at different numbers either if more troops were required on Mars or if the troops were required back on Earth. Also, many objected that without the necessary experience the mission would have been too dangerous and it would have been better to wait to see the effects of the mission on Luna first. The Chancellor asked for the vote anyway and the resolution sunk under a heavy loss of 91 votes in favour versus 185 against.

While she had enough political power to spend to overcome the Senate decision, Iaraina decided that it would have been better to wait for the next round of votation next year on the matter. However, as she agreed on the army resources to be spared and eventually increased, she asked for an urgent resolution to train 2 new Urban Mechanized Guards and 2 new Urban Infantry Guards along with a new Urban Infantry Battalion. Unfortunately, the Senate again united in waiting to see what the Luna mission was like before committing on any decision and rejected the resolution with 160 votes against the only 116 supporting it.

While the day brought in a small victory, the Chancellor understood quickly how much the Senate would have impacted her Chancellorship and probably, those that she initially thought of as mistakes from the previous government were probably just the result of the political compromise. Before ending the day, she asked to see the design of the previously mentioned freighters.



CLASS: DKM Hatsukaze-Nta 25k
HULL: Freighter (CRG)
NUMBER OF SHIPS: 5 – DKM Hatsukaze CRG, DKM Kari CRG, DKM Matsu CRG, DKM Nara CRG, DKM Oi CRG
PRODUCED BY: Japan

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DKM Hatsukaze-NTa 25k class Freighter      50,000 tons       231 Crew       563.5 BP       TCS 1,000    TH 800    EM 0
800 km/s      Armour 1-120       Shields 0-0       HTK 101      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 7    Max Repair 50 MSP
Cargo 25,000    Cargo Shuttle Multiplier 5   
Korvettenkapitan    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (16)    Power 800    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 403,000 Litres    Range 25.2 billion km (364 days at full power)

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a i for auto-assignment purposes



The Hatsukaze had the 25k denomination which in freighters would have indicated the amount of tonnage they could have been able to transport. Mainly, they could be used independently as many of the infrastructures on Earth had that requirement, however, they would have mostly acted in groups of 5 (Cargo Flotte) which would have also allowed for a better logistic capability. Mostly used only for Solar Operations, not much thought was put into increasing the range.

The Chancellor spent the night watching the first colonists embarking on the DKM Numancia CS and directed to Luna. She felt amazed by the fact that you could actually see the Ship sail all the way to the Lunar Surface mostly just by the naked eye and perfectly with a small amatorial telescope.

With a great sense of accomplishment, she decided that was time for her to get some rest.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 16, 2021, 08:39:47 AM
I do love when there is flavor put into the commercial ship designs. Usually we see same-size CS/FT/TT classes for interbuild capability, so seeing all these ships of different sizes is lots of fun.

There have been a couple of tough political defeats for the Chancellor but hopefully the prestige of leading humanity's first extraterrestrial colonization efforts will buoy her and maybe earn her enough support to accomplish a useful agenda in the next five years.
Title: Über alles in der Welt - Chancellor's Day 3
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 17, 2021, 03:04:52 AM

DAY 3

On the third day, the Chancellor asked to analyse the small military fleet stationed on Earth. The rudimental knowledge of the TN technology applied to space warfare resulted in a small number of ships being produced. The only weapons developed were some Gauss Cannons for missile defence and Plasma Carronades for short-range engagement. The long-range was handled by missiles instead.

The displacement of the first class of ships was set to 6,000 tons. They were identified as Corvettes and even if before the ships were classified by their roles and duties, the German way was all about the size of the hull. The ships would have then been assigned a different role in their nomenclature. While this was hard to understand by all Nations with long and established Naval history, the Germans were always known as pragmatic people and this was their way of put some orders into a very subjective way of classification happened so far. The design of the warships was handled entirely in Germany by German engineers only.



CLASS: DM Deutschland-NTa
HULL: Corvette (CT)
VARIANTS: M, B, PD
NUMBER OF SHIPS: 8 – M: DM Hyäne NTa, DM Wiesel Nta; B: DM Habicht NTa, DM Panther Nta; PD: DM Alk NTa, DM Hermelin NTa, DM Kondor NTa, DM Tiger NTa
PRODUCED BY: Germany

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DM Deutschland-NTa M class Corvette      5,999 tons       138 Crew       655.1 BP       TCS 120    TH 270    EM 0
2250 km/s      Armour 3-29       Shields 0-0       HTK 39      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 2      PPV 18
Maint Life 5.00 Years     MSP 684    AFR 107%    IFR 1.5%    1YR 46    5YR 683    Max Repair 120 MSP
Magazine 264   
Fregattankapitan    Control Rating 2   BRG   AUX   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Morale Check Required   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Vessel Nuclear Thermal Engine (3)    Power 270    Fuel Use 226.40%    Signature 90    Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 311,000 Litres    Range 4.1 billion km (21 days at full power)

MK V Humbold Ordnance Size 5 ASM Launcher (12)     Missile Size: 5    Rate of Fire 3355
MK III Tisch Warning & Control ASM Fire Control FC33-R120 (2)     Range 33.4m km    Resolution 120
MK V Humbold Ordnance ASM5/11-33 (52)    Speed: 11,400 km/s    End: 49.6m     Range: 34m km    WH: 2    Size: 5    TH: 38/22/11

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Active Search Sensor AS74-R120 (1)     GPS 14400     Range 74.7m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a c for auto-assignment purposes




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DM Deutschland-NTa B class Corvette      5,999 tons       188 Crew       501.4 BP       TCS 120    TH 270    EM 0
2250 km/s      Armour 3-29       Shields 0-0       HTK 43      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 4      PPV 28
Maint Life 5.82 Years     MSP 308    AFR 72%    IFR 1.0%    1YR 15    5YR 232    Max Repair 45 MSP
Fregattankapitan    Control Rating 2   BRG   AUX   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Morale Check Required   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Vessel Nuclear Thermal Engine (3)    Power 270    Fuel Use 226.40%    Signature 90    Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 311,000 Litres    Range 4.1 billion km (21 days at full power)

MK I Kirst Armaments 15 cm C1 Plasma Carronade (7)    Range 60,000km     TS: 2,250 km/s     Power 6-1     RM 10,000 km    ROF 30       
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Multi Plasma Carronade Fire Control R64-TS8000 (2)     Max Range: 64,000 km   TS: 8,000 km/s     84 69 53 38 22 6 0 0 0 0
MK II Kuhn Energy Pressurised Water Reactor R8 (2)     Total Power Output 15.8    Exp 5%

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a c for auto-assignment purposes



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DM Deutschland-NTa PD class Corvette      5,999 tons       144 Crew       586.5 BP       TCS 120    TH 270    EM 0
2250 km/s      Armour 3-29       Shields 0-0       HTK 34      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 4      PPV 36.29
Maint Life 3.04 Years     MSP 344    AFR 72%    IFR 1.0%    1YR 56    5YR 837    Max Repair 157.45 MSP
Fregattankapitan    Control Rating 2   BRG   AUX   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Morale Check Required   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Vessel Nuclear Thermal Engine (3)    Power 270    Fuel Use 226.40%    Signature 90    Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 311,000 Litres    Range 4.1 billion km (21 days at full power)

MK V Schnitker Precision Arms Quad Point Defense Gauss Cannon Turret (1x8)    Range 10,000km     TS: 8000 km/s     Power 0-0     RM 10,000 km    ROF 5       
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Point Defense Fire Control R10-TS8000 (2)     Max Range: 10,000 km   TS: 8,000 km/s     0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Missiles Search Sensor AS10-R1 (1)     GPS 60     Range 10.7m km    MCR 963.4k km    Resolution 1
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a c for auto-assignment purposes



The ships were designed to operate within the inner Solar System, ideally within the first asteroid belt. Currently, there was little to no reason for the Republic to be concerned or anything beyond that point. Eventually, being the only space power on Earth, high numbers of ships would have been either obsolete due to the fast technological advancements or not used at all due to the lack of competition. The designs and production were then a mere test to understand the challenges and capability of the Navy and, as a bonus, it would have been possible to keep the most talented officers busy.

All active scanners were set to the known displacement of 6,000 tons as there was no reason to believe any other spaceships were out there. The three variants were M for missiles, B for beams, and PD for point defence and a standard 3 layers of armour was used to reinforce them. The impressive speed of 2,250 km/s set a new record for humanity, way faster than the Duesenberg Model SJ (top speed of 225 km/h) which was the fastest car ever built. It was even faster than the highest speed ever recorded (400km/h in Daytona). The ships were supported by a vessel built to provide the necessary extra fuel and ammunition needed for longer operations.



CLASS: DKM Konigsberg-NTa
HULL: Support Vessel (SPP)
VARIANTS: M, B, PD
NUMBER OF SHIPS: 1 – DKM Konigsberg SPP
PRODUCED BY: Germany

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DKM Konigsberg-NTa class Support Vessel      50,000 tons       356 Crew       1,193.7 BP       TCS 1,000    TH 950    EM 0
950 km/s      Armour 1-120       Shields 0-0       HTK 145      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 9,744    Max Repair 32 MSP
Magazine 2,000   
Korvettenkapitan    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (19)    Power 950    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 10,000,000 Litres    Range 625 billion km (7614 days at full power)
Refuelling Capability: 80,000 litres per hour     Complete Refuel 125 hours

MK V Humbold Ordnance ASM5/11-33 (400)    Speed: 11,400 km/s    End: 49.6m     Range: 34m km    WH: 2    Size: 5    TH: 38/22/11
Ordnance Transfer Rate: 64 MSP per hour     Complete Transfer 31.3 hours

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a a for auto-assignment purposes


It was finally time for the Chancellor to move into more administrative roles of the job. The research laboratories and the industry was waiting to know what would have been the focus of the administration. After a brief look at the current resources, the Chancellor identified 2 priorities. Number one was to find new TN mineral sources for sure. The 117 mines on Earth were the maximum that could have been built and with no possibilities of expanding further, there was a big concern that the current output of minerals would have not been sufficient to expand and fulfil all the Republic needs.

The Sorium was being mined and converted into fuel at full capacity. Any expansion in this field would have resulted in a shortage of material. There were 2 roads laying ahead now: the first was to wait to know if and what minerals were available in the system, and the second was to study new ways to convert minerals faster. With the small data currently known, the Chancellor opted for the former option. The Senate was again set on a different tune. It was noted that there was no need to rush things and that a decision should have been made only when more data would have been available. The Chancellor’s motion was then rejected with 172 votes against versus 104 in favour.

Iaraina then moved to the second priority, the maintenance costs of the fleet and the general maintenance capacity. A double motion was needed, one to increase the capacity of the current support facilities and one to double the current number of facilities from 25 to 50. In this case, the Senate was more reasonable and approved the expansion of the current capacity while rejecting the built of new factories. The main point made was that both would have simply not been of use as they thought it was just a copy of the same request. The Chancellor was then sitting on a dangerous 3 motions refused against only 1 approved and could not afford any other mistake. Her credibility was already on the line after only 3 days. She knew that the only thing the Senate would have been united was the economy. As the Republic desperately needed more freight capability and output she asked for the approval of a new Commercial Shipyard and the built of 5 new DKM Hatsukaze-Nta 25k.

Both motions went extremely well with the construction of the Hatsukaze passed with 214 votes against 62. The DKM Katsuragi CRG, DKM Myoko CRG, DKM Onami CRG, DKM Sendai CRG, and DKM Shikinami CRG were then ordered to be produced.

Reinvigorated by the results, the Chancellor asked for the approval of a new Naval Shipyard as well. Her goal was to lay the foundations for a great space nation. The Senate was divided on the matter. While many wanted to make sure all the resources would have been invested into more productive sectors, many others thought that without the military control and power the Republic would have been in great danger. After hours of consultations, the vote was held and the resolution passed with great surprise of just a few votes: 142 in favour and 134 against.

Finally, with a few research labs still available, the Chancellor decided to close the day with a final motion. As all commercial ships were still using traditional cargo shuttles for their operations, she thought, after studying all designs, that upgrading the current equipment with TN ones would have increased the productivity and the overall speed of the operations. Impressed by the acumen demonstrated, the Senate decided to reward the knowledge and commitment of the Chancellor by approving the resolution with a convincing 191 votes in favour versus 85 against.

The day ended then way better than it started and with a good plan now drafted it was time to start looking at the future with a bit more optimism. The Chancellor again retired in her quarters for the night after thanking all the people that supported her through the rough beginning of her term.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: hostergaard on October 17, 2021, 11:54:52 AM
Enjoying the LP so far!

For colonization, I just slap a emergency cryo on a freighter and let the civilian colony ships handle the bulk of moving colonists. The two hundred delivered are more than enough to start spawning civilian ships. So I just dump a bunch of infrastructure with those people and let them figure it out. RP wise I just consider those two hundred as trained experts being delivered to set up the infrastructure while the civ ships fetch the colonists.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 17, 2021, 02:50:46 PM
Enjoying the LP so far!

For colonization, I just slap a emergency cryo on a freighter and let the civilian colony ships handle the bulk of moving colonists. The two hundred delivered are more than enough to start spawning civilian ships. So I just dump a bunch of infrastructure with those people and let them figure it out. RP wise I just consider those two hundred as trained experts being delivered to set up the infrastructure while the civ ships fetch the colonists.

Yes that usually works. I think it is a common way to handle civilian spawn and development.

The problem in my case is that I play a modified DB. Colonies will not produce any "feee" installations until reached the 500 million pop, so pretty much never as I play with 10% terraforming.

Also, the civian are off leaving the colonization effort entirely on the player shoulders. Again this will make eventual installation relocation also a matter of fuel and logistic. It may be easier to produce installations on site or move them from a different and closer HUB.

As my AAR are mostly based on political aspects, it is important to have challenges beyond the classic spoilers or NPRs. The idea is that sometimes the government will have to make choices which will impact both short and long term development.

Thanks for following

 :)
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt - Chancellor's Day 3
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 20, 2021, 04:40:43 PM
The only weapons developed were some Gauss Cannons for missile defence and Plasma Carronades for short-range engagement. The long-range was handled by missiles instead.

I look forward to the hilarious legal-political shenanigans which will ensue from the fact that missiles are not actually classified as weapons.

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DM Deutschland-NTa M class Corvette      5,999 tons
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DM Deutschland-NTa B class Corvette      5,999 tons
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DM Deutschland-NTa PD class Corvette      5,999 tons

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5,999 tons

Why do you do this to me?

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The designs and production were then a mere test to understand the challenges and capability of the Navy and, as a bonus, it would have been possible to keep the most talented officers busy.

Or, alternatively, to keep the most, um, politically concerning officers busy. Or so I imagine.

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As far as colonization, I rarely see a good argument not to have a moderate fleet of colony ships in service outside of the civilian sector. The civilians are very useful, but sometimes I need ten million people on a certain planet yesterday and the civilians are simply too slow to meet my needs.

Recently I have been thinking about combining the colony and jump tender roles in a new design, as jump tenders tend to be rather undersized without a secondary payload and not too many colony ships are needed. This would provide some utility as well since every fleet auxiliary flotilla needs a jump tender and I also tend to need the cryo storage for prisoners so combining the roles works neatly.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 20, 2021, 05:26:51 PM
Missiles for me are ordnance, which are of course weapons in the end.

I still classify purely weapons the batteries, so in the case of missiles the launchers are classified as military upgrades while the actual projectile (missile) is handled by the commercial production as that is the entity in charge of production. The military just place a purchase order.

Design a new missile instead is still a military decision and project.

Don't know if it makes sense now.

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5,999 tons

I guess you right, why does Steve do this to us?

I tried to fix it, but I guess won't happen till next Armour level and/or sensor upgrade.

If I add the smallest component it gets rounded up to 6,001...
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 20, 2021, 06:00:47 PM
I guess you right, why does Steve do this to us?

I tried to fix it, but I guess won't happen till next Armour level and/or sensor upgrade.

If I add the smallest component it gets rounded up to 6,001...

In 1.13 we have the fighter-size maintenance module which is 0.5 tons. Should work unless your armor tech is extremely poor in which case you may be at a very awkward breakpoint.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 20, 2021, 06:13:33 PM
I guess you right, why does Steve do this to us?

I tried to fix it, but I guess won't happen till next Armour level and/or sensor upgrade.

If I add the smallest component it gets rounded up to 6,001...

In 1.13 we have the fighter-size maintenance module which is 0.5 tons. Should work unless your armor tech is extremely poor in which case you may be at a very awkward breakpoint.

I think I am cuz I've tried everything. However I may try again just in case.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 20, 2021, 06:29:33 PM
I guess you right, why does Steve do this to us?

I tried to fix it, but I guess won't happen till next Armour level and/or sensor upgrade.

If I add the smallest component it gets rounded up to 6,001...

In 1.13 we have the fighter-size maintenance module which is 0.5 tons. Should work unless your armor tech is extremely poor in which case you may be at a very awkward breakpoint.

I think I am cuz I've tried everything. However I may try again just in case.

I can reproduce the exact design plus a single 0.5-ton maintenance storage:

Off-Topic: show
DM Deutschland-NTa B class Corvette      6,000 tons       188 Crew       501.5 BP       TCS 120    TH 270    EM 0
2250 km/s      Armour 3-29       Shields 0-0       HTK 43      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 4      PPV 28
Maint Life 5.91 Years     MSP 313    AFR 72%    IFR 1.0%    1YR 15    5YR 230    Max Repair 45.00 MSP
Rav seren    Control Rating 2   BRG   AUX   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Morale Check Required   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Vessel Nuclear Thermal Engine (3)    Power 270.0    Fuel Use 226.40%    Signature 90.00    Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 311,000 Litres    Range 4.1 billion km (21 days at full power)

MK I Kirst Armaments 15 cm C1 Plasma Carronade (7)    Range 60,000km     TS: 2,250 km/s     Power 6-1     RM 10,000 km    ROF 30       
Fire Control With Overly Descriptive Name (2)     Max Range: 64,000 km   TS: 8,000 km/s     84 69 53 38 22 6 0 0 0 0
MK II Kuhn Energy Pressurised Water Reactor R8 (2)     Total Power Output 15.8    Exp 5%

MK III Schellhorm Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorm Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6.0     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorm Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6.0     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a c for auto-assignment purposes


So that seems to have been the issue.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 20, 2021, 08:27:11 PM
I guess you right, why does Steve do this to us?

I tried to fix it, but I guess won't happen till next Armour level and/or sensor upgrade.

If I add the smallest component it gets rounded up to 6,001...

In 1.13 we have the fighter-size maintenance module which is 0.5 tons. Should work unless your armor tech is extremely poor in which case you may be at a very awkward breakpoint.

I think I am cuz I've tried everything. However I may try again just in case.

I can reproduce the exact design plus a single 0.5-ton maintenance storage:

Off-Topic: show
DM Deutschland-NTa B class Corvette      6,000 tons       188 Crew       501.5 BP       TCS 120    TH 270    EM 0
2250 km/s      Armour 3-29       Shields 0-0       HTK 43      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 4      PPV 28
Maint Life 5.91 Years     MSP 313    AFR 72%    IFR 1.0%    1YR 15    5YR 230    Max Repair 45.00 MSP
Rav seren    Control Rating 2   BRG   AUX   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Morale Check Required   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Vessel Nuclear Thermal Engine (3)    Power 270.0    Fuel Use 226.40%    Signature 90.00    Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 311,000 Litres    Range 4.1 billion km (21 days at full power)

MK I Kirst Armaments 15 cm C1 Plasma Carronade (7)    Range 60,000km     TS: 2,250 km/s     Power 6-1     RM 10,000 km    ROF 30       
Fire Control With Overly Descriptive Name (2)     Max Range: 64,000 km   TS: 8,000 km/s     84 69 53 38 22 6 0 0 0 0
MK II Kuhn Energy Pressurised Water Reactor R8 (2)     Total Power Output 15.8    Exp 5%

MK III Schellhorm Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorm Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6.0     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorm Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6.0     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a c for auto-assignment purposes


So that seems to have been the issue.

The Senate approved the modification of the Marine Flotte I for all the Deutschland classes by a large majority.

Thanks

 ;D
Title: Über alles in der Welt - 1935/1938
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 20, 2021, 09:41:53 PM

1935 - 1938

The first months of 1935 passed fast without any event worth mentioning. It was not until the 2nd of September of 1935 that, thanks to the completion of the Naval and Commercial shipyard the Senate was called again in session by the Chancellor. Her plan included motions for a new production schedule and an expansion of all the Shipyards of the Republic. Motions were then drafted for the expansion of the newly produced Naval and Commercial Shipyards to the respective standard displacements of 6,000 and 50,000 tons. Both motions were approved by large majorities.

The Chancellor then moved the discussion over the existing shipyards. With the new ones replacing the capability of the current setup, it was proposed to extend the existing Naval and Commercial Shipyards to the respective new displacements of 9,000 and 75,000 tons. The Senate this time objected on the Naval Shipyard expansion was not that urgent and the increase in the capability of the newly built was already enough military spending. Eventually, only the expansion of the Commercial was approved while the Naval was rejected by a vast majority of senators.

Unfortunately, the new plan put a lot of pressure on the already fragile economic system. The Chancellor proposed to increase the number of financial centres on Earth in an attempt of reinvigorating the economy. The talks with the Party representatives went on for weeks as it was never clear where everybody was standing. While some wanted more controlled spending others were more open to a capitalistic approach. The effects of the Great Depression of 29 were still an open scar in many’s hearts and the fear of the same events repeating themselves was high. If it wasn’t for the boost of TN minerals discovery and the unification after the war, the people could have lost everything without the opportunity of bouncing back for decades.

The Chancellor could not wait any longer and decided to risk the vote that could have defined her Chancellorship forever. She could have been a saviour or a doomer in the eyes of many in the electorate. Eventually, by only 2 votes, Iaraina obtained the green light in expanding the financial centres on Earth by 100 units. The final count was 139 in favour against 137 contrary to the motion.

Meanwhile, the 5 new freighters were ready to be deployed and 5 more were to be ordered. The Senate approved the motion to construct the DKM Kikutsuki CRG, DKM Tsuga CRG, DKM Yugumo CRG, DKM Yugure CRG, and the DKM Haruna CRG.

With the new year approaching it was time to renew the requests for the expansion of the guard, the colonization efforts to continue on Luna and to start it on Mars. Still shaken by the economic crisis, on the 1st of January 1936, the Senate approved only the continuation of the efforts on Luna while rejecting the other 2 motions. The Chancellor could not tolerate any longer the approach of the Senate. The Earth-Mars line was ready for more than a year now and further delays would have compromised all expansion plans made by her administration. It was then that she decided to spend some of her political credit saved till then to put a veto on the motion and unilaterally decide to start colonization efforts on Mars.

On the 2nd of February 1936, to thank him for his advice, Chancellor Konovalova promoted Fabian Jentzsch to the rank of Brigadegeneral and assigned him to Earth’s Academy as Headmaster. A few days later, on the 4th a mineral shortage crisis hit hard on Earth. Maintenance facilities were shut due to a lack of minerals with stock levels sitting at the worrying number of 1,119 MSP. Many productions were paused or delayed especially the new freighters construction and all shipyard expansion operations. With the new economic plan just started the treasury was still in the red. Production was then focused on the new Financial centres with the rest of the activities halted.

The biggest fear of the Senate became true and the economy had to be rethought to avoid further damages. Eventually, fuel refineries were shut with fuel in storage counting 5.7 million litres. The situation was made worse by not much luck with the first year of geological survey. So far, there was no trace of TN minerals on Luna, Mars (including its moons), and Mercury. A few deposits were discovered on Venus: Duranium 23,800,032 Acc 0.8 Corbomite 33,055,600 Acc 0.1 Sorium 32,964 Acc 0.1. Due to its similar size to Earth, Venus could have hosted a maximum of 117 mines between manned and automated. On Callisto, a big Mercassium deposit counting 5,692,519 tons with an Acc of 0.8 would have been a good long term source. However, Callisto could have hosted only 30 mines between manned and automated and the idea of using manned mines along with LG infrastructure was being considered.

The 30th of August 1936 was perhaps the hardest day for the Chancellor. Unrest was increasing on Mars and several incidents were reported on many cities of the red planet. The situation become desperate when a few children died while going to school after being caught in a crossfire with the protesters and the local civilian militia. It was time to put some order and Chancellor Konovalova had to pass through the Senate to deploy 1 Urban Battalion urgently to keep the population quiet. With surprise and concern, she saw her motion denied by 246 Senators. Only 30 loyal representatives decided to support her. She moved then into a request to at least provide urgently extra infrastructure to fix the overcrowding issues at the base of the protest but that was rejected as well with the closest result of 123 in favour versus 153 against.

Apparently, the Senate was still upset because they did not want the colony in the first place. However, too many issues on Earth along with the mineral and economic crisis were the formal excuse to dismiss her requests. The reality? That was just payback. The Chancellor was then forced to use another veto thinning a lot of her political credit to counter the humanitarian crisis on Mars. While the Senate could have been seen as beaten, the reality was that with so little political credit left, the Chancellor would have been easier to control and manipulate from that day onwards, and she knew it.

It was not until the 25th of September 1936 that all new infrastructures were installed and order on Mars could be reestablished.

On the 10th of November 1936, news on new minerals discovered on Titan arrived: Duranium 8,282,776 Acc 0.8 Neutronium 859,997 Acc 0.1 Corbomite 191,774 Acc 0.1 Uridium 2,978,800 Acc 0.7. Titan could have hosted 67 mines between manned and automated and a similar strategy to Callisto was considered and drafted.

With all projects halted by the mineral crisis on the 1st  of January 1937, the Chancellor asked the Senate only to renew all colonization efforts and to include the new potential colonies of Titan and Callisto. All motions were to go ahead except for Callisto. Without the means to force the hand of the Senate, Chancellor Konovalova thanked the Senators for their understanding and retired into her office.

Finally, on the 21st of April 1937, the economic crisis was being countered by the new centres opened with the treasury finally making progress into partially repaying the debt collected. Still, the lacking of minerals could not allow restarting many of the activities, including refineries. The MSP supply dried out and factories were restarted to allow a small production. The Republican coalition, unhappy with the situation decided that for the next election only one between Jentzsch and Von Prugner would have been allowed to run to do not pick votes from the same nationalist republican pool. The Trade Party had the right to choose its candidate as 2nd majority force in the Republic

The new candidate was Kevin Selig, Administrator of the Industrial Operations Command of the Deutsche Marine. The war enthusiast man, born in the Southern German regions had a surname meaning of a person with a cheerful disposition, from Middle High German selig ‘happy’, ‘fortunate’, or a variant of Salge Jewish: from the Yiddish male personal name Zelik ‘fortunate’, ‘blessed’. This clashed entirely with his arrogant and combative personality. Rumours on his substance abuse issues have not been able to get in the way of his appointment and, on the contrary, his will of making drugs legal as his own personal legislation choice was the reason for his popularity amongst many young voters.

1938 was the Election year. The construction of maintenance facilities resumed helping clear the queue of outstanding jobs along with increasing production of MSP. The expected completion was in February. Colonization efforts were still ongoing only for Titan, with all other colonies stopped by Senate including a new outpost on Callisto. Scarce TN minerals on all bodies in the Sol System was confirmed. Now, the only chance was to have interesting findings in the asteroid belts or some of the comets.

On the 14th of April 1938, the same revolts that happened on Mars were now happening on Titan. Again, the Chancellor asked for extra infrastructures to be dropped on all colonies to prevent issues. However, as a further slap in the face, the Senate approved only new infrastructures for Mars. Iaraina was then forced to use her remaining political credit to approve also the Titan ones and on the 6th of June, the crisis was averted by the drop and installation of all the new low gravity infrastructures from Earth.

To avoid a passive in the government budget, on the 6th of August 1938, the Chancellor halted all projects in the attempt to refill the very low amount of cash and minerals available. Eventually, she also needed to start campaigning for reelection and could not spend more time in the Senate unless extremely urgent.

A few days later the TN Shuttle project was finally ready, however, the general scarcity of resources halted the upgrade of the fleet. Konovalova decided then that also a New Armour technology would have been extremely useful and asked for support for the development after having again raised the problem with TN minerals availability that could be mitigated by a more efficient mining technology. The Senate approved both resolutions quickly.

The current mineral survey mission could not find any Tritanium in the Sol System yet. As the mineral was used mostly as part of missiles and ordnance factories it did not represent a big deal. However, its usage in the production of MSP would have required finding another reliable source soon as the amount on Earth would have been depleted in less than 62 years at the current rate and potentially sooner once the new mining technology would have been developed.

On the 9th of December 1938, the first Civilian Mining company was established. The civilian mining companies would have helped the government with the mining efforts in the Sol System while a plan to get the outposts up to speed was still being developed. Currently, though, the lack of cash did not allow for any of the TN to be purchased. The Company decided then to release the first productions to the free market to generate profits that would have still helped the government with an increase in tax revenue.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 20, 2021, 10:07:08 PM
Is tritanium use in MSP production a DB mod change by yourself? I'm sure it is not in the vanilla C# game.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 20, 2021, 10:47:42 PM
Is tritanium use in MSP production a DB mod change by yourself? I'm sure it is not in the vanilla C# game.

You right I forgot that is VB6,I guess I should put Quasar 4x aside a minute or I might go insane.
Title: Über alles in der Welt - Election of 1938
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 21, 2021, 04:26:30 PM

ELECTION OF 1938

Election night was due on the 31st of December 1938.

With the intentions of the Trade Party candidate already known, it was time for the Chancellor and the Republican candidate to draft their proposals.

After successfully delivering the Religion Ban, Chancellor Konovalova set her eyes on another important federalist battle: the institution of federal courts. The current constitution already allowed for state-controlled courts and the justice system. With the Germans now ruling over multiple countries that have had different constitutions until a few years ago, the only way to ensure consistent delivery of the law was to control everything directly.

The system did not allow for much freedom and complaints were often made over a procedure that would favour Germans over any other Republican Citizen pretty much in every ruling. The federal courts were an attempt of the Federalists to primarily promote their brand through a supposed regained freedom. In fact, while maintaining the state-controlled statute, the federalist component would have allowed courts to be assembled into the region of competence ensuring race or citizenship would have not been a bias during the ruling process. In reality, according to the constitution, the appointments of the single courts would have been still upon the central government judgement, so nothing much would have really changed unless the Republic as we knew it would have been changed as well.

Meanwhile, Jorg von Purgner understood that besides the Nationalists he could have counted also on the militarist vote independently of his Military Pension plan. He decided then to appeal the newcomer’s pool of votes instead. In doing that he could also bring on his side some Federalists with the institution of Free Trade legislation. Since the formation of new colonies on other planets, in the absence of clear regulation on interplanetary taxation, the rules of Earth applied to every trade deal and transaction of the Republic. Jorg proposed a Free Trade agreement for all goods that would have travelled from a planet to another with considerate savings on interplanetary duties, a new “off the rulings” taxation that the government was using to raise some cash due to the economic crisis.

In this election, 299 Senators would have been elected to follow the classic iter of Electing a Chancellor and forming a government. Before midnight, results came in:


The new senators proceeded then to the election of the Chancellor. The first round of preferences saw Iaraina Konovalova gaining 44.44% of the preferences with Kevin Selig and Jorg von Prugner ending up with respectively 29.97% and 25.59% of the preferences.
The preliminary results were then very similar to the ones in the previous election. As per the constitution, the 3rd candidate would have then been forced to drop his candidacy allowing for a final vote to be held between the first and the second. It was again the candidate of the Republicans, Admiral Jorg von Purgner to have been forced out from the run. With the Republicans more comfortable in governing along with a known Chancellor, the Admiral decided to pledge his supporters to vote for the Konovalova.

While not all his supporters decided to follow suit, the final result of 59.90% for the Chancellor was more than enough to counter the 43.10% of her rival’s preferences. Iaraina Konovalova was then confirmed as Chancellor of the Deutsche Republik for the second time. The Elected Chancellor proceeded then to analyze the coalition declaration of the senators. The possible Coalition numbers were as follows:


MAJORITY 149 seats

Before declaring the ruling coalition, a motion was called to contest the election. The high amount of spoil votes (6.73%) was concerning and left the feel of irregularities in many areas. Whilst the culprit was already identified in the vote held in the interplanetary colonies, where no proper police forces were present to ensure all procedures were followed, it was noted that even if all votes would have been given to any other party out of the potential majority that would have not sufficed to either form a new majority or elect a different Chancellor.

The motion was then dismissed without being discussed and the Chancellor proceeded to declare the winning coalition. With only the Republican or Democrat coalition sitting above the majority, the decision should have been to appoint either one. However, considering the Republican support and the fact that they had higher numbers, Iaraina declared the Republicans as the leading coalition for the Senate. The opposition would have then been composed of 118 seats against the 179 of the leading majority with over 60% of the total seats, close if not same as the previous term.

As expected, during her settlement speech the Chancellor elected ratified immediately her Federal Courts Legislation which the Senate would have discussed and approved within the first 100 days of the term.

This election had also seen an increase in the number of people voting with the 27.67% of the population actually deciding to exercise their rights for an increase of 1.46% and a total of 422.19 million people over the total eligible population of 1,111.04 million.

It looked like people were again gaining interest in politics and wanted their voices heard by the Republic.
Title: Über alles in der Welt - 1939/1942
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 25, 2021, 02:39:29 AM

1939 - 1942

Immediately after arrived in the office to begin her second term, Iaraina Konovalova restarted the colonization and mining efforts that were effectively the biggest project she launched so far. The idea was to take them to the next level by establishing permanent colonist routes. To achieve such a dream the current Colony Ships were perhaps too expensive and new designs were started to be considered.

On the 15th February 1939, Titan was the first extraterrestrial mining colony to be established by the government after the civilian initiative led the race by establishing the first of such operations in space. The Chancellor asked then again to the Senate to grant some protection to new colonies, and while the one on Titan was approved due to its long distance from Earth, all the other motions were denied. Eventually, the building of replacement battalions for the one sent was denied as well.

With the fuel reserves below 4 million litres, it was decided to restart the fuel refineries on Earth for 1 year. To complete such production there was barely enough Sorium currently in stock and the remaining would have been mined over time.

With the arrival of the Urban Battalion in July 1939, the colony started to look like a real outpost. More than 420,000 colonists were living on the moon actively producing 77 tons of TN minerals per year. Using this successful story plans to expand operations on other new and existing colonies were already being discussed.

Later in the year 1939, all productions scheduled in the first term were now completed. Although Financial Centers were reduced to 50 from the original 100 ordered due to the lack of minerals, it was now possible to plan different courses. Unfortunately, the economy was again under pressure with a small debt accumulated over the past year. The Chancellor decided then to delay the new production plan to provide some relief to the state treasury.

As the Commercial Shipyard was still locked to build the 5 new Freighters and the new freighters built actually stopped by the lack of minerals, it was considered to resume the expansion of the new commercial shipyard to reach at least the 24,500 tons needed to build a new colony ship. The action would have allowed the Chancellor to start her plans on the establishment of permanent settler lines. However, a new idea of proper liners ships smaller and just for this purpose started to cross the Chancellor’s mind:



CLASS: DKM Santa Maria-NTa
HULL: Liner (LNR)
NUMBER OF SHIPS: New Design
PRODUCED BY: Spain

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DKM Santa Maria-NTa class Luxury Liner      8,000 tons       63 Crew       201.4 BP       TCS 160    TH 150    EM 0
937 km/s      Armour 1-35       Shields 0-0       HTK 27      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 15    Max Repair 20 MSP
Cargo 2,500    Cryogenic Berths 1,400    Cargo Shuttle Multiplier 2   
Korvettenkapitan    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (3)    Power 150    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 109,000 Litres    Range 42.6 billion km (525 days at full power)

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a i for auto-assignment purposes



The new Spanish design would have granted a better logistic capability than the current colony ships. They were intended for small and fast regular transports within the Sol System, however, the long endurance and contained costs would have maybe been effective also for longer travels if ever required.

On the 11th of February 1940, the production of fuel was completed and no more Sorium was left in stock. 10.5 million liters of fuel were now available. The Chancellor asked for the approval and institution of the Earth Luna Colonization Line and the Earth-Mars colonization Line. The plan included regular flights in and out of Earth to the two colonies. Initially, one flight every week per colony will be established for a total of roughly 150.000 colonists and 104 installations per year. As a side effect, the plan would also free the current colony ships that could be used to boost the colonization of the more important mining colonies. Eventually, 2 Santa Maria were required.

As the motions hit the floor, the Senate started again with the now known politic of the small steps. Luna first and then, if all good, the others. Maybe. The Chancellor, tired of such an approach and with enough experience under her belt in dealing with these matters decided to immediately put a veto on the Mars resolution and carry on with the approval of both plans.

Finally, on the 7th of September 1940, the first permanent line between Earth and Luna is inaugurated by the DKM Santa Maria LNR. Immediately after a new supply of infrastructures is requested to fulfil the first few years requirements of the projects.

A few months later, Chancellor Konovalova requested the expansion of the mining efforts of the Republic in the form of another 2 mines to be delivered on Titan and 10 Automated mines on Venus with consequential built of 2 mines and 10 automated mines on Earth. The Senate was contrary on Venus while more open on Titan. As it was vital to increase the TN output, the Chancellor decided to veto the rejected motion by forcing the approval. Her political credit was already exhausted and from now on would have been way more difficult to force the Senate hand.

With nothing to lose, on the 30th of December 1940, the Chancellor found herself asking again to move some troops on the colonies and provide the needed supervision to the civilians. Due to the large investment made on Venus through the latest motion, the Senate agreed to send some troops there but still rejected to militarize Luna and Mars.

The new year 1941 started with Iaraina Konovalova’s request for some replacement guards for the battalions on Earth that were shipped on other colonies to be built. The Senate wasn’t ready yet to commit resources to the project. Meanwhile, the built of the DKM Granada LNR kickstarted the Earth-Mars Permanent line. It was time for the Chancellor to ask for the just freed resources to be invested in the colonization of Callisto and the continuation of the efforts on Titan. Eventually, more LG infrastructures were also needed to provide better support to the initiatives. With a surprise move, the colony on Callisto was finally approved by only a bunch of votes, 157 in favour and 140 against. Unfortunately, Titan expansion was instead halted for a while. To avoid possible unrest the Chancellor asked to send some extra infrastructures in advance to Callisto. With what happened on the previous term and election year at the doorstep the Senate approved.

Before the end of 1941, the Chancellor decided to start purchasing the mineral output of the civilian mines. The agreement would have ensured the delivery of a few more tons of Duranium, Corbomite, Tritanium, Boronide, and Gallicite. While the decision would provide more pressure on the economic system, it is clear that it was time for the Republic to increase the amount of TN minerals in stock. In this meaning, one of the Moon of Uranus called Puck is targeted by the Chancellor to a small mining mission. Puck had deposits of Duranium 242 Acc 1, Neutronium 3,721 Acc 1, Corbomite 1,521 Acc 1, Mercassium 9,216 Acc 1, Vendarite 144 Acc 1, and Gallicite 1,156 Acc 1. The moon could have hosted only 7 mines between manned and automated and the idea of using automated mines on a similar way they were being used on Venus was considered.

Despite the extra infrastructures sent on Callisto, on the 11th of March 1942 some unrest still started to develop. Chancellor Konovalova asked immediately for support to send an extra infrastructure shipment. The Senate rejected the motion and with no political credit left the Chancellor was left with the only option to ask for the military intervention. The Senate, however, had other plans and rejected that too. With only a few months left to the election night, nobody wanted to take chances and the project was entirely on the Chancellor's shoulder anyway. The Chancellor left with no choice but to go to the election with this weak spot. Her adversaries would have had fertile ground to attack her planning capabilities and resources management.

Chancellor Konovalova decided then to move for Puck exploitation in advance to partially mitigate the Callisto failure. While not enthusiast, the Senate decided to support the project as it was cheap and well thought. This would have been probably the latest political project for the Chancellor before concentrating entirely on the re-election campaign.

On the 24th of December 1942 the research on the new armor alloy was ready and some old designs were being marked for an update:



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DKM Numancia-NTb class Colony Ship      25,500 tons       120 Crew       488.8 BP       TCS 510    TH 350    EM 0
686 km/s      Armour 1-77       Shields 0-0       HTK 51      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 11    Max Repair 100 MSP
Cargo 10,000    Cryogenic Berths 20,000    Cargo Shuttle Multiplier 2   
Korvettenkapitan    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (7)    Power 350    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 181,000 Litres    Range 22.2 billion km (374 days at full power)

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a i for auto-assignment purposes


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DM Deutschland-NTb B class Corvette      6,000 tons       196 Crew       513 BP       TCS 120    TH 270    EM 0
2250 km/s      Armour 3-29       Shields 0-0       HTK 48      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 4      PPV 32
Maint Life 6.17 Years     MSP 318    AFR 72%    IFR 1.0%    1YR 14    5YR 215    Max Repair 45 MSP
Fregattankapitan    Control Rating 2   BRG   AUX   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Morale Check Required   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Vessel Nuclear Thermal Engine (3)    Power 270    Fuel Use 226.40%    Signature 90    Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 469,000 Litres    Range 6.2 billion km (31 days at full power)

MK I Kirst Armaments 15 cm C1 Plasma Carronade (8)    Range 60,000km     TS: 2,250 km/s     Power 6-1     RM 10,000 km    ROF 30       
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Multi Plasma Carronade Fire Control R64-TS8000 (2)     Max Range: 64,000 km   TS: 8,000 km/s     84 69 53 38 22 6 0 0 0 0
MK II Kuhn Energy Pressurised Water Reactor R8 (2)     Total Power Output 15.8    Exp 5%

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a c for auto-assignment purposes


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DM Deutschland-NTb M class Corvette      6,000 tons       142 Crew       675.5 BP       TCS 120    TH 270    EM 0
2250 km/s      Armour 3-29       Shields 0-0       HTK 42      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 2      PPV 21
Maint Life 5.20 Years     MSP 694    AFR 107%    IFR 1.5%    1YR 43    5YR 641    Max Repair 120 MSP
Magazine 274   
Fregattankapitan    Control Rating 2   BRG   AUX   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Morale Check Required   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Vessel Nuclear Thermal Engine (3)    Power 270    Fuel Use 226.40%    Signature 90    Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 524,000 Litres    Range 6.9 billion km (35 days at full power)

MK V Humbold Ordnance Size 5 ASM Launcher (14)     Missile Size: 5    Rate of Fire 3355
MK III Tisch Warning & Control ASM Fire Control FC33-R120 (2)     Range 33.4m km    Resolution 120
MK V Humbold Ordnance ASM5/11-33 (54)    Speed: 11,400 km/s    End: 49.6m     Range: 34m km    WH: 2    Size: 5    TH: 38/22/11

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Active Search Sensor AS74-R120 (1)     GPS 14400     Range 74.7m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a c for auto-assignment purposes


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DM Deutschland-NTb PD class Corvette      6,000 tons       140 Crew       594.7 BP       TCS 120    TH 270    EM 0
2250 km/s      Armour 3-29       Shields 0-0       HTK 37      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 4      PPV 36.29
Maint Life 3.19 Years     MSP 352    AFR 72%    IFR 1.0%    1YR 52    5YR 779    Max Repair 157.45 MSP
Fregattankapitan    Control Rating 2   BRG   AUX   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Morale Check Required   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Vessel Nuclear Thermal Engine (3)    Power 270    Fuel Use 226.40%    Signature 90    Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 734,000 Litres    Range 9.7 billion km (50 days at full power)

MK V Schnitker Precision Arms Quad Point Defense Gauss Cannon Turret (1x8)    Range 10,000km     TS: 8000 km/s     Power 0-0     RM 10,000 km    ROF 5       
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Point Defense Fire Control R10-TS8000 (1)     Max Range: 10,000 km   TS: 8,000 km/s     0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Missiles Search Sensor AS10-R1 (1)     GPS 60     Range 10.7m km    MCR 963.4k km    Resolution 1
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a c for auto-assignment purposes


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DKM Hatsukaze-NTb 25k class Freighter      50,000 tons       231 Crew       573.8 BP       TCS 1,000    TH 800    EM 0
800 km/s      Armour 1-120       Shields 0-0       HTK 103      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 7    Max Repair 50 MSP
Cargo 25,000    Cargo Shuttle Multiplier 10   
Korvettenkapitan    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months   

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (16)    Power 800    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 907,000 Litres    Range 56.7 billion km (820 days at full power)

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a i for auto-assignment purposes


While the newly designed drafts were delivered to the Chancellor’s office, everything was getting ready for the election to take place.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt - 1939-1942
Post by: nuclearslurpee on October 25, 2021, 06:24:37 PM
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DKM Santa Maria-NTa class Luxury Liner
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Cryogenic Berths 1,400

I commend the Spanish marketing department on their impressive upselling of cryogenic storage as "luxury".  ;D  It should be a useful ship design for starting a small colony and then letting the civilian shipping lines do the rest of the work - and the low startup cost should help gain some votes in the senate!

The colonization of Sol proceeds in fits and starts - certainly a slower pace than the usual game! The Chancellor may face a stiff challenge over her handling of the Callisto colony but an astute observer would note that it is the intransigence of the senate preventing the colonists from having the good living conditions they require. Unfortunately for the Chancellor the electorate is not known for its astuteness...
Title: Über alles in der Welt - Election of 1942 and the unexpected turn of events
Post by: Froggiest1982 on October 25, 2021, 10:52:56 PM

ELECTIONS OF 1942

Election night was due on the 31st of December 1942.

All candidates were campaigning on different matters over the past year.

Chancellor Konovalova, for instance, was campaigning and advertising for Federal Grants. In case of her victory, she would have passed legislation to release part of the government funds to the federal courts for small projects and compensation over the government and the citizens' disputes.

The Republicans decided to retire Jorg von Purgner in favour of a new candidate to come from either Judith Steiner or Paolo Brocchi. Unfortunately, both were extremely superstitious which was probably due to the Admiral promoting people similar to his stupid belief. However, in the end, Steiner won the primaries over Brocchi probably because German and more politically reliable. She decided to focus her own campaign against the Federal Courts legislation. As highly anticipated, not only the legislation was not working as intended but it also allowed the institution of small societies able to operate above the law thanks to her connections to the local law enforcement.

Furthermore, since the religion ban, many decided to turn into freemasons and often these people were also involved in the regional politics and institutions allowing the formation of real sects. Steiner was then setting herself as the true antagonist of the Chancellor attacking every single legislation she introduced in the past years.

The only stable candidate of this run was Kevin Selig. The positions of the Trade Party leader were no different than the previous campaign and he continued to appeal to the young and the misfits through his radical Drugs Legalization proposal.

In this election, 329 Senators would have been elected to follow the classic iter of Electing a Chancellor and forming a government. Before midnight, results came in:


The new senators proceeded then to the election of the Chancellor. The first round of preferences saw Iaraina Konovalova gaining 43.73% of the preferences with Kevin Selig and Judith Steiner ending up with respectively 29.97% and 25.99% of the preferences. The preliminary results when then very similar to the ones in the previous election. However, Iaraina was losing ground in the first round.

As per the constitution, the 3rd candidate would have then been forced to drop his candidacy allowing for a final vote to be held between the first and the second. Again was the candidate of the Republicans, Vizeadmiral Judith Steiner, to have been forced out from the run. As already happened, the Republicans were more comfortable in governing along with a known Chancellor and decided to pledge their supporters to vote to confirm the Konovalova. Steiner, which campaigned hard against Konovalova’s ideals, was extremely disappointed and announced that she would have not represented the party in the next election.

As a result, many Republicans decided not to support either candidate and the final results of 59.94% for the Chancellor were more than enough to counter the 40.06% of her rival’s preferences in the end. Iaraina Konovalova was then confirmed as Chancellor of the Deutsche Republik for the third time. She had the chance of starting a legacy that would have shaped the Republic for a very long time.

The Elected Chancellor proceeded then to analyze the coalition declaration of the senators. The possible Coalition numbers were as following:


MAJORITY 164 seats

The Chancellor proceeded to declare the winning coalition. With only the Republican or Democrat coalition sitting above the majority, the decision should have been to appoint either one. However, considering the Republican support this time was scarce and the fact that their leader had been constantly attacking her, Iaraina declared the Democrats as the leading coalition for the Senate. While this was the official reason, the truth was that many in the Senate were constantly voting against the Chancellor over the past two terms even for simple resolutions. Eventually, many others attached their support to the Konovalova’s government only if the Federal Grants legislation would have been dropped in favour of a more Republican-friendly resolution.

The Democrats which were again only a few votes away from power were caught by surprise. Eventually, the alliance between the Federalists and the Republicans was not providing the much-coveted fruits and the refrain in cooperating to deliver the Chancellor’s legislation was only the last straw to convince Iaraina in jumping ship. During her settlement speech, the Chancellor elected ratified immediately her Federal Grants Legislation which the Senate would have discussed and approved within the first 100 days of the term thanks to her new agreement with the Democrats.

Finally, the Democrats were still in a good position to govern thanks to an opposition that would have then been composed by 125 seats against the 202 of the leading majority with over 61% of the total seats and even better than the previous Republican term.

This election had also seen a further increase in the number of people voting with the 29.12% of the population actually deciding to exercise their rights for an increase of 1.45% and a total of 452.28 million people over the total eligible population of 1,130.70 million.

NOTE: This is the last election with the old file. I am testing a new balancing patch that included the removal of the Pacifists as a coalition and the Introduction of the Federalists previously available only under Federalist government type. The reason is to have more uniform coalition that would allow me and the player to clearly understand when there is a need to change the government. This will also make more meaningful the custom coalitions and all the politics that comes with it.
Title: Über alles in der Welt - 1943/1946
Post by: Froggiest1982 on November 03, 2021, 04:11:47 AM

1943 - 1946

On the first day of her third mandate, Iaraina Konovalova decided that she could have not waited for the completion of the increased mining capabilities projects before committing any new production, so on the 19th of January 1943 she asked for Callisto and Titan colonies to be refilled with few extra colonists and mines trying to force the Senate hand on the matter. 2 new plans were drafted to also add another 10 automated mines on Venus. While the Senate was reluctant into sending more colonists to mining colonies they agreed to expand all the mineral operations. Considering the major concern was the situation on Callisto where colonists were striking every few months regularly, the Chancellor asked for a round of extra installations to be delivered. The Senate agreed pleased by the fact that its voice was finally being heard by the Chancellor. Eventually, the new Federalist – Trade partnership was already bearing its fruits.

However, as expected, on the 5th of March 1943 a shortage of Corundium avoided the completion of the automated mines projects just 2 weeks before the delivery of the New Mining systems research project that would have increased the mining capacity of the Republic. It was then decided to suspend the production and give time to the stockpiles to be refilled. Eventually, the treasury was also again in red and a production break would have favoured the finances. As the research laboratories were now able to work on a new project and with so many small deposits of minerals scattered around the Sol system, setting up individual colonies could have meant too much trouble. A solution to have ships orbiting around asteroids and mine the TN minerals directly from there was then understudied and prioritized by the government.

Despite her best efforts though, a few months later, the Chancellor decided to decrease the amount of new Automated Mines to be produced from 10 to 5 due to the long wait needed to actually have more resources available to invest in the project and that could have instead been diverted elsewhere.

On the 13th of October 1943 signs the completion of Sol geological survey and with the eyes now been laid on other systems the scientific community started to wonder if Humanity would have ever been able to overcome the distance between systems. It was also decided that once back on Earth all geological ships would have been decommissioned to save up on maintenance costs. In the end, the possibilities to use them in the near future were slim if non-existent.

In 1944 the production of maintenance supplies was stopped after having reached the 15,000 units allowing to use the minerals on different matters. Eventually, the Chancellor asked for new support to continue the colonization of Callisto and Titan previously interrupted. Due to a shortage of workers on Titan, the mission was approved by the Senate with a large majority, while the mission on Callisto is again delayed till January 1945 which is also when the decommission of the 4 Mercalli was finally signed off. Immediately after, Chancellor Konovalova asked for the construction of new infrastructures to continue supporting the colonization efforts on both Callisto and Titan. The Senate approved with an impressive 306 votes in favour and only 21 against.

On the research front, the new Orbital Mining Module was finally ready. Unfortunately, the module could have actually mined only bodies with a radius of a maximum of 120km. A new ship design was proposed:



CLASS: DKM Littorio-NTa
HULL: Orbital Miner (MIN)
NUMBER OF SHIPS: New Design
PRODUCED BY: Italy

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DKM Littorio-NTa class Orbital Miner      50,000 tons       467 Crew       1,280.1 BP       TCS 1,000    TH 450    EM 0
450 km/s      Armour 1-120       Shields 0-0       HTK 103      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 16    Max Repair 120 MSP
Cargo 500    Cargo Shuttle Multiplier 2   
Korvettenkapitan    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months   
Orbital Miner: 7 modules producing 98 tons per mineral per annum

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (9)    Power 450    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 817,000 Litres    Range 51.1 billion km (1313 days at full power)

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a i for auto-assignment purposes



The DKM Littorio-Nta designed by the Italians would have guaranteed a 5-year mission and 500 tons of TN minerals harvested from distant bodies per ship. Cheaper than sending colonists or expensive automated mines and mass drivers, a few of these ships would have provided a steady supply of TN minerals every few years boosting the stockpile of the most critical resources. While further studies could be conducted to extend the operational capabilities to a 160km radius the Chancellor preferred to put her eyes on another project. With Earth struggling for fuel due to the impossibility of keeping up with Sorium requests from the refineries, the Konovalova wanted a way to extrapolate the Sorium found on many Gaseous Planets that could have not hosted any mine due to their planetary composition to be found. If anything would have been discovered, then the inevitable fuel crisis could have been averted or at least delayed.

While waiting for this new technology to be discovered and to allow the production of the new class of mining ships, the Chancellor ordered to resume construction of the 5 old Hatsukaze started now almost 7 years ago. They would have then finally been completed in May 1945. Eventually, a mission to resupply installations on Callisto and Titan was requested by the Chancellor to the Senate which decided to agree on the Callisto support due to a slight increase in unrest, while Titan’s support was set aside for the time being.

The beginning of 1946 marked the start of both the election year and the biggest economic crisis of the Republic. Without any further construction of Financial Centres, it would have been almost impossible to get out of it unless some importation of TN minerals from the civilian sector would have been halted for a while. Chancellor Konovalova decided to put the matter for a vote but was not prepared to accept a no for an answer in the attempt of interrupting the TN minerals supply. Therefore, the possibility of using some of her political power to veto the resolution was in the cards from the start. As expected, the Senate decided to reject her motion forcing the hand of the Chancellor in putting the veto and get the construction allowed anyway.

Though, Iaraina Konovalova understood where the Senate was coming from. With such a dire situation on the Republic finances, how could have the government been able to afford and support more debt? That is why, in the end, she decided to halt the mineral importation until the production of the Financial Centres would have been completed. Right before the end of the year, the research team finally came up with a prototype of Sorium harvester. Such a module would have allowed an orbital station or ship to isolate the Sorium from the Gas Giants and refine it directly into fuel, which was even a better product than the one the Chancellor asked them. As the operation was vital for the Republic, the Chancellor tasked a team of German designers for the prototype:



CLASS: DKM Bismarck-NTa
HULL: Fuel Harvester (HH)
NUMBER OF SHIPS: New Design
PRODUCED BY: Germany

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DKM Bismarck-NTa class Fuel Harvester      50,000 tons       246 Crew       814.2 BP       TCS 1,000    TH 300    EM 0
300 km/s      Armour 1-120       Shields 0-0       HTK 125      Sensors 6/6/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 10    Max Repair 30 MSP
Korvettenkapitan    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months   
Fuel Harvester: 15 modules producing 720,000 litres per annum

MK II Gruber Aeromarine Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (6)    Power 300    Fuel Use 5.76%    Signature 50    Explosion 4%
Fuel Capacity 2,887,000 Litres    Range 180.4 billion km (6961 days at full power)
Refuelling Capability: 80,000 litres per hour     Complete Refuel 36 hours

MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard GPS (1)     GPS 1440     Range 23.6m km    Resolution 120
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard EMS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km
MK III Schellhorn Sensor Systems Standard THS (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  19.4m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Fuel Harvester for auto-assignment purposes



The team designed a very slow ship that would have just needed to reach the destination before starting to produce fuel. Without a technology available to pull any object in space that seemed the only viable solution. The logistic chain back to Earth could have been then completed either by the current Garibaldi class Tanker or eventually by the same Bismarck class. Thanks to this design, the Chancellor realized how much a technology able to move engineless ships and stations in space would have been useful for the future expansion plans of the Republic, so she ordered to start researching on this field immediately. Iaraina also decided that it was important for her to be focused on her re-election campaign and she wouldn’t have put forward any other motion for this mandate, even if the tension in Callisto was rising again and perhaps further help and work was needed.

Meanwhile, both Judith Steiner and Kevin Selig resigned their positions as Party Leaders leaving their seats respectively to Vizeadmiral Paolo Brocchi and Hilde Schussler. The race for Chancellorship term 1947-1950 was then just at the beginning.
Title: Über alles in der Welt - Election of 1946
Post by: Froggiest1982 on November 05, 2021, 04:27:00 AM

Elections of 1946

On the 31st of December 1946, everything was getting ready for election night.

The Republic so far had a stable government with strong Federalist's influences and Nationalists ideals for the early years while more Capitalistic in the later years. Iaraina Konovalova gained the title of Chancellor for 3 terms in a row for a total of 12 years of power. Important legislations were approved during her terms and overall her motion approval was 59.04% with 49 passed motions out of the 83 proposed. These do not count the flipped motions by veto rights. The hardest term so far was the second where only 16 motions out of 30 were approved with only the 53.33% approval rate, barely enough to avoid a non-confidence vote. This led the Chancellor to change her allegiance and grow apart from the Republican party and ideals and get more close to the Democrats and their powerful trade lobbies.

Konovalova’s view of the Republic resulted in exponential growth of the mining sector. Colonies were present on Luna (1.47m people), Mars (0.8m people), Callisto (0.91m people), and Titan (0.56m people). Luna and Mars had also regular flights in and out of the planet once a week. The mining outposts in Titan and Callisto had respectively 6 and 4 mines already active with Titan also having the first extraterrestrial military contingency. Automated mining colonies were also present on Puck and Venus, where 7 and 25 automated mines were providing 826 tons of TN minerals per year to Earth. The Civilian sector thrived as well with 4 Civilian Mining Colonies established on as many bodies. However, it wasn’t all roses and flowers.

Callisto was struggling for the majority of the latest term with riots and strikes. The treasury was heavily indebted causing production clogs. The mineral availability situation (scarce) wasn’t helping either.

Chancellor Konovalova decided then to campaign on the institution of a Federal Reserve. As said, the continuous economic crisis and shortage of cash, was a problem that affected her every term. While mostly caused by bad management from the government, Iaraina used the events as an excuse to spin the narrative of her bad spending into a more generalized system fault that needed to be rectified. Under the new legislation, the federal treasury would have been allowed to manage inflation, supervise the banking system, maintain the stability of the financial system, and provide banking services to other banks and credit institutions. The Treasury delegates would have been selected by the Chancellor but approved by the Senate at the start of every term to ensure trusted members would have been always in charge of the operations.

Besides the Konovalova, the other candidates were almost all new faces. Paolo Brocchi, the Republican candidate, was in fact already near to winning the primaries in his party before the Steiner was the preferred last-minute choice. With her out of the way, the disciplined Italian was the only one left to pick up the party and try to build a long-lasting legacy. His cautious approach drove all his strategies. First of all, he did not commit to any particular legislation, but he advocated that such important decisions were more a state affair and should have been treated as such. He then assured that the new majority would have discussed and approved the best legislation for the Republic if he would have been elected as Chancellor of the Republic. With so much uncertainty around, it seemed unlikely that many people would have committed to a preference for the Republican representatives, however, Paolo would have been extremely popular in the Senate, always thirsty for more power.

The true new face of the campaign was instead Hilde Schussler. Vizeadmiral of the Deutsche Marine, true German, and backed by the Trade Party along with other minor lobbies, the Schussler was the true contender for the Chancellorship. The Teutonic woman was known for her egomaniac personality and to promote only people recommended by a small circle of trust on a nepotistic based selection. She presented a piece of legislation to promote a series of consumer benefits to restart the economy which was clearly not her doing but mostly a compromise reached in exchange for being appointed as head of the party.

In this election, 352 Senators would have been elected to follow the classic iter of Electing a Chancellor and forming a government.

While results were still being confirmed, a rumour of some sections already been fully scrutinized started to circulate in many places. The possibility of the election being rigged somehow was increasing by the hour. Some sections had numbers which despite having only 5 allocated seats, 6 were due to be assigned as the number of valid votes were higher than the constituents of the region allowing extra seats to be recognized. All parties agreed immediately to reset the system and to start over the process while asking that police forces would have been also present in each voting station. Due to this requirement, the number of voting centres had to be cut by 1/3 causing massive delays and queues.

In the colonies, where no police forces were present, the only allowed station would have been the city hall.

Despite the chaos, results still managed to come in before midnight:


The new senators proceeded then to the election of the Chancellor. The first round of preferences saw Iaraina Konovalova gaining 42.86% of the preferences with Hilde Schussler and Paolo Brocchi ending up with respectively 31.14% and 26.00% of the preferences. For the first time, the preliminary results saw another candidate registering more than 30% of the preferences besides the Konovalova. As per the constitution, the 3rd candidate would have then been forced to drop his candidacy allowing for a final vote to be held between the first and the second. As usual, was the candidate of the Republicans to have been forced out from the run and while a speech from Brocchi was due and waited, he decided to do not to give any leaving the Republican ranks perplexed on what conduct to follow.

As a result, many Republicans decided to vote with their own conscience and the final result of 56.29% for the Chancellor against the 43.71% of her rival’s preferences was the lowest win she ever recorded. Despite that, Iaraina Konovalova was confirmed again as Chancellor of the Deutsche Republik for the fourth time. The Elected Chancellor proceeded then to analyze the coalition declaration of the senators. The possible Coalition numbers were as follows:


MAJORITY 176 seats

Due to the poor performances the Pacifist Coalition submit a request to be not included in the current and future elections. A new coalition took over the vacancy then under the Federalist Coalition name. This changed drastically the composition of all the other coalitions due to the withdrawal of the support of many of the Federalist elected candidates to both Republicans and Democrats with also many other Senators joining the War Party ranks.

With the majority set on 176 seats, it was clear that no standard coalitions were able to form a stable government.  The responsibility fell then on the Chancellor's shoulders. Of course, she wanted the Federalists to have been part of the government and the 122 seats would have contributed already by 34.86% out of the 50.01% required. The Konovalova started then canvassing all possible scenarios:



NATIONALISTS – TRADE               49.71%
FEDERALISTS – TRADE                 53.14%
FEDERALISTS – NATIONALISTS     66.29%



The streets were apparently only 2: either ally herself with the Nationalists and form a very powerful government similar to her second term or with the Trade and continue on the road laid on the latest term. As the latest experience with the Trade wasn’t bad and with a 66.67% motion approval rate that led to using only 1 veto through the whole term, Chancellor Konovalova started to negotiate immediately with Hilde Schussler. Assuming the Trade had all interests in dealing with them due to the impossibility of allying with the Nationalists, Iaraina started the meeting with all the plans on how to continue the good work done in the past and how the 2 parties would have been able to change the Republic for the greater good.

At the end of the speech, Vizeadmiral Schussler reminded the Chancellor that her role was to form a government within the Senate, not a government of her liking. Surprised by the answer, the Chancellor asked Schussler to explain herself better. It was only then that she admitted that while the plan of the Chancellor was appealing, there was still nothing in for the Trade Party. Here we were, the old bargaining political way of the Republic. Visibly disappointed, Iaraina started to walk towards the door when the Vizeadmiral suggested that a Republican government would have perhaps suited best a Republic.

A chill on the Chancellor’s spine rushed right up through her head: the Pacifists!



NATIONALISTS – TRADE – PACIFISTS  60.29%



Without any intention of compromising her career by falling again on the Nationalists arms, she walked back to the chair and asked directly what would have taken for the Trade to form the government with the Federalists. The demands were many and harsh:


Cornered between the risk of losing her Chancellorship and legacy by the hand of Nationalists backstabbers and retiring after an anonymous term, it was easy to go for the latter. Once back in Senate, the Chancellor proceeded to declare the winning coalition as an alliance between the Federalists and the Trade. During her settlement speech, the Chancellor elected ratified immediately the Consumer Benefits legislation which the Senate would have discussed and approved within the first 100 days of the term thanks to her new agreement with the Vizeadmiral Schussler. She also announced her retirement at the end of the term. She thanked all the members of the Senate for the honour she had received by them that allowed her to serve the country for such a long time. To show her respect she would have not applied any veto to the motions during her last term, or at least that was the way she advertised the previous accords in a timid attempt to save the face.

Finally, the alliance was still in a good position to govern thanks to an opposition that would have then been composed by 166 seats against the 186 of the leading majority with just over 53% of the total seats and more than the required 50.01%.

This election had also seen a further increase in the number of people voting with the 30.58% of the population actually deciding to exercise their rights for an increase of 1.46% and a total of 483.15 million people over the total eligible population of 1,150.36 million.
Title: Re: Über alles in der Welt
Post by: nuclearslurpee on November 28, 2021, 03:19:41 PM
Interesting politicking in the last few updates. Moves are being made to stabilize the economy, but there is still a lot of work to be done and hopefully in the next few years Konovalova can complete this work - otherwise, who knows what the next Chancellor will do?! The election of, I think, 1950 will be pivotal.