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[Doubloon-Seven]

Rocket engines are terrible and we need to fix that on the Shuttles. I refuse to expand their use.

The standard uniform of our army must be a practical one, and what is the most practical type of garment? Why, the jumpsuit, of course! The woven-cotton VAIU has a variety of buckles, belts, and webbing for the storage of equipment. This ranges from a soldier's mess kit and canteen, to their ammunition and utility knife. Soldiers are also provided with a broad-brimmed steel helmet, and a pair of boots.

In cold weather, the VAIU includes thermal underwear and a wool overcoat. In hot weather, soldiers are issued an extra canteen. In swampy or moist conditions, soldiers are issued a compact hammock. The uniforms are camouflaged, coming in snow, desert, and forest colors. Rank is indicated by a painted gorget.

No Experimental Research Credit used.
The Javelin (1): TricMagic
The Actual Reason Crystals Work, and the Psychic Font (2): DoubloonSeven
SAD-F1-Fumarole (1): DoubloonSeven
The Genetic Manipulation Research Initiative ()
Experimental Research Credit used.
The Javelin ():
The Actual Reason Crystals Work, and the Psychic Font ():
SAD-F1-Fumarole ():
The Genetic Manipulation Research Initiative (1): MoP
Uniform
Volcasian Army Infantry Uniform (1): DoubloonSeven

[Madman198237]

Design
The Javelin (1): TricMagic
 - With Credit: (0)
 - Without Credit: (0)
The Actual Reason Crystals Work, and the Psychic Font (4): DoubloonSeven, Madman
 - With Credit: (1) Madman
 - Without Credit: (0)
SAD-F1-Fumarole (2): DoubloonSeven, Madman
 - With Credit: (0)
 - Without Credit: (0)
The Genetic Manipulation Research Initiative (1): MoP
 - With Credit: (1) MoP
 - Without Credit: (0)
Uniform (This is a separate voting category, please maintain the usual rules of only one vote per person for our collective sanity)
Volcasian Army Infantry Uniform (2): DoubloonSeven, Madman

Sanity imposed.

[TricMagic]

Why does no one want to firebomb them? I'm not saying any of our future stuff is going to use actual rockets, but any vehicle made in the future will suffer penalties from being the first one we make. I want to Firebomb them. The chances of them having the ability to create aircraft at this point are pretty slim.

[Rockeater]

Design
The Javelin (1): TricMagic
 - With Credit: (0)
 - Without Credit: (0)
The Actual Reason Crystals Work, and the Psychic Font (4): DoubloonSeven, Madman
 - With Credit: (1) Madman
 - Without Credit: (0)
SAD-F1-Fumarole (2): DoubloonSeven, Madman
 - With Credit: (0)
 - Without Credit: (0)
The Genetic Manipulation Research Initiative (3): MoP, Rockeater
 - With Credit: (3) MoP, Rockeater
 - Without Credit: (0)
Uniform (This is a separate voting category, please maintain the usual rules of only one vote per person for our collective sanity)
Volcasian Army Infantry Uniform (2): DoubloonSeven, Madman

[TricMagic]

Design
The Javelin (1): TricMagic
 - With Credit: (0)
 - Without Credit: (1) TricMagic
The Actual Reason Crystals Work, and the Psychic Font (4): DoubloonSeven, Madman
 - With Credit: (1) Madman
 - Without Credit: (0)
SAD-F1-Fumarole (2): DoubloonSeven, Madman
 - With Credit: (0)
 - Without Credit: (0)
The Genetic Manipulation Research Initiative (5): MoP, Rockeater, TricMagic
 - With Credit: (3) MoP, Rockeater, TricMagic
 - Without Credit: (0)
Uniform (This is a separate voting category, please maintain the usual rules of only one vote per person for our collective sanity)
Volcasian Army Infantry Uniform (2): DoubloonSeven, Madman

[Craftsdwarf boi]

Generic sniper rifle
This weapon is a gyroscopically stabilized rifle with a telescope attached to it, it has auxiliary propulsion systems (Electromagnetic coils), and a three-stage firing system
Stage I:The Propulsion phase
The initial half of the rifle's barrel is a vacuum chamber, minimising the amount of air resistance during propulsion.
The rest of the barrel are conventional
Stage II:The activation phase
A Electrostatic trigger activates the generic high-velocity ammunition.
Stage III:The self-propulsion phase
Refer to the consequent section
Generic High-velocity ammunition
AP variant
The AP variant contains two miniature canisters of compressed solid fuel, which is utilized for propulsion, and a solid tungsten tip for armor penetration
The HE variant contains the same fuel components, except the tip is replaced with a hollow casing and with explosives int the internal portions
The HEAP variant contains five stages (3 propulsion stages(due to additional weight), explosives, and an AP prong.)

[Madman198237]

Craftsdwarf, you're a little light on details there. How are we making this coilgun work, how are we maintaining a vacuum in just half of a rifle barrel, how are you making an electrostatic triggering mechanism with our tech, etc.

[Craftsdwarf boi]

Details:
The vacuum is supported by suction tubes and a miniature circular hatch-gate.
The coil-gun (this is more portion are inticate
The Triggering is in the ammunition system:
Upon contact with an electric field, it activates the primary trigger, and upon contact with a electronic trigger, it triggers a secondary trigger that initiates the propulsion process.
[THIS DESIGN IS SCRAPPED DUE TO LACK OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL FEASIBILITY]

[Madman198237]

1. How are you making the projectile get from the vacuum to the "outside" portion of the weapon without striking the gate or being smashed flat by the sudden impact with the air?

2. What in the actual heck are you talking about, that's not how you make a coilgun, certainly not how you make a RELIABLE and FUNCTIONAL coilgun---you MUST have computer control for the timing and you need ridiculous amounts of voltage to make it work.

3. ...you think we just happen to have something that will flip state reliably in any electric field because you want it to? And then to make a second trigger flip state when it EXITS a field? Do you have any idea how clueless that is as to the workings of electric and magnetic fields? Fields don't have defined edges.

[Craftsdwarf boi]

I will revise.
Dangit.

[Craftsdwarf boi]

The psychic recorder
 This device maps out the strength of the output of psychic energy of any entity by utilizing a primitive wish engine and a set of measuring instruments.

[Craftsdwarf boi]

Unmanned Remote-control Hovercraft
 This is a prototype radio module which is inserted into the hovercraft for unmanned remote control. Extensive configurations and modifications of motor and waponry systems are required.

The ultra-generic Assault rifle
 It is simply a rifle with a drum magazine and a gyroscopic stabilization system.
The mini-lance
This weapon is a conical piece of steel that is attached to a cylindrical handle.

[FallacyofUrist]

The Genetic Manipulation Research Initiative:

(Normal) 3 + 2 = 5

There's a lot of complexity to our cloning tanks. Good thing we have notes. Utilizing the notes we found on our cloning tank system, we were able to find the 'encoding'. Slates of soft grey metal engraved with complex symbols. Good thing we had notes on those too. Each slate contains 'genetic code', which is read by the cloning tanks to determine what creature to create.

Using this knowledge, we experimented with the slates, modifying them. The abominations we created shall not be spoken of. But what is more noteworthy is our success. We determined what code could be used to create a creature with great strength and stamina. After a vote (won near unanimously), we applied that knowledge to our soldier template, giving each and every one to be birthed increased strength and stamina. Not an immense amount, but enough to be very noticeable.

Volcasian Army Infantry Uniform:

(Normal) 1 + 4 = 5

A camouflaged cotton jumpsuit with a helmet and boots makes up our standard uniform. Soldiers are also issued accessories depending on the climate. Thermal underwear and a wool coat for cold weather, an extra canteen for hot weather, a hammock or bedroll depending on which is practical...

And a painted gorget indicates rank.

A practical uniform for Volcasial's newly enhanced army. Our generals are pleased.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Air Vehicles:

Shuttle Disks: (4 Ore, 4 Oil, 3 Crystal)
Our Fortress-City came with a small supply of these odd Shuttle Disks, large floating disks that we could fit several large buildings on the backs of. They possess no combat ability, but they're very effective transports. They use a sort of odd crystal powered by the will of the people riding on them to keep aloft, not dependent on the engines they use for propulsion at unfortunately Slow speeds. As of yet we cannot produce any more due to the design not being adapted to use Levitation Crystal, meaning we stand to lose TC if they are destroyed.
Provides 2 Universal TC. Non-Produceable.

Weapons:

Basic Rifle: (1 Ore)
A lever-action rifle capable of sending one bullet at a time out to Medium range. Possesses no magazine.

Basic Pistol: (1 Ore)
A simple four-shot semi-automatic revolver capable of sending out bullets fairly quickly out to Short range.

Supporting Technology:

Levitation Crystal Growth Matrix: (Produces 1 Levitation Crystal)
This set of linked mini-reactors use high amounts of heat and pressure to turn chemicals produced by our Fortress-City into Levitation Crystal, a form of Crystal that can only be used for the purposes of levitation. Levitation Crystal is charged by someone channeling their will into it, and after a relatively short charging duration, it will provide heavier amounts of lift compared to normal Crystal, lasting for hours before needing to be charged again. As of yet we do not have a means of producing normal Crystal. The usage of several linked smaller reactors for the production of Levitation Crystal doesn't provide any extra resources, but does make the system more dependable and efficient.
Provides 1 Levitation Crystal.

Basic Genetics Encoding Slate Manipulation:
The knowledge of the basic workings of our cloning tanks and how to produce modified genetics encoding slates. We've also produced a modified slate meant to be used with our soldiers to increase their strength and stamina by a moderate amount on average.

Volcasian Army Infantry Uniform: (Cheap)
A woven cotton jumpsuit for every Volcasian soldier, camouflaged decently according to climate. Comes with accessories such as canteens, mess kit, utility knife, hammocks, bedrolls, wool coats, thermal underwear, issued depending on the climate or terrain. Rank indicated by a painted gorget.

[TricMagic]

Transport Disk

Taking our knowledge of Crystals, we've decided to create something from what we know. The Transport Disks are about a warehouse building in size, and use our Levitation Crystals to float. They also use them to push it in a lateral direction at the same time. Lastly, the edges of it are curved to achieve decent speed. Overall, it looks like an oval vehicle with a flat bottom, with support pillars on the inside of the large space, and fairly easy to produce. Perfect for transport our soldiers in mass, as well as anything else we may collect.


Should be Expensive, mostly due to Crystal Costs. Will let us take the fight to them easily.

[Man of Paper]

The BASIC Rifle is a much-needed overhaul of our single shot rifles. We've cut down on the weapon's size by bringing the barrel further back into the stock, where it's fed by an 8-round magazine slapped into the underside of the butt. The BASIC Rifle loads rounds into the chamber through a pump action. Iron sights assist in aiming, and a bayonet attachment is included for close-quarters engagements.