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[Doomblade187]

Voice of Colors

The war has led to many losses  of both people and materials, but it has also led to the loss of our operational security. We will restore this, by creating an encrypted field telephone/radio system. This system will operate by transmitting color data through the signal. The reciever supports red, green, blue, and white/yellow (the bulbs are only so good) in variable length bursts, and can send more than one at a time. A filter system detects and decodes the incoming signal. The device is hard to read for anyone not well-versed in inithar culture,  though the code has been specialized for military use.

[Powder Miner]

M1 Aniani
The M1 Aniani is mostly an iteration and redesigning of previously extant civilian technology in order to create a militarily capable design that can be regularly produced and made to work consistently. Or, you know, that's the idea - we'll see how much radiofax technology we actually have access to. As this hints at, the M1 Aniani is a radiofax device. The M1 Aniani is set up overall in a 0.66mx0.66mx0.66m cube, with a smaller companion box for spare rolls of paper, and consists essentially of three devices - a scanner and encoder, an antenna and transmitter, and a printer. Although the Aniani isn't really meant to be used on the front line itself, it does have a hardened cover for transport on Wikiwikis, and is intended to be portable enough to be technically usable anywhere you have a generator.

The scanner scans a picture line by line (including scanning color, but of course limited to pixels in resolution) and encodes this into an electrical signal, which is sent directly to the radio transmitter, which has a collapsible antenna. The radio transmitter transmits this data out in AM and in single sideband form - meaning that the data is transmitted out as simple modulations of amplitude. Each pixel consists of four modulations of amplitude, corresponding to intensity of cyan ink, intensity of yellow ink, intensity of magenta ink, and intensity of black ink used in the printer. The printer is a mechanical device consisting of a primitive (refocyte) inkjet device - four separate feeds of ink (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) are fed into very thin chambers where a small, and very low-purity piece of refocyte is bumped against a small ring through mechanical action to eject a droplet of ink down a nozzle in a precise trajectory onto the paper. Together, according to the data they are receiving, these feeds create a color image.

Trained painters from the Painter's Fellowship are brought into our regional headquarters and command centers to create complex Tales that we send through the Aniani encoding our orders, whereas they provide training to commanders to understand how to decode these same Tales, as the complexity of the Tales in question is intentionally set up for outsiders and untrained neophytes to take some time to comprehend.

[m1895]

Mea Kaua ʻAlalā (1): m1895
M1 Aniani (1): m1895

[Powder Miner]

Design:
Mea Kaua ʻAlalā (2): m1895, Powder Miner
M1 Aniani (2): m1895, Powder Miner
Color Radio:

Pact Response:
A:
B:
C (1): Powder Miner

Voting to not willingly sign off millions of our people to anything from oppression to genocide

[m1895]

Design:
Mea Kaua ʻAlalā (2): m1895, Powder Miner
M1 Aniani (2): m1895, Powder Miner
Color Radio:

Pact Response:
A: (1) m1895
B:
C (1): Powder Miner

Voting to not willingly sign off millions of our people to anything from oppression to genocide

[Doomblade187]

Design:
Mea Kaua ʻAlalā (3): m1895, Powder Miner, Doomblade
M1 Aniani (3): m1895, Powder Miner, Doomblade
Color Radio:

Pact Response:
A: (2) m1895, Doomblade
B:
C (1): Powder Miner

Inithar must live on, even if it's just the rainbow armada. We've come too far to die here.

[Twinwolf]

Design:
Mea Kaua ʻAlalā (3): m1895, Powder Miner, Doomblade
M1 Aniani (3): m1895, Powder Miner, Doomblade
Color Radio:

Pact Response:
A: (3) m1895, Doomblade, Twinwolf
B:
C (1): Powder Miner

Inithar's pretty fucked whichever way we go. This gives the best chance of preserving the culture (and frankly is probably a better long term thing), which is why we made a deal with the devil in the first place. Maybe if we'd gone the other way then I'd go for C.

[Man of Paper]

Design Phase, Cold Season 1941 AC

You feel a gentle breeze blowing at your back at all times. Something unseen guides the creation of these devices.

Proposal: Mea Kaua ʻAlalā
Difficulty: too spooky
Result: UNEXPECTED BOON


The Mea Kaua ʻAlalā indeed provides much-needed relief to our stressed quartermasters. Not only because they're lacking an M1 designation, but also because there's only enough of them to equip a section of 20 fighters.

The Mea Kaua ʻAlalā is functionally a set of shaped armor plates designed to fit onto a skeletal frame meant to house a single standard human. The chestpiece hinges upward at the shoulders and the front of the legs swing out to the sides to let the wearer within after stepping into the attached boots. The chestpiece secures at the beltline on either side, and the legs at the inner thigh and calf. The spine of the frame is sturdy and somewhat stiff, but flexes on enough points to effectively simulate a human spine. The helmet and protective beaked visor are the only piece of the suit that isn't affixed to the frame. Of note, and important for later, the entire suit is built around the spine-boots assembly.

Nickel wiring runs throughout the suit thanks to the expertly designed frame including space for properly insulated internal wiring, allowing the suit to function as intended without risking accidents or getting in the way of movement. This wiring provides a connection between the armor plates, a series of capacitors, and the boots of the suit, with power generally funneled out through the boots. The plates themselves are made up of layered refocaelium-refocyte plates. The outer refocyte layer is, well...

It's the first instance of absolutely Pure Refocyte, made from raw material taken from home and worked endlessly over the years. The refocyte plates on this suit will absolutely absorb a sudden physical impact, reducing the forces applied onto the wearer to an almost imperceptible level, provided the munitions hitting the suit aren't artillery-sized. The pure refocyte plates, if overloaded to the point of detonation, do so in a directed blast that, thanks to the meticulous designs of the armor, should minimize the potential for injury among wearers of Mea Kaua ʻAlalā armor. The inner layer of each armor plate consists of a refocaelium layer that works to effectively distribute the effects of the material's antigravitic properties across the users body, effectively reducing the weight of the armor and human to that of the human alone.

While the armor is protective against most sorts of sane equipment, extra protection is offered in the form of an oversized canvas hood and cloak to provide some level of defense against Embralish sonic weaponry. The canvas comes in a variety of camo patterns and has an internal thin "refomesh" that helps to add extra protection against impacts by diffusing it throughout the entirety of the mesh as strands discharge against one another. This leaves the cloak looking a little tattered but not beyond usefulness. Combining materials also helps to provide a little extra insurance against the ASH. Gloves and the boots also make use of refomesh to aid in withstanding falls from more extreme heights, which can be helpful considering the nature of the boots.

Zinc was also discovered to help modulate the intensity of the input and output of gravitic energy based on the operation of the battery in question. An absorbing battery, like the one behind the chestplate of the suit, will absorb all surrounding gravitic energy and, in the case of a suit of armor, make the wearer functionally weightless. Outputting batteries, like those used in the often-mentioned but not yet discussed boots, turns the expulsion of gravitic energy into a slow, steady process, creating gravitational "contact points" in the boots and allowing them to function on all angles of surfaces. This is where the reinforced spine-boots assembly comes into play, granting the wearer immense control over their core and the rest of their body while enduring near zero-gravity conditions. A small square of armor plate on the torso and the boots can be depressed to move the zinc into contact with the battery, and again to remove it in order to toggle what combination of effects they wish to utilize.

As much as refocyte kickplates would have been cool, unfortunately there was no really good way to implement them in a manner that didn't get in the way of things or utilize in anything but an extremely measured situation and response. Instead, the pauldrons of the armor have spines protruding through holes in the Pure plate. These spines are part of an internal refocyte plate that is of a lower quality than that of the armor itself, and functions much in the same way as the kickplates would have, but don't risk interfering with our good stuff, and can be utilized without needing to connect and disconnect them whenever circumstances changed. These spines also prove immensely effective, as it reduces the point of contact to a handful of small points, focusing the energy into intense concentrations but across a more widely spread area. A spiked refocyte guard attached to the bracers can be lowered over the fists to provide a similar effect.

The Mea Kaua ʻAlalā is and always will be a (NATIONAL EFFORT) of 20 suits.


Proposal: M1 Aniani
Difficulty: banned for using M1
Result: UNEXPECTED BOON

The military has needed something good to improve upon our communications for a long time now, and that project has finally come to fruition in the form of the M1 Aniani. Utilizing what we've learned from the Glas Bolg Transporters, anyways.

The M1 Aniani is a tool that represents the latest in caelofax technology. The device actually consists of a number of devices - a scanner and encoder, an antenna and transmitter, and a viewer ring. A button on the ring allows the Glas Bolg-derived device to capture a "snapshot", as opposed to the real-time view the transporters provide. The M1 Aniani benefits from the fact that it can "store" an image for as long as the device functions.

And all in an easy-to-store handheld device!

Like the Glas Bolg, the Aniani can be keyed to a wide array of frequencies, more to prevent unintentional communications than avoid enemy observation, because, well, what are the chances they also make a similar and compatible device?

The Painter's Fellowship is a little miffed about the implications of a device that can so easy capture and transmit Colors, but they got busy teaching a new set of Colors, the Tales of Enigma, which should make any codes the enemy does find much harder if not impossible to crack without the proper knowledge of the rotating definition of colors, shapes, and arrangements.

The M1 Aniani is integrated into the standard uniform.


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Engineers poised to meet with the Antero Sahay Jr. were deep in debate about how to approach the future of Inithar when the air shifted, almost crackling with energy. The Initharian territories felt suddenly warmer, almost comfortably so. The Maelstrom, too, faded from the skies, and down to the south the temperatures stabilized as well. The skies above seemed to shimmer and wave, colors roiling not unlike an oil spill before, with an earth-shaking crack and blinding white flash, and suddenly the sky was absolutely full of unidentifiable aircraft of all shapes and sizes. And they just sat there, a mass stretching out beyond the horizon in all directions. The largest of the ships was centered directly over the Fortress-City, casting a massive shadow across dozens of kilometers of land. The war, and indeed this part of the world, seemed to freeze for two days as nobody was willing to act without knowing what was happening with the looming sky fleet. Some people got scared and fled, but each was destroyed by swooping aircraft once they got a few dozen kilometers out to sea. The entire region was under siege.

Sahay managed to locate the gathered Engineers on his own, using the chaos of this unexpected arrival to sneak well into secure Initharian territory to speak to the Engineers himself.

"I've got good news and bad news," he said, out of breath, "The good news is you are definitely the first Old Worlders to contact The Pact across any timeline. Others have started coming into contact with our expeditionary forces and the process of negotiation and integration has already begun with a number of Inithars. The bad news is the Embrallish in other timelines have all come in hot, and in fact the ones you have here are some of the most tame. Regardless, Inithar will definitely live on with The Pact if nothing else. The worse news, well..."

Sahay looked around nervously at each engineer, "Damn, this isn't good. The main Tsaelinid fleet is looming overhead and their leaders have been attempting to negotiate with us to surrender. There's reasonable fears that these negotiations are going to break down without coming to anything near agreeable terms very, very soon. We need whatever help we can to hold the Fortress-City, at least long enough to pull off a fighting retreat. All unnecessary personnel have already been evacuated through the Transdimensional Relay under Harren City, but we need to inflict as much damage as we can while we leave. If any of you wish to help, please come to the Fortre-shit!"

Sahay darted out through a side exit as the main door to the room rattled and flew open. General Arona marched through.

"The Black Fellowship has decided that the Expeditionary Fellowship will attempt to break through this blockade and return home to bolster war efforts there while reassessing the situation developing here. We're going to need whatever help we can get to save as many Initharians here as we can. You're my most trusted, and I know you all to be quite slick. I expect whatever projects you've got hidden up your sleeves will be dedicated to this purpose."

Before anyone could respond, General Arona snapped a quick salute and left as quickly as she arrived.

Sleep was difficult to get ahold of that night as each of you weighed your options. It became even more difficult when a voice echoed in your heads. Or, a set of voices.

"Eight. Eight. Eight. Connection acquired. Routing."

"Don't fear what the unknown brings, Human. Embrace it, instead. Our arrival is inevitable, your utilization as cogs in a greater machine an unavoidable fate. But you can choose what kind of cog you become. Those who join us willingly have ample opportunity to bask in glory, and attain honor as a warrior of unrivaled skill and strength."

"Our species has remained unmarred by legitimate defeat across millennia, but we are not just conquerors. We come as gods, as kings, but we are not without our sense of fairness or mercy. Those below us are allowed to rule themselves as they see fit, so long as they serve the greater good. We need farmers, mechanics, colonists, and more, if our subjects are to sustain themselves off the battlefield. Look to the Fortress-City. It will not remain untouched for long. Make your presence known there, and we will know if you intend to join us."

"Or bloody our enemies and prove your worth. Your fate is in your hands, we've merely laid out the options."

"Disconnecting...Eight. Eight. Eight."

There was a small pop, then silence.

What will you do?

----------------

We have entered the endgame of Mechanized Warfare. Each person has one personal project they've been working on since the fleet originally set sail years ago. It is time to bring that project to light! Every person has one design to propose, as well as a basic plan for who they side with and what actions they're taking personally. Note that if you want to pull a sneaky you can PM me the plans you actually have so as to keep any sort of sneaky moves secret.

These designs are the culmination of everything you've aspired to as an engineer. Discuss what's needed with your teammates and work together to make a decision, or don't, it's your call. Get creative. Get wild. Go nuts.

It is now the Endgame Design Phase.

[Powder Miner]

With the sky outside the Combined Fellowship Design Quarters building still black, stars twinkling in the sky as nigh consumed the besieged, imperiled islands, stuck in the middle of a multidimensional war, immediately after a message from another side of that war piled onto the pressures of the engineers... a laugh sounded out, and a loud one, a bit high pitched - frankly, just slightly unhinged. That laugh was immediately followed up by the sound of a door slamming open, papers scattering, footsteps running out to the common room, and at least one piece of furniture being knocked down along the way as one of the building's inhabitants made a frantic way out to the most accessible room -and exit- in the building.

And once he was there, that man (of course, one Kaimana Nima), spoke. No, he shouted, loudly, damn loudly, loudly enough so everyone could either hear him or hear secondhand what he'd said and have the exact details repeated to them. "Hell, don't you see where this is GOING? We've got to put two and two together on the chain of events here, people! The Pact is fighting a desperate battle with the other invaders, and they KNOW they're going to lose - they're just trying to do some damage while they put up a "FIGHTING RETREAT". How do you think that goes for the Inithari - every one of the civilians and military personnel left HERE? Do you think that they will be somehow able to transport thousands of people through a warzone with strange, alien ships, keep them alive, and then get them through this singular Transdimensional Relay that they mentioned? Do you think that they're going to be able or willing to devote the massive resources towards doing that, in the middle of fighting for their lives against the "Tsaelinids"? Do you think they're going to be able to do that on top of whatever the hell the Embrallish do? Or are they just going to be interested in taking who they consider to be the most select, necessary people? If you're interested in ANYTHING but saving your own skin, the Pact should not be who you side with!"

Kaimana paused for a long moment, breathing in, breathing out, breathing in, breathing out. Shouting like this, at this much length, was of course exhausting, and he really strongly risked losing his voice - but he had to push on. "The only way out of this for the people on Inithar, or even the rest of the people here, is to get rid of both the invaders AND the Pact. But I have an out for us!! See, whatever they built previously to get past the "Veil" last time around got blown by the superweapons on the capitals and the island Fort Harren is on, I think - remember that the last war was about "Tsaelinism"? I'm sure they need the Glas Bolg now - that Interdimensional Relay has to be based on it, and those numbers at the start and end of that message, they confirm it, they CONFIRM it...! Did you hear? The fucking second invaders are ALSO using some sort of communications system searching for interdimensional frequencies. Once they found it, they got to us. So I'm going to do it in reverse. I'm going to hunt down every frequency going outwards from this dimension, and I'm going to visit hell on it. It should get the Pact Relay, might get the second invader leaders and will quite probably get their ships... if you want to save the people of the Grand Fleet, you shouldn't be trying to stop me. And if we win... maybe we can save home from Arona too! THIS IS THE ONE AND ONLY CHOICE WE WILL EVER HAVE TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT INSTEAD OF SQUANDERING EVERYONE ELSE'S LIVES! DON'T WASTE IT!"

And with that, massaging his throat and most definitely coughing, Kaimana was out the door.

M1 Nahu Pepeaio
Under earlier circumstances, making a Glas Bolg-derived device might be extremely difficult. Thankfully, however, Inithar's time with the pact and with the Glas Bolg facilities has evidently involved a great deal of research - enough, say, to turn the M1 Aniani into a directly Glas Bolg-derived "caelofax" device rather than a mere mundane radiofax.

Thus opens a window of possibility for the M1 Nahu Pepeaio - M1, of course, for if it is successful it will simply be the first of many interdimensional defense systems.

The M1 Nahu Pepeaio is by no means anything approaching either portable or small - it is in fact an entire small facility in Inihar's capital, underneath a building with a bit of physical clearance acquired through a bit of blatant conspiracizing. A portion of this facility consists of an array of devices based off of a combination of the coilengine, the M1 Aniani, and the more traditional Glas Bolg - the core of each individual device actually very small in size, around the size of a handheld M1 Aniani device. These cores consist of a small disc derived directly from the Glas Bolg, technically transporting materials but in reality so small that truly doing so would be practically impossible - except that they have a wire kept taut through them, taking advantage of the permeable nature of disconnected Glas Bolg devices. This wire is held on either side by a simple metal bracket connected to a set of combination discs and small, low-purity, extremely cheap coilengine - these are in turn connected to the frequency-selecting device on the disc, which is when activated constantly turned by the cheap coilengine just slowly enough to search through all of the frequencies within the core's range for a split second each but (since this method of frequency selection should allow a roughly continuous frequency selection, rather than having to individually flick a switch to each one) quickly enough to ensure the process does not take literal days.

Once any of these cores makes a connection to another interdimensional transporter frequency, the change from being transported harmlessly from one side of the Glas Bolg-derived disc to the other side to in fact being instantly disconnected snaps the wire; this jolts the bracket, disconnecting it from the transporter disc and causing it to fall off, at which point the operator (alerted by the audible snapping of the wire and clattering of the bracket to the ground) replaces the bracket and takes the old bracket to the other part of M1 Nahu Pepeaio. The operator will be using the number on the many combination discs on the bracket, which (given that they were turned at the same time as the frequency disc by the coilengine), to know which interdimensional transportation/communication frequencies were found to be actively being used to and from this dimension. For soon obvious reasons, known operational Aniani codes are excluded, and any known Pact frequencies are prioritized.

The second part of the M1 Nahu Pepeaio is, bluntly, a very very very big gun. It is not especially groundbreaking technology, being that it is simply a slightly altered and much bigger version of the Huhuli's SFE with a Glas Bolg in front of it, but the M1 Nahu Pepeaio is bona fide interdimensional artillery, being a SFE that takes up an entire room with the combination of the gun itself and its extremely high-purity Refocyte batteries - and which has a Glas Bolg in front of it, one rather larger than in the frequency-search cores. This gun is nowhere near portable and can never be used for any purpose but its designed purpose, given that it's completely built into its stationary facility. However, it packs a ridiculous punch, and the shaping of the SFE itself (long, thin spikes radiating in a cone pattern) is designed to deal an incredible shotgun-beam like amount of damage, enough to hopefully utterly devastate whatever it's hit on the other side, likely from the inside as it seems likely Glas Bolg transporters are usually indoors. Frequency numbers are manually input into the artillery system once received by the operator, which then activates the Glas Bolg in front of the gun when the gun is fired, allowing the SFE beam to be fired through to the other side.

Kaimana Nima is heading a faction to turn against the Pact and ultimately eject both them and the Tsaelinids from this reality (currently, by completely trashing their transportation infrastructure and everything and everyone connected to it)!

Although Kaimana himself is staying within the Nahu Pepaeio to operate it, his primary other efforts consist of getting soldiers onto his side so that he can make up a potential side of this whole final conflict on his own - his top priority is swaying the crews of the National Efforts he engineered!
-If he gets the Mea Kaua 'Alala troops or at least some of the Mea Kaua 'Alala troops, half of them are to guard the buildings immediately above and around the Nahu Pepaeio (including the one it itself is under), whereas half of them are to travel to the Ft. Harren area in order to join the fight there against the Tsaelinids.
-If he gets the Huhuli, it is to join the fight in Ft. Harren against the Tsaelinids, prioritizing titanic ground targets if they show up - but otherwise aiming at Tsaelinid ships.
-If he gets the Kona, it is to sail the strait of Ft. Harren and fire upon Tsaelinid ships, although if this appears to be suicidal it should retreat to the capital and guard against airship incursion.

[Doomblade187]

M3 'Afaa' SFE Rifle (Storm/Hurricane: https://pollex.shh.mpg.de/language/tongan/)

The M3 SFE Rifle is the logical conclusion of our time spent developing weapons. Combining the advances in SFE technology with the doctrinal changes our Military has gone through, we will arm our loyal soldiers with a weapon to surpass any enemy. Using an 8mm cylindrical beam SFE emitter, we are able to re-use much of the hardware previously created for our conventional rifles, and as a result it looks very similar at a glance, with even a small protective "barrel" covering the SFE emitter. The batteries feeding the SFE are constructed in a balanced array under the "barrel" running back into the stock, and are made with 5/6 sides covered in rubber to prevent accidental discharge. The length of the gun is primarily dictacted by the amount of energy storage needed, but by using high purity, small batteries in array with easy lock/unlock ports, the gun comes out somewhat shorter than the M2.1 'Haaheo-B' Rifle, while weighing slightly more. The trigger has been modified to be a snappier operation on the rebound that operates a spring-loaded rotating nickel contact, resulting in the SFE pulsing several times per trigger pull before disengaging for the next trigger pull. Range is designed to be at minimum comparable to the Haaheo-B.

The Plan (Beta):
We will take the mountain based arms factories and use them to make as many arms and armor for forces loyal to the Rainbow fellowship as possible. Priority is given to those defending civilian populations and those guarding the M1 Nahu Pepeaio.

Keola Nima looked out at the makeshift city they had assembled across their months in the frozen wasteland, littered with airlocked bunkers and decontamination rooms. Soon it would all fall apart. But Inithar would live on. It must.

[m1895]

Bunker SFE
It's an SFE in a bunker. Crewed by basically the entire Expeditionary Air Fellowship. This sounds impressive if you do not know what the Expeditionary Air Fellowship is.

[Twinwolf]

Mobile Defense Platform Pana-Pana

Inithar has made absolutely no advances in aircraft since the beginning of the Expedition. It's unfortunate, given the depressing state of the Air Fellowship, but the maelstrom rendered such concerns irrelevant and it's too late to make a contribution now. However, the simple fact is that while we don't have air power, the Tsaelinids do. The Pact can help against them, but won't win on their own.

The Pana-Pana class mobile defense platform has the same core chassis as an Alanui, making use of it's competent armor and exceptional speed for it's size. However, rather than the standard issue cannons, it has an array of heavy machine guns in a new mount capable of rotating upwards to aim at the sky, with the shell storage instead being filled with belt after belt of bullets(mixed tracers and purified refocyte rounds, and each has at least one belt of solely refocyte rounds).

The purified refocyte rounds should give the vehicle punching power at air targets that would normally bounce the bullets with ease. The mobility allows the vehicles to reposition if under threat, and the fact that the turret, while primarily meant to be aimed skyward, can just as easily aim front means it could also serve as infantry support in a pinch - refocyte rounds don't especially care whether they're hitting an aircraft or a person, they blow through both just the same.

Plan: Defense Net

Pana-Pana defense platforms and any available troops will be placed at key locations of tactical and strategic importance in order to ward off air attack and potentially assist troops on the ground. Key among these is the portal network - they are critical targets and can't be allowed to be bombed to uselessness, and especially not captured. Hold the line and help as many people get out as possible.

Generally working with the Pact, but the core target is Tsaelinid vessels and troops; other targets are only considered if they threaten the evacuations or the vehicles themselves.