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[Blood_Librarian]

Core thread
See the core Thread for more information. If you are participating on the other team, please od not peek further than the OP.

Our homes are among the spires of District 7, we live in the Arcologies that had survived the initial bombardment, and continue to stand as a beacon for the future for all Yaerians. For a long time, the only way to get between spires was haphazardly made bridges, where we kept in contact with another through cable or through messenger These Spires are the homes of the Elorious Dynast, and on the tallest spire which only had half of its massive structure torn off is the newly assembled R&D Team. Among the cracked and spartan walls of this ancient hall are dozens of Crates, baskets, and clutter that is all we had recovered of the cache’s Pre-Collapse Technology, freshly stripped and ready for technological evolution.

Crates of salvaged equipment--- mostly broken, damaged artifacts of a bygone era-- are yours for the picking. No conclusive technology can be gleaned from anyone bit, but together, the possibilities are endless.

Your team, the first and only Elorius Militarized R&D Team has been given a very serious task, to create a military arms industrial complex from the cloth. There is no previous system to rely upon, no model or experts to gain inspiration from, and it all must run perfectly or our entire military will crumble before foreign legions.

We are in Cycle -1.25 of this as of yet unnamed conflict, around the star of Cadar, on the world Niria. Analysts predict that the first conflict against the Phoziris Shard will begin at Cycle 0, Giving us 5 turns to assemble anything and everything we need to fight a war.

We have 1 Mineral, 2 Energy.

Designs

Spoiler: Elorius Designs (click to show/hide)

Transportation Capacity: 0
Resources: 1 Minerals, 2 Energy

Weapons
Salvaged Weaponry: Most scouts and some veteran personnel managed to get their hands on hand-crafted or pre-annihilation weapons that use a variety of methods of delivery. Logistics for these variable effectiveness weapons will be a headache until a standardized loadout is made. A vast majority of these weapons are lovingly crafted by the scavengers, and as such are chemically accelerated.  The few energy weapons in this mix are terrifying examples of what was our might, but we do not yet have the technological nor industrial might to recreate them, or even put them back together if we dismantle them. (N/A)

Misc. Equipment
Survivalist uniform: Our troops are issued all the equipment they need to, in theory, survive the toxic air and deadly cold of some parts of the city. Given in the form of whatever can be found, but the standard is a gas mask and a coat in our colors, a Purple-ish coloration.

Infrastructure
ProtoBatteries: Protobatteries is the terminology for Batteries stolen from the civilian network or salvaged from the ruins. They are currently recharged from civilian infrastructure or from the failed grid and jury-rigged into any-would be military equipment. To say unreliable is an understatement. (1 Energy)

Schedule 1 Fabricator: One of the simplest fabricator designs in existence that was looted from the cache, Schedule 1 Fabricators are able to create simple devices on a large scale without pre-configuration. Their black-box nature precludes us from tampering without a mythical Yaerian Official present-- if they exist at all. Our licenses include objects standard for survival in the cities, as well as basic industrial technology.  Low throughput means that smaller items can be produced in larger batches, and our industry is using it to bootstrap themselves into a higher power. For reference, it is the size of a large semi-truck, and it is perhaps the most advanced device we own.

Sky-Thread Base: One of the “lesser” achievements of our species exists in our territory, the amputated space-elevator is in the center of what was once the world's largest mercantile sector. Although the miracle of the thread is long gone, it’s surrounded by dozens of armatures and cargo unloading hardware that has been jury-rigged into transportation inbetween the jagged buildings of the Elorious.

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

[E: 2/2; P: 0/2]District 7: The Shining City of Elorius
[E: 4/4; P: 0/4] Elevator Base (1)
[E: 4/4; P: 0/4] Scraper Kill Hills (2)
[E: 4/4; P: 0/4] Collapsed V. Farms (3)
[E: 2/4; P: 2/4] Deteriorating Arcology (4)
+1 Power
[E: 2/4; P: 2/4] The Metro (5)
+1 Minerals
[E: 0/4; P: 4/4] Ruined Park (6)
[E: 0/4 P: 4/4] Glass Crater (7)
[E: 0/4 P: 4/4]Cleared Metropolis(
[E: 0/2; P: 2/2]District 6: The Shining City of Phoziris.
[No Control]Black Zone
[No Control]The Shining Sea

[UristMcRiley]

(Going to apologize for any formatting errors or even likely spelling as I am writing this on mobile)

Helios 1000 (salvaged)
A common civilian hovercraft from before the Fall, coming in many different variants, colors and models they are far from standardized. However they were initially designed with ease of maintenance in mind which is the largest reason for us actually being able to reactivate these particular hover craft compared to others we’ve found. Capable of carrying personal and equipment between spires these craft as rare as they are have drawn out scattered people together once again and will now help us defeat our enemies. Well hopefully at least

[Rockeater]

watching

[Madman198237]

So there was some mention of having hydrogen fuel cells. This means that we likely have some way to electrolyze water. The good thing about being able to electrolyze water is that it means we can provide ourselves with a nigh-unlimited source of portable power, at the low, low cost of part of a rocket engine. And a hydrogen tank.

Basically, if we accept some tradeoffs, we can use nonliquid hydrogen plus atmospheric oxygen in a rocket engine's preburner, and utilize the turbine of the preburner to produce electricity, or direct motive power to things that need to spin, like wheels. The only thing you need to do in order to create the fuel for such a device is electrolyze water, and the preburner itself, when not working with rocket fuels, is a relatively simple piece of equipment.

This could quite reasonable get us access to another point of energy, as while fuel cells fill the low-energy needs, such a system could conceivably fill the very high-energy needs of our forces, like driving an MBT/other heavy vehicle around. Problem is, that usually in order to provide hydrogen you need a more stationary form of powerplant....which luckily IIRC we already have in the form of geothermal plants?


Anyway, more immediate concerns...we've got an unspecified amount of industrial power available to us. I've left a bunch of questions in Discord waiting for GM reply before I begin my plotting and planning.

[Madman198237]

Reliable Energy Storage Unit
Based on a material with some really unusually strong electrical properties, this replacement for protobatteries utilizes a capacitor packed with salvaged materials with very high permittivities and high breakdown voltages, making them excellent at constructing capacitors capable of storing a great deal of charge at high voltages, allowing us to replace protobatteries with easily produced, more widely available, and simpler alternatives that are reliable and store a serviceable amount of electrical energy per unit mass and unit volume, with the added bonus of being a capacitor, allowing for high-draw applications to be more easily integrated without needing to utilize large battery banks in series and parallel to get the required currents and voltages.

Well, that's exceedingly lame. Inspiration has abandoned me today.

[Blade Master Model 42]

I'll back the RESU.

[Taricus]

RESU (3): Madman, BMM, Taricus

[Blood_Librarian]

Reliable Energy Storage Unit
Based on a material with some really unusually strong electrical properties, this replacement for protobatteries utilizes a capacitor packed with salvaged materials with very high permittivities and high breakdown voltages, making them excellent at constructing capacitors capable of storing a great deal of charge at high voltages, allowing us to replace protobatteries with easily produced, more widely available, and simpler alternatives that are reliable and store a serviceable amount of electrical energy per unit mass and unit volume, with the added bonus of being a capacitor, allowing for high-draw applications to be more easily integrated without needing to utilize large battery banks in series and parallel to get the required currents and voltages.

Difficulty: Easy
Results: 2  2 + 1→ 5

The RESU is a series of standardizations and industrial development for the production of industrial, military and economical applications of capacitive energy systems. This is largely done by hacking into and reclaiming production blueprints for Protobatteries and substituting the complex hyper-capacitive systems that require advanced materials with merely “super” capacitive designs.

In succinct terms, we have RESU systems for every situation from theoretical hand-held energy weapons to cargo-bed sized banks for moving electricity to the battlefield.
+1 Energy, requires one Transport Capacity

Designs

Spoiler: Elorius Designs (click to show/hide)

Transportation Capacity: 0
Resources: 1 Minerals, 2 Energy

Weapons
Salvaged Weaponry: Most scouts and some veteran personnel managed to get their hands on hand-crafted or pre-annihilation weapons that use a variety of methods of delivery. Logistics for these variable effectiveness weapons will be a headache until a standardized loadout is made. A vast majority of these weapons are lovingly crafted by the scavengers, and as such are chemically accelerated.  The few energy weapons in this mix are terrifying examples of what was our might, but we do not yet have the technological nor industrial might to recreate them, or even put them back together if we dismantle them. (N/A)

Misc. Equipment
Survivalist uniform: Our troops are issued all the equipment they need to, in theory, survive the toxic air and deadly cold of some parts of the city. Given in the form of whatever can be found, but the standard is a gas mask and a coat in our colors, a Purple-ish coloration.

Infrastructure
RESU: The ultimate in standardized battery production, an evolution of the Protobattery into a scalable system from anything from handheld to logistical systems. (1 Energy + 1 Energy, requires 1 TC)


Sky-Thread Base: One of the “lesser” achievements of our species exists in our territory, the amputated space-elevator is in the center of what was once the world's largest mercantile sector. Although the miracle of the thread is long gone, it’s surrounded by dozens of armatures and cargo unloading hardware that has been jury-rigged into transportation in between the jagged buildings of the Elorious.

It is now the Revision Phase

[Doubloon-Seven]

The number one cause of death for our militia is... well, tunnel collapses actually, but bullets are up there. While trying to think of a way to solve this problem, an intrepid engineer came across a fallen section of the sky-thread being picked over by tribals for their bows. One absolutely riveting firefight later, she realized that its immense tensile strength would lend itself to stopping bullets.

While really annoying to have to cut and sew with, overcoats produced of "Skycloth" provide impressive protection for the wearer against conventional weapons. By switching over the production line of our uniforms to use scavenged sky-thread material, we can expect significant increases in survivability.

Skycloth Uniforms (1): DoubloonSeven

May as well get things started.

[Doubloon-Seven]

As the primary spaceport for our fair planet, the Sky-Thread base still has a variety of shuttles and loaders lying around. By directing a portion of our forces to clearing paths that the vehicles can safely traverse, we can improve our ability to transport both militia and resources.

Of course, to use such slapdash and understandably thin sections of cleared roads, we're only expecting to be able to power, maintain, and deploy some of the smaller vehicles. Baggage carriers and the like.

Skycloth Uniforms (0):
Pressganged Cargoloaders (1): DoubloonSeven

After some clarification of how there wouldn't be enough material left to produce any uniforms out of, here's another idea.

[Blade Master Model 42]

Skycloth Uniforms (0):
Pressganged Cargoloaders (2): DoubloonSeven, BMM42

I think it'd be nice to update our armor/uniforms, but it seems like something we could do with a design rather than a revision at the moment.

[Taricus]

Skycloth Uniforms (0):
Pressganged Cargoloaders (3): DoubloonSeven, BMM42, Taricus

Let's get these balls rolling.

[Blood_Librarian]

As the primary spaceport for our fair planet, the Sky-Thread base still has a variety of shuttles and loaders lying around. By directing a portion of our forces to clearing paths that the vehicles can safely traverse, we can improve our ability to transport both militia and resources.

Of course, to use such slapdash and understandably thin sections of cleared roads, we're only expecting to be able to power, maintain, and deploy some of the smaller vehicles. Baggage carriers and the like.

Difficulty: Easy
Result: [4+4 +1] → 4 Unexpected Boon

Our forces were immeasurably angry and being directed towards what was essentially infrastructure work. How dare our superiors put us to menial work? We are better than this, they told themselves. We are the Elorious, not a bunch of dirt sniveling ditch diggers who live in holes.

They were tasked to start from the spaceport, and immediately, a small mutiny had occurred coincidentally as the first plans for the press ganged cargo systems arrived to the construction yards at the spaceport.

It took three long days of fighting, but the end result is a newly formed and rebelling engineering division on site that has been incorporated to the R&D team, rather than summarily executed.

The rebellious sort had used the construction plans and modified them into heavier equipment, welding together a functional craft that is well beyond original or modified specs. Rather than forcing Yaerians with shovels and explosives to clear the way for them, they clear the way for the soldiers to move forward with devastating flanking strikes. The plating they have is thick, sloppy and overlapping, making for a vehicle with incredible inertia and a dizzying maintenance profile-- if it wasn't disposable.

We simply have so many old chassis ready to be re-hauled that it is completely possible to use a couple press-ganged vehicles to clear a road and then gut and mothball them once the frame is too damaged for continued use. Actual combat use is a different story, as projections put them as lasting about one engagement before being rendered inoperative, so using the pressganged vehicles as technicals is discouraged.


[Expensive, 3 Minerals, 2 Energy]
 Transportation Capacity: 2 (Land) (note that LAND TC is different from UNDERGROUND TC, which represents rail ways.)

Designs

Spoiler: Elorius Designs (click to show/hide)

Transportation Capacity: 2 [1 used]
Resources: 1 Minerals, 3 Energy

Weapons
Salvaged Weaponry: Most scouts and some veteran personnel managed to get their hands on hand-crafted or pre-annihilation weapons that use a variety of methods of delivery. Logistics for these variable effectiveness weapons will be a headache until a standardized loadout is made. A vast majority of these weapons are lovingly crafted by the scavengers, and as such are chemically accelerated.  The few energy weapons in this mix are terrifying examples of what was our might, but we do not yet have the technological nor industrial might to recreate them, or even put them back together if we dismantle them. (N/A)

Misc. Equipment
Survivalist uniform: Our troops are issued all the equipment they need to, in theory, survive the toxic air and deadly cold of some parts of the city. Given in the form of whatever can be found, but the standard is a gas mask and a coat in our colors, a Purple-ish coloration.

Infrastructure
RESU: The ultimate in standardized battery production, an evolution of the Protobattery into a scalable system from anything from handheld to logistical systems. (1 Energy + 1 Energy, requires 1 TC)


Sky-Thread Base: One of the “lesser” achievements of our species exists in our territory, the amputated space-elevator is in the center of what was once the world's largest mercantile sector. Although the miracle of the thread is long gone, it’s surrounded by dozens of armatures and cargo unloading hardware that has been jury-rigged into transportation in between the jagged buildings of the Elorious.

PressGanged Cargo Loaders: Heavy, disposable vehicles designed to move cargo to the front, these vehicles are descendants of Thread-Base hardware for moving heavy goods, and use their bulk and armor plating to make rubbled areas traversable. Sometimes deployed on the front lines as an unauthorized Armored Personnel Carrier. + 2 LAND TC
[Expensive, 3 Minerals, 2 Energy]

It is now the Design of Cycle -1.00. Next phase will be Revision.

[Doubloon-Seven]

Our present armory is sadly lacking in heavy weapons, stocking only a few specimens of pre-war energy weaponry to fulfil that role. Even with our great advances in battery technology, we have nothing close to what it would take to field equivalents to their power. However, we can find some use for the RESU.

The AMCA is a large weapon, tall as a Yaerian and powered by a battery pack carried on the operator's back. The coils lining its barrel are hungry for energy, such that the designers are encouraged to focus primarily on those related systems while the rest of the gun is made as simply as possible. Resting on a tripod--the recoil would be too destructive with anything else--a gunner has to load projectiles individually, be they the officially made tungsten-tipped steel slugs or a hastily-cut chunk of ancient rebar. The barrel is made to the size of the aforementioned 18mm diameter slugs, but, as implied, can fire any piece of ferromagnetic material capable of fitting down the barrel.

Thought I should contribute something, though I'm unsure of whether or not it merits a vote.

AMCA (1): D7

[Blade Master Model 42]

AMCA (2): D7, BMM42