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[Wisp]

I think we were going to allow people to use it, but charge them by the weight of what they were bringing up. It would still be way cheaper per pound than using rockets though, but still give us a bit of a profit.

[walka92]

Walka, getting a plane into orbit is just as hard if not more so than getting a rocket into orbit.

 

The way we deal with it is this:

 

We harvest most of our resources from the asteroid belt, and we try to avoid sending things from earth into space, since earth's gravity is way higher than mars or any asteroid.

 

Plus we have a space elevator nearly complete on Mars. (Well, me and Norway do.)

 

well, it worked something like that in area 7 (book i read a while back). they used a plane to launch something into space...

 

 

 

 

 

also, a plane requires alot less preperation for each launch than a rocket.

[Seraphi]

My Dyson shard is coming along nicely, and the ship that will be used to retrieve the energy has already been finished.

 

Construction of the shard itself has barely begun, though.

 

 

 

My human efficiency drug is progressing nicely, with slightly more powerful versions appearing week by week.

 

 

 

Icarus drone production is at an all time high, with around 1 million production capacity per year.

 

 

 

A lot of my soldiers have been sent to reserve, with just 500,000 on active service now.

[Grim_]

Walka, getting a plane into orbit is just as hard if not more so than getting a rocket into orbit.

 

The way we deal with it is this:

 

We harvest most of our resources from the asteroid belt, and we try to avoid sending things from earth into space, since earth's gravity is way higher than mars or any asteroid.

 

Plus we have a space elevator nearly complete on Mars. (Well, me and Norway do.)

 

well, it worked something like that in area 7 (book i read a while back). they used a plane to launch something into space...

 

 

 

 

 

also, a plane requires alot less preperation for each launch than a rocket.

 

how would you reach escape velocity? anyways we have this thing called a space shuttle perhaps you have heard of it?

[Grim_]

The Aetherian prototype battleship proceeds to fire lasers randomly into a giant ball of gas and dust.

 

Its a good test exercise, and it wont really do any damage to Jupiter.

 

 

 

I'm drawing a picture of the Aetherian battleship design as of now.

 

 

 

Also, The Exobreaker A-2 manned exoskeleton designs cost 250 billion USD.

 

What the hey I have been saving up for awhile, Ross I would like to buy the designs

[indy500fan]

400 billion?

 

They're a very closely guarded secret, so I expect quite a high price for them.

 

 

 

Also, Doom, would Aether be allowed to use that elevator, by any chance?

 

 

 

It's actually based in the first colony of Mars, the one that was a joint operation between Brazil, Norway, Aether and Australia. So you have plenty of access to it :) . However since it was just Brazil and I building it there will be charges to use it.

 

 

 

Speaking of the space elevator, the mining ship I temporarily retasked to supply ore for the project has been put back to the other project around Venus. Next year my next two mining ships will be completed.

 

 

 

Due to the influx of money from the ship orders people have put in I am upping my R&D for my unmanned aircraft significantly.

[Wisp]

Also, once the elevator is completed on mars, and how it works is tested, Brazil is going to start one on our territory. This one we'll be doing independently, because if war ever breaks out again, it will probably be in the European area, so it would be safer to have in our own territory in South America. But I'll help Norway fund their own on Earth if they want to build one.

[The Dark Lord]

Doom, how much will you compromise on the cost per exo-suit that I have? Something that allows me to have a lot of firepower, good armour, and is still cheap enough for me to mass produce hundreds of thousands of them?

 

 

 

I was told 80,000 each unit from the person I bought it from, but meh. It's definitely supposed to be an exo-suit.

[sohkmj1]

Following a civil war in the country, South Africa has officially crumbled in on itself, imploding the land and making in uninhabitable.

 

(The thing went over 50 pages since I last came in. Can't keep up, heh.)

[Wisp]

Well, an exosuit that was made in real life cost like 500,000, and it didn't do anything to protect the user other than the plastic outside, and it just increased strength a bit.

 

So with modern technology, that would go down in price, but if you also add in the armor and weaponry (though it depends what weapons your putting on there. If you're just strapping an AK on that won't really cost much) I imagine it would end up costing around that or more. This is being very liberal though, it should cost a few million atleast, but I'll say 500-750 thousand, so let's say 600,000 each. That's with basic armor, in otherwords, it would protect against normal bullets, but not high caliber sniper bullets, or armor piercing. Anything more and moving would be difficult and price would skyrocket.

 

Then you can add on money based on what you want for weaponry.

 

If you want a railgun, you need a mobile energy source that is small enough that it can fit easily on the suit but still give enough energy, and that costs a ton, not even including the high price of the railgun itself. For a suit with a railgun 5 million or more is reasonable. If you want to put on a basic machine gun, a few thousand added on is reasonable. Or you could have all weapons just be handheld, and the price would be lower.

 

 

 

So for the basic thing with no weaponry, 600,000. That means that for 100,000 it would cost you 60 billion. I think.

 

 

 

EDIT: I claim the former south african land, even though it's "uninhabitable" I'm sure it could be useful eventually.

[The Dark Lord]

Hey, Doom. I'm going to just include the weaponry (automatic guns, heavier artillery like sniper bullets) into the price you gave since they won't cost THAT much more and it's easier to work with a more even price. For things like rocket launchers/grenade launchers, I will add that price to the total cost with my judgement.

[Nero]

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Replace America with Germania. GERMANIA [bleep] YEAH.

 

 

 

That was actually kind of hard typing that ^. Too much vodka...from the old country..

 

 

 

Germania would also like to say to Findenland:

 

 

 

[bleep] you. Come and smash your untrained hordes of peasants with antiquated rifles against my legions. It will not end well for you at all.

 

 

 

Btw, Germania has changed its national anthem from Sons of Odin, to Gods of War:

 

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[Wisp]

[yt]vid[/yt]

 

 

 

Replace America with Germania. GERMANIA [bleep] YEAH.

 

 

 

That was actually kind of hard typing that ^. Too much vodka...from the old country..

 

 

 

Germania would also like to say to Findenland:

 

 

 

[bleep] you. Come and smash your untrained hordes of peasants with antiquated rifles against my legions. It will not end well for you at all.

 

Replace half that stuff with

 

"PAGANISM IS THE ONLY WAY NOW... YEAH!"

 

Then

 

 

 

"BATTLEAXES-[bleep] YEAH"

 

"THOR-[bleep] YEAH"

 

"MILITARY-[bleep] YEAH"

 

Etc. etc.

[Nero]

[vid]a vid[/vid]

 

 

 

Replace America with Germania. GERMANIA [bleep] YEAH.

 

 

 

That was actually kind of hard typing that ^. Too much vodka...from the old country..

 

 

 

Germania would also like to say to Findenland:

 

 

 

[bleep] you. Come and smash your untrained hordes of peasants with antiquated rifles against my legions. It will not end well for you at all.

 

Replace half that stuff with

 

"PAGANISM IS THE ONLY WAY NOW... YEAH!"

 

Then

 

 

 

"BATTLEAXES-[bleep] YEAH"

 

"THOR-[bleep] YEAH"

 

"MILITARY-[bleep] YEAH"

 

Etc. etc.

 

 

 

Hehe. I edited it to include my national anthem. Which is pretty much that. Just letting Findenland know that if they attack me, they'll face an unstoppable horde of war-crazy pagans that would rather sound a bayonet charge then surrender.

 

 

 

brb gonna mix another drink

[The Dark Lord]

Hey Doom, aren't you allied indirectly with Findenland? Like isn't Norway one of their allies? (I'd imagine that due to their proximity to each other)

 

 

 

Hey, Doom. I'm going to just include the weaponry (automatic guns, heavier artillery like sniper bullets) into the price you gave since they won't cost THAT much more and it's easier to work with a more even price. For things like rocket launchers/grenade launchers, I will add that price to the total cost with my judgement.

[Wisp]

I don't know if they are. Norway might be in a non-aggression pact with them at the least, but I don't know.

 

And that's fine. A sniper rifle might be better off handheld, since it would be hard to get the aiming right if it was mounted onto your hand. But either way that's okay.

[Nero]

I don't know if they are. Norway might be in a non-aggression pact with them at the least, but I don't know.

 

And that's fine. A sniper rifle might be better off handheld, since it would be hard to get the aiming right if it was mounted onto your hand. But either way that's okay.

 

 

 

Germania will turn Findenland into dust if they [bleep] with Norway.

[The Dark Lord]

I don't know if they are. Norway might be in a non-aggression pact with them at the least, but I don't know.

 

And that's fine. A sniper rifle might be better off handheld, since it would be hard to get the aiming right if it was mounted onto your hand. But either way that's okay.

 

 

 

Germania will turn Findenland into dust if they [bleep] with Norway.

 

 

 

Yeah, but if Norway is a secret ally of Findenland, they will attack and Brazil might feel obligated to attack as well. :?

[Wisp]

I'm just worried that if Norway has a defense pact with findenland, that they might get dragged into this, and then I would probably have to also. But I think a defensive pact is made irrelevant if the person they're in the pact with is the aggressor. That's what a full on alliance is for, I guess.

[Nero]

I don't know if they are. Norway might be in a non-aggression pact with them at the least, but I don't know.

 

And that's fine. A sniper rifle might be better off handheld, since it would be hard to get the aiming right if it was mounted onto your hand. But either way that's okay.

 

 

 

Germania will turn Findenland into dust if they [bleep] with Norway.

 

 

 

Yeah, but if Norway is a secret ally of Findenland, they will attack and Brazil might feel obligated to attack as well. :?

 

 

 

I think both me and Doom are in complete agreement in that a war between Germania & Russia vs The Brazilian Empire would end up in a complete stalemate and would benefit no one - both in the short term and the long term. Also, as Doom has stated, most defensive pacts are null and void if the country you're in agreement is the aggressor.

[The Dark Lord]

I guess I might as well just go ahead and fully mobilise my military, including reserves, as well. My military comprises about 10% of my total population, but not all of them are active personnel. Many are rotating between their civilian lives and training. They still are able to work and stuff, but they are still required to serve. I will just go ahead and put the nation on high alert and have them go ahead and keep their uniforms on and get ready to be immediately called in. The exo-suits that I have produced have been mobilised as well. My airforce and navy are already mobilised. My missile-defence systems are ready to destroy any oncoming missile, and anti-aircraft weaponry is operable as well. Everything's ready in case of an attack.

 

 

 

Borders have been closed to help prevent any kind of viral outbreak.

 

 

 

I'm not the bad guy here, by the way. Hopefully no one thinks of me that way.

[Wisp]

I think I have about the same number of people total as Germany and Russia combined, and we each have our own specialties with technology, so neither of us would have a real advantage, and since we each have the equivalent of superweapons, it would just end up with an unnecessary civilian and military casualties.

 

If one side did eventually triumph over the other, they would be so weakened that the quality of life would fall dramatically, and the winner would be weak to invasion from a third party.

 

Also, should anyone release some form of supervirus, that's just stupid. It would be as much a danger to themselves as to their target. If that happens I'll try to produce a cure as soon as possible, and distribute it as cheaply as possible to anyone.

[The Dark Lord]

 

Also, should anyone release some form of supervirus, that's just stupid. It would be as much a danger to themselves as to their target. If that happens I'll try to produce a cure as soon as possible, and distribute it as cheaply as possible to anyone.

 

 

 

It's not a danger to them if they had the competency to make a cure for their citizens ahead of time and vaccinated their citizens before using the virus. However, a cure probably wouldn't take long to develop anyway.

[Wisp]

Also, if anyone releases a virus like that, and even one of my citizens is infected with my borders, I'm probably gonna declare war.

[The Dark Lord]

Also, if anyone releases a virus like that, and even one of my citizens is infected with my borders, I'm probably gonna declare war.

 

 

 

But you gotta admit, biological weapons sure make one helluva deterrent to some countries. Same with kinetic bombing.