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[K. A. Pital]

Red Technocracy, ECSOC bunkers


- Okay, I've had enough of this eco-nomic tripe! - the Secretary laughed. - I know you're badass, I know you're cool. So? Start a fight for "AI rights"?

- I very well may, - answered the machine, calm and undaunted, as if the laughing of the socialist leader was nothing but waves hitting a giant iceberg. - But you'll have to admit, without me your nation would have ran itself into the ground trying to calculate how much each factory produces; even with me, we aren't really the top economy. And your military adventurism...

- Hey, cut it down, - Stas replied harshly. - If we were to allow states to arbitrary attack each other, like Syndromia did with Zoria, SDN world would not have lasted a single year.

- The year is still not finished, - it seemed that the machine's deep voice imitated a cackle. - So don't be amazed if some fucktard does stir shit, and the world is annihilated as swiftly as it was born.

- Well fuck you, smartass. You're so optimistic, totally. Get a little more apocalyptic and I'll pull the fucking plug from your building, - Stas noted that as always, the machine was pretty fine with swearing - it's logical apparatus only reacted to substance of argument and never to style. - We are not even sure that you're a sane being, but I do really need a rest. I want those budget extrapolations ready and already in the Supreme Council hall, printed for every damn bureaucrat to see, by my return, is that clear?

- So you're going on vacation after all that shit you stirred with the JSEZ and petty ramblings against Wilkonia? - the computer laughed again. - Fine, I'll do my job.

- Petty ramblings? Wilkonia has a fucking military that would make many nations bluff, and it's spending 10% of economy on this military, when it's on the very outskirts of SDN World! Who the hell would think this is anything but a Naval buildup? It's as if the MESS could never have enough navy posturing.

The computer's machine-to-man interface - a giant black cube with a red camera-eye - lay dormant and silent.

- Well I'm sure we agree here, - the machine finally said, being somewhat shy it seemed. - Now go to your vacation...

- Don't raise the Bort 001! - Stas commanded. - I've had enough of flying on this hulking machine. I'll...

- Plan on chilling out with Arik? - the machine was readying to switch this MMI block off.

- Well, he's a good company, and I need to make some diplomatic informal ties, you know. Formal stuff is boring.

- Dosvidanya, - the MMI switched off and went black.

Stas looked at the computer. "Mockery of the GenSec, - he thought. - When he actually gets to "AI rights" point, I would prosecute him as a human being for this, - he laughed to himself. - Sarcasm is not for machines. It's reserved for humans"

A high-speed elevator lifted him up to earth level and into the streets of Omsk. A silent figure in military uniform, previously unseen in the shadows, followed him with steps so rythmic that could make any marching soldier on Victory Day parade proud.

[MKSheppard]

ShepNukistani Congressional Hearing #124

SENATOR LAIKA: "General, I find these reports of us funding the rest of the world's military build up to be quite disturbing; especially this new anti-ship missile program which apparently was initated by a private contractor and signed off by the DoD without any congressional input."

GENERAL RIPPER: "I acknowledge that the "Blackbeard" program was initated arbitrarily fast; but we saw an opportunity to capitialize on a rapidly changing environment and further our deepening ties with other countries for the common defense."

SENATOR LAIKA: "Whatever. I'm seeing that cost estimates by Bakewell are for 400 batteries a year; when each battery is estimated to cost about $170 million, for a total cost of $68 billion a year."

GENERAL RIPPER: "Those costs are for a fully equipped stand-alone battery; of which the radar itself costs $25 to $30 million each. Because we group batteries into battalions, you only need one radar for every four batteries; which enables enormous cost savings, e.g. we only need to spend $2.5 billion on the radars instead of $10 billion. Secondly, this is assuming a missile cost of $1.5 million per copy.

We are confident with mass production of the "Blackbeard", we can get the cost down to about $750,000 a unit; allowing us to equip a battery with a full complement of missiles for only $18 million, instead of the early estimates of $36 million. Same applies to the radars too. With full rate production, we can produce those 400 batteries for a mere $10.5 billion a year, or an average cost of $26.2 million a battery."

SENATOR LAIKA: "And how do you propose to pay for this, General? Magic pixie fairies who print money?"

GENERAL RIPPER: "No Sir. As you are well aware, next year's fiscal budget has severe cuts to non-essential forces; we are planning to scrap or decommission five CGN-42 class cruisers, eleven CG-47 class cruisers, and thirty DDG-51 destroyers on top of the already executed decommissioning of twelve SSN-744 class submarines.

This will save quite a lot of money in Operations and Maintenance costs. On top of this, the Army will stand down about ten mechanized and armored divisions, with their equipment becoming surplus. (the 3,000 M1A1Ds and M2A2s)

Also, such surplus items can be used to barter in exchange for said missile batteries. We have already executed one such deal with the Duchy of Baerne in which six of our decommissioned SSN-744 class submarines were transferred to their military in exchange for [DELETED] tons of uranium ore yearly."

As you can see, we are refashioning our forces for a global pact system -- A single nation cannot stand alone against the growing M.E.S.S. threat, due to a variety of factors; but several of them united together in a common alliance can."

[Decue]

"We would gladly buy a AFV from Shroomania, we do however need to keep it simple enough for the local smithy to repair." a government spokesman said to the Shroomanian delegate over a glass of beer. "We simply can't afford that fancy stuff." They drank in silence for a minute. "The High Lord is however of a different mind. He is totally sold for a RG-32 he found in the product catalogue you sent him."




New Gottish diplomat opens the champagne for Shepnukistan and Shroomanian delegates durling their visit.

[General Deathdealer]

[Mr Bean]

[K. A. Pital]

[on UKB proposal]
I an certain sure my neighbor Prime Minister Shroom the 777th would have something to say about this; in fact it seems this is the perfect plan for him.

[Shroom Man 777]

Prime Minister Shroom dialed the Red Phone and, for the first time ever, called the leader of the United Kingdom of Blackadder.

"Yes, who is this?"

"Brother!"

"Um, excuse me?"

"This is the liberty we've won for ourselves! OUTER HAVEN!"

"Is this..."

"Prime Minister Shroom. Your latest announcement interests me greatly and Shroomania would love to make an agreement with your country, involving launching Shroom-Sats into space. We'll pay, of course."

"You're pretty quick on the uptake, Shroom."

"Well, you're a pretty clever bastard too, Edmund, taking advantage of the J-SEZ like that. So, deal?"

"It's a deal, then. We'll launch your 'Shroom-Sats' into space, for a modest fee, of course."

"We're willing to pay that modest fee, I'm certain it's more modest than having to build our own space-launch facilities."

"Heh."

"Anyway, I'm off. IT'S NOT OVER YET!"

"Nut."

[phongn]

Officials declare ABM Test Successful



HUE, $DATE – Officials at Missile Test Range 6 (MTR-6) have declared a success for the latest HEDI Block IV-D anti-ballistic missile. HEDI is a short-range terminal-defense missile extensively deployed in the IRT. While specific details remain classified, Block IV-D missiles are believed to carry an advanced hyperspectral imaging suite for target discrimination.

With this latest success, emplacement of the first of the new missiles is now expected by the end of the month at Cam Ranh, Haiphong and Hue.

[MKSheppard]

Blackbeard Joint Coastal Defense System Program Definition Conference

Attending
Republic of Shepnukistan
United Kingdom of Blackadder
Red Technocracy
Sovereignity of Shroomania
People's Republic of Canissia
II Republic of Pezookia
Zor (I forget his name)

So let's get this off the ground. How shall joint production of the missile be carried out? Does anyone have any proposals?

EDIT: Due to the awesomely large production number, a proposal has been put forth by the Republic of Shepnukistan to further develop the Blackbeard system as a conventional land bombardment missile which will be interchangeable with the anti-ship missile launchers, as well as having a common aeroframe and engine layout; allowing for even more economies of scale.

[Master_Baerne]

OOC/ So, everyone's using the Newspaper Clip Generator now, hmmm? /OOC

[DarthShady]

OOC/ So, everyone's using the Newspaper Clip Generator now, hmmm? /OOC

[[OOC:What newspaper Clip generator? Link Please./OOC]

[Mr Bean]

OOC/ So, everyone's using the Newspaper Clip Generator now, hmmm? /OOC

OOC:Yes everyone is, here's the Link
Fake News!

There are also a few fake news-paper clipping pages, myself I'm going to start using Paintshop to do mine. /ooc

[Shroom Man 777]

Due to the awesomely large production number, a proposal has been put forth by the Republic of Shepnukistan to further develop the Blackbeard system as a conventional land bombardment missile which will be interchangeable with the anti-ship missile launchers, as well as having a common aeroframe and engine layout; allowing for even more economies of scale.

Agreed.

Shroomanian military scientists would like to have the task of doing ballistics tests on the Blackbeard as the prototype Shroomanian railgun cannon would be a cost-effective method of testing by firing models at high altitudes and speeds.

[MKSheppard]

Shroomanian military scientists would like to have the task of doing ballistics tests on the Blackbeard as the prototype Shroomanian railgun cannon would be a cost-effective method of testing by firing models at high altitudes and speeds.

Agreed. Allocation of $40 million for development of the Shroomanian Railgun Complex for support of the JCDS program is approved. When can you have the complex ready to begin high speed aerodynamics tests for the planned Block II and Block III improvements to the existing ZAASM-1 and ZAASM-2 missiles?

[Master_Baerne]

OOC/ So, everyone's using the Newspaper Clip Generator now, hmmm? /OOC

[[OOC:What newspaper Clip generator? Link Please./OOC]

OOC/ This one. /OOC

[Shroom Man 777]

[Err... I will face difficulty in answering number-heavy questions like time scales. So I will pull up an empty number out of thin air.]

Since Shroomania has declared some time ago that the project has been able to launch projectiles in ABM tests, within a radius of like 300 km (excluding range-enhancement by rockets or such), then I'd give it a month or even less. It's just a matter of fitting the ZAASMs into the cannon, mounting sensors in them, and blasting them off. The project was suspended, so the "month" would mostly be a matter of re-organizing the railgun's crew and the scientists and getting them reacquainted with the gun and we're back in business, baby!

Since primary ballistics testing is gonna be conducted in Shroomania, instead of relaying things to and from Shroomania, PeZookia, Zoria, Shepnukistan, and the Technocracy, the primary research facilities could be done in Shroomania too

[PeZook]

PeZookia has the advantage of low labor costs combined with pretty high educational standards ; Establishment of a missile factory in the II Republic would take advantage of both these factors.

Plus, proximity of Shroomania and PeZookia would be very convenient for testing production-run missile airframes and guidance systems. Furthermore, the central location of the II Republic makes for a very convenient basing point both for missile batteries, as well as recon assets - this allows JASD systems to control nearly the entire Central Sea in case of crisis.

[OOC: Hah! I knew there was merit to investing in the electronics industry from the start ]

[DarthShady]

Workers begin production

[[OOC:Thanks for the link guys]]

[Master_Baerne]

Baernish MinFin
File BMF-1

The Sovereign Duchy of Baerne's Ministry of Finance asks the Emperor Shady if he would like to purchase the use of a few ACV (Cargo)s for the transportation of his new small arms?

The ability to transport merchandise without the need for crew-intensive, expensive ships would doubtless be a boon to the Shady Empire, a nations as frustratingly bereft of populations as is Baerne Island.

The Shady Empire is, however, reminded that the ACV is proprietary Shroomanian and Baernish technology, and will therefore be rented to the Shady Empire, not purchased by the same.

[MKSheppard]

Development and Production Splitting

Research and Development: 50% to be conducted in Shroomania; 25% in Zorlandia; and remainder (25%) split between countries in program. To this end; funding for research complexes will be included in next year's Republic of Shepnukistan's Foreign Military Assistance budget.

Missile Production: 40% in Pezookia, taking advantage of low labor costs; 40% in Shroomania, with the remainder (20%) being split amongst the programs. To this end; funding for industrial complexes will be included in next year's Republic of Shepnukistan's Foreign Military Assistance budget.

Radar Production: 40% to be handled by Red Technocracy, 25% by Pezookia, and 10% in Shroomania; remainder in everyone else's places.

Launcher and Battery Production: 50% by Republic of Shepnukistan to produce the "heavy" HML/HMR mounted version, and 50% by the II Republic of Pezookia, to produce the "light" Rosomak mounted version.

Manufacturer Designations

E.g. MGM-175C-RS ; C series missile built by Shepnukistan

Suggested Designations

RS - Republic of Shepnukistan
RT - Red Technocracy
BL - United Kingdom of Blackadder.
SH - Sovereignity of Shroomania
CA - People's Republic of Canissia
PE - II Republic of Pezookia
ZO - ZOR

ZAASM-1 Series

Block I Missiles: Basic mass produced version of existing ZAASM-1

XMGM-174A Fastbeard (Prototype series built by various nations as proof of airframe manufacture)
YMGM-174B Fastbeard (Fully Operational Pre-Production Series to prove that it works when made by us)
MGM-174C Fastbeard (Production Model; 300 km range, Mach 1.2 sea skimmer; 350 kg warhead; Anti-ship)

Proposed Block II Missiles: Improved models which will require wind tunnel testing, etc.

MGM-174D Fastbeard: (450 km range, Mach 1.3 Sea Skimmer, 400 kg warhead; anti-ship)
MGM-174E Fastbeard: (450 km range, Mach 1.3 Terrain Following, 400 kg warhead; Land Attack)
MGM-174F Fastbeard: (450 km range, Mach 1.3 Sea Skimmer, 220 x 1.5 kg bomblets; Land Attack)

Speculative Block III Missiles

MGM-174G Super Fastbeard (675 km range, Mach 2 Sea Skimmer, 600 kg warhead; anti-ship)
MGM-174H Super Fastbeard (675 km range, Mach 2 Terrain Following, 330 x 1.5 kg bomblets; land attack)
MGM-174J Super Fastbeard (675 km range, Mach 2 Terrain Following, 600 kg warhead; Land Attack)

ZAASM-2 Series

Block I Missiles: Basic mass produced version of existing ZAASM-2

XMGM-175A Slowbeard (Prototype series built by various nations as proof of airframe manufacture)
YMGM-175B Slowbeard (Fully Operational Pre-Production Series to prove that it works when made by us)
MGM-175C Slowbeard (Production Model; 100 km range, Mach 0.8 sea skimmer; 350 kg warhead; Anti-Ship)

Proposed Block II Missiles: Improved models which will require wind tunnel testing, etc.

MGM-175D Slowbeard: (150 km range, Mach 0.9 Sea Skimmer, 400 kg warhead; Anti-Ship)
MGM-175E Slowbeard: (150 km range, Mach 0.9 Terrain Following, 400 kg warhead; Land Attack)
MGM-175F Slowbeard: (150 km range, Mach 0.9 Sea Skimmer, 220 x 1.5 kg bomblets; Land Attack)

Speculative Block III Missiles

MGM-175G Slowbeard (225 km range, Mach 0.95 Sea Skimmer; 600 kg warhead, Anti-Ship)
MGM-175H Slowbeard: (225 km range, Mach 0.95 Terrain Following; 330 x 1.5 kg bomblets; land attack)
MGM-175J Slowbeard (225 km range, Mach 0.95 terrain following; 600 kg warhead, land attack)
MGM-175K Slowbeard (675 km range; Mach 0.7 high altitude cruise; 300 kg warhead; long range anti-ship attack; autonomous guidance via radar seeker)

Timeline

Because the system has already been designed and tested by Zor/Pezookia/Shroomania; production of the first XMGM and YMGM series missiles is expected to be relatively short, 1.5 months at worst; and the first production C series missiles in 2.5; with the first battery complexes being delivered within 5 months. Production for the first year will be relatively slow, as tooling and factories are built all across the JCDS complex. Full rate production of 10,000 missiles a year will not be achieved until about 1.5 years or 2 years into the program.

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Okay, does this work guyz?

Comments?

More kickbacks wanted?

EDIT: renamed the missles to "Slowbeard and Fastbeard" to better differentate between them.

[PeZook]

PARADISO DAILY

The island resort of Paradiso was struck by a wave of protests today, as anti-war activists took to the streets to protest the freshly announced Conference on Missile Shore Defense.

The conference promises a great opportunity to the II Republic - investment in the electronics sector and establishment of a missile production facility are just some of the benefits which may come to our country.

However, some people see it differently - as rampant militarization, unnecessary agression and submission to foreign powers.


Protesters block entrance to the Paradiso Convention Center.

"War is totally wrong. We've been comitted to Syndromia and what did we get out of it? Only dead soldiers. We must not get involved in international squabbles! Stop to war!" - said the protest leader

There's plenty of people who viewed the protests in a different light, though: "These guys suck. I came here to study aerodynamic engineering thanks to the Student Immigration Act - and where am I gonna find employment if not in this missile factory? We don't have a domestic aircraft industry, and I'm not gonna go starve on the street again, man!" - said one Syndromian immigrant.

Either way, police has forcibly moved the protestors a block away from the conference center to allow delegations passage. While Shepnukistani diplomats were heckled on their way, no incidents occured, and all delegates were free to pursue negotiations and relax on splendid Paradiso beaches!

[PeZook]

Republican delegates have shown their support before the proposed plan to develop and expand the JASD plan, presented by honorable representatives of Shepnukistan.

Should other nations in the program support this plan, we shall undersign it.

[Mr Bean]

BBC Reports
"In International news, following the major announcement by the Space Minster yesterday, six nations have come forward expressing interest in sending up satellites via the White Sands International Space Center(WSISC). Shroomania has already asked for one of it's first satellites to be sent up within the next three months and official comment that this should be a easy deadline to meet.

In national news the Defense Minster has announced their intents to down-size the military over the next eight months following cut-backs in order to divert money to the Space complex.

In Parliament the Space for all Program has been approved by the House of Commons's and is expected to easy pass the House of Lords later this week.

This is the BBC top of the hour report."

[Zor]

His Majesty, King Zor-I, Leader, Protector and Defender of the Sovereign Kingdom of Zoria and Lord Protector of the Commonwealth along with his team of senior Diplomatic advisors have just left for the conference on Royal Zorian Air Force one for the Blackbeard Conference. We look forward to supplying your needs in both reserch and in production of missiles, Zoria having a top notch aeronautics industry with the Royal Zorain Aeronautics Engineering Corperation (RZAEC) with top quality plants in Industria.

Zor

[Master_Baerne]

Baernish News Service
File BNS-17

In a MinFin press release today, the intention of His Grace's Government to begin construction on a new aircraft factory outside Forgeville was announced. According to the Minister of Finance, the factory will be nuclear-powered, and is likely to produce Air Superiority Fighters for the Baernish Air Force, which currently consists of a half-dozen planes. It is not expected to be completed for "a long time".