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Sea Skimmer wrote:

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote: http://www.sp.se/sv/units/fire/Document ... 37_eng.pdf

This PDF suggests that various steps were taken to reduce the fire hazard.

Yeah, specifically because of the extreme fire danger from a plastic warship, did you see the part in which they say a jet fuel fire will ignite the laminated hull within 1 minute? That active system is required simply for safety against landing accidents, it doesn’t have any real bearing on a fire anywhere else in the ship.

The Norwegian minehunter KNM Orkla had her fire start in the engine room. The bridge had to be abandon IIRC after just seven minutes, and the ship was abandon soon after. Extensive firefighting efforts from nearby ships failed to save her, sure burned until the fire let in water and then sank. Couple pictures, notice you can clearly see in one how large chunks of superstructure are just gone, burned away.

http://www.haram.kommune.no/bilder/orkla2.jpg
http://www.marineschepen.nl/nieuws/20112002nieuws.html

Yeah, I guess back to the drawing board with more steel then.

Yeah, steel is cheap… building a small ship that’s purely a slow going minehunter out of plastic makes sense, you don’t expect it to survive any damage and its non-magnetic, but corvettes are big enough to try to be real warships.

Sea Skimmer wrote:Yeah, steel is cheap… building a small ship that’s purely a slow going minehunter out of plastic makes sense, you don’t expect it to survive any damage and its non-magnetic, but corvettes are big enough to try to be real warships.

I guess I have to add an addendum saying the ship is made of steel and thus its stealth qualities are more akin to that of a Lafayette frigate.

The hull will be demagnetized of course, for passive defensive measures anyhow.

Sea Skimmer
I'm assuming by the "great sea" you mean you're heading west, right?

EDIT: If I'm wrong I'll just retcon my post. But I figure if they are doing that, with our CAPs and everything we're bound to notice and wonder why you're sending a container ship out to the middle of nowhere.

Oh, and since I sent my AWACs out there, is that maritime patrol plane still with them?

Yes its heading west, which is the direction of Saddams remote island missile test base, the official destination of the ship. Any claim the ship is actually heading directly for extremely deep water is total nonsense of course.

Minor Mineral Wealth: Natural Gas, Hematite (Iron), Gold (we used to have more), Silicon (hell I have a whole salt flat's desert)

Note the BR does a LOT of construction with Plastics (from vegitable matter or oil) and with Aluminum.

Mr Bean wrote:If you need airliners Stas is the man to talk to for cheap high capability ones. If you want Fuel efficient birds talk to Beowulf.

As backer of the IAA (Intenrational Airship Association) I'd liek to point out there is another alternative... Though im not sure our airlines would be good for a warzone... more liek cruise ships.

If you need surplus, come to me, everything must go!

Time for some economic news

Mr Bean wrote:To all STGOD Players
Some of us when we set down our countries layed out what resources we had on hand, most did not. The forumal most people use is Pick two, you have enough for major exports of that, pick four you have enough for small exports of those, and everything else you have only in tiny amounts.

While I am playing my nation as a low military nation, we still have a lot of Industry and HighTech jobs. as Such for my top two Materials, I propose


Aluminum
Palladium

While my 4 minor resources would be


Chrome
Iron Ore
Silicon
Nickel


Let me know if I should add these to my Nation Information page.

I actually declared my main resources at the start, unlike all of you incompetents

Main exports: Bauxites (Alluminium ores) and iron

Minor exports: Coal, copper, uranium, oil

Other resources exist in small amounts, but are not exported

I technically am not a signatory of the airship association, but since I have my own airline, I won't stop your airships from landing at my main airport.

PeZook wrote:Paradoxally, Alexander is often forced to trade with semi-independent local commanders of Ramsley's militia for food and necessary supplies.He only controls one small sea port, but has been unable to establish trade relations with outside nations, in no small part due to naval superiority of his opponents. The road network in Alexander's territory is dilapidated and scarce, with many roads having been destroyed in the fighting or mined to protect from incursions by the Sultan or Lord Ramsley. Disease is prevalent, made more severe by malnutrition and atrocious working conditions in the mines.

Er, what? The IRT been working with the Alexander for quite awhile now for mineral exploitation.

phongn wrote: Er, what? The IRT been working with the Alexander for quite awhile now for mineral exploitation.

Hmmm....retcon ahoy

Sorry, I missed your declarations.

It's an intelligence work on a nation about which shabby intelligence is given

A few questions of mine, but I just decided to put them into the main thread

Stas Bush wrote:It's an intelligence work on a nation about which shabby intelligence is given

A few questions of mine, but I just decided to put them into the main thread

Well, I ran with our typical populations. But I'll run with it, and blame it on shoddy methodology and better RT sources for the report

PeZook wrote:

phongn wrote: Er, what? The IRT been working with the Alexander for quite awhile now for mineral exploitation.

Hmmm....retcon ahoy

Sorry, I missed your declarations.

No worries. And yes, we're ruthlessly exploiting their mineral resources, training Alexander's forces ... but also trying to improve infrastructure and the local population's plight. A disease-ridden, poorly-educated and malnourished populace is not exactly an efficient one.*

* Yes, the IRT are jerks.

What's IRT again?

Baal
Major Exports: Oil, Petroleum Products, Rum
Minor Exports: Palladium, Tungsten, Titanium, Coal

Mr Bean wrote: OAN:Deathdealer your math checks out but for one thing, which I had no idea about so I'm going to run your math by Wrym because of something he noted called Ampère's force law, which I have never heard about but some-how would affect a coilgun. If he says or you can demonstrate this EM saturation effect would have no impact then fine by me. The secondary question of how long the gun would be because I honestly don't know how to go about calculating that.

The prototype is a 1/10th scale version. But I was going to have the final gun barrel on the Hyper Velocity Gun be about 50 feet long.

Major:
Uranium
Gold

Minor:
Copper
Tin
Lead
Tungsten

Not listed: (ie, non-industrial/cultural)
Cotton
Stone/Masonry
Music Industry: Hit Singles
Inscence

Major:
Oil and Diamonds
Minor:
Nickel, Silver, Aluminum, Tin

Guys i forgot, who was the leader of Terra Libertia before it fell apart?

DarthShady wrote:Guys i forgot, who was the leader of Terra Libertia before it fell apart?

It was originally made to make fun of Voluntaryist and I believe he is the one that ruled it, sort of. I don't know if anyone gave him a different name though.

As far as Alexander's supply situation goes, I figure the road network leaves much to be desired and he just doesn't have much arable land. I've been going on the asumption that ships heavily escorted by security personnel can dock, but distribution is the problem. Plus for a while most people ignored Alexander, so not much aid was being sent. A major priority would be road construction along with railroads. Until then aircraft may be the only way to go to the most remote survivalist areas.

Raj Ahten wrote:As far as Alexander's supply situation goes, I figure the road network leaves much to be desired and he just doesn't have much arable land. I've been going on the asumption that ships heavily escorted by security personnel can dock, but distribution is the problem. Plus for a while most people ignored Alexander, so not much aid was being sent. A major priority would be road construction along with railroads. Until then aircraft may be the only way to go to the most remote survivalist areas.

Yes well, we'll be sending in aid shipments soon. Hopefully with six carrier groups in the area, the various bandits will decide that messing with food and medicine crates with a big ol' "MESS" stamped on them would be a Bad Thing.

Anyway, if the Conference agrees that the warlords are allowed to seek military aid, I think we can send advisors to Alexander to assist him and ProTec in training and professionalizing his force. As well as providing small arms, personal equipment, comms, light vehicles, and possibly light observation and transport aircraft.

We'll work with him first because he's actually responded to our offers. We'll work with Ramsley as well, if he'd ever talk to us... *throws a rock in Stas' general direction* As for the Sultan, well hopefully we can decide on what to do about that civil war.

The Sovereignty of Shroomania

Major Exports
Titanium
Uranium (we've got lots of peaceful nuclear applications)

Minor Exports
Aluminum
Iron
Silver
Gold

YES

Alexander has a lot of interior mountain land-- presumably arid, hardscrabble land? How about if it turns out that he's financing food & weapons through the growing & sale of poppies for heroin?

Well about that airline, it will be called Libertia Air, and will run regularly scheduled flights into and through Alexander's territory at the moment, with service with other states in Libertopia dependent on what they say on the matter. It is being formed by a combination of private investors, with ProTec being a strong corporate partner. Main airplane will be an AN-22. This is not a luxury airliner at the moment. They would also like to purchase a few AN-114s or Il-76's, whichever is cheaper, for really heavy lifting. An-26's could be good for light use.

For Helicopters, Mi-26's for running supplies into the mountains.

right now the airline is looking to buy from Stats, as he has told me what he has up for sale. I'd also be wlling to buy surplus from others. The actual numbers I'm not so sure of, as I am not an airline man, so I don't know what would be needed.

On another note, ProTec is looking for aircraft as well. They would like to purchase around six AN-22's, if possible as well as around four Mi-28 attack helicopters. I would also be particularly interested in some more general use helicopters, such as UH-1Y Venom style Huey, which some of the players may have floating around, especially if they've upgraded their fleet.