Milarqui
Deity
Are you ready for insertion? Then let's get moving.
You have just arrived to Wegener-2, a world recently discovered thanks to Van Werun-Vellion Tech, and which is very different from what Homeline Earth looks like. Ah, you don't know who Van Werun and Vellion are? Allow me to explain you...
In the year 2075, Netherlander physicist Renée Van Werun, one of the topmost scientists in the European Federation who worked in a laboratory in the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium, discovered that the existence of what had been called for many years in fiction "alternate worlds" was a reality, thanks to her studies of a certain series of strange phenomena no one had been able to explain before. She was then able to ascertain how to reach these alternate worlds, but she only had the theory and nothing practical to back it up with. Thus, she teamed up with French engineer Louis Vellion.
The Van Werun-Vellion team, next to a group of fellow scientists, managed to build a small prototype of a machine that, using Van Werun's calculations, would be able to go on a small travel to one alternate world and come back a few minutes later, carrying a camera to record where it went. With trepidation, she clicked it on and the small prototype disappeared with a flash.
However, the machine didn't come back. Neither Van Werun nor Vellion got discouraged and started to build a second prototype, while checking out that everything was correct in the machine. A week after the first prototype had been sent on its way to the alternate world, the pair got ready to do their first trial. It was then when things got... interesting.
Just when Renée was about to start the second prototype, a flash flooded the room. When everyone managed to clear the flash of light from their eyes, they saw that the cause of the flash had been, to their surprise, the first prototype, which had managed to make the travel back.
Immediately, the scientists jumped on the recently arrived prototype and started to study it in detail. The camera was examined very closely, for it was the most important part of the initial experiment. The video would become one of the most famous videos recordings ever done: it showed how Ms Van Werun turned the camera on and then the prototype on, then a short travel through something no one knew what it was. It arrived to a city that looked a bit like 19th century Brussels at the start, but the few minutes it recorded showed that this was entirely different from anything else: for example, in the background a mechanical horse that spewed steam through its nose and mouth could be seen. The impressive thing was that, despite having been gone for a week, the camera clock had only advanced a couple of hours.
Vindicated by this success, the team would continue their experiments, increasing the size of the machines (discovering on the way that the bigger the machine was the longer it took to travel to the alternate world) and discovering more worlds on the way through their cameras. Finally, the moment came for human experimentation, and Van Werun decided to be the one doing it. A machine big enough to hold her and enough supplies for a couple of days was built, and she travelled to other place. She arrived to a place very much alike the one the first prototype had been to first. She managed to engage in small talk with some amazed people, gathering as much information as possible, and then went back home. Her travel had been a month long, yet she had traveled for only ten hours.
Armed with all of their experimental data, Van Werun and Vellion patented their invention and then made it public. At the start, no one believed them, for it sounded like a madman's fantasy, but when impossible-to-adulterate proof was gained, the Van Werun-Vellion team was famous all over the world, and many corporations and nations besieged them, attempting to buy the patent, as its use could gain millions, perhaps billions of Euros to those that held it. Instead, the whole team created their own company, which would be, for years, the only one that was able to go to other worlds and engage in trading relationships with them.
In the year 2100, this ended. Van Werun-Vellion Incorporated wasn't able to hold onto their patent anymore, and all those that wished to do it were able to jump into the data and build their own version of the Machine, as it was being called everywhere in the world. The United Nations did their best to prevent indiscriminate use of the Machine, but wasn't completely successful, as a few nations such as North Korea or Iran (as fanatic as they had been in the start of the twenty-first century) managed to get their hands on the plans for the Machine and use it to better control their people and obtain the resources it couldn't find in what was now called Homeline Earth.
Finally, the UN Secretary General, Wulandari Sjahrir managed to get most nations of the world (including, to her surprise, the United States) and a few corporations to sign a treaty in order to contain the use of the Machines and attempt to use them for the betterment of humanity in all the worlds. Corporations, however, claimed that enforcing said treaty on them would be against the spirit of free enterprise and thus decided to reject the treaty. The legal battles coming from this would last for years, until a good part of those corporations moved headquarters to tax havens and the rest accepted a watered down version of the Machine Treaty of 2101.
It is now the year 2130, and Van Werun-Vellion Incorporated, still one of the foremost experts in Machine technology and use, and one of the few corporations that accepted the original Machine Treaty, have announced the discovery of a new, alternate world, which they have named Wegener-2, after the German scientist who developed the theory of continental drift, because of the wildly different disposition of the continents and islands when compared to Earth. The first robotic probes from many corporations and nations came into this Earth, and they discovered that not only the continents were different, but also the flora and fauna. It was also then that the mineral richness of the ground was discovered, and thus started the battle for Wegener-2...
Each player will control one of the teams, formed by workers of all kinds and soldiers to protect them, that have been inserted in Wegener-2. Their objective is to build a mining colony as self-sufficient as possible, as well as attempting to get the bigger slice of the cake. The biggest problem these people will face is that, due to the size of the containers needed to send resources, it takes one month for them to travel from Homeline Earth to Wegener-2 and viceversa, so supplying can only happen once every two months. Strangely, electromagnetic waves, handled by a specially designed radio tower also an invention by Van Werun-Vellion can travel back and forth almost in real time, thus allowing for instantaneous communication. Teams may be given missions by their bosses at Homeline Earth, and with time they will have to start sending back what they are extracting from Wegener-2.
Stats: The archive that can be obtained through the link at the bottom of this message have a .ods archive that will be the one to be used for your stats. It is divided in three sheets:
Group-building: if you want to join this NES, you may do one of two things:
Buildings: the ZIP archive has a .png image that shows the symbols for the different buildings and their sizes. The white colour in the images is to be replaced by the colour of your team. The "Step 1", "Step 2" and "Step 3" images are outdated, but you can guess how things work.
Resources: there are 7 resources that are produced and consumed at your colony buildings.
Units:
Work Points: one of the most important things. When it comes to building construction, the cost in Work Points is equal to the total cost in resources (for example, 1 Small Airport costs 5000 Work Points, with 1 Work Point using 1 Metal)
Map: the map is also on the .zip archive that has been uploaded.
Do not post until I say so.
You have just arrived to Wegener-2, a world recently discovered thanks to Van Werun-Vellion Tech, and which is very different from what Homeline Earth looks like. Ah, you don't know who Van Werun and Vellion are? Allow me to explain you...
In the year 2075, Netherlander physicist Renée Van Werun, one of the topmost scientists in the European Federation who worked in a laboratory in the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium, discovered that the existence of what had been called for many years in fiction "alternate worlds" was a reality, thanks to her studies of a certain series of strange phenomena no one had been able to explain before. She was then able to ascertain how to reach these alternate worlds, but she only had the theory and nothing practical to back it up with. Thus, she teamed up with French engineer Louis Vellion.
The Van Werun-Vellion team, next to a group of fellow scientists, managed to build a small prototype of a machine that, using Van Werun's calculations, would be able to go on a small travel to one alternate world and come back a few minutes later, carrying a camera to record where it went. With trepidation, she clicked it on and the small prototype disappeared with a flash.
However, the machine didn't come back. Neither Van Werun nor Vellion got discouraged and started to build a second prototype, while checking out that everything was correct in the machine. A week after the first prototype had been sent on its way to the alternate world, the pair got ready to do their first trial. It was then when things got... interesting.
Just when Renée was about to start the second prototype, a flash flooded the room. When everyone managed to clear the flash of light from their eyes, they saw that the cause of the flash had been, to their surprise, the first prototype, which had managed to make the travel back.
Immediately, the scientists jumped on the recently arrived prototype and started to study it in detail. The camera was examined very closely, for it was the most important part of the initial experiment. The video would become one of the most famous videos recordings ever done: it showed how Ms Van Werun turned the camera on and then the prototype on, then a short travel through something no one knew what it was. It arrived to a city that looked a bit like 19th century Brussels at the start, but the few minutes it recorded showed that this was entirely different from anything else: for example, in the background a mechanical horse that spewed steam through its nose and mouth could be seen. The impressive thing was that, despite having been gone for a week, the camera clock had only advanced a couple of hours.
Vindicated by this success, the team would continue their experiments, increasing the size of the machines (discovering on the way that the bigger the machine was the longer it took to travel to the alternate world) and discovering more worlds on the way through their cameras. Finally, the moment came for human experimentation, and Van Werun decided to be the one doing it. A machine big enough to hold her and enough supplies for a couple of days was built, and she travelled to other place. She arrived to a place very much alike the one the first prototype had been to first. She managed to engage in small talk with some amazed people, gathering as much information as possible, and then went back home. Her travel had been a month long, yet she had traveled for only ten hours.
Armed with all of their experimental data, Van Werun and Vellion patented their invention and then made it public. At the start, no one believed them, for it sounded like a madman's fantasy, but when impossible-to-adulterate proof was gained, the Van Werun-Vellion team was famous all over the world, and many corporations and nations besieged them, attempting to buy the patent, as its use could gain millions, perhaps billions of Euros to those that held it. Instead, the whole team created their own company, which would be, for years, the only one that was able to go to other worlds and engage in trading relationships with them.
In the year 2100, this ended. Van Werun-Vellion Incorporated wasn't able to hold onto their patent anymore, and all those that wished to do it were able to jump into the data and build their own version of the Machine, as it was being called everywhere in the world. The United Nations did their best to prevent indiscriminate use of the Machine, but wasn't completely successful, as a few nations such as North Korea or Iran (as fanatic as they had been in the start of the twenty-first century) managed to get their hands on the plans for the Machine and use it to better control their people and obtain the resources it couldn't find in what was now called Homeline Earth.
Finally, the UN Secretary General, Wulandari Sjahrir managed to get most nations of the world (including, to her surprise, the United States) and a few corporations to sign a treaty in order to contain the use of the Machines and attempt to use them for the betterment of humanity in all the worlds. Corporations, however, claimed that enforcing said treaty on them would be against the spirit of free enterprise and thus decided to reject the treaty. The legal battles coming from this would last for years, until a good part of those corporations moved headquarters to tax havens and the rest accepted a watered down version of the Machine Treaty of 2101.
It is now the year 2130, and Van Werun-Vellion Incorporated, still one of the foremost experts in Machine technology and use, and one of the few corporations that accepted the original Machine Treaty, have announced the discovery of a new, alternate world, which they have named Wegener-2, after the German scientist who developed the theory of continental drift, because of the wildly different disposition of the continents and islands when compared to Earth. The first robotic probes from many corporations and nations came into this Earth, and they discovered that not only the continents were different, but also the flora and fauna. It was also then that the mineral richness of the ground was discovered, and thus started the battle for Wegener-2...
Each player will control one of the teams, formed by workers of all kinds and soldiers to protect them, that have been inserted in Wegener-2. Their objective is to build a mining colony as self-sufficient as possible, as well as attempting to get the bigger slice of the cake. The biggest problem these people will face is that, due to the size of the containers needed to send resources, it takes one month for them to travel from Homeline Earth to Wegener-2 and viceversa, so supplying can only happen once every two months. Strangely, electromagnetic waves, handled by a specially designed radio tower also an invention by Van Werun-Vellion can travel back and forth almost in real time, thus allowing for instantaneous communication. Teams may be given missions by their bosses at Homeline Earth, and with time they will have to start sending back what they are extracting from Wegener-2.
Stats: The archive that can be obtained through the link at the bottom of this message have a .ods archive that will be the one to be used for your stats. It is divided in three sheets:
Spoiler :
Group-building: if you want to join this NES, you may do one of two things:
Spoiler :
Buildings: the ZIP archive has a .png image that shows the symbols for the different buildings and their sizes. The white colour in the images is to be replaced by the colour of your team. The "Step 1", "Step 2" and "Step 3" images are outdated, but you can guess how things work.
Spoiler :
Resources: there are 7 resources that are produced and consumed at your colony buildings.
- Coal: produced at Coal Mines. Consumed by Metal Furnaces (to produce Metal) and Thermal Power Plants (to produce Energy).
- Energy: produced at Thermal Power Plants (from Coal or Oil) and Solar Power Plants. Consumed by all buildings.
- Food: produced by Farms. Consumed by people (1 person consumes 1 Food per month).
- Metal: produced by Metal Furnaces (1 Metal costs 1 Coal and 1 Ore). Used for building construction, tanks, artillery, sea and air units, wall construction and military upkeep.
- Oil: produced by Oil Wells. Consumed by Thermal Power Plants (to produce Energy) and used for military upkeep.
- Ore: produced by Ore Mines. Consumed by Metal Furnaces (to produce Metal) and build Solar Power Plants.
- Wood: produced by Lumber Camps. Used for building construction.
Units:
Spoiler :
Work Points: one of the most important things. When it comes to building construction, the cost in Work Points is equal to the total cost in resources (for example, 1 Small Airport costs 5000 Work Points, with 1 Work Point using 1 Metal)
Map: the map is also on the .zip archive that has been uploaded.
Spoiler :
Do not post until I say so.
