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4, 3, 2, 1 For the sake of unity we should avoid existing power centers as much as we can. As a leading scientist from the California Republic, I recommend we continue the recent assignment of groups under Matveyev. Nikitin should be assigned 10-15 labs to study Genome Sequencing. I can bring to bear California's knowledge of computing to Sensors and Control systems, if my comrades would pick an appropriate project (what are the available choices there?). Any remaining labs should be split between Vasilyev and Sergeyev to an appropriate logistics project. And I second the motion to work towards a permanent base on the moon.
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Research: I-02, of course Industry: F-06 F-07: Yes. There is a slight conflict with I-02, surely the party leadership can develop a reasonable resolution. DP-05: Yes!
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Oct 16, 2020 07:26
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Research: JR-14, Status Quo, JR-12 NM-08: Yes NM-09: Yes K-10: Yes B-11: Abstain JR-13: Yes
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Oct 20, 2020 08:25
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The California Republic echos the plan to make Luna an industrial center. As well, we welcome the efforts of the Socialist Aid program and offer the wide lands of the west for resettlement. The climate is well-suited for rapid growth, and the Central Valley can supply food to meet the worlds' needs. The only limit is labor.
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Oct 24, 2020 01:02
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Even if we limit our surveys to the inner part of the system, we should survey the asteroid belt now.
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Oct 24, 2020 06:35
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Boksi posted:It'll take a long time and most asteroids will have nothing of value, and what asteroids do have valuable deposits of TNEs won't have big ones. That's why I want to focus on the planets and moons of the solar system first - not only are the finds potentially more valuable in terms of resources, some of them are also potential colonies. We may even be able to terraform them. The asteroids can come later, especially since we don't have the technology to exploit them efficiently yet. I stand corrected.
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Oct 24, 2020 08:36
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The California Republic's vote are: Luna: BCAD Gladio: BACD Survey Ships: B Survey Priorities: ABC S-17: Yes F-18: Yes F-19: Abstain JR-20: No, we agree with the other objections A-21: Yes S-22: Yes, but only after the survey ship technological improvements Y-23: No, the ideas are interesting but Californian researchers insist they are impractical. They keeping babbling about 'Big O', whatever that means. When they have concrete proposals, they will be forwarded.
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Oct 26, 2020 21:42
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The People's Republic of California proposes the Computer Science Network (CSNET). Computer Science departments throughout the Comintern will receive funding or authorization as needed to connect to the existing ARPANET. All existing ARPANET nodes will be simultaneously upgraded to use the TCP/IP protocol to ease the expansion of the network.
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Oct 31, 2020 08:33
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Prefixes: D, E, F, G, A B, C Research: C, D, A, B Socialist Aid Program: A, B, C I-24, Repeal the No First Strike Doctrine: Abstain A-25, Service Medals: Yes K-26, Adoption of a Revolutionary Rank Structure: Yes F-27, Drunken Industrial Bear: Yes F-28, Research Optimization Cleanup: Yes F-29, A Ten-Year Service Medal: Yes L-30, Low-Gravity Infrastructure: No, let's postpone this I-31, Five-Year Plans: No H-32, The Mars Program: Yes N-33, the TNE Reuse, Reduce, and Recycling Act: No N-34, the Public Broadcasting Service: Yes S-35, FESTER: No A-36, Space Autonomy Model: Yes A-37, A Common Language for Space: Yes
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Nov 3, 2020 08:38
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The People's Republic of California also supports low-orbit recon followed by sending a team of trained archelogists.
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Nov 8, 2020 03:27
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HiHo ChiRho posted:I am formally proposing that we start working efforts to realign the remaining ex US polities in North America to being under the Comintern. Seconded Asterite34 posted:2) Proposal for EM and Thermal scan of Mars in anticipation of a formal Xenoarcheology expedition to Cydonia. The Cydonia Ruins are potentially incalculably valuabe, but we can't rule out that they're not as dead as we'd like. A further orbial scan can be done per Foxfire_'s earlier workshopping: Also seconded
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Nov 11, 2020 04:51
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zanni posted:Greetings from the Cascadian Workers Collective, happy to finally be working with you all! I've spent the last week studying the legislative archives after being appointed the representative of the CWC and look forward to taking part in our shared future! The People's Republic of California happily seconds this! (I had been trying to think of something along those lines but couldn't quite piece it together)
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Nov 11, 2020 20:31
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ooc: My support for decolonization is envisioning a bit less, I suppose. I'd like to imagine a world where some BS from my hometown is impossible (a Chumash burial ground got mostly bulldozed for a Wal-Mart, apart from 1.5 acres preserved after much negotiation. 1.5 acres completely surrounded by the parking lot, which is certainly not what I'd want for the graves of my ancestors). Well, that crossed with the recent efforts of real-life California to assist in the return of sacred sites to tribes. Full autonomy is perhaps extreme, but the kind of fight we're having now is half the fun of a you play!
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ooc: How do scientists improve in this game? However it happens, someone needs to propose that process happening for me. That bonus is atrocious and I'd like to be useful.
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The People's Republic of California votes: SK-38, Expand Interkosmos Academy - No, we should spend the resources elsewhere for now SK-39, Repeal Five-Year Plans - Yes HC-40, Integrate North America - Yes S-41, Research and Deploy Spying Technology - Yes A-42, Surveil the Mars Ruins - Yes JR-43, The Extraplanetary Focus Discovery Act - Yes I-44, Administrative Overhaul - Yes I-45, Diplomatic Overtures - Yes P-46, Venera Initiative 2.0 - Yes NM-47, the Trans-Newtonian Global Network Project - Yes F-48, Organizational Capacity - Yes F-49, Long-Term Research Efficiency - Yes P-50, X-COM - Yes Z-51, IRPA - Yes I-52, Armed Spacecraft Development - No W-53, Lunplan Expansion - Yes W-54, Medals - Yes W-55, Rename the Comintern - Yes H-56, More Medals - Yes
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Nov 14, 2020 23:44
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The People's Republic of California agrees with the call to immediately respond while readying a mission within a few weeks. If we need to send aid sooner we can, but after all this time it's unlikely to be necessary. And if any are concerned about such minor affairs, after their misdeeds privates Orr and May have been reassigned to Fort Hunter Ligget, where they are working with the Salinan peoples to improve local infrastructure for the tribe.
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The People's Republic of California commends our comrades focusing on the humanitarian issue. Defense may be a concern soon, but is not required at the emergency session. While in full support of the Face of Mars Act and the creation of Camp Helium, I must emphasize the importance of providing food as quickly as possible. They can make their current food sources stretch, but they are likely nutritionally deficient and unpleasant to eat. By providing a supply of fresh food we will not just better ensure their health while we wait on permanent solutions, but ensure they feel receptive to us which will aid in all further work. Also, that joke about eventually needing to crack sleeping tubes is disquieting and makes me worry about just what their alternative food source might be.
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Kitfox88 posted:A will to survive enables many unpleasantries, but yes let’s not let it reach that stage. I'm hopeful it was just gallows humor, but nevertheless it indicates their frame of mind.
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Dec 20, 2020 19:48
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NewMars posted:You know, sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who can't stand Peter Watts. Crazycryodude posted:His novels sound a lot better as thought experiments than actual entertaing prose. I find for me I can also only take so much cynical bleakness at a time.
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Dec 22, 2020 02:19
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I firmly agree with proposals to have a quarantine of some form. We will do our best to make it a pleasant one, but bringing them to Earth too quickly has the potential to be completely disastrous.
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The Awake: C The Asleep: C The Site: The Discord: Y idhrendur fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Dec 26, 2020 |
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Yeah, that's thoroughly unpleasant, and I'm glad it wasn't worse.
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Welcome back! And joining in the hype!
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I'll be really curious for the investigative team to plot the where and when of the abductees. Are there patterns? Was it a random collection? Can we deduce the why behind it all? And as mentioned, what's in the ones that don't have humans?
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The People's Republic of California cannot agree to those terms as they stand. Japan is the equivalent of the PRC, not the Comintern. However, this indicates we should fast-track the efforts to establish Luna as an independent state. We need to be able to demonstrate that we have no colonies and are not colonizers, so we can insist on the same if and when Japan gets to space independently.
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paragon1 posted:The Lunar Rail Act TDS posted:Lest we forget, I propose the HEAVY Act Redeye Flight posted:The Deutsche Volksrepublik would like to formally propose the following: The People's Republic of California seconds all these proposals.
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The People's Republic of California proposes the following: Water Act On Earth, water infrastructure shall be built out using TNE technologies. Water shall be sourced from renewable sources such as oceans or seas, and previously-used sources that had been overused allowed to recover. All people within Comintern territories must have the right to clean, safe, accessible water. Where possible, drained aquifers, seas, lakes, rivers, and other damaged natural features shall have dedicated infrastructure restoring them until no longer necessary. (I don't imagine this as having any in-game effects, its just flavor on things we're already doing. Nevertheless, restore the Aral Sea! The Colorado River! The Ogallala Aquifer! Pipes from the Pacific over the Rockies! Desalination everywhere!) Cultural Heritage Repatriation Act A process for repatriating cultural artifacts shall be developed. This does not preclude museums continuing to display artifacts if the proper owners agree to a sharing agreement, but no longer can it simply be assumed that because some art was looted a century ago that a museum or collector gets to keep it.
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Pacho posted:For the cyclops and U-boat crew I'd suggest that the debriefing/psychological XCOM team pick a group of the ones they consider ready to travel to earth, do a press conference informing the world that an alien facility has been found on Mars, that it apparently belongs to the Roswell aliens, that there are humans in stasis and that MOSA is 24/7 investigating to release them. Then have the survivors say some words. Have them do a world tour showing them the bright socialist future with plenty of cameras and let them go wherever they want afterwards with the warning that we cant guarantee their safety in non-aligned former US polities. We may call it the Bring Them Home Initiative Seconded
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NewMars posted:
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sebmojo posted:Mr bates, the document is missing these two proposals. No to both, just because we're doing so many things already. Though no doubt Cydonia discoveries will give California a new opinion next year.
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No matter what, launch the Missile Defense Satellite. No matter what else we choose, we want to option to stop it hard if need be.
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idhrendur posted:No matter what, launch the Missile Defense Satellite. No matter what else we choose, we want to option to stop it hard if need be. Okay, okay, people are talking me down a bit. A patrol of destroyers will be more than sufficient to keep them from doing anything bad.
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5:40 pm, Pacific time Commander Orr gave a small smile, just for himself. Two weeks ago the Revenge had been captured. The men at China Lake had set EXCALIBUR facing west 'just in case', and the cranes were just now getting ready to lift it to return the weapon to testing. The engineers had wanted to examine every nook and cranny after it had been moved the first time. Even though not fired, the manhandling to get a new device pointed in the general direction of the sub might have shaken something loose, and why waste the results of an impromptu field experiment? It would provide good experience of just how durable they were in the field and provide hints as to the maintenance that would be needed. He began checking his email. He was no commander of the old guard, he operated his computer himself to check. The new Macintosh by Wozniak's Apple Collective was wonderful, allowing him to see messages from other military bases in a second window even as he read his mail in the first. As he was doing so, there was a notice. It seemed reactionary elements were showing their resistance to the course of history. No matter, they might sow some small chaos but would only reveal any reactionary groups left, making the socialist world all the more secure. Nevertheless, he continued reading the reports as they came in. The sky darkened outside, the work crews got EXCALIBUR lifted and turned, and were beginning to crawl to the east when he saw the 8:44 update. He grabbed his phone and called the Lieutenant overseeing the work crew. "Stop everything! Get EXCALIBUR placed again, facing east. Yes immediately. I don't care about the possible damage, have it ready in the next few minutes. I'll have a track for you." He knew this was even more useless than the men's gesture two weeks ago. Not only did they still have no targeting, but Baikonur was almost perfectly halfway around the globe. And it wasn't like a shot would orbit, it was a straight shot or nothing. But if there was even a chance it came this far, he needed to be ready. As a gunnery officer ran to Orr's office, Orr had already pulled up the tracking program. As it loaded he was already considering the possibilities. Luna? No, they would have gone east if they intended a full space launch. He saw messages on the screen speculating about Paris. If that was the target there was nothing he could do to help. He began loading data from reports of the spaceplane's trajectory. It was quickly obvious that no city could be the target, even as the report came of it cutting engines and going ballistic. His eyes were inexorably pulled to the intersection with another plot, even as the messages showed that others had reached the same conclusion. Interkosmos. And it would be still a quarter of the way around the world. Even with the world's most advanced weapon, there was nothing he or his base could do. He knew he should call the crew again, try to limit any further damage from them too-rapidly moving it about. But all he would do was watch the trajectory lines in horror as a counter ticked down. 74...73...72...
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We definitely need to get some orbital surveillance on the moon.
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PRCal is a continuation of the pre-existing state of California, in the American tradition of government. As such it strongly opposes ex post facto laws. As much as Hughes is disliked (and rightfully so!), he broke no laws worth enforcing. Indeed the constitution at the time allowed his anti-communist media campaign. That language has been removed, but been replaced with language explicitly forbidding ex post facto laws. All of which to say, there's nothing to pardon. As for getting him involved with XCOM, that is a discussion for the Comintern as a whole.
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Obliterati posted:Also IRL (ex-)archaeologist here - there's absolutely nothing stopping us from sending actual archaeologists along with the cranks immediately AND developing xenoarchaeology at the same time. The actual techniques and tools that will form the subdiscipline of xenoarchaeology can be built down on Earth, sure, but there is no substitute for fieldwork in building that theoretical structure. Plus last I heard we have an absurd amount of kit that can survey and catalogue non-destructively from space. Even Earth-focused archaeologists of this era could do incredible things with those - they're like OTL LIDAR and ground imaging techniques on cocaine. I'm in favor of this.
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At the California exhibition, the Homebrew Computer Club unveil the latest in their Apple line of microcomputers, the Macintosh. Designed by Steve Wozniak and Jef Raskin, it has an innovative graphical user interface, built-in screen, and introduces the 'mouse' as an input device to everyone outside the PARC labs in Palo Alto. Other microcomputers had been growing in popularity as home and hobbyist devices, but this promises to be even more popular.
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The People's Republic of California proposes the following: California-Commintern Port Provision California's naval bases shall be made available for all Commintern ships to refuel, resupply, undergo repairs, and provide shore leave. Maritime Aid Act National navies shall be required to provide reasonable aid to Commintern naval forces at request. Computer Character Encoding Act Current computers use a standard set of characters from the latin alphabet, with hacks providing characters outside that set, each hack incompatible with each other. A group shall be created to devise a system that can represent all characters that is backwards-compatible with ASCII and can be extended as needed. Once created, all new computer systems shall use this encoding system. Older systems are not mandated to by updated, but should be done so if feasible to ease communication with newer systems. (so basically creating UTF-8 a five years early and getting it well adopted much much sooner)
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Antilles posted:Adding Nobel Prizes as potential medals Seconded
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PRCal encourages people to vote against CZ-99. While existing intellectual property law must be reformed or eliminated there should be provision for people to control sequels and spinoffs long enough to tell multi-part stories. As well, capitalist nations still exist and we must have a framework that accounts for them stealing ideas without sowing into the social systems that support the creators.
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