Bad Moon Rising | Interest / OoC

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

Yeah, but it wasn't invented until 1894.

[Aldelxane]

Yeah, but it wasn't invented until 1894.

People didn't land on the moon until the 1960s IRL, is that stopping us?

[Terminus Alpha]

Yeah, but it wasn't invented until 1894.

I don't think that's a problem, what with the colonization of the Moon and general Steam-punkery.

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

Meh, and that would fit well with the solar flares. Map time!

[The New Lowlands]

British Metal Frog Company, dismissed! Now, on to another thing: how do the colonists establish a link with Earth? Messengers? Some primitive form of radio?

Radio seems to be the only option. Messengers would take too long and you can't send a telegraph wire up there.

>radio
>1890s

alternatively you could just not be a bitch and use morse code with giant projecting lights >:u

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

Radio seems to be the only option. Messengers would take too long and you can't send a telegraph wire up there.

>radio
>1890s

alternatively you could just not be a bitch and use morse code with giant projecting lights >:u

Nah, no Hubble telescope, am I right?

RADIO ALL THE WAY.

[The New Lowlands]

>radio
>1890s

alternatively you could just not be a bitch and use morse code with giant projecting lights >:u

Nah, no Hubble telescope, am I right?

RADIO ALL THE WAY.

omg, ASB

[Terminus Alpha]

Anyway, what's this map gonna look like? Are we going to have two? One for Earth and one for the Moon?

[The Jonathanian States]

Anyway, what's this map gonna look like? Are we going to have two? One for Earth and one for the Moon?

I do believe this takes place solely on the moon.

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

Yep, Earth is Earth. We're on the moob.

[Olthenia]

Yep, Earth is Earth. We're on the moob.

That we are, Ukraine. That we are. Communication and travel between Earth and the moon is an impossibility due to the vicious solar flares. In fact, reliable reports from the Imperial Observatory in Neu Mannheim, German Keppler Concession, insists that the SMS Cormorant which departed Luna's orbit for Germany last week has been observed drifting and "in pieces" approximately 77K miles out. Authorities have publicly stated that they fear the Cormorant lost with all hands; a tally of which includes the famous impresario and opera singer Hans Münz-Lange, returning from his latest tour of the German colonies. Heartfelt condolences are extended to the bereaved.

Now, given that this is an RP with a very steampunk atmosphere I'm not too sure tossing bombs at people from airplanes is actually a thing. Yet. There are few things more undeniably steampunk then giant, gorgeous zeppelins, however; and hosing an unfortunate foe with fire and doom from a great, cigar-shaped monstrosity or - God forbid - those dreaded Moon-hoppers is something I'm very, very eager to read about.

When it comes to bombing or even "bursting" bubble colonies; well - I like that idea. War is, after all, brutal, and I can think of few things more brutal than venting an entire colonial dome into hard space. Such a dastardly course of action would never be willingly undertaken by soldiers of a civilized Great Power, however. Yellow chinamen or dastardly darkies, perhaps - but never the noble, Christian advocates of the White Man's burden. That's just balderdash.

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

*Pops bubble* the aborigines did it!

[Aidannadia]

-snip-.

So at this point, the world has its basis, but the roleplay is a bit vague.

Will this be a character roleplay, focusing on the noblemen and/or business owners and corrupt politicians? Or will each roleplayer be controlling a nation?

The catalyst for the events is the solar flare, but what is the main conflict? Will we focus on the conflict of nations? Or is there something else?

[The Jonathanian States]

-snip-.

So at this point, the world has its basis, but the roleplay is a bit vague.

Will this be a character roleplay, focusing on the noblemen and/or business owners and corrupt politicians? Or will each roleplayer be controlling a nation?

The catalyst for the events is the solar flare, but what is the main conflict? Will we focus on the conflict of nations? Or is there something else?

To that last question, Re: Conflict:
As far as I understood, we'll focus on the conflict.
This is from both the OP, where it is mentioned as being GameOfThrones-esque, and from an earlier post the OP made in a different thread.
To the first question:
I believe it will be a nation, but on this one I am neither the OP nor definitely sure.

[The New Lowlands]

We should use Verne Cannons to get to the moon, not ships or whatever

[Olthenia]

-snip-.

So at this point, the world has its basis, but the roleplay is a bit vague.

Will this be a character roleplay, focusing on the noblemen and/or business owners and corrupt politicians? Or will each roleplayer be controlling a nation?

Ideally, this RP should focus on the conflict between the various Great Powers and their Moon-based colonies.

The catalyst for the events is the solar flare, but what is the main conflict? Will we focus on the conflict of nations? Or is there something else?

The main conflict is a bit up in the air yet, unfortunately. Part of me simply imagined that the various Colonial administrations, cut off from support and reinforcement back on Earth, would slide into a morass of white-knuckled paranoia and leer at their neighbors with increasing mistrust. Inevitably, war would ensue. That seems a pretty shoddy excuse all by itself, of course - and I can think of at least one concise reasons why a conflict between the Great Powers might erupt: Food shortages.
Most of the lunar colonies had a largely insufficient agricultural base established by the time solar flares isolated Earth from its satellite. As such, the colonial populations used to relying on sustenance from Earth have pushed their respective governments into declaring war on their more well-fed brethren in a naked bid to avoid starvation.

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

We should use Verne Cannons to get to the moon, not ships or whatever

Actually, good idea! Verne cannons it is?

-snip-

Instead of just a food shortage, let's extend it to a general supply shortage to challenge the players. Oh sure, there is oxygen from the trees in the bubble colony, but the Earth bound nations contain all the food, water, and other material the Moon colonies need to create tools and refined materials. It would be like a new transatlantic triangular trade: Lunar bases send heavy metals and valuable ores to Earth, and they send refined materials and food/water/commodities in return. Since there is also ice on the moon near the north pole(Yes, there is) ice would become a very valuable commodity for those that have access to it, but it wouldn't be able to last for long.

[The Jonathanian States]

We should use Verne Cannons to get to the moon, not ships or whatever

Actually, good idea! Verne cannons it is?

-snip-

Instead of just a food shortage, let's extend it to a general supply shortage to challenge the players. Oh sure, there is oxygen from the trees in the bubble colony, but the Earth bound nations contain all the food, water, and other material the Moon colonies need to create tools and refined materials. It would be like a new transatlantic triangular trade: Lunar bases send heavy metals and valuable ores to Earth, and they send refined materials and food/water/commodities in return.

That would be a lineal trade, rather than triangular.
Triangular would require a third point, like raiding slaves from Mars, or something.

[Olthenia]

We should use Verne Cannons to get to the moon, not ships or whatever

Care to clue an uneducated savage in on what that is?

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

Actually, good idea! Verne cannons it is?



Instead of just a food shortage, let's extend it to a general supply shortage to challenge the players. Oh sure, there is oxygen from the trees in the bubble colony, but the Earth bound nations contain all the food, water, and other material the Moon colonies need to create tools and refined materials. It would be like a new transatlantic triangular trade: Lunar bases send heavy metals and valuable ores to Earth, and they send refined materials and food/water/commodities in return.

That would be a lineal trade, rather than triangular.
Triangular would require a third point, like raiding slaves from Mars, or something.

I was making an analogy, it would obviously be linear. Unless we make this alternate history and included sentient life on Mars, or someone decided to put slaves there.

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

We should use Verne Cannons to get to the moon, not ships or whatever

Care to clue an uneducated savage in on what that is?

A Verne cannon is a massive cannon capable of launching a small, heavily reinforced, metal pod to the moon. The pod would fly out of the atmosphere all the way until at the edge of the Moon's sphere of influence, and then the natural action of the moon's gravity would pull it down. Additional crude rockets on the bottom would make the pod able to land. Of course, the g-forces would kill a man at the start of a trip, but screw realism, right?
Jules Verne first explored this idea in his novel From Earth to The Moon.

[Olthenia]

I stand enlightened.

That's well in keeping with the steampunk vibe I've been aiming at. Good idea, Lowlands.

[Prusslandia]

How would you feel about an enclave of morally absent scientists, who make half man, half machine monstrosities ?

[Olthenia]

How would you feel about an enclave of morally absent scientists, who make half man, half machine monstrosities ?

Vaguely disturbed. Are they conducting research beyond the moral and scientific boundaries outlined by the representatives of the Great Powers at the Council of Sorbonne in 1881?

[The New Lowlands]

How would you feel about an enclave of morally absent scientists, who make half man, half machine monstrosities ?

get your ridiculous nazi pseudoscience ASB out of here >:u