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The Domion of Kurai Nami finds it self in need of some pocket change.
So thus we open this Snowball (http://www.kurainami.com/art/view16.jpg) for mining. The object is a claims race, and the starting fee is 4 million (in respective currency). After the fee is paid you will get a gun that fires a radioctive dye, each gun fires 12 rounds and the dye spreads over a 2 meter area. The start will be when enough nations has signd up. No more than 5 from respective nation may race and defend the claim, we will allow lighter weapons and vehicles in this race. Any use of heavier weaponry or orbital bombardment will cause expulsion of the offending nation and no return on the starting fee.

Planet: Snowball

Planet mass (Earth = 1) 19.3

Equatorial diameter (km) 67.300

Planet gravity (Earth = 1) 1.4

Atmosphere Nitrogen

Rotation period 21 hours

Temps vary from -40 at night and -6 day time

Minirals found are: Gold, Iron, Copper, Uranium, Anatase and other minor minerals. The deposits are good and plentyful..


Heloise
Director of extra solar mining
Dominion of Kurai Nami

I'd like to get into this please.

Wires $4million to Kurai nami

So what do we do exactly?

I'd like to get into this please.

Wires $4million to Kurai nami

How will you get there WinTrees??


Neo, you stake your claim. And mine it, possible defend it from others..

We will enter.

4 million wired.

A quick purchase of a cheap space fighter and hire out a talented toothless gold prospector. I have access to a space station, but I suppose you have a point.

We will enter.

4 million wired.

Actually, this is the nation entering, Not Neo Earth.

Thank you Neo Space :D , *Hands over the dye gun* Your color is green
(I figured as much)


WinTrees, unless there are a huge objection. Here is your gun, you are orange

Whats the guns for?

Whats the guns for?

To Mark your claim, it will be registerd with our mining department.

Thank you kind sir.

I suppose I'd like to enter. We have ships to get there, how many people may we bring?

I suppose I'd like to enter. We have ships to get there, how many people may we bring?

5 no more, read my first post for the rules of this race. So will we see you on the starting line?

Absolutely. Money wired, and since you will allow light weaponry, we will equip our 5 prospectors with tazer-shooters (they shoot stun-gun electricity, but it has a range of 5 meters). They will have three snowmobiles, 2 with two passengers and 1 with one rider.

Thank you and welcome to the race, you are blue *Hands him the gun*

Yay, blue! Um, how much dye is in here?

Yay, blue! Um, how much dye is in here?

You get a clip of 12 rounds, it's a bit of over kill since the dye spreads over an area of 2 meters..

*Adds that to the first post*

So you shoot any land you want with the gun, and it is claimed by you?

Basically, yes.

So you shoot any land you want with the gun, and it is claimed by you?

The claim has to be registerd, a sattelite in orbit scans the surface. And when it detects your color and isotope, it's registerd to that area.

How ever that does'nt mean that someone else can cover your mark and jump your claim..

That's what I thought, but I just wanted to be sure. Klonor would like a piece of this.

*wires 4 million*

An Elysium transport will depart with the people ready to stake the claim.

That's what I thought, but I just wanted to be sure. Klonor would like a piece of this.

*wires 4 million*

An Elysium transport will depart with the people ready to stake the claim.

Thank you, there will be an announcement when the race starts.
You will be yellow

Yay! I'm the cavalry!

You have to be a historical dude to get that.

Yay! I'm the cavalry!

You have to be a historical dude to get that.

I love history, but I don't get it.

Yay! I'm the cavalry!

You have to be a historical dude to get that.

Just don't be the 7th, i hear they got a real beating awhile back :D

Yay! I'm the cavalry!

You have to be a historical dude to get that.

Just don't be the 7th, i hear they got a real beating awhile back :D

It would've had to be "awhile" back, isn't the cavalry non-existant nowadays?

Yay! I'm the cavalry!

You have to be a historical dude to get that.

Just don't be the 7th, i hear they got a real beating awhile back :D

It would've had to be "awhile" back, isn't the cavalry non-existant nowadays?

With horses, basicly yes. Now they use vehichles and aircraft.

Oh, cool. When does the race start? Do we need one more person?

A few more would be good, yes *nods*

I'll enter. Money wired. I'll send a rocket ship to the planet to transport my people.

Thank you Danimalia, you are red

The transport with Neo Spaces people has arrived at snowball.

My statment came from the fact that back when cavalry was on horses, each division of the military had their own color for their uniforms. The cavalry's was yellow. Their uniforms had large yellow stripes down the pant leg.

Cool. I like red. It's the color of blood...mwahahahahahahaha!

My statment came from the fact that back when cavalry was on horses, each division of the military had their own color for their uniforms. The cavalry's was yellow. Their uniforms had large yellow stripes down the pant leg.

Not the best tactical color, is it?

Still spots open, surely you can't miss an oppertunity to make a fortune, or to kill someone for their fortune..

I'm always up for making a fortune, I will be happy to enter and kill you all. I mean, join you all in this quest. Yes, that's it...

I'm always up for making a fortune, I will be happy to enter and kill you all. I mean, join you all in this quest. Yes, that's it...

4 mill and a spot is yours :D

Money wired. Tell me, what does "light weaponry and vehicles" entail?

Money wired. Tell me, what does "light weaponry and vehicles" entail?


Thank you, you will be orange

Basicly light wepons means hand guns, rifles, things you can carry. And vehicles means not tanks or other heavy machinery. But snowmobiles and not so heavily armourd vehicles

OK, then my men will be equipped thusly:

All: Handguns, rifles.

1 will have a total of five grenades, mainly for defense though possible to use for excavation as well.
2 will have swords, just for the hell of it.
1 will have a flamethrower.
1 will have a sniper rifle, though it will mainly be used as a telescope.

All will also have personal solar-powered snowmobiles. No, they don't go very fast, but they have gasoline backups.

And isn't orange taken already?

OOps my bad then you will be Pink

Armament for Klonor Detatchment:

5 --------- Guns (I have got to think up a name for my gun. I've had and used it for over 3 months, and I still have nothing to call it except "gun")

5 M6D Assault Pistols

2 M19 SSSM Rocket Launchers

2 M12 LRV Warthogs

They will all be carried and dropped by the Elysium.

OK two or more nations would be fun, but if no more signs up. I'll start this off in awhile..

Whoa, Warthogs and rocket launchers aren't exactly "light". How is that fair?

My men will be equipped as follows:

The leader will have a handgun, a rifle, and a personal snowmobile with machine gun attachments.

The second in command will have a handgun, rifle, and a state of the art crossbow, for stealth purposes.

The remaining three members will be armed with a handgun, rifle, and combat knives which can be affixed to the rifles for bayonets.

All members below the leader will have snowmobiles without machine guns.

Maby i should add the planet is'nt smooth as a ballroom floor, that is allso why lighter vehicles will fare better. It's like one big spherical glacier, i thought the pic sort of showed that :D

I have to go. Don't start with out me please (or save me some room)

OOC:Ok in light that you all have some lifes, i'll let this run and kick this in gear monday. If thats ok with you all, in all fairness and the chance of more opponents. Ill make sure you all will be told when i start this off, in the mean time..

IC: The participants will be recived at the landing site, and shown their quarters. Where you will have access to a garage, dedicated to your team.
Meals are served in the cantina, please do not venture outside the camp..

Danimalia will personally reserve an area for Neo Space if the race starts without them. We only need three people to mine and the other two can protect the area.

That's fine Kurai. Tgram me when it starts.

Tgram me too.

I will also need a telegram telling me when to begin.

I edited my post, read it please :D

Danimalia's men arrived at the garage, parked their snowmobiles, and set up their equipment. The last thing they set up was a television. Hey, you don't go onto a frigid wasteland planet without some kind of entertainment.

What the hell. We'll join the festivities, although we don't need any more minerals right now. Sounds like fun. **Money Wired**

The tough looking men from Melicanium arrived on the planet with mixed expressions. The leader looked rather grim, but the the other four seemed to be happy. They sat in their garage, and waited to be told what they should do.

The Crystallians pulled up to their garage and opened it. As they arranged their things, they wondered why they hadn't sprung for the extra two snowmobiles.
"You know, we're the only team who has to share like this."
"Yeah, but that means that we can never split up either. There are certain advantages..."
They sat down around their overlarge boombox, and blasted some native tunes. It wouldn't be long before the noise complaints started.

What the hell. We'll join the festivities, although we don't need any more minerals right now. Sounds like fun. **Money Wired**

IC: Welcome, and good luck.

OOC: Is your name related to Metroid Prime? I seem to remember an area of that game called Indra...wasn't it actually a cold, barren wasteland?

Thank you Indra, you will be black..

*A KN Race official goes around and welcomes all the racers, reminding them all to not venture out camp and to dress warmly. Plus handing out a small map of the camp, showing the cantina. First aid hut and the fuel storage, in this case coal or wood*

BUMP

Join us people, join us!

OOC:Headin to bed in a few, any new nations wanting to join. Will either have to wait til tomorrow when i come back to look at this thread. Or TM me and i'll put your name on the list as soon as you have paid me ICly :D

OOC: Wouldn't the atmosphere be highly flammable?

Knowledgeable of the fact that mining might soon occur on Snowball, they have decided to make the trip for the miners an unpleasant one. Two transports launch from the Abominable loaded with Liquid Hydrogen. On arrival, they will dump the hydrogen into the atmosphere, causing a reaction with the nitrogen that will create the compound NH4, also known as Ammonium. Ammonium, of course, is very flammable and toxic. It is also highly corrosive, being an ion.

Whoa, Warthogs and rocket launchers aren't exactly "light". How is that fair?

Warthogs are light. They're Light Reconaissance Vehicles. Designed for scouting, persuing, and escorting, they're not designed for direct combat or heavy firepower.

And the Rocket launchers are man carried, single person weapons. I see no rules that they violate.

OOC:Attican, i'm no chemist. And i took the atomsphere from one of my RPG books. :) I'm willing to listen if you have a suggestion..

Now as for the pirates, i'm game if you want to sneak in and make life difficult for the contestants. But this atmosphere thing *shakes head*, thats a no go..

OOC: I am the same player as pirates. If I -did- dump hydrogen into the atmosphere, it would create Ammonium, thanks to the planets size, it would have enough pressure to create the reaction. It would make life difficult for them. I think doing ANYTHING in an ammonium atmosphere would be difficult, but not impossible. Just difficult.

OOC:Like i said, if you want to sneak down and make life a bit difficult, go ahead. But turning the atmosphere into ammonia is just killing what could be a fun RP :) ..

Not Ammonia, Ammonium. Your contestants would need resistant stuff. Plus, it wouldn't be -pure- ammonium, only about 20%, unless I dumped a LOT of Hydrogen, which I wouldn't have.

Not Ammonia, Ammonium. Your contestants would need resistant stuff. Plus, it wouldn't be -pure- ammonium, only about 20%, unless I dumped a LOT of Hydrogen, which I wouldn't have.

I don't understand why, it's a pointless thing to do. Servs absolutely no purpose, it does'nt do anything but complicate things a bit.

It would require them to wear special breathing apparatus', would cause malfunctions in their weapons, and would damage their equipment, making them easier prey for pirate raiders :)

Aha, i wish you would have said that from the start. It would have saved me some irritation, Should i TM you as well when i kick this race going? :)

Sure. Let me just secretly move a ship into a nearby position.

Secret IC:
One of the new Gorgon class Heavy Carriers slowly moves into a position near the planet, in the shadow of the sun's solar wind, masking it's presence. Onboard were two tankers filled with Liquid Hydrogen, ready to be dropped onto the planet.

OK People, The race is ON!

Start at your own leisure, and watch out..

One of the tankers drops into the upper atmosphere, and begins dumping hydrogen into the atmosphere, then quickly goes into space again to avoid the reaction.

The Elysium transports drops through the atmosphere at a dangerously rapid rate. As soon as it touches down it offloads and skyrockets again, leaving behind the people, their equipment, and a Phase-Gate in case they need to make a quick retreat. As four people quickly load into the two Warthogs to perform a survey of the area, the 5'th member of the team uses the paint gun they were given to mark off their territory. he then settles in to wait for the return of his comrades.

The Captain of the ship watched as patches of the planets atmosphere changed from Nitrogens clear color, to the yellowish color of Ammonium.

OOC: Your equipment should start receiving nitrous precipitate on it, signalling some kind of deterioration that you were not prepared for.

My guns are a new type of cramic material, Ammonium has no effect on ceramics. And the warthogs are built for use in almost any type of atmoshpere (including Ammonium), I'm sure they'll have some sort of defense against the gas.

OOC: Nitrous Precipitate would still be forming on your guns and equipment from the reactions in the atmosphere.

Yeah, there's no such thing as Nitrous Precipitate.

Are you aware of Chemistry, sir? The interaction between nitrogen and hydrogen would form two things: Ammonium Gas (or possible liquid on this planet), and Ammonia Crystals! The Crystals are the precipitate!

I am aware of chemistry (having received an A in the class), and even if I wasn't, it was the asking of a chemist who responded that there was no such thing that caused me to write what I did.

I have a couple of points and questions, OOCly. First of all, to react nitrogen gas with hydrogen gas to produce ammonia (not ammonium) requires around 300 atmospheres of pressure, a temperature of 500 C, and an iron oxide catalyst. The yield is also pretty low.

Second of all, I don't understand the weapons thing--if your planet has a 67 km diameter, and each team has a gun which fires 12 rounds, each producing 2 sq. metres of paint as claimed territory, then you can easily fit half a billion teams on the place. So what are they fighting for? Am I missing something?

The fight is just for fun, but I have also wondered about the fact that we can only claim 24 sq. feet. We're here to mine and exploit the planet, you can't do much of that when some of the equipment you bring is bigger than the area you're mining.

The fight is just for fun, but I have also wondered about the fact that we can only claim 24 sq. feet. We're here to mine and exploit the planet, you can't do much of that when some of the equipment you bring is bigger than the area you're mining.

That was cause i hoped more would join in, But in light of the few participants. There will be more paint ammo deliverd to all, as for the fighting, well there is allways that basic thing of wanting what your neighbour has. Plus the hole planet is'nt riddeld with geological fortunes, the area marked might be low yield while the next team find something so much better..

So, is anybody else going to post?

Why would it require Iron Oxide (Fe(II)O2 i beleive) as a catalyst?

Well, that's what i learned in Chemistry class. It's called the Haber process, and yes, Ginny, it requires temperatures of 400 degress C and 150-300 atmospheres to make it. And it's iron, not rust (which is iron oxide)

Can I come? Do you accept Jedi(1)? Can you send a transport to pick us up? Can i bring my Gamecube with Rogue Squadron III and Link: Wind Waker? LOL! This planet sounds like Hoth, albiet with more and better resources than wampas and the battle of Hoth level is very fitting.

Can I come? Do you accept Jedi(1)? Can you send a transport to pick us up? Can i bring my Gamecube with Rogue Squadron III and Link: Wind Waker? LOL! This planet sounds like Hoth, albiet with more and better resources than wampas and the battle of Hoth level is very fitting.

Race is allready on no new participants

Marker ammo is upped to x2 of the original..

Still waiting for anther participant to do something.

The Danimalian snowmobiles zoom out as the captain looks for a suitable place to set up. Their breathing apparatuses(sp?) on (I figured if the atmosphere is now toxic, I could put those in without editting my original post), the team readied their paint guns to stake their claim.