NationStates Jolt Archive

Here in Abydo we've nearly completely abolished the volunteer army by replacing front-line units with Initech Corporations Genetic Volunteers. Yes, genetic volunteers (A polite euphemism for clones), for the price of ten well-paid volunteers, you can have twenty expendable front-line units.

Available in 31 different designs, the ICGV units can be customised to your liking. Want an army of supermodels? Provide the genetic material, and we can have your first unit done in 36 hours--trained and outfitted (for an additional fee) for battle.

Take for instance, the Danmarcian Super-Reagan X03 Shock Trooper. This model is a prototype for the new Danmarcian front-line. Featuring every Conservative's favorite President, the Super-Reagan X03 is guaranteed to be a hit within the Danmarcian Military-Industrial Complex.

http://www.indistinct.org/images/superreagan.jpg

Find the idea of a Super-Conservative appalling? We've got Noam-Noam Chompsky, Trotsky-lodite, Lenin(ish), Darth Nader (always a hit with your Environmentalist Government). Our products are guaranteed to follow your direct orders to the letter, and in the case of the Super-Reagan, promptly forget them--always of use to the Crimocratic nation in your family.

Need something more photogenic? We've got a long line of Femme Fatales. Want customised work? Send us your requirements, we'll send you a bid. Serious requests only.

Extravagant pic! However this is one calamitous situation that does not plague my dominion. There are no "volunteers" you are forced to serve or you are decapitated!

Ah, but you're placing the defense of your nation and your neck in the hands of people whom you've threatened with death. What do you do when your military decides to use you in their King Louis and Marie Antoinette reenactment? Initech ICGV units are guaranteed not to ever conceive of such a treasonous offence.

Ah yes, a coup. Nonetheless, that is what our re-education camps are for. Mind washing is great insurance. I shall leave you to your thoughts...

((((OCC:That is an excellent picture!!))))

Could I please have more detail? I don't exactly like putting my nation's life on the line in the hands of clones. Although since I have an extremely large armored division, it would be nice to put humans in the spare tanks and planes and leave clones to die in the field, instead of good soldiers dieing and having the remaining twenty thousand tanks of mine lie in a warehouse.

We want 1000 clones of Brent Young(personal pleasure :twisted:) , and 1 million clones of Erin Wasson(our new army)

Derscon:

How much more detail do you need? Our clones' training begins at gestation, where we seperate them into different layers of importance. The lower level embryos--units who will be doing repetitive tasks or front line units--are bombarded with X-rays, which causes them to split. Then over the course of gestation, each level of importance is given a different environment--with generals and intellectuals getting provided a better environment than a human womb.

After their thirty-six hour gestation period. They go through intensive training, beginning with the implantation of control words, which serve as a last resort should the training fail--it never has, but the control words are there none-the-less.The training regimen is highly specialised for each task, providing soldiers which--while most may not be able to think independently--are professionals.

Each unit of 50 000 generally comes with three Alpha strategists--your top-of-the-line general. It also includes, Four Beta battalion commanders--a second layer of strategists obsessively compulsively incapable of seeing the larger picture. Also, 1041 Gamma platoon leaders and tacticians. The rest are made up of Delta and Epsilon foot-soldiers, Deltas are the equivalent of your usual armies corporals, capable of some complex thought inorder to plan a course of action to complete their orders, but inable to go beyond that. Epsilon foot-soldiers are equivalent to your draftee, only trained far better. They are completely incapable of higher-level thought, leaving them the best choice for a traditional military action.

Depending on your circumstances, we can tweak the make-up of your clone army, providing you with the perfect military force, something impossible to obtain from normal recruitment methods.

Doujin: Is that the bull-rider Brent Young or someone else? We do not have these models, if you could provide genetic material, and a bid via telegram (in Abydoan Horiis please), we can begin construction of your military.

Clones? How much for an extra million infantry? (Mainly to be used as cannon fodder in another RP I'm doing)

They don't have to be special, just able to hold a gun and chuck an EMP grenade.

This is an outrage! You are defiling the sacredness of becoming a warrior! Being a soldier is a responsibility and an honor matched by no other, and you want to put clones up to the front!? You do nothing but create warrior slaves to do your bidding. Clones will never equal a true warrior on the battle front, and they will never match their honor.

//signed//
Oagar Doomblade
Warlord of the Ferrott

Derscon:

How much more detail do you need? Our clones' training begins at gestation, where we seperate them into different layers of importance. The lower level embryos--units who will be doing repetitive tasks or front line units--are bombarded with X-rays, which causes them to split. Then over the course of gestation, each level of importance is given a different environment--with generals and intellectuals getting provided a better environment than a human womb.

After their thirty-six hour gestation period. They go through intensive training, beginning with the implantation of control words, which serve as a last resort should the training fail--it never has, but the control words are there none-the-less.The training regimen is highly specialised for each task, providing soldiers which--while most may not be able to think independently--are professionals.

Each unit of 50 000 generally comes with three Alpha strategists--your top-of-the-line general. It also includes, Four Beta battalion commanders--a second layer of strategists obsessively compulsively incapable of seeing the larger picture. Also, 1041 Gamma platoon leaders and tacticians. The rest are made up of Delta and Epsilon foot-soldiers, Deltas are the equivalent of your usual armies corporals, capable of some complex thought inorder to plan a course of action to complete their orders, but inable to go beyond that. Epsilon foot-soldiers are equivalent to your draftee, only trained far better. They are completely incapable of higher-level thought, leaving them the best choice for a traditional military action.

Depending on your circumstances, we can tweak the make-up of your clone army, providing you with the perfect military force, something impossible to obtain from normal recruitment methods.

Obviously I'd train them more than the genetics could possibly allow, but how much would twenty million frontline expendible infantry cost?

Derscon: Due to the bulk order, you'd get a 20% discount, bringing the total to 160 Billion horiis--half payable in advance, the other half after successful delivery. Once the full payment has been delivered, we will deliver your control word, and purge it from our systems. Seeing how your nation cannot afford the total amount without taking funds from your citizens, we would be willing to arrange for alternate forms of payment or credit.

Central Facehuggeria: 1 Billion horiis, half payable in advance, the other half after a successful delivery. Once full payment has been delivered, we will deliver your control word for the population.

Please be advised, that these prices are for Epsilon and Delta front-line forces, these do not included the more expensive Alpha, Beta, and Gamma units who are capable of higher-level thought and planning. These units will follow your orders to the letter, if an order is incorrect, or there are extenuating circumstances on the battlefield, the nation of Abydo and Initech Corporation cannot take responsibility for any failures.

I wish you wouldn't insult me like that. I have PLENTY of money without having to take from my citizens. Besides, I have military spending majored so pretty much everything else (what scraps of anything else there was) is scrapped. I have a remaining defense budget of 500 billion. I will take your original payment plan. Half now, half later. I hate credit. Thanks for the discount, though!

Deal. Could we have them trained to use CF weapons? We are sending over the training versions of said equipment with our payment

*500,000,000 million and training equipment sent.*

OOC:
Nice use of BNE.

Of course its a shame that the processes detailed therein don't actually work...

;)

OOC:

We really don't need the Bokanovsky Process though... people seem willing enough to remove higher-order thought from themselves on their own, that using chemicals during gestation would be redundant. ;)

Can I interest you in a supply of Soma?

*Wires remaining 4 billion Horiis to complete order*

The prototype you sent was absolutely amazing. Not only was my "manufactured soldier" an excellant shot and very loyal, ((we try not to use the word clone here)) but he couldnt bear better resemblence to the gipper himself. We may be contacting your nation again regarding more Super-Reagan X03 Shock Troopers. Thankyou again for doing business to secure the Republic of Danmarc. You are much appreciated.

Telegrams, telegrams... thanks for your orders.

*The other 500,000,000 million is wired to complete the payment*

The last of the payment has been wired. Thank you.

General Ivan Andropov III
Supreme Military Commander of the Derscon Imperial Forces