NationStates Jolt Archive

A recent report has shown that The Iron Fragment's main source of fossil fuel, the Antarctican colony/oil rig (lent by Shinoxia) is beginning to falter. While the effects are not yet critical for The Fragment, oil withdrawal time has been needed to be increased by half an hour to gain the normal amounts collected. While The Fragment will not be meeting destruction in the imminent future, we have begun to study where to next allocate our rig team.
Since we do not have experience on the best locations of resources on a global scale, and who owns these points, we have decided to post an international inquiry on who owns abundant fossil fuel locations that they would be willing to share with The Iron Fragment.
First and foremost, the nation should be tolerant of our special race. We are machines, yes, but we hold no grudges against humans, and hope you return the feelings. We do not mind mingling with humans, but we are knowledgeable that there might be some who might be distrubed by our... ethnic background (OOC: For anyone who cares, the nation's modern tech. The AI is postmodern, yes, but the droid designs and weapons are modern tech. Basically, they're just really smart with sucky stuff compared to their brains :) )
We also ask that the area be easily reachable by ship. We have used one of our numerous multi-purpose ferries to ship oil from Antarctica every two months, and wish to continue this working routine. Any place in the sea or near the coastline is all right with us.
We will pledge in advance that we will not be placing any military in the area. The only militant droids visiting will be the guards on the ferry, which will only come by every two months. We will also not practice large amounts of any other industry or research, though we will possibly dispatch a small group of research droids to study the local geology, biology, etc. We will use the area mainly for fossil fuel recovery.
So please, if you are willing of helping us, then please tell us. We can negotiate the payment once we hear of willing helpers. Thank you all in advance.

The Iron Fragment

The United Socialist States of Schultaria Prime has an offer which we would like to propose to the nation of The Iron Fragment.

Our island nation is completely devoid of any natural crude oil, so our industries sought more feasible alternative sources. Nearly a decade of research refinement led to to creation of state-sponsored ethanol production facilities throughout the nation. We have essentially retooled our entire society around the production of ethanol and ethanol-derived hydrocarbons.

We would be more than willing to give you the hard data on our research into producing complex hydrocarbon compounds through ethanol, as well as good portion of our surplus at a 50% discount until your nation could develop an agricultural industry sustainable enough to produce ethanol locally. Please contact our nation if you are interested in this offer.

With sincere regards,
Director Joan Covey

The United Socialist States of Schultaria Prime has an offer which we would like to propose to the nation of The Iron Fragment.

Our island nation is completely devoid of any natural crude oil, so our industries sought more feasible alternative sources. Nearly a decade of research refinement led to to creation of state-sponsored ethanol production facilities throughout the nation. We have essentially retooled our entire society around the production of ethanol and ethanol-derived hydrocarbons.

We would be more than willing to give you the hard data on our research into producing complex hydrocarbon compounds through ethanol, as well as good portion of our surplus at a 50% discount until your nation could develop an agricultural industry sustainable enough to produce ethanol locally. Please contact our nation if you are interested in this offer.

With sincere regards,
Director Joan Covey

This proposition is a one we would most interested in. Although it will be a long task to redesign our droids for ethanol usage and grow the agricultural compounds required for development, we would be glad to share the research data with you and buy fuel from you until we can develop it on our own. We also promise not to go sharing this information to everyone without your consent first. Also, if you are to ever require robotic help, contact us. We'll be in your debt for a long time.

However, we are still interested in finding a place to gather fossil fuel. Redesigning a population of 400 million is not an easy task, and will take a long while. During this time, fuel is required for those droids still operating on an obsolete engine.

The Republic of Demidia would like to propose an offer.

Our country has one of the largest oil deposits in the world available to us. Just within our coastal waters. We currently have 3 oil rigs stationed there, all owned by the government. The McGill, The Cross, and The Lesperance. Due to the abundance of fresh crude, we are willing to offer you the use of the smallest of the three, the Cross.

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We require 15% of the sale of the oil annually.

Please accept our offer.

The Republic of Demidia would like to propose an offer.

Our country has one of the largest oil deposits in the world available to us. Just within our coastal waters. We currently have 3 oil rigs stationed there, all owned by the government. The McGill, The Cross, and The Lesperance. Due to the abundance of fresh crude, we are willing to offer you the use of the smallest of the three, the Cross.

We require 15% of the sale of the oil annually.

Please accept our offer.

We are sorry, but we would prefer to operate transportable rigging of our own. Simple, yes, but we like to use our own operating equipment. We thank you for your offer anyway. Good luck on your business.

Within Falasturian territorial waters is a small but fairly extensive oil field under the sea. We currently have 2 rigs stationed in this area, however there is room for plenty more. We are willing to offer you a contract for the construction and operation of a rig within this oil field on the small condition that 1% of profits are given as payment to Falastur (we can easily do without payment, but I don't like to miss an opportunity....I just offer very gentle terms).

Would The Iron Fragment accept this offer? We are open to negotiation over this issue if you have any problems.

Within Falasturian territorial waters is a small but fairly extensive oil field under the sea. We currently have 2 rigs stationed in this area, however there is room for plenty more. We are willing to offer you a contract for the construction and operation of a rig within this oil field on the small condition that 1% of profits are given as payment to Falastur (we can easily do without payment, but I don't like to miss an opportunity....I just offer very gentle terms).

Would The Iron Fragment accept this offer? We are open to negotiation over this issue if you have any problems.

We would gladly accept this offer, though 1% seems a touch small. Well, whatever rocks your boat. We will soon send a ferry to establish our rig in the area. Our calculations are showing that the time needed to drill our normal amount of fossil fuel in Antarctica is increasing almost weekly, so departure will begin very soon. Let us hope good for our mutual future.

OOC Falastur really doesn't need the money from your drilling, we have a good enough economy already....but I thought it was best to ask for something...therefore I asked for an amount that would almost guarantee you accepted, and means the charge is more there in order to have a charge for drilling in our land, less because we actually want the money.

But seeing as you agree it is small, let's make it 2%. 8)

IC We look forward to greeting your ferry and showing it to the area of the oil field so it can establish the rig, and we also hope good for our futures. Upon receiving basic information about the workers for your oil rig, we will issue them with long-term work visas for Falastur. Other than that, we only have to say that we wish you all the best for your drillings.

This proposition is a one we would most interested in. Although it will be a long task to redesign our droids for ethanol usage and grow the agricultural compounds required for development, we would be glad to share the research data with you and buy fuel from you until we can develop it on our own. We also promise not to go sharing this information to everyone without your consent first. Also, if you are to ever require robotic help, contact us. We'll be in your debt for a long time.


We are glad that Schultaria Prime can be of some help in this area. Our researchers in this area have placed a great amount of pride in the self-sufficiency of our energy economy, and jump at the chance to help others in crises such as this. The core of the Schultarian ethanol research team has been given full authority to assist you by special order of the Schultarian National Assembly and will be ready to visit your nation at a moment's notice.

In order to secure our data, it will be held in 3 of our SPATEX Mark 2 portable supercomputers. Their drives contain not just a portion but the sum of all of our ethanol research. From the schematics of our tried-and- true ethanol manufacturing plants to several high-level research projects involving hydrocarbon "cracking" to make more useful polymers will be at your disposal.

Also, to help provide a suitable start to your agricultural industry, several professors from the University of Schultaria Prime - Schultaria Prime have developed a new derivation of potato that contains 3 times the normal sucrose content and can be cultivated in 40 percent less time. This should help to provide you with an immediate boost to the ethanol demand that you will most certainly require. However, if more agricultural assistance is required, please feel free to contact the College of Agriculture in the city of Schultaria Prime.

And, as per our previous contact, we will be willing to sell you not the majority but all of our annual surplus at a price reduction of 50 to 75 percent. The prices can be found at our national storefront here: http://www.freewebs.com/emschultz/nationalstore.htm

Hoping for your success,
Central Director Elliot Schultz

We have what you need. We have lots of big spacious rivers so you can you your ships and we have tons of oil. Also my people will not descrimanate aganst your workers. You can operate your own equitment and basikly do whatever you want on a few conditions:
1) don't mess with my oil fields or trade ships
2) we would like 10% profit

if you have problems with this we can negotiate.