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Official announcement


With the latest developments, the Aerospace Logistics is experiencing constant increase in materials requirements, prompting increased adoption of nanotechnology in material science and manufacturing.

While a major player in science, the company until recently has not been particularly specialized in nanomaterial production. Seeing large potential gains in this field, we are pursuing the creation of the Nanotechnology Science and and Manufacturing Consortium. The consortium goals will be research and development in all fields of nanotechnology, as well as general material science.


The primary goals of NSMC are currently stated as:
1. Exchange of nanotechnology-related information between members.
2. Unrestricted trade between members in nanotechnological and associated materials.
3. Advanced joint research and development programs in the field.
4. Coordination of nanomaterials recycling and reuse.

Members of this Consortium can be nations, national or private institutes and laboratories, companies, renowned scientists, or other groups with interest and capabilities in the fields of nanotechnology and materials science.

There is no entrance fee or strict requirements, as we are looking for serious long-term partners for mutually beneficial relationship. Both in capability enhancement and multi-trillion potential for sales, this field offers major gains for all consortium participants. Advanced materials already are an integral part of such our products as R1 rifle (holding the gross foreign sales record among firearms at over $3 trillion), MLSS-21 missile, Mudskipper class combat hydroplane, multiple space systems, and the future Tiger III fighter with projected run in excess of a million airframes.

We welcome all applicants.




Current NSMC members and their key facilities are:

- Aerospace Logistics Corporation, Research City of Gecko
- The Peoples Freedom, Hallen Center for Nanotechnology and Biology research
- Free Dominion of Vetaka, Jaxville Laboratory Complex
- Kargucagstan, New People’s Party Institute of Science and Learning at Durn
- Izistan, Edward C. Cullen Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Battleford
- The American Privateer, Pasteur Space Lab
- Pale Rider Arms
- Perimeter Defense, Gamma Labs
- Wagdog, University of Tailville DR


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OOC:
This will be an IC consortium, but will include OOC exchange of information in the field. You don't need a large nation to join if you can assist others with OOC information, but otherwise members are supposed to have considerable education/science budget. Well, I think you understand, technology sharing has to be mutual.

For the indication of IC scale, our education/science expenses are N$75 trillion dollars; this isn't a threshold, just an example.


And, please, try to post in more detail than one line.

Good ideas on what to write:
- Some intro on why have you decided to join.
- Names of your laboratories, companies, institutions which work in the field.
- What exactly advancements have they made? Carbon nanotubes production, micromechanical systems, molecular research, large-scale manufacturing?
- Possibly, OOC notes on your potential involvement (IC roleplaying, OOC knowledge, just science-focused nation).


P.S. Our Draftroom thread for purely OOC nanotech discussion is here: http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=1423

State Department Communication
The Holy Reich constantly strives to maintain a technological edge. One of our primary partners in this venture is the Hallen Center for Nanotechnology and Biology research. Through various grants, loans, endorsements and the like, their current annual budget is around NS3 Trillion. They have already created prototypes and have in successful commercial product. As such we'd like to ask ALC if we could join.

We have some ideas for nano-tech, and would be willing to assist in the development of economic and medical nanotech alongside yourself.

Finally! A nation interested in what we are. Our Republic would like to work with yours to increase developments in the field of nanotechnology. Perhaps we can revolutionize science. Telegram me personally, I'm extremely interested.

President Atar Algahar

Aerospace Logistics Corporation

We welcome the Hallen Center for Nanotechnology and Biology research as a participant in the Consortium. You will receive access to our developments, as well as open membership in the joint Consortium programs.

Other applications are being considered.



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[ OOC, to The American Privateer: Please add some more detail if you could. Companies, fields, goals, or something else. ]

Official Free Dominion of Vetaka Diplomatic Message:

To: Aerospace Logistics Corporation
From: Dr Andy Farmer, Head of Vetakan Research Council, Head of Operations within Pearce Weapons Incorporated. Personal Representative of the Vetakan Government.

Subject: Application to Join

Greetings,

After recieving your general announcement regarding the NSMC the Vetakan Research Council which represents the Vetakan Military, Pearce Weapons Incorporated and numerous other comapanies within the Vetakan Dominion. After a unanimous vote by the Vetakan Research Council and with approval from the Senate. The Vetakan Government wishes to apply to join the NSMC as part of application we wish to pledge a total of 2.5 Trillion USD immediately and begin a pernament annual pledge of 1 Trillion USD.

We would also like to offer the Jaxville Laboratory Complex as a possible location for research. The Vetakan Government will foot maintence, wages and operations costs. Would this be sufficent Vetaka is commited to technological advancement and peaceful co-operative research.

Yours

Dr Andy Farmer

Head of Vetakan Research Council
Head of Operations within Pearce Weapons Incorporated.
Personal Representative of the Vetakan Government.

To: Aerospace Logistics Corporation, Community of Vault 10
From: Dun Xu Qian, Secretary of the Department of Information, Durn, Neo-fascist Conglomerate of Kargucagstan

Subject: Re: Nanotechnology Science and Manufacturing Consortium - international venture.

The Kyrios of the Neo-fascist Conglomerate of Kargucagstan has reviewed your proposal for a consortium dealing with the development and dissemination of nanotechnological developments. In his wisdom, the Kyrios has been drafting a new Plan to launch the scientific progress of His Great Nation through coordinated development of a full-scale particle accelerator, commercially viable fusion power plant, and a space station, among many other, smaller projects. The Kyrios believes that the consortium of minds and resources that you propose would be a fine shining star to guide the feet of the People.

Pending acceptance into this pact, the Kyrios is willing to authorize the cooperation of the “Kargucagstani New People’s Party Institute of Science and Learning at Durn,” the leading university of the nation. At the moment the Kyrios has directed funding towards many worthy fields, generously giving a bounteous amount of funding for the education system that hovers around $2 trillion USD per year. Of this, the Nanotechnology Science and Manufacturing Consortium can expect upwards of $119 billion per year.

Regards,
-Dun Xu Qian,
Secretary of the Department of Information,
Durn,
Neo-fascist Conglomerate of Kargucagstan.





OOC: I don’t know everything there is about nanotechnology, but I know a bit and more importantly, I’m willing to learn. Perhaps a dedicated list of objectives should be developed to guide the research of the Consortium?

Our Naval Observatory, in conjunction with Merck & Co. inc., The Privateer Space Agency, and Tortuga State University are currently working to invent a new form of medical nanite based on an existing prototype for a construction nanite. These nanites use a Genetically Engineered form of E. coli to spit out basic materials, which are then changed into different nanites by the Clarion Construction Nanites. These we have in abundance, and are willing to hand them over to you for the sake of your own scientific breakthroughs. (OOC: Read Rey by Michael Chricton for more on this) We are currently working on a new form of Nanite called the Arachne. These are going to be used for what we have termed "Body-Tissue Weaving."

So far, this is what we have, and we are looking into new ones, which we have dubbed Raptors, which eat viruses and bacteria and then deliver them to the E. coli where they are transformed into basic components for the nanites.

We are willing to give you research space in the Pasteur Space Lab for work alongside us in this important field of research.

The Edward C. Cullen Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Battleford and its partner companies (Nutana Chemical Industries and Ajax Material Science) are interested in Consortium membership.

Several graduates from our Center have gone on to found the enterprises that form the core of any Izistani nanotechnological research; Nutana and Ajax among them. Nutana has invested heavily in agrichemical applications for nanotech research, while Ajax has been the most successful of Izistani composite material markers (supplies the aerospace market with over sixty percent of all composite fuel and oxidizer tanks). The Center, thanks to industry contacts, has access to Beluga Aerospace’s orbital wake shield facility and lab space (human run or telooperated depending on the schedule) in the Daemonfels lunar base.

Hopefully our application is seen as sufficient.

OOC: tag for post. Ill get this up when I get home tommorow V10, but I wanted to express my interest. I have a fairly large research network of top tier colleges (think MIT/CMU) who cooperate on projects like this.

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To: Dr Andy Farmer
Vetakan Research Council

The Dominion of Vetaka is welcome to the Nanotechnology Science and Manufacturing Consortium. We'll set up direct communication and relations with the Jaxville Laboratory Complex as soon as possible.




To: Edward C. Cullen Center for Nanotechnology
University of Battleford, Izistan

From now on, Edward C. Cullen Center is welcome as a member of the consortium. As all members, you can use the Lightning Communications ultra-broadband satellite network for integration with other facilities. The advancements achieved will surely form ground for further research and be improved in this joint program.




To: The American Privateer

After some consideration, we have decided that your programs will go in line with the Consortium long-term objectives. We'll start the communication with your organizations shortly to further clarify the information.




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[OOC: Particularly to T.A.P., remember this is MT. The point is to explore and apply what is actually feasible in close timeframe - don't get carried too far away. ]

OOC: Also a tag for now V10. My universities and other scientific organizations in general work very closely with their Vetakan and Kampferian counterparts by now, particularly my capital's university which (ICly speaking) is arguably as much a part of the Vetakan research complex as of my own. I'll need to go over the numbers, but our financial commitments to the NSMC will probably be similar as well.

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To: The American Privateer

After some consideration, we have decided that your programs will go in line with the Consortium long-term objectives. We'll start the communication with your organizations shortly to further clarify the information.




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[OOC: Particularly to T.A.P., remember this is MT. The point is to explore and apply what is actually feasible in close timeframe - don't get carried too far away. ]

OOC: Yeah, I know. People are amazed whenever I reveal just how advanced nano-tech is in the modern age.

[ OOC: Here - http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=1423 - is our fully OOC thread by now. It requires quick registration, but everyone else here, as well as most designers in NS, is registered on that board, so it makes sense to join. The thread is just about discussion of what is feasible within MT and MT+1 in the field.

Could you post more information there?

This thread will be IC, so better just reply there, it's a better discussion place. ]

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To whom it may concern,

Pale Rider Arms would gladly join such a venture. With our current capabilities (primarily consisting of the synthesis of medical carcerands and long lengths of fullerine), we believe ourselves to be a valuable asset to the cause, and would like to offer our expertise, facilities, and financial support. If this is acceptable, please contact me at your earliest possible opportunity.

Yours,
Daniel Quetzal



OOC: TAP: Michael Crichton writes fiction. Fiction isn't real. If it were, we'd all be fleeing from raptors using our magical wish-granting spheres while being devoured alive by sentient body-snatching nanites.

The Grand Unified Federation of Perimeter Defense has had much success with extremely small-scale mechanical computing and photon-exchange computing for nanotechnological constructs; we, however, have never been able to produce any platforms for them. We thus have created efficient controllers for nanites, but cannot actually produce any nanites themselves.

In light of this incapacity, Research Services Administration's Gamma Labs - Nanotech Sector applies for membership in the NSMC. We will comply with full mutual sharing of technologies until the penultimate level of military security. We also offer the "Logothetes" research complex in the Mercer Desert as a facility for the NSMC's requirements. The Logothetes is a heavily converted nuclear silo/bunker with the latest in research equipment and direct links to the Perimeter Defense intranet via satellite, but has recently fell into disuse due to relocation of more "prominent" facilities to the capital of Cyvils. Nevertheless, one will find Logothetes to be as good as any.

Favored topics are "gray goo" nanolathing for production of highly efficient, strong, and low-density materials. (see K. Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation) Also, the usage of nanites as radiation cleanup tools or in medical apps. Of lower interest is the introduction of usable-spectrum RFID/tracking nanites with high durability; i.e. nanites being present in the breathable atmosphere of an area, then scanning the genetics of a person who inhales them, and finally activating themselves as tracking systems within the body. This is a far-fetched concept but may prove useful within small environments where security is mild.

Thank you for any consideration.

To whom it may concern,

Pale Rider Arms would gladly join such a venture. With our current capabilities (primarily consisting of the synthesis of medical carcerands and long lengths of fullerine), we believe ourselves to be a valuable asset to the cause, and would like to offer our expertise, facilities, and financial support. If this is acceptable, please contact me at your earliest possible opportunity.

Yours,
Daniel Quetzal



OOC: TAP: Michael Crichton writes fiction. Fiction isn't real. If it were, we'd all be fleeing from raptors using our magical wish-granting spheres while being devoured alive by sentient body-snatching nanites.

OOC: True, but the technologies he writes about are very real. The Fiction are the stories, but the science is very real.

[TO] The esteemed Aerospace Logistics
[FROM] Kampferian Association of Higher Education (KAHE)

With one of the highest tier research networks in the world, the Kampferian College and University Program for Advanced Research (KCUPAR) would willingly throw its hat into the ring of collaboraters. Well known establishments such as Kampfers Stadt University and North Point Military Academy as well as lesser known but still top quality schools such as Alfred Molher Technological Institute will join hands in their continued research partnership and will gladly welcome assisting teams from other nations onto their campuses for the use of their state of the art equipment. While this program does not recieve heavy government funding, private donors have enhanced the quality of the program to a level that one could consider the KCUPAR to be the premier college level research organisiation in the world. The KCUPAR hopes that by adding themselves into the mix, they will be able to influence the day to day lives of millions, billions, and perhaps trillions of citizens in a positive manner.

Sincerely,
KAHE

OOC: kinda forgot about what i was saying at the end, so if it stops abruptly, my bad.

OOC: True, but the technologies he writes about are very real. The Fiction are the stories, but the science is very real.

Yes, which explains why we're having such an easy job cloning all sorts of critters en masse from tiny fragments of DNA, twenty years after he wrote Jurassic Park. Or why we're seeing even the most basic nanites five after he wrote Prey. And those wonderful time machines we use on vacation. Oh, wait, we don't. I wonder why?

Anyway, could we please take this to the already provided OOC thread (http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=1423), so that we don't clutter this one further?

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To: Daniel Quetzal
Pale Rider Arms

We welcome your company into the Nanotechnology Science and Manufacturing Consortium, to exchange the achieved expertise in nanomaterial production. Our company's industrial capacity being low at the moment, we expect very beneficial relationship.



To: Research Services Administration
Perimeter Defense

Most consortium members currently don't possess significant nanite technology either, but we are conducting active joint research in the field. It will take significant time to achieve the goals you are aiming for. Nonetheless, this will be sooner with more efforts combined, so welcome to the NSMC.





[OOC:
To Perimeter Defense: Keep in mind our main manufacturing focus close on the roadmap is just nanomaterials; nanites are the research part. I've posted some thoughts on what can be achieved within MT.
Also, I hope you mean scale appropriate for the nation. Most members perhaps have several complexes the size of Livermore and Black Mesa combined for nanotech research alone.

To potential members: This consortium is generally MT, but, if you plan transition to PMT, it might be a starting point. However, as in here, the nanotechnology will be limited to nanomaterials and non-self-replicating, simple nanites.]

OOC:

We're still accepting new members. I expect 10 nations, preferably large, before we start figuring out the roadmap and "launch" the NSMC timeline.


First roadmap version will be done then.
Currently it includes:
- Carbon nanotube and fullerene mass production
- Monofilament nanotubes development
- Nanite research

From: University of Tailville DR, Office of The Chancelloress
To: Aerospace Logistics Corportation.

As my esteemed colleague Dr. Farmer in the Vetakan Research Council has already stated, Wagdog's universities are now virtually brethren to their Vetakan counterparts in advancing the causes of scientific and industrial progress. Our advances are generally made together, as the case of the Fenix antishipping missile which this university supplied much of the guidance algorithm research for, and our various ongoing projects in both civilian and defense fields. Hence, over years of cooperation, our specialities are similar as well; systems analysis, integration, and testing on a variety of scales.

To this end, I am pleased to submit our request to join this consortium; on behalf of the entire Wagdian university research system and the Department of Education overseeing same. We would be particularly grateful to assist whatever projects the Vetakan Research Council should request or be assigned, in this way doubling efficiency and allowing greater economies-of-effort regarding those projects. Our contributions are being assessed as we speak, but alas word from the Treasury Department hasn't been forthcoming and so we shall have to inform you of the precise immediate and annual contributions at a later date. However, we expect them to be much of a scale with the Vetakan commitment, so we can at least provide a sense of what we are prepared to contribute as is only fair.

Sincerely,
Bethany M.E. Tells
Chancelloress, University of Tailville District of the Revolution

Aerospace Logistics Corporation

To: Bethany M.E. Tells
University of Tailville DR

With this integration between you and and your Vetakan colleagues, we see it as natural for you to join the Consortium. So, your university, as well as others from your nation, are accepted and welcome. We will assist with installing secure LightCom satellite link equipment, to provide direct link to other research centers.



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Our intentions in the NSMC are very long-term; it is only our final objectives that are lofty goals. Realistically, nanomaterials are indeed a major concern and discussion topic for us and partner nations.

In addition to the Logothetes, Perimeter Defense proposes the creation of an NSMC intranet over dedicated fiber-optic lines, for rapid and unrestricted mutual data transfer and conferencing among members. We will shoulder the costs and provide the equipment for this endeavor.

OOC: Perimetrian research is more focused on offensive weapons tech at the moment. The Logothetes complex is thus the only one that can be offered for now. It's highly concentrated in terms of capability, however, and being an old nuclear silo, has facilities for testing the materials such as blast-door rooms and radiation-soaked areas.

Borsevikh Armored Industries is requesting entrance into this Consortium with support of the Chekh government and giving all of the knowledge learnt from the Consortium to be conveyed back to the Chekh government at a price and shared profits. We are currently working on only one project, Fear Syndrome, it is a full-body battle suit put together by layers of Kevlar and dragon skin armor. It is layered with hundreds of wires for better communication and it's main purpose of over-loading and enemies' ability to fight back. Due to the recent success of the flash-bang grenade in Chekh police forces and the Kopviesk Mercenary Company in suppresion of criminals. The suit will have two hundred sixteen colors for each cable and would be changing at a rate of ten thousand a minute. This suit's current prototype the FS-16 Рыба is currently an over-bulky version but in corporate studies it causes seizures in 32% of men at 40 meters, 61% of men at 20 meters, and 83% of men within twenty meters. The color pattern can be turned off by a voice command in the current prototype. What keeps the current users of the FS-16 Рыба not to fall victims to their allies flashing is a low-grade color translator that stops colors over the four hundred to be translated and instead shows no color.

(Basically it's like a Christmas tree-soldier :-/.)

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Seeing as the relations within NMSC are established, and the initial group is formed, we proceed to coordinating the R&D efforts.

Currently, our short-term roadmap will be defined as following:

Research Sector
0.5 year: Study of nanotube-reinforced metal matrix composites.
1 year: Study of application of single-walled nanotubes and related materials in high-frequency electronics.
3 years: Laboratory development of direct microwave control and power nanorobotic machines.
TBD: Study of potential industrial usability of nanorobotic machines.

Heavy Industry Sector
2 years: Manufacturing of bulk fullerene and bulk fiber chop at practical cost (within $1000/kg).
4 years: Production of monofilament multi-walled nanotube fibers (within $5000/kg).
TBD: High-grade materials production.

Light Industry Sector
1 year: High-power supercapacitor elements, using nanotube conductors.
3 years: High-frequency electronics application of nanomaterials.
TBD: Digital processing systems using nanomaterial technology.

All members are invited to participate in discussion and determination of priority tasks.




OOC: See the Draftroom thread for details.
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