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Allanean Gravbike Flies On Wave of Controversy [FT, Open]

Allanea
08-02-2008, 20:42
Across dozens of nations in the whole wide world, there are ads – ads depicting a young elven lady. She is known as Singular Samantha, a performer in the Strippers for Liberty charity group. But this time she's not working for charity, she's working for herself. In the ads, Singular Sam is riding, or posing next to, a gravbike. Always, Samantha wears the most revealing clothing local publication laws allow. In Allanean publications, she's often naked and doing stuff that's generally not considered fit to print. Elsewhere, she's wearing G-strings, a mini-skirt, even a burqa in one country – always going for 'as little clothing as we can legally put in there'.

Such is the world's first peek of the Swifter-6.


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Allanean Arms “Swifter-6” Gravbike

The are many vehicles that allow their users the pleasure of flight. There are personal anti-grav effectors of various kinds, there are gravcars and planes and helicopters. But we at Allanean arms believe that nothing can compare with the sheer unbridled speed, power, and glory of the gravbike. And the perfect Gravbike is, of course, the Swifter-6.

Massing less than three hundred kilograms, the vehicle is equipped with high-power gravitic effectors and an inertial dampener shield (though in athmosphere you might still get thrown off by wind resistance if you do something completely drastic like try and take it to five miles' height and rapid-dive). It is equipped, like all Allanean Arms products, with a high-speed engine and high-power stereo system.

Speed: Safe up to 450 kph, but further acceleration is possible (and extremely unadvisable). We at Allanean Arms are not responsible for any damage to your person, your bike, and innocent bystanders that occur through use of the bike at speeds where athmospheric resistance becomes a hazard. This is a bike, not an airplane.

Mass: 250 kilograms

Production locale: Beta Dallas Forgeworld

Cost: $15,000

Sales:

New Dornalia: 10,000,000 bikes per annum.

Revenue: 150,000,000 dollars per annum

OOC: Please don't post orders. Posts with orders will likely be ignored. Just post how many of those sell in your country per year, and which significant characters in your nation purchase them. Better yet, post the IC reactions' of your nation's people, institutions, newspapers etc. to this bike or the ad.
New Dornalia
08-02-2008, 21:50
Sales of the bike have proven particularly popular in New Dornalia's built up urban zones, such as Los Angeles, California, Hong Kong, China, and Hammer and Tongs, Luxembourgia. Average sales from Allanean Arms dealers in these areas are not released yet from New Dornalian dealers, but reports indicate they are hard to keep in stock, especially in terms of orders from food delivery services such as Chinese takeout/takeaway restaurants. (OOC: Figure about several million a day.) Reportedly, famous celebrities, such as newsman Percival "Chess" Headman, Michael Jensen of Jensen Design Bureau, and even Ultimate Fighter "Big Rock" Thompson have all purchased the machine.

However, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco and Archbishop Fiorelli of New York of the Catholic Church of New Dornalia condemned the Singular Sam ads, which in New Dornalia are depicted with a simple, if very revealing bikini, calling them "Exploitative to Women, and a symbol of the Crass Pursuit of Excessive Materialism." Also, Triumph Engineering of Solihull, UK, Earth SSR, has declared it will try to match the "Wonderswifter," saying, "If they can do it, so can we. Triumph did it in the 1960s with the Bonneville, we can do it again!"
Allanea
24-05-2008, 14:30
Bumped.