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Greetings and salutations on this most memorable of days.

Our small country's yearly defense budget has exceeded a trillion $NS for the first time through a combination of economic growth and obsessively paranoid military spending and in order to celebrate our Eternal king has announced that a trillion $NS a year for the next ten years be devoted to a "special project"

companies are asked to submit a proposal for a "super project" that will cost up to ten trillion $NS and take up to a decade to complete. it can be land sea or air based but must be something out of the ordinary.

Our Eternal King is a man of vast vision, incredible imagination and rabid paranoia and is also more than a little unbalanced so ideas that lesser men may find "bizarre" "crazy" or "an idea only a madman could love" will not be beyond his incredibly open mind but all technology must be "real"

if you wish to participate just leave the name of your country the name of your company the name of your representative and a brief outline of your idea

thank you for your time

From the desk of the Grand Vizier

Years of research by the Northstar Corparation into genetics and biological engenering has led to the discovery tah tman is not the supreme being on this planet. It is - THE MIGHTY ANT! However due to gravity they can only grow so big before colapsing under their own weight. Therefore we wish to spend $10 billion creating a super species of ant wich ignores gravity, and has computer chips in their brains so we can use them to conquer the globe and enslave all you puny humans! Ha ha hah aha haha ha ha ha! Ha aha haha hah ah ha ha ha ha!!!!! Ha ha ha haah ha haah aaha haaha ahah ah.... wait, did i say that last bit out loud?

((OOC: I am assuming this is MT/PMT))

The Emorden-Geist Weapons Manufacturing Corporation would like to present an idea. This is in slight cooperation with the GWO Government.

The outline of the idea is a vehicle that can work on land, sea, and in the air. It can be an attack/transport vehicle for forces such as amphibious assault forces.

The vehicle would have wheels and helicopter propellers, as well as an ability to float, and move in the water with a seemingly basic pair of motorboat engines. Armaments could include a 25mm cannon for aerial assistance, a mounted weapons hatch on top (Far enough under the propellers to prevent decapitations), and possibly flip-down firing ports on both sides so that the troops inside can fire through the sides without exposing themselves further to hostile fire. Essentially, this is a water-safe helicopter that can also move on land easily.

Finding a light, inexpensive, and protective series of alloys may prove a difficult task. Most armor would disable the vehicle's ability to fly, some going further and preventing floating abilities.

OOC: Assuming your budget is just over $1trillion ($1.252 trillion), you're volunteering to pay almost 4/5ths of your budget on research - remember you've got men to feed, arm, train, equipment, tanks, planes, ships, to maintain, on top of your defense budget being nearly a quarter of your GDP, would leave you easy pickings for any half-assed nation intent on an easy landgrab.

I should hope a rethink is in order - your procurement/research budget should be no more than about a third of your budget.

Just a heads-up.

((OOC : Pan-Arab Barronia ............ hmmmmmmm your probably right in my haste to seek out mad and distinctive ideas i seem to have got carried away and should extend the time period but their are several things that should be keep the time extension to a minimum.

the first is that my country's population is still quite small so even considering the national service and draft the actual standing army although well equipped is small.

the next is that the mad eternal king has a habit of spending mad amounts of the military budget on crazy purchases.

and the third is that the laws of Axmanland allow for the defense forces to keep any unspent funds from previous years budgets to accumulate for the purposes of capital buying projects and although reserve funds have a tendency to leek and get dipped into for "absolutely essential" things like the admiralty dinner and dance, i haven't made any mad purchases for about two weeks (14 NS years ) so i do have a little breathing room.

so in light of these things i think i shall extend the time to 15 years (with equal yearly payments) but guaranty an extra years payment if the project comes in on time and on budget.

thanks Pan-Arab Barronia i genuinely appreciate your input i DO want it to but a mad impractical idea but i want it to be a REALISTIC impractical idea lol.

Ok on to The Grand World Order yes your absolutely right modern (but cutting edge) tech

{ IN CHARACTER}

Greetings from the rain soaked shores of Axmanland.
due to a series of unforeseen events we are unfortunately announcing that the time the project fund will be paid has had to be extended from ten to fifteen years,however an extra years payment equal to one of the fifteen yearly payments will be offered to the successful candidate as a bonus if the project is completed on time and on budget.

Axmanland will bear no ill feeling to any country who feels that this is to long and wishes to withdraw but we hope you will still compete, especially The Grand World Order who's idea for a fly crawl swim vehicle has got the Eternal King very exited and he wished us to inquire as to the possibility that the conventional amour might be replaced almost entirely with interception projectiles and explosive reactive amour.

Thank you for your time

from the desk of the grand vizier.