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Ascelonian Consolidated Industries Storefront

Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 18:53
Ascelonia Consolidated Industries is a band of supercorporations who have united to create a large industry, though not a large enough monopoly to supress ideas, competition, and innovation. We specialize in the sale of arms, but we also work in other areas of the market because we are a global conglomerate. The Office of Foreign Investments is now expanding to accomodate overproduction and an excessive surplus of goods (due to our technocracy). We are now offsetting our surpluses by selling to countries with greater need and urgency than we do.

All products come with a three-month warranty. Warranty may be extended to three years by paying an extra 35% of purchasing price. All products are non-refundable unless they contain a defect (that existed prior to shipment and after factory production). Prices are fixed and non-negotiable.

Our most important job, here, is to serve YOU our valued customers.

The Customer
1. The customer-nation shall ensure that sufficient funds are available before placing an order at a storefront. The customer-nation may do this by checking one of three budgetary calculators (Pipian (http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/gdpcalc.php?nation=sarzonia&defenseprovided=1&defense=21) (replace Sarzonia with your nation's name and replace the 21 with your nation's percentage of GDP spent on defense), Thirdgeek (http://www.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=sarzonia) (replace Sarzonia with your country's name to get your figures), or Thrace Taliteann (http://members.fortunecity.com/thracetailteann/html/gnp.html)). You are supposed to account for money needed for salaries, supplies, support, and other logistical and non-combat elements and not spend your entire funds on buying ships, tanks or artillery, or fighter jets. However, so many people spend on actual weapons on NS and do not factor in other expenses that very few storefront owners will get you for lack of attention to logistics. However, that lack of logistical foresight will show up in RPs, so keep that in mind.

2. The customer-nation shall write the order clearly and effectively. Some storefront owners (notably Isselmere and I) ask you to do some RP, even if it's as simple as "my country would like." That is a good way to provide you with quick RP skills. It helped me get more comfortable with RP here on NationStates. However, check the storefront thread you want to order from to find out what the storefront owner expects.

3. The customer-nation shall be courteous to the storefront owner at all times. There is no rule that forces a storefront owner to sell you items. If the storefront owner is giving you an IC reason for denying your order (be it lack of funds or concerns about your government type), getting nasty will not help your cause. Not only may you be alienating the storefront you tried to purchase from, but other storefront owners will be paying attention to purchases from their competitors. You may find it increasingly more difficult to purchase items if you start to get a reputation as a hard head.

4. The customer-nation shall pay attention to storefront conventions when it comes to payment of orders. Typing "money wired on confirmation" and receiving said confirmation usually means that the order is considered a done deal.

The Owner
1. The owner-nation shall outline policies regarding sales, discounts, and other storefront rules in a clear manner. In addition, the owner shall enforce these policies consistently with all customers.

2. The owner-nation shall confirm or deny the order in a reasonable timeframe as his or her Internet access and RL responsibilities allow. Denials for IC reasons such as those listed above shall be made ICly with an explanation. Denials for OOC reasons (for instance, if a country that the storefront owner IGNORES tries to buy something), the owner should post an OOC note denying the order.

3. The owner-nation shall be courteous to the customer-nation at all times. Even in a "game" that is largely based on the imaginations of its players, customer service is a vital element of storefronts. The better storefronts act as businesses, and businesses that neglect their customers in a highly competitive environment will be left behind.

4. The owner-nation shall not advertise his own storefront in an attempt to draw customers from a competitor's storefront. This is considered rude and the moderators will intervene if you do not delete such a post.

OOC: I am available to you during weekday evenings and sparsely throughout the weekends.

All orders will take a day to confirm after money is sent. It will take another day to ship products to your nation. We, here at Ascelonia Consolidated Industries, apologize if that is inconvenient.

We are not responsible nor do we claim responsibility for misuse, neither accidental nor intentional, of our products. Nations may do whatever they wish with our products. We have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and if it does come to our ears that a nation is misusing our products intentionally. That nation will be blacklisted.

Nations can request to have another nation blacklisted, but they must have a good reason or they face the possibility of being blacklisted as well. To have another nation blacklisted, the nation in question must be either misusing our products or causing harm to our business (either directly or indirectly).

Blacklist
None

Departments
1. Non-Lethal Weapons
2. Small Arms
3. Assault and Heavy Weapons
4. Mobile Artillery
5. Heavy Artillery
6. Special Artillery
7. Artillery Munitions and Rocketry
8. Miscellaneous Weaponry
9. Armour/Armour Modifications
10. Armoured Vehicles
11. Ascelonia Transportation Department
12. ChronoTech Corporation
13. Arkadica Security Incorporated
14. Arcindis Construction Conglomerate
15. Tachyon Energy Corporation
16. TA Robots
17. Aotima Motors
18. Tourism and Entertainment Department
19. Miscellaneous
20. New/Temporary Products

Disclaimer: Ascelonia Consolidated Industries is not responsible and does not accept responsibility for deliberate or accidental misuse of their products.
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 18:54
Non-Lethal Weapons

Tasers

TNL-7 Taser-

Description: A Taser fires two small dart-like electrodes, which stay connected to the main unit by conductive wire and propelled by small compressed nitrogen charges similar to some air gun or paintball marker propellants... The electrodes are pointed to penetrate clothing and barbed to prevent removal once in place.

Maximum Effective Range: 35 feet (10.6 meters)

Effect: ...to cause neuromuscular incapacitation or NMI[2] and strong muscle contractions through the involuntary stimulation of both the sensory nerves and the motor nerves. The Taser is not dependent on pain compliance making it highly effective on subjects with high pain tolerance.

Price: $559.99

Replacement Cartridges: $59.99


TNL-9 Stun Baton-

Description: A Stun Baton operates by running an electrical current through the exterior. At the end of each one is two penetrating spikes to produce an electrical current. If a hostile attempts to grab the baton, he will be shocked if two points make contact with him. CAUTION: Handle and grip area is the part of the baton safe enough to touch without the possibility of being shocked. Ascelonia Consolidated Industries accepts no responsibility for misuse of their products.

Maximum Effective Range: About three feet. Though, you could throw one like a javelin, it is not recommended.

Effect: See "TNL-7 Taser"

Price: $499.99
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 18:54
Small Arms

Pistols

ALP-8 "Standard"-

Description: Standard pistol for all law-enforcement agencies within Ascelonia. Low-level corporate security guards also use this weapon.

Caliber: FMJ 9x19mm NATO

Length: 8.60" (218 mm)

Barrel length: 5.05" (128 mm)

Weight: 2.3 lb (unloaded); 2.86 lb (with loaded magazine)

Capacity: 13

Feed device: 13 round detachable box magazine (larger capacities available)

Modes of Fire: DA/SA

Sights: Blade front w/ notch rear (dovetailed to slide)

Maximum Effective Range: 55 m

Price: $399.99

AP-15 "Wrangler"-

Description: Power and efficiency wrapped up in a neat package. This one packs more of a punch, but it is also more accurate and deadly. In service with Ascelonian Army. Used by lower-level corporate security guards.

Caliber: .357 Magnum, .41 Magnum, .44 Magnum, .440 Cor-bon, 0.50 Action Express

Length: 15.75 in (400.1 mm)

Barrel length: 11" (279.4 mm)

Weight: 4.8 lb

Capacity: 8

Feed device: 8 round detachable box magazine (larger capacities available)

Modes of Fire: SA

Sights: Blade front w/ notch rear (dovetailed to slide)

Maximum Effective Range: 60 m

Price: $599.99

Attachments

Pistol Suppressor 1- Partially conceals muzzle flash and suppresses noise for light caliber pistols.

Price: $99.99

Pistol Suppressor 2- Completely conceals muzzle flash and suppresses noise for light caliber weapons. Partially conceals muzzle flash and suppresses noise for medium caliber pistols.

Price: $159.99

Pistol Suppressor 3- Completely conceals muzzle flash and suppresses noise for light and medium caliber pistols. Unsuccessfully tested on heavy caliber weapons and use not recommended on heavy caliber weapons. In such situations, suppressors are capable of failing or breaking.

Price: $199.99

Pistol Laser- Powerful laser sight mounted onto a pistol to assist in aiming. Effective range is less than ten feet in daylight and thirty-five feet at night.

Price: $249.99

Barrel Extension- A simple add-on to a regular barrel helps increase accuracy.

Price: $69.99

Magazines and Ammunition

Ammunition- Fifty cents per round (doesn't matter what type of round, as long as it is a pistol round).

Magazines (Unfilled)- Fifty dollars per clip.

Magazines (Filled)- Fifty-one dollars for heavy caliber rounds, fifty-five dollars for lighter rounds (All come with either seven heavy caliber rounds or fifteen lighter rounds).
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 18:55
Assault and Heavy Weapons

Assault Rifles

ABR-17 "Old Reliable"-

Description: An old rifle, but it's very reliable and still in use by Ascelonian Military Police, Ascelonian SWAT teams, and our corporate police.

Caliber: 7.62x51mm NATO

Length: 1,257.3 mm (49.5 in)

Barrel length: 635 mm (25 in)

Weight: 5.8 kg (12.8 lb)

Capacity: 30

Feed device: 30-round detachable box magazine

Modes of Fire: Single-shot, Semi-Automatic

Sights: Aperture rear sight, "barleycorn" front sight

Maximum Effective Range: 460 m (500 yd), 800m+ (875 yd) with optical sights

Price: $899.99

Submachine Guns

Description- ASG-29 "Snake Tongue"- Named after the "Dragon's Tongue" and the "Serpent's Tongue" weapons. The "Snake Tongue" has proved useful in many situations. It is made out of lighter alloys than most weapons, but is still fairly effective.

Caliber: 5.7x28mm

Length: 537 mm (21.1 in)

Barrel length: 300 mm (11.8 in)

Weight: 2.54 kg (5.6 lb) empty, 3.0 kg (6.6 lb) loaded

Capacity: 50

Feed device: 50-round detachable box magazine

Modes of Fire: Burst, Automatic

Sights: Tritium-illuminated reflex sight, back-up iron sights

Maximum Effective Range: 210 m

Price: $1299.99

Rocket and Grenade Launchers

AGL-33 "Mauler"-

Description: The "Mauler" is a heavy and bulky grenade launcher, but when you deploy them in great numbers, they're a thorn in the enemy's side. It has decent range and great firepower. Keep them supplied and they'll do a heck of a lot of damage. Employed heavily by Ascelonian military and corporate police.

Crew: 3 men

Weight: 40 kg

Length: 1275 mm

Barrel length: 500 mm

Width: 226 mm (without ammunition box)

Height: 210 mm

Cartridge: 40x53mm

Action: Recoil-operated blowback

Rate of fire: 350 rounds/min

Effective range: 1800 m

Feed system: 32-round disintegrating, closed-link belt

Sights: Reflex sight and back-up leaf sight

Price: $19,999.99

Miscellaneous Heavy Weaponry

AFT-14 "Dragon Tongue"-

Description- Horrific necklogen (special mix of necklogen powder of petroleum jelly) flamethrower weapon that was named "Dragon Tongue" for obvious reasons. Creates fires that cannot be put out until gasoline/necklogen mix is burned up. Camo-packs look like average soldier backpacks, but carry less.

Weight: 30 lb (13.6 kg) empty, 65 lb (29.5 kg) filled

Crew: 2

Rate of fire: ~half a gallon a second

Effective range: 75 feet (22.9 m)

Maximum range: 150 feet (45.7 m)

Feed system: 2 (2.8 gal) Gasoline/necklogen tanks (fuel), 1 Nitrogen tank (propellant)

Sights: None

Price: $1499.99

Attachments

Rifle Suppressor 1- Cheap suppressor, which is used for submachine guns. Allows a large sound to leak through the barrel, but suppresses muzzle flash to a degree.

Price: $99.99

Rifle Suppressor 2- Expensive suppressor, which can be used for either submachine guns or assault rifles. Suppressors muzzle flash, but allows a clacking sound that sounds like a nailgun being fired in a room down the hallway.

Price: $199.99

Red Dot- Deploys a red dot without risk of detection. The downside is that you must look through a scope to use it. Maximum effective range is seventy-five feet.

Price: $59.99

Rifle Laser- Extremely powerful laser sight mounted onto a rifle or submachine gun to assist in aiming. Effective range is less than twenty feet in daylight and seventy feet at night.

Price: $299.99

Barrel Extension- A simple add-on to a regular barrel helps increase accuracy.

Price: 89.99


Magazines and Ammunition

Grenade Launcher Drum Magazine- Useful, quick reloading magazine allows for larger clips and easy reloading. Highly convenient and easy to attach to mobile grenade launchers.

Price: $89.99

Drum Magazine- Useful, cheap drum magazine allows for larger clips and easier reloading. Highly convenient and easy to attach to assault rifles. Is also adjustable for submachine guns.

Price: $79.99

Magazines- Fifty dollars per clip.

Rifle Ammunition- One dollar per rifle round or fifty cents per pistol round.

Grenade Launcher Ammunition-

High-Explosive Rounds: Focuses on the explosive force that would rip through armor. Useful for eliminating concentrations of enemy personnel or punching holes through armoured units. Price: $25. Can add special element to cause certain substances to react and explode, killing personnel, like "God's lightswitch". Price (with element): $40

Fragmentation Rounds: Fragment on impact sending shrapnel hurtling through enemies. Primarily anti-personnel. Price: $20. Armor piercing elements can be added for an additional $5.

Incendiary Rounds: Necklogen flame rounds are a horror on the battlefield. They are difficult to put out as it can burn under water. Price: $35.

Stun Rounds: A flash and bang does wonders to stun your enemies. Price: $8.

Poison Gas Rounds: Poison gas rounds are filled with compressed Nerve($25) or Asphyxiant/Blood($20) or or Vesicant/Blister ($18) or Lachrymatory agent ($15) or Choking/Pulmonary ($19) or Incapacitating ($17) or Cytotoxic proteins ($20) gas.

Smoke Rounds: Smoke are filled with compressed smoke and used to conceal movement or to reduce visibility. Cost: $5. Color of smoke can be altered for extra $1.

Discount!- Ten cents off rounds if you buy them with magazines!
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 18:55
Mobile Artillery
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 18:57
Heavy Artillery
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 18:58
Special Artillery
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 18:59
Artillery Munitions and Rocketry
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 19:00
Miscellaneous Weaponry
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 19:01
Armour & Armour Modifications
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 19:02
Armoured Vehicles
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 19:05
Ascelonian Transportation Department

We are offering to expand into your nation for free or to lay rail lines for a cost!
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 19:06
ChronoTech Corporation

ChronoTech is a subsidary corporation of Ascelonia Consolidated Industries. It specializes in Research and Development as well as expanding and competing within the Information Technology sector. We humbly offer our services to other governments and organizations.

Desktop Computers

ADC-4000

Description An old, but still recent desktop computer that are still in many homes, libraries, schools, and businesses. This is the most common personal computer in Ascelonia.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.66-2.8-3.06 GHz

Price: $1,199–$1,499–$1,799

Servers

AIS-35

Description:
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 19:08
Tachyon Energy Corporation
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 19:09
TA Robots
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 19:11
Miscellaneous
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 19:12
New/Temporary Products
This is the last one.
Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 21:33
Storefront Update

We have now opened the Non-Lethal Weapons and Small Arms section for sale!

We have now opened the Assault and Heavy Weaponry section for sale!

Grand Opening is still pending!
Ascelonia
30-10-2008, 00:37
Bump.
Chazaka
30-10-2008, 00:39
tagged for grand opening
Ascelonia
30-10-2008, 02:23
Bump.
Ascelonia
30-10-2008, 19:43
Bump. More additions have been made.
Ascelonia
31-10-2008, 18:43
Thou shalt bump.
Sarzonia
16-12-2008, 22:22
OOC: Interesting you used part of my customer spiel...
Madurastan
16-12-2008, 22:40
To: Ascelonia Consolidated Industries Storefront
From: Republic Of Madurastan Ministry Of Defence

We would like to purchase:

300 x AFT-14 "Dragon Tongue" at $44,997
500 x ALP-8 "Standard" at $199,995
500 x Pistol Suppressor 2 at $79,995
200,000 rounds of ammunition at $250,000
10,000 unfilled magazines at $250,000

Total amount: $824,987

Money has been wired to you. We will be purchasing more weapons at your storefront as more become availiable.
Ascelonia
16-12-2008, 23:23
OOC: Interesting you used part of my customer spiel...

OOC: Huh?
Ascelonia
16-12-2008, 23:24
To: Ascelonia Consolidated Industries Storefront
From: Republic Of Madurastan Ministry Of Defence

We would like to purchase:

300 x AFT-14 "Dragon Tongue" at $44,997
500 x ALP-8 "Standard" at $199,995
500 x Pistol Suppressor 2 at $79,995
200,000 rounds of ammunition at $250,000
10,000 unfilled magazines at $250,000

Total amount: $824,987

Money has been wired to you. We will be purchasing more weapons at your storefront as more become availiable.

We thank you for your business.
Sarzonia
16-12-2008, 23:48
OOC: Huh?

OOC: That whole customer-nation thing you used was something I wrote.
Ascelonia
17-12-2008, 01:36
OOC: That whole customer-nation thing you used was something I wrote.

OOC: Well yeah... I got it directly from the guides I was looking at. You're pretty smart with this stuff.
Sarzonia
18-12-2008, 01:41
OOC: Well yeah... I got it directly from the guides I was looking at. You're pretty smart with this stuff.

OOC: Thanks, man. And with that, carry on.
Ascelonia
18-12-2008, 01:58
OOC: Thanks, man. And with that, carry on.

OOC: IDK if I have enough time to expand on this store.