SheepNESA: SNESA2: Ad Infinitum again

[naervod]

To: All Nations
From: United Kingdom

We should design a worldwide treaty on Colonization and mining.

To: USA
From: United Kingdom

(secret)We agree that something needs to be done about the Lunar States. What is your idea? (Secret)

British Orders
Establish asteroid mining installation in the astroid belt, using sensors to dectect various metals such as zinc, nickel, iron, magnesium, etc. and then sending ships in to mine them (3 years)

Send expeditions to explore and colonize Ganymede, Europa, Io, and Castillo. (3 turns each).

[Sheep]

The Luna States in reponse to contiued tension with the United States has started the colonisatrion of Venus. Already two cities have been constrcted by the advanced technology of the UL.

We are poud, andlook forward to Italian and Chinese immigrants to start arriving in two years.

[Cinna]

I was Australia both times in this NES. it was a bunch of fun, does anyone remember if we still own land on Phobos or if we have any other space possessions. I remember New Sydney was quite the city back in the day...

[Sheep]

Ummm, only the Moon and Mars has been taken. A few Jupiteran moons have been clamed and Venus now belongs to the Luna States.

[foolish_icarus]

Originally posted by naervod
To: All Nations
From: United Kingdom

We should design a worldwide treaty on Colonization and mining.

What do you have in mind.


China continues the expansion of colonies on Europa and in Jupiter orbit. More Trojan asteroids are being maneuvered into close orbit and transformed into mining/docking bases.

The Chinese Air Force is being upgraded to medium, including such designs as super high altitude bombers and orbital support vessels.

[Sheep]

To China: One yer and Chinese corporations and immigrants can start arriving on Venus. Construction is nearly complete and airpurification is on schedule to make it yet another habitable world. We would appreciate it if water too coud be imported to begin the rain cycle, the Luna States lacking sufficent reserves to spare.

[foolish_icarus]

Originally posted by Sheep
To China: ...and airpurification is on schedule to make it yet another habitable world.

China to Lunar States:

Is this propaganda? If not please sell us the technology that will render a hellhole of a planet habitable in five years.

[Sheep]

We would. However it was spciffically designed for Venus. It has an atmosphere. We would welcome any Chinese help in an effort in the future to make atmospheres

[naervod]

To: China
From: United Kingdom

We were thinking along the lines that we can give each nation a fair chance at getting ming stations and colonies. Whether they take the chance or not is up to them. If they do not want the land, then they would be able to sell it or give it away. Also, I want to encourage international trade in space, and intergrated asteroid mining, which means, there would be spacecraft of all nations mining wherever they wanted to mine on the asteroid belt and other asteroids. All mining craft would be unarmed except for the equpment they need to mine asteroids.

[Giovanni Wine]

La Stampa
Expedition to Ganymede ready for launch
Today the second Italian expedition in the outer space has began. This will be the longest one since the birth of the ISA. Captain Fassino and Captain Bossi are at the lead of the expedition, and over 10.000 brave pioneer are gonna build the first Italian settlement in Ganymede, with the blessing of the Italian Emperor Giovanni del Vino.

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Diplomacy
To: France
From: Italy

We are glad you've accepted the NAP, as for entering the Franco-German Pact, the New Italian Empire would be very interested in such a proposal, but we already are in the Austro-Italian Pact. Although we would like to propose (pending Australian approval) to merge our two alliances into one. We could call it Franco-Italo-German-Australian Pact or FIGA. (Figa in Italian means... well.... something that only women have.. lol)

To: Australia
From: Italy

What do you think of the above proposal?

To: United Lunar States
From: Italy

Our companies are ready to establish a first outpost in Venus, together with a first turn of immigrants and settlers. Just tell us when they may start to move in.

To: China
From: Italy
(secret)
We are seeking to expand are Air Force and Navy to at least a Medium size... after that "operation Persia" may begin (/secret)

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New Italian Empire Stats
Army: Medium
Navy: Small
Airforce: Small
Nukes: Few
Space Navy: Medium
Govt: Republic
Ruler: Emperor Raffaello, Prime Minister Alessandro
MPP's: Austrio-Italian Pact (Australia)
War: none

New Italian Empire Projects
Upgrade and Expand Space Navy to Medium: done
Expedition to Ganymede: done
Installation of Italian Base on Ganymede: 1 year
Venus settlement: ready (waiting for ULS "let go")

Saluti

[foolish_icarus]

We would. However it was spciffically designed for Venus. It has an atmosphere. We would welcome any Chinese help in an effort in the future to make atmospheres

darghhhh. It kills me to see this. I understand that stretching things makes this more entertaining and flow better, but PLEASE be more moderate in your claims. You didn't have to say you terraformed the whole damned planet. If necessary, I will bring out data that thouroughly indicates Venus is not a nice place to live, but I hope you will take my word that it would not be easy to colonize, much less make cheerily habitable. Five years??!! We can't even fix our own ozone layer. Can you come up with an alternative that allows you to have a colonial presence on Venus, but also, maybe, ... stays close to the confines of reality?

IC/

China to Italy (SECRET) :

ok


China to UK:

hmmm. We agree that no nation should make monopolizing claims, but we disagree with countries having the right to sell claims if they don't want them. A country only deserves possession of a place if they expend the effort to discover it or get to it and maintain a presence. No one should be able to sit at home and claim stuff so they can sell it to those that would actually do something with it. Our policy on multinational asteroid mining is that if it is small enough for control to be exerted over all of it then sole proprietorship (if the owner wants it) is guaranteed. Thus a 3 km diamater asteroid can be solely claimed, but a 150 km asteroid cannot be hoarded unless the owner can actually bring the entire surface under their control and have the ability to exploit it. As far as mining craft armament, while we obviously wouldn't arm private vessels with military grade hardware, we believe that as long as they aren't menacing anyone, they have a right to a means to protect themselves.

[Jack_www]

To United Lunar States:
When you try to blackmail the United States with nuclear and chemical weapons we take these threat serously. The only other nation to do such a thing to the United States and her allies was the nation of North Korea years and years ago. We serve you on notice that the United States sees that United Lunar States along with their WMDs is a direct threat to Earth and Earth colonies throughout the solar system. If you agreed to total dissarment of all nuclear weapons from your shockpiles we would see things very differently then now. We may even help you nation devolope defense weapon systems to defeat nuclear weapons if you were to agree to this.

To China:
The United Lunar States threat of the use of nuclear weapons to get the powers of earth to give up their moon bases seems like a direct threat not only to the United States but the whole world.


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United States Projects:
Bases on Jupiter's moon Io has been buit. Soon a spaceport for the United States Space Navy will now begin to be contructed in orbit around Io. Survey teams are also now looking for deposites of minerals that would be vauble to mine off the moon.(3 years)

Protypes of the new Space Carrier and Space and Air Joint Tack Force Fighter has been completed and the best protype after much testing will be put into production.

[foolish_icarus]

China to U.S. :

We agree, that is a very serious thing. That is, of course, if the Lunar States are going to do such a thing. The prospect seems unlikely as any one of the major powers is a match for Luna and they could be easily crushed by a united earth. However, we have never received direct threats or verified reports of such, merely a few whispers and rumours from uncertain sources. Perhaps if you could provide evidence for these attack plans?

[Sheep]

To China and Italy

Coporations and colonists will be welcome at the start of the next year. Ready expeditions to Venus. If you build a city on Venus, although they will remain under Luna States control, Luna States law is going to begin to take Italian and Chinese law into it.

[Giovanni Wine]

Originally posted by foolish_icarus
darghhhh. It kills me to see this. I understand that stretching things makes this more entertaining and flow better, but PLEASE be more moderate in your claims. You didn't have to say you terraformed the whole damned planet. If necessary, I will bring out data that thouroughly indicates Venus is not a nice place to live, but I hope you will take my word that it would not be easy to colonize, much less make cheerily habitable. Five years??!! We can't even fix our own ozone layer. Can you come up with an alternative that allows you to have a colonial presence on Venus, but also, maybe, ... stays close to the confines of reality?

In the first "Ad Infinitum" in order to open up Venus to Italo and Australian colonization I made my scientist invent a metal called Leonardicum.. very strong and with high resistance to heat and cold. But also very expensive to be produced.

(After that since almost everybody claimed to have discovered metals equals to Leonardicum under their space colonies soils I had no choice but to immensely decrease the cost of production)

Maybe if Sheep could come up with something similar...

Saluti