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Let me know if you build a target list. I should be able to map it.
Okay. Do you have the ability to put Lake Bonneville on a map of the USA and Canada? I really want to make a map of the Shattered US and Canada with all the successor state boundaries that we know being drawn in...

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Also if you come up with what the project predicts to be a full target list I can compare it to your asset location list. I have written some code before which compares the distances. I tried to keep each level of caches/bases at least 5 miles further as the location became more important.
I'll see what i can do. i know putting the locations of every Team Bolthole on a map would be... very intense and time consuming. Putting the locations of major (region and division) resources & bases on the other hand would be a good idea.

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Team Cache 30 Miles
Nesting Cache 35 Miles
Team Location 40 Miles
Medium Supply Bases 45 Miles
Large Supply Bases 50 Miles
Regional Supply Bases 60 Miles
Regional HQ 75 Miles
Prime Bases (x3) 100 Miles

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This worked for me for every location I had planned for except New Jersey. I was not able to find a location more than 32 miles from a projected Impact zone anywhere in that state.

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Yeah... NJ is a real pain.most of the units assigned as it's soul COG are buried really DEEP into the earth, if not buried outside the state with plans for them to move into the state posthaste to get their mission started.
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Yeah... NJ is a real pain.most of the units assigned as it's soul COG are buried really DEEP into the earth, if not buried outside the state with plans for them to move into the state posthaste to get their mission started.
Nate,

Boltholes are pretty survivable and almost unaffected by anything but a direct hit, especially airbursts (ground or subsurface bursts, not so much). I think you deploy several boltholes and installations, as long as the risk is acceptable.

In general, I like when Canada isn't lumped in completely with the USA. There was no Nunuvat (yet) in the canon timeline, and either way, there are probably far too many teams for the North considering the scarce population and resources. Although the Yukon would have more than the NWT (more resources and population).

I would strongly suggest a kind of "national command post", not necessarily a second Prime (at least in terms of supply capability) but at least a central planning and command centre for Canadian regions, like a regional head office. As well, the Canadian government and/or military would want to deal with someone specific that's responsible for Canada that is not located in a foreign nation.

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Nate,

Boltholes are pretty survivable and almost unaffected by anything but a direct hit, especially airbursts (ground or subsurface bursts, not so much). I think you deploy several boltholes and installations, as long as the risk is acceptable.

In general, I like when Canada isn't lumped in completely with the USA. There was no Nunuvat (yet) in the canon timeline, and either way, there are probably far too many teams for the North considering the scarce population and resources. Although the Yukon would have more than the NWT (more resources and population).

I would strongly suggest a kind of "national command post", not necessarily a second Prime (at least in terms of supply capability) but at least a central planning and command centre for Canadian regions, like a regional head office. As well, the Canadian government and/or military would want to deal with someone specific that's responsible for Canada that is not located in a foreign nation.

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Hi Tony,

My idea for Canada is this.... Alaska and Canada is so much wide open spaces, with so few missile targets that the Project build all of their BULK storage centres in those regions (thus the personnel assigned to such low-population regions, they know they'd be reassigned to other locations throughout North America 'as needed').

Canada has always been one of my locations of a mini-Prime Base that would be directly tied in with the Regional Canadian Command Centres that is located in Nunavut (a central location on the Hudson Bay). Each Regional Command Centre is tied to MPNET... the Shadow Internet that Morrow Project had set-up.

Also Teams that are suppose to function EXCLUSIVELY in Canada are predominately made up of Canadian Citizens. And I can see the Canadian Government being in on the Project at its highest levels, knowing that when TEOTWAWKI Event occurs that they would have a lot of help coming once things stabilized.

I had plans for a story that dealt with the descendants of FEMA and Mount Weather seeing the Morrow Project as being something they have exclusive control over since they are from BEFORE TEOTWAWKI Event, and thus directly under their authority.

Alaska and Canada has so much open spaces where no one is at, that just begs for top-secret bunkers and facilities to be placed there. The large storage Depots and factories of the Project would be located in those areas... we know that the Project was set up by industrialists, what would stop them from putting underground factories in strategic locations for use during the 'pinch' times when they are having to rebuild the infrastructure throughout North America?

While the Morrow Project is dedicated to rebuilding the United States of America... It's not to rebuild the USA as it is today, but to restore the Republic and the Ideals that inspired 'The American Dream'... A land of limited government intervention in the lives of it's citizens. Where a person with a dream can come and build it from nothing.

THAT is the true Goal of the Project in my opinion.
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Canada has always been one of my locations of a mini-Prime Base that would be directly tied in with the Regional Canadian Command Centres that is located in Nunavut (a central location on the Hudson Bay). Each Regional Command Centre is tied to MPNET... the Shadow Internet that Morrow Project had set-up.

While the Morrow Project is dedicated to rebuilding the United States of America... It's not to rebuild the USA as it is today, but to restore the Republic and the Ideals that inspired 'The American Dream'... A land of limited government intervention in the lives of it's citizens. Where a person with a dream can come and build it from nothing.
Nate,

In the canon rules, the MP Intranet is called MORONET (see "Computers in the Morrow Project"). Personally, I call it MORROWNET because it avoids the word "moron", but there you go.

Interesting rationale for the North, makes a lot of sense to hide stuff up there. Except for the permafrost, that is! But there are mountains in parts of the north, so those would be good places to hide stuff. I use the canon background, so units allocated to "Nunuvat" would be folded into NWT and the Yukon.

I'm pretty much with you until you get to your personal political and social views, and I respect them on a personal level.

Overall, the Project should appeal to more than one set of American political ideals, therefore a "neutral" model seems like the best way to go. That is, rebuilding the USA to the pre-war political and social status quo: a liberally democratic centrally-governed industrial nation with a free-market economy governed by the rule of law. (I should point out this model heavily favours big business.) Then if the American people want to change things for "the better" then they can do so democratically, without the Project dictating their choices for them.

Note I'm not suggesting an abrogation of a social or political role for the Project; by its very nature the Project is going to significantly change many lives and communities, even in the 3-5 year window. (At least, that's the plan.) On a local level there might be shifts to the left or right (depending on the situation). The overall idea shouldn't be to force Americans into an overall conservative or liberal political or social mould until such a time as they can decide for themselves.

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Nate,

In the canon rules, the MP Intranet is called MORONET (see "Computers in the Morrow Project"). Personally, I call it MORROWNET because it avoids the word "moron", but there you go.

Interesting rationale for the North, makes a lot of sense to hide stuff up there. Except for the permafrost, that is! But there are mountains in parts of the north, so those would be good places to hide stuff. I use the canon background, so units allocated to "Nunuvat" would be folded into NWT and the Yukon.

I'm pretty much with you until you get to your personal political and social views, and I respect them on a personal level.

Overall, the Project should appeal to more than one set of American political ideals, therefore a "neutral" model seems like the best way to go. That is, rebuilding the USA to the pre-war political and social status quo: a liberally democratic centrally-governed industrial nation with a free-market economy governed by the rule of law. (I should point out this model heavily favours big business.) Then if the American people want to change things for "the better" then they can do so democratically, without the Project dictating their choices for them.

Note I'm not suggesting an abrogation of a social or political role for the Project; by its very nature the Project is going to significantly change many lives and communities, even in the 3-5 year window. (At least, that's the plan.) On a local level there might be shifts to the left or right (depending on the situation). The overall idea shouldn't be to force Americans into an overall conservative or liberal political or social mould until such a time as they can decide for themselves.

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Tony, That's the point of my political and social ideals, and how the Project works in my opinion. Local communities who believe in socialist dogma can live it right up until the local government has collapsed due to burecratic redtape and taxes have risen to a point that the productive citizens have fled as fast as their feet can carry them. Just as the founding fathers wanted and planned when they created this Representative Republic. While The USA isn't the OLDEST republic, it does have the Oldest Written Constitution that has survived with only minor changes (Amendments).

A STRONG central government is only good if it's kept SMALL. Jefferson spoke elegantly to this point, that Government grows at the expense of Liberty.

The Project would be dedicated to rebuilding the Republic using a 'hands-off' policy when it comes to local politics. It's why i laugh at the people who write the New Confederacy and KFS as a bunch of evil right-wing fascists... Because they forget that Fascism is a left-wing ideology that emerged from Marxism (Goebbels sang the praises of Lenin and Hitler in the same breath so many times as being the two greatest men he had ever met, and in a way that sounded more like a religious experience than just meeting a 'great' historically significant personality).

I'm a constitutionalist when it comes right down to it. I believe that we have a federal government to protect us form outside forces, and those inside forces that would force their will upon us (Ie enemies foreign and domestic), this is why we in the military swore and oath to protect and defense it instead of the government and what ever political administration is in power.

It's why i believe that any attempt to create a dictatorship in this country would be put down quickly by the armed forces, because we are loyal to the ideals this nation was founded upon, and not any one single POLITICAL IDEOLOGY.

Strong Central Governments are way to easy to become tyrannies, and so-called 'Liberal' governments are the ones most prone to become tyrannies. Because they believe with all their hearts that they KNOW Better than everyone else what is best for them.

Try getting a Happy Meal with a toy in it in some parts of California, or buying a sugary snack or drinks in some government buildings in New York... or even 'hate speech' laws in Canada as evidence of this trend.

Yes the Right can get tyrannical when it comes to forcing Moral issues on people, but even they are called on the carpet by others on the Right when to many times those on the Left defend 'nanny state' moves when they come from the left side of the political spectrum.

Thus my belief that the Morrow Project would be working to set things up with as little political interference as possible. Because Politics and Religion are two things that cause fights more than anything else. Even when you are not trying to start one when you are just trying to explain your position or what you believe.

As for the MorrowNet name for the Project's Shadow internet, it sounds good... but is a little long. especially when something like MPNET works as a .mpnet prefix at the end of a URL address (like .gov is used by official US government websites). Thus why i used it for the name of the network. of course there would be other prefixes that they'd use for various parts of the network... but we wouldn't have to actually say that since we already have .com, .net, .gov, and plenty more.
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CC (Command & Control Team)
S (Science)
M (Mars)
R (Recon)
AG (Agricultural Team)
AV (Aviation Team)
CA (Civil Affairs Team)
DT (Decontamination Team)
EC (Engineering & Construction Team)
FW (Frozen Watch)
LS (Logistics & Supply Team)
HM (Health & Medical Team)
PT (Personnel & Training Team)
PG (Power Generation & Reception Team)
PO (Psychological Operations Team)
OPS (Operations Team)
RAT (Rapid Assistance Team)
ST (Support Team)
SP (Special Purpose Team)

PHOENIX (Phoenix Team)

MS (Maintenance & Support Team)
CT (Combined Team)
LE (Law Enforcement Team)
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Thus my belief that the Morrow Project would be working to set things up with as little political interference as possible. Because Politics and Religion are two things that cause fights more than anything else. Even when you are not trying to start one when you are just trying to explain your position or what you believe.

As for the MorrowNet name for the Project's Shadow internet, it sounds good... but is a little long. especially when something like MPNET works as a .mpnet prefix at the end of a URL address (like .gov is used by official US government websites). Thus why i used it for the name of the network. of course there would be other prefixes that they'd use for various parts of the network... but we wouldn't have to actually say that since we already have .com, .net, .gov, and plenty more.
Nate,

I'm glad you kind of pulled back from defining the Project's goal in an ideological sense. If nothing else, Project members from the left and right need to be able to work together toward a common goal without squabbling over politics and the meaning of "big government" or "tyranny".

As for the name change for MORONET/MORROWNET, I hear you. It's a closed intranet so does DNS address system really matter? Plus, did they even have that in the 80's? Maybe my not wanting to "update" the Project is because I'm conservative and resistant to change simply for change's sake...

Doing some more research, it seems the IP system (IPv4) does pre-date the final Project update in 1987, so it could have been built into the MPC (Morrow Project Computer) architecture. As one of my players points out, it would be best to go with simply using IP addresses with password promts and not full domain names.

"Less likley of anyone finding them or knowing how to access them with out knowing what class address the MP grooup was using. That and it would give a huge range as in the 80 you could still get all three of the class adresses A, B, & C."

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I normally go with a later TEOTWAWKI Event happening to allow for the project to have the time to stockpile all the resources and personnel to be sufficient for rebuilding after a nuke exchange. 1962 to 2012 gives the project the Fifty years to do this and develop the extremely high-tech gear and equipment that they've got acess too.

I do have in my timeline that i've been putting together the initial cryo-hibernation tube technology as having been started by a group of Nazi Scientists who used those in concentration camps for human experimental guinea pigs.

This also makes it easier to explain something like Damocles and the remote controlled unmanned vehicles that it uses to protect itself. And it also allows for NEW players to get into the game world and enjoy it.

It's one of the things i enjoyed that Chris said that GMs and Players would be able to decide when TEOTWAWKI Event actually happened.
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Okay. Do you have the ability to put Lake Bonneville on a map of the USA and Canada? I really want to make a map of the Shattered US and Canada with all the successor state boundaries that we know being drawn in...
I should be able to do borders in non IE browsers (Microsoft draws additional lines very inefficiently over Google maps). I'm not sure about adding a solid lake but it might be possible. The hardest part of both will be getting the long/lat for the points on the border. I have all the existing state borders somewhere so maybe I will start with that.


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I'll see what i can do. i know putting the locations of every Team Bolthole on a map would be... very intense and time consuming. Putting the locations of major (region and division) resources & bases on the other hand would be a good idea.
Once I look at the base/expanded Morrow target list and perhaps get a full US target list from Chico, I can probably give you a tool which will help with this. It should be able to give you long/lat for any point and the distance to the 4/25 nearest nuclear targets.



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Yeah... NJ is a real pain.most of the units assigned as it's soul COG are buried really DEEP into the earth, if not buried outside the state with plans for them to move into the state posthaste to get their mission started.
Cape May was the best bet if I recall correctly.
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I should be able to do borders in non IE browsers (Microsoft draws additional lines very inefficiently over Google maps). I'm not sure about adding a solid lake but it might be possible. The hardest part of both will be getting the long/lat for the points on the border. I have all the existing state borders somewhere so maybe I will start with that.

Once I look at the base/expanded Morrow target list and perhaps get a full US target list from Chico, I can probably give you a tool which will help with this. It should be able to give you long/lat for any point and the distance to the 4/25 nearest nuclear targets.

Cape May was the best bet if I recall correctly.
That's possible.

I've got an idea for another specialty team... Maritime Teams. Teams that are based on ships. Alaska and British Columbia have so many little coves that could have been easy to build underground docks that would house ships, and the like.

As for putting the borders of Lake Bonneville in Utah, i can fill it in with MS Paint.

And putting the bases on the map, the only ones we know for sure in the various modules would we be able to give you to put on there. But from there we can start trying to figure out where Regional and Divisional bases would be located. COGs would only have Agricultural, Medical & Maintenance Faculties since the Command Team of a COG is suppose to set up with what ever local government they are helping..
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