Rebuilding America: Industry Priorities

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by kalos72

great point.

My team is working on an oil backed currency, since east Texas has large amounts of oil. Haven't worked out the details though...

Might just be a "chit" type thing that good for IDK 10 gallons of crude or 5 of a refined product or something.

See if you can get a copy of The Texas Israeli War - 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Te...aeli_War:_1999

I have the book myself - its mentions Texas currency - if I remember John Wayne is on one of the bills

[unkated]

It seems to me that once immediate concerns for food and water are met, the next steps divide into a two level effort, especially if there is some form of regional governance.

1. Communities building things for their immediate need and use, such as power production and creation of building materials. Specific communities will be limited to producing what is locally available in the way of raw materials and manufacturing facilities. While you can get a workshop-sized operation up and running fairly easily almost anywhere, scaling that up to industrial output takes time and resources to build the facility, and other skills to operate it.

I agree that fuel will be an early need - without fuel, goods or components cannot be moved very far (for example, moving grown cotton to a gin and weaving mill to turn it into cloth, and then move it further to a clothing factory. Fuel will be needed and wanted both locally and as a commodity for use across the broader area. While many communities may be able to expand food production enough to spare some for alcohol production, having an oil well or two is not an option for most locations.



2. To make this bootstrapping effort somewhat faster, some amount of coordination between communities may be helpful. For example, in the clothing example above, the location with the cotton gin will be told to put it into operation; nearby farming areas may be told (that if they want to have clothes) to grow cotton with any land beyond immediate need food production; a town next to the one with the gin might be told to build a weaving mill (because Central knows it will be next to a cotton gin), and the town next to that one will be told to set up a clothing factory (or the whole chain could be set up in one larger town). My point is that to set up these more complex production chains efficiently, they will need to be planned.

And items NOT built in region 1 because they set up this chain will need to be provided by another region.

The planner can be a government or an entrepreneur, but I'll suggest that a government, able to use both a carrot and a stick, will set this up quicker by imposition than an entrepreneur trying to set it up just on his own.

Uncle Ted

[kalos72]

Originally Posted by Olefin

See if you can get a copy of The Texas Israeli War - 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Te...aeli_War:_1999

I have the book myself - its mentions Texas currency - if I remember John Wayne is on one of the bills

Great suggestion! Never heard of it before to be honest.

I also would love to go through the Traveller world I think, to see how the US become a 2nd world power or whatever. But I cant find one source, it looks like its all spread out over different modules and guides and what not.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by kalos72

I also would love to go through the Traveller world I think, to see how the US become a 2nd world power or whatever. But I cant find one source, it looks like its all spread out over different modules and guides and what not.

Traveller:2300. And there's a fairly detailed timeline in the basic rules set. France is the pre-eminent power in 2300, but not to the same extent that the RL USA is today. In 2300 the US isn't far behind France, and as far as it's interstellar holdings and space forces go it's in a long-term alliance with Australia and combined they're a force to be reckoned with. Then there's Manchuria, and the various German states which aren't one unified Germany but act closely together. And I think the successor state to South Africa is pretty powerful too. In the T:2300 universe a lot of a nation or alliance's power comes down to how much Tantalum it has access to. Tantalum is a fictitious mineral crucial to the manufacture of FTL stutterwarp drives.

[kalos72]

Yeah, I read through the easy to find stuff but there are all these one liners I was hoping to get more background on. Like on the Mexican invasion of the South West, New America and the like.

Still good stuff no doubt...

[rcaf_777]

Which version did you read?

[kalos72]

Traveller 2300 Players Guide from 1986...there is no version I can see.

[TrailerParkJawa]

There is a new version of Traveller 2300 by Mongoose games. If you want a vision of what earth is like in the GDW universe think about picking up a copy of the earth sourcebook

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/...ourcebook?it=1

[WallShadow]

Originally Posted by Targan

<snip> In the T:2300 universe a lot of a nation or alliance's power comes down to how much Tantalum it has access to. Tantalum is a fictitious mineral crucial to the manufacture of FTL stutterwarp drives.

I'm not sure you wanted to use "fictitious" to describe tantalum, element #73 (Ta) on the periodic table. Nor is Lanthanum (#7 La) fictitious, although used in Original Traveller as a substance essential to jump-drive operation.
Zuchai Crystals, perhaps?
Here endeth the nerdification.

[WallShadow]

I just obtained a 1996 edition of the Schuylkill County PA Yellow Pages Directory, which will be handy to figure out what industries are available to assist Harrisburg in rebuilding.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Communications came up earlier in the thread, and one thing I was surprised to find out is that some of the missiles in silos are held in reserve and topped with communication satellites to be launched post-strike, assuming they survive and aren't destroyed on the ground prior to launch.

So while priority-wise it might not be at the top of the list, OTH communication would be back up and running fairly quickly. Or could be, anyway.