Project Bases

[dragoon500ly]

I go National-Regional-Group-Team.

Group kinda/sorta covers (roughly) a state. I run groups for major cities or key resources and then groups that cover the rural areas.

At the regional level, you see power teams, larger science teams, commo teams, medical teams as well as the depot teams, you will also MARS and recon teams, MARS to protect the specialists and recon teams that are larger and lighter than normal and intended for LRRP missions.

Groups vary wildly from 2-5 teams to a 75 team group that covers the LA-San Diego metroplex. LOL, in other words groups are a work in progress. One of my buddies works for FEMA and we have been running weekend skull sessions, nit picking the Project. He actually considers the concept workable. More on that later.

[cosmicfish]

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

I go National-Regional-Group-Team.

Group kinda/sorta covers (roughly) a state. I run groups for major cities or key resources and then groups that cover the rural areas.

I use National-Regional-Area-Group-Team, with 1 Nation*, 7 Regions, 43 Areas**, 216 Groups***, and... a lot of Teams. National, Regional, and Area commands have permanent command facilities, Groups and Teams are mobile. So for me, an Area is roughly the size of a state, on average.

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

Groups vary wildly from 2-5 teams to a 75 team group that covers the LA-San Diego metroplex. LOL, in other words groups are a work in progress.

I tried to keep units standardized both because it makes planning a lot easier and because the nature of the mission is such that activating the Project is already going to require a major shifting of assets to address Project losses, survivor locations, and habitable areas. I look at it like Congressional districting, only without the partisanship - Divide the area of interest into X sections of roughly equal population**** and optimize so that the perimeter/area ratio is minimized. And then on Day 1, throw everything out the window and redraw the lines as needed!

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

One of my buddies works for FEMA and we have been running weekend skull sessions, nit picking the Project. He actually considers the concept workable. More on that later.

Looking forward to the output of this!!


*: under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
**: Each Region has 6 Areas, plus Alaska is a separate Area Command that reports directly to Prime Base.
***: 5 per Area, with Hawaii as a separate Group reporting direct to Prime Base.
****: On my to do list is to figure out some kind of scaling factor that accounts for the fact that some people will require heavier Project staffing. For example, Wyoming may require more Project members per capita simply because they are so spread out. Conversely, an inhabited city may ALSO require more staff because of higher hazards. The reason I have not delved into this is because it may be more than I can casually address.