# Leaving Earth (Base Game and Mercury) Pbf **URL:** \ **Category:** Play by Post\ **Created:** [19 September 2020 10:14 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661 "2020-09-19T10:14:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 14:40 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/21 "2020-09-20T14:40:23Z")
**CNES 1956** @pillbox has completely messed up my plan. Pillbox. I was going to buy Juno rockets. Rather than waste money would you exchange the blueprints for Juno for the blueprint for Atlas rockets? ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 16:28 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/22 "2020-09-20T16:28:15Z")
Sorry for the confusion; I was running an RPG session this afternoon and knew I wouldn’t be available. ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 16:33 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/23 "2020-09-20T16:33:53Z")
Seems reasonable to me. ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 18:14 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/24 "2020-09-20T18:14:25Z")
CNES Buys Atlas Tech ($10) exchanges it with NASA for Juno tech and purchases 5 Juno’s, ($5) test firing all five and removing the first failure, before making a decision on future failures. (Commencing testing now.) ---
**Author:** ![yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/yashima/32/21481_2.png) [@yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/yashima)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 18:31 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/25 "2020-09-20T18:31:48Z")
Waiting for Roger‘s turn, I’ll probably make mine in the morning. Is there any good overview of available technologies online wiki style? Because in my great wisdom I sorted everything into one box and haven’t managed to mark out yet which techs are base game and which are expansions. Also, I think it would be weird if I set up the game at home just so i can figure put what tech to buy. I haven’t played enough to know it by heart. If no such overview exists I can take the time to figure it out and make one which I can then post here for everyone’s reference. ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 18:33 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/26 "2020-09-20T18:33:39Z")
…In the skies of the atoll, 1,2,3,4,5 Juno’s successfully launch into the night sky. The lead rocket engineer for CNES, a man known only as Pierre Le France, suggests the Juno design they have developed is, “Sehr gut,” and the French team spend their final $10 on two atlas rockets… ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 18:34 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/27 "2020-09-20T18:34:52Z")
Rogers Turn. The soviets research Saturn Rockets and buy a Saturn rocket. @yashima I will send you a screen cap of all techs. ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 18:36 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/28 "2020-09-20T18:36:36Z")
@yashima ![image](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2b3e97ab30543cfa03af6163dd4611c94f4951ff.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 18:37 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/29 "2020-09-20T18:37:57Z")
Everything else is expansions. ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 18:57 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/30 "2020-09-20T18:57:08Z")
As should be apparent, we will be very happy to sell space on Сату́рн launches once the technology is debugged - for cash or other debugged technologies. ---
**Author:** ![yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/yashima/32/21481_2.png) [@yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/yashima)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 19:45 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/31 "2020-09-20T19:45:30Z")
I made a player aid for components and payloads from my game. ![20200920_214321-COLLAGE](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b7045e09d7d7f7b1265dc47bac347f5c2bb42c16.jpeg) Also I’ll be taking my turn in the morning because > **dinner happened** > > ![00100lrPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20200920203246789_COVER](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c7694879bcbaabd4be7b0f4009f1aaeb0b9c7805.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 20:50 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/32 "2020-09-20T20:50:50Z")
Good thinking: Don’t Drink and Rocket Science… or, for that matter, don’t drink and director of national space agency. ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 20:56 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/33 "2020-09-20T20:56:05Z")
I’m not sure the French entirely agree with this. ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 20:57 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/34 "2020-09-20T20:57:09Z")
[looks up suspiciously from vodka bottle] ---
**Author:** ![yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/yashima/32/21481_2.png) [@yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/yashima)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 21:01 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/35 "2020-09-20T21:01:17Z")
My partner (and me by virtue of sitting on the couch with my tablet) is just watching the Challenger documentary on Netflix… … Space shuttles are in the stations expansion. Anyway, how do I test Life support? We did it in our game just shooting an empty capsule into orbit and leaving it there for a few years…? I am really unwilling to have to risk astronauts on such a test. ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 21:02 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/36 "2020-09-20T21:02:13Z")
> [@yashima](#): > > We did it in our game just shooting an empty capsule into orbit and leaving it there for a few years…? I am really unwilling to have to risk astronauts on such a test. That’s my understanding, yes. Once you research Life Support, every “Capsule” must (regardless of occupancy?) draw an Outcome for Life Support. ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 21:19 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/37 "2020-09-20T21:19:27Z")
Send up three and do it in one turn! ---
**Author:** ![yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/yashima/32/21481_2.png) [@yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/yashima)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 22:21 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/38 "2020-09-20T22:21:38Z")
So after thorough and less wine-affected deliberation (it’s not morning): ![image](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/1/110b11ba9ec6b1cf070f684de90910472479dcb9.jpeg) 1956: ISAS 🇯🇵 - buy Landing technology for $10 - buy Surveying technology for $10 - hire an astronaut for $5 (because how else to spend the remaining budget?) Regarding 1957: I am very much interested in acquiring well-tested Atlas rocket technology. I would like to offer $20 from my budget (if this is legal?) to be used for outcome removal of Atlas testing in exchange for the technology once it is tested. Unless it’s a worstcase scenario with two successes followed by a failure outcome $20 should cover the costs and speed up the process that a single space agency will have a difficult time accomplishing in 1 year. ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 22:45 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/39 "2020-09-20T22:45:10Z")
NASA, too, is interested in assisting in the development of proven Saturn rocketry ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [20 September 2020 22:58 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661/40 "2020-09-20T22:58:27Z")
CNES is willing to undertake lovely atlas testing. [Previous page](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661.md?page=1) [Next page](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/leaving-earth-base-game-and-mercury-pbf/1661.md?page=3)