#Northwestern Energy Production Complex [Development Progress]

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fun fact #2:
the second deadliest incident to occur at the McDowell Energy Complex was a 4 1/2 week long humanitarian crisis in September of 1985 called "The Underground War"
triggered by shocking discoveries in Northwestern's alternative nuclear power the Takeyoshi Liberation Front, a primarily Asian eco-revolutionist group funded by the DPRK initiated a massive siege on the facility, quickly sweeping thru the Entrance Zone and breaching the Obrysum Seal where they fought over several days against Dept. Of Security officers, Elite Response Division units and eventually the Minnesota State Police, Minnesota National Guard and Illinois National Guard. the rebels managed to get 3 corridors away from the Cautus Warhead which they had planned to detonate before being pushed back to the surface by a detachment of the Illinois National Guard where they were all either shot attempting to escape or arrested by the state police

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(concept) Fun fact #3:
Callista Richwell, daughter of Lewis Richwell, was actually the murderer of Jeremiah McDowell. McDowell had been in the hospital due to gallbladder issues and surgery, when Callista Richwell at approximately 11:37 PM stabbed McDowell in his bed while he was sleeping. She also killed a nurse who witnessed the murder. She did this because she ended up as CFO of the company and eventually the news of Richwell's murder got to her. Boiling with rage, she drove over to McDowell's hospital, said she was a visitor, and then proceeded to murder McDowell. She ran away without being caught, but evidence of her presence was found and she was charged 2 weeks after the crime, and pleaded guilty.

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why is this becoming a lore showdown

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well

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didnt McDowell pass away to pancreatic cancer?

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one sec

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lemme change this a bit

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one of the cargo ships were detained by Iraqi forces, souring the likely already very poor relationship the US and Iraq had before the Gulf War began

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The Department of Outer Security and the Elite Response Division later launched a raid on the port the ship was being held in, however they could not get the vessel out of the port before artillery began firing upon the ship and it eventually sank

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which technically they were instructed to allow the ship to sink because then it'd be more insurance money

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the more, the merrier

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that seems to be a big theme in this lore

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it seemed very on-chord considering in canon it's supposed to be the

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prototype of the evil corporation

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the opus magnum of vile companies

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no care for anything

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but money

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Well

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McGowan tried to save the company but failed

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McDowell put the company in its coffin

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Newman did all these schemes and started hammering the nails in the coffin

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and the Lake Pepin Disaster would've been what buried the grave

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Then MacQuoid tried to save the company and redirect it back in the right direction but that still ultimately didnt work considering theres still remainder groups and corrupt execs no matter what

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(concept unless said otherwise) Fun fact #4:
MacQuoid in 2019 began plans for a new reactor with actual safety systems omg wow but the executive board didn't like the idea, either because they wanted it to explode for money or they were just paranoid from the Lake Pepin disaster. After this, MacQuoid in 2020 permitted bioresearch in an attempt to get into the biofuel business, which would later end up succeeding and Richwell National Lab would be born in 2024, using a large pump system to produce biofuel. Northwestern made tons off of their new biofuel products, although in 2029 a malfunction caused the facility to flood, ending all biofuel production and causing Northwestern's stocks to plummet once again. It also did not help that MacQuoid died on May 6th, 2029 of natural causes, leading to one of Newman's sons to take over as CEO. And so, like father, like son.

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So rn for development it's just me, gim and nwo?

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Me doing music gim doing lore and nwo building the gamem

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Which important character do yall think had the most brutal death

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in or out of the lake pepin disaster

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'The hardest part about everything that has happened is that the people we cared about, the people we loved, the people we liked, the people who got so close to us.. were gone in an instant. And we couldn't explain why... they just.. disappeared. The people we made memories with... they became memories.' - Grayson MacQuoid

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i think anybody that got evaporated by the reactor has a pretty brutal death

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Jacob Ross was the MEC security lieutenant

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when the power laser exploded, a piece of piping pinned him into a pool of spilling coolant below, causing him to slowly drown and freeze to death

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thats

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not nice

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@hexed torrent so two things
do you want the dialogue music to repeat at all before it starts slowing down? and what do you think of the outline of the title screen music

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im just curious about all the music and stuff

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music is key in a game

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yeah

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i like the title music outline

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ok

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ill probably record the melody myself

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ive got a 3 day window after june 10 to record the melody so i plan on doing it then

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Newman: Pride
MacQuoid: Terror
Heuermann: Shock
Fremont: Guilt
Ross: Panic

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Literally the lake pepin disaster in a nutshell

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bc if not i do not have any ideas how the company could get money

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funding supplied by the Israeli government

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After Newman’s son took over he straight up rigged the flooded biofuel facility with explosives, blew the whole thing to shreds, then claimed the biofuel had exploded in an accident no one knew about the flood prior in the public and got a whole lot of money off insurance for that

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People who knew what happened either kept it secret or tried to speak out, but were killed to prevent anyone finding out

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So yeah

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After Grayson MacQuoid died, Newman’s son, Jason Newman took over

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And so

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Northwestern went from being a decent company in the early 2000s, 2010s, and most of the 2020s, back to being a vile, murderous company that only cared about profit

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compared to the PIR 01 however it was several hundred times more safe

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so newman’s son was evil but not 1990s northwestern evil

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he just wanted to restore the prior image Northwestern had in the 20th century

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A reliable power company providing energy that costs a penny

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not too much different from McDowell

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he also used about 20% of all company profit for personal use

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@hexed torrent what will startup overload look like

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overhead panels bluescreen and essentially master system doesn’t receive the stop signal

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meaning the lasers stay on ignition mode until the system recovers

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OK

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how long will the event be

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1 min 30s

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perfect

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there’s also a 50/50 chance that the master system will either recover the overload and scram the reactor or the reactor will enter a meltdown

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oh.

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wow

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ok

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also i just now noticed i didn’t tell anyone this

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there is a difference between scramming the penrose reactor and purging it

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scramming the reactor essentially forcibly ejects the fuel capsules which almost instantaneously stalls the combustion in the confinement structure

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purging the reactor essentially sends waves of energy into the combustion chamber to trigger the discharge bearings which releases quite a bit of pressure in the chamber

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so that the fuel capsules can safely eject

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In the meltdown, after scramming was lost the personnel tried to purge the reactor, but this ended up doing more harm than good since the heat began to melt the reactor structure, and when the discharge bearings released all the pressure the reactor confinement basically began to fall apart, all the energy inside compressing into a singularity in the middle of the chamber.

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Then when the reactor confinement fell after the hydraulics got unstable, the singularity burst out and there was basically an extremely volatile orange energy ball in the middle of the chamber

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That collapsed and caused a huge energy shockwave, resulting in a huge explosion.

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lore

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Fun fact:
Control Room supervisor Christian Darkwell during the meltdown was requested by Gertrude Fremont to help her pry out the fuel cells. Darkwell declined and warned Fremont that it was a death trap. Darkwell then evacuated the facility and survived. After learning of Fremont's demise, he felt EXTREME guilt, thinking that he could have stopped her and saved her, instead of running away to let her die, thinking his words would be enough.

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Christian Darkwell is also going to be a very prominent character post-lake pepin disaster

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He had alot of involvement with the investigation of the incident and purposefully took down Northwestern's stocks, but thats a story for another time

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Darkwell also didn't evacuate the facility via helicopter

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like most people

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he actually fled by car, and managed to evade the explosion, although the shockwave sent him tumbling and gave him permanent scars and injuries

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At this point we already have more lore than QSERF

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at this point yall ahve fried my brain on what's even going on anymore

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mainly because during the meltdown the containment dome caught fire and began imploding on itself

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essentially people made the assumption that something terrible is happening at the facility (something terrible was about to happen) and everyone began to flee en masse

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it could’ve been very likely that Darkwell had to manage to survive with cars being flung everywhere

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also fun fact

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during earlier stages of development one of the ways of escaping the meltdown would’ve been stealing a car and fleeing via road

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i don’t actually know why i scrapped it

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maybe because it would probably mean people would endlessly pester me about making drivable cars meaning i’d have to actually fully make the developed road system the facility has

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the people dont know that scripting

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is VERY hard

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same with modelling

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and that devs cant

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just snap their fingers

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and make some cool new game mechanic appear

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anyways

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Darkwell was EXTREMELY lucky not to get smacked by flying cars

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it wasnt even his car

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he literally smashed the window of a random car GTA style and hotwired it to escape the facility

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primarily because most parking garages were in total havoc

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Also question

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will lore characters be in the MEC as characters you can interact with like in QSERF?

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hopefully

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also evacuation route that i’ll further develop to be on a poster in some corners of the facility

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probably visitor areas, lobbies, security offices and the Cautus warhead containment

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hm

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im just gonna say it

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that route didnt save anyone

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except darkwell, even though technically he didnt follow any routes

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he just drove at 5x the speed limit until his car got flipped like a pancake from the shockwave

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still though

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cool stuff

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i might make a custom model for darkwell’s car

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is there literally just gonna be a random car speeding out of the MEC at 90 mph ingame

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i will make animated sequences that are lore accurate

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eg: darkwell’s car slamming thru a barrier gate going 110 mph

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or fremont prying out fuel cells

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ross getting crushed by a pipe and falling

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other notable personnel fleeing/dying

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etc

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actually i might model cars for the major characters in general

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fremont, heuermann, darkwell, etc?

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prob

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Fun fact:
Darkwell plummeted Northwestern's stocks purposefully after the incident by killing the CFO by mailing him anthrax coated documents.
He then proceeded to expose all of Northwestern's schemes to the public by auctioning important financial & transaction files containing many atrocious acts, many of which quickly hit the news. He also was able to impersonate the CFO by sending out termination slips to many corrupt financial officers. By exposing northwestern, noone payed for their energy, causing their stocks to plummet.

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apparently PTSD makes people murderous

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so who is this evil ceo man

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what did he get sentenced too

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David Newman

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Assassinated a lot of people

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Sank ships for insurance

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Blew up McDowell Energy Complex just for insurance while it was operating, killed hundreds

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He was sentenced to life in prison but the previous COO and new CEO Grayson MacQuoid poisoned Newman in his prison cell via his prison meals because of his anger towards Newman

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yes, but from the court

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so did the supreme court try them?

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or is that earlier thing not true

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but they didnt

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he did get tried by the supreme court of the U.S though, yes

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doesen't the supreme court not try people?

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it does appeals

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besides one case

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oh right

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well they were involved in his trial

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someone so ghastly besides

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he must have appealed up to there tbf

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The supreme court doesnt do it often but they were directly involved with Newman's trial

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ah

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he had done a disservice to the entire nation

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killed hundreds

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spread radiation across the continent

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jesus

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MacQuoid wasnt bad

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he was actually a very moral person who wanted to convert Northwestern into a decent company again

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he was one of the few executives against Newman

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primarily because Newman gave huge gifts of money and other expensive gifts to the executives

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but MacQuoid was moral

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infact the reason the plan to claim insurance from the accident went wrong is because MacQuoid and former executive Levi Van Dijk ratted out Newman to the state government

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he became CEO after Newman and converted the company back to being rather decent

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and allowed bioresearch, eventually mass producing biofuel

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he also fired all corrupt executives and employees

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the only reason he killed Newman once he rose to power was because of sheer anger and guilt

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Funny fun fact:
When Darkwell hotwired the car, 'The Final Countdown' was playing on the radio

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im bored so i wrote this

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anyways now to write an actual lore section

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Fun fact:
Security lieutenant Jacob Ross' final radio transmission which was able to be recorded (the facility recorded all radio transmissions) was 'Listen, Jobs. I won't be alive next time you see me. I know I'm dying. But if I can save everyone, or just buy some time... it's worth my life. Tell my family I love them, but this is the end of me. And the end of the facility. So I'm sorry.'

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just something to emphasize the tragedy of the situation

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lots of final radio transmissions

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Fremont's final transmission was: 'I ain't smart for doing this, guys, but even if I die, just make sure you survive. Run for your life.'

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Virgil Miller's final transmission was: 'Well, the facility's gone. chuckle I haven't seen an explosion this big since good old vietnam-' heavy thud and ringing noise as the helicopter blades whir and it goes static

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miller deserved it

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anyways

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fun fact: when the McDowell Energy Complex exploded radiation detectors aboard the Soviet built, Russian operated Mir space station recorded a sudden spike in radiation that lasted 0.0215 seconds and several cosmonauts aboard the station reported seeing a "short, concerningly bright flash over North America"

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after which ROSCOSMOS forwarded this information to NASA

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implying that the Russian government had found out the Lake Pepin Disaster happened before the US government did

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administrative personnel get visually upset when you bring up the crate

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Epsilon 8 for this game should just be skibidi toilet being waterboarded

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besides the fact the incident itself was purposeful

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there is indeed an equivelant to Epsilon-8 in Northwestern Corporation, they just don't do what you think they'd do

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what is it

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they experiment in interdimensional travel using something called a Etheric Multiparticle Transmaterializer

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that is actually how 'the crate' came to be and why admins get visibly upset when it's brought up

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who funded the experiment?

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was it Newman?

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classified

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nobody would really know except Newman and MacQuoid and neither were willing to tell anyone

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MacQuoid got visibly nervous whenever someone discussed it or asked him about it, but I imagine Newman just got annoyed

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as not only did this violate the Moon Agreement of 1979, it also violated several FCC regulations because of how much electromagnetic interference came from it

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where is the crate anyways

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I imagine its locked in some sort of warehouse

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Storage area near the bottom of the facility

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destroyed in the explosion?

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or did it somehow survive and remain intact

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It actually somehow rematerialized in southern Argentina

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this thing aint from our world

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well duh

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It may have been recovered later

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like outer security had discovered an electromagnetic disturbance in the area which it had rematerialized extremely similar to when it was brought here

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and in 2001 it was recovered and locked away in a warehouse, all documents relating to it's return were locked up/destroyed by MacQuoid

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they were originally concerned that the destruction of the Penrose Reactor would've triggered a chain reaction that eventually resulted in portals opening to other realities in random areas

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which take it as you wish could be a really weird interaction

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or a really deadly interaction

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black mesa 2.0 couldve happened right then and there

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Infact, outer security was deployed to the north and south poles as it was estimated if there were any disturbances, they would likely appear near those areas

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some other items from the same reality were spat out by the EMT

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eg: a severely damaged control panel, a tearway calendar currently on August of 1985, an intercom speaker, a broken computer monitor

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the control panel was taken by the research team to attempt to bring the panel to an operable condition and scrape any info off of it

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Roland Marston, the director of the experiment, noted that it seemed to connect to a machine off-world, somewhere in the galaxy infact

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This may relate to multiple strange images of a large black dot being spotted on the south pole of Uranus

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All documents relating to such experiment were restricted to executive clearance only

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Marston himself was actually terminated after the experiment with the good old anthrax slip

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They should water board the skibidi toilet

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Oh I was thinking you were using greatest as an adjective

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Not like

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Actual greatest generation

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Yeah I get it

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Fun fact:
In 2029, before Grayson MacQuoid's death, he wanted a man named Roger Stillman to take over. Stillman was the COO, however, Stillman died of a burst appendix, and Jason Newman took over as COO as the CFO did not want to rise through the ranks, which is why he rose to CEO. Originally, MacQuoid did not at any costs want Newman's son to take over, but it happened anyways.

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currently working on a trello page for MEC

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anyways go on

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because atm i'm considering looking for people to help with scripting

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considering i know barely anything about lua

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including modelling and sound design too

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im not the best game dev

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and i am not willing to spend 46 weeks learning lua

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except people who are willing to do it

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but still

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hiring devs can be painful

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considering they almost always need payment of some kind

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that too

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and its just sometimes hard to guide people to do what you want

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payment's going to be VERY tricky to do in early dev stages

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at the start i was considering putting this off until i got a job to provide developers with actual robux payouts

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well payment isnt the only issue

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you cant really always direct them around, its hard to make them do exactly what you want

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im in a few dev recruiting servers i mean

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i could DM you the links to them but its tough luck sometimes

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imo in theory how i plan it i'd model stuff and they'd script the features in the stuff

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i mean

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scripting is pretty straightforward

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so thats actually prob the best idea

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anyways

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Fun fact:
The fuel cells for the Penrose reactor were made of a metal alloy codenamed 'Blackwater'. The fuels cells were made via fuel machines where the liquid alloy was placed into a container, and the hyper-active energy inside of 'Blackwater' is extracted and neutralized, creating a safe energy fuel that is combined with plasma to create alternate fusion.

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not exactly in love with this concept but you tell me what you think

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fun fact
i originally planned to find an 80s-90s song to use for the MEC's main menu and elevator music

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similar to how QSERF uses Nightshift by The Commodores

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is there any in universe CFO that I should know of?

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random question

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i was gonna make a CFO concept but then i didnt know whether you already had lore for that

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Fun fact:
The designer of the Penrose reactor was Elizabeth Cornwall. Cornwall became reactor maintenance director. Cornwall died in the incident by attempting to purge the reactor but sadly ended up sealing Penrose's inevitable doom, causing her to be sucked into and killed by the singularity that ensued.

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So this would'nt really make sense

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edits epicly

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now?

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a man named Raymond Heath helped with a majority of the science surrounding the Penrose Reactor but died before its official development started in 1969

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yes

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the project was codenamed 'Heath' as memorialization of his name

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if the blackwater concept is canon (which it prob isnt but just asking) did he invent the alloy or just find a way to extract its energy?

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He invented the alloy

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Albeit only the inner structure & pipe lining of the Penrose Reactor used Blackwater

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If the entire thing was made out of Blackwater it would've became far too expensive to build and maintain

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Blackwater is naturally a mercury-like liquid, so did they find a way to solidify it?

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if they did, it would be tougher than all natural metals

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hence why they wouldve used it

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if i didnt make that clear enough srry-

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They found out by mixing crushed obsidian pigment and a special titanium alloy that the metal's melting point skyrocketed from 350 degrees F to nearly 3.5 million

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anyways gtg uh more stuff later

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The Penrose Reactor ran EXTREMELY hot so it made sense

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The usual temperature the Penrose Reactor safely operates at is between 95,000 and 280,000K

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And just before the hydraulic melted during the meltdown the Penrose Reactor was running at roughtly 2.9 million K

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taking a short break because i'm trying to apply for engineer but i'm stuck

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no i don't need help and to my correct remembrance i can't ask for help

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i keep failing my corporate applications idk what im doing wrong

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Fun fact:
Elizabeth Cornwall designed the Penrose reactor in 1979, and construction began in 1980, and finished in 1982. It was started up on November 30th, 1982. Cornwall during the meltdown actually COULD HAVE saved the reactor if she had purged it sooner, before the reactor had hit 3M degrees kelvin, but because of the fact that it had heated up so much, the 'Blackwater' alloy had absorbed enough heat to completely melt and fall apart upon the pressure release. The energy formed a bright singularity which sucked Cornwall along with all the reactor staff remaining in the control area in through the control room windows and spaghettified her, killing her.

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The Penrose Reactor's construction began in 1980 and was finished in 1982

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It was started up on November 30th of the same year

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In fact the Penrose Reactor was supposed to turn 10 years old on July 14th, 1992 and Northwestern planned to hold a homecoming with the various scientists that helped with the Penrose Reactor

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Something that never happened because the reactor, the facility and everything around it had been destroyed only 16 days before

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a toast she never got

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There was also a 10-day window between the McDowell Energy Complex's completion and the Penrose Reactor being turned on for the first time

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the design of the warhead deep within the facility was top secret and restricted to Site Director+

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Both McDowell and Newman

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Majority McDowell considering the facility's construction began in 1971

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and then he gets diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

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gets stabbed by Callista Richwell for revenge

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(she honestly did a service since he wouldve died anyways)

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and newman takes over

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Newman designed Executive Order/Protocol Cautus, which only Heuermann and all the executives knew about

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Heuermann himself still wasnt allowed near or in the warhead though, and due to his knowledge of what was within the complex and the disaster he was terminated and killed

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the Takeyoshi Liberation Front actually knew about the Cautus Warhead as well however all attempts to spread this information publicly were very rapidly squashed

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and Heuermann and the other executives rapidly denied it as well

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they also paid for secrecy from the online media

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It should be noted that Heuermann knew about the plan to blow up the MEC and constantly protested against the plan citing the “extreme ecological damage, loss of human life and damage to Northwestern’s image that would follow”

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Fun fact:
If the assassination plan for MacQuoid had followed through, it is more than likely that Northwestern would have gotten way with the plan to blow up the MEC and would still be operating corruptly and they would have gotten all the insurance

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MacQuoid got lucky, which is the entire reason why Northwestern was saved

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MacQuoid in 1991 was innocent and felt that Newman was a powerful figure to be respected, but MacQuoid in 1992 was a rebellious man who knew of Newman's plots and wouldn't stop until Newman was ejected and paid for his crimes

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Another fun fact:
The Lake Pepin Disaster was on the same date as Christian Darkwell's birthday.

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also something related to the game itself

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a majority of facility personnel will have teleporter devices similar to how QSERF employees have pip-boy teleporters except it would be an actual tablet that you'd have on a belt

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think like the pip-pad mod in FO4

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would mcgowan be proud of macquoid

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fun fact: before McDowell passed away and the facility was renamed in his honor the complex would've been known as the Wabasha Energy Complex

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actually in canon VoCAS is an automatic text to speech announcer

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Northwestern found it less expensive to just type a prompt in and let TTS generate an output on the fly than to pay someone to do voice lines

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Oh

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Makes sense

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Always the precious money

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also i just now realized this but if you want Darkwell to keep existing you're going to have to give him another job

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there's already someone in canon as reac ops supervisor

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Kenneth Hickman

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oh

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Hang on I’m thinking

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Head Operator or Junior Supervisor

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Are what I’m thinking

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But I’m still not sure

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Tell me if any of those work

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Head Researcher works

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alright

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Head Researcher it is

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Fun fact:
Hickman died in the MEC when he tried to shut off all power to the reactor, he attempted to shut off the breakers for the power lasers but was electrocuted to death in the process

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McGowan's tier list of all the CEOs/would be CEOs!
S: Lewis Richwell
A: Grayson MacQuoid
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C: Jason Newman
D: Jeremiah McDowell
F: David Newman

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anyways time to quit the crap and get back to lore and stuff

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Question: What were the other executives opinions on the MEC being blown up

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Was it only MacQuoid who opposed to the plan, or were there others

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several executives opposed the idea

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unfortunately the majority wanted to blow the facility up

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Fun fact:
Levi Van Dijk, former Chief Security Officer who helped rat out Newman with MacQuoid was mysteriously shot and killed in a back room on April 7th, 1994. He was assassinated by northwestern town make sure the Lake Pepin Disaster plot was kept confidential, although it was still far too late.

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resized the Penrose Reactor chamber

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a lot

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felt like it made sense

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considering old qserf is still a pretty big inspo

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Are you gonna make some like catwalks under the reactor and coolant pipes and heat sinks and stuff or are you not worried about that stuff

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probably gonna add cooling pipes and whatnot

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i just realized i dont have a finalized style for what im going to do

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i dont want to do 1980s-1990s aperture even though the facility is set in a salt mine

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Fun fact:
Karl Cole, maintenance director, tried to delay the explosion in the incident. He switched the facility to the auxiliary grid to keep power on (and it also removed strain from Penrose) and purposefully blew out the steam turbines to relieve steam pressure. He shut all the blast doors, and told all remaining maintenance workers to close the Obrysum seal. Cole survived the initial explosion and was actually found unconscious without his legs by search and rescue 3 days after the incident. It is a miracle he survived, and he was the only person found alive by any search and rescue operation. He died 1 months later however to incident-related injuries.

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armband template

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canonically employees of Northwestern Corporation wear specifically colored armbands

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Reac Ops. wears green
Security wears blue
Custodial wears beige
Maintenance wears orange
Researchers wear light blue
Administration wears purple

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visitors wear disposable wristbands and Raiders don't have any Northwestern issued arm accessories at all

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i might end up mixing portal 1 aperture and Black Mesa's design for the MEC

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you should make a red one TrollHD

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crystal hollow
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what

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huh

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i saw something

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repost

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@hexed torrent i saw that...

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every single Northwestern CEO on the alignment chart

Norman McGowan- Neutral Good
Jeremiah McDowell - Chaotic Neutral
David Newman - Neutral Evil
Grayson MacQuoid - Lawful Good
Jason Newman - Lawful Evil

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skibidii

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crap i messed stuff up

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possible chance i wont be doing any dev stuff today, unexpected maintenance around the house resulted in wifi being shut off

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or it is gonna be like a control moduke

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they’d be on boards in the Cautus Warhead Control Room and Cautus Warhead Chamber

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its just my isp being a dick

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real

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thank you atnt

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youd think since you live in the metro area where their hq is theyd have the best quality

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then again i live in a developing subrural area where the only fun thing you can do is go to the neighborhood pool, a CVS pharmacy, a 7/11 or a walmart

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and well over half of those fun things require you to drive a car

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something i cant do and my parents refuse to do because they’d rather rewatch the entire big bang theory series 738 times

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ok rant over this isn’t related to MEC

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lmao

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what will the warhead actually look like

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is it gonna be a rocket thing like CPUF

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or something else

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when i was planning green star medical corp i originally wanted the warhead to be like a stormworks nuclear reactor design

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where the fuel rods are visibly inserted into a water filled reactor creating nuclear fission

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and it eventually just overheats and explodes

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that idea might be too complicated for my small brain though so idk

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like basically

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you have a tank full of water with control rods

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and the fuel rods are on a seperate piece outside of the thing

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activating it slides the fuel rods into the control rods and nuclear fission starts

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and the pressure and heat just gradually builds up until it explodes

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That's not really a warhead though

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That's more of a steam bomb

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Unless you're saying the fuel rods get so hot that they basically chernobyl themselves

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theres no steam relief or pressure release

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it just builds up pressure and heat inside the fuel rods until well

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chernobyl 2.0

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anyways enough talking about green star

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i have a seperate forum for that

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this is MEC

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crystal hollow
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Canonically he paid the Department of Defense several million dollars to purchase the warhead

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DOD wanted to hand it over to the Dept of Energy who would've then dismantled it

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Instead they handed it over to Northwestern Corporation who modified the warhead to increase its yield to one comporable of that to the still in service B83 warhead

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Northwestern said they were going to dismantle the weapon to develop their own mobile nuclear reactor

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It ended up being used as

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Well, a contingency protocol

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Canonically set to go off when vital information relating to the Penrose Reactor or the EMT is stolen or when the facility becomes 80% overran by Raiders

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Fun fact:
MacQuoid actually paid back the DOD all the money they used to buy the warhead. Every last penny. Because, well, the DOD wasn't happy when they learned their bomb was made into a warhead that was set to go off whenever their facility got exposed for illegal activities

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Can someone explain what this is I don’t wanna scroll all the way up

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Originally the game was to be set in its predecessor, the Bruneau Energy Complex which would have blown up on October 17th, 1968

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what is the emt?

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Etheric Multiparticle Transmaterializer, an advanced teleportation machine that allows a user to travel from reality to reality

crystal hollow
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Tbh the Bruneau Energy Complex acted as a refresher of my modeling work more than anything else

crystal hollow
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Not really

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is it still canon in lore or

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To be honest the Bruneau Energy Complex didn't really meet my standards of work at the time and was quite grossly oversized

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This doesn't mean the game is fully scrapped, it still exists in lore and if the MEC is completed it will be next in line for the Northwestern Corporation series

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Fun fact:
The concept of the Zero Point Reactor in Bruneau was actually designed by Lewis Richwell before his demise in 1961. The blueprints weren't discovered until McDowell and multiple other executives discovered them in 1964 and decided to go through with the plan.

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The Zero-Point Confinement Reactor was fully developed by Richwell and was activated in 1964

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While it was significantly less powerful than the Penrose Reactor it held robust safety systems that have all been tested to extreme limits

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One of the many flaws that the Penrose Reactor had

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well thats because unlike Newman

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Richwell had actual MORALS

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which is why McGowan wanted him to take over

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To be honest if Richwell ended up taking over the Penrose Reactor could’ve lasted the projected 120 years scientists said it could operate for

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And not the 9 years it actually operated for

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Other northwestern character alignments:
Lewis Richwell: Neutral Good
Callista Richwell: True Neutral
Gertrude Fremont: Lawful Neutral
Jacob Ross: Lawful Neutral
Elizabeth Cornwall: Chaotic Neutral
Albert Heuermann: Lawful Good
Harold Newman (electronic store guy): Chaotic Neutral

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Fun fact:
Richwell was killed on December 26th, 1961. McDowell requested him to enter a backroom, before stabbing him and burning the body in an incinerator. Richwell's body was reduced to ashes and never found, but he was presumed dead on January 1st, 1962. By the date of his death, the Zero Point Confinement Reactor had been patented and was under construction.

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McGowan didn't appreciate that McDowell would take over, but by the time of his death on July 18th, 1964, it was too late.

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Fun fact:
The M.E.C actually had a dam in the nearby river about 3 miles away. It was the McDowell Hydroelectric Dam. The MHD was the primary power of the auxiliary grid, but during the Lake Pepin Disaster, the dam collapsed caused a large wave in the river that went for 10 miles. It basically caused a mini-tidal wave in the river, almost flooding multiple nearby towns.

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inspired heavily by the black mesa research facility hydroelectric dam lol

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There is INDEED a hydroelectric dam that powers the aux grid but in canon its called the Gensokyo Hydroelectric Dam

crystal hollow
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this is one of the occasions where I make lore that NWO already had

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also another fun fact:

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you can technically survive the Cautus Warhead in the Reactor Ops. Complex

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Northwestern HQ, 1969 - Present Day, Eugene OR.

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image source: Singapore

crystal hollow
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No

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The entirety of the Reactor Operations Complex is encased in a giant steel sphere made to withstand the Cautus Warhead

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Because in the event that stolen data (and interm the perpetrators) is destroyed by the warhead they can simply haul the Penrose Reactor out of its containment vessel and put it in another facility

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Instead of spending hundreds upon millions of dollars making a new one

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interesting

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anyways gtg so uh cool stuff

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it also should be noted that sometime after Northwestern transferred from a family-owned power company to an actual corporation their headquarters moved to Seattle, WA

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currently remodeling the Obrysum Seal

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So would this be like the tartarus seal?

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Or like the horizontal elevator seal equivalent

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Holds the same role as the Tartarus Seal but it opens differently

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It's supposed to open like the first transition seal you see in Portal 2

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A wall mounted seal that's pulled up by a large hydraulic to reveal the entrance into the facility

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Ok cool

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thank

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working on a sign

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ok nvm 3d modeling text in studio is awful

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this'll go down at the end of the diagonal elevator that leads into Sectors C-D/Reactor Ops. Complex

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the second R on "CORPORATION" is slightly askew to sort of emphasize the minor disrepair the complex fell into over the course of the Newman administration

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listen screws are expensive to replace in his defense

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for example: a patched hole in a wall in the reac-ops control room for MacQuoid

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a crooked fuel cell for Fremont

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a leak on a pipe for Ross

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A helmet in a random box for McGowan (its all i could think of)

crystal hollow
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oh crap i forgot ab that

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Bruh

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Bruh

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server done

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time to figure out if i can post links or not

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or just

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send it in the chat

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that works too

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the issue is forum guidelines aren't very specific on what's considered links related to your creation and links that are considered advertising imo

crystal hollow
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exit signs

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Just dm it

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proof of concept design for hallways in Sectors A-C

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fun fact: during the destruction of the McDowell Energy Complex several maintenance personnel took it upon themselves to steal a large freight train hauling nuclear waste deposited from the Penrose Reactor to escape certain death and managed to get 6 miles away from the complex before it exploded

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the train went thru a suburb going 107 miles per hour constantly blasting its horn as people within the neighborhood frantically abandoned their homes

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crystal hollow
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instead of hanging on the ceiling, i wonder if you could make like a train or monorail

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upstairs area that i plan to lead to a transition airlock

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Just realized this forum has surpassed 2500 messages

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expaaansion

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Fun fact:
Although Callista Richwell knew about Lewis Richwell's murder after she pieced together all the evidence, it wasn't publicly known until 2001 when Jack Afify, Northwestern Corporation's chief financial officer since 1987 did a little digging and accidently stumbled upon multiple letters from McDowell to an anonymous source and back. It didn't take long for it to be made clear that McDowell was the one who killed Richwell. Sadly though, there wasn't much to be done about it by now.

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20 cools

crystal hollow
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Could I try the game?

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ive seen you, you literally just go to every dev forum begging for this B

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the game is'nt ready yet for the playtesting stage

crystal hollow
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and theres like no scripting functions yet C

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Ok

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Could I favourite it?

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i don't even have the place on my profile

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Oh ok

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I’m excited for its release!

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Bye

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sayonara

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if we're lucky we could have release by december of 2024 by my best estimate

crystal hollow
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Great to hear

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playtesting stage would probably open around the end of summer or early fall

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def need to put into account that the entire game itself is still being made by me and me only

crystal hollow
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and yet i still try to make a game

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it's not that you need blender to make a game

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it's that you need to know luau to make the game function

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im even worse at lua

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the only thing im good at is in roblox developing

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but thats extremely limited

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something that probably takes several months, and with my mood swings and the fact i have to juggle drivers ed and job searching in between this makes it very hard

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quite funny that i want to see if i can join sst without taking into consideration you have to have time on your hands

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you'd make a good fit considering what you've done for northwestern

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correct, i've had people even mistake my work for qserf updates

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which take it as you will could be a good thing or a bad thing

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i assume they get paid as well but knowing my parents they'd probably view this as a side hustle instead of a full in-proper job

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and right now my options for actual jobs are

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cvs

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kroger

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or chuck e cheese

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ok once again im stopping here because this isnt mec related

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this is more me rambling about my desire to find something i like doing

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fun fact: a chunk of McGowan's brain was preserved and used to set up Auto-Manager's morality construct

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implying that Auto-Manager is an artificial reincarnation of McGowan that's been numbed to the point that it is incapable of showing human awareness

crystal hollow
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who designed that?

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primarily the division that created and operates the Etheric Multiparticle Transmaterializer

crystal hollow
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i planned for there to be an extremely rare ending where Auto-Manager's failsafe systems

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fail

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and where he gains awareness

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first in confusion of where he is

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which was then followed by disgust and pity

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or just disgusted at the meltdown?

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and he eventually kills everyone in the facility by venting the Penrose Reactor's emissions into the complex, uploads the files to the public and then activates the Cautus Warhead

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'SO YOUR TELLING ME.'

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'THAT THE FOUNDER CAME BACK AS AN AI.'

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'AND KILLED EVERYONE?'

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but still

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what did he get so

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disgusted about

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did he access the files

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was he disappointed in the facility

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was he disappointed that he let McDowell take over

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disappointed in the social class meddling that took place in the MEC, the 'mysterious suicides' Northwestern carried out and the fact that the company eventually resorted to human experimentation

crystal hollow
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im seeing a massive correlation between macquoid and mcgowan

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in his words, "a plauge has overcome my very creation, and you are all to blame"

crystal hollow
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he could'nt have

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the only grip that Auto-Manager had was on the MEC

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he killed everyone in the facility over their complicity with the atrocities Newman and McDowell committed

crystal hollow
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anyone that was in the MEC was killed, regardless of their standing on Newman and McDowell

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as he said, "you are all to blame"

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fair enough

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I mean

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MacQuoid is kind of what McGowan would be most proud of prob

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despite all the evil

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MacQuoid stood up against it and eventually overthrew it

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eventually in this ending the Northwestern HQ is raided by the NSA, ATF and FBI

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several executives held their employees hostage at gunpoint during this sequence

crystal hollow
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this is not canon of course but speaking on alternate terms

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actually MacQuoid was arrested on his way to work and was served the death penalty along with Newman and several other executives

crystal hollow
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Auto-Manager was destroyed in the Cautus Warhead's detonation

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oh right

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Northwestern is honestly a tragedy

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death

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greed

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its never enough

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even when people like mcgowan and macquoid stand up against it

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it always comes back

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if anything Northwestern is just a challenge to see how evil i can make a company whilst making its public image still look positive

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recent poll got me wanting to rename the Department of Security

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modest mango
# pallid path Wdym

there was a recent poll in QOTW about if QSO were to be renamed, what would it be called.

crystal hollow
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Mobile Task Force ✅

crystal hollow
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lol

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but Northwestern Corp. is still pretty evil compared to most core games

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Fun fact:
Christian Darkwell went literally insane after the incident from guilt. In 1996 he murdered his ex-wife who divorced him after he showed signs of instability, and her boyfriend. He also killed murdered his neighbor's dog. He was arrested 1 week later and upon doing so, he showed signs of extreme instability and attempted to attack an officer by grabbing his gun and trying to shoot him. He was put on trial, where he showed multiple signs of instability there as well. He was later placed in an insane asylum, where he currently is today.

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Did you know?
Sadly, Dr. Heuermann's Pepsi bottle perished in the penrose meltdown.

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im also still mad my NeoCoil mysteriously disappeared

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rant over, not related to MEC

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@hexed torrent So i drew a rough sketch in MSpaint of what the Obrysum Seal zone could look like

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Next to the control area in the middle of the room right up against the wall could be an elevator thats lifted up onto a track, then going through the seal and onto a platform/entrance to the facility

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In the control room is a panel for the fan and seal, with a TV on the ceiling showing a diagram of the Obrysum Seal which tells whether its open or closed

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considering you wouldnt be able to see the seal from where the control room is

crystal hollow
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Just got this idea while thinking about it but if you want you COULD pull a Penrose and do the same thing you did before

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Make the 1st one, feel like you could do better

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Make the 2nd one, good but unoriginal

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Then make another one that looks original

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But has the detail and coloring of the 2nd one

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Up to you though since that would take a lot of effort

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i plan for the Prototype 2 Penrose Reactor to just be stored somewhere in a giant warehouse in the facility

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But like I was saying, what you could do is a big seal that’s sort of like a vault where it kind of bulges out, then there’s 4 bolts on the side that rotate to unlock the door before 2 hydraulic arms mounted to the seal pull it up

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Once again, all concept

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Yes, instead of opening and closing it would literally just slide up and down

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extremely rough sketch of said idea, the thing on top is the contraption that slides the seal up and down

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i suck at art

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this looks like something a 10 year old would draw

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also i have an idea

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what if instead of the Penrose Reactor falling onto its side near the end of the meltdown the hydraulic simply caves in on itself, the reactor falls onto the hydraulic pedestal and then into the abyss surrounding the chamber

crystal hollow
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im going to see what happens when you mix green and yellow

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puke green

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so were not doing that

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coinflip time

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heads - green
tails - yellow

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yellow it is

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oh my god

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crystal hollow
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Who in your opinion is the most important lore character

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roblox is down right now so no work today

crystal hollow
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what i mean by "secondary operating machine" is something that people could operate if they did'nt want to deal with the mess that would likely be the PRCR

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also made some fuel capsules

from left to right:
Regular - No effect
Efficient - Laser heating power enhances 1.5x
Reactive - Laser heating power enhances 3x, Penrose Reactor becomes more susceptible to trips
Super - Laser heating power enhances 6x, extremely unstable and may even blow up during startup sequence. Also shakes a lot when being held by user

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I think the super cell just may be a tad bit spicy

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added windows in the PRCR

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canonically they're one-way windows made to manipulate workers into thinking someone's watching them so they do their job

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however in acuality i just put them there because i felt like there was'nt enough depth

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Status of all notable M.E.C personnel:
C. Darkwell: Survived, Went Insane
A. Heuermann: Assassinated
G. Fremont: Vaporized
E. Cornwall: Killed by singularity
J. Ross: Drowned and froze to death
K. Cole: Survived explosion, was found and hospitalized, died 1 month later.
M. Jobs: Literally the only guy who is living peacefully right now
K. Hickman: Electrocuted to death

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if i missed anyone lemme know

burnt hare
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fun fact:
The Penrose Reactor's actual name is the PIR EVO-01 (Particle Incineratory Reactor Evaluations Type 01)

crystal hollow
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The PIR uses the Penrose Process, involving a rapidly rotating controlled singularity within the center of the reactor confinement

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During this process antiparticles are injected into the combustion which further increases the process

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When the reactor is operating at normal parameters regular particles are introduced into the mixture, which are incinerated and turned into Hawking radiation

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This lets off heat which goes into a array of large pressurized tanks and the pressure is then used to spin turbines

crystal hollow
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So basically one random guy said ‘Penrose process, Penrose reactor?’ and everyone went along with it

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Correct

crystal hollow
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fun fact:
Whenever Dr. Cornwall calls the Penrose reactor ‘P.I.R’, half the control room gets confused

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Original prototypes for the Penrose Reactor had "PIR 0X" on them instead of the Penrose symbol

crystal hollow
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Fun fact: Jacob Ross actually made the Penrose nickname when he overheard a conversation between Cornwall and a random scientist, and he said in his own words ‘So it’s a Penrose reactor?’

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because its wayy too bright for my liking

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wait, i have an even better idea: add glass encasing to the ceiling lamps

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it would make it look more realistic while turning down the bloom

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considering the Penrose Reactor is already partially obstructed even in the operating position should i make it so there's a dip for the glass to expand into

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like the qserf control room

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also, idea for the server

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Set up a patreon for like 5-10 dollars and people who pay for it obtain the Department of Insurance role

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anyways, yeah thats a good idea

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OR

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you could just make the reactor raise up

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when starting up

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yes i understand there's now a lot more similarities to the DMR control room but it's more of a quality of life fix

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i like the style but corium is not related to computer errors? also, the value 1e+72858599697163554x17 seems to be very exaggerated. real error messages dont have nonsensical values

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the use of .bat/batch file in a system is unlikely because they just simply arent referenced in BSOD

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bsod messages usually are more succinct and have a stop code or troubleshooting advice

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not sure if you care but thats just my feedback

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if you see this man as your employer, walk away.

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if you see this man as your employer, it's okay. You'll have a good job.

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i really need to change the suit on macquoid's photo

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Grayson MacQuoid, photo dated 1991.

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crystal hollow
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tiny pendant
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Idea for the reactor itself: Neutralization Lasers

So basically, they are in the middle of the chamber up against the walls, diagonally pointed at the reactor. These things are much smaller than a power laser, they’re about 1 fifth the width and 1 half the length. They’re basically built like big metal candlesticks. What they do is they shoot a white beam of energy into smaller laser receptacles on the bottom of the reactor to counter the reactor’s energy and prevent it from overloading. Eliminating energy with energy. How they work is they’re connected to mini uranium fission reactors, the energy of which is absorbed and shot out by the neutralization lasers to counter the massive amounts of fusion energy. In the meltdown, both neutralization lasers exploded.

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Basically an over-engineered way of absorbing fusion energy and burning it up so it doesn’t overload and kill everyone

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okay so neutralization lasers might have a different mechanic, where they basically just flash an element that is pumped into the neutralization lasers and take the energy from that and just blast it into the reactor which counters and burns up fusion energy, while not killing the reaction entirely

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just big (but small compared to power lasers) white beam goes brrrr into reactor

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how much neutralizers are there

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one on each side of the chamber

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basically

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here lemme draw a diagram

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im MSpaint rq

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top down and side view (circle is reactor)

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the real neutralizers are much shorter and practically pencil thin compared to the power lasers

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but i just drew this in 20 seconds

crystal hollow
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For fuel capsule insertion, are you gonna do it like old QSERF where the fuel cell receptacles are on the superstructure?

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Yes

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cool

crystal hollow
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you still having trouble scripting?

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very much

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Fun fact:

The neutralizer lasers were added to the Penrose chamber in 1987 after the fusion energy got too high and began a thermal runaway, almost melting down. And so, eventually the 2 neutralizer lasers were designed by Elizabeth Cornwall as a countermeasure to prevent such things from happening again. In fact, the neutralizer lasers during the meltdown in 1992 actually kept the reactor stable enough for people to flee the area after the shutdown expired. Eventually however, both neutralizer lasers exploded, and not long after the reactor suffered a hydraulic failure causing the reactor confinement to fall and burst apart.

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this is made with the assumption neutralizer lasers are planned

crystal hollow
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Fun fact:

In 1993 northwestern was sued out of almost 5.9 million dollars by the families of facility staff.

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Also, is there a trello page?

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Fun fact:
The Penrose Reactor’s meltdown event canonically began at 1 : 50 : 19 AM with a Loss of Pressure Control Accident and ended at 2 : 11 : 43 AM with the detonation of the Singularity and destruction of the McDowell Energy Complex

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They would likely be hooked to the Penrose Reactor itself though

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And in order to activate them you would have to enter the reactor chamber

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literally just skinny, long neutralization injection units hooked to the bottom of the PIR01 attached to a flash chamber at the bottom of the units

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Fun fact:
The reactor shutdown/SCRAM works by deactivating the power lasers and opening neutralizer valves to full. In the meltdown, the shutdown didnt work as the heat and pressure of the meltdown was so high, it kept increasing, eventually causing the neutralizers to strain and explode.

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or using the ingame camera

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Should also be noted that the SCRAM system is automatic and could activate during the Power Outage Event, when a turbine exceeds the EOB or in a normal case, when the pressure gets too high

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The Purge System is manual and simply sends various currents of energy into the confinement structure to forcefully purge every value into a range that the SCRAM system can activate in

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Fun fact:

Approximately 16 hours before the Lake Pepin Disaster Northwestern’s stocks fell by 36% and 104 million dollars that were under their ownership disappeared

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Several FTC agents made calls to and even arrived at Northwestern Corporation’s headquarters to inform them of the sudden disappearance of their money, to which one of the executives responded “We wouldn’t be needing it, so we handed it off to someone else”

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that i like

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also u should probably try to make the lighting better

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Fun fact:
The penrose reactor's outer shell began to melt at 11000K, and burst apart at 37000K.

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Fun fact:
In 1990, the complex almost melted down. During an integrity test, the penrose reactor began a thermal runaway and almost exploded due to a scram failure, but luckily reactor operations managed to purge the reactor successfully. Around the facility there are still signs of disrepair and maintenance around the facility from said incident.

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This is possibly what sparked the idea of blowing up the penrose reactor in Newman's head.

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Going to be taking about a week-long break from MEC devwork

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Several collapsed structures, bent support beams but still operational

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I also got a random idea, basically instead of hydraulics or gravitational lasers for the Penrose reactor, instead what if they use magnets. That’s right, big, fat, flat magnets to hold up the Penrose.

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Fun fact:
All senior security officers (heavy units) are equipped with the standard Mac-10 submachine gun and colt python.

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(this is more of a suggestion tbh)

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if you dont want something as small as a mac 10 then maybe an uzi

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Fun Fact:

The Site Administrator for the McDowell Energy Complex instructed personnel to move to their designated evacuation grouping points but to not begin evacuation and await further instructions

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Several group leaders made the decision to disregard this instruction and leave the facility, an action that would save dozens of lives

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Fun fact:

During the meltdown, all security officers were instructed to terminate fleeing personnel. However, their Mac-10 and python equipment was jammed suddenly, along with none of the security lockdown checkpoints working.

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Also, during the meltdown the Obrysum Elevator broke and begin sliding down the rail, slamming into the back of the Obrysum Seal and breaking apart, which may have lowered the seal's integrity.

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Fun fact:

The reason why the security team has such outdated and unreliable equipment is simply because northwestern wanted to save money. Much easier to throw Mac-10s and a couple of revolvers at them and say 'have fun' instead of buying full on assault rifles. Most of their equipment was vietnam-era or even some WW2 era equipment. Because they wanted to keep their money.

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Infact, there's even some leftover M1 Garands from the old security divisions.

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Fun Fact:

In lore a system error nearly caused a nuclear war in 1988 known as the Empty Crisis

Several NORAD radars began producing erroneous readings of tens of thousands of nuclear missiles approaching the Western Seaboard which prompted the only occasion where the President of the United States activated the nuclear football. It was only when Soviet officials had rapidly informed the DoD that no nuclear weapons had been launched that nuclear launches were cancelled, nearly 20 seconds from authorization

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For around 40 minutes the entirety of the United States entered a state of total civil unrest as people stockpiled food and water and several killed each other over supplies

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Hundreds of civilians attempted to seek refuge within the bowels of the McDowell Energy Complex to survive the theoretical impending doom only to find the facility had entered its highest level of lockdown, Code Black

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This was also the only time the MEC’s post-cataclysmic life supporting systems were engaged

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random but since im trying to atleast gain modelling knowledge i might randomly pick up the Bruneau Energy Complex

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random thought i had

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poor blast door concept

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basically a set of 2 huge blast doors to contain any explosion in an emergency

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A1 and A2 are at surface zone, B1 and B2 are at the entrance to reactor operations

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they're designed to close in an emergency, B1 and B2 suffered a malfunction and didn't work in the meltdown but A1 and A2 successfully closed and contained the explosion, preventing it from reaching the surface

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this isn't related to the MEC, this is BEC, therefore BEC talk over

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The BEC's development has'nt been planned to restart yet

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At a minimum i want to get the McDowell Energy Complex into its full release stage and the arleady planned successor, the McClain Fusion Energy Station

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Fun fact:

There was an original plan to have a wing of the Sector A Museum of Nuclear Innovations be dedicated to the August 18th, 1985 MRC incident that would've displayed the accident from a public and media standpoint

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This was scrapped after the decision to remove Quantum as an existing company in the current lore

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I might have a wing dedicated to the Chernobyl disaster though since that occurred

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funnily enough, the McClain station's incident was very similar to chernobyl, In 1980 northwestern tried to build their own portable fission reactor and during a showcase to the investors it's power randomly surged due to poor design and it exploded, killing the investors and the reactor operators. This caused an entire wing of the facility to shut down and be placed off limits until the McClain station was decommissioned in 1994.

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the game would be set in 2008

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and in lore no incident occurred

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this is for a seperate game

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technically a successor game to go in between the MEC and the BEC

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essentially would be a semi-realistic take on a fusion reactor

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the MEC will still be set in 1992

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the successor game, MFES would be set in july of 2008

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Fun fact:

When the MEC blew up it created a shockwave that was 287 decibels loud, so loud that could be heard as far as Juneau, AK

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Roughly 75% of the population of Canada reported window damage to their homes as a result of this blast

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1992 became the highest fiscal year for glass production in the 20th century

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I kind of randomly had an idea for the MFES but it’s basically a tall fission reactor that is modified to supply atoms and molecules for an underground fusion reactor, and that fusion reactor supplies molecules for the fission reactor, and it’s basically a fission reactor and a fusion reactor recycling each other

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for some reason I imagined it looking like a green version of the neurotoxin generator from portal 2

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Originally meant to be the first game, but instead it’s going to be after the MEC and MFES

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Fun fact:

VoCAS can also provide paging information (eg, information to specific employees) and site-wide PSAs

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Fun fact #2:

The Penrose Reactor uses liquid helium kept barely above its freezing point as coolant

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It took 4 1/2 years for Northwestern to create liquid helium generators and to keep the liquid helium at its desired temperature

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A very costly process that takes up a majority of operational costs

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Fun fact:

VoCAS systems are actually partly recycled from FELIX. Some of the FELIX servers were preserved, restored, and used for VoCAS. Primarily the broadcasting system, while VoCAS's voice and messages use an advanced text-to-speech AI.

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Fun fact:

MacQuoid had knowledge of McGowan's presence in the auto-manager and intended to have maintenance disassemble it as he felt like it was unjust to have McGowan technically alive. The meltdown instead blew up auto-manager, so I guess it saved him the effort.

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Auto-Manager couldn’t be disassembled as a majority of the facility was automated by it

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If it was removed Northwestern would have to reaccomodate the facility to be operated completely manually

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And it would also mean the company would have to hire and pay more people money

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MacQuoid didn’t care about this though but Newman wouldn’t let him disassemble Auto-Manager

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#1 cheapskate in history

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Newman is like mr krabs

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wants all the money

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never gives any of it to anything

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Rename security to:
Asset Protection Unit?
Defense Operations?
Vanguard Division?
Vanguard Unit?
Facility Guard Operations?
Corporate Security Bureau?

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this is relating to when I believe NWO_V said that they wanted to rename security after the recent poll

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Vanguard sounds cool but a little overkill, facility guard is okay, same with asset protection, but defense ops sounds a bit too similar to the new QSERF security ngl, corporate security bureau isn't bad though

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Fun Fact:

When the PIR was first introduced as a concept to Northwestern in 1967 it would’ve been powered with 6 lasers and would’ve been held up with a basic stationary pedestal, with the original belief that it could power the entirety of North America for an extremely low price

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Northwestern Corporation estimated that the original concept PIR would’ve exceeded the company’s budget tenfold and even then would’ve faced restrictions by the NRC and FTC

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Eventually after 5 1/2 years of re-evaluations the finalized design was approved in 1972 and is what was seen in operation at the MEC

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Structural support beams that'll be seen in caverns of the MEC

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Fun fact:

Dr. Elizabeth Cornwall was the first and only person in the MEC to catch on with the sabotage, and ordered security to feedwater pumps and turbines. She however was unaware that the saboteurs were the company themselves. She was extremely nervous and tense the entire shift, and when the meltdown happened she knew exactly what happened and tried to shut down the reactor as fast as possible.

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NOTICE OF TERMINATION:
NAME: ELIZABETH CORNWALL
ADDRESS: (insert city address here i aint scanning lake pepin addresses)
CITY: STOCKHOLM, WI
DOB: FEBRUARY 28TH, 1921
GENDER: F

CLASS A SEVERE VIOLATION OF REACTOR OPERATIONS HANDBOOK - "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD REACTOR PERSONNEL ATTEMPT A REACTOR PURGE WHEN TEMPERATURE IS HIGHER THAN 500K KELVIN."

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she was in the control room attempting to purge the reactor

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After the purge failure, she was sucked into the singularity

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Oh i forgor

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Fun fact:
Cornwall intended to retire in 1985 at the age of 64, but northwestern begged her to stay to overwatch reactor operations. This happened multiple other times, until it eventually sealed her fate.

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Northwestern Atomic Regulatory Division (NARD)

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probably 7-8/10

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yes while the Penrose Reactor lasted probably several times longer than most other reactors in other core game lores (nearly 10 years) the absolute state of disrepair the MEC is in around the time the Lake Pepin Disaster occurred would convey how much Northwestern would've falsified the reactor's evaluations

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The reactor had a very rudimentary and unpredictable pressure releasing system, no emergency coolant discharge system and various coolant pumps were defective

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It was an absolute miracle the facility managed to last that long

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Northwestern went to absolutely insane lengths to assure that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission couldn’t obtain the necessary documents to forcefully inspect the facility

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bribing state judges to deny warrants, threatening loss of employment and legal action if employees reported misconduct to the NRC or OSHA

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do you just use canva or something else?

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kinemaster

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how in tarnation

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do you use kinemaster

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to make a logo

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i use ibis paint to add wear and tear to some decals

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i just use canva

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I also plan to make the Vanguard Unit, which is basically just elite security

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anyways

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can you provide a transparent northwestern logo for said logo

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or

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i could just screenshot but idk

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wip turbine

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fun fact:

during the successful nightshift ending the Site Administrator leaves a voicemail congratulating the reactor ops personnel on managing to safely operate the Penrose Reactor with a “severe malfunction” and eventually hands out tickets to a local theme park via mail

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wait do you have plans for all the endings?

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only the Meltdown Ending and Nightshift Ending

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the meltdown ending is just an EBS warning

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shutdown ending like nightshift might be some kind of monologue or voicemail

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originally wanted to do a hotel stay at the Mall of America for the Nightshift ending but the Mall of America opened on August 11, 1992

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And the Lake Pepin Disaster occurred on June 28, 1992

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hm

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potential concept for a trailer?

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finished

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me when my turbine goes spinny spin

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that poster

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‘Remember, in the event of a dangerous anti-gravitational anomaly near you in the facility, get in a single file line and walk away until you reach your evacuation point.’

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or I’m as usual taking things too literally and this is all a joke

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quantum isn’t mentioned in the poster

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fair enough

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“their” is a caricature that could be used for any core game company tbh

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Newman: ‘Ah, I forgot my glasses.. uh.. please do destroy our reactor?’

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Bad jokes 101

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the reactor silhouette IS supposed to be an indirect reference to the DMR but there’s several dozen different games that use metal ball cores as well

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in canon the only futuristic reactor companies are Northwestern Corporation and Angelico Enterprises

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Angelico was really only added as to create a rivalry dynamic

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and at the same time not antagonize any other core game company

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because both were made by me

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the concept of Angelico operating something very similar in theory and practice to the DMR exists but at the same time i can’t be bothered to develop something that’ll see very minor usage in lore

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should also be noted that the two companies don’t have a “i’m going to kill all of your employees and burn your facility down” type rivalry

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more or less something similar to the pepsi coke rivalry

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both hate each other but when someone rats out someone on the other they’re quick to punish the culprit and not the victim

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professionals have standards

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After the B.E.C or M.E.C we might be able to make the pyrochemical heat reactor just as a small spinoff, without a whole facility

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for

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obvious reasons

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howcome it uses they and their?

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really "their" is a caricature that could be applied for any core game company

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yes the art example is very similar to the DMR but then again there's a lot of games that use metal ball cores

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in lore it's likely referring to Angelico Enterprises

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which is a company i really only made so there's a rivalry dynamic

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whilst not antagonizing any other companies

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ah

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in very early stages of the lore quantum science was supposed to be a spiritual fanon competitor

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eventually removed them from the lore because

1 - that'd be putting a group of 1/2 million people up against a group of approximately 4 people (3 of which are devs)
2 - there would be several bouts of conflicting lore
3 - the McDowell Energy Complex (and quite a bit of Northwestern Corporation itself) has major derivatives from portal 2 (what QSERF is based off of)

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Fun fact:

Stanley MacQuoid's death enraged Grayson MacQuoid so badly, the day after the explosion many people would describe MacQuoid's office being a 'dangerous tornado hazard'.

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insane work to create a company driven to provide energy for pennies regardless of class redefining the entire nuclear industry in the process only to get shoved away for a murderer who gets an entire facility named in his honor

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TVs might go hard

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Fun fact:

When the Obrysum Diagonal Lift slammed into the Obrysum Seal the door shifted forward into its frame, damaging it in the process and misaligning it with the locking bolts

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Originally this was one of the speculations of how the explosion made it to the surface before scientists recreated a 1:4 scale diorama of the Obrysum elevator shaft and its seal to test how the door would've fared against the explosion if the seal was undamaged

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Should the FACRED (Facility Readiness) level be displayed throughout the facility?

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Yes! Display them on wall-mounted CRT TVs

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It goes from 1 - 5, 5 being the lowest and 1 being the highest

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the redcon level could adjust depending on the amount of Raiders in the facility

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Fun fact:
These are the levels for the redcons.

Redcon 5: Facility is normal
Redcon 4: Possible intruders
Redcon 3: Armed intruders detected
Redcon 2: Armed intruders have fired on personnel
Redcon 1: Enemy military detected

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eg during Stage 1 Meltdown the facility would be in Redcon 2

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Basically in terms of their all around meanings:
Redcon 4 and 5: You’re fine, no evac preparation or anything needed
Redcon 3: Standby for evacuation but continue operations
Redcon 2: Non-crucial personnel evacuate
Redcon 1: Everyone get out the facility is screwed

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i think i have an old test card i wanted to put on tvs when i first conceptualized northwestern

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NOTICE OF INVESTIGATION
Federal Bureau of Investigation

NAME: GRAYSON MACQUOID
GENDER: M
DATE OF BIRTH: 01/05/1948
CITY: SPRINGFIELD, OR.

Notice: Due to mysterious, possibly illegal actions done by the corporate of the company you take share in the authority of, Northwestern Corporation, we send this notice to tell you that you are under investigation. You are not allowed to leave your home or show up to work until this investigation has been concluded. We thank you for your cooperation.

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ik roblox likes to moderate last names alot, from personal experience

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poor jeremiah mcdowell/magellan/middleton

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always getting his name changed

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isnt that the guy who sailed to the east indies

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at this point might as well rename him to McTowel

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though abbreviation can go through ig

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i just used the abbreviation

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MEC92

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yeah i was gonna say LOL

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sounds cooler

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just like St. Rivera, i did had to abbreviate that, it is one way to get through filters

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december if we're lucky, if not january or february prob

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i really have to figure out the workings of luau

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should we release the MEC as a showcase first or when its startup and meltdown function

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i plan to first release the place as a showcase so people have a taste of what to come

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right

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i think i posted it in the server first