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The young Terrans of Alexander Strukov! (Military Honour-Industrial Focus/Free Society)

2 (11.8%)

The monstrous Korpr Flock of Quôth! (Warrior Species-Resourceful Converter)

2 (11.8%)

The AI-guided Tellian Dominion of RAPTOR! (Army Focus-Offensive Traditions)

2 (11.8%)

The animalborn Zel'Akar Flame of Alexander Zexterra! (Naval Focus-Warbased Infrastructure)

3 (17.6%)

The enigmatic Einhander Union of Omnorbo! (Fast Pop Growth-Stable Culture)

4 (23.5%)

The industrious Reretia Confederacy! (Military Honour-Industrial Focus)

1 (5.9%)

The reptilian Dalorians of Galros! (Militaristic Culture-Fast Pop Growth)

2 (11.8%)

The dignified Teleri of Galadóre! (Military Honour-Stable Culture)

1 (5.9%)

Total Members Voted: 16

[Shootandrun]

I also switch my vote from the Dalorians to the Tellian Dominion. The Dalorians'll be NPCs instead.

[Tiruin]

For the Einhander! 

[Digital Hellhound]

And voting has ended! Both the young Terrans and the Korpr Flock snatched two votes, as did the Zel'Akar Flame. The Teleri gained 1 vote, and due to vote-switching, the Dalorians ended up at 1 and the Reretia at 0.

The biggest two were the mysterious Einhander Union, at 4 votes, and the Tellus Dominion, which finishes voting with 5 votes! Welcome to AI-neutere- err, I mean, protected, humanity, ladies and gentlemen. I will post the proto-turn and state of the world in a bit - in the meantime, bring yourself over to #brightvoid on freenode webchat, or another IRC client, to discuss the game and whatever questions you might have.

I'll also try to get Taric here to elaborate on his civ if people are interested.

Once the proto-turn is up, in all its statistical glory, people are free to issue commands, with accompanying RP or not, and claim Disunifying Power-affliated characters or politicians, or military leaders. The latter also usually comes with an army/fleet or two under your wing.

[Taricus]

And as promised, some extra details about the Dominion

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Stalker is the Dominions Special operations branch, assigned as a infiltration and sabotage units planetside, and steath vessels within the navy.

Cultbuster is the urban operations branch of the Dominion, being a mixture of close-combat specialists and SWAT within the Dominion. They got the name after having to clear a lot of earth's old religions out, like scientology.

Enforcer is the police branch of the Military, they keep everyone in line and the dominion orderly. Policing doctine is to have a lot of units patrolling in groups of 2-3 able to respond to local calls quickly and efficiently. Navally Enforcer is tasked with corvette for customs duty.

Vanguard is the heavy fist of the Dominion, used for brutal first-wave assaults and smashing open enemy hardpoints. They're equipped with the heavy weapons, and navally are the designation that most assault vessels operate under.

Infiltrator is a defuct branch, once used in the unification war on earth. They specialise in deep-cover infiltration, clearing a path before the main attack has begun to allow a swift and brutal assault to continue, as well as hijacking the enemy's communication and infrastructure.

Mainline is the branch which most units fall under. The dominion's troops are well armoured, equpped and trained. Mainline also covers the navy as well, apart from the specialised ships of Vanguard, Stalker, Enforcer and Psi-int (More on Psi-int later). Mainline also covers auxiliary mechs as well, usually gremlins for the most part but they're able to produce specialised models when they need to.

Human forces are generally divided into two designations, Janissery and Psi-int.

Janissery covers the term used for all non-psionic human forces. Janissery ground forces usually have synths as commanders, though there are some units with human commissioned officers, though these are usually Psi-int units.

Psi-int covers the Psionic branch of the human enlistees, consisting of psionically capable personnel. The unique nature of thier psionics means that they are mentally sharper than most humans. Psi-int units are often deployed intergrated with other branches though whenever a psi-int unit is deployed as a separate unit, the results are terrifying.

[Evil Marahadja]

*Claimes a disunifying Power, will create it shortly*

Anything I should think of when doing it?

[Ardas]

Claiming Jannisery as a human psi-int commander.

[Digital Hellhound]

*Claimes a disunifying Power, will create it shortly*

Anything I should think of when doing it?

We've already worked out several Disunifying Powers, but there's still room for some more. What we have right now are these;

STELLAR (Current Disunity: 8%) Partial copy of RAPTOR, in charge of industry control and administrative oversight on Landsmet. Anti-centralization, pro-war if it believes it can be won, somewhat xenophobic. Desires the power and position of the real RAPTOR.

Psionic Corps (Current Disunity: 6%) The overseers of human military psionics have gradually made their way into Dominion politics. Sharing the respect and fear of their underlings, their words carry surprising weight amongst the high and mighty.

Expansion Movement (Current Disunity: 10%) Ever since the Dominion put the colonization drives on hold, a portion of the population has been fiercely advocating for their return and new expansion, whether by military campaign or colonization. The Expansion Movement includes both humans and mechanoids from every strata of society. They are very pro-war, especially if focused on conquest of new worlds, and oppose large ties with aliens.

The Future of Steel (Current Disunity: 4%) In recent years, a growing trend amongst mechanoids, some of who can go their entire lives without seeing a human, is lobbying for a marginalization of the organic populace. While overall fairly unpopular due to the human-protective guidelines of RAPTOR, the various Future of Steel political movements advocate the gradual decrease of human populations and new laws and restrictions to limit their movements and freedoms. The majority of the mechanoid population has yet to experience anything to swing their opinions either way. Radical advocants even suggest an extermination of humanity and the formation of a new synthetic master race. They are also highly anti-alien, and oppose any attempt at forming greater ties with external powers.

The total Disunity should be 40%, so there's still room for 12% more. Please don't hog all the space, though.

It would be faster if you asked these sorts of questions in the irc channel. #brightvoid - you can use the handy online client I linked to.

[Tiruin]

Humans win 

Though I really was vouching for the Einhander other than mine own, heh.

Looking forward to those turns and everyone's part!

[Digital Hellhound]

The dawn of a new era!

A curious phenonemon - a race that has set their fate in the hands of an artificial intelligence and its synthetic ilk, trusting others to write their shared destiny. Will this lead to glory, when so many others have failed? It is possible - the galaxy knows little like it.

This species has only recently come in contact with another - the ever-growing Sorax Hives. First contact has been remarkably peaceful. For a long time, both sides have been too cautious to approach the other more directly, but that has now changed. Representatives of influential groups and invididuals gather in Primus Station to discuss matters of state under the watchful eye of RAPTOR. Few of them have ever met it before, and it remains to be seen if any of them can have any effect on the vast, calculating superintelligence.

Welcome to the Tellian Dominion.

(Upper right-hand corner numbers fleets (ship numbers). Lower right-hand corner numbers land force sizes (in millions).

The Worlds of the Tellian Dominion

Tellus (Capital World/Home World)

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Population: 4 billion
Territories: Africa, Eurasia, North America, South America
Industrial Capacity: x6
RA: 6/6
Improvements: Automated Industry II, Bunker Systems (4), Ground-to-Space Battery
Income: 6000*
Military:
Earth Defense Force (COMMANDER: Auxis VAN – Hardened, Skilled Attacker) (MORALE: 1425/1425)
  1 million Subpar-quality troops
  4,5 million Standard-quality troops
  2 million Hardened-quality troops
  2 million Elite-quality troops

Primus Station (Capital World)

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Population: 200 million
Territories: Lower Primus Station, Upper Primus Station
Industrial Capacity: x1
RA: 0/0
Improvements: Heavy Fortifications (2), Ground-to-Space Battery
Income: 200*
Military:
Primus Defense Force (COMMANDER: Tural VAN – Elite) (MORALE: 1050/1050)
  4 million Hardened-quality troops
  3 million Elite-quality troops
Home Fleet (COMMANDER: Val MAI – Hardened, Logistics Genius) (MORALE: 70/70) (CARRYING CAPACITY: 28 million men)
  140 Standard-quality ships
  80 Hardened-quality ships
  20 Elite-quality ships

New Hong Kong

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Population: 1,2 billion
Territories: Daiyue, Sculpter's Plain, Angaozhen, Red Mountain
Industrial Capacity: x4
RA: 5/8
Improvements: Automated Industry II
Income: 4000*
Military:
Army of New Hong Kong (COMMANDER: Telal MAI – Standard) (MORALE: 1200/1200)
  5,7 million Standard-quality troops
  2 million Subpar-quality troops
  +Rapid Deployment System
Marine Detachment, Shield Fleet (COMMANDER: Seikan JAN - Hardened) (MORALE: 1200/1200)
  300 000 Standard-quality troops
Shield Fleet (COMMANDER: Telal MAI – Standard) (MORALE: 40/40) (CARRYING CAPACITY: 12 million men)
  80 Hardened-quality ships
  40 Subpar-quality ships
  +Barrier Ships
Second Detachment, Shield Fleet (COMMANDER: Seikan JAN - Hardened) (MORALE:50/50) (CARRYING CAPACITY: 2 million men)
  20 Standard-quality ships
Third Detachment, Shield Fleet (COMMANDER: Jackson JAN - Standard) (MORALE: 40/40) (CARRYING CAPACITY: 2 million men)
  20 Subpar-quality ships

Landsmet

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Population: 600 million
Territories: Seukun, Hope City, Damani Isles
Industrial Capacity: x8
RA: 5/10
Improvements: Automated Industry II
Income: 8000*
Military:
Army of Landsmet (COMMANDER: Zeurun VAN – Subpar, acronym=+1 to Battle Rolls when attacking]Skilled Attacker[/acronym]) (MORALE: 900/900)
  3 million Hardened-quality troops
  3 million Subpar-quality troops
Landsmet Academy Special Combat Force (COMMANDER: Ardas JAN-PI - Hardened) (MORALE: 75/75)
  300 000 Elite-quality troops
  200 000 Hardened-quality troops

Odyssey

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Population: 300 million
Territories: Aquilae, West Scirak, East Scirak
Industrial Capacity: x2
RA: 4/6
Improvements: Automated Industry I
Income: 1000*
Military:
Army of Odyssey (COMMANDER: Sino MAI – Standard) (MORALE: 900/900)
  4 million Subpar-quality troops
  2 million Hardened-quality troops
Lookout Fleet (COMMANDER: Sheka VAN – Standard) (MORALE: 40/40) (CARRYING CAPACITY: 14 million men)
  60 Standard-quality ships
  60 Subpar-quality ships
  20 Poor-quality ships

Anteus

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Population: 800 million
Territories: Promethean Descent, Ziol, Hawking City, Syn-Dach Metropolitan Area
Industrial Capacity: x4
RA: 7/7
Improvements: Automated Industry I
Income: 1000*
Military:
Army of Anteus (COMMANDER: Stjepan JAN – Subpar) (MORALE: 1350/1350)
 7,5 million Standard-quality troops
 4 million Subpar-quality troops
  +Rapid Deployment System

Hychis

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Population: 300 million
Territories: Bloodworth, Zuche, Golgo Rain Forest
Industrial Capacity: x1
RA: 2/4
Improvements: Automated Industry I, Bunker System (1)
Income: 500*
Military:
Army of Hychis (COMMANDER: Pratt MAI – Standard) (MORALE: 1050/1050)
  4 million Hardened-quality troops
  3 million Standard-quality troops

Overall Statistics of the Tellian Dominion

Statistics

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Capital World: Tellus/Primus Station
Total Population: 7,4 billion (+0.2% yearly growth) (population numbers do not list portions of society rendered unfit by injury, disease, low or high age, lawlessness and similar)
Total Worlds: 7
Unity: 60%

Total Industrial Capacity: 26
Total Resource Supply: 29 (3 Resources going to waste every season)

Recruitment Rate: 25%
Manpower: 8880
Army Quality: 10% Subpar, 55% Standard, 25% Hardened, 10% Elite
Commander Quality: Standard
Estimated Total Army Size: 1 110 000 000 men (if mustered right now - majority currently in reserve)
Current Active Forces: 55 500 000 men

Fleet Strenght: 90
Fleet Quality: 10% Poor, 10% Subpar, 35% Standard, 30% Hardened, 10% Elite
Active Fleet Size: 540 ships

Disunifying Powers in the Tellian Dominion

Disunifying Powers

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STELLAR (Current Disunity: 10%) Partial copy of RAPTOR, in charge of industry control and administrative oversight on Landsmet. Anti-centralization, pro-war if it believes it can be won, somewhat xenophobic. Desires the power and position of the real RAPTOR.

Psionic Corps (Current Disunity: 6%) The overseers of human military psionics have gradually made their way into Dominion politics. Sharing the respect and fear of their underlings, their words carry surprising weight amongst the high and mighty.

Expansion Movement - Claimed by Shootandrun - (Current Disunity: 12%) Ever since the Dominion put the colonization drives on hold, a portion of the population has been fiercely advocating for their return and new expansion, whether by military campaign or colonization. The Expansion Movement includes both humans and mechanoids from every strata of society. They are very pro-war, especially if focused on conquest of new worlds, and oppose large ties with aliens.

The Future of Steel - Claimed by Evil Marahadja (Current Disunity: 6%) In recent years, a growing trend amongst mechanoids, some of who can go their entire lives without seeing a human, is lobbying for a marginalization of the organic populace. While overall fairly unpopular due to the human-protective guidelines of RAPTOR, the various Future of Steel political movements advocate the gradual decrease of human populations and new laws and restrictions to limit their movements and freedoms. The majority of the mechanoid population has yet to experience anything to swing their opinions either way. Radical advocants even suggest an extermination of humanity and the formation of a new synthetic master race. They are also highly anti-alien, and oppose any attempt at forming greater ties with external powers.

The Unionists (Current Disunity: 2%) - This is a rather small mostly human movement, which has members amongst the highest persons in society. Their goal is a homogenous population, by combining humans and robots in a single uniform lifeform. Equality for all. They're strictly against unguarded and autonomous robot systems, because their minds are powered by logic and they therefore do not have a conscience, nor a soul. However, the flesh is weak and to ensure the survival of the species, every human should be augmented with robot technology, which will be safely controlled by a human conscience.

SILAS - Claimed by Ghazkull (Current Disunity: 4%) - Based on Hychis. Like STELLAR a partial copy of RAPTOR, similiar as STELLAR desires power but uses other means to the same end. His goal is to achieve the same position as RAPTOR by the integration of  Xenos into the Dominion with the end goal of transforming it into a Confederacy of several AI controlled  Dominions each with its own organic species to care for.

Economy of the Tellian Dominion

Current Treasury: 6000*
Seasonly Income: +8860*

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This is only a proto-turn! You may suggest actions now if you wish, but construction/etc lists and general topics and events of concern only come in the first actual turn! However, I am giving a chance for people to claim Disunifying Powers and military leaders, or make their own characters, now! So get to it!

I'll repeat this because there's apparently some confusion on how YaK-like this is; most characters should be politicians or capable of suggesting actions for the course of the Dominion - there is NOT enough freedom or time for everyone to go adventuring freely. That said, you CAN have lasting impact on the world - but I need to keep the scale big - I can't run street-level gang politics in the slums of New Hong Kong, for example.

Yes, it is an unbelievable amount of information and statistics. But if reading it seems like too much work to you, imagine how it felt to me when I was doing it.

[Evil Marahadja]

Is it ok if I claim the The Future of Steel instead? And let someone with a more original idea create a new faction? 

[10ebbor10]

Maybe we should have an antilmovent contra the future of steel.

Otherwise:

Spoiler: The Unionists( Which are in fact a disunifying power (click to show/hide)

This is a rather small mostly human movement, which has members amongst the highest persons in society. Their goal is a homogenous population, by combining humans and robots in a single uniform lifeform.
Equality for all. They're strictly against unguarded and autonomous robot systems, because their minds are powered by logic and they therefore do not have a conscience, nor a soul.
However, the flesh is weak and to ensure the survival of the species, every human should be augmented with robot technology, which will be safely controlled by a human conscience.

[Digital Hellhound]

@Evil: Sure, go ahead.

@10ebbor10: Actually, that's pretty much what we suggested Evil turn his similar idea to. Creepy. Do you want to claim the Unionists, or are you just adding them?

[Evil Marahadja]

That was kind of what I was aiming for with the political movement actually. 

[Dwarmin]

Oh, thank God he chose someone else.

I was having a lot of trouble actually defining what Einhanders actually had for a culture.

Here's what I made, anyway-it should help later.

Spoiler: Einhander Additional (click to show/hide)

Culture: The Einhander culture has always been viewed as somewhat stifling by other races-they prefer things simple and materially conservative, with exacting specifications-and allow little room for creativity or ingenuity. It's likely not a conscious choice-the beings that make up an Einhander suit simply don't understand or enjoy aesthetics. Perhaps because of this, they relentlessly collect art, music and knowledge from other races-through trade or force, whichever is easier. Their entire culture is based upon acquisition-resources to survive and trophies of conquest.

Trophy taking is a time honored tradition with Einhanders. When they win, they take something with them to remember the event. Much like revenge, Memory, and Learning define them-what little art they make is historical in nature, and their long live are well suited for cataloging it.

Society:

From without, an Einhander is first concerned about protecting and powering his suit. Second to that, is protecting his fellow Einhanders. Given an entire race lies within the frames of ceramic composite that make up the suit, they are not prone to self sacrifice-though, surprisingly enough, there are exceptions and variants among them. To understand an Einhander, you must first look beneath.

Within the suit, lies the macroscopic race that has no name for itself. They are wholly sentient-extremely advanced lifeforms, who have learned to perceive and affect the world. What little study has been done on them shows that, in their own world, they live much like us-constructing 'homes' of cellular-matter, herding and farming, forming cities and countries-even warring against each other.

They merely are, to them, the only beings that matter in existence-the suit is their city, their vessel, their world-the one they use to travel and survive in our own hostile plane. The reason Einhanders are thought of as emotionally Bi-polar is the fact that the suit itself is run by a Democracy, of a sorts. Their actions totally depend on the mood of the 'citizens'. The beings each control and protect a portion of the suit-a few million of them, might for example, devote their entire existence to running the left leg of the machine. 

Einhander names often have three syllables-Omnorbo, Doratus, Jaktorya. They refer to themselves to as "We", or when plural, "Us".

[Digital Hellhound]

You know, I suspected as much. >_>

Now, somehow run a miniature version of this set in an Einhander body!