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[10ebbor10]

Imperium

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In ancient times, comets were oft though of as ill omens, heralding death and despair. Though such beliefs had mostly disappeared in the Empire, the appearance of a large fiery trail did not fail to elicit widespread panic, for it was not an ordinary comet, but remnants of a Battleship of Imperial Armada, heralding the coming of an era of civil war.

The era or civil war appears now to have come to an end, or at least a temporary pause of hostilities. The six of you were important leaders in the war, and one of you even managed to capture the Imperial Throne, and controls the Imperial sector. The rest of the Empire has been divided among each of you, and perhaps now the hardest of your task begins. To maintain and consolidate your power, and rebuild from the damage of the last civil war.

For though peace may have been restored to the core of the Empire, in practice, large parts of it are in ruin. The Imperial fleet has been decimated, many irreplaceable ships lost to battle or desertion. The core planets all bear the scars of war. Public Faith in the Empire has been shaken, in the outer sectors, the Emperor rules only within the weapon range of a patrolling Imperial ship, a rarity in these days. In large parts, the Empire has become stuff of legend.


Authority

The position of Emperor is no longer as absolute and sacrosant as once used to be. In fact, for the first time in aeons, the lifespan of the Emperor is now lower even that of the lower classes on the Imperial Capital.

There are 2 types of Authority. Personal and Imperial Authority, personal Authority is relevant to anyone directly under your command, including your own sector (provided you are indeed, present). Imperial authority is the fame of the Emperor (and others) through the Imperium. A famed hero of the Empire may win over the personal troops of a despised governor.

When faced with conflicting orders, it's usually those with higher authority who win out, though the specifics of the case matter a lot. Usually, the first one to break the status quo looses out.


Domains

The Imperium, even now, stretches over a large amount of planets, each possesing numerous resources. In effect, and therefore the industrial effort of these many planets is not divided by product, but by a general technological, tiered from 1 (mostly raw materials) to 5 (the most advanced technology).

Likewise, planets(or anything with a population really) are divided into tiers, for ease of management. Ranging from small mining outposts to multi billion planet.

Higher tier planets have a tendency to require the import of resources from a lower tier planet.


Technology

Technological progress in the Imperium has been far from stellar in recent times, moving at times backwards, while other times old technologies were recovered. Technology needs a constant investement of resources to maintain. Without those, the infrastructure basis and other requirements tend to crumble, and the Empire is left with relics they can no longer operate and understand. Already, several such systems exist.

In addition, technological systems are highly localized. Knowledge of hyperdrives has floundered in the outer periphery, while still being prevalent within the Imperium. Often, certain objects which have broken down completely on one world through neglect and lack of knowledge, are still fully understood, or even improved on another.


War

In the Imperium, fights are fought amongst the stars. Ground force, are defacto, little capable of resisting an enemy they can not reach, and who can destroy them and their entire planet in rapid fashion. Perhaps, in the future, that may change, but for now most planets tend to surrender if their defending fleet is destroyed or absent. If they do not, the planet is usually put an example for others.

Imperial fleets are characterized primarily by 3 values. Attack, Defense and mobility. Attack and Defense are self-explanatory. Mobility is used in determining which fleet attacks first. All three can be effected by commands given in battle.

A battle, following Imperial standards, consists out of multiple seperate forces, each executing their tactics in turn. A wise distribution of forces is needed, as is a proper choice of tactics.

Even in war though, the value of a ship is recognized. They're seldom destroyed, and destruction of the enemy fleet is rarely required to win a battle. From experience of previous wars, it has been shown that the average capital ship tends to age about 150 years, and has fought in several different conflicts often multiple times on different sides.

The Fall

The Imperium is not one of it's most stable states, and is fact, according to some, dieing. Your action may have effect on the rate of that decline, and perhaps, through great effort, reverse it. The general decline of the Imperium means that you'll likely have to deal with a variety of crisises, both from within and from without, both caused and prevented by players. In addition, the well being of the Empire may not always benefit an individual player.

Spoiler: Sign-up sheet (click to show/hide)

Name :
Personal history : This will be used for some traits
Sector description and history : This will be used for some traits (try to incorporate the role and influence in the war, and other peculiarities, such as technology )

If emperor sign up sheet :

Imperial Description and history : This will be used for some traits

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler: Sector organisation (click to show/hide)

The land you control is subdivided into numerous individual sectors, each defended by a central fortress. Fortresses have, like ships, their own armor and defense ratings, but they do no posses any mobility. They can not move, and while they will participate in defense, they will not participate in attack.

Fortresses hold under their control a large number of planets. Capturing the fortress grants these planets to the victor, but damaging it may be sufficient to allow control of the fortress to weaken, and thus allow an enemy fortress assert it's control.

As fortresses have no mobility (and thus attack last). It is suggested that they be protected by at least a small fleet.

Spoiler: Planets and resources (click to show/hide)

Planets, as explained earlier, have different tiers. Each planet produces 5 resources of it's own tier. Normally, a planet consumes most of the resources it produces, with the Imperial Tithe subtracted from that. That tithe can be determined by the player at will.

However, in practice extracting more than 20% (1 resource) of a planet's resources leaves the planet's population facing shortages. While everyone needs to make sacrificises for the good of the Empire, shortages like these are generally unpopular, and if sustained or particularly severe, it's possible that the planet's technological and sociological infrastructure may suffer sufficiently to force a degradation.

Resources are carried between turns, and can be stored. For reasons of my own sanity, these can assumed to be in a pool, and don't need to be shipped around the Galaxy.

Spoiler: Technologies (click to show/hide)

Complete list will be added later. I do intend to differentiate technologies based on player submissions

Tier 1

Automated factory
Magrail transportation
Hypervelocity railgun

Tier 2

Orbital station
Microfusion generator
Fusion torpedo
Long distance communications : Doubles the Amount of Planets that can be assigned to a Sector

Tier 3

Planetary defense battery
Stealth vessels
Habitation dome
Artificial agriculture

Tier 4

Robotic Combat Units
Weather control infrastructure
Enhanced Electronic warfare

Tier 5

Planetary mining : Doubles Resource production. Increases chances of planetary degradation
Gravitational drive
Hyperdrive disruptor
Hyperwave communicator

Spoiler: Combat (click to show/hide)

As mentioned earlier, combat occurs in waves. Before the start of the battle, each player is informed of the enemy force composition. They then separate their force in up to 5 task forces, and assign each a tactic (see lower list).

The order in which each task force is deployed depends on the speed of that taskforce. For example, if Player 1 , has 2 taskforces, with speed 8 and 10, and player 2 has 2 tasks forces with speed 5 and 7, then player 1's taskforces will act first, followed by the taskforces of player 2.

Taskforces, will unless stated otherwise, attack the next enemy taskforce they can target.

The damage made from an attack is determined as follows. d(attack + enemydefense) - enemydefense. Ships do not have health, rather, attacks directly diminish the attack,defense and speed of the enemy fleet.

The Main fleet, a concept used in a number of tactics consists out of all fleets which have not yet executed their own mission, or whose  tactic description includes that they're not subtracted from it.

Victory and defeat are not determined by the total destruction of the enemy fleet, which ought to be a rare event. Rather, each individual taskforce vs taskforce engagement can be a victory or defeat. The player who wins the most of these engagements, wins the day, forcing the enemy fleet to retreat. Ships left without mobility will be captured by the Defender.

Spoiler: Overview of Units (click to show/hide)

I do intend to differentiate units based on player submissions

In general, the strength of a ship depends primarily on it's tier, and the amount of resources spend on it.

The total sum of a ship's capabilities must be equal or lower than 2*n+4 (With n being the tier) [Before modification by technologies]. This means that higher tier ships can fit more capacities within a single ship.

Ship construction, is equal in resources to it's capabilities [Before modification by technologies] in resources of it's tier. The maintenance cost is 1 resource of the relevant tier per ship.

Repairs of ship can be done with lower tier resources, up to the cap of that tier. Higher tier resources can be used at will. For example A highly damaged Tier 5 ship, with 0 attack, 1 Defense 1 speed left, can be repaired with 4 tier 1 resources, 2 tier 2, 2 tier 3, 2 tier 4, 2 tier 5. Any resource in this combination can be substituted for a higher tier resource.

Stations and defenses

Minefield

Planetary defense station

Spoiler: Overview of tactics (click to show/hide)

I do intend to differentiate tactics based on player submissions

Basic

Defensive formation => Unit does not attack. Unit's defense is increased by the defense of the Main fleet
Battle of the Line     => Unit forces a fleet vs fleet battle, involving all units from both the Main fleets
Focused Fire           => Concentrated attack against a single ship ()
Retreat                  => Halves attack of these units. They rejoin the main fleet after their maneuver

Unlocked by research

Railgun Barrage => Number of ships is added as bonus to attack, and as bonus to enemy defense.
Fusion Torpedo's => Increases attack by 50%, counterattack is ran before attack
Stealth Ambush  => 1 use per battle. Automatically win highest initiative
Electronic Warfare
Extreme evasive maneuvers

[LordPorkins]

........ INTRIGUING!

[Ghazkull]

FUCKING FINALLY someone doing a space empire game!

Name : Captain of the Guard Ugne Vytautas also known as the "Imperial Feldsher"
Personal history : The Past of the Captain of the Imperial Guard before his ascension to that post is not of particular interest. His real story began when the former Captain of the Guard died under mysterious circumstances, making space for the Young Lieutenant Vytautas. Having survived the rule of more than ten emperors and the accompanying purges the Captain has proven his loyalty to the throne countless times. And here is the distinction that makes him and the rest of the Imperial Guard a dangerous factor: Loyalty to the Throne...not to any one given emperor.

Ugne Vytautas is the man that is called upon when there is dirty work to be done, the populace of the capital fear him and his men as they had put down more than one bloody uprising or demonstration against the ruling emperors. In the wider Empire he is known as the Imperial Feldsher and for good reason. Where others prefer surgical precision, Vytautas is called to excise the cancer of traitors and enemies to the imperium. While mostly known for his work as the personal executioner of the emperor, the Captain of the Guard has a keen eye for tactics and his guard is one of the elite units of the Imperial Military.


Sector description and history : Historically the Imperial Guard was financed and outfitted through the Emperor. However with rapid changes in imperial authority, ongoing civil wars and catastrophe it was recognized that to keep the Imperial Guard as an effective fighting force they had to be given lands and territories of their own.

The Worlds and Systems the Imperial Guard governs over are built with one purpose only: to keep the Imperial Guard one of the most elite fighting forces within the Imperium. Ironically that made most Wealthy and Highly populated systems an unattractive choice.
Most worlds within the domain of the Imperial Guard are veritable hellholes, its low populations ekeing out their existence in primitive societies. These people provide the perfect recruitment pool for Imperial Guards. On the other hand most of these worlds are also resource rich and usually possess a plethora of automated factories kept running by the staff of the various space stations orbiting these primitive planets. There the Guardsmen are actually trained and outfitted. Most of the Non-Guard populace consists of Engineers, Scientists and other highly educated specialists keeping the Equipment running, up-to-date and thus ensuring the effectiveness of the Emperors Personal Guard.

[Ardas]

I'm in tentatively, need to prep a sheet. Is this a game of numbers only or is there RP to be had?

[10ebbor10]

Ideally, I endavour for some of the latter to be present as well. Should be important for authority conflicts, for one.

[10ebbor10]

Added some more info.

[LordPorkins]

May join. Hold a spot. Gimme a day or two

[Haspen]

PTW _{to steal ideas for Era of Diesel improvement}

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Is this 40k?

[10ebbor10]

No, not really.

PTW _{to steal ideas for Era of Diesel improvement}

Funny, you should mention that. I, at one time, considered a variant on that set in the Cold War gone hot.

[Haspen]

You would need new techs. Satellites, submarines, and lots of nuke-related stuff.

Then again with nukes present games would have real danger of being very, very short

/offtopic

[Taricus]

Any restrictions on what we can and can't include in our backstories and descriptions?

Spoiler: The Autarch of Katavaris; Sara Thalveris (click to show/hide)

Name: Autarch Sara Thalveris
Personal history: The current Autarch of Katavaris, Sara Thalveris, is an unassuming yet effective administrator and politician who had adroitly manoeuvred the sector during the civil war. Formerly a high-ranking bureaucrat within the Autarchy before being elevated to the position of Autarch. Whilst Sara's reign as autarch has thus far been short, the fact Katavaris had survived the civil war unscathed has already made it momentous to the sector. Initially neutral in the civil war, the sector flipped to the side of the rebels in the waning days of the war, opportunistically jumping ship for the gain of the sector.

Sector Name: Katavaris
Sector description and history: Considered part of the imperium's core worlds, the Katavaris Autarchy is one of the most prosperous sectors, it's technology unmatched elsewhere in the imperium, and it's planets told in stories about their paradisical nature to those in the outer reaches of the empire. While given the environs of the Katavaris worlds hold true to the tales told, the government holds them in an iron grip (Though the fact those worlds remain as the tales say implies this isn't as bad as thought). Between the economic power of the Autarchy, combined with the with the habitability of the worlds it controlled made it a jewel to be seized during the civil war, one inherently unconquerable with the large ground forces maintained by the autarchy; Bombardment would render the sector worthless and leave the empire in a far worse position after the civil war. It's forces are also considered rather unique; the amount of automation seen within the Katavaris sector is astonishingly high, with legions of robots at it's beck and call, and it's fleets requiring far less manpower than what it's ships would typically need for their size, enabling it to have a far more effective military than what one would assume.

The aftermath of the war has only strengthened Katavaris' position; most equivalent worlds were in ruins whereas it avoided the flames of war and the demand for it's goods has skyrocketed, and the absence of technological decline has meant that the sector is a beacon of stability within the dessicated body of the empire.

[Nunzillor]

I may give it a try.  I'll edit this post with a sheet later if I decide to do so.

[10ebbor10]

Any restrictions on what we can and can't include in our backstories and descriptions

Not quite. Try to avoid outright magic and direct copies from popular franchises, but for the rest, feel free to be creative.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You would need new techs. Satellites, submarines, and lots of nuke-related stuff.

Then again with nukes present games would have real danger of being very, very short

/offtopic

Early Cold war, so nukes are present, but rare. May take multiple turns to build a single one.