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[Ghazkull]

Hello. This will be a strategic/roleplay Game in which you, the players, control a series of Human Nations in Space. Game Mechanic wise it will work very similiar to teh Sufficient Velocity Quests (here is an example) or the Vinland Quest i'm doing in another thread. The Difference is that you will have total control (well mostly) over your own nation/dynasty/people.

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The Setting

Humanity turned to the Stars and found...nothing. Truly, thats it. Well mostly. What they found was that Humanity is indeed the most advanced Species in the Galaxy...that is living species.

Colonizing as we went along, we found that others have gone before us and that there are many other intelligent lifeforms out there...only they are more primitive than we.

Over the hundreds of years humanity has spent among the stars, many nations have risen and many fallen, new alliances are made daily and broken again. The only thing that unifies the disparate human nations is their common identity as a species and the rather vague guiding hand that the Council provides.

Council-Station. While originally intended as a United Nations of Space kind of thing, it failed just as much as the original United Nations did. Still it serves one purpose: Neutral Ground for Nations to meet and negotiate...and every now and then come (suprisingly) to an agreement.

Creating your Nation

Now thats gonna be a wee bit more complicated. To actually create tension, issues between different nations and something to work towards to, much of your nation will be randomly generated.

For now i need you to provide me a name for your little Space Empire as well as a government form. I warn you, the government form is important and will heavily influence your game. But don't worry you can still change it later.

Name of the Nation:
Form of Government:
Dynasty/Ruling Party/Family (if applicable):
Focus (select 3): Size(Number of Planets), Fleet, Army, Technology, Stability, Economy, Approval, Population, Diplomacy, Espionage
Historic Advantages (select 2): Martial Legacy, Diplomatic History, Clever Investments, A Stable Country, A Spy in Every Corner, Eyes Outward, Eyes Inward





For now that is everything, as we proceed with the character/nation creation i will put rules, mechanics and other important stuff in here.

[_DivideByZero_]

By 'Total Control,' do you mean that we (players) control the government entirely?

Spoiler: Unity Incorporated States (click to show/hide)

Name of the Nation: Unity Incorporated States
Form of Government: Federal Democratic Republic de jure, AI dictatorship de facto

If I may:

Unity is the product of many years' isolation and growth. The late Federated States of Omega Orionis IV had fragmented into countless worlds with no semblance of central government. The sheer ease of transportation ended up granting each world its own unique political flavor; dissidents would go to space, living on stations or reaching out to found new colonies. This arrangement worked out quite fine until the core worlds were no longer at the forefront of interplanetary society. One by one, stagnant leadership would endanger the economy on a populous world, triggering a mass exodus toward the richer surrounding worlds. This flooded the once-united intermediary worlds with a mixture of refugees from different worlds, many of whom shared viewpoints literally worlds apart from the locals. Eventually a conflict broke out, and in the fallout of massive civilian casualties a stronger federal government was ratified to place restrictions on economic migration and relief efforts. Thus was born the first incarnation of Unity.

Ruling Party: Abraham, a multithreaded AI conglomerate originally charged with a since-growing number of bureaucratic tasks. As of this point, Abraham has enough control over news, search engines, information channels, and public figures (both real and imaginary!) to maintain pro-AI sentiment and install itself as de-facto mediator of all political happenings. No issue gets discussed without being part of a long-term plan, no politician gets elected without indirect approval, and all business depend on data and projections from the Brain itself.

Focus: Technology, Espionage, Approval

It'd be nice if you told us what the historical advantages actually do. Until then, this is just tentative:

Historic Advantages: Eyes Outward (historically), A Spy in Every Corner (recently)

[Maegil]

Name of the Nation: Neo Venetian Republic (Neo Venice)
Form of Government: Plutocratic Republic (remember that "republic" only means that it's not a monarchy, not that the common people has any saying in governance)
Ruling Party: in any group of 3 Senators you'll usually find 4 to 7 parties...
Focus (select 3): Fleet, Technology, Economy
Historic Advantages (select 2): Diplomatic History, Clever Investments

[Ghazkull]

By 'Total Control,' do you mean that we (players) control the government entirely?

Spoiler: May post something here (click to show/hide)

Yep, unless you play for example Democracies or in Maegils case a Noble Republic which will work slightly differently. Ultimately everything that happens only with your say so, but the options you have expand or are limited by whoever is nominally in charge.


As for the Historical Advantages. Your Empires didn't just come into existence yesterday, they already bring a long line of historic baggage with them, historic advantages improve that historic baggage in the selected regards.

For example a Martial Legacy means that your people have a long standing military history. That means that if you roll crappy on your current military it won't be as bad. If you roll crap on your Size it means that obviously you had a larger empire in the past...and so on and so forth.

[_DivideByZero_]

What does Eyes Inward do?

[Ghazkull]

Eyes Outwards would be that your country focused on research of alien species, on exploration and colonization.

While Eyes Inwards is more a look at traditional sciences and technologic progress within your nation.

Basically a bit of Technologic Expansionism versus Technologic Isolationism.

[helmacon]

Name of the Nation: The Confederate Expanse
Form of Government:Fascism tempered with Epistemocratic systems in social policy, allowing for a rare coexistence of limited cultural tolerance within the authoritarian state.
Focus (select 3):  Fleet,  Stability,  Approval,
Historic Advantages (select 2): Martial Legacy, Eyes Outward

((If any of this seems contradictory, I can expand on it. I refrained from doing so initially because I thought it might be overstepping my bounds on what i'm allowed to define about my society.))

[_DivideByZero_]

(Posted a sheet)

How much can we define about our nation's history? I'm not looking to define capabilities or power here, just a basic background as to how things arrived at the current point.

[Ghazkull]

The thing is, im randomyl generating much of your nation, for exmaple speaking about a people who support your nation or a mighty and advanced military when your approval rating ends at 10 out of a 100 or your military actually ends up with weapons from the cold war, is a bit shite. So i would wait with the fleshing out till around 5 players have posted their sheets and then im going over an in depth nation creation with each player anyway so we have not such disjointed setting ;P.

[S34N1C]

Spoiler:  Arkagonia (click to show/hide)

Name of nation: Arkagonia
Form of government: Democratic Oligarchy(basically, the leaders are voted in, and afterwards have absolute powers over their specified office until their term is up)
Ruling Party: Parliament-type council( referred to as only "The Council) with 2 representatives per planet. 1 extra rep is elected by the people to lead the Council on a whole. Reps are voted in by the people of their planet, Council Head(CH)is voted in by the entire population. Rep term is equivalent to 10 Earth years, CH term is 15
Focus: Fleet, Technology, Diplomacy
Historic Advantages: Diplomatic History, Eyes Outward

[_DivideByZero_]

The thing is, im randomyl generating much of your nation, for exmaple speaking about a people who support your nation or a mighty and advanced military when your approval rating ends at 10 out of a 100 or your military actually ends up with weapons from the cold war, is a bit shite. So i would wait with the fleshing out till around 5 players have posted their sheets and then im going over an in depth nation creation with each player anyway so we have not such disjointed setting ;P.

But why bother letting people choose government type? Not every nation is America with the same government since its inception for hundreds of years.

[Ghazkull]

Because your current government type won't interfere with the rest of your backstory.

[Cain12]

Well, sort of want to try something like this, think I have the time, applying:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name of the Nation: Alur Dominion (Bothers me this almost took the most time to think up.)
Form of Government: Stratocracy
Ruling Body: A council composed of high ranking officials in key areas of government and elected representatives that have served at least three years of military service. They confer and discuss issues, propose plans of action, and vote on them. During emergencies a specially (council) elected member may override this system so as to take immediate action as required, coming under review afterwards.
Focus: Army, Population, Stability
Historic Advantages: Martial Legacy, A Stable Country

Edit: Noticed I deleted ruling body, fixed. Should probaly have something in there, kinda have more (general idea of checks & balance, how they are elected, officials replaced, etc) but figure that may be stepping over the line.

Edit 2: Though now I'm pretty sure it is not a proper Stratocracy.

[Maegil]

Name of the Nation: Alur Dominion (Bothers me this almost took the most time to think up.)

That's normal. I think most everybody has that problem...

Once you get an idea for a character, the stats pop up at once and backstories just flow off your fingers... but names! They're completely disconnected from the character itself, an artificial non sequitur label that you have to to force out of thin air so you know what to call that organically evolving being that is a character.

[VoidSlayer]

Name of the Nation: Council-Station Exploration Commission (CSEC) "explorers"
Form of Government:Science Directorate - Recognized experts elect leadership for their areas for lifetime appointments and then further levels are elected from there, communist party style.  An AI testing system decides who qualifies as electors and candidates.
Dynasty/Ruling Party/Family (if applicable):Alien Worlds Exploration Initiative
Focus: Technology; Stability; Economy
Historic Advantages: A Spy in Every Corner; Eyes Outward