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A) Open Warfare: Shoot them as soon as we can.

15 (48.4%)

B) Cold War: Establish borders, and try to out-grow them.

16 (51.6%)

C) No War: Let's share the solar system.... For now.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 31

[Sheb]

Not really: I'll be the one fighting the monser spreadsheets :p

[LostCosmonaut]

I'm looking to play as a planet corporation, probably on Titan or one of Jupiter's moon's. Think of having us be a bunch of Russian oligarchs and/or arms companies, if anybody's interested.

[RedKing]

Okay, very interested. I could also see room for a science-oriented faction (a la the University from AC) and a mercenary force (asteroid or moon base, decent fleet but low resources so the player would constantly need to be selling their services for the resources to maintain and repair their vessels).

Or....how about a faction of bio-engineered colonists? Maybe a population that was genetically modified to work on Titan or Mars, and rebelled. Now they have their freedom, but they're ostracized from "normals" and can't live on Earth or any of the other terraformed worlds. Could lead to interesting extra-Solar conflicts if they find rich worlds that are habitable to them, but the human factions want to claim them and terraform them.

[Sheb]

I think I'll let you decide how many labs/factory/mines you want, and just give you a abstract number of "Inductrial Capacity". 1 factory is 1 IC, 1 mine too, automated mine are 2 IC, labs are 20. Feel free to become a mining conglomerate, an industrial powerhouse or "Silican Valley in Space".

I don't think there is room for a mercenary faction yet, maybe later when there is more conflicts.

[Iituem]

Okay, then.  I'm willing to head up the Asteroid Corp (AstroCorp?) if anyone is willing to join up with me.  Let's pick character names and get ready to formulate some strategy!

[Boksi]

I'd like to join Iituem.

Also, how about naming the coporation Chthonian Combine? Chthonian means 'beneath the earth', so it's a good name for a mining corporation, while Combine refers to it being a merger between several big mining companies and is in no way picked for an ominous sound. Because we're totally the good guys.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I'll gladly join this totally not ominous, scary or evil Chthonian Combine. Provided that I get to name one of the ship types Cagafuego (Fireshitter). God it's an awesome name.

[Burnt Pies]

Kynrael and I have agreed to team up, we'd like a Planetary Corp start.

Not sure as to names just yet.

[Iituem]

Cthonic Combine it is, then!  (Name edit for linguistic accuracy.)  What sort of factory distribution should we have?

[Boksi]

Actually, Chthonic is the correct spelling. It's from the greek word χθόνιος, chthonios. Yes, it is a weird spelling.

Factory distribution is mostly mines, of course, but we need some labs and factories too. I assume we'll be getting an orbital habitat in orbit of some big asteroid, so that's where the labs and factories would go. I've also got some ideas for a long-term strategy, but nothing concrete yet.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Factory distribution is mostly mines, of course, but we need some labs and factories too. I assume we'll be getting an orbital habitat in orbit of some big asteroid, so that's where the labs and factories would go.

This is probably the best choice. As long as we throw a couple shipyards. We'll need them.

Long term strategy should be to make the most profit. We're a corperation, remember? The more money we can get our greedy paws on the better.

[RedKing]

@Sheb: What about the gene-engineered colonists idea? I know it's a bit more work to hash out a seperate species, but once set up it shouldn't really take any additional work going forwards. It only gets complicated when you have the same empire with multiple species. I'm keen on the idea of a GM-worker revolt on one of the Jovian moons or Titan, possibly a former holding of one of the other player corporations.

[Sheb]

Well, I'm open to suggestions, so if you want them, you'll get them. Choose your moon.

[Sheb]

Here is the new thread!

[RedKing]

squee! 

Hmm...I'm thinking it could be a fascinating game to bend the rules a bit and play as a race that was *perfectly* engineered for Titan (by doing the "Create Empire" in SM mode)
Such that:
Methane-breathing (which you can't do with in-game genetics modification)
Gravity tolerance from 0.32 to 0.74 (so Mother Earth will be off-limits with serious gene-tinkering)
Methane pressure requirements from 0.036 to 0.124
Temperature tolerance from -207C to -149C
Max atmospheric pressure of 2.3atm.

Essentially, they'd be an alien faction. I've played some methane-breathers in solo games and it can lead to an interesting sort of co-existence with some NPRs, where they take the N-O worlds in the inner portions of systems, and I take the NH4 worlds in the outer portions of systems. I see a niche for the Titanians as surveyors and miners of those hard-to-work NH4 worlds, trading resources for tech or cash (maybe a Wealth Creation and/or Industrial penalty to compensate for the fact that NH4 worlds are likely to be more plentiful than N-O ones?)

I'm sort of taking some of my inspiration from the Free Drones in Alien Crossfire. These guys have been essentially slave labor for one or more of the corporate factions, and after revolting and disposing of the Garrison Battalion on Titan, they've expropriated all the facilities on Titan and declared themselves an independent world. Though they were careful to at least pay lip service to Terran Imperial authority, to avoid having the Empire drop the hammer on them. For its part, the Empire might see a free Titan as a useful counterweight to the growing power of the corporations in the outer system, and they don't have to worry about them as a threat because the Titanians can't survive on Earth or Venus due to gravity, and would fare extremely poorly on Mars and Mercury because of temperature and atmosphere differences.

I see Titan as either Communist, Ordered Socialist, Stalin Communist, or possibly a Rigid Democracy. That would actually work well with the Wealth Creation penalty, too. What could be better than a Democratic People's Republic of Titan full of methane-breathing Communists struggling against the decadent bourgeois imperialists of the Inner System?