Respect of a Galaxy: A Nation Roleplay

[Darkmatter]

A thousand million. I study physics and that's the SI unit for the scientific world.

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Taking SI as only prefixes such as Giga (10x9), then regard this, seeing as how we all are, I'm assuming, from English speaking countries.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_...ales#section_3

[GrievousKhan]

Let us all converge in the chat! and then type /join #galaxy

A place for us to boast and convince one another how we will destroy everyone else.

Umm...that chat doesn't work...

[Darkmatter]

It sure does!

[GrievousKhan]

Btw, how is space travel handled? Do we use something like warpgates/Quantum gates/Mass like relays to travel from place to place? Or Just Regular FTL?

The latter case would still take months to year's longer. Unless it's some uber FTL.

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It sure does!

Doesn't work for me...

[Darkmatter]

Type
/join #galaxy

[Lord Monbodo]

Btw, how is space travel handled? Do we use something like warpgates/Quantum gates/Mass like relays to travel from place to place? Or Just Regular FTL?

The latter case would still take months to year's longer. Unless it's some uber FTL.

Considering that our system (which hasn't yet been stated) is pretend, we can use whatever travel times we please. (a.k.a. Whatever the GM is fine with)

A thousand million. I study physics and that's the SI unit for the scientific world.

---------- Post added at 09:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:24 PM ----------

Taking SI as only prefixes such as Giga (10x9), then regard this, seeing as how we all are, I'm assuming, from English speaking countries.

My question was aimed at Anj. He didn't seem to know the difference.

[Duchess]

I went with wormholes, but it's been left up in the air thus far...

EDIT: Beaten by his lordship.

[GrievousKhan]

Type
/join #galaxy

Nothing but a black screen mate, not a chance to type diddly...

[Automatic]

It is simply the normal chat of RPG. You can find the join chat button on the left side on the homepage. When you enter the chat, type /join #galaxy.

[Rocket]

(( I know all the British died long before this period, but I really wanted to have a sort of Space knights in shining armour culture, but with all the nasty gritiness intact. So Hopefully the Oceanians just remembered a great deal about Britain.)

Nation Name: The Avalonian Empire

Specie(s): Human

Physical Description: Avalonians are human beings, though with extensive access to body-modification, they beautify and enhance themselves. Avalonians in general are great supporters of Trans-humanism, and often make use of robotic enhancements in their bodies. Cybernetic attatchments are the norm, with some Avalonians being more robot than human.

Psyche: Essentially they are human, aggressive, idealistic, capable of great compassion and terrible cruelty. The Avalonians are a repressed culture, sexually and emotionally. They have regressed from the progressive 21st century. Homosexuality is seen as a terrible vice, as it does not encourage procreation (not 100% true thanks to new technologies, but the establishment is keen to keep these suppressed) and the government is terrified of other alien races beating them and causing their extinction through numbers alone.

Women are also seen as weaker and subservient to men, for two-fold reasons. The first is the desire of the government to have a population producing many children. The second is the unfortunate survival of medieval concepts of courtly romance, tied in with the Arthurian ideology of the empire. Arthur has replaced Christ in Avalon, and historians are the new clergy.

Racial Advantage:

Trans-Humanism- Wide access to advanced technology allows Avalonians to improve their bodies, memories and minds to super-human proportions. They can jump higher, run faster, punch harder, see further. They are more beautiful, have higher endurance, improved memories. It is important to note, however, that in Avalonian society, some enhancements are banned to the none-elite, meaning the lower ones social status, the worse their enhancements will be. While the highest ranks of Avalonian society are incredibly adapted (though so robotic they are essentially cyborgs) the lower classes will only have a few enhancements, generally to do with their line of work (such as increased strength for miners.)

Advanced: Human ingenuity means that the Avalonians have become a very technologically advanced society, and they make great use of this, particularity in war.

Nationalist ideaology: Fanaticism, patriotism and nationalism is encouraged in Avalon, making for a largely obedient, and dangerous populace, willing to lay down their lives for the empire...most of the time, anyway.



Racial Disadvantage:

Elitism: The Avalonians are lead by a privileged elite of nobles and the privileged historians, librarians and archivists who 'guard' the history of their people. These nobles will lead their armies, no matter what their skill in war is, meaning terrible generals can be common. Their constant bickering can also lead to in-fighting, and it is possible individual nobles could be bought, or turn traitor if they felt it served their own ends.

Diverse: The large number of worlds, each under their own lords, means the establishment is not as cohesive as it could be, rebellion can be a danger.

Archaic: The vast size of the empire means new technology takes a while to reach everywhere. Though the inner systems take advantage of highly advanced tech, the further out you get, the more outdated the material you come across.

Repressed: Quashing the rights of women and homosexuals, of liberals and separatists, is dangerous in the long term...and leads to growing discontent.

Stars: 57

Worlds:

The Capital of the Avalonian empire is based on New Kent, a sparsely populated garden world inhabited purely by elites and their servants, and surrounded by military space-stations. It orbits the sun known as Lancelot. Two other inhabited worlds can be found in the Lancelot system. Durham, which is the most densely populated planet in the empire and its economic heartland, and Oxford, a world devoted to intensive farming and food production.

The next nearest star is Gallahad, where the heartland of the empire's military establishment is based. There is only one inhabited world in the Gallahad system, called Warwick. The four moons of Warwick are also inhabited.

The stars Lyonell, Blubrys, Lucane, Eddlan, Kay, Alynore, Garethe, Lamorak, Marys, Dagonet, Degore, Lybus, Bors, Gallfryd, Escanox, The Three Sisters (Albin I + II + III) and Alfred form the 'inner systems'. These are the most established star systems in the empire, most having been settled for a few generations at least. They provide the bulk of the resources of the empire, everything from fuel drawn from the planets Bristol and Ashford, to heavy minerals from Manchester.

Plomyde, Safer, Ectorde, Havlan, Hampstead, Bristol, Offa, Gawane, Kells, Chalk, Kelso, New Sol, Barwick, Icenii, Caeloni, Lucifer, Siren, Perth, Huntly, Camden, Tottingham and Gaune are the 'outer systems' less well established than the inner systems, though still considered fairly safe. Gaune is the home system to the ships 'Ulster' and 'Lothian', carrying populations from Scotland and Northern Ireland, and a major source for the empire's armies. These populations share the rugged, grim world of Iona, where militarised 'regiments' have become tribal units, creating a state of near constant warfare. This aids the empire, by weeding out the 'weak' and creating skilled veterans.

Beyond the outer worlds are the Border systems. The wild west of the empire, the rule of the Empress is weakest here, where local magnates, lords and margraves hold much more control. These systems are named Delyens, Bedwere, Gartifex, Tolkien, Skara, Flodden, Errant, Devon, Gilgamesh, Steward, Chonnaught, Cobalt, Seneschal and Mordrede. Mordrede is home to the planet Cornwall, which was once home to a simplistic race known as the Sybir, who's technology had roughly equated with neolithic man. What they called their own world is now lost, and they have been pressed into slavery by the oppressive empire.

Population: 520 billion (not including 5 million Sybir on Cornwall and potential alien immigrants in the Border systems, or aliens acting as mercenaries on Iona.)

Short History:

As the United Kingdom (reformed by Anzac immigrants, rebuilding the 'fatherland' along the lines they had read in a sparse few surviving books, many of them myths and legends) starved and fell into bloody, mindless civil war over the sparse remaining resources, the project that was thought to be the last hope for the survival of the islands civilisations was initiated. Project: Avalon, inspired by ancient Welsh myth of a promised land to the west, took every last resource the British government (Now occupied by an unscrupulous nationalistic party, who had achieved office via the medium of fear, hatred and panic.) had, building six ships to carry as much of its surviving population away as possible. Ulster, Harlech, Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex and Lothian departed the archipelago as part of the great exodus of earth, leaving those too stubborn or weak behind to battle over the charred scraps of the United Kingdom.

Today, the legacy of those craft are carried on in the Avalon empire, an interstellar sprawl constructed by those bedraggled refugees who left a ruined earth behind so long ago. The Avalonians guard their history jealously, but over such a long time, myth and history have become intermingled, and in some cases outright lies of superstition have taken hold. King Arthur is now commonly acknowledged to have invented space-flight by Avalonians. The French were a terrible species of subterranean frog-men who invaded 'Angleland' and killed John Lennon, inventor of Communism.

The Avalonians have become an archaic and incomprehensible culture, semi-feudal in nature, obsessed with tradition, honour and monarchy. Their bureaucracy is vast and confused, their archives numerous and conflicting. They place a great deal on status and rank in the complicated hierarchy of their people. The nature of leadership in the empire means that some planets are almost individual states.

Military: The Empire's centeral wordls maintains a standing army of several billion, expertly trained and equipped with the most advanced technology they can construct. However, the troops of lords further away from the center become increasingly poorly equipped. In times of desperation, a levy can be pulled into service, calling all non-noble men aged between 18 and 40 into service. This increases their army to a vast size, those these irregulars are no were near as dangerous as professional troops.

The Avalonians require a vast navy of dreadnoughts, frigates, destroyers and other large craft. They vary in appearance, as each noble family will own a ship, decorated in their heraldry, as a sign of status.

Most Glorious and Serene Empress Syle I

Syle is a clone, one of many. The Imperial House of Avalon has been kept in such a state since its genesis, to ensure the bloodline is always pure. Artificially kept alive by robotics, she is 82 years old but looks not a day over twenty. Syle is curt, cruel and machievellian, though she does have some symphaty for those around her.

Minister Khamir

Minister Khamir is one of the Empress' primary ambassadors, a sharp and witty man with olive skin and a quick smile. Khamir is surprisingly liberal and open-minded for an Avalonian, and doesn't seem to mind dealing with aliens.

Lord Claine

The cyborg Lord Claine is one of the many warlords of Guane, one of the most powerful and terrifying, he fights like a demon.

Lady Lysea

The dimunitive Lady Lysea is the ward of Empress Syle, kept captive to ensure her father does not rebel. She is shy and timid, but compassionate and kind.

Admiral Colwain

Colwain is the commander of the Empress' navies...in theory at least. He has so many enhancements he is more machine than human, and remains permenantly wired into his ship, it is impossible to guess where he ends and the ship begins...