[quote=@Polybius] I'll give it a read. Going to be honest and say that I want the LORE to be built cooperatively with new ideas and round-table type worldbuilding. That way nobody get's lost in the minutiae of epic histories and narrative. Not saying that's a bad thing-I love writing that stuff myself. But story is character and we should start with that-characters. By all means, draft a character from the ISC and we'll see how it fits into the bigger picture. Remember though, the universe is old. Sleek and new is not common. More Han Solo and Jakku, less Old Republic and Jedi Tower. [/quote] I just posted my standby/generic NS for the Commonwealth. To work properly in this setting, it's naturally going to need some sculpting. The details are only details, subject to change. My vision it in this setting is a little less gleaming than the vanilla NS. Sure, there's pretty shiny city worlds in the core, but even they have their criminal underbellies. There's also backwater colonial holdings so isolated and unimportant that they've regressed to pre-spaceflight technology. It's a hundred different cultures all smushed together under one roof to create a domestic situation that could go up in flames at any second. Over it all a bunch of imperialistic space cats control everything important and spend their days plotting how to either keep the masses downtrodden or how to annex their nearest neighbors.