[quote=@WrongEndoftheRainbow]
I'm going for a way-out-there future nation, one that's been in the making for billions of years. most Sci fi stuff is near future, but I'm going for far far future. 
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I'll be honest, the Universal Union as is was a problem for me, and part of why I bugged out of the ships, which alone, I'd have been fine trying to hash out in part due to what Verb said:

[quote=@Willy Vereb]
My prime concern is with the size of WrongEndoftheRainbow's faction. And that's more on the level of aethetics and comfort in terms of worldbuilding. Universal Union is way too huge and kinda trivializes the entire game with its existence. Sure, WrongEndoftheRainbow's actual faction is far smaller but the existence of such power still puts a certain pressure on things which we might not want. Ophidian compared this to a sword of Damocles hanging above our heads. While that may be an exaggeration it's certainly not that nice of a feeling when you think about plots for this RP.
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I mean, to quote a convo I had with him:

[quote]I also wasn't comfortable with the idea that there was a Universal Union out there that could crush us all like dogs if it noticed us-it seems like...well, what's the point of building these nations then? Telling these stories? Get big enough to get noticed and stomped on? Yaaaaaaay. Tisha and Molotov lived happily ever after until the Universal Union noticed the upstart humans and conquered them in seven days. Yaaaaaay. 
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It's just...what's the point? Narrative-wise, these things matter alot to me.