Titan's Gaze
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2657 AD - 20 Years after the Inner Systems War
Colonizing the solar system proved deeply unlike colonization back when life lived only on Earth.
Far less it was a venture of pioneers and far more one of professionals and wealthy corporations under the guidance of the global oligarchy that emerged during the 21st century as the nation-state system collapsed under its own weight.
Colonizing the solar system was much more akin to a centuries long building project than a series of conquests and expeditions- one fraught with centuries of set backs and troubles from our own failings as a species. Still, the building continued in the background even with the centuries of drama caused by ancient greviences and continuous disruption as humans lost their special place in the universe as the sole intelligent life form. Unseated not by some alien being from the infinite abyss, but instead from their own invention.
In the past century, the time of interest to all of us, there has been a massively destructive war in the inner solar system which has allowed for a surprising new power to arise in the wake- the Titanian Industrial Complex. Or the TIC. The TIC has been described as a factory with a state, pumping out armies of networked machines which the uplifted minds of the Complex use as their limbs and fists. They are a notoriously paranoid group, who believed that the inner system had being sucking their world dry for the past centuries.
So the TIC, seizing the opportunity broke ties with the inner system socoeties for the most part and militarized heavily during the Inner System War in anticipation of an invasion which never came. While claimed to be a defensive military, in practice tensions remain high in the unstable climate which has permeated throughout the solar system with devestation not seen for centuries scarring entire worlds and psyches.
And worse still, the likelyhood of another war breaking out increases by the year as tensions between clades erupt and living standards drop in the inner system from the trade collapse following the war.
The TIC's origins were as a manufacturing and computing hub filled with post-biological people with organic people mostly living in the orbital habitats around Saturn. The cold temperatures of Titan meant that computing was faster on Titan, giving them a major edge the inner solar system lacked. With a industrial hub based around Saturn's many moons (the rings being preserved as a heritage site under the Outer Systems Compact), they have managed to make a impressive military complex in the past couple decades.
But now they restrict movement to the outer solar system and have claimed sole rights to Saturn's trojan asteroids.
And with the increasing volatility, ruin and destruction which the Inner Systems War was left in its wake it would seem that the worst has yet to come.
Perhaps not.
Perhaps it is possible, however thinly so that we may avoid another such war.
All it depends on is what you shall do, in the position of power which you are in.
Far less it was a venture of pioneers and far more one of professionals and wealthy corporations under the guidance of the global oligarchy that emerged during the 21st century as the nation-state system collapsed under its own weight.
Colonizing the solar system was much more akin to a centuries long building project than a series of conquests and expeditions- one fraught with centuries of set backs and troubles from our own failings as a species. Still, the building continued in the background even with the centuries of drama caused by ancient greviences and continuous disruption as humans lost their special place in the universe as the sole intelligent life form. Unseated not by some alien being from the infinite abyss, but instead from their own invention.
In the past century, the time of interest to all of us, there has been a massively destructive war in the inner solar system which has allowed for a surprising new power to arise in the wake- the Titanian Industrial Complex. Or the TIC. The TIC has been described as a factory with a state, pumping out armies of networked machines which the uplifted minds of the Complex use as their limbs and fists. They are a notoriously paranoid group, who believed that the inner system had being sucking their world dry for the past centuries.
So the TIC, seizing the opportunity broke ties with the inner system socoeties for the most part and militarized heavily during the Inner System War in anticipation of an invasion which never came. While claimed to be a defensive military, in practice tensions remain high in the unstable climate which has permeated throughout the solar system with devestation not seen for centuries scarring entire worlds and psyches.
And worse still, the likelyhood of another war breaking out increases by the year as tensions between clades erupt and living standards drop in the inner system from the trade collapse following the war.
The TIC's origins were as a manufacturing and computing hub filled with post-biological people with organic people mostly living in the orbital habitats around Saturn. The cold temperatures of Titan meant that computing was faster on Titan, giving them a major edge the inner solar system lacked. With a industrial hub based around Saturn's many moons (the rings being preserved as a heritage site under the Outer Systems Compact), they have managed to make a impressive military complex in the past couple decades.
But now they restrict movement to the outer solar system and have claimed sole rights to Saturn's trojan asteroids.
And with the increasing volatility, ruin and destruction which the Inner Systems War was left in its wake it would seem that the worst has yet to come.
Perhaps not.
Perhaps it is possible, however thinly so that we may avoid another such war.
All it depends on is what you shall do, in the position of power which you are in.
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Basically this is a NRP that politically is sorta like the interwar period, except with a lot more advanced technology laying around and people living in multiple planets.
Try to avoid being completely analogous- the interest is not in the prospects of space WW2 here, but more in creating a deeply unstable, unpredictable political climate in a multi-polar solar system. You do not need to be world oriented, instead you can have multiple factions share multiple planets via orbital habitat complexes and such.
Warfare and technology here will be advanced- this is a time where AI systems, other species of humans made from genetic engineering, neural networking and uplifting have been reality for centuries. That being said, it is still a minority of human history that these realities have existed, with uplifting only becoming common place around the 24th century and advancements in materials in megastructure engineering being a perpetually iterative force. It's the year 2647, so there's been lots of time between the first man on the moon and Titan becoming a major power.
A dyson swarm does exist around the sun, but it isn't huge. It is more just a network of thousands of orbital habitats and solar collection arrays beaming energy to the other worlds. Nothing too fancy.
As to the overall political situation, I am leaving that to some ambiguity so that you may have creative freedom beyond the following realities:
1. A major, pointlessly destructive war devestated the inner solar system just a couple decades ago.
2. The TIC is a ominous force which is making your life harder by restricting access to the trojan asteroids and blocking access to saturn's gravity slingshot.
3. Life outside Earth only naturally evolved as bacterial colonies in some of the icy moons, there's fossilized bacteria on mars. However, all this life shares a common origin with Earth so they're not aliens technically.
4. No one's responded to any signals we have sent out yet. It's lonely.
5. Interstellar colonization has happened, but it's still very recent. Only in the past fifty years has any colonyship reached its destination. Relaying minds digitally between star systems and even colony ships in transit is possible at the speed of light at most.Notes:
-You can have a faction around saturn and even on Titan, but do expect to have to deal with the TIC much, much more frequently.
-Interplanetary settlements around multiple worlds is encouraged over world states. Feel free to spread yourself around! Even the TIC isn't actually a world-state, they just have the most activity on Titan by far due to their manufacturing complex.
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