I have to say, both the Tushian and the Terran singers look astoundingly similar.
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Well, they are both largely human populations with strong military culture that descend from the same Empire originally. Hell, it failed so hard that whatever faction out there that is still technically what's left of that original empire doesn't even control our original homeworld anymore!
It's like how the Eastern Roman Empire didn't actually have Rome in it after the west collapsed. It's embarrassing.
@Fashy
Sorry 'bout this, but Imma have to drop out of this RP. Don't wait up for me.
How much time has passed between the IC time and the fall of the Empire?
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That's the idea
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Would you mind if I increased the number of star systems I start with to 3 then?
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Sad to hear, good luck on the rest of the RPs you're involved in.
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The decline began around 500 years ago, the collapse was 150 years ago.
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150 years? So could I have my "Big Brother" figure still kicking around thanks to cybernetic enchantments and stuff?
EDIT: Forget it, it won't be a true Oligarchic regime if we actually have a single leader.
@Malphaestus
Lies! For starters you're democratic. No halfway decent space empire is going to get anywhere with Democracy! You'll never get anything done if all actions have to be voted for on different levels.
@Malphaestus
...Actually, you would be right. Mistook you for the wrong nation.
@Malphaestus
Lies! For starters you're democratic. No halfway decent space empire is going to get anywhere with Democracy! You'll never get anything done if all actions have to be voted for on different levels.
Well, wouldn't you know - here goes another one. Would there still be room for a technocratic anti-humanist (well, -Terranist. And probably anti-everything-else as well) conglomerate?
@Sigma Time for you to embrace the Gashathi once again! MUHAHAHAHA
@Fashy Yo man, I've got just the stuff for you. Any chance you have space for a highly technological slave driven empire of egomaniac geneticly modified super species? You know, the usual day at the galactic bar
Took a while but here it is. Lemme know if it's inconsistent with the NRP canonThe Malisse Trade Entente
"Surviving this period will be difficult, but making a profit? That'll be easy." - 'Nils' Muray
Ruler/Rulers: Celeone Malisse (Figurehead), Nilsen Muray (Chief Executive Officer of the People's Shipping Company)
Species: Primarily Terran but includes large migrant populations of Xenos from countless intelligent species, as well as unofficially integrated alien systems.
Allegiance: Loosely Terran aligned, pays lip service to the current pro-human forces but rarely agrees in practice. However, when push comes to shove, the Entente is obligated to provide conscripts whenever the Empire (or its post-collapse equivalent) goes to war, temporarily forcing them to turn against their Alien trade partners.
How The Government Is Ran: Autonomous local governments control much of the Entente; linked together by corporations, businesses and institutions that transcend individual planets and systems. These local governments are rarely given control of more than a single planet, the only exception being the aristocratic Malisse oligarchy that rules a handful of the systems in the heart of the Entente's territory. The head of the Malisse family is Celeone Malisse, Imperial Rex of the planets . She acts as the de jure ruler of all Entente territory (exluding the 'Alien' worlds that Entente businesses have absorbed, recognising her dominion of these worlds would damage her pro-Terran image) and the political figurehead of the commercial ideology that dominates the nation. The more practical leader of the Entente can be found at the head of the largest shipping monopoly in (perhaps) the known universe: Nilsen Muray, CEO of the PSC. While his business is nominally as simple as moving goods from A to B, the reality is more complex as the Company works in unison with the Malisse government to expand not just the economy but the nation itself. Nils spurns boardrooms in favour of leading merchant fleets against reluctant trade partners and pirate strongholds.
Military Strategy: When the Entente does engage in war, its fleets consist almost entirely of small merchant ships retrofitted for battle. The only large warships the Entente possesses belong to the Malisse family and the Imperial Guard, both of which only rarely deploy when core planets are threatened.
Beyond this, companies favour mercenary armies and privateer fleets to carry out their military needs. If these needs escalate, the PSC fits its ships with torpedos and laser batteries and, with Nils or one of his junior executives in command, rushes to the aid of the Entente's peoples. While inferior to warships, merchant fleets can be colossal in size and easily replenished. After constant attacks by pirates, Nils has insisted that all PSC ships be fitted with a highly explosive self-destruct option to prevent pirates from seizing cargo and ships at all costs. Fanatically loyal executives have been known to seek out pirates for the purpose of decimating their ships with this suicidal counter-measure. Pirates of the Entente now fear to assault PSC ships, further swelling Nils' ranks with eager merchants seeking a pirate free existence.
History: Centuries ago, when the Empire's collapse was merely on the far horizon, an aristocratic family of the Empire was granted a lonely planet on the fringes of Imperial space for their services to the throne, granting the family patriarch the title of Imperial Rex. What these services were is lost to history but the Malisse family accepted and quickly left the Empire's centre to live on its wild fringes. The planet they received, unceremoniously named Braz, was fertile but empty and populated by unintelligent Xenos that not even the Empire had taken the time to catalogue. Centuries passed and the Malisse family attracted settlers, tired of the oppressive and stagnant Empire worlds, in droves. Strict authoritarian control and general satisfaction with the opportunities on Braz enabled the Malisse family to pass the title down an unbroken line without major rebellion.
Bringing us to the near present, the Malisse family were presented with a unique offer from disgruntled Empire merchants. Discreetly sanction trade with Xeno planets, defying Empire laws, and in exchange gain control and taxation of these planets. This is how the Entente was formed and how Nils, who descends from these initial sly merchants, was able to build an unrivaled commercial empire consisting of billions of Terrans and Xenos alike. A culture of tolerance through mutual exchange developed and the Empire progressively lacked the ability to track or prevent it. The Malisse see the PSC as a means to expand their domain and build their own version of the Empire while Nils and many other profit seekers see them as a stagnant bureaucracy that represents a far greater idea that they'd gladly die for.
Other: Sum up: Your standard merchants republic with a sci-fi spin.
Fond of Xenos but wont fight any wars for them.
Loves any nation that it can trade with.
Dislikes nations that it cant trade with.
Keen on mercenaries and weapon technology that it can buy and sell.
Not strong militarily but difficult to invade.
Competitive and obsessed with its own interests.
Celeone is the face, Nils is the boot.
I started to write the Communazis but then this came out. Still work in progress but this is the basic skeleton.
Ruler/Rulers:
The Marshal has always ruled. The Marshal rules. The Marshal will always rule.
Species: Terran and others.
Species Description:Natives to the jungles of NS-0294, the Chiron are a species insectoid species of insectoid quadrupeds with two forearms. Discovered early during the initial stages of colonization of the region by the Empire, the Chiron were easily enslaved by the humans. Their fast breeding rates and naturally submissive culture making them good slave stock.
With the fall of the Empire and the rise of the Enlightened State, the Chiron population dropped sharply due to their widespread use as canon fodder and the destruction of their breeding factories. After The Marshal's inevitable triumph, most of the surviving Chiron were exterminated for they had served His enemies. The surviving Chiron were then resettled to the Sargar system, while their former homeworld was strip mined and turned into a penal colony.
Ever since then, the Chiron have been fully integrated into the Enlightened State. The role of the Emperor, and the all powerful tribal leaders before them, being taken over by The Marshal and the State. Half of the planets of Sargar are covered with massive breeding factories where Chiron females spent their entire lives doing nothing but birthing hundreds after hundreds of larvae, most of which are processed into nutrient paste and fed to the wider Chiron population, so as to keep their numbers under control. The other half of the system has been turned into an industrial wasteland where male Chiron work their entire lives without seeing sunlight. Those who escape the life of a factory slave or breeding mare have the fate of cannon fodder to look forward to. Fighting alongside prisoners, local civilians and other undesirables in the Counter-Munition Units.Hailing from the planet of HG-929, a world with 90% of its surface covered in water, the Wuzei are a species of sapient aquatic cephalopods who were almost entirely exterminated by the Empire's initial invasion. The survivors were enslaved and their homeworld turned into a popular resort for the Imperial aristocracy.
When the Empire collapsed, HG-929 (then known by another name) served as a logistics hub for the Yellow Army, one of the many post-Imperial warlords, before The Marshal's forces took over the planet. Destroying much of the biosphere in the process. The surviving Wuzei were enslaved by The Marshal, who turned their planet from a high class resort into one giant fishery.The "Master Race" of the Universe, at least according to the State, Terrans within the State come in a variety of shape, colors and sizes. After all, Terran superiority can come in a variety of forms. Within the State itself, Terrans count with at least some sort of modification. From the basic genetic engineering received during gestation to the extensive list of biological and cyberentic improvements common to the Shock Divisions.
It is the State's official policy to dole out these modifications to the masses based on how they will help improve the efficiency of their work. In essence this means that over the years the State has developed a variety of different machines, implants, devices, drugs and procedures that modify different aspects of the human body and mind.
I'm thinking about adding more species, just not thinking of anything in particular at the moment.
Foreign Policy: To itself first and foremost. The Marshal's work cannot be stopped and His enlightened message must be spread to all living things.
Rhetoric aside, the State is not above making alliances of convenience with anyone. Currently maintaining cordial relations with the other Terran nations.The Marshal rules the State and his Enlightened Wisdom will guide us to Nirvana.
On a more serious note, the State can be classified as a Totalitarian Oligarchy. Without a single leader to enforce his or her will through the government apparatus, actual control has been taken over by a council of the Ministers of the State. Who in theory all work together with equal powers, in reality however the the council is controlled by the Ministers of Peace and Enlightenment, who control the two most powerful ministries. Though neither of them has come even close of wielding the kind of supreme power The Marshal once had.
The government is divided into several ministries. Each one responsible for one aspect of the State. For example, the Ministry of Peace is in charge of military affairs, the Ministry of Enlightenment is in charge of protecting the spiritual health of the State, usually by reeducating dissidents, exterminating terrorists and monitoring the masses.(aka: KGB+Inquisition+SS). The Ministry of Production deals with general economic affairs. The Ministry of Life takes care of the communal creches and population growth. And so forth.
The basis of the State's Enlightened Philosophy came to be during the chaotic days of the Imperial collapse. Mixing the already existing and popular notions of Terran supremacy with a then obscure minor religion found in the fringe worlds of the Empire.
In essence, this philosophy has several basic pillars:
-All living things have a soul, and these souls are actually just shards of a larger soul belonging to an incomprehensibly alien entity that exists beyond the currents of time and space. As such, individuality is a lie because all living things are parts of the same whole.
-All living things are stuck in a cycle of death and rebirth until they are enlightened enough to achieve Oneness with the ultimate being.
-The Terran species is closer to this ultimate being on the evolutionary scale. As such it falls to them to lead the rest of the Galaxy through the path of Enlightenment and escape the cycle of suffering that is life.
-The ultimate goal of all life is to achieve Enlightenment. That is, escape the cycle. As such, everyone must submit completely to the State so that they might reach True Enlightenment faster.
-Suffering before death and complete obedience are all good ways to speed up Enlightenment. On the same vein, those who inflict this upon others are to be respected for they are delaying their own eventual salvation.The Enlightened Army
On the ground the Enlightened Army uses the vast numbers of mechanized, airborne and armored forces to engage the enemy line in several different points. Overwhelming their defenses with carefully planned attacks and diversionary actions supported by staggering amounts of firepower. Once the breakthrough is achieved in one or more sectors, the reserves are unleashed into the gap with the purpose of penetrating deep into enemy lines and destroy their ability to sustain the front, striking into their logistical support chain and depriving them of reinforcements, relief or supply. For the high command, tactical and local defeats are more than acceptable as long as victory is achieved in the strategic and operational levels.
The Enlightened Army also considers nuclear, radiological, bilogical and chemical weaponry a linchpin of its strategy. In general the State has a much higher tolerance for collateral damage during planetary battles.
Besides the mechanized divisions that make up the spine of the Enlightened Army, the State also fields sizable conscript formations drawn from reeducation camps and subject alien species. The so-called "Counter-Munition Units", armed with outdated equipment and sent to the front in disorganized mobs with the purpose of wasting the enemy's ammunition.
The Enlightened Navy
In space, the Enlightened Navy operates in battlegroups. Collections of ships centered around a core of heavy hitting large dreadnoughts supported by a variety of smaller ships. The Enlightened Fleet tends to favor missile in its smaller ships, launching innumerable warheads to overwhelm enemy defenses and open the way for the heavy weaponry of the capital ships. When supporting planetside operations, the Navy also makes extensive use of weapons of mass destruction to provide ground support for the Army.Work in Progress.
Basic sum up:
-Empire weakens and hold over the area slackens.
-Warlords pop up everywhere. Pay lip service to the Empire
-Empire crumbles
-One particularly crazy bastard with a fucked up ideology gains prominence.
-Takes over the area.
-Creates totalitarian nightmare
-Expands and industrializes
-Expands some more, genocides some folks and brainwashes others.
-Expands and then overextension causes problems.
-Isolationist period to put the home front in order.Life within the State is a regimented affair. Total submission is expected from every citizen and the State does not shies away from spying on your every move to ensure ones' loyalty. The Ministry of Enlightenment makes sure that everything and everyone is accounted for. While relentless propaganda permeates every aspect of a citizen's life.
Individuality is heavily discouraged by official propaganda for its is only an illusion that stands in the way of Enlightenment. Instead the collective should be praised, for its through the efforts of the group, in total subservience to the State, that one may reach Enlightenment.
Family is another "spiritual plague" that has been wiped out by the State. Familial ties only serve to weaken the loyalty of the citizen to the State. As such, families are enemies of the State and must be eliminated. In the Enlightened worlds, children are raised in large compounds run by the Ministry of Life. Conception usually happens in the facilities ran by the Ministry of Life where citizens have their material collected and combined. With the embryo is formed, it comes to term in artificial wombs.
Slightly more privileged are the members of the medium and upper echelons of the State's bureaucracy. In the sense that they have access to a few more recreation options and that they have a higher chance of being sent to actual reeducation instead of outright killed. Though this is of little comfort to the ones who end on the wrong side of the power struggles within the Enlightened Bureaucracy
