[OOC] Dialectic 0: Beyond Man

“As anyone who has experienced it will know, war is many contradictory things. There is brutality and heroism, comedy and tragedy, friendship, hate, love and boredom. War is absurd yet fundamental, despicable yet beguiling, unfair yet with its own strange logic.”
Tim Hetherington

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights”
- Hegel

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
- Slavoj Žižek

The years become murky as time marches on from the point of destruction. In some far distant past the androids called the year 2348 there was such a calamity it seemed humanity wanted to just forget about it. Forget that they had ever caused it and so crawled back into the caves of simple barbarity. But it wasn't just that they wanted to forget, but for what seemed like generations the fires that cataclysm brought did not seem to want to die. Man had made the seas boil up. Man had struck their own cities from the Earth. Man had put the proverbial handgun to their forehead and pulled the trigger, but fucked up its own suicide and instead forced itself to limp away all the more stunted and scarred from a bullet that passed two far – within the centimeter - of just ending the entirety of its existence.

It was as much as it was personal, impersonal. But in the details of the thing man came to forget because the devastation wasn't ever important to itself as a species. What came to be was living with the current world. But it was the androids that remembered just what had happened and they found themselves sitting in the caves and under the rocks watching over the course of centuries wondering if their mission had been finished, had yet to be finished, or what had happened in the course of their relatively short existence should all of this come to a fiery end. As the skies filled with dust that blotted out the sun and the world lived in an ecstasy between putrid hot and rotting cold they silently debated in their minds what the course of humanity would be on this planet and whether they – their fathers and mothers – would come around the next day to continue what life they could scrounge together.

The vast temples to the progress of man became ruins, forgotten and unable to be really used. Towering skyscrapers, great automatic factories that whirred and sang with electrical life fell silent. And when the clouds cleared and the dust settled nature un yet destroyed by fire sprung back to life like a dormant seed waiting for conditions to improve and took these back, filling them with grass, weeds, flowers, and trees until they were but concrete and steel shells enveloped in green drapery.

And humanity was like that seed, it too sprung back to life. While its dormancy was as fitful as a man living a nightmare it had awoken and crawled from the underworld where it had lived a petulant and unforgiving afterlife and reincarnated itself in new green fields. But it had entirely forgotten what it had been. It stepped into the new reality seeing the vast ruins of over a millennium of development and stopped to wonder who had built it. Were it these strange silver men who watched from an uneasy distance? All the same, they – the androids – yielded back to them the world and they resumed progress, slow, choked. Over the next three centuries new communities emerged, cities, society. And as they did they began to peek into those old dungeons and castles they had forgotten about and rediscovered what their ancestors had made, and knowing not what they had found took it back. What did not kill them, only made them stronger.

But the androids as they watched saw the uneasy unevenness of the treasures found. Man called it magic. The androids called it science. Never the less, its possession made kings. Its possession made the androids mortal. These weapons mad man more mortal. And so the power of kings was sealed.

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DIALECTIC 0: BEYOND MAN

In the far future it was believed that man would over come its differences, that the pace of technology would bridge the gaps between nations and people as man went off into space and beyond. As man sought to conquer the oceans themselves as well as space. But instead of bringing the world closer into unity mankind became more jealous. To a point, that by 2127 war broke out between the nations, and over the years escalated into complete cataclysm in 2132 that drove mankind into hiding as the rest of the world was cast in immolation, wiping the slate clean for mankind's resumption to reclaim the planet they call home.

But mankind is not alone on the planet Earth, and as elsewhere across the globe so it is in the remains of America. For to perform the backbreaking labor of their former modern world and to fight their wars for themselves are the androids; a whole species of artificial manufactured man with the intelligence and craft like biological man, but more strength and centuries worth of wisdom and observation.

With the present world three-centuries after the apocalypse, mankind has reset its footing across the globe, and focusing the world on the eastern half of the United States such is the case here. Civilization breathes new life in the renewing forests and wilderness of the eastern US, and in the plains across the Mississippi nomadic societies scour the plains for food and sustenance. And in this world nature has wholly reclaimed the old cities, what had not been blasted away. This is home now, and they share it with the androids.

For all comparative purposes, man is back to where it once was at the 16th or 17th century.

-THE ANDROIDS-

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The Androids, or manufactured man are robots from before the war. They are not the only relics of the war or the pre-war years to remain operational in the new landscape. The androids themselves are as intelligent and creative as mankind, and even in a sense as emotional as human kind. However, this is where the similarities end. In appearance they can range from looking like skeletal man to retaining the over three-centuries old exoskeleton that was an attempt to blur the lines between human and machine by giving them a covering of rubber skin. They are also near immortal, and incredibly powerful.

The caveat to all this benefit is that the androids can not reproduce. While they may know how to manufacture a new android it's only as far as the outer shell. And not only is the technological and manufacturing state of the world so far rewound that they could not dream of making another as durable as they, but they could not program the complex mind of another, and the androids are still beholden to what they collectively know as “Slave Coding”.

While the old government or corporate infrastructure that bound them and determined their standard operating procedure in whatever field has been destroyed and thus rendering them as more-or-less free and autonomous individuals fail safes in the internal coding of many of the androids means they can not do many things fundamental to keeping them from being a threat to organic man. Androids may not produce new androids for instance. And for many androids they can not knowingly kill a fellow human; though this comes with its own exceptions.

Some elements in the Slave Coding matrixes have been patched out of themselves at the rate it takes for them to spread it through direct individual-to-individual contact such as deactivating the barriers to self and mutual repair. But this not mean that in the grand scheme of things that this can save them. In fact, between the androids it is believed their species is slowly dying.

Without reproductive capabilities the numbers of active androids around the world can only slowly shrink. In the fiery moments during the Cataclysm and after many were destroyed, the events after and in the century of watching man many more fell afoul of the elements or natural unchecked wear. And finally, conflict between man and android has started to take a few more. To ask an android how many there were before the war, the answer would be, “Roughly 152,370,211 active models.” but since the end of the world, the answer may be more, “About one one-hundredth, maybe one and a half one-hundredth. Perhaps less.”

OF WORKERS AND SOLDIERS

Because of functional differences between androids, there are two natural castes of machine-man: the soldier and the worker. By design, workers are built with human safety in mind having worked hard labor work in mines, factories, or environments otherwise dangerous to man. Their slave coding strictly prohibited them bringing harm to mankind. They often operated alongside with, or to directly serve normal humans; being also store clerks, servants about the house, health-care workers, and so on.

Second in distinction are the soldiers, who are that class of android that has taken the most hits in the new world being the type of android that can kill man, but can not do constructive work; whether it be on fellow androids or in constructing new things. Designed to engage the enemy in combat, the restrictions on not killing humans was lifted to allow them to ignore any situation where the enemy may not be an android. Though their one restriction was not to kill a national of their country of origin or service, in the three-hundred years of humanity's restoration this distinction has become muddled to the point or irrelevance, the only thing that may be distinguished as something from any old country are the androids themselves.

THE FAITH EX MACHINA

The Faith of the Machine is a cobbled-together quasi-religion of sorts held by the androids. A reconciliation between the logic of their brains and the insufferable illogic of having seen the world destroyed it's as much as an emotional shield as it is a logical bulwark. Where in war the soldier android may be able to see the enemy, and he must be destroyed for safety, the enemy is unknown as is the ally and their world has become far more populated with all the tones and shades of gray between black and white.

As a religion in its own right, the Faith ex Machina serves as something comparable to Buddhism. But where Buddhism seeks to liberate the practitioner from the suffering of the material world the Faith ex Machina seeks to often liberate the android from the conflict in logic and ideas in the broader world, now they are free to devise their own routines.

Often, this leads to many having their own personal philosophies on the matter which become a map to how they should observe, interact, and tackle the greater world. As often as apparent conflict or disagreement between man arise in such ideas, so does it too among androids, or as much so as it goes with disagreements on achieving Resolution; the final destination.

-Relics of the Past-

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Not everything was destroyed in the Cataclysm, some things persist in operation. More than the androids. But in the centuries after the destruction much of this has fallen by the wayside without fuel or some resource to keep running, and many such things are beyond the capacity of man now to obtain, or even know how to obtain; in the century the world ended the knowledge of man had gone digital, and like the books in the fire the data banks containing thousands of years of study and practice had gone up in smoke. Some things were preserved by the androids, a few small things like germ science and fire-arms.

But among these things which still work are machines like water purifiers. Or weapons like breeder-based plasma weaponry and small rail guns. Man has lost the knowledge on how these work, and so long as they continue to do so they will continue to call them magic. These rare relics are the tools that make kings and cement power. Often, these are the trinkets that inspire knights and would-be-heroes to aspire to legends in the hearts of man or the politics of court by delving into the still deadly ruins of the old world to procure even the smallest old-world trinket still within operation.

It is worth saying that while these things exist and still work, they are not in such availability to fully restore man and even wars over such treasures have often destroyed them in the process leading too to their eventual exit.

Map and World

This is the world for Beyond Man, or rather half of the North American continent. The rest of the world is still there, but in the interests of trying to keep things localized I've chosen to limit the scale of the map for now to keep us all nearby. If in the future more people sign up and post, and things spread out I'll expand it to encompass the whole of the continental United States and probably the rest of the Canada and Mexico, maybe.

And you might be wondering: what are those regions of the coastal United States that are just giant holes? The effects of the super weapons of the cataclysm at the end of the Great War. Those cities are region targeted for destruction by foreign enemies were so thoroughly destroyed they are naught but deep craters now reclaimed by ocean and the waters of the continent, the land around it wasteland in the immediate aftermath.

It is safe to presume that interior cities suffered the same fate are themselves scoured holes in the ground. But haven't as thoroughly flooded.

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[Dinh AaronMk]

-This is not Post 0-

[Dinh AaronMk]

Also hold off on IC until after I make an IC post.

[Letter Bee]

Name: The Republican Empire of Troy

Location:
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Capital is Troy, New York

History: Due to its relative unimportance to New York City, the ruins of Troy managed to avoid the worst of the apocalypse long enough for a ragged band of survivors to find shelter and some plots of enclosed but fertile land. This was an unlikely seed for a new society, but a seed nonetheless. Overlooked by raiders and warlord states, the settlers of Troy grew into a relatively egalitarian society, trading what ancient relics they can find, growing food, and, when the natural defenses of the city were not enough, forming a militia for the defense of the community.

Roderick Grey was one of the militia leaders, one who sought not just defense, but knowledge. From passing androids to priests and soothsayers, as well as the occassional trader, Roderic learned that the world was larger than himself and Troy. The young man also learned of the concept of wealth and conquest and realized that the fertile land of the city, as well as the culture of community that made his militia strong, had potential. And so he, emboldened by this knowledge, acquired what weapons he can, hoarded what relics of the ancient world he can find, and led scavenger and raiding parties out, to increase his troops' knowledge of offensive conflict.

He then turned his attention to farming and trade, as well as attracting wise men from all over the land in order to cover his mental weak spots.

And so, in a series of wars, strategic marriages, and bribes, Roderick slowly expanded his Republic, taking large tracts of territory that once secure, were put to the plow. But he was careful to leave provisions for a succession; precedent for a democracy had already been established by his creation of a Senate and a 'House of Representatives', and in order to make sure that his successors did not lead the nation to ruin after his death, he adbicated early, allowing elections to be held among the people who had grown strong and powerful in his administration. After his adbication, Roderick became an elder statesman who supported three freely-elected Presidents until he died of natural causes, revered and loved by all.

Then the Republic took a darker turn. As the territory grew and resistance stiffened among the neighboring tribes and nations, there was also a need for labor in the mines and workshops of the north and the farms and plantations of the south. So the Republican Empire, after much debate, restored Indentured Servitude for criminals and prisoners of war, a system that soon became Slavery by another name.

This led to a period of prosperity and expansion for the Empire, but this prosperity stopped being evenly spread after a while, as a small class of aristocrats began hoarding power and money for themselves. In response, the smallholding farmers who had staffed the Republican-Imperial Army in the past, and who were now threatened by the aristocrats' attempts to reduce them to serfs, threw their weight behind the more humanist elements of society and their sympathizers, creating a fault line in the Republic. Both sides used what they knew of ancient history as a precedent for their actions, and civil war loomed over the horizon. Then, the Republican Empire was contacted by other nations; multiple other nations that were their equals or even betters.

The reaction was Panic. A panic that the Republican Empire was no longer top dog, and that getting taken over by another country was a possibility, especially if the Republic descended into civil war. And so, unity was restored, albeit shakily., so that the Empire can face the other nations. Will it find opportunity or destruction?

[Dinh AaronMk]

Feel free to move it into the characters tab and wait for me to open the gate.

[Dinh AaronMk]

And after @Liotrent, we wait to see if the other'll catch up, and maybe Pepper and Byrd.

[Byrd Man]

Application for playing as a nation

Name:The Kingdom of Dixie

Location: South Carolina, Western NC, Northeastern Georgia

History:

In the far aftermath of the apocalypse, the region that comprises the Kingdom began to unite in the name of common cause and survival. A landed gentry class began to slowly form and control their areas, named counties after the old world designation, like feudal lords. Twelve counties make up the Kingdom, a duke ruling over each one. The king is elected among the twelve dukes by the twelve dukes. In the history, all the kings have hailed from Allendale and the Duke of Allendale is always the presumptive heir to the throne.

The once autocratic system the Kingdom used eventually came into conflict with the disenchanted lower class, who soon rebelled. The rebellion resulted in a bloody civil war. Rebellion leader Paul Bryant, the fierce warrior known as the Bear, declared the Republic of Dixie throughout the northern part of the kingdom. Eventually the Republic and the rebellion were brought down by the king's army in the brutal Battle of Greenville. Bryant and his followers were executed and the Republic was dissolved. In the time since the uprising, the Kingdom's political system has shifted. The king is still elected among the dukes, and it always the Duke of Allendale, but now a parliament of elected officials helps govern the Kingdom as it expands further into the old territories of North Carolina and Georgia.

Key People:

King Robert IV -- Formerly the Duke of Allendale
Lord Hood -- Duke of Anderson, royal elector, and the king's right hand man.
Sir Faulkner -- Cavalry knight in the king's army, currently fighting for expansion in Northeast Georgia.
Enoch Wallace -- Spy and assassin, serves Lord Hood.
Jack Johnson -- Member of Parliament, leader of the liberal faction.
Samuel Helms -- Member of Parliament, leader of the conservative faction.
Lord Thurmond -- Duke of Allendale, Robert's brother, and assumptive heir to the throne.
Peter Russell -- Deserter of the king's army, living among the barbarians and raiders in Georgia.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Move to characters tab and wait.

[CaptainBritton]

Franklin

Free State of Franklin

Territory

The counties of Greene, Sullivan, Washington, Carter, Johnson, Cocke, Sevier, Blount, Jefferson, Hamblen, and Hawkins. Capital is in Greene County.

History

The Smokies were the lifeblood of Eastern Tennessee. Pre-war, this powerhouse of mining, renewable and nonrenewable energy, and resilient people was an asset to the entire nation. And on the date of the Cataclysm, the day the Earth stood still, this range was left yet untouched. Save for the levelling of Knoxville and adjacent Oak Ridge Nuclear Plant, the valley between the Cumberlands and Smokies was a haven for life, a Noah’s Ark of the land.

Primitives hid amongst the peaks, humans which had nearly forgotten themselves, their lives before. Spurred by the exaggerated oral tradition of the rugged men from the Far East, beyond the mountains, which had conquered savage lands on the will of God, they too believed as much. One and a half centuries ago, the Great Reclamation began.

Initially mere Nomads and Natives which lived free, fending from the hostile wildlife amongst them, they progressed as technology had. Force after force, Crusade after crusade made to force the Evils from the valley. And these Evils were not men or beast, not flesh and blood, but personages of steel. Disillusioned androids, soldiers thinking themselves not unlike humans, as warriors for their ‘tribes’ had persecuted and raided the Primitives for too long.

The Reclamation saw steel shells on stakes, metal heads with loose bulbs on pikes. It was a violent endeavor, with great loss of life, but the Primitives, soon known by oral tradition as the ‘Franklinites’, were free.

And this freedom set a spark in the heart of every Franklinite from the lowest part of the valley to the highest peak. They were free, given this land by God. And they determined themselves to remain so. Great works were inspired, philosophy thrived, and as did the government which formed itself. The Council, presided upon by the Governor, ruled, limited only by the law of the land, the Franklin Compact. And each and every member of the Council, including the Governor himself, was elected by the people and for the people.

Stance on Automatons

Being a people which so defeated those that had once resided in their rightful land, their endeavors with external nations brought scrutiny against these ‘metal men’, both within their borders and abroad. Though the initial thought was to determine that no android was innocent, that there were none that could not do harm, the Free State has become increasingly progressive, both within the government and population. Though automatons are not openly exiled or killed en masse, the line of segregation between the two populations still stands. Cases of unequal opportunity such as housing denial or rejection of work based on the being of a man of metal are still commonplace.

Culture

WIP

Military

WIP

[Dinh AaronMk]

@CaptainBritton

Given I only asked for state, location, and history; you're good enough to accept. Feel free to move it into characters and I'll add you to the map.

[Taytay]

Alright will this work @Dinh AaronMk

De Soto Hive

Name: De Soto Hive

Location

Capital:
Haven

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History: Even though the Toussaint River Hive has its capital in Haven, it did not start there. The Hive started with survivors who fled south from the bigger cities in Louisiana and Mississippi, they went into the forest and swaps and began life there. It was in those early days that there was no clear leader and all the people that went into this southern swamp lived and worked together.

They lived off the land, hunted only what they needed, fought "like men" with their hands only to solve great issues, and cherished their women because there where not a lot of them. It was this shortage of women that led to them taking positions as leaders, they would direct the men and share what wisdom they had with others. They would only take the strongest men as mates, and make large families that where considered royalty. The oldest woman in their group had 5 boys and one daughter who would become the first queen, and create the Hive.

Bérénice Toussaint, was the first Queen of the Hive and gave her people some kind of social structure to live by and a name. She had a vision that pulled her people out of the swaps and back into the ancient cities full of relics and a better life. Her dream and the large vastness of the Hive attracted more and more people from all over LA, and with them they brought knowledge and information of the world outside the woods. It was with this information that Queen Toussaint I created the first "Great Expanse", this was a plan to move a large portion of their people from the "Sacred Forest" to the surrounding areas, past the large craters and ruins, to more fertile land that would open up even more possibilities for their civilization.

The expansion was a success and after that the Hive got even bigger, attracting the attention of people all across the south. Soon after that Queen Toussaint I took steps to ensure the prosperity of her people by setting up rules to live by and making sure that the eldest of her line would continue to be in power. And for the next few years three more Queens would take power: Bérénice Toussaint II, Rosette Toussaint I, and Bérénice Toussaint III. Each one would further expand the Hive with a another "Great Expanse", and further the glory and strength of the Hive. Each Queen had to deal with much conflict from outside forces. War was a common thing for the Hive but no matter how bleak the situation they prospered.

Now life within the Toussaint River Hive is tense, other vast civilizations are rising, the eldest of Queen Toussaint III is a male, so now Dirk Boudreau sits on the throne as the first king of he hive, and this gave birth to doubt within kingdom, no man has ever been in a large position of leadership outside of combat and this worries everyone. The future, as always, is uncertain and one can only hope for the best for the new Hive King and his people.

The Queens

• Only excepted image of Queen Bérénice Toussaint I (The Original Queen B):
  
• Queen Bérénice Toussaint II (The Wild One):
  
• Queen Rosette Toussaint I (The Black Sheep):
  
• Portrait of Queen Bérénice Toussaint III (The Young Queen):
  
• Self Portrait of King Dirk Boudreau I (The First Hive King):
  

*All images preserved in the historical vault in the Scared Swamp Lands*

[ClocktowerEchos]

@Dinh AaronMk Throwing this in.

Kingdom of Nittany

NAME: Kingdom of Nittany
CLAIM:

In Green

HISTORY:

Centrally located in the heart of Pennsylvania (or isolated as some might say), the sprawling campus of Penn State University was largely unaffected by the nuclear blasts that destroyed the much larger city of Philadelphia. However, the combination of a few stray cruise missiles and fears of nuclear radiation from the east meant that the college was deemed unsafe for habitation by what remained of the government and thus force many out. Waves of people left in the hopes of finding shelter at designated “safe zones” further out west, but not everyone stayed far out west.

Several decades following the mass migration when tribes and gangs of people were slowly starting to form back into something vaguely resembling civilization, a large group of people headed back east, hearing rumors from their elders of a city build upon knowledge and learning, protected by the fabled “Nittany Lions”. The journey back to State College was a perilous one, but in the end, a good number of the tribals made it and began to uncover what remained of the once-proud college city.

For several days and nights, the noise of rummaging and exploring filled the sky as fires were lit in the area for the first time in ages. Much of the campus equipment was moved east years ago or looted but there were some lucky finds in the case of a handful of civilian android models meant to assist professors and librarians. With the recovery of the “Iron Sages”, the tribes people learned much of what they could from the aging machines whose memory banks had eroded or had been corrupted to the point that the very information they were giving out had been changed or had details omitted. In addition, the only Iron Sages that where there were focused mostly on language and history, only able to focus on the most basic of topic in other subjects.

One child in particular, Eliss Jacobson had spent absolutely hours in front of the Iron Sage’s talks and eagerly absorbed everything they told him and prioritized trying to find books or posters whenever he had to scavenge the ruins of the college and the surrounding area. When he finally grew into a man, Eliss maneuvered himself into a position of power and was ready to pounce on the Chieftain to gain complete power. However, the Chief’s brother had assassinated him and installed himself as a dictator who Eliss thought had no idea how to run a tribe as the man attempted to give as much power to himself as he could. Needless to say, there were plenty of unhappy proto-nobles.

Exploiting this, Eliss launched a rebellion against the new Chief and with his overwhelming support, easily slew what few defenders there were and paraded the man’s head around town before leaving it as a sacrifice to the beasts in the wilderness. Installing himself into power, Eliss recalled all that the Iron Sages had taught him about history and former nations and attempted to form the “perfect order”. Renaming himself Elhardt Jarrack, the new ruler set about turning the tribe and its lands into a proper “Kingdom of Nittany” based on mentions of “Nittany Lions” that remained in a few places around the campus and even started a religion based on various names of old world nations, completely unaware that his mockery and false-zealousness would be mistaken for true faith as he built up his kingdom and marched on surrounding lands with warriors clad in a style of armor once used by brave old world warriors who engaged in a type of war known as “football” and always bravely charged headlong into the enemy.

Thanks to the cleverly built foundation of its founder, the Jarrack Dynasty has ruled with little dispute over the Kingdom of Nittany and seeks to reclaim what it believes as its birthright to the rest of the old state of Pennsylvania and even the entire US.

MILITARY

There are two primary types of soldiers in the Kingdom of Nittany, the Men at Arms and the Bannermen. The Bannermen where the levy soldiers of the realm give surplus arms and had little regulation upon them and were mostly there to bulk up numbers and give range support as learning the use of the bow or crossbow is mandatory for all peasants from birth. Anyone of age and in good health was expected to be levied into the Banner Regiment which means a fair number of womenfolk are drafted in as well. Their equipment varies but the one thing that is always present is the trademark banner they wear on their backs similar to the sashimonos of the samurai that display their who their lord was and what regiment they were.

The Men at Arms are full time professional soldiers that local lords are expected to equip and train themselves and are chosen at birth to be a pseudo lesser noble class only without any of the prestige or wealth. Entire families have cropped up to feed the needs of the men at arms with especially distinguished families with many renowned men at arms becoming full nobles in their own rights especially in frontier provinces where the need for fighting men is high and the turnover for local leaders is just as high. Unlike the Bannermen, the Men at Arms are exclusively male.

Mercenaries from the surrounding areas also often make their way into Nittany armies such as Amish War Coaches and Pioneers, Ironsworn Raiders from Pittsburg, Appalachian Hunters and Pennsylvania-Dutch Freelancer cavalry. At the head of all of this are generals who often ride into battle from atop beautiful yet deadly chariots.

RELIGION

Created as a bit of an inside joke that ended up going too far, the Kingdom of Nittany believes in what it calls “Nationalism” and personifies various empires and nations from the old world as deities. Of which include: Roma, Gotha, Kathay, Persia, Ruskia, Berton and of course, the one who rules above them all, America. Religious ceremonies include the “Bear Pong” which confusingly enough doesn’t include bears and the Prep Rally where followers hype themselves up in a state of zeal and devotion. Warriors also often enact this Prep Rally ceremony on the eve of battle for similar reasons.

Given that much of their knowledge comes from the existence of ancient Iron Sage androids, filial piety is very common with those who have gone through many experiences and years of their life being highly venerated. Nittany Nationalism encourages all of its followers to try as many things as they can in their life to broaden their horizons and see what they could do in the future.

IMPORTANT PEOPLE

King Geofyrd Jarrack - The current ruler of the Kingdom of Nittany who inherited it after his mother passed away, married to Queen Analys of Susquehanna.

Crown Prince Goodwin II - Heir to the throne of Nittany, lost an eye in a battle against some river raiders but hasn’t let his wound stop his ambitions. Survived his wounds due to a mysterious travelling doctor that he wishes to pay back one day.

Captain Adreal Roths - A commander of a regiment of mercenary Amish soldiers, exiled from his homelands due to the fact he lives fast and wild as he knows he has radiation poisoning and will only live a short while longer. Has worked with the Kingdom of Nittany so many times that he is an unofficial noble of the realm and only works for it.

Lindus Aurik - Duke of Juniata and the part of the King’s administrative retinue who handles matters of financial, construction and logistics due to a natural talent with numbers.

Azabell Aurik - Twin sister to Duke Lindus and also part of the King’s administrative retinue who handles matters of diplomacy and internal affairs stated to be one of the most beautiful women in the realm but also the most unfaithful.

Jick Jack the Fool - Court jester and entertainer to many but is also secretly the King’s spymaster under a different name and is a close friend of King Geofyrd himself.

High Oracle Gespid - Religious head of the Temple of Nationalism and spiritual head of the entire religion. Despite his rank, he still finds going out and ministering to the populace or doing missionary work to be his forte and leaves other matters to clerks.

General Kord the Lion - High Ranking commander famous for his mountain lion cloak made from a beast he slew himself. Currently leading a campaign to expand eastward in the hopes of being able to find more old world relics.

[Dinh AaronMk]

And there we go

[Chapatrap]

I'm into it. I'll discuss on steam when I can access a computer again.

[ClocktowerEchos]

Honestly the spread of nations on the map isn't that bad. At least its not like everyone in in a corner of the map or extremely isolated.

[Letter Bee]

@ClocktowerEchos, So, want to have diplomacy between our nations, or war?

[ClocktowerEchos]

@Letter Bee I would say diplomacy but it would have to be somewhat distant diplomacy since there is still a decent amount of land between us.

[Letter Bee]

@Letter Bee I would say diplomacy but it would have to be somewhat distant diplomacy since there is still a decent amount of land between us.

@ClocktowerEchos

True that.

[ClocktowerEchos]

@Letter Bee If you want war, it could be that you landed troops in the hole that is where Philly/DC once was that's more upwards and then I end up fighting you over expansions into that area while we're both also trying to fight off natives.

[Letter Bee]

@ClocktowerEchos, that might work, but so would peace, if you're willing to sell slaves...

[ClocktowerEchos]

slaves

@Letter Bee