Arawak

I do not know what this place is anymore

I literally am just going to write whatever I want (that won't get me banned) from now on.

Fabula Elysia - Medieval Fantasy Nationgame

Who is this monkey pants again?

I have the actual monkey pants.

...Would pants make sense on a arboreal race?

I don't know. Got to figure out this sort of thing since I have a civilization of critters who really are good with their hands and their fashion might be distinct from ours because of it. They might like having lots of bracelets for instance.

How Many People Can You Piss Off In One Sentence?

Stromfront has some of the wisest people on the internet, not like there was much competition, but still.

Sol Vitalis: Sci-fi Alt History with a solar system full of life!

Is there any issues that anyone has with the setting? I left a lot of information dilliberately vague so that anyone who is interested can develop things with minimal limitations.

Sol Vitalis: Sci-fi Alt History with a solar system full of life!

It will be interesting to see what nations people make dominant on Earth in this scenario.

And how to handle the historical martian 'incursion' will be interesting.

Fabula Elysia - Medieval Fantasy Nationgame

Incomplete app sheet.

THE EMPIRE OF HANDS

Location/Geography
I am #27 on the map.

The northern mountains are not the tallest mountains in the world, but the range they form is crucial to the series of rivers which flow from their peaks through the limestone, creating massive underground caverns throughout the northern island. Further details will come at a later date. The densely forested areas of the island are interspersed with wide plains out to the Caloro sea which feed the empire and allow for trade from the other major civilizations around the Caloro sea.


General Introduction

The empire of hands is a empire that has expanded to new lands around the Caloro sea in the past century. The finefolk, finally unified after centuries of disunity under one imperium has caused them to start expanding downwards seeking new wealth to get their massive hands on. The Great Alpha wants to make the Caloro sea into a handy lake, but to do so there will need to be a great push into the South and overcome primal fears to do so.

History

History will be elaborated on in light of the nature of adjacent cultures. However, for now what must be known is that a folk religion became the main religion of a major empire that dominated the northern hills a thousand years earlier. Said empire collapsed due to a centuries long drought and only in the past four centuries has agricultural civilization and ancient technologies been rediscovered by the tinkering guilds. The finefolk have made slaves out of the other races in the area, making a caste society where finefolk can focus on higher pursuits such as war, philosophy and tinkering. The Empire of Hands has a culture of tinkerers and a pathological obsession with elaborate siege machines that goes back centuries which has allowed them to conquer the southern lands.

More recently the Empire of hands has sought to monopolize trade in and out of the Caloro bay so they can get all the best spices from the west, and for that reason has expanded across the straits of their large island into the southern territories putting them at conflict with former trade partners.

(further history will require Alt's civ)

Government & Society

Will be elaborated on by friday. The Empire of hands is a empire that uses a tributary system and slave classes to maintain power. The Great Alpha is essentially akin to a king or emperor; what the great Alpha says goes. For they are handpicked from the palm of the gods to lead and are completely unquestionable. If the Great Alpha is overtaken by another Alpha, than it is clear that the hand of god has cast itself upon a superior ruler.

There is three major classes in their empire.

The farmers, the tinkerers/engineers and the soldiers. The tinkerers and clergy and one-in-the-same and are the great alpha's fingers that deal with a range of tasks ranging from managing the farms to tinkering with new machines. The soldiers are combined with the merchants, the merchant-soldier being of great importance to the Empire of Hand's economy as having a unarmed merchant without military experience comes off to the Handyfolk as simply suicidal. These merchants unintentionally also happen to be a source of piracy due to corruption and very little oversight outside of the Empire. The farmers do farm work and can be conscripted into building elaborate communal temples for everyone to live in, each terrace holding successfully higher level members of society. The lowest social class, the slaves do not get to live in the temples. Instead they live in mud huts and do their work out in the open, without any protection beyond the merchant-soldiers.

The empire of hands values dominance, ingenuity, dexterity and versatility. A versatile individual is the best kind of individual in the minds of the Tinkerers and in the minds of the great Alpha himself (females tend to be their own social class of child rearers, with higher ranking males having more women while low ranking males die virgins unless they can get a women from outside the empire... While they can't have kids with other species and propagate their family name it is better than nothing)

Economy & Industry

Details later.

(What are your primary exports and imports? How much you trade? How are your craftsmen organized? How developed is your technology? What kind of unique creations you have? etc. If you haven't described your involvement with magic in the society/government section, you can do it here.)

Military Overview

Details later.

(Yeah, of course you also need to tell us some about your military. Try to avoid number games and unhealthy arms races. We play this game for fun and that needs balance and sensible approach. One of the main guidelines is that your nation's military shouldn't be much better than a historical 15th century medieval army. Don't worry, I don't ask you historical accuracy. So-called "super units" can be okay if they are rare enough for their worth and don't make your army unbeatable. The point is to let you do cool things and explore your creativity but at the same time do

Sol Vitalis: Sci-fi Alt History with a solar system full of life!

The solar system as we know it today is desolate. Earth is but an island of life in a planetary system where no life is known to thrive.

It doesn't need to be that way.

Imagine, a Venus with a veil of an atmosphere with dense jungles and a homogenously tropical climate.

Imagine, a mars that until recent was a world with beauty akin to the Earth; dried out from a industrious civilization of Martians whose ambition was far greater than the small world where they were born.

Imagine now, how developed by the year 2015 our world would be if such worlds existed. Ion powered spacecraft, nuclear propulsion, a moon base and more- all within a few decades. This would be a very different world; for we are turning back the clock a whole century to before the Great War in a world dominated by aristocrats and nationalists. From there, we march to the 21st century on a increasingly different trajectory from our own world.

Would it be a more peaceful world than our own? Unlikely.

For the Martians are as violent as us and Earth itself is a world which by our time will have the most powerful nations setting their sights on colonizing the whole solar system. The Martians have colonies around Jupiter and the asteroid belt, with the distant outer solar system still a nebulous mystery. Martian explorers to the outer solar system have never returned; their light of their ships is always extinguished whenever they get close to Uranus or Neptune and never heard from again.

Venus is a world where colonial competition perhaps is the most tragic and intense; while much of venues is still unexplored due to the dense cloud cover and harsh interior, Humans and Martians alike have already begun ravaging the world while the natives try to fight for their own existence using primitive technologies.

With the 21st century now upon us, will it be possible to transcend the barbarism of the 20th century or are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of ancestors, again and again?

That is for us all to find out.

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Major Species

Sapience has appeared multiple times in our star system, no one is certain why or how this makes sense given the sheer multitude of stars in our galaxy alone. The Christians claim god, the new age spiritualists claim aliens, the athiests claim it's all a big coincidence and the martians believe that everyone else is a degenerated form of themselves. What is relevant from a pragmatic standpoint is what they are, how powerful they are and what nations they dominate.

SPACE AGE

Humans

Humans are the big Joes of Earth, they have in the past sixty years spread to other worlds and set up colonies in multiple parts of the solar system at a stunning rate. Martian incursions onto Earth in the early 20th century led to a technological revolution as great as the industrial revolution itself, leading to humans as of 2015 having interplanetary space faring capabilities, a moon base and colonies on Venus.

Martians

The Martians come from mars and have been around the solar system for 300 years. While Columbus was discovering the New World, mars already had electricity and semi-automatic weaponry. While the USA was rebelling, Mars was united under a single empire. While the british struggled to conquer Africa, the Martians already had conquered Europa and Ganymede. But in this time mars has bleed dry, the intensive mining of their own world and ecological catastrophe after catastrophe has made Mars borderline uninhabitable. The Great Northern ocean is drying up into a ice cap, massive dust storms have ruined the great canal projects and most of the Martian population now lives underground volcanoes. Necropoli dote large parts of the world and the world government of Mars effectively is a living fossil that has become hated by their own citizens. A rebellion is pretty much viewed as inevitable by martian intellectuals after centuries of world peace. Said intellectuals are almost always found dead. Their engineering and technology is at least a century ahead of our own, but they lack the vitality of Earth due to their world being a dying one where water grows scarce to the point where they must import ice from the asteroid belt and their Jupiter colonies. Mars itself has fallen under increasing resentment by the Martians who live around Jupiter and Saturn, for they are controlled heavily by their masters from the red planet with trade deeply regulated by the Olympian Senate **This is the term humans use for it**. The attempt to colonize Earth in 1918 backfired greatly; the much loathed Olympian Senate had greatly underestimated how much humans in the past 100 years have narrowed the tech gap and instead have put focus on setting up colonies on Venus, which lacks Earth's billions of violent apes with machine guns and tanks.

((What sort of martians would be appropriate here? I'm leaning towards a greyish type design personally.))

mars map:

(From orig15.deviantart.net)

Venusians

These are free-form natives; feel free to be creative with them. Try to take into account that they cannot see the stars day or night, only a persistent cloud cover. They won't even be aware of other planets and live in a highly tropical environment. I would prefer they be pre-industrial or at least much more insular than Earth or Mars. They all must be from the same genus, but can have multiple intelligent species. I may allow a extremely isolated industrial civilization that has no contact with other regions of Venus however.

Venus Map:


(From mapsharing.org)

(Europans/Ganymedians?)

Completely optional native sapients can go here. Only by request.

Worlds With Life

There is five worlds with life, all with the same DNA. Panspermia from the outer solar system is believed to be why life has managed to occur on so many worlds.

-Venus (Venusians!)
-Earth (Terrans!)
-Mars (martians!)
-Ganymede (Multiple layers of oceans with life, who knows what lies in the lower depths?)
-Europa (A complex ecosystem in the pitch black ocean of Europa that is heavily exploited by the Martian fishing industries)
-Titan (The oil suckers live here)
-Uranus (Extremely strange critters have been rumored to live here)

-??? (Origin world of life in the outer reaches of sol?)

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Everyone can have nations and can build these nations from the early 20th century onward.

Space faring technology is more advanced than today due to humans emulating (poorly) Martian engineering. Computing has lagged behind our world to a extent, but humans in this world make much more application of technologies that are theoretically available today.

Martian technology is advanced, with much more organic engineering and computing systems based of neuraltech (their wiring is made from synthetic nerves instead of copper). They tend to use heat rays and shielding systems. Their technology is not really known for being ecologically in-tune with the world around them however. For instance the Martian world protectorate has had little qualms about using nuclear pulse rockets. They also have tripods.

Further details on technology can be defined by the player as they see fit. Just do not make tech that is world breaking (like a FTL system or a World Shattering bomb)

The app sheet for this NRP comes in two flavors.

Simple sheet.

Name:
Map:
Culture:
History:
Other:

Advanced sheet.

Name:
Location(s):
Demographics:
Governing System:
Economic State:
Culture:
Military:
History:
Relations:
Notable Individuals:
Other:

You do not need a nation to work in this NRP since like many NRPs I run, it's free form in regards to content creation; individuals and characters can be made for other factions at your volition.

I personally recommend some people make characters who can act as agents/spies with no actual affiliations.

Name:
Appearance:
Bio:
History:
Other:

Fabula Elysia - Medieval Fantasy Nationgame

They have lots of water reservoirs from the caves to bolster their farming with.

Fabula Elysia - Medieval Fantasy Nationgame

No, but we have the biggest hands and the longest arms. We also have the best caves that foster the best agriculture. We have the best stone faces and statues of the fist god.

Giant, iron fists of our warriors will crush your skulls in. And you will be forced to give us all your gold and wine.

Fabula Elysia - Medieval Fantasy Nationgame

Geographically.

I'm at the eastern end of the known world.