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A-Traveller said
@Big Al JeffersonYour application looks good. You just need to fill out technology and you're good to go. A brief overview of their unique technologies and their FTL, if present. For example, do they have a focus on gene manipulation or cybernetics? Do they make use of coilguns, missiles, lasers? You don't need to exclude technologies (you could have gene manipulation and cybernetics), but I'd like to know what differentiates you from a near future Earth. Sorry if you already know this and your app is still a WIP. It looked complete, other than that section.


Nope, I didn't actually know how specific I should get. I'll fill that out too soon.
Faction Name: The Human Coalition of Akar (HCA)
Faction Type: Fascist-socialism.
Species: Species in the faction, including a brief description of any non-human species.
Scale and Territory: Basic Interstellar, although they are approaching the technological level for Interstellar. Despite the unreliability, they have already established infrastructure on two planets in a neighboring star system, as well as settled four other planets in their own, besides Akar. Only the home planet and one other have populations beyond the thousands, however.

Culture: Nationalism still runs high in Akar, although other planets in the coalition are not so fervent. Akarian humans do share a strong xenophobic tendency; few none-humans are found in Akarian space, and they generally seem to approve of their military, as many HCA soldiers are volunteers (although others are conscripts). This may have to do with the propaganda that has become standard in the HCA; sedition is a punishable offense (and is often punished), and the minds of Akarian citizens are constantly impressed upon with nationalist, xenophobic, pro-government opinions, with no others allowed to have a say (except as a strawman). Centuries of this draconian system have refined it and given it great cultural inertia; no one Akarian knows anything else.

History: Akarastle has undergone significant change over the past millennium; although it was originally a far-flung colony, the people of Akar underwent a nationalistic revolution, becoming their own sovereign state. Since then, they have developed from a large colony to a full-blown interplanetary regime, under the iron fist of fascist ruler after fascist ruler. Their startling research speed and population growth, as well as their heavily militaristic and xenophobic nature, would no doubt startle other nations, if the HCA kept in contact with any of them.

Their first colony, Chorrum, was the result of a startlingly-large-scale project that the HCA has become known for; half of the population of the capital planet was shipped to their new homes, over almost a century of hard labor and expense, on a neighboring planet. Despite this exhausting (and quite strange) population split, the HCA has continued to aggressively colonize other planets, although with much less expense. Nonetheless, the HCA finds itself overextended, and the current leader of Akar finds corruption and general unrest at an all-time high, as well as having to deal with the infinite problems inherit in keeping an empire afloat across the depths of space in hostile environments.

Technology: Basic Interstellar, bordering on Interstellar. Space travel as achieved through a device called the Specter's Ballista (or just the Ballista). A large device on the Akar Space Station transmits matter to a parallel plane, where relatively and the speed of light are not constraints. The ship must be specially-designed to leave the plane, called Plane S, and must place itself directly inside the boundaries of a Specter Target, a much more manageable device that can bring specialized ships back to the regular plane. Travels that can take centuries can occur in mere months, although the Ballista is massively expensive, and a Target must be built first. Ships CAN materialize without the Target, but the ship is destroyed four times out of five, even if specialized for the materialization; this is how the Targets were built in the first place. One can not return to Plane S without another Ballista, so all ships going out of Akar are one-way.

Akarian weapons systems rely on plentiful nuclear missiles to obliterate enemies on land and in space. Most 'warships' are little more than missile turrets, whose defense relies on an overwhelming offense. Any others are STL (space-to-land) Bombardment ships, who specialize in entering the atmosphere of enemy planets and bombarding them with nukes.

Military ground forces wield the Godhand Rifle Mark V, which transmits an enormous amount of energy into a specialized bullet that sends a powerful shockwave through the target, disintegrating most materials. Heavier ground forces wield more powerful and faster-firing Godhands, or simply have nuclear capabilities.

Military Forces: The military forces of the HCA are actually quite tame, comparatively, featuring mostly defensive and ground forces. Although their standing army is large, it also doubles as a police force, propaganda center, and justice system, with generals playing the role of judges. It also is heavily connected to hard labor, often using conscripts to build infrastructure or conscripting laborers. Akar itself boasts a defensive space station and a small fleet, but other colonies are mostly undefended from space.
Jeddaven said
Also interested. By any chance, will it be possible to play good ol' humans? Preferably based out of Earth.


I'd like it to be known that if only one Human nation is available, I totally called it first.

If two are though we should totally have an entwined history.
Nobodyman123 said
That actually does sound pretty awesome. Too bad we don't have a Guinevere yet.


Wait, we can be non-Round Table PCs? :O

Well shit! Someone needs to get some robes on and be our Merlin.
Rin said
Well, um... I guess I'll explain. I kind of had this idea for adding an extra layer of tragedy to Lancelot, and, well... Basically it involved turning Lancelot into a woman. A, um... A gay woman. In medieval England. Which would lead her to feel that her love for Guinevere was even more forbidden and yeah saying it out loud it kind of sounds really dumb honestly. Um, hmmm....I should probably step back and rethink this, honestly.


Ahahaha! That actually sounds interesting, in a very anime sort of way. But I can very much see how that would be an issue.
Rin said
I was kind of expecting no-one to take Galahad, actually. ^^; My idea for Lancelot kind of doesn't work well with them having a son, see. Um, hurm.


Well, it IS supposed to be an illegitimate son. He wouldn't have to have a fatherly air, necessarily. Or we could say he doesn't even know. Or even chop that whole relation out, if it suit ye.
Nobodyman123 said
Wow, holy crap guys. I was not expecting a response so quickly. Ill try and answer some of your questions. 1. I'm gonna be playing Arthur, and Tristan is already reserved. Sorry :(2. Its gonna follow the story of King Arthur only loosely. This is a story that I really want to turn into a novel some day.


What, really? I'm more surprised than distressed! :O I specifically went out of my way to choose someone less well-known.

Well, screw it, then. I call the peerless Ser Galahad. That means whoever is Ser Lancelot gets to have an illegitimate son hanging around, being all pure or something. Fun times.
Going to at least keep an eye on this, it's too amusing not to. :D
Raineh Daze said
... and yes the post above does include wanting to take on the role of the King.


Seems to me the King is gonna be an NPC or something.

I'm curious as to how 'historical' this will be. I'm calling Sir Trystan, for example, so do I have to sail off to Ireland at some point and have a lengthy, dramatic affair with the woman I was supposed to be fetching? I mean, I know it's all fable and legend, but how much are we going to stick with the fables provided?
I'm interested as well. I will be using my old standby of Socialist Boringly Human Fascist Imperialistic Chowderheads, if I may. :D
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