Fabulous Knight

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@NatsucooldudeThat's not very medieval.

You reminded me of something, though --

@MetalLover, how enmeshed are we going to be? In Dune, and ASoIaF, and Mechwarrior and 40k and all that -- there's often organisations that transcend factions. For example, the navigators guild, or ComStar. Will we have playable organisations like that? The idea of a player working within every faction as a massive trade guild sounds pretty awesome.

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@MetalLoverHow large can I make my nation? I'm going for a "disorganised empire" thing, but I don't want to end up OP.

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@PolybiusWell, it's what I was thinking too. My dudes, at least, are based firmly on the late medieval.

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@MetalLoverThe ideas behind communism are actually very old. I mean, the ancient Greeks had the basic ideas down. But yeah, communism as an actual full system was pretty formalised by the renaissance -- especially with regards to Protestantism.

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@PolybiusNot at all. You read "utopia"? Plus, the German Peasants in the Great Peasant's Revolt were fighting for communal ownership of the land by all.

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@Commodore RobotDo both.

The Khans are genetically engineered immortals that require the gene-seed of sentient races in order to perpetuate themselves. They enslave and raid other nations in order to obtain this...material.

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@SomeChapMy dudes are pretty not!Communist too. I'll make them not!Anarchist, however. Either way, it seems there could be a lot of interaction between them and yours -- possibly they could be a major ally in/help kick-start the spacecommunist revolution.

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Oh, so we don't end up making nations that are similar -- my nation's going to be a cross between the Polish Commonwealth, Ottoman Empire and Hussites/German Peasants Revolt.

Quick run-down: The not!Ottoman Empire enslaved many peoples but employed some of them as their bureaucrats. Eventually (due to reasons) civil war broke out between the young nobility (who wanted control for themselves) and the old guard supporters of the not!Sultan (predominantly slaves). Slaves (and peasant not!Ottomans) took advantage of this to revolt themselves.

There's now a great deal of tension between the two main factions: young noble democrats (backed by much of the not!Ottoman peasantry), and the proto-communist freemen military (backed by the freed slaves and the not!Ottoman peasantry). They'll have a lot of military potential -- but be in a state of great confusion.

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@PolybiusConsidering the fact we're feudal and this is space opera, I'm going to assume that this is not post-scarcity.

I do think a landsraad type deal would be coolest, though.

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@Commodore RobotIf there's nothing decided yet, I'd recommend something unique rather than a rehash of melange. An idea could be to have a massively profitable silk-road. The object of trade could be materials necessary for the construction of god-computers, or something.