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Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

@Mihndar Rajah returns!

For those not familiar, Rajah was a (the?) infamous leader of Mihndar's race in the older Civ RP. It might not come out to be the same here, but the name has a significant history.

@Aweirdgamer

Yes, I figured you at least would take interest in that. They were an imperial line, all named the same but with a different Roman numeral. There will be significant reference to the old RP (mostly for my own amusement) in regards to his character. I've set up the Kingdom of the Cindorayi to more or less be the "bad guys" of the RP to throw a wrench into the gears of interspecies politics here and there. They, much like the empire of the past are harshly xenophobic and will stop at nothing to take over the Republic and enslave/kill other races.

The Sun Will Never Set (A Statisticless NRP)(It had a good run)

I believe that one day, one fabled day, far in the future or maybe a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, @Skepic will post.

Or maybe even daresay @Willy Vereb

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

The Cindorayi Republic, Population: 186, Year 26 IL, Age of the Quarter Moon

@Elitestpotato

"I was chosen." said Ekatyrina in response. To illustrate what she meant, the other Cindorayi gathered around her in a circle and pointed, as if picking, at her. "The Cindorayi pick amongst all the members of their race who they want to be the leader. Whoever is chosen by more than half wins." This time Sonya stepped into the circle, and roughly 80% pointed at Ekatyrina and 20% at Sonya, showing how it worked.

When it was finished, Sonya said, "The chief is selected by us so that they work for us, not themselves."

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Nadya quietly gestured at the teskur in the distance, blissfully grazing. Her party of hunters had traveled farther east than ever before, in pursuit of new and more exciting game. She and the others with her, riding on their hawkynders, drew arrows and fitted them to their bows, drawing back and then firing in quick succession. The four arrows flew gracefully and struck the teskur in the side. It bellowed, and prepared to charge at them, but it had only taken a few steps forward when another volley struck it in its face and it fell to the ground, dead. Nadya cheered, and the others tugged at their improvised stirrups and rode forward to collect their prize.

A peculiar sensation came over her as she began to follow, and she hesitated. Something wasn't right.

In that brief moment of hesitation, an enormous net fell from the trees around the three other hunters, and entangled them and their hawkynder mounts. Out of the surrounding trees from all sides came other Cindorayi which Nadya had never seen before, who charged forth with knives and spears of a shiny, brownish material. Realizing that she could not fight so many, she turned around and urged her hawkynder as fast as possible back to the village. Two of the attacking warriors stood prepared with their spears, but she let fly an arrow which killed one. The other warrior, seeing her pull another arrow from her quiver, jumped out of the way of her path.

And so Nadya escaped the ambush set for her hunting party, and rode swiftly back to inform Ekatryina and the council of the news: the final group of Cindorayi had been found, and their intentions were clearly not benign.

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Stone tools: 8/8
Animal Husbandry: 3/5
Wheel: 1/4
Copper Working: 1/8

The Kingdom of the Cindorayi, Population: 142 (one casualty from combat), Year: 76

"Wake up." a Cindorayi male voice said gruffly, slapping Kseniya in the face.

Kseniya regained consciousness dazedly, trying to make sense of her surroundings. Her hands and feet were tied behind her, and she and the other two members of Nadya's hunting party were tied similarly. In front of her, atop a throne fashioned from stone, sat a man with a crown of the same brownish, shiny material which was embedded with moon crystals. Two guards, also male, stood to either side of him, one evidently having been the one who slapped her in the face.

"Who... who are you?" she managed to pronounce.

The man on the throne smiled. "Who am I?"

"I am your ruler. I always have been, and I will always be. You may call me... Rajah."

The Sun Will Never Set (A Statisticless NRP)(It had a good run)

Alright, my spankin bankin new keyboard is here and working fine! Post will hopefully be up sooner than originally anticipated!

@Skepic

Glorious~

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

Sorry I couldn't post earlier, I wanted to but my parents wanted to go out of town for the 4th of July.

Will be posting today soon.

Age of Rebirth (Post WW3)

My feeling on the topic is that for the reason that we don't want nuclear exchanges every few pages and for realism only a few countries should have nuclear weapons. The three US's, the UK, France, China, me, South Asia and the Caliphate are quite enough.

The only reason that the US would need nuclear weapons there is if they were intermediate-range missiles (not ICBMs) and they needed to hit nearby countries. And considering you're in the middle of impoverished Africa with a distinct lack of advanced military might that doesn't seem likely. If I suspend my disbelief on that, however, they would be only capable of hitting other countries in Africa, but that might be enough for your needs.

Age of Rebirth (Post WW3)

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Yeah, but this is thirty-five years in the future. It's probable that the rate of nuclear proliferation was flung into high gear during the onset of WWIII. As the war gradually intensified, and as nuclear weapons were utilized, this proliferation rate might've been dramatically energized.

And if you're a superpower and you're still using uranium to produce nukes, then you've failed to keep pace with your aspiring adversaries. You should be producing pure fusion, antimatter-catalyzed fusion, or pure antimatter warheads at this point.

Ethiopia should at least be able to drum up a few gun-type fission bombs. They don't require plutonium, are comparatively cheap to produce, and don't require a robust technological base to engineer and manufacture--but they're woefully inefficient when compared to more sophisticated nuclear weapon designs. Implosion-type nuclear bombs are an option as well, but they're a fair bit more advanced than their gun-type cousins.

@ASTA

I suppose that's fair. But equally, those countries without well-developed industrial bases wouldn't have the capability to maintain a full-fledged nuclear arsenal. Sure, they could have a sizable collection of bombs (the bomb dropped on Hiroshima of the same type only killed half the city), but hardly silos full of ICBMs and nuclear missile subs patrolling the oceans.

Just as an example. Creating a plutonium (implosion-type) bomb requires a the construction and operation of a breeder reactor, so it's probably equally hard to make as the refined uranium. The only problem with pure fusion is having enough heat to start a fusion reaction without the other nuclear weapon present. You could use a laser or some type of electromagnetic radiation, but then you need enough power to heat all of the hydrogen up at once, and as a result you'd have a bomb surrounded by batteries to the point where it would be obscenely heavy even to drop from a bomber, let alone carry with a missile. Antimatter... you'd either need the aforementioned heaps of batteries or have an attached nuclear reactor just to power the magnetic containment field. And even then, I doubt you'd be able to accumulate the amount necessary for a sizable bomb without it hitting normal matter.

Age of Rebirth (Post WW3)

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I don't think those numbers are accurate for 2050. International oversight and public opinion have both changed. I highly doubt that countries like France and the UK would go through WWIII and then decide not to expand upon their arsenal.

@The Nexerus

Yeah, I just included them as a measure of how much they initially had the moment our timeline diverges. For countries like the former US and myself that have a lot of them, they would not likely have changed. Nuclear weapons are hella expensive to maintain.

Age of Rebirth (Post WW3)

But at least until World War 3, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty and the general trend of less nuclear weapons and developing countries not having the technology would have held in place. Other countries don't have nuclear weapons because of technology, they don't have them because they didn't want to build them and furthermore weren't allowed to. South Africa had nuclear weapons, but they disarmed them and ended their nuclear program due to international pressure. So until World War 3 actually started and the structure of international law fragmented, no nation could have a nuclear program without the treatment that Iran and North Korea are currently subject to, namely massive, economy-crushing sanctions. Regardless of whether or not you have the technology (which would still be a highly guarded secret and would take a few years to work out, as Iran and North Korea have been doing for a decade), it takes a while to refine the uranium required and actually put it into practice as a warhead. There is no way a country like Ethiopia could have nuclear weapons this soon after the war, even if they went straight into developing them the second the war started. In a few years, sure.

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

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No your fine, I am going to use a character who will be searching for other species. On that note, I will be unable to post until a week after next, I have Scout Camp this one. Sorry for not putting anything out this week, I've been trying to get ready for camp, and haven't found the time to write. I'll be back then.

@Joegreenbeen

The struggle is real.