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Void of Novira: Scramble for Interplanetary Colonization (Now Open)

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Void of Novira: Scramble for Interplanetary Colonization (Now Open)

Please post all nation sheets here first to be accepted.

The OOC thread is used for out of character discussion not necessarily related to the RP and for coordination of ideas on collaboration, etc.

There is a Discord for this RP, hence the low OOC post count. Admission requires an approved nation sheet and first IC post within a week of acceptance.

FAQ for Nation Sheets:

Q: Nuclear weapons, to what extent do they exist?

The allies of the Cindorayi have some nukes, from being more trusted, and other nations have 'bought' or somehow obtained fewer to none but it's not well known how many. The main competitors to the Cindorayi, the Velucan, were the only other nation to possess nuclear weapons at the end of the Void War due to inheritance from the Aldabetans, and the two have stood off in a cold war for the last two decades. The Cindorayi have attempted to prevent this to limited success, but are still overpowering enough where any attempted use would likely lead to MAD, so they hold off for now.

Q: Can I develop energy shields like in Star Trek or something?

"Energy shields" as they exist in sci-fi are out of even near-future range of technology. We can't really manipulate and keep plasma hot like that, and if we did, it would burn up the people inside the shield. However, projected electromagnetic fields can repel magnetic projectiles and redirect or scatter other forms of electromagnetic energy, such as lasers. The primary drawbacks to this would be a. running out of power and b. non-magnetic projectiles, such as carbon or tungsten. Most conventional weaponry uses iron or steel, which is magnetic, however.

Alternatively, you could use an electromagnetic field to reinforce the hull of your ship, but that's still vulnerable to running out of power or to laser weapons that would melt the ship and harm the people inside with heat.

Novira: An Interplanetary Colonization Roleplay

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IC thread is up, for all those interested.

Void of Novira: Scramble for Interplanetary Colonization (Now Open)

This thread should be where everyone posts their accepted nation sheets, and should be a repository for general reference information about your nations. One post per person, please.

Name of Nation: Cindorayi Empire



Nation Characteristics: The scattered kingdoms of the Cindorayi, in the north and westernmost parts of the peninsula they now possess, were finally unified by the Vissarion Kingdom in 1864. Rozhkov I Vissarion, the head of the Vissarion House, formally declared himself Emperor of all Cindorayi that same year. The Cindorayi, who had previously been largely been tributary states to the ancient Aldabetan Republic, never lost the grudge they had against the Aldabetuse people. The Second Emperor, Pashkov I, lead Cindorayi forces in the First Tannyl War (1894-1897) for access to the lake’s freshwater, which was the first Cindorayi victory over the Republic ever recorded. Over the twentieth century, the Cindorayi Empire rapidly industrialized, being the very first of all nations to do so with easy access to coal and iron ore from their northern tundra lands. In 1934, the Second Tannyl War began, but this war ended in essentially status quo six years later after millions of deaths. After this, however, the Cindorayi Empire along with their allies the Lithla rapidly outstripped the Aldabetuse in terms of industrial production and development. The Aldabetan Republic continued to stagnate and refuse to accept change, whereas the Cindorayi grew ever more militant and radical. In the late twentieth century the nobility was stripped of all remaining power, the Imperial Diet was disbanded and never recalled, and all power was concentrated in the hands of the Emperor. New technologies such as radio and television were used to alarming effect in propagandizing and reinforcing discipline amongst the Cindorayi population, and the Aldabetans were portrayed as the implacable enemy of the Cindorayi people. Other sentient species already subjects of the Cindorayi Empire from prior wars were enslaved and used for menial labour tasks. The military became the highest and most important profession, the center of the Empire’s state apparatus, and has become so integrated with the government that there is very little civilian bureaucracy left. The Cindorayi Empire pioneered space exploration primarily for its military advantages, quickly establishing a network of laser satellites around the planet which were used extensively during the Void War. After victory in 2036, the Empire consolidated control over its new subject peoples, resettling Aldabetuse land and forcibly relocating them to workplaces elsewhere. Realizing the potential numbers advantage of establishing a space colony before anyone else, the Cindorayi restricted all non-allied nations from lunar or extraplanetary settlement, and threatened to rain fire upon any nation which disobeyed as well as blowing any colony ships out of the sky with lasers or nuclear missiles. To greatly improve their capacity for offworld transport, they commenced construction of a space elevator, first of its kind, in their capital city of Lunysvet in 2042, which completed by 2046. Subsequently, the Cindorayi Empire began by establishing a permanent colony on Lunoi and then began full-scale colonization of Cindorya in 2048, which by 2056 had led to over a million colonists being shipped there.

Name of Second Nation: People's Republic of Cindorya

Nation Characteristics: The PRC declared independence from the Cindorayi Empire last month, and consists of a colonial territory on the main continent of Cindorya with a population of approximately 1.2 million. It is in an active state of civil war against the Cindorayi Empire as of the RP’s start.

Nation Location: Westernmost peninsula of the main continent, and the planet of Cindorya, respectively.

Nation Initial Population: 121 million.

Species Name: Cindorayi

Species Characteristics: The Cindorayi are bipedal humanoids with a felinoid appearance, including full-body fur, tails, and pointed ears. Their torsos are arched significantly forwards, unlike other humanoids, and they possess claws on the ends of both sets of hands. Their hands have three fingers and an opposable thumb, and their feet likewise have four digits.

Side Chosen in Void War: The Cindorayi, of course. Pravilo Nasha Sudba! (To rule is our destiny!)

Technological Level: The Cindorayi Empire is the most advanced at present in terms of military technology and only surpassed by others in a few categories. The greatest technical achievement of the Empire is the Lunysvet Space Elevator, a 2 km tall railgun which launches cargo and craft into orbit from Nova Mondial’s surface. Cindorayi began the production of Lunya-class corvettes in 2054, a state-of-the-art space superiority fighter which is capable of taking off from a planetary surface with boosters and traveling to orbit. It possesses a single primary railgun, two wing-mounted lasers, and a nuclear fusion generator which also powers its thrusters through exhaust. The Cindorayi have also begun experimenting with electromagnetic shields, but so far have been unable to miniaturize it for use in any spacecraft or vehicles. Its other non-military technologies are consistent with modern America.

Space Presence: The Cindorayi Empire as of the RP’s start possesses an orbital network of 30 satellites which are equipped with primary lasers and four nuclear missiles apiece, by which the Empire kept the nations of the world in check through threat of imminent nuclear annihilation. The Mondial Orbital Command space station is the primary command and control network for the Cindorayi space operations, and maintains docking facilities for all manner of craft, military and civilian. Secondly, the Cindorayi Empire possesses a lunar colony of around 70,000 individuals, all living in one small city and home to several manufacturing and mining facilities. The Cindoryan Imperial Colony was lost in the opening days of the Cindoryan Revolution.

Special Resource: Cindor crystals, which are capable of storing much larger quantities of energy than conventional batteries. They are a primary component in Cindorayi railgun and laser systems.

Void of Novira: Scramble for Interplanetary Colonization (Now Open)

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Human history is a history of revolutions. Revolutions against authority, against tradition, against faith, and against their own deficiencies and inabilities. No matter how strong, how entrenched, how powerful an empire, its time has always come for it to fall. No matter how formidable an obstacle, human ingenuity has found a way around it or at least a way to weaken it. This is how nations such as Rome and the Third Reich fell. This is how a man was able to set foot on the moon.

This is not the story of human history. But the lessons human history teaches us are no less relevant in this new world.

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~City of Sylvnor, Planet of Cindorya~
December 2056

“Down with the Emperor! Up with Cindorya! Down with the Emperor! Up with Cindorya!”

The crowd made its way forward, brandishing signs and makeshift weapons alike. The sky was orange with both the sunset and the occasional fire. A Molotov cocktail was thrown, adding another orange blossom to the world. Against all this cacophony, a deeper and more menacing sound could be heard. It was the sound of marching.

A wall of men advanced down the street. Riot police, bearing the sigil of the Cindorayi Empire on their shields and guns in their hands. A spotlight pierced through the orangey gloom and illuminated the center of the crowd, as the police commander shouted.

“Imperial citizens, you are hereby ordered to disperse! By Imperial Edict 347, this is an illegal gathering. Put down all weapons and disperse at once or we will fire!”

This warning seemed to only embolden the crowd. Several more blossoms of fire erupted against the police’s shields and behind them, and they surged forward. The police looked at one another anxiously, and then prepared to fire.

In the precise moment when the commander’s mouth began to open, a jet streaked by and a bomb fell right down into the center of the police lines. The police line wavered, then shattered without leadership. Some were beaten, some were pushed aside, but the crowd kept advancing, as a landslide does heedless of obstacles in its way.

Nearby, a reporter, trying to retain some decency as the cold wind gusted past and billowed up her dress, was shouting into the microphone to be heard.

“These are by far the largest protests ever seen in Sylvnor, or indeed on all of the Cindoryan Imperial Colony!” The reporter pointed to the advancing crowds. “Unrest has been rapidly increasing over the Imperial taxation policies and draconian restrictions over the last week, but only now have we seen such a massive public outcry! Protesters are demanding the Viceroy be replaced with a democratic, autonomous govern…” The reporter trailed off as she listened to her earphone. “We have breaking news that the Colonial Army has sided with the protestors and is currently attempting a coup. I repeat, a coup is in progress.”

~Imperial Palace, City of Lunysvet, Planet of Nova Mondial~

The viewscreen powered down and there was nothing but silence.

“As you can see, Your Imperial Highness, the situation is… escalating quickly. The Viceroy reports he’s virtually lost control of the situation. We may have to grant the Imperial Col-“ A Cindorayi civil servant twitched his tail nervously.

“May I ask if you are going to seriously present such a ludicrous proposal to my face? Shall I have you executed for treason right here and now?” A man clothed in luxurious robes leaned forward slightly, his pointed face half-illuminated by the light.

“No, Your Imperial Highness, I was merely-“

“Then enough of this foolishness. The Imperial Colony will be reclaimed, and our empire will continue to expand. This was merely… an unfortunate setback.” The Emperor chuckled and leaned back once more.

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Greetings, and welcome. This is likely my third attempt at GMing a RP, as I don’t usually come up with concepts that occur so evocative to me as to warrant it. I can only hope that this is the most successful one yet. If you had the patience to read through the above, I welcome you to Novira. The basic premise of this RP is as follows:

Setting: This is a roleplay which primarily takes place on a habitable world much like our own, called Nova Mondial. The primary difference is this: multiple sentient species have developed on the world, and exist in competition with each other. Most species exist as independent, unified nation-states. The RP takes place at a technological level in the near future, with these nations beginning the process of interplanetary colonization.

Style: This RP is ideally very open-ended in terms of how you choose to carry it out. Some people prefer to narrate large-scale events, others to look at everything within their nation from an individual character perspective. You’re perfectly free to do either or both.

Time is fluid, you're free to do flashbacks and the like, but generally assume that each page is approximately a month for the time being.

Backstory: The world of Nova Mondial emerged after the year 2036 in the Cindorayi calendar from a major war, known as the Void War (2034-36) as it involved the first use of space-based weaponry systems. In this time, the world was split into two major alliances, one spearheaded by the Cindorayi Empire and the other by the Aldabetan Republic. The Cindorayi soundly and completely defeated the Aldabetan Republic, ending with the dropping of nuclear weapons on a few Aldabetan cities and the wholesale annexation of their territory.

In the twenty years since, the Cindorayi Empire and their allies, known collectively as the Nova Dominion, consolidated their control over outer space. Having uncontested superiority after the Void War, rival developing nations had no choice but to seek Cindorayi permission to launch spacecraft or colonize, or risk being blown out of the sky on the way up. While the Empire and its allies collaboratively settled Nova Mondial’s habitable moon, Lunoi, the Empire reserved for itself the closest habitable planet, which they named Cindorya. In the last decade, they initiated a massive colonization drive to move a million people over to the new planet via a space elevator, the first of its kind. In order to enforce order and ensure maximum expansion, the Cindoryan Imperial Colony enforced heavy rules and regulations on the populace, as well as taxes to fund its efforts back on Nova Mondial. This, understandably, provoked heavy backlash and in December 2056, the People's Republic of Cindorya declared independence from the Empire. The resulting war resulted in the destruction of the majority of the Cindorayi Empire’s space infrastructure. The RP begins on the first day of 2057. The way is now open for rival nations to begin to take on - and potentially surpass them - in the great race for colonization of the rest of the Novira System.

Nation Sign-Up Sheet:

Name of Nation:
Nation Characteristics: (Government, culture, anything you see fit to explain about how your nation operates)
Nation Location: (Feel free to indicate a general place in text and I can add you to the map, or add yourself.)
Nation Initial Population:
Species Name:
Species Characteristics: (Basic physical features, anatomy, etc. Nothing too outlandish or overpowered, please, and preferably no humans)
Side Chosen in Void War: (Cindorayi, Aldabetan, or neutral)
Technological Level: (The baseline for this is like standard modern technology. The Cindorayi Empire is the most advanced at present, with several advanced technologies such as a space elevator, laser and railgun weapons, and nuclear fusion power. Allies would have been given some of these technologies, but not all. Also include what level of space presence your empire has, if any. Most nations should at least have communications satellites and a space station, however Cindorayi allies would have been allowed to arm their stations/satellites and also to have a moon colony.)
Special Resource: (It’s an alien planet, and so correspondingly I’ll allow each applying person to say there’s a unique resource not found on earth that they have large deposits of, provided again it’s not too overpowered. Example: The Cindorayi have Cindor crystals, which are capable of storing much larger quantities of energy than conventional batteries.)

I intend to balance the technological/space advantage given to the Cindorayi allies by being more permissive with the other categories (population, land area, species and special resources) to those who chose the Aldabetan side.

Maps of Nova Mondial:

Political:


Current Claims:
Dark Red: Cindorayi Empire (Mihndar)
Light Purple: Grand Protectorate of Lithla (Predawnia)
Dark Green: Vaspen Empire (Ben1730)
Light Green: Famsidian Union (Aweirdgamer)
Yellow-Orange: Union of Kor (Neruu)
Salmon: New Auslassia (Dinh AaronMK)
Dark Purple: Unified Soto Guilds (Arawak)
Dark Brown: Dominion of Isalka (Cheetuhman)
Dark Blue: Rafinid Technocracy (Shyri)
Orange: Greater Union of Veluca (Wernher)
Light Blue: Pokash (Urcica)

Physical:


Celestial Bodies (in order from the star, Novira):



Irkalla: A desolate, Mercury-like volcanic planet, which is completely uninhabitable on the surface and possesses no atmosphere. An underground colony would be theoretically plausible, but difficult. Roughly the size of Earth’s moon.

Europia: Lying on the inner edge of Novira’s habitable zone, this is a hot desert/savannah like planet which has no oceans, only small seas and lakes. Roughly 1/2 the size of Earth.
---Nachbar: The sole moon of Europia, uninhabitable, no atmosphere and hot, 1/6 the size of Earth’s moon.

Nova Mondial: The home planet, of a similar size to Earth.
---Lunoi: A habitable, temperate moon with a single large sea. Suffers severe tidal effects due to Nova Mondial. Colonized by the Cindorayi Empire and a few other major Nova Dominion powers. Of a similar size to Earth's Moon.
---Edhya: An uninhabitable, cratered moon much like our own, but with ice caps at the poles that could be utilized for water. Approximately a fourth the size of Earth’s moon.

Cindorya: Lying on the outer edge of Novira’s habitable zone, this is a cold, mostly tundra-arctic world with a thin temperate band around the equator. The ice caps consist of nearly a third of the surface, though there are oceans that separate the continents along the temperate band. Approximately 2/3 the size of Earth.
---Duiria: A rocky, uninhabitable moon with a thin atmosphere made almost entirely of carbon dioxide, of similar climate to Mars. Most hospitable of the uninhabitable bodies and potentially able to be terraformed with enough time and effort.

Asteroid Belt: The asteroid belt here is very similar to that of the Sol System’s, essentially the fragmented remains of what could have been a planet, endless rocks drifting in the void.

Sapia: This final habitable planet lies well outside the habitable zone, but possesses an extremely thick atmosphere with a high concentration of carbon dioxide, creating a greenhouse effect that keeps the surface relatively temperate and the oceans liquid. This planet is approximately twice the size of Earth.
---Felinis: Similar to Cindorya in climate, but no oceans, and due to the vertical rotation around Sapia, only one side of the moon is habitable at a given time. As the rotation slowly changes, the habitable side moves circularly around the equator, making one rotation every four years. Approximately the size of Earth's moon.

Kharok: A gas giant at the outer edge of the solar system of similar size to Jupiter. The gas giant has seven small, uninhabitable rocky moons, some of which are closer to asteroids.

Note: I’m considering allowing civilization(s) native to Sapia to apply, in some kind of industrial-era level technology, since it would be very interesting as the RP progresses to see that sort of interaction, as well as to make taking Sapia more difficult as it it is by far the most valuable of the planets. If you are interested in being a candidate for that, please let me know.

There is a Discord for this RP, hence the low OOC post count. Admission requires an approved nation sheet and first IC post within a week of acceptance.

Void of Novira: Scramble for Interplanetary Colonization (Now Open)

~Lunysvet, Cindorayi Empire, Nova Mondial~
The night of December 31st, 2056

Mairead moved quickly down the dimly lit street, dragging her 5-year old son by his tentacular hand. The Cindorayi patrols were very frequent in the capital city, and while she had a pass that indicated she was a free Aldabetuse citizen, she hated getting questioned about her destination and business as they would often do. It was especially severe now that they had issued a curfew declaration.

“Mother, what are those lights in the sky?”

Mairead quickly looked up, and saw some bright flashes from different points all across the sky. She narrowed her eyes. “Nothing, Iain, just come along. It’s probably some weird test they’re doing up in space.”

“Test? What are they testing, mother?”

“I don’t know. Come on, we have to get home before we get spotted, or we’ll be out here half the night, what with the curfew in-“

A bright flash illuminated the night for a moment, like a second sun, just as they arrived at their doorway. The purple and yellow banner hanging from the nearby lamppost seemed to wave in a slight breeze, but they felt nothing.

Mairead quickly pushed her son in despite his outburst of questions, and looked out one last time with the faintest smile of hope, as she had heard what was going on. And she knew what that flash meant, that the spark of revolution had come.

~Mondial Orbital Command, LMO (Low Mondial Orbit)~

“Move it! To your corvettes, stat!” The voice of the Flotilla-Admiral resounded through the halls of Orbital Command. People were running back and forth along the narrow halls of the station, nearly running into one another, as would be expected in a crowded station with over 100 occupants at any given time. “The longer you take, the more we’re sitting ducks! No time for protocol or briefing, I want you all undocked now!”

Emsky quickly made his way to the dock section. He saw a messenger flying his way, and quickly flattened himself against the wall and grabbed the handholds to stay there as she flew past. He resumed his journey, making it to the docking port. A laser flashed outside the window, and the station shuddered. Clearly there was some serious shit going on.

“Corvette-captain Emsky, serial number 013 Cindorayi Space Force, undocking!” His dear Lunya undocked and sped backward away from the station just in time to avoid a laser beam arcing past. He heard the resounding cries of his comrades through his headset.

“Listen up and listen well,” spoke the Flotilla-Admiral with an air of menace. “The damn fucking Colonials have hacked into our defense network and set it to engage us. They have to have someone on the inside of the Space Force down on Nova Mondial. They’ve only got the older models, the newer ones had updated electronic warfare protocols. You are to target and destroy the older satellites, understand?”

“Yes, sir! Pravilo nasha sudba!” came the chorus from both Emsky’s mouth and the speaker. He engaged his plasma thrusters, and shot off towards the given coordinates for his first target.

“Heya, Emsky, this is some kind of mess, ain’t it?” His wingman, Yashkin, glided up alongside him and spoke on their private channel. “Some heads are gonna roll back home. I sure hope ours don’t too.”

“Don’t need this kind of talk right now, Yasha!” Emsky was carefully monitoring the approaching satellite, and when he saw it powering up-

Emsky’s corvette narrowly avoided the laser’s arc. “And, firing!” Yashkin’s railgun lit up in the blackness of space, and the laser blew up into a mess of fragments which floated every which direction.

“Good job, Yasha, next one.” The two glided onward.

The Flotilla-Admiral’s voice sounded through the speaker again. “Just six left, good work, all of you. We’ll get them back for this.”

The two fellow captains approached one of the last satellites. “These new corvettes really make this a piece of cake,” Yashkin opined. “They can’t hit us for shit with our maneuverability.”

Emsky concentrated on the approaching satellite. “What…” left his mouth as a missile fired away from the satellite towards Yashkin. Emsky’s lasers lit up and converged, and the satellite fried.

Yashkin narrowly avoided the missile. “Shit, that was close. What the hell are they doing, firing nukes at these little ships?

Emsky’s eyes filled with rage. “That wasn’t targeted at you, but you should have taken it anyway. Better that than…”

Yashkin opened his mouth. “You don’t mean the goddamn colonials would-“ He was interrupted by a blinding flash of light that came from behind them.

Emsky punched the comm button. “Flotilla-Admiral! Flotilla-Admiral!” Nothing but harsh static emanated from the speakers. “They’re gone…” Emsky looked ready to tear someone’s head off. Other voices in confusion started speaking on the command frequency, but there was no reply.

Through the static, a faint female voice emerged. “All Lunya corv…e-captains, repor… in!” Emsky adjusted the tuning to try to accommodate for the radiation. “This is Cindorayi Ground Command, can anyone hear me?”

“Emsky, number 013 here.” He was the first to respond.

“We’ve lost contact with Orbital Command, Emsky. Can you confirm its status?”

Emsky’s corvette slowly turned to reveal an empty patch of space, with nothing but minute debris remaining where there should have been a huge spinning ring station. “It’s gone, Ground Command. I regret to inform you that… it’s gone. They’re all dead.”

A quiet emerged, as all the fellow captains and the comms officer digested the information they had just received. A few moments later, something like thirteen different cries of exclamation resounded through the cabin.

“Everyone, be quiet!” The comms officer at Ground Command cut in. “I know this is an unfortunate situation, but we need to quickly work out replacement docking procedures before we do anything else or you’re all going to run out of air. Numbers 001 and 002, report to the Kalashnik Research Station for docking. Numbers 003 and…”

Emsky sat back, his ears tuning out everything that followed. The face of his wife floated through his mind. He could still see her slight nervous wave the first time they met. He remembered how excited she was when she learned she would be a navigational officer at Orbital Command, how she excitedly poked him and said they would be working on the same station so they could see each other all the time. He remembered… The tears started to flow.

“Numbers 024 and 025, you’re to report to the Rafinids’ Maahir Research Station. That is all for now. Ground Command will arrange for your retrieval and resupply.” The woman’s voice shook with emotion as well near the end, and then the speaker fell silent. Embry reached for his throttle, and then with a pause, pushed it forward.

Novira: An Interplanetary Colonization Roleplay

@Cheetuhman

You're accepted thus far. Do you have a colour preference for the map?

@Shyri

I have a concern I Discord PMed you about.

Novira: An Interplanetary Colonization Roleplay

Name of Nation: Cindorayi Empire
Nation Characteristics: The scattered kingdoms of the Cindorayi, in the north and westernmost parts of the peninsula they now possess, were finally unified by the Vissarion Kingdom in 1864. Rozhkov I Vissarion, the head of the Vissarion House, formally declared himself Emperor of all Cindorayi that same year. The Cindorayi, who had previously been largely been tributary states to the ancient Aldabetan Republic, never lost the grudge they had against the Aldabetuse people. The Second Emperor, Pashkov I, lead Cindorayi forces in the First Tannyl War (1894-1897) for access to the lake’s freshwater, which was the first Cindorayi victory over the Republic ever recorded. Over the twentieth century, the Cindorayi Empire rapidly industrialized, being the very first of all nations to do so with easy access to coal and iron ore from their northern tundra lands. In 1934, the Second Tannyl War began, but this war ended in essentially status quo six years later after millions of deaths. After this, however, the Cindorayi Empire along with their allies the Lithla rapidly outstripped the Aldabetuse in terms of industrial production and development. The Aldabetan Republic continued to stagnate and refuse to accept change, whereas the Cindorayi grew ever more militant and radical. In the late twentieth century the nobility was stripped of all remaining power, the Imperial Diet was disbanded and never recalled, and all power was concentrated in the hands of the Emperor. New technologies such as radio and television were used to alarming effect in propagandizing and reinforcing discipline amongst the Cindorayi population, and the Aldabetans were portrayed as the implacable enemy of the Cindorayi people. Other sentient species already subjects of the Cindorayi Empire from prior wars were enslaved and used for menial labour tasks. The military became the highest and most important profession, the center of the Empire’s state apparatus, and has become so integrated with the government that there is very little civilian bureaucracy left. The Cindorayi Empire pioneered space exploration primarily for its military advantages, quickly establishing a network of laser satellites around the planet which were used extensively during the Void War. After victory in 2036, the Empire consolidated control over its new subject peoples, resettling Aldabetuse land and forcibly relocating them to workplaces elsewhere. Realizing the potential numbers advantage of establishing a space colony before anyone else, the Cindorayi restricted all non-allied nations from lunar or extraplanetary settlement, and threatened to rain fire upon any nation which disobeyed as well as blowing any colony ships out of the sky with lasers or nuclear missiles. To greatly improve their capacity for offworld transport, they commenced construction of a space elevator, first of its kind, in their capital city of Lunaris in 2042, which completed by 2046. Subsequently, the Cindorayi Empire began by establishing a permanent colony on Lunoi and then began full-scale colonization of Cindorya in 2048, which by 2056 had led to over a million colonists being shipped there.
Name of Second Nation: Celestial Republic of Cindorya
Nation Characteristics: The CRC declared independence from the Cindorayi Empire last month, and consists of a colonial territory on the main continent of Cindorya with a population of approximately 1.2 million. It is in an active state of civil war against the Cindorayi Empire as of the RP’s start.
Nation Location: Westernmost peninsula of the main continent.
Nation Initial Population: 121 million.
Species Name: Cindorayi
Species Characteristics: The Cindorayi are bipedal humanoids with a felinoid appearance, including full-body fur, tails, and pointed ears. Their torsos are arched significantly forwards, unlike other humanoids, and they possess claws on the ends of both sets of hands. Their hands have three fingers and an opposable thumb.
Side Chosen in Void War: The Cindorayi, of course. Pravilo Nasha Sudba! (To rule is our destiny!)
Technological Level: The Cindorayi Empire is the most advanced at present in terms of military technology and only surpassed by others in a few categories. The greatest technical achievement of the Empire is the Lunaris Space Elevator, a 2 km tall railgun which launches cargo and craft into orbit from Nova Mondial’s surface. Cindorayi began the production of Luni-class corvettes in 2054, a state-of-the-art space superiority fighter which is capable of taking off from a planetary surface with boosters and traveling to orbit. It possesses a single primary railgun, two wing-mounted lasers, and a nuclear fusion generator which also powers its thrusters through exhaust. The Cindorayi have also begun experimenting with electromagnetic shields, but so far have been unable to miniaturize it for use in any spacecraft or vehicles. Its other non-military technologies are consistent with modern America.
Space Presence: The Cindorayi Empire as of the RP’s start possesses an orbital network of 30 satellites which are equipped with primary lasers and nuclear missiles, by which the Empire kept the nations of the world in check through threat of nuclear annihilation. The Mondial Orbital Command space station is the primary command and control network for the Cindorayi space operations, and maintains docking facilities for all manner of craft, military and civilian. Secondly, the Cindorayi Empire possesses a lunar colony of around 70,000 individuals, all living in one small city and home to several manufacturing and mining facilities. The Cindoryan Imperial Colony was lost in the opening days of the Cindoryan Revolution.
Special Resource: Cindor crystals, which are capable of storing much larger quantities of energy than conventional batteries. They are a primary component in Cindorayi railgun and laser systems.

Novira: An Interplanetary Colonization Roleplay

discord.gg/VPm6bBh is the one I've set up for this.

Novira: An Interplanetary Colonization Roleplay

I'm considering setting up a Discord for this like there is for PoW. You guys like that idea?