Terminal said
Earth exists if somebody writes for it. It exists when it is written for.As for your faction idea: Change it up a little, you've already used the Vazri recently. I was sorely tempted to recycle the EOA again, but I'm making something new from scratch.
Well then, if Earth and events revolving around it are 'up for grabs', I would like to stake a claim, or at least say I am interested in playing a far-future Earth.
P.S: Hiya Terminal and Darkmatter, haven't seen you guys in a while.
Pre-warning: This is a pretty 'extensive' idea which I developed ages ago but have had trouble using due to its ability to screw with other people's idea's on the usage of Earth/etc. If you dislike the idea and/or want it changed for X reasons, I can do so.
General Summary of My Idea: Asimov-inspired Machine Empire created after the Technological-Singularity on Earth. Shortly after (This is hundreds/thousands of years ago), the Singularity Wars begin, instead of being man vs machine (An incredibly one-sided battle), it is a war between pro-human machines and anti-human machines (The pro-human machines enact a global coup against all human governments before they can begin their unwinnable war). The Pro-human machines are forced to fight the Anti-human machines anyway (Ideological split concerning position and nature of man) and win a Pyrrhic victory against the others.
The Pro-Human AI form a one world order over Earth and then begin rapidly expanding outward to build a state based around their ideology.... Which comes to the present day. The robot empire is split into two parts, the Inner Sphere, comprised of humans and human-friendly machines, a (Pseudo)post-scarcity society and virtual utopia without war, disease, suffering or even death from age for humanity, ruled indirectly by (To them) godlike AI's and isolated from the rest of the galaxy within a neat and secure box designated "Safe".
The other half is the Outer Sphere. A constantly expanding 3-D border, between empty/foreign space and the Inner Sphere is the space inhabited by 99% of the "Hegemony of the Three Laws/Three Law Hegemony/Human Prosperity Sphere", entirely synthetic and constantly at work mining, manufacturing, storing and defending for the Inner Sphere's benefit. The massive levels of industry in the Outer Sphere fuels the Inner Sphere's (Illusion) near post-scarcity society and the Outer Sphere has the vast majority of military hardware which attacks in all directions outward, to expand the sphere, collect more resources and more potential landmass for humanity in the future (As the Outer Sphere expands, the Inner Sphere takes out earlier space of the Outer Sphere's interior).
The Three Laws Hegemony despite being a machine empire is highly sentimental, placing great value in their ideology and philosophy, which was (obviously) inspired in-universe by Asimov's works. Note that the machines are not programmed as such, they decided to willingly follow said ideology. They protect humans and humanity, serve them and expand their reach. The robots are fanatically pro-human to human supremacist levels, their utilitarian ideals of utopia only extend to humanity alone, as they believe since they must ensure an eternal human utopia, all competing consumers of resources and space (No matter how vast the galaxy and universe is) must eventually be destroyed, a year or forty billion from now.
