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“Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.” ― Caterina Sforza
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History Fact: Caterina Sforza was a complete badass, who whilst under siege made a point of bombarding the houses of her enemies from the walls of her castle.
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If you mean the Uplift War by David Brin, it's available on Amazon for 7.99 in mass paperback.
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Oh. It's on now.
*Ironic Cold War Intensifies*
Meanwhile in the Terran Union:
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I'd make a joke about the Marshal of the Terran Union being a masochist, but the IC hasn't started yet so I haven't introduced him as a character. But yeah he's totally a masochist.
(Not really)
(Okay maybe)
(Possibly)
(He's DEFINITELY a sub though)
*Mutters darkly under breath about decadent Terran Union*
:p
@Ophidian Closest thing I could find to the Soviet Anthem x Yakety Sax but I still feel it does the neo-sov justice!
You spoil me with humor.
Being serious for a moment, if I wanted to sum up the Neo-Sovs attitudes with a song...
Well. One comes to mind.
He was one of those dogged old men
Who lived in the past
Telling stories you don't want to know
About how it was then, the hunger, the hardship
The hopes and the struggles of so long ago
And we must have looked bored,
For like sparks from the cinders,
His eyes glowed with anger, his words seemed to burn;
He said "I will be heard, for my life is not over;
I've something to say yet, you've something to learn."
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The armies of neo-Sov SPESS MAHREENS shall march to battle under the heroic old world tunes of Yakety Sax and the works of Mire Fixtape! They shall strike endless fear into the hearts of the enemy!
Coincidentally, such musical masterpieces are all that the government has allowed the people to listen to thus causing many to think that Terrans did in fact play these songs at elaborate opera and performance halls and thinking of the songs as the highest cultural peak of humanity and have based their entire musical culture around the teachings of Mire Fixtape, a master artist of sound in his time.
Y'all motherfuckers need some communism.
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I'm not 100% certain of what it was that killed caused the 'ends of the world' though. Under normal circumstances I'd just go with nuclear war, but nukes aren't as effective in a vacuum.
I could definitely see some kinship there-sounds like both of them would understand the value of restraint-and asking if they should, before asking if they could.
They've both been screwed over by people playing around with advanced technology like a kitten with a ball of string-often in horrific ways. That....that teaches some hard lessons, lessons that cross the species boundary yeah?
@Ophidian Not going to lie, I honestly thought that the Neo-Sovs were basically the Imperium of Man only with communism instead of religion.
And here's another equally fitting national anthem!
Oh, they're not that oppressive. Or willing to kill their own citizens. There's just....alot of quiet desperation to them. But I understand the confusion.
They're sort of inspired, partially, by the purity faction in Beyond Earth. Clinging to the past because the present has kicked them around but good, often with the technology someone said would be a salvation. Seeing other factions running around with tech they've seen abused, they know can be abused, in horrible ways...
Well.
I'd start to polish my artillery pieces too.
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And I'm saving that link.
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Then let us honor the memory of the furry space communist with fitting music that I propose be the athemn of the Neo-Sovs.
....More fitting then I'd like to admit.
To lay it all out:
The comment Key made about the Neo-Sov's being LARPers who liked red would sting. Partially because it's true, to an extent. Their adaptation of communism sprang from a weird conservative streak, considering just how far the AI and the "aristocrats" went. While communism is often represented as the wave of the future-the Neo-Sov's adopted it during their revolution as a way of harkening back to the past in a sense. In a sense it was *very* reactionary. They're terrified of the new horizons space travel, technology, the like, represents, because they've seen it abused horribly before.
Hence the adaptation of communism-and their insistence on trying to mirror the old soviet system despite the reality not really being like it at all. They're trying to use the past-the USSR, as a shield against what they view as the terrifying possibilities of the present.
The Romans and the Feddies really freak them out, understandably.
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So.
Yes. Alot of contradictions that make Yakaty Sax somewhat fitting.
"Does that make him a furry space communist Jesus?"
Thank you Echo, your parody is the light of my experience on this site.
Wow, I almost feel bad for the poor Commie sod.
There is of course only one political party in the Neo-Soviet.
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The fact it is actually several dozen political parties pretending to be one political party is irrelevant.
They call their parties "delegations".
This makes it totally different.
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Like many governments, polite lies make up a fair portion of their governing structure.
A brief overview of the Neo-Soviets.
They're built from four basic colony-states-each with a differing culture.
You've got the so-called core colonies-the ones that went all in on communism, and built their entire identity around it. These poor SOBs had the misfortune to be the first ruled by the pain-slave using aristocrats and their AI friend.
Then you've got what I'll be calling the Hivers-cybernetic colonists, adopting themselves to a harsh, arctic environment. Based out of massive, sprawling cities built around geothermal vents-or "human hives" if you will.
Then you have the Confederates-a loose group of miners, and rough and tumble types settled on a string of questionably habitable, resource-rich worlds. These guys love their hardsuits.
Finally, you've got the genetically engineered super soldiers I mentioned, originally a US marine unit, co-opted and brutally modified by the AI, these guys look human, but they're a shit ton deadlier and their genetic code could, charitably, be called "fucked".
The CentralGov has to make all of these groups get along like good communists.
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The Premier could also be called "chief cat herder".
They're built from four basic colony-states-each with a differing culture.
You've got the so-called core colonies-the ones that went all in on communism, and built their entire identity around it. These poor SOBs had the misfortune to be the first ruled by the pain-slave using aristocrats and their AI friend.
Then you've got what I'll be calling the Hivers-cybernetic colonists, adopting themselves to a harsh, arctic environment. Based out of massive, sprawling cities built around geothermal vents-or "human hives" if you will.
Then you have the Confederates-a loose group of miners, and rough and tumble types settled on a string of questionably habitable, resource-rich worlds. These guys love their hardsuits.
Finally, you've got the genetically engineered super soldiers I mentioned, originally a US marine unit, co-opted and brutally modified by the AI, these guys look human, but they're a shit ton deadlier and their genetic code could, charitably, be called "fucked".
The CentralGov has to make all of these groups get along like good communists.
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The Premier could also be called "chief cat herder".
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