Editing Nationbuilder in Space (section)

== Creating Nations ==
When signing up for a game, you will need to provide the following to
the game master to establish your nation:

* Race Name & Home Starsystem Name.  It is heartily encouraged that you create your own unique alien culture, but it's okay if you just want to re-use something from [[Alpha Centauri]], or play [[Space Marines|SPEES MUHREENS]] or GREEN ORKS THAT AREN'T WH40K ORKS HONEST BOSS.
* Colour for marking territory on the map.  Since the map will be a white hexgrid on a black spacescape, don't be an idiot and say "white" or "black."  Also see below about the colours used for system markers.
* Government Type.  Autocratic? Democratic? Don't go into too much detail, just one line of how you manage to govern a civilzation that spans multiple starsystems.  This may affect how your empire handles military, trade or other inter-empire interactions at the borders.
* Ideology.  This is important for diplomatic relations.  A technocracy (Adeptus Mechanius) and a plutocracy (Ferengi) will have a better time getting along than, say, militaristic vegetarians (K'kree) and territorial carnivorous hunters (Kzinti).
* Location.  A vague idea of where you'll be starting on the empty hexmap.  Rather than use sci-fi terms like 'coreward' and 'spinward', just "center, east, north, south, west" will do.
* Fluff.  Some flavour and color for when you're interacting with the other players.

Each empire also starts with four temporary bonuses to help distinguish
this empire's proficiencies: +15 to wealth, two +10 bonuses and one
+5 bonus.  Bonuses are explained below.  Some sample choices are:

* Military culture: +10 military research, +10 shipbuilding, +5 weapons
* Scientific culture: +10 research, +10 military research, +5 engines
* Applied Sociology: +10 espionage, +10 happiness, +5 culture

The bonuses that an empire starts with must be approved by the referee, and
they are one-use only but need not be used in the first turn.  Empires will
use their Actions to gain other temporary bonuses, or smaller permanent
bonuses.