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Stellar Nations

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	* '''Thuldan Empire''': Imagine if Elon Musk successfully colonized another world with his army of fanboys but then went a little weird in the head, declared himself the god emperor and started unironically quoting Mein Kampf. That's basically the Thuldans; founded by a superstar corporate mogul and hellbent on uniting the galaxy under human rule. The Thuldans led the anti-Earth coalition in the first war, and are blamed as the instigators of the second war. Culturally, they're a caricature of Nazis, championing athleticism, scowling at intellectuals, and practicing genetic manipulation. Ironically they're the most tolerant nation with regards to mutants, and most of their people have some degree of genetic engineering.		* '''Thuldan Empire''': Imagine if Elon Musk successfully colonized another world with his army of fanboys but then went a little weird in the head, declared himself the god emperor and started unironically quoting Mein Kampf. That's basically the Thuldans; founded by a superstar corporate mogul and hellbent on uniting the galaxy under human rule. The Thuldans led the anti-Earth coalition in the first war, and are blamed as the instigators of the second war. Culturally, they're a caricature of Nazis, championing athleticism, scowling at intellectuals, and practicing genetic manipulation. Ironically they're the most tolerant nation with regards to mutants, and most of their people have some degree of genetic engineering.

	* '''Union of Sol''': The Union was a creation of the peace treaty at the end of the first war, and was granted everything within fifty light years of Sol. This sounds like a lot but it really isn't. The Union has the highest population density of any stellar nation. They settled every rocky world and then started working on the gas giants. Being at the center of the stellar ~~ring~~, Sol is a nexus of commercial activity that rivals the Rigunmor for raw wealth and economic power. But their main rivalry is with the Galactic Concord, who they regard as an usurper of Terra's traditional role as the leading world of humanity.		* '''Union of Sol''': The Union was a creation of the peace treaty at the end of the first war, and was granted everything within fifty light years of Sol. This sounds like a lot but it really isn't. The Union has the highest population density of any stellar nation. They settled every rocky world and then started working on the gas giants. Being at the center of the stellar nations, Sol is a nexus of commercial activity that rivals the Rigunmor for raw wealth and economic power. But their main rivalry is with the Galactic Concord, who they regard as an usurper of Terra's traditional role as the leading world of humanity.

	* '''VoidCorp''': 90's era Microsoft in space; literally and unironically. During the first war, VoidCorp emancipated itself from its parent corporation MicroTel and sided with the colonies. VoidCorp is the third of the "corporate nations" but they are the only one to take the concept to its extreme. Every VoidCorp citizen is an employee of VoidCorp from birth to death; there is no retirement and you can't quit. Employees are sorted out into an oppressive caste system via their two letter job rank code. Obviously this is already enough to make VoidCorp ignomious; but they also have the dubious distinction of being the first nation to enslave an alien species (the Sesheyans). Voiders are quite simply hated by pretty much everyone, not least because their system of corporate confuscianism actually seems to work pretty well.		* '''VoidCorp''': 90's era Microsoft in space; literally and unironically. During the first war, VoidCorp emancipated itself from its parent corporation MicroTel and sided with the colonies. VoidCorp is the third of the "corporate nations" but they are the only one to take the concept to its extreme. Every VoidCorp citizen is an employee of VoidCorp from birth to death; there is no retirement and you can't quit. Employees are sorted out into an oppressive caste system via their two letter job rank code. Obviously this is already enough to make VoidCorp ignomious; but they also have the dubious distinction of being the first nation to enslave an alien species (the Sesheyans). Voiders are quite simply hated by pretty much everyone, not least because their system of corporate confuscianism actually seems to work pretty well.

1d4chan>Piroko: /* The Great Alliances and Stellar Nations */

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The Great Alliances and Stellar Nations

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	* '''FreeSpace Alliance''': The principle obstacle to the ambitions of the Pentad was the twin states of the Orion League and the Orlamu. Sharing a common border and similar societal values, the two combined are more than a match for either Voidcorp or the Thuldans on their own. Their chief accomplishment in the war was preserving the Borelian Republic from being annexed by the Pentad. For much of the war FreeSpace was on good or neutral terms with the nations of the Profit Confederation, although whenever the Pentad threat was checked the two would engage in standoffs and skirmishes over disputed border colonies.		* '''FreeSpace Alliance''': The principle obstacle to the ambitions of the Pentad was the twin states of the Orion League and the Orlamu. Sharing a common border and similar societal values, the two combined are more than a match for either Voidcorp or the Thuldans on their own. Their chief accomplishment in the war was preserving the Borelian Republic from being annexed by the Pentad. For much of the war FreeSpace was on good or neutral terms with the nations of the Profit Confederation, although whenever the Pentad threat was checked the two would engage in standoffs and skirmishes over disputed border colonies.

	* '''Profit Confederation''': By far the least stable of the three alliances, the Confederation formed ~~essentially~~ in desperation by nations caught between the Pentad and FreeSpace. But each brought unique qualities that made the alliance an effective if not necessarily unified force. The combination of well armed Austrin armies backed by the peerless StarMech navy, operating from the centralized space of the Solar Union, and financed with the economic might of the Rigunmors preserved them all from the Pentad's aggression.		* '''Profit Confederation''': By far the least stable of the three alliances, the Confederation formed in desperation by nations caught between the Pentad and FreeSpace. But each brought unique qualities that made the alliance an effective if not necessarily unified force. The combination of well armed Austrin armies backed by the peerless StarMech navy, operating from the centralized space of the Solar Union, and financed with the economic might of the Rigunmors preserved them all from the Pentad's aggression.

	===The Second Galactic War===		===The Second Galactic War===

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Stellar Nations

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	* '''Borealis Republic''': The Borealis Republic began as an experiment in neo-monarchical government. Through the widespread use of cloning, a small wealthy elite colonized several planets with an army of serfs to do their bidding. This initially worked fairly well, with their territory growing by leaps. However, during the first galactic war a clone revolt triggered a civil war that kept Borealis occupied and largely out of the colonial campaign against Terra. The civil war ended with the simultaneous elevation of all clones to the rank of knight, and the abdication of the king. Since then, Borealis has shifted to a more intellectual peerage, with academic achievement as a stand-in for noble titles. The second war did not go well for Borealis, and were it not for the assistance of other nations they would almost certainly have been destroyed.		* '''Borealis Republic''': The Borealis Republic began as an experiment in neo-monarchical government. Through the widespread use of cloning, a small wealthy elite colonized several planets with an army of serfs to do their bidding. This initially worked fairly well, with their territory growing by leaps. However, during the first galactic war a clone revolt triggered a civil war that kept Borealis occupied and largely out of the colonial campaign against Terra. The civil war ended with the simultaneous elevation of all clones to the rank of knight, and the abdication of the king. Since then, Borealis has shifted to a more intellectual peerage, with academic achievement as a stand-in for noble titles. The second war did not go well for Borealis, and were it not for the assistance of other nations they would almost certainly have been destroyed.

	* '''Hatire Community''': The Hatire started as literal Space Amish. They emigrated from Earth to found a new colony based on their ideals of simple living with minimal technology. No sooner had they done this when they discovered an ancient alien holy site on their new world, which they interpreted as nothing less than ~~A SIGN FROM DA'LAUD!~~ After completing the generational task of deciphering the alien works, they began sending missionaries out to spread the Cosmir's wisdom; and their first target was their godless imperial neighbor, the Thuldan Empire. Politically and militarily, the Hatire were a client state of the Thuldans even before the second war, but during that conflict the Hatire methodically spread their faith until today almost a third of the empire worships Cosmir.		* '''Hatire Community''': The Hatire started as literal Space Amish. They emigrated from Earth to found a new colony based on their ideals of simple living with minimal technology. No sooner had they done this when they discovered an ancient alien holy site on their new world, which they interpreted as nothing less than a mission from god. After completing the generational task of deciphering the alien works, they began sending missionaries out to spread the Cosmir's wisdom; and their first target was their godless imperial neighbor, the Thuldan Empire. Politically and militarily, the Hatire were a client state of the Thuldans even before the second war, but during that conflict the Hatire methodically spread their faith until today almost a third of the empire worships Cosmir.

	* '''Insight''': Insight was originally a division of VoidCorp responsible for the development of gridspace hardware and software. Given the value and importance of this field, they were given a great deal of latitude in how they ran themselves and it became a lavishly well funded bastion of freespeaking radicals in the company. However during the second war this division began using the war to organize its own secession behind the scenes. Geographically concentrating its assets and consolidating its control over elements of the security division, Insight's secession cut a deep gouge into VoidCorp that they were in no position to address due to their precarious war situation, and hastened the acceptance of the Orion-Thuldan peace process. Since then, Insight has been an upstart rogue in interstellar politics; it is by far the smallest and militarily weakest nation, but their mastery of gridspace is rivaled only by the Mechalus of Rigunmor.		* '''Insight''': Insight was originally a division of VoidCorp responsible for the development of gridspace hardware and software. Given the value and importance of this field, they were given a great deal of latitude in how they ran themselves and it became a lavishly well funded bastion of freespeaking radicals in the company. However during the second war this division began using the war to organize its own secession behind the scenes. Geographically concentrating its assets and consolidating its control over elements of the security division, Insight's secession cut a deep gouge into VoidCorp that they were in no position to address due to their precarious war situation, and hastened the acceptance of the Orion-Thuldan peace process. Since then, Insight has been an upstart rogue in interstellar politics; it is by far the smallest and militarily weakest nation, but their mastery of gridspace is rivaled only by the Mechalus of Rigunmor.

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Alien Races

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	* '''[[Aleerian]]s (Mechalus)''': The nice borg; a fully cyborgized species. Typically pacifists but they don't regard cyberwar to be violence. Their trade agreement with the Rigunmor Consortium leases mechalus recruits as contract hackers and tech experts to anyone who can pay.		* '''[[Aleerian]]s (Mechalus)''': The nice borg; a fully cyborgized species. Typically pacifists but they don't regard cyberwar to be violence. Their trade agreement with the Rigunmor Consortium leases mechalus recruits as contract hackers and tech experts to anyone who can pay.

	* '''[[Weren]]''': Hulked out trolls with fur. Weren are a brutish pre-modern species that recently invented flintlocks and printing, with the same effect that those inventions had on Earth (ie, ~~fuckhueg holy wars~~). A small recruiting outpost in the wastelands allows individual weren to take their chances in the stars, but those who leave may never return. While most who emigrate become soldiers or mercenaries, a surprising number adopt the Orlamu faith and become missionaries.		* '''[[Weren]]''': Hulked out trolls with fur. Weren are a brutish pre-modern species that recently invented flintlocks and printing, with the same effect that those inventions had on Earth (ie, [[Renaissance\|the thirty years war]]). A small recruiting outpost in the wastelands allows individual weren to take their chances in the stars, but those who leave may never return. While most who emigrate become soldiers or mercenaries, a surprising number adopt the Orlamu faith and become missionaries.

	* '''[[Sesheyan]]s''': Batpeople. A primitive race of nocturnal avians, the sesheyans have the ignominious distinction of being the first species enslaved by humanity due to not reading the fine print on their trade agreement. Most free Sesheyans live outside the law as pirates and criminals.		* '''[[Sesheyan]]s''': Batpeople. A primitive race of nocturnal avians, the sesheyans have the ignominious distinction of being the first species enslaved by humanity due to not reading the fine print on their trade agreement. Most free Sesheyans live outside the law as pirates and criminals.

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The Second War

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	* '''Profit Confederation''': By far the least stable of the three alliances, the Confederation formed essentially in desperation by nations caught between the Pentad and FreeSpace. But each brought unique qualities that made the alliance an effective if not necessarily unified force. The combination of well armed Austrin armies backed by the peerless StarMech navy, operating from the centralized space of the Solar Union, and financed with the economic might of the Rigunmors preserved them all from the Pentad's aggression.		* '''Profit Confederation''': By far the least stable of the three alliances, the Confederation formed essentially in desperation by nations caught between the Pentad and FreeSpace. But each brought unique qualities that made the alliance an effective if not necessarily unified force. The combination of well armed Austrin armies backed by the peerless StarMech navy, operating from the centralized space of the Solar Union, and financed with the economic might of the Rigunmors preserved them all from the Pentad's aggression.

	===The Second War===		===The Second Galactic War===

	The Pentad's basic strategy was that VoidCorp would tank the Rigunmor, and their puppets would tank the Austrins, while the Thuldans did most of the actual offensive work of bringing the war to the Orlamu and Orions.		The Pentad's basic strategy was that VoidCorp would tank the Rigunmor, and their puppets would tank the Austrins, while the Thuldans did most of the actual offensive work of bringing the war to the Orlamu and Orions.

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Stellar Nations

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	* '''Insight''': Insight was originally a division of VoidCorp responsible for the development of gridspace hardware and software. Given the value and importance of this field, they were given a great deal of latitude in how they ran themselves and it became a lavishly well funded bastion of freespeaking radicals in the company. However during the second war this division began using the war to organize its own secession behind the scenes. Geographically concentrating its assets and consolidating its control over elements of the security division, Insight's secession cut a deep gouge into VoidCorp that they were in no position to address due to their precarious war situation, and hastened the acceptance of the Orion-Thuldan peace process. Since then, Insight has been an upstart rogue in interstellar politics; it is by far the smallest and militarily weakest nation, but their mastery of gridspace is rivaled only by the Mechalus of Rigunmor.		* '''Insight''': Insight was originally a division of VoidCorp responsible for the development of gridspace hardware and software. Given the value and importance of this field, they were given a great deal of latitude in how they ran themselves and it became a lavishly well funded bastion of freespeaking radicals in the company. However during the second war this division began using the war to organize its own secession behind the scenes. Geographically concentrating its assets and consolidating its control over elements of the security division, Insight's secession cut a deep gouge into VoidCorp that they were in no position to address due to their precarious war situation, and hastened the acceptance of the Orion-Thuldan peace process. Since then, Insight has been an upstart rogue in interstellar politics; it is by far the smallest and militarily weakest nation, but their mastery of gridspace is rivaled only by the Mechalus of Rigunmor.

	* '''Nariac Domain''': The Nariacs did not originally set out to be Space Communists, it just sort of worked out that way. They were a group of settlers who founded a colony on a marginally habitable planet with little margin for error or waste. Through tight social and economic control they were able to thrive, and subsequently began settling other worlds using the same ethos. Because they need to get maximum utility out of every one of their scarce population, cybernetic enhancement is common and accepted. When the second war began, the Nariacs were quickly annexed by VoidCorp as a client state and tasked with keeping the Austrins busy. Nariac cybersoldiers clashed with Austrin fireteams ~~on countless worlds~~ for almost a century. But the Nariacs don't reciprocate the Austrin's dislike of them, instead resenting VoidCorp for putting them in that position.		* '''Nariac Domain''': The Nariacs did not originally set out to be Space Communists, it just sort of worked out that way. They were a group of settlers who founded a colony on a marginally habitable planet with little margin for error or waste. Through tight social and economic control they were able to thrive, and subsequently began settling other worlds using the same ethos. Because they need to get maximum utility out of every one of their scarce population, cybernetic enhancement is common and accepted. When the second war began, the Nariacs were quickly annexed by VoidCorp as a client state and tasked with keeping the Austrins busy. Nariac cybersoldiers clashed with Austrin fireteams for almost a century. But the Nariacs don't reciprocate the Austrin's dislike of them, instead resenting VoidCorp for putting them in that position.

	* '''Orion League''': The Orion League was formed by the voluntary union of four small colonies that banded together for mutual defense against pirates. Their founding set out a bold, idealistic goal of a free, republican democracy. Their lofty idealism made them very appealing to the Fraal, and more of their kind settled in Orion space than anywhere else. In the 26th century, Orion is by far the most diverse and open society in the stellar ring; while it isn't the largest nation by territory, economy, population, or military strength, the Orions are overall a very strong and stable country that doesn't blink at the threats of its rivals.		* '''Orion League''': The Orion League was formed by the voluntary union of four small colonies that banded together for mutual defense against pirates. Their founding set out a bold, idealistic goal of a free, republican democracy. Their lofty idealism made them very appealing to the Fraal, and more of their kind settled in Orion space than anywhere else. In the 26th century, Orion is by far the most diverse and open society in the stellar ring; while it isn't the largest nation by territory, economy, population, or military strength, the Orions are overall a very strong and stable country that doesn't blink at the threats of its rivals.

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The Second War

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	===The Second War===		===The Second War===

	The Pentad's basic strategy was ~~thatVoidCorp~~ would tank the Rigunmor, and their puppets would tank the Austrins, while the Thuldans did most of the actual offensive work of bringing the war to the Orlamu and Orions.		The Pentad's basic strategy was that VoidCorp would tank the Rigunmor, and their puppets would tank the Austrins, while the Thuldans did most of the actual offensive work of bringing the war to the Orlamu and Orions.

	As it worked out, the Rigunmor-VoidCorp theater was mostly fought in gridspace, with neither side seeing much profit in kinetic warfare. The Nariacs were successfully able to tarpit the Austrins but only with continuous material support from VoidCorp. The Thuldans succeeded in taking a lot of space until their navy got drawn into a fight they shouldn't have taken and got blasted, and the Orions sent assistance to the Borealians to turn a creeping slow Hatire advance into a FreeSpace counterinvasion of Pentad space to force the Thuldans to send support to the Hatire.		As it worked out, the Rigunmor-VoidCorp theater was mostly fought in gridspace, with neither side seeing much profit in kinetic warfare. The Nariacs were successfully able to tarpit the Austrins but only with continuous material support from VoidCorp. The Thuldans succeeded in taking a lot of space until their navy got drawn into a fight they shouldn't have taken and got blasted, and the Orions sent assistance to the Borealians to turn a creeping slow Hatire advance into a FreeSpace counterinvasion of Pentad space to force the Thuldans to send support to the Hatire.

1d4chan>Piroko: /* The Second War */

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The Second War

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	===The Second War===		===The Second War===

	The Pentad's basic strategy was ~~that the VoidCorp~~ would tank the Rigunmor, and their puppets would tank the Austrins, while the Thuldans did most of the actual offensive work of bringing the war to the Orlamu and Orions.		The Pentad's basic strategy was thatVoidCorp would tank the Rigunmor, and their puppets would tank the Austrins, while the Thuldans did most of the actual offensive work of bringing the war to the Orlamu and Orions.

	As it worked out, the Rigunmor-VoidCorp theater was mostly fought in gridspace, with neither side seeing much profit in kinetic warfare. The Nariacs were successfully able to tarpit the Austrins but only with continuous material support from VoidCorp. The Thuldans succeeded in taking a lot of space until their navy got drawn into a fight they shouldn't have taken and got blasted, and the Orions sent assistance to the Borealians to turn a creeping slow Hatire advance into a FreeSpace counterinvasion of Pentad space to force the Thuldans to send support to the Hatire.		As it worked out, the Rigunmor-VoidCorp theater was mostly fought in gridspace, with neither side seeing much profit in kinetic warfare. The Nariacs were successfully able to tarpit the Austrins but only with continuous material support from VoidCorp. The Thuldans succeeded in taking a lot of space until their navy got drawn into a fight they shouldn't have taken and got blasted, and the Orions sent assistance to the Borealians to turn a creeping slow Hatire advance into a FreeSpace counterinvasion of Pentad space to force the Thuldans to send support to the Hatire.