[quote=@Queen Raidne]
I'm interested. Fair warning, though, I'll probably have to drop by the end of summer (like, September). Here's what I have so far:

My intent is to make a race of [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes]trope-fueled[/url] spaceship builders. I want their interspecies contacts (at least, until they get in wildly over their heads) to eventually result in contracts to build starships for other races. Their Startrek "hat" would be a race that lives its TV shows. Their comparative advantage would, of course, be ship-building. Or stardrive-making. Whichever.

[hider=Rough Nation Sheet - very much WIP][b]|Name of nation: [/b] The Democracy of Kaankind

[color=#EE00AA][b]|Species: [/b][/color] Kaan

[color=#EE00AA][b]|Description of government: [/b][/color]Democratic republic. Their government (currently in it's 187th season) is a fine-tuned balance of exposition, speeches, dramatic reveals, and last-second saves. The president, Penelope Kate, is a serious figure, commanding authority, yet still maintaining a supernatural attractiveness. Their judiciary is particularly entertaining, with big, flashy court cases and heavily-gavelled decisions. 

[color=#EE00AA][b]|Description of military: [/b][/color]Their weapons are colorful, flashy, terrifying, and rather expensive as a result. They spent some time inventing explosive devices that created a nice planar shockwave upon detonation, rather than the standard spherical expanding cloud of gas. Their military ships are either elegant spiderwebs of struts that could only exist in space; large, chunky rectangles reminiscient of rifles; or something like navy ships in space.

[color=#EE00AA][b]|Technological Overview: [/b][/color]Although their engineer-artists enthusiastically create drives that exploit strange niches of physics, most of their ships use a flashy point-to-point jump drive. Even so, there are the mega-artworks, like the DKS Merkano, a leviathan that moves around by exploiting macrofissures in subspace, slipping into one and coming out the other side in the space of minutes. Or the DKS Oglethrope, a corvette-sized ship that pulls itself along via magnetic discharge, flinging particulate retrograde at incredible speeds. The Oglethrope is particularly flashy, looking like lightning is pulling the ship along.

Weaponry, although very pretty, tends to be expensive. That means there's much less weaponry on their ships than if they'd just use something cost-efficient. Furthermore, a lot of the Kaanite weapons aren't as powerful as they could be. All of that energy poring into the lightshows has to come from somewhere, after all. Every round that fires is a tracer.

[color=#EE00AA][b]|Cultural Overview: [/b][/color]The Kaanites never invented plays. Instead, they took what was in their imagination and made it real. One of their most celebrated operas, a masterpiece called "Yanhallow", actually started a war. They love making spaceships. The less practical, the more artistically meaningful. Spaceship and space drive making are one of the more glamorous forms of art.

[color=#EE00AA][b]|History: [/b][/color] At some point, they decided that plays were dumb, and instead went out and performed them in the real world.

[color=#EE00AA][b]|Other:  [/b][/color] [/hider]
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RAIDNE!

Hai.