[quote=@Skylar] Interested. I have ideas for a corporate state entity that could fit right into this setting, where the value of the worker-employee is based on their debts and stock value in the company. And given that a major stock market meltdown has just happened........ How powerful is AI in this setting? Human-level? Beyond-human? Theoretically possible to create a super-AI or ubiquitous AI assistants but a mix of politics/economics/lack of interest not making it so? Details please. Overall I give you kudos for having a very specific setting and "theme" to the game. The reason a lot of other NRP's sputter is because they are too vague and freeform. This game is different with a clear setting and immediate problem everyone has to face. I'll give it a shot, hope this takes off. [/quote] Thanks, glad to hear you like the little extra form! As for AIs, they are definitely at least human level and are in most places probably used for lower level administrative and "office grunt work". Essentially, white collar jobs of most types can be performed by AIs. There might be people watching over these AIs to ensure they don't revolt, depending on what your country thinks of AIs. And in some places, the industrial rather than post industrial nations, human laborers are more numerous than AIs simply because there's no reason to have an AI do manual labor when you have people to do it for you. Superhuman AIs do exist, though, and could be used in large level administration (but the upper class generally prefers to do such things themselves). If you have a particularly technophilic leader, though, they might create an AI to replace themselves as director. AI assistants flat-out [i]are[/i] ubiquitous, at least for people that aren't in the underclass. They can range from simple digital secretaries to fully-fledged people with robotic bodies that can act as companions. Most people won't own superhuman (as in, noticably more advanced than human) AIs though, those are the sorts of things only factions can make. [quote=@catchamber] [@Keyguyperson] What's your stance on mining lunar regolith for aluminium oxide fuel? [/quote] There's nothing wrong in theory, but in practice it could be hard to find buyers who want it for fuel. Spacecraft operate mainly on fusion engines by this point, and those that don't just liberally apply nuclear shaped charges. There are still plenty of uses for the stuff, but none of them are exactly as exciting as spacecraft fuel. Stuff like "bicycle rim coatings", "glass", and "plastic filler". Still pretty important, since we ARE still using plastics (though made from Titanian hydrocarbons rather than petroleum from Earth), but nothing that's [i]cool[/i]. You could totally still do that, but if you're going for lunar mining helium-3 is the way to go for Rule of Cool since it's used by basically everyone everywhere in power generation to spacecraft propulsion. [quote=@Ophidian] For myself, I'm probably going with an Indochina-Caribbean type state. Initially, a social democracy with ultra-liberal "Free Cities" that....well. Indentured servitude that rapidly became another type chattel slavery. And worse. Radical in the military seize control of the government during the crash, start storming the Free Cities. And unearthing a hell of alot of dirty little secrets, which they promptly send out to the media. Things...progress from there. *Hums Founding of the Party* [/quote] [quote=@Skylar] Interested. I have ideas for a corporate state entity that could fit right into this setting, where the value of the worker-employee is based on their debts and stock value in the company. And given that a major stock market meltdown has just happened........ [/quote] Personally, I'm going with modern-day Chinamerica. A formerly communist country that still calls itself communist, but is really just a haven for corporations and mostly populated by an industrial underclass. The America part comes in culturally, and the original communist revolution against Earth was basically just the West Virginia Coal Wars where the miners won plus the American Revolution. And then, well, the economy crashes and the government has been talking up the original revolution for years. And now some lady has told everyone that she's going to restore the glorious People's Republic of the Belt by removing inequality according to its original revolutionary ideals.