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My government, before the coup, was one of the many faux-social democracies that are extant.

The clique is inspired by John Brown and his sons to a degree-throwbacks to the old communist governments of Vietnam and Cuba, passing the torch down from generation to generation. Brown and his sons swore an oath to oppose slavery-and it got them Harper's Ferry and the USA a civil war.

Here, an oath kept between families for generations, got the nation a military coup. They've been waiting for this for awhile. The crash gave them the push they needed.


I haven't thought up all of he history for mine yet, but at the moment I think the big issue from the crash is gonna be unrest from economic problems. The whole 'leisure class' doesn't really exist since they'd be a drain on the cities' resources, so most people live pretty comfortably. Well, they did until the economic crash. Which is not going to make them happy.
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I haven't thought up all of he history for mine yet, but at the moment I think the big issue from the crash is gonna be unrest from economic problems. The whole 'leisure class' doesn't really exist since they'd be a drain on the cities' resources, so most people live pretty comfortably. Well, they did until the economic crash. Which is not going to make them happy.

Bright side, the crash gives humanity a fighting chance against the mega-corps for the first time in...

Awhile.
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Bright side, the crash gives humanity a fighting chance against the mega-corps for the first time in...

Awhile.


Yeah great, go beat up on the MegaCon that gave you spaceflight and interplanetary colonies and epic amounts of anime and nekos in the first place you luddites. :P

@Keyguyperson How is warfare conducted in this game? Or at least the baseline norm of "traditional" warfare? Because I was imagining Northstar warships being built around a trifecta of lasers, missiles, and attack drones armed with antimatter warheads and using them in giant slugging matches. How do you imagine space warfare?
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Yeah great, go beat up on the MegaCon that gave you spaceflight and interplanetary colonies and epic amounts of anime and nekos in the first place you luddites. :P


And slavery, and an oppressed underclass....and basically a world that's literally worse then hell because in hell everyone might deserve it?

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Yeah great, go beat up on the MegaCon that gave you spaceflight and interplanetary colonies and epic amounts of anime and nekos in the first place you luddites. :P


Well, I wasn't looking for anybody's permission but I appreciate it! Vive la Révolution!
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Yeah great, go beat up on the MegaCon that gave you spaceflight and interplanetary colonies and epic amounts of anime and nekos in the first place you luddites. :P

@Keyguyperson How is warfare conducted in this game? Or at least the baseline norm of "traditional" warfare? Because I was imagining Northstar warships being built around a trifecta of lasers, missiles, and attack drones armed with antimatter warheads and using them in giant slugging matches. How do you imagine space warfare?


Space warfare will probably revolve mainly around extreme range railgun and missile exchanges, since a smart shell or missile can redirect mid flight in order to actually hit the enemy ship if it tries to dodge. In closer (as in, a range where you don't need to worry about the speed of light anymore) engagements lasers would be used to great effect. A fairly standard tactic would be to engage in a long-range artillery and missile exchange to disable enemy laser weapons, then move in to shred them at close range with lasers. Things would be fairly line battle like, which the obvious dodging and evasive maneuvers at long range. Drones would probably be pretty useful, since they could close the distance far quicker.

(also screw you we can make our own anime)
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Hello there, I'm quite interested in this.

I'm a huge of fan of Hard Sci-fi and the Expanse so just reading the intro already had me drawing the few similarities then I got to your mention of the Expanse and had a little moment of happiness.

I'm going to preface with the fact that I am bothered by some of your choices, especially considering the attempt at hard sci-fi but overall I'm not too concerned, I can overlook those and just add... I don't know... Regulations on my nations end to correct any deficiencies.

At the moment I'm between a few ideas but as this rolls on I'll make a solid choice.
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Space warfare will probably revolve mainly around extreme range railgun and missile exchanges, since a smart shell or missile can redirect mid flight in order to actually hit the enemy ship if it tries to dodge. In closer (as in, a range where you don't need to worry about the speed of light anymore) engagements lasers would be used to great effect. A fairly standard tactic would be to engage in a long-range artillery and missile exchange to disable enemy laser weapons, then move in to shred them at close range with lasers. Things would be fairly line battle like, which the obvious dodging and evasive maneuvers at long range. Drones would probably be pretty useful, since they could close the distance far quicker.


Very Honor Harrington. I can definitely work with this, thanks.

(also screw you we can make our own anime)

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And slavery, and an oppressed underclass....and basically a world that's literally worse then hell because in hell everyone might deserve it?

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Well, I wasn't looking for anybody's permission but I appreciate it! Vive la Révolution!


Ha ha. I will most certainly start grinding all of you even further into the dirt for thinking of rising against your betters. Being a MegaCon that can crank out robot catgirls isn't just for show afterall. Amazing how well kemonomimi-AI can be adapted to 4D maneuvering.

(So am I shaping up to be a big villain nation to most of you? I'm actually kinda liking the idea of playing the bad guy or evil megacorp for a change, rather a novel experience to me. If anyone wants to collab on past Northstar problems in the game's history, I'm open to it. I'm not playing to win, I'm here to play a story. Give me a good runup, and I'd be willing to take hits for story's sake.)
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I'm up for this. Could definitely play a coalition of african governments mass-producing weapons in former rainforests and the Sahara desert.
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I'm very rarely interested in sci-fi roleplays, and even when I am I need to give them a long look. But this one did catch on at first glance, so I'll be watching and seeing if I can invest in it.

I do have a few concepts for a massive media entity...
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Very Honor Harrington. I can definitely work with this, thanks.

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Ha ha. I will most certainly start grinding all of you even further into the dirt for thinking of rising against your betters. Being a MegaCon that can crank out robot catgirls isn't just for show afterall. Amazing how well kemonomimi-AI can be adapted to 4D maneuvering.

(So am I shaping up to be a big villain nation to most of you? I'm actually kinda liking the idea of playing the bad guy or evil megacorp for a change, rather a novel experience to me. If anyone wants to collab on past Northstar problems in the game's history, I'm open to it. I'm not playing to win, I'm here to play a story. Give me a good runup, and I'd be willing to take hits for story's sake.)


We should hash out some plotlines!

Maybe the Nekos, etc, that I'm planning a plotline with are made by a local Northstar subsidiary based out of the Free Cities?
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So, I'm assuming an outer system research facility that experiments with societies mainly populated by AI is out of the question?

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Even if they use rockets for secondary propulsion, a pulse drive's catastrophic failure can seriously mess up stations it's docked to.

As for space elevators, all it takes is a single laser cutting the orbiting end to cause a global disaster. I'd rather go with something more distributed, like a bunch of orbital tethers that regain momentum and spin with solar sails and rocket boosters.

I get that you're making helium-3 the main fuel source of the 24th century, but is it really so bad for a company that specializes in space travel to diversify its products?


No, but I don't feel like a space travel company could be of any major importance if it ONLY dealt in aluminum oxide. People would be doing business with it, but it isn't something megacorp worthy on its own. And please stop trying to argue that parts of the setting are stupid and wrong, because I'm not going to change them because one person specifically wants to sell aluminum oxide. If a lot of people said they, say, didn't want space elevators then I might be willing to change things. As-is pulse drives probably aren't going to be used except by older ships.

(I'd also like to point out that if the tether of an elevator was cut, the orbital anchor wouldn't fall and destroy New York. Because it's in orbit. Space elevators aren't 230 mile high skyscrapers, they're space stations with a danging nanotube cord that's hooked to some platform on Earth.)

The research outpost is possible, since any AI could be programmed to reproduce (or you could just throw in new members periodically or something), but if they had a large power base alone or could reproduce then the other powers would probably be pretty pissed if they found out.

I'm very rarely interested in sci-fi roleplays, and even when I am I need to give them a long look. But this one did catch on at first glance, so I'll be watching and seeing if I can invest in it.

I do have a few concepts for a massive media entity...


We could use some pop-culture to add a bit of flavor!

Hello there, I'm quite interested in this.

I'm a huge of fan of Hard Sci-fi and the Expanse so just reading the intro already had me drawing the few similarities then I got to your mention of the Expanse and had a little moment of happiness.

I'm going to preface with the fact that I am bothered by some of your choices, especially considering the attempt at hard sci-fi but overall I'm not too concerned, I can overlook those and just add... I don't know... Regulations on my nations end to correct any deficiencies.

At the moment I'm between a few ideas but as this rolls on I'll make a solid choice.


Nice to know you're considering it, it's a bit too far in the future for me to really let it be 100% hard. If you have any input on setting details, I'd love to hear it. Especially since the OOC is going to be up in the near future.

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Very Honor Harrington. I can definitely work with this, thanks.

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Ha ha. I will most certainly start grinding all of you even further into the dirt for thinking of rising against your betters. Being a MegaCon that can crank out robot catgirls isn't just for show afterall. Amazing how well kemonomimi-AI can be adapted to 4D maneuvering.

(So am I shaping up to be a big villain nation to most of you? I'm actually kinda liking the idea of playing the bad guy or evil megacorp for a change, rather a novel experience to me. If anyone wants to collab on past Northstar problems in the game's history, I'm open to it. I'm not playing to win, I'm here to play a story. Give me a good runup, and I'd be willing to take hits for story's sake.)


Well, my Catgirl Commie needs to have been made by SOMEONE. And it's great that you're shaping up to be the villain, if everyone's willing to let it happen it might be worth it to up your influence just so things don't degenerate into "Well the Allied Federation Resistance Goody Two-Shoes Guy fleet outnumbers yours by like twenty times so that's the end of this RP I guess".

I'm up for this. Could definitely play a coalition of african governments mass-producing weapons in former rainforests and the Sahara desert.


Good, we could use a more lively Earth!
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I'm thinking of playing happy space-men who spend most of life in space, most of them are cyborgs or AI. they live lives that we might consider "spartan" due to resource shortages but they make heavy use of VR so the fact that they don't own any physical objects doesnt matter to them.
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I could always be a secondary ally for Skylar's faction to offset the power balance.
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@Keyguyperson what are your thoughts on a megacorp that specializes in ship building, I'm pretty sure it's what I'm going to do but I'd like an idea on what a good market share would be for one. China as of 2015 had 35% of the world market share by orders if that helps with anything. I was figuring Something in the mid-to-upper 20% range would work for a megacorp in a universe dependent on ships.

Last I'd just like to ask what the capabilities of ships are when it comes to stealth (Absorbent coatings, heat-sinks, etc).
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Alright, breaking ground on the Northstar Megacorporation state. Of corporate rule, ruthless Alpha-Complex style underclass lifestyles and caste systems, RTS-gamers turned to LARP'ers/part-time field commanders, Soviet Russia Deep-Battle style space fleet doctrine, and nekos and VR-idols everywhere to make everyone happy! (Or else) Still tinkering with history, not quite sure where to start just yet, and probably going to be making a lot of edits when the actual OOC starts and other people begin putting up their NS's. But here is where I begin.

@Keyguyperson Yeah, an increase in my nation size might be called for for parity with the do-gooders. But rest assured I also am aware that size and strategic depth is a two-edge sword, and that also means I have A LOT to garrison and protect across the solar system even before going on interplanetary adventures. Won't be throwing around giant fleets and battleships willy-nilly. Measured escalation is NS-SecFor's way of dealing with problems and it's going to take a lot of effort to get them to concentrate forces outside of home stations because that means uncovering something somewhere else.

Not to mention, Black January is noted as a stock market crash. And given social position is determined by stock in Northstar.......

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Northstar Mega Conglomerate State. A.K.A. “Northstar MegaCon”

Faction Government:

Corporate state, ruled by a Board of Directors and all it's citizens determined by how much company stock they own.

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Northstar is a megacorporate-state headquartered in Fairhaven station in the asteroid belt with tens of thousands of space habitats, outposts, ports, and trading houses across the belt colonies and inner planets bearing the Northstar brand. It is estimated Northstar owns direct sovereign domain over 15% of the asteroid belt’s habitats and space stations, with “soft” influence over another 25% of habitats and mining colonies associated or dependent upon Northstar to varying extents and allied to it’s corporate agenda as subsidiaries, loyal allies, proxy-combatants, or debt-holdings (slave-states in all but name).

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History:

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Today, Northstar is a sprawling megacorporate nation-state. While nominally built around exports of security contracts, merchant shipping tonnage, education, multimedia, androids, and manufacturing starships and space habitats, they are effectively a self-sustaining nation state unto themselves. And their absolute dependence on anyone else is waning with every year.

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@Skylar so my Corp is shaping up to be one of the major players in the shipbuilding industry. They're a bit more ethical than North Star (Okay a lot more ethical) but it doesn't mean that they wouldn't have mutual interests. The way I've set them up they have small slips or yards on most stations and asteroids big enough to house them as well as free floating yards in and past the belt, which would mean it's very likely that our two companies would interact out of necessity.

Your company needs a way to keep its ships flying, my company needs ships to fix to stay in business. We both need to turn a profit.

So what I'm asking is if you would mind having some sort of a business relation with my Corp, not an alliance or anything but just allowing me to have holdings on your stations (but not all of them). Strictly business.

Also we build ships so come to me if you need 'em.
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