[img=http://i.imgur.com/CGVgEif.jpg] --- [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/OKVKxj2.png][img=http://i.imgur.com/5AlBCJ9.png][/center] [center][i][b]"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."[/b][/i][/center] [indent] [/indent] --- [indent] [/indent] This is the official thread for the [b]Song of Dying Stars[/b] and all its role-players' [b]nation sheets[/b]. Any posts made here should be for developmental purposes only, or through identifying or clarifying aspects of both your nations and others' nations. [quote]Each great nation has its history, present, and future. Every civilization has had a past filled with events both devastating and miraculous, a present only just unravelling, telling new stories as it lives on, and a future, an undetermined fate that can be changed by the whim of any one individual. No civilization is identical to another; and each has their strength and weaknesses. How you bring forward your great nation through space and time is up to the leader himself.[/quote] [img=http://i.imgur.com/MMemW3t.png] All civilizations, major and minor, present in the role-play will be listed here, with a link to both their post application and their civilization's page on the Song of Dying Stars wiki. (Hint hint, I'm hoping to create a wiki if this takes off well!) [b]Current Nations:[/b] None as of yet. [indent] [/indent] [indent] [/indent] [indent] [/indent] [img=http://i.imgur.com/4922YrN.png] In order to direct a civilization in The Song of Dying Stars, you must have first created one. If you are interested in taking part in the role-play, then by all means copy and paste the application format and fill it out to your liking! You can make your civilization as creative as possible, but don't make it overly preposterous. You don't control a giant nation of octodads who live on rainbow planets, for example. Stuff like that would be denied, however creativity is appreciated! Do not power game your civilization. If some aspects are a little overpowering, I will reply and suggest what should be changed or balanced. If you made it way out of proportion, however, and it seems like you did it purposefully, I'll just either deny it or ignore it. [quote=Proper Application Format] [center]< Insert an image of your civilization's flag here, if applicable. Delete this line when submitting your application. Also, please keep it centred to make it look good. >[/center] [center][b][u]REPLACE WITH CIVILIZATION'S NAME[/u][/b][/center] [b]Political Status:[/b] [b]Current Political Leader:[/b] [b]Form of Government:[/b] [b]Total Population:[/b] [b]Employed Population (includes military):[/b] [b]Military Population (soldiers, militia, rebel forces):[/b] [b]Brief Biography of your Political Leader:[/b] [b]Notable Figures and their Background Information (brief):[/b] [b]Main Species Information:[/b] [b]Side Species Information:[/b] [b]Economic Overview:[/b] [b]Militaristic Overview:[/b] [b]Political Overview:[/b] [b]Home World(s) (with description):[/b] [b]Notable Planets (with description):[/b] [b]Number of Star Systems under your influence:[/b] [b]Number of Planets and natural satellites under your influence:[/b] [b]Number of Colonies under your influence:[/b] [b]Brief History of your Civilization:[/b] [b]Location on the map:[/b] (Viewable on the main NRP thread.) [/quote] Alright, so the basics of filling out your galactic application. Warning, long read, may take five to ten minutes. Grab yourself a coffee or beer or whatever. The text inside the triangular brackets should be deleted and replaced with your nation's flag, if you can find or make one. If not, just delete the text altogether and leave that part blank. It helps to have a flag, however, as it adds a little more detail to your nation. Next is the name of your civilization. What are they known as? Don't name them something like the "League of Galactic Superheroes", make it something more political-y and realistic-y. Political Status is just a measure of how much of an impact your civilization has on the galaxy. Basically, just list "tags" that apply to your civilization. Does it have a major stance in the political stage? List "Major". Do the opposite for a minor civilization. Is your civilization known as a warmongering society, a pirate-infested empire, or a righteous peace-seeking nation? Let us know! Current Political Leader is a fancy way of asking the name of the leader, president, political party etcetera in power over your civilization. Don't do something basic like "Prime Minister Tim of the Sultahr-Irronian Empire". If you use a basic name, your username for the forums, or the name of your idol, I will stop reading your application and immediately deny you. Please, be a little creative. The Form of Government is just asking, "how is your society governed?". Is it a capitalist society, communist society, are you ruled by a dictator or a coalition government? Are you ruled or governed by a type of government not invented in today's Earth? (Please explain it in this case.) The populations are fairly easy to fill out. Try not to make it any less than say eighty billion, and no more than four trillion. Do remember that population density is an issue in large civilizations, and planets can easily become overcrowded, so try to balance this. Just because it is set far in the future doesn't mean that your population is going to be of an astronomically-high value. Employed population just measures how many of your 'people' are working for the civilization, whether it be small shops, factories, military, etc. Employed population fully includes your military population. Your military population is how many soldiers, pilots, engineers, militia, rebel forces, etcetera your nation has. Try not to make it more than 8% of your total population, however there can be exceptions for pirate nations. The brief biography of your political leader is just what it says, a biography written by you about the leader or party in charge of your civilization. Make it brief please, around three medium sized paragraphs at maximum. Notable figures and their biographies is just asking you to list people of importance, examples including but not limited to, agents, commanders, major prisoners, etcetera and, if possible, try to explain a bit about them. If your civilization has only one or two "main species", ignore the "Side Species Information" section or just delete it altogether. In the Main Species Information section, describe the species that have the most influence in your civilization, who make up most of your working class, population, military, political parties etcetera. In the Side Species Information section, if applicable, describe the species that are a more minor part of your civilization and are of less 'importance' than the main species. The different overviews are asking for no less than three good paragraphs and no more than six good paragraphs each. The economic overview is asking you to describe how strong your economy is as of current times, frequent exports and imports, major and minor trade routes, what resources are available or heavily available to them etcetera. The military overview is asking you to list how many armies and star fleets your civilization has, and describe them. Try to describe your entire military to us, where things are stationed, etcetera. Also, additional information you may want to include are different classes of different ships, or vehicles, what weapons or armour systems do your machines-of-war possess, reserve forces, medical forces, etcetera. Please go into detail in this part! Your political overview looks at your civilizations internal politics; how it affects itself, not the galaxy. Are your people content, overly happy, or pissed off with your leader's rule? How do they feel? How are elections worked out, what laws are in place, and all in all just describe your internal politics as a whole. Remember, try to have three to six good paragraphs for each overview. The Military Overview is a bit different, where you should list your different armies and fleets and their strengths, and your different vehicles. When building an army, try not to make it too overpowered. No more than a couple hundred vehicles per army, and maybe a thousand or two infantry at maximum. You can have as many armies as you like, but do not power game yourself. The same goes for fleets; a fleet will maybe fit six or seven hundred light ships, such as star fighters, maybe a few hundred medium ships, like frigates and light cruisers, and at most a hundred heavy ships. You can alter these numbers as you like, these aren't strict rules, but if I find some overpowered content I will suggest you change it. Also, city-ships are included in your military overview. They are considered very heavy ships, and have their own fleets by themselves or maybe with escorts. Unless you are a civilization always on the move or living more on city ships than planets, try not to have more than a couple thousand city ships. Of course, depending on how your civilization is, there will be exceptions. If you are a nation that lives almost all in city ships, than you may be allowed hundred of thousands or maybe millions of them. But that comes at a cost of limited planets and systems. Now that this is over, Please try not to have more than two hundred planets at most. If we keep in mind that an average star system has around four planets, you would need fifty star systems just for yourself to keep two hundred planets (on average). And in a dying universe, that is both hard and risky to achieve. This being said, try not to have less than two planets either. Even if you are a civilization on the run, you need some planets to keep your nation spinning. Number of Star Systems under your control just asks that. How many star systems do you have control over. That second line asks how many planets and 'moons' you have under control, keep them as separate number. Example, don't answer "223", answer "78 Planets and 145 natural satellites/moons". Number of colonies is again, just that. Easy peasy. Finally, a brief history of your civilization. Try to aim for around four to six paragraphs, its a summary. Any more or less will probably not be read or accepted. It doesn't have to be a drastic biography of your nation, just summarize what happened to it during its galactic lifetime. --- [img=http://i.imgur.com/N383A3S.png] Have fun creating your civilizations here. Please try to keep to one civilization per player, and remember that this role-play is not about winning, rather it is about writing a good story and unravelling the final years of the universe's life. I will try to read and get back to everyone's replies, and sorry if the application format is a little long. I want this role-play to be fairly realistic, after all. I am considering creating a wiki for the role-play if it takes off, containing all necessary info such as all the nations, ships, battles that take place, politics and history, for example. This is the Galactic Compendium for the Song of Dying Stars, also known as the 'nation sheet thread', and you can discuss how your civilizations might possibly interact with one another here (albeit after posting an application). This is not the time for the actual role-play, however. I will be reviewing everyone's application once they are posted, and will be hopefully accepting them, or denying them within a day of their posting.