Cool to see so much interest in this. I'm a fan of mechanics but a world-builder at heart and I would hate to see the game suffer because of a technicality. I don't see Dark Star as a war game however-I'm not sure what it is really. Either way I have to go out of town for 1-3 days and won't really be able to work on this between then and now. Just giving you guys a heads up but I will be back.

 btw city-cores are just pillars which = cities. All of the nation-states are underground and roughly cylindrical in shape. Pillars was just a semi-poetic way of describing the last hold-out of mankind.